Reno Martin's timing was perfect. Katie was nearly frozen after spending hours on the roadside in her broken-down van. As the icy rain gave way to snow, she was grateful to be rescued--even if her hero was an obstinate stranger. Snowbound with...
WINDS OF CHANGE When fire broke out in the fields surrounding Coogan, Oklahoma, Amanda Jameson joined her neighbors in their battle against the fiery destruction. It was a most unlikely occasion for a courtship. Yet Amanda knew something was in...
She was the Ingraham heiress, the next owner of a successful chain of grocery stores. But now that her grandmother was ready to pass on the reins, Lindsey found herself pitted against a powerful adversary. Michael Garrity, entrepreneur. Vying for ...
AFRAID TO LOVE There was something about the men who became Oklahoma rangers. Cassie Marlow loved Quentin Hatfield for the very reasons he joined the force--his love of excitement and adventure, his concern for Oklahoma wildlife. But Cassie al...
To formidable financier Jason Kenyon, young Lauren Howard was warmth in the winter, a sunny smile in the darkest night. Weighted with responsibilities, he longed to taste sweet freedom in her arms. Old enough to be her father, he cursed his unseemly ...
Wade Wolcott knew he'd be crazy to sell property to Ellie McGrew. The last thing he needed was a bewitchingly curvy widow--with three young daughters--living next door, threatening his carefree bachelor existence. But somehow, when he looked into her...
When her husband of ten years announced he was leaving, Willa had held her head high and kept quiet about her pregnancy. Digging into her soul for strength digging wells to earn a living, she'd made it on her own. Now Jack was back claiming she "need...
MAD MAX Jillian Aldritt had thought she was in command of her high-stress life--until she fell victim to mysteriously recurring, totally embarrassing hives! Surely a soothing, solitary vacation in sleepy Cocoa Beach would relieve her agitation. ...
To reconcile with her folks back East and give her kids grandparents for Christmas, truck stop waitress Lacey Bryant arranged transportation with her steadiest customer. Little did she know she'd hitched a ride with Scrooge! Eighteen hundred miles co...
Could the lion lie down with the lamb? The Saint and the Sinner Quaker Maggie Holland wielding a gun? Unthinkable! Yet there she was, at the butt end of a rifle, fending off desperadoes--all to rescue the most tattered specimen of masculinity G...
Seemed like half of Oklahoma knew there'd always been something special, something better left unspoken, between solitary Dallas Cordell and his brother's gentle wife Rachel. Everyone thought family honor had kept them apart. Yet after a senseless ac...
Ranch hands called her a gold-digger. Yet Annalise Pardee knew that the Aces & Eights was more than an inheritance--it was Ben's last gift, her first home, an overwhelming memento of their love. But along with the ranch came foreman Yancey Cordell, w...
Billie Ballinger was destitute and downhearted when her car broke down outside the tiny West Texas town of Heaven. Her only option seemed the temporary refuge reluctantly offered by Heaven's mayor, Linc Snow. But with four motherless kids on the verg...
Annie Lane had always loved reading and writing, so it wasn't all that surprising than she met and was courted by her husband, ranches Matt Breen, through the mail. Soon he knew every little thing about her--except one: she was pregnant. But there we...
The spirit of motherhood is the spirit of love--and how better to capture that special feeling than in three glorious new stories from three favorite Silhouette authors? For Mary Minnett Lunsford, learning to be a good mother meant accepting the c...
Rancher Jesse Breen was the last of a dying breed--a man of honor and integrity, a gentleman. Except when it came to a sexy woman in a pink Cadillac convertible--a woman who had hair the color of the setting sun and a body that drove him crazy. Of co...
From the moment he met petite, headstrong Zoe Yarberry, cowboy Rory Breen was a changed man. Well, he didn't exactly meet her--he just happened along in time to help her steal a horse. And he wasn't completely changed--he would always be a restless c...
1993 Keepsake Christmas Stories Once Upon a Christmas by Curtiss Ann Matlock Rancher Monroe Locket didn't want the responsibility of a widowed mail-order bride, but even he didn't have the heart to ship Olivia Pritchett and her two preco...
And the living was easy. Or should have been. But Oren Breen couldn't keep his mind off Lorena Venable, his landlady--and next-door neighbor. He couldn't forget that she was upstairs, behind the lit window of her bedroom--or that he'd like to be ther...
Kindred Souls Cross McCree was mestizo - a half-breed man of the mountains. A man as rough as the land he loved. Yet passion pooled within him, and Lilly Blackwell feared the depths of his heated gaze. In her hoopskirts and dainty shoes, Lilly...
THE END OF THE ROAD The first moment Will Starr saw Ruby Dee D'Angelo step out of her Ford Galaxie, he knew she would have to go. Hired as a nurse for Will's ailing father, she was too young and beautiful to be stuck in the middle of nowhere with ...
Realizing that her workaholic husband is more married to his career than to his family, an Oklahoma wife leaves him weeks short of their twenty-fifth anniversary, and the contrite husband vows to win her back. Original....
MAN, WOMAN...AND CHILD? Money. Power. Two years ago their heady lure had swayed Jack Cashion from the one thing in life that truly mattered: Willa. From the get-go he'd realized that nothing fired his blood more completely than the wife he'...
When Etta River's two-timing husband died in another woman's bed, he left his young widow pregnant and alone on a ranch mired in debt. But on the day of the funeral, a drifter named Johnny Bellah walks into her life. Etta thinks he's just another wor...
Straight out of the heartland of the South, here is a novel to gently rock the heart and soul, a novel of a woman traveling too long on an endless stretch of lonesome road who finds her way home at last. Meet Rainey Valentine: thirty-five, twice d...
On the road of life, sometimes you have to shift gears and slow down for those rough patches, but in the end, if you drive carefully, you'll end up home at last.... After twenty years of marriage, Charlene's husband, Joey, has left her and their t...
Marilee James has a complicated life, caring for a special-needs son, playing surrogate mother to her abandoned niece, and temporarily running the local paper until the new managing editor arrives. She's so busy attending to everyone else that her ow...
Life is just about as good as it gets in Valentine, Oklahoma.... In this funny and poignant sequel to Cold Tea on a Hot Day, Valentine's own Marilee James is engaged to Tate Holloway, the new editor of the Valentine Voice, a man whose sweet Southe...
Christmas has come to Valentine, Oklahoma, and everybody's got a special wish.... For thirteen-year-old Corrine, it's really about keeping what she has: a happy life with her aunt Marilee and Papa Tate; her beloved horses; and an almost boyfriend,...
Looking for real life. The scrawled graffiti on the bathroom wall was innocent enough, cliched even. But for Claire Wilder, it was a wake-up call: start searching for your roots and find the happiness you lost long ago. Divorced from her high school ...
You might meet them at the coffee shop, the grocery store, or walking down the street. They're women across North America committed to reaching out and changing lives one good deed at a time. Five of these exceptional women have been selected as this...
It takes a lot of work to plan a wedding--and even more to save a marriage--but in Valentine, Oklahoma, there's always someone to help you keep your chin up. Emma Cole's son is getting married, and she's determined to make everything perfect--even...
So what if Winston Valentine is ninety-two years old? He isn't dead yet And he's out to prove it. His exuberant show of life--coming to you live from radio dial 1550--revitalizes Valentine, Oklahoma, for its centennial celebration. The townsfolk are ...
From USA Today bestselling author Curtiss Ann Matlock, comes the delightfully warmhearted story of a woman’s awakening to unexpected love.A widow of ten years, Mary Lunsford lives a quiet, predictable life in the small town where she grew up. Her m...
From bestselling author Curtiss Ann Matlock comes a funny and heartwarming look at a woman facing midlife, marriage, and moving on.When her husband of thirty-five years runs off to find himself and her mother dies, sheltered Southern belle Carley Lov...