At 12, Vanessa defied her family to save 17-year-old bad boy Eric from wrongful imprisonment and, possibly, death. She'd hoped for a "thank you" from him, a kiss on the cheek, but before she could grow up and grow curves, he left town. Fourteen years later, Vanessa is a celebrity chef at the 5-star Ozarks resort she built. Eric is the new Chouteau County prosecutor on his way to the White House. Four hours apart and each tied to their own careers, their worlds have no reason to intersect until a funeral brings Vanessa back to Chouteau County, back to face the man for whom she'd risked so...

Mitch, the widowed bishop of a Mormon congregation, falls in love with Cassie, the woman hired to restructure his steel mill. Meanwhile, a man in Mitch's congregation plots to take over the position of bishop using Cassie's past profession as a prostitute as his weapon. A Mormon bishop. An ex-prostitute. A man with a vendetta. Let the games begin...

It's 1780. The Americans are losing their desperate fight for independence from the most powerful nation on Earth. Britain's navy is crushing outposts up and down the eastern seaboard and the Americans' pitiful navy consists mostly of small-vessel privateers on missions of profit. "Captain Jack" Celia Bancroft is one of those privateers, whose list of debts of honor is a nautical mile long. Sailing for the Americans is the current project on her to-do list, and once she has finished all her tasks, she will then be free to sail on a tide of whimsy. Commander Elliott Raxham, cashiered from His...

After a 20-year marriage and five children, teenage sweethearts Etienne and Tess LaMontagne had burnt out. Tess, once a brilliant architect, was exhausted, drained of energy and vision, and no longer building with her engineer husband. Etienne was feeling trapped and frustrated by a life that had taken a direction he had not wanted and missing the vivacious, creative woman he had married. Five years after their bitter divorce forced each to experience life on their own, Etienne is drawn home to rescue his oldest daughter. Tess, having brilliantly revived her career, is also dealing with a...

Emilio Bautista is bored with his job as a matador and has a PhD in chemistry he's not using. Cube-farm chemistry is out of the question, but the universities in Andalusia are well staffed-except Covarrubias University. They're desperate, but he still can't get hired. Further, for the last six years, he's been obsessed with a woman he can't manage to meet, much less seduce. Victoria LaMontagne is worried about her job as an English professor at Covarrubias University. After six years of being on tenure track, her new department chair is pressuring her to change her teaching style-or else....

Knox Hilliard's uncle killed his father to marry his mother and gain control of the family's Fortune 100 company. Knox is set to inherit it on his 40th birthday, provided he has a wife and an heir. Then, after his bride is murdered on their wedding day, Knox refuses to fulfill the proviso at all. When a brilliant law student catches his attention, he knows must wait until after his 40th birthday to pursue her-but he may not be able to resist her that long. Sebastian Taight, eccentric financier, steps between Knox and his uncle by initiating a hostile takeover. When Sebastian is appointed...

Neither Lydia Charbonneau nor Jack Blackwood thinks it's a good idea to get involved, but one handshake and one very short conversation have them making plans for a weekend romp. She's a concert pianist and music professor from the University of Kansas, in New York to audition for a position at Juilliard. He's an uncouth bond trader and accidental CEO who likes meaningless sex (lots of it), Big Macs, and Dumb and Dumber. They have nothing in common-until one of Jack's ex-lovers nearly kills them both.

Blythe Marston was widowed at 28, nine years and four children after she and her high school sweetheart had married. She'd had the perfect life: husband, marriage, kids, house, in-laws, parents, friends, health. Until the cops showed up and told her a drunk driver had taken it all away from her. As the condolences drifted away and she started putting herself back together, only one man stayed with her to guide her to her independence: Phineas Marston, her father-in-law. Six years after her husband's death, she's still raising her kids, gotten an education and the most unlikely career, and...