IT WAS A DREAM COME TRUE! Robin O'Neil had known only the sheltered life of an orphanage until she became a governess en route by luxury liner to Hawaii. But the time aboard ship was even more exciting because of a mysterious sailor who cavali...
SHE WAS PLAYING A DANGEROUS GAME when Erin Brady agreed to go to Jamaica for a week with Jason Dimitrou. It was the only way that she could pay back her brother's debt. Jason was cruelly determined to take advantage of the situation. Yet when a gent...
POSSESSION! Gillian North's heart belonged to Roman Barclay, and from the moment he made her his bride she entered a world of pleasures she had never known. He wove a web of sensual delights that kept her a willing prisoner and let nothing come...
Europe--home of elegant traditions and enduring romance. Europe--where Holly and Slade lived out a love story of their own. His the demand to hold her close, to sear her with his touch and be seared in return. Hers the desire to teach him the less...
SHE HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO FLY. When Kalim Al Kahira, one of the most influential industrialists in the world, requested that Jennifer Fairchild return with him to Egypt aboard his private jet, her career demanded that she go. But her job could n...
Merry had dreamed of a marriage made for love, but it seemed that such was not to be. Still, Jake Darcy, her husband, could arouse in her feelings of an intensity she had never known. Jake was a man of hidden strength and he believed in satisfied...
Mike Sutherland was surprised to learn that Sam Morgan, of Morgan Construction, was a woman--all woman--but that didn't stop his determination to buy her ailing company. But Sam was equally determined not to sell, and so began a battle of wills th...
Australia had never figured in Leslie's plans--until she inherited an outback ranch and came into conflict with wider Mackenzie, land baron and owner of Danduroo Station. At first they fought over Leslie's refusal to sell him her land, land he fel...
"I DON'T WANT TO BE AN ACTRESS!" Lisa Brooks shouted at producer Logan Marshall. She hadn't been in Hollywood long, but already she hated that glittery world where everything--and everyone --was for sale. But Logan was cynical when it came to b...
They had shared both good times and bad, but the brief marriage between Shannon and Deke Masterson had resulted in the creation of one true treasure before their divorce: their son Michael. And although it was Michael whose skiing accident brough...
It had all started with a phone call, an urgent message that sent Nicole Barrett racing off to save her kid sister. Suddenly Nicole was trapped in a plot to protect her sister from the wrath of one of San Francisco's wealthiest businessmen, Flint Loc...
This time he'd gone too far. Sunny Caruthers' impulsive, impoverished father had used all their savings to purchase a vineyard in California. Now she had to make her father's foolhardy vision profitable--or they'd be ruined. Sunny's efforts were m...
Michele Carter was a survivor. Five years ago she'd lost her husband and abandoned her illusions about love. Since then, she'd channeled her energies into her work, and her dedication was finally paying off with a top position at Blaylock Laboratorie...
EVEN STRUGGLING ACTRESSES HAVE TO EAT! Since no one would hire an attractive young woman as a part-time maid, Kelley Carson became gray, portly Mrs. Carson. Auditioning by day and posing as a matronly cook by night, Kelley could make enough money ...
It seemed like an impossible dream come true. Simply by answering a newspaper ad, Marni Gayle was suddenly en route to Venice to deliver a little girl to her father. Elegant, autocratic, disturbingly sensual, Count Caesare Branzini lived up to his...
A LOVE SO TENDER... was outside the realm of possibility for Patricia Lauren Lee. She'd left her capacity to love behind in New York City, along with her writing career and a disastrous marriage. The healing process was aided by hard work, sunshi...
Angelique Archer gasped at the magnificent necklace. As Vendome Cosmetic's Dream Girl, she had mad admirers, but none as attentive as the mysterious Claude Dumont from Souveraine. She'd better return it personally--and put an end to this extravagance...
It was like a scene from Lawrence of Arabia. Dr. Bettina Hill, renowned archaeologist, rescued from North Africa's marauding bandits by a nomad chieftain in a flowing white caftan. But her rescuer was no chieftain, he was Travis Hunter, best-selli...
A DREAM COME TRUE She'd met Jared King only once, on a plane to Hong Kong five years ago. She had never forgotten him, but gradually he receded into a dreamlike figure . . . the perfect unattainable male. Then, on her first night back home in ...
The Blake family Christmas party was based on goodwill and trust. Did that trust extend to the handsome stranger who'd mysteriously appeared on Christy's snow-covered front porch? Swept up in the spirit of the season, Christy soon found that she'd gi...
Dani had never seen the man who had ruined her mother's life. And Rand Stryker was wasting his breath trying to talk her into meeting, let alone forgiving, this man whom she hated above all others--her own grandfather. Dani knew Rand was just doin...
As "Mother Marlowe," Stacey walked dogs, nursed houseplants and dispensed advice to the lovelorn. But she had no easy answers when a runaway wolfhound landed her in the doghouse with dazzling client Sean Garrison. Sean's anger quickly turned to ar...
When her flamboyant aunt whisked her to romantic Rome and practically threw her at dashing American playboy Brandon Powers, sensible Misty Carlysle was baffled, bedazzled . . . and reluctantly charmed. Whispering smooth-as-silk lines, Brandon spun he...
When her purse was stolen, Lacey Scott's hard-earned vacation seemed over . . . until she shoved suspicion aside to accept Mexico City's most eligible bachelor's generous hospitality. Raoul Ruiz wined and dined her, introduced her to family and fr...
To furious Adam Ridgeway, Kylie O'Connor was a walking contradiction. She touted matrimony yet worked as a divorce attorney. She championed having children but lavished her maternal instincts on a nephew. She denounced alimony yet helped his ex-wife ...
Suave, mysterious Morgan Destine asked more questions than he answered. But sheltered schoolteacher Stephanie Blair knew one thing for certain: he ruled her senses, and she ached to have him end the torment he created with almost casual expertise. ...
Bliss Goodwin had survived a shipwreck and the perils of a desert island, but in Hollywood she was utterly at sea. Then handsome, commanding Hunter Lord rescued her from the hungry media and became her one safe haven in a frightening new world. As he...
Millionaire Winston Dunsmuir's final wish: globe-trotting son Blade must live in the family mansion-and marry within a year--or forgo his inheritance. Secretary Jessica Lawrence would also receive a sizable endowment, if she moved in to catalog the v...
A true innocent abroad, Alexis Lindley had boarded the cruise ship hoping to inject some excitement into her life. But she never expected to get stranded in an exotic port-of-call, in an after-hours nightclub, in the thrilling embrace of a sensual st...
In school, Kate Beaumont had been something of a shrinking violet, hardly noticed and seldom asked out. But she refused to shrink from attending her class reunion, even if she had to hire a date! With heartstoppingly handsome Garrett Richmond on her ...
When her troubled twin asked her to take her place for a month, Kimberly Jamison shied from her sister's scheme. Who would believe she was Domenique, flamboyant fashion plate of Paris's famed House of Duroche! Kimberly felt obligated to assume her de...
Dorian Merrill had planned to face the past when she returned to Summerville, but she wasn't prepared to deal with Raif Dangerfield. He was the hometown boy who'd hijacked her heart seven years before... who'd been witness to her awkward attempts at ...
Long-distance, Roberto de Machado was smooth as silk--and as unyielding as steel--about his upcoming marriage. Responsible Chelsea Claiborne simply had to rescue her vacationing baby sister from this lecherous European Casanova! But the moment she...
Drop-dead handsome, filthy rich, scandalously sexy Granger McMasters always had his pick of Beverly Hills beauties. So why was the legendary lover suddenly turning his thousand-watt charm on his lowly landscaper and her feisty, fatherless little girl...
LIBRA MAN Divorce attorney Jamison Marshall was NOT in the market for wedlock -- he'd had enough secondhand experience with failed marriages to risk one himself. But the scales were tipped against him when he met the lovely and willful Blythe Reynold...
A missing millionaire, a mansion full of suspicious characters .... Okay, so maybe it wasn't exactly the crime of the century-- and maybe the millionaire in question was a cat--but the Great Park Avenue Caper was still the most baffling case Sabena M...
Noelle Bartlett would go to any lengths to help her best friend--even pose as an aerobics instructor at an exclusive health spa. The Carefree Dunes resort might cater to the idle rich, but Noelle knew it was also a cover for an unsavory business--bla...
IT TAKES A VERY SPECIAL MAN TO WIN THAT SPECIAL WOMAN! The chance of a lifetime was at hand, and lottery winner Kelley McCormick intended to experience it to the fullest. The starry-eyed Cinderella knew her trip to Europe would be an adventure - s...
Little did Kate Merriweather dream that the lonesome young boy she befriended it the beach was such a mischievous tyke! He said he had a big, bad dad who really didn't mind that his poor, sad son spent the entire day at the beach.... Well, Hunter ...
Wedding Bell Blues Valentina Richardson had finally met Mr. Right. Josh Derringer was sexy, smart, infuriating...and her fiance's best friend! She had given up on love years ago, and when a most suitable man asked her to be his wife, Valentina ...
It takes a very special man to win that special woman... Globe-hopping for the perfect scoop, fearless photojournalist Pippa Bennington sometimes landed in hot water. But this time the sassy redhead was in up to her emerald eyes! Taken captive by...
Allison Who? She'd come to the affluent New England town hoping to discover her parentage, and Allison Riley got more than she'd ever bargained for. In her search for her true identity, she may have also found true love - and true heartbreak. ...
ROYAL SINGLE DAD! So this was England! American tourist Melanie Warren was enchanted, even by the rain. Until a ferocious downpour left her stranded - and at the mercy of David Crandall, the wickedly sexy seventh Viscount of Castlebury. Still,...
A MOTHER'S LOVE... Erica Barclay's goal was to keep her son, Nicky, safe from the people who threatened their small family. Nicky was her entire world, the very air she breathed. She certainly didn't have time for sexy strangers she stumbled over ...
One Man, One Woman...And Three Miniature Matchmakers! With his steely body - and silken lines - bachelor Antonio Fortunato was rumored to tempt even saints into sinning. So what mere female could resist this enchanting Casanova? Perhaps only sass...
FOR THE MAN WHO HAS EVERYTHING Connor Winfield had serious money, serious power-and mind-spinning sensuality. No wonder gorgeous women constantly flung themselves at him. Still, Connor chose travel agent Mandy Richardson to arrange his business me...
Unexpected Guardian.... Alexandra Reynolds thought Willie was the most adorable male to come into her agency in years. And when the towheaded tyke's mother suddenly disappeared, Alex found herself his unexpected guardian. But then Chase Mainwaring sh...
IF FAIRY TALES COULD COME TRUE... She was a dead ringer for a runaway princess. So American tourist Megan Delaney was hired to impersonate the missing monarch - at her arranged engagement to a real live prince! Riches galore would be Megan's durin...
DAUGHTER KNOWS BEST Who was the parent, and who was the child? Michelle Lacey's mother had gone and attached herself to some mysterious "millionaire" who seemed all too interested in her family's financial affairs. Now it was up to ever-resourcef...
PRINCELY. PASSIONATE. PERSUASIVE. Sheik Jefri of Jalameer believed he could seduce any woman into sharing his bed -- until he met the unattainable Holly Barnett. This innocent was not used to his worldly ways and left Jefri little choice but to whis...
THE SHOTGUN ROYAL WEDDING Pressured to produce an heir to the throne, King Morgan de Souverain refused to marry a princess he didn't love to beget a royal baby. NO wife would ever rule his heart. But after a night of passion with independent America...
NEVER... Hand over her sister's son to his father's coldhearted brother? Nicole Trent wouldn't dream of it. Nor did she like wealthy Philippe Galantoire's alternative: marriage. Yet how could she deny her orphaned nephew the privileged lifestyle to ...
Swept up into an Italian fantasy, Jillian Colby crashed down to earth when she found herself abandoned at the altar. But just when she thought all was lost, a handsome Italian duke came to her rescue.... Gianni di Destino was all Jillian had dream...
When Shannon Blanchard won television's hottest game show, the brainy beauty never dreamed that her prize of two weeks at a royal castle would change her life. Until she set eyes on her tall, dark and daunting host, Prince Michel de Mornay. Logic tol...