Off on the wrong foot with a handsome count in a beautiful kingdom… Carrie Dunn, a writer working on a story, has just arrived in San Rinaldo, a beautiful kingdom on the Mediterranean Sea. While she’s enjoying a meal on a terrace with a fantastic view, a group of famous people arrive and force her to change tables. Then a handsome man tells Carrie that he’s just paid her tab, which only serves to infuriate her further. She verbally assaults the man, not realizing that he is local royalty…

This collection of 28 vignettes of famous lovebirds from Colorado's past includes such incendiary historical characters as Baby Doe and Horace Tabor, Molly Dorsey and Byron Sanford, and Cort Thompson and Mattie Silks. The couples were chosen because of their impact on the state's evolution and their propensity for drama. These real-life chatacters include pioneers, adventurers, gamblers, silver barons, and madams.

ROYAL AFFAIR Ruling passions… As far as Lady Caterina was concerned, Matthew Allenby was a crook and a charlatan! He used lies and flattery to ease his way into the golden circle of the San Rinaldo royal family. But, for the sake of one of her beloved charities, Caterina was forced to work alongside him—only to discover that she was far from immune to his lethal charm. And at least one of her suspicions was being confirmed: Matthew Allenby was a thief—a thief of hearts! Romancing a royal was easy, marriage another affair!

ROYAL AFFAIR The Duchess's dilemma Duty ruled Damiano's life: duty to his country, his people and his baby son, but not, Sofia thought, to his wife. She knew that her wedding to the Duke of San Rinaldo had been just a matter of convenience, but it appeared that even his old flames figured more highly than her. Now, to end the rumors about their marriage, Damiano was insisting that they convince the world that theirs was a love match. It seemed that Sofia had gotten what she had always wanted—a "devoted" husband by her side—but would this fairy-tale romance ever have a real happy ending? Romancing a royal was easy, marriage another affair!

When prospectors set up camp on Cherry Creek in 1858, Denver emerged as a lightning rod for the extraordinary. Time has washed away so many unusual storiesfrom the dark days of nineteenth century Law and Order League lynchings and the KKKs later rise and fall to the heroism of suffragettes and the touching plight of the gypsies. Elizabeth Wallace knocks the dust off these details and introduces readers to characters like world heavyweight boxing champion Charles L. Sonny Liston, hit-man turned rodeo promoter Leland Varain, aka Diamond Jack, and the citys daring wall dogs, whose hand-painted building advertisements are fading reminders of a bygone Denver.