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Lynn Bailey
SPLENDID YOU 7/2000. ISBN: 0515128686. London, England, 1848. Egyptology has always fascinated Julia Hanson. A self-taught hieroglyphics expert, she is unable to pursue her occupation because of the societal prejudice against her gender. Her only hope is to attract the attention of Dr. Simon Archer, the famed Egyptologist who discovered the tomb of Twelfth Dynasty Princess An-ket, and offer her services. Simon is appalled at Julia's interest in "manly pursuits," and quickly dismisses her, to her outrage and disappointment. Overnight, she locks herself in the museum exhibiting Simon's artifacts to expand her Egyptian knowledge. But a flash of lightning awakens the spirit of An-ket, who decides to help Julia win not only Simon's confidence, but his heart as well...
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LOVE'S LEGACY 1/1996 ISBN: 084394000X. Anthology of 11 excellent tales of love and passion spanning from the Middle Ages to the present day. Stories include Loves Legacy, To Love Again, The Betrothal Ball, Loving Charity, and Kindred Hearts by Lori Copeland; Savage Fantasy by Casey Edwards; Fairytale by Heather Graham; Golden Treasures by Catherine Hart; Letter Of Love by Virginia Henley; and Hidden Treasures by Penelope Neri.
Rita Balkey
THE PRINCE OF PASSION 1980. ISBN:0523406622. The power of his love had no limit...the depth of her desire had no end. Their desire for each other brought them together but in the end destiny drove them apart.
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RAKES AND ROGUES 6/1993. ISBN: 0451176391 Anthology featuring the stories Hide and Seek, Mad Bad and Dangerous, The Wrong Door, Cats-paw, and Highway Robbery.
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TIMESWEPT BRIDES 8/1996 ISBN 0515118915. Anthology collection of tales of lovers drawn through time from Regency Wales, the Civil War, a New Orleans Plantation, and to an English Manor. Included are Mary Balogh's "The Heirloom" ; Constance O'Banyon's "A Dream Across Time" ; Elda Minger's "Brides Joy" ; and Virginia Brown's "Man of Her Dreams".
Mary Balogh
LONGING 12/1994. ISBN: 0451404661. Siān Jones is the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy English mine owner and a Welsh coal miner's daughter. She was educated in a fine English school. But she turned her back on her English heritage, married a coal miner, and went to work in the mines herself after his death. Now she is engaged to another Welshman, leader of the revolutionary movement of the workers against the tyranny of the English owners. But one of those owners, the Marquess of Craille, has just inherited and come to live in Wales. And he seems sympathetic to his workers. When Siān becomes his daughter's governess, she gets caught very firmly between two worlds--and two loves.
TANGLED 3/1994. ISBN: 0451404521. Rebecca, Lady Cardwell, is inconsolable after her beloved husband is killed during the Crimean War. She is bitterly resentful that it is his foster brother, David, who has survived and come home. Then David asks her to marry him and, despairing of any future happiness, she accepts. But the tangled web of past secrets and future complications brings her alive again--to both pain and ecstasy.
TRULY 5/1996. ISBN: 0425153290. When they were children, Geraint Penderyn and Marged Evans were close friends. But years have passed since then. Geraint is now the Earl of Wyvern and Marged hates him more than any other man on earth. She blames him for her husband's death, and both she and all the other inhabitants of the Welsh village where she lives blame him for oppressing his people. Geraint has to devise some scheme to convince his people that really he is on their side. A masked savior, a man dressed as a woman named Rebecca, rides out at night to lead his people in rebellion against the toll gates that are destroying them all. He is a daring and commanding figure, and Marged is soon deeply involved with him, though she has never seen his face. Beneath the disguise he is, of course, her friend-turned-foe, Geraint.
Iris Bancroft
DAWN OF DESIRE 1981. ISBN:0523411383. Their desire for each other brought them together but in the end destiny drove them apart. Set in 19th century Eastern Europe during the Czech revolution against the Austrian Empire.
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SEASONS OF LOVE 8/1995. Anthology featuring the stories Winter Moon by Elaine Barbieri, Golden Harvest by Lori Copeland, Summer Storm by Karen Lockwood , and Gentle Rain by Evelyn Rogers.
Elaine Barbieri
HAWK'S PASSION 8/2006 ISBN: 0843956372 Four children abandoned in an orphanage. Two missing parents. One man whose hatred had divided a family, whose duplicity ended in murder, inextricably weaving all their lives together in a web of lies that only time could untangle. Jason will do whatever it took to bring down Simon Gault, the corrupt shipping magnate. The supposedly upright citizen had betrayed Galveston during the war, causing untold deaths. But even more disturbing was his twisted desire to seduce innocent Elizabeth Huntington. No matter how determined she was to make her own way in the rowdy, war-ravaged city, Jason swore he would protect the daring young beauty from Gault, help find her missing family and then win her heart. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
HAWK'S PRIZE 11/2006 ISBN: 0843956380 Drew... He was the last of the four siblings to return to Galveston, the first to admit he was in over his head. Stranded in a high-priced bordello because of a wounded leg, Drew found himself being nursed by a woman of mystery. Sensual lady of the night or innocent angel of mercy, she keeps her identity secret. But as he was reunited with his brother and sisters, and the wrongs of the past were righted, one thing became clear: Tricia Lee Shepherd was the other half of his soul, the only person who could make his future shine bright. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
SIGN OF THE WOLF 2/207 ISBN: 0843958243 It was an eerie howling in the night that only she could hear. As always, tragedy soon followed. This time, Letty Wolf would obey the teachings of her Kiowa heritage and bring back to New York her three estranged daughters…before it was too late. Raised in fancy Eastern boarding schools, she was determined to return to the land of her birth—Texas. But no sooner had she set foot on native soil than she was caught up in a whirlwind of mayhem, missing money bags and mysterious animal attacks. The only calm in the storm was Trace Stringer, who had tracked Meredith down with a summons from her mother. Letty offered powerful inducements to come home, and she'd sent an even more powerful man to escort her. In Trace’s arms Meredith began to believe love might be possible, even for the child of a woman haunted by the past. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
TATTERED SILK 9/1991. ISBN:0821735047. Sophia Marone was no stranger to dreams. Ever since she was a little girl, she yearned for beautiful things, for the life of a great lady. She did not intend to waste her future toiling in the silk mills of Paterson. And when her vibrant beauty and innocent sensuality won the admiration of two powerful men, she knew she'd found her way out. Both men offered her passion, but while one promised love, the other could fulfill all her ambitions. Her choice would forever change her life...and her dreams...
WINGS OF A DOVE 1/1990. ISBN: 050552323X. On the harrowing train ride from the slums and tenements of New York City to the wide open farmland of Michigan, Allie Pearce and Delaney Marsh form a bond that no one can break. Traveling to find a new life of opportunity and adventure in the heartland, the two orphans uncover their hearts' only desire. From childhood to adulthood, their friendship grows into something neither has planned or expected. For without Allie, Delaney is nothing more than a street tough, striving to prove his mettle. And without Delaney, Allie is little more than a sad wisp of a girl, frightened and alone. But together, the two will be able to carve opportunity from misfortune, understanding from discord, and ultimately find a passion that will last a lifetime.
WINTER MOON 8/1995 Short Story. ISBN: 61082864. Judd McBain was a widower, certain he would never love again. Then one winter day he met the beautiful new schoolteacher. Accustomed to speaking her mind, she could be very irritating... but she was capable of sparking a fire in his frozen heart that could melt even the iciest Vermont lake
WISHES ON THE WIND 2/1991. ISBN: 0505523485. A tragic mining accident devastated the O'Connors, the proud Irish immigrants who worked in the Pennsylvania coal mines owned by the rich Lang family. Now one determined young woman would be torn between her family loyalty and her love for the wrong man... Meghan O'Connor...In a world turned upside down, she knew her friendship with David Lang crossed a dangerous line. But when friendship turned to love, her heart followed its own conscience... David Lang...The spoiled heir to the Lang estate, he embodied all that the O'Connors should despise. But with Meghan he opened his heart to compassion and trust - and to the fury of a family's wrath...
Jill Barnett
DANIEL AND THE ANGEL 11/1994 Short Story from A HOLIDAY OF LOVE. New York in the late 1800s, where a beautiful but clumsy angel turns a lonely man's life around....
IMAGINE 9/1995. ISBN: 0671521438. After years in prison for a murder he never committed, escaped convict Hank Wyatt knew how to survive. But he didn't know if he could last an hour marooned on a deserted tropical island with a beautiful blonde and three orphaned children. Now, looking out for number one doesn't seem to be enough....San Francisco attorney Maggie Smith felt like having a good cry. Thoroughly modern, wealthy, and bright, she's suddenly been cast in the role of mother and forced to battle wits and hearts with the most arrogant man she's ever met! Fate has thrown this makeshift family Robinson together and kismet tossed in a touch of magic... the chance for a love more powerful than they could ever imagine... only a wish away!
Monica Barrie
SILVER MOON 3/1985. ISBN: 0671528432. Lovely Elyse was a child when her father's death left her sole heir to a vast plantation on the lush island of Jamaica. Raised in England by scheming relatives anxious to claim her wealth, high born Elyse planned a daring escape - and fled to her beloved home in the Caribbean...
Stephanie Bartlett
HIGHLAND FLAME 6/1992. ISBN:0553298380. Drawn to the Texas prairie by her love for her new husband, Ian Macleod, Scottish-born Catriona Galbraith finds her happiness snatched away when Ian is killed, and she must rely on the help of his best friend to get through the pain.
HIGHLAND REBEL 2/1992. ISBN: 0553289365. ISBN: 0553289365. In Scotland to bury his beloved grandfather, handsome Texas Ranger Ian MacLeod falls in love with Catriona Galbraith, to whose homeland and heritage his late grandfather was a threat
Lois Battle
STORYVILLE 4/1993. ISBN:0670838675. New Orleans, turn of the century. Storyville was where prostitution flourished, legal for nearly 20 years, in a city renowned for sin, seduction, and sex. In between comes this story of 2 women inextricably linked by, as they called it, "the District." Kate, young, beautiful and completely green, abandoned by a man who doesn't love her, finds herself thrown on the mercies of the city. Julia Randsome, transplanted Yankee-supporter of women's rights, who against everyone's advice, marries into one of the city's most prominent families. These 2 women, one a patrician, the other a prostitute, occupy different universes in New Orleans, but somehow, in that city, all roads lead to the same place--back to the District.
Nina Beaumont
PROMISES TO KEEP 12/1992. ISBN: 0373287534. Maximilian von Berg was a man pursued by ghosts, chimeras of guilt from his past that would permit no love in his future. Driven and alone, he found solace in the cause of freedom. But when he drank from the depths of Felicity's eyes, he knew that here was a woman worth fighting for..Felicity Allen had never known love, never been cherished, and trusted no man. Especially not one as rakish as the aristocratic Max appeared. Yet, though she resisted, she was drawn by his strength, and beguiled by his charm. Had her heart already accepted what her mind struggled to deny?
SURRENDER THE HEART 4/1997. ISBN: 0373289626 Christopher Blanchard was everything she'd ever needed... yet didn't want. Ariane de Valmont prized her independence above all else, and to secure it, she'd struck a seductive bargain with a tantalizing American. Now she feared that in this heart's gamble, le beau sauvage, as Parisian society named him, held all the cards.... The son of a scandal, Chris Blanchard caused a sensation among the "beau monde," intending to settle old scores and quickly be gone again. Until he was caught by the gaze of Ariane de Valmont, whose eyes bespoke a forever kind of love...
TAPESTRY OF DREAMS 7/1995. ISBN: 0373288786. Her touch had healed his body as her heart had saved his soul...Julie was an angel worthy of love. But Theo knew he could only repay her with betrayal. For he was bound by oath and fury to his cause, and to a woman crying out from his past. Her dreams of love denied, Julie sought only to escape. Yet her flight thrust her into the arms of a man driven by dark desires. A man who wanted her passionately, but craved revenge more.
TWICE UPON TIME 2/1996. ISBN: 0373289030. A long-ago and forbidden love... Though Sarah Longford's days were marked by the sorrow of an ancient curse, her nights were filled with dreams of a life of privilege and passion. A life she had known in another time... and another body. Yet fate had allowed her to live again as the tempestuous Bianca, a woman who had sold herself in marriage, only to discover she had made a terrible mistake. And now it was up to her to prevent the bloodshed, and save the life of her beloved Alessio...
Rexanne Becnel
HEART OF THE STORM 11/1995. ISBN: 0312956088. A bid for freedom... The lush, misty island of Madeira seemed a perfect escape from an unwanted bridegroom for shy, bookish heiress Eliza Thoroughgood. Ambushed by desire... But barely have they arrived when she and her frail young cousin Aubrey find themselves captive on the exotic vessel of Cyprian Dare -- a man whose bold hands and even bolder mouth arouse a tiny, wicked part of Eliza. An exquisite revenge... Cyprian never forgave the man who abandoned his mother and made him a bastard. Now that man's heir, the boy Aubrey, will be his instrument of revenge -- however furiously the beautiful Eliza guards him. Foiled by an ecstatic love... For Cyprian, it will be an easy matter to tame this lovely innocent in the sweet, dark sea swept night... until Eliza's passionate heart challenges him to a choice he could never have foreseen...
THIEF OF MY HEART 5/1991. ISBN: 0440206227. She was no prim and proper schoolmarm. From the columned veranda of Sparrow Hill, the dark silhouette of a stranger could he seen approaching astride a huge black stallion. Lovely Lacie Montgomery felt a warning chill. Her secret must be kept if she was to keep the Sparrow Hill School for Young Ladies running in Frederick Kimbell's memory. Too many depended on her. He was a hard man to fool. But the arrogant rogue who dismounted before her seemed to see her very soul with his bold green eyes. The handsome bastard son of the Kimbell dynasty, Dillon Lockwood had arrived in Louisiana with a challenge and a promise: to win the family fortune back from this delectable scam artist-and to win her for his own ... coaxing her into his bed, stripping away all her lies and defenses, teaching her that there can be no deceit in a lover's arms....
Barbara Benedict
EVERY DREAM COME TRUE 12/1997. ISBN: 0821758098. Faced with the loss of her family's plantation, Jude Latour's only hope of staving off financial ruin is by finding her adoptive father, who's been missing since the end of the Civil War. Desperate, she turns to bounty hunter Tucker Boone -- a man with an eye for the ladies, and a reputation for bringing in his man. What she couldn't know was that the hard-jawed gun-for-hire harbored a deadly secret. Or that when he accepted her money, he would steal her heart....Nothing could have prepared Tucker Boone for a woman like Jude. She had insisted on following along by his side, saved his hide in an outlaw ambush, and gotten under his skin. But with every step, he was betraying her with a vow of vengeance on the man she had hired him to find. As he swept her into his arms and fought the enemies that threatened them both, he knew he had to tell her the truth... and win back the courageous beauty who taught him how to love.
Janice Bennett
ACROSS FOREVER 6/1994. 1993. At a balloon convention in London, artist Kat Sayre steps into a hot-air balloon and descends into a world of horse-drawn carriages and gas lit streets. 1851. In a strait-laced society seething with hidden dangerous, Kat is haunted by visions of destruction. Only one man believes her: dashing Captain Graeme Warwick, the wounded war hero who arouses trust... and desire. Now, with the help of clues from her own paintings, Kat races against time to expose a deadly conspiracy that threatens to divide Europe. And in the arms of Graeme, she discovers a passion that can transform the past, alter the future, and sweep her... ACROSS FOREVER.
Sara Bennett
MISTRESS OF SCANDAL 4/2007 ISBN: 0060796499 "We all must be true to our natures..." Madame Aphrodite...Proper, reserved Francesca detests chaotic London and one of its most infamous inhabitants: her birth mother, the notorious courtesan Madame Aphrodite. Lovingly raised by the devoted Lady Greentree, she's content to remain in Yorkshire, far from the scandalous parent whose life and profession shocks . . . yet intrigues her. But a dark, dangerous stranger she rescues on the moors is awakening a most improper desire—causing Francesca to question whether she is more her mother's daughter than she ever wished to be. When Sebastian Thorne agrees to protect Aphrodite's estranged daughter from a dire threat emerging from her past, the fallen lord is unexpectedly seduced by Francesca's beauty. But a vigilante living on the shadowy edge of society has little hope to own such a prize—and unless he reclaims his abandoned title and lost honor, Sebastian will never get close enough to the bewitching lady to save her life . . .. or win her passion. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
A SEDUCTION IN SCARLET 1/2008 ISBN: 9780061336348 One wicked night. Lady Portia Ellerslie, dearest confidante to Queen Victoria and a woman of impeccable breeding, normally wouldn't dream of dallying in Aphrodite's Club, London's most exclusive and erotic bordello. But one lonely night she finds something enticing about the idea of a wild encounter in the notorious hothouse. Donning a daring, dangerously low-cut scarlet dress and a veil to mask her identity, she arrives at the club ready to succumb to the torrid desires raging inside her. and is shocked to find herself gazing into the eyes of Marcus Worthorne, the man she swooned over at seventeen. Could lead to a lifetime of ecstasy. Back then, Marcus barely knew she was alive, but now he's about to make her most wanton fantasies come true. Portia's proper life is about to change forever. because for Marcus one night with the lady in red could never be enough. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
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ANGEL LOVE 8/1996. Anthology whose stories include 'For All Eternity' by Bennett; 'The Angel of Kilcallaugh' by Burgess; 'Charity's Angel' by Graham; 'Saving Grace' by Laux; 'Heaven Knows' by Malek; 'Absolute Angels' by McAllister; and 'The Greatest Gift' by Ranney.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
THE CAPTAIN'S BRIDE 4/1998. . ISBN: 1578560136. Elsa Anders's dream of marrying Peder Ramstad is about to come true. But as this independent, strong-willed woman discovers her own creative gifts -- a love for travel, painting, and the sea -- can she find happiness with a captain who insists upon leaving her safely on shore? Leaving their home in Norway behind, Elsa and Peder embark on a new life in with their closest friends, including: Kaatje Jansen, a woman seeking a new beginning for the sake of her marriage and for the child growing within her; Elsa's sister Tora, a sly young vixen who knows exactly what she wants -- and exactly how to get it; and Karl Martensen, a man torn between his friendship for Peder and a forbidden, secret love for Elsa, a man tormented by emotions that threaten to ruin them all.
DEEP HARBOR 3/1999. ISBN: 1578560454. Determined to live "the good life," no matter the price, Tora Anders weaves a web of lies that could cost her everything she cares for-including a successful future and the man she loves-but lead her to what her soul most desperately needs. Her sister, Elsa Ramstad, has everything her heart desires: a loving husband, a family she adores, and a fulfilling life at sea. Then tragedy strikes. Now, drawing upon her faith and all the strength she can muster, Elsa must once again discover the woman she is and who she chooses to be. Four years after her husband's disappearance, Kaatje Janssen struggles to raise two young daughters and tend her farm. But when help comes from the most unlikely source, Kaatje faces both uncertainty about the future and a deep secret from her past. And after years of grappling with his feelings for Elsa and the mistakes he has made, Karl is caught in a life of loneliness and emptiness. Can he finally accept the reality of what he once lost and open himself up to the possibility of what could be?
MIDNIGHT SUN 3/2000. ISBN: 1578561132.Desperate to know if her missing husband still lives, Kaatje Janssen hires the rugged, yet tenderhearted James Walker to guide her through the perils of the Alaskan wilderness. What she finally discovers, however, is far from what she expected -- and could well place her in the greatest danger of her life. As captain of the Majestic and mother of Kristian and Eve, Elsa Ramstad has sought to ease the ache of her lonely heart. Forever changed by loss, she accepts her fate of solitude. But when an old friend rekindles the spark of romance within her, will she allow the flames of love to burn again? Her foolish youth behind her, Tora Anders looks forward to her wedding and a fresh start in life as the wife of her beloved, Trent Storm. But first she must confront, face-to-face, the terrible demons of her past -- and her struggle to forgive the man who radically altered her future. Though he is widely admired, Captain Karl Martensen feels no depth of emotion for any of the women with whom his life becomes uncomfortably entangled. He has only tender memories of the love he once lost -- a love that, by the grace of God, he just may find again --
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BY MY HEART BETRAYED 1/1991. ISBN: 0440207223 Burned once, she vowed to let no man rule her heart...Her beauty was the bait...and he enjoyed the chase.
WHITE TIGER 10/1991. ISBN: 0440207231. She turned her back on the magnificent leopard and gazed, startled, into the green-gold eyes of the stranger who shot the beast that might have killed her; Nicole was a brilliant markswoman and less-than-willing member of a hunting party in search of the legendary white tigress; she had met her match in Holt; in the shadow of the Himalayas, she plummeted into jungle darkness, seeking the secrets of her past.. unaware of the treachery that pursued her.. destined to find what she most sought in the arms of the man sworn to stop her; novel of high adventure and romance.
WRAPPED IN WISHES 8/1996. ISBN: 0821753703. Attorney Chloe Plum will try anything for a decent night's sleep--even hypnotherapy. The latest session has just sent her spiraling back in time. . . to Victorian London, of all places. Enter sexy Harrison Connors, hired gun and rogue adventurer. Just as she's beginning to believe that this fantasy may be the real thing after all and Harrison's kisses more than wishful thinking, Chloe awakens back in her own century. Talk about lousy timing. Soon Harrison is only a memory. . .until she steps out the door and runs into him on the streets of modern day New Orleans.
Lisa Bingham
THE OTHER BRIDE (#658) 5/2003 ISBN 0373292589 Mail-order bride Phoebe Gray should have come stamped 'handle with care.' Guarding dynamite in a lightning storm would be easier than guiding this one willful redhead all the way west, Gabe Cutter fumed. Yet his Pinkerton-honed instincts told him he needed to uncover her secrets - and fast! For she was definitely not what she claimed to be! Fate had given her a reprieve - and 'Phoebe Gray' couldn't waste it on some hard-boiled trail boss with pain in his past and trouble in his future. Still, when she'd switched identities with her companion, she never imagined she'd be hand-delivered into the undreamed passion of Gabe Cutter's loving arms!
SILKEN PROMISES 3/1994 ISBN: 0671799444 Fiona McFee had been just a girl when she first saw Jacob Grey - almost all of Jacob Grey - naked and tied up in a field of foxtails. Naturally, as an Irish con man's daughter, she refused to release the young deputy - while he sunburned his backside and swore never to forget her. He never did, though the little minx in the field didn't resemble the sensual, topaz-eyed hellion he tracked to Chicago years later. Jacob had an offer that could change her life - a full pardon for both her and her father if she posed as a wealthy British widow and played poker like an ace on a tourist train heading West. His plan was to catch a counterfeiter; Fiona's scheme was to outfit herself in beautiful clothes, win her father's freedom...and outwit Jacob Grey. She didn't count on the wild card that sent her reeling - an instant attraction to the very large, very strong lawman who carried a very big gun. But the game she was entering was deadly, and before she or Jacob realized how high the stakes had soared, they were deeply in jeopardy...in danger of losing their hearts and their dreams in a battle for their lives.
SWEET DEFIANCE 7/1995 ISBN: 0671887122 It was to be the event of the season for the women of the decade. Marguerite DuBois, the celebrated artist's model, was about to be married to a man of dazzling wealth---until an uninvited guest abducted her from the altar...Bram St. Charles has returned to rebuild his ruined home, restore his good name, and reclaim Marguerite.
TENDER CONQUEST 3/1989 ISBN: 0380757346 When prim, proper Esther Miles took over the Benton House Orphanage, she thought she'd be healing the most innocent casualties of the recent war. But the bruised and broken body of a roguish drifter dumped on her doorstep reduced her life to chaos...
WILD ESCAPADE 10/1996 ISBN:0671528041 What was a nice girl like Felicity Pedigrue doing in a place like Mother LaRee's house of ill repute? It had to be a mistake. Felicity had been on her way to teach in St. Joseph, Missouri, a city in the heart of the wild wicked west, when she met an intriguing stranger. Logan Campbell looked mysterious. Dangerous. Exactly like a hero from the dime novels she secretly relished. Little does she know that Logan is risking his neck to help runaway slaves to freedom. Before he can warn her away, she wanders into his rough-and-tumble life - and into the bordello that's a stop on the Underground Railroad. Worse, when Mother LaRee's is put under quarantine, their lives are thrown onto a collision course. As peril closes in, an adventure looms ahead for Felicity and Logan - one that will test their courage, ignite their passions, and threaten to break their madly beating hearts...
WILD MASQUERADE 10/1997 ISBN 0671528114 Though the most sensible of the Pedigrue sister, Constance has long harbored a romantic dream of working in the theater. But she never expected that a string of disasters would leave her stranded in New York -- and in debt to scandalously successful theatrical producer Gideon Payne! With little choice, Constance accepts his offer of employment, but is determined to teach the notorious Mr. Payne a much-needed lesson before she's through. Yet as Constance soon discovers, there is more to Gideon than meets the eye. His beautiful actress wife--who looked exactly like Constance --died under mystifying circumstances. And now someone obsessed by her memory is committing terrifying crimes. As Constance's feelings begin to waver, she and Gideon join forces to unravel the mystery. But a madman's scheme has set the stage, testing their reluctant trust, sparking reckless hungers, and threatening much more than their wildest imaginings...
WILD SERENADE 6/1997 ISBN:0671528106 Hired by Captain Garrick Dalton as a governess for his young sister, Patience Pedigrue discovers that her charge is a wild urchin raised by a primitive tribe and being stalked by a killer and that the handsome captain has come up with a romantic scheme for saving the child's life.
WISHFUL THINKING 4/2006 ISBN: 1554043360 Effie Scarsmore and Coralee Nye migrate west to Silver City, Idaho after losing their teaching positions at an Eastern private academy. Effie’s fiancé, Milford Browne, has been in Silver City for more than a year, establishing his fortune and building a new home where he will live with his future bride. But when Effie and Coralee arrive unannounced, they learn Milford is steeped in gambling debt and has chosen to raffle off the unfinished house to pay off his creditors. Effie’s furious and determined to teach Milford a lesson, so she announces that her hand in marriage is part of the raffle prize. When the burly carpenter who’s been erecting the house wins the raffle, Effie finds herself betrothed to a large man who barely speaks English. She insists her friend Coralee is the ideal person to tutor him in English and the social graces. Effie has a whole scheme worked out. Coralee isn’t certain she likes her role in it, for Effie’s schemes have a way of going unexpectedly awry.... Fortunately for the two young women, Silver City isn’t just any mining town. This one comes complete with a pair of resident guardian angels, Bliss and Echo. They have their own mission and plans for how human events unfold... with a little sprinkling of humorous heavenly grace. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Sonya Birmingham
ALMOST A LADY 7/1993 ISBN: 038076766X An Honorable Gentleman - Colonel Alexander Chancery-Brown scours the slums of London in search of a dying friend's illegitimate daughter--whom Alex has promised to transform into a proper gentlewoman. But the ravishing hellcat he discovers imprisoned in the Holloway House of Detention may be far too much for any man to handle. Almost A Lady - A child of the streets, headstrong and sensuous, Pell Davis is determined to resist the infuriatingly handsome lord's efforts to mold and refine her. But beneath Pell's coarse exterior is an exquisite flower ready to blossom--an incomparable beauty whose fiery spirit unleashes the straight-laced aristocrat's guarded passions... and compels Alex to risk his good name in pursuit of a rapturous and dangerously unpredictable love.
THE BRIGHTEST FLAME 8/1999 ISBN: 0843945648 Ship of Dreams. Molly Kilmartin left Ireland on a ship bound for New York City, determined to stand on her own two feet, to find her piece of the American dream and never have to ask a soul for anything. She certainly didn't need a man like the dashing Burke Lassiter. So what if he was publisher of the New York Telegram and she wanted to make her living as a writer? Though he'd seduced her with champagne and kind words onboard ship, he turned out to be a chauvinistic womanizer like all the rest. His Dream Come True. It was her fiery spirit and sharp wit that first drew Lassiter to the auburn-haired beauty. Unlike his boring high-society fiancee, Molly Kilmartin wasn't afraid to stand up to him, and she made him laugh. It was just that spunk that might save his paper, he reasoned. But he didn't realize she had the power to save something else: his soul. And if he trusted his heart, she would show him a love more precious than gold.
FROST FLOWER 4/1995 ISBN: 0843937750 Out in the wilds of Red Oak Hollow, pretty Misty Malone had come across plenty of critters, but none surprised her more than a knocked-out, buck-naked stranger. Taught by her granny to cure ills with herbs, Misty knew a passel of cures that would heal the unknown man, yet did she dare give him the most potent remedy of all -- her sweet Ozark love? After being robbed, stripped, and left for dead, Adam Davenport awoke to a vision in buckskins who made his heart race like white lightning. But since the Malones and the Davenports had been feuding longer than a coon's age, the St. Louis doctor's only chance to win Misty was to hide his real name -- and pray that a dash of mountain magic and a heap of good loving would hold the rustic beauty down when she found out the truth.
SPITFIRE 1/1991 ISBN: 0380762943 Enraged over the pitiful plight of local miners, feisty flame-haired Carrie O'Leary decides to take action. Gun in hand, she bursts into the offices of the Crested Butte Courier and kidnaps editor Matt Worthington, the handsome, but infuriating, nephew of the Silver Queen mine's unscrupulous owner. Though feverish with desire for the spirited beauty who holds him captive, the lusty newspaperman resists the urging of his heart. For surrender would mean betraying the Worthington name--and the uncle who had raised him. But nature intervenes when an avalanche strands Carrie and Matt together in a tiny cabin high in the Colorado mountains. And survival suddenly depends on two passionate adversaries creating some blistering, soul-searing heat of their own.
Anita Birt
LADY COMPANION 6/2000 ISBN: 1586081383 E-Book Desperate to settle her debts, Catherine Hartleigh answers an advertisement in The Times of London for a companion to an invalid. Paid three month’s wages in advance by the Dowager Lady Beckwith, Catherine arrives at Beckwith Manor shocked to discover not a young lady but Douglas, Lord Beckwith. Wounded in body and soul during the Crimean War, Lord Beckwith does not want a companion. He remains holed up in his darkened rooms, seeing no one. She would leave in a minute if she could, but her wages have already disappeared. Catherine's options have been narrowed down to two: she can go to debtor’s prison, or she can tame the savage beast. . .
Laura Black
STRATHGALLANT 1981 ISBN:0241104424. Lady Strathgallant is obsessed with her responsibilities to the Strathgallant estate, and to her adopted granddaughter, the beautiful Perdita Sinclair. And she desperately wants an heir for Strathgallant. Determined to see her granddaughter married to a wealthy, connected man, she contrives a plan to bring Perdita to the attention of her nephews. All seems to be going well until a 5th suitor appears on the scene. The romantic Jules Dilebes is determined to have Perdita - but treachery and death plague the Strathgallant household.
Lawana Blackwell
CATHERINE'S HEART 10/2002 ISBN: 0764222597 With a sheltered background of all-girls' schools, strict parents, and doting governesses, Catherine Rayborn is thrilled with her first taste of independence--Girton College in Cambridge during 1880. All traces of homesickness fade fast amid the excitement of new friendships and the challenges of college life. Surprised and flattered by her first encounters with males in adult society, Catherine is quickly swept off her feet. What will it take for Catherine's eyes to be opened to see the vast gulf between true love and shallow infatuation? When it comes her way, will she recognize the treasure of a love built on a foundation of friendship?
Annette Blair
THE BUTTERFLY GARDEN 4/2005 ISBN: 1594143145 Amishwoman Sara Lapp, all but shunned for studying with the local doctor to become a midwife, is shocked that, after months of waiting, her first call to tend a birth comes from self-appointed outcast Mad Adam Zuckerman. Adam’s wife has died in childbed. He did not call Sara to tend the birth, but to give her his children. Though Sara knows his girls belong with their father, how can she leave them with a man who seems not to care for them? As much as she loves and wants the girls, she will only take them long enough to teach Adam to love them. Adam is afraid to love his children, afraid that in doing so, he will hurt them in the way his father hurt him. Without Abby to protect them, Adam must find someone else, and he can think of only one woman brave enough, Spinster Sara Lapp, the little midwife whose passion for things beyond her control is greater than is good for her. When Adam falls from the barn loft, drunk, Sara moves in to tend him, and she brings his girls. Then the Bishop takes a stand—a man and woman living together must marry or be shunned—and Sara and Adam are forced to face the greatest challenge of their lives. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
THEE I LOVE 10/1999 ISBN:0821763555 For Amish schoolteacher Rachel Zook, the world beyond her tightly knit village was unknown--and the Elders decreed that it should stay that way. So when the man she loved abandoned their peaceful culture for a forbidden life among the "English," she couldn't follow him. Now bound in marriage to a man she doesn't love, Rachel is torn by longing when Jacob Sauder returns...Jacob knows only one way to raise children-the Amish way. But asking the community he had forsaken to welcome him and his motherless children is more painful than he had imagined, especially when he learns that his beloved Rachel has wed his own brother. Amish law makes it impossible to dream of a future together...until tragedy forces Rachel and Jacob to place their faith in the power of love.
Blake-Krahn-Sanders-Thomas
THE QUILTING CIRCLE 9/1996. ISBN:0425149803. Anthology featuring Pieces of Dreams by Jennifer Blake, Forever Annie by Jo Anne Cassity, Hand Me Down Hearts by Linda Shertzer and A Ring For Remembrance by Christine Cordaire.
Blake-Krahn-Sanders-Thomas
STARDUST 9/1994 ISBN:0380776928 Anthology with "The Warlock's Daughter" by Jennifer Blake, "A Touch of Warmth" by Betina Krahn, "Sweet Cream and Irish Whiskey" by Glenda Sanders, and "Shadow's Bend" by Jodi Thomas.
Jennifer Blake
DAWN ENCOUNTER 1/2006 ISBN: 0778322130 They are perhaps the most dangerous men in New Orleans, skilled swordsmen who play by no rules but their own-heroes to many, wicked to some, irresistible to the women they love...Lisette Moisant is a widow, courtesy of the swordsmanship of Caid O'Neill, one of the city's legendary maitres d'armes. He bested her loathsome husband in a duel, but now she is a pawn of schemers who wish to steal her fortune and see her dead. It is Caid to whom she turns for protection, and guilt leaves him no recourse but to agree to Lisette's request. But soon a whispering campaign is being waged against them, suggesting the two plotted to kill Lisette's husband all along, that she is a woman of loose morals and he is nothing short of a murderer. In a society where reputation is everything, the scandal and accusations threaten Lisette and Caid with ruin, and the person responsible will stop at nothing until they have paid with their lives. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
SOUTHERN RAPTURE 1987 ISBN: 0449147290 Lettie Mason, a proper yet headstrong Boston schoolteacher, journeyed to a small Louisiana town after the Civil War to expose the wretched rogue who'd killed her brother. The man was known as Thorn - a man with a reputation for both murder and mercy. She was sure he had killed her brother, but she learned that he also helped save the homes and lives of many townspeople. How could she reconcile these two different images of the same man - and how could she accept the overwhelming desire, the thrilling passion, and the reckless abandon he aroused deep within her?
WILDEST DREAMS 6/1992 ISBN:0449147398. When Joletta Caressa's beloved grandmother dies, she takes with her the secret formula to a legendary perfume believed to have been worn by Cleopatra and Empress Josephine - and which is now the most desperately sought perfume on the market. Joletta's only clue to the formula is the journals written by her ancestress, Violet Fossier, who in 1854 made a grand tour of Europe. Joletta realizes she must follow Violet's itinerary across the European continent, using the events that took place and the scenes she visited to decipher the code to the formula. As Joletta follows Violet's journey, the story goes back in time, to nineteenth-century Europe and a scandalous love affair that is intimately bound up in the mystery of the perfume. In the present, Joletta finds herself attracted to - and suspicious of - Rone Adamson, a Southern playboy whose astounding knowledge of perfume makes Joletta wary. Yet his chivalrous charms prove too much for her scruples and Joletta succumbs to her dubious white knight, even as danger swirls around them.
Sally Blake
A ROYAL SUMMER 09/1992 ISBN: 0263778479 Although it was exciting to be invited by Lady Lydia Greville and her son to London for the pageantry leading up to Queen Victoria's Coronation, Rosalind Cranbourne knew that her father hoped for a marriage proposal from Sir George Greville. So it was both a relief and a shock to discover on arrival that Sir George had transferred his interest elsewhere; to make amends Lady Lydia blithely assumed Rosalind would accept her nephew instead! That the good looking and charming Captain Felix Holden seemed to approve his aunt's matchmaking infuriated Rosalind -- until she discovered Felix was at odds with his father. This led to a situation that seemed impossible to resolve...
Stephanie Blake
BRIDE OF THE WIND 9/1984 Love, desire, and revenge in an untamed land... From the treachery of a Texas prison to the dangerous beauty of the plains, from the harsh challenge of a herding trail, to the sprawling glory of a Wyoming ranch - a courageous and passionate young woman dared to follow her dream of glory and the sweet calling of her own raging heart. Hope Cox. The fiery, independent beauty who dreamed of ruling her own cattle empire-she vowed to be owned by no man, until her seething passions drove her into the arms of two powerful rebels. Jebel Mason. The black-haired trail boss - his desire for Hope became an obsession, almost equal to his political ambitions. Timothy O'Callahan. The rugged Irishman with the brilliant green eyes--unmatched as a gunman, he was legend as a lover, until Hope possessed him body and soul.
DAUGHTER OF DESTINY 1977 ISBN:0867211210 True to Ravena, her illustrious mother, Sabrina fulfills her legacy as the product of an illicit and turbulent romance. Her beauty and fire bewitch British royalty, Indian royalty and the emperor of Germany, but her heart belongs to Glenn Blake, a hot-blooded, swashbuckling rebel. Together, they carry the torch of their passion from the Irish heath, across the hot jungles and dusty plains of seething India, to the power keg of World War I Europe.
FIRES OF THE HEART 5/1982 ISBN: 0867210591 Dawn Price hides her passionate nature beneath a rough, tomboy exterior. Her husband Dennis is handsome and loving but cannot satisfy the lust that drives Dawn to fantasies of breathtaking romance and sensuality. And then fate throws her into the arms of Silver Jack McHugh, a rough-spoken giant of a man, famed for his hard-living ways. Far from home and the restraints of a disapproving society, they defy Dawn's marital vows and create a private world of blazing ardor and excitement. Until the day that husband and wife are reunited..and Dawn must make a heartbreaking choice.
FLOWERS OF FIRE 1977 ISBN:0872163776. A tempestuous story of love and hate, passion and jealousy, desire and death. From the Irish revolution to the American Civil War, from the slave plantations of the South Seas to the Wild West, This sweeping love story follows the tumultuous life of a strong-willed woman and the two men who engulfed her in their passion and fought for her love.
SO WICKED MY DESIRE 1979 ISBN:0872165167. Adelaide was a beautiful woman who broke the hearts of men. Now two very different men were determined to win her love: Dan, who raced halfway around the world, and Ned, a killer and robber who was consumed by passion to possess her. Set across oceans and continents, from the wilds of 19th century Australia to the New World, from the holocaust of the great Chicago fire to the San Francisco earthquake, to the most horrendous debacle in the history of man--the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa in the South Seas.
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