Landing the career of her dreams as a reporter for Portland's largest newspaper, former beauty queen Carly Barnett engages in a battle of wits against Pulitzer Prize-winning co-worker Mark Holbrook, which leads to unexpected love and passion.

The waterfall : Four years after the sudden death of her husband, a powerful White House adviser, Lucy Blacker Swift finds her peaceful life with her teenage children in rural Vermont turned upside down by violence and calls in her late husband's former military buddy, Sebastian Redwing, to help her unravel the truth. Old man out : Ever since J.D. Garrison had broken her adolescent heart when he'd skipped town years ago, the radio and the supermarket...

Sierra's Homecoming. "Sierra McKettrick felt like a fraud. She might be moving to her family’s ancestral ranch with her son, but being a McKettrick by blood isn't enough to make her fit in. And from the moment she meets ranch hand Travis Reid, she knows he'll be a handsome distraction she doesn't need. When Sierra forms a connection with her ancestor Hannah McKettrick--also a woman with a young son and an inconvenient attraction to the wrong man--she...

Ready for romance: "At fourteen, Jessica Kellerman was madly in love with Evan Dryden, one of the boys next door, much to the amusement of both their families. Now, ten years later, she's about to start working for the Dryden brothers, Evan and Damian. But no one will let her forget her girlish crush, and Jessica finds it frustrating in the extreme. Because she's in love with a Dryden, all right: Damian, not Evan. And this time she knows it's not...

A Creed country Christmas: "Montana, Christmas 1910: For widowed rancher Lincoln Creed, the holiday serves as a harsh reminder of what a tough year it's been-- and who he's lost. His ranch has fallen on hard times, and he must find his little daughter Gracie a governess, a lady who can teach and cook-- yet won't set her sights on him. For schoolteacher Juliana Mitchell, the holiday means finding a way to stretch her meager salary to provide food...

"It wasn't quite the 'morning after' she was hoping for ... Oh, dear. Bella Manchelli is so not having a good day. First, she's deliciously exhausted from last night's sizzling one-night stand. Second, there's a (gulp) dead body at her back door. Third ... um, that scrumptious one-nighter is at her front door ... and he's wearing a badge! Police Officer Jacob Madden is all about duty. Until he shows up looking for a homicide ... and runs right into...

Until now, Marjorie Majors has made a point of avoiding doctors. But an attack of appendicitis doesn't give her any choice. Dr. Sam Bretton's confident diagnosis and gentle care are exactly what she needs, and his bedside manner is pretty appealing, too. She's starting to fall for him - until he asks her to find another doctor. Except his reason isn't what she thinks it is: Sam wants to be Marjorie's husband, not her doctor! (Bestseller).

When Special Forces Officer Winslow Grange returns home to Texas, he must employ all of his training to help a former associate from South America while trying to avoid Peg Larson, the daughter of his ranch foreman who is a distraction he cannot afford.

Never let go: As a psychologist Mallory Blake knew there were times when one had to let go. She also knew just how much it hurt. After her husbands death shed packed up her belongings and moved to San Francisco, wishing it was as easy to box up her memories and seal away her regrets. But she had her patients at the hospital who helped her move forward patients like six year old Davey. The broken little boy needed Mallory not that his doctor agreed....