Kate Mathers drives by the accident without a second thought. But where is her husband? He isn't answering his phone.… Then Kate gets the call from the hospital. Jared was trapped inside the wreck and now he's fighting for his life. Rushing to the emergency room, Kate knows all that matters is his survival. The trouble in their marriage, his interfering mother, their brief separation—it's all trivial. Kate needs Jared to come back to her, and she won't stop telling him that. Now all Jared has to do is listen.

When a camping trip among friends ends on a sour note, the future of Beth and Aaron's two year long relationship hangs in the balance. Meanwhile, Megan harbours a secret that she is too scared to talk to anybody about - a secret that threatens the security of her own relationship with Bryce. As the school dance approaches, the events of the weekend at the lake take over the lives of the six teens and force them to focus on the unsavoury actions of a so-called friend. The decisions that result could change their lives forever.

Kimber Klein has left the modeling world behind. She’s sick of the constant pressure to be perfect and ready to live her life without watching every little thing she eats. She’s also really happy to finally spend some time getting to know herself and the two sisters she never met until recently. Life is good ... mostly. Kimber can’t stop worrying about a stalker she’s hoping she left behind in New York City. She doesn’t think he’s found her in Bridgeport, until one day she leaves her volunteer job at the elementary school library to find two of her tires slashed. Has her old life come back to haunt her in Ohio? Gunnar Law is satisfied with his life as a single dad. He’s still getting to know his son, Jeremy, since he’s only been fostering the teen for a short while. While parenting someone you only just met can be a little awkward, Gunnar loves Jeremy and plans to adopt him as soon as they can get the paperwork through. Life is pretty simple, and he likes it that way. Then one afternoon, he and Jeremy stop to help a distraught—and extremely beautiful—woman who had her tires slashed in the school parking lot. And suddenly life doesn’t seem quite so simple anymore. In this final chapter of the Dance with Me series, Shelley Shepard Gray leads us back to Bridgeport, Ohio, where family comes in all shapes and sizes, everyone deserves a second chance, and falling in love happens when you least expect it.

The fifteenth collection by a celebrated poet whose "terrific, boisterous energy has never flagged" (Megan Harlan, San Francisco Chronicle). In Save the Last Dance, Gerald Stern gives us a stunning collection of his intimately personal—yet always universal, and always surprising—poems, rich with humor and insight. Shorter lyric poems in the first two parts continue the satirical and often redemptive vision of his last collection, Everything Is Burning, while never failing to carve out new emotional territory. In the third part, a long poem called "The Preacher," Stern takes the book of Ecclesiastes as a starting point for a meditation on loss, futility, and emptiness, represented here by the concept of a "hole" that resurfaces throughout.

DIVDIVWith the nation’s eye on Black River Falls, McCain chases a snake handler’s killer/divDIV Fundamentalist preacher John Muldaur isn’t afraid of snakes—he uses them every week in his services—but he’s convinced that the Pope is trying to kill him. Iowa lawyer Sam McCain, the poorest attorney in a thriving town, listens patiently to the self-declared reverend’s outlandish theories about being targeted by a papal hit squad, and agrees to investigate the matter simply to get Muldaur out of his office. But that night at a wild religious service, McCain sees Muldaur proven right. The holy man is killed by poison—not from one of his rattlesnakes, but from a Pepsi bottle laced with strychnine./divDIV On the campaign trail for president, Vice President Nixon is on his way to town to make a speech, and McCain is asked to find Muldaur’s killer before the national media arrives. What he finds is a conspiracy just as improbable as the Catholic hit men—but far more deadly./divDIV/div/div

Enjoy this traditional, kisses-only Regency romance series starter from national bestselling historical romance author Cora Lee... A pretend courtship and private dancing lessons allow two old friends to consider their future together. Who will confess their growing love first? Mr. Benedict Grey is the only heir to a long-standing title, and he knows his duty: find a suitable girl, get married, secure the succession beyond himself. But if a gentleman could be called a wallflower, Benedict would fit the description perfectly. And for the past six years, he’s been out of Society more than he’s been in it. How will he find a woman to wed and bed when he can barely converse with the ladies of the ton? Lady Honoria Maitland has promised her dying father that, before he breathes his last, she would find a husband to take care of her. But she wants a gentleman that loves her, not her dowry or her name. When she reunites with her old friend Benedict, she proposes a plan that will help them both: a faux courtship and betrothal. She can teach him how to woo a woman and simultaneously ease her father’s last days. But Honoria’s clever plan failed to account for Benedict’s heart...or her own. Is she strong enough to bear the loss of her father and her friend? This short (1-2 hour read) novel is a kisses-only Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series that can be read in any order. For fans of Sally Britton, Katherine Ann Madison, and Emma Melbourne.

224 pp. Pub: 9/95. *****Angel is fed up with living in a haunted house. The resident ghost, infuriating and good-looking, BJ, has not grown less iritating with time. He criticizes Angel's boyfriends, reads her diary, and likes her best friend. But as Angel digs into the past and discovers the truth about BJ's death in 1959, she realizes that she misunderstood BJ, and that only she can help him find peace.

Often love sets us at odds with ourselves, putting us in a conflict we could never have imagined. Save Me the Last Dance is the tale of a woman who is in a tug-of-war with her mind and her heart, as told from the perspective of an observer in love. Although the woman claims she wants a college-educated, self-made entrepreneurial gentleman, she consistently falls for the antithesis of what she claims she wants, leaving her in constant sadness and despair. As other peoples lives hang in the balance, what will the battle between her mind and her heart lead her to decide? Save me the last dance Our dance Can be at our wedding Our dance Can be on the balcony of our honeymoon suite Our dance Can be after the birth of our offspring Our dance Regardless of geography can and will be elite