Amber Leigh Williams ~~ Denied Origin ~~ The Wild Rose Press ~~ August 2008

Former FBI agent and bodyguard Mark Welles’s career and life are going downhill until he meets Marcisso Tuttora, the man his father died protecting years ago. Wealthy businessman Marcisso puts the life of his only child, Valentina, in Mark’s hands by asking him to return to Rio de Janeiro to guard her.

Less than a week later, Marcisso and his wife are murdered in their beds, and Valentina is running for her life for reasons she cannot begin to guess until she meets Mark Welles. A stubborn heiress to an oil fortune and the son of a highly decorated soldier, they must find a way to escape the country without getting caught and find out why they are chased by a deadly terrorist. In a matter of weeks, they are driven into a scavenger hunt across the globe laid out by Valentina’s parents and embark on a passionate, emotional journey as exhilarating and intense as the race for their lives.

Phantom in the Night ~~ Debut collaboration by #1 NYT best seller Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love ~~ Pocket ~~ June 2008

Terri Mitchell signed on with the Bureau of American Defense (BAD) to find an organize crime ring’s link to a terrorist group and to covertly investigate a murder someone is trying to pin on her. She’s running short on time when bizarre rumors begin to surface of a ghost terrorizing members of the drug ring she’s investigating.

Nathan Drake has spent his life protecting his family, the only thing that mattered to him...until the most feared drug lord in the southeast took all Nathan held dear. Now, he's a man on a mission who only needs to stay alive long enough to stop a dangerous group from taking innocent lives. He’s got nothing to lose…until he meets Terri Mitchell.

As Terri and Nathan seek similar goals by different means, they are drawn deep into an evil underbelly that cuts through all levels of society. Now two people on opposite sides of the law with no reason to trust each other must join forces or die. And if they die, a deadly attack will be unleashed on thousands of innocent people.here's trouble in River City...

Allison Knight ~ Heartsong ~ Champagne Books, Inc. ~ August 2008

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 hostage, 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 an enduring forever kind of love?

Elizabeth White ~~ Controlling Interest ~~ Available: 05/08 ~~ Zondervan

There's trouble in River City...

Matt Hogan's Memphis detective agency has been on the skids since a recent attack of conscience cost him an important case. When a wealthy investor steps in and saves River City Investigations, Matt thinks all his prayers have been answered-until he finds out that with the investor comes a new partner.

Fresh out of criminal justice school and a two-year stint in the Tunica County Sheriff's Department, Natalie Tubberville is out to prove she can cut it in the world of private investigations. But her reluctant partner is just as determined to have nothing to do with her-- until Natalie makes him an offer he can't refuse! If Matt solves the next case before she does, she will return her share of the company.

And the race is on. As two strong personalities compete, mutual attraction grows…while a simple case of a runaway bride threatens to become an international incident. Will Matt and Natalie call off the competition-or discover an entirely new arrangement?

Amber Leigh Williams ~~ Fox & Hound ~~ Available: 02/08 ~~ Red Rose Publishing

In the world's most romantic city, fates collide in the most unexpected way and two of the world's most elusive jewel thieves are forever changed by a Louvre heist gone wrong.

After three years in prison, Todd goes after the woman who ruined his life, seeking revenge and the diamond she stole from him. He learns that Celestia doesn't have the diamond either. She was used by her partner, master thief Tito Bandero.

Todd and Celestia form an unlikely partnership to take back what is theirs and redeem themselves. Bandero is planning to steal three of the world's most coveted diamonds, but the ones he wronged—Fox and Hound—plot to take them first.

What Todd and Celestia don't count on? The power of attraction. When the quest grows dangerous, which will they choose: payback or each other?

Margaret P. Cunningham ~~ Lily in Bloom ~~ Available: 05/08 ~~ Black Lyon Publishing

The terms of fifty-year-old Lily McVay’s divorce settlement were quirky at best: live in her ex-husband’s ancestral mausoleum of a house, restore her dead exmother-in-law’s renowned garden, and host the small Gulf Coast town’s overblown annual soiree. And Lily needs help in the worst way.

Aided and abetted by her “I’ll help bury the body, no questions asked” friends, an octogenarian neighbor with a sixth sense, and a gardening genius named Will, Lily sets out to lay old ghosts to rest and grow a new life. Not only is handsome thirty-something Will determined to save Lily from horticultural disaster, but the bond between them may prove that more is starting to bloom than just the garden.

Fran McNabb ~~ Once in a Half Moon ~~ Available: 06/08 ~~ An Avalon Romance

Coming home to the Gulf Coast was supposed to make life easier for Nikki Clark, but on the first day of her new job, her world is turned upside down when she comes face-to-face with Russ Preston, the former husband of her best friend from college.

Buying a charter boat helped Russ survive the years that his little girl endured operations from an accident that injured her and sent his wife into the arms of the child's doctor.

Will they risk their friendship in the uncharted waters of love-and will Russ's daughter allow them to even try?

Cynthia Eden ~~ "Wicked Ways" (When He Was Bad anthology) Available: 06/08 ~~ Kensington Brava

Cain Lawson speaks: I'm too dangerous for her. I know it, but I can't get my sexy new neighbor out of my head. When I hear her scream one night, the absolute last thing I expect to see is Miranda Shaw-star of my hottest fantasies-being attacked by a vampire. Now the undead jerk is after her, and I'm the only thing standing between the beautiful lady and a killer who just won't stop. Well, too bad for him, because that vamp has just made the worst mistake of his afterlife-he's tangled with a shifter. And Miranda, well, she's so busy watching out for him that she won't see me closing in on her-not until it's too late-and I'm about to show her just how wild I can get…

Cynthia Eden ~~ Hotter After Midnight ~~ Available: 04/29/08 ~~ Kensington Brava

Dr. Emily Drake's patients tend to be a little unusual. Instead of the typical therapist's caseload of midlife crises and mother fixations, Emily treats vampires with blood phobias and sex-demons looking for meaningful relationships. But her gift for recognizing and healing the Other-those creatures of the night that most humans don't even know exist-requires a few house rules. First: Never trust a shifter. Especially not one like Detective Colin Gyth whose gold-flecked eyes and predatory air make Emily realize how much she's been longing to lose control…

Colin can't believe the doctor he's been assigned to work with on the Night Butcher murder investigation is the one person who could expose his true identity as a wolf shifter. Smart, sexy, and stubborn as hell, Emily brings out the alpha male in Colin, unleashing a wild, heady desire that takes them both over the edge.

But in the shadows, the Night Butcher waits…eager to spill Emily's blood and taste her terror. And he'll use any means to destroy her, including the one person she has grown to trust.

"Highly sensual and definitely dangerous." -Shannon McKenna
"A cross between CSI and Medium, only hotter and with a hero that truly has bite!"
-Jacquelyn Frank

Donna McClaire ~~ Attack of the Killer Prom Dresses ~~ Calderwood Books ~~ 2007

Kim Howell has two weeks to make prom dresses for three classmates, but her brand-new sewing machine goes totally ape. When she hears strange jabbering in her bedroom closet she realizes unseen “Otherworldies” had come in with the sewing machine. Whoops . . . her life will never again be the same. The problem is, when she’s sure things can’t get worse . . . they do!

Elizabeth White ~~ Off the Record ~~ Zondervan ~~ 08/07

When Judge Laurel Kincade announces her candidacy for the Alabama Supreme Court, the last person she expects to see in the crows is reporter and ex-boyfriend, Cole McGaughan. He's there to advance his own career, but there's on problem: digging up dirt on the lovely lawyer may destroy him, too. Can the truth set them both free?

Cynthia Eden ~~ New Year’s Bites in A Red Hot New Year ~~ Avon Red ~~ 11/07

After good-girl Anna Summers is bitten by a wolf-like creature on New Year’s Eve, her life changes—and she takes a walk on the real wild side with her sexy rescuer, Jon York, a man who is much more than he seems…

Cynthia Eden -- Caged Wolf in Secrets, Volume 21: Primal Heat -- Red Sage Publishing—12/07

Alerac La Morte has been drugged, kidnapped, and taken to some hole in the wall far from civilization. To make matters worse, Alerac realizes that his captor, Madison Langley, is actually…his destined mate. Madison hates his kind–she blames Weres for the death of her father, and she wants vengeance. But when captor is turned captive, will Alerac be able to convince her that he’s not the monster she thinks, that wolves are true, and when they mate…it’s forever?

Allison Knight -- Heal My Hurting Heart -- Champagne Books, Inc. -- 02/07

Betrayed by the women in his life, Luke Adams finds Gina Walker, injured and with no memory, on his Colorado ranch. Can they fight Gina’s villainous stepfather, and still discover an enduring love?

Elizabeth White -- Fair Game -- Zondervan, 01/07 -- Jana Cutrere's Mississippi homecoming is anything but dull. Before she's even reached town, the beautiful young widow hits a stray cow, loses her son in the woods, rescues an injured fawn, and comes face-to-face with her high school crush, Grant Gonzales! Will this journey end in red-faced regret---or rekindled romance?

Allison Knight -- Too Late To Scream -- Wings ePress -- 11/06

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?

Kresley Cole -- No Rest for the Wicked -- Pocket Star, 10/06. In this next installment in the Immortals After Dark Series, USA Today Bestselling author Kresley Cole delivers a scorching tale about a forbidding vampire who lives in the shadows and the beautiful assassin who hunts him there.

A soldier weary of life . . .

Centuries ago, Sebastian Wroth was turned into a vampire -- a nightmare in his mind -- against his will. Burdened with hatred and alone for ages, he sees little reason to live. Until an exquisite, fey creature comes to kill him, inadvertently saving him instead.

A Valkyrie assassin dispatched to destroy him . . .

When Kaderin the Cold Hearted lost her two beloved sisters to a vampire attack long ago, a benevolent force deadened her sorrow -- accidentally extinguishing all of her emotions. Yet whenever she encounters Sebastian, her feelings -- particularly lust -- emerge multiplied. For the first time, she's unable to complete a kill.

Become competitors in a legendary hunt.

The prize of the month-long contest is powerful enough to change history, and Kaderin will do anything to win it for her sisters. Wanting only to win her, forever, Sebastian competes as well, taking every opportunity -- as they travel to ancient tombs and through catacombs, seeking relics around the world -- to use her new feelings to seduce her. But when forced to choose between the vampire she's falling for and reuniting her family, how can Kaderin live without either?

Fran McNabb -- A Light in the Dark -- An Avalon Romance, October 2006.

Snow covered mountains, a secluded cabin, and a crackling fire are all that English professor Margaret Daniels thought she needed to escape the chaos of another holiday season. Little did she know that when she opened her door for Paul Reynor to carry in a load of firewood, her holiday would turn out to be unlike any other. Paul's take-control attitude and his down-home charm bring a smile to her lips but add to the confusion of her empty heart.

No longer content to live in her late husband's memory, Margaret contemplates a prestigious offer at a West Coast university, a move that seemed so simple before meeting Paul. Now with their growing closeness throughout the snow-filled days, they both fight an attraction that seems totally wrong.

Can love bridge the cultural gap that lies between them?

Catherine Mann -- Awaken to Danger -- Silhouette Books, January, 2006.

SLEEPING WITH DANGER: She awoke with no memory of the night before and a dead body beside her. Suddenly Nikki Price was the prime suspect in a murder. Even worse, working the case was Air Force Major Carson "Scorch" Hunt the wingmen warrior she'd been pining for forever.

They'd spent one night together months ago and Carson hadn't said a word to her since. But now with the real murderer out to silence Nikki, he was the only one who could keep her safe. She agreed to his protecting her, but she wouldn't let their mutual attraction take over. Nikki had awoken to danger once before and barley survived sleeping with Carson could prove more lethal.

Catherine Mann -- Baby I'm Yours -- Silhouette Desire, April 2006.

FROM WEEKEND AFFAIR TO NINE-MONTH COMMITMENT: Three months after a whirlwind affair, Claire McDermott discovered she was carrying Vic Jansen's child. She knew if she told him, he'd offer marriage. But she wanted more than just an honorable response from the man who once, who still, ignited her passion. After he discovered the truth, nothing was keeping Vic from his child or the woman who continued to haunt his dreams. But Claire's demand for an emotional union wasn't something he could allow. His heart was closed and not even Claire, and her undeniable beauty, would change his mind.

A Soldier's Christmas -- Rachel Lee, Merline Lovelace, and Catherine Mann --HQN Books, October 2006 (Reissue).

There's just one thing keeping Air Force aviators Joshua and Alicia Rosen from finalizing their divorce - the Arctic survival course they have to pass together. But when they find themselves chased across the frozen tundra by armed pursuers, even the Alaskan chill is no match for the heat of their desire.

Also in A SOLDIER'S CHRISTMAS "I'll Be Home" by Rachel Lee "A Bridge for Christmas" by Merline Lovelace

Catherine Mann -- More Than Words -- Harlequin Books, October 2006.

Introducing the third annual More Than Words anthology Five bestselling authors Five real-life heroines

Because of this year's recipients' dedication, thousands of tiny babies born into poverty are going home from the hospital wearing warm, hand-knit clothing. Prisoners are raising pups to keep people safe and be loyal guide dogs. Special-needs kids finally have a sports league to call their own. Cancer survivors enjoy a week of relaxation and rejuvenation nestled in Canada's stunning cottage country. And high-quality, low-cost children's books in Braille are finding their way to the thousands of children who need them.

We hope More Than Words will touch your heart and inspire the heroine living inside you.

Thank you. Proceeds from the sale of this book will be reinvested into the Harlequin More Than Words program to support the causes that are of concern to women.

Catherine Mann -- Blaze of Glory -- HQN Books, July 2006.

Air Force captain Bobby "Postal" Ruznick wouldn't consider working a a job that didn't scare him to death. But nothing gets under his skin like sexy profiler Dr. Grace Marie Lanier. Not that Dr. Uptight Lanier could tolerate his risk-taking ways when they'd struck sparks off one another on assignment a year ago. Now it looks as though the two of them are stuck with each other once again. Being paired with Bobby's Special Ops crew sends Grace Marie's calm, collected existence into a tailspin. Not only does she have an assignment of the utmost importance to complete...but she's got little recourse except to turn to the one man who threatens her orderly world the most - Bobby. Now with one week to stabilize a situation that could destroy the lives of countless others, Bobby and grace Marie are about to learn that to save the world, they'll have to risk their hearts

The Long Hunter (Hardcover) by Don McNair, James Tampa (Illustrator) -- Medallion Press, Inc., June 2006

Harriet Klausner's 4-Star Review

In 1770 Matt McLaren watched in horror as Indians attacked his family's Virginia farm killing his parents and kidnapping his sister Mandy. He vows to somehow rescue his sibling as he blames himself for her abduction, but first must recover his health He staggers into a bar where owner Struthers "bounds" him in exchange for food and shelter. When elderly frontiersman Noah Dandridge sees the sickly child, he removes him from the cruel master.

With help of Reverend Ashbrooke, Matt is bound to the caring Noah, which angers Struthers. The innkeeper kills Noah, but Matt kills him. When he flees the crime scene, the law enforcement officials assume he is a murderer. Using the skills he learned from Noah, Matt becomes a hunter still seeking his sibling in Indian Territory though years have passed.

THE LONG HUNTER is a fabulous insightful historical thriller that showcases some of abuses of colonial society. The story line focuses on the adventures of Matt as he tries to survive under laws that offer no protection towards the young similar to Charles Dickens's complaints about Victorian living conditions for the poor and disenfranchised. The support cast though somewhat stereotyped augment the enlightening look back in time. The final twist seems so plausible that it enhances the entire novel adding to the realism of a well written late eighteenth century American tale.

Martha Longshore, writing as Tess Pendergrass -- Missing Incorporated (Silhouette Bombshell, Apr 06) -- Investigative reporter Magdalena "Mad Max" Riley has built a reputation for finding the missing. But when her case to find billionaire Atchison Dantell goes terribly wrong, Max finds herself out in the cold with no option but to investigate on the sly.

When Dantell's son also disappears, Max vows to rescue the boy before the legendary assassin rumored to be stalking him does. But Max and the assassin aren't the only ones on the boy's trail. Max must choose between trusting one obnoxious but sexy reporter and a mysterious P.I. who claims he'll share his every lead. And her choice will lead to success — or someone's certain death.

Elizabeth White -- Fireworks (Zondervan, May 06) -- Former ATF agent Susannah Tait is out to prove that pyrotechnics genius Quinn Baldwin is responsible for a million-dollar fireworks catastrophe during a Mardi Gras ball.

With her faithful black Lab Monty, she moves to the charming city of Mobile, Alabama, to uncover the truth. But this world-traveled military brat with a string of letters behind her name finds herself wholly unprepared to navigate the cultural quagmires of the Deep South.

Captivated by the warmth and joy of her new circle of friends, Susannah struggles to keep from falling for a suspect who refuses to be anything but a man of integrity, compassion, and lethal Southern charm. Fireworks offers a glimpse into the heart of the South and a cynical young woman’s first encounter with Christ-like love.

Elizabeth White -- On Wings Of Deliverance (Love Inspired) (Paperback) Steeple Hill (April 06)-- THE WOMAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH -- To make up for her sordid teen years, Bernadette Malone has spent her adult life in service to God. But her past has finally caught up with her: three young women—friends from her former life—had taken the truth about that past to their premature graves, and Bernadette was next on the hit list.

Border patrol agent Owen Carmichael knew all about the dark side of life. And he couldn’t turn down his friend when she came to him for help. Owen would protect Bernadette with his life. But her powerful enemy was prepared to kill again to prevent the revelation of his scandalous actions.

A Hunger Like No Other -- by Kresley Cole (Paperback - Mar 06) Acclaimed author Kresley Cole introduces a sizzling new series with this tale of a fierce werewolf and a bewitching vampire -- unlikely soul mates whose passion will test the boundaries of life and death.

A mythic warrior who'll stop at nothing to possess her . . .

After enduring years of torture from the vampire horde, Lachlain MacRieve, leader of the Lykae Clan, is enraged to find the predestined mate he's waited millennia for is a vampire. Or partly one. This Emmaline is a small, ethereal half Valkyrie/half vampire, who somehow begins to soothe the fury burning within him.

A vampire captured by her wildest fantasy . . .

Sheltered Emmaline Troy finally sets out to uncover the truth about her deceased parents -- until a powerful Lykae claims her as his mate and forces her back to his ancestral Scottish castle. There, her fear of the Lykae -- and their notorious dark desires -- ebbs as he begins a slow, wicked seduction to sate her own dark cravings.

An all-consuming desire . . .

Yet when an ancient evil from her past resurfaces, will their desire deepen into a love that can bring a proud warrior to his knees and turn a gentle beauty into the fighter she was born to be?

Includes an excerpt from Kresley Cole's next romance novel, No Rest for the Wicked.

Playing Easy to Get --by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Jaid Black and Kresley Cole (Paperback - Feb 06) New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon and rising stars Jaid Black and Kresley Cole unlock the pleasures and perils of embracing the boldest and most powerful of lovers -- 100% alpha males -- in three sensually erotic tales. Discover the physical rapture of his muscular arms.... Become a prisoner of passion, swept away by an encounter with his primal side.... And get lost in the all-consuming thrill of white-hot pursuit by a relentless stranger who may be your most dangerous foe, the best lover you've ever had -- or both.

Let your fantasies run wild with these unforgettable novellas where bigger is most definitely better -- and playing easy-to-get is the only way to go!

If You Dare (The MacCarrick Brothers Series) -- by Kresley Cole (Paperback - Apr 05)

With If You Dare, Cole introduces a thrilling new romance trilogy featuring fierce Scottish brothers with dangerous lives, dark desires, and a deadly curse. Can he exact revenge?

High in the Pyrenees, a band of mercenaries led by Courtland MacCarrick wages war for General Reynaldo Pascal. When Court turns on the evil general, Pascal orders him killed but Court narrowly escapes and exacts revenge by kidnapping Pascal's exquisite Castilian fiancée.

Can she deny her passions?

Lady Annalía Tristán Llorente despises her towering, barbaric captor almost as much as she does Pascal. Her inexplicable attraction to the Highlander only fuels her fury. But nothing will stop her from returning to Pascal -- for if she doesn't wed him, she signs her brother's death warrant, as well as her own.

Can there be love between them?

From the moment Court discovers that Anna's prim façade masks a fiery, brave lass, his heart's ensnared, and he dares to defy the curse that has shadowed his life -- to walk with death or walk alone. But Pascal vows that he'll hunt the two, never stopping until he's destroyed them both.

The Captain of All Pleasures -- Cole's debut novel. by Kresley Cole (Mass Market Paperback - Jul 03)

Raised as a free spirit aboard her American sea captain father's majestic clipper ship, willful Nicole Lassiter has never encountered an obstacle she couldn't overcome--until she meets Captain Derek Sutherland. His sizzling kisses leave her longing, but after they share a night of passion, his subsequent disdain makes her blood boil. Nicole vows to take her revenge--by helping her father beat Sutherland in a high-stakes competition: the Great Circle Race from England to Austrailia.

Nicole's scheme is thrown overboard after her father is wrongly imprisoned, yet she remains undaunted--taking to the high seas with her father's ship. But a storm wrecks her plans, and she finds herself a virtual prisoner aboard Sutherland's vessel. And while her mind tells her she should escape, her body urges her to surrender....

The Price of Pleasure -- by Kresley Cole (Paperback - Jun 04) A man noted for his courage and integrity, Captain Grant Sutherland journeys to Oceania to find Victoria Dearbourne, an English girl lost at sea a decade before. He's given her ailing grandfather his word--as a gentleman--to find and protect her. But one look at a grown Victoria and Grant has never felt less like one.

Tori relishes freedom, untamed passion, and spontaneity above atifling order. Even more so when a proud, cold British captain arrives to rescue her, though she has no wish to be. As Grant tries to convince her to leave her island home, she begins to see in him a man hungering for more. A man who once laughed. A man who desires herbut won't take what she offers.

Grant struggles to control his own savage passions--and fails, Tori must decide what she wants more--her unfettered independence or the only man who could tame her wild heart....

Sheri Cobb South -- French Leave -- FROM THE CRITICS Library Journal -- After the Earl of Waverly, blue-deviled and thoroughly intoxicated, encounters Lisette Colling escaping from a Paris convent one night, he rashly promises to take her to her wealthy grandpere in England. Returning to a country he had fled in disgrace four years earlier, the earl, through a strange twist of fate, finds himself indebted to and aided by the very man whose wife he had once tried to seduce. Action-filled and classically witty, this delightful story takes traditional Regency fare a gamine heroine and an older, jaded hero (shades of Heyer's These Old Shades!), a marriage of convenience, a kidnapping... I found all of Sheri's fine books on Amazon.

Sheri Cobb South -- Miss Darby's Duenna -- SYNOPSIS Sir Harry Hawthorne thought he was making a marriage of convenience to a childhood friend-until his fiancee captures the fancy of the dashing and dangerous Lord Mannerly. Suddenly Sir Harry's jealousy is roused to the point that he assumes the identity of his reclusive grandmother in order to keep the all-too-grown-up Miss Olivia Darby under his watchful eye. But the course of true love never did run smooth, and among the obstacles Sir Harry must face are a love-struck younger sister, an elderly widower with an amorous interest in the faux "Lady Hawthorne," and a rival more ruthless than Sir Harry ever imagined...

Martha Krieger w/a Allison Knight -- The Secrets of Hanson Hall -- Wings ePress -- 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?

Martha Krieger w/a Allison Knight -- The Brides Of Owls Head -- Wings ePress -- 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?

Elizabeth White - Sounds of Silence - (Steeple Hill Love Inspired) -- Border Patrol agent Eli Carmichael knew the deaf child he'd found outside a Mexican orphanage was harboring a dark secret — she was carrying a bloodstained knife and was clearly traumatized. To keep her safe, he turned to trusted neighbor Isabel Valenzuela. A sense of duty had kept Eli close to his fellow agent's widow and her young son over the past year, and now Eli was spending more time with Isabel and the kids, trying to determine exactly what the girl had seen. Under Isabel's gentle care, the child began to open up. But the killers were close by, and determined to silence the girl forever....

Elizabeth White - Under Cover of Darkness - (Steeple Hill Love Inspired) -- On a hot Texas night, border patrol agent Jack Torres watched in horror as his partner was fatally shot. His faith shattered, Jack vowed to take down his friend's killers. His quest for vengeance brought him to lovely landscaper Meg St. John, who hated the border patrol because they hassled her workers, and was too innocent to see the dark truth: men were being sold as cheap labor. Working for Meg undercover brought unexpected feelings — and grave danger. Because someone was working against him. Jack had to protect his lady boss and get the job done without getting them killed…or blowing his cover.

Diana Love Snell - WORTH EVERY RISK - Silhouette Intimate Moments - April 2005 - Angel Farentino is fleeing for her life.. saved by hunky DEA Agent and former Navy pilot Zane Jackson. As one reviewer on Amazon said, "Don't blink, you might miss something!"

Catherine Mann - PURSUED - Silhouette Bombshell - November 2004 - ISBN: 0373513321. There's just one thing keeping Air Force aviators Joshua and Alicia Rosen from finalizing their divorce - the Arctic survival course they have to pass together. But when they find themselves chased across the frozen tundra by armed pursuers, even the Alaskan chill is no match for the heat of their desire.

Virginia Kelly - TO THE LIMIT - Silhouette Intimate Moments, June 2004 (ISBN: 037327372X)
Mary Beth Williams and Nicholas Romero are forced to work together in a South American country full of danger and surprises. Will Mary Beth find her brother, kidnapped by terrorists, before it's too late? Can she trust Nick, a peacemaker with the abilities of a warrior, to help her? Or is he in this race against time for his own reasons? Available at local bookstores and department stores, as well as at Barnes & Noble and other online bookstores.

Tess Pendergrass - DARK OF THE MOON

 The second Hope Point Mystery, Dark of the Moon (Five Star Expressions, December 2003), will be available from Amazon.com and the other major online book retailers in January, 2004.

 It’s been two years since Destiny Millbrook’s old flame, artist Alain Caine, left her without a backward glance to follow his muse. When Alain calls without warning to let her know he's in Hope Point for the upcoming Arts and Crafts Fair and that he expects her to put him up for the night, Destiny can almost find it funny -- until Alain is murdered at the fair, and Destiny’s significant other, Detective Daniel Parks, is identified as the prime suspect.

 While the high-profile murder case Daniel was investigating falls to pieces and his personal life appears to be headed the same direction, Destiny must find a way to clear Daniel's name, prevent another innocent victim from being convicted for a horrible crime, and stop a dangerous sociopath before he can kill again.

Elizabeth White - Will and a Way - CHANCE ENCOUNTERS OF THE HEART--Tyndale/HeartQuest January 2003

Has anyone ever told you You can't get there from here ?  In the summer of 2000 my family flew to Colorado to visit family and enjoy a much anticipated vacation. I went prepared with notebooks and camera; I just knew I was going to get a great story out of this trip. And I did, but it had nothing to do with old mining towns and trains the magnificent Rocky Mountains, the U.S. Mint and Capitol in Denver, the Celestial Seasonings Tea Factory, a butterfly museum and art galleries galore. No, siree. I wound up with a story about airports.  If I've learned anything from writing, its that the most interesting and memorable things in life are often the most frustrating and funny!

"Will and a Way" features straight-laced teacher Zoë Hancock and Will "Wild Man" Fletcher, a Christian entertainment lawyer with a flair for the unexpected. As a result of a "chance encounter" in the Denver airport, former college friends Zoë and Will get reacquainted and Will promptly tries to talk Zoë into tutoring his three musical teenage clients, the Galloway brothers. But painful scars from the music industry in which she grew up prevent Zoë from succumbing to Wills irresistible charm. Only a series of divinely bizarre episodes and the intervention of kooky grandma Roxanne Gonzales can convince Zoë that Gods plans are better than her own.

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