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Andrea Kane
ECHOES IN THE MIST 2/1994 ISBN: 0671755331 Trenton Kingsley, the embittered Duke of Broddington, has dreamt of the day that he would avenge his beloved father's death. Returning suddenly from self-imposed exile on the Isle of Wright, he takes aim at the man he holds responsible...the unscrupulous Baxter Caldwell, Viscount Winsham. In a masterstroke of irony, he forces the viscount's hand and walks away with his most precious possession...his innocent sister, Ariana. Ariana Caldwell has grown up in the shadow of a secret family tragedy, at the heart of which lay Trenton Kingsley. Forced to marry a man she had been led to hate -- and fear -- Ariana is helplessly caught in the renewed fury of an ancient feud. But despite the danger, her husband's unaccountable torment only draws Ariana closer, and her instincts will not allow her to retreat. Caught between Trenton's brooding desire and her brother's imperious demands, Ariana is on an odyssey for the truth...consumed by the promise of a passionate, overwhelming love.
THE MUSIC BOX 3/1998 ISBN: 067153484X Gabrielle Denning, the sheltered ward of Lady Nevon, grew up in an almost magical place, an estate where society's outcasts were treasured and the ruling spirit was love. It almost made her forget the terrifying night when an unexplained fire killed her parents, leaving her with only a music box to remember them by. But her idyllic world is about to change, as the bastard son of Lady Nevon's brother maneuvers his carriage up the manor's drive. Outcast by his titled father, Bryce Lyndley has nonetheless flourished, becoming a renowned barrister ruled entirely by his principles. The meeting to which he has been summoned at Nevon Manor, however, could transform his life-and warm his heart. Amid unfolding secrets, his life and Gaby's will touch, awakening emotions as profound as the richest symphony. But if happiness is to be theirs, Bryce and Gaby must uncover a mystery from long ago, reawakened by the haunting notes of Gaby's music box...or lose all they cherish to treachery, heartbreak, and a murderer's nefarious plan.
WISHES IN THE WIND 8/1996 ISBN: 0671534831 Nicole Aldridge, daughter of England's most acclaimed jockey, Nick Aldridge, whisks her father into hiding to protect him from blackmailers who have threatened his life for refusing to throw a race. Desperate to keep her father safe and the two of them fed, Nicole dresses as a boy and answers an ad addressed to her father by the Marquis of Tyreham. As Nick's 'protégé,' she wins the position of jockey, hired by the marquis to run the race of a lifetime: the celebrated Epsom Derby. Dustin Kingsley, Marquis of Tyreham, renowned as a thoroughbred breeder and the ton's most sought-after bachelor, is restless, empty - until he meets the beautiful stranger sitting by the Thames. Determined to win Nicole's heart, Dustin plunges headlong into the ominous mystery eclipsing their future, hell-bent on convincing Nicole that he's the only man for her. An impossible masquerade, a never-to-be-forgotten Derby, and cherished wishing locket propel Nicole and Dustin toward a climactic finish, where danger threatens a love destined - by wishes and fate - to prevail.
Kathleen Kane
JUST WEST OF HEAVEN 8/2001 ISBN: 0312977662. Ridge Hawkins doesn't take the job of sheriff lightly-and Tanglewood, Nevada's transformation from outlaw outpost to civilized small town is proof of his respect for the law. Ridge doesn't expect trouble from the new schoolteacher, but when she arrives with a precocious daughter in tow-and the suspicious air of a woman harboring a secret-Ridge knows he won't hesitate to deliver it. Sophie Dolan has never taught a day of school in her life, but she's willing to do anything to keep little Jenna safely away from someone who wants to exploit the child's gift of sight. The fact that Jenna is her sister, not her daughter, is only one of the things Sophie needs to hide-and after one run-in with Ridge, she knows exactly whom she has to hide the truth from. The problem is, Sophie has the sight herself, and she knows that the no-nonsense sheriff has not only guessed her secrets, but stolen her heart.
MOUNTAIN DAWN 9/1992 ISBN: 1557737657 A feisty Irish beauty, she met life's hard knocks head on. Now her heart went out to a little girl who lost herself in silence after a shattering tragedy. In Bridget, Jacob saw hope for his beautiful daughter Jessica. But the lawman's own heart was entwined in fear -- of loving again. Bridget also longed to quell the unexpected fires that flared between them. For if Jacob knew of her tainted past, surely he would have a change of heart. Could they build a family from the threads of their lives? Or was their dream a whisper in the wind?
WISHES 8/1995 ISBN: 0515116777 Matilda Pennypacker's plans to bring her orphaned nephew back to New York with her go awry when she meets Sheriff Mike Connor, who has already adopted the young boy as his son. The only thing Matilda and Mike have in common is their devotion to their children, until love opens their eyes to each other.
WISH UPON A COWBOY 2/2000 ISBN: 0312972903 Jonas Mackenzie isn't sure what to make of the beautiful stranger who showed up at his Wyoming ranch with marriage on her mind. While he's trying hard to ignore the sparks flying between them, Hannah Lowell is a woman on a mission with a stubborn streak as wide as his own. Worse, she's harboring some crazy notions about a past he can't remember and a future he can't believe. Hannah hadn't been thrilled at the idea of marrying a man she didn't know... until she had a good look at the lean and rugged cowboy who was her destiny. But how is she going to convince a man who doesn't believe in magic that he's got the power to save a town from a terrible fate? And that it all boils down to his belief in his legacy, his heart, and in the most powerful magic of all... their love?
Lee Karr
CASTLE OF THE CRUSHED SHAMROCKS 12/1989 ISBN:0821728431 Blood Seeped Into the Flagstones...Aileen O'Connor grew up in England, believing that her soldier father had died fighting Napoleon and that her mother's native Ireland was a gentle, romantic land of shamrocks and leprechauns. Then, when she was eighteen, Aileen learned the truth: she was the lovechild of Lord Edwin Lynhurst. If she was to be recognized as his daughter, and his heir, she must go to him and live at Lynhurst Castle. Penniless and alone, Aileen traveled to the brooding, harsh, and haunting coast of Ireland, only to find the flagstones of her father's castle freshly stained with his blood. His widow shunned her, a growling mastiff dogged her footsteps, and the wind whistled through the eerie underground passages and subterranean chambers of the gloomy, rockbound castle. Even the gallant attentions of her father's handsome solicitor failed to ease Aileen's anxiety, her dread, her growing sense of doom. Slowly, the extent of the danger dawned upon her: her father's killer was still at large. And her name was next on the list.
Leona Karr
BEYOND THE TEXAS RAINBOW 10/1989 ISBN:0821728172 Jessamyn McCord grew up dirt-poor on the barren prairies of East Texas. When her family lost their meager plot of precious farmland, Jessamyn knew that she must find a way to take care of her ailing mother and her infant sister.
FORBIDDEN TREASURE 1988 A Treasure Beyond Price... Beautiful and unconsciously alluring, young Alysha wanted nothing to do with the hedonistic passion that had ruled her mother's life. Then a carriage accident left her stranded at a lavish French castle. The master of the Chateau, darkly handsome Raoul de Lamareau, seemed deeply involved with his dead brother's wife, yet with one sardonic smile he lured Alysha into a web of seduction and danger. Did she dare taste the forbidden fruit he offered...dare surrender her innocence to his masterful touch?
HEAVEN AT SUNRISE 1/1997 ISBN: 0821755420 Had she journeyed to the ends of the earth... As her ship rose above the waves, Alana Lansbury's spirits fell, promised in marriage upon her return home, she had come to this remote outpost in the Shetland Islands as an unpaid missionary. Some said the petite nurse wouldn't last the year; some said she wouldn't even stay the summer. And when Alana confronted a wild-eyed, drunken Brion McClerry on her very first day, she nearly left then and there... To find a love that was heaven sent.....? Sheep raiser Brion McClerry had enough troubles for ten men - starting with caring for his brother's five children. Now a bossy British nurse was trying to tell him how to rear his family, getting under his skin, and stealing his heart. Brion was too proud to admit he needed a woman, and besides, Alana was promised to another. But even as he struggled against both nature's fury and his own stormy emotions, he knew he'd give up everything to keep her in his arms, in his bed...and forever in his life.
Karen Kay
THE LAST WARRIOR 3/2008 ISBN: 9780425221006 Many centuries ago, a village killed the children of the Thunder God. For their crime, the Creature bannished them to live a half existence in the land of mists, neither dead nor alive. But once in a generation, a brave is given the opportunity to save his clan. In 1892, that warrior is Black Lion. There was only one way for Black Lion to melt the Thunder God's anger: listen for a sacred white-man's song—and sing it perfectly with the one who introduced him to it. He joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and travels to London, where he encounters the daughter of two opera singers—the most beautiful woman he's ever seen. However, Suzette Joselyn is already engaged to another man... But the two are destined to meet again when Suzette shows up in America, pregnant and abandoned by her fiance. Reunited with Black Lion, she finds it impossible to turn down his offer of marriage to save her child from life as a bastard. But she doesn't realize that her brave new husband is consumed with a mission that may force him to choose between his people and the woman he loves...RR@H's Novel Thoughts
RED HAWK'S WOMAN 6/2007 ISBN: 0425216039 Many centuries ago, a village killed the children of the Thunder god. For their crime the Creator banished them to live a half existence in the land of shadlows, neither dead nor alive. But once in a generation, a brave is given the opportunity to save his clan. In 1866, that warrior is Red Hawk. When he was a boy, Red Hawk spent a single afternoon with a beautiful, nymphlike girl. Now, years later, in the quest to free his people, he has tracked her down—and she could very well hold the key to break the centuries-old curse... The daughter of a renowned archaeologist, Effie Rutledge is determined to finish the project her father started and recover the four precious artifacts that could free the Lost Clan. Acting as her guide, Red Hawk finds himself consumed by a once-in-a-lifetime passion. But as Effie and Red Hawk struggle to trust each other, they risk the Thunder god's wrath—and the future of the whole Lost Clan...RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Elizabeth Kary
MIDNIGHT LACE 10/1990 ISBN:0515104205 A love betrayed. A marriage destroyed. A murder unsolved. From the top of London's privileged society, filled with decadent nobility and sumptuous parties, to its poorest slums, teeming with whores and cutthroats, comes a tale of undeniable love...
Mandalyn Kaye
BENEATH THE MIDNIGHT SKY short story in SCOTTISH MAGIC 9/1997 ISBN: 1575661829 Every one hundred years, Stuart MacLachlan awakens from his enchanted slumber to end the curse place on his cherished love, Laren Campbell. But now he has only five days to solve the legendary faerie riddle...or surrender to the darkness forever.
Stacey Kayne
THE GUNSLINGER'S UNTAMED BRIDE 7/2008 ISBN: 9780373295043 She's come for his life… Feisty Lily Carrington wants revenge for the murder of her father. She's finally tracked down the killer—and she's going to make him pay…. He'll fight to keep it… Juniper Barns has done everything he can to escape his violent past. Now a hardworking sheriff, he protects the lives of those in need. But he can't outrun his destiny anymore. It's time to stand and fight. Only, this time, his opponent is beautiful Lily—the vulnerable girl who came looking for vengeance, but who's in danger of losing her heart to the one man she's forbidden from loving….RR@H's Novel Thoughts
MAVERICK WILD 1/2008 ISBN: 9780373294800 A promise from his past threatens what Chance values most...his freedom. Haunted by a promise he couldn’t keep and a past he can’t forget, Chance Morgan locked his heart away from the world—until part of his past travels across the states to find him. Plagued by horse thieves and marriage-minded females, the last thing Chance needs is a woman on his ranch. But Cora Mae is more than a distracting array of curls and curves, she holds the key to his heart and unleashes a desire he refuses to trust. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Barbara Keller
DIAMOND SPLENDOR 9/1988 ISBN:0451400844 Eighteen-year-old Tereza Machado had only the marvel of her beauty and the magic of her singing voice to escape a world of want where love was for sale to the highest bidder. But despite her vow to find a future of safety and security, even if it meant becoming a rich man's plaything, she could not resist handsome, reckless adventurer Roberto Landgon. And on a path of daring and desire that led from a lush Brazilian plantation to danger-filled diamond fields deep in the wilderness..and from the seductions of nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro to the splendor of Victorian London..she learned the power of passion, and the fiery fulfillment of love, in his arms..
THE EXILED HEART 10/1985 ISBN:0451137574 Brazil's hot, sultry climate was foreign and mysterious to Julia, and as strange as the feelings Andrew Langdon aroused in her. Pulling her across his lap, pressing tender kisses against the velvet skin of her neck, he had her shivering with anticipation. She knew she should force him to leave her room before it was too late, before she allowed him to open her gown to explore the honey sweet, pulsing domain of a flaming desire she could no longer deny-or control...
La BELLE AMERICAINE 1990 ISBN:0061000949 Escaping her father's dominance, sheltered Boston heiress Sarah Taylor flees to Paris of the late 1800s to become an opera singer, but she becomes entangled in a web of passion and deceit from which only one man can save her.
Ellen Kelley
NO GREATER TREASURE 12/1998 ISBN: 0515124087 Kacey O'Reilly is an extraordinary woman by late nineteenth-century standards. A graduate from Harvard's women's affiliate, she works as an archaeologist...an independent woman who is fulfilled by her work and family -- and has no room in her life for love. Rafe Assante, a former archaeology student of Kacey's father, Colin, is a handsome young Frenchman equally devoted to work and family -- yet irresistibly drawn to the beauty of Kacey's mind and spirit. When Colin invites Rafe to join them on a dig in Colorado, Kacey is outraged by her father's presumption. While her father sees Rafe as a potential husband for Kacey, she sees him as an arrogant ladies' man -- and vows to ignore him during their entire journey. But as she and Rafe travel and work together, Kacey realizes that they have a lot in common -- especially a growing attraction for one another. Before she knows it, Rafe has unearthed a burning desire that was buried deep within her heart -- and for Kacey, it is the discovery of a lifetime...
Kathleen Kellow
LILITH 1954
Kathryne Kennedy
Lena Kennedy
AUTUMN ALLEY 12/1982 ISBN:0671425595 Autumn Alley in 1894 was a street no different from hundreds of others in London. But to those who lived in the 6 houses, Autumn Alley was a stage for a drama of laughter and tears, struggle and triumph. This is a story of three generations who lived there, of the bold men who marched off to fight the great war, and the brave women who toiled to keep their homes together.
Kathryn Kent
WATERS OF EDEN 8/1981 ISBN: 1576570886 Delicate, golden haired Anne Demarest sailed to Hawaii hoping to unravel the mystery of her father's death. But Anne's heart held still another secret--No one could make her forget him.
OUR TOWN: GRAND RIVER 5/1997 ISBN: 0515120677 Eloping after a one-week romance, lovers Calanta and Luke are separated by her infuriated father, who convinces both of them that the other never really cared, until five years later, they are brought together for a shared cause.
WINE COUNTRY 12/1997 ISBN: 0515121274 Tess Barrett, a young woman in South Bass Island, Ohio, is engaged to gruff Captain Peter Maxwell, but when she meets the kind and gentle vinedresser Adam Nicholas, she realizes what is missing in her relationship with Maxwell.
Elizabeth Keys
THE DARLING 8/2003 ISBN: 0821774530 When Society's Darling Rebels...Lenore Borwnley thinks she's taken her destiny into her own hands when her sister leaves Boston and Lenore takes her place as one of society's favorite daughters. But when the frivolous pleasures of tea parties and new frocks wear thin, Lenore escapes to the wilds of Maine and the dubious comfort of her grandmother's home -- where Lenore's parents hope she'll ingratiate herself with the headstrong keeper of the family fortune....She Leaves Propriety Far Behind --For Love...Lenore's grandmother, however, is more interested in pairing her with temptingly handsome doctor Jake Warren, who runs a local clinic in a nearby mill town. Leaving behind stuffy, proper Boston for a taste of adventure is one thing, but nursing is beyond Lenore's ken. Or so she thinks, until Jake's fiery determination to uncover her nurturing side reveals her passionate impulses instead, as well as a new longing to prove to him that she wants to be his partner in every way...
REILLY'S GOLD 12/2000 ISBN: 0821767305 Young Irishman Devin Reilly had just arrived in America seeking riches to bolster the family business, Reilly Ship Works. But his fortune was about to change. After rescuing fiery Maggie Brownley from a runaway carriage and gazing into her stormy brown eyes, he knew that “Reilly’s Blessing” bound them together. Then Maggie made a bold promise: if Devin escorted her to Maine, where she planned to flee an unwanted engagement, she would give him the money he needed to reach California. But the trip north would teach Devin that in Maggie’s embrace he found a love more precious than gold.
REILLY'S HEART 12/2001 ISBN: 0821772260 Meaghan Reilly's family insists that she won't receive the "blessing"that changes every Reilly's life, all because she's a woman. Meaghan has never let being female stop her from doing anything, and now studying medicine is her only dream. Until Nicholas Mansfield, Lord Ashton, walks back into her life--and Meaghan remembers a childish kiss she once gave him. It doesn't compare with the powerful rush of attraction she feels for Nick now, but Meaghan's certain that the brooding nobleman is her destiny. If only Nick would ignore the burdensome duty that has brought him to Ireland and instead, embrace the passion between them...
REILLY'S LAW 7/2000 ISBN: 0821766473 A straight-laced solicitor, Bryan Reilly refuses to believe that members of his estranged family of shipbuilders possess a special gift—the ability to recognize life’s great turning points. But then a mysterious woman throws herself into his arms just before his ship sails for England and Bryan feels the power of "Reilly's Blessing" reborn in her bewitching lips. Emilynne Wellesley will only reveal that she is desperate to flee Ireland for the safety of the two children who travel with her. Bryan knows that helping Emilynne will ruin his last chance to reconcile with his kin, but can he deny the path that destiny has chosen for him...protecting the golden-haired beauty who has captured his heart?
REILLY'S PRIDE 5/2001 ISBN: 0821768115 Anne Barrington's hopes for escaping an unhappy life in the court of Queen Charlotte are shattered when the young courtier she loves jilts her for an heiress. Her devastation is witnessed by James, Lord Westland, who--moved by her fragile, ethereal beauty--offers marriage as a solution to both of their dilemmas: Anne is desperate to leave the Queen's service; James needs a wife to provide him with an heir. As the new mistress of Honeywell House, Anne finds her days and nights filled with romantic wonder in the arms of her new husband. But misunderstandings and jealous rivals soon threaten her newfound happiness--and only fate can decide if true love will be the victor.
Jane Kidder
MAIL-ORDER TEMPTRESS 8/1992 ISBN: 0821738631 Forced by poverty into seeking marriage to a complete stranger in faraway Minnesota, mail-order bride Kirsten Lundgren tried to set aside her apprehensions about being a frontier bride. How hard could it be to milk a cow or two and feed some chickens, especially if she were to find the love and romance she'd always craved? Then she arrived... and saw the farm: several thousand acres of dirt, a plow, and pigs! She'd just have to explain to Mr. Eric Wellesley that she'd changed her mind. But when she looked into his brown eyes and felt his rich deep voice flow over her like warm honey, Kirsten's resolve melted. And when he drew her into his arms and claimed her lips in a long, deep kiss, she knew she must surrender to one night of ecstasy before she made up her mind about marriage... one way or the other. Handsome homesteader Eric Wellesley was having second thoughts. Why had he gotten involved in this made scheme? A strong, strapping Scandinavian girl to cook his meals, plow his fields, and warm his bed had seemed like the perfect answer to his problems, but now he was getting cold feet. He'd apologize to Miss Lundgren and offer to pay her way back home. But when he drove his wagon to the depot and spied the delicate, enchantingly beautiful redhead who'd come to claim him, his desires got the better of him. Before he sent her packing he'd taste her rosy lips, savor the satiny feel of her sensuous curves, and sample her caresses in a firestorm of rapture... just for one long, Minnesota night!
PASSION'S KISS 5/1996 ISBN: 0821753177 Miles Wellesley is every woman's dream - handsome, unattached, and the heir to a great fortune. But he had come to England seeking horses for his Colorado ranch, not a wife. An opinionated, strong-willed spinster named Victoria Pembroke isn't likely to make him change his mind...except that she possesses something he wants, and he has something she desperately needs....So, a bargain is struck. But what happens when a business arrangement brings more pleasure than either Victoria or Miles could have anticipated? Can a marriage made on earth be transformed into a union of sheer bliss and joy that will set two warring hearts free to love?
Flora Kidd
TO HELL OR MELBOURNE 1994 ISBN: 1586081608 When his sweetheart, Louise, elopes with another man, Edwin Jackson is heart-broken. He sails to Liverpool, England to pursue his ambition to be a Master Mariner and to search for his missing brother Nathan. Julia Ashton is in love with his brother, so Edwin promises her he will find him. After sailing the world over, he tracks Nathan down in Melbourne, Australia. It's only then that he realizes that he has fallen in love with Julia, and will sail the world over to win her love for himself.
UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN 7/1998 ISBN: 1552562018 Sparks fly when Elizabeth Jackson, a dedicated nurse from the North American British colonies,meets Captain John Beverly, a devil-may-care cavalry officer, wounded at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War in 1854. As a result of her association with him she is forced to leave the religious nursing order of which she is a member and truly believes she will never meet him again. But John has made a promise to himself that they will meet again. When they do the circumstances of both have changed. She has inherited a fortune and he is a penniless, discharged soldier on his way to Australia to seek gold. Sparks of romance fly between them again as they travel together to Melbourne aboard the famous sailing ship Marco Polo. Is it only a shipboard romance? Or is their love for each other strong enough to overcome family interference, differences in culture and the strict morality imposed by Victorian society? Will they ever meet again?
Katharine Kincaid
TROPICAL CAPTIVE 12/1991 ISBN:0821735950 Undaunted by the formidable dangers of the lush Brazilian jungles, spirited Victoria King was determined to help the oppressed peasants, and she wasn't going to let the dangerous and darkly handsome Brazilian landowner Sebastian Black frighten her with his brazen attentions.
WILDLY, MY LOVE 6/1990 ISBN: 0821730371 How had she ever gotten herself into such a predicament! As Spencer Kathleen O'Rourke looked with distaste at the battered, steam-powered 'launch' in which she was to travel down the exotic Amazon River, she almost wished she had never answered the Boston newspaper ad seeking a doctor for this wild outpost. But one look at the smirk on her employer's rugged face, and she knew there was no backing out. She'd show the infuriating Jordan King that a woman could be as rugged an adventurer as any man. As for the intimate life they'd be sharing, Spencer knew she had nothing to fear from the virile Mr. King whose tastes ran to a different sort of woman. He'd never take a skinny, emancipated redhead such as herself into his arms and kiss her breathless beneath the brilliant stars...
WILDWOOD 11/1996 ISBN: 0821754602 A Land Unknown... Englishwoman Emma Whitefield arrives in Calcutta intent on claiming her legacy: Wildwood, a plantation deep in the sultry-heart of India. Her only hope of safe passage through this wild jungle lies with the roguish Alexander Kingston, a man who reminds her of a panther - lithe, graceful and ready to spring...a man as hotly sensual as he is dangerous. A Passion Unequaled... She is unaware of Alexander's real reason for helping her. For Wildwood sits on the very land that he seeks, and he will use all the means at his disposal to destroy Emma's claim. Until he kisses her, tastes her sweetness...and awakens an unquenchable desire that matches his own. Wildwood... Here, in a primitive world far from civilization, Emma and Alexander will discover a powerful and all-consuming passion that takes them to the white-hot limits of ecstasy...and beyond.
WINDSONG 12/1994 ISBN:0821747711 With her colorful robes flowing, Sadira rode her galloping steed across the desert. A woman of sacred beauty, she was desired by many. Yet no man could possess her, for a powerful sheik had named Sadira Virgin Keeper of the Mares. American horse breeder Travis Keene had journeyed to the exotic East on a quest for the legendary Arabian stallions. Then bandits attacked his caravan, leaving him naked and near death on the shifting sands. Sadira would find him, save him, and embrace this compelling stranger who was her fate, her destiny, her kismet...and forbidden love.
Susan King
KISSING THE COUNTESS 11/2003 ISBN: 045121062X When Evan Mackenzie, the new Earl of Kildonan, returns to the remote Highland mountains of his childhood for a climbing holiday, he plans to sell his vast ancestral estate and return to Victorian Edinburgh. Haunted by tragedy, the earl is stranded on a snowy mountaintop with Catriona MacConn, the minister's feisty and enchanting daughter. A passionate rescue leads to a sudden marriage, and Evan soon discovers that his reluctant countess is fascinated by an elusive Highland legend--she seems equally elusive with her handsome new husband as well. But Catriona, born and bred in the Highland mountains, has a perilous and secret mission that she will protect at any cost--even if she must give up the love of her dreams... RR@H's Novel Thoughts
TAMING THE HEIRESS 7/2003 ISBN: 0451209559 Beautiful Meg MacNeill never thought of herself as an heiress, let alone one of the richest, most eligible women in all of Scotland. Her humble upbringing in the Western Isles, and her secret child--born of a magical night and a mysterious man--make her role in glittering Edinburgh Society as Lady Strathlin seem unlikely, even dangerous. Especially when she comes face to face with her devastatingly attractive enemy--a man who has a foot in both her worlds, and even her past--for Dougal Stewart will threaten her home, her inheritance, and most of all her heart... RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Kate Kingsley
THE RIVER SPRITE 4/1994 ISBN: 0373288182 Sure as she was a lightning pilot on the mighty Mississippi, Serena Caswell knew she could trust Nathan Trent as far as she could throw him. No matter that he was handsome as sin. She'd never surrender her heart - or her beloved steamboat - into the artful hands of a gamblin' man! Taking a chance was second nature to Nathan Trent, riverboat gambler and adventurer extraordinaire. But betting on his ability to survive in close quarters with flame-haired river sprite 'Rena Caswell might prove the biggest gamble of his life...
Katherine Kingsley
NO BRIGHTER DREAM 10/1994 ISBN: 0451405129 Andre de Saint-Simon has no use for Ali, the mysterious young woman whose life he has saved while on his travels. When he discovers that she is the long-lost daughter of his mentor, he promptly returns her to England-and tries to forget about her. Ali knows that Andre is her destiny and so she arranges his marriage-to herself. As Andre and Ali engage in a dance of desire and a battle of wits, they surrender to a passion they never knew existed-and risk their hearts and souls for a love they never thought they would find. . .
NO SWEETER HEAVEN 8/1993 ISBN: 045140366 He was a legend among the French-handsome and mysterious, loved by all but a man whose heart was known to none. She was a legend among the British-a wild willful heiress-and it was said neither her heart nor her hand would ever be claimed. Pascal LaMartine and Elizabeth Bowes had nothing in common until the day she accidentally landed at his feet and looked up into the face of a fallen angel. Destiny brought them together in a shattering conflict of fury and desire-and destiny now threatened to tear them apart in the wake of betrayal and of a legacy they could not share. Drawn into a dangerous battle of intrigue and wits, each discovered how strong passion was. . .and how perilous it can be. . .
Mary Kingsley
BEYOND THE SEA 6/1999 ISBN: 0451408454 A woman and a ship...Abigail Palmer lost everything when her father died - except a decrepit old whaling ship...and a fierce determination to make it sail again. A mand and a dream...Captain Nathaniel Howland was ready to return to the sea - but his tarnished reputation left him without a ship to sail...or a dream to cling to. A Voyage of the heart...There were two souls adrift -until fate cast them together on a voyage as wild and reckless as their own hearts. Abigail needed the ruggedly handsome captain to reestablish her family business. The captain had no choice but to allow this stubborn beauty on board for the journey. But while the arctic waters they sailed were frozen with ice, their hearts burned with fire. And when the bold captain took the lady in his arms, they both knew they were bound for places they'd never been before...
Laura Kinsale
THE DREAM HUNTER 12/1994 ISBN: 0425144941 A man of cool demeanor and stubborn solitude, Lord Winter was a restless wanderer who kept the passions of his heart well hidden. But now, traveling alone in search of a legendary mare known as String of Pearls, he has discovered a far more precious gem. For hidden beneath the ragged costume of a Bedouin boy was a remarkable woman: Zenia Stanhope, daughter of the extraordinary English adventuress known as the Queen of the Desert. Zenia wants nothing of the dangerous adventuring that Lord Winter lives for. She wants only to reach England, far from the blood and sand of the desert. But in one night of terror, condemned to death, their lives are irrevocably bound by desperate desire. Zenia escaped to an English world of elegance and comfort, forsaking the lonely, fearless man who has changed her life and conquered her heart... Until he returns, to invade her sanctuary - and demand that she pay the price of passion...
FLOWERS FROM THE STORM 10/1992 ISBN: 0380761327 He is London's most notorious rakehell - a charming, irresistible seducer possessing a brilliant mind and reckless passions. Until, in the wake of a shocking tragedy, he is condemned to a world of shadows...and madness. An innocent beauty of modest birth and simple faith, once she feared the dashing nobleman who awakened within her feelings she had never known. Now she has come to free him form his solitary torment - never dreaming her warm, healing touch will eternally bind them together in need, in desire...and in love.
Marie Kiraly
MADELINE: After the Fall of Usher 12/1996 ISBN: 0425155730 Returns to the infamous House of Usher, years after author Edgar Allen Poe meets the granddaughter of the real Madeline Usher, to uncover a dark secret as twisted as the cursed house itself.
MINA: The Dracula Story Continues 9/1994 ISBN: 0425143597 She tasted the blood of Dracula...and lived to tell the tale. In Bram Stoker's immortal classic, Dracula, an extraordinary woman named Mina Harker became the living object of a vampire's obsession. He came to her in the night, like a demon lover, opening a vein in his chest - and pressing her tender lips to the wound. Consumed by passion, Mina drank of his blood. And from that moment on, his seductive power filled her senses with strange, forbidden longings. Only one thing saved her soul from eternal damnation: a stake driven through the heart of Count Dracula... But was the spell really broken? Could a mortal woman return to an ordinary life of marriage - after tasting the exquisite pleasures of Dracula's desire? In this sensual and haunting sequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula, the dark prince's most famous mistress reveals the untold story of a timeless love that refused to die.
Martha Kirkland
THE MAGNOLIA TREE 9/1998 ISBN: 0515123617 The sweet spring air of her plantation home held no joy for Letty Banks. For this lovely lady was tied to the land by a cruel and spiteful father, who threatened harm to Letty's sweet little half-sister--unless Letty stayed on the estate. And Letty would give up anything--even the love of a handsome young Yankee named Thorn Bradley--to keep her sister safe. Then her father died, and this feisty, beautiful woman of the South was besieged by danger--from a nation on the brink of civil war, and from men determined to take her rightful inheritance, her sister's child, and her honor. Letty wouldn't go down without a battle, but she seemed no match for the unscrupulous rebels, or for the waves of tension and bitterness sweeping through the land. Unless a love stronger than any hate returned to save her, and to show her passion's true meaning...
PRATT'S LANDING 11/1997 ISBN: 0515121800 Rivalry between two families takes a spin when Emma visits her family's biggest enemy, Sam Watson--and finds love where she least expects it.
Kathleen Kirkwood
SHADES OF THE PAST 10/1999 ISBN: 0451407601 Upon the death of her elderly traveling companion, Vanessa Wynters returns to England, desperate to uncover the reasons for her friend's lengthy exile from her beloved home. But the mystery deepens when Vanessa meets the deceased noblewoman's dark, brooding nephew - Viscount Adrian Marrable. A widower implicated in the deaths of his first two wives, Adrian is captivated by Vanessa's beguiling beauty. And although his generous financial support allows her to pursue her passion for photography, Vanessa is disturbed by her growing affection for this enigmatic lord - and by the ghostly figure that haunts her photographs. But she finds an unlikely ally in this otherworldly presence, as secrets buried in the family's past develop, shade by shocking shade, into a remarkably tragic portrait - yet one that ultimately paves the way to a picture-perfect love...
A SLIP IN TIME 10/1998 ISBN: 0451407598 In 1893 Scotland, a beautiful woman accompanies her two aunts to Dunraven Castle--a magnificent structure rumored to be haunted--to spend the night. But after settling in bed, she finds herself transported back through time to the year 1390, where she meets the third lord of the castle! Drawn together by this twist of fate, the couple begins a love affair which transcends space and time, but will love be enough to keep her from being returned to 1893?
Lisa Kleypas
LOVE, COME TO ME 1988 ISBN:0451400933 When strong and handsome Heath Rayne pulled lovely young Lucinda Caldwell from a winter river, he rescued her from an icy death. But soon he was plunging her into a torrid passion that this New England beauty had never suspected to claim her. Heath was unlike any other man Lucy had ever known -- a dashing, mocking, sensuous Southerner who came as a stranger to Lucy's Massachusetts town...and stayed to conquer all the odds against him...as he stripped away Lucy's last shred of resistance to the demands of desire and the flaming fulfillment of love...
MIDNIGHT ANGEL 1/1995 ISBN:0380773538 A noblewoman of frail beauty and exotic mystery fakes her own death to escape the gallows. And now she must flee. In disguise and under a false identity, she finds unexpected sanctuary in the arms of a handsome and arrogant yet gallant British lord -- who must defy society to keep her safe...and overcome a tragic past to claim her as his own.
ONLY IN YOUR ARMS 4/1992 ISBN:0380761505 Ravishing and desperate Lysette Kersaint flees an impending marriage to a man she hates to seek sanctuary with a man she fears. For rumors abound throughout New Orleans concerning her handsome, brooding protector, Maximilien Vallerand -- whispers of his cruelty, his rages, his dark, mysterious past. Forced by circumstance, Lysette consents to wed the dangerous rake, becoming the unwitting instrument of his sworn vengeance. But the flame-haired beauty's innocent heart will awaken within him a soul of passion and poetry...and spawn a love magnificent, wild, and true.
PRINCE OF DREAMS 8/1995 ISBN:0380773554 A wealthy and bitter exile, the most dangerous and desirable man in all England, he burns to possess a proud, headstrong beauty who is promised to another. But winning Emma Stokehurst's exquisite hand through threats and determination does nothing to fill the empty spaces in Nikolas's heart -- until passion's magic carries the handsome, tormented prince back to a bygone era of splendor and romantic dreams. For there his destiny awaits him in a distant life. And in one remarkable woman's tender touch -- achingly familiar but gloriously new -- he must seek the elusive promise of ecstasy...and learn, at last, to love.
SCANDAL IN THE SPRING 8/2006 ISBN: 0060562536 After spending three London seasons searching for a husband, Daisy Bowman's father has told her in no uncertain terms that she must find a husband. Now. And if Daisy can't snare an appropriate suitor, she will marry the man he chooses—the ruthless and aloof Matthew Swift. Daisy is horrified. A Bowman never admits defeat, and she decides to do whatever it takes to marry someone ...anyone... other than Matthew. But she doesn't count on Matthew's unexpected charm ...or the blazing sensuality that soon flares beyond both their control. And Daisy discovers that the man she has always hated just might turn out to be the man of her dreams. But right at the moment of sweet surrender, a scandalous secret is uncovered ...one that could destroy both Matthew and a love more passionate and irresistible than Daisy's wildest fantasies. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
SURRENDER short story in CHRISTMAS LOVE STORIES 11/1991 ISBN:0380765721 An aristocratic Bostonian learns the true meaning of giving when she falls tenderly and passionately in love with a troubled stranger: her husband.
WHEN STRANGERS MARRY 8/2002 ISBN: 0060507365 originally issued as ONLY IN YOUR ARMS
Vivian Knight-Jenkins
BY LOVE POSSESSED 7/1994 ISBN: 0373270364 Black sheep. Gambler. Notorious womanizer. Accused murderer! Liz Hayden had dreamed about mysterious nineteenth-century Garrett Rowland, his dark history reaching out to her until... With a flash of lightning, Liz was hurled into the past...and into the waiting arms of Garrett himself. He mistook her for his pregnant wife, the woman history claimed he'd murdered. And Liz knew that to stay alive she had to go along with whatever he wanted. Yet there was no playacting involved in her uninhibited response to Garrett's knowing caresses. She understood just how dangerous loving a man like Garrett could be. But the longer she stayed with him, the more she felt the future slipping out of reach...
Nancy Knight
TWICE PROMISED 1989 ISBN: 0312914644 A feisty beauty in charge of her family's shipping business, Darcie Gaynor is dismayed when she learns she must return to her native Paris and marry the son of her father's bitterest enemy. But Darcie cannot help but surrender to Zachary's virile charm and learns the secret of a love Twice Promised.
Anne Knoll
THE STOLEN BRIDE OF GLENGARRA CASTLE 9/1990 ISBN:0821731254 Tis an evil place mum and haunted too Some say a banshee wails in the Tower!... It had seemed like exile to young Elly Kincaid when she was packed off to England to be raised by an aunt after her mother's death. Now, at eighteen, her long awaited return to Glengarra Castle in County Down was a bitter disappointment. Once again, she was an exile ... in her own home. Her father was a frail shadow of his former robust self: her brother Hugh, embittered and violent; her childhood sweetheart, hostile to the Kincaids and quick to turn his back on Elly. Naively determined to mend her family's fences, Elly agreed to meet the dark-browed Gavan Mitchell - if only to learn why Hugh was so insistent that she marry the eccentric lord of Bonnie Brae Castle. Powerfully drawn to the brooding, intense Gavan, Elly was determined to ignore the whispered threats, the hints of ghosts and banshees, even the startling sight of a pale woman in her mirror, standing behind her...Then Elly heard the wailing sounds from the Tower. Someone was trying to terrify her ... trying to sap her strength... trying to make her a prisoner...
Catherine Kohman
THE BECKONING GHOST 7/1995 ISBN: 0505520397 As if in a dream... Marissa saw the man, a dashing adventurer from a faraway place. Mesmerized by the stranger's tortured eyes, captivated by his mysterious presence, she longed to ease his suffering and savor his promise of passion. But Sir Brendan Tyrell belonged to a long-ago time that Marissa had never known - or had she? Drawn into a desperate search for answers to mysteries of the past, the lonely beauty could only hope that the truth would free the beckoning ghost and fill her life with his haunting love.
Betina Krahn
A CERTAIN MAGIC short story in HAUNTING MAGIC 10/1991 ISBN: 0380766590
THE LAST BACHELOR 9/1994 ISBN: 0553565222 Some found her ingenious, others diabolical. But no one could argue with the success of Lady Antonia Paxton's technique. For the beautiful young widow had made a career out of helping destitute women marry well--by trapping London's richest young bachelors in compromising positions with her willing ladies, then forcing them to marry. The darkly handsome Remington Carr was as controversial for his radical views on the women's rights as he was for his decadent way of life. If the rakish earl had his way, all women would work for a living and marriage would be abolished. He was the ultimate London bachelor and the answer to the prayers of a select group of gentlemen--Antonia's matrimonial victims--all too eager to put a stop to the widow's schemes...When the pair meet in the halls of Parliament, the sparks fly--and a wager is made: If Remington will subject himself to two weeks of "women's work," Antonia will put in two weeks of "men's work." And then they will see who has the harder lot in life. The battle is on. And the stakes are nothing less than their hearts...
THE MERMAID 9/1997 ISBN: 0553576178 If Celeste Ashton hadn't needed money to save her grandmother's seaside estate, she would never have published her observations on ocean life and the dolphins she has befriended. So when her book bursts upon the London scene, making her an instant celebrity, she is unprepared for the attention...especially when it comes from handsome scientist Titus Thorn. While Titus suspects there is something fishy about her theories, Celeste is determined to be taken seriously. Soon their fiery clashes create sparks neither expects, not least when Celeste dares Titus to let her give him a personal tour of the world she knows so well. But when a shady entrepreneur takes too close an interest in Celeste's work - and Celeste - Titus must decide if he will risk his credibility, his career - and his heart - to side with the Lady Mermaid.
THE PERFECT MISTRESS 10/1995 ISBN: 0553565230 The daughter of an exquisite London courtesan, beautiful and candid Gabrielle Le Coeur is determined to make a different life for herself - staid, respectable...married. But her mother plans to see Gabrielle linked to a suitable protector, a wealthy and powerful man who can provide her with a lush and indulgent - though illicit - way of life. Pierce St. James is an openly libertine viscount who intends to stay single and free of the hypocrisy of Victorian society. For Gabrielle, he is the perfect man to help her with her own plans to outwit her mother. They will create the appearance of sin and scandal, as the virginal Gabrielle plays the mistress of London's most notorious rake. But love proves a disastrous complication to their perfect scheme...
THE SOFT TOUCH 6/1999 ISBN: 0553576186 She is a softhearted Baltimore heiress... Lovely but disastrously tenderhearted Diamond Wingate has terrible trouble saying No; to the poor and unfortunate who beg at her gates; to entrepreneurs with big plans and no money; and worse, to the silver-tongued young men who line up to propose marriage. So far she has managed to keep her three fiancés a secret, insisting she cannot marry until she turns twenty-three. But her birthday - and disaster - are looming.... He is a hardheaded Westerner... Rugged, independent 'Bear' McQuaid has never taken a dime he didn't earn by his own hard work. But now his dream of building a railroad, so close to coming true, is about to collapse from lack of funds. Approaching Baltimore's infamous 'soft touch,' he learns she has other assets as well: a delicate, strawberry blond beauty and shining intelligence--and a fascination for the romance of the railroad. Then Bear uncovers Diamond's embarrassment of riches in fiancés as well as money and charms. Now he must make a choice: finance his dream through a little genteel blackmail, or do it the hard way...by falling in love.
SWEET TALKING MAN 8/2000 ISBN: 0553576194 An immovable uptown lady... rich suffragette Beatrice Von Furstenberg was tough enough to trade stocks on Wall Street and smart enough to resist the temptation of passion. Adamant about women being independent-and without a romantic bone in her lovely body-she had sternly refused to give her moonstruck sixteen-year-old ward permission to wed an eighteen-year-old suitor. Now the desperate teens have dreamed up a mock robbery and a daring rescue to change Beatrice's mind. Attorney Connor Barrow, a rogue of an Irishman with a silver tongue, remembers all too well the burning desires of youth. So he agrees to help in a crazy plan that will land him in a world of trouble. Suddenly he is responsible for the most influential lady in the city being locked up in a brothel, furious and threatening his ruin. Neither of them expects that first breathless kiss-a deal that would make the devil himself blush-and, most of all, the ways love can change a man's mind and open a woman's heart....
A TOUCH OF WARMTH short story in STARDUST 9/1994 ISBN: 0380776928
THE UNLIKELY ANGEL 5/1996 ISBN: 0553565249 With her soft heart and angelic face, Madeline Duncan is no one's idea of a hardheaded businessman. So when the lovely spinster comes into an unexpected inheritance and uses her newfound wealth to start a business, she causes quite a stir...especially with barrister Lord Cole Mandeville, who has been appointed by the courts to keep Madeline from frittering away her fortune. Handsome, worldly, and arrogant, Cole knows just how ruthless the world can be - and that an innocent life Miss Duncan is heading straight for heartbreak, bankruptcy, or worse. But when he sets out to show Madeline the error of her ways, Cole is in for the surprise of his life...as he finds himself falling under the spell of a woman who won't believe the worst about anyone - even a jaded rogue like him.
Kathryn Kramer
EXPLORATION OF LOVE short story in AN OLD-FASHIONED VALENTINE 2/1993 ISBN: 0843933887
LADY ROGUE 7/1991 ISBN: 044020934X She fled London's perilous streets... Trembling, Dawn Leighton ran as fast as her lovely legs could carry her. Capture meant Newgate Prison, a hateful fate. They called her Lady Rogue. Orphaned at an early age, taken in by ruffians and thieves, she'd mastered their art. But no one could take her dreams. A rising young architect, handsome Lord Garrick Seton was bored by society's wicked deceits and games of desire. Until the beautiful new ward of a powerful doyen appeared to stir more than memory. Once, the flashing green eyes of a frightened girl in flight from the law had utterly beguiled him. Now she was in his arms, resplendent in lace and satin. But tender kisses mingled with savage treacheries, threatening to shatter their dreams and break the aching heart of a lady...
Linda Kreisel
HARBOR LIGHTS 7/1996 ISBN: 0515118990 Eleanor Folsom never questioned her mother's strict rules of social behavior--never mix with the working class was number one on the list. But Eleanor forgot her mother's warning when she met Josh, a waterman who worked on Silchester Island, the breezy Maryland hideaway where the Folsoms spend their summers. Eleanor knows she's not supposed to talk to Josh, but his warm smile stirs her heart in ways she can not ignore.
Susan Krinard
TOUCH OF THE WOLF 11/1999 ISBN: 0553580183 Braden Forster, Earl of Greyburn, has devoted his life to restoring the purity of his clan's werewolf blood. He spent years searching in vain for a distant American cousin, a woman whose wolf bloodline is a vital link in his family's heritage. Braden had thought Cassidy Holt was lost forever--until she appeared one rainy night on the steps of his London mansion . . . her raven hair in disarray, her skin scented with sunlight and sagebrush. As Braden whisks young Cassidy to his family's secluded country estate, both can sense their undeniable attraction. But Cassidy soon learns that they can never satisfy their mutual passion; Braden has already betrothed her to another. Her only hope of claiming the one man she'll always love is to unravel the dark and lustful secrets of his past . . .
TWICE A HERO 6/1997 ISBN: 055356918X MacKenzie "Mac" Sinclair is cursed. So is the whole Sinclair family. Ever since her great-great-grandfather Peregrine returned from an expedition to the Maya ruins with half of a mysterious pendant--and without his partner, Liam O'Shea--they've been haunted by misfortune. That's why Mac's beloved grandfather wants her to undertake a solo expedition . . . to return the pendant to the ruins of Tikal and to find a way to atone for whatever part Peregrine played in Liam's disappearance. But when Mac braves the hot, steamy, primitive jungle, something extraordinary happens: she blunders into the arms of an eerily familiar explorer. Now she's in for more adventure than she bargained for. Because she's found Liam O'Shea . . . alive, well, and seductively real. In the year 1884.
Kristen Kyle
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