Bøger af Ramona Forrest

The last thing she needs is another man she can't afford to trust... When Cherry Bender discovers her father's been fatally wounded, she vows to find his killer and stop the constant trouble on her ranch. Very short-handed, but unsure who to believe, she reluctantly hires a tall, gray-eyed stranger who comes to the ranch with the news that her uncle has also been murdered. He only wanted information...until he met her. John Carmona didn't come to the Bender ranch looking for work, but to find out who was illegally mining a rare mineral from the nearby hills. But one look at Cherry and John's plans change drastically. Determined to save her ranch from the forces working against her, he must fight not only Cherry's suspicions of him, but also the evil assassin sent to kill them both. Can John win Cherry's trust in time or will he die trying to save her life?

She's at it again-just can't seem to stop... Widowed R.N. Martha Chance's futile attempts to rid the world of sexual predators takes her into the realm of terrifying, sadistic criminals, where she uncovers corrupt but powerful city officials who condone sexual crimes against defenseless children and don't appreciate Martha's interference. On behalf of the tiny dark-eyed and dreadfully abused little girl in the hospital where Martha works, the desperately lonely teenage girls who frequent online chat rooms and are prime targets for unscrupulous men, and the friend and fellow R.N. suffering horrific domestic abuse, Martha and her alternate personality Serena seek not only to avenge the abuse but to make sure it will not be repeated. Unfortunately, her thirst for vengeance makes Martha a target of men who will do anything to keep their evil deeds a secret-and unleashes upon her a man who plots her death to satisfy his own fiendish soul.

She believes she's made a good marriage-but she never experiences the happiness and joy she'd expected... Her harsh, forbidding husband makes Amanda Bradshaw feel more like a brood mare than a wife, and she never experiences the happiness or joy she expected. Though she's nine-months pregnant with her second child, he orders her to have a boy this time and leaves to go on a cattle-buying trip. Her labor begins, her small daughter is in danger, and Amanda prays desperately for help. When a dusty, trail-worn stranger rides up, she sees the kindness in his eyes and faces the fact that he's all she has. But will he stay to help? He's an escaped convict-and her only hope... Reed Twining spent several years playing cowboy until wrongly convicted of murder and sent to Yuma Prison. In 1893, he escapes and heads north to safety, until he finds a dying man who begs him to tell his wife he was robbed and murdered. A man who is honor bound to do the right thing, Reed rides in to find Amanda in trouble. Many men would turn and run-but not Reed. Still, when Amanda finds out who and what he is, will she order him to go?

Hannah Carlson refusing the marital choices in Iowa goes west to marry a rancher, Jacob Moore. Her girlish dreams are cruelly dashed when her new husband becomes a raging fiend. He physically and mentally abuses her until that fateful night, knowing he will kill her and her newborn baby she strikes a terrible blow against him and flees into the night. Nearly dead from her injuries, she finds the cabin of a lonely surveyor, Brice Fowler. He tends her wounds, takes care of her, and finds her a safe place on the Bidwell Ranch caring for his ailing wife. He falls deeply in love with Hannah and wants to marry, but she now fears intimacy. After she is arrested and sentenced to hang for murder, Brice desperately combs the Navajo Nation for the only witness whose testimony could save her life. Can his love save her and their life together?

No Way to Lose At a 'fat' convention in Tahiti, a criminal action during a storm at sea leaves Jamie Moran stranded on a deserted island with Mick, a craven, yet devilishly handsome drug smuggler she'd pulled from the raging seas. Fearful of being alone in a terrifying place, she tends his injuries, while he teaches her far more than mere survival. Joined by two others, they work to stay alive, while Jamie fights a hopeless sexual attraction to this secretive man of mystery. Waiting for rescue that never comes, they become slender and healthy. Facing a devastating typhoon, death dealing smugglers, and dangerous wild animals, they are drawn into love with dire consequences. Rescued by a US Navy Cruiser, they learn their new sizes and enjoy a glorious shipboard wedding. The trial in Tahiti leaves Jamie alone and Mick hauled away in chains to spend long years in a tropical prison. Had he made a promise he couldn't keep?

She thinks she's going crazy-the rest of the world thinks she's a hero... After her grandson, Will, is molested and the predator released on a technicality, Martha Lavery, a practicing R. N., notices a great increase in anger, lost time periods, and things in her possession that she would never buy. Terrified she is losing her mind, she seeks the care of a psychiatrist. Add to that, unsolicited notice from a handsome, older, male nurse who sees her distress and wants to help and her life rapidly becomes a hopeless, dilemma. Can she handle what is happening, and save her sanity, while being forced to face a vile, horrendous secret, about her own childhood?

He makes her feel safe-when he isn't accusing her of murder... Hettie Jamison lost her husband in 1892 and now, two years later, her ranch hand has been murdered and her cattle are being rustled. When the sheriff of Flagstaff, Arizona, Jake La Force, comes to investigate, Hettie's foreman hints at her guilt and Jake interrogates her. Hurt and angry, Hettie tries to deny the attraction between them and orders Jake off her property. But he won't stay away, using every excuse to come back and continue his assault on her heart. He's determined to make her love him-but she's putting up one hell of a fight... A tough, no-nonsense lawman, Jake is surprised to find himself falling deeply in love after just one look into Hettie's fiery, golden eyes. While trying to solve the murder and rustling on her ranch, he must deal with suspicion, jealousy, and horse theft-not to mention a troubled young girl who'll stop at nothing to have Jake for herself. Jake knows he must overcome nearly insurmountable odds to claim Hettie for his own...he also knows this feisty and fiercely independent widow just might be the death of him.

She's left with nothing and has no means of survival... In the Depression-plagued rural Wisconsin of 1932, Annalee Lines loses her husband to an accident and her home to a fire within a few short months of each other. The abusive husband she can do without, but with her home and possessions totally destroyed, Annalee and her two children are now destitute. She'd been supporting her family by caring for the daughter of a widowed engineer, but with no home of her own, she can't even do that. With memories of her brutal marriage fresh in her mind, Annalee vows never to tie herself to another man-but unless she wants to live with her sour-faced, forbidding parents, she may have no choice. He offers everything...but at what cost? Widowed engineer Jack Harrison mourns the loss of his beloved wife. Left with a small daughter, Sissy, Jack turns to Annalee for daycare while he works. Since he's not interested in remarrying, the arrangement is perfect-until Annalee's house burns down and she's left with no option but to move in with her parents. If she does that, she'll no longer be around. He's unwilling to leave Sissy with anyone else but Annalee won't risk her reputation by being a live-in babysitter, so Jack comes up with a plan: they'll get married, Annalee and her children will move into Jack's house, Annalee will take care of Sissy, and Jack will provide everything she and her children need. Annalee reluctantly agrees, after extracting a promise from Jack that this will be strictly a business arrangement, with no intimacy required or expected. Everything goes according to plan-until Jack kisses her at the altar. Now Jack no longer wants to keep his promise and Annalee is terrified. Her first husband was cruel, and Annalee doesn't care for intimacy...but how long can she keep her new husband at arm's length?