His Second-Chance Family

SSE -- January 2008

Teacher Julia Blair is deeply grateful to Sage and Anna for giving her and her seven-year-old twins a temporary home in their rambling Victorian mansion -- and for their friendship. She has loved Brambleberry House since childhood, when her family used to rent a nearby cottage every summer just down the beach. Julia certainly does not expect to encounter her first crush living next door.

As a local Cannon Beach boy, Will Garrett had stolen her heart all those years ago. But this Will is different from the boy she had known -- he is now bitter and reclusive, angry at the world. Julia and her children only remind him all too painfully of what he has lost, but still he is drawn to her.

Can both of them move beyond the pain of their respective pasts to forge a new future together? They might have a shot, especially with the help of a couple of mischievous matchmakers ...

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Silhouette Special Edition -- August 2008

Anna Galvez's life is tangled enough. She doesn't need any more complications. One of her two giftshops is faltering, she's embroiled in an ugly legal battle with a man she trusted and thought she might have been coming to care for, she has debts up to her ears from his treachery, and the Victorian mansion she inherited from a dear friend needs far more work than she can ever afford.

But when she rents the attic apartment of Brambleberry House to a wounded helicopter pilot looking for a quiet place to recover, she finds herself instantly attracted to him. Army Chief Warrant Officer Harry Maxwell seems dangerous, mysterious and edgy, all the things Anna is not.

But Anna has no idea just how mysterious the helicopter pilot is -- or how dangerous he might prove to her heart!

High-Stakes Honeymoon

August 2007

Olivia Lambert is having one hell of a honeymoon. Okay, so she's groomless. Big deal. She dumped the cheating S.O.B. two weeks before the big day -- but since she had already paid for the nonrefundable plane tickets to Costa Rica, she wasn't about to let two weeks in a beach bungalow go to waste. It's a perfect place to figure out what she wants to do with the rest of her life. It seemed like a good idea at the time -- even though she's alone in a tropical paradise where she doesn't speak the language and can't tell a lemur from a coati. Everything is going as well as can be expected -- until she bumps into the machete-wielding maniac ...

Shelter From the Storm

June 2007

Sheriff Daniel Galvez has built a good life for himself in his hometown of Moose Springs, Utah. He gets along with just about everyone in town -- except for Dr. Lauren Maxwell. Daniel has been attracted to Lauren for years, though he knows itÕs a waste of energy, especially when she treats him with such cool reserve. Nothing can ever come of his attraction for many reasons -- not the least of which because they grew up so differently. She was the town princess, the wealthy, pampered daughter of the man who was both the mayor and the most successful man in town. She was smart and beautiful and in a completely different social stratosphere than he when they were kids. His parents were illegal immigrants from Mexico who never had enough of anything but love to go around.

In the years since, their roles have been reversed after Lauren's father swindled the town out of millions. Now he's the respected sheriff and she's the daughter of the man who caused the town's biggest scandal. He knows her coolness would quickly turn to active loathing if she knew the truth about his role in her father's downfall.

They're both forced to put aside their respective emotions and worth together in the closest of quarters to help a battered young girl who has been thrust into a nightmare.

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