SEEING THE NEWSPAPER PICTURE WAS A SHOCK. Numbly, Laurie read the caption. “Hotel owner and entrepreneur Rian Montgomery seen escorting the rising young newcomer LaRaine Evans at a recent Hollywood party.” Laurie tried to be glad that Rian and LaRaine were together again, but she couldn’t forget how his dark eyes had looked at her, sparking the flame of desire that punctuated the time they had spent together. It might as well have been yesterday that she had left him so sharp and fresh was the pain of her love.

Every novel in this Americana collection is your passport to a romantic tour of the United States through time-honored favorites by Americas First Lady of romance fiction Janet Dailey. 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, its the journey of a lifetime. Your tour of desire begins with this story set in Rhode Island.