Jo Barrett

Fighting for her life, and the life of her client, Amelia Tucker, personal bodyguard, stumbles into an enchanted fountain and straight into the 16th century Scottish highlands. Kept under lock and key for her own good by a handsome highland warrior, Amelia - or Tuck as she prefers to be called - knows she has to find her way back to the 21st century to save her client. Too bad she'll leave her heart in the past when she goes ...

Highlander's Challenge

Adam Sutherland thought he knew his parents. They were like any other couple who were head-over-heels in love with each other. It was sickening to witness, to be honest, but he never dreamed that their devotion to one another began in the sixteenth-century in the Highlands of Scotland. And more importantly, he never thought he'd see for himself just how a trip into the past could profoundly alter his future.

Playboy's Challenge

When aspiring author Claire St John heads back to Texas after divorcing her cheating husband, all she wants to do is hide away. A good day to her sounds like one where she can lie on the sofa watching day-time TV and eating the biggest tub of ice-cream she can find. Then, standing in the ladies' room of a bar in Mexico, she gets some advice that sets her right back on track. With a gorgeous new boyfriend and a new book to write, it seems like Claire's now got everything to play for. Until, that is, she makes an ill-timed confession of her own while in the queue for the women's bathroom - and is overheard. Suddenly it looks like she might be right back where she started...

The Men's Guide to the Women's Bathroom

The world rarely grants anyone a second chance, but that is what Emily Mayfield receives when she walks through a mysterious door at the end of one life, over far too soon, to be cast into a new one. Only problem is, the woman staring back at her from the mirror is not Emily Mayfield. Viscount Westmore knows his wife to be a conniving witch who lives to humiliate him, but from the moment she awakes from her illness, her actions has him doubting everything, even his own heart.

Doorway To His Heart

(not a love story)

This is how it happened

Letters from home lift John Caldwell's spirits during his tour of duty in Iraq. Phoebe Honeycutt, otherwise known as Aunt Bee to all the kids in the neighborhood, fills an empty place in his life through her letters and cookie care packages after the death of his grandmother. But what John doesn't realize is that Phoebe isn't the doddering old lady he believes her to be. And when they come face to face at last, her delicious cookies aren't the only things he wants to sample.

Letters From Home

Ian Southernland travels back through the enchanted portal that brought Amelia to the 16th century Scottish highlands to retrieve Amelia's friend and doctor Jenny Maxwell from the 21st century to help with the birth of Colin and Amelia's baby.

Rogue's Challenge

Revenge is sweet... especially when it comes in the form of brownies laced with rat poison. Maddy didn't actually want to kill her ex-fiancé, Carlton, she just wanted to scare him. Carlton took her heart, her career, her ideas, so it's only fair that she should take some sort of revenge. After ruling out death by chocolate brownie, cyanide-infused vodka and voodoo, Maddy decides to hit the caddish Carlton where it'll really hurt - his ego. But hiring a hit man to do it probably wasn't the best idea. Things are about to get dead serious...

(not a Love Story)

This is how it Happened

A few Texas society gals are hiding sordid pasts as strippers, pole dancers, call girls, Democrats . . . But socialite Kathleen Connor King's secret is far, far worse. The flamboyant oil heiress, philanthropist, shopaholic, and hostess of the city's most prestigious annual gala, Kathleen King has a skeleton in her closet that, if revealed, will obliterate her good name and cherished social standing: She's broke! Her longtime beau, Dylan Grant, is similarly busted, ever since his now-deceased father lost the last of the family's oil properties to A-List wannabe Bo Harlan in a poker game. So Kat and Dylan have a plan, and with the help of a small cadre of loyal friends and allies, they're ready to resort to outrageous tactics—not all of them legal—to keep up appearances, win back the lost Grant oil money, elude a psycho Vegas mobster...and solidify their lofty positions among the crème de la crème. From the acclaimed author of This Is How It Happened (Not a Love Story) and The Men's Guide to the Women's Bathroom comes a hilarious tale of love and deception in the world of the Texas oil uppercrust.

A Novel

Don't Let It Be True

Coming face to face with her first teenage crush, Bobbi McBride is more than just a little tongue-tied. Her dream prince is out cold and bleeding all over her cabin floor. But how did he get there, and more importantly, did he have news about her missing brother? Travis Reid, FBI agent, struggles to fulfill his promise to his friend and partner, Jason McBride. He must protect Jase's sister, Bobbi, whether she likes it or not, and give her the news of Jason's death. But he is totally unprepared for the temptingly beautiful woman who lays siege to the walls around his heart. She's no longer the little girl in pigtails and braces, but he knows all too well how deadly a distraction like love can be and refuses to make that mistake again.

Promises

Selena had a vast number of gentleman callers, as she was considered quite beautiful--and her father's wealth was an additional inducement for such attention, but she found it all rather tiresome. She was merely a woman, after all, not some paragon of perfection. And yet upon meeting Dr. Horace Kensington, a man stubbornly tight-lipped in regards to his work, she embarks on a mission to not only discover the truth about her father's illness , but to entice the handsome doctor himself.

Merely a Woman

Lord William Ashenhurst is cursed to walk the earth, forced to observe and never know the touch of a living being, until he meets Isabel Derrington. They dare to love, bridging the gap between this world and the next.

Chaste Kiss

The sights and sounds of the twenty-first century teased and tantalized Erin MacLean's senses, but it was nothing compared to the torment one slight female brought to his sorry self. His desire had been to see the wonders of the future, if only for one brief moment in time. He never bargained on having to choose between a woman with eyes the verra shade of a field of heather blanketing the Highlands, and his duty to become the next laird of the clan MacLean in seventeenth century Scotland.

Scotsman's Challenge

Ruth Moore has lost more than her job, her boyfriend, and her ability to walk. She's lost her desire to paint, until she spies Mick Thomas. His sculptured body compels her to recreate him on canvas, but can she pick up a paintbrush again without losing her heart? Mick Thomas is running from a past he is forced to face when he meets the dark haired sprite in the wheelchair. The wheelchair he put her in. He can only hope that Ruth will somehow find it in her heart to forgive him and allow him to love her as he's never loved before.

A Brush With Love

Die Waffen einer Frau Er hat gelogen. Er hat sie betrogen. Madeline widmete ihrem Verlobten Carlton vier Jahre ihres Lebens. Im Gegenzug erhielt sie Romantik, Blumen und den besten Sex, den sie je hatte. Doch dann nimmt er ihr den Job und verlässt sie, und das per E-Mail! Stil ist etwas anderes. Die sonst so sanftmütige Maddy hat nun eine Mission. Sie wird ihrem Ex zeigen, wer besser ist in dem beliebten Spiel „Verliebt, Verlobt, Vergeltung“. Eine Frau auf einer Mission: scharfsinnig und komisch.

Roman

Verliebt, Verlobt, Vergeltung

Patience was not one of Belle Gregory's virtues. So when she finds herself lying flat on her back in the sand with a tone male body on top of her, she curses her loss of sight. But the doctor's say she will see again, a fact that has Adam Parker very worried. He has no choice but to live with the damage done to his face by a roadside bomb more than a year ago, but can Belle? Or will she see only the scars and not what's in his heart'

Through Your Eyes

After two years of walking around in a fog, thanks to his ex-girlfriend, Jackson Chase relishes the feeling of being alive again. He just hopes his beautiful new neighbor, Clare Hampton, doesn't decide to shoot him instead of kiss him.

Midnight Snow

Joanna Spencer, a single working mother, finally achieves her career aspirations only to find her new position far more than she bargained for. Her new boss is none other than the arrogant, womanizing playboy who gave her the most tantalizing kiss she had ever received. Joanna's vow not to let another man into her life after the loss of her husband five years before is put to the test by her boss who is determined to win her heart.

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