Toni V Sweeney

Padraig is the black sheep of the McCoy clan. Until now, his father's money has always bought him out of scrapes...but at last Padraig goes too far and finds himself a remittance man, paid by his father to leave home and never come back. Boarding a ship to America, the ne'er-do-well doesn't stop traveling until he comes to Nebraska's Great Plains. Finding a rancher willing to take a chance on hiring a greenhorn who knows nothing about cattle, Padraig sets out to become a cowboy, and that's when Fate deals Padraig McCoy a different set of cards. On a trail drive to Sedalia, the young wastrel's life is changed forever...

Grace McAllister hasn't heard from her father in twenty years. When she receives word that he has died and she's expected to be present for the reading of his will, she's inclined to ignore it. Eventually, curiosity sends her back to McAllister, Georgia. She's in for more than the culture shock of a small Southern town, however, for her father's will not only leaves her nothing but also denies his paternity. Shocked and humiliated, Graces turns to the least likely person for help. Mayfield Donovan was the bully of her childhood years. As an adult he gladly joins Grace in her search for her real father. As they question her mother's friends, Grace and May yield to their mutual attraction. The facts they uncover could destroy their love when they find a secret so closely guarded not even the town of McAllister-where everyone knows everybody's business-knows it exists.

Believing what he does in private is no one's business but his own, Donal McCoy lives the secret life of a rake while his public appearance remains impeccable. Unfortunately, his father upsets his son's well-hidden exploits when he orders Donal to find a bride and provide a grandchild to carry on the family name. The last thing Donal wants is a wife. Marriage will ruin his fun altogether. Reluctantly carrying out his father's wishes, he soon discovers his private misbehavior may have a devastating effect on his future plans, when Love-and a conniving former mistress-get in the way...

Returning home after a career-ending divorce, ex-journalist Dylan Roth joins his father in the family construction business. When he's assigned to help with the renovation of the old Mercier farmhouse, the last thing he expects is to fall for its owner, Letty Mercier, employee of the TV show Dream Homes, Unlimited, which is filming the renovation. When Dylan and Letty discover their family histories are intertwined, his reporter instincts kick in and soon the two are investigating an incident involving both families a century earlier. The secret they discover could tear them apart, if it doesn't kill them first.

The Aegysians and the Beast Men have been at war for generations until Aram, brother of the Beast King, is captured. Helped to escape by the enemy king's daughter, Senset, Aram's praise of her prompts the Beast Men's leader to seek peace with his enemy. Michael of Habiru is under a curse from God that can be broken only by someone with unselfish love. Believing Senset is that person, he asks for her hand in marriage as part of the peace treaty. Though Senset has doubts, she agrees because it will bring peace for their kingdoms. Can two people making decisions for the wrong reasons bring about change for both their lives and for the future of their kingdoms forever?

Hired by Lady Eleanor Woods to teach her brother sign language, Anna Leighton is startled to discover her pupil isn't a child, as she expected, but a young man approximately her own age. David Woods, 27th Baron Mayfield, has been deaf since the age of five. Now approaching his majority, he faces a competency hearing filed by a greedy cousin wanting his inheritance. The baron is a quick study, but unfortunately some of the things he wants to learn aren't on the usual curriculum. Even worse, Anna finds herself responding to his inexperienced advances. Is she betraying the trust of a na ve student placed in her care, or is David more knowledgeable than even his sister suspects?

When Lisa Chambers awakes in Temple General Hospital, she's injured, widowed, and pregnant and her nightmares are just beginning. Frightening dreams of her dead husband, her baby, and grotesque creatures following a man with burning eyes spiral into wide-awake scenes even more sinister. Daniel Walker is Lisa's surgeon, a part-Native American whose people believed in a monstrous creature living in the waters off the Georgia coast. Drexl Von Dorff is the wealthy recluse who pulled her from the burning car, a man living on land once owned by Daniel's ancestors. They're bitter enemies and don't care who knows it. The two men are paying the new widow too much attention. Each wants her for himself, but the worse fact is...Lisa knows she shouldn't but she can't seem to stop herself from being interested in both...