Hollis Griffin never knew her father. His choice; New Orleans power-broker Olivier DuChesne had knocked up a waitress and then cut her and her daughter out of his life. Although she and her mother never enjoyed DuChesne’s wealth or status, Hollis grew up to be self-sufficient and independent. She has no interest in meeting the father she never knew.But as he’s battling a terminal illness, DuChesne needs to see her. So he hires private investigator Ray Fargo to find her and bring he...

Steve Chambliss just may be the sexiest carpenter in San Francisco. At least that’s what TV talk show host Gwen Talbot thinks when Steve arrives at her apartment to repair her bedroom door. And when Steve agrees to appear on Gwen’s show, all of San Francisco agrees with her. Before long, he’s got bands of groupies chasing him through the city and offering themselves up to him.Steve finds the attention amusing, but there’s only one woman in town who turns him on: Gwen. The trouble i...

Free-wheeling, easy-going Dan Macklin runs Camp Mohawk, a boys’ summer camp across the lake from Camp Chippewa, a girls’ camp run by his good friend. The two camps are friendly rivals, and Dan can’t wait to renew that rivalry as the camps open for the summer. But this year, his friend is sidelined by illness and the camp is run by Rebecca Pruitt, an administrator at a posh prep school during the year. Rebecca is most definitely not free-wheeling and easy-going.In fact, she’s kind o...

Meredith Fischer’s widowed mother is starting a new romance. Her daughter is enjoying an exuberant social life. But Meredith’s marriage is comatose and barely breathing. She still loves her sexy husband, but he doesn’t see her, doesn’t hear her, and may be involved with one of the cute young students at the college where he teaches. She can either pull the plug on her marriage or try to revive it, a hard choice to make when her insecurities, a fickle Mother Nature and a dog stand in her wa...

After witnessing a professional hit, Seattle architect Pamela Hayes has testified in court against the hit man. Unfortunately, a mistrial is declared and the hit man is released on bail while awaiting a new trial. He intends to silence the sole witness to the murder before that new trial begins. She needs to hide, and she runs as far as she to steamy Key West., Florida.Jonas Brenner, a Key West bar owner and easy-going slacker, is about to lose custody of his orphaned five-year-old...

When accountant Chloe Verona and children’s book author Will Turner were set up on a blind date, Chloe’s friend assured her she’d love Will and Will’s friend assured him he’d get laid. They wound up at a headache-inducing opera, walked out at the first intermission and both agreed their blind date was a bad idea. Will drove Chloe home to her Back Bay Boston apartment, where they said good-bye and resolved never to see each other again.But then Chloe discovered that her most treasur...

Originally published in 1991, at a time when computer messages included letter prompts like “A>” to indicate the source drive, A>LOVERBOY imagines the world as it might be at the start of the 21st century. Lucy Beckwith, a computer whiz, gets messages through her computer from someone who calls himself Loverboy and claims to be crazy about her. His messages are so romantic, she finds herself falling for him. He’s the antithesis of Jim Kazan, her colleague at Access Computer Systems. Voted ...

Eight years ago, Daphne Stoltz and Brad Torrance wound up in bed together. She was reeling from her old boyfriend’s betrayal, he was bored, and they’d both had a bit too much to drink. Their encounter was quick, bad and embarrassing, something they’d both prefer to forget.They can’t forget it, because mutual friends have thrown them together. Brad’s job transfer to New York City places him in Realtor Daphne’s region, and their college classmates insist that Brad should use Daphne t...

While enjoying breakfast in the restaurant of a dive motel on the outskirts of Granby, newspaper reporter Jill Bergland sees the city’s upstanding mayor emerge from one of the rooms just a few steps ahead of a scarily handsome young man. What was the mayor doing in the town’s infamous no-tell motel with a gorgeous blond stud? If she finds out, she can imagine a front page by-line for herself.She’s not the only reporter on the story. Griffin Parker, a star reporter for a rival newsp...

In the season of miracles, the greatest miracle of all is love.For Robin Greer, Christmas is about tradition and family. After her army-brat childhood, she wants nothing more than to plant solid roots and create a stable, permanent home for her young son, Philip. Christmas is a time to celebrate that home, and she and Philip celebrate in style, decorating their house, baking treats and listening to holiday music.Jesse Lawson’s view of the holiday is quite the opposite. Grow...

From the time they were eight years old, Kip Stroud and Shelley Ballard spent their summers together on Block Island, swimming, biking, exploring...and growing up. As teenagers, they argued about books, complained about chores and learned from each other a little about the way boys and girls viewed each other. They were best friends—until a tragedy in Shelley’s life tore them apart.Twelve years later, Kip has had to face his own tragedy. When he returns to the island to heal, he di...

Sally Driver knew her marriage to Paul wasn't perfect. He'd wedded her only because he'd gotten her pregnant, and he was always about doing the right thing. Or so Sally thought, until he died and she found a stash of steamy love letters from someone named Laura among his possessions.Sally wasn't the only person Paul had betrayed. Todd Sloan was Paul's best friend. Paul had shared everything with Todd, including his exasperation with his flaky trailer-trash wife. Yet Paul had never ...