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Devil’s Deception
(1985) has a mafia princess for a heroine and an FBI Bureau Chief for a hero, so the story gives new meaning to the notion of “opposites attract.” Brett Devlin is a fed planted in the home of Angela Patria in the guise of her bodyguard to get the goods on her drug smuggling uncle. When Devlin finds himself instantly attracted to the lonely, withdrawn beauty who is Patria’s innocent niece, his life becomes complicated very quickly. It is Devlin’s job to be with Angela at all times since he is supposed to be protecting her, and this task makes it impossible for him to conceal his growing feelings for the woman he is deceiving on a daily basis. How this dilemma is resolved and the embattled couple wind up together makes for a satisfying read, and watching straight arrow Devlin unbend enough to fall for the gangster’s ward is touching as well as amusing.

MARCH 2012

THE HARDER THEY FALL

 
(Western Romance)

The bigger they come in life,

the harder they fall in love

Helene Danforth had loved her late fiancé, though he’d never stirred the passion she knew was in her. So when she found herself alone, unmarried and pregnant with his unborn child, she realized she had to do something to make things right. She never expected that Martin’s brother Chris, a Wyoming rancher and rodeo champion, would offer her marriage; she never dreamed she’d be hungering for Chris’ long, lean body...

Chris Murdock swore to give his bother’s child a secure life, but he wasn’t about to let the “innocent” Miss Danforth lure him into her gold digging trap. But Chris soon discovered that he had no defenses against his own fiery longings...

JANUARY 2012

ANOTHER LIFE

(Contemporary Romance)

On Daytime’s Hottest Soap,

Someone’s Dying For Stardom

Successful defense attorney Juliet Mason knows it will take more than high ratings and juicy scripts to give sex soap start Tim Canfield a brighter tomorrow. Evidence is rapidly mounting that daytime TV’s hottest actor knows a lot more about the murder of his beautiful temperamental costar than he’s telling.

With consummate legal skill, Juliet begins rewriting her campaign to prove Tim’s innocence. And as the savvy counselor’s maneuvers begin igniting dangerous out-of-court fireworks, she quickly finds that Tim’s surprising vulnerability is fast putting her own cleverly defended heart at risk.

SEPTEMBER 2011

FAIR GAME

(Contemporary Romance)

She was born to wealth and power,

but destined for danger and

an unconventional love

She was both an important attorney and Senator Joseph Fair’s daughter—a porcelain and gold beauty who worked among Washington’s political elite. And when Ashley Fair joined her father’s hectic Presidential campaign, her life took her to the very pinnacles of fame and power. Then she met Timothy Martin, the intriguing and darkly handsome police lieutenant assigned to protect her father. To Tim, Ashley was strictly off-limits, a woman from a world impossibly separated from his own by a chasm of class and money—until the differences in their backgrounds dissolved in desire and their closeness drew them into the depths of an intoxicating passion. But in the shadows, danger was waiting for Ashley, sweeping her toward tragedy and the dark places of the heart where love becomes a torment..or the fulfillment of all dreams.

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A tempestuous story of love and

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It was a bold and perilous plan – disguising herself as a boy and stealing aboard a ship bound for the far-off shores of Ireland. But from the moment orphaned Lady Alexandra Cummings arrived at besieged Inverary Castle, her life and heart were no longer her own. Captured by rugged Irish rebel Kevin Burke, the daring English noblewoman became a pawn in a dangerous game of treachery and betrayal.

For she lost her heart to the one man she dared not trust, and her passion could not be swayed by reason. But cruel fate tragically plunged Kevin into exile and Alexandra into a loveless marriage. Enemies and lovers, their forbidden desires swept them across a divided realm. A man and a woman bound together pledged their lives toward liberty and love.

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A Roman officer and his Celtic captive

transcend the barriers of war

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