Jeannine D. Van Eperen

"Try to make a fool out of me, will you?" Her red-painted upper lip curled in a sneer as she studied the young man before her. "I bought and paid for you. You'll always be mine. Certainly not hers." She gave a throaty chuckle. "Mine as long as you live." She took a deep breath. "Here's something you'll always remember. My last present to you, darling." She aimed the pistol and pulled the trigger.

"Where's the youngster? Grant asked. "Church," Derek answered. "Between that and St. Benedict's I'll make a priest out of him yet." Priest! The word flung into Devlyn's brain and buried itself there. He could not believe his ears. A priest! I don't want to be a priest. He remembered that St. Benedict's was a seminary as well as a boarding school. He was thunderstruck. A priest, for Pete's sake!

Berlin 1846 Caroline lie in bed listening to the drip drop of rain as it beat against her bedroom window and as it fluttered down from the eaves. It was still dark but soon would be morning and she had yet to fall asleep. Her mind raced remembering Mama and Papa whom she would never see again. She sighed and stifled a sob. If only Papa had not died -- if only Mama had not acted like the little fool she was, I would still be able to call this room...

When Lydia Murley can't sleep and leaves her Chicago hotel room in search of an aspirin, she finds instead a young man bleeding to death in an elevator. Due to her quick thinking, the lad survives, but upon waking from a coma he has no idea who he might be. Detectives Eugene Harlow and Jake Martini, check leads and the youth is identified as Dominick Portelli, but the day they believe part of their job is over, fate hands them a surprise. Also surprising,...

In 1954 Jeffrey Laurance leaves all he has known behind him to embark on a singing career in the United States, fostered by Lila Lubow, a beautiful actress who discovers him in a small fishing village in France and sees his potential. Lila had made a similar trip herself when she left a small town in Austria to find fame and fortune. Will being Lila's protégé bring the young man success and happiness?

Rene Lamour, a libertine, is a premier danseur. He is a favorite of Parisian balletomanes, is loved by his beautiful mistress, prima ballerina Sabine De Vere, and lives a life of comfort with no qualms and no consequences until he seduces a beautiful underage coryphee. Then he is tossed into a maelstrom from which there seems no escape.

During the Great Depression, Rozanne Shaw is forced to leave the Midwest to take a job at a mission school in a remote mountain community. There are some who believe Rose has no business in Rio Encanto or in Josef Dreesen's life, but somehow love finds a way, or does it?

When waiter Miguel glances up from the tray of food he has delivered he sees a beautiful girl sashaying through the fancy dining room wearing low-slung jeans with a ruby winking in her belly-button. He is stunned by her beauty as well as her audacity to enter Casa Rodriquez so inappropriately attired. He marvels at her poise. Trinity holds his gaze while thinking the handsome hunk is just what she is looking for to carry out her private plans. She...