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Elaine Coffman
HEAVEN KNOWS 4/1994 ISBN: 0449148610 With her big dreams and flair for the flamboyant, Lizzie Robinson is a feisty child, besotted by the lazy charm of the most eligible bachelor on Nantucket. She had loved him forever. To Travis Mackinnon, Lizzie is nothing more than a delightfully outrageous imp: whenever they meet she does something foolish. Then Lizzie's reputation is so tarnished that she is banished to Boston for some much-needed taming. She returns to Nantucket, no longer Lizzie but Elizabeth - a proper lady who steps into Tavis's life once again. Tavis can't help but see the beautiful woman she has become. But their forced marriage drives them apart, and Elizabeth learns to live without him. She can never imagine that the dark and disturbing man who abandoned her on her wedding night will someday walk down a sandy stretch of beach and back into her life. For how can she know that time will turn his bitterness to love? And that obsessed by the woman he cannot forget, Tavis will set out to win her for good, willing to do anything for the love he so carelessly cast aside...?
SO THIS IS LOVE 7/1993 ISBN: 0449148602 Maggie Ramsay was alone, homeless, and widowed with three children. In desperation, she agreed to marry Adrian Mackinnon, a California timber baron she'd never met. He wanted a jewel to his crown, but what he got was a fearless woman who won the hearts of every man at camp and tackled a business no ordinary woman would dare. Then, to her surprise, Maggie found herself in love with her husband. But the closer she got to Adrian's aching heart, the harder he pushed her away. He was determined to prove he needed no one--until greed and passion threatened all he owned, and he was faced with a choice no man should ever have to make....
SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY 9/1992 ISBN: 0449150542. Lady Annabella Stewart had lived a pampered life in Scotland. Then handsome, blue-eyed Texan Ross Mackinnon turned her sheltered world upside down. He had come to Scotland to claim his ancestral home; instead, he found a beauty who would claim his heart. But she was already betrothed to a man she didn't love, destined to live in a place she hated. Yet Annabella couldn't resist Ross's rebellious spirit and the passion in his soul. Ross would do anything to help her escape. But first he had to accept his birthright - a title that could stop him from winning his lady of the Highlands.
WHEN LOVE COMES ALONG 11/1995 ISBN:0446602124 Adrian Mackinnon's stepson, Fletcher Ramsay, returns to Scotland to avenge the death of his father and to regain the title of Duke of Glengarry that was rightfully his. He never dreamed he would fall in love with Cathleen Lindsay, the granddaughter of a gentle minister or that he would be the cause of his death. Determined to unveil the secrets of his family's past and to take back the title from the man who stole it, Fletcher and Cathleen end up running for their lives-from the highlands of Scotland to the coast of France-until the final piece of the puzzle is found and Fletcher regains what is rightfully his, with the help of the woman he loves.
Virginia Coffman
DARK DESIRE 1/1987 ISBN: 0445202211 He was Nicholas Bertold...an arrogant and handsome wealthy nobleman, the man they called 'the satanic Frenchman.' From the moment he first touched her, Alain Daviot knew her fate was sealed. The hot waves of desire she felt in his arms overrode her fears--and her haunting suspicions that Nicholas Bertold had killed her brother for his land and title...Then, as his bride, Alain was swept from the English countryside to the gay salons of nineteenth-century Paris, arriving finally at the magnificent, imposing Chateau Bertold. There, as ever, she was powerless against her hunger for this man accused of an unspeakable crime. And though her heart found paradise in the heat of his passion, chilling--and terrible--possibilities troubled her mind. Did she really know the mysterious Nicholas Bertold...her lover, her husband, her master, the man who held her so utterly spellbound in a web of Dark Desire.
MASQUE BY GASLIGHT 1970 When Kitty Temple arrived from America to visit her godmother, the Comtesse Adele de Sens, she found the City of Light in the grip of a killer. But the murder of questionable young women - however shocking - was far removed from the beautiful, vivacious young heiress...until she too knew fear, and neither the handsome Inspector Giles Debray nor Colin Venner, the brooding actor who courted her, offered much protection. When the Comtesse's companion borrowed Kitty's hat and was subsequently murdered, the terrified young girl knew she was next...
Justine Cole
THE COPELAND BRIDE 1983 ISBN:0440112354 All London knew her as "Her Highness", the fiery temptress who robbed men of their gold.
Kresley Cole
Lynn A. Coleman
ONE MAN'S HONOR 5/2002 ISBN: 1586604872 Isabella's parents are traditional, conservative Cubans. They would never dream of letting their daughter speak privately with a man; they would be furious to know he had held her hand and once nearly kissed her. Isabella doesn't want to dishonor her parents. But something draws her to Richard Southard, something she can't resist. When he employs her has his bookkeeper, she has more opportunity to watch him, to speak with him, to get to know him better. And the more she knows him, the more she finds herself falling helplessly in love. But Richard is a man of honor. Although he is as attracted to Isabella as she is to him, he will respect her culture's traditions. Only God knows the way for Isabella and Richard to honorably scale the barrier that lies between them.
SOUTHERN TREASURES 12/2001 ISBN 1586603868 Twenty years ago, a secret drove her from Savannah to Key West. Now it keeps her on her guard against men--while it also keeps her from accepting God's forgiveness and grace in her life. Instead, Peg works hard to find contentment in her many friendships, and at Southern Treasures, her little gift shop. After all, she asks herself, what more does she need in life? But when Matt Bower comes to Key West, everything changes for Peg. His presence stirs painful memories for Peg, who longs to trust him with her secret...with her heart. But while she fears what he will think of her if he know the truth, Matt nurses a secret of his own--one that's just as painful. Can Peg and Matt find the courage to share their secrets? Where might God be leading these two vulnerable hearts?
Laurel Collins
DARK SURRENDER 1988 ISBN: 0843925701 For 22 years, Adrienne Dalton had led a charmed life, until her beloved father's death brought her to the isolated Maine estate of Wyndecliffe. Sheltered and naive, she never imagined she would become entangled in a blood feud between her benefactor, Matthew Wyndham, and his black-sheep brother, Jason. Inveterate gambler, consummate lover, Jason seemed the devil incarnate to her fearful imagination. Yet there was an unspoken bond between them, a spellbinding lure to his hard body that made Adrienne long for the ultimate Dark Surrender.
DESERT ENCHANTRESS 1988 ISBN:0312908644 Beautiful american Kate Wrightwood's earliest passionate desire was to explore the temples and tombs of the ancients, unearthing the fabulous lost treasures of the pharaohs. British Nick Hammonton, a handsome, ambitious young archaeologist, seems to Kate the ideal match-her ticket to adventure. from the glittering salons of Paris to the shimmering sands of Egypt's Valley of the Kings. But an urgent desire, stronger than any dream or ambition, sears her heart as she battles not only to escape the arms of the notorious bandit, the Desert Falcon, but to rekindle her love in Nick's heart as his Desert Enchantress.
THE FIREBRAND 6/1997 ISBN: 0821756672 She was called the Firebrand... Caroline Harlowe is determined to have the two things men have told her she cannot - a voice, and the freedom to use it. Fervently committed to the abolition of slavery, she becomes one of the first women students at Oberlin College, fired with a dream to someday make a difference. Marriage has no place in the life of a crusader...or so Caroline thinks until she meets Pierce Barnett, a man who stirs she heart and threatens her cherished independence. ...And only one man could tame her....Caroline is astonished to find that Pierce applauds her courage and commitment...until a misunderstanding convinces her that he will never truly share her passion for change. But Pierce has his own physical and emotional scars earned in the battle against slavery, and he wants to protect Caroline as best he can. Yet when he makes another brave stand for freedom, Caroline will fight by his side for their fiery cause - and the love that will forever join their voices - and their hearts - in a passionate victory.
THE JADE GARDEN 4/1992 ISBN:1557736839 Yearning to escape her sheltered life as package store clerk in nineteenth-century New York, Claire Pennington finds release when her long-absent father summons her from the Orient, and on her journey she encounters loner and sailor Jordan Sharpe.
Katherine Compton
EDEN'S ANGEL 7/1990 ISBN: 0380761211 Before he vanished into the wilds of South America, Alena Sutton's scientist father left her a bizarre legacy: half of a treasure map that would lead her to indescribable wealth. But the other half belonged to archeologist Zachariah Summerfield--a maddening, irresistible rogue whose burning gaze stripped Alena of her every defense... and whose scorching kisses betrayed a hunger impossible to deny. Venturing together into the steaming jungles of the Amazon, the rugged adventurer and the emerald-eyed beauty were consumed by a passion that went far beyond their most fevered fantasies. But Alena and Zach would soon be fighting for their lives and love in a savage, perilous Eden--where danger mingled with desire...and each blissful moment of rapture could well be their last.
Phoebe Conn
DESIRE 3/1993 ISBN: 0821740865 In Madrid to attend the marriage of the Spanish Infanta to the Duke of Montpesier, sheltered Michelle Minoux was thrilled by the city's air of romance and celebration. Then she met a dark and mysterious gypsy guitar player - a handsome rogue whose forbidden touch sent her into a sinful ecstasy. But soon his midnight caresses swept Michelle into a whirlwind of peril and intrigue on the high seas. Who was this Spanish seducer? A dangerous adventurer...or the tender lover meant to capture her heart forever?
Theresa Conway
PALOMA 4/1981 ISBN:0345287061 From the peaceful green hills of Ireland to the dangerous plains of Argentina, she crossed half a world for love...Brenna Kildare possessed all the beauty and spirit of a wild Irish rose. But fire burned in her veins for only one man, a man who brought her torment and breathless joy, heartache and passion...a man she would cross half a world to see, and wait half a lifetime to love.
SEEDS OF DESTINY 1989 ISBN: 0515100080 Torn between two loves, she let fate choose her heart's desire...Caitlyn O'Rourke was restless for adventure, romance, love. And so, the fiery Southern miss set out to find a passion that matched her own - a journey that would take her from the ornate estates of New Orleans to the dusty Australian outback. There, her heart would be forever changed by two men...Brant Sinclair was a gently bred Southerner whom Caitlyn schemed to marry - in spite of his love for her sister. Tanner Malone was Brant's best friend, a Boston trader who was as shrewd in business as he was in romance. While Civil War raged in the States, Caitlyn struggled with her own unique destiny against the savage beauty of Australia. Only one man could truly unleash her deepest desires...with his roguish smile...his rapturous kisses. But fate gave her only one chance to turn her unspoken longings into a glorious ecstasy that could last for eternity - or destroy all she held dear...
Beatrice Coogan
THE BIG WIND 1969 ISBN:0345273680 The tempestuous saga of a fiery Irish belle and the two powerful men who sought to possess her....Big Wind of 1839, the greatest storm ever recorded in Ireland, through the events of the tumultuous 19th century, through the Great Famine and the land war between the starving Irish peasants and the Anglo-Irish landlords.
THE FLOWER OF THE STORM 1969 ISBN:0345273680 Retitled from THE BIG WIND (see description above)
Catherine Cookson
THE BANNAMAN LEGACY 4/1985 ISBN: 0671631861 In the autmn of 1807 Roddy Greenbank is brought to the small town of Langley by his father, but within hours after their arrival Roddy's father meets a violent and mysterious death. Roddy is left with no memory of anything or anyone he has ever known. And so Roddy comes to be adopted and raised by old Kate Makepeace, a family friend, whose special brand of country wisdom sets her apart from the rest of Langley.
THE BLACK CANDLE 5/1990 ISBN: 0552135763 Bridget Dean Mordaunt was a woman of consequence in her own part of the world. Inheriting her father's businesses at the age of nineteen, by the time she was twenty-three in 1880, she was running them as confidently as any man. Yet the path destiny required her to follow was not an easy one. Her feckless cousin Victoria became infatuated with Lionel Filmore, the fortune-hunting elder son of an old but impoverished family living in the decayed grandeur of Grove House. Bridget had no illusions about Lionel, but Victoria's happiness was paramount to her. So a pattern began to form that would shape the lives of generations to come, a pattern of some good and some great evil, but all of it inexorably linking Bridget ever more closely with the Filmores and their house.
THE DESERT CROP 2/1997 ISBN: 1551665832 With his family farm on the brink of financial ruin, widower Hector Stewart married Moira Conelly, a woman expected to come into a generous inheritance. His children, Daniel and Pattie, soon come to love and cherish the stepmother who brings laughter back into their somber house. But when Moira is cheated out of the inheritance they desperately need, things take a turn for the worst. Hector, increasingly bitter, spends all his time drinking. Pattie marries to escape, but Daniel stays to run the farm to support the family - sacrificing his own dreams in the name of duty. Then a senseless act of violence prompts an even more horrifying act of vengeance. And through this unexpected tragedy, the Stewarts are given the change to be a family once again.
THE DEVIL AND MARY ANN 1971 Whoever the Devil was, Mary Ann had made a bad bargain with him. His special hell for her was boarding school. He ran the place himself -- in different guises. There was those, of course, who saw a good bit of the Devil in Mary Ann. Just enough to charm the Old Man out of his own game.
THE GOLDEN STRAW 1995 ISBN:0552136859 The Golden Straw, as it would be named, was a large, broad-brimmed hat presented to Emily Pearson by her long-time friend and employer Mabel Arkwright, milliner and modiste. And before long it was to her employer that Emily owed the gift of the business itself, for Mabel was in poor health and had come to rely more and more on Emily before her untimely death in 1880.While on holiday in France, Emily and the Golden Straw attracted the eye of the Paul Steerman, a guest at the hotel, and throughout his stay he paid her unceasing attention. But Paul Steerman was not all he seemed to be and he was to bring nothing but disgrace and tragedy to Emily, precipitating a series of events that would influence the destiny of not only her children but her grandchildren too.
A GRAND MAN 1971 Handsome, high-spirited and charming, Mike Shaughnessy could capture any woman's heart. But there was a devil in Mike Shaughnessy - a devil that threatened to deprive him of the only woman he would ever love. It would take a miracle to rescue Mike. A very small miracle named Mary Ann.
THE HARROGATE SECRET 1985 Young Frederick Musgrave was never more agile than when navigating his sculler across the waters of the Tyne between the busy seaports of North and South Shields in 1843. Already his services were in demand as a carrier of messages and certain small packages for those whose activities made them the target of the Customs and Excise men. As well as agile, Freddie was also reckoned to be lucky, but on such a night as brought him to The Towers, the home of Mr Roderick Gallagher, both luck and courage were to be tested to the limit. From that night on, things really began to happen to Freddie, and the best of them came when he gained the friendship and patronage of Miss Maggie Hewitt, who was to play a major role in shaping his life and fortunes. But he would still need all his luck and resourcefulness to escape the long shadow cast by Roderick Gallagher, whose power and influence threatened all who crossed his path…
KATE HANNIGAN 1950 n the slums of Newcastle at the turn of the century lived Kate Hannigan, illegitimate, courageous and fighting desperately to free herself from poverty and ignorance. She had learned from experience not to expect too much from men. Her father was a vicious bully and she had been deserted by a man she trusted. The into her life comes Doctor Rodney Price, a man who had chosen to work among Newcastle's poor. And between a wealthy man locked in a loveless marriage and a child of the slums, grew a love that opposed all the concepts of Edwardian society.
LIFE AND MARY ANN 1977 The fifth in the Mary Ann series, Mary Ann is now 17 and discovers that life is indeed both a sad and funny affair.
THE LORD AND MARY ANN 5/1975 Mr. Lord had been the saving of their family in so many ways, but in return he expected Mary Ann to keep her part of the bargain they'd struck together...
LOVE AND MARY ANN 9/1972 The fourth book in the Mary Ann Shaughnessy series, this tells the story of 13 year old Mary ann as she starts to come to grips with adult problems for the first time.
THE MALLEN GIRL 1973 Second novel of the trilogy: Even as child Barbara was beautiful. But as her beauty grew, so did the affliction which shadowed it. She was becoming more and more deaf. Yet, living in an almost silent world, Barbara was protected from the knowledge which might otherwise have destroyed her - the secret of her own origins. Her governess, Anna Brigmore, was haunted by this knowledge, and by the thought that it must one day be revealed to the girl she cherished as her own daughter.
THE MALLEN NOVELS 1974 Contains THE MALLEN STREAK, THE MALLEN GIRL and THE MALLEN LITTER.
THE MALLEN STREAK 1973 Thomas Mallen of High Banks Hall had many sons, most of them bastards. But to all of them he passed on his mark--a distinctive flash of white hair running to the left temple, known as the Mallen Streak. It was said that those who bore the Streak seldom reached old age or died in bed, and that nothing good ever came of a Mallen. Nor did it. In 1851, Thomas Mallen found himself a ruined man, forced amid scandal and disgrace, to sell the Hall and adjust to a new and very different mode of living. With him went his two young wards and their indomitable governess. Then, into their lives came the Radlet brothers of Wilbur Farm, one of whom bore the unmistakable Mallen Streak.
THE MALTESE ANGEL 1992 Ward Gibson knew what was expected of him by the village folk, and especially by the Mason family, whose daughter Daisy he had known all his life. But then, in a single week, his whole world had been turned upside down by a dancer, Stephanie McQueen, who seemed to float across the stage of the Empire Music Hall where she was appearing as The Maltese Angel. To his amazement, the attraction was mutual, and after a whirlwind courtship she agreed to marry him. But a scorpion had already begun to emerge from beneath the stone of the local community, who considered that Ward had betrayed their expectations, and had led on and cruelly deserted Daisy. There followed a series of reprisals on his family, one of them serious enough to cause him to exact a terrible revenge; and these events would twist and turn the course of many lives through Ward's own and succeeding generations.
MARRIAGE AND MARY ANN 1978 The sixth book in the Mary Ann Shaugnessy series dealing with Mary Ann and her approaching marriage.
MARY ANN AND BILL 10/1967 ISBN: 0356019446
MARY ANN'S ANGELS 1973 Mary Ann has six year old twins, from her happy marriage to Corny Boyle.
THE MOTH 1986 When Robert Bradley gave up his job in the Jarrow shipyards to work at his uncle's old-established carpenter's shop in a small village, he found that life with domineering Uncle John did not always prove easy. As a diversion, he began exploring the Durham countryside and it was there that he had his first strange encounter with Millie, the ethereal girl-child whose odd ways and nocturnal wanderings had led to her being known locally as 'Thorman's Moth'. The time came when a dramatic turn in Robert's affairs brought him into a close involvement with the Thormans of Foreshaw and especially with the eldest daughter, Agnes, who alone of the family loved and protected the frail, unworldy Millie. But this was 1913, and anything beyond the most formal relationship had to face the barriers and injustices of a rigid social hierarchy that was soon to perish in the flames of war.
THE PARSON'S DAUGHTER 1987 The Victorian Sabbath was not without its difficulties for some of those committed to its observance. Such a one was Nancy Ann Hazel, the young and high-spirited daughter of a country parson. He was a good man and she loved him dearly, but his Sunday sermons could seem long indeed when beyond the church door the sunshine beckoned her into the fields of this pleasant corner of County Durham. Two older brothers had taught Nancy Ann how to look after herself, so that she could, when necessary, hold her own with the roughest of the village children, even though such escapades might not be considered altogether fitting in a daughter of the vicarage; but they foreshadowed the courage and fortitude she would soon enough have to muster when the greater challenges of a controversial marriage thrust her into womanhood, and when conflict and tragedy alike had to be faced and overcome.
THE RAG NYMPH 1991 The story of an abandoned child from a bad part of town who is taken in by Aggie Winkowski. The two form a special relationship that helps Aggie find meaning in her life, and molds the young woman's destiny.
TILLY 1980 ISBN: 0671426044 'One day you'll come into your own, Tilly. Yes you will.' It was those words from a wise old friend that kept Tilly Trotter going. A beautiful, solitary innocent in the rural England of 1840, wrongly accused of witchcraft by superstitious villagers, Tilly was forced to enter a wider world alone - through the death of her family, the burning of her home, the shattering loss of the man she loved, she willed herself to survive, taking moments of happiness where she could find them. And always there were many men who wanted her, who would take her - but never on her own terms. From the darkness of the coal mines to a servant's life on the edge of grandeur, Tilly struggled on, never losing hope or spirit of will, learning along the way that when one door shuts, another opens - and someday one might open upon the bright promise of a loving future.
TILLY ALONE 1982 Originally published as TILLY TROTTER WIDOWED. First a rich man's mistress, then a frontier wife, and now a widow… With her two children, half-blind Willy and her adopted daughter, Josefina, Tilly returns to Highfield Manor, where she'd worked as a nursemaid all those years ago. Now a rich woman, Highfield, the estate and mine are hers. At 35, Tilly is white-haired, but as spirited and as magnetic to men as ever. Her reputation as a witch continues to grow among the villagers, ever hostile and suspicious, but she is supported by faithful friends and warm memories. Life still has much in store for Tilly: old loves and enmities provide fresh challenges, and the final shaping of her destiny provides the theme for an absorbing and vividly dramatic story.
TILLY WED 1981 Beautiful, bewitching Tilly Trotter has served Mark Sopwith devotedly for twelve years - his wife in all but name. But now he is dead and Tilly's whole future at Highfield Manor looks uncertain. Four months pregnant with Mark's child, Tilly's predicament is worsened by the hostility of his oldest grown-up child, Jessie Ann, who is determined to have Tilly banished from the Manor... No stranger to hardship and trouble, brave young Matilda is destined to leave her native Tyneside for a strange and distant land - following her heart to America, where great peril awaits her...
Lori Copeland
ANGEL FACE AND AMAZING GRACE 1/1997 ISBN: 0449148866 While most of the women in town suddenly developed little ailments that needed the new doctor's immediate attention. April Truitt only developed a big urge to throttle him. The overbearing Gray Fuller represented everything she vowed to fight until her last breath. It was war...if only April could manage to resist the heavenly temptation of the handsome, single doctor's bedside manner...
FOOL ME ONCE 4/1990 ISBN: 0440205646 It was the dirtiest low-down trick a man could play on a woman... Fate and the B&O railroad delivered the sassy, beautiful, and very rich Miss Gideon Wakefield right into Tom Lannigan's hands. The Philadelphia debutante was coming west to sell her new inheritance, the Wakefield Lumber Company - the company that was the key to timberman Lannigan's dreams. But a train accident on her way to the rip-roaring lumber camp took away her memory...and gave Tom an idea for revenge. Now Gideon believed Tom's story that she was the penniless new schoolmarm in charge of the town's seven young hellions. And she believed his kisses when they ignited her body with the white heat of love. But would the hot desire between them turn to icy hate if she discovered the truth about the man who stole her identity...and her heart?
GOLDEN HARVEST short story in SEASONS OF LOVE 8/1995 ISBN:0061082864
SOMETHING OLD short story in WITH THIS RING 3/1998 ISBN: 0842378227
TWICE LOVED 8/2008 ISBN: 9780061364914 Texas, 1865. Willow Madison and her friends Copper and Audre taught school in neighboring Texas towns, until the Yankees rode in and burned them out. In the midst of fear and chaos, survivors banded together to fight for what remained of their homes. Then word reached the people that the terrible war was over. Now penniless but still hopeful, Willow vows she will take care of her friends, and her ailing uncle, in Thunder Ridge, Texas, even if it means having to marry wealthy Silas Sterling, a man thirty years her senior. But standing in her way is saw mill owner Tucker Gray, with his enticing eyes and infuriating headstrong manner—the man Willow cannot get out of her head ... or her heart. Even though her friends beg her not to give up her dream of happiness, Willow is determined to do the right thing for those who are dearest to her. But which path does God want Willow to take: a life of duty and commitment . . . or a life of everlasting love? RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Copeland-Crawford-Aiken-Palmer
WITH THIS RING 3/1998 ISBN: 0842378227
Catherine Coulter
EVENING STAR 5/1985 Giana Van Cleve, the heroine, has fallen in love with a vicious fortune hunter. Her mother, the renowned shipowner and builder Aurora Van Cleve, is desperate to save her daughter. She agrees to support Giana's wedding if Giana agrees first to spend an unusual three months in Rome with her Uncle Daniele. But Giana's uncle takes this bargain far beyond what Aurora ever imagined. Thus, Giana first sees Alex Saxton not in a society drawing room but in a brothel. The next time she sees him, she is one of the virgins to be sold to the highest bidder at the infamous Roman Flower Auction. He wins the bid and her, but not for long. Four years later, when Alex meets Giana again in London, she has become a woman intent on success in a man's world. Alex is set on revenge - he will have her and nothing will stop him.
JADE STAR 5/1987 Saint Morris first meets Juliana DuPres on the island of Maui when he is a very young doctor, just landed off a whaler, and she is the fourteen-year-old daughter of an impossibly puritanical minister.When he leaves Maui he takes her girl's heart with him. When Saint sees Juliana again it is four years later and she is being sold in a Barbary Coast slave auction in San Francisco. He saves her, then returns her to her parents on Maui. But there is no welcome home for Juliana. She is an outcast, reviled by her family, considered no better than a prostitute. What is Saint to do? He does what any honorable man would do - he marries her and takes her back to San Francisco. He likes to think of himself as her protector and her brother.Juliana has other ideas.Now their adventures begin.
MIDNIGHT STAR 6/1986 ISBN: 0451404467 This is the story of Delaney Saxton, a man who struck it rich in the California gold rush of 1849 and stayed to build a great city, and Chauncey Fitzhugh, an heiress from England who travels to San Francisco to avenge her father. She believes Delaney Saxton ruined him and plans to destroy Saxton in the same way he destroyed her father - leaving him betrayed and penniless. But her prey isn't what she expected. He is charming, too handsome for his own good, rich - and elusive as a wisp of smoke. As for Chauncey, as bright and creative as she is, she can't come up with a plan to ruin him financially until, quite by accident, she is hurt and ends up in his bed and in his care. Naturally, one thing leads to another. Chauncey gains what she wants, but soon the tables are turned. These two strong-willed people must overcome their distrust of each other and deal with a relentless killer from halfway across the world.
SWEET SURRENDER 10/1984 original title for EVENING STAR (see description above)
WILD STAR 11/1987 There are men and then there are MEN, and then there's Brent Hammond, a gambler who's handsome as sin, distrustful as only a betrayed man can be, and wilder than an unbroken stallion. When he meets Byrony by chance in San Diego, he can't help himself - he's charmed -until he sees her again in San Francisco as the petted wife of an older rich man. All his distrust and cynicism come out, and he treats her very badly indeed. He fights as only a man can who's willing to do anything to keep himself protected Until her life is threatened, and he is the only one to protect her. Byrony is innocent, honorable, and more alone than a single star in a black sky.She is caught in a web of deception that will kill her if she can't escape it. She also has fallen in love with a man who despises her one minute and tries to seduce her the next. What she does shouldn't really surprise you because you'll see soon enough that she has guts.
Debra S. Cowan
ALMOST HOME 2/1994 ISBN: 051511863X Determined to save her late husband's floundering business, Leah enters a marriage of convenience with Cabot, a man who is eager for a child, and together they journey toward true love.
FOR PETE'S SAKE 4/1996 ISBN: 1557739781 Sent to Spinner, Missouri, to capture the gang responsible for the murder of Julia's husband and the injury of her six-year-old son, Marsh, a detective, finds himself irresistibly drawn to the grieving widow and her spirited young son.
THE MATCHMAKER 10/1995 ISBN: 0515117110 Accepting a task by his grandmother as a means of observing a family tradition, C. J., who is grieving the loss of his fiancee, is ordered to play matchmaker for the lonely Lizzie Culpepper.
A SECRET YEARNING 9/1996 ISBN: 0440221951 Relieved to find that the beautiful Regina Harrison is merely pretending to be a nun in order to catch her father's killer, Cole Wellington teams up with the object of his affections to capture an outlaw.
Carol Cox
Deborah Cox
FROM THIS DAY FORWARD 8/1995 ISBN: 0061083615 Master of a coffee empire in the Amazon, Jason Sinclair needed only one thing to make his life complete - an heir. He arranged for a bride by proxy, and to his bewildered surprise, she turned out to be anything but the meek helpmate he requested. The New Orleans beauty Caroline Marshall would prove to be everything he truly needed, and more.
Tracy Cozzens
A DANGEROUS FANCY 8/2002 ISBN: 0821773518 Lily Carrington's ambitious mother had set her sights on a Season. With three younger daughters yet unwed, high hopes for a titled marriage were pinned on Lily. As honorable as she was beautiful, Lily vowed not to disappoint her family-even as she became the pawn in a sordid plot of seduction by the Prince of Wales himself…and found herself falling in love with a most unlikely hero. A known rogue, Alexander Drake was fully familiar with the intricacies of the seduction game. For that reason alone, he could not stand by and witness and innocent beauty like Lily being used as the Prince's plaything. So he set about making a match for her with someone of honorable character. And yet, Alexander hadn't anticipated his growing love for Lily, or that she had embarked on her own matchmaking plot-to marry the object of her desire…him!
A 5th AVENUE AFFAIR 9/2003 ISBN: 0821774514 Would She Heal His Heart…Despite her sisters’ nuptial successes, Clara Carrington is decidedly not interested in a husband—her charitable work is far more fulfilling than marriage would be. Or so she believes, until her sister Pauline sends her an ailing man, recently discharged from the British Army. Captain Stone Hawke—brooding, melancholy, and ruggedly appealing—may be the exact opposite of the New York gentlemen who court Clara, but he’s also the only man who has ever made her heart beat faster… Or Win His Love? With no place else to go, Stone reluctantly accepts the shelter of the Carrington home—although he doesn’t believe a Manhattan socialite like Clara can understand what he survived, and lost, in India. But his stubborn intentions are no match for Clara’s sunny optimism—or the temptation to counter her spirited attempts to draw him out of his shell with a few well-timed kisses. Suddenly, the passion that flares between them engages Stone in a new kind of battle—and love is a victory he longs to claim…
A 5th AVENUE CHRISTMAS 10/2003 ISBN 0821774522 They Meet Again…Meryl Carrington, the youngest of the five Carrington sisters, is her mother’s darling—and her mother’s despair. Matrimony? Meryl seems to have most unladylike plans to run the family railroad empire instead. Fortunately, her father has already chosen a candidate for the presidency of the company: Joseph Hammond, Meryl’s childhood friend, who’s returned to New York after years abroad. Perhaps this handsome young man can persuade their headstrong daughter to set aside her unseemly ambition and think of romance, not railroads, now that the holidays are here… …Under The Mistletoe...Joseph just found out that Meryl has plans of her own...battle plans! She’s determined to succeed and prove her merit as a businesswoman—and he takes the bet she proposes to decide which of them will win the coveted assignment. Meryl is a worthy adversary: spirited, brilliant, and beautiful. He can’t deny his growing feelings for her—and their first, unexpected kiss may turn out to be the best Christmas gift of all…
FLIGHT OF FANCY 5/2002 ISBN: 082177350X "New" money was about as acceptable in Manhattan society as last year's fashions, which was why Hannah Carrington, her four sisters, and their father's railroad wealth had been whisked off to Paris by Hannah's mother. Hannah was glad to explore the City of Light, but husband-hunting was another matter, for Hannah had a secret dream--the study of science. Marriage would put an end to all that--unless it was to a man as inclined to scholarly study as she was, namely Lord Benjamin Ramsey. When he was arrested for conducting an experiment without a permit, Benjamin was surprised to meet another chastised scientist behind bars--especially such a lovely one. Yet Hannah seemed the answer to all his problems--her dowry would fund his impoverished estate and her thoughtful intelligence would make her the perfect woman to run his home while he ran his laboratory. But Hannah had other ideas, as dangerous as the chemistry sizzling between them. Would it lead to something far more potent--like love?
WHITE TIGER'S FANCY 2/2003 ISBN: 0821773968 The eldest of her mother's three remaining unmarried daughters, Pauline Carrington is dismayed to find herself the object of endless matchmaking schemes. A natural athlete with a zest for anything new or exciting, marriage is the last thing she wants-she craves adventure, and she's sure to find it while visiting her sister Lily in exotic India. Sure enough, she discovers handsome and daring Nathaniel Savidge is planning a dangerous tiger hunt-but refuses to consider taking her with him. Nate is too serious about the coming hunt for a man-eating tiger to let a pretty, pampered heiress distract him. But when Pauline disguises herself as a Punjabi to join the retinue, he decides to teach her a lesson she won't soon forget-and give her a taste of just what life in the wild is all about. Pretending that he hasn't seen through her disguise will be troublesome, though, especially when he realizes that the savvy young adventuress has captured his heart and soul.
Francine Craft
THE BLACK PEARL 1/1996 ISBN: 0786002360 Katherine Keyes and Martin Dominguez are willing to risk everything for an uncertain future as man and wife. Unfortunately, their happiness is threatened by a dark secret from Martin's past.
Gretchen Craig
ALWAYS AND FOREVER 4/2006 ISBN: 0821780190 Set against a fascinating backdrop of 1830s Louisiana, Always and Forever is a sweeping saga of a Creole-American family and of two remarkable women whose friendship will be tested by prejudice, tragedy, passion, and the love of one extraordinary man. Since they were children running barefoot about Toulouse Plantation, Josie and Cleo have been as close as sisters, forging an unbreakable bond that defies their roles as mistress and slave. Together, the two have shared secrets and protected each other through happiness and heartbreak. They never dream they could also share an intense passion for the same man, the elegant, charming, and irresistibly seductive Bertrand Chamard. His love will change their friendship forever and set in motion a series of events from which there can be no turning back. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
EVER MY LOVE 5/2007 ISBN: 0821780204 On the eve of Civil War, the daughter of Southern planters finds her loyalties tested in a magnificent saga of family pride and forbidden love . . .Brought up amid the luxury of plantation life, Marianne Johnston never questions her sheltered life until, driven by her conscience, she joins the Underground Railroad. Soon Marianne is living a dangerous double life, helping slaves flee by night and acting the belle by day. And nothing is riskier than her attraction to wild, heartless young Southerner Yves Chamard—while being courted by his noble older brother. Now Marianne is desperately trying to resist Yves's seduction, knowing that her surrender to his touch may cost her everything. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Elizabeth Crane
REFLECTIONS IN TIME 4/1992 ISBN: 0505520893 When practical-minded, no-nonsense Renata begins to have trouble sleeping, she decides hypnotism is the answer to her problem. But when the doctor puts her under, she finds herself in another time and place, about to be married to a devastatingly handsome stranger, Renata decided that either her therapist was losing his mind, or she was! Unable to return to her own era, Renata found life a tangled web back in 1880s Louisiana. Her unforeseen marriage to Nathan Blue was threatened by secrets she was only beginning to fathom, and her growing passion for her new husband was hampered by Victorian morals, which proclaimed a woman must perform her wifely duty, but never enjoy it. Despite the gulf between them, Renata vowed that nothing would keep her from loving the most deliciously alluring man she'd known in one hundred years!
TIME REMEMBERED 8/1993 ISBN: 0505519046 Fed up with the boring wimps she dated, Jody Farnell put all her energy into restoring a decaying antebellum mansion. And among the ruins of Whitefriars, the young architect discovered the diary of a man from another century who fascinated her like no other and a voodoo doll whose ancient spell whisked her back one hundred years to his time. A true gentleman of the Old South, Micah Deveroux also yearned for someone he could love above all others, and he thought he had found that woman until Jody mysteriously appeared in his own bedroom. Enchanted by Jody, betrothed to another, Micah feared he had lost his one chance at happiness - unless the same black magic that had brought Jody into his life could work its charms again.
DiAnna Crawford
SOMETHING NEW short story in WITH THIS RING 3/1998 ISBN:0842378227
Catherine Creel
LADY ALEX 10/1994 ISBN: 044914786X Matched in spirit, pride and lust, a lady convict and a rakish American challenge passion's sweet temptation...Alexandra Sinclair was no baseborn little doxy to be toyed with; she was a lady--with no place for her in Australia in the factory prison or in the arms of an arrogant green eyed American who treated her with such a shocking lack of respect. Yet something in his eyes compelled her to trust him. He had rescued her from the factory, true enough, yet at what cost?
SCOUNDREL'S BRIDE 5/1987 ISBN:0821720627 Tahitian temptress--After months at sea, virile Ryan Gallagher was hungry for a woman. Then he saw raven-haired Hillary Reynolds, and the lusty captain would settle for no less. Her violet eyes promised infinite passion; her creamy skin was flushed with desire. Crazed with wanting her, Ryan would go to any extreme just to have the nubile witch clasped in his firm embrace and begging for his touch! Hot-blooded sailor--Innocent Hillary Reynolds felt nothing but disgust for all the seamen who overran her island home, starved for wine and wenches until she met dashing Ryan Gallagher. His tanned physique overwhelmed her with his masculinity; his aura of force and power vanquished her restraint. In a moment of wild abandon, she offered herself to his caress like a purring tigress, sure that come dawn, he'd put a ring on her finger and make her his blushing Scoundrel's Bride.
WILD TEXAS ROSE 12/1993 ISBN:0449147851 Callie Rose Buchanan had a face and figure that would tempt any man -- but also a fierce independence that no man could challenge. A trip to Europe was arranged to land this fiery cowgirl a husband with enough gumption to tame her. What she got was Ian MacGregor. Abducted to settle an old feud between the two clans, Callie was imprisoned in his Highland castle -- and fought like a wildcat to escape the handsome chieftain who threatened her freedom with the weakness of desire. But there was nothing like a challenge to make the blood flow faster in the devilishly handsome Scotsman's veins. He was determined to possess her, first with angry lust, then with a searing yet tender passion that branded her soul and bound them to a heated and turbulent future -- as vast and storm-tossed as the seas spanning the Highlands and the blazing skies of Texas.
Jasmine Cresswell
THE DANEWOOD LEGACY(#188) 5/1982 ISBN:0449502902 When Elizabeth's father told her she was to wed the village's lecherous, sin-intoxicated Vicar, she fled in the night to London. Since she was a very sheltered and innocent creature, she did not realize she had taken refuge in a brothel. Nor did she fully understand why the wealthy Lord Danewood hired her away from the Madam to be his companion. But Elizabeth was soon on her way to learning a great deal about everything....
PRINCE OF THE NIGHT 7/1995 ISBN:0451405668 Dark Lord - The peasants called him the Count of Albion, and they both feared and revered him. A fighter for Italy's freedom, the mysterious nobleman preferred the night hours to mask his missions - and to shroud his tormented soul. Sequestered in the villa called the Three Fountains, he hid his secrets well - until the arrival of a beautiful Englishwoman, Miss Cordelia Hope...Dark Love - Cordelia faced the cloaked, commanding count at the isolated villa, and felt an unbidden flood of desire. Irresistibly drawn to him, she sensed his pain and, in all her innocence, craved his touch. He would become her destiny - the vampire whose love she was dying to possess.
Millie Criswell
MAIL-ORDER OUTLAW 8/1994 ISBN:0061080942 New York debutante Cassandra Templeton was determined to get married--to anyone besides the insufferable fool her domineering father had chosen for her. She had a simple plan: she'd place an ad, marry a gentleman farmer by proxy then be free of her daddy to live her own life. But when tall, handsome Texan Jake Steele showed up as her husband, Cassie realized her plan had backfired..
Pam Crooks
Tanya Anne Crosby
Charlene Cross
ALMOST A WHISPER 4/1994 ISBN:0671794310 After the mysterious death of her father, Leah Balfour Dalton was destitute - and desperate to rescue her orphaned sisters and brothers. In one daring moment, she seized a chance to pose as the niece of a wealthy solicitor, hoping to discover the truth about her father's forsaken legacy. At elegant Sinclair House in London, her masquerade began. Only the piercing gaze of Ian Sinclair, the Earl of Huntsford, could unmask her charade...beginning with their first hungry, searching kiss... Ian came from Falcon's Gate, his magnificent Scottish estate, to seek a wife amidst London's glittering balls. And, like the dark, winged creature for which his home was named, he swept down upon the golden-haired Leah. But a daunting shadow in the eyes of his lovely prey revealed her heart's deepest secrets - secrets that must not come between a husband and his wife...
A HEART SO INNOCENT 10/1990 ISBN:0671677004 Lady Aidan Prescott was being forced into marriage--by even Queen Victoria herself--who said the girl was too wild and a husband would settle her.
MASQUE OF ENCHANTMENT 2/1990 ISBN:0671676997 Accused of murder, Alissa Ashford fled London for Scotland in the garb of a prim governess. Her employer, Jared Braxton, was outrageously attractive, but when he forced her to wed him, they denied the tenderness between them--until a deadly intrigue threatened all they treasured!
Judy Cuevas
BLACK SILK 7/1991 ISBN: 0515106097 Her name was Submit - but she vowed she never would... She was young and proper, and happily married to an elderly marquess. But only when she was suddenly widowed did Submit Channing-Downes encounter a true burning desire - in the dangerous embrace of roguish aristocrat Graham Wessit. His eyes spoke of experience; his kiss urged Submit to give in to his heated persuasions. In a tumultuous battle of wills, Submit would find her heart caught up in a whirlwind of fiery passions - and unexpected pleasures... Nothing is quite so sensuous...Or so seductive as ...Black Silk
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