Kathleen Pickering

News anchor Evan McKenna knows a good thing when he sees it.And Kelly Sullivan and her son Matt definitely fall into that category. If Evan had his way, he’d be part of their little family. Only Kelly is proving resistant to his charms. He knows an attraction this strong is more than one-sided so something else is keeping them apart.Despite his best efforts, he can’t convince her to tell him. Then Kelly’s past becomes a major news story which puts Matt’s safety in jeopardy. Evan is willing to do...

He's the one worth keeping!Love at first sight? Cassie Michaels thinks that notion exists only in the movies. Until she meets Peter Chapman and finds herself in deep, that is! He’s gorgeous, charming and very determined to see where this attraction can go. So even though the small town E.R. where they work has a no-dating policy, it’s not long before she’s seeing him after hours.But the rush of this affair takes a back seat when Cassie receives a serious diagnosis. How can she focus on a...

Since the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 was enacted, policy makers, agency administrators, community activists, and academics from a broad range of disciplines have debated and researched the implications of welfare reform in the United States. Most of the attention, however, has focused on urban rather than rural America. W elfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty examines welfare participants who live in chronically poor rural areas of the United...