A Merry Little Christmas
Anita Higman
"City meets country when Charlie offers to buy Franny's Oklahoma farm on the condition that she stay long enough to teach him the farming business. In the process, they discover what is truly important"--

by Joan Hohl (2002)
NO MAN COULD TAME HER REBELLIOUS SOUL... She was as wild as the rugged Wyoming Territory of her birth, all woman, primal and exciting, a platinum-haired enchantress who dressed and rode like a man. No one had ever threatened Jessica Randall's independence -- until the stranger called Segundo led her into the uncharged world of the senses, compelling her to trust, to yield, to love with a passion she never knew she possessed. NO WOMAN COULD RESIST HIS SENSUAL CHALLENGE... He stared at her with turquoise eyes glittering with blatant sexual hunger. Here was the girl Duncan Frazer had dreamed of in his years of exile, grown to glorious womanhood, a woman he vowed to possess. He couldn't afford to reveal his true identity any more than he could resist the challenge to a game of hearts. A game he was determined to win....
Anita Higman
"City meets country when Charlie offers to buy Franny's Oklahoma farm on the condition that she stay long enough to teach him the farming business. In the process, they discover what is truly important"--
Elizabeth Villars
A successful publisher, daughter of a famous novelist, and wife of a renowned literary agent, Hallie Porter finds her life unraveling as she is faced with a shattered marriage, betrayal by her best friend, and the sale of her company to a ruthless tycoon
Mary Wibberley
Shelley's father made her life unbearable When Shelley's domineering father, Charles, sent her to Avala on business, she thought he had finally acknowledged her independence. Then handsome island entrepreneur Vargen Gilev pointed out that Shelley was being followed. Charles's spy was proof that Shelley was still under her father's thumb. But Vargen offered a means of permanent escape. All it would cost Shelley was six months of her new freedom--six months of marriage to Vargen!
Patricia Veryan
HE INSISTED ON TREATING HER LIKE A TROLLOP ...and Rebecca Parrish, a most respectable young widow, found him utterly odious. What right had this supercilious rake, Trevelyan de Villars, to incessantly force his attentions on her? Rebecca far preferred Trevelyan's charming friend, the noble Sir Peter Ward. But what Rebecca soon discovered duly horrified her. For her dear Sir Peter and the contemptible Trevelyan had formalized a bet--that Trevelyan could seduce the very proper widow within a month's time. Still, Trevelyan's attentions grew ever more passionate. And Rebecca found (to her horror!) that she thrilled to his touch. As her heart strove to resist this irresistible cad, she suddenly saw what he really was: A libertine no more--now at last and forever in love! (This is something of a prequel to The Golden Chronicles series and The Tales of the Jewelled Men series, coming after the other prequel, *The Mistress of Willowvale*.)