Annabel Henderson’s life has fallen apart yet again, worse this time than before. She lost her beloved younger brother, then her mother a year ago, and now her father. His dying words talk of his regrets; warn her of someone or something that he was unable to fully explain. Confused, grieving, she is left alone in the Scottish Highlands to deal with her father’s body and wondering how she can continue on with her family’s tinker trade traveling from village to village. She must do it, for it is the only life she knows. In her heart, though, she yearns for a man to love her and to help her with the trade. Instead her first encounter is with the famed Great Scottish Devil returning to his home of Urquhart. The Devil is more annoying and demanding than he is handsome. How dare he think to take charge of her life!Brodie Durward isn’t sure he can deal with another problem in his life. He’d barely survived being taken prisoner and seriously wounded in the final battle of the Crusades, left with the loss of his memories. Still struggling with that, he had to go to England and save his sister Maggie from being hung. All he wants now is to return to his family’s holding of the Castle Urquhart. He hopes the once familiar surroundings and being around his clan will help him completely heal and regain his memories. Then he and his men run across a young lad apparently trying to steal the valuables off a dead man. Such a travesty can’t be tolerated!But the “lad” isn’t a boy at all. The supposed bandit is a tiny sprite of a woman, far too pleasing to the eye for his comfort, and furious at having been called a thief. And then she tries to refuse to travel with him under his protection, claiming she doesn’t need it, doesn’t wish to go in that direction. He has no patience for her foolishness. She will go with him!This story is a companion novel of "Maggie Mine" by Starla Kaye about Maggie's troubled older brother, but it is also a book that stands on its own!NOTE: This story contains sex and domestic discipline (adult male spanking an adult woman), so if such material can or may offend you, please don't buy this book.Book Length: 12 chapters / 63,738 words

Mandy Weatherford had a wild weekend of hot sex with a man she met on the rebound in Maui. As their relationship grew hotter, they went to Las Vegas where she married Erik Mallory on a dare. They had agreed to get a divorce, but suddenly he refused, wanting to work things out. How? She’s determined to move back to the family ranch and take over as manager. Her husband owns a highly successful computer game programming business in Los Angeles. Two different worlds. But he is so annoyingly stubborn. Erik Mallory fell in love with Mandy the night they met in Maui. All their time together after that only made him love her more. Now that he’d married her, he is not letting her go without a good fight. She can be as stubborn as she wants, but he’s determined to win the battle. He may have to warm her sweet bottom a time or two to get her to be reasonable, but that’s all right with him.

Mandy Weatherford had a wild weekend of hot sex with a man she met on the rebound in Maui. As their relationship grew hotter, they went to Las Vegas where she married Erik Mallory on a dare. They had agreed to get a divorce, but suddenly he refused, wanting to work things out. How? She’s determined to move back to the family ranch and take over as manager. Her husband owns a highly successful computer game programming business in Los Angeles. Two different worlds. But he is so annoyingly stubborn. Erik Mallory fell in love with Mandy the night they met in Maui. All their time together after that only made him love her more. Now that he’d married her, he is not letting her go without a good fight. She can be as stubborn as she wants, but he’s determined to win the battle. He may have to warm her sweet bottom a time or two to get her to be reasonable, but that’s all right with him.

Lady Ashlynn Remington is the youngest of twin sisters born to her English father's American mistress. She is also the most headstrong of his three daughters and two sons. She resisted coming with him to England, disliking the English ways and especially displeased with English nobility. She is determined to return to America and the man she'd hoped to marry. Her father, though, is equally determined to keep her here. When she meets a handsome, powerful duke at one of the balls, she is attracted and resistant at the same time. But he promptly asks for her hand in marriage and, against her desires, her father eagerly accepts. She won't give up her plans so easily... Twice married, widowed, and still without an heir, Blaine Wellingsworth, the Duke of Ashcroft, knows from the their introduction that the spirited Lady Ashlynn will be his next bride. Never has he been so drawn to a woman. He will not take "no" for an answer. It might take some doing, patience, and even a well-applied hand, but she will be his wife. And this passionate young woman will learn to love him as much as he does her.

Shawna inherited the job of ranch foreman and has worked hard to prove herself to the men. The Rolling Hills Ranch is the only real home she has ever known. Life is good… until a spotless GQ businessman shows up at Thanksgiving to announce that he has purchased the ranch. The cold–hearted bas–– plans to upset everything by selling it to one of the big ranching corporations asap. And he won't listen to a word she says.Cade bought the ranch with no intention of even seeing it before he sold it again, but a friend talked him into going there first. From the second he introduced himself to the pint–sized, contrary blond, his life was turned upside down. He'd never met a woman with half her boldness or a quarter of her sass. Or a woman more in need of a bottom warming.The awful man had actually spanked her during their first meeting, and then called her a Drama Queen for complaining. All she wants now is to find a miraculous way for her and her rodeo buddies/ranch hands to buy the ranch and be forever rid of the too darn handsome Cade Calloway.Cade left the ranch feeling more challenged than he had in a long time. As hard as he tries, he can't get Shawna out of his thoughts. He wants her, any way that he can have her. A goal setter, he decides to make her his by Valentine's Day.

Whiskey, the mischievous imp of Dodge City, thought it was bad enough for her brothers to sell their shares of her father's ranch to their US Marshal friend, Morgan, but what was even WORSE was that those men all had it in mind that Whiskey would actually marry Morgan--this hard, firm, LARGE man she had barely met before. Morgan thought Whiskey just needed a firm hand to keep her in line, but Whiskey, who is constantly getting tied up in ridiculous, dangerous situations, is nearly impossible to control, and things get even more complicated when her twin sister comes into town, kicking up even more trouble at home. But Morgan has a dark shadow following in his path, threatening the peaceful life he meant to create with Whiskey. Will they come through this together? Or will Morgan's past bring tragedy on everything he now holds dear? Please Note: This is a updated and expanded version of a book previously released as Whiskey's Rebellion.

Mandie James, a romance therapist, needs a place for the summer to have some retreats for troubled couples. Her good friend convinces her to use the new guest ranch facilities at the CW Ranch she co-owns with her brother. It seems like a great idea to Mandie. Unfortunately her brother is far less than thrilled to have her and her clients on his ranch. But she's not against going to toe-to-toe with the stubborn man.Cole Whitlock, a twice divorced former bull rider, reluctantly retires after one too many injuries. He takes over the family ranch and wants nothing to do with women, other than his sister and Great Aunt Bessie, who he also sort of inherited. But his sister has slightly different ideas about the ranch than he does. She thinks adding a guest ranch to the working ranch will help the cash flow. He's against the idea but knows they need the money. When his sister arranges to rent the guest part all summer to M.M. James, PhD, he is still not enthusiastic. Then he learns that...

When Amy awakens in bed with football star Lee Grayson, she has no idea how she got there. What happened at the wild party last night? Lee has no memory of how they wound up in bed together either. When the media finds out about their situation, Lee is threatened with suspension by his team. Lee and Amy escape the paparazzi by hiding out at Lee’s father’s ranch. What can this miss-matched couple do to save Lee’s career and Amy’s secret desire for Lee.

Brandi has known Colby Pennington for most of her life and has loved him almost as long. Getting married, though, is a serious matter. The whole love, honor, and obey thing might be more than she can handle.Marriage is about an equal partnership, not having to follow anyone else's rules. It is about having someone there whenever and wherever you want sex. Brandi is definitely okay with that part, especially with her sinfully handsome cowboy.But the obey issue, that Colby intends to take care of her in all ways—including occasionally warming her bottom...Well, it could be a deal breaker.

All she wants is start over, live a peaceful life...After an abusive marriage and an ugly divorce, Toni needs to rebuild her self-confidence and start a new life in her hometown. Going home again and confronting people she'd hurt when she'd left is never easy. She'd hung onto the idea of buying a long-abandoned old house and remodeling it to help her recover. But a man from her past has recently purchased it for his business. That's her emotional breaking point and she does something reckless. Now she must pay the legal consequences of her foolish actions...by working for him.All he wants is to focus on his work...Chad's job as a lawyer working to protect the rights of the abused elderly consumes his time and energy. It cost him his marriage and an aborted child he hadn't known about. Now he works harder, guards his bruised heart. Then someone he'd held secret feelings for comes back to town. She upsets his world, starting with minor destruction of his business property and...

Jennie had fallen in love with Sheriff Daniel Braddock the night they’d first met at her parents’ party. He’d been back in Boston to see his parents, but not planning to stay. His life was in frontier Kansas now and he swore he would never come back here again. She didn’t want him to leave; he couldn’t stay. But they’d decided to marry, in spite of their differences, in spite of both their families being against it. All she knew was that she wanted him…and she would find a way to convince him to move back to Boston.He’d married Jennie in a spell of craziness. She was from the life he’d left behind and would never return to. Their marriage would never work. She was pampered and spoiled. She would never make a frontier wife. So he’d left her behind with her parents, telling her he would come back for her, certain she would come to her senses first. And then she came to find him…Daniel couldn’t let her stay, but he couldn’t let her go either. But he damn sure wasn’t going to let her think she could manipulate him. A good man understood the importance of keeping his woman in line, loving her, too, but definitely applying his hand to her butt when needed. Jennie loved a challenge, loved her stubborn husband. But did they love each other enough?Warning: This book contains descriptive scenes of spanking used as discipline for an adult. If that might offend you, please do not buy this book.Book Length: 7 chapters / 34,300 words

In medieval times honorable men had to do what was required of them by the kings to whom they were loyal...Thomas Lancaster, a widower with bad memories of marriage and a young son he barely knew, was a hardened knight loyal to his king. In reward for his efforts fighting in the Crusades, King Edward gave him Middlemound Castle to hold for the crown. But the king decreed that he must marry the beautiful young widow of the castle's previous lord.Lady Gloriana Stewart had suffered brutally in her first marriage and had no desire to marry again. Yet she had no choice. She had to protect her people and obey her king.All she wanted was for her new husband to give her a baby.Having already lost one wife in childbirth, Thomas refused to even consider it.Sir Rowan Montgomery, Thomas's first knight, friend, and lover complicated the situation even more. Thomas didn't want to give up Rowan and Gloriana didn't want to admit she had feelings for her husband and for Rowan.

Valerie Hart left her very Alpha, very workaholic attorney husband six months ago, but only because they'd reached a point of total frustration with each other. Compromising on anything had seemed out of the question. Space away and time to settle down had been her only choice, she'd thought. Of course, she'd also thought Jett would come after her. The stubborn man didn't. And then, idiot that she was, she'd taken some poor advice and filed for a divorce. But she wasn't being an idiot any longer, and she wasn't ready to give up on their marriage or on Jett. Yet. She had a plan and set herself a deadline: Valentine's Day. If she couldn't win him back by then, well... No! She would.The wife he'd loved with every fiber of his being until she'd left him suddenly walked back into his life. Pride told him to refuse to even consider taking her back. Hope he'd thought he'd given up on made him ignore his bruised ego and see what would happen. There would certainly be punishment for her irresponsible actions. He wouldn't forgive her easily, if he even could.