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Aftershocks: Her parents' divorce is only the start of this teen's worries.
A Limited Partnership: Feisty, impetuous Kate Sullivan’s success in thwarting car thieves has put her life in jeopardy. The cops have the perfect solution — police protection while using Kate as a decoy. The officer assigned “babysitting” duties just happens to be Detective Michael O’Connor, the same “gentleman” who’d mistaken Kate for a prostitute at police headquarters.
All We Want for Christmas: It's Christmas time, and when God's in control, anything can happen - even for a grieving father and an engaged social worker.
A Matter of Trust: Why would a successful businessman want someone like Jackie? Is his kind treatment of her just a ruse to get her into his bed? Or is his sincerity genuine?
Andy vs. the Colonel: Andy Hollis is a soldier first and a woman second. Cory Costain, Andy's new CO, tests that resolve.
A Rush of Light: Callie, former cop, plans a new career but finds herself seeking a hitman. The quest, with perilous consequences, teaches her that sometimes the only way out is prayer.
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Wolf in Winter: Michaela Dunn never expected to find herself the focus
of an old vendetta when she returned to northern New Brunswick to run
her uncle’s snowmobile lodge. But then she never expected to meet
a man like Travis Harding either. Living feral in the winter woods, he
excited her to the bone even as she recognized he was exactly the wrong
man for her.
Bear Hugs: Desperate to bring her son out of a coma, Paige turns to Hunter, aka Bidwell Bear, Jamie’s TV idol. From their first meeting, each experience an attraction neither can ignore.
Bound by Blood: Single mom/college student/waitress has plenty on her hands - even before someone is murdered in her apartment!
Building
Passion: Jacqui Belpre has her hands full, running the home building
business she inherited from her parents and riding herd on her teenaged
brother Kyle and sister Janice. She doesn't know how lonely she is until
she meets Christopher, who's angry that his sister is smitten with her
brother...Christopher Warden's resort hotel is expanding and in need of
a contractor. He doesn't intend to hire a woman for the job -- but Jacqui
is the only one who submits a certified bid. They'll be working very closely
together…
Celtic Knot: Book 1 of the Second Chances trilogy: Celtic Knot rings are to seal their relationship. But do they?
* Cherished: Young woman loses her leg to cancer and is convinced a very handsome man will have nothing to do with her.
Chiva:
What if your best bud OD'd on drugs? What if his ghost told you that YOU
were next?
Chocolate Magic: Kat Roth and Mark
Denham have plenty in common--they’re CEOs of rival Seattle candy
companies, they’re both fighting for number one status in the nation
and they were both once married... to each other. Their venture into matrimony,
an explosive mix of passion and all-out war, has made Kat and Mark wary
of commitment.
Coming
Home the Long Way: The biggest mistake of Daniel Klein’s life
was leaving Kathleen Doherty. It was self defense, he left her before
she figured out he was a loser. She loved him, but he knew that eventually
she would leave him. Kathleen married the perfect man, a doctor. The biggest
mistake of Kathleen’s life was sleeping with her old boyfriend John.
Maggie was the result. When John dies in an accident, Kathleen rebuilds
her life with the help of friends and family. Through it all she still
dreams about Daniel.
Constant Craving: Romance suspense
ebook- Almost married's become involved in a murder and the bride is suspect.
Another Lavene quintisential romance suspense!
Courting
Oklahoma: A secret key, tiny love letters, and a trunk full
of Victorian unmentionables. Add a couple of quirky characters who fall
in love with each other.
Cry Baby Cry: Francie's
life changes drastically when she and Sam trade their busy urban lifestyle
for a tranquil house in the suburbs. Now she has the home she always wanted
for her daughter. But Francie soon discovers things aren't quite as peaceful
as they seem.
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Dancing in the Dark: A spoiled rich debutante
makes life a living hell for her handsome physical therapist.
Dark
Side of Paradise: Meg Morton has spent a week in Paradise. She’s
met the man of her dreams. She can imagine spending the rest of her life
with him – if she doesn’t have to send him to prison first.
David's Promise: David has burned his black book and taken up the ministry. What will boat captain Rebecca do to his new leaf?
Diamond
in the Rough: Penny's an image consultant,
Miles the genius behind breakthrough camping equipment. Can she smooth
his rough edges?
Double Dare: A classic tale of screwball comedy, with the warmth of a romantic comedy. with the mother's planning, and Jake trying to pull off two engagements, one false, and one real, one should keep an eye on Mrs. Hopper. She'll be a major force in romance writing.
Double Deception: For the past ten years, Sonya Mitchell had worked undercover – alone. She was confident, professional, highly skilled, and not a team player. Now, suddenly, her controller had changed everything. Not only had she been told that she was about to join an ‘active’ team, but the first operation would force her to put all her trust in one man, David Knight, and he was someone she’d only just met.
Dream
Man: Wanted: Tall, mature (35-45) man, heroic
in nature, preferably dark haired and blue eyed, capable of making long-term
commitment.
Faith, Hope and Charity: Kirsten
Hansen runs away at seventeen, has a child that dies with complications
that could have been prevented had she not been living on the streets,
and falls in love with a minister of God.
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Flowers in the Night: Emilie Ferrier is left
sterile by polio, she is desperate to adopt a child she can love and fulfill
her life. But time after time, her hopes are raised, only to be dashed
by the cruel realities of being a single, crippled mother.
Funny
Business: Will Meg's new career as a stand-up
comedian wreck her business career - or her romantic life?
Grave Future: DRAGGED INTO DANGER. When Jocelyn Hunter is stranded in an isolated cabin with an antagonistic stranger, she has no idea of the danger that awaits her. OBSESSED WITH REVENGE. Federal agent Dan Ferguson is haunted by his desire to bring a killer to justice. When innocent Jocelyn unexpectedly comes into his life, can he overcome his reluctance to accept her help and finally admit his growing love for her?
Grounds For Love: Jenny drinks tea, while Ty’s life revolves around his coffee business. But that’s the least of the obstacles to their romance. A well-meaning relative of Jenny’s secretly compels Ty to hire Jenny as his publicist. Ty would refuse except that once he meets Jenny he is irresistibly drawn to her.
Guesthouse:
Lauren's fiance disappeared only weeks before their
wedding, leaving a void in her life that she has not been able to fill.
She longs for answers, for closure, so that she might trust again.
Head
Over Heels: When a mountain climber falls,
he falls fast and he falls far -- for the woman next door who drops out
of a tree into his lap.
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Heart Broken, Heart Whole: Can divorced mother,
Amanda Wagner, trust the man who broke her heart to mend her child's?
Heart of Shadows: Rae Smith, the gifted
finder of lost children, is forced to return for one last kidnapping.
With her grandmother’s life at stake, Rea takes on a private case
that threatens more than her two year sobriety after leaving the FBI.
The case is confusing and ill-advised. Unwanted emotions cloud her judgment.
She might find the love of her life. Or she might lose her heart to the
man responsible for the kidnapping.
Heaven's Blue: Woman needs assistant for research project. Both are emotionally wounded by their pasts and struggle to find love.
Hennessey's Heaven: Hennessey is the caretaker of a little-used island getaway near Seattle - and the author of many popular novels under a pseudonym. Venny McClure (her given name is Heaven - do you blame her for using a nickname?) is in need of some peace and quiet to recover from her recent sensational and life-destroying troubles. Neither has love in mind - until they set eyes on each other, that is!
* Hot Fudge and Peppermint: Book 3 of the Second Chances trilogy: Nik Harding can't fit any man into the balancing act between her career and a chronic illness, much less a guy like Bill Adams. He's sexy as the devil and changes women about as frequently as she changes the sheets on her bed - to say nothing of the fact that he broke her heart eight years ago.
In Pursuit of Love: When Jack’s and Margie’s worlds collide in a traffic mishap, it throws them into an adventure that Uncle Bonny would surely disapprove of; one that Margie would do anything to keep her uncle from finding out about, one that includes helping Jack stop Brittany’s wedding, and one that gets very difficult to complete when she falls in love with Jack Ivan herself.In the Running: When your world disintegrates, not even waking in the arms of an attractive man helps. Yesterday, Reenie discovered her fiance was unfaithful, saw him commit a murder and ran; today, she wrecked her car. This is no time to fall in love. Or is it?
Little Secrets: Karen Stevens has it all -- including a son who might just be engaged to his half-sister.
Love at the Top: Ever since her divorce, Cassidy Romanelli is reluctant to trust another man. A chance meeting with a bearded stranger, Alex Smith, causes her to have second thoughts. But when she finds out Alex is really her new boss, multi-millionaire A.E. Haydon-Smith, can she learn to trust her heart instead of her head?
Marriage Can Be Murder: Before she marries her one-time professor, Francie must solve a mysterious death. Or will she die, too?
Miles
to Go: Innocent and courageous, embittered
and sexually precocious--together teens Chris and Tori discover that they
have miles to go.
Mollie's McGuire: Single mom Mollie
Rodriguez isn’t looking for love, especially with her new boss and
tenant Wade McGuire, but fate and her twins have other plans.
Moonlight Man: Sharon and Marc are both survivors, but that fact divides them just as it unites them. Can music bridge the gap?
More Than A Garden: Their interest in gardening draws Kevin and Lenora together; meddling adult children and a kidnapping threaten their love.
* Moving Violations: Jessica Savage, the victim of a drunk driver who killed her husband and left her a paraplegic, is being stalked. She teams up with Mac Mcready, a cop of fifteen years who begins by helping her and ends up falling in love with her.
No Holding Back: All Jenna wants is THE perfect rodeo photo, but then she meets Luke - and is arrested for murder.
One Texan's Enough: When Amy meets Justin, a tall, good-looking Texan, sparks fly. But is romance possible when they have five children between them?
Out of Reach: For Anna, it should have been just another ordinary job. Playing bodyguard to a surly teenager wasn’t exactly fun, but it wasn’t all that unusual either. What was unusual was the way her backup team seemed to desert her just when she needed them most. Then there was the older brother. A highly feted businessman – rich, personable, and well-known – Kel was justifiably arrogant. He expected nothing but the best when it came to protecting his younger sister and was very clear in expressing his feelings about Anna. Like so many other people, he just didn’t believe she had what it took to do the job. So why did he suddenly change his mind? And why was he so adamant that it had to be Anna who stayed on with him once his sister was safely out of the country? It simply didn’t make sense, and nor did her growing attraction to a man who was so obviously out of her reach.
Over the Moon/My Baby Too: "Over the Moon": Guilt-ridden Gabrielle agrees to cat-sit Angelique, the apple of her sister's eye. "My Baby Too": Holly has had a baby and her ex-husband Erik doesn't have a clue that he's the father. Two books in one.
Paper
Roses: Dr. Jennifer Maxwell never expected to want to be with her
family again. She left them behind in a poor inner city neighborhood of
Atlanta when she put herself through medical school. But on the eve of
seeing all her dreams come true, she is brutally attacked, her hands crushed.
Will she find the love of her life? Or a truth she can’t bear?
Penny's Luck: Recent
divorcee Penny Keller arrives in Bisbee, Arizona determined to build herself
a new life. A dispatcher job with the Cochise County Sheriff's Department
fills her need for employment but puts her in the middle of a long-term
feud between Chief Criminal Deputy Pete Lawson and Deputy Valdez Hawke.
Pockets Full of Joy: What happens when a non-maternal woman has a baby dropped on her doorstep by a to-die-for handsome doctor?
Powerful Medicine: You can't go home again. Or can you? Half Native American, Fran Jonas has seen the best and worst of life on the reservation and in the city.
Prairie
Hearts: Down-home romance, Iowa style - the
Prairie Hearts anthology shows the way it was...and the way it is.
Promises, Promises: One protects
her. One suspects her. They both fall in love with her, and she becomes
the source of animosity that drives the estranged brothers even further
apart.
Relative
Dangers: Mari McCabe’s life centers around remote Red Canyon,
Arizona and her horse training. Her secondary goal is earning her high
school diploma. When a controversial construction project starts nearby,
her ordered life is shaken by changes. Horse training may be dangerous
work, but danger is relative. She learns some relatives can be dangerous
indeed and loyalties may be severely tested.
Reluctant Angel: When a murder at The Cullar Resort brings Gabi Cullar and Chase Winters together, sparks fly and passions ignite. But Gabi still clings to the memory of her dead husband, leaving Chase to wonder if there will every be room in her heart to love another.
Renegade: A rogue with a heart-melting smile and a woman who denies their marriage of convenience - can they find happiness together?
Sea
of Hope: The boat that should have been left
to her instead belongs to the man whispers say may have been responsible
for her father's death.
Sharing Sunrise: Marian
Crane has been in love with Rolph McKenzie since almost forever, but he
sees her as a butterfly who flits from man to man, from job to job, and
even country to country,
Sinful Rain: Romance-Suspense- A private investigator of the beautiful female variety is hired by her gorgeous ex-lover to find the family of the child he thought was his.
Solemn
Vows: Newlyweds who vow to remain childless
inherit three pre-school children.
Still the One: Dr. Kathryn Navarro comes home to shake up the place and ends up facing the spirits of the past that haunt her.
Stitches From the Heart: Shannon's difficulty breaking up with Gary drives her to stay with her aunt, and there she discovers that she is pregnant. Enter the good-looking neighbor, Brian.
* Stolen Time: A teacher of the Deaf witnesses a murder while attending a conference in Miami. The man accused of murder catches a glimpse of a fleeing form, and will stop at nothing to ensure his enemy's testimony never echoes within a court of law.
Stranger in the Mirror: Waking to unfamiliar surroundings and a husband more alien than her own reflection, the narrator of this fast-paced romantic suspense discovers her past is too terrifying to remember.
Summer's Love: This determined bachelor still might have a chance at the single life, if only he can stop himself from falling in love with his wife.
Sunset
Promises: Jordan Wilkins threatens Kate Fraser's livelihood and that
of those dear to her with the new mall he's building. She wants to stop
him, but how do a fight a man whose beliefs in what's best for the community,
although diverse, are just as passionate as your own?
Teacher,
Teacher: Who is the student and who is the
teacher when two battered souls must learn to trust and love again?
That
Miracle Man: Jackson Miracle has never forgotten
his "Peach" - nor her marriage to another.
The Enemy Inside: Talk about a real-life situation! Marc is caught in the middle of old attitudes and his own beliefs. This is an important story for a teen to read and discuss.
* The Hardest Step: They were two voices on the telephone late at night. Burke was a construction engineer in Tampa for an extended assignment, not knowing how lonely he was. Nor did he know that Marti, the voice of Suncoast Answering Service, was disabled, ready to spread her wings in a world that would see her cane and limp before it appreciated her talents. Together they will learn that the hardest step is to learn to trust again.
The Hollow : Cathleen McCaffrey has just watched her beloved grandmother die, surrounded by strangers chanting meaningless songs, burning sage and sweet grass. The Ojibway people of White Earth Minnesota with whom her grandmother chose to spend her final years claim she is their blood relation and ask her to take on the family mantle of Bear Clan Shaman Healer.
The Inheritance : Heath broke Alison's heart. Now they've jointly inherited wilderness resort The Promise. Will Alison break the will?
The Other Face of Love: Carolina is a single mother raising her two children, and determined to never fall in love again. But she meets the dashing professor from Cuba, Gonzalo Sevilla, and life takes a thrilling but unexpected turn that in the end shows her how to trust again.
The Visitor: Shape shifter or clone? Which has returned Rebecca Tierney's husband's body to her nine months after he was cremated?
Til
There Was You: When Robbie Jo Connor's deaf son's
application for experimental surgery that could restore his hearing is
rejected, she kidnaps the surgeon to convince him that it should happen
anyway.
Treasures of the Heart: Keri and Charlie don't expect to fall in love while searching for the Dauphin's treasure. Will it last when the search is over?
Trust
Me: Sonya Mitchell thought she’d figured out how to fit into
the active team her controller had assigned her to. And the guys, (including
her lover), were finally starting to trust her. This book is the sequel
to the book Double Deception.
Two for the Show: Kristin Lehman is a talented concert pianist. David Chabrier is a fine vocalist. Can they carve a life with each other in spite of their amazing musical talents?
Two
of Hearts: Twin nephews bring Wes and Jean together
despite their misgivings and unhappy pasts.
Undoing Dallas: Undoing Dallas,
contemporary romance ebook- Boy meets girl. Boy mistakes her for a guy.
Comedy romance
Voice of the Lion: The score of a lost Verdi opera plunges estate attorney Sarah into danger. What about that voice she hears singing?
Welcome
to Nash's: Burned-out software engineer Ric
Delmore escapes to the Oregon Coast for some much-needed R&R. Will he
find the love of a lifetime in a restaurant kitchen, or will another chef
spoil the pot?
Where the Heart Leads: Neither widow Ashley Lanning nor single parent Major Kit Garrett can keep sparks from flying. But Mr. Right may be Major Wrong...
Wolfsong: When Madison Montgomery joins Native American artist Walker Armstrong's wolf re-population project, he sees her as just another city-bred female dabbling in the latest trendy cause, not unlike the last woman in his life. But Madison's motives are more complex. She's hunting the man who raped her best friend.