Bøger udgivet af Lori Handeland

What if you could start over--right at the moment where it all went wrong?Twenty-four years ago, Frankie's marriage ended. Now, her ex-husband-Charley Blackwell, a world-famous photojournalist-has walked through the door as if no time has passed. And for him, it hasn't. Illness has stolen his long-term memory.Once upon a time, Frankie and Charley were the perfect couple-utterly, completely, sickeningly in love. They shared a passion for photography, but where Frankie saw the way the world came together, Charley only saw how the world came apart. The cards of fate dealt them a hand that broke their marriage. Yet, Charley is the only man Frankie ever truly loved, and in Charley's mind they are right back in that era of complete marital bliss.But Frankie has moved on to a new life, Charley to a new wife. One he doesn't remember at all. Three people trapped in a collision of love, life, and loss.What do you do when you are forgotten? What do you do if you are the one who is remembered?From the voice of New York Times bestselling author Lori Handeland, this heart-wrenching but ultimately uplifting novel contains the humor, depth of characterization and fast paced plot lines she is known for while showcasing the author's incredible range.

A fun-filled fantasy romp through Elizabethan England . . . It has been said that one man could not possibly have created all the works attributed to William Shakespeare. However, what if Shakespeare was not a man? What if Shakespeare was an immortal vampire? What if the Dark Lady of his sonnets was a zombie hunter? What if they met, fell in love, thwarted evil together . . .

"A contract of true love to celebrate."-The Tempest (Act IV, scene i) However, the course of true love never did run smooth . . . When William Shakespeare, vampire, and his Dark Lady, the zombie hunter Kate Dymond, are stranded on a mystical isle with a fairy, a werewolf and a sorcerer, strange things are afoot even before the zombies arrive. Will and Kate have bigger problems than the undead. Though their love is true and forever, Will's forever and Kate's are not the same. What will happen when she begins to age and he stays forever young? But first to the problems at hand: Can the two lovers band together to fight the zombie infestation? Will they be able to thwart the mad plans of a man who plans to release his zombie army on the shores of England and overthrow their beloved Queen Bess? En garde!

Preventing the Apocalypse, one demon at a time . . . Elizabeth Phoenix, Liz to my friends, just an ex-cop whose psychic abilities got her partner killed. Next thing I know, I'm fighting a supernatural battle against the Nephilim, monsters of Biblical proportion, intent on bringing about doomsday. If only I didn't have to work with the one, the only man I've ever loved, half-vampire Jimmy Sanducci. That relationship did not end well and I haven't forgotten, or forgiven, him yet. With new powers I'm unable to control, I'm forced to beg help from Sawyer, a powerful Navajo shapeshifter, a man who is sex in every form. As we spiral toward Armageddon, I'm caught between two worlds and two men. Will I succeed in saving us all, or will the world as we know it end?

Werewolves? Vampires? Demons? Oh, my! Liz Phoenix here. Just a psychic ex-cop who managed to thwart Doomsday. But the army of demons intent on bringing about the Apocalypse ain't done yet. Neither am I. I may have lost three quarters of my troops in the last battle, but with the backing of a half-vampire, a fairy and a Navajo skin-walker, three of the most powerful beings on earth, I'm in good shape. Or so I thought until the Naye'i showed up. They call her The Woman of Smoke and she's one scary demon. The Naye'i wants me dead. But lately, who doesn't?

As the moon goes dark, secrets come to light . . . The bronze nameplate on my desk reads Dr. Elise Hanover-Virologist. I've made it my mission to cure lycanthropy. My life depends on it. I am a werewolf too. I've been holed up in a secret Montana compound for . . . what year is it? Let's just say it's been a while. But when the compound blows sky high and the biggest, baddest, craziest werewolf of all escapes, I'm thrown together with FBI agent, Nic Franklin. Unfortunately, he's the man whose heart I broke once upon a time, and he hasn't forgotten, or forgiven, me yet. My boss, Edward Mandenauer, is just waiting for a reason to put a silver bullet in my brain and the way things are going, downhill at epic speed, he may have found the perfect excuse. The worst part? I love Nic again, or maybe I love him still, and a weakness like that is certain to get both of us killed.

It's not the end of the world--yet. But it's coming. Liz Phoenix has more to deal with than her dead lover visiting her in her dreams, now she has his shape-shifting baby. As she attempts to make sense of the chaos that is her life, while cheating death at every turn, Liz must call on the help of ex-lover Jimmy Sanducci, who may be the only one she can trust. Fleeing from those who want the baby dead, Liz must find the Book of Samyaza, which might contain the secret to raising the Navajo shaman, Sawyer, from the dead. To defeat the demons bent on bringing down Armageddon, she's going to need all the help she can get.

A storm beneath the Thunder Moon is both rare and powerful. My Cherokee great-grandmother believed that on this night magic happens. She neglected to mention that magic can kill. After a freak thunderstorm, the elderly residents of Lake Bluff, Georgia begin to die. All eyes turn to the sheriff, to me, Grace McDaniel to find out why. Ian Walker, a Cherokee doctor who blends native and traditional medicine, arrives with the Thunder Moon. Ian hides both powerful medicine and a painful past. Despite my mistrust of strangers, of secrecy, of magic I want to trust him. As the creature preying on the town's residents gains strength and begins to kill not just the old but the young and healthy as well, Ian and I join together in a race to find the Cherokee legend become fact, the Raven Mocker. Can we stop this supernatural monster before it kills again?

What do you do when you need a mommy too? Winner of the RITA(R) Award for Long Contemporary Romance! Once upon a time, Tim Luchetti went searching for a daddy and found one in Dean Luchetti. Now it's time for Tim's Mommy Quest and he has the perfect woman picked out: his principal, Stella O'Connell. Unfortunately, Dean and Stella have history . . . a lot of it. Stella left Gainsville, Illinois right after high school, never planning to come back. But an attack at her Los Angeles school has put her on mandatory leave. When the Gainsville Elementary principal is injured, Stella slides into her chair. Why does her problem child have to be Dean's son? In a plot to get Dean and Stella together, Tim misbehaves. He sets his father up on all sorts of terrible dates. The Mommy Quest is in full swing. However, when history rears its ugly head, can Dean and Stella overcome it and find happiness together? Most importantly, can they keep from hurting Tim, who has been hurt enough?

Winner of the RITA(R) Award for Best Paranormal Romance!When darkness falls, another world comes alive . . .The summer I discovered the world was not black-and-white but a host of annoying shades of gray was the summer a lot more changed than my vision.Call me Jessie, or better yet, Officer McQuade. On the night the truth began, our usually shy wolf population near my hometown of Miniwa, Wisconsin attacked. At the scene of the first crime, I found a wolf totem, which lead me to Professor Will Cadotte, an expert in Native American mythology, particularly of his tribe the Ojibwe.From day one, he annoyed me. Tall, dark and gorgeous, he's also funny, smart and nearly as sarcastic as I am. I felt things when I looked at him. I wanted to keep feeling them longer than was healthy for a woman like me. I know what I am. Better off alone.Nevertheless, we began to work together in an attempt to determine what was rotten in Miniwa. We were getting nowhere until the arrival of Edward Mandenauer, a self-proclaimed werewolf hunter.Sure, I laughed and then one of our dead bodies walked out of the morgue. After that . . . things got really strange.Now a rare Blue Moon approaches, making me wonder: Who can I trust when the moon is full?

In the first century, he lived for vengeanceDuring the second, he hungered for bloodBy the third, he yearned for destructionBut eventually . . .All he craved was the moon Gina O'Neil will do anything to keep from losing the family ranch, except allow archeologist, Mateo Mecate, to dig there. Some secrets need to stay buried. Matt believes an ancient Aztec tomb lies beneath Nahua Springs Ranch. As finding it will restore his standing in the archeological community, he travels to Colorado to make his case in person. Gina plans to say no to the moldy, ancient academic, but Matt isn't ancient, and he convinces Gina to agree. Then they awaken something unspeakably evil―a centuries old werewolf with vengeance on its mind. A sorcerer of incredible power. Who will survive the battle to come?

Legends never die . . . When her cable television show, Hoax Hunters, is canceled, Kristin Daniels is determined to turn things around. Wouldn't debunking the biggest myth of them all be just the thing to get her TV show back on the air? With that in mind, Kris sets off for Scotland to take on Nessie. On the shores of Loch Ness she meets mysterious and sexy Liam Grant, a caretaker of the loch. Their attraction is instantaneous. Then women start dying and it's looking like Nessie, benign for so long, might be changing her ways. As Kris, with the help of Liam, investigates both the killer and the monster, ancient mysteries come to light. It isn't long before the professional skeptic begins to suspect that this time the hoax is actually the truth. But as the killer sets his sights on Kris, she wonders: Will she take that secret to the grave?

Forbidden love? Simply irresistible . . . Lake Bluff, Georgia, in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, was once my home. But when the bright lights of Atlanta beckoned, Claire Kennedy had to answer. I'd dreamed of working in a newsroom, like my mother, for far too long. My father's sudden death brings me back. Definitely older, I thought I was a lot wiser. So how did I ended up finishing out my father's term as mayor? A band of Gypsies arrives to entertain at our Full Moon Festival, driving wagons as old and colorful as their ancestors, filled with animals both exotic and dangerous. They appear to have walked out of a bygone century. Their leader, Malachi Cartwright is not only attractive but secretive and mysterious.>Then all hell breaks loose. Wolf howls are heard in mountains that have been wolf-free for a century. A tourist is mauled, then disappears. Magical runes marked with Nazi symbols are found at the scenes of further attacks. As an eclipse approaches, enemies are everywhere. Is Malachi one of them?

What happens when G.I. Joe meets Jane of the Jungle? Winner of the Romantic Times Award for Best Harlequin Superromance! Upon discovering the woman he loves has married his brother, Bobby Luchetti, a U.S. Special Forces officer, accepts a mission deep into the heart of Mexico to rescue a kidnapped American. Dr. Jane Harker practices medicine in places no one else will go. When the super soldier shows up to rescue her, she points out that she doesn't need rescuing. She hasn't been kidnapped. Then someone tries to kill her. Now on the run, dragging along Lucky, Jane's one-eyed rescue mutt, they attempt to stay one step ahead of whoever has it in for Jane as they fight their growing attraction. But does this relationship stand a chance? Because getting through this alive is only the beginning . . .

Originally published: New York: Harlequin, 2004.

"Bobby Luchetti has been missing for quite some time when Colin receives a short message that makes no sense. Off he goes to Wind Lake, Minnesota to get to the bottom of things. He finds no answers when he arrives, but he does find a surprise."--Publisher's description.

Leaving Las Vegas . . .Upon discovering the father she's been told was dead is, in fact, alive, thirteen-year-old Rayne Houston runs away, taking along her new friend, the Timinator. They hop a bus to Illinois and so begins their daddy quest.Nicole Houston is frantic when she discovers Rayne is missing. Her lies have come back to haunt her, but when she told them she believed she was doing the right thing for everyone. She never wanted her daughter to know she was the product of a single night between a stripper and a man bound for the priesthood. Sure, Nicole had believed it was love, but Aaron loved only God.Tortured by his failings, Aaron Luchetti never became a priest. He never got over his time in Las Vegas; he never got over Nicole. From the moment she steps back into his life, Aaron awakens. Everything about Nicole enthralls him. Everything about his daughter enchants him. He wants them to be a family. But is it too late?

The secret they've kept can either bring them together or tear them apart . . . Youngest sibling and only sister, Kim Luchetti comes home to Illinois following her father's heart attack. Eight years ago she vowed never to return, believing only distance would allow her to forget the tragedy that broke her heart. But returning means she must face Brian Riley, her first love and the only one who knows her secret. Despite Brian's hurt and anger over Kim's abandoning him when he needed her the most, Brian has never stopped loving her. When she appears at his farm, surprise causes him to tumble off the barn roof and break both his wrists. Kim's guilt makes her agree to move in and help until he's healed. But Kim never wanted to be a farmer's wife and her lack of skills produces daily hilarious disasters. Laughing together, living together forces Kim and Brian to face the past and their unresolved feelings. Will talking about what happened help them heal? Or will the memories of their heartbreak keep them from their second chance?

Beneath a hunter's moon blood turns from crimson to black . . .Once upon a time they called me Ms. Tyler, Leigh to my friends. I was a kindergarten teacher who dreamed of love, children and that cliché picket fence. Then my worst mistake came back and brutally took away everything I ever loved.Mistakes . . . they can haunt you. Until you make them stop.I became a hunter, a Jager-Sucher. Specialty: Werewolves. My starry-eyed dreams might be dead, but that doesn't mean everyone else's has to be. But now there's a bigger, badder beast in town and it's doing my work for me.Distractions can be deadly and Damien Fitzgerald, a drifter with a questionable past is the ultimate distraction. When I gave up love, I gave up sex. Damien makes me wonder if maybe, just maybe, that was a mistake. However people who hang around me too long wind up dead, and I can't live with any more souls on my conscience.In the end, the only way to save anyone, including myself, is to come face-to-face with my past. But am I strong enough to triumph over an evil no one else has ever vanquished before?

In the RITA(R) nominated Marked by the Moon, Alaska has never been so dangerous. Alexandra Trevalyn was once a member of an elite force of werewolf hunters, but these days she's going rogue, determined to rid the world of the crazed killers, specifically the one that killed her parents. Once a Viking, now a werewolf, Julian Barlow has been hunting Alex since she killed his gentle wife. His plans of vengeance are downright devious. To make Alex understand, up close and personal, that not all werewolves are evil, killing machines, he makes Alex a werewolf too. It's only a matter of time before she succumbs to the freedom of the wolf that runs through her veins, if she doesn't succumb to the temptation of Julian first. At his magical village above the Arctic Circle a rogue werewolf kills the innocent. Can Julian and Alex work together to save the rest of the pack? Or will they just tear each other apart?