For the first time man and soldier are at odds as desire wars with duty…" Sworn to serve the royal family of Pasadonia, dedicated soldier Xavier LeDuc has never had any trouble putting duty before desire—until he encounters redheaded beauty Amanda Carn. She's sweet, seductive and all too familiar looking. Could she be the King of Pasadonia's long-lost daughter? Surely things like that only happen in fairy tales…. If she's proved to be royalty then Xavier will have to keep his distance, but he's been bound by royal command to protect Amanda until the truth is discovered. Keeping Amanda safe is his new mission—and where could be safer than in his own arms?
The topics of style and function within evolutionary archaeology have been the subject of great debate in the field of archaeology in general over the past two decades. Evolutionary archaeologists have a unique perspective on these concepts-one that has sometimes been misunderstood by archaeologists working within other theoretical perspectives. The dichotomy between style and function was first formulated in the late 1970s by Robert Dunnell and remains axiomatic within the theoretical perspective of evolutionary archaeology. The original definitions of style and function were grounded in biological evolutionary concepts regarding neutral variation versus variation that is subject to natural selection. Several chapters expand upon these concepts, and explore how Darwinian evolutionary theory may be used to understand the archaeological record. Other chapters demonstrate this application through empirical case studies. Dunnell provides a foreword introducing and re-examining his original thesis. This volume is the only text devoted to the topic of style and function within the literature of evolutionary archaeology. It provides not only theoretical discussions and augmentation, but also significant historical background regarding the development of the style/function distinction within archaeology. Moreover, it presents several case studies that provide examples of how evolutionary style and function may be applied to the prehistoric record.
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All I craved was one night to forget about the tragic murder of my brother Marcus. Elijah Malakai seemed like the perfect person to take my mind off everything my family had endured. He was a hunter and for the first time in years, I felt safe. However, Elijah had his own tragic past. As his secrets unraveled, my world was thrown into turmoil once more. I had to decide whether or not Elijah was worth the pain his past would bring and if I was strong enough to stand by his side and fight.
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Teresa Mummert comes a cautionary coming of age tale. Lila Jane is spending her summer vacation preparing for high school. She does everything asked of her, but her parents rarely give her credit for her efforts. She decides to sneak out with a friend to attend a local party and shed her little girl image, to become a woman once and for all. What starts out as a fun escape soon escalates into a life on the run with a boy she barely knows. **PREVIOUSLY RELEASED AS THE DEATH OF LILA JANE**
Passion runs deep in a breathtaking new Wildflower romance. Bree Murphy manages her father's river navigation company, and she can wield a gun as well as any man. So when an Eastern railroad owner tries to take over, she shoots the hat off his head. But Jeff's ruggedness arouses new feelings inside of Bree.
Why had she rented her upstairs apartment to another doctor? Single mom Jill Beck knew the type, especially one as handsome as Adam Stone. The M.D. would stick it out in Blackwater Lake, Montana...until the first snowstorm. And then he'd leave everyone behind. But this time she wasn't getting involved. Yes, he thought Jill was one fine-looking landlady, but Adam knew romancing the town sweetheart wouldn't win him any points. Still, they could be friends and he could be the male influence her young son needed--no romantic strings involved. Well, perhaps he needed to check his temperature and be certain he hadn't misdiagnosed true love as just a simple case of friendship
Challenging the frontier of the Arizona Territory, Cady Tanner is determined to conquer the heart of proud Captain Kane Carrington, who believes that the harsh and primitive land leaves no room for love.
When lone wolf, Navy SEAL Harold “Flash” Carney agrees to act as an undercover operative for the FBI in an international smuggling sting, he revisits a past he hoped to leave behind forever. During the sting his handler is killed. Neck deep in a double cross and cut off from his team, Flash goes on the run with only his training to keep him alive. Samantha Cross is desperate to leave her past as a battered wife behind, but her ex-husband is attempting to gain custody of their daughter, Joy, to keep them in his life. When her ex turns stalker, Sam is determined to do whatever it takes to protect her daughter and break his hold over them for good. Despite their mutual wariness, Samantha and Flash are drawn to each other. But trust comes hard. When the walls both have erected start to crumble, trouble surfaces from all fronts, and Flash has no choice but to break away from the ingrained habits of a lifetime to save the one thing he’s always wanted and thought he’d never have—a family.
Sometimes, life doesn’t deliver a happily ever after… In Pipe Dreams two urban youth get pulled into the drug game. One leaves it alone forever, but the other is lured back because of the fast money and material possessions that seem to come so easily. In this story, you will witness how the greed for money will sever a friendship and see how fast pipe dreams quickly turn into nightmares.
Brock Sullivan is a navy SEAL—he lives by his own code of honor and he won't see Jesse, pregnant and alone, struggle. He doesn't have to help her, but he knows he can offer her security while he's away fighting for his country. The proposal is convenient and the marriage— paper only! Jesse would do anything for her baby, even if it means signing away her own dreams of happily ever after and becoming Brock's convenient bride. But, injured in battle, Brock is suddenly home, and what was a simple marriage of convenience is now becoming a whole lot more complicated.
Every Heart Needs A Home Miranda Chase can't refuse when her pregnant sister Mercy asks her to return to their Colorado ranch, even though her sister's new family is a painful reminder of everything Miranda knows she'll never have. She'll travel to the ends of the earth to protect Mercy's newfound happiness--even if it means sweet-talking Benjamin Lansing, whose claim to Mercy's ranch reaches beyond money. But despite Miranda's distrust of the man, the sweet words come easily, as do the kisses. . . Ben isn't looking for love--and certainly not with Miranda, who is as pure and innocent as a spring flower. She has no need of a hardened man like him. All he wants is to collect what's owed him and be on his way. But Miranda's soft touch is temptation indeed, and loving her--for now and forever--just might be what he's truly wanted all along. . .
Two beloved romance stories from USA Today bestselling author Maureen Child and Teresa Southwick. Claiming King's Baby Their last meeting to sign divorce papers goes wrong when passion overtakes Maggie and Justice King. Still, she walks away with a legal decree—and a pregnancy. Justice had always refused to have children, so this is one fact she won't reveal to him. But when Maggie ends up back at the King ranch, her secret must come out! The Doctor's Secret Baby After their passionate affair, Emily Summers walked away from Cal Westen. Now she's telling him they have a baby? The sensual social worker burned him once, and this ER surgeon isn't making that mistake again. Then he meets his daughter. And the no-strings-attached doctor feels his heart expand…to make room for two females in his life.
A descendant of Lebanese Catholic immigrants on her father's side and Baptist sharecroppers on her mother's, Teresa Nicholas recounts in Buryin' Daddy a southern upbringing with an unusual inflection. As the book opens, the author recalls her charmed early childhood in the late 1950s, when she and her family live with her grandparents in a graceful old bungalow in Yazoo City, Mississippi. But when the author is five, her eccentric father—secretive, penurious, autocratic, hoarding—moves his growing family into a condemned duplex nearby. Separated from her beloved grandmother and chafing under her father's erratic discipline, the girl longs to flee from the awful decrepit house. When she's a teenager, she and her father find themselves on conflicting sides of the civil rights movement and their arguments grow more painful, until a scholarship to a northeastern college provides the means of her escape. Two decades later, Nicholas has built a successful career in book publishing in New York. When her father dies suddenly, she returns to Mississippi for the funeral and to spend a month in the hated duplex as her mother comes to terms with her husband's passing. But as she sorts through the strange detritus of her father's life, the author comes to understand that he was far more complex than the angry man she thought she knew. And as she draws closer to her surprisingly resilient mother, affected by stroke but full of blunt country talk, she finds that her mother is also far from the naïve, helpless creature she remembers. Through a series of surprising and oddly humorous discoveries, the author and her mother will begin to unravel her father's poignant secrets together in this graceful and generous exploration of the intermingling of shame and love that lie at the heart of family life.
Harlequin® Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Special Edition box set includes: THE COWBOY’S COMEBACK Montana Mavericks: What Happened to Beatrix? by Melissa Senate Anyone can see why Amanda Jenkins fell for Holt Dalton way back when—the hunky rancher is all kinds of adorable. So is his son, Robby, their dog, Bentley, and their cat, Oliver. When Holt asks her for a second chance, it is awfully tempting to imagine them as a happy family. First, however, the charming cowboy will have to convince her that he’s playing for keeps… THE MARINE’S ROAD HOME Match Made in Haven by Brenda Harlen An explosion ended Jake Kelly’s military career. Now his days are spent alone on his ranch, and his nights are spent keeping his PTSD at bay. But the ex-marine’s efforts to keep the beautiful Skylar Gilmore at a distance are thwarted by his canine companion. Every time he turns around, Molly is racing off to the Circle G looking for Sky. Maybe the dog knows that two hearts are better than one? A MATCHMAKER’S CHALLENGE by Teresa Southwick Despite his feelings on love and marriage, Gabriel Blackburne works for his aunt’s matchmaking company—but only on the financial side! So he’s not exactly thrilled when a teenager shows up and tries to set him up with her mom. But when it becomes clear that Courtney Davidson is equally uninterested—if incredibly compelling—he proposes a mutually beneficial fake relationship to keep both his family and her daughter out of their business.
Harlequin® Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Special Edition box set includes: HER MAVERICK M.D. Montana Mavericks: The Baby Bonanza by Teresa Southwick Nurse Dawn Laramie refuses to fall for a doctor she works with and put her job at risk…AGAIN! But Jonathon Clifton won't let her cold shoulder get to him. When these two finally bury the hatchet and become friends, will they be able to resist the wild attraction between them? HIS BADGE, HER BABY…THEIR FAMILY? Men of the West by Stella Bagwell Geena and Vince Parcell were married once before, until the stress of Vince's job as a police detective took its toll. Six years later, when Geena shows up in Carson City pregnant and missing her memories, they have a second chance at becoming the family they always wanted. ALWAYS THE BEST MAN Crimson, Colorado by Michelle Major After a nasty divorce, Emily Whittaker is back in Crimson with her son. Jase Crenshaw thought he was over his high school crush on Emily, but when they team up as best man and maid of honor for her brother's wedding, Jase thinks he's finally found his chance to win the girl of his dreams… Look for Harlequin Special Edition's August 2016 Box set 2 of 2, filled with even more stories of life, love and family!
Rellik Bentley is to die for. He can have any woman he wants and they will do anything to be with him. He uses and abuses them like drugs and tosses them out with the trash. The only thing he gives a f*ck about is his music. That is, until Ella Leighton walks into his life and stumbles upon one of his darkest secrets. In the midst of doing damage control, he begins to obsess over the mysterious woman who wants absolutely nothing to do with him. Rellik won’t take no for an answer.
Harlequin® Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Special Edition box set includes: Just a Little Bit Married by Teresa Southwick The Bachelors of Blackwater Lake Rose Tucker is a single woman with a failing business. Or so she thinks. Then her ex, Lincoln Hart, shows up with an offer for her design services…and the bombshell that a paperwork glitch makes them a little bit married. The Marine Makes His Match by Victoria Pade Camden Family Secrets Kinsey Madison has a strict policy about dating military men: she won't. Of course that means she can team up with Lieutenant Colonel Sutter Knightlinger to get his widowed mother settled and Kinsey in contact with her new family without risking her heart…right? A Family Under the Stars by Christy Jeffries Sugar Falls, Idaho On a "glamping" trip for her magazine, Charlotte Folsom has a fling with her guide, Alex Russell. But back in Sugar Falls, they keep running into each other, and their respective families fill a void neither knew was missing. Will Charlotte and Alex be too stubborn to see the forest for the trees? Look for Harlequin Special Edition's March 2016 Box set 1 of 2, filled with even more stories of life, love and family! Look for 6 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Special Edition!
Nothing is fair in love and war. . . Europe's elite have gathered at the glittering Congress of Vienna--princes, ambassadors, the Russian tsar--all negotiating the fate of the continent by day and pursuing pleasure by night. Until Princess Tatiana, the most beautiful and talked about woman in Vienna, is found murdered during an ill-timed rendezvous with three of her most powerful conquests. . . Suzanne Rannoch has tried to ignore rumors that her new husband, Malcolm, has also been tempted by Tatiana. As a protégé of France's Prince Talleyrand and attaché for Britain's Lord Castlereagh, Malcolm sets out to investigate the murder and must enlist Suzanne's special skills and knowledge if he is to succeed. As a complex dance between husband and wife in the search for the truth ensues, no one's secrets are safe, and the future of Europe may hang in the balance. . . "A perfect blend of history, mystery, romance, and suspense." --Deborah Crombie "Meticulous, delightful, and full of surprises." --Tasha Alexander "Glittering balls, deadly intrigue, sexual scandals. . .the next best thing to actually being there!" --Lauren Willig "Absolutely gripping. . .historical intrigue at its finest." --Deanna Raybourn "Shimmers like the finest salons in Vienna." --Deborah Crombie
Emily Summers would never forget the passionate affair with Cal Westen that left her yearning for what he couldn't give her. But the charismatic, commitment-wary E.R. surgeon had given her something. And it was time he knew the truth—so he could be the father their child needed…. Two years ago, Emily walked away from him. Now she was telling him they had a baby? The sensual social worker had burned him once, and Cal wasn't about to make that mistake again. Then he met his daughter. And the no-strings-attached doctor began to feel his heart expand…to make room for two females in his life….
In this novel, Teresa Miller creates one of the most winning heroines in American fiction. As teacher, mother, and humanitarian, Kate Dexter makes decisions that last a lifetime by relying on the only technology available to her -- the human heart. The acclaimed story of an Oklahoma pioneer woman who fights for what she believes in most. Life.
Harlequin Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Harlequin Special Edition bundle includes The Daddy Secret by Judy Duarte, Finding Family…and Forever? by Teresa Southwick and The One He’s Been Looking For by Joanna Sims. Look for 6 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin Special Edition!
Do not boast about tomorrow for you do not know what a day may bring forth. (Proverbs 27: 1) Never had Rachel Newberry found that to be so true as when she woke up one Tuesday. Only hours later she finds herself struggling against an intruder, beaten unconscious and left to die. Her temptations begin as she debates life or death, forgiveness or punishment for the one who terrorized her family. Sometimes dying comes easier than loving an enemy.
After enduring years of abuse, Beth Myers runs away. With someone else’s identity, she begins a new life. No matter where she runs, heartache, pain and tragedy seems to follow. She ends up right back where it all started; face-to-face with the ones who nearly destroyed her. Will she find the strength to confront them or the courage to forgive?
Harlequin Special Edition brings you three full-length stories in one collection! Relate to finding comfort and strength in the support of loved ones and enjoy the journey no matter what life throws your way. This box set includes: FORTUNE’S TEXAS SURPRISE (A Fortunes of Texas: Rambling Rose novel) by USA TODAY bestselling author Stella Bagwell Until he meets foster mother Stephanie Fortune, rancher Acton Donovan has never pictured himself as a family man. Now suddenly he’s thinking about wedding rings and baby cradles! But can he convince himself he’s good enough for a woman from the prominent Fortune family? A CHANCE FOR THE RANCHER (A Match Made in Haven novel) by Brenda Harlen Patrick Stafford trades his suit for a Stetson and risks it all on a dude ranch. But it’s the local vet, Dr. Brooke Langley, who really challenges him. Is this playboy rancher ready to take a risk on a single mom and become a family man? DAUGHTER ON HIS DOORSTEP by Teresa Southwick When Luke McCoy moved next door, Shelby Richards knew he’d discover the truth. Within minutes, young Emma was on his doorstep, asking Luke if he really was her daddy. Shelby had her reasons, but Luke is not so quick to forgive. And as Shelby saw Luke with their daughter, her heart was not so quick to forget what they’d all missed out on. Believe in love. Overcome obstacles. Find happiness. Look for more stories in Harlequin Special Edition February 2020 Box Set — 2 of 2
Knock, knock. Guess who’s a dad? Nine years of secret-keeping was finally over When Luke McCoy moved back next door, Shelby Richards knew he’d discover the truth. Within minutes, young Emma was on his doorstep, asking Luke if he really was her daddy. Though Shelby believed not telling Luke had been the right thing to do, the police detective was not so quick to forgive. And as Shelby saw Luke with their daughter, her heart was not so quick to forget what they’d all missed out on. From Harlequin Special Edition: Believe in love. Overcome obstacles. Find happiness.
THE MOST ELIGIBLE BACHELOR…UNDER HER ROOF The tabloids were right: Sloan Holden is rich, powerful and incredibly handsome. But he's just another paying guest, as far as B and B owner Maggie Potter is concerned. The hardworking widow has a toddler to care for, a business to build, and a heart to protect. She can't succumb to the charm of a man who is just passing through. Though drawn to his gorgeous landlady, Sloan knows "off-limits" when he sees it. Trouble is, Maggie and her little girl gave Sloan a taste of what he was missing—a family of his own. The bachelor businessman could strike a deal with anyone, but can he find a way to bargain his way into Maggie's life for good?
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