At this time, Mary Tollar had been too young to understand or to question why Harry “Reverend” Axtell had rescued her from the life of an orphan, delivering her into the hands of Mrs. Abigail Fyfe, aged mistress of an old mansion called Fyfe Hous...
On her wedding night, lovely young Amalie could not understand why her new husband, the handsome Comte de Valdrun, did not come to her bed. The Comte had really wanted to marry her older sister, but Amalie herself was very pretty -- and very willi...
Janice first sees the old Spanish mansion in the gloomy grey light of dusk, Casa de las Tres Hermanas...The House of Three Sisters. The eerie sight of the tangled gardens and peeling walls sends shivers up her spine. Janice never feels at ease at ...
Gilly and Gerry are identical twins, separated at birth. They meet for the first time when they're sixteen and find that they're so alike, even they're boyfriends can't tell them apart! Then Gilly visits Gerry's home, and when the vacation is over...
Did she dare to love? Elena is stunned when her guardian tells her she is the daughter of the deceased king and must prepare to claim her rightful position as queen. But the story of her royal birth is disputed by the dashing nobleman, Don Armando, w...
THE JEWELS WERE HIDDEN WHERE EVERYONE IN TOWN COULD SEE THEM, BUT NO ONE KNEW THEY WERE THERE.... When the school loner, Brick, falls heir to a fortune of jewels, his life is threatened. He asks Jacey to hide the jewels for him until he can get them...
WHAT SHE DIDN'T NEED WAS A "RELATIONSHIP" Diane Armstrong would never forget the terror of having to land a small aircraft after her husband suffered a fatal heart attack at the controls. Nor would she forget her wanton reactions to the kindness o...
HER NAME MEANT NOTHING TO HIM BUT... A rift eruption was threatening Kapoiki, and volcanologist Holly Ingram knew it was her duty to warn Lorne Bryant. As a major plantation owner, Lorne felt great responsibility for his employees' safety. His ...
A love no woman could forget - not its pleasure... its passion...or its price... Angele - No woman in New Orleans was more beautiful - or wild. She cared only for her land and her freedom...until a handsome Frenchman came to claim her body and he...
WHAT WAS FIVE YEARS' AGE DIFFERENCE? Nothing, as far as Seattle technician Brock Morley was concerned. He loved widow Charlotte Emlyn with all his heart and was determined to marry her. Charlotte was ready to agree--until her teenage son Wade d...
WILD, IRRESISTIBLE --- ECSTASY WAS THEIRS IN THE MAGNOLIA-SCENTED NIGHT . . . CLEO No woman was more exotic, more desirable --- and no woman more forbidden to the man she chose to love. Her bayou wildness would not be tamed, but her heart could...
It was his world The Louisiana bayous and marshes were home The Armand LeBlanc. The handsome fisherman could read the tides, the stars and the skies .... And he had his music--the rollicking music shaped by generations of Cajun folklore. But Ar...
It was humiliating! As a teenager, Sara Eaton had got around her disabling stutter by becoming a ventriloquist. Maybe she couldn't talk for herself, but with one of her dolls on her knee, she was the life of any party. Now Sara was a child psyc...
The Kindness of a Stranger When beautiful Creole Marie Dufret found Jacques Bonnard unconscious by the river, she was immediately drawn to him. But although her girlish fancy found him exciting, he was carrying information that condemned him as a ...
The sultry darkness of bayou nights can no longer hide secrets, sin, and scandal... In the South before the Civil War, it is an unspoken rule: slave owners can bed their female slaves, and their wives must look the other way. Uneasy in this societ...
Almost eleven-year-old Harriet feels abandoned when her mother takes a new job, making her change schools and go to live with an uncle in a small California town, but as she becomes involved with her uncle's work with bats, she learns a lot about lov...
Good sister, bad sister. One dies. One lives in her place. Her stepsister Gloria was born bad, and Holly had come to the end of her rope. This time, Holly Morgan's, stepsister had gone too far. Gloria had used Holly's name in a "scape&...
Sam is an ordinary teenage girl. She is going to high school and hanging out with her loving family when world war three breaks out. This war is not a conventional war, where two nations are fighting one another for land, or superiority. It is a w...
Second Thoughts… “Funny how when a confirmed bachelor finally decides to get married, he can’t wait to find a minister?” Navy nurse Jo Neillor had to agree with her friend Pixie, but what was even funnier was Jo’s own reaction. She was i...
Troubled awakening... It was a shock to wake up not knowing who she was or where she was. It was an even greater shock to learn that the identity she was trying so desperately to rediscover was not her own. She was not Gloria Hallett, and this was...
Trace pulled off her surgical cap and shook out her hair. "The chief nurse wants me? I wonder what for?" "There is one sure way to find out," the older nurse said dryly. "Better wear a sweater. The wind was straight off the bay when I cam in." Tracy ...
Passenger of Fear… Was Kathie Ebberts imagining things, or had there been a pause in the conversation at the bon voyage party when she mentioned the name of her late uncle, Job Hammer? Everyone aboard the Hawaii-bound Lurline was a stranger to h...
How long had the suspicion been there? From the beginning? From the time she had awakened in the strange room - a girl with no name, no past? It didn't matter, it was no longer a suspicion . . . She knew! She was not Gloria Hallet. She was not Mi...