Kirjahaku

WITH HEART: 1938. Scarcity and hardship have taken their toll but Kathleen has high hopes for her investment in the Rawlings Gazette. But the feisty redhead hasn't even reached the city limits when trouble strikes. Hijackers try to steal her car and though rancher Johnny Henry rides to her rescue, the attack is only a taste of the perils to come. For Rawlings is a town of dirty secrets and soon, though Johnny tries to shield her, Kathleen finds herself pitted against a powerful man and his unscrupulous cronies - men who will go to any lengths to silence the gutsy redhead and the man she loves.AFTER THE PARADE: 1945. Johnny Henry comes home from the War and his estranged wife, Kathleen, secretly watches him alight to a hero's welcome. Her heart races when she sees him - his breaks when he doesn't see her. Misunderstanding and tragedy destroyed their marriage before he went away and now Johnny's pride stops him admitting his mistake and Kathleen's hurt stops her running into his arms. But when Kathleen finds herself in a real-life nightmare her only hope is Johnny - and a love that can bring two hearts through every battle, especially the one within.

Armed only with a small pistol and a will to survive, Katy protects her family in the ghost town where they have been abandoned, while denying her passion for the insistent stranger who has proclaimed her to be his woman. Reissue.

Ana Fairfax is a stranger to the lonesome Iowa farm where she has gone to live after the death of her stepdaughter. Still a beautiful young woman, she struggles to raise her late stepdaughter's child in a farmhouse filled with danger. For there is Esther, the child's crazed aunt, with her dark secrets and painful memories seeming to lurk in every corner. And there is Owen, the child's father, the master of the house-and a man who is awakening new passions in Ana...as well as a daring new dream.

A penniless, parentless nineteen-year-old, spunky redhead Tucker Houston secures a job as a schoolteacher and boards a wagon train full of mail-order brides going West, driven by hard-muscled wagon master Lucas Steele. Reprint.

Managing a depression-era garage in Oklahoma while his friend recovers from an animal bite, Yates finds himself falling in love with his friend's babysitter and housekeeper, who has scandalized the town for living with her employer. 60,000 first printing.

Returning to her childhood home in Depression-era New Mexico, pregnant and penniless widow Marilee is distraught to learn of her father's death and her mother's alcoholism but vows to revive the family's motor court business, which has been taken over by a dangerous bootlegger. Reprint.

April Asbury comes to Fertile, Missouri, to work for the town doctor, Todd Forbes. On her way into town, her car gets stuck in the mud during a rainstorm and she has to walk for help. She ends up on the doorstep of Joe Jones, who falls instantly in love with the young nurse. Meanwhile, the widow of Ron Poole, who was killed after raping several women in town, has found papers documenting all the children whom Ron fathered, including names and birthdates. The widow Poole sets out to prove that Joy Jones isn't Joe's younger sister but his niece, the product of the rape of one of Joe's sisters.Suspecting that the widow isn't mentally stable April tries to get some help for her but also finds herself caught between the affections of both Todd Forbes and Joe Jones and eventually has to make a choice.

Fleeing her bittersweet memories of Tom Clary, Beth Marshall has built a new life for herself in Minnesota, until he reappears to summon her home to Cody, Wyoming, to care for her ailing sister in Sing Softly to Me and in Gentle Torment, Lindy Williamson's ex-husband, Jake, follows her to Alaska, hoping to win her back, in two stories of love and second chances. Original.

From bestselling author Garlock--the "Voice of America's Heartland"--comes anexciting new Texas tale of romance, intrigue, and adventure.

Life in the small town of Miller's Creek, Wisconsin in 1945 is focused entirely on the war in Germany. Olivia Marsten is doing everything she can to support the troops: working in the local hardware store while the owner's son is serving, collecting recyclables for the war effort, and offering support to Billy, her childhood best friend who's leaving in a month for Navy training. When Billy pulls her aside, desperate to talk, she doesn't think anything of it...until he confesses he's been in love with her for years and proposes marriage. Stunned and unable to hurt his feelings, she accepts. But in her heart she knows it isn't right. How do you break your best friend's heart, especially when you think you might secretly be in love with the stranger who literally saved your life? From the moment Peter Becker lays eyes on Olivia, she took his breath away. They had only just been introduced when a car careened out of nowhere, and he pulled her out of the way, saving her life. When he comes to, he's recovering in Olivia's parents' home and slowly falling in love with Olivia. But Peter Becker isn't who he says he is. He's a German soldier whose infantry was taken prisoner by American soldiers and brought to the United States, their final destination an internment camp. But while headed there, a massive train accident occurred and both he and Otto, the prisoner chained to him, survived. As the son of an American WWI veteran, Peter has grown up loving baseball and apple pie--he never wanted to serve in the Nazi party and hates what they stand for. He knows he must turn himself in, but he can't bring himself to do it, especially knowing that it he might lose Olivia forever. But when mysterious accidents start to befall the town and Olivia's family in particular, it's clear to Peter that Otto is responsible. Can he save the woman he's come to love from a madmen hellbent on revenge?