Pretending to be married can’t be that hard. Leaving Lennhurst Asylum 1: Elias Browne The town of Greenlock shuns the daughter of the mortician. How deplorable, that Lauren has to take over the duties that are her father’s. Day after day the work creates loneliness in her tender heart that spurs despondence. Then a voice speaks from the morgue basement. A rough and tumble outlaw who's supposed to be dead is still alive! For some unfathomable reason, Lauren agrees to help him stay dead. Elias had escaped from Lennhurst Asylum, where he was born and raised. Since he had no family or future, he was taken from his prison sentence, enlisted in the recent Civil War and trained to wield explosives to further the cause. From running and surviving all his life, all Elias could ever promise anyone was loyalty. Love was out of the question. When Lauren mentions her longing to see her mother and sister in Colorado, for loyalty’s sake, he offers to take her on the arduous wagon train journey. Of course, it wouldn't be proper not to be married while traveling together. Therefore, Lauren and Elias, so vastly opposite, agree to pretend to be married during the months of difficult travel. Loyalty versus love. Can these two find truth and acceptance in their hearts? Can love cover a multitude of sin? Love Covers is a gratifying love story of lives changed, and of healing and restoration while on a dusty trail west.

    A beautiful woman born in the American southwest into the long extinct Anasazi tribe, long before Columbus...whose blue eyes marked her as a witch and set her apart from the Indian tribe that raised her.Following her path of destiny in a vanished world of great stone cities and trackless wilderness warring tribes and mysterious trabelers from other lands, Kwani found love with Kokopelli, the Toltec magician, who rescued her from death and took her to the Place of the Eagle Clan. There she was transformed from an outcast to the Chosen of the Gods, where she became She Who Remembers and taught young girls the ancient secrets only women know...secrets that provided her with inner power to overcome and triumph--and change her life forever.

    Once there, she plans to assist in an anthropology study of the Crow Indians for the renowned Smithsonian Institution. And while it’s true that the only Indians this intrepid bluestocking has ever laid eyes upon are those illustrating the pages of popular dime novels, Aurora is not about to let that stop her from making her mark in a man’s world.Major Jonah Mackenzie, a Civil War hero who also happens to be a half-breed Mohawk Indian, finds himself in the unenviable position of having to escort General Crenshaw’s niece halfway across the continent. Convinced that Aurora is the most dangerous type of woman imaginable – a crusading do-gooder – he tries to keep his distance. Unfortunately, Aurora has a knack for landing into trouble. Indian abductions. Barroom brawls. It’s enough to make Jonah think that beneath Aurora’s spectacles and prissy demeanor there’s one gutsy lady. Not to mention a most beguiling woman.But as the fires of armed aggression burn out of control on the frontier, Jonah is suddenly torn between his military duty and his desire for a woman hell-bent on saving the warlike Crow Indians. When Jonah is falsely accused of treason – a hanging offense – his Indian blood becomes a dangerous liability. Especially for the woman he loves. If he’s to save Aurora from the raging firestorm, he must act quickly . . . even at the risk of losing her forever.A sexy western romance set in 1860s Montana, JONAH’S WOMAN is brimming with passion, wonderful historical detail, and all the fury of the untamed frontier.

    even if he is a drop-dead gorgeous immortal king.Never pretend to be a princess.And most importantly... never slip on an ancient wedding ring you know nothing about.Sarah Larker returns to a cave where her sister disappeared ten years earlier. She walks through a portal and is mistaken for a runaway princess on the run by a dangerous immortal king in medieval times. Her plan is bold as well as daring-become this princess, wed the king, and slip on an ancient wedding ring that will unlock the portal back home. Then find her sister and run as fast as she can out of Dodge. But taking on the identity of Princess Gloria comes along with dangerous consequences; and slipping on the ruby ring comes with an even higher price.

    She never suspects that handsome courtier Christopher Hollier has been sent to ruin her, not wed her. Christopher's desire for Anne soon sweeps them both toward betrayal and into a dangerous game that could change the fate of the queen herself.Lady in WhiteA widow is forced to remarry and her betrothed is a mysterious recluse who conducts all business through his handsome agent. Suspicious and protective at first, the agent eventually falls in love with the spirited, courageous lady.

    Meanwhile, Valerie Crane finds herself transported to the year 1605. Terrified and confused she turns for help to the Whitfield brothers, who take her in and offer her a home. Both Alexander and Finlay Whitfield fall in love with the mysterious woman who shows up on their doorstep creating a love triangle that threatens to consume them all. Valerie must make her choice, deciding between the brother who will lead her down the path of destruction or one who will give her a love she couldn’t find in her own time.

    She's a shy and talented pianist; he's a newly minted soldier with dreams of becoming an architect. When they fall in love, it's immediate and deep--and cut short when James is shipped off to the killing fields.Aubrey Edwards is also headed toward the trenches. A gifted musician who's played Carnegie Hall, he's a member of the 15th New York Infantry, an all-African-American regiment being sent to Europe to help end the Great War. Love is the last thing on his mind. But that's before he meets Colette Fournier, a Belgian chanteuse who's already survived unspeakable tragedy at the hands of the Germans.Thirty years after these four lovers' fates collide, the Greek goddess Aphrodite tells their stories to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, in a luxe Manhattan hotel room at the height of World War II. She seeks to answer the age-old question: Why are Love and War eternally drawn to one another? But her quest for a conclusion that will satisfy her jealous husband uncovers a multi-threaded tale of prejudice, trauma, and music and reveals that War is no match for the power of Love.A sweeping, multi-layered romance with a divine twist, by the Printz Honor-winning author of The Passion of Dolssa, set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II.