Valerie Whisenand

WAGES OF SIN 2000 ISBN: B0000A0DSE (Ebook) Ruby McKay is an extraordinary young woman trapped in a desperate situation.  In her quest to save herself and her motherless nephew, she must leave everything behind, outwit the powerful, malevolent man intent on destroying her and the baby, and flee to the one place where no one cares who she is or what she may have done...the American west of the 1800s.  Her journey is one of courage, determination, honor and abiding love.  No matter how bleak the future looks, Ruby never gives up.  Never loses faith.  Searching for freedom, she finds much more.  She finds acceptance.  Love.  And the home of her own she's always yearned for.

Donna Whitfield

SWEET SPANISH BRIDE 6/1994 ISBN: 038077626X A spirit unbroken. An ocean away from her Barcelona home, en route to a prearranged marriage to a stranger, Elena Mendoza is stranded on the Colorado frontier - after narrowly escaping the bloodthirsty outlaws who attacked her stagecoach. Matt Preston wants revenge on the stage robbers who killed his father - and he will use force, if necessary, to enlist Elena's aid. But from the moment he first discovers her, lying unconscious in the wilderness, Matt knows he wants more than information from the lovely lost lady. For the sensuous, defiant fire burning in Elena's deep, violet eyes arouses a longing in Matt's soul that the rugged ex-soldier dares not defy. And though she is promised to another, he will battle any rival to hold the spirited Spanish beauty in his heart forever.

Isabel Whitfield

BODIE BRIDE(#140) 9/1992 ISBN: 0373287402 Spinster Margaret Warren had hoped to spend a lifetime 'guiding' her unruly family. But when her saloonkeeper father tired of her tee-totaling, bossy ways, well-meaning Margaret found herself bartered into wedlock with irrepressible miner John Banning. She gritted her teeth and promised to honor and obey--but love was another matter entirely! John Banning knew his prickly wife would have to be won over, and he relished kindling the banked fires beneath Margaret's cool exterior. Yet when their explosive attraction sparked genuine panic in her, John feared that one wrong move would send his new bride running scared...

SILVER FURY(#105) 12/1991 ISBN: 0373287054 She never would have done it if she hadn't been desperate. Shelly York needed money to go East, and spying on a man suspected of stealing silver wasn't the worst thing she could do, she kept telling herself. Then Dillon Ryder caught her in the act, and Shelly knew - too late - that she'd made a terrible mistake...The thriving mine meant the world to Dillon. He'd made good without any help from his tycoon father. So when he discovered the comely Miss York's treachery, he swore he'd get the whole truth out of her - even if he undid himself in the process!

Stephanie Grace Whitson

SECRETS ON THE WIND 10/2003 ISBN: 0764227858 It seems to be a typical U.S. Army post in 1878. But in the midst of regimented daily routines...a grieving sergeant harbors bitterness and guilt in his broken heart....a desperate young woman struggles to recover from the trauma inflicted by unimaginable circumstances....a new recruit with a changed identity seeks to escape the mistakes of his past....and among them a woman feels called to embrace these people in need and the secrets that cripple them.

Robin LeAnne Wiete

FORTUNE'S LADY 2/1990 ISBN: 0451401638 The untamed nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest offered beautiful Marianne Blakemore escape from the man and the menace that threatened her life and happiness back at last. But when an accident brought her, unconscious, into the mansion of handsome lumber baron Nicholas Fortune, she feared a different kind of danger-that of his desire, and hers. Nicholas believed that she was the mail-order bride he ha been awaiting, and Marianne dared live a lie rather than leave him. But passion soon burned away all barriers between them...and in each other's arms they learned that even in a world of dark secrets, love told the flame-bright truth....

WHEN MORNING COMES 2/1993 ISBN: 0451403363 Rebecca Osborne was a beautiful young widow with a small child, alone but unafraid on the American frontier. Cain was the name of the man she sought, a white man who lived among the Shawness, and whose powers of healing she desperately needed to treat her injured child. They met in a wilderness ravished by violence, as a brutal military and a proud native American tribe struggled for the virgin land. It was there, in the shadow of danger and in the dawning of burning desire, that they discovered they were not strangers but lovers, joined together by a passion stronger than the past and as dazzlingly bright as the future...

Susan Wiggs

THE DRIFTER 6/1998 ISBN: 1551664593 He wanted to tell her everything. About the lost years that had changed him from a desperate young boy into a man hardened by life. About the night he'd sold his soul for a woman who wasn't worth the price... But Jackson Underhill said nothing. After all, he was an outlaw, clearly on the run - reason enough for silence. The truth was Dr. Leah Mundy scared him. She made him want to trust again, to share his burden. She made him want a home, a family. And it was dangerous to want such things. Because the past would find him if he stayed - and there could be no future with a woman who would not leave.

THE LIGHTKEEPER 10/1997 ISBN: 1551663015 Once, the sea took everything he loved... Jesse Morgan is a man hiding from the pain of his past, a man who has vowed never to give his heart again. Keeper of a remote lighthouse along a rocky and dangerous coast, he has locked himself away from everything but his bitter memories. Now, the sea has given him a second chance... A beautiful stranger washes ashore, the sole survivor of a shipwreck. Penniless and pregnant, Mary Dare is a woman who carries painful memories of her own. With laughter, hope and joy, Mary and her child bring light into the dark corners of Jesse's world. But when their friendship turns to passion and passion becomes love, secrets from the past threaten to take it all away.

A SUMMER AFFAIR 8/2003 ISBN: 155166710X A gifted but troubled physician, Blue Calhoun runs a thriving medical practice from his Nob Hill mansion in San Francisco while raising his son alone after an unthinkable tragedy. Then one day a female fugitive with a gunshot wound appears in Blue's surgery. Even though she holds a pistol aimed at his heart, the desperation in her eyes awakens Blue's compassion. Reluctantly he is drawn to her fragile beauty, her nerves of steel and the mystery surrounding her circumstances. Isabel Fish-Wooten has spent most of her life on the run, but everything changes when she forces a stranger to save her life. Yet her rescue comes with an unexpected price. As Isabel recovers from her wounds, she finds herself touched by this remarkable man and yearns to reach out to him and his rebellious son. From danger-filled back alleys to the glittering ballrooms of high society, Isabel and Blue confront the violence and corruption that threatens their newfound passion. Theirs is an unforgettable quest to discover a rare and special love, and the precious gift of a second chance at happiness.

TEXAS WILDFLOWER 4/1987 All her life, beautiful Shiloh Mulvane has wanted to follow in her father's revered footsteps as one of the Texas frontier's greatest detectives. Now, she finally has her chance--by bringing sexy outlaw Justin McCord to her employer, a powerful judge who wants him to marry the daughter he allegedly compromised. But Justin has other ideas. The secret spy has a mission to complete, one that holds the fate of a free Texas in the balance. He knows what will happen once they reach Houston: he'll be forced into a sham of a marriage that will allow the corrupt judge to destroy the dream of Texas independence he's fought for, unless...he's already married. In one bold moment, the tables turn, and Shiloh finds herself the captive of a new husband she cannot trust or completely resist. What begins as a desperate ruse soon leaves them both vulnerable to a passion as wild and unforgiving as the land they both love, even as they are pursued by those who would stop at nothing to destroy everything they hold dear…

Jennifer Wilde

LOVE ME, MARIETTA 1981 ISBN:0446803073 Her beauty was power.....Men fought to touch her, hold her, staked claim to her body and her heart. Derek Hawke, once her master, now openly vowed his love, promising her a place as mistress of his English estate. Red Nick, the cruel pirate, showered her with jewels and challenged her hauteur with his passion. Jeremy Bond, renegade mercenary who could charm any woman to his bed, risked his life to rescue her from her island prison....men beseeched her, but Marietta Danver's spirit matched her beauty. She would keep her love for just one man.....

SWEET, SAVAGE SPLENDOR 1993 ISBN: 082174061X The wind blowing her tangled chestnut tresses, Felicia Edwards looked down from the rocky heights of the Appalachian trail. Once feted as the prettiest girl in the Carolinas, she was now an arrogant frontiersman's hostage against the Tories. She despised such barbarity, and taunted the patriot as they rode...but still his dark magnificence thrilled her. How long could she fight the shameless tide within her before his raw, masculine strength made her reach out to him in rapture - before this mountain lion conquered her with caresses that would hold her prisoner forever. Scottish and Cherokee codes of honor clashed in Hawk's blood. This sassy, stubborn captive was just a pawn in his solitary quest for revenge on the man who murdered his father and massacred those who sought freedom from the British. He knew he should keep his distance, yet he ached to claim his warrior's right to her luscious body. He felt her tantalizing sweetness staining his self-control - calling him to chart her beauty inch by inch and challenge her with love's mysteries until she surrendered to the blazing heat of his desire!

Lauren Wilde

BELOVED CAPTIVE 10/1997 ISBN: 0821757636 Isabel trembled in fear when the Comanches raided her hacienda and stole her away. Held tightly by a young warrior astride his horse, she was terror-struck by what awaited her in the New Mexican desert...until she saw her abductor's face and a shock of recognition shook her very soul. The young chieftain Stands Alone finally claimed his bride - beautiful Isabel, his childhood companion, his first beloved. Her father had sealed the pact between the Comanches and the settlers years ago by betrothing Isabel to him...a promise the white man never meant to keep. Now Stands Alone is brazenly taking his woman into the wild country... Isabel called him a savage; he called her his prisoner. Yet when his lips touched hers, his kisses freed her heart and imprisoned his own. Now - if two warring cultured don't divide them forever - they may finally join in one indomitable love...

CREOLE TEMPTRESS 12/1990 ISBN: 0821732323 To beautiful Nichole Frotier, Americans were a brash, unmannered lot. Her Creole disdain flashed clearly in her eyes as she met the buckskin-clad frontiersman who would be leading the French colonists into East Texas. But her arrogance melted into awe as she took in the magnificent physique and rugged face of this man who emanated raw masculinity. The wild, dangerous American ignited a spark that his strong hands and magical lips soon fanned into flame. In his arms, she was lost...but would this half-savage rogue of a man allow a woman to tame him? Marc Stevens knew the snobbish Creoles' low opinion of Americans - he held them with just as much disdain. As he undressed the haughty Nicole with his eyes, her glare cried 'How dare you!'...and Marc was a man who never turned down a dare. So when he finally bared her creamy flesh to his hot kisses, his triumph was complete - until he found himself being conquered by this exotic temptress. He wanted to protect her from the harsh wilderness, cherish her beauty, and enflame her passions. He'd sworn never to get emotionally involved with a woman...but when it came time to say goodbye, could he walk way from his Creole temptress?

NEBRASKA FIRE 1/1989 ISBN:0821725505 Riled Rancher... What had she done? And why had she ever thought it would work? Taking her best friend's place as a tutor to Alex Cameron's nephew had not been a good idea, not at all. And now, staring into the virile rancher's smoldering steel-gray eyes proved Lisa Wentworth was right. He didn't want her on his ranch, caring for the young boy. He wanted her gone and out of his coal-black hair. Yet when he held her against his strong muscular chest, his hands caressing her soft, full curves, she felt his hard, lean body tremble, and his warm lips on hers, telling her not to listen to his foolish words . . . but only to the wild beating of his heart that begged her never to leave him . . . Lusty Lady... Alex Cameron was absolutely shocked when he found a beautiful, delicate creature standing in the middle of the godforsaken prairie. And beautiful she was with hair that shone like the sun, dark violet eyes that blazed with passion, and a wide, sensuous mouth that was made for kissing. She was a lady, all right. First-class stuff. So what was she doing here? Was she running from the law? Or an irate husband? No matter. Lady or not, she spelled trouble, and he was sending her packing as soon as he could take her luscious body in his arms and lose himself in her sweet . . . Nebraska Fire.

PASSION'S THUNDER 6/1991 ISBN: 0821734113 Anne Phillips was wide-eyed as she arrived in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She'd come West to share in the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, but what she found in the wild frontier town was more than she expected. Gaming halls, saloons, ladies of the night...what had she gotten herself into? Still, it was the appearance of the ruggedly handsome and broad-shouldered Guy Masters which disturbed her the most. Guy Masters had more on his mind than playing nursemaid to a naive little ninny like Annie Phillips. He had seen enough brawls and fistfights to know that quick-thinking and sharp-shooting were the only way to survive in Cheyenne, and it seemed pretty obvious that the delicate Miss Phillips was out of her element. He was damned if he would waste his time teaching her about living in the Wild West, but that honey-blond hair, those deep blue eyes and her soft full lips held an attraction he couldn't resist. Miss Phillips might not know much about the thrill of frontier living, but Guy aimed to educate her in the pleasures of wild and passionate loving!

SWEET BETRAYAL 1990 ISBN: 082172889X With fury raging in his heart, Texas Ranger Adam Prescott rode into Mexico, determined to capture the pillaging general who called himself the Chaparral Fox. He had no time to waste arguing with a proud Mexican beauty who didn't have the sense to stay out of his way. But he couldn't get the exotic Anita out of his mind. The insolent minx aroused him to distraction - and defied him at every turn! The lusty lawman vowed he wouldn't rest until he'd tamed the raven-haired hellcat...and had her purring in his arms!

SWEET TEXAS WILDFIRE 1/1992 ISBN:0821736280 Danny Morgan stared at cavalry officer Brand Holden with rebellion sparking in her fiery black eyes.  Raised alongside her three brothers on their isolated Texas ranch, she'd survived the worst of the merciless plains - including the ferocious Indian attack that had wiped out her family and home.  She would go with this army man to his fort, but she could protect herself along the way - and she wasn't going to let him order her around, no matter how handsome he was.  But as they battled their way across the rugged prairie, Danny found she didn't want to fight the way Brant's shimmering golden hair and lean, muscular frame set her heart racing, how he melted her body with his searing blue gaze - and made her want to love him into wild, sweet surrender . . .

THE TEXAN'S LADY 8/1984 ISBN:0821714201 Christine fumed as she followed the tough tall Texas ranger up the Sierra Madres trail. She'd hired Chad Yancey to help her rescue her brother. But who would rescue her when Chad crushed her soft curves to his broad, hard chest, seared her sweet flesh with the hear of his kiss, destroyed her will with intimate, indecent caresses? She had sworn she'd never trust a man with her love-but when he held her she couldn't even trust herself!

YANKEE ANGEL 9/1993 ISBN: 0821742884 Cole Benteen might have been the most feared gunslinger in all Texas, but he wasn't crazy! Though dangerous government business drove him across the border, the last thing he wanted was to take time out to rescue some rich man's fiancé who'd gone and gotten herself kidnapped by a bloodthirsty Mexican outlaw! But no sooner had he infiltrated the notorious bandit camp than Cole saw her: With her porcelain skin, crystal blue eyes and golden curls, Juan Cortina's prize hostage was a vision to behold. She was also a sassy, sharp-tongued spitfire who made Cole's blood run hot with desire. Jenny Daniels might not know it yet, but the lady had just met her match. And very soon now she'd be begging for his kisses as he caressed every glorious, delectable inch of her!

Denise Dietz Wiley

THE RAINBOW'S FOOT 9/1998 ISBN: 0965566811 Dynamic, multi-charactered, an authentic tapestry of its times, this is an epic account of the passionate men and women who search for the ultimate treasure---love, happiness, and fulfillment. But some people will beg, steal, even kill, for the elusive pot of gold, said to be found at...The Rainbow's Foot.

Williams, Mallery, Davidson

MONTANA MAVERICKS: BIG SKY GROOMS 8/2001 ISBN: 0373834918 Features three brand-new stories about Montana's most popular family -- the Kincaids, men and women who carved out lives in Big Sky Country and found true love in Whitehorn, Montana: Legendary rancher Caleb Kincaid discovers love is sweeter the second time around in the arms of an old flame; younger brother Will woos the townspeople to his bank with the help of a sassy saloon girl who has a head for business and pleasure; and black sheep cousin James saves a schoolteacher from bandits and soon discovers she's stolen his heart!

Bronwyn Williams

BECKETT'S BIRTHRIGHT (#633) ISBN: 0373292333 Delilah Jackson was beautiful, brazen - and bossy as all get-out! Eli Chandler didn't need a redheaded wildcat to complicate his life. What with a fiancée gone missing and a wily gambler on the loose, the ranch manager had enough on his plate. So why did he hunger after the boss's daughter, with a newly whetted appetite for love? Eli Chandler kept his promises and fulfilled his vows. Always. Delilah Jackson could appreciate that. Just as she could appreciate the shocking way he made her feel without even trying - reminding her she was a woman first and a rancher second!

BEDEVILED 3/1995 ISBN: 0451404564 Flame-haired Annie O'Neal was going to a home she had never known - the Outer Banks of Carolina - where her father had gone after sending her to a boarding school to become a proper young lady. But when Annie arrived, she was faced with a harsh way of life she could not imagine, and for which she was woefully unprepared. Annie's father had mysteriously disappeared. In his place was the handsome and fiercely proud T'maho Hamilton, who chose the path of his Indian forebears rather than his white father. Annie and T'maho were different as night and day, but he taught her the power of desire, and she showed him the meaning of love. Their clash of wills sparked a fire within them both...until it was doused by the wealthy and iron-willed Jackson Snell, who demanded Annie be his bride. Now Annie was torn between the man she could not resist and the man it was folly to fight - on an island as wild as the passions that flowered there...

BLACKSTONE'S BRIDE 8/2003 ISBN:0373292678 Deep in the Carolina hills, widow Eleanor Miller saw no escape from her grasping in-laws. Until Providence sent her Jed Blackstone. The half-breed drifter who lived on luck seemed an unlikely savior yet he alone could set Eleanor's passions free... Having survived a hellish assault, Jed Blackstone found heaven in the arms of an unusual angel. What else could Eleanor be? For her glorious grit and gumption gave him the will to survive--and thrive! And he'd do anything to give her the paradise she deserved... RR@H's Novel Thoughts

LONGSHADOW'S WOMAN(#553) 3/2001 ISBN: 0373291531 Jonah Longshadow had never walked an easy road. Now the hands of destiny had yanked him from a white man's prison and set him down on a hardscrabble farm, paired with a woman whose quiet courage and gentle kindness filled him with dreams that a man like him had no business dreaming...Two dollars' worth of trouble - that's what Carrie Adams had probably bought herself when she paid Jonah Longshadow's freedom. But she needed strong hands to help her tend her land, and this mountain of a man seemed made to order. The only thing she hadn't counted on was her heart entering into the bargain.

THE MAIL-ORDER BRIDES(#589) 12/2001 ISBN: 0373291892 St. Bride Needed A Wife... But the latest candidate was much too pretty to live amid a bunch of sailors on his desolate island. Ever since he'd first set eyes on fragile beauty Dora Sutton, something had gone wrong with his careful plan. The women he'd found his men weren't working out, his books were a mess and Miss Sutton wasn't paying any attention to his orders. Dora Needed A New Beginning... But the insufferable Grey St. Bride refused to make it easy for her! From the moment she'd staggered off the boat, it was clear the handsome brute wanted her gone. But much more was at stake for Dora than wounded pride... If Mr. High-and-Mighty St. Bride didn't want her, she'd just have to find someone else on the island who did!

STORMWALKER(#47) 6/1990 ISBN:0373286473 CHALLENGE: To try to tame the surrounding, and inner turmoil. Whether in the Indian village nestled in the wilderness, or in the busy general store in town, Stormwalker stood tall with pride that demanded respect....

WHITE WITCH 8/1988 ISBN: 0373286031 Mark of the white brand.... Kinnahauk gazed down at the scrawny, half-drowned woman. This was the virgin mate promised him by the Great Spirit? Yet the firemark on her brow matched the one on his own gleaming chest. Bridget Abbott gazed fearfully at the magnificent half-naked savage standing before her. Clearly she was far from the colonies, and from the planter she'd promised to wed. Had she escaped being burned as a witch in England only to be eaten alive by this golden-eyed heathen? Destiny had brought their two worlds together, only the heat of passion could make the two worlds one.

Jeanne Williams

BRIDE OF THUNDER 1978 ISBN:0671814877 Sold to settle her husband's gambling debts, kidnapped...betrayed and promised to the Mayan gods as their sacrificial bride...Texas-born beauty Mercy Cameron pursued one recklessly romantic dream - to be desired in all ways by the man who bought her as a bondswoman - to discover in his arms the depth of ecstasy and the consummate crest of love.

COYOTE WINTER 1965 Meet Whit and his half-Indian step-brother Talt and share their adventures with Aunt Callie in the soddy and Pa at his newspaper The Clarion office.

HARVEST OF FURY 8/1981 ISBN:0671825372 Civil War breaks the hard-won peace at Rancho del Socorro. The Papago, Irish, Mormon and Mexican folk of this surviving stronghold battle renegades to maintain their home. The last days of the Apaches have arrived when the story ends with the infamous Bisbee deportation of striking miners in 1917.

HOME MOUNTAIN 1990 ISBN: 0312927681 Katie - The proud, orphaned beauty left the bitter heartbreak of Texas behind forever and dared to follow her secret dreams into the soaring mountains of Arizona...where danger, adventure and desire awaited her in the arms of a seductive gunslinger. Bill - The fearless, virile outlaw who lived by the gun swore his heart would belong to no woman...until he met a headstrong innocent whose fiery beauty and unconquerable spirit inflamed him beyond control. Ed - As dangerous as he was rich, the most powerful ranger in the San Simon Valley wanted only two things - land and the one woman who stirred his hard, hungry heart...a woman he vowed would one day belong to him, body and soul. Driven by their restless yearnings, they braved the peril of a harsh, unyielding wilderness for a love as wild and free as the magnificent frontier...

HOME STATION 1996 ISBN: 0312135122 A resolute woman becomes a successful railroad station master in turn-of-the-century Kansas...Hoping for a new start in the railroad community of Bountiful, Lesley Morland believes her dreams have come true when handsome wagon driver Jim Kelly proposes marriage, until her father is killed in a robbery.

A LADY BOUGHT WITH RIFLES 9/1977 ISBN:0671812351 Miranda Greenleaf is summoned home by her mother's death to Las Coronas, a vast estate in northern Mexico. The burning hatred of her half sister, Reina, the gorgeous redheaded hidalga who considers herself the family's only true daughter, and true daughter of Mexico, turns murderous when it is revealed at the will reading that Miranda has inherited the Mina Rara gold mine, source of the Greenleaf fortune. Miranda further incurs Reina's wrath by capturing the eye of the two handsome, lusty men whom Reina regards as her private property, Trace Winslade and Court Sanders.

LADY OF NO-MAN'S-LAND 10/1988 ISBN: 0312022298 Swedish orphan, Kristen, seventeen years old, crosses the ocean with her younger sister to seek a new land. When her sister dies, Kristen is forced to pursue her dream of claiming her own homestead.

THE LONGEST ROAD 2/1993 ISBN: 0312952392 For young Laurie Field, The Longest Road begins in Prairieville, Kansas, where a violent dust storm leaves her mother dead and the family farm in ruins. Deserted by her father, bullied by her autocratic grandfather, Laurie disguises herself as a boy and hops the rails to freedom with her beloved brother Buddy. It is an odyssey that will take them from the Oklahoma Panhandle to the Black Mountains of Arizona...from sun-scorched mesas to wind-blown valley trails...from the oilfields of Texas across the border to Mexico...and on to the vast, golden splendor of California. And it is a journey that will take Laurie from young girl to passionate woman as she struggles to find happiness with handsome Johnny Morrigan, the folk-singing Irish wayfarer who awakens her heart.

A MATING OF HAWKS 1983 ISBN: 067141318X He lived free, alone and proud--until she conquered his heart with an irresistible fierce love. Tracy Benoit was summoned back to Arizona by Patrick, dying patriarch of the Rancho del Socorro. There, she was drawn to Shea, Patrick's son, a loner who could not deny his passion for her. As their love grew, Patrick soon died. Now Shea stood against his half-brother, Judd, whose dark desire for Tracy was only surpassed by a boundless greed to sell the ranch for quick profit. Shea had Tracy's love and share of the ranch--but Judd had a murderous need to have his brother's woman, his brother's land, and even his brother's life.

NO ROOF BUT HEAVEN 2/1990 ISBN: 0312926391 Susanna - A young schoolteacher with a will as fierce as her snapping green eyes. The Civil war had stolen everything but her spitfire spirit. Now she vowed to find a new life in an untamed land... Ase - The most powerful man in Mason-Dixon. With looks and charm to match his money, he could have any woman in Kansas, But the one he wanted wouldn't say yes... Matt- A handsome doctor as bitter as he was mysterious. His crippled hand would not let him practice medicine - and a secret agony would not let him love... No Roof But heaven - Their lives were bound together by fortune and friendship. They would suffer and survive the heartaches of a harsh land - and learn to love with hearts made bold by the taste of frontier freedom.

PRAIRIE BOUQUET 1990 ISBN:0312921462 Kirsten Mordal cherished her childhood memories of Sweden. But her destiny was America... She arrived in Kansas with nothing...except a strong spirit and a dream that one day she would find a man to love in her adopted land. When she met Patrick O'Brien, she thought her dream had come true. But the handsome Irishman was sworn to another - and Kirsten shed many a tear as she fashioned the bridal gown she ached to wear herself. With nothing but her second-hand sewing machine and a wagon, the heartbroken Kirsten struck out on her own in the dangerous no-man's land of frontier America. Though she faced poverty, blizzards, and vigilantes, she would soon face her heart's hardest choice: to marry the devoted, wealthy man who pursued her...or to risk everything for a love that might never be...

QUETZAL LADY 5/1978

SAN PATRICIO 9/1980 ISBN: 0671827324

TEXAS PRIDE 1/1987 ISBN:0380752026 Out of the sweeping splendor of a great pioneer state comes the searing saga of three passionate women and the land they loved...Vinnie - orphaned by the Civil War, she courageously began anew in a land where dreams could prosper or perish, and where a woman's love was the strength that let men survive. Katie - Vinnie's daughter, born into an era when oil gushed from the land and men risked their lives to claim its riches, loyally followed her husband's dream - even as her heart ached for a love that could never be. Melissa - a twentieth-century woman fired with the brave pioneer spirit of those who came before her, she valiantly fought treachery and greed to be with the man she was born to love - and to triumph as part of a magnificent Texas dynasty.

THE VALIANT WOMEN: THE ARIZONA SAGA 1 8/1980 ISBN:0671825364 They endured a life of fury and loved the way they lived--deeply, proudly, defiantly.

A WOMAN CLOTHED IN SUN 10/1977 ISBN:0698108388 From the pleasures of her sheltered world in the bayous to the treacherous vastness of the great Southwest and beyond - forever quenching her thirst for all the passion and adventure that life had to offer - wildly beautiful Rachel Delys fled the memories of her battle-slain lover and the fury of the Civil War. Across the tempestuous landscape, three men tried to tame her - one who seduced her, one who ravaged her, and one who would bring her at last to the peak of sublime rapture and the depths of soul-searing love.

Penelope Williamson

HEART OF THE WEST 4/1995 ISBN: 0671508229 All her life, Clementine Kennicut has been filled with restless longing. A ladylike New Englander, she yearns to escape the chafing authoritarian rule of her pious, unforgiving father. Clementine has never met anyone remotely like Gus McQueen. So when the cowboy with the laughing eyes and big, urgent dreams presses her to elope with him to his Montana ranch, she is ready. But nothing has prepared her for the harsh realities of frontier life or for the unpredictable hankering of the heart - least of all for the fact that almost from the first moment she sets eyes on Zach, Gus's dashing ne'er-do-well brother, she knows he's the one she was destined to love. Possessed of a rare spirit and courage, Clementine determines not to let the frontier defeat her as she strives for happiness and fulfillment within her fragile marriage. Breaking the local taboos, Clementine becomes friends with Erlan, a young Chinese mail-order bride, and with Hannah, the local dance-hall owner, and champions a proud, embittered half-breed cattle rustler and his young Indian wife against an angry community that wants to hang them.

THE OUTSIDER 7/1996 ISBN:0684807599 He stumbled into her life one cold, bitter day, almost dead from a bullet in his side. Instinctively, Rachel Yoder reached out to help the stranger, for kindness was in her nature. What she could not know was that this simple act of mercy would forever change her life and challenge her deepest beliefs....

A WILD YEARNING 4/1990 ISBN:0380758806 Wanted: Wife for God-fearing farmer with two children. Hard work. Frontier life. Desperate to escape her abusive father and Boston's brutal waterfront for a respectable life, Delia Mcquaid answered an advertisement to become a stranger's wife. But when she applied in person to Dr. Ty Savitch, the ruggedly handsome physician admitted he had merely placed the ad for a neighbor, a widower with two children. One look and Delia knew she would follow the devastating doctor anywhere-even into the Maine wilderness as a mail-order bride for another man.....

Patricia Williams

FREEDOM'S SONG 6/1995 ISBN: 0515116319 A heart of hope. Amanda Smith was born in Africa, but raised in London by her aunt, where she let the rather sheltered life of a proper English lady. Moved by the plight of the American slaves, she headed for a new world, and found her people faced with dangers and trials she had never imagined. A spirit of fire. Embittered by the death of his wife, the former slave, Jacov, was on the run after kidnapping his young daughter from slavery, and was bound for a life of freedom on the frontier. Nothing could change the past that scarred his soul. Until Amanda showed him a passion to live for, and a new and dignified life to believe in.

Pamela Willis

HEARTS OF THE STORM 4/1995 ISBN: 0061083526 Josie Campbell could put a bullet through a man's hat at a hundred yards with as much skill as she could nurse a fugitive slave baby back to health. But she hadn't done much thinking about men...until the dashing Clint McCarter rode into town. From the moment Josie saw the handsome Texas cowboy, her heart was never the same. But the black clouds of the Civil War were gathering on the horizon, and there was little time for love, unless Clint and Josie could find happiness at the heart of the storm.

Marianne Willman

PIECES OF SKY(#195) 8/1986 ISBN: 1551665646 Norah O'Shea did not blink at the prospect of traveling alone across a vast and untamed continent to meet a fiancé she had never seen. But her Irish temper flamed when she alighted from the dusty carriage in an Arizona shanty town, with no one in sight except a darkly handsome Indian scout. Sergeant LeBeau, a Comanche brave serving in the United States Cavalry, watched as the striking beauty searched for her betrothed and felt his anger rise as he realized she was Abner Slade's woman, his most hated enemy. Norah fled from Boston to Arizona seeking freedom, adventure and love. She found instead the harsh reality of the conflict between the interests of an ancient, noble culture and the destiny of an emerging nation.

SILVER SHADOWS 3/1993 ISBN: 0061080543 Born to a white woman and a Cheyenne warrior chief, he grew to manhood on the thundering Colorado plains. But the winds of change brought sorrow to his people - and to the man called Grayson Howard. Heeding an inner call, he journeyed west to the golden hills of California to fulfill his destiny and to honor a sacred vow. The youngest daughter of an impoverished English earl, she left her country to live among the glittering nobility of San Francisco's Nob Hill. But there, lovely Cassandra was like a tender dove in a gilded cage. Meeting the magnificent stranger who called her his enemy, she knew that her destiny was bound with his. Brought together by their quest for revenge, they found passion beyond compare. Through betrayal, tragedy, and triumph, they claimed a love eternal.

THOMASINA(#703) 12/1991 ISBN:0373287038 Dr. Brendan Rafferty's size belied the gentleness with which he treated the sick of the tiny Mexican village where he lived and worked. He was a simple man, with few pretensions, until the arrival of the lovely Thomasina Wentworth turned his idyllic life upside down. Thomasina knew that she had caused a stir by signing on as the doctor's assistant. It was only natural that he had assumed she was a young man. Still, that wasn't reason enough for him to break their contract--and given the chance, she would soon show him that she was more than just another pretty face.

YESTERDAY'S SHADOWS 5/1991 ISBN:0061040444 She was a young orphan traveling west in search of the father who'd left her years ago...Bettany couldn't remember her mother whose only legacy was her own silver eyes and moonlight hair. He was a Cheyenne brave riding back to the people who'd raised him. Wolf Star longed to know who'd abandoned him-a white child with a jeweled talisman and why he dreamed of a pale and lovely Silver Woman.

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