Vella Munn

Destined to be strangers and enemies. But the heart demands more-something dangerous. 1809. The Chumash tribe of California has always dwelled in harmony with the land, worshipping their gods and loyal to their spirits. Then heavily-armed Spanish invaders drive them from their homes, forcibly convert them to Christianity, and turn them into slaves under the control of priests and military commanders. A determined colonel brings his wife and dark-eyed...

After losing his wife, rugged forest ranger Jake Pruitt puts everything into his job. Consumed with guilt, he never thinks that he'll be able to move on...until he meets Sari. Sari Dunham works as a tracking dog trainer. When she's assigned to work with Jake, the attraction is instant and undeniable. But Sari's hiding a secret from the past and needs to keep Jake at a distance. Will Jake's guilt and Sari's past destroy any chance they have at love...

OUT OF THE MISTS OF TIME. When she first came to the sacred tribal land in the California wilderness, anthropologist Tory Kent paid little heed to the tales of a mystical warrior keeping watch there. But then a dark figure appeared through the mists before her-and suddenly the unimaginable became reality. Wherever-whenever-he had come from, the one called Loka was truly a man, and he awakened a need within Tory that could scarcely be denied. For he...

Previously titled: Taming His Montana Heart A man with secrets and a shuttered heart. A woman reaching past a nightmare. Lake Serene Resort manager Shaw Chamberlin groans as snow slows the pace of repairs. He's here because he's determined to live far from where a nightmare he was responsible for took place. He chose well in hiring Haley Walters to run the snowmobile operation.But she can't do everything on her own. The few hours out of his office...

Previously titled: His Montana Rescue A woman haunted by her near death experience. A man determined to salvage his career. Last summer while fighting a wildfire, Forest Ranger Echo Rose nearly lost her life. Her surgically-repaired ankle limits her movements and has given her PTSD, but she vows to concentrate on safeguarding the area around Lake Serene, Montana during summer's extreme fire danger. Rey Bowen had a successful construction company until...

Previously published as: Romancing the Montana Bride Years ago, Jes and Shyla Croft spent their honeymoon at Lake Serene in the Oregon wilderness. Now the estranged couple has returned to what was once a magical place so they can legally put an end to their fatally flawed marriage. The love that once completed them died under the demands of Jes's business and Shyla's loneliness. They're ready to move on. To bury the memories. They refuse to relive...

Summer, 1800. There is no rain. Heat bakes the prairie. What little game survives on the trickles of water in the shrinking creeks is fiercely hunted not just by the Cheyenne, but by their enemies, the Pawnee. In the midst of a buffalo hunt that becomes a battle, when Pawnee warriors attack, a young Cheyenne brave, Grey Bear, discovers that his joy in killing outweighs his pride in bringing home meat for his hungry people. But, the meditative Lone...

Previous title: Daughter of the Mountain In 1846 Jessie Spear joins the ill-fated Donner Party heading toward California. She'd promised her father she'd do everything she could to realize the dream they once shared. What no one in the party foresees is that travel delays and epic snowstorms will trap them high in the rugged Sierra Mountains. One after another of her companions die and she's left to try to save a precious orphaned child. Daniel...

Jessie Speer set out for California, following her father's dream which turned into a nightmare, and it killed her family. Now, snow clogged mountains, beautiful but heartless, held her prisoner.

Amid rising tensions of the 1830's in Florida, the Seminole Indians retreat into the darkness of the Everglades swamps rather than be sent to reservations. They are joined by runaway slaves fleeing cruel plantation owners.