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“Be prepped for a good read!” When Ricky Steele, a fifty- something odd jobber, plays a practical joke on her former boarding school, she plunges headlong into kidnapping and murder. While she pretends to be an ace private investigator, the niece of Massachusetts’ governor goes missing and a murderer terrorizes the campus. Ricky enlists the aid of her former roommates, Lolly and Katie and together, they create mayhem during Whitley School’s reunion weekend. As she bungles along in search of the truth, old ghosts of her boarding school days come back to haunt the pretend sleuth. ...

Spark Foster drags his daughter Amy kicking and screaming on an extended vacation to Morgan’s Run. Sworn off men after a painful break-up, Amy takes a ride with adorably cute, wrangler Jeb Barnes and her broken heart skips more than one beat! Jeb is grieving the loss of his “almost fiancée,” and his white hot attraction to the beautiful stranger from Portland shakes him to the core. Like moths to flames, neither can stay away from each other as they work side-by-side at Emma’s Dream, a camp for handicapped kids. As her vacation ends, Amy must face the hardest decision of her life--...

Once again Saguaro Valley works its magic when Harriet Winthrop agrees to a vacation with her mom Helen a friend of the Morgans and Spark Foster. After wrenching heartbreak, Harriet has sworn off men forever. Her first valley evening she meets “swoon-worthy” Kyle Morgan and jumps headlong into a white hot love affair. “Love em and leave em” Kyle is bowled over by his feelings for the shy, beautiful east coaster. Then shadows of Harriet’s traumatic past sweep over the lovers and their relationship is threatened -- by distance, dangers on the trail and bone shattering memories. Will...

As Pam Morgan adjusts to life in Horseshoe Crab Cove, the last thing she expects is to fall head over heels for dark, dangerous Sandy Rodriguez, owner of a wildly successful music venue north of the village. While every fiber of her being screams no, she is drawn to the older man like a moth to a flame. They begin a white hot affair that threatens his relationship with his daughter and Pam’s fragile peace. Come join the Morgan family and friends for book three of Morgan’s Fire and discover why this series continues to touch hearts and raise pulses!

A May-December romance and the return of an old love keep this sexy romance sizzling from start to finish! Love is the last thing on gifted artist, Beth Hadley’s mind as she prepares for a one-woman show while enjoying a bittersweet summer before her son, Kit leaves for college. Then, out of the blue, an unexpected, secret love blossoms with Jack Talbot, Kit’s best friend, and they begin a passionate affair that could destroy her world, tear her family apart, and shatter the peace of her close knit community. As Beth struggles with guilt and remorse over the relationship with Jack, a ...

One of the Southwest’s most successful painters, Hope Seymour leaves behind a year of grief and despair to nanny for her friend, Beth Morgan’s new baby. Not five minutes after arriving in the Valley, she comes face-to-face with Beth’s brother, Robbie, the gorgeous adventure guide with whom she danced at Beth and Lang’s wedding. Instantly, their fiery attraction reignites and a white hot affair begins. Then, Ruthie, the youngest Morgan sibling, fails to return from a pack trip. Family, neighbors and friends join the search, including Hope, an expert rider. Days on the trail give the ...

His career as successful architect in shambles when he finds himself in the midst of a sexual harassment suit, Sam Morgan returns to his family’s ranch a broken man. There he finds comfort in the arms of Rose Dillon, a gifted pediatric neurosurgeon and dear family friend. In true Morgan fashion, he wooed Rose a year earlier, then left town breaking her heart. While Rose vows to stay away, she finds herself once again head over heels in love with the dark haired Morgan son. Has he been falsely accused or is he the sexual predator his senior colleague claims he is? When Rose is viciously ...

Polly Granger comes to Morgan’s Run to help run the ranch’s new day care, never dreaming she’ll find love with the scruffy, gorgeous Kevin Larrabee, a contractor, whose crew is building a thoroughbred farm and training center north of the ranch for Ben Morgan Senior and his buddy, Spark Foster. From the moment they meet, Polly’s fragile heart belongs to Kevin. Seventeen years her senior and divorced, he loves her more than he’s ever loved any woman, but decides he’s too old for the beautiful schoolteacher. Then, Kevin learns of a child from his past who might be his son and his ...

Despite her incessant flirting, Aria Firorelli is actually quite inexperienced and clueless when it comes to men. Then gorgeous Jonas Miller breezes into town and sweeps her off her feet. When passion sparks between them, they share a sizzling night before he heads back east without a word, shattering her heart. Now, after six months of radio silence, Jonas is back, living and working nearby and ready to rev things up again. Never! Aria swears. How stupid was he to leave her, and how can he win her back, Jonas wonders. Of one thing he is certain—he cannot live without the violet eyed chef...

Ruthie Morgan and Harley Langdon have been doing their passionate dance for years. In love with the drop-dead, gorgeous wrangler for as long as she can remember, Ruthie is frustrated that he regards her as his kid sister. When she learns he is leaving the valley for a job in California, she explodes, heartbroken and angry. As Harley contemplates the move, he gazes around at what he’s leaving especially his best friend, Ben Morgan’s little sister, who has grown into a beautiful, sexy woman. When the two begin a sizzling red hot affair, sparks fly and a job offer closer to home means ...

On his reluctant return home for his parents’ fortieth anniversary, Lang Dillon’s life is changed forever on a dusty road in Saguaro Valley where he discovers Beth Morgan bent over her truck’s hood sobbing. Beth’s neat ordered life shattered, she turns to the sexy, handsome visitor for comfort and finds more than she bargained for as their white-hot romance develops. Should Beth risk her heart again when Lang heads home to Boston in less than two weeks? Stay away she tells herself, but that proves impossible and Beth’s risks a broken heart once again. As a teenager, Lang could not...

Rich Morgan runs Morgan Enterprises the same way he lives his life – with steadiness and competence. That is until sizzling, sweet Karen Miller comes along and their white hot love affair turns his world upside down. As they support, nurture and love one another, their budding relationship weathers illness and former lovers’ interference. Then, tragically fate intervenes when Karen is injured. Left paralyzed, she refuses to allow the man she loves to saddle himself with someone who will never again run into his arms, whirl around a dance floor, or splash into the ocean holding his hand....

Can love flourish in middle-age when a handsome ex-priest steps into your life? Steady, down-to-earth Meryl Stockdale is about to find out. Meryl has made her first real home in the village of Horseshoe Crab Cove. As chef of the town’s hottest new restaurant, she is surrounded by wonderful colleagues and friends and she’s renting the perfect cottage on the river. Life is good. Then she meets tall, gorgeous Joseph O’Leary and their relationship explodes with a fiery passion. Certain she’s found the love of her life; Meryl is shocked when Joe suddenly disappears. After three decades, ...

As the village of Horseshoe Crab Cove sparkles, community members gather for sidewalk days, tree lighting on the Green and family parties. Join your favorite couples from earlier Morgan’s Fire stories -- Lucy and Richard, Kyle and Harriet, Lolly and Jack, Sandy and Pam, Murph and Greta, Gail and Tim, and others – as these beloved characters celebrate birthdays, weddings, and the holidays. A kindling of a new relationship and a mini baby boom bring joy and resonance to the season as Joe O’Leary makes the difficult decision to leave the priesthood. Will he find peace with his decision ...

Running from heartbreak, Bella Jacobi comes to Valley Stables to live with her brother, Tom. As she makes friends and settles into her new job as midwife at Valley Ob-Gyn, the last thing she expects is to fall head over heels for Whip Kittredge, a wrangler whom locals call Wild Bill Hickok with his shoulder length hair, wild eyes, and a troubled past. Her brother does not approve. Drawn like a moth to a flame, Whip cannot resist his boss’s beautiful sister. He knows that Tom’s threats are just bluff, but to draw close, fall in love, and give his heart and soul to another person is risky...

A Valley Christmas is Leonora and Ben’s love story. As they plan their fortieth wedding anniversary party and deal with an unexpected health issue, the beloved couple reminisce about when they first fell in love. And it’s the holidays in Saguaro Valley! Family and friends gather to celebrate a wedding, kindle the fires of a new relationship, welcome a Christmas baby, and revel in the ranch’s bountiful Christmas season. Join this loving family, their friends, and east coast cousins in book ten of Morgan’s Run!

Heart shattered, Lolly Rogers vows she’ll never love again. She’s got her work, as partner in Merlin’s Closet, a successful children’s book catalogue, and her daughter Maisie. She does not, I repeat, does not need a man. Besides, even if she wanted a man, where would she find one in tiny little Horseshoe Crab Cove? Then blue eyed, hunky Jack Faulkner -- with a body that fits hers to perfection -- drives into town and she’s lost, gonzo. Falls like a ton of bricks! Jack has finally extracted himself from a tortuous relationship so the last thing on his mind is love. Then he spies ...

When troubled, anorexic, Mia Brooks flies from London to stay with her aunt and uncle, Leonora, and Ben Morgan, she is immediately embraced by the loving communities of both ranch and town. Support and love surround her soon after she sets foot on the tarmac of Grenville Airport and into the arms of the Morgans and, unexpectedly, into the arms of tall, handsome Brendan Statler with his turquoise blue eyes. Will Mia’s illness and Brendan’s past tear these young lovers apart? Will they find a way for love to endure and grow, even when they live oceans apart? Join the southwest and London ...

When Murph O’Neill captures Daisy the goat scampering down Coast Road, he also captures the heart of her mistress, Greta Jeffers. The chance meeting brings these two together and it’s love on second sight. When they met earlier, both were dating others. Now they’re free, or are they? Soon ghosts from Murph’s past rear up to rip the young lovers apart. Heart broken, Greta flees to her aunt’s in California for two months. She returns home to uncertainty and a raging hurricane that threatens to destroy a great deal more than her heart. Join Greta and Murph and the community of ...

Biologist, Ned Fielding leaves the tattered remains of his marriage behind to spend six months on Winward Island, a property shared by SENCA, his land conservation group, and the reclusive, Widow Barlow. Dispatched to the island to study a rare species of carrion beetle, Ned finds himself much more interested in studying the island’s only other human, the beautiful, Addie Barlow, whose screams of terror awaken him in the dead of night. A hurricane and near drowning throw the island’s two inhabitants together and they begin a smoldering love affair. The locals call the Widow Barlow a ...