Last-minute Marriage

by Marisa Carroll

Published 18 October 2002

YOU ARE NOW ENTERING RIVERBEND, INDIANA

Riverbend...home of the River Rats-a group of small-town sons and daughters who've been friends since high school. The River Rats are all grown up now. Living their lives and learning that some days are good and some days aren't-and that you can get through anything as long as you have your friends.

Mitch Sterling has a lot on his plate. He owns a hardware store that's competing with a big national chain. He's taking care of his elderly grandfather-though Granddad might argue about that-and he's a single father to a young child. On top of that, he's just met a very pregnant, very stranded, very single woman who needs a friend. And if Mitch is honest with himself, he'll admit that he wants to be more than her friend....


Winter Soldier

by Marisa Carroll

Published 16 May 2003

IN UNIFORM

Sometimes love isn't enough....

When Lieutenant Leah Gentry-nurse and soldier-goes overseas as part of a team providing medical care for those in need, she knows she's in for long days and hard work. What she doesn't expect is to fall for Dr. Adam Sauder-or to become pregnant with his child.

Adam thinks Leah might be able to save him from his haunting past. But he has nothing to give her-not even his love. Still, when the mission is over and he discovers that Leah's in danger of losing their baby, he leaves his job to come to Kentucky.

Adam would like to be a husband to Leah and a father to the baby, but he can't forget his past. He knows he should go but he desperately wants to stay....