Alaine's heart never had so much as a sporting chance of escaping unscathed once she met ballplayer Doug Morrow. The tough, charismatic pitcher was used to having his own way, and Alaine soon stopped trying to fight their mutual attraction. What ...
GUNFIGHTER WANTED Why would a Hollywood heartthrob answer her ad for an acting job at Tumbleweed Village--an authentic 1880s Arizona town? Owner Tory Kenyon had no idea. But Josh Bannion made it clear that he wanted to forget his Tinsel Town past...
SURPRISE ATTACK The barrel of a revolver was not what police sergeant Ryan Brady expected to greet him at a private investigation agency--even though he did enter unannounced and after hours. And seeing an unflinching Megan Gallagher behind th...
THE TIME HAD COME Samantha Tyler never expected to see T. J. Hawkins again, but here he was--the retired football star--back in Chicago and in her restaurant. The attraction she'd felt for him as a teenager was still there, but Samantha knew bette...
Ariel Hammond was sure trouble had become her middle name. A thug was demanding protection money for her exotic-imports store. Her mother was dating Mr. Wrong. And to top it all off, a bouquet of daffodils announced that Pete Turner was back in Albuq...
Orphan Kate Lindstrom's life was blissfully simple--and sadly empty, she discovered after meeting private eye Brian Fleming. Charming and pushy, Brian had the nerve to spy on her and date her at the same time! Still, his amorous antics did fill her l...
Professor Joshua MacKenzie smelled trouble... or was it spaghetti sauce? Both! Allison Gentry, the nomadic fellow roomer with whom he shared a bathroom, reveled in the graveyard shift, greeted the dawn with pasta, and thoroughly upset his cherished r...
Conservative and sensible. As a respected loan officer at a bank, Kate Elliott had become a success by cultivating those qualities in herself--and she wanted the same attributes in a man. She was no foolish teenager to be smitten by a dazzling smile ...
Jack Mallory was a dedicated cop who dodged bullets with the best of 'em. But his new assignment had him racing for a less familiar cover: he had to pose as a spoiled rich girl's fiance. That was no task for a working guy like Jack--until he laid eye...
The moment they placed her newborn baby in her arms, Anne LeClare knew she'd found the only love she could trust in an otherwise treacherous world. She'd face any odds, defy any danger, to keep her daughter safe. But her late husband's father wanted ...
Chocolate cupcakes lured Kelly Shelton to the convenience store -- smack in the middle of an armed robbery. Nose to nose with a .22, she thought nothing could make her heart pound faster... Until notorious rodeo rider Denver Casey snatched her from...
Ten years ago, he'd been every parent's worst nightmare--and one young girl's dream come true. And now the leather-jacketed rebel Leigh McCall had never stopped loving was back--on the right side of the law, for a change--and a young girl's desire wa...
Once, skinny Erin Delaney and popular Sam Stone shared teenage high jinks, loads of laughter...and a breathless, tentative passion. But their futures had lain far afield--wrenching Erin away, wedding Sam to Erin's sister. And what might have been...n...
WHAT'S BEST FOR BILLY? The child was his. Corporate giant Alex Kane discovered he'd fathered a child. Alas, the baby doted on a dizzy adoptive aunt, cocktail waitress Carly Mitchell. True, she'd mothered little Billy for some months now. But the ...
OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES I know how hard it's been on my mom - being alone and pregnant. She thinks she can do everything herself, that she doesn't need a man. But once I'm born, Mommy's not going to get much rest. I'm going to want all her atte...
CONGRATULATIONS, IT'S A GIRL...AND ANOTHER GIRL! Days away from divorce, Valerie and Lucas Kincaid received startling news: they were going to become parents. Gaining custody of orphaned twins would have been cause for celebration... Trouble was, ...
HELP ME REMEMBER! Drenched and dazed, running through the night, she remembered nothing of her past. Not even her name. But she needed shelter from the storm, and she spotted her oasis: a backwoods cabin... and a broad-shouldered, darkly sensual ...
FEAR OF FATHERHOOD Some men were meant for marriage. Born to make babies. But not rugged homicide cop Riley Garrison. Though Riley still hungered for the love he'd forsaken two years before, vibrant Allison Harrigan deserved more than he could giv...
SIGNED... To whitewash his reputation and win custody of his son, rakish Brady McQueen needed a respectable wife. To save her cherished home, prim, love-shy Maggie Buchanan needed a husband. The bargain? An immediate wedding and a pretense of ins...
DADDY'S LITTLE BOY? Jason Marek never needed anyone - and never let anyone need him. So when the love-'em-and-leave'em hunk fell for Chelsea Huntsford - a sweet, wholesome, forever kind of girl - he knew just what to do. Run! But two years la...
SHE'D DO ANYTHING FOR FAMILY... They were worlds apart, but Matt Duran couldn't refuse high-society princess Taylor Elmhurst when she asked for pointers on raising her adorable charge. After all, Matt liked spending time with the lonely lad. But Pet...
THE RODEO DAD'S RETURN... Time stood still when Jack McShane gazed into Abby Dennison's beautiful brown eyes. Not only did he still adore the woman he'd foolishly left behind, he felt a powerful kinship to her young son. And when she finally reveale...
The New Nanny: Stunning, secretive Jessica Walker The Lonely Lawman: Handsome, devoted widower Sam Dawson The Mini-Matchmakers: Sam's darling daughters. They were determined their daddy marry again, and their new nanny was the ideal choice! ...
THE BACHELOR IN HER BED... After his car accident, Whitehorn's ruthless bank president Max Montgomery had no memory and even less patience. To some citizens, the "Young Scrooge" had gotten his just deserts. Or had he...? Trussed up like some Chris...
Softhearted Rachel Quinn traveled 1200 miles to her old hometown to deliver an orphaned infant to its only kin, rugged, rough-hewn Kane Riley. Trouble was, years ago Kane had unwittingly stirred womanly dreams and desires in Rachel's teenage heart. D...
Gillian Quinn was used to handling things solo, but when an outrageous family secret was exposed, she ran to old pal Alex Hunter for help. As Gillian's search for the truth intensified, feelings of betrayal plagued her...and she sought refuge in Ale...
A PASSION FIERCER THAN THE MONTANA HEAT... When rugged rancher Colby Holmes wanted to solve his aunt's murder, he reluctantly enlisted the help of stunning psychic Tessa Madison. And despite her mysterious beauty, Colby swore that he would never l...
As a nurse at the city's busiest birth center, Lara Mancini knew all about delivering babies. But what she really wanted was a child of her own, and her secret crush -- handsome, charming Dr. Derek Cross -- was ideal father material. Didn't he have a...