Sweet tea, corn bread, and soup beans-everyday fare for eight-year-old Alix French, the precocious darling of a respected southern family. But nothing was ordinary about the day she met ten-year-old Nick Anderson, a boy from the wrong side of town. Armed with only a tin of bee balm and steely determination, Alix treats the raw evidence of a recent beating that mars his back, an act that changes both of their lives forever. Through childhood disasters and teenage woes they cling together as friendship turns to love. The future looks rosy until the fateful night when Frank Anderson, Nick's abusive father, is shot to death in his filthy trailer. Suddenly, Nick is gone-leaving Alix alone, confused and pregnant. For the next fifteen years she wrestles with the pain of Nick's abandonment, a bad marriage, her family and friends. But finally, she's starting to get her life back together. Her divorce is almost final, her business is booming, and she's content if not happy -- until the day she looks up and sees Nick standing across the counter. He's back...and he's not alone. Once again Alix is plunged into turmoil and pain as Nick tries to win her love, something she resists with all her strength. Only one thing might break the protective wall she's built around her emotions-the truth about Frank Anderson's death. But when that truth comes out and those walls crumble, neither Alix nor Nick is prepared for the emotional explosion that could destroy as well as heal.

The Sweet Gum Tree

Literature & Fiction

Allred, Katherine

Contemporary

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All his life Tate McCullom has been taught to be responsible, and he is the very model of what a respectable man should be. Until the night he gets drunk and sleeps with a woman he barely knows. Now, six weeks later, she's pregnant, alone, and broke. Once again, Tate must take responsibility for his actions, and makes plans to marry his child's mother. There's only one problem...he has to tell his fiancée. Abby Grayson hasn't had an easy life. As the daughter of the town whore, people either avoid her or think she's like her mother. For Abby, it's a struggle just to fill her belly and keep a roof over her head. Loneliness and a secret yearning for this man she thought she'd never have led her to spend the night with Tate. But the last thing she needs is a baby when she can barely take care of herself. Desperate, but too proud to ask for help, she finally agrees to accept a job from Tate the job of being his wife. Now she has almost everything she's ever dreamed of. Unfortunately, only one thing will gain her Tate's love his realization that the night he spent with her was no drunken accident. It was a last-ditch attempt to win the woman he really wanted.

What Price Paradise

Erotica

It's been ten years since Cole Jordan was run out of Canyon Bend, ten years he spent accumulating a vast fortune. Now he's back with only one goal in mind. To win the woman he left behind, the woman he never forgot. This time, not even her wealthy, overprotective uncle will stop him. Because everything he's done, he's done for love of Charley. After Cole made passionate love to her one night, he vanished without a word, so Charley doesn't trust him worth a damn when he reappears. Especially when she discovers it's his company that bought half of her business, the Red Dog Saloon. But Cole has big plans for the town that once shunned him, and as Charley finds herself working with him daily, the love she's tried so hard to suppress blooms again. Only one thing stands in their way; Cole's refusal to tell her why he left so abruptly. While they fight their way back to each other, outside influences work to keep them apart at any cost€¦even death.

For Love Of Charley

Romance

In the turbulent twelfth century, politics and pressure from their fathers force French courtier Eleanor and English border knight Stian of Harelby into a marriage that neither wants. He sees her as a colorless mouse. To her, he is an uncouth barbarian. She searches desperately for a way to have the marriage annulled while trying to adjust to life in a cold northern fortress. Lured by an attraction to Eleanor's lovely sister, Stian tries to ignore his wife. But passion soon sparks between them, and with it a growing respect for each other. But when their newfound love is threatened by a war with the Scots that rouses Stian's most barbaric instincts, they must both fight to hold onto what truly matters each other.

Nothing Else Matters

Sizemore, Susan

Historical

Adora

Adora! Her beauty was legend. And in the dying days of the great Byzantine Empire that last vestige of what had once been Imperial Rome her value as the emperor's daughter was priceless. Three men claimed her as wife. Orkhan, the powerful Ottoman sultan; the dashing pirate Alexander, lord of Mesembria; and Prince Murad, to whom Adora's heart truly belonged. In a grand epic that sweeps the reader from the golden palaces of fourteenth-century Byzantium to the blazing sensuality of the sultan's harem, Adora was a woman who firmly controlled her own destiny because she and Murad were meant only for each other. And together their passions would forge an empire. Adora! Her name was the secret of all love.

Small, Bertrice

Hallie McIntyre intends to take her vows and live a cloistered life-until she finds a wounded stranger lying in Sister Dominica's garden. Against her better judgment, Hallie agrees to hide him from her Sisters and from the lawmen who come looking for him, and nurse him back to health. When the law refuses to hunt down the men who slaughtered his family, John Walking Hawk takes the law into his own hands. Wounded and with a price on his head, he's on the run, wanted for exacting the justice that had been denied him. Now, because of a twist of fate, Hallie finds herself falling in love with a man she never should have met, and making the hardest decision of her life. Turning her back on the convent, Hallie follows her heart, trading the peace and serenity of the convent for a different and far more dangerous life, risking security and freedom to become Hawk's woman. Publisher Note: Previously published elsewhere under the same title.

Hawk's Woman

Baker, Madeline

Book 5 in the Tales of the Order series.  When Gawain O'Malley lost his right hand in the tragic fire that destroyed all his artwork and claimed lives, he also lost the will to live. He feels wholly responsible for the fire and can no longer generate an income for the Shire though his work. Concerned for Gawain's well-being -- and the future of her people -- the Sorceress of the Order enlists a group of Brownies to come to his aid.  When Wren arrives at the Shire, she immediately realizes Gawain is her true love -- despite her betrothal to someone else. And when they're together, Gawain feels a deep sense of peace that helps ease his guilt.  But as the two are about to discover, the fire was not Gawain's fault at all...but the work of an evil outside force.

The Craftsman

Sams, Candace

Fantasy

Lakota Love Song

Though she was born in the East, Kaylee Matthews took to the west like a duck to water. She loves the freedom of the wide open spaces, the beauty of the land. While riding with her neighbor, Randy, Kaylee discovers a wounded Indian. Against Randy's wishes, Kaylee insists on taking the Indian to an empty line shack and nursing him back to health, the way she did with the all the wounded creatures she found. Wounded and left for dead, Blue Hawk is prepared to die even though it means abandoning all hope of avenging himself on the white men who betrayed him. While waiting for death, he receives a startling vision before losing consciousness. On awaking, he finds himself being tended by the white woman in his vision. When he's strong enough to return home, Blue Hawk steals a horse and takes Kaylee with him, intending to trade her back to her family for weapons for his tribe. But somewhere along the way, distrust turns to love and attraction turns to desire, leaving them to wonder if they can heal old hurts and find a way to bridge the differences between them.

Song of a Druid Princess When Kate Dellafield is accepted at the Conservatoire de Paris she's ecstatic to be a student of the renowned Gabriel Jourdain. Gabriel is revered throughout France for his brilliance as a pianist and his wartime heroism. Handsome, commanding, charismatic, he tries to drive Kate from his classroom with sarcasm as he fights against his compelling attraction for the beautiful Druid. When Gabriel finally admits his love, he claims they have no future together. Can Kate make him acknowledge the secret that is keeping them apart? Only Druid powers can save them both. Will the lilting song in her heart convince him they belong together? Kiss of a Druid Bard Dr. Stephan Lavornios, disappointed in love, sets out to walk away his sorrow and rediscover his Druid roots. He travels through Brittany singing for his supper as a Druid bard. In this land of ancient Druid legends and artifacts he sees his first aura. Although in the beginning he is incredulous, the rosy glow surrounding Mairey Browyn forces him to acknowledge his inherent Druid powers. Mairey, a beautiful young archeologist, does not believe in nonsense such as seeing visions and auras as Stephen claims. But as power grows, so does their fiery attraction for each other. Mairey's young niece Bethan captures Stephen's heart. He intervenes once when a perverted villian threatens Mairey. And when the villain kidnaps Mairey and Bethan, Stephen is the only one who might possibly find and save them. Have his Druid powers developed enough to perform this miracle? Or will he fail with the true love of his life?

Garland of Druids: Druid Duet

Stewart, Jean Hart

Paranormal

Kidnapped by Indians ten years ago at the age of seven, Teressa Bryant has no memory of her parents or her life in San Francisco. Known as Winter Rain by the Lakota, she is on the verge of marrying a Lakota warrior when a handsome stranger rides into the village. Half-breed Chance McCloud, known as Wolf Shadow among the Lakota, has been hired by Teressa's parents to rescue their daughter from the Indians. The attraction between Chance and Teressa can't be denied and soon he's torn between his need for the reward offered by Teressa's parents, and his need for Teressa.

Wolf Shadow

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