Captain Peregrine Tracey was humiliated when the rich but common Ansteys rejected his suit for their eldest daughter Mary, but he never gave up hope that they would one day marry. After 10 years of serving in the military, Peregrine inherited the title of the Earl of Devenahm and was instantly acceptable to the Ansteys as a son-in-law. Determined to erase the memory of his earlier humiliation, the new Earl immediately sets out for the Ansteys country estate to claim Mary’s hand in marriage. Unfortunately, it is immediately apparent to Emily, Mary’s younger sister, that whatever affection used to exist between Mary and Peregrine is no longer there. Indeed, Mary seems quite in love with the vicar, Reverend Peter Cummings and he with her. However, [...]
When the colonists first settled on the planet Daleer, there was plenty to support them all. However, as the population increased, Daleer’s resources were spread thin. Then a nasty virus spread through the people, killing mostly females who had born children. The women did not want to risk getting pregnant, so they did not have sex with the males. To combat this, the males created men with gorgeous physical beauty and shadra, a psychological talent that could give both exquisite pleasure and excruciating pain. When the population began to rise again, the people of Daleer split into two warring factions. One was led by Gemen, who believed that the men with the shadra formed an important part of life on the planet. The other, led [...]
David Beckett had just returned from the military to his family’s home in Key West, Florida. He loved working in the museum that his family owned, which captured the grisly and sensational moments in Key West’s historical past. But everything changed when he found his ex-fiancée’s body laid out in one of the exhibits – especially since he was the prime suspect. His family was his alibi and there were many who suspected that they lied to keep David out of jail. David left everything behind him to begin a career as a successful nature photographer and didn’t even return home for his grandfather’s funeral. But now he is back and he is determined to keep history from repeating itself [...]
Sarah King is happy with her life the way it is. She has a wonderful, loving Amish family in a warm, friendly Amish community in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny Mountains. She has her beloved garden, where she lavishes all of her love, care and attention. Her life is orderly and familiar and she would like to keep it that way. Everything changes when Grant Williams, a handsome young veterinarian moves in to the farm next door to the Kings. For the first time, Sarah’s heart is stirred and she finds herself falling in love. And Grant returns her feelings. Indeed, her sassy tongue and pure beauty caught his attention from the moment that he met her family. But their [...]
Connal MacArren is one of the first of his world to leave the planet and travel through space. He would never have ventured out at all if it weren’t for his dratted kinsman, Garris, who left without telling anyone goodbye. All he left was a cryptic note saying that he was going to see the Dreamweaver Liandra Tavor. Liandra is an Asarian, one of a small race who can walk the dreamscape and find answers for people in dreams. She is sure that this Garris never made it to see her, though it is true that he may have been traveling to see her, but she cannot persuade Connal that she knows nothing of Garris’ whereabouts. Connal quickly tires of Liandra’s game of pretending not [...]
Preece is used to being alone. Everyone fears the tall warrior who always wear a black cape and cowl to cover his face. It is rumored that he can kill anyone, anywhere and he is called Preece the Warmonger or sometimes The Royal Blade. Yet Preece is tired of being a mercenary, tired of death. He takes jobs just to earn enough money to buy his own ship and sail off to an island paradise that his guardian, an old wizard, has long told tales of. He is eager to make his dream a reality, when the king forces him to agree to escort Moreya, orphaned daughter of one of the king’s most revered ambassadors, to her new fiancé, prince of a neighboring kingdom.
Lisane crashlands her spaceship on an unfamiliar planet when she is forced to flee for her life from the Enforcers on her home planet. She was the princess of her old world and destined to rule her people for the rest of her natural life, but all that is gone now. Lisane is not sure what to make of the new world and is slowly starving to death when Simon finds her. Simon is a wizard and a teacher at a school where other wizards are trained. He is unaware that Lisane is a girl and takes her to the school, where all the other students are boys. Lisane doesn’t exactly fit in on this new planet, but she refuses to let the others get [...]
Shy Esme Jaramillo is so excited to be asked to speak about her work with gene cloning on The Barry Stillman Show. It is rare for a scientist to have so much exposure – and to be on television! Esme made sure that her mother, father and two best friends could be there for her to support her in the audience. She is a little uneasy after some questions that the gorgeous makeup artist, Gavino Mendez, asked her, but she was too distracted by Gavino’s gorgeous looks and seemingly real interest in her. Before she knows it, Esme is out on stage and is horrified to realize that she is actually part of a beauty makeover show where they invite ugly bookworms to be made [...]
Elise Laffont is only 25 years old, yet she is already a widow – and perfectly happy to be one! All of the bachelors around Fort Rosalie, and there are many as it is a military post, are positive that she cannot make her small holding in Louisiana Territory profitable without a man by her side. Yet Elise has nothing but disgust for men, her brutal husband having done nothing but hurt her, mock her and cause her trouble. Elise was proud of her small farm and had made a modest success, but she lost it all one morning when the Natchez attached Fort Rosalie and the outlying areas, killing or enslaving all of the French. Elise managed to escape into the forest and find [...]
Claire Godwin has always been a paler shadow of her vivacious, larger-than-life foster sister, Melinda Varek. Melinda is always the one who comes up with some madcap plan and Claire inevitably follows, just as she has this time. Melinda has been missing for over a year. She just suddenly disappeared after performing in a play about Elizabeth Spenser, a beautiful young woman who was hanged for being a witch in the 17th century. Everyone has tried to persuade Claire that Melinda just got tired of mending old tapestries in Sommerstowe and decided to travel somewhere else, but Claire knows there is something terribly wrong. She finally finishes out the school year, closes up the library, and takes the job of repairing embroidery at Sommerstowe Hall, [...]
Marti Lundstrum was badly injured in a car accident that killed both of her parents. Life as she knew it is over, but she is determined to start a new life for herself. After extensive therapy, Marti is able to walk with a cane and to work at the managed care facility where she lives. The facility runs an answering service and she answers the phones at night, takes messages, makes wake up calls, does light filing, etc. Marti is happy where she is, but she knows that there are many others waiting to take her place at the facility and that it is time to move on – no matter how scary that prospect is.
Clowance Masterson has never really been good at anything, except research. She is a twenty-six year old virgin and thinks that she has no special skills or abilities. She already has two master’s degrees, but is unsure what to do with her life so she has decided to go back to school and get her Ph.D. First, however, she has to persuade her adventurous grandfather to come home with her before the rest of her family finds out what he is up to. Clowance made the mistake of reading her grandfather an article about treasure hunting and lost Spanish galleons while he was in the hospital recovering from some rare Amazonian disease contracted on his expedition to the Amazon. As soon as her grandfather, Ezra, [...]
