Leanne Karella (Anna Leigh Keaton)

Growing up in Alaska as the youngest of nine children, Leanne liked to escape into her own little worlds of make believe. At seventeen, one of her sisters gave her the first romance she ever read. She started writing and hasn't stopped since. Born and raised in Alaska, Leanne now lives in B.C.'s Lower Mainland with her husband and daughter. Her first book was released in May 2006 by Wings ePress. To read excerpts from upcoming books and learn more about her, visit her Leanne Karella website or her Anna Leigh Keaton website.

Sweetest Desires

Cobblestone Press
February 2008
written under pseudonym Anna Leigh Keaton

Valentines is for romance and lovers—not for Sharon and Chet.

From boyfriends who steal her credit cards to a job she loathes, her life pretty much sucks. And since his wife died two years earlier, he's lived the life of a monk.

But when he finds her asleep on his couch, gorgeously seductive in a maid's uniform, his desires aren't so sweet. A shared piece of candy turns into a night of passion, until morning's light intrudes. Now they must decide if they have the courage to look beyond their past hurts and grasp the love they so desperately crave.

Incognito: Conquering Connie

Cobblestone Press
December 2007
ISBN: 978-1-60088-201-2
written under pseudonym Anna Leigh Keaton

Connie needs a heavy hand to find her ultimate release, but after the death of a Dom while tied up, she's afraid to let herself go and trust again.

Tyrone Allen has loved Connie from afar for years, but the time never seemed right. Now, with his cousin, Alex, Incognito's security specialist, he makes his move.

With two Doms to care for her, two who know exactly what she needs, they can assure her safety and help her find the strength to give love a chance.

Incognito: Desiring Dixie

Cobblestone Press
November 2007
ISBN: 978-1-60088-187-9
written under pseudonym Anna Leigh Keaton

Dixie is a workaholic who's just trying to make ends meet when her car dies and a handsome stranger named Bastian comes to her rescue. On a whim, she does something she's never done before and invites him home for a one-night stand.

When stronger emotions take control, however, she battles with doubts and his tug on her heart. Bastian has avoided relationships outside of Incognito as too risky, yet when a beautiful employee of his father's company catches his eye, he can't help but want more... But will she still want him once his true identity is revealed?

Chailali's Curse

Cobblestone Press
October 2007
ISBN: 978-1-60088-179-4
written under pseudonym Anna Leigh Keaton

After watching over Mike for ten years, learning his anger, fear, and guilt, Chailali's love for him knows no bounds. As a spirit, though, all she hopes for is to help him find the woman who can help heal him.

Brought together by the guiding hand of a matchmaking ghost, Christy and Mike must face their inner demons. In the process they find solace in each other as lust blazes and hearts unite.

But they learn love and passion aren't always enough to see them through the darkness of their pasts. They must find the courage to persevere.

Hearts In Hiding

Cobblestone Press
September 2007
ISBN: 9781600881664

Five years ago, Molly Shlofeld entered the Witness Protection Program after testifying against her father. Working in a downtown Seattle floral shop, she's built a safe life for herself with a few close friends who've taken the place of the family she once possessed.

Pediatrician Dr. Dave Westfield has spent the last eight years, since the car wreck that changed the course of his life, buried in his work. He spends his days at the clinic, and his evenings volunteering at a teen crisis center...hoping to save just one.

When their worlds collide, the attraction is instant...and dangerous.

The Guardian

Wings ePress
September 2007
E-ISBN 1-59705-157-8
Print ISBN 1-59705-853-X
New Beginnings Series
Contemporary (Setting: Seattle, WA)

A killer is stalking Case Johnson, and Detective Sheila Cassidy must protect him. Not only does Sheila have to fight her attraction to Case, his sweet-talking ways slash open decade-old wounds that threaten to tear her apart.

Revealing her heart to Case—or anyone—is not on her agenda.

Case grabs the chance to spend time alone with Sheila, and before long he realizes she may be the woman of his dreams. All he has to do is convince her he's the one man who she's safe to love.

Risking It All

Cobblestone Press
August 2007
ISBN: 9781600881589
written under pseudonym Anna Leigh Keaton

Running from London, England, her overbearing father, and an arranged marriage, Neela Singh seeks shelter on Travis Kincaid's ranch in Arizona. The cowboy is even bigger and sexier than the man she remembered—and loved—from her youth. Now if he could only see her for the woman she is, not who he believes her to be.

Travis can't keep his eyes—or hands—off of Neela. As much as he detests her pampered princess' upbringing, there's something sweet about her that draws him. And once he's tasted her, there's no stopping his desire for her.

Heart's Desire

The Wild Rose Press
August 2007

Carson Kinsey saved Ella from working in a saloon, selling her body to whomever Madame Chloe demanded. Now, four years later, she loves the man who took her away from the life of drunken men and adores the little girl she has been hired to tend. Standing between the love they both secretly feel for the other is Carson’s dark memories of the wife he lost, and Ella’s knowledge that she’s a soiled woman who has nothing to give him but herself.

Rescue Me

Cobblestone Press
July 2007
ISBN: 9781600881510
To Serve and Protect Series
written under pseudonym Anna Leigh Keaton

Stranded, injured, and lost in the woodlands of Wisconsin, Carla Benevito struggles for survival even as she gives up hope of finding lover everlasting.

Search and rescue worker, Jamie Roberts, has decided love isn’t for him. Until a missing woman stumbles across his campsite...and straight into his heart.

Sanctuary

Wings ePress
May 2007
E-ISBN 1-59705-053-9
POD-ISBN 1-59705-956-0
New Beginnings Series
Contemporary (Setting: Washington State)

Dayton McCormick is a man in turmoil. On a stormy night, drunk and disoriented, he finds a sense of calm in the tender embrace of a golden-haired angel. Annie Ives's heightened ESP has kept her physically and emotionally detached her entire life. But on that one rainy night she opens her arms, and her heart, to a man in need.

Incognito: Collaring Kat

Cobblestone Press
May 2007
ISBN 9781600881237
Book 5 in the best-selling Incognito Series by Leanne Karella, written under pseudonym Anna Leigh Keaton, co-authored with Madison Layle

With a male slave at her beck and call and a successful fetish club as her domain, Mistress Katriona has everything she’s worked so hard for. Money, prestige, and independence. She’s the foundation and image of what Incognito is all about, and the one with the most to lose when a worldrenown author and uncompromising Master shows up in her doorway.

One taste of Kat’s lips is enough to make Master Dalton want to uncover the secrets of Incognito’s head dominatrix. He’s determined to unleash all her desires and will settle for nothing less than total subjugation of her heart.

Phantom Lover

Cobblestone Press
April 2006
ISBN: 978-1-60088-122-0
by Leanne Karella written under pseudonym Anna Leigh Keaton

You shall never know peace until you know the agony of love.

Cursed by a woman who'd loved him, Jacques has spent the last 200 years trapped in Moonlight Cove. No one can see him, no one can hear him. Only his touch can be felt. He seeks the love that will finally let him experience the peace of death.

Lilly Nightsong has lost everything important in her life, and now she must say goodbye to her beloved Moonlight Cove B&B. Feeling alone, she believes her imagination has taken hold when she feels the touch of a man until he speaks.

Incognito: Healing Heather

Cobblestone Press
March 2007
ISBN 978-1-60088-097-1
Book 4 in the best-selling Incognito Series by Leanne Karella, written under pseudonym Anna Leigh Keaton, co-authored with Madison Layle

Heather Gilpatrick, a young Irish widow, seeks new happiness in the U.S. She longs for the same loving, Dominant-submissive relationship once shared with her husband.

However, when she tries, she pays dearly at the hands of an abusive Dom.

When Detective Paul Baxter meets her in the hospital, he realizes her scars are more than physical. Although Heather’s given up on that lifestyle, Paul offers to reintroduce her to the joys and pleasures available from a true master, with hopes of healing her heart. But the abusive Dom wants what’s his, and is willing to kill to get it.

A Place To Call Home

Wings ePress
March 2007
E-ISBN 1-59705-085-7
Print ISBN 1-59705-919-6
Double H Series - Book 3
Contemporary Western (Setting: Interior British Columbia)

Double H is the perfect place for Becca Singer and her two little girls. Being embraced by a warm, loving family is exactly what she needs. But a sweet, gentle cowboy who makes her body tingle and her heart yearn is the last thing she expected—or wanted—to find.

As Becca and Slade each battle their inner demons, one thing is undeniable: their attraction and their growing love for one another. Slade has the power to destroy her carefully constructed walls, and Becca could easily be broken by his secrets.

The Beauty Within

Cobblestone Press
February 2007

Resigned to a life of taking care of her spoiled younger sister and doing everything her demanding father decrees, Jana's long passed the point of wishing for a loving family of her own. Besides, what man in his right mind would want a disfigured woman?

Dan's serving out a ten-year probation working on the Rocky Basin Ranch. His dreams of owning his own spread keep him going when all seems hopeless. Then Jana, with her bright eyes, beautiful smile, tender nature and gentle touch, enters his life, offering him one night of shared comfort. But his heart demands forever.

Where There's Smoke...

Cobblestone Press
January 2007
(Leanne Karella writing as Anna Leigh Keaton)

Kate Darby has suffered horrors worse than imaginable in the past. She's closed off her personal life to focus all her time and energy on the pub her father bequeathed to her. When her bar comes under attack by a vandal and sexy, sweet Toby Angel is there with unending emotional support, she can't turn him away. He gets under her skin and helps her heal. But when he's the one accused of damaging her pub, can she find it in herself to trust in him? She's always believed that where there's smoke...

Winning Angela

Cobblestone Press
December 2006
ISBN 978-1-60088-072-8
(Leanne Karella writing as Anna Leigh Keaton)

Incognito's "submissive dominatrix," Angela Patterson, juggles separate love lives with two men who hold keys to her heart.

Her wild side craves Garrett Storm. A sexy-as-sin hunk of a construction worker who is every submissive's dream. He's big, strong, rough, and domineering.

Then there's sweet, gentle Blaine Worthington, a white-collar businessman with sophisticated tastes. He wines her and dines her, and in the bedroom will do anything and everything to please.

For a while, they fulfill her every fantasy, but when each man demands more commitment, her two separate worlds collide, and the competition for her heart ignites.

For the Love of a Family

Wings ePress
November 2006
E-ISBN 1-59705-047-4
POD-ISBN 1-59705-955-2
Double H Series - Book 2
Contemporary Western (Setting: Interior British Columbia)

Angry at the father who hadn't claimed her until after his death, Cassandra Fairchild hoped the person who owned the other half of the Double H Ranch was family she'd always dreamt of having. Furious at his beloved, departed adoptive father for giving away half the ranch they'd spent a lifetime building, Colton Harrison wants nothing to do with the woman who never had time for the man who mourned her loss every day of his life. As sparks fly and love is born, will Colton curb his life-long belief that women don't belong on the Double H?

Return To Me

Cobblestone Press
October 2006
ISBN 978-1-60088-058-2
(Leanne Karella writing as Anna Leigh Keaton)

A woman of mixed race born into slavery found love in the arms of her owner's son. Separated by his death and her murder, she's cursed to live a ghostly life on the land she once longed to flee.

Dr. Travis Moreland—internationally renowned expert on paranormal phenomena and a spiritual medium—helps spirits cross over to find peace, but he's never met a succubus. Hearing of homeowners desperate to rid themselves of one such specter, his curiosity is piqued.

After he meets Dominique, however, he questions his sanity and longs to respond to the siren's call...

Broken Wings

Wings ePress
September 2006
E-ISBN 1-59705-017-2
POD-ISBN 1-59705-987-0
Medieval (Setting: England 1280 A.D.)

Believing she's killed her abusive husband, Lady Meghan, bruised and broken, finds shelter in Galen's home. In his arms. But he's betrothed to another. When Lord Galen Thorne rescues the battered waif, he never expected to uncover a woman who could tempt him to the breaking point...or steal his hardened heart. When the secrets of Meghan's past are revealed, will Galen keep her as his own, or is she destined for the gallows?

One Night of Paradise

Cobblestone Press
September 2006
ISBN 1-60088-043-6
(Leanne Karella writing as Anna Leigh Keaton)

Normally shy, quiet, unassuming Carol sets out to nab her man. She's seen him frequent the local pub and knows that's where he goes every Friday night after work. Dolled up to the nines, her plain hair highlighted, her drab matronly garb traded in for a sexy, slinky black dress, she sits at the bar and waits.

Two years after a nasty divorce, women in general aren't high on Detective Taggert's priority list. All he cares about is his work and his teenaged son—until he surprises even himself by taking the sexy seductress home for one night of passion.

Alaskan Hideaway

Wings ePress
August 2006
E-ISBN 1-59705-027-X
POD-ISBN 1-59705-975-7
New Beginnings Series
Contemporary (Setting: Interior Alaska)

The wilds of Alaska seemed the perfect place for Isabella Hammond to regroup and find direction in her life. When Brandon Wilks crash-lands into Isabella's small corner of the state, he believes he's found his future and the woman of his dreams. Will Isabella open her wounded heart to the sexy ex-cop and share his dreams, or is she doomed to a life of solitude?

Seducing Olivia

Cobblestone Press
ISBN 160880290
July 2006
(Leanne Karella writing as Anna Leigh Keaton)

When Olivia seeks out the sexy Spaniard she spent one liberating night with, a case of mistaken identity lands her in his twin brother's bed.

When they tempt her to spend two weeks submitting to their desires, she never expects to crave their type of seduction for a lifetime.

Five Alarm Neighbor

Cobblestone Press
June 2006
(Leanne Karella writing as Anna Leigh Keaton)

Gracie Terrence has lived next door to firefighter Steve Sheldon for two years. She's lusted after his hot body since day one, but Steve is a taken man. Gracie is no home wrecker and keeps her fantasies locked safely behind closed doors. Besides, all she wants is one hot night with him.

After getting dumped by his fiancée, Steve decides it's time to have a little fun with Gracie. She makes his blood heat and his cock hard.

But when one night turns to two, and emotions complicate their simple affair, can they survive the inferno of their growing love?

Michaela - Grounded: Book One

New Concepts Publishing
May 2006

Return to Unegi, Arizona and meet its newest resident...

After being "Grounded" for misconduct, Heaven's angel, Michaela, is to live out life on earth, as a mortal.

She's is assigned to Ty Brock, to help him discover that his past doesn't need to rule his future. Along the way, she falls in love with the handsome cattle rancher. When given the choice of returning to Heaven or staying earthbound, only Ty can help her decide. Does he love her enough to keep her?

Lost Lady

Wings ePress
May 2006
E-ISBN 1-59088-515-5
POD-ISBN 1-59088-538-4
Double H Series - Book 1
Contemporary Western (Setting: Interior British Columbia)

Gentle talkin' Joe McIntyre needed a cook for the Double H Guest ranch. Instead, he got a woman with no memory of her past who brings out every protective instinct he ever possessed. Joe and Jenny find strength, comfort and love in each other's arms. But is that love unbreakable, or will the final pieces of her past tear them apart forever?

Witch Hunt

New Concepts Publishing
March 2006

Lina Brennen has been searching for one thing all her adult life: a place to call home. Between her Granna Merona—the pesky ghost who has been by her side since she was a child—and Lina's skills as a faith healer, she's been run out of town after town, city after city.

Trent Godfrey has spent the last ten years keeping his heart safe from any woman—and then Lina drops in. He's turned his back on his Native American heritage, terrified of anything to do with the Spirit World. The sizzling attraction between them can be stopped by only one thing: Lina's lifestyle. Is their love strong enough to lead him through his buried past? Or will it tear them apart forever?

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