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From four bestselling authors come four unforgettable romances featuring the men who made the Old West wild...They are a symbol of the Old West, from the tops of their ten-gallon hats to the tips of their spurs, and an image that sets women’s hearts to quivering. There’s nothing like a cowboy to stir a lady’s imagination—or to inspire love as boundless as the open range. In these four heartwarming romances from today’s top authors, four women set their sights on the cowboys of their dreams—and rope them in. It’s good old-fashioned romance at its finest…featuring men that no woman would put out to pasture.

Marise Merrick had sacrificed everything to achieve perfection as a championship figure skater. But now everything she had worked for was threatened by a crazed stalker. And all that stood between her and certain death was one hard-as-nails detective – a man who made her dream for the first time of a life beyond the ice….Cassidy MacKay knew better than anybody that a cop couldn't afford to have a woman in his life – and that went double for this woman, whose world was so different from his own. But as he raced to save her from a ruthless killer, he couldn't stop wondering what it would take to melt this ice princess's heart….

Marise Merrick had sacrificed everything to achieve perfection as a championship figure skater. But now everything she had worked for was threatened by a crazed stalker. And all that stood between her and certain death was one hard-as-nails detective—a man who made her dream for the first time of a life beyond the ice....Cassidy MacKay knew better than anybody that a cop couldn''t afford to have a woman in his life—and that went double for this woman, whose world was so different from his own. But as he raced to save her from a ruthless killer, he couldn''t stop wondering what it would take to melt this ice princess''s heart....

1876 Colorado is home to some wild characters. And Samantha Blair is one of them. After all, how many girls find themselves being raised by outlaws? But she's happy…until U.S. Marshal Jared Evans comes to town. He's got one thing on his mind–revenge. And unfortunately, it's Sam's adoptive father he's after.Luckily, Samantha's a crack shot. The good thing? She only hits Jared's leg. The bad thing? He makes her insides quiver and melt like she never knew was possible….Still, Jared's out for her family's blood. She has to stop him. And if it means keeping the good marshal on his back–and in her bed–well then, Sam will just have to do what needs to be done.Even if she loses her heart in the process…

Here today, gone tomorrow? When former army ranger Josh Manning comes to close-knit Covenant Falls, he knows he won't be staying long. As soon as he's renovated the cabin he's inherited from a late fellow soldier, he and his ex-military dog, Amos, are getting out fast. That is, until Mayor Eve Douglas drops by.Eve, a young widow, has a precocious son and a band of misfit pets. Definitely not his type. Besides, she deserves much more than he can give. Unless, against all his instincts, he's ready to make one more promise.

Forgetting the past, facing the future Stephanie Phillips is sick of charm. And Clint Morgan, the newest resident of Covenant Falls, has it in spades. Stephanie knows she should run the other way because the former Blackhawk pilot is too good-looking, too charismatic…and much too sexy.As the town veterinarian, Stephanie has truly found her home here. Clint, on the other hand, is staying for only a short time while he recovers from an injury. But when he starts to fit seamlessly into the close-knit community, the irresistible risk-taker makes his way into her heart.

One brave step at a timeLieutenant Andrea Stuart survived the warzone attack that took her fiancé. A therapy dog and a cabin in Covenant Falls are all the risks the former military nurse is willing to take anymore. But as Andy’s drawn into writing the history of the small town, she’s also drawn to Nate Rowland.As rugged as he is jaded, Nate’s committed to helping fellow veterans—and avoiding a new relationship. Keeping her distance might be smart, but it’s hard to stay away when Andy sees that Nate has a few scars of his own. Together they might find a path toward healing…and so much more.

This is the home he never expected…With a terrifying ordeal behind him, former navy SEAL Jubal Pierce was supposed to stay in Covenant Falls, Colorado, for only a day or two. That's it. He’s not prepared to put down roots here—no matter how intriguing the town’s new doctor happens to be. Not to mention Dr. Lisa Redding's teen brother is on a troubled path that's all too familiar. Suddenly Jubal finds himself entangled in the community and with deep, unfamiliar feelings for Lisa. But maybe a little detour is just what a warrior needs to find his true purpose…and true love.

He’s looking for roots. She won’t be tied down. Army ranger Travis Hammond needs to heal physical and emotional wounds. A job in Covenant Falls checking out equine therapy programs for veterans is a start, but it’s only temporary. And he doesn’t need a partner, especially some reporter with the persistence of a terrier and irresistible green eyes. Like Travis, Jenny Talbot’s just passing through town. Unlike Travis, Jenny knows exactly where she’s going next—back to the Middle East, as soon as she recovers from her own war injury. But there’s a bend in the road for both of them.

In Patricia Potter''s seductive novel of romantic suspense, the violent secret in a woman''s life sets her daughter on a desperate search for the truth—and a collision course with a killer from the pastWhen Liz Connor''s mother doesn''t come home, her father fears the worst. But Betty isn''t missing—she''s just been arrested by the FBI. Her real name is Sarah Jane Maynard and she is a fugitive and former antiwar protestor wanted for a double homicide. Within hours, the Connor family implodes. Sarah Jane refuses to speak to her husband and daughter or to assist in her own defense. A mysterious fire and a frightening abduction convince Liz that something else is going on . . . something to do with the money that went missing during that long-ago crime. And now two strangers have appeared to offer their help: handsome, politically connected Michael Gallagher and rugged Boston-cop-turned-PI Caleb Adams. As Liz fights to uncover the truth and clear her mother''s name, she moves deeper into the sights of a killer who will strike again in order to bury the past forever.

A journalist and an FBI agent team up to bring down a cop killer in master storyteller Patricia Potter''s thrilling and seductive novel of romantic suspenseAtlanta journalist Robin Stuart has never seen a dead body before. Murder is a rarity in scenic, tranquil Meredith County. Now three cops lie on the ground of an overgrown property slated for private development. Each one was handcuffed and killed, execution style, by a bullet to the back of the head. This could be the story that makes Robin''s career—but she can''t stop thinking about the families of the victims. FBI agent Ben Taylor isn''t a team player and doesn''t trust the media. Although the triple homicide is out of the FBI''s jurisdiction, he is convinced that the murders are connected to Hydra, the Southern Mafia crime ring he''s been investigating. Robin may have valuable information, but the beautiful reporter will never reveal her source—until her relentless digging brings both sides of the law after her. As unwanted desire flares, Ben must protect Robin from cold-blooded killers determined to keep the true story from ever seeing the light of day.

"Sparkling with high seas drama and tender romance," the third Scottish Highlands novel is "a pure pleasure" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).For almost seven years, Scottish noble Patrick Maclean has toiled as a slave aboard a Spanish galleon ship. Now the day of reckoning has finally arrived. Leading his fellow oarsmen into mutiny, he seizes control of the Sofia. But there''s an unexpected passenger: the ship owner''s niece. With no choice but to take the Spanish beauty hostage, Patrick sails for Scotland to exact his long-awaited revenge and reclaim his rightful legacy. Juliana Mendoza was willing to do anything to save her mother—even leave her beloved homeland to marry a total stranger. Now she finds herself the captive of a man with murder in his heart. But at Inverleith, the Macleans'' ancestral keep, she sees a different side of the fierce warrior and meets his honorable clan, struggling to bring peace to a bitterly divided country. Her warring feelings for Patrick erupt into a passion that leaves them both yearning for more. But Juliana is duty bound to another land . . . and another man.Beloved Warrior is the 3rd book in the Scottish Highland series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

The final book in Patricia Potter’s enthralling Scottish Trilogy journeys from war-ravaged Scotland to the high seas to the diamond jungles of South America as a nobleman with a price on his head seeks revenge, only to lose his heart to his most despised enemy Alex Leslie’s hatred for the British is a raging fire in his soul. Once he was a Scottish nobleman with everything to live for. Now he is Will Malfour, an outlaw pursued by the English king’s soldiers. With nothing but bitter memories of the Culloden massacre and his burning hunger for revenge, he roams the seas, taking from his enemies what they stole from him. But the ship he just seized holds an unexpected prize: a willful, captivating beauty who is the daughter of a British invader.   Rumored to carry the mark of the devil, Lady Jeanette Campbell is forced to leave Scotland to become the bride of a man she has never met. But en route to Barbados, her ship is fired on, and she is taken prisoner. Captain Will Malfour is as black-hearted as Satan himself, yet surprisingly gentle with two young stowaways. How the children got aboard is a mystery. So is the wild Scot turned privateer who awakens in her such irresistible desire. With the odds stacked against them—and their lives at risk—Jenna fights for the future and a love she never expected to find.The Diamond King is the 3rd book in the Scottish Trilogy, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

A wounded warrior and a beautiful English border thief battle treachery, betrayal, and their own warring hearts to satisfy a dangerous, passionate loveAs the battle at Flodden Field rages, Lachlan Maclean rides with King James IV of Scotland, sworn to vanquish their English enemies and find redemption for the past that haunts him. But as the battlefield runs red with blood, Lachlan realizes they''re fighting a losing battle. Thrown from his horse, he awakens to find a lovely angel of mercy tending him . . . and no memory of who he is. Once, Kimbra Charlton rode alongside her husband on daring border raids that targeted English and Scottish alike. Now the desperate widow combs battlefields for anything of value to make sure she and her young daughter survive. When she stumbles on a wounded soldier, she recognizes the armor and helmet of her people''s sworn enemy. A Scotsman killed her husband, yet she can''t let this man die—nor can the world know his true heritage. It is a secret on which both their lives depend. But as passion ignites between them, they must face the consequences of their impossible love.Beloved Stranger is the 2nd book in the Scottish Highland series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Set on the eve of the Scottish Restoration, this first book in award-winning author Patricia Potter''s Scottish Star Series is a heart-stirring tale of star-crossed loveThe clans of cherished childhood friends Patrick Sutherland and Marsali Gunn have decreed that the two will wed. Before he goes off to Ireland to fight Cromwell''s armies, Patrick promises he will return in ten years to claim his bride. When Marsali begs him to leave something behind, Patrick chooses a star in the sky. Marsali promises to look for it every night. But when Patrick finally comes home, he is an outlaw in Scotland. A bitter blood feud has turned the two families into vengeful enemies, and now Marsali is to wed the cruel chieftain of a powerful clan. She didn''t reckon on Patrick staying true to his vow to honor their betrothal at all costs. As they finally give in to their long-denied passion, the Highlands erupt into a savage clan war. Now Marsali must choose between loyalty to her family and a love that demands the ultimate surrender.Starcatcher is the 1st book in the Scottish Star Series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

This passionate historical romance featuring the second generation of the Sutherland family sweeps from the Scottish Highlands to colonial Maryland, where a struggling young woman makes a desperate bargain with a freedom fighter Minutes before being hanged for treason against the British crown, Ian Sutherland is suddenly spared . . . only to end up in chains again, this time in the hold of a ship bound for the colonies. In America, he becomes the indentured servant of a prosperous Maryland farm owner. But the noble freedom fighter vows to one day escape his servitude and sail back across the sea to his clan. Then he meets Fancy Marsh.   John Marsh rescued Fancy and her half sister Fortune from a terrible fate. Now Fancy shares a good life with her husband, their two children, and an ever-increasing menagerie of pets. But when John dies, Fancy is left at the mercy of his cruel, covetous brother. In desperation, she turns to her rugged, enigmatic bond servant to help her protect her name and legacy. Although Ian agrees to her risky plan, Fancy knows that his heart longs for Scotland. But their dangerous charade soon flames into irresistible passion and the one thing they never expected: a love that can prevail over their most treacherous enemies and the winds of fortune.Starfinder is the 2nd book in the Scottish Star Series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Set during the American Revolution, this enthralling historical romance featuring the third generation of the Sutherland family tells the story of a rebel willing to die for his nation''s freedom . . . and a woman ready to cross battle lines for the man she lovesHis enemies call him Star Rider. The son of a Scottish rebel and an American woman, John Patrick Sutherland raids British ships and seizes their cargo for the patriot cause—until his own ship goes down in the Delaware River. Badly wounded and determined not to die at the end of an English rope, he finds refuge at the home of a compassionate beauty whose loyalties are with the Tories. Annette Carey aids the crown by tending British soldiers. When she takes in an injured man who is introduced to her as a high-ranking officer named John Gunn, she is powerfully drawn to him, unaware that he is the legendary privateer who has eluded capture for so long. As she gives in to traitorous desire, Annette is tested in ways she couldn''t have foreseen, and finds herself risking her future for her enemy—a man she must now trust with her life.Star Keeper is the 3rd book in the Scottish Star Series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

A nobleman living a dangerous double life weds a rebellious Jacobite beauty—the first in a Scottish romance trilogy by a USA Today–bestselling author.

Some call him the devil. Few have ever seen him. He is the Black Knave. Named for the playing card he leaves behind, he risks his life to smuggle Jacobite insurgents out of Scotland right under the noses of the British. And Bethia MacDonell is determined to find him.

She needs the legendary freedom fighter to rescue her imprisoned brother. Instead, she is forced into an arranged marriage of political expediency. Her bridegroom is Rory Forbes, an aristocrat loyal to the crown. A coward at the Battle of Culloden. A traitor to his own people.

To the world he is a fop and wastrel who lives solely for his own pleasure. But the new Marquis of Braemoor harbors a dangerous secret he must keep hidden at all costs. Bethia is the wild card, arousing treacherous desire that could doom Rory’s mission and imperil her life. Sworn to protect her, the most wanted man in Scotland must fight his greatest battle to win the heart of the one woman he desires above all others: his wife.

Named “Storyteller of the Year” by the Romantic Times, Patricia Potter introduces one of her most irresistible heroes, and offers “well-drawn, memorable characters [and] compelling action,” in the first book in her enthralling Scottish trilogy that continues with The Heart Queen and The Diamond King (Library Journal).

This sweeping historical novel returns to an age of treachery and political turmoil as a Jacobite beauty fights her attraction to the powerful Scottish nobleman who once broke her heart  Taken in by the Braemoor clan as a boy, Neil Forbes fell deeply in love the moment he laid eyes on Janet Leslie. To his delight, Janet, the daughter of a Jacobite, returned his feelings, and they made a solemn pledge to one other. Then Neil discovered the terrible reason he couldn’t marry his beloved . . . and could never wed at all.   After Neil’s betrayal, Janet vowed never again to be seduced by the fickle promise of love. She hoped that her marriage to Alasdair Campbell, a widower and father of three young girls, would give her the security she needed. Now the cruel Earl of Lochaene lies dead, and Janet is suspected of her husband’s murder. Worse, Campbell’s daughters—and her infant son—could be taken away from her. And the man she once adored with all her heart has just been appointed guardian of her son, the heir to Lochaene. Can she trust Neil, now the politically connected Marquis of Braemoor—or the dangerous desire that his first caress reignites in her? As they give in to passion, a powerful enemy could destroy their newfound love—and expose the secret Neil has been guarding for far too long.   This second book in Patricia Potter’s Scottish Trilogy is the winner of the 2001 Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Scottish Historical Romance.The Heart Queen is the 2nd book in the Scottish Trilogy, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

In Patricia Potter’s high-octane romantic thriller, a young woman discovers she is not only the daughter of a notorious crime boss but a person of interest to a steely FBI agent Clutching her babies, a mother flees through the streets of Boston, desperate to escape the monster she married. Thirty-four years later, two men enter Samantha Carroll’s Colorado art gallery, and her safe, secure world explodes. Now Sam is en route back to Boston to meet her twin brother, Nick, and Paul Merritta, the crime boss whose blood runs through her veins. Merritta is dying, and he wants to clear up some unfinished business with his daughter.   Nathan McLean won’t rest until he brings down Merritta and his entire family. For the determined FBI agent, it’s also personal—payback for what Merritta did to his own loved ones. But there’s a wild card in the stacked deck—Samantha Carroll. Now Sam’s on the FBI’s radar, and she’s falling for the one man who could destroy her newfound family. But Nathan isn’t the only danger. There’s someone else out there too—someone who wants her dead.

Carrying out a hit-and-run victim’s deathbed wish, a young woman turns to a former Special Forces commando for help when she becomes the target of a twisted killer When she arrived at the scene of a hit-and-run, Atlanta reporter-turned-paramedic Kirke Palmer didn’t expect to end up carrying out a deathbed wish. But now, bound by her promise to a man she couldn’t save, Kirke tries to track down someone named Mitch Edwards. She’s soon blindsided by a stranger who claims to be the victim’s brother . . . a rugged, guarded man who radiates danger and arouses irresistible desire.   Jake Kelly just spent seven years in a high-security prison for a crime he didn’t commit. The former Special Forces commando came to Atlanta to meet the CIA operative who supposedly died in a South American sting gone awry. Except now Del Cox is really dead, and Jake has only two leads. One is the paramedic he witnessed taking an envelope from Cox before he died.   With Kirke under attack and the ghosts from his military past back on the radar, Jake races to find out who betrayed him on that fateful final mission. And time is running out.

In USA Today–bestselling author Patricia Potter''s spellbinding romantic thriller, the family a young woman never knew she had could be the most dangerous people she will ever meetOne fateful fall afternoon in Arizona, a man confronts his unfaithful wife and treacherous brother. The day ends in violence and unspeakable tragedy. Nearly half a century later, Atlanta bookstore owner Jessica Clayton receives an invitation to the reunion of a family she never knew she had. Abandoned by her mother when she was a baby, Jessica grew up only knowing a father''s love. Now it turns out her entire life may have been a lie. At a sprawling ranch in Sedona, Jessica meets the Clements clan. Could they be her long-lost family? Before she has time to find out, she learns that one of them wants her dead. Unsure of whom to trust, she turns to another outsider, Ross Macleod, the ranch''s foreman and the Clements'' part–Native American adopted son. But she''s running out of time. History is about to repeat itself, making Jessie heir to a deadly legacy of greed, betrayal, and murder—and a love that could cost her everything.

A tale of two sisters in danger—and the New Orleans detective trying to protect them—from a USA Today–bestselling “master of romantic suspense” (Booklist).   Frantic to escape her paranoid, violent husband—a Louisiana senator—Holly Ames takes her young son and flees into the dead of night. Four weeks later, prosecutor-turned-defense-attorney Meredith Rawson’s dying mother makes a shocking confession. Now Meredith is on a journey to fulfill her mother’s last wish that she find the half sister she never knew: Holly Ames. But before she can begin her search, her home is ransacked and her life threatened . . . Haunted by his dark past, all New Orleans PD homicide detective Gage Gaynor wants is to put predators away and clean up a city riddled with crime. The hunt for a killer will bring him to Meredith’s door and into the middle of a world of privilege and corruption where the ties that bind can be the most lethal of all.

In Patricia Potter''s seductive and chilling novel of romantic suspense, a young woman trying to prove that she and an heiress were switched at birth steps into a privileged world where a killer is watching and waiting to silence her foreverKira Douglas''s mother, Katy, will die unless she receives a new kidney. Kira is the likely donor candidate . . . until blood tests reveal that she isn''t Katy''s biological daughter. If she isn''t Kira Douglas, then who is she? And how can she save her mother? The only answer is to find Katy''s true daughter by birth. Kira''s search leads to Leigh Howard, an heiress to a $50 million trust fund, and her formidable protector, Max Payton, a charismatic attorney who doesn''t trust Kira or her theory that she and Leigh were accidentally switched at birth. When Kira''s life is threatened, it becomes clear that someone doesn''t want the truth to come out or allow Kira to lay claim to the legendary Westerfield fortune. Now Max is torn between his loyalty to Leigh and his powerful desire for the woman who has upset their privileged world. But he may be too late to stop a legacy of hate and greed that was set in motion decades ago—and is about to come full circle.

Almost sixty years after a fortune in looted World War II treasure vanished from a captured German train, a man and a woman who have never met are thrust into a world of danger . . . and desireAmy Mallory chafed at the discipline and authoritarian control she was forced to endure growing up in a military family. Never, she vowed, would she fall for a man in uniform. But now, years later, as a history professor reading her late grandfather''s secret files, she discovers a dangerous, enticing world she wants to experience for herself. Lieutenant Colonel Lucien "Irish" Flaherty was taught by his grandfather, General Sam Flaherty, to believe in three things: honor, duty, and country. His faith is shaken when his mentor is implicated in a presidential advisory commission''s investigation into the disappearance of valuable artwork that was captured from a Nazi train. Determined to clear his grandfather''s name, he uncovers dangerous secrets that link his past to that of beautiful stranger Amy Mallory. But neither of them suspects that the truth they seek to uncover is deadlier than they can imagine.

Post–Civil War Texas is the setting for this spellbinding story of a desperado out for vengeance and the woman determined to save his lifeBequeathed a five-hundred-acre cattle ranch in Cimarron Valley, Mary Jo Williams takes her young son and strikes out for Colorado territory. The plucky widow has seen her share of sorrow, so when she finds a gravely wounded stranger, she''s determined to nurse him back to health, unaware that Wade Foster never intended to make it out alive.A hunted outlaw with a price on his head, Wade spent years tracking down the murderers who massacred his family. Now a brutal shootout has made vengeance his at last. Prepared to confront his fate, he once again cheats death. He never expected his future to rest with an auburn-haired beauty and her boy. Sworn to protect mother and son, Wade has to stay one step ahead of the law—and a gang of ruthless killers. But as the net closes in, he knows the only way to keep them safe is to leave and never look back . . . unless he can find a way to put his past to rest.

In award-winning author Patricia Potter''s sparkling Regency-era romance, an actress and a privateer fall passionately in love, unaware that they''re both after revenge against the same group of aristocratsEnglishman Gabriel Manning has waited more than two decades to avenge his father''s death. The years he has spent in America seizing British ships haven''t diminished his hatred or made him forget his blood vow. And when a capricious fate makes him a peer of the realm, he returns to England armed with an ingenious scheme to befriend and destroy three of the most powerful men in London.Everyone in Paris knows her as the radiant actress Monique Fremont. But beneath the costumes and makeup, Merry Anders lives only for revenge. When an important role takes her to London, she has her chance to take down "the Group." But she finds the seductive Marquess of Manchester a distraction. How could she be so irresistibly attracted to her enemies'' friend? Playing a dangerous game, Merry must decide whether to risk it all for love.

The most wanted desperado in Texas and the young woman he must betray to save his own life are unlikely lovers in this passionate, fast-paced historical romance by award-winning author Patricia PotterHis enemies call him Diablo, but once he was a captain in the Confederate army. Kane O''Brien is now a condemned convict facing death. His only hope of survival is to become a spy for the Yankees, who need him to infiltrate and destroy a notorious outlaw hideout. But in the Sanctuary, he meets a spirited beauty who makes him think twice about his mission.Nicky Thompson wants only to escape the Sanctuary, the place that was once a haven for her and her brother, and never look back—until the deadly outlaw Diablo seeks refuge there. The sensual, scarred stranger awakens powerful yearnings in her that threaten her independent spirit.As desire ignites into a dangerous passion, Nicky begins a perilous journey during which she must entrust her life to an irresistible man whose terrible secret may doom them both.