Karen Templeton

• Feb-2017
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A ranch for the runaway bride Weeks before her wedding, Emily Weber walks away from her planned society shindig and her cheating fiancé -- straight to her cousin's New Mexico ranch. Everyone's advice: Emily's got to work it out of her system, an...

• Nov-2016
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An unexpected homecoming Deanna Blake is stunned at the loss of her estranged father -- and inheriting half his ranch. In a strange twist, the other half goes to Josh Talbot...her former crush and one of the many sources of trouble between Dee an...

• Mar-2016
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A SECOND CHANCE IN THE SADDLE All widowed veterinarian Zach Talbot wants is to raise his two boys in the peace and quiet of his New Mexico town. Who'd have thought that being roped into helping a woman choose a horse for her son would upend the s...

• Feb-2016
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WHEN A PROMISE BECOMES A TEMPTATION... Look after his best friend's widow and kids. It was a promise Levi Talbot was determined to keep. But returning to Whispering Pines, New Mexico, where he was once known as the local troublemaker, wasn't easy...

• Apr-2015
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LIFE, LOVE AND THE PURSUIT OF FAMILY Sabrina Noble's Journal Dear Diary, You'll never believe who I spotted on my first day back in Maple River -- the one who got away, Cole Rayburn. He's definitely not the same kid I swung on the monkey ...

• Nov-2014
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Wanted: One mom for Christmas! High school football coach Ethan Noble works wonders with his players. But at home, the handsome widower is just trying to keep four adorably unruly kids in line. He definitely isn't looking for love...or so he thin...

• Apr-2014
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Neighbor, handyman and...husband? One woman finds her heart's desire right in her own backyard in award-winning author Karen Templeton's newest addition to her popular miniseries Jersey Boys! He's just a friend! is the mantra pregnant Laurel Kent...

• Feb-2014
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Is an old crush the new beginning this single mom has been searching for? Find out in the first book of award-winning author Karen Templeton's new miniseries, Jersey Boys! Finding refuge from her ex-husband at her friend's house was her best opti...

• Feb-2013
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HE'S THE MAN WITH A PLAN Maid of honor at her cousins' double wedding is as close as Blythe Broussard plans to get to tying the knot again. But Wes Phillips refuses to take "I won't" for an answer. The widowed Maryland congressman is passionately ...

• Nov-2012
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CHRISTMAS PRESENT Hiring Patrick Shaughnessy to landscape her new inn was strictly a business arrangement. Until April Ross got to know the war-scarred single father...and his irrepressible little girl. Patrick made it clear he wasn't looking for ...

• Sep-2012
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THE CHILD THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN HIS All Ryder Caldwell wanted was to be Melanie Duncan's protector -- until those feelings turned into something stronger, forcing him to end their relationship before they made a mistake. But how could he have pred...

• Jan-2012
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LOVESTRUCK Scott Fortune was a vice president, a man of action, a man not used to feeling powerless. But in one terrifying moment, a freak tornado had taken down the Red Rock airport, leaving Scott trapped beneath the rubble. Fate had stranded him w...

• Nov-2011
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It might be the week before Christmas, but the last thing Nolan Clarke expects to see in the Albuquerque Airport is an elf. A very familiar elf. And Evie Gallagher -- stuck in the stupid elf costume because her trade show gig ran too late for her ...

• Jun-2011
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SOMETIMES LOVE JUST NEEDS A LITTLE REMODELING When her life went topsy-turvy, Roxie Ducharme sought temporary refuge in the small New Mexico town she'd left years before. But as she plunged into renovating her uncle's home as an antidote to heartbre...

• Oct-2010
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A SIMPLE EQUATION FOR LOVE Silas Garrett has done the math. This widowed father knows that his two wonderful young sons deserve all of his hardworking heart. Still, the handsome accountant can't help but notice the carefree new nanny.... But for Je...

• Jul-2010
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He'd never really had a place to call his own... But the broken-down ranch in front of him was the closest he'd ever come. Now, pregnant widow Emma Manning was struggling to keep it, her children and herself going. She could use a hand. Well, that...

• Sep-2009
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"HONEY, YOU DON'T REALLY WANT THIS." But Tess Montoya knew exactly what she wanted -- a hot, no-strings-attached night with town bad boy Eli Garrett, her old high school boyfriend. After all, when you're being stressed by your unreliable ex, why not...

• Aug-2009
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FROM TEENAGE CRUSH TO THE LOVE OF HER LIFE? Tony Vaccaro had been part of Lili Szabo's life since she was a lovesick teenager with a major-league crush. Now the high school athlete was a widowed single dad with a trio of energetic little girls relyi...

• Jan-2009
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"You're what?" Thea Benedict had been about to--honest to God--tell her ex-lover Johnny Griego she was pregnant. Until Johnny's teenage daughter beat her to it with her big news! Thea knew Johnny wasn't a happily-ever-after kind of guy. And now...

• Aug-2008
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Winnie Porter just couldn't forget the child she'd given up for adoption all those years ago...or the wonderful family that had taken him in. Now it was finally time to see her son one last time. Still reeling from his wife's untimely death, the l...

• Apr-2008
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BABY, BE MINE! Kevin Vaccaro just found out he was a father...of a five-month-old! He'd put up a hell of a fight to overcome his troubled past. That was nothing compared to the battle he was about to wage for his child's future. Julianne McCabe...

• Jan-2008
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HE TOOK ONE LOOK...AND FELL IN LOVE From the moment Rudy Vaccaro saw her, he was a goner. Never mind the fact that his twelve-year-old daughter hated the house on site. The old girl might be nothing to look at, but Rudy saw her potential. So did V...

• Nov-2007
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HIS DAUGHTER'S BIRTH MADE HIM A FATHER. BECOMING A DADDY WOULD TAKE A BIT LONGER.... Connecticut mogul Grant Braeburn never thought he was father material, even though his nearly four-year-old daughter should have convinced him otherwise. But then...

• Apr-2007
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YOU CAN TAKE THE GIRL OUT OF THE TRAILER PARK Which Karleen Almquist had surely tried to do. But the thrice-married-and thrice-divorced!-personal shopper had sworn off men, and their inherent complications...aka babies. Until the most gorgeous wid...

• Feb-2007
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HE'S BAAAACK... Which raised a whole host of questions for Mercy Zamora--because when hometown boy Ben Vargas shot out of town ten years ago, he also left Mercy behind. And though she had led the chorus of no strings/no wedding bells/no babies, ten ...

• Dec-2006
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It was bad enough that her partners left shy store owner Dana Malone to scout new retail space with devastatingly handsome Realtor C. J. Turner. Then--wham!--her way-out wayward cousin literally left a baby on Dana's doorstep, and a birth certificate...

• Mar-2006
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IN ONE MOMENT, THEIR LIVES CHANGED FOREVER... There weren't many things a man felt he could count on, but Darryl Andrews had always been sure of his place in the world, with his wife, Faith, by his side. They'd been just kids themselves when they ...

• Nov-2005
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TWO WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL... It started when Cass's teenage son called his father to come to his stepfather's funeral. Which was how Blake found himself face-to-face with the woman who'd tripped up his heart eighteen years before. Onl...

• Apr-2005
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A STRANGER... Temporarily retired dancer -- and big-city girl -- Carly Stewart was aghast when a fender bender caused her to set up housekeeping in Sam Frazier's house in tiny Haven, Oklahoma. But "aghast" didn't begin to describe her reaction as she...

• Nov-2004
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You can take the girl out of Queens... Or can you? Because for five years, fashion assistant Ellie Levine was taking a halfhearted stab at it, commuting to Manhattan by day, trying desperately to keep secret her outerborough existence -- that acce...

• Nov-2004
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COULD HE TAKE A CHANCE ON LOVE? He could handle raising his orphaned little brother. He could handle his demanding career. But what Joe Salazar couldn't handle was this quirky little town where people actually cared. People like Taylor McIntyr...

• Jan-2004
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FOR THE BABY'S SAKE Dawn Gardner had left behind her life in tiny Haven, Oklahoma, for the greener pastures of New York City years ago -- or so she thought. But something kept pulling her back. Could that something be handsome horse breeder Cal Lo...

• Oct-2003
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Single mother Joanna Swan had already married one man with a Peter Pan complex, and one was her limit. So now she is determined that romance is for dreamers -- and she is one woman with her feet firmly planted on the ground. Even if she does design c...

• Sep-2003
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THE FATHER OF HER CHILD? Jenna Stanton had raised her niece, Blair, from birth, with nary a clue as to who the child's father was. Until now -- when the piece of paper in her hand led her to the inexplicably attractive grouchy ex-cop Hank Logan. H...

• Mar-2003
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SHE NEEDED A DOCTOR, STAT! Widowed and penniless, Maddie Kincaid was driving through the tiny town of Haven, Oklahoma, her two small children in tow, when her third child decided to make an appearance. She managed to find the only doctor within mi...

• Jan-2003
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THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME Itinerant chef Eddie King had spent most of his life moving from place to place, looking for something he could never seem to find. But suddenly he found himself headed for the place that had most seemed like home -- onc...

• Sep-2002
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In the space of a few hours, thirty-year-old Ginger Petrocelli had gone from bride-to-be to bride-who-never-was. So here she sat, alone in her cramped apartment, wedding crinolines askew, drowning her sorrows in a hundred-dollar bottle of Veuve Cliqu...

• Dec-2001
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A PRINCE AMONG US? Truck-stop waitress Luanne Evans had known the customer who wound up in her trailer one night was not exactly one of the local boys. As to who he was, she didn't care. For when he was gone, she would have nothing but memories. O...

• Aug-2001
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HIS TEMPORARY HOUSEKEEPER WAS... Incompetent! She couldn't cook, clean or operate The dishwasher. But Steven Koleski had to admit The mysterious woman did have a way with his newfound family...and his lonely heart. ...A PRINCESS! It was the opportu...

• Mar-2001
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RUNNIN' FROM THE CHAPEL... Walk down the aisle with Sarah Whitehouse on his arm? Shoot, Dean Parrish had dreamed of that for as long as he could remember. But sexy Sarah wasn't the bride, he wasn't the groom -- and they weren't even speaking! S...

• Dec-2000
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WHAT EVERY WOMAN WANTS? At thirty-one, widow Galen Granata was a veteran of such an unhappy marriage that she had never dared to long for what every woman dreamed of. Like a man to love...and children. So she'd built a wall around herself that no ...

• May-2000
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For years, Nancy Shapiro had a secret crush on gorgeous, wealthy Rod Braden, but Nancy knew she had nothing in common with the strong, silent, single dad. Until the night she offered him a little coffee and kindness - and they wound up making a baby!...

• Jan-2000
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OPPOSITES DISTRACT Guy Sanford wasn't looking for a fling. Or a nanny. Not after moving three kids and a dog to a new town. But if he was searching for romance, he'd never fall for a certain ice princess who didn't like children--and looked as tho...

• Feb-1999
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HER MISSION, SHOULD SHE ACCEPT IT... Was to get her well-meaning matchmaking mother and meddlesome sisters off her back. So exasperated wedding planner Zoe decided to say yes, just this once, to the blind date everybody else was so nuts about. Becaus...

• Jan-1999
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• Jul-1998
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After three broken engagements, Charlotte Westwood needed chip-on-his-shoulder Gabe Szulinski in her life like she needed fleas. After a disastrous marriage to one spoiled rich girl, the last thing single dad Gabe needed was another blue-blooded hone...

• Mar-1998
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ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID, NEVER A BRIDE Or, in Brianna Fairchild's case, always a wedding planner was more like it. Because the lovely businesswoman spent her days knee-deep in wedding gowns, bridal bouquets and seating plans--all belonging to other wo...