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A DREAM TO SHARE by Irene Hannon [Harlequin 52]

Hope Chastain — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:21:47 -0400

Abby Warner has a tradition to uphold. As the fourth generation of editor/publishers of the Oak Hill Gazette, she has maintained a hard-hitting journalistic style that would make her ancestors proud. However, the paper is floundering financially, and both her choices, sell or fold, seem like failure. Mark Campbell, oldest son and heir apparent to Campbell Publishing, comes to the small town to investigate the paper and whether it would be a good addition to the Campbell empire. What the wealthy playboy finds, however, is an unwelcome attraction to the lovely editor, who looks on him as the enemy...

THE BLUEST BLOOD by Gillian Roberts [Other 44]

Hope Chastain — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:55:38 -0400

Philly Prep teacher Amanda Pepper has her hands full in this one, as the self-styled Moral Ecologists attack their reading program and the generous donation to the school's library by Neddy & Tea Roederer. After Neddy is burned in effigy outside the benefit given at their home, no one realizes this is just a prelude~~~to murder!

PROMISE, TEXAS by Debbie Macomber [Harlequin 51]

Hope Chastain — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:18:12 -0400

Things are stirring in Promise, Texas, home to so many of Debbie Macomber's wonderful people. There are at least three romances going on at once, the ne'er-do-well brother in prison is trying to get back in the good graces of his siblings Grady and Savannah, and there's a rumor going around about the ghost town of Bitter End.

LAST LESSONS OF SUMMER by Margaret Maron [Other 43]

Hope Chastain — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:29:19 -0400

Amy Steadman returns to her grandmother's house after her grandmother is found brutally murdered, along with the family dog. She intends to close the house and settle the estate. But, in addition to the recent death, Amy is still dealing with the mystery surrounding her mother's death... Did Maxie really shoot herself, as Amy has been told all her life, or is something more sinister at work, something that will endanger Amy herself?

THE LONG ROAD HOME by Lori Wick [Other 42]

Hope Chastain — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:36:39 -0400

When Pastor Paul Cameron's young wife Corrine dies before they ever consummate the marriage, he turns his back on God and his family and turns to logging. When he is seriously injured and almost killed, his boss sends word to the family. Recently widowed nurse Abbie Finlayson is the answer to their prayers. Abbie is able to care for Paul, despite his ugly attitude, but can she heal his wounded spirit?

SEASIDE CINDERELLA by Anna Schmidt [Harlequin 50]

Hope Chastain — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:15:18 -0400

Irish immigrant Lucie McNeil has found a haven working for the Hunters, an elderly couple in failing health whose sole desire is to remain on Nantucket Island. When their son, businessman Gabriel Hunter, comes to the island, Lucie recognizes the man who owned the sweatshop where she used to work in Boston, the site of the death of many of her friends in a horrific fire that injured her physically and emotionally.

A SONG FOR SILAS by Lori Wick [Other 41]

Hope Chastain — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:38:30 -0400

Silas Cameron leaves his hometown of Baxter to go help out injured farmer Grant Nolan. Four years earlier, he had worked for Grant, and treated Grant's fourteen year old daughter Amy like a little sister. Silas soon discovers there's a huge difference between fourteen and eighteen, and romance is in the air. Will Amy be able to think of Silas as anything other than an older brother?

FRONTIER COURTSHIP by Valerie Hansen [Harlequin 49]

Hope Chastain — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:12:19 -0400

Nothing in her life prepared Faith Beal and her spoiled younger sister Charity for trek west in a wagon train, but after their mother's death in the tornado that took their house, they have to try to find their father, out mining in the Gold Rush country of California. When things get dangerous, Connell McClain steps in to rescue Faith. The frontiersman is on a quest of his own, having to do with the evil man ramrodding the wagon train west. Faith's life is about to get very interesting...and deadly!

MURDER, MAYHEM AND A FINE MAN by Claudia Mair Burney [Other 40]

Hope Chastain — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:50:09 -0400

Dr. Amanda Bell Brown, psychologist, is called to a crime scene by her Medical Examiner sister Carly, where not only does she meet the man of her dreams, she throws up on his shoes. The perfect way to make an impression... Jazz Brown (no relation) is so handsome it makes Bell's heart alarms go off. Trust Bell to fall in love with the one man who is unavailable...

HER ONLY PROTECTOR by Lisa Mondello [Harlequin 48]

Hope Chastain — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:55:42 -0400

Continuing the saga begun in CRADLE OF SECRETS, Sonny Montgomery travels to Columbia to rescue her infant niece, Ellie, who was stolen from her mother, Serena. Cash Montgomery, Sonny's brother and the baby's father, is missing. After a harrowing rescue which Sonny barely escapes, she is stopped at the airport by Gil Waite, a bounty hunter who has been tailing her in hopes she'll lead him to Cash. Her chance to escape unnoticed by the drug lord who kidnapped baby Ellie ruined, Sonny allows Gil to lead her out of the airport, and into more danger than she dreamed possible!