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Barbara Baldwin
Contemporary and Historical Romance, Short Stories, Time Travel

Barb not only writes fiction, but she also wrote and co-produced a documentary on Kansas history that won state and national awards. Her writing credits include teacher resource books, poetry, short stories, essays and magazine articles, along with writing grants as her "other" full time job. Barb enjoys anything creative, so along with her writing, she likes making quilts, pottery and fused glass. Although she resides in the Midwest, she loves to travel and finds that almost any destination can lend itself to a story or be good research for a future novel.

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Books by Barb

Song of My Heart
By Barbara Baldwin
Samhain Publishing
ISBN: 1-59998-706-6

It’s a game of hidden identities, murder and high stakes poker. The biggest gamble? That love will be the winning hand.

Maxwell Grant, federal investigator and master of disguise, feels it’s his duty to look after the fairer sex. His resolve is tested, however, when he runs into the independent Abigail O’Brien while searching for a scar-faced thief and killer. Inspired by the feminist writings of popular suffragettes of the day, Abigail envisions for herself a life on the concert stage, not subservient to a man. And she has no trouble vocalizing her beliefs, which gets her into no end of trouble from which Max must rescue her. Max proposes she come with him on his mission, intent on protecting her while they look for a man only she can identify. She agrees, but wants no part of his “protection”. It’s equal partners or nothing. Max and Abby pursue their quarry from town to town, heating up the poker tables. And burning for each other. It’s a gamble that could pay off, in justice…and in the heart.

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Silver River Love
By Barbara Baldwin
Whiskey Creek Press
ISBN: 978-1-59374-903-3

Samantha Delaney sees the book of poems as clues that her father is in trouble, so she travels to the Nevada Territory to find him. Unfortunately, she must deal with two men of totally opposite persuasion, but both of whom think she needs a guardian. Her gentleman companion Roger Smith, and the ever-present Sheriff of Silver River Tyler Sloan, go out of their way to aggravate her, interfere with her investigation, and create a disturbing emotional upheaval in her life. Roger has a somewhat reticent nature, which Samantha considers an asset since she feels she can, given enough time, mold him into the kind of husband she wants. However, as Samantha unravels the clues to her father’s whereabouts, she finds Roger is not who he seems and there is far more to Sheriff Sloan than she first thought. His passion for life, and the passion he awakens in Sam have her quickly rethinking her ideas of independence.

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FANTASIES FOREVER: ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, ANYWAY FINALE
By Barbara Baldwin
Whiskey Creek Press - Torrid
ISBN: 978-1-59374-871-5

Fallen Angel Reviews Recommended Read
Readers' Choice #1 Torrid Bestseller Of The Month

When the McVicker brothers and their wives get together, interesting, not to mention steamy and sexy, things are bound to happen. This time, it started with a simple question – “Why isn’t John married?”

The sisters-in-law decide John needs a woman in his life – someone soft and quiet, gentle and reserved to bring out his protective instincts. However, when John believes he’s being stalked, his brothers hire Cori Taggart, a bodyguard, because she’s assertive, hot and sexy, and they hope John will take notice. John doesn’t realize everyone is plotting, but that’s in his best interest because he hates being set up.

Left to their own devices, John and Cori discover an explosive chemistry. Cori likes to be in control and John has no problem letting her. But can Cori keep her personal and professional relationships separate when John is in real danger and it’s up to her to save him?

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Christmas Quilt Anthology
By Barbara Baldwin
Whiskey Creek Press
ISBN: 978-1-59374-876-0

The most important parts of the Christmas season are not the presents or the tree, baking or decorations. It's the people—family and friends—who enrich our lives and make the holidays so special. Christmas Quilt is actually a collection of people who will make you laugh and cry, remember and wish, and like good friends, you’ll want to visit them every year. You’ll meet Billy and Mrs. Clayborne, who have holiday ghosts to deal with; Megan and her siblings, orphaned just before the holiday. There’s the children of the coal mining village of Snow and a group of lumberjacks, all of whom learn to believe in magic. Read one mother’s need for holiday tradition, letters from friends full of holiday cheer, verses and rhymes about luminaries and Christmas Eve traditions. And meet all the people touched by The Christmas Quilt, made with love for a daughter’s holiday wedding, as it appears at Christmas time throughout the century.

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FANTASIES UNDERCOVER: ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, ANYWAY Book 3
By Barbara Baldwin
Whiskey Creek Press - Torrid
ISBN: 978-1-59374-586-8

Travis McVicker, a reporter for a Boston newspaper, focuses most of his attention on undercover exposés of corrupt businesses. Currently, though, he would rather be under the covers with Morgan Gentry, a former classmate who has started to work at the same paper. In the midst of discovering a passion they had felt but never consummated years before, Morgan becomes involved in a dangerous scheme to expose a group of corrupt doctors and it takes every investigative skill Travis has to find her before it’s too late.

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Fantasy Road - Anywhere, Anytime, Anyway Book 2
By Barbara Baldwin
Whiskey Creek Press Torrid
ISBN: 1-59374-583-4

Chase McVicker owns fifteen limousine companies and occasionally acts as chauffeur. Katie Jo Hawthorne is hiding out from an ex-husband as she tries to find the reason behind her father's death, and she’s more interested in the previous owner of one particular limo than she is its current driver. That is, until she gets sidetracked when Chase shows her ways to utilize a stretch limo that makes her fantasies come true. But when they discover someone is tracking her movements, it takes more than Chase's driving ability to save them from the bad guys and all of his passion to save Katie from herself.

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Nevada Gold
By Barbara Baldwin
Double Dragon Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-55404-353-8

Take two old prospectors who have turned into ghosts, one modern day writer/photographer, and one handsome, if somewhat absent-minded mine owner and mix them up with an explosion gone awry in the Nevada mining town of Peavine. Add to that a time difference of over 130 years, and the chances for romance, mishaps and mayhem are as abundant as Nevada Gold.

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Fantasies Delivered - Book 1 of the Anywhere, Anytime, Anyway Trilogy
By Barbara Baldwin
Whiskey Creek Press Torrid
ISBN: 1-59374-579-6

ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, ANYWAY – A trilogy

Behind the ordinary façade of the workaday world, Gage, Chase and Travis McVicker have more to their backgrounds than meets the eye, because their best quality -- passionate sex -- is one skill you won't find on their resumes.

In Fantasies Delivered, Gage McVicker is a disillusioned millionaire who takes a break from business to travel the country doing odd jobs. While working in the mailroom of a New York publisher, he meets Keva Monroe, senior editor of erotic romance, and it doesn’t take long for him to discover she’s as hot in bed as the books she edits. But in order to get her right where he wants her, he pens his own manuscript and then proceeds to bring those fantasies to life.

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How Far Will You Go?
By Barbara Baldwin
Whiskey Creek Press Torrid
ISBN: 978-1-59374-452-6

Kelly Baker had always been willing to take a dare. That attribute led to a really hot date with Loukota Kincaid when she was a sophomore in high school. Now, ten years later, Lou is back in town and the gorgeous cowboy dares her to let her imagination go and explore the sensual magnetism that draws them together. The minute Lou sees Kelly he wants to pick up where they left off, but he’s not back in Dexter, Colorado for the rodeo as Kelly imagines. He’s conducting undercover surveillance for the government. He wonders if he can maintain his cover and still convince Kelly they will be great together, taking her to heights he has only imagined up to now.

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Trespassing Time - Ghost Stories from the Prairie
By Sheri L. McGathy, Linda Madl, Barbara Baldwin, Jerri Garretson, Troy Taylor
Ravenstone Press
ISBN: 0-9659712-6-0

On the lonely trails of the windswept plains, desperate spirits wander across time burdened with the raw emotion of their unsettled lives.

Does the fog creeping up from the river bring vengeful ghosts seeking to settle an old score?

Are the fleeting shadows you see from the corner of your eye leading you to the horrors of the restless dead?

These sixteen compelling and spooky stories of love, legends and evil will challenge your sense of reality. Is the deserted church really the Gates of Hell? Can a murdered cat save a young woman's life? Will the friendship of two small children surmount even death? How far will a long-dead mother go to get back a precious charm bracelet? What is the prairie spirit that demands a terrible price from those who break the sod?

From a wind-tossed lake to a lonely abandoned cemetery; from a stone mansion to a barnstormer's plane, eerie specters await you as you dare to trespass time.

Awards: 2005 Foreword Magazine BOTY

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Indigo Bay
By Barbara Baldwin
ImaJinn Books
ISBN: 1-893896-43-9

Michaela Marie “Mica” Chadwick inherited Sea Crest, her great-aunt's bed and breakfast. Mica sees her inheritance as an opportunity to come to grips with her life. As she passes through a door to another section of Sea Crest, she goes back in time where she encounters T. Logan Rutledge the original owner of the island he calls Indigo Bay.

Logan is intrigued by the mysterious woman who insists she’s from the future and even more so when they are drawn into intrigue where mystery and treachery intertwine and threaten their lives and their love.

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