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"After a devastating flood orphaned Noelle Brown, she thought her handsome and charming benefactor, Andrew Paige, could be the man of her dreams. So why did his steely-eyed older stepbrother, Jared Dunn, make her heart race and her breath catch in her throat? Desperado turned lawman, Jared had come home to Fort Worth, Texas, ready to leave his dangerous past behind. The green-eyed, feisty young woman his stepbrother had taken in wasn't the gold digger...

The job was to drive a herd of bullocks across Texas to New Mexico for agistment. For Dan Killoe, it is an opportunity to prove himself to his father. Dan is joined by Tap Henry, a top gunman. As the tale evolves Dan and Tap enter into a serious drama of guns, betrayal and honour.

Disgraced after a split-second decision nearly kills his marine captain, Iraq war veteran John Houck struggles to redeem himself in his captain's eyes and stumbles on a horrifying murder scene that wrongfully implicates the captain's partner.

When Kujiranami escapes from prison and goes on a rampage with a frightening new weapon, only Yahiko has the courage to face the giant. Fearing that this could be his ward's greatest, and last, battle, Kenshin must quickly come to his aid.

Haunted as he is by his past sins, committed when he was a government-sactioned killer, Kenshin is finding it hard to escape the shadow of his past and fight for the here and now.

When a possible weakness in Shishio's body reveals itself to Kenshin when he is nearly out of strength, Kenshin wonders if he should just give up and let history decide who was right and who was wrong.

When Captain Shang is mortally wounded by Shan Yu in battle, Mulan must travel to the Underworld, Diyu, in order to save him from certain death. But King Yama, the ruler of Diyu, is not willing to give Shang up easily.

Although he is now one of the good guys, Kenshin is still haunted by the events in Kyoto, where, as Hitokiri Batt�osai, he once made the streets flow with blood. He wonders, if a scar remains as long as strong feelings are attached to a wound, where did the cross-shaped scar on his face come from?

Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother's head. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer, he left Chicago, but kept up his nightwork. He cannot afford to attract attention or get attached. Still, he can't help letting his guard down when he meets Miranda Emerson. But the powerful bond between them cannot last, because not all thieves follow Harry's code of honor. After Harry takes a lucrative job commissioned...