Romance Stars 2000

• Welcome to Temptation
  Author: Crusie, Jennifer
  Publisher: St. Martins $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312252943 Date: 2000
  PW
  Sophie Dempsey wants to help her sister film a video and then get out of Temptation, Ohio. Mayor Phin Tucker wants to play pool with the police chief and keep things peaceful. But when Sophie and Phin meet, they both get more than they want.
  
• Never Love a Cowboy
  Author: Heath, Lorraine
  Publisher: Avon $ 6.50 (mass market paper) ISBN: 0380803305 Date: 2000
  PW
  An award-winning author returns with an exuberant romance featuring the wayward son of an English earl who falls in love against his will with a sassy Texas saloon keeper's daughter.
  Updated 3/24/00.
• By Possession
  Author: Hunter, Madeline
  Publisher: Bantam $ 4.99 (mass market paper) ISBN: 0553582216 Date: 2000
  PW
  "An immensely gifted new author" (Jane Feather) delivers the second in a set of three ravishing novels, beginning with By Arrangement, that are set in 14th-century London and involve love in defiance of social conventions. By Possession explores bonded servitude.
  Updated 8/25/00
• Harper's Moon
  Author: Judson, Suzanne
  Publisher: Berkley $ 6.99 (mass market paper) ISBN: 0425175421 Date: 2000
  PW
  A troubled quiltmaker takes refuge in a small town in North Carolina and meets up with a travel writer who is locked in a struggle with his own demons. Jed and Annie share an overwhelming desire to conquer their fears and let go of the past. But first they must confront the desire consuming their hearts.
  Updated 6/7/00
• Carolina Moon
  Author: Roberts, Nora
  Publisher: Putnam $ 24.95 ISBN: 0399145923 Date: 2000
  PW
  Returning as an adult to her hometown of Progress, South Carolina, Tory Bodeen plans to put the past behind her and open a stylish home-design shop. Following her friend, Hope's, brutal murder - unsolved to this day - she is determined to find a measure of peace and free herself from the haunting visions of that terrible night. But her return will be more difficult and frightening than she ever expected because Hope's killer is nearby as well.
  
• The Wishing Garden
  Author: Yorke, Christy
  Publisher: Bantam $ 5.99 (paper) ISBN: 0553580361 Date: 2000
  PW
  Savannah Dawson takes her teenage daughter to Arizona so she can be with Savannah's dying father. Thus begins the battle of wills between Savannah, who believes only in good fortune, and her mother, Maggie, who always expects the worst. The situation deteriorates when two men come into their lives.
  Updated 7/14/00