
Hurricane Iris and Mike McKay arrived at the same time It was anyone's guess which posed the greater threat. Sandy Patterson's home was already battered by Hurricane Henry, which had attacked Eaton's Harbor, Long Island, the previous d...
Burke Logan was a gambler, and luck had made him owner of Three Aces, one of the finest stables in Maryland. He'd come to Ireland to buy horses, but one look at Erin McKinnon's fiery beauty told him that he'd be leaving with a whole lot more. Erin M...
SHE HAD TO HAVE HIM. Kerry Bishop needed a man. She needed someone tough enough and strong enough to lead nine orphans through enemy territory to a jungle airlift. Linc O'Neal needed to get out of Montenegro fast. He had a roll of film to deliv...
He'd come for a reason .... It had taken fifteen years for the small town of Morey's Falls, in the Montana foothills, to come to terms with a tragedy that had touched all their lives. Now, Tanner, the son of the man who had been the cause of it al...
DARK SIDE OF THE DREAM When Tonio Cruz walked back into Erica's life, ten years fell away. She was once again the teenage girl who had given him her love, body and soul, and received betrayal in return. But she had received something else a...
Love could have some very strange symptoms Rosie Weaver and her new boarder argued over the insignificant details of day-to-day living and brazenly probed each other's deepest secrets. The McMinnville, Oregon, boarding house became a war zone ...
It was obvious they had nothing in common Burt Thomson could control his fictional world, but real life was nothing to write home about. Divorced, he lived in the San Fernando Valley with his two sons, their enormous sheepdog, Wadsworth, and total...
BLACKMAIL... Bryn had to retrieve the photos she'd taken of drummer Lee Condor. Her nephew had been kidnapped, and the kidnapper wanted only one thing in return: those photos. But why? And how could she possibly get them back from Lee? From th...
HONOR VS. LOVE Who was she really -- Lily Fazekas, the name she had used since childhood, or Iiona Kormany, the name of her newly discovered baptismal certificate? Joseph Varga knew something about Iiona and needed to know more. She was his c...
BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE... The ranch she'd inherited was nearly bankrupt, and now Michelle discovered that she was also deeply in debt to John Rafferty, the tough-talking, hard-loving rancher who'd fascinated her since their first meeting ...
What was so funny about a bungled divorce? Austin Cavanaugh came all the way to San Francisco to tell Clea a joke. Clea Bannister--good old Clea--had unknowingly been Mrs. Austin Cavanaugh for the past seven, years. She wasn't amused. She'...
Flynn McCallister had a talent for make-believe In fact, Dr. Ann Perry was seeing a whole new side to her Los Angeles neighbor. The irresponsible bon vivant had become a model parent ever since he'd found a homeless little girl. Flynn was great at...
TONY GRAHAM WAS ALL WRONG FOR THE JOB As they traveled the blue highways of Nevada, rolling into desert towns too small to appear on any map, Tony challenged Jill Wiley's authority, piqued her curiosity and made her uncomfortably aware of her...
By Logan's standards, Karena led a wild life Karena Carlson and her son had settled in the remote wilderness of northern Minnesota. Their family pet was a gawky moose who ate everything in sight. Their cabin lacked a telephone, electric light, cen...
BATTLE LINES... Theatrical agent Aurora Fields kept her personal life strictly separate from her professional one, but lines were crossed the moment she met David Brady. He had asked her client to participate in his documentary on paranormal pheno...
HE WAS A HELL RAISER... Cage Hendren had chased more thin his share of women, but he loved only one--Jenny Fletcher, the quiet, serious girl who was engaged to his brother, Hal. Cage kept his distance until Hal was killed doing missionary work ...
NOTHING MEANT MORE THAN LIFE -- AND LOVE. Their marriage had ended, but not the love they felt for their son. And in five days one summer they discovered that their love for each other was still a powerful force. When their son was kidnappe...
Had she listened to a lover's lies? Amy Shannon met Jase Lassiter under the sign of the serpent, and she should have heeded the warning. At first he promised paradise, offering her nights of love and days of sheer delight. But the taste of ho...
Small wonder Destiny felt mutinous Rafe Janeiro turned even a summer in Digby Head, Maine, into sheer misery. No colas, no spicy foods, no late hours and no work. Worst of all, when Destiny protested, Rafe retorted with "doctor's orders....
Someone was watching over her His name was Jason O'Leary and he was going to be the father of her baby. Their arrangement sounded crazy but it was really very simple. Carlys would bring up the child she'd always wanted, while Jason, who li...
The situation called for drastic measures What danger so threatened Marlie Richards that her own father had her kidnapped, spirited to a safe house miles from her Houston home and watched twenty-four hours a day? Marlie wouldn't know until she...
KELL SABIN WAS IN TROUBLE He knew it the minute the other boat drew near, the minute he heard the crack of rifle fire over water. Wounded and desperate, he flung himself into the Gulf and headed for shore. Rachel Jones wasn't looking for t...
Love was a lot like moonshine Robin Colladay had been tongue-tied before she and Cash Mackay sampled some of Uncle Jasper's white lightning. The moonshine went straight to her head. Moments later, the Appalachia-bred psychologist was sitting right b...
A SECOND CHANCE... Donovan Sinclair was stunned. His wife, Elizabeth, was leaving after almost twenty years of marriage. True, they'd gotten married as teenagers because they had to, but their love had been as real as the baby on the way. Donovan ...
HE HELD HER WITH CHAINS OF LOVE.... JULIE MAGUIRE She was a ten-year veteran of the U.S. Border Patrol, but one night's slipup left her on the verge of an early -- and final -- retirement. CHAYNE YOUNGER They called him the Blue-eyed ...
STRANGERS IN PARADISE Damon Sutter had set out to explore the Great Barrier Reef. Instead, his dreams of adventure took an unexpected twist with Mandy Blythe's arrival. Their association was supposed to be strictly business; yet she was too smart ...
HE BELONGED IN THE JUNGLE ... . When Tara first saw Rafe Tyler, she was reminded of a tiger preparing to stalk its victim. When he followed her, she realized she was right. He was a hunter, and he was hunting her. She was frightened, but she felt ...
HERITAGE OF DANGER... Gwen Llywelyn came to Myrddin's Rock to sell the ancient Welsh castle that one branch of her family had called home for generations. But what she found when she arrived was a heritage she could not deny, a danger she could no...
DANGEROUS EMBRACE Rachel Brewer thought she'd stumbled into the pages of a spy novel, and she wasn't thrilled. Especially since the "bad guy" was her late husband, Jack, and the FBI agent was the intractable but sexy Luke Warren. ...
Cassie Gordon was off her rocker.... Dave Spencer thought he had heard wrong, but Cassie had said she wanted him to help her catch Brad, his close buddy! Maybe she had spent too much time in the hot kitchen with her catering business? But Cassie t...
MAN ON A MISSION Cozumel had been home to Liz Palmer for ten years. She was settled, respected. Her Black Coral Dive Shop was the best on the island. She no longer missed Houston, or thought about the man who didn't want her or their child. A...
You can't go home again Melissa Lane knew that for a fact but she didn't have much choice in the matter when she was sent on a speaking tour to the Ohio hometown that she had left years ago and never wanted to see again. She had made a new life fo...
WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE, there's always a price to pay. So Sarah Harland discovered when her five-year-old twins introduced her to Matthew Weston. She'd thought he was a figment of their fertile imaginations, a fantasy father to substitute for the re...
PORTRAIT OF A LADY... Leslie Harper was every inch a lady when she walked into the seedy Texas bar. Cutter was clearly no gentleman, but then, no gentleman could do the job she needed done. With Cutter's help she had to enter strife-torn Sa...
Sammy couldn't renege on a promise to her children Sammy Woods joined the Littleton, Colorado, chapter of QUIT. But with Jim Carter in the program, a very nervous Sammy found it harder than ever to stop smoking. Jim was an old flame who still mad...
What lay at the heart of every happy family? Love. Love was the reason Matt Donovan bought a ranch outside Dallas. And love was the reason he invited his parents and his brother's widow and three children to live with him. Yet love could also ...
A GIFT FROM THE SEA . . . He washed up onto her deserted beach like so much flotsam, half-frozen and barely conscious. Before she even knew his name, Erin Mathias fell under his spell, and the more she got to know him, the more powerful that spell...
BLACK SHEEP'S RETURN... The world stopped for Susan Blackstone when she looked across the crowded room and saw the stranger, and then her heart stopped when she learned his name. He was Cord Blackstone, the family black sheep, and her own cousin b...
One plus one equaled three... It was a match made in heaven. Rachel Bennett and Brian Tate loved each other; he adored her young daughter. The Oregon coastline was an idyllic place to live, and Rachel's balloon delivery service was booming. Wh...
It was a day she'd never forget Sara Murdock was pumping gas in Henderson, North Carolina, when she heard about the new preacher. He was reputed to be a quiet, thoughtful man. His name was Jess Larkin.... That evening Sara walked around the hillsi...
Was it love or a bad case of nerves? The way she'd been feeling lately, Susan Duvall couldn't tell. Since the discovery of her boss's unethical business practices, Susan's fast-track career had hit a roadblock and her emotions had been riding a ro...
Teddy Sothern knew a lie when she heard one Hired to manage her father's senate race, Graham McKinsey purported to be a cynical political veteran, but no campaign manager Teddy knew had, his hair-trigger reflexes and rugged physique: No world-...
MALLORY O'CONNOR McKENDRICK To the daytime TV audience she was the ruthless Other Woman, but the real Mallory's marriage seemed to be falling victim to a woman who was truly as unprincipled as the character Mallory played. NATHAN McKENDRICK ...
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS . . . If Lucia Lorenzo hadn't been so exhausted, she would have realized that the person already occupying the bed wasn't her cousin Dina but someone decidedly masculine: Ryan Dandridge, the man she had been trying--unsuccessful...
Anne was looking for peace and quiet When her small hometown turned against her for exposing a network of corruption, Anne Reynolds sought the tranquility of a California beach town. But how could she find peace when neighbor Robert Singleton and ...
A SECOND CHANCE... Five years of marriage were wiped from Chase Buchanon's mind in the wake of his kidnapping. Returned to his wife, he had only instinct to go on, and instinct told him that he loved this woman. For Gwenn, his return was t...
There's nothing like the wide open spaces of the Midwest Suzanne Allman's cross-country trip was fraught with accidents. First, daughter Mouse totaled a parked car just as they were crossing the Pennsylvania-Ohio border, which meant they were obli...
STORM WARNING Secret Service agent Mitch Flannery knew that counterfeit American money was being smuggled to Europe in boats from the Jones Boat Company in Atlanta. Now he had to catch his prime suspect: Miss Serenity Jones. Unaware that she'd...
Jo Wentworth was her name... Clean water her game! It was a dirty job, but Jo and her group, Water Works, were determined to keep their waterways free from impurity. When she needed help, the Wentworths rallied together. Sister Kit even devised an...
INTO THE VALLEY OF DEATH . . . Reba Farrall, connoisseur of jewels, and Chance Walker, a man who searched the world for gems, met in Death Valley--and there they found life. Reba was a treasure beyond price, but the precious tourmalines that tied ...
They were part of a special breed Smoke jumper Lory Foster fought the summer infernos that ravaged the Northwest forests. Mike Steen battled those blazes from his specially equipped chopper. When fires raged, they were a team. The rest of the time...
MORGAN JAMES . . . Her old life was a rut, one she was glad to escape. Then she was grabbed by a knife-wielding man on her first night in Greece, and she wondered if she would go on having any life at all. NICHOLAS GREGORAS . . . He was both...
Laurel got more than she wished for Laurel Sauder was in town for a few weeks, filling in at her father's pharmacy. Special Agent Seth Norris was passing through Bartlow, Ohio, accompanying the president on a whistle-stop tour of the region. Laurel ...
Disaster loomed large for our heroine With an apartment furnished with lawn chairs and a little black book stuffed with names, Paulette D'Amboise was in danger of becoming the Holly Golightly of Madison, Wisconsin. Men fought to take her out; no o...
HE WAS ASHE HARLAN, ONLY SON OF ALEC STONE, AND HE HAD GIVEN IN TO FORBIDDEN LOVE... . When Valerie de la Portilla met Ashe Harlan she wasn't free to love, nor did his harsh assessment of her cool beauty bode well for a future together. Yet there ...
ACROSS THREE CONTINENTS Bret McAllistair chased the diamonds that had remained missing for forty years and led to the death of at least one man. Bret had always been driven to get the story, but this time there was something more. His remainin...
WHAT PRICE FAME? Reporter Cassandra Blake would do anything for a story, even place her own life in peril. Then she met her new boss, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seth Winter. Suddenly she didn't know which to fear more -- terrorist threa...
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO REAL AMERICAN HEROES? When Sam rescued Babs Malone from kidnappers, he wasn't being heroic. He planned to deliver Babs to her Los Angeles home, collect the reward money and happily part company with the spoiled, bad-tempered ...
STRANDED Rusty Carlson was the only woman on the plane. She'd believed she was the only survivor of the crash, until the man who'd been seated across from her showed signs of life. Cooper Landry's head throbbed, but he was alive and...
Some things just come naturally Dr. Sarah Macintosh thought she understood children -- after all, she was a pediatrician. She found out how wrong she was when her best friend died and Sarah was appointed guardian of three children. The youngsters ...
Christmas comes but once a year For Jesse Lawson, even that was too often. A legal-aid lawyer who fought a never-ending battle against poverty and injustice, he thought Christmas was a time-wasting, energy-sapping distraction from the realities of...
SHE WAS THE PRIZE HE HAD ALWAYS SOUGHT... At seventeen Cathryn Ashe had fought Rule Jackson and lost her innocence, then fled to the anonymity of the city. At twenty-five she was back, sure of herself and her newfound independence and ready to cha...
A man and a woman reunited after a long, harsh winter Eric McLean no longer thought of it as an ending. He returned to Platteville, Wisconsin, to attend his father's funeral and to close a chapter of his life. His feelings changed when he saw Chry...
SHE WAS A MOTHER WITHOUT A CHILD After the death of her son, Arden Gentry felt a terrible emptiness. But she had another son, a child her ex-husband had forced her to give up at birth, a child who could ease her pain. Better than anyone, Arden ...
Life, love and the work ethic Brite Cola president Jonas Ameling and Brite heiress Whitney Greystone didn't share the same priorities. That didn't stop Whitney from secretly loving Jonas, but it put a real damper on their relationship. Since Jonas...
HOLD FAST TO DREAMS Hope Gardener dreamed of the day when her ranch in the Valley of the Sun would be brought to life by a reliable well. It seemed like a foolish dream, until the day she met Rio. Rio was a man without dreams. He moved like th...
LAURELLIE ARMAND... Her competition with fellow reporter Matthew Bates went beyond professional rivalry; she fought the spark of sexual attraction as well. But when the two of them became unwilling partners investigating a mysterious death, Laurel ...
What are dreams made of? Ivy Enders was a secretary from small-town Limon, Colorado, when she won the Celtex Sweepstakes. Six million dollars later she was living out her daydreams--nestled in a luxurious Denver apartment, wearing designer clothes...
ONCE A SPY... Rose St. James thought she had left espionage behind, but they called her out of retirement to take one last assignment, and they wouldn't let her refuse. She had to investigate Jade Castle, a man of wealth and power, a man wi...
NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET For Jessica Todd life meant the pressures of too much work and too little sleep. One day her body told her it was time for a vacation, but she never doubted that she would soon return to her high-powered world. Kyle M...
Nanny and the Kramers Judy Cassidy took charge at once when she appeared on the doorstep of the Kramer family's residence in Manzanita, Oregon. It was a snap extracting little Katie's foot -- clad in a Big Bird shoe -- from the toilet! Mit...
First she jilted him... Then she jailed him. Arid now she said she wanted back in his life. Half-Navajo journalist Chase Whitelaw had a one-word answer for that, and it wasn't yes. Sure, he wanted a wife and family--he was tired of being the o...
HOMECOMING... Libby Kincaid has returned to the ranch where she grew up to heal the wounds that a broken marriage and the death of her beloved stepson have left. But instead of the solace she craves, she finds Jess Barlowe. For years Jess had ...
THIS WAS NO TV SHOW! This was the real thing: gritty, frightening and completely confusing. Amanda's first priority was to deal with her kidnappers. She had to explain to them that no one was about to pay for her return. Her second priority was...
Lily Roberts meant everything to him The moment he'd set eyes on the pale, pretty child, Trace Dushane knew why he lived. To keep Lily from harm, Trace fled the Oklahoma prairie of his birth. To feed her, he sometimes went hungry. It was a hard li...
No good deed goes unpunished Jane Lindsay found him unconscious in the snow, his car having skidded off the icy Montauk, Long Island, road. She took him home. Nursed him back to health. And how did Brett Chandler repay Jane for saving his life? ...
Daphne always played it safe Realtor Daphne Stoltz was horrified that her latest client and potential neighbor was Brad Torrance. Brad was a living reminder of the night Daphne hadn't played it safe, the night a certain lovelorn, tipsy coed set ou...
Home... Back to the land of Sweet Water, West Virginia. Mary Rose Perkins needed to get back to her roots, to the life that she was destined for. There had never been any doubt that she would return to help her people. Setting up her medical pract...
DANGEROUS TERRITORY Tyler St. James was courting disaster when she teamed up with wily Kane Pendleton to hunt for the gold chalice. But being alone in the Colombian wilderness with a sniper on her tail made even a shaky truce with her fiercest ri...
IN HOT PURSUIT Katie MacDonald was all too aware of the dangers she faced as a Miami police-beat reporter. After all, her closest friend had been killed while covering a notorious street-gang leader. The death had been ruled accidental, but Katie ...
Some sailors have a girl in every port At sea, merchant marine officer Christopher Weaver had everything under control, but on land it was anything but smooth sailing. He had a dilapidated houseboat, an errant son, an invalid mother and a crazy ne...
United forever... That's what Janessa Knight and Clay Barrister proclaimed as fanciful children. It was a bond they vowed would never be broken... But childhood dreams could not anticipate adult realities. When Janessa became involved in ...
SHE WAS AN AUTHORITY ON MEN... Kasey Wyatt was an anthropologist, but her knowledge of men in general hadn't prepared her for one man in particular: Jordan Taylor. She was to help him with the research for his novel, but the study of the human hear...
ELISE LINDSTROM... She was torn between two worlds: the glamorous world of film, where she had to pretend to be someone she wasn't, and the wilds of Africa, where she was afraid she might not be woman enough to win the man she wanted. REED KI...
It was Ms. Pilgrim's very first felony Libby Pilgrim, staid and sensible college archivist, wouldn't have kidnapped Joshua Noon without a very good reason. And what better reason could there be than the protection of her beloved Maine coas...
With a throw of love's dice she staked her heart. Amidst the glamour and flash of Atlantic City's casino row, Nacia Barnes gambled with her future. Jared Ranklin was a builder and a man used to taking charge, but when he tried to take charge of N...
LOVE IN BLOOM .. . Emily had been a plain Jane all her life, but that hadn't stopped her from loving Adam Marshall, her charismatically handsome employer. She had never thought that Adam saw her as anything other than a secretary--until the day he...
SWORN ENEMIES Kari Wynne had every reason in the world to hate DA Hunter Mckee. In her eyes, he was ambitious, unprincipled, and too hard driving. Her feud with him had cost her the TV reputation she had struggled to win, the job that was her life...
IN TOO DEEP... Katie Johns's heart stood still as the sound of her pursuer's footsteps grew closer. The sea gulls that flew over the dark, deserted docks couldn't save her, and the light at the end of the pier seemed so far away. Relie...
Sara was a sight to behold The new veterinarian in Bitterroot, Montana, Sara Wingate was up to her ears in muck and squealing pigs when she noticed Mitch Carter watching her. Mitch was a professional cowboy, at home on the back of a stallion, a he...
DANIEL IN THE BABY'S DEN... Daniel Ryan never even knew he had a daughter-until the day a lawyer presented him with tiny, adorable, Katie and a contract for one year's custody. Now his year was almost up, and Katie's mother would be coming to tak...
WHAT WAS IT THEY SAID ABOUT THROWING STONES? All that stood between Michael Dubrovnik and the creation of Dubrovnik Plaza was a building that begged for demolition--and Glass House's obstinate owner. Michael had met his share of Park Avenue blu...
FRIENDS ARE FOR KEEPS Tom, Shelly and Ben had been inseparable as children. Together they had survived all the terrors of growing up. Then they had become adults, and their friendship had faced a different challenge, their loyalties a tougher t...
SHE WAS IN FOR A SHOCK Christine Donovan never expected to see Paul Cameron again. He was part of her past, someone she had long ago buried in her heart. But she had to return to Phoenix; she had to find out who was embezzling money from her aunt&...
THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY Zoologist Sarah Fairchild had a mission in Indonesia: to protect the life of the endangered orangutan. But deep in the steamy rain forests she encountered an altogether different species -- the magnificent jungle pre...
COLD. Ice raining down. Darkness and wind . . . The nightmare woke Alana each night with a shock of absolute terror that did not diminish with waking. Those six lost days on Broken Mountain that she could not recall were tearing her apart. ...
HE WAS CALLED HAWK Behind his dark glasses, Dane Farrow saw everything, said little and acted decisively. At first, Taylor Ashe resented the way he took charge of her life. In London on a secret quest, Taylor couldn't know the Pandora's Box sh...
AND BABY MAKES FIVE... Jarod and Sandy were going to be married. They loved each other -- and they were going to be parents. They were thrilled at the prospect, but their parents...! Dan knew his innocent daughter had been seduced by that tee...
A MASTER OF THE MYSTERIOUS Pierce Atkins was a solitary figure, a magician who'd entranced audiences all over the world. Only one woman, Ryan Swan, had guessed the pain that lay behind his art, the past he'd chosen to conceal behind the flash and th...
SEEING IS BELIEVING Jack Ryan didn't believe in leprechauns, mermaids, lucky numbers or wishing upon stars. Which meant that he didn't believe in Sheri -- at first. Sheri made roses bloom in winter. Charmed birds. And had the power to m...
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUSTED? Layna adopted a facade on the glorious Greek cruise. She became a woman of poise and sophistication, a woman at home with a man like Caleb Danner. Caleb, however, knew more than he was telling, though by profession he was ...
MY BODYGUARD Cade Garrison had been involved in two accidents in the past month, but he was convinced that was all they were. No one was trying to kill him, and he was sure hi didn't need any protection. Then he met Victoria Chase, and he quickly ...
SOMETIMES LIFE's TOUGHEST LESSONS HAVE THE GENTLEST TEACHERS.... A small Wyoming town is about to learn a few lessons -- from a new schoolteacher with the courage to win the heart of a man who swore he had nothing to give.... Mary Elizabeth Pot...
MEMORIES Anne hadn't wanted the family's money, power--or madness. Just their generations-old home in the Appalachians. Just freedom from memories of a marriage that had nearly destroyed her. Just the peace she'd found in her new life ...
IF SHE'D KNOWN THEN WHAT SHE KNEW NOW... At twenty-seven, Jill was masquerading as a high-school senior to find the truth about her sister's death. She was also causing quite a commotion. Snubbing the cheerleaders. Hanging out with the jocks. ...
LOVE LETTERS Tall, brawny, magnificent -- with a black eye patch and slight limp that only added to his overwhelming masculinity --Trevor Rule might be the one man who could make Kyla Stroud forget her husband's death in the embassy bombing. ...
LAUREN TAYLOR... She was as beautiful as the artworks she dealt with, and beneath her cool exterior beat the heart of a woman waiting to be awakened. CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS.. He was a genius on the brink of realization and the canvases he painted ...
STRANGER IN THE NIGHT ... "Leo sent me." The cryptic words uttered by the rain-soaked stranger on her doorstep sent fear racing through Kathryn. Her uncle was dead, so who was this man who'd appeared out of the night--with a gunshot wound in hi...
ALL PATTY WANTED WAS A FATHER OF HER OWN Normally, chemistry didn't present a challenge to ten-year-old genius Patty. But man-woman chemistry was a different thing, and it had Patty stumped. Patty thought she only had to find the perfect fa...
A MAN CALLED TAGGART Megan Kirkwood knew there was no escaping this nightmare. It was real. Abducted from her Des Moines accounting office, transported across the country, she'd been interrogated for information about a man she hadn't seen in a ye...
THE CHILDREN WANTED A FAMILY TO BELONG TO It was their last Christmas together. Housemother Carol Shaw wanted to make it special for Frank, Nicky, Dorcas, Kathy and Candy -- children who'd never had a family and faced an uncertain future in foster h...
"HOME FOR CHRISTMAS" Those words had never meant as much to Bryce as they did now. For the first time in years he was back in tiny Angel's Peak, living once again in his childhood home. But there were problems, too. For one thing, t...
Life was primitive ... . . . in Amador Springs, California. Linda Conway and her sister slept in a lean-to, bathed in a stream and panned for nuggets of gold in the icy water. Their enemies were cougars, claim jumpers and time. It wasn't the life ...
LIKE FATHER, LIKE DAUGHTER? Kelly Smith had always planned to follow in her father's footsteps on the horse-racing circuit, but now it seemed those footsteps led to betrayal. Could she prove her father had been innocent of the charges against h...
STRANDED! Wild horse wrangler Sandy Stewart hadn't wanted anything to do with Jason Rivers from the start. He intended to bring civilization to the wilderness she was sworn to protect, and it offended every fiber of her being that she was assigned...
THE HUNTER AND THE HUNTED... Honor Knight had to convince Judd Raven to let her go. Her life depended on it! But he refused to believe that the two men who had hired him to find her were anything but what they claimed to be: her father and brother...
ON THE RUN... No one was going to take her child away from her! Pregnant and alone, Laura Malone had been on the move for months. Finding herself snowbound with an angry, impatient Gabriel Bradley was not part of her plans. Gabe wanted to be a...
TRY TO REMEMBER.... It seemed like providence when the stranger showed up on Caitlin Barratt's ranch. She needed help, and he needed everything: food, a shave, a job -- a name. Something had happened to his memory, and he had no idea who -- or wha...
NOSTALGIA WAS HER ENEMY Isabelle Romney couldn't escape her memories of Rancho Diablo--and the man who'd stolen her birthright. Cool, cynical and daring, Luke Cassidy had been first in her father's heart--and for better or worse, Luke was first...
IT WAS NOTHING SHORT OF CATASTROPHE Spike, the million-dollar spokescat, had taken a powder. Ad exec Gillian Sommers was given the job of finding the fabulous feline before her biggest client got wind of the disaster. Despite Gillian's objecti...
WHERE THE HEART IS... For as long as Shelley Wilde could remember, she had wanted a home of her own, a place where she was understood, where she was safe. After a divorce and years of putting finishing touches on homes for other people, she had f...
SHE WAS A WOMAN OF THE '90s ...the 1890s, that is. At least Frances Moon was convinced she'd have been more comfortable back then. She had everything she needed in the wilds of Vermont: her friends, her cat, her sheep, her goats. And, she ...
A DREAM TO SHARE Brittany was alone. Desperately alone, frightened . . . and pregnant. Dan's death had shattered her dreams; her parents offered no support. There was only Michael Sinclair, Dan's best friend, so kind, so strong, who wanted...
IT ENDED AS IT BEGAN--FOR LOVE'S SAKE For three years Anne Sinclair had been running from the law. She changed her name, her appearance and her address whenever neighbors got too curious or the law got too close. What she couldn't chang...
Can love survive scandal? Sex, money and power -- for weeks, Griffin had been investigating what promised to be the worst scandal ever to hit the sleepy Rhode Island communities. Then Granby Record reporter Jill Bergland stumbled onto the story. S...
WHO WAS NICK BARNETT? Divorcee Jenny Lake had to find out. The virile stranger didn't look like your average neighborhood ice cream man, and Jenny's neighbors were convinced he was some sort of criminal. Jenny couldn't believe it. But was that bec...
AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE Lucas Greywolf was her forbidden fantasy -- wild, rebellious, an escaped convict who was also a Navajo Indian. Aislinn had been terrified when he had first grabbed her, but now she was intrigued. Why had he taken her hostage-and...
HE DIDN'T LOOK LIKE AUNT MAUDIE Black-haired, blue-eyed Quint Richards answered the door of Miss Maudie's stately Georgia home. And when he explained that he lived there, Thea Cameron fainted. Weary and flat broke, Thea and her two sons had tra...
RUNNING SCARED... Linn Stevens and five-year-old Nathan had fled to an isolated British Columbia beach, where she was determined to play out her role in a deadly charade--and protect the little boy who'd been entrusted to her care. Then rugged esp...
SHE COULDN'T FORGET No one ever needed Sam Dillon as desperately as Liana Stevens. The award-winning photographer's pictures had inspired Sam's laughter and tears -- but lovely, lithe Liana was frozen in a perpetual winter. Sam lure...
TO MEND A MARRIAGE... Casey O'Neill never would have gone looking for her ex-husband, Alex Torres, if she'd seen any other way out of her dilemma. Alex had turned his back on the corporate life--and on her--but now she had to convince him to come ...
SHE COULD BE ANY WOMAN HE WANTED... As "Amanda Jamison," Ariel Kirkwood suffered stoically through the daily traumas of a popular soap opera. She was adored by her loyal fans, as well as the real people in her life. Booth DeWitt had written hi...
SILVER EYES HAUNTED HER Tori Wentworth saw things. Her police-chief brother-in-law applauded her gifts, while she prayed for a full night's rest unriddled with psychic dreams. Then she dreamed about a killer terrorizing her town. She also s...
SHE'D NEVER FORGOTTEN HIM Almost two decades before, Chad Morgan had asked Julie Harper to join him in a dream. For nearly twenty years, Julie had been dreaming of her dreamer, wondering how the years had changed him. Now she knew. Of all t...
DANGER IN PARADISE . . . With eyes of glittering fire and ice and a raw, animal magnetism that couldn't be denied, enigmatic stranger Michael Adams captivated Amber Larkspur as no man ever had before. The passion they shared on a sultry tropical c...
THE MIDNIGHT HOUR Sheer terror had driven cosmetics heiress Gabriella Winters to flee her family home in the dead of night. But when a frightening encounter aboard a freight train led to rescue by dark, handsome stranger Austin LePort, she knew sh...
DOUBLE TROUBLE... Bored with excitement, archaeologist Kate O'Malley was ready to settle down and marry Professor Jared Wyatt--until her scheming Irish grandfather teased her with a proposal of one last adventure. In a sleazy Mexican bordertown...
MEAN STREETS... Librarian Krista Jensen was desperate to find her runaway sister, desperate enough to do anything-even pose as a teen prostitute and walk the New Orleans streets she'd heard Rosie was walking. It was a dangerous life. The men wh...
A LEGACY OF BETRAYAL... The search for justice drew Abby Heatherington to the magnificent Louisiana plantation, The Prize of India. But something stronger drew her to its owner, Carter Forbes. During the Civil War, Abby's great-great-great aun...
SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE People would never forget the summer Jake Quincannon came back to Riverbend -- and turned the head of the town librarian. Paige Cudahy was a steady, quiet young woman but she set tongues wagging when she took up with th...
ALIAS ANNA FITZGERALD... There was danger in Anna Fitzgerald's past--and there would be danger in her future, too, if anyone ever discovered she was really Rosie Jensen. As a teenager, she'd fled from an impossible situation, only to discover t...
THE TIES THAT BIND... CAROLINE DAWSON had married Roscoe Lancaster, a man thirty years her senior, and she had been a loving wife to him. But the deepest love in her heart was reserved for his son. RINK LANCASTER had broken teenaged Caro...
WHAT A GREAT BEDSIDE MANNER Dr. Hilary Morgan had accomplished her dream early in life -- to practice at a Boston hospital. But when the worst imaginable happened -- she was accused of malpractice -- the only place she could work until her case ca...
TRUE LOVE NEVER DIES Though Katharine Lafferty was engaged to be married, her heart was still in mourning. Katharine had been nineteen and a college coed. Danny McCandless had been twenty-four and a well-dressed, coolheaded criminal. And his ef...
FORTY ISN'T FEEBLE On Lila Chapin's birthday, something snapped. She packed her bags, wrote a note and left -- just like that. Unbeknownst to her family, Lila was giving herself the present she wanted most: a month's vacation. She w...
WIFE WANTED... Reese Duncan lost half his ranch and all his dreams to his ex-wife, so when it came time for a family he did the logical thing: he advertised for a bride. She had to be willing to work, to bear his children and to settle for lovemak...
ARMED AND DANGEROUS.. . "Stay where you are. I've got a gun." Tate Cantrell froze in the doorway of her isolated mountain cabin. The big, bearded stranger wielding a revolver was an escaped convict, an embezzler--and a murderer. But he was also ba...
THIEF OF HEARTS Their paths hadn't crossed in years, but sexy government troubleshooter Tucker Stevens was the only man who'd ever made Lacey Conrad's pulse race -- and temperature rise! The man was completely frustrating, and now he was back in her...
IT LIVED IN A DREAM The mists and fogs of the Rockies, the shifting play of light and shadow--the imagination could easily conjure apparitions from the enchanted air that swirled around The Stanley Hotel. But it wasn't a whimsical flight of fa...
A SECOND CHANCE A frightened and confused sixteen-year-old girl had given testimony that sent Quint Jones to prison for a crime he didn't commit. Now, after years of struggling, she had a new life and a new name -- Laura Reynolds -- and she wa...
UNHOLY MATRIMONY If Kaitlin O'Herlihy got one more wedding invitation, she was going to scream. Suddenly everyone she knew--including her grandmother, for heaven's sake!--was getting married, and it was making a shambles of her well-ordered existe...
STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT... Kristine Stevens was living a nightmare. After discovering her husband was a kingpin in organized crime, she'd done the unthinkable: obtained a divorce, grabbed incriminating evidence and run! Her one slim hope against th...
SHE'D SAVED HIS LIFE One summer in Washington, a wide-eyed optimist named Jenny Perrin had shown Luke Benning how easy it was to believe in yourself, how good it felt to pursue your dreams, how perfect love could be. Luke never knew why she'd d...
"A FRIEND IN NEED" WAS HER MOTTO Emma Springer admired her new neighbor's dedication. Detective Jack Spencer made work his number one priority. But Jack had a lot to learn about women. When he went undercover to catch a crook he wou...
HIS BROTHER'S KEEPER . . . Christopher Morgan's brother had been caught selling government secrets, and that made Christopher a suspect, too. After his eventual release, he headed for the mountains to rethink his life. That was where Shelley Ev...
IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT The calls came like clockwork -- a cold, hate-filled voice telling late-night radio announcer Cilla O'Roarke that she was going to die. The never-ending threats had finally made her a believer. She was desperate -- desp...
HIS MONIKER WAS "TRAVELING MAN" Kate Cramer hoped he'd settle down. Rusty Russell was more than the mechanic, salesman and crack pilot she'd hired to turn her business around -- Rusty was a friend. And Kate was as vulnerable as ...
HAUNTED BY A MEMORY... Gabriel Rodriguez had never forgotten Rachel Martinez. In the darkness of the night, the memory of their love filled his dreams, stirring his soul and making his body hunger for her touch. But in the daylight he remembered t...
Susannah Boyd was a survivor She had faced every mother's nightmare five years ago, when her infant son had been kidnapped and her husband had lost his life getting him back. But now she was making a new life for herself and Benny in the rural iso...
ALEX TRENT He was a streetwise public defender who played within the rules -- but just barely. When he learned of a treasure buried in the Superstition Mountains, he immediately organized a search for the money, which was the only evidence that c...
FLASH AND AMY WANTED TO BE A FAMILY AGAIN Their dad's job kept him in Los Angeles. Amy and Flash lived with their mother in Aspen Springs, which was supposed to be a great place for kids. Amy and Flash knew where they all belonged--together. Bu...
ALL SPENCE WANTED WAS A MOTHER TO LOVE Spence Carruthers had a room full of toys, a live-in grandfather who knew all about fishing, and a father who'd forgotten how to count his blessings. Mark Carruthers had run so hard and so long from childh...
LIKE A CHANGING TIDE Widowed after a twenty-year, loveless marriage, Toby Thomas found herself back in college, working as a sorority housemother. What frightened her wasn't the challenge of a new life but the electric intensity of the man who ble...
IT WAS A MAGICAL SEASON Erica Manning never knew how much she loved Christmas, needed Christmas. Until she wrangled an interview with Adam Bech... ...and met his special little girl, Jilly. Erica saw the house that had known such joy and knew ...
WHO WAS BERNIE EMERSON? She was a woman who had few material possessions, yet carried herself with an air of elegance and breeding. She savored the taste of macadamia-nut ice cream every time she had it. She knew little about fashion, and was a b...
WELCOME TO COLD HEART.... Cold Heart, Nevada, had a population of ten, but for Carolyn Andrews only one of them counted. Jonathan Raider was her sole hope of finding the phantom Thoroughbred that had been spotted running with the wild horses. And ...
LONE WOLF A fire, a murder, no clues and a string of suspects as long as the Mississippi were what homicide detective Sam Long had to contend with. His only hope to break open the case was locked away in a little girl's mind. But psychology wasn't...
THROUGH THE PAST DARKLY... Suzanna Calhoun and her sisters simply HAD to find the priceless emeralds hidden somewhere in their ancestral home. The jewels were the key to the deadly mystery that had threatened them for so long. And for Suzanna they w...
AT SIX O'CLOCK. . . the door slammed shut, trapping boutique owner Caroline Bradley and short-order cook Charlie Donohue in a fur vault. At seven . . . their relationship sank to an all-time low, as Caroline blamed Charlie, and Charlie trie...
THEY WERE OUT TO TRAP A KILLER and Ariel Spence was the bait. Ryan Jones was assigned to keep an eye on her without her knowledge, but in a small Montana town that was easier said than done. They became uneasy housemates, afraid to reveal too m...
WOULD LIFE EVER BE THE SAME? Dr. Rafferty Traherne was looking for a housekeeper. Someone who could cook, clean and care for his precious, precocious ten-year-old daughter, Becky. A simple enough task--or so he thought. He should've been suspi...
"EXILED TO BRINKMAN" That was Julie Farrell's reaction when she heard Tag Marshall, the Marshall family's ne'er-do-well son, would be summering on their ranch. What could a man who'd never worked a day in his life possibly find to interest him in ...
UNDER FIRE! Brad McKenna was running for his life--and each painful step drew him deeper into the tangled saw grass and mud of the Everglades, deeper into the dark solace of unconsciousness. He awoke to find himself facing a silver-eyed angel of m...
EVERYONE KNEW... Corbet, Vermont, was nearly paradise. And Chelsea Clark and Walker Jordan could only agree to disagree about what to do to perfect it. Soon their beloved town split down the middle over that very question. Walker's half of the...
THEY WERE FROM TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS... From the stage of the French Quarter saloon, Jilly Blaine felt his stare. He was alone, impeccably dressed-and his eyes blazed into hers .. . . Why would a handsome young man like him come to Chez Bernie t...
A MYSTERY WRAPPED IN A MEMORY Biographer Swann Triplett didn't know her latest subject. But her one encounter with Child Michael had the sweet wonder of a child's bedtime story. Swann had been five years old, the neglected daughter of w...
NEVER AGAIN... Naval investigator Roarke McKinley had trusted a woman once, and that mistake had nearly cost him his life. In his business you couldn't be too careful, and he had no intention of being fooled again by a pretty face and a soft voice...
CHILD OF LOVE When Kelly Russell slipped away from her cruelly strict father one New Year's Eve, she never expected to give herself to Dan Remington, a man who offered her the warmth and loving she'd never known. But the new year brought cold r...
THE NIGHT WAS HIS Between dawn and dusk, Ethan Winslowe's weird mansion was as still as a crypt. Beneath its maze of gloomy corridors, its owner slept far from reach of the sun. As night fell, and fears and phantasms rose to haunt her, Megan Ca...
LOVE VERSUS LOYALTY Practical attorney James Marshall didn't believe in love at first sight--until he saw artist Adriana Cummings. When he met her, everything he'd ever heard about love made sudden, wonderful sense. James thought the differences b...
WAS IT A SIGN? When Julie Conway's frozen turkey fell from her hands and rolled to Cole Bennett's feet, Julie was forced into an unaccustomed role -- accepting help from a stranger. Then the detective mentioned that he was spending Thanksgiving...
EYEWITNESS! Tess Marlowe watched in helpless horror as a man was gunned down in the lobby of her deserted office building. Soon her life was in grave danger. She could identify the killer, and now no place in Atlanta was safe. Then dangerously ...
COLLISION COURSE . . . From the moment Ashley Dane entered his life, writer Eric Hawk began preparing himself for the day she would leave. She was from a different world, a world of bright lights and glamour, where her beauty landed her in the mos...
THEY'D ALWAYS BE THE BEST OF FRIENDS When it came to things that made summer special, Block Island was right up there with sea breezes and honeysuckle. And, for Shelley Ballard, so was Kip Stroud. When Shelley and Kip were seven they tramped th...
RISKY BUSINESS Nothing could have prepared public relations expert Bree Fleming for the shock of meeting Ryan O'Hara again. Even twelve years and Ryan's new position as Boston's police commissioner could not erase from Bree's heart...
HEART OF DANGER Alex Sutter was a ladies' man--no woman could win his heart. And no one knew of his past career in covert intelligence, a career he didn't want to revive, until he learned that his nemesis had imprisoned a female diver on a remote ...
FAMILY FEUD The feud between the Barons and the Murdocks spanned generations.... Jillian Baron was determined to make the Utopia ranch work -- for herself and to justify her grandfather's trust in her. Her heritage was important, and if making...
FLIGHT OF FANCY... To protect her brother's master work, frenetic Frankie James led a madcap chase through San Francisco's hot subterranean nightclubs and steamy neon streets. She even finagled a fender bender in order to kidnap an attorney. B...
DANGER AND DESIRE ... Art collector Shelby Marlowe had nowhere to turn. Caught in a bitter struggle between warring underworld families--each vying for an ancient jade statue she possessed--her life was in peril. A close encounter with a hit-and-r...
LOVE AND MARRIAGE? Take one overworked aunt, two parentless children and a drifter with a sexy smile and a shady past--and what have you got? Abby Taylor was stumped. For weeks, John Lonigan had been repairing her house, chatting man-to-man wit...
THE REAL WORLD CAN BE VERY HARD ON A DREAM A blissful vacation in Jamaica brought two strangers together: Caren Blakemore needed to escape from a hectic Washington job and the loneliness of painful divorce. Derek Allen wanted some privacy, away f...
THE THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE . . . For the love of her son, Elizabeth Donnelly was going to sneak back to De Colores, an island paradise to the eye and a horror to the soul. There she would find her boy, a prisoner of the regime just as she had once ...
Once burned...TWICE SHY.... Blake Malone's memory was flawless. He recalled -- all too clearly -- the pain he'd felt when Elizabeth Rossi jilted him fifteen years ago. Now she had reentered his life, and suddenly it was impossible to remember an...
NO SAFE PLACE Years ago, Shanna Cassidy had thought of Rory Hawkes as a bad boy, someone no nice girl would ever admit to knowing, but now she was a desperate woman. Someone had killed her father, and Rory held the only clue. But Rory Hawkes ha...
SHE LED HIM A MERRY CHASE... When San Francisco heiress Sally MacArthur's sister absconds with their father's priceless jade falcon, Sam Spade's biggest fan hires the most low-down private eye in the book. Unshaven, cynical Jack Diamond knows h...
A FATHER'S SEARCH Josh Kincaid Profile: Hard-edged business tycoon One point of vulnerability: Jason, his missing son Josh Kincaid would do anything to get Jason back, even work with unorthodox investigator Hunter Garrett. He'd spent a lifetim...
AN OCEAN OF LOVE Kate Hardesty had inherited a pile of mysterious ocean charts. Her practical, no-nonsense father had had a dream -- sunken treasure -- and he'd left a map leading to a gold-laden ship. Determined to complete her father's explorati...
WHO WAS ANNALIST ST. JOHN? Who was this fragile beauty he had rescued from a watery grave? And why did she care so little whether she lived or died? The questions tore at Devlin Russell as he watched her awaken to life, slowly, like some impossibl...
YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN .. . Since her return to Planters' Junction, Georgia, Elizabeth Bartlett had been avoiding Cal Potts. Back in high school, Cal had had big dreams and a bad-boy reputation. In loving a boy from the wrong side of the trac...
NO WAY OUT College professor Brenna Hawthorne enjoyed her solitary existence -- until the walls of her ivory tower began to crumble around her. One of her colleagues was missing, the FBI suspected her of espionage, and Special Agent Mitch Carlisle...