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A Secret Passion
Sophia Nash - 2004
To escape, she flees for the country, where she meets a handsome, if stubborn, man-and soon finds that when it rains, it pours...
A Fire in the Blood
Shirl Henke - 1994
What he didn't count on was a flame-haired spitfire named Lissa Jacobson, who had her own manhunt in mind.Dark, dangerous, and deadly with his Colt revolver, Jess was absolutely forbidden to the spoiled, pampered daughter of Cheyenne's richest rancher. But from the moment Lissa stumbled upon him in his bath, she decided she had to have the virile gunman. Pitting her innocence against his vast experience, Lissa knew she was playing with fire...but she never guessed that the raging inferno of desire would consume them both.
Return To Yellowstone
Peggy L. Henderson - 2016
Aimee Donovan's mountain man of her dreams came to 2010 to find her and take her home, and now they can live together forever. But a life two hundred years in the past is filled with challenges. Learning to overcome dangers and discover her calling will be more difficult without modern technology and conveniences of the twenty-first century.Daniel Osborne has seen the future, and he wants no part of it, except the woman who is his heart song. His life is complete now that she has chosen to live in his familiar Yellowstone wilderness of 1810. With the secrets his father had kept from him now revealed, he is tormented about what to do with the time travel device that has done more good for him than harm.Daniel and Aimee have no doubt that they want to stay together forever, but knowing they have the ability to travel forward in time if there is a crisis provides a loophole that has good and bad implications. Do they have the courage to rid themselves of the one thing that could save them?Other books in the Yellowstone Romance Series (in recommended reading order)Yellowstone Heart Song (Book 1)Return to Yellowstone - Sequel to Yellowstone Heart Song (novella)A Yellowstone Christmas (novella)Yellowstone Redemption (Book 2)Yellowstone Homecoming (novella)Yellowstone Season of Giving (short story)Yellowstone Awakening (Book 3)Yellowstone Dawn (Book 4)Yellowstone Deception (Book 5)A Yellowstone Promise (novella)Yellowstone Origins (Book 6)Yellowstone Legacy (Book 7)Yellowstone Legends (Book 8 - coming 2017)
Surrender to a Stranger
Karyn Monk - 1994
Now the two were on the run--and for as long as he was there to protect her, she felt strangely safe....But could she trust him with her heart?They called him the Black Prince, and to save the unjustly condemned he took hair-raising risks, slipping in and out of courtrooms and prisons, brazenly defying the threat of capture and death. The reckless spy tried to tell himself that Jacqueline was just another prisoner to be spirited away to safety. Yet there was something about her fierce dignity, her unrelenting sense of honor, her unbreakable spirit that made him never want to let her go....HE RISKED HIS LIFE TO SAVE HERS....She thought she was about to die when her family's farm came under attack. Instead, a handsome stranger rode to her rescue and took a bullet to save her. But when the bloodshed and terror were over, Josephine Armstrong discovered that the man she owed her life to was a British soldier. She could not betray Lt. Col. Damien Powell -- not after what he'd done for her. But she would pay dearly for harboring the enemy, forced to prove her patriotism by becoming the rebels' most beautiful spy....BUT WOULD SHE GIVE HIM HER HEART IN RETURN?When he saw the lovely young woman struggling with her captor, Damien didn't care which side of the bloody war she was on. He only knew that he had never seen such an incredible mixture of extraordinary beauty and raw courage in his life. Yet Damien couldn't know that one day this innocent farm girl was destined to betray him. She would become Charles Town's most irresistible spy, dazzling officers with her charms even as she stripped them of strategic secrets. But when a twist of fate brings Josephine back into his life again, Damien will gamble everything on the chance that he can make this exquisite rebel surrender...if only in his arms.
Rebellious Bride
Donna Fletcher - 1993
A scandal forces marriage between the unlikely pair. And they soon learn that neither could be more wrong about the other. Rolfe discovers that she’s more of a woman than he ever imagined possible and Lillian finds out that beneath Rolfe’s fancy exterior hides a hard, muscled body she can’t stop touching.Fire, hunger and passion soon stir their souls and love sneaks in when they least expect it. But it’s when Lillian’s life is threatened that she finds out that her husband’s talents go far beyond the bedroom.
A Gentleman Seduced
Sharon Page - 2004
Forced to flee the brothel before she is discovered, Diana accepts the help of the dangerously intriguing Lucian Northcote, Viscount Pembroke. Escaping in his well-appointed carriage, Diana quickly discovers that all of the excitement she could possibly want is right in front of her . . . After impulsively helping the reckless innocent, Lucian is more than happy to indulge her need for sensual adventure. But before their few days of wicked passion are up, Lucian finds to his shock that he is becoming . . . A Gentleman Seduced.
Savage Forest
Jessica Leigh - 2013
Her darkest nightmares are realized when the young Swedish immigrant is taken by the Lenni Lenape Indians after a grave misunderstanding turns to bloodshed. Looking into the piercing black eyes of her bronze-skinned captor, Jenna prepares to endure a ghastly revenge for her father’s mortal mistake. Running Wolf is a striking and virile Minsi brave who first discovers the golden-haired female hunting as a man deep within the forest. He is enthralled with the slender, green-eyed creature, so different from any white woman he has ever before encountered. Yet when his brother is needlessly murdered by the girl’s father, the course of his life is changed forever. Running Wolf rashly takes the young woman captive, bearing her deep within the savagely beautiful mountain regions of the New World’s interior, his homeland known as the Dark Forest, steeped with mysticism and lore of a people little known by the Whites. Jenna slowly adapts to the native way of life, discovering her own talent as a natural healer among the native people. Sexual tensions and clashes of will escalate as Jenna is thrown into the care and lodge of Running Wolf by decree of the chief. In close quarters, their mutual attraction can no longer be denied. Temper and passion entwine the couple until Running Wolf is stretched to the breaking point. Can he tame the young Swede's indomitable spirit?
A Little Time in Texas
Joan Johnston - 1992
But when a rough-and-rugged stranger suddenly pushed her into a hilly cave and pulled her out into the twentieth century, Angela was plenty scared....The present: Texas Ranger Dallas Masterson had a heart full of bitterness, and there was no room in it to care about a smart-mouthed, sassy woman claiming she was from another century! But Angela soon had Dallas discovering that, though his past was history, the future was theirs to make -- together!***Her past was a mysteryAngela Taylor owes her life ot the Texas Ranger who rescued her from a band of no-good renegades. The problem is that he'd pulled her out of danger—and straight into the twentieth century. Now Angela's as far from Texas, 1864, as she could be, stuck wiht a disbelieving man too handsome for her own good.But was her future his to claim?She's either a woman out of time...or completely out of her mind. Dallas Masterson isn't sure what to believele From her crazy clothes to her feisty ways, he's almost convinced that this sassy, smart-mouthed woman fought Comanches, buried her fiancé, ran from the law and stole to survive...especially when she steals his horse to try and get back to the cave where he found her.Now, both Angela and Dallas are discovering that when it comes to things like the past— and falling in love—there's no place to go but the future.
A London Season
Patricia Bray - 1997
Here is a chance to find a wealthy husband and get the entire family out of debt. But the upper crust of London bristles at Jane's blunt country ways—everyone but Lord Glendale. The handsome Lord, not in the market for a wife, finds himself amused by Jane's frank manner and wagers that—within the month—even provincial Jane can be brought into fashion.His plan succeeds only too well, as Jane blossoms into the most popular young lady of the season. Now will Lord Glendale relinquish Jane to her newfound admirers? Or will he take the biggest gamble of all– and risk his heart in a challenging game of love?
Risen Glory
Susan Elizabeth Phillips - 1984
Worldly, handsome, undaunted by danger, he awakened in the wild girl a woman's ardor. Kit would shed her boy's disguise to dazzle society with her bold beauty...she would tantalize Baron even as she schemed to destroy him. Torn between burning desire and an impassioned dream of the South reborn, she would be forced to choose: to fulfill love's longing or risk everything for Risen Glory.