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Ethan Lucas sees the portrait above a poker table on the River Goddess. In an attempt to win the portrait of the lovely woman he feels drawn to, he gambles with the sternwheeler’s owner, Frank Bower. Not only does he win the portrait, however, he also wins the riverboat.

When Blythe Bouvier boards the boat a few years later, Ethan realizes he’s seen her before–in the portrait hanging in his office. After Ethan learns of Blythe’s search for her grandparents, he then convinces her that the portrait “Angel” could be her grandmother.

Blythe realizes that her grandfather, Francois Bouvier and Frank Bower are the same person. They find his family, but he died shortly after Ethan won the River Goddess. They decide to go on to New Orleans, Louisiana, hoping to find her grandmother still alive. To Blythe’s delight, they find her, although she within days of dying. Blythe spends the remainder of her grandmother’s life at her bedside.

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Destiny’s Desire follows the lives of four siblings: Fanchon, Astrid, Bianca, and Nels Sten, as well as Fanchon’s husband Gabriel Freeman and Astrid’s lover Trevor Riley. Fanchon and Gabe are the main characters, but the others play a prominent part in the story, which takes place toward the end of the Civil War and four years later.

After Gabe, passing through Moline, Illinois, on his way to war, saves Fanchon from an assault, they meet so he can teach her to defend herself with a derringer. During their time together, they discover they’re drawn to one another and decide to get married before Gabe goes to war. A realist and very independent, When Gabe tells her that he wants an independent and realistic notions in a wife, Fanchon, who prides herself on both, agrees to his proposal. Fanchon already fell in love and wants nothing more than to marry him. Bianca is Fanchon’s only family member who knows about the marriage and declares it their destiny.

Their happiness is shattered, though, when he must continue to Washington, D.C., to meet up with his men. The man who assaulted Fanchon is still a threat that she can manage. Then tragedy strikes when the man assaults her again, and she loses the baby she is carrying.

Suddenly, their lives change.

Exacting revenge for him killing her child, Fanchon must leave Moline. Meanwhile, Gabe is injured and paralyzed. Taken in by Northern sympathizers in Georgia, Gabe’s broken legs mend, but he frets that Fanchon will only stay with him out of her love of nursing, so he seeks a divorce.

Will Gabe succeed in breaking their marriage? Will he make it back to Fanchon before she can leave town? Will he recover from his injuries? Will they ever resume their destiny?

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Set in the eastern United States in 1800, Sweet Liberty tells the story of Liberty “Libby” Woods.

After her parents are murdered, Libby takes her step-brother Will and half-sister Flossie away from the South Carolina farm where she grew up. She has no desire to remain there and feels they would fair better up somewhere else.

When Flossie is bitten by a rattlesnake, a trapper appears to help her. From then, Nathaniel “Nate” Payne joins them to lead them to North Carolina. On the way, they suffer trials, and the doctor who treated her in South Carolina appears, because he believes he and Libby should marry. Nate and the doctor clash often, irritating Libby.

Despite what she perceives as his arrogance, Libby finds herself drawn to Nate, but it isn’t until they spend the winter in his cabin that she realized how close she’s grown to him. But when he rescues her from the Cherokee who kidnapped her, she realizes that she doesn’t want to be without him.

Upon Nate’s proposal, though, she insists that she will only agree to marry him if he goes home to Philadelphia and reunites with his father, whom he hasn’t seen in over ten years.

Will Nate agree so Libby will marry him? Or will he be unable to follow through on his promise?

An historical romance, Kindred Desires is set in 1870s Wyoming Territory.

A war was brewing in Scottsburg, Wyoming. At least, that was what the letter slipped under the door at the Scottsburg Sentinel newspaper claimed, and at first, editor Scott MacPherson thought it was cattle ranchers against the sheep farmers who were fencing in their lands. This was certainly nothing unusual in the 1870s. Ranchers and sheep farmers simply didn’t get along. Since he’d returned from Boston, he’d had very little to report in this small-town newspaper. If this range war was real, this was the biggest story since he’d taken over the paper from his late grandfather. Then he discovered that this was no range war – it was actually one rancher against his third cousin, Heather Scott. And he was determined to protect her despite his grandmother’s (Prudence Scott) vehement objections.

Heather wanted nothing much to do with Scott; she wanted nothing to do with any man. She didn’t care if they were distant relatives. When her father had brought his five daughters to Wyoming after their mother’s death, he had purchased land with money from that Scott’s grandfather had owed his father. His dream was to raise sheep. From then on, their families had a falling out, and when her father had died, they had even less to do with her. Because her older sister had run away with Scott’s brother-in-law, Prudence had forbidden any contact between their families. When her father had died, they had even less to do with her. So sixteen-year-old Heather had taken over raising her three younger sisters alone. Four years later, the youngest sister died, and Heather’s world fell apart.

The neighboring rancher increased his attacks on her flock, and Heather knew she needed Scott’s help whether she liked it or not. She would just have to keep reminding him that they were related. Unfortunately, her resolve began to melt under his charm and persistence, until she found herself falling in love with Scott. Before she could relent to his proposal for marriage, however, she needed to show her neighbor that he would never take over her business.