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Last Updated: 10/10/2005
Michele Jaffe
LADY KILLER 4/2002 ISBN: 0345447085 Three years ago Miles Loredan believed he had killed the bloodthirsty fiend known as the Vampire of London. When a beautiful sleuth named Clio Thornton stumbles upon what can only be the Vampire's latest victim, Miles is drawn into a terrifying race against the clock. Captivated at once by intelligent, lovely Clio, his first impulse is to protect her. And every clue points to the Vampire's next victim: Clio herself.
SECRET ADMIRER 5/2002 ISBN: 0345447107 He wanted to be her dream man... Lady Tuesday Arlington seeks refuge from the horrible nightmares that invade her sleep by doing what she does best--she paints them. But when her husband is found dead in a setting identical to one she has painted, she becomes the prime suspect in his murder. Lawrence Pickering, special investigator to Her Majesty the Queen, takes over the inquiry and cannot help but fall for the beautiful and talented Tuesday. But a cruelly sinister presence waits in the shadows to turn their picture perfect love into a masterpiece of murder.
THE STARGAZER 8/1999 ISBN: 0671027409 Bianca Salva is the brilliant and beautiful daughter of a renowned physician. Ian Foscari is a handsome aristocrat notorious for his romantic conquests. Worlds apart in the circles of society, they have been brought together by an extraordinary intrigue: each has been mysteriously summoned to the home of a murdered courtesan. And each has reason to suspect the other of the deadly crime. For each, proving their innocence will depend on the other -- and Ian concocts a seamless ruse to ensure that Bianca can't leave his sight. Together, they step carefully around secrets of murder and betrayal. But out of their masquerade grows a heated battle of wits. A tenuous trust. And an undeniable passion....
THE WATER NYMPH 6/2000 ISBN: 0671027425 When Sophie Champion crosses paths with the imperiously dashing Crispin Fascari, the notorious "Earl of Scandal," her circumstances are awkward -- and precarious. Disguised as a man, and seeking clues in the suspicious death of a loved one, smart, beautiful Sophie arrives at the scene of a murder -- only to fall into a tangled web designed to implicate her. Now, her salvation lies with Crispin -- and he has a mysterious agenda of his own. Locked in a battle of mutual distrust and magnetic attraction, Sophie and Crispin strike a boldly seductive bargain that binds them together in their search for answers among London's darkest streets -- where love is a secret killer, waiting to strike again.
Iris Johansen
THE MAGNIFICENT ROGUE 9/1993 ISBN: 0553299441 When Princess Kathryn Kentyre is snatched from a life of captivity by the mysterious Black Robert of Craighduhu, she is torn between absolute terror and soaring hope. He had been chosen to protect her from the dangers surrounding her, yet the moment he swept her away she knew this rogue of a Scottish laird would prove a greater threat than any she faced from her enemies. Sensuous as sin itself and wild as his native Scottish Highlands, Robert MacDarren had no intention of settling down with one woman. Yet the agreement he'd struck to keep the peace required he marry the orphaned beauty and bring her back to his castle at Craighdhu for safekeeping. It was to be a marriage in name only - and only for one year. He never suspected that the meek hostage he had been promised would prove to be this firebrand of a woman who would challenge his mind, arouse his passion, and lay siege to his heart.
Deborah Johns
THE LION OF VENICE 4/2001 ISBN: 0821770845 Pledged to protect Venice from its mighty enemies, warrior lord Oliver Ducci Montaldo could not ignore a request to aid France in the Holy War against the Sultan Bayezid. That the messenger who carried the plea was none other than Lady Julian Madrigal, the child who had engineered his escape from the sultan six years before, was even more disquieting. For Julian was now an alluring woman who demanded that Oliver honor his promise to her. The daughter of a woman rumored to be a powerful witch, Julian's own gifts as a healer were frightening to her, but no more frightening than the passionate bond she shared with Oliver - a bond doomed by her own secrets and Oliver's betrothal to a wealthy Venetian widow. Yet as the city rallied toward Crusade, and Oliver prepared his fleet for the voyage to Nicopolis, Julian made a desperate decision that would forever alter the passionate destiny she and Oliver shared.
TUSCANY 11/1999 ISBN: 0821763822 It had been five years since Guy d'Harnoncourt abandoned Contessa Francesca Ducci Montaldo for another. But nothing could dim Francesca's passion for Guy, or her hatred for his brother Belden, whom she blamed for ending their betrothal when her family fortunes declined. When Belden d'Harnoncourt rode to Belvedere Castle bearing a wounded Guy, Francesca vowed to heal her faithless lover - and seek vengeance on the brother who tore him from her arms. Belden, Sire of Harnoncourt, was hired by Tuscan nobles to protect them from french invaders. But no enemy posed greater danger than the beguiling Contessa whose legendary healing was his brother's only hope. Even as Francesca sheltered them from marauders, Belden knew his most perilous battle lay ahead - a battle for intimate possession of the ravishing beauty who held his heart in her hands...
Susan Johnson
OUTLAW 11/1993 ISBN: 0553299557 She should have been afraid, for he towered over her, holding her captive with eyes that smoldered with barely leashed passion, but what Elizabeth Graham felt instead was an answering fire. He was her enemy, the infamous Laird of Ravensby, a bold privateer who'd abducted her to win his brother's freedom from an English dungeon. Yet even though tomorrow they'd be adversaries once more, tonight she could not deny herself the pleasure of his touch....The lady was his prisoner, completely at his mercy, yet when the feisty angel whose hair glittered with moonlight stood proudly before him and insisted he spend the night, Johnnie Carre was shocked to feel a restless, aching need to possess her, to taste her secrets and make her his forever. But keeping her with him would force a battle with treacherous foes--men who'd vowed to tear his beloved from his arms and send him to the gallows....
TO PLEASE A LADY 11/1999 ISBN: 0553578669 Roxane Forrestor was determined to live life on her own terms--even in a man's world. The beautiful Countess of Kilmarnock had so far survived the political and romantic intrigues of Scotland's most powerful suitors. So why couldn't she resist the brash Robbie Carre? Why did she find it impossible to throw the rebel earl out of her bedchamber even though it meant harboring a wanted man? Robbie cared nothing for his own safety. But he knew all too well that his ruthless enemies, desperate to capture him, would use Roxie and her children as pawns. He would brave the odds to protect them, would fight for his fugitive love with Roxie...even if their stolen moments of pleasure cost him his life.
Linda O. Johnston
ONCE A CAVALIER 6/2000 ISBN: 0515128473 Dr. Larryn Maeller, in London for a medical conference, is staying at Seldrake House--and ancestral mansion that once belonged to the duke of Seldrake. A portrait featuring the duke and his dog--a Cavalier King Charles spaniel--hangs in the house, and Larryn finds herself oddly drawn to it. Awakened one night by a dog's bark, she follows the sound to the roof--where she finds the spirit of the duke fading into the mist...The Year of Our Lord, 1666. Larryn steps out of the fog to find Thomas Northby, the duke of Seldrake--but now his body is as solid as the ground beneath her feet. Somehow she's been transported back to a dangerous time when the dreaded Great Plague was a reality. The duke, a medical doctor himself, has secretly opened his home to children threatened by the disease. Her first responsibility is to the little ones. But Larryn cannot help but be drawn to the mysterious duke--whose hear harbors a tragedy only love can heal...
Jill Jones
THE SCOTTISH ROSE 2/1997 ISBN: 0312960999 It began with a letter...that leads to a passion and adventure beyond her dreams... "I have taken measures to hide Mary's rose chalice...I fear that all in the castle may die for hiding it, but it is our duty to protect this sacred emblem of Scotland." --Letter written in 1651 Taylor Kincaid hosts a top-rated television series that debunks everything supernatural. So when she finds herself on the Scottish coast-- to claim an out-of-the-blue inheritance and ancient letters telling of royal gold-- she's prepared to explode the local legend: an archway made of stone through which young women disappear. Until a stormy sea sweeps her through the Ladysgate-- and with her, handsome, rugged sea captain Duncan Fraser. Beyond it lies the Scotland of 1651. It is the land of Taylor's heirloom letters and Mary Queen of Scots' fabled jeweled chalice, The Scottish Rose, emblem of peace. Together Taylor and Duncan must search for it amid the passions and perils of history...or, in a desperate bid to recross the centuries, risk losing each other and the love they've found beyond the gates of time.
Linda Jones
ON A WICKED WIND 3/1998 ISBN: 0505522519 On a wicked wind and from the stormy sea foam his beautiful siren appeared, a fiery Aphrodite that pirate captain Antonio Rafael de Zamora desired more than gold or rubies. And something stirred within him, for this enigmatic beauty was more than a buccaneer's booty. Hurled into the Caribbean and swept back in time, Sabrina Steele finds herself abruptly aroused in the arms of pirate captain Antonio Rafael de Zamora. There, on his tropical island, Rafael teaches her to rest the waves of passion and sail the seas of ecstasy. But the handsome rogue has a tortured past, and in order to consummate a love that has called her through time, the headstrong beauty seeks to uncover the pirate's true buried treasure - his heart.
Brenda Joyce
THE GAME 3/1995 ISBN: 0380775735 Released from the sanctuary of a French convent, highborn, temptuous Katherine FitzGerald sets sail for her beloved Ireland- only to find herself prisoner of the infamous pirate known to the Elizabethans as the Master of the Seas. The pirate captain is Liam O'Neill, favored by Elizabeth the Queen. A hardened court player, he is determined to win the willful Katherine while advancing his own secret causes. But now he must risk everything he cherishes in order to triumph at a very treacherous game- through heartbreaking deception... and by breaking all the rules.
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