Bethany Campbell

Roasamond Vivian, a young girl living with her bitter grandfather, yearns for excitement. When Phillip Tempest pays a visit, Rosamond finds herself charmed by him, though he is nearly twice her age and quite obviously "not a saint." She declares that she would gladly pay a price for happiness, and, thinking that she might change him with her love, marries Tempest a month later. She has no idea just how she'll pay for her decision. The plot is obviously Faustian, with references throughout to Mephistopheles; early in the novel, Rosamond says, "I often feel as if I'd gladly sell my soul to Satan for a year of freedom."

Beautiful, irrepressible Miranda doesn't mean to attract attention; she just does. The problem is she's a senator's daughter, and while the press loves her high jinks, her father hates them. Worse, her antics draw threatening letters from an unknown stalker. Her exasperated father banishes her to rural Arkansas for her own safety. Miranda finds herself under the grudging protection of Quint Wilcox, a rugged veterinarian who's unreadable, unfriendly--and devastatingly handsome. Quint's Flirtation River hideaway is a rehabilitation center for wounded and orphaned wildlife. He makes it clear he prefers his animal charges to this woman he sees only as a shallow party doll. They seem hopeless opposites until they are brought closer by an unlikely group of matchmakers--including a litter of orphaned foxes and a purse full of baby squirrels. FLIRTATION RIVER was Bethany Campbell's first novel to win the Romance Writers of America RITA Award. Readers of Romantic Times magazine remembered the story well enough even twenty years later to vote it among the Best 1001 Romances written.

She was a princess frozen by a spell At least, that was how Connor Munroe described Gina Calvino. Gina refused to believe that her hometown was dying. She refused to sell her family's secret combination of spaghetti sauce spices--no matter how much money was offered. And she refused to be unfaithful to Loren--her fiance who had died five years earlier. Connor knew it was going to take more than his kisses to thaw Gina Calvino. But could a man who'd never stayed in one place wait around? Could Gina add the spice that was so obviously missing from his life?

The answer can kill you... From Bethany Campbell, the nationally bestselling author of Don't Talk to Strangers and Hear No Evil, comes a roller-coaster ride of relentless suspense in the tradition of Joy Fielding and Mary Higgins Clark...a grippingly paced thriller that dares to ask the question...Whose Little Girl Are You? With one phone call, Jaye Garrett's life has turned into a nightmare. The beautiful and successful Boston businesswoman has been summoned to her childhood home to receive shocking news. Her brother, Patrick, has fallen desperately ill and needs a bone marrow transplant to survive. But when Jaye volunteers as a donor, she is stunned to learn that Patrick is not her biological brother. And that the emotionally frail woman who raised them from infanthood is not their biological mother. To answer the dark mystery of her own identity and to save her brother's life, Jaye must ask herself the question, Whose little girl are you? The answer is more shocking than she can ever imagine. For at the end of a trail of lies, secrets, and tragedy stretching thirty years into the past is a mysterious woman whose resemblance to Jaye Garrett marks Jaye as the killer's next victim.

The Halesboro Speedway has been in Lori Garland's family for generations. And thanks to a last-minute offer, she may be able to save the debt-ridden race track. Then she discovers who her mystery buyer is-sports agent Kane Ledger, the bad-boy rebel she loved and lost.The guy from the wrong side of the tracks likes being in the driver's seat for the first time in his life. Now Kane can show his North Carolina hometown-and the girl who turned her back on him-what a success he has become. But seeing Lori again is opening old wounds...and rekindling desire. Is history about to repeat itself? Or can Kane and Lori restore the race track to its former glory and become the winning team they were meant to be?

HE WAS NOTORIOUS AND DANGEROUS ... SHE WAS PRIMLY PROPER AND BEAUTIFUL ... With his six-shooter slung low on his hips and his bold, lazy smile, Slade Maverick looked as if he were riding to a showdown. Rachel Wilder couldn't believe the famous gunslinger had come to Wichita to care for three orphaned children. She didn't trust him for a minute! But she trembled every time he came near, dreamed of his kisses and knew, deep in her heart, that he was the one she would long for all the days of her life ...

Though she wanted a family of her own, love seemed so unreliable to busy bakery owner Ava McKaslin. Baking and honoring her faith were all she had on her life's to-do list. Until she hired Brice Donovan as her contractor. And her best-laid plans flew out the window! He'd long adored Ava from afar. Now that she needed his help, Brice wanted to show her how joyful life could be when there was love. He--and he hoped, the Lord--had big plans to give this special woman all the happiness she deserved.

"COME HOME AND MARRY DENNIS." That's what her mother insisted after Dinah MacNeil announced she'd be postponing her wedding. But Dinah was going to Nashville to help one of her students get his start in the country-music business. Dinah thought he'd need protection from men such as Mitch Carey- the enigmatic new owner of Diamond Horseshoe Records-who'd no doubt exploit the boy's talents. But it was Dinah who needed protection from Mitch. The man sent her emotions whirling-threw her life off balance in just twenty-four hours!

She'd seen the omen of change Kimberly was too wrapped up in heartache to give much thought to the significance of a ghost-white squirrel's appearance. But Australian folklorist Alec Shaughnessy's presence was another matter. She resented him for forcing her to see that the feelings she'd once called love were as insubstantial as shadows. Just as she resented him for encouraging her aunt to reminisce about her youth at the court of a powerful Indian rajah, where greed and treachery had surrounded the mysterious disappearance of a priceless topaz. Change had come to Eureka Springs. Alec had brought it. And none of them might ever be the same again

'Whitewater--I hate you!' And she hated this 'fool ritual' that had sent her halfway around the world. But Piper Gordon had promised her grandmother that she'd return the centuries-old funeral necklace to Hawaii, as the law now demanded. Even if it meant destroying the beautiful object by sacrificing it to the goddess Pele. Even if it meant spending time with a man she was determined to dislike--David Whitewater, a man who had once ruthlessly prosecuted her grandmother. To Piper's fury, the Native American lawyer had been appointed to accompany her to Hawaii. But was it just David Whitewater and what he represented that disturbed Piper so deeply, or was it the growing attraction between them?

They were strangers in a seductive game of hide-and-seek.One by one, the women were disappearing. Each had been young, vulnerable...and each had been spending time on the Internet "chatting" with a mysteriousstranger. It was Carrie Blue's job to track down that stranger, to put herself on the Internet in the guise of a lonely young student, and to smoke out a cunningly seductive killer.But soon Carrie is drawn inexorably into a world where truth is indistinguishable from fiction, where fantasy and reality collide. It proves far more difficult than she ever could have imagined to resist the lure of a twisted mind--one that may already have figured out who Carrie is, and marked her as his next kill.From the Paperback edition.

SkyRim Ranch, in Bison County, Nebraska Abbie Hale--She's a rancher's daughter. She loves her family's ranch, loves the ranching life. But now that her grandfather's dead, her father's selling SkyRim, and this will be Abbie's last Christmas at the ranch. A Christmas that's going to be ruined by the absence of her almost-fiance, Lucky Gibbs--and by the presence of a stranger! Yates Connley--The stranger at SkyRim, the man who's come to appraise her grandfather's collections. But he's got another reason for being at the ranch--as Abbie starts to suspect. And she soon learns he's not the mild, city-bred man she first thought he was, either.... This Christmas at SkyRim brings changes to Abbie's life. And in Yates Connley, it stirs long-forgotten memories of another ranch....

Dante Mangino was a man committed to one thing: his job. A top security specialist, he had no ties to anyone, just the way he wanted. Falling for a client was strictly taboo. But his latest assignment was about to remind him that even a man like Dante had a weakness. And her name was Sara Vance. Mayor of her hometown, Sara needed protection against a stalker. But having the man who'd loved her and left her prowling around on guard simply wouldn't do. Dante was too intense. Too...tempting.And that would make her stalker very, very angry....