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Sabrah Huff Agee
FOR THE LOVE OF ANNIE 8/2002 Frontier In one fell swoop, Sheriff Cooper Mathews' life abruptly changes from that of a freewheeling bachelor to the single parent of a baby girl named Annie. Reeling from shock, Cooper at first thinks it best to find a family to raise the child. But by the time such a family is found, the Sheriff has fallen in love with the blonde, blue-eyed pixie. Though not a child of his blood, Annie is the child of his heart. Meanwhile, as he lay dying, Willie Markham confesses to his spinster sister, Mary Louise, that he has an illegitimate child. Upon learning this, Mary Louise is determined to find mother and child and bring them to the family's plantation near Memphis, Tennessee. After several months of searching, Mary Louise learns that her niece's mother has succumbed in the yellow fever epidemic that killed Willie, and that the child is in Alabama. Certain that the child's guardian will be happy to give up the responsibility of a child not his own flesh and blood, Mary Louise travels to Alabama to retrieve her niece. But once there she discovers that her plan is not going to be as simple as she'd believed. What follows is a custody battle between two equally headstrong contenders. Each struggles to deny an undeniable attraction for the other, as they vie . . . For The Love of Annie.
Denise A. Agnew
MIDNIGHT ROSE 8/2002
Cornelia Amiri
 THE FOX PRINCE 1/2002 ISBN:1587492695 In the year recorded in the Saxon chronicles as 449 AD, sixteen-year-old Prince Tryffin leads a band of warriors home after their first battle with the Saxons. They are filled with blood lust when Saxons (ten-year-old Aelfrida, her mother, and father) cross their path. The band slays her parents and she takes to the woods.When they meet again, seven years later, Tryffin's guilt turns to love for the silvery-haired beauty. Then Aelfrida's foster father attacks the prince. Tryffin spares the man's life for Aelfrida's hand in marriage. When she marries Tryffin to save her foster father's life, her plans to avenge her mother and father must be delayed. As her trust for Tryffin builds, Aelfrida must choose again and again between vengeance or love.
Jennifer Apodaca
THE OUTLAW SEDUCTION 2001 ISBN: 1586972359 Frontier
Marthe Arends
THE LION'S SHADOW 2000 ISBN: 1929613032 Victorian
Scottie Barrett
MOSS ROSE Colonial ISBN: 1586083058 For Jensen Marlowe, alias Duff Hawthorne, there is one thing she wants above all else, her freedom.Playing a traitorous game, she keeps tucked away in her silver music box, strategic military information that could save her uncle's life or send her to the gallows. Using trickery to achieve her end, Jensen boards a boat headed for Virginia. Her actions are not completely selfless, though. Likening Brant Mansfield to a noose around her neck, she is relieved to have an ocean separating her from her betrothed. As the Bordeaux Merchant drops anchor in Chesapeake Bay, freedom is nearly in her grasp . . . but theres a six-foot, four-inch snag in her plans. Levi North lives his life in two worlds. With a preternatural talent for Indian warfare tactics he has earned a captain's rank in the Virginia militia and the nickname Hawk. As a thriving, tobacco planter he is intent on establishing a superior stable for his estate, Moss Rose and guarantees passage for an expert horseman from England. Retrieving his new hireling in Chesapeake, he finds he's been duped. He's not about to let the charming little scoundrel off easily and binds her to him with a contract of indenture. Hed sworn he would never trade a mans freedom for profit. His principles, though, are no match for his desire to possess his newest employee.
Robin Bayne
CHARITY'S PRISONER 10/2001
THE WILL OF TIME 1/2000 Time Travel, Civil War. ISBN: 1891020846 Leia McGarland is only thirty days from losing her home. . unless she marries within the month to meet the terms of her grandfather's will. Trapped in 1863. . .after slipping through a time portal in her cellar, Leia meets Brant Douglas, a Union soldier with a hidden agenda. Could the McGarland home's portal to the future be the final stop for slaves traveling the underground railroad? The more she learns about Brant's secret, the further Leia falls for him. If only she could fall back to the twentieth century, with Brant as her husband, but is that the will of time?
Charlotte Bennett
THE LAST DAYS OF A RAKE 2002 ISBN: 1894709322 Regency.
TIME OUT OF MIND 2001 Time Travel, Regency
Shannah Biondine
IMPASSIONED STRANGER Frontier ISBN: 1586082744 Unlike older brother Rafe Conley, Travis has no interest in danger and excitement. He's got roots, his own cattle spread, a steady gal he's courting, his future all mapped out. Then one eventful afternoon he finds himself pursued by two women eager to march him to the altar. How could one little gal bring so much trouble? Lucia Montessano didn't come looking for turmoil. It just seems to find her. Maybe because she doesn't understand English very well, let alone the peculiar customs and sayings of the wild frontier. Yet she won't be daunted, for she's a girl on a mission to fulfill a sacred promise. And Travis Conley is just the man to help her do it. Enmeshed in a range war, touched off by religious differences and social bigotry, Travis must test his own convictions. Forced to choose, will he embrace passion or power? Will he rue the day he ever met his beautiful and Impassioned Stranger?
IMPASSIONED VAGABOND 5/2000 Frontier ISBN: 1586080679 She's the pretty young fortune teller who reads tarot cards at Wichita's Scarlet Lady saloon. He's a freelance gun with a deadly reputation. When Sparkle LaFleur asks Rafe Conley to pose as her husband one afternoon, she never imagines the harmless hoax will take on a life of its own. . . .or that she'll be kidnapped by outlaws and drawn into Rafe's dark and deadly world. Rafe never pictured himself settling down. He knows it's not a rocking chair on the front porch awaiting him some day, but a bullet. He doesn't care, as long as he lives long enough to settle an old score with his own brand of frontier justice. Caught up in a vicious cycle of violence, betrayal, and retribution, Rafe and Sparkle must each defeat the demons of the past and summon the courage to build a future together. But is love truly powerful enough to silence a six gun?
Jaid Black
GOD OF FIRE 12/2000 Time Travel, Viking
WARLORD 3/2001 Time Travel, Medieval
Bleser - Childers - Delisi - Techler
HOLIDAY HEARTS 2001 ISBN: 1584954817
Geri Borcz
DEVIL'S KNIGHT 6/1999 Medieval. ISBN: 1891020625 Juliana of Stanmore is strong-willed, fiercely loyal, and a widow. She intends to choose her next husband, but it's a feat easier said than done when neighbor Rhys Monteux clashes with her brother over the land that is her dowry. Juliana's brother hates Rhys, would scheme with the devil to see him thwarted or better yet, dead, and he counts on Juliana's fidelity to see his scheme to fruition. When a feud erupts between their two houses, Juliana's hand in marriage is at its center, her brother's hatred pitting her sense of family loyalty against her own heart.
Barbara Donlan Bradley
A PORTRAIT IN TIME 1/2003 ISBN: 1582006571 (Time Travel) Trey Dalton is having a very bad day. Someone is trying to destroy his plantation, his mettlesome aunt has come to visit, and some strange woman has appeared on his doorstep spouting some nonsense about coming from the future. Alexandra Tibideaux's day isn't any better. After racing from California to New Orleans because of an urgent message from her grandmother, Alex learns that all Grams wanted was to tour an old plantation, where Alex finds an exact likeness of herself. When curiosity causes her to touch the portrait, she finds herself trapped in the past with a man who is far too cute and too pig-headed for her taste.
Irene Brand
FEUD AT CRAIGIEVAR CASTLE 1999 ISBN: 1928602061 Civil War
Lucinda Brant
A DEADLY ENGAGEMENT e-book ISBN: 158608135 It's 1763 and career diplomat Alec Halsey returns to London to the shocking news his estranged elder brother, the Earl of Delvin, has not only killed his best friend in a duel, but become engaged to the woman Alec had hoped to marry. The dead man's mother is convinced her son was murdered and wants Alec to prove it. Alec reluctantly attends a weekend house party to celebrate his brother's engagement, hoping to learn more about the suspect duel, when the house guests get more than they bargained for. A lady's maid is murdered, the bride-to-be is attacked, and a house guest is found shot dead in the shrubbery. Alec's investigations uncover a connection between these sinister acts, his brother's duel, a recently raided male brothel, and the wrongful hanging of a master apothecary. Alec is also forced to confront a cruel twist of fate that explains why his brother loathes him and will go to any lengths to discredit him in Polite Society.
A MIDNIGHT MARRIAGE 2-3/2004 Twelve year old Deborah Cavendish is married off at midnight to the fifteen year old son and heir of the sinister Duke of Roxton, who is then exiled thereafter for an unpardonable indiscretion. Nine years later, Deb is living a peaceful existence in the spa town of Bath, unaware that the disturbing dream she had as a child is in truth reality and that she is married to Julian, Marquis of Alston. When Deb rescues, and falls in love with, a wounded duelist she has no idea that Julian Hesham, the handsome stranger with the emerald green eyes who sweeps her off her feet, is in truth her husband. After the honeymoon Deb discovers the appalling truth and that the Marquis of Alston is wanted by the French authorities for seducing the innocent daughter of a Farmer-General with the promise of marriage. But can the handsome stranger with whom Deb spent nine wonderful weeks truly be one and the same as the nobleman Polite Society has branded a rakehell beyond redemption... RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Vickie Britten (w/Loretta Jackson)
THE VIKING CROWN Victorian ISBN: 1891020978 Carriage broken down in an isolated area of Central America, abandoned by her guide and surrounded by bandits, Marta Swan appeals to handsome Ramon Santiago for rescue. A swift ride on horseback takes them to a remote castle nestled in the moun-tains, where Marta is welcomed by Ramon's employer, an enigmatic, red-bearded man known throughout the region as the Viking. Marta is shocked and terrified to discover the Viking is a madman who believes her to be the reincarnation of a lost prin-cess. The Viking possesses great treasure, a golden crown and an ancient medallion, which men are seeking and will kill to own. Everything depends upon Marta's finding her archaeologist co-worker, Alan Avery, who has because of their work ventured into Honduras and has vanished into the jungle. But Ramon, who Marta now realizes is acting as her personal bodyguard, will not allow her to escape.
Barri Bryan
AFTER THE ALAMO Frontier and Victorian ISBN: 1586080024 In 1837, scarcely a year after the fall of the Alamo, a shotgun blast shatters Marisa Perez's life, taking her father and leaving her with a host of problems: A dangerous secret, an ongoing family feud, a pursuing villain, and an overbearing aunt. And much to her dismay, she has also inherited a new business partner. Sean Flanagan is a rogue and a renegade possessed of too much charm and too few scruples. Gunfighter, fugitive, runner of contraband--he is not the kind of man an innocent eighteen-year old girl should trust with her general store or her heart, and Marisa finds herself tempted to do both...
A SINGLE THREAD Frontier and Turn of the Century ISBN: 1586081446 The year is 1907, a time of political unrest and social upheaval in Texas. Emma McBride's brother is dying but before he goes he intends to see Emma safely married to rancher and emerging political figure, Mike Donovan. The marriage is arranged, then scandal erupts. Is Emma's handsome bridegroom a knight-in-shining-armor or a rogue and a scoundrel?
Jewelann Butler
SELENA'S SEDUCTION 2001 ISBN: 1587490633 Victorian
Christine Charles
HEART'S BOUNTY 1/1998 ISBN: 1582000018 Civil War and Frontier
Robyn Chawner
ONE LAST KISS 2000 Victorian
Childers-Mallory-Toombs-Wiesner
MISTLETOE MARRIAGES 1999 Regency and Frontier
Leslie Chilton
THUNDER AT RED MOUNTAIN Frontier and 1930's ISBN: 1891020307 In 1932, youthful MGM stars Len Chambers and Susan Allison destroy each other's blossoming careers as stars. Fifteen years later, in 1948, these two old enemies unwillingly come together to film a "B" western. On a far-flung location, old animosities swiftly die and passion ignites between old enemies in a time when old and new Hollywood existed side by side.
Linda Ciletti
DRAEGON'S LAIR 9/2000 ISBN:1892520435 Medieval Given in betrothal to the merciless Bastion of Worthingshire, Alys de Monceux runs to save herself from further abuse and to protect the secret that she carries. But when she finds herself wounded and without memory in the keep of a man who dares not show his face, will she find the peace and love her heart desires? Or will this strange and foreboding lord return her to the man she fears? Draegon of Greystone stays hid beneath hood and helm, concealing a face he is sure others will fear. Content to live in a world of shadows, his secure existence is suddenly threatened when he rescues Alys from her pursuer, the murderous Knighthawk (Bastion of Worthingshire). But can Draegon save Alys without endangering the lives of his people when Bastion's powerful army tracks her to the small demesne of Greystone? And can a love he never dreamt possible give Draegon the strength to fight against a foe determined to destroy them both?
Barbara Clemens
LOVE'S MASQUERADE 7/2003 ISBN:1594310572 Victorian. Oil has been discovered in Franklin, Pennsylvanial and it is as big a strike as the gold in California. The year is 1859 and a war lingers on the horizon, but those in Franklin, Pennsylvania, are more interested in making their fortunes in oil, than they are in fighting a war. Alyse Brogan is the daughter of the richest banker in Philadelphia. She is engaged to David Haines, a man twice her age and a close friend of her father's. He is the second richest banker in Philadelphia and will stop at nothingeven murderto own Alyse and her father's bank. Robért Dumont is the son of a Count and a notorious madam. He has fallen in love with Alyse, but only after he has put an end to David Haines' hold on the Brogan Family, can he claim her for his own. Alyse meets Robért in Paris at her grandmother's coming out masquerade. He will not tell her who he is, only that he is at the party uninvited and that he is an imitation count. When the ball is over he disappears, and Alyse knows she has lost her heart forever to a man with steel grey eyes behind a sequined mask. Going home to Philadelphia, Alyse breaks off her engagement and accepts a position as a teacher in Franklin, Pennsylvania, where she and Robért once again meet, and although he feels familiar, it takes her looking into his eyes to know who he is; but it is his masquerade and he is going by a different name, Bud O'Rourke.
Lynne Connolly
HARLEY STREET ISBN:1591051614 2/2004 "Harley Street" is the fourth in the Richard and Rose series by Lynne Connolly, set in mid Georgian times. Richard and Rose Kerre, Lord and Lady Strang, return from their honeymoon in Venice to prepare for Rose's debut in society. While visiting her aunt, Rose finds herself in the middle of a scandal, when the body of a maid is discovered. With the help of the staff agency they own, Thompsons, Richard and Rose try to solve the murder, but uncover more than they expected - including a dark secret from Richard's past, a secret so dark even he was unaware of it. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Dorothy Compton
HONORABLE INTENTIONS 2002 Regency
Janet Cooper
DREAMS OF YESTERDAY Colonial. ISBN: 1891020315 Sarah Tawes, a museum director from the 20th Century, enters an old tavern and is transported to 1777. There she meets Silver Wolf, a Lenape trying to maintain his culture and the lives of his people and challenges his beliefs about the white man. In the process of avenging his father's death, Silver Wolf becomes a wanted man--hunted by the British. Skills Sarah has learned in her own time can help the Lenape, but if she uses them her unexplained sojourn into the past will be discovered. Can she trust even this man who comes to hold her heart? If she does not offer him aid, will Sarah condemn him to death?
MOONCUSSERS Georgian ISBN: 1891020935 Cape May, New Jersey 1792 Amanda Browne Stewart, a widow with a six-year-old child, lives with her father, a doctor in a small town at the southern tip of the state. Amanda, whose husband died while illegally impressed by the British, hates anything, connected with the Royal Navy. She devotes her life to caring for her small family and assisting her father with his patients. Zachariah Addams, a member of the newly formed Marine Revenue Service (present day Coast Guard), washes ashore near Amandas home wearing the coatee of a British naval captain. Amanda quickly realizes that the shipwreck that brought this man ashore is not an act of nature. The Mooncussers, a local band of wreckers, has struck again. Should she save the British officer who might return her kindness by kidnapping more American men for the Royal Navy? Or allow the sea to reclaim him and take him to his death?
Kay Cornelious
SIGN OF THE BOW Frontier ISBN: 1586081357 When Joshua Stone returns to Preacher Creek to warn the small community in the frontier wilds that the French are inciting the Indians to raid on settlers, Sarah Craighead is stunned. The Clan of the Bow, the friendly Delaware tribe who live nearby are the only Indians she has ever known. The Chief's children, Bel-a-ka and her twin brother, Tel-a-ka have been her only friends. Soon afterwards, however, Sarah is captured by a raiding band of Seneca and finds that it is the strength of her faith that protects her in the trials she must endure as she travels over dangerous terrain. Joshua falls in love with Sarah, but fears her friendship with Tel-a-ka goes beyond friendship. He is torn between his obligations and the fear that leaving Sarah will mean losing her to Tel-a-ka.
SIGN OF THE DOVE ISBN: 1586081500 With the men returning at last from the war, romance is in the air and Hannah Scott yearns to attract Clay Scotts attention. But it isnt just the boys whove returned home. Nate McIntyre, the handsome Scottish Highlander Hannah has always thought of as Uncle Nate, has returned, as well
and he, too, has courting on his mind. The problem is, his position as family friend has put him at a disadvantage as well as advantage. Hannah looks upon him as her fathers friend, dearly loved, but not as a woman looks upon a mate. Can he woo her away from the young soldier whos caught her eye?
SIGN OF THE EAGLE Colonial ISBN: 1586081497 Captured by the Senecca as a small child, Adam Craighead is now a devout young man, who looks to God in his struggle to find the answers to his future. Finding himself in Philadelphia, a city filled with divided loyalties on the eve of the war for Independence, Adam meets Mary Andrews, who almost immediately steals his heart. Mary is bright, kind and sees a future of promise in Adam. Yet, they are caught up in the historic events around them, torn apart and each must struggle with their feelings for each other and try to understand the paths that God has chosen for them.
SIGN OF THE SPIRIT ISBN: 1586081535 After an Indian raid in Kentucky leaves Susannah McKay Campbell widowed, she decides to return to her mother's people in North Carolina. Half white, half Indian, Susannah stands between two worlds. She has been raised by the Indians, but wed a white man.....only to be widowed when she has found a man to love and a place for herself. In her attempt to return to North Carolina, however, she is rescued by a 'white Indian' and learns to love again.
Renee Coy
NEW ORLEANS FIRE Pre-Civil War ISBN: 1586080229 From the lush plantation country near Charleston, to the sultry bayous of Louisiana. . .Near Charleston, an innocent young woman and her baby die, thrusting her brother into a relentless quest for revenge. Dark and devilishly handsome, Rafe Hamilton is a man haunted by the demons of the past and driven by his desires. Winston Keeling, as fair as Rafe is dark, possesses a charm that could sweep even a sensible young woman off her feet. . .And in the fresh stomping grounds of New Orleans, he spies new prey. Eliza Fontaine is a beautiful, headstrong young woman who is unaware that her life is about to be turned upside down. One man will try to destroy her. The other will draw her into an all consuming passion. . .
Deb Crockett
NATCHEZ (through http://scheherazadetales.com) Natchez, Mississippi 1853.....Riverboats, gamblers, saloons, scoundrels and rogues abound in this fast-paced historical romantic adventure. A penniless young woman must learn to survive by her wits, solve a murder mystery and find true love along the way!
Patricia Crossley
JOURNEY'S END Time Travel. Renaissance. ISBN: 1586081667 As she makes ready to leave London at the end of the twentieth century in order to fulfill her dream of practicing medicine in the third world, Dr. Kari Lunne and her dog are catapulted four hundred years into the past. . .Can a doctor from the twentieth century find love and happiness with a maverick historian from the future when they meet in Tudor England?
Pamela Cummings
AN AFFAIR OF HONOR ISBN: 1592790321 Civil War Rebel spy Raleigh Gilmore arrives in Boston on a secret mission for the Confederacy. Falling in love with a beautiful Yankee lady endangers his plans and his life, but his heart has embarked on a mission of its own, seeking nothing less than unconditional surrender. Boston businesswoman Lydia Appleton wants an office assistant, not a handsome charmer who will steal her heart away. Can she trust the Southern gentleman who turns her life upside down?
MY REBEL BELLE 5/2001 ISBN 1592790135 Civil War taunch rebel Marabelle Talbot proudly supports the Confederacy. Boston aristocrat and Union Major Leander Cabot Brooks falls wounded on her doorstep, and Mara pitches into a whirlwind of emotions when her family nurses the Yankee back to health. Caught between the love of an enemy officer and duty to the rebel soldier she's promised to, Marabelle struggles to keep her family plantation intact as Confederate and Union armies determine the fate of the nation. As the war progresses, the Union officer, sent to defeat the South, proves loyal and true to Marabelle. Despite his hatred of the rebels who are trying to destroy his country, Lee Brooks is helpless to prevent the capture of his heart by the beautiful and fiesty Marabelle. Can a rebel lady and a Yankee officer overcome their hatred for each other's causes and unite in love as the war-torn country tries to reconstruct itself? Will they even survive the war? Only two very strong and determined lovers can surmount the obstacles keeping them apart.
THE OLD MAID AND THE SEA 5/2003 ISBN: 1592790569 Pirate. Marie Cabot, daughter of a wealthy Boston family, has had enough of money-grasping, faithless suitors and decides to renounce men and marriage and live a life of freedom as a woman of independence. If only she weren't young and beautiful, people might believe her desire to become an old maid. Tired of dodging husband-hunting debutantes and with a broken heart of his own, Lieutenant John Appleton wants nothing to do with society ladies. But when duty calls on John and his Navy frigate to rescue Marie from a pirate attack in the Mediterranean Sea and return her to the States, neither one foresees a romance on the high seas.
Beth Dunman Daigre
SACKCLOTH AND SILK Frontier ISBN: 1586082736 Abandoned as a child and destitute, Cassandra Vann travels to Denver with her younger brother, in search of her mother's family. When she arrives, she finds not only a city beyond anything she'd ever known but the brutality of the boxing world, the friendship of one of its leading madams, and the love of one of its most notorious playboys. She soon finds herself caught between two men: one sinfully charming, the secondhis brother. Park Farrington lives for the moment - a fast lifestyle, fast women, and fast money. No woman can charm him into marriage - or so he thinks until he meets Cassandra Vann, a woman who works in the dining room in one of his hotels. He's puzzled as to why her innocent, homespun beauty enraptures him, for she has nothing he had ever wanted in women. . .As a member of the Farrington family, Reid loves his lofty status in society that his name provides. He is engaged to one of Denver's most prominent women, he has untold wealth, and he has little in common with his brother, except their name - that is until meets Cassandra Vann. Inexplicably drawn to her, he wants her, and will do anything to have her. . .
TEMPEST Frontier ISBN: 1586081462 Their paths crossed in a shadowy alley. He's running from the law. She's fleeing from an abusive uncle. Both have bounties on their heads. Their only chance for survival is to forge an uneasy alliance and make a wild ride into the newly opened Oklahoma Territory where they plan to part company. Little did they realize, however, that they could not escape the tempestuous love growing between them. . .
Marjorie Daniels
THROUGH SERENA'S EYES 8/2000 Regency
Jewel Dartt
FIRST LOVE, LAST LOVE 3/2003 ISBN: 1592790445 Victorian.The year is 1850, and after a five-year absence, Dr. Brendon Morgan has returned to his hometown, Clayton, Missouri, to establish his medical practice. Brendon wants nothing more than to escape the harsh grim reality of big city life and return to the tranquil countryside he loved in his youth. However, imagine his surprise, when shortly after his arrival, he finds himself falling in love with his childhood friend, Kathleen Warner. A childhood friendship that is growing/changing into a love that burns brighter than the noontime sun. A love he never expected, and is not sure he wants. What if it doesn't work out and he loses his best friend? The risk is high, but he cant help following his heart. But then strange, unexplainable, incidents begin to occur, and Brendon becomes convinced that someone is trying to kill Kat...but who? And why? A madman bent on revenge threatens their bright new love and danger lurks everywhere as they search for the answers.
Deni Dietz
PROMISES TO KEEP 4/1998 ISBN: 1582000158 Frontier
Lori Donovan
RETURN TO ME ISBN: 1931761558 She changed history to save him
Playwright Ciara Sullivan is about to pen a new ending to a pair of historical murders. While researching the deaths of nineteenth century actress, Maeve Blackwell, and her coal baron son, Mac, she finds herself much closer to her subjects than she ever imagined. Arriving in the past just moments before Mac's death, Ciara saves his life. Suddenly her play about murder and deception has a new plot twist - romance. He opened his heart to the enemy
Mac Blackwell never imagined he'd owe his life to a woman. In fact, he's spent the better part of his thirty-seven years avoiding the gender all together. Common sense tells him Ciara's mysterious appearance points to a Molly Maguire conspiracy. So why is he making a place for her in his home, exposing his family and his heart to certain treachery? And why is he so perilously close to breaking his cardinal rule-never fall in love?
Diane Drew
MY CAPTAIN JACK 1999 ISBN: 1573430013
Jac Eddins
NOT THE MARRYIN' KIND 3/2002 ISBN: 1588730786 Frontier
Irene Estep
CALAMATY CLARESTA Regency ISBN: 1586081551 No stranger to adversity and scandal, Miss Claresta Huntington knew a marriage of convenience--the sort she'd decided to pursue--would involve both. But with only two months to fulfill her obligations, what choice did she have? Dubbed a calamity by former suitors and shunned by the Ton for her connections to Trade, Claresta has found herself in the position of having to find a husband or lose her inheritance. To lure Drake Lockwood - new Earl of Norwood, and newly arrived from America - into the parson's mousetrap, she strikes a bargain she cannot possibly fulfill.
Jo Ann Ferguson
AT THE RAINBOWS END Frontier ISBN: 1586080628 Samantha Perry is desperate to get away from her horrible life, so she accepts a proposal from a man she has been writing to in the Yukon where he is looking for gold. She believes Joel Houseman could be the man of her dreams. . .or at least the way to escape her nightmare. But her nightmare has just begun when she arrives in the far north to discover that the man of her dreams is not whom she expected. Joel has a heart as cold as a Yukon winter. His many secrets he will not share, and he has reasons to make her his bride that have nothing to do with love. Has she traded one horrible situation for another, or can she believe that a heart that has been broken so many times can be healed by an impossible love?
MARIEL ISBN: 1586080059 Clinging to her strength and her dignity, Lady Mariel Wythe was standing sadly, silently amid the ashes of her ancestral home, Foxbridge Cloister, when the handsome young minister, Reverend Ian Beckwith-Carter first saw her. He was sure he'd never beheld a more beautiful sight, and beyond that, that the woman possessed a courage that was as extraordinary as her beauty. Threatening shadows still lingered among the ruins of the Cloister, however. Madness had woven itself into the Wythe clan. The mysterious fire was only the first link of a chain of unsettling events surrounding the estate and Ian was determined to learn the truth. He would protect Mariel, free her from the past...........
NOTHING WAGERED Frontier ISBN: 1586080571 If there is gold in them thar hills, it is not there for Lizzie Buchanan and her family. Her sister and brother-in-law have died trying to get rich in California, leaving Lizzie with her two young nephews. Lizzie wants to go home to Kentucky, so the boys can have a decent life far from the gold-mining towns. To do that, she needs a few lies and the help of a man who broke her young heart. Cliff Hollister works hard bringing dreamers west on wagon trains, so he does not want to clutter up his life with Lizzie and her kids. But when she offers to pay well and shows him her skill with cards that could gain him even more gold, he agrees. What he wont admit, even to himself, is he is curious why, out of all the people he has brought west, the one he has never forgotten is pretty Lizzie.
REBECCA Rebecca ISBN: 1586080040 North is getting married today. . .or is she? A childish promise from five years before when she saved the life of an English soldier during the Revolutionary War comes back to haunt her. Who is this Nicholas Wythe, Lord Foxbridge, whom she promised to love and honor? She must discover the truth as they travel across the sea to England and Foxbridge Cloister and a world that is not ready for such a Lady Foxbridge. Maybe she and Nicholas can fall in love. . .for real this time, but not if the duplicity raging around them destroys them both first.
SYBIL Renaissance ISBN: 1891020609 When her father dies, Sybill Wythe is left with nothing but an invitation from his friend Lord Foxbridge to journey across England in 1588 to become his ward at Foxbridge Cloister. Her unease at accepting the invitation grows when she meets Trevor Breton, the lord's estate manager, a man too handsome for Sybill's good and who seems to hate her for reasons she cannot guess. Neither Sybill nor Trevor suspect the real reason why Lord Foxbridge has brought Sybill to the isolated estate and how easily love and hate can be confused. . .until it may be too late for innocent hearts.
TIMELESS SHADOWS 1/2000 Time Travel - Renaissance
UNDER THE OUTLAW MOON Frontier ISBN: 1586080687 K.T. Forrester loves her exciting life of riding free along the Montana hills, a life of larceny and camaraderie. But since her older brother was hanged as a train robber, she has been thinking of another life one like she dimly recalls from her childhood. But to get that life, she needs a few more payrolls from the trains rolling into Copper Peak, Montana. She never suspects that her rival for that money is the sheriff of Copper Peak, Jonah Bancroft. Jonah has reasons of his own for trying to steal the money, but his have to do with the past and the revenge he wants from Lyndon Flynn who owns the mines in Copper Peak. When K.T. becomes his captive, Jonah believes he has the way to obtain that vengeance. . .if he can just keep his mind on his goal instead of luring K.T. into enjoying a very private sort of excitement.
Kathy Fischer-Brown
WINTER FIRE 2002
Ellen Fisher
LOVE REMEMBERED 10/2003 ISBN:1586084194 Born into poverty in colonial Williamsburg, Gwaltney Harris has struggled all his life to acquire wealth, but all his money isn't enough to purchase the respectability he desires. Desperate for social status, he weds the shrewish but well-bred Cordelia Ashton. He gets more than he bargained for when he finds that Cordelia has concealed her warm, loving nature beneath a spinsterish exterior. Gwaltney, however, has secrets of his own, and he doesn't dare grow too close to Cordelia. Though they struggle against their feelings, they begin to fall in love, but can their relationship survive when a mysterious assailant who will stop at nothing tries to kill Gwaltney? RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Delores Fossen
UNBRIDLED 1999 ISBN: 1573430110 Frontier
Joan M. Fox
NEVER LET ME GO 11/2003 ISBN: 1590882172 Regency. In Regency England, an anniversary celebration, mischievous young wards, scheming marriage prospects, a vicious villain, and a persistent suitor are only a few impediments holding up Horatio Tallwood-Smythe’s “wedding of inconvenience” needed to secure his inherited title. Luckily, aristocratic friends, a pair of oldsters, and a Jack Russell terrier assist the burly viscount’s less-than-courtly wooing of a feisty bluestocking he nicknames “Lady Bountiful.” Unmarried, tall, and voluptuously endowed, Lady Bountiful, Anabel Satterley tries not to fall in love with the domineering, infuriating ex-soldier and forget him. Instead, she finds she’s done the opposite, and he and his wards are never out of her mind or heart. Who will get the better of two stubborn, strong-willed, unlikely lovers? RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Judith B. Glad
THE QUEEN OF CHERRY VALE ISBN: 1928670865 (e-book), ISBN: 1587491621 (print). Hattie Rommel yearns for a home. Emmet Lachlan wants no roots. Forced into a marriage of convenience, they strive together against illness, weather, and vicious renegades. Safe at last in Cherry Vale, their desire blossoms and grows. But will love prove strong enough to overcome his wanderlust?
ICE PRINCESS ISBN: 1587491273 (e-book) ISBN: 1587491664 (print). William wants Flower to be his woman and live with him in the wilderness where he will never be enslaved again. She only wants to travel to England, where she believes she will be safe from the lawless men on the frontier. Pursued by outlaws greedy for the raw gold they carry, Flower and William flee across desert and mountains in a desperate search for a refuge both safe and free.
THE DUCHESS OF OPHIR CREEK ISBN: 1587490633 (e-book) ISBN: 158749230X (print - available 7/02) Silas Dewitt hires Soomey, a Chinese boy, to help him recover a fortune he buried long ago. He soon discovers she is female--stubborn, devoted, lovely--and far too young for him. Soomey sets out to prove she is no child to this strong, decent man. She becomes his servant, his guardian, and, finally, his lover. When her life is threatened, will Silas realize she is more than lover, she is his heart?
NOBLE SAVAGE ISBN: 1587492091 (e-book) ISBN: 1587492091 (print - available 9/02) Katie Lachlan knows she can take care of herself better than anyone. Luke Savage has failed everyone who ever depended on him. When a too-persistent suitor stalks Katie, her family hires Luke to keep an eye on her as she travels across country on the new transcontinental railroad. The suitor attempts to kidnap Katie, so the pair strike off across wintry Wyoming on foot. Striving together against wilderness, gunfighters bent on retribution, and a frontier town on the brink of riot, they find their strength, their convictions, and their very love tested by adversity and danger.
THE ANONYMOUS AMANUENSIS ISBN: 1931696098 (e-book) ISBN: 193169690X (print) When Eve Dixon decides to make her own way in a mans world, she doesnt count on having to do it disguised as a young man. When James Quinton, misogynistic entrepreneur, hires a secretary, he doesnt expect to be attracted to hi
her. Eve discovers that her taciturn, solemn employer is a man she could easily fall in love with--if she were a woman. When her deception is revealed, Quinton is outraged--and intrigued. The outrage wins, and Eves future extends barren before her, with only memories of love in her heart. Will Quinton, who sees her as one more treacherous woman in his life, find forgiveness possible?
Marilyn Grall
CONQUEST OF THE HEART Medieval ISBN: 1891020684 He was a mercenary soldier who wanted nothing more than a hearth, home...and heirs. She was an heiress whose lands had been confiscated by William the Conqueror. In the tumultuous days following the Battle of Hastings, a young woman must face her destiny, a man the truths in his soul. Circumstances will force their marriage, but could love blossom from the ashes of war?
A SAXON'S LOVE Medieval ISBN: 1891020900 Ranulf of Ravenwood has come to reclaim his birthright, disguising himself as a lowly worker to bide his time and make his plans. Brenna de Rouen doesn't recognize the outlaw who'd changed her life forever three years earlier, but finds herself helplessly attracted to the man known as "Tinker." In the turbulent aftermath of the Norman Conquest, can star-crossed lovers defeat impossible odds and build a future together?
IN SEARCH OF AMANDA Pre-Civil War ISBN: 1891020323 Amanda Labreaux is living a nightmare. She has just been sold into slavery by her own half-brother. . .Transported against her will, the Cajun beauty must learn to survive the sultry, cruel world of Jamaican plantation life, answering to the name, "Fancy." Can she escape her fate? Can she return to Louisiana and defeat her half-brother? And most importantly...can she protect her tender heart from Jackson Carlyle, the man who calls her slave?
TAMING THE LION 8/1997 Medieval. ISBN: 1891020145 He was The Lion -- the most formidable knight in the earldom. Satisfied with his life, he had no intention of marrying, nor of leaving his rigorous soldiering profession. His overlord, however, had other ideas. She was Lady Alexandra of Larkspur -- young, lovely, and exceedingly willful. She knew she must marry, but The Lion would have been her last choice for a husband. Forced into a marriage neither wants, these unlikely lovers are destined to fight a spirited battle of wills. Now only one question remains . . . who will be taming whom?
Marilyn Granbeck
LORIELLE Victorian and China ISBN: 1586081594 China! The exciting city of Canton to which her father had summoned them filled Lorielle Temple with excitement and the hope that at last she might shake off the tight reins her mother kept on her. Refusing to believe the warnings of danger from the brash, handsome sailor who seemed out of place among the rough crewmen, she longed for adventure. Instead, she was swept into the rising rage over the illegal opium trade that threatened mens fortunes and flamed one mans greed which demanded Lorielle as his prize. Refusing to accept the destiny chosen for her by unscrupulous men, Lorielle defied her father and fled the city with the man she loved. But the impending war soon separated them, and she found herself torn between love, loyalties, and her own passion.
Bonnie Hamre
PROMISES ON THE WIND 12/1998 Time Travel-Frontier
Judith Harris
CHANGING SEASONS French Revolution and France ISBN: 1891020234 Danielle Dumont traveled to Normandy, France determined to identify a mysterious woman who had helped the eighteenth-century Marquis of Andelys, Alain Maximilien Grandmaison, and his son escape the terror of the French Revolution. But when an earthquake rocks the Grandmaison château, Professor Dumont finds herself flung from the present into the darkest days of the French Revolution and into the arms of the dashing, but suspicious, Alain. Believing Danielle to be one of Robespierre's agents, Alain decides to keep Danielle close until he can learn her mission. Danielle's only mission, however, is self-imposed. Given the chance of a lifetime, Danielle finds she is in a perfect position to solve the mystery that has brought her to France.
Megan Hart
AN EXALTATION OF LARKS ISBN #159088-08-6. Perion Marrett of Canticle has always found more pleasure in filling her mind than her dance card. Taking the crown,however, means she must take a husband. Many men have asked for her hand, but only one makes her heart beat faster. When a witch's miscast spell sends Sir Barrett Llewellyn to Cimmerian, home to the Dark Sorcerer Mason, Perion journeys to rescue her knight. Will she marry him, or will she give her heart to the man she fears the most, Mason de Cimmerian?
Michele Hauf
SEND ME AN ANGEL 2/2001 Time Travel -Georgian
Elaine Hopper
GAMBLE ON LOVE short story in SEASONS OF LOVE A story brimming with intense emotions as Jennifer Marie Profitt is recovering over the death of her mother. To answer a last deathbed wish of her mothers, she seeks out her aunt to deliver a letter. On her way to her aunt, she is involved in a car crash that transports her back to the year 1881. Having been rescued by handsome Zachariah 'Black Jack' Ray' she is puzzled at her purpose in this century.
Carole Howey
GIVE ME TONIGHT 1/2000 Frontier
Tia Isabella
AFTER THE STORM 2/2001 Time Travel. Medieval.
BEFORE THE FIRE 4/2001 Time Travel. Georgian and Far Future.
Kathy Ishcomer
ICE ANGEL 1/1999 ISBN: 1581242662 Old South-Riverboat
Loretta Jackson (w/Vickie Britten)
THE VIKING CROWN Victorian ISBN: 1891020978 Carriage broken down in an isolated area of Central America, abandoned by her guide and surrounded by bandits, Marta Swan appeals to handsome Ramon Santiago for rescue. A swift ride on horseback takes them to a remote castle nestled in the moun-tains, where Marta is welcomed by Ramon's employer, an enigmatic, red-bearded man known throughout the region as the Viking. Marta is shocked and terrified to discover the Viking is a madman who believes her to be the reincarnation of a lost prin-cess. The Viking possesses great treasure, a golden crown and an ancient medallion, which men are seeking and will kill to own. Everything depends upon Marta's finding her archaeologist co-worker, Alan Avery, who has because of their work ventured into Honduras and has vanished into the jungle. But Ramon, who Marta now realizes is acting as her personal bodyguard, will not allow her to escape.
Sherry-Anne Jacobs
PERSONS OF RANK 3/1999 ISBN: 1582000921 Regency
Pamela Johnson
CURSED COMES CHRISTMAS 11/2001 ISBN 1-59080-006-0 Paranormal/Time-travel. The Sinclairs and the MacLachlans will see their clans joined in peace on Christmas Day, but when Elizabeth bursts into her intended's chambers, she is shocked to find Ian in the arms of another. In a moment of blinding jealousy, her doubt sets the star-crossed lovers on a journey through time with a mission. They must correct the errors of fate by bringing three lost couples back together. Only when the quest is completed can Ian and Elizabeth be together again. Join Elizabeth and Ian as, through the centuries, they help Lucinda and Flynn, Maggie and Ryan, Chandra and Duncan, find the love they lost.
WHITE EAGLES LADY 6/2002 ISBN 159080113X Victorian Embarking on a journey to meet her father, Sarah Reynolds heads into the untamed lands of 1837 Georgia. She sets out, eager to take her new position as teacher for the white settlers who, according to her father, are living peacefully with the Cherokees on the land. Rescued from certain death by a bold Cherokee warrior, Sarah is thrust into the turmoil of the forced emigration of his people. Injured in the attack, White Eagle fights to survive while Sarah faces the hard facts of life. Thrown together by circumstances beyond their control, White Eagle and Sarah overcome betrayal and tragedy to find a love strong enough to bring two nations together.
Sheila Jordan
LAKOTA STAR 2001
Flora Kidd
TO HELL OR MELBOURNE ISBN: 1586081608 When his sweetheart, Louise, elopes with another man, Edwin Jackson is heart-broken. He sails to Liverpool, England to pursue his ambition to be a Master Mariner and to search for his missing brother Nathan. Julia Ashton is in love with his brother, so Edwin promises her he will find him. After sailing the world over, he tracks Nathan down in Melbourne, Australia. Its only then that he realizes that he has fallen in love with Julia, and will sail the world over to win her love for himself.
UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN 7/1998 ISBN 1891020439 Victorian Sparks fly when Elizabeth Jackson, a dedicated nurse from the North American British colonies, meets Captain John Beverly, a devil-may-care cavalry officer, wounded at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War in 1854. As a result of her association with him she is forced to leave the religious nursing order of which she is a member and truly believes she will never meet him again. But John has made a promise to himself that they will meet again. When they do the circumstances of both have changed. She has inherited a fortune and he is a penniless, discharged soldier on his way to Australia to seek gold. Sparks of romance fly between them again as they travel together to Melbourne aboard the famous sailing ship MARCO POLO. Is it only a shipboard romance? Or is their love for each other strong enough to overcome family interference, differences in culture and the strict morality imposed by Victorian society? Will they ever meet again?
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