Peggy Webb

The lord of every woman's secret dreams, he branded her his with a touch. . . . "Where am I?" Lydia Star begged of the dangerously appealing stranger whose dark eyes studied her carefully. "Camelot," he answered softly, and she knew it was true-and impossible! Transported across time by her own longing and an ancient ring, she found herself prisoner in a knight's castle . . . and stunned by her desire for her captor. Could this enigmatic warrior be the keeper of her soul, and she his spirit's mate for all eternity? Peggy Webb's creative talents shine in this utterly irresistible, sensual dream of a romance. He made her shameless with longing and tempted her with every forbidden pleasure he knew, but could the hero who'd possessed her with each tender caress survive the journey to his heart's true home?

"Drawing on many revealing and sometimes colorful court cases of the past two centuries, Private Lives offers a lively short history of the complexities of family law and family life - including the tensions between the laws on the books and contemporary arrangements for marriage, divorce, adoption, and child rearing."--Jacket.

TAMING A SAVAGE LOVE... Twenty years ago, Hunter Wolfe vanished in Denali, Alaska, after a near-fatal plane crash...and was never found. Until sexy photojournalist Hannah Westmoreland, hot on the trail of a story, discovered a rugged man amongst the snow-capped mountains...then took him home. Secluded in her remote cabin, Hannah and Hunter spent their days discovering a primal passion as fierce and fiery as the midsummer sun. And it was Hannah's relentless love that slowly brought Hunter back to civilization. But when society made her lone Wolfe feel like a caged animal, would Hannah set him free, forsaking the only love she'd ever known?

What happens when two women swap lives?Soap Opera Star Gloria Hart: After losing her celebrated soap opera role, she winds up crashing her Ferrari Spider and getting stranded in Mooreville, Mississippi. Will America's TV goddess discover the role of her life with handsome rancher Matt Tucker playing the leading man? After all, he's the first man she's kissed off camera in over five years!Married Mom Jenny Miller: Up to her ears in pies she bakes for her husband's restaurant and the trials of an angst-ridden teenager, she's lost touch with herself. Can her budding friendship with Gloria change that? With a few margaritas, a memorable road trip and a little help from each other, these women are about to find friendship, love and their own secret goddesses!

(A Southern Cousins Mystery #3) Elvis--the king of sleuthing basset hounds--is back in this third mystery as he, Callie Valentine Jones, and the gang head to Memphis to keep Mama out of trouble at the regional dance competition. But someone is knocking off dancers, so Callie goes undercover to catch a killer.

They say you can’t get to Heaven without passing through the Eternal Rest Funeral Home. And no one gets into Eternal Rest without passing muster with Elvis—the basset hound who’s convinced he’s the reincarnation of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Brewing up a big ol’ pitcher of Mississippi mystery, Peggy Webb’s delightful new series is as intoxicating as the Delta breeze. Normally, Callie Valentine Jones spends her days fixing up the hairdos of the dead, but when the corpse of local, prominent physician Dr. Leonard Laton goes missing, it’s bad for business. So Callie and her oversexed cousin Lovie (Eternal Rest’s resident wake caterer) have no choice but to go in hot pursuit of the recently embalmed, last seen bound for Vegas by way of downtown Tupelo. Now Elvis may be nothin’ but a hound dog, but he knows a mystery when he smells one. But keeping his human mom from wandering off the trail isn’t easy when she’s back in the arms of her on-again, off-again ex, Jack. Not to mention the angry mourners squabbling over the estate of the late doctor inside the not-so-restful halls of Eternal Rest. Or the French poodle sniffing around for a hunk of Elvis’ burning love…In Vegas, Callie and Lovie hit the jackpot when they find the dearly departed inside a freezer owned by his showgirl mistress, Bubble Malone. But they’re luck runs out when Bubble decides to join her man in the afterlife. With the poisonous Laton family tree providing plenty of rotten suspects, Callie’s determined to crack this case—with a little help from that irresistible piece of man she used to call her husband—and have a killer singing “Jailhouse Rock” in time for her next haircutting appointment.Peggy Webb is the bestselling author of more than sixty novels. A former adjunct lecturer at Mississippi State University, she has won numerous writing awards, composes blues songs on her vintage baby grand and shares her home in Tupelo, Mississippi, with her chocolate Lab and a quirky muse who channels Elvis

MAN... When Tyler West heard the traveling circus in Tulipville was a 'hotbed of corruption,' he knew he had to go there. And when he saw gorgeous elephant trainer Catherine DeChello, he decided to invest in some peanuts, and fast! WOMAN... Catherine had joined the circus to get away from men just like Tyler -- sexy men who were all too aware of their own appeal. Tyler seemd sincere, but she was determined to keep her heart intact -- this was one animal she wasn't about to handle! ELEPHANT?! Then Catherine's prize elephant, Angel, disappeared. Catherine was convinced that her baby had been stolen. The only man she could count on was Tyler -- and he was more than willing to get into the act.

With a die-hard romantic mother bent on playing matchmaker, the results were bound to be explosive. Matt Coltrane's mother invited him home to O'Banyon Manor to spend some good old-fashioned Southern time with her. But once there, love-wary Matt couldn't help but notice how often he was left alone with his mothers guest, the captivating and beautiful Sandi Wentworth. Sandi had been burned a few times by love herself, yet she couldn't help but be attracted to the kind-hearted man she found beneath Matt's brooding exterior. Matt and Sandi could not have had less in common other than the intense passion that seemed to stir every time they were together!

Striving to forget an unhappy past and the forbidden passion she feels for her new brother-in-law, Ruth Bellafontaine tries to dedicate herself to her husband's work with African gorillas and finds she cannot deny her feelings for Brett.

Keen Malone couldn't believe his ears when Meg O'Neill turned him down for a loan! Determined to make the cool beauty understand that his wildlife center was the mountain's only hope, he persuaded her to tour the site-but would she capture his soul in the bargain? Meg couldn't deny the exquisite beauty of the land he swore to protect, but how long could she fight the longing to run wild in his arms? Sending her rugged hero on a quest to save a pristine paradise and win the spirited lady who holds the key to its future, RaeAnne Thayne has created a classic romance of two strangers who discover they share the same fierce desire. In a perfect setting for seduction, could Meg refuse to surrender to a handsome rebel with a cause?

An unforgettable love story...From the very beginning when the heroine, an animal rights activist, rows her little canoe into the middle of the river and blows her trumpet to scare the ducks away from the hunter's guns, you know that this is a special book. As you might guess, the hero is a hunter.

"It's two times the turmoil for mayhem magnet Callie, her curvaceous cousin Lovie, and Elvis, the King reincarnated as nothin' but a hound dog. This time they're finding a lot more than relics on an archeological dig that could truly be their ruin ... Forced to choose between one man who wants to marry her and another who already did, Callie Valentine Jones can't think of a better way to check out of her personal Heartbreak Hotel then to get way, way out of town. So when Lovie invites the whole Valentine clan to visit her brainy new beau's worksite near Cozumel, Callie packs up her crooning basset hound and heads straight for the airport --- But the moment they arrive at the dig, Elvis sniffs out T-R-O-U-B-L-E, in the form of a skeleton too fresh to be part of the research and too dead to spell anything but homicide. Suspicious minds blame ghosts and gods, but Callie knows the guilty party is all too human --- and for once, she's determined not to get involved. That determination goes right out the window when Lovie and Elvis go missing. It's now or never, if Callie wants to save her cousin and her canine from someone who's got murder always on his mind. And when her sexy ex arrives to save the day, she'll have to keep her head together, because her love won't wait --- but neither will a killer with something deadly to hide."--Page 4 of cover.

Hannah Donovan was a sexy wildcat of a woman, Jim Roman decided as she pointed her rifle at his chest--definitely a quarry worthy of his hunt! With a devilish, devastating smile, the rugged columnist began his conquest of this sexy Annie Oakley by kissing her with expert, knowing lips... and Hannah felt wicked, wanton as passion branded her cool scientist's heart. Jim wore power and danger like a cloak, challenged and intrigued her as few men ever had--but she had to show him she couldn't be tamed... or possessed--even by a fierce and savage warrior whose lips spoke the same wild and hungry language hers did. No man could be allowed to stand between Hannah and her Alaskan research, but how long could she resist temptation? Jim had always insisted he wanted a sweet, old-fashioned girl to love and protect, but this witch of satin and steel had turned his dreams upside down. Could they stop fighting destiny and each other long enough to bridge their separate worlds?

When television producer Alice Spencer announced, "I need a man!" and headed down to the Boston harbor to find her perfect specimen, she only planned to hire her "catch" for a series of commercials. She hadn't figured on falling for Lancelot, the gorgeously virile ramblin' man with the hazy past. On location in the steamy Yucatan jungles Lance dazzled her senses, drawing her from her protective shell and releasing the passionate woman beneath the very proper exterior. But the lover who opened his heart to her under the tropical moon wasn't quite the steadfast knight she'd longed for. Could she persuade her beguiling vagabond to forsake the open road for the haven of her arms?