TIME WAS RUNNING OUT . . . . Shane McKittrick wanted to hire a woman to be his wife and bear his child. Karen Muir, driven by her love for him and sure that she could win his love before the time limit on their marriage had expired, became his wif...
INTO A NEW LIFE When she woke up after the accident, Anne knew that there had been a mistake. Her name wasn't Angela, and she certainly had never been married to Rory Hawthorne. But Angela and Rory were dead, and Anne could never go back to ...
AN ACCIDENT OF LOVE Summer theater was an exciting new experience for actress Robyn Flannery, but when she was framed in a hit-and-run accident, it seemed like the end of her dreams. David Christopher, a handsome veterinarian and father of the ...
HE THREW HIS TALENTS TO THE WIND.... When Marianne went to northern California for a new job, she was enthralled by the forested hills and meadows. But for her new boss, Scott Hammond, his country home was a place in which to hide from the worl...
LOVER'S BLACKMAIL Once Gina Lea had dreamed of spending all eternity with Peter Van Housen. But four hours after her marriage, her dreams were destroyed by a cruel misunderstanding. Seven years later, she was finally ready to forget the pas...
After two long years away from the town and the family that were so dear to her, Dianna Blythe was back in Arrowhead. She had been lured there by the failing health of her father, but once she'd encountered Dr. Marcus Cade, she wondered if she co...
She Opened His Heart to God's Love. After weeks of searching for a job in her field, Christine Larsen couldn't turn down the position offered by Ian Todhunter. Christine set out to teach her charge, Ellen, that her blindness wouldn't be a handicap ...
AFTER A FASHION Since the sudden death of her husband, young, inexperienced Laurie Quayle had stepped in as the new president of Quayle Fashions. But she wasn't the only one who vowed to carry on the family business. Once like a son to her ...
TENDER REMEMBRANCE Mercy West was married for six unforgettable months to a kind, loving man. But Andy had suffered from amnesia, and when they'd first met, he hadn't even known his name or where he was from. Then, as mysteriously as h...
Colleen had been in love with Erik Johansen for as long as she could remember. And now, in just forty-eight hours, her green-eyed Viking was getting married to another woman, a beautiful model -- her own cousin. But when her cousin left him strand...
JACK OF ALL TRADES He was the stranger who accidentally caught her hand in a self-closing door. He had tended her bruises with gentleness and caring. Lark Carlisle stared at Jonathan Nolan as she applied for his housekeeping job. The man had haunt...
Sunshine Smith's uninhibited warmth made her the darling of Reno showgirls. Chadbourne Fitzhugh III's pedigree and doctorate suited him for ivory-tower university life. When a math class brought them together, they became living proof that op...
Wedding Jitters Vito Donatello called it a match made in heaven. His son, Marco, needed a wife. His goddaughter, Susan, needed a husband. And he needed lots of grandchildren to carry on the Donatello name -- and run Minnesota's largest superm...
His scapegrace brother had fallen in love again, but all Clinton Sterling had were the barest statistics on the woman in question. A state senator running for reelection, he couldn't afford any bad publicity. So it was up to him to make sure one Mary...
UNFINISHED BUSINESS Carol Murphy had made something of Herself in the eight years since she'd left Raindance, Nebraska, in the wake of a scandal that had destroyed her young marriage. And she'd almost convinced herself the past was dead and buried ...
THE RIGHT KNIGHT When Rusty Watt swept Annelise Kelsey from her wrecked car, she longed to leave her hard- won cynicism behind and surrender to his rough charm, his disturbingly gentle touch. But after having been raised in poverty and shame, Rain...
Few men could have gone through what Caleb Winters had -- and lived to tell about it. But Nancy Lloyd quickly discovered that few men were like Caleb, period. In no time the Washington Island nurse fell irreversibly in love with her appealing patient...
AFTER HOURS Evergreen Industries needed an on-site day-care center, and Assistant Personnel Manager Kirsten Anderson was going to see that they got one. She strongly believed that her ideas would benefit the company, as well as its employees. When...
A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE... Years ago, Flynn Warren had taken one look into Mary Beth's terrified blue eyes and had known exactly what to do. The grief-stricken young woman was alone in the war-torn country, and it was up to Flynn to get her ...
Ensign Heath Tanner had spent six years a prisoner of war -- six years of private hell. Throughout, visions of his angelic wife, Michaela, had sustained him. He'd dream of one day returning home, of Michaela welcoming him with open arms.... Fi...
WHAT THE NANNY LEARNED Heather Carmichael was thrilled at the prospect of a position as nanny to Boston's famous Sheffield family. Taking charge of the tiny heiress in their magnificent Beacon Hill home would be quite a challenge -- as would t...
DIAMONDS AREN'T A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND Why would the long, lean lifeguard Dinah Swenson had hired be interested in her? The love-shy divorcee had traded romance for a job managing an apartment complex, and her heart belonged to leaky faucets...
It was just before Christmas when San Francisco police Captain Gregor Remington discovered a woman who'd been dazed from a blow to the head that had stolen her memory. "Noel" had the face of an angel, and in her distress she needed him --- and he nee...
Once upon a time in L.A., Briana Innes had surrendered to Prince Charming -- and was abandoned in the cinders of secret shame. Surely in sleepy Whispering Pines, Wyoming, she was safe from suave seducers, impossible dreams.... Then forthright Hank...
Love had been impossible, unthinkable, for Brody Monroe for so many years. Then Victoria Chambers came into his life with her affection, her compassion, her belief that anything was possible if you cared deeply enough. And she did care -- for him, an...
More than ever For better or for worse, Denis O'Halloran was unforgettable. Elizabeth Kelly would never forget the painful day Denis had walked out of her life years ago. Nor could she forget how much she'd loved him. Maybe he had done an immature...
Escape... that was Brittany Castle's only recourse. Pursued by a relentless admirer, she'd had to leave behind everything she cared about. But on the road to a new life, an unexpected storm changed her plans. A solitary farmhouse offered h...
A Father's Wish Clay Rutledge needed help caring for his daughter--and like a miracle, Tamara Houston appeared. And though the handsome widower believed he'd never love again, day by day Tamara won his heart. Everything seemed perfect. Clay had foun...
Their marriage was eternal magic, a fiery fusion of body and soul. But in one blind moment of betrayal, attorney Fergus Lachlan forfeited Sharon's precious love and lost his paradise on earth. Five hellish years elapsed. Then a bolt came from the...
CHRISTMAS ANGEL, CHRISTMAS CHILD Was it a snowy mirage or some celestial messenger that steered Mariah Bentley to the tiny orphan stranded in the blizzard? All Mariah knew was that a miraculous Christmas baby now snuggled in her arms, and surely h...
WANTED: WIFE ROMANCE NOT REQUIRED Single dad Jim Buckley knew his daughters needed a mother. But he hadn't expected his meddling father to advertise for one. Now wife-candidate Coralie Dixon was stranded at his ranch, prepared to move in for good...
HOW TO MARRY A DOCTOR... The gossip around town was that Dr. Sam Lawford would rather swallow his stethoscope than marry, but woman after woman faked sore throats and got stung by bumblebees just to have Sam's hands on their bodies. So what was an ...
THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T MARRY Police chief Rick McBride knew right off the bat what kind of woman Jodi Hopkins was -- an earth mother, the type who would shower a man with love and want tons of kids. The kind of woman he had once wanted for himself...
THERE WAS SOMETHING FAMILIAR... about the man Kate Brown had rescued from the ditch on that stormy night. But he couldn't even tell her his name. Kate had no idea that she had fallen for handsome millionaire Burk Sinclair -- a man who had spent...
ONLY HIS... The sexy, experienced older man was definitely off-limits for third-grade schoolteacher Eve Costopolous -- Gray Flint was her student's father. Nevertheless, he inspired dreams of white satin. But could this sweet virgin bring the ...
THE BOSS AND THE BEAUTY Brittany Baldwin was helplessly in love with her sexy, much older boss. But the sophisticated college professor wanted nothing to do with an innocent like her. Well, she wasn't going to let that stop her, especially since ...