Lily Porter is newly a widow with a child to raise and a cattle ranch to run in the Texas frontier aflame with violence, and where a woman is to be seen not heard. She needs a man to stand up for her land. His name is Cade. Part Apache brave and part Mexican grandee, Cade has a past and a secret. But he possesses the power and passion to command all in his path. Lily welcomes Cade into her struggle against treachery and terror—and discovers a love worth risking everything to keep.

LOVE OUT OF REACH Evie needed a skilled gunslinger to escort her safely to Texas. Her dime novel said Pecos Martin was the best. Unfortunately the golden-haired gambler she mistakenly approached at the Green Door Saloon was a hell-raising womanizer named Tyler Monteigne. Evie had grown up in a genteel St. Louis home as a "boarder." In reality, she was an abandoned love child with no one to love her-until a letter from Texas told her where to find her true identity. Tyler could shoot straight enough, but he was also an expert con, and he knew this pretty gal was wrestling with inner demons—just like him. Sure he'd take her across the river to Texas. Yet he didn't foresee the dark passions rising to sweep them away, making Evie all he wanted—and making him exactly what she most feared.

The Brother's Bride Beautiful, young heiress Georgina Hanover's future seemed set. After a taste of European sophistication, she was returning to her home in Ohio, to the perfect marriage. Handsome, hard-driving Peter Mulloney was all she could want in a husband—and everything her father wanted as a business partner. Then she met the man who called himself Daniel Mulloney and claimed to be Peter's brother. With his crusading journalist's pen, this man of mystery attacked Peter's wealth and power. With his stirring words, he made Georgina question what she as a woman could and should do in a world run by men. And with his searing passion, he awoke her desire as Peter never had. Georgina had to decide which brother's bride she should be...the one who offered the ideal marriage, or the one who led her to ecstasy beyond her dreams.

SHINING DREAMS, BLAZING PASSIONS Janice Harrison looked like a dowdy schoolmarm to the citizens if Mineral Springs, Texas, as long as no one saw her with her golden hair loose around her white shoulders and her perfect body free from its corset stays. But Peter Mulloney had glimpsed her sensual silhouette in her cabin window, and the hot desire he felt surprised him. He had come here looking for a Texas banker, and all he cared about was proving to his wealthy family that he was his own man. All Janice cared about was being her own woman, supporting herself and her fragile little sister Betsy—and keeping her secrets hidden. Now excitement and danger swept into her life with the bearded, rugged Mulloney. True, Peter Mulloney brought the tender kisses she relished, but did he also bring the kind of hurt that could shatter her soul? Or had the two of them found the rarest treasure in a lifetime of dreams—love...?