Listed below are the some of the all time best loved romance novels  in contemporary settings. Those presented are compiled from various lists throughout the internet where readers voted for their all time favorite romances. Also included are those which received recognition the year of their publication.

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Christine Feehan

DARK DESIRE.  12/1999.  ISBN: 050552354X. The stranger silently summoned her from across the continents, across the seas.  He whispered of eternal torment, of endless hunger... of dark, dangerous desires.  And somehow American surgeon Shea O'Halloran could feel his anguish, sense his haunting aloneness, and she ached to heal him, to heal herself.  Drawn to the far Carpathian mountains, Shea found a ravaged, raging man, a being like no other.  And her soul trembled.  For in his burning eyes, his icy heart, she recognized the beloved stranger who'd already become part of her.  This imperious Carpathian male had compelled Shea to his side.  But was she to be his healer... or his prey?  His victim... or his mate?  Was he luring her into madness... or would his dark desire make her whole?

DARK FIRE 8/2001. ISBN: 0505524473. So Darius warned her when she accepted a position with his traveling troupe.  And gazing mesmerized at the merciless slash of his mouth, the implacable resolve on his face, the soulless emptiness of his black eyes, Tempest was afraid to ask what it was. She had always been different, apart from others.  From the moment his arms closed around her, enveloping her in a sorcerer's spell, Darius seemed to understand her unique gifts.  But did his kiss offer the love and belonging she sought, or a danger more potent than his own panthers? Somewhere deep inside herself, Tempest realized she knew the answer.  She had no choice but to accept the velvet stroke of his tongue, submit to the white-hot heat piercing her skin, welcome an erotic pleasure like no other....

DARK GOLD.  4/2000.  ISBN: 0505523752. Alexandria Houton would sacrifice anything -- even her life -- to protect her orphaned little brother.  But when both encountered unspeakable evil in the swirling San Francisco mists, Alex could only cry to heaven for their deliverance....And out of the darkness swooped Aiden Savage, a golden being more powerful, more mysterious, than any other creature of the night.  The ageless Carpathian male snatched them from a hideous fate.  But was Aidan a miracle... or a monster?  Alex's salvation... or her sin?  If she surrendered to Aidan's savage, unearthly seduction -- gave him the color, the light, the family he craved -- would Alex truly save her brother?  Or sacrifice more than her life?

DARK MAGIC  7/2000.  ISBN: 0505523892. Young Savannah Dubrinsky was a mistress of illusion, a world-famous magician capable of mesmerizing millions.  But there was one -- Gregori, the Dark One -- who held her in terrifying thrall.  Whose cold silver eyes and heated sensuality sent shivers of danger, of desire, down her slender spine. With a dark magic all his own, Gregori -- the implacable hunter, the legendary healer, the most powerful of Carpathian males -- whispered in Savannah's mind that he was her destiny.  That she was born to save his immortal soul.  And now, here in New Orleans, the hour had finally come to claim her.  To make her completely his.  In a ritual as old as time... and as inescapable as eternity.

DARK PRINCE.  8/1999.  ISBN: 0505523302.He came to her in the night, a predator -- strength and power chiseled his features.  The seduction was deep and elemental; he affected her soul.  His need.  His darkness.  His terrible haunting loneliness.  Her senses aroused, she craved the dangerous force of his body.  Burned for him.  And he had only touched her with his mind. She came to him at dawn, his bleakest hour.  As the beast raged inside him, threatening to consume him, he vented his centuries-old despair in an anguished cry that filled the waning night.  And she answered, a ray of light, piercing his darkness.  A beautiful angel.  Her compassion, courage, and innocence awakened in him an exquisite longing and tenderness.  He knew he must possess her, for only she could tame his savage side and lift the dark shadow from his soul.  Apart they were desolate, bereft.  Intertwined physically and spiritually, they could heal one another and experience an eternity of nights filled with love.

Suzanne Forster

ANGEL FACE   8/2001.  ISBN:0425180972. They call her Angel Face.  She is as beautiful as her killings are brutal.  Her victims are doctors.  Her list of targets is long.  And Jordan Carpenter is next. The CIA has asked him to help capture her.  Ensnare her.  Beat her at her own game.  It's a risky proposition, but he has no choice.  Jordan, so used to saving others' lives, now has to save his own. How could such a lovely woman possess such a diabolical mind?  In pictures, she seems innocent and sweetly sensual.  But in person, he's been told, she's seductive.  Evil.  OBSESSED. Her face haunts him.  Thoughts of her consume him.  And the moment they touch, he knows he will never be free of her.  This angel.  This innocent.  THIS KILLER....

COME MIDNIGHT   1995

THE DEVIL AND MS. MOODY  1990.  ISBN:0553440403. Raw physical power had never appealed to Edwina Moody -- until she was mesmerized by the man in black leather known as Diablo!  Hired to find the missing heir to a fortune, she'd followed his trail to Blackie's Bar, where she risked facing a fierce biker club in search of her quarry.  When the sexy, emerald-eyed outlaw rescued her from an overeager biker, he tantalized and frightened her... then dared to make a reckless alliance, a bargain with the devil himself! Diablo needed a lady partner to go undercover with the Warlords, and Edwina would never collect the fee that would save her family's home unless she joined forces with this irresistible rebel who taught her just how seductive freedom could be.  His rough, thrilling kisses branded her safe from everyone but him -- but he knew his forbidden love could destroy her.  Edwina longed to possess the untamable, vulnerable Diablo.  Could she capture the wolf, then set him free of the past? 

HUSBAND, LOVER, STRANGER 1997.  ISBN:0425161854. Five years after his disappearance on a rock climbing expedition, Jay Babcock reappears.  In many ways he's the same Jay.  In others, he's a complete stranger.  Who is he? Her husband vanished... and a stranger appeared. Sophie Weston was young and impressionable when she married Jay Babcock, a rich man with a wild heart.  Her passion suddenly turned to pain when her new husband vanished without a trace. Now, five years later, Jay's reappearance sets her heart on edge.  She sees something different in his eyes, and she wonders: is this mystery of a man truly her husband, her lover... or a deadly stranger?

Lori Foster

CAUGHT IN THE ACT 9/2001.  ISBN: 0373834691. Undercover cop Mick Dawson had taken a bullet intended for the stunning Delilah Piper.  Now he's sticking with her twenty-four/seven. But is he her protector, or her captor...?  Coincidence?  Not! Mick Dawson, an undercover cop, has his hands full of a pushy broad who claims she's just in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Except all the perps seem to know everything there is to know about her.  Who're you going to believe?  Only one way to find out.  Get real close. Lela DeBraye (aka Del Piper), a mystery writer, is as confused as he is, but mostly because he's got the sweetest smile, when he smiles.  Still, he's sticking with her twenty-four/seven -- is this love or duty?  Is he her protector or her captor?

Lisa Gardner

THE PERECT HUSBAND  1998. ISBN:0553576801. Jim Beckett was everything she'd ever dreamed of....  But two years after Tess married the decorated cop and bore his child, she helped put him behind bars for savagely murdering ten women.  Even locked up in a maximum security prison, he vowed he would come after her and make her pay.  Now the cunning killer has escaped -- and the most dangerous game of all begins.... After a lifetime of fear, Tess will do something she's never done before.  She's going to learn to protect her daughter and fight back, with the help of a burned-out ex-marine.  As the largest manhunt four states have ever seen mobilizes to catch Beckett, the clock winds down to the terrifying reunion between husband and wife.  And Tess knows that this time, her only choices are to kill -- or be killed.

THE OTHER DAUGHTER  1999.  ISBN:0553576798. Melanie has lost all memory of her life before she was adopted into a wealthy family at age nine.  Then a reporter reveals that Melanie is the biological daughter of a serial killer executed years ago -- the same killer who murdered her adoptive parents' young daughter.  When the reporter turns up dead, Melanie must make a choice: run from the past or face a grisly truth that could cost her her life. In Texas a serial killer is executed, taking to his grave the identity of his only child. In Boston a nine-year-old girl is abandoned in a hospital, then adopted by a wealthy young couple. Twenty years later, Melanie Stokes still considers herself lucky.  UNTIL...Until the terrifying visions begin. Until a has-been reporter starts investigating her past. Until the first note arrives saying YOU GET WHAT YOU DESERVE. Melanie had lost all memory of her life before the adoption, and now someone wants to give it back.  Even if it includes the darkest nightmare in Texas.  As Melanie pursues every lead, chases every shadow in the search for her real identity, two seemingly unrelated events from twenty years ago will come together in a dangerous explosion of truth.  And with her very life at stake, Melanie will fear that the family she loves the most may be the people she should trust the least.

Patricia Gardner

QUINN EISLEY'S WAR  1993.  ISBN:037307493X. UINN EISLEY: Special agent, U.S. Naval Intelligence.  Specialty -- works alone, high-risk missions. BLUE HARRELL: Secret bodyguard.  Specialty -- invisibility.  Rating -- excellent, little regard for her own life. Working undercover as a terrorist to expose illegal gunrunners, agent Quinn Eisley had escaped execution one too many times to think he was that good at his job.  Obviously, someone else's job was to save his neck when things got too ugly.  But when he pulled Blue Harrell out of the shadows, he found himself working harder to expose the reason why this tough, beautiful woman didn't care if she came out of this hell dead or alive....

Rachel Gibson

SIMPLY IRRESISTABLE.  12/1998.  ISBN: 0380790076.  Ditsy Georgeanne persuades playboy hockey star John to help her escape her wedding -- leaving her groom-to-be, John's boss, standing at the altar.  Their one night together leaves Georgeanne with a daughter and the determination to make something of herself. Georgeanne Howard, charm school graduate and Southern belle extraordinaire, leaves her fiancé at the altar when she realizes she just can't marry a man old enough to be her grandfather, no matter how rich he is.  John Kowalsky unknowingly helps her escape, and only when it's too late does he realize that he's absconded with his boss's bride.  At the height of his hockey career, this bad boy isn't looking to be anybody's savior but his own, no matter how beautiful this angel may be.  But a long night stretches ahead of them -- a night too sultry to resist temptation. When Georgeanne and John meet again, she is on her way to becoming Seattle's domestic darling and he is past his hellraising days.  But he is shocked to learn that their single unforgettable night in paradise produced a daughter, and he is determined to be part of her life.  Georgeanne has loved John since the moment she jumped into his little red Corvette seven years ago, but she doesn't want to risk her heart again.  Is he really a changed man?  And will he risk the wrath of his boss, and one final chance at glory, to prove that this time his love will be everlasting? 

TRUE CONFESSIONS  8/2001.  ISBN:0380814382 Welcome to Gospel, Idaho, where everyone knows that there are two universal truths.  First, God did His best work when He created the Sawtooth Wilderness Area.  Second, every sin known to heaven and earth -- from the hole in the ozone to alien abductions -- is all California's fault. L.A. based tabloid reporter Hope Spencer has come to Gospel hoping for inspiration.  Well, she gets inspiration... Hope has never met anybody quite like the residents of Gospel.  From the Dean sisters with their color-coordinated hair to the toilet-tossing sportsmen... to the murder victim whose body had been found in her house years before.  She discovers that truth really is stranger than fiction -- even tabloid fiction! And then there is local sheriff Dylan Taber.  He is no made-up character from one of her stories.  Dylan is all too real... and soon Hope is forced to face the awful truth -- she's been too long without a man.  But once she gets wind of a Hollywood actress somehow mixed up in Dylan's life, Hope realizes that if they are to have a future together, he has some true confessing to do.

TRULY, MADLY YOURS  1/1999.  ISBN: 0380801213. Will wedding bells ring for this unlikely pair?  When pretty hairdresser Delaney Shaw returned home to Truly, Idaho for the reading of her stepfather's will, she planned on paying her respects and getting out of town.  But it seems the will has some unexpected stipulations -- like the one that says if Delaney wants her inheritance she needs to stay put and have nothing to do with sexy Nick Allegrezza... for an entire year! Ten years ago, Nick had swept Delaney off her feet and onto his Harley, and that's when she really let her down her hair!  Back then, he was a love-'em-and-leave-'em man, and Delaney learned the hard way that she was just a fling.  But Nick is as irresistible as ever.  And when the ladies at Tuesday night Bingo see Nick and Delaney making after-hours whoopee through the window of a local beauty parlor, Delaney knows it's time to decide if Nick is truly, madly the man of her heart.

Heather Graham

QUEEN OF HEARTS  1985

Susan Grant

THE STAR PRINCE  11/2001.  ISBN:0505524570.  Ian Hamilton considers himself a typical guy, a finance major who finds all the excitement he needs in the stock market and his Harley.  Then his stepfather offers him the crown to an empire and the reins of a mission critical to world peace.  What can he do but go for the ride? In a daring bid for autonomy, Princess Tee'ah flees her world for the freedom to fly.  Both her husband and her life will be of her own choosing.  And when a handsome stranger offers her a job piloting the SUN DEVIL, she chooses the romp of a lifetime -- with the one man she should avoid at all costs. From ocean-dark skies to the neon-drenched streets of Los Angeles, Tee'ah and Ian find that true adventure is learning some rules are made to be broken... and some loves are written in the stars.

Ginna Gray

A MAN APART  2000. ISBN:0373243308. Maude Ann knew she was in trouble when wounded detective Matthew Dolan was sent to Henley Haven to recuperate.  The nurturing foster mom couldn't afford to fall for another man in blue, yet Matt's piercing eyes and gut-wrenching loneliness stirred something deep inside of her. Matt was a life-hardened cop and wasn't about to turn his back on his sworn duty or the beautiful lady that nursed him back to health.  Maude Ann was every man's wildest fantasy.  Was it all worth the ultimate sacrifice?

Billie Green

TO SEE THE DAISIES...FIRST  1984.  ISBN:055321649X. One moment Ben Garrison felt that his life was headed nowhere; then a woman wearing only an oversized trenchcoat, who had no idea who she was or where she belonged, changed everything!  Ben named her Sunny for the open, loving way she faced the world head on, and he basked in her reflected light, warming himself in her sparkling laughter.  She freed his heart from its confinement, and most of all she opened his eyes.  But the lovers weren't lost to an uncaring world... for Sunny's life was threatened by a man from the past she couldn't recall....

A SPECIAL MAN  1986.  ISBN:0373093462. Greenleigh Acres was a refuge for the rich and famous, and it was there that Amanda first saw the man she knew only as "Danny."  Her heart ached at seeing him confined, and she vowed to let him taste freedom. Away from Greenleigh, "Danny" became Daniel Phillips, wealthy leader of industry.  Someone wanted him out of the way so badly that they'd kept him drugged and imprisoned -- and now Daniel was out for revenge.  Amanda stayed with him, her heart breaking as he delved into the past -- because all her dreams were of the future.

Kate Hathaway

BAD FOR EACH OTHER  1997.  ISBN:0373077912. She'd asked him to teach her to kiss.  He'd waited for her so their first time would be together.  And though everyone in their little town said Molly Doyle and Charlie Cochrane were bad for each other, the mill worker's son and the rich man's daughter knew their love was meant to be. But sometimes even love isn't enough....Eight years and one big lie later, Molly had to face Charlie with another request: Help save our son.  The cowboy saw this as his chance to regain all he had lost -- to make a family with this woman and child.  But first they had to realize that no matter how bad for each other they might be, Charlie and Molly would never be complete except in each other's embrace.

Kristin Hannah

ON MYSTIC LAKE  3/1999.  ISBN:0609602497. Annie Colewater's life fell apart the day her eighteen-year-old daughter left home and her husband of twenty years abandoned her for a younger woman.  Shattered, she returns home to the small Washington town of Mystic, seeking solace to the haunting emptiness of her own soul.  Here, a broken woman will open her heart to a shattered little girl and her father, Nick Delacroix, an embittered, grieving widower.  These three lost hearts find the courage to trust in love again -- never expecting the turn of events that will force Annie to make a harrowing choice between what is... and what could be.

Lynn Hannah

THE STARRY CHILD  1998.  ISBN:0451408381. Rainey Nielson is desperately worried about her daughter.  Since the tragic death of her father, eight-year-old Sasha has not spoken a word.  And sometimes, especially in bad thunderstorms, her behavior is strange and inexplicable.  Rainey has taken Sasha to medical doctors, to child psychologists, to speech therapists.  All the experts are baffled. Matt Macinnes, a brilliant young linguist at Stanford University, recognizes that little Sasha's babblings are not her own invented gibberish -- she is actually speaking in fluent Gaelic.  Matt's understanding of Sasha opens a door to her secret world.  At last, someone can communicate with her.  But what he discovers is both exhilarating and terrifying....  Could a modern American girl really carry within her the soul of a long-ago Scottish princess?

Tami Hoag

LUCKY'S LADY   4/1992.  ISBN:0553295349. As wild and mysterious as the Louisiana swamp he called home, Lucky Doucet was a dangerously attractive Cajun no woman could handle.  His solitary life left no room for the likes of elegant Serena Sheridan, but Lucky couldn't deny her desperate need to find her missing grandfather.  He would help her, but nothing more -- yet once he felt the lure of the flaxen-haired beauty, an adventurer like Lucky couldn't help playing with fire. Serena felt unnerved, aroused, and excited by the ruggedly sensual renegade whose gaze burned her with its heat, but she did not dare tangle with a rebel whose intensity was overwhelming, who claimed his heart was off limits?  Deeper and deeper they traveled into the steamy bayou, until with one electrifying kiss her resistance melted into liquid desire.  And the devilish rogue found he'd do anything to make Serena... LUCKY's LADY.

NIGHT SINS 1995.  ISBN:055356451X. Deer Lake is a small Minnesota town where people know their neighbors and crime is something that happens on the evening news.  But the illusion of safety is shattered when eight-year-old Josh Kirkwood disappears from a hockey rink as he waits for his mother to pick him up after practice.  The only thing the police find is his duffel bag with a note stuffed inside:  "ignorance is not innocence but SIN."

Emma Holly

MENAGE.  2/1998.  ISBN: 035233231X. My heart skipped a couple of beats and I was conscious of the heat between my legs.  Sean was offering me a chance to live out my fantasy.  Except he and Joe weren't fantasies -- they were real people with real feelings and they lived in my apartment.  I knew it was wrong but desire was to triumph over reason.  This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity I couldn't resist.  One evening, successful Philadelphia bookstore owner Kate Winthrop finds her two flatmates in bed together.  Joe, a sensitive composer who has a crush on Kate, is mortified.  Sean, an irrepressible bad boy, challenges her to join in.  Aroused by their show, Kate accepts.  As they embark on a kinky ménage à trois, she wants nothing more than to keep both her admirers happy but, inevitably, things become complicated.  Can the three lovers live happily ever after... together?

Kay Hooper

C. J.'S FATE  2/1984. ISBN:0553216384. Defense attorney Fate Weston possesses a keen sense of humor.  His heavy-lidded, intelligent eyes are capable of concealment, but there is a shrewdness in them that reveals the man hadn't needed college or a law degree to be considered intelligent.  Research librarian C.J. Adams had been teased enough about her seeming lack of interest in the opposite sex.  On a ski trip with her five best friends, she impulsively embraced a handsome stranger, pretending they were secret lovers -- and the delighted lawyer who joined in her impetuous charade seized the moment to deepen the kiss. Astonished at his reaction, C.J. tried to nip their romance in the bud -- but found herself nipping at his neck instead!  She had met her match in a man who could answer her witty remarks with clever ripostes of his own, and a lover whose caresses aroused in her a passionate need she'd never suspected that she could feel.  Had destiny somehow tossed them together? 

FINDING LAURA   1997. ISBN:0553099493.  It's an antique mirror that can reveal secrets... or tarnish the truth. And for struggling artist Laura Sutherland, buying it is only the first step into a dark maze of lies, manipulation -- and murder.  It brings Peter Kilbourne into her life and makes her the prime suspect in his fatal stabbing. Determined to clear her name -- and uncover Peter's reason for wanting the mirror back -- Laura will breach the iron gates of the Kilbourne estate. There she will find that each family member has something to hide.  Which one of them looks in the mirror and sees the reflection of a killer?  And which one will choose Laura to be the next to die?

ON WINGS OF MAGIC.  6/1983. A stunning beauty with an air of seductive innocence, Kendall James looks like the proverbial dumb blonde -- and she plays the part to perfection.  But it's all an act of self-preservation, for her lovely face belies the experience of a woman who's seen too much... a woman who's traveled the world and said one too many goodbyes. Now, on an island paradise, Kendall is about to meet her match:  a sexy, determined, discerning man who'll see beyond her sultry facade to the frightened woman beneath.  Hawke Madison will slowly strip away her defenses, and by the time she awakens to the danger, it will be much too late to run.  This is a passionate story filled with all the humor and tenderness that Kay Hooper's fans have come to expect -- a story that explores the loneliness of heartbreak and the searing, transforming power of love.

Naomi Horton

IN SAFEKEEPING   1990

STRANGERS NO MORE 1990

WILD WAYS 2000.  ISBN:0373079869. All ex-agent Rafe Blackhorse wanted was to capture the man he'd been hired to retrieve and head back to his secluded life in the mountains.  Unfortunately, an unforeseen shoot-out forced him to protect both his client's best interests and one VERY attractive computer specialist named Meg Kavanagh. Rafe soon realized that Meg was trouble with a capital T.  An elusive killer was stalking her every move, and now Rafe's life was in danger, too.  But all of Rafe's field training hadn't prepared him for a mission in which keeping his heart intact was going to be the biggest challenge of all....

Linda Howard

AFTER THE NIGHT.  12/1995.  ISBN: 0671799363.  FAITH DEVLIN.
A poor, outcast child in Prescott, Louisiana, she'd always adored the town's golden boy from afar.  But he called her white trash that sultry Southern night when his rich, respected father disappeared, along with her pretty mom.  Now Faith wanted to hate Gray Rouillard... not to feel a powerful surge of desire.  But she couldn't quench her passion, any more than she could hide the truth about the past she had waited so long to unravel....GRAY ROUILLARD.  Even when he raised hell, he did it with style.  Reckless, charming, and backed by Rouillard money, Gray controlled the town of Prescott -- and Devlin was a name he never wanted to hear again.  But when he gazed at Faith Devlin, all he saw was a swirl of tangled sheets and her silken flesh beneath him.  To care for her was impossible, unthinkable... because Gray Rouillard planned to use all his power to ruin her....

DIAMOND BAY 2/1987.  ISBN: 0373071779. He was barely alive. Someone had shot him twice. Trusting her instincts, Rachel didn't call the police. Her sixth sense told her that she was his only hope. With him lying unconscious before her, Rachel had to decide his future, as well as her own.

DREAM MAN 6/1995.  ISBN: 0671799355.  Marlie Keen was trying to lead a quiet, ordinary life. She thought the knowing -- the clairvoyance that allowed her to witness crimes as they happened -- had been destroyed in the nightmare of her past. Then one night it returned with a vengeance, and she desperately needed to find someone to make it stop.  Detective Dane Hollister of the Orlando police department had never met anyone like Marlie. He had doubts about her clairvoyance, but there was no doubt how much he desired her. Her soft, sweet scent set his blood afire, and he wanted to wrap her in his arms and chase the sadness from her eyes. To Marlie, Dane was all heat and hard muscle, and he made her body come alive as it never had before. But not even she could foresee where their passion would lead: a hungry quest for the elusive, dreamy ecstasies of love...and a dangerous journey into the twisted mind of a madman who would threaten their happiness and their lives....

DUNCAN'S BRIDE   9/1990.  ISBN: 0373073496. Reese Duncan lost half his ranch and all his dreams to his ex-wife, so when it came time for a family he did the logical thing: he advertised for a bride.  She had to be willing to work, to bear his children and to settle for lovemaking in place of love. It sounded perfect -- until Madelyn Patterson arrived.  One look and he had to have her.  Never mind that she was New York and nightlife to his own plain-spoken Montana ways.  She was willing to herd cattle, wax floors and bake biscuits by the dozen.  She was even willing to bear his children -- but at a price he couldn't pay.  She wanted love -- and he was a man who had no love to give.

KILL AND TELL 1/1998. ISBN: 0671568833. Still reeling from her mother's recent death, Karen Whitlaw is stunned when she receives a package containing a mysterious notebook from the father she has barely seen since his return from the Vietnam War over twenty years ago.  Unwilling to deal with her overwhelming emotions, Karen packs the notebook away, putting it -- and her father -- out of her mind, until she receives a shocking phone call.  Her father has been murdered on the gritty streets of New Orleans. Homicide detective Marc Chastain considers the murder nothing more than street violence against a homeless man, and Karen accepts his judgment -- at first.  But she changes her mind when her home is burglarized and accidents begin to happen.  All at once, she faces a chilling realization: whoever killed her father is now after her.  Desperate for answers, Karen retrieves the only thing that links her to her father -- the notebook he had sent months before.  Inside its worn pages, she makes an unsettling discovery: her father had been a sniper in Vietnam and the notebook contains a detailed account of each one of his kills. Now running for her life, Karen entrusts the book and its secrets to Marc Chastain.  Together they unravel a disturbing story of politics, power, and murder -- and face a killer who will stop at nothing to get his hands on the kill book.

LOVING EVANGELINE 12/1994.  ISBN: 037307607X. Suspecting espionage, Robert Cannon ruthlessly schemed to prove Evangeline Shaw's guilt.  Then he discovered her innocence.  Could Robert restore the life he'd tried to tear apart -- and win back the woman who had claimed his heart? Robert Cannon, a suave sophisticate with a core of pure steel, takes off the velvet gloves when he falls in love with a lovely boat marina owner he suspects of involvement in the treasonous sale of his company's computer programs to a foreign interest. No one had ever dared to cross Robert until someone began stealing classified information from his company -- a situation he intended to remedy himself.  But when the trail led to beautiful Evie Shaw, Robert found both his resolve -- and his heart -- melting fast. 

MACKENZIE'S MISSION.  9/1992.  ISBN: 037307445X. Someone on the inside was sabotaging Night Wing's weapons system, and Joe Mackenzie had his money on Caroline Evans -- a beautiful blonde as bristly as women came.  Easier to look at than to deal with, Caroline was everywhere she didn't need to be and had the power at her fingertips to ruin what he'd struggled so hard for.  Night Wing -- the revolutionary test plane with a top-secret weapons system -- was Colonel Joe "Breed" Mackenzie's number-one priority.  And weapons expert Caroline Evans was his number-one distraction.  True, the stubborn blonde was giving him the cold shoulder, but Joe hadn't become the best of the best by giving up. Then he discovered someone on the inside was sabotaging Night Wing, and with her late hours and specialized expertise, Caroline seemed the obvious choice.  Now Joe had to choose between allegiance to his country and love for his prime suspect....

MACKENZIE'S PLEASURE.  2/1996. ISBN: 0373076916. Navy SEAL Zane Mackenzie would do anything for Barrie Lovejoy, the woman who had stolen his heart during one danger-filled, passionate night.  And Barrie was powerless to resist his protection -- or his proposal -- now that she was carrying his child....Barrie Lovejoy needed a savior.  The terrorist group holding her hostage surely wouldn't tolerate her silence much longer.  Instead they would silence HER -- forever.  Then out of the darkness HE arrived.  Grizzled and dangerous, he led Barrie from her captors straight into his sheltering arms.... Navy S.E.A.L. Zane Mackenzie was the best.  No mission had ever gotten the better of him -- until now.  Saving Barrie Lovejoy had been textbook -- except for their desperate night of passion.  And though his job as a soldier had ended with her freedom, his duties as a husband had only just begun.  For he would sooner die than let the enemy harm the mother of his child. 

MACKENZIE'S MOUNTAIN .  4/1989.  ISBN: 0373072813.  A small Wyoming town is about to learn a few lessons -- from a new schoolteacher with the courage to win the heart of a man who swore he had nothing to give...Mary Elizabeth Potter is a self-appointed spinster with no illusions about love.  But she IS a good teacher -- and she wants Wolf Mackenzie's son back in school.  And after one heated confrontation with the boy's father, she knows father and son have changed her life forever.  Still paying for a crime he didn't commit, Wolf Mackenzie has a chip on his shoulder the size of Wyoming.  But prim-and-proper Mary Elizabeth Potter doesn't see Wolf as the dangerous half-breed the town has branded him.  Somehow she sees him as a good, decent, honest man.  A man who could love....

MIDNIGHT RAINBOW  2/1996.  ISBN: 0373071299. JANE HAMILTON GREER: Was she just a wealthy socialite in over her head, or was she really engaged in espionage that could compromise U.S. interests for years to come?  The only certainty was that she was being held captive, and that her very wealthy, very well-connected father wanted her back -- now. GRANT SULLIVAN:  He'd been one of the government's most effective agents, and he'd agreed to rescue Jane.  Finding her was easy; getting her out was something else. In the time they spent together, questions of guilt and innocence began to fade against the undeniable reality that two people from such different worlds should never have met.

MR. PERFECT   8/2000. ISBN: 0671034065.  That's the delicious topic heating up the proceedings at a certain table of professional women at their favorite restaurant, Ernie's, tonight: Mr. Perfect.  What qualities would he have?  Would he be tall, dark, and handsome?  Caring and warmhearted -- or will just muscular do?  Jaine Bright and her three girlfriends start off with the basics -- he'd be faithful and reliable, the responsible type, with a great sense of humor. But as the conversation picks up momentum, so do the quartet's requirements for Mr. Perfect -- and they write down a tongue-in-cheek checklist that's both funny and racy.  The next thing they know, the List, as it has come to be called, spreads like wildfire throughout their company and sizzles along e-mail lines.  And it doesn't stop there: the List becomes an overnight sensation, grabbing the interest of local newspapers and television coverage.  No one expected this avalanche of attention for something that began as a joke among friends.  And the joke turns deadly serious when one of the four women is murdered.... The prime suspect in the case is the victim's boyfriend, who was one of a number of men who found the List sexist and offensive.  But an impenetrable alibi gets him off the hook.  Now, with the help of Jaine's neighbor, an unpredictable police detective, the puzzle must be solved -- and time is running out as a deadly stalker targets the three remaining friends.  Now, knowing whom to trust and whom to love is a matter of survival -- as the dream of Mr. Perfect becomes a chilling nightmare.

SARAH'S CHILD  4/1985.  ISBN:037309230X. A tragic accident took everything that mattered to Rome Matthews -- his wife, Diana, and their two little boys.  And it robbed Sarah Harper of her best friend.  In the two days after the tragedy, Sarah wanted nothing more than to reach out to Rome.  But she knew it was vital she stay away, guarding the secret she had kept from him and Diana all those years -- that she was in love with her best friend's husband. But now Rome needs her.  He wants to lose himself in the passion he feels for Sarah.  Knowing he is trapped by a grief that won't let go, and desperate to help him escape his pain, she willingly gives him what he so desperately craves.  Though another woman will hold his heart forever, Sarah agrees to be his wife, knowing that everything has a price, including love.  It is a price she is willing to pay, but one that will demand all of her courage and her heart. Then something totally unexpected rekindles her hidden hope that a marriage of convenience will become a union of love.  Now it all comes down to her husband.  Will Rome keep fighting his own growing need for a woman who dares him to believe there are second chances in life... or will he give in to the power of love and miracles?

SHADES OF TWILIGHT 7/1996. ISBN: 0671799371. Roanna Davenport was raised a wealthy orphan on her grandmother's magnificent Alabama estate, Davencourt, where she had a passion for horses, a genius for trouble, and a deep love for her cousin, Webb. But everyone expected Webb to marry their ravishing cousin, Jessie. When he did, Roanna's desire became no more than the stuff of dreams -- until the night Jessie was found bludgeoned to death. After the shocking murder of his wife, Webb left for Arizona, abandoning the legacy that he had once believed was all he wanted. But then an all-grown-up Roanna walked into a dingy bar in Nogales to bring him home; the mischievous sprite he had known ten years earlier was no more. Gone, too, was her fire. In its place was ice that melted at his touch. Webb is drawn back to Davencourt, to Roanna, and to the killer that once destroyed his life and waits only for the chance to finish the job..

SON OF THE MORNING  3/1997. (also a Time Travel)  ISBN: 067179938X. Modern day scholar Grace and her family become the target of an evil killer bent on possessing the treasure described in ancient documents she has been transcribing.  Only the treasure's 14th-century guardian has the ability to destroy the evil and Grace must find a way to contact him. A scholar specializing in ancient manuscripts, Grace St. John never imagined that a cache of fragile, old documents she discovered was the missing link to a lost Celtic treasure.  But as soon as she deciphers the intriguing legend of the Knights of the Templar -- long fabled to hold the key to unlimited power -- Grace becomes the target of a ruthless killer bent on abusing the coveted force.  Determined to stop him, Grace needs the help of a celebrated warrior bound by duty to uphold the Templar's secret for all eternity.  But to find him -- and to save herself -- she must go back in time.Summoning the magic of an arcane ritual, Grace steps back to the barren hills of 14th-century Scotland, enduring the perils of an untamed land to confront Black Niall, a fierce man of dark fury and raw, unbridled desire.  Driven by a mix of fear and passion, Grace enlists this brazen knight to join her in a modern-day search for a killer.  In their quest to protect a timeless secret, they uncover a love for all time -- and a deadly duel of honor that risks everything they have. 

Brenda Jackson

ETERNALLY YOURS   11/1997.  ISBN: 078600455X. Attorney Syneda Walters and fellow attorney Clayton Madaris are just friends... the last two people likely to end up as lovers.  Syneda holds all men at arms length because of the father whose name she never knew.  Clayton has always been a playboy, and no woman has ever kept his interest for long. Things suddenly heat up between them when Syneda impulsively accepts Clayton's invitation to join him for a Florida vacation, and is shocked at how much passion she feels.  To Clayton, Syneda has become a temptation he cannot resist... and the woman he wants to share the rest of his life with.  But getting her to trust again means finding a way to heal old wounds and convincing her, with all his heart, that she will always be, eternally his.

B.J. James

A STRANGER CALLED ADAM  1985.  ISBN:0553216937.  A child was lost on Shadow Mountain, and only Tracy Walker and her tracking dog Wolfe knew the mist-shrouded peak well enough to bring her safely back to her father's arms.  Adam Grayson was captivated by the aura of mystery that surrounded Tracy and her beloved Shadow Mountain.  Not quite strangers, not yet lovers, Tracy and Adam camped on the mountain, learning its secrets and revealing their own.  Adam offered love and a life beyond the mountain, but did Tracy have the courage to walk out into the world again?

Stephanie James

RAVEN'S PREY   10/1983.  Honor Knight had to convince Judd Raven the two men who had hired him to find her weren't her father and brother.  Only Honor hadn't realized Judd was holding her prisoner for his own reason: he was in love.

FABULOUS BEAST  4/1984.  Tabitha Graham thought she had found a soul mate when she rescued Dev Colter from a dangerous situation.  She thought he was a kindred spirit: gentle, shy and in need of love. But Dev had a secret life that made him as dangerous as any of the fabulous, legendary beasts the bookstore owner had studied.  When she fled from his sensual claim, his pursuit was relentless.  Once he had tasted Tabitha, Dev had no intention of relinquishing his prey! Too late Tabitha discovered she had roused a sleeping dragon....

Iris Johansen

THE KILLING GAME 1999.  ISBN:0553106244. The killer knew Eve Duncan all too well.  He knew the pain she felt for her murdered daughter, Bonnie, whose body was never found.  He knew that as one of the nation's top forensic sculptors she would insist on identifying nine skeletons unearthed on a bluff near Georgia's Talladega Falls.  And he knew that she wouldn't be able to resist the temptation of believing that one of those skeletons -- the one belonging to a young girl -- might be Bonnie's. But that is only the beginning of the killer's sadistic game.  Soon the calls begin to come.  Sly, insinuating, chilling.  Whoever is on the other end of the line is watching.  He sees every move Eve makes.  He savors her pain.  He could strike at any time.  But that's not what he wants -- not yet. In a heartbeat, Eve's world is turned upside down.  Not even the two tough, powerful, and relentless men who would do anything to keep Eve safe can help her. Now Eve Duncan must match wits with the most dangerous of psychopaths.

THE RELUCTANT LARK  11/1983.  ISBN:0553216252. Her dark eyes and haunting voice had earned gypsy haired Sheena Reardon fame as Ireland's mournful dove.  Yet to Rand Challon the young Irish-American singer was not just a lark whose brilliant plumage was obscured... but a flesh-and-blood woman whom he desired with all his heart. Rand barged into her life at a moment of crisis and whisked her away to his mountain retreat, where he wrapped her in his passionate tenderness.  Under his sensual tutelage, Sheena became a whole person, fulfilled at last.  Rand knew he'd taught her to spread her wings and fly free, but would her flight take her from him or into his arms forever?

THE TRUSTWORTHY REDHEAD  3/1984.  ISBN:0553216279.  When Princess Rubinoff hired Sabrina Courtney to deliver very special birthday wishes to her husband's best friend, she never warned her that Alex ben Rashid had a powerful weakness for redhaired ladies... an omission that made their fist meeting a volatile one.  From the moment Alex saw her he wanted to possess her totally, to make her succumb to his desire for her.  But, though Sabrina could be pliable and tender when it was on her own terms, her independent nature rebelled at his arrogance.  Could a man who was used to getting everything he wanted learn to trust the woman he loved?

Dara Joy  

KNIGHT OF A TRILLION STARS 9/1997. ISBN:0505520389. Fired from her job, exhausted from her miserable Boston commute, the last thing Deana Jones needs when she gets home is to find an alien in her living room.  He says that his name is Lorgin and that she is part of his celestial destiny. Deana thinks his reasoning is ridiculous, but his touch is electric and his arms strong.  And when she first feels the sizzling impact of his uncontrollable desire, Deana starts to wonder if maybe their passion isn't written in the stars. 

MINE TO TAKE 11/1998. ISBN:0843944463. He was full-blooded and untamable.  Sensual and sinuous.  Erotically magnetic.  A uniquely beautiful creature who could make himself irresistible to women.  And he was feral at heart.  With his glittering green and gold eyes, silken hair, and purring voice, the stunning captive chained to the wall was exactly what Jenise needed.  And he was hers to take... or so she believed.  But she had never heard how dangerous it was to lie down with the cat.

REJAR 1997.  ISBN:0505521784. Lord Byron thought he was captivating, the fashionable matrons blushed behind their fans at a glimpse of his hard form, and nobody knew where he came from.  His startling eyes -- one gold, one blue -- promised a wicked passion, and his voice almost seemed to purr. There was only one thing a woman thought of when looking at a man like that.  SEX.  And there was only one woman he seemed to want.  LILAC.  In her wildest dreams she never guessed that bringing a stray cat into her home would soon have her stroking the most wanted man in 1811 London... REJAR. 

Karen Keast

ONE LAVENDAR EVENING  1988. ISBN:0373094698. The bloodied stranger emerged like a shadow from the dark, rainy night, and Elizabeth Jarrett's life began a dizzying dance to a haunting refrain from the distant past....Exactly one hundred years earlier, to the hour, Elizabeth's great-grandmother had opened her home -- and her heart -- to a wounded desperado.  In opening the door to THIS desperate stranger on THIS stormy night, was Elizabeth about to discover that the ghostly goings-on at Rose Haven were more than possible -- was it fated -- that a legendary love affair was about to be relived?

Julie Kenner

APHRODITE'S KISS  5/2001. ISBN:0505524384.  Zoë Smith was far from normal.  Crazy as it sounded, on her twenty-fifth birthday she had the chance to become a superhero.  But X-ray vision and the ability to fly were only two things to consider.  There were other factors, too....  There was her newfound heightened sensitivity.  She could hardly eat a chocolate bar without writhing in ecstasy; how was she to give herself the birthday gift she'd really set her heart on -- George Taylor? The handsome P.I.'s dark exterior hid a truly sweet center, and Zoë felt certain that his mere touch would send her spiraling into oblivion.  But the man was looking for an average Jane -- no matter what he claimed.  He could never love a superhero-to-be, especially one with an overprotective stallion of a brother and a creepy cousin who seemed to be lurking in all the wrong places.  Could he? Zoë had to know.  With her super powers, Zoë could only see through his clothing -- to strip bare the workings of his heart, she'd have to rely on something a little more potent.

Mary Kirk

MIRACLES 1990. ISBN:0373096283. Test pilot Sam Reese survived the crash of his plane, but it's still up for grabs whether he'll survive the strange and astonishing results of his brush with death.  When he picks Bourner's Crossing, Michigan, population 213, as a likely place to hide out and lick his wounds, he doesn't plan on getting the hots for the local nurse midwife.... Sexy, nurturing Kate Morgan sees straight through the cracks in Sam's shattered armor, and she aches to give him the compassion and tenderness his tortured soul needs.  If only he'll let her.  If only she can show him that, no matter how far or fast he runs, he can't escape fate -- or love.

Kathlene Korbel

A ROSE FOR MAGGIE 8/1991.  ISBN:0373073968..A mother's love for her daughter and a man who loves them both. Maggie was Allison Henley's precious little flower; a daughter she loved with a fierceness few could fathom.  Her life was full.  There wasn't room for romance... until a tiny miracle made her believe otherwise.

A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE.  1993.  ISBN:0373074573. J.P. O'Neill: Undercover DEA agent.  Accused of partner's death.  Bail denied.  Outlook -- jail and certain death. Lauren Taylor: Attorney for the defense.  Lost round one.  About to become round two.  Outlook -- hostage.  Unwilling -- at first. J.P. O'Neill had been forced to kill his partner in self-defense, but no one was buying that.  Someone had set him up, and he couldn't figure out who if he was locked behind bars.  To track down his enemies, he'd have to escape.  But to survive, he'd have to trust an innocent lady lawyer who thought he was guilty as sin....

Jayne Ann Krentz

ABSOLUTEY, POSITIVELY  1997.  ISBN:0671551701. Hiring the nation's top scientific consultant, Dr. Harry Stratton Trevelyan, Molly Abberwick, the trustee of her father's foundation for unusual inventions, is outraged when Harry falls in love with her and brazenly pursues her. Molly Abberwick, trustee of her late father's foundation, is furious with her new consultant, scientist-philosopher Dr. Harry Stratton Trevelyan.  Harry is brilliant, sexy and absolutely impossible -- and his outrageous suggestion of a scientifically inspired affair with her is positively the last straw.... Besides, Molly's got a much more serious problem: she's become the target of a stalker whose sinister pranks are swiftly escalating into violence.  Only Harry, of all people, seems to comprehend the true nature of the threats against his alluring boss.  As a dangerous predator closes in on Molly, the enigmatic Dr. Harry seizes the day to reveal himself in a totally unexpected light.....

CRYSTAL FLAME 1986.  ISBN:0445202319. A woman of glittering eyes and cool celestial bearing, she is Kalena, the last survivor of a proud heritage.  Now, disguised as an innocent country girl, she is on a deadly secret mission -- to destroy her family's enemy at any cost. Only one man can stop her, the soldier they call the Fire Whip, the stranger commanded to tame her, the lover who instead awakens her sleeping desires and threatens to melt her frozen heart.  In their world of fire and ice, light and dark, and terrible, clashing forces, only the Fire Whip -- the hottest of flames -- can touch Kalena, the coolest of women.  For only the passionate union of the Fire Whip and his woman will have the power to burn through the growing darkness that threatens their world.

FAMILY MAN.  10/1992.  ISBN: 0671019635 Almost a decade of working for the high-powered Gilchrist family empire has made Katy Wade sassy, spunky -- and secretly determined to open her own business. There's one last problem she has to solve before she feels free to leave. The Gilchrists need an heir apparent to save their mysteriously floundering fortunes, and there's only one man for the job: Luke Gilchrist. All his life the Gilchrists have made Luke pay for his father's scandal, and now he's a renegade who's sworn he'll never go home -- except to get even. Katy must persuade Luke to use his business expertise to rescue his family, but one look in his sexy green eyes, and she knows why they affectionately call him "the Bastard." What she doesn't know is that Luke's decided he wants her even more than he wants revenge. He agrees to play savior, but only with Katy at his side. It's a high-handed tactic sure to make this saucy red haired angel madder than hell, but she's the only one who can turn this devilish rogue into a family man. Luke may be an SOB of a CEO, but he knows the bottom line is heartbreak...unless he can trust Katy with his secrets and she can believe in his love.

GHOST OF A CHANCE   11/1984.  ISBN:0373251343. Asking a favor of Julian Aries wouldn't be easy, Anne Silver knew.  Months earlier they'd parted on no uncertain terms.  Now she fervently needed the handsome ex-agent's help to trap some fake psychic investigators. Grudgingly, Julian listened to her plan -- and promptly took complete charge, much to Anne's chagrin.  Working side by side, the specter of desire rose once more between them.  Anne found herself haunted by ghosts, both real and imaginary... and a love that had never died.

GRAND PASSION 2/1994.  ISBN: 0671019619. Cleopatra Robbins has imagined the moment when she'll meet the man of her dreams.  But when Max Fortune strides into the Robbins' Nest Inn, a devastating sensation sweeps through her.  She knows it's him.  And he's all wrong!  Head of the giant Curzon Hotel chain, a cynical man whose only passion in life has been for rare works of art, Max is looking for five priceless paintings left to him by his mentor, Jason Curzon. Max takes one look at Cleo and feels fierce desire sweep through him... a feeling so powerful that he soon starts helping to fix everything from the plumbing to the fractured lives of the inn's quirky denizens. Despite their mutual attraction, Max senses that Cleo is hiding something -- and by the time he realizes it's not the paintings, it's almost too late to save her from the danger rising out of her past.

MIDNIGHT JEWELS 11/1987.  ISBN: 0445203382. In the depths of the night, he dared to strip away her girlish innocence -- and lay bare a woman's hunger for love.From the moment Croft Falconer walked into her West Coast bookstore, Mercy felt drawn to him.  He radiated an aura of mystery and a raw, primitive maleness that made her shiver with desire.  Her career was books; his was violence, the beautifully controlled violence of the Asian fighting arts.  That was all he would tell her when he demanded the VALLEY OF SECRET JEWELS, a rare edition of erotica she had advertised.  How could Mercy have guessed the deadly secret of this book of forbidden passion?  How could she have imagined that it would take her to the lust-haunted halls of a wealthy collector's remote mansion?  And how could she have known it would be the first step on a woman's most perilous journey, that Falconer would become the lover of her dreams... stroking her gently, touching her deeply, and leading her toward the breathless limits of ecstasy itself.

PERFECT PARTNERS 4/1992. ISBN: 0671728555.  Letitia Thornquist, a midwestern librarian, doesn't have the right stuff to run Thornquist Gear, Inc.  That is the bottom-line opinion of Joel Blackstone, the tough, ambitious CEO who built the small Seattle sporting goods store into an industry giant. Now that she's just inherited the company from her rich uncle Charlie, she's dying to have Joel, a perfect mentor, show her the ropes. But teaching business is not the only item on the agenda.  And when Joel finds himself longing for a more personal kind of merger, the term "perfect partners" takes on a whole new meaning altogether...

TRUST ME   2/1995. ISBN: 0671044370.  Desdemona Wainwright thinks Sam Stark looks much too calm for a man who has just been left at the altar.  But she was hired to cater his wedding, not to save it.  She marches into Stark's den to demand the much-needed payment for the canceled reception, and discovers opposites do attract! Head of a multimillion dollar company, Sam decides Desdemona would make the perfect no-strings-attached, stand-in wife, little dreaming how she will drive him crazy with desire. But when someone breaks into Sam's secret computer files, sinister intrigue swirls around this unlikely pair.  Now they must discover the real appeal of unstoppable passion and unbreakable faith....

Susan Krinnard

PRINCE OF DREAMS  1996. ISBN:0553567764. A beautiful woman risks the ultimate temptation -- love with a sensual vampire who's invaded her dreams. San Francisco psychologist Diana Ransom can't take her eyes off the gorgeous, green-eyed stranger.  But when she finally approaches him across the smoke-filled room, her reasons have little to do with the treacherous feelings he inspires.  Diana suspects that this brooding, enigmatic man is responsible for the disappearance of her fragile young cousin.  Desperate to find her and determined to plumb the mystery behind Nicholas Gale's hypnotic charm. Diana will follow him into the velvety darkness... and awake to a haunting passion. For Nicholas is no mere human but a vampire with the power to steal into a woman's dreams and fill her nights with untold rapture.  And soon, blinded by an ecstasy sweeter than any she's ever known, Diana will find herself risking her eternal soul for a love that promises to be forever....

Rachel Lee

EXILE'S END   1992.  ISBN:0373074492. After being held captive for four years, CIA agent Ransom Laird just wanted to enjoy the wide-open spaces and warm sunshine of Wyoming.  He hadn't expected to meet a woman whose very soul touched him -- a woman he could grow old with.  And now that he'd found her, he was about to lose her to an unknown assassin.  Someone who wanted Ransom dead.  Someone who was willing to kill Mandy to get to him.... Writer Mandy Grant saw Ransom as a wounded warrior seeking shelter within her fortress walls and herself as the lonely princess, too frightened to love.  Because for Mandy, loving meant losing.  And unless they stopped the killer first, they were both going to lose....

LOST WARRIORS   1993. ISBN:0373075359. Billy Joe Yuma:
A Vietnam veteran who came home fighting for his sanity -- and barely won. Wendy Tate: A beautiful woman and a damned good nurse -- who had been just learning to flirt when Yuma was lacing up combat boots. Medevac helicopter pilot Billy Joe Yuma knew what the sound of his chopper did to the vets who hid in the Rocky Mountains.  He knew, because he'd once lived in those hills, a soldier for whom the war wouldn't end.  And though emergency flight nurse Wendy Tate deserved a chest full of medals for trying, he was sure she could never breathe hope into a heart that hadn't made it home.  But Yuma was about to learn just how wrong he could be.

MISS EMMALINE AND THE ARCHANGEL 1994. ISBN:0373074824. HELL's OWN ARCHANGEL... was about to become her savior.  As Emmaline Conard struggled to keep her nightmares at bay, some long-buried instinct deep inside Gage Dalton came to life.  No one, he vowed, would harm Miss Emmaline.  Not on his watch! NOTHING TO LOSE... Gage Dalton had been to hell and back.  He knew what it was like to lose everything and had sworn never to care again.  But then he met cautious, careful and proper Emmaline Conard.  She was full of compassion and warmth -- and she was in trouble.  He couldn't imagine why she trusted him, after all she'd been through.  But he vowed no one would hurt her ever again! Someone was watching her.  Emma knew something bad was going to happen again.  And then Gage Dalton walked into her life and her heart.  He was dangerous and unpredictable... yet he was the only man who made her feel safe and whole.

AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN 1990.  ISBN:0373073704 Revenge, snowstorms... and unbridled lust.  What else could ruin Colonel Alisdair MacLendon's holiday?  Security officer Captain Andrea Burke's cool control made him vow to demonstrate the dangers of standing beneath the mistletoe....

Victoria Leigh

NIGHT OF THE HAWK 1995

Amii Lorin

MORGAN WADE'S WOMAN  1987.  Wealthy and beautiful Samantha Denning was an independent woman who was determined to stay that way.  But when her father died, his will included the shocking stipulation that she marry within five months or lose her inheritance.  To solve her problem, Samantha's closest friend offered sexy rancher Morgan Wade as a candidate for groom.  It was only supposed to be a business arrangement -- until Morgan decided to make their marriage much more personal....

Elizabeth Lowell

AMBER BEACH 10/1997.  ISBN:0380973170. Honor Donovan is a shrewd businesswoman, yet she has been shut out of Donovan International by her father and four brothers.  When her favorite brother Kyle vanishes, along with a fortune in stolen amber, Honor's questions are ignored by the Donovan males.  Defying them, she heads to the San Juan Islands of the Pacific Northwest in search of answers. Honor needs a guide because she knows nothing about running a boat -- and she knows nothing about Jake Mallory until he answers her ad.  One of the things she doesn't know is that Jake is much more than a fishing guide.  Until Kyle disappeared, Jake was brokering amber deals in the Baltic for Donovan International.  Honor is completely unaware of the old wars, new politics, greed, and stolen amber that have lured ruthless, high-stakes players from around the globe. Jake wants no part of the intrigue, or of a Donovan woman in his life, but he suspects the Donovans have set him up to take the fall for Kyle's treachery.  The way Jake sees it, some Donovan is going to pay for his troubles, and it just may turn out to be Honor. Jake and Honor cast off on a journeys moldering with distrust, betrayal, vengeance... and temptation.  A hunger grows between them that is as dangerous as the secrets they keep.  Alone at sea, they pursue the stubborn mystery of the Amber Room, flee from relentless enemies, and fight against trusting each other.  Yet when Honor and Jake dare to confide in one another, they face a final truth: the penalty for betrayal is death; the reward is a lifetime... together.

JADE ISLAND  9/1998.  ISBN:0380974037. Kyle Donovan has freed himself from the constraints of his father's high-powered global trading empire to turn his passion for adventure into a livelihood, roving the world as a treasure hunter for his own business, Donovan Gems and Minerals.  Now his oldest brother, Archer, President of Donovan International, has given Kyle an assignment with explosive international implication, and an alliance that will shake the very core of his being. Lianne Blakely, the illegitimate daughter of a powerful Hong Kong trader and his American mistress, has spent years studying the art of ancient jade, hoping to win the approval of her Chinese family.  A brilliant gemologist, she has gained employment in the Tang family business, if not acceptance in the family.  Now the Jade Emperor, one of China's legendary cultural treasures, has been stolen and Lianne is accused of the theft. At first suspicious of the bright, ambitious family outcast, Kyle finds himself reluctantly believing her fierce claim of innocence and irresistibly drawn to her exotic beauty.  Soon they have joined forces to find the real thief -- a venture that draws them into the perils of spiraling international power plays, and the discovery that their mutual love for an exquisite gemstone has linked them in an alliance as enduring as the beauty of the ancient jade.

PEARL COVE   6/1999.  ISBN:0380974045. When Hannah McGarry asks Archer Donovan to find her husband's murderer -- and a $3,000,000 pearl necklace known as the Black Trinity -- Archer expects to land in trouble up to his lips.  And does.  What he doesn't expect is that he wants Hannah even more now than he did ten years ago, when she married his half-brother. It is desperation that inspires young widow Hannah McGarry to call Archer Donovan.  She saw the man only twice in the past ten years, and he struck her as a cold, ruthless piece of work.  But as a silent partner in Pearl Cove, her late husband's pearl farm business, Donovan might be willing to help her... if the price is right. At twenty-nine, Hannah has been freed to live her life again.  Now she faces the mystery of her late husband's suspicious death, the prospect of bankruptcy... and the disappearance of the Black Trinity, a necklace containing a three million dollar fortune in black pearls that was to her financial security. Archer Donovan would rather forget he'd ever heard of Pearl Cove.  It links him to memories of living life on the dark side, the old lure, the heart-pumping, soul-numbing certainty that there was no law, no justice, no mercy; just hunters and the hunted.  That life taught him to trust no one but family.  But when Hannah McGarry calls in an old debt and offers a million dollars, Archer is plunged back into the hell he vowed never to revisit; into a deadly game of money, power, cutthroat competition, and treachery in pursuit of a stolen fortune.  At his side is a woman he shouldn't want, yet cannot resist... a woman who may know more than she's telling about her husband's death... and more than is safe to know about that dark and elusive black pearls. With a feeding frenzy of human sharks on their tails, Archer and Hannah race through uncharted waters in search of the fabulous Black Trinity.  And the closer they come to finding the coveted pearls, the closer they come to danger and truth -- and to each other

TELL ME NO LIES 12/1996.  ISBN: 0373970293. China's most priceless artifacts are being smuggled into the U.S. An international crisis is about to explode.  Unless a desperate trap to catch a thief succeeds.  And one woman is the key.  LINDSAY DANNER.  Her worldwide reputation as an expert in ancient bronzes and her love for China make her the perfect pawn in a deadly game.  But she needs protection.  JACOB MacARTHUR CATLIN.  The Dragon.  A renegade ex-CIA agent whose name is still whispered in tones of hatred and admiration throughout Southeast Asia.  Now it is his job to make sure Lindsay Danner succeeds... and lives.  Two puppets on a string.  In a maze of intrigue where each deadly twist and turn leads deeper into deception and forbidden desire, friends can be enemies.  Truth may be lies.  Trust is a dirty word.  And the only chance of getting out alive is to cut the strings... and grasp the only truth that remains....

WARRIOR 4/1991. ISBN: 0373056311.  When wildlife biologist Eden Summers arrives in the Colorado Rockies, she has only one thing on her mind: to continue her research on the local cougar population.  A capable woman, used to living and working alone in the wild, she is self-possessed and confident, able to handle any threat from nature's fiercest predators -- until she gazes into the eyes of Nevada Blackthorn. She pulled him, injured and bleeding, to safety in the middle of a storm, unleashing a man who would invade her deepest dreams.  But Nevada -- a rancher by trade, a warrior by nature -- is a man who has learned that walking away from caring is the only key to survival... and that only the strongest survive.  Any woman fool enough to try and change him will be hurt -- badly -- for her efforts.

Dinah McCall

DREAMCATCHER (also a time-travel).  ISBN: 0061083259. Unable to free herself from her husband's obsession, beautiful Amanda Potter retreats into her own dream world where a comforting lover adores her.  But Jefferson Dupree, a man searching for the woman he knows is his destiny, is determined to create for Amanda a reality more fulfilling than any dream.  Amanda Potter escapes her obsessive husband through the warm embrace of a dream that draws her through time.  Detective Dupree knows his destiny is intertwined with Amanda's and must convince her that her dream lover is only a heartbeat away.  He felt her need from across the centuries -- and made it his own.

JACKSON RULE 7/1996.  ISBN: 0061083917. Jackson Rule had spent nearly half his life behind bars for murder.  Now he was starting over -- or trying to.  Once he laid hungry eyes on his new employer, though, his resolve to lead a simple, solitary life deserted him, replaced by yearnings for fierce, forbidden passion. Preacher's daughter Rebecca Hill was raised to give folks the benefit of the doubt -- though maybe this time she'd taken charity a bit too far.  True, Jackson Rule had paid his debt to society, and was a hard, honest worker.  What threatened to undo her was the sheer burning desire she felt in his presence, and the sinking feeling that her heart would be his captive forever.

Barbara McCauley

SECRET BABY SANTOS 1999. ISBN:0373762364. Long, lean and devastatingly handsome, Nick Santos had been shy Maggie Smith's fantasy man.  So when she had the chance to take Nick as her very first lover, virginal Maggie became the ultimate seductress.  And she was left with a most precious gift.... Now, reunited with the man of her dreams, Maggie knew she could no longer keep her secret.  Nick claimed to be mesmerized by Maggie's beauty, captivated by her passionate soul and totally charmed by her young son.  But would it mean the end of this love they held so dear if Santos discovered her child was also his?

Melinda McKenzie

A GENTLE DIPLOMACY 1984

ROMANTIC CAPER  8/1984. ISBN:0451129652. They were an unlikely pair for romance: Diana Bach, daughter of an infamous jewel thief, and Ivre Smyth-George, Scotland Yard inspector.  And though love sparkled between them, Ivre didn't quite trust Diana.  How could she convince him that the only thing she wanted to steal was his heart...?

Judith McNaught

DOUBLE EXPOSURE   11/1995 Short Story. A determined young woman photographs a magnificent wedding at a reclusive tycoon's Newport estate, and manages to unlock the secrets of a man's heart.

DOUBLE STANDARDS   6/1984.  ISBN: 0671737600.  The ruggedly handsome president of Global Industries handled his business the way he handled his women -- with charm, daring and ruthless self-control. A man used to the very best, Nick hired Lauren Danner, and assumed the proud beauty would soon be another easy conquest. But Lauren's flashing wit and rare spirit dazzled him -- and slowly, against his will, he was intrigued, challenged -- and in love. Yet Lauren was living a lie, a charade that became more dangerous with every passing moment. Trapped in a web of deceit, she fought her growing love for Nick. Her secret could destroy his fragile trust -- and the promise of life with the most compelling man she had ever met!

NIGHT WHISPERS  12/1998. ISBN:0671000853. Sloan Reynolds is a dedicated policewoman in a small Florida town, the town where she grew up modestly with her divorced mother.  Growing up, she never crossed paths with her father and sister yet she secretly longed to be reunited with them.  When a long overdue invitation to visit comes after her father's heart attack, she ignores the request, until FBI agent Paul Richardson informs her that her father is being investigated for charges ranging from fraud to murder.  Sloan reluctantly accepts the invitation, posing as a dim-witted secretary, with Paul tagging along as her boyfriend.  Brought into a circle of glitzy socialites, a lifestyle foreign to Sloan, she stays on top of her game until meeting Noah Maitland, a powerful, attractive businessman and one of the FBI's prime suspects.  She becomes instantly intoxicated with this man -- a man she is afraid of loving.  When two murders occur close to home, and the evidence points to her father and Noah, Sloan must battle the deepest instincts of her heart and maneuver through a web of deceit and passion to unlock the truth.

PARADISE  7/1991.  ISBN: 0671776800. Their lives are the envy of the watching world, but both are essentially alone, haunted by the legacy of the once-in-a-lifetime passion that exploded when their paths crossed in their youth.  Now they are thrown together again, unlikely allies in a corporate battle that offers the rare opportunity to reclaim their lost love... if only they can begin to believe in each other, and grasp the tender miracle before them....Corporate raider Matthew Farrell had come a long way from the poor, scruffy kid of Indiana's steel mills.  A long way from the country club where, feeling like an outsider, he had dared to fall in love with a beautiful blonde named Meredith Bancroft, and known a once-in-a-lifetime passion and betrayal that still haunted his memory....  Now world leaders courted him, the media watched his every move, and he was ready to move in on the Bancroft empire. A cool, poised executive in her family's legendary department store chain, Meredith had once defied her father for the sexually magnetic, intense Matt Farrell -- and their brief, ill-fated marriage was the disastrous outcome.  Now, as the Bancroft firm is threatened by a hostile takeover, Meredith is forced to confront Matt.  As tensions build between them, bittersweet memories rise to the surface, leaving them suspicious, restless, and uncertain.  Will they be able to believe in each other -- and grasp the tender miracle that is before them?

PERFECT  5/1993.  ISBN: 067179552X. Julie has constructed a perfect life for herself -- far removed from her violent unhappy childhood and nothing will destroy her happiness until she meets the man of her dreams -- for he catapults her straight into a nightmare....He is Zack Benedict, devilishly handsome and devastatingly charming -- an Oscar-winning actor and director -- he is also on the run, escaping imprisonment for a murder he didn't commit.  Desperate to prove his innocence, he uses Julie as a pawn in a dangerous game. At first, terrified and outraged, she discovers herself overcome by another fierce emotion -- passion!  But this is a passion that will be tried and tested to the limits of endurance -- a passion that must overcome all odds to prove that perfect love can last forever.

REMEMBER WHEN  12/1996. ISBN: 0671795554. When multinational tycoon Cole Harrison approached her on a moonlit balcony at the White Orchid Charity Ball, Diana Foster had no idea how extraordinary the night ahead would be.  The most lavish social event of the Houston season had brought out American aristocracy, Texas-style, in glittering array.  So, after losing her fiancé to a blonde Italian heiress and reading about it in a sleazy gossip paper, the lovely Diana felt obliged to make an appearance -- if only to save face and to bolster her company's image.  Foster's Beautiful Living magazine was her family's success story, and Diana knew that, single, childless, and suddenly unengaged, she was not living up to its lucrative image of upscale domestic tranquility.  A women of gentle grace and kindness, Diana deeply valued her privacy and her dignity, both of which were at risk that night among certain rumor-driven socialites.  And now the pride of Dallas billionaires, Cole Harrison, was closing in on her with two crystal flutes and a bottle of champagne.... The tall, lithe former stableboy couldn't negotiate his way out of a contract with his crusty uncle, Cal -- he had to bring home a wife, and soon, or see Cal's share of the business Cole had created go to an undeserving relative.  A man as coolly analytical as he was arrestingly attractive, Cole decided that his bride-to-be should be rich in her own right, meltingly beautiful, and a woman of impeccable character... Diana Foster!  It was the perfect solution to their respective dilemmas, and, after a lot of champagne for Diana and some skilled persuasion from Cole, their lips met in a long, slow, bargain-sealing kiss.  Neither one dared imagine that a match made in logic's heaven might be headed straight for an unexpected, once-in-a-lifetime love

TENDER TRIUMPH   11/1993. ISBN: 0671742566. On Friday, a sensuous stranger entered Katie's life. By Sunday, her world would never be the same... Stunning Katie Connelly submerged her painful past in a promising career, an elegant apartment, and men she could keep at a distance. Yet something vital was missing from her life -- until she met proud, rugged Ramon Galverra. With his urbane charm and his passionate nature, he gave her a love she had never known. In his arms, she came fully alive to his every touch. Still she was afraid to surrender her heart to this strong, willful, secretive man -- a man from a different world, a man with a bold, uncertain future...

Glenna McReynolds

SHAMELESS  1993. ASIN: 055344140X. Ten years after he stole her virginity--and her heart--Colt Haines saunters back into Sarah Brooks's life, eager to explain his abrupt departure years before and to declare his love for her.

Michelle Martin

STOLEN HEARTS   1997. ISBN:0553576488. For Tess Alcott, chocolate was a vice; stealing jewels was pure pleasure.  So when her ruthless former "employer" turned up to coerce her into taking part in a daring heist, he didn't have to twist her arm to far.  He only had to hold out the lure of the magnificent Farleigh emeralds.  To win them, all Tess needs to do is convince one sweet old lady and one grouchy, blue-blooded, and distractingly handsome, lawyer that she's the missing heiress to a fortune.  But Tess doesn't realize the danger, until the infuriating lawyer beats her at her own game... and steals her most prized possession... her heart.  Now Tess doesn't know which she wants more: the gorgeous emeralds or the gorgeous emerald-eyed lawyer.

Teresa Medeiros

BREATH OF MAGIC. (Time Travel). 3/1996.  ISBN: 0553563343. Arian Whitewood hadn't quite gotten the hang of the powerful amulet she'd inherited from her mother, but she never expected it to whisk her more than three hundred years into the future.  Flying unsteadily on her broomstick, she suddenly finds herself among towers of glass and metal, then tumbling from the sky to land at the feet of a man with frost-gray eyes and a seemingly flint-hard heart. Reclusive billionaire Tristan Lennox didn't believe in magic, but he had his own reasons for offering one million dollars to anyone who could prove it existed.  Now he finds himself besieged by fakes, frauds, and an old nemesis ready to leap on this opportunity to destroy him.  But the smoky-voiced beauty who appeared to fall from the clouds into his climate-controlled existence is something else entirely -- a woman able to enchant his lonely heart with wonder, but who can't possibly be what she seems.... 

Fern Michaels

FINDERS KEEPERS  8/1998.  ISBN: 1575663236.  Growing up in a magnificent Charleston home, Jessie Roland wants for nothing.  Her rich, indulgent father has filled her bedroom with expensive toys, and even brought her her own merry-go-around.  And yet, she feels lost and unhappy.  Sheltered by her frantically over-protective mother, Thea, who forbids her from having friends and never lets her out of her sight, Jessie yearns to be like other kids.  But as she grows into young adulthood, her family's stifling possessiveness feeds her feelings of loss and desolation and fuels the terrible dreams from which she wakes screaming, night after night. Not until she is nineteen will Jessie finally find a way to break free.  Refusing to touch the Roland money, she relies on her own savings to make her escape to Washington, D.C., where no one knows her and where, as assistant to prominent Texas senator Angus Kingsley, she will soon be swept into a whirlwind marriage to his handsome, irresistible charming son.  But as the senator's dazzling political career collapses in scandal, her marriage turns ugly and abusive, and her best friend, the irrepressible Sophie, succumbs to her own cruel demons, Jessie is once again haunted by dreams of lost happiness, of simple, tender gestures buried deep in her memory.  Only in Lucas Palmer, the reclusive Texas rancher with a golden retriever named Buzz, will she discover the strength she needs to penetrate the darkness.

Mindy Neff

A PREGNANCY AND A PROPOSAL  2000.  ISBN:0373168098. Flynn O'Grady was floored: After leaving his bed five months ago, Darcie Moretti walked back into his life -- pregnant with his child!  It took the single father of two all of twenty-four hours to figure out how to respond.  He said, "Marry me, Darcie." Darcie knew family was priority #1 for Flynn -- he'd do whatever it took to ensure their baby was born with his name.  But Darcie wanted more than just a "pregnancy proposal."  And she'd give Flynn four months to figure out what three OTHER little words he had to say..

Doreen Owens

DANGER ZONE   1987. ASIN: 037307204X. 

Marilyn Pappano

SOMEBODY'S BABY   1989.  ISBN:0373073100. Daniel Ryan never even knew he had a daughter -- until the day a lawyer presented him with tiny, adorable Katie and a contract for one year's custody.  Now his year was almost up, and Katie's mother would be coming to take her back. Daniel remembered Sarah Lawson all too well.  She had seemed warm, sensuous, the answer to all his lonely prayers.  Yet she had given up her child -- HIS child -- so his memories couldn't be right.  But when Sarah appeared, she was everything she'd seemed -- and more.  He was stunned to discover that not only wouldn't he give up Katie, he would rather die than let Sarah leave again!

Kalen Perrin

SWEET HONESTY 4/1999. ISBN:1583140115. Where men are concerned, Samona Gray has downright rotten luck.  And when her most recent boyfriend turns out to be an armed robber, she knows she's really hit rock bottom.  After robbing a jewelry store in front of her, he flees the scene.  Now the police are hot on his trail, and Samona is implicated in the crime.  But piecing her life back together may turn out to be easier than she imagined when an attractive writer moves into the apartment above her. Without a doubt, Derrick Lawson is the most irresistible man Samona has ever met.  But she knows all too well that a good looking man can spell trouble.  Her instincts turn out to be right after she makes the painful discovery that Derrick is actually a cop on a special undercover job.  His assignment: to get close to Samona and learn the whereabouts of a fortune in missing jewelry.  But even though Samona has unknowingly made the handsome detective fall in love with her, she still won't let her guard down -- unless Derrick can prove to her that she really can trust him... with her heart.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

DREAM A LITTLE DREAM 2/1998.  ISBN: 0380794470.  Rachel Stone's ancient Impala has just broken down outside the Pride of Carolina Drive-In.  She has nine dollars in her pocket, a ruined reputation, and a five-year-old son, Edward, with an empty belly.  She appeals to Gabe Bonner, the owner of the drive-in, for a job, but Gabe has demons of his own to fight, and he refuses to hire her. Rachel is desperate.  But she's also a fighter, and she'll do whatever she must to keep her child safe.... Rachel Stone's bad luck has taken a turn for the worse.  With an empty wallet, a car's that's spilling smoke, and a five-year-old son to support, she's come home to a town that hates her.  But this determined young widow with a scandalous past has learned how to be a fighter.  And she'll do anything to keep her child safe -- even take on....Gabe Bonner wants to be left alone, especially by the beautiful outcast who's invaded his property.  She has a ton of attitude, a talent for trouble, and a child who brings back bad memories.  Yet Rachel's feisty spirit might just be heaven-sent to save a tough, stubborn man. Welcome to Salvation, North Carolina -- where a man who's forgotten what tenderness means meets a woman with nothing to lose.  Where two endearing lovers will set off on a funny, touching journey of the heart... to a place where dreams just might come true.

FANCY PANTS 10/1989.  ISBN: 0671658301. She was the most beautiful British Bauble in Europe's jet-set playgrounds.  Now she's broke, furious and limping down a backwoods road in an ugly pink Southern Belle gown.... He was tall, lean and All-American gorgeous.  He liked his brews cold and women loved to keep him warm.  Why in hell is he stopping his car for this woebegone, surly Scarlett? Meet Francesca Day and Dallie Beaudine, two incredible characters whose tangled love affair is one of the most ravishing, satisfying, irresistible novels you'll ever read.  From the glamour and excitement of London and New York to the dust and down-home grit of Texas, come enjoy the adventure of a lifetime -- a wonderfully involving story that's heart-wrenching, hilarious and hellcat passionate -- and as full of surprises as life itself.  You'll never forget Dallie and the Sassy lady who needs a good swift kick in her FANCY PANTS.

FIRST LADY   2/2000.  ISBN:0380808072. How does the most famous woman in the world hide in plain sight?  The beautiful young widow of the President of the United States thought she was free of the White House, but circumstances have forced her back into the role of First Lady.  Not for long, however, because she's made up her mind to escape -- if only for a few days -- so she can live the life of an ordinary person.  All she needs is the perfect disguise... and she's found it. With the entire nation searching for her, she meets a seductive man who has a secret of his own and an appeal that threatens to awaken the woman behind the national icon.  With him are two orphaned little girls desperate for a family.  Together, they'll take a journey across the heartland chasing their own American dream. A star-spangled, richly emotional story of self-discovery, celebrity, love, and family.

HEAVEN, TEXAS  April 1995.  ISBN: 0380776847. Come heck or high water, Gracie Snow is determined to track down the legendary ex-jock Bobby Tom Denton and drag him back home to Heaven, Texas, to begin shooting his first motion picture.  But taming an egotistical cowboy in a '57 T-Bird might be more than this prim Ohio wallflower can handle. Despite his dazzling good looks and killer charm, Bobby Tom has reservations about being a movie star -- and no plans to cooperate with the bossy little virgin whom he can't get off his mind or out of his life.  Instead, the hell raising playboy decides to make her over from plain Jane to Texas wildcat. But nothing's more dangerous than a wildcat with an angel's heart in a town too small for a bad boy to hide.  And all hell breaks loose when two unforgettable people discover love, laughter, passion -- and a match that can be made only in Heaven.

HONEYMOON  6/1993. ISBN:0671735934. From a dilapidated South Carolina amusement park to the shimmering glamour of Hollywood, orphaned Honey Jane Moon became the most famous child star in America by challenging the world with her fists swinging.  But little girls have to grow up someday, and the passionate woman she becomes loves as fiercely as she lives, changing forever the destinies of two famous men: DASH COOGAN... the last of the movies' cowboy heroes, trapped on a screen too small to contain a legend.... ERIC DILLON... Hollywood's bad boy, whose dark, seductive appeal and blazing talent hide a painful secret that has scarred his soul. For Honey Moon, who swears she can touch eternity on a roller coaster, true love and a family she can call her own are just one breathtaking ride away....

HOT SHOT   6/1991.  ISBN:067165831X.. From San Francisco society to a sunbaked Greek island, come share a deeply romantic adventure, bursting with vitality -- and discover the unforgettable woman called Hot Shot who made it all happen.  Welcome to HOT SHOT, a glorious, heart-stopping love story with characters as bold as the invention that brings them together -- and changes America forever. With one ingenious invention, they started a brilliant business empire in a seedy California garage.  They were renegades who took on corporate America with daring and vision.  For Susannah, the cool socialite, it was the hottest challenge of her life; for Sam, the charismatic rebel, it was a rocket-driven-rainbow ride straight into the future on his terms; for Yank, the eccentric inventor, it was a precious dream made dazzlingly real; for Mitch, the marketing genius, it was a risk he had to take. But big dreams can have a cruel price -- and Susannah, the daughter of one of the country's most powerful corporate titans, was about to embark on an adventure that would sever her from her family, give her unimagined courage, and open her to a passion so rich, so sensual, that she would be utterly and forever transformed....

IT HAD TO BE YOU 8/1994.  ISBN: 0380776839.  The windy city isn't quite ready for Phoebe Somerville -- the trendy, outrageous and curvaceous New York knockout who has just inherited the Chicago Stars football team.  And Phoebe is definitely not prepared for the Stars' head coach Dan Calebow -- an Alabama-born former gridiron legend and blond barbarian. Calebow is everything Phoebe abhors -- a sexist, jock taskmaster with a one-track mind.  The beautiful new boss is everything Dan despises -- a meddling bimbo who doesn't know pigskin from a pitcher's mound.  So why is he drawn to the shameless sexpot like a heat-seeking missile?  And why does Dan's good ol' boy charm leave cosmopolitan Pheobe feeling awkward, tongue-tied and frightened to death?

KISS AN ANGEL  2/1996.  ISBN: 0380782332. Pretty, flighty Theodosia Devreaux can either go to jail or marry Alexander Markov, the mystery man her father has chosen for her.  Arranged marriages don't happen in the modern world, so how did the irrepressible Daisy find herself in this fix? Alex, as humorless as he is handsome, has no intention of playing the loving bridegroom to a spoiled little featherhead.  He drags her from her uptown life to a broken down traveling circus and sets out to tame her.  But this man without a soul has met his match in a woman who's nothing but heart.  Before long, passion will send this couple flying high without a safety net... risking it all in search of a love that will last forever.

LADY BE GOOD  2/1999.  ISBN: 0380794489.Lady Emma Wells-Finch, the oh-so-proper headmistress of England's St. Gertrude's School for Girls, is a woman on a mission -- she has two weeks to lose her reputation.  Arriving in Texas with skirts flying, umbrella pointing, and beautiful mouth issuing orders, she knows only one thing will save her from losing everything she holds dear: complete and utter disgrace! World-famous playboy-athlete Kenny Traveler has kicked up his boot heels one too many times, and now he's suspended from the sport he loves.  Only one thing will restore his career: complete and utter respectability!  Unfortunately, he's been blackmailed into chauffeuring bossy, single-minded Lady Emma, and she's hell-bent on visiting honky-tonks, chasing down tattoo parlors, and worse... lots worse. When a gorgeous man who can't afford another scandal meets a hardheaded woman who's determined to cause one, anything can happen.  But love?  Oh, dear.  That's impossible.  That's outrageous.  That's... inevitable!

NOBODY'S BABY BUT MINE  2/1997.  ISBN: 0380782340.  Genius physics professor Dr. Jane Darlington desperately wants a baby.  But finding a father won't be easy.  Jane's super-intelligence made her feel like a freak when she was growing up, and she's determined to spare her own child that suffering.  Which means she must find someone very special to father her child.  Someone... well... stupid.  Cal Bonner, the Chicago Stars' legendary quarterback, seems like the perfect choice.  But his champion good looks and home-down ways are deceiving.  Dr. Jane learns too late that this good ol' boy is a lot smarter than he lets on -- and he's not about to be used and abandoned by a brainy baby-mad schemer. Can passion and physical attraction propel two strong-willed yet vulnerable people to a totally unexpected love?

THIS HEART OF MINE  2/2001. ISBN:0380975726. Molly Somerville loves her career as the creator of the Daphne the Bunny children's book series, but the rest of her life could use some improvement.  She has a reputation for trouble that started even before she gave away her fifteen-million-dollar inheritance.  Then there's her long-term crush on the quarterback for the Chicago Stars football team her sister owns -- that awful, gorgeous Kevin Tucker, a man who can't even remember Molly's name! One night Kevin barges into Molly's not-quite-perfect life and turns it upside down.  Unfortunately, the Ferrari-driving riving, poodle-hating jock isn't as shallow as she wishes he were, and she soon finds herself at a place called Wind Lake.  Surrounded by paintbox cottages, including a charming old bed-and-breakfast, Molly and Kevin battle their attraction and each other as they face one of life's most important lessons.  Sometimes love hurts, sometimes it makes you mad as hell, and sometimes -- if you're lucky -- it can heal in a most unexpected way.