It’s all about the love… A USA Today, Award-Winning Author, Susan Jean Ricci is best known for her Cindy's Crusades Series, starring the hilarious duo Cindy and Jay DeMatteo. These characters were first introduced in the multi-award-winning novel Dinosaurs and Cherry Stems and return to entertain you in its sequel The Sugar Ticket. Look for the final saga Don't Bruise the Bananas available now. Cindy and Jay's mischief-making lives on in these shorts: A Sweet Snafu, Christmas With Niagara, His Sacred Vow, Passion's Secret Ingredient, and Turning up the Heat. Please also consider Ms. Ricci's other standalone works of fiction and short stories in her new series Love's Salvation, and her latest release, the nonfiction best seller Running On All Fours. That is until her new series Love’s Salvation Series hit the charts. A group of romantic relationship-driven stories, some sweet and others steamy, each tale in both her award-winning series can be read as a stand-alone-books. A member of the RWA, The Authors' Billboard, and the Independent Authors' Network, several of Ms. Ricci's titles have been recognized as Outstanding Novella Winners in the IAN 2020, Outstanding Finalist in the IAN 2020, and Finalist in the Outstanding Novellas Categories 2019,2018, 2017, and the Women's Outstanding Fiction Winner in the IAN 2016.