news blues 3/2008 ISBN: 9780505527493 Tune In All 27 year-old Maddy Madison wants is a cute guy, a designer handbag and to work at Newsline. What she has is a dead-end job at News 9 San Diego, a psycho boss and a counterfeit Kate Spade. One with a badly glued-on label. Oh, and no guy. Turn on Just when Maddy's sure her days of producing sensationalistic puff pieces will never end ("Perilous Pets!" "Deadly Dishwashers!" " Clay that Kills!") she's offered a promotion. She's now an investigative producer—and that's not all; she's also partnered with the station's newest photographer: sexy, motorcycle-riding bad boy and form moviemaker Jamie Hayes. But every silver cloud has a stormy lining. Her new job is with News 9 narcissistic anchor, Terrance Toller; Jamie's getting married (not to her); and reporting the truth is about as easy as watching your divorced parents get remarried (not to each other) Take Off So, how does Maddy get to produce real news, bag her boss and win her man? Stay turned. It's the story of a lifetime. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
WHAT? NO ROSES? 7/2006 ISBN: 0505526751 Unless Dora Duncan can stop it, it’s going to be another St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. A year ago, her (now ex) boyfriend Nick stood her up at the worst possible moment. That was when she gave up important TV reporting for stories like “Too Stressed for Sex.” And though such clips have a certain relevance, things have been a whole lot quieter. Too quiet. Until now. Now she’s gotta go back in time (don’t ask!) and stop that very same Nick from messing up the time-space continuum. She has to travel back to a place where everybody speaks easy and cuts a rug—and this Chicago ain’t no musical. Here, there are tommy guns and torpedoes, guys and dolls, gin joints, flappers, stoolies, rats and a whole lot more; and prohibition means anything but no. It’s the 1920s. Time for Dora to roar. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
ANYTHING, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME 3/2004 mission of the utmost secrecy. A country torn apart by war. A man with his defenses crumbling. With one week to complete a top-secret mission, Major Jack "Cobra" Korba did not need emotional distractions. But when flight surgeon Monica Hyatt, his estranged ex-lover, was added to his team, the sensitive assignment suddenly became all-too personal.... With two sisters trapped behind enemy lines, Monica maneuvered herself onto Jack's flight crew, determined to rescue her loved ones while keeping her desire for Jack safely in check....Yet on the brink of the most dangerous task either had ever faced, their passions led to an explosive encounter.With three words still left unsaid and time of the essence, would Jack, Monica, and all those embroiled in the battle to save innocent lives, find a way to complete their duty before all hell finally broke loose?
THE CINDERELLA MISSION 2/2003 ISBN: 0373272723 Millionaire Ethan Williams risks his life daily as a CIA agent to save innocent lives. And they don't come any more innocent than Kelly Taylor, his longtime friend and new partner on a mission to intercept jewel thieves with information on the whereabouts of a missing agent. Ethan has his doubts about working with Kelly until he watches her, the sweet girl next door, transform herself into a seductive siren capable of conquering any man she wants - and she wants Ethan....But this mission means more than finding a missing agent. Ethan has spent his life searching for his parents' killers, but the answers are closer than he thinks. In a dangerous gamble, Ethan must choose: Would he rather fulfill his need to know his past, or protect Kelly, the woman who could be his future?
GRAYSON'S SURRENDER 9/2002 ISBN: 0373272456 Flight Surgeon Grayson Clark and NGO worker Lori Rutledge shared a passionate summer full of promise and ultimately heartbreak. After his turbulent childhood, Grayson knows well he's ill-equipped to offer Lori the security she craves. But Grayson can't escape Lori's allure when they're paired on a military rescue operation to an overseas orphanage. When one heart-tugging orphan charms her way into Lori's life and Grayson's heart, Lori and Grayson discover a new understanding of family - and a free-falling surrender to love.
PRIVATE MANUEVERS 6/2003 ISBN: 0373272960 A woman with everything to prove....C-17 copilot Darcy Renshaw wants a piece of the war-zone action like the rest of her Air Force family. Instead she's stuck hauling a brooding marine biologist and his animals to Guam. Kidnapped as a child from her overseas base home, Darcy has since been stifled by her overprotective General father. Once again, she's been shuffled into a peacetime mission and away from the action. Or so she thinks until she meets....A loner with nothing left to lose... CIA Agent Max Keagan needs a low profile, military airlift to a South Pacific island. He doesn't need First Lieutenant Darcy Renshaw blowing his cover and bringing chaos into his top secret Naval Marine Program. Tapping into the oceanic communications cables will finally reveal the agency traitor who murdered Max's diving partner - his lover carrying his unborn child. Even three years after the loss, Max prefers his solo existence. All the same, he can't suppress the urge to protect one reckless lady pilot. Soon, Darcy finds more turmoil than she bargained for in Max's arms and at the hands of an assassin who won't rest until Max once again loses everything. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
STRATEGIC ENGAGEMENT 11/2003 ISBN: 0373273274 Air Force Captain Daniel Baker would do anything necessary to smuggle his orphaned half brothers out of a Middle Eastern country poised on the brink of war. He didn't need to pilot the additional, reluctant cargo of their tempting teacher - his ex-fiancee, Mary Elise McRae. Mary Elise wanted no part of returning to the States, and wanted even less to do with the hotshot pilot who broke her heart years ago. Not that she had any choice but to leave the embassy with her young charges when they were in danger. Now she could no longer hide from the threat of a stalker waiting for her back home.... RR@H's Novel Thoughts
TAKING COVER 11/2002 ISBN: 037327257X Battle lines are drawn when Flight Surgeon Kathleen O'Connell temporarily grounds Captain Tanner Bennett from flying combat. No way does Tanner plan to watch his crew from the sidelines. Not that he has a choice, thanks to by-the-rules Kathleen and his ground duty assignment to investigate a crash. When Kathleen is teamed with him in the investigation, they're both diving for cover as they battle an attraction ready to detonate!
UNDER SIEGE 1/2003 ISBN: 0373272685 To the Air Force, Lt. Col. Zach Dawson was a dress blue bona fide hero, complete with medals and behind-enemy-lines battle scars.But a hero didn't allow an airman's pregnant wife to become a widow on his watch.And a hero didn't command combat squadrons yet lack control over two daughters desperately in need of maternal love. To heck with heroes. Zach the man and father knew exactly what needed to happen. Julia Sinclair would become his bride-of-convenience, her baby and his girls gaining a parent in the bargain. But having Julia under his roof put Zach's reputed restraint under siege. Because honoring their hands-off, no-hearts arrangement was a mission he simply couldn't accomplish...
WEDDING AT WHITE SANDS 6/2002 ISBN: 0373272286 Private Investigator Allie St. James needs the case of the century to pay her bills. She doesn't need a seven year old client who claims someone's trying to kill his father. Falling victim to the child's gap-toothed smile, Allie investigates, landing her at a corrupt Florida Keys resort and into a mock marriage with the boy's uptight, hunkish father. Entrepreneur Jake Larson lost his wife in a car accident that left him with injuries ending his career as an agent for the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations. When White Sands Resort scams his parents, Jake readily agrees to assist state police in their investigation - a chance to recapture his lost dream of days as an agent. The last thing Jake needs is a hot female private eye disrupting his case, not to mention his very peace of mind!