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A Love of His Own

Bull Dawson, New York lawyer, mourns the loss of his daughter, who disappeared from a cabin in Fredericksburg, Texas four years ago. A history book found in his office safe leads him to believe she traveled back in time to 1888 Prairie, Texas. He's determined that if she can time travel, he can too. Life will be different, probably hard, but practicing law can't be so difficult back in the Old West.

Widow Dipsey Thackson scratches out a living for herself and her young son on their farm. Shunned by the locals, she keeps to herself. When a man appears in her wheat field one day, life changes for the better. Then her brother-in-law arrives, claiming the farm is his and threatening Dipsey and her son. She fears for both their means of survival and their safety.

Her dilemma will take more than a knowledge of the law, but Bull vows to do his best to protect her and her boy.


A Marshal of Her Own

Despite rumors of 'strange doings? at a cabin in Fredericksburg, investigative reporter Dessa Wade books the cottage from which lawyer Charity Dawson disappeared in 2008. Dessa is intent on solving the mystery. Instead, caught in the swirling mist that surrounds the cabin, she finds herself in 1890, in a shootout between the Faraday Gang and a US Marshal.

Marshal Cole Jeffers doesn't believe Miss Wade is a time traveler. He admits she's innocent of being an outlaw but thinks she knows more about the gang than she's telling. When she's kidnapped by Zeke Faraday, Cole is determined to rescue her. He's longed for a woman of his own, and Dessa Wade just might be the one'if she'll commit to the past.


Flames On The Sky
Fantasy Faery Rose
Rating: Spicy
Page Count: 268
 
The Anasazi whispered of this evil and of the woman who could defeat it. Fire, sky, and stone must unite to fulfill an ancient prophecy. Madison Evans inherits a turquoise locket, travels to New Mexico, and discovers the stone dates back to the Chacoan Anasazi. When she's attacked, parks ranger Lonan Stone, of Chacoan ancestry, fears Madison's turquoise is a missing twin of the revered Fallen Skystone, an egg size piece of turquoise on display in Albuquerque. The mystical stone is missing two slivers – one’s in Madison’s necklace, the others whereabouts unknown, but if united by evil they can destroy.
 
Madison and Lonan are part of a 1000 year old prophecy to save Chaco Canyon. Thrust back in time, they meet a witch, solve a murder, fall in love, and imprison a 1000 year old evil spirit. Their mission complete, can these two people from different cultures blend their lives as the prophecy predicted?

My Heart Will Find Yours

Fated lovers suffer the agony of loss only to be reunited to fulfill a greater plan.

TEXANNA KEITH doesn’t believe an antique locket is the key to time travel, but plays along, and to her horror, is zapped back to 1880 Waco, Texas. Her mission is to prevent Royce Dyson’s death in a shootout. Wounded, she loses what she longs for most — a life with Royce.

Marshall ROYCE DYSON’S wife disappeared in 1876. Now she’s reappeared, claiming she’s a time traveler. As he seeks the truth, he’s determined to keep Texanna with him, but it’s not destined to be.

Reviewer: Edie
Review: Jun 20, 2009
Genre(s): Historical Romance, Western
When Pearl, a beloved elderly neighbor of Texanna Keith asked her for a peculiar favor, she thought the woman was getting barmy, but decided to go along with her request out of curiosity. However, Texanna soon found herself on a passenger train headed to Waco, carrying old clothes in a moth-eaten carpetbag, wearing a wedding ring and a locket.   Although she did not believe in time-travel, she suddenly

Investment of the Heart

Widow Hallie Barron wants her daughter happily married to the young rancher she loves. When Simon Cole enters Hallie’s life she’s reminded she’s a woman with needs and desires. She yearns for a love like she once had, but fears risking her heart.

Rancher Simon Cole doesn’t feel that city women belong on a ranch. He’s set to prove his nephew’s fiancée is a mistake. Yet when he meets her mother, he finds himself wishing there was a place for Hallie in his life.

On a ranch in the Hill Country of Texas, love is recognized, lost, and found.

Reviewer: Edie
Review: Jun 20, 2009
Genre(s): Contemporary, Western
Simon Cole believed his nephew was making a huge mistake with his desire to marry Elise Barron. After all, she was a city girl, and would probably do to Justin what Simon’s sister-in-law Loretta did to his brother Sidney, abandon the family. When Sidney died in a car crash a couple of years later, Simon assumed full responsibility for his niece and nephew.   Hallie Barron also had reservations ab

Forever Faithful

Lucas and Gail Johnson live the idyllic life on their ranch near the small town of Stony Creek, Texas. The one thing they want but don’t have is a child created from their love. Will an unidentified body pulled from nearby Possum Creek and a single night of indiscretion shatter their dreams of happily ever after?

Reviewer: Edie
Review: Nov 25, 2008
Genre(s): Contemporary
After four years of marriage, Lucas and Gail Johnson lived an ideal life on their ranch 40 miles west of Austin. Ideal except for the child they both desired.   On a hot July day, a 1978 Olds Cutlass found submerged in nearby Possum Creek shattered their peaceful existence. Investigators determine the car went into the river about twenty years before, and the two people whose bodies were found in the c

A Law of Her Own

She won’t let an innocent man hang

When Charity Dawson resigns her father’s corporate law firm to pursue a career as a trial lawyer, she gets more of a change than she wanted. She finds herself transported to 1888 Texas in the middle of a murder trial.

Turner Reardon is on trial for killing his mistress. He’s given up all hope when an oddly dressed young woman disrupts his trial, claiming she can prove his innocence. Her testimony is brilliant, but his optimism is short lived when she also claims she’s a lawyer.

Charity doesn’t know how she arrived in Prairie, and no one believes she actually went to law school. Her evidence is tossed out and Turner is sentenced to hang. She has only one chance to save an innocent man’s life and find the real killer.

Reviewer: Edie
Review: Oct 29, 2008
Genre(s): Romantic Suspense, Time-Travel
After years as a lawyer in the family firm, Charity Dawson knew she needed a change. Tired of catering to the rich, she longed to work in a public defenders office where she could help those in need. Although her father was furious, Charity left the firm seeking new horizons.   Charity was shocked at how much her life changed because of her decision. Suddenly she found herself in a dry wheat field outs

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