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12/30/2025

I used to manage a Boston rock band back in the day. We were on MTV and opened for the British group The FIXX. So it was fitting that I finally decided to write GYPSY HEARTS with my editor's urging. Those days managing the band were some of the most awesome days of my life when I was young and single and were surrounded by friends who are still cherished friends today, and I cherish the memories. Check out GYPSY HEARTS by Lisa Mondello, available on Kindle Unlimited.
GYPSY HEARTS by Lisa Mondello https://amzn.to/4apOoBj

He was a country star in the making...and only she could complete him...

After years of recording commercials, Josie Tibbs longs to get back into the music industry. But the sound recording engineer had traveled that road once before and crawled back home with a broken heart. Wary of any man in the music business, she longs for a steady man and a great recording career.

Brock Gentry lived for the music and so became an
extraordinarily talented country singer. On the fringes of success, he's ready to take his chance and go on the road to Nashville. But he and the recording company clash over his image, among other things.
Hoping to find the right sound mixer he seeks out Josie Tibbs after hearing of her work with another country singer who's hit the big time. Although she wants nothing to do with him romantically, he wins her over professionally and she decides to come on the road with his band.
Together they blaze a trail to Nashville, her cat in tow, in the close quarters of life on the bus with the rest of the band. Despite the obstacles of life on the road, Brock and Josie find they can't keep their feelings from each other. But Josie's been through this before and knows the dogs of the music industry can bite hard. As they make it closer to Nashville, she fears a chance at success could spell the end of their love.
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Previous published through Avalon Books and Montlake Romance.
"Mondello's latest, a pulse-pounding, pitch-perfect
addition to the romantic-suspense genre... Terrific escapist
entertainment, as good as anything in Janet Evanovich's oeuvre." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Material Witness, named one of Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2012!
"Truly a joy to read." - Susan Mobley
Her Heart for the Asking - 4 STARS Romantic Times
"The Marriage Contract is a very entertaining read." - Sunnye Tiedemann
The Marriage Contract - 4 STARS Romantic Times
"Cradle of Secrets, a story shrouded in mystery, darkness and confusion, is quite difficult to resist...captivating, and often quite emotional." - Robin Taylor
Cradle of Secrets - 4 STARS Romantic Times
"Lisa Mondello's Her Only Protector is an extremely stimulating romance and suspense story." - Robin Taylor
Her Only Protector - 4.5 STARS Romantic Times
"Mondello's action-packed story has a nice developing romance." - Susan Mobley
Yuletide Protector - 4 STARS Romantic Times

After years of recording commercials, Josie Tibbs longs to get back into the music industry. But the sound recording engineer had traveled that road once before and crawled back home with a broken heart. Wary of any man in the music business, she longs for a steady man and a great recording...

12/29/2025

Part of the USA Today bestselling series Texas Hearts by Lisa Author Lisa Mondello
"Ms. Mondello presents a beguiling story that keeps you turning the pages...Truly a joy to read." Susan Mobley - 4 STARS - ROMANTIC TIMES MAGAZINE
Her Heart for the Asking by Lisa Mondello https://amzn.to/48Ss16v
Available on Kindle Unlimited
Mandy Morgan swore she’d never step foot in Texas again after Beau Gentry left her for life on the rodeo circuit eight years before. But now her uncle’s heart is failing and she has to convince him that surgery will save his life. She never dreamed the first thing she’d see when she stepped off the plane would be her biggest nightmare...the one man she’d never stopped loving.
Beau Gentry had the fever for two things: the rodeo and Mandy Morgan. But for Beau, loving Mandy was complicated by his father’s vendetta against her uncle. This led him to make the hardest decision of his life and he can still see the bitterness and hurt on Mandy’s face. All these years it has killed him to think Mandy had forgotten him and moved as far away as possible from him. But now they’re back in Texas, and he’s going to do all he can to win back her love.
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Texas Hearts series includes these western romance novels:
HER HEART FOR THE ASKING
HIS HEART FOR THE TRUSTING
THE MORE I SEE
GYPSY HEARTS
LEAVING LIBERTY
HIS TEXAS HEART
THE WEDDING DRESS
LONE STAR LADY
UNDER A TEXAS STAR
LONE STAR HERO

From New York Times and USA TODAY Bestselling author, Lisa Mondello, a Contemporary Western Romance Novel "Ms. Mondello presents a beguiling story that keeps you turning the pages...Truly a joy to read." Susan Mobley - 4 STARS - ROMANTIC TIMES MAGAZINE Mandy Morgan swore she’d never step fo...

11/24/2025

The original title for DAKOTA WEDDING was The Christmas House because most of the story centers around this house that looks too beautiful at Christmas that no one could be unhappy there. So much happiness and pain are revealed in DAKOTA WEDDING. It is an emotional holiday story that still makes me cry and tug at all my feel-good strings when I read it. Check it out this holiday season.

DAKOTA WEDDING, book 6 of the Dakota Hearts series by Lisa Mondello

He'd come back from military service a broken man. Then 3 little kids and a beautiful woman filled his heart and showed him how love was the best risk of all.

Ian McKinnon was just getting steady on his feet, looking forward to the opening of the Wounded Veterans Center and a big McKinnon wedding celebration, when tragedy struck again. The soldier who'd saved his life while in the military has died. He's charged with his most important mission: find his friend Carlos's family in Mexico or become guardian and raise Carlos's children. The only mandatory stipulation of his friend's will was that Ian live under the same roof with Abby Townsend, a firefighter from Carlos's firehouse. Abby knew the kids well and she could help ease them all through the transition of becoming a family. Okay, so Ian may not be daddy material, but he'd grown up with a whole lot of McKinnons running around. He could handle the kids just fine. The beautiful Abby Townsend was another story.

Abby took one look at Ian and shook her head with utter disbelief. What were her dear friends thinking by naming a man whose nickname was "The Hazard" as guardian of their three small children? She only needed to spend one year in Ian's house in South Dakota. She had to either find Carlos's family or convince Ian that she was the better person to raise the children. Abby knows how hard it is to lose someone you loved. She'll be there to protect the children in any way she can. But can she protect her heart from falling in love with a man known for taking too many risks...and risk heartbreak again?
Dakota Wedding is an emotional holiday story featuring family, healing, and trust.

Ian McKinnon was just getting steady on his feet, looking forward to the opening of the Wounded Veterans Center and a big McKinnon wedding celebration, when tragedy struck again. The soldier who'd saved his life while in the military has died. He's charged with his most important mission: find ...

11/23/2025

This is the time of the year I LOVE reading Christmas stories! Check out an excerpt of Grown-Up Christmas Wish by Lisa Mondello https://preview.mailerlite.com/z8n9y9c9s5

11/18/2025

Read the first chapter of ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU by Lisa Mondello

"Christmas magic is right anytime - highly recommended." C Penn, WordWeaving"All I Want For Christmas is You is a heartwarming Christmas story that will put you in the mood for the holiday season." Debra Holland - Author of Wild Montana Sky"This romance is heartwarming and sweet..." Reading Romance....

06/20/2025

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11/17/2024

Fall in Love This Christmas: A Heartwarming Romance Excerpt of GROWN-UP CHRISTMAS WISH by Lisa Mondello https://preview.mailerlite.com/x4d4r9w6v3

09/05/2024

A Kirkus Books Best Indie Book of 2012. Read the USA Today Bestselling series HEROES OF PROVIDENCE by Lisa Mondello, available on Kindle Unlimited.
https://www.amazon.com/Heroes-Providence-Complete-Set-1-6-ebook/dp/B0B7ZNCFM3

MATERIAL WITNESS, Book One

Who does she trust when the horror of one of her crime novels turns into a deadly reality?
Bestselling crime novelist Cassie Alvarez, aka Cassie Lang, had murder on her mind when she walked into Rory's Bar underdressed and undercover to research her latest crime novel. Researching the cool, blue-eyed and dashingly handsome man at the end of the bar stirred her senses more than she wanted to admit. But was this man, the sexy Detective Jake Santos, all he appeared to be? Jake vows to keep Cassie alive even though the beautiful novelist is a serious distraction.

SAFE HAVEN, Book Two
When someone you once loved wants you dead, is there any SAFE HAVEN?
Finding out her ex-husband hired a hitman to kill her didn't leave Daria Carlisle all warm and fuzzy. But Detective Kevin Gordon's suggestion she flees the only home that had ever truly been hers was downright crazy. The sexy police officer made her heart pound and her blood stir. But she'd worked too hard to get what little she had. She wasn't leaving. Kevin Gordon made a big mistake in letting Daria's ex slip through his fingers. Although he tried to make it very clear the fixer-upper home Daria considered a palace was no safe haven, she insisted on staying. Now he's her protector. But can Kevin spend every waking hour sleeping on her doorstep just to keep this stubborn woman alive without risking his heart to love?

RECKLESS HOURS, Book Three
Her whole life had been a lie…
It was only supposed to be a random DNA test performed with her class. But it turned Professor Tammie Gardner’s world upside down and proved the tragic death of her parents was no accident. She has one clue about where it started and decides to travel across the country to find answers. She finds love in the arms of Providence police officer Dylan Montgomery who is searching for his missing brother. They both want the truth. But is the truth worth the danger they've put themselves in by uncovering secrets no one wants to be revealed?

DESPERATE HOURS, Book Four
Bounty hunter Gil Waite is after Sonny's brother. He only cares about "finding the fugitive" and collecting his money. But Sonny Montgomery is after so much more. Her precious baby niece, Ellie, was kidnapped by a Colombian drug lord. She won't betray her family by falling in love with the one man who has the power to destroy her family. But she needs to escape Colombia and has no choice but to trust Gil, a man whose rugged exterior hides the heart of a hero she can't resist.

FINAL HOURS, Book Five
Serena Davco's nightmare is almost over. Her baby has been returned to her, and now she waits anxiously for her husband to return home safely after being imprisoned by Colombian gangsters. Her joy quickly turns to danger and despair when Cash returns and has no memory of her or the baby they created. The danger from his escape has awoken a sleeping giant that could lead to murder for them all.
Three months of trying to survive a drug lord's torture had stripped Cash of many of the details of his life. Now that he's been rescued by a covert team, he's shocked to see just how much of his life he doesn't remember. If he can't piece together his past, how can he possibly keep his family safe from the danger he knows still threatens them?

COLD HARBOR, Book Six
FBI Agent Charlotte "Charley" Tate has loved only one man in her life. The one man she betrayed, Tyler Jacobsen. Tyler had given up a career he loved as a Providence police detective after realizing how easily a beautiful face and sweet smile had led him astray. Now Charley is back in his life as they fight to undo the organized crime corruption that has infiltrated the city he loves by a Colombian drug lord. Can he work alongside a woman he still loves without risking his life...and his heart?

Download HEROES OF PROVIDENCE: https://www.amazon.com/Heroes-Providence-Complete-Set-1-6-ebook/dp/B0B7ZNCFM3

Heroes of Providence Complete Set 1-6

08/13/2024

LOVE WALKS IN by Lisa Mondello
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08/08/2024

The Billionaire Branson Brothers: Luke by Lexi Masters is now available! https://buy.bookfunnel.com/a0ukl5z223?tid=zy154p5wdn

Tattooed and troubled are not the top qualities I am looking for in a man, but that is exactly what I found… Luke Whitmore, youngest of the billionaire Branson Brothers, is a troublemaker—just ask anyone in this small town. When an injured horse forces us together, we butt heads right away. But ...

07/30/2024

IT'S RELEASE DAY!!

LOVE WALKS IN by Lisa Mondello is now available in ebook at all retailers!

Meredith Prichard dreads the 1989 class reunion booked at a neighboring resort in Crystal Cove. Rumor has it Griffin Cole, the man who'd broken her heart by breaking their engagement to fight for his country during the Gulf War, will be there. The handsome, fun-loving man she’d fallen head over heels in love with in high school was now a decorated Colonel in the Air Force. Faced with the past and all the memories of their love, Meredith now questions returning to Crystal Cove when Griffin forces her to admit the love still between them and the past decision Meredith made to forget him that could destroy that love.

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07/29/2024

Reviews are in already for LOVE WALKS IN by Lisa Mondello, available TOMORROW 7/30/24
“I so enjoyed Griffin and Meredith's story. There's is a great second chance romance. These two made a lot of mistakes In their youth but once they meet again everything changes. A captivating read with a lot of emotions.” Amazon Review

“Meredith and Griffin loved each other when they were young, planned to get married but his decision to enlist in the Air Force and then resign caused their breakup. Now 30 years later, he’s back home for his class reunion and Meredith is the event planner for the hotel. Years fade away when they both have strong feelings but both harbor a secret. Wonderful love story how sometimes love never fades and forgiveness is healing. Love Lisa’s stories!” Amazon Review

“This was a nice change in pace from the normal plot. It had some secrets that I did not see coming and made the story that much better. Quick short read that I would definitely recommend!”. Amazon Review

“This book is simply brilliant! I was kept engaged from the start, it has romance and secrets.
I highly recommend this book to all, and I have pre-ordered the others in this series, which I believe will be good reading.” Amazon Review

“Love Walks In by Lisa Mondello is a good, and enjoyable short military secret baby later in life reunion romance read…a beautiful love story.” Amazon Review

“Wonderful love story how sometimes love never fades and forgiveness is healing. Love Lisa’s stories!” Amazon Review

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AVAILABLE 7/30/24

Meredith Prichard dreads the 1989 class reunion booked at a neighboring resort in Crystal Cove. Rumor has it Griffin Cole, the man who'd broken her heart by breaking their engagement to fight for his country during the Gulf War, will be there. The handsome, fun-loving man she’d fallen head over he...