LAURIE COMPETITION FINALIST !!

Subject: Single, soon-to-be-mother Susannah Hobson

Family History: Stepdaughter of Violet Vaughn, mother of the Extraordinary Five

Darkest Secret: Hiding her knowledge of Code Proteus. . .and holding on to her heart

WINNER, NATIONAL READERS CHOICE COMPETITION!!

It began as a gimmick to promote a radio show for lovers, but the spirited sparring between Jessie Fox and Tony Falcone soon had listeners demanding to know more of their steamy romance!

Jessie vowed it was impossible for this gorgeous younger man to want her with the fire she saw burning in his eyes, until the Falcon set a seductive trap his Fox couldn't escape ....

Saved by a stranger from a near fatal mugging, business mogul Logan Prince woke up in a strange bed - and found a reluctant angel with a siren's body bandaging his wounds! Touched by her compassion and lost in Carmen Sanchez's dark eyes and soft caress, Logan made a daring bargain with his look-alike rescurer, trading places with the cowboy drifter so that he might taste the lady's fire and learn her secrets.

Desperate to be cherished by a man who'd put her happiness first, Carmen melted in Logan's arms and surrendered her soul. But when he confessed his charade, she felt only anger at his betrayal...and the fear that she'd never fit into the world where he belonged. Could a man who had everything but someone to live for win the trust of a woman who gave him the only gift that mattered?

He was heart-stoppingly gorgeous, all temptation and trouble in a pair of jeans, but Merry Clare Thomas was stunned to wake up in Patrick Ryan's arms...and in his bed! She'd taken refuge in her rental cottage, never expecting the tenant to return that night - or that he'd look exactly like the handsome wanderer of a hundred years ago who'd been making steamy love to her in her dreams every night for a week!

Was it destiny or just coincidence that Pat called her his flame, his firebrand, just as her dream lover had? Overwhelmed by need, dazzled by passion, Merry repsponded with fierce pleasure to Pat's wildfre carresses, posessed by him in a magical enchantment that just couldn't be real. She was the missing part of him, fate's gift to his yearning spirit, but could Pat make Merry trust his love would never die?

RITA FINALIST !!

WINNER COLORADO RWA AWARD OF EXCELLENCE !!

Answering his neighbor's cries for help, Matthew Spencer found himself rescuing a sassy blue-eyed temptress who was sure to keep him up nights! Katie McDonald was shameless, a walking disaster who fell off ladders into his arms and awakened his hunger with the speed of a summer storm. Katie sensed his pain, longed to comfort him, but could the sparks between them conquer the shadows in his eyes?

Matthew made her feel too much, want more than she could have, and just for a while dare to dream of being loved, but Katie knew she was all wrong for a man with a child. Matthew needed nice and normal, not her kind of wild and reckless - no matter that she sizzled in his arms and he came alive just by holding her. Once he knew the sorrow that had stolen her hope, could he cherish his lady for all time?