Wynema McGowan

BEYOND THE RIVER 8/1997 ISBN: 0786004207 There Was Time...when the frontier stretched as far as the eye could see...justice was swift and death swifter...and only the brave and the lucky survived. And in the hill country of central Texas, a lonely stagecoach outpost became a fortress under siege, as twelve Texans took up their guns against a hundred and fifty raiding Comanche... Beyond The River is the sweeping saga of a time and place that will never exist again. It is the unforgettable story of a group of men and women trapped by raising rivers, who refuse to give in or give up...of Amy Ormsby, fighting to save her young son...of U.S. Calvary Lt. Nathan Doubletree, caught up in the most savage battle of his life for the land and the woman he loved.

CATCHING FIRE 12/1997 ISBN: 0786004622 Thora Gunn had fought her way across the wilderness to return to the Minnesota town of Two Sisters. She had come back to rescue the brother her rapscallion of a father had abandon, only to discover that the boy had been wrongfully hung. Heartbroken, all Thora wanted was vengeance. What she got was arrested. Brought up among the Ojibwe, Sheriff Jim Horse was fierce, honorable, and silent about his past. He said he was putting Thora in jail for her own good, and though she was his prisoner, he could not deny his attraction to the hazel-eyed beauty--even when she offered herself to him in exchange for her freedom. Now, Thora and Jim Horse have made a pact ignited by passion. Ahead lies a terrible lie, a cruel betrayal, and a woman's dangerous choice, as they find themselves running deep into the north woods with danger at every pass...and a powerful love promised with every kiss.

CATCHING RAINBOWS 7/1996 ISBN: 0786002816 Joe Willie Everett knew Sissy Heck was going to be a handful from the day she arrived in Two Sisters, Minnesota. As sheriff of a bawdy town booming with saloons, gambling clubs and brothels, it was his job to make sure the place didn't get any wilder and woollier than it had to. Which is why Sissy Heck worried him. She'd come all the way from New York to this place stuck in the middle of nowhere. He figured she had to be running from something - there was no other reason a genteel, well-bred lady would arrive alone on the frontier, with only the clothes on her back for luggage. The lady had secrets, but Joe had a few of his own - not the least of which was a strong yearning for Sissy. He was even starting to wonder if that fire in his belly might just be love. But first Sissy had to be convinced that a rough-and-tumble man would keep her safe and happy. Joe wasn't exactly an old hand at courtship, but there was a first time for everything...

DARE TO DREAM 12/1998 ISBN: 0786005998 Never in Brit Dare's wildest dreams did she imagine she would fall for the likes of Jean Pierre McDuff, the brazen son of a French Marquis and a Scottish singer, who had come to Texas in search of his brother's killer. But Brit could not ignore the smoldering passion he inspired in her. So when Jean Pierre is thrown in jail for a murder he didn't commit, Brit must do everything in her power to help the one man who could fulfill her deepest longings. Emil Schumacher, a wealthy German millwright, had given up on love--until he met Brit's twin sister, Irish Dare. Irish's eyes held promise of the blissful future he'd wished for in his marriage. Now, wrongly accused of murdering his wife, his fate seemed doomed more than ever--unless Irish could find a way to save this tender man who had captured her heart.

DARE TO LOVE 6/1998 ISBN: 0786005181 Jack Dare lived up to his name in Sweet Home, Texas. The oldest of the Dare brothers, he was a hard, handsome hellion too quick to fight and too fearless to think twice about chasing outlaws and renegade Indians across this wild land. Everyone said he was headed for nothing but trouble and an early grave....Annie Mapes, the new schoolteacher from Philadelphia, was too fine and well-educated for the lies of Jack Dare. Yet Annie saw past his reckless ways--and felt a passion for him she could not deny. But Annie was engaged to her sweetheart back East, a gentle, kind man whose kisses had never set her on fire. Now, she was being drawn to a dangerous flame called Dare, who wanted her as he had never wanted anything or anyone before. But to win Annie, Dare had to make her believe in him..and make her desire him with her heart, soul, and love.

THE IRISHMAN 4/1995 ISBN: 0786001208 It's the turn of the century. Stranded in frontier Minnesota, Sean McGlorin is already in trouble. Then he gets a job working for Mae Ella Botts. It's not that he doesn't find her attractive; it's just that if anything can go wrong with Mae Ella's life, it usually does. Now she's determined to find out what brought Sean McGlorin to America, what secrets he's hiding behind his enigmatic smile... and what on earth is keeping him here in rural Otter Trail. And love is only part of the answer.

WHILE THE RIVERS RUN 9/1996 ISBN: 0786003405 Vengeance was the only law in the Texas badlands of 1855, and Nessa Fane vowed to exact her share for the brutal murder of her husband. It had happened in a heartbeat--her home and hopes for happiness destroyed by three nameless strangers. But she'd never forget their faces. Now they were marked for death by her own hand. Vengeance fired her soul and sent her out across a wild and lonely land. Together with Tom Doubletree, a Texas ranger on the trail of the killers, she would fight the unforgiving wilderness--and the dangers and terrors of a vast new world--until she found justice...or died seeking it.

Maureen McKade

A DIME NOVEL HERO 1/1998 ISBN: 0380795043 Hard-bitten bounty hunter Jake Cordell, the inspiration for a quick-drawing hero in many notorious dime novels, returns to his Wyoming homeland to find his family ranch has been sold off. At the former Cordell home, Jake encounters Kit Thorton, a fiercely independent beauty who harbors a number of guarded secrets - including the fact that she's the author of his flashy fictionalized exploits.

HIS UNEXPECTED WIFE 12/2001 ISBN: 0380815672 With This Ring, I Thee Flee... High-spirited Annie Trevelyan leaves the mountains of Colorado behind, seeking fame and fortune, and no one is going to stop her. Not even Colin McBride, who's accompanying her West to make sure she goes to finishing school - and doesn't go astray! The lovely Annie's sure some timely flirtation will soon have Colin wrapped around her finger, but her coolly calculating kiss stokes unexpectedly passionate fires in them both. So now Annie must escape...because Colin's got marriage on his mind! In watching over Annie, Colin was just doing a favor for a friend. Now that he's tasted the sweetness of Annie's lips, though, Colin wants her for himself - and that means a wedding! He'd once thought only a prim, docile wife would do, but now visions of a fiery wedding night with this independent hellion fill his mind. The trouble will be convincing Annie - and holding on to her long enough to do so!

MAIL-ORDER BRIDE 1/2000 ISBN: 0739407287 Kate Murphy arrives in the Rocky Mountain mining town as a mail-order bride - just in time to discover she's a widow before she's a wife. Looking to earn the stagecoach fare out of this dangerous town, Kate never expects the true peril to come in the tantalizing form of Trev Trevelyan. The handsome mine superintendent desperately needs someone to care of his two young, motherless children, and Kate is delighted to take the job. But first the children capture her heart...and then the leaping attraction between sweet Kate and the smolderingly handsome Trev is too powerful to deny. Although Kate longs for the safety of his arms, will she ever be able to accept the danger of his life?

OUTLAW'S BRIDE 2/2001 ISBN: 0380815664 He was pure trouble for an honest woman... Mattie St. Clair knows that Clint Beaudry is a dangerous man the moment she sets eyes on him. Though she refuses the tall, dark, devastatingly handsome gunman a room in her boardinghouse, Mattie cannot turn him away a second time when he is carried to her door critically wounded. It's best if she just lets this troublesome stranger mend and move on- considering the unwanted feelings of desire he stirs up within her whenever he turns his deep, dangerous gaze her way. She was more woman than a man could handle...This beautiful, strong-willed widow does something special to the hardened ex-marshal with her tender, healing touch - tempting Clint to reconsider his vow never to let another woman into his perilous life. Despite her stubborn independence, Mattie's barely restrained passion tells him that she's been too long without a good man at her side. And since she and her young son both are in desperate need of a hero, what choice does Clint have - except to become one?

A REASON TO BELIEVE 8/2007 ISBN: 0425216624 How do you pick up the pieces of a shattered life? To escape her angry father, Dulcie McDaniel got pregnant—but lost her husband in a fatal accident. Penniless, she returned home with her little girl—only to have her world shattered once again. Lonely and filled with regrets, Dulcie struggles to provide a decent life for her daughter. Then a handsome stranger arrives... Dulcie, usually shunned by proper folks, is suspicious of Rye Forrester, a drifter offering to work for his keep. But after he helps harvest the crops, her feelings toward the handsome stranger turn into a consuming mutual passion. Although Rye wears the brand of an army deserter, Dulcie is thrilled to be with such a good man. But Rye has his own secrets. He can't understand why his late friend cheated on such a beautiful wife—or how he can now ask Dulcie's forgiveness for his part in her husband's death. Love is one thing—acceptance and forgiveness another. When their tragic pasts catch up with them, these two wounded souls must fight for the love that will keep them together for a lifetime... RR@H's Novel Thoughts

A REASON TO LIVE 9/2006 ISBN: 0425212203 How could I refuse the wish of a dying man? May 30, 1865: During the Civil War, I watched over too many young boys in the hospital, comforting them as they cried out for those they loved, as they whispered their final thoughts to me. Keeping a record of their names, families, and last words seemed a small tribute to their sacrifice--until the war ended, and I found a new mission in life. I would visit the loved ones of those poor soldiers and deliver their messages, so that some comfort could be found even in grief... But Laurel Covey never expected to find a man like Creede Forrester--an ex-gunslinger who rode all the way from Texas to Virginia in the hope of finding his son, and ended up saving her from a band of ruffians. It pains her deeply to tell him of his boy's death, and she believes that in his heart, Creede blames himself for driving his son away. But there is something more to this rugged, weary man. Something that draws Laurel closer to him...something she cannot resist...RR@H's Novel Thoughts

A REASON TO SIN 3/2008 ISBN: 9780425220597 How do you let yourself love without revealing your deepest secrets? Once upon a time, Rebecca Colfax was a well-to-do young woman with a bright future in St. Louis. Then her husband gambled all her money away and disappeared into the night. Alone, homeless, and desperate, she was forced to take her son to an orphanage, but now she's determined to get him back. Little did she know that during her search she'd encounter a man destined to change the course of her life... Rebecca Colfax was out of options. Which is how she wound up working at the Scarlet Garter in Oaktree, Kansas, as a singer and hurdy-gurdy girl, trying to scrape together enough money to get her son back. At the saloon, she reveals nothing of herself, not even her real name. She doesn't want anyone to know her secrets—especially not sexy Slater Forrester, a faro dealer and ex-spy who's clearly haunted by something in his past. But when violence bursts through the saloon's doors, she discovers a dangerously appealing side to Slater, a side she finds hard to resist. But how will the man she's falling for react when he uncovers the secrets she's keeping? RR@H's Novel Thoughts

UNTAMED HEART 2/1999 ISBN: 0380802848 Every time Tyler Ashburn sees pert Gabby Wade sashaying down the streets of Sawtooth, Wyoming, his righteous blood begins to boil. He's ready to clean up this booming town, and women like Gabby - who owns a gambling saloon - make it unsafe for law-abiding folks! But even though Tyler's running for mayor on a Law & Order platform, he can't help but imagine breaking a few rules...with the sassy, irresistible Gabby. Gabby's worked too hard to let some high-falutin; fellow like Tyler tell her what to do - so she shocks the good citizens of Sawtooth by running for mayor against him! The trouble is, even though she'd like nothing better than to defeat Tyler, her rugged, broad-shouldered opponent is beginning to defeat her intentions...of not succumbing to his bold kisses. And as their campaigns heat up along with their passions, she wonders what the cost of winning might be!

WINTER HEARTS 1/1997 ISBN: 0380788713 Sheriff Matt Brandon senses something mysterious about the lovely new schoolteacher, Libby O'Hanlon, and he resolves to keep an eye on her. Although the curves Libby hides under her drab clothing stir long-dormant desires, it's the compassion in her green eyes that cracks the shell around Matt's heart. Libby has settled in Deer Creek to start a new life - and the last thing she needs is to let the sheriff get close enough to learn a secret that could send her to the gallows. Yet his nearness arouses fantasies that make Libby's heart race with desire - and as they are drawn together in a mission to rescue a young boy, she and Matt can only surrender to the sweetness of love...

Jan McKee

MONTANA SKIES 1986 ISBN:0671508350 Jennifer Douglas, the heir apparent to the Douglas Ranch, finds her birthright in jeopardy when her attraction to handsome Devlin McShane turns to anger, as she flees into the arms of a charming but dangerous Easterner.

SWEET JUSTICE(#68) 3/1991 ISBN:0373286686 Morgan Rossiter - bitter, dark and hungry for justice - was searching for the accomplice of his brother's killer. Now he'd stumbled upon the woman his agents swore was his quarry. But could Jessica Miller be an outlaw's woman? Even Morgan himself was falling under sweet Jessica's tranquil spell. Jessica knew Morgan was after something - and that she had a lot to hide. She'd sworn that no man, certainly no charmingly devilish stranger, would ever again win a smile from her. Whether prying Morgan was after the secret of her past or her love, it was all the same to Jessica . . . He'd have no luck getting either!

Lindsay McKenna

BRAVE HEART(#171) 5/1993 ISBN: 0373287712 Serena Rogan had traveled from Ireland to pursue a new dream in America. Yet as a washerwoman for Blackjack Kingston in a Dakota mining camp, she knew only slavery and submission. Until she risked her life rescuing a group of Sioux women, and entered a world, filled with love and respect - with Black Wolf. A Lakota medicine man, Black Wolf yearned for the day the red-haired Serena would stop fearing him. For he was determined to show her that a man could be a friend as well as a lover.

SUN WOMAN(#71) 4/1991 ISBN:0373286716 Desperate to save the last of her family, Kuchana had become a scout for the army. To the young Apache, the return of her people to the reservation seemed the only way to ensure their continued survival. Her chosen path was not an easy one, but the promise of a future with Gib McCoy gave her the will to complete her journey. Lieutenant Gib McCoy had known his share of women, but the pampered eastern ladies of his past paled next to Kuchana's ethereal beauty. Her courage drew him to her like a moth to the flame. He could not protect her from the jealousy and prejudice that surrounded them, but he knew he would not rest until she was in his arms forever.

Maura McKenzie

AT MIDNIGHT: THE HOPE CHEST 10/2001 ISBN: 0821769073 Determined to get the story of a lifetime, newspaper reporter Trish "Mac" McAllister is hot on the trail of a notorious murderer. Taking shelter against a winter storm inside an abandoned hotel, she picks up an old pair of handcuffs with the initials EJY and instantly plummets back to1892--where she comes face to face with sinfully sexy Everett "Jared" Yates. One of Pinkerton's finest, Jared's chasing the very same killer, and Mac is sure that, together, they can capture this elusive time traveler. She's more than willing to risk her life for this dangerous mission, yet after a night of searing passion in Jared's arms, will she be willing to risk her heart?

Meagan McKinney

FAIR IS THE ROSE 5/1993 ISBN: 0440209137 Christal Van Alen was wanted from Maine to Missouri. Swathed in widow's weeds, she was running to Wyoming Territory...when the outlaw Macaulay Cain captured their stagecoach and the aristocratic New Yorker was prisoner again. She couldn't trust the infamous outlaw; she couldn't share her real name or her secret past. Yet he was her only hope against the dangerous gang of gunman that held her. And even as she clung to him for protection, she fought against the passions that threatened to betray her - until one explosive night when all secrets must be revealed - and she was a fugitive again...He was a man who could take - or leave - a woman at will. Then Macaulay Cain encountered the mysterious, ravishing 'Widow Smith.' Her honor, her shattered innocence, became his obsession. She was a woman whose secrets he vowed to unlock even as she fled his embrace. Why did she run? If it took him years, he would find her, possess her, unlock her darkest secrets - even if it cost him his life...

THE MERRY WIDOW 12/1999 ISBN: 1575664879 A wealthy New York publisher, Magnus gave up an elegant bachelor's existence to lead an arctic expedition in search of the doomed Franklin party--and the famed black opal Franklin reportedly found. Lovely Rachel is the reason he docks at Herschel Island whenever he can. But the tundra is a far more demanding mistress than any woman, and when he doesn't return home, New York society believes it has taken his life. Magnus is willing to let the world mourn his "death" if it means conquering the Arctic--and retrieving the opal. Only Rachel knows where the gem is hidden. Convinced that her dream of a life with Magnus can never be realized, Rachel decides to pursue what her errant lover has rejected--his New York home and her own happiness. But the modest cottage Rachel imagined is an opulent mansion, and the quiet life she envisioned as his "widow" is immediately complicated by new demands. Rachel never dreams that Magnus--who is furious that he must choose between the lure of adventure and the "wife" who has stolen his heart--will one day follow her.

Annie McKnight

SUPERSTITIONS 7/1998 ISBN: 0843944056 Beautiful young Billie Bahill was determined. Despite what her father said, she knew her fiancé wouldn't just leave her. So come hell or high water, she was going to go find him. So what if he rode off into the deadly Superstition Mountains? Billie was as good on a horse as any of the men on her father's ranch, and she wouldn't let anybody stop her - especially not the Arizona Ranger with eyes that made her heart skip a beat. Ranger Sam Gray was on the trail of a pair of killers. But when he found the feisty tomboy alone in the Superstitions, he knew he had to bring her back home for her own good - no matter how hard she fought him. Sam was used to gunmen shooting at him, but he soon realized he faced a new kind of danger with Billie - the danger of losing his heart.

THE TOMBSTONE ROSE 5/2000 ISBN: 0843946814 Charlotte had returned to Tombstone a famous singer and actress, but her memories still haunted her every move. She knew that while she had managed to put the past behind her, there was one memory she couldn't shake: Jake Cottrell. The rugged rancher was the one man who could match her word for word, kiss for kiss; the one man who took her breath away. She rode into town a success, and yet Jake Cottrell could not forget the young redhead who had left Tombstone with dreams of becoming a singer. He had known even then that she would make it; she was the most determined, spirited firebrand he had ever encountered. And now that she had returned, he longed to be the one to sate her every need, wipe away the pain of the past and turn the Tombstone Rose's passionate dreams into blazing reality.

Patricia McLinn

WIDOW WOMAN(#417) 6/1998 ISBN: 0373290179 Rachel Terhune was wedded to the land... The widow's every thought was devoted to her ranch and the people who worked it, until the day she saw Nick Dusaq rising naked from the creek like some ancient river god. But would surrendering to her newfound desire mean the end to all her dreams? Nick Dusaq's painful past had kept him from getting close to other people, until the day he signed on with the widow Terhune. But the passion that flamed between them now threatened to destroy them both.

Charlotte McPherren

LOVE AND FORTUNE 1/1994 ISBN:084393560X Everything had been perfect--the moonlight, the swirling red veil she wore to disguise her face, the sizzling sensuality she felt as she gazed into the Confederate officer's eyes. Yes Fortune Landry was certain the sultry Gypsy dance had irrevocably bonded her to Grady MacNair. But it had also led to a terrible betrayal on that long ago night. When they met again years later as partners in a Colorado freighting company, the instant attraction between them was proof that the Gypsy spell still held strong. But Fortune feared that if Grady learned her true identity, his hatred would burn with the same passion that now brought her such ecstasy in his masterful embrace.

SONG OF THE WILLOW 7/1993 ISBN:0843934832 The Tomboy... Ladies didn't wear men's pants or herd cattle, nor did they curse or sneak whiskey, but Willie Vaughn did. Growing up in a household of five men, Willie could steal a base, rope a cow, and hold her own in a brawl. But she never thought she'd have to learn to seduce a man - until she met the handsome and dangerous Rider Sinclair. The Lieutenant....Going undercover to unmask the Vaughan's arms smuggling, Rider was prepared to romance their only daughter. But nobody warned him about the infuriating pixie with the luscious figure and stubborn temper. And nobody warned Rider he might fall in love. He'd have to separate duty from desire if he was going to nab the gang's ringleader - but he hated to risk losing the fiery hellcat who'd stolen his heart.

Sandra Madden

HEAVEN SENT 1/2002 ISBN: 0843949554 ISBN: 0843949554 Matilda Rose Applebee has a quest. Her younger sister has gotten herself in the family way, and before anyone can learn the truth, Matty must find the snake-in-the-grass responsible and haul his butt back to her sister's waiting arms. Then she catches up with her quarry, and the man claims he's been falsely accused and Matty wants to trust him. Yet, how can she? Next the man will tell her he isn't a drifter at all; he is a Pinkerton agent who uses his snake-oil wagon as a cover. He'll tell her that she is no tomboy and nothing but woman. He'll tell her that her sister has lied--and that she and he are a match made in heaven. And when he does, she knows she'll believe him.

Linda Madl

BRIGHTER THAN GOLD 10/2000 ISBN: 0821767550 The rebellious son of the Earl of Atwick, Carson Fairfax has been living in exile in Denver, running a gambling hall and enjoying a reputation as a society playboy. Now, his mother is coming to spend the Christmas season with him, and suddenly, Carson needs a respectable bride for a month's time--someone like the virtuous and beautiful Katherine Tucker. Katherine doesn't know whether to be outraged or merely astonished that the rakish Carson Fairfax has asked her to be his bride in a marriage of convenience. After all, she's been petitioning to close that notorious den of his for some time. Still, she is in need of financial security, and so she agrees under one condition: Carson must sell his beloved gambling hall first.

HEAVEN IN HIS TOUCH short story in CUPID'S KISS 2/1996 ISBN:0505520761

SAVORY COMFORT short story in WAY TO A MAN'S HEART 11/1997 ISBN:0312963335 If Rosemary’s rich savory stew doesn’t make her favorite steely frontiersman meltdown and propose, what will?

TESSA'S HEART short story in SNOW KISSES 12/1998 ISBN: 0821760564 Even though he longs for hearth and home, Sam Harper has always been a loner. Roaming the prairies of Kansas as a bounty hunter has left little room for a wife and children. Meeting Tessa Jennings, a beautiful newspaper editor, only magnifies the emptiness he feels. Can a snowbound interlude teach them to share their hearts?

Mallery-Child

SHOTGUN GROOMS 9/2001 ISBN: 0373291752 Brides or Bankruptcy - The MacIntyre brothers had a helluva choice! Now, thanks to their cagey uncle's ironclad will, saloonkeeper Lucas MacIntyre was forced to find himself a bride. So he proposed a chaste businesslike 'merger' to Miss Emily Smythe, a uniquely enterprising schoolmarm. But how could he keep them wed in name only when all he wanted to do was bed down with his bride in her brand-new inn? The fur would fly sure enough when his bear of a brother, Jackson, woke up to find himself hitched to Miss Molly Malone. He'd thought surely she was mistaken. But delirious with fever, he'd unknowingly consummated their marriage. And the Irish firebrand was determined that their union stick 'til death did them part!' Well, now he was guaranteed his inheritance, but what was the miner to do with a wife?

Mallery-Williams-Davidson

MONTANA MAVERICKS: BIG SKY GROOMS. 8/2001 ISBN: 0373834918 Lengendary rancher Caleb Kincaid discovers love is sweeter the second time around in the arms of an old flame; Younger brother Will woos the townspeople to his bank with the help of a sassy saloon girl who has a head for business and pleasure; and black sheep cousin James saves a schoolteacher from bandits and soon discovers she's stolen his heart!

Susan Mallery

JUSTIN'S BRIDE 5/1995 ISBN: 0373288700 After seven long years, Justin had finally stopped running...Though years had passed since he'd left town, Justin Kincaid still had something to prove. Especially to Megan Bartlett, the only woman he'd ever loved - and the one woman he could never forgive. This couldn't be happening, Megan told herself. Justin was back. Justin Kincaid had returned. But the boy he'd been was gone, replaced by a man who'd brought Megan a child to cherish. And her own secret past to confront.

LUCAS'S CONVENIENT BRIDE Short Story in SHOTGUN GROOMS 9/2001 ISBN: 0373291752

WILD WEST WIFE(#419) 7/1998 ISBN: 0373290195 Return To Whitehorn, Montana, where a lone maverick out for justice forged a legend... Mail-order bride Haley Winthrop came to Big Sky Country with big dreams of a home and husband, until a soft-spoken cowboy with haunted eyes stole her away from her fiancé and took her heart hostage. Jesse Kincaid had vowed to bring down the man who'd had his father killed - and what better way to start than by kidnapping his bride-to-be? But he hadn't planned on falling for his own prisoner, and though Jesse'd sworn off love forever, something in Haley's blazing kisses promised eternity.

Rickey R. Mallory

THE CHRISTMAS TREASURE short story in MISTLETOE MARRIAGES 11/1999 ISBN: 1584950560

Anne Manning

RUSTLER'S BRIDE 11/1998 ISBN: 1582000557 Texas in 1873 is no place for a woman alone, especially a beautiful, unattached woman with clear title to a prime piece of cattle land. It's also no place for a man with a price on his head, seeking justice for an unspeakable crime, as well as his own redemption. When Martha MacLannon meets Jake Bowman, she recognizes him as the man she's waited for all her life, but his offer to help her save her ranch for a cut of the profits doesn't sound like the offer of a man who means to stay. Jake yearns for Martha's healing love, but knows his mission in Travis County will likely cost him his own life. Jake's past comes back with a vengeance, placing them both in danger. Can Jake save Martha and the life they hope to build together?

Jackie Manning

SILVER HEARTS(#454) 3/1999 ISBN: 0373290543 Luke Savage was not a marryin' man. The funny thing was - Noelle Bellencourt just happened to come from a long line of folks with tricks up their sleeves. Certainly there was more to this Eastern miss than met the eye, for he suspected she had the power to transform his wandering ways! Noelle Bellencourt had come West to find family and fulfillment - and instead found herself stranded in the desert, arguing at rifle point with Luke Savage. But could this mysterious stranger truly be the one to make all her troubles disappear?

Debra Marshall

STILL SWEET 8/1997 ISBN: 0515121304 Serub, Oklahoma, was home to a booming business in illegal moonshine, Until Chaney White became sherrif, he had three months to close down all the stills in town -- or loose his job. Hindered at every turn by the spirited townsfolk, Chaney had his job cut out for him. Especially when he became smitten with the charming Morrow Beth Huckabee, the sister of Scrub's most notorious moonshiner...

Marion Marshall

AMBER MOMENT ISBN: 0738801224 After years in Boston, Amber McCandless has returned at last to her beloved Texas, her childhood home. Her joy is overshadowed, however, by her mother's mysterious deathbed warning. Too soon, she finds that her innocence will not protect her when she becomes a helpless pawn in a bloody battle of revenge between two dangerously ruthless men. Morgan Devereaux is a wanted man, a gunslinger with a lightening draw and a deadly eye. He's hardened himself to any emotion beyond vengeance and will let no one stand in his way, especially not Amber McCandless, niece of the man he means to destroy.

AMY'S HEART 1/2002 Paperback release of PRAIRIE PASSAGE E-Book ISBN: 1891020250 Amy Ryder's situation is desperate. She has to reach Captain Brandon Ryder at Ft. Bridger before her child is born. But over a thousand miles lies between them. A thousand miles filled with raging rivers, cholera, and hostile Indians led by Sioux war chief Red Feather, whose fascination with the golden haired beauty draws Amy into more danger than she could have ever imagined. But more dangerous than all of that is Amy's growing attraction for wagon train scout Cort Trevor. Tough and fearless, but haunted by a past he can't forget, Cort is the total opposite of Brandon in every respect. Soon Amy will have to choose between the father of her child, and the man who risks everything to save her life.

CIMARRON SURRENDER 3/2000 E-Book ISBN:1586080083 Kane Darcy was the nightmare every parent feared. Tall, dark, and handsome with a prison record and a reputation as a fast gun for hire, Kane was the absolute last man on earth any parent would want their daughter interested in. But Kane’s mischievous smile and charming manner covered a multitude of scars. Raised by a mother who had been abandoned by his father, Kane’s upbringing made him more attracted to working girls that young ladies from proper families. Decency and innocence were the last things Kane looked for in a female companion. Until he met Abby Prescott. Abby was being courted by the most eligible young man in Cimarron and was the envy of every girl her age. She was naïve, trusting, and restless the summer Kane Darcy came to town. He was everything she had been taught to avoid. His background was the stuff scandals were made of and his actions in Cimarron did little to dispute his bad reputation. But Abby could not resist Kane’s charm nor his physical appeal. However, Kane’s ties to his past were strong. When an old friend came to town with a scheme to make them both rich, Kane had to choose between the life he had known and the future he now glimpsed in Abby Prescott’s eyes. That decision would take them both on a wild ride of adventure and danger into a Mexican bandit town and forever change the way they felt about themselves and each other. Along the way Abby would break every rule she had been taught as she learned the most important rule of all; that love has no rules and takes no prisoners.

DAKOTA DAWN 1/2001 ISBN: 158608173X A case of mistaken identity leads to love and betrayal in Custer’s cavalry when a scandalous woman and an honorable man discover forbidden love while on a collision course with destiny

FORBIDDEN HARVEST 5/1998 ISBN: 1891020374 Katie Wainwright's gift of clairvoyance was both a blessing and a curse. It was a blessing because it offered the promise of deliverance from a greedy land baron who was determined to drive her family and their neighbors from their land. It was also a curse because the means of that deliverance was a man, that although Katie had never met, she knew intimately from the visions played out in her dreams night after night. What were only dreams for most people, to Katie were clear flashes of the future because her dreams always came true. Dark, handsome, and deadly, Christopher Tulane was known from the Arizona territory to Montana as a fast gun for hire with a past as dark and mysterious as the man himself. Driven by guilt and pursued by his own demons, no one was more surprised than he when his tortured soul responded to Katie's gentleness. Hired killer or guardian angel? Only Katie knows. The answer may destroy them all.

LAST TICKET TO PARADISE 7/1999 E-Book ISBN: 1891020706 Victoria Randell is a woman with a secret. Mitch Cole is a man with a past. When she got on his stagecoach in Laramie to escape a lynch mob, neither of them suspected the love, passion, and danger that awaited them in Paradise. But secrets have a way of being found out and the past must be confronted if its mistakes are not to be repeated. And love must be strong enough to endure when faced with the ultimate test. Against the sweeping backdrop of frontier Wyoming, while Mitch fights to save his stage company, their love struggles to survive when Victoria's past threatens to destroy everything they have worked for, including their lives.

PRAIRIE PASSAGE E-Book ISBN: 1891020250 Amy Ryder's situation is desperate. She has to reach Captain Brandon Ryder at Ft. Bridger before her child is born. But over a thousand miles lies between them. A thousand miles filled with raging rivers, cholera, and hostile Indians led by Sioux war chief Red Feather, whose fascination with the golden haired beauty draws Amy into more danger than she could have ever imagined. But more dangerous than all of that is Amy's growing attraction for wagon train scout Cort Trevor. Tough and fearless, but haunted by a past he can't forget, Cort is the total opposite of Brandon in every respect. Soon Amy will have to choose between the father of her child, and the man who risks everything to save her life.

SILVER OBSESSION E-Book ISBN: 189102020X Winter Bradley's arrival in Gold River, Colorado was much more than the result of a mail order relationship with miner Ben Barrett. The marriage was merely the means of returning to the scene of her parents' brutal murders eighteen years earlier by a band of Cheyenne warriors. Her need for revenge upon the childhood friend who'd proven his manhood to Two Feathers' kindred by tricking her father into opening his door to the marauding warriors had kept her heart burning during all those lonely years in an eastern orphanage. She realized quickly, however, that though she respected Ben, she would never love him. Even more unsettling was her attraction to U.S. Marshal Blaine Dekker, because the handsome lawman was not only half Indian, he was half Cheyenne. Soon Winter's search for her enemy leads her into murder, imminent Indian trouble, and the desperate quest to save her husband's silver mine. When her own life is endangered, Winter will be asked to put aside her hatred of the Cheyenne to help Blaine prevent another bloody Indian war. Winter must decide if her love for the half breed lawman is enough to overcome her thirst for revenge, before they're both destroyed by it.

Kat Martin

MAGNIFICENT PASSAGE 9/1988 ISBN: 0517006200 She fled a stifling existence for the glittering social whirl of California's state capital, trading childhood's innocence for a woman's burning desire. It was risky, masquerading as her flighty cousin, but Mandy Ashton was hardly faint of heart-- as she would prove time and again on a journey fraught with deadly adventure and sublime temptation. He was a white man raised by Cheyenne, making a difficult peace with hid dual heritage. The last thing he needed was a spoiled brat chaperon. But Mandy was spirited, captivating, and irresistibly sensuous ... By journey's end, smoldering passion that nothing could kill -- except, perhaps, the secret Mandy guarded so carefully throughout the arduous days, and ardent nights, of their long, Magnificent Passage.

MIDNIGHT RIDER 3/1996 ISBN: 0312957742 As soon as the tall, handsome Spaniard leaned down from his stallion to offer her a rose, Caralee McConnell knew California held danger. But all to quickly she was forced to deny the heat Ramon de la Guerra had sparked. Determined to please her uncle who had saved her from poverty, she must resign herself to marrying a man he has chosen for her...and ignore what is in her heart. Behind Ramon de la Guerra's dark eyes throbbed the memory of his lands, stolen by the beautiful Americana's uncle. He has sworn to reclaim them - riding by night as the ruthless outlaw, El Dragon. In a moment of rage and revenge, he stole Caralee away to his mountain lair...but there, in a passion as sweet as California wine, he would reveal a secret that could cost him his life - and his heart's freedom...

MIDNIGHT SUN 5/2003 ISBN: 0821773801 'Over my dead body...' Call Hawkins just wants to be left alone and leave the past where it belongs. The bleak beauty of Dead Horse Creek is a perfect place to get away from the world...a place where nothing exists to remind him of everything he's lost. His isolation is complete - until Charity Sinclair arrives fresh from New York City. Stunningly beautiful and stubbornly independent, she's also shamefully ignorant of the untamed wilderness...and the very real dangers she'll face if Call doesn't teach her a thing or two. But even with Call's grudging help, Charity's dream of life in the Yukon may have led her into something much more savage than the forest. A menace as endless as the long days that run together without darkness - and a killer who won't let anything come between him and perfect, deadly vengeance...

NATCHEZ FLAME 2/1994 ISBN: 0440509181 A woman of courage and honor ...She sold everything she owned to go west and marry a powerful land baron she'd never seen. But Priscilla Wills hadn't counted on the gunfight--or gunfighter--who would change her life: A man who lived by the gun ...He was an outlaw--yet Brendan Trask unleashed in the prim and proper Priscilla a fiery passion that matched his own. But a man running for his life couldn't afford a woman who hungered for the security that only her wealthy fiance could provide. An impossible love that refused to die ...Bound by duty, Priscilla faced a loveless marriage believing she had no future with Brenden Trask. When he could run no longer, Brenden returned to claim her, the chestnut-haired beauty who finally surrendered to her passionate, rebellious heart ...

Mary Martin

CARESS OF SILK 7/1986 ISBN:0821718428

OUTLAW CARESS 5/1988 ISBN:0821723499 Nicki Sue thought that she had finally found happiness after her tragic past. She was newly married to railroad speculator Patrick Ryan when a misfired gun left her a widow with a dim future-and found herself attracted to the man who captured her. Jesse Kardel had one thing on his mind-revenge against the railroad tycoon who had had his beautiful young fiancee killed right before their vows were spoken. So when he heard that Lars Evanson and his painted woman were aboard the train that night, he decided to take action. He stole Lars' vixen with the honey-gold eyes and promised himself a time to remember-but soon realized that his prize was more valuable than a one-night stand.

WILD TEXAS ANGEL 12/1992 ISBN:0821739913 As the War Between the States raged, Nurse Callie Angel was willing to help any man in need, regardless of the color of his uniform. So when half-breed Union captain Rafe Santino was unwilling to trust her with his wounded Confederate friend, her amethyst eyes blazed with indignation. But Rafe's devilish smile and darkly handsome charm soon had her seething with far more pleasurable emotions. Callie couldn't explain it, but the dark savage that Rafe kept carefully hidden beneath his cultured exterior made her blood run hot, awakening desires that she knew could only be satisfied by nights of wild Texas loving in Rafe's passionate embrace! Rafe Santino - also known as Night of the Hawk-was a man of two worlds. Though his wealthy father paid for his Harvard education, Rafe's heart was pure Comanche. Determined to help his people in their desperate fight to hold onto their dying culture, as well as avenging the murders of his wife and daughter, Rafe was a man with a mission. He certainly didn't have time for a sultry young miss with a saucy tongue! Yet there seemed to be no escaping his raging desire for this redheaded angel and soon Rafe was consumed solely by thoughts of taking Callie in his arms, claiming her sweet innocence and loving her like no other man ever would.

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