Ann Gabriel

SOUTH TEXAS 1/1990 ISBN:0345350863 1886. A terrible drought has ravaged South Texas. The defiant ranchers and farmers are fighting a losing battle, not only with Mother Nature but with the land foreclosure schemes of the ruthless banker T.C. Barrett. Rugged cattle baron Coke Sanders, owner of the vast Sidewinder Ranch, has only contempt for greedy vultures like Barrett. Coke's refusal to accept the loss of his land, and the destruction of his neighbors' hard-won lives fires Barren's long-standing grudge against the Sanders clan--and forces a showdown that demands payment in blood. Jessica West, an independent, spirited widow running from her past, has captured the attention of every Texas man within a hundred miles. No man can claim her--until Coke dares to match her wit and strength with his own. But Jessica's secrets threaten to destroy their love, and the Sidewinder Ranch as well....

Patricia Gaffney

CROOKED HEARTS 4/1994 ISBN: 0451404599 Reuben Jones walks on the wrong side of the law - a card shark, a master of deception, a man who long ago buried the truth of his life so deep that no one would ever find it... Grace Russell has had to learn a few tricks herself in order to hold on to the crumbling California vineyard that is the only thing in the world she can call her own... When Grace meets Reuben she'd dressed as a pious Catholic nun; he's posing as a blind Spanish aristocrat. But he gets an eyeful when the pretty sister lifts her skirts to adjust the little silver derringer strapped to her thigh... So begins this sexy, rollicking ride through the gambling halls and sinful streets of 1880s San Francisco, where two 'crooked hearts' discover that love is the most dangerous - and delicious - game of all.

OUTLAW IN PARADISE 8/1997 ISBN: 0451407938 As the owner of a saloon in Paradise, Oregon, Cady McGill is surviving in a man's world. She can't afford to let her guard down for anyone-especially the man in black who arrives out of nowhere to arouse her suspicions...and her senses. He calls himself Jesse Gault-an achingly attractive stranger with guns on his hips and a mocking smile on his lips. But Cady has seen her share of swindlers, and she knows that Gault's charms are as deceptive as his name. Yet even as sudden gunfire blazes, desire flares in Cady's heart. Now she must fight her own deepest feelings as a man who is not what he seems awakens a tender, abiding passion that can only be the real thing.

Patricia Gallagher

NO GREATER LOVE 1979 ISBN: 0380447436 It was an age of soaring power, rampant corruption, extreme elegance, and Devon knew it all -- intimately. In the elite circles of Washington, where her husband was a trust-busting Senator, at Windsor Castle and dinner with Queen Victoria, in old New York's exclusive Astor Hotel with Keith Curtis, her lover, Devon tasted every pleasure life could offer. But her heart still burned for the one love she could not possess....

Kit Gardner

THE STOLEN HEART 2/1993 ISBN:0373287607 Jace McAllister had hands with sin in their touch...."Peaches", even her name was lush and delectable. Of course, she claimed to be Phoebe Sinclair, runaway English heiress. But Jace, undercover Pinkerton operative, knew a notorious jewel thief when he saw one. And this hellion in peach-colored silk and bloomers was more than an eyeful and a handful.....And Phoebe Sinclair--For Shame!--wanted those hands all over her!

TWILIGHT 6/1995 ISBN: 0373288743 What strange twist of fate had led Rance Logan to a woman widowed by his own hand? He'd been trying to escape the past, only to run smack into it again in the form of Jessica Wynne, a fragile beauty with a spirit of steel - a woman much too good for the likes of him. Jessica's first sight of the man she knew as Stark had been over the business end of a rifle, but it wasn't long before she realized that she would trust him with her life. For though the townsfolk treated the haunted drifter as a stranger, Jessica's heart had already recognized that this was the man she was destined to love.

THE UNTAMED HEART 11/1997 ISBN: 0373289901 Tomboy Willie Thorne Had The Face Of An Angel... Despite the fact that she could outdrink and outshoot most of the men in the Colorado Territory. And Sloan Devlin was damned if she wasn't the closest thing to Paradise he'd seen in a long time. Wilhelmina Thorne knew it was only a matter of time before Sloan Devlin solved the mystery that had stolen her childhood dreams. But before that happened, she intended to make one very adult dream come true...!

Kit Garland

SWEETER THAN SIN 5/1999 ISBN: 0440223652 It seemed a lifetime ago that Kate stormed out of the Remington household, blinded by heartbreak over Charles's announcement of his engagement to another woman. After finding consolation in his brother's arms, she fled to Wyoming to begin again, hiding her shame, marrying, and raising her son with another man's name. Widowed now and running a small-town newspaper, Kate was her own woman - until Charles Remington came seeking the girl who ran away. At last he'd found her! As soon as she disappeared, Charles realized she could never marry another. But this Kate had left childhood - and him - behind. She believed he'd come to take her son. She vowed she would not be betrayed twice. Even as he admired her beauty and strength and independence, he was jealous of the passions that had driven her into his brother's embrace - and determined to recapture the heart of this gloriously passionate woman she had become...

Dorothy Garlock

ALMOST EDEN 10/1995 ISBN: 0446363723 He was the spark; she was the flame . . . Baptiste Lightbody had found the beautiful young girl named Maggie in Missouri Territory. From the moment they met, they became two parts of the same spirit, joined in flesh and soul with an underlying fire. Shunned by a world that called him a half-breed and her a witch, they struck out together into the wilderness after the same fierce dream: a paradise of their own. But ahead of them lay dangers that could take Maggie away forever: brutal river pirates, rampaging Indian renegades, and a secret that followed them into the virgin forest. And soon they would both face a test that could break their hearts--or join them in a love that would become a legend on the untamed American frontier.

ANNIE LASH 11/1985 ISBN: 0446603031 When her parents died, lovely Annie Lash was left alone in old St. Louis--a prize catch for the elderly suitors lined up at her door. But, yearning for a man who could love her completely--and whom she could love in return, Annie refused them all. Then a young frontiersman named Jefferson Merrick offered her the chance to love in a distant settlement. Dreaming of a future by the wide Missouri, she accepted--never realizing that she would have to face hostile Indians, river bandits, and Jefferson's political enemies. Even more dangerous were the storms of her own heart. For the rugged man who dared to tame the wild country around them was now starting to tame the wild Annie Lash.

DREAM RIVER 1988 ISBN: 0445206764 "Amy . . . I'll be back." For eight years Amy Deverall clung to the words Rain Tallman had whispered as he kissed her and rode away. Smart as a whip and as eager for life as a young colt, Amy grew up along the mighty Wabash River, waiting for the handsome Shawnee-raised boy who had gone off to explore the wilderness beyond the horizon. Now, the broad-shouldered, gun-toting trapper galloping toward her was a new Rain Tallman. His slow, sweet kisses taught her passion and she longed to ride beside him down the dangerous trails he traveled. But where was the boy she had known? Had he really grown to be a steel-hard, silent loner who would take her heart--and never say "I love you"?

FOREVER VICTORIA 1983 ISBN: 0446361836 A New York Times extended list bestselling author, Dorothy Garlock has won acclaim and awards for her unique ability to convey both the romance and reality of frontier America. Here she presents one of her most beloved stories, a tale of a woman in danger of losing both her home and her heart. Victoria McKenna is a Western woman--tough on the outside and soft on the inside, where she keeps her dreams. Now both her strength and her heart will be challenged. Her late pa's cattle ranch on Wyoming's notorious Outlaw Trail, the only home she has ever known, has been underhandedly sold to a stranger named Mason Mahaffey. Soon Victoria finds herself confronting a rangy, handsome cowboy with five orphaned brothers and sisters--a man whose level blue eyes suggest she has met her match. Her choice is clear. She can fight him with all her might . . . or listen to the feelings that tell her Mason is the right man for both this wild country and a woman born of the West.

A GENTLE GIVING 1/1993 ISBN: 0446359904 ...A tale of two outcasts who must learn to take a leap of faith--and take a chance on love. She had narrowly escaped the lynch mob that unjustly hanged her foster father. Now lonely Willa Hammer has nothing left--except her dog Buddy, her faith in herself, and the protection of a strange, secretive family. She joins their wagon train, headed west . . . never realizing that she is traveling to the wilds of the Big Horn Mountains, where a run-down, intrigue-ridden ranch and the arms of an untamed, hardened cowboy await her. Haunted by his past, Smith Bowman has the power to infuriate Willa and hurt her. But a love greater than the Big Horn can be theirs if they can surrender to the gentle giving of their hearts.

GLORIOUS DAWN 10/1982 ISBN: 0446361828 Johanna Doan was a golden-haired, slender woman whose tragic beauty hid her bold, determined spirit. She had lived through her parents' murder and her sister's rape and pregnancy; now she could survive the intrigues at the Macklin ranch. For here, housekeeping with her sister, Johanna is expected to marry the son of the cruel landowner himself. And young Burr Macklin is everything Johanna fears and desires: a courageous man who arouses her passions, but one who needs to learn that a woman's heart can never be taken by force . . . only won with love.

HIGH ON A HILL 6/2002 ISBN: 1585710695 Annabel Lee Donovan may be a bootlegger's daughter, but she is also a lady. The slim, dark-haired young woman desperately wants her father to leave "the business" and settle down in one place. Instead, their latest move, done in the middle of the night with the help of henchmen Boone and Spinner, brings her to an ordinary house high on a hill above Henderson, Missouri. Yet this place, Annabel will soon discover, is different, for what is about to happen here will alter the course of her life. America, too, is facing a transformation. The Jazz Age began as a high-spirited decade of speakeasies and bathtub gin. But by 1925 whiskey running has become a deadly struggle between mobsters from St. Louis to Chicago. And the whole country, like Annabel, senses the change. Behind the wailing music beats a warning that the good times are coming to an end. Yet something wonderful seems about to unfold for Annabel, when she meets handsome Corbin Appleby, former sheriff of Fertile, Missouri. Despite fears that Corbin could be an undercover agent after her father, Annabel is falling deeply in love for the first time. Then a whiskey war explodes in Henderson, and just as gunshots shatter lives, betrayal threatens to shatter dreams and a woman's heart.

HOMEPLACE 4/1991 ISBN: 0446359882 Ana Fairfax is a stranger to the lonesome Iowa farm where she has gone to live after the death of her stepdaughter. Still a beautiful young woman, she struggles to raise her late stepdaughter's child in a farmhouse filled with danger. For there is Esther, the child's crazed aunt, with her dark secrets and painful memories seeming to lurk in every corner. And there is Owen, the child's father, the master of the house—and a man who is awakening new passions in Ana…as well as a daring new dream.

LARKSPUR 2/1997 ISBN: 0446602531 Miss Kristin Anderson had never left home before, but no one was going to stop her from going to Montana to take possession of Larkspur, the ranch she had inherited. She was 23, "a spinster," but she stood up tall, wound her braids primly around her head, and tucked a derringer into her purse. She didn't know she'd have to outsmart gunslingers and a land grabber named Forsthye the moment she arrived in Big Timber, Montana. And she never dreamed that Buck Lenning, the "old" foreman at her ranch, was a young, lanky, secretive cowboy taking care of his elderly pa. Soon Kristin and Buck were butting heads, hunkering down to protect Larkspur from Forsythe's henchmen, and discovering that they both wanted the same thing-a home and a love worth fighting for...

THE LISTENING SKY 4/1996 ISBN: 0446602523 Jane Love's hopes soared when she set out for Timbertown, Wyoming Territory. There, she thought, she'd be safe from her enemy and find the work and respect she so needed. The big problem turned out to be mill owner T. C. Kilkenny. Sitting high on his horse, the settlement's handsome leader was issuing orders and getting Jane's dander up. T. C. obviously didn't have enough jobs for all the women who had answered his employment notices: he had lonely lumberjacks who needed brides! Well, Jane Love didn't give a fig for his matchmaking or the rough-hewn frontiersmen who greedily ogled her. With an amused glint in his silver eyes, T. C. schemed to keep her in town. He intended to make her his woman-after he proved he was man enough to stop the varmint who was coming to gun her down.

LONESOME RIVER 1987 ISBN: 0445203625 Her cornsilk hair loose in the wind, Liberty drove her Conestoga wagon as if the devil were after her. She had run away from New York when her Pa demanded she marry Stith Lenning, a domineering coward who would use her body and break her spirit. Liberty's response was never...never, as long as a land waited in the West where a river ran fast and a woman was free to follow her dreams. But rampaging Indians along the Wabash's deep waters and Stith's relentless pursuit were more than even a feisty beauty could handle. Then, guns blazing, frontiersman Farr Quill rode into her life. With the same steely strength that had tamed the wilderness, he offered Liberty his protection...all he demanded in return was her total surrender.

LOVE AND CHERISH 6/1980 ISBN: 0446365246 She was only seventeen years old....and terribly alone. Running deep into the Kentucky wilderness from the low-down family that dared to sell her, Cherish Riley knew that her enemies were relentlessly tracking her, and that she risked all the dangers an untamed land had to offer. She never dreamed that a tall, lean, buckskin-clad man with a large brown dog would offer his protection--and that within hours he would propose marriage! Sloan Carroll had no doubt that Cherish would make the prettiest little wife in the territory, but he was even more sure that she could give his motherless child the warmth and love she so desperately needed. He couldn't understand the hurt look on Cherish's face when he made his offer. And he still had to learn that to win a woman's heart, he had to lose his own.

MIDNIGHT BLUE 1989 ISBN: 0446355224 Wyoming Territory was no place for a lady—but Mara was all woman. Leaving her finishing school behind, Mara Shannon McCall returned to the lawless country of her birth, determined to reclaim the ranch that was her father's legacy. With a derringer in her pocket and her heart beating wildly in her breast, she rode toward the home she barely remembered--only to find a wounded man across the rugged trail. He was beaten and bloody, but Pack Gallagher was unmistakably a fighter--a handsome Irish brawler with shoulders a yard wide, hands as hard as steel, and midnight blue eyes as proud and passionate as Mara's own. With a shuddering wave of desire she knew he was a champion who could fight by her side against the outlaws on her land and a soulmate who could share her deepest secrets. Here was an exciting, defiant lover who could hold her forever—or the one man who could crush her dreams and break her heart...

NIGHTROSE 4/1990 ISBN: 0446356077 Abandoned! Katy suddenly knew that she, her sister, and her tiny niece were the only people left in a desolate Montana ghost town. Without a horse or a rifle, they hadn't a chance of crossing a wilderness crawling with outlaws, Indians, and grizzlies. All Katy had was a steely will to survive and a Derringer in her pocket. Then a stranger named Garrick Rowe rode down the empty main street. He wasn't a desperado; he was a rugged frontiersman with a daring scheme to bring this town back to life--and some personal plans for Katy. Gazing boldly into her lovely blue eyes, he proclaimed her his woman--a declaration that only made Katy more independent than ever! Yet his words intrigued her; and his insistent kisses whispered that her destiny was to fight for this wild land...and to surrender to a man with the strength, the courage, and the passion to make her dreams come true.

A PLACE CALLED RAINWATER 1/2003 ISBN: 0446529508 The small town of Rainwater, Oklahoma, has become a notorious boomtown now that a gusher has flooded its streets with drillers, welders, and roustabouts of every description. Jill, a spunky and hard-working young woman who runs the hotel for her aunt, is unprepared to cope with the attention she receives from the woman-hungry men. Despite her attempts to thwart their advances, she finds herself cornered by a group of men on the street one afternoon when Thad Taylor, a young neighbor, comes to her rescue. Believing Jill to be a street flapper, Thad makes it his duty to curb her wild ways. Jill wants nothing to do with Thad until a woman is murdered in town. Now, Jill's finally accepted Thad's protection...but is she willing to accept more?

RESTLESS WIND 1986 ISBN: 0445209321 A bold new breed of woman...defiant, passionate, beautiful. She dared embrace the savage Western frontier...and a man rugged enough to tame her wild heart. Tawny-haired Rosalee challenged the dangers of the rugged Colorado mountains with her courage, her rifle, and her heart. Daring to carve a home from the wilderness for her young sister and brother, she longed for a rough-riding frontiersman strong enough to match her wild spirit without taking away her freedom or her dreams. Then one starless night he came to her cabin door-a stranger of towering strength, handsome and powerful, his dark eyes ablaze with desire from the first moment they met. Here was a man to walk beside, not behind...a man able to ignite ecstasy's smoldering fires...an outcast she would defy the world to love with the fury of the...Restless Wind.

RIBBON IN THE SKY 12/1991 ISBN: 0446359890 Spritely, auburn-haired Letty Pringle had been forbidden by her hell-and-brimstone preacher pa to see Mike Dolan, but the young sweethearts had whispered their vows to someday be man and wife. Then a cruel betrayal tore them apart and left Letty on a windswept Midwestern farm to raise their son alone. Struggling to build a future, over the years she learned to harden her heart to desire....until big, dark-haired Mike marched into town, looking for his woman and his dream-and ready to fight the world to have her in his arms again.

RIVER OF TOMORROW 1988 ISBN: 0445203668 Yesterday's secrets endangered her dreams. But nothing could keep her from loving him today, tomorrow-and forever. Only her defiant pride kept her from begging for his love...Behind her proper schoolmarm ways, sunny blond Mercy was the same sassy spitfire she had been as a child. An orphan raised by the Quill family with her foster brother Danny, she had always had a quick temper and often needed the loving protection of her big brother. Now she was a woman-and running to Danny again. Two Kentucky bounders had ridden into town with a stunning secret about Mercy's past, one that could separate Mercy and Daniel forever. Surrounded by danger, she would recognize her desperate hunger to have Danny claim her, not as a sister, but as his wife. She knew he would stand by her against a town's cruel whispers and fight against an enemy who wanted her dead. But, if she dared to declare her love, would he respond with his dependable brotherly kindness-and break her heart?

THE SEARCHING HEARTS 4/1982 ISBN: 0446365262 She was a nineteen-year-old redhead without money, prospects, or parents, yet Tucker Houston had spunk to spare. Determined to find a better life for herself and her blind fellow orphan, she brazenly told a few fibs to land a job as a schoolteacher out West...and soon found herself in a wagon train filled with mail-order brides. Leading them all was wagon master Lucas Steele, black-haired, hard-muscled, and drawn to Tucker's fire. Tucker and Lucas would soon find out that love couldn't wait-not with the dangers of the trail making today all they had, and tomorrow a time that might never come for the dreams they shared.

SINS OF SUMMER 6/1994 ISBN: 0446364142 Amid the lonesome pines of an Idaho logging camp, young Dory Callahan was like a burst of bright sunshine-even when she had to tolerate the scorn of her wealthy, mean-spirited half brothers each day of her life. Dory was proud, and not ashamed of her toddler, even though the child's father was the son of a rival mill owner who had died before Dory could marry him. Then big, rangy Benton Waller rode into her life. He was a man with secrets, a face that showed too much sorrow, and a shy, silent daughter who clung like a shadow to his side. But even as he offered his love, Dory felt fierce emotions gathering like a summer storm. For soon there would be gunfire set off by hatred, greed, and fear-and passion's fire between her and the one man who could help her fight for her dreams.

SWEETWATER 3/1998 ISBN: 0446602558 Jenny Gray wondered if she could survive a day in an isolated cabin near an Indian reservation-and she needed to stay five years to make the land hers. She had never chopped wood or cooked a biscuit in her life before she ran away from Pennsylvania with her two young sisters to teach school to the Shoshoni. She wasn't like any other woman in Sweetwater, Wyoming Territory, and local rancher Trell McCall thought her as proud and beautiful as a princess, a lady who would never fall for a man with only livestock to his name. But when a crooked Indian agent tries to drive her out, Jenny needs help. And when the untamed land begins to bestow its real riches-loyal, courageous friends and a rugged man ready to stand by her side-Jenny is ready to fight for their love.

THIS LOVING LAND 9/1981 ISBN: 0446365254 As filled with promise as her name, nineteen-year-old Summer headed west for the vast Texas ranges. There she hoped to find Sam McLean, the man who had cared for her family long ago. Instead she rode into a future filled with renegade Apaches, a scheming enemy-and Sam McLean's son Slater. As hard and handsome as big Sam was kind, Slater lived and worked for one thing only: to find the outlaw who had killed his father. Then a sweet memory from his boyhood arrived, transformed, on his doorstep. The little girl he had known long ago was now a beautiful young woman. She could bring the sunshine back into his life. But a secret long hidden, long feared, imperiled their tender, budding love.

WAYWARD WIND 1986 ISBN: 0445202149 Lorna's violet eyes glittered with the joy of riding fast and free across Light's Mountain, the Colorado range that was her birthright and fiercest passion. She was warned that dangerous men now roamed these hills, but no desperado could ride faster than this slip of a girl or outfight her with a whip or a knife. Then big, sandy-haired Cooper Parnell strode into her life, a gun in his hand and passion in his eyes, and Lorna had now weapons against the desire that made her tremble like a tree in a storm. He was man enough to battle the lawless varmints after her innocence and her land...and to match her burning heart with his white-hot fire. But was he man enough to take her without taming her...or was her freedom the price of his love?

WILD SWEET WILDERNESS 5/1985 ISBN: 0446611387 Berry Warfield is only eighteen--and a fresh-mouthed kid--when she leaves the wagon train to find her father's claim in Missouri. Happy to be free from her father's tyranny, she vows to let no one stop her from earning her fortune. But now with only her gentle young stepmother beside her, she faces an unforgiving frontier--and the trappers and rivermen, riffraff and savages who stand between her and her land. Quick with a musket but slow to believe a man, Berry is determined to prove that she is a match for them all--even the brave, hardworking trader who falls in love with her, temper and all.

WIND OF PROMISE 3/1987 ISBN: 0445203684 Fiery-haired Vanessa was determined to cross the prairies, ford the mighty rivers, and climb the Rockies to reach Colorado. Her hands held the reins of the mule team with wiry strength... but her resolve weakened when a tall stranger, lean of body, wide of shoulder, and wild as the western wind, took her in his arms. Vanessa knew Kain DeBolt's gun and fists could protect her from the outlaws waiting on the untamed frontier... but his secrets could prove dangerous to a woman in love. Would her surrender to this restless roamer bring her ecstasy--or forever break her heart?

Wendy Garrett

ARIZONA LOVESTORM 8/1991 ISBN: 0821734822 Billie had her hands full, running the Star M ranch all by herself and dealing with Indian attacks, cattle rustlers, and sudden storms. So far, she hadn't found time for romance, but when a handsome, tawny-haired cowboy rode up and asked for a job, Billie felt her pulse begin to race. The first touch of his hand sent sparks flying,and then he kissed her and her senses reeled. Tomorrow she'd give him some hard work to do, breaking wild horses, but for tonight she had other plans...to feel every inch of his muscular body, to savor his passionate kisses, then to surrender to the ache of longing his caress had awakened!...The minute he stet eyes on the owner of the Star M ranch, Nick Larrabee wished he had the time to dally with the provocatively lovely lady rancher, but he'd come to Arizona Territory for one purpose-to track down the bandits who'd tortured and killed his family and to make them pay. Then the alluring Billie offered him a challenge-and gave him a smile that set his blood to boiling. Revenge would have to wait. He'd break her wild mustang in the morning, but tonight he'd tame the willful Billie with fiery kisses, stroke her satin flesh into trembling ecstasy, and claim her for his own in rapture's ultimate embrace.

HERS FOREVER 11/1995 ISBN: 0821751379 She offered her body to save her soul.....and lost her heart. Celebrated for the loveliness that excites desire in men and envy in women, Cari Fremont is unprepared for the sudden tragedy that takes her husband and son. Grief-stricken, alone, and at the mercy of her cruel brother-in-law, Julian, the desperate St. Louis widow offers herself to his sworn enemy. His past a carefully guarded secret, the wealthy and powerful Dominic Saxton exudes a sensuality that both frightens and tempts Cari. And in Cari, Dominic sees a way to avenge himself on the Fremonts. He also finds something more: a passion beyond his dreams. Yet Dominic has sworn never to trust a woman and Cari doesn't dare believe in a man's promises. Now, in a world darkened by deceit and intrigue, Dominic and Cari face the greatest peril of all: a love that could bind their hearts forever.

UNTAMED HEARTS 10/1996 ISBN: 0821754211 In the aftermath of war, two women fight to keep what's theirs. . Any way they can. . . Left penniless and adrift by the War Between the States, Maddy and Blanche Saylor have finally succeeded in building a new life in the frontier town of Cofield, Texas. Their dressmaking business is starting to turn a profit-along with a shocking secret or two. For the proper, well-bred Saylor sisters can ride and shoot as well as any man. And after breaking their brother out of jail, they aren't above using their hidden talents to keep the Confederate fugitive safe. Until John Ballard tracks him down-and falls for the fiery-tempered Maddy, who struggles mightily to resist the seductive Pinkerton Agent. Tender-hearted Blanche is no help-she's rapidly losing her heart to Hank Vann, an equally attractive,equally dangerous bounty hunter. A whole new war is about to break out in Texas. The stakes are sinfully high, as a passionate battle is fought between honor and desire--where love can bring the most precious-and perilous-victory of all.

WESTERN ENCHANTRESS 5/1993 ISBN: 0821741578 Risking everything to find her long-lost father, Rianne Kierney journeyed to the frigid Yukon wilderness alone...only to discover that her father's life was in a shambles, his mining claim mortgaged to a rugged but decidedly handsome rogue named Pagan. Determine to pay off the towering debt and then return to civilization, the delicate English beauty san her heart out in a rough-and-tumble saloon...until she found herself singing to one man alone, the arrogant, ebony-haired pagan Roark! She had vowed to ignore him, but now she could wait no longer to feel his searing kiss, surrender to his passionate caresses, and finally capture his heart in love's ultimate embrace...all through the cold northern nights! Roark held many men's lives and fortunes in his power, including Alaister Kierney's, but the tough-minded owner of Henderson City's saloon and fancy house wasn't concerned with the fate of losers--until Keirney's enticing daughter appeared on the scene. Suddenly Pagan's scheme to turn his victims "worthless" mining claims into a treasure trove of gold was less important than claiming a kiss from the topaz-eyed minx who was thrilling his customers with her songs--and her enticing curves. the gold would have to wait, Roark knew, until he could tame the luscious Rianne, kiss her until she sang with rapture, then stake his claim at last to the golden treasure of her tempting body...for a lifetime of loving!

René J. Garrod

COLORADO CARESS 9/1988 ISBN: 0821724657 When Jane Taylor first set foot in Leadville, Colorado, she expected to find another mining town full of sinners. But what Jane didn't count on was being led down the garden path herself - by a saloon owner, of all people! Fleury Burns made Jane feel things she'd never experienced before...a warm tingling sensation from her head down to her toes, a longing to be held in his strong embrace, and an overwhelming need to be kissed all over. She didn't know what to do - give in to the desires of her heart or to follow the discipline of her own strict upbringing. Yet one thing was for certain...she knew that Fleury Burns was about to change her life...

ECSTASY'S BRIDE 5/1987 ISBN:0821720821

EMMA'S HEART 10/1996 ISBN: 0821754246 He's the bridegroom... Montana rancher Joshua Carrigan found himself the perfect wife...way out in St. Louis. He married her by proxy before she ever stepped foot in Big Sky country, but he was sure Emma Wheatley would warm his bed, set his heart on fire, and never tell him a lie. He was right about two out of three... She's the bride.... When Emma received Joshua Carrigan's answer to her ad for a husband, she poured out her heart. She told him of her parents' tragic deaths and her dire financial straits. She just knew he was the man of her dreams - irresistibly sensual and yet down-to-earth and kind. In fact, she told him everything. Except for one thing... And that's only the beginning... Emma wasn't coming to Montana alone. It would take an open mind, an enduring passion, and a whole lot of loving, for these unlikely newlyweds to find happiness. And it would take a one-in-a-million man like Josh to win.... Emma's Heart.

HER HEART'S DELIGHT 4/1995 ISBN: 0821748629 When her father dies, Camille Kendall pursues her dream of managing a horse breeding ranch in Montana. Her new neighbor, Adam Carrigan, wants her property, and he wants her run out of town. Camille is ready to take on the macho Montana man, but her blazing temper just might set his heart on fire.

HER HEART'S DESIRE 6/1994 ISBN:0821745913 A Reluctant Bride, She Refused To Marry... half the men in the Wyoming Territory had proposed to Ella Singleton - and she'd turned down every one. It wasn't that Ella had anything against them. She just had something more special in mind. But her stubborn refusal to tie the nuptial knot put her four younger sisters in a fix. They couldn't wed before she did. So.... A Captive Groom, He Had No Choice!... Samuel Carrigan didn't know what hit him. He'd come from the streets of New York to this wild frontier town - only to be hog-tied and kidnapped by a foursome of lively beauties! With a besotted sheriff in cahoots, Sam's only hope of getting out alive was to exchange wedding vows with a woman who didn't want anything to do with him...until he sealed their marriage with a kiss that sent Ella's senses spinning and told her this was the man she'd been waiting for - the only man who could fulfill...Her Heart's Desire.

MONTANA MAGIC 6/1991 ISBN: 082173413X She tried to be a lady. When her Montana cousin wrote that his three grown sons could use a lady's influence, headstrong Genevieve Heller left Boston on the next train. Pretending to be a prim and proper Massachusetts miss, the strawberry-blond beauty set out to tame the unruly westerners...especially the infuriating Sterling, who managed to fill her head with very unladylike notions! His broad shoulders made her dream of tender embraces; his strong hands made her yearn for intimate caresses; and the knowing look in his turquoise gaze made her want to slap the arrogance right off his handsome face! But he was no gentleman. Sterling knew there was more to their unwanted houseguest than simpering smiles and mindless chatter. No woman with hair that glorious color could be as meek as Miss Genevieve Heller wanted to seem. He meant to uncover the real Genny...right down to that luscious, creamy skin. His kisses would fill her with sweet fire, his touch would sear her with passion's heat. And he'd melt her eastern heart with his wild Montana Magic.

SILKEN CARESS 2/1988 ISBN:0821722905 Ever since her former fiancé had ruined her good name, flaxen-haired Nicollette Barrington had vowed she'd never be vulnerable to a man's charms again. Advertizing herself as a shady lady, the young innocent drugged her patrons, pocketed their cash-and kept her virtue intact!

TEMPTATION'S WILD EMBRACE 4/1990 ISBN:0821729772 Widowed Baltimore beauty Sarah Williams was ripe for adventure. Vowing never again to be dominated by any man, she set out for the untamed California plains in search of the excitement she'd been missing all her young life.

Julie Garwood

COME THE SPRING 12/1997 ISBN: 0671003348 Adam, Douglas and Travis Clayborne are each happily married, and their beloved Mama Rose is overjoyed with the wonderful ladies who have joined the family. But all the Claybornes wonder on which side of the law their restless brother Cole will land. Now Julie Garwood brings a mix of heartwarming wit and thrilling sensuality to a memorable Clayborne reunion...and at last we meet the elusive stranger who has slipped in and out of their lives, a man who lured Cole Clayborne into a shadowy chase, and who will now bring unexpected turns to Cole's uncertain future. Daniel Ryan is a hard man set on vengeance, a U.S. Marshal driven by a tragic, heartbreaking loss from the past. His quest leads him to a beautiful young woman, the sole witness to a terrible crime - and the only person who can help him. But the lawman finds that love is perhaps the greatest risk of all as he unwittingly draws her into the line of fire. The power and drama of their blossoming passion, entwined with the spirited adventures of the Claybornes and the surprising choices of the wayward Cole, make Come The Spring as poignant as it is unforgettable.

FOR THE ROSES 9/1995 ISBN: 0671014986 In Blue Belle, Montana, everyone knew better than to mess with the Claybornes. The brothers had once been a mismatched gang of street urchins - until they found an abandoned baby girl in a New York alley, named her Mary Rose, and headed west to raise her to be a lady. They became a family - held together by loyalty and love if not by blood - when suddenly they faced a crisis that threatened to tear them apart... Trouble came to town with one Lord Harrison Stanford MacDonald. Armed with a swagger and six-shooter, he cut a striking figure - but it soon became apparent to Mary Rose that he was too much of a gentleman to make it in her rough-and-tumble town. She asked her brothers to teach him the basics of frontier survival, which he acquired with ease. And soon he possessed a deep and desperate love for Mary Rose. She returned his affection wholeheartedly...until MacDonald revealed a secret that challenged everything she believed about herself, her life, and her newfound love. Now her search for identity and meaning would begin, raising questions that could only be answered if she listened to the truth within her heart...

ONE PINK ROSE(THE CLAYBORNE BRIDES) 6/1997 ISBN: 0671010085 Travis Clayborne may be the youngest of the Clayborne brothers, but he's most definitely his own man. Unless it means saying no to his beloved Mama Rose. And that's why Travis is escorting young Bostonian Emily Finnegan to Golden Crest, Montana -- where she'll discover what awaits her as a mail-order bride. Emily has made it perfectly clear that she's taken charge of her destiny and nothing is going to interfere. Falling in love with the perfect stranger isn't part of her plan, but the journey with Travis across this beautiful, rugged land opens her eyes...and her heart. Perhaps her destiny isn't exactly as she imagined.

ONE RED ROSE(THE CLAYBORNE BRIDES) 8/1997 ISBN: 0671010107 Adam Clayborne has always put great stock in the power of books. As an escaped slave - and a wanted man - reading has been his only ticket to the wonders of distant lands. Adam is content with his life as a confirmed bachelor, which is why his Mama Rose has summoned the irresistible Genevieve Delacroix to Montana. Also a former slave, Genevieve shares his dream of seeing the world, but she arrives to find Adam unfailingly polite...and just as distant. Undaunted, Genevieve determines to teach Adam what he'll never learn from a book - that true freedom only comes when you open your heart.

ONE WHITE ROSE(THE CLAYBORNE BRIDES) 7/1997 ISBN: 0671010093 Douglas Clayborne will never turn his back on anyone in need, and everyone in Blue Belle knows it. Time and again, his intolerance of cruelty of any kind has made him a champion of the defenseless...but his quiet strength faces its ultimate battle when he meets Isabel Grant. He arrives at her ranch to pick up the magnificent Arabian stallion he's purchased, but he cannot leave the vulnerable woman behind when he discovers the danger that threatens her. Convincing the stubborn, strong-willed beauty that she needs him is another matter. Douglas can stop the men from stealing her ranch and her horses, but he cannot stop Isabel grant from stealing his heart.

PRINCE CHARMING 6/1994 ISBN: 0671870963 Only her beloved grandmother, Lady Esther, knew how devastated Taylor Stapleton had been when her fiancé eloped with Taylor's cousin, Jane. Now that good lady - one of London's richest and most formidable matriarchs - lay dying. But first she was going to help Taylor pull off the scam of the season. To escape becoming a ward of her unscrupulous uncle, Taylor would wed Lucas Ross, a rugged American rancher. Lady Esther's money would enable Ross to bring his youngest half-brother home to Montana. Taylor had her own urgent reason to go to America...a precious legacy she hadn't revealed to Ross, for they had agreed to go their separate ways once they reached Boston. But as her handsome new husband spoke of life in Montana, Taylor began planning a new future. To Taylor, the wide-open spaces of Montana sounded like paradise...

Catherine Gavin

THE CACTUS AND THE CROWN 1962 Set in the days of Carlota and Maximilina in 1860s Mexico, this is a vivid and dramatic tale of love, conflict and rebellion.

Roberta Gayle

SUNSHINE AND SHADOWS 5/1995 ISBN: 0786001364 Raised among the Navajo, Roses Jordan was born to be different, from her sultry beauty and hair-triggered temper to her healing arts. Living in the small town of Cedar Valley, Colorado, she had won the hearts of the townspeople with her grit and her goodness - yet no one had ever touched hers... Then Tobe Hunter rode into town. A handsome, restless man on a spirited black horse, Tobe was searching for a way to stop running - and a place where he could make a new life. What he found was a woman whose spirit and determination matched his own...

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