Books Published in September 1985

• Sep-1985
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Her car had stalled on an isolated road in Maine, and Genevieve Grandeau found herself pounding on the door of an old lighthouse. But the man who answered the door wasn't the old seafaring gent she'd expected... Grant Campbell was a loner--rude, ...

• Sep-1985
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LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER She'd met Eric Van Meer entirely by chance during an unforgettable vacation in Mexico, and with reckless abandon, she'd agreed to marry the mysterious blond stranger. Dani St. Clair, prim southern bookseller, had expe...

• Sep-1985
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Brett Rutland was Carter Engineering's top troubleshooter, so it was only logical for him to be sent to the L.A. office to crack a case of embezzlement. Brett was a hard man, he had to be, in his line of work, so it hit him like a sledgehammer wh...

• Sep-1985
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The choice is yours," Joel was saying Joel's biting contempt of her over a teenage episode that he had wrongly interpreted had permanently scarred Lissa--left her unable to respond to any man. Now, years later, they were at loggerheads ...

• Sep-1985
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A most unnerving situation... Mystery writer Kimberly Sawyer had a mystery of her own to solve. Someone had sent her a single blood-red rose--but it was no loving gesture. And then one-time acquaintance Darius Cavenaugh showed up at her door un...

• Sep-1985
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It might have been nearly four hundred years since the Montagues and Capulets wove their deathly web, but Shakespeare knew that the sins of the parents are recreated generation after generation. And so it was with the Stephens and the Daniels, the...

• Sep-1985
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Courtney Adams felt only the friendly warmth of Jamaica's breezes, saw only the island's lush beauty, heard only the gentle lilt of the people's voices...until the news came that her brother had disappeared. Suddenly the sultry evenin...

• Sep-1985
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Linc Taylor, a famous attorney, was used to having women fall into his arms, but the sexy, mysterious lady at a posh fundraiser not only didn't fall...she stood upright and called him a macho, egotistical brat to his face. Despite her stinging reject...

• Sep-1985
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Dragons. Creatures of legend. Stories told to children. But now dragons have returned to Krynn. The darkness of war and destruction engulfs the land. Hope dawns with the coming of spring. Armed at last with the dragonlances, the heroes lead ...

• Sep-1985
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PICK UP A GUN, AND STAY "I'm just passin' through," the rider said when they asked him his name. And from then on, in the high country around Parrott City, he was called just that: Mr. Passin' Through, a man who rode a blue roan with a skull and c...

• Sep-1985
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HOLD FAST TO DREAMS Hope Gardener dreamed of the day when her ranch in the Valley of the Sun would be brought to life by a reliable well. It seemed like a foolish dream, until the day she met Rio. Rio was a man without dreams. He moved like th...

• Sep-1985
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No doubt about it, Jessica was trapped! Knowing it was her own fault didn't ease her frustration. Who'd have expected the consequences of her foolhardy act to save her brother's career would pursue her from England to Australia? Seemingly, she'd l...

• Sep-1985
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Had it been a mistake to come? Vanessa wondered about it. On the island of New Caledonia she'd joyfully found the father she'd not seen for sixteen years, though his death so soon after was traumatic. But it was her liaison with Raoul D...

• Sep-1985
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Spanning four and a half centuries, James A. Michener’s monumental saga chronicles the epic history of Texas, from its Spanish roots in the age of the conquistadors to its current reputation as one of America’s most affluent, diverse, and provoca...

• Sep-1985
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She'd lied to her best friend, bragging that she'd married a famous surgeon. Now Jillane Simms had to produce a husband, and Slater Holbrook was the best she could come up with. In desperation she made a deal. He'd play the part in exchan...

• Sep-1985
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Gayle had no illusions about Jared Logan As his secretary, she'd sent too many flowers to his mistresses on too many "mornings after" not to know what he was really like. And as a woman with a private grief she had no time for romance....

• Sep-1985
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The nation is stunned silent when presidential hopeful James Kilcannon is shot dead, point-blank, while sharing the stage at a benefit concert with his rock-star girlfriend Stacy Tarrant. Fiercely independent attorney Tony Lord defends the assassin i...

• Sep-1985
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"IF I COULD HAVE FORESEEN THE FUTURE, I WOULD HAVE MARRIED THE FIRST MAN WHO ASKED ME!" Tongues were set wagging when Elizabeth Markham's glamorous young parents were killed, sinking their only child to the unspeakable class of poor re...

• Sep-1985
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Lestat. The vampire hero of Anne Rice's enthralling new novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through ...

• Sep-1985
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THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT Destry repeated to herself. The Brannick Royal Hotel was one of her largest accounts, and when the new manager showed up in her printing office demanding stationery, Destry was inclined to go out of her way to keep him...

• Sep-1985
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BRIGHT ARROW'S FIRST PASSION Seven years had past since the Oglala Sioux had banished Bright Arrow for loving the magnificent captive Rebecca Kenny. Still, his hands always ached to stroke her creamy flesh; his lips needed to ravish her each night. ...

• Sep-1985
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CALL FOR MR. FIXIT! The Company had a big problem--it was illegally exploiting a fabulously rich planet named Prism, a world where even the tiniest creatures were living jewels. But, somehow, all contact had been lost with the scientists of the...

• Sep-1985
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Like On a Pale Horse, this second, complete-in-itself novel of the Incarnations of Immortality is a richly imagined and always fascinating story. And again, Piers Anthony adds to his gripping plot a serious, though-provoking study of good and evil.&#...

• Sep-1985
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A family crisis once wrenched Morag Macdonald from her home. Now another crisis returned her to the wild and beautiful island in Scotland. Callum Maconnell, the castle's new laird, had caught her brother with his hand in the till and offered Mora...

• Sep-1985
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LOVESTRUCK ECSTASY Terrified of her leering, lustful stepfather, innocent Delight de Vries knew she had to leave her elegant St. Louis home before it was too late. Disguised as a lad, she fled to the waterfront and hired on as a riverboat cabin bo...

• Sep-1985
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IT'S ABOUT TRUST... about striving to be the best in the business, about forever seeking approval and never believing yourself worthy of any man's love. But when it came to Morgan Hastings, Dinah Kirsten acted selflessly by giving him a home at h...

• Sep-1985
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CROWNING THE CAPO OF CRIME Mack Bolan persuades a Mafia target to betray the brotherhood, as a trade for a new life in the federal witness program. But the Mob snatches the informant before he has a chance to "sing." The trail of the traitor le...

• Sep-1985
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Morton Lewis was part Indian … which meant that the only way the land-grabbers could take his ranch from him was to kill him … and the killing had to seem to be legal …But Mort’s grandfather was a Comanche war chief, and if a Comanche brave s...

• Sep-1985
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"PLEASURE ME NOW" dashing union Major Jeffrey Banks commanded Rheva Sinclair. He knew it was wrong to use his position to take the Southern beauty against her will. But the hot-blooded officer could no longer fight his pounding desire as he imagined...

• Sep-1985
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Summer of Dreams I thought becoming a teenager was going to be fun. Instead., the summer I turned thirteen my life turned upside-down. Dad lost his job and we moved into my aunt and uncle's beach house. Sounded great-but not When I had to share a ro...

• Sep-1985
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"Will you marry me?" she blurted out Raina could hardly believe the words had come from her lips. How could she ask Dev Masters, of all people, to enter into such a relationship? Dev Masters despised her. He thought she was a good-for-n...

• Sep-1985
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TAKING A DIVE Tyrus Clay felt as if he was caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. He'd been forced to retire from his career as a deep-sea salvage diver for health reasons. Now he was grounded -- stuck on dry land doing a diving study...

• Sep-1985
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LAGUNA... Where every day the sun makes a promise the nighttime breaks, while the super-rich live out expensive fantasies in posh beach houses and drown their memories in Cuervo Gold margaritas... LAGUNA... Where trouble has swept in like a ...

• Sep-1985
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THE REAL WORLD CAN BE VERY HARD ON A DREAM A blissful vacation in Jamaica brought two strangers together: Caren Blakemore needed to escape from a hectic Washington job and the loneliness of painful divorce. Derek Allen wanted some privacy, away f...

• Sep-1985
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Storm was her name and her destiny. Born on a night when lightning flashed and thunder rolled, the raven-haired beauty was sixteen before the promise of her name became the path of her life. Born to wealth, the belle of five counties wagered aw...

• Sep-1985
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JILTED! There had been no time for tears, no time for remorse. Though her fiance had stood her up at the altar, Donna had upheld the stoic Whitaker pride. Cool as a cucumber, she'd gone on with the reception, pretending that Alex Hofstedder hadn'...

• Sep-1985
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"What you are about to read deals with the stars, the wide galactic future that lies at our fingertips today... both factual articles and fictional stories. In a world where robots are causing human unemployment, spaceflight is so commonplace the new...

• Sep-1985
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In this "riveting account of the future," America has ceded the heavens to the tyrants and the renegades -- from the six-time Hugo Award�"winning author (Wall Street Journal). The US has abandoned its quest for the stars, and an old enemy has mo...

• Sep-1985
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She wasn't usually so uncertain and afraid Never before had Lana let a man affect her this way -- but like it or not, Philip had changed her life. Even her exciting success in New York's fashion world couldn't lift her depression. C...

• Sep-1985
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He saw her clearly through the eyes of love Dana MacKenzie hoped for a challenging job at the weekly paper in Warrenton, Oregon. What she got was chaos and uproar. The office was managed by a smart-mouthed teenager who squeezed in work hours betwe...

• Sep-1985
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He was a man with a burning passion as wild as the frontier he conquered. She was a woman whose love for adventure could only be matched by her desire for love. They were the children of the Old South--their hearts fired by the dreams and ambitions o...

• Sep-1985
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People cope with life and love in many ways... Sara Morrow had discovered a unique method of starting over. She went back in time. As Mrs. Willoughby of Long Island's restored Old Harkum Village, Sara baked bread in a brick oven and dreamed of ...

• Sep-1985
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Nicole Pierce almost had it made! Her elegant boutique wasn't exactly on Rodeo Drive, but it was close enough for the Beverly Hills elite who valued her unique fashion sense. She'd come a long way and was just about to heave a well-earned sigh of rel...

• Sep-1985
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Jill Tinsley prized her hard-won independence, and viewed her struggle to make a go of her house painting business as a challenge that made her stronger, built character. But when, in the middle of rescuing a trapped cat, she found herself in Chip Ch...

• Sep-1985
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She thought she was finished with love Two things mattered to Kirby: her baby daughter's happiness and her work. So the assignment to ghostwrite a famous artist's biography seemed like the chance of a lifetime. The writer in her yearned...

• Sep-1985
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Kate smelled a rat -- a big blond American one. "Take it from me," Kate's boss told her sheepishly as he packed to leave London, "Van Fitzgerald is a man worth knowing." This after having advised Kate to avoid his American frie...

• Sep-1985
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KATE FENTON had once acknowledged a man as her master, but she had become her own woman, and now made her living writing from a feminist perspective. ANDREAS CONSTANTINOU seemed to epitomize the attitudes Kate had fought to escape--but his poten...

• Sep-1985
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Dashing industrialist Alex Doral had never before met a woman who frankly admitted she intended to marry for money, but when Rachel Kirkland told him her plans he was more than intrigued by her honesty--and her fragile beauty. Sensing she hadn't the ...

• Sep-1985
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SUNSHINE BASIN. THE NAME SOUNDS WARM, EVEN FRIENDLY. The kind of place to settle into. raise a few head of cattle. maybe even a family. Certainly a place where John Slocum, bushwhacked and bleeding, could escape to mend his wounds. But beneath the...

• Sep-1985
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Was he all things to all women? California sunshine and her sister's beach house overlooking the ocean at Malibu would do the trick. Bianca hoped the time alone would help her focus on what to do with her life. But her tranquility was short...