Raised on a small Arkansas farm, Maddie Winslow craved excitement, but an escaped convict seeking shelter in her barn was more adventure than she bargained for. Determined to help the brooding stranger clear his name, Maddie impulsively joined Judson...
A PIRATE'S GOLD... Orphaned by her pirate father, Aurora Mullins had survived the rough life of Port Royal, Jamaica, by masquerading as a boy. 'Rory' answered to no one, until that arrogant privateer Nathan Lawler unwittingly unmasked her. Convince...
Although Jade Kendell was desperate to escape her stepfather's rundown tavern to make a life for herself and her sister in London, she was not desperate enough to steal. But when Karr Alexander arrived looking for his brother, he discovered a pou...
Wealthy Maurier Simpson had resolved to be an independent woman, refusing her father's attempts to curb her daring nature. A trip to the Canadian coast to help him open a new factory was certain to be a bore, at least until she met shipping owner Dra...
Rachel, a spinster, with a sister and three small children, is stranded after her preacher father is killed in an Indian raid. Wade is a gambler that runs across them, on his way to a Fort Laramie for the biggest card game west of the Mississippi. ...
A RUNAWAY HEIRESS Eighteen-year-old Lady Christina Delafield was as bold as she was beautiful. When her overbearing grandfather threatened to tame her in a Swiss finishing school, Christina stowed away on the first ship leaving London harbor, det...
Lirienne Gautier was little more than a child when a masked nobleman stole an innocent kiss from her. Bound in service to a wealthy woman, she knew all she would ever have of Vicomte Philippe de Villeneuve was her dreams -- until he asked to wed her ...
If Wyoming's admission to statehood wasn't enough of a story, journalist Luke Bradfield was sure the wild West would hand him some others. Except the grizzled newspaperman he was expecting to find in tiny Bentonville was a woman...and a curvy...
An innocent charade... When scheming Emily Worth found herself with two suitors on the same day, her gentle twin, Elizabeth, foolishly agreed to impersonate her. Convinced that an afternoon with breathtaking Randall Thorpe was harmless, Elizabeth p...
Left widowed in Philadelphia, April Williamson vowed to make a new life for herself. Her first stop was to make the difficult journey to her childhood home in Kentucky. But the days on the trail were nowhere near as torturous as the desire April bega...
They were at war. Braving the war-ravaged countryside to return to her Missouri home, Lila found her house occupied by Confederate soldiers under the command of Captain Sander McCormack. The brooding officer was not the murderous savage she'd expecte...
Sometimes Love is Sweeter... Sabrina Callahn broke her engagement to Texas Ranger Patrick Shand when he arrested her brother for cattle rustling--and broke her heart. Returning to her hometown after two years away, the first thing Sabrina sees is...
A Secret Birthright... When her dying mother gave her the dragon pendant that would prove her royal birthright, beautiful Vicentia journeyed to Fairdragon Castle in search of a father she had never known. But her hope for a joyful reunion was shatt...
She promised him marriage... To escape her cruel stepfather, spirited Danielle de Bussy fled France for the untamed Louisiana Colony, where she hoped to seek shelter with her uncle - and hold on to her independence. But finding him meant a difficul...
THE ROAD WAS HER HOME... All Jasmine O'Neal had ever known were strange cities and faceless audiences. Years ago her father had convinced her that traveling with his troupe of entertainers was in her blood. But when Jasmine's train jumped th...
When her father's death left her penniless, spirited Daphne Barclay was forced to make her own way in the world. Taking a position as governess at Scotland's Rathmore Castle seemed like a sensible idea--until Colin Douglas, her charges' older brother...
After his wife was brutally murdered and he was accused of the crime, Dominic Grayson's faith in humanity died -- and a craving for revenge was born. To punish the man who framed him, Dominic vowed to claim the Duke of Dalmont's prized posses...
AN ARTIST'S BRUSH A bleeding man on the lake bank was the last thing Margaret Tierney expected to find when she set out for an afternoon of sketching. Taking the unconscious, and breathtakingly masculine, stranger home was the only thing to do, even...
A WOMAN WITH EVERYTHING TO LOSE When she heard the key in the lock, Miranda Gallagher was certain it was her husband, Seamus, returning from whatever mysterious errands he needed to perform -- on their wedding night. She had never been more wrong. T...
ALL GOOD THINGS COME... Independent Lady Patience Kendall had given up on love. Agreeing to help four hapless American girls find titled British husbands was only a comfortable way to earn her passage back to England. Life on board Captain Grant St....
Lady Chryssa of Glennewald was everything a proper Norman noblewoman should have been, her brother had seen to that after their parents' death. Good manners and a sense of duty were no match for the brawny Saxon knight, however. Plucked from a crow...
Garnet Jones journeys to rugged Montana Territory with one goal in mind; finding her ailing father and bringing him back home. Garnet plans to find her father quickly and leave on the next stage coach. She doesn't count on finding him in the care of ...
When British hospitaller Melissande Chapeleine joined the Third crusade, she was undaunted by the peril lurking in the war-torn Holy Land. Intent on keeping her sacred vows at any cost, she managed to survive a bloody battle, and save the life of a d...
HER FAITH IN HIM... A minister's daughter, Sara Waverly didn't question her dying father's wisdom when it called them west, although it meant facing certain hardship. Nor did she doubt him when he suggested gruff, imposing Jacob Talbert ...
From the moment Sir Robin Moreton saw her on the grimy steps of a London brothel, he was bewitched-and bewildered. Why was a well-bred beauty fending for herself on the streets? As "Falcon," and undercover spy for Her Majesty. Robin's duty was to unr...
Returning to Connecticut Colony to be at his dying father's bedside, Army Major Jonah Hunter had no choice but to seek help from sharp-tongued spinster Tessa Bradford, a local healer. And yet as she tenderly ministered to the old man, Jonah discover...
AN ANGEL OF MERCY Faith Wickham stepped into a dark, despairing place when she entered Killashandra Hall to care for the gravely injured Justin Devereux, Duke of Ainsley. The handsome, dark-haired man lay unconscious, and soon Faith wondered if some...
Her: Alone since the death of her father, Jillian Montgomery though life couldn't get any more difficult. Then she found herself fleeing from a ruthless Barnaby Coast madam -- straight into the path of a demented killer. Only by a twist of fate ...
TAKE MY HAND Swept up like a mermaid from the sea after a shipwreck off the coast of Key West, Annabelle Browne was the most tempting treasure former naval lieutenant Oliver Steele had ever claimed. The dangerously handsome wrecker, known throughou...
HATED ENEMY... Marriage to the vile Thane Morcar of England was Lady Cyndra's destiny from the day the barbaric Vikings had stormed her family's home -- until handsome Brenwyn of Manor Darburg rescued her from that cruel fate. In Brenwyn, C...
When the king decreed she marry the powerful knight known as Sir Bran the Fair, Gwyneth of Blackthorne swore she'd never obey her new husband. For how could she forget that he was the son of the blackguard who'd murdered her parents? But as the days ...
Consorting with the enemy was a crime. Kissing one was even worse! But Angele Fortier had no choice. When her French hometown was taken over by the Spaniards, her heart was captured too. Smitten by Carlos Mendoza, a handsome Spanish soldier, Angele w...
When her father is killed in an avalanche, Megan Daily finds herself the owner of The Celebration, a glittering jewel of a dance hall in the Klondike Gold Rush town of Dawson City. When unexpected danger forces her to seek the help of the authorities...
She needed his protection. Shelby Raines was there the night her father was murdered. Born blind, she couldn't see the killer, but she heard what he said and knew he'd be back again. Alone for the first time, Shelby was in no position to refuse the...
Ever since her husband, Richard, was killed, Nettie Picketing had been struggling to hold her life together. But when a vengeful neighbor brutally attacked Hank Callahan, the man responsible for Richard's death, she couldn't just let him die. What sh...
Promised by her father to a nobleman's son, Catalina Fernandez de Velasco knew her carefree days were almost over. So when she happened upon a handsome horseman during a ride alone through the woods, she didn't think it was wrong to give in to a pass...
Dorie Knighton didn't have time for Christmas wishes. She was too busy caring for her precocious nine-year-old sister, Hannah, and their aging aunt. So when she found a man lying injured in the snow, it only added to her troubles. And yet she couldn'...
Adrienne Leslie was determined to return to the estate of her late father and discover the reason's for his untimely death. So, against her grandfather's wishes, the wealthy Virginia beauty planned to stow away aboard a ship bound for England, disgui...
Pretty Polly Brown, the trouser-wearing daughter of an outlaw, had her six guns-and her freedom. Life would be perfect if she weren't on the run from Bart Dixon, the notorious gunslinger who'd sworn to kill her. When she stepped off the stagecoach in...
A hellion finds heaven... Christian Faraday, the scapegrace Earl of Bedlington, had a talent for landing in compromising positions. But when his latest indiscretion threatened to become a full-blown scandal, he deemed it a sign to change his dissol...
From the moment heiress Lizzie Gardener met James White-Hawk Morgan, a dashing American visiting London, she knew she was smitten. Soon, his passionate correspondence from the Colonies had convinced her to wed him...by proxy. But when she arrived at ...
SHE WOULD NOT TRUST HIM With her husband brutally slain and her castle under siege by Scottish warriors, defiant noblewoman Elise D'Auvergne vowed to protect her home at any cost - even if it meant striking an uneasy bargain with the maddeningly a...
Dr. Grace Abbot had deceived her father. She'd led him to believe that she'd stayed out East to become a proper doctor's wife. Now he wanted her home, and she knew she couldn't tell him the truth. So when a wounded stranger showed up at her Kansas Ci...
When librarian Mary McNeal's father was kidnapped by the notorious pirate Gaspar, only one man could help her rescue him-Captain Jack St. George. Thrown together on a perilous voyage, Mary never imagined that the rough-hewn sea captain would inspire ...
SHE SOUGHT REVENGE When Cat MacDougal's parents were slain by the feared MacPherson clan, she vowed to exact revenge upon their leader. Concealing her identity, she boldly ventured into hostile lands. But her resolve to murder Duncan MacPherson weak...
When Norman soldiers stormed her Saxon manor, Brianna fled to a nearby priory, never imagining she would be summoned home to tend a gravely wounded Norman lord. As she nursed him back to health, disguised as a nun, Brianna unexpectedly found herself ...
BOUND BY NECESSITY After losing her beloved parents, Lady Kate Scoville was in danger of losing her inheritance too. Her greedy uncle had squandered his share of the family fortune, and planned to get his hands on hers by marrying her off to his lo...
When a steamboat explosion left Miranda Harpe orphaned and penniless, her only hope was to earn a living as a singer. Forcing herself to board another steamboat, this one bound for Natchez, she soon found herself drawn to dashing Edward Holmes. But h...
A prim and proper Puritan, Charity Irving was shocked to the core to discover a man in her bedchamber. When the handsome intruder boldly confessed to being a traitorous Cavalier, she knew she should turn him out. But something about the gray-eyed str...
Impulsive heiress Evie Carlisle fled a greedy fiance and New York's stifling high society for Dead Dog, New Mexico - determined to write dime novels like the thrilling Buckaroo Bill series. But when she began her unconventional research at Sophie's P...
As the widow of a Yankee soldier, Carrie O'Day's sympathies lay firmly with the North. So when she found a wounded Confederate officer on her Missouri farm, she was suddenly faced with a dilemma: save him or turn him in to the Union. Despite her loya...
SHE WAS LOCKED IN A PASSIONATE BATTLE... When feisty Hannah Jackson learned that the Tyler Mining Company was planning to destroy the pristine beauty of her Adirondack mountain home with a garnet mine, she was fit to be tied and determined to fight...
Independent, feisty, and always in trouble, Mattie Somerton was hardly a conventional lady. Thank goodness for that, because she suddenly found herself involved in a highly unladylike scheme-- pilfering museum art to clear her father of unjust charge...
CAUGHT BETWEEN PRIDE AND PASSION... Spirited Mexican beauty Damita Delacruz simmered with hatred for Brendan O'Toole, the American who now owned her beloved California rancho -- and whose offer of marriage she defiantly refused. To keep her fami...
Bryce Trevarian loves one thing -- his life as the first mate on a clipper ship sailing the waters between Massachusetts and China. But his life gets much more complicated when a woman claiming to be his captain’s half-sister seeks their help. Beau...
Caroline Beaumont was aghast when her wealthy father paid Devon Langston, the impoverished Earl of Northrup, to marry her. From the moment she met the handsome, brooding aristocrat, it was clear that he found his betrothal to her distasteful. Yet, sh...
SHE HAD THE SPIRIT OFA WARLORD... With her father long dead and her brother, Thomas, on Crusade, Elizabeth of Wyndsbire commanded the family borders--leading her loyal men with uncommon cunning and fending off band after band of raiding Scots. But u...
Caroline Beaumont was aghast when her wealthy father paid Devon Langston, the impoverished Earl of Northrup, to marry her. From the moment she met the handsome, brooding aristocrat, it was clear that he found his betrothal to her distasteful. Yet, sh...
A Southern beauty born and bred, Nell Pennington can't bear the thought of losing the majestic Kentucky horse farm she calls home. So when Derrick Gentry miraculously turns up and offers to buy the note on the farm in exchange for the use of her priz...
Widowed after a disastrous year of marriage, Lily Monroe vowed to never again relinquish her freedom to any man, until a deadly band of comancheros rode onto her ranch. Their leader, the tall, powerful half-breed, Shadow Hawk Quinn, coolly informed h...
Driven by fierce patriotism to England, the Marquess of Haverstock will do anything to reclaim the money his best friend lost at cards, money that was to purchase battle plans from a French official. The bewitchingly beautiful but illegitimate Anna D...
Bianca degli Albizzi was outraged when Cristiano de Medici asked for her hand in marriage. For the treacherous de Medicis had long been her family's sworn enemies. But even after Cristiano received the blessing of Bianca's father, who was intent on u...
A GENTLE BEAUTY When her father died, leaving her alone with her ailing mother, Anna Woodleigh envisioned a life of bard work and precious little security. She never imagined an offer of help--and certainly not from such an unexpected patron. Dash...
Lady Jane Hamilton was snooping in her father's library-and she wasn't the least ashamed of it. To find her missing sister Cassandra, she would break into Westminster Palace if she had to. She never expected to find charismatic Robert Reed, the man s...
The story of a lifetime Newspaper writer Maggie O'Shea had always dreamed of writing a thrilling Western novel and when she saw the clipping about famous gunslinger Ethan King, she knew she'd found the perfect inspiration for her book. Yet when she ...
HER LIFE WAS HER OWN... No one told Eden Roberts what to do on the stern-wheeler she captained up and down the Cumberland River out of Nashville. It was her parents' only legacy; her only livelihood -- and she couldn't allow the war between ...
WAR DIVIDED THEM The daughter of staunch Loyalists, Sarah Lawrence couldn't refuse when her brother asked her to carry a message to the British, despite the danger. But when she was captured by Colonel Patrick Drake, the most infamous Patriot of...
A LEGACY SHE WOULD PROTECT Maria Chavez had never entirely trusted the Anglos -- and Jacob Trovers was no exception, even if he had been a good friend to her dead brother Rafe. Sharing Rafe's legacy, the great ranch Spanish Oaks, with the arrogant ...
SHE RISKED IT ALL... The Civil War bad taken Julette Travers's family, but she was determined never to lose her plantation. To save Twin Oaks, she became "Madame Bijou," a mysterious cardsharp on a Mississippi riverboat. Winning funds from naive gam...
Escaping an unwanted betrothal, Lady Philippe of Thornhurst set out for Scotland in search of her old friend Farrell, who was certain to give her aid. She soon found herself hostage to a powerful clan leader, the brother of the very man she sought. F...
Lady Henrietta Hadley would rather dare the unknown than marry the ancient Earl of Oster -- and America was certainly unknown! But to escape there, she had to elude her guardian, and joining a gypsy caravan seemed like the perfect means. Until Henrie...
With her father dead and the Union Army occupying Vicksburg, Elizabeth Benedict had to grow up quickly. Determined to hold onto her family home until her brother Jonathan returned from the war, she was stunned when long, tall Texan Jake Travers arriv...
An unlikely attraction - Determined to escape the glittering cage of Manhattan society, wealthy, sheltered Amanda Barkley made a daring decision: she would travel to Egypt and taste adventure for herself! Yet from the moment she encountered virile so...
MORE PRECIOUS THAN ANY JEWEL... Isabel Marchand had several reasons to wed Jeremy Quinn, the Marquis of Pearl, not the least of which was to retain custody of her orphaned nephews. It didn't matter to her that he had spent the last two years in ...
SHE WANTED A TEMPORARY MARRIAGE Her heart twice broken, Megan Kittridge had given up on love, but she refused to give up on the Circle K Ranch. Her grandfather's will stipulated that she needed a husband to keep it, so she would find one--temporaril...
1945: The war was over, and the families who lived in Magnolia Square could look forward to their men coming home and their lives returning to normal. But for some, the end of the war brought serious problems. Kate Voigt was at last able to marry Leo...
Heiress Sabrina Laibrooke was determined to marry for love or not at all-and certainly not to a suitor interested only in her money. Believing her independence was something to be savored, she was nevertheless grateful for assistance when American Da...
A DEVILISH DILEMMA Young, impetuous, and hopelessly in love, Leandra Sterling never imagined that Adam Lawton would join the war against Bonaparte--or that she would find herself carrying his child after he was gone. When her parents insisted on a h...
SHE VOWED NO MAN WOULD CLAIM HER... Lady Elsbeth wanted no part of marriage! Fleeing her uncle's keep with a chest of her dower coin, she believed Lambeth Abbey would be glad to offer sanctuary -- with her treasure as payment. Elsbeth never im...
A child had been stolen -- and only one man could save him. The assignment seemed straightforward: Track down the woman who had stolen the boy and return him to his father. But ChildFinders, Inc. had been duped, and Ben Underwood soon discovered ...
The only thing that mattered to Nora Jamieson was the Colorado ranch her parents had built with love and laughter - and now that her mother was dead, there was nothing to stop Nora's unscrupulous stepfather, Judge Cunningham, from taking it away from...