Carol Steward

She has to be working undercover. Stuck with the job of training her, police officer Nick Matthews knows exactly who Sarah is spying on: him. If he ever wants to live down his past, he'll train her well, but won't say one word beyond the manual.

Yet it is Sarah's past that comes crashing down on them. And trusting his new partner becomes a matter of life and death--and love.

COULD A TOSSED BOUQUET PREDICT THE NEXT BRIDE?

Alex MacIntyre believed that particular wedding tradition was a myth, until Katarina Berthoff caught her newly married sister's wildflowers. Reunited after eight years at the wedding of Katarina's sister to Alex's brother, it looked as if happily–ever–after with the angelic dollmaker was in God's plan for the courageous firefighter. But unless Alex gave up the dangerous job he loved, his dreams of a family could never come true. Was anything possible for a man torn between adventure and love? Maybe, with the right woman….

Jessica Mathers enters the hospital confident that her little girl, Amy, is being cared for. But when Jessica awakes from surgery, her daughter and the sitter have disappeared..

As a favor to his mother, Detective Samuel Vance reluctantly assists on the kidnapping case, because his first impression of Jessica had not been favorable. Yet as together they search for Amy, Sam learns that Jessica is a caring, warm woman. Can they call upon their faith to help them find the abducted girl and forge a relationship?

Returning to Segundo, Colorado, was the last thing Tori Sandoval planned to do. She'd overcome the odds facing a girl from the small coal–mining town to become a big–city high school principal. But now her grandparents need her help. Still, she can't understand why widower Steve Remington would willingly move to the sticks with his children.

Steve never expected that doing a favor for his elderly neighbors would introduce him to a woman as attractive as Tori. And, an even bigger surprise, she turns up again as his new boss! Working together brings them almost too close–but perhaps God intends Steve to teach Tori the meaning of home.

All eyes were on Dee Owens––including a killer's.

The publicist's job was to assure the Magnolia College community that the campus was safe...despite two murders. But someone was watching Dee too closely, following her, making anonymous phone calls in a voice that sounded eerily familiar. And every time she turned around, there was her boss, handsome Brazilian Edgar Ortiz. He insisted on protecting her. And now it wasn't just fear sending those chills racing up her spine....

Eight Days and 300 Miles

That was how long privileged fledgling journalist Nikki Post had to deal with notorious radio personality Colin Wright and the staff on his eight–day fund–raising trek from New Mexico to Wyoming.

Yet instead of the immature prankster she'd been warned to expect, Colin was generous and handsome–with a smile that reached the depths of Nikki's soul. As the days counted down, he helped her write the article for her grandfather's newspaper–and a kiss shortened the distance between them.

But when trouble threatened to bring the trip to a premature end, would Nikki's role in Colin's life end, as well...or continue forever?

BROTHER OF THE GROOMS

Just when Adam MacIntyre answered his true calling at last, putting down roots on his Colorado ranch, along came footloose Lisa Berthoff to turn things upside down. His siblings might have marched down the aisle with hers, but Adam wasn't about to fall for a drifter who didn't believe in God, or in settling down….

SISTER OF THE BRIDES

As a photojournalist, Lisa knew better than to let her personal feelings about a subject interfere with a job. But she couldn't seem to help herself. Not when the subject was rugged cowboy Adam and the feelings were…well, she wasn't quite sure what they were. That was the problem….