"Well...I suppose we could have...one for the road." Garret's breath was quick, his hands hot. How hard he felt against her softness. He thought she was being flippant; couldn't believe she'd leave him. Each time they touched it was like the firs...
He was out of this world! Science-fiction writer Kevin Walker landed on Lynn Potter's doorstep one day and swept into her well-ordered life. Her agent had arranged for them to collaborate on a new book. She was to supply the romance... But Kevi...
NOTHING MADE SENSE... Peggy knew perfectly well that she wasn't Francine, but she seemed unable to convince Joe of that. He was a handsome devil, she'd give him that, but he couldn't be very bright, because he steadfastly refused to believe that h...
IT WAS ENOUGH TO DRIVE A SANE WOMAN MAD ... John Peal, irritating John Peal, was back in Indiana and courting Talullah Metcalf, teacher and self-confessed spinster. That suited the town matchmakers just fine. Everyone liked Talullah, and John was Ta...
HEAVEN TO KISS Tanner. His name still sent her blood pounding. He'd been Indiana University's heartthrob, but Laura Fullerton had been too young and afraid of the look in his eyes to give him a chance. Yet his kiss still burned--and her marriage h...
TEN MILES TO PIONEER FAIR. ACROBATS, TROUBADOURS, CONTESTS, COME ONE COME ALL The sign beckoned to the responsible, rather prim Priscilla Nobbly, and for the first time in her life, she did something impulsive. Priscilla felt so reckless that she...
FAST MOVER When police officer Maxwell T. Simmons asked Hannah Calhoun for her help, she should have flat out refused. But he looked great in that T-shirt, and even better in those jeans! Besides, as a concerned citizen she had a duty to help the ...
JUST A NEIGHBORLY WELCOME Felicia Tibbens didn't care that a drug bust was going on around her as she arrived at the Rocky Gulch airport to star their new job. However, she did feel a glimmer of concern when one of the posse insisted on patting he...
FIRST IMPRESSIONS Kimberly Miller and Logan Pederson would each get a sizable legacy - but only if they spent two weeks together, with no less than two hours per day alone. There was one small problem: they were perfect strangers. Logan wasn't...
He had a way with words... and women When Kris Alden s flight for New York took off, so did her life. For sitting beside her was a Talkative Texan--with capital Ts--who could charm the horns off a steer. Doggedly he breached her Yankee reserve, an...
AND THERE SHE WAS! When Angus Behr walked into his house, he found someone sleeping in his bed. The Goldilocks in question was Hillary Lambert, looking for her abducted sister. Hillary knew luck had brought her to this Behr's den. His connectio...
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Bill Sawyer, a successful businessman, couldn't understand why Tate Lambert resisted his advances. Hadn't this confident, alluring woman been the one chasing him earlier? Since his divorce, he barely trusted women, but this one...
MR. JULY Name: Graham Rawlins Question: What did a man have to do to catch a woman's eye? Answer: Whatever it took. Reliable Cohort: Gus Graham Rawlins had finally found the perfect apartment--and the most fascinating apartmentmate, Roberta ...
Jethro Hanna was content being single--before nurse Megan Bailey came to town. Matchmakers deemed them the perfect couple, and for once Jethro agreed. But Megan's loving attention was reserved solely for her patients... until the wonder of Christmas ...
THE COMFORT INN Linda Parsons was excited about her first business trip--and a shambles of a bed-and-breakfast place wasn't going to dampen her spirit. Especially since ruggedly sexy innkeeper Mitch Roads seemed determined to make her stay enjoyab...
GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE... The truth was, Jan Folger had never really given Junior Busby a second thought--even though he'd lived next door to her for about a million years. But her charity group was holding a bachelor auction. They needed one mor...
Sawbuck, Texas It wasn't much of a town. Overgrown. Gone to seed. Dry as dust. A real ghost town; if you asked the locals. Then why was a rich and powerful landowner like Frank Jones so eager to add Sawbuck to the vast Jonesland empire? Why had a ...
WARNING! Sling Mueller was every woman's dream of a strong, dark, gorgeous, dangerous man. But years ago he'd posted himself off-limits: "No trespassing, not the marrying kind." he'd had a load of responsibility running a ranch and raising a passe...
SPY VS SPY Georgia Bains's world had just turned topsy-turvy! She'd only been trying to deliver a package, a nice, normal thing to do. Instead, she'd somehow stumbled upon The Molly Q, a top-secret computer project. Then gorgeous, marvelous Luke M...
MR. DECEMBER Who? Bob Brown. He's tall, handsome, and through with women forever. Why? He'd rather not talk about it. What... does he find? Stunning Josephine Malone, ace mechanic--and the most sinfully alluring female ever to lead a defense...
TROUBLE IN TEXAS No sooner had Creighton Brown arrived back home in Temple, Ohio, than his eccentric but well-meaning family dispatched the worldly traveler on a little troubleshooting mission down Texas way. The object of this goodwill trip: Susa...
BETTER THAN ONE? The envelope sent to the Saudi Desert was addressed to "any soldier." But when Sergeant Michael Brown received it, he became a believer in providence. The letter not only contained a photo capturing twenty-odd third-grade cherubs,...
"BEWARE OF WIDOWS BEARING CASSEROLES...." Rod Brown had never known such kindness and sympathy could be bestowed on one guy, but he was learning that a single man--regardless of how he got that way--was a precious commodity. Although Rod vowed he'...
THOUGHTS OF LOVE... When spring fancy strikes, no man is immune! Attorney Darwin Moore was only interested in blonde thank you. So who was this sunlit vision gazing across the ocean ... all alone ... nearly naked ... and brazenly brunette?...
RISQUE BUSINESS It all started with a pair of French silk unmentionables. Who but lively department store buyer Sally Yoder would be brazen enough to feature the flimsy briefs on a mannequin in quite that way? She'd planned her display to draw a c...
DEVIL WITH A RED DRESS ON The New Year's Eve party was the last place John Brown wanted to be, and a woman was the last thing he was looking for. But his resolution not to have a good time was shaken by one very little red dress--and the maddening...
SMITTEN! When charismatic Tom Brown desired someone, he usually got her, but he seldom kept her! This time, that someone was a honey blonde with a streak of Texas stubbornness and a string of ardent admirers. And much to Tom Brown's surprise, he d...
SINGLE DAD SAILOR The year was 1962. The place was Cleveland, Ohio. Retired sailor Salty Brown, future patriarch of the rollicking Brown clan, had his hands full with three adopted sons. The last thing he wanted -- but the one thing he needed -- w...
Ten years ago Gus Freeman gave Cara Porter a pair of guinea pigs to prove his love. Now Cara can only hope Father Time has changed this backwoods boy into a hot-blooded man!...
MR. DECEMBER Name: Clinton Terrell `~ Looks Like: A Texas cowboy: rough-edged, raw-boned and rugged Acts Like: An old-fashioned gentleman In Clint's opinion, a man way a man and a woman was a woman. That meant women should do--well, female stuf...
MR. JANUARY Name: Stefan Szyszko (Pronounced "Cisco"), confirmed bachelor. Allergic To: Horses...and marriage-minded women. His Ex-Girlfriend: Carrie Pierce. A long-legged filly just lookin' for love. For Stefan, footloose and fancy-free was ...
Ruffan Reddy's rules for the ultimate blind date: Don't crash your rig into a woman's car unless you really want to meet her. Don't try to deal rationally with a woman driving a white car in a blinding snowstorm --- especially if she's also dr...
IT WAS THE SCOOP OF THE YEAR... Everyone was talking about the way Amabel Clayton had finessed the interview with elusive rock star Sean Morant. The sexy, mysterious musician never did publicity, and tongues were wagging--exactly how did the reporte...
MARRY ME...AGAIN! Josephine Morris hadn't seen her husband in almost four years when the storm of the decade hit. Suddenly they were stranded in the last hotel room in Dallas--together. Chad Wilkins had been a master in the bedroom, and now the...
SECRET BABY The handsome stranger was Zachary Thomas, and one lust-filled night with the compelling man had left Jessica Channing one very pregnant woman! But Jessica wanted nothing to do with a reluctant groom, so she vowed to keep her baby a sec...
WHAT ED HOLLINGSWORTH KNOWS ABOUT THE LADY IN 308: 1. She's a very slow housepainter. (What's she really doing?) 2. She keeps a pair of binoculars on her windowsill. (Who's she spying on?) 3. She never, ever flirts. (Why?) 4. She has big, hunky m...
MR. OCTOBER Name: Kyle Phillips Occupation: Cowboy--and reluctant hero Damsel in distress: Lauren Davie Kyle had seen every manner of occurrence on his TEXAS ranch--even a freak snowstorm couldn't rattle him. But the pretty young thing he'd...
MR. JANUARY Bryan Willard: Head hunk at the Coffeepot Inn His dream date: The lovely Lily...his new boss His problem: He's in over his head! Nothing much ever happened 'round here till Lily came along. I was happy enough running the Coffeepot...
JUST ONE OF THE BOYS Chancy Freedman had grown up on the Bar Q ranch. She had learned how to rope and ride, and the ranch hands had looked out for her 'best they could.' But they couldn't teach her the art of being a lady, and poor Chancy had made...
MISSION: (RE)MARRIAGE He might be an ornery son of a gun, but never let it be said Tyler Fuller didn't love his wife. Well, ex-wife, since he'd presented her with an ultimatum she'd shockingly accepted. Now this hotheaded hubby was darned tired of...
TANGLIN' WITH A TEXAN Ranch hand Rip Morris had quite the reputation...although what he really knew about women wouldn't add up to a pile of hay. So who would have guessed a lovely socialite like Miss Lu Parsons had requested the pleasure of his c...
BEAUTY'S BEASTLY CHALLENGE She thought she'd been invited to the Keepers' Texas ranch to do her family a favor, but feisty redhead JoAnn Murray was beginning to sense a fix-up. Was she really there to tame cantankerous Andrew Parsons...or to be as...
MR. SEPTEMBER The Stubbornest Cowboy: Tom Keeper, youngest son of a proud family, and dead set against falling in love again! His Sweetest Temptation: Shy Ellen Simpson could be just the little lady to tempt the ornery Texan into marriage. ...
"I won't rest 'til I make that elusive filly my bride." --Austin Farrell, prime Texas husband material Ranchin' man Austin Farrell had loved Iris Smith since childhood. Though he'd never said the words, he always believed he was the only man for ...
A MAN MADE FOR MARRIAGE Confirmed bachelorette Geri Jones was convinced she'd never meet a man in all of TEXAS she could understand, let alone love. Then Frank Scheblocki walked into her life. He was a true gentleman, careful with her innocence, gen...
A REAL KEEPER Klyn was all Keeper: chock-full of cowboy charisma, loyal to a fault... and determined not to be hog-tied into marriage. A bride and baby Keepers were farthest from his mind, while mysterious bullets being fired upon his family's la...