When Drumannach Castle is burned to the ground and its inhabitants put to the sword by the malevolent Baron Alric Grymwald, only five-year-old Katherine Drummond survives the carnage. The orphaned heiress is rescued by Highland Chieftain Duncan McGregor, and borne safely away, across the sea to Scotland. A loyal knight in the service of England's most able king, Henry II, McGregor has seen too much killing in his life and longs only for peace. In the tranquil Scottish village of Cala, McGregor raises the spirited and rebellious girl as his own, only to find that he has "bitten off a wee bit more" than he can chew. Kate Drummond is a stubborn terror, and at least as determined as he is to have her way. A passion burns in young Katherine's breast - for vengeance on the man whose evil face she has never seen, but whose implacable hatred brought about the savage murder of her beloved parents and the loss of her ancestral home. As she grows older, her desire to seek out the bloodthirsty Grymwald and kill him grows stronger, and she crosses swords with her loving but stern guardian more than once. She pleads with the aging and war-weary McGregor to train her. McGregor wishes only to protect the adopted daughter he loves and is pleased and relieved when she falls in love with handsome Stephen Lachlan, a young English knight in McGregor's service, who might be strong enough to tame the strong-willed Katherine. Though happy to be Stephen's wife, Kathy has never forgotten her vow to kill Grymwald. Defying Stephen's orders, she returns to Drumannach alone in search of her parents' murderer, putting herself, her husband and her beloved guardian in grave peril. Editor's Note: This book, "Dungeon of Darkness" by April Hill, was formerly released as "Dungeon of Darkness" by Judith McClaren, another of the author's pen names.

An anthology of holiday stories from April Hill. Nine holidays, nine hilarious tales of chaos and woe, and more spankings than a poor girl can shake a switch at. Whether they're snowed in in a mountain cabin, or simply trying to enjoy a peaceful Fourth of July on a hot, sunny New England beach, these nine ladies just can't seem to get their acts together, or their ducks in a row. One by one, each of the unlucky holiday heroines pays for the minor disruption or major catastrophe she's created by being taken across her beloved's knee, and soundly spanked. January: Snowbound Russ Warren refuses to be Lisa’s wilderness guide, so she stows away in the back of his truck - and ends up trapped for a long, cold winter in a snowed-in one-room cabin with an easy-going cowboy whose idea of taking life easy is making it extremely hard on her deserving backside. February: Red Roses For A Blue Lady When Emma tries to make the guy she wants to marry jealous by going to the yearly Valentine’s Dance and Truck Auction with a lecherous chiropractor, what she gets for her trouble is some almost frostbitten toes, a squashed cupcake, and a badly overheated behind. March and Easter: The Tale of Peggie Pie Lisa loves holidays, until a new event planner turns her Easter Egg Hunt into a much bigger affair that almost gets Lisa arrested, and gets her into hot water with her husband. March and St. Patrick’s Day: The End Of The Rainbow Cathy dumps her wealthy fiancé, quits her job at a sleazy gossip tabloid magazine, and heads to Ireland on little more than a hunch, hoping to track down a Pulitzer Prize winning Irish novelist who disappeared from the publishing radar twelve years earlier. When she arrives on the isolated island where she expects to corner her prey, though, she gets a lot more than she was expecting - a job, the self-respect she’s never had, and love on a lobster boat. The only cost to Cathy for the long journey to the end of her personal rainbow is some very sound spankings, and a closet full of Jimmy Choo spike heels. April: The Last April Fool Callie learns the hard way that playing a silly April Fools’ prank on your beloved can very easily go awry, and that the payback that follows can make it really hard to sit down for a day or two - or three. May and Cinco de Mayo: Maxed out in Mexico City Carrie’s drop-dead gorgeous tour guide takes her to some fabulous places for Cinco de Mayo, but when she ignores his travel recommendations, gets lost in the desert, nearly kidnapped, and cruelly robbed of her brand spanking new, overpriced Chinese souvenir, he also provides - at absolutely no additional cost - a not so fabulous trip across his gorgeous, manly knee. May and Memorial Day: All Quiet Along The Potomac The Civil War may be over, but on this very first Memorial Day, things are still very uncivil between handsome Union officer Jed Canfield and the spoiled Southern belle he still loves, and was once engaged to marry. On the theory that all is fair in love and war, Captain Canfield puts a quick, incisive end to the hostilities with a surprise assault from the rear - on the lady’s vulnerable and very attractive rear end, that is. June: Bailing Out The Bride When June bride Karyn marries an easy-going NYPD cop, she learns that being arrested for past due traffic tickets less than an hour after the ceremony can lead to a bare-bottomed walloping in a cheap motel room, and a wedding night that isn’t exactly the bed of roses she was hoping for - after the groom had to blow their honeymoon fund on bailing out the bride. July: Under the Boardwalk On previous years, Libby had always enjoyed their seaside village’s Fourth of July fireworks, but this year, when she found herself under the boardwalk, having her butt set on fire by the Chief of Police, it sort of ruined the whole day. Especially when all she’d been trying to do was her civic duty as a devoted soccer mom and reluctant Brownie leader. Besides, it wasn’t like she’d wrecked a historical landmark and drowned a Hyundai and two hundred innocent sock monkeys on purpose, for heaven’s sake! 

Nine heart warming, bottom warming stories for the holiday season. From Labor Day to New Year's,each of these well-meaning but sometimes overzealous heroines manage to get themselves into in hot water, and over the manly knee of her own exasperated alpha male hero. Whether she's trying to liberate a luckless Thanksgiving turkey, or avenging her kid's smashed Halloween pumpkins, things just never seem to go right for these ladies, leaving them to face the kind of justice that's best delivered with a hand, a belt or a wooden hairbrush.

Married to crooked gambler Jack Thornton, Alex has spent much of her adult life in sleazy saloons, working rigged poker games and small- time swindles, while enduring her drunken husband’s brutalities. Finally, she alters her appearance, changes her name to Cathy, and catches the first train out of Denver, only to find herself broke and stranded in a sleepy little cow town. Fearing that Jack will find her and desperate for traveling money, she empties the cash register at the store where she’s found a job, and is caught in the act. Unaware of past, or that she has an enraged husband looking for her, Will agrees to let “Cathy” satisfy her bail bond by working at the small ranch he shares with his two children. The isolated cabin is miles away, though, and a judge demands that the couple be legally married before spending months together in the wilderness. At the ranch, Cathy is forced into a life she’s spent years trying to avoid—cooking, cleaning, and scrubbing laundry—while also dealing with Will’s resentful adolescent daughter. Will soon learns that the best way to handle his stubborn new “hired hand’s” bad manners, incessant profanity and hot temper is with a wooden hairbrush or a folded belt. With one husband close on her trail and bent on vengeance, the situation is further complicated when Cathy realizes she’s fallen in love with her second husband—and that he’s in love with her, as well. Formerly released as: "Borrowed Bride by Judith McClaren" Includes BONUS short story "The Picnic".

Gwen is an aspiring artist, living on a beautiful California beach, on the glittering periphery of glamorous Hollywood. Fabulous, right? Well, not so much. For one thing, she works for her dingbat landlady, a pothead ex-hippie who moonlights as a junk dealer, and has hired Gwen to paint non- existent lighthouses on toilet seats. The home they share is a ramshackle, hot-pink surfer-shack that should have been condemned in the '60's. And then, Gwen’s obese Beagle digs up the remains of her former employer, who dabbled in art forgery and blackmail, but made his real living catering to the film industry’s BDSM crowd. The drop-dead gorgeous cop who shows up to investigate turns out to be Matt O’Connor, the love of Gwen’s life. That was before she nailed him with the antique sugar bowl, of course, and before he retaliated by spanking the crap out of her with a rubber spatula. With the romance on track again, Gwen sets out to help Matt solve the murder, forcing Matt to resort to some very painful, old fashioned methods to keep her safe— and out of the art forgery business. 

A sexy mystery/romance reminiscent of Janet Evanovich, complete with a handsome detective, a funny, slightly screwball heroine who responds better to a good spanking than good advice, and a deranged killer who's not at ALL funny. Writer Karen Thatcher lives in a tacky little stucco house with a yard full of dead cactus and a smoggy view of the Hollywood Freeway. She's broke, her last book flopped, her boyfriend dumped her, her only neighbor is a bad-tempered drug dealer, and she's almost out of Oreos. And if that isn't enough, someone is leaving leaving gruesome little gifts on her doorstep.No one takes Karen's story seriously, until homicide detective Hank Everett shows up and starts digging around in her dead rosebushes. The handsome Lieutenant quickly takes a serious interest in this very puzzling case, and an even more serious interest in the crime victim, herself---an interest that's decidedly mutual.Ignoring Hank's warnings, Karen tries a little amateur sleuthing on her own, and stumbles onto some disturbing family secrets. She's drawn deeper and deeper and deeper into an intricate web of terror that's closer to home than she had ever imagined.Fearing for her safety, Hank finally resorts to turning the woman he loves across his knee for a spanking he hopes she won't soon forget. But Karen isn't so easily dissuaded. She keeps digging (and keeps getting spanked) until finally, her curiosity and persistence drives the killer to act. And WHAT, Karen wonders, has become of all the FORMER tenants of her ugly little house?

From best-selling author April Hill comes the most delightful assortment of domestic discipline and spanking stories you will ever read. Think spanking can't be funny? You haven't read April Hill. Her unique blend of wry humor and realistic domestic discipline scenarios will have you coming back to this collection again and again! You will never meet a group of more deserving brats than in an April Hill collection. In "Little Miss Hearts and Flowers," we meet Sam, Emma, and Emma's Mommy. Emma's Mommy takes four-year-old beauty pageants a bit too seriously, leading to a no-nonsense encounter between Sam, Emma's Mommy and a hairbrush. In "A Work in Progress," a tolerant but no-nonsense husband finally says "enough" to his stay-at-home wife who just can't seem to get her art career moving. In "Sextet for a Grand Piano," a woman gets exactly what she's wanted her WHOLE LIFE. A piano and piano lessons. And she learns - the hard way - what happens when she decides - after only a few days - that the piano wasn't really ever right for her. And then there's "Puppy Love." Ever wonder what happens in a DD marriage when a patient and long-suffering husband who has said no to "puppies" finds out that the beloved St. Bernard is pregnant anyway? In "On My Doctor's Advice," a young woman whose life is basically out of control meets a fine, upstanding young orthopedic surgeon. He's rich, handsome, and, oh yeah, a spanker. But who said life was fair? You will love this "don't miss" collection from Blushing Books and April Hill!

It is the Year of Our Lord 1193, and the true King of England, Richard I, called Lionheart, is captured on his journey home from the Third Holy Crusade. All England has borne the heavy yolk of taxation to pay the cost of this endless war, and now must bear the added burden of ransoming their beloved monarch from a cruel captivity. In his absence, the King's appointed Regents have been challenged, their power usurped by his envious brother, Prince John. Meanwhile, the evil and avaricious Sheriff of Nottingham, John's lackey, conspires to enrich his own coffers by leveling unjust taxes on the already impoverished citizenry of Nottinghamshire. When his greed is frustrated at every turn by his old nemesis, Robin Hood, the sheriff plots to capture and hang the bold outlaw and his entire band, which is encamped in Sherwood Forest. Into the band's midst comes a desperate young woman called Alice Johnstone. Alice has just escaped after dark years of confinement in the sinister Abbey of St. Mary's - an institution controlled by Robin's sworn enemies, the corrupt and depraved Bishop of Hereford and his henchwoman, the wicked and unholy Abbess. In an attempt to cheat her stepdaughter of her rightful inheritance, Alice's stepmother has enlisted the Bishop's aid in imprisoning Alice in a madhouse. Although she asks for and accepts the sanctuary of Sherwood Forest and its brave defenders, the lovely young fugitive does so with a curious reluctance. Willful and spirited and with secret plans of her own in the making, Alice refuses to adhere to the camp's strict rules - rules made to ensure its survival. It falls to Robin Hood's second-in-command, the handsome, (and exasperated) Will Fletcher, to tame the lady's tantrums and conceits, and within days of her arrival, Alice is rudely upended and soundly spanked twice. In her short but highly enlightening stay, the lady will become uncomfortably familiar with a number of the implements used to enforce the camp's security - the wooden paddle, leather strap, and even the humble, durable birch switch. At the heart of her disobedience is Alice's determination to rejoin the mysterious man with whom she has fallen in love, French nobleman Geoffrey of Gascony. Her infatuation and stubbornness combine to draw her deeper into danger and to put Robin's men in peril as well. By the time the villainous plot against her is revealed and thwarted, and the Sheriff's dastardly attack on the camp beaten back, Alice and her new friends have faced death more than once, and a wiser, oft-chastened Alice has found a truer love.

From the writing journal of author April Hill: "I found this peculiar document in a writing desk I purchased for just a few dollars in a run-down little junk shop in London. In a jammed drawer I found a jumble of papers that I took to be letters. As I began to read,,I realized that the pages weren't letters at all, but a sort of journal, written over a hundred years ago,, by a woman with a fairly good education, a big mouth and a really bad temper. The writer claims to be related to the famous writer, H.G. Wells, and writes about an amazing voyage through time. I know, ridiculous, right? Maybe, but there's something about the thing that rings true. She was certainly a giant pain in the ass, and a major brat, as you'll see when you begin to read. This lady gets herself spanked a LOT, and it sounds like she had most of those spankings coming! True? Not true? Your guess is as good as mine, but it makes a great read. Whatever you believe, you won't be bored." Publisher's Note: A Glitch in Time is a great time travel-read for anyone who likes bratty heroines, long-suffering husbands, a good dose of history, with a Victorian flair.

The thrilling (and almost absolutely true) story of Emily Fowler, a beautiful and spirited young woman from Nantucket, who should have been (but, alas, never was) soundly spanked when young. Our naughty heroine does manage to get herself into a number of scrapes during her course of her breathtaking adventure. She leaps from a window to escape her wedding day, stows away and sails the high seas on a tall ship, risks her life and is grievously injured, is thrown rudely into a harbor, is kidnapped by plundering pirates, is brutally manhandled, nearly ravished and almost murdered–but luckily is heroically rescued from her unspeakable fate at the last possible second. Most importantly of all, she falls in love with a brave and handsome sea captain, and is deliciously deflowered and made love to by same. Before her ordeal is peacefully concluded (lest the reader be sorely disappointed) our deserving young heroine's beguiling bare buttocks are frequently and soundly spanked! (as previously promised)

Women seem to be disappearing from Felix Kruger's tidy little bungalow, and since the police won't listen to Beth Walker's suspicions about her creepy neighbor, she undertakes her own amateur investigation. When her clever game of cat and mouse starts to go awry, though, Beth quickly becomes the mouse, caught in a deadly trap of her own making. Enter Police Detective Adam McCann, who's not convinced that the very attractive Miss Walker is the total "nutcase" his colleagues seem to think she is. Sure, she's a bit screwy and stubborn as hell, but who wouldn't be with what's going on her in neighborhood? Determined to protect the woman he's falling in love with, McCann reopens the case. Beth, however, thinks "no" is more of a suggestion than a rule, and she won't stop playing detective. When it looks like she's about to get into big trouble, Adam stops being amused and starts acting like the tough cop he is. The would-be sleuth needs some boundaries, and she also needs to understand who's in charge and who isn't. When it becomes clear that changing the lady's behavior is going to require a very firm hand applied to her stubborn rear-end, the "politically incorrect" Detective McCann turns out to be the perfect man for the job. Even if spanking romance isn't your favorite genre, you'll love this well-written, action-filled, witty romp from April Hill! **