Brains. Was it Amy's fault she had them? The academic world was her oyster, but did every fellowship won have to mean a love lost? She pictured herself plain -- her future passionless -- until ace photographer Rick Patterson breezed into her ...
He was just what the doctor ordered -- only she was the doctor, and while he'd once been her patient, he was clearly in command now. Between her office, the hospital, and her ever-present beeper, Barbara Weimer M.D., hardly had time to breathe. T...
Glitter! Glamor! Excitement! For ten years Cassandra Howard had made her living as a blackjack dealer on the Las Vegas Strip...and had been vaguely discontented until Jarratt Vandenburg walked into the Tropical Paradise to lose at the tables but win ...
Everyone in the tiny Texas town knew! How could Marilyn Davis explain? Hunter Templeton -- the handsome new minister -- hadn't been kissing her. He'd been making a point! But he was wrong, Marilyn thought, if he believed she could "com...
Flying -- it was the world to her. Then, in one terrible moment, her world shattered. Captain Blake Warner, best pilot in her class, was grounded for the duration of her Air Force career. As maintenance officer, supervising test planes and pilots...
How did any woman become a winner in the game of love? Marsha Walsh was a two-time loser. Her first love had ended in disaster, her first marriage, in divorce. Wary and discouraged, she retreated from romance, moved to Austin, Texas, and threw hersel...
FBI Special Agent Cecelia Montemayor was more than ready to leave a run-of-the-mill New York City assignment to return to her native Southwest. As the only woman in the El Paso branch, she was eager to take on the kind of risky undercover work for wh...
A dynamo of a man, Jake Darrow had put his formidable energies into forming a coalition to help victims and take drunken drivers off the road. Carla Jeffreys, producer of Corpus Christi's hottest talk show, knew she could do a brilliant documenta...
She'd come from North Carolina, newly divorced, to start over. Lindsay Voss, interior decorator, set designer for Dallas's leading catalog house, was succeeding so splendidly that at first the attentions of Drake Malone, top male model, seemed like j...
He was the best friend she'd ever had -- and they'd never even met! But they'd worked together for three years...Naomi David, a gemologist in New York and Sid Goldman, a jeweler in New Orleans. They'd shared confidences, each had suff...
Debbie Cheong, Chinese translator for the U.S. government, was determined to help her best friend escape Vietnam and join her American fiance. As a reporter, Debbie had already tangled with the notorious mercenary Ben Sako-- and didn't care to do it ...
By day she was Faye Catalini, a no-nonsense accountant rising quickly in the corporate world. By night she was Fatima, the belly dancer --a ravishing performer available for private parties, including the surprise party that fateful evening when she ...
As executive chairman of Selby Oil, Charlene McLanahan wielded a great deal of power. She could make or break a career. And when renowned biologist Dr. Leon Leatherman appeared before her grant committee, requesting money to pursue his controversial ...
As a police investigator and forensic chemist, Amanda Blakeman had seen her share of danger and excitement. But she'd never known anyone quite like Jack Vance, the daring homicide officer who'd put the San Antonio SWAT Team on the map. Jack...
Her South Texas hometown was far from the heady heights of New York's modeling world, but Maureen Garteiser had left the fast lane behind. At thirty, she craved new beginnings: her own beauty salon -- and a husband and family to make her life com...
It was a rumor about illegal aliens that took Texas border patrol agent Lynne Kosler out to the Stockton spread. She'd expected to find trouble, but not in the form of Joe Stockton himself, the most devastatingly handsome rancher she'd ever m...
Jody had had good reason to leave her husband. Yet now, suddenly widowed and left with a young son to support, she faced an impossible choice. Her husband had died in debt to his brother. And now Doug had given her an ultimatum -- share her business ...
Stockbroker Carol Venson's chic, fast-track life was on course -- until Harlan Stone stormed into her office. He was determined to prevent a "disastrous" marriage between Carol's teenage daughter and his son. Coldly she agreed. But th...