Katherine Stone

A trio of heartwarming romances features Debbie Macomber's "5-B Poppy Lane," in which Ruth Shelton, while asking for advice on her own romance with a soldier, stumbles upon a secret from her grandmother's past. Presents three stories that center around grandmothers who were all married to soldiers and who pass on advice about love, separation, and wartime experience to their granddaughters.

Ten years ago, Sophie Beaumont had watched as her twin sister, Shelly, had chosen to marry a Canfield man, bear his children and be mistress of his manor.

Imagine moonlight and roses. And London and Paris. And the intoxicating magic of a Louisiana bayou. Then journey with acclaimed storyteller Katherine Stone on this breathtaking voyage of danger, courage, and love. They met beside the brilliant blue bayou. She was an innocent girl, and he was a reckless and angry boy. Claire Chamberlain believed in dreams, and Cole Taylor believed in nothing at all. Cole had no reason to believe—until her. They pledged their love beneath the silver winter moon. But the hopes of Cole and Claire were destined to be drowned in blood.Now, twelve years later, Cole has returned to Harlanville. He has found fame as a singer of love songs. And Claire? Her life has changed, irrevocably, yet she has found a private peace—such a fragile one that Cole's very presence shatters her precarious serenity. And now Cole is asking her to do the impossible, to come away with him, to London. Claire knows he will break her heart again. But she will be with him, she has to be, for as long as she can bear the pain. Claire's is not the only endangered heart in London. A murderer has sent Lady Sarah Pembroke an engraved Valentine invitation—to her own death. And is Claire's girlhood friend afraid of the knife-wielding monster? Hardly. The Global News's star correspondent, the woman who feels oddly sane amid the madness of war, has her own private demons, memories far more fearsome than a murderer who chooses the most romantic day of the year to inflict his lethal terror. But neither Sarah's past nor the killer stalking her are as terrifying as Jack Dalton, the FBI consultant determined to save Sarah's life. Jack needs Sarah's help in his exhaustive, careful search for clues. But remarkably, and infuriatingly, Sarah resists. Sarah will not tell Jack the intimate information he needs to know. She cannot. And yet it is as if he already knows her anguished secrets, cares for her more than he should, and wants more from Lady Sarah Pembroke than she can ever give.

In Hong Kong's magnificent Jade Palace Hotel, a meeting ground for the country's elite, West and East collide in the glamorous persons of Allison Whitaker and the sister she never knew, when their love affairs draw them together.

Two women--beautiful, successful Raven, still suffering from an ugly childhood, and romance writer Holly, struggling to build a new identity--cross paths as they search for love, happiness, and happy endings in Hollywood.

Alexandra and Catherine Taylor are sisters—and strangers. Each longs for the closeness they have never had, never knowing how to reach out to the other and discovering, when at last they decide to try, that it is almost too late . . . for shocking secrets, inner demons, and tragic loves stand in their way. As the star of Pennsylvania Avenue, TV’s hottest primetime drama, Alexa has it all, beauty, fame, and fortune. Her off-screen life is even more dramatic. She's in love with a powerful man who cannot promise her more than their secret nights of pleasure. Alexa accepts this compromise without question, not knowing that her clandestine passion will drive a deeper wedge between herself and Catherine. Gifted concert pianist Catherine has always let her music shield her from the world. But even her magnificent gift, and her beloved music, cannot shield her from the devastating truth of who she is, and who she is not. Catherine hides the terrible secret, even as she searches for answers. Her courageous journey will take her to a glittering Mediterranean isle...and into the arms of a man who will make her whole. Desire and heartbreak, passion and love. Alexa and Catherine must travel those perilous journeys of the heart before they can be the sisters they want to be and find the happiness that awaits them both at the end of their rainbows.

At San Francisco's exclusive Carlton Club, Mark, a dedicated young doctor and husband to Janet, becomes romantically involved with Kathleen, a society debutante, and Leslie, a brilliant physician.

Stanford University, California... Carrie is a wide-eyed freshman when she arrives at the university she has heard about all her life. She believes she knows what to expect. And her big brother Stephen is there to lean on if she needs help. But she is unprepared for the monumental changes—and monumental emotions—she will experience. She is also unprepared for Jake. Gorgeous, seductive, and deadly, Jake is a man of dark secrets and hidden dreams. He is all wrong for the innocent and optimistic Carrie, but she becomes part of his secrets and his dreams. But will he ever permit her into the deepest places of his badly wounded heart? Megan is Carrie's roommate. Golden and beautiful, the gifted actress can dazzle and pretend even as her heart is breaking and her world is falling apart. The decision she makes will result in a crisis that will reunite them all—and open unhealed wounds and smoldering passions. Once entwined, the lives and the loves of the roommates will be forever entwined. And those lives and loves will be as turbulent and courageous and shimmering as the extraordinary world in which they live.

Bestselling author Katherine Stone, whose novels have enchanted readers worldwide, now sweeps you from Venice to Denver and from New Orleans to Carmel in her enthralling new novel. Here is an unforgettable story of love . . . For Boston-proper librarian Ana Finch, life has been quiet, certain, safe, until an incident at a wedding changes everything. The headaches begin then, as does the bone-chilling cold. She feels compelled to move from Boston to Denver, even though the Rocky Mountain city is a place she's never been. As if summoned by an unknown force of nature, she finds herself urgently searching for something, an elusive something that promises to be as wonderful and glorious as an impossible dream. Denver architect Pierce Rourke believes in dreams--for others. And in love . . . only for others. The Island, his Island, is proof of his belief. It is there, on rock as white as snow and amid fountains spun from molten glass, that he's created a setting to be used exclusively for weddings, for the celebration of the vows and promises of love. Pierce's work is his passion. He's not looking for anything more. But then there she is, Ana. The dream he never knew. Wonderful. Glorious. Impossible--unless the man who has built a palace for the dreams of others and the woman who has never dared to dream for herself can find, together, a way to triumph over destiny. . .