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Crazy On You

Return to Lovett, Texas, the setting of Daisy's Back in Town, in this smart and sexy new story from Rachel Gibson, the New York Times bestselling author of Rescue Me and the Seattle Chinooks books.

Lily Darlington's been called crazy in her day—and, yeah, driving her car into her ex-husband's living room probably wasn't the smartest move ever made—but the louse deserved it. Now Lily is happily single, and she's turned it all around. She knows she's a good mom, a homeowner, and a businesswoman, all wrapped up in one good-looking package.

A package that police officer Tucker Matthews is dying to unwrap. This ex-military man sure doesn't need another woman in his life. His last girlfriend left him with nothing but memories and a cat named Pinky! But living next door to Lily has been driving him nuts. He dreams about her long blonde hair and even longer legs. And maybe it's time to go a little crazy . . . and fall in love.

Reviewer: Hitherandthee
Review: Apr 24, 2012
Genre(s): Contemporary, Romance
Crazy Lily Darrington is the terror of her small home town in Texas. After a few rather notorious moments from her youth label her crazy, she does everything possible to reinvent herself and make herself seem as normal as pecan pie to the world. All of that goes out the window the day she meets the new delectably hot cop in town, Tucker Marshall. Lily has everything set up just the way she likes it, her busi

Rescue Me

Honorably discharged from the Navy SEALs, Vince Haven is restless. It’s not easy for a man trained at one of the highest military levels to return to civilian life. He’s been wandering ever since being released from service. When his Aunt Luraleen calls with a business proposition in Lovett, TX he’s got nothing holding him back.

Sadie Jo Hollowell left small town living, beauty pageants and bake sales behind fifteen years ago. She’s got flat hair, high heels, and no roots tying her down; just the way she likes it. When one of Sadie’s young cousins asks her to be in her wedding she can’t wait to get back to normalcy and escape the aunts pestering her about why she isn’t married yet. When life unexpectedly keeps Sadie in Lowell longer than planned she finds the perfect distraction in Vince.

Reviewer: Shannschoice
Review: May 22, 2012
Genre(s): Contemporary
Sadie Jo Hallowell has always marched to her own drummer. Being raised by a non-emotional rancher after her beauty queen mother died had taught her that the only person she should make happy is herself...after all she could never seem to please her father. Back home to Lovett, TX for a cousin's wedding, Sadie dreads the questions about her single status and the fact that she doesn't come home, but she also

Any Man of Mine

What happens in Vegas . . . doesn't always stay there.

Autumn Haven's Las Vegas "to-do" list said to catch a show and play the slots—not wake up married to a sexy jerk like Sam LeClaire. The first moment she saw him eyeing her like a luscious piece of the dessert buffet, her usually responsible self told her to run. And she did—right into the wildest fantasy weekend of her life. But Monday morning jolted her back to reality, and before she could say "pass the coffee," Sam was gone.

Now a successful wedding planner, Autumn hasn't clapped eyes on the heartbreaking hockey superstar for over two years . . . until she organizes his teammate's "Special Day," where Sam makes a big play to pick up where he left off! But she has vowed any man of hers plays for keeps. Is Sam the man for her or does she banish him to the sin bin forever?

Reviewer: Books4Betty
Review: Jul 11, 2011
Genre(s): Contemporary, Romance
What an unexpected gem I have found in Any Man of Mine by Rachel Gibson. I knew going into this read that I'd more than likely "like" it. I've always enjoyed romance stories, but they usually become one of the ton. Most of them somehow get forgotten in the sea of other romance stories; however, this one is definitively on a different level. Without giving away spoilers, because boy is there ever surprises in

Reviewer: Melinda
Review: Feb 28, 2012
Genre(s): Contemporary, Romance
Everybody knows that Vegas is the city of fun, action and where secrets are kept secrets. However, that is not the case for Autumn Haven. No, Vegas happens to be the only place where this woman is wild, adventurous and married. She never thought her one weekend of fun would lead to marriage especially to a hunky guy like Sam LeClaire. He is everything she has tried to ignore in her life and now she is stuck t

Nothing but Trouble
TROUBLE...
 
Chelsea Ross's acting career has been a total bust. The closest she ever came to stardom was her brilliant performance as "Pretty Dead Girl #1." But leaving Hollywood to become the personal assistant to a famous hockey player could be her stupidest career move ever.
 
MORE TROUBLE...
 
Injured superstar Mark Bressler's glory days are over. The one time bad boy jock could at least be civil to the pint-sized, pink-haired bombshell who the Seattle Chinooks hired to be his P.A. If Chelsea didn't need the money, she'd be skating away from the world's biggest jerk-on-ice as fast as her feet could carry her.
 
BIG TROUBLE!
 

Chelsea can deal with Mark's rotten attitude and dark moods. The problem is those biceps and that red-hot hockey-toned bod! And when the bad boy starts to put the moves on her, Chelsea knows it's time she banished him to the penalty box...if only she could resist the kind of trouble he has in mind! 

Reviewer: Aemelia
Review: Jun 15, 2010
Genre(s): Contemporary, Romance
Former scream queen Chelsea Ross has a plan, but for her to put her plan into action, first she must succeed where many before her have failed. As an aspiring actress, she has taken on many difficult roles, though this may be her toughest job yet, the home health care worker for an injured former hockey player. If she can stick with the job for 3 months, she will be rewarded with a $10,000 bonus, just enough

True Love and Other Disasters

Disaster Number One: Men

Hard knocks and hunger taught Faith Duffy not to believe in love. Still, when she married her very wealthy—and very old—husband, she became the perfect wife. And then he went to that big bank in the sky, leaving Faith with lonely nights, a pile of money, and a total mess of a pro hockey team. Heck, Faith doesn't even watch hockey!

Disaster Number Two: Passion

But most of America and half of Canada is watching Ty Savage. His lethal sex appeal and deadly right hook make him the favorite of fans. For most of Ty's life, he's dreamed of winning the Stanley Cup. The last thing he needs is a bimbo messing up his plans.

Disaster Number Three: Love

Faith loathes Ty on sight, but she can't stop thinking about him all day . . . and night. Then a moment of temptation ends with Faith in Ty's bed, and she begins to see there's more to him than sex appeal. Ty discovers there's far more to Faith than beauty and billions. But a relationship with Faith is impossible, and falling in love—that would be a disaster.

Reviewer: Wendy
Review: Jun 4, 2009
Genre(s): Contemporary
Faith Duffy’s the perfect trophy wife. She’s beautiful and graceful but when her very wealthy, and very old, husband has a heart attack and dies, she’s left with millions of dollar, an extended family who pretty much thinks she’s a gold digger and hates her and a pro hockey team!   Ty Savage is part of that team. And he thinks Virgil dying could not have come at a worst time, th

Not Another Bad Date

Adele Harris has dated them all-geeks, nerds, liars, losers. Egomaniacs, nymphomaniacs, and just plain maniacs. She's been set up and stood up, and now she's had it up to here with the jerks of the world. It's enough to make a girl give up dating forever. If only she could find a guy that made her heart flutter like her first love, Zach, the college quarterback who swept her off her feet senior year... before dumping her to marry someone else. Okay, so he wasn't perfect. But when Adele heads back to Cedar Creek, Texas, for a family emergency, she discovers that her hometown heartthrob is still as sexy as ever-and now he's single.

It could be the end of Adele's streak. After all, forgiving Zach for breaking her heart years ago and learning to trust him again will take everything she's got, but Adele can handle anything... anything but another bad date.

Reviewer: Wendy
Review: Mar 20, 2008
Genre(s): Contemporary
Adele Harris has had so many lousy dates that she's sure she's cursed. Why else would every man she goes out with go from having manners and being nice to acting like a complete jerk? Adele thought life couldn't get any more confusing until she learns the marriage of her seemingly Miss Perfect sister is on the rocks. So she goes back to their hometown to give her a shoulder to cry on, only to run smack into Z

True Confessions

Welcome to Gospel, Idaho, where everyone knows that there are two universal truths. First, God did His best work when He created the Sawtooth Wilderness Area. Second, every sin known to heaven and earth—from the hole in the ozone to alien abductions—is all California's fault. This is the story of what happened when a Californian came to visit . . . Hope Spencer knows wacky: as a writer for The Weekly News of the Universe she's "spotted" Bigfoot, Elvis, and the face of Jesus on a tortilla. Arriving in Gospel hoping for some peace and quiet and normal . . . she quickly figures out that there's nothing normal going on in Gospel. From the Barnes sisters with their color-coordinated hair, to the toilet-tossing sportsmen . . . to the murder victim whose body had been found in her house years before, the Gospel truth really is stranger than fiction—even tabloid fiction. Hell, she should have stayed in L.A. And then there's local sheriff Dylan Taber. He's no made-up character from one of her stories. She could never create anything that good. Dylan's all too real . . . and soon Hope is forced to face the awful truth—she's been too long without a man. But once she gets wind of a Hollywood actress somehow mixed up in Dylan's life, Hope realizes that if they are to have any chance together, he has some true confessing to do.

Reviewer: Wendy
Review: Jan 29, 2008
Genre(s): Contemporary
Tabloid writer Hope Spencer moves to Gospel, Idaho to lay low for a while after pissing off a midget and hopefully come up with more stories about alien abductions and Bigfoot sightings. She meets the town sheriff and single dad Dylan Taber and from the second they lay eyes on each other, there's an attraction between them. But Dylan's wary of what a sophisticated city girl like Hope is going in the middle of

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