First there was the year without Christmas. The year Skye Haverford Blade died so mysteriously, leaving behind not only her husband but her young son. Now it's three years later. This Christmas - the third Christmas - Jean Young joins David Blade...
keeper. n. 1. one who protects, guides, cares for 2. person or object worth keeping 3. a "hole" in a river rapid 4. a romance novel the reader's going to put on her "keeper" shelf! Zachary Key married Grace Sutter because he loved her--and because...
EMOTIONAL, DARING, ADVENTUROUS According to family legend, golden-haired Christopher was born with a mission -- to break a family curse. Only he, it is said, can end the history of miscarriages and maternal deaths. Christopher, now a doctor l...
Wanted: Woman to enter celibate marriage and be stepmother to four-year-old girl. Send child-rearing philosophies to Mr. Family.... KAL JOHNSON is a still-grieving widower with a young child. He can't imagine marrying again--not for love, anyway....
Day Sutter doesn't consider herself adventerous. She's kind and creative, yes. She has a great sense of style. And she's a competent businesswoman, running Rapid Riggers, the Colorado river-rafting company she co-owns with Nick Colter. In fact, D...
The Kay Ranch near Alta Colorado Erin MacKenzie considers herself a candidate for the Dumped by Cowboys Hall of Fame. Especially since she was stood up by rodeo cowboy Abe Cockburn, the father of her baby daughter, Maeve. And then there's anot...
Who's afraid of the mistletoe? Sarah Calder, that's who. Why is she afraid? She can't really say... The answer is that Christmas means family, emotion, remembering the past. And kissing can mean the same things... But now Sarah nee...
Oh, the embarrassment of being thirty-one years old and having a mother who's still stuck in the sixties! Dany Wilde wants to escape everything Jenny represents. But Gabe Lucero, Dany's childhood friend, has always seen her eccentric mother as a true...
The Midwives No memory of her husband -- or her child... Ivy Walcott is a midwife. She understands the mysteries of birth, the wonder of babies -- yet she doesn't know if she's ever had a baby. Because Ivy only remembers the last ten years of...
This baby is hers! One night in Texas, midwife Tara Marcus finds a newborn baby abandoned in her car. A baby she desperately wants to keep. She takes the baby to her hometown in Colorado, hoping to adopt her. But adoption requires money. And...
The Midwives: Home to Alaska. To her ex-husband. Her family. And the babies waiting to be born.... Midwife Francesca Walcott has plenty of good reasons to stay away from Alaska. Her ex-husband, Charlie Marcus, for one. Her family, for ano...
DRU HAVERFORD HALL: Midwife. Pregnant. Widow. A MAN FROM THE PAST: Dru hasn't seen Ben Hall (a nephew of her dead husband's) in more than twenty years. But they share memories of a difficult and traumatic event in their childhood. PREGNANCY: ...
Lily Moran is observing a tragic anniversary -- her brother's death. She blames herself, just as her parents blame her then-boyfriend, Colin Gardner. For the first time, she's returning home to scatter the ashes of the past and -- maybe -- find love ...
The truth about Amy Ludlow Fourteen-year-old Amy lives with her father in Ouray, Colorado. Her mother -- or so she believes -- died at the time of her birth. What William Ludlow knows that his daughter doesn't is this: Amy's mother isn't dead. He'd...
Sometimes a family resemblance is hard to see...especially if you're not looking for one. And Sabine Knoll isn't. She's the widow of Victor Knoll and the mother of his three children. She loved him -- deeply -- and even though he's been gone four ...
The Harmony Agency: Bringing happiness to all through fulfilling relationships... That's Scout Berensen's mission for the branch she's opening in McGrath, Alaska. McGrath's remote, but downright civilized compared to the bush where...
Jen Delazzeri never expected to see Max Rickman again. Their brief but intense affair was a mistake: they were young and he was grief stricken at losing his fiancee in a fire. Besides, he'd told Jen he didn't love her. All good reasons she'd kept the...
"I'm yours. And you're mine." Eve Swango and Tommy Baca belong to each other. Always have. Always will. It's been years since Eve followed Tommy into the wild, subterranean depths of a New Mexico cave. Years since she reali...
Raising a family on his own doesn't leave widower Seamus Lee much time for cultivating new relationships. Which is just how he wants it. But Rory Gorenzi, the unconventional wilderness instructor at his children's mountain school, has other i...
On Christmas Eve, Keti Whitechapel finds a dog Prophetically, perhaps, she names the dog Marley. That night, the ghosts of her past appear in a dream -- or is it a dream? Inexplicable things have been happening since she came home to Bounty, Nevad...
She's having their baby! When Leah Williams agrees to have a child for her younger sister, Ellen, she isn't prepared when Ellen turns up pregnant! Leah, already a single mom to four-year-old Mary Grace, is left...holding the baby. For Leah, there ...
Bronwyn Davies is furious. Widowed, penniless and desperate, she came to Fairchild Acres looking for work--and to confront stockbroker Patrick Stafford, her son's real father. Sure, she wasn't expecting the red carpet rollout from her ex-lover...but ...
Does magic really work on love? The man Mary Anne Drew wants is marrying someone else! So to win him back, she buys a love potion. Mary Anne's not convinced spells and potions work, but still, she has to do something. Too bad the wrong man...
Her secret hasn't ruined their marriage -- yet Afraid of losing the only man she's ever loved, Sissy Workman kept the truth from her husband for years. She told herself she was lying for all the right reasons. Did it really matter that Elijah wasn't...
They're making their own magic! The love potion Cameron McAllister just drank was supposed to help her get over someone -- not make her fall for her best friend! Now she's pregnant, and Paul Cureux is proposing...marriage. Cameron should be jumpin...
Can they be a family? Raising four kids on his own doesn't leave widower Seamus Lee much time for cultivating new relationships. Which is just how he wants it. But Rory Gorenzi, the unconventional wilderness instructor at his children's mountain s...