It all started with a dream--a dream of fertile acres, swift stallions, strong sons and beautiful daughters. For a poor Scottish immigrant with a gift of talking to horses, it all began with love.

A Daring Escape--From the moment he set eyes on his beautiful Faith, Ian Duncan knew she was the only girl for him. But her unbreakable betrothal to his employer's vicious son forced him to steal his love away on the very eve of her marriage.

A Secret Wedding--Running for their lives, Faith and Ian were married clandestinely, their only possessions a magnificent horse, a family Bible, a wedding-ring quilt and their unshakeable belief in each other.

A Double Birth--While their homestead waited to be carved out of the Iowa wilderness, Faith presented Ian with the most precious gift of all: a son and a daughter, born of the winter snow into the spring of their lives. The golden years were still ahead, their dream was coming true, but that was just the beginning...

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She dreamed of him as a girl, seen their lives unfold in a vision that foretold both enduring love and unendurable loss. Now Chase was her husband and he nightly took her to heights beyond her imagining.

But the winds of change were blowing, bringing unexpected tragedy and inconsolable tears. The country was on the brink of civil war, and Jenny dreamed of wolves outside the cabin door.

Like one of those wolves intent on prey, Chase pursued vengeance with a single-mindedness that seemed to leave no place for her in his life. Gone was the tender lover who'd conquered her fears, replaced by a savage hunter who more closely resembled his Apache forebears than the lonely boy who'd given her his heart so long ago. This was the dark and faceless stranger who'd once haunted her fantasies and she swore she'd win him back, not lose him to the...Wind Of the Wolf.

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As the winds of war swept across a nation divided against itself, men sank to the level of beasts, or rose to become heroes...while their women conquered death with the gift of new life.

Ty--He was honor bound to defend the land of his fathers even if battle took him from the arms of the woman he had pledged himself to protect.

Cat--When her husband rode off to fight in Virginia, the feisty beauty swore she would be at his side, even if she had to risk the babe that grew beneath her heart.

Cole--A Texas Ranger, he thought the conflict would pass him by until he had the chance to capture the fugitive who'd sold so many innocent girls into prostitution.

Jenny--She had vowed she would no longer run from the demons of the past, and if that meant confronting Wade Bishop in a New York prisoner-of-war camp, so be it. No matter how far she must travel from those she held dear, she would draw courage from the legacy of love her parents had begun so long ago.

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WINDFALL

1864

Beset by the tragedies of war, a wounded nation struggles for survival while its men and women refused to surrender their dreams...

Jake--He awoke from the months of unconsciousness with his body healed, but his mind full of unanswerable questions. Was there a woman waiting somewhere for him? A family? A place he belonged?

Shannon--She had walked away from her abusive father and the only home she'd ever known. Could a soldier with no past be the future she prayed for?

Grace--She had tried to be brave when the need to capture a traitor ripped her lover from her arms. Would it take even more courage to face him again now that his seed blossomed within her?

Jenny--Her grandfather's beloved ranch had become a haven for all those she held dear, but now the greed of one underhanded land baron threatened everything they'd worked for. How could she keep the vision of her murdered parents alive for the generations to come?

From each, life had exacted a heavy toll of tears and loss, but to each, love would bring the blessing of an unlooked for....Windfall.

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Any cowboy can ride the range, rope steers, wrangle with rustlers. But it takes a true hero to rise above tragedy and triumph over adversity.

Caleb Connors had returned from battle a changed man, uncertain whether he could still meet the rugged demands of ranching in Wyoming, unwilling to take up the drawing that had once been his life. With only half a leg could he really perform as a whole man?

Amanda Myers knew what it meant to live without hope, without dreams. For years she had been forced to do the will of others, but now she'd landed in a safe haven on Lynch Ranch, bolstered by smiling faces, the laughter of children and Caleb. When she looked upon his portrait of her, she saw a new vision of herself. Through his eyes she rediscovered her own purity and strength of purpose, and in him she found the enduring love she'd prayed for.

Two wounded souls, two hopeful hearts--with a little help from their friends, they'd find a joy that could soar above all life's troubles.

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As the last remaining bachelor among all his friends, Zane Brody could always be counted on for incessant high jinks, indiscriminate womanizing, and irresistible charm. So when he set out for New York to retrieve a valuable thoroughbred mare to Laramie, he had no doubt he could handle any female he encountered, whether equine or human. What he didn't reckon on was an infernal goat called Lucifer and an independent-minded school teacher named Mary Dunleavy. The goat butted him off the train and ate his hat, while the woman batted her eyelashes and appropriated his heart. As Mary took off across the plains on Diamond Glory, Zane found his head spinning, his certainties overturned, and his love life in a....Whirlwind.

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Last Of The Duncans

Leaving behind the Highlands for the New World at the tender age of ten, Connor Duncan quickly learned that only the fit and the fortunate survive. He was both, becoming a scout and an expert marksman....a man to be reckoned with. He knew his way through the backwoods as well as any Shawnee, but he was far less comfortable in the drawing rooms of Williamsburg. What was a rough-hewn frontiersman like he to do with a sheltered beauty like the governor's niece? But there seemed to be no way to avoid the "Virgin Widow," especially when she insisted on accompanying him on a dangerous mission through the wilderness to Fort Savannah. Neither capture, nor torture, nor the violent birth pangs of a young nation could keep them apart or stop the founding of a brand new dynasty of Duncans.

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FALLEN

Fallen

He was the product of illegitimacy, son of a noble house with no claim to its title or riches. For John Murray, the only hope of a decent life was his career as a British Officer.

Fallen

Had she lost her heart when he rescued her from ruffians, or when she first looked into that face like a golden angel's? No matter when it began, Isobel knew there was no hope of a happy ending for a rebel Scottish lass and a red-coated Sassenach.

Fallen

Betrayed by the girl he loved. Disgraced before his commander, wounded in battle and left for dead, John thought he'd hit rock bottom. But the sweet touch of a lover he'd never thought to see again taught him no matter how far a man falls, with the right woman at his side, he can always stand tall.

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THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF IRISH ROMANCE

Quicksilver
A hardened warrior finds a woman in the surf. What will he have to do to save her?

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BREATH OF HEAVEN

An Elusive Huntress...
She appeared out of nowhere, clad in form-fitting leathers and looking as magical as the mysterious woods she roamed. With flashing emerald eyes, she taunted the intruder, daring him to come deeper into her enchanted realm.

An Arranged Marriage...
Rhys DeRemy owed his life to her father, just as he owed unswerving obedience to his king. If he took the heiress of Aubregate to wife, he could clear the debts of the tormented boy he had been as well as the battle-hardened warrior he'd become. But it was Eliane herself who called out to the man in him, whose fierce pride cast a spell on him, whose silken bed promised a...

Breath Of Heaven

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April 2005
Dorchester Lovespell
ISBN 0-505-52627-1

STARGAZER

Do Not Revive Without Authorization

Those were the words stamped on the cryo tube holding the prisoner. Gazing in fascination at the bulging muscles of his arms, Lilly wondered if the heavy cables binding his wrist and ankles would be enough to hold him when he awoke form his enforced sleep. Nor was she reassured by the crime committed by her fellow passenger: murder. Or his sentence: life, in the deepest hole the Legion could find.

Yet even sensing the rage and frustration within him, she tied her fate to his when their ship was attacked. Chased by Ravigans across the universe, she had no choice but to put her trust in Phoenix. But how was he able to penetrate her mind, filling it with teasing suggestions and hotly sensual images, when that talent had always belonged exclusively to the generations of grey-eyed women in her line? Was the devil with the silver gaze the key to saving her beloved garden planet of Oasis or just a common criminal out to take for himself whatever he could get his hands on?

Nominated for 2005 PEARL
ParaNormal Excellence Award
in Romantic Literature

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December 2006
Dorchester Lovespell
ISBN 978-0-505-52628-1

Fast talking, devil may care, Ruben could outmaneuver anyone who sought to attack him, charm any he chose to befriend. At the helm of his starship he was invincible; when driving a hard bargain, unbeatable; in the bedroom of a beautiful woman, unstoppable. But the secrets of Ruben's past were about to catch up with him and put everything he thought he knew about himself to the test. Now his ship had crash-landed on a primitive world, the voice of his long-lost brother whispering in his mind was causing him to question his sanity, and a mysterious beauty had cut through all his defenses to the lonely man beneath. In Tess's arms he would find his true self, igniting a love that blazed through the night like a ...Shooting Star.

Winner 2006 PRISM Award
Best Futuristic Romance

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He was the only man she'd ever loved. The one who'd roused her innocent girlhood passions...the one she held responsible for her brother's death. So when Boone's starship was shot down over a faraway planet, Elle resolved to forget him, to devote herself to her duty as the future ruler of Oasis. She focused her formidable mind on honing her powers until the day she witnessed a pair of sweat-sleek, breathtaking gladiators facing each other down in the vicious fight-to-the-death of the Murlacca. Here were the two men she'd thought lost to her forever, and one last chance to save them. It was up to Elle to outwit the Circe witches who held Boone and Zander prisoner, so she could claim a love that had once seemed as elusive as...Star Shadows.

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February 2008
Dorchester/Shomi
ISBN 978-0-505-52748-6

TWIST

You Can Never Predict

Abbey Shore never intended to be the savior of the world; it was just something that happened—like her father's tragic death and the fact that she's now poor and "flipping"houses in the Chicago suburbs to finish college. And there's more: behind a crumbling wall in her current renovation, a swirling vortex hides. It's a gate, a portal—and it will not only cast her into the arms and power of the enigmatic yet doomed Dr. Shane Maddox, but also into the clutches of Lucinda, the eerie, leather-clad beauty who shadowed his every move in the Sacred Heart ER. Abbey will soon be one hundred years in the future, in a dying land filled with roving bands of humans fighting for survival, and the "ticks" against whom they fight. Oh yes, Abbey's life has had a Twist.

Time is running out to twist things back.

Winner 2009 PRISM Award Best Time Travel Romance

Honorable Mention 2008 PEARL ParaNormal Excellence Award in Romantic Literature

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December 8, 2009
ISBN 978-0762437818

Mammoth Book of Time Travel Romance

Time Trails
A Texas Ranger meets a mysterious woman from the future. Could they be after the same outlaw?

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Upon entering high school, Jenna must choose between remaining true to her crush on actor Orlando Bloom or the possibility of first love with the new boy in town, football star Will Addison.

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