Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful in communicating mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings. Now eighteen and emancipated from the system with nowhere...

Ever since she was young, Paige McLean has longed to see the world. Still, she never imagined the world would land on her doorstep on the form of a charming British surgeon who needs a place to stay when his plans fall through. After a devastating loss, Alisair Woodbury has vowed to live his life alone. But in all his travels, he hasn't encountered a town as welcoming as Fool's gold, nor a woman as caring, or as beautiful, as Paige. Her compassion...

No one expects the apocalypse. Arden Highmore was living your average postgrad life in Rochester, New York, when someone flipped the "off" switch on the world. No cell phones, no power, no running water-and no one knows why. All she and her roommate, John, know for sure is that they have to get out, stat. His family's cabin near the Canadian border seemed like the safest choice. It turns out isolation doesn't necessarily equal safety. When...

New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery brings her trademark wit and sparkle to these two classic tales of dreams come true…  Dream Bride  According to family legend, Chloe Wright is destined to dream of her future groom on her twenty-fifth birthday. Chloe doesn't believe in fate, so she's shocked to find her path crossing with a handsome stranger. Arizona Smith is everything Chloe has ever wanted in a man. But she's not about to fall...

Peaks Island, Maine, vibrates with its own special magic. The people, the animals, and even the houses have a charm and personality all their own. Just ask Rocky Pelligrino. Devastated by her husband Bob's death, she found hope thanks to a loyal black Lab named Cooper. Warm friends and a new job have helped Rocky chart a new course. She's even ready to try love again with Hill, the gentle and patient archery instructor. But a phone call from...

The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps at the turn of the twentieth century is the setting for the first meeting of Enza and Ciro, who meet as teenagers despite growing up in villages just a few miles apart. But when Ciro catches the local priest in a scandal, he is banished from his village and sent to hide in America as an apprentice to a shoemaker in Little Italy. Without explanation, he leaves a bereft Enza behind. Soon Enza's family...

The Dark Heroine: Dinner with a Vampire, the The Dark Heroine is an edgy and wild fantasy; an impossibly sexy read.