Jane Peart
PROMISE OF THE VALLEY 1995 ISBN: 0310412811 When Southern-born Adelaide Pride follows her Yankee employer to California, she faces a private civil war and re-examines her values of love and honor. Twenty-six-year-old Adelaide Pride stepped out of the horse-drawn buggy to gaze one last time at the charred remains of her childhood home. Six generations of Prides had lived and entertained there under warm Southern skies. That was before the Civil War- robbing Addie of her youth, her parents, and the man she would have married! Fortunately, an aunt and uncle had taken her in, but they could scarcely afford to feed themselves. Not wishing to remain a burden, Addie accepted a position as a companion to a Yankee spinster at a health spa in Napa Valley, California. Addie shivered with a mixture of fear and anticipation. Very soon she would journey by train to the remote land that was untouched be conflict and overflowing with financial prosperity and social opportunities. Did she dare to hope that her dreams of love and belonging were yet possible? Or would she become lost in the a world of the sick and aged, ending up a spinster like her employer, Mrs. Amberly?
RUNAWAY HEART 1994 ISBN: 0310412714 'End of the line!' The stagecoach driver's shout sent a chill down Holly Lambeth's spine. What an ominous sound! Was Riverbend, Oregon, to the be the end of the line for her? she had come West to escape the swirling gossip about her broken engagement. She had come to escape the humiliation of being jilted. She had come her to find a welcome new life, but her cousin's chilly reception tells her she has made a terrible mistake. Here in Riverbend, 2,000 miles from Kentucky, a town barely more than a mining camp, Holly faces the fact that she is unwanted and unwelcome. Knowing this unhappy truth, Holly reaches another conclusion. Only she can change her situation. Both the sophisticated editor of the local newspaper, as well as the town's dedicated doctor, are attracted to the pretty newcomer. But Holly has more than romance on her mind. An unforeseen opportunity presents a challenge and brings Holly to a decision that will not only change her, but alter her own vision of the future.
WESTWARD DREAMS(Volume II of Promise of the Valley) 1995 ISBN: 0310230462 When Southern-born Adelaide Pride follows her Yankee employer to California, she faces a private civil war and re-examines her values of love and honor. Twenty-six-year-old Adelaide Pride stepped out of the horse-drawn buggy to gaze one last time at the charred remains of her childhood home. Six generations of Prides had lived and entertained there under warm Southern skies. That was before the Civil War- robbing Addie of her youth, her parents, and the man she would have married! Fortunately, an aunt and uncle had taken her in, but they could scarcely afford to feed themselves. Not wishing to remain a burden, Addie accepted a position as a companion to a Yankee spinster at a health spa in Napa Valley, California. Addie shivered with a mixture of fear and anticipation. Very soon she would journey by train to the remote land that was untouched be conflict and overflowing with financial prosperity and social opportunities. Did she dare to hope that her dreams of love and belonging were yet possible? Or would she become lost in the a world of the sick and aged, ending up a spinster like her employer, Mrs. Amberly?
Patricia Pellicane
DESIRE'S GLORY 1/1993 ISBN: 0821739891 Glory, Nevada was a dry, dusty dung heap of a town in the middle of nowhere. Why had Nora's father dragged her here in the first place? Well, old Doc Bowen was too ill now to answer his daughter's questions, and if the townspeople of Glory wanted a town doctor, Nora would do the job. But rancher Jake Brackston had her fuming. An uncommonly attractive man - all lean muscle and masculine grace - Jake made it perfectly clear to Nora he needed women for only one thing. Soon his fiery kisses unleashed a passion she could not deny...one to which she wantonly and joyfully surrendered!
DESPERADO PASSION 3/1991 ISBN:0821733362 He Always Got His Man. Marshal Tanner Maddox swaggered into Willowbrook, Nevada on business, but after encountering the beguiling Elizabeth Garner, his mind was fixed on the pleasures of her honey-smooth skin and temptingly-ripe lips. Lucky for him she ran the boarding house where he bedded down. He figured he'd bed her down then get his mind back on the business of catching a crafty bandit. But he didn't figure on becoming addicted to the glories of her unleashed passion; and he didn't like the puzzling questions that were realized about her. Tanner always solved mysteries he was determined to unveil all her secrets. Especially When It Was a Woman. Elizabeth Garner had vengeance on her mind. By day she played the innocent widow, but by night she pulled on men's clothes, holstered a gun, and robbed the local stagecoach, spiriting her enemy's tainted money directly to a needy orphanage. Then Tanner Maddox rode into town. Elizabeth tried to keep the arrogant Marshal at a distance; but when his blistering kisses demanded her response, she could not deny him the tumultuous ecstasy they both craved!
EMBERS OF DESIRE 1983 ISBN:0843924462 Lady of Position ... Indian's Bride ... Pirate's Prize ... Robust, beautiful, a young lady burning with inner fire - this was Angelina Barton. Even her father's wealth and power could not force her to marry lecherous Walter McCray. So as the clouds of Revolutionary War gathered overhead, Angelina fled their Virginia estate - straight into the arms of tall, muscular Stephen Bennett, blood brother to the Cherokee, a man with a dangerous secret. Forced to become his Indian bride, night after night she vowed revenge against this tyrant who conquered her will as he ignited her deepest desires. On a tide of shame and feverish passion, he swept her off to the high seas, where dark-eyed pirate Adam Blake stormed into her life - and where Angelina suddenly discovered her love for Stephen, just as a deadly blade threatened to take him from her forever!
ENDLESS NIGHT 9/1996 ISBN: 0821754084 The roar of defeat echoes from Shiloh to Gettysburg as the Civil War enters its death throes. But for one man and woman, the battle has just begun... With the blood of the Yankee who attacked her on her hands, Confederate widow Ellie Potter flees her Georgia home aboard a California-bound wagon train...unaware that she is under suspicion for a crime of a very different nature... Ric Tanner believes that Oliver Potter is still alive. And he believes that Ellie Potter will lead him to his quarry. To bring to justice the sadistic man who killed his brother, Tanner will follow Ellie to the ends of the earth, if he must. For his is a heart hardened by hatred...until he catches up with Ellie, and finds himself moved by her gentleness and beauty. But the road to vengeance is long and lonely, and Ric's ruthless obsession could destroy a love more precious than all the victories in the world. Somehow, he must find a way to ease his bitter soul if he and Ellie are to turn the endless night into a dawn of hope and passionate promise....
FIRE'S TENDER KISS 10/1991 ISBN:0821735349 Reclusive Ranger..Snowbound Seductress.. Rough and rugged rancher Thaddeus Payne lived as a recluse in the Colorado mountains, needing nothing but his warm cabin. He'd vowed he'd never allow another faithless woman into his home or his heart, until he rescued a nearly frozen beauty and laid her down on his bed.
NIGHTS OF FIRE 8/1993 ISBN: 0821742175 With the bank about to foreclose on her family's land, Emy Du Maurier desperately needed money. So she boarded a Mississippi gambling boat with the intention of fleecing an unsuspecting traveler. But when she met Cole Brackston - a shamelessly handsome rogue whose dark eyes flashed fire as he arrogantly tossed the dice - Emy forgot everything else. She knew she should stay away from this devilish gambler, but the lure of his lips on hers and the passion of his sensual caresses were impossible to resist. The mood was set for riverboat seduction and this deceiving innocent was ready for love...
NIGHTS OF PASSION 4/1994 ISBN: 0821745247 Abigail Pennyworth had traded the sultry heat of Georgia for the exotic beauty of New Orleans, where she combed the dangerous back streets in search of her missing younger sister. What she found instead was Jeremiah Hawk, an enigmatic lawman whose rugged good looks concealed a savage legacy. Tempted by Abigail's untouched beauty, he offered his help - for a price. Thrown together with this fierce-eyed stranger on a desperate journey of hope through the vast Smoky Mountains, Abigail would discover just how far Hawk would go to escape the past - and how much she would risk for a future with the man who'd awakened her most secret and forbidden desires...
THIS WILD HEART 7/1990 ISBN: 0821730673 Beautiful Morgan Wainright was eager to trade her New York townhouse for the rangelands of Nevada, where she'd inherited a half-share in the Red Rock Ranch. But then Morgan met her darkly handsome partner, the half-Indian, all-infuriating Joseph Youngblood. When he ordered her off 'his' land, her blue eyes blazed with rage, but when he tried to scare her away with his bold caresses, her blood boiled with a different brand of heat. Youngblood teased her with whispers of what he would do with his searching hands and warm lips, and when he made good on his shameful promises, Morgan was willing to surrender more than a parcel of land!
Sonya T. Pelton
CAPTIVE CARESS 1986 ISBN:0821719238 I'll not force you....With just a glance at his terrified captive, the half-bred Lakota knew he'd have to possess her that night. To grasp her flowing blonde hair, to caress her creamy firm curves would catapult him to heights of ecstasy he'd never before known. But the arrogant brave was too proud to take an unwilling woman. Before the night was through, he promised his gorgeous slave that she'd be begging for his kiss, pleading with her bronze-skinned master to lead her again and again into the realm of indescribable pleasure and ecstatic abandon... I'll never submit....Denied her freedom, despairing of a rescue, the last thing on Willow's mind was desire. But as she gazed at her lean, muscled captor, the spirited beauty couldn't help but imagine herself in his arms. She tried to shut out such shameful thoughts then felt a delicious tingle as his fingers traced her spine. His teasing touch sparked her sensuality; his nearness fired her need...and before Willow could say no, she became his prisoner of passion forever caught in his Captive Caress.
CAPTIVE CHAINS ISBN:0821723049 Nineteen-year-old Shaina Hill had yearned to be a teacher for as long as she could remember. And as she headed out for the remote area called Thunder Valley in the Washington Territory, she could scarcely believe that her goal was becoming a reality . . . especially when she discovered that her employer was the rugged rancher Travis Cordell. The most virile and handsome man she had ever met, Travis filled the innocent young beauty's head with a different kind of dream – one of heated kisses and stolen embraces. Although Shaina had no experience when it came to the ways of love, she was always as eager student when it came to something new.
CAPTIVE DOVE 3/1991 ISBN:082173332X Lovely, emerald-eyed Tamara Anderson had never desired a man the way she desired the handsome half-breed, Daniel Tarrant. Willingly, recklessly, she surrendered to the bronze warrior's soul-searing embrace, never dreaming he would desert her just when she needed him most! Vowing never again to yield to him--or any man--the delicate Minnesota beauty fled the place that held only bittersweet memories and took the only job she could find..as a maid in the notorious Nicollet Hotel. But Tammi's senses reeled when she saw Daniel striding up to the hotel door. And though she burned to feel his fiery touch on every inch of her yearning body, Tammi knew that she could never trust him again, nor let him near her aching heart! Two years in jail for a crime he didn't commit had left Daniel with a powerful hunger for revenge. But the instant he saw Tammi again, vengeance was forgotten in a fever of frenzied desire. Even after many moons apart, the lusty savage still burned for the creamy-skinned dove whose scorching touch had enflamed his very soul. Somehow, some way, he swore to win his moonlit maiden back again. And when she lay, soft and trembling, in his sensual embrace, they would soar together to the secret place where it had all begun--free at last to surrender to a rapture raging out of control and the love they could no longer deny.
DAKOTA FLAME 7/1989 ISBN:0821727001 Because enchantingly lovely Audrina Harris knew that she was destined to play a major role in the tribal life of the Dakota people, it came as no surprise when Chief Wild Hawk rode into the Minnesota River Valley town and captured her, swinging her up behind him on his powerful black stallion. Audrina felt the sharp stirring of rapture the moment her eyes met his, but the feisty, independent young beauty was determined not to be his captive. She would fulfill her destiny freely, or not at all. But the farther westward they traveled, the more she became a slave to Wild Hawk's searing kisses and the sweet strength of his powerful bronze arms. And the more she realized how easy it would be to leave the white world behind for a lifetime of scorching love with her passionate Indian warrior. Deeply saddened and angered by his father's death at the white man's hands, all Chief Wild Hawk wanted was to lead his tribe to peace and to obey the call of his dream vision: to capture the beautiful young girl who possessed the sacred talisman of the Dakota people. But Audrina Harris proved to be more than the paleface slave he'd bargained for. She had spirit and fire and a mind of her own--and the loveliest body he had ever seen. When his lips first touched her luscious flesh, he knew that it was more than tribal destiny and a length of frayed rope that bound her to him. He knew he could not live without her warm breath in his ear, the fiery touch of her soft curves beneath his hands, and the raging passion that soon ignited into a fierce...Dakota Flame.
ECSTASY'S MAGIC 1/1992 ISBN:082173623X They were as different as fire and ice - shy, demure Anna Lou Mayhugh and brashly passionate Max Butler. The only two things they shared were the wall between their thriving emporiums in River City, Iowa and the bitter vow that each had made - a vow never to love again. But neither Max nor Anna could deny the jolt of sensual electricity that passed between them when they first met. The searing sweet temptation of loving once more swept away the dark secrets of Anna's tragic past. And as Max's strong arms held her close, she knew she could never resist his fiery caress - no matter where their passions might lead...
HEAVENSENT 3/1995 ISBN: 0821748599 With her half-brothers slain, Eve Michaels rides out for the Missouri trapper camp, only to be seized by Spanish slavers at a western river fort. Then, as the hills echo with the sound of drums, she sees him...a magnificent Indian warrior. Steve McCloud is out for revenge. With the Shoshoni who call him Sun Cloud, he raids the slavers' fort. There, dressed in beaded doeskin, is a woman whose exotic beauty cannot hide her mixed blood. But where she comes from, she will not say. Yet even as McCloud draws Eve into his sheltering embrace, visions of a long ago past threaten their future and the love that could be their doom...or their only salvation.
LOVE, HEAR MY HEART 3/1990 ISBN:0821729136 Radiantly lovely Cassandra St. James was painfully aware of what everyone else wanted her to do. Her mother hoped she'd marry a rich socialite and her father longed to wed her to his business partner, the handsome river pilot, Sylvester Diamond. But the petite blond needed time to figure out what she wanted, so she slipped aboard the sidewheeler, River Minx, for a trip down the Missouri River.
LOVE'S LOST ANGEL 7/1993 ISBN: 0821742140 Cruelly betrayed by the man she loved, Willow had fled the haunting memories of her stormy marriage to Texas Ranger Talon Clay Brandon. But now the child of their tempestuous union had been kidnapped...by brutal bandits! Sworn to find her cherished son at all costs, the resourceful Texas beauty disguised herself as an outlaw and took to the hills. But unbeknownst to Willow, her husband was also searching for their son - riding the open plains as the fierce Desert Hawk. When he captured her on the wilderness trail, Willow vowed to defy him with every last breath. But as he swept her into his arms once more and rekindled searing passions beneath a wild western sky, Willow knew that no power on earth could keep her from her rapturous and dangerous destiny...
TEXAS TIGRESS 12/1985 ISBN: 0821717146 'I'll be back, missy, when you're all grown up,' laughed arrogant Ashe Brandon to little Tanya Hayes, 'and you better be waiting.' The rich, carefree rogue hadn't meant a thing he said - until he returned to find the innocent girl had become an irresistible temptress. His fingers burned to caress her perfect curves; his lips thirsted to taste her creamy flesh. Ashe was never the kind of man to ask for what he could take. And he was determined to possess her body and soul. The day he rode off to fight in the Mexican War, blue-eyed Tanya swore she'd save herself for the handsome cowboy. But as the long months passed, the now-voluptuous beauty realized he was just a selfish brute. Then the bold ranger swaggered back into town and Tanya couldn't stop the flush of desire that scorched her from head to toe. The furious vixen couldn't admit she still wanted him. All she could think of was how to break his heart like he had shattered hers - and show him only love could tame a wild Texas tigress.
Margaret Pemberton
A DARK ENCHANTMENT 8/2002 ISBN: 072785769X A chilling secret exposed in the heat of the Portuguese sun Jenny Harland is a girl with a secret. One that has scarred her life, threatened her future happiness. At a luxurious cluster of villas in Northern Portugal, close friends and family gather together to help Jenny come to terms with her tragic past. But one man will stop at nothing to prevent them. No one is safe in the company of Jonathan Brown, the man whom Jenny now loves. Not even Jenny's cousin, Rozalinda, and her doting millionaire husband. Not her childhood friend, Mary Farrar. Not the stunningly handsome Miles Sullivan or great-aunt Harriet who watches over them all with increasing concern. No one is safe...
A MANY SPENDOURED THING 4/2003 ISBN: 072785769X What is holding together this peculiar band of pioneers? Polly Kirkham is an orphan who was brought up by the Mormons. Now, in the bitter winter of 1846, she is part of their small band of pioneers struggling westward to the Rocky Mountains. It is here that they meet Major Dart Richards of the US Cavalry. The Major intrigues her - he's a misfit like Polly, who has never been able to accept the Mormon faith. But Dart has vowed never again to become involved with a woman. So why, instead of enjoying the pleasures of St Louis, does he find himself shepherding a small company of women, children, oxen, goats and hens across the icy wastes in pursuit of an ideal?
Michalann Perry
CAPTIVE SURRENDER 2/1987 ISBN:0821719866 Gentle Fawn should have been celebrating her new found joy as a bride, but when both her husband and her father were killed in battle, the young Indian maiden vows revenge. With only a gold locket to remind her of her former happiness, she charges into the fray-yet once she catches sight of the piercing blue gaze of her enemy, Gentle Fawn knows that she can never kill him. The handsome white man stirs a longing from deep within her soul...a passion she's never experienced before. Now she must sate the wild desires he was kindling, or forever be a prisoner of his love...
DEFIANT SPLENDOR 1988 ISBN:082172374X An unpolished gem...Cassie Wyman had one goal: to mine the gold her father had discovered. It didn't matter that she had to parade around as a man to protect herself from the other miners, just so long as she was able to stake her claim. Then she met Trace McAllister. One glance into his piercing green eyes and she knew that being a woman had certain advantages. Especially when it came to a stolen caress, or being kissed by the tall, dark stranger. Once touched by Trace's magic, Cassie knew she was under his spell, at his command... A golden embrace...Trace McAllister took one look at the dirty, scruffy miner he met on a stagecoach and saw beyond the disguise he saw a luscious vixen trapped by her own device. But the young beauty couldn't hide her charms for long. Her creamy skin was like silk to his touch, her swan like neck was ripe for his kiss. Trace knew that he was the one meant to awaken the innocent woman-child to the joys of love, to take her beyond desire in Defiant Splendor.
FORTUNE'S CHOICE 10/1988 ISBN:0821724819 LaRaine Ashby set out from her home with a single-minded goal: to find her twin sister. Tragically separated at birth the two women had never met--but LaRaine knew that they were destined to be reunited. What LaRaine didn't expect was to encounter the most handsome man she'd ever seen along the way. Although he claimed to be her protector, LaRaine feared the steely blue gaze of the virile stranger. He seemed to see her desire building and her passion stirring: LaRaine was sure he knew that she wanted to taste his kiss on her lips. Brand Colter knew the importance of his job as a lawman. He was to bring the infamous female outlaw Flame Rider to justice at all costs. But just when he thought he had the vixen where he wanted her, Brand had doubts. She didn't seem to be the heartless renegade he'd heard about. Instead, she was soft and sweet and he had the urge to hold her to him in a never ending embrace. Torn between the law and a lovely woman, he didn't know what to do. But Brand did know that he wanted to caress her creamy skin, stroke her silken hair and shout to the world that she was his by.Fortune's Choice.
LOVE'S WINDSWEPT EMBRACE 7/1990 ISBN:0821730657 Adrift with a Stranger...Female balloonist Aerial Windsor was too intent on breaking a distance record to notice the man hiding in the corner of the WindRose. And by the time she discovered gun-wielding Rye Berenger, the feisty flyer was too committed to her goal to change her course to suit an outlaw. Aerial would get him out of Iowa, but it had to be on her terms! At first that meant keeping the handsome stowaway at arm's length, but as she began to trust the warmth in his dark eyes, she realized he was just the sort of man she'd always dreamed of. And as they floated above the world, they joined together in an honest love, without a care for what awaited them when they came back to earth! Aloft with Ecstasy...Wrongly charged with murder, half-breed Rye Berenger had to break out of jail or dangle from a rope. Figuring no one would look for him on a hydrogen balloon, he didn't hesitate to board the WindRose. But once he was soaring in the sky with only the skill of a delicate blonde beauty between him and disaster, he wondered if he wouldn't have been safer taking his chances on land! Dependent on the lovely Aerial for his life, Rye came to admire, then desire, the luscious spitfire. And surrounded by snowy clouds and the clear blue heavens, he vowed to show his appreciation with passionate kisses, tender caresses, and all the wondrous rapture of Love's Windswept Embrace
SAVAGE ROGUE 1989 ISBN: 0821726196 Reason Warred with her Senses... Female journalist Aidan Donovan was thrilled with her latest assignment: to report on her life disguised as a man with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Then she met the adventurous warrior River Blue Eagle among the volunteer soldiers and Aidan cursed her mannish trousers and stick-on mustache. Her breathless response proclaimed louder than headlines that the tall, handsome Indian was the one for her. And even though Blue River Eagle threatened everything she believed in, the impassioned miss knew she'd trade it all for one night in the savage's powerful arms! Desire Battled His Control... Determined River Blur Eagle had only one thing on his mind when he joined up with Teddy Roosevelt: to convince the politician to pledge his aid to the suffering reservation Indians. Then the hot-blooded male saw the striking, nosy reporter and his heart somersaulted. His instincts told him this was really a voluptuous, sensual woman-who should submit to his masterful touch. And while his leader commanded him to fight the enemy, all River could think of was teaching the beauty the joys of loving a SAVAGE ROGUE.
UNTAMED SURRENDER 1986 ISBN:0821717405 Starr thought the world had ended when Indians killed her family and carried her away to the wilderness...SBlue Eagle knew the world had only just begun the day he saw the white woman captured by his tribe.
Tracie J. Peterson
COME AWAY, MY LOVE ISBN: 1557489246 Once they thought nothing would stand in the way of their happiness. Once they dreamed nothing but beautiful dreams filled with love and success. But now, for Joelle Dawson and John Monroe those fantasies-those heartfelt promises whispered under moonlit skies-belong in the past. Left paralyzed by a horrific airplane disaster, John has second thoughts about his ability to be a successful husband. A brutal attack by outlaws has left Joelle feeling tainted and unworthy. Together they release each other from their future and go their separate ways. But Joelle and John have never stopped loving each other. They have only forgotten how to forgive.
FOREVER YOURS ISBN: 1557487103 At twenty-three, Daughtry Lucas knows she will end up an old maid unless she can somehow escape her overprotective father. He refuses to trust her out of his sight, keeping all prospective suitors at a distance. A newspaper advertisement for a wife seems to offer Daughtry her only hope of escape. In a marriage by proxy, she becomes Mrs Nicholas Dawson and flees her father's ranch. Can this marriage between strangers succeed? Or will the dark strangers from Nick's past prevent Daughtry from truly being his forever?
THE HOUSE ON WINDRIDGE ISBN: 1577483960 When her mother dies in childbirth, Jessica's father sends his infant daughter from his ranch in Kansas back to New York to be raised by an older aunt. But Aunt Helen only cares for social standing and proprieties. She tells Jessica nothing of her father's offers to take her back and instead pushes Jessica into an arranged marriage with a man who turns out to be abusive and unfaithful. When her aunt and husband die, Jessica is alone in the world except for her infant son. She learns of her father's death and determines to rebuild her life at Windridge, the ranch where her life began. But appearances are not always reliable, and Jessica doesn't know who she can trust. Will Windridge become the home she has always searched for, or will it be the scene of her final betrayal?
LOGAN'S LADY 1997 ISBN: 1557481542 Traveling across the prairie with her father, sisters, and the man her father has promised her hand to in marriage, Lady Amelia Amhurst would have foregone spending the summer of 1875 in America and returned to their regal estate in England-if only her father would release her from the marriage engagement. Amelia finds herself strangely drawn to Logan Reed, the handsome American guide hired to lead them safely to Estes Park in the Colorado Rockies. Despite her aristocratic English breeding, Amelia falls in love with this barbaric country...and with Logan Reed. Will Logan's love and faith in God force Amelia to confront her own firm belief that there is no God? If only God would prove Himself to her...and find a way for her to be Logan's Lady.
THE HEART'S CALLING ISBN: 1557486670 Sent away from the man she wants to marry by her wealthy parents, Pamela Charbonneau now finds herself in a stifling small town in Missouri under the watchful eye of her strict grandmother. But trouble has a way of finding Pamela no matter where she is. As she schemes to accompany her new friend Zandy Dawson and her mine-owner husband back to Colorado, Pamela's wildest dreams could not contain what lies ahead. But Pamela also could not imagine a friend as strong and dependable as rugged Jim Williams, or a faith in God that she will test to the limit. As she seeks to find herself amid the scourges of the sagebrush, will Pamela ever realize her true heart's calling?
HIDDEN IN A WHISPER 4/1999 ISBN: 0739407724 Her dreams shattered in a whispered betrayal, Rachel Taylor looked to a future in the West, where she could separate from the memories and longings of her heart. When a new luxurious resort opens in New Mexico, Rachel's years of hard work and dedication with the Harvey House restaurants help her obtain the coveted position of house manager. Her initial excitement dims, however, when she discovers she will be working with Braeden Parker, the man her heart refuses to forget. As Rachel struggles with the conflicting emotions Braeden's presence creates, a deceptive rival enters in the form of Ivy Brooks, a cunning Harvey Girl whose family connections conveniently protect her. Seemingly untouchable, Ivy's selfish ambition threatens the tenuous bond developing between Rachel and Braeden - forcing Rachel to embrace her faith and renew the fragmented trust of her past.
A PLACE TO BELONG ISBN: 1557483612 Maggie hates Garrett Lucas, despises her father, and is running from God. Strongwilled Magdelena Intissar has a temper that matches her auburn hair. She always gets her own way, and she is not about to let Garrett Lucas drag her away from her childhood home to rejoin the father who deserted her when she was eight years old. After failing to sneak down a rose trellis at her Topeka home, Maggie boards a westbound train with Garrett. Feigning cooperation but bent on escape, late one night, she slips off the train and starts walking east across the prairie. The risk of death is preferable to facing her father and her painful memories. But Garrett--and God--have other plans.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
JUST IMAGINE formerly titled RISEN GLORY 9/2001 ISBN: 0380808307 The War Between the States may be over for the rest of the country, but not for Kit Weston. Disguised as a boy, she's come to New York City to kill Baron Cain, the man who stands between her and Risen Glory, the South Carolina home she loves. But unknown to Kit, the Yankee war hero is more than her most bitter enemy -- he's also her guardian. And he'll be a lot harder to kill than she's figured on.. Believing that Kit's a boy, Cain offers the grubby rapscallion a job in his stable. But he has no idea what he's in for, and it's not long before the hero of Missionary Ridge discovers the truth. His scamp of a stable boy is a strong-willed, violet-eyed beauty who's hell-bent on driving him crazy. Two hard-headed, passionate people....Two stubborn opponents with tender souls....Sometimes wars of the heart can only be won through the sweetest of surrenders.
Joan Elliott Pickart
AMBER, SING SOFTLY 8/1994 ISBN: 0786000384 Texas 1875. Amber Prescott is a frontiers woman struggling to keep her homestead and family together, and the last thing she needs is a wounded gunslinger on her doorstep. Drifter Logan Wade knows he doesn't deserve Amber. But when she sets out to 'save' this 'bad man,' love takes them both by surprise. And goodness has nothing to do with it.
APACHE DREAM BRIDE (#999) 1996 ISBN: 0373759991 The man on the bedroom floor...was straight out of Kathy Maxwell's dream. But she could only stare at the lone Apache, wearing nothing but formfitting buckskins and a scowl, who rose to stand at the foot of her bed. 'I am Dakota,' he said. 'Why have you brought me to this strange place?' Kathy was astonished at the sight before her. Somehow during the night the Native American dream catcher that hung above her bed had snuck into her sleep, stolen her dream man out of the 1870s and transported him here, into her present-day bedroom! What was a twentieth-century girl to do?
THE BONNIE BLUE 7/1991 ISBN: 0553290908 Slade Ironbow was big, dark, and dangerous, a man any woman would want - and the one rancher Becca Colten found impossible to resist! Nobody could tame the rugged half-Apache with the devil's eyes, but when honor and a secret promise brought him to the Bonnie Blue ranch as her new foreman, Becca couldn't send him away. She needed his help to keep from losing her ranch to the man she suspected had murdered her father, but stubborn pride made her fight the mysterious loner whose body left her breathless and whose touch made her burn with needs she'd never understood. Slade was drawn to Becca's fire and fury, but hated losing control in the seductive duel their hearts waged. She and her beautiful land called his name as the wind once had, but he'd never believed any woman could claim him...until the delectable hellcat made him long to bridge his two worlds. Could Becca help him find a home in her arms, once her mother's legacy of love was finally theirs to cherish?
Stobie Piel
APACHE VALENTINE short story in AFFAIRS OF THE HEART 2/1999 ISBN:0821761161
BLUE-EYED BANDIT 8/2000 ISBN: 0505523949 Darian Woodward had been a hero in the War Between the States, but somewhere he's been blown off course. Unjustly ruined by a superior officer, the handsome soldier turns to crime. His blue eyes and daring deeds earn him a name throughout the old Southwest, but bandits seek gold, and this gunfighter's interests are entirely different. Fate has blown in a sexier bounty. Though she is swept away by it, Emily Morgan is less awed by the mystic whirlwind that carries her into the past than by the handsome desperado who greets her. Joining the man's close-knit band of outlaws, Emily learns the fun of being bad-but also its dangers. And when the Feds come to capture her Blue-Eyed Bandit, Emily will prove that Western justice has its limits, and true love can break any laws--even those of time and space.
FREE FALLING 8/1999 ISBN:0505523299 How had anyone talked her into jumping out of a plane strapped to a stranger? And why hadn't anyone told her that the stranger was going to be her wildly handsome ex-boyfriend Adrian de Vargas? Cora had never thought she would see her ex-boyfriend again, especially not at ten thousand feet and strapped to him ready to jump out of an airplane! But their "chance" encounter turned out to be the least of her worries. Normally. Cora was not one to throw herself into precarious situations, but when she and Adrian were sidetracked by a mysterious whirlwind and tossed into nineteenth-century Arizona, extraordinary measures were called for. Unfortunately, she wasn't quite sure that she was the woman to perform them. For when Adrian held her in his strong arms, the normally confident gallery owner turned to mush, and she knew her feelings for him had never disappeared. Lost in a a world without phones, cars or even Scottsdale, Cora wondered if their renewed romance could truly weather the storm, or if their love was destined to vanish with the wind...
RENEGADE 2/2001 ISBN: 0843948280 The sight of Rafael de Aguirre makes Evelyn Reid’s pulse race. He is accused of murdering the man she had come to the New Mexico Territory to join, and of being the masked renegade who defies the local landowners. Yet in addition to the schoolmaster’s dark good looks and seemingly gentle nature, something leaves Evelyn unconvinced of his guilt. He is clearly not innocent, however - his heated gaze proves that - and she vows that before all is done, she will see his secrets unveiled. For Evelyn, Rafe allows himself to be captured. She is the only one who can clear his name, yet is the one least likely to do so. Still, though it puts him in terrible peril, Rafe knows uncovering his face and surrendering his body is his only hope of salvation. Where he and the stubborn beauty will go from there, he can only imagine.
THE RENEGADE'S HEART 2/2002 ISBN: 0843949643 Melanie Ann Muessen rides through the sunburnt plains of New Mexico Territory to photograph its inhabitants in their natural surroundings. What she discovers is a village in crisis. Years before, Rafael de Aguirre became the Renegade and protected the Tewa Pueblo. But Rafe is gone, and trouble has come again. Tewa's residents have no one to turn to--surely not their old savior's brother. The half-Zuni Diego is handsome, but he is shiftless and worthless. The villagers are convinced there is no way he could don Rafe's mask. But Melanie recognizes that in Diego's veins pumps the blood of a hero. This man can rescue his people, but first she will have to reclaim him from himself. And the only way to do that is to win his renegade heart.
Sharon Pisacreta
STOLEN HEARTS 4/1998 ISBN: 0843943750 After colliding with a man as splendid as a god, Mattie Crawford felt her wrist and her heart go limp. Dazed by the pain, she let the concerned gentleman help her to a doctor. Soon, as drugged by laudanum as she was by Lord Cameron's beauty, she found herself shamelessly asking for a kiss. And when she felt the nobleman's lips, strong yet gentle, she could forget for a brief moment that she was only a poor widowed seamstress... Accused of stealing her mistress's jewels, Mattie had sought refuge in the majestic Colorado mountains. There, Lord Cameron was prospecting for the gold that would save his estate from ruin. Although he left her breathless with desire, she knew that his family would never accept her as his bride. But the electrifying passion between them was undeniable, and the fire in his bedroom eyes professed that he could belong to no other, that no amount of gold could ransom their.....Stolen Hearts.
Lisa Plumley
THE DRIFTER 4/2002 ISBN: 0373292058 Mistress of decorum, Julia Bennett wrote the book on etiquette. Three volumes in fact! So why did the arrival of Graham Corley, rakish adventurer, give her decidedly improper ideas?...Bounty hunter, rogue, drifter--and now fiancé for hire to the most tantalizing woman in the Territories! Damn, Graham Corley led an interesting life--and being partner to Julia Bennett's outrageous finagling to secure her inheritance made it downright fascinating! Maybe even enough to give this travelin' man dreams about staying put...
LAWMAN 10/1999 ISBN: 0821763865 In rough-and-tumble Arizona Territory, the desert sun burned hotter than Pinkerton agent Gabriel Winter's need to bring an elusive stagecoach robber to justice. There, he quickly encountered a formidable obstacle -- Megan Kearney, the suspect's daughter. He wondered how such a rare beauty had avoided marriage in a town crawling with bachelors . . . until he discovered she was holding out for true love. On top of that, the spitfire spinster hotly defended her father's innocence. For some reason, Gabriel wanted to believe not just her nave claims about her father, but her outlandish romantic notions as well. Still, no outlaw had ever slipped through his fingers, and he wasn't about to risk that hard-earned reputation for the pleasures promised in Megan's fiery gaze . . .Megan had to find her father before Gabriel did -- which meant monitoring his every move. Accompanying him amid the saloons and brothels crowding Tucson's dusty streets, Megan intended to clear her father's name -- even if it meant using her feminine wiles to charm the city slicker detective. She would prove that the maddeningly self-assured Gabriel had underestimated her resolve. But Megan soon discovered that she had underestimated the powerful feelings one man could arouse in a heart that ached for passion . . . and everlasting love.
THE MATCHMAKER 9/2003 ISBN: 0373292740 Someone was matching up men and women all over town--and tarnation! It had to stop! Marcus Copeland had been elected to "investigate" the most likely suspect. But he didn't have time to romance any secrets out of the unconventional Molly Crabtree. He had a lumber mill to run. And besides, this buxom, beautiful baker was proving to be one tough cookie! Coming from a family of freethinkers, Molly Crabtree knew she'd be a success if only someone would take her seriously. But who'd ever have thought it would be the arrogant Marcus Copeland? And was his proposition strictly business--or secret pleasure? Only the matchmaker knew for sure...!
THE RASCAL 11/2006 ISBN: 0373294255 Grace Crabtree has no need of a man. Except Morrow Creek's reprobate saloon keeper, Jack Murphy, keeps getting in her way. She's bewildered as to why she can't stop thinking about his infuriatingly handsome face. So Grace will use her feminine charms to reform him—once she works out exactly what feminine charms are! Jack's determined to find Grace a husband who'll keep her under control. But looking around the town, no man seems quite worthy of this spiky, tempting, glorious woman. So maybe he'll just have to settle her hash himself...RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Susan Plunkett
ALICIA'S SONG 4/2001 ISBN: 0505524341 For Alicia James, something was missing, and her entire life seemed off-key. Her childhood romance hadn't ended the way she dreamed, and to be honest, she was wary of trying again. Still, she found solace in the fact that her career was inspiring and her sisters were the most loving family a woman could have. And together with those sisters, Alicia found a magic in song that seemed almost able to carry away her woes. In fact, singing carried Alicia away--from her home in modern-day Wyoming to Alaska, a century before her own. There she found everything she’d been lacking: a sexy, dark-haired gentleman with an angelic child just crying out for guidance. And Alicia, who’d always felt she’d needed direction herself, was everything this pair needed. Suddenly it seemed as if life were reaching out and giving Alicia the chance to create a beautiful music she’d never been able to make with her sisters--all she needed was the courage to sing her part.
Ann Pope
GOLD FEVER(#93) 9/1991 ISBN:0373286937 A Lucky Strike - Chalcie Kent didn't have a romantic bone in her body. In fact, the tomboyish redhead derived her sole satisfaction from running her father's gold mines and saloon. Then tragedy struck, and Chalcie needed to take a husband or lose everything. As luck would have it, the only man who fit the job requirement was her chief competitor, the flashy Mr. Jordan de Chatain. Jordan appreciated a good proposition as much as the next man. And he'd always admired the fiery Miss Kent from afar, despite their much-touted rivalry. Marriage to Chalcie was a gamble, but Jordan had the feeling that this bet was a sure thing.
Cheryl Anne Porter
CAPTIVE ANGEL 5/1999 ISBN: 0312969066 The time is 1870 and the town, Red River Station, Texas. Angel Devlin, a prostitute's daughter, is about to be lynched for killing a man on the very day that her mother was buried. But she's snatched from death by mysterious Wallace Daltry, an elderly rancher who's come to offer the outcast Angel something she's never had... a real home. And it's that home that becomes the backdrop for a taut-nerved standoff between the defiant Angel and Daltry's troubled and angry son, Jack, who's returned to the isolated family ranch after an extended absence. Locked in their dispute over ownership of the Circle D--and hunted by a heartless killer who hates them both--Angel and Jack are tormented souls in desperate need of a miracle. Could it be that their only chance for redemption is... each other?
HANNAH'S PROMISE 5/1997 ISBN: 0312961707 When Hannah Lawless comes home to her parents' ranch to find her mother and father have been brutally murdered, she vows to find the killers. Traveling to Boston to stay with the high-society family that disowned her mother, Catherine Wilton-Humes, when she married renegade J.C. Lawless, Hannah realizes that she will need the help of handsome Slade Garrett to find the answers to her questions.
JACEY'S RECKLESS HEART 12/1997 ISBN: 0312963327 Jacey Lawless is a different kind of a lady - fast with a gun, a natural on a horse, and wild of spirit. Her father had once been a desperado; her mother a Boston heiress. Now driven by grief after their parents' deaths, she and her sisters take a blood oath to find the killers. Jacey rides to Tucson to find out more about her father's old gang - and which one of them stole a precious family keepsake, and left a spur behind at the murder scene. What she finds is notorious gunslinger Zant Chapelo, and their two worlds collide.
JESSIE'S OUTLAW 12/1993 ISBN: 0843935413 A lonely orphan, Jessie Stuart never imagined that her dreams of happiness would be fulfilled until a wounded man appeared in her root cellar. Exasperating, infuriating, and unbelievably handsome, the stranger had secrets to hide and enemies to flee. Whoever he was, whatever he had done, Jessie longed to help him, no matter how great the danger to her life or virtue. As deadly gunrunners pursued the desperate pair across the scorching New Mexican desert, the sassy girl would have to dodge bullets and the law and silence the desperado's protests with her sweet lips if she ever hoped to unleash the wild, tantalizing ecstasy of their love.
KANSAS WILDFIRE 9/1994 ISBN: 0843936517 Fresh from an Eastern finishing school, Rhiannon O'Shea wants nothing to do with her parents' plan to marry her off. Then the town council nominates her for mayor as a joke, and the fiery vixen astonishes everyone by accepting the challenge. But her campaign forces her to form a dangerous alliance with the most eligible bachelor in Wolfe, Kansas.
PRAIRIE SONG 5/2000 ISBN: 0312972911 Running for her life, Kate Chandler flees to Oklahoma with a price on her head, hoping to stake a claim in the Great Land Run of 1889. But with no money, no protection, no food - and an unborn baby to think about - she is desperate enough to accept a devil's bargain from notorious bounty hunter Cole Youngblood. Ruggedly handsome, he'll stake her claim if she'll be a mother to his sister's three orphaned children - unaware of Kate's dangerous secret: she is the quarry he's been hired to find.
SARA'S BOUNTY 5/1995 ISBN: 0843937858 Broken and bitter, Deke Bonner was bound and determined to bring the lawless Dalton Gang to justice, and he would - as soon as he could take his eyes off their feisty sister. With more sass than sense, Sara Dalton set out to honor her mother's dying wish. But to bring her desperado brothers home, she was forced to team up with a dangerously virile enemy. An ornery bounty hunger and a fiery hellcat, Deke and Sara were mismatched from the start. Yet they were both highly mistaken if they thought they'd get out of Indian Territory without sharing love's sweet bounty.
SEASONS OF GLORY 7/1998 ISBN: 0312966253 He was a Thorne in her Side - With her parents recently murdered and her two older sisters, Hannah and Jacey, off looking to bring the killers to justice, eighteen-year-old Glory Lawless is alone for the first time in her life. Scared, lonely, and still grieving for her parents, Glory finds running the family ranch no easy task. When her beloved nanny asks Riley Thorne - handsome neighbor and son of the rival Thorne family - to help out, beautiful Glory's pride is wounded. Resisting Riley's help at every turn, tension between the two is thick - and so are the unspoken feelings each has harbored since childhood...And Completely Under Her Skin ... As Riley moves into the family estate - the very terrain that J.C. Lawless stole from his father during a bitter land feud - suspicions run high. Why would a Thorne set foot on Lawless land - and could Riley's family have had a hand in the death of Glory's parents? Amidst all this turmoil, Glory receives some shocking news about her past - and finds herself surrendering to Riley Thorne ... the one man she can't have ... the only man she's ever wanted... Could Glory Lawless Love the Enemy?
WILD FLOWER 3/2001 ISBN: 0312977166 Oklahoma Territory, 1868. The wild child of a Cherokee mother and white father, Taylor Christie James escapes from prison hours before hanging for a murder she didn't commit. Now a wanted criminal in the Cherokee nation, she heeds her mother's desperate plea to go to St. Louis-to her father-and learn the truth about her past. Proud and defiant in buckskins and a holster, Taylor rides her painted warhorse to the doorsteps of her father's elegant mansion. Here she is confronted by Grey Talbott, a man who knows this beautiful half-breed daughter of one of St. Louis' most prominent citizens has unwittingly brought danger to them all. Secrets have conspired to shape Taylor's life, secrets born of unrequited love, scandal, dark mystery, and murder. As she surrenders to the passion Grey awakens in her turbulent heart, she must face the danger closing in. For only then will she find the gift of healing, if she dares to risk all for the family, the heritage, and the man she loves.
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