This book is part of a miniseries called Rocky Mountain Heirs, and it involves a group of five or six cousins who are bound by a will to live in the small mining town of Clayton, Colorado, for one year’s time in order to receive $250,000 and 500 acres of Colorado land. It’s a strange plot device...
The moment her sister's body was discovered near Ian Carpenter's New Orleans mission, crusading journalist Gretchen Barker was torn between devastating grief and a desire for revenge. She mourned her sister's drug problems and the family trouble that had started them, but the minister's professio...
After recluse Molly McCreight was entrusted to care for single dad Ethan Hunter's infant daughter during an ice storm, her life did not return to normal. She was not ready to admit that the small family held the key to her future.
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She felt Lizzy’s watchful gaze upon her, certain her guilt showed though she’d done nothing wrong. Finally, the work complete, Charlotte stole upstairs to the blue room. She wrote to her mother, read Proverbs 31 three times as penance for her troubled heart, and she prayed...
Armed with compassion and casseroles, they came. Colleagues from the fire department. Church friends. Baseball players and their wives. The smell of freshly fried chicken, normally a favorite, overwhelmed him. He headed out the back door, across the yard to the play set he’d purchased for the thr...
By then Kade was ready for a fight. Itching for one. Something was way wrong in Davey’s world, and hard as he tried not to go there, Kade imagined the worst. After sharing kitchen duty with Sophie to prepare a decent breakfast for Davey—an event he’d found pleasantly distracting—they’d settled at...
He went through the motions, treated patients, responded to friends and employees, but inside he was shell-shocked.He still couldn’t understand what had happened that night. One minute, Cheyenne declared her love and the next she’d walked out. Other than a voice message on the office machine tend...
Cassidy could see the terrified, dirt-covered girl. Poor baby, she thought, and then with horror realized the child was her. Her pulse jackhammered. Somehow it had happened again. The earthquake had come back for her. She str...
Annie had enjoyed every minute of chasing fireflies and her children and Sloan around the yard. She hadn’t laughed that much in years. And Sloan was the boy she remembered minus the anger simmering beneath the surface. For that little while, he’d made her feel young and carefree and silly again. ...
Haley had gone downstairs to the gift shop, mostly to stretch her legs and see something besides the inside of a hospital room when her cell phone jangled. “Hi, Creed,” she’d said. “Want me to bring you a power bar?” “You should get back up here.” &...
After two impatient hours with the doctors and a miserable thirty minutes hashing over the details of Aleks’s contract, she’d insisted on coming to Nico’s room. “He sleeps most of the time,” Aleks had said, obviously trying to forestall her visit. She’d hitched her stubborn chin. “Then I will wat...
Reed paused in the doorway between the living room and kitchen to watch his houseguests. He’d just arrived home from a late shift, but wasn’t nearly as tired as he’d been of late. Probably because he didn’t need to worry so much about Amy. She was here in his house, safe and protected the way Ben...
He shouldn’t have. He should have cut and run for her sake, but he’d had no self-discipline yesterday afternoon. He wasn’t sure if that was a good thing or not, considering self-control had gotten him into the mess in Chicago. As an undercover agent—a narc—he’d played the part, done his job and l...
As usual, moving on should be easy. He perched his hands on his hips and surveyed the little apartment. Not much to pack. A few boxes. His clothes and personal effects. His computer and TV. A man couldn’t get along without his big TV. All of his belongings would fit in the...
He needed to pray. About Allison. About money. About his grandmother. And so he drove to the Double M where he spent a little time with Manny and Paulina before taking the Polaris out to the bull pasture. Beneath a leaden sky, a north wind coaxed le...