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Chieftain
Mira, Feb 2004, 6.50, 384 pp. ISBN: 0778320138 In 1875 mix blooded Comanche Shanaco comes home to his tribe in Palo Doro Canyon, Texas because his grandfather Gray Wolf mentally tells him he needs him. Gray Wolf tells Shanaco to escort the tribe to the reservation by Fort Sill. The next morning Gray Wolf dies. At Fort Sill, Shanaco and his men lay down their arms, but are incarcerated anyway. School teacher Maggie Bankhead protests, but is ...
Love Me Tonight
The main female character is left alone to tend the farm after her husband is killed fighting for the south in the Civil War. When the war is over, a Yankee shows up with his young son looking for work in order to earn enough to het his son back home to Maryland. Even though they are worlds apart as far as society is concerned, they work together, care for each other and manage to fall in love in a time that did not allow for such....
Naughty Marietta
Mira, Apr 2003, 6.50, 384 pp. ISBN: 1551666766 In 1872 Galveston, Texas, septuagenarian Maxwell Lacey nears death but needs to right the wrong he committed when he tossed his pregnant unmarried daughter from their home twenty-five years ago. Maxwell cannot do anything for his deceased daughter, but wants to see his granddaughter Marietta Stone before he dies. Only her poster as a diva in the Central City, Colorado opera house keeps him alive. ...
The Last Dance
Medallion Press, Dec 2003, 5.99, 310 pp. ISBN: 0974363936 In 1899 Colonias, New York, Postmistress Lucy Hart, nearing thirty, sacrificed her happiness to care for her dependent mother, but now is recognized as an old maid with no prospects. She looks forward to her vacation in Atlantic City where she will finally meet her pen pal of the last three years Cooperstown, Pennsylvania Postmaster Theodore Mooney though no hint of romance is in any of t...

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The Scandalous Miss Howard
Mira, Apr 2002, 6.50, 377 pp. ISBN: 1551668939 In Mobile, teenagers Ladd Dasheroon and Laurette Howard fall in love, which leads to deep resentment and jealousy from their friend Jimmy Tigart. Though Ladd and Laurette make love, they hold off their plans to marry until he returns from fighting for the Confederacy. The Northern soldiers capture Ladd and incarcerate him at Devil's Castle. Northern soldier Jimmy learns about Ladd's imprisonme...
Written in the Stars
Love Spell, Feb 2003, 5.99, 436 pp. ISBN: 0505525100 In 1895, Benjamin Star leaves San Francisco for Denver at about the same time that Diane Buchannan leaves DC for the Mile High City. Benjamin was raised by the Shoshoni who rescued him from a fire as an infant, travels like a native; Diane rides the train to join her grandparents who raised her when her parents died. Diane plans to help her beloved family with the financially failing “Colonel...