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In Jamaica for a well-deserved vacation, city planner Darcy Owens is stunned by the sight of a chocolate-skinned god in the distance. Upon closer inspection, however, it turns out this dream man is York Ellis, an arrogant ex-cop--and notorious bachelor--Darcy knows all too well. But when her life is threatened, he offers her protection and sparks begin to fly between them.

Cutthroat Atlanta reporter Toni Shields is looking for a scoop at Jacob House, a local rehab center, when she locks horns with the clinic's director, Adam Bayne. Adam doesn't appreciate Toni's attempts to find headlines within the center's private walls. But when he sees her help a troubled teen, he realizes there may be a soft core under her hard exterior after all.

Curvaceous and wildly successful Dominique Clark is finally feeling in charge of her life--until she meets Jake McDonald, her son's gorgeous football coach. Their first encounter leads to several passionate nights, but out of the bedroom there's no issue they won't butt heads about. Dominique's good sense tells her to end it, but something in her heart says this game might be worth the risk.

When Laura Godfrey decides to have her dead husband's child, she sees it a God's way of giving her what they were both cheated out of when her husband died. She's willing to use every tool of modern genetic science to assure that the baby is healthy and normal. But a billionaire plans to use the baby to restore the Biblical perfection of the human race.

Butterfly and Ethan are two high school friends mired in unhappy marriages. After a chance encounter, they embark on an illicit affair. But when Butterfly is found out, stress is placed on her already struggling marriage and her standing in her church.

The ship Jacob's Ladder has arrived at its destination - the planet they call Grail. But Grail is populated by humans already, who call their home Fortune. They are wary of sharing Fortune, particularly with genetically engineered humans. Meanwhile, a murder aboard Jacob's Ladder indicates that there are enemies among the crew.

Rural switchboard operator Georgie Gail is proud of her independence in a man's world, which make it twice as vexing when the telephone company sends a man to look over her shoulder. Dashing Luke Palmer is more than he appears though. He's a Texas Ranger working undercover to infiltrate a notorious gang of train robbers. Repairing telephones and tangling with this tempestuous woman is the last thing he wants to do. But when his stakeout puts Georgie in peril, he realizes more than his job is on the line.

Making money comes easy for millionaire, Jared Ryder, though the hectic corporate lifestyle has him heading to his Montana ranch whenever possible. There, a new female hired hand has the CEO thinking about mixing a little pleasure with business. Melissa Warner certainly doesn't have many ranching skills. But her beauty's too captivating to ignore, and Jared's ready to stake his claim. Yet even in his passion induced haze, he suspects Melissa of hiding something. Heaven help her is he discovers her lie, for there's nothing more dangerous than Ryder retribution.

They came from the sea, a former ship captain named Owen Bird who inherited a Texas ranch from his brother. A former pirate named "Black Terrance" Malone, who has arrrived in the once peaceful Rattlesnake Valley with a crew of sea dogs to do his dirty work. And dirty work it will be, as Black Terrance begins a campaign of thieving and threatening, even targeting Bird's beautiful young niece. Into this storm rides the Loner, Conrad Morgan, son of the legendary gunfighter Frank Morgan.

Seduced, abandoned and pregnant, Arabella Shelley is determined her baby's father will support them. Horrified to discover his death, she is shocked at the demand of his brother, the handsome, inscrutable Viscount Hadleigh. To legitimize her unborn child, she must marry him, instead! As Bella struggles with her unfamiliar, luxurious new lifestyle, and her scandalous desire for her stranger of a husband, will she find a love that matches the passion of their marriage bed?