MEN of the YEAR MAN of the MONTH THE BLAYLOCKS"When and if it comes my time to add to the Blaylock clan, I want a marriage certificate over the bed." – Roman Blaylock, rancher and executor of the Llewylyn estate The women of Jasmine, Wyoming, had long ago given up on taming Roman Blaylock – and that was just the way he wanted it.But a deathbed promise was about to bring him face-to-face with the one woman who made him long for a family of his own – the one woman he could never have. Unless he...
HIS BIOLOGICAL CLOCK…A ranch full of black-haired Blaylock babies and a loving wife were what thirty-seven-year-old Rio Blaylock craved – a family to love and live for. But the woman he passionately wanted had just inherited half his business, and marriage was the last thing on independant Paloma Forbes's mind. Especially because she'd come home to Jasmine, Wyoming, desperate to claim her rightful inheritance and uncover her family's secrets… .The Blaylock family had the answers Paloma sought,...
Rose Granger had preferred life in Waterville before Stefan Donatien began to call it home. Now the restaurateur turned up in her paint store, her kitchen, her every thought–some of them blazing hot.But she doused her fiery, forbidden thoughts. For the big-city businessman could never be satisfied with the serene beauty of small-town life and the woman who matched it perfectly….Stefan had never burned so fiercely for any woman…fate had singled out Rose as his. And with every penetrating kiss, he...
I'm not your run-of-the-mill pampered playboy – I'm a Blaylock! – Tyrell Blaylock, corporate warrior and defender of his family landThis loner came home to find peace – not to wrangle with Celine Lomax, the hot-mouthed firebrand who'd invaded his mountaintop retreat. She would stop at nothing to reclaim her birthright – land she believed Blaylocks stole from her family generations ago.And the more the seductive spitfire insisted on taking Tyrell's rich Wyoming legacy, the more he dreamed of...
A man's instincts are still to hunt and bring the woman to his lair. –Gabriel Deerhorn, Native American mountain manWith a shattering blow to Miranda Bennett's young heart, Gabriel Deerhorn had extinguished their tender love. A wise soul, he'd known naive Miranda needed independence more than matrimony. Suddenly she was back in Freedom Valley…and her nearness was both a torment and a treasure. For once, gallant Gabriel fed his own desire–he settled Miranda into his mountaintop home, and with a...
Powerful. Dangerous. Male. Alexi Stepanov was everything that painful experience had taught Jessica Sterling to fear. Which was why he made the perfect protector for her dearest friend. What made better sense than to counter a threat with maximum threat? Keep your enemies closer…wasn't that the general wisdom?Only, Alexi was too close for comfort….In honoring a vow, Jessica had resigned herself to a cold, lonely life as a wealthy widow, but Alexi warmed her world with his large, loving...
It had begun like any other assignment. Until the night she encountered Danya Stepanov atop a windswept cliff…then moved in with him. Her immediate feminine response to his masculinity frightened her, for Sidney Blakely didn't do the fair-lady bit. She led during slow dances. Her sole experience with sex had been fast and more about physical fitness. And she believed that home was where the photo shoot du jour was.But Danya was confident enough to allow her to lead. And he showed her that loving...
THE FIREBRAND OF FREEDOM VALLEYSince Kylie Bennett's return to her hometown, Michael Cusack had been painfully conscious of her metamorphosis from girl to lush woman, and of his need to belong to a close family like the Bennetts. Kylie's teenage crush on him had gone untested, for Michael was a protector of women and had refused to sacrifice her innocence. Now Kylie played «not interested»…but her kisses revealed hidden fires. Could it be that she still carried a torch for him? And, like his own...
Past experience had taught Mikhail Stepanov to keep his boss's dangerously alluring daughter at arm's length. But once the desperate single mother turned to him, how could he resist? In his embrace, Ellie wasn't the willful heiress he remembered but a fiery temptress he was determined to have and to hold forever….Ellie Lathrop knew the coolly competent businessman who ran her father's hotel empire had the power to help her keep her legally adopted daughter. Yet beneath Mikhail's steely exterior...