Nicola felt she had a grudge against Matthew Devlin, and when she took a job as his secretary it was with the firm intention of revenging herself on him. But that was before she actually met the gentleman in question! ...
Fleur had married Alain because she loved him -- not, as he thought, either because he was blind and she felt sorry for him, or because he was rich and her motives were completely mercenary. But how could she ever convince him of the truth? Her...
Sara's life had been a precarious one, touring the world with her grandfather, who lived on his wits to support them both. It was a way of life which was to have far-reaching consequences for Sara. Once it would have seemed preposterous that s...
"An Irishman should never be trusted." That had been drummed into Georgina all her life by her mother and her grandmother before her--and Georgina had never had any reason to doubt the truth of it. So what was she doing, getting engaged to...
In a fit of bravado, Lynette rashly and untruthfully declared that she believed in trial marriages -- and only realized how foolish she had been when Luis Estevez, Marques de Paradis, took her at her word. Hero: Luis Estevez, Marques de Paradis H...
Many English girls go to Majorca for their holiday in the secret hope of meeting romance. Hazel Brown went there and found a husband. But she was not so romantically lucky as she appeared to be -- for Hazel's was a husband with a difference . ...
The celebrated explorer Ramon Vegas had been given the nickname "Caramuru" -- Man of Fire -- by the Brazilian natives, and that, said Tina Donnelly's botanist aunt, was exactly what legend had him to be -- a truly volcanic personality. ...
It had been a dreadful shock to Caroline when her sister disappeared, leaving her baby with Caroline, but she vowed to herself she would do the best she could for the infant. So when the baby's uncle, Domenico Vicari, appeared, with an offer t...
Lucille Lamb had plenty to put up with in her job as secretary to the film star, Shani Sharon, but she had deliberately chosen the job knowing it would give her opportunities to travel and to experience the glamorous world of films. What she hadn&...
As if she were involved in a miming play, Marielle watched the two groups clowning and bargaining --gold coins being offered, scorned, accepted.... Only afterward did she learn that she had participated in a Romany wedding. Now, Marielle Moore was...
"Women aren't welcome at Danes' Dyke," the inscrutable Thor Halden told Raine; nevertheless circumstances forced him to take her under his roof and to persuade her to masquerade as his wife for a time. Even before she found herself...
Elise had been loyal and loving for years; it was going to be hard to break the habit now. "You don't owe me a thing!" she assured Jacques. "But I can see now all these years my mind has been occupied only with thoughts of you. It ...
Serena was almost desperate when she answered an advertisement that offered "lifelong security" to the successful applicant. It was a move that was to take her to far-off Chile, to a husband she had never met --and to what else? Hero: E...
"Like it or not, you will become my wife," Adam promised grimly. "Either willingly or unwillingly; the choice is yours. But if you decide to fight me, don't forget I won't be the first Fox to capture a Maxwell woman by force!"...
Stranded in Madeira, Samantha found herself under the protection -- and, far more annoyingly, under the thumb-- of the lordly Joao Goncalves Zarco, the local lord of all he surveyed. The situation came to a head when he announced that she must marry ...
Once back at her job in Brussels, Helen told herself, she'd be able to forget the barbaric Scotsman who had stripped her entire being of dignity. And to think she had once imagined herself in love with him! To spend a lifetime with a man as im...
"Then you must agree to be my bridegroom !" Jo Domini's impulsive behavior finally led her into trouble. It wasn't enough that she had insulted the Conte Leandro Tempera, aggravated her father and frustrated her sister who wishe...
"You must not fall in love with me!" Marc Blais's warning annoyed Dove, especially as he added, "However much you are tempted." Of all the vain, conceited men, she thought indignantly. She was in the Middle East to look afte...
She'd been caught in her own trap! Tara had never intended to actually marry the Most Noble Baron Falcon Falzon of Malta. He had treated her younger sister, Aithne, shamefully when she was there on holiday, and Tara had devised a suitable f...
"Send you on such a mission? Never!" The laird's vehement refusal of Elizabeth's request to execute a dangerous journey into England made the girl more determined than ever. Impatiently she snapped, "Only a woman could succeed; a man would be arreste...
It was the answer to their dreams! Chantal and her brother, Peter could hardly believe their luck when they inherited from their grandmother prosperous vineyards in France. But the legacy was not lovingly given--their unknown grand"mere had...
Claire regarded him as an uncouth savage No one as poised and elegant as Claire Foxdale could be expected to put up with Rolf Ramsey! Like one of his adventurous ancestors, Rolf was a man of the Canadian wilderness. When circumstances demanded ...
Angie didn't know all the facts! When her sister, Cilla, decided not to marry Terzan Helios after all, Angie was persuaded to go to his Greek island to break the news. Cilla had described Terzan as "sinfully wealthy and wickedly attract...
Lynx-eyed, he looked more devil than man That was Rebel Storm's first--and lasting--impression of Luiz Manchete, self-appointed king of the Amazon jungle. Appropriately, the natives called him Curupira, the wild man. Rebel wanted to do anth...
Here today and gone tomorrow Winning the lottery was like a . miracle to Jade! From long hours working in a factory, she suddenly found herself happily en route to sunny Portugal. Yet not in her wildest dreams about her holiday had she ever exp...
Never again would she dance on stage Birdie's career as a ballerina was over, ruined by a fluke accident. Reeling from the shock, she let sympathetic friends lure her to the island of Menorca for a rest. It was there that Birdie met the Con...
Could she really marry Colt Kielder? The very idea was repulsive to Rowan, but when her brother unexpectedly sold their home, Falstone Castle, to hated Scotsman Colt Kielder, Rowan had to do something to retain her rightful heritage. "Some ...
The English dove would be the bait Sicily, the home of her forefathers--and the home of the vendetta! Rosalba Rossi had no idea how vengefully the two were entwined. Then Silvatore Diavolo presented himself. The hatred between their families ha...
But love was only a romantic dream Tarini Brown was just twenty and had never really begun to live. Now, holidaying in the romantic alpine principality of Liechtenstein, she hoped her chance had come! The tiny country was captivating, and she l...
"An oil rig is no place for a woman!" Leon Casson resented Catriona's presence in the all-male environment of an oil-drilling operation. Thank goodness the decision to fire her was not his to make! The ruthless domineering Texan oil...
She had a quest, and nothing would stop her High in the Andalusian mountains, Frances sought information on the rare Spanish imperial eagle. Finishing her late father's book was all-important. Another kind of predator, however, thwarted her...
Bon gre, mal gre -- Whether we like it or not! Lucien's arrogant ancestral motto echoed in Charity "Cherry's" mind. Enmeshed in a glittering jet-set world and hotly pursued by the playboy duke, she trembled in angelic innocence. ...
Petra paid dearly for her brother's freedom Stelios Heracles was one of the most powerful officials in the Cypriot government. Without his help, Petra's brother would surely end up in a Cyprus jail. Out of desperation, Petra agreed to a...
She represented a noble investment Lady Morva Eden was living proof the aristocracy's breeding program still existed. Once her family realized her brother's illegitimacy would cost them their nobility, they naturally turned to Morva. And so for...
She felt an affinity with the brides of the past Condor de Vivaz welcomed Abbey Temple to his Valley D'Oro home in the Amazon with a warning: "I'm even harder to fool than your erstwhile fiance, who deserves to be congratulated for his...