What the Doctor Didn't Tell Her
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The Cowboy and the Heiress
Bounty hunter Jon Everett has handcuffed the wrong blonde. Now he needs her help so they can pose as a couple at a marriage renewal weekend while flushing out a murderess. Fun-loving heiress Maddy Armand longs for adventure, but this is turning out to be more than she bargained for. Just wait till she finds out what other surprises Jon has in mind! Zany romance with a touch of magic.
Run, Run, Runaway Bride
Have wedding dress, will travel. Restless and high spirited, Samantha Avery walks down the aisle on a whim. Bad move: when the groom hands her a ring she recognizes as stolen, she literally has to run—and keep running. Where to hide until she’s called as a witness at his trial? She finds Hidden Hot Springs, a remote resort town under construction, and its handsome builder, Kieran French, who happens to need a wife for legal reasons. Down the aisle she goes again, just for a little while. After all, Samantha already has the dress. But what begins as temporary may not stay that way in this madcap comedy.
A Warm December
When wealthy executive Dave Anders goes to the vet to pick up his dog, he ends up chasing a monkey and kissing the vet herself. Dr. Merrie McGregor never expects to see him again—until he shows up as Santa Claus on her doorstep on Christmas Eve with gifts for Merrie’s niece Steffie…and a growing passion for Merrie. Then, when her sister decides to stick the little girl in boarding school, Merrie will go to any lengths to get Steffie entrusted to her, even claiming an engagement with Dave. The problem is that Dave seems to be taking the whole engagement business a little too seriously.
Yours, Mine and Ours
Lighthearted dance teacher Robin Lindstrom donated eggs eight years ago, but never knew whether any children resulted. Now, out of work, she reluctantly takes a job as nanny for earthquake consultant Flint Harris, a widower who lives up to his hard-edged name. He’s a strict but loving dad to his mischievous triplets. They’ve driven away all the other nannies, but not this one. The precocious kids have done some snooping and found out that Robin’s their biological mother—plus, they like her. That’s why they maneuvered their dad into hiring her. Unaware of the trio’s plotting, Robin and Flint begin falling in love, but they’re complete opposites.
By Leaps and Bounds
She used to be a ballerina. At the height of her success, Kerry Guthrie’s career was cut short by an accident. Now she’s on her feet again, teaching young dancers and hoping for a comeback…until she butts heads with the father of her 15-year-old star student, and feels a new kind of spark. A police officer, Chris Layne comes from a different world. Can they work together to make his daughter’s dreams come true, especially since he and his daughter are increasingly at odds?
Lady in Disguise
In Regency England, life can be a masquerade. Lady Victoria Courtney has abandoned hope of winning the heart of the dashing Richard, Marquis of Lansdon, but fate appears to have other plans. On a journey to meet her new stepmother, Victoria is mistaken for a woman of the London stage and impulsively takes on the role. Before she knows it, she’s caught up in a masquerade, but when it’s over, will Richard believe she’s the heroine or the villain? Mistaken identities, separated lovers and love gone astray – it’s all part of the comedy in this romance set in England during the time of Jane Austen.
A Lady’s Point of View
Being nearsighted in Regency England may not be a crime, but it certainly feels like one. Meg Linley sets off a scandal when she accidentally slights an important figure at a ball. Packed off for home, she enters the wrong carriage and arrives at the estate of handsome Lord Bryn. When he mistakes her for the new governess, Meg decides that as long as she’s in disgrace, why not play along? Special price: 99 cents.
Song for a Lady
Unfairly blamed for her mother’s sins, Lady Deborah Martin can’t seem to please her father. Then, in standing up for herself, she offends another important man in her life, handsome Lord Foxborough. Treated as little more than a servant, this Regency-era Cinderella has her own plans to make a life on the stage, and if the men disapprove, they’d best watch out!
The Day-Dreaming Lady
Can a Regency lady win back the man she rejected? When Lady Sara Rowdon's parents forbade her to marry the impoverished man she loved, no one suspected he would one day return with a title, a fortune and a grudge. But perhaps, if she stops day-dreaming and puts her mind to it, she might discover how he truly feels about her.
A Lady of Letters
Poet Marianne Arnet’s parents, unfairly accused of spying for Napoleon, have fled Regency England. Now the handsome, powerful Lord Whitestone bars her from the London Season and a longed-for chance to mingle in the literary world. Lord Whitestone doesn’t realise that Marianne is his secret correspondent, and that she’s determined to come to London. But confronting him could bring real danger, to her family and her heart.
The Forgetful Lady
Weary of flirtatious games in scandal-loving Regency London, Lady Elizabeth Fairchild is determined to be her honest self. But difficulties arise when she loses her memory...and falls in love with a highly honourable lord who believes she caused his friend’s death. Without a memory, how can she be certain of her own innocence? A finalist for the Romance Writers of America’s RITA Award.
One Husband Too Many
Magic sends her through time…to the wrong man. On the verge of divorcing, Jana Edwards wishes to go back six years, before she impulsively married a rogue. But when an heirloom pendant grants her wish, she’s isolated with the same charming rogue, who’s using another name. What’s he up to, and why is she falling in love again with the husband to whom she’s a stranger?
Out of Her Universe
Strange perceptions trouble artist Hannah Fleischer in this unusual science fiction story, but she believes she’s found happiness with a handsome police detective. She has no idea that she was brought to California as a child from a parallel world where history has taken a dangerously different course. Then the link between the two universes reactivates unexpectedly. While a secret security team struggles to prevent an intruder from carrying out a deadly agenda, cascading events thrust Hannah, unprepared, into the center of a crisis that could destroy both her worlds.
Shadowlight
In a land ruled by a cruel queen, only her half sister—born of an ancient, powerful but despised race--can stand against her and her ally, the Graylord, master of the undead. Yet although Shadow has inherited special gifts, she and her ragtag friends must journey to a forbidden realm to enlist the aid of a great mage… who has the power to claim her heart, and to betray her. “I strongly recommend this novel to all fantasy readers, especially those who enjoy original stories, unpredictable plots, and characters who grow over the course of the book. I got to bed late every night while reading Shadowlight because I kept reading "just one more scene.” --Shauna Roberts, author of Like Mayflies in a Stream.
Touch Me in the Dark
In this Gothic mystery, an angry ghost and a brooding ex-cop threaten a mysterious beauty. Injured ex-cop Ian Fanning is obsessed with painting the woman his grandfather murdered. Then he meets his new neighbor down the hall: Sharon Mahoney, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the dead woman. Strange events focus on Sharon, a teacher with a seven-year-old son. An old murder case seems to be playing out with new twists involving the Victorian home’s other occupants and the spirit of Ian’s grandfather, who may have deadly unfinished business. Can Ian save her, or is he himself becoming the threat?
Danger Music
An offbeat heroine, an unsolved murder… and a reawakened killer. Freelance writer Kenny Rubin has an unusual magazine assignment: to solve the strangulation death five years earlier of aspiring actress Melinda Rivers. And she’s supposed to do it before the airing of a TV movie that’s probing the same subject. Many of the people involved in making the movie knew Melinda, and as Kenny begins interviewing the principals, people around her start dying. Someone, it appears, is afraid the t
ruth really might surface. Despite having to battle the manic phase of her bipolar disorder, she must put the pieces together before she delivers herself into the hands of a killer. Allreaders said: “The story line is fast-paced … a wonderful Hollywood mystery.”