BABY I N A BASKET The tiny pink bundle sitting on Jessie Malone's lunch counter had to be a dream--or a miracle. It was as if Santa had discovered her most secret wish and delivered it right to her diner! But the miracle didn't stop there. Because...
A FATHER'S WILL Carey Window had exactly ten hours to find herself a groom of good character if she didn't want to lose her father's ranch. She was about to concede defeat when a dangerously handsome foreman named Luke Redstone turned up with his ...
REVERSAL OF FORTUNE Once, Laurel Sutherland had been to the manner born, while Connor Northrup was the chauffeur's son--and they'd had nothing in common but young, innocent love. Now Laurel was in desperate financial trouble, and the only man who ...
BRIDE TO BE... Wealthy New York businessman Jackson Bradshaw was used to going after what he wanted, but this time it was what he didn't want that was making him pound on some stranger's door in the godforsaken hamlet of Sweetwater, Texas. And he di...
WHO SAYS YOU CAN'T BUY LOVE? After one bad experience with a jerk who broke my heart, I honestly thought it was no longer possible to fall in lust -- and downright absurd to fall in love. But Adam Richards, the older man who "bought" me at a chari...
Lovely physical therapist Rebecca Calloway might not actually be residing with a fire-breathing dragon, but at times it seemed that way. For corporate mogul Grant Berringer, who'd once possessed the golden touch in business -- and with women -- had s...
FOR THE SAKE OF THE BABY... Maura Chambers needed help with her unborn baby. Doug Connelly wanted to make up for a friend's bad judgment. Not the best reasons for marriage, but enough to make Maura and Doug say "I do." It was to be a marriage of co...
Interoffice Memo From: Matthew Harding, CEO, Harding Hotels Regarding: Stephanie Rossi, my personal assistant When Stephanie Rossi was promoted from our operations department to be my right-hand woman, I was skeptical at first. But her amazing e...
A NEDICAL MISTAKE... Thanks to his desire to leave behind a genetic legacy--and thanks to a blue-eyed beauty named Rachel Reilly--Jack Sawyer now had a son. He knew he had no right to play daddy, but he was determined to make sure this woman, whom h...
THE MAN WHO MADE HER STAND STILL Being on the run with a six-month-old infant was hard, to be sure. But being stranded on Christmas Eve in the middle of a snowstorm made Carey Mooreland wonder if she'd finally reached the end of the road. Especial...
EXPECTING THE UNEXPECTED Real estate entrepreneur Julia Martinelli planned her entire life--and was proud of it. She was the polar opposite of her four-times-married mother, who was about to be swept down the aisle by her newest soul mate. Her fianc...