Originally published under the name Donna Carlisle.Meg Forrest is a brilliant engineer: competent, controlled, and completely in charge ... until, that is, she meets and impulsively marries reckless Alaskan bush pilot Red Worthington. Their love affair is as brilliant, and as ephemeral, as the Northern Lights, and as turbulent as the spring storms that sweep so unpredictably across the tundra. They are thunder and lightning together, and too ready to call it quits when the going gets tough. But when a sudden blizzard traps them together with the lives of an entire community of misfits depending upon them, they realize that they will always be better together than they could ever be apart, and that they must work together to save themselves, the people they care about, and their love...

A weekend competition turns deadly in this seventh Raine Stockton Dog Mystery. Dog trainer Raine Stockton and her happy-go-lucky golden retriever Cisco have been looking forward the opening weekend of AKC competitive agility all winter. They travel to the low country of South Carolina to compete against some of the top dogs in the southeast for blue ribbons, squeaky toys, and perhaps even that elusive title of High in Trial. But even in this carefree atmosphere of high-spirited dogs and dedicated owners ambition runs high, and when one of the competitors is found brutally murdered it begins to look as though corruption might have penetrated even this last bastion of decency and sportsmanship, the AKC. While Raine and Cisco stalk a killer, a twenty-year old mystery is unfolding back home that will have devastating consequences for Raine and those she loves, and every hour that passes brings a deadly threat closer.About the AuthorDonna Ball is the author of over a hundred novels under several different pseudonyms in a variety of genres that include romance, mystery, suspense, paranormal, western adventure, historical and women’s fiction. Recent popular series include the Ladybug Farm series by Berkley Books and the Raine Stockton Dog Mystery series. Donna is an avid dog lover and her dogs have won numerous titles for agility, obedience and canine musical freestyle. She lives in a restored Victorian Barn in the heart of the Blue Ridge mountains with a variety of four-footed companions.

A missing teenage girl... a desperate mother... a frantic call in the night... is this a cruel hoax, or the work of a maniacal serial killer? The peaceful resort town of St. Teresa-by-the-Sea on Florida's Forgotten Coast is known for its low crime rate, pristine beaches, and great fishing. But tragedy can come even to Paradise, as Carol Dennison found out two and a half years ago when her fourteen-year-old daughter, Kelly, disappeared on her way to a Tallahassee concert. Now, just as Carol as beginning to rebuild the pieces of her shattered life, she receives a midnight call from someone who calls her "mama" and begs for help. Is this a cruel prank designed to terrorize and punish Kelly's father for the role he played in bringing a recently paroled criminal to justice? Or is it possible that Kelly is still alive? A grim investigation uncovers a connection between Kelly and other girls who have gone missing along the Gulf Coast in the past few years. When the body of one of those missing girls washes up on the shores of St. Teresa-by-the-Sea, the police are forced to admit they may have a serial killer in their midst. And with over three thousand college students poised to descend on the tiny community for spring break, their only hope for stopping him before he strikes again is the frightened voice of a teenage girl on the telephone... and the desperate determination of the parents who love her. Shattered is Donna Ball at her best: spine-tingling terror, chilling realism and unforgettable characters. No parent will ever watch her child leave the house in the same way again.

>He was a cowboy looking for a wife, and she was a lady specializing in brides. They were made for each other. They just didn't know it yet... When Texas oilman Shane Bartlett came to Matchmakers, Inc. for a wife, he expected one hundred percent satisfaction. Proprietress Cassie Averil promised him the perfect match, but for her carefully designed matchmaking formula to work, he was going to have to give up his antiquated notions about love and marriage.Cassie's strategy was based on sound principals of psychology and human behavior-- and there was no room in it for the chemistry that exploded between Shane and her whenever they were together. Her compatibility charts clearly showed that that they were all wrong for each other, and she had never been wrong before. Too bad someone forgot to tell that to her heart..

In the rivetting tradition of Mary Higgins Clark...Cathy Hamilton was just a small town schoolteacher who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now her head is full of information that could get her killed, and she is forced to flee through the night across unfamiliar territory in a car that’s almost out of gas with no weapon, no money and no phone. A government agent has tried to kill her , the FBI has set a trap for her, and her only hope for survival is a man she doesn’t dare trust: a cop who’s willing to risk his badge—and his life—to save her. Praise for the Work of Donna Ball: “A maelstrom of suspense... gripping, intense”--Rendezvous “[Ball] knows how to keep a story moving”--Kirkus Reviews “A Major talent of the genre”--Publisher’s Weekly “A must read”--Examiner.com

The author of the Ladybug Farm series delivers an exhilarating new novel of a middle-aged woman who follows her heart to love and happiness. When a dashing French poet swept forty-something workaholic Sara Graves off her feet, she did something completely unexpected: She married him. Then three weeks later he died, leaving her a house she can't afford to keep in a country she's never been to. Traveling to France to settle the estate, Sara is shocked to discover that her husband wasn't the impoverished poet he claimed to be- and that the estate he left her is a 400-year-old crumbling castle in the Loire Valley. Now Sara must sell Chateau Rondelais before it (not to mention her late husband's disarmingly handsome lawyer and best friend) makes her question her decision to leave-and opens her heart to change and all its unexpected possibilities.