Lorraine Heath

AMELIA AND THE OUTLAW 1/2003 ISBN: 0060009144 Amelia... With a strict, eagle-eyed judge for a father and two older brothers to back him up, Amelia Harper is doted upon and protected within an inch of her life. She's not even allowed to have a sweetheart until she's seventeen, for example. Amelia longs for the day she can do as she pleases, but that day doesn't seem to be in any hurry to arrive. The Outlaw ...For a young fellow, Jesse Lawton has a surprisingly shady background. The only wonder is that it took him until the age of fourteen to end up in jail, so wild was the path he'd been on. But five years have passed, and his luck finally seems to have turned: he's been freed. If only he can stay on the straight and narrow... When Jesse arrives at the Harper ranch to work off the remainder of his sentence, it's no surprise that the judge's pretty daughter catches his eye. What he doesn't know is that this young lady is itching for excitement, and with one look into his haunted eyes, Amelia knows she's found it in Jesse. Without meaning to, Amelia forces the erstwhile outlaw into a choice between his freedom and his heart.

THE LADIES' MAN 6/1995 ISBN: 051511636X Lee Daltry was the charmer of the family, but he couldn't charm his way out of this one. His grandmother was sending Lee back to the only place he had never fit in - school. But this time, he was going as the schoolmarm! More at ease taming horses than children, Lee sought advice from the only other teacher he knew - Meredith Lewis, a newcomer in town and the most proper lady he had ever met. Since he had taken her job as schoolmarm, she wanted nothing to do with him. But as Lee tried to tame the beautiful woman's anger, what started out as his family duty turned into an unforgettable lesson in love.

LONG STRETCH OF LONESOME 3/1999 Short Story in TO TAME A TEXAN ISBN: 0312968868 A hired gunslinger falls in love with the woman he's been contracted to kill.

NEVER LOVE A COWBOY 4/2000 ISBN: 0380803301 Harrison Bainbridge, the second son of an English earl, left his home seeking a scandal-free life away from society's stuffy restraints. Then he arrives in Texas, never expecting that a saloonkeeper's sassy daughter would capture his eye. With her outspoken ways and flashing eyes, Jessye Kane is more than tempting. But although she is willing to be his partner in a daring business venture, she is unwilling to take the passion he offers. Jessye knows that noble-born Harrison isn't for the likes of her, but beneath his devil-may-care exterior, she senses a deeper vulnerability. Then he's suddenly injured risking his life to save her from mortal danger. And Jessye vows to do anything to make him whole again--forcing this rugged scoundrel who claims he has no heart to take the greatest risk of all...on love.

NEVER MARRY A COWBOY 2/2001 ISBN: 0380803311 Sensitive and lovely Ashton Robertson fell in love with Kit Montgomery the moment she laid eyes on him. Four years later, her most cherished dream has come true: the rakish English aristocrat is her husband, if only for a brief time. But will a few days in paradise be enough, now that Ashton has found sweet freedom in his arms? To ease his tormented soul, Kit agreed to marry his friend's sister. But Ashton's gentle beauty and fiery spirit are slowly captivating the hardened rogue, causing him to reevaluate his outlook on life...and to wonder if, perhaps, they should turn their blissful temporary union into something more permanent.

THE OUTLAW AND THE LADY 10/2001 ISBN: 0380817411 Innocent Angela Bainbridge knows her dreams of a fairy-tale wedding and finding passion in a man's embrace can never come true. So when she's swept into the arms of--and kidnapped by--notorious Lee Raven she's both righteously angry . . .and curiously captivated. There's something about this brazen outlaw that awakens Angela's desires. She knows any crimes he's committed are for the protection of his family, but Angela realizes that a lifetime together with Lee can never be . . .Lee Raven knows he's only two steps ahead of the law. But this innocent beauty has his head spinning . . . and his heart longing for something more than a life on the run. She's made it clear that she's determined to discover all of his secrets--but how can he let her learn what's hidden in his past? And how can he let her give him her heart today, when he can't even promise her tomorrow?

PARTING GIFTS 12/1994 ISBN: 0786500611

A ROGUE IN TEXAS 5/1999 ISBN: 0380803291 A duke's son, Grayson Rhodes was a maverick who had left London's suffocating upper class world to earn his own fortune. So he seized the chance to work Abbie Westland's land...and from the moment he first saw Abbie, he was determined to use his arms to work the farm by day and to soothe her through the nights in his strong embrace. Abbie, with her fiery determination, was different from the fragile beauties he'd known at home. In her Grayson found an honest passion he'd never experienced before. But could their growing love survive the surprising reminder of her past that comes to haunt them?

SAMANTHA AND THE COWBOY 5/2002 ISBN: 0064473414 When she manages to get herself hired for the cattle drive, Samantha believes all her prayers have been answered. The hundred dollars she'll earn will pull her family's Texas farm out of ruin and pay off their debts. But keeping the cowhands fooled that she's a boy becomes harder than she'd expected where one cowboy in particular is concerned. Matthew Hart wants two things: to forget the tragedies he witnessed on the front lines of the War Between the States, and to reclaim his cowboy life. The last thing he wants is the responsibility of a tagalong youngster on the cattle drive. His closed mind and hardened heart are territory best left unexplored, until a fateful moment turns his world upside down.

SWEET LULLABY 3/1994 ISBN: 1557739870 Seduced, abandoned, and left pregnant and unwed, Rebecca finds a new life with Jake, a young ranchhand working her father's ranch and who dreams of a happy future on ranch of his own. Desperate to avoid a shocking scandal, Jake agrees to marry her and take responsibility for her child after receiving a proposition from her father. But would the marriage and the love ever become true?

TEXAS DESTINY 6/1997 ISBN:0451407520 Arriving on the Fort Worth train, Miss Amelia Carson, mail-order bride, had never met Dallas Leigh, the Texan she promised to marry. The tall cowboy at the station wasn't Dallas. He was Houston, Dallas's brother, sent to escort her on the rugged three-week trek to the ranch where Dallas waited. Brought up in war-ravaged Georgia, Amelia thought Dallas's letters made Texas sound like heaven, a place for her dreams to grow with the right man beside her. . . By all appearances, Houston Leigh would hardly be considered the "right man." The war he survived had scarred him inside and out, and he was little competition for his handsome brother. But from the moment Houston met Amelia, he knew she possessed the courage this wild land needed. She had eyes that could see past his wounded face to his soul. And he would fight any man--except his brother--for her heart. Now he and Amelia were riding down dangerous trails, sleeping under the stars, and, God help them, they were falling in love. . . .

TEXAS GLORY 4/1998 ISBN:0451407539 Ever since her mother's death, Cordelia McQueen has been a virtual prisoner in her father's house. But now everything had changed. Shamelessly traded in a battle for land and water rights, she was thrust into an unfamiliar world as the bride of Dallas Leigh. Dallas had given his life to the land. Now he would build a town that would put West Texas on the map. But as he gazed into the eyes of the lovely stranger who belonged to him, he caught a glimpse of another empire--a warm, radiant empire of the heart. Was this a woman to walk beside him, as, together, they carved out a future rich with the radiant promise of love?

TEXAS SPLENDOR 1/1999 ISBN:0451407547 Five years in prison for a crime he didn't commit...That's how long Austin Leigh has waited to clear his name, and to be reunited with his beloved Becky. But when he is finally released, Becky is married to another. Now, Austin is determined to find the killer who destroyed his life and ruined his one chance for love. He is searching for justice--and for revenge. But what he discovers along the way is something quite different. Her name is Loree Grant, and she's survived tragedy of her own. She is the kind of friend that Austin has never had, a true companion on the long road to forgiveness and redemption. And as Austin slowly bares his soul to this strong and beautiful woman, he begins to open his heart . . . to love.

Boni Heck

SOUTHERN RAPTURE 3/1993 ISBN: 0821740792 Dominique Chandler was horrified when her father's death left her and Belle Terre plantation in the charge of Evon Forest. She was sure the dashing rogue had stolen her inheritance, and would now take every liberty with her. Determined to escape him, she ran off to live in an old family riverboat and make it into a flourishing casino. But she could not forget her guardian's smoke-black gaze, his musky male scent and sensuous mouth. Mon Dieu, but he was a handsome devil! She must not dream of his steel muscles against her satin skin. Even though, when he took her in his arms, a powerful force like a bolt of lightning began to melt her will to flee... Evon Forest's obsidian eyes flashed as he considered his intolerable situation. If it weren't enough that his father was forcing him into marriage, his old friend had bequeathed him a wild young girl. As an honorable man - whatever this little hellion might think of him - he was pledged to protect Emmett Chandler's daughter. yet her sea-foam eyes and lithe limbs would tempt a saint. He longed to mold her ripe curves against his heated body, tangle that silver mane with his hungry hands, taste her champagne lips, and plumb the very depths of the passion he saw shining in her innocent eyes...

Beth Henderson

AT TWILIGHT 6/2004 ISBN: 0843953306 LOVE ON THE RUN On the course of his trek across the green Texas countryside in the spring of 1868, J.W. Walford only stopped at the small, hidden ranch intending to purchase a horse with which to hasten his flight from the law. But when he stumbled across an unconscious woman near the ranch's well, he had no choice but to help the damsel in distress. He never suspected that behind her raven-haired beauty lay the characteristics of a frontier hellion. When Louisa Burgess awoke to find a handsome stranger had come to her rescue, she thought it was just another of the many daydreams she'd indulged in since the death of her lying, cheating husband. But in the tattered remains of his Union Army uniform, this dark and brooding knight in shining armor was a waking fantasy. J.W. would be the answer to all her problems--her ticket away from the hardships of the debt left by her husband; away from the greedy eyes of banker Titus Gillette. With Louisa's infant in tow, the pair set off toward an unknown future. Their pasts were full of heartache, and the road ahead promised further trials. But neither was intimidated, for under the grand expanse of the velvety Texas sky, J.W. and Louisa found solace in each other's arms, every evening...AT TWILIGHT. RR@H's Novel Thoughts

WICKED(#598) 2/2002 ISBN: 0373291981 Working as an amateur photographer in San Francisco's sordid Barbary Coast, Lilly Renfrew stumbled upon the grisly stabbing of a prostitute. Fleeing the murder scene with the killer fast in pursuit, she crashed into a man as handsome as sin who vowed to protect her! As a former con artist, Deegan Galloway knew every back alley of the Barbary Coast, but as a newly accepted member of the upper classes, he was stifled by his boring, respectable life. When a beautiful damsel in distress begged his help in unearthing a murderer, he couldn't resist joining in the search. But he never imagined he'd be in danger of losing his heart....

Joyce Henderson

WALKS IN SHADOW 2/2005 ISBN: 0843955082 He stood on a hill, wild, proud, fierce, as beautiful as Texas was brutal, and she wanted him with a yearning so intense, so primal, it took her breath. But even after the magnificent black stallion was captured, no one could break him. No one until Holden Walker. She knew he could gentle a horse, but was he the one who would help her wrest back control of the ranch, and show her that a woman could find soaring joy as well as heartbreak in a man's world? RR@H's Novel Thoughts

WRITTEN ON THE WIND 12/2005 ISBN: 0843956216 Caught between two worlds...White Fawn thought she knew who she was and where she belonged--she was Comanche, and she belonged with her Indian family on the Texas plains. But all that changed after a raid turned deadly. The sole survivor, she was abducted by a man into a world from her past. Forced to face her long-forgotten white heritage, White Fawn struggled to keep the memories of her People close to her heart. But the biggest danger to her peace of mind was the tall Ranger, who tormented her dreams with his hot gaze. Matthew Conway wanted nothing more to do with the Indians who had killed his parents. It was why he had become a Texas Ranger, but he was tired of the bloodshed. He was ready to settle down on his ranch, and the little wildcat he had saved in that raid interfered with his plans for peace and quiet. She wreaked havoc on his concentration and his life. Soon she had him thinking of marriage and love--ideas that were completely out of the question. But perhaps he only needed to listen to his heart to hear what was...Written on the Wind. RR@H's Novel Thoughts

Lisa Hendrix

DRIFTER'S MOON 1/1995 ISBN: 0786500700 Mariah Hoag fought to keep her family's farm, not lose it to a greedy land baron like old John McKanzie... McKenzie's long-lost son came home to settle the past with his dying father, not fall for a strong-willed farm girl who stirred his heart - and hated his name. At first he was a dark, handsome stranger helping Mariah protect her farm from stampeding steer. A drifter whose stolen kisses drove Mariah's virtue to the brink. Then the truth came out - he was really Bay McKenzie, the youngest son of her family's worst enemy. Now Mariah must decide...is he part of yet another McKenzie scheme? Or is this irresistible cowboy an honorable man, a man worthy of the forbidden passion he has unleashed within her...

HOSTAGE HEART 1/1994 ISBN:1557739722 A Kidnapped bride....a ransomed love...and a hostage heart. Abigail Morgan heads to Colorado to marry a wealthy cattle baron. But her trip to the altar abruptly ends when she's kidnapped by her fiance's enemy. Cam is determined to seduce Abby to spite the man who destroyed his life. But soon he is wildly drawn to Abby's untamed spirit.

Shirl Henke

BILLIE JO AND THE VALENTINE CROW short story in AN OLD FASHIONED VALENTINE 2/1993 ISBN: 0843933887

BRIDE OF FORTUNE 5/1996 ISBN: 0312958579 Nicholas Fortune was a war-weary mercenary who had traveled around the world in search of a home. Raised in a New Orleans bordello, Nick had never belonged to any place or anyone. His only loyalty had been to himself until, amid the flames of revolution, he took another man's identity...and his wife. Mercedes Alvarado was a half-English, half-Spanish heiress whose delicate golden beauty concealed a will of steel. She had survived the desertion of her husband, the scorn of his aristocratic family and the ravages of a civil war, holding together a magnificent estate until her soldier husband returned to claim it...and her. The dark and dangerous man who rode home to that birthright touched her soul with a fiery need. He was the husband of her heart, but was he really Lucero Alvarado...or a stranger with her husband's face?

BROKEN VOWS 10/1995 ISBN: 0843938420 In the little Nevada town called Wellsville, the preacher's daughter and the champion boxer had dared to taste the fruits of a desire forbidden to them by society. Then fate had separated them and forever changed their lives. Years later, Rebekah was trapped in a hollow marriage to a wealthy senator, and Rory was bent on destroying the same politician at any cost. Neither could forget the passion they'd once shared; yet neither could forgive the other for past betrayals. Broken and bitter, Rebekah and Rory had but one chance for happiness; using the power of an undying love to vanquish the pain of broken vows.

CACTUS FLOWER 11/1988 ISBN: 0446346438 The Republic of Texas! It was big, rich, and free...and where eighteen-year-old tomboy Charlee McAllister hoped to join her brother on a ranch in San Antonio. Yet when she got there, he was dead, killed in a tragic 'accident.' Penniless, alone, and vowing to find her brother's murderer, Charlee went to work for Jim Slade, the ranch's handsome owner. Though his surly ways made Charlee's blood boil, his smile dazzled her, and on a steamy Texas night he forever claimed her innocence and stole her heart. But could Slade love her? Charlee knew his aristocratic fiancee; surely Jim would choose a lady over one of his hired hands! How could she know that one day she and Slade would fight together the deadly betrayal that engulfed them...and that in his bronzed arms she would know the glory of sublime surrender?

CAPTURE THE SUN 1988 ISBN: 0446346489 She was a flame-haired beauty forced to wed a man twice her age. Brought to the wilds of Montana, Carrie belonged to a rich and powerful husband who wanted an heir--and a woman to bed at whim. Yet while her young body serviced her husband's unknown lust, she remained a stranger to passion...until she met his half-breed son. Dark and reckless Hawk Sinclair was like no other man she had ever seen. Cheyenne blood showed in his coppery skin..in his long, taut muscled body...and in the hungry gaze that tormented her with desire. But how could she love her husband's son? The son her husband planned to disinherit? A man she thought of as a barbarian? Even as Hawk burned her lips with fevered kisses, she feared the consequences. But as he stoke the fires of rapture, her fear turned to ecstasy...and ecstasy turned to abandon.

DEEP AS THE RIVERS 3/1997 ISBN: 0312960115 With the Mississippi beckoning, Colonel Samuel Shelby is eager for his mission: making peace with the fierce Osage Indians....Together, Olivia and Samuel must survive the savage wilderness, engaged in a battle of wills which both vow to win, but which both are fated to lose. From ballrooms along the Potomac to Osage lodges on the Missouri, the lovers discover wild passion.

THE ENDLESS SKY 1/1998 ISBN: 0312964056 The White Wolf... In Boston, he is Chase Remington, a bitter outsider whose illustrious family hides secrets far more shocking than his own illegitimacy and half-breed blood. On the High Plains, he becomes the White Wolf, a fierce Cheyenne raider standing between the People and the white invaders who would destroy them. The White Woman... In Boston, she is Stephanie Summerfield, a bluestocking whose attraction to the notorious Remington heir sends shock waves through polite society. When her reputation is ruined by innuendo, she becomes the wife of a mercenary cavalry officer and travels West - only to be captured by the White Wolf. In the valley of the Little Big Horn, Chase and Stephanie finally accept what the Powers have decreed: they are fated to become lovers - if they can survive the troopers of the Long Hair, Custer, the vengeance of a brutal husband, and the fate of a proud but dying race...

A FIRE IN THE BLOOD 4/1994 ISBN:0843936010 When half-breed Jess Robbins rides into Cheyenne to chase down a gang of cattle thieves, he is sure of three things: The townsfolk will openly scorn him; the women will secretly want him; and the rustlers will definitely fear him. What he doesn't count on is a flame-haired spitfire named Lissa Jacobson, who has her own manhunt in mind.

GOLDEN LADY 9/1986 ISBN: 0446301655

LOVE UNWILLING 4/1987 ISBN: 0446323063

McCRORY'S LADY 4/1995 ISBN: 0843937734 Courageous and cunning, Maggie Worthington had survived alone in the rugged West, earning her keep in frontier cathouses. Once a proper, Boston-bred lady, she was more than a handful for any gunslinger with an eye for trouble. But the sharp-tongued madam finally met her match in a rancher with the burr of a Scotsman and the body of a god. To save his daughter's tattered reputation, Colin McCrory needed a take a wife. And even though women were scarce in the Arizona Territory, he was certain he could wed one whose past wasn't as sordid as Maggie's. Yet the feisty and defiant beauty's scorching kisses fired his blood as never before, and one night in her silken embrace convinced him that he had to tame her, to possess her, to make her...McCrory's Lady.

MOON FLOWER 10/1989 ISBN:0446346446 Lovely, fiery Deborah Manchester was determined to fight for women's equality--even though her proper Bostonian friends and her fiance scorned her ideas. Then, at their betrothal party, her husband to be attacked both her beliefs and her honor. But just as he was about to disgrace her forever, an olive-skinned stranger broke down the door and came to her rescue. He was Rafael Flamenco, a Creole with flashing eyes, the wealthy heir to vast sugar holdings, and a man unlike any Deborah had ever met.

NIGHT FLOWER 5/1990 ISBN: 0446346462 There were those in Texas who declared no man with a knife or a gun could defeat Lee Velasquez, a loner as lean and deadly as a panther and feared to be a bloodthirsty scalper and renegade pistolero. There were others who whispered no man, drunk or sober, could resist Melanie Fleming, the scandal-born daughter of a New Orleans palace, the petite yet fiery crusader for the blazing banners of abolition and women's rights, a sensuous hoyden with big, gold-coin eyes and a long, silky wealth of ebony hair. While she fought for justice, he rode alone, outside the law. They were enemies: He hated her Indian and African blood; she despised his arrogant Spanish pride. But in his arms her stubborn resistance would melt in a heedless torrent of flame-hot kisses - and be swept away in a single, unsparing act of rapturous surrender...

NIGHT WIND'S WOMAN 4/1991 ISBN: 0843945079 Theirs will not be an easy path to travel, but they are fated to love. So speaks the Indian medicine woman when Night Wind leads his beautiful Spanish captive into the remote Apache stronghold. Proud and untamable as a lioness, Orlena vows she will never submit to the renegade who nightly teases her body into a frenzy of longing. For though his searing touch promises ecstasy, his heart is filled with hatred. A long-ago betrayal has made this man her enemy, but a bond even stronger than love will make her Night Wind's woman.

SUNDANCER 1/1999 ISBN: 0312966911 With blood on his hands and vengeance in his heart, Cain has spent a life brooding over those who have betrayed him... and the fate that has cursed him as a half-breed. But in the Cheyenne village of his youth, he comes face-to-face with the most destructive traitor of all... Running from deadly danger and dark secrets, Roxanna Fallon heads west. But an Indian ambush plunges her headlong into peril and sweet desire in the arms of her rescuer. Posing as Alexa, the heiress, she never dreams she will become a pawn in the rivalry between two railroad barons...and caught between the passions of two brothers.

TERMS OF LOVE 10/1992 ISBN: 0843933453 The Heiress - Cassandra Clayton could wield a blacksnake whip as well as any mule skinner and cuss as well as any Denver saloon girl. She could run her father's freighting empire without the help of any man, but there was one thing she couldn't do alone - produce a male child who would one day inherit it all. The Prisoner - Wrongly accused of murder and rescued from the hangman's noose, Steve Loring was just what Cass needed - a stud who would perform on command. What she hadn't counted on was the cost of his services. The Price of Love - From the first, Steve made it clear that silver dollars would never be enough - he wanted Cass's heart and soul in the bargain. His sarcastic taunts made her dread the nights when she must give him her body, but his exquisite lovemaking made her long to give him all that he asked - and more!

TERMS OF SURRENDER 4/1993 ISBN: 0843934247 The Gambler - Devilishly handsome, Rhys Davies owned half of Starlight, Colorado, within weeks of riding into town. But there was one 'property' he'd give all the rest to possess. The Lady - The glacially beautiful daughter of Starlight's first family detested Rhy's flamboyant arrogance. But Victoria was still more disturbed by her own unladylike response to his compelling masculinity. The Terms - To win the lady, the gambler would have to wager his very life - and hope that the devil did, indeed, look after his own.

TEXAS VISCOUNT10/2004 ISBN: 0843954231 THE BRIT - Staid, starchy Sabrina Edgewater, teacher of deportment, first encountered her nemesis in a London dockside brawl that earned him the nickname of "Texas Viscount.' Privately, she called him the "Texas Visigoth," never imagining that the lout would turn out to be the earl of Hambleton's heir. THE BARBARIAN - Raised in a Texas bordello, Joshua Cantrell was brash and bold, a self-made millionaire who only agreed to become a viscount to ferret out an international conspiracy. The last thing he needed was to lock horns with a prissy little schoolmarm, even if she was as cute as an acre of speckled pups. THE BRIBE - Whiskey-swillin Texan and oh-so-proper Englishwoman, they struck sparks off each other whenever they met. But then Lord Hambleton offered Sabrina money enough to open the school she'd always dreamed of if she'd only take the rough edges off his heir. Did she dare risk reputation to achieve her heart's desire? Or was her heart's desire...The Texas Viscount. RR@H's Novel Thoughts

WHITE APACHE'S WOMAN 10/1993 ISBN: 0843934980 An aristocrat by birth, an Apache by training, Red Eagle was a renegade by choice. Running from the past, he had no desire to become entangled with the haughty beauty who hired him to guide her across the treacherous Camino Real to Santa Fe. Elise Louvois was an enigma at best, a possible fatal distraction at worst. Her cool violet eyes betrayed none of her secrets, but her warm, willing body came alive beneath his masterful touch. She would risk her vulnerable heart. Mystified, Red Eagle was certain of but one thing - the spirits has destined her to be...White Apache's Woman.

Jill Henry

A CANDLE IN THE WINDOW 10/2000 ISBN: 0821767577 A Wanted Man Escaping into a blizzard with bounty hunters on his trail, Luke McKenna desperately needed to find shelter for his small daughter. Just as he began to lose hope, a light through the blinding storm led him to schoolteacher Molly Lambert's cabin, and Luke knew he'd found a bittersweet gift. For Molly was the kind of woman he could love. But when the storm moved on, so would he...to face the life of a fugitive alone. When the stranger appeared at her doorstep carrying a sick child, Molly couldn't turn him away. The man was as hard as the gun he carried, but soft as a kitten when it came to his daughter. Snowbound in her tiny cabin, the attraction between them deepened. Now Molly was dreading the day that Luke would leave. But love will light even the darkest days of winter...and Christmas miracles come straight from the heart.

GARNET'S TREASURE 5/1999 ISBN:0821763725 (Precious Gem)

HANNAH'S HEART 2/1999 ISBN: 0821761196 Recently widowed Hannah Sawyer finds that running a Montana ranch is not easy for a woman alone. Debts to pay and a devastating fire that burned her barn to the ground have left her with no choice but to marry a man she hardly knows. For rugged bounty hunter Colton Kincaid, marrying Hannah was a business arrangement, plain and simple. He needed a mother for his three-year-old son and Hannah needed help running her ranch. Romance wasn't part of the bargain...even if his golden-haired wife was the most tantalizingly beautiful woman he'd ever laid eyes on. Hannah vowed never to let a man have control over her life. And yet she couldn't deny that Colton's dark strength and gentle touch awakened feelings she thought bad died a long time ago. But shadowed by suspicious events at the ranch and dangerous threats from the past, Hannah must trust Colton with all her heart, if their marriage of convenience is to become a true union of love...

LISSA'S GROOM 7/1999 ISBN: 0821762605 Marshall Jack Emerson awoke to find himself injured and in a strange bed with a beauty claiming to be his fiancé. How could he remember proposing to Lissa Banks if all he could recall was his first name? Nothing seemed right except the tender touch of the sweet blue-eyed angel tending his wounds. ...Newly widowed on a rugged frontier, Lissa Banks had no choice but to agree to a mail-order marriage if she wanted to save her ranch. But when her groom didn't show, she was ready to give up hope until she spotted a man lying on the ground, looking close to death. Surely this had to be her betrothed--his handsome appearance matching the description he'd given in his letter. ... As man and wife, Jack and Lissa's desire for one another makes their union whole. But when Jack regains his memory, danger threatens to tear them apart and they must place their faith and love in the forces that brought them together.

MacLAIN'S WIFE 1/2000 ISBN: 0821765914 Pretty Polly Brown, the trouser-wearing daughter of an outlaw, had her six guns-and her freedom. Life would be perfect if she weren't on the run from Bart Dixon, the notorious gunslinger who'd sworn to kill her. When she stepped off the stagecoach in Montana Territory dressed as a fine city woman, Polly knew she could fool Dixon. Was it her fault that the handsome sheriff of Indian Trails mistook her for the mail-order bride he'd been expecting? Sheriff Ben MacLain quickly realized Polly was both an impostor and a woman with something to hide. But after she formed an instant bond with his motherless daughter, Emily, he decided to let her stay. He never counted on the feelings this irrepressible and mischievous gal would inspire in him. Just as Polly never reckoned on facing something even more threatening than the past she'd tried to escape, the dangerous desire for love.

SUNLIGHT AND SHADOWS 11/1999 ISBN:082176540X Ever since her husband, Richard, was killed, Nettie Pickering had been struggling to hold her life together.

Marilyn Herr

WHERE THE HEART LEADS: In Love and War 1/2003 ISBN: 0821774476 When Rachel Whitfield's brother Zeb is taken from the family trading post in Western Pennsylvania by French Canadian marauders, English trader Jonah Butler is taken with him. But Jonah reappears weeks later, and though Rachel is suspicious of the man-and worried he escaped at her brother's expense-her father is determined that Jonah will escort Rachel to safety at her sister's home in Lancaster. Spirited Rachel has other ideas, however-such as persuading the brawny trader to take her north to rescue Zeb. It's a battle of wills from the beginning, but soon it's something more-a journey not only into the path of a vicious French villain, but into the secrets of desire, and the promise of a rare love Rachel and Jonah will fight to claim...

Linda Herring

DREAMS FULFILLED 9/1996 ISBN: 1557489319 Their dream is so real they can almost taste it. But for Daniel and Mary Anna Thornton, a comfortable living on the Texas frontier will exact a terrible price. Reservation Indians attack the pioneers who stole their land. Union soldiers enforce punitive policies against the Southerners who so recently fought against them. And disease awaits at every turn to destroy the weak. Through all the hardships, Daniel and Mary Anna's love for each other holds them together. But now the harsh words are spoken. Daniel leaves. How can their dream be fulfilled?

DREAMS OF GLORY 1/1996 ISBN:1557488355 Mary Anna and Daniel Thornton are intent on building a future for their children on the Texas frontier. Then the South goes to war and Daniel feels honor-bound to join, fighting for a man's right to run his home without government interference. Mary Anna single-handedly provides for her family, but one question echoes in her heart: What happened to Daniel? There are no letters and his name doesn't appear on the lists of those killed or missing. Have Daniel's dreams of glory supplanted the dreams of their youth? As Mary Anna gazes out at the horizon, a tear kisses her sunburned cheek.

DREAMS OF THE PIONEERS 1995 ISBN: 1557487731 As newlyweds, Mary Anna and Daniel Thornton dream of carving out an empire on the Texas frontier. But that is before they discover their new home lies on the main Comanche route to Mexico, and before renegade Comanche begin stealing horses and food. While Mary Anna has always felt compassion for those who were driven from their homes by the white man, Daniel is not as understanding. Consumed by bitterness toward the Indians, he holds them responsible for his grandfather's death. Standing in the ashes of their dream-filled home, Mary Anna prays for peace, a peace that may never come. Will the dreams of these young pioneers ever be realized...or will they end in a nightmare of senseless bloodshed?

Terri Herrington

SILENA 1/1993 ISBN: 006108039X Silena Rivers was determined to uncover the secret of her past. But the headstrong innocent never dreamed that her quest would take her to a wild West show and into the embrace of a gunslinger. From the moment Silena rode into town, legendary sharp-shooter Sam Hawkins knew his life would never be the same. Sworn to protect this wild prairie rose who stirred his blood, Sam vowed to one day make her his. Yet, even he couldn't foresee the perils that awaited Silena or the love he'd risk his life to claim.

Phyllis Herrmann

HIDDEN FIRE 9/1989 ISBN: 0445209615 She was fire and ice, a prim and proper Boston governess yearning to be free…“You don’t have a six-shooter that needs to be put away, do you?” Who could blame Mary Margaret Simpson for being curt to the unruly-looking John Adams Worthington? Her wealthy cousins were now tragically dead and their young children, Mary Margaret’s charges, were about to find a new home with this dusty-booted “black sheep” uncle from Wyoming. A man bound by a shell of hurt and a secret family shame, Worth was determined to raise the children on his ranch. A writer who had long kept her career—and her considerable talent—a secret, Mary Margaret was determined to begin a new life on her own. But she could not help feeling Worth’s blue eyes caressing her, or keep from noticing how his shaggy hair was tipped with blond. Then with one touch, he was no longer her adversary, but her ally…and more. A fountain of passion had been tapped. Soon, she would dare to leave Boston for the untamed West, where love—and destiny—breathlessly awaited.

Norah Hess

BLAZE 4/1997 ISBN: 0843942223 He was the last person Blaze Adlington wanted to see when her covered wagon pulled into Fort Bridger. The beautiful orphan was desperately trying to make a new life for herself in the wilds of Wyoming. But now she was face-to-face with the man who'd hunted down her father's outlaw band, and the hard look in his gray eyes told her he would never let her forget her sordid past. She seemed so young and innocent, but Hunter Ward knew better. She was the kind of woman who set a man's senses ablaze, the kind who would only trample his wounded heart. Still, his pressing need for a housekeeper to care for his motherless little girl forced him to approach her. And when she demanded marriage in exchange, he found himself agreeing. Against all reason, he began to hope that this was the woman who could warm his empty home and light up his lonely life.    

CALEB'S BRIDE 1978 ISBN:0872164594 Roxanne Sherwood: Boston-bred, virginal and newly orphaned, she was not prepared to face the hardships of the primitive Kentucky wilderness or the roughness and easy familiarity of the backwoodsmen who pursued her. Caleb Coleman had claimed her as his wife and forced her to submit to his every desire. But, without love and without a real marriage, Roxanne was determined to resist him or bring him to her terms. Seth Hale had never touched her, but he offered Roxanne the perfect marriage she thought she wanted. But when she found him with a young Indian girl, she realized Seth could never be the man for her. The Indians called her "Golden Woman," and word of her pale beauty spread throughout the territory. Roxanne tried to ignore the lecherous stares and pretended she didn't understand what people were saying about her. But the chase was on, and inevitable she was going to be drawn into a trap.

DEVIL IN SPURS 4/1990 ISBN: 0505522942 Raised in a bawdy house, lovely young Jonty Rand posed as a boy all her life to escape the notice of the rowdy cowboys who frequented the place. And to Jonty's way of thinking, the most notorious womanizer of the bunch is Cord McBain. So when her granny's dying wish makes Cord Jonty's guardian, she despairs of ever revealing her true identity. In the rugged solitude of the Wyoming wilderness he rides his young charge relentlessly, assigning Jonty all the hardest tasks on his horse ranch and making her life a torment. Then one stormy night, Cord discovers that Jonty will never be a man, only the wildest, most willing woman he's ever taken in his arms, the one woman who can claim his heart.  

DYLAN 3/2005 ISBN: 0843950587 Dylan Quade was a man’s man, whether he was running cattle on his Bar X ranch, breaking a bronc or carousing in the rowdy saloons of Jackson Hole. He had no use for any woman, least of all the bedraggled charity case his shiftless kin were trying to palm off on him. Rachel Sutter had been wedded and widowed on the same day and now his dirt-poor cousins refused to take her in, claiming she’d make Dylan a fine wife. Not if he had anything to say about it! But one good look at Rachel’s long, long legs and white-blond hair had the avowed bachelor singing a different tune. The beautiful mountain girl had too much pride to stay where she wasn’t wanted and soon Dylan was reduced to haunting the trading post where she’d found refuge, hoping for a glimpse of her moonlit loveliness. All he wanted was to prove he was different from the low-down snakes she’d known before, to convince her that he was a changed man, one who would give anything to have the right to take her in his arms and love her the rest of his life. RR@H's Novel Thoughts

ELISHA'S WOMAN 1977 ISBN:087216371. She was a woman who wanted the love of only one man. Somehow her chances always seemed to slip from her grasp. Now she was beginning a new life and determined to have the one man she wanted.

FANCY 5/1995 ISBN: 0843937831 Fancy Cranson has to use her brains or her body to keep her small family together. With no other choice, Fancy vows she'll work herself to the bone before selling herself to any timberman--even one as handsome, virile, and arrogant as Chance Dawson. Chance wants Fancy for himself, but he's felled trees less stubborn than the beautiful orphan. To win her hand, he will trade his roughhewn ways for tender caresses, and brazen curses for soft words of desire. Only then will he be able to share with her a love that unites them in passionate splendor.

FLINT 3/2001 ISBN: 084394840X A hard-eyed man, Flint Mahone comes back from the War Between the States with only one tender feeling left--for the missing children of his dead brother. So when the three little ones show up on his doorstep with a fierce Wyoming winter in the offing, he knows he will do whatever it takes to make them a home. Lauren Hart has been raised among outlaws, taught to gamble to make her way in the world, but she wants nothing more than to lead a decent life, to meet other girls her age, to own a pretty dress. One glance tells her Flint Mahone is trouble, a ladies' man who knows all the right moves and none of the right emotions. Love is as foreign to him as marriage, but Lauren can't resist his plea for help. And when she sees the gentle way he holds his little niece, she knows there is hope yet of reaching the warm, caring man beneath the wild, carousing cowboy.

FOREVER THE FLAME 1987 ISBN:044151574 Juliana Roessler was alone, lost in a wilderness ravaged by a violent storm. She awoke in the arms of her savior, a handsome stranger named Sate Margruder. And there, in his backwoods cabin, the delicate lady and rugged trapper fell in love. Their newfound passions were as wild and free as the wind, their unspoken needs fulfilled by each other's touch. Yet destiny soon tore them apart, and Juliana found herself in a distant, lawless frontier, endangered by Indians and white men alike. Bittersweet dreams of the passionate mountain man warmed her lonely heart. But only his flesh-and-blood embrace could truly free her soul.

HAWKE'S PRIDE 1/1991 ISBN: 0843942045 From the moment she laid eyes on him, Rue thought Hawke Masters the most insufferable man she'd ever met. Proud, arrogant, overbearing, he made it insultingly clear that although her grandfather's shotgun had forced him to wed Rue, nothing would make him bed a scrawny little backwoods baggage like her. But pride goeth before a fall, and Hawke Masters was going to fall hard. Once he got Rue home to his ranch to care for his orphaned niece and nephew, the girl began to blossom. Her tousled red-gold hair made his fingers itch to bury themselves in its silky mass; her velvet-soft skin cried out for the burning touch of his lips; and the ripe promise of her lush young body drove him to distraction. No matter what the cost to his manhood, he had to convince Rue that he was no longer a hopeless boor, but the hopelessly smitten husband who would have her, hold her, and cherish her for the rest of their lives..

THE HOMECOMING Short Story in A FRONTIER CHRISTMAS 11/1992 ISBN:0843933542

HUNTER'S MOON 1976 Raif, had been her first lover, but now he was dead and, to survive, she was quickly becoming an accomplished whore. Only nineteen, Darcy leaped at the chance to begin her life again in this strange, isolated place where no one knew her sordid past. But violence pursued Darcy into the Kentucky hills, and soon she found herself caught between the bold and dashing Delaney brothers - fierce mountain men who would stop at nothing to call her their own. Darcy  knew she must choose between the possessive and sensual embraces of Jarvis Delaney and the savage lust of his brother, Mike. But was there any way to make that choice without anger and bloodshed

JADE 10/1997 ISBN: 0843943106 Kane Roemer headed up into the Wyoming mountains hell-bent on fulfilling his heart's desire. There, amid the majestic peaks, the rugged horseman fell in love at first sight - with a white stallion that had no equal anywhere in the West. But before Kane could ride the magnificent beast off into the sunset, he'd have to use his considerable charms to gentle a beautiful spitfire who claimed the animal as her own. Proud, high-spirited Jade Farrow could do what no man had ever done: She could ride the notorious Satan. So she'd be damned if she'd give up her beloved horse without a fight. Determined to break Roemer, the fiery hellion followed him to his Laramie spread. Then a sudden blizzard trapped Jade with her sworn enemy, and she discovered that the only way she could hope to keep Satan was to rope, corral, and brand Kane with her unbridled passion.

KENTUCKY BRIDE 4/1992 ISBN: 0843932538 Fleeing her abusive uncle, young D'lise Alexander trusted no man-until she was rescued by virile trapper Kane Devlin. His rugged strength and tender concern convinced D'lise she would find a safe haven in his backwoods homestead. There, amid the simple pleasures of cornhuskings and barn raisings, she discovered that Kane had kindled a blaze of desire that burned hotter than the flames in his rugged stone hearth. Beneath his soul-stirring kisses she forgot her fears, forgot everything except her longing to become his sweet-Kentucky Bride.

KENTUCKY WOMAN 10/1993 ISBN: 084394210X Certain that trapping, drinking, and carousing leave him no time for settling down, Spencer Atkins soon changes his mind when he meets Gretchen Ames, a beautiful woman fresh from the poorhouse.

LACEY 4/1996 ISBN:0843939419 Stranded on the Western frontier, Lacey Stewart suddenly had to depend on the kindness of strangers. And no one showed her more generosity than the rancher who offered to marry her. But shortly after Trey Saunders and Lacey were pronounced husband and wife, he was off to a cattle drive--and another woman's bed. Shocked to discover that the dashing groom wanted her to be a pawn in a vicious game of revenge, the young firebrand refused to obey her vows. Only when Trey proved that he loved, honored, and cherished his blushing bride would Lacey forsake all others and unite with him in wedded bliss.

LARK 6/1999 ISBN:0843945222 Trapped in an unhappy marriage, Lark longs to lead a normal life like that of the young girls in town. She had married a man twice her age in order to attain shelter for her family during the long Colorado winter. Now, resigned to backbreaking work on his ranch, Lark finds one person who makes the days bearable. His name is Ace Brandon, a rugged cowhand. When her husbands hires Ace to father him an heir, Lark feels she's been wronged. But as she comes to look forward to Ace's touch, she realizes that he is the man of her dreams.

MARNA 1980 ISBN: 0872166716 Marna, untamed and innocent, is forced to disguise her charms to escape the unquenchable lust of dangerous men. A loveless marriage to a rugged hunter seems to be her only escape from a life of prostitution. Yet Marna is determined to be happy, even if it means living with a man who grimaces at the sight of her. Matt Barton loves his life of freedom, until an accident renders him duty bound to marry the wild girl who had saved his life. Despite her ragged looks and feisty spirit, Matt finds himself yearning for her. Though jealous of the many men who want to have her body for their own, Matt is the last to see Marna's true beauty. Is it too late for Matt to win the heart of the woman he loves?

MOUNTAIN ROSE 3/1993 ISBN: 0843943548 When Chase Donlin receives a letter from his dying stepsister in Idaho, he doesn't hesitate before agreeing to care for Anne's daughter, his niece in all but blood. Yet Chase never dreamed that "little Raegan would be a blooming young woman, just ready for plucking. How is he supposed to act the part of guardian and uncle when every tantalizing glimpse of her sweet-scented flesh sets off a storm of desire in his blood? As he introduces Raegan to the rugged life of a trapper in the sparsely populated hills of Oregon, her innocence and complete trust seem to mock Chase. There is no way in the world that he can keep his honor and still have a taste of his wild Mountain Rose.

RAVEN 10/1999 ISBN: 0843946113 When Raven's two-bit gambler husband ordered her to entertain a handsome cowboy at dinner, she didn't dare refuse, not even when she learned that he had promised the good-looking stranger a night in her bed for $1,000. After their night of passion, Chance McGruder couldn't get the dark-haired little beauty out of her mind. So he was both tantalized and tormented when she showed up at the neighboring ranch, newly widowed but no less desirable. What kind of a wife would agree to sell herself to another man? What kind of a widow could make him burn to possess her? And what kind of man was he to ignore his doubts and gamble his heart that when she gave her body this time, it would be for love.

SAGE 4/1994 ISBN: 0843945176 Jim LaTour wasn't the marrying kind. With a wild past behind him, he planned to spend the rest of his days in peace, enjoying the favors of the local fancy ladies and running his bar. He didn't realize what he was missing until an irresistible songbird threatened his cherished independence and opened his heart. Pursued by the man who had murdered her husband, Sage Larkin faced an uncertain future on the rugged frontier. But when she landed a job singing at the Trail's End saloon, she hoped to start anew. And though love was the last thing Sage wanted, she couldn't resist the sweet, seductive melody of Jim's passionate advances.  

SNOW FIRE 3/2000 ISBN: 0843946911 She was lost, blinded by the swirling storm and battered by the harsh rain, Flame knew that she could not give up if she was to survive. Her memory gone, the lovely firebrand awoke to find that the strong arms encircling her belonged to a devilishly handsome stranger, and one look at his blazing eyes told her that the haven she had found promised a passion that would burn for a lifetime. She was the most lovely thing he had ever seen. From the moment he took Flame in his arms and gazed into her sparkling eyes, Stone knew that the red-headed virgin had captured his heart. The very sight of her smile stoked fiery desires in him that  only her touch could extinguish. To protect he'd claim her as his wife, and pray he could ruin her heart before she discovered the truth.

STORM 9/1994 ISBN:084393672X. Wade Magellen led the life of a devil-may-care bachelor until Storm Roemer tames his wild heart and calmed his hotheaded ways. But a devastating secret made him send away the most breathtaking girl in Wyoming - and with her, his one chance at happiness. As gentle as a breeze, yet as strong willed as a gale, Storm returned to Laramie after years of trying to forget Wade. One look at the handsome cowboy unleashed a torrent of longing she couldn't deny, no matter what obstacle stood between them. Storm only had to decide if she'd win Wade back with a love as sweet as summer rain - or a whirlwind of passion that would leave him begging for more.

TANNER 9/1998 ISBN: 0843944242 Roxy Bartel needed a husband. More important, her son needed a father. But how could the lonely saloon owner think of other men when she couldn't forget Tanner Graylord, the man who'd proposed to her eight years before? And how could she ever forgive him? He'd shown her firsthand all the pleasures love had to offer, then abruptly walked out of her life, leaving her to bear his child alone. Well, now Tanner was back. No longer the poor cowboy Roxy's father had despised, he returned from the war to the most prosperous cattle ranch in Denver. Though he tried to put the past behind him, when he saw Roxy he was flooded with desire and memories of those soft, sweet nights. If only she knew that he had never stopped loving her, could never stop loving her, they might live the life they'd always planned - in each other's arms.

TENNESSEE MOON 11/1996 ISBN: 0843941065 Tall, quiet, and darkly handsome, Matt Ingram had shouldered more than his share of life's burdens. Besides working his farm in the Cumberland Gap and raising his little nephew, he had to keep a watchful eye on his womanizing wastrel of a stepbrother. And he knew he had his work cut out for him on the night the two men first saw their beautiful new neighbor. She appeared out of the mountain mists, looking more like an airy sprite than a flesh-and-blood woman. But when the moon broke through the fog, illuminating her red-gold curls and sweet smile, Matt's reaction was all too real. He longed to lose himself in Kaitlan's innocence, to forget the betrayals of the past that had made him brooding and bitter. No matter what it took, he would protect Kaitlan from the careless seduction of his stepbrother, for this was the one woman whose bright spirit could light up his life.

WILDFIRE 1989 ISBN: 0505523310 The Yankees killed her sweetheart, imprisoned her brother, and drove her from her home, but beautiful golden-haired Serena Bain faces the future boldly as the wagon trains roll out. But all the peril in the world won't change her bitter resentment of the darkly handsome Yankee wagon master Josh Quade. Soon, however, her heart betrays her will. His strong, rippling, buckskin-clad body sets her senses on fire. But pride and fate continue to tear them apart as the wagon trains roll west--until one night, in the soft, secret darkness of a bordello, Serena and Josh unleash their wildest passion and open their souls to the sweetest raptures of love.

WILLOW 4/1998 ISBN: 0843943734 When Willow Ames left El Paso to meet her new employer, she never expected he would be the arrogant, darkly handsome cowboy who'd propositioned her just the night before. As virile and dangerous as the flashy black stallion he rode, Jules Asher aroused her fury-and her senses. Running from a forced marriage, Willow had no choice but to accept the job, though she made it clear she'd come to the ranch to be Asher's housekeeper, not to play house. Still, as she worked alongside her new boss, sharing the hardships of ranch life and the soft, sweet nights, Willow realized that if Jules asked her to marry him, she'd run again-straight into his loving arms.

WINTER LOVE 11/1995 ISBN: 0505523655 As fresh and enchanting as a new snowfall, Laura always adored Fletcher Thomas. Yet she fears she will never win the trapper's heart--until one passion-filled night in his father's barn. Lost in his heated caresses, the innocent beauty succumbs to a desire as strong and unpredictable as a Michigan blizzard. But Laura has barely cleared her head of Fletch's musk scent and the sweet smell of hay before circumstances separate them and threaten to end their winter love.

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