Last Updated: 10/10/2005
Deborah Simmons
THE COMPANION short story in THE OFFICER'S BRIDE 4/2001 ISBN: 0373834659 Regency. A destitute relative hired by the dowager countess of Hawthorne as a Companion is taken aback to discover her duties involve the earl himself, a veteran of Waterloo.
THE deBURGH BRIDE(#399) 2/1998. ISBN: 0373289995. Medieval. Sleeping With The Enemy. It was the last thing Elene Fitzhugh intended. She only prayed her array of sharpened daggers was ample protection against Geoffrey de Burgh's gentle coaxing and honeyed lies, for she was determined to be no man's bride-king's command be damned! Noble By Birth, Yet Wild At Heart Though Elene Fitzhugh had slain her first husband in the marriage bed, Geoffrey de Burgh had no choice but to make her his bride. Yet could he ever truly take to wife a woman with so fierce and passionate a soul?
THE DEVIL EARL 5/1996 ISBN: 0373289170 Regency. Out of a midnight coach stepped Ravenscar...the perfect gothic mystery man... Dark and brooding and rumored to have done murder, the Devil Earl was everything Prudence Lancaster's imagination could conjure. But he was also flesh and blood, and infinitely more seductive than anything she had ever created. In his presence, the dreamy authoress became a sultry sleuth, hungry to solve the mystery of Ravenscar's missing brother and to save her beloved Devil Earl from his own wicked legacy...
THE DEVIL'S LADY 10/1994 ISBN: 0373288417. Medieval. Piers Montmorency ‘Twas whispered that the mysterious Red Knight was more than mortal. Perhaps he’d even struck a devil’s bargain to assure his warrior prowess. Yet Aisley sensed that Pier’s shadows veiled a deeper secret. Aisley de Laci Like a whirlwind, Aisley descended on Dunmurrow castle to claim the Red Knight as her husband. And Piers knew his world was forever changed. But could a creature so full of joy and sunlight ever accept a life of passions draped in darkness?
FORTUNE HUNTER 7/1992 ISBN: 0373287321 Regency. To save the family manor, Viscount Leighton Somerset was forced to snare a wealthy wife, and the lovely Melissa Hampton was his target. Her coolness toward fortune hunters had earned her the title 'Lady Disdain,' but Leighton wasted no time in warming the girl up to the idea of wedlock. Though hard experience had trained Melissa to evade charmers like Leighton, the clever man had soon maneuvered her straight into matrimony. Accepting her fate, Melissa was now tempted to relax the careful guard around her heart. But someone was still stalking her - in deadly earnest - and it appeared to be her husband..
THE GENTLEMAN THIEF 1/2000 ISBN: 0373290950 Regency. Why her family had elected to spend an entire season in boring Bath, Georgiana Bellewether couldn't fathom. Nothing to stimulate her inquisitive mind ever happened here - until the night Lady Culpepper's emeralds were stolen! Now, if only she could keep her mind on the case of her hands off the enigmatic man in black - the beguiling Lord Ashdowne...! As the newly made, ever-responsible Marquis of Ashdowne, Johnathon Saxton bemoaned the lack of excitement now marking his days. But when quixotic, exotic Georgiana Bellewether literally tumbled into his arms, he knew he'd caught himself an armful. The woman was a disaster in the making!
HEART'S MASQUERADE 10/1989 ISBN: 038077562X Regency. Although an accomplished scholar of ancient Egypt, Lady Juliet Cavendish has accepted her womanly fate. Since she will never be allowed to venture to such an exotic locale, she must make do with studying her father's acquisitions. But when the most recent shipment arrives in the care of the notorious Morgan Beauchamp, Juliet finds herself studying the undeniably attractive adventurer as much as his latest discoveries. Soon, working together to catalog the artifacts becomes its own misadventure. Piece by piece, Morgan begins claiming bits of Juliet's heart. And piece by piece, objects begin to disappear from the collection. Amid rumors and whispers of an age-old curse, Juliet and Morgan fall victim to a passion as dangerous as the mystery they have unwittingly unearthed...
THE LAST ROGUE 9/1998 ISBN: 0373290276 Regency. Raleigh hadn't gambled on finding a virgin in his bed.....but when he awoke next to Jane Trowbridge, he knew all bets for bachelorhood were off. Now, instead of a love match, he'd gotten a sparring partner. Jane had never imagined herself anyone's lawfully wedded wife, and now ironic fate had bound her to a hedonistic viscount who was a Tulip of the Ton. Still, could a man who only pursued pleasure find any pleasure pursuing her? And could she restrain her maidenly blushes long enough to let him....?
MAIDEN BRIDE 9/1996 ISBN: 0373289324. Medieval. Gillian Hexham Soon Learned Her New Lord Was More Wedded To Revenge Than To Her For Nicholas de Laci had sworn to exact payment for the sins of her uncle. Why, then, did his eyes belie his words, speaking naught of retribution --- but promising nights of love? Fate had sent Nicholas de Laci the perfect bride to fill the aching need in his soul. With her tainted blood, Gillian Hexham would at last satisfy the raw hunger that near consumed him . . . but only in ways he could never imagine!
MY LORD deBURGH(#533) 10/2000. ISBN: 0373291337. Medieval. He Was Like A Young God, Tall and Blessed With Startling Beauty. But Stephen DeBurgh appeared all too human to Brigid L'Estrange. Self-indulgent and too impressed with himself, the rakish knight seemed unworthy of his noble heritage. And yet...and yet! Why then did she sense a power and rightness about him that answered her heart's deepest yearnings? Escorting the strong-willed Brigid across the marshy wastes of Wales strained Stephen's temper near the breaking point. Never had he encountered a more contentious yet arousing female than Mistress L'Estrange - whose eyes bespoke a destiny that would change his life forever!
ROBBER BRIDE(#455) 4/1999. ISBN: 0373290551. Medieval. Maiden – Warrior – Lover! This was the litany Simon de Burgh chanted whenever he gazed upon Bethia Burnel. Gifted with fighting prowess to rival any of his knights, the maddening woman had laid siege to his vision of how the world should be -- and captured his heart in the battle! Simon de Burgh was infuriating -- full of raw power and male conviction, even when Bethia had him bound hand and foot, deep in her forest lair. But she would prove to His Arrogance that she could best him yet again -- despite her heart's thundering refrain that she had finally met her match!
THE SQUIRE'S DAUGHTER 2/1994 ISBN: 0373288085 Regency. Although Justin St. John, the current marquis of Worthington, scorns The Worthington Curse and all else in his scandalous existence, his one-time neighbor is not so sanguine. The squire's daughter, all grown up and determined to rescue her former idol from he hedonistic ways, manages to engage his heart and unravel an old mystery, as well.
TAMING THE WOLF 9/1995 ISBN: 0373288840. Medieval. Champion of Her Heart Though Marion Warenne's past was but a dim nightmare, her present held a vision of glory - the formidable Dunstan de Burgh. A fierce knight who was determined to win their battle of wills, all the while protesting mightily that he did not believe in love. Dunstan de Burgh, Baron of Wessex, had ofttimes heard himself likened to a wolf on the prowl: fierce, brave and ever-alert to danger. How so, then, could one soft-eyed damsel escape his watchful eye time and time again? And even more dangerous, slip past his guard and find her way into his heart?
TEMPTING KATE 7/1997 ISBN: 0373289715 Regency. A meeting at gunpoint. A fitting start for such a dangerous attraction, thought Grayson Westcott, the Marquis of Wroth. And though he'd always prided himself on his infamous self-control, Kate Courtland's hoydenish charms has shattered his defenses and set fire to his soul! Kate Courtland is determined to wreak revenge upon the Marquis of Wroth, the man said to have compromised her sister, but when she waylays him at gunpoint, both the lady and the nobleman end up with more than they bargained for . . .
THE UNEXPECTED GUEST 12/1999 ISBN: 0373834179. Medieval. The head of the mighty de Burgh family finds his quiet reserve shattered by the seductive young widow who stays at his keep for the twelve days of Christmas!
THE VICAR'S DAUGHTER 2/1995 ISBN: 0373288581 Regency. Wycliffe often said that had he known what awaited him that fateful day, he would never have entered the vicarage. Of course, everyone knew he was lying, and since Maximilian Alistair Wentworth Fortescue, Fifth Earl of Wycliffe, never lied, his statement was all the more astounding. But then everyone was astonished by what happened . . .
A WISH FOR NOEL short story in THE KNIGHTS OF CHRISTMAS11/1997 ISBN: 0373289871. Medieval. An orphan's Christmas wish comes true when she conquers the heart of her world-weary guardian.
Suzanne Simmons
BED OF ROSES 8/1995 ISBN: 0451405196 Victorian. The last thing the beautiful and determinedly unmarried Lady Alyssa Gray wants at her ancestral home is a man. Yet the Queen has heard about the "haunting" of Graystone Abbey and is sending an emissary to investigate. Miles St. Aldford does not believe in specters, phantoms -- or love. A rake and a warrior he prefers the thrills of battle to the restraints of marriage. But his Queen has sent him to Devon to look for a ghost and he must obey. Now amid flickering lights in old towers and strange midnight riders, Miles and Alyssa find the most powerful unseen force of all --- love.
YOU AND NO OTHER 9/1998 ISBN: 0451408659 Regency. In Regency England, a crown, a golden scepter, and a sacred chalice mysteriously disappear from a beautiful princess's castle in Saint-Simeon. Without these legendary treasures, a new prince cannot be inducted, and without a ruler, Saint-Simeon will officially become a part of France. Trailing the treasures to London, the princess enlists the aid of a handsome earl, who is immediately enraptured with her. But unless they uncover the truth behind the theft of Saint-Simeon's royal riches, they may never be able to act upon their mutual affections for each other....
JoAnn Simon
HOLD FAST TO LOVE 11/1982 ISBN:0380809451 Regency. A Passion Across Centuries...New York career woman Monica Wagner was flying into London when suddenly, unbelievably, she found herself in a horse drawn carriage, riding through the cobbled streets to an unknown fate. Suddenly, she was living the life of a beautiful heiress, the Baroness Marlena van Mantz, amid the dazzling gaiety of Regency London--and the passionate attentions of her handsome guardian, Lord Justin Warringwood. But another man also pursued Marlena-- the dashing Marquis of Radford whose burning kisses left her confused and shaken. Marlena had found a love meant for eternity. She was still Monica Wagner, a woman from another century who might soon be returned to her own world. Yet she was destined to love the one man who promised her every happiness.
LOVE ONCE IN PASSING 11/1981 ISBN:038083345X Regency. In a moment that defied time and place, Christopher Dunlap, a Regency Earl, and Jessica Lund, a 20th-century woman, found themselves living in the same world. And in that enchanted place their hearts became one forever. But the twist of time that had swept them into each other's arms was to wrench them apart with the same bewildering suddenness. The warmth of a Connecticut Christmas morning ends abruptly when Jessica finds herself huddled with her infant child in the cold of a small 19th-century farm cabin... while Christopher awakens in a New York City rooming house without his beautiful wife and young son. Tormented by memories of happier days, they both pursue new lives. Jessica survives in the servant's life she has been cast into, and Christopher builds a successful shipping business. But they know in their hearts that the love which has spanned the centuries will never die. That each day holds the promise that fate will once again bring them together....
Carla Simpson
SEDUCTIVE CARESS 6/1992 ISBN: 0821737678 Victorian. She ached for his touch. The gaslit streets of Victorian London were no place for a lady like Jessamyn Forsythe - after all, there was a madman on the loose! But the brave beauty was determined to find her missing sister, so she disguised herself as a simple working girl and followed her only clues to Whitechapel's darkest alleys...and the disturbingly handsome Inspector Devlin Burke. Though the arrogant Irishman's high-handed ways made her seethe with indignation, his piercing blue gaze and demanding caress soon had her burning with something far more dangerous - undeniable desire! He craved her kiss. Devlin Burke swore as he succumbed to the plea in Jessamyn's entrancing emerald eyes. He didn't have time to find her sister - he was on the trail of a killer. But as the two cases began to intertwine, Devlin grew intrigued with the impetuous, ebon-haired lass. She was not at all what she seemed and he found her secrets quite alluring...especially the sensual mysteries of her silken lips and the hidden promise of her sweet, supple flesh.
Donna Simpson
BELLE OF THE BALL 11/2001 ISBN: 0821770403 Regency. Arabella Swinley is in a most dreadful position. She has exactly one Season left to find a rich husband--and save herself from a lifetime of mended gowns, empty purses, and mountainous debts. But, alas, Arabella quickly discovers that desperation does not suit a lady. Bachelors who once would have swooned at her beauty now will not deign to ask for a dance. Arabella still entertains dim hopes for husband. That is, until she loses her heart to handsome Marcus Westhaven. Never mind that he's charming and deeply intriguing--he's simply a nobody. Even worse he's penniless. A match between them would be pure folly. But she can't stop thinking about the man who can offer her nothing...except a love that can last a lifetime.
A COUNTRY COURTSHIP 6/2002 ISBN: 0821771949 Regency. Lord Gerry Haven prefers the quiet beauty of his Yorkshire farm to the artifice of London and the marriage mart. Thus, his matchmaking family takes it upon themselves to find a suitable bride for him. But before he can meet (and reject) Miss Jane Dresden, she suddenly disappears. While joining the search for the missing heiress, Gerry becomes enchanted by a lovely provincial maiden who stirs him like no London beauty ever could…Broad-shouldered and strong, Gerry is the kind of rugged country farmer who makes "Jenny" want to forget she's a runaway lady desperate to avoid a match with a top-lofty lord of the manor. Unable to resist the attraction between them, she surrenders to his sweet kisses, knowing that this idyll must soon come to an end. For when Gerry discovers she is not the rural-born and bred Jenny, but Jane--a society miss gone missing--she is certain any chance of happiness in his arms will be lost!
LADY DELAFONT'S DILEMMA 8/2000 ISBN: 0821766740 Regency. Lady Emily Delafont wanted to be alone. For five years, she lived a solitary life in Yorkshire, finding serenity and almost forgetting him. Baxter. The Marquess of Sedgely. Her husband. She knew that their marriage had been stormy, but she never expected Baxter to abandon her for his trip to the Continent. Now nothing would have prompted Lady Emily to have seen him again...except a message that he was in danger. Attacks upon his person by a secret enemy had put his life in danger, but it was meeting Lady Emily again that truly put Baxter in peril. She was still completely kissable! But in his mind, only one thing stands in the way of full reconciliation--the dashing young Frenchman Bax believes to be his wife´s lover. Pride will not let him claim his wife is she prefers another man--yet passion will not let his soul rest until he has the only lady he has ever loved in his arms again...
LADY MAY'S FOLLY 2/2001 ISBN: 0821768050 Regency. When Lady May van Hoffen sets out on a ride across her country estate, she anticipates nothing more than a sentimental visit to the Gothic folly where she played as a child. Yet while the sight of a wounded man within its stone walls is quite shocking, what is more amazing is the man’s identity. For it is Etienne Delafont who lies bleeding in the cottage, the gallant Frenchman who helped May escape from a devious kidnapper--and the man both May and the ton have believed dead for months! With just one glance at the darkly handsome Etienne, May knows that her innocent tendre for him has survived, as well. Sheltering him may be a scandalous notion, but for once the risks don’t signify. And for May, the chance of danger is far less frightening than the idea that her greatest folly may be losing her heart...
LORD ST. CLAIRE'S ANGEL 12/1999 ISBN: 0821764497 Regency. Celestine Simons was past the age where a woman could hope to marry. Still, she counted herself blessed, for she held a good position as governess in the household of the Marquess of Ladymead. But when the Marquess's brother, the handsome Lord Justin St. Claire arrived for the Christmas season, Celestine's lonely heart caught fire. He was so sweet and understanding. Yet, a marriage proposal from a pleasure-seeking aristocrat had to be merely a cruel joke if not pity for a poor spinster…Love was a game for the devil-may-care Lord Justin St. Claire--until he met Miss Celestine Simons. Justin never thought he could be felled by cheerful good sense and intelligent conversation. He'd set out to give the plain, timid miss an innocent thrill under the kissing bough--becoming smitten with the gray-eyed beauty was the least of his intentions. But the more he denied his aching heart, the more he yearned to make Celestine his!
LOVE'S LESSONS short story in MY DASHING GROOM 6/2002 ISBN: 0821772600 Regency. With nowhere else to go, penniless Linnet Pelham took refuge with her sister in London only to find that her sister's betrothal to Lord Cairngrove was the scandal of the ton. Linnet was determined to see the wedding take place, which meant convincing Cairngrove's brother Nic Barton that the union was right. Two more different people had never lived, yet Linnet couldn't help imagining another ceremony, with Nic as her own groom…
A MATCHMAKER'S CHRISTMAS 10/2002 ISBN: 0821772899 Regency. The Greatest Gift Of All... Lady Elizabeth Bournard has decided that a spot of matchmaking would be a fitting and festive way to celebrate her eightieth birthday and the coming Yuletide. What better way to reward Beatrice Copland, her faithful companion of ten years, than to introduce her to Sir David Chappell, her dashing godson? Yet, unbeknownst to her, Beatrice and David already have a shared history - one that didn’t end well...As a party of houseguests converge for an old-fashioned Christmas at a Yorkshire estate, the hijinks begin. Now Lady Elizabeth’s carefully laid plans will go awry as Cupid joins the fray and Beatrice and David come face-to-face with the past amid holiday celebrations that will show them the true meaning of love...
MISS TRUELOVE BECKONS 6/2001 ISBN: 082177039X Regency. The joyous celebrations held in honor of his return from the war are wasted on Wycliffe Prescott, Viscount Drake--as are his mother's gentle reminders that he must now set up his nursery. How can he think of marriage when the horrors of Waterloo haunt his sleep each night? Yet when company arrives for the summer, Drake finds himself drawn to one guest in particular--and charmed when he hears her name: Miss Truelove Beckons. An innocent mistake, of course, for her surname is Becket--but Drake can't help feeling that she may be his only hope of healing...A vicar's daughter, True has come to Lea Park with her future vexingly undecided. A proposal of marriage from her father's curate might be the sensible course of action, but True can't resist the utterly impractical hours she spends with handsome, brooding Drake--especially when he seems soothed by her understanding words and gentle silences. By rights, a friendship is all she can hope for with a man so far above her station, yet as the warm summer days pass, True knows that she longs for something much sweeter...
NOEL'S CHRISTMAS WISH 10/2000 ISBN: 0821767585 Regency. When her carriage breaks down outside of Bath Lady Ann Beecham-Brooke, famously reserved beauty of the ton, has no choice but to take refuge at the home of strangers. But it isn't long before she finds Russetshire Manor's five-year-old lady of the house and her energetic kitten, Noel, thawing her frozen heart--and introducing her and Russetshire's owner, Lord Charles Montrose, to true love for all seasons.
A RAKE'S REDEMPTION 2/2002 ISBN: 0821771930 Regency. Phaedra Gillian, spinster daughter of a rural vicar, has found an unconscious gentleman by the roadside. Taught to be a good Samaritan, she takes into her home the greatest temptation of her life! For Phaedra's patient is none other than Lawrence Jamison, Earl of Hardcastle. As London's most notorious rake, the Earl is a man who pursues pleasure--and women--with reckless abandon. Unfamiliar with the ton, Phaedra doesn't know the reputation of "Hardhearted Hardcastle"--only that this handsome stranger is charming, amusing, and able to send chills down her spine. Hearing about his wild ways leaves her shocked. And puzzled. Despite their passionate embraces and time alone in his bedchamber, Hardcastle has behaved honorably--so far. Is she a fool for believing a rogue can change? Or should she send him away before she loses everything, especially her belief in the power of love?
A ROGUE'S RESCUE Short Story in UNTAMEABLE 10/2002 ISBN: 0821774158 Regency
WILD HONEY short story in VALENTINE ROGUES 1/2001 ISBN: 0821767720 Regency. Beautiful widow Lady Honey Hockley had given up on the idea of romance--until bedazzled rake Viscount Blackthorne set out to prove his love was forever.
Alberta Sinclair
COUSIN NANCY 7/1989 ISBN: 0373311052 Regency. Rules were one thing but love was another... Everyone loved Nancy Browne. Even though she was a penniless orphan, her natural enthusiasm and country charm engaged even the most crotchety heart. Or the most jaded. The Earl of Selbridge, returning to his country seat with a broken heart, found his spirits soon mended when he met the irrepressible Nancy. It mattered not to him that she was by Society's standards beneath his touch, but it mattered greatly to her. Gradually Nancy changed from the country miss he was so fond of the a proper lady who perplexed him. Selbridge had fallen in love with an angel. Now how in the devil was he going to get her back?
A HINT OF SCANDAL 4/1987 ISBN:0373310153 Regency. Alyssa Wentworth was shocked to learn that she must marry into a title within a year or lose both her considerable inheritance and her beautiful home to a particularly odious cousin. She knew her task would not be easy. But Alyssa had no intention of giving up without a struggle. Armed with a list of six eligible bachelors, she set off for London, determined to take the ton by storm. An unconventional encounter with the aloof Viscount Charles Brookmere forced Alyssa to agree unhappily to their betrothal - the price she had to pay to keep scandal from her doorstep.
Katherine Sinclair
FAR HORIZONS 1/1991 ISBN: 0425124827 They were three very different women, each searching for happiness in the everchanging world of the nineteenth century. Bethany Newton - a victim of injustice, she was sentenced to an Australian prison and forced to leave her baby daughter in England...Mary Fielding - trapped in a loveless marriage, she saw hope, and desire, in the eyes of her husband's business partner...Alison Banks - hidden away with Bethany's child, her broken heart would find true independence in a world often denied to women. They clung to their elusive dreams of love and freedom - and never surrendered. From the bustling streets of England and the darkest corners of Australia, to the glistening shores of California, Hawaii and New Orleans, they dared to reach for the treasures of.... Far Horizons.
VISIONS OF TOMORROW 11/1989 ISBN:1557732760 Edwardian. They were lifelong friends, sharing their triumphs and downfalls as only best friends can. Then a night of tragedy tore Megan and Joanna apart—and sent them on two separate journeys of the heart. Journeys that cast them into new and changing worlds where they challenged the future and shaped their own fates.....Megan—Gifted and ambitious, yearning to be a doctor, she embraces a dream that few women dare—and learns the price of following the voice within ....Joanna—The daughter of an English aristocrat, her life is saved by a mysterious man whose own dark secrets lead her to the heart's hardest choices ....
Rebecca Sinclair
PERFECT STRANGERS 3/1996 ISBN: 0821759701 Renaissance. Gabrielle Carelton is one of Queen Elizabeth's most devoted ladies-in-waiting. But her loyalty is put to the test when Her Majesty commands her to marry Scotsman Collin Douglas. Then, on the eve of her wedding, Gabrielle is kidnapped by Collin's twin brother...and not even Good Queen Bess can save her. Dubbed the Black Douglas, devilishly handsome Connor is known throughout the land for his magnificent feats of strength and cunning. But now he is in need of an heir. An English bride will bring peace to the warring nations - and give him the son he wants. What he doesn't expect is a woman as passionate as she is proud...and a desire that knows no boundaries... Set against the pageantry and savage splendor of 16th-century England and Scotland, here is the story of a man and a woman who begin as enemies and strangers - and find a love that will triumph against all odds.
Susan Sizemore
AFTER THE STORM 2/1996 ISBN: 0061082058. Medieval. Don't fraternize with the locals. Every member of the Time Search time knew that was the cardinal rule of team travel. But when Libby Wolfe was swept back to medieval England, she met the one man who could make her ignore it. Bastien of Bale, an outlaw as stunningly handsome as he was dangerous, unleashed in Libby a primeval passion that was like none she had ever known...and was yet somehow hauntingly, achingly familiar.
MY OWN TRUE LOVE 2/1994 ISBN:0061082066 Regency. Accountant Sara Dayny feels a change the minute she slips the "magic" ring on her finger. A moment later she's swept from suburban Minnesota to Regency England and into a gypsy encampment where one man, Toma the Magnificent, sets out to make her his woman. Sara didn't have the heart to tell him he was 183 years too early for their date with destiny!
ON A LONG AGO NIGHT 5/2000 ISBN: 0380804190 Regency and Victorian. He Vowed She Would Marry Him... Years ago, Honoria Pyne was forced to make a devil's bargain with a mysterious rogue. Now one of the ton's greatest heiresses, her world is shattered when the devil comes to claim his prize. Though she longs to scorn James Marbury, her body remembers too well his searing touch, and the seductive whisper of his voice spurs memories of one passion-filled night - when captor became willing captive, and prisoner became glorious accomplice...when he was all she desired. Once he'd owned Honoria body and soul, but his need for her was so great that he abandoned a lifetime of dreams for the chance to share with her the delights of desire. Now, restored to his rightful place as heir to an English title, James has returned to London to make amends and to marry his untouchable beauty - whether she wants him or not. Only Honoria is no longer his prisoner...and she had sworn to hate him forever. But some promises are made to be broken.
THE PRICE OF INNOCENCE 4/1999 ISBN: 0380804182 Victorian. Years ago, a handsome stranger rescued Sherrie Hamilton from a harem and enticed her into becoming his lover before returning her safely home. Now Sherrie is a respectable young widow and mother, chaperoning her young charges through fashionable London society-- until she comes face to face with her erotic dream. For there, across a crowded ballroom, stands the one man who touched the very core of her sensuality, stirring old memories, and a new unbidden desire. Jack PenMartyn, Earl of PenMartyn, seeks to put his past behind him, yet he's obsessed by the one woman whose pure innocence he stole; the woman who is the mother of the child he never knew he had. He knows that with one false word, Sherrie will expose the secrets of his past. But does he dare to hope that she will give in to the temptation of their reckless passion for a future together?
TOO WICKED TO MARRY 1/2002 ISBN: 0380816520 Regency. Deceptions of the Heart...A devilishly handsome, wickedly insatiable lover, Lord Martin Kestrel can have any woman he desires. Yet "Abigail Perry," his longtime confidante, is the only woman he would ever deign to marry. But the lady's life is a lie. The prim enchantress who would tempt him with respectability is no "Abigail" at all, but Harriet MacLeod -- brazen deceiver...and a spy. So now, as punishment for toying with Kestrel's heart, she must pay with her innocence. Harriet's sole intention was to serve her Queen, not to fall in love. And new she must use the man once again to succeed in her covert endeavors. Martin's eagerness to allow her to pose as his mistress at an important gathering, however, gives Harriet pause -- even as it heats her passion to boiling. But when the masquerade turns all too deliciously real, will she and Martin be strong enough to handle the consequences?
Melynda Beth Skinner
MISS GRANTHAM'S ONE TRUE SIN 2/2002 ISBN: 0821771825 Regency. Marianna Grantham's status-hungry parents are bent on buying their way into Polite Society through their daughter's marriage to a peer--any peer. Marianna is ready to despair until she hears of Truesdale Sinclair, the Viscount Trowbridge. The last in a long line of aristocratic rakes and scoundrels, "Sin" is handsome, devil-may-care, and far up the River Tick. Surely, Marianna reasons, a sham engagement will keep her parents at bay long enough for her to meet her true love....Unknown to the ton, True Sin is a rake reformed. A family tragedy has left him both the guardian of his orphaned nieces and badly in need of money. Under ordinary circumstances, he would spurn Marianna Grantham's outrageous proposal, but he's desperate. When their charade throws them intimately together, True learns that Miss Grantham is not at all the social climber he took her for--and that beneath her prim and proper exterior is a passionate heart he longs to claim for his own.
Christina Skye
BRIDE OF THE MIST 5/1996 ISBN: 0380782782. Medieval. In a savage age of chivalry, a war-weary knight defends a mysterious lady from danger and swears himself her champion - for all time...Centuries later, a startling psychic vision draws a gifted bridal writer to a rugged castle veiled in Highland mist - and to its enigmatic laird, Duncan MacKinnon. From the moment they meet, Kara Fitzgerald can sense they share an ancient, secret destiny... On a stormy Scottish shore... They are swept up in breathtaking passion - even as a ghostly guardian warns of coming danger. For a callous enemy stalks the crags of Dunraver Castle - a timeless menace the cynical Scotsman and beautiful American must confront together...armed only with the power of their eternal love.
BRIDGE OF DREAMS 5/1995 ISBN: 0380773864 Georgian. 1794: Rake and reckless hero, Gabriel Montserrat falls prey to blackest treachery--his death a mystery to be locked away forever in the deepest recesses of Draycott Abbey.1994: American-born beauty Cathlin O'Neill finds herself named in a strange bequest. But to claim her legendary treasure, she must spend seven days--and nights--in the hauntingly beautiful British Abbey where her mother was murdered years before. Her co-inheritor is Dominic Montserrat--arrogant ex-royal bodyguard and confirmed cynic--who must now protect Cathlin...and help heal the secret pain of her wounded heart. For grave danger prowls the abbey's ghostly halls--where Cathlin and Dominic must confront the dark shadows of a mysterious past... in the sacred cause of a love too long unfulfilled and a passion too long denied.
COME THE DAWN 9/1995 ISBN:0440216478 Regency. India, where the beautiful and headstrong sister of Come The Night's hero Luc Delamere, who falls in love with the rakish Devlyn Carlisle. They meet briefly and innocently as children, and again ten years later when, as adults, they fall deeply into a passionate affair. The Napoleonic Wars soon tear Devlyn away, but not before the two are joined in a secret wedding bond. When Devlyn is betrayed by a comrade in arms and presumed dead, India swears to continue her life alone, without the love that she prized above all else. Until one night a stranger with a familiar smile appears in a crowded ballroom, and India is plunged into a mystery to discover who betrayed Devlyn and to find a way to love again.
DEFIANT CAPTIVE 6/1990 ISBN:044020626X Regency. Captive…To a handsome Lord whose silver-flecked eyes glittered with anger as he snatched Alexandra from the London streets. Her fiery loveliness had ignited a case of mistaken identity but now there was no mistaking Hawkeworth’s naked passion. Captive…To her own heart when his teasing kisses unleashed a woman’s ecstasy she didn’t understand, but craved with a wanton’s desire… Captive…To the past which haunted them both, making her a pawn in a treacherous game that could crush her sweet dreams of midnight passion and wild, reckless love.
EAST OF FOREVER 8/1993 ISBN:0440208653 Regency. Like a cat, a beauty prowls London's night-dark roofs, stealing into the boudoirs of the rich and powerful in search of an ancient jewel-encrusted pillow book, an erotic treasure, to barter for her captive father. But neither her martial arts nor armored heart can protect violet-eyed Chessy Cameron from the man she tried to forget so long ago.
HOUR OF THE ROSE 4/1994 ISBN: 0380773856. Medieval. Secrets gather in the shadows of Britain's Draycott Abbey -- intrigues of evil, unscrupulous men... and the astonishing mysteries of a star-crossed romance from centuries past. Dashing ex-Royal Marine Michael Burke has come to Draycott to unmask a treacherous conspiracy. Kelly Hamilton, a beautiful archeologist gifted with second sight, is searching for a priceless historical relic. But soon both are caught up in the magic of the moon-drenched abbey -- unexpectedly united in desire and sensuous need... as they are drawn deeper and deeper into a dangerous web of deceit and betrayal. For only Michael and Kelly hold the key to the future and the past. And only their bold new passion can lay the abbey's ghosts to rest... by fulfilling the ancient promise of a rapturous love reborn.
THE RUBY 8/1992 ISBN:0440208645 Victorian. Teal-eyed enchantress Barrett Winslow fled through the gaslit London streets, staked by a ruthless enemy in search of a secret she can never reveal. And when fate tosses her into the arms of an exotic stranger, she finds herself swept away to a brazen, steamy paradise that hides deadly secrets and forbidden passions. Fierce protector or dark betrayer? To London's rich and powerful he is Deveril Pagan, Viscount St. Cyr, envied by all men and desired by all women. But in the mist-covered emerald hills of Ceylon, he is called the Tiger Sahib, and for him the priceless, fabled ruby is only a curse, its blood red facets pulsing with savage power that drive men to unquenchable greed and women to unspeakable desire. Lovers bound by dark destiny. From the glittering corridors of London's elite to the wind-swept shores of colonial Ceylon, they tried to flee their fierce fate, which throbbed in the crimson heart of the legendary jewel...driving the lovers to stolen passion and unthinkable evil in the sultry, tropical night. For there, only one man stands between Barrett and the darkness . . . and he might just be the greatest threat of all .
Bertrice Small
ALL THE SWEET TOMORROWS 4/1984 Renaissance. The adventures continue with the raven-haired, emerald-eyed Skye O'Malley. This time, she is a pawn in the bitter war between England's Queen Elizabeth, and Mary, Queen of Scots. Once again, unprotected and alone, she must fight for her children. At the command of Queen Elizabeth, Skye marries the cruel Duc de Beaumont de Jaspre. Although her new life is horrid at first, Skye transforms it with her hot-blooded desires--only to be shaken with the news that her beloved former husband may be alive in Algiers. Her daring flight into eroticism and danger leads her ultimately to her heart's true destiny--as bold and sensual as Skye herself. She is a woman born to be loved by men, yet too proud and incomparable to answer to anything but the call of her own passionate soul.
BLAZE WYNDHAM 5/1988 ISBN: 0451401603. Medieval. Blaze's tumultuous tale opens in 1521 England with Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon on the throne. When 15-year-old Blaze marries the Earl of Langford, she eases the concern her father, Lord Robert Morgan, must feel about securing dowries for his eight daughters. When the earl dies suddenly, Blaze visits her sister in London, where she attracts the king's notice and becomes his unwilling mistress. When Henry succumbs to Anne Boleyn's charms, he marries off Blaze to her first husband's nephew, Tony, with whom she falls in love almost against her will.
DARLING JASMINE 9/1997 ISBN: 0821759191. Renaissance. Jasmine had been forced into marriage twice. Rebelling at King James' decree that she wed Jemmie Leslie, fifth earl of Glenkirk, she fled to France with her children. But her youngest, the illegitimate offspring of Jasmine's hot-blooded lover, Prince Henry Stuart, is the king's only grandson. Now time is running out on Jasmine's idyll of freedom; coming for her and her little boy is the man she both fears and desires... His anger white-hot, Jemmie Leslie has come to France to possess Jasmine, by force if necessary. Once, they shared a night of unforgettable passion, but her rejection of their betrothal stunned and maddened him. Yet once he sees her gain, Jemmie vows to win the elusive Jasmine back-to take her beyond ecstasy...
DECEIVED 5/1998 ISBN: 1575662639 Georgian. When Valerian Hawkesworth, Duke of Farminster, insists on claiming the heiress promised to him in a marriage contract, all Aurora Kimberly holds dear is threatened. The free-spirited beauty has no intention of letting some pompous duke wisk her away. But will the duke learn that he has been deceived? Only a twist of fate chould change the heart of a man scorned...
THE INNOCENT 4/1999 ISBN: 0449001806. Medieval. Deceptively fragile-looking, Eleanore of Ashlin had promised her life to God . . . until fate intervened. With her brother's untimely death, Eleanore--known as Elf to those who love her--becomes the heiress of an estate vital to England's defenses. She is ordered by royal command to wed one of the king's knights rather than take her final vows. With resistant heart, but ever obedient to King Stephen's will, she complies. Ranulf de Glandeville is all too aware that his innocent bride wants no man; yet his patience, gentle hand, and growing love for his spirited young wife soon awaken Eleanore to passions she never knew, or desired . . . until now. But their love is not secure from the wicked schemes of an evil woman who hates Eleanore with all her black heart--and she will seek to destroy the innocent in a depraved plot that will put Eleanore's life in jeopardy and her faith in love to its greatest test.
MASTERING LADY LUCINDA short story in FASCINATED 10/2000 ISBN:0739412310
ROSAMUND 10/2002 ISBN: 0451206371 Medieval. Rosamund Bolton is the heiress to the manor of Friarsgate on the wild Cumbrian border between England and Scotland. More than a splendid inheritance, Friarsgate will chart the fate of the orphaned beauty widowed at a precious young age. It will take her from the treacherous custody of a devious uncle, sweeping her into the magnificent court of Elizabeth of York, into the confidence of Katherine of Aragon, and past the intimate chamber doors of a young, handsome Henry VIII. It's an adventure that will test the limits of passion and betrayal, change the meaning of the word enemy, and turn even the most daring fantasy into true love...
SKYE O'MALLEY 10/1980 ISBN: 0345323645. Renaissance. There has never been a woman like luscious, raven-haired, hot-tempered Skye O'Malley. She is the courageous seafaring captain of her own mighty fleet, and intelligent enough to win a battle of wits with Queen Elizabeth herself. Follow along as Skye O'Malley is swept up in a journey filled with romance and passion that takes her from glittering Ireland, to lush Algeria, to the heart of London in pursuit of a unique and eternal love.
THE DUCHESS 7/01 ISBN: 0345434358 Georgian. As the daughter of the richest man in England, Allegra Morgan attracts a number of fortune hunters willing to overlook her flawed pedigree to gain her enormous wealth. Her most ardent suitor is the arrogant but impoverished Quinton Hunter, duke of Sedgwick, who has little to offer a prospective wife except his grand title. Allegra decides that if she must marry, she might as well be a duchess. So she agrees to the match with one condition: her husband must never ask for her love. She has seen the misery love can cause and has vowed to give her heart to no man - especially a dangerously alluring duke. Quinton is dazzled by his new wife's grace and fortitude, as well as the fierce desire that rages between them. Despite his best intentions, he finds himself falling in love with her. Then the terrors of the French Revolution hit close to home, and the two of them set off on a treacherous adventure that could cost them everything... including their final chance at happiness.
THE SPITFIRE 9/1990 ISBN: 0345375653. Medieval. The year is 1483. Just as beautiful Lady Arabella Grey, the young cousin of England's King Richard III, speaks her wedding vows to Sir Jasper Keane, the Scotsman Tavis Stewart, Earl of Dunmore, abducts Arabella as payment for Jasper's murder of his fiancee. Irresistibly, deliciously, Arabella surrenders to her enemy with fierce abandon--knowing that there may be only one way to get what is rightfully hers.
THIS HEART OF MINE 1985 ISBN: 034535673X. Renaissance. Velvet de Marisco proves herself every inch Skye O'Malley's daughter. Be it Alexander Gordon from the Scottish Highlands or the Grand Mughal of India, each man must win her heart before they can claim the sensual joys of her passionate and erotic desires.
UNCONQUERED 1/1982 ISBN: 0345287126 Regency and War of 1812. Miranda. Strong-willed. Impetuous, Brilliant. Beautiful. Unconquered when she's forced to marry a stranger to keep her home - even though it's clear he's the only man for her... Unconquered when a savage Crimean slave breeder sees her golden beauty as the perfect match for his prize stud... Unconquered even by a terrifying capture and grueling trek to a tender reawakening of her bruised and battered body and soul... Unconquered because the woman in her wants only one man...
WILD JASMINE 8/1992 ISBN: 0345401344. Renaissance. From the palaces of pashas in seventeenth-century India to the scandalous court of James Stuart of England, one woman struggles against fate to find true love.... Princess Yasaman had been blessed with rapturous beauty, fierce intelligence, and an innocent sensuality that captivates two formidable men--her scheming half brother, Salim, and her loving husband, Prince Jamal. But her days of bliss and nights of steamy passion are shattered when Jamal is murdered and Yasaman flees to England and the court of James I. Calling herself Jasmine, she is reunited with her beautiful mother, Velvet, and her grandmother, the legendary Skye O'Malley de Marisco. Before long, Jasmine is caught up in the tangled intrigues of the court of the Stuart king, James I, where she is admired by the most powerful men in England: Rowan Lindley, Marquess of Westleigh, her good-natured second husband; the Earl of Glenkirk, who tempts her with forbidden passion; and hot-blooded Henry Stuart, prince of England. It is here that she truly becomes Wild Jasmine, a woman who lives and loves with fierce abandon and who surrenders to the deepest pleasures of love.
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