The last thing she needs is another man she can't afford to trust... When Cherry Bender discovers her father's been fatally wounded, she vows to find his killer and stop the constant trouble on her ranch. Very short-handed, but unsure who to believe, she reluctantly hires a tall, gray-eyed stranger who comes to the ranch with the news that her uncle has also been murdered. He only wanted information...until he met her. John Carmona didn't come to the Bender ranch looking for work, but to find out who was illegally mining a rare mineral from the nearby hills. But one look at Cherry and John's...

She thinks she's going crazy-the rest of the world thinks she's a hero... After her grandson, Will, is molested and the predator released on a technicality, Martha Lavery, a practicing R. N., notices a great increase in anger, lost time periods, and things in her possession that she would never buy. Terrified she is losing her mind, she seeks the care of a psychiatrist. Add to that, unsolicited notice from a handsome, older, male nurse who sees her distress and wants to help and her life rapidly becomes a hopeless, dilemma. Can she handle what is happening, and save her sanity, while being...

Saudi Arabia is an ancient culture as old as time itself, yet filled with all the modern conveniences that money provides. Restless and looking for something new and exciting, two nurses traveled to this ancient kingdom to ply their skills and practice close personal contact-along with modern medical care-with people for whom slavery, buying wives, and female subjugation is just a way of life. Living in a culture far different from their own, they met many wonderful people, both locally and from several other countries, all the while walking on eggshells with the religious police of Saudi...

She's at it again-just can't seem to stop... Widowed R.N. Martha Chance's futile attempts to rid the world of sexual predators takes her into the realm of terrifying, sadistic criminals, where she uncovers corrupt but powerful city officials who condone sexual crimes against defenseless children and don't appreciate Martha's interference. On behalf of the tiny dark-eyed and dreadfully abused little girl in the hospital where Martha works, the desperately lonely teenage girls who frequent online chat rooms and are prime targets for unscrupulous men, and the friend and fellow R.N. suffering...

She believes she's made a good marriage-but she never experiences the happiness and joy she'd expected... Her harsh, forbidding husband makes Amanda Bradshaw feel more like a brood mare than a wife, and she never experiences the happiness or joy she expected. Though she's nine-months pregnant with her second child, he orders her to have a boy this time and leaves to go on a cattle-buying trip. Her labor begins, her small daughter is in danger, and Amanda prays desperately for help. When a dusty, trail-worn stranger rides up, she sees the kindness in his eyes and faces the fact that he's all...

She's left with nothing and has no means of survival... In the Depression-plagued rural Wisconsin of 1932, Annalee Lines loses her husband to an accident and her home to a fire within a few short months of each other. The abusive husband she can do without, but with her home and possessions totally destroyed, Annalee and her two children are now destitute. She'd been supporting her family by caring for the daughter of a widowed engineer, but with no home of her own, she can't even do that. With memories of her brutal marriage fresh in her mind, Annalee vows never to tie herself to another...

She went west to marry a stranger... In 1892, Hannah Carlson, an innocent young farm girl from Iowa, arrives in Flagstaff, Arizona, as a mail-order bride. She marries Jacob Moore and soon finds herself isolated on his ranch with a sadistic monster. After months of physical and mental brutality, Hannah-nearly dead from her injuries-fights back, striking a fatal blow, and flees into the night. Now she's on the run from the law with her infant son... Now he's the only one who can save her... When lonely surveyor Brice Fowler discovers the battered woman who has taken refuge in his cabin, he...