Jo Barrett - Free Library Land Online - Contemporary

Rogue's Challenge

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 07:21:27 +0200

He made a vow to fetch the woman back through time. 'Twas a task not taken lightly. But he had not predicted her stubbornness or her beauty. The petite woman with the tenacity of a mule may just find a way into his roguish heart.

The Men's Guide to the Women's Bathroom

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:21:28 +0200

The Men's Guide to the Women's Bathroom strives to answer life's most imponderable question: What Do Women Really Do in the Bathroom?

When the witty and urbane Claire St. John leaves New York City and returns to Austin, Texas, she realizes that all of the good advice she has ever received has been from strangers in the women's bathroom. If only she'd listened before she'd married the wrong man and wound up on the losing end of a divorce.

Swearing off men, Claire decides to take a big chance—she will quit her life as a lawyer and write the ultimate self-help book—a book detailing exactly what goes on in that most sacred feminine temple: the women's bathroom.

But will the new how-to guru ever learn to take her own advice? While she's discovering the truth behind the bathroom door, re-assimilating to Texas culture by eating "nuclear" jalapeño carrots, speeding down highways through the famed Texas hill country, and even joining an ill-fated...

Scotsman's Challenge

Sat, 16 Feb 2019 07:21:26 +0200

The sights and sounds of the twenty-first century teased and tantalized Erin MacLean's senses, but it was nothing compared to the torment one slight female brought to his sorry self. His desire had been to see the wonders of the future, if only for one brief moment in time. He never bargained on having to choose between a woman with eyes the verra shade of a field of heather blanketing the Highlands, and his duty to become the next laird of the clan MacLean in seventeenth century Scotland.

This Is How It Happened (not a love story)

Sat, 20 Nov 1999 10:57:45 +0200

Nothing to Commend Her

Tue, 19 Nov 1991 19:52:52 +0200

Romance. 68151 words long. First published in 2010

Highlander's Challenge

Tue, 19 Nov 1991 19:52:51 +0200

Merely a Woman

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:52:51 +0200

Selena had a vast number of gentleman callers, as she was considered quite beautiful--and her father's wealth was an additional inducement for such attention, but she found it all rather tiresome. She was merely a woman, after all, not some paragon of perfection. And yet upon meeting Dr. Horace Kensington, a man stubbornly tight-lipped in regards to his work, she embarks on a mission to not only discover the truth about her father's illness , but to entice the handsome doctor himself.

Playboy's Challenge (Highlander's Series)

Tue, 19 Nov 2013 21:49:48 +0200

Adam Sutherland thought he knew his parents. They were like any other couple who were head-over-heels in love with each other. It was sickening to witness, to be honest, but he never dreamed that their devotion to one another began in the sixteenth-century in the Highlands of Scotland. And more importantly, he never thought he'd see for himself just how a trip into the past could profoundly alter his future.

Don't Let It Be True

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:52:52 +0200

A few Texas society gals are hiding sordid pasts as strippers, pole dancers, call girls, Democrats . . . But socialite Kathleen Connor King's secret is far, far worse.

The flamboyant oil heiress, philanthropist, shopaholic, and hostess of the city's most prestigious annual gala, Kathleen King has a skeleton in her closet that, if revealed, will obliterate her good name and cherished social standing: She's broke! Her longtime beau, Dylan Grant, is similarly busted, ever since his now-deceased father lost the last of the family's oil properties to A-List wannabe Bo Harlan in a poker game. So Kat and Dylan have a plan, and with the help of a small cadre of loyal friends and allies, they're ready to resort to outrageous tactics--not all of them legal--to keep up appearances, win back the lost Grant oil money, elude a psycho Vegas mobster...and solidify their lofty positions among the crÈme de la crÈme....

Midnight Snow

Sat, 19 Nov 2016 19:52:53 +0200

After two years of walking around in a fog, thanks to his ex-girlfriend, Jackson Chase relishes the feeling of being alive again. He just hopes his beautiful new neighbor, Clare Hampton, doesn't decide to shoot him instead of kiss him.

Under the Covers

Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:57:45 +0200

Jane Walters would love to fall for the right guy, but right now she's too busy getting her new business open and avoiding her over zealous landlord. In a crazy attempt to avoid his unwanted attentions, she asks her neighbor, Jacob Hayes, to be her pretend boyfriend. But Jacob wants nothing to do with her. He's been left at the altar once, and that was humiliating enough. Getting mixed up with the sexy new resident of Kings Gap is the last thing he needs, unless... Agreeing to some secret fun under the covers, doesn't solve Jane's problem with her landlord, but it certainly heats up her lonely nights. Only problem now is, how does she keep from falling for the one man she can't have?

Stoplight Magic

Wed, 19 Nov 2014 21:49:48 +0200

Eleanor Freemont owed her brother more than she could ever repay. He'd raised her after their parents were killed, but it was past time for her to grow up and be out on her own. Her painfully shy nature and her brother's over-protectiveness had kept her locked away for too long. Going out with Dustin Bass, a motorcycle riding stranger she'd dared make a date with at a stoplight, might just be her first step to independence. If only she can keep that date.

Stolen Hearts

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:49:48 +0200

Sheriff Jake Conrad knew two things. Either the beautiful woman with the killer body and mule-headed nature had to leave town, or he was about to get his heart broken. Occupied with chasing some shifty drug traffickers, he had no time for an affair, and something warned him that with Christine Harper one night would never be enough. But when Chris gets caught up in the middle of his investigation, he has little doubt what the outcome will be.