When Wyoming cowboy Jed Powers came to claim Sancia Island, he was prepared to evict a squatter--but instead found himself bewitched by a water nymph more beautiful than any wildflower. Thena Sainte-Colbet was an enchanting wildcat, an earth mother w...
Rucker McClure had swilled beer and chased women everywhere south of the Mason-Dixon Line, but the sexy, rowdy good ol' boy couldn't resist heading straight for Mt. Pleasant, Alabama, when the town's mayor, ex-Miss Georgia Dinah Sheridan, sent him a ...
Shea Somerton was elegant and glamorous, just like Estate Mendocino, the resort she managed--but behind her classy facade, there was a hint of recklessness in her violet eyes. Duke Araiza had won the estate and grounds in a high-stakes poker game; no...
Brig McKay was a hell-raiser, a rebel without a cause--and he was Deputy Sheriff Millie Surprise's duty for the next sixty days! No way would the rowdy Aussie get time off for good behavior, she knew by his reputation, but she never expected rugged m...
Confusion, fury, and disbelief filled Rucker McClure's soul when he saw his wife across the airport waiting room. A year ago his beloved Dinah had vanished without a trace, but he'd never stopped looking for her, never given up hope, until now, when ...
Jeopard Surprise was Robert-Redford gorgeous, a golden-haired outlaw whose enigmatic elegance enthralled Tess Gallatin, made her want to break all the rules--and lose herself in his arms! He'd come aboard her boat pretending to court the blue-eyed Ch...
Erica Gallatin felt her spirit rise to the challenge and fury in James Tall Wolf's eyes. The brilliant renegade Cherokee who'd played pro football was pure threatening masculinity: fierce, dangerous, with a heart-stopping physique -- and utterly irre...
When Nathan Chatham watched Kat Gallatin take on her rival in the wrestling ring, he admired her talent, heart and sheer raw courage--and then risked his life to rescue her. Even though the feud between their families stretched back to the Civil War,...
When Dr. Sara Scarborough saw that Kyle Surprise had breached the security of Moonspell Keep, her castle refuge deep in the Kentucky mountains, she was tormented by memories of a desperate imprisonment -- and of the man who'd nearly given his life to...
The Dashing Ex-Marine... He was tall, brutally handsome, his gun poised as he chased the mysterious figure deeper into the old moonshiner's cave. But when he tackled his prey, Max Templeton was astonished to discover that lying under his hard, mus...
A Man of Many Mysteries... T. S. Audubon was fascinated by the shy Russian woman who accompanied the famous scientist. And he was filled with a reckless desire to release the fragile lady from her keepers! But when Elena Petrovic made her desperat...
HER PEOPLE UPROOTED BY BROKEN PROMISES, HER HEART TORN BY CONFLICTING DESIRES... The Trail of Tears: The forced exodus of the Cherokee people from their homeland in Georgia to make way for the white gold miners and settlers. Katherine Blue Song'...
The wickedly handsome hero who appeared without warning on a sultry Florida night had to be a figment of Agnes Hamilton's imagination--or the answer to her dreams! The gallant rider swept her onto his horse and carried her through the storm, behaving...
Their heritage brought them home . . . A LEGACY OF ADVENTURE, INTRIGUE--AND PASSIONTHE PRINCESS . . . AND THE HUNKTESS GALLATIN . . . A savvy and successful diamond broker, the part-Cherokee society girl was also a woman with a mysterious past, full ...
A Bronzed Barbarian Who Toyed With Danger... Kash Santelli was prepared to frighten a greedy schemer who he believed was telling lies all over Bangkok, but Rebecca Brown wasn't all what he expected! The spirited American woman stuck to her story a...
There had always been Mackenzies and Colebrooks at Blue Willow, their histories entangled like the graceful branches of the rare willow trees that thrived there. Artemas Colebrook and Lily MacKenzie shared more than that history, their souls bound to...
In the wealthy resort town of Pandora, North Carolina, old secrets and heartaches are guarded as closely as rubies cut from the mountain bedrock. It is said that a fine ruby is both silk and stone, light and shadow, fortune and tragedy. And the fines...
Twenty years ago, Claire Maloney was the willful, pampered, tomboyish daughter of the town's most respected family, but that didn't stop her from befriending Roan Sullivan, a fierce, motherless boy who lived in a rusted-out trailer amid junked cars. ...
HOME IS WHEREVER THE HEART LEADS.... The ties that bind us--to our families, to our pasts--are at the heart of this deeply engrossing story. Venus Arinelli saw her future as a concert pianist shattered when her father's life ended in disgrace. Now...
Come sit on the porch a spell. Let's talk about times gone by and folks we remember, about slow summer evenings and lightning bugs in a jar. Listen to the music of the creaky swing, hand-cranked ice cream, and cicadas chorusing in the background. Let...
Come sit on the porch a spell. Let's talk about times gone by and folks we remember, about slow summer evenings and lightning bugs in a jar. Listen to the music of the creaky swing, hand-cranked ice cream, and cicadas chorusing in the background. Let...
Come sit on the porch a spell. Let's talk about times gone by and folks we remember, about slow summer evenings and lightning bugs in a jar. Listen to the music of the creaky swing, hand-cranked ice cream, and cicadas chorusing in the background. Let...
The story of a New York artist and a modern Southern woman whose fates are about to entwine... Dirt-poor, sensitive as poets, and proud as kings, the Powell family has lived on a Georgia mountaintop for generations. Then, during the 1960s, young U...
Welcome to Mossy Creek, where you'll find a friendly face on every corner and a heartfelt story behind every door... You'll meet a mayor who sees breaking the law as her civic duty and a by-the-book police chief trying to live up to his father's l...
Welcome to Mossy Creek, where you'll find a friendly face on every corner and a heartfelt story behind every door... You'll meet a mayor who sees breaking the law as her civic duty and a by-the-book police chief trying to live up to his father's l...
Welcome to Mossy Creek, where you'll find a friendly face on every corner and a heartfelt story behind every door... You'll meet a mayor who sees breaking the law as her civic duty and a by-the-book police chief trying to live up to his father's l...
Forget everything you believe about the mysteries of the ocean. Remember everything you love about the mysteries of the heart....
Proud and powerful, the Hardigree family was as unyielding as the Carolina marble that had made them rich. Ruled by her grandmother, ten-year-old Darl learned that privilege demanded distance from others. Yet nothing could keep her from Eli Wade, an ...
Welcome back to Mossy Creek! The warm-hearted but stub-born residents of the small town whose motto is "Ain't Going No Where--And Don't Want To" are once again sorting out the joys, sorrows, and everyday mysteries of life. This time around they'v...
She's turned her family's Georgia apple orchards into a booming enterprise, kept hidden the painful truth about her late husband and their marriage, and sent her son, Davis, to Harvard. Nothing, it seems, can faze Hush McGillen. Until Davis speeds ho...
It's a typical summer in the good-hearted mountain town of Mossy Creek, Georgia, where love, laughter and friendship make nostalgia a way of life. Creekites are always ready for a sultry romance, a funny feud or a sincere celebration, and this summer...
Grace Bagshaw Vance's life has always been an extraordinary mix of the tragic and whimsical. Among the wealthy Bagshaws of Dahlonega, Georgia-a mountain town honeycombed with romantic pioneer gold mines but built on solid tradition-Grace, thirty-four...
The good-hearted citizens of Mossy Creek, Georgia are in a mood to count their blessings. Maybe it's the influence of the new minister in town, who keeps his sense of humor while battling a stern church treasurer. Maybe it's the afterglow of Josie ...
Glamour, mystery, romance, humor and webbed toes are all back in full fin as rambunctious mer-socialite Juna Lee Poinfax invades the dignified coastal world of the Bonavendier clan. Determined to chronicle Mer life for her on-line journal, Juna Lee i...
Settle back into that comfortable chair and enjoy a second helping of poignant, humorous and nostalgic tales about how things used to be in the legendary South. From vindictive mules and small town marriage rituals that include a pig, to Grandma's st...
Maybe it's the post-New Year's boredom. Maybe it's the cold, frisky air. Whatever the cause, the citizens of Mossy Creek seem determined to get into trouble on a clear winter day in mid-January. Police Chief Amos Royden and his loyal officers, Mut...
A beautiful woman, scarred for life. A tortured man, seeking redemption. Brought together by fate in a small town high in the majestic Appalachian mountains. Live. Love. Believe. Beauty is in the lie of the beholder. Heartbroken and cyni...
A novel created by Debra Leigh Smith, Sandra Chastain, Virginia Ellis, Debra Dixon, and Martha Crockett It's Valentine's Day weekend in Mossy Creek, and Creekites don't need any new romantic dilemmas. The town's still buzzing over Ida and Amos's ...
Kara Whittenbrook is an unlikely heiress. Down-to-earth and lovably quirky, she's never fit in with the stogy Whittenbrook clan of Connecticut. Growing up at her parents' rainforest preserve in Brazil, she has a quaintly off-beat view of life. Now he...
Book 7 in the beloved Mossy Creek Hometown Series about life in a tiny Georgia mountain village. This time, tales of local pets weave among the usual intrigues, feuds and romances. Ida and Amos are closer than ever to becoming a full-fledged couple; ...
Dear Dr. Firth: I know you are in your cups at this time, drinking, taking pills, and sleeping under trees, but I have some experience rehabilitating lost souls in that regard, and so I am enclosing a box of my biscuits and a cold wrapped container...
Pickles are mentioned in the Bible. Cleopatra ate them as a beauty regimen. Shakespeare put them in his plays. Mason designed jars for bottling them. So did Ball. Did Mason and Ball fight over the King of the Pickle Jars title? I don't know. I did kn...
She's destined to love Gus MacBride--if she survives her first year in the Crossroads Cove. A thread of hope is all she needs. Damaged, confused, alone. Cathy Deen Mitternich recognizes her old self in the fragile survivor huddled in the sheep ...
"Roan and I thought we’d made our peace with the past. We looked forward to the future. Our days were crammed with plans, work, love. In fact, we looked to the future with too much confidence, the way people do when they think they’ve survived th...
Military men have a special place in Lucy Parmenter's tortured heart. For the past few months, Army Captain Gus MacBride, stationed in Afghanistan, has transformed her lonely life at a North Carolina refuge for abused women and their children. The te...
Her greatest secret might save his life.
Dr. Kriloff's blond companion was a slender female fashion refugee so horrible looking that pity was Audubon's first reaction. She huddled in Kriloff's shadow, a notepad clutched in her pale hands, her ...
The battle is on their doorstep and in their souls.
These old mountains are smart, Lucy. They’re alive. They can be gentle like mamas; oh, sure, they’ll croon and they’ll kiss you and they’ll whisper while you sleep, and you’ll lear...
Hi friend! My name is Jacob! What is yours? I am a lot like you. I love to go on adventures with my family, and I really like going to school. All my friends are there.I can't wait to show you what it takes for me to get ready for any adventure. What...