Rick could do or say anything and make a woman like it. Martha Ann was the perfect partner for a sizzling night in a cave or a wicked romp at a high-stakes casino table, but she refused to be the playmate for another two-timing rogue. Could Rick persuade her she was the music that stirred his soul?

JoBeth McGill didn't believe she'd ever fall in love... until a fierce and mysterious man in buckskin took her captive! — In San Francisco he was Dr. Colter Gray, but in the Arizona desert he was Colter Gray Wolf, whose voice could command the stars to shine. JoBeth trembled with excitement when sparks flew between them—and tempted the passionate poet to caress the gold of her hair. In moonlight he looked every inch the noble savage as he lifted her onto his stallion and wooed her with ancient Apache love rituals. JoBeth yearned for him as the hungry earth needed spring rain, but how could she abandon her aging parents to follow her beloved? Colter told her with his body what words could not, but he refused to confide the torment that had drawn him home or to reveal what ghosts had driven him away years before. JoBeth was no good at playing hard to get, only for keeps, but could she make Colter see that once he'd chosen her, he could never let her go?

Dog trainer Andrew McGill was an outrageous rogue who made straitlaced librarian Margaret Leigh Jones wish she knew how to flirt instead of how to blush! Convinced that teaching this proper lady how to have fun might add spice to his lazy weekends, Andrew decided to go courting. Margaret Leigh was delighted to discover her wild streak just needed encouraging . . . and that a woman could be a bit brazen in the right man's arms! The brash backwoods Romeo tantalized her with steamy stolen kisses and dancing way too close. But when chance revealed a shocking family secret, Margaret Leigh went looking for trouble.

When Mick Flannigan, Tess Jones' first lover and husband who had left years before without saying goodbye, returns to Tupelo, the beautiful singer finds herself drawn to him like a magnet