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Always In My Heart
Signet, Aug 2002, 6.99, 432 pp. ISBN: 0451206665 Tucker and Ellie Grant were high school sweethearts who married and had three children. However, the death of one of their kids led to the destruction of the relationship between Tucker and Ellie though their split is amiable. However, their two surviving sons Zach and Kody believe that their parents still love each in spite of the evidence that both have moved on with their lives in different wa...
Annie's Song
After a childhood sickness, Annie is labeled the town idiot, raped and once its determined she's with child, the brother of her rapist decided to make amends, not knowing that he would fall in love with her and learn her secret. Annie Trimble lives on the edge of society. Once a beautiful little girl, she is now a pariah after a childhood illness left her deaf. Unfortunately, her deafness goes undiagnosed since she can lip read and understand people. . ....
Baby Love
Maggie Stanley has endured years of sexual violence by her stepfather in order to protect her mentally challenged mother and younger sister. When he attempts to sell her newborn son to a crooked adoption attorney, she ends up on an open boxcar with no money, no supplies and a hungry baby. Desperate to provide for her son, Jaimie, and very sick with an untreated kidney infection, she meets Rafe Kendrick. Rafe Kendrick had a perfect life, until his preg...
Blue Skies
Signet, Dec 2003, 6.99, 432 pp. ISBN: 0451210751 In Crystal Falls, Oregon Carly Adams feels like a new born ever since she had the operation that gave her the gift of sight especially now that she can see males. In high school she always wondered what the big deal was, but seeing Hank Coulter at a country and western bar explains everything. That night Hanbk and Carly make love, but though he is drunk he is shocked that she was a virgin. Six...

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Bright Eyes
Signet, Jun 2004 ISBN: 0451212169 In Crystal Falls, ranch supply store owner Zeke Coulter turns livid when he sees the damage to his house. When he notices a boy running towards his neighbor's house Zeke follows only to have his brain malfunction as he sees the most beautiful woman he has ever seen. He informs Natalie that her eleven year old son Chad vandalized his property. An angry Chad says so what just ask dad to pay. Natalie knows that ...
Comanche Heart
Childhood friends Swift (Antelope) Lopez and Amy Masters reunite fanning the flames of their candle-like love into a bonfire. Swift Lopez is no longer the Comanche boy Swift Antelope that the then twelve-year-old Amy Masters promised to marry. He is now a grown man, a gunslinger, reminiscent of those who kidnapped and raped her when she was a child. Amy has found a new, safe, life as a schoolteacher in the Oregon town where her sister, Loretta and her si...
Comanche Moon
To Hunter of the Wolf, a Comanche, Loretta Simpson, the daughter of white settlers, is destined to him by prophecy. The fact that they are from two very different worlds means nothing in this historical romance. Hunter of the Wolf, Comanche warrior, widowed when his wife and unborn child were slaughtered in a brutal raid has more reason that most to distrust the white men. Yet when he meets Loretta Simpson, the blonde woman who hasn't spoken since she ...
Early Dawn
. Eden Paxton is on her way to No Name, Colorado with her mother when their train is stopped and robbed by bandits. Eden, an uncommon beauty, is kidnapped by the Sebastians (who are brothers) to be sold across the border to Mexico. Although her virginity keeps her safe from rape, she suffers abuse from the men, and despairs of ever being rescued. Matthew Coulter has been hunting the Sebastian brothers for years after they murdered his wife. Hot on the...
Forever After
Meredith Kenyon will do anything to protect her daughter and that includes running in the middle of a custody battle, changing their names and working a dead-end job, but the sheriff in town and his dog are determined to find out the truth. When Meredith Kenyon first met Sheriff Masters, she was not impressed. He had a huge dog that ran over to her home and terrified her already traumatized daughter and he seemed too eager to learn about them. The dog, G...
Indigo Blue
Indigo Wolf and Jake Rand have to fight their upbringing, the prejudiced world around them, and each other to realize the great love in store for them. Jake Rand is the head of Ore-Cal a major mining corporation. Unfortunately he's noticed that Ore-Cal has been getting mines at a discount. Something unfortunate seems to happen to the mines, or the people in them and then Jake's father buys up the mines. When he is shown the mine at Wolf's Landing, ow...

Catherine Anderson list of books

Keegan's Lady
Ace Keegan has lived his life for the chance at revenge against Conor O'Shannessey- the man who killed his father and raped his mother. Now, when he has the chance to take everything Conor ever had, including his daughter, Ace finds himself drawn to the inexplicably shy and skitterish Caitlin. Caitlin was abused and ignored her entire life, and she knows that when she's forced to marry Ace Keegan after he compromises her, her one chance at freedom and ...
Lucky Penny
Brianna O'Keefe is raising her niece alone and is forced to make up a husband in Denver to protect her reputation when it turns out that there is a man with that name who could be her niece's biological father. Brianna O'Keefe is doing her best to make ends meet, no matter how frayed those ends might be. It's not an easy world to be a single woman in Colorado in the 1800's, but she is determined to raise her niece, Daphne, as she would her own child and ...
Morning Light
Loni is a clairvoyant who recently moved to the small town of Crystal Falls and when she has a vision of a child in danger, she knows Clint Harrigan is the only man who can save the young boy, and together, they race to save him and fall in love. Loni MacEwen is a clairvoyant, meaning she has visions of the present, past and future. After moving to the small town of Crystal Falls to escape her past, she has a vision of a boy rafting with his parents. The...
My Sunshine
Signet, Jan 2005, 6.99, 432 pp. ISBN: 0451213807 Five years ago, environmental research scientist Laura Townsend nearly lost her life in a swimming accident when she hit her head on a rock. She suffered aphasia, a form of brain damage that affects language. Since then she lives in Crystal Falls, Oregon off her disability check supplemented by odd jobs like walking dogs for people. Veterinarian Isaiah Coulter cannot say no to his mother so wh...
Night Flame
Sarah was a coddled young woman who is kidnapped by the very man she has been dreaming about, and goes to live with his tribe. Sarah is a beautiful young woman who has been adored and coddled by her family. She is beautiful, but headstrong and used to getting her own way. However, she does have one concern. She has had vivid dreams for some time of a tall, dark and handsome man who loves her passionately. Therefore, it is shocking when she sees that same...
Only by Your Touch
Signet, Apr 2003, 6.99, 464 pp. ISBN: 0451207947 At thirty Chloe Evans feels old as she recovers from a nasty divorce although she tries to hide the ugliness from her preadolescent son Jeremy. To give the asthmatic Jeremy a fresh start, Chloe moves them to the resort town Jack Pine in Oregon where she takes a position as a police dispatcher. Jeremy's Golden Retriever puppy becomes very ill, but money is tight so a vet seems out of the questio...

Catherine Anderson novels

Phantom Waltz
Bethany Coulter's life and dreams come into ruin when she become paraplegic at the age of 17 after a barrel racing accident. Despite her disability, she tries to be self-sufficient not wanting any help from her protective family. With her sunny disposition, she has accepted that she'll never have a normal life, a family of her own, or even a suitor. Wealthy rancher Ryan Kendrick takes one look at Bethany and falls instantly in love. He asks for a date ...
Simply Love
Luke Taggart is the richest man in town and will stop at nothing to make sweet, innocent Cassandra his mistress. During his quest he learns about the redeeming value of love. ...
Star Bright
The man that Rainie Hall married seemed to be perfect and when she said "Till death do us part", she never knew that it might be death at his hands. Rainie Hall has lied about her name, faked her death and pretended not to know that her husband, Peter Danning was planning to kill her. That is all before the cruise ship even docks. With the help of her friends, the right makeup, clothing and knowledge about where the cameras are, she saves her own life....
Sun Kissed
Tucker Coulter doesn't hesitate to help he sees a woman being abused, even when she's standing up for a horse that was abused and when they he and Samantha Harrigan are arrested together, they form a friendship that is further tested when they need to prove she is not killing her own horses for the insurance money Samantha Harrigan knows all to well what it is like being on the wrong side of an angry man's fists, so when she is at the rodeo and sees a ma...
Sweet Nothings
Onyx, Jan 2002, 6.99, 464 pp. ISBN: 0451410157 The lashing her abusive former husband Rodney gave to Sonora Sunset sent Molly Wells over the edge. Unable to sit idly by while he badly hurt the helpless steed, Molly steals the horse. She travels across Oregon to Jake Coulter's Lazy J Ranch due to his reputation as far away as the Portland area as a horse whisperer. Jake has doubts that she owns Sonora Sunset, but cannot ignore the steed...
Walking on Air
Gabriel Valance is a gunslinger with a large reputation. On Christmas morning, a young man looking to make a name for himself shoots Gabe, and kills him. But, Gabe is saved by angels Gabriel and Michael, who have determined that even though he had not lived a bad life, he hasn't lived a good one. So they give him a task to prove his worthiness to ascend into heaven: he must save a "lost soul". Gabe is given three choices: a homeless boy, and aging widow...