by Lisa Jackson (1997)
THE SECRET Ten years ago, an innocent Samantha Rawlings had surrendered herself--body and soul--to a man whose blue-eyed gaze promised forever. But when the summer sun faded, Kyle Fortune was gone, and Samantha was left to raise their child alone--and in secret. Then fate intervened, bringing the restless millionaire back to Wyoming's wide-open spaces. Suddenly he was face-to-face with the willful beauty he'd never forgotten--and a blue-eyed daughter he'd never known.... Meet the Fortunes--a family whose legacy is greater than riches. Because where there's a will...there's a wedding!
Meredith Webber
"Ex-army doctor Fraser Cameron has found an unconventional way to chase off his demons - surfing! So a new job in the beachside town of Crystal Cove is perfect. Even if his way-too-serious new boss, Dr Jo Harris, doesn't seem to appreciate his passion - or his long, surfer-style hair. But maybe Cam's just the man to remind Jo how to have a good time ..."--Back cover.
Evelyn Rogers
This new line of sensual contemporary romances about men and women having the time of their lives falling in love starts out with a new novel from the author of the runaway hit, "Crown of Glory." In "Second Opinion, " a charming sportswriter woos a newly divorced doctor, with a little help from a group of senior citizens. She needed a second opinion: After five years of a miserable marriage to Roger "The Rat" Ryan, Dr. Charlotte Hamilton obtains a divorce. However, being the Rat, Roger blames their failed marriage totally on Charlotte. He insists that if she was less frigid in bed, he would never have wandered. His final humiliation about his ex occurs in his lawyer's office when he announces to the world that Charlotte was a lousy lover. In spite of her professional accomplishments, Charlotte's inferiority complex explodes and she leaves totally debased. She heads to a nearby hotel bar for a drink where she meets a handsome man. They get a room and share a night of bliss. A very confident Charlie vanishes. Her lover, sports reporter Sam Blake knows he has found his soul mate, but does not even know her name. Using the bribe of tickets to the Alamo Bowl, he learns her name. However, she is his friend's ex-wife and has reason to loathe him.
Fern Michaels
Cader Harris, a poor boy from the wrong side of the tracks who has become a professional football player, returns to his hometown of Hayden, Louisiana where his magnetic attraction to women and his new position as Public Relations Advisor for Delta Oil creates havoc.
Betty Neels
Serena had given up her job and gone to Holland in order-as she thought-to marry Laurens van Amstel who had proposed to her after a whirlwind romance. So it was mortifying, to say the least, that soon after she arrived she began to realize that Laurens was trying to back out of the situation-that, in fact, he had every intention of marrying another girl. His cousin Gijs had an answer to her problem-but wasn't it a rather a drastic one?