Rucker and his wife Dinah are deep in love. They are in Florida on vacation. She goes to the store and never comes back. He has been looking for her. A friend of theirs is in the CIA and Jeopard has found her in a country called Surador. She is working for a bad guy, Valdivia, who works for the...
A Hollywood actress known for her beauty flees to a secluded mountain cabin in North Carolina after being severely scarred in a car accident. There she finds unexpected love and a new life with a man who lost his family in 9-11.
Back in the small town of her childhood, Lily MacKenzie rekindles old flames with Artemas Colebrook, a boyhood friend and a family enemy.
I read this years ago and I still remember the story. There is something about Ms. Smith's writing which is so good. I liked this story yet I probably won't read it again. What I loved about this story was how realistic it was for me to read. To lovers who have mothers that are so similar yet...
Samantha Vanderveer has no inkling of the lives that have been destroyed by the infamous Pandora Ruby, a gem that has divided the Vanderveer and Raincrow families for decades, when she falls in love with Jake Raincrow.
Home is wherever the heart leads.... The ties that bind us--to our families, to our pasts--are at the heart of this deeply engrossing story. Venus Arinelli saw her future as a concert pianist shattered when her father's life ended in disgrace. Now Venus plays in cocktail lounges, sporting her s...
A Place to Call Home
The acclaimed author of "Sweet Hush" continues her bestselling tradition with her latest comic, heartbreaking novel about a Gerogia woman whose world changes forever when Hollywood comes knocking on her door.
When Dr. Sara Scarborough saw that Kyle Surprise had breached the security of Moonspell Keep, her castle refuge deep in the Kentucky mountains, she was tormented by memories of a desperate imprisonment -- and of the man who'd nearly given his life to rescue her. — Surador had left them both with ...
Here are three contemporary stories of passion and adventure, the dramatic sagas of three independent women bound by the legacy of their Cherokee ancestors. Sundance and the Princess The search for a stolen treasure takes a modern-day princess and a seductive maverick on a heart-stirring journe...
Tackling an intruder in the old moonshiner's cave, ex-Marine Max Templeton is astonished to find the beautiful and wiry Betty Quint, and he vows to win her over, even as she swears she will wait for a more marriage- and family-minded man.
I was in junior high when my mother gave me my first batch of Loveswept novels. Hot Touch was among them. After devouring Swashbuckling Lady, I got to Hot Touch. This is one of the first romance novels I read that combined paranormal elements into it's storyline. From that moment on I was hook...
T.S. Audubon nurses a reckless desire to release Elena Petrovic from her keepers. The fragile Russian, a woman of satin and secrets, is loath to trust the impossibly wealthy Southern aristocrat, but their different needs forge their spirits in a fiery miracle which transforms fear into desire.
Elgiva MacRoth is mesmerized by the arrogant man whose vast fortune is endangering the future of her tiny Scottish village. When she kidnaps him, he overwhelms her with passion. How can she make him understand that she's taken him prisoner only to preserve her heritage?
A Connecticut heiress learns she was adopted and travels to a northern Florida ranch to find her birth parents. There she also finds a wealth of big-hearted ranch hands, many with cognitive impairments. By the end of the summer, she's given her heart to all of them, including an unfriendly "crack...
Cautious Agnes Hamilton, owner of a horse breeding farm, tries in vain to resist the advances of the wickedly handsome John Bartholomew, a mystery man who rides into her life and tries to sweep her off her feet.
Shea Somerton was elegant and glamorous, just like Estate Mendocino, the resort she managed -- but behind her classy facade there was a hint of recklessness in her violet eyes.
chortled Myra Faye Hayes, the algebra teacher. “That includes enchiladas and oysters.” A rousing chorus of laughter went up around the table in the teachers’ lounge. Dinah sat down and opened her container of tuna salad. “I can only assume,” she said dryly, “that you’re discussing Rucker McClure....
Dreaming about dragons? Here I am, back to breathe fire on your upstanding Iowa marshmallows.” Kash’s smoky voice whispered against her good ear. The effect was so erotic, he might have been in bed with her. Startled, Rebecca squinted in the darkness and tried to wake up. She held the phone from ...
She had not heard one word from Jake since the jail scene, and she ran to the door hoping he was downstairs in her condo's lobby. She pressed the button and sang out drolly, "If you're here to apologize, I accept." "Let me think what I've done to make women unhappy recently," a smooth, cultured d...
She was used to serenity now, and the noisy mob of women in the small lobby of the Paradise Springs jail was getting on her nerves. Hardly anything ever rattled her, so she chalked her restlessness up to the impending arrival of Brig McKay. They’d never had an out-of-state prisoner before, much l...
He halted, amazed. In Webster Springs limousines were about as common as dinosaurs. A limosaur, that’s what this was, he thought drolly. While it climbed toward his home, he felt a premonition of trouble, which he quickly attributed to his bad mood. But for an Instant when the car paused at the t...
It makes me feel good, but sad, he thought. Then he drew his mouth into a grimace of self-rebuke. That didn’t make sense. Or maybe it did, and he just felt awkward trying to analyze his emotions. He thought of himself as a simple man with simple reactions, and he didn’t like feeling confused, as ...
She dressed in a blue cotton work dress with loose, elbow-length sleeves and a bloused bodice, then pulled her hair back and tucked it into a white net pinned tightly at her crown. Wearing only one petticoat under the dress and no corset, she felt ready to do a good day’s work. Work. She had to b...
I have naught against Landers, except that they’ve overrun the dry world and now believe they can take over the great waters that surround it. They never will, but I bear them no ill will for trying. The waters are seductive. Even Landers realize their allure. I’ve worked among Landers, protected...
But then, he excused himself, there was a strong element of macho reserve in all cardiac surgeons. So many operations meant life or death for the patients, and success was measured, quite literally, in the whisper of a heartbeat. He gazed without pity at the fat, florid little woman who was cryin...