Books like Reach for the stars by Cathy Gillen Thacker

Tessa, living on an Italian island, asks the stars for love and finds herself drawn to Colin Kenward, who is already engaged—a romance that challenges expectations and destiny.

The modern apartment house on the fashionable Boston drive had a new tenant - a fascinating dark-haired girl with a flashing smile. It wasn't long after meeting her that Scott Pelham knew he had found the love of his dreams. The wealthy young architect was convinced that nothing could keep them apart - until he learned the heartbreaking secret of her family's dishonor. Scott insisted on helping her clear her name and was soon swept into a shadowy world of danger and revenge.

Junkyard animals Motley and Fuzzball build a junkbird and fly toward what they think are the stars.

Shena thought she had fallen in love with Rob at first sight - until she met his brother Cal, whose life was spent in "the lonely places and the high hills," and who had a fixation that women were the dimmer sex. She joked, "I shall rely on my fascination to make him my slave. I'll have him grovelling at my feet. Why should he be able to resist me?" Unfortunately he heard every word!

A peaceful alien civilization, threatened by a dark lord, sends a precious gift to a sixth‑grade student in Plymouth, Massachusetts, hoping it will help survive a distant threat.

When Michael Dare rescued her from a mob of reporters, Diana Dragas was both frightened and exhilarated by the gallant charmer with the devilish gleam in his eyes. She'd hated the media since a scandalous lie had driven her father into an early retirement -- and Michael didn't dare tell her he was a reporter. Even more, Michael was as forceful as he was handsome and Diana, brought up a proper diplomat's daughter, treasured her freedom. Loathe to let a domineering man like Michael into her life, she knew he could too easily overwhelm her with waves of sheer pleasure. Still she risks her hard-won independence only to learn that Michael has cruelly misled her. Can Michael prove to her that she's wrong in distrusting him? Or will his passionate determination only convince her that he's out to enslave her with his fierce lovemaking?

With his sun-burnished hair, his chiseled features and muscles of warm steel, he was the most dangerous--and desirable--man shed ever met. A Seattle-based free-lance photojournalist, Jenny was assigned an article on mountain climbing--the challenging new leisure activity for women. The only woman enrolled in Logan Kent's climbing school, she certainly felt challenged. Clearly Logan was committed to scaling impossible heights as he would never be committed to any woman. She called herself a fool for loving a man who thrived on danger

LL HER LIFE SHE HAD PLAYED IT SAFE Now, having left a bad marriage and set up her own public-relations business in Denver, Kate Welles Brock was getting the first taste of what it felt like to really live. But living meant taking risks. Philanthropist Paul Florian's interest in the needy--and in her--appeared to be genuine, but he was so closemouthed, Kate couldn't help but have doubts about him. She was, however, as determined to ferret out Paul's secrets as she was to prove to her father, once and for all, that she deserved to succeed him as chairman of Corminco International....