SHE SHOT THE SHERIFF!Trixianna Lawless can’t believe the man she’s shot on her front porch is the sheriff. She thought he was an intruder. What was he doing scaring her to death before the sun even rose? She is a proper woman who bakes pies for the restaurant in Grand Fork, Kansas. She isn’t dangerous; she’s simply run to Grand Fork after a misunderstanding with her sister. And she certainly isn’t Mad Maggie West, a notorious bank robber. Can she help it if she slightly resembles th...

WANTEDFamily Man. Must Love Children.Payment Negotiable.Rider Magrane knows what "wanted" means; he's just been released from prison after serving five years for cattle rustling. He's come back to Drover, Kansas, to make amends to David Warner, the man he'd wronged. He discovers the man has run off and left the most appealing woman he's ever met – Jane Warner – in charge of his farm and his two young boys.Jane posted the ad to lure a capable male into caring f...

The idealized scenes in Norman Rockwell's illustrations seldom reflected the reality of American families, including Jane Bertram's. Her world consists of a mostly absent father and an angry mother who vents her frustration on her daughter. Jane stubbornly refuses to become a victim, a stance that further infuriates her mother. Despite the overwhelming pain of knowing her mother hates her, Jane is determined to create a new life for herself.Blackbird, a fictional autobiography, is ...

Missing Gold –Travel weary army scout Clay Sullivan wants nothing more than to recover a lost gold consignment, then leave army life to settle down on his ranch. He never expected to cross paths with the spirited, spunky Nora-Leigh Dillon. The eccentric schoolmarm not only rides a bicycle scandalizing the staid citizens of Steamboat Bend, Montana, but she wears men's trousers and cuts off her beautiful, long blonde hair.Dreaming of Adventure –Nora-Leigh never intended...

FINNIGAN JONES HAS A PASSION FOR COOKING AND A PENCHANT FOR TROUBLEDead bodies aren't on Finn's New Orleans walking tour of cemeteries and haunted houses. Ditto disappearing bodies. Now she has to explain to Detective Jack Boyle how her missing corpse has turned up in the Mississippi putting her smack-dab in the middle of a murder investigation.Unfortunately, another of Finn's odd jobs is taking questionable photos for Jack's PI brother, Tommy. After she snaps shots of a dubi...

Jane Bertram has everything she could ask for. A loving partner. Friends. A beautiful home. Security. Then, time takes them away. Having worked so hard and lost so much, can an ailing Jane once again overcome old demons? Or will she succumb to long-buried shadows and ghosts? With time running out, will she remember how to spin straw into gold?The First and Last Lesson is the fourth novel of a four-book series that began with Blackbird and includes My Mother’s ...

A return to Iowa for her sister’s funeral forces Jane Bertram to confront long-buried memories and uncomfortable truths. Is she more like her mother than she wants to admit? Despite her best intentions, has she made the same mistakes? Surprised by her aging mother’s whispered expression of regret, Jane weighs the possibility of reconciliation. Is there a path forward? Could Jane’s struggle to find inner peace ultimately depend on forgiving her mother? And herself? Is a transformation from ...

Feeling as if she had no choice but to abandon her newborn to the authorities, Jane Bertram is eager to turn her life around. She escapes Iowa aboard a train to Chicago, determined to rise above her abusive past, hoping a new environment will allow her to break away from her dysfunctional relationships and start over. Memories, however, can never be left behind, and some wounds never heal.Can Jane silence her mother’s harsh criticism echoing in her head, or is she condemned to foll...

"Essential reading for any serious beginning writer . . . illuminating." — San Francisco ChronicleCarson McCullers is renowned for her Southern Gothic fiction and for such modern classics as The Member of the Wedding. This collection includes an assortment of her earliest work, written mostly before she was nineteen.Included are stories, essays, articles, poems, and writing about writing—including the working outline of "The Mute," which wo...

The ultimate romantic reads to warm you up this winterFind all of your favourite authors and festive stories here!Including the titles:A Christmas RomanceAn Italian ChristmasMeet me under the MistletoeA Regency Christmas WeddingA Christmas AffairA Royal ChristmasChristmas ConfessionsOne Christmas MomentA Christmas ProposalOne Night…before ChristmasOne Christmas to ForeverHi...

Steal a kiss with us this ChristmasIncluding the titles:A Christmas RomanceItalian Christmas NightsMeet me Under the MistletoeA Regency Christmas WeddingA Christmas Affair

This book brings together the experience of central banks and national statistical agencies in countries that focus their monetary policy on inflation targets. Inflation targeting has led to a close interface between these two sets of institutions. When the performance of a central bank is measured in terms of specified price indices, which are usually compiled and disseminated by the national statistical agency, the role of national statistical agencies becomes central to the credibility of ...