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Jean S. MacLeod
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Jean Sutherland MacLeod was born in 20 January 1908 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She was the daughter of Elizabeth Allen and John MacLeod. Her father, who was a civil engineer, moved with jobs. Her education began at Bearsden Academy, continued in Swansea and ended in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She moved to North Yorkshire, England to marry with Lionel Walton on 1 January 1935, an electricity board executive, who died in 1995. They had a son, David Walton, who died two years before her. She passed away on 11 April 11 at 103 years.
MacLeod started writing stories for the magazine The People's Friend, before she sold her first romance novel in 1936. She wrote contemporary romances, most of them were set in her native Scotland, or in exotic places like Spain or Caribbean, places that she normally visited for documentaries. From 1948 to 1965, she also published under the pseudonym of Catherine Airlie. She published her last novel in 1996, a year after her husband death. She was member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, where she met the mediatic writer Barbara Cartland, who was not too friendly.
Book List in Order: 110 titles
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Dangerous Obsession
- Jan-1938
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One should marry for love. Faith Braunton admired the brilliant Dr. Maribeau so much that she married him without ever wondering if she'd mistaken admiration for love. But her husband's insane jealously soon destroyed any feelings she had for...
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Mist Across the Hills
- Jan-1938
- / Contemporary Romance
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Adrift in a little boat, Arline was thankful to be rescued from the stormy waters of Loch Solan by a grim-faced stranger. She was not so thankful, however, when his boat ran out of fuel and they were stranded overnight on a deserted island. Nor was s...
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Run Away From Love // Nurse Companion
- Jan-1939
- / Contemporary Romance
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Once your heart is given, love can never be quite the same again, Nurse Elsa Milnorth thought unhappily when her engagement came to an end. It had ended so cruelly, so callously; she would never believe in love again. To forget, she took a job that c...
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Return to Spring
- Jan-1939
- / Contemporary Romance
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Ruth Farday's determination to turn Conningscliff Farm into a guest house was understandable. It was better than having to leave it, which she and her recently crippled father would otherwise have to do. But the problems were endless, and copi...
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Silent Bondage // Doctor in Bondage
- Jan-1940
- / Contemporary Romance
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Doctor Bruce Kendron had remained "in bondage" to Janie because he had always blamed himself for the accident that had cost Janie ten years of helplessness. Now Janie pleads for Bruce to personally perform an operation he has never before attempted i...
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Bleak Heritage
- Jan-1942
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Alan Mailland had been estranged from his parents because of his marriage to Rhona, but it had been his wish that his son Robin be brought up at his family home in Scotland. When Alan died, Rhona, after much heart-searching, agreed to let Robin go to...
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The Rowan Tree
- 1943
- / Contemporary Romance
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When David Merrick, Chaplain to the Forces, was invalidated out of the army for six months, he sustained a crushing disappointment at the hands of the girl he had come home to marry.......
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Unseen Tomorrow
- 1943
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For years Felicity had given so much of herself to caring for others. Now she had found true love, and yet it was only now that her heart and her strength would be tested to the limit....
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This Much to Give // Special Nurse
- Jan-1945
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Would she sacrifice all for love's sake? Lindsey Hamilton knew that she owed to Dr. Richard Stewart Harvey alone the almost miraculous recovery of her dearly loved brother. And when, by coincidence, Richard's own brother, Douglas, came ...
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Sown in the Wind
- Jan-1946
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Judith's life had just been disrupted by the death of her mother, so when Stephen Long asked her if she would go to his Scottish home to look after the two children for whom he was responsible, she accepted gladly. She did not realize how much she ...
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The House of Oliver
- Jan-1947
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The House of Oliver was divided when Fergus Oliver became the reluctant heir to "Oliver's Keep". When his cousin's widow, Helen, arrived from the Far East with a little boy, Fergus hoped that here was the rightful heir -- a son in the direct line. He...
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The Chalet in the Sun // Mountain Clinic
- Jan-1948
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The change to accompany her cousin to Switzerland as nurse-companion was just what Elspeth needed after she was badly hurt by love. She didn't expect to falling love again in Switzerland. But when Dr. Robert Nicholl seemed destined to break her heart...
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Above the Lattice // Doctor's Daughter
- Jan-1949
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To Christine Helmsdale, working at Kinaird as receptionist for her father, "Young Doctor John", it seemed that no third person could ever share the happy communion of spirit which was theirs - until the night of the storm. Then, sweeping i...
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The Valley of Palms
- Jan-1950
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Although the beautiful Canary Islands should have been the ideal spot for romance, Elizabeth Barnard and Michael Rayner faced insurmountable problems. There had long been ill feelings between their families; now Elizabeth's masterful uncle and...
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Cameron of Gare
- Jan-1952
- / Contemporary Romance
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An ancient feud marred their love. When Fiona moved with her father and brother to Trimor Lodge in the Scottish Highlands, life seemed perfect. Their new home was breathtakingly beautiful heather-covered hills, deep wooded glens and sparkling loch...
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The Silent Valley
- Jan-1953
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If I should meet thee, after long years, how should I greet thee? With silence and tears... It would be with silence and tears, Norse Jane Calvert knew, that she greeted Stuart Hemmingway when he came as surgeon to Conyers Park Nursing Home. Years...
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Stranger In Their Midst
- Jan-1953
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It was hard on Susan Danely when a stranger came to Coulourdale and took the place her family had held for generations. She and the overbearing Graham Courage could never be friends, she told herself, and she made no secret of her hostility. But as s...
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Dear Doctor Everett
- Jan-1954
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Janet Ferrier and Martin Everett had known each other years ago, before she qualified as a nurse and he as a doctor. Their friendship was just a faint, dream-like memory in her mind, certainly not a force powerful enough to influence her decisions ab...
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The Man in Authority // Nurse Lang
- Jan-1954
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It was not love that drew Moira Lang closer and closer to Philip Melmore, the man she was nursing back to health after an air-crash. Her heart had been given, from their first meeting, to Philip's brother Grant; but Grant was, it seemed, in thral...
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Master of Glenkeith
- Jan-1955
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Tessa's delight in her new home at Glenkeith was shattered. The hostility that met her was strange and hurtful; she couldn't begin to guess its cause. But Tessa found she could ignore Hester MacDonald's forbidding ways. And, with every...
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The Way in the Dark
- Jan-1956
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You can't go back! You can't go back! The train wheels repeated their message. yet after six years of comfortable living, an undeniable compulsion was drawing Janet back to the bleak, isolated Yorkshire farm. Back to Mark, whose young love sh...
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My Heart's in the Highlands
- Jan-1956
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Fiona believed that love had deserted her for ever. There remained Torquil MacLean, whom she liked and respected, and the work they could do together in the glen that meant so much to them both. Could a successful marriage be built on that foundation...
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Prisoner of Love
- Jan-1957
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Julius was a skilled and brilliant surgeon Laura was awed working with him. That he should notice her and then wish to marry her was incredible. She saw herself helping him to even greater heights. But the reality proved far different. Julius w...
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Journey in the Sun // Doctors Together
- Jan-1957
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Six years was a long time -- but the anger and misunderstanding that had parted Andrew and Elizabeth, still lay between them when they were reunited at Andrew's Yorkshire clinic. And now there was the eligible widow, Peggy Daly....
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Air Ambulance
- Jan-1958
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The island seemed to cast a spell over her... Forced to land in an ice storm, the air ambulance came down on the tiny island of Heimra Beag. Because of injuries, both Alison Lang, the flying nurse, and the pilot had to stay. Alison loved the is...
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The Gated Road
- Jan-1959
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Jane Thornton's life was in ruins An accident had destroyed her dancing career, and her fiance and her own sister had fallen suddenly in love. Jane had the weight of more than one grief in her heart the day she went to High Tor to break a piec...
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The Little Doctor
- 1960
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Nicholas Pell’s proposal came at the worst possible time for Doctor Jane Langdon. Her first love, Maxwell Kilsyth, had just walked back into her life. But Max was now a married man. Could she forget him and make a successful life with Nicholas afte...
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The Silver Dragon
- Jan-1961
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Why won't you believe me?" her name stitched into her parka and an address on a piece of paper identified the pretty young amnesia victim --- and led her to the man who was her husband. Dixon Cabot was anything but happy to see her. What had ...
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Slave of the Wind
- Jan-1962
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When Lesley returned to her Highland home after her mother's death, mistress now of the family estates, she found a stranger in the glen -- Maxwell Croy, intent on buying back that part of the estate which had once belonged to his family. Lesley's ...
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The Black Cameron
- Feb-1964
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Fiona had left her home in the Highlands after the tragic death of Alex, whom she loved, but now her job with an American oceanographic survey was taking her back. Would she be able to find peace there - or would Deborah spoil things again as she had...
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Sugar Island
- Sep-1964
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Kay Mathieson had returned to her Caribbean island home after seven homesick years full of hope, hope which was swiftly dashed when she arrived to find poverty and decay everywhere, and the island dominated by the overbearing figure of Nick Coulson, ...
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The Wolf of Heimra
- Jan-1965
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Fenella knew that in spite of her love for the island, she had no claim on Heimra yet -- until an heir was born. These MacKails were so sure of themselves; they expected everything to come their way....
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Crane Castle
- Nov-1965
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If charm were all that mattered, there was really no contest. Warren Harper, a wealthy young Canadian, could win hands down over lain MacAllister, the impoverished laird of Crane Castle. But Cathie came to understand the dour laird's love for ...
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The Drummer of Corrae
- Jan-1966
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When planning threatened the quiet Scottish glen where she had spent all her life, Angie found herself torn between two loves--for her beloved home, and for the man whose job would be to destroy it....
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The Tender Glory
- Aug-1966
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It seemed a great sacrifice when Alison gave up her hopes of a career as concert pianist to nurse her mother back at her Scottish home, Craigie Hill Farm - especially as her brother Robin refused to come back from Canada and face his responsibilities...
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The Moonflower
- Jan-1967
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When Lisa Harrington flew to Singapore to marry her fiance she found that her journey did not end there, and in the deep jungle of Malaya she came face to face with the lovely Malayan girl who was to change her whole future....
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Lament for a Lover // Lament for Love
- Mar-1967
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"You've wanted Morison's for some time, I believe, and now that there's a woman in charge you think it's going to be easy", Katrina told Torquil MacRobert. But it was not going to be easy to stop herself from falling in love with him....
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The Master of Keills
- Aug-1967
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When Alison Dundas's sister Sherry decided that her acting career was more important to her than marriage, and forthwith called off her engagement, it was Alison who had the thankless task of breaking the news to Sherry's fiance. It was not a...
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The Bride of Mingalay
- Oct-1967
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As the last of the Donalds to own the lovely Hebridean island of Garve, Rowena was determined to make a success of her inheritance." What a pity it was that she so detested the factor, Andrew Fenwick, when she was going to have to rely on him...
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Summer Island
- Jul-1968
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She was going back to a memory... Two years ago Ailsa Mackay's plans had been vague. A job somewhere... the stimulus of work to obliterate all thoughts of Gavin Chisholm. Now her mother had fallen ill. The family needed her, so she was retu...
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The Joshua Tree
- Jan-1970
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Elizabeth had gone out to southern California to visit her recently widowed sister - and, not altogether surprisingly, found Ruth far from happy, intimidated by her late husband's formidable relatives, struggling to keep his small impoverished estate...
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The Light in the Tower
- Apr-1971
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Marian was not at all sure why her father had bought the ruined castle of Garve, family home of the MacDougalls, or why he felt so bitter about it. She was more sure of her feelings for Andrew MacDougall - but wouldn't Garve always be a barrier b...
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The Way Through the Valley
- Jun-1971
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Catriona had enjoyed her course in Edinburgh and especially her dates with Robin. Now she was ready to begin a new life and Robin seemed likely to be part of it. What a time, then, to meet Andrew again--the man she'd been trying for three years t...
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Moment of Decision
- May-1972
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Caroline Norton had inherited her grandmother's farm jointly with her cousin Heinie, and she was determined to keep it in the family. Her cousin, though a charming man, was weak and irresponsible. The task of running the farm was going to be diff...
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The Scent of Juniper
- Sep-1972
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Although born in Canada, Elizabeth had been reared on legends of the Scottish Highlands, in particular, Galshie, her mother’s home. And then suddenly, Galshie was miraculously hers. Life in the glens could have been happy but not while two men eyed...
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Adam's Wife // Adam's Daughter
- Jan-1973
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After Adam Denharn died, his daughter Susan knew that for the sake of his young widow, her beloved stepmother Evelyn, she would have to accept the take-over of the family business. But how could she ever accept the man who was taking it over -- t...
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The Rainbow Days
- Mar-1973
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Vanessa was in the Caribbean for three months -- to work as secretary to the writer Alex Rossiter, not to have a romance with him, she assured everyone firmly. She might have felt more romantically inclined towards Alex's brother Max -- but Max had...
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Time Suspended
- Jan-1975
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Ruth had to go to Antigua to search for her missing sister, and a lot was going to depend on a man called Logan Carse. Logan, she was told, "Could be a gentleman or a pirate". If he turned out to be a pirate, which seemed likely, how could she man...
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The Phantom Pipes
- Dec-1975
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It was spring, the season for new growth, new beginnings in the Highlands. And in Iona Cameron’s heart the sadness was lifting and life was beginning again until Charles Lathym came to the glen, a threat to everything she held most dear. Hero: ...
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Journey Into Spring
- Jun-1976
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Old Mrs. Abercrombie was a darling, and Elizabeth was delighted to land the job of escorting her from Australia around the world to Scotland. But the old lady's stern grandson Charles was another matter: first Elizabeth crossed swords with him, t...
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Viking Song
- Jan-1977
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Rowena Marshall arrived in Norway feeling excited but apprehensive. This beautiful, snow-swept country would be her home if she were to marry Sigmund Thune, but at the last minute, he had been called away to America on business, leaving Rowena to mee...
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Island Stranger
- Sep-1977
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She thought Grant was an intruder.... Makeda loved the island. But since her father's death, Millo was no longer their home. True, Grant Ogilvie, the new owner, said they could stay until she completed her father's book--yet how could s...
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Search for Yesterday
- Apr-1978
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"I want you to return the coin collection." Charles Vincent allowed his gaze to dwell on Claire -- and in that split second she was aware of his utmost contempt. What had happened to their marriage? Claire tried to remember, but the fog...
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The Ruaig Inheritance
- Sep-1978
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Ross MacKerral wasn't her true love, he had no need to be. He had taken her castle, her beloved island away from her . . . She couldn't believe what she'd just heard. "Marry you?" Morvern repeated, as if in a daze. "I'v...
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Meeting in Madrid
- Sep-1979
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Her future appeared rich with promise Catherine Royce set out for Madrid, her spirits high. Spain fascinated her, and her new job as tutor to a willful teenager would certainly be challenging! But she was completely unprepared for the volatile ...
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Brief Enchantment
- Dec-1979
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Had Harriet been wise to return? Against her better judgment, Harriet Voyle flew back to Rome when summoned by her former employer, the Contessa de Filippo. Harriet hoped the year in her native England had cured her hopeless love for the contes...
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Black Sand, White Sand
- Apr-1981
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Would she be happy in her new life? Andrina gladly accepted her aunt's invitation to visit Castaways, her hotel on a beautiful little Caribbean island. Andrina expected to be too busy to think of her broken romance. Ward Prentice would keep...
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Moreton's Kingdom
- Oct-1981
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She went for a child but stayed for a man... Katherine soon knew she was in trouble! She agreed to take a "tug-of-love" child to Scotland, out of his father's reach. Coralie Edgar the mother, obviously loved her son and was frightened...
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Valley of the Snows
- Oct-1985
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It was a chance she couldn't miss When Lucy Abbott agreed to work for the Baroness Liperdorf at Schloss Lamberg in Switzerland, she never dreamed it would have such a devastating effect on her life. Nor had she expected to meet someone like...
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The Olive Grove
- May-1986
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Rhea hoped to find the other half of herself In Greece, among her mother's people, Rhea Langford believed she would become part of a happy family again. She knew nothing of the language and customs, but a keen desire and the presence of Ni...
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The Apollo Man // Romance of Emva
- Aug-1986
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He said he had come back for a reason Six years ago, an ambitious Andreas Phedonos had deserted his island home of Cyprus and his childhood sweetheart, Anna. Now he'd returned, a charming and successful businessman. Anna, independent and wi...
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After the Hurricane
- May-1987
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Catherine's long-held dream of the new life she had and her brother would share on their Caribbean plantation shattered on her arrival. Her brother was dead, and Catherine was left to face the unexpected run-down state of Brigands alone. Yet goaded b...
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Call Back the Past
- Feb-1989
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"When Janet boarded the fabled Orient Express for Austria, she was hoping to fulfill a dream for her godfather. She was to locate his long-lost love, a woman believed to be living in Salzburg. On the train, she met a flint-eyed stranger, a man who in...
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Legacy of Doubt
- May-1989
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She’d inherited more than she’d expected. Having been devastated by a faithless fiancee, Alisa Mallory welcomed the chance for a fresh start in her recently inherited Scottish estate. Doubt set in when she met Fergus MacNair, the former lord o...
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Shadow on the Hills
- Sep-1989
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Six months of complete rest Those were the doctor's orders. But for Margot Kennedy, with her career as a singer about to take off, it couldn't have come at a worse time. Yet she found life in the relaxing environment of the beautiful Bo...
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Flame of Avila
- Nov-1990
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Judith was looking forward to her new job on Tenerife, but life on the estate of Avila didn't turn of as expected. The mother of the two young girls she was to tutor in English didn't seem to want her there, and Richard Copeland, the attractive estat...
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Tidal Wave
- Feb-1991
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"My father is missing and I'm her to do something about it." But Nicholas Durham, her father's partner, seemed less than enthusiastic about Elizabeth's sudden arrival on the tropical island of Tamarind. In fact she got the dist...
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Lovesome Hill
- May-1996
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On her arrival back in Skeldale, Ruth is immediately confronted by changes in the world she had grown up in. For Lovesome Hill has new neighbours. It isn't long before these newcomers make their presence felt in all sorts of ways....
