Books Published in February 1988

• Feb-1988
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'I AM NOT PREPARED TO LET A LITTLE GOLD-DIGGER LIKE YOU ANYWHERE NEAR MY SON!' It was a case of mistaken identity, but Leonie Spencer wasn't about to clear the air immediately and make things easy for Henry Hawker Sinclair. After all, he had accus...

• Feb-1988
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A Golden Apollo swimming in the nude... That had been Dizzy James's first sight of Zachariah Bennett. It was hard to reconcile what she had seen then with the stodgy-looking, scholarly professor who stood before her now, silently condemning D...

• Feb-1988
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She had blossomed... Emily Ravenscroft had changed! Too often in the past she'd fallen for dashing suitors with their eyes on her family's thriving business. Too often she'd been saved from disaster by her parents' troubleshooter, Jacob Stone, lon...

• Feb-1988
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Scottish beauty Elspeth MacGregor travels to Hell's Bluff to hire Dominic Delaney to lead her to the magical lost city of Kantalan, but at first he refuses -- the last thing he needs is to join a virginal scholar on a dangerous quest. But Els...

• Feb-1988
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It was outrageous. He couldn't be serious! One day Amanda Conroy was happily engaged to Nigel, a flamboyant British car rally driver, the next she was the reluctant fiancee of his stern, laconic older brother, Malory Templeton. As if she h...

• Feb-1988
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BELOVED ENEMY Captured in a border raid and held for ransom by the fierce Scottish clansmen who were her ancestral enemies, bewitchingly beautiful Storm Eldon knew her fate only too well. Tavis Maclagan would not harm her -- the arrogant knight ha...

• Feb-1988
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COTTON COMES TO DOUBTFUL Lawmen don't last long in the town of Doubtful, Wyoming Territory. The last one quit, another ended up in a hangman's noose, and one more was backshot by the hired guns at the Circle L Ranch. But the town of Doubtful ha...

• Feb-1988
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A NEW TWIST TO JUSTICE The dentist was sitting bolt upright. Mouth opened wide. Stone-cold dead. There was no lack of suspects--the brutalized wife, the pretty, sexually abused dental assistant, an ex-con who was a very intimate friend of the wido...

• Feb-1988
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"You'll be quite safe with me." Initially these simple words comforted Cressida, narrowly saved from the terrifying storm at sea that had taken her father's life. Physically and emotionally she needed the security of her rescuer, L...

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He was the man for her. Surely he could see that! Kit Lacey exuded a passionately artistic nature well beyond her nineteen years. But in Queensland's tiny, tropical Eden Cove no man existed to match her lust for life, until international news...

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When Kelsey answered a mysterious call for help from a small southern town, he was prepared to charm or seduce Elizabeth Conner into telling him what he needed to know. But once his primitive male instinct sensed the wild spirit hidden beneath her de...

• Feb-1988
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Language expert Layne Hamilton's distrust of the CIA ran as deep as the emotional scars her agent husband had inflicted--and she'd vowed never to have anything to do with the "Company" again. So why was Company man Matt Talbot's request to join him o...

• Feb-1988
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Must she run away from him again? Years ago Amy Tremaine fled Northumberland and a humiliating teenage crush on her aunt's stepson, sculptor Maxwell St. Clair. Now a head gym teacher in London, Amy was coaxed into returning to her aunt's f...

• Feb-1988
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He wasn't called The Hawk for nothing Rachel saw David Griffin as a ruthless predator who swooped down on the defenseless and carried them off. Now he'd come to claim Jamie, his infant son and Rachel's ward. Even Rachel's love for ...

• Feb-1988
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Other matters were far more pressing Sage Killibrew hadn't seen her grandfather for twenty years. Yet when she got an urgent telegram asking her to meet him, the adventurer in her said yes. Something told her, however, that this rendezvous would ...

• Feb-1988
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IN PARIS THAT SPRING, RAIN DARKENED THE SKIES, AND WHENEVER IT RAINED, THE KILLING BEGAN.... Claire McIntyre tried to ignore the murders - the headlines of women stabbed to death, the city's mounting fear. She tried to forget, too, the painful pa...

• Feb-1988
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BELOVED ENEMY Fleeing a fiery inferno, beautiful Bryony Paget fell unconscious into the arms of a handsome stranger. She awoke with no memory of her proud aristocratic past--only the stirrings of reckless desire kindled by the ebony eyes of her my...

• Feb-1988
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So much was at stake... Amy Hobson had invested in a piece of Hawaii, and she was dying to see it. Entering a radio station's hula contest didn't win her the first-prize trip, but it did renew her friendship with dynamic deejay Jack Bond. ...

• Feb-1988
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She needed cash -- not compromise Giving in to millionaire Scott Baird's sensual charms filled Kirsten's fantasies from the moment they met. Doing so, however, would confirm Scott's cynical view that women easily traded their lovemakin...

• Feb-1988
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COME IN FROM THE COLD Just when Faith Galloway needed help on her ranch, a mysterious stranger appeared and offered his services. Luke Chandler knew all about cattle, but it was soon obvious he was more than an ordinary ranch hand. Why did he want...

• Feb-1988
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Someone was watching over her His name was Jason O'Leary and he was going to be the father of her baby. Their arrangement sounded crazy but it was really very simple. Carlys would bring up the child she'd always wanted, while Jason, who li...

• Feb-1988
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He dubbed her a mouse.... And a dimwit. How on earth was she going to work for this man? Jilted on the eve of her wedding, Melissa was finished with romance. But when she got her advertising job she learned it meant assisting the dynamic Benedi...

• Feb-1988
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INNOCENCE LOST Shannon Kilmartin looked up at her handsome rescuer and shrank from the desire in his deep brown eyes. Had he saved her from drowning only to ravish her? After fleeing the advances of her cruel stepfather, Shannon had vowed never to...

• Feb-1988
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What was so funny about a bungled divorce? Austin Cavanaugh came all the way to San Francisco to tell Clea a joke. Clea Bannister--good old Clea--had unknowingly been Mrs. Austin Cavanaugh for the past seven, years. She wasn't amused. She'...

• Feb-1988
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Colorado Congressman Evan Kendrick is trying to live out his term quietly when a political mole reveals his deepest secret: Kendrick was the anonymous hero who freed the hostages held by Arab terrorists in the American embassy in Masqat, and then sil...

• Feb-1988
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"YOU ARE NOT GOING TO MARRY ME OFF TO ANYONE, LEAST OF ALL TO AN ANCIENT GENTLEMAN WHO HAS BEEN MARRIED TWICE BEFORE!" Not long after this heated exchange, London was aflutter to have in their midst the exquisite Princess Felicity of Brasn...

• Feb-1988
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Traditional Olivia LeBlanc was totally unlike attorney Brett Terrill's usual choice in women. After all, how many professional nannies did most single lawyers meet? But once he met her, he was determined not to lose her. She was, quite simply, ev...

• Feb-1988
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The job was waiting but her sister wasn't Ellen Shaw arrived in London, England, to take her ideal job -- managing an antiquarian bookshop -- and met her ideal man. Strong and solid, warm and loving, Hugh Weston, the shop's owner, was a po...

• Feb-1988
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A CITY AT WAR In 1777 Philadelphia was the cultural center of an emerging nation. It was there that the course of history would be determined. The British took possession of the city without firing a single shot; but they quickly discovered that h...

• Feb-1988
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STARS IN HER EYES The desert was everything to Jamie Goff. She'd grown up in the arid wilderness; it was the only home she'd ever known. So it was fitting that her first real kiss would be under a desert sky. But why did it have to happen with Bro...

• Feb-1988
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BRASH BUCCANEER When ebony-haired Maren James heard that the notorious Captain Hawk was aboard her British ship searching for illegally impressed American sailors, she couldn't wait for the pirate to be on his way She was impatient to be back ...

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FORBIDDEN LOVE When young, blond Andrea Sanders moved to the hills of Georgia, she was terrified that she lived next door to the Cherokee. But when she first saw the muscular, handsome warrior Adam, she was even more afraid of the turbulent passions...

• Feb-1988
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A sweeping historical novel set in nineteenth-century New Zealand from the #1 New York Times�"bestselling author. The only son of a poor British coal miner, Robert Coffin sets sail for the far ends of the Earth in search of his fortune, le...

• Feb-1988
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SHE FEARED HER RED CAPTOR Roping the wild stallion that roamed the Texas range was all that Trista Sinclair had on her mind when suddenly she felt a lasso binding her own arms. The golden-haired beauty was indignant when she faced her Comanche abduct...

• Feb-1988
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BY LOVE SURPRISED Lady Aubree Berford was a beautiful young innocent, but also a creature of spirit and pride, befitting the daughter of a duke. Certainly she would never become the latest conquest of the infamous Earl of Heathmont, the most no...

• Feb-1988
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APOCALYPSE! On January 23, 1986, millions watched in horror as the space shuttle Challenger exploded during takeoff. But NASA's greatest disaster was only a grim prelude to the nightmare to come. A conspiracy has taken root at the core of the U...

• Feb-1988
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Flynn McCallister had a talent for make-believe In fact, Dr. Ann Perry was seeing a whole new side to her Los Angeles neighbor. The irresponsible bon vivant had become a model parent ever since he'd found a homeless little girl. Flynn was great at...

• Feb-1988
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Mikal Romanov was a dreamer, an idealist, a man who'd dedicated himself to making the world a better place. But idealism was no recommendation to sensible Morgan Kramer. Her father had been a dreamer, too, and his dreams hadn't left him time for anyo...

• Feb-1988
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PAST AND PRESENT... Alexi Jordan had come to the old Florida estate to heal the wounds left by a bad marriage--and run straight into trouble. She didn't mind the fact that the mansion was supposedly haunted. What she did mind was her neighbor, Rex...

• Feb-1988
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MEANT TO BE Sophie Pennybaker hadn't meant to tempt fate, but she had...in every sense of the word. Her boss, Lafayette "Fate" Ridgeway, was determined to find out more about his imperturbable, unflappable, completely professional secr...

• Feb-1988
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Sexy heartbreaker Rad Ramsey knew women found him irresistible, but he'd always enjoyed the chase too much to keep the ladies whose hearts he captured. Then sweet, serene Erin Brady came tantalizingly near -- and he felt his cherished control slippin...

• Feb-1988
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THE GOOD SAMARITAN Cynthia Robards was always ready to lend a hand to those who needed it -- even the ones who refused to admit they needed anything. When Connor O'Shaugnessy moved into a house on her postal route -- then ran her off his prope...

• Feb-1988
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Where there is no law and order, the renegade will prey on the weak and innocent. West of Yuma, beneath the red sandstone bluffs, the comancheros reigned with brutal terror. A motley crew of savage men, they rode with lust in their hearts and cruelty...

• Feb-1988
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She had given up all hope for her kidnapped daughter -- until a stranger beckoned from beautiful Vancouver Island... "I MUST WARN YOU THAT I HOPE THIS CHILD WILL NOT PROVE TO BE YOURS. BUT I MUST BE SURE..." Jennifer Blake could still vividly r...

• Feb-1988
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The House Guests, a classic memoir of animal companionship from John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook.   A master of the noir novel turns his sharp insights and consider...

• Feb-1988
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Fletcher McGill was back in town, and Nancy Forest was haunted by memories of the man who'd been her first love, the man who'd left her six years ago in the middle of the night, furious at her refusal to run away with him. He'd shattered her dreams,...

• Feb-1988
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Phil Hastings was a lucky man--he had money, a growing reputation as a screenwriter, a happy, loving family with three kids, and he'd just moved into the house of his dreams in rural upstate New York. Life was wonderful, full of magic--and about to b...

• Feb-1988
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A SPLENDID, SAVAGE LOVE She was a flame-haired beauty forced to wed a man twice her age. Brought to the wilds of Montana, Carrie belonged to a rich and powerful husband who wanted an heir - and a woman to bed at whim. Yet while her young body serv...

• Feb-1988
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A BAND OF OUTLAW INDIANS ARE ON THE WARPATH. And only Slocum can stop them from wiping out Cracker Creek. Once a prospector's paradise, a bloody campaign of savage killings is turning Cracker Creek into a ghost town. And to make matters worse, the re...

• Feb-1988
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Paradise is not a place for cool indifference Nick Donovan was the most irresistible, yet infuriating man Megan knew. Two short years ago he ended their love affair to keep his freedom intact. Now he wanted her to work alongside him on a three-yea...