Helen Lacey

A Christmas surprise for a homecoming soldier... When Jake Culhane comes home to Cedar River to visit his family, he doesn't expect to reconnect with the woman he never forgot. Abby Perkins never believed Jake would return, which is why she never told him she'd given birth to his son. But Abby is still in love with the boy who broke her heart when he enlisted. This could be their first Christmas as a real family-if Abby can find the courage to...

COUNTDOWN: NINE MONTHS Mary-Jayne Preston didn't do one-night stands ever. Except for her one and only with devastatingly handsome tycoon Daniel Anderson, who swept her off her feet before she knew what was happening! The attraction was powerful and seemingly mutual. But when she told him she was pregnant, all bets were off! Daniel hadn't let his guard down since tragedy struck his own life four years earlier. Now he's drawn to the irresistible M.J.,...

His Brother's Family Cassie Duncan knew it was only a matter of time until Tanner McCord tried to sell her house out from under her. Still, the single mom can't help but be touched by the sacrifices the handsome loner makes for her and her son, even babysitting when she's sick! She knows he's keeping secrets after all, it runs in his family. Tanner returned to his childhood home in Australia to settle his estranged brother's estate not fall for the...

She was having his baby. But why wouldn't she be his wife? After several failed pregnancies, Tess Fuller's dreams of motherhood hadn't worked out-until one memorable night with her ex-husband resulted in pregnancy! Take-charge rancher Mitch Culhane had never stopped loving Tess. Now he has the perfect solution: marriage, take two. But Tess isn't so sure their love story can have a happily-ever-after...unless Mitch can prove he's changed...

1 Cowgirl Cop + 1 Single Dad = Double the Desire! Running a ranch for troubled kids, policing the town and raising a son-Ash McCune is in complete control of her hectic life. Till one sexy single dad arrives on her Cedar River ranch with his daughter. Cole Quartermaine is rich, successful, a good father. But in weeks, he's leaving. So why does he make her feel something she hasn't felt in years-like a woman? Cole needs this ranch to connect with his...

Fifteen years ago, Fiona Walsh made a choice: to give her daughter up for adoption. But she'd never given up hope of meeting her little girl. So when opportunity for a reunion came knocking--in the form of her daughter's tall, dark and sexy uncle--she opened the door to her past, and found true love on her doorstep! Businessman Wyatt Harper liked his life carefully ordered, with details falling neatly into place. As Cecily's guardian, her welfare...

The Fortune clan welcomes a French relative for the holidays-and one woman wants to lure him to the Lone Star State for good . . . The Yuletide season brings something très magnifique to Austin, Texas, in the form of French entrepreneur Amersen Beaudin. The sexy but standoffish playboy has zero interest in meeting his newly discovered Fortune relatives, least of all the man who is his biological father. But when matriarch Kate Fortune dangles...

Was it fate - or a labor of love? Find out as Grace Preston comes face-to-face once again with teenage crush Cameron Jakowski in author Helen Lacey's fourth book for Harlequin Special Edition, Date with Destiny - Financier Grace Preston did fourteen-hour days in New York City. She didn't do small towns in Australia. Not since she'd fled almost twenty years ago. But when a personal trauma sent her home - with a secret she couldn't reveal - the last...

The rugged cowboy lassoed her heart. Will his secret change everything? It's almost Valentine's Day, and poor Valene Fortunado is still single. Determined to take matters into her own hands, she signs up for a dating app that inexplicably pairs her with Jake Brockton. The sexy, down-to-earth "ranch hand" quickly makes Val forget what she thought she wanted in a man. But what will she do when she finds out her perfect, "penniless" beau is secretly...

THE VIRGIN AND THE VETERAN Dr. Lucy Monero feels like the oldest virgin on the planet. Still crushing on her longtime neighbor, she's waited a lifetime for her first... and last. The man she'll marry. And now he's back - the star of her fantasies, ex-cowboy-turned-army-vet Brant Parker. The physician in her recognizes a wounded soul, but the woman in her burns for his touch. Lucy's head is filled with visions of white lace and white picket fences....