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Duncan Cooke had a problem. A really BIG problem. As the next Duke of Stantham, he would have power and position, a wealthy estate and the means to take care of his family for years to come. His father and mother could only dream something like this would happen to their eldest son and now their dream was a reality.

Newly released from prison, the last thing Colin Cooke expected to see in Clear Creek was an angel. But there she was, just getting off the stage, and was of course everything an angel ought to be. Beautiful, of exquisite form, and with honey gold curls that bounced when she walked. Unfortunately, she walked straight into the arms of Mrs. Irene Dunnigan! The one person everyone avoided as best they could. At least until they needed something from the mercantile, then they had no choice.

It's 1995 in North Devon, England. There's a born-again revival meeting in a public building; the usual mix of the faithful, the curious, and the desperate. And one other - an atheist suicide bomber. He's angry. He wants answers. And if God doesn't come and talk to him personally, he's going to kill everyone in the building....

Lady Temperance knows she is in trouble when her guardian, Viscount Linchester, catches her sneaking out of the garden in a state of dishabille. When she reveals she was with Lady Prudence - not Pru's brother, Horrid Harold, as Ashby assumed - her guardian accepts the news she was kissing the other woman with aplomb. Ashby is convinced she can't have learned much from another inexperienced chit and does something most peculiar - he offers to instruct her in the art of kissing...everywhere.

Constance had an adventurous spirit, but was it adventurous enough to make a life with Ryder Jones? His country speech bordered on barbaric (at least to her) and his isolated way of life out on the prairie scared her to death! Would she ever see her sisters again? How could she possibly adapt to living with such a man?

Scotsman Angus Buchanan is lonely, but his alien heritage makes it difficult for him to find a partner. Not many women can overlook his tentacles. At his cousin's wedding in America, he meets marine biologist Sasha. She is intrigued by his unique anatomy and might just be the true love he's waited for - or at least the woman to help rid him of his pesky virginity.

One moment, completely human and modern-day Carrie Morgan is crocheting in her living room. The next second, a peach alien claiming to be a Celestial Mates agent transports her and her dog 400 years into the future. He leaves her there to be discovered by her supposed fated mate - a blue-skinned cyborg general. The sly agent failed to mention a few things, like the fact humans and cyborgs are at war with each other!

Patrick lost his father four months ago, but his stepsister, Beth, has been his rock. When he realizes she's been hiding something very big from him, he's determined to discover all the details. Does her secret have something to do with the night shortly after his father's death, when he got so drunk he couldn't remember anything that had happened even the next day?

It should have been just another routine call for Rye and Claire Anderson, owners of Mad Dash Ambulance Service. But when the DOA they deliver to the hospital goes missing, their routine turns deadly. Greedy doctors involved in black market organ harvesting; innocent girls lured into the lucrative, dangerous world of xxx-rated films. Sex, murder, and deception in a small Oregon town. It's all here in Body Parts, Kit Crumb's latest Rye and Claire Adventure.

Veteran police officers Sally Edwards and her partner Layton Roland were crossing town at high speed responding to a report of a shooting when their cruiser was rammed from the side by an armed robber fleeing the scene of a crime. Roland was concussed but Edwards suffered a partially severed spinal cord in her neck.

Samantha Carter had never considered becoming a mail-order bride. She was to marry as soon as she turned 18 and thus be out of her uncle's hair, not to mention his house. But her uncle had other plans, and wanted Samantha for himself. When she found out his intentions, she ran to the only mail-order bride service she knew of and begged Mrs. Ridgley to send her somewhere, anywhere.

Logan Kincaid was sent to Oregon City on ranch business for the Cooke brothers and the Triple C. He sold the cattle he brought, played detective for the Cooke's as instructed, due to the mayhem of several weeks prior. (You can listen about them in Her Prairie Viking Prairie Brides, Book Four.) Unfortunately, he came up empty-handed. He'd hoped beyond hope he'd have something to bring back to Clear Creek that would help the Cookes and the tiny town....

What should have been just another call takes ambulance owners Rye and Claire Anderson to the site of an overturned van where a dozen teenage girls are scattered across the interstate. In an effort to understand the chaos, they describe the incident to a detective friend who is just as baffled. But when his young daughter, Amy, disappears, the three follow a trail that leads to a camp deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest.

For years, Jared has existed on the fringes of both Eden society and Dallas O'Kane's Sector Four gang. He travels between these worlds, protected by his money and power - money he earned selling his body, and power that comes from knowing secrets. He's untouchable - until he starts a new life gathering intelligence for the O'Kanes. Lili Fleming walked out of Sector Five with a gun, the bloodstained clothes on her back, and an icy determination to survive.

Her sister gone, her roommates soon to follow, Leora Mitchell must now face the fact that she, along with the others, are mail-order brides. For years, her life revolved around Brown’s Textile Mill, her sister Lottie, and their friends. Now, as mail-order brides, they’d be scattered across the country, ready to start a new life. The only problem was Leora had no idea what that life looked like, nor did she have any idea who she was without the familiar faces she loved so much.

Stevie Cutter's father vanished on a flight over the South Pacific when she was 13. Now, 30 years later, when she visits her dying mother in San Francisco, she is given her father's diary and plunged into a dangerous chain of events that will change her life forever. In the back of the diary is a hidden message with a clue to her father's fate and a treasure map. But someone else is hunting for the treasure, too, and, in their pursuit, threatens to destroy all that she loves.

A secretive group of scientists and investors control a revolutionary machine that will change the course of medicine - and fortunes of those who must destroy it.

Hacker Noah Lennox lives in the shadows, fighting a one-man war against the corrupt leader of Sector Five. The only weak spot in his armor is his best friend's sweet younger sister: the girl he swore to save, even from himself. With her brother dead and a target on their backs, getting her out of the sector - and out of danger - meant giving her up for good. Or so he thought.

Duncan Cooke, aka The Duke of Stantham, had a problem. He had a huge estate in England to manage, one not far from London, and it came with all the headaches one would expect with an estate in disarray. Including six unwed cousins, women no man would touch for fear of losing a limb, or worse. Strange things happened to all who tried to court them, so they were left unwed. But Duncan realized that his hometown of Clear Creek had exactly what he needed. Men! He concocts a plan to send his cousins there.

US Marshal and bear-shifter Lucas Anderson failed to protect his pregnant witness, so when she asks him to adopt her daughter as her dying wish, he can't refuse. Angel is a sweet baby, and he soon feels like Papa Bear, and maybe she'll be the key to help him wear down his mate's resistance.