Joyce Thies

FARMER'S DAUGHTER Something wasn't right on the Courteau Pig Farm. The FBI had evidence that pointed to Patricia Courteau being a Mafia hit woman--but one glimpse of Tricia had a lump bigger than all Iowa in G-man Paul Lansing's throat. Either this angel-faced woman was a darn good actress or she was as innocent as a newborn piglet. Tricia knew something was amiss with her temporary hired hand from the moment they met. Paul Lansing had city slicker written all over him, from his "come hither" smile to his fur-lined boots. Despite her reservations, Paul's roguish good looks had Tricia's heart thundering. He was a man worth going hog-wild over.

Robert wants nothing more than to become a serious art historian. But his hopes for a staid academic life are put on hold when he's driven from London to Venice to escape one lover and seek out another: the enigmatic Bulgarian refugee Lina Pancev. In Venice, Robert encounters a grand carnival of lust, lies, blackmail, cocktail parties, and regicide. As he chases Lina, his heart's desire, the city itself provides a priceless education in love, art, and beauty. Witty yet elegant, Territorial Rights is a celebration of human imperfection and complexity, with as many shifting identities, wardrobe changes, and sumptuous settings as a comic opera.

The Ultimate Cowboy - where was he? When Kerry Armstrong went to visit her family's Montana ranch, she couldn't deny her disappointment at her suit-clad cousins. But foreman Conlan Fox, part American Indian and a true pioneer, was everything she dreamed of. Long before she knew it, he'd captured heart... One look at Kertry's delicate beauty told Conlan she wasn't for him. In order to fulfill his dream, he needed someone as tough as the land he meant to tame. But when Kerry was willing to wrestle a punch-drunk grizzly in order to prove her love, Conlan realized she was also strong enough to be his dream come true...

Comes a drifter to a windswept island...He wanted to tell her everything. About the lost years that had changed him from a desperate young boy into a man hardened by life. About the night he'd sold his soul for a woman who wasn't worth the price....But Jackson Underhill said nothing. After all, he was an outlaw, clearly on the run—reason enough for silence.The truth was Dr. Leah Mundy scared him. She made him want to trust again, to share his burden. She made him want a home, a family. And it was dangerous to want such things. Because the past would find him if he stayed—and there could be no future with a woman who would not leave.

MAIL-ORDER MARRIAGE After living through an arctic night, it had been easy for Jeremy Kincaid's buddies to talk him into signing up for a mail-order bride. But from the moment he saw her getting off a plan, he knew the cold must have frozen his good sense. Whoever heard of marrying someone you didn't even know? Yet the instant Maddy batted her baby blue eyes, he was lost. Never mind the subzero temperatures, Maddy generated a heat that chased away the most blustery chill!