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thevalleytwinstars.jpg - 957 BytesElise Dee Beraru

remember.jpg - 6784 BytesRemember My Love. 1999. ISBN 0-7599-0053-1
Blair Carroll has just made it home, but he has been missing for two years. He had a accident and he can't remember wheres he been, or what he has been up to...and on his ring finger is horse shoe nail bent in a circle. Blair can't remember anything that has happened in the last 2 years. Adele Stoddard found Blair knocked out, and left out in the winter storm naked. She takes him to her farm and her and her sister nurse him back to health. When he wakes up, he doesn't remember where he is, or who he is. She gives him a new name, Brian Strange, and he helps her and her sister around the farm. Adele and "Brian" fall in love and get married. "Brian" takes his sister in law town to get her a birthday present, when he gets knocked in the head from his horse. He gets taken to the Doctor, and when he comes to, he remembers his name as Blair Carroll and that he was on his way home to San Francisco. So he boards a train and heads home. He doesn't remember Adele, her sister Susannah. or his brand new baby daughter. Adele and Susannah found out that "Brian" had a accident, and that he boarded a train to San Francisco. Adele fears that he got his memory back, and that he doesn't remember them. Adele and Susannah and the baby all head to San Francisco to find Brian. Eventually Adele finds "Brian", now using his real name, Blair and he doesn't recognize her at all. Can Adele help Blair to remember her and the baby...and the love they shared? Very good book. I read this one in one day!
Date of review: Feb 2002

thevalleytwinstars.jpg - 957 BytesBarbara Bradley

portrait.jpg - 5401 BytesA Portrait In Time. 2001. ISBN 0-7599-0266-6
Alexandria Tribideaux goes to visit her grandmother in New Orleans, and finds out that she wants Alex to come to a Plantation with her to see a picture. The picture looks just like Alex, and when she gets closer to the picture and touches it, she finds herself transported back in time. She meets a man named Trey, and falls in love with him. He is the man in the picture her grandmother had showed her, a man who loved a woman from their family, who mysteriously disappeared and never seen or heard from again. Alex is that woman. She fell in love with Trey from the first moment she saw him, and when his Aunt told everyone that Alex and Trey were engaged to be married, she found herself going along with the idea. Alex and Trey end up getting married, but there is someone in town who is trying to kill Trey and Alex, and will do anything to see Trey devastated. Alex gets kidnapped, and the kidnapper sends Trey a portrait of Alex, the same portrait that transported her there in the first place. Alex touches the picture, and finds herself back in her own time. She is devastated to be separated from Trey, and she finds a journal that Trey had wrote to her over 125 years ago....she reads how much he loves her and misses her. Is there anyway for Alex to get back to Trey and her life with him on the plantation? Her grandmother has a plan..but will it work again? Very good book! I love books that have time-travel in them, and this book is one of my favs! I read it one day :)
Date of review: Feb 2002

thevalleytwinstars.jpg - 957 BytesBarbara Clark

breath.jpg - 4607 BytesA Breath Of Heather 2000. ISBN: 1-929034-95-4
Heather Carter is a teacher. She meets Quin Archer..a father of one of her students. He comes to her rescue when a gang is after Heather for something that happended in the past. What Quin doesn't know about Heather is that she is no ordinary person...she can control the wind (among other physic abilities). Heather has come to depend on Quin for being there when she is in trouble..and now she is falling on love with him..which she knows is wrong. She doesn't want anything to happen to Quin or to his daughter Brianna..who she has come to love like she was her own. But when Heather gets up the courage to tell Quin the truth about herself...will he believe and accept her? Or will he turn and run? Very good book!
Date of review: July 2002

tnTearsHawk.jpg - 4110 BytesTears Of The Hawk ISBN: 1-58697-988-4
Hawk Adams meets Charity Starr as she was getting away from some men who wanted to kidnap her for her research that she is doing. Hawk takes it upon himself to be her protecter...and her bodyguard. Hawk and Charity both try to fight off the mutal attraction that they feel for each other. Hawk does it because he doesn't want anyone getting close to him...Charity does it because of her psychic gifts. The truth of the matter is tho...they are both in love with each other. When Charity's life is in danger (because of her work research) she doesn't want anything to happen to Hawk. Will Hawk leave her when she tells him about her "gifts"? What will she do without him if he decides to leave her? Very good book!
Date of review: Aug. 2002

tnTouchFire.jpg - 4655 BytesA Touch Of Fire ISBN: 1-58697-102-6
Michael Forest is a Security Agent...and he is protecting Summer Starr from someone who has been watching her and who wants her dead. Summer has a psyhic gift...she can heal the earth from earthquakes and re-align their balance to keep disasters from happening. But what Michael doesn't know is that someone from his past is after him as well. They are both trying to protect each other. Summer's gift is rare...happens only oncee every 3 generations...and she needs to be with a man who has some psyhic ability...but what she wants is Michael. She can't stop herself from falling in love with him.....and he doesn't think he deserves someone like her. Will true love see them thru...or tear them apart forever? This is the 3rd book in this series...and I liked them all very much!
Date of review: Aug. 2002

thevalleytwinstars.jpg - 957 BytesLinda McLaughlin

rogue.jpg - 54284 Bytes Rogue's Hostage 2002 ISBN: 1-58697-379-7
Mara Dupre's life has been shattered. Her husband is killed by the Indians, and she is taken captive by a French Lt. by the name of Jaques Corbeau. He sees Mara talking to an English solider, and he takes her captive to protect her from the Indians, but to also get some information about the English soliders that he saw her talking too.(The English solider happens to be her brother) Mara tries to bargain for her release, and offers Jaques her body if he will let her go. But he can't, cause he has fallen in love with her. Mara doesn't understand the danger she is in, and when she is faced with a choice....staying with Jaques or going to her brother, Mara can't decide. She has fallen in love with Jaques, and the only way to make things right with her past and his past is to stay with him. When Jaques sends her away for her own safety, she doesn't think she will ever see him again...never hold him again. Will she see him? Will her brother forgive her? Will she be able to move forward in her life? Very good book! Rogue's Hostage will soon be available as a trade paperback from booksurge.com, as well as RFI West. ISBN 1-58697-770-9, 362 pages, $14.50
Date of review: Aug. 2002

thevalleytwinstars.jpg - 957 BytesBarbara McMahon

banish2.jpg - 52783 BytesBanished. 1999. ISBN 0-7599-0110-4
Arabella Ashford is accused of cheating on her husband, Justin Ashford, eighth earl of Waverly. He banished her to live in the country with his very strict Aunt while he goes off to fight a war. Arabella hears that Justin had been killed in the war with the French, and she went to his home (Waverly Hall) on the request of his Aunt and her sister in law. Suddenly, the doors fly open and in walks Justin...he is not dead but alive. Arabella is overjoyed to see her husband, but she is also afraid of what he would do when he sees her is his house. Justin is not very happy to see his wife there in his house. His sister Caroline, is 18 and it is time for to come out for the season, so they go to London to help launch Caroline into society. Justin makes a deal with Arabella...if she will come to London with him to help launch Caroline, he would let her their daughter go live in their own household. But when Justin sees his daughter, and sees Arabella again...there is a part of him that wants them both to stay. Justin finds out some things about him and Arabella that their whole future depends on. Can they forgive each other and try their marriage again? Another good book, that I read in one day :) Love those kinds of books!
Date of review: Feb 2002

thevalleytwinstars.jpg - 957 BytesDiana Rubino
one.gif - 4793 BytesOne Too Many Times 2000 ISBN: 1-58345-613-9
Annie Spooner is holding a seance...to try and communicate with the ghost of King Richard. During the seanace...King Richard does appear..in the flesh! Annie tries and help him and figure out why he is here..and for how long. Richard reads some history books that has portrayed him in a bad light...and he decides to re-write history with a movie(with Annies help) and portray it as the way things would have been..had be been there. Richards brothers, King Edward IV and the younger brother George, follow Richard to the 21st century and try to help him...they get help from a wizard who sends them to Richard. They end up helping Richard with his movie..and they all get along well in the 21st century. Richard and Annie fall in love...but she is worried about what will happen when Richard somehow makes it back home. The wizard who sent Edward and George appear at Annie's house, and he tells them that he can send them all back home...if they wish to go. Will they all go back? What will Annie do without Richard if he does decide to go back and be the King of England? Very good book! I love Time-travel books..and this one is very well written and very good! Will put a smile on your face!
Date of review: May 2002

thevalleytwinstars.jpg - 957 BytesJulia Templeton

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Jordan McGuire runs from an arranged marriage to her ranch in Wyoming. She gets taken captive by Gray Hawk...a half-breed Indian who takes her captive to punish the other white woman in his life who have hurt him and left him. Jordan finds herself falling in love with Gray Hawk. But she needs to get to her ranch...to see if what her Uncle told her about it is true. Gray Hawk finds himself falling in love with Jordan...so he agrees to let her go. Can he live without her when she is gone? Will he follow her and see where his hear will lead him. Does Jordan really love Gray Hawk...or is this all a game to her so that he would let her go? Very very good book! This one I read in 1 day!!! Couldn't put it down at all!!
Date of review: Jan 2003


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