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Sylvia Halliday

THE RING 3/1996 ISBN: 0821755978 The ring. It was the symbol of all Prudence Allbright's hope - and proof that her beloved Jamie, the charming young viscount Lord Hartley - did indeed intend to return and marry her. But how would he find her? Banished from her home in the Cotswolds by her pious and vindictive grandfather, Prudence's only hope is to make her way to the Colonies and find Jamie. It is this wrenching dilemma that brings the innocent young Englishwoman to the London docks to mingle with the whores and doxies, selling trinkets and ribbons to earn her passage. But it is accident, not enterprise, that lands Prudence aboard a British man-o'-war en route to Virginia. And within hours, one ring has been exchanged for another. Caught between the lecherous gaze of a cruel sea captain and the cool appraisal of the ship's surgeon, she has little choice but to accept the widower's ring and pose as the wife of Dr. Ross Manning. Her search is daring, desperate, but doomed to failure. The long voyage forges deep bonds between Ross and Prudence. Yet even as she clings to Ross's loving support and dazzles colonial society with her ripening beauty, she cannot let go of her illusion and secrets, convinced that only Jamie can restore her happiness. Back in the Cotswolds of England, all secrets will be exposed to the harsh light of day and every illusion shattered, as Prudence faces the shocking, uncompromising truth. She must come a hairsbreadth from losing life itself to fully grasp the treasure that has been found, to seize the answer to all her dreams and longings and, finally, to embrace a love founded on the deepest trust...a love meant to last for all time.

SUMMER DARKNESS, WINTER LIGHT 5/1995 ISBN: 082175260X The year is 1724. After eight years as an indentured servant in the American colonies, Allegra Baniard returns to England sworn to destroy the powerful family that brought her to ruin. But the nobleman she finds at her ancestral home is not the man she has come to kill. He is Sir Greyston Morgan, the new owner of Baniard Hall...a man haunted by tragedy. By turns cruel and seductive, Morgan provokes fear, fury - are irresistible desire. But it is Allegra who shows him a love that will sweep them from the dark past into the bright light of tomorrow - a love that can redeem as well as destroy.

Debra Hamilton

FILIGREE 5/1996 ISBN: 0821747274 In a land divided by war, back in England after a boyhood in the colonies, Courtland Day was a man without a country. Until hunger for revenge...and a dangerous spying mission...brought him back to Massachusetts on the eve of war...and straight into the path of a Colonial bullet. Badly wounded, Courtland stumbled into the forest but if not for the lovely half-Native Chaynoa, who tended and healed him, he would have died.

Peggy Hanchar

SWAN NECKLACE 9/1995 ISBN: 0449148653 Standing bound and dirty on the auction block, Swan Necklace, daughter of Red Hawke, chief of the Cree, remained proud and defiant. Struck by her beauty and courage, Scottish fur trader James McLeod vowed to return the captive princess to her people. But as their perilous trek through the Northwest Territory began, desire and destiny became one. Though Swan Necklace was promised to another, she surrendered to ecstasy in the arms of the rugged Scotsman she called White Falcon. His warrior's soul found a home in the land of the Cree, and he challenged his fiercest rival to claim Swan Necklace for his own. Though danger shadowed their lives, their faith in each other was unshakable. Together they triumphed in a love that would not be denied....

Lindsey Hanks

LONG VIRGINIA NIGHTS 3/1992 ISBN: 082173704X Ginny was struggling to hold on to her family's tobacco farm until her next door neighbor called in his deed on the land. Now her long hot days in the sun were over, but her long cool nights began as she made the social rounds to keep an eye on that handsome rake who held her future in his hands. She hated being at his mercy, but one bold, heated look from him made her knees weak with desire. No one in Virginia cared that Jonathan was the illegitimate son of a Duke. His combination of good looks and wealth stood him in good stead with the county's female residents all except one. That independent beauty next door was worried that he would take advantage of her vulnerable position. And for good reason, for just the sight of her rosy skin and honeyed golden tresses left him determined to take her in his arms and stroke her into wild abandon.

Danelle Harmon

CAPTAIN OF MY HEART 10/1992 ISBN: 0380766760 Meet bold and brassy Mira Ashton, queen of schemes and mistress of spunk. She’s got her horses, her string of rescued cats, the freedom to do as she pleases, and enough curse-words to turn the air blue around her. But when dashing Anglo-Irish privateer Captain Brendan Jay Merrick arrives in her New England town to commission her father to build his magnificent schooner, the spirited hellion sets her sights on him … stealing aboard his ship to become its sharpest gunner and its captain’s most outrageous distraction. All’s fair in love and war ...but when tragedy strikes, Mira must join forces with her beautiful rival, in a daring adventure that turns the tide of battle and brings glorious victory to the American colonists, the captain ...and the lady who has captured his heart.

MASTER OF MY DREAMS 9/1993 ISBN: 0-380-77227-2 Haunted by a tragic past, adamant in his belief that he can never love again, Captain Christian Lord is the Royal Navy’s last hope for straightening out the rebellious crew of HMS Bold Marauder, a.k.a. “the Hell-Ship.” Bound for a Boston that teeters on the brink of revolution, Christian finds that his brawling, unruly crew is just the beginning of his troubles...for also aboard the frigate is a pregnant pooch, an American brat aspiring to be a French whore -- and beautiful Deirdre O’Devir, a hot-tempered Irish stowaway plagued by a chronic case of homesickness. Only Deirdre can hope to thaw the ice that guards the captain’s tortured heart...but when Boston explodes into bloody revolution, it may be too late for them both.

PIRATE IN MY ARMS 1/1992 ISBN: 0-380-76675-2 When innocent young Maria Hallett is seduced by a handsome English adventurer named Sam Bellamy, her quiet, Puritan life is over for good. Hopelessly in love with the rakish seafarer, she watches from the high cliffs of Cape Cod as he sails off to the tropics to seek his fortune from a sunken treasure fleet. But fate has other things in store for the notorious Sam Bellamy, and when he returns in all his glory to claim the fair Maria of Eastham, it is as one of the most feared and romantic pirate captains the world has ever known.

Karen Harper

EDEN'S GATE 1/1990 ISBN: 1557732981 In the midst of war, desire set them free. Together they would conquer the wilderness...As the French and Indian War raged, one heart was held captive; brave, beautiful Claire Chandon knew the peril of Ethan Trent's powerful embrace - the rugged frontiersman was her enemy, her captor. Ethan was certain the intelligent and elusive Frenchwoman would betray the land he held dear. But their mutual resistance gave way to a timeless passion that broke the bonds of loyalty...Now they were bound in love and war. Together they would fight for Trent's home on the edge of an imperiled forest - a New World paradise called...Eden's Gate.

Madeline Harper

THE PIRATE'S WOMAN 1/1994 ISBN: 0373255764 A fantasy about Adam Hawke, a dark, handsome buccaneer and Diana Tremont, a woman thrown back in time.

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

THE FLOOD-TIDE 2/1986 ISBN:0356120465

Fiona Harrowe

BRIDGE OF FIRE 6/1989 ISBN: 0449131572 Amid the darkness of the Spanish Inquisition, a proud beauty and the man she loved would forge an all-consuming passion.

Karen Hawkins

CATHERINE AND THE PIRATE 9/2002 ISBN: 0064473465 (young adult) Born to a prominent Boston family, Catherine Markham is a bit of a hellion despite her gentle upbringing. Stifled by the rules imposed by society, Catherine yearns for adventure. When her beloved brother is kidnapped, she decides to deliver the ransom herself -- with the help of a young man few others might turn to. Derrick St. John lives on the edge. The memory of his dead father tainted by treason, Derrick's life has been spent at sea in both legal and not-so-legal pursuits. Determined to clear his father's name, the last thing this young pirate wants is to embark on a voyage to Savannah in the midst of a war with the British, much less with a young lady who spells trouble at every turn. An emotion stronger than caution takes hold of Derrick, and he finds himself unable to refuse Catherine's pleas for assistance, even though the journey promises peril for them both. And so the headstrong girl and the daring sea captain sail into an exhilarating adventure that fast becomes a journey of the heart.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

THE SCARLET LETTER 1850 Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country," Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter reaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact a single, passionate act has on the lives of three members of the community: the defiant Hester Prynne; the fiery, tortured Reverend Dimmesdale; and the obsessed, vengeful Chillingworth.

Lynne Hayworth

AUTUMN FLAME 4/2001 ISBN: 0821768832 To inherit the Virginia tobacco plantation where he worked as overseer, Diarmid Maclean had to take a wife immediately. In desperation, he bought a British bond slave as his bride--a fiery Gypsy pickpocket he'd tame into a lady, then free once his inheritance was assured. Passionate and beautiful, Lucy Graves stole Diarmid's heart and made him forget his vow to keep the marriage chaste--and temporary. But the last time he dared to love an Englishwoman, Diarmid's entire clan paid a terrible price. Now the banished Highland warrior must slay the ghosts of his past...before his beloved thief is taken from him forever.

SUMMER'S END 1/2001 ISBN: 0821768824 When a drunken sailor accosted Clemency Cameron on the docks of Kittery Harbor, Maine, Jamie Maclean's first instinct was to protect her..his second was to claim her with a passionate kiss. From that moment on, the banished Highlander vowed to keep the delicately beautiful healer by his side forever--plunging them into a love born of stunning desire and shocking deception. For a devastating secret from the past threatens to destroy their fragile happiness, and Jamie must choose between fulfilling a debt of honor and losing the woman he cherishes.

WINTER FIRE: THE CLAN MacCLEAN 10/2001 ISBN: 0821768840 No one knows why Lachlan Maclean turned traitor at Culloden. Now an outcast in his own land--and from his own family--he bears his wounds and his guilt in anguished solitude, Laird of his clan in name only. Then comes Fiona Fraser, a bewitching widow with a healer's touch and knowing eyes. What force draws her to castle Duart--and what magic draws Lachlan into her arms? Unaware that the secret treasure Fiona seeks may be her salvation, Lachlan doesn't dare to hope that her love may bring about his own. Yet more than his fragile happiness is at stake. The future of the Clan Maclean rests in their hands, if only they can see beyond the treachery that threatens their unexpected love.

Shirl Henke

NIGHT WIND'S WOMAN 4/1991 ISBN: 0843945079 An escaped Apache slave finds love with a woman of his Spanish captors. Proud and untamable as a lioness, Orlena vowed she would never submit to the renegade who nightly teased her body into a frenzy of longing. For though his searing touch promised ecstasy, his heart was filled with hatred.

Jill Henry

JONAH'S BRIDE 6/1999 ISBN:0821764349

Melissa Hepburne

PASSION'S PROUD CAPTIVE 1978 ISBN: 0523403291 Caught in a web of unbridled lust, she submitted to unspeakable desires to save the man she loved.

Marilyn Herr

FOR SUSANNAH 5/2004 ISBN: 0821774484 Handsome Is… Susannah Howard vows to see her beloved sister once more, though it means journeying through an untamed wilderness to the Pennsylvania frontier. With luck, her new companions will see her safely there, though one, a fine-looking English lord, seems to be nothing more than an overdressed popinjay in a silk waistcoat and lace cuffs. But when danger threatens, he becomes a very different man indeed, with the strength and courage of a battle-tested soldier…As Handsome Does...Rafe Stewart is determined to serve his King and country, though it means disguising himself as a foppish nobleman to slip past French spies. But his pretense won’t fool a woman as clever as Susannah Howard for much longer. The kiss he stole from her one dark night may well prove his undoing. Though she never saw his face, he cannot forget the sweetness of her lips…or the tenderness of her touch…

WHERE THE HEART LEADS: In Love and War 1/2003 ISBN: 0821774476 When Rachel Whitfield's brother Zeb is taken from the family trading post in Western Pennsylvania by French Canadian marauders, English trader Jonah Butler is taken with him. But Jonah reappears weeks later, and though Rachel is suspicious of the man-and worried he escaped at her bother's expense-her father is determined that Jonah will escort Rachel to safety at her sister's home in Lancaster. Spirited Rachel has other ideas, however-such as persuading the brawny trader to take her north to rescue Zeb. It's a battle of wills from the beginning, but soon it's something more-a journey not only into the path of a vicious French villain, but into the secrets of desire, and the promise of a rare love Rachel and Jonah will fight to claim.

Norah Hess

CALEB'S BRIDE 1978 ISBN:0-872164594 Fleeing a typhus epidemic in Boston, Roxanne Sherwood ran headlong into a band of Indians and was immediately taken captive. At the mercy of the fierce warriors, Roxy feared for her life ... until a white stranger claimed her as his wife. His well-fitting buckskins outlined every detail of his tall, muscular body, and the smoldering look in his dark eyes left no doubt of his desire. To secure her freedom, the Indians declared Roxy must share this man's bed along with all the intimacies of a married couple. Could she possibly trust the rough-riding frontiersman to introduce her to the pleasures of being a woman? Torn between duty and desire, society and survival, Roxy was sure of only one thing: He must win her heart before she would fully surrender to being...Caleb's Bride. RR@H's Novel Thoughts

ELISHA'S WOMAN 1977 ISBN:087216371

HUNTER'S MOON 1976

KENTUCKY BRIDE 4/1992 ISBN: 0843932538 Fleeing her abusive uncle, young D'lise Alexander trusted no man...until she was rescued by virile trapper Kane Devlin. His rugged strength and tender concern convinced D'lise she would find a safe haven in his backwoods homestead. There, amid the simple pleasures of cornhuskings and barn raisings, she discovered that Kane had kindled a blaze of desire that burned even hotter than the flames in his rugged stone hearth. Beneath his soul-stirring kisses she forgot her fears, forgot everything except her longing to become his sweet...Kentucky Bride.

MARNA 1980 ISBN:0872166716 Marna, untamed and innocent, is forced to disguise her charms to escape the unquenchable lust of dangerous men. A loveless marriage to a rugged hunter seems to be her only escape from a life of prostitution. Yet Marna is determined to be happy, even if it means living with a man who grimaces at the sight of her. Matt Barton loves his life of freedom, until an accident renders him duty bound to marry the wild girl who had saved his life. Despite her ragged looks and feisty spirit, Matt finds himself yearning for her. Though jealous of the many men who want to have her body for their own, Matt is the last to see Marna's true beauty. Is it too late for Matt to win the heart of the woman he loves?

TENNESSEE MOON 11/1996 ISBN: 0843941065 Tall, quiet, and darkly handsome, Matt Ingram had shouldered more than his share of life's burdens. Besides working his farm in the Cumberland Gap and raising his little nephew, he had to keep a watchful eye on his womanizing wastrel of a stepbrother. And he knew he had his work cut out for him on the night the two men first saw their beautiful new neighbor. She appeared out of the mountain mists, looking more like an airy sprite than a flesh-and-blood woman. But when the moon broke through the fog, illuminating her red-gold curls and sweet smile, Matt's reaction was all too real. He longed to lose himself in Kaitlan's innocence, to forget the betrayals of the past that had made him brooding and bitter. No matter what it took, he would protect Kaitlan from the careless seduction of his stepbrother, for this was the one woman whose bright spirit could light up his life.

Lisa Higdon

TO MEND A SPELL short story in BEWITCHED 10/1997 ISBN: 0515121576 When a young would-be witch carelessly places a curse on a handsome sea captain, her attempt to reverse the spell only strengthens the magic... of love.

Kate Hoffmann

THE PIRATE 3/1996 ISBN: 0373256779 Griffin Rourke: Pirate. Spy. He wants revenge on the infamous buccaneer, Blackbeard, for killing his father. And nothing - not even a bewitching woman named Meredith - is going to stop him. When Meredith Abbott finds rugged Griffin Rourke washed up on the shore, she can't believe her eyes. The gorgeous pirate is the epitome of all her fantasies, come to life. But Meredith hasn't counted on her lover's 18th century need for vengeance. Griffin's honor is demanding he leave her and return to his own time - to kill a man who died three hundred years ago!

Joan Hohl

FOOTSTEPS IN THE SNOW short story in A CHRISTMAS COLLECTION 11/1992 ISBN: 038076833X

Cindy Holby

RISING WIND 8/2007 ISBN: 0843958650 Last of the Duncans. Leaving behind the Highlands for the New World at the tender age of ten, Connor Duncan quickly learned that only the fit and the fortunate survive. He was both, becoming a scout and an expert marksman.a man to be reckoned with. He knew his way through the backwoods as well as any Shawnee, but he was far less comfortable in the drawing rooms of Williamsburg. What was a rough-hewn frontiersman like he to do with a sheltered beauty like the governor's niece? But there seemed to be no way to avoid the "Virgin Widow," especially when she insisted on accompanying him on a dangerous mission through the wilderness to Fort Savannah. Neither capture, nor torture, nor the violent birth pangs of a young nation could keep them apart or stop the founding of a brand new dynasty of Duncans. RR@H's Novel Thoughts

Stef Ann Holm

LIBERTY ROSE 1/1993 ISBN: 067174125X Dainty hands clenched into fists, Liberty bristled the latest assault on her virtue. Working in a Norfolk, Virginia, coffeehouse had been a test of her honor, but this offer was especially outrageous. A valet's wealthy employer needed a woman to pose as his intended bride...to stay at his mansion...to bat her long lashes at him over dinner. Well, Liberty Rose Courtenay would never do it ... except she was desperate to keep her dear revolutionary Aunt Ophelia out of debtor's prison. And the five hundred pounds he would pay her was the only solution. A disreputable rake....Devastatingly handsome British loyalist Anthony Fielding thought he should remember meeting this ebony-haired beauty and her impossible, outspoken aunt. His faithful valet assured him that they were acquainted, and the lovely lass had agreed to act as his fiancee when Anthony's grandfather returned to Fielding Manor. The old gentleman must be appeased, so perhaps the scheme would work. Besides, playing at love with this little minx named Liberty suddenly seemed just what he wanted to do...Deception is the game when two fiery opponents masquerade as lovers and discover unexpected romance.

Cheryl Howe

THE PIRATE'S JEWEL 3/2004 ISBN: 0843953055 Jewel Sanderson's pirate father disappeared ten years ago, but in her care he'd left a map to fabulous wealth. She guarded it.just as she guarded her hope to see her father again. But the man who returns to Charles Town is not her sire. Nolan Kenton has come for the map. What he finds is the daughter of his enemy, the pirate who he has betrayed and left stranded on a desert island. Jewel's kiss burns hotter than a thousand tropical suns, but such would be nothing compared to the heat of her fury at her father's fate. He'd recovered the map to a lifetime of riches; now Nolan has to find a way to keep something infinitely more precious.

Angela Elwell Hunt

CHARLES TOWNE 5/1998 ISBN: 0842320164 All her life, Rachelle Bailie has believed that her father was an English clergyman killed in an Indian attack. But her mother now confesses to Rachelle that her father, Mojag Bailie, still lives--and that Indian blood courses through his veins. "Find your father," her mother pleads from her deathbed. Intrigued by the story and desperate to understand the truth, Rachelle agrees. In her quest to locate Mojag, she boards a ship bound for Boston, but the ship is attacked by the dread pirate Bettencourt. Finding herself face-to-face with the notorious renegade, Rachelle does the unthinkable... and finds herself caught up in an adventure beyond her wildest imagining.

HARTFORD 1996 ISBN: 0595174280 Daniel hated his brother. He knew it was wrong; knew his parents would be grieved if they discovered what was in his heart. But he had his fill of living in Taregan's shadow . . . Taregan the bold, the athletic, the courageous. How Daniel despised him! His only hope was to somehow escape Taregan and the life he'd always known. Then British soldiers arrive, bringing with them the perfect opportunity, which Daniel accepts . . . never dreaming his choices will lead them all into danger, betrayal, and the greatest trial they have ever faced.

JAMESTOWN 1996 ISBN: 0595143121 Gilda, Fallon, Noshi. Three children, the sole survivors of the Roanoke massacre. Fallon, the oldest, made a solemn pledge to protect his younger charges at all costs. But before long they are torn apart; Fallon is sentenced to death, saved at the last moment and sent to England; Noshi is sold as a slave; and Gilda is claimed by her cousin, Pocahontas. But Fallon has not forgotten Noshi or Gilda. And so he overcomes all odds to return to America and fulfill his pledge to his murdered parents. But what awaits him is far more treacherous than he dreamed, and those he seeks are far more changed than he could have imagined.

REHEBOTH 1997 ISBN: 0842320156 Mojag and Aiyana Bailie are too Indian to be trusted by the English, too English to know the ways of the Indians. Daniel Bailie moves his family to the area of Rehoboth to minister to the Indians in the the praying villages and arranges for Aiyana to be safely employed as a servant in a home in Rehoboth. Aiyana settles into live there and falls in love with a young man, who loves her despite her Indian features. Mojag hears the call to minister among the unsaved Indians. War, though, was inevitable. In danger from both eh English and Indians during King Phillip's War, Aiyana and Mojag struggle to hold on to their faith--and their very lives.

ROANOKE: The Lost Colony 1996 ISBN: 0842320121 In 1587, a fleet of English ships set sail for the Virginia colony. During a storm, one ship became separated from the others and was never seen again. The settlers on board were presumed lost at sea, but there is both historical and legendary evidence that the colonists actually founded the Roanoke colony. Veteran novelist Hunt ("Theyn Chronicles") reimagines this slice of Colonial history through the eyes of Jocelyn White, a newlywed reluctant to leave her home in England for the wild shores of the New World. White's journey is fraught with danger, but her dependence on God and God's providence carry her safely through.

Jillian Hunter

SHADOWS OF SPLENDOR 5/1987 ISBN: 0380751704 Lady Rosanne Mallory leaves London for an arranged marriage in the colonies, but when she arrives in Boston she falls in love with her fiance's nephew, Brant Layton.

Ginia L. Hurtado

THE BITTERSWEET OF AMBROSIA 3/1995 ISBN: 0805935487

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