GABLE'S AWAKENING Gable Rawlings: Some would call the handsome, weathered rancher tough but fair. Josey O'Brian just calls him a chauvinist. Josey O'Brian: Gable's teenage sister would call her a strong, gutsy woman. Gable just calls her a women's libber. Gable Rawlings had money problems and a ranch coveted by every rich vulture in New Mexico, but he was just as worried about his sister. He'd busted his back to properly raise his orphaned siblings, and he had to stop Josey O'Brian from filling his sister's head with foolish talk about women's rights. And Gable had already figured out the easiest—and most enjoyable—way of getting Josey to stop talking .... AMERICAN HEROES: Men who give all they've got for their country, their work—the women they love.

The Rawling FamilyCooper Rawlings: A good-looking rancher who knows better than to fall for the long legs and doe eyes of his enemy's daughter.Susannah Patterson: Cooper's newest neighbour—a woman who blames the Rawlings family for her father dying alone.Susannah thought it couldn't be just coincidence that the night she met Cooper the threats began. No one was going to scare her off her ranch, certainly not those land-hungry Rawlingses! So when she called to give Cooper a piece of her mind, Susannah was surprised and suspicious of his prompt ride to the rescue. Was he being typically macho and protective or was he deceiving her and hoping to charm her into selling up? How could she decide when all he had to do was touch her and she couldn't think at all?

TIED UP IN KNOTS... Fun-loving rodeo cowboy Flynn Rawlings couldn't believe it. Everybody liked him, so what was Tate Baxter's problem? From the moment he'd approached her at a local rodeo dance, she'd been intent on freezing him out, but he wasn't about to take no for an answer. Bitter experience had shown Tate that trusting men—especially cowboys—was the way to get stomped on. So when Flynn had swaggered over she'd known that, from his devastating dimples right down to his worn cowboy boots, the man constituted trouble. And she aimed to steer clear of it! The Wild West: Meet the Rawlings family—they'll be ridin' their way to your heart.

THE LAST HARD MAN Two years in prison had taught Lucas Valentine never to trust a woman—and that went double for the headstrong lady rancher who was his new boss. Whatever it took, he meant to keep his distance from her—because she had a way of keeping a man lying awake, staring at the ceiling, niG~? after empty night .... Kat Rawlings' new foreman was causing her a few sleepless nights, too. It wasn't his past—or even that he'd made it clear he didn't like taking orders from a woman. No, the trouble was the things this bitter, rawhide-tough man could make a woman want .... THE WILD WEST: Ride the range with the Rawlings family as they tame the wild West-and even wilder hearts!

THE HIDALGO COUNTY WAR Riley Whitaker had been sheriff of Hidalgo County for so long, he wasn't figuring on much trouble come election time. So it came as a heck of a shock for a Texas good of boy like him to find out he'd be getting the fight of his life—from a woman! Becca Prescott sure was riled up, and every woman in the county was on her side in this battle of the sexes. But the damnedest thing was, that feisty little single mother had him wishing he could do a little fraternizing with the enemy ....