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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JULY 1988

Best Reviewed

Game Without Rules
Michael Gilbert

Best Reviewed

Dark Corners
Elaine Raco Chase

New Books List: 408 titles

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  • Nora Roberts

    A woman who dared to dream and a man who had forgotten how. Though her name was up in lights, Maddy O'Hurley cared nothing for the trappings of stardom. All that mattered was dancing. She moved in perfect harmony to the music that ruled her life bot...



  • Linda Lael Miller

    DANGEROUS CHEMISTRY At first the powerful chemistry between Sharon Harrison and Tony Morelli had yielded heart-stopping passion, then marriage and children. But under pressure, their happy home became an explosive battleground. Not even divorce...



  • Jayne Ann Krentz

    Destiny found them, and rapture, wild and free, opened their hearts... As she fled to safety in the dark of the Mexican night, Verity Ames could not see the man who had saved her from attack... but he was determined to see her again. Two months l...



  • Charlotte Lamb

    A strange beginning to an unusual romance Driving back to London after her vacation, reporter Sian Christian nearly ran over a fleeing bride. And not just any bride either--the bride of William Cassidy, powerful electronics magnate. Sian took t...



  • Iris Johansen

    a Loveswept Exclusive [1988] Samantha Barton was ethereal as moonlight and all fragile grace, but she was also Topaz, a woman whose courage had survived a revolution -- and Fletcher Bronson wanted to protect and ravish her all at once. The enigmatic...



  • Sara Craven

    A vulgar Greek peasant, Julia had called him When she learned that Alexandros Constantis was buying Ambermere, her beloved ancestral home, Julia was filled with shame and anger. Not only would he take away her home, he would strip away every shred...



  • Lisa Jackson

    Everyone knew Cord Donahue had embezzled the family fortune and fled, only to drown in the icy waters of Puget Sound. Numb with grief at Cord's betrayal, Alison Banning had wed his brother and borne a child. But three years later Alison was a wid...



  • Emma Darcy

    She was in trouble from the start Bethany Lyon McGregor fell foul of the autocratic Prince Zakr, ruler of Bayrar, almost as soon as her plane landed. He thought he could manipulate her...bend her to his will...as easily as he trained his great ...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    BREAKING THE ICE Luke Randall had forgotten that people like Eve Tarrington existed; even in the face of near disaster she was cheerful. When she and her kid, appeared at his doorstep in a snowstorm, he had no choice but to offer them shelter. Now...



  • Jodi Thomas

    BITTERSWEET CHOICES The years following the Civil War were difficult ones for Texas...and for beautiful Bethanie Lane. When fate took the man she loved from her, she was forced to choose between her cherished memories of the past and her steely de...



  • Sandra Marton

    She was given no choice! Elena's father rushed her to the San Felipe airport to put her on a plane to Miami. Their homeland in Central America had just erupted in revolution, and no one was safe. But Elena held a San Felipan passport, and o...



  • Mary Jo Putney

    A Make-Believe Marriage Turned Real Beautiful Lady Jocelyn Kendal had two pressing reasons to find a husband. First, she would lose her vast legacy to her grasping cousin Elvira if she did not. And second, the man she adored, the dashing Duke of C...



  • Jo Beverley

    HE WON HER HAND Though she hailed from one of England's oldest, richest families, the Honorable Jane Sandiford had been brought up in a frugal fashion, far from the lavish London set she was about to join. For Jane was to wed the dashing Lord Wr...



  • Mercedes Lackey

    THE SWORDSWOMAN She was Tarma. Boni to the Clan of the Hawk of the nomadic Shin'a'in people she saw her entire clan slain by brigands. Vowing blood revenge upon the murderers, she became one of the sword-sworn, the most elite of all warriors. And tr...



  • JoAnn Ross

    Two for the road All Sara McBride wanted was to enjoy her summer on the road without complications. And she considered Darius Wilde, who was planning to research her life-style, a definite complication. Determined to dislike him, she was dismayed ...



  • Tom Clancy

    Two men possess vital data on Russia's Star Wars missile defense system. One of them is CARDINAL--America's highest agent in the Kremlin--and he's about to be terminated by the KGB. The other is the one American who can save CARDINAL and lead the wor...



  • Stella Bagwell

    HOME BASE Teaming up with ex-rodeo star Matt Tanner to coach her son's Little League club was more than reserved Natalie Fuller had bargained for. She'd told herself she'd never need another man in her life, but she couldn't keep h...



  • Diana Hamilton

    He was playing judge and jury Hannah had been only nineteen when she'd first come to London -- a beautiful, naive nineteen. She'd fallen madly in love with an exciting man, only to discover he was married. Then there was Eden Wilmott -- n...



  • Cathy Gillen Thacker

    It began as a simple case of lost and found When Doug Maitland reported his father missing, guest-relations manager Marianne Spencer began a routine search of Children's World. What turned up was the body of a Naval Intelligence officer and eviden...



  • James A. Michener

    In this sweeping novel inspired by the Iran-Contra affair, master storyteller James A. Michener conjures the triumphs and tragedies of one family and their dynamic role in the history of the United States and its founding document. Over a tense weeke...



  • Leigh Michaels

    What else could any woman want...? Kaye loved Graham Forrest--of course she did! The Illinois baby-food tycoon was kind and gentle, he was a millionaire, and he'd asked her to marry him. Everything should have been perfect .. . . But troub...



  • Christopher Pike

    Some secrets are worth dying for.... Jane Retton would never let anyone read her diary. After all,it was filled with her wildest secrets--the sort of things she wouldn't even tell her closest friends. Then something terrible happened. Someho...



  • Joan Smith

    MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE Crouching in bushes and peeping in windows wasn't Shawna Cassidy's idea of a good time, but then, this wasn't supposed to be a dream vacation. She was at Spindrift Cottage on a mission. Kurt Slater had been stealing her uncle's...



  • Annette Broadrick

    WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE As soon as he saw beautiful reserved Emily Hartman, charismatic Jeremy Jones knew they were from two different worlds. His was a fast-paced, glamorous rat race; hers was the stable, comfortable existence he'd been longing ...



  • Gilbert Morris

    Freedom Was the Cry of a Nation, But at What Personal Cost to Her People? The Gentle Rebel brings the dynamic saga of the Winslow family into the American Revolution. Starting with the first Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth, The House of Winslow novel...



  • Robin Lee Hatcher

    Fiery Gem McBride was hardly more than a child when Chase Dupre won her in a lucky hand of poker. She was only fifteen, but one look in his startling sapphire eyes made her yearn to be woman enough to hold him. Left behind at Chase's sprawling cat...



  • Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    He was looking for a permanent position Overwhelmed by work, Merry James was in no mood for a party. But since theme parties were her livelihood, she was destined to make merry. Especially after the appearance of the man she assumed was her tempor...



  • Alan Dean Foster

    KNIGHT ERRANT Flinx and his amazing minidrag Pip were always finding themselves in the middle of danger and galactic intrigue, so when they found an unconscious young woman on a riverbank deep in the jungles of Alaspin, Flinx wasn't surprised. Nor...



  • Patricia Rice

    As Drake wrapped her in his arms and loosed the force of his forbidden passion, she responded as hungrily as he, willingly parting her lips to drink deep of this heady wine... No one, not even she herself, knew the secret of her past. All that was...



  • Don Pendleton

    FAMILY BUSINESS To avoid federal prosecution, high-ranking members of the Giancarlo Family turn state's evidence against Benito Villani, Chicago's biggest crime boss. But when a security leak permanently silences two of the witnesses, one Fed decide...



  • Don Pendleton

    Mason Harlow trafficks in death A renegade spook turned arms trader, Mason Harlow has one foot in Langley, the other in hell. If it kills or maims, he can get it for you--for the right price. Life's been good to Harlow--he's got it all: a horse...



  • J.T. Edson

    Arizona was wide open. The whole damn territory was easy-pickins for any two-bit cow-thief, back shooting gunslick, or blood-simple outlaw. The law belonged to the fastest gun. And justice was in the hands of fools and cowards. So when cattle baron B...



  • Dallas Schulze

    A SECOND CHANCE... Donovan Sinclair was stunned. His wife, Elizabeth, was leaving after almost twenty years of marriage. True, they'd gotten married as teenagers because they had to, but their love had been as real as the baby on the way. Donovan ...



  • Ginna Gray

    "I DO?" Waking up in bed with virile Sam Lawford was hardly Elise Holman's typically angelic behavior. Lately she'd been fighting an attraction to her workaholic and oh-so-sexy boss, yet never for a moment did she think those amorous fantasies c...



  • Edith Layton

    PASSION'S TEMPTING ODDS Francesca Wyndham knew the folly of gambling. She had seen her father, Lord Wyndham, lose the family fortune, forcing her to become a plain chaperone to an empty-headed young Miss. But now Francesca was taking a gamble e...



  • Kathleen Eagle

    Swept away . . . The storm that lashed the trees was nothing to the storm that swept through Carolina Hammond on the day Jacob Black Hawk first drew her into his embrace. The desires he awakened in her were dangerous, and made more so because they...



  • Heather Graham Pozzessere

    UNDER FIRE! Brad McKenna was running for his life--and each painful step drew him deeper into the tangled saw grass and mud of the Everglades, deeper into the dark solace of unconsciousness. He awoke to find himself facing a silver-eyed angel of m...



  • Alice Hoffman

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic comes a “memorable...striking”(Village Voice) novel that vividly portrays an American family shattered by tragedy.

    Ivan and Polly Farrell have two bright and talented childre...



  • Michael Crichton

    In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend together into the depths of the sea to in...



  • Rebecca Brandewyne

    SHE WAS HIGHBORN AND BEAUTIFUL...HE WAS GYPSY-DARK AND BRAZEN Only the crying gulls and crashing waves of the rocky Cornish coast were witness to their embrace. Maggie was Sir Nigel Chandler's proud daughter and the mistress of Highclyffe Hall...



  • Lawrence Sanders

    Timothy Cone is not a smooth man. In fact he's a scrawny, scruffy, chain-smoking, junk-food-stained disgrace. In his barely furnished, hardly ever cleaned, lower broadway loft, he and Cleo, his live-in neutered tomcat, exist on take-aways and lef...



  • Patricia Veryan

    ENEMIES IN BATTLE, COULD THERE BE TRUCE IN LOVE...? Exquisitely beautiful Rosamond Albritton, genteel though she was, found herself hating the Jacobite rebels who had caused her fiance's death. And for some reason, she immediately distrusted t...



  • Madeleine Ker

    It was an invitation she could not refuse! An invitation to the wealthy Juan Torres's home was coveted in the Majorcan social circuit. But Paula Castle was not going there to socialize. She was going to do everything in her power to convince t...



  • Judith Arnold

    Daphne always played it safe Realtor Daphne Stoltz was horrified that her latest client and potential neighbor was Brad Torrance. Brad was a living reminder of the night Daphne hadn't played it safe, the night a certain lovelorn, tipsy coed set ou...



  • Sarah Holland

    Lorel felt a shiver of alarm It ran like ice-cold water down her spine. A man, a blue-eyed stranger, had stormed into the room in the middle of her party and switched off the music, and now he furiously confronted Lorel. She stared at him, figh...



  • John D. MacDonald

    The stage was set. Harry Mullin had hit town first. But he had just made the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, and he was a little nervous about being seen. With him at the rented house where they planned to case the job was a girl named Sal. Then the Ace ...



  • John D. MacDonald

    Her name was Cindy, and she was his neighbour's wife - the woman next door in the kind of suburbia that didn't make headlines. These were real people, nice people like Cindy and Carl who fought with the desperation of the damned to keep from wanting ...



  • Joan Elliott Pickart

    Everyone in Harmony, Oklahoma, called her Miss Annabella, the librarian who dressed in drab browns and resembled a sparrow, but when gorgeous blue-eyed ladykiller pilot Terry Russell heard her sultry, sexy voice, he sensed the vibrant woman underneat...



  • Raye Morgan

    EXPERIENCE PREFERRED Restaurant owner Charity Ames needed a husband--fast! Her visiting aunt expected to see her blissfully wed, but Charity never had the time to find true love. In a last-ditch effort, she called an employment office. Answer...



  • Judy Baer

    Searching for love... When Darby Sutton's grandfather died, he left behind a very unusual will. To claim her inheritance, Darby must solve a series of baffling riddles. And there is only one person who may be able to help: her grandfather's bold you...


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