Reviews - Contemporary

Lone Star Joy
Kathleen
Ball

Joy Courtland's parole officer has organized a work-release program as a horse wrangler for her to serve out the last three years of her jail term for murder. Stamos Walker's ranch is where Joy is assigned, except Stamos only allows male, non-violent offenders into the program on his Texas ranch.

Bud's Christmas Wish
Ashley
Nemer

Lucy O'Toole is leaving her sorrow in New Orleans and going to Ireland.   It has been two months since her parents were tragically killed at Christmas, and her only remaining family are her elderly, Irish grandparents.  Two years later, Lucy is working at the local tavern, living with her grandmum Hannah, her granddad having also passed on.

Hart’s Desire
Lori
Leger

In 1974, at the Dallas Home for Unwed Mothers, high school senior Melinda Dawson gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. She was only able to hold her for a minute before the little girl was taken away, but it was long enough to see she had Melinda’s hair, nose and mouth, but her father’s cleft chin.

Tell Me You Want Me
Amelia
James

Jane has always been a good girl. She studied hard and rarely dated or did things just for fun. So when the handsome bad boy, Austin, flirts with her, she can’t help but think: “For once I could let myself go and simply enjoy life.” It was all going as planned, until she broke all the rules and started to fall for him.

Third Time’s a Charm
Heather B.
Moore

Liz Carlson has had it with men.  After two marriages to dead-beat losers, she has decided to take Dr. Laura’s advice and wait until her daughter is grown before even attempting another relationship.  Being a single parent is hard, though, and when a phone call to her apartment’s maintenance dept. to fix a leak produces handsome Sloane Branden, her resolve seriously weakens.

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