BURNED ONCE, BUT NEVER AGAIN Fire lookout Constance Martinelli was well acquainted with raging infernos. But the wildfires she feared most weren't those on the Montana mountain slopes. The worst were the flames of passion that seared her every tim...
WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH... Lisa Hanrahan was hardly what department store owner Daniel Jefferson Morgan, Jr., had expected. Why would anyone hire the pint-size ragamuffin as a security agent? From the moment she'd told him to get out of her way,...
FIRST COMES LOVE Tina Tomlinson was mortified. She'd never expected to see Steve Bergman again. It had been two long years since their brief and disastrous shipboard romance. Now here he was in Oregon--and he didn't even recognize her! Granted,...
DADDY DUTY Hardworking executive Eric Schwenker had no idea his heart was as soft as a baby's bottom . . . until he ran smack into the cuddly, cooing child--and her even more captivating mother--who'd been keeping his staff occupied for weeks. So...
PISCES MAN Aviator David Waterman got the shock of his life when he was "bought" at a charity bachelor auction by childhood nemesis Storky Jones. David couldn't believe the gawky teenager he had teased had become the tall, elegant woman before him...
MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE B. J. Rawlings was the most beautiful woman Derek Coleman had ever met. She was also the most brilliant, most successful and most confident. In other words, B. J. Rawlings was perfect, and as far as Derek was concerned, tha...
A fresh start Bonnie Coombs had never known a loving family, but when she moved to the sleepy town of Rivervale, Washington, her new neighbors made her feel as though she belonged, and that her secrets would be safe here. Bonnie even learned to en...
Where the heart is... Susanna Jaeger had come halfway around the world, searching for the father she had never known--and the home she'd never had. She was almost at the point of abandoning hope when a complete stranger helped her find her way in ...
The father trap Gerald Marsden had waited a long time for freedom, and he wasn't about to settle down. Not even for a sad little boy whose big brown eyes reminded him of his own unhappy childhood. But sending Pete back to the kid's grandmother was...
Deception and desire Smart and shy, Laura Erickson had never been lucky in love. So when handsome Jonathan Devlin seemed interested, she was immediately suspicious. Why was a man like that attracted to a woman like her? Then Jonathan's charm made ...
WEDDING BELL BLUES Beth Coleman: Mother on the Run My first marriage taught me never to trust a man. No matter how gentle or considerate Nick seems, it's hard to believe he really wants to help me and my son. And marriage to any man is out of t...
FIRST COMES MARRIAGE... Ted Carstairs: Rough-and-rugged groom With his faded jeans and five o'clock shadow, Ted Carstairs was no white knight. Still, he was American -- and willing to bargain. To Silka Olsen, a woman in need of a green card, noth...
ONE WHITE LIE... Joy Cooper became a heroine when she pulled a nearly drowned man from the ocean. But her halo slipped when she told a fib. After all, the man needed help, and his memory was a blank. Was it so wrong to pretend that this handsome str...
A BABY...AND A BRIDE He'd lost everything he'd ever loved. Now Benedict Kertin was through with marriage. Done with fatherhood. Finished with women and their heartbreaking ways. All he craved was the snowbound solitude of his remote Montana ranch...
HER CHILD? April Bingham had just discovered that the baby she'd thought she'd lost was alive -- and living with his father, Jared O'Neal. Now she was back in her hometown to become a real mother to little Tyler, but Jared hadn't exactly welcomed ...
PARENT TEACHER MEETING... Overworked teacher Hally McKenzie vowed that this year she would finally lose those five extra pounds and learn a new language--that is, until the gorgeous single dad of a troubled student turned to her for help. OR MARR...
WANTED: A BRIDE Dodging a horde of husband-hunting women, successful businessman Zach Robinson caught sight of single mom Monica Griffith--the one woman at his sister's "Brides for Alaska" function who wasn't looking to be married! NEEDED: A HUSB...
There was a time when the magical creatures of Zaraphella lived in harmony with mankind. But that time has passed. Or, has it? There is an ancient prophecy that states that a dragon, with the help of a human, will rise up and say Zaraphella from the ...