Jo-Ann Mapson

A steamy romance between a California suburbanite and a simple cowboy. Fed up with life--her TV writer husband left her, her sister stole her lover--Margaret Yearwood moves to New Mexico to be near her son's boarding school. There she meets Owen Garret, a man whose past includes alcoholism and murder. By the author of Hank & Chloe.

Horsewoman Chloe arrives at Hank's cabin in Arizona to announce she is pregnant and they resume their romance. The baby is delivered by Junior Whitebear, a handsome Indian and Chloe falls in love with him, concluding she is not destined to be a one-man woman. By the author of Hank and Chloe.

After years of estrangement, two sisters reconnect on their parents' ranch in New Mexico. One is a widow with grown children, the other a career woman. The latter rekindles a romance with a high-school sweetheart by whom she had an abortion.

"Skye Elliot is given a choice after her car accident--jail or rehab--and her ex-husband, a bull rider who introduced her to the party scene, gets custody of their four-year-old daughter Gracie. It takes Skye eight months to get clean, but the day she is released, she has one plan: to be a good mother--better, at least, than Skye's own selfish mother and absent dad. Owen Garret hasn't seen his daughter in ten years. He, too, needs to make amends....

Five challenging years have passed in the lives of the ladies of Bad Girl Creek. Beryl, Nance, Ness, and Phoebe have experienced their share of hardship and heartache but also much love and happiness. Beryl now lives with Earl in Alaska, where the fissures in their relationship have started to spread. But then Earl disappears one wintry night.

After losing her teaching position at the local university, Mariah Moon will do anything to keep her gifted twelve-year-old daughter, Lindsay, in a prestigious private school -- which means moving in with her mother and grandmother in an apartment above The Owl & Moon Cafe;. When her mother, Allegra, is diagnosed with leukemia, Mariah rises to the challenge of running the cafe;: mastering her mother's famous fudge and chatting up customers -- including...