Treasures of the Heart A Jewels of the Quill Valentines Day Anthology
AnthologyContemporary romance anthology
Available from Whiskey Creek Press
ISBN: 1-59374-515-X
February 2006
| Karen Wiesner (Dame Amethyst) A Rose for Romeo Dr. Melina Rose decides from one day to the next to give up her counselling practice. The horrors of the last months plage her very psyche and she needs the respite from her patients and their sexual problems. The awful images wont go away once she leaves work for the day, and the situation is now unbearable. A clean split is past due in her life. Severing all ties and returning to the hometown she left many, many years ago, at that time also severing her ties, now she has hope that her future will make a turn for the better. And is she in for a surprise. (A sequel will be in Revenge in Amethyst (Tales from the Treasure Trove, Volume III, 2007)
Nancy Pirri (Dame Sapphire) The Sheriff Takes A Wife Model Summer Sanders arrives back at her apartment to find that her sister Autumn has up and decided to go to Harmon Junction, a small town that had advertised it needed brides for its male population. She takes off to try to catch up with her before it is too late. Her run in with the sexy Sheriff will change her life Julie Skerven (Dame Peridot) Penelopes Problem The brand spanking new Assistant DA of New Orleans has a few extremely pressing problems and decides a housekeeping help is the quickest and surest solution. Making a spontaneous stop at Aunt Penelopes Home Help Agency certainly starts a chain reaction that aids in muddling up his staid boring life. Carrie S. Masek (Dame Topaz) Desert Rose Widow Rose has a full life with her two very young children and the managing of a little store. She feels guilty that she often has little time for her kids just so she can make enough money to give their little family a decent life. If her mother hadnt been close by to help, she wouldnt be able to make this work at all. Having such a life has also left no time for romance, until the one night she meets Jack, and suddenly her thoughts show her that Fate sometimes jumps in when one least expects it. Karen Woods (Special Guest Jewel) Heart of Stone Justice taken almost forty years before by their Pack rebounds when Kate is suddenly harassed, incriminated, and her shop and home burned to the ground. The seriousness of the problem is obvious when the local police chief, also her brother-in-law, contacts her husband and has him return to the town, in order to take care of his mate. Both discover something surprising about the other Barbara Ruffin (Dame Jade) The Sting Of Love Forest Ranger Kelly has been given the job of babysitting sexy actor Zach in his research for an upcoming movie. A careless movement, unfriendly wasps and Zack and Kelly learn something surprising about the other. Michele Bardsley (Dame Obsidian) Heart of Grace Little sister Sophie gets the chance as an Almost Angel to try to match make her still alive brother and sister. In overseeing her brother Cal, she finds the perfect woman is already available, only drawback is that he has just had her served with an eviction notice! (A sequel will be his sister Delphi Malloys AOP in Heart of Obsidian (Tales from the Treasure Trove, Volume II, Coming September 2006) This was a great selection of stories, all quite different from the next and great fun to read. Very enjoyable.
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Reviewer: Glenda K. Bauerle |
