HE HELD HER WITH CHAINS OF LOVE.... JULIE MAGUIRE She was a ten-year veteran of the U.S. Border Patrol, but one night's slipup left her on the verge of an early -- and final -- retirement. CHAYNE YOUNGER They called him the Blue-eyed ...
Luke MacGregor couldn't have picked a worse time to crash-land his plane in her pasture, Delilah Beaumont thought furiously--after all, she was expecting the births of over ninety lambs at any moment, and she certainly didn't like treating a man's he...
ONCE A SPY... Rose St. James thought she had left espionage behind, but they called her out of retirement to take one last assignment, and they wouldn't let her refuse. She had to investigate Jade Castle, a man of wealth and power, a man wi...
Determined to face her fear of water, Maddy Gordon signed up for beginner swimming, and found herself surrounded by seven-year-olds! And why did her instructor have to be golden-muscled Olympic swimmer Zack London, whose grin still gave her goose bu...
HONOR VS. LOVE Who was she really -- Lily Fazekas, the name she had used since childhood, or Iiona Kormany, the name of her newly discovered baptismal certificate? Joseph Varga knew something about Iiona and needed to know more. She was his c...
Maybe the heroines in her books could look sexy riding a horse into the Sierras in search of a man, but Katherine Taylor Winslow felt sore, sunburned, and downright silly. She'd agreed to write the life story of Cole Grayson, Hollywood's last swashbu...
THE PICTURE OF GUILT... Courtroom artist Brady Flynn hadn't meant to get mixed up with Judge Michael Snow, or with the danger shadowing his life. Then a speeding car nearly ran them both down, and Brady's sketch of the driver plunged her into a m...
Nicholas Francia was known as a charming playboy who could have been a pirate or prince -- but Willa Caris met his fierce gaze with defiance. She had dedicated herself to keeping the Brasovian crown jewels from being returned to that European nation...
STRANDED! Wild horse wrangler Sandy Stewart hadn't wanted anything to do with Jason Rivers from the start. He intended to bring civilization to the wilderness she was sworn to protect, and it offended every fiber of her being that she was assigned...
Nothing stirred Tannis Winter like the plight of the homeless, and she'd devoted herself to aiding the street people she'd chosen for her research. But when a mysterious-looking derelict began following her in her bag-lady disguise, she felt a moment...
Standing in the moonlight, brilliant scientist Culley Ward saw that the happy house of his childhood had become haunted by memories... and wondered if his loneliness would ever end. Then the unexpected arrival of an exquisite, irrepressible stranger ...
THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY Zoologist Sarah Fairchild had a mission in Indonesia: to protect the life of the endangered orangutan. But deep in the steamy rain forests she encountered an altogether different species -- the magnificent jungle pre...
LIKE A CHANGING TIDE Widowed after a twenty-year, loveless marriage, Toby Thomas found herself back in college, working as a sorority housemother. What frightened her wasn't the challenge of a new life but the electric intensity of the man who ble...
DAMSEL IN DISTRESS Jenna McBride needed rescuing, and Reno was her knight in shining armor. Well, make that a defender in black leather, riding a motorcycle instead of a white stallion. Jenna was mesmerized by this dangerous man. He was everything...
Christmas looked bleak. Karen Todd was broke, with eight-year-old Andrew to support. Only mechanic - and guardian angel - Tony Angelo stood between her and total poverty. After all, no car, no job. Then Andrew asked Santa for a very special gift. Wou...
MR. JULY The man: Niall Rankin, world-weary veteran of the secret war for freedom. The woman: Ann Severn, a widow struggling to make a life for herself and her troubled daughter. The place: Pinetree, California, a sun-baked cluster of houses on a ...
SHE NEEDED HIS STRENGTH Doctor Terry Duncan knew drifter-pilot Jack Wolf was trouble the minute she saw him. Not for a second did she buy his story that he just wanted to help her get medical supplies to Baja, Mexico. Unfortunately, she needed hi...
CHRISTMAS TREASURE CAN BE BURIED IN THE HEART. A fresh start--that's what Carolyn Robards wanted when she moved to the rural cottage down south. But Clay Traynor, the arrogant guy next door, reminds her all too clearly of what she left behind. ...
DIRTY WORK Mike Lanagan: He knows that in Lucy Brown's eyes he's just a drifter, a hired hand who can move hay, pen pigs and kiss a lady breathless. Lucy Brown: She knows that in Mike's eyes she's just a plain-Jane farmer, a woman too unworldly...
SHADOW OF DOUBT A random encounter, a face in the crowd, had led Detective Doug MacDougal to the woman he'd been seeking for so long -- barely one step ahead of a ruthless killer. And keeping both her and himself alive meant cultivating the fr...
Wanted: One Hero Christine Thurmond needs a rescuer. But this physical therapist with the...complicated past has long despaired of finding one. And she's so used to pretending she's somebody she's not, that covering up has been second nature to h...
WANTED: SOMEONE TO LOVE Dixie Parish will never have a family of her own. Not now, not after everything she's lost. But when bachelor dad Rhett Brown asks her to be a temporary nanny to his motherless children, she can't refuse. They need her just...
THE MAJOR PLAYER: Embittered Interpol agent Tom Hawkins. He'd sworn off women and family -- until he met a suspect he couldn't forget, maddeningly attractive Jane Carlysle.... THE PAWN: Divorced small-town mom Jane Carlysle -- known to co...
FA LA LA LA... LABOR! Okay, maybe driving solo cross-country in her eighth month wasn't the most brilliant idea Mirabella Waskowitz had ever had. And maybe she should have turned back when she heard the blizzard warnings. But the feisty mom-to-be ce...
FOR HER CHILD'S SAKE Years ago, Charlene "Charly" Phelps had been talked into leaving her hometown and her baby behind--to give her son the life she never could. Then, on a visit home, she saw a picture of a boy who seemed impossibly familiar--and...
HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO Temporarily impoverished-and lawsuit-plagued-single mother Summer Waskowitz Robey knew, as she stood alone in court, how badly she was in need of a rescuer. But she never would have dreamed that said rescuer would come in th...
THERE GOES THE BRIDE All her life, Eve Waskowitz had imagined what her wedding day would be like, but jumping into a Dumpster, with train in hand and veil askew, to escape her prospective groom was not it. If she lived, there would be time enough ...
CAPTOR ...OR LOVER? 0ne minute they'd been dancing ... the next Laurie Brown found herself abducted, with a charming renegade, Apache cowboy Johnny Bronco, as her jailer. She was angry at his deception, but more furious with her own body for wanti...
EMERGENCY! Well, not of the medical sort. But one look at young, idealistic Dr. Ethan Brown and Joanna Dunn realized she had it bad -- and only the good doctor could cure her. And while she knew that dreams of white lace and wedding bells were not...
PARTNERS IN CRIME? When agent Ellie Lanagan's "husband" was suddenly taken ill, she knew she needed a replacement, pronto. The least likely candidate for the job: seeming drifter McCall -- no last name, just McCall -- who had saved her neck three ti...
A stolen kiss, a midnight visit -- and suddenly oil baron Cade Gallagher found himself married to a virginal Tamiri princess! Honor demanded Cade pledge himself to Leila Kamal to save the lovely princess's reputation. Only the two of them knew the tr...
Thirteen years ago Eric Lanagan fled his tiny Iowa hometown with wanderlust in his heart and a vow never to return. And yet, all these years later, who should pull into the old family homestead but Eric -- now a world-renowned photojournalist -- with...
The gun trained on his chest left him with no choice.... Turning Caitlyn in to the police was the right thing to do, the law-abiding thing. So why did it have to hurt so bad...and cost her so much? Caitlyn Brown had never expected C. J. Starr to w...
BACK...WHERE HE BELONGS? Eight years ago, Jessie Bauer's life had changed forever. Now it was about to change back. For the man she had loved with all her heart and soul -- the one she had finally learned to live without -- was coming home to her ...
When you're in trouble, find a policeman -- Starr family motto. While Joy Lynn Starr had plenty of the former -- her roommate was missing, and she couldn't get anyone to believe her -- the latter was in short supply. Until she happened on Scott C...
ANOTHER OPENING... Exiled soap star Celia Cross had taken a lot of diverse parts in her life, but when she rescued a clinging-to-life man off the Malibu shore, she also found the role of a lifetime. Because said man was in fact a federal agent who h...
TROUBLE BECOMES HIM... Reporter Cory Pearson's penchant for working in war zones had gotten him into hot water before, but this was uncharted territory, even for him. Because the pilot assigned to fly him into danger was none other than Samantha Bau...
HE HAD HIS PRIME SUSPECT IN CUSTODY, BUT SOMETHING DIDN'T ADD UP... Small-town sheriff Roan Harley arrested plain-as-all-get-out Mary Yancy because he couldn't afford not to. She'd had motive, means and opportunity to kill the son of a senator -- pl...
Paris is the perfect haven for a runaway prince. Until a black-garbed figure trailing a tantalizing perfume steals into Nikolas Donovan's hotel room. And something about his sensual assailant is hauntingly familiar.... Attack first and ask questio...
A warrior stepped out of the shadows Keeping a low profile was Corbett Lazlo's secret for success. But now the super-spy and elusive owner of the Lazlo Group had to confront the faceless assassin who was killing his agents--by making himself the n...
Never trust a blonde claiming to be psychic After tracking a serial killer through six brutal murders, detective Wade Callahan didn't know where to turn. Then Tierney Doyle, an empath and the police force's secret weapon, joined the search. Wade was...
He feared nothing... ...not even after a rock-climbing fall stripped Matt Pearson of his ability to walk. Now the former daredevil was gearing up for a dangerous river run that would test him as never before. So would seeing Alex Penny, his former...
Framed for murder...caught in a web of lies Brooke Grant, a recovering divorcee, had good reason to lie about her past. But when she's falsely arrested for the murder of her ex, it seems everyone in her life has motive to lie to her--the vengeful lo...
One man's hot pursuit... Holt Kincaid was this close to finally reuniting a long-lost family. Complications arose when retired poker player Brenna Fallon foiled his plans for her joyous return. Undeterred, the P.I. refused to give up on this scrappy...
"Is my father a murderer?" Caring for a mother with Alzheimer's was heartbreaking enough for Lindsey Merrill. But when her mother made bizarre but adamant claims that Lindsey's loving father was a killer, it was too much to bear. So she turned to ...
"You're a witness. You're my witness." Pregnant and on the run, Rachel Malone Delcorte is the only witness to the murder of two federal agents. Mob boss Carlos Delcorte wants her baby -- his grandson -- and he wants Rachel dead. But as fate would ha...
What's one little white lie? Struggling actress Abigail Lindgren feels it's her duty to notify her roommate's family of Sunny's murder. Problem is, a tangled web including lies, a reclusive grandfather and an inheritance makes things more than compl...
A sexy soldier comes back from the dead to protect his daughter and her beautiful guardian. Desperate to save his young daughter's life, soldier Hunt Grainger tasked war correspondent Yancy Malone with smuggling Laila to the US. Now, years later,...