
The people of Elk Springs, Oregon, thought Ed Patton was a good man, a good cop, a good father. But his daughters know the truth .... Renee Patton feels she has to prove to everyone--especially herself--that even though she's a cop, she's nothing ...
Jamie Archer loves her four-year-old daughter, Ashley, more than anything in this world. But Jamie has a past she's ashamed of, a past she needs to keep hidden. So she's created an entirely new life for herself and Ashley - a life that's threatened w...
Three very different brothers. Three very different lives. One great opportunity. The Delancey brothers have inherited a dilapidated winery in Oregon, and Tate--the oldest of the three--couldn't be happier. This is the perfect chance for a new lif...
Nowhere to run. One place to hide... Sarah Davidson is the lone witness to a brutal murder. After the killer makes an attempt on her life, she's put under police protection. But when one of the cops turns on her, she's forced to hide in a place no...
TO A BORN AND BRED TEXAN, VOWS RUN DEEP AND LAST FOREVER.... Sam McCabe had vowed to always do right by his five boys, to protect them and show them how to be good men. But after the loss of his wife, he needed the small-town security of Laramie, ...
THREE VERY DIFFERENT BROTHERS THREE VERY DIFFERENT LIVES ONE GREAT OPPORTUNITY WHAT'S A TOUGH COP DOING IN A PLACE LIKE THIS? Mike Delancey was one of the best hostage negotiators in Texas. But he's left that behind to work in the win...
Evan Myers, divorced father of two, needs a baby-sitter fast to get him through a work crunch just before Christmas. He also needs a few Daddy School lessons to help him cope with his kids -- their secrecy and odd behavior have really got him scratch...
Twin sisters! Two babies. Double the trouble...and twice the joy! Especially at Christmas... When Danni Ferris keeps her appointment with a client she barely knows, the last thing she expects him to do is take her into his arms and kiss her passi...
THREE VERY DIFFERENT BROTHERS THREE VERY DIFFERENT LIVES ONE GREAT OPPORTUNITY SHEA DELANCEY KNOWS WHAT HE WANTS FOR CHRISTMAS A year earlier, Shea and Samantha Haskell had marriage in mind. But when his restaurant failed, pride compe...
A woman in the SEALs? Lieutenant Tabitha Chapel is determined to become the first woman to join the navy SEALs. She'll use every connection she has (and she has plenty), any wile (feminine or otherwise) and her substantial strength of will to make...
MEG PATTON, SINGLE MOTHER AND THE NEWEST DEPUTY OF THE ELK SPRINGS SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT, HAS FINALLY COME HOME. A NEW MAN, A NEW JOB, AND A MOTHERLESS BABY DON'T MIX It's time for Meg to reconcile with her sisters--and past time to introduce ...
One stormy weekend's indiscretion Mallory Lombard and Drew Driscoll are still best friends, even though Drew moved away from the sleepy town of Port Carling, Ontario, years ago to pursue a career as a foreign-affairs journalist in the power capita...
Moonstruck? Dr. Danni Goodlove would like to blame everything on the moon. If it hadn't been full that night, maybe the emergency room would have been quieter. Maybe one of the E.R. doctors would've had time to patch up firefighter Matt Creed. Ma...
SOMETIMES A MAN NEEDS HELP LEARNING TO BE A DAD...THAT'S WHAT THE DADDY SCHOOL IS ALL ABOUT Dr. Toby Cole, a widowed pediatric, is delighted. Lindsey, his exasperating ten-year-old daughter, is out of the doldrums at last. A new friend has moved ...
"Hello, Father. I'm your bastard son." His whole life, Andrew Malone had been programmed to hate the man who'd abandoned his pregnant mother. But now, watching Robert MacAllister clutch his chest and crumple to the ground, Andrew felt compassion...a...
TWINS: They're definitely two of a kind Ten years ago, Molly Lorring left Demery, South Carolina, with a secret. She was pregnant with Beau Forrest's baby, but no one could ever know. Because Beau was dead -- unaware that he'd even m...
Come home to Shelter Valley -- where love lasts and families matter. Meet Will and Becca Parsons, who've lived in Shelter Valley, Arizona, all their lives. Shelter Valley means everything to them. Home. Family. Security. Love. Everything that matter...
Jenna Livingston: age 32. Divorced. Mother of eight-year-old Ryan. And... pregnant. SHE's PREGNANT BY HER EX-HUSBAND. A MAN SHE HAS REASON TO FEAR.... With her son, Ryan, Jenna's moved back to Mendocino, where she's living and working ...
The people of elk Springs, Oregon, thought Ed Patton was a good man, a good cop, a good father. But his daughters know the truth.... Abby's the third Patton sister. The baby. The one everyone said was privileged, spoiled. But a childhood with a hars...
Surprising Mr. Elliott Christian Elliott has a lot to learn! Christian knows about money, million-dollar contracts and hard-line negotiations. But he doesn't know anything about family, babies or love. Then some unfinished business takes him to t...
SHE DOESN'T KNOW SHE HAS A TWIN! A twin sister -- who's in love with the man she loves.... When Catherine Casey falls in love with David Britton, she's sure her life has just become perfect. She's got a successful career, a wonderful adoptiv...
The Navy SEALS never leave a man �" or a woman -- behind Zach Prince is a naval aviator, one of the best. In fact, he's a Top Gun. But thanks to his father and godfather, he's lived and breathed SEAL ways since the day he was born. So when the pl...
Cameron Malloy is handsome, successful and single... But Elizabeth wouldn't have him if he were the last bachelor in Texas. It doesn't matter that she's loved her boss for years - he takes her for granted. If she's ever going to have ...
MOMENT OF TRUTH... Claire Ridgeway has everything--a handsome, hardworking husband of twelve years, a beautiful home in the suburbs, three delightful children she can raise without having to worry about money. Until one morning. Claire's lif...
Come home to Shelter Valley... She's not who she says she is! Tory Evans is living her sister's life. Christine is dead, murdered by Tory's vengeful ex-husband, and now -- for her own survival -- Tory has taken on Christine's identity. Her name, he...
A STORMY NIGHT. A HANDSOME STRANGER. A BABY ON HER DOORSTEP. Once Sharon Adams had her future all planned--only to see it snatched away in a heartbeat, leaving her dreams in the dust. And then she heard two thumps that fateful snowy night. The...
Sheriff Jack Murray isn't the man for her Beth Sommers isn't looking for love. She's concentrating on her daughters and her business -- and on convincing her ex-husband that their marriage really is over. Even if she was looking, it wouldn't b...
MITCH OLIVER IS A MAN's MAN Which is probably a good thing since he's raising four rowdy teenage boys on his own. His schedule is filled with guy stuff such as hockey, baseball, football. Then he gets custody of his very feminine little niece. ...
Sometimes a man needs help learning to be a dad,,,That's what Daddy School is all about. Twin Tornadoes! Seven-year-old dynamos Erin and Sean are single father Dennis Murphy's pride and joy. Even though they're bank robbers. But Dennis is the b...
Glory, Alberta. A cowboy town in cowboy country. Hannah Parrish loves it here. "Once from a small town, always from a small town," says Jack Gamble, ex-prospector, a man who's ready to come home. He wants to find a "nice, quiet Glory girl." And that'...
There's something special about Alaska -- and about the town of Hard Luck. Scott O'Halloran grew up there; he's been away for years, but now he's back. To stay? Everybody's wondering -- especially Chrissie Harris. The girl he left behind......
Melanie Parker never wants to leave Elk Springs, Oregon. After a lifetime of moving, she finally has a big house with a picket fence. To Kevin McNeil, that sounds like prison. They could walk away from each other right now -- if they weren't falling ...
Sometimes a man needs help learning to be a dad,,,That's what Daddy School is all about. Twin Tornadoes! Seven-year-old dynamos Erin and Sean are single father Dennis Murphy's pride and joy. Even though they're bank robbers. But Dennis is the b...
Amnesia. A marriage of convenience. A secret baby. Two brothers are in a car accident. Greg is killed. Keith is left with amnesia. And the only person he remembers at all is Emily...Emily who's obviously very pregnant. With his child? In order...
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...
For the Negotiator, talk is never cheap. In a moment, he has to make connections with the crazed and the desperate and the lost. He has to promise, cajole and placate. Success is a rush. Failure would cripple a lesser man. Above all, he must stay det...
There's just something about a self-made man... Adam Kendall: He's rich, he's powerful -- he's a man who gets what he wants. When he left town, he was a nobody. Now he's the somebody everyone wants to know -- everyone except La...
It happened one snowy night... When Chantel Miller gets lost during an unexpected snowstorm, a stranger named Dillon Broderick rescues her. In the hours they spend together they become very close and the intimacy of that night creates a special b...
THEY'RE DEFINITELY NOT TWO OF A KIND HIS TWIN IS MISSING. When Paul Elliott gets the news that his brother is missing -- and presumed dead -- he devastated. Then the incident is ruled suspicious, and Paul's training as a government ag...
The commander leads; she will not follow. She has to assess situations, determine solutions and can never lose control. The job comes first �" being a woman a very distant second. Lena McKinney is the Commander. Two years ago, Lena tried to ...
YOU ARE NOW ENTERING RIVERBEND, INDIANA Riverbend... home of the River Rats -- a group of small-town sons and daughters who've been friends since high school. The River Rats are all grown up now. Living their lives and learning that some days ar...
A pregnant woman without a husband. A family without a father. And a mysterious stranger who wants to be both.... She's the pregnant mother of two children. She's also a recent widow, still mourning the death of her husband, who died before sh...
Sam Montford left Shelter Valley 10 years ago. He's a direct descendant of the town's founder, the first Samuel Montford, and for him, Shelter Valley's expectations had become oppressive. Home had become smothering instead of sheltering. Sam retu...
A SWAT team is only as good as its weakest link. The Listener works hard to make sure that no link breaks. She's constantly watching the team, testing to see if anyone's getting too close to the edge. But she can't do much when her help is refused. ...
Riverbend...home of the River Rats - a group of small-town sons and daughters who've been friends since high school. The River Rats are all grown up now. Living their lives and learning that some days are good and some days aren't - and that you can ...
Colleen Deering. She'll do anything for her sister, Sheila. And if her gift takes up nine months of her life and entails morning sickness and stretch marks, well, what are sisters for? Because what Sheila wants -- more than anything in this worl...
“Private Investigations �" Lost Lovers Found.” That was the ad, and Noah figured if he'd been adventurous enough to discover the world, he could be adventurous enough to visit an agency that specialized in finding lost loves. But meeting ...
If ever there was a living embodiment of all that money could buy, Jonas Bravo was it. But the gleaming facade hid a legacy of loss. For though Jonas had been to the manor born, the kidnapping of his baby brother had yanked the rug out from under him...
YOU ARE NOW ENTERING RIVERBEND, INDIANA Riverbend... home of the River Rats -- a group of small-town sons and daughters who've been friends since high school. The River Rats are all grown up now. Living their lives and learning that some days are ...
Zachery Sloan was no ordinary architect. His innovative designs had earned him the reputation of rebel. The media always had a field day wondering whether Sloan's projects pushed the boundaries too far. Annie Montgomery had married Zach straight ...
A baby...just around the corner Phyllis Langford is everybody's friend and nobody's lover. Until she succumbs to the unexpected temptation of Matt Sheffield -- and soon after, discovers she's pregnant. Matt's a loner, a man who hides from the p...
FBI agent Max Calder is working undercover to bring down a Russian Mafia ring, which is running an elaborate scam staging accidents and bilking insurance companies. He's disguised as a Russian immigrant, Anatoly Kuzmina, and has successfully -- or so...
Riverbend...home of the River Rats -- a group of small-town sons and daughters who've been friends since high school. The River Rats are all grown up now. Living their lives and learning that some days are good and some days aren't -- and that you ca...
Saving her child means having his baby. She needs money, a lot of it, to pay for her daughter's operation. Macy McKinney will do anything for five-year-old Haley. Businessman Thad Winters, a widower, wants a child without the complications of a...
LUKE JAMISON: DEDICATED DOCTOR AND RELUCTANT SUBSTITUTE DAD Dr. Luke Jamison would do anything to help his patients -- anything but get emotionally attached. He tried that once, and it nearly destroyed him. Now his boss, the very determined D...
Architect Levi Holt plans houses -- for other people's families. He's a live-alone bachelor. Or he was. When his favorite sister leaves him her infant son, Levi can't refuse. He has no experience caring for children, let alone infants, but if parenti...
YOU ARE NOW ENTERING RIVERBEND, INDIANA Riverbend...home of the River Rats -- a group of small-town sons and daughters who've been friends since high school. The River Rats are all grown-up now. Living their lives and learning that some da...
Her mistake was falling in love with a cop. Now she's pregnant--and he's missing. Shelby Beaumont is madly in love with homicide detective Johnny Spencer. They've been together for the past year; they've just become engaged. And though Johnny doe...
EMMA'S DILEMMA... What would Emma Rogers have done without her oldest friends, the Calamity Janes? As teenagers in Winding River Wyoming, they'd supported her ambitious dreams. A decade later, when Emma went home, struggling with single motherh...
St. Joe's Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia, is where bodies are healed and hearts are sometimes broken. Dr. Alexandra Ross loves her job in the hectic emergency department. But she also loves her Mountie husband, Sergeant Cameron Ross....
HIS FAMILY BELONGED TO HIS BROTHER NOW.... Luke Brennan met Sarah Randolph on the worst day of his life. His brother's wedding day. The bride was Luke's ex-wife; the flower girls, Luke's daughters. Six years ago when Matt Brennan was reported m...
Would you do the smart thing or the right thing? Late one night, a little boy approaches Abbie Franklin. He doesn't know his name or where he lives. Abbie has no choice but to help him - any way she can. Even if that means dealing with her ex-husband...
He's a man iwth a mission She's a woman with a secret Hank Whitcomb is back in Maple Hill, Massachusetts, the tiny town he grew up in but fled almost 20 years earlier for fame and fortune. And he's determined to make a new life for himself. It do...
The terrible twos are nothing compared to the traumatic teens. David Whitcomb is a good father and once upon a time, his 13-year-old daughter Claire adored him. But times have changed, and Claire seems intent on running away to live with her mothe...
She loved one Brennan brother -- but she married the other... Kristen had known the Brennan boys forever. She'd loved Luke as a friend, but she'd been in love with Matt for as long as she could remember. Then, just before her 18thbirth...
He couldn't love her before -- because of her vow. And he can't love her now -- because of his promise. Lawmen know everything can change in an instant. They hope for the best and prepare for the worst. They don't take their lives or their promis...
Finding was easier than keeping... He'd met her buying peaches in an open-air market in sleepy, sun-drenched San Pablo. They'd connected instantaneously, and that connection deepened into a magical, fierce love. Then Michael Molina disappeared wit...
He's back! Two years ago, almost everyone in Canmore, Alberta, thought Dylan McLean was responsible for the death of a teenage girl on his father's ranch. Only Cathleen Shannon believed he was innocent. Then he left her at the altar and fled to...
With a neighbor's ranch at stake, Montana-cowboy-turned-Hollywood-heartthrob Sloan Gallagher agreed to take part in the Great Montana Cowboy Auction organized by Polly McMaster. But in order to avoid going home with an overly enthusiastic fan, he...
Everyone should have a friend like Heidi Ellis. Dana Turner does. Dana's in prison for a murder she didn't commit -- and Heidi's determined to find out who did, determined to see Dana set free. But she has no idea how to go about it. Then, like...
Erica has a little boy -- and a big secret. Her son, Kevin, is not her ex-husband's child. In fact, Kevin's real father doesn't even know he exists. She's carried the guilt of this for more than five years. Now, to her complete...
Does medical drama make your temperature rise? Then Bobby Hutchinson's medical series �" Emergency! �" should bring you to fever pitch! The Baby Doctor is the second enthralling episode in our medical series centered around St. Joe's Hospita...
Will this baby save their marriage -- or destroy it? Erin Cahill has always been known as Lucky -- although the name Trouble might suit her better, since she can't seem to stay out of it. Lucky definitely loves her husband, a police captain i...
They call him “the baby cop” Ethan Knight, a detective in Desert City, Arizona, believes in putting children first. He's created an unofficial network of foster care for abused and abandoned kids; he's done this by calling on family and friend...
Dr. James Burke has a reputation as the best surgeon at St. Joseph's -- and the most difficult. Hospital administrator Melissa Clayton discovers that his reputation for both is well deserved. She also discovers that she's attracted to him. St...
Bart Megrath has never been to a quaint colonial town like Maple Hill, Massachusetts. He's never been through a hurricane. And he's never met anyone like Haley Whitcomb. Stormy times...a stormy relationship at times. But in Bart's opinion, a little t...
Sometimes a father and his daughter have things to work out. Sometimes a woman can help, as widower Kevin Medina learns when he and one-year-old Alex meet Natalie Baines. Can Natalie be the mother Alex needs -- and the wife Kevin wants?...
She was doing her duty. Now he'll do his... While investigating a local murder, Kelly Shannon, an officer with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is forced to kill in the line of duty. Afterward she feels the terrible responsibility of having take...
Josh Morris travels the world in search of its stories. Briana Morris's whole world is a single small farm. They met and married and divorced in little more than the wink of an eye. But together they managed to create one perfect thing -- their daugh...
John McLean is a single father and a cop -- and he takes all his duties seriously. A year ago, after her husband died, he added Natalie Reed to his list of responsibilities. At first, that just meant helping around the house. Then a body is found in ...
She needed him. For not even her close-knit family could protect Jessica MacAllister from the danger that surrounded her. Lieutenant Dan Quinn might have been a ...
The last thing Joe Latham expected to be doing was defending his badge -- and his reputation. But-one dark night, one fleeing suspect, one split-second decision later -- Joe's fourteen-year career as an outstanding cop is about to end. Only lawye...
He raised one child who might be his own. Does he have it in his heart to do it again? Fire chief Nick Dalton has a lot on his plate. He's had to move to a small town in Washington to get his twelve-going-on-twenty-year-old daughter away from the ...
What Maggie does... Maggie Russell, a police reporter in Sacramento, works the night shift. She's divorced and the mother of a very active three-year-old son. Maggie may not have much time for a social life, but she's recently begun an email ...
LIVE WELL. LAUGH OFTEN. OVE MUCH. Although Mariah Mercer designs and sells plaques with her favorite motto, she's having a hard time following it herself. At least, the love much part. In fact, she's given up on loving at all after a painful divor...
Getting criminals off the street -- that's why Blair Logan went into law in the first place. She's an assistant D.A. in Houston, and she's always scorned defense attorneys like Lucas Culver. Especially Lucas Culver, who's tough, sharp-witted, and way...
The doctor is a patient! The unthinkable has happened. One second Dr. Greg Brulotte is the busiest emergency surgeon in Vancouver. The next, he's a patient in intensive care! If it takes a disaster to prove a man's mettle, Greg is faili...
He made her an offer she couldn't refuse -- bud did she ever try! Jake Hartman's heli-skiing operation in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies has been hugely successful. But because of the major outlays he now wants to make, he needs a capital inf...
On an ordinary day, in an ordinary neighborhood, a knock on the door of an ordinary house leads to an extraordinary revelation. Detective Connor McLean is the man who came to call, carrying with him a child's accusation. Connor's visit ended Mari...
Who is Beth Allen? And who -- or what -- is she running from? Beth only wishes she knew. Six months ago, she woke up in a shabby Arizona hotel room with no memory of her past. What she did have was a bruised face, $2,000 in cash -- and a little bo...
After seven years, the marriage of Conley and Lara Harrison is over. Lara still cares for Conley, but he's hurt her once too often. She wants nothing more than to get her divorce and move on. But that's not going to be easy. Not once she learns there...
Have you seen this man? Ten-year-old Alex Harper is putting up posters everywhere. He wants to find his dad, but only so the judge can force the "deadbeat" to pay the support he owes. Maybe then his mother can stop working all the time, and she a...
It takes a special kind of person When Special Agent Zach Forrester's terrified sister drops her three-year-old daughter into his life, Zach swears he'll do whatever it takes to protect the little girl. So the moment someone threatens to harm the ch...
They met ten years ago, and they've been friends ever since. Zoey, Charlotte, and Lydia. At their last reunion, they all accepted a challenge: look up your first love. Find out what happened to him, what kind of man he became. Since Zoey's spendin...
He knows what he has to do Rancher Dex Hightower wants custody of his six-year-old daughter. He's tired of arguing with his ex-wife about visitation rights. But she'll never agree, even though she's more interested in her career than in being a mo...
Getting criminals off the street -- that's why Blair Logan went into law in the first place. She's an assistant D.A. in Houston, and she's always scorned defense attorneys like Lucas Culver. Especially Lucas Culver, who's tough, sharp-witted, and way...
More than anything, Officer Nell Granstrom wants to stop history from repeating itself. Born to a 16-year-old mother, Nell had her daughter, Kim, at the same age. Now Kim's 16 and has a serious boyfriend. But how much weight can Nell's words have?...
HE's DONE RAISING KIDS... OR IS HE? As the oldest of eleven children, Denver cop Zach Harmon spent a lot of time helping out with his siblings. Now he's enjoying his freedom, and although he loves his nieces and nephews, he doesn't plan on having...
BROKEN BONES SHE COULD FIX. CASUALTIES OF THE HEART WEREN'T SO EASY... Dr. Joanne Duncan is a highly respected emergency room physician at St. Joseph's Hospital. Spencer Mathews was a highly respected detective with the RCMP, until a car crash ...
Now you see me �" now you don't When her flashy, adventurous, identical twin is killed in a car crash, Tallahassee college professor Kate Jones is left with her twin's infant daughter. Kate knows almost nothing about the little girl's father -- j...
THE OFFICER: Captain Kaitlin McCord, an attorney in the US Army's Judge Advocate General's Corps. THE HERO: Master Sergeant Daniel Wilson, a paralegal assigned to Captain McCord. THE PROBLEM: The captain meets the handsome enlisted man before...
Old friends, best friends...Girlfriends They met ten years ago, and they've been friends ever since. Zoey, Charlotte and Lydia. Charlotte's taken the Girlfriends' challenge: Find your first love. What's he doing? How's he doing? On a business tri...
AMERICA'S BRAVEST -- Courageous. Heroic. Strong. They're the men and women who risk their lives to save others. They're America's firefighters... they're America's Bravest. When firefighter Francesca Cordaro saves the life of Alex Templeton, she...
Sarah Lennox had her life arranged down to the minute -- but that was before she discovered she was pregnant and that her fiance was a jerk. Not sure what to do next, she heads to Firefly Glen, the quiet little town that was once a haven for her. ...
For most people, spending Christmas with family and friends is what the holidays are all about. But for Special Agent Sara Hanrahan, returning to her hometown is the hardest thing the DEA has ever asked her to do. Even worse, she can't let anyone kno...
Beazie Deadham is alone and on the run. She witnessed the murder of her boss in an underground parking lot in Boston, and accepted an incriminating tape from him, which he told her to deliver to "Evan" in Maple Hill. Now the perpetrators of the crime...
AMERICA'S BRAVEST -- Courageous. Heroic. Strong. They're the men and women who risk their lives to save others. They're America's firefighters... they're America's Bravest. Opposites Attract: Firefighter Dylan O'Rourke loves the holidays. Eve...
This Christmas, she's got her very own St. Nick! With her business sold and her family out of reach, Abby Hayden's at loose ends. But if Abby doesn't have enough to occupy her time, Dr. Nick Monroe has too much. So many people rely on him for h...
Jaclyn Wentworth is on her own with three little kids. She used to be married to the golden boy -- former golden boy -- of their small Nevada town. The marriage was a disaster because her ex-husband never grew up. And he sure wasn't much of a daddy. ...
SOMETIMES LOVE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME OF ALL As the powerful head of one of the strongest protection agencies in the world, Ellen Denby believed she was invincible. Invulnerable. Until she came face-to-face with the one man who made her rememb...
Lydia Lane didn't take the girlfriends' challenge -- to find her first love -- seriously at all. But then, Sam Pereira finds her...or rather, his ex-wife does. Lydia runs a business called Domestica, organizing people's lives and teaching them hou...
AMERICA'S BRAVEST -- Courageous. Heroic. Strong. They're the men and women who risk their lives to save others. They're America's firefighters... they're America's Bravest. Lieutenant Jake Scarlatta has always believed that fire fighting is a...
Hannah Crosby and Quinn McNichol are perfect for each other -- everyone thinks so. But sometimes being perfect isn't enough. Hannah wants more. Marriage, children, a future... Quinn doesn't think marriage -- let alone children -- is a good idea. H...
Three orphaned children were definitely not on his shopping list! Luke Duncan never would have believed that going grocery shopping would lead to becoming foster father to three orphans. But no matter how he met them, it was clear that Brian, Hann...
The notorious Mrs. Wright �" and the resourceful Mr. Lewis Private investigator Whit Lewis is pursuing a case that has taken him to St. Augustine, Florida. His assignment: track down a woman named Susan Wright. A woman whose real name, he believe...
Courage Under Fire Dr. Reed Macauley has spent years helping firefighters deal with their problems and the stress of their jobs. He has the utmost respect for these courageous men and women. But Reed -- a former firefighter himself -- questions hi...
He's a man from the past �" and a man with a past... When Harley Nelson got on his motorcycle and drove out of Portland, Oregon, 10 years ago, he left behind a bad reputation -- and a baby. Audra Worthington was the reason for both. Well, the bab...
Re*spon*si*ble adj 1: trustworthy, reliable, dependable 2: the one thing Griffin Cahill is not. Griffin Cahill plays too hard, dodging commitment any and every way he can. His ex-fiancee, pediatrician Heather Delaney, works too hard, for essential...
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...
Wanna-be earth mother... Erica Leitner knows all about big cities and culture -- after all, she grew up in Boston and went to Harvard University. But her idea of the good life is owning a small farm in New Hampshire and digging a garden. So she's co...
Dana Morancy adores her father, so it isn't surprising that she followed in his career footsteps and joined the New York Police Department. But after four years on the job, she is involved in a "suicide by cop." Uncertain whether she'll ever be able ...
There's one test that a single woman doesn't wasn't to come out positive For Pam Carver, trouble comes in the form of a home pregnancy kit. She wants her baby, but with the father completely out of the picture, she's all on her own. Then her frien...
A MYSTERY INHERITANCE -- WITH STRINGS ATTACHED! Roslyn Baines can't believe what she's hearing. A great-aunt -- someone she's never even heard of -- has left her a large estate in rural Iowa on condition that she give up her career in Chicago for...
Jo Dubray doesn't think much of marriage, and she certainly doesn't plan to try it herself. But that doesn't mean she isn't interested in getting to know her new roommate's brother.... After all, Ryan's recently divorced and h...
As true as the stars above? Dana Turner is an astronomer; she's also an ex-convict. Deliberately framed for a murder she didn't commit, she spent seven months in prison. On her release, she came to Texas to work at an isolated little observatory in ...
Friendship has boundaries...doesn't it? Melissa Lopez is a doctor at the medical clinic Kyle Davenport runs. They work together, spend off-hours having fun together -- they're friends. It was never supposed to happen, but one hot summer night ...
Our Beloved Katie 11-18-00 Finding a silver urn by the side of a country road -- you'd call that unusual, wouldn't you? Ex-cop Mitch Valetti certainly does. He knows this has to be a precious object, the memory of a life, and Mitch is determined ...
Hainesville, Washington, might not be glamorous, but it's the place supermodel Geena Hanson wants to be after she collapses on a Milan runway and has a near-death experience that sends her back into life with the promise of having a child. Dr. Ben...
His dog is playing matchmaker... Officer Ben Jacobs and his canine partner, Czar -- the newest members of the Bullion Police Department -- should have no problem proving themselves to the citizens and mayor of the small California town. Both have ...
What Delaney wants...is a baby. A baby of her own. At thirty, she longs to break away from the constraints of her life. Longs to reach out for her heart's desire. She'd prefer marriage as well, but there's no man in Dundee, Idaho, she'...
Kim Luchetti couldn't get away fast enough from the Illinois farm she grew up on -- and from boyfriend Brian Riley. Now she's back. Her father is ailing, and so is Brian -- after his first sight of Kim causes him to tumble off a barn roof and brea...
Everyone says Kathleen Monroe is perfect -- the perfect wife, the perfect hostess, the perfect mother But after a lifetime of practice, Kathleen is beginning to wonder if perfectionism is a good thing. After all, it didn't help her marriage and mi...
Noah and Tessa Gabriel -- once they were in love, happy, married. Of course, that was then. Now they're two people who've lost all the things that matter most, including each other. But after Tessa's best friend, David, is killed and she becomes the ...
Ivy Parker is a woman who can't stop crusading. Now she's trying to save a dusty Texas town. She's also a woman who can't stop rescuing lost souls -- like Linc Garner, the impoverished carpenter who shows up one day at the cafe she...
What's wrong with this picture? Bonnie Nielson's life looks perfect. She has everything she's always wanted -- a husband and child she adores, a successful business, close family and friends, a town she loves. And yet she's not happy. For some ...
After failing at marriage -- not once, but twice! -- North Carolina state trooper Pete Mitchell intends to remain single, no matter what. But when he pulls over his first ex-wife's Porsche for speeding, seeing her casts a spell on him all over again....
She can't remember her husband -- or her son "You're my mom!" That's what 13-year-old Brett Corbitt blurts out when he sees the woman who calls herself Martha Walters. His mother, Susan Corbitt, is presumed dead, although her body was never found, a...
What he wants...is a baby. A child of his own. Jake Manning more or less raised his younger siblings; he loves kids and knows he's a natural father. However, he's had zero success as a husband. So he comes up with a baby plan, one that requires a wom...
Ethan Parnell and Gina Morante meet when they accidentally wind up in the same time-share condominium on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas. Right place for a tropical vacation, but wrong time for them both to appear -- and for sure the wrong two ...
Helen Schaefer isn't getting married. That's what she's decided, anyway -- because she simply can't stand to think she could love and lose again. After the death of her husband, she let her daughter down terribly and she's not about to risk hurtin...
Can Deputy Brady Moore, a man desperate to protect his brother's children, convince Dana Ritchie, a woman desperate to protect herself, to be his wife? Brady's only asking Dana to be a temporary wife. After all, he can hardly expect a woman he's j...
Ex-con Matthew Quinn has plenty of trouble in his life right now. He doesn't need to take on more. And there's no question that Natalie Granville -- with her crumbling mansion and her canceled wedding -- is capital-T trouble. But that doesn...
Paris O'Hara is trying to find herself And her hometown of Maple Hill is where she's starting the search. It turns out her mother lied to her about who her father really is, and Paris needs to know the truth. Until she comes to terms with her past, ...
He's always loved her. Dixon Bell has loved Kate Bowdrey for as long as he can remember. Everybody in town knew him as the shy kid who carried around a guitar -- and as the guy who disappeared after high school graduation. After thirteen years awa...
Free-spirited Chelsea Everett might think life is one big adventure not to be taken seriously, but as an instructor at Risk Control International, a company in the "survival business," she's anything but irresponsible. That's why Trent Harrison, w...
Brilliant, driven surgical superstar Caroline Malone is desperate to recover from the injury that threatens to end her career, and she'll try anything that might help her heal -- including a rest away from it all in the remote Davis Mountains of ...
Who's going to win the battle of Dundee, Idaho? The town's bad girl or its favorite son? Rebecca Wells desperately wants to overcome her reputation. She's finally trying to put an end to her twenty-four-year rivalry with the perfect Josh Hill, a ...
They'd grown up at Serenity House -- a group home for girls. Now they're coming together for the first time as adults. Childhood friends who'd shared difficult times, who'd shared hopes and fears, laughter and tears -- and perhaps most important of a...
Twins like Eric Kincaide and his sister, Naomi, know each other's every thought. But that closeness came between him and Lindsey Nelson, the woman he'd planned to marry, four years ago. When their wedding plans fell through, Lindsey ran as far and fa...
Nate Hawkins was a close friend of fellow air force pilot Scott Pierce. But he concealed one fact from Scott: Nate was in love with Scott's wife, Laurel. Now Scott is dead -- and Laurel is obviously pregnant. But the timing's off, and as far as Nate'...
Emily Barrett wants a baby in her life -- not a husband. And that's the reason she went to a sperm bank. Through some detective work she's able to work out who the donor is, but she doesn't ever plan to reveal to Dr. Brad Winslow that he's about ...
These days Darcy O'Malley hardly remembers the fun-loving, outrageous young woman she used to be. For the most part, she's content to be the responsible mother of two young daughters and the owner of the local day care. So when Hunter Sloan, Hyde Poi...
Three months ago, Sam and Diana Lynsky boarded their twenty-six-foot yacht and set out for a sail to mark their fortieth anniversary. Diana never returned. Sam told the sheriff that he'd retired to the cabin for a nap, and when he awoke, Diana had va...
Three delightful angels come down to earth -- just in time for Christmas! Shirley, Goodness and Mercy: three well-intentioned angels who are occasionally allowed to intervene (or -- perhaps more accurately -- interfere!) in human affairs. Despite ...
Hoping to start over, paramedic Andrea Hunt has come home to Courage Bay. But even she couldn't have known how her new life would begin -- with a tragic accident that leaves her responsible for her nephew. Kevin's a very special boy who copes with...
Some old acquaintances are never forgot Miranda James is back in the tiny prairie town of Chatsworth, Saskatchewan, to work on a video biography of reclusive writer Warren Addison. While she's there, she hopes to help her best friend, Chad English...
Anabelle Crane had once loved Nathan Hyde. But his betrayal forced them apart and sent her packing -- all the way to Seattle. Now she's a cop and she's put her life back together, convinced that she's over Nathan. But when she comes home to recupe...
Pregnant...and alone? When Katie Rogers returns to Dundee, Idaho, it's not because she wants to. It's because she's disillusioned, broke -- and pregnant. She was going to make something of her life in the big city. Instead, she's paying a high pri...
How is it possible to forget the love of your life? Zach Calvert has no memory of his last three years as a Navy pilot. And for the most part, he's resigned himself to that. He's content with his new life as the sheriff of his hometown, happy that...
Lauren Conway almost didn't make it out alive She owes her life to Alex Shields, the handsome firefighter who carried her from the burning office building. But when Lauren wakes up in a hospital bed, everyone -- including her rescuer -- assumes sh...
Is their marriage ending...or just beginning? Vicki Sorenson met Jamie Malone and married him an hour later. Both had good reasons for exchanging vows, but they had no plans to set up house. Now -- thirteen years later -- the new man in Vicki's li...
There's something happening in Shelter Valley... Shelter Valley, Arizona, is the kind of place where everyone wants to live. Martha Moore, divorced mother of four, has spent her whole life here and can't imagine being anywhere else. But somethi...
Sophie Calvert has planned every second of her life. That all changes after she meets Ian Ridley. Suddenly the woman who never wanted to get married is forgetting everything -- including her plans. Which is why she ends up eloping...and why she ru...
Phoebe Moss is engaged to be married And what a catch! Adam DeVries is a hardworking, intelligent man who's running for mayor of New Skye. After years of avoiding the trappings of a relationship, Phoebe finds herself pulled toward Adam -- despite hi...
Chloe St. Claire grew up as a daughter of privilege -- but when she started to find the advantages empty, she began to carve out a life of her own. And that meant taking a job as a police psychologist. She's worked for the Austin Police Departmen...
Sam Lockwood is a single father who wants his children to know about family. For that reason he begins to search for the mother who gave him up at birth. He finds her, and is surprised to learn that she now has another child -- one she chose through ...
Mr. Archer does not exist Jacquie Archer has a secret. But now she has to come clean -- she never had a husband. She made him up as a cover for the biggest mistake of her life -- her affair with Rhys Lewellyn. Although that mistake gave her the gr...
Leaving Las Vegas... Thirteen-year-old Rayne Houston is on a quest. After discovering that her father is alive, she angrily packs her bag and goes off to find him, with only a six-year-old orphan named Tim at her side. Nicole Houston is frantic...
From special agent to ex-con T. J. Cauthen spent five years in jail. He lost his career, his honor and the chance to watch his daughter grow. Now he's out, and he's determined to get back his life and his child. But first he has to figure out ...
Even though her dad calls her Unsinkable Molly McClain, eight-year-old Molly knows he worries about her all the time. In her opinion, he needs someone else to think about. And Molly's found the perfect candidate -- Miss Rachel, the arts and crafts in...
He was her first love At Twin Falls High School, Gil Harper and Clare Morgan were inseparable -- until the murder of a classmate tore their world, and their relationship, apart. Gil was a prime suspect in the murder, and although he was quickl...
Wealthy, womanless and temporarily at loose ends, Formula One race-car driver Rick Hawkins finds himself in Texas visiting his newly married father. While he's there, he becomes involved with his stepmother's family -- especially her twenty-eight-yea...
After her son is seriously injured in a car accident, Julie Matthew wants two things: for him to regain his health and for her family to return to normal. What a shock when she learns that Russell, her husband, sees normal as a rut. His solution? To ...
Being married to the wrong man can lead only to divorce It was a hard lesson, but Libby Cameron learned it. Twelve years later, her ex-husband has moved to town. Libby's too smart to go down that road again. But doing the smart thing isn't easy...
You're invited to a reunion! Are you brave enough to attend? When Olivia Ashford first receives the invitation to her high school reunion, she dismisses it. After all, she'd left Summerville -- and John Riley -- and never looked back. But her life...
If anything ever happens to me, go to 445 Briar Lane, Wind Lake, Minnesota Colin Luchetti's brother Bobby is missing and the only clue is a cryptic note sending Colin to Wind Lake. What he finds when he gets there is unexpected -- a day-care ce...
Celia Remington is a single mom with a teenage daughter to keep safe -- and the family ranch to protect. She can't believe her luck when Brady Coleman answers her ad for a hired hand. He's lean, fit and obviously not afraid of hard work. But Brady...
Home sweet home! Award-winning journalist Edie Robinson has come home to help out. But she's back for only a month. Much as she loves her family, that's all she can take of small-town life and her elderly mother's constant complaints: "Why can't y...
What would you think if one day your wife disappeared, and everyone believed you were responsible? How would you feel if the only thing that kept you from being arrested was your child's insistence that his mommy told him she was leaving? And...
A man who can't walk away from trouble -- and a woman who's nothing but Traveling incognito, Zane MacAllister, Hollywood's hottest heartthrob, has at last eluded the rabid gossipmongers and curiosity seekers who trail him like a pack o...
After the birth -- and death -- of her child, Maya fled her hometown and made a new life for herself. Many years later, her lover's brother reveals she was told a lie. Her son is still alive. And now Maya is prepared to do whatever it takes to fi...
He wants a son. Max Walker loves his daughters with a ferocity and depth that constantly surprise him. But in the deepest corner of his heart, in a place not even his wife knows about, he's always wanted a son. She wants a life. Kelly Walker adore...
Sea View House in Pilgrim Cove offers its residents the sea, the sun, the sound of the surf and the call of the gulls. But sometimes serenity is only an illusion... Laura McCloud has come back to Pilgrim Cove -- the source of her fondest childhood...
Jilly Hart is used to being called an unsavory thing or two. Gold digger. Serial bride. You name it. All because Jilly doesn't believe in love...or magic. Just cold hard cash. There's no way she's going to go back to living a life of poverty. But ...
She'd do anything to protect this baby When TV personality Ashleigh Logan became pregnant by artificial insemination of her deceased husband's sperm, she ignited a media frenzy and attracted a stalker. So she's sequestered herself in the mountains o...
Sea View House in Pilgrim Cove offers its residents the sea, the sun, the sound of the surf and the call of the gulls. But sometimes serenity is only an illusion... A summer at Sea View House means a chance for Shelley Anderson and her two young ...
Jenna Rawlins is a straitlaced kind of woman. As fate would have it, the one night she goes a little crazy and allows herself to be seduced, she becomes pregnant. It's bad timing, since she's trying to claim her independence from her overprotective f...
Austin police detective Delilah Butler was only fifteen when a crazed drifter held her and her mother at gunpoint. During those dark hours twelve years ago, she survived by clinging to the comfort of the hostage negotiator's voice. Delilah never ...
The Birth Place gave her sanctuary Hope Tanner escaped from her polygamous community in Superior, Utah, ten years ago -- pregnant and alone. She ended up at The Birth Place in Enchantment, New Mexico, where Lydia Kane, the clinic's founder, handle...
Gideon and Prue Hale are still married -- but try telling that to Prue. Even though no papers have been signed, as far as Prue's concerned it's over. She can never forgive Gideon's betrayal. When Gideon comes to Maple Hill with an offer to help ge...
Sarah Welch didn't know she had a twin until five years ago, when a string of events led her through the seedy underbelly of Dallas to the family she didn't know she had. Sarah has spent those five years trying to forget what she went through -- forg...
The sweetest little boy... Leslie Hopkins's heart goes out to Cory Gallagher, a six-yearold boy who lost his mother over a year ago. She delights in her new job as his nanny and is ecstatic when the boy starts to warm up to her. She hurts only whe...
Nothing is more rewarding than bringing a new life into the world. Share the joy with the dedicated staff of The Birth Place and the women who choose to have their babies here. Pediatrician Joanna Weston's looking forward to caring for the infants...
'Tis the season of hope Rosie DeMarco is finally climbing out of the grief that locked her heart. Her brother, father and unborn baby died in the span of a week. And no one -- not even her husband, Matt -- could reach Rosie as she withdrew into da...
The bridesmaid is pregnant.... The stuffy air in the church and her queasy stomach are a bad combination, especially since Krystal Graham is trying to hide her condition -- particularly from Garret Donovan, the groomsman assigned to escort her dow...
Two one-parent families... With a busy job and two young kids, Valerie Manion is always looking for volunteers to help with her scouting program, Girls Outdoors! Single father Rob Warren signs up, mainly so he can keep an eye on his disabled daughte...
Nolan McKinnon is shocked when he's named his niece's guardian. He knows nothing about taking care of a little girl -- especially an orphan -- but he still would have bet he knew more than Kim Sherman. Kim's a newcomer to Enchantment -- one who se...
The Andersons are a family in name only. The five of them live in the same house, but go their separate ways. This Christmas, one member is willing to take some desperate measures to remind the Andersons exactly what the word family means....