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A Cold Creek Holiday, December 2009, SSE
Emery Kendall hates Christmas. She used to enjoy everything about it but now she just tries to grit her teeth and endure until the holidays are over and her life can return to normal. When she decides to escape her ghosts by traveling to Pine Gulch, Idaho in an attempt to at last uncover the truth about her past, she stumbles into the world of former Army Ranger Nate Cavazos, a man suddenly struggling to deal with this two orphaned nieces. Emery doesn't realize that if Nate had any clue she was the secret daughter of the late -- and much despised -- Hank Dalton, he would kick her out of her cozy little rented cabin faster than she could blink, Christmas or not ...
A Cold Creek Homecoming, Sept 2009, SSE
She was the last person he ever expected to see again. Fifteen years later, Quinn Southerland still hasn't forgiven Tess Claybourne for treating him like the dirt beneath her boots. But the widowed nurse tending his ailing mother was a world away from the spoiled homecoming queen Quinn had known. Yet she was still as achingly beautiful, still arousing the old bittersweet longing for something he could never have. Or could he? The fierce attraction still burned between them. This could be their second chance ... if they let love lead them where their hearts longed to go ...
Still available:
Fortune's Woman -- Return to Red Rock, May 2009, SSE
After a tumultous childhood, Ross Fortune has created a safe, comfortable life for himself as a private investigator in San Antonio. He does his best to keep a little distance between himself and the other Fortunes, for his pride and his sanity. But when his sister Frannie is accused of a terrible crime, he must return to Red Rock to care for Frannie's son, Josh. He turns to lovely child and family therapist Julie Osterman to help him deal with Josh's grief at the death of his father.
Ross never expects Julie might help heal his own heart in the process.
Coming soon:
A Cold Creek Secret, February 2010, SSE
After two back-to-back tours in the Middle East, Maj. Brant Western is exhausted and emotionally wrung out. He returns to his family's remote small homestead in Cold Creek Canyon to make a final decision about selling the place that had been the site of so much turmoil when he was a kid. He wants solitude and peace. But when spoiled rich girl Mimi Van Hoyt crashes her car outside in the middle of a fierce blizzard, he has no choice but to take her in. She seems flighty and irresponsible, but she has secrets in her lovely blue eyes and Brant is shocked to realize he wants to discover them all ...
2009 RITA finalist, contemporary series romance:
The Cowboy's Christmas Miracle
Christmas was tough for widow Jenna Wheeler and
her four children. But even though she'd sold part of her family's land to make ends meet, she was determined to spin the holiday into the stuff of magic -- no matter what it took. Now if shecould only find a job ...
Maybe her new landlord could oblige -- gorgeous, child-averse Carson McRaven. He needed a chef and he knew the lovely Jenna would do a bang-up job -- if only she could keep her brood out of his hair. But as he found himself catapulted into the cheerful chaos of her family ... not to mention Jenna's arms ... he learned more about the spirit of Christmas than he ever dreamed.
2009 RITA finalist, contemporary series romance!