Major A.C. Bannister -- known as Ace -- grew up on the mean streets of a Texas town. The army was his one chance to get out, and he took it. He worked his way up through the ranks and now, as ROTC head at a Texas college, he's admired by all the youn...
STARR LEDERMAN. She was named after the Christmas star. She's a woman who knows her own mind and heart, a woman who values family and family traditions. So she's determined to give her almost-adopted daughter, SeLi, the most wonderful Christm...
A Child is Rescued from the Sea Daisy Sloan is B.O.I. ("Born on Island"-Galveston, that is) and a shrimper by trade. One day, she anchors her trawler in a secluded bay called Rum Row, notorious for its illegal exchanges. A luxury yacht anchors nearb...
The Lone Spur Ranch Crockett County, Texas Lizbeth Robbins has been following the rodeo circuit for the past six years, learning the farrier's trade, dragging her little girl from town to town. But now her daughter's in school and Lizbeth...
Have Matchmakers. Will Marry! Tibby Mack -- sweet Tibby Mack. She's twenty-seven, which makes her the youngest resident of Yaqui Springs, a retirement community near California's Salton Sea. The folks there have become her family, her friends...he...
'I contend that today's man could handle the rigors of pioneer life. Could a woman? -- Nolan Campbell. 'You bet! Anything he can do, she can do, too! -- Emily Benton. 'And probably better ! -- Sherry Campbell. There's only one way to find...
Love, family, success. Can you really have it all? Garrett Lock wants it all. He's a single father with a child he adores. He has a successful career. And now he wants a second chance at marriage, another shot at love - with Sherry Campbell. ...
Her heart's gone AWOL! Ever since Lieutenant Colonel Ryder McGrath broke Major Hope Evan's heart, she's devoted her life to the military. But now a strange mission has thrown Hope and Ryder together again. Something odd is going on at a disman...
It's fifty years since the Lyon family of New Orleans ventured into what was then an exciting new business--television. Despite objections from some in the family, Margaret Hollander Lyon believed it was the wave of the future. . .and the past fifty ...
In the Lyon family, old secrets give rise to new ones. The Lyon family matriarch has disappeared. And now her money's disappearing too-bit by bit. Margaret Lyon's grandniece, Crystal Jardin, who looks after the family finances as well as those of t...
FLINTRIDGE, MICHIGAN It's Kathleen O'Hallaoran's hometown. It's also Slater Kowalski's. And it's a town divided. Kat and her exuberant family live in the part of Flintridge known as the Hill; Slater is from the Ridge. Slater is the president of Fl...
TWINS - NURSE NAMED GUARDIAN OF HER SISTER'S TWINS -- BUT WHO'S THEIR DADDY? Faith Hyatt receives a shocking legacy from her dying sister. A baby, No, two babies. Twins. Lacy grants custody to Faith. But Faith soon discovers it's not that simple....
She's all alone - and pregnant! Things have not gone well for Hayley Ryan. Her beloved grandfather is dead. Her no-good ex-husband not only abandoned her for another woman but stole Hayley's inheritance - and left her pregnant. All she has now is...
Those bones are the remains of Frannie Granger, beloved foster mother of Emerald Monday. After Fran's disappearance almost 20 years ago, Emmy was taken from her home in Uncertain, Texas, and placed in foster care elsewhere in the state. Now Emmy'...
They call him "the baby cop" Ethan Knight, a detective in Desert City, Arizona, believes in putting children first. He's created an unofficial network of foster care for abused and abandoned kids; he's done this by calling on family and friends, c...
Our Beloved Katie 11-18-00 Finding a silver urn by the side of a country road -- you'd call that unusual, wouldn't you? Ex-cop Mitch Valetti certainly does. He knows this has to be a precious object, the memory of a life, and Mitch is determined ...
The Forked Lightning Ranch, near Callanton, Oregon Summer Marsh wants to hang on to her family's cattle spread. It's the only life she knows...and it's her son's legacy. Summer's ex-husband, Frank, sees the ranch as a cash cow -- literally. Wit...
Mallory Forrester's six-year-old daughter needs a transplant. But Liddy Bea has already rejected Mallory's kidney, and no one else in their immediate family is a viable donor. There's only one person left to turn to -- Liddy's father. Mallory hasn...
Gabe Poston is giving up his job, with all its traveling and high finance, because he's ready for a simpler existence. He might even be ready for a wife and family -- and meeting Isabella Navarro only confirms that feeling. Isabella has experience...
Duke Fontaine is dead, but he's left behind a daughter no one knew he had. A daughter who's about to inherit one-third of his estate. Noelani Hana is the secret daughter of Louisiana sugar magnate Duke Fontaine -- and the secret sister of his childre...
Norah, Michael, Brad, Reed, Sam, Erin and Mollie -- seven little reasons to marry in haste. No, seven big reasons... Ben Galloway and Abby Drummond both work with children -- he's a pediatrician and she's a teacher -- and they've both ended up wit...
At home with a cowboy Miranda Kimbrough is a woman escaping her celebrity life. Linc Parker is a man with a debt to his past. Because of it, he's bought a ranch as a haven for kids -- throwaway kids, homeless kids, runaways. Miranda, a runaway...
A man looking for answers. Widower Alan Ridge wonders if Laurel Ashline, a weaver who's just arrived in Ridge City, Kentucky, can do what no doctor has: help his daughter, Louemma. He's skeptical about weaving as therapy but he'll do anything for Lou...
The Trouble With Brothers... Daphne Malone has three of them -- a cop, a fireman and a long-haul trucker -- all older, all protective to a fault, all convinced that their little sister can't take care of herself. She's twenty-six, for heaven's sak...
She's not only a cop, she's a woman from a traditional Chinese family. Mei Lu Ling's parents strongly disapprove of her career, but she's determined not to let her personal life interfere with her work -- especially now that she's been handed a case ...
Zeke Rossetti likes things to run smoothly. He's the single father of a deaf child, and his job managing offshore oil sites in the Texas Gulf doesn't allow for distractions. Grace Stafford is definitely a distraction. She's searching for a downed ...
A Bridesmaid Thirteen Times Over. But Never a Bride? A painful betrayal drove wedding dress designer Sylvie Shea out of New York City to her North Carolina hometown. Now she outfits the town's brides and secretly works on her own wedding dress -- ...
Out of the mouths of babes... After a decade away, Greer Bell is returning to Loveless County, hoping for a reconciliation with her family -- one that includes their acceptance of her nine-year-old daughter, Shelby. Thanks to the local land-grant pr...
Two beloved stories in one book!
Professor Nolan "Camp" Campbell asks, "Can today's women handle the rigors of pioneer life?"
True? Find out, in... Anything You Can Do . . .
Camp recruits a group of women to reenact an 1820s wagon trai...
How To Stay Warm in a Cold Climate Megan Benton, who works for the Coast Guard in St. Ignace, Michigan, knows that staying warm in the blustery month of March requires a strategy. * Have a cup of hot chocolate first thing. * Wear your scarf an...
Former Navy pilot Marlee Stein has only a few simple goals when she and her young daughter, Jo Beth, move home to Whitepine, Montana. Help her brother run Cloud Chasers, their family's charter air service, fly mercy missions for Angel Fleet, and be a...
A mother-to-be far from home... As a member of Montana's Angel Fleet, Mick Callen has airlifted injured climbers before. But this time is different--because he's more than a little attracted to one of the women he's rescued. However, Hana Egan's s...
Smart women stay away from cowboys... Taking a teaching job in a desolate corner of Idaho was Kate Steele's way of making sure her in-laws didn't turn her son, Danny, into a shiftless bronc buster like his father. Except in the middle of nowhere she...
"I have a secret to tell you, Quinn. One that's burdened my heart for much too long." Norma's words to her grandson Quinn Santini are a shock--and it all started with a packet of letters found by a woman named April Trent. From the moment April...
Noelle Hale, who runs her family's Christmas-tree farm in Oregon, has always dreamed of growing the White House tree. The perfect tree. Then newcomer Camden Latimer takes over the farm next door. Will Noelle's dream blind her to the possibilities of ...
A mother and child reunion? Over a year ago Garnet Patton's young daughter disappeared without a trace, kidnapped by her ex-husband. And now a big-city cop thinks a little girl in rural Georgia might be Sophie. Yet Detective Julian Cavenaugh insist...
Sometimes love comes back to you Garret Logan's dead fiancee just walked into his pub. It's been seven years since Colleen died in a car accident, but he hasn't been able to break free of her memory. And now she's back with a new name, claiming no...
Don't mess with this Texan! Fighting for her kids' future shouldn't be this tough. For Rebecca Geroux, nothing is more important than family. So when her daughter's grades slip suddenly, Rebecca knows she has to do something about it. Teaming up w...
It's not exactly picture-perfect This isn't the life Casey Sinclair imagined. No husband, no job...and a baby on the way. To pay the bills, Casey takes a position at Wyatt Keene's photography studio. It's not perfect, but what choice does she have? ...
This brave man could use a little help Major Rafe Eaglefeather loves a challenge -- the riskier the better. A former rodeo champion, he's also served his country. So is it too much to ask for a little solitude to heal from the effects of his deplo...
SHE'S ALL ALONE -- AND PREGNANT! Things have not gone well for Hayley Ryan. Her beloved grandfather is dead. Her ex-husband not only abandoned her for another woman but also stole Hayley's inheritance -- and left her pregnant. All she has now is a p...
At twenty-seven, Tibby Mack's the youngest resident of Yaqui Springs, a retirement community near California's Salton Sea. The folks there have become her family, her friends...and her matchmakers. But since the youngest man in town is sixty-five, th...
Widower Alan Ridge has to believe that Laurel Ashline, a weaver who's just arrived in Ridge City, Kentucky, can do what no doctor has: help his daughter, Louemma. He's skeptical about weaving as therapy, but he'll do anything for his little girl, esp...
She once loved a cowboy... When Tate Walker was killed in a barroom brawl, he left his widow with a small run-down ranch in south Texas and a daughter he falsely claimed wasn't his. Willow had accepted Tate's proposal because Cooper Drummond, the ...
His Heart Is on the Line Deputy sheriff and aspiring rodeo star Dylan "Duke" Adams has his hands full with the recent string of burglaries in Roundup, Montana, especially when the thief strikes at his family's ranch. Duke is trying to focus on the...
Can modern women survive the rigors of pioneer life? Professor Nolan Campbell is doubtful. But his sharp-tongued sister, Sherry, wants to prove that today's women can handle anything. She dares Camp to recruit a group of women to reenact the k...
Love, family, success. Can you really have it all? Garrett Lock wants it all. He's a single father with a child he adores. He has a successful career. And now he wants a second chance at marriage, another shot at love -- with Sherry Campbell. D...
Always a bridesmaid… After a painful betrayal, Sylvie Shea put aside her dreams of becoming a successful New York wedding-dress designer and returned to her hometown in North Carolina. Now she outfits the town's brides and secretly works on her ...
Turns out home may be where the heart is, after all… Briar Run, Kentucky, is where Annie Emerson grew up, where her grandmother Ida raised her. Annie, now a social worker in L.A., left years ago but returns home when Ida's health fails. She's de...
A Picture-Perfect Husband? Mack Bannerman is many things -- a rancher, a Texan, a father…a widower. His twelve-year-old daughter, Zoey, wants him to remarry, so she enters Mack in a magazine contest, hoping to find a wife for him -- and a mothe...
Can she save the ranch -- and keep his love? Jenna Wood had her new start all planned out when she bought an ostrich ranch in New Mexico. But from day one, nothing is quite what she expected -- especially her tenant, Flynn Sutton. Jenna's daughte...
Love is blooming in Molly's garden… Molly McNair needs someone tough to work for her. An oil company is pressuring her to sell her farm, and she's losing workers to intimidation. When Adam Hollister applies, she knows she's found the right man....
FROM GREEN BERET TO GREENHORN Myra Odell's parents have given away her Montana ranch -- to a tenderfoot. Lieutenant Zeke Maxwell may have saved her brother's life, but he doesn't know the first thing about cattle. For the sake of the ranch, Myra ...
HIS NEW WESTERN HOME Lila Jenkins's Montana ranching town roots run deep. So why does the widowed B and B owner feel so connected to her latest boarder? Seth Maxwell might know his way around horses, but he's a wanderer, not a rancher. Lila's son...
HOLIDAY HOMECOMING This isn't the first time Jewell Hyatt let Saxon Conrad go. When they were teens, she broke up with him so that he could pursue his country music career. Now, pregnant after their unexpected reunion, Jewell must prepare herself...
A CHANCE TO PROVE HIMSELF When Rio McNabb's bronc-riding career is sidelined by an injury, the only upside is his gorgeous live-in nurse, Binney Taylor. Just one hitch -- Binney used to have a crush on his identical twin brother. Rio's sure that ...
Home on the Ranch: Arizona -- where love burns brightly under the desert sun! The Arizona ranch was supposed to be their home -- a place where Tandy Graham could start a new life with her young son. Instead, Tandy finds a community of hostile ran...