Blade McKenna was on a mission -- a mission of revenge, and he couldn't abide the distraction of the widowed Jessica Dylan. But she insisted on accompanying him through Indian territory on the hunch she could clear her late husband's name. They found they needed each other, and need turned to want -- until Jessy's life was threatened, and only Blade could save her.

GAYLE WILSON'S
The Heart's Desire

A soldier's daughter, Emily thought she knew what furies drove men in the name of honor, until she met the enigmatic Duke of Avon, Dominic Maitland -- a man with a tragic past and an empty future. A man who would grant her but one night to lie with abandon on his willing arms . . .