THEIR FUTURE WAS AT STAKE. Keely insisted that she had come to the Pacific paradise of Salutu only to write about its reclusive inhabitant, successful Canadian businessman Jordan Lang. But Jordan, who accepted her presence only grudgingly, refu...
REVENGE WAS SWEET Or so Tristan Sharpe believed. Now he would repay Larissa for once having made a fool of him. He had never understood that she had broken their engagement out of fear--that her youth and inexperience had not prepared her to deal ...
Dallas knew she was in over her head from the moment she met Nick. Her feelings for her devastatingly handsome colleague washed over her like a tidal wave: He was irresistible, dangerous and more exciting than anyone she had ever known. She fought...
For Claire Wyndham it was the time to choose: life in the convent where she had been brought up, or life in the real world, with its challenges, its dangerous temptations. Scott Carver epitomized all those dangers for her. She saw him as a playboy...
Jess Wilder had lost a child and a husband, and as a defense against ever being hurt again, she had adopted a devil-may-care attitude that left her with many acquaintances, but few real friends. She would never have expected Gareth Seymour to be t...
CAUGHT IN HER OWN TRAP ... Nicola Grey had told the lie only to soothe her battered ego. She had never expected it to get back to Jethro Vallance, the enigmatic man she had met on a cruise and whom she had claimed was the new love in her life. ...
OFF ON THE WRONG FOOT... Alexia King was a reporter just trying to get a story on the reclusive Nathan Hazard. Given her obvious charms, Nathan thought she was after something quite different. And, given how intelligent and attractive she seemed, ...
For Natalia Indrisi, the nightmare began when she woke from unconsciousness. She couldn't remember her accident, nor the man claiming to be her fiance. Worst of all, she couldn't remember the baby whose arrival was only a few months away. To Matt ...
Gun-slinging pilot Jacqueline Renton would risk her life without batting an eye, but never her heart. Her past had taught her that love was a game women always lost, and she refused to play. Then Dr. Finn Simonson hired her to fly him on a mercy miss...
Ethan Ryland knew it was mad to invite his brother's widow to stay at his island home. But beautiful Celeste was alone and suddenly too fragile to be on her own--hardly the wanton seducer his brother had accused her of being. Instead, to Ethan's chag...
Handsome widower Grant Morrison needed a temporary nanny, and who better than Rennie Langwell for the job? After all, she adored his children and was quite capable in the kitchen. Yet there was one role that Grant would never let her fill--wife. T...
TANGLED WEB When Seth Keegan returned home to New Zealand after years in prison, he fully expected his mother's scorn and the neighbors' glares. That much, he supposed, he'd earned. But he was shocked to find the woman he'd once loved living high ...
Years ago, Ysande Cazalet had been like any other bride-to-be, until tragedy destroyed something far more precious than her own future. And now she had to stay away from the handsome stranger who made her dream again of marriage and family. For how c...
Magnus Riordan believed his wife could not possibly hurt him any more than she already had -- until she finally returned to the home they had shared. It was only then that he truly understood the pain of an undying love -- a love clouded forever by h...
BROKEN VOWS To their friends, family and neighbors, Celine and Max Archer had a perfect marriage. Only the Archers knew they'd never been in love, and that nights of passion were few and far between. Still, both thought the other happy with the dr...
A MOTHER'S LIE Five years after little Kristy was conceived, all of Charisse Lane's carefully constructed lies came crashing down. One fateful encounter finally brought her face-to-face with the father of the child she'd raised. And the single mothe...
Marcus Crossan was dark, mysterious, controlling -- and Jenna Harper's savior when his younger brother came home engaged to another! Being a Crossan bride was orphaned Jenna's dream -- one she could no longer have. Until Marcus made a stunning off...
When their gazes clashed and held at the holiday party, she'd never envisioned wedding her father's right-hand man in a marriage that was more merger than love match. But Alysia Kingsley, heiress to a publishing empire, would do anything to p...
Leaving Kier Remington had been hard, living without him even harder. Shahna Reeves never expected him to find her, never imagined he would even bother to look. Until he walked back into her life, long, lean, and reminding her too well of things she&...
BENEDICT FALKNER WAS A MAN WITH A PLAN. He'd worked his way up from street tough to millionaire. Now he aimed to furnish his mansion with a suitably stylish wife. No way did his plan include Riley Morrisset, the petite, curvy firecracker who ...
Widow Triss Allardyce's fragile world nearly shattered the day she learned her new business partner was none other than her late husband's protege, handsome entrepreneur Steve Stevens. He had always aroused complicated feelings in her -- pass...
The shamelessly sexy man with the bold gaze and the wicked pirate's smile commanded Camille Hartley's attention from the moment she saw him. Rogan Broderick was just the sort of love 'em and leave 'em type she avoided at all costs, bu...
LARGE AS LIFE... AND TWICE AS THREATENING She'd been robbed, mugged, nearly run down by a car -- and now had to fight her unwelcome passion for her sexy new boss. When Sienna Rivers signed on as the resident archaeologist on Pacific Treasure S...