title: Hearts and Swords
author: Owens, Robin D.
description: Four original novellas from the author of Heart Search.
  
  Award-winning author Robin D. Owens returns to the futuristic world of Celta with four original romantic fantasies as four different couples find their HeartMates and their destinies on Celta.
  
  Heart and Sword
  Captain Kelse Bountry leads a colony fleet in search of a habitable planet. His Ship is far off course and his crew is on the verge of mutiny, circumstances that threaten both the success of Kelse's mission and his marriage. But Fern Bountry is not about to give up on either...
  
  Heart Story
  A year has passed since Blush Willow's domineering and murderous mother died, and Blush has drawn her hidden HeartMate, Dri Paris, to her. All should be well. But when they finally meet, unresolved anger at the past -- and each other -- flares between them. Yet they must work together to find a treasure and save Dri's family.
  
  Heart and Soul
  Genista Furze, scandalous ex-wife of Tinne Holly, has created a new life for herself working for a clockmaker in small Gael City. Content with simplicity, and learning to value herself, Genista is in no hurry to risk her heart on another man -- no matter how attractive her neighbor is...
  
  Noble Heart
  Walker Clover is experiencing Passage -- the dreamquest to free his psi power -- and learns he possesses a flair for magic. When his parents learn of his abilities, they reveal that his real mother was a Noblewoman. Now, Celta's FirstFamilies scheme to forge an alliance with Walker through offers of marriage -- a prospect he finds abhorrent until he meets the mysterious Sedwy Grove...
  
  