To a casual visitor, the island of Heavenly Daze is just like a dozen others off the coast of Maine. It is decorated with graceful Victorian mansions, carpeted with gray cobblestones and bright wild flowers, and populated by sturdy, hard-working folk...
Whether it's a Shinto rite in Japan, an Orthodox Jewish service in Russia, a Catholic mass in Slovakia or a short ceremony at city hall in Los Angeles, a wedding is a special celebration.
This photographic look at weddings invites children o...
Motorcycle-riding male fairy godmother Clarence Terence shows four girls on prom night what their lives will be like ten years in the future--an unsuccessful model, a flight attendant, a woman whose marriage is failing, and a high school teacher who ...
Having learned from Clarence Terence, their fairy godmother, what their lives will be like ten years in the future, Zola, Olivia, Min, and Sally rely on each other to help them make sure things will turn out differently....
I told Mary that tonight is a time to be happy. As we wait to go see a play, I think again of that little house, the small window, the piece of sky with two birds and one squirrel. How much has come to pass since then.
One evening in 1865 Pr...
It's Lulu's birthday, and she can't decide if she wants to celebrate
at the zoo at the beach at the ballet at the movies or at a ball game.
Laurie and J. Matthew have their own ideas about how to throw a...
Avalon exists. It is a real place with geographical boundaries and a turbulent history. It is the treasure house of Arthurian legend, and the true birthplace of Arthur. It is the secret location in which the identity of an entire nation has lain buri...
This super-simple story about two polar bear cubs and what they learn from their mother is both adorable and informative. There's also plenty of humor: one of the "polar babies" throws himself into learning to swim, walk on ice, and fish, while the o...
Currie Culver is about fifty-five years old, in good health, living in a comfortable retirement in the Rockies with his wife. In the wake of the Meme Wars that swept the planet two generations before, Currie, his wife, and almost everyone on Earth ha...
Jim Eckert, the Dragon Knight, must now confront the three disasters that lie in wait for any visitor to the English Middle Ages: war, plague, and Plantagenets. The plague is caused by a covert invasion of shape-changing goblins with plague-tipped...
It was never proven that Fera Jones was the product of SepFem-G, the outlawed genetics program that came out of the feminist studies program at Smith College. But one thing was absolutely certain: When it came to boxing, Fera Jones floated like a but...
Barrister Trish Maguire has too much on her plate: not only is she swamped with work, but her father has just suffered a heart attack and he's not likely to pull through. The last thing Trish needs now is a seemingly unsolvable case, one closer to he...
With the publication of 1983's The Annunciation, Ellen Gilchrist established herself as a teller of charming, bittersweet tales of the modern South. Since then, her works of fiction - sixteen in all - have built up a solid base of dedicated fans. W...
When dinosaur fossils were first discovered in the Wild West, they sparked one of the greatest scientific battles in American history. Over the past century it has been known by many names -- the Bone War, the Fossil Feud -- but the tragic story of t...
An almost unnaturally poignant love story from the father of “Gonzo” journalism and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson.What makes the romantic short story Screwjack so touching, for all its queerness, is the aching melancholy in it...
PRINCE CHARMING? Sometimes he's the cutie you've been crushing on since ninth grade. Sometimes he's disguised as the guy you'd never notice in a million years. And sometimes he's the best friend who's been right beside you all along ... THREE P...
Port EternityTheir names were Lancelot, Elaine, Percivale, Gawain, Mordred, Lynette and Vivien, and they were made people, clone servants who worked aboard The Maid, an anachronistic fantasy of a spaceship. They had no idea of their origins, from tho...
A new collection of stories by award-winning author Angela Johnson about Charlie and her adventures on Magnolia Street.
It's summertime, and that means more adventures for Charlie and her friends on Magnolia Street in this collection of short ...
Mama, Mama.
Tell us about when you was a girl . . .
tell us one of them stories
about the olden days.
So begins this tender story, set in 1948, when Satchel Paige was in the majors, Ralph Bunche was at the U.N., and each evening Sook...
Gr 4-9-While a number of books look at the current popularity of rap music, Haskins focuses on its roots and evolution, giving readers a real sense of how it is part of a long history of social commentary through art. He discusses the place of women ...
After years of violence, a tense calm pervades Northern Ireland, soon to be broken by Jimmy Coogan, an IRA veteran gone renegade. Jimmy has stolen ten pounds of plastic explosive, intending to destroy the parliamentary ambitions of the IRA leadership...
This is the basic story of the life and death and resurrection of Jesus that became the Christian holiday of Easter. It covers the latter part of his life when he attracted a following as he taught about the love of God and then was betrayed to the R...
Andrea's head is spinning as she journeys to visit her long-lost father at his home in Geneva. But though she receives a warm welcome on arrival at the beautiful chateau at the edge of the Alps, she soon realises that danger isn't far away. Someone h...
A new year brings new scandal when a rake awakens in the bed of the flame-haired temptress who had seduced him years before. All of society has them bedded, but can he convince her to become wedded?...
1814 promises to be another eventful season, but not, This Author believes, for Anthony Bridgerton, London's most elusive bachelor, who has shown no indication that he plans to marry. And in all truth, why should he? When it comes to playing the ...
When their midnight elopement is foiled, a handsome young earl and his dazzling debutante swear to love each other forever -- no matter what. Now it's midnight once again...can their love be rekindled with one perfect kiss?...
She's attending her high school reunion as a newly formed ravishing beauty; he's now sexy, successful, and determined to give her her come-uppance. What will happen when the clock strikes twelve?...
Dead Ringer for a Dead Singer Fifty-something New Jersey community college professor Bel Barret has had enough "changes of life" lately to last her a lifetime. Her daughter has cheerfully announced her pregnancy and her impending marriage in a sin...
When the decapitated bodies of young women appear along the California coast, Morell, hero of The Killing of the Saints and Dead of Night, returns to investigate what appear to be cult-related murders. After working for years as one of Los Angeles's ...
Two men of words. One seeks only peace. The other, violence... Aaron Matthews is a man with a gift: he can talk anyone into doing almost anything. As a psychologist he used that talent to help people. Now he's using it against one man in a deadly ...
In 1983, Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death. But six weeks later, a second examination revealed there was no cancer--he had won "a reprieve from death." Faced w...
Follow four high-school heroines--Kerri, Jessica, Erin, and Maya--during the most exciting time of their lives. There's love, friendship, and huge life decisions ahead. It's all about to happen--just as they turning seventeen.
Can't Let Go
The fire of their passion sparks as Steve and Ginny reunite in London. Their years apart have taken a toll, but nothing can change the fierce emotion that burns between the two. The lovers have made a pact to look beyond the hurts of yesterday and lo...
By the middle of the 21st century, humanity has finally landed men on Mars--only to watch helplessly as the first two missions end in catastrophe and death. With resources running out, a third--and perhaps4inal--mission to Mars is hastily mounted;...
Arts and crafts...and evil It's that time of the year for the Sunnydale Sidewalk Art Festival, and Buffy and the gang have been enlisted to help Joyce pre-pare for the big event. In fact, Xander's especially eager to pitch in, due to the arrival o...
With women and children disappearing all over the New Mexico Territory and accusations of a slave trade in the air, tensions reach a boiling point, but the Trailsman is determined to find the bottom of this poisoned well and cap it forever. Original....
Glen Collins confronts some dangerous opposition in his campaign to be elected the first sheriff of San Diego in the person of a gunfighter supported by a powerful, ruthless rancher, as well as some stiff competition in he courtship of the beautiful ...
Jeff Collins sets out in pursuit of the rustlers who had stolen his prized roan mare, pregnant with the foal of a great racehorse, which he had won in a high-stakes poker game, and ventures in to the perilous region near the Mexican border, where he ...
U.S. Marshal Long journeys to the small town of Gilead to find out what transformed mild-mannered Professor MacLennon into a mad bomber who is threatening to blow up the president of the United States. Original....
IT'S ALL ABOUT HOLDING ON... For two years, Clay Tory has been tearing up the rodeo circuit under the guidance of veteran rancher Jack Lomas. Unfortunately, things aren't going so well back home at the ranch. Years of hard work and stress have taken...
Clint Adams journeys to Sioux City, Iowa, to protect fire-and-brimstone, prohibitionist preacher George Channing Haddock from the killer trying to stop Reverend Haddock's determined campaign to close the saloons of the city. Original....
After tangling with the local sheriff over his attentions to a local lovely--who happens to be the sheriff's fiancTe--Skye Fargo finds himself in jail, just when Merciless Ma Purdy and her vicious gang of murderous butchers is heading for town for a ...
THE TRAIL TO DANGER Life in the majestic Rockies is hard. Only the hardiest and bravest of pioneers can survive the never-ending dangers of the frontier. Still, young Zach King can't wait to return there with his bride-to-be. For the frontier is h...
Glamour Puss Was Buried Under a Pool in Hollywood….Mac McGowan knew exactly where Aubrey St. George was buried, because he'd put the famous film star -- known to all of Hollywood as Glamour Puss -- there himself. It had all been a terrible accident...
A Virtuous Maid Christine is shocked that she's agreed to marry. Her intended, Gavin Norfork, is a notorious lover, gambler, and duelist. It is rumored he can seduce a woman at twenty paces. The dissolute aristocrat is clearly an unsuitable ma...
Return to an age of danger and chivalry, when three daring knights -- fostered together since boyhood in the same warrior tradition -- face their greatest challenge... winning the hearts of the women they love. CAPTIVES OF LOVE Wrongly accuse...
Determined to live life to the fullest, adventurous Rose Larkin, accompanied by her eccentric aunt Kate, sets sail from New York to Ireland, where she meets her soulmate, roguish Cullen O'Banyon. WILD HEART ... OR IS SHE? When comely lass Rose...
The Knights of de Ware: Wealthy and powerful, the de Wares are one of the most respected noble families in England. The heirs to the de Ware legacy -- Duncan, Holden, and Garth -- are true warriors...and reckless lovers... Duncan de Ware has swor...
Nora-Leigh Dillon wants excitement. The schoolteacher of Steamboat Bend has already resolved herself to being a spinster, but despite that, she's vowed the summer of 1886 will be one to remember. She'll find herself some lost gold, a hidden t...
FROM THE ASHES OF BITTER TRAGEDY... Skilled in the Mexican healing art of curanderismo, Anna Bennett lives a solitary life in the canyons of Arizona. But when a badly injured man is left to die at her doorstep, she is stunned to recognize Quinn Ry...
National bestselling author JILL BARNETT decrees all is fair in love-when a rollicking Highland clan war leads an impetuous lass to kidnap the wrong man!...
A GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS Tom McKittrick has had it with women. Pushed out of his own start-up company by a domineering "modern" female, he's ready to lick his wounds in private at the rural family estate he's inherited. But he isn't prepared...
WHEN A SHOCKING SCANDAL EXPOSES SOUTHERN SECRETS... As the blazing heat of summer gives way to sultry September, a shroud of suspicion settles over Noble's Crossing, a sleepy Alabama town. Nothing is as it seems--and never will be again. Lane Noble G...
PAM BINDER flings a pretty Edinburgh baker and a computer-games designer into an adventure of passion and intrigue-inside the sixteenth-century palace of Mary, Queen of Scots....
Can a demure spinster find true bliss with a notorious rake? A CAPABLE COUNTRY MOUSE The noise, pretension, and insalubrious odors of London have driven Miss Lavinia Taylor to a Cotswold village--and a larger residence to accommodate her collecti...
PATRICIA CABOT leads a beautiful runaway to her kindred spirit-a Scottish lord who sweeps her away to the rugged shores of the Isle of Skye....
Lady Cassandra St. Ives had sworn off marriage ever since becoming a happy widow, but lately her affections have been engaged by a mysterious, long distance correspondent. Cassandra has shared her soul with her far-off admirer, and whe he invites her...
A RAKISH PRINCE Crown Prince Deverell, the royal heir to the tiny country of Baravia, has earned a reputation as a spendthrift, a libertine, and a rogue--all to deceive a traitor with designs on the crown. He never imagined that the day would come w...
THE HUNTER Sabin had been in every hellhole in the galaxy. In his line of work, hives of scum and villainy are nothing to fear. But Giza's was different, and the bronze-haired beauty at the bar is something special. Not only could she sweep a man of...
A Romance of Old Charleston Children lost in time ... In the aftermath of the second great war, two lonely people were destined to meet in the splendor of Charleston, South Carolina. He was a handsome RAF pilot whose soul had been tortured by bat...
England 1999. When best friends Olivia Lindsley and Alison O'Neill put on 16th century dresses and entered the labyrinth at Talcott Forest, they thought it would be fun to make believe they were Elizabethan ladies. But when they finally left the maze...
A HEROIC YOUNG WOMAN. . . Katherine Pamberley loves life in Brighton--in spite of Captain Evan Ramsdell trying to spoil her fun. He's entirely above being pleased--and his old-fashioned ideas about women drive her mad! How he managed to engage her a...
Adriana Addington never met a stuffier man than Viscount Borland. Why her godmother sent this bookish gentleman to escort her to snowbound Scotland, she can't imagine. Despite his admirable physique, she is sure he can't fight off a flea let ...
Sara followed her dreams and discovered the love of her life. But will she have cause to regret marrying Walker McKay? The Rancher Takes A Wife The last thing Walker McKay wants to do is go courting--but it's time to settle down and raise some...
GERALYN DAWSON puts a rough-hewn Texas cowboy under the spell of a charming herbalist with some curious powers of attraction....
ONE NIGHT WILLA LONGWORTH FOUND A FORTUNE... AND A MAN What does a woman do when she finds cold hard cash at her feet? With a family against her, a son to nourish and a passion to extinguish, Willa did what any woman would do -- she took the money...
Victoria Malvey, the exquisitely talented author of A Me Chase, Temptress, Enchanted, and Portrait of Dreams, takes her readers once again to Victorian England, where a defiant lord and a daring lady struggle to forge a new destiny... together. La...
WILL YOU MARRY US? The instant Justine Shaw lays eyes on the squirt-gun-toting cherub in blue jeans, she's smitten -- and the feeling is obviously mutual. In fact, little Lindsey Latimer wants Justine to marry her daddy, who just happens to be Ka...
Pursued by many Darius Corlett assumed the beautiful woman paying him a late night visit was a lady of dubious reputation sent by his friends. But when he learns that Oriana Julian is a respectable widow on holiday in the countryside, he suspects ...
HE TAUGHT HER THE WAYS OF THE WORLD Refusing to be sold into a loveless marriage, Emily Walsingham runs away--only to be rescued from ruffians by dashing James Garwood, Lord Northwycke. Immediately, James's mother recognizes Emily and suggests her a...
Follow the spirited Reilly clan back to the middle of the 19th century, when a legendary family "blessing" forces its sons and daughters to question destiny...and fight for love. FATEFUL JOURNEY Young Irishman Devin Reilly had just arrived in Am...
When shy Professor Raul Escobedo has a chance to interview for a job in Las Vegas, he reluctantly agrees to pose as his high rolling twin brother in order to take advantage of the casino's perks. It's hard enough to pass himself off as a self-assured...
Anything can happen when the world's sexiest bachelor and a beautiful FBI agent become "husband and wife"... In a normal world, they never would have met. Millionaire Alex Romero leads a fantasy life filled with money, women, and excitement. FBI A...
New York Times bestselling author JUDE DEVERAUX unravels a ghostly murder mystery in an ancient Scottish castle....
CAN ONE NIGHT OF PASSION... Boston cop Kevin Manning had promised to look out for the family of his mortally wounded partner. He didn't think that comforting his partner's grieving sister Nikki would lead to a night of blazing passion. B...
Ellie Kramer has changed her name and concealed her past in a dogged pursuit of justice. But justice isn't all that's driven her for the last twelve years. She wants payback for every moment her father languished on death row, wrongly convic...
Battles of the Heart Captain Alexander Shelbourne was known as Cupid to his friends for his uncanny marksmanship in battle. But when he accompanied a fellow soldier home and met the lovely Penny Foster, he himself became a target -of scorn and gos...
THE LAST BACHELOR... The remaining single holdout of her formerly no-marriage buddies, Ben Gordon is on a massive "just say no" campaign to long-term relationships. That is, until he registers a complaint with Mackenzie Sawyer, the owner of the hou...
A family scattered to the winds by the French Revolution struggles to find its destiny in a Europe threatened by Napoleon. Two sisters and a brother, separated as children, raised as strangers, discover the crest of the thunderbolt is the only clue t...
A Confusing Courtship Raised in seclusion in the country, Miss Annabelle Weatherstone is making her first foray into the gaiety of the London Season -- taking the place of her twin sister, Cassandra, who had lived with their aunt and uncle in Bath...
In 1874, three men--loyal, brave, and true--rode into the lawless Canadian wilderness. Each would fight for justice...and for the right to claim the heart of the woman he loved. UNEXPECTED TEMPTATION Freshly graduated from medical school and eage...
Careening out of control in her fighter jet is only the start of the wildest ride of Jasmine's life; spinning wildly in an airplane is nothing like the loss of equilibrium she feels when she lands. There, in a half-dream, Jas sees a man more powerful...
The freedom of the range, the bawling of the longhorns, the lonesome night watch beneath a vast, starry sky -- they get into a man's blood until he knows there is nothing better than the life of a cowboy...except the love of a good woman. VAL...
Seduce Him, Camilla Camilla knew she should be scandalized by the command to beguile Wickingham Castle's newest guest, but seeing as she'd already been pinned beneath the handsome knight's large body and felt his hot flesh pressed against her own,...
Just who does this man think he is? Eli can't resist pretty, passionate Liza Kincaid, even though he's vowed he'd never take another bride. But Liza's tender touch makes him ache with long-forgotten desires, and he quickly decides that their lives...
Amid the turmoil, horrors, and devastation of Kosovo, a gang of Serbian renegade creates a concentration camp to hold thousands of Albanian refugees fleeing the conflict, but when they campture a downed American NATO pilot, the TALON force is sent in...
ENEMY OF THE STATE A Polynesian guerrilla force, determined to sever all ties between the U.S. Government and Hawaii, is getting ready to turn paradise into hell on earth, courtesy of nuclear weapons -- unless the government returns the islands to...
A FUTURE CONDEMNED The nuclear Armageddon of 2001 put the world on an odyssey of savage rebirth. Now, little more than a hundred years after the blast, the quest for power is viciously embraced by America's new masters, barons commanding fortresses ...
Perfect specimen... It lies hidden deep in the mist-shrouded rain forest of Central America. A place where a brilliant doctor fulfills dreams for some - and creates chilling nightmares for others. Now, filmmaker Morgan James is about to journey strai...
A mission to the dirtiest of little wars The Briefing: Six SEALs have a covert meet with their CIA contact in the middle of a D.C. slum. Twenty-four hours later, they're parachuting into Kosovo. The Preparations: Everything is top secret, stric...
After the death of his wife in a freak accident, Dix Mallory is tormented by a series of anonymous telephone calls, a campaign of terror that continues to escalate into a nightmare of violence, suspicion, and death. Original....
“I have dreamed five nights of the cup hu girngsi.” Sue Wing listened to her grandmother’s Cantonese words and shivered with fear. Cup-hu-girngsi. Corpse-who-drinks-blood. Like the desert that surrounded the dusty Arizona town of Rio Verde -- ...
Paksenarrion--Paks, for short--refuses her father's orders to marry the pig farmer down the road and is off to join the army. And so her adventure begins--the adventure that transforms her into a hero remembered in songs, chosen by the gods to restor...
YOU CAN'T MISTAKE JUST ANYONE FOR A PHULE. When the, planet Zenobia is invaded, Captain Willard Phule is made their military advisor. The first priority for Phule's Company: staying out from underfoot of the peaceful, dinosaurlike Zenobians... ...
Ravens Bluff The City of Ravens For the first time, Jack Ravenwild's designs exceed his talents. His ambitions plunge him into the middle of a plot to destroy the city, a noble quest to find a lost hoard, and a conspiracy to seize the reins of ...
HUMANS OR HEMNOIDS: AN UNBEARABLE CHOICE! Planet Dilbia is in a crucial location for both humans and their adversaries, the Hemnoids. Therefore making friends with the Dilbians and establishing a human presence there is of the utmost importance,...
The fanatical anti-science Traders kidnap Evvy, the beautiful bride of the Principal, brilliant leader of the last citadel of technology, and Zach, the Principal's faithful courier, attempts to rescue Evvy...
The first work of the Infinity Hold trilogy. They named the planet Tartaros after the deepest of Hell''s hells. This is the story of a man and murderer, Bando Nicos, who was condemned to Tartaros and became the planet''s first police officer....
Palanthas, Jewel of Ansalon, City of Seven Circles, heart of the old Solamnic empire. For three thousand years she has shone as a beacon to the world. Even now, ruled by the Knights of Neraka, she glitters in the night. Yet at the core of the glea...
Tig never wanted to be a hero. And after using the powers of the magical artifact known as the Lady in Gil to destroy the barbarous Sherkin Empire, he is quite willing to return to his quiet and peaceful life as a scholar... Unfortunately for Tig,...
On an alternate Earth still ruled by the Romans two thousand years after Pontius Pilate, the present leader, Caesar Germonicus Agricola, attempts to transform the empire into a republic in the face of heavy opposition. Reissue....
After the ice comes the peril The Ice Age has come to an abrupt end, but the world's troubles have not. Legions of undead still plague the living. The temporary peace in Kjeldor has come to an end, and an evil far more treacherous than Lim Dul has b...
Ehoma Tuomitti is the feisty deck-watch chief of the Kertovan battleship Bybur, at war on the high seas of the island planet Kilmoyn. Tuomitti has her hands full fighting both fog and enemy ships as well as juggling an upstart lover--and then Sean Li...
THERE IS MORE THAN ONE HISTORY OF THE WORLD... In a barbarous age in a world now forgotten, an extraordinary figure stood formidable on the European battlefield--a remarkable female warrior and strategist without equal... save one. Dijon, the o...
NEW ALLIES. OLDER ENEMIES. For MechWarrior Zane, allegiance to the Nova Cat Clan comes above all else. So when he sees his clan disgraced, cast out, and suddenly allied with the hated Inner Sphere, Zane's only desire is to see the Nova Cats return...
KING'S CURE Liam Rhenford has traveled to the royal capital of Torquay to investigate new trade routes for the Duke. But Liam hasn't been told his true mission: to deliver a magical remedy to King Nicanor IV. That's why Liam is surprised when he d...
ONLY DYKSTAR CAN SAVE US NOW! Humanity had thought itself alone in the Cosmos. By the end of the 21st century, it had filled the Solar System and begun warring with itself. But then the aliens came -- swift, silent, and deadly, possessing enigmati...
FIRST CONTACT...OR LAST? Twenty years after the defeat of the alien Hordes, the human Republic has been exploring, mapping, and taming their new home. Encountering other human colonies while patrolling the great ocean, they hear rumors of a mighty...
Aspiring reporter Claudia Moore is looking for her big break. And when she hears about a store Santa who really grants children's wishes, she thinks she's found it. Only, she never dreamed she'd have to go undercover -- as an elf, of all things! A...
Sheriff Riley McMann couldn't believe his ears when Holly Stone announced that she'd be taking over the only cafe in Little Paradise. She looked as if she hadn't worked a day in her life, and besides, he had to eat there! But he was soon working up q...
The Incense Road--fabled and feared for centuries--runs from the North African coast to the southern gates of Arabia. Spices from the Orient, pearls from Ceylon, diamonds and ivory from India, gold from the Persian Gulf have travelled along this time...
Isabel Eaton was intending to murder her horrible husband--and she didn't plan on getting caught. So she needed an airtight alibi. She knew just the person to supply it: the highly respectable and respected socialite Sally Fielding. Isabel hadn't see...
SPECIAL REPORT: Peril and passion over Texas Skies SAM HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Texas (AP): U.S. Marshals' Flight 407 "Con Air" was hijacked before takeoff today, 108 aboard... After two days on the job, Airport Director Christine Logan ...
SINGLE FEMAL IN LOVE WITH THE BOSS. PLEASE RETURN FAVOR... This is the ad secretary Jane Dobson secretly wanted to place in "The Personal Touch!" column. Instead, shy but sexy Charles Warren has her tracking down his old college girlfriend with th...
The Pregnancy Pact Identical twin sisters Bridget and Liz Van Zandt wanted families. And no way would their vacant ring fingers thwart their girlhood pledge to have babies -- hubbies or no hubbies -- by age 30. So when the birthday bell tolled, th...
Sudden Chance Garden shop owner Daisy Rogers always had a weakness for tending people in trouble. So, when she discovers an injured stranger with no memory of who he is lying in her greenhouse, she jumps at the chance to help him rediscover his true...
THE FIREBRAND OF FREEDOM VALLEY Since Kylie Bennett's return to her hometown, Michael Cusack had been painfully conscious of her metamorphosis from girl to lush woman, and of his need to belong to a close family like the Bennetts. Kylie's teenage ...
SPECIAL REPORT: Peril and passion over Texas Skies SAM HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Texas (AP): U.S. Marshals' Flight 407 "Con Air" was hijacked before takeoff today, 108 aboard... A daring midair transfer puts pilot Suzanne Delachek at the ...
They'd handled hundreds of babies together...and now they'd made one of their own! Ford Carrington had everything -- a sterling reputation as Maitland's finest pediatric surgeon, beautiful women on his arm and enormous wealth. He didn't realize he w...
Abby Conway spent the past seven years in Brewster County waiting for her first love, Hunter Wyman, to ride back into town. Her fantasies painted him as a knight on a white horse. Reality revealed a polished businessman. Either way, Abby knew that wh...
THE BODYGUARD STEALS A BRIDE.... Link Templeton had sworn he'd never marry, yet he was now carrying a bride across the threshold. But Isabelle Fortune wasn't his bride, and it was his duty to protect the violet-eyed beauty from her intended groom....
A COWBOY'S CHRISTMAS Texas cowboy Matt McDermot was craving his first white Christmas on his family's Wyoming ranch. But a blizzard delivered more than Matt bargained for: a petite, pretty motorist stuck in a snowbank, a bump on her head, her memo...
HEAVEN HELP HER... Cory Luciuk couldn't forget her painful childhood -- or forgive Matthew McKnight for his role in it. Now the man who stood for everything she loathed was back in her life, claiming to hold the key to Cory's future -- and...
OUT OF THE PICTURE...AND INTO HER HEART Kate Carmichael has not had an easy life. After her mother's death, her father left her in the care of a kind friend while he attempted to settle his debts, but he never returned. Now, twelve years later, Ka...
UNDER SUSPICION At 18, banker's daughter Lara Grayson had secretly, daringly dated the son of the town drunk, proving her love in his arms, in his bed. But when rough-hewn Donovan Delaney was imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, he brutally cu...
FAMILIES FEUD ON NEW YEAR'S EVE...A GIANT AVALANCHE STRIKES...TWO ENEMIES ARE TRAPPED IN A SNOWBOUND CABIN... When fate stranded them together, Anne Parker fought her attraction for roguish Brad Irving. She couldn't possibly want this scoundrel - ...
Darcy Gallagher has always believed in the pull of fate, the magic of legend ... and the importance of money. She longs to find a rich man who will sweep her away--into a world filled with glamour and adventure, and the exotic life that is her destin...
ANGEL IN DISGUISE... Police officer Angel Morelli was on a mission to save teens from a local drug ring. Posing as a high school student, Angel never expected to fall in love with her history teacher, handsome green-eyed Jake Weston. Suddenly, kee...
A BEAUTIFUL SECRET Bridget had called St. Gabriel's monastery her home since her mysterious appearance years ago. Kept far from prying eyes amidst the gentle monks, the maiden was happy to care for her protectors. But after reading fanciful ta...
All Katie Wilkins wanted for Christmas was to get Santa Claus under the mistletoe, because beneath that Santa suit was her ideal man -- or so she thought. But it wasn't nice, safe Mr. Perfect who kissed her senseless. Horrors! It as Bryan Morgan -- w...
She had one last chance... The Center of Attention... Again! 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 som...
In FATE you met Vanessa Lewis, a young woman from a strong, black Southern family. She was destined to fall in love with Scott, a man so different from, yet so perfect for her.
CHANCES continues this family's story with Vanessa's strong no nonsens...
Loner Sky Buchanan was sure that his encounter with beguiling Meredith Warner was just a beautiful memory -- until the day she returned to town, expecting his child! Sky had never planned on kids -- nor wanted a wife. Still, the thought of his ba...
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 ...
THE MISSION: ESCORT AN EXPECTANT MOTHER...TO THE ENEMY? Cody Gannon had never belonged anywhere until he'd joined Texas Confidential, but now even that haven had become uncertain. Cody was alone again, and determined to prove himself.... But w...
Successful, handsome Rick Blaine wanted to know everything about his lovely new employee Catrina Mitchell. What did she like? What made her laugh? But when Rick learned Catrina's daughter was the source of joy in Catrina's luscious brown eyes, his ra...
A BEAUTIFUL COMMONER--OR THE MISSING HEIRESS TO A FORTUNE? Lovely Perdita, an orphaned girl at an inn on the wilds of Dartmoor, has no memory of her past or life beyond the dark confines of her world...except in strange and beguiling dreams. A DI...
WHAT SHE SAW: Fear. Heiress Dana Madison couldn't explain the disturbing things happening to her -- dresses she didn't own appearing in her closet, strangers greeting her on the street. Was she being impersonated? Desperate, she hired a man to watch...
REVENGE IS SWEET... The wealthy, powerful Delacourts had destroyed her family, and Maddie Kent wanted revenge. So she cozied up to Tyler Delacourt, the dynasty's youngest son. SEDUCTION IS SWEETER... But who knew the last Delacourt bachelor ...
For too long, Nate Welby had gone through the motions of fatherhood, numbed by sorrow and anger. Now another lonely yuletide season loomed -- and with it, the knowledge that he'd never be able to give his youngest daughter the one gift she wanted mos...
It had taken one second for ranch foreman Montana Brubaker to realize Syd Mac, gruff cowpoke, was really Sydney MacKenzie, all woman. The feisty female had corralled herself a position on the Brubakers' Texas spread...and was now Montana's blushing n...
There's no place like home, but even ruby slippers won't get Clair 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...
In the second grade, Madison Thompson fell in love with the boy next door. But Jordan Sanders never really noticed her. Oh, he used to tease her over her good grades. And in high school he and hsi friends made fun of her. But he never gave her the at...
When a car accident strands Dennis Bancroft in a snowstorm, he desperately needs help--fast. As the snow cover rises and the temperatures drop, a saving angel happens by on her way to her family's mountain cabin. Adelle Wilson's plans for celebrat...
The betrayal and embarrassment of a broken engagement is something Teddi Yorke can't bare to repeat. Not surprisingly, she is apprehensive when Captain Phillip Hamilton--whom she once cared about deeply--comes marching back into her life. Amid the...
Lavonia Penn promised her dying mother that she would follow her dream--to go to America to become a missionary. She has plans to live with a missionary family and help them care for their children--but her sister's chronic health problems and the sa...
Welcome to Leo's -- Where Anything Can Happen A proper lady lets loose on Open Mike Night -- and opens her heart to a different kind, of man.. A Texas Ranger and a candy shop owner have a blind date--with a deliciously unexpected outcome... ...
More than a decade ago, Elena Santiago broke her engagement to David Moncloa, certain she couldn't be a police officer's wife. Now a widowed single mother, she's back in her hometown--and David's arms. Despite all their years apart, nothing has chang...
"YOU'RE NO LONGER MY ASSISTANT. YOU'RE GOING TO BE MY WIFE!" CEO Michael Hawkins had made an executive decision. After making his secretary, Kate Adams, pregnant in an unexpected night of passion, Michael asked for her hand. Kate didn't want to be...
On the side of the road, about to give birth, Sara Jamison was in despair -- until he stopped by. A vision in a tux, with rough but tender hands, a slow drawl and enough confidence to calm her anxious mind, Sara couldn't do anything but trust Cal Tuc...
Single Mother-To-Be? Abby Summers, proud, pregnant...alone The Insistent Father: Handsome hometown hero Jack Randall The Pretend Engagement: If Jack could get Abby to pose as his fiancee, surely it would only be a short step to the altar. Kind ...
THE LOVE BET? The bettor: Sexy Sean Monahan. At stake: dating beautiful -- if slightly flaky -- Autumn Pulaski, the new girl in town, for more than her prescribed four weeks. If he could only get her to go out with him for eight weeks, then she'd ...
"I plan on staying single and carefree to the end of time." -- Luke Minteer, bachelor juror How could Luke Minteer be picked for a jury? And he was...glad? Maybe his happiness had to do with the sexy, single, nine months pregnant woman who sat be...
The year the Stork played Santa -- and Cupid -- for Christmas! Alone on Christmas Eve, Rachel Hirsch was astounded to find a cooing newborn outside her apartment door. With social services closed for the holiday, she had to take the baby home with h...
Four high school friends and a pact -- every girl gets her ideal man by thirty or be prepared for matchmaking! The Bride-To-Be: Raven Muldoon, therapist by vocation and aspiring stand-up comic by desire, realizes her friends in the Wedding Ring ha...
Home is where the farm is Libby Bateson was seventeen and pregnant when her father kicker her off the farm. She never intended to go back. But now she and her daughter need a place to stay. So for the few months it'll take to get her life together...
THE AGENT: Seth Greene, determined operative -- and estranged husband and father. THE MISSION: Infiltrate his ex-wife's home -- and gain her much-needed expertise. THE DEVASTATING DISCOVERY: Seth is still very much in love with his ex.... Their ...
NEWS FLASH: TYLER PLAYBOY DATES ...A SINGLE MOM?! Rumor has it that our resident attorney Quinn Spencer has been offering Molly Blake more than legal advice these past cold winter nights. Does this sandy-haired stud, who has broken hearts all over...
Dr. Sloan Radcliff was the first to admit he didn't know a thing about clothes, makeup -- or dating! And although he refused to succumb to the triplets' shameless matchmaking schemes, he was glad they charmed Rachel Richards into helping out. In fact...
Waitressing in the Arizona desert was a far cry from Jennie Andrews's high society background, but it couldn't be far enough from the future her father had planned for her -- even if it meant wasting her doctoring skills slicing bacon. As determined ...
SPECIAL REPORT: Peril and passion over Texas Skies SAM HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Texas (AP): U.S. Marshals' Flight 407 "Con Air" was hijacked before takeoff today, 108 aboard... Duty demands Marshal Spence Cantrall produce the hijacker's ...
NO RETREAT... Lawyer Ryan Matthews wanted sexy Jessica Newman the moment he saw her. And she seemed to want him, too, but something was holding her back. So now Ryan decides it's time to launch a sensual assault. He is going to have Jessica in his b...
"Doc, I lost my tonsils!" That was what precocious five-year-old Spike told bachelor doctor Chad Markham. It didn't take Chad long to figure out that the little orphaned boy merely wanted a "prescription" for unlimited amounts of ice cream...and m...
While they both try to deny the magnetism drawing them together. Craig's ex-wife arrives on the scene, using whatever means necessary, including her body and their son, to try to reclaim what once was hers....
Even the best father in the world needs a little help now and then ... Cody Matthews can't believe the recent changes in his daughter. Gone is daddy's little angel; in her place, the devil in blue jeans. As a last resort -- since Cody's a man who ...
He's chosen to keep his child She'd given her baby away Kitt Stevens has never really believed the old adage -- opposites attract. But she has to admit she finds Mark Masters very attractive, even if he disagrees with her on almost every topic they ...
HE WAS TALL, STRONG AND DETERMINED... And Mike Gerard was the best detective the police academy had ever bred. Tanda Grail desperately needed help finding answers about her brother's death, and Mike, with his virile magnetism and rock-solid manlin...
MARRIAGE MEANT SAFETY To protect her home and people, Cecily Tyrell would marry the devil himself! And if rumor held any truth, she would mayhap do so! A royal command bound her to wed Lord Rowan DeCourtenay, a knight of some renown...but a widowe...
Harboring a dangerous secret, Sarah Kincade flees to Lame Horse, Montana, with her infant son, hoping to begin a new life. But her past follows swiftly behind, in the form of bounty hunter Zach Garrett, a man with a warrant to bring her little boy ba...
THE MAN SHE COULDN'T FORGET Policewoman Molly Sparling remembered everything about Mitch Drake -- his wild eyes and low, sexy voice, his touch...and that they had parted badly. Now Mitch, a protected witness, was missing and presumed dead. Moll...
A dynamic Washington D.C. activist, Samantha Montgomery faces the controversy of a lifetime when she agrees to help handsome civil rights attorney Chad Rushmore take on a landmark police brutality suit. Not only does their sudden, fiery attraction en...
Welcome to Leo's -- Where Anything Can Happen A proper lady lets loose on Open Mike Night -- and opens her heart to a different kind, of man.. A Texas Ranger and a candy shop owner have a blind date--with a deliciously unexpected outcome... ...
Alex Marrin knows his seven-year-old son, Eric, wants a perfect Christmas -- the way it used to be before the divorce. Heck, the kid's even put in an order with Santa! But when beautiful Christmas consultant Holly Bennett shows up on their doorstep...
Welcome to Leo's -- Where Anything Can Happen A proper lady lets loose on Open Mike Night -- and opens her heart to a different kind, of man.. A Texas Ranger and a candy shop owner have a blind date--with a deliciously unexpected outcome... ...
The Millionaire CEO: Thorne McCafferty His Reputation: Rich, rugged and ruthless. He would rather lose his fortune than get caught at the altar. His Dilemma: Not letting a beguiling beauty take possession of his heart. Thorne had returned to...
CAN THE SHERIFF KEEP HIS TRUE LOVE SAFE? Eighteen years ago, a terrible tragedy forced Maria Delacroix to flee Belle Terre -- and Sheriff Jericho Rivers, her first love. Now she was finally back in Jericho's warm embrace, but someone from the past...
HER DARK KNIGHT He was everything she didn't want. Possessive, demanding, intense. Maddox "Mad Dog" Palmer wouldn't be ignored or forgotten. But Annie had to stay away. He was a cop -- though on medical leave -- and her ex-husband's best friend. H...
What would you do if you discovered that your beloved child wasn't yours at all? Patricia Kay presents a compelling, tender story of a bond that is stronger than blood--and of the difficult choices that can only be with the heart... With her jet-b...
WHEN HE LEFT HER BED, RAFE SUTTON DIDN'T KNOW SHE WAS PREGNANT.... After seeing the heartache love could cause, Rafe had sworn himself to bachelorhood. But that was before Rhianna McCloud knocked this cowboy for a loop. And though he suspected he'...
THE WRONG BED... Ruthie Sinclair is having one of those days. First she discovers she has to wear the bridesmaid's dress from hell to her cousin's wedding. Then her lackluster boyfriend runs for the hills when she suggests they get a little "closer....
Runaway heiress Darby White thought she knew nothing about family, but suddenly she was caring for a passel of orphaned children. And while they weren't her own, Darby couldn't turn her back on desperate new dad Garrett Cullum's pleas for help -- not...
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...