Illinois Authors

Dell Pub., New York, N.Y. : ©1996.

She was asleep when the stranger's hand clamped down hard across her mouth. Melora Deane struggled wildly, but she was no match for the kidnapper who dragged her away from her beloved ranch into Wyoming wilderness on the eve of her wedding. He said his name was Cal. He had a score to settle with Wyatt Holden her wealthy, powerful fiance, and she was the bait.

Dell Pub., New York : 1999.

Maura Reed was all alone in her Montana hotel, curled up in her robe and slippers, when the blizzard hit. It was cold, quiet, and lonely until a rugged gunslinger blew in from the storm demanding shelter. Just for this stormy night Maura wanted someone, something. Recklessly, she abandoned herself in his arms, knowing he would be gone by morning. The last thing she ever expected was the need that drove her into the wilderness to find the stranger who haunted her dreams. He was the fastest gun in the West, a man who feared nothing until he met the woman who touched his heart. Quinn Lassiter didn't even recognize Maura when she cornered him in a distant saloon months later. Never in his wildest dreams did he see himself married until he said the words that made her his wife. He was determined to do the right thing by the woman he'd wronged, but he'd never reckoned on falling in love with her.

Dell Pub., New York, N.Y. : ©1993.

Forced to flee London in terror, street orphan Camilla Brent finds herself under the protection of the magnetically handsome Philip Audley, Earl of Wescott, a man who, to Camilla's dismay, is about to wed London's reigning beauty.

Dell Pub., New York, N.Y. : ©1998.

Emma Malloy returns to her Montana hometown a beautiful and well-educated lady, but despite her father's ongoing feud with the Garrettsons, Emma falls in love with Tucker Garrettson.

Dell, New York : ©2004.

Josy Warner has to get out of town, fast. A favor for a friend has plunged her into deadly danger and sent the topflight fashion designer fleeing New York to a place where no one knows her name. The tiny Wyoming town of Thunder Creek may be more than the answer to a prayer. It could hold the key to her past and the only family she has left in the world. The last thing she expects is to fall for a rugged man of the land, a handsome widowed sheriff who calls to the wild places in her own heart.

Dell, New York : 2001.

Determined to build a new life for herself and to help her outlaw relatives go straight, Emily Spoon dreams of setting up her own dressmaking business in the town of Forlorn Valley, but her plans are turned upside down by handsome sheriff Clint Barclay, a lawman out to put the notorious Spoon gang behind bars.

A Dell Book, New York, NY : 2003.

Years after leaving Thunder Creek and the pain of her past behind, Katy Templeton returns to her hometown and to Jackson Brent, the tough cowboy whom Katy blames for her brother's death, but when she begins to search for the truth about that fateful incident, she discovers that someone is willing to kill to keep her from getting the answers she needs.