The Windswept Flame

Brokenirreparably broken. The violent deaths of her father and the young man she'd been engaged to marry, had irrevocably broken Cedar Dale's heart. Her mother's heart had been broken, as wellshattered by the loss of her own true love. Thus, pain and anguishfear and despairfound Cedar Dale, and her mother Flora, returned to the small western town where life had once been happy and filled with hope. Perhaps there, Cedar and her mother would find some resemblance of truly living lifeinstead of merely existing. And then, a chance meeting with a dream from her pastcaused a flicker of wonder to ignite in her bosom.As a child, Cedar Dale had adored the handsome rancher's son, Tom Evans. And when chance brought her face-to-face with the object of her childhood fascination once more, Cedar Dale began to believe that perhaps her fragmented heart could be healed.Yet, could Cedar truly hope to win the regard of such a man above men as was Tom Evans? A man kept occupied with hard work and ambitiona man so desperately sought after by seemingly every woman?

Rescued by Cortez, Colorado rancher and Union Captain Jackson McCall, Malaina struggles to remember who she is and how she found herself abandoned as she falls in love with her rescuer. But trouble lies ahead and with no memory of her own identity, how then could she release McCall from his apparent affliction of being her protector?

From the author of The Passionate and the Proud, a saga of love and rebellion sweeping from the green hills of Scotland to the shores of colonial America. In eighteenth-century Scotland, Selena MacPherson is the proud princess of Coldstream Castle. She’s never met a man who doesn’t desire her, but she has yet to meet the man she desires in return. Royce Cambell is the fabled son of a ruthless Highland clan. He has fleets and warriors ready to do his bidding and his frightening legends glitter about him like a cloak. Royce is promised to Veronica Blakemore, a woman of fire and ice, but when he meets Selena at an Edinburgh ball, there is no denying the burning promise of ecstasy between them. But only in the new world, across raging seas, does that promise have the chance to be fulfilled. Set in the exhilarating time of the American Revolution, Flames of Desire is a rousing tale of pride, passion, and a love triangle that changes the course of three turbulent lives.

Collects Ghost Rider (1973) #36-50. America's favorite demon-biker is back with a whole new set of Masterworks-worthy tales! The first half of Michael Fleisher and Don Perlin's iconic run is collected here, and they make sure there's no rest for the road-weary Johnny Blaze. And when the Ghost Rider rears his fiery skull, a death-worshiping biker cult, a crazed nuclear scientist ready for meltdown and the soul-stealing Crimson Mage will pay for their transgressions! Then, Blaze enters into a feud with Flagg Fargo for bragging rights as America's premier stunt cyclist. Both the mortal and demon side of the Ghost Rider have a long road ahead - and it reaches its end with issue #50 and a time-traveling team-up with the original Western Ghost Rider!

America’s favorite demon-biker is back with a whole new set of Masterworks-worthy tales! The first half of Michael Fleisher and Don Perlin’s iconic run is collected here, and they make sure there’s no rest for the road-weary Johnny Blaze. And when the Ghost Rider rears his fiery skull, a death-worshiping biker cult, a crazed nuclear scientist ready for meltdown and the soul-stealing Crimson Mage will pay for their transgressions! Then, Blaze enters into a feud with Flagg Fargo for bragging rights as America’s premier stunt cyclist. Both the mortal and demon side of the Ghost Rider have a long road ahead – and it reaches its end with issue #50 and a time-traveling team-up with the original Western Ghost Rider!

The foundling (desert fire): "She opened her eyes and beheld, for the first time, the face of Jackson McCall. Ruggedly handsome and her noble rescuer, she knew in that moment, he would forever hold captive her heart, as he then held her life in his protective arms. Yet, she was a nameless beauty, haunted by wisps of visions form the past. How could she ever hope he would return the passionate, devotional love she secreted for him -- when her very existence was a riddle?"--

Life went along simply, if not rather monotonously, for Breck McCall. Her job was satisfying, and she had true friends. But she felt empty-as if part of her soul were detached and lost to her. She longed for something-something that seemed to be missing. Yet there were moments when Breck felt she might almost touch something wonderful. And most of those moments came while in the presence of her handsome yet seemingly haunted boss-Reese Thatcher.

Among life forces, one force has remained the most inscrutable: passionate erotic love. Philosophers have spent lifetimes pondering the attraction between man and woman and have been unable to reach a satisfactory conclusion. This anthology brings together the longings, aspirations and desires of a man and a woman immersed in erotic love. What they say to each other says as much about what they ultimately do to each other in the search for the bliss that is only possible when lovers join together in heart, mind and soul. Enter into the secret thoughts, feelings and words as these two lovers plunge into a world which takes them soaring to the gates of paradise and beyond.