It was only supposed to be a short visit. It turned into a love affair.Melanie White is in trouble. Young, unmarried, and with no resources to speak of, she's forced to flee home and hide out with her aunt on a ranch in a western mining town. She's just passing through on her way farther West, and it's a good thing, too: she can't stand the ranch owner. He's rowdy, immature...and undeniably attractive.David Tanner has his life just the way he likes it: he does what he wants, when he wants, and nobody can tell him any different—least of all, his former nanny's niece Melanie, who likes books more than people.But when a family emergency forces Melanie and David to work together, she discovers that there's more to him than meets the eye. And he finds out that life as a bachelor may not be what he likes after all.Contains mild language and sensual content within marriage. Views: 13
Meet Jackie Frakes, a talented architectural intern. Her life has fallen into unsatisfying patterns, both personally and professionally. Renowned artist Leah Beck is exhibited in galleries nationwide. But her life has darkened with the death of her lover, Sharla. Trapped by a mountain snowstorm over Thanksgiving weekend, Jackie is rescued by Leah. The snowbound weekend in Leah's cabin shakes the very foundations of Jackie's life. As for Leah, Jackie provides renewal and inspiration for her work. But ... exhibition of Painted Moon, her new series, will reveal Leah as never before, as a lesbian artist. Their relationship increasingly torn by conflict and misunderstanding, the winter weekend together will surely be their last. Then intervention comes ... from a most unlikely source. Views: 13
A quiet jeweler unable to believe in the secret admirers sending him gifts; a prisoner who does trust the good intentions of those who break him out of jail; a dragon who does not trust the sincerity of an unexpected courtship; a witch who refuses to trust the village to which he has fled; a Courtesan who wishes his favorite client could be more, but dares not believe it; a jaded man who believes in nothing, but cannot resist the beautiful stranger he encounters.A young man who has nothing to believe in but fleeting glimpses of the future; a wizard who firmly believes in the ability of his fairy to cause nothing but trouble; and a young sailor who wants desperately to believe he is not bad luck as his brother claims. A dutiful son who gets more than he expected when he dutifully worships the dragon his family so dearly believe in; and two brothers who find a strawberry field that causes more trouble than they could ever believe.Often, we need only see something to believe... Views: 13
Havoc: Book #3 Moonshine Task Force Series Views: 13
After Evan Arden was imprisoned by the enemy for a year and a half, he returned from the desert as a military hero. He’d suffered some minor injuries during his captivity, was discharged from the Marines with a touch of shellshock, but was considered otherwise unharmed. Now he wonders how he ended up where he is—incarcerated in Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center for using his sharpshooting expertise to take out the neighborhood park with a high-powered sniper rifle and multiple rounds of ammunition. Lia Antonio, the woman he rescued from the desert heat the previous year, is the only person who can bring him out of his sleep-deprived psychosis and mounting PTSD. When she does, Evan knows he can’t just let her go again. He’s never considered leaving the business before—who retires from the mafia?—but he’s determined to get both Lia and himself out of harm’s way. Evan faces overwhelming forces from multiple directions as a deal to get him out of jail turns more dangerous than he imagined. With a mob war on the horizon and the feds holding evidence over his head, Evan has no choice but to throw himself into the middle of another warzone. In his efforts to make things right, Evan crosses the wrong man and finds himself on the business end of the crosshairs. With his acute perception and intelligence, he tries to stay a step ahead of his former co-workers, but this time, it isn’t just his own life on the line—he’s got to protect Lia from the man who once called him son.** Views: 13
What if a centuries-old Viking woke up in the modern age? MIRANDA’S VIKING answers that question in the GOLDEN LEAF AWARD winning novel that put Maggie Shayne on the map before “paranormal romance” was even a term, and won her a Career Achievement Award from RT and Favorite Author of the Year from Affaire du Coeur. “Just when you think there’s nothing new under the sun, Maggie Shayne reinvents romance!” –RT Book Reviews When Professor Miranda O’Shea uncovers the perfectly preserved body of the legendary warrior known as The Plague of the North, it’s the find of her career. But someone else wants it, and a break-in at the lab sends the climate controls haywire, and nearly kills her aging father. Miranda returns from the hospital to find her specimen thawed, and as she scrambles to preserve his body, he draws an anguished breath. His first breath in more than 900 years. Rolf Magnusson awakens to a strange new world and a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the one who betrayed him into exile and death. Scientists long to cut into his flesh to see how he survived, and treasure hunters seek his legendary plunder. Who among them can he trust? Views: 13
