After 18 years of never dating, Rose McDowell finally breaks out of her naivety by romantic adventures with a sailor, Marvin Brown, much to her father's chagrin. Complications end that romance only for Rose to fall in love with a drug dealer that doesn't help for permanency of a romance either when Rose, now AKA Gertrude, is serving time in a penitentiary. Paroled and moving to Denver, a series of unplanned situations bring Gertrude and Marvin together...

Gertrude, nicknamed Gertie, at request of the FBI in witness program, having a high school education, having survived a stint in a penitentiary, suffering a debilitating operation, and experiencing the death of two family members, faces more marital challenges. She attempts to become a successful entrepreneur and part owner of a bank. Will she succeed in her life or end in failure with those continuing challenges she faces?

EMT Anne Lundstrom thought she'd escaped her past when she moved out of the city and into the quiet town of Deep Haven. She certainly never expected to get roped into helping Noah Standing Bear run his summer camp for inner-city kids. Yet Noah has a charisma she can't ignore, and romance is in the air. But when the very danger she was trying to escape threatens her peaceful haven—and her life—Anne must find the courage to face her fears and embrace...

Evicted from her social housing in south London, 28-year-old Elsie turns to her childhood friend, Juliet, for help, and among Juliet’s mismatched cushions and shelves lined with trinkets, Elsie is able to breathe for the first time in years, discovering what she’s been searching for has been there all along.

When she is rescued from a psychotic vampire by Anders, an immortal creature who claims that she is the woman destined to be his life mate, Valerie Moyers tries to resist her fate as Anders battles her former captor.

Software developer Gabriel Cunningham is nearing burnout, so when his sister asks him to temporarily move to Firefly Lake to watch over their grandmother, it seems the perfect--but temporary--solution to his problems. And it doesn't hurt that his next-door neighbor is both sexy and a fantastic cook. It's just unfortunate that their first meeting was more of a disaster than a meet-cute. After a bad breakup, Serenity Walker has finally found a Zen-like...

Art of deception: He has supposedly come to her father's estate looking for respite. But Kirby Fairchild can't shake the feeling that handsome Adam Haines isn't quite the man he pretends to be. She couldn't be sure. But what she does know without a doubt is that as the days and nights wear on, the attraction she feels for this man is only growing stronger. Risky business: Ten years ago, Liz Palmer left Houston for the beautiful Caribbean island of...

When Temperance Flowerdew is abducted on her way to work and put on a train to Chicago, Mr. Gilbert Cavendish rescues the missing woman, but before the two can discover the culprit they are spotted alone together, risking damage to their reputations.

"On assignment to help America win the War of 1812, Evan MacManus is taken prisoner by Brielle Durand-the key defender of her people's secret French settlement in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. But when his mission becomes at odds with his growing appreciation of Brielle and the villagers, does he dare take a risk on the path his heart tells him is right?"--