DOUBLE CROSS BY TERRI REED

BATTLE FOR HER BIRTH RIGHT THE STRUGGLING ORCHID FARM ON THE LUSH ISLAND OF MAUI IS KIKI BRILL'S PRIDE AND JOY AND SHE'S NOT ABOUT TO LOSE IT NO MATTER HOW MUCH MONEY RYAN MCCLAIN IS OFFERING FOR HER FAMILY'S LAND BUT IT'S BECOMING CLER THAT THE ACCIDENT THREATING HER PEACEFUL LIFE ARE REALLY ACTS OF SABOTAGE THE WEALTHY HANDSOME BUSINESSMAN ONCE THE PRIME SUSPECT IS BEGINNING TO SEEM LIKE HER LAST HOPE NOW IF ONLY SHE CAN BRING HERSELF TO TRUST HIM WITH ER HO,E HER HERITAGE AND HER HEART

MIA MISSING IN ALATANA BY DEBBI GIUSTI

HIS GIRLFRIEND HAD VANISHED GRANTED HE HADN'T KNOWN HER LONG BUT RETURNING WAR HERO JUDE WALKER EXPECTED TO EVENTUALLY MARRY THE WOMAN HE'D MET DURING HIS LAST LEAVE NOT FIND HER MISSING OR LEARN THAT HER LAST KNOWN ADDRESS WS A HOMELESS SHELTER IN A DANGEROUS PART OF THE CITY THE SHELTER'S TEMPOARY DIRECTOR SARAH MONTOGEMERY DIDN'T KNOW JUDE'S FRIEND BUT SHE KNEW THE STREETS KNEW THE DANGERS FROM DRUGS AND PROSTOTUTION TO THE MOST COLD BLOODED OF CRIMNALS RIGHT OUTSDIE HER DOOR KNEW TJAT THE HANDSOME BRAVE CAPTAIN WAS IN FOR HEARTACHE AND THAT FALLING IN LOVE WITH HIM WAS HERRISKIEST MOVE YET

DOUBLE JEOPARDYBY TERRI REED

EYEWITNESS IN JEOPARDY WITNESS TO A BRUTAL MURDER ANNE JONES BRAVELY AGREES TO TESTIFY SHE IS GIVEN A NEW NAME A NEW HISTORY AND IS ADVISED NOT TO GET TOO CLOSE TO ANYONE BUT SHE DOES WITH GOOD REASON SOMEHOW HER IDENTY HAS BEEN COMPROMISED SOMEONE KNOWS WHO AND WHERE SHE IS ANNE'S HANDSOME BOSS PATRICK MCCLAIN IS HIMSELF A WITNES TO THE SCARE TACTIS BEING USED AGAINST HER AND VOWS TO KEEP HER SAFE YET SHE WILL HAVE TO DISSAPPEAR ALL OVER AGAIN LST SHE PUT THEIR LIVES IN JEOPARDY

DOUBLE THREAT AT CHRISTMAS BY TERRI REED

I DIDN'T KILL THOSE MEN ACCORDING TO POLICE MEGAN MCCLAIN HAD THE MOTIVE MEANS AND OPPORTUNITY TO COMMIT A DOUBLE MURDER UNLESS SHE CAN PROVE HER INNOCENCE SHE'LL SPEND CHRISTMAS IN JAIL IS SOMEONE TRYING TO FRAME HER WHO SHE STARTS NOSING AROUND AND UNCOVER NOT ONE BUT TWO UNLIKELY SUSPECTS THE DETECTIVE WORKING THE CASE DOESN'T APPRECIATED MEGAN DOING HIS JOB FOR HIM AND THE MORE PAL WALLACE INVESTIGATES THE GUILTIER MEGAN LOOKS THAT'S BECAUSE SHE IS HIDING SOMETHING SOMETHING THAT SCARES HER MORE THAN HER FEELINGS FOR THE HANDSOME COP

COUNTDOWN TO DEATH BY DEBBY GIUSTI

MEDICAL MYSTERY OR MURDER HOW DID FIVE PEOPLE FORM SMALL GEROGIA TOWN CONTACAT A RARE DEDLY DISEASE MEDICAL RESEARCHER ALLISON STEWART HAS TO WORK AGAINST THE CLOCK TO FIND OUT YET BEFORE SHE CAN ASK ONE QUESTION SOMEONE TRIES TO KILL HER A HANDSOME RECLUSE WHO IS SHROUDED IN SUSPICION SAVES HER MANY BELEVE LUKE GARISON IS GUILTY IF A DECADE ILD MURDER WITH TIES TO ALLISON'S CSE ALLISON DARES TO WORK CLOSELY WITH LUKE BE IS SHE SETTING HERSELF UP TO BECOME VICTIM NUMBER SIX

CHASING SHADOW BY TERRI REED

NOW YOU SEE THEM NOW YOU DON'T WHEN SENIOR CITENS START MYSTERIOUSLY DISSAPPERING FROM A BOSTON RETIREMENT OME HEIRESS KRISTINA WORTHINGTON IS SUSPICIOUS ESPECIALLY SINCE SHE FEARS HER BELOVED GRANDMOTHER IS NEXT WITHOUT SOLID EVIDENCE SHE'S FORCED TO TURN TO THE ONE POLICE OFFICER WHO MIGHT LISTEN HER FORMER LOVE GABE BURKE NOW A SEASONED COP GBE STILL SEES HER AS THE RICH GIRL WHOSE FAMILY THOUGHT HE WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH AND THOUGH HE TAKES ON THE CASE GABE SEEMS SEEMS CONVINCE HE'S CHASING SHADOWS UNTILL THEY UNTIL TEHY START DODGING THREATS BULLETS AND THEIR OWN REKINDLED FEELINGS

FINAL WARNING BY SANDRA ROBBINS

LET'S PLAY A GAME ONE EMAIL AND RADIO SHOW HOST CJ TANNER BECOMES A PAWN IN A MADMAN'S GAME ONLY BY SOLVING HIS RIDDLES CAN SHE STOPPED THE MURDERS AND ONLY MITCH HARMON HER EX FIANCE CAN HELP HER PUT AN END TO THE KILLER'S PLAN MITCH KNOWS HE HAS TO DISCOVERED THE KILLER'S TRUE IDENTITY OTHERWISE HE MAN'S OBSESSION WITH CJ WILL HAVING HER FOLLOWING STEPS TO BECOME HIS FINAL VICTIM MITCH WON'T ALLOW ANYONE TO HARM THE WOMAN HE LET SLIP AWAY HE'LL KEEP HER SFE EVEN IF HE HAS TO PUT HIS OWN LIFE ON THE LINE

TAKING CARLY BRADFORD BY RAMONA RICHARDS

A CLUE IN THE WOODS A BLUE SUNDRESS AND WHITE SANDALS THAT' WHAT SEVEN YEAR OLD CARLY BRADFOD WAS WEARING RIGHT BEFORE SHE DISSAPEAR THREE MONTHS LATER DEE KELLY SPOTS THE SANDALS IN THE WOODS AND KNOWS SHE'S UNCOVERED EVIDENCE DEE LOST HER HUSBAND AND CHILD SHE WON'T LET A MOTHER SUFFER AS SHE DID SHE WILL HELP POLICE CHIEF TYLER MADISON FIND CARLY WHETHER HE WANTS HER ASSITANCE OR NOT BT TYLER ISN'T THE ONL ONDETERMINED TI KEEP DEE OFF THE CASE AND EVIDENCE ISN'T ALL SHE'LL FIND IN THE WOODS
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THANKYOU MOM AND DAD AND SISTERS AND FRIENDS AND FAMILY

I JUST WANT TO THANKS MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS THAT HELP ME THROUGH THIS IC IT IS PAIINFUL AND STRESS FULL THIS DISEASE DOES NOT HAVE A CURE IMAGINE YOU AHVE TO GO TO A DOCTOR AND HAVE TO HAVE A FULL BLADDER AND IMAGINE NOT BEING ABLE TO EMPTY IT JUST A LITTLE AND YOU GO TO THE BATHROOM ABOUT 50 80 TIMES A DAY AND SOMETIME IT KEEPS YOU AWAKE AT NIGHT SO I AM ASKING PEOPLE TO PRAY THAT IC WILL BE ABLE TO GET A CURE CAUSE IT DOES NOT HAVE ONE YET AND I AM SO LUCKY AND I THANK GOD FOR HELPING ME GET A DIAGNOS AND A GOOD DOCTORS AND NURSES THAT HAVE HELP ME ON THE WAY PEOPLE WHO HAVE THIS DISEASE CAN't EAT MUCH OF ANYTHIN THAT HAS CITRIUS ACID AND TOMOTOES AND CHOCOLATE AND AND EGGS AND ONIONS THIS IS A HORRIBLE DISEASE FOR ANYBODY TO HAVE AND I ALSO A CARDIVASCOULOR OF THE AUROTA AND ASPERERGER'S SYNDROME AND 18 P- AND SOME TIMES THE DOCTOR DON'T BELIEVE THEIR PATIENTS

CHILD OF MINE BONNIE K WINN

IT WAS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT WHEN MATT WHITAKER OPENED HIS DOOR TO SEE A BABY IN HIS BROTHER'S ARM MATT'S NEPHEW DANNY ABANDONED BY HIS HEARTLESS HIGH SOCIETY MOTHER AND THEN DANNY'S FATHER WAS KILLED IN AN ACCIDENT AND MATT AND ILL PREPARED BACHELOR VOWED BEFORE GOD TO LOVE AND PROTECT THIS CHILD AS HIS OWN DANNY'S MOTHER LEAH HUNTER HAD BEEN DESPERATELY SEARCHING FOR HER BABY FOR EIGHT YEARS EVER SINCE HIS FATHER SNATCHED HIM AT LAST A CLUE LEADS HER TO THE SMALL TOWN OF ROSEWOOD TEXAS AND HER SON'S GUARDIAN

ONCE UPON A FAMILY BY MARGARET DALEY

AS THE LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL PETER STONE KNEW TROUBLE STUDENT SEAN WILLIAMS NEEDED HIS EXPERT ASSISTANCE AND AS A CHRISTIAN PETER KNEW GOD WAS LEADING HIM TO HELP YET IT WAS THE BOY'S MOTHER WHO CAPTURED PETER'S NOTICE LAURA WIDOW CARING FOR HER FOUR CHILDREN AND AILING AUNT HAD NO TIME FOR ROMANCE OR RELIGION SOMEHOW DESPITE HER PROTESTS LAURA FOUND HERSELF AND HER BROOD FREQUENT VISITOR O TO PETER'S RANCH AND THE CHURCH HE ATTENDED SOON IT SEEMED HER FAMILY WAS MEANT TO COMPLETE PETER'S LIFE

SNOWBOUND IN DRY CRY CREEK BY JANET TRONSTAD

RODEO CHAMPION ZACH LIGHTING LUCAS GRUMPILY AGREES TO A CHRISTMAS EVE DEAL PUT ON A SANTA SUIT AND DELIEVER GIFTS TO A WIDOWED MOTHER THAT DONE HE CAN FINALLY LEAVE DRY CREEK MONTANA IN HIS DUST WELL EXCEPT FOR THE SMALL STOWAWAY IN HIS TRUCK JENNY'S COLLINS GRIEF STRICKEN LITTLE DAUGHTER LIKE ZACH THE GIRL DOESN'T BELIEVE IN MUCH OF ANYTHING ANY MORE HE BRINGS HER HOME JUST IN TIME FOR A BLIZZARD TO STRAND HIM IN LOVELY JENNY'S BARN WHERE HE UNEXPECTEDLY HELPS A FAMILY ABD HIMSELF FIND THE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS

TEXAS RANGER DAD BY DEBRA CLOPTON

EVERYONE IN MULL HOLLOW CAN SEE THE RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN FORMER TEXAS RANGER ZANE CANTRELL AND ROSE VINCENT SON THE SAME GOLD FLECKED AMBER EYES THE SAME SMILE NOT THAT ZANE IS SMILING HE'S IN SHOCK HOW COULD ROSE HAVE KEPT HAVE KEPT THEIR CHILD A SECRET FROM HIM ROSE REMINDS ZANE THAT HE'S THE ONE THAT WALKED AWAY HE HAS TO MAKE HER TO SEE HE HAD NO CHOICE BUT ROSE IS AS PRICKLY AS THE CATCUS JELLY SHE MAKES AND THAT'S WHERE THEIR HOPEFUL SON AND THE MULE HOLLOW MATCHMAKERS COME MARCHING IN

A SOIDER'S REUNION BY CHERYL WYATT READING

DESPITE THE A DECADE APART THIS ISN'T THE REUNION MANDY MANCHESTER EXCEPETED SHE THOUGHT SHE'D PUT HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEART NOLAN BRIGGS BEHIND HER NOW HE'S BACK AND THE PARARESCUE JUMPER LITTERALLY SWEEPS HER OFF HER FEET HE'S READY AND WILLING TO REKINDLE WHAT THEY ONCE SHARE MANDY THOUGH ISNT PREPARED TO PUT HER HEART AT RISK HE LEFT HER BEFORE SHE WON'T TRUST HIM AGAIN CAN NOLAN TEACH THIS GROUNDED GIRL TO TAKE A LEAP OF FAITH

JOKES

1. WHAT DO YOU CALL A COW THAT HAS JUST GIVEN BIRTH
DECAFINATED

2 WHAT DO YOU CALL A SLEEPING BULL
A BULL DOZER

3 WHAT DO YOU GET FROM A PAMPERED COW
SPOILED MILK

4 WHAT HAPPENED TO THE COW THAT SURIVED THE EARTHQUAKE
SHE BECAME A MILKSHAKE

5 CITY SLICKER WHAT'S THE NAME OF THIS RANCH RANCHER WHY IT'S THE DOUBLE D CROOKED T BAR CIRCLE M CITY SLICKER IT'S KIND OF HARD TO REMEMBER ALL THAT ISN'T IT RANCHER I S'POSE SO CITY SLICKER SO WHERE ARE ALL THE COWS RANCHER CAN'T KEEP ANY ONE LOOK AT THAT BRANDING IRON AND THEY'RE GONE

6 WHAT IS THE COW'S FAVORITE FORM OF ENTERTAINMENT
THE MOOVIES

7 WHY DO COWS WEAR BELLS
BECAUSE THEIR HORNS DON'T WOR

8 A STRANGER FRANTICALLY RAN UP TO A FARM HOUSE DOOR HE POUNDED HIS FIST AND WHEN THE FARMER CAME TO THE DOOR THE MAN DEMANDED WHERE'S THE NEAREST RAILROAD STATION AND WHAT TIME IS THE NEXT TRAIN INTO THE CITY THE FARMER THOUGHT FOR A MINUTE CUT THROUGH MY BACK HAYFIELD AND YOU OUGHT TO REACH THE CROSS ROADS STATION IN TIME FOR THE 5 40 BUT IF MY BULL SPOTS YOU I EXPECT YOU'LL MAKE THE 515

9 WHAT DO YOU CALL A COW WITH A TWITCH
BEEF JERKY

JOKES

1. TWO FARMERS MEET ON A DUSTY COUNTRY ROAD ONE OF THE IS CARRYING A BAG LABELED CHICKEN CHICKEN HUH SAYS ONE FARMER HOW 'BOUT THIS IF I GUESS HOW MANY CHICKENS YOU GOT WILL YOU GIVE ME ONE OF THEM HEY SAYS THE GUY WITH THE BAG IF YOU GUESS RIGHT I'LL GIVE YOU BOTH OF 'EM THE OTHER SCRATCHES HIS HEAD AND GUESSES UM FOUR

2 WHY DID THE ROMAN CHCKEN CROSS THE ROAD
BECAUSE SHE WAS AFRAID SOMEONE WOULD CAESAR

3 WHAT GOES PECK BANG PECK BANG PECK BANG
A BUNCH OF CHICKENS IN A FIELD OF BALLOONS

4 WHAT DO YOU GET IF YOU FEED GUN POWDER TO A CHICKEN
AN EGGSPLOSION

5 WHY DID THE COWS FAIL THE TEST
THEY COPIED OFF EACH UDDER

6 A CITY MAN NAMED SMITH WAS DRIVING THROUGH THE COUNTRY SIDE WHEN HIS CAR SUDDENLY SPUTTERED AND COASTED TO A STOP I HAVE PLENTY OF GAS HE THOUGHT SO IT MUST BE THE ENGINE HE LIFTED THE HOOD UP AND TINKERED WITH THIS AND THAT BUT COULDN'T FIGURE OUT THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM THE TROUBLE IS WITH THE CARBURETOR A DEEP VOICE BEHIND HIM SAID BUT WHEN HE TURNED ALL HE COULD SEE WAS A BULL DID UM DID YOU SAY SOMETHING SMITH ASKED YES THE BULL REPLIED I SAID THE TROUBLE IS WITH THE CARBURETOR THEN HE WALKED TOWARD THE CAR AND PEERED UNDER THE HOOD MEANWHILE THE MAN TOOK OFF LIKE A SHOT FOR A FARMHOUSE DOWN THE ROAD WHERE HE TOLD THE FARMER WHAT HAD HAPPENED IS THIS A BIG BULL WITH FLOPPY RIGHT EAR THE FARMER ASK YES THAT'S THE ONE WELL I WOULDN'T PAY MUCH ATTENTION TO HIM IF I WERE YOU THE FARMER SAID THAT BULL HE DOESEN'T KNOW AS MUCH ABOUT AS CARS AS HE THINKS HE DOES

7 HOW DID THE FARMER'S WIFE KEEP TRACK OF THEIR FARM'S STEER POPULATION
SHE USE CATTLE LOGS

8 WHAT DO YOU CALL CATTLE WITH A SENSE OF HUMOR
LAUGHING STOCK

9 WHAT DO YOU CALL A COW THAT EATS GRASS
LAWN MOOER

10 WHAT DO YOU CALL A CALF AFTER IT'S ONE YEAR'S OLD
TWO YEARS OLD

JOKES

1. SEVERAL SCIENTIST DESIGN A GUN SPECIFICALLY TO LAUNCH DEAD CHICKEN AT THE WIND WINDSHIELDS OF AIRPLANES AND MILITARY JETS TRAVELING AT MAXIUM VELOCITY THE IDEA IS TO STIMULATE THE FREQUENT INCINDENTS OF COLLISIONS WITH AIRBORN FOWL TO TEST THE THE STRENGTH OF THE WINDSHIELDS SOME ENGINEERS HEARD ABOUT THE GUN AND WERE EAGER TO TEST IT ON THE WINDSHIELDS OF THE HIGH SPEED TRAIN ARRANGEMENTS WERE MADE AND A GUN WAS SENT TO THE ENGINEERS WHEN THE GUN WAS FIRED THE ENGINEERS STOOD AMAZED AS THE CHICKEN HURTLED OUT OF THE BARREL CARSHED INTO THE SHATTER PROOF SHIELD SMASHED IT INTO PIECES TORE THROUGH THE CONTROL PANEL SNAPPED THE PILOT'S BACK SEAT IN TWO AND EMBEDDED ITSELF IN THE BACK WALL OF THE CABIN THE DISMAYED ENGINEERS SENT THE SCIENTISTS THE CASATROPHIC RESULTS OF THE EXPERIMENT ALONG WITH THE DESIGNS FOR THE WINDSHIELDS AND BEGGED THE SCIENTIST FOR SUGGESTIONS THE ENGINEERS SOON RECEIVED A ONE LINE MEMO IN RESPONSE FIRST THAW THE CHICKEN

2 A CITY MAN TIRED OF THE RAT RACE DECIDED TO GIVE UP THE CITY LIFE MOVE TO THE COUNTRY AND BECOME A CHICKEN FARMER HE PURCHASED A NICE USED CHICKEN FARM HE SOON DISCOVERED THAT HIS NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR WAS ALSO A CHICKEN FARMER THE NEIGBOR CAME TO VISIT ONE DAY AND OFFERED CHICKEN FARMING ISN'T EASY TO HELP YPU GET STARTED I'D LIKE TO GIVE YOU ONE HUNDRED CHCIKENS THE NEW CHICKEN FARMER WAS ELATED THREE WEEKS LATER THE NEW NEIGHBOR STOPPED BY TO SEE HOW THINGS WERE GOING THE NEW FARMER SAID NOT VERY WELL ALL OHE HUNDRED CHICKEN DIED THE NEIGBOR ASTONISHED SAID OH I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT I 'VE NEVER HAD ANY TROUBLE WITH MY CHICKENS I'LL GIVE YOU ONE HUNDRED MORE ANOTHER THREE WEEKS WENT BY AND THE NEIGHBOR STOPPED IN AGAIN THE NEW FARMER SAID YOU WON'T BELEIVE IT BUT THE SECOND ONE HUNDRED CHICKENS DIED TOO ASTOUNDED THE NEIGHBOR ASKED WHAT DID YOU DO TO THEM WHAT WENT WRONG WELL SAID THE NEW FARMER I'M NOT SURE QUITE SURE BUT I THINK MAYBE I'M NOT PLANTING THEM FAR ENOUGH APART