Welcome To My Novels Page

I’m glad you could visit. When I write, I try to write in a way that will entertain and educate people at the same time. Fiction readers can get a good plot and character driven story. Romance readers can get a steamy romance with a lot of sexual Tension. Mystery readers can get suspense and excitement. And everyone can get a little lesson in African-American current culture and history.

High Stakes

BET Books, Jan. 2004
ISBN: 1-58314-418-8

Executive Sabrina Scott has always trusted her instincts. They helped her land a dream marketing job at the hottest casino in Las Vegas and start a new life minus sportswriter Clark Hunter, the cheating fiance she had thought she could trust. As luck would have it, Clark is now in town claiming that a major fight at the casino is the cover for a huge scam. And he's just as determined to show Sabrina he was never unfaithful as she is to disprove his suspicions. But when their investigation puts them up against a lethal conspiracy, their only hope of survival is to gamble on the trust they once shared - and a love they can't deny.

Saving Grace

August 2003
ISBN: 1583143351
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SAVING GRACE is the third installment of the Hart Family saga featuring Keith Hart. Grace Bowers is determined to right a wrong, by bringing down the company that discriminated against her father thirty-five years ago. Hiing Keith Hart to handle the expansion of her father's growing restaurant is her first step, Keith represents the same firm that hurt Grace's dad, and getting close to Keith might mean access to some valuable information. Keith doesn't trust Grace's motives, but when Grace discoers that Keith's powerful client is involved in some very unsavory practices, she knows she's stumbled into dangerous territory. Suddenly Grace and Keith are working together, fighting a potent attraction.

4 Stars, Romance In Color
” Ms. Winter has created such a likable character in Grace Bowers that I was pulled into the story immediately. SAVING GRACE is a flawless blend of suspense and romance with neither genre overshadowing the other. Kudos to Ms. Winters for creating such engaging characters and a riveting story.” Debra Ross

4 ½ Stars, Romantic Times - TOP PICK! For August 2003
” This is a fast paced, well written story with enough excitement to rival any action movie.”

Dangerous Memories

BET Books, Nov. 2002
ISBN: 1583143343
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Dangerous Memories is set in steamy Miami, where a woman temporarily named Jena Doe wakes up in a hospital bed with amnesia. Emma Leyden, a wealthy and generous widow takes her in and offers her motherly love. But Jena continues to have nightmares of murder and she isn't sure who she is, what she's done or who is after her, but she's certain someone is. To make matters worse, Lucas Leyden, Emma's son is certain that Jena is up to something and decides to have her investigated. The truth turns out to be worse than either could have imagined. Can their growing attraction to each other lead to true love or something entirely different?

- ***stars Romantic Times
"DANGEROUS MEMORIES has all the necessary ingredients that makes for an enjoyable read: suspense, humor and good chemistry among the characters."

- Romance In Color Review
"Angela Winters has developed DANGEROUS MEMORIES into an excellent mystery plot spiced with the romantic interlude of Jena and Lucas' growing relationship. The characters have depth. Even the supporting characters have substance."

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Seasons of Love: Coming Home

Angela Winters
also Niqui Stanhope, and Kim Louise

BET Books, November 2002
ISBN: 1583143718
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Coming Home is a novella in the holiday anthology of SEASON OF LOVE. Set in Chicago, cynical executives, Nia Randolph and Michael Vincent no longer believe in love. They are both coming home for the holidays to convince their recently engaged siblings that they are making a huge mistake. But it isn't long before an unexpected attraction has them discovering the season's most passionate magic.

"Home For Christmas"...is a charming and funny story. Ms. Winters packs a delightful story in just over 100 pages."  - Debra Ross, Romance In Color - 4 stars.

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Love On The Run

BET Books, January 2002
ISBN: 1583142169
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Love On The Run is a continuation of the Hart family series, where Bree Hart is trying to escape her overbearing mother who has unacceptable plans for her. She attempts to build a life in New York where she is free to be her wild, spirited self. That is until Graham Lane, a mild but determined young college professor is ordered to pay his debt to her family by bringing her back. Add in an investment banking scandal that is about to get them both killed, and the fireworks are hot!

Romantic Times Magazine 4 Stars
"LOVE ON THE RUN is a wild ride from start to finish. Ms. Winters does a spectacular job weaving the mystery into a spiderish web of intrigue."

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Know by Heart

BET Books, May 2001
ISBN: 1-58314-215-0
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Know By Heart, set in the Silicon Valley, places a free spirited journalist escaping an ex-lover with a powerful software executive with eyes on the CEO seat in a plot to destroy the competition over the next software product that will change the industry and make millionaires into billionaires. But when those involved start dying, they aren’t even sure they can trust each other, despite the fact that they are falling fast and furiously in love.

Romance Reviews Today
"This is a well-written novel with just the right amount of mystery for a romance reader and vice versa. I highly recommend KNOW BY HEART to readers of either genre."

"A fast-paced novel that is sure to leave you breathless!" -- 4 Stars, Romantic Times

"With an intriguing mixture of suspense and romance, KNOW BY HEART just grabs your attention from page one and holds on until the shocking and dramatic conclusion." -- 4 Hearts, The Romance Readers Connection

"Angela Winters has definitely got the touch.  KNOW BY HEART is an excellent romantic suspense novel that lives up to its genre. This talented writer will always be on my must-buy list." -- 4, Romance In Color

"This is a well-written novel with just the right amount of mystery for a romance reader and vice versa. I highly recommend KNOW BY HEART to readers of either genre." - Romance Reviews Today

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The Business of Love

BET Books, Aug 2000
ISBN: 1-58314-150-2
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The Business of Love, set in DC, makes business partners of a hotel chain heir trying to maintain her father’s vision and an investor relations expert who can only see $$$$. Taking the chain public, they are polar opposites and can’t understand their powerful attraction. When a murder threatens their future, they have to work together to find the truth, even if the truth is worse than a lie.

**** 4 out of 5 stars
The Business of Love is an enjoyable read that kept me turning the pages. Not only does Ms. Winters give readers strong characters, a feel for the setting, and a great romance, but she also includes enough suspense to keep them wanting more.
 - Debby Hays, Romantic Times Magazine

***** 4 Rating
Here is another sexy, passionate book that fairly scintillates with style and story. Ms Winters has developed a real gift for telling a suspenseful, sexy story. There is an elegant suspense to this book; the mystery deepens convincingly until the final denouement which stunned me-I love to be tantalized and then get a knock out ending like this one.
 - Melanie Schuster, Romance In Color

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A Forever Passion

BET Books, Feb 2000
ISBN: 1-58314-077-8
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A Forever Passion, set in Baltimore, is a story about power, family secrets, and forbidden passion. A Howard MBA student thinks she’s doing a harmless genealogy study on a wealthy family. But as she tries to resist falling in love with the oldest son, a Congressman, someone in this family is willing to do anything to keep her from finding the skeletons in their closet. Even kill her.

Romantic Times Magazine 4 Stars
Ms. Winters has written a powerful and affecting story of family.

Romance In Color 5 Stars - Book of the Month for Feb 2000
This book is wonderful from start to finish and is in, in my opinion, her best yet. Angela takes a complex approach in presenting the heroine's inner struggle and does so masterfully. This is a book that I could not put down until I had turned the very last page with a sigh of bliss. If I may be permitted to lapse into the vernacular for a moment, Ms Winters threw down on A FOREVER PASSION!

The Romance Reader
Angela Winters has crafted a wonderful story of love, loyalty and a bit of sibling rivalry...The secondary characters are all very well rounded...I think it is Angela Winters' best full-length romance.

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Angela's Other Novels

Sudden Love

June 1999 - BET/Arabesque
ISBN: 1-58314-023-9
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Sudden Love, set in Chicago, has an author with family problems of her own, clashing heads with a wealthy philanthropist over the death of her younger sister’s friend. She only wants to find the truth, but finds herself falling in love with him. Even though he’s the prime suspect.

Romantic Times Magazine
"Angela Winters has written a compelling romantic suspense with a few twists that even the most advanced literary sleuth won't anticipate."

Affaire de Coeur Magazine
"Winters has written an exciting tale or romantic intrigue filled with subtle humor, sexual tension and many complicating circumstances that must be addressed before Evan and Renee can definitively express their love."

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Island Promise

November 1998 - BET/Arabesque
ISBN: 0-7860-0574-2 
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Island Promise has a Dallas schoolteacher too curious for her own good, and an investment banker in search of his missing sister and niece, running from the local mob and the IRS on the beautiful Cayman Islands.

Gothic Journal
"Fans of Arabesque, and anyone who enjoys a good romance, will be pleased with this romantic adventure story and its likeable main characters."

Romantic Times
"Island Promise is a fast-paced romantic adventure set against the luxurious backdrop of the Cayman Islands. Ms. Winters has continued to grow and excel as a romance writer, weaving tales we can't and won't, put down!

Affaire de Coeur
"The descriptive scenery and food of the Cayman Islands as well as the cultural aspects of the natives are strong allures for this book. Island Promise will make you want to call your travel agent and board a plane to the islands."  

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Sweet Surrender

March '98 - Arabesque
ISBN: 0-7860-0497-5
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Sweet Surrender was my first real romantic suspense between a public relations professional in a family crisis and an up and coming Chicago politician with a reputation as a ladies man. This novel brings a new twist to the marriage of convenience story, with death threats and dirty Chicago politics adding the suspense.

Writers Club Romance Group on AOL Reviewer Board
"Sweet Surrender is a fun to peruse, ethnic romance, whose story line is fast-paced and filled with several well developed sub-plots and many interesting moments that interrelate into a very pleasing reading experience."

Affaire de Coeur Magazine
"A romantic, suspenseful mystery that keeps the reader eagerly turning the pages while the love develops and the mystery unfolds." "This is a most enjoyable, suspenseful tale."

The Romance Reader
"Sweet Surrender has several good moments. Hayden's interaction with an ex-boyfriend, all her scenes with her best friend and colleague and the search for the stalker are crisp."  

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Only You

January '97 - Arabesque
ISBN: 0-7860-0352-9
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Only You, a romance between a writer with some serious issues about men and an architect with a family secret is set in Aspen, Colorado. Sparks fly the moment they meet, but they can’t seem to spend five minutes alone without getting at each other’s throats. How will they survive the summer living in the same house?

And we’re just getting started. Keep an eye out for more Arabesque novels, plus a new recurring mystery character series. I’m also stepping into the crazy world of scriptwriting, so keep a look out for that!

As a writer, I am involved with some great organizations! Romance Writers of America, and Washington Romance Writers.

Romantic Times Magazine
"Very Good...Only You is a wonderful love story."

Angela Benson, best selling author of Between The Lines
"Everything a romance should be. You'll laugh and cry. Will steal your heart. I couldn't put it down."

Shirley Hailstock, best selling author of White Diamonds
"A new romantic voice that should be watched closely for books that take us places we always wanted to go."

Affaire de Coeur Magazine
"The clever blending in of true ethnicity into a poignant story line makes this novel a great reading experience."  

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Mama Dear

May 1997 - Arabesque
ISBN: 0-7860-0397-9
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Mama Dear is an anthology with three stories. My story, Never Say Never, is about a Chicago area artist and widow finding love again with her son’s new pediatrician.

Rendezvous
"This reader medley of wonderful mother stories is heartwarming and sure to brighten the reader's day."

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