Peggy Hanchar

THEY CAME FROM DIFFERENT WORLDS, AND FOUND A LOVE THAT WOULD BECOME A LEGEND.... Standing bound and dirty on the auction block, Swan Necklace, daughter of Red Hawke, chief of the Cree, remained proud and defiant. Struck by her beauty and courage, Scottish fur trader James McLeod vowed to return the captive princess to her people. But as their perilous trek through the Northwest Territory began, desire and destiny became one. Though Swan Necklace was promised to another, she surrendered to ecstasy in the arms of the rugged Scotsman she called White Falcon. His warrior's soul found a home in the land of the Cree, and he challenged his fiercest rival to claim Swan Necklace for his own. Though danger shadowed their lives, their faith in each other was unshakable. Together they triumphed in a love that would not be denied....

Dear Reader ... All the Sherbrooke clan are alive, well, and in rip-roaring spirits in August of 1815. Two months after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, Tysen Sherbrooke, the youngest of the three brothers, now thirty-one years old, a vicar, a widower, and the father of three children, has just been told by the earl that he's become the new Baron Barthwick of Kildrummy Castle in Scotland. Tysen Sherbrooke feels it is his duty to visit his new holdings. His ten-year-old daughter, Meggie, insists she should accompany him. Tysen refuses, but Meggie is blessed with a full measure of Sherbrooke resolve, and a wily plan of action... Devout, thoughtful, honorable to his soul, Tysen's narrow, sober world explodes when he steps into a beehive of complications - facing down dreadful people who would as willingly slit his English throat as look at him. Then the Local Bastard, Mary Rose Fordyce, a remarkable young woman blessed with a soft, steady heart and a courageous spirit, comes unexpectedly into his life, in desperate need of his protection. The Sherbrooke Brides - 6

Fiercely loyal to her tribe and its heritage, Crow woman Raven vows to avenge the death of her father, killed by a white man, by killing the next white man who comes her way.

After saving her from a crowd issuing rash cries of witchcraft, Thane Campbell is all that stands between Gillian and those who demand her death. But Gillian is a MacGregor, and Thane Campbell is her sworn enemy. Yet he infuses her with rapturous desire and sweeps her back to the home that was once hers--before a stroke of King James's pen had bestowed all MacGregor lands on the hated Campbells. She captured him in her spell, this bewitching ebony-haired beauty. He knows nothing of her past, except that she is an innocent and that she has stolen his heart. But soon Thane will be forced to choose between his love and promises made in blood. Somehow, he must harness the magic of love to claim this enchantress. . . .

PASSION IS WITHOUT CONSCIENCE... PRIDE IS WITHOUT REASON-- AND DESIRE IS A DREAMER Lainie Gautier's beauty threatened to betray her into a loveless marriage -- the price of her return from the shores of Imperial France to her Florida plantation home, rich with childhood's fragrant memories. But her bold flight for freedom thrust her into a pirate's arms. Rikkar -- dark, silver-eyed master of her heart, man of mystery, as at home at the glittering plantation fetes as among the marauding Seminoles. He captured her heart forever in a single whirling night of fevered desire. But the promise he made was shattered, leaving a hatred as consuming as her love... Strange fortune had made him her husband, y she refused his passionate love. For her wounded pride promised that revenge was sweeter still, but fate made its own promise -- that what was sweetest was yet to come...

Beautiful blonde Bree Rikker was a proud and spirited Southern Belle who had scorned all suitors when she was captured by a savage Seminole Indian war party. Shocaw's was the strongest and bravest of all Seminole warrior chiefs, obeyed by every Seminole woman. In Shocaw's arms, Bree learned what it was to truly be a woman. In Bree's embrace, Shocaw learned what it was to ttruly love one. Together they had to face the anger of Shocaw's people and the hatred of Bree's. But they never relinquished their romantic dreams of the intensity of their forbidden desire. And against chilling odds, they plunged to the depths of danger that only their burning passion could hope to conquer...

"I'll never leave you," Gaby said. And as her soft, petal-like kisses captured his mouth, she gave self up to the desire that exploded at his touch.... Exquisitely beautiful Gabrielle Reynaud met Rayne Elliot in the Court of Angels, the legendary New Orleans house of ill-fame where she had been raised. This handsome, rugged Texas rancher had been handpicked as her first client to initiate her into a life of paid pleasure. Instead she fell in love with Rayne and left the sultry southern city for a future with him. But could the passion that brought them together keep them together when there were so many who could not forget or forgive her past? Gaby needed all the fiery force of love and all her daring and courage to win the gamble that her heart had made....

HIS GLOWING DARK EYES REFLECTED HER OWN HEART'S DESIRE Broken and beaten by the treacherous South Dakota trial that had taken the lives of all she knew and loved, Colly Mead bravely pushed on -- until she could go no more. She surrendered to the savage land, ready to meet her Maker -- not the tall Cheyenne warrior who found the -- skinny, filthy, near-dead white woman with the strange light eyes and hair that twisted an leapt like flames. Mutual fear and mistrust gradually turned to respect as Colly, now called Spotted Woman, learned the ways of the Cheyenne. But she was unprepared for the sensations evoked by Lone Wolf, whose dark eyes had gazed deep into her soul and found the secrets she could not deny. Although danger and treachery would threaten their world together, their love would forge a dream for both their peoples -- a dream as golden and glorious as the promise of their hearts.

Beautiful and indomitable Wild Sage is Comanche, adopted by the tribe as a child. But in her veins flows the blood of the white man, enemy of her people. Betrothed to the fierce warrior chief Two Wolves, Wild Sage sees her world change in an instant when the U.S. Army descends brutally upon her village. She is captured by Caleb Hunter, a white man who will not rest until every Comanche is on a reservation -- dead or alive. Now Wild Sage must adjust to the ways of the white man. And as her past begins to come into focus, so does her love for Caleb -- a man she has sworn to kill, but now dares to love...

Melanie was desperate to get her revenge on Roland Donavan, the man who had caused the death of her grandfather, had driven away her wellborn fiance, and so brazenly ravished her in a night of madness--so she married him. But at Roland's magnificent plantation on on the fashionable streets of New Orelans, Melanie was tossed into a maze of seething intrigue and dangerous seductions. And try though she might, she was unable to resist the awakening of a sweet ache that grew more incessant with her husband's demanding caress.... Silver-Tongued Devil (Louisiana Plantation Collection, #1) Midnight Waltz (Louisiana Plantation Collection, #2) Arrow to the Heart (Louisiana Plantation Collection, #3) Tender Betrayal (Louisiana Plantation Collection, #4)

Kansas McKay could feel Cole Slater's desire stirring her own buried passions. But she couldn't forget the heartbreak and humiliation of running from the town and the man who'd always see her as a whore's daughter. Here in Virginia City, where she'd escaped to make a new life, her grace, her style, and her .22-caliber derringer made her place, the Kansas Palace, into the greatest gambling hall in the most notorious town this side of the Rockies. Beautiful and generous, she'd won the love and respect of the rough Nevada mining town. Still it wasn't enough. She longed to be a lady of virtue in the eyes of the only man she'd ever love. Then the new sheriff rode into town, Cole Slater. A man tough enough to tame this lawless boomtown...and tender enough to stake his claim on the love of Kansas McKay...

LADIES DIDN'T COME ANY FANCIER THAN MISS FANCY BOURNE.... Coop Fletcher had fought hard against the odds to make a small empire for himself in the lawless lands of Colorado. But what the rugged, silver-eyed rancher craved was the kind of respect a highborn woman would bring. Miss Francine Bourne never intended to be a mail-order bride. But Coop Fletcher was the best -- and only -- rescue for an actress down on her luck. He believed he had a genuine lady at his side. Well, she could play a gentle-born Southern belle with her eyes closed. Fancy could fool Coop Fletcher -- and even the most uppity citizens of Elizabethtown. But try as she might, she couldn't fool herself. The passion that her husband's demanding kiss ignited was so completely wanton -- and not ladylike at all....

The roaring Yukon in the human floodtide of the gold rush was no proper place for an innocent young lady, especially one as temptingly beautiful as redheaded Kate O'Riley. Yet Kate was determined to be with her father there, despite all he could say to warn her off. She thought she was prepared to withstand all perils on this savage frontier, from the fiery lusts of men to the freezing forces of nature. But when fate made her the wife-in-name-only to handsome, danger-loving Hogan O'Shea, she found that a woman's desires could match a man's . . . and that burning passion could turn an ice kingdom of gold into a dazzling realm of love . . .

Aimee Bonham was a beautiful young innocent in a world of lust and greed, forced to flee her home to avoid the shame her corrupt faher had brought upon her family. And only reckless, handsome Zack Crawford offered his aid--and the dazzling ecstasy of love.