It doesn't take a magic spell to dance into danger in the Jazz Age.
And there's more than one kind of wolf waiting at the end of this mountail trail.
Corral Nocturne: Life on her brother's ranch is lonely for Ellie Strickland. Ed's ungracious manners and tight-fisted habits keep visitors away and his mother and sister close to home. But when Cole Newcomb, son of the wealthiest rancher in the county, meets Ellie by chance, he is struck by an unexpected impulse to rescue her from her solitudeand Ellie's lonely summer is transformed.
When Cole asks her to go with him to the Fourth of July dance, Ellie is determined that nothing, from an old dress to Ed's sour temper, will stand in her way. By the time the Fourth of July fireworks go off at midnight, will they herald only more heartache, or maybejust maybea dream come true?
Lost Lake House: All Dorothy Perkins wants is to have a good time. She's wild about dancing, and can't understand or accept her father's strictness in forbidding it. Night after night she sneaks out to the Lost Lake House, a glamorous island nightclub rumored to be the front for more than just music and dancingin spite of an increasingly uneasy feeling that she may be getting into something more than she can handle.
Marshall Kendrick knows the truth behind the Lost Lake Houseand bitterly hates his job there. But fear and obligation have him trapped. When a twist of circumstances throws Dorothy and Marshall together one night, it may offer them both a chance at escaping the tangled web of fear and deceit each has wovenif only they are brave enough to take it.
The Mountain of the Wolf: In the shadow of the mountain, Rosa Jean Kennedy lives alone, waiting. Vengeance for her brother's death is the only object left in her life, the one thing that steels her resolve to continue in a solitary, sometimes perilous existence.
When mustanger Quincy Burnett arrives on the mountain, he finds himself strangely drawn to the silent, lonely girl who seems to rebuff all attempts at friendship. But Rosa Jean is determined not to let anyoneeven Quincystand in the way of her revenge, and her determination may lead them both toward disasterfor there are other dangers lurking in the mountains besides the wolves whose howls are heard at night.
Each story in this boxed set is a novella, between 20,000 and 30,000 words long.