HER DREAM COME TRUE...?Tyler Forrest had everything he needed--his son and the wide-open beauty of the Colorado mountains. He didn't want a big house, a lot of money ...or a bride.But when sexy, outspoken Anna Passanante showed up on his doorstep, Tyler's long-celibate past gave way to a weekend ...
Her shoulders were painfully thin under the jacket. Her stomach bowed out in an unmistakable shape she tried to hide, a shape all wrong on a fifteen-year-old. The long hair hadn’t been washed in a few days, and Robert could tell she was wearing the same makeup she’d set out with. Whatever belongi...
Not that night, or the next, or the next Not real sleep anyway. Sometimes exhaustion simply kicked in and he fell into a state of virtually comatose oblivion for an hour, or if he was very lucky, two. If the cards were in his favor, he might catch a couple of those short naps in a twenty-four-hou...
As usual. This afternoon, it was for a typical reason. She’d been unable to find the boys’ gis, which turned out to be exactly where she’d put them—folded in a neat stack on the dryer. It was the towels folded on top of them that had thrown her off. Now she checked her wat...
Supposedly cursed by a priest, to bring death to anyone who wishes to use it for greed.—Legends and Lore of Famous StonesI spent a solid 90 minutes with the two older women, feeling the tensions of work, life, everything just drain away. The coffee was bland, the cakes a little dry, but it was th...
“I’m sure I can find my way,” Kyra said. “It’s only a block.” The fan lines around his eyes crinkled. How was it even possible this man had never married? “I insist.” She nodded. They stepped into the night, quiet and still, with a moon shining now through the clouds. The streets were wet, reflec...
The unfinished kiss was a siren that stretched between them wantonly, and James tried to shake it off. But he felt heat in the oval hollow between their clasped palms, and stroked the delicate skin of her wrist with his thumb. She looked up at him, her eyes both trusting and afraid. He raised her...
Then Desi, her friend Helene, the Ute woman, and Juliet were finally having breakfast at the Red Buffalo, a diner on Black Diamond Boulevard. It was a busy morning. Several times, people stopped by the table to ask about Desi’s bandaged head, and the trouble that had caused it. Others gave a quic...
When his niece stirred, he played her a soft lullaby, singing softly as he strummed the gentle chords. She was soothed into sleep. He set the guitar aside and stared out the window, watching dark fall and the wind whip into a fierceness that would bring winter with it. Leaves and dirt spun into w...