Lady Aubrey has a problem. Several problems. Her childhood love, Ethan, has returned home from the Crusades, but he's more interested in winning his land back than wooing her. She has to rescue a pair of nuns who are being held prisoner in Derby Castle's tower by the sadistic Sheriff Buxton. And to top it all off, she's developing scandalous feelings for Buxton's lackey, the dark and devilish Crispin. Faced with all that what's a girl to do but to take matters into her own hands? Sir Crispin is at his wit's end. Not only does he have his hands full keeping Buxton from killing half the shire,...

Being a noble is all about soft beds and plenty of food, or so Jack Tanner always thought. But the other nobles of Derbyshire still treat him like a dirty peasant, he can do nothing to stop the rash of robberies in the forest, and his enigmatic steward, Simon, knows more about running a manor than he does. To top it off, even the return of Madeline, the love of his life, is overcast by the machinations of the beautiful and cunning Lydia. So when King Richard is captured and Derbyshire is asked to raise an impossible sum of ransom money, Jack must make a sacrifice that could destroy his and...

He was the hero of the Holy Land, King Richard's favorite, a bold and courageous knight. But when Ethan Windale returned from the crusades he lost everything, his home, his pride, and his dearest friend. Years later, alone and adrift, his courage is tested once again when the fate of his old rivals falls into his hands. With one word he can destroy his enemies and regain the home he lost, but to do so he must betray the woman that even war and death couldn't drive from his heart. Joanna Dunkirke has sworn she will never forgive Ethan for leaving her or for his part in her brother's death. But...

Together in one volume for the first time: Sarah Sunshine: When Sarah's plans to become a respectable woman collapse under the weight of old wounds and fresh battles, her worst fears seem realized. Until Roy LaCroix steps in to rescue her. But could Roy really love a woman like her? The Indomitable Eve: After years apart and heartbreaking trauma, Eve is finally reunited with her sister, Amelia. The pain of their parting threatens to destroy their relationship, until Rev. Mark Andrews steps in to prove some loves are worth fighting for. Seeks For Her: When her children and the pond that holds...

Someone is trying to kill Lynne Tremaine. After her father sentences two members of The Briscoe Boys gang to death, Judge Tremaine feels he has no choice but to send Lynne to Denver City along the Oregon Trail to live with her Uncle George...against her will. For Lynne, the only thing worse than being sent away to the wild west is making the journey with the handsome, arrogant, wicked man her uncle has hired to escort her. Especially when the anger she feels toward him begins to turn to something hotter. Cade Lawson is determined to prove himself to his employer, George Tremaine, after...

Callie Lewis is alone on the Oregon Trail. After her brother's death, she has been left to fend for herself on a journey she never wanted to take. Her only hope for safety and a life at the end of the road is to become a trail bride and wed grieving widower John Rye. But John is harboring secrets that could end their hasty marriage before it has a chance to begin. When a vicious tornado wakes John from the stupor the death of his wife left him in, he is ready to embrace Callie and the new life they could have together. But John is not the only one with designs on his new wife. Miles away from...

Emma Sutton fell in love with Dr. Dean Meyers on the very first day of their journey west on the Oregon Trail. Dean is handsome, caring, and noble. If only she could tell him But between her crippling shyness and the marital machinations of her mother, she despairs of ever being able to say what's in her heart. When a sudden injury puts her in Dean's hands, literally and figuratively, she hopes she might just have a chance with him...until a ghost from Dean's past comes between them. Dean Meyers is determined to make the long journey west to start a new life and leave the horrors of the...

All Tasha Pike has wanted for the past twenty years is to rent Sand Dollar Point for a summer. The grand Victorian on the beach of Summerbury, Maine was the object of her childhood fantasy and her standard of romance-and it was finally happening. Her dream summer is ruined, however, when she arrives in Summerbury to find that Hollywood superstar Spencer Ellis has muscled his way into the house instead. His offer that they share Sand Dollar Point is not only infuriating-it's insulting. He's a celebrity, and one she's determined to hate. Spencer's summer in Maine was supposed to help him get...

Young widow, Alice Porter, never thought she would fall in love again, and that her family's journey along the Oregon Trail was the end of her story. Rugged militiaman, Jarvis Flint, never thought he would fall in love in the first place, even though he is determined to be a man of honor and to do his duty. But sometimes the things you never think will happen are the ones that hit you when you aren't looking. When a routine rest along the trail turns into an opportunity to stop a land war between feuding brother and sister ranch owners, Alice finds herself draw into an adventure her grieving...