Inconvenient Bride

Kathleen Lacey O'Carroll knew she faced an uncertain future when she arrived in Wyoming as a mail-order bride. Then she learns that the man she was to marry hadn't actually ordered her. As far as John Winterhawke--a fiercely independent half-Indian--is concerned, the last thing he needs is a high-spirited, overeager Irish wife who knows nothing about surviving on the harsh prairie. Lacey senses the rough kindness and simmering hunger under Winterhawke's forbidding demeanor, and becomes determined to match his dark passion by claiming his wild heart on her terms. But first she has to learn how to cook.

Shylo McBride never thought her little fib about being related to the President would net a proposal from Dimitri Adonis. As stunningly handsome as his Greek god namesake, Shylo is not in want of a husband, but a ticket out west. Dimitri has his own less-than-noble motives for seducing the travel-minded American debutante, and posing as a wealthy aristocrat. But as the passionate deceivers struggle with their tangling lies, they soon discover that only beneath the deceptions can true love's sweet embrace be found.

Liberty Ann Justice runs the Laramie Wyoming newspaper with all the fire of a born-and-bred journalist. When Donovan--a handsome stranger Libby mistakes for her employer's son who's intent on shuttering her down--struts into her office, she hates him on sight and heads to her employer's San Francisco offices, prepared for battle. Donovan, insisting on being her escort, tags along. But Libby has no use for the silver-tongued devil, despite the way her heart pounds with his every touch.