Homecoming: Journey / Heading Home / Return of Walker Lee / Rockabye Inn - Softcover

Michaels, Fern; Dailey, Janet; Sala, Sharon; Bedford, Deborah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061085081 ISBN 13: 9780061085086

Publisher: Avon, 2007

Synopsis

The talents of four stellar authors are brought together in one passionate anthology that celebrates homecomings and the joy of love. Janet Dailey is a New York Times bestselling author of nearly 100 novels with an estimated 180 million copies in print worldwide, making her the bestselling living author in the world! Fern Michaels is  The New York Times bestselling author of Dear Emily, which has more than 600,000 copies in print, and the Texas trilogy that has sold millions of copies.

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Review:

Home is where the heart is in this collection of warmly romantic stories by four bestselling authors. "The Return of Walker Lee" by Dinah McCall takes us to a small town in Texas where Carrie Ann Wainright has been waiting 10 years for her beloved Walker Lee to return. Now a champion rodeo cowboy, Walker has stayed away because he believes Carrie no longer cares for him. When he learns she never stopped loving him, passion explodes. In "Heading Home" by Janet Dailey, Kate Summers distrusts her new neighbor, Josh Reynolds. She's been hurt before by a handsome man and doesn't trust the rugged rancher. But his matchmaking dog and Josh himself have other plans for the woman who has captured their hearts. "The Journey" by Fern Michaels has tycoon Matt Star reuniting with the woman he once left waiting at the altar. Matt is still in love with Maggie Osborne Harper, but she hasn't forgiven him for deserting her on the steps of the chapel. Can he win back her love? "Rockabye Inn" by Deborah Bedford is the heartwarming story of lovely Anna Burden, who has lost her memory. Richard Burden has loved her since they were children and longs to keep her safe, but he knows that when Anna remembers the past, the knowledge may forever destroy any hope of winning her love.

About the Author:

Fern Michaels lives with her five dogs in a restored plantation house in South Carolina. She is a New York Times bestselling author.

Janet Dailey's first book -- a Harlequin romance -- was published in 1976. In the twenty years since, she has written 89 more novels and become the third largest selling female author in the world, with 300 million copies of her books sold in 19 languages in 98 countries. Her most recent bestsellers, Masquerade, Rivals, and Heiress, have all sold more than one million copies each. She is known for her strong, decisive characters, her extraordinary ability to re-create a time and place, and her unerring courage to confront important, controversial issues, like alcoholism and sexual abuse, in her stories.

All of her novels are meticulously researched, an endeavor she shares with her husband, Bill Dailey. The couple met in 1963, when Janet worked as a secretary for the construction company Bill owned. The two travel extensively to scout story locations, and have visited all 50 states; these days, they are likely to fly, but miss the time when they drove cross country, a trailer attached to their car. Janet Dailey also reads voraciously about every aspect of any subject she writes about; as she remarks, "Accuracy is important in genre fiction; you have to get it right, zero in on the real details. That's the way to make writing come alive and not irritate the readers with carelessness."

When they are not traveling, the couple spend time at their home on the shore of Lake Taneycomo in Branson, Missouri. It is the part of the country Dailey loves best, partly because, she says, "The people around me are more interested in their problems and their lives, and that sort of keeps me in touch with reality. They think it's nice that I write, but they really couldn't care less."

Allison Janney has been featured on Broadway (Present Laughter), in films (Big Night and First Wives Club) and on television shows on all four networks.

With over fifty books in print, award-winning author Sharon Sala, who also writes as Dinah McCall, still has to remind herself from time to time that this isn't a dream.

She learned to read at the age of four and has had her nose in a book ever since. Her introduction into romance came at an early age through the stories of Zane Gray, Grace Livingston Hill and Emily Loring. Her pride in contributing to the genre is echoed by the letters of her fans.

She's a four-time RITA finalist, Winner of the Janet Dailey Award, three-time Career Achievement winner from Romantic Times magazine, four-time winner of the National Reader's Choice Award and five-time winner of the Colorado Romance Writer's Award of Excellence, as well as numerous other industry awards.

Her books are regularly on bestseller lists, such as the New York Times extended list, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Waldenbooks mass market, and many others.

She claims that, for her, learning to read was a matter of evolution, but learning to write and then being published was a revolution. It changed her life, her world and her fate.

About this edition

• Publisher: Avon
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0061085081
• ISBN 13: 9780061085086
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384