There's no place like home, but even ruby slippers won't get Claire Atherton there.For clair, home is Fairlove, Virginia, and a Federal Era house built by her ancestors. Although the house still stands, it might as well be over the rainbow, because the man who owned it–the man who let it fall to ruin–is the same man who destroyed her parents. But sometimes even rich, evil men fail to get…
She didn't know how wrong the right decision could beHer Daughter's Mother: India Stuart wants to know her child, but she gave up that right fifteen years ago. Still, she feels compelled to make sure her daughter's safe and happy with her adoptive parents.Her Daughter's Father: India has a simple plan–sneak into town and observe her daughter from a distance. But things don&apos…
YOU ARE NOW ENTERING RIVERBEND, INDIANARiverbend…home of the River Rats–a group of small-town sons and daughters who've been friends since high school. The River Rats are all grown up now. Living their lives and learning that some days are good and some days aren't–and that you can get through anything as long as you have your friends.Charlie Callahan is the original good-time Charlie. A…
Never say « Never again» Nick Logan had a gift for counseling teens who came from violent homes, but his job at the Rockford Crime Victims' Center wasn' t easy. Three years ago he and Madelyn Walsh had started out as coworkers and turned into lovers. Until he' d broken their engagement, convinced anyone else would make a better husband.Now Madelyn was « Dr.» Walsh and the boss. Thei…
But Jordan Castillo insists that he wants a partner, not a wife. Jordan's the only surviving son of a family that can trace its heritage back for centuries. He's also a salvager searching for sunken treasure Castillo treasure. He knows of one person who can help him find it. A woman.A woman named Aurora Collins.She has her own reasons for agreeing to be his partner. Reasons that, like Jo…
Adam Kendall: He's rich, he's powerful–he's a man who gets what he wants. When he left town, he was a nobody. Now he's the somebody everyone wants to know–everyone except Lacy Morgan.Lacy Mayfair Morgan: After Adam left, Lacy married money–but only because she had no other choice. Some would say she's worked even harder than Adam to get what she has. But Adam has his doubt…
Ten years ago, Molly Lorring left Demery, South Carolina, with a secret. She was pregnant with Beau Forrest's baby, but no one could ever know. Because Beau was dead–unaware that he'd even made his longtime girlfriend pregnant before dying in a spectacular car crash.For all that time, Beau's identical twin, Jackson, has carried his own secret. Beau isn't the father of Molly&apo…
Erica has a little boy–and a big secret.Her son, Kevin, is not her ex-husband's child. In fact, Kevin's real father doesn't even know he exists. She's carried the guilt of this for more than five years.Now, to her complete shock, the man she fell in love with, hostage negotiator Jack Shaw–the man she expected never to see again–is back in her world. Her world and Kevin's…
Smart women stay away from cowboysTaking a teaching job in a desolate corner of Idaho was Kate Steele' s way of making sure her in-laws didn' t turn her son, Danny, into a shiftless bronc buster like his father. Except in the middle of nowhere she unexpectedly ran headlong into a genuine buckaroo….Don' t they?Being a good parent and a born rancher were all that mattered to Ben Trueb…
THE TALBOT TWINSA troubled marriage, an unexpected pregnancy, a terrible accident. Any one of those flings would be hard to handle. Cate Talbot Palmer has to face them all.Cate has decided her marriage is over. Much as she loves her husband, she can no longer live with him. But after she tells him she's going–and before he can even start to win her back–an accident robs her of her memory.Amne…
Come home to Shelter Valley where love lasts and families matter….Miranda Parsons is content with her life. She has a great job, a wonderful family, a lovely house. She has good friends. And she lives in a town where people know her, care about her. So what's missing?Passion–as she finds out when she meets Zack Foster.Zack's a veterinarian who's recently moved to Shelter Valley afte…
Ranching is in Thea Maxwell's blood, just as it's been in her ancestors' for generations. But now the family's in danger of losing everything because Bobby Maxwell, Thea's teenaged brother–heir to the Walking Stones ranch–has broken the law.Thea longs to confide in Rafe Rafferty–the man she's falling in love with. But Deputy Rafe Rafferty is the law, and anything Thea…
Phyllis Langford is everybody's friend and nobody's lover. Until she succumbs to the unexpected temptation of Matt Sheffield–and soon after, discovers she's pregnant.Matt's a loner, a man who hides from the possibility of love and family. Just as well, in Phyllis's opinion, since she doesn't want or need anything from him. Not one single thing. But Matt can't qui…
Twin sisters! Two babies.Double the trouble…and twice the joy! Especially at Christmas…When Danni Ferris keeps her appointment with a client she barely knows, the last thing she expects him to do is take her into his arms and kiss her passionately. But that's exactly what happens. There can only be one explanation–Danni's twin sister, Kristine!In Christmas Babies, Ellen James explores th…
Faith Constable is not the kind of woman who runs from a fightIf it weren't for her orphaned nephew, she never would have left Manhattan for the sleepy little town of Firefly Glen. But now she's here–hunted by a madman and forced to live in fear.Reed Fairmont can help everyone but himselfReed knows Faith needs a safe place to hide, but he's beginning to wonder just what kind of prot…