Author Jodi Clark

Novels

History meets the current when Tia Samuels inherits Annalise, a majestic, Victorian home that has been in her family since the 1800s. Vacant for more than five years, Tia, her husband and three daughters move in to renovate the historical house, which has sat vacant for over five years and is in dire need of a facelift. She discovers a chest of love letters between her newlywed grandparents during World War II, along with a diary of her grandmother’s, revealing her innermost feelings about the war and segregation, along with her own dreams of renovating Annalise, but the biggest secret of all is one that no one could ever have imagined.
“It’s cardiomyopathy, and you need a heart transplant.” The doctor’s diagnosis stabbed her like a dagger.  It seemed impossible for 26-year-old Jessica, who was healthy and athletic, to have been diagnosed with such a severe disease and having her health take a steep decline because of it.  So bittersweet, she thought, to have been granted such an incredible, selfless gift but at the expense of her father.  After twenty-six years of being estranged, they had finally formed an unbreakable bond.  He had given her the ultimate gift of love that he felt he owed her – his heart.  Losing him seemed so unfair. 
 
With a new heart and improving health, she and Roman, the kind stranger who had come to her rescue when she collapsed, are building the life together that they have always wanted.  They have recently gotten married and bought their first home when they discovered that she is pregnant, but their lives are rattled, yet again.
A young couple is struggling financially and sells their belongings for their dream of a life on the water in Norfolk. Their new life on their aged, forty-foot liveaboard is everything they had hoped for at Little Creek Marina until they head across the Chesapeake after a Labor Day dinner. An unpredicted storm erupts, tossing the vessel violently around, and it begins to sink. The couple and her visiting father find themselves alone in the eerie darkness to swim for their lives.
Five year old Jamie has just lost her mother to suicide, and she has left a note asking their 65 year old, widowed neighbor to raise her, against his family’s wishes. When Jamie grows and begins learning the successful business he owns with his brother, the family has had enough and endeavors to oust Jamie from the business and their lives.
U.S. Marine, Adam Koehley, has done several tours of duty, but his latest in Iraq sends him home a man that his family no longer recognizes, and he begins using drugs and alcohol to rid himself of the visions in his mind. When his wife urges him into treatment, what he reveals will tear their lives apart forever.
Francesca has always admired the influence and respect of her father as the Sicilian mob boss and has long craved the same for herself, but women are strictly forbidden in the Cosa Nostra, that is until her boyfriend gives her an opportunity into the organization, where she builds her own empire, despite her father’s resistance. When his final order upon his death relinquishes her his title as the Capo, she is left to prove herself worthy in the dangerous underworld.
Shana Bradley has adored Governor Tatum since he took office. She schemes her way into a job as his aide and a place in his bed, but when he chooses his wife and children over her, she can’t accept it and vows revenge. From kidnapping and betrayal to murder, Shana always gets what she wants.
Single mother Lauri Felder is jolted awake by a crash in the night and rushes to find her young son, Benny, missing. With no evidence or leads, she is the only suspect in the kidnapping and murder of her only child until an undercover detective falls for her and vows to help, but it is his testimony that convicts her of the crime. Now, from behind prison walls, Lauri must fight to prove her innocence while mourning the loss of her son.