But she was married. Now she’s not. He’s all in. Rachel Cameron prefers to lick her wounds and protect her children from gossip and shame in isolation on a small homestead in the Ozark Mountains. But life-long bachelor and ex-Marine Sheriff Garrett Stark has other ideas. Drawn to Rachel, Garrett wields all the power and charm he can muster to insist she return to town for her safety and that of her children. Exasperation and anger rule on both sides. Rachel balks, but does not anticipate the raft of dizzying emotions stirred by the Garrett’s relentless attention. The moment Garrett takes her into his arms, Rachel knows she must make a choice: honor the truth and face her fears or live forever as an outsider.

    Alone is good and she is finding her way. On a whim, she parks her Play-mor in a fish camp in the wilds of the Okefenokee Swamp, where gators yawn, bears slumber, and snakes slither. The camp pace is slow, the owner kind, and the people friendly. Cleo encounters Fletcher Freemont Maitland and his goddaughter, eleven year-old Katie. Cleo didn’t know her life was about to unravel yet again, her heart would shatter, and that Fletcher Maitland would help her mend. But Cleo is about to find these things out the hard way. Both Fletcher and Katie will change her life and if Cleo does not learn to accept that life is bountiful and fate imperfect, she will lose both forever.

    She was a woman from another time, innocent, yet wise in ways he scarcely understood.Irresistibly, Susan and Alan were drawn together to explore their wildly exotic differences. And soon they would discover something far greater—a rich emotional bond that transcended both of their worlds and linked them heart-to-heart...until their need for each other became so overwhelming that there was no turning back. But would she have to sacrifice all she cherished for the uncertain joy of their forbidden love?

    

    Where better to recuperate than a villa on the Algarve, working as cook for a brilliant London heart surgeon on his research sabbatical. Warned of Rafe Harland's reputation as a heart breaker, Ellie's defences are resolutely in place.But he will prove more potent than any virus! And a broken heart is one he is totally unqualified to cure...

     Charlie’s work is her life. She’s the boss of her own construction company, and her newest contract is remodeling Reveille Reef.Ben Gilmour views life as one fun adventure after the next. He’s proud to be one of the idle rich, and he’s currently surfing in Hawaii. But when his aging aunt wants her property restored, Ben is put in charge of supervising the job, and to his horror, he becomes Charlie’s boss.Ben figures Charlie’s devotion to work is perverse and unnatural.Charlie is disgusted by his total lack of any work ethic.Can Ben devise a plan to coax Charlie away from her hammers and saws long enough to spend quality time in his arms?The two are diametrically opposed on almost everything”"except making hot, passionate love under a tropical moon.Island Sunrise explores relationships, between friends, between lovers, between family. ˃˃˃ If you love to be transported to paradise by reading contemporary women’s fiction, Island Sunrise is a read you don’t want to miss. Scroll up and grab a copy today.

    But once the two rival reporters headed down to steamy New Orleans to investigate a murder, Matt Bates was determined to make his lovely adversary his willing partner in passion.The Art Of Deception (1986)Supposedly he had come to her father's estate looking for respite. But was handsome Adam Haines the man he pretended to be? Or was Kirby Fairchild in danger of falling hard for a stranger who was even more practiced in the art of deception than she was?Night Moves (1985)The small town offered peace to the widowed Maggie Fitzgerald. But when sexy Cliff Delaney unearthed a skeleton in her backyard, she found herself playing detective with him—and wondering what was possible in the heat of the night...in the heat of passion.

    After all, the two fo them got along professionally like a house on fire...and, as Washington's most eligible bachelor he was more used to females running after him than away from him.Cole didn't know that Tracy had suffered a betrayal so unthinkable it had shattered her faith in relationships altogether.And, by the time he did find out, he was committed to loving Tracy for always - no matter what it cost him.

    Drawn from more than a dozen books and presented in chronological order, the poems in this collection trace the poet's progress from the serious metaphysical poems of her youth, to her secular and religious love-poems, poems about nature and art, and elegies.

    WHAT’S A GAL TO DO?Carrie Zablonski has challenging students, a needy mother, an overprotective lover who’s also a cop—and now, a stalker.She deals with all of it by taking charge—but the results aren’t exactly what she expected.Maybe everyone’s in need of some--------special education.

    Greek Nobel laureate, tr Olga Broumas

    A Classic Romance by Award-Winning Author, Cheryl Reavis, writing as Cinda RichardsNothing rattles cocky Scotsman Dillon Cameron-except learning he’s fathered a child by his best friend’s widow! Outraged at the secret of his daughter’s birth, haunted by a deathbed promise, Dillon storms Thea Kearney’s highlands cottage, intent on claiming “his lasses.”In wrenching grief Thea had once sought comfort in Dillon’s sheltering arms, but she and her baby scarcely need him now! Yet Dillon’s salty brogue and sea-swept sorcery shatter her resistance and win her heart…until she discovers the man-to-man pledge that even the roguish Dillon feels compelled to honor…

    This insightful book captures the social environment that launched artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf, while chronicling the rise and fall of the East Village scene.

    She thought he saw her only as his secretary - until the day he offered to initiate her into the secrets of being a woman who was loved by a man.Soon the wallflower blossomed into a gleaming rose. But a flower is only allotted so much time in the sun. Eventually Adam would move on, leaving behind a beautiful woman - a woman with a broken heart.