Virginia Kantra

He was as impressive in person as he was to read about in the papers. Simon Ford exuded his trademark power and intelligence…despite having amnesia. For small-town police officer Laura Baker, there were countless reasons to find Simon's attacker, but one that landed her off the case: Her father was the prime suspect.But Simon wanted her help, and Laura suspected that Simon always got what he wanted. Despite herself, she agreed to keep his memory loss a secret and to fake intimacy to explain...

Cynical reporter Joe Reilly didn't believe in angels–human or the other kind. But when he was assigned to write an article on nurse Nell Dolan, the «Angel of Ark Street,» he decided to get up close and personal.Trouble was, Nell's soft heart was hidden behind steel armor that kept him away. Suddenly his investigative instincts sprang to life. Who was Nell? And what was she hiding?Nell tried to convince the sexy in-your-face reporter that the clinic needed publicity and she didn't....

Jack Dalton was out of the business of saving lives – until his expertise was needed to safeguard Princess Christina Sebastiani of Montebello from dangerous kidnappers. Holed up together day in and day out in a Montana hideaway, the brooding bodyguard and the scholarly virgin battled flaring tempers – and smoldering passions.Yet, despite their friction, Christina clearly ached for much more than Jack's fierce protection, and she beckoned him irresistibly close whenever she gazed up at him...

LEAVING THE LOSERS IN YOUR LIFEThat was Nicole Reed's goal. And then he opened the door. Long, lean, gorgeous and definitely rough around the edges, Mark DeLucca was everything Nicole longed for–and everything she'd come to Eden to avoid.Then she started hearing the rumors about Mark. And stumbled across his secret. Seems that Mark had just inherited a son he'd never known about. Now the ex-military man was fumbling with being a daddy and turning to Nicole for help both day and...

The little house by the lake was the perfect summer hideaway. At least that was what Faye Harper thought–until a dark, mysterious stranger appeared at her door and turned her peaceful world upside down.Detective Aleksy Denko was compelling enough to have stepped out of her most intimate dreams. But what he wanted from her was beyond anything this prim-and-proper schoolteacher could ever have dreamed!He asked her to pretend they were lovers, so that he could set a trap for a brutal killer. But...

Words to live by for Jarek Denko, a man looking to forget his past and find his future in Eden. He had a department to run, a daughter to raise and an investigation to solve. A relationship with any woman would be a distraction, but one with reporter Tess DeLucca – the sister of one of his prime suspects – could be his undoing. Getting up close and personal with Eden's new chief of police was part of her job.So was remaining dispassionate, objective and in control – three things that might...