And though Brianna needed Ahmed's generosity to take care of her brother, she wasn't about to play housemaid to some overbearing sheikh! In such close quarters it wasn't long before Brianna discovered Ahmed had the demeanor of a king. Yet the biggest surprise was "His Majesty's" demand that she become his bride. But Brianna wasn't walking down the aisle until her royal suitor learned a much-needed lesson in love.

     Thomas Stonehill and Garnet Anthony couldn't be more different, ice to fire, but both are determined to make the Corners a neighborhood where residents will be safe to enjoy a wealth of opportunities. After a personal tragedy Thomas, once the minister of a megachurch, forms a ragtag congregation in an abandoned store, despite his own doubts that God listens or cares. Garnet, a nurse, runs a maternal health clinic that she's carved from nothing. When warring gangs threaten Garnet's clinic and personal safety, Thomas takes action to protect her, despite his conviction that he must remain a man apart. Neither of them is prepared for the startling outcome. Reviewer Melinda Helfer, of Romantic Times (now RT Book Reviews) wrote: "Innovative plots can often open gateways for an author, but they can never take the place of the human experience that the very best books bring to our hearts." Dragonslayer blends romance, women's and inspirational fiction. But most of all it's a novel about the human heart and the mysterious healing power of love.

    Well, he didn't care that she was back in town; he'd learned his lesson the hard way. This bachelor wasn't going to get burned again, no matter what Meg said about circumstances beyond our control." His control was doing just fine, and she could forget all about rekindling their flame.

    But then the voices came, voices from somewhere beyond the edge of reason, whispering of unspeakable horrors.One man, and one man alone, believed her nightmare was real--her enigmatic neighbor, Ian McLaren. Strange and compelling, he had clearly seen far too much of the dark side, and it had marked him forever. And yet she found herself hungering for him, even as the voices--and her fragile heart--whispered to her to flee his touch....

    . .Ten years of anger melted into desire the moment U.S. Marshal Grant Stephens spied fragile Beth Channing. Then reality snapped in. Nothing had changed: his ex-wife was still the spoiled little rich girl he'd once known ...and told himself he hated. But when he discovered that someone was out to kill him, and that Beth was caught in the cross fire, he moved in with her to protect her--and he had no intention of sleeping on the couch ....Beth didn't know whether to laugh or cry when Grant moved in. His disturbing presence warmed her, but he threatened the walls she'd painstakingly built around her heart. And now danger surrounded them both. Was it possible fate had brought them back together only to tear them apart?

    Drugged, then kidnapped and held prisoner on a small boat sailing deep into the San Juan Islands, she wondered in despair if this gloriously beautiful place was to be her grave ....And yet nearly as disturbing as her fear was the strange longing she had come to feel for her enigmatic abductor, the man who called himself Ross MacGregor. As the restless wind sent them drifting farther and farther away from everything she knew and loved, she found herself aching for him, this man who surely meant to kill her ....

    Yet the sweet memories they shared were still strong, as were the ties that bound them to a baby they had never known.Zach's return had begun as a quest to find his son, but it soon turned into a need to rekindle the love that had haunted him for years. The reformed bad boy's most difficult task was to persuade Leah to confront the past and remember the love she'd once denied. For the two had to go back . . . if there was any chance of a future together.

    What did this cattleman know about couture? Somehow she had to get her hands on the funds while keeping his hands off her! John Dancler didn't want to give in to this frivolous prima donna. He'd promised Marlee's father that he'd take care of her, and he wasn't about to let her throw her cash away on some harebrained business scheme. But the more he was determined to steer clear of her persistent persuasion, the more he found himself roped--and tied!Hero is heroine's much older stepbrother.

    A fact that spooked Des Jones, for the curse promised death to the legendary Masque Factory's new heir--the person he was impersonating.Under a cloak of disguise, Des arrived in Midnight only to find that his life-threatening challenge was made deliciously sweeter when the beautiful Rowen Hunter became his fiancee in deception.Rowen was promised to another--the man paying Des for a job well done--but he wanted her...no matter what the cost.But to have her, Des had to unmask a killer determined to make theirs a deadly affair.

    dive seemed more a life sentence than a life. But the night Conner Fox escorted her home from a barroom brawl, everything was suddenly different. For this tall, solid rancher with the crystal-green eyes offered her marriage, and a new life under the endless sky...Connor had noticed a lot of things about Laura right off the bat: she was sweet, caring...and her legs were impossibly, invitingly long. But he didn't want a loving wife; he wanted a mother for his child and a companion on cold, lonely nights. And he would refuse, with every fiber of his being, to let himself love again.

    So when her handsome, blond, blue-eyed boss began wooing her the old-fashioned way, Gabby overlooked their age difference . . .even though it was a few centuries. Years ago, Adrian Lacross would have claimed Gabby in a Transylvania minute. But he wasn't the fly-by-night lover he used to be. Suddenly, all Adrian wanted was to walk in the sunshine, holding Gabby's hand. But how could he ever hope for marriage and family when all he could offer Gabby was a future that began at dusk and ended at dawn? YOU’RE INVITED!

    That much, he supposed, he'd earned. But he was shocked to find the woman he'd once loved living high in his family house, her young daughter mysteriously the heir to the Keegan fortune....With an angry, bitter Seth adamantly denying paternity of her child, Ghislaine Pargiter knew he would make her life miserable until he shook her secret out of her. Not once in eight long years had she uttered a single lie, but she wasn't willing to destroy the man she still loved with the truth....

    But when she finally arrived of her destination-the Double Diamond Ranch-she discovered another side to this scarred, brooding cowboy... That night had been one Jude would never forget. Together, he and Margret had shared a crisis-end survived. But now far more was at stake: she was the newly named heir to the ranch and she'd snatched away Jude's very birthright!

    And when she discovered that the convict being transferred to the state penitentiary was none other than the notorious Benton Carlyle, she knew she had a chance to get the hottest scoop of her career. One moment Ben was fending off a nosy female journalist. The next a tornado ripped into the diner, bringing chaos, destruction--and a chance for escape. With Kelsey as his hostage, he fled into the mountains, free at last. Ben swore he wouldn't hurt her, and he swore that he was innocent. Kelsey knew better than to believe a murderer, but something in Ben's eyes made her want to help him--before it was too late"--P. [2] of cover.