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“Ms. Shepherd’s stories just get better with every book she writes, I have truly loved every one of them, they are moving, emotional and so very sensual and heart-warming and this one is off the charts fantastic.” —Goodreads on Best Man and the Runaway Bride “The story is incredibly...

SOMETHING STRANGE WAS GOING ON IN SMYTHESHIRE…. Posing as Gillian Hudson's handyman was just a ploy Taggart Devereux had devised to bring them together. For he was having "visions" of Gillian in danger. And Taggart knew he was the only one who could protect her. When he whisked her...

A long-ago romance gone wrong had convinced florist Lora Gifford to give up on the maddening male species. And yet, her well-meaning-but downright annoying-mother and grandmother insisted on setting her up with every bachelor in town, be he barber, old beau…or barely out of his teens! So in order...

VALENTINE BRIDES ALWAYS PLANNING A WEDDING, BUT NEVER HER OWN For jilted bride Elinor Bosley, romance was strictly business. Her days were spent running the Lakeside Wedding Chapel, marrying impulsive strangers in quickie ceremonies. But Elinor had sworn off "happily ever after"...

When a thoroughly “nice” girl is clever as well, let her less strongly armed sisters beware. Phyllis Gordon was completely honest and very intelligent. Terry McLean was her first and only lover, and she knew his declarations were sincere. But Phyllis cared too much for him to marry him...

At East Virginia University in 1969, Bishou Howard is a female Yankee graduate student in a Southern man’s academic world. It is a rough life, but no rougher than living at home. Her parents are ill, and she and her twin brother Bat (Jean-Baptiste Howard, a retired Vietnam vet) are raising their...

Just knocking at the door of the luxurious house of esteemed Italian surgeon Paolo Romano, Jenna Freeman knows she’s out of her depth. But his beautiful toddler, Ella, needs a nanny, and nurse Jenna desperately needs the job-no matter how dangerously handsome and darkly brooding the single father...

Rowan wanted it all: a man, a marriage and her own company! But her transatlantic romance with Bostonian businessman Arden Harveson had been doomed from the start. Compromise hadn't been in either of their vocabularies and they had parted bitterly. Now Rowan was back in the States, and, while...

Carter Coben is having some serious communication problems lately. First he mouthed off to a project manager at work and got fired, now his girlfriend's dumped him and trashed his cell phone. About the only place he hasn't got his wires crossed these days is at the anonymous texting app, Justchat.com....

Her Platform Campaign fund-raiser Lisa Meyer has worked hard to be her own boss and will let nothing-especially romance-interfere with her success. Then fate places sexy Mark Smith back in her path and sparks begin to fly. But if she lets herself fall for Mark, will she lose all she's worked...

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Defend me in court or else, accused racketeer Adam Steele orders. The last thing defense attorney Bryce Gannon wants to do is get another criminal acquitted. And it does look like it might be the last thing he does. Somebody has already tried to kill him. Now the Feds tell him there’s a traitor...

Jane O’Hara has decided to take a sabbatical from her University teaching job in order to follow her bliss and work on a horse farm. Nora Hannon hires the self-effacing Jane instantly, hoping to match her up with her handsome, successful, but emotionally arrested son. Nora loves Mark, but she wants...

Uncovering secrets and exposing truth are all in a day’s work for private investigator Sterling Aegar. But when her latest case threatens to reveal her own buried feelings for an old love, Sterling runs for cover. A body in the bathtub and pleas from a jilted wife to find her wayward husband...