For a dozen grateful bachelors Meri Kincaid played the role of wife in every way but romance -- cleaning, shopping, laundry -- even if it meant leaving too little time for her own life! Then lucky number thirteen entered the picture.... Businessman ...
Being locked in a dark closet, tied back to back with a devastatingly handsome man during a bank robbery, had its high points, Maribeth Bradford admitted. And once the spunky sheriff's daughter did her best to foil the heist, she vowed to get to kno...
So what if traveling salesman Brian Anthony was Mr. Body Beautiful with a damnably handsome smile -- Dannie Drysdale wasn't buying! Devastatingly gorgeous, ambitious men weren't her type, she reminded herself -- until Brian's mind-boggling kisses sw...
Roxie Norris was a minister's daughter, but the stubborn, spunky enchantress was no saint! When her car died on Tyler Sheridan's doorstep, the devastatingly handsome restaurateur was stunned: he'd expected a shy country girl with scrawny legs, not a ...
The Very Private Investigator... With his dark gaze and daredevil looks, private eye Jack Sloan was tough to get along with, tough to get to know, but he was the best at doing a dirty job. When his partner asked him to train his niece, Jack took o...
Her Sweet-Talking Guy... The man who'd slipped through the security gate onto the private island was no run-of-the-mill burglar, but a hunk in tight jeans who left Kelly Garrett breathless! But when she discovered that the man she'd captured...
The Rugged, Reckless Sheriff ... When Gator Landry came to warn her grandmother that a hurricane was coming to Lizard Bayou, Michelle Thurston felt breathless, shaken by memories of the wild Cajun boy who'd tempted a young girl to sneak out to mee...
The Ex-Husband Who Still Made Her Sizzle... Lucas McKay had fought his way from poverty to the corridors of power, and marrying beautiful Honey Buchannan was the answer to a dream. He'd stood up to her domineering father, seduced her senses wit...
The Handsome Devil of a Rancher... Dillon McKenzie was rugged, rowdy, and none too pleased that Abel Pratt's will divided his Dakota ranch equally between Dillon and a lady preacher from Sioux Falls! He didn't want any goody-two-shoes of a...
CUTTER--A Sweet-Talking Scoundrel Without an Innocent Bone in His Body... He practically ran the remote South Carolina island, acting as mayor, sheriff, and owner of the Last Chance Saloon, but Cutter Beaumont's credentials didn't seem to impress ...
JASON -- A Blue-Eyed Sir Galahad With a Body to Die for... Crescent City's new soccer coach was utterly male, gorgeously virile, and had a magic touch when it came to kids -- what more perfect guy could there be for a slightly frazzled redhea...
CORD -- A Brash, Black-Eyed Flirt Whose Lips Left Her Breathless... With a smile that promised wicked pleasures, Cord Buford dared the town's pretty new physician to give him a physical -- anything to get Dr. Billie Foster's soft hands on...
KANE -- His Black Eyes Glittered with Danger and Desire.... He'd never answered the dozens of letters she'd written him in prison, but Melanie Abercrombie's words had kept Kane Stoddard's spirit alive during the three years he'...
He was simply sexier than any man had a right to be.... He shared her grief at losing her husband, cared for her as her child grew inside her, and flirted with her when she knew no once could find a puffy pregnant lady sexy -- but Sammie Webster d...
Was she flirting with danger when he invited her to play "let's pretend"? Fannie Brisbane knows it is an impossible scheme, but unless she agrees to it, the daughter she gave up for adoption years ago will know the truth, that she's not rich and m...
She might be more woman than he could handle ... Riley Locke only wanted a wife to be a mother to his children, but when Savannah Day arrived on his doorstep he got that and more! The beautiful spitfire made him yearn for what he'd never had, a lo...
He wouldn't let her deny what they'd once shared.... Heartbreak and lies had driven Lucy Odum from her small town, a newborn in her arms -- and only a photo of her fiance to remember him by. But when she returned several years later, she d...
He taught her how to break the rules -- and get away with it. He stormed her grandma's dinner party like a warrior claiming his prize, but when Cooper Garrett pressed Summer Pettigrew against the nearest wall and captured her mouth, she had no c...
It's happening... again. As a teenager in a South Carolina backwater--on a night when the air was hot and as thick as amber--Emily Wilkop watched as a man was brutally murdered. For fifteen years she kept still ... and paid a devastating price for...
Within every shadow... A former crime reporter heads to her small hometown in search of solace. But acclaimed suspense writer Charlotte Hughes deftly turns the comforts of home into a dark tale of treachery and murder. Lies an Unsettling Secret ...
On a night of snow and fire, he found a second chance to prove his love.... Overwork hadn't driven away the pain of his wife's leaving him, so when his doctor prescribed a weekend alone in his mountain cabin, Michael Kelly agreed. Arrivin...
The local good-time girl has just been brutally murdered, shattering the tranquility of Lee Cates's sleepy Southern hometown. Everyone in Comfrey is relieved when an outsider who'd spent that fatal night with the victim is arrested -- until it begins...
He hired himself a runaway bride, then just had to help heal her heart.... Through the window of his Dixieland Grill, Sam Ballard got an eyeful of the blonde in a bridal gown and wondered what wrong turn she'd taken to end up in a broken-down lim...
Marilee Abernathy's life is a mess. Everyone in Chickpea, South Carolina, knows about her husband's affair with the town floozy. But when her dignified farewell -- complete with pearls and impeccably applied Mary Kay cosmetics -- turns into a spectac...
THE MILLIONAIRE COP Meet Neil Logan, the bane of my existence ever since we were this high. Not exactly your average guy -- how many "average" millionaires do you know who choose to carry a badge? -- but then, he never was.... THE MOM-TO-BE That...
Kate is trained to deal with everyone's problems--except her own... Psychologist Kate Holly's own life has become the stuff of intensive therapy. She's divorcing Jay, her gorgeous firefighter husband, who is perfect except for his tendency to put ...
The mind is a terrible thing to examine... Psychologist Kate Holly feels like she's ready for a strait jacket. Her most recent patients include members of an anger management group who are directing their-rage at her, and a man obsessed with overdos...
From New York Times Bestselling Author Charlotte Hughes Can a Small Town Lawyer Get Lucky? Atlanta’s billionaire heiress Annie Hartford has no desire to marry a man she does not love; but her controlling father has been calling the shots for his 2...
With a hurricane closing in on Temptation, Louisiana, Michelle Thurston fails to convince her stubborn grandmother to leave her home on the bayou. Sheriff Gator Landry arrives by boat, hell-bent on forcing the elderly recluse to evacuate. He is stunn...