ALL HER EFFORTS GONE TO WASTE For six long years, Georgiana, a young and lovely heiress, had kept up a grotesque and difficult masquerade. She had disguised her beauty and intelligence behind a mask of homeliness and stupidity. Her reason? ...
Marianne was a most unwilling bride... And the Earl of Tarrisbroke was an equally unwilling husband. But neither of them had any choice. Marianne Johnson, rich young widow of a merchant, could not destroy her family's one chance to be...
When Elizabeth's father told her she was to wed the village's lecherous, sin-intoxicated Vicar, she fled in the night to London. Since she was a very sheltered and innocent creature, she did not realize she had taken refuge in a brothel. Nor did she ...
The heartless scheme of a heartless man... To inherit his father's wealth, Viscount Blackwood had to marry. But he wanted a very brief marriage, one that would not interfere for long with his pleasures. So he decided to marry a dying woman ...a...
Reluctant Viscountess, Reluctant Bride According to her mother, Adrienne was far too clever. If only she'd be content wit her beauty instead of wanting to discuss politics and philosophy. But Adrienne had her romantic side, too. She longed to ...
Society gossips had branded her a harlot. Now, she was forced to live up to her reputation... Caroline Adams was one of the most ravishing creatures of her day. Yet her beauty had only brought her grief. She had been a profitable decorative addition ...
CHANGING COURTS How could she tell her fiance that his best friend and client had once been her lover? Melissa Edwards had accompanied the man she meant to marry to Joel Robertson's posh California resort, but once she arrived, her purpose.. w...
As the tiny Grand Duchy of Carthia shudders in the bitter aftermath of the 1848 Revolutions, Princess Anna Theresa, daughter of the Grand Duke, narrowly escapes with her life when her parents are assassinated. She seeks refuge with her cousin Prince ...
Anything would be better than marrying Cousin George,' declares Miss Deborah Phipps, and thus rejects her only chance of a respectable but boring future. High ideals may be fine in theory, but, as soon she discovers, alone and destitute, in Vi...
Like father, like daughter. Such was the handsome Lord Moreton's bitter reflection at the first sight of his brother's fiancee, the beautiful and spirited Diane de Verette. Knowing that her father was a traitor, he was determined that no offs...
The trap was set -- and she was the bait It was strange that the fabulously wealthy Captain Moreton, hero of the Napoleonic Wars should find himself proposing to the first eligible female he met on his return to England. After all, he had vowed to...
He was the hunter, she was his prey As the young bride of Congressman Luke Caine, Beth found life demanding and difficult -- in everything except their shared powerful physical passion. When that passion resulted in pregnancy, she was elated. ...
A deadly game of cat and mouse ... U.S. Customs agent Diana Mackenzie was sent to London to investigate Peter Foxe. But her real target was his stepbrother, Lord Matthew Raleton, who was suspected of masterminding the smuggling of U.S. high-tech e...
Someone had maliciously deceived her .. . When Courtney Long woke up in a mental hospital, the doctors told her she had tried to commit suicide. Courtney knew that wasn't true, but how could she prove her sanity? After a daring escape from ...
She needed a fiance -- immediately! Julie Marshall didn't know what to worry about first -- her sister's approaching marriage to the only man Julie had ever loved, or the fact that her family wanted her American "international financie...
Dangerous relations . . . Abducted, accosted and then accused of murder--what a welcome for Londoner Anne Clarence on her first trip to the United States. In Denver to meet her grandfather for the first time, Anne discovered that the wealthy patri...
Some memories were deadly When Alyssa Humphrey was awakened in the hospital, she was bandaged from head to toe. But that wasn't the worst injury she'd incurred during the near-fatal plane crash. Alyssa had total amnesia. She was engage...
Position available: Wife, full-time, live-in. Alex Woodward - thirty-five years old, intelligent, successful, devilishly handsome. Why would a man with those qualifications want to hire a personnel company to find him a wife? Not any personne...
BETWEEN TOW WORLDS, AND ACROSS TIME, WAS A LOVE THAT COULD ONLY MEAN DANGER... Was she Catalina of Portugal, lost and alone in a foreign land and in the arms of the man who had made her his queen -- Charles II of England, a husband and lover as ir...
Dark obsession He'd become transfixed with her, watching her day after day. He'd become obsessed with her haunting violet eyes. More than anything, reporter Sean Reston wanted to believe that Kate Danvers was innocent of the charge of m...
To help out your eccentric aunt--and her sexy business partner. Laura's wacky Aunt Dot entangles her in a mysterious scheme involving a secret formula and a handsome Italian who happens to need a visa. Or a wife......
KEEP YOUR LOVE FOR ETERNITY For generations, couples have been coming to Eternity, Massachusetts, to exchange wedding vows. Legend has it that those married in Eternity's chapel are destined for a lifetime of happiness. And the townsfolk are ...
Heiress Claire Campbell disappeared seven years ago, following a deadly fire in a cabin in Vermont. Unless she claims her fortune within the year, it will be lost to her forever. DESIRES Into a family determined to keep its secrets comes Diann...
Dark Lord The peasants called him the Count of Albion, and they both feared and revered him. A fighter for Italy's freedom, the mysterious nobleman preferred the night hours to mask his missions ~ and to shroud his tormented soul. Sequestered in the...
He was out of this world! Sensible, down-to-earth Ariel Hutton has always longed for adventure. For heart-stopping excitement...for soul-searing passion and romance. But being kidnapped by a sexy, blue-eyed stranger isn't exactly what she had...
Weddings - Glamour -- Family - Heartbreak Enter the House of DeWilde Since the turn of the century, the elegant and fashionable DeWilde stores have helped brides around the world realize the fantasy of their "special day." The store...
She'll do anything -- Lie, cheat, steal--Caroline Hogarth will do anything to get her three-year-old son back. Her father-in-law will do anything to prevent it. Anything... Which may explain why Caroline wakes up in bed with a dead man. Or...
Twenty-seven years ago. A cold, snowy night in Cleveland... And a traffic pileup that left eight cars wrecked, at least four people dead. But in the midst of this ugliness and pain, a small miracle. A little girl was alive. Her parents weren't so ...
Reunion and Renewal - Lover or Wife? Enter the House of DeWilde Since the turn of the century, the elegant and fashionable DeWilde stores have helped brides around the world realize the fantasy of their "special day." The store: DeWil...
In the sultry Louisiana heat, a family dynasty of law and order is shattered by a mysterious crime of passion TONI DELACROIX was a lady who could sing the blues, but she was planning to put her career on hold in favor of motherhood. Then, suddenly...
Fifteen-year-old Maggie is convicted of her mother's murder. Maggie's guilty of many things.... But not of that. Seven years later she escapes from prison. Maggie Slade's been on the run for seven years now. Seven years of dead-end ...
One spring morning, Professor Summer Shepherd disappeared.... And though ordinarily the FBI refuses to negotiate with terrorists, they clearly would have to make an exception in this case. Summer Shepherd is, after all, the daughter of the U.S. Se...
A disk. A simple disk that named names. That was Isabella Joubert's inheritance from her father, a man she loved but could not trust. To right his wrongs, she was determined to turn the incriminating list over to the authorities. But danger was...
Nestled in the Colorado Rockies, the Wainscott Ranch is a place of hope and promise for expectant mothers from war-torn regions of the globe. Here, women with nowhere to go, and no one to help them, find refuge. Though raised in a life of privileg...
THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT HAS TWO QUESTIONABLE EMPLOYEES: ONE IS A TRAITOR, AND THE OTHER HAS LOST HER EDGE. Verity Marlowe's life has spiraled into a haze of alcohol and self-pity following the death of her husband. The State Department consider...
Isabella Trueblood made history reuniting people torn apart by war and an epidemic. Now, generations later, Lily and Dylan Garrett carry on her work with their agency, Finders Keepers. Circumstances may have changed, but the goal remains the same. ...
On her wedding night, seventeen-year-old Anna Langtry stole her husband's car and fled into the darkness, racing toward freedom. She felt only desperation to escape the nightmare of her Colorado home -- an isolated rural community that condoned her f...
Charlotte Gray's world has been turned upside down. Her husband of six months has disappeared, and now FBI agents inform her that Dan, the love of her life, is a wanted international terrorist. But before Charlotte has a chance to absorb their sho...
A covert network of secret agents is Colorado's most lethal weapon -- and its only hope. Bound by love, loyalty and the law, these men and women are trained to handle the most clandestine and dangerous cases. As scandal and ruin threaten the state's ...
The elegant DeWilde stores -- famous for making bridal fantasies come true. Now the love that built the DeWilde dynasty threatened to shatter it... Gabriel DeWilde had no idea why his supposedly happy parents, Grace and Jeffrey DeWilde, were divor...
DEEP IN RURAL IDAHO, A BRIGADE OF MILITANT WHITE SUPREMACISTS CALLING THEMSELVES THE SOLDIERS OF JORDAN IS PREPARING TO LAUNCH A DESPERATE STRUGGLE THAT THREATENS TO FOREVER ALTER THE NATION'S BALANCE OF POWER. When the country's ultrasecret Unit...
As an operative with the covert government group Unit One, Melody Beecham has made her share of enemies. Her would-be assassin could be any number of criminals she's put behind bars. But when the evidence points to someone who has no knowledge of her...
Every day, women across North America reach out and change lives in their communities. Five have been selected as this year's recipients of Harlequin's More Than Words award -- and five New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling authors have generously...
In Charles Dickens Brentwood's profit-driven life, there is no time for sentimentality. There's no room for family, friends or even the only woman he's ever loved. But when Christmas Eve visitations of holidays past and future show him the life he co...
A young woman wakes up in an unfamiliar public garden and realises that she remembers nothing about herself. Her voice betrays the fact that she is English, but the park is in Ohio in the United States. Her only clue is a scrap of paper bearing the n...
Trent Rossiter, American heir to the vast Rossiter Enterprises, had deserted Kate after less than a year of marriage. Now, five years later, Trent was virtually ordering Kate to come back with him to Timbertrees. How could she refuse when - without h...
Claire decided she needed to change her job and escape from the emotional hazards of working for a man as attractive and dynamic as Adam Bennett. At last, she was prepared to face up to Adam's indifference. But Claire reluctantly agreed to undertake ...