Carolyn Brown

AUGUSTA 12/2004 ISBN: 0803496869 Augusta “Gussie” Dulan is the only Dulan sister to make it all the way to California on the wagon train for brides. Each of her four sisters has taken off along the trail to marry up with a man they fell in love with and now Gussie is hoping to find a man to love here at the end of the trail. Dressing in her fabulous red satin dancing dress, complete with black lace and feathered headdress, Gussie lines up with the other potential brides to see whom it is that they will marry. Gideon Jefferson, the town preacher, takes one look at Gussie and is horrified at her saloon girl outfit, but things turn even worse when his number is called and he “wins” Gussie’s hand in marriage. Gussie is less that pleased to be stuck with this wretched, assuming man. Neither wants to be married, so they make a pact that she will be on the first wagon train out after the winter. In the meantime, Gussie will come home with him and tend to his four young daughters and run his unruly house. It seems like a good arrangement. But Gussie is much more than Gideon could have imagined. She not only keeps the house immaculate, the table filled with delicious food, the girls clean and happy, she has the women of the town following her example and turning Gideon’s and the rest of the men’s lives upside down. Neither Gussie nor Gideon will admit they actually have feelings for one another. It takes a lot of courage, four little girls, and a whole town to bring them both to their senses. RR@H's Novel Thoughts

EMMA'S FOLLY 2/2002 ISBN: 0803495161 Emma Maureen Cummins is fleeing from an overbearing father and the prospect of a loveless marriage in Atlanta, Georgia. She's intrigued by stories of the Oklahoma land rush the previous year, 1889, and buys a train ticket to Oklahoma. After all, that's where the excitement is. Trouble arises the moment she steps inside the general store in Guthrie, coming face to face with the sheriff, who has received a telegram to be on the lookout for a tall blond from Georgia. Jed Thomas just came to town to buy supplies for his homestead. The sheriff asked a strange lady a question just as she begins mouthing the words, “Help me, please,” in Jed's direction. In half an hour Jed was married to the woman and wondering just how in the world it had all come about. They're married on paper only but slowly come to realize through daily living, arguments, and compromises that they've fallen in love. However, Jed doesn't think a blue-eyed Southern belle could ever really love a dirt farmer like him. And Emma thinks Jed will always love Anna Marie, the woman with whom he almost had an agreement before he married her.

GARNET 8/2004 ISBN: 0803496664 Garnet Diana Dulan swung open the doors of the Silver Dollar Saloon, sucked up a lunch full of cigar smoke, and listened intently to the sounds of men playing poker and the scrape of boots across the wooden floor; she felt right at home. After just minutes inside the doors of the saloon she knew she’d made the right decision to leave her sisters and the wagon train of brides heading to California. Quickly she negotiates a job with the owner to play piano in the bar for room and board. Garnet is happy with her new arrangement and starts to settle into her new routine, that is until she runs into Sheriff Gabe Walker. Sheriff Walker is convinced that this unusual, blue-eyed beauty is not the kind of woman he needs taking up residence in his clean town, and he won’t rest until he runs her back to where she came from. But Garnet is a sassy Southern woman who speaks her mind and won’t listen to a word he says. In fact, Gabe is certain that he can see lightening streak across her blue eyes in brilliant, jagged lines when she’s angry. The two lock horns on more than one occasion, but when her life is threatened and she is wrongfully accused of murder and robbery, it is Gabe who saves her from lynching. Considering all the damage already between them, it will take a miracle for either of these two to put aside their stubbornness and admit their love. RR@H's Novel Thoughts

JUST GRACE 6/2003 ISBN: 080349596X Grace Benjamin Listen was just trying to rescue a poor helpless kitten. She certainly didn't plan on falling out of the tree and landing on Dodsworth's newest resident, Dr. Gatlin O'Malley-breaking her arm and wounding her pride in the fall. Gatlin only arrived from Atlanta, Georgia, the week before. In Atlanta, he'd barely escaped a bad marriage to a southern belle, but Gatlin had learned from his lesson. The only way he would ever look at another woman was if an angel fell from heaven. He wondered if God listened in on his thoughts that morning when Grace Listen fell out of the skies, knocking him off his horse and into a pile of fresh, warm horse manure. But on second thought he figured if Grace truly fell from Heaven, it was because she'd been kicked out for her sassiness. Every time they look at each other from that day, tempers flare and sparks ignite. She's just going in to get her broken arm checked when the Bonney Boy's Gang take her and the new doctor hostage. The two of them wind up on the top of a snow-covered mountain in New Mexico Territory for three weeks, together. What can go wrong-does. What shouldn't go wrong-does. What is impossible-happens. It takes a lot to make them both wake up and realize they were meant for each other and even more to finally say the words written so deeply on their hearts.

MAGGIE'S MISTAKE 2/2003 ISBN: 0803495765 Maggie vowed to never marry a man who can't laugh or dance, but when she and the dull new doctor in town, Everett Dulanis, wind up spending the night together in an abandoned dugout house, all that changes. Her father is the best man and his shotgun is the bridesmaid at the wedding where a union has been made, but there's certainly no unity. Everett was engaged to Carolina Prescott, a southern lady in Atlanta, Georgia. But that, too, comes to an end when he awakes with nothing but a blanket around him and the cold barrel of a shotgun pressed against his forehead. Maggie, simple-minded and fun-loving, is as far removed from what he wants and needs in a wife as a hog straight from the wallow. Even though he keeps protesting that nothing happened in that dugout shack, he has no choice but to marry the woman. Somewhere in the middle of undoing the knot that had been tied by mistake, Maggie and Everett find they've fallen in love and don't want to end their marriage. But will either of them ever admit it?

VELVET 12/2003 ISBN 0803496265 Velvet is about to breathe her last and doesn’t even know it when Patrick O’Leary lays her on the bed in a very strange house. When she does awake from a fever-induced coma, she finds herself in a cabin with Dr. Hoyt Baxter, who’s hateful, mean and spiteful and doesn’t care if she lives or dies, so long as she’s out of his house and his life as soon as possible. Which is exactly what Velvet wants, but she has to have the strength to walk out the door before she can actually do it. Hoyt had stopped practicing medicine a year before, vowing he’d never be a doctor again, but when it came right down to the wire, he did bring Velvet Jane Dulan back to life, a choice he would live to regret for many weeks. She interfered with his self-imposed hermitship. She shook the rut he’d been living in all the way to the roots. He just wanted her to be gone, but every plan he made to get rid of her backfired, and he found himself stuck with the unwanted woman. Until finally he realized that he did want her to stay. However, it was too late. Or was it?

VIOLET'S WISH 7/2002 Be careful what you wish for; you just might get it. Violet did. After her husband died, she swore off lackluster men and a dull life. She wished for someone to put a sparkle in her eyes and excitement in her life, like an old love did year ago in Blue Ridge, Texas. Little did she realize that when she made the wish it was already in the process of being granted. Orrin Wilde did. He wished he'd never chose the lure of the gold mines over the love of his life. But his sins are coming back, screaming for payment. Four bandits follow Orrin for days and finally catch up with him outside of Guthrie, in Oklahoma Indian Territory. He tries to outrun them, when they wing him. He rides down Main Street and, unable to find a doctor, he crawls up on the porch of the last house in town. Violet hears the thud when he falls and finds him bleeding and unconscious on her front porch. If Violet had been doing the shooting, Orrin would be graveyard-dead. Eight years before, he ruined her reputation; now, he was ruining it again. Orrin still loves Violet, but after the trouble down in Texas she refuses to trust him. Suddenly they wonder why they ever made such crazy wishes after all. Will they ever find forgiveness in their hearts for past mistakes and go on to a love-filled future?

WILLOW 10/2003 ISBN 0-8034-9616-8 Willow Gail Dulan didn’t like Rafe Pierce when he read her father’s will. She sure didn’t like him when he tried to talk Hank Gibson out of letting her and her four newly-found sisters travel to California with the wagon train of mail-order brides. Rafe was totally against the idea of Jake Dulan’s daughters going with the train. He would like nothing better than to leave Willow for the rattlesnakes and Indians. The feeling is mutual. They lock horns and refuse to budge. Both have a scarred heart from previous experiences, and a temper, so the fireworks explode every time they’re in each other’s presence, which is often since Rafe drew the short straw and has to bring up the rear of the train...right where the Dulan girls’ wagon is located. Willow and Rafe both realize that out there, beyond the sunsets they both love, lies the Promised Land. It’s not a place or destination, but a spirit and a journey which draws them into the peace of its bosom to rock away the cares of life. But will they ever admit they need each other to reach that Promised Land?

Corinne Joy Brown

MACGREGOR'S LANTERN 7/2001 ISBN: 078623227 In this epic tale of intrigue, rivalry and murder, travel the distance between success and failure, love and heartbreak, and the road to independence. Follow the dreamer Maggie Dowling McKennon from Colorado into Wyoming as she confronts Hugh Redmond MacGregor, the greatest Scottish rancher in the west, who struggled to persevere in the face of political treachery and the turmoil of a territory raging on the edge of statehood.

Debra Lee Brown

GOLD RUSH BRIDE 1/2002 ISBN: 0373291949 Marriage to a Rough-Hewn Stranger Wasn't Part of Her Plan...Yet here Kate Dennington was, inconveniently married to closemouthed fur trapper Will Crockett--just to secure her rightful inheritance. She couldn't wait to get home to Ireland--so why did any glimpse of her husband tell her that home is where the heart is? He Was a Trapper, Not a Storekeep...How he got tangled up with Kate Dennington and her troubles, Will Crockett couldn't fathom. True, the fire in Kate's eyes made him yearn for home and hearth--but he was an adventurer, not a family man.

Freeda Brown

WESTERN THUNDER 1996 ISBN: 1552620182

Irene Bennett Brown

BLUE HORIZONS 9/2001 ISBN: 0786228156 Meg Brennon places her emotional destiny in the hands of an intriguing St. Louis lawyer while she fights for the land that holds her soul.

HAVEN 12/2003 ISBN: 159414088X In 1893, Laila Mitchell leaves the Midwest for Oregon with little money, a medicine kit, and not much more than the clothes on her back in the hopes of finding her last living relatives. What she finds instead, is soul-satisfying work and a chance at love in the wild, Snake River Canyon.

LONG ROAD TURNING 10/2000 ISBN: 078622813X Cassiday Curran's wagon has just been hijacked by three bedraggled strangers on their way to Dodge City. On the run from an abusive husband, Cassiday--under the assumed name Meg Brennan to hide her identity--agrees to share her wagon with Grandma Spicy, Lucy Ann and Laddie as they search for their uncle. When they arrive in Dodge City, they learn that the uncle has died, leaving a parcel of land to Lad and Lucy Ann. Meg trades for an adjoining parcel and they build themselves a home, soon to be joined by other women and children in need of a safe place. Harassed by a cattle rancher who wants her land, and in constant fear of the bounty hunter her husband has hired to find her, Meg struggles to maintain her farm. The group starts a road ranch for travelers and sets up a newspaper and post office. Through heartbreak and joy, the homestead thrives, leaving Meg to realize that she must find a way to free herself from the past.

NO OTHER PLACE 6/2002 ISBN: 0786228164 Refined southerner, Aurelia Symington, takes the lead against a profiteer's greed and violence to help the settlers build dusty Paragon Springs into a real town.

THE PLAINSWOMAN 11/1994 ISBN: 034583052 Amity Whitford dared to stake her own claim on the endless plains of western Kansas. She built her homestead, Dove's Nest, with her bare hands. But the ravages of the sun and drying winds took their toll, putting her dreams and her livelihood in jeopardy. Desperate for funds, fiercely independent Amity accepted another challenge--to run for election as the county school superintendent. Her campaign was greeted with disbelief, scorn, open hostility....and interest.But as her dream came within reach, and her love for local newspaper publisher Chalk Holden dared to claim her heart, Amity's past returned, a menace more fierce than a storm on the open plains...

Kitt Brown

ALYSSA DEANE 1982 ISBN: 0449124789

KENTUCKY SPITFIRE: CAITILYN McGREGOR 1981 ISBN:0449144135 Caitlyn Mc Gregor........an untamed spitfire with a dream of conquest--to build a homestead in the wilds of Kentucky. Setting out with wealthy, handsome Jonathan Ware, a strong and able gentleman but a complete innocent in the ways of the woods, Caitlyn headed down the Ohio River. Together they fought the savage wilderness, braving murderous attacks by Indians, and the slaughter of the American Revolution. But they could not fight nor arm themselves against the fiery passions that burned within them....

TEXAS WILDFLOWER: LAURIEN KANE 1981 ISBN:0449144666 To survive the Texas frontier wars, a woman had to be strong, but Laurien Kane, who was kidnapped by her rogue of a father and his handsome young friend, Ricardo, had grown up in Boston and considered herself delicate and demure--she swore she would never stay in that untamed land with such rough, heedless men. A stormy tale of love and wild adventure set against the tempestuous backdrop of the Texas frontier.

Sandra Brown

ANOTHER DAWN 10/1985 ISBN: 0446356875 The Texas countryside was wide and wild, the barn was warm and musty, and the passion between Banner Coleman and her parents' best friend, Jake Langston, was going to be the start of trouble. Betrayal had ruined Banner's wedding day, and now on her wedding night she was a jilted bride. Jake was the toughest cowhand in Texas, yet Banner had broken down his resistance, setting loose emotions neither of them expected. Now Jake and Banner were caught up in a scandal that could tear apart a friendship and a family. But theirs wasn't the only sin in this rough town outside of lusty Fort Worth. Greed and desire stretched back to a wagon train journey twenty years before, and this cattle land would explode once more with a man's hunger and a woman's enduring love.

SUNSET EMBRACE 2/1985 ISBN: 0446356859 No woman on the trek to Texas was more mysterious than the russet-haired Lydia. No man was more proud than the rugged Ross Coleman. Both were running from the past - and to each other. But Lydia had vowed no man would ever touch her or take away her will. And Ross Coleman had pledged to remain true to the wife who had died giving birth to his son. Yet soon Lydia and Ross would be pulled into a maelstrom of danger and desire...unable to deny the storm of emotions gathering inside them...unable to stop the secrets that would soon pit an enemy's deadly vengeance against the strength of a woman's love.

Virginia Brown

A COLORADO CHRISTMAS short story in DECK THE HALLS 12/1996 ISBN:0821751506

COMANCHE MOON 5/1993 ISBN:0821741535 He was a half-breed gunslinger with a price on his head. She was his defiant captive....After an avenging band of Comanches murders her husband on their wedding night, lovely Deborah Hamilton is kidnapped and taken across the New Mexico border, where she falls in love with her fierce, blue-eyed captor.

DESERT DREAMS 8/1988 ISBN:0446348066 half-Apache beauty and a dashing young captain find adventure on a hunt for hidden gold in 19th-century New Mexico.

EMERALD NIGHTS 8/1991 ISBN:0821734660 Back in the states, prim Bethany Brasfield would never have trusted a hard-drinking adventurer like Trace Taylor. Here in the Peruvian jungle, however, her lie and that of her archeologist father were in Trace's callused hands as he led them past panthers, snakes, and deadly natives on the way to a legendary ancient city of jewels. The all-too-attractive scoundrel obviously expected Bethany to fall into his arms every night. But she'd be damned before she'd admit to the wanton yearnings she felt at the sight of his rippling muscles, his mocking eyes, and his slow, devastating smile...Trace wasn't too happy about accepting Brasfield's crazy assignment to search for the lost treasures of time -- until he laid eyes on the archeologist's bookkeeper daughter. Her severe hair style and practical khaki clothing couldn't hide her delectable beauty. Though Bethany's superior air might have intimidated another man, Trace figured she'd thaw out pretty fast under the brutal jungle sun. And then, there was something about those long steamy nights filled with the raucous cry of wild animals that led even the coldest of ladies to take comfort in a man's arms -- especially a man who knew what a woman wanted...

HEAVEN SENT 2/1989 ISBN: 0446348082 To the wild green hills of Idaho came lovely Hannah McGuire. Teaching her father's missionary school, flame-haired Hannah braved the lawless frontier with a prayer on her lips. Leering men and screaming bullets could not dim her faith; distant drums and flaming arrows would not destroy her courage. Yet the muscular, square-jawed stranger who rescued Hannah from a Blackfoot raid posed the greatest threat of all; when she saw him her pulsed hammered like thunder, and when he drew her near, a storm raged in her heart. But Creed Bratton was a hard-bitten bounty hunter who had no use for the finer virtues. Hot on the trail of three vicious outlaws, the last thing he needed was to be saddled with a Bible-thumping schoolmarm, no matter how beautiful or brave. Still, only he could lead her to safety. And together, they would blaze a dangerous trail through a savage wilderness, each fighting desire - desperately denying the hunger that demanded total surrender.

JADE MOON 12/1995 Leaving America behind, Eden Miller accompanies her husband to Mexico on his obsessive quest for the Lost Jade City of Yucatan. But the jungle takes him in one swift, terrifying blow...leaving Eden alone in the ruins of an ancient civilization, with no one to turn to except a legendary adventurer...Amid the sultry heat of the tropics, El Jaguar is as sleek, sensual and dangerous as the predator whose name he bears. Yet even as Eden tastes his passion, she senses the pain and sorrow behind his glittering golden eyes. Together, they journey deeper into a world of primitive wonders and darkest treachery. There, the hunter will become the prey, as Eden risks her life to uncover El Jaguar's secrets--and claim a love as enduring as the most priceless treasure...

MOONFLOWER 8/1987 ISBN: 0821721364 Desperate to track down her father, headstrong Stephanie Ashworth had no choice but to hire impudent Ryan Cordell to guide her...

RENEGADE EMBRACE 11/1990 ISBN: 0821732064 His dark eyes promised to fulfill her most secret fantasies... Lovely Laurette Allen was shocked by the barbarity of life in California. At her very first fiesta, she was pulled into the shadows and forcibly kissed by tall, dark Cade Caldwell. But much worse than the manners of the menfolk was the cruelty of the tax collectors who preyed on the local villagers. Laurie was determined to do something about it -- even if it meant flirting with a few self-important officials. What she really wished was that a hero on horseback would sweep down on the town and rid them of the villains with the tip of his flashing sword. A hero whose courage would put to shame that blackguard Caldwell, whose mocking eyes reminded her of that brief surrender to his shocking, thrilling caresses -- and promised her the fulfillment of her most secret fantasies.... Cade could only laugh when he heard the rumors of a mysterious masked rider who swept down on the notorious tax collectors and stole the money back for the villagers with supernatural ease. It was about time something shook up this backward town. Between the excitement of the heroic "El Vengador" -- The Avenger -- and Cade's newest pursuit, the fiery, cat-eyed Laurie Allen, life wasn't quite as boring as usual. But Cade had learned the hard way never to trust a woman. And the privileged Miss Allen was no exception. Beneath her ladylike pretensions beat the wanton heart of a woman made for loving -- his loving. She'd succumb to him as easily as the tax collectors surrendered to El Vengador -- and the prize would be even sweeter....

SAVAGE AWAKENING 1984 ISBN: 0821714759

WILDEST HEART 2/1994 ISBN: 0821744569 Scarred by his shadowy past, Devon Conrad was the deadliest gunman in the west...haunted by desperate memories of one woman even as he was irresistibly drawn to another... Maggie Malone had come to cattle country to forge her future as a healer. Now she faced an outlaw wounded in body and soul...a seductive rebel whose eyes blazed with fury even as his burning caress sent her spiraling into the darkness of her deepest desires...They came together in the heat of a Texas town about to explode in sin and scandal. Danger was their destiny - and there was nothing they wouldn't dare for love...

WILDFIRE 9/1990 ISBN: 0446348104 Hostage to Passion. With her big blue eyes and copper hair, young Jennifer Allison never knew how beautiful she was, or how her beauty could kindle a man's passion. Until today. Today she is abducted from her sleepy Texas town by Kane Ransom, a dark, handsome man whose wicked smile is marked by vengeance. He has a vendetta. And his target is Jennifer's own renegade brother Johnny. They're on the road to Dodge City, and a possible showdown with the Dawson gang. But before this, Jenny sees another side of Kane, a side not tainted by bitterness. Suddenly, the blush that heats her skin is no longer caused by his angry touch but by the fiery awakening of her own desire. And while Kane and Jenny are thrust together to face the perils of a foreboding wilderness and evade the savage eyes of hostile Indians, they must grapple with an even more powerful force. For in one heated, unguarded moment, a quest for revenge can easily become something else, a love like a prairie wildfire, searing out of control and consuming everything in its path.

WILDFLOWER 11/1992 ISBN: 0821739530 She was an outlaw on the run and no man could stop her, except one....Colorado Kate--as notorious for her lovers as she was for her robberies. No man had ever taken her prisoner and if she had her way, no one ever would. But when she found herself looking into the relentless black eyes of infamous gunslinger Jake Lassiter, Caitlin knew her luck had run out. There was no mercy in his chiseled face, no softness in his rock hard body. Despite her reputation she had never known a man, and she was stunned by the wave of desire that rose within her at Jake's heated caress. The green-eyed renegade was desperate to escape, but flames of passion held her body captive and left her yearning for the dangerous touch of the dark and ruthless lawman!

WILD HEART 7/1986 ISBN:0821717863 Scarred by his shadowy past, Devon Conrad was the deadliest gunman in the West...Haunted by desperate memories of one woman even as he was irresistibly drawn to another...Stolen from her family and taken hostage by a group of juaristas, Amanda Cameron feared for her life. But once she met their bandit leader El Leon, she feared for her innocence...

Lydia Browne

AUTUMN FIRES 1996 ISBN:0515119288 Bethany - She left her fiance in New York and moved back to Missouri to help her grandfather recover his lost fortune... Brent - He fell in love with Bethany at first sight. But she had yet to learn of his bad reputation... He was a saloon owner with a dubious past, according to Cedar Groves' gossip mill. But when their first kiss took Bethany's breath away, she vowed to make up her own mind about the handsome businessman. When Brent offered to help Bethany open her own cafe, she discovered that his hard manner hid a heart of gold. And the love she saw reflected in his eyes was strong enough to make all her dreams come true.

HEART STRINGS 9/1993 ISBN:1557739412 Antonia. She shocked the folks of Culverton with her speeches about a woman's place-and found herself behind bars. Jake. The town marshal was handsome enough to tempt a saint-but it would take more than good looks to tame this outspoken spitfire. To keep the peace, he arrested her. But from the moment she saw him, Antonia felt a deep and unexpected desire taunting her heart. When the town judge orders a rather unusual sentence for her act of defiance, she and Jake are thrown together and their hearts are put to the test. For when the sparks fly between them, the fires of passion take hold.

HONEYSUCKLE SONG 1996 ISBN: 0515117862. Grace: Widowed, with two children and a small farm to run, she had little time for romance, but enough to help a man in need... Lucas: Unable to remember the past, Lucas found himself on the streets of Ogden, Missouri--and in the arms of an angel... Something in the battered drifter stirred Grace's soul. Instead of letting the town authorities lock him up in jail, Grace convinced the judge to let him work on her farm. Hardworking and agreeable, Lucas possessed the looks and manners of a man of letters, not a hired hand. But as Grace's growing desire for Lucas warmed her in the days at hand, the secrets of his past kept the future at bay. Then, tragedy restored his memory--and Grace had to learn if their bond of love was strong enough to make the here-and-now last forever.

PASSING FANCY 10/1994 ISBN:0786500468 Unable to run his farm due to his lack of knowledge on the subject, a misplaced English son of an earl seeks help from a sassy and surefooted tomboy of a woman who quickly turns his life and his heart upside-down.

SNOWFLAKE WISHES 11/1997 ISBN: 0515121819 Life's sweetest lessons aren't taught in school... Rachel: A schoolteacher in Brooklyn, Missouri, she was too smart to fall for a smooth-talking city slicker... Hal: A newspaperman from New York City, he wanted the story on the pretty schoolteacher. Rachel couldn't believe the nerve of Hal Sinclair. The tall, dark, and naughty newsman flirted with her so much that people started to talk. A teacher could lose her good reputation to such gossip! More importantly, Rachel feared that she might lose her heart...Because Hal was out to teach the teacher a lesson in love!

SPRING DREAMS 5/1997 ISBN: 0515120685 The most stubborn and independent woman in Culverton, Missouri, she was determined to remain alone for the rest of her life. Until a baby appeared on her doorstep...The most eligible man in town, the handsome doctor from the East never considered himself the marrying type. Until he saw the tenderness in Millicent's eyes as she held the abandoned baby in her arms...Their constant bickering over her treating his patients with home remedies made them an unlikely match. Their loneliness created a common bond. But it took a baby named Petey to make them realize that what they felt for one another was more than passing feeling...it was love.

SUMMER LIGHTNING 1995 ISBN:0515116572 Running the Farmer and Maid Matrimonial Service as a matchmaker, Edith objects to helping Jefferson Dane choose between three potential brides and is unprepared to discover her own feelings for him.

WEDDING BELLS 1/1994 ISBN: 1557739714 A Match Made in Heaven... Jordan: Traveling the countryside disguised as a boy, she provided for her younger siblings by helping her uncle rob stagecoaches! Seth: After a holdup gone awry, the young preacher promised Jordan's dying uncle that he would love and honor her, for better or for worse... They were married in an instant, but Seth knew trouble was never far behind when he followed his heart and not his head ... For Jordan, with her passionate and spirited ways, was hardly a demure minister's wife. And her sister and brothers were outlaws in training! Together they made a colorful family of saints and sinners. And Jordan and Seth were about to find that the happiest hearts hold a little of both...

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FOR THE LOVE OF CHOCOLATE 5/1996 ISBN: 0312957912 Includes four stories where Margaret Brownley's straight-laced gray-suited insurance detective is a bull in a whimsical Los Angeles chocolate shop and its beautiful, nutty owner wants him out - until she discovers his surprisingly soft center...Raine Cantrell carries you back to the Old West, where men were men and candy was scarce...and a cowboy with the devil's own good looks succumbs to a sassy and sensual lady's special confectionary...In Nadine Crenshaw's London of 1660, a reckless Puritan maid's life is changed forever by a decadent brew of frothy hot chocolate and the dashing owner of a sweetshop...and Sandra Kitt follows a Chicago child's search for a box of Sweet Dreams that brings together a tall, handsome engineer and a tough single mother with eyes like chocolate drops.

Margaret Brownley

THE KISSING BANDIT 7/1993 ISBN: 0451403681 Beautiful Maggie Taylor was the soul of respectability, determined to earn an honest living for herself and her two children in rough-and-tumble nineteenth century California. Dominick Sanders was shrouded in mystery, known to Maggie as the notorious Kissing Bandit-a man who kissed the women in the stages he robbed! It was enough to make Maggie's blood boil hotter...and heart pound faster. But now these two are thrown together in a mock marriage designed to deceive the world, and Maggie has no choice but to trust the bandit. And as Maggie's mantle of respectability begins to slip away, she finds herself doing things she would never have imagined....

PETTICOATS AND PISTOLS 7/1995 ISBN: 0451406184 Kate Whittaker will never find a husband as long as she keeps shocking the town with her newfangled inventions. That's just fine with Kate--until she meets Jonas Hunter, who dares to claim her inventions are his. Jonas is stunned to discover that this infuriating woman is stealing his ideas--and then his heart.

RAWHIDE AND LACE 3/1994 ISBN:0451404610 Libby Summerfield couldn't wait to get out of Deadman's Gulch - a lawless mining town filled with gunfights, brawls, and uncivilized mountain men - men like Logan St. John. Stranded there with a new baby, the pretty widow would have to make the best of it. But she vowed to return to the refinement of Boston as soon as the stage resumed its run...and her heart stopped quickening at the thought of Logan's gentle touch.

TOUCH OF LACE 2/1996 ISBN: 0451406583 Small as she is, Abby Parker holds her head high and her shoulders square. A real lady isn't supposed to throw a knife, swear like a sailor, or come to Colorado alone - Abby does all three. She is searching for her missing traveling-salesman uncle, and a little thing like propriety isn't going to stop her as she arrives in Dangling Rope (pop. 12 - if you don't count the buzzards)....Tracing her uncle's route, Abby takes his stock of cosmetic preparations and becomes a peddler too. The trail ends in the mining town, and a whirlwind of feelings begin. Causing a riot at the bawdy house, and cajoling warpaint recipes from the Indians, she is the wild, new woman of the Old West, tempting the sheriff to throw her in jail - or into his bed. Now desire and danger are like a powder keg in Dangling Rope - and this intrepid traveling lady is the explosive flame...

WIND SONG 11/1994 ISBN:0451405269 Miss Maddie Percy had come all the way from Washington, D.C., to teach school in Colton, Kansas. Instead, the feisty, red-haired schoolmarm found the town burned to the ground and her only shelter an isolated sod house belonging to widower Luke Tyler and his young son, Matthew. Never one to be deterred by setbacks, Maddie was soon donning trousers and doing calisthenics, turning fierce Cheyenne warriors into adoring schoolboys, setting up a tepee to live in...and finding her blood racing every time Luke came near.

Barri Bryan

AFTER THE ALAMO 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 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?

LaRee Bryant

ARIZONA CAPTIVE 7/1989 ISBN: 0821727184 Callie Nolan hoped that her new position in Arizona as a governess would solve all her problems. But unfortunately she was wrong. Her life had become more complicated than ever because of one man in particular-Logan Powers. Her employer's charming, but incorrigible, bodyguard was nothing but an arrogant scoundrel and irresponsible womanizer. But Callie had no intention of succumbing to the handsome blackguard's advances, no matter how irresistible she found him. And the best thing for her to do was put as much distance between them as she could before it was too late--Logan Powers had always taken his role as a lady-killer very seriously and no woman was going to change that. Not even the breathtakingly beautiful Callie Nolan with her luxuriant black hair and startling blue eyes. Logan might have considered a lusty romp with her but it was apparent she was a lady, through and through. And he had better steer clear of her. But hard as he tried, Logan couldn't resist wanting to take her warm, slender body in his arms, to kiss her perfectly-formed lips, to caress her luscious, soft curves and to hold her close to his heart forever.

ARIZONA VIXEN 2/1989 ISBN: 0821726420 Sabra Powers knew that her fate had been decided the moment she locked eyes with the handsome stranger in the park. Although she too was new to the Arizona territory, she didn't recognize the man from the various social events she;d been frequenting. But she did know that she had to meet him. His clear blue eyes seemed to invite her gaze, but at the same time she could tell that he was a loner. Yet that didn't stop her from fantasizing about his touch, or how soft his lips might be in a kiss. Sabra was willing to risk anything she had just for the chance to feel his embrace...A Will Unbroken - Sterling Hawkins was a man caught between two worlds. As a halfbreed, he was a successful white businessman - with a seething Indian soul. And he knew that he would not rest until he could calm the spirits that plagued him about his parents' deaths. So he traveled to Arizona to find revenge, but instead found Sabra Powers...the most exquisite woman he had ever seen. Even though he had a most important mission, he had to have her beneath him in passion's fiery embrace, if only for a night. He dreamt of her shimmering blonde hair, ached to gaze into her deep brown eyes until he could stand it no longer. He vowed to find a way to make her his own, his wild willing slave, his "Arizona Vixen"

FOREVER, MY LOVE 9/1995 ISBN: 0821750739 One minute, Carrie Burnett was celebrating her engagement among elite Texas society; the next, she was a prisoner on a remote island...at the mercy of a man she had thought never to see again. Once, Carrie had adored Baird Conner; two years in a New Orleans finishing school hadn't changed her feelings. But Baird had changed. Now he was an escaped convict - a man hunted for cold-blooded murder....The son of Irish immigrants, Baird knew that he and Carrie were worlds apart; yet he couldn't forget the magical summer they'd spent together, or the promises they'd made. Why had Carrie vanished without a word - only to return to marry another man? Framed for a crime he didn't commit, Baird wouldn't rest until he found the real killer. Only Carrie could help him. Only Carrie could heal the wounds of betrayal...with a passion that would dare them both to love....Forever, My Love.

SWEET TEXAS FURY 10/1990 ISBN: 0821731416 Seductive Traitor... Now that the War Between the States was over, fiery Texas beauty Lydia Upton wanted only two things: revenge on the man who'd killed her father, and enough money to pay the taxes on the family farm. And the only one who would help her was arrogant treasury agent Morgan Hunter...the handsome traitor who'd fought for the Union, the one man she couldn't resist. His burning caresses enflamed her, his searing kisses consumed her. And soon the golden-haired rebel was a prisoner of her own mounting passions, longing only for the rapturous splendor of ultimate surrender! Beloved Belle... Morgan Hunter had returned to his Texas home on a special mission. But when luscious Lydia Upton burst into his office, he forgot his plans as he was consumed by a feverish desire only she could satisfy. Determined to possess and protect his blue-eyed prize, Morgan insisted on accompanying the spirited southern spitfire on a grueling cattle drive west - and after long hot days and restless nights on the trail with the tempting Lydia, Morgan finally tasted the exquisite ecstasy of her sensuous submission, and swore he would never have enough of his Sweet Texas Fury...

TEXAS GLORY 11/1987 ISBN: 0821722212 Even though she had been banished to a finishing school for two years for dallying with Slade, enchanting Glory Westbrook knew she still loved the irresistible Yankee....Then her father announced that his associate would soon be her husband and the furious beauty thought she'd die of shock.

TEXAS ROGUE 3/1987 ISBN: 0821720279 She felt his strength. Lovely Laura Nichols fled her uncle's home when she was forcibly engaged to a fat ugly old man. But when her stage was attacked by bandits, leaving her in the Texas wilderness with roguish Blake Saunders, the innocent beauty wondered if bad luck was her lot. The detestable rancher made her flesh burn with some nameless craving; he assaulted her senses as no man ever had before. Yet even as she shuddered at the horror of being all alone with the arrogant stranger, she tingled with anticipation of what delights the night would bring. He traced her curves. Right from the start, adventurous Blake Saunders knew that proper, prim Laura wasn't his type. But even as he denied it, the luscious witch's body drove him wild. He had to explore the silken skin that beckoned from beneath her gown; he had to taste the source of her honeysuckle scent, especially now that they had survived the outlaw gang, Blake was possessed by a primitive urge to affirm his vitality. Ignoring her protests, he embraced Laura, kissed her, caressed her, aroused her, and made her the slave of this Texas Rogue.

Kate Buchan

SATAN'S MOUNTAIN 12/1980 ISBN:0373300549 They said he met with the Devil. The miners and their families were a rough, superstitious people. They shared their mountain settlement with the owner of the iron mine, and they called him Satan. Not without reason, thought Helen when she first met him. For Robert Warren was dark and threatening, a man of secrets, a man of violence. Yet despite her instant fear and dislike, Helen gradually learned that he had another side, a passionate side that kindled within Helen a fire such as she'd never known before.

Anita Richmond Bunkley

BLACK GOLD 5/1994 ISBN: 0451179730 Leela Wilder, a proud and beautiful African-American woman, is caught in the torrent of greed, ambition, and prejudice that turned oil rich Texas farmlands into wellsprings of fortune in the tumultuous 1920s. Orphaned as a young girl, she makes a good choice by marrying black landowner T. J Wilder. But her happiness is shattered by his untimely death and by her own irresistible attraction to T. J.'s handsome half-brother. Left alone with a young son to raise and a 340-acre farm to manage. Leela seeks comfort in the arms of Victor Beaufort, the only black wildcatter in Texas. Beaufort risks everything to win an oil game ruthlessly rigged against him, plunging Leela and himself into a quickening whirlpool of twisted family ties, shocking secrets, and deadly danger. Black Gold rivets with passion and power - and the enduring courage of an unforgettable woman.

EMILY, THE YELLOW ROSE 1989 ISBN:096240120X There were approximately one hundred-fifty free Negroes living in the Mexican Province of Tejas during the time of the Battle for Independence in the mid-1830s. One of them, Emily D. West, did leave a sketchy trail of her existence, which ultimately inspired a folk song, "The Yellow Rose of Texas." This book is based upon her fictional life.

Janelle Burnham

BECKONING STREAMS 1995 ISBN: 155748662X The town of Dawson Creek, British Columbia, has a new schoolteacher, but not for long. Possessing neither certification nor seniority, as the school faces consolidation, Ruth McEvan faces unemployment. Should she accept her grandmother's offer of an education in Ontario? Surely she would meet some eligible and sophisticated young men in the city. Or should she remain in the familiar Peace River region and raise a family with the kindhearted and marriage-minded Jed Spencer? Yet the tragedy that claimed Ruth's mother and three brothers years earlier has hardened her heart. Why risk love when it could be taken away? And, Ruth's bitter heart cries, why trust God?

RIVER OF PEACE 10/1994 ISBN: 1557485879 The remote village of Dawson Creek, British Colombia, has never had a schoolteacher. Since the death of her beloved mother, Ida has never been on her own. Welcomed warmly not only by her students and their families, but the boardinghouse matron as well, Ida feels at home while dealing privately with her pain. Of all her students Ida finds herself particularly drawn to Ruth McEvan, who is also struggling with a devastating family tragedy. Drawn to Ida, on the other hand , is Ken Danielson, the wealthy son of the blond, green-eyed teacher. While Ida scorns Ken's affections, will she find a man to fill her empty heart? Will Ida someday know peace like a river?

Adrienne Burns

A HEART UNTAMED 10/1999 ISBN: 0515125075 As willful as a wild horse, Amy has had her mind - if not her heart - set on marrying one man for years. But her fiancé doesn't share her love for horses - and wants her to move to the city. Race Jordan is a different story. A former Texas Ranger, he's at home in the saddle enough to land a job on Amy's farm. And though Amy sensibly reins in her attraction to Race, Polly can see the spark that ignites - and the fire that burns - every time the two are together. So, before her friend makes the mistake of a lifetime, she must come up with a devious scheme to rope two passionate hearts together - forever...

Marjorie Burrows

THE LOVING SWORDS 5/1991 ISBN:0373286775 The Battle Was For Her Heart...Caught in a trap of her own making, Clemma Wells had only meant to buy time with the desperate story that she was carrying Will Brandt's child. She never suspected that Tom Cord would offer to marry her and give her a way out. If she told the truth now, she would be sent home in disgrace, and what would Cord do when he found out that their marriage was based on a lie?

Mary Burton

A BRIDE FOR McCAIN 2/2000 ISBN 0373291027 Ross Had His Pride.... Ross McCain was determined to bring a schoolteacher to the town of Prosperity, even if he had to carry her all the way out West. There was no way that the children were going to miss out on learning to read. But he never expected the new teacher to be so hard to live with - or that he'd wind up having to propose to her just to keep her from leaving! Jessica Had A Secret... Jessica Tierney had been forced to flee Sacramento and pose as a schoolteacher. She knew nothing of country living, let alone children! And no sooner had she been introduced to the town than rancher Ross McCain insisted that they marry. But how could she let their marriage be based on a lie - especially when she knew she was falling in love with him?

THE COLORADO BRIDE 7/2001 ISBN 0373291701 The Son He Never Knew... Cole McGuire needed a good reason to return to White Stone, Colorado - and when he learned that he had fathered a son, it was time to return and claim what was rightfully his. But the town was hiding something, and he had a feeling he knew who was behind whatever was going on. The Widow's Secret... Rebecca's heart stopped when Cole McGuire walked back into town, his green eyes blazing with passion. And the longer he stayed, the more she wished for the love she'd never had. But would Cole ever forgive her for hiding the truth - that the son she claimed as her own was the child he'd been searching for...

THE PERFECT WIFE 6/2002 ISBN: 0373292147 But what else, Jenna Winslow ruminated, could a woman running from a scandal do? Who would ever want an unschooled virgin with a fatherless baby in tow? Certainly not rugged rancher Rowe Mercer, a man with demanding standards--and compelling charms...Ex-bounty hunter Rowe Mercer had spent a lifetime riding with danger. Now he craved more peaceful pursuits, but when mail-order bride Jenna Winslow arrived "C.O.D." he wondered if his prayers had truly been answered. Could there possibly be a future for a polished Eastern angel and man with a past he wanted to forget...?

RAFFERTY'S BRIDE 11/2002 ISBN: 0373292325 No person had ever caused such fire in Travis Rafferty's blood as Civil War nurse Meredith Carter had. Yet when the prisoner of war had attempted an escape, she'd betrayed him and his bedraggled men. Now, years later, vengeance led him on his journey west, with nightmares of battle on his heels. This time, Meredith wouldn't get away.... She had to persuade Travis of her innocence. But how could she convince him of anything when she reacted so strongly to just standing next to him? Nursing his wounds - staying with him - was the only way to show him how she felt, that she could no more betray him than her own soul....

UNTIL CHRISTMAS Short Story in CHRISTMAS GOLD 10/2002 ISBN: 0373292279

Shirlee Busbee

EACH TIME WE LOVE 5/1993 ISBN: 0380752123 This untamed heart... Wild and willful Savanna O'Rourke has yet to meet her match in any male - until she is abducted by a pair of murderous outlaws who think she knows the secret to a hidden treasure. And to escape, she must join forces with the blackguard she blames for her father's death - a handsome rogue whom she despises...and desires with every fiber of her being. This tempestuous passion... A man of secrets, only reckless, seductive Adam St. Clair has the power to rescue the flame-haired hellion - and to transform the fires of hatred that burn in her heart into flames of need...

GYPSY LADY 12/1977 ISBN: 0380018241 Raised to ravishing womanhood by Gypsies - a stunning, violet-eyed beauty stolen a lifetime ago from her father's Cornish estate - innocent Catherine Tremayne's destiny drew her into a world of intrigue and danger. Carried off to Paris by Jason Savage, she began an odyssey of peril and sensuous captivity, finding no escape from the fearless adventurer who at

LOVE A DARK RIDER 7/1994 ISBN: 0380752131 From the moment she first entered the great mansion in San Felipe, Texas, beautiful, orphaned Sara Rawlings could feel Yancy Cantrell's fire - and sense his dangerous rage. But betrayal and tragedy drove the handsome, tormented rebel from his home...and out of young Sara's life. Seven years have passed since the night he was falsely branded a murderer - and Yancy has returned to reclaim his birthright. But his late father's lands now belong to Sara. The innocent girl has blossomed into a stunning and sensuous woman - a rival to be kidnapped and conquered. But though she fears her vengeful, impassioned captor, Sara's proud spirit will not be easily broken. And winning her heart will soon prove more important to Yancy than his honor, his legacy...or his life.

WHILE PASSION SLEEPS 3/1983 ISBN: 0380822970 The Lady: Beth Ridgeway was a violet-eyed platinum beauty - the kind of woman who made men burn with desire. Yet her husband Nathan didn't want her... The Rogue: Rafael Santana, the darkly handsome and arrogant son of a wealthy Texas family, had been kidnapped by the Comanches and raised as a warrior. Even now, all his gentleman's breeding couldn't conceal the savage strength beneath his aristocratic bearing. The Fury: Beth thought he was cruel and insensitive, a man who used women only for his selfish pleasure and then tossed them away. Rafael thought she was a common wench - flirtatious and unfaithful - who took pride in breaking men's hearts. The Fire: Yet something had happened when their eyes first met at a dazzling New Orleans ball. Something their hearts could not deny, something neither the years nor the violent misunderstandings could diminish. Because for the first time, both Beth and Rafael were awakening to the magnificent passions of love.

Nancy Bush

DANNER'S LADY 8/1990 ISBN:0671689215 Searching for her past, she rode into the Oregon wilderness...and into the arms of a man she dared not love. Indian-healer Miracle Jones and rugged mountain-man Harrison Danner cross paths, and a fiery passion is ignited--one that threatens devastation, intrigue, and betrayal. But theirs was a powerful love, a force of nature they could not deny.

JESSE'S RENEGADE 6/1991 ISBN: 0671729217 Beautiful, headstrong Kelsey Garrett is determined to make a new start in Portland under an assumed name. But everything changes when she runs into Jesse Danner, the hot-blooded, stubborn black sheep of the Danner family whom she has secretly loved for years. Devastated to find he doesn't even recognize her, she nonetheless agrees to help him seek revenge against a brutal land baron who once left him for dead. In a marriage of convenience, she will provide him with the entree he needs into the city's wealthiest circles. Entranced by the lovely renegade, Jesse will honor their agreement: once his plot succeeds they are to part ways forever.

Cordia Byers

EDEN 1/1992 ISBN: 0449146642 Could she lay the past to rest and make Eden the land of new beginnings? Paradise, Texas, had been Jessica's home - until rustlers murdered her parents and forced her to run for her life, the words 'half-breed' searing her soul. That was ten years ago. Now, a beautiful Boston-bred lady, she's come back to fulfill her father's dream of owning a successful ranch. It was time to wreak her vengeance on the masked man who stole that dream and to reclaim her proud Cherokee heritage. And then the handsome marshal, Brand Stockton, showed up, and Jessie learned what it felt to be a flesh and blood woman. But Brand had a score to settle, too, with outlaw Wade Fleming - Jessica's long lost brother who was headed for her ranch...

Victoria Bylin

OF MEN AND ANGELS(#664) 7/2003 ISBN: 044914664 Western Colorado Plateau--June 1885. When a thunderstorm washes out the road to Grand Junction, Alexandra Merritt is stranded with a birthing woman, three dead mules and a pair of fancy shoes that have no place in the Colorado desert. She looks to the heavens for help, but instead of a miracle, she sees a man, an unsmiling stranger silhouetted against the hot blue sky...Running from the law and sins of his own, the last thing Jake Malone wants to see is a woman in need, especially a dark-haired beauty singing a hymn. Every impulse tells him to keep riding, but an instinct as old as time comes to life, and he helps her, simply because he can. . .

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