Silver Surrender--Jarrett Family Sagas--Book Two

by Vivian Vaughan

  Brett Reall, on the run from a murder he did not commit, is back in the bayous of Louisiana after a decade, disguised and on the lookout for bounty hunters and the law. His enemies could be anywhere, but after boarding the Mississippi Princess and seeing Delta, he has a new fear: pulling this beautiful woman into harms’ way.

  Delta can sense the danger that surrounds Brett, but her vivid dreams and growing love for this real-life pirate draw her closer and closer to him, and to disaster.

  Secret Surrender

  The year is 1879, and Molly Durant has fallen on hard times. When her mother died, Molly was left with a dilapidated boarding house and five siblings, all of whom she was determined to keep together. But with no boarders, thieves stealing her family’s timber, and her banker fiancé set on sending her siblings to foster homes, fate seems against her. Then Molly gets an unexpected knock on her door.

  There, standing before her, is the man to whom she once foolishly gave her body, the same man who abandoned her: Rubal Jarrett. Or someone who looks like him? The man claims to be Jubal, twin brother of Molly’s old lover, here to survey a route for a railroad through the timberland.

  “Jubal” soon has the boarding house brimming with paying guests, Molly serving meals to the public, and the family of siblings pitching in to help. He plans to help her turn her life around. Only then can he leave without a guilty conscience. He will not run out on her again. But memories of that long-ago night with her race through his head and hum in his ears. He dismisses a fleeting thought: “This time, Jarrett, you might get caught in your own trap.”

  Silver Creek Stories

  Heart's Desire

  At a stage stop on the way to join her father in Silver Creek, Holly Campbell receives a telegram reporting his suicide. Heartbroken and determined, she continues on with one goal: to prove he was murdered. Letters she received from him told her whom she can trust—and the one man she can’t. Sheriff Quintan Jarvis is as crooked as they come and Holly means to keep as far away from him as possible.

  But even as Holly tries to resist her attraction to the mysterious sheriff, she can’t deny her body’s yearning for the handsome lawman’s embrace. Will she be able to solve the mystery of her father’s death before she surrenders to Quintan’s touch and her HEART'S DESIRE?

  Texas Twilight

  When Trace Garrett shows up on Clara Ehler’s Texas ranch, she can hardly believe it’s him—and as handsome as she remembers. When Trace left years before, he took Clara’s dream of true love with him. But now he’s back, and one look at him sets a heat of passion ablaze once again.

  But Trace holds more than the deed to Clara’s heart—he holds the deed to her ranch as well. He’d heard she planned on selling it and moving East, but he knows the only place for Clara is on the Texas frontier, and in his embrace.

  Runaway Passion

  Emilie Hahn is determined to escape her father’s ranch, and not even the handsome Texas Rancher sent to pursue her will drag her back without a fight. Even as she resists his attempts to return her to her father, her heart can’t deny the desires that pass between them.

  Creed McCaslin has been hired to rescue Emilie, and he’s going to do it. Even when he learns that she’s a runaway, not the damsel in distress her father has made her out to be. But his mission never included falling for his feisty and beautiful captive.

  Will Creed return Emilie to the ranch, or will he turn out to be her true ticket to freedom?

  Sweet Texas Nights

  Meg Britton arrives in Silver Creek with one purpose: to see the construction of the rail line completed. Fighting against the hell-on-wheels culture of hard drinking and harder living, her own father’s misgivings, and rival railroaders, it is only Meg’s sharp tongue and steadfast determination that keep her mission afloat. That is until she meets the handsome and mysterious Kalib Cheney.

  For reasons of his own, Kalib is intent on halting the construction of the railroad, and not even beautiful and bold Meg will stand in his way. But he’ll soon learn that her unyielding resolve matches his own, as does her budding desire to surrender to the embrace of her most bitter enemy.

  The Texas Star Trilogy

  Texas Gamble

  Serita Cortinas will do anything to save her Texas ranch, even if it means being the stakes in her father’s card game. The man to win her hand isn’t the groom of her dreams—he’s arrogant and brooding. But as it turns out, Captain Giddeon Duval may be exactly what she needs to ward off the threat of land raiders.

  Giddeon isn’t looking for a wife, only access to Los Olmos, when his lucky hand wins him the spirited Serita. But as the undeniable desire he feels for the insolent beauty overtakes him, he realizes he’ll do whatever it takes to vanquish her enemies and conquer her heart as well.

  Texas Dawn

  Stella Duval always fantasized of seeing her beloved Logan Cafferty again, but she never imagined that when the day came, it would be as his captive. Before the Civil War—a time that now seems like nothing more than a dream—Stella and Logan had been in love with plans to marry. But war broke out, leaving them on opposing sides.

  Now Stella finds herself face to face with Logan again, only as his prisoner. But their passion for one another has not dampened with time, and Stella and Logan must fight against the hardships of war for their second chance at true love.

  Texas Gold

  Marina Cafferty must ensure the stability of her family’s Texas ranch all at costs. But she didn’t think that included salvaging the remains of her grandfather’s ship—at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. The gold still hidden within the wreckage could pay off the taxes on Los Olmos for years to come, but the danger could prove mortal.

  Rafe Santana won’t let a national treasure like the one hidden on Giddeon Duval’s ship fall into the hands of some scheming American, not even if those hands belong to Giddeon’s own granddaughter. But if Rafe wants to keep the gold in Mexico, he’ll have to let Marina lead him to it first.

  Neither Marina nor Rafe expect to find themselves sinking into an ocean of desire that runs deeper than the gold at the bottom of the sea. Before long, they may find the only treasure they ever need is one another.

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