Book #1 of the Last Stand Series
Read the first chapter of Trust Me.
"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative"
Woody Allen
Grandpa Garnier used to say: Love is like a bucking bronco. It takes guts and determination to hang on, but it’s worth the ride.
If only Grandpa was around now to help Tyson Garnier out of this mess. The famous pro football player is suddenly saddled with a very public scandal--and an illegitimate child. Tyson needs a good nanny now if he’s going to salvage his career. And plain, no-nonsense Dakota Brown is the ideal candidate. (Read More...)
"Elizabeth O'Connell has survived one of the worst betrayals a wife can imagine. Finding out that she wasn't the only woman in her husband's life meant the end of her marriage and a year of personal hell. Now she's focusing on her new business and raising her two kids.
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Sometimes Mr. Right couldn't be more wrong...
Thanks to a devastating revelation about her husband, Reenie Holbrook's once-perfect marriage is over. For eleven years she had the life she wanted--and now it's gone.
Sometimes Mr. Wrong couldn't be more right...
Reenie decides that the first step in recovering from her ordeal is to find work; after all, she has three young children to support. She's thrilled when she lands a job at Dundee High teaching math--until Isaac Russell, the man who triggered the unraveling of her marriage, accepts a temporary position teaching science. Then she's tempted to quit. Reenie doesn't care if the whole town admires Isacc...and she won't admit that, secretly, she admires him, too. She doesn't want to see him or his sister in "her" town.
But a friendship with the most unlikely woman leads to a relationship with the most unlikely man... (Read More)
Gabe Holbrook had it all. He was intelligent, handsome, talented, rich - one of best quarterbacks in the NFL. Now he's come home to the small town where he was raised, but he's a stranger to the people who once knew him. A car accident changed his life, destroying in one second everything he'd been or ever wanted to be. Folks think he's bitter and withdrawn, a hermit living in a remote cabin; he knows he's just focused on recovering. But, thanks to Hannah Price, there are some things that can't be fixed... (Read More)
If it weren't for bad luck, she'd have no luck at all....
When Lucky Caldwell was ten, her mother, Red - the best-known hooker in Dundee, Idaho - married Morris Caldwell, a wealthy and much older man. It didn't last, of course, but Morris's kindness was the highlight of Lucky's life. (Read More)
Katie Rogers feels like a human boomerang when she returns to Dundee, Idaho disillusioned, broke and pregnant. She was going to broaden her horizons and make something of her life in the big city. Instead she's paying a high price for trusting the wrong man. (Read More)
Thirty-two-year-old Rebecca Wells is desperately trying to overcome her reputation for being high-strung and unpredictable. She wants to marry and settle down, start over with a clean slate and - deep down - hopes to finally gain the approval of her father. (Read More)
Delaney Lawson knows what it's like to feel indebted. Orphaned at the age of six, she was raised by Aunt Millie and Uncle Ralph, with a little help from the small Idaho community of Dundee where they live, and feels as though she must repay them for their love and generosity by being the "good girl" they've always expected her to be-the good girl she's always been. But her best friend and housemate is marrying and moving away and, at thirty, she's beginning to feel the constraints of her staid life. (Read More)
Ten years ago, Hope Tanner escaped from the polygamist colony where she was born and raised. She was only sixteen at the time, and pregnant, but she managed to find refuge in Enchantment, New Mexico, where Lydia Kane, owner of The Birth Place, took her in.
Hope had her baby in Enchantment, and put the child up for adoption, then spent the next several, difficult years getting an education, learning to appreciate her new freedom, and finally working as an obstetrics nurse. At twenty-seven, the last thing she wants is go back to Superior and face down the people from her past, especially her father and the man she refused to marry - her own uncle. But she has a sister who wants out, and she's determined to help her...
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Harley Nelson is the last man on earth Lauren Worthington wants to find on her doorstep. Not only did he get her older sister Audra pregnant in high school, he abandoned her and left town, never to be heard from again. Until now.
It's ten years later and things have changed. Audra was killed in a drunk driving accident six months earlier and, along with the support of her parents, the single Lauren is raising her nephew. Audra was never the same after her affair with Harley anyway. Addicted to drugs and alcohol, she went into a steady decline that ended with her death, and Lauren and her parents hold Harley responsible.
But Harley has his own version of the story, and with her parents in Europe, Lauren is left to deal with the situation alone....
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Jaclyn Wentworth is on her own with three little kids. She used to be married to a golden boy - former golden boy - of their small Nevada town. The marriage was a disaster because her ex-husband never grew up. And he sure wasn't much of a daddy.
Now Jaclyn's living in Reno. And who, of all people, does she run into there but Cole Perrini, bad boy of Feld, Nevada. FORMER bad boy. He was her ex-husband's opposite in every way - and he still is. Because Cole's made good in every sense of the word.
Will Jaclyn and her children get the husband and father they deserve? Not a Scrooge, but a Santa! (Read More)
What Maggie does... Maggie Russell, a police reporter in Sacramento, works the night shift. She's divorced and the mother of a very active three-year-old son. Maggie may not have much time for a social life, but she's recently begun an e-mail correspondence with a man named John.
What Maggie knows... She's finally stumbled on the big crime story that will truly establish her career - if it doesn't end her life. A serial killer who moves from one city to the next. A murderer who chooses a female reporter and writes her letters . . . before he kills her. (Read More)
Thad Winters is a thirty-two-year-old widower who has lost his wife and unborn child in a car accident. After living for eighteen months feeling detached and alone, he decides a child would help fill the void in his heart. He plans to replace, as closely as he can, the baby that was taken from him. To do that, he needs the perfect woman. But he believes he can find her. . for the right price.
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When Chantel Miller gets lost during an unexpected snowstorm, a stranger named Dillon Broderick rescues her. In the hours they spend together they become very close and the intimacy of that night creates a special bond between them.
But real life intervenes. The woman Chantel was on her way to see is her sister, Stacy. They've been estranged for ten years and Chantel is determined to regain her affection. The woman Dillon was on his way to see is . . . Stacy. They've been friends for some time but now there's an added complication. Stacy's in love with him... (Read More)
She's pregnant by her ex-husband. A man she has reason to fear....
With her son, Ryan, Jenna's moved back to Mendocino where she's living and working at the Victorian Bed and Breakfast. It's owned by the elderly Durhams - whose grandson, Adam, was her first love. And, in some ways, her last.... But that was fifteen years ago, before Adam abandoned her and his family for the bright lights and big city. For a successful career and a fast track life.
When Adam and Jenna rediscover each other, he wants her back. But as much as Jenna knows she could love him again, she also knows there are too many obstacles between them. Too much history. Too many expectations. And now...her baby. (Read More)