The alarm on Hallie's biological clock is buzzing. She's about to turn 30 and there's no prospects of marriage in sight. Hallie, an organized, goal-setting kind of person, decides to give herself a year to meet Mr. Right. But all her dates are disasters. Too bad she can't fall for her good-looking neighbor Steve. But he's busy trying to win back his ex-wife who's about to marry someone else. Life would be simpler if he could fall for someone else--like...

Tragedy had shattered Paul Manning's whole world - leaving him a grieving widower with three small children. Reeling from shock and grief Paul turns in desperation to the one person he knew he could count on: gentle caring Leah Baker. Slowly Leah eased his sorrow and filled his life with new meaning. Then Paul made an amazing discovery: he needed Leah and he wanted more than a stand-in wife. (Bestseller)

Rich Manning had known Jamie Warren forever. And he loved her -strictly as a friend. But all that changed the day Jamie asked him to be the father of her as-yet-unconceived child! Rich agreed on one condition: they marry. Suddenly, Rich was discovering a side of Jamie he'd never seen before, and was swept away by a passion sweeter than anything he'd ever known ... a passion that stunned his senses. But could he prove to the headstrong Mrs. Manning...

A newcomer to Promise, a town in the Hill County of Texas, Annie Applegate marries a widowed veterinarian for the sake of his children. As the marriage unfolds she discovers love along with a community of friends.

GROOM WANTED: Aleksandr Berinksi is a Russian biochemist in the United States on a visa, which is about to expire. Marriage will allow him to stay-marriage to Julia Conrad. If Julia's going to save her Seattle-based company, she needs him as much as he needs her. There's a Groom Wanted in Julia's life. And not just any groom! -- BRIDE WANTED: A billboard on the side of a Seattle road is common enough-but one advertising for a bride? It's Chase Goodwin's...

Three brides, no groom : "When three friends meet again at their fifteen-year class reunion, they reveal that their lives have taken unexpected directions. Back in their college days, Gretchen Wise had been engaged to a top law student. Carol Furness, head cheerleader, had said yes to the school's football hero. And Maddie Cobain was the girl who'd fallen for a professor. Now the three of them gather where promises were made...and broken. As the...

Three women meet at their fifteen-year class reunion and discover that their lives have taken unexpected directions. Back in their college days, Gretchen Wise had been engaged to a top law student. Carol Furness, head cheerleader, had said yes to the school's football hero. And Maddie Cobain was the girl who'd fallen for a professor. Now the three of them gather around a popular fountain on the college grounds. This fountain was where lovers met,...

Marine biologist Leah Talmadge is happy with her predictable life. But when she gets the chance of a lifetime -- an expedition to study the rare whales of the Diamantina Islands -- she can't refuse. Even if it means marrying world-famous photographer Cain Hawkins. The governor of the islands won't permit who unmarried people to live together. Cain knows marrying Leah is the only way he can accompany her on the expedition. And why not? They both desperately...

Navy Baby: It was a night she'd never forget ... two strangers coming together in one breathless moment of intense need and heart-stopping desire. But now sheltered Hannah Raymond is expecting the child of a rugged naval seaman she thought she'd never see again. Riley Murdock has been searching for Hannah for months-ever since that soul-shaking night of passion. Now fate has finally reunited them. Determined to give his child the chance he'd never...

Contains two novels, following the romantic adventures of brothers Charles and Sawyer O'Halloran, owners of a bush-plane charter service called Midnight Sons, after an advertising campaign brings women to the small town of Hard Luck, Alaska.