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The first story "Apache Caress" is wonderful. I had read it a few years back and then had to look through every short story romance collection to find it again. I loved the evil father who really was evil as well as the mystery of the mother. Belle is the best female character I ever read she is strong, brave and smart, and I adore Coyote, even Edwin the cousin was great. I wish this story was a full length book, as I did not want to leave these characters. The ending is beautiful.

Cindy Harris' new series Dublin Dreams brings together four penniless women who only have their anonymous benefactor in common. In addition for renovating their new homes and cultivating the central garden, their financial obligations are miraculously released. In this first segment, the wife of a dissolute gambler meets her match when she gets A BIRGHT IDEA.

In the year since her husband's death, Dolly's life has become characterized by duplicity. Appearances of opulence when visitors call don't reveal the lack of light in the evenings, or the shortages in the pantry. Now it's only a matter of time before the bill collectors catch up to her, or the bank forecloses on the house. All because they were nearly bankrupt, without Dolly's knowledge, when Dick Creevy took out her husband in a boxing ring. Now she's going to train in Dick's academy, disguised a boy, and seek her revenge against the man she blames for ruining her life.

It isn't that Dick likes to fight so much as he needs to. He only finds respite when he's found the numbness that only a good pounding can produce. Dublin society doesn't seem to know what to make of his incongruities: he radiates strength yet there is nothing savage about him. His beautiful hands belie the damage they can inflict. Indeed, his myriad incongruities throw Dolly quite a blow. She's prepared to hate him, not be attracted to him. In her persona "Doll Face," she gradually winds Dick's respect.

Harris creates a wonderful and engaging tale in A BIRGHT IDEA. The disguise is well crafted, providing marvelous tension, as each character battles mutual, apparently inappropriate, attraction. While the pace slows as other characters are introduced for other parts of the series, it quickly picks back up, providing a satisfying conclusion. Indeed, the reader will find it impossible to put A BRIGHT IDEA down, because of wanting to see how Dolly bests Dick. Highly recommended.

Dominic St. Clair has just captured an American ship. Its crew is being delivered to the French authorities in Calais, and its holding will be sold to raise money for the French efforts against the English. Imagine Dominic's surprise to discover that Captain Arthur Fitzgerald's daughter had left without an apparent care for her safety or virtue. When Dominic first sees her, he decides that she is his prize alone. Unfortunately Abigail Fitzgerald seems to be immune to his charm and unappreciative of his efforts to protect her from the other men on board. Abigail doesn't understand why her father was sailing so close to England with a cargo of weapons. Nor did she understand his reasons for leaving her to the mercies of Captain Dominic St. Clair, either. His honeyed words and tender caresses confuse her, but she will not share the bed of the man who attacked her father's ship. Her father's crew stages a mutiny, and soon the ship goes down with all hands save herself and Dominic.. Jo Ann Ferguson is widely known for her romantic tales of adventure, and this latest release is no exception.

What can I say, I've loved all the books in the Survivalist series, including this one. Jerry Ahern sure knows how to keep a story rolling along without losing your interest. John Thomas Rourke hopes to trade his biological son, Martain Zimmer, to Dietrich Zimmer in return for Dietrich's surgical skills being used to save Sarah. But before he can do that John and his family have to escape the Land Pirates. Then if they can do that, they will need all their skills to stop the Nazis from attacking the Mid Wake outpost on the Hawaiian Islands. If they fail then the Nazis will control the planet

The Butterfly Garden is a thoroughly satisfying book about complexities in relationships. Although classified as a Contemporary Romance, it touches on relationships between mothers and daughters, sisters, friends, and spouses.

From the back cover:
"Carefree photographer Jenny Romano is nearly as famous as her subjects. Her globetrotting life leaves little time for a serious relationship, and that's just the way she likes it. Besides, her perfect older sister Grace already occupies the role of ditiful wife and mother -- or so it seems. Suddenly, Grace needs her sister more than ever, and Jenny finds herself in the sort of small town, suburban life she swore to avoid."

"For psychologist Elliot Drake, healing pain is an around-the-clock job that keeps his own relationships short and bittersweet. Elliot has never met anyone like Jenny. Brash, outrageous, unpredictable, she's a force of nature -- nothing at all like her cool, collected older sister. She's also made it clear that she's not sticking around for long. And suddenly, Elliot's not so sure that short-term is the way he wants things..."

"Taken by surprise and unsure of the next step, Elliot and Jenny discover that real life happens whether you want it to or not. And truth gives wings to the heart's most important journey."

This story tells of fear, hope, love, yearnings and triumphs. I really loved it. This book would be an excellent book for a readers' study group. In fact, after reading The Butterfly Garden, I visited Mary Campisi's homepage and found there a list of recommended questions to use for a study group.

This is a book which delves honestly into the things which hold us back and set us free.

This was one of the first books on zebra finches I checked out from the library, when I first started getting interested in the birds, and it helped me immensely. It explained why certain foods were necessary, and what vitamins can be found in what, it gave me the information I needed to know what size to make my cage. It's been a great help to me, and now I've had my birds for over a week and they're wonderful and happy.

This is the story of a wagon train on their way to California who first suffer their way through the desert and then get stuck in the winter in the mountains without food. You feel as if you are suffering with them. It can be gruesome but always a page turner. I have read it twice and am buying it. It is the first in a three part series and I recommend them all.

... here's the description from the back of the book to help you decide if this book is for you: "Hope Bennett was determined to save her brother's life. And if that meant paying notorious gunslinger Drake Frazier to take his place in a fight, she'd barter her last gold nugget. But Hope soon discovered she'd have to give the handsome rattlesnake more than riches if she wanted his help. His improper demands infuriated her; even as she luxuriated in the tantalizing heat of his embrace, she refused to yield to her desires. She'd accept his terms, then find a way to escape him ... somehow ..."

I write young adult fiction under the pseudonym "J.V. Lewton". Judging from the positive response I've received for this book, I believe it deserves a look if you're after good characterization and an exciting plot. I'd enjoy hearing from readers. You can e-mail me at greshsl@mail.auburn.edu

My 6th grade teacher read this book to my class and all her classes before and after my class in 1988. Every class member loved the book and always wanted to hear it over and over again. I have searched for this book for years and hope I can find it here! Anyone who orders this book will fall in love!!