Sheridon Smythe

HERO FOR HIRE 5/2001 ISBN: 0515130559 Dear Reader, I'd been Savannah Carrington's best friend since I was ten - and I'd secretly planned to marry her for almost as long. But I needed money first, so I went to work as a bounty hunter. But then I got a surprising assignment from none other than Savannah's father - when she ran off and disappeared. So her father and I stuck a deal - I'd find her for free, but he'd have to sanction our union if I did. That is, if I could convince her to be my bride...I found her in jail up north - after a bank robber named Barlow took her money and left her holding the bag. The local lawman let her go when I convinced him we were newlyweds. But she didn't know what the sight of her alabaster bosom could do to a man - and keeping up appearances proved a trial. I wanted to dash home, but she was a stubborn as she was beautiful and wanted her money back first. That suited me just fine, because the longer it took to find the hustler Barlow, the longer I had to show her that best friends could make the best lovers, too...

THE LOVE LESSON 11/1999 ISBN: 0515126829 When wealthy Englishman Cameron Hawke moves to Flint, Kansas, with his two children, everyone's abuzz with curiosity. Where is his wife, the mother of his children? And why is he so mysterious about his past--especially when faced with Polly Sutherland, his children's lovely, caring school teacher?

Lauraine Snelling

BLESSING IN DISGUISE ISBN: 076422090X The Bjorklund family has received word that Augusta Bjorklund is on her way from Norway to join them in North Dakota. When the train arrives in the town of Blessing with no Augusta aboard, the worried family hopes she will be on the train in the morning. But only her trunk arrives, so Bridget Bjorklund insists that Hjelmer, Augusta's brother, go find her. Augusta, after discovering her intended bridegroom had married someone else, decided to leave her broken heart in Norway and start a new life in America helping her mother run her boardinghouse. But knowing no English, Augusta misunderstands a ticket agent's directions in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in the harried confusion, she boards the wrong train. When she arrives at the end of the line, she is met by a handsome young rancher, Kane Moyer, waiting for his Norwegian mail-order bride...

DAKOTA 10/1998 ISBN: 1577483553 The wide-open plains of the Dakota Territory form the setting for the lives and loves of four inspiring women making their way in the New World. This captivating volume combines three of bestselling author Lauraine Snelling's novels under one cover, with a bonus novella. Journey with these courageous women as they make their homes in the Dakota plains - and allow God to fulfill the desires of their hearts in unexpected ways.

DAKOTA DAWN ISBN: 1557484007 Nora Johanson is looking forward to starting a new life in North Dakota, far from her native Norway. She is going to marry Hans, be a prosperous farmer's wife, and hopefully raise a fine family with him. Carl Detschman, tall and strikingly handsome, is happy with life on his tidy farm. Now he and his wife Anna eagerly await the birth of their second child. But Nora's and Carl's dreams are not to be. With God's help, a prodigious plan is realized, one that will alter both of their lives forever.

DAKOTA DECEMBER 1996 ISBN: 155748967X Sheriff Caleb Stensrude of Soldahl, North Dakota, is almost glad he has nowhere to go on this Christmas Eve. Temperatures are dropping, snowdrifts are mounting, and the winds are howling something fierce. A blizzard's brewing, and all living things should be inside. And then his faithful dog Sam senses they have company. Johanna Carlson has come a long way from home and now God has led her here. Together with her young son Henry, God has led her ragged horse to a light, and to hope. As she fights for consciousness in the raging darkness, Johanna hears Caleb's voice and cries out in pain. Her time has come.

DAKOTA DESTINY 10/1998 Short Story

DAKOTA DREAM ISBN: 1557484287 Armed with a water-stained letter, a faded photograph, and ticket to America, Clara Johanson travels to Soldall, North Dakota, and her handsome, curly-haired husband-to-be. Imagine Clara's surprise when she is greeted instead by Dag Weinlander, a burly, unkempt giant of a blacksmith! But God's plans for Clara far surpass her thwarted dreams and naive expectations. Unbeknownst to even a fiercely determined Norwegian immigrant, an angel of new life is about to grace the fertile heartland of America.

DAKOTA DUSK ISBN: 1557484678 When his self-indulgence causes the tragic deaths of both his mother and wife, Jude Weinlander sets to drifting about the plains of North Dakota, a pitiful loner in search of peace and forgiveness. Jude's routine of a day job for a meal is interrupted when he meets Rebekka Stenesrude, the schoolmarm of tiny Willowford, North Dakota. As they rebuild the fire-ravaged local school, Jude and Rebekka cannot deny their attraction, but to act on it is another matter. Will Jude at last plant roots in the prairie soil...or move on before another Dakota dusk?

A DREAM TO FOLLOW (Return to Red River Series) 10/2001 ISBN: 0764223178

A LAND TO CALL HOME ISBN: 1556615787 It had taken four long, difficult years to tame the virgin prairie of Dakota Territory. Looking back through all the heartache and the body-breaking labor, Ingeborg Bjorkland knew that God had been with them every step of the way. Dreams that had turned into veritable nightmares had been reshaped with the promise of a new day rising, and her marriage to Haaken had been its sure sign. Hjelmer travels west to work on the railroad, and after sending only one letter to Penny, who has agreed to wait for him, he is not heard from again. As the months pass, Penny is pursued by other eligible suitors, and her love for Hjelmer is sorely tried. Will he ever return to keep his promise?

MORE THAN A DREAM 3/2003 ISBN: 0764223194 Thorliff's desire to become a writer fills his mind and heart as he attends college. He earns his way writing newspaper reports and magazine articles--good experience on the way to his goal. Then catastrophe upon tragedy hits his beloved hometown of Blessing, North Dakota, and family and friends are left reeling from incredible losses. Thorliff returns home to help shoulder the burden and assist in the recovery efforts, and too soon his writing seems only a distant dream. After graduation from college, Elizabeth takes a nursing position in a Chicago hospital for women while waiting to hear if any of her applications to medical schools are accepted. She soon comes face to face with the vast gulf between her life of affluence and privilege and the poverty-stricken patients under her care. Then a devastating experience on the hospital ward puts her faith in God and her very life on the line. They had followed their hearts and God's leading--why was it all turning into ashes in the wind?

RUBY 8/2003 ISBN: 0739436295 The letter promised a much-needed bequest. 'My dearest daughters, I must beg your forgiveness for the long time between letters. I am sure you must have thought I passed on from this world, but life here in the West has been a myriad of experiences, and not all of them good. I attempted gold mining, with some small success, and finally parlayed that into a legacy that I can pass on to my two treasures. While I had hoped to be able to send for you before now, the sad news is that I am dying. I have enclosed tickets for the two of you to come and claim your inheritance, and God willing, if you come quickly, I will have a chance to see your sweet faces before I pass into the next life. Ruby Torvald sets out on a daunting journey with her young sister, Opal, to hopefully see their long-lost father once more and claim the promised inheritance. But instead of the treasure they expect, the sisters discover something most shocking. Ruby's bold determination in the face of scandal is the only way to redeem her father's legacy. Does she have it in her?

TENDER MERCIES 6/1999 ISBN: 0764220896 The rich farmlands of the Dakota Territory in 1887 are finally beginning to yield the abundant harvest the pioneers had dreamed about so long. The establishment of the railroad has brought significant changes to the small town of Blessing as well as prosperity to the Bjorklund family and their neighbors. Among the townsfolk, Reverend John Solberg—despite being wary of matchmaking efforts in the past—is developing a friendship with a delightful young woman through their common love of books. Mary Martha has a gentle southern charm that wins everyone in her circle but too soon she is called on to return home to care for her mother. She leaves behind many heavy hearts and countless questions of whether it will be the last time to see her.

Ashley Snow

OUTLAW'S EMBRACE 6/1994 ISBN: 0821745905 Even before her stagecoach from St. Louis pulled into Tombstone, Arizona, Amanda Lassiter had lost her heart to the handsome preacher. Despite his oh-so-proper demeanor, his sun-bleached hair and ocean-blue eyes hinted at a world of excitement she'd never known. But the West was even wilder than Amanda had imagined, and no one was more dangerous than this seductive rogue whose kisses made her yearn for more than a chaste caress... Cole Carteret, aka the Casket Kid, had been running all his good-for-nothing life. Now he'd come to Tombstone to make a killing. Kidnapping the new preacher and taking on his identity was a stroke of pure genius. But Cole hadn't reckoned on being drawn into the struggles of a growing town against an evil sheriff... or on the hazel-eyed beauty who melted his defenses and ignited a desire that made him long to stop running and put down roots with the only woman he'd ever want...

PASSION'S TENDER SONG 1990 ISBN: 082173234X It was too good an opportunity to miss. New to the thriving town of Fireweed, Kansas, innocent 18-year-old Ardeth Royce had been mistaken for the glamorous chanteuse Medora Lang. Only Ardeth knew that the beautiful performer had been killed by outlaws on the way to Fireweed. Now Ardeth couldn't resist playing along with the charade; at least long enough to enjoy the luxuries of fame and the escort of tall, rugged Nat Varien, a man whose very touch ignited unfamiliar yearnings deep within her. She refused to think about what the audience might expect from her up on stage, or what Nat might expect from her - in his bed... Nat didn't know what to make of Medora Lang. While she was just as ravishing as they said, her air of innocence was a surprise - or maybe just a clever act. But if she didn't pass along the secret information she carried, her life wouldn't be worth the strings on her fancy corset. In the meantime, two could play at her game. He knew a lot about a woman's weak points, and he knew just the way to coax the secrets out of Medora. He'd take her again and again to passion's heights until she'd never be able to resist his demands - or even want to resist them...

Sylvie F. Sommerfield

AUTUMN DOVE 1/1989 ISBN:0821725475 Hate cold as the winter snow. Love hot as the summer sun...Half-breed frontiersman Zach Windwalker didn't need a tempting morsel like Tara Montgomery in his life--not when he was on the verge of trapping the gunrunners who were supplying the Cheyenne..

CAPTIVE EMBRACE 4/1986 ISBN:0821718037 'I never will marry' swore handsome, independent Sebastian Cain. Especially now that he sought his brother's killers he was determined that nothing distract him from the vengeance trail--even so tempting a diversion as the curvaceous half-breed named Summer. He needed to be on the move; surely other women along the way could satisfy his great appetite for sensual adventure. Yet he couldn't forget the maddening sway of her sumptuous body, couldn't help but wonder how it would feel to have her submit beneath his hard, driving frame. In that instant, Sebastian decided to stay one more night to savor the innocent blossom's sweet nectar--then travel on with no regrets. 'I will be no man's wife' stormed the wildly beautiful Summer after witnessing a friend die because of a cruel lover. And white men were particularly contemptible since they spoke pretty words as they released their base desires, ruining a girl's reputation and breaking her heart, too! Then a golden-haired stranger saved her life, and the jet-eyed maiden couldn't sleep for thinking of his virile, muscular stature. She tried to resist the overwhelming force that drew her to him, for instinctively she knew that to relent to his magnetism for one moment would make her a slave to his passions, forever yearning for his Captive Embrace.

CATALINA'S CARESS 1987 ISBN:0821722026 When dashing Marc Copeland won the Southern Belle from her brother in a card game, innocent Catalina Carrington was confident she could buy the riverboat back from the debonair gambler.

FOREVER 4/1999 ISBN:0843944919 Embarking on a mission that would make him a free man after being imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, Steven McKean is sidetracked by fiery and spirited Rachel Walker after she hires him to work on her father's ranch.

MOON-KISSED PROMISES 5/1993 ISBN: 1558177094 He was a young man destined to seek his uncharted future in the great land that was America. But Michael Cord was haunted by a tragedy from the past - a secret that forced him to travel from town to town as a gunslinger, always moving on before anyone could get too close. Until he met beautiful Hannah Marshall. Her courage inspired him; his tormented soul branded her his own. He vowed she'd spend forever in his arms - even if he had to face the sins of his past to build their future together...

MOONLIT MAGIC 12/1986 ISBN: 0821719416 As the setting sun gilded Trace Cord's strong shoulders, innocent Jenny Graham could barely contain her rage. How dare that slick railroad negotiator bathe in her river and sneak around her property! Then her gaze swept the rest of his magnificent physique, and for just a moment, the beauty's seething fury became burning desire. She struggled to extinguish her fiery need, but even as she swore never to give him access to her land, Jenny was granting him right of way to her heart, slaking her sensual thirst with his love. After a grueling day of dealing, nothing looked better to handsome trace Cord than the clear, shimmering water--until he saw stunning, blue-eyed Jenny. Her soft, full curves would fit perfectly against his hard masculine length; her lush pink lips were meant to plunder. The masterful womanizer planned to make her surrender completely--both her ranch and her body. But once he carried her into the refreshing cascade and stroked her satiny skin, all he wanted was to keep her spellbound by ecstasy--forever captured by Moonlit Magic.

NIGHT WALKER 3/1998 ISBN: 0843943599 Night Walker... Out of the darkness he appeared, startling Brittany with his half-naked savagery, infuriating her with his refusal to explain his presence at the mission. She had come to the Dakotas to teach the Sioux, she reminded herself, but she hadn't expected to be taunted and tantalized by a man who could so easily steal her heart. Morning Sun... That was what he called her, for she had first come to him in a vision...misty and golden. But did her appearance at his village signal good fortune or disaster? Harsh experience had taught him there could be no union between his people and hers, yet her sweet kisses heated his blood until it flowed like honey, until he knew that like two halves of one whole, she would always be the morning sun of his midnight desire.

SAVAGE KISS 10/1985 ISBN:0821716697 The caress of the frontier wind and the kiss of the Western sun had always been enough for ebony-haired Falling Water. Then she stumbled across a wounded white man, lying by the river. She should have left him to die...but one look at his rugged, handsome features, one glance at his muscled physique, and Falling Water knew she had to save him. When at last his eyes flew open at her soothing touch, his sensuous smile stole her heart. His lips met hers in searing rapture--and she could no more resist the flames of his passion than she could deny the fire of her own smoldering need...Rayne Freeman knew he must be dreaming. The pain of his wound, the blow to his head, had conjured up the loveliest creature he had ever seen. Only the heat of her satin, supple skin, the wine of her lips, the silk of her hair, could convince him that she was no angel from heaven but a woman pulsing with life and desire. Sent into the uncharted wilderness to do a job, he was not a man to let passion interfere with business. But one moment of forbidden splendor in Falling Water's arms and he knew he could never betray the explosive ecstasy of their first Savage Kiss.

SAVAGE RAPTURE 1982 ISBN:0821719416 Beautiful Snow Blossom had waited years for Cade to return to the reservation. But as soon as the handsome half-breed rode into the Cheyenne camp, she knew he had changed. He had lived in the white man's world too long and he was in love with another. Yet he held her in his arms until he made her a prisoner of his passion--now she'd make him a captive of her heart!.

SONG OF THE HEART 3/1995 ISBN: 0786001410 Dread - and anger - raced through Winter Stapleton as her stepmother mortgaged her future to the Charleston financier who would save the family business. So she left home, joining a traveling music show headed west...and ran straight into the strong arms of ex-Texas Ranger Brad Cole. The Fee for tracking down the willful Stapleton woman would save Cole's ranch. But the tough, lean cowboy had never tangled with anyone like Witner. She fought him and soon would flee from him, leading her hunter across the rugged Nebraska wilderness and into the searing heat of a passion that consumed everything in its path...

WILD WYOMING HEART 7/1988 ISBN:0821723987 All golden haired Kairee Kennedy wanted when she came to the Powder River Valley was a new beginning for her Pa. But the moment the determined, slender beauty set foot on their spread, all she found was trouble from her cattle king neighbors, the Sabers. And that tall, overbearing, condescending Damion Saber was the very worst of them! He warned, threatened, and antagonized the stubborn blonde... and when that didn't work, he attacked her defenses through her woman's vulnerability. Before she could shoot him off her property, the ruthless rancher was staking a claim to her body!

WINTER SEASONS 12/1996 As tens of thousands traveled west, hoping for a lucky strike, Zoe Carrigan fled the degradation and drudgery of the past, driven by a dream that refused to die. Innocent and alluring, she was pursued by three very different men who tried to fill the aching void in her life. Brent Dewitt - Spoiled son of a silver mine owner, he was entranced by the mysterious beauty he knew as Laura Champion, but he underestimated the power of a woman scorned when he abandoned her to the Aspen snows. Grey Sinclair - As her partner in a profitable gold mine, the gentle widower brought Zoe wealth beyond her wildest imaginings, but could his love melt her icy determination to destroy DeWitt? Simon Tremain - from childhood, the rugged miner had witnessed the triumphs and tragedies of Zoe's life, always appearing when she least expected and most needed him. In his hard-muscled arms, she knew uncontrollable passion, and only by his humble hearth would she find the blazing fulfillment of her heart's desire.

Teresa Southwick

BLACKSTONE'S BRIDE 11/1996 ISBN: 0061083712 Chasing a dream--California rancher Jarrod Blackstone was stunned when Abby Miller appeared on his doorstep to deliver his sister's orphaned children. But even more surprising-and disturbing-were the sparks that ignited between the rugged bachelor and the independent beauty. Determined to fulfill a lifelong dream of finding her own lost father, Abby tried to ignore the cowboy's tempting ways. Yet as she and Jarrod struggled to save the children from a stranger's claim, Abby came to realize that she was destined to be. . . Blackstone's Bride.

RECKLESS DESTINY 11/1995 ISBN: 0061083704 She knew how to make a man love her... Although Cady Tanner was a pampered easterner, she headed to the Arizona Territory to challenge the frontier - and Captain Kane Carrington. The bittersweet memory of his intoxicating kiss - and harsh rejection - had made Cady reckless enough to dare him to finish what he'd started. But Kane had learned that the treacherous, primitive land had no room for love. He'd left her once because he couldn't bear to lose her. Now she was challenging him to break all the rules - and risk everything for the chance to fulfill their destiny.

RECKLESS RIVER 7/1994 ISBN: 0786500182 Tough Talk - She aimed the gun - and shot his hat clear off his head! Jeff Tanner would have to watch his step around this pretty lady... Tender Touch - She'd be damned if she'd let any man tell her how to run the River Belle. But this rugged man aroused feelings that made her lose all control... Reckless River - Bree Murphy knew how to run a steamboat - and run her father's business, the Colorado River Navigation Company. Now Jeff Tanner was trying to take charge...and the River Belle wasn't the only thing letting off steam. It was a battle of wills, sparked by stubbornness - and fueled by unquenchable desire!

WINTER BRIDE 3/1995 ISBN: 0061083496 A face from his past... Rancher Matt Decker has no use for romance and other such nonsense. What he needed was a woman who could manage his home and provide him with a son. He'd already known love - and the pain of losing it. So he wasn't too concerned when his mail-order bride-to-be refused to raise her heavy veil until after the wedding ceremony. Nothing could have prepared Matt for the sight that awaited him. When Eliza Jones had arrived in Wyoming to marry the man of her dreams, she hadn't counted on him carrying a grudge over an old misunderstanding. He threatened to send her back East, but when the new Mrs. Decker began to see the spark of home fires in her husband's eyes, she wasn't going anywhere!

LaVyrle Spencer

THE ENDEARMENT 3/1982 ISBN: 0515103969 Anna: Hoping to escape the shame of her street urchin's life in Boston, Anna Reardon plotted a desperate scheme - to become Karl Lindstrom's mail-order bride in the beautiful, dangerous frontier of Minnesota. Karl: A kind and gentle man, he forgave Anna for her deceptions. But there was still one burning secret that she had to hide from him, knowing its revelation would destroy the love they had come to cherish.

THE ENDEARMENT - BITTER SWEET - FORGIVING 4/1995 ISBN: 0399140212

FORGIVING 1991 ISBN: 0515108030 Sarah - She came to Deadwood, a rough and tumble western town, with an ambitious dream of starting a newspaper. But her journey had another purpose - to find her sister and mend the family tie that was severed years ago, when Addie left home with a hardened heart - and without an explanation....Noah - The thought of this headstrong woman turning his town upside down riled Marshal Campbell to no end. But there was something about Sarah that the lawman found irresistible. Inside, he longed to treat her like a lady. But outside, he'd keep up his ornery image - and give her a rocky welcome to town...

THE FULFILLMENT 1979 ISBN 0380470845 Two men knew her love, but only one knew her passion. He asked his brother to give his wife the one thing he couldn't.

THE GAMBLE 1984 ISBN: 051508901X Only the gift of love could free their lonely hearts... Agatha was the picture of primness and propriety although her green eyes could blaze with anger or sparkle with humor... Scott was the picture of lazy charm and happy indifference to what others thought was right and wrong. They were enemies, then friends. Then the sweet innocence of a child opened their eyes and their hearts. And in each other's arms they were reborn...by the soft, wondrous gift of love.

THE HELLION - SEPARATE BEDS - HUMMINGBIRD 8/1991 ISBN: 05170601175

HUMMINGBIRD 1982 ISBN: 051509160X The Bandit and the Gentleman... Both were wounded in the same train robbery in frontier Colorado and left on Abigail McKenzie's doorstep to nurse back to life. Gentle, loving David, Promising her a happiness she'd lost hope of finding, was all a lady could wish for. Jesse stood for everything she hated: he was rude, violent, roughly handsome and disturbingly sensual. But it was Jesse's mocking mouth that troubled her dreams, Jesse who made her feel a hundred things a lady should never know, Jesse who challenged her every waking hour. She fought him with all the stiff propriety her stubborn will commanded...but in her burned the aching embers of love too long denied - love that would force her to a choice no woman should ever have to make...

VOWS 1988 ISBN: 0515094773 One kiss....could change her life forever... Emily - With her sky-blue eyes, big dreams, and strong will, she was engaged to a man whose touch left her aching for something more. Tom - The new man in town, he was a handsome and infuriating devil who challenged her heart's destiny...with a single, stolen kiss. She was a feisty tomboy; he was her father's rival in business. Whenever they met, sparks flew. Until she showed him how feminine she could be. Until he showed her how true passion could feel. Until they both realized the importance of taking vows with someone you truly love...

YEARS 1986 ISBN: 0515084891 Linnea - Eager to begin her first teaching position, lovely Linnea Brandonberg stepped off the train looking as grown up and worldly as her eighteen years would allow. The golden fields and fragrant wheat of Alamo, North Dakota, were as new and different as the Westgaard family with whom she would live. Teddy - Farm life in 1917 was hard and bitter - but tiny, spirited Linnea was determined to brave its challenges. And as World War I threatened to take those she held dear, Linnea grew to womanhood in the arms of Teddy Westgaard, a man who thought he'd never find love. A story of passion. A story of heartache. A story of a way of life that will long be remembered - with people and places as a real as the emotions of the heart.

YEARS - TWICE-LOVED - SPRING FANCY 6/1993 ISBN: 0399138420

Mary Spencer

THE COMING HOME PLACE 7/1994 ISBN: 0061082104 Elizabeth lost everything she loved during the trek west to California. James, a wealthy rancher, had lost his dreams after his sweetheart died in a train crash. But when Elizabeth and James found each other, a new hope drowned out the painful memories of the past, daring them to believe in tomorrow.

FIRE AND WATER 4/1995 ISBN: 0061082112 On the run in the Sierra Nevadas, Mariette Call tried to figure out why her dead husband's journals were so important to a politician back East. While eluding her pursuers, she succumbed to the amorous advances of her protector, Federal Marshal Matthew Kagan - a giant of a man who found her irresistible. Putting her troubles on his broad shoulders would be only to easy; asking him to trade in his badge for a ranch was impossible. But Matthew had ideas of his own.

Terri Sprenger

NIGHTHAWK'S WOMAN 1/1994 ISBN:0821744488 Nighthawk lives for flaring gunpowder and the clash of steel. No one knows the true identity of this infamous desperado, but now he is about to risk it all for one woman: the tempestuous Charity, who has captured his outlaw heart.... Desperate to escape the grasp of her family, Charity O'Dell sails to the shores of California to marry a man she does not love, but her plans go awry when a masked outlaw sweeps her off her feet.

Judith Stacy

THE BLUSHING BRIDE 7/2000 ISBN: 0373291213 He ran a lumber camp, not a lonely hearts club. But Amanda Pierce, matchmaker extraordinaire, offered wedded bliss to his crew...and made him crave a life he never dreamed he'd desire. How on earth had Amanda found herself at loggerheads with a high timber man wearing a mountain-size attitude? If Jason Kruger hadn't written requesting a mail-order bride, who had? And if he truly didn't want her in his life, why was he trying so hard not to get rid of her?

CHRISTMAS WISHES short story in ONE CHRISTMAS WISH 10/2000 ISBN: 0373291310 On the brink of losing her job, a young woman strikes a deal with a handsome carpenter who is desperate to know what his daughter wants for Christmas.

THE DREAMMAKER(#486) 11/1999 ISBN: 0373290861 Kaitlin Jeffers had big dreams... Dreams that would take her far beyond a dilapidated store in the middle of nowhere. And if she couldn't banish the memory of Tripp Callihan's melting kisses, or fight her growing feelings for his impish little boy, she was going to wind up in his one-horse town forever! How his search for a life filled with ordinary pleasures had led him to join forces with a woman like Kaitlin Jeffers, Tripp would never figure out. But he knew for a fact that whatever happened next, he'd try his best to make himself and his son a part of Kaitlin's dreams...

THE HEART OF A HERO(#444) 1/1999 ISBN: 0373290446 Jess Logan knew his life would change when he returned to Walker, Wyoming, to raise his late sister's children. But after meeting pretty schoolmarm Sarah Wakefield, he found out he had much to learn - not just about child rearing and housekeeping, but also about love. Sarah Wakefield arrived in Walker hoping to start life with a clean slate. But as her feelings for Jess and his family grew, she realized she could never truly love someone until she shared the secret that was weighing down her heart....

THE LAST BRIDE IN TEXAS 12/2000 ISBN: 0373291418 Elizabeth Hill cursed the luck that cast her in the drama of a daring daylight bank robbery. As if the town hadn't gossiped about her enough already, now they thought she was some damsel in distress, with mysterious stranger Connor Wade starring as a genuine, sure-shootin' hero. Couldn't they all just leave her in peace! Conner Wade hadn't expected Elizabeth Hill to be so, well, attractive. Everybody in Sterling treated her as if she was the last rose of summer or something, a spinster workhorse fresh out of chances. But Connor was convinced that if he could just get past that prickly exterior, the woman he'd find underneath would be worth whatever it took!

THE MARRIAGE MISHAP (#382) 1997 ISBN: 0373289820 Waking up with a stranger was the least of Haley Caufield's problems...A very official-looking license said she was married to one. And staring at the very male, very naked Adam Harrington, she knew the scandal she'd come to Sacramento to escape from was nothing compared to the one in store for her...The very practical Adam Harrington would have liked at least to have been introduced to his blushing bride before bedding her. Instead, he found himself wedded to Haley Caufield, an enticing surprise of a woman who just might beat him at his own game...

MARRIED BY MIDNIGHT 8/2002 ISBN: 0373292228 One Unforgettable Kiss...from Nick Hastings had ended Amanda Van Patton's girlhood and ruined her for other men. Now he'd married her, but only to win some benighted wager! Well, if he expected her to adorn his bed like a spanking new trophy, he was in for a rude awakening. For as of their wedding night, all bets were off...A Whirlwind Courtship...won Nick Hastings both a bride and a bet he barely remembered making. But unless he could convince his indignant, impassioned Amanda to take a chance on love, their firecracker physical chemistry would go snap, crackle...stop!

THE NANNY 5/2001 ISBN: 0373291612 Holy Terrors, The Lot Of 'Em! That's what everyone considered Josh Ingalls's unruly passel of kids --secretly, anyway. No sense offending the most eligible widower in town! But Annie Martin didn't care what a "catch" her employer was. She only wanted him to admit he loved his children. And possibly share a kiss or two --okay, maybe three…! This latest nanny was barely more than a girl herself, Josh Ingalls noted, but if a tree-climbing dynamo in trousers was what it took to manage his energetic tribe, he'd happily keep the amazing, amusing, arousing Annie Martin around forever!

OUTLAW LOVE 4/1997 ISBN: 037328960X Kelsey Rodgers was already in trouble up to her elbows. The last thing she needed was a U.S. Marshal staying at her hotel. Especially one as sharp, sexy and dangerous as Clay Chandler was turning out to be! Clay just knew that Kelsey was going to get him into hot water. The little whirlwind had more secrets than sense and more sass than was legal. And darned if she hadn't gone and swept him off his feet like a greenhorn kid!

THE WIDOW'S LITTLE SECRET 8/2001 ISBN: 037329171X Mattie Ingram--the love of his life and the mother of his child--was the most stubborn, independent, contrary woman in Nevada. And in the lonely months since he'd seen her, he'd discovered he needed her more than breath itself. But Mattie was having nothing to do with him! A baby coming, her business failing... What else could possibly happen? Mattie wondered. Well, the father of her child could insist on becoming a permanent part of her life. But if Jared McQuaid thought that one night of passion gave him the right to a lifetime commitment, he had better think again!

Frances Patton Statham

JASMINE MOON 1979 ISBN:0449139883 Lili innocently thought her disguise as a servant was a harmless way to find out what the man she married was really like. She didn't consider that her husband would force her to become his mistress and then sell her as a slave before she could reveal her true identity. Before she can utter a sound, Lili is ripped from her pampered life on a Carolina plantation and forced to begin a dangerous journey that will test her willingness to survive and strength of spirit. In the unfamiliar Canadian wilderness Lili discovers that her passion cannot be tamed.

TRAIL OF TEARS 2/1993 ISBN:0449906590 Though educated in a white man's world, Laurel MacDonald, daughter of a powerful Cherokee chief, found fulfillment teaching at the mission school in New Echota, the capital of the Cherokee nation in Georgia. But her happiness was short lived. The beautiful wilderness nation was now a battleground: the Georgia militia's government-sponsored campaign to remove the Cherokee people from their land had pitted friend against friend, brother against brother, white man against Indian. Imprisoned while awaiting their forced migration out west, families were separated. Disease and despair took their toll. Bravely, Laurel and her people faced the devastating hardship that lay ahead on the wilderness trail. Her heart torn between two men, one white and the other Cherokee, Laurel left behind more than memories. The history of the Cherokee nation, its capital, and her teaching had been woven into the very fabric of her life.But as official interpreter of the Cherokee detachment, she would fulfill her proud heritage as a Cherokee woman by helping to forge a new nation . . .

Judith Steel

ANGEL'S KISS 8/1994 ISBN: 0821746537 As shots ring out along the dusty streets of Alder Gulch, Willemina Glenn ducks for cover. Had she spent every last penny fleeing St. Louis - only to get herself killed in this wild Montana boom town? Then a tall, strapping stranger steps out of the shadows - and Willemina realizes she has more to fear in this man whose searing glance sends shock waves of desire coursing through her... With his business partner - and best friend - shot dead, Craig Rawlins curses the day he became owner of the jinxed Empty Barrel Saloon. Then Willemina Glenn comes on the scene. What's a gorgeous, classy woman doing in a bawdy mining town like this? Willemina isn't revealing any of her secrets. And neither is he. But when her life is threatened, Craig knows he'll risk body and soul to save the elusive beauty...even if he has to turn Alder Gulch upside down to do it!

APACHE FIRE 12/1991 ISBN: 0821735713 Meadowlark Russell had a crazy idea. What better way to flush out her father's killer than to pretend the murder attempt had failed? So the gorgeous Apache half-breed decided to continue her father's work as the San Carlos Indian Reservation agent, signing his name and keeping things running until his enemy paid her a call. She didn't count on having other visitors, especially one as nosey as Captain Brent McQuade. The handsome officer could ruin all her plans with his snooping...unless he found a way to distract him! But when he took her in his arms and kissed her, she suddenly realized that distracting him wasn't going to be as difficult as resisting the dangerous desires he awakened! Brent McQuade knew Meadowlark was giving him the runaround, but he couldn't imagine why. All he wanted was a meeting with her elusive father. Well, that wasn't all he wanted. He hadn't been able to get the copper-skinned beauty off his mind since he first saw her in those tight buckskin breeches. And he meant to get to know her very well, indeed. He'd start by tasting the sweet honey of her lips, explore the silken heat of her smooth flesh, and finally uncover all the searing mysteries of her wild...Apache Heart.

APACHE HEARTBEAT 2/1989 ISBN: 0821726412 Stripped naked beneath a blistering sun, Philadelphia debutante Hillary Collier had never suffered such humiliation. All the sienna-haired beauty had wanted from her trip to Arizona was to marry the Fort Apache officer who was her fiance. But shrieking Apaches had attacked her stage and now the pampered blueblood was White Fox's slave. Hillary tried to keep her hatred alive and not feel his sinewy back graze her sensitive flesh nor his oaken thighs as she gripped him for balance. Most of all, the aroused captive tried not to think of what the powerful savage would do to her that night with her defenses down and escape an impossibility!

ARIZONA HEAT 11/1992 ISBN:0821739557 She stole his Horse…He stole her heart…When Kent Ashford's stallion was stolen by a scrawny young ruffian, he grabbed the nearest horse he could find and took off after the brat. He had no idea - until he caught her - that the thief was a woman, and an uncommon beauty, at that. Which didn't mean that Kent relished being charged with horsetheft and thrown into a Tucson jail cell with the green-eyed hellion. But as long as they were confined together, he wouldn't pass up the chance to caress her surprisingly soft, silken flesh, run his fingers through her mane of sable-colored hair, and stifle all protest with a lingering kiss that would warm her right down to the tips of her scuffed cowboy boots...

LAWMAN'S LOVING 8/1988 ISBN:0821724436 When ruthless Ryder Manning found out Jesse James had a pretty first cousin, the deputy marshall figured on using the silly gal to corner the notorious outlaw. But after Ryder helped the alluring Amanda Jo escape from some no goods, he couldn't dam up the tender and protective emotions that engulfed him. The virile male fondled her full curves and nuzzled her sensitive nape, trying to remind himself she was just the whelp in a den of renegades. and cursing himself ten times a fool for the guilt he felt in deceiving her....

REBEL HEAT 1/1996 ISBN: 0821751956 Raised by the Apaches, the widow of a proud warrior, Shelley Britton knows she has no place in the white man's world. Alone on her desert ranch with her frightened young daughter, she has every reason to fear the tall, lean stranger who appears at her door with a bloodstained letter...even as he awakens longings for a future that can never be....He is an ex-Confederate soldier, a fugitive with a price on his head. Sick in body and soul, bound by a deathbed promise, Miles Cavanaugh had ridden into a land he'd hoped never to see again Yet here, amid the deep arroyos and rushing waters of the winding Pecos River, he must find the strength to heal and to trust, as he discovers a passion that crosses all barriers...and a love he will cherish to the end of his days.

SANTA FE FANTASY 9/1990 ISBN:0821731106 Adeline Montclair was utterly shocked when she stumbled across a naked man staked out under the hot sun along the Santa Fe trail. Unschooled in frontier survival, the hazel-eyed beauty struggled to free the stranger from his bonds and nurse him back to health. And as she drove her wagon onward, Adeline began to think of the man as hers; hers to care for, hers to touch, hers to kiss. So when his eyes fluttered open, his fever gone, the auburn-haired beauty barely hesitated when his arms reached for her, pulling her down beside him in a molten, breathless embrace...

SEDUCTION'S RAGING FLAME 8/1989 Robbing the Denver-bound train was the only thing on determined Trisha Bonner's mind when she ran into flirtatious Lane Hollister. By heisting the line's cashbox the New Mexican beauty hoped to ruin the land baron who'd cheated and killed her father--and she didn't need this rugged virile man to distract her. Still, even as she wished Lane would disappear, a more instinctive, sensual side of her wished he'd ardently pursue her until she eagerly gave in....Detective Lane Hollister had been hired to nab the crook who kept raiding the railroad, but he sure wasn't against mixing a little pleasure with his business. And that tall, blond, and slender Trisha Bonner was a great way to pass the time until the thief struck again. Even though she played hard to get, Lane swore he'd conquer her and catch his criminal, too. He'd sweet-talk the aloof lady, igniting her passion with his masterful maneuvers, until she succumbed to…Seduction's Raging Flames.

TENDER DECEPTION 12/1993 ISBN:082174397X Journeying to the untamed Arizona Territory in search of her missing brother was no simple undertaking for Eastern-born-and-bred Jacelyn McCaffery--especially when her stagecoach was seized by outlaws and she was taken prisoner. But somehow Grant Ward, the darkly handsome gunslinger charged with her keeping, didn't frighten Jacelyn. Instead, he soothed her fears, banished her doubts, and awoke a tantalizing passion when he took her in his rugged embrace… Tracking down the killers whose crimes were being pinned on his company of Apache scouts was Captain Grant Ward's first priority--even if he had to disguise his half-breed heritage and ride with a bunch of notorious desperadoes to do it. But now the gang had abducted a fiery-haired beauty with a spirit to match! his feisty prisoner didn't take kindly to being held for a pretty price--even though it was the only way Grant could keep Jacelyn safe. And now, as destiny bound them together in a wild and dangerous territory, he knew he'd risk everything for this bold, passionate woman who'd ransomed his wary heart!

WILD COLORADO PASSION 5/1991 ISBN:0821734067 Lorellei Abbott was determined to operate and manage the Colorado mercantile she had inherited from her uncle. Accustomed to getting her way, the New York beauty refused to be daunted by the lawless roughness of the town of Durango or the continuous presence of that annoying cowboy, Holt Dalton. He was clearly the sort of man who preferred his women demure and dainty-so why did she find herself unable to forget him?

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