For My Daughter
Harlequin, May 1998
ISBN 0-373-83357-1

Like mother, like daughter or not?

Soul Kitchen by Margot Early

Oh, the embarrassment of being thirty-one years old and having a mother who's still stuck in the sixties! Dany Wilde wants to escape everything Jenny represents. Bug Gabe Lucero, Dany's childhood friend, has always seen her eccentric mother as a true original, a woman of warmth and strength. With his encouragement, Dany finally sees it, too. And she begins to see Gabe himself in a different light--not as a friend but as a lover.

The Mirror Adds Ten Pounds by Jan Freed

Lindsey Howard is marrying adam Sullivan in less than a month--and all she seems to do is fight with her family in fitting rooms. Wedding preparations bring out the worst in everyone: Lindsey's thirteen-year-old daughter is doing her best to ruin the wedding, while her mother's trying to organize it by the book (every book ever written on the subject). Lindsey even ends up fighting with Adam. In a fitting room - where else?

Mother Knows Best by Janice Kay Johnson

Mother: The Next Generation. That's the one thing Rosalind Kirk wants to avoid--turning into her mother. So when Margaret Kirk presumes to "choose" a husband for her daughter, Rosalind has to reject him - even if Craig Morrow is exactly the man she's been looking for!

Who's afraid of the mistletoe?
Sarah Calder, that's who.

Why is she afraid?
She can't really say...

The answer is that Christmas means family, emotion, remembering the past. And kissing can mean the same things.

But now Sarah needs help, and she can only get it from one person--her ex-lover, Tage. The last time she saw him was on the Iditarod Trail with his "family" of sled dogs. But his responsibilities have changed since then. He's recently become guardian to two young children--his orphaned niece and nephew from Sweden.

Add Sarah and her impossible dog to this household and you have a Christmas unlike any other!

"A special story from the heart of a special talent. Who's Afraid of the Mistletoe? is a moving and emotional experience."

-Laura DeVries, aka Laura Gordon

author of contemporary and historical romance

Erin Mackenzie considers herself a candidate for the Dumped by Cowboys Hall of Fame. Especially since she was stood up by rodeo cowboy Abe Cockburn, the father of her baby daughter, Maeve.

And then there's another cowboy - Erin's own father, rancher Kip Kay, whom she's never even met. Who has never acknowledged her.

Erin makes a risky choice: she goes to Colorado to tell Abe about his daughter. And to tell Kip about his.

She goes to Colorado to find the truth about cowboys - and about fathers.

"Truly endearing. Truly engaging. Emotional intensity and poignant honesty flow from every page... Full of irresistible passages you'll want to read out loud, The Truth About Cowboys is a book to be remembered and read again and again."

- Laura DeVries, aka Laura Gordon

author of Spencer's Bride and Promise Me

Nick's Kind of Woman
(Harlequin Superromance, January 97)
ISBN 0-373-70724-X
spin-off to The Keeper

Day Sutter doesn't consider herself adventurous. She's kind and creative, yes. She has a great sense of style. And she's a competent businesswoman, running Rapid Riggers, the Colorado river-rafting outfit she co-owns with Nick Colter.

In fact, Day's always been the classic "good girl" - except when it comes to Nick. "Stay away from that boy," her father told her years before. She couldn't then. And she can't now.

Footloose Nick, with his easy charm. His hidden fears. His girlfriends. His mountain climbing and white-water rafting. He says Day's not his kind of woman. But Day knows she is. And she's going to prove it, to him and to herself.

But there's another question, one she hasn't asked: Is Nick Colter her kind of man?

"...read this with a box of tissues on hand. Early makes this love hurt so good, and it's worth ever tear shed."

- Affaire de Coeur

"In this deeply emotional storytwo unlikely lovers battle devastating odds to find themselves and each other. (Nick's Kind of Woman) is a triumphant and satisfying tale!"

- Jean R. Ewing, award-winning author of Scandal's Reward

Mr. Family
(Harlequin Superromance, October 96)
ISBN 0-373-70711-8
spin-off to The Third Christmas

Kal Johnson is a still-grieving widower with a young child. He can't imagine marrying again - not for love, anyway. But it's becoming increasingly clear that his daughter needs someone besides him. A mother. Kal's solution is to place an ad in a local magazine.

WANTED: Woman to enter celibate marriage and be stepmother to four- year-old girl. Send child-rearing philosophies to Mr. Family....

Erika Blade is a woman who's afraid of love. And sex. She answers the ad, figuring she's probably the only person in the whole world to whom a "celibate marriage" would appeal. After all, she does want children but she doesn't want to acquire them in the usual way. As it turns out, Kal likes her letter - and soon discovers that he likes her. More than likes. He's attracted to her. The one thing that wasn't supposed to happen.

"This is the type of book I hope for each time I open a cover - a book I cannot put down until the last luscious page is devoured. Mr. Family transcends the genre, even as it celebrates it."

- Rickey R. Mallory for Painted Rock

Waiting for You
(Harlequin Superromance, June 96)
ISBN 0-373-70694-4

According to family legend, golden-haired Christopher was born with a mission - to break a family curse. Only he, it is said, can end the history of miscarriages and maternal deaths.

Christopher, now a doctor living and working in Colorado, isn't sure he believes all this. But Dulcinea - the first and only woman he ever loved - is pregnant. With his brother's baby.

She comes back to Christopher, begging him to take the risk, to break the curse.

How can he refuse?

"Margot Early has given us a romantic masterpiece"

- Rendezvous

"Waiting for You represents another remarkable achievement from an author who is second to none in creating mood, evoking setting and touching hearts. Unforgettable!"

- Laura DeVries, author of Gambler's Daughter

The Keeper
(Harlequin Superromance, November 95)
ISBN 0-373-70668-5
1996 Janet Dailey Award finalist
1996 Heart of Romance Award finalist

keeper: n. 1. one who protects, guides, cares for 2. person or object worth keeping 3. a "hole" in a river rapid 4. a romance novel the reader's going to put on her "keeper" shelf!

Zachary Key married Grace Sutter because he loved her - and because he needed a Green Card. That devastated Grace. When she returned to Moab, Utah, to take over her father's Colorado River outfitting company, the marriage was effectively over.

Now, more than a year later, Zac reenters her life. And Grace discovers that something disturbing happened to him after she left - something he doesn't completely remember. She also discovers how deeply they still love each other....

Does their marriage stand a chance? Is Zac a keeper - or does he need one?

"With this emotional story, the title says it all"

- Romantic Times

The Third Christmas
(Harlequin Superromance, December 1994)
ISBN 0-373-70625-1
1995 RITA Award finalist for Best First Book
Winner, 1995 Heart of Romance Award

First, there was the year without Christmas. The year Skye Haverford Blade died so mysteriously, leaving behind not only her husband but her young son.

Now it's three years later. This Christmas - the third Christmas - Jean Young joins David Blade and his son, Chris, on their boat, the Skye. And she falls in love with both of them - the unsmiling man with too many secrets and the little boy longing for a mother's kiss.

Despite her own fears, Jean thinks her love can save them, can give them back their joy in life - and in Christmas.

Not only this Christmas, but every Christmas to come.

"The Third Christmas is a powerful, moving and poignantly realistic novel by an author whose talent will carry her to the top.... This book is definitely heading for the nearest keeper' shelf."

- Affaire de Coeur

Margot Early's books are available from the following sources:

Harlequin Reader Service
3010 Walden Avenue
P. O. Box 1867
Buffalo, NY 14240-1867

Sagebrush Books
301 East Main Street
Montrose, CO 81401
(970)249-2062

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