Frank Carlson Library

"Catherine Whitfield is sure that she will never again be able to trust anyone in the medical profession after the town doctor's excessive bleeding treatments killed her mother. Despite her loneliness and her broken heart, she carries bravely on as Cimarron Creek's dutiful schoolteacher, resigned to a life without love or family, a life where dreams rarely come true. Austin Goddard is a newcomer to Cimarron Creek. Posing as a rancher, he fled to Texas...

The Three Graces of Graydon. . . are well-born sisters bearing an ominous curse: any man betrothed to them without love is doomed to die. Much to her chagrin, Lady Isabel Milton has been given to Earl Rand Braesford as a reward from the Tudor king for his loyalty to the throne. The lusty nobleman quickly claims his husbandly rights, an experience Isabel scarcely hoped to enjoy so much. But youth and strength may not save Braesford from his bride's...

"When Lady Marguerite Milton is abducted by the enigmatic - and famously insatiable - Golden Knight, it is the stuff of fantasy. Or would be, if Marguerite weren't pining for her David, who pledged his love ten years before... and disappeared. But the only thing more heartbreaking than a man that does not keep his word is one bound by it. David is the Golden Knight, reaffirming his oath to protect Marguerite and, maddeningly, to love her, but chastely"--P....

The freedom of the range, the bawling of the longhorns the lonesome night watch beneath a vast, starry sky- they got into a man's blood until he knew there was nothing better than the life of a cowboy ... except the love of a good woman. Matt's rough-and-tumble childhood had taught him to size up a situation at a hundred paces. And to end his standoff with respectable society he knew he had to take a wife. Ellen agreed to act as a mother for the two...

"Find her" is the only instruction that private detective Cobb Bridger receives from Richard Mackey. The scion of a wealthy Chicago family, Mackey is desperate to know the whereabouts of the woman who disappeared from his employ, taking with her something of great value. Intrigued, Cobb accepts the assignment. But upon making the acquaintance of Miss Tru Morrow, Cobb begins to question the guilt of this golden-haired lady.

With her brother Thomas injured on the battlefront in the Colonies, orphaned Cecilia Harcourt has two unbearable choices: move in with a maiden aunt or marry a scheming cousin. Instead, she chooses option three and travels across the Atlantic, determined to nurse her brother back to health. But after a week of searching, she finds not her brother but his best friend, the handsome officer Edward Rokesby. He's unconscious and in desperate need of her...

Mind over matter: "David Brady has found the perfect star for his documentary: Clarissa DeBasse, a psychic with ties to an infamous kidnapping. Unfortunately, no-nonsense talent agent A. J. Fields is fiercely protective of her client. David is a skeptic, and A.J. isn't going to let him ridicule Clarissa for the sake of his ratings. The enigmatic agent's icy exterior may just be a front, but David knows it's going to take a lot more than charm to get...

"The acclaimed author of A Most Extraordinary Pursuit brings a dazzling voice and extraordinary plot twists to this captivating Scottish adventure... Scotland, 1906. A mysterious object discovered inside an ancient castle calls Maximilian Haywood, the new Duke of Olympia, and his fellow researcher Emmeline Truelove north to the remote Orkney Islands. No stranger to the study of anachronisms in archaeological digs, Haywood is nevertheless puzzled by...