IT HAD TO BE YOU (Avon, August 1994/TP July 2008) Mass Market Paperback: ISBN-10: 0380776839 ISBN-13: 978-0380776832 Trade Paperback: ISBN-10: 0061555819 ISBN-13: 978-0061555817 The Windy City isn't quite ready for Phoebe Somerville—the outrageous, curvaceous New York knockout who has just inherited the Chicago Stars football team. And Phoebe is definitely not prepared for the Stars' head coach Dan Calebow, a sexist jock taskmaster with a one-track mind. Calebow is everything Phoebe abhors. And the sexy new boss is everything Dan despises—a meddling bimbo who doesn't know a pigskin from a pitcher's mound. Chicago Stars Book #1

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HEAVEN, TEXAS (Avon, April 1995/TP May 2009) Mass Market Paperback: ISBN-10: 0380776847 ISBN-13: 978-0380776849 Trade Paperback: ISBN-10: 0061731145 ISBN-13: 978-0061731143 Come heck or high water, Gracie Snow is determined to drag the legendary ex-jock Bobby Tom Denton back home to Heaven, Texas, to begin shooting his first motion picture. Despite his dazzling good looks and killer charm, Bobby Tom has reservations about being a movie star—and no plans to cooperate with a prim and bossy Ohio wallflower whom he can't get off his mind or out of his life. Instead, the hell-raising playboy decides to make her over from plain Jane to Texas wildcat. Chicago Stars Book #2

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NOBODY'S BABY BUT MINE (Avon, February 1997/TP January 2012) Mass Market Paperback: ISBN-10: 0380782340 ISBN-13: 978-0380782345 Trade Paperback: ISBN-10: 0062004662 ISBN-13: 978-0062004666 The Plan: Genius physics professor Dr, Jane Darlington desperately wants a baby. The Target: Cal Bonner, the Chicago Stars' legendary quarterback, seems like the perfect choice. But his champion good looks and down-home ways are deceiving. The Explosion: A brillant, lonely woman who dreams only of motherhood . . . A take no-prisoners tough guy who'll settle for nothing less than surrender . . . Can passion and physical attraction propel two strong-willed yet vulnerable people to a totally unexpected love? Chicago Stars Book #3

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DREAM A LITTLE DREAM (Avon, February 1998) Mass Market Paperback: ISBN-10: 0380794470 ISBN-13: 978-0380794478 A Desperate Young Mother: Rachel Stone's bad luck has taken a turn for the worse. A Man With No Heart: Gabe Bonner wants to be left alone, especially by the beautiful outcast who's invaded his property. Dare To Dream: Welcome to Salvation, North Carolina—where a man who's forgotten what tenderness means meets a woman with nothing to lose. here two endearing lovers will set off on a funny, touching journey of the heart. . .to a place where dreams just might come true. This is not an official Chicago Stars book, but continues the story of the Bonner family begun in NOBODY’S BABY BUT MINE. Also contains Ethan’s story. Chicago Stars Book #4

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THIS HEART OF MINE (William Morrow, February 2001/Avon, February 2002) Hardcover: ISBN-10: 0380975726 ISBN-13: 978-0380975723 Mass Market Paperback: ISBN-10: 0380808080 ISBN-13: 978-0380808083 Large Print: ISBN-10: 0060188030 ISBN-13: 978-0060188030 Molly Somerville (IT HAD TO BE YOU) loves her career as the creator of the Daphne the Bunny children's book series, but the rest of her life could use some improvement. Then there's her long-term crush on the quarterback for the Chicago Stars football team her sister owns—that awful, gorgeous Kevin Tucker (NOBODY'S BABY BUT MINE), a man who can't even remember Molly's name! Molly and Kevin battle their attraction and each other as they face one of life's most important lessons. Sometimes love hurts, sometimes it makes you mad as hell, and sometimes—if you're lucky—it can heal in a most unexpected way. Chicago Stars Book #5

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MATCH ME IF YOU CAN (William Morrow, August 2005/Avon, September 2006) Hardcover: ISBN-10: 0060734558 ISBN-13: 978-0060734558 Mass Market Paperback: ISBN-10: 0060734566 ISBN-13: 978-0060734565 Large Print: ISBN-10: 0060794364 ISBN-13: 978-0060794361 You met star quarterback Kevin Tucker in This Heart of Mine. Now get ready to meet his shark of an agent, Heath Champion, and Annabelle Granger, the girl least likely to succeed. But that's going to change now that Annabelle’s taken over her late grandmother's matchmaking business. Why does the wealthy, driven, and gorgeous sports agent Heath Champion need a matchmaker, especially a red-haired screw-up like Annabelle Granger? When the determined Matchmaker promised she'd do anything to keep her star client happy . . . did she mean anything? If Annabelle isn't careful, she just might find herself going heart-to-heart with the toughest negotiator in town. Chicago Stars Book #6

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NATURAL BORN CHARMER (William Morrow, February 2007)/Avon, May 2008) Hardcover: ISBN-10: 0060734574 ISBN-13: 978-0060734572 Mass Market Paperback: ISBN-10: 0060734582 ISBN-13: 978-0060734589 Large Print: ISBN-10: 0061233056 ISBN-13: 978-0061233050 Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard is the luckiest man in the world: a bona-fide sports superstar and the pride of the NFL with a profitable side career as a buff billboard model for End Zone underwear. But life in the glory lane has started to pale, and Dean has set off on a cross-country trip to figure out what's gone wrong. When he hits a lonely stretch of Colorado highway, he spies something that will shake up his gilded life in ways he can't imagine. A young woman . . . dressed in a beaver suit. Blue Bailey is on a mission to murder her ex. Or at least inflict serious damage. As for the beaver suit she's wearing . . . Is it her fault that life keeps throwing her curveballs? Witness the expensive black sports car pulling up next to her on the highway and the Greek god stepping out of it. Natural Born Charmer is for everyone who's ever thought about leaving their old life in the dust and never looking back. Chicago Stars Book #7

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NOBODY'S BABY BUT MINE and THIS HEART OF MINE (Avon, April 2006 2-in-1 reissues) Trade Paperback: ISBN-10: 0060894709 ISBN-13: 978-0060894702 Two Chicago Stars favorites under one cover - Chicago Stars Book #3 and #5.