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Indulge your fantasies of delicious Regency Rakes, fierce Viking warriors and rugged Highlanders. Be swept away into a world of intense passion, lavish settings and romance that burns brightly through the centuriesPamela Nissen is an award-winning author with a love for creating. Whether characters, cooking, scrapbooking or other artistic endeavors, she delights in putting things together for others to enjoy. While homeschooling her children in 2000, she started handwriting her first novel, and after finally stepping into the computer age, she won first place in the 2007 Heart of the Rockies Inspirational Romance category. Since then she hasn't looked back.Pamela lives in the woods in Iowa with her husband, two boys, her Newfoundland dog, cats and one churlish bunny. She loves watching her children pursue their dreams and can be found cheering on the sidelines at her boys' games or being moved to tears as she watches her grown daughter perform on stage.If she's not writing or serving lattes at the local Starbucks, she enjoys scrapbooking weekends with her sister, coffee and conversation with friends and running in the rain. Having glimpsed the dark and light of life, she is passionate about writing «real» people with «real» issues and «real» responses.

Indulge your fantasies of delicious Regency Rakes, fierce Viking warriors and rugged Highlanders. Be swept away into a world of intense passion, lavish settings and romance that burns brightly through the centuriesWho was this solitary man? Duncan Hennessey had chosen the wild isolation of the Rocky Mountains. Mistrusting and stubborn, he was better off alone. But this cynical man couldn’t leave a lady in danger, even if it meant risking his own life! Wounded, there was no way he could prevent Betsy from nursing him back to health… Sheltered, innocent Betsy couldn’t have been more different from Duncan. Her sweet nature and sunny smiles made him wild with irritation – and maybe something more!But a man as tough as the mountain granite wouldn’t let a slip of a girl get to him…surely?

Women Could Not Be TrustedBartholomew, Earl of Norwyck, had well learned that bitter lesson from his traitorous first wife. What, then, should he make of «the Lady Marguerite,» a mysterious beauty who claimed ignorance of her true identity? Was she an enemy sent to destroy him–or an angel come to heal his wounded soul?Bartholomew had saved her from a shipwreck, only to dash her upon the rocky shores of his darkest suspicions. But if Marguerite were truly one of his blood-sworn enemies, how then to explain the desire that pulsed between them–threatening to engulf them in a heat as fierce as any flame?

How Could One Hide A Noble Heart? Alain, Baron of Hawkswell, knew his children's winsome nursemaid was not all she seemed. Nay, beneath her serf's homespun lay a golden soul whose mysterious allure would change his life forever… !Lady Claire de Coverly dared not reveal her Norman identity or her duplicitous mission to the imposing Lord of Hawkswell Castle, for to do so would destroy the joy she found with his children and end the exquisite passion she felt in his arms… !

How could she put things right without a scandal?Miss Sophie Roswell wanted to marry. But as she was an heiress, surely her money would attract the wrong kind of man? Her ingenious solution–to switch places with her cousin Charlotte for the Season! When she met Richard, Viscount Braybrooke, she knew she'd made a terrible mistake. Although he was looking for a wife, he had to fulfill his duty as heir to a dukedom. And Sophie was now apparently ineligible….

Bridget had called St. Gabriel's monastery her home since her mysterious appearance years ago. Kept far from prying eyes amidst the gentle monks, the maiden was happy to care for her protectors. But after reading fanciful tales of Arthur and Guinevere, Bridget yearned for a handsome knight of her very own….On a quest to find his missing brother, Sir Ranulf Brand scoured the Norman countryside. Attacked by brigands and left for dead, he awoke in St. Gabriel's to visions of a golden-haired angel tending his wounds by candlelight. But the monks assured him 'twas nothing more than a phantom brought on by his injuries. Ye the petal-soft touch of her lips lingered on his mouth still….

Wanted: a wife for the Texas lawman Sheriff’s Deputy James Webster is seeking a fresh start on a remote Texas ranch – and the last thing he needs is temptation, in the form of the ranch manager’s beautiful and innocent daughter Alexis!The only way James can ever have Alexis is by marrying her – but this stranger with a dark past will first have to prove he is worthy of protecting his Lone Star Bride…whatever it costs him…‘Davidson wonderfully captures gentleness in the midst of heart-wrenching challenges. ’ – Publishers Weekly

Last Chance At Love… The lonely bearer of a shameful secret, Libby Hodges needed to make a new start – in Montana Territory as Jacob Stone's mail-order bride and mother to his little girl. Hoping to meet a loving husband, she found instead a man shattered by by loss and wary of affection.Libby could read in his gentle gray eyes a desperate plea for the tenderness they both craved. But how could she claim the heart of a man who'd vowed never to give it away again, or tell her prospective groom that she carried another man's child?

KIDNAPPED In a heartbeat, Catherine Sommerville's world had changed, transforming her from a cosseted heiress to a prize held for ransom by a battle-scarred knight. Reason demanded that she despise Gervase St. Juste, but her soul whispered that they had been born beneath the same star… .Though murderous blood flowed through her veins, the woman Gervase had stolen was not the coldhearted shrew he had been led to believe. Gentle as a spring rain, Cat brought on a fury of an entirely different sort, raising within him a tempest of forbidden desire… .

A Husband ReturnedWed as a young girl to Sir Guy of Abbascombe, Hester had never known true married life, for after a fight with his father, her lord husband had left for the Crusades. After several years, Hester assumed her husband was dead, and looked forward to a lifetime of managing the land and the people she loved. So she was shocked to her toes when Guy returned! There was no doubt he was a man in the prime of his life, fully intending to take back control of his domain–including his wife! But the question was–would she have him as her husband once more?

From hard-headed businesswoman… A lifetime of living in a man’s world has given sword-making factory owner Eleanor Blackwell some very definite opinions – particularly about the duplicity of men! …to blushing bride? Benjamin Grayson, Viscount Whittonstall, seems to be cut from a different cloth – Eleanor responds to his touch with a passion normally only reserved for fencing!She may be spectacularly unsuited for aristocracy, but Ben has different ideas when he plans to safeguard her business with a very convenient proposal…