"I've always wanted to blackmail a beautiful girl. " Jade Kinnane regretted the day she'd driven into Zan Wykoff, causing him to break his wrist. She'd paid his hospital bills and agreed to help him meet the deadline on his new...
He wanted her, but not her love Through her work at the crisis center, Jolian met and fell in love with Fletcher McKay. She was the only link between Fletch and his runaway son. So for the moment, he needed her But, by his own admission, Fletch...
He wore a heavy gold ring with two bold dolphins The Marichelle was more than a classy old yacht. She was the anchor in her namesake's life, the only place the real Marichelle had ever called home. So the loss of her home, and then her hear...
THE SCHEME WAS ABSURD: IT WOULD NEVER WORK! Tricking little old ladies was not Alison Eriksen's strong suit. And posing as a lady's companion for the sake of a dubious painting was not her idea of a fun summer. Despite fake credentials ...
SHE'D SET HERSELF A NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TASK Snatching a small boy from under his bodyguard's nose was going to prove no mean feat. But Tey Kenyon was committed. She'd built her plan on cunning and deceit, but Mac McAllister proved an...
SHE HELPED HIM SEE HIS OPTIONS Tripp Wetherby's publishers deemed it essential for their award-winning author to participate in a cross-country treasure hunt promoting his latest mystery. Press coverage, autographings, big prizes--and total pa...
Technically he was the enemy But when Clay McCann attacked her father's Manhattan-based corporation with a hostile tender, Rikki found it virtually impossible to choose sides. She hadn't got over the wonderful, heart-wrenching crush she...
It was like pleading with a stone "We might not have as much money as you," Kara Tate said, confronting Jordan Stonehall, "but we've got every bit as much pride." If it hadn't been for stupid, macho Texas pride--and cruel f...
Joanne Hartz experienced media madness the day Duncan Flowers invaded her morning TV talk show to hype his new book, 101 Ways to Win the Woman of Your Dreams. "I bet I can win your heart by Valentine's Day," he said, challenging her to a very public ...
A loose cannon in a chicken hat!' A loose cannon in a chicken hat!' That's what architect David Whittaker thought Kelly Bouchard was, with her campaign to reform the lunch menus of West Dartmouth's public schools and her collectio...
Meeka's had to help Uncle Eli Trout out of some scrapes before, but none as big as this one. He's convinced an expert that a letter -- supposedly signed by George Washington -- proves the first president was a traitor. Reporters from around t...
THE SECRET OF SEXUAL ATTRACTION! Reese Durand has developed a new male scent, Irresistible, which is supposed to be a pheromonal solution to attracting women. It will make him millions--billions--if it works. Unfortunately, it doesn't. Wh...
SOMETHING WONDERFUL THIS WAY COMES Beautiful perfumer Demi Cousteau is at her wit's end. Her company is in jeopardy, her love life in tatters. Then comes a mystery man with a cool half million to invest. But what is he really buying? Inqui...
Susannah Marck: The tabloids call her the most spiteful woman in America! Not only that-she's inadvertently destroyed R.D. Taggart's life in what appears to be nothing but a vendetta against her ex. R.D. Taggart: He's a veterinarian wh...
In a sumptuous Newport mansion... Gillian Mahler has a plan--take the job as soap opera star Lara Corday's personal assistant. Maybe she can endear herself to Lara first, then spring the news that Lara is her birth mother, who abandoned her as...
IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA... After seventeen years as a diligent single dad, Rafe Montana wants his freedom. Newly widowed and the mother of two, Dana Kershaw needs no additional burdens. But their teenagers have made a baby.... Rafe think...
They're on a collision course -- again Rancher Tripp McGraw knows that only the big ranches will survive in southwest Colorado, and he's determined to buy the Circle C, a ranch that adjoins his own. If he wanted to, he could foreclose on a...
Penniless wildcatter Miguel Heydt has come seeking his fortune -- oil -- on Suntop land. But the cranky old owner of the Colorado ranch will tolerate no mineral exploration on his spread, so Miguel hires on with the ranch's haying crew and explor...
The Rules by Jack Kelton Rule #1: Never marry. Rule #2: If you're stupid enough to ignore Rule 1, never, never marry a divorced woman. She's bound to be smack-dab in the middle of the Divorce Crazies.... And Jack's talking from exp...
A man with a mission A Cajun cowboy with a pistol, a cell phone -- and a bloodhound who's scared of cows? What's wrong with this picture? In fact, the cowboy's more than a cowboy. Adam Dubois is an undercover detective who's come t...
THE GAME IS ON... She's equally comfortable in silk and heels or khakis and boots -- but it's Raine Ashaway's sheer nerve and gut instinct that have made her a name in the dinosaur hunting world. Her family's famous archaeological ...
IF ADVENTURE HAS A NAME, IT'S RAINE ASHAWAY Careening down a winding pass in Mexico to escape a truckload of goons wasn't how dinosaur hunter Raine Ashaway planned to meet Anson McCord, the archaeologist who'd written her regarding a p...