Bücher von V. Sweeney Toni

To walk the shadow trail means to lead a life of pain and sorrow, to be alone forever. Many men came to America to escape their old lives. Baron Karl Augustus Dietrich Wilhelm von Brandt was no different, though he fled his father's crimes and not his own. Easily swindled into buying a Nebraska ranch that's little more than a sand dune, the European tenderfoot is befriended by half-Pawnee Johnny Moon, a ne'er-do-well usually one step ahead of the marshal. Soon Johnny has Will looking and sounding like a Nebraskan. Working together, the impoverished nobleman and the half-breed cowboy transform the ruin into a thriving ranch. Through tough times and good Johnny Moon is there for Will, closer than a friend, trusted like a brother. Then Will marries Silent Summer Woman, the headstrong daughter of a Pawnee chief, and the first wedge of mistrust is driven between the two men, for Johnny Moon is harboring a secret, and if Will discovers it, not only will it destroy their friendship but also their lives.

Tammy Wilde came to Ireland seeking escape…from memories of the accident ending her career, her abandonment by an unfaithful husband, and a series of haunting dreams…only to fall in love with a man sharing her unfaithful ex's name. Kevin Padraic Shea is the opposite of that other Kevin. Understanding and gentle, he helps Tammy forget her pain as he reveals the fascination of the Irish countryside. When he tells her the legend of the ghost haunting his family, Tammy doesn't realize her presence will awaken a hatred surviving centuries, as a specter rises to claim a lost love and kill the last male relative of the man who cursed him.

SOMETIMES, LIFE IS COMPLETELY UNFAIR Spoiled teenager Jenny Halpen's parents were against her going on a cruise, but her doting uncle didn't see it that way. He thought it a fine graduation gift for his favorite (and only) niece. Unfortunately, before Jenny has a chance to enjoy the voyage, the Cassandra collides with a meteor shower, and her escape pod is separated from the others. Landing on an uninhabited world might not be so bad if Jenny's pod-mates were human, but they're not. They're poodles...all three of them...and not just your garden-variety poodles, either. They're the telepathic royal family of Canaris, and they're of the opinion that Jenny is now their servant, existing only to protect and serve them. Robinson Crusoe had it easy!

The want ad read:NANNY WANTEDMust have desire for excitement, adventure, danger When Miranda Wilson is hired to care for Dominic Andrus' triplets, she has no idea she's about to have the adventure of a lifetime. At first, it's like the plot of a Gothic novel: young governess, mysterious employer, three motherless children, but there the resemblance ends, for Dominic Andrus is an interplanetary criminal, hiding his children on Earth to prevent their abduction. As she's thrown into a war between the Andruses and a madman sworn to destroy them, Miranda's life becomes a wild sci-fi movie. She takes it all in stride until she meets Kit, Dominic's younger brother, a man nursing a secret anguish. Miranda's ready to risk her life to save her young charges and the man she loves, even if it means she'll never see Earth again. Being a nanny has never been so exciting...or so deadly.

Xander Taluti is dead, and his brother Zane has called a halt to the feud with the Andruses.As the two clans attempt to return to peacetime, it appears happily ever after is in store for everyone. Kit openly declares his love for Miranda; Niki and Ardala prepare for their long-wished-for wedding; and other secret romances are now revealed.Nevertheless, Dominic's plans to transform his family into law-abiding citizens are thwarted when the Gataen police invade the House of Andrus and old nemesis Detective Ceran Synubis arrests Dom, Kit, and Niki.In the clutches of an alien justice system where a man is guilty until proven otherwise, Miranda finds herself the prosecution's chief witness in a trial where the truth may convict the man she loves of a crime he didn't commit, and only a miracle-or a long-hidden secret-can save him.