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INNOCENT AS SIN Hardcover ISBN: 0060829826 Publisher: William Morrow & Co Available June 19, 2007 First Time in Paprback Mass Market Paperback ISBN: 0060829842 Publisher: Avon Available April 29, 2008       One day Kayla Shaw was an underpaid and under-appreciated private banker in Arizona. The next day, someone tried to kidnap her. One day Rand McCree was painting daffodils in the Pacific Northwest rain. The next day, St. Kilda Consulting offered him something he'd wanted for five years: the name of his twin brother's murderer. Kayla had nowhere to turn, nowhere to run, no one to believe that she wasn't a money launderer hiding hundreds of millions of dollars. She was trapped. Until Rand McCree appeared, offering safety. For a price. Kayla didn't want to trust him, but had no real choice. No police would believe that she had been set up, that she was innocent. And no civilian alone could stand against the international criminal who wanted her dead. Even her own government was suspect. Rand trusted Kayla as much as he trusted anybody—not much—but what he really wanted was revenge for his brother's death. Everything else came last. Then the man who had killed Rand's brother sent a killer after Kayla Shaw. The violence of the past exploded into the present, leaving only a future that might be too dangerous to survive....

THE WRONG HOSTAGE First Time in Paperback Mass Market Paperback ISBN: 0060829834 Publisher: Avon Books Available April 24, 2007    Orphaned at thirteen, Grace Silva clawed her way out of poverty and violence to become one of the most respected judges on the federal bench. Grace believes in the rule of law, lives it, breathes it. She has always been buttoned up and buttoned down. Except once. Joe Faroe has learned that laws are made by politicians and politicians are all too human. He believes in the innocents, the ones getting ground up by governments that are too polarized or too corrupt to protect their own citizens. He's been through the political meat grinder himself. It cost him his career, his freedom, and a woman who still haunts him. Since then, Faroe has worked outside the rules and politics of government. He is a kidnap specialist for St. Kilda Consulting, a Manhattan-based, global business that concentrates on the shadow world where governments can't go. He is good at his work, intelligent, confident, ruthless. Until a friend dies trying to kill him. Now Faroe is out of the business. Retired. He's through trying to save a world that doesn't want to be saved. Then Grace comes to him, past and present collide, and Faroe finds himself sucked back into the shadows, tracking a violent killer who holds the life of Grace's son in his bloody hands.

GRANITE MAN & WARRIOR 2-in-1 Reissues Trade Paperback ISBN: 0373772548 HQN Books Available May 2007    Granite Man Mariah MacKenzie returned to her family's Rocky Mountain ranch determined to reclaim a life she's longed for. Cash McQueen was a distraction she didn't need, a temptation she didn't want—but the only man tough enough to be her guide on a bold quest for a legendary treasure. Cash's passion for prospecting didn't run to beautiful women...anymore. Until Mariah made him want to believe again in something more precious than gold... Granite Man was originally published in Silhouette Desire #625, 03/91. Warrior When wildlife biologist Eden Summers arrives in the Colorado Rockies, she has only one thing on her mind: to continue her research on the local cougar population. A capable woman, used to living and working alone in the wild, she is self-possessed and confident, able to handle any threat from nature's fiercest predators—until she gazes into the eyes of Nevada Blackthorn. She pulled him, injured and bleeding, to safety in the middle of a storm, unleashing a man who would invade her deepest dreams. But Nevada—a rancher by trade, a warrior by nature—is a man who has learned that walking away from caring is the only key to survival and that only the strongest survive. Any woman fool enough to try and change him will be hurt—badly—for their efforts. Perhaps Eden is that kind of fool. Or perhaps she has no choice but to follow a calling as fierce, as wild and as natural as the beating of her own heart . . . Warrior was originally published in Silhouette Desire #631, 04/91.

FIRE AND RAIN & OUTLAW 2-in-1 Reissues Trade Paperback ISBN: 037377253X HQN Books Available May 2007    Fire and Rain Owner of the wildest, loneliest ranch this side of the Rockies, Luck MacKenzie hadn't laid eyes on Carla McQueen for three years. Not since they day he'd sent his best friend's kid sister storming from the Rocking M Ranch and out of his life—for what he thought was forever . . . Now Carla was back, lovelier and even more desirable than in his burning memories. But Luke knew he could never give in to the raging need to make her his woman. For he'd made a vow long ago—one that he was determined to keep—that he would never fall in love with Carla McQueen. No matter how badly his body and soul ached for her . . . Fire and Rain was originally published in Silhouette Desire #546, 01/90. Outlaw Archaeologist Diana Saxton has come to Colorado's mesa country to explore the Anasazi cliffs. She doesn't need the help of Tennessee Blackthorn, a man as tough and commanding as the land itself. But the sexy ranch hand seems determined to unlock the secrets of the mesa—and the passion in Diana's heart. Outlaw was originally published in Silhouette Desire #624, 02/91.