Josephine Skylar

passionate contemporary romance writer

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Books

The cover for the book "Impossibly Yours," featuring a man and a woman kissing. His back is to the camera; he is wearing a black leather jacket. She has on a white sweater and has folded her hands in front of her. She is facing the viewer but her eyes are closed.

Impossibly Yours

How could two people so different fall so hard?

Jack Weiss is a serious-minded computer programmer; Laura Williams is a cheerful personal trainer. They have almost nothing in common, and yet they end up drawn to each other. The conversation may be good (and the sex even better), but between two people so different, both of them recently hurt badly, love has got to be impossible…

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The Hand You’re Dealt

When love is the biggest gamble of all.

Marnie Brown is visiting Las Vegas for the first time, but she hasn’t got luck—or love—on her mind. When professional poker player Pete Copeland asks her out, neither of them expect it to be anything more than a fling. He’s much better with cards than with women; she’s juggling a demanding job and caring for her cancer-stricken mother; and both of them have been betrayed in the past. There’s no way a connection formed under the glitzy lights of the Strip can survive when exposed to real life, Marnie thinks. But she’s about to discover that Pete plays for very high stakes…

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The Way Through Disaster

Three’s a crowd. Four’s a disaster.

Natalie Boudreaux isn’t ready to give up on her marriage, even though her husband just admitted he’s been cheating on her. Maybe they can work things out if she gets a boyfriend herself? Only the guy she’s interested is know-it-all computer nerd (slash jazz musician) Charlie Maitland. And Charlie s too smart, not to mention too wounded from his last relationship, to be willing to take on Natalie’s drama. But then why does he keep wanting to talk to her? And why can’t she stop thinking about him? If they actually fell in love, that would be a disaster… wouldn’t it?

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The Fried Lover Attack

A romantic chess comedy starring a divorced-mom queen and a very nerdy king.

Caroline Fox Dunleavy knows nothing about chess… except that her 8-year-old daughter loves playing it. So off they go to the best (and, frankly, nerdiest) chess center in Charlotte, North Carolina. There Caroline meets Misha Kotenkov, an awkward, witty, chess-obsessed  grandmaster who’s like no other man she’s ever met. Is that why she keeps thinking of him? Or is there something else going on? And what happens if he feels the same way?

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Learning to Love You

She has to choose between the job she’s worked for years to get, and the man she’s grown to love.

Anne McDiarmid has one year to get a tenure-track job at a university, or give up her dreams of becoming a professor. She can’t afford to put anything else ahead of pursuing her goal. Now is the absolute worst time to fall in love. And leather-jacketed Tommy Choi is the worst possible persont o fall in love with. What’s supposed to be a time-limited, no-strings-attached fling turns into something deeper, until both Anne and Tommy have to decide whether to pursue their goals, or follow their hearts…

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An image for the cover of a book titled "Sparks Fly." It shows a man and a woman in profile. He is barechested, holding her up; she is wearing black lingerie and tenderly touching his face.

Sparks Fly

What if falling in love required you to question everything you thought you’d figured out?

Allora Lewis is starting a new phase in her life. Now is not the time for her to be dating. Especially not someone like Grant Michalski, whose work would seem to be as far from Allora’s progressive values as she could get. How can she trust someone so different? And if she can’t, then why does she keep thinking about him?

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The Hacker’s Heart (novella)

He can slip through any defenses… even hers.

When her employer needs to protect sensitive data, Melinda Rossiter is dispatched to negotiate with the mysterious Stryker13. She’s expecting a feared, and quite possibly dangerous, hacker. But when he makes an unexpected request and she finds herself drawn into his world, the greatest danger turns out to be to her heart…

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The cover of the book "The Hacker's Heart," featuring a picture of a handsome dark-haired man in a black T-shirt looking at the viewer, with binary code in the background.
The cover of the book "The Hacker's Temptation," featuring a handsome man in a black T-shirt looking off to his left, against a background of binary code.

The Hacker’s Temptation

He’s always been secretive. Can he be trusted to love?

In this sequel to The Hacker’s Heart, the mysterious hacker Stryker13 is now just Luke Blakenship, computer-science grad student and ordinary man in love. And Melinda wants to stay with him more than she’s ever wanted anything… but when he takes on a new hacking project that puts them both in danger, she has to decide if their love is strong enough to survive, or if she’s made a terrible mistake.

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