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When Catherine Breaux sets out to find her brother's killer, getting set upon by bandits along the Natchez Trace is not in her plans. When all seems lost, a mysterious stranger comes pounding out of the night to scatter the outlaws. Wealthy planter, Jase St. Claire's timely appearance is a mixed blessing. St. Claire saved Catherine from ravishment at the hands of the outlaws. . . now who will save her from him? Forbidden Flame, is the second book in the Quest For The West Series.

As her uncle’s representative, it is up to Fallon Deane to work closely with the handsome new minister until he becomes acclimated to his post and familiar with his flock. But the more time she spends with the Right Reverend Draegan Mattais, the clearer it becomes to patriotic Fallon that there may be more to the man than it seems. He is secretive, and mysterious, and too well armed for a simple man of God. But the more Fallon questions him, the more the man resists… until one night she finds him prowling around in Gilead Manor, her uncle’s great house. Draegan is given no choice but ...

Adventurer Eben St. Claire, and his beautiful bride, Raven, are beginning their new life in Louisiana when tragedy strikes. Their love is legendary... but can it survive the ultimate test? Forever And A Day is a novella sequel to the award-winning Rough And Tender, and the latest addition to the Quest For The West Series.

When adventurer, Eben St. Claire, discovers a dying man in the wilderness, they strike a bargain: a handsome reward in exchange for his cooperation. All that’s required is for him to provide protection to the man’s daughter. Only Eben soon learns that his newly acquired responsibility is not the dutiful child he’s been led to believe, but a headstrong beauty as untamed as the land Eben calls home. Rough and Tender was awarded the Romantic Times Best First Western Historical Romance. It is the first book in the Quest for the West Series. Winner of the Best First Western Historical ...

James White-Hawk Morgan has a trading post in the Mohawk River Valley in New York, and a fairly promising future. What he doesn’t have are friends in high places. . . like England. A business man like himself can prosper if he has the proper connections, so he seeks to remedy this deficit by travelling to London. . . and there he meets Lizzie Gardener, a pretty spinster with connections, but few prospects she will actually accept. There is an instant attraction between the English rose and the wilderness entrepreneur, yet their potential relationship is cut short when James receives news ...

The brothers MacLeod bury their secrets in the front yard. Julianne Rhys gave her heart to Will MacLeod years ago, and he broke it when he disappeared. Now, suddenly, he's back, but he isn't the boy she fell in love with. Government assassin Will MacLeod exists in the shadowy world of the CIA, and he has returned home to complete his last assignment. Only this time, it's personal. But home is a landscape riddled with complications. Will's brother Jimmy has always been trouble, but is he part of the evil threatening the town? A town where the ghosts of Will's troubled past eagerly await his ...

Christmas for a single-mom is hard enough, and the last thing Maggie needs is to be called back home to Sutter's Mountain to deal with a father she hasn't seen or spoken to in fifteen years. She's been asking for help and advice, but for some reason, God doesn't seem to be listening. Or maybe He has a round-about way of getting things done, and getting stubborn folks to stop hurting one another... and Maggie, and her father, will have to learn the hard way. A Christmas short story about the generations of one family coming together and mending past hurts that will warm your heart.

When Maggie's divorce turns her world upside down, she makes a hard choice, and returns to the mountain where she was raised, and where her father Jacob still farms. Maggie and her father, estranged for fifteen years, have only recently begun to rebuild their relationship, so moving home is not a feel-good choice for Maggie... and it won't be an easy transition. The suburbs of Akron are a world away from the hills and hollows of West Virginia. Thirteen-year-old Matt blames his mother for the divorce and is acting out, while ten-year-old Abby rapidly adapts. Maggie's dad has changed so much ...

When her life is shattered by the War Between the States, Olivia Harrington scrambles to rebuild a lost family fortune by running the Federal blockade out of Wilmington, North Carolina. Her daring and bravery has allowed her to keep Bliss, the home she hasn’t seen in months... the place where she is now headed. Yet waiting at home for Livie is a houseful of trouble… her dying brother, and the man who risked everything to honor a friend’s final wish… the very man who broke Livie’s heart long ago, and whom she thought never to see again…. The Long Road Home is a novella that is ...

Widowed Michaela Strong has a soft spot for strays. It’s the reason she adopted the wolf-dog she calls Boo. Sometimes a dog is dutiful, and then there is Boo. So , when he has run off to have an adventure and ends up causing a dreadful ruckus in the woods, Michaela goes out to bring him home. The crazy dog is always finding trouble, and this time is no exception… only this time trouble comes in the form of a handsome man, lying broken in the woods. Judson Nance just wants a new start. He’s given up his sinful ways, and with the Lord’s help, he intends to make a new start. Thirteen ...

Abby's school project presents a challenge that ends in an unexpected discovery: a journal written by Maggie's great-grandmother documenting personal tragedy and her own participation in West Virginia's Coal Wars of the early 20th Century. The poignant memoir awakens a new appreciation in Maggie for her own family history. Meanwhile, a visiting aunt and her involvement in the local historical society triggers conflict between Maggie and her irascible dad.The Legacy Quilt is the third book in The Country Road Series, which takes place in West Virginia. Appropriate for all ages.

Fegan Broussard’s world is filled with daily reminders of his sister’s murder, something he’d rather forget. So, when another young girl is killed and dumped in the swamp, Fegan doesn’t welcome the attention it brings to his doorstep… especially when it’s Clairee’ Sumner, a long-legged beauty and the daughter of his sister’s killer, asking the questions. Don’t Tell A Soul is the first book in the Southern Sizzlers Romantic Thriller Series.

Brand new!! Bailey Mainwaring is a hereditary witch who bombs when it comes to magic, so when she accidentally casts a spell, the Universe answers by sending her a seventeenth-century hunk in the form of Captain Matthew Blackthorne. But can a truly old-fashioned alpha-male fit into Bailey's modern-day world?

NOWHERE TO RUN. Liz Moncrief still blames herself for putting her career at the FBI ahead of everything else. Her obsession ended her career and ruined her life, and she didn’t just walk away from her life in Virginia… she ran. Jake English is a legend at Quantico’s Behavioral Science Unit; he is also falling apart. His inability to let go of a string of vicious killings in his native Virginia has called his competency—and his sanity—into question. Now, Jake has taken on an impossible task: trying to protect Liz, his ex-wife, from a threat she refuses to face… and she won’t ...

Deke Call, an ex-cop with a troubled past, has returned to Nazareth, New Mexico to end it all. Yet, before he can follow through with his self-destructive impulse, a mysterious dark-haired beauty arrives on the scene, giving him a reason to put his plans on hold for one more day. Anna Sandoval is researching a crime novel about Deke's family tragedy--unwelcome news to a man on a ledge. But is that all she's doing? Or does she have a hidden agenda? And a dark past of her own?

When a parish priest, is brutally murdered, Lily Martin needs to know why. Yet, questions aren't always welcome in steamy Acadia Parish--not by her ex-lover, Gitan Boudreaux, an ex-con struggling to make it on the outside, not by her bitter ex-husband Sheriff Hugh Lothiar, and not by the man who murdered Father Dugas.... In At The Kill is a former Doubleday Book Club Selection, and the second book in the Southern Sizzler Romantic Thriller Series. A former Doubleday Book Club Selection. Explicit sex, violence, and language.

What’s a hero to do? Detective Thomas Tanner doesn’t always play by the rules when it comes to crime-busting, but his arrest record is the envy of the department, and he takes pride in his reputation for getting the job done. So when his identity is stolen and FBI Agent Nathan Cuddy shows up at headquarters with accusations of Internet fraud via a romance scam, Tanner goes ballistic. Cuddy, Tanner’s nemesis is not above twisting the facts to get to Thomas, but the complaint against him is right there in black and white, claiming he bilked one Samantha Savage out of ten grand… and ...

"Dark and Eerie, As Night Falls serves up chills, suspense and danger. If you like sitting on the edge of your seat, then this book is for you. S. K. McClafferty knows how to keep readers balancing on the edge." --Jill Smith, R. T. Book Reviews Professor Abigail Youngblood has come home to Abundance, New York, a quaint village tucked away in the picturesque Hudson Valley. Yet, sleepy Abundance is not as Abby remembers it, and neither is her Aunt Catherine’s estate, now crumbling from years of neglect. The old place is falling apart, and a team of archeological students from NYU have dug ...