Connie Mason

As the sheltered daughter of the once prosperous Branigan family, beautiful Shannon was ill-prepared for the rigors of the Oregon Trail, but she was still less prepared for half-breed scout Swift Blade.

He rode into Chirk Castle on his pure black destrier. Clad in black from his gleaming helm to the tips of his toes, he was all battle-honed muscles and rippling tendons. In his stark black armor he looked lethal and sinister, every bit as dangerous as his name implied.

Ben Penrod had no intention of taking a wife, until he meets his match in themost alluring and contrary creature he's ever beheld. Now it's his turn to dothe chasing.

Lord Julian Thornton, Earl of Mansfield by day and secret agent of the crown by night, has sworn never to love another woman. But then a mission goes wrong and Julian is left for dead, washed up on Scotland's rugged shore, his only hope a seductive mysterious woman names Lara.

Lovely, young, and poverty-stricken, Amanda Prescott is forced to support herself and her invalid mother any way she can. Cast into a prison for stealing, she is horrified to learn that she will be transported to the American Colonies to serve her term as an indentured servant.

Renowned for his prowess on the battlefield and in the bedroom, the Dragon Lord had no desire to wed an heiress he had never before seen. But a landless knight had few opportunities to win a barony, and a faithful subject had no choice but to obey his king.

Desperate to cross the plains, Ashley poses as the wife of a virile bachelor and quickly realizes that though the Civil War is over the battle for her heart has just begun a battle she may be happy to lose.

Desperate to escape her leering uncle Hugo, lovely young Juliet Darcy fled a forced marriage, only to find herself aboard a ship of mail-order brides bound for California and promised to a man she had never met.

He blew into Trouble Creek on a raw April wind, a fast gun for hire to the highest bidder, But when Chloe Sommers offered him a job protecting her herd, she had no idea Desperado Jones had a hidden agenda.

Cool as a cucumber, and totally dedicated to her career as a newspaperwoman, Maggie Agton is just the kind of challenge Chase McGarrett enjoys-especially when he discovers that she hides skimpy silk underthings and a simmering sensuality beneath her businesslike exterior.

Mere days after becoming an outlaw, Jess Gentry stared down the wrong end of six shooter. A ready trigger-finger brooked no argument, until the black-clad figure calling the shots was shot down.

All London is stunned by Lucas, Viscount Westmore's vow to give up the fair sex and exile himself to St. Ives. The infamous rake is known for his love of luxury and his way with the ladies, just as the rugged Cornish coast is known for its savagery, its fearsome gales and its smugglers.

Lord Lyon of Normandy had saved William the Conqueror from certain death on the battlefield, yet neither his strength nor his skill could defend him against the defiant beauty the king chose for his wife.

After his father is wrongfully hanged by the Greys and his birthright is taken from him, Jaime Mortimer is forced into exile.

Vowing to avenge his brother's murder, bounty hunter Jess Wilder rescues the woman he believes is responsible and takes her captive, only to discover that his need for justice and vengeance is being transformed into passionate love.

FAIRY-TALE CHRISTMAS by Leigh Greenwood:
SUSANNAH'S ANGEL by Nelle McFather:
CHILD IS BORN by Connie Mason:
WARM SOUTHERN CHRISTMAS by Susan Tanner:

Rafe Gentry had committed plenty of sins, but not the robbery and murder that had landed him in jail. Now, with a lynch mob out for his blood, he was staring death in the face.

Storm Kennedy can't believe her bad luck! With six million fertile acres open to settlers in the Oklahoma Territory, she loses her claim to the Sioux she holds responsible for her young husband's death.

Down and out, his face on wanted posters across the West, Sam Gentry needed a job. And the foreman of the B & G Ranch was hiring cowhands.

Why Did You Do That? Kiss You? Cole Shrugged. Because You Wanted Me To, I Suppose. Why Else Would A Man Kiss A Woman? But Dawn knew lots of other reasons, especially if the woman was nothing but a half-breed whose father had sold her to the first interested male.

When Princess Zara was taken prisoner by Sheik Jamal Abd Thabit during a raid, she was determined not to succumb to his wishes. She thought it would be easy, for rather than take her as his concubine then and there, Jamal struck a deal-if he was unable to seduce her within four weeks, he would set her free.

Believing rumors that her long-lost siblings are living in Denver, finishing school debutante Sierra Alden takes a chance with her reputation by asking Ramsey Hunter to guide her to them, despite the dual risk he places on her heart.

Aimee Fortune LaMotte hated Nick Drummond, and with good reason. The rogue gambler had swindled her father out of everything he owned.

Come hell or high water, Lady Christy would nave her long-awaited wedding night at last. But first she had to seduce the dashing rogue who has claimed her as bride -- in name only!

As untamed as the prairie, as free as the wind, she hated what white men were doing to the Cheyenne. But spirited Tears Like Rain risked her life to save a cavalry officer and make him her slave.

"Ye cannot kill the devil," whispers the awestruck throng at the hanging of the notorious Diablo. And indeed, moments later, the pirate not only escapes the noose, but abducts beautiful Lady Devon, whisking her aboard his ship, the Devil Dancer.

FATHER CHRISTMAS by Leigh Greenwood:
LANTERN IN THE WINDOW by Bobby Hutchinson:
CHRISTMAS MIRACLE by Connie Mason:
TREASURE by Theresa Scott:

When a misunderstanding in Dry Gulf, Montana, puts an angry mob on Pierce Delaney's trail and a bullet in his back, he is forced to take refuge with Zoey Fuller, a headstrong lady who needs a temporary husband to foil the schemes of a thieving banker.

Bounty hunter Chad Delaney is always on the move. for heartless women have turned him into a hard man with no use for emotional ties.

Kitty O'Shay desperately dreams of marriage and a family. Yet whisked into the company of robbers when she finds herself orphaned, she sees no choice but to protect her virtue by dressing as a boy...until one man uncovers her secret.

Handsome but landless English knight Damian Stratton arrives in the Scottish Highlands to prevent the wedding that would unite two powerful clans against the English crown.

The first time he saw her she was clad in nothing but moonlight and mist and the midnight cloud of her lustrous hair. And from that moment, Thorne the Relentless knew he'd been bewitched.