Karen Hudgins
3) Best man
Geneva "Poppy" Pembrooke, wedding couture designer, yearns to forget the rugged Thistle polo player who jeopardized her career and health. Yet how can she when he sets her heart afire and is the Best Man for her client's wedding of the year? Doug Abbott, country vintner, discovers when his memory returns that he'd injured his beautiful Lady Gen in a tragic polo accident. He can't forgive himself, but when foul play evidence surfaces things change,
...Diane Phipps, P.I., solves her first case for an insurance company which seeks its missing wealthy policy holder and meeting its obligation to pay beneficiaries.
Diane Phipps, P.I., returns to Briarbush Manor on the lavish Fitz estate near St. Louis for her first client, Stone Insurance. They still want proof whether their wealthy policyholder, missing adventurer Thurman Cole, is dead or alive. Diane encounters eccentricities
...Molly Marlowe, recently jilted boutique owner, lost her beloved mom in a car crash and carries a dark secret about it. Surely Molly has fallen from grace, and she denies herself good things. Yet, compassionate Julian Truman, new coffee house owner in Cypress Cove, steals her reluctant tea-loving heart. Still, his secrets and Molly's belief she doesn't deserve Julian's freshly-brewed true love jeopardize their everlasting happiness—until truth
...Sarah Grace, recently widowed, follows her passion for watercolor painting, which leads her to handsome, enigmatic Wyatt, who slowly reveals his dark torment and love.
Sarah Grace Mayhew, a Southern widow, avoids new love. When enigmatic Wyatt Harper lifts her from a fountain, he gets under her wet skin. Yet how can she love the man whose phantom enemy also targets her? And why should Wyatt cherish a woman tied to his family's
...A Masked Lover—
Nick O'Brien, masquerading as Zorro, had once charmed a pretty coed out of her innocence. Today, the lady doesn't know he was her masked lover, until...
An American Dreamer—
Julia Preston, lace proprietor, likes all things traditional. So Nick's checkered past hardly fits. Except she'd fallen in love one night—with ZORRO!
Pastry chef Carol Sue Morgan has designs on copper heir Matt Granger as a match for her lonely cousin. Matt, aka 'Maverick', chooses Carol Sue to help foil a villain at midnight. Despite heartaches and discovering what divided their families twenty years ago, do they still dare fall in love?
An interior designer falls for a local "Tarzan", whose work and secret dual identity pushes her to overcome fears—or lose the love of her life.
Tia St. James, interior decorator, discovers "Tarzan" lives in Picardy Heights. He's London T. Parker, a charter pilot and adventurer, who posed as the famous for the poster she hangs in the Jungle Jangle.
London soon wants to whisk her away to a real African rain forest.
...Anne Kingsley pursues a high-profile advertising project that takes her to Australia, where she meets sheep station owner Slade McGregor. His distrust of this too-curious city woman rivals hers of the country rogue, who dares mixing business with pleasure.
Although their backgrounds are worlds apart, Anne and Slade have both suffered betrayals of the heart. Beneath the Southern Cross, they face their inner fears and fall in love,
...Murder. A mummy and her coffin. An unpopular victim.
Diane Phipps, P.I., encounters these and more, as she solves another perplexing case, this one in Sandy River, CO, near the unique Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve.
Irene Albertine had often caused trouble. Hence, her friends list is short. But her father, Maximilian, Egyptology-loving architect, is bent on finding out who murdered his daughter. When Irene falls dead out of Set-Nohr's
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