Every novel in this collection is your passport to a romantic tour of the United States through time-honored favorites by Americais First Lady of romance fiction. Each of the fifty novels is set in a different state, researched by Janet and her husband, Bill. For the Daileys it was an odyssey of discovery. For you, itis the journey of a lifetime. Your tour of desire begins with this story set in Pennsylvania. Mara had locked her feelings away. Aloof, cold as ice- that was Mara Prentiss. And she felt she had every reason to be that way. Her fatheris infidelity had killed her mother. Thatis what love leads to Mara thought. Mara hated her father, Adam, but she looked after him out of duty. When he became friends with the striking, persuasive Sinclair Buchanan, a tenant on Marais land, she was incensed. When Sinclair began his campaign to unfreeze Marais bitter heart, she was tempted. But she had no intention of falling in love. Surely she was above stooping to that!