Someone Like You

Susannah standing in the kitchen, barefoot…Susannah riding up from the creek with her skirts hitched up and her long white legs gleaming…the musical sound of her laughter…the earthy color of her hair…the empty place in her bed at night…the empty place in his bed every night…

For Susannah Dowell, a life of self-imposed spinsterhood and hard work in the parched plains of West Texas cannot erase the pain of a shameful past. Then she meets Reed Garrett, a man also burdened by hurt. Tentatively, two lost souls dare to reach out, at first offering nothing more than simple human kindness, only to discover a reason to live and to believe in the power of love...

If My Love Could Hold You

She walks, she talks, she throws oatmeal.

Charlotte Augusta Butterworth might be all manners and starch on the surface, but Reed Walker knew that inside there was a woman of passion and fire. She saved this handsome stranger from the gallows. He couldn't just walk away, no matter how much she protested to the contrary. Reed wanted to give her back her life as she had given back his. He needed to show her there was more to living than hurt, mistrust, and disappointment. So he gave her his love. But he couldn't promise her his future....

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Escape Not My Love

“You are a cad, Culhane; the worst kind of pervert, a lecher, a throwback in time, a cannibalistic swine—and without a doubt you have the most swelled head of any man I have ever had the displeasure of meeting. Furthermore, I realize that I am at a terrible disadvantage. We are in the middle of this godforsaken desert, so I can’t very well order you out of my house and off my property. But I’m giving your fair warning. If you so much as touch me again, I will have your arrested for rape at the first sign of civilization we come across, and I will personally request that they hang you until those vulgar eyes of yours pop right out of your head.” “Goodness,” he said, smothering a chuckle. “I had best be watching my step from here on out.” “If you don’t want that personality of yours tied in more knots than a pig’s tail, you’d better,” she said.


A gently bred hellion with hair as black as sin and a face and body of pure heaven, Jennifer Baxter is a woman who knew her own mind and does as she pleased...until she runs into dangerous territory south of the border. Suddenly she's the captive of a commanding gunslinger sent by her wealthy father to bring her back home. Not about to take orders from any man, she fights the arrogant stranger, while struggling to resist his raw masculine virility and recklessly challenging his determination to vanquish her in every way. U.S. Deputy Marshal Jay Culhane has tracked down outlaw gangs and renegade indians, but he's never encountered a prisoner as infuriating as the beautiful schoolteacher. From the first time he sees her, he swears to take her to his bed, claim her innocence, and bring her to a woman's fulfillment. But first he must tame her. From the shimmering desert to a magnificent Texas ranch to the genteel drawing rooms of Savannah, he would pursue her relentlessly, ruled by a fierce passion for a woman who dared him to believe in the redeeming power of love.

ESCAPE NOT MY LOVE
Reissue Edition, out of print
Mass Market Paperback
August 1997
Gold Medal
ISBN: 0449150577

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A Time for Roses

Make her fall in love with me, he thought. Perfect! Absolutely perfect, he said to himself with a proud swelling of his chest. Luring her into loving me will be as easy as drinking tea. After all, it was a well-proven fact that he, Hellfire Haverleigh, was a man women fell in love with quite naturally. Of course there would be no marriage and by the time the unsuspecting Natasha discovered his duplicity, she would be on her way to Russia. Alone.

 

He lies. He cheats. He is a scoundrel of the first water. He is Regency England's most notorious rake who stoops to the depths of dishonor when he seduces his brother's sweetheart. And then he falls in love with her. "Set in England and Russia, A Time for Roses has a storyline you haven't read before," says Elaine. "I always wanted to write a 'Heathcliff' story, one with a suffering hero, and this is it."

A TIME FOR ROSES
Mass Market Paperback
Out of Print
January 1995
Fawcett Books
ISBN: 0449148629

My Enemy, My Love

Clint turned in his sleep and the blanket rode dangerously low...she slowly lifted the edge of the blanket and looked...

A wild southern angel, the daredevil of Shelby County. No fine Southern gentleman can tame beautiful Mourning Howard until a dangerously handsome stranger rides into her life and takes her breath away with a deep burning kiss that defied her to sacrifice a girl's innocence for a woman's desire.

A devilish Texas Rogue, Clint Kincaid knows what he wants from a womanand it doesn't include love or marriage. But his obligations are clear. Escort his exquisite stepsister across the wild frontier. Defy the elements to protect her from danger and his own fiery instincts. Protect her from the passions that flared between them...

As the nation teeters on the brink of civil war, Mourning and Clint ride from an elegant Memphis plantation to a magnificent Texas ranch, and onward to the irresistible splendor of the Sierra Nevadas in hot pursuit of a tangled destiny caught between teasing and torment, innocence and desire.

MY ENEMY, MY LOVE
Paperback Reissue Edition
Out of Print
March 1991
Dell Pubishing
ISBN: 0440201985

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