Bøger af Lori Leger

How does one Creole beauty choose between the two men who've both captured her heart? Meet Angelique Baptiste...Happy with her career, her friends, and her man...sans the sex life, thanks to her shrink. After years of relying far too much on sex appeal to choose her partners, she accepts her therapist's opinion that it's done nothing but hinder her ability to make wise choices. As a result, she's spent the last six months as chaste as a nun in a monastery, much to the chagrin of one particular 'friend-with-potential' to be much more. Michael Harper is a man of integrity, as well as a detective for the Lafayette Police Department. He doesn't hide the fact that he's crazy about Angelique, and he's willing to wait for her to serve out her sentence of self-imposed celibacy. As trying as it is to be around her, he knows the reward for his perseverance will be a lifetime with the woman he loves. Or will it? Enter Liam Nash, ex-Navy Seal turned body guard, who has the unfortunate reputation of being the last man to break Angelique's heart. More than a year earlier they'd been a couple, but rather than commit to a lifetime with her, he'd high tailed it back to Texas. Within minutes of swaggering back into her life, he proves his reason for leaving was justified. He's defeated the demons from his past and is all too willing to work at a happily ever after with her. Torn between the two men she loves equally, Angelique agonizes over the choice she knows she must make. Just when she decides she can't break one heart over another, fate steps in to decide for her. This novel includes a chilling subplot of a young mother, Sarah Richard, and her efforts to free herself and her twin infant daughters from the abuse of her estranged husband. Note from the author: The Halos and Horns series is filled with new characters you'll love, along with recurrent appearances of old favorites from my La Fleur de Love series. Enjoy! Lori Leger

How does one Creole beauty choose between the two men who've both captured her heart? Meet Angelique Baptiste...Happy with her career, her friends, and her man...sans the sex life, thanks to her shrink. After years of relying far too much on sex appeal to choose her partners, she accepts her therapist's opinion that it's done nothing but hinder her ability to make wise choices. As a result, she's spent the last six months as chaste as a nun in a monastery, much to the chagrin of one particular 'friend-with-potential' to be much more. Michael Harper is a man of integrity, as well as a detective for the Lafayette Police Department. He doesn't hide the fact that he's crazy about Angelique, and he's willing to wait for her to serve out her sentence of self-imposed celibacy. As trying as it is to be around her, he knows the reward for his perseverance will be a lifetime with the woman he loves. Or will it? Enter Liam Nash, ex-Navy Seal turned body guard, who has the unfortunate reputation of being the last man to break Angelique's heart. More than a year earlier they'd been a couple, but rather than commit to a lifetime with her, he'd high tailed it back to Texas. Within minutes of swaggering back into her life, he proves his reason for leaving was justified. He's defeated the demons from his past and is all too willing to work at a happily ever after with her. Torn between the two men she loves equally, Angelique agonizes over the choice she knows she must make. Just when she decides she can't break one heart over another, fate steps in to decide for her. This novel includes a chilling subplot of a young mother, Sarah Richard, and her efforts to free herself and her twin infant daughters from the abuse of her estranged husband. Note from the author: The Halos and Horns series is filled with new characters you'll love, along with recurrent appearances of old favorites from my La Fleur de Love series. Enjoy! Lori Leger

Haley Broussard is an auburn-haired beauty from southeast Texas-just bubbling with sauce and determination. Her priorities are to win barrel races with her horse, Dakota, finish college, and never date a military man. After a Marine on leave rescues her from a drunken dance partner in a local club, Haley's attitude makes a drastic about face. When Ben Bonin joined the military at nineteen years old, the Louisiana man thought it best not to have a girl waiting on him at home. One evening with Haley has him wanting nothing more than to spend time with her. Two weeks later they face the heartbreak of separation. Can Corporal Bonin survive six months of heart-pounding missions during his final deployment as a U.S. Marine? Even if he does, can Haley last another six months for his return to civilian life? After all, a year is nothing compared to forever... Halos & Horns: Where natives of Louisiana and Texas cross state lines to find romance

Things are finally falling into place for Annie McAllister. She's relocated to a new town, into a new home, and partnered with a thriving physical therapy practice. The youngest of eight children has achieved the independence she's always craved. No complications will keep this McAllister from doing whatever she wants, whenever she wants. Two men, in particular, didn't get that memo: A would-be-rapist-turned-stalker named J.B. Montgomery, who is more determined than ever to have her; and Drake LeBlanc, the handsome attorney who saved Annie from J.B.'s attack on New Year's Eve. Annie is livid when she's coerced by family members into having Drake move in until her attacker is apprehended. There goes her independence. Drake is thrilled at the chance to protect Annie. He's been captivated by the fiery redhead since their first anonymous, though undeniably hot encounter a month earlier. He's vowed to keep Annie safe, and to win her trust. First, he must win over her pet cat, Martin, and wise-cracking parrot, Lewis. The question is, will he win Annie's heart in the process? In a family as large as Annie's, it's nearly impossible to avoid other family drama. Her brother, Chad McAllister and his wife, Julia, seem to have plenty of trouble to share. Welcome to Clan McAllister.

Tiffany LeBlanc couldn't wait to leave the social snobbery of her parents' inner-circle-elitism in Houston, Texas. She worked her way through two Louisiana universities and stayed on to enjoy the joi de vivre lifestyle of the bayou state. She should feel optimistic about her future, but her cheating fiancé and controlling parents have the successful surgeon feeling anything but. A handsome businessman, with ulterior motives, has her wondering. Has she been settling? Scott `Red' McAllister comes from a large, hard-working, Scottish-Cajun family in a tiny south Louisiana farming community. He's a highly respected businessman, owning one successful club in Lafayette, with a second under construction in Lake Coburn. Since he and the good doctor stepped off badly a few months earlier, Red has decided to steal "Doc" away from her unappreciative fiancé. Red is completely baffled when one ominous phone call, promising disaster, leads to others. A tragic fire marks the beginning of someone's plans to ruin him, and keeps him wondering what he's done to warrant the disastrous chain of events. He can't be sure of anything. Not even a promising new relationship with "Doc". As happens in a family as large as Red's, it's natural to have at least one sibling's drama overflow into his life. Enter little sister, Annie. Welcome to clan McAllister.

Her girls want a daddy-she wants her old life back-all he wants is the three of them. After Giselle Granger's husband dies in a tragic accident, she's left with their two young daughters, and struggling for the strength to live in a world without him. When Jackson Broussard loses his wife in the same accident, he finds himself free of the woman whose lies and manipulations have made his marriage and life a living hell. He feels bound to the past by his desire to do right by his friend's widow and children, even though Giselle makes it clear she doesn't want his help. Can the two former co-workers forget their differences in order to construct a new future together? Or will they be left with nothing more than a last first kiss and two broken hearts?

Eventually, all storms break for a little sunshine. Dr. Cynthia Ellender is devastated when her husband of thirty-three years dies from a sudden heart attack. A revelation at his funeral delivers a crushing blow to her self-esteem, and leaves her angry, edgy, and determined to leave Oklahoma for good. It turns out a move back to her hometown in south Louisiana is just the right prescription for the good doctor. John Michael Ferguson has weathered some serious storms in his fifty-three years. At sixteen he lost a sister-at thirty-nine, a wife. Now, in a room full of forget-me-nots, his mother loses a little more of herself to Alzheimer's each day. A chance meeting with "Cyn" has the semi-retired businessman considering vacating his spot on the widower's bench. Armed with questionable advice from his wise-cracking, seventy-seven year old father, he dives head-first into the dating world with his old classmate. RUNNING OUT OF RAIN is a humorous, heart-warming, contemporary story that proves a relationship between two mature adults doesn't have to exclude romance . . . or searing passion . . . or the heart-thumping excitement of new love.

After burying both her parents within months of each other, Niki Reeves needs a change. She takes the first opening her employer offers and transfers from Missouri to San Antonio, Texas. Her first night in a strange city, an old love interest makes a surprise appearance at her door. Grateful for the sight of a friendly face, she somehow manages to resist the blue eyes, sexy grin, and rock-hard body of the former Marine-turned-rancher who has disappointed her in the past. Matthew "Tex" Broussard leads a solitary life on his ranch in Blanco, just north of San Antonio. He's got plenty of time to contemplate past mistakes, his greatest being his treatment of Niki. He's never been able to forget the green-eyed, buxom blond he'd once ditched in order to spend time with a pole dancer. Will Tex's southern boy charm be enough to convince her he's a changed man? And will Niki find enough Christmas spirit to grant Tex the gift of a second chance?

Sometimes less really is more . . . Sandra and Marshall Campion have reached an age when they're free to enjoy their lives. Trips to Belize, weekends at the beach house with friends, tailgating, and season passes to college football games. Their youngest, Brock, has just graduated from college and is engaged. Their oldest, Ella, is a successful realtor and married to a family law attorney. Ella still harbors an irrational grudge against her younger sister, Maddie, who dropped out of college at twenty and has been off 'finding herself'. The Campions are both shocked and thrilled when Maddie returns after a five-year absence with a pre-school aged daughter. The sibling grudge between the two sisters rears its ugly head again, bringing to light more unanswered questions. Are Ella's feelings towards Maddie simply a matter of petty childhood issues or is there something deeper at the core of her resentment? Tempers flare, and one daughter ends up in the hospital. Soon after, the Campions awaken to discover that Maddie has chosen flight over fight once again. But this time she's left behind two things: a note, and her child. Can Maddie resolve her issues and come home to finish raising her daughter, or will the new grandparents be forced to put their lives on hold to do it themselves?

Circumstances separated Melinda Dawson and Greg Hart when they were kids in love three decades earlier. With no choice but to move ahead with their lives, they leave the Pacific northwest and relocate to different parts of the globe. But when Melinda returns to McCray, Washington to care for her widowed father, she meets up with the one man she's never been able to forget. Can the two of them rekindle the smoldering embers of a strong mutual attraction? Or will the old feelings of anger, bitterness, and abandonment be too much to overcome?

Now that her abusive ex-husband is out of her life, Sarah Richard is savoring her freedom. Surrounded by people who treat her and her babies like family, the three of them are thriving. Though occasionally haunted by nightmares from her violent past, she struggles to put it behind her. With a loving surrogate family, good friends, and a new career, all she lacks is a man in her life. The question is, will she ever be able to trust another man with her and her twin daughters' hearts? Dr. Tanner Collins is running from his own sordid past. The man has left a trail of women from one end of Louisiana to the other, and through half the state of Texas. Even when this bad boy tries to be good, he has women throwing themselves at him at all hours of the day and night. When his admiration for Sarah turn into something stronger, he keeps his feelings in check, knowing he'll never be near the kind of man she deserves. When Tanner rushes to Houston to be with his parents during his father's illness, he's forced to deal with hidden resentments toward his upper crust parents. At some point he accepts the fact that situations aren't always as obvious as they seem on the surface. Note from the author: The Halos and Horns series is filled with new characters you'll love, along with frequent appearances of old favorites from my La Fleur de Love series. Enjoy! Lori Leger

Corinne Ritter's life changes drastically after she loses her husband twice in the same night. Several months later, the Texas native is en route to a family gathering early on Christmas Eve when an emergency shopping trip lands her in the middle of a robbery turned hostage situation. As circumstances deteriorate, she receives a shred of hope in the faceless presence of the 911 dispatcher she only "knows" by the soothing sound of his voice. Luke Oliver is counting down to the end of his dispatch shift, anxious to begin his chillaxing tropical vacation. When a frantic caller asks for him, he has no idea it's the faceless Cori he's assisted on two prior occasions. He remains with her throughout the crisis, becoming her calming influence throughout the storm. But will Luke be able to walk away when the time comes, or will this single 911 call change his life forever?