Drucilla Hallmark does not want to leave the hospitaland Tony Tortomasito return to Shady Grove, where rumor has it that she intends to take revenge on all who have hurt her in the past. Despite her wishes to stay, Dru is forced to bid Tony goodbyebut not before he faithfully promises their souls will always be together. Now, despite her professional success, she is again at the mercy of her husband, Richard, who is sadly still a womanizer and a fakecertainly not the man of her dreams. Desperate to see Tony, she manages to snatch fleeting moments with him that are never quite enough to satiate her desires. With the help of her friend, Rex, Dru fights her way through her painful memories with the hope that one day she will be reunited forever with Tony and his young sonthe only ones she feels can truly make her happy. In this continuing saga, a woman forced to face her harsh reality must battle her internal demons as she bravely struggles to make her dreams come true.

For all of her life, Drucilla Hallmark has been battling to survive within a cruel world. Born into poverty and raised by heartless parents and jealous brothers and sisters, Drucilla thinks she has finally escaped her past when she marries. Unfortunately, she could not be more wrong. When she suspects her philanderer husband, Richard, may want her dead and that her resentful family may be helping him drive her to suicide, Drucilla makes an appointment with a Birmingham psychiatrist. As Dr. Skeet leads Drucilla back into her memories, she unsuccessfully attempts to convince the doctor that her life is in danger. But just as she is coming to grips with her reality, fate leads her to Tony Tortomasi, a handsome stranger who forces her to face the truth and makes her a tempting offer with the potential to change everything. Deceit Deserves Revenge is the suspense-filled tale of one womans emotional journey as she attempts to distinguish reality from fantasy and seeks revenge for all who have wronged her.

The Rake's Revenge Rob McHugh had survived an agonizing ordeal in foreign climes only to discover his family's tragedy was rooted in British soil. For a terrible irony revealed that Afton Lovejoy, his beautiful English rose, had dangerous thorns – and was, in fact, the very woman he'd sworn to destroy! Her beloved aunt had been murdered, forcing Afton to masquerade as fortune–teller to the ton to find the killer. What she found, however, was a dangerous, heady mix of intrigue and desire – for Rob McHugh, notorious womanizer, had roused her passions...and her suspicions! A Christmas Secret Miss Charity Wardlow was anticipating a marriage proposal from her intended while attending a beautiful Christmas wedding. Yet when Sir Andrew MacGregor arrived at the manor, Charity's expectations took a different turn. Now, she wanted no one else to claim her hand unless it was the handsome Scotsman with the sensual smile...

Reprint of the second edition. A one-volume law dictionary intended to define and provide explanations of words and maxims relating strictly to law, without elucidation, for those not deeply acquainted with law. Shumaker based the work on the 1867 edition of Bouvier's Law Dictionary and added modern terms and maxims, which more than doubled the number of entries in the original.