Lynn LeMon
SUNRISE TEMPTATION 1/1982 ISBN:1576570878 Dark-eyed, recklessly passionate Ariel Cortland scorned the life of mission schoolteacher, and fled her lush Hawaiian home for the rich boomtown of Virginia City. She would find more there than just the promise of wealth. There was Traver Loch, the volatile, red-headed Scotsman who shared her love of excitement. And sturdy, blue-eyed Mitch Galway, a man who knew what he wanted... Becoming the first woman mine owner in Nevada's fabulous Comstock Lode was only the beginning for Ariel. Now two men laid claim to her heart - but only one could win the treasure of her love.
Julie Lence
LUCK OF THE DRAW 6/2007 ISBN: 1934337056 Royce Weston has little use for the opposite sex, until Paige Morgan deals him a hand he can't refuse. Royce Weston knows firsthand women are exceptional liars, especially the one who has wormed her way into his family's good graces by claiming amnesia. Since Paige didn't heed his advice at the poker tables, he reasons a bit of "friendly" persuasion is needed to send her packing from Wooded Acres. But when she matches him trick for trick and has his ranch hands jumping to please her, Royce knows he's met his match. A simpering miss she is not. Sassy and daring; if only she'd give him a reason to trust her... Royce despises her—Paige knows that much is true. But she's convinced he knows something about her past, and until he tells her about her family, she isn't going anywhere. And if in the meantime she happens to tame this rough and tough cowboy, all the better. Any girl will tell you, it's not how you play the cards, it's the Luck of the Draw that counts....RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Jan Lesoing
DESTINY'S INTERLUDE 1989 ISBN: 051700707X Philippa had fled St. Louis and the hated husband she'd been forced to wed. Now, armed with a new name, a new identity, and a new profession as a schoolmarm, the lissome blonde had come to Bluffsview, Nebraska - the last place on earth he'd look for her. Ryan Murphy was the handsomest, ruggedest man Philippa had ever met, the kind of rough-hewn hero they bred only in the West. A wife in name only, Philippa was as innocent about passion as she was about life on the frontier. She might be a gifted schoolmarm, but she needed lessons in love, and Ryan Murphy was the teacher of her dreams. She knew he wanted her, so she couldn't understand his reticence. Would she discover his secret - before he discovered hers?
FOREVER YESTERDAY 1988 ISBN: 0517006235 Hopelessly ensnared in a tangle of deception, lovely Anne - posing as an heiress - was forced to flee the luxury of a Chicago mansion to wed a hard-riding cattleman. Roughhewn Eastman, beguiled by his bride's tender radiance, vowed never to allow his wounded heart to be captured. But how long could Anne shield the dangerous truth of her identity? And how long before such soaring, glorious passion could rise in triumph?
Sherri Lewis
AN ECHO IN TIME 9/2001 ISBN: 0515131563 (Time Travel) Sheriff and single mother Taylor O'Brien has enough worries as it is, what with spearheading a campaign for her reelection as sheriff, keeping the peace in her Montana mountain town, and raising her ten-year-old son. The last thing she needs now is a complicated romance....Then into Taylor's life wanders Sam Evans, a ruggedly handsome cowboy who looks like he just stepped out of the late 1800s. As if his clothes aren't strange enough, Sam has never tasted a French fry, jumps at the jingle of a phone, and has never seen a woman in pants, let alone a lady-sheriff. The fact is, he did just step out of the nineteenth century-through a time-travel change. By traveling through time, Sam had hoped to forget his woman troubles for awhile. But it was over a hundred years ago that he swore off women-and time has a way of changing one's mind.
ONLY TIME WILL TELL 4/2003 ISBN: 0515133663 (Time Travel) When Courtney Moss slips into an antique rose gown, she miraculously slips out of the modern world...and ends up in Virginia City during the Gold Rush-and straight in the arms of Heath Sullivan. Courtney Moss only came back to her quiet hometown of Virginia City, Montana, to clean out her grandmother's attic--and she's only attending the town Victorian Ball as a favor to a friend who's helping her. But when she slips into an antique rose gown, she miraculously slips out of the modern world....... and ends up in Virginia City during the gold rush. Heath Sullivan finds her locked in a shed--all dolled up and talking crazy. He's never seen a woman like Courtney in a wild boomtown like this. Could she be telling the truth about being from somewhere in the future? Heath doesn't plan on sticking around to find out, no matter how beautiful she may be. And despite the comforting presence of this rugged stranger, Courtney certainly doesn't intend to stay in 1864. But time after time, love seems to have a plan all its own...
Jill Limber
MONTANA MORNING 6/1996 ISBN: 0061084433 In a marriage of convenience love only gets in the way... In the small town of Dennison, Montana Territory, law decreed that a man sentenced to hang could be saved by a woman who claimed him for matrimony. Bruised, battered - and with a noose around his neck - Wes Merrick was perfect husband material for Katherine Holman. Under the conditions of her father's will, Katherine would loose her family ranch unless she married. Of course she expected that her chosen husband would leave her in peace once she inherited the ranch. But Wes was determined at least to touch her silken hair and kiss those full lips. If he could not win her trust, then he would simply win her love.
Betina Lindsey
WALTZ WITH THE LADY 1/1990 ISBN:0671672649 In the vast Wyoming Territory, they embraced a proud vision of life - and love!...In the years after the Civil War, Miss India Simms left the comforts of Boston - to preach women's rights throughout the Wyoming Territory. The raw town of Cheyenne was a shock to the petite aristocrat - and so was her guide, Gat Ransom! His rough-hewn appearance and quick, good-natured smile embodied the contradictions of the West. But his scarred, taut power set disturbing, unfamiliar feelings pounding through India's veins...India and Random rode the sweeping plains and towering forests, sharing laughter, danger...and a sensuous promise. For they shared, too, a deep need for freedom that kept them achingly apart. Only when they cast off their stubborn pride would they know the bliss of pure surrender, the fiery love that would be theirs...forever!
Johanna Lindsey
ALL I NEED IS YOU 12/1997 ISBN: 0380762609 Headstrong Casey Straton inherited her mother's beautiful eyes and her father's stubborn temperament. So when she is denied the responsibility of running her grandfather's ranch despite her unladylike prowess at roping, riding and shooting the high-spirited hellion storms away from her Texas home, determined to prove she can do much more than "woman's work." Successful businessman Damian Rutledge III came West for vengeance. But though he possesses a powerful physique and unwavering courage, the handsome Eastern "dude" would have surely been lost in the wild west without the timely intervention of a half-pint bounty hunter called "Ed." There is more to this fearless gunslinger than first meets the eye, however. And when Damian discovers his rescuer is, in fact, a stunningly sensuous young lady named "Casey' in disguise, he realises dial there are going to be very serious complications on the rocky trail that is leading them both toward a dangerous, irrepressible love. .
ANGEL 12/1992 ISBN: 0380756285 A Touch of Hell....Hoping to cool off a twenty-five-year-old feud between two neighboring families, Cassie Stuart only succeeds in pouring kerosene on the flames. Both sides have warned her to get out of Texas pronto... or they will burn her father's ranch to the ground. What Cassie needs is a peacemaker --but she ends up with a widow-maker instead. A Taste of Heaven....He is called Angel --a ruggedly handsome hired gun with eyes as black as sin. Unwanted and unwelcomed by his ungrateful employer, he would just as soon leave Cassie to fend for herself. But a stubborn sense of duty --and a desire to taste the sweetness of her kiss --steels Angel's resolve to make Cassie want him, come hell or high water... and for more than his gun alone.
BRAVE THE WILD WIND 12/1984 ISBN: 0380892847 In her innocence, Jessie Blair didn't understand how very much Chase Summers desired her. Her beauty haunted him; her arrogance enraged him; she defied and tormented him... until his passion spilled over into aggression. Yet nothing could soften her stubborn heart, but to tame a man's pride. And no woman tamed Chase Summers... Yet when fortune called him halfway across the world, he realized how empty his life was without her. And the woman who had never gotten him out of her heart, knew at last where true love could be found.
HEART OF THUNDER 11/1983 ISBN: 0380851180 No man had ever dared to force his attentions on stunning, hot-tempered Samantha Kingsley - until Hank Chavez, the rugged, arrogant outlaw, aroused the spirited hellcat's fury. . .and her passion. Samantha vowed to kill the magnificent rogue. . .if her father didn't do it first. For there's only one thing Chavez wants more than the Kingsley's sprawling Mexican spread: to awaken in Samantha desires she has never known. . .and to take the tempestuous beauty in bold, rapturous conquest.
A HEART SO WILD 1986 ISBN: 0380750848 Courtney Harte is certain her missing father is alive, lost somewhere deep in Indian territory. But she needs a guide to lead her safely through this dangerous, unfamiliar country, someone as wild and unpredictable as the land itself. And that man is the gunslinger they call Chandos. Courtney fears this enigmatic loner whose dark secrets torture his soul, yet whose eyes, bluer than the frontier sky, enflame the innocent, determined lady with wanton desires. But on the treacherous path they have chosen they have no one to trust but each other -- as shared perils to their lives and hearts unleash turbulent, unbridled, passions that only love can tame.
A MAN TO CALL MY OWN 7/2003 ISBN: 0743456351 After the sudden death of their father, Marian and Amanda Laton must leave their New England home and travel to their aunt's Texas ranch. It is a harrowing journey, but plain-looking Marian welcomes the challenge of their adventure, while beautiful Amanda complains at every turn. And when they need rescuing, cowboy Chad Kinkaid is the strong, sexy hero for the job. Amanda's beauty catches Chad's eye, but it is Marian's daring spirit and hidden passion that spark his desire for her -- a sensual attraction that lands them in a romantic entanglement Marian is not prepared to handle. Tied to him by the fate of her aunt's ranch, Marian must face a proud cowboy who's determined to convince her -- whether it means wooing her under the stars of the open range or following her back East -- that she's the only woman for him....
SAVAGE THUNDER 12/1989 ISBN: 0380753006 Jocelyn Fleming was a feisty, flame-haired aristocrat -- newly widowed after a shockingly brief marriage to an elderly British lord. Wealthy and titled, yet aching with the pain of unexplored desire, her restless heart led her from polite London society to the perilous beauty of the untamed American West. Colt Thunder was a rebel, a loner. Impossibly handsome, brutally unpredictable, the Cheyene blood running through his veins burned hotter than the blistering Arizona sun. In a bold and merciless land, their vastly different worlds collided -- the wild desert stallion and the untouched English rose -- igniting an unstoppable firestorm of frontier passion that threatened to consume them both!
TENDER IS THE STORM 1985 ISBN: 0380896931 Headstrong heiress Sharisse Hammond wants no part of the New York society marriage that has been arranged for her. So she heads west across a vast and dangerous land - with no intention of honouring her agreement to become the mail-order bride of a rugged Arizona rancher. But Lucas Holt needs a wife - any wife - if his plan to destroy his most hated enemy is to succeed. And this gullible Eastern lady would do quite nicely. However, their separate schemes to use one another are complicated by raw, aching passion. For Lucas's beautiful, unsuspecting pawn was not supposed to be so irresistible alluring. And freedom-loving Sharisse never dreamed she could ever desire one man so much.
Wendy Lindstrom
LIPS THAT TOUCH MINE 4/2005 ISBN: 0843955066 With Claire Ashier’s last guest went the last thread of her patience. The noise from the saloon across the street was driving off her boardinghouse patrons, and that would land her in the poorhouse. Desperate to shut down the den of vice, she threatened Boyd Grayson with her revolver, then led a band of temperance ladies against the handsome charmer. But her foe, the owner of the rum hole known as the Pemberton Inn, was one of Fredonia, New York’s leading men. He was brother of the sheriff, and a respected businessman. To Claire he was a seducer and libertine, which he proved immediately with one honey-brown glance. Boyd Grayson might have the most kissable mouth she’d ever seen, and eyes that encouraged her to trust him, but Claire knew firsthand that men who imbibed alcohol were dangerous. Like in the song, she’d sworn that “Lips that Touch Whiskey Must Never Touch Mine.” She would never let Boyd kiss her because, deep in her heart, she feared he promised something more intoxicating and dangerous than alcohol. She had only to resist that first taste...RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Gail Link
ALL I ASK OF YOU 9/1994 ISBN:0843936061 The Texan - A half-breed with the blood of Comanche warriors in his veins, Rafe Rayburne knew he had no place in the drawing rooms of proper British society - or the heart of Lady Gillian Buchanan. And the more Gillie tempted him, the harder he fought to deny the mad desire he could never dare fulfill....The Lady - Defiant of the priggish lords who would carry her to their marriage beds, Gillie refused to wed anyone but Rafe. Confident that their love could overcome any obstacle, the independent beauty would journey halfway around the world - and go to any lengths - to make Rafe hers and hers alone...
ENCANTADORA 11/1991 ISBN: 0843931787 Independent and proud, Victoria read the outlandish advertisement with horror. When she'd refused to choose a husband from among the cowboys and ranchers of San Antonio, she'd never dreamed that her father would go out and buy her a man. And what a man he was! Tall, dark and far too handsome for Tory's peace of mind, Rhys made it clear he was going to be much more than a hired stud. With consummate skill he wooed his reluctant bride until she was as eager as he to share the enchantment of love.
FORSAKING ALL OTHERS 1/1997 ISBN: 0843941510 Anthony Chambers is set to inherit half of his Great Uncle Cedric's Australian homestead if he leaves England and spends one year at the homestead with his uncle's live-in companion, Annie. Anthony is sure the American is his uncle's mistress, and he's anxious to meet the woman smart enough to take his uncle's money and dumb enough to have a child out of wedlock. What he finds is a different matter altogether.
Pamela Litton
DANCE WITH THE DEVIL 4/1992 ISBN: 0373287224 The Comanche called her Spirit Woman, a phantom who rode the wind with thunder as her friend and lightning as her lover. Caught in her spell, Mando Fierro was torn between love for this extraordinary woman and hate for her race, the Americanos who had killed his father. Libby Hawkins had not traveled west to become an Indian legend or to be captured by a ruthless comanchero who sold rifles to the Comanches. She had seen what horror those guns had wrought and wanted nothing to do with the outlaw responsible. Yet how could she turn away from the man who held so tightly to her heart?
SCOUNDREL(BRIDES OF THE WEST #3) 1/1994 ISBN:0515112518 Three mail order brides follow their hearts to the open frontier...
STARDUST AND WHIRLWINDS 3/1991 Trial by fire....A land of broken dreams...In the dusty town of Santa Angela, the only law was the gun, and Amelia Cumming's no-good husband had died by it, leaving her with a debt-ridden mercantile business. Gunslinger Ross Tanner seemed anxious for her to leave, but she wasn't ready to give up just yet. To Ross, Amelia appeared to be made of stronger stuff than her husband. Still, the frontier was no place for a lady, and she needed someone to protect her from the dangerous men and harsh land seemed to breed. Someone besides himself. Because as far as the widow Cummings was concerned, he was the most dangerous man of all...
Karen Lockwood
LADY'S CHOICE 11/1996 ISBN:0515119598 Love is the richest reward of all. Morna. Disillusioned with her life in Ireland, she moved to America to set up her own lace factory. Quinn. No one dared to question how he ran his lumber mill, and the whole town, until Morna appeared. She arrived in Bunyan, Michigan, with a child, and a dream, in tow. She had promised to reunite the young boy with his lumberjack father. But when they discovered that the man had died, Morna postponed her own plans in order to care for the child. She set up shop sewing for Bunyan's bachelors and bought the local boardinghouse. The last thing Quinn needed was a single woman ruining the family image of his town. Morna defied his every rule and proved his match in business affairs. Quinn had never met a woman life her, and his heart was not going to let him forget.
LILAC CIRCLE 11/1995 ISBN:0515117692 Molly - She was a proper preacher's daughter, and a member of the Lilac Circle Benevolent Society. But sometimes her heart rebelled... Daniel - Everyone remembered him as the "bad boy" of Wheatridge, Washington. Now he had returned - with a troupe of actors... Molly couldn't believe that Daniel dared to schedule his show on the very same night as the Circle's musical fundraiser. So she confronted the handsome troublemaker - and tried to ignore the flutterings in her heart. Molly hadn't felt this way since she was sixteen years old. But just one glance at Daniel made her forget that she was a preacher's daughter - and stirred the passionate spirit she sought so hard to hide...
SUMMER STORM short story SEASONS OF LOVE 8/1995 ISBN:0061082864
WINTER SONG 11/1993 ISBN: 1557739587 An eccentric millionaire learns a lesson in love. Retreating from a broken heart, stockbroker Nate Denison leaves the East to build a mansion in the wilds of Montana. When a fire destroys the local school, spirited teacher Jennie Beasley sets up classes in his home - and captures his heart as well.
Cait Logan
BE MINE 7/1997 ISBN: 0440222427 She dropped from the tree into his arms like a ripe peach, a fiery russet-haired beauty he wanted to devour. But mountain man Sam Taggart came to the Recht Montana homestead to hire a housekeeper, not find a wife. He was out to make his fortune and needed an heiress by his side, a first-rate hostess with a heart of pure ice. Emma Recht was definitely not what he had in mind--a spirited backwoods beauty with a head for business and passion to burn... He was tall, dark, and dangerous, the handsomest man she'd ever seen. Emma Recht had all she could do to keep from melting in his arms. Sam said she wasn't his kind of woman--but his burning eyes put the lie to his lips. Recklessly she agreed to follow him into the wilderness, certain she was everything he ever needed after a night of wild abandon in the darkened room of a bordello...when he thought she was someone else...
DELILAH 3/1995 ISBN: 0515115657 Delilah-She was searching for a new life in the North-West Territory, struggling to put the death of her husband behind her. But when she met Simon Oakes, a devoted Mountie tracking down a killer, Delilah Smith's life took a renewed purpose. Joining forces with this rugged stranger, she began her own manhunt for her long lost brother, determined to reunite her shattered family.
NIGHT FIRE 3/1994 ISBN: 1557739862 Only a woman as bold as Arielle Browning would try to take a wagon train of brides to the lonely men of the Oregon frontier. Only a man as fearless as Lue D'Arcy would escort these women through the harsh, untamed wilderness. They had different reasons for heading west. Arielle was searching for her lon-lost love; Lue was seeking revenge. But one powerful desire gave them the strength to endure--and soothed the hidden pain deep within their hearts. To most men, Arielle was a devil of a woman, flame-haired and hot-tempered. But to Lue, she was his precious "Angel." Every kiss, every touch, every moment in each other's arms held the promise of a new tomorrow...in a new land as boundless and beautiful as the love that would change their destinies.
TAME THE FURY 8/1990 An Uncompromising Woman: No man could tame Rebecca Klein. She was as wild as the Washington outdoors--and unmistakably womanly in her beauty. Rebecca simple refused to be tied down like other girls...An Unforgettable Man: Matthew McKay was everything Rebecca despised. His dark eyes surveyed her as if she were his property. He was hopelessly arrogant--and hopelessly alluring...An Undeniable Passion: She agreed to marry him as her father wished--telling herself the scheme was only temporary. But Matthew's caress made Rebecca's knees as weak as a newborn foal's--and her heart could not escape its destiny...
THE WEDDING GAMBLE 8/1996 ISBN: 0440222419 When gunslinger, drifter Solomon Wolfe becomes the sole provider to his 10 year-old niece, he decides to put some purpose into his life. He takes young Garnet back to his family's abandoned ranch in Montana. He's been gone for many years; in the meantime, one Cairo Brown has set up a sophisticated billiards hall. She's the toast of the town and the best billiardist, male or female, for miles. Solomon challenges her, and wins, again and again, until he's taken her nest egg with which she planned to take go to New York City to start anew. Practically destitute, she agrees to be married to Solomon for one year, to care for Garnet and earn back her money. In that time, Cairo and Solomon clash over domestic tasks, ranch life, Solomon's former lover on an adjoining ranch, and an evil villain trying to lead Garnet astray. When Garnet is kidnapped and Solomon and Cairo go in search of her, this poignant love story is brought to a climax that will leave the reader both laughing and crying.
WILD DAWN 6/1992 ISBN: 1557737320 A rugged frontiersman, MacGregor knew how to set a trap and snare his prey...even if it was a hot-blooded woman he was after. A High-born English spitfire, Lady Regina detested and defied the strapping brute who 'purchased' her with ten fur pelts. Alone in the wilderness, Regina was aware of her needs - for food and protection. And MacGregor needed her as well, to help raise his infant son. Bound by fate, they struggled to survive - each day bringing them closer together, every moment unlocking a wild passion in the lady and a loving tenderness in the mountain man. Only the power of their love - body and soul - could help them face the challenges that lay ahead...
Beverly Long
STAY WITH ME 1/2005 ISBN: 0425200620 (Time Travel) Sarah Jane Tremont never expected to be swept off a beach in California and end up more than a hundred years earlier in the arms of rancher, John Beckett. He confuses her with a woman he's got good reason to hate--his dead brother's selfish wife. He's got no time for forgiveness and she's in the wrong time for love. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Martha Longshore
HEARTS OF GOLD 10/1994 ISBN: 0061082929 A Stubborn Western Beauty. Kora Hunter loved helping out with her father's Sacramento newspaper, until Mason Fielding, an ambitious new reporter, came along and turned her life upside down. The glint in his stunning blue eyes could only mean that he enjoyed stealing stories from her, but she was helpless to stop him from stealing her heart as well. An Impossibly Handsome City Man. Mason Fielding came out west expecting an uncivilized wilderness. But the wildest creature he found was Kora Hunter, with her captivating smile and untamed passion. Though their independent spirits clashed, neither one could resist a love more precious than the gold nuggets buried deep in the California hills.
Vivian Lord
TRAITOR IN MY ARMS 1979 ISBN: 0449141306 She was a hellion with dark burning eyes and fiery hair, and Stephen Raike was determined to have her. But he had not reckoned with the hate Dona Olwen had nurtured since childhood against the Raikes, the hate that had fired the Comanche blood in her and driven her to become an outlaw...hate that would make her the wife of the powerful, handsome man she reviled...and a captive of her own wild and reckless heart!
Loree A. Lough
JAKE WALKER'S WIFE 12/1999 ISBN: 0373290896 Love happened to other people. . . . Not to a man wanted -- Dead or Alive! For ten years, Jake Walker had been on the run from murder, marshals and memories. But now he'd found Bess Beckley, whose caring heart and depthless soul could stop any man in his tracks! Two young brothers, Matt and Mark and a grieving father, Micah -- those were the only men in Bess Beckley's life. That they needed her was enough, until the day the tall Texan, Jake Walker, rode onto the ranch, in Maryland and awakened dreams of impossible things like love and a life of her own. Bess was determined to take away the haunted look in Jake's silvery eyes, and make him hers -- forever.
Cynthia Love
THAT MAN THATACUS MURPHY 3/2005 ISBN: 037377043X Sheriff Thatacus Murphy would rather deal with a jail full of drunks, would rather fist-fight Big Buck, and would rather be the innocent victim of someone else's vendetta than deal with the beautiful Katie Thomas. Ever since she arrived in town, stages got robbed, snakes appeared out of nowhere, and knife-wielding lunatics grabbed young boys by the scruff. If by some crazy event Katie wasn't convicted of felony and murder by the circuit-judge, Murphy would personally cart her lovely little self over to the stage depot and ship her out on the next outbound coach. Katie knew she was innocent of robbing the stage, even if she couldn't remember the event in a clear-like fashion. But she knew she wasn't the type of girl to kill people for money. She wasn't some black thundercloud like some folk thought she was - some folks by the name of Sheriff Thatacus Murphy that she could mention but she wouldn't. But how in the blue-eyed world was she going to convince the sheriff that she was innocent when the men who started this whole hullabaloo in the first place break her out of jail? RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Merline Lovelace
THE CAPTAIN'S WOMAN 1/2003 ISBN: 1551666499 She followed her heart . . . and found her destiny. The spirited daughter of a Wyoming newspaper baron, Victoria Parker has two grand passions: journalism and Captain Sam Garrett. But her gift for writing has been confined to the society page and the captain's heart belongs to another. Now, as dramatic events and sensational headlines sweep the nation, everything is about to change. A reckless combination of innocence and optimism convinces Victoria that anything is possible -- even winning Sam's heart. When he joins Teddy Roosevelt's infamous Rough Riders as they prepare to charge into battle, she follows and is inspired to report on the heroic efforts of American nurses who tend the sick and wounded. But instead of a joyous reunion with the man to whom she has surrendered body and soul, she finds chaos and heartache.. . . As Victoria grows from novice reporter to dedicated journalist, she will find herself transformed from an idealistic girl into a proud, courageous woman -- unafraid to fight for her country, her ideals and her heart.
COUNTESS IN BUCKSKIN(#396) 1/1998 ISBN: 0373289960 Josiah Jones was a bear of a man - certainly nothing like the mere boys who'd paid court to Tatiana as Countess Karanova. This man personified the wild, untamed lands that called to her own unhappy soul. Tatiana brought something new to the California wilderness - a cool, aristocratic beauty and courage enough to match any man's. But Josiah was a mountain man with a broken heart. He knew such a jewel could never share his wanderlust or his life - especially is she discovered his secret...
THE COLONEL'S DAUGHTER 1/2002 ISBN: 1551668718 She wasn't afraid to fight . . . Beneath the polish of an Eastern finishing school lies a soldier's daughter who can ride, shoot and deal cards with the best. Which is why Suzanne Bonneaux calmly boards the infamous Cheyenne-Deadwood stage to search for a longtime friend before the winter snows erase her trail. For the man... When the stagecoach is attacked, a deadly shoot-out brings her face-to-face with notorious Black Jack Sloan, a hard, handsome gunslinger who exudes the kind of danger wise men avoid. And when Jack saves her life, Suzanne decides to ride by his side through the Dakota Badlands, with or without his say-so. Or for his love... Jack wants nothing more than to put this upstart female in her place - and in his bed. But he's a man riding a trail of vengeance, and there's no place for a woman in his life. He's never met one like Suzanne, however, or had to choose between avenging his past or living to face another day...and a future in her arms.
THE HORSE SOLDIER 1/2001 ISBN: 1551667843 Determined to find her missing husband, Julia Bonneaux and her young daughter make a dangerous journey to Wyoming. But at Fort Laramie Julie finds instead Major Andrew Garrett, the man she had secretly married seven years ago, a Union spy who had betrayed her and who she believed was dead. Now she needs his help, and Andrew is torn between duty and desire, between the misunderstandings of the past and the promise of a new beginning. Time has eased the pain of Andrew's months in a Confederate prison - but not the memory of Julia: the temptress who had enticed him, the woman who had nearly destroyed him...and the wife who now wears another man's ring. When she walks back into his life, asking for his help, Andrew is torn between duty and desire. Now, with his career - and his heart - in jeopardy, he must choose between the misunderstandings of the past and the promise of a new beginning.
A SAVAGE BEAUTY 9/2003 ISBN: 155166707X From the Uncharted Wilderness...Louise Therese Chartier knows all about the hardships of life in the wilderness. She has learned to survive by trusting her own instincts. But when her husband is killed, she finds herself left in the care and protection of Sergeant Daniel Morgan. To the drawing rooms of New Orleans society...Against her will, Louise becomes part of an expedition to chart America's new frontiers -- and act of fate that will alter the destiny of a country and her heart. A woman whose harsh life taught her more about survival than about men, Louise is stunned by her desire for her rugged protector. But Daniel is a man of honor, bound to his duty, his country -- and another woman. Passion is a daring adventure...As Louise's exotic beauty, proud sensuality and secret royal heritage open the doors to the elite drawing rooms of a young America, new opportunities -- and new dangers -- await. But the beating of her wild heart calls out to one man, a man whose destiny is inexorably linked with her own. . .
Elizabeth Lowell
AUTUMN LOVER 4/1996 ISBN:0380769557 Returning to her Wyoming ranch at the Civil War's end, Elyssa Sutton finds it picked bare by scavengers and coveted by determined men. Yet the proud young woman vows never again to abandon her Ruby Mountain home-though it means enlisting the aid of a dark and dangerous stranger who lives for revenge alone. Hunter Maxwell has suffered from the savagery of outlaws and the faithlessness of a woman. And he will trust no female-nor will he rest until the raiders who destroyed his family pay for their crimes. A woman in, need, a man in pain, in fury and fire they must now stand as one--to fight for something cherished, something lost ... and for a passion neither dreamed could live. In the brisk chill of Autumn, ravaged hearts will be reborn.
ONLY HIS 7/1991 ISBN:0380763389 Escaping the ravages of the Civil War, a gently reared lady must leave behind everything she knows -- and trust her life and her future to a dangerous gunfighter with a passion for vengeance. A team of prize Arabian horses is all that Willow Moran has left -- and Caleb Black is the only man who can help her reach her brother in the Colorado Rockies. But she fears this stranger who burns to avenge the wrongs of treacherous men. For Caleb is as wild and unpredictable as the uncivilized land he loves. Yet, though she challenges him at every turn, the spirited southern lady knows this proud, enigmatic loner is her destiny. And no matter what peril awaits, they must face it together -- for Willow has become a fever in Caleb's blood ... awakening a need so fierce that he would defeat the devil himself to possess her.
ONLY LOVE 7/1995 ISBN: 0380772566 Cast adrift during the War Between The States, Shannon Conner grew to womanhood in a lonely cabin high in the Colorado Rockies. Though stubborn and courageous, Shannon is ill-prepared to deal with the predatory Culpepper brothers - and the intoxicating ardor of the man who defends her honor, Rafael 'Whip' Moran. A loner and a wanderer, a man tied to no place or promise, Whip aids the wary young 'widow' who has a walk like honey and a determined grip on her shotgun. But neither the Culpeppers nor grizzlies are as dangerous to Whip as the passion Shannon offers him - a passion that could cost Whip the freedom that is as much a part of him as his soul.
ONLY MINE 2/1992 ISBN: 0380763397 The Viscount's Savage.... The ruggedly handsome bastard son of a viscount and a Cheyenne Shaman's daughter, Wolfe Lonetree reluctantly agrees to rescue beautiful, pampered and shockingly innocent Lady Jessica Charteris from an unwanted union with a vile British Lord...if she accompanies him to America to live as a western wife. The Willful Bride.... Naive and unprepared for the hardships that await her, Jessica tricks Wolfe into a marriage in name only. But her terror of the untamed West pales before her fear of the man whose touch makes her tremble - and whose raw masculine virility leaves the flame-haired beauty breathless with a passion she has never before known. In a harsh and magnificent land at the edge of the Rockies, Jessica will find the extraordinary inner strength to triumph. And in the powerful arms of Wolfe Lonetree, she will at long last learn the sensuous joy of becoming the right man's woman.
ONLY YOU 7/1992 ISBN:0380763400 With nothing left to wager but her innocence, the wily cardsharp "Evening Star" stares across the poker table at the killer who destroyed the two people she loved most in the world ... and deals the winning hand to a rugged, unsuspecting stranger. Matt "Reno" Moran can't believe that the conniving beauty he "won" in a card game has run off with all his winnings -- including the map to a gold mine. He should never have trusted Evelyn Starr Johnson, a tawny-haired lovely hardened by poverty and loss. But the temptress cast a spell on him, making him careless by enflaming his passions as no woman ever has before. And now the only way Reno can reclaim what is rightfully his is by joining forces with the scheming, remarkable lady on a perilous treasure hunt that could cost the handsome sharpshooter everything ... including his heart.
RECKLESS LOVE 1/1990 ISBN:0373287992 Janna Wayland braved the challenges of the Western frontier with a spirit that became legend. But the steep green mountains and red-rock canyons of Utah Territory were as dangerous as they were beautiful. No one was safe from the renegade warriors led by the infamous El Cascabel--not Janna, not the wild stallion Lucifer, not even Ty MacKenzie, the only man who had ever managed to tame Janna's proud, tempestuous heart.
WINTER FIRE 11/1996 ISBN: 0380775832 Orphaned at thirteen, a mail-order bride at fourteen, widowed at sixteen, Sarah Kennedy has learned to depend upon no one but herself - reserving all her love for her younger brother Conner, and for the wounded hawks she heals and returns to the air. A hardened Civil War veteran, personal tragedy has taught Case Maxwell three things: to be a patient, deadly fighter, to love nothing that can die; and that justice is blind. But when a confrontation with his sworn enemies, the Culpepper clan, leaves him near death, Case finds himself, like many other damaged wild creature, under the tender, unwanted care of Sarah Kennedy. Destiny has brought the healer and the warrior together to brave chilling risks and dangerous truths in a hard, magnificent land - two souls haunted by a perilous present and the bitter ghosts of the past. But the intense emotion both Case and Sarah fear - the passion that burns like fire in the very heart of winter - is the only thing that can truly save them, as together they seek the courage to face the greatest risk of all: love.
Valentina Luellen
GAMBLER'S PRIZE 5/1979 ISBN:0373745176 Even the gutter is too low for you!" Babette was stunned, overwhelmed with shame. His cruel insult drove home the appalling lengths to which this Mississippi gambler would go to mend his wounded pride. He would ruin her family..and herself in the process. Suddenly she felt she had no choice. Her hand touched the cold steel of the derringer in her pocket. Defiantly she pulled the weapon out into the open. "You are not fit to live!" she cried, and leveled the gun at the man she loved... .. and squeezed the trigger...
Ann Lynn
BEAUTIFUL DREAMER(#234) 8/1994 ISBN: 0373288344 Lindy Falen's darkest secret lay buried on the Texas range. Still, she was rock-hard determined to tame a piece of the wild West as her own. Even if it meant she had to corral the next stranger that rode over the hill. Connor O'Malley was a tumbleweed, drifting with the wind. Until he landed in front of Lindy Falen's rifle barrel and found a woman who wanted to ignite a full-blown range war - with him holding the fuse. But Connor knew that more than tempers would flare if he and Lindy ever partnered up...
Victoria Lynne
CHASING RAINBOWS 10/1997 ISBN: 0934896194 The crowd cheered as the bandit was hanged--until his hat flew off, revealing the truth: the condemned man was a woman. But the noose was loose, the rope was frayed, and within seconds Outlaw Annie fell to the ground, rescued by the tall, dark stranger who rode by her side as they hightailed it out of town. She'd never met her match until then, in this disturbing outsider who stirred unfamiliar passions as he tried to tame the wildest woman in the West. Jake Moran couldn't tell Annie the truth: he was a wanted man, using her as bait to lure the infamous Mundy Gang, the only ones who could clear his name. Jake was a gambler, but nothing could have prepared him for this hellion he'd agreed to escort to a distant town. She said she wanted to go straight. But she went straight for his heart, a place no woman had ever touched before, as he battled guilt and desire for the innocent temptress who led him into the most dangerous wilderness of all--love.
Virginia Lynn
CUTTER'S WOMAN 5/1991 ISBN: 0553292579 She was a woman who made her own laws... Writer of novels about renegade gunman, J. Whitney Bradford yearns to meet the real thing - and the legendary exploits of a half-Apache outlaw beckon her from New York to the dangerous frontier. From her first glimpse of the notorious Cutter, sparks of fury and outrage assail her, but his dangerous virility brings a tingle of unexpected desire...
IN A ROGUE'S ARMS 4/1993 ISBN: 0553296922 He was a dangerous outlaw who had sworn vengeance. One moment Chloe was lost in daydreams about her new Texas home; the next she was holding on for dear life as gunfire echoed and her uncle's carriage came rumbling to a halt! Before she could even draw a breath, the fair-haired beauty found herself on the ground...and in the clutches of a bold and brazen outlaw known as the Baron. Daring and dangerous, he took what he wanted from the wealthy, and now as she watched in helpless rage, he turned his hungry gaze upon her... She was the pampered niece of his enemy. For Cale Hardin, humiliation and empty pockets were a modest revenge for the crimes committed by Chloe's uncle, who made his money from the misery of others. Yet when the banker's niece came tumbling out of the carriage all spitting fury and white petticoats, Cale knew he had his foe where he wanted him at last. But what he didn't know, what he could never foresee, was his own reaction to the fair Chloe, for when he took her in his arms, he'd never want to let her go...
RIVER'S DREAM 3/1991 ISBN: 0553286226 Plain, penniless Drucilla Duckworth yearns for the love and excitement she finds in romance novels - and secretly dreams of a real-life hero of her own. But she never imagines her feverish fantasies could ever come true, until the day fate steps in, and the shy Tennessee schoolteacher discovers who she really is - Wealthy River Templeton, heiress to a thriving Texas cattle empire, with a family she doesn't even know. Filled with the spirit of adventure, River turns her back on the bleak past and heads west into dangerous frontier territory. There her coach is held up by robbers and she's rescued by Gray Morgan, a dashing yet enigmatic man who stirs her heart like no other, for he looks and behaves exactly like the Ideal man in her penny-dreadful romance novels. But she soon discovers that Gray's reality departs from her fantasies in some very important ways, and now the transformation of Drucilla into River begins in earnest. The mighty Morgan, too, is in for a surprise when River becomes a woman so bold, so intriguing that no man this side of the Mississippi can resist her - especially him!
Kate Lyon
TIME'S CAPTIVE 7/2004 ISBN: 0505526026 On a quest to save his people from death and starvation, Black Eagle-a Comanche war chief-experiences a vision from the Great Spirit, which shows a beautiful doe-eyed woman shedding a tear, followed by a warning: "Guard her well." Directed to sacred waters-the same waters that pull Kris Baldwin back in time-Black Eagle discovers the woman from his vision quest, apparently dead. He revives the raven-haired beauty, but how could this white woman, an enemy to his people, be the answer to his tribe's plight? Horrified to find herself drawn back in time, Kris struggles to convince Black Eagle that she's not a messenger from the Great Spirit. Frightened by her attraction to the stoic warrior, she begs him to take her back to the sacred waters, hoping to find her way back to her own time. But Black Eagle finds himself torn between duty and love, clinging to nothing more than faith, knowing it's only a matter of time before one of them becomes...TIME'S CAPTIVE. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Maggie Lyons
SWEET RIVER 4/2000 ISBN: 0821766368 (Precious Gem) When a steamboat explosion left Miranda Harpe orphaned and penniless, her only hope was to earn a living as a singer. Forcing herself to board another steamboat, this one bound for Natchez, she soon found herself drawn to dashing Edward Holmes. But how could she let herself fall in love with the scion of the family she held responsibility for the tragedy that shattered her life?
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