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Linda Ladd
FROSTFIRE 4/1990 ISBN:0380756951 Never did she dream that the lure of her innocence would unleash reckless desires between sworn enemies! She is intent on avenging her dishonor by the man who had taken more from her than she could ever possibly imagine. She has nothing, and so there is nothing she can lose, but she is intent on using any means necessary to take back what is rightfully hers. Born out of the ravages of war, theirs is a love that cannot be denied, blurring the boundaries forged by conflict until both are on the edge of a dizzying abyss where only passion matters, and surrender is sweet.
WHITE ORCHID 5/1995 ISBN: 0451405552 Driven by Desire... Stuart Delaney, a notorious Civil War adventurer, has traveled across land and sea to rescue a lovely young Englishwoman, Anjelica Blake, and bring her home to an arranged marriage. Stuart has been paid well for his trouble - but the real trouble begins the moment he lays eyes on this woman who is promised to another. Bound by Love... Anjelica must decide if she will remain loyal to the kind-hearted gentleman she hasn't seen since childhood, or continue the delicious, scandalous alliance with the mysterious American who has recklessly risked his life for her and who promises her nothing but the heated passion of his love...
Christina Laffeaty
THE ANTONOV'S CHANGELING 1978
COUNT ANTONOV'S HEIR 1/1981 ISBN:0373300565 ...No! cried Caroline's anguished heart. Princess Vezenski had asked Caroline to be a bridesmaid at her wedding. But how could Caroline go through with it? For the princess was marrying Count Antonov, the man Caroline loved deeply and passionately. Princess Vezenski had said it was permissible in the rigid Russian aristocracy to shed tears at a wedding. But Caroline feared she would spill something far more shattering than tears - for when her heart broke, it might release its terrible secret, a secret that would surely plunge her beloved Count Antonov into poverty and humiliation.
ZULU SUNSET 10/1980 ISBN: 0263732339 When Constance Hudson inherits a fortune, it seems the ideal opportunity to remind her cousin Martin -- whom she has always loved -- that she might be a desirable missionary's wife. How can he reject a girl who travels all the way to remote Zululand for his sake, and who is willing to give her inheritance to his Magwana Mission? Unfortunately the year is 1879 and Zululand is in dangerous ferment. Cassandra cannot even reach Martin -- except with the help of Saul Purnell, an arrogant Englishman brought up by natives to become a white Zulu chief, appointed by King Cetewayo. And why should he bother with Cassandra's problems when he is facing the impending war between whites and Zulus?......
Leslie LaFoy
THE PERFECT DESIRE 1/2005 ISBN: 031298765X Barrett Stanbridge has a lovely home in one of London's best neighborhoods, great friends, a thriving private investigation business, and feminine companionship whenever it's convenient. The shadows of his past have been accepted and neatly put away. In short, he's a man really quite content with the structure and direction of his deliberately solitary life. Being accused of the murder of a beautiful woman changes everything. The daring Isabella Dandaneau, a widow, has left America and the memories of a less-than-happy marriage behind in order to find her fortune in England. With half of a pirate's treasure map in hand, she's arrived in London, determined to find her cousin--and the other half of the map--and better her financial lot in life. Only she has been murdered and the devilishly handsome, Barrett Stanbridge stands accused of her murder. But it takes only one look at the rogue for Isabella to know, not only is this a man who could have never killed her cousin, but that he also sets her blood on fire the way no man ever has. And it's not long before she realizes that falling in love changes everything. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
THE PERFECT SEDUCTION 12/2003 ISBN:0312987633 After a lengthy journey, Seraphina Treadwell appears at the doorstep of Carden Reeves with his three young nieces in tow determined to ensure their uncle will properly care for her charges. However, judging by the man's rakish smile and dancing eyes--now alight with the fire of a new conquest--that day seems far off indeed. A make who can make love and walk away with equal amounts of passion, Carden plays the seduction game to win. But beneath a rogue's clothing beats the heart of a man who has never been truly and properly seduced by a woman, let alone a woman who lives by her own rules and who could make him believe in love. Until now... While pride will not allow Seraphina to surrender to a man who has never wanted anything beyond a single night, her heart will not be denied the sweet promise of love...RR@H's Novel Thoughts
A ROGUE'S BRIDE 11/2006 ISBN: 0312347715 Tristan Townsend has come home to London to assume his duties as the Marquis of Lockwood after all the men in his family have died. Desperate to rid himself of the “Lockwood curse” and restore his family’s honor, marriage is the furthest thing from Tristan’s mind…until he lays eyes on an enchanting stranger and vows to make her his…Lady Simone Turnbridge—beautiful, bold, and with a scandalous past—is not eager to be some wealthy man’s bride. Some men want her hand in marriage; others merely want her in their beds. She mocks them all with a twinkle in her eye, knowing not one of them can tame her…Tristan will do anything to have Simone in his bed and his ring on her finger. Simone, who has sworn to let no man control her, is held in thrall by her fascination with this forbidden Lockwood. But it’s too late to walk away now—when the promise of passion is so wanton, wicked, and thoroughly wonderful… RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Sally Laity
DOUBLE EXPOSURE 6/2003 ISBN: 1586608053 Unable to forgive the Germans for her brother's death in the war, Tricia travels to England to do her part to fight the enemy. Working for her uncle at an American news service, Trish finds herself attracted to photographer Doug St. Claire. But beyond his good looks and personal charm is a vibrant faith that makes Tricia uncomfortable. How can Doug believe in a loving God when so many horrible things are happening in the world? When Doug disappears during a bombing mission over Germany, Trish faces a deeper struggle. Will she admit to herself how much she cares for her missing coworker? Can she ever forgive the enemy for twice taking someone she loves? And as weeks pass without word of Doug or the plane he was in, how will she ever be able to discover his fate?
DREAM SPINNER 1993 ISBN: 155748404X High up in the branches of a sentinel maple Starlight Wells spins by day the dreams of a lost and never found girlhood. By night she flips the pages of her tattered storybook while savoring the memory of her beloved mother, and the noble era when knighthood was in flower. Amid the rural poverty of northeastern Pennsylvania in 1892, the ramshackle abode Starlight shares with her crippled father is far removed from the daring-do of armor-clad heroes, and dreams are but a reprieve from an ever-worsening existence. And then one day he comes. Astride his silver charger, with a Bible not a sword, Kirby Mitchell is to Starlight a dream-spun Knight from the past....and a man of faith and passion for the present.
LITTLE SHOES AND MISTLETOE 12/1999 ISBN:1577486994 Not only has Eliza's fiancé', Weston Elliot, run away with someone else, but that someone else had been her best friend. Now living in New York City, Eliza is building a new life. One without men or social gatherings. But that is before she meets two young orphans who quickly steal her heart, before Weston Elliot makes a disturbing reappearance, and before Eliza finds herself fighting an attraction to another woman's fiancé'. Will Eliza discover a path of service that can keep her heart safe from the dangers of love, or will she find the courage to accept a surprising gift from God hidden between four pairs of little shoes and a bunch of mistletoe?
Rosalind Laker
BANNERS OF SILK 1981 ISBN:0451115457 Louise Vernet. Raised in the slums of Paris. Coming of age amid the splendor and corruption of the Second Empire. She ruled the world of fashion,clothing the most fabled woman of title and of pleasure in a society where even sin had to have style. She took as her lover a nobleman she could never wed....
CLAUDINE'S DAUGHTER 1978 ISBN:0385147597 Lucy Attwood di Castelloni was born in Italy to English parents. A beautiful and independent young widow, she traveled alone to the English seaside resort of Easthampton. As an exotic stranger, she was viewed suspiciously by the Easthampton women, but the town's most eligible bachelors avidly sought her company. Still, no one guessed Lucy's secret. What had drawn the recently widowed foreigner to England? Only Lucy knew that in the misdeed of the past lay the key to her future.
ORCHIDS AND DIAMONDS 4/1995 ISBN: 0385472811 Working in the high fashion world of early twentieth-century Paris, lovely Juliette Cladel falls in love with a young Russian count and sculptor, Nikolai Karsavin, but the young lovers soon find themselves separated by family duties, war, and revolution.
WARWYCK'S CHOICE 1980 ISBN:0385156499 Tom Warwyck was the pride of the Warwycks, the handsome, hot-blooded heir to the family empire, and the hope of his harsh and driving father. Nicolette Radcliffe was the treasure of the Radcliffes, as enchantingly lovely a young lady as an aristocratic Victorian clan could wish. For three generations the Warwycks and the Radcliffes had despised each other. Now a young man's reckless hunger and a girl's awakened passion leapt that chasm of hate, and brought to a final testing family rivalries that would either bring them closer together or destroy their love forever.
WARWYCK'S WOMAN 1978 ISBN:0385134487 It was not out of love or lust that Daniel Warwyck, a dashing prizefighter, had bought Kate Farringdon in the market at Brighton that warm July day in 1826. Nor was it to spite his younger brother, who had also bid for Kate's hand. Daniel Warwyck was buying respectability; he hope marriage would reinstate him as heir to Warwyck Manor and the fortune that his ungentlemanly profession had cost him...but Daniel got a lot more than he bargained for that day in Brighton. Kate Farringdon had a quiet presence, she was strong-willed and independent, just as he was. He would not realize for many months how this loyal and proud woman was to change his life. Or how his impulsive marriage of convenience was indeed to alter the destinies of all the Warwycks, most especially that of the woman who had become Kate Warwyck.
Lydia Lancaster
PASSION AND PROUD HEARTS 1978 ISBN:0446825484 The Beddoes family-three generations of Americans joined and divided by love and hate, principle and promise. Beautiful, proud women: the abolitionist Martha; her daughter, the ardent Prue. Passionate men: Jonathan, whose slaves are his property, his friends and his lovers; Adam, his grandson, whose odyssey leads him West. Husband, wife, brothers, sisters, children, grandchildren, black and white, in the decades surrounding the Civil War - in Massachusetts, Georgia, Texas - all intertwined in a tempestuous saga of Passion and Proud Hearts.
STOLEN RAPTURE 1978 ISBN:0446817775 Here Comes the Bride...across the seas from England. Eighteen, beautiful, the image of purity and virtue, all that the young heir to a plantation could wish for in a wife.
TO THOSE WHO DARE 1982 ISBN:0446905798
Jill Marie Landis
GLASS BEACH 6/1998 ISBN: 0515122858 Elizabeth Bennett had, at last, found paradise. Her loveless marriage had come to an end with the death of her cruel husband - and now she was left blissfully alone to raise her young daughter on their lush Hawaiian estate. But then everything changed. A dark, handsome stranger appeared on her doorstep. His name was Spence Laamea. He was her husband's illegitimate son, and - according to her spiteful husband's will - he would run the estate until Elizabeth's daughter came of age. Elizabeth was enraged. Here was a man she knew nothing about. A man who held sway over her and her fate. A man who made her heart beat with a passion she had never felt before... But, like the shifting tides of Hawaii nei, they found themselves changing, drawn together by a love and desire even stronger than the pull of the island moon...
SUMMER MOON 8/2001 ISBN: 0345440390. Rancher Seeking Wife. For Kate Whittington, the modest words of a newspaper ad are the answer to her desperate prayers. Daughter of a dockside harlot and raised in a bleak orphanage, she has no prospects in the unforgiving Maine village of her birth. Correspondence from the lonely Texas widower looking for a mail-order bride sparks tempting dreams of a house, a family, and a future in a land filled with possibilities. Kate arrives at the magnificent Lone Star Ranch eager to meet her new husband. Instead she is greeted by the news that Reed Benton has been wounded during a raid on a Comanche village and has returned with a prisoner--a wild-looking young boy who may be his long lost son. Even more shattering, however, is the fact that Reed has never heard of Kate, never wrote the searing letters that charmed her heart. Reed Benton doesn't want a wife. But he does need someone to look after the boy--a bitter reminder of a past ravaged by lies and betrayal. It will take a miracle to heal these two damaged souls . . . or the faith of one woman with nothing left to lose but her heart.
THE ORCHID HUNTER 3/2000 ISBN: 051512768X For her entire life, Joya Penn has felt that a piece of herself was missing. Raised in Africa by her horticulturist father, free to adore the majestic land, Joya should have felt peace. But there is a restlessness that drives her to draw pictures of her other self a girl in England. Trevor Mandeville comes to Africa in search of the perfect orchid for Queen Victoria. What he finds is his adopted sisters long-lost twin. When Joya meets Janelle, two halves of a whole are united. In Africa Joya knew all the rules, but here in cold, damp London, her unconventional ideas and uninhibited nature throw Trevor off balance yet attract him. But only uncovering the secrets of the past will lead Trevor to reclaim his wife.
Elizabeth Lane
MacKENNA'S PROMISE(#216) 4/1994 ISBN: 0373288166 Meg MacKenna had come to find her husband for only one reason: to get a divorce. She needed her freedom if she was to marry kindly old Arthur and provide for her daughter's future. But slave traders had very different plans for little Jenny. Cameron MacKenna hadn't seen his wife, Meg, in four years, and he'd never seen his daughter. Suddenly he was afraid he would never see either of them alive again. Kidnappers had taken his little girl, and Meg has set off alone across the plains of Kenya to find her. But even if Cameron could rescue his wife and child, could he bear to see them return home to another man?
Ruth Ryan Langan
DUCHESS OF FIFTH AVENUE 3/2006 ISBN: 0425208893 Plucky young Lana Dunleavy left Ireland with her best friend Siobhan in search of a better life—but New York's harsh streets aren't quite what they expected. Employed as a maid for a wealthy family, Lana hopes to earn enough money to find a home for Siobhan and her son, Colin, away from Siobhan's wretched husband. Then tragedy suddenly strikes, and the only chance for Lana to save her precious Colin is to transform herself—from a maid to a lady...Ever resourceful, she engages a charming and selfassured confidence man, Jesse Jordan, to teach her the finer points of high society. But Jesse is hiding a secret of his own—and he's about to be trapped by his own deception. For as willing as he is to help the beautiful Lana with her scheme, he never planned on falling in love... RR@H's Novel Thoughts
HEART'S DELIGHT 7/2007 ISBN: 0425216330 Still unwed at twenty-nine, Irish immigrant Molly O'Brien has earned herself quite a reputation in Delight, Wisconsin. Raising four orphans all on her own certainly hasn't helped. Nor has the fact that she's just taken in two strangers with serious gunshot wounds, planning to nurse them back to health. There's just one problem. One of the men is an outlaw and the other's a federal marshal—and she has no idea which is which... When U.S. Marshal Hodge Egan wakes to a beautiful vision standing over him, he can't believe his good fortune. That is, until he realizes the woman seems to be under the mistaken impression that he's the outlaw. Not only is Molly refusing to hand over his gun and badge, she's hidden away his clothes. Unfortunately, by the time she realizes the truth, they might both be in a far more compromising position than either of them could have imagined... RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Linda Lattimer
MY LIFE WITH THE APACHE 9/2007 ISBN: 9781593748265 He is Brave Coyote, but she knows him as Apache. On the way to pursue her father’s dreams of a new life, the wagon train she and her family are a part of is brutally attacked by Indians. The lone survivor, Elizabeth is surprised when other Indians arrive to offer assistance. With one bullet left in the gun, she recalls her father’s words to save it if necessary. Her father never wanted his daughters to suffer such a fate at anyone’s hands. Apache takes her to his home to be his wife but Elizabeth plans to flee. On the way to finding an escape Elizabeth learns much about the Indian people. And when she sees a side to her own people that wish to bring deliberate harm to the Indians, Elizabeth realizes the color of one’s skin makes no difference in a world seeking freedom. But is it too late for her and her Apache? RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Stephanie Laurens
THE PERFECT LOVER 2/2003 ISBN: 0060505729 Simon Frederick Cynster knows that a perfect bride -- and a perfect lover -- are one and the same. So he sets about finding a mate to suit his needs -- someone who will be a perfect lady by day. . .and a wanton lover by night. But Simon is not about to broadcast his search to the entire ton and run the risk of every dowager foisting her flighty charges upon him. Instead, he carefully begins his search at a house party at Glossup Hall…and is astonished when willfully independent Portia Ashford immediately captures his interest. He's known her since childhood and certainly never considered her a potential wife…until an unexpectedly heated kiss changes his mind forever. But as he and Portia begin to explore the depths of their passion, a shocking event occurs…one that puts Portia in deadly peril, and that will require Simon to use his considerable strength and influence to protect his once and always perfect lover.
Constance Laux
TOUCHED BY MAGIC 7/1996 ISBN: 0821753517 Deep in the mountains of Wales lies the rustic village of Rhyd Ddu, a rather unusual place... especially because of raven-haired Nicolette Rhys. She's lovely, she's a whiz at herbs and remedies, and she's smart and independent enough to hold on to her precious freedom. She also happens to be a witch. Gowan is a physician, the new Earl of Welshpool, and the less-than-proud owner of a dilapidated hunting lodge. Forced to flee his creditors, Gowan arrives in Rhyd Ddu - and what he thinks is a safe haven. But he reckons without three eccentric witches and a sudden, overpowering attraction to a mysterious beauty named Nicolette. Soon sparks are flying, suspicion is flaring, and a pair of mismatched lovers must discover whatever their feelings are caused by a powerful sorcery...or by the passionate magic of true love.
TWILIGHT SECRETS 2/1992 ISBN: 1557736596 Gwennie was a shining star in the darkened music halls of London, a beautiful young woman with the voice of an angel. A British Army captain, Jack Moran had experienced all the splendors of India. But never had he seen or heard anything as lovely as Gwennie. They never meant to fall in love. Yet a secret desire burned in their hearts, sparked by undeniable passion....and haunted by the past. Gwennie was ashamed of her life in the music halls. Jack was endangered by a mission of revenge. But even the darkest perils of the night were no match for the fires of a wild and reckless love...
Deborah Lawrence
THE HAT BOX 3/1997 ISBN: 0515120332 Kent Hogarth was a drifter by nature, a jack of all trades, and en route to Pelican Cove, California, when he came upon the shipwrecked schooner, Julianna. As he searched for survivors, he discovered Emma Townsend pinned beneath a man on deck. Emma thought she was content running her shop, The Hat Box, until Kent's gentle teasing won a place in her heart, and she discovered that love wasn't beyond her reach. Kent always moved on when his work was done, but he had found a reason to stay in Pelican Cove at least for a while.
Susan Kay Law
HOME FIRES 12/1995 ISBN: 0061083054 On a train headed west, Amanda Sellington and her son Daniel are fleeing the vicious cruelty of her husband, and his father, Edward, who is extremely wealthy and powerful. Amanda hopes never to be found by Edward, so she gives the impression that she is a widow, and she calls herself Amy Smith. On the train they meet Helga von Leigh, a kind, grandmotherly woman who befriends them, and they end up staying in Helga's town of New Ulm, Minnesota. Helga introduces Amy to Jakob Hall, then Helga explains that she is his housekeeper. When Amy asks about a hotel, Helga, a take charge kind of woman and a matchmaker besides, insists that she and Daniel stay at Jakob's because he has a guest cottage that no one ever uses. Amy accepts, thinking to herself that it will be temporary. (Literary Times)
Edith Layton
THE GILDED CAGE 8/1991 ISBN 0451402642 Post-Civil War New York was a golden city where wealth waited for the bold and everything had its price. It was here that well-born but impoverished Lucy Markham sought fame and fortune on the stage under a false name -- and became the toast of the town and the target of every man-about-town. It was here that handsome, iron-willed millionaire Josh Dylan came to put the seal on his success by conquering society. The moment Josh saw Lucy, he wanted her -- but only as his mistress. The moment Lucy saw Josh, she fought to quell her desire for him. For neither could afford to surrender to the one thing that threatened their carefully laid plains. Love.
Suzann Ledbetter
TRINITY STRIKE 1/1996 ISBN: 0451186443 The Wild West in the 1880s during gold rush fever. It is a time when fortunes are made overnight and hopeful immigrants flock to America. From the heart of Ireland comes the irrepressible Megan O'Malley, whose own spirit mirrors that of the untamed frontier. Defying convention, Megan sets out to strike it rich, taking any job--from elevator operator to camp cook--to get out west and become a prospector.
Alyssa Lee
SWEET JASMINE 11/1992 ISBN: 1557738106 True love is never planned - only cherished in the heart forever... Madeline: With a spirit as bold as the Texas land she owned, she vowed that she would never marry. Wade: No one could disrupt his well-ordered world - except a stubborn redhead who refused to sell her land. And whose green-eyed beauty filled the air with the heady scent of flowers... For two independent hearts, desire was unexpected - not even Wade's engagement to to a socialite made sense anymore. When he is named guardian to a cousin's children, Maddie steps in to lend a woman's touch - and together they share the joys of giving the heart a place to call home...
Elsie Lee
SILENCE IS GOLDEN 1971 ISBN: 0821720457 When nineteen year old Silence Eddington came to be companion to the beautiful young future heiress of Hazelhurst Grange, she entered a dazzling, disturbing new world. The orphanage where Silence had grown up had left her unprepared for the dreamlike luxury of this great manor, and for its nightmare danger. What spell was cast over Hazelhurst Grange, where Silence Eddington came to be companion to a beautiful future heiress? The girl who was so mysteriously ailing, strangely possessed...the servants whose humble manners were masks for hate...the master himself, scarred by a secret past, ruled by fearful passions, with the power to make Silence tremble with his gaze and melt at his touch...
Jade Lee
Linda Francis Lee
BLUE WALTZ 1/1996 ISBN: 0515117919 Proper Bostonians are talking about the Widow Braxton. They say she wears the gowns of a century past...she invited servants to parties...they say she is mad. Stephen St. James has heard rumors about his new neighbor. Yet no gossip prepares him to meet the widow behind the wall. For she is no wizened old woman -- but an exquisite young beauty. The moment he glimpses Belle, Stephen is transfixed by her haunted blue eyes. No matter that Belle is a temptress one moment, an innocent the next, Stephen is entranced by her loveliness -- and her outrageousness. But before he can make her his own, he must free the secret that binds her heart...
CRIMSON LACE 12/1997 ISBN: 0515121878 The scandal was devastating. The damage irreparable. Lily Blakemore's fall from grace was notorious. But details about the incident remained a well-guarded mystery in New York society -- a secret as elusive as Lily herself, who in disgrace disappeared shortly after. But now ten years have passed and Crimson Lily is finally coming home. She dares to hope she will be welcomed. She does not dare to hope for love -- until she meets Morgan Elliott. But Morgan must resist Lily's legendary charms -- and discover what really happened that fateful night ten years ago.
EMERALD RAIN 12/1996 ISBN: 0515119792 Standing in a doorway on a crowded New York street -- shielded from a sudden, drenching rain -- Nicholas Drake whispered those words into Ellie Sinclair's ear. At that moment, it didn't matter that Nicholas and Ellie were on opposite sides of a battle that threatened to rob Ellie of her hone -- or Nicholas of his honor. All that mattered was the powerful attraction that drew them together. Ellie knew that to complete a daring business venture, Nicholas had to purchase a block of houses, including her own. But for Ellie, selling the property would unearth a family scandal of twenty years past -- a startling connection that unknowingly bound the two lovers together...and threatened to tear them apart.
THE WALLFLOWER 8/1995 ISBN:0515116831 Preferring simple household tasks to socializing, Persy Daltry reluctantly attends a glamorous coming out celebration in New York City and is disgusted by the arrogance of high society, until she unexpectedly falls in love.
Rebecca Hagan Lee
GOLDEN CHANCES 7/1992 ISBN: 1557737509 Faith - A member of the Richmond Ladies Sewing Circle, Faith was not the type of woman who would answer an advertisement for a wife and mother.... Reese - A wealthy rancher from Wyoming, Reese was not the type of man who would lose control of his heart - especially when it had already been broken.... Love was the last thing on their minds. Reese needed an heir to his family fortune. Faith needed money to save her Southern homestead. But it was Faith's baby sister who brought them together with childlike innocence and affection. Only time could unlock the true feelings that Reese kept hidden within himself. And Faith had only nine months - to deliver his child ... and open his heart.
WHISPER ALWAYS 10/1999 ISBN: 0515127124 Lord Blake Ashford had long ago stopped believing in fairy tales, but the first time he sees Cristina Fairfax, it's clear she needs rescuing - from a real-live prince rather than an ogre. Inflamed by her fiery beauty, the Crown Prince Rudolph of Hapsburg-Lorraine desires her at any cost - even if he has to buy her from her avaricious mother. Cristina's fate seems sealed - until she finds herself kidnapped by a most unlikely savior... Confused by his tender feelings for Cristina, Blake is nevertheless determined to help her - but Cristina is less than grateful for his intervention, and all she wants is her freedom. Outraged by her stubbornness, yet beguiled by her intelligence and sensuality, Blake is inexorably drawn to Cristina. But their uncontrollable passion threatens to destroy them when it sparks a secret Blake had thought dead and buried, and soon the past stands between them and their dream of love forevermore...
Virginia Lee
THE RIVALS 8/1999 ISBN: 051512432X Since childhood, Eric and Jim have been the best of friends. Neither can resist a little friendly competition - though it is all in good fun. Until 13 years later, when a beautiful woman comes between them - and raises the stakes. When Eric went to pick up his mother's new companion at Homewood Station, he expected to be greeting a little old lady...not the pretty, young Meg Kelley. But despite his obvious interest, Eric didn't want to pursue her. And that was just fine with Meg, because the last thing she wanted was a distraction from her secret ambition. Then Eric's best friend, Jim, comes into the picture...and the competition begins. But this time, Eric and Jim are not playing fair. And if their rivalry gets the best of them, they risk losing both love and friendship...
Helene Lehr
CAPTURE THE DREAM 8/1984 ISBN:0380884763 He risked everything for their love. . . Could she risk telling him the truth? When Caroline first saw Michael, she felt a stir of desire that was unseemly for a new bride, even a bride whose husband had cruelly turned away from her on their wedding night...
Ana Leigh
DAVID 3/1998 ISBN: 0380793377 When Cynthia MacKenzie returns from Europe to the family ranch, she soon finds the quiet life boring. For excitement, she goes after engineer Dave Kincaid, who is overseeing the building of the MacKenzie railroad, teasing him and tempting him, despite his resistance, until neither of them can resist the other.
LOVE'S LONG JOURNEY 3/1981 ISBN: 084390884X Jennifer Hunter was too vulnerable to control her passion and too restless to settle for love...
Cynthia Leigh
SILKEN TIGER 11/1990 ISBN:1557734127
Elizabeth Leigh
DULCIMER 10/1995 ISBN: 0821751042 For four years. U.S. Deputy Marshal Jesse Redford has lived for only one thing: revenge on Jack Scurlock, the cold-blooded outlaw who brutally destroyed all he cherished most. Now his relentless hunt has taken Jesse from Tennessee to the Okefinoke swamps of Georgia - an eerie, haunting place that seems to whisper a secret melody to those lonely enough to listen... When Lilah Bennett came upon the injured, delirious stranger in the swamp, she was pretty sure he was the desperado the local law was searching for. She also knew she had a choice: to nurse him back to health with her herbs, the way Granny had taught her - or to leave him to his sorry fate. But how could she ignore his desperate need - or the sweet music his touch would soon awaken in her heart and soul?
MOUNTAIN MOONLIGHT 4/1997 ISBN: 082175632X After the cruel fires of Civil War destroyed all that mattered most, Betsy Tyler retreated to the edge of town. Here, deep in Tennessee's Smoky Mountains, she lives a life of self-imposed seclusion. Until the day a stranger comes calling - and offers her a chance for a new beginning... Steele Montgomery has two purposes in life. As a traveling preacher, he delivers messages of loving kindness; as a man bent on vengeance, he relentlessly searches for the marauders who slew his family. He preaches faith yet has lost his own. Then he arrives in Peculiar Cove. He hears about the woman they call 'Crazy Bets', and realizes that here is his chance for salvation. For only in helping Betsy confront the demons that haunt her can he rediscover what he himself has lost - and claim a love unlike anything either of them has ever known...
Nikki Leigh
Susannah Leigh
DAWN OF FIRE 6/1992 ISBN: 0451403118 Beautiful, young Domini d-Arielle could not help herself. Her brother had been taken prisoner with a group of missionaries in the jungles of Indochina. And now she would stop at nothing to rescue him - even if it meant abandoning her comfortable Parisian home and disguising herself as a woman of easy virtue to gain passage on a ship. Jared Barron was not a man known for his compassion. Rugged and forceful, he ruled his shipping business with an iron hand, bending others' wills to meet his needs. So Dominie could not understand the strange feelings of tenderness he sparked in her any more than she could undo her reckless lie. Playing a dangerous game of desire and deception, Dominie was swept up in unexpected passion beyond all control...and caught in a struggle between honor and overwhelming love...
DAWN SHADOWS 8/1994 ISBN: 0451405102 Set in 1840 on the beautiful windswept island of Maui, here is the story of a young girl forced to marry and embittered and elderly man. But when she meets a youthful rake, they find they must overcome many obstacles before they can begin to love....Trapped in a cruel marriage to a powerful, lustful, and elderly planter, Royall Perralt, lovely Maria McClintock finds hope and true love in the arms of handsome seafarer Alexander Barron.
JADE DAWN 11/1993 ISBN: 0451403983 She was a missionary's daughter... Miss Rachel Todd would not be mocked. Everyone suspected that Captain Matthew Barron was the rogue smuggling opium on a Far East run. That suspicion and the impertinence of his sparkling blue eyes made her forget her ladylike ways - and toss a glass of champagne into the captain's handsome face. But the warmth of his delighted laughter and his shocking proposal of marriage elicited a new sensation in her - a fierce, desire that went against all she'd ever known. He was a handsome sea captain... The youngest son in a respectable shipping house Matthew Barron had seemingly pursued easy profits to become a man no missionary's daughter could respect. Or wed. But when he leaned down to kiss her, she met his lips with a delicious moan. And Matthew soon found himself in possession of a cargo more precious than anything he'd ever encountered...or dared hope for. And the beautiful fallen angel and her sensuous sea devil discovered a passion as wild as the ocean's depths...
MOONWIND 5/1986 ISBN:0451142888 Exquisitely beautiful Celia St. Clair was an innocent passenger on her way to Shanghai when the notorious pirate Brandon Christopher raided the boat.
THE SILVER SWAN 1988 ISBN:0451400631 For beautiful, bold young Stacey Alexander it was a long journey from a pampered life in 19th century San Francisco to the raw magnificence of the Australian outback. She was going to be wife to a man she didn't know, handsome, rugged Errol Cameron.
Julie Lence
Mary Lennox
Rose Lerma
Rochelle Leslie
TEARS OF PASSION, TEARS OF SHAME 1980 ISBN:0515054453 Set in a Wild African Paradise - Two men...one woman..and a dream...The land was their promise, their power, their destiny. And now Natal was a country in agony. From the deep oceans of grass to towering purple mountains, colonist and warrior clashed in bloodstained battle...As free spirited, as bold as any pioneer, Sannie Riverwild fought for the world she loved.
Anna L'Estrange
RETURN TO WUTHERING HEIGHTS 1978 ISBN:0552106089 As the classic Wuthering Heights ended, Heathcliff just died, still grieving over the death of Catherine. What of their two descendants, Hareton and young Cathy? Would they marry, and inherit the same tragic destiny of a love that was at once obsessive yet grand?
Alice Chetwynd Ley
THE MASTER AND THE MAIDEN 2/1977 ISBN:0345255607 Proud, defiant, she risked her heart in a clash between a great cause and a great love...
Tori Light
GAMBLER'S GOLD 5/2001 ISBN: 084394868X Pinkerton agent Nick Bennington came to Crossroads to take back what was rightfully his--a fortune in gold, hidden somewhere in town. What he finds in Lyddie Seaton's arms is much more valuable and rare.... And infinitely harder to hold onto. Wickedly handsome, superbly masculine, Nick is everything Lyddie has ever dreamed of in a man. However, she knows she'd be a fool to fall for him-he's a very good detective! Lyddie knows her husband would never remain quietly at the bottom of the old well, where he's rested for the past four years, if she lets a Pinkerton agent into her life....
Erica Lindley
HARVEST OF DESTINY 12/1979 ISBN:0451089197 When beautiful Destiny Regan surrendered her body to Conal Carmichael, trying to stifle her moans of ecstasy under the power of his lust, she vowed she would never let this handsome and heartless aristocrat ever enjoy her again. In the years that followed, she had kept that vow, despite the tantalizing torment of her sensual memories, and the hardships she underwent as poverty drove her into a marriage that made her a virtual slave. But now there was only one way to save her teenaged daughter from a similar fate at Conal's hands - the daughter who well might be Conal's own. Destiny had to offer herself to Conal again, not knowing which was the stronger - her love for her child, or the burning desire that now could damn her forever...
Betina Lindsey
THE SERPENT BEGUILED 12/1992 ISBN: 0671744674 The bride of dashing British explored Adam Dunraven, her marriage was in name only, carried out to fulfill her father's desperate deathbed plea. For years reclusive Lilith had secretly loved this reckless adventurer who had lived out her fantasies in the farthest reaches of the globe. Yet he had left her; still virginal and unkissed to begin another long journey. To follow the daring Dunraven was a madness that could endanger her life...but fruitlessly wanting him to desire her could destroy her soul...
WALTZ WITH THE LADY 1990 ISBN: 0671672649 In the vast Wyoming territory, they embraced a proud vision of life, and love. In the years after the Civil War, Miss India Simms left the comforts of Boston, to preach women's rights throughout the Wyoming Territory. The raw town of Cheyenne was a shock to the petite aristocrat, and so was her guide, Gat Ransom! His rough-hewn appearance and quick, good-natured smile embodied the contradictions of the West. But his scarred, taut power set disturbing, unfamiliar feelings pounding in India's veins. Indian and Ransom rode the sweeping plains and towering forests, sharing laughter, danger, and a sensuous promise. For they shared, too, a deep need for freedom that kept them achingly apart. Only when they cast off their stubborn pride would they know the bliss of pure surrender, the fiery love that would be theirs, forever!
Johanna Lindsey
CAPTIVE BRIDE 8/1977 ISBN: 0380016974 The irresistible call of adventure brings lovely Christina Wakefield to the alluring Arabian desert. But fate imprisons her after she encounters Sheik Abu, the strikingly handsome though arrogant adventurer, whom she had known in England as Philip Caxton. Once Christina had rejected Philip's fervent offer of marriage. But now she is to be his slave - desperate for the freedoms denied her...yet weakened by her heart's blazing desire to willingly explore her virile captor's most sensuous cravings.
LOVE ME FOREVER 10/1995 ISBN: 0380725703 Still mourning her mother's death, Kimberly Richards is incensed by the determination of her father, the Earl of Amburough, to marry her off as quickly as possible - just to please the jealous lover he plans to wed. And since Kimberly harbors a deep-seated dislike of gold-diggers and the whole distasteful state of affairs, the feisty young heiress already despises the 'worthy suitor' she encounters at Sherring Cross Estate: Lachlan MacGregor, the dashing, newly impoverished Laird of Clan MacGregor. A tryst with the handsome, haughty Lachlan seems dubious at best - especially since the rogue has designs on the married Duchess of Wrothston. But strange turns and outrageous circumstances promise to lead a woefully mismatched pair to a wildly unexpected destination - where a hard, resisting heart can open to the true glories of love.
MAN OF MY DREAMS 6/1992 ISBN: 0380756269 Wildly unpredictable, the most desirable beauty in the land, Megan Penworthy has set her amorous sights on Ambrose St. James - a man she has never met but has every intention of marrying. An no other suitor will satisfy her - especially not the common, if uncommonly handsome, horse breeder, Devlin Jeffreys. Posing as lowborn Jefferys to escape a potentially fatal confrontation, Sir Ambrose is enthralled by the brazen duke-hunting redhead. Without revealing his true identity, he vows to seduce and tame her, thereby foiling Megan's plans to marry the man of her dreams. But the notorious rogue never imagined the enchanting schemer would turn out to be the only woman he would ever dream of marrying.
PARADISE WILD 1981 ISBN: 0380776510 A well-born Boston beauty, Corinne Barrows has traveled halfway around the world in search of Jared Burkett - a dashing rogue and a devil; a honey-tongued charmer who seduced and despoiled her. . .and then abandoned the impetuous lady after awakening a need that only he could satisfy. She has found him on the lush and lovely island of Hawaii. And now Corinne will have the revenge she craves: the total ruin of the blackguard who brought shame and scandal into her life. But Jared still possesses the power to excite her as no man has ever done - even as his own reckless heart is taken captive in their blistering war of wits and will - igniting a fire that could consume them both unless they surrender to it with wild abandon in the heat of the tropic night.
SECRET FIRE 1987 (reissue 10/1996) ISBN:0380750872 He'd caught only a glimpse of her from the window of his carriage, but the young prince knew he had to have her. Within minutes, Lady Katherine St. John was dragged from the London street and carried off to a sumptuous town house -- for the pleasure of her royal admirer...From the tempestuous passion of their first encounter, across stormy seas, to the golden splendor of palaces in Moscow, she was his prisoner -- obsessed with rage toward her captor even as an all-consuming need made her his slave. Yet theirs was a fervor beyond her understanding, carrying them irrevocably toward final surrender to the power of undeniable love.
YOU BELONG TO ME 11/1994 ISBN: 0380762587 In all the world, no man exists who can tame Alexandra Rubliov. A fiery and beautiful free-thinker, Alex's steadfast refusal to marry has frustrated her hapless father. And so he creates a 'long-forgotten' agreement and sends his rebellious daughter away - falsely maintaining that Alexandra has been promised since childhood to the handsome, insufferable libertine whom she must now accompany to his homeland to wed. Dismayed to find himself suddenly engaged, Count Vasili Patroff plans to repulse his unwanted fiancé by acting the perfect cad - unaware that wily Alexandra plans to follow a similar path. But the road to deception is a rocky one - and its many unexpected turns can lead two reluctant companions to a most unanticipated destination: that place called passionate love...
Wendy Lindstrom
LIPS THAT TOUCH MINE 4/2005 ISBN: 0843955066 With Claire Ashier’s last guest went the last thread of her patience. The noise from the saloon across the street was driving off her boardinghouse patrons, and that would land her in the poorhouse. Desperate to shut down the den of vice, she threatened Boyd Grayson with her revolver, then led a band of temperance ladies against the handsome charmer. But her foe, the owner of the rum hole known as the Pemberton Inn, was one of Fredonia, New York’s leading men. He was brother of the sheriff, and a respected businessman. To Claire he was a seducer and libertine, which he proved immediately with one honey-brown glance. Boyd Grayson might have the most kissable mouth she’d ever seen, and eyes that encouraged her to trust him, but Claire knew firsthand that men who imbibed alcohol were dangerous. Like in the song, she’d sworn that “Lips that Touch Whiskey Must Never Touch Mine.” She would never let Boyd kiss her because, deep in her heart, she feared he promised something more intoxicating and dangerous than alcohol. She had only to resist that first taste...RR@H's Novel Thoughts
THE LONGING 4/2003 ISBN: 0312982844 SHE NEEDED A HUSBAND...HE NEEDED HER LOVE...Amelia Drake becomes a bride because she's tired of being played for a fool. As a naive teen, she'd been seduced, abandoned, and doomed to life as a spinster. Her father's sudden death leaves Amelia facing financial ruin, and when his business rival-sawmill owner Kyle Grayson-unwittingly puts Amelia in a compromising position, she is determined to save her honor the only way she can: marriage to a man she barely knows. When Kyle Grayson accused his competitor Tom Drake of treachery, he never imagined the man would die in his arms. Wracked with guilt, he marries Amelia and vows to resurrect her father's lumberyard. Though hard and cynical when it comes to love, he is all too aware of his desire for his beautiful wife-sensing her secret longing for his touch, her fear of his passion...and the unspoken secrets weighing down on their marriage. But will the searing truth deep in their hearts hold the power of forgiveness-and a chance for everlasting love?
Gail Link
ALL I ASK OF YOU 9/1994 ISBN: 0843936061 Half-Comanche Rafe Reyburne defies the prim and proper tenets of British high society when he falls for Lady Gillian Buchanan, an independent woman who risks everything and journeys halfway around the world to marry Rafe.
FORSAKING ALL OTHERS 1/1997 ISBN: 0843941510 Anthony Chambers is set to inherit half of his Great Uncle Cedric's Australian homestead if he leaves England and spends one year at the homestead with his uncle's live-in companion, Annie. Anthony is sure the American is his uncle's mistress, and he's anxious to meet the woman smart enough to take his uncle's money and dumb enough to have a child out of wedlock. What he finds is a different matter altogether.
LUCK OF THE DRAW 3/2006 ISBN: 0843956631 With one lucky turn of the cards in a high-stakes poker game, Beau McMasters finds himself the new owner of a Montana ranch and saloon. But this Southern gentleman likes his women bold, just like the new schoolteacher in town. It’s only a matter of time before the auburn-haired beauty falls to the charm of the McMasters touch. Miss Abigail Butler intends to keep her cards close to her chest, and not even a honeyed Southern drawl can make her show her hand and spill her secrets. With a reward on her head, she can’t afford anything other than anonymity. But the golden-eyed gambler awakens her desires, and she’ll find out he is the only one who can help her turn the Luck of the Draw. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Cathie Linz
A WIFE IN TIME 10/1995 ISBN: 0786245220 Getting stuck solving a century-old mystery before it happened wasn't editor Susannah Hall's idea of a good time -- especially since she was posing as Kane Wilder's blushing bride. Somehow, she and the infuriating man had both been transported back in time, and now they were sharing more than a marriage bed... Sharing tiny quarters with all six feet of exasperating-but-gorgeous Kane was getting on Susannah's nerves. Especially since Susannah had old-fashioned values, and Kane was obviously wrestling with old-fashioned lust.
Josie Litton
FOUNTAIN OF FIRE 8/2003 ISBN: 0553585851 Daughter of a renowned Akoran warrior and an English-born beauty, Clio is content with her lot as a pretty, warmhearted girl among a family of compelling and exquisitely attractive people. Yet it is precisely her immensely soothing nature that is to bring her unexpected power--and passion. For a distressed young Queen Victoria has requested that Clio become her lady-in-waiting. During a time of political unrest, it is a position of inherent danger. But Clio is determined to be of service....Charged with safeguarding the queen from a suspected assassination plot, William, earl of Holyhood, is delighted to have the company of Clio. Not only is her sweetness a balm to the soul, but she is also, curiously, an Akoran princess. Long fascinated by the tantalizing island, William soon finds his interest superseded by an enchantment with Clio herself. Surprised by their deep mutual attraction, the couple have only to agree on how best to protect the queen--and themselves--from those who would steal their futures. But it is a task more easily said than done, and one that may hold the fate of an empire--and a blossoming love--in the balance.
Karen Lockwood
HARVEST SONG 1/1993 ISBN: 1557738416 Elizabeth - She journeyed to Idaho to wed a stranger and tend her brother's apple orchards. But a chance meeting brought a change of heart... Zack - The doctor came home from war, tormented by dark memories. Only this proper Eastern lady could rekindle his spirit. At first Elizabeth despised this unruly man, who seemed more suited for the battlefield than the homefront. But as they shared their triumphs and sorrows, a passionate desire blossomed. Taking two orphans in to work on the orchard, Elizabeth dreamed of building a loving home - but Zack never intended to stay put. Would he follow the restless wind...or the stirrings of his own heart?
STOLEN KISSES 11/1994 ISBN: 0515114901 Clare Charlton adored little Vicky as if she were her very own daughter. But as Vicky's hot-tempered father was quick to point out, Clare was merely a governess. And though he hadn't seen his child for years, Alec Douglas dared to storm the house and take her away. Clare was heartbroken, and determined to reunited with the girl she cared for so deeply. Even if it meant starting a battle with the most arrogant man she'd ever met. Even if it meant risking everything. But as the prim governess and the proud lord matched wits and waged war, they grew to realize what young Vicky could already see: that the fierce love the two shared for a motherless child would bloom into a powerful and passionate devotion to each other as well.
Norah Lofts
THE HAUNTING OF GAD'S HALL 1979 ISBN:0340265019 The spine tingling tale of a house doomed forever by a girl's obsession with evil...No one dared reveal the truth about the haunting of Gad's Hall. No one at Gad's Hall could admit what they knew about the room in the attic. The locked room that held the Thorley family's most shameful secret. The terrifying room that had once been the living tomb of a beautiful young woman possessed by the darkest evil.
THE HOUSE AT SUNSET 1962 'At the age of seven I was a skilful pickpocket. I could sew neatly, write a tolerable hand, make a curtsey and a correct introduction, dance a little, and play simple tunes on the harpsichord. This was the London life of Felicity Hatton in 1740, until chance sent her back to the House, first as a pauper, later to become its mistress, a strange eccentric mistress whose choice of husband was as unorthodox as her manner of living. The House at Sunset is the last volume of Norah Lofts' famous House trilogy, and traces the fortunes of the men and women who lived through the Georgian, Victorian, and New Elizabethan eras.
Anne Logan
THE HAUNTING OF SARAH short story in A DANCE WITH THE DEVIL 11/1997 ISBN:0312963181 Louisiana: the enigmatic bayou, the moss-draped river trees, the ghostly city of New Orleans, a setting for devilish intrigue and dangerous love. Four talented authors who make their homes in this mysterious state conjure tales of three desperate women and a man who, long ago, dared to dance with the devil, risking souls for hearts' desire--and finding love.
Merline Lovelace
THE MAJOR'S WIFE short story in THE OFFICER'S BRIDE 4/2001 ISBN: 0373834659
Lovelace-Simmons-Justiss
THE OFFICER'S BRIDE 4/2001 ISBN: 0373834659 Called to war on the eve of his honeymoon, Major Sir Charles Trent had returned home to find his shy young bride a self-confident woman-with an admirer. Now, with the single-mindedness of an officer, he must set out to woo and win his wife's love all over again!
Lynn Lowery
LARISSA 11/1979 ISBN:0553129619 Boston society's dazzling Larissa. Scorched by desire, her fine bred innocence stripped by a man it was a scandal to love. Across the Ottoman Empire, Cathay and India to the South Seas and the American West....No matter the men who laid claim to her beauty, one man only would master her life.
Jenny Lykins
LOST YESTERDAY 2/1997 ISBN: 0515120138 Maria Alexander lost every man she loved and refused to love any more. She avoided men and kept busy on her job at the museum until one dark and stormy night everything changed. It was now 1876 and all she could remember was swerving her car to avoid an accident and then being carried by a man she recognized from century old photographs!
Catherine Lyndell
MASQUERADE 7/1984 ISBN:0671500481 Lieutenant Keith Powell wanted no part of a marriage to the haughty Lady Charlotte Fitzgerald. He had requested a posting to India, hoping that all efforts to entrap him would cease. But a letter announced Charlotte's impending arrival. When Keith saw Lady Charlotte disembark in Calcutta, he was stunned by her beauty and composure. He did not know her.because this lady was not his Charlotte!
Ann Lynn
MIDNIGHT SAFARI 10/1991 ISBN: 0821735500
Victoria Lynne
WHAT WILD MOONLIGHT 10/1998 ISBN: 0440223318 What wild deception... Nicholas Duvall, rakehell Earl of Barrington, pretended to be a coach driver when they met. Before he knew what hit him, headstrong Katya Alexander swept him into an intrigue of her own. Thinking she was a mere pickpocket - and a ravishing one at that - he made her an offer she couldn't refuse: pose as his mistress and help him retrieve a priceless family scroll. In return, he would offer her his protection. His plan was flawless - until he lost his heart to the beautiful stranger with secrets to burn. What wild desire... Only Katya knew the secret that could destroy them both: an age-old family feud made them mortal enemies. Caught up in the glittering intrigue of Monaco, Katya couldn't tell Nicholas the truth - any more than she could resist his passionate touch or the promise of heaven in his arms....
WITH THIS KISS 8/1999 ISBN: 0440223342 Beauty and the beast--they were the scandal of the ton.... All eyes feasted on the beautiful flame-haired gambler in London's most infamous club. But Julia Prentisse was interested only in the rake-turned-recluse whom they now called "The Beast." She lured him out of the crowded club to a deserted warehouse, where she made her scandalous offer: If he married her and protected her from her uncle, she would help him catch the arsonist who had ruined his life. An act of heroism had left Morgan burned, scarred for life. But Julia's bold gaze lit other fires he had long suppressed. And now this glorious stranger was his bride. But when he tried to claim his husbandly rights, she demanded three months grace--three months to know a stranger's mind, to touch a stranger's soul, to go where no woman had ever gone before. Into his lonely heart . . . With This Kiss.
Kate Lyon
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