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Tennessee Waltz

a sweet/sensuous romance

Sarah attracts suitors despite her plainness, since she has the wealth of a true socialite for a dowry. But she leaves her hard-hearted fiancé behind without regrets when she takes the motherless child Mairi home to the Appalachian Mountains to search out Mairi's remaining family. She finds more than that in the mountains: Mairi's older cousin Wyn makes Sarah wish she was beautiful enough to charm him for a beau. Wyn has no use for "city women," though…or so he thinks. As he watches Sarah prove her worth to the mountain people, his love develops notwithstanding his attempts to stifle it. However, they are far too different to ever make a life together…aren't they?

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Town Social

a sweet/sensuous romance

Texas Ranger Jake Cameron can't wait until his temporary assignment to sleepy Liberty Flats is over…until he meets the independent Sunny Fannin. He's used to women bowing to his superior masculinity, but Sunny isn't about to add the word "obey" to her vocabulary, even when it concerns the Texas Ranger who makes her heartbeat go crazy. She's set on revolutionizing the small town before it fades into non-existence. Jake has his hands full with both his growing love for Sunny and protecting her from an unknown assailant who is just as determined as Sunny but with a contrary view of what's best for the town. Can two such complete opposites ever find happiness together?

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Winter Dreams

Sandy Montdulac is one of the best sled dog trainers alive, but down on his luck, he can't refuse a job in 1909 Grand Marais, Minnesota: training Laura Goodman and her new breed of huskies for a grueling race. Engaged to David, a proper lawyer, Laura insists on one last adventure before she settles down as a married lady. She hasn't counted on the growing attraction to her new trainer, a man she senses is hiding a tortured past. Even her focus on her dogs and preparation for a race fraught with danger from both the weather and fellow mushers can't override the feelings she has for Sandy. Feelings she is sure he returns. But they will hurt others if they follow their hearts.

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Montana Surrender

Jessica has far too many worries on her mind to be distracted by the sexy on-the-run outlaw, Storm. And Storm has no time to pursue the beauty who invades his hideout; he has to clear his name. Too many barriers stand between the two of them to ever fall in love. Or can they overcome the obstacles? Backed into a corner after an unexpected spring blizzard decimates her already declining herd of cattle, Jessica knows she has no choice. Despite her vow to never touch the hidden gold — gold she feels is cursed — she can't meet the looming payment on the ranch she inherited from her father. There's no chance of a mortgage extension, either. The bank manager has already assured her in no uncertain terms he won't risk his bank's precious money any further on a woman running a spread. Lord, she should have spit in the manager's face, as her foreman had thought she would!

There has to be more than one rifleman in the ambush that surprises Jessica and her men. But only one paint horse and rider are silhouetted against the setting sun. And only one person — Jessica, the lone woman in the group of cowboys — sneaks out of camp that night to search for her runaway horse. She's not afraid of ghosts, like the men appear to be. It's not ghost arms that capture her on the hillside, though. Definitely not a ghost that haunts her thoughts and dreams from then on as she tries to save her ranch.

Bittersweet Promises

Cody Garret likes everything in its place: horse in the corral, six-gun in his holster, money in the bank. There's no way on earth he can tolerate a woman like Shanna Van Alstyne. Her spirit is as fiery as the blazing sun, a temper to match. Southern manners dictate he has to save her life, but then she's on her own, out of his life. Or is she? Southern men! How on earth did the rumors of their gentlemanly behavior ever gain credence? Shanna almost believes that dumb tittle-tattle at first — sensing a haven from the maelstrom of her life in the strong arms of a chestnut-haired stranger in tight denims. But of all the nerve! Just because he saves Shanna and her little brother, Toby, from becoming twin blood spots on the walkway in Liberty, Missouri, doesn't give him the right to step in and discipline Toby. She's determined to banish the nagging persistence of a man she will, hopefully, never have to cross paths with again. There's another man somewhere in Missouri she has to find — and convince to marry her. She'll have to carry the ghost of the love she develops for Cody Garret with her to her grave.

Mountain Magic

Can a born and bred mountain girl ever find love with an Eastern tenderfoot? Jonathan Clay won the ragamuffin Caitlyn O'Shaunessy in a game of chance with a Nez Perce, and once he got past her smell, he found a feisty woman who aroused desire like he had never known. Cat would rather face down a mama grizzly than confront her feelings for the blue-eyed southerner who rescued her. Set against the backdrop of the wintry Rocky Mountains, their feelings transform into a passion that just might overcome all obstacles.

Forever Angels

a sexy/sensuous time travel romance

Tess Foster's guardian angel Angela is at her wit's end with her newest trainee, Michael. Then Michael's bumbling sneeze sends broken-hearted Tess Foster hurtling back to the 1890's into the arms of Stone Chisum, a rugged rancher raising two orphan children. Is this Tess's true destiny, to be with a man who can rekindle her ability to love? Or will Michael goof up again and sneeze Tess back to her boring law practice, a fiancé who jilted her, and empty life, losing forever the passion she finds in Stone's arms?

Witch Angel

a sexy/sensuous time travel romance

Alaynia Mirabeau gladly leaves her dejecting life in 2005 Boston when she inherits Chenaie Plantation in Louisiana from her aunt. To her confusion, she drives through a time warp and finds the plantation already occupied by the stunning southern gentleman, Shane St. Clair, as well as his family... in 1875! Superior Guardian Angel Francesca wouldn't have chosen Chenaie for a stress-relieving vacation for her and Sylvia, one of Francesca's band of guardian angels. Yet when they encounter Basil, the ghost who manipulated time to bring Alaynia back for his own purposes, they can't abandon the situation. Is there any way two such disparate lovers as Shane and Alaynia can ever make a life together across the chasm of time? Or will they need some other-worldly assistance?

Spellbound

a sexy/sensuous paranormal romance

Nick Bardou vows to fight the lure of honeysuckle and jasmine when forced to return to his family plantation in New Orleans. He hasn't even left the ship upon arrival before he encounters a specter from his past … although she must be a ghost, since Sabine is dead, possibly by his own hand. Wendi Chastain has followed in her mother Sabine's footsteps as a practicing witch, and she has no room in her life for a man who disparages the very existence of magic. Nick Bardou, however, seems to need her abilities, despite his disbelief. Can a concoction of magic and love end up uniting these two potential lovers from extremely different walks of life?

Southern Charms

a sexy/sensuous paranormal romance

Ellie isn't really jealous of her step-sister Darlene's pampered life, as long as she and her mother leave Ellie alone to run her beloved ranch. But the specialty of Fatima, Ellie's fairy godmother, is bringing her charges the greatest magic of all: true love. Fatima arrives in Ellie's life at the same time as the city slicker, Shane, determined to show the two of them they are meant for love, despite their differences. Shane has hidden motives, though, for seeking out Ellie. Could this latest quest of Fatima's be her first failure in hundreds of years?

Chrissy's Wish

a Christmas angels romance

Chrissy is even willing to give up her one selfish wish for a dolly for Christmas, if God will only send someone to dry her Aunt Polly's tears. Jo and Matthew are assigned the task of fulfilling Chrissy's wish, but neither one of them is too sure that Sam, a face from Polly's past, is the right choice. However, the two angels are determined to do everything they can to fill these lives with Christmas joy.