Books Published in August 1990

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SHY BRIDE... Penelope Mathews had spent her entire adolescence worshipping the elusive C.C. Tremayne - from afar. Until one night, trying to protect the mysterious loner from his once yearly bender before he landed in a Mexican jail, Pepi was forc...

• Aug-1990
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Sarah wasn't pleased to see Radolf Nauta again It was his fault she'd lost her job at the hospital and had been forced to look elsewhere for work. She hadn't expected to meet him in this new environment. Radolf was just the sort of...

• Aug-1990
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REKINDLED DESIRE The last time Madeline Raine had seen James Purnell, she had been but a chit of a girl, and at his mercy. Purnell had held her helpless in his arms - but protectively above the abyss of her own dangerous hunger for him. He had...

• Aug-1990
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The Sexiest Man on Earth... The fan magazines called Pat Reilly the Hunk from Down Under, the man-of-action movie star who made strong women tremble, but young widow Jayne Jordan had fled Hollywood--and the attraction that burned between her and her...

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HELL ON THREE SIDES Nuclear and germ warfare have reduced America's amber i waves of grain to a savage wasteland. Amid a world of smoldering ruin, few men have the awesome courage or specialized skills to fight back, to rebuild. Ben Raines, famed ...

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`A sinister influence began to creep into the house-vaguely, insidiously at first until it culminated in the tragedy which threatened to ruin my life...:' Davina Glentyre's happy young life in Edinburgh was shattered by her mother's death and made...

• Aug-1990
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He was a fantasy, a magnetic stranger Rhea had admired him from across the crowded room, but she never dreamed she'd see him again in Bangaloo Creek! Stephen Crane made it plain that he planned to stay -- and that he found Rhea attractive. ...

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Lyn couldn't tell what he was thinking That was the trouble. Despite their initial conflict, it hadn't taken Lyn long to realize that Morgan French was the only man in the world for her. What Lyn wanted she usually got and this time was...

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Jane Calvert had always been sensible She held a responsible job in London and was engaged to solid Adrian. Only one thing was missing -- love. So she called off the wedding, gave notice at work and faced the future -- without a fiance and with...

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Something is wrong. Lovely young lady Sophie Kyle fears her handsome fiance Lord Randal is having a change of heart about their upcoming marriage. Why else would the once notorious rake respond to Sophie's playful flirtations with a stuffy "B...

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THEY CAST THEIR DESTINIES TO THE WINDS OF DESIRE.... The year is 1483. Beautiful Lady Arabella Grey, young cousin of England's King Richard III, glories in her betrothal to Sir Jasper Keane, protector of Greyfaire Keep, her ancestral home on the t...

• Aug-1990
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The Gypsy boy had asked for Di's help--called on her for magical assistance--and she could not refuse, especially after he was slain practically on her doorstep. But the vampire Di finds cradling the body isn't the killer--he's the Gypsies' protec...

• Aug-1990
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ERIC IS THE DISCWORLD'S ONLY DEMONOLOGY HACKER. PITY HE'S NOT VFRY GOOD AT IT. All he wants is his three wishes granted. Nothing fancy--to be immortal, rule the world, have the most beautiful woman in the world fall madly in love with him, the usu...

• Aug-1990
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Set in London and Greece, this is the sequel to Sidney Sheldon's The Other Side of Midnight....

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She could at least try to help, Clary thought. After all, a fellow Briton in trouble in a strange land aroused a fellow feeling. Not that wealthy businessman Alistair Lincoln was particularly grateful to her for summoning him halfway across the world...

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Trueman Rock is a daring young cowboy and rider. Six years ago he had to leave the cowtown of Wagontongue because of a history of gunfights and run-ins with bad hombres. Since then, he''s become a man who only uses his gun when he needs to, on rus...

• Aug-1990
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PRISONER OF PASSION Rowena's drunken father wagered her life in a game of dice--and lost. Now, for one year, she must offer her services to the one man she feared most: Sir Gareth, the Dark Lord of Caerleon! More monster than man, Gareth had been ...

• Aug-1990
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A woman unlike any other The Countess Lisaveta Lazaroff seemed to fear nothing--not war, not marauding bandits, certainly not the scandalized whispers of polite society. And from the first, Prince Stefan Bariatinsky was fascinated by her beguiling...

• Aug-1990
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A FIERCELY DETERMINED MAN, A SPIRITED WOMAN -- IN A STIRRING SAGA OF THE AMERICAN WEST DENVER, the mile-high city where ambition soared to the sky and spread to the horizon, fed by a flood of gold and silver, and fueled by the power and passion of...

• Aug-1990
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Chrysalis, the glass-skinned queen of the Joker underworld, has been found brutally murdered in her popular restaurant, the Crystal Palace. Now two men are out to find her killer: Jay Ackroyd, the Ace private investigator who discovered her ruined bo...

• Aug-1990
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There once was a king's reign when England's fate was forever decided, when the Danes swooped in to conquer, and one splendid ruler stood between savagery and a glorious new dawn. The Edge of Light is the magnificent tale of those faraway times, of t...

• Aug-1990
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Club -- now an original Netflix series!Mark has just fallen in love for the first time. The girl’s name is Becky and unfortunately for Mark, she already has a boyfriend. Mark tries his best...

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Marriage to a loathsome brute was vile enough -- now she was accused of his murder! The ton regarded Sir Benjamine Wright with utmost honor and respect. Yet Lady Emma knew her husband was, in fact, a drunken, jealous brute who delighted in humili...

• Aug-1990
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The War Was On It was not the type of story Elizabeth Broadhurst usually covered, but when the call came from her editor, she couldn't say no. Wealthy entrepreneur Jason Harmon had been secretive and camera shy for ten years. Now that he had agr...

• Aug-1990
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Searching for her past, she rode into the Oregon wilderness...into the arms of a man she dared not love! As ravishing and wild as the magnificent Northwest Territory part-Indian healer Miracle Jones searched for the father she'd never known, c...

• Aug-1990
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An artist targeted for death. An agent soon to be rich. A young woman caught in the middle. BEAUTY BLOOD. AND BULLETS... He looked just the way an artist is supposed to look. Eyes softly passionate, like black velvet. Hands long-fingered, lik...

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Drug pirates stalk their victims in the treacherous waters of the Bahamas, then return to their fortress island of Murder Cay like primal sharks after a kill. Then comes skipper Nicholas Breakspear with the son and daughter of a U.S. senator. What sh...

• Aug-1990
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They were two of a kind Executive assistant Angie St. Clair knew the office gossips said she and her boss, Rhys Wakefield, were made for each other; they were both cold, intimidating workaholics. But Angie's impersonal facade was her only protecti...

• Aug-1990
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Meredith planned to talk to her landlord She hadn't planned on his taking her by surprise like this. Just when her life seemed to be regaining its equilibrium, Mr. High-and-Mighty Tom Whitney, successful divorce lawyer, had to bounce into town...

• Aug-1990
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A Land Ravaged by War... A Woman Torn by Divided Passions For more than three long and lonely years, beautiful Anna Kelley waited... never knowing whether her beloved husband, Darryl, was dead or alive, wondering if the bloody Civil War that was d...

• Aug-1990
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Hannah was there to do business When she'd set off for Morocco, Hannah Jourdain had been sure she'd be immune to Khalil ben Hrima. She expected no problems in dealing with the man she'd chosen as her business adviser. "And this ...

• Aug-1990
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The colorful Casablanca apartment building is in danger of demolition--but not if Jim Qwilleran can help it. He's determined to restore the building to its original grandeur So he- moves in with Koko and Yum Yum--and discovers that the Casablanca is ...

• Aug-1990
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SHE HATED THE RUDE GUNSLINGER ALL DAY -- BUT WANTED HIM ALL NIGHT... DEFIANT SPITFIRE Rugged Linc Scott had hired on at Eden Campbell's ranch to protect it from cattle-rustling landgrabbers, but he soon realized that Eden Campbell herself was hi...

• Aug-1990
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TILL DEATH DO US JOIN...Ever since they ran with the same London teenage gang Guy Curran has loved Leonora Chisholm passionately. He was a slum kid, and her parents lived in tasteful Kensington; she went to university while he made his jet-set fortun...

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When the Fuente brothers learned that Waxahachie Smith was investigating their criminal activities, they decided that drastic action was called for. As far as they were concerned, the best way to stop a Texas Ranger -- short of killing him -- was to ...

• Aug-1990
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Love eternal ... murder infernal There seemed to be something very odd about the Sterling Clinic ... and when her former patient died in an apparent suicide, psychologist Abby Franklin determined to find out what. Abby locked horns with the dea...

• Aug-1990
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A CAPTIVE OF HIS DESIRES As the granddaughter of a highly placed French diplomat, Gabrielle de Brienne was a valuable political pawn. She was also the same Gabrielle who as a child had inadvertently taken from Cam Colburne, Duke of Dyson, the two ...

• Aug-1990
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SECOND CHANCES Kelsey Whitfield needed someone she could trust, someone who could help her find the daughter she'd lost so long ago. That was all she wanted from life -- a chance to make up in some small way for the mistakes she'd make in the pas...

• Aug-1990
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MR. AUGUST Name: Tucker Owen Address: The wrong side of town. Marital status: Bachelor-and proud of it! Future plans: to remain single, especially since his childhood sweetheart ran off to marry another man. Years had passed since town ...

• Aug-1990
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In SEVENTH HEAVEN, Alice Hoffman takes us to a typical suburban community in the typical suburban decade of the 1950s to explore what happens when Nora Silk comes to town. Nora is extraordinary. Strong, sexy, passionate, and mysterious, she is det...

• Aug-1990
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TWICE SHY... After jilting the President's son, Chelsea Kincaid found herself on the run from the press and from the first family! Her only hope: formidable Cole Tremaine, who offered to hide her at his mountain estate. But independent Chelsea had...

• Aug-1990
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He was notorious and dangerous... She was primly proper and beautiful... With his six-shooter slung low on his hips and his bold, lazy smile, Slade Maverick looked as if he were riding to a showdown. Rachel Wilder couldn't believe the famous guns...

• Aug-1990
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Buzz and Corky may be identical twins, but they are not very much alike. Corky, outgoing and popular, plays tackle on the Otters football team. Buzz, the school chess champion, is quiet and reserved. Corky is surprised when Buzz offers to substitute ...

• Aug-1990
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BY BATTLE OR SEDUCTION HE VOWED TO WIN HER Castle Orrick's massive gates swung open, and an arrogant knight rode into the royal home of Lady Lilliane, eldest daughter of Lord Barton. Coming to claim her was Corbett of Colchester, to whom she&#...

• Aug-1990
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THEIR FIRST MEETING WAS AT DEATH'S DOOR The bride who smiled at him from the white Rolls-Royce had the innocent face of an angel. Jack Flanagan stared, transfixed. In the next moment, the car burst into angry red flames. Jack pulled her fro...

• Aug-1990
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The Brash Baby Doctor... Handsome pediatrician Preston Harper wanted a baby, but not a wife--until delicious, distracting Dinah Bradshaw appeared in his office carrying Jenny, the child who'd made her an instant mom! He'd carefully mapped out his bu...

• Aug-1990
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Nabokov's third novel, The Luzhin Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness. As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive,  distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up ches...

• Aug-1990
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AN INTIMATE INVITAIOTN... Mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance didn't really want to go to her neighbor's Valentine Day masked ball -- particularly not after the voluptuous brunette made a pass at Annie's husband, Max. So when her dizzy mother-in-...

• Aug-1990
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PARTNERS IN CRIME Solving yesterday's crimes was her specialty, but now reporter Lou Patch had a modern-day mystery on her hands. Somebody she cared about -- a good girl who'd gotten mixed up with the wrong crowd -- was missing, and Lou had to f...