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Madeleine Robins
LADY JOHN 3/1982 ISBN:0449502767 Regency
Sari Robins
HER SCANDALOUS INTENTIONS 2/2003 ISBN: 006050353X Regency. Miss Charlotte Hastings may be an innocent, but she is uncommonly prudent, which is why she will settle for nothing less than absolute integrity in a husband. But when James Morgan, the devastatingly seductive Duke of Girard, rescues her from a midnight attacker during a house party -- leaving the two caught tousled in her bedroom -- she goes along with the duke's impulsive proclamation of marriage, for now. Her reputation may be saved, but she will not let her heart be trifled with so quickly. Though he may be the ton's most captivating male, he is definitely hiding something, and Charlotte is determined to uncover the truth -- without falling for the dashing duke's sinful charms. James is certain the beguiling Charlotte holds the key to a traitorous conspiracy, and he will stop at nothing to expose the scheme -- even if it means claiming her for his bride. but his exquisite "fiancee" is decidedly not what she appears. His mind knows it would be madness to fall in love with the vexing creature. Now if only his impulse were to stay away ...
Suzanne Robinson
THE ENGAGEMENT 6/1996 ISBN: 0553563467 Victorian. Lady Georgiana Marshal was thrilled at her betrothal to the elderly Earl of Threshfield. For the emerald-eyed beauty was sure that she would soon be a widow and finally in a position to control her fortune and her life. But no sooner does she arrive at Threshfield House than she finds herself accosted by a disreputable yet dangerously attractive stranger who means to ruin her plans.... Nick Ross had no patience for spoiled, blue-blooded misses, but when his best friend asked him to stop his sister from making a terrible mistake, he sun browned and sweaty, with a revolver at his hip. Only Nick had underestimated his quarry: it would take more than intimidation to make Georgiana see reason. It might even take falling in love....
JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT 4/2000 ISBN 0553579614 Edwardian. It's 1899, and American heiress Mattie Bright is too modern for her own good. Mattie would love to spend her days racing through town in her motorcar. Instead she's in London looking for a husband whose lineage will maker fortune respectable. The only interesting man Mattie has encountered is the handsome Lord Cheyne Tennant - and they've been at war from the moment they met! No one knows that Cheyne is working with Scotland Yard to catch a blackmailer plaguing London's wealthiest aristocrats. He'll need a daring young woman to help capture the culprit - but no gilded English lily will do. Mattie, with hair black as midnight and a fearless soul to match, is just perfect. But Cheyne doesn't know just how far Mattie will go to find the adventure she craves. And when he finally realizes how much she means to him, it may be too late to protect her...
LORD OF THE DRAGON 9/1995 ISBN 0553563459 Medieval. The day he was condemned and banished from England, his fellow knights thought they'd seen the last of Gray de Valence. But the ruthless, emerald-eyed warrior had done more than survive in a world of barbaric dangers, he'd triumphed. Now, eager to pay back his betrayers, de Valence has come home only to find his plans threatened, not by another man but by a volatile, unpredictable, ravishingly beautiful woman. Vowing her own brand of vengeance against the high-handed, impossibly handsome knight, Juliana Welles will do her best to thwart him, to tempt and taunt him until all Gray sees - and all he wants - is her. Yet when a cunning enemy puts their lives in peril, the fearless knight will have to choose between his perfect revenge and the passion of a lifetime...
THE RESCUE 3/1998 ISBN: 0553563475 Victorian. A lady who knows too much... There's nothing like witnessing a murder to shake up one's life. That's what Victoria Dane discovers when she accidentally stumbles upon the scene of a deadly crime. Suddenly the well-bred spinster is on the run, hiding from a killer in the most notorious back alleys of east London--and finding to her surprise that she is more than up for the adventure...until she gets caught by a ruthless stranger with a wicked smile.... A rogue with a lot to learn... Black-clad, black-haired, black-hearted Nightshade. Once he was a master thief who ruled the London netherworld, executing daring daylight robberies, slipping into glittering ballrooms to relieve the ton of its jewels. Yet now Nightshade has gone respectable...and only a favor to a friend has brought him back to his old haunts--and his old ways. Tracking down a lost spinster seems an easy task. But Nightshade isn't prepared for the irresistible innocence of Miss Primrose Dane, a beautiful waif with a spirit that could win his heart - and a secret that could get him killed.
THE TREASURE 5/1999 ISBN: 0553579584 A Lady of Virtue...To escape another loveless marriage, Honor Jennings--a young, captivating, and much too headstrong woman--enters the Order of Vowess. As widows, the vowesses promise to remain celibate and modest for the rest of their lives. That's just fine with Honor--until she discovers that Galen de Marlowe has moved into the ruins of Durance Guarde castle. Her castle. The infamous legend of a wailing woman haunting its walls had always kept strangers away--and now Honor intends to make certain Galen believes the legend with all his heart. A Lord of Desire...Galen de Marlowe sought out the isolated castle as a place to ponder the visions that are both his gift and his curse. His clairvoyance had once helped the king. But now his new premonitions of a royal murder need careful thought before he acts. And now an interfering yet utterly beguiling woman is complicating his life. No ghostly disguise can hide the fact that Honor is flesh and blood, sweet to touch, irresistible to kiss. And when she stumbles upon Galen's secret talents, he knows only one way to ensure her silence: to make her his wife by a desire and a deception far greater than Honor can imagine.
Mary Linn Roby
LOVE'S WILLFUL CALL 1/1981 ISBN: 0446916145 Regency. "The stage was love enough for her--until she looked into his dark eyes." Hannah defies her father and becomes a stage actress. She is determined to spurn every man who she meets for fear he will get in the way of her ambitions. But one day on the stage she loves so dearly she has a change of heart. Will she finally find love and happiness?
MY LADY'S MASK 12/1979 ISBN:0446829269 Regency. "Break as many hearts as possible." These were Mrs. Lorimer's precise instructions when she left her fortune to Caroline Woodstalk. The young heiress was to live in Lorimer House in London and fulfill the terms of the will in the fashionable whirl of the haut ton. There were many hearts offered to Caroline for the breaking and poems written in praise of her sapphire eyes and golden curls. In fact, it was one of those sonnets to her beauty that brought Caroline face to face with the one man who could break her heart....
Jan Roffman
DAZE OF FEARS 1968
Evelyn Rogers
DEVIL IN THE DARK 1/2001 ISBN: 0505524074. Victorian. He rides out of the Yorkshire mist, a dark figure on a dark horse. Is he a living man or a nightmare vision, conjured up by her fearful imagination and her uncertain future?Voices swirl in her head: They say he's more than human. A man's life is in danger when he's around...And a woman's virtue. Repelled yet fascinated, Lucinda finds herself swept into a whirlwind courtship. Yet even as his lips set fire to her heart, she cannot forget his words of warning on the night they met: Tread softly. Heed little that you see and hear. Then leave. For God's sake, leave. Whether he is the lover of her dreams or the embodiment of all she fears, she senses he will always be her...devil in the dark.
RAVEN 2/1995 ISBN:0821748009 Victorian. Pursuing a stage career as a means of escaping a terrible past, Raven Chadwick meets Marcus Bannerman, the enigmatic Earl of Stafford, who awakens a passion in Raven that becomes threatened when she learns a devastating secret.
Marylyle Rogers
ONCE UPON A TIME 4/1996 ISBN: 0312957580 Victorian. Dreaming of a fairy world and the golden-haired king who promises her all her heart can desire, 1850s woman Amy Danton refuses to believe in her imagination and is stunned when Comlan seeks her in her own world.
TWILIGHT SECRETS 11/1994 ISBN:0671871862 Medieval. When King Henry I ascended the throne, he chose a husband for Lady Elysia, heiress of Wroxton and a most unwilling bride....Finding herself unwillingly betrothed to an illegitimate son of a nobleman, Lady Elysia prepares to rebel, unaware that her intended husband plans to conquer her protesting heart.
WARY HEARTS 11/1988 ISBN:0671658794 Medieval
Rosemary Rogers
IN YOUR ARMS 12/1999 ISBN: 0380800268 Orphaned by a tragic accident, sixteen-year-old Amalie Courtland set sail from America for a new life in England with her godmother. What she didn't expect to find was Lady Winford's handsome rogue of a grandson, Robert Holt Braxton, Earl of Deverell. Immediately smitten by Holt's careless good looks and smoldering blue eyes, Amalie's naive young heart fell in love. Little did she know Holt was trying to resist his own temptation -- by having his grandmother take Amalie away. Years later, Holt is shocked by the change in the one-provincial Amalie. The tawny-skinned enchantress with raven hair and lustrous green eyes has become a cool, composed beauty. Soon Amalie is lost in the arms of this experienced rake as they succumb to the tempestuous passion of their hearts and bodies. Then, when Holt learns of her brother's plot to destroy his business holdings, he suspects Amalie has betrayed him and he vows revenge. But not even he can deny the all-consuming storm of desire that threatens to drown them both...
MIDNIGHT LADY 11/1997 ISBN: 0380786052 Victorian. Kyla Van Vleet has journeyed from India with proof of her right to share in the late Duke of Wolverton's estate and repay the many kindnesses of the stepfather who raised her. But this ravishing young woman hasn't counted on the cold cunning of the Duke's acknowledged heirs -- or the disarming gaze of the brash American who is next in line for the title. The charming but arrogant new Duke is Brett Banning, and to him Kyla is a gypsyish hoyden bent on besmirching the family name. But there is something about his commanding boldness that draws Kyla ever closer to a maelstrom of unbridled desire, even if her pounding heart leads her into the bedchamber of His Grace's country estate. Now this willful lady must gather her courage and dignity to command her own destiny. For the gossips of London keep no secrets, and a passion that blazes at midnight can either warm two hearts for a lifetime... or consume everything it touches.
A RECKLESS ENCOUNTER 12/2001 ISBN: 1551668521 Regency. Revenge... Celia St. Remy Sinclair has harbored a dark obsession since the tender age of twelve: to bring about the downfall of Lord Northington, the man responsible for her mother's death. Now an elegant and self-possessed beauty of twenty-two, she leaves America for London, determined to avenge the act of violence that shattered her life. Redemption... Celia is stunned when she comes face-to-face with her nemesis -- for this rakishly charming gentleman called Colter is not what she expected. When she discovers he is the new Lord Northington, son of the man she's vowed to destroy, she embarks upon a daring plot to take revenge on the father through the son. But even the best-laid plans can be thwarted by the powerful forces of the human heart . . .
SAVAGE DESIRE 12/2000 ISBN: 1551666219 Victorian. The fire of their passion sparks as Steve and Ginny reunite in London. Their years apart have taken a toll, but nothing can change the fierce emotion that burns between the two. The lovers have made a pact to look beyond the hurts of yesterday and look toward their future - their future as a family. But the dark treacheries of the past have called Steve back to Mexico to finally put an end to some unfinished business. Determined not to lose Steve again, Ginny travels with him into the heart of the land that holds both nightmarish memories of grave peril and those of the most bittersweet joy. As they fight to overcome forces that would try to separate them once and for all, Steve and Ginny must learn to find strength in one another and trust in the power of their love.
SURRENDER TO LOVE 7/1982 ISBN: 0380806304 Victorian. Under the midnight moon of Ceylon, on the night of her debutante ball at the Governor's palace. Alexa Howard met her cousin, Nicholas Dameron. And in the sardonic curl of his hard, sensuous lips, in the commanding arrogance of his eyes, Alexa beheld the fierce, implacable passion that would render her helpless to the trembling slavery of desire. Every Kind of Love a Woman Can Be Made to Feel ...... Within the golden softness of Alexa's alluring gentility flowed the insatiable fires of an innocent woman's awakening love--and the fury of a betrayed woman's lust for revenge. Through the night worlds of Naples, Rome, Paris and London, she was pursued by men who heartlessly wanted her beauty. But her soul was possessed by the man whose touch was unbearable ecstasy, whose cruelty was ravishing torment, whose tenderness was passion's fulfillment. Nicholas Dameron had taken her virtue and mocked her pride. But his love was the offering of every pleasure a woman has ever dared to dream of.
Amy Rognlie
ALONG UNFAMILIAR PATHS 6/1998 ISBN: 1577483219 Victorian. Raine Thomas has been relieved of her position as headmistress of the London mission school. Going back home to live with Papa is out of the question, but what else can she do? Before she can decide, dashing shipping owner Ben Thackeray bursts into her life with a link to her past. Raine has not see Paul Oliver in seven years, but when Ben presents her with a locket containing an encoded message from Paul, her hopes soar. Could Paul still be alive? Compelled by her long-held dreams and faithful love, Raine boards Ben's ship to America on the trail of many unanswered questions. Smitten immediately by Raine's charms, Ben offers to escort her to Boston where the search for Paul will begin. Will they find Paul in time to thwart the plans of his enemies? Will Ben be able to deny the longing of his heart out of loyalty to his long-time friend, Paul?
Julia Ross
MY DARK PRINCE 8/2000 ISBN: 051512883X Regency. He swooped down on her on horseback: Nicholas, Sovereign Prince of Glarien, a man never to be denied. Though born to be an English earl, Fate gave him absolute power and the daring to try to fool all the crowned heads of Europe. His plan? To force Penny Lindsey to impersonate his missing bride at his state wedding in Regency London, leaving him one month to teach this not-so-simple country girl how to be a princess. Cunning, charismatic, impossible to resist, Nicholas is never to be trusted, but as the clever masquerade unfolds, secret vulnerabilities are revealed. A wedding means a wedding night and passion cries out for fulfillment. Suddenly the stakes of the game are much higher than he ever intended...
Marilyn Ross
BARNABAS, QUENTIN AND THE GRAVE ROBBERS 6/1971 ISBN:1199194476 Regency
THE PERIL OF BARNABAS COLLINS 11/1969 -Victorian
Marcy Elias Rothman
THE KINDER HEART 3/1994 ISBN: 0451179226 Regency. Lady Barbara Worth had good reason to mistrust men. Her own brother, Marlow, left her impoverished while he dissipated their family fortune gambling, wenching, and worse. Her former suitors had abandoned her to solitude, and she was resigned to languishing on the shelf, when Captain Tarn Maitland thrust himself into her tranquil life. Lady Barbara knew very well she should disbelieve Maitland above all others of his perfidious sex. What malevolent motive led this wealthy, handsome, irresistible man, who openly flaunted his beautiful mistress while keeping his past a dark secret, to seek Lady Barbara as his wife? And a question even harder to answer for the besieged Lady Barbara: how could she say no to the commanding captain when her heart and soul fairly cried to say yes?
LADY KATE'S SECRET 12/1995 ISBN: 0451185021 Regency. Lady Katherine Grovenor was faced with a devilish choice. She could give her hand to a man she did not know - handsome, mysterious Nicholas Monroe, the stranger from abroad whose past and fortune were cloaked in sinister secrecy. Or she could yield to her father and wed a man she knew all too well, Lord John Peterbroome, the most infamous rake in the realm. Marrying the pernicious Peterbroome was the only way to save her father from shameful ruin. Wedding the masterful Mr. Monroe would not only bring social disgrace, but put her in the power of this man driven by the darkest of demons. Kate stood at the crossroads between the way of the world and the path of desire - with not guide but her own wildly wavering heart...
Patricia Frances Rowell
A PERILOUS ATTRACTION 8/2002 ISBN: 037329221X Regency. It was really a marriage of inconvenience. Fiery Catherine Maury found it exceedingly inconvenient for her trustee to have lost her entire fortune just before she gained control of it. She found it inconvenient to be obliged to consider marriage at all, but the most serious inconvenience lay in the fact that the offer which promised her salvation came from the icy Earl of Caldbeck. His most restrained lordship, on the other hand, did not find the situation inconvenient whatsoever. It provided him just the opportunity he had been waiting for to make the beautiful Catherine's fire his own. What neither of them realized was that, as their passion grew into love, they would also find themselves catapulted into the middle of a series of grisly murders, with Catherine becoming the focus of the murderers' crazed mind. They must exert every skill to stay one step ahead of the killer to protect Catherine and their unborn child.
Lauren Royal
AMBER 7/2001 Restoration. Kendra Chase's brothers have presented her with an abundance of wealthy, titled suitors—and she’s rejected each and every one of them. But upon meeting Patrick "Trick" Caldwell--a moody, mysterious highwayman--she knows that she has finally lost her heart. He is devilishly handsome--and eminently unsuitable. So when her overprotective brothers catch her and Trick in a compromising embrace and demand that Trick marry her, are they really desperate enough to match her up with a highwayman? Now Kendra must face a most surprising possibility--that this dangerous, complex man may not be who he seems to be at all….
AMETHYST 2/2000 ISBN 0451199510 Renaissance. Amethyst Goldsmith is as beautiful as the jewelry she creates, but her passion for her father's craft does not extend to the dull apprentice he's arranged for her to marry. When the devastating fire of 1666 sweeps through London, Amy believes she is rescued from this fate, only to land in the arms of the dashing, unattainable Colin Chase, Earl of Greystone. In the aftermath of disaster, the rules of society are abandoned--long enough for a shopkeeper's daughter and a nobleman to discover their shared destiny . . . yet not long enough to erase the past, nor the broken promises that only love can heal . . .
EMERALD 10/2000 ISBN 0451201426 Renaissance. Jason Chase is on a headlong mission to bring a scoundrel to justice when he smacks headfirst into a hapless Scottish lad--who happens to be a lovely lass. Though she claims she's headed to London on family business, Jason's convinced she's a notorious bounty hunter and that they're after the same man. He refuses to let her out of his sight. Caithren Leslie longs to be rid of the handsome, overbearing Englishman, yet recognizes the danger of traveling alone among rogues and highwaymen. Though Jason claims he's a commoner, Cait suspects he's of noble birth. And as combat becomes companionship, and travel reveals truth, Jason and Cait discover that appearances can be most deceptive . . . and admit that the only quest that matters is the one for love.
Eva Rutland
THE WILLFUL LADY 3/1991 ISBN: 0373311451 Regency. She would not go willingly into his bed... When it came to plain speaking and fierce pride, Miss Amelia Allen was no flat. The daughter of an artist, she was barely accepted by the ton, and no one's reputation was more carefully scrutinized. Guy Grosvenor, the Duke of Winston, assumed the rumours suggesting that she was not all that she should be would suit him down to the ground. He was in the market for a mistress and had quite decided she would do nicely. But Amelia had other ideas which she did not hesitate to make known to him. She would rather turn up her toes than submit to such an odious fate. But how was she to know that Guy could never resist such a challenge?
Jenna Ryan
WHEN NIGHT FALLS 3/1994 ISBN: 0373222653 Georgian. Cassie Lachlin had witnessed some bizarre things as a police photographer. But London circa 1790 was definitely a first! Dark, dashing Anthony Morgan was the only sight she recognized. The mystery man had been at the crime scene back in the 20th century, which bore an uncanny similarity to those of the infamous Jack the Ripper. But night wrapped its dark cloak around them, drawing Cassie closer to the man in back. The man against whose will she was powerless...She face a chilling realization: more than a handsome lover awaited her here in the past. Dogging her on the mist-enshrouded streets of London, she feared, was Jack himself...
Patricia Ryan
FALCON'S FIRE 12/1995 ISBN 0451406354 Medieval. Martine of Rouen vows never to fall in love after her mother dies of a broken heart. Yet she is persuaded to meet a strange man--a possible husband-to-be--on England's misty coast. Born into wretched poverty, Sir Thorne Falconer hungers for the grand manor he has been promised for arranging Martine's betrothal to his overlord's son. But then he meets the bride-to-be...and as he and Martine fight to deny their mutual desire, they are drawn into a passion so fiery it sweeps away everything but all-consuming love.
HEAVEN'S FIRE 10/1996 ISBN 0451406990 Medieval. Young Constance was practically a slave, waiting to be taken at will by the cruel Sir Roger Foliot. But Sir Roger did not count on her ability to escape from him into the protection of priest, Oxford scholar, and sworn celibate, Rainulf Fairfax. Now Rainulf and Constance have a lesson to learn about love...how unstoppable it is...what it will cost them...and what the priceless ecstasy of sharing a future--forever--can be.
SECRET THUNDER 5/1997 ISBN: 0451407415 Medieval. Faithe of Hauekleah was as proud as she was passionate, as brave as she was beautiful. Though she ached for love after the death of her noble Saxon husband in war, she vowed that the Norman conqueror she now was forced to wed would never have her heart. But Faithe had not anticipated what she would feel when Luke de Perigueux, the most feared of Norman invaders, took her into his arms. She had never dreamed a man could be so strong yet so gentle. The ecstasy she received from him blinded her to chilling suspicions about this man who burned with such fury in battle. Yet even as her lips opened beneath his, even as her body melted to his desire, even as her pulse quickened to race with his toward wild and wondrous fulfillment, she knew she must unearth the dark secret he his from her - whatever the cost.
SILKEN THREADS 6/1999 ISBN: 0451408276 Medieval. Graeham Fox is on a secret mission: rescuing his lord's illegitimate daughter from the clutches of her abusive husband. As payment for his services, Graeham will receive her twin's hand in marriage and a vast estate, much more than any landless soldier could ever hope for... Attacked in London, Graeham is almost killed. He is given a chance to heal at the humble home of Joanna Chapman, a silk merchant's lovely widow. Her past has taught her not to trust any man, especially one as rakishly handsome - and mysterious - as Graeham. But his raw strength and gentle touch unleash a blistering passion in Joanna. Caught between ambition and desire, Graeham's future hangs by a thread. And only Joanna's love can save him from himself...
THE SUN AND THE MOON 6/2000 ISBN 04512000322 Medieval. The Sun: King Henry's most valued spy, Hugh of Wexford, likes his wine, his women...and above all, his freedom. Scarred by a brutal upbringing, Hugh vowed long ago to make his own way in the world, unhindered by ties of any kind--especially those of love. The Moon: Oxford scholar Phillipa de Paris is learned, enlightened...and painfully innocent in the ways of the world--especially the lascivious intrigue that she encounters when Hugh recruits her for a critical espionage mission. A Match Made in Heaven: To expose the schemes of corrupt churchman Aldous Ewing and save England from yet another civil war, the rough-and-tumble warrior and the innocent intellectual embark on a dangerous ruse as bored husband and wife. As Phillipa tempts ands teases the traitor, will she be able to convince Ewing to share his confidences? Or will Hugh and Phillipa's lies be revealed and their lives endangered by the undeniable, irresistible force of passion flaring between them?
Taylor Ryan
BIRDIE 4/1996 ISBN: 037328912X Regency. Lord Templeton Dane had never expected to fall in love with the mysterious child-woman he'd been forced to marry. Nor could he ever imagine that a band of Irish renegades would claim his wife as one of them, and that Birdie herself would tearfully confirm their hateful accusations. Heartbroken at the supposed death of her husband, Birdie had survived her captivity and returned with her children to their ancestral home. Yet her joy at discovering her precious Temple still alive was bittersweet. For there were those who would risk anything to prevent her from convincing him of her innocence and undying love.
THE ESSENTIAL WIFE 6/1997 ISBN: 0373289685 Regency. A Marriage of Convenience - It was a logical way to escape from the petticoat line. And Lord Wyse found the fresh-faced Rose Lambe a willing partner in the deception, though he hadn't counted on the sweet Rose having thorns...or a mind of her own. From Dressmaker to Debutante - It was desperation that had driven Rose to agree to an engagement to the Ton's most elusive catch, the dashing Lord Geoffrey Wyse. Though she knew that her only true happiness lay in capturing the heart of her 'unexpected' husband.
LOVE'S WILD WAGER 3/1995 ISBN: 037328862X Regency. Forced by her father's recklessness to procure a husband, Eben was ready to gamble all on making the best match. Even though the catch of the Season Fitzhugh Eastmore, was certainly willing, he was also polite society's most notorious rake ....The Duke of Eastmore had no desire to race into marriage. Yet the thought of the hot-blooded Miss Victor wasting herself on a lesser man seemed crime - to say nothing of the way the woman's lithe movements sent a current of raw need coursing through his veins every time she entered a room ...
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