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Blaze
After Tess Gannon is thrown out of a burning building and looses her fiance to the same fire she decides to change her career path. She has decided that being a fire cop aka a Fire Investigation Marshall is where her talents are best used. After 2 years she and her partner have the highest percentage of closed cases in the county. Gage Halloran is a widower who lost his spouse to a horrific arsonist who targeted Gage specifically. He took an extende...
Blue Bayou
Danielle Dupree didn't really want to go home - there were too memories there. Memories of falling in love with Jack Callahan, the town's bad boy, getting pregnant, Jack leaving her and having her baby girl die at birth. Memories of her father, the hard-as-nails Judge Dupree, tried and imprisoned for something that he didn't do. Memories of her ex-husband, who only saw her as a means to the White House. But those memories were quickly replaced with new o...
Fair Haven
Erin O'Halloran is off to try and save one of her best friends in Ireland. She is called by her friend Tom to help with his medical practice as he is dying. As a fellow member of “Dr.'s without Borders” she immediately is off to not only help him but to find a cure for him also. Michael is a boyhood friend of Tom's and trying to shut out the world. He has returned to Ireland after leading a dangerous life as an award winning photojournalist. As a ...
Legends Lake
Pocket, Aug 2001, 6.99, 389 pp. ISBN: 0671786172 In Florida, horse trainer Alec MacKenna informs owner Douglas Wellesley that his thoroughbred Lady Justice should not run today. Douglas forces the issue and the steed is injured in what will turn out to be the last race for this champion horse. Alec's concern for the horse's best interest costs him his thriving career as a leading trainer as the industry blames him for the accident and for h...

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Magnolia Moon
Pocket, Feb 2003, 6.99, 400 pp. ISBN: 0743457439 Nate Callahan, Mayor of Blue Bayou, Louisiana, makes his living from remodeling homes. As he cleans away old files in the sheriff's office, Nate comes across a folder from thirty-one years ago that includes valuable stock. The owner was Linda Dale who apparently committed suicide. Linda's sister took her infant niece with her to Los Angeles. That niece, Linda's daughter, has quite an inheritanc...
Out of the Blue
Lark Stewart is a big-time professional musician who is known around the world as the "Tennessee Songbird." Lucas McCloud is a former FBI agent and Lark's highschool sweetheart. Several years after a stalker tore them apart, Lark and Lucas are thrown together again in New Orleans when one of Lark's band members is shot and almost killed. After returning home to their hometown in Tennessee, Lark and Lucas must face their pasts and attempt to find love a...
Out of the Mist
Pocket, Oct 2003, 6.99, 384 pp. ISBN: 0743464737 Lily “no talent” Stewart no longer looks forward to the upcoming Highland Games at her family's Great Smoky Mountain resort as she has in the past. She is concerned because Oscar winning documentary filmmaker Ian MacDougall MacKenzie is thinking of filming the event. His work is critically acclaimed, but extremely cynical, negative, and dark. A rain soaked Ian arrives at “Stewart's Folly” afte...
Out of the Storm
Pocket, Nov 2004 ISBN: 0743464753 In Camp David, the FBI and Secret Service accuse Washington Post reporter Laurel Stewart of stealing papers from Vice President Aiken. Her paper's Managing Editor Lois Merryman fires Laurel for making up a story involving Aiken that the conscientious journalist cross checked with White House informants and a Department of Energy source. She wonders who wanted her out of the way and why. Laurel's roommate Chl...
River Road
Pocket, Sep 2002; 6.99, 416 pp. ISBN: 0743436830 For the past five years, Julia Summers has starred as an Erica Kane-type vamp on the number one nighttime soap opera, RIVER ROAD. However, when her contract ends in less than a month, Julia will leave the TV show to become a "Bond Girl". Currently, Julia is on location in Blue Bayou, Louisiana filming her last story line for RIVER ROAD. After three years trying to capture a serial killer, FBI ...