Sandra Brown

"Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble . . . and lands in more than he bargained for"--

Architectural engineer Scout Ritland is the kind of American man who spells trouble. Chantal duPont should know, for she has experienced the best and worst of the country and its people. At home on sultry Parrish Island she is putting herself in the way of another bold Yankee, but this time it's for a good cause. Scout is the one man who can help her village, and she's not about to let him get the better of her--no matter how much she may want to....

Brin Cassidy is preparing for the biggest dinner party of her career, when who should show up unannounced but her estranged husband, Jon Riley. Brin, as the former producer of the television program "Riley in the Morning," had not only worked with the tempermental star, she had married him. Their tempestuous, passionate affair was the stuff of romance, so why did Brin leave? Riley is a man who knows what he wants and usually gets it. Tonight, he isn't...

Mourning the death of his beloved wife, killed in a car crash the previous year, Chase is saved by the arrival of Marcie Johns in his life.

When Lara opens up a medical practice in a small town, the local oil tyrant plans to ruin her business--unless she can find the secret to destroy his empire.