When Alex first started working for Dr. Gerard Trent she wasn't at all sure that she approved of him; then, she began to like him very much indeed. But he was engaged to the glamorous Marilyn Lattimer. Hero: Dr. Gerard Trent Heroine: Alex...
Carol Waring was an, attractive girl, warm-hearted, generous, lively. But perhaps too young and impulsive to be built up into the perfect secretary? Clive Benedict thought he could do it, and Clive Benedict was usually right. Would he succeed with Ca...
On the day of her friend Eileen's wedding, Mandy was a little damped at being paired off with a gloomy and silent best man. But it didn't really matter, nothing mattered, for her darling Robin Marsh was coming home and soon she too would be m...
There had always been a particularly special bond between Linda and her twin sister Ann -- for Ann was fragile and delicate where Linda was strong and practical, and always Linda had mothered and protected Ann. Then Ann fell in love with the man L...
Everyone at Denley's was wondering what the new dental surgeon would be like. But when Alison Blake learned that his name was Christopher Stevenson, she knew only too well--and her heart sank ... Hero: Christopher Stevenson Heroine: Alison Bl...
After a disastrous love affair, Kate had felt she never wanted to live in the country again, and firmly turned herself into a town girl. So when her dental surgeon boss suggested that she help out, temporarily, a colleague of his in a small country t...
When he had broken off their engagement, Terry had told Liz, "It's not dishonest to marry where the money is, it's just plain common sense. I don't believe there's a man alive who'd pass up a chance like I've got." ...
Melissa loved her job as Girl Friday to a group of musicians -- but Richard Hawker-Rose insisted that she was nothing but a "nanny-watchdog" and ought to be doing something worthier of her. But what business was it of his?...
"He gets under your skin," Averil's sister Sara had said of William Randall, and Averil's reply had been, "Well, he won't get under mine!" Yet she was to find this disturbingly attractive man was in her thoughts all too...
When Adam Royle came to Kings Worthy School as temporary headmaster, Samantha was warned that all women made fools of themselves over him. She certainly didn't intend to join the queue. After all, she had Richard, didn't she? But remaining cool to...
"I don't think you and I have anything to say to each other, Mr. Lawrence," Toni replied. She didn't want to cross any more swords with him. There were no doubt plenty of girls who were ready to fall for his charms. She just had to...
Kate openly admitted her prejudice against business tycoons. And Damian St Ewan--despite his attractive, charming and forceful appeal--was a business tycoon. But Kate had always adored Cornwall, and when Damian offered her a two-month job there, s...
"A time for everything...a time to love" Daniel's eyes gleamed as he quoted the words. At seventeen Cassandra had fallen in love with Daniel Marshall. She had been bitterly hurt by his rejection of her in favor of his career. Seeing...
Annabel's beautiful dream had ended.... Cornwall and the sea, the cottage, her innocent romance with young artist Toby Trevine.... Now Dr. Robert Fames, her late father's partner from whom she'd fled, had discovered her hideaway. An...
Chloe had given up on ordinary men! Experience had taught Chloe that ordinary men were a sadly selfish bunch. So she conjured up an ideal. He would have to be rich and generous; tall, dark and handsome; kind to children and animals. And he would p...
It was a whole new world for Amanda Meeting her father for the first time at age eighteen was quite an experience for Amanda Dawson. She was catapulted from life in a quiet Devonshire village into the urbane sophistication of her father's wor...
Her stepfather lived in a fairy-tale world Ralph Francis had snatched Sara from her boarding school and thrust her into his jet-set life-style. She was delighted with her stepfather's generosity--and the excitement of their life together. U...
"After all, what have you got to lose?" Kate had been asked that question when she'd been trying to convince herself that she was doing the right thing. At least she knew she was helping her brother and father. But posing as Paul Ca...
"God preserve me from rich men's daughters!" Only Susan saw the irony of Gideon North's contemptuous statement. She wasn't rich at all--but she was pretending to be Della Benton, who was. A free holiday on Grand Cayman islan...
Loving him meant heartbreak for sure! Lisa's letters to her cousin Emma were full of glowing details about the new man in her life, Trent Marston. Then Lisa suddenly decided to marry Richard Southall. What had happened? All Emma had to do w...
She wanted him -- on any terms! Maggie agreed to marry Blake Morden and accompany him to Hong Kong even though he couldn't say, "I love you." She'd share his life, if not his love. Then, on the eve of their wedding, Blake chan...
He would do anything to get what he wanted Piran St. Just had told her so himself, and Polly was soon to find out how true his words would be. A wife would make it easier to win custody of his nephew Jules, and the little boy had become very at...
"Working for me will be a baptism of fire. " That was Harn Durrant's promise, and he proved to be a man of his word. But the position gave Gemma the experience she needed to begin her career -- and the chance to pay Harn back for fi...
As and ordinary though competent secretary, Avis didn't normally expect glamorous foreign travel as part of her job -- so she was delighted to be sent on a business trip to Menton on the French Riviera -- and in the middle of winter too! Her clie...
She'd had enough pain and regret If a knot couldn't be untied it had to be cut, and that was exactly what Holly intended to do: cut the legal ties that bound her in partnership with her late husband's stepbrother, Jared Kent. She wa...
She should have been happy to be back home Sue had been delighted when Luke Masters arranged her return to England. Now she was miserable. Luke was a good organizer. She wondered if he'd organized their wedding yet. If so, he hadn't men...
Just how far was she expected to go? Karen knew she had to avoid antagonizing millionaire Saul Marston at the Acapulco conference if she wanted him to save her financially troubled company. And she was prepared to put aside her personal dislike...
They'd been so happy early in their marriage Villa Favorita on the Riviera had been their private paradise, the place where Hal and Joanna had shared all their feelings. Yes, Hal had showered Joanna with mink and diamonds, too, but her real ha...
This was one adventure her heart hadn't planned As a junior programmer, being chosen for the Tokyo fact-finding team represented the career opportunity of a lifetime for Pippa Marsden. And the prospect of sharing the exciting East with Adri...
She planned a holiday, not a honeymoon! Three years ago Lucie had fled a life of luxury in Paris and Guy Devereux, a jet-setter she intended to steer clear of and a powerful banker her father insisted she marry! Now, secure in her independence,...
Could she fall in love again? Tessa Durant thought she was seeing a ghost when she first looked into the stormy eyes of Alaric Brent, the dashing young president of Brent Pharmaceuticals. He was offering her a job as a chemist in the British co...
Bride for a honeymoon, or was there more? When Fleur Gold agreed to fill in as Eliot Stevens's bride, she didn't count on emotions being involved. They were to take a honeymoon trip to visit his ailing father. In exchange she'd receive...
VICTORIA HAD NO ONE TO TURN TO And then James Warrington came her life at a time when she needed help desperately. She wasn't quite sure whether his motives were entirely honorable, but he did his best to save her from the consequences of h...
"Too clever--a mind like a razor blade." It was an apt description of Hugh Winchester, Lissa agreed as she prepared to spend the next two weeks working with him rather than his easygoing stepbrother, Paul Donaldson. April in Paris, howe...
A holiday friendship -- nothing more That was Charles Ravenscroft's proposal. "No past, no future, simply a fortnight of pleasure." Anthea wasn't so quick to agree. She was a confident woman now, no longer the impressionable gir...
Philippa Price was no man's slave! Philippa vowed that she'd never again be "manipulated and pushed around" by the men in her life. Which was why she told Bart Marchant, the attractive consultant her brother had hired against her w...
What a tangled web she wove. Kate Lovell had never needed a man's help quite like she needed Will Raven's--without him she couldn't hope to manage her aunt's hotel in Normandy. At least, that's how she explained Will's p...
Love is so complicated! Cynical businessman Saul Jarrett didn't believe in hearts and flowers. So why did he go along with Nicola's request that he pose as her loving fiance, and why did he give all the appearance of being a man in love? Nicola di...
"I never tackle anything unless I know I can win!" Adam Trent hadn't changed -- still ambitious, deeply attractive, and clearly convinced that he could walk back into Carolyn's life as casually as he had left it nine years ago. Then...
Very good friends... Getting a fledgling wedding video business off the ground just when people were buying their own camcorders was not easy, so Anne Grey was pleased to stand in for a friend recording an interview in Cornwall with crime writer Fr...
Inheriting a house in the south of France was a wonderful surprise for Josie. After the loss of her mother, some time in the sun was just what she needed. But the other half of the villa belonged to architect Leon Kent - who firmly believed he had bo...
Susan Lester was confused by her feelings. Mark Harrington had been standing close behind her as she looked through the microscope, and he drew away quickly. Humiliated, she wondered if her pounding heart were audible all over the lab. Young Me...