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Dixie Burrus was born on September 09, 1930 in North Carolina's Outer Banks, U.S.A, where her family had lived for generations, to sea captain Dozier Burrus and Achsah Williams. Her father was the professional baseball player Maurice Lennon "Dick" Burrus, she has two sisters, Mary and Sarah Burrus.
Dixie is an artist and romance writer. She began writting contemporany romance novels as Zoe Dozier, now she writes her contemporary romances with her married name, Dixie Browning, and historical romances with her sister, Mary Burrus Williams as Brownwyn Williams, one combination of their married names. She has been awarded a Romance Writers of America RITA Award, and been a five-time RITA finalist. She has also won three Maggies, and numerous awards from the National Federation of Press Women and the NC Press Club.
IT WAS A BATTLE FOR LOVE. Emily Fairchild had dreamed of a vacation like this: a whole summer spent in a romantic cottage on the water where she would be free to paint and cook and sing and live as joyously as her passionate nature demanded. Bu...
LYLE WOULD NEVER TRUST A MAN AGAIN. BUT THEN SHE MET THAD.... After her painful involvement with Stan, Lyle thought she would never dare to love again. When a tragic car accident claims the lives of her parents, an internationally renowned pian...
HER WORLD WAS FALLING APART After her father's death, Leah Deerfield is nearly destitute. Her last hope is with her stepmother in Australia; but it isn't long before Leah realizes she is an unwelcome visitor. Seeking to escape the confi...
TROPICAL NIGHTS MIRRORED THEIR PASSION.... Hannah Blanchard was thrilled about the unexpected invitation to the Isle de Cozumel off the coast of Mexico. It offered a needed respite after her recent illness. But her stepsister, Jill, has other pl...
HER PEACEFUL SUMMER BECAME A SEASON OF UNREST Kate Brown chose North Carolina's coast for its privacy and beauty. She planned to teach watercolor to amateur artists during the summer, but Cameron Greyville had other plans. According to him the Gre...
BLISS GOT EVERYTHING SHE WANTED, UNTIL SHE WANTED JAMES! Bliss Bonner had enjoyed her quiet life in London. That was before she met James Etchison. James demanded that she keep her playboy brother, Benji, away from his sister. But Benji's impulsiv...
SHE WAS DETERMINED TO PUT THE PAST BEHIND HER. Her engagement was over, and gorgeous realtor Wilhelmina Silverthorne was determined to live her life her way. She'd stick to the things she knew and trusted - fast cars and haute cuisine - and steer ...
LIBERATED! That's how Frances felt after buying her new home. Her independence was hard won, and she wasn't about to give it up for a mere man. Her neighbor, Cabel McCloud, felt the same way about women. And he had a personality every...
A SUMMER PARADISE Even though the trip was business, Emma looked forward to seeing the romantic island of Hatteras. Meeting the dark, handsome Dan Slater had not been part of her plans. But the situation she walked into grew as sizzling as the ...
FINDERS KEEPERS... All that Hallie Parrish had found in her brief marriage was unhappiness; her only solace, the child she bore. Now her late husband's brother, Trenton Northcutt, has entered her life, and the current flowing between them i...
STRANDED . . . Lacy's first trip to Guatemala seemed doomed from the start. First her friend was called home unexpectedly, then Lacy's luggage and handbag were stolen...until finally she was rescued by the enigmatic Jordan Stone. But w...
HE WAS THE LAST MAN ON EARTH SHE COULD TRUST. Love was a cruel teacher for Grace Spencer. It brought her nothing but pain and humiliation, and she was determined that no man would ever take advantage of her again. Now that her life was finally ...
LOVE AT WORK, PASSION AT PLAY... Tally Fitzsimmons had learned to cope with every situation in her job at HouseSpouse, Inc. But when she was assigned to entertain and keep house for handsome, wealthy Thane Coulter, she knew she had met her greates...
SWEET RECKONING Divorced and edging toward a second marriage, Chalis Kenyon escaped New York's high-powered art establishment to take refuge back home at Quarter Moon Pond. But not even the isolated cabin in North Carolina's woods could...
Jed Dancy was beginning to think it was time he settled down. All he needed was the right woman. He certainly didn't expect A. R. Kennel the freelance writer he'd hired to do a family history, to be that woman, because he'd assumed tha...
CALL OF THE MOUNTAINS When Romany Caris agreed to paint portraits of the Sinclair children, she welcomed the opportunity for a summer of solitude. Her looks and profession matched her gypsy name...but names could be deceiving -- and Cameron Sincla...
TO THE VICTOR THE SPOILS When Cleo Lawrence came to Oklahoma's Gallagher Ranch to see her Great Uncle Wint, she hardly expected to become bait for Wint's oil-and-cattle-baron boss! Arrogantly, Roane Gallagher sized her up, said he neede...
LOVE COMES WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT. No one had been more surprised than Venice Brown when she was promoted from the typing pool to the position of the president's personal secretary. Curtis Britten -- handsome, charismatic, and eminently elig...
TOWARD A WILDER SHORE Desperate to escape the memory of a bitter divorce, Larain Ashby had fled her carefully ordered life in San Francisco for North Carolina's wild Cape Hatteras seashore and a job as manager of Silas Flynt's art gallery. Sop...
ROUGEMONT WAS HER CHILDHOOD HOME. Lovely auburn-haired Ivy de Coursey knew that even the sale of her beautiful family estate, Rougemont, could not take away the happy memories the house held for her. But Ivy had not taken into account the unset...
LOVE COMES WHEN YOU NEED IT MOST Liza Callahan's world had shattered in a single day. First came the shock of losing her job. Then she found her boyfriend in the arms of another woman. But that wasn't all -- there had been a minor accident...
Persia knew that there were more important things in life than dieting down to a size six. She knew that real men didn't care about thin thighs. And Marsh Randolph was a real man. Still, Persia hoped desperately that he wouldn't connect he...
A HOSTAGE HEART Belinda Massey had lived all over the world, but nothing in her experience as an au pair had prepared her for Chandler Harrington. Their eyes had met one moonlit night a year before and she had never forgotten him. Accused of ki...
SHE'D LOST HER RENEGADE PLAYER But Willy Silverthorne Faulkner had kept on going--now sadly widowed, but still possessing that same lazy, loose-jointed walk that drove men wild. Her independent life on the Carolina coast suited her languid leaning...
Olivia Lawson had come to the Outer Banks to relax. Courtland Heller knew what she really needed, though, and he was determined to provide it. As relentless as the tide that eroded the foundations of her house, Court was determined to seep into ev...
AN UNLIKELY COMBINATION After a high point that wasn't all that high, Emily McCloud's life had begun a slow, gentle decline, and there was no reason to believe it would ever climb again. A spinster schoolteacher, Emily was a bit old-fashi...
Painting over the memories in the house Brianna Fields had shared with her mother was no easy task. The only family she had ever known was now gone, leaving Bree with her craft shop and ownership of the house she grew up in. But all her work seeme...
MATCHMAKER, MATCHMAKER... Make me a match. Rune McLaughlin's mother would stop at nothing to find him a wife -- including telling all to a reporter writing a "Ten Most Eligible Bachelors" article. Women up and down the Eastern Seaboard...
When Mitchell Lyons came racing around a sharp curve on that back country road, he wrecked more than Gren Alderman's heart. The crash also delayed Gwen's plans to start a new, independent life. Forced to spend time with Mitch while her car wa...
TAKING A DIVE Tyrus Clay felt as if he was caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. He'd been forced to retire from his career as a deep-sea salvage diver for health reasons. Now he was grounded -- stuck on dry land doing a diving study...
LOVE LINES This was David Pendleton? This was the man she'd traveled hundreds of miles to see? Whose soft, raspy drawl had come over her grandfather's ham radio each evening? The man to whom she'd brought the sealed letter Granddad had...
Valentine Scott had come back to Lakesboro to begin again. She had a new job, a tiny apartment, a new life. She'd put the past behind her -- a bad marriage that had ended abruptly with a terrorist bomb. She was safe now. No dangers. No uncerta...
IRRESISTIBLE FORCE If he didn't want to talk business, then Portia McNamara had no time for Cale Randolph. From the moment he startled her behind her Cape May gift shop he dogged her every move. So what if he had a deep, husky voice and Clint Eastw...
A RARE BIRD Banker Cordelia Richardson spent her days with the most successful men in business -- but they left her cold. Then along came a half-naked handyman with holes in his sneakers, calluses on his palms and a chest that inspired awe, and sh...
NEITHER RHYME NOR REASON Joelle Middleton was constitutionally incapable of making waves. She was painfully shy. Her social life consisted of confiding to Ivan, her pet lovebird, and reading Clayton Abbott's witty limericks and insightful edit...
THE RIGHT PLACE... Avery Thane MacLeod III had everything -- including a nagging case of boredom. Tired of jet-setting, he was looking forward to R and R on Cape Hatteras. He wasn't going to shave, change his clothes or wash a dish. After thre...
Being fixed up with her landlady's brother was not Mary Pepper's idea of a good time. But when a horrible cold and a horrendous work schedule obliterated Christmas, Henry whisked her off for a late celebration on Hatteras Island, where they found the...
MEANT TO BE Sophie Pennybaker hadn't meant to tempt fate, but she had...in every sense of the word. Her boss, Lafayette "Fate" Ridgeway, was determined to find out more about his imperturbable, unflappable, completely professional secr...
ONE LOOK WAS ALL IT TOOK Rex Jones had first seen her when she'd been barefoot and cane-pole fishing. He didn't know then that this was Tallulah Lavender, pillar of the Parrish Falls community. It didn't matter; he was hooked. Lu ha...
MR. SEPTEMBER Specimen: Male; age 32; intense blue eyes hidden by thick glasses; gosh-awful beard; perpetual scowl; rear end worthy of the hall of fame. Native Habitat: Laboratory; alone, bent over a microscope. Mating Habits: Unexplored. Love: ...
MISMATCHED... Never again would Gioia Murphy agree to a blind date. The blond hunk she'd been promised turned out to be dark, rugged and so unthrilled to see her, she wondered why he'd shown up at all. Still, it was just as well they hadn&...
MR. AUGUST Name: Tucker Owen Address: The wrong side of town. Marital status: Bachelor-and proud of it! Future plans: to remain single, especially since his childhood sweetheart ran off to marry another man. Years had passed since town ...
WHERE THE HEART IS Chloe Palmer knew she was lost the moment Quint Stevens lifted her from her ruined car and brought her -- as if she were a stray kitten -- into his warm, secure, all-male pigsty of a home. He had the kind of shoulders a woman...
BE MINE Daisy Valentine had taken her newly attained look-but-don't-touch attitude south of the border for some sun, surf and solitude. Four years as a not-so-gay divorcee had left her wary of any and all relationships -- especially those that...
MR. NOVEMBER Who: MacCasky lord, former U.S. Marshal. Type: Tough, rugged, fiercely independent. Latest Mission: To find the mother of the little girl who'd appeared on his doorstep. Unforeseen Complication: Enigmatic Banner Keaton. She was not t...
BREAKFAST IN BED Mr. Gus Galanos sure wasn't the friendly type. From the moment the stone-faced, sexy guest slammed into Phoebe Shaw's bed and breakfast, he hadn't smiled, said two words or taken one bite of her country cooking. One th...
MR. JUNE Groom: Rex Ryder's teenage brother, a bad boy young enough not to know better. Bride: Carrie Lanier's teenage sister, who obviously hasn't learned from Carrie's mistakes -- especially when it comes to the Ryder men. We...
MR. APRIL Grumpy Man: Construction engineer Jake Hatcher -- long, lean loner. Rarely smiles. Doesn't talk much, either. Reason to Frown: A bittersweet memory of a family that no longer is. Reason to Smile: Single mom Libby Porter and ...
HOW NOT TO PLAN A WEDDING Aurora Hubbard's wedding was two weeks away, and she still hadn't decided on a dress, a church -- or whether this marriage would be a big mistake. So when her fiance's best man arrived, full of advice and funn...
THE BULLY OF THE OUTER BANKS The hot-tempered ex-colonel who landed on Coronoke Island was driving Maudie Winters crazy! The divorced mother had no patience for a man who barked orders. So why was she fantasizing about Rich Keegan making a surpris...
What did a fisherwoman, however kind and caring, know about the proper rearing of an orphaned boy? Attorney Ramsay Adams realized Grace O'Donald was the child's aunt, but he was practically the boy's uncle - and the stronger parental figure. So why w...
MR. MAY Irresistible Man: Stone McCloud couldn't let a big-mouthed floozy ruin a family's good name! Unattainable Woman: Having bad taste in husbands and being trapped in a femme fatale's body were only two of Lucy Dooley's problems. Unexpe...
BRACE RIDGEWAY: Okay, I was dumped. No big deal. I'm not too upset at being single again, but the reason I got jilted was pretty embarrassing. So I escaped to North Carolina's Outer Banks to be alone, and what do I get? A woman who wants to know my ...
MR. SEPTEMBER The Single Dad: Wealthy bachelor Alex Hightower has three women on his mind .... His Sassy-Mouthed Teenage Daughter: A girl with training bras on her mind. His "Steady Gal": A snooty socialite with marriage to Mr. Moneybags o...
For her thirty-seventh birthday, JeanAnn's friends place a personal ad for her.... THE THREE BLIND DATES: Bachelor #1: Nice enough -- except for that little problem. Bachelor #2: Talked nonstop about his ex-wife. Bachelor #3: Gorgeous and a...
MR. MARCH The Beast: Gus Wydowski, a brooding bachelor with a weakness for beautiful women--but not for bouncing babies! The Beauty: Mariah Brady didn't need a man who knew nothing about babies--especially when she was juggling a newborn! T...
THE BABY MAKER? Rugged cowboy Jake Spencer liked how babies were made-but wasn't about to make one himself! Then he heard that the sexiest single gal in New Hope, Texas was planning to visit the sperm bank. Suddenly, convincing Priscilla to do her...
MR. NOVEMBER Reluctant Bachelor: Kurt Stryker didn't want to marry, but he sure needed a wife! Unsuspecting Bride: Sweet, sexy Debranne Kiley. The Proposal: Gulp! Rugged Kurt Stryker wasn't a man of many words, but he did have one heck of a h...
Instant Father: former detective Joe Dana had a weakness for beautiful women - not pudgy babies! Earth Mother: Sophie Bayard knew all about natural childbirth - she just didn't expect a handsome stranger to practically deliver her baby in a vegetab...
MR. MAY The G-Man: Secret agent Daniel Lawless... double-crossed by his own agency! The Woman: Brokenhearted beauty Jasmine Clancy ...betrayed by her fiance and best friend! The Passion: Suddenly trapped together in a remote hideaway, the tw...
Tired of the business rat race, tycoon Harrison Lawless exchanges his corporate world for a simpler existence, only to find himself roughing it in a remote cabin with a feisty, extremely pregnant Cleo Barnes. Original....
"I'm not a family man but I sure as hell am willing to try." --Travis Holiday, former Coast Guard officer When Travis learned he had a son, he'd gone into emergency mode: build a home, become a dad, settle down. No more heroics. But when he came u...
THE OIL BARON He was the epitome of masculinity -- and rich as sin. But with midlife approaching, Texas baron Hank Langley was in sore need of a wife. And finding a Mrs. Langley from the bevy of social-climbing beauties was a challenge even for t...
LAST-CHANCE BRIDE... Single father and marriage cynic Tucker Dennis was sure his too-romantic dad had been roped into saying, 'I do'. So, he hightailed it down to the Blue Flamingo Motel to halt the honeymoon and talk some sense into elder...
Iced-in at the airport, cradeling the kicking, squealing infant daughter he'd only just discovered, Jackson Powers was fresh out of patience. And now he'd hooked up with fellow strandee Hetty Reynolds, a woman who didn't fit into any of his neat pige...
"WILL YOU DANCE WITH ME?" Orphaned Cindy Danbury's heart beat faster when John Hale Hitchcock invited her into his arms. He was back -- the handsome prince she'd adored from afar -- and still beyond her reach. In fact, she should be serving at he...
SLOW, SWEET SEDUCTION Hell-bent on revenge, navy SEAL Curt Powers set out to find the person who had stolen his heritage. But when innocent beauty Lily O'Malley turned out to be the object of his search, Curt disregarded his careful strategy and t...
Diet was a four-letter word. But then again, so was Rafe, as in Rafe Webber, the hard-edged playboy -- and culinary wizard -- who'd suddenly invaded Molly's week in paradise. A week in which this small-town girl had vowed to reinvent herself. But wit...
Rocky Waters first met Sarah Jones when she was a shy teenager. Now scandal had followed the senator's daughter to North Carolina, and Rocky had to warn her. Sarah fiercely guarded her privacy -- and the child she secretly supported. But Rocky was ju...
THE MARRYING MILLIONAIRE Businessman William Bradford hadn't thought wedding bells were tolling for him until he met secretary Diana Foster, who was vulnerable, alone -- and just a little bit pregnant...with another man's child. His protective insti...
Marrying a millionaire was exactly what Grace McCall was trying to keep her baby sister from doing. Not that Grace had anything against the groom -- it was the groom's arrogant uncle Chandler Daye who got Grace all hot and bothered. Hmm... maybe Grac...
"You can't refuse me!" -- Lancelot Beckett, millionaire on a mission to settle a debt Secret heiress Liza Chandler didn't want the money -- or the rugged millionaire who'd suddenly come into her life. But Beckett had made a vow to get the job done.....
LSCC Member: Sexy district attorney Spence Harrison Social Status: Busy convicting the bad guys; he's in need of a good woman Method of Seduction: Forgetting his name but finding a home for his heart. To Ellen Wagner, Spence Harrison w...
ON THE WAY TO THE ALTAR... Police detective Carson Beckett had skirted the altar as smoothly as a sly criminal avoided handcuffs. Now the time had come to settle down and fulfill his ailing mother's wish -- and he was halfway there with an unofficia...
Ann Elise Baker hadn't looked back since she left for the bright lights of Dallas. Now, stranded in her hometown, her old flame comes to her rescue. Shed forgotten how hed made sleepy little Mission Creek sizzle, and now she longs for the chance to s...
THE HEIRESS AND THE SCANDAL John MacBride would do anything to keep his stepbrother from being thrown into jail for a crime he didn't commit. Which is how he ended up in the Outer Banks, posing as a handyman for the young socialite who could clear...
STUMBLING INTO SEXY TROUBLE! In-the-know columnist Maggie Riley had a mission in mind: to write a scathing expose about a scam artist at an overpriced retreat. Seducing a woman out of house and home was a crime! But fate, and a pair of ill-fitting...
Honestly, ladies, I had the perfect plan to catch a good man...until he showed up out of nowhere! With his come-hither, all-male looks, sexy stranger Kell Magee could melt the chrome off a bumper. But marriage material? Men like Kell are good for one...
Okay, so maybe hiring a centerfold stud to remodel my home was crazy. But I, Marty Owens, practical bookstore owner, was a desperate woman, and contractor Cole Stevens was a man with muscles and strong hands and a seductive voice promising me he coul...
TEMPTATION COMES KNOCKING! I didn't care how many sizzling fantasies the mysterious man on my doorstep sparked. Whatever Jake Smith was offering, I didn't need it, didn't want it -- knew better than to even think about it! Besides, if there's one th...
Reeling from the scandalous ruin of her career and love life, Laurel Ann Lawless escaped to North Carolina, her hopes pinned on land she inherited. But the property was worthless. So she turned to relatives she'd never met...and discovered family. ...