The Hanging Man – Leigh Wyndfield
In another world, the Sagittarius and Taurus people are at war. The Taurean King spurns all things magical, including his own daughter’s hidden powers. An outcast, Gabriella Etall ghosts through the castle, forever alone, banned from going forth into the outside world so her magic will not be discovered by the kingdom’s magic-hating subjects. When she stumbles upon a captured Sagittarius hanging in the castle dungeon, she feels the hum of another’s magic on her skin for the first time. Now, she will have to decide if she will betray her family for one night of bliss or let her chance for fulfillment pass her by forever.

Taking A Chance – Blaise Kilgallen
Joyce Winters always wanted to be a dancer/singer--in Las Vegas or on the New York musical stage. When her “last chance” audition falls through, she decides to give it up. She dozes on the train ride back to New Jersey and winds up in 1870 Wyoming Territory. There she meets Peter “Chance” Rivers, a hunky, former gunslinger with enough male charisma to incite any female’s lust.

He offers her a job singing in his Lady Luck saloon, and she agrees to stay on for the time being.

Joy is determined to return to New Jersey and her own time although Chance’s lovemaking has her wishing she could bring him home with her for always. Born in the 20th century, used to every modern convenience, Joy feels herself falling for Chance, but before she gets too involved, she is wise enough to know she’d be miserable living in the wilds of Wyoming Territory during the late 1800’s.

Joy is attacked by a drunken trapper on the second floor of the saloon. Chance, catching a trespasser invading his upstairs territory, he shoots the man in the back. The worst memories of his gunslinger days are back to haunt him, and Chance feels he must leave everything behind and disappear again--without Joy Winters.