Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Old flames reignite and new passions burn when lovers follow their hearts back to the place they once called home. . .
"Whale Island" by Cathy Lamb
Family secrets and imposing friends are making Chalese feel like an outsider in her very own home on beautiful Whale Island. But it's only when a shocking revelation makes her feel truly lost that she opens her heart to the possibilities the past offers—including a chance...

Ben Badwin needs a woman, and he needs her now, so when Sierra Murphy drives up in a battered truck to eat at his motel restaurant, exhausted from launching her landscaping business, he sets his sights on her. Her blunt rejection of his usually infallible charm makes the chase more fun, but Ben doesn't expect to fall in love, nor to have Sierra's best friend make a play for his mother, nor to encounter a determined grandmother and an abusive ex-husband...

After a harrowing tour of duty in Afghanistan, Army nurse Lily Thompson escapes to Wind River Ranch to find herself once more. Working as a caregiver to foreman Jake Murdoch's elderly mother, Lily almost feels at peace --- except for the unsettling presence of Jake, a tight-lipped, intimidating man everyone calls Bear. But one look in the powerful ex-Marine's eyes and Lily glimpses a vulnerability that shakes her soul: a hurt she understands all to...

Two years after the death of a distant cousin, Luna Clark agrees to take over guardianship of her cousin's children. Luna enlists the help of bounty-hunter-turned-bodyguard Joe Winston, a virile hunk who's delighted to flee a series of attacks on his life and seduce curvy Luna. But Joe's stalker follows them to Visitation, N.C., where they meet the children for the first time and discover a town rife with agendas. Family bonding occurs instantly (a...