Luke Adams, a Colorado rancher, doesn't trust women, but when he finds injured Gina Walker on his mountain, pleading for her life, he takes her home. At first, Gina can't remember her past, and Luke knows he has a guest he doesn't want.
When her memory returns she says nothing, afraid Luke will send her back to her murdering stepfather. She wants to reach the northwest and the safety of her only living relative. When Luke compromises her and they marry, Gina still refuses to tell Luke the truth. When unaccountable incidents begin to happen around the ranch she realizes her stepfather has found her. She has to tell Luke about her past.
Will their growing love sustain them when Luke finds out the truth, or will he force her to return to St. Louis and a certain death?
A curse on the women of the estate! Amy can never marry for she will die in childbirth. But Harold says he'll have her, or her four sisters will suffer. The only one who can save Amy is Simon Warner, her father's heir, but Simon is at sea, on one of his ships. When Simon finally arrives, Harold, bent on wedding Amy, kidnaps one sister after another to force her to his will.
Offering comfort, Simon takes Amy to his room but they are discovered. They must marry. Harold finds out about the wedding and arrives at the estate revenge on his mind. Now Simon faces losing his life for his wife while Amy must come to terms with the curse on the women of the estate.
Outside New Orleans, convent-raised orphan Libby Sutton arrives to care for a little girl, only to discover that the child cannot or will not speak. Things are terribly wrong at Les Chenes. The first nanny disappeared without a trace and servants are now being murdered.
Is her life at risk like the child for whom she cares? Alex, the father, may be responsible and if he is, is he a threat to Libby? And why does he stir such feelings in her?
Her Aunt's will says marry or Victoria Harlow will lose her child care center and the money to operate it. Widower Sam Benson needs tax money or he'll lose his son and his ranch. When Tory and Sam meet chemistry flares, but they agree--a marriage of convenience with separate homes. Then they discover they must live together for a year. Can they survive such an arrangement despite the desire burning between them?
A dead fiancé, an inheritance she never expected and a lawyer who may not have her best interests at heart, greet Bella when she arrives from England to marry a man who has died. There's a restriction. She must have the dilapidated house returned to its former glory before she gains title to the house and a prosperous mill.
Someone is just as anxious to have Bella return to England. Is it the arrogant lawyer, the handsome brother, one of the belligerent servants, or someone she has yet to meet? And if she refuses to retreat, will she forfeit her life?
Destitute Emmi Sanders came south from Boston after the death of her father. She's been hired as a companion and nurse to an older gentleman. She thinks of herself as little more than a servant and is shocked when her employer treats her as a guest.
That's not the only strange thing about this house. Harmful things begin to happen to her, and the female cousin to the old man tells her not to trust any of the men in the house. Someone is trying to force her to leave. Emmi must decide who wants her gone and why. Suspicion points to her employer, a man she finds attractive, a man who warms her heart, a man she is sure she could learn to love. But, is he the one who wants her gone? And, if she leaves her post, will her heart stay behind?
Set in the Yukon before gold is discovered in the territory, a strong willed woman is pitted against a quiet, reserved giant of a man. Sara McGuiness, an efficient, loquacious spinster flees her aunt's Philadelphia home where she is little more than a servant, accepting her prospector father's invitation to come to the Yukon Territory and accept the treasure he's found for her.
However, unknown to Sara, her father is in the cabin of a reticent, but tormented mountain man called Bear, who wants solitude as he serves a self-imposed sentence for causing the deaths of his wife and child. When Bear brings Sara to his cabin, passion explodes between them. They are forced to winter together fighting their desires and the dangerous elements of the Northwest. As they survive the perils of the wilderness, they discover an enduring love for each other and Sara's treasure.
Desperate and proud, Rhianna ap Brynn Ffrydd, a Welsh princess, is captured by a hated Englishman, Baron Garrett deShay, an agent of Edward I of England.
Despite the passion he arouses in her, Rhianna must find a way to return home to her younger half sister, whom she's raised since birth. Garrett, emotionally scarred but intent on gaining the respect of his monarch by surrendering a member of Welsh aristocracy, fights an overwhelming attraction and the need to protect this woman, despite the charge of witch that hangs over her head.
Can the two lovers conquer the cruelties awaiting them and their own natural animosity, to accept a forever kind of love?
