STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET—Laura Halloran was going nowhere fast; hustling drinks in an L.A. dive seemed more a life sentence than a life. But the night Conner Fox escorted her home from a barroom brawl, everything was suddenly different. For this tall, solid rancher with the crystal-green eyes offered her marriage, and a new life under the endless sky... Connor had noticed a lot of things about Laura right off the bat: she was sweet, caring...and her legs were impossibly, invitingly long. But he didn't want a loving wife; he wanted a mother for his child and a companion on cold, lonely nights. And he would refuse, with every fiber of his being, to let himself love again.

THE HAUNTING PAST Kel Bryan: A lonely man with a ranch in the middle of nowhere. Megan Ronrke:..The woman who'd filled his days and nights with happiness, then left—with something he hadn't known he had. THE HARROWING PRESENT Megan returned to the remote ranch, and to the man who couldn't forgive her, with a two-year-old boy in her arms and a look of sadness in her eyes. Sending away the young, beautiful mother was impossible, for her child was also his, and now that he knew about Michael, Kel would never let him go. AMERICAN HEROES: Men who give all they've got for their country, their work—the women they love.

SHE'D ALWAYS WANTED TO MARRY HIM.... From the time she was a teenager, Colleen Bryan had loved Gunnar Larson. With his broad shoulders and sexy swagger, he'd been everything she'd ever dreamed of. And now, snowbound with him in the wilds of Wyoming, she set out to prove she was much more than his best friend's 'baby' sister. But her best laid plans went astray. She and Gunnar had their night of passion, and a child - their child - was the result. But she couldn't quite believe his words of love, and she couldn't help but suspect that the marriage he proposed came from a sense of duty...not devotion.