
It was a night she'd never forget . . . two strangers coming together in one breathless moment of intense need and overwhelming desire. But now, sheltered Hannah Raymond was expecting the child of rugged naval seaman Riley Murdock--a man she never th...
Secretary Sara Browning has just discovered that relationships with the boss don't always work - especially when he's decided to marry someone else! Desperately needing to hide from her humiliation, Sara decides to leave London and stay a...
From the elegantly appointed drawing rooms of London's most exclusive club to an imposing country estate in the heart of Dorset comes a provocative tale of a free-thinking beauty, a dignified lord, and a mad impetuous love that defied all logic.... ...
Alternate Blurb: Claire Willoughby risked losing her millions in her inheritance if, as decreed by her grandfather, she did not wed an "acceptable" man. Harry Montgomery, the eleventh Duke of MacArran, seemed perfect. He owned a historical...
Edwina Winfield, returning from her engagement trip to England with her fiance and her family, instantly loses her parents, the man she loved and her dreams. Without even time to mourn, she courageously defies convention to run her family's Californi...
Their marriage was one of convenience. Eminent consultant Tyco van der Brons had made that plain when he proposed. He needed a mother for his children and an accomplish hostess to run his home in Amsterdam. To expect her husband to act like a man...
The Perplexing Proposal The Earl of Severn's question was simple enough. Would Miss Abigail Gardiner agree to become his wife? But a far more difficult question was why the most handsome and wealthy lord in London, with a ravishing mistress and...
A dying woman's fervent prayer transports her back in time for a second chance at life...and love....
MR. AUSTRALIA Name: Harry Griffith Challenge: To win the heart of Amy Ryan. Relationship: He'd been her husband's best friend in school. Amy couldn't believe her eyes. There stood her late husband, as plain as day, telling her she'd soon mee...
SHE'S THE ANGEL OF HIS DREAMS. HE'S THE SEXIEST DEVIL SHE EVEN HEAVEN-SENT LOVE CAN BE HOT AS HELL.... The free-spirited rebel of her powerful family, Jessie Benedict was determined not to marry her father's protege, Sam Hatchard. But no one was ...
He was tall, dark and eligible... Hotel magnate Owen Sutherland was the last man Angie Townsend expected to marry. After all, his family had been feuding with hers for years. But in three short months, Owen convinced her to be his wife. Angie love...
Zarabeth, with hair as red as an Irish sunset, is chosen by Magnus Haraldsson, a Viking on a trading visit to York, to be his wife. She is both stunned and fascinated by his bluntness, but is soon won over by this man who makes her laugh, brings her ...
A DESPERATE RACE AGAINST DEATH Alex. Brilliant Alex Karazov always regarded his wild talent as merely a tool in the high-tech chessboard of world events...until murder galvanized him into a global cat-and-mouse game that could cost him not only hi...
She could run...but she couldn't hide. No longer the shattered teenager who had left Thornley vowing never to return, Rebecca Shaw had come to terms with the legacy of Jay Lorence's betrayal and had built a new life on HER terms. But her m...
A sweeping, unforgettable story of romance, intrigue -- and the greatest voyage ever made. THE DREAMER He believed he could reach the fabulous Indies by sailing West. She ruled a kingdom -- but he offered her a new world. THE QUEEN His guilty...
A conspiracy of desire Lexi Harrison, one of Sydney's top international fashion models, was accustomed to being pursued by men who wanted to share her fame and fortune. It made it difficult for the beautiful woman to trust men, especially a ma...
She finagled her way into his life When the humpback whales returned to Haven Bay, Tiffany James realized they brought opportunity. Opportunity to revitalize the coastal community and provide security for the inhabitants, including her adopted sis...
If only lightning would strike him! Seven years had passed since their last meeting, but Dominic Maxwell still found Fenella Gardner's morals suspect. She was -- and always would be -- a gold digger. The fact he had misjudged her wouldn'...
Out in the wild How typical of a man to base his judgment of her solely on her looks! Clearly Kip Forsythe would have preferred that she wore khaki shorts, a bush shirt and the odd python draped around her neck. Natalie would show him she was quit...
Brazilian nightmare? Her welcome was most peculiar, and yet Kate Ashley, who'd arrived to teach English in Vila Nova, was even more upset by the rudeness of her imperious employer, Luis Vasconcelos. She wanted to leave at once. "I would...
A wonderful new store has opened in the little town of Castle Rock, Maine. Whatever your heart's secret desire -- sexual pleasure, wealth, power or even more precious things -- it's for sale. And even though every item has a nerve-shattering price, t...
Television war correspondent Nicky Wells is a media superstar. Courageous, beautiful and renowned for her hard-hitting reports from the world's most dangerous trouble spots, her life is shattered when she loses the only man she ever truly loved -- da...
Violet Windemere stared out her parlor window ... and couldn't believe her eyes! It was Slow Larkin, the sexy rebel of her girlhood dreams--the boy she'd once adored with all her heart. Now here he was, eleven years later, just as devastatingly mascu...
A CALAMITOUS COUPLE Returning Baron Dugdale's long-lost granddaughter to Brighton seems a lark to haughty Valerian Fitzhugh until he locates the stunning if somewhat irascible Allegra Crispino in a rundown Florence pensione. Here, to his great cha...
Teenage passion meets centuries-old magic...Prom Night's going to be Hell! It should have been a relaxing visit with an old friend, a chance to check out the strange occult vibrations around Tulsa's Jenks High. Di hadn't expected to find a male...
HIGH MAGIC had been lost to Voldemor centuries ago when the lost Herald-Mage gave his life to save the kingdom from destruction by dark sorceries. Yet now the realm is at risk again. And Elspeth, Herald and heir to the throne, must take up the ch...
She was playing with fire--dared she risk getting burned Life with the jet set was fine for some, but Cassie Elliot yearned for a sense of purpose. Inheriting a British publishing house was a gift from heaven . . . until she discovered that the fi...
Natural Enemies Katrine Campbell had come to the Highlands to rediscover her Scottish roots. If truth be told, she longed for some of the adventure her life in England had sorely lacked. But never in her wildest imaginings had she conjured a raven...
A beautiful woman besieged by war triumphs magnificently in love when her strange dreams of a virile and ghostly Viking protector come true....
The birdwatching weekend in Cornwall is memorable -- even without the murder. Miracle of miracles, the small band of fanatical birdwatchers aboard the Jessie Ellen -- among them detective George Palmer-Jones -- sights a seabird that has never been...
TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT When Jake Slater came face to face with his new business partner, he couldn't believe his eyes. With long blond hair and curves in all the right places, Chelsea Collins was not your average building contractor. She was th...
MR. ITALY Name. Carlo Valetti Address: Rome's ancient Appian Way Occupation: CEO of an internationally renowned race-car manufacturer. Reason for living. The little daughter who'd warmed his cynical heart. Along with his father's name ...
HE RULED BY THE BOOK Wealthy California rancher Rafael Cabrillo bad broken some of the wildest stallions and mares, and now those docile animals obeyed his every command. The imperious aristocrat expected his people to behave the same way, so Rafael...
WHO WAS CHASE SULLIVAN? Stevie Holt found herself watching for him, waiting to hear her neighbor's motorcycle roar into his driveway. All she knew about Chase Sullivan was that he filled out a simple white T-shirt and a pair of tight, worn jeans b...
The unsinkable Miss Pym returns to the English stagecoach in search of adventure and troubled hearts... With her delightful schemes and discerning eye, she never fails to strike a match by journey's end. Lady Beatrice Marsham is in quite a coi...
Beatrice Searle, a beautiful and charming widow, agreed to smarten up tomboy Gillie Southam, because she believed Gillie’s half-brother, Lord Southam, would accompany her to Bath. But it was Southam’s straight-laced fiancée who actually inspir...
A NUN WITH A GUN? Was rebellious Sister Felicia, the nun who sneaked cigarettes and went swimming in the nude, for real? Or was she a cool assassin, an imposter who had come to the Palm Springs convent in order to murder a world-famous humanitaria...
"Her face showed one marking that he had seen too often since beginning the present work eyes that were much older and harder than they should be in a girl of this age. It always gave him a pang, seeing eyes like that. He felt the silent accusations ...
WITHIN HER HEART THERE LIVED A LOVE OF THE OPEN FRONTIER--AND A PASSION FOR A LAWLESS GUNMAN .... Her name was Willow .... Strong and determined, she survived in a tough land taking on the challenges of the wild West as she worked her ranch with t...
The last time Tim Blackburn saw his headstrong daughter Nicole, she was sailing out of his English Channel boatyard with the oddly charismatic leader of a group of environmental activists--some might say terrorists--called Genesis. Now, alone after t...
... a sweeping tale of a beautiful, innocent woman racing against time to solve a chilling mystery and clear her name. At her side is a man who can neither trust nor resist her. They are both after the truth -- but for very different reasons... I...
A dashing British viscount and a stunning American woman rekindle the flames of desire that burned between them a century earlier....
Never Were There Two More Unlikely People to Fall in Love... Lady Alexandria Cassel scorned London's frivolous social whirl, seeking adventure as a stowaway aboard a merchant ship. Drake Barrett was the vessel's powerful captain -- and a c...
A magician sends a melancholic maiden on a rescue mission in Hell in this humorous fantasy adventure by a New York Times�"bestselling author.As one of the trouble-making twins of Castle Zombie, Lacuna used to have so much fun when she was a lit...
They say you should never go back. Most people do, however, survive a peek at their childhood environs. But when globe-hopping British First Secretary Peter Darwin goes home, he not only risks his own hide, but those of others--including racehorses. ...
Five short mystery stories featuring Detective Chief Inspector Wexford involve challenging cases ranging from a suspicious suicide and a strange incident of child abduction to a bizarre murder in Yugoslavia...
The Copper Peacock and Other Stories gathers together nine new short stories - eight tales featuring the psychological suspense that has made Ruth Rendell the darling of critics and discerning fans, and one classic detective story featuring Chief Ins...
HOME FIRES America comes under siege as a frighteningly efficient group of unknown terrorists begin hitting the nation's biggest cities with stunning impact, turning them into war zones and graveyards, then vanishing into the night. No one know...
STATE OF EMERGENCY For two hundred years, Hawaii has been a melting pot of pleasure and sin. Now, the pot is boiling over. The Yakuza, lords of the Japanese underworld, and the ruthless Chinese Triads have declared war for total control of America...
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