SHE WAS ACTING LIKE A SCHOOLGIRL WITH A CRUSH. Like a haunting melody, their love was unforgettable. Amanda Farrell couldn't remember ever being young. She'd struggled for years as a single parent, finally earning a teaching degree and buying a modes...
DREAMS ARE CHEAP. ANYONE CAN HAVE THEM. The Kentucky Derby spawns big dreams. Trainers gamble lifetimes on a single race and a chance to stand in the winner's circle, while millionaires coolly invest fortunes for a slice of immortality. Amid the g...
LIVING UP TO A LEGEND IS IMPOSSIBLE! In the beginning, Cynthia McKinney was attracted to J.T. because he'd loved his first wife so deeply. The man obviously took love and marriage seriously. Now, with a new baby to care for and the responsibiliti...
THE PREACHER HAD MARRIED A FLOOZY! The church deacons were scandalized when the young Reverend Howard Blake announced he'd up and married that "painted woman," Eva Carmichael, and brought her back home to Crystal Creek. And not only was she a tras...
With her young child to care for, single mom Mallory Ryan vas ecstatic over her promotion. Until she found out it meant working with Baron Montgomery. The very handsome, very stubborn man was everything she didn't need in her life. And yet, seemin...
SOMEONE HAD TAKEN HER CHILD! And it was up to Julee Sutherland's enigmatic neighbor, Cain Collier, to help find the missing baby. But he'd have to use his special powers and tap into long-buried memories and dreams of the past--as well as the pass...
TWINS? When Georgia Williams returned from her trip, mass chaos broke out at the airport, and her fiance landed in the hospital... with amnesia! Maybe once he saw the ranch, his memory would return. But when she got him home, her real fiance was ...
FIRST LOVE, SECOND CHANCE For six long years, Laura Ramirez tried to forget the man who'd initiated her passion and given her a baby he'd known nothing about. Now wildcatter Russ Campbell was back, and he was everything she remembered -- and mor...
WAS THE PRICE OF FAMILY LOYALTY TOO HIGH? MARY DELACROIX had lost the love of her life many years ago because of her sense of duty to her family. RAFE PERDIDO had been captivated by shy, plain Mary, but he was a drifter, and she was the daugh...
PARENTHOOD Little Hannah McShane was her parents' pride and joy, linking two hearts for all eternity. So why did Mommy and Daddy insist on a long-distance marriage -- living miles apart, sharing only shy, awkward visits, saving all their love for...
STAND-IN MOM... The grapevine was smokin'! Wayward, once-pampered Amber Campion was back in Vanity, eatin' humble pie. Against all odds she was determined to turn over a new leaf. Seeing her true potential, rock-solid sheriff Cal Simmons had go...
SHE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER.... With her drunken father and ramshackle life, there were no white knights for girls like her. Yet when Reed Hardisty, the richest boy in town, came courting, young Sophie Delaney dared to dream...and gave her all. T...
UNDER SUSPICION At 18, banker's daughter Lara Grayson had secretly, daringly dated the son of the town drunk, proving her love in his arms, in his bed. But when rough-hewn Donovan Delaney was imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, he brutally cu...
HE'D DATED HER ON A DARE.... But rich boy Wes Grayson fell hard for Justine Sutton, and even at 18 he'd known no other woman would complete him. Then Justine abruptly fled gossipy Lewiston, and for 17 unforgiving years Wes never saw her again. Unt...
MORE THAN JUST ONE NIGHT... It must have been the heat of New Orleans that drove P.I. Kate Labiche into the arms of hotshot attorney Cullen McGyver. After all, she'd gone to the Big Easy on business...and wound up basking in pleasure. Their attrac...
THE FAMILY PLAN? Ex-cop-turned-writer Max Murdock was at his wit's end. Taking care of his baby daughter while trying to meet the deadline for his latest novel had left him exhausted and overworked. What he needed more than anything was some peace a...
He was the last person she wanted to see...until he returned to tell her about the tragic past they shared. Would the truth set her free-- to love him?...
This is the book the author wishes someone had written before she was diagnosed with breast cancer, so she'd have known what to expect. It's her very personal journey living with breast cancer, from the "You have breast cancer" telephone call, throug...
A Marriage of Necessity Widow Abby Carter hopes to find love again -- unlikely with a man like Caleb Gentry, who doesn't even believe in it. Their marriage isn't ideal, but Abby's two young children need security, and Caleb's daughter needs a mot...
All Roads Lead to Home Gabe Gentry used to live entirely in pursuit of carefree pleasure. It cost him his relationship with his brother, and with the one woman who believed in him. Now, with newfound faith, he's coming home to Wolf Creek, Arkansa...
A Wife for the Sheriff? Schoolteacher Allison Grainger loves educating the children of Wolf Creek, Arkansas. She's nearly at her wit's end, though, when it comes to Sheriff Colt Garrett's two unruly youngsters. But when Allison is forced to work ...
The Widow's Second Chance Meg Thomerson needs assistance getting back on her feet -- even if it comes from the man who made her a widow. Ace Allen didn't intend to kill her husband, he only wanted to protect the town from the man's rage. Now Ace ...
In 1881 Chicago, the idea of a female detective is virtually unheard of. But when famed crime buster Allan Pinkerton opens his agency's doors to a handful of women, one intrepid actress with her own troubled past is driven to defy convention and take...
A Marriage of Inconvenience! After a storm strands her overnight in Will Slade's cabin, Blythe Granville's reputation is in shambles. The townspeople doubt that she was innocently nursing him back to health after saving his life. Now Blythe must ...
Shakespearean actress turned Pinkerton detective Lilly Long and her reluctant partner, Cade McShane, travel to New Orleans to save a young widow from a fate worse than death… 1881, Chicago. Assigned to her second case as a Pinkerton, Lilly still...
In 1880s Chicago, Shakespearean actress turned Pinkerton detective Lilly Long must play the part of a soiled dove to find a missing friend... As one of a handful of female operatives employed by legendary crime fighter Allan Pinkerton, Lilly draw...
Is It Time to Exit the Stage?A close brush with death in Texas has left Pinkerton agent Lilly Long wondering if the demands of the job she wanted so badly are more than she can mentally and physically endure without becoming cold and uncaring. Instea...