The Blackthornes and the Creeds had been at war for generations, and when Trace Blackthorne and Callie Creed fell in love as college students, the hostilities didn't stop. Family loyalty eventually drove the two young lovers apart; Trace disappeared from their small Texas town while Callie married her father's foreman, bore two children, and became a young widow. But now Trace has come home, a ruthless hard-eyed stranger, making her an offer she...

Cruz Guerrero wanted Sloan Stewart from the first moment he laid eyes on the headstrong beauty. But sloan, eldest daughter of a wealthy cotton planter, belonged to another man--until the day she came to him, a woman in trouble on the lawless frontier . . . and he made her an offer she could not refuse. Now he is ready to claim what is rightfully his--even as a long-ago betrayal threatens to tear her from his arms forever.

Deputy sheriff and single mother Sarah Barndollar is working to solve two cold cases of missing young women, but when a third vanishes, she finds herself caught in the middle of two powerful feuding families and the sexy Drew De Witt.

Three stories center around the Whitelaw family and include "The Disobedient Bride," in which Zach Whitelaw discovers that his new wife refuses to get pregnant and sets out to show her the true meaning of family.

The headstrong bride: Callen Whitelaw had one surefire way to soften up a rugged rancher out for revenge against her beloved clan. The headstrong bride would marry him! The disobedient bride: Zach Whitelaw chose his 'convenient' wife for one reason only to provide him with a brood of little Whitelaws. But no matter how many long, lazy days they spend in their marriage bed, his disobedient bride refuses to get pregnant.