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| At the reading of her adoptive father's will, Aileen Bolton receives the shock of her life: Jack Bolton left his half of their Wyoming ranch to a stranger. Still reeling from this unexpected blow, Aileen is dealt another nasty surprise back at the Triangle B Quint Fernandez, the handsome, forceful new co-owner, awaits her, eager to claim his windfall inheritance. He is Jack's biological son from a brief affair whose identity and existence had been hidden from Aileen all these years. She begins to question how well she knew her adoptive parents and begins to feel betrayed. Unable to buy each other out, Aileen and Quint reluctantly join forces to save the faltering ranch. However, their truce is soon imperiled by the attraction sizzling between them, crippling financial difficulties, vicious gossip, and a moral turpitude charge that may |
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| end Aileen's teaching career. The only answer seems to be a marriage of convenience. Yet how long can they resist their totally inconvenient need to share absolutely everything? |
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| Sammi Jo Crawford returns to her home in western North Carolina, divorced, disillusioned and determined to start a new life as a woman who will focus on her career as a dancer and dance instructor, a woman who will never again be subservient or subordinate her hopes and dreams to the wishes of others. No sooner has she opened her dance studio when trouble descends: odd, possibly criminal, activites in the adjacent business, her studio lease is threatened, her grandfather's health deteriorates, and participation in a protest march results in her appearance before Judge Garroway, a spurned suitor. Not surprisingly, the old wounds that reopen, the new unexpected feelings that emerge, all threaten the emotionally univolved career woman Sammi Jo had planned to become. Will her dance with destiny lead her on the right path or into the arms of danger? |
| Dance of Life Released in August 2003 |
| Gift of Fortune Released in February 2004 |
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| Fire and Ashes Available from Avalon in late summer of 2007 |
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| For Michael Yuma, a struggling young painter, an upcoming one-man show of his work is the single most important event in his life. This is what he has worked for, hoped for, and dreamed of, and nothing and no one can distract him from it—not even the young woman who so fortuitously stumbled into his world. An unsuccessful painter herself, heiress Eliza Marshall discovers that the next best thing to being an artist is to be the artist’s model, his muse, his strongest supporter, and his object of affection. To assume this role, however, involves lies of omission |
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| and deception which she rationalizes by convincing herself that nothing is more important than the paintings. When love is thrown into the mix, Eliza’s carefully constructed world of half-truths collapses, threatening all she holds dear. Only time will tell whether her love of art, and her love for Michael, will be enough to overcome what was said and done. |
| Portrait of Eliza |
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