Mother Mary Moore's brief affair with Kyle Weston was just a bittersweet memory ... until he popped back into her life twelve years later, as her boss! Daughter Twelve-year-old Maggie Moore thought her mother was hopelessly straitlaced. Then...
Welcome To Motherhood... Linda Potter knew nothing about kids. But her rambunctious five-year-old twin nephews and their baby sister were about to give her a crash course in Motherhood 101. Welcome To Chaos! In the middle of this madness, in wal...
Wild, wanna-be actress JoJo Giamatti liked to have a good time. What was the point of worrying about the future? But lately, all her boyfriend, Peter, cared about was climbing his way up some silly corporate ladder. When had he turned into such a bor...
Desperate Trussed up in tweed and a suitably righteous manner, Jake Reed hoped he'd pass as a schoolmaster long enough to elude the gunman on his trail. But with Cecilia Summertree, the prettiest--and the nosiest--schoolmarm in the West dodging hi...
Gorgeous young widow seeks man. Good looks a plus! After four dateless years, why were men suddenly sending Ellen Lantry seductive messages and red roses? Including dreamy-eyed Simon Miller, who offered her a birthday evening of dance, champagne ...
LOVE ON THE RUN! The long arm of the law couldn't stretch far enough to catch Sam Winter. But a pair of shapely legs attached to a Texas heiress had stopped him in his tracks. And the last thing he needed was sassy Millie Lively with outrageous no...
It was to be a practical marriage... Blessed by the bride's father and the IRS. Except for one problem: Allan Steele never made it to the wedding. He had a run-in with a cow! For Jane Fielding, being left at the altar by the love of her l...
Ty Saunders Was Nothing But a Big, Brawny Reprobate -- And, Oh, Lordy! How She Wanted Him! But that was impossible, Louise Livingston protested. She had her standards, after all...while he had a smile stolen from the devil himself. Still, she'd ...
Snatched! Bride-to-be Cathy Seymour refused to let abduction keep her from the altar -- even if her kidnapper was the hunkiest guy this side of Brad Pitt. She intended to get back to her stable banker fiance, by hook, crook or via a tiny bathroom ...
A Desperate Daddy One look at baby Felicity's chubby cheeks and Ross Templeton almost forgot that he only needed to "rent" a baby for the weekend. Just long enough to concede his father's last wish for a grandchild. A Make-Believe...
Will Brockett Certainly Had His Hands Full His ex-fiance had up and married while he'd been out on a cattle drive. Then she'd run away from her new husband, and as the town's part-time sheriff, it was up to Will to rescue her, and keep the residen...
IDENTICAL TWINS... The last thing in the world best man Grant Whiting wants is to be set up with the maid of honor at his friend's wedding. So he blackmails his identical twin brother into performing the best man switch. Only, after Mitzi decks Gr...
"Lonesome Swallow Ranch, here I come!" A sexy, Stetson-wearing cowboy is as out of place in the urban wilds of New York as Assistant D.A. Margo Haskell is in Hicksville, Texas. But when her life is threatened because of her job, Armadillo Bend--an...
Emma Colby had a knack for finding trouble... Until the day when trouble -- by the name of Lang Tupper -- found her! The handsome outlaw lay half-dead on her doorstep, but couldn't help stealing a kiss before falling into a blissful state of unco...
Tricia 'Pudgy Pat' Peterson has returned to her hometown in a blaze of glory! Only now she's not so pudgy and is about to marry a gorgeous, Beverly Hills dentist. It's a dream come true for the duckling-turned-swan. That is, if her best friend's inte...
CAUGHT FOR GOOD! Does Heartbreak Ridge have a romance curse? No way!! says Sheriff Sam Weston..but he isn't taking any chances. Online, he rounds himself up and lady far from his hometown. The lonesome lawman thinks he's found himself a foolproof ...
Arrested for love Trouble with a capital T -- that's Ruby Treadwell! Heartbreak Ridge's wildest gal has deputy sheriff Cody Tucker ready to throw in his badge. Ruby's had enough of the local life and her overly protective brothers. So she's chosen...
Roy McMillan had vowed to live and die a bachelor! But the McMillan credo didn't set too well the day that Ellie Fitzsimmons stepped off the train in Paradise, Nebraska. The confounded beauty lit up an October day with her sunshine. And though she...
Natalie Winthrop is determined to rebuild her fortune in Heartbreak Ridge. But her prize -- a dilapidated old house -- is no prize at all! And her fantasy of a country inn is all but dashed by the home-improvement challenge. Enter Cal Tucker. The rec...
A wife is all that's missing from the privileged life of Riley P. Lomard III--and the blue-blooded bachelor is content to keep it that way. Then a fender bender with a beautiful stranger triggers a telepathic glimpse of his future--with the luminous ...
Take one jilted mail-order bride. Add three bratty orphans. Throw in a cantankerous cowboy. Result? A Texas-size family Christmas!...
Bridesmaid Meltdown After writing dozens of wedding columns for The Portland Times, the prospect of planning one in her spare time is enough to give Celia Snowden cold feet. Unfortunately, she's now been corralled into maid-of-honor duty for a pal s...
IMPRACTICAL MAGIC Callie Hauseman may be descended from a long line of somewhat ditzy witches, but the family magic certainly isn't working for her. Why else would she the scattered-brain beauty be stuck in a dead-end job, socking away money to fin...
Chaining herself to the saloon doors seemed like a good idea, but Lacy Calhoun quickly learned reforming her happily scandalous Texas town would take more than do-gooder theatrics. Even harder would be getting the better of roguishly handsome barkeep...
The Case of the Missing Heiress A baby left on a doorstep, an heiress presumed dead, smuggled gems, cover-ups...and murder. To the Trueblood, Texas, P.I. agency, Finders Keepers, it's more than solving the mystery. It's about reuniting a mother, a...
EDIE AMOS MAY HAVE LOST THE LOVE OF HER LIFE, BUT SHE CAN'T LOSE THIS APARTMENT. Sure her journalist boyfriend has taken a dangerous assignment overseas, leaving Edie without a second thought. But a sunny two-bedroom apartment--with a balcony--doe...
AVAILABLE: LIVE-IN NANNY WITH SCORE TO SETTLE. HOMEWRECKING OPTIONAL... Once upon a time, Alison Bell was a Dallas debutante good girl who always followed the rules. Then her dad's business went bust, her mom ran off with a jetsetter, and her high...
This Christmas, take some time out to indulge in these sweet, sexy stories from three of your favorite authors. Because while Santa may visit but once a year, romance is the gift that keeps on giving... For once, Holly is determined to fit into h...
Sometimes Life Imitates Art. And Sometimes Life Imitates Really Bad Art... Rebecca Abbot's life has just gone from vintage feather boas to boring office casual. Thanks to Sylvie Arnaud's heart attack, she's out of a job. But it's Sylvie's French, v...
It's the first Christmas in Santaland for April Claus -- but it may also be her last unless she can uncover a villain with a killer Christmas wish. . . . Love is full of surprises -- though few compare to realizing that you’re marrying the ...
April Claus knows being married to the real Santa makes every day feel like Christmas. But when a different holiday arrives at the North Pole, so does murder . . . For the first time ever, Christmastown is celebrating a strange new tradition -...
Jessica Fletcher meets Tim Burton in this creative and witty cozy mystery series from Liz Ireland, filled with unconventional characters, year-round Christmas cheer, and a unique heroine who’s married to the real-life Santa Claus! April Claus has g...
Jessica Fletcher meets Tim Burton in this creative and witty cozy mystery series filled with unconventional characters, a year-round Christmas setting, and a unique heroine who’s married to the real-life Santa Claus -- and this time, there are two ...
It’s beginning to look a lot like New Year’s in this creative and witty mystery featuring a unique heroine who’s married to the real-life Santa Claus and living in the North Pole. Santaland is scrambling to keep its secrets hidden from a trio o...