Harlequin NEXT — Multiple Authors

• Jul-2005
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Susan Mallery makes her home in Southern California where the eccentricities of a writer are actually considered normal -- what a relief! Carly Spencer, former perfect wife, was changing her agenda... Because Plan A -- be a stay-at-home mother ...

• Jul-2005
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lucky 'l -ke adj luck-i-er; -est 1 : having good luck 2 : happening by chance: FORTUITOUS Nine months ago, Kasey Crandall would have defined "lucky" as "my life." Married to a wealthy, generous older man, pregnant with a once-in-a-lifetime baby, s...

• Jul-2005
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The residents of Riggs Park named her Penny, since her hair was the red of a bright copper coin... We'd all grown up in the flourishing Washington, D.C., suburb -- Marilyn, me, Steve, Penny and Wish...the boy I'd loved. It was during the baby-boom...

• Jul-2005
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WHAT'S A FORTYISH WOMAN TO DO IF... Her free-spirited elderly mom's moving in, her previously do-gooder teenage daughter's sneaking out, her prize-winning stud bulldog can't get it on and her soon-to-be ex-husband can't get his mind off girls half...

• Aug-2005
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The sweet core of every life is surrounded by many protective layers. In other words: getting to the good stuff means cutting through the...! And for childhood friends Julia, Krissy and Laura, there's a lot to cut through! Each grew up with grandi...

• Aug-2005
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Road Trip for Three? They were three girlfriends whose love lives had seen better days, and they were driving to a reunion in New Orleans, the town they'd left behind. MJ, a gorgeous younger woman whose older husband died in the bed of...well, ...

• Aug-2005
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"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." -- William Shakespeare A starter marriage hadn't been the first act Mary Ellen Black had meant to script for herself, but bowing out provided hard-won perspective: The most impor...

• Aug-2005
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She'd never had a real home... So it had never been about "what to keep" in her life; she'd not experienced that luxury. Then Juliette Carlton got a call, one that said she'd inherited a fortune -- and could she please claim it? Juliette didn't know...

• Sep-2005
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Witty and irreverent homicide detective Maggie Skerritt liked her quiet, sleepy workdays. Violence in Pelican Bay, Florida, was rarely an issue, and Maggie certainly wasn't itching for the tide to change. Maintaining a professional distance had al...

• Sep-2005
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Well, everyone is hiding something -- but Mya Donohue's secret is knocking on the front door, in no uncertain terms. Mya is about to answer to the daughter she'd given birth to nineteen years ago, and Elle has news for her biological mother. Mya is n...

• Sep-2005
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"Ask your husband what he's been doing all those nights he claimed to be at the hospital...." The aforementioned suggestion would never be welcomed by any woman who'd been married for the better (well, mostly) part of twenty years. But for Kate He...

• Sep-2005
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"In high school, I could drive backwards better than anyone. And I've been going about living in reverse ever since. While other women were going to college, finding careers, marrying and having babies, I dropped out of college, had a baby, got marri...

• Oct-2005
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The moon filled the dusky sky. The darkness came slowly. Veronica was still doing eighty. They crossed another mountain, descended toward a sprinkling of lights in the valley below. More mountains rose in the distance. Veronica tapped her fingers on ...

• Oct-2005
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That Was Then Me, Allyson Cole. Age sixteen. Living in the world of endless summers, of going wherever you wanted. And yes, my parents may have worried that I was riding into trouble -- but I was young and in love, and growing up was something I...

• Oct-2005
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Shaking it up at the stop-n-bowl The belles of hell -- four best friends growing up in Haddes, Georgia -- had a plan. Right before graduating high school, and setting off to capture their dreams, they decided to create a "time capsule" -- a letter d...

• Oct-2005
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THEY SAY YOUR LIFE CAN CHANGE IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE... And the woman who used to be known as Claire Sherman had to agree. Because that second, that minute, that day exactly six years ago was the one in which everything had simply ceased to be. ...

• Nov-2005
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Meet the Editor... Elisha Reed loved working at her lucrative publishing house. On a daily basis, she wrestled with the literary world's divas and won. Her sterling reputation was the icing on the cake. Yes, Elisha knew the essential ingredients of l...

• Nov-2005
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"There's no way I would have ever imagined swapping dating horror stories with my mother-in-law. But life is now officially very, very weird." In eleven short months Charlotte Smith has: A. Become a widow too soon B. Had her job transferred o...

• Nov-2005
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I've never been close with my father... Even though I'm his only child. We were both held together by my mother, the warm, dancing flame attracting the quiet moths. Dad was always on the other side of the sun; I could never reach him. Now Mom's...

• Nov-2005
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The call came out of the blue -- Annie's sister Dana is in rehab... can her thirteen-year-old daughter come stay in Maine with Annie? But the wild child in black and piercings is not the sweet little girl Annie remembers. So much for the new pink ...

• Dec-2005
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The holidays? -- Don't you just love 'em? Been overstressed at work? Ever wish the holidays would go on an extended vacation? Worried about finding the perfect gift? Or had unresolved conflicts with family that drive you up the wall? Detective ...

• Dec-2005
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I am illegitimate. But this was never a problem for me -- it was just me and my mother against the world. Mother never told me much about her past, and after a couple of unanswered questions in childhood, I stopped asking. Now, Mother is sick, and sh...

• Dec-2005
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Question: How am I, a smart, confident -- and did I mention, innocent? -- woman supposed to react when smack-dab in the middle of my messy divorce the single-engine plane of my soon-to-be ex-husband crashes into the mountains of Montana's Bitterro...

• Dec-2005
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Kate Austin makes a captivating debut in this luminous tale of an unconventional road trip... and one woman's metamorphosis. At forty-two and given to the occasional panic attack, Randy Roman is taking a leave of absence from her life. After twent...

• Jan-2006
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"Living well is the best revenge..." Well, maybe. But when it came to a woman scorned -- not to mention two women scorned -- maybe revenge was the best revenge. Thus when Joan Hoffman and Liz Savoie, both systematically dumped by the men they thou...

• Jan-2006
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and the #1 sign that your husband is gay... There's an article in the newspaper telling you so. With a photo, no less. Okay, so in retrospect, maybe there were other signs that all was not well in Annabelle Essex's eighteen-year-old marriage. N...

• Jan-2006
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If there's one thing mystery novelist Maggie Dufrane knows, it's this: Laughter through tears is the Southern way. At least that's what her spitfire mama, aka the Mississippi queen of drama, says. But now the indomitable matriarch is ailing. And reli...

• Jan-2006
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Treading lightly had never been Janine Ruvacado's (pronounced: rude avocado) philosophy. The bestselling writer (former) had a way of grabbing life and wrestling it to the ground. Only these days, the wrestling was getting tiresome. If her crazy, pas...

• Feb-2006
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Caroline's Ex-boyfriend: That slimeball attorney who was two-timing her with his own ex-wife. Caroline's OH-boy: This forty-three-year-old career woman is pregnant! Life certainly hasn't gone according to Caroline Moore's carefully constructed ...

• Feb-2006
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Let me tell you a story about a girl on Long Island, who always tried to play life by "the rules" -- as outlined in the Secret Handbook of Long Island Rules... That girl, uh, woman, is me, Teddi Gallo. I'm the mother of three kids under the age of...

• Feb-2006
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She needed to find her bliss Habitual accommodator Tessa Wright is a mess. And no amount of diplomacy will get back what she wants: Her swishy banking job. Her AWOL husband. The comfortable -- albeit lackluster -- life she once slipped into like a...

• Feb-2006
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Since when did life ever tell you where you were going? Josie Harris always drew comfort from the thought that she lived a charmed life. Unexciting, perhaps, but stable and predictable. In a rut? Josie counted that as luck -- at least one knew wha...

• Mar-2006
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It's springtime again, and all P.I. Maggie Skerritt and her charmingly levelheaded business partner and fiance, Bill Malcolm, can do is hope that rite of passage infamously known as spring break is quiet and painless. Luckily, as the week progresses,...

• Mar-2006
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SURPRISE! If she needed a reminder of how different life was from her mother's favorite happily-ever-after movies, Dinah Dewberry got one on her fortieth birthday. That's when she found the black 42-double-D bra in her husband's pants pocket. Dina...

• Mar-2006
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YOU DON'T PICK YOUR FAMILY, BUT YOU CAN LOVE THEM. Somebody ought to pinch Neely Mason. An all-around-perfect man has asked her to marry him. Suddenly the sister voted most likely to become the resident "crazy neighborhood cat lady" is tying the k...

• Mar-2006
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If her husband turned up alive -- she'd kill him! Explaining to the seriously sexy cop why she hadn't noticed her husband missing for three days was both embarrassing and sobering. But the day Fiona Rowland lifted her head above the churning chaos...

• Apr-2006
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Living with her newly widowed sister was driving BJ Franklin insane. She had to find Iris a husband...fast! So she starts the Over 50's Singles Night. But when only a few elderly ladies and a gay man attend the first meeting, she decides to fix her s...

• Apr-2006
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“When you finally see the bird, you've been seeking, you know you've done the thing your soul needs.” As a wife and mother, Karen McBride wonders if she'll ever discover what her own spirit requires to feel whole. When her father, the formidab...

• Apr-2006
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Meet Lauren Wilt, Chicago's newest hot thirty-something. She's making a splash Carrie Bradshaw-style with a sex column in the Chicago Gazette that has singles in the city craving more. Meet Lauren Gard, the fifty-something writer once loved by the...

• Apr-2006
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Leaving the glamorous Boca Raton lifestyle behind wasn't easy for Boca-born Harriet Horowitz. But when she'd asked her physically abusive husband to make her day -- he'd agreed (in front of 500 people) -- and Harriet became single (a widow). Thoug...

• May-2006
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Melinda had never questioned her perfect life. Why should she? Her husband's successful, she's not working for the first time in years and their only daughter is in college. Her father -- a workaholic, perfectionist, runner and health nut to boot -- ...

• May-2006
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If this is Beth Holt Martin's life, she wants a refund. It's true. At fifty-three, all Beth's got is a sex-starved marriage to Howard the psychiatrist, an (almost) empty nest and a suitcase full of long-forgotten dreams of becoming...well, someth...

• May-2006
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For five 30-something women, the only obstacle to marriage is...d@tin&! Eva: Forget the dog. Eva is Man's Best Friend, with a pedigree of potentials-turned-pals to prove it. Frances: Since her nasty divorce, she's avoided the romance rat race f...

• May-2006
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"She was always crazy. Looking back, I see no doubt about it. It was a deceptive craziness, though, sometimes luminous and joyful. Even when it was, my brother and I knew it was important not to relax...." Sometimes things -- no matter how hard a ...

• Jun-2006
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Consider carefully before that first call to the local contractor: Can your marriage take it? Stacey Sommers certainly hoped so...but it was looking a little questionable. After the stunning news that her uncle had passed away and left her his dog...

• Jun-2006
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Two halves of a whole Once, long ago, Skye and Summer had looked so much alike that no one could tell the twin sisters apart. Now there was barely a trace of a resemblance. Once, the two of them had been huddled together against a world that neith...

• Jun-2006
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He left her a cottage in England...and a photograph with the words "I'm sorry" written on it... Marjorie Maitland was used to a certain routine -- she'd built her life around the safety of predictability. Then the unexpected happened -- her husban...

• Jun-2006
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Sometimes Reality Bites! Lauren Campbell thought she knew where she was going. After dropping her son off at college, she'd have four years to live out her dreams and plan the future. But she'd been so living in denial, spending her days baking cook...

• Jul-2006
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Handsome men are like kryptonite to Alex Jacobi, but a husband, kids...trust? Building Never Happened -- a cleanup service that erases all evidence of a homicide or suicide -- is her main priority. But while being independent, beautiful and successfu...

• Jul-2006
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They couldn't be any more different Poppy Thompson: The self-proclaimed homeliest woman in town, she deals with animals for a living rather than people. Bren Price: The ever-proper minister's wife, she does everything her husband tells her, but...

• Jul-2006
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Meet "Nice Girl" Susan Roth: A hardworking E.R. nurse and mother, she's starting to resent putting other people's needs above her own.... Tonya Rutherford: A savvy businesswoman, this Texas gal knows a lot about cheating husbands...but trust? A...

• Jul-2006
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Francesca Bond has been surviving her life much more than she has ever really been living it. Late one summer night, things take a terrifying spin and she finds herself running in a blind panic through darkness and fog -- straight into the welcoming ...

• Aug-2006
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"Enjoy every second you have with them. Tomorrow you'll wake up and they'll be all grown." Twenty years ago Dana Logan reacted to this statement as any new mother would -- with disbelief. Tomorrow? Didn't the years ahead stretch like a long, sunny...

• Aug-2006
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Last year I, Teddi Bayer Gallo, nearly killed my husband. This year he's nearly my ex. Last year money grew on trees. This year if my three delicious children and I don't eat, my new interior decorating business might survive. Last year I'd never see...

• Aug-2006
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Everyone in town thinks Holly DeJong has handled her husband's death well, including her. Until the day she spots a cupcake display at Smiley's General Store and lets loose. Holly's husband is dead...because he cheated on her. He didn't have just one...

• Aug-2006
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Rose Forrester was too old to be lying on her car's front seat spying on her first love. She even had a husband and a teenage daughter waiting for her at home. But Rob MacIntyre's return had just turned her world upside down. Seventeen years ago he'd...

• Sep-2006
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There's a first time for everything as thirty-nine-year-old Zoe Vidrine learned the hard way. She was pregnant! Now the aging rock 'n' roller had to change her tune fast. Her plan: leave behind the temptations of L.A.--and her famous hard-partying ex...

• Sep-2006
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Saturday, September 22 1. Get a dog cat. 2. Get a man. 3. Get adventurous (go skinny-dipping!) 4. Get a life! She'd been the pampered and protected wife. Now she was a widow with both daughters off at college and she was suddenly d...

• Sep-2006
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Lauren Holloway: The mother of twin daughters, this cashmere-and-pearls housewife has always been careful to do the "right" things in life. Erin Karmeli: Clad in tight jeans and low-cut tops, she's a vodka-swilling, straight-shooting single mother...

• Sep-2006
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Grace Becker needed to get a life... And thanks to '80s night, one too many Flaming Togas and a game of Truth or Dare with her girlfriends, this woman who has let her Day-Timer rule her life has found excitement in spades. Rather than reveal the t...

• Oct-2006
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Grace Campisi had lived her whole life according to plan, but her sister Perry--aka "The Screwup"--was more of a live-for-the-moment kind of girl. Which could explain how she showed up nine months pregnant, sans husband, boyfriend or money. The quest...

• Oct-2006
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Join the PTA? Yes, according to Maggie, Barbara and Elizabeth. Because despite their differences--one is a recent widow; one is a late-in-life mother; and one is a supermom whose surprise pregnancy, she fears, will result in complications--all three ...

• Oct-2006
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Everyone knows sisters like the Sams girls--three women trying their best to be good daughters, mothers and wives. Lydia, married to Wayne, worked a dead-end job to make sure her daughter, Anna Claire, had the best in life. Madaline, the mother o...

• Oct-2006
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Who said life is a beach? Certainly not Lola Nelson. Her neighbors might be fooled by her not-a-hair-out-of-place appearance. But alone in bed at night, Lola believes she's lost all the passion in her life since her husband's death. Hoping to r...

• Nov-2006
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When a corporate oversight lands her new husband in jail, Kate St. James feels as if she's the one being sentenced. True, her ritzy new home in the suburbs looks nothing like the Big House. But for a woman barely able to keep her tropical fish afloat...

• Nov-2006
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When longtime best friends, Patsy Leslie and Louise Jernigan decide to jump-start their not-so-dead libidos, quilting and bridge suddenly take a backseat to, well, more amorous pursuits. Local tongues wag, and Patsy's son and Louise's daughter--who h...

• Nov-2006
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Each summer the tourists flood the Sunshine Coast, and the chaos doesn't stop until Labor Day. But in between, at the back of the Way-Inn, best friends, Rose, Mercedes and Doris--aka the Gossip Queens--hold court. Everyone's business is discussed, an...

• Nov-2006
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The last person she expected to see at her husband's funeral was his wife! But having learned her husband apparently bought his engagement rings in bulk, Penny Reynolds is shocked out of her well-ordered world. She can't bring herself to hate his ...

• Dec-2006
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The fortysomething cop-turned-P.I. has enough on her hands, dodging her mother's plans to turn Maggie's upcoming wedding to partner Bill Malcolm into an 800-guest circus. Then a friend asks them to provide security at the wedding uniting Florida's an...

• Dec-2006
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From balance sheets to blue plate specials, Heather James has a lot to learn about running a restaurant. But a well-informed business plan isn't enough to prepare her for the holiday rush-- or head chef Sam Cappelletti. Is lasting love the bottom lin...

• Dec-2006
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Growing up as a lonely child, Gwen Anderson always dreamed of a Christmas pulled from the pages of a Currier & Ives illustration. She's long since abandoned that dream. Until her mother realizes that she didn't give her daughter enough time as a chil...

• Dec-2006
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Teddi Bayer could use some holiday magic this year, especially since Grandma June is making everything worse. If only there was a magical menorah Teddi could rub, and pouf! But rubbing it while humming "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" seems to be...

• Dec-2006
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With Christmas only twelve days away, supermom Abby Blake is going on strike. Sure she loves her grown daughters and their families, but do they all have to be so...well, needy? Having made her stand, Abby's not about to let anything--or anyone--stop...

• Dec-2006
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Not when Nora Pride's life was changing at a pace faster than the Indy 500. With her birthday a whisper away, she was prematurely becoming a grandmother. She'd just had her first hot flash (to her archrival's undisguised glee). And Nora had gone from...

• Jan-2007
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By the way, did you know you're pregnant? Eight tiny words, but strung together in one sentence...they are destined to destroy life as Laurel Mitchell knows it. For after twenty-five years of wedlock and three grown children, starting over with th...

• Jan-2007
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"What is it with you and murder victims?" When Drew Scoones asks the questions, Teddi Bayer listens. Her latest decorating job for a restaurant spoiled by a murder, Ms. Bayer might just have to submit to the detective's line of interrogation. Afte...

• Jan-2007
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Lila Delaney never claimed to be entirely psychic...just slightly psychic. But any ability she might have had disappeared the minute Lila's visions led her and the police to a missing heiress...healthy, happy and tied to the bed of Lila's fiance. Bro...

• Jan-2007
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Sylvia Hunter feels herself flying off in so many directions she can't make sense of it. Forget the fact that her perfect daughter is going through a Goth phase. Or that her overbearing mother-in-law and crazy aunt are going to drive her to murder. S...

• Feb-2007
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To say that desperation clouded Jane Falgoust's judgment was a colossal understatement. With a hurricane bearing down on New Orleans, the failed nurse-turned-waitress viewed it as an opportunity--to escape her tattered life. But then she saw the dog ...

• Feb-2007
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Playing rockabilly music in church was one thing... Blowing a hole in her roof to chase a phantom intruder was quite another. And when Delta Jordan hears about her best friend's meltdown, she starts packing. It's clear Emily Jones needs her to be ...

• Mar-2007
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Kate Bishop wanted--no, she needed--money, and fast. Her roof needed replacing. Her kids needed tuition. Her car was not long for this world. Her ex-husband was a cheap creep. Until one day her wildest fantasy came true--she won the lottery. She--and...

• Mar-2007
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Libby Cartwright hadn't planned on inheriting a yarn shop from her estranged mother. But that was before she found her favorite childhood stuffed animal amidst the dust and moldering yarn. And before she encountered a motley crew of locals determined...

• Apr-2007
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Forced to leave her beloved military life behind at the ripe old age of thirty-seven, USAF Colonel Andrea (Andi) Armstrong comes to the Florida panhandle for a fresh start. Little did she know--at least until that auspicious knock on her next-door ne...

• Apr-2007
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And no man's kiss has since matched that wonderful, summery essence in all its glory. LilyRose knows her rare ability to "see" sounds and "taste" shapes-synesthesia- is a gift that defines who she is...but it's also made her an object of ridicule. An...

• May-2007
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Every important event in Aimee King's life has taken place at the Halfmoon... Her first kiss, Brad Mackey's proposal while parked under the starry sky... Even Aimee's son, Hayden, was conceived there. But as the Halfmoon Drive-In was readying to...

• May-2007
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A Mother's Day call brings a woman home to the two mothers who raised her...and helps her discover the answers she's been searching for all her adult life....

• May-2007
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A mother's surprise birthday visit teaches her daughter about living and loving in Paris....

• May-2007
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A heartwarming and tender look at what it means to be a mother, in her story about adoption....

• Jun-2007
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Could an innocent e-mail offer really result in murder, mayhem and a multimillion-dollar fraud ring? The last person to ask is dead - but that won't keep Charlotte McNally from poking around. Face it: in the cutthroat world of television journalism, ...

• Jun-2007
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It was a great idea -- why not bring lonely hearts together and make money? Real estate agent Cecilia Katz's brilliant brainstorm gave a whole new meaning to an open house. Especially with her hunky new assistant hiring the hot young studs to mingle ...

• Jul-2007
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But weather isn't the only threat to P.I. Maggie Skerritt. Maggie's got her hands full when a nationally syndicated columnist enlists Pelican Bay Investigations to protect her from a stalker and a mysterious stranger with amnesia poses a threat to so...

• Jul-2007
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Crazy for the Beach Boys' "Kokomo" ever since she was a carefree teen, a successful attorney decides to visit the song's namesake Caribbean island. Too bad her assistant books her a ticket to Kokomo, Indiana, instead... where there's no beach, but a ...

• Jul-2007
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In this lighthearted mystery, a decorator remodeling her family's beach house discovers her mother's lost love letters... to a Mafia don!...

• Jul-2007
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A woman pursuing her dream job in marine biology literally starts at the bottom--cleaning fish tanks at the local aquarium. Luckily, her handsome boss is there to ease the pain of climbing the career ladder....

• Aug-2007
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Literally, he's had it for every hour of the day for as long as Teddi's known him. So it's no coincidence that minutes after Teddi stumbles accidentally on a corpse in the deep freeze at King Kullen, Detective Dreamboat is back on the scene. Her supe...

• Aug-2007
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After years of abuse by her husband, Boca Babe Harriet Horowitz made a split-second decision that ended her $100 manicures and $20,000 shopping sprees forever, and earned her the nickname Dirty Harriet. Defender of the downtrodden. But why do he...

• Sep-2007
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Ivan Munro wanted to be feared, not loved... But Bailey DelMonico, his new intern, is determined to prove she isn't afraid of him--and more. In her own way, Bailey is as brilliant as Ivan--and people like her. Having realized she wanted to be a su...

• Sep-2007
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COULD YOU GO HOME AGAIN? Avril Carson had to try. Because the hairdresser-turned-actress (turned hairdresser) had left little Sago Beach, Florida, with her whole life in front of her and the man she'd loved by her side. Now she'd come back, with his...

• Oct-2007
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It's the scoop of a journalist's dreams! New evidence in an old murder case could set a convicted woman free. Who better to crack the story than Boston's own version of Brenda Starr? Unfortunately, the prime source won't talk, the attorney general...

• Oct-2007
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There's a magic in life--But Ria Sterling has yet to embrace it, because she considers her ability to predict death from merely touching a photograph a curse. She yearns to use her sight to save just one life. On the other hand, tough-talking detecti...

• Nov-2007
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THERE WAS A HOT-LOOKING MAN IN HER KITCHEN. AND HE WAS COOKING! Maureen Hart had never had a summer so crazy...not even the year she'd become a teenage unwed mother. Now her life was on track with a steady boyfriend and a big promotion looming. An...

• Nov-2007
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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TWO WOMEN SWAP LIVES? Soap Opera Star Gloria Hart: After losing her celebrated soap opera role, she winds up crashing her Ferrari Spider and getting stranded in Mooreville, Mississippi. Will America's TV goddess discover the role...

• Dec-2007
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Divorcee Lauren Wright opts for a Bahamas Christmas getaway--only to be stranded at the airport by weather. But a very personable fellow traveler makes the time fly--and temperatures rise. Bahamas or no Bahamas, things are about to get steamy.......

• Dec-2007
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When Maggie O'Brien receives gifts from a secret Santa, she suspects one of the three men in her life has finally wised up to how special she is. Who's the mystery man--her ex, her boss, or that good-looking car mechanic? Come Christmas morning, will...

• Dec-2007
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Young widow Astrid Martin wants to boycott Christmas--but her husband's ghost won't let her! Before long she has a tree, even a gift-wrapping job at the mall, where she meets the man who holds the key to her Christmas future....

• Dec-2007
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SOMETIMES IT TAKES A NEW YORK BLIZZARD TO TEST A SOUTHERN WOMAN'S METTLE... Determined to prove she's no wilting magnolia blossom, jilted heiress Annie Macy strikes out for New York City to make it on her own. Annie's plan just never involved havi...

• Jan-2008
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From career woman...to camp fire girl? As regional chief of employment and training, Sue Ellen Carson gets to sit in a comfortable, air-conditioned office and make funding decisions--she just doesn't do fieldwork. But this time her boss insists t...

• Jan-2008
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Teddi usually ignored Drew Scoones's warnings to stay out of his cases... After all, who in her right mind would give up steamy post-arrest debriefing sessions with Detective "Swoons"? But when Drew's partner is accused of murdering Peaches Lipsch...