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Set against the barbaric splendor of the ninth century when the Vikings reigned. Ragnar Haraldsson was handsome, brave, intelligent, and daring. He would emerge out of the mists of a violent age to become a Viking leader of great renown and would unite his people. Touching on the shores of Britain, Scotland and then Ireland, he will not only find love but will march into legend as Ragnar Longsword. Young Ragnar Haraldsson, could hardly wait to grow to manhood so that he could be as brave as his Viking father. One day he would be jarl and exchange his wooden sword for one that was real. ...

EXPLORER He discovered his destiny…and his heart. Unaware he was the second son of a powerful Viking jarl, dark-haired Sean was raised in an Irish monastery, destined to become a man of letters. But when he offered shelter to a lovely young Magyar slave, his life was changed forever. For when Natasha is recaptured and dispatched to Russia aboard an enemy’s Viking ship, Sean knows he must rescue her by at last accepting the assets of his Viking heritage. Natasha had admired the handsome dark haired Irishman from afar and sensed that he was a man who would offer his protection when she ...

Jessica Watson knew that she was lucky. There weren’t too many young women that could count Butch Cassidy and the members of the “Wild Bunch” as friends. Why, she’d been raised among the outlaws. They were family! Someday Jessie wanted to be just like them. That is until she looked up into the bluest pair of eyes she’d ever seen when a tall handsome cowboy came to rescue her in a street brawl. Corbin MacQuarie had come to Utah to settle down and become a successful rancher. He had it all planned. He’d take some of the money he’d set aside to bring one of the long-haired bulls ...

A woman’s passion; a Viking’s fury: Together their love conquered all…… She was a beautiful young Irish woman, he was a bold Viking--mortal enemies drawn together by an emotion much stronger than hatred. Despite the differences of their worlds their love will overcome incredible odds. Sold into slavery by his own brother and taken to the Province of Munster, Wolfram spent his days in despair until Deidre’s kindness touched his heart. Not only did she bring him food and soothing words, she gave him hope for his future, setting him free from his bondage despite the threat of her own...

Two lovers drawn together by myth and mystery, only to be parted by a heartless betrayal. Refusing to forget the magic of their love they find a passion far stronger than any earthly law, a love as timeless as eternity. Caitlin MacLeod, daughter of a powerful Scottish chieftain, was a fiercely independent woman who refused every proposal of marriage and vowed never to belong to any man. It was a vow that so angered her father that he swore he would give her in marriage to the next man who walked through the door. Little did he know that man would be the son of his clan’s sworn enemy; a ...

Wanted – Dead or Alive! The words goad Travis La Mont to “run for his life”. With a reward of two hundred dollars on his head he feared his chances of proving his innocence weren’t worth a nickel. Particularly with that red-headed female bounty hunter on his trail. Bliss Harrison was overjoyed when she saw the wanted poster. She was in desperate need of money and was certain she could catch the handsome bank robber. She would ignore his charms, haul him in, hand him over, and collect the reward! It would be as simple as one, two, three. A business transaction only. One that would ...

OUTCAST Their unexpected love will lead them to adventure and an unknown danger. Though she has never laid eyes on him, flame-haired Erica of Clan Macquarie is defiantly proud that her father was a Viking Jarl. Around her neck she wears the garnet-studded raven’s pendant that he gave to her mother so long ago. Someday she will seek out her father and follow her Viking destiny. That day comes sooner than she imagined when powerful and handsome Nordic warrior, Torin, comes ashore. An emissary of her father, Torin has come in search of the Jarl’s youngest son, “Eric,” little realizing ...

A shipwrecked Viking; A bronze skinned beauty: destined to find love is the greatest discovery of all. Rorik Wolframson, a young Viking explorer, soon learned that love is the greatest discovery of all when destiny brought him into the arms of Werona, daughter of her Algonquin tribe’s honored shaman. Their love for each other would change not only their own lives but the destiny of the New World as well. Werona dreamed of love as she gathered roots and herbs for her mother’s medicines. When she stumbled upon the body of a huge, blond warrior on the beach she knew that her dreams had ...

CONQUEROR They were reunited in passion….and peril. In Wessex—Britain—Beautiful dark haired Gwyneth stands before the altar, thinking not of her betrothed, but of a handsome young man, half Anglo-Saxon half Viking that her father enslaved when she was a child. The dragon pendant she wears faithfully around her neck was a gift from him the night she helped him escape. Little does she know that they will meet again, but not as she has dreamed. Led by an obsession for revenge, tawny-haired Selig leads a Viking raid that puts a halt to the wedding ceremony of his enemy’s daughter. ...

Devil and angel, bandit and postulant; Rodrigo Delgado O’Hara and Angelica Howe fell in love against all odds. When Angelica left the safety of the convent to teach at the Mission in Santa Barbara, she would never have believed she’d become a hostage in a Mexican bandit’s camp. Now her only hope was that her brother would pay the ransom of gold and guns so that she could return to the sheltered life she had known. There was more danger of losing her heart than her life to El Diablo. The bandit leader, with his passionate kisses and whispered words of love, was quickly turning her ...

Beth and Jamie only meant to give fate a hand in earning their fortunes and bettering their lives. It was only a harmless masquerade. How were they to know the dangers and heartache a game of hearts could bring? Adorned in the latest fashion, Beth Longley mixed among the beauties of the ton as though she belonged. She swept dashing, well-to-do Jamie Morgan completely off his feet. Little did he know that Beth was not the lady of Claremont House at all—only its servant girl in disguise, hoping to maneuver her way into a wealthy man’s arms. Then Jamie proposed, leaving Beth to wonder how ...

Rosalinda Renaldo never intended to become a “bandido”. She merely wanted to save her bandito brother from the hated soldiers who held him prisoner. Now as the “Spanish Rose” she is forced to embrace a duel life—performing in a New Mexico cantina to spy on the uniformed men and taking on the disguise of “El Tigre.” She did not know that her careful plan would spin out of control when the handsome blonde captain she meant to charm seduces her in return. When Captain Devin Wade saw the dark beauty move like liquid fire across the cantina floor, he was entranced and determined to...

Known far and wide as the owner of the greatest traveling wild west show since Buffalo Bill Cody, “Cherokee” Ross Sheldon met his match when he crossed paths again with a woman he had loved and left behind. New England widow, Sabrina James, longed to escape her dreary existence and her father-in-law’s charity. Her dream was to head west—for excitement and adventure! Little did she know that a tragic accident would send her into seclusion and cause her to hide from the law by donning a dark wig. Learning how to shoot, changing her name to “Buckskin” Kitty Tremaine, she found much...

Josey McLaury had come to Show Low, Arizona with one thought in mind, to learn how to shoot a gun so that she could take revenge for a most brutal act. Seeking out the services of a once-famous gunfighter who has become a doctor, she finds love unexpectedly. But will the past come back to haunt them? She had found him—the man who’d shot down her younger brother in cold blood. Was it any surprise that Josie challenged him to a gunfight then and there? She hadn’t counted on getting a bullet in her arm for her trouble, however. Nor in being rescued by a rugged stranger who insisted on ...

They were from two different cultures, their people were adversaries, yet once they had experienced the sensual sweetness of their passion, they knew they must risk every obstacle to be together. Skyraven was the pride of her Arapaho tribe and the granddaughter of the tribe’s medicine man, a beauty with blue eyes and ebony silk hair. Though sought after by many of the braves she had not yet met a man of her choosing, that is until she came upon the golden-haired soldier in the clearing who had been captured by her people’s enemy—the Utes. In spite of her own danger, she quickly freed ...

Clint Tanner’s first meeting with Stephanie Eliott was more than just awkward, it was a catastrophe! Pretending that he thought her to be the bawdy house’s new girl, he patted the haughty easterner on the posterior and swept her into his arms for a passionate kiss—a welcome to the West. Surely this crude cowboy couldn’t be the legendary gunfighter Stephanie had immortalized in the dime novels she’d written under an assumed name! Proper, pristine, and punctual—that was what people always said about Stephanie Elliott, little realizing that she had a secret; she had won fame and ...

Paradise, Colorado – 1999: Newswoman Christina Phillips stares at the scaffold and dangling rope, a gruesome reminder of outlaw Lance Meredith’s death a hundred years ago. He was said to have been a handsome man, a Western Robin Hood; perhaps the most beloved man whose image ever stared out from a wanted poster. Hero to the common man or not, however, he had been hung on a cold day in 1899. Now on the hundredth anniversary of the dashing outlaw’s execution, she makes final preparations for the television broadcast that will honor him. The clock on the old courthouse tower displays the...

Like the shadow of a huge beast waiting to entrap its prey, the outline of “the dark continent” rose up in the early morning mists. Dr. Amanda Jane Lawton had come to this land of fierce exotic animals, dangerous vine-infested jungles and unexplored rivers, to find her lost missionary father. Now as she waited for the boat that would take her up the Congo she was having second thoughts—about the journey, the bad weather, and the wisdom of putting her life in the hands of a man she had never even met. Captain Dante Roth was a man who valued his solitude and was determined to live his ...

Elizabeth St. John was a determined, independent woman running away from her past, hell-bent on securing a future for the young female entertainers traveling with her to Colorado Territory. Ben Cronin was a wealthy, self-made mining magnate whose wealth and good looks made him any woman’s dream. Beth, Betsy, Elise, Lizzie – Elizabeth had used many names as she fled from England to New York, Boston, San Francisco and Colorado Territory. Haunted by the past, she couldn’t forget to look over her shoulder from time to time. She didn’t dare allow herself the luxury of falling in love. A ...

A woman running from her past. Brandy Jacobs had come to Colorado from San Francisco with an eight-woman troupe of singers and dancers to forget the heartache of a life filled with disappointment and betrayal. She wanted to build a new life for herself, a future that did not include a man whose image was plastered on wanted posters all the way from Boulder to Georgetown. A man running from the law. Logan Donovan had been framed for a murder he did not commit by a political rival. He was determined to clear his name and reclaim his life. In his wildest dreams, he never imagined he would soon...