Harlequin Historical
56 primary works • 59 total works
Book 374
In Wildwood Valley, Trouble Wore a Badge enticingly pinned to Sheriff Ben Kearney's broad, muscular wall of a chest - and Jessamyn Whittaker was determined to find a way around it.
But how could she, when just looking at the man put her at a loss for words? The day Jess Whittaker stepped off the stage, Ben Kearney knew he was in for a hell of a ride. The woman had not only inherited her father's nosiness, but boasted her own special talent for trouble - and a real knack for dragging him into the thick of it!
Book 382
WAKING UP WITH A STRANGER WAS THE LEAST OF HALEY CAUFIELD'S PROBLEMS
A very official-looking license said she was married to one. And staring at the very male, very naked Adam Harrington, she knew the scandal she'd come to Sacramento to escape from was nothing compared to the one in store for her... !
The very practical Adam Harrington would have liked at least to have been introduced to his blushing bride before bedding her. Instead, he found himself wedded to Haley Caufield, an enticing surprise of a woman who just might beat him at his own game... !
Book 385
Tate Montgomery Needed a New Life And Johanna Patterson was the kind of woman who could make him leave the past behind.
But how would he ever convince this reclusive spinster to open up her heart to him and his boys? It seemed to Johanna that she had always been alone. Until the day that Tate Montgomery turned up at her farm with a ready-made family, and an offer that would change her life forever.
Book 416
A Make-Believe Marriage
Cassie Phillips wasn't really married to Will Tolliver, no matter what he told people. Not that being the wife of a man as kind and thoughtful as Will wouldn't be a dream come true. But even Will would abandon her once he learned what she was running from.
Cassie Phillips was the kind of girl you took home to mother, and Will was determined to do just that. But he'd never expected that in order to protect her he'd have to tell a lie that could get them both in a lot of trouble. Especially if he couldn't convince Cassie that marrying him for real was the right thing to do.
Book 437
Book 474
PLUM CREEK BRIDE
Erika Scharf Had Always Followed Her Heart Now it had led her to America, and a tortured man with a motherless infant. But would the widowed Dr. Jonathan Callender ever recover from his grief? Whatever drove him had died with his young wife - or so it seemed to Jonathan Callender.
He knew only that nothing mattered anymore - until the day a German whirlwind disguised as the very determined Erika Scharf charged into his life - and made his heart live again.
Book 475
THE MIDWIFE FOR THE SAKE OF HIS CHILD
Widowed father Gar Lundstrom's offer of a marriage of convenience had given Leah the chance of a new life for herself caring for his children. Yet what would happen to her newfound happiness when the stalwart farmer learned the horrible secret that had sent her on the run?
A biddable mother for his children was all that Gar had expected when he took Leah Gunderson to wife. Yet Leah's spirited presence lightened his dark and lonely existence, and made him long to find a way to free her from her troubled past.
Book 480
A home for the drifter
Cordell Winterman is haunted by his mistakes - and the years spent paying for them. Broke and hungry, he takes a job as a hired man on Eleanor Malloy's farm.
Eleanor needs help. Desperately. Her kids are running wild and the place is held up by spit and rust. But as Cord helps her set her home to rights, Eleanor realises she doesn't just need this enigmatic drifter with hunger in his eyes...she wants him too!
Book 485
A Wyoming marriage of convenience...
Agatha Magee has put her difficult past behind her and is living an independent life at the circus. But when William English rescues her - from being shot out of a cannon! - their scandalous situation leaves them no option but to get married!
William has no intention of making this more than a marriage in name only. Agatha must somehow change his mind if she's to have the family she's always yearned for...
Book 486
Kaitlin Jeffers Had Big Dreams Dreams that would take her far beyond a delapidated store in the middle of nowhere.
And if she couldn't banish the memory of Tripp Callihan's melting kisses, or fight her growing feelings for his impish little boy, she was going to wind up in his one-horse town forever!
How his search for a life filled with ordinary pleasures had led him to join forces with a woman like Kaitlin Jeffers, Tripp would never figure out. But he knew for a fact that whatever happened next, he'd try his best to make himself and his son a part of Kaitlin's dreams... .
Book 496
Rancher Gabe Tanner was content to ride herd on bachelorhood forever. And if it hadn't been for that blasted bachelor tax, he would have. Even if every glimpse he had of Rosemary Gibson, the preacher's daughter, warned him he didn't have a prayer of remaining single...!
Life's usual dreams-love, home, children-would always elude Rosemary Gibson, or so she thought. Until the day Providence mixed the devilish Gabriel Tanner, two angelic kids and one prim yet passionate parson's daughter into a most unusual ready-made famil...!
Book 497
To claim his heir...
...he must marry his enemy!
Gabe Callaway is outraged when feisty Janette Parker lands on his doorstep with her orphaned niece-though he soon realises that little Ruby is heir to his ranch! If Janette wants money he'll pay her off to keep Ruby in her rightful place. But all Janette wants is Ruby... Will Gabe do whatever it takes to claim his heir-even marry Janette?
Book 503
A cattle drive is no place for a greenhorn...
...but this city miss is here for the ride!
Cowboy Zachariah Strickland should put Alexandra Murray on the first eastbound train home. But he has no choice other than to take her on his cattle trail. She hasn't ridden a horse to death, nor shot anybody, but she does drives him furious with longing... Is it possible Alex belongs right here in the Wild West-with Zach?
Book 513
Book 521
“I won’t let you steal my ranch.”
But will this rancher steal her heart?
Laura Lee is devastated when Jesse Creed arrives claiming that her new, perfect house doesn’t belong to her absent fiancé – but to him! Until he can prove it, however, Laura isn’t going anywhere. But living side by side with the alluring rancher is temptation itself. And suddenly this house starts to feel an awful lot like the home she’s always longed for…
Book 537
Crazy Creek, Oregon, had never seen a lady lawyer before, much less one like Irene Hardisson-and neither had Clayton Black, Texas Ranger. In fact, it had been over a year since he'd caught the scent of anything sweeter than gun powder. He was on the trail of a killer, and it had suited him just fine-until now....
Fortunately, the lady liked games, and after a few hands of poker, Irene and Clayton discovered they had more in common than they thought. And what started as a mission for justice was quickly turning into a mission of the heart....
Book 543
On the run from a nightmarish life, Maggie had the power to stir feelings of forever in rancher Beau Jackson's soul. From the first moment, he knew he loved this sweet-spirited gamin, but would she ever feel anything more for him than gratitude?
She must have died and gone to heaven, Maggie O'Neill swore, for Beau Jackson treated her with all the kindness and respect only a genuine lady deserved. But how was she to know if what she felt for him was love?
Book 561
Holy Terrors, The Lot Of 'Em!
That's what everyone considered Josh Ingalls's unruly passel of kids-secretly, anyway. No sense offending the most eligible widower in town! But Annie Martin didn't care what a "catch" her employer was. She only wanted him to admit he loved his children. And possibly share a kiss or two-okay, maybe three...!
This latest nanny was barely more than a girl herself, Josh Ingalls noted, but if a tree-climbing dynamo in trousers was what it took to manage his energetic tribe, he'd happily keep the amazing, amusing, arousing Annie Martin around forever!
Book 590
A roaring twenties runaway…
A baby who needs a daddy!
With the Chicago mob hot on her heels and her late best friend’s baby in her arms, Helen Hathaway hightails to Hollywood. There she finds little Grace’s uncle, charismatic film producer Jack McCarney. She knows she should keep him – and Grace – at arms’ length, after all they could be wrenched apart by Grace’s father’s return. But instead she’s falling for Jack…bonded by the baby who needs them both…
Book 600
Her fool brother had gone and lost his half of the family ranch in a game of cards, leaving her to live with her brother's mistakes, and handsome cowboy Mr. J. T. Flannery. Then trouble struck the ranch, and Chloe had no choice but to accept J.T.'s offer of marriage-no matter how inconvenient!
The only thing the stubborn beauty wanted less than a business partner was a husband, but it looked as if she was about to be saddled with both! But as the battle of wills between the two began to heat up, so did their mutual passion....