Toni V. Sweeney
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Rosarita was a sleepy little Texas border town until Lucas Brennan gunned down saloon owner Race Jago one morning. Because he refuses to give a motive or defend himself, the judge has no choice but to find him guilty of murder. While Brennan awaits execution, Kip Wakefield tries to discover a motive for the killing and finally convinces the prisoner to tell why he shot Jago in cold blood. In the last hours before his sentence is carried out, Brennan...
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SOMETIMES, LIFE IS COMPLETELY UNFAIR Spoiled teenager Jenny Halpen's parents were against her going on a cruise, but her doting uncle didn't see it that way. He thought it a fine graduation gift for his favorite (and only) niece. Unfortunately, before Jenny has a chance to enjoy the voyage, the Cassandra collides with a meteor shower, and her escape pod is separated from the others. Landing on an uninhabited world might not be so bad if Jenny's pod-mates...
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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...
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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...
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Tammy Wilde came to Ireland seeking escape…from memories of the accident ending her career, her abandonment by an unfaithful husband, and a series of haunting dreams…only to fall in love with a man sharing her unfaithful ex's name. Kevin Padraic Shea is the opposite of that other Kevin. Understanding and gentle, he helps Tammy forget her pain as he reveals the fascination of the Irish countryside. When he tells her the legend of the ghost haunting...
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The want ad read:NANNY WANTEDMust have desire for excitement, adventure, danger When Miranda Wilson is hired to care for Dominic Andrus' triplets, she has no idea she's about to have the adventure of a lifetime. At first, it's like the plot of a Gothic novel: young governess, mysterious employer, three motherless children, but there the resemblance ends, for Dominic Andrus is an interplanetary criminal, hiding his children on Earth to prevent their...
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Colin McCoy wants to imitate his older brother-but the wrong one. His father demands he return home after finishing university at Cambridge, to live down his bad brother's sins. When he falls head over heels in love with the daughter of his father's boss, he is surprised at the older generation's approval. Lady Fiona Cleary discovers her carefully controlled passion can be allowed freedom in her marriage to Colin, and their son is born just as the...
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To walk the shadow trail means to lead a life of pain and sorrow, to be alone forever.Many men came to America to escape their old lives. Baron Karl Augustus Dietrich Wilhelm von Brandt was no different, though he fled his father's crimes and not his own.Easily swindled into buying a Nebraska ranch that's little more than a sand dune, the European tenderfoot is befriended by half-Pawnee Johnny Moon, a ne'er-do-well usually one step ahead of the marshal....
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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...
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Xander Taluti is dead, and his brother Zane has called a halt to the feud with the Andruses.
As the two clans attempt to return to peacetime, it appears happily ever after is in store for everyone. Kit openly declares his love for Miranda; Niki and Ardala prepare for their long-wished-for wedding; and other secret romances are now revealed.
Nevertheless, Dominic's plans to transform his family into law-abiding citizens are thwarted when the Gataen...
12) Evil Lives After
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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...