Valerie Bennett was a desperate, frightened little girl when she ran away from home to join a gypsy tribe. She was a beautiful young woman when her abominable stepfather and her submissive mother found her and forced her to return to the family estat...
The fabled romance of Venice seemed a mockery to lovely young Prudence Tarrant. Left penniless by the disgrace and death of her beloved brother, she came to this foreign city not as the lady she was born, but as a scorned governess to the ambitious H...
For Sheila O'Donnell, Regency England seemed a world away from the tropical plantation that she managed in the absence of its owner. But when Lord Lionel Maitland suddenly returned to his island estate from London with a party of elegant ladies a...
When lovely Jeanne-Anne de St. Martin wed the dashing Marquis de Valerian, it was a marriage of necessity for her, and an amusing game for him. Despite her French name, Jeanne-Anne was British through and through, and in the hostile nation of Napoleo...
Beautiful young Viola Marchmont dearly loved and deeply respected her proud and distinguished father, Sir Anthony, Regency England's ambassador to Italy's romantic city of Florence. But now the depth of Viola's feelings was cruelly tested...
Lady Diana Somerville was the toast of London that season, and her forthcoming marriage to Sir Geoffrey Loring was considered the match of the decade. Yet something inside her rebelled against the prospect of that cold and loveless marriage, rebelled...
For seven long years, Deborah Stanton had lived in the painful shadow of passion lost. Duty had compelled her to turn away the man she loved, and now she still lived as a captive of the past, an unwilling prisoner of an undying hope. Now Morgan Ra...
A PIRATE'S MISTRESS OR A LORD'S WEDDED WIFE - WHAT DIFFERENCE WITHOUT LOVE? Betrothed against her will by an ambitious father, Lady Barbara Grandison was sailing from Regency England to join the fiance she loathed when her ship was captured by an ...
AMERICAN UPSTART She was sold like a racehorse to the highest bidder: Julian Herriot, Baron de Verlaine. Regina Pierce, with her beauty and an embarrassment of riches, exchanged a gold miner's dowry for one of the oldest titles in France. Shelt...
Wild ecstasy and soaring passion in the secret heart of the Orient... Katie Adair, the schoolmaster's beautiful daughter. She would be swept from seclusion in England to sail the China Seas with the brooding Rupert Llewellyn in search of precious sil...
SHE FOUND THE MAGIC OF LOVE IN THE CITY OF MUSIC AND DREAMS.... A woman's place -- the parlor, not the concert stage! But radiant Diana Ballantyne, pianist extraordinaire, had one year -- a year before she would bow to her father's wishes, return ...
Melissa Brown, betrayed in love, saw nothing to lose in accepting the proposal of the Marques of Villafranca, a Spanish nobleman. The marriage was to be in name only, but soon Melissa began to believe her marriage, begun as a lie, had turned into a t...
DIANE TRASK WAS EIGHTEEN, LOVELY, AND AN HEIRESS. When her stepfather's death left her suddenly alone, she realized with a shock how little she really knew of life. Yet here amid the glamour of an opulent ocean liner, Diane was to learn of the ...
Georgiana Cartwright had always imagined that marriage would be an affair of the heart, a dream of love come true. Yet when Lord Stephen Sharington, Earl of Osborne, asked for -- or rather, demanded -- her hand, Georgiana found that holy matrimony co...
Claire Stanhope is ignored by her father and kept hiding in the wings by her lovely older sister Gloriana. Since their father wants to continue his bachelor existence, he hopes to marry them both off - the sooner the better. Gloriana is courted by so...
Spirited young Vivian Lesley and her arrogant guardian, Lord Gilbert Seymour, were equally shocked to learn of each other's secret lives. Lord Gilbert could not condone his well-brought-up young ward's writing lurid novels under another name....