★First Place, Historical Romance, Writer's Touch Contest★He’s an aristocrat turned card-player.She’s a small-town girl turned actress.They didn’t gamble on love.Or murder.Jess Sullivan has one goal: to return home to the “good girl” life she foolishly forfeited in the name of love...

★Finalist, Aspen Gold Contest★Difficult to catch. . .impossible to tame.Women’s rights reformer, Star Montgomery, has resolved never to marry. She’s also resolved to enjoy the more intimate aspects of marriage. Sadly, though, her aristocratic friends cling to dratted, dratted Victorian purity like drowning men to a life preserver, up to and including her irritating secret admirer. Then she meets western rancher, Nick McGraw, and she sets her sights...