Kirjahaku

Rebecca Mader is about to be married to a man she's having a few concerns about. Namely, does she even know him anymore? After today, she's not so sure. And, she has a funeral to arrange, an entire estate to run on her own. and now there is a man pointing a gun at her back Could her luck get any worse? She wants her fianc dead, and if someone won't do it for her, she'll just have to do it herself. She will not stand to be another mans' fool. Perhaps the handsome man who'd barged into her home, jeopardizing her life, can be convinced he now owes her this small favor. Sebastian LeGue, her betrothed, must die. Rebecca has no idea the man in her midst is the 'real' Sebastian LeGue. Or, that the imposter she's about to marry is the same individual who scarred this poor man and left him for dead years ago. Rex Hunter came to Willowbark to kill an imposter; a vile creep who took his money, his name, and committed murder, framing Rex. Revenge still sweet when cold, he never thought he'd fall victim to a woman's tears, or her dire need to convince him he should stay. Get in. Get out. Never look back. These are his only goals in life. Copper-fire hair, bright blue eyes... perhaps his goals will have to change. He can't have revenge if Rebecca is in his way. And he can't have her in the way she wants him...if blood related to her.

A love story that shouldn't happen, can't happen, but will, no matter the consequences or how hard Sara Ruby and Christian Mohr try to deny what they feel. Preacher's Bend is furious with Sara, the resident bad girl. So how can eight years keep her secret safely hidden, when all she has to do is look at Christian--Reverend Christian Mohr--and know eventually she'll end up telling him the truth?One look, one touch, and the lies just won't stop...And Christian has his own demons to hide. He isn't the perfect saint Preacher's Bend thinks he is. He wants what he shouldn't have...and will do what he can to get it, even if it strips him of his soul.

Shameless Sara Rogan, hot Mecenna Jones, and studiously perfect Debra Batton...are one and the same. A quirk of nature, an act of desperation, and the hands of fate have pulled all three women into one desirable form. Sara can't let go of her past until she has a future. When she finds a man, he becomes a wall to her, and she will lie her away around him if she has to.Casey Griffen can't let Sara slip from his grasp. He's waiting for the perfect opportunity to tell her exactly how he feels. But is there ever a perfect opportunity for a man? He lost her once, he can't afford to lose her again, and he will do everything he must to make sure this doesn't happen. Yet Casey may have pushed Sara too hard. Can he convince her he loves her, even if he's not certain what love really is? Even if she denies him her body and soul?Casey is aware of the split personalities tearing her apart, and he will use them against her, if only to keep her as he wants her to be. Passion-filled, needy, beyond his every fantasy. After all, it's the right thing to do, even if Sara isn't as convinced. Deep in his heart, he can't go wrong...with another change.

Emma Brookefield's goal in life is to get her hands onto the rare and unusual. Willow's Lily is so rare, none other has ever been seen. Its blood red petals, they say, are to die for. As a genetic botanist, her life's dream is to divide the plant, cell by cell. But, she must first locate Dr. Mitchell Kallio, and he's not an easy man to find. Encountering the reclusive botanist, Mitch isn't all that interested in handing over the lily to a woman he more than once told not to search him out. Flat out refusing her request, he sends Emma home, empty-handed; worse, as damaged goods.She should have known coming to him was a mistake.The lily is evil and has killed many over the years. If Emma had touched it...Mitch can't think about that now. Yet, he isn't aware of Emma's past lives, or that there is a demon child inside of her, who is protecting her from harm. To save himself, he must first save Emma. Hard to do when he can't find her, is now dying from the destructive blood red petals, and hadn't listened to his own advice. Had he not taken her virginity without remorse, he probably wouldn't be at death's door. The innocence of Emma now destroyed, he's the reason for it.Yet, she is the only person who can kill the lily - and the one person Mitch will have to sacrifice, perhaps losing his heart along the way, just to save himself from the Dragon's Tongue.

Ten years ago, Lidia Giotti left Preacher's Bend. With a population of less than five hundred, give or take the few with one foot in the grave, she'd vowed never to return.Now she's back, with annulment papers in hand.All she has to do is find Jake Giotti, get his signature, and she can go back to Miami. However, she stole her fianc 's car to get here, sassed one of Preacher's Bends' officers, and has been thrown into a holding cell, awaiting the outcome of the charges of Grand Theft Auto. And, she gets a temporary cell mate she is trying to rid herself of.Tattoo, motorcycle riding Jake isn't pleased to see Lidia; the woman who left his bed ten years prior. More importantly, left their marriage. Seventy-two hours to sweat it out might kill him. Every time he looks at her he remembers the sting to his ego. Can he claim what is rightfully his? A few hours locked in a holding cell should be able to give the devil his due. But he should have known nothing ever is what it seems in Preacher's Bend.

Trale Delagaard spent her life avoiding the inevitable. Now she has a murder to solve, a bad relationship gone wrong, and hot FBI agent Coby Clark entering the picture. She needs to find a serial killer before it's too late. She doesn't need this kind of stress.Yet how can she possibly concentrate on her job, when Cupid's badly shot arrow hits her at the most inopportune moment?Lead genetic specialist at the State Crime Lab, will she end up as the killer's next victim, Trale turning a blind eye to the evidence? The FBI seems to think so. To keep her safe, they must put her in harm's way. But how safe is she, if stuck with a man she can't seem to get enough of?Agent Clark can't do his job if that job entails Trale. Every time he's near her, she erupts into a fiery ball of forgetfulness and complications. Part of the elite Unit 14, he's just doing his job to protect her, but when the job interferes with his love life, Coby's protective nature flies right out the window. One touch, one taste, and he can't get enough of her.What they don't see might not hurt them.What they do see, they will do everything in their power to avoid.

Benton Forge spent his life searching for the mysterious stone statue. This time, he can't fail. One touch, one finger set against a smile that never changes from one man to the next...He's waited too damn long not to get his heart's desire. Then again, all he has to do is take one quick look, half his leg missing, to know he failed finding her many times before.Lacey Barbian never thought the man she discovered floating near her boat could be the one person she's been running from for all of eternity.He can't remember who he is... and she can't forget him. Enormous betrayal by only one man, Lacey may be able to give up her body to him, but he'll have to earn the right to claim back her soul.

Chance Belany knows the rules. He's been through this contest before. It wasn't until ten years ago, when he stood beside Celeste Rosenthal's casket, that he guessed he'd made a huge mistake. Rules were meant to be broken, and he'd fallen for the wrong sister.Ten years later, he can't get Taylor Rosenthal out of his thoughts. If they'd met first, he wouldn't have gone through a life a regrets and remorse.Taylor Rosenthal has hated Chance for far too long-enough, that it has ate a huge hole into her soul. Perhaps this will be her one and only opportunity to prove herself to him. A sled dog race? How hard can that be? Even Celeste tried...but failed.Redemption from the past, forgiveness of sins, this contest is a race of strength, endurance, and fortitude...same as what is in the heart.

Jack Mareach went into Mo's Bar for one thing--and one thing only. He'd meant to have sex with any woman willing to allow him the pleasure of sinking his teeth into her. He needed to forget about his father's funeral, and what made him think alcohol would drown his troubles. One lousy night shouldn't kill him.She came into Mo's wearing black lace, head to toe. Removal of all that lace was the one thing he desired before his night ended.He never figured Mo would've so openly lied to him, however. Her name wasn't Shannon. It was Geneva Mary, the famous actress, and his mother's all-time favorite film star.Now, there'd be no guilt. After the sex, he could leave her bed, forget her name, and the remorse for bedding a stranger would dissolve in the morning mist. After all, actresses were used to that stuff.Guilt? You want to talk about guilt? Geneva fired her brother. She'd gotten Jack suspended from the police station due to a damning photo of him and her in the newspaper. Her agent had the goods on Mr. Mareach to make his life miserable. She slept with a homicide cop Guilt was the least of her problems.Still, from the moment their eyes met, she'd felt him as...the one. The worst part was the one... wasn't always the right one in a person's life.Perhaps while filming in Paris, stuck with Jack for the foreseeable future, she'll be able to figure out if her gut instinct was right about him.

Caught in a lie, Aiden Mercury knew his drifting days were over...the second he foolishly claims Levena Tozekia's pregnancy as his fault. Figuring he owes the woman for all the trouble he's caused, and to keep his promise he won't state the identity of the real father, Aiden takes his rightful place in Levena's life. Fatherhood by default. How hard can that be?Pretty damn hard, when every move he makes ticks off one or another of the Tozekia clan. Will the decision come back to haunt him? Or finally get him to stay in one place? Aiden will soon find out. Perhaps he'll then be able to get Levena to fall in love with him. Pregnant and unwed, caught interest in a drifter? What in the world is wrong with her?Levena made a mistake. Who hasn't? But can she allow reasoning to drift away, and make an even bigger mistake by giving Aiden what he wants? She knows he has ulterior motives and shouldn't get involved with the man. Her father wants him off the property. The father of her baby, Sage, is the family's worst enemy. She doubts anything can get much worse...until her father has a heart attack, leaving the Tozekia ranch open for Sage's greedy hands.An Idealistic Blue...where one moment might just have a man regretting his past.

He wasn't supposed to meet her, and he wasn't supposed to forget her, once he had. Trace Whitefeather wanted escape from the People, if only to have a life that wasn't the shadow of his great father, Dutchester Whitefeather. As the last remaining Feather Men, the last of their kind, Dutch and Trace had an uneasy truce for the time being. Trace could leave the ways of his People when he settled down. For now, he was allowed a temporary escape--perhaps to tame down his willful ways. Trace had other plans. He had to leave before he suffocated, trapped under his father's wing. Aubrey Rosenbloom, and her sister Elana were never to come upon he and his cousin hiding out in a cave. Or, find them to be their equals. But when Elana gets the fever and Trace and his cousin are the only men willing to take on the responsibility of saving her, Trace Whitefeather is exactly the kind of man Aubrey Rosenbloom was meant to share her life with. She's willing to protect him to the end, if only he lets her in his heart. After all, destiny is ruled by fate and no man, red or white, messes with fate. The journey of the damned will bring a son and father together, pull sisters apart, expose enemies best forgotten, and keep the dark shadows from crossing over the soul twice in one life.

Lord Jules Belany thought his life was the sea, his ship's helm a vital part of his soul, and his ancestral home, Caryfaith Hall, not worthy of any upkeep. After all, the Hall had been crumbling for years, no one really cared about the place, and his plan was to keep his stolen money, not waste it on repairing a Hall he rarely spent time in. He would have remained at sea had he not met Lady Cecelia. A pirate and rouge for most of his life, she desired to change him into a husband and doting father.Jules', with the sails billowing above his head, and the spray of high seas in his face temporarily abandoned, perhaps change was possible. His chosen occupation had served him well over the years. He was a rich and powerful man no one dared question. Perhaps it was time to settle down with the right woman.Unfortunately, there was one man willing to take all of this away from him, including Lady Cecelia, if given the chance. Lord Christian McCallahan, Jules' cousin was going to do whatever it took to gain Caryfaith Hall. If he could not have the Hall by fair means, a Hall denied him by birth and one Jules' was not willing to just hand over on silver platter, then he was willing to go to war with Jules just to have the woman. Spanning the years of a man's hardships, with the love of family backing him up every step of the way, and Lady Cecelia at his side, Jules' pirating days are finally over. Or, are they? Caryfaith Hall proves even a pirate can redeem himself when least expecting it.

Three hours on the either side of midnight. This is all it will take for the Realm to change, and all that is needed to destroy what one man knew as the truth.As a favored Blue-Wing, Melagore isn't as obsessed by the Lessor, Livvy Sharp, as she is of him. She's simply a means to an end, a way for a Chosen to gain a surviving heir. The Chosen must follow the Daldron's orders; choose which side they want to remain on...human, or favored of the Master. Melagore is running out of time to choose.Perhaps he will have need to break a few of the Realm's rules to possess her, even control her--body and soul--but even he can't ease his way past the fact she can't fly.How can a Chosen possess a woman who hasn't wings?Why the Daldron did not kill her five years ago, Livvy Sharp has yet to figure out. In this Realm, as a mere human, she is little more than a Lessor. A banished slave, either food or fated mate with a Chosen; neither is better than the other, neither is survivable.Unfortunately, her interest had settled on only one Chosen Blue-Wing. She will gladly give herself to him, if only he asks. He won't kill her. No one can kill the Dragon's Vex, but he'll have to break the rules to survive this hell as a mated pair and she's not convinced he would dare.Livvy has nothing to lose and everything to gain...if only she can fly. Her biggest task is to convince Melagore she doesn't need to fly to mate.Caught up on the either side of midnight, passion and lust, devilment and greed battle for the ultimate prize of the Realm. That prize is possession of the soul.

Haley Dee Morgan thought to win the race from Sydney to Santiago. It would have been easy, the half-million dollar check hers, had she not shipwrecked her catamaran on an island not even on any map. Trapped, with no way off this Hell, her choices were dwindling to either dying or making the most of it until rescue. Surely, someone would be looking for her once they realized she was no longer racing.She never thought to find another on this island with her.Jaze McDonald was badly hurt. He would not be much help to her, but she was all the help he could get. Beaten by a lunatic, starved, he was in the same race for a half-million dollars, but neither were ready to tell the other the truth.Haley lied about her name. The Morgans weren't popular these days, thanks to her brother's reckless accident, and if Jaze chose to believe her lie, who was she to contradict? Once burnt, twice shy. Jaze wasn't all that truthful to Haley, either. He felt something for her, even with her being substantially younger than he was. He'd meant to control this lust, but destiny, and this island had other plans.If not for being stranded with no way off, she might never have captured his eye. She was light years behind him in life experience, and eons behind in what she wanted out of life. Young and foolish, she might get them killed.Could he trust her to help him escape this place? Better yet, should he trust her? He'd been burnt before by a worthy female. He wasn't certain he wanted the flames of Hell to touch him again.If only she'd told him the truth...Jaze wouldn't have felt his soul condemned.Bonus Novella included with this book.The Conscience Slopes of DesireAlyssum Deraline wanted one lousy weekend to forget her past. Rick died, and she had to go on living, as best she could. Her college finals were looming ahead, and to clear the mind for those, a weekend trip to a ski resort should have done the trick.That is, until the owner of the resort wiped her out on the first day, spraining her ankle, and ruining all her fun. Worse, he looked exactly like Rick.Trey Montana had enough problems running his resort. He did not need an injured guest, a woman he must wait hand and foot on until she leaves.Ally was stunning, he wouldn't deny that, but he wasn't ready to open up his heart again and fall off the stupid truck into a relationship. His wife's betrayal had been enough to sour his resolve toward making any emotional attachments to another. Still, there was something about Ally he couldn't quite deny; something he needed in his life.

Cheyanne Ribbons has her life in order. She has her freedom, her career, and she's thousands of miles away from home, where her family can't find her.Then how did a summons come to her in the form of blackmail? She is to return home, or find the dig site losing its funding, and her friend's careers in jeopardy. She never thought she'd be forced into marrying a man she doesn't know, just to save the family fortune. Four months of marriage for majority shares. How hard can that be? Cheyanne will marry him, but she won't let Mitch Lavede get into her soul, and once the four months are over, she's going back to Egypt, no questions asked.Mitch Lavede is a player of the worst kind...a rich player. He gets what he wants, whenever he wants it. What he wants is the Ribbons Corporation swallowed up by Lavede Enterprises. To gain millions, he must marry the youngest Ribbons heir. She is fiery; he'll give her that much. And, she has more spunk in her little finger than most women have in their whole body. She will be a ton of fun to tame...if only he was the man willing to tame her. Four months married to an heiress? Can he possibly survive the test?

It was only a game...getting out of everyone's control.Maxine is fully aware her little white lie will catch up to her. Divorced, two kids, a house she's losing to the bank, and an ex-husband who dares make her life miserable, she's at her wits end. She is more than convinced of this the moment weekly Chocolate Night with her friends turns into an all-out truth or dare, ending with an unimaginable game none could have foreseen. Slider's baseball outfielder, Shane Delaroy is a competitive player. Imagination, he does not lack. Stamina? No question there. He's as fit as a fiddle. But his game is Maxine. They aren't exactly a perfect match made in Heaven, but a damn good one when in the bedroom. Even when out of it, things seem to fit with her. Yet, if Maxine's not willing to come clean about their relationship then why should he? Besides, the sex is great It's what happens when that sex is found out, that they might not survive. An ecstasy of pleasures unimaginable and the consequences of when lies get out of control, Chocolate Night was never so sinful...or so deadly, until now.

Wyoming is untamable, a free spirit, a place where cattlemen rule and no one gets in their way. This land taints a man, it changes him; it's a place that can blacken the soul.Colonel Dutchester Whitefeather's soul blackened the day his blood sister was murdered. He never thought he would have to choose between revenge on those found 'not guilty', or keeping one of them alive. Now that he is stuck with the woman until he can find a way to get his cattle back, unharmed, perhaps revenge is not what the ancestors were telling him when on his vision quest. Perhaps he was meant to sustain her life just long enough to find the truth behind her lies.Catalina LeRue wants out of Wyoming. She has no desire to be one of six tagged because of a squaw's murder. Nor does she care to encounter Dutch. Unfortunately, life isn't always the way one wants it to be. Once tagged, there is no going back...for anyone.

Little was to survive on Abidoe. Eight weeks, no questions asked, the payout of a lifetime. How could Noel Belotto ignore such a request? ORZA wanted photographs of the island, the negatives exchanged for a million dollars. All she had to do was sign her name on the dotted line.Parker Chang never thought his work would come to this. Abidoe was not what ORZA asked him to do. There were monsters here, things no one would understand...monsters he created. Was it too late to reclaim his soul? Beg forgiveness from Abidoe?From the author of Dragon's Tongue, The Tempting Degrees of Celsius, and Melagore, comes a psychological thriller that will test your ideals against the selling of your soul.