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When her sister Emily breaks her ankle during their camping trip in the Canadian Rockies, Jo Davidson's life soon faces some drastic changes.

Natalie Forman has had enough of the big city. She's been working in Vancouver and had gotten promoted from secretary to junior partner, but it was just because of her looks and now she's been fired for not sleeping with clients

Second Chances by Carey Krieger, Wings ePress, Inc, 2003

Excellence Rating- Good+

Steaminess Rating- Romantic (*)

Kate Harris is taking her daughter, Becky on a vacation to a dude ranch. Becky bumps into a cowboy at the airport. This cowboy happens to be Cord McClayne, owner of the dude ranch, the man Kate was going to marry 8 years ago, Becky's father. Kate has never told Becky that Cord is her father and she has never told Cord he has a daughter. Kate was too hurt to tell either of them. She believed Cord was only dating her for her money. That she came second. All they talked about were plans for a ranch. But was Kate just a way of financing their dream? Now that Cord and Becky have met should Kate tell them they are father and daughter? What if Cord decides he wants Becky and plans to take her away from Kate? They start reconnecting again. When she discovers that his ranch is in financial trouble, will it start her thinking that he is after her money. Or will a few words from her father have Cord thinking Kate was spying on him and that Kate was in on his downfall?

 Like I read another reviewer do, I am warning that I do include some spoilers in my reviews though I try to warn about most of them and am trying to keep the big spoilers until the end of my review.

When sexy Brad Logan hires Sarah Brownly, he doesn't expect his
once quiet home to be filled with a rabble of kids and a housekeeper he
can't keep his eyes off…. With Brad as her boss, Sarah's never felt
more secure. But she's running from her past. How can she ask this
gorgeous bachelor to take on her troubles and her unruly brood?

Angel Mercer is a famous American author – wherever she goes she is stalked by fans and the media and the random people showing up trampling in her garden for a glimpse of her are starting to drive her crazy.

Sisters Found by Joan Johnston, HQN, April 2008 (book 13- Hawk's Way)

Hope- With an 18 year age difference, Jake Whitelaw thought there was too much of an age difference between him and Hope Butler. At 18 he also felt she hadn't experienced the world enough and he became engaged to Amanda Carter. So Hope said she would go to college and asked Jake to wait for her. He told her that if Amanda were to set a date he would marry her. For three years while Hope went to college and traveled to Europe and Australia, no news came of a marriage between Jake and Amanda. Not until she returned home. Then the date was set, Christmas Eve. That gave her two weeks to make Jake realize he was marrying the wrong woman. Maybe Jake can see that he can be happier with Hope, but can he love her? Jake's brother Rabb was in love with Amanda. He had 2 weeks to make her see that she was marrying the wrong man. Add to the mix Hope's twin Faith who can see that Jake and Amanda won't be happy together and wants to see Amanda happy with Rabb and Hope with Jake.

Faith- Faith Butler has dated and loved Randy Wright for three year. Randy makes her feel less self conscience of the fact she only has one hand. She was constantly matchmaking, trying to get Hope and Jake together, Rabb and Amanda. And now finding out she had another sister if she could get Kane and Charity married then Charity would be living closer.

Charity- Kane Longstreet was a cousin of the Whitelaw's. He finally convinced Charity Burnette to come home with him and meet his family. Rabb and Amanda meet her first and mistake her for Hope because she bears an exact resemblance to Hope. It can't be Faith because she has both hands. Even though Charity says she's adopted, Amanda and Rabb dismiss the idea that she might be related to Hope and Faith because that may mean that Hope and Faith's parents had triplets and choose to keep two and give one away. But the girls were triplets, so what happen?

Will Faith be successful? Will there be 0 weddings? One? Two? Three? Four?

Fortune's Return by Jamie Craig, Liquid Silver Books, 2008 (erotic gay romance)

Copied Back Blurb

Ryan Putnam has lost everything. Laid off from teaching high school and dumped by his lawyer boyfriend, he has nowhere else to go but his childhood home - the Good Fortune ranch. He plans to take the summer to regroup and start over. He never expects to be smitten with a cowboy. Especially not a cowboy like Teo Mendez, who is everything Ryan's ex-boyfriend is not.

Four years after his wife's death, Teo Mendez has returned to what he loves the most - working the land. He believes the Good Fortune ranch is the perfect place to build a new life for his son, Antonio. When his boss's brother Ryan shows up to work, the other man's haunted eyes reminds Teo of everything he has lost as well. So he offers the only thing he can-his friendship. But it doesn't take long for Ryan to reawaken long dormant emotions and desires

Ryan doesn't intend to find a relationship. Teo doesn't want to complicate his life with a fling. What they have between them, however, is too powerful to ignore.

Calder Brown's friend Owen Chase has just got married

Kat Rawlings' life has always been overpowered by her four older brothers who raised her after their parents died but now she's decided that whether they like it or not