Dear Reader,

            I'm hoping the new year brings all of us health, prosperity and happiness. I continue to write relationship novels with happy endings because I believe in the power of love, honesty and commitment. In 2010 I will have four new releases for you as well as reissues of a few others. My 70th romance will be published this year!

            March 2010 will see the release of THE TEXAS BILLIONAIRE'S BABY from Silhouette Special Edition. This is the fourth book in my Baby Experts series. Readers have already met Gina Rigoletti in Book 3, Baby By Surprise. THE TEXAS BILLIONAIRE'S BABY is all about secrets and forgiveness.  If you click on the cover, you can read an excerpt from this romance and begin to get to know Gina, Logan and fourteen-month-old Daniel.

            Book 5, THE TEXAN'S HAPPILY-EVER-AFTER will be released in May. Raina Gibson (introduced in Book 4) never expected to be attracted to one of her little patients' dads. But Shep McGraw isn't a dad to ignore. The Texas rancher is adopting three boys and he cares about them with all of his heart. But Raina's husband had been a hero, a firefighter killed on September 11. She never intends to fall in love again.  Yet a day with Shep on his ranch in a secluded glen when passion takes over leaves her pregnant.  Shep's proposal of marriage is both a solution and a challenge...because Shep guards his heart all too well. She doesn't realize he's keeping a secret about his youth that he feels prevents him from becoming hero-material. Will Shep's secret destroy their new marriage? Find out this spring.

            In December, the sixth book in my Baby Experts series will be published. Lily, who readers have come to know through books 4 and 5 will have her romance. Since her story is unveiled little by little in each book, I don't want to give away any secrets! I will reveal more about her romance later this year.

            I was honored to be asked to write another Montana Mavericks continuity book. This book will hit the shelves in September. As soon as I know the title, I'll share it with you. In my book, a single mom and her two-year-old daughter find a life with a Texas doctor who has taken the position of temporary staff physician at The Thunder Canyon Resort. Also, two of my past Montana Mavericks books will be reissued this year—IT HAPPENED ONE WEDDING NIGHT will be out on retail shelves in July 2010 and BORN IN WHITEHORN (a novella) will be released in November.

            Another addition to my schedule in 2010 will be THE SHERIFF'S PROPOSAL which has been chosen to be part of the Men In Uniform collection. It will be available by subscription.

            I want to thank you all for your support during my career. I try to make each book new and exciting with an element I've never used before. That's becoming a challenge, but one I intend to meet enthusiastically! If you are a new reader, I hope you enjoy the plunge into my booklist and find reading each book a pleasure and an emotional experience. You can email me your thoughts about my books or visit me at my Facebook page.

                                                            To a fulfilling and happy new year!!!
                                                            Karen Rose Smith