Arlene James

• Nov-2022
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Can a known sinner win the heart and the hand of a devout young woman with an overprotective family?Stuart Champ Champion is the last of the original HOBBY RUN band members to remain unmarried and the one who has most longed for love and connection. ...

• Jun-2019
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A tragedy she can't forget... The truth waits at Three Brothers Ranch. With the circumstances of her brother's death still shrouded in secrets, barrel racer Jeri Bogman needs answers -- and handsome rancher Ryder Smith is the key to finding them....

• Mar-2019
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First comes rescue... Then comes love at the Three Brothers Ranch Coming to the aid of a woman in her broken-down car, Jake Smith finds the answer to his childcare problems. Kathryn Stepp needs a job, and the widower needs a nanny for his son. As...

• Oct-2018
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A single mom. A bachelor cowboy... and an inheritance forcing them to share Three Brothers Ranch According to the will, single mom Tina Kemp's stepfather left her his house, but his nephew, Wyatt Smith, inherited the ranch -- including the land th...

• Nov-2017
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The quiet holiday season Dixon Lyons had planned is abruptly derailed when his long-absent mother appears at his doorstep with a baby and stunning beauty Fawn Ambor. Soon Fawn's generous heart and endearing belief in the strength of family and fo...

• Jul-2017
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Songwriter and performer Charlie Biggs has bucked his old-fashioned Ozark father to find success with his calling. He has it all now, except the one person for whom he's waited all of his adult life--a wife, the woman God intends just for him. Charli...

• Jul-2017
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Healing Their Hearts After nursing her ill father back to health, Meredith Billings must make a decision: stay on the family ranch or go back to Oklahoma City. Problem is, the one man who could help her is the only one she'd never ask. Widowe...

• Mar-2017
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A Homecoming Romance Ten years ago Ann Billings left her Oklahoma ranch behind and headed to the big city. But when her ailing father needs her to temporarily run the spread, she's back -- successful, accomplished...and engaged. She's got...

• Sep-2016
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Winning the Widow's Love Rex Billings hires young widow Callie Deviner as a housekeeper to help care for his ailing father and rambling home. He only intends to run Straight Arrow Ranch temporarily -- soon enough he'll head back to the ci...

• Nov-2015
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Dr. Tate Golden is a playboy with a painful past and a secret present, but his latest romantic target is not about to play his game, despite a strong mutual attraction. For nurse and former soldier Amalie Harter, her faith and her sons are more impor...

• Nov-2015
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An injury forces rodeo rider Matt Ender home to his family's ranch -- where he clashes with his grandmother's pretty business partner. Former cowgirl Neely Spence has no time for love. Can they open their hearts and find family this Christ...

• Jul-2015
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Book 2 in the HOBBY RUN Variety Praise Band Book series. Rey lost his foot in Afghanistan then came home to raise his four younger siblings. The last thing he needs is an unwed 19-year-old with a baby, but Della isn't just beautiful and tempting, she...

• Jul-2015
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A Time to Heal Everyone in Buffalo Creek, Texas, knows that Dr. Brooks Leland doesn't date. After his harrowing loss, the widower focuses all his time on helping the sick. But when a mysterious newcomer with a heartbreaking secret becomes his...

• Apr-2015
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She left him, broke his heart, drove him to the brink of destruction. He terrified her with his recklessness, destroyed her confidence in herself and her ability to handle whatever the world might throw at her. Twenty-five years later, each of them h...

• Dec-2014
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A Yuletide Bride It's time for mistletoe and merriment -- for everyone except Robin Frazier. As Jasper Gulch's centennial celebrations reach their festive conclusion, her guilt is only mounting. The shy historian is hiding something -- so...

• Jun-2014
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A Lesson In Love Tweed-clad professor Morgan Chatam has been the subject of countless student crushes at Buffalo Creek Bible College. But grad student Simone Guilland knows that a relationship with Morgan is out of the question. Even if he weren&...

• May-2014
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Fast Fiction Romantic short stories with a Happy Ever After Cecelia Locke's has been offered her dream job as director of an orphanage in Mexico. But taking the job will mean leaving her home in Grasslands, Texas. Gilbert Valenzuela has a calling,...

• Jan-2014
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Taming The Wanderer's Heart Carissa Hopper's always been strong and self-sufficient. So when the single mom of three finds herself in need, accepting help from the rugged and adventurous Phillip Chatam isn't easy. She knows he's t...

• Jul-2013
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A Fresh Start Lily Farnsworth can thank a mysterious benefactor for the chance to open her own flower shop in Bygones, Kansas. But Tate Bronson is the biggest challenge the relocated Boston attorney has ever faced. Forget about tossing out the wel...

• Sep-2012
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Amnesiac Bride An injured woman in a wedding veil on Jack Colby's ranch property? Jack has no idea who she is-and neither does she. "Kendra" doesn't know her name, what the veil is all about or where she belongs. And since Jack'...

• May-2012
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In charge of a hotel renovation, Petra Chatam's got everything under control -- except Dale Bowen. The too-handsome contractor has his own ideas about the project. And they don't match up with ambitious Petra's, who hopes to become hotel ...

• Feb-2012
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Single mom Jessa Lynn Pagett is grateful for the old Victorian she's fixing up. Now she can fulfill both her dreams: providing a safe home for her young son and opening a florist shop. But Garrett Willows insists he's the rightful owner of...

• Aug-2011
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Runaway Bride Caught! When Kylie Jones catches her fiance kissing another girl moments before the wedding, she runs. Smack-dab into the new deputy sheriff, who knows her former fiance all too well. Kylie is deeply touched that Zach Clayton underst...

• May-2011
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All Work and No Play... High-powered lawyer Asher Chatam has no time for love. He's far too busy with his career. Then his eccentric aunts summon him to Chatam House on urgent business. And introduce him to Ellie Monroe. The beautiful young te...

• Sep-2010
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A Knight in Cowboy Boots Stranded at a truck stop alone and in trouble, pregnant Bethany Carter desperately needs a ride to Buffalo Creek. Then along comes Chandler Chatam, a cowboy with a bad-boy smile and a heart of gold. But when they get to Ch...

• Apr-2010
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Widowed mother Dixie Stephenson never stopped blaming herself for her late husband's accidental death. And she didn't expect any of her dreams to come true, especially since she had been dreaming of another man. But is Joel Slade, a wounded s...

• Feb-2010
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Nurse Chatam to the Rescue? Kaylie Chatam is a pediatric nurse -- she cares for babies and children. But her new patient is a very handsome man. One with a harrowing secret. Why is Stephen Gallow recuperating from a serious injury at her family ho...

• Sep-2009
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A Recipe For Disaster? Take one uncontrollable little girl. Add a home infested with bees. Toss in former childhood nemesis Anna Burdett, and what single dad Reeves Leland gets is one big headache! His trio of matchmaking maiden aunts aren't h...

• Feb-2009
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She'd Survived Her Family's Disapproval and the Whispers of Small-Town Gossips. Now Ivy Villard's Greatest Challenge Is Returning Home. Her school reunion was just an excuse. New Christian Ivy Villard really returned to Eden, Oklahoma,...

• Dec-2008
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Help Wanted at the Heavenly Arms Motel If only someone will take the job so oil rigger Holt Jefford can stop making beds and burning breakfasts. And then someone does: a lovely single mother with a baby boy--and secrets. Sweet, kind Cara Jane ...

• Jun-2008
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Wrong Turn At the Right Time Fast-moving Texan Tyler Aldrich thought it a fate worse than death to be stuck in rural Eden, Oklahoma, overnight. Imagine the Dallas CEO settling in for homemade meat loaf at the Heavenly Arms Motel! Yet something abo...

• Sep-2007
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To: Pilar From: Ramon Re: A mommy for Lucia But which one? When I offered to help little Lucia's biological mother reclaim her baby, I never dreamed it would bring aspiring single mother Lori Sumner into my life. But from the moment we met,...

• Jan-2007
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Paige Ellis's prayers had been answered! Kidnapped by her ex-husband, Paige's son had finally come home. But their reunion was not the loving one she'd envisioned: her sweet little boy had turned into a resentful, surly teen. Desperate fo...

• Sep-2006
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In need of a wife, Pastor Marcus Wheeler was sure God would send him a good woman--anyone except Nicole Archer. Though she was kind and beautiful, she was far too young and unconventional to be a proper minister's wife. She couldn't possibly ...

• Jul-2006
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The Gossip Guru has some shocking news: devout Wallace Hamilton, head of rival newspaper the Davis Landing Dispatch, is not Jeremy Hamilton's father! Word is, his wife was already pregnant when they wed and now that Jeremy has learned the truth, ...

• Jan-2006
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All mortgage broker Kendal Oakes wanted was a stable, loving home for his daughter, Larissa. He was widowed, and his motherless little girl was prone to uncontrollable tantrums. But then single mom Connie Wheeler walked into the church day-care cente...

• Oct-2005
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'TIS THE SEASON Retrieving the mail from his old apartment brought more than just letters for Vince Cutler. When he opened the door on the lovely Jolie Wheeler and rooms he hardly recognized, he knew he'd found the person to fix up his bare ...

• Jan-2005
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While hurrying to catch a plane, widowed lawyer Mitch Sayer finds a single page from a handwritten letter, a letter offering forgiveness to an unknown recipient. But thoughts of its possible owner flee his mind when he meets his attractive seatmate, ...

• Jul-2004
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After a rodeo accident left her widowed, petite Becca Kinder returned to work at her in-laws' store to support her two small children and fix up a house growing more dilapidated by the minute. Dan Holden, the strong but silent carpenter who frequ...

• Mar-2004
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DEEP IN THE HEART Billionaire Lucien Tyrone could have any woman he wanted, anytime, from anywhere in the world. But the moment he met Avis Lorimer on a London-bound flight, he knew he'd met his match. For this million-dollar heiress didn&#...

• Feb-2004
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THE OLDER WOMAN The first time fortune found Sierra Carlton, she'd become a millionaire. The second time, Sam Jayce stood before her, a long, lean, young farmer hungry to make her flower ranch a reality. Trouble was, Sam made her hunger for mo...

• Jan-2004
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BREAKING NEWS... The death of Edwin Searle has turned this town upside down. That grumpy old man was secretly a millionaire! And the surprises don't end there: he left his millions to three women who weren't even family -- including hairst...

• Jul-2002
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HER UNDOING Royce Lawler was dark and mysterious, movie-star handsome and dangerously seductive even when flat on his back. And prim and professional Merrily Gage was supposed to live alone with this man, tending to his every need as his private n...

• May-2002
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Blatantly handsome businessman "Darren Rudd" might have bowled over prim single foster mom Charlene Bellamy -- if she'd let him. But all Charlene wanted was to legally adopt her five-year-old and get funding for his ragtag, underprivilege...

• Sep-2001
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THE MILLIONAIRE'S SEDUCTION Chey Simmons had entered Brodie Todd's world as part of a business contract. So why did she find her powerful, handsome client so unnerving...and intriguing? Chey didn't know. She only knew that getting invo...

• Aug-2001
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"Is there anything I can do for you?" Remembering Winston Champlain's offer, Danica Lynch shook her head. Something told her that as a neighbor Winston was going to be a problem. Well, she was certainly in no danger of becoming enamore...

• Jan-2001
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They were sentenced to life -- with each other! Beth Maitland, the most unconventional member of the Maitland clan, is always up for an adventure. But getting framed for a murder she didn't commit isn't exactly her idea of fun.... Det...

• Jan-2001
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Even amid a crowd Reece Carlyle stood out. Handsome, virile, sexy -- he had caught her attention. When Amber encountered Reece again, she knew without doubt that he'd been following her. Yet why would this mesmerizing man who could have anyth...

• Aug-2000
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HE HAD THE FORTUNE... Channing Hawkins was a millionaire willing to share his wealth with the right woman. His sole stipulation? That she be good mommy material for his adopted daughter. True, the child genius was precocious, prickly, sometimes down...

• Mar-2000
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MY FAIR ENEMY In denim and rawhide Roland Thorton looked every inch a stable hand. But his bloodlines ran as blue as the Montagues, age-old enemies of the Thortons, whose palace the prince infiltrated, searching for his kidnapped half sister. Yet...

• Jan-2000
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The Fortunes of Texas: Membership in this family has its privileges ...and its price. But what a fortune can't buy, a true-bred Texas love is sure to bring! THE TYCOON Power was Logan Fortune's lifemate. The executive had no time for a ...

• Dec-1999
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HE FELT LIKE A THIEF Little Georgie was HIS son and he had every right to claim him. But in the year Colin Garret had been searching for the boy, lovely Lauren Cole had been caring for his child... and loving him. And this exhilarating, warmhea...

• Jul-1999
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It was a fairy tale come true...almost. Charming, courageous Zach Keller had asked poor little Jillian Waltham to be his bride. But his proposal was just a formality. For the sexy bodyguard had promised to protect Jillian with his very life, and ...

• Mar-1999
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THE OLDER MAN Jesse Wagner was ruggedly handsome, incredibly charming--and sixteen years her senior. But Caroline knew in her heart that what they had was the chance of a lifetime. And it looked like it was up to her to show the lonely rancher tha...

• Feb-1999
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WANTED: ONE GOOD MAN Denise Jenkins desperately needed her handsome neighbor's help with a most unusual situation. The sassy single woman had invented a boyfriend, and now her boss was demanding to meet Denise's darling. She knew of only o...

• Nov-1998
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HIS MOST HONORABLE VOW He was a man of immense wealth and privilege, but no amount of money could release Paul Spencer from his impending loveless marriage. His grandfather's will had left Paul little choice: Marry a woman he despised or lose ...

• Sep-1998
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THE COWBOY OF HER DREAMS Kara Detmeyer was leading the biggest cattle drive since the days of the Old Wild West and facing the challenge of her life. Ropin' and ridin' across three states was simple compared to losing her heart and soul t...

• May-1998
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THE DADDY DILEMMA Four rambunctious children and not a wife in sight. Struggling single father Orren Ellis needed someone to care for his brood, and the only applicant was Mattie Kincaid. Though the beauty could cook, clean and courageously keep h...

• Oct-1997
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DESPERATELY SEEKING SIR GALAHAD Attorney Edward White's reputation was rock solid: he was as reliable...and romantic...as granite. Until desperate, penniless heiress Laurel Heffington Miller sought protection for her secret son - and made minc...

• Dec-1996
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Meet the Fortunes--a family whose legacy is greater than riches. Because where there's a will...there's a wedding! THE SECRET Every time Adam Fortune gazed at his children, he knew they desperately needed motherly love. So he hired pretty...

• Nov-1996
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WANTED: HUSBAND TO RESCUE HARRIED MOM She had quit high school to get married and raise a family. But Heller Moore's dreams didn't exactly come true. Divorced and working two jobs to keep up the payments on her trailer home, the single mom h...

• Apr-1996
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DADDY BLUES Evans Kincaid's daughter was growing up too fast. Raising a girl alone wasn't easy, and lately Mattie's wild makeup and taste in clothes had this police officer seeing red. But when the woman next door called the cops about Mattie's de...

• Jun-1995
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A cruel deception had robbed Dr. Gail Terry of her newborn baby. And after years of desperate searching, Gail had finally found her, alive and well and living in Texas. Now, the only person who stood between Gail and her precious daughter was ruggedl...

• Feb-1995
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SWEET-TALKING COWBOY MEETS... Joan Burton was no pushover for sweet-talking cowboys. But when Griff Shaw showed up on her doorstep, injured and alone, she had to take him in. But that didn't mean she'd fall for his seductive grin...or his soul-stirr...

• Aug-1994
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First comes marriage.... Lonely rancher Leon Paradise had fallen in love at first sight with his mail-order bride, Cassie Esterbridge. But he'd barely said "I do" when a half-dozen ragtag boys showed up at the local bus depot, claiming to be hers....

• Feb-1994
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Dallas playboy Parker Sugarman had soulful eyes, a wicked grin and his choice of gorgeous women. But this time he needed a woman to wed, not bed. So who better than his lifelong friend, straitlaced Kendra Ballard? Their short-term celibate marriag...

• Nov-1993
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Waiting her out... Bolton Charles was too close for comfort. Clarice Revere was certainly grateful for the friendship he shared with her son. And she couldn't deny that the man was attractive, eliciting feelings she'd long forgotten. But ...

• Oct-1993
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Triple trouble Wyatt Gilley had his hands full raising his redheaded twin sons. Marrying again was out of the question. Yet, Wyatt still wanted a woman's touch in his life. Especially when that woman was pretty Traci Temple. But Traci wasn'...

• Sep-1993
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Wedding plans The rugged cowboy looked out of place in wedding consultant Layne Harington's lace-filled shop. Layne couldn't help hoping he wasn't a groom -- just in the wrong place. But Rod Corley was planning a wedding, all righ...

• Nov-1992
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Between building a new house and caretaking his kid sister, hardworking Craig Russell had a full plate of obligations -- and no room for his sumptuous next-door neighbor. Even if her gourmet cooking -- and skimpy bikinis -- did take his mouth water w...

• May-1992
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A PRINCE OF A GUY Ever since her father had been wounded in a holdup in their convenience store, Racine Edwards had been struggling to single-handedly keep farm and family business together. Then in walked Deeton Spooner--movie-star handsome and t...

• Nov-1991
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Dangerous Liaisons Meyer Randolph had been searching forever for that special woman, and when he saw Elaine Newcomb, something instinctively told him she could be The One. But soon he wished he'd never laid eyes on her. Though Elaine claimed ...

• Jul-1991
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SHOWDOWN TO LOVE The last thing Owen Ketter wanted was a partner. Correction...a female partner. His mind was made up -- absolutely, positively, finally. And no woman in the world would unmake it. When an equally determined Bonnie Maxwell arriv...

• Apr-1991
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From the moment she felt herself lifted onto Rodrigo Aviles's saddle, Rebecca Harper knew she had definitely wandered off the tourist trail in Baja. Trekking across the desert on horseback with the don of a small mountain village certainly wasn&#...

• Jan-1991
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BRIDE TO BE...OR NOT TO BE? When had Corinne Terral become engaged? She remembered accepting her friend's offer to use his home while he was away -- not his marriage proposal! But that was what he'd told his old-fashioned boss and next-doo...

• Jun-1990
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PLACES IN THE HEART Joy Morrow had made a place for herself in her little town, a life that had brought her true happiness for the first time. But now her peaceful existence was threatened...by a handsome, charismatic stranger. He was rich, he was...

• Feb-1990
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ELIZA DOOLITTLE MEETS HENRY HIGGINS The search for an heiress led urbane attorney Kenyon Ames to the Louisiana swamps, where he found naive, carelessly pretty, desperately poor Sabre Callot. She would inherit a fortune on one impossible condition ...

• Nov-1989
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DIFFERENT STROKES Nicolet Collier had it all -- a powerful job with a Dallas bank, a stunning apartment, an expensive wardrobe. So why, on assignment in a one-horse town in Oklahoma, did she feel as if something vital were missing? And how could c...

• Jul-1989
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CHANGE OF HEART Laney Scott had spent her entire life in the beautiful but remote Montana Rockies. Her only contacts with "civilization" were the summer visitors she capably guided on wilderness hunting trips. She was satisfied...until sop...

• Nov-1988
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MAID IN HEAVEN To private maid Cheyenne Cates, working at famous, reclusive Tyler Crawford's mountainside estate seemed a dream come true -- even if the price of employment was spying on the mysterious man and his young son for his estranged s...

• May-1988
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TIGER BY THE TAIL Rico Pardan wasn't fooled by Kylie Stevens's angelic blond hair and golden eyes. His new partner was a regular little hellcat, and he'd learned young that self-control was the key to handling a hot-tempered woman. But...

• Feb-1988
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STARS IN HER EYES The desert was everything to Jamie Goff. She'd grown up in the arid wilderness; it was the only home she'd ever known. So it was fitting that her first real kiss would be under a desert sky. But why did it have to happen with Bro...

• Jul-1987
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BEST GIRL The boy she'd once worshiped, Jeff Paul Logan, had returned after twelve years, and Veronica Champlain cringed at the memory of her teenage crush. Her white knight had ended up hurting her. Now, with the responsibility of raising ...

• Mar-1987
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GARDEN OF DREAMS An exclusive family-owned restaurant, The Private Garden, was the center of Chafen Farris's life. She dreamed of restoring it to its former glory and had no intention of selling it to anyone -- not even the very tempting land ...

• Nov-1986
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ROMANCING THE OPPOSITION Caleen Brady mayor? If she'd been unsure of the idea before, she certainly wasn't after she hit that pothole. Why, if her mysterious Prince Charming hadn't rushed her to the hospital, who knows what might'...

• Jul-1986
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WILD HEARTS... It was plain to Angie Faulkner that Rafferty Sharpstone was a mean son-of-a-steer-wrestling roper. But he wasn't going to get rid of her without a hassle. She'd sunk every penny into Strawberry, her prizewinning roan. The...

• Mar-1986
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ISLAND GIRL In all the time he had spent on Guam, Captain Victor Dayton had never given much thought to the islanders. That is, until Coral Jerome came storming onto his ship. Coral was wild and carefree, as bright and sunny as her tropical hom...

• Dec-1985
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HANDYMAN From the first moment she laid eyes on him, Mary Judith thought there was something suspicious about Nolan Tanner. Why was her brooding new tenant so secretive about his background? Though his past was shadowed, Nolan always made the futu...

• Sep-1985
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THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT Destry repeated to herself. The Brannick Royal Hotel was one of her largest accounts, and when the new manager showed up in her printing office demanding stationery, Destry was inclined to go out of her way to keep him...

• Feb-1985
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Brock Mackie was no stranger to love. He'd made his peace with God and had chosen his profession out of a desire to serve. Yet the love this therapist felt for his patients had never touched his heart -- until he tried to counsel Hillary Garrison...

• Oct-1984
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NO TRESPASSING PERMITTED! Willow was prepared to fight with every bit of ammunition she possessed to keep Cassle Oil Company from drilling on her horse farm. But the moment she encountered its determined owner, Trey Cassel, Willow knew she was in ...

• Aug-1984
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A BRAVE NEW WORLD When she landed on the scorching plains of west Texas, Lois "Petey" Palmer was looking for more than her inheritance. Underneath the bravado and courage was a woman fervently searching for a purpose. Some answers were provided...

• Jun-1984
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Tough choices... It was a time for decisions, and Roxanne Steele had already made one choice: She was going to stay with her father and Aunt Liz on the small Oklahoma ranch where she'd been raised. Tired of life in the fast lane, Roxanne was con...

• Feb-1984
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Jenny Sherman had come to the Eagle Rock Mission to share her knowledge and her God with the people of the Apache reservation. She had been anticipated their resistance, but she hadn't planned on learning a lesson of her own. Ram Scheval, loca...

• Oct-1983
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IT WAS TOO LATE FOR SECOND THOUGHTS. Her mind was set, Patricia Gordon-Wyatt knew that whatever it took, she would make Joe Byron Foxglove love her. But it wouldn't be easy. She came to his North Dakota plains home as the trusted lawyer to ...

• Jul-1983
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SHE WOULD NEVER BE HIS EASY CONQUEST! That Festival Day on the Louisiana bayou had been the best one yet for Josie Jackson. Not only had she sold her needlepoint for a high price but she had been offered the opportunity to leave the confines of th...

• Mar-1982
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CRYSTAL GENTRY WANTED TO LEAVE DALLAS FOREVER. It had been the scene of too many unhappy memories. Orphaned, jilted and penniless, she was relieved when her family lawyer found her a job on the large Texas spread of Garrett Dean, the powerful oil ...