Maryann Davenport Livres

Ken McGarin has loved women almost as much as he loves teaching public high school students. When he defies the principal and the union delegate in defense of the students, he lands in a stuffy private high school. There he meets the exotic Sheree McFadden, the teacher who makes him forget other women. Together they lead the other teachers who want to reform the school into one that prepares their student for real life. The students vote to call it the Academy of Individual Responsibility. McGarin and his team must defend themselves and their dream against public slander and mob violence.

Onri Madison is as unique and feisty as her name. She has been teaching music at grade schools and repairing and tuning pianos along the West Coast for years. When she decides to spend a year at the house of her favorite relative, Great-Aunt Honey, she lands more than job opportunities in the San Joaquin farm community. She meets Gordon Flint, a corporate farmer who treats his workers like family. His stubborn integrity and the deep longing for her in his eyes makes him the sexiest man she has ever met. When their courtship becomes known around the valley a woman rejected by Flint uses her power and her money to unleash vengeful acts and threats against them while giving them no way to fight back. Onri struggles to not only find a way to defeat the bitter woman but also to save Flint from his guilt over bringing this evil into her life. Flint's workers worry that the insane woman will destroy them all in her desperate quest for revenge against one man.