Jude Deveraux: An Angel for Emily (Amazon)

Emily Jane Todd has just found her guardian angel. Actually, the small-town librarian had just been
stood up by her fiancé when she ran into the errant angel with her car. And while he appears to be
unscathed, "Michael" continues to insist that his pedigree is quite legitimate. Emily just hopes his
brain hasn't been scrambled in the accident; besides, she's not inclined to believe that an angel could
be so dangerously sexy.
Yet Michael quickly reveals the most astounding things about her, and makes her laugh in a way she
never has before. What's more, he declares that he's been sent to save her. At this point, the only
rescue Emily has in mind is her upcoming marriage, and she's ready to bid her most attractive angel
good-bye. But when he lets slip that he also looks at souls -- and hers is a rare beauty -- Emily's
ready to risk heaven in his arms. Their journey will break every angelic and earthly rule before it
yields her one wish: a love divine.
 

Jude Deveraux: Highland Velvet (Amazon)

Stephen Montgomery came to Scotland a conqueror, saw Bronwyn MacCarran's beauty, and was
vanquished. But still she would abhor him. Yet, while clan fought against clan, and the highlands ran
with blood--their destiny was made. This mighty warrior pledged himself to his woman's pride, her
honor and her name--and made of their love a torch to burn through the ages!.
 
 
 

Nicholas Evans: The Loop (Amazon)

Things aren't going too well for wolf biologist Helen Ross. At 29, she's unemployed (recently retired
dishwasher), single (boyfriend of two years left her for Africa), and has just learned that her father is
marrying someone younger, richer, and prettier than herself (completely accurate). Back in her
lonely log cabin in Cape Cod, frantically chain-smoking, she receives a message from her former
lover Dan Prior. Prior, also a biologist, works for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service wolf-recovery
program. In return for helping him track the lupine posse, Prior will provide her with a cabin, truck,
and a snowmobile for good measure in a rustic little town called Hope, just outside of Helena,
Montana. Apparently, Ross has never heard the proverb "If it sounds too good to be true, it
probably is," and happily skips off to Big Sky Country.
Within moments of her arrival, she finds out what she's up against: a small town with a long history of
wolf fear and loathing, no resources (big surprise), and a powerful rancher who will do whatever it
takes to eliminate the wolves. The rancher, testosterone-saturated Buck Calder, has got the
community riled up after a wolf stalked his daughter's home and killed the family dog. He won't stop
until every last endangered wolf is dead, which proves problematic for Ross when she decides to
romance his 18-year-old son, Luke. Cynics be warned: their love affair spawns a trove of gooey
pillow talk and syrupy prose. Even so, Evans has made impressive strides as a writer since his debut
novel, The Horse Whisperer, and his storytelling has reached a noticeably new level of
sophistication: the plot is tight, the characterization is realistic, and the dialogue is crisp.
Rebekah Warren