But then Chase Mitchell slipped inside her heart to fulfill her whispered fantasies. Gypsy and Chase resisted the happy ending the dream demanded -- until a wily feline matchmaker found the keys to their love....

    She freed his heart from its confinement, and most of all she opened his eyes. But the lovers weren't lost to an uncaring world... for Sunny's life was threatened by a man from the past she couldn't recall....

    Toby felt an unfamiliar exultation when Jake gently brushed her cheek with his fingers, summoning forth a sensation of warmth and womanliness she'd never thought herself capable of feeling. — Her innocence of heart and spirit was a revelation to Jake, who'd never loved a woman as he loved Toby -- a fragile lady with secrets she couldn't share. What began as a special friendship blossomed into a sweetly mature love, but could Jake's tender caresses give Toby the courage to face the demons that haunted her dreams?

    Her parents' example had soured her on the institution of marriage... and in the scheme she'd hatched no one would get hurt, while she would know the joy of motherhood.At first everthing went according to plan, and the weekend Shay and Adam spent in each other's arms was more wonderful than she'd ever thought possible. Then fate -- and Adam Wickwire -- began to play havoc with her plot... and her emotions.

    Feeling out of her element, she escaped into the protective darkness of the garden to catch her breath--and instead felt her throat tighten in stunned longing. The man who approached her was tall, dark, and irresistibly handsome, like the hero in a fairytale, and an electric current of desire raced through her heart. Alex Delanore was a man caught by circumstance between two different worlds--and Kate was the key to the one he loved. With warmth and humor she could help him renew his dreams . . . for here was a woman to take home to Wisconsin...

    He never drove her crazy like her disturbingly attractive neighbor Oregon Brown, who seemed to know all of her secrets. True, Rory was tantalizingly out of reach, and Oregon was all too real... and so very seductive when he chose to be. Charity was torn -- between the unseen lover who haunted her dreams, and Oregon, who could hold her in his arms until morning....

    only that girl hadn't existed - until now! Tennes promised the masquerade would last only through the lunch, but Whitney gave such an inspired performance that Aunt Olive refused to let her go. And what began as a playful romantic deception grew more breathlessly real by the minute...

    Now he wanted Dephi Reed, whose classic beauty echoed ancient Greece, when mortal men made love to goddesses. Only when Micah began to probe the lovely facade and touch the true Delphi, a woman whose loving needs couldn't be satisfied by a casual affair, did she open herself to his embrace. But Micah was wary, jaded, fearful of commitment, so he extracted a promise from Delphi that tore at her heart — and threatened to shatter her most precious dream...