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One of them was going to have to get married. The McLain brothers agreed on that much. Running the Bar-M-Bar ranch took just about every minute of the day – from can see to can’t see. They didn’t have time for beating dust out of carpets and chasing cobwebs from the ceiling. They’d tried hiring a housekeeper but that hadn’t worked out so well and, two housekeepers later, neither of them was enthused about trying to find housekeeper number three. Besides, there was more to consider than just dirty floors and greasy kitchens. Though they were still in the prime of life, it wasn’t ...

The moment he set eyes on Lily, Trace Dushane knew why he’d been born. The beautiful little girl with the big green eyes was all that was sweet and good in the world, a vivid contrast to the hardscrabble life that was all Trace had ever known in his young life. He knew he’d do whatever he had to keep her safe, to see that Lily had a chance at a good life. To keep that promise, he took Lily and fled the Oklahoma prairie where he’d been born and raised. Still a boy himself, he shouldered the responsibility for her safety, for her happiness. When he wanted to quit, wanted to give up the ...

Booted, spurred and covered with dust, he looked as out of place in the tidy little Pennsylvania church as a wolf at a tea party. Lila Adams stood before the minister, ready to say the words that would bind her to a man she didn’t love. She was determined to be a good wife, determined to make sure her husband would have no cause to regret the bargain they’d made. But when the door to the church banged open and he strode up the aisle, all her careful plans were shattered. Bishop McKenzie made the long journey from Colorado in a white hot rage, determined to get there before the wedding...

Pregnant and alone, Brittany was struggling to make a life for herself and her unborn child. The death of the man she loved had shattered her world, left her without support. Without Dan, she had nothing and no one. Except Michael Sinclair, Dan's best friend. Michael was kind and strong and he wanted to help her through this difficult time. How could she refuse his offer of marriage, his promise of a place to shelter until the baby was born, until she could get her feet under her again. Michael told himself that marrying Brittany was a last favor for his dead friend. It had nothing to do ...

Nikki Beauvisage’s grandfather held old fashioned views about women. When he died, he left her half his fortune, money she needed to keep her day-care center open but there was a catch. Nikki had to get married and stay married for a year in order to get her hands on her inheritance. It was infuriating but she wasn’t going to let a small thing like marrying a total stranger get in her way. Not even if that stranger was too tall, too good-looking and altogether too male. As the oldest son, Sam Walker had a habit of shouldering responsibility for the rest of the family so, when his young ...

Colleen Bryan had loved Gun Larsen since she was eight years old. At twenty, he’d been tall, blond and godlike. When she’d foolishly climbed up a windmill, he’d been her rescuer and when she started to cry, he held her close and told her she didn’t have to be scared because he’d never let anything happen to her. She’d made up her mind right then that she was going to marry him when she grew up. Sixteen years later, she still felt the same. With his broad shoulders and long, rangy stride, Gun was everything she’d ever wanted. She just had to get him to see her as something more...

Originally published in 1987. When the plane carrying Sara Grant’s eighteen-year-old nephew crashes in the rugged Colorado Rockies, she refuses to accept the possibility that he hadn’t survived. Cullen was the only family she had left and she was willing to do whatever it took to find him and bring him safely home. If that meant going toe to toe with the one man who might be able to help her find the crash site, she was fine with that. Cody Wolf might be the most intimidating – and gorgeous – man she’d ever met but she wasn’t going to back down. He was going to help her find ...

When Kelly slipped away from her shabby home and brutal father on New Year’s Eve, all she hoped for was one night to see how the other half lived, one night to laugh and dance and pretend she wasn’t trapped and alone and hopeless. She never expected to met a man like Dan Remington, a man who offered her laughter and warmth and passion. She never expected to end up in his bed. But the warmth faded in the new year, bringing cold regrets and reality. Kelly was carrying Dan’s child. She knew what her father would do to her, to the baby she carried so she reached out to the man she barely ...

Gage Walker had always known that he would never have a family of his own. It was enough to spend time with his adorable niece and to be godfather to his best friend’s son. Being ‘Uncle Gage’ was plenty of family for him. Then his best friend was killed in a car accident and Gage immediately stepped in to do everything he could to help Rick’s pretty widow and her little boy. With his job taking him out of the country for months at a time, he was happy to have a home to come back to, happy to spend time with Kelsey and Danny. If he sometimes noticed the way the sun turned Kelsey’s ...

She was going nowhere fast. Laura Halloran had spent the last year hustling drinks in an L.A. dive and, as far as she could tell, it was a life sentence. But one night, Connor Fox came into Rusty’s Bar and everything changed. He escorted her home after a barroom brawl and, by the time he left, her life had taken a new turn. The tall, lean rancher with crystal-green eyes offered her marriage and a new life far away from the city’s smog and endless traffic. When Connor walked into the dingy L.A. bar, he wanted a glass of whiskey and a break from the city noise. The little waitress with ...

When he kissed her, everything changed. She was the four year old waif he befriended…the pretty ten year old he took for a dizzying ride in his plane…the seventeen year old beauty who caught his eye when he returned home years later. Tyler McKendrick dreamed of a life spent flying stunts in Hollywood. He hadn’t counted on Meg Harper, the child who touched his heart, the young woman who took his breath away. When he buried her broken doll and mended her broken heart, the rich boy from the Hill won a poor little girl’s love. But Meg was from the wrong side of town and knew she could ...

Was marrying a man she barely knew really the most practical choice? Abby Taylor’s life was precariously balanced between raising her orphaned niece and nephew, trying to keep the rickety old house from falling down around their ears and keeping her go-nowhere job to pay the bills. She wasn’t looking for romance, let alone marriage. John Lonigan had spent most of his life on the move. He had no plans to settle in one place, to put down roots. And then he met Abby and her little family and found himself playing catch and mending dolls, not to mention fixing windows and building fences. ...

Devlin Russel spent nearly a decade in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Finally free, he wanted nothing more than to live a life free of walls and, most especially, free of people and the entanglements that went with them. Then he pulled a beautiful young woman from a flooded river. He brought her into his home, into his life. He told himself he was just letting her stay until she got back on her feet but Annalise St. John soon worked her way into the heart he would have sworn he didn’t have anymore. Annalise had lost everything that mattered. Nearly losing her life didn’t seem to...

Whatever happened to real heroes? When Sam Delanian rescued Babs Malone from kidnappers, he wasn’t trying to be a hero. Sam planned to deliver Babs to her family in L.A., collect a nice, fat reward for his efforts and then happily part company with the spoiled, bad-tempered heiress. But the kidnapping was only the tip of a very dangerous iceberg that threatened Babs. Forced to go on the run, with no one to trust but each other, Sam realized he’d been wrong about Babs. She had guts and determination, traits she was going to need if they were going to stay alive and figure out who the bad...

Originally published in 1990. No one would ever forget the summer Jake Quincannon came back to Riverbend – and turned the head of the town librarian. Paige Cudahy had always been such a sweet, quiet girl. She’d never gotten into any trouble, never done anything to stir up gossip on the local grapevine but she certainly set tongues wagging when she took up with the small town’s returning rebel. With his big motorcycle and his black leather jacket, not to mention the eye patching covering one eye, it was obvious that nearly twenty-year-old predictions that Jake would come to no good had...

Beth had spent half a lifetime loving Donovan Sinclair. Married in their teens, they’d gone through good times and bad. Raising a son, surviving time apart when Donovan joined the marines, they’d built a life together. Beth had believed she’d love Donovan forever but forever is a very long time. Donovan couldn’t imagine a life without Beth. She’d been the center of his life, the reason he’d made it back from the war, the reason he’d worked so hard to build his career, to build a life for her and their son. Now, she was telling him that, somewhere in the drive to keep those ...

Reece Morgan had been a newly orphaned ten-year-old when he came to Serenity Falls to live with the grandfather he barely knew. He spent the next eight years butting heads with the stern old man, determined to prove that there wasn’t a rule made – and his grandfather made plenty of them - that he couldn’t break. Sheer pig-headedness kept him on the right side of the law and got him through school but the moment Reece picked up his diploma, he blew out of town, swearing he’d never set foot in the place again. But twenty years later, he was back. He only planned to stay long enough to...

Six months pregnant and recently widowed, Tessa Wyndham needed a place to hide from her past while she tried to figure out a new future. Lost and uncertain, she turned to the one man she knew she could count on. The last time Keefe Walker had seen his ex-wife’s little sister, she’d been a gawky teenager who tagged along after him when he was working in her parents’ stables. Years later, she’d grown into a softly pretty woman whose haunted eyes brought out protective instincts he hadn’t known he had. Though she hadn’t said as much, it was obvious she was running from something or...

Crashing his charter plane in the middle of the Rocky Mountains had not been on Cole Walker’s bucket list. But here he was, stranded with his quietly pretty passenger, Adelaide Smith. With nothing to do but hope for rescue and try not to worry too much about his little girl, who was waiting for him to come home, Cole couldn’t help but notice Addie’s sweet smile and the quiet strength with which she faced each challenge. Addie was not the sort of person who had adventures. Raised in the shadow of her archeologist father’s ego and fame, she’d always been the sort of girl that most ...

It was only for the summer. Kel Bryan needed someone to look after things until his regular housekeeper returned in the fall. Megan Roarke thought spending the summer on a ranch in the middle of Wyoming sounded like a nice break between jobs. Kel was sure he could ignore Megan’s pretty blue eyes and her ridiculously long legs. Well, he was pretty sure. Megan wasn’t looking for romance, even if her tall, dark and very handsome boss made her feel a little breathless and his smile made her knees go weak. It was just physical attraction, nothing she couldn’t handle. Right? It wasn’t ...