He has spent an eternity trying to protect and provide for the love of his life. Each time he has failed...miserably. Now fate has given them another chance. Will Alec Edwards and Dani Morgan learn from the mistakes of their past or repeat them all over again? Winner for Best Romance - Independent Publishers AwardWinner - 2002 Dream Realm Award - Speculative Fiction - Romance3d Place - Paranormal - 2003 Laurel Wreath AwardFinalist for Best Paranormal - Golden Quill AwardSilver Chalice Award Nominee (Best Fantasy and Best Overall Paranormal)4th Annual Orange Rose Award Finalist
On the night of the autumnal equinox, Raina Cotterell uncovers a corridor while searching for the tomb of an ancient Maya ruler. She and her colleagues step from 1970 to 750 and into a ceremony to select a bride for the Maya prince, Al-Mon. The Maya believe she is the chosen bride sent as a gift from the gods.To protect one of her colleagues, Raina agrees to wed Al-Mon. In the months which follow she falls in love with her prince, and finally tells him why she cannot stay. The pain of her revelation haunts Al-Mon, for he does not wish to live in a world without her. He decides his only solution is to replace his look-alike, Burke O'Neill, in the future. He must find a way to convince Burke to stay and to avoid another more deadly foe who will do anything to keep the men from switching places.WINNER - 2005 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS AWARD (IPPY) - BEST ROMANCE3RD PLACE - 2001 LAUREL WREATH AWARD
Former Texas Ranger Paul Harrington is now a preacher trying to amend his former errant ways. It's a constant battle to keep his former self from surfacing. He fears that giving into passion will open the door to the man he used to be. The role of traditional wife isn't something that appeals to Belle Marshall. As the town healer and manager of the boarding house, independence is hers. A husband will only get in the way. The townsfolk have other ideas, and when they form a committee to find Belle a husband, well, that's something Paul just won't have. 1ST PLACE - HISTORICAL/REGENCY CATEGORY - TEXAS GOLD CONTEST
Andor never believes any woman could grab his heart much less enflame it, until an Irish lass named Gillian comes into his life. Gillian will do all she can to save the child she carries from harm even if that means marrying the leader of the Northmen who ransacked her village and took her captive. Little does she realize that her heart will soon be captive. But happily ever after seems never to be when cultures and religions clash, and others want the bride and groom for themselves. Those who will stop at nothing to achieve their goals...not even murder. 2002 National Readers Choice Finalist2001-2001 Golden Quill Finalist2002 EPPIE Finalist
Out of the ashes of war, love blooms in three separate stories: A SIMPLE CHOICE: The dead lay on a battlefield near Ellen Bidwell's Southern home. She makes a simple choice to notify the families on both sides their men are gone. Union Captain McNamara happens upon her. His choice is simple too--help her, never realizing the building attraction he feels is for naught when she finds her fiance a prisoner in his hospital. Now there is another choice--help them escape or turn them both in? MY ONLY WISH: Set during World War II, their only wish is to be together at Christmas. With a baby on the way, there is little else they can afford. However, Tom is shot down behind enemy lines. When Gwen goes to the church to pray for his safe return, she is trapped in the basement after the place is bombed. Another unique couple help them return to each other's arms, a couple whose own Christmas wish was never granted. THE FAVOR: Combat reporter Toni is pulled from assignment in Vietnam to go to her wounded husband's bedside. His legs were amputated after a mine explosion. He has a favor to ask of her--go back to Vietnam and retrieve his mistress and their two children. Toni is furious with this betrayal. She must weigh her hurt over her conscience. Helping her on her mission is her friend, Sam, a Marine, who will do anything Toni asks even at the risk of life and limb.
Fate lands Rebecca Sanderson in Jonathan Dillon's hands. She's just the bait he needs to retrieve his kidnapped sister from Rebecca's uncle, the good Reverend Bowles. But love soon foils his plans and now Jonathan must find a way to save both women...before Rebecca discovers his initial intent wasn't romance, but to use her as bartered goods.
Can two people cast aside fifteen years of feuding to reach for the love that has been lurking on the sidelines all those years? That's what Ben Slade and Ariel Dillon try to discover when a chance event puts them in each other's arms--and in the path of a murderer.
Nate Blackburn is determined to keep his mother's inheritance in the rightful hands of his mother, even if that means he has to marry the psychic he thinks is bilking her of her fortune. Libby Claiborne grasps at the chance for marriage and the opportunity to save her family from the hell her step-brother Clayton created. Together Nate and Libby discover they have much more in common than they realized -- a love that cannot be denied and a mystical ability that has the power to destroy them both. A power one embraces and the other refuses to accept.2d Place - 2002 PRISM Award3d Place - 2002 Laurel Wreath Award3d Place - 2002 ERA Awards3rd Annual Orange Rose Finalist
Jake Tanner goes to collect on a debt and comes back with a bride he doesn't want and can't keep his hands off of. Grace Marshall is determined to honor her marriage vows, but one step forward with Jake always leads to two steps back. When Jake's past shows up on the doorstep in the form of a wife he thought was dead, Grace has had enough. Now Jake has to figure out how to keep the wife he wants and shed himself of the wife he doesn't want. And one of those wives wants him dead. FIRST PLACE - 2002 ERA AWARDS - HISTORICAL ROMANCETHIRD PLACE - 2002 LAUREL WREATH AWARD - HISTORICAL ROMANCEFINALIST - 2002 EPPIE AWARDS
Missing Things introduces the reader to an inspiring cast of six different characters who suddenly discover that their treasured belongings have gone missing. Ultimately, we get to see how they cleverly adapt and quickly learn that all material things are replaceable. "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" is symbolically represented by the very first character, a lemonade-sipping moose.The bold character art was created using paper cut-outs, a collage style made famous by Matisse who called it "drawing with scissors".This book is a wonderful teaching tool for those who have difficulty coping when their things mysteriously go missing.
The Thackeray Edition proudly announces two additions to its collection: Catherine and The Luck of Barry Lyndon. The Thackeray Edition is the first full-scale scholarly edition of William Makepeace Thackeray's works to appear in over seventy years, and the only one ever to be based on an examination of manuscripts and relevant printed texts. It is also a concrete attempt to put into practice a theory of scholarly editing that gives new insight into Thackeray's own compositional process.Written in 1839-40 for Fraser's Magazine, Catherine was Thackeray's first novel. Although originally intended as a spoof of the 1830s Newgate school of criminal romance, it has intrinsic merit of its own for its cynical narrator and roguish heroine, both of whom harbinger similar creations in Vanity Fair eight years later.
Catherine Currie began writing her diary at Ballan in 1873. Soon afterwards, she left with her husband and young children to take up a selection deep in the forests of west Gippsland. Catherine's life was one of unrelenting daily work, which she recorded faithfully in the diary. As the years wore on and her early pioneering optimism turned to disillusionment and sometimes despair, it also became a private confessional.This beautifully written and engrossing work uses parallel narratives to tell Catherine's story. Five skilfully written chapters catch the cadences of Catherine's diary, interweaving direct quotes with discreet comment and explanation. Between these chapters runs a twentieth century voice, offering thoughtful and lucid reflections on themes such as 'madness' and 'landscape', and illuminating Catherine's life for modern readers through the ideas of historians and theorists such as Michel Foucault and Paul Carter. Catherine is first and foremost a simple and moving story, bringing the reader into direct, vivid and personal contact with Catherine Currie. More subtly, it allows readers to glimpse those fine lines which separate life and text, chance and necessity, sanity and madness. A superb and moving study in both autobiography and biography, Catherine will give great pleasure to those many readers who delight in the subtlety of plain English.
Follows the life of a girl named Catherine. She is lucky to be in love with her best friend. She has a great family and overall a great life but Catherine discovers a dark secret from her family's past. Go on the journey as she uncovers the truth, a journey of life, love, tragedy and hope.
Some secrets are not meant to be sharedCatherine Bennet knows this better than anyone and the one she carries will remain hidden forever. This means she'll never marry and it never bothered her before she met Lord George. He's determined to breach the walls of defense so carefully constructed around her heart and she's just as determined to stay the course. Some secrets cannot be sharedAn agent for the Crown, Lord George Kerr, concealed his espionage activities beneath a blanket of gossip, drink and loose women. Though forced to resume a more mundane lifestyle among London's finest, he covertly seeks a traitor to England. All trails seem to converge around Miss Catherine Bennet, a reticent country miss, who unwittingly has captured his heart. Some secrets are beyond your controlWith the very lives of England's vast network of spies working undercover in Bonaparte's France hanging in the balance, Catherine is forced to face her worst nightmare. Her secret laid bare, can George love her enough to overcome what he learns?
