Parris Afton Bonds – författare

Only for the reckless at heart ~"e;Happy is the Gypsy girl with feet dirty from dancing and a heart reckless from romancing."e;Rapscallion Irish Traveller, Romy Sonnenschein, may bamboozle the gullible with her fortune telling and other tricks of the trade. Of course, she doesn't believe in card reading, fortune telling, palmistry and fated events like destined soul mates and such bloody rot.In addition, she is having monumental trouble with a handsome but slick, silver-tongued attorney and a no-quarter-given Texas saddle tramp. Both she has flim-flammed with her supposed matchmaking skills and more. And both would do whatever it takes to rid themselves of this capricious thorn who has burrowed beneath their skins ~ or, conversely, give their lives to keep her.

Brilliant, headstrong, and still unmarried, the lovely Roxana Van Buren brings disgrace upon her illustrious family in 1916 when she pursues a journalism career. Roxana aims for the impossible -- an interview with Pancho Villa, the infamous Mexican revolutionary. She strikes out for the Southwest, unafraid.In need of an escort, she hires a brash cowboy and sometime soldier, Sam Brady. Roxana knows she can handle the revolutionaries, but she soon has her doubts about her ability to handle Sam. He loves his whiskey, his freedom and his women with equal abandon, and he isn't quite willing to change his ways. Together, the indomitable Roxana Van Buren and the unconquerable Sam Brady take on an army of Mexican rebels before they take on each other.

When Madness is Divine ~When a Viet Nam Vet, run-amuck, joins forces with a roué of a priest and a nutsy nurse to find the Holy Grail.When Good and God are deceptive ~ and when myth dares to defy dogma

In folklore, mermaids have been portrayed as both unlucky omens and attractions for good fortune; as either foretelling or provoking disaster or providing assistance, gifts, and rewards.In 1879, twenty-one-year-old Mhaire O'Moore's life in the sleepy New Mexico village of Puerto de Luna, Doorway to the Moon, is changed drastically by the arrival of Miles Neville, the Seventh Earl of Blackwater.Not only is he English and Protestant, he now owns the vast Luna land grant along with its grand home, which should have been Mhaire's had her Irish father not thought it prudent to commit suicide.The Luna estate encompasses the sacred artesian springs there in the desert, near the spot where the conquistador Coronado was believed to have passed in 1541. Rumor has it that Coronado stashed a horde of gold there on his return trip from the Seven Cities of Gold . . . and legend has it that the bottomless waters contains the mythical mermaid.The fiery Mhaire wants her rights to the Luna land grant back. The masterful Miles needs Coronado's stash of gold somewhere on the land grant. While a powerful attraction exists between them, they are both determined to gain their goals, despite the possible misfortune it could mean for the other.If such a fanciful creature as a mermaid, indeed, inhabits those holy waters of Puerta de Luna, then does the mermaid's demise mean both Mhaire and Miles are doomed, as well?

MADNESS! All three novels ~ Midsummer Midnight, Man For Hire, and Wanted Woman in one boxed set.MADNESS! That time of Midsummer-Midnight when all is revelry and debauchery in Macedonia. That unbelievable moment when Damon Demetrios kidnaps Helena HamiltonMADNESS! That time when Khalid, the Lion of the Desert, an urbane British-educated sheikh, consents to the lovely Alyx Langford's desperate proposition in order to add her to his possessions.MADNESS! That time when fourteeen-years-older Lady Philippa falls for former British Secret Service agent Giles Hayes-David, despite the undermining suspicion of both patriotic and personal betrayal as rampant as the chemistry sparking between them.

Australia was the land of the Aborigines' Dream Time. For Amber Briscoll, exiled there as a convict, Australia was her nightmare. But she vowed to survive for one reason only ~ revenge against the man who had sealed her fate . . . even as her body continued to yearn for his touch. For Amaris Wilmot, Australia was her Dream Time. And an ex-convict named Sin was her nightmare ~ because she loved him and couldn't have him. Fall in love with Australian history on a grand scale ~ from the mind-boggling Outback to the heart-ravaging passions of Amber, Amaris, and Annie ~ and Miles, Sin, and Ryan.

He is the Lion of the Desert, an urbane British-educated sheikh with unlimited wealth, unlimited women, and unlimited talents. Khalid Rajhi has risen above his primitive upbringing to become a man of the world, irresistible to women. Alxy Langford, ex-wife of an American diplomat stationed in Paris, has come to him with a proposition. Her daughter has been kidnapped, and Alyx needs a man who will be at one with the night, who can blend into the Paris social scene or the fierce life of the Bedouin warriors. She is a woman like no other, and Khalid knows he will consent to her plea in order to add her to his possessions.

Anjanette Adams, golden girl of Hollywood, was the cowboy's chattel, his piece of property, according to the State of Texas justice system ~ at least, for six months.Ted Cooper was a true cowboy, rugged and plainspoken, and he didn't have much use for hothouse flowers like Anjanette Adams. Then, again, she had trespassed and belonged to him for six months, and he would use her the best way he could think of ~ and that thought was pretty damning.

"e;The Virginia Company of London seeks one hundred willing maids for marriage to bachelor planters of James Cittie Colony. Maids must be young, handsome, and honestly educated."e;Having read this promising broadside, Modesty Brown flees from arrest in London for the safety of married bliss in the New World. At 26, she might not be young, nor handsome, and most certainly not honest. But educated she is ~ educated enough to start her own 17th century dating service/matchmaking for the other young girls who have signed on and taken the voyage aboard the Maidenhead to contract out as brides in Jamestown.However, upon her arrival in Jamestown, the saucy wench is accused of witchcraft by a ruthless nobleman – and it's either burn at the stake or do her own matchmaking for herself quickly.She contracts to wed Mad Dog Jones. His name says it all. Further, he abhors the thought of being saddled with a wife. Yet their passion for one another cannot be denied by night. And by day each is determined to be rid of the other.Mad Dog and Modesty ~ a match not made in heaven but a love that made heaven here on earth.

Nelli Walzchak was a no-nonsense nurse at Kansas General Hospital, but her personal life was virtually nonexistent . . . until an enforced Mexican vacation altered her life's course - and she found herself kidnapped by a dashing buccaneer and learned that ravished could mean not just to take away by violence but also to fill with pleasure.

Madness. That time of Midsummer-Midnight when all is revelry and debauchery in Macedonia. That unbelievable moment when Damon Demetrios kidnaps Helena Hamilton, a journalist whose by-line draws as much interest as her subjects. He wants her to cover the Macedonian struggle for freedom. She wants him for all the wrong reasons ~ the worst being the freedom fighter, irrevocably wedded to his country, has the ability to make her forget the independent principles she believes in. Then there is the knowledge she won't ever be able to forget him, that long after she escapes he'll haunt her like a madness

Kingdom Come . . . Sam Cooper's Passion Place. A passion that for the young woman had once meant the Texas high desert, its stark beauty, and a cutting-horse operation of her own. Then Hollywood and Matt Kratowski came to Kingdom Come, and suddenly her passion changed.

The Frenchman was everything Jeanette St. John detested. A mercenary, a man with no morals, a renegade. But Kitt was reckless and daring, cautious and calculating – and he was captain of one of the fastest ships on the ocean. And so she bargained with the devil – on his terms. In exchange for transporting her cotton and turning it into medical supplies and ammunition for her beloved Confederacy, she was to let him ravish her for every shipment he delivered.

The beautiful and pampered Lady Jane Lennox was willing to abandon the wealth and luxury of her English aristocracy for peril and poverty . . . all to find the man whose eyes had entranced her, whose smile had enslaved her since childhood, Terence MacKenzie . . . even if this meant crossing an ocean to the primeval America colonies and indenturing herself to Ethan Gordon to work on this Virginia indigo plantation. What she didn't count on was being caught up in the revolutionists' war against the Mother Country . . . nor being caught up in her master's dangerous passion.

Does love truly triumph over all ~ even age difference and a war-torn country's alliances? The lovely and elegant Lady Philippa Fleming with her quiet courage, complexity of mind, and vast experience works undercover to assure the independence of the newly established Macedonia. Former British Secret Service agent Giles Hayes-David possesses a young god's face and an extraordinary male physique, honed by those sports that build the kind of long, ropy muscles that make a couturier purr. But the older Philippa will not allow herself to fall for him ~ especially not with the undermining suspicion of both patriotic and personal betrayal as rampant as the chemistry sparking between them.

Texas Ranger Steve Kaptain had taken Victoria one night in a Mexican bordello. Then, he had taken her heart. And next he had taken her with him, cursing him, across the face of rugged, desolate Southwest Texas. As many times as she had managed to escape him, he had always come to take her back. But this time was different.

In Kingdom Come, Texas, all manner of mayhem and magic can occur at a cattle ranch for derelicts and the daring-do ~ for Anjanette Adams, the Hollywood-convict, and Ted Cooper, the give-no-quarter rancher; for Samantha Cooper, the cowgirl who thinks passion is a place, and for Matt Kratowski, the Hollywood hunk who teaches her differently.

In the fierce and untamed Territory of New Mexico, the most fierce and most untamed made love and history.~ Rosemary, the willful Irish lass who harbored a forbidden love and claimed the Cambria empire as hers forever~ Lario, the handsome Navajo, who claimed revenge on Rosemary and then claimed her for his own~ Grant, who wielded the Territory's political power and who would bind Rosemary's fate with his~ Stephanie, beautiful heiress of the Cambria empire, who loved wildly and paid for that love wildly~ and lastly, decades later and bloodlines later, Chase the Wind, destined to rule the white man's world and every woman's heart.

Jaclyn knows fleeing to the AZ Indian reservation means confronting childhood fears. Yet she has to protect herself and her son from her ex-husband. However, she meets Joe Watchman, a rez detective and a man all women find irresistable. He saves their lives, then helps her learn what loving~not just from the sex center but from the soul~is really about. Oh God,is he the one man she can never have?

Inaccessible and untouchable, Cass Duval Garolini has risen from hometown girl to international model. Now she is back home in New Mexico AND the sheriff ~ and something else. The Widow Woman. Cade Montoya is determined to have Cass, but the activist is living a secret that can destroy both the town and her heart.

Young Dr. Mary Margulies has been assigned to desolate Kingdom Come, Texas for six months to work off her government loan. She can't wait to escape from the poverty-stricken border town to the profitable practice awaiting her back East. But can she escape the vengeful wrath of Border Patrol's agent Joe Hanson and the commanding passion of Kingdom Come's most eligible bachelor, Rafe Anaya?

Aristocrat Abbie Dennis has signed on as a reservation school teacher, searching for autonomy her soon to be ex will never allow her. She hasn't anticipated encountering a primitive place full of primitive passion or on dealing with the enigmatic and extraordinarily handsome silversmith, Cody Strawhand. And she certainly hadn't expected to be seduced by the Indian's way of life ~ and him.

Rita-lou left behind in Silver City New Mexico the biggest scandal ever to quake the town. Now she was back with a vengeance, but not the wild hell-raiser of her youth. Searching for evidence that prehistoric man had once roamed the area, she collided with Jonah Jones, a part of her reckless past. He was out to claim gold ~ and claim her.