It's not easy living down a wild-child reputation. But Susan Fortune has never done anything the easy way. Who would have guessed she'd turn out to be a well-respected San Francisco psychologist with a knack for helping wayward teens?...
WHEN DESIRES BECOME DANGEROUS, LOVE CAN BE DEADLYWhispers of foul play circulate through an upscale community when beautiful Justine Milner disappears. But only when her body is discovered more than two years later is her ex-husband, Michael...
A woman seeking her pastAfter growing up an only child, Keely McClain Quinn is amazed to learn that she has not only a father–but six older brothers, too! But Keely has to be careful. After all, something must have happened so many years ago. So...
She'd never been desirable, but Matilda Fortune's secret longing for brilliant businessman Dawson Prescott was about to change all that. Her transformation from mousy wallflower to tempting beauty left Dawson filled with need.Yet he...
Every time Adam Fortune gazed at his children, he knew they desperately needed motherly love. So he hired pretty Laura Beaumont as their live-in nanny and thought his prayers were answered. But Adam soon sensed that something was troubling the...
SPRING BREAKDOWNIt's springtime again, and all P.I. Maggie Skerritt and her charmingly levelheaded business partner and fianc?, Bill Malcolm, can do is hope that rite of passage infamously known as spring break is quiet and painless....
Girl, get it in gear!Lucy Mastronardo is heading in the right direction–good job, good apartment, good fianc?–until a detour to Naples throws her off the map! Sure, she's just days away from tying the knot, but her next big promotion hits a...
Grace Becker needed to get a life…And thanks to '80s night, one too many Flaming Togas and a game of Truth or Dare with her girlfriends, this woman who has let her Day-Timer rule her life has found excitement in spades. Rather than reveal...
Past transgressions haunted Hope Barrister, whose beauty helped her rise from a tenant farm to a Texas fortune. But her quiet loveliness concealed dark secrets she'd long kept safe, to protect her young son….Chase Barrister found Hope...
As a wife and mother, Karen McBride wonders if she'll ever discover what her own spirit requires to feel whole. When her father, the formidable champion bird-watcher, Martin Engel, suffers a stroke, Karen rushes home to Texas to take care...
You can't give to others…until you give to yourself!With Christmas only twelve days away, supermom Abby Blake is going on strike. Sure she loves her grown daughters and their families, but do they all have to be so…well, needy? Having made...
Revenge, Passion and Glittering Trinkets… The Carlotta Diamond Charlotte Christie wore a priceless diamond necklace on her wedding day, little knowing that the Carlotta Diamond was her new husband’s real motive for marriage. But the unexpected...
Brody Fortune got the surprise of his life when Jillian Tanner walked through his office door–pregnant with another man's child. She was the woman he had never forgotten, but time and circumstances had torn them apart.Now the once-smitten...
Sometimes paradise isn't all it's cracked up to beThat's what I, Kylie McGraw, have discovered since sacrificing my dreams of traveling the world to run the family shoe store. But if I have my way, peaceful Eden, Indiana, is in...
Peter Clark would never describe himself as a jaw-dropping catch–despite being one of San Antonio's most respected neurosurgeons. So why is beautiful New York neurologist Violet Fortune looking at him as if she would like to show him her...
You DON'T PICK YOUR FAMILY, BUT YOU CAN LOVE THEM.Somebody ought to pinch Neely Mason. An all-around-perfect man has asked her to marry him. Suddenly the sister voted most likely to become the resident «crazy neighborhood cat lady» is tying...
Jack Granger, counselor to the Deveraux shipping empire and totally devoted to the senior Deveraux, has been shadowing the love child of his mentor for nearly a decade. Granger had watched Daisy grow up from a petulant rich girl into a driven...
When River Kane's fianc? abandons her at the altar for being too conventional, she's heartbroken. But everything changes when her estranged archaeologist father sends her his journal–filled with cryptic maps and a note indicating...
"Just how pregnant are you, anyway?"Mighty Drake Colton could handle the Navy's most dangerous missions–but the housekeeper's daughter now had him buffaloed. Eight months ago the tough and resilient SEAL had come home to celebrate...
Why is everyone calling her «Lila»?Music teacher and part-time lingerie saleswoman Marnie Lundy's biggest thrill is playing piano at the local mall…until the night everyone seems to think she's somebody else!Suddenly she's being...
I've never been close with my father…Even though I'm his only child. We were both held together by my mother, the warm, dancing flame attracting the quiet moths. Dad was always on the other side of the sun; I could never reach him.Now...
He had been in hiding for years, but the sight of Dulcie Samples, with her girl-next-door appeal, was enough to finally draw Prince Valbrand into the light.Yet Valbrand, whose face–not to mention spirit–had taken a serious hit from the...
The last person she expected to see at her husband's funeral was his wife!But having learned her husband apparently bought his engagement rings in bulk, Penny Reynolds is shocked out of her well-ordered world. She can't bring herself...
After ten stolen years in a coma, hanging on to life by strands of uncertainty, Linda Faraday is finally awake. All she knows is she used to be an undercover operative looking into the shady dealings of embezzler Cameron Fortune. And today…A...
Five years ago, international business lawyer Eden Fortune lost her heart during a whirlwind romance in Paris. She hadn't pegged oil tycoon Ben Ramir as a love 'em and leave 'em kind of guy.Some women might have fallen apart, but...
Meet Lauren Wilt, Chicago's newest hot thirty-something. She's making a splash Carrie Bradshaw-style with a sex column in the Chicago Gazette that has singles in the city craving more.Meet Lauren Gard, the fifty-something writer once...
The secure world that Rachel Wellers has carefully constructed is crumbling around her. Her sweet twelve-year-old daughter is turning into a sullen teenager before her eyes.The injuries she's just sustained in a hit-and-run accident are...
Marriage Vito Giordani has never forgiven Catherine, his soon-to-be ex-wife, for leaving Italy with their baby boy. But now their son needs both his parents. Vito demands Catherine returns to Naples… Vito will finally have the revenge he’s been...
"Lady, when the clock strikes midnight, you're history!"To settle an old score, dark and brooding Tripp Calhoun needed a wife for the night. Amber Colton could light up a room in five seconds, and even though her high-society pedigree...
"Nothing will get in the way of my seduction."While investigating the attempted murder against beloved patriarch Joe Colton, hardened P.I. Austin McGrath made his own earth-shattering discovery–an undeniable attraction to elusive beauty...
Secret Agent Griff Fortune faced his greatest challenge when charged with the task of protecting Willa Simms. Her life was in his hands and to make certain she stayed alive, Griff moved her to a remote hideaway.Trapped together, Willa managed to...
Strong-minded Gavin Thomas was determined to have his own way and to find out the truth about beautiful and beguiling Tara Delaney. When Tara literally fainted in Gavin's arms, he felt as if a lightning bolt had just hit him. He'd...
Single dad Doug Graybow has his hands full trying to run a ranch while raising two spunky twin boys. But he doesn' t expect his ad for a housekeeper to turn into a search for a wife! Nor does he realize there are so many desperate women in...
MAGGIE SKERRITT CAN'T GET AWAY FROM WEDDINGS…The fortysomething cop-turned-P.I. has enough on her hands, dodging her mother's plans to turn Maggie's upcoming wedding to partner Bill Malcolm into an 800-guest circus. Then a friend...
Brilliant attorney Cole Cassidy rushes to his mother's side when she is accused of murdering wealthy Texan Sophia Fortune. Cole is convinced his mother is being framed, but the questions remain–why…and by whom? In the scandal-ridden days...
My life hasn't been what you'd call easy lately…Last year I, Teddi Bayer Gallo, nearly killed my husband. This year he's nearly my ex. Last year money grew on trees. This year if my three delicious children and I don't eat,...
"What is it with you and murder victims?"When Drew Scoones asks the questions, Teddi Bayer listens. Her latest decorating job for a restaurant spoiled by a murder, Ms. Bayer might just have to submit to the detective's line of...
Sometimes Reality Bites…Lauren Campbell thought she knew where she was going. After dropping her son off at college, she'd have four years to live out her dreams and plan the future. But she'd been so living in denial, spending her...
What do you mean your house?Since her aborted wedding, Meg Renshaw's thrown everything into her work. But her latest brainstorm–a mystery weekend at a Charleston plantation–hits a few bumps. For one, her «corpse» has passed out on pain...
When Lana Lord received the parcel containing a tattered teddy bear, three tiny hand-knit sweaters and an unsigned letter, she knew it was from the mother who had given her and her siblings up for adoption twenty-five years ago. But Lana claimed...
Austin Cahill had parlayed his business savvy to the point that he had everything he wanted out of life. Except, of course, a child. And Caroline Lamont had happily agreed to provide him with one.Event planner Anna Maitland was a pro at themed...
An unexpected night of passion at the magnificent Fortune ranch seemed the perfect antidote to Savannah Clark's bruised ego after a bad breakup.The serious schoolteacher had never done anything so reckless in her life, but horse trainer...
Supermodel Darcy Taylor was ready to turn over a new leaf. Kiss her agent, New York City and the press goodbye. Come back home to Texas, where she belonged. And set up housekeeping…alone.Fertility specialist Dr. Mitchell Maitland couldn't...
Rancher Garrett Lord was at a turning point in his life. He needed to know why his natural mother had abandoned him and his siblings all those years ago.So when he discovered Mimi Cassville hiding out in his barn in a wedding gown and veil, he...
Hope Logan wanted only two things for Christmas–her husband, Drake, and the child he refused to give her. Drake had made it plain he had no desire to be a father…and it seemed his desire for Hope had disappeared as well.Drake Logan didn't...
A dedicated doctor struggling to raise money for a much-needed community health clinic, Lucinda Brightwater is beginning to feel as though time is her enemy. Besides the clinic, she desperately wants a child, but how likely is that for a single...
It might have been a scene from a hit romantic comedy–but actress Ciara Wilde wasn't acting, and nobody was laughing when she skipped town on the eve of her tinsel town wedding. Luckily she's got the keys to the Fortune family ski...
A serial killer who strikes on Sundays is back in business, and workaholic FBI agent Charlotte «Charly» Dow will do anything to catch him. For Charly, the investigation is personal. Her sister was one of the victims murdered during the...
THE MAN WHO HAD EVERYTHINGIf ever there was a living embodiment of all that money could buy, Jonas Bravo was it. But the gleaming facade hid a legacy of loss. For though Jonas had been to the manor born, the kidnapping of his baby brother had...