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HEARTBEAT 9/1997 ISBN: 0380782413 Dedicated Texas Ranger Jack Kittrick is hard on the trail of a killer who is preying on the helpless in a large San Antonio hospital--a hunt that leads him to Maggie Wainwright, the beautiful, enigmatic legal eagle who had access to the victims...and a motive for the crimes. The more Jack learns about Ms. Wainwright, the more this secretive lady--who makes his spurs tangle and his heart run wild--enthralls and perplexes him.
I PROMISE 6/1996 ISBN: 0380782405 Called home from New York to Texas by her mother's heart attack, "hanging judge" Delia Carson is forced to confront a sordid past she has tried to put behind her--and ends up rediscovering the love she thought she had lost for good.
ALIAS MOMMY 11/2000 ISBN: 037322592X Rugged doctor Reeve Snyder had saved her and delivered her baby girl. He was her hero - the kind of man she would have liked to have as a friend...a lover...a father for her baby. If only... Polly Black had been running from something - someone - when the accident had landed her in Reeve's care. He didn't want her gratitude; he wanted the truth, and he wanted her - for the three of them to be a family. Somehow he had to convince Polly that the only place worth running to...was straight into his arms.
GUARDIAN OF HER HEART 2/2004 ISBN: 0373227574 He'd been assigned to shadow Dianna Englander's every move and keep the young widow safe from the murderer who killed her politician husband. Piece of cake if veteran copy Travis Bronson could convince the stubborn businesswoman to follow his orders. The scarred officer knew the price of carelessness and would do whatever it took to keep his beautiful charge alive--even if it meant spending days and nights together. But they were in more danger than either of them suspected, not just from unknown enemies intent on keeping Dianna quiet for good, but from a passion that knew no bounds...
LAWFUL ENGAGEMENT 7/2004 ISBN: 0373227868 Fledgling reporter Cara Hamilton had just landed the story of her life. But it was the aggravating - yet oh-so-appealing - Deputy Mitch Steele trailing her every step of the way, insisting they share information, that had her heart racing. Mitch swore all he wanted was to keep her safe. Or so he tried to tell her. It was Mitch's job to protect the feisty journalist. After all, a killer was loose and Cara had stumbled upon the most recent victim. Mitch would let nothing, and no one, harm beautiful Cara. Even if ensuring her safety meant spending night and day holding her in his arms...
MARRIAGE: CLASSIFIED 7/2001 ISBN: 0373226241 To love, honor....and catch a killer. Their marriage had been a set-up, their wedded bliss an act...but the feelings Detective Jordan Dawes had for his new bride, Sara, were never part of the plan. Now, thanks to the work of an elusive serial killer, Jordan was coping with an in-name-only wife who couldn't remember her own name and the unpleasant task of telling Sara her father was dead. Not the best way to start off a supposed lifetime of happiness. But was Sara's amnesia for real or just a ploy to keep the killer at bay? Either way, could Jordan keep the danger from infiltrating Sara's hazy world...and from destroying their chances at a real happily-ever-after?
NOT A MOMENT TOO SOON 11/2004 ISBN 0373274017 As a private investigator, jaded Hunter Strahm thought he'd seen every kind of cruelty. But someone had kidnapped his precious daughter, and Hunter would move heaven and earth to bring her home safely — even if that meant inviting beautiful, bewitching Shauna O'Leary back into his life. Shauna had never forgiven Hunter for dismissing her psychic ability to channel a killer's mind — and leaving her with a broken heart. But now she was the desperate father's only hope to track down his baby girl. Could she finally prove she'd been right all along — not only that she had the gift, but also that their love was just as real?
OPERATION: REUNITED 3/2002 ISBN: 0373226551 Alexa Kenner knew it was wishful thinking to believe John O'Rourke, the kind, curious stranger staying at her inn, was really Cole Rappaport, the Special Forces agent she'd loved and lost two years ago. Since then Alexa had been caught in a deadly game with a man who'd stop at nothing to get what he wanted. And with forces conspiring against her, Alexa had become a prisoner in her own home.... For when the handsome stranger took her into his arms he assured her with a touch she remembered, a kiss she could never forget that Cole Rappaport was very much alive. For now, at least.
SPECIAL AGENT NANNY 9/2003 ISBN: 0373227256 The Agent: Shawn Jameson. His Motto: 'Where there's smoke, there's fire.' Vital Stats: 5'11'; cool blue eyes; white-hot smile. The Assignment: Undercover nanny. The Complication: Dr. Kelley Stanton. Tough-guy agent Shawn Jameson work in a hospital day care? If it would help him to catch an arsonist, he'd give it a shot. Rumors hinted that Dr. Kelley Stanton had torched hospital records to cover up a mistake. But the beautiful doc didn't fit the profile - and Shawn's protective instincts went on red alert. With her reputation in shreds and her daughter in danger, Kelley couldn't afford to notice the handsome day-care worker. Trusting the sexy stranger could be her downfall - but with their first explosive kiss, Kelley knew it would be worth going down in flames...
TOMMY'S MOM 11/2002 ISBN: 0373226888 Newly hired police chief Gabe McLaren had landed one of the biggest cases of his life...and his only hope of solving it was a child witness who refused to say a word. Four-year-old Tommy had seen something the day his daddy was killed, and Gabe would not rest until the officer's murderer was brought to justice. Soon, though, spending time with the boy and his beautiful mother, Holly Poston, made Gabe long for the family he never really had. And holding the gentle widow in his arms night after night felt so...right. But Gabe knew a killer still stalked, threatening the little family's wish for happier times...and Gabe's hopes for a future as husband and father.
ALONG A DARK PATH 1968 'When I was a little girl...' Something happened to Susan Sayre as a child, something that destroyed any memory of her first seven years. Now returning to the old Tate mansion where she grew up, the lovely young woman was met by silent servants who clearly hated her, evasive relatives who looked at her with a mysterious mixture of fear and contempt, a doctor who doubted her sanity, and a handsome young man who offered to help her in her desperate quest, if only she put herself completely in his power. Susan agreed to this strange bargain, and then there was no turning back, even when the terrified girl realized she was being helplessly led down a dark path of danger by a man who could destroy her body and mind.
DEVERON HALL 1976 Lisa Marsden had come uninvited to Deveron Hall, her mother's ancestral home in the Scottish Highlands and the scene long ago of a nightmarish tragedy. Lisa had been a small child then, left in the care of her grandparents in California while her father, Hollywood director Clive Marsden, and her movie-star mother Marcia Deveron made a film in London. To celebrate its completion, they gave a house party for the cast at Deveron Hall, a party that came to an appalling end when one of the guests discovered Clive stabbed to death.
THE ETRUSCAN SMILE 1977 The Etruscan underworld goddess held the symbol of life in one hand and the sacrificial knife in the other. To Samantha Develin, the ancient figure seemed sinister, and not just because of its chill, enigmatic smile. She suspected the recently discovered statue was connected in some way with her sister's disappearance two months ago. It was in search of her beautiful artist sister that Samantha had come to Italy. Taking up residence in the centuries-old farmhouse that Althea had been renting, she found that the neighbors -- including an attractive young English archeologist -- seemed quite anxious for her to leave ...
THE FACE IN THE SHADOWS 1972 Ellen Stacey was a pretty, talented, out-of-work young actress, facing a long, hot New York summer. She welcomed the offer to take care of 11-year-old Cecily Vandering at the family's seaside estate. But soon it became clear this was no ordinary job. Someone was trying to corrupt Cecily with drugs, someone whom the little girl refused to reveal, someone who would let no one stand in the way...
FATAL AFFAIR 1986 The inheritance of a condominium in New York, along with a considerable amount of money, brings Betty and Jenny Carr from the small town of Carrsville, Missouri, to the glamorous big city. Betty, the younger of the two sisters, has dreams of becoming a famous dancer. Their sole contact in New York is their unsavory cousin, Colin. Soon Betty takes up with Colin's equally dubious friend, the sleekly sophisticated, middle-aged Antonio Braselmo, Jenny knows little of Betty's affair with Antonio, nor that after months of rejection and disappointment in the theater, Betty has gambled her half of the inheritance on a show that folds after only one performance.
THE FATEFUL SUMMER 1981 Looking back over her long life to the summer of 1910, plain, sensible Emma Hoffsteader writes of her beautiful girlhood friend Amanda Dorrance and of an act of violence that changed many lives. Amanda turned nineteen that June. Like all her summers since John and Clara Dorrance had adopted her as an infant, this one began with the Dorrances moving from their mansion in New York to their twenty-room cottage in East Hampton. What made the summer different was that Amanda soon fell in love with Michael Doyle, the son of an Irish immigrant who operated bars in a number of New York hotels.
FLIGHT TO YESTERDAY 1991 ISBN: 0373260881 Sara Hargreaves spent four years in prison for a crime of passion she didn't commit. Now she's escaped, desperate to see her dying mother and to clear her name. With her photo appearing nightly on the local news, Sara disguises herself and accepting the help of a young law student she is forced to trust, she returns to the scene of the crime. The fashionable sanatorium where handsome plastic surgeon Dr. Manuelo Covarrubias was fatally stabbed - looks much the same. But as Sara begins her flight to yesterday, the secrets surrounding the callous playboy doctor who jilted her unfold. Secrets that once drove someone to murder...secrets that could force someone to kill again.
THE FRENCHMAN 1976 In the ordinary course of events, Joan Creighton and Paul Lescaut would never have met. It was Joan's elderly cousin Muffy, the President's widow, who brought the american girl and the Frenchman together. Muffy, the gentlest and most self-effacing of ex-First Ladies, invited her young relative to go abroad with her. Lescaut, a highly recommended courier, would meet them in Paris. Hoping that distance would help her forget an unhappy love affair, Joan flew the Atlantic, along with her kinswoman and Dan Manchester, the Secret Service man assigned to guard the ex-First Lady. From the first, Joan felt strangely drawn to the taciturn French courier, and she could tell that Paul, beneath his coldly polite air, was equally aware of her. What she did not know was that for years he had been in the pay of a group of ruthless men - men who now ordered him to deliver the President's widow into their hands.
THE GIRL ON THE BEACH 1987 Kate Killigrew had left New York City, her advertising job, and her ex-fiance to come to the small island off the North Carolina coast. Her first night in the old house she has rented, she looks out of her bedroom window and sees a girl, clad in what might be a summery caftan, gazing at the house in the chill moonlight. The next day a man appears on that same stretch of beach. His name, he says, is Martin Donnerly, and he and his wife once lived in the old house. Strongly attracted to him, Kate wonders if he is still married and, if not, what has become of his wife. The islanders are eager to tell Kate how Martin had killed Donna Sue, his lovely, promiscuous wife, with a blast from his double-barreled shotgun.
HOUSE ABOVE HOLLYWOOD 1968 A girls goes to Hollywood to find if her alcoholic father killed himself or was murdered.
THE HOUSE ON THE LEFT BANK 1975
THE LATE MRS FONSELL 1972 Irene grew up in fear of the Fonsell mansion. For years the young heiress heard the villagers talk of dark deeds performed behind its locked doors, of the violent, lustful man who was its master, and of his young wife slain within its walled garden. Now Irene entered the old house for the first time - not as a guest, but as its new mistress. Forced to make a devil's bargain, the unwilling bride of a man she hated, Irene walked trembling into danger...
THE LIGHT IN THE SWAMP 1971 ISBN: 044004850 The Trap... Beautiful young Catherine Morrel came to the old Long Island mansion seeking refuge from the tragedy that had shattered her life. But this promise of safety soon proved a treacherous illusion. From the moment Catherine saw the startled look on the face of the handsome stranger she found prowling in the family graveyard, she knew something was amiss. She was chilled by the hatred of the relatives who reluctantly took her in... fearful of their giant, mentally retarded son... and horrified as the terrifying secrets this house of evil revealed themselves. A curse from the past was reaching out to make Catherine Morrell its victim - and she could trust no one, not even the stranger who said he loved her...
MASQUERADE IN VENICE 1973 Palace of Peril...Tragic family scandal drove young American Sara Randall over the seas to stay with her Italian great-aunt, the Countessa Belzonir. Here, in a decaying Venetian palace, Sara hoped to find a refuge safe from the pain of her past.
THE MOURNING TREES 1973
THE PEOPLE ON THE HILL 1971 Set in New York, one of seven commits a crime and the other six become accomplices through their silence.
A ROOM WITH DARK MIRRORS 1975 I have a gun in my pocket, the well-dressed stranger standing on a Paris sidewalk said. You are not to scream, mademoiselle. You are to get into that car between those two gentlemen in the back seat. Stricken dumb, Dorothy Wagner stared up at the handsome Frenchman through the hazy spring sunlight.
SHADOW BEHIND THE CURTAIN 2/1985 ISBN: 0396085377 A young woman is determined to prove her long-lost father innocent of the murder of an eight-year-old girl. As she plunges ahead to find the real killer, he is patiently waiting for her.
THE SILVER DOLPHIN 1980 ISBN: 0553139088 Star-crossed lovers on a bitter voyage to the heart of passion, vengeance...and murder! Fiona... Scorched by the shame of a villainous lie, she burns to avenge her broken heart...as other women yearn for love. Brian... Now her whole being aches to destroy him, though it might take her to the ends of the world. The Silver Dolphin... Bound for scented nights on exotic South Sea isles, the prized vessel is her weapon in this spirited saga of scandal, betrayal and desire in this historical romance filled with mystery.
THE STONE MAIDEN 1980 The advertisement, complete with box number, appeared in New York newspapers: Will anyone having information about an infant abandoned in Manhattan twenty-eight years ago please communicate. Katherine Derwith had placed the advertisement. In love with a very proper lawyer, she had refused to marry him until she solved the mystery of her parentage. Somehow she had to find the answers to questions that had haunted her for years; Who had left her, a young baby, in a shadowy corner of a Hudson River warehouse? Why had she been abandoned?
THE UNDERGROUND STREAM 1991 Unlike other summer resort towns in the Hamptons, the old whaling village of Hampton Harbor is still remarkably quaint. Small antique shops dot Main Street, a wooden-decked wharf area provides a picturesque view of the shimmering bay, and many weathered, shingled houses lie hidden in the woods beyond the village. And Hampton Harbor seems a perfect place for twenty-four-year-old Gail Loring to spend a month recovering from a shattering experience. She can't believe her good fortune when she finds not only a charming old house to rent but a charming young real estate agent to court her on romantic summer evenings. She feels completely at home in her new surroundings - but something about the house seems perhaps too familiar, as if, impossibly, she has been there before. She soon grows obsessed with the history of the house, prodding old locals, scouring town records, until she learns the horrifying story of the Monster of Monroe Street. Gail finds herself being pulled back along the stream of time. - to a world of floor-sweeping dresses and kitchen fireplaces and a woman named Martha who lives in deadly fear of her husband - only to realize that she must confront the past before she can go forward in the present.
VOICE IN THE NIGHT 1984 The ringing telephone brought Carla Baron awake in the early morning darkness. Confused and alarmed, she lifted the receiver to her ear. Her dead husband said, Come back to me, Carla, you and Melissa both. Everything will be different from now on, I swear it darling. He hung up... Rigid, still clutching the telephone, Carla thought back to the day four years earlier when she had fled with her little daughter from her Arizona hometown to New York. She had been trying to escape more than the memory of her husband's death by drowning in a mountain river. She had also been trying to flee the terrible thought that she might have saved him if she had acted promptly. Instead, perhaps because of his frequent ill-treatment of her, she had stood paralyzed on the river bank while he was swept toward a fatal plunge over the falls. But had he died? His body, like that of several others who had disappeared in the raging torrent, had never been recovered. Had her husband, Neil Baron, somehow managed to escape the river's grasp?
EMILY'S SECRET 9/1995 ISBN: 0312955766 'I should not write this lest Charlotte come snooping, for he made me promise not to tell anyone of his whereabouts. And yet it is all so strange I am loath not to record it. I will mark it now, and maybe tomorrow awaken to find it only a mad dream anyhow, like all the rest.' - From the diary of Emily Bronte. Alex Hightower, an American professor, has always been fascinated by Emily Bronte and her brief, tragic life. But what were the secrets she took with her to her grave? The answers begin in the village of Haworth, where Emily lived and died, as Alex delves into the past to unlock a hundred-and-fifty-year-old mystery. Was Emily a lonely spinster of legend? Or a troubled, passionate woman who loved in secret? And who is Selena, the mysterious gypsy beauty Alex meets on Haworth's storm-tossed moors, who speaks of a family curse, and who knows more than she realizes about Emily's secrets?
EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE 3/2002 ISBN: 0312980973 Newly divorced Regan McKinney couldn't have chosen a worse time to make a fresh start in San Francisco-the Bay Area is being terrorized by a cunning serial killer. Although chilled by the headlines, Megan is determined to get on with her life, landing a promising job and finding new confidence with a handsome, compassionate dance instructor. She'd vowed never to trust a man again. Now Regan finds herself swept away by a sweet, caring lover who seems too good to be true. What she doesn't know is that she's captivated someone other than the new man in her life. Someone who keeps himself carefully concealed in the last place anyone would ever think to look... One by one, women who look like Regan are turning up brutally murdered, their bodies found in the shallows of San Francisco Bay. Now someone is taunting Regan, making it clear that she will be his next victim...
THE ISLAND 7/1999 ISBN: 0312970730 A young English woman from an isolated island off the coast of Cornwall is killed, her body found in a London hotel, in what looks to be a murder/suicide. Is it an isolated incident--or one that hearkens to the dangerous secrets of the mysterious island? Jack Knight, an American private investigator, arrives on the island in search of the killer. And on his journey he meets Keely Cochrane, a sheltered and frightened young woman torn between two very different worlds. But a conspiracy that has existed for centuries threatens their every move--and someone is stalking them...watching them at every step...and waiting to stop them dead in their tracks.
MADIGAN'S WIFE 3/2001 ISBN: 0373271387 Ray Madigan. The sexy cop turned P.I. was tall and lean, with a smile that tripped hearts and shoulders tailor made for resting a head on. The kind of guy Grace could fall for--had fallen for--in a heartbeat. He was her ex-husband. Her friend. Nothing more. Until witnessing a brutal murder put her life on the line. Grace turned to Ray without question, sought shelter in his protective embrace... and wished she'd never left him. Was it just the ever-burning passion, the way he still called her his wife? Or was it something more? Could they truly be meant for each other?
HIDDEN INSTINCTS 11/2004 ISBN: 159414205X Lindsey Paxton was once the number one defense attorney in New York. She fought for those who were innocent, but charged. Her instincts were her lifeline, never failing her, as they guided her in her choices of who to defend. Or so she thought. Until she won a case she would forever wish to have lost. Her client, an accused rapist, kills and rapes a woman only a day after being set free. Destroyed by her role in the woman's death, Lindsey blames her father's controlling ways for what she has become, and runs from her career and life. Years later - the past becomes the present . . . Her father has cancer, and Lindsey is forced to leave her career with the Washington branch of the FBI. She finds herself facing the responsibility of running her father's law firm with the reluctant help of hotshot attorney Mark Reeves, a man who sparks her temper while also managing to tempt her heart. With his help she finds herself fighting the emotional battles of the past, tempted to trust both him and her instincts. Now, faced with a case inherited from her father so similar to her career-ending one, she now must decide if her instincts will lead her down the path to saving an innocent man or setting free another killer. But while she fights her own battles, someone watches, wanting from the past what he had failed to get the first time . . . Lindsey.
A DANGEROUS DANCE 8/2004 ISBN: 1594140987 Dorothy Merlinn wants two things: to find who hired the hit on her father, Magus Merlinn; and an ordinary life. If she's not careful and very clever, she won't live to get either one. And then she falls in love. His whole career, Remy Mistral has fought for reform in a state where corruption is an art form. Now is his chance to quit talking about reform and make his move to change the status quo, but two things stand in his way. One is a woman, the other a killer.
THE LAST ENEMY 2/1999 ISBN: 1582000735 Two men need her. One needs her dead. Betrayed by those who were supposed to protect her, romance author Dani Gwynne is plotting her own survival, working against time, terror and her fear of heights in the mile high city of Denver. Deputy U.S. Marshal Matthew Kirby is the lonesome lawman in charge of finding Dani. Hunting is what the Marshals do best and Matt is their top tracker, but even he hasn't been able to close the law and disorder gap with an elusive killer who's never missed his mark. Until now... Jonathan Hayes is a hit man with two obsessions: to kill Dani and to find Willow, his online lover. He doesn't know he can't have it both ways. With the clock ticking on their macabre game of hide and seek, find and near miss across city and cyberspace, Dani must face all her fears to defeat a killer who won't stop until he gets everything he wants. Or destroys them all trying...
TAKEN 7/2006 ISBN: 0778322939 No parent believes it can happen to them-their child taken from a suburban schoolyard in the gentle hours of dusk. But as widowed mother Kate Bickford discovers, everything can change in the blink of an eye. One minute her lanky, amazing, maddening Tommy is begging for ice cream. Then in a terrible instant, he's gone. Opening the door to her Connecticut home, hoping to find her son, Kate comes face-to-face with her son's abductor. He wants money. All she has. And if she doesn't follow something he calls The Method, the consequences will be gruesome. Her comfortable life collapses as precious seconds tick by, and Kate is horrified to uncover the terrible, world-shattering secret she and her son share with a killer who will stop at nothing.... RR@H's Novel Thoughts
TRAPPED 11/2007 ISBN: 0778324710 "Mom, I need your help. Please call—" That's it. The call cuts off in mid sentence. No static. Nothing. Just an overwhelming silence. Long Island single mom Jane Hartley is frantic when her sixteen-year-old daughter, Kelly, a survivor of childhood leukemia, disappears from her bedroom one night. To Jane's frustration, the police believe that Kelly ran off willingly with her boyfriend, Seth. Unaware that her daughter even had a boyfriend, Jane soon discovers that Seth is no boy. He is an adult—a man who, after meeting Kelly on MySpace.com, took the teenager on one thrill-seeking ride after another. From motorcycles to skydiving, Jane's little girl has been hiding some dangerous secrets. Like mother, like daughter. Adamant that Kelly is not a runaway but, rather, is being held against her will, Jane hires ex-FBI agent Randall Shane to follow the trail of her missing child. But every step brings them closer to a cold-blooded predator lurking in the shadows . . . coiled around Jane's shameful secret . . . waiting to strike. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
WET 8/2007 ISBN: 1599830140 In "Thicker Than Water", Become entangled in this passionate thriller that proves blood isn't always thicker than water. Tye and Wade are identical twin brothers who were inseparable as boys, teenagers and now men. No one ever thought that anything could come between them; And they were right. Not anything could come between them. It was anyone they should have been more careful of. Dinah is the woman of every man's dreams and the woman every other woman dreams of being. Dinah is Wade's best friend, but Tye has plans of his own for her. As the plot thickens, each character becomes a threat to the other, but somebody takes the threat too far. With everyone playing each other against one another, you'll never see the twisted ending coming. In "The Ghost Writer", although Rhain Garrett's daily nine to five pays for her necessities in life, her nightly devotion and knack for the written word is her passion. For extra money on the side and to feed her literary desires, Rhain takes other people's thoughts and translates them into sentimental keepsakes. What seemed like an uneventful life for Rhain all changed after a chance meeting with a man named Fred. Not only does she meet this man who brings out a sensual side of her that she didn't know existed, but she also gets the highest paying ghostwriting opportunity yet. Just as quickly as the sun rises on Rhain's dull life, it sets. That dream come true high paying ghostwriting gig turns out to be a nightmare that lands Rhain as the number one suspect in a murder case, which leads her to believe that Fred might not be who he says he is.
DEADLY LOVE 1/2001 ISBN: 0312977670 Welcome to the world of Francesca Cahill, crime-solver extraordinaire. Francesca is no ordinary heroine. She refuses to bow to convention, wears her heart on her sleeve, and is determined to right the ills and injustices of society. Deadly Love begins Francesca's mad escapades when the neighbors' little boy is kidnapped right out of his bed during a society ball. It is January 18, 1902. Francesca stumbles across the ransom note just as she meets New York City's newly appointed police commissioner, Rick Bragg. And Francesca can no more stay out of this investigation than she can stop herself from falling in love with the city's determined and powerful police commissioner. But little does she know that on this singular night, her life will change forever.
THE CHASE 3/2002 ISBN: 0312284497 Claire Hayden has no idea that her world is about to be shattered. At the conclusion of her husband's fortieth birthday party, he is found murdered, his throat cut with a weapon that hasn't been used since World War II. He has no enemies. He has committed no crimes. He has no shady past. Or that is what Claire thinks. Claire's search for information leads her to the mysterious Ian Marshall, a stranger who first appeared in her life on the night of her husband's death; a stranger who appears to be involved. Someone has been killing this way for decades. Someone whose crimes go back to World War II. Someone who will do anything to make certain no one finds out. And Ian Marshall proves himself to be a dangerous man: dangerous to Claire's mind, heart, and emotions. As Claire and Ian team up to track down the killer, Ian makes a shocking revelation: The killer may be someone close to Claire - and Claire may be next. The Chase
DEADLY AFFAIRS 4/2002 ISBN: 0312982623 As the heiress to a vast fortune amassed by her millionaire father, Francesca Cahill's life should be mapped out for her: find an eligible suitor, marry, and have children. But Francesca is an unconventional young lady who is not about to give up her knack for sleuthing--even though she was almost killed in her last outing... Murder strikes once again in the seamy underbelly of New York's high society, exposing scandalous secrets and unleashing an intense investigation into one of the most brutal crimes the city has ever known. Francesca must join forces with Rick Bragg, New York City's Police commissioner and the mans he cannot resist loving, as their search takes them through a twisted labyrinth of menacing lies, corruption, and a passion that refused to be denied...
DEADLY CARESS 4/2003 ISBN: 0312989431 The year is 1902. The place is New York City. A famous stage actress has been found strangled in an artist's studio, and the artist herself has vanished. Francesca Cahill, the city's most unconventional heiress and famous amateur sleuth, is once again on the case-for the murder victim is none other than her brother's mistress. And when the sole witness to the crime is also found strangled and only one clue is left behind-a silk stocking-it becomes evident that a madman is on the loose.Now more than ever, Francesca is determined to find The City Strangler and bring him to justice. But the trail is a twisted one, and she'll need the help of handsome, dynamic Police Commissioner, Rick Bragg-even though she must attempt to end their star-crossed romantic liaison. But now, she also finds herself fending off the advances of his notorious rival, his powerful half-brother, Calder Hart. Ruthlessly pursued by Hart, hopelessly enamored with Bragg, Francesca races against the clock before The City Strangler strikes again, never realizing the consequences that will come when danger and desire become one....
DEADLY DESIRE 5/2002 ISBN: 0312982631 The time is turn-of-the-century New York City. Society's elite hosts glittering balls inside sprawling mansions while outside, the teeming streets harbor secrets of their own. New York City's Police Commissioner Rick Bragg has been called upon to investigate a shocking crime. Reluctant to pull Francesca into a case that could be very dangerous, Rick also knows the beautiful and brilliant heiress has a natural ability for sleuthing that could aid him-even if it means working side by side with a woman who tempts him like no other. And so Francesca and Rick begin a harrowing journey through the squalid underworld of the city that plunges them deeper and deeper into a peril neither could have imagined-and a desire that only continues to grow...
DEADLY ILLUSIONS 2/2005 ISBN: 077832138X Manhattan, 1902. Irrepressible heiress and intrepid sleuth Francesca Cahill moves from her own elegant world of Fifth Avenue to the teeming underbelly of society, a place of pride, passions. . .and sometimes deadly perversions. Despite the misgivings of her fiancee, Calder Hart, Francesca cannot turn away from a threat that is terrorizing the tenement neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. A madman has attacked three women, but while the first two victims survived, the third is dead, raising the stakes. All the victims are impoverished but beautiful Irishwomen - and Francesca fears that Maggie Kennedy and Gwen O'Neil, two friends who live nearby, could be next. Soon she is working with her former love, police commissioner Rick Bragg - Calder's half brother and worst rival. But even as Calder's jealous passions leave his relationship with Francesca teetering on the brink, Francesca is frantically on the killer's trail, certain The Slasher will strike again - afraid she will be too late...
DEADLY KISSES 2/2006 ISBN: 0778322688 "I did not kill anyone, Francesca. And the fact that you wish to destroy evidence suggests you think me capable of murder." New York, 1902 Called to the home of her fiancé Calder Hart's former mistress late one night, amateur sleuth Francesca Cahill's curiosity is piqued. But upon arrival, she is shocked to find Daisy Jones's bloodied body -- and even more devastated when the evidence points to one suspect: Calder. Francesca cannot -- will not -- believe that Calder is capable of such an act. Still, she is unable to shake her instinctive sense that Calder is lying about something. The police are far less inclined to believe his innocence, and Calder is arrested for Daisy's murder. But Francesca's heart is not easily swayed . . . until a life-altering secret is exposed that could destroy their future together.
DEADLY PLEASURE 3/2002 ISBN: 0312977689 Francesca Cahill comes form one of New York's best families. Her mother is a leading socialite, her father, a millionaire. Their expectations for their daughter are simple - marry well, and soon. But the intrepid and self-styled 'Crime-Solver Extraordinaire' has other plans... Francesca discovered she had a penchant for sleuthing when she met Rick Bragg, New York City's powerful and enigmatic Police Commissioner. Together, they solved what was known as the crime of the century. Now, their paths are destined to come together once again, but this time far more dangerously and fatefully. For Francesca is tempted to give in to the desire she and Rick have been resisting. And when Bragg's arch-rival Calder Hart arrives in town, a respectable man is suddenly found dead, and now murder is the name of the game...
DEADLY PROMISE 11/2003 ISBN: 0312989873 It is March of 1902, and Francesca Cahill-Fifth Avenue heiress, undaunted political activist and intrepid amateur sleuth-has just learned of a grave new danger haunting the streets of New York. A beautiful teenage girl named Emily O'Hare is missing and Francesca fears that the girl has been abducted. Only one person can help her learn the child's fate-but Police Commissioner Rick Bragg may not want to get involved because Francesca has just stunned Rick by accepting a proposal of marriage....from none other than his own rival. Francesca still questions her decision to marry the powerful and notorious Calder Hart. But Rick Bragg is wed to another....and his dazzling wife has just returned after four years abroad to reclaim their marriage. Francesca remains torn between the two very different men-but she desperately tries to set aside the affairs of her heart when she discovers that Emily isn't the first girl to vanish in recent weeks. And when Francesca discovers a trail of deception and lies, when someone very close to her investigation is murdered, Francesca realizes that the evil force behind the girls' abductions may try to find a way to silence her too-if she dares to uncover the truth....
DOUBLE TAKE 7/2003 ISBN: 0312284748 Kait London has been estranged from her twin sister for years. She has never understood why and has always regretted it. When her phone rings in the middle of the night, Kait learns that Lana desperately needs her help. All Kait has to do is take her place, for two days, at her home in the horse country of Virginia. If Kait can play this role convincingly, she will save Lana's life. This is a game the twins have played before. But never like this. For the charade is much more difficult to pull off than when they were children. Lana has many secrets, secrets she has kept from everyone, including Kait - and she has as many enemies - including her own husband. Kait had not been expecting Trev Coleman to be in residence. Worse, she is soon forced to recognize how darkly seductive he is - and that he may very well be her worst enemy. And then Kait realizes that she is directly in the line of fire. Someone is deliberately stalking Lana, but Kait is the trapped prey. Filled with stunning twists and turns, with mind games and body heat, Double Take is a taut romantic thriller from an author who delivers one surprise after another until the very last page.
HOUSE OF DREAMS 2001 ISBN: 0312977409 When Cassandra de Warenne's sister Tracey arranges a lavish party at their English estate, she invites Antonio de la Barca, a renowned professor of history. Cass isn't prepared for the intense and immediate attraction-an attraction that heralds something deeper, more powerful, and more perilous than she could ever imagine. For their families have been entwined for centuries, linked together by a history of horrendous heartbreak, bitter rivalry, and bloodshed that began 450 years ago, with one woman, Isabel, forsaken and betrayed by her family, her lover, and her friends. Intrigued by the prospect of unearthing more about this legend, Cassandra accepts an invitation to Antonio's ancestral home. But soon after she and her family arrive, Cassandra discovers that Isabel is a very real-and threatening-presence. Who was Isabel, and what does she want today from Cassandra and her sister? And can Cassandra trust Antonio, a man who may be her only link to the past-and who may lead her into danger?
THE THIRD HEIRESS 9/1999 ISBN: 031220387X The tragic death of her fiancé in a harrowing car accident plunges Jill Gallagher into a dark mystery. His final words to her: 'I love you...Kate,' force her to realize she neither truly knew this dashing British photographer, nor understood his true motives for being here in America. When she brings his body back to his English family, she enters a world of hostility, suspicion, and closely guarded secrets. Then she finds a century-old photograph of an American heiress named Kate Gallagher who looks remarkably like herself-and who disappeared nearly a century ago. What legacy of scandal has she unearthed? Who is so desperate to stop her? And can she trust the handsome, enigmatic stranger who may be her greatest ally...or a dangerous foe? At once otherworldly and vividly real, THE THIRD HEIRESS is Brenda Joyce at her passionate and suspenseful best.
A MATTER OF TIME 3/1986 ISBN: 0373220375 Julie Smith, flight attendant, stepped off the plane in Honolulu and was arrested. The charge was theft of government property--spying! Only her lawyer, Greg Stafford, seemed willing to help. What Julie didn't know was that Greg was responsible for implicating her in the first place.
EDGE OF RECKONING 6/1985 ISBN: 0380897903
DANCE OF DECEPTION 3/1994 ISBN: 0373705875
INDISCREET 7/1994 ISBN: 0373706030 Allie Shannon is fed up with Joshua Mercer. For ten years, she's waited for him to see her as something more than his editor and partner in crime, investigating crime, that is. She'd risked her life, helping him ferret out the stories that made him famous, and all along she'd been hoping that someday he might realize he loved her. But now Allie's tired of waiting. She's determined to find a man who's not afraid to love her! Josh can't understand why Allie wants to ruin a perfectly good friendship. Now all of a sudden she's talking about her biological clock, and Josh knows that this time she's serious about leaving. How can he convince Allie, ten years too late, that he can't write - or live - without her?
BAD MOON RISING 1/1998 ISBN: 0451194616 He kills in the name of beauty... Christi Anthony's life is a waking nightmare. She is being stalked by a madman who has already stolen the lives of five women. They were all contestants in Kansas City's annual Rose Pageant - all young, all beautiful. And all bore a striking resemblance to Christi. Special investigator Eric Keaton has come home to stop the killer from claiming his sixth - and final - victim. Haunted by bitter memories of his wife's betrayal, Eric is stunned to find himself irresistibly attracted to Christi Anthony. Yet even as desire ignites, he and Christi are caught up in a web of dark deceit and shocking secrets that threaten their growing passion. And in the shadows, a stranger waits to bestow the ultimate gift of love on the woman of his dreams. A cunning murderer who is moving closer and closer...
MIRROR MIRROR 12/1996 ISBN: 0451188675 Lacy James can't remember anything before her terrible car accident. Her family tells her she was married to the most eligible man in Texas--yet most of them seem to hate her for it. Only a tortured memory with murderous implications for her still lingers. Now she must learn the hidden truth on her own, before this vision becomes a terrifying reality.
SLOW DANCE 12/1995 ISBN: 0451186710 Fifteen years after the mysterious and macabre murder of her father, New York dancer Lily Hutton returns to the town of Rosehill to confront the secrets of her aristocratic family. But also in Rosehill waits Sash Rivers--the handsome, darkly driven man Lily never forgot. Unfortunately, he is still a suspect in her father's murder.
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