When the young orphan is accosted by a group of soldiers, Yankee surgeon Cole Latimer rescues the "lad"--never guessing that love for the rebel beauty will set duty against desire, ultimately testing his loyalties, his trust and his honor.

    You are not my daughter." With those words Mrs. Tracy gave lovely Charmian the shock of her life. The news that she was a nameless waif, unclaimed after an accident in which her nurse had died, turned Charmian’s dreams of the future to ashes. What chance would she have in society? Though without a name, Charmian did possess a great deal of beauty and a swift intelligence. She would set out to find a family and a name of her own. Suddenly, she knew exactly how she would do it… But everything in life is subject to change, as Charmian would soon discover... Mira Stables is the author of many historical fiction novels, including The Byram Succession, The Swynden Necklace, and Golden Barrier.

    But only one knew her secret... The Wild Rose was the title she had taken and the legend she had created — the beautiful blond aristocrat who roved the highroads at the side of England's most notorious highwayman — and matched him, valor for valor, reckless deed by reckless deed... But the Wild Rose was more than a legend. She was a woman, with a woman's needs, a woman's hungers, a woman's weaknesses... And now, the one man who possessed the truth about her had turned the flood tide of her power into a current of all-consuming passion pulling her ever closer to the abyss...Rosamond Royal is the pen name of Valerie Sherwood.

    Sarah McGowanHer roots were deep in the Texas soil. But her secret shameful love for her sister's husband kept her from happiness.Pride and their love of the Texas land threw them together in an unlikely marriage. Then, as unexpectedly as a spring flood, long pent-up passion exploded in a storm that was to consume them both...