LUKE PARKER WAS BACK IN TOWN…The news ripped through Main Street like a midsummer tornado. But Callie Magruder didn't need the local gossip mill to tell her so. She'd felt he was coming. After all, she'd always had a sixth sense when it came to Luke—or maybe it was no sense. Luke was the town's Golden Boy, son of her family's nemesis…and her forbidden first love. And now he was returning with a proposition: marriage! Only, Callie had a ten-year-old secret, ...

RING AROUND THE ROSIE…A fender bender, a hurricane and a matchmaking goat—what else was going to keep Darcy MacTeague in rugged Mitch Rose's arms?A POCKET FULL OF POSIES…True, in addition to Mitch's compelling attraction, his three adorable, irrepressible kids proved quite a lure of their own. But what about her own life back on the fast track of the corporate world?ASHES, ASHES…THEY ALL FEEL IN LOVE!Sudd...

She ran away with the Groom…Too bad she wasn't the Bride!No one was more shocked than Trae Andrelini when her best friend left wealthy Rhys Paxton standing at the altar on his wedding day. Trae was determined to find out what really went wrong-so she joined forces with stick-in-the-mud Rhys to find the runaway bride.As she and Rhys raced across the country, Trae was surprised to learn that the man she once found boring was anything but…. And jilted Rhys was ...

Reflections on Sentiment not only addresses current scholarly interest in feeling and affect but also provides an occasion to celebrate the career of George Starr, who, in more than fifty years of incisive scholarship and committed teaching, haselucidated the work of Daniel Defoe and the role of sentimentalism in what was once reductively termed an age of reason and realism. Due to the critique Starr spearheaded, scholars today can approach with greater assurance the complex interplay of r...

The cultural highlights of the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714) have long been overlooked. However, recent scholarship, including the present volume, is demonstrating that Anne has been seriously underestimated, both as a person, and as a monarch, and that there was much cultural activity of note in what might be called an interim period, coming after the deaths of Dryden and Purcell but before the blossoming of Pope and Handel, after the glories of Baroque architecture but before the trium...