Catherine Anderson

COMING UP ROSES 8/1993 ISBN: 0061080608. Widow Kate Blakely knew nothing of love - but she knew plenty about unhappiness. She'd married young, hoping to put down roots in a safe haven, but her husband had shattered her naiveté, and made her fear for her beloved daughter's safety until the day he died. When she first met her new neighbor, Zachariah McGovern, all she saw was danger. But Zach saw much more. He saw beauty, he saw tenderness. He knew he could rescue Kate Blakely from her past - if only she would let him. What Zach couldn't know, however, was the price that had to be paid to save the woman he loved.

Elaine Barbieri

TATTERED SILK 9/1991.  ISBN: 0821735047.  A magnificent novel of a woman torn between love and ambition.

Jill Barnett

IMAGINE 9/1995.  ISBN: 0671521438. After years in prison for a murder he never committed, escaped convict Hank Wyatt knew how to survive. But he didn't know if he could last an hour marooned on a deserted tropical island with a beautiful blonde and three orphaned children. Now, looking out for number one doesn't seem to be enough. San Francisco attorney Maggie Smith felt like having a good cry. Thoroughly modern, wealthy, and bright, she's suddenly been cast in the role of mother and forced to battle wits and hearts with the most arrogant man she's ever met! Fate has thrown this makeshift family Robinson together and kismet tossed in a touch of magic...the chance for a love more powerful than they could ever imagine...only a wish away!

JUST A KISS AWAY 11/1991. ISBN: 0671723421. Arriving on a lush Pacific island, Eulalie Grace LaRue was soon to be reunited with the father she hadn't seen since childhood. Yet before Lollie's dreamed-of meeting could take place, the lovely Southern belle was caught in the crossfire of a violent revolution -- and thrown into the rugged arms of Sam Forester. On the run in the jungle, the battle-scarred soldier of fortune didn't know what to do with the pampered blonde placed in his care. Survival was his top priority, but he could not resist Lollie's seductive charm... or deny the growing attraction between them. Though Sam thrived on chance and risk, falling in love was the one chance he wasn't willing to take. Powerless against the desire that consumed them both, Lollie surrendered to his passionate embrace. But when he dismissed her affections, she was determined to fight for him... to prove that in the steamy heat of paradise two hearts would find the love of a lifetime.

Rexanne Becnel

HEART OF THE STORM 11/1995.  ISBN: 0312956088.  A bid for freedom... The lush, misty island of Madeira seemed a perfect escape from an unwanted bridegroom for shy, bookish heiress Eliza Thoroughgood. Ambushed by desire... But barely have they arrived when she and her frail young cousin Aubrey find themselves captive on the exotic vessel of Cyprian Dare -- a man whose bold hands and even bolder mouth arouse a tiny, wicked part of Eliza. An exquisite revenge... Cyprian never forgave the man who abandoned his mother and made him a bastard. Now that man's heir, the boy Aubrey, will be his instrument of revenge -- however furiously the beautiful Eliza guards him. Foiled by an ecstatic love... For Cyprian, it will be an easy matter to tame this lovely innocent in the sweet, dark sea swept night... until Eliza's passionate heart challenges him to a choice he could never have foreseen...

Jennifer Blake

SOUTHERN RAPTURE 1987.  ISBN: 1585861588.  Lettie Mason, a proper yet headstrong Boston schoolteacher, journeyed to a small Louisiana town after the Civil War to expose the wretched rogue who'd killed her brother. The man was known as Thorn--a man with a reputation for both murder and mercy. She was sure he had killed her brother, but she learned that he also helped save the homes and lives of many townspeople. How could she reconcile these two different images of the same man--and how could she accept the overwhelming desire, the thrilling passion, and the reckless abandon he aroused deep within her?

Connie Brockway

AS YOU DESIRE 2/1997. ISBN: 0440221994. He galloped across the midnight-shrouded landscape, racing toward her on his pure white steed. Her destiny...In her wildest fantasies Desdemona Carlisle could not have conjured a more dashing savior, and this was real. But an unlikelier hero was hard to find. Harry Braxton was a rouge, a scoundrel, and a born opportunist who had already broken her heart once. How could she ever trust a notorious rake who came with a warning: lover, beware. With her bronze-gold hair and quicksilver grace, the sloe-eyed beauty was every man's desire and one man's sole passion. But the secret that had made Harry an exile also made it impossible for him to offer Desdemona more that friendship. Until his aristocratic cousin laid siege to Desdemona's heart and Harry, damning the consequences, vowed to do anything, give anything, to claim her for him own...

MY DEAREST ENEMY 8/1998.  ISBN: 044022375X.  Breathtakingly romantic, startlingly original, Connie Brockway's novels have captured the hearts of readers and the raves of critics everywhere. Now she brings you a unique and unforgettable love story that begins with a series of letters between a world-weary adventurer and the woman whose love brings him home.  --Dear Mr. Thorne, I give you fair warning. I intend to do whatever I must to abide by your late uncle's will and win Mill House. Though I know he never expected me to succeed, and for whatever reasons is using me to shame you, I accept his challenge. For the next five years, I will profitably manage this estate. I will deliver to you an allowance and I will prove that women are just as capable as men. And at the end, I shall accept Mill House as my reward. Sincerely, Lillian Bede. --My Dear Miss Bede, Forgive me if I fail to shudder. Pray, do whatever you bloody well want, can, or must. I shall look forward to making your acquaintance in my lawyer's office five years hence, when I take possession of Mill House.  Avery Thorne

Charlotte Brontë  

JANE EYRE  1847.  ISBN: 0451526554.  

Emily Brontë   

WUTHERING HEIGHTS 1847. 

Justine Cole ( aka Susan Elizabeth Phillips) 

THE COPELAND BRIDE 1983.  ISBN: 0440112354.  All London knew her as "Her Highness", the fiery temptress who robbed men of their gold. But it was proud, untouched Noelle Dorian who was cruelly abducted by Quinn Copeland, the rugged American shipping heir, and, in one brutal act of passion, forced to take his family name. Transformed by Copeland wealth, abandoned by Quinn, Noelle's rare beauty blossomed in London society. But beneath her soft grace burned a vow of vengeance and a passion for the man whose jet-black eyes and powerful touch she would never forget...For Quinn would return-to carry her off to the bold shores of the New World. Together they were destined to carve a new life in the harsh wilderness, bound by a love as glorious, as savage, as their pride. From Soho pickpocket to society belle, from London to the shores of the New World, hers was a game of passion and chance. 

Catherine Coulter

JADE STAR 5/1987. ISBN 0451401573 . Beautiful Juliana DuPres knew she should give herself to Dr. Michael "Saint" Morris body and soul. He was everything a woman could want - handsome, kind, and now her husband as well, after rescuing her from her kidnapper, the brutal Jameson Wilkes

Kathryn Lynn Davis

TOO DEEP FOR TEARS 12/1989.  ISBN: 0671725327. Victorian Period.  Dashing English diplomat Charles Kittridge relished the abundant pleasures of the world, and in his far-flung wanderings, he left behind three remarkable daughters: Ailsa Rose, Li-An, and Genevra, each growing to womanhood haunted by a legacy of betrayal. Now their father has but one final desire--to bring together the daughters he has never known.

Jane Feather

BOLD DESTINY 3/1990.  ISBN: 0380758083. Once she had been Annabel Spencer, a proper British subject; now she is Ayesha, the most coveted prize of the powerful Akbar Khan, who offers her to an Englishman for a night of pleasure...a night that ignites a burning desire. A World Weary Soldier Stationed in an exotic, remote outpost where the glory of the British Empire has faded, Lieutenant Kit Ralston masks his bitterness behind a cynical facade. But when he meets Ayesha, a scintillating, jade-eyed temptress, his hungry heart awakens. Vowing to rescue Ayesha and make her his own, Kit abducts her -- but can the power of their love overcome the obstacles they face?

Patricia Gaffney

LILY 10/1991.  ISBN: 084393946X.  The maid - She arrived at Darkstone Manor without friends or fortune, welcomed only by the hiss of the sea in the midnight hush. Lily Trehearne had been born a lady, but now she resigned herself to a life of backbreaking drudgery, inescapable poverty... and unquestioning obedience to the lord of the manor. The master - Tormented and brooding, Devon Darkwell threatened Lily's safety almost as much as he thrilled her senses. From the moment he caught her swimming nude in the moonlight, his compelling masculinity held her spellbound. But each step he took toward claiming her body brought him closer to learning the terrible secrets of her soul. In his arms she would know tempestuous passion, bitter despair, and a soaring joy that would humble them both before the power of love.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD  9/1995. ISBN: 0451405358.  Sebastian Verlaine, the new Viscount D'Aubrey, was cynical, sophisticated, and too handsome for his own good.  Hew was also bored.  Why else would he agree to sit on the bench with tow fellow magistrates to judge the petty crimes of his tenants and neighbors?  It was all a lark--until a beautiful prisoner came before him, and he realized he held her fate in his hands.  Rachel Wade knew everything about helplessness and sexual degradation.  Her husband's violent death had freed her from thenightmare, but ten years in prison for his murder was only another kind of torture.  Now a jaded viscount was offering her freedom--but at a price.  "Housekeeper," he termed her new positon at Lynton Hall.   "Lord D'Aubrey's whore," the scandalized villagers called it.  A ruthless, unking bargain.  But neither of them guessed how the tables could be turned.  How a game that began in base desire could lead to a breathtaking gamble in love.

TO LOVE AND TO CHERISH 2/1995. ISBN: 0451405331. Anne Verlaine's four year marriage to Geoffrey, Lord D'Aubrey, was a living hell. Her only comfort was her lovely new home -- the village of Wyckerley in the heart of Devonshire. And even more irresistible was her attraction to Christian Morrell, "Christy," the vicar of All Saints Church. He looked like an archangel, his strength something palpable, his golden-haired handsomeness a source of light in her dark life. Anne's husband had once been Christy's closest friend, but war and life had scarred Geoffrey inside and out. Now he was going to leave her behind in Wyckerley, with the shocking truth of their marriage still hidden as deeply as his dangerous plans. Anne had no right to want Christy to love her, and no choice but to need him, even though she risked his ruin... and her own. But he was everything to her. She would defy this world for him... and the next. 

Julie Garwood

FOR THE ROSES 9/1995.  No one ever knew what kind of strays, from animals to weary travelers, Mary Rose Clayborne would bring home next. Sometimes her four brothers -- runaway slave Adam, ex-pickpocket Douglas, gunslinger Cole, and con man Travis -- wondered whether her boarding school education did a lick of good now that their beautiful, impulsive little sister was back in Blue Belle, Montana. Of course, everyone in town knew better than to mess with the Claybornes. The brothers, four of the toughest hombres in the West, had once been a mismatched gang of street urchins. But they had found an abandoned baby girl in a New York City alley, named her Mary Rose, headed West, and raised her to be a lady. Through the years the Claybornes had become a family, held together by loyalty and love if not by blood -- when they suddenly faced the crisis that could tear them apart. That crisis came to town with Lord Harrison Stanford MacDonald. In his fine clothes, he looked every inch a dude. Mary Rose figured that if she didn't interfere, this handsome Englishman would get himself killed, so she took him home to the Clayborne ranch to ask her brothers to turn him into a cowboy. She didn't suspect MacDonald was a chameleon, not the greenhorn he appeared to be. He'd prove fast with a gun, quick with his fists, and capable of commanding the Claybornes's respect -- if not their trust. He'd also soon be desperately in love with Mary Rose. She returned his affection blissfully and wholeheartedly... until MacDonald revealed a secret that challenged everything she believed about her love, herself, and her life. Now Mary Rose's search for identity and meaning would begin, sending her to England, to the family she lost long ago. Her soul hungered for the freedom of the American West, but she was being drawn away from all she cared about by the need to know her past... and by her uncertain but still potent love for MacDonald. Torn between conflicting loyalties, Mary Rose wasn't sure who she really was, or where she belonged... questions that could only be answered if she listened to the truth within her heart. 

PRINCE CHARMING 6/1994.  ISBN: 0671870971.  Only her beloved grandmother, Lady Esther, knew how devastated Taylor Stapleton has been when her fiancé eloped with Taylor's cousin, Jane. Now that good lady -- one of London's richest most formidable matriarchs -- lay dying. But first she was going to help Taylor pull of the scam of the season. To escape becoming a ward of her unscrupolous uncle, Taylor would wed Lucas Ross, a rugged American rancher. Lady Esther's money would enable Ross to bring his youngest half-brother home to Montana. Taylor had her own urgent reason to go to America... a precious legacy she hadn't revealed to Ross, for the had agreed to go their separate ways once they reached Boston. But as her handsome new husband spoke of life in Montana, Taylor began planning a new future. To Taylor, the wide-open spaces of Montana sounded like paradise.

Kristin Hannah

THE ENCHANTMENT 8/1992.  ISBN: 0449147738.  She had given up on love -- until he showed her the rich treasures hidden in her heart. Emmaline Hatter was a beautiful, brilliant, and rich Wall Street financier in the nineteenth century until the crash of 1893 wiped her out completely. Desperate to recoup her losses, she joins Dr. Larence Digby in his search for the legendary lost city of Cibola, rumored to be rich in gold. Emmaline was used to getting her own way, but Larence was not about to give up control of his expedition to a woman. Somehow, in a world of enchantment, each would have to learn to believe -- to trust the other with their lives, their secrets, and their hearts.

Robin Lee Hatcher

PIRATE'S LADY 8/1987. ISBN:  0843930365. Held captive on the high seas by a virile buccaneer, Lady Jacinda Sunderland is given a soul-destroying choice: either join the women in the hold, destined for the sultan's harem, or share the captain's cabin. She has already lost her heart to Tristan Dancing's ravaging kisses, but she swears she will never be a pirate's lady.

Lorraine Heath

ALWAYS TO REMEMBER 2/1996.  ISBN: 0515118044. Refusing to pick up a gun for the Confederacy, Clayton Holland was branded a deserter and imprisoned during the war. When he returned home to Cedar Grove, he was given a coward's welcome, spurned by everyone in town. To Meg Warner, Clay's presence was a constant offense: a betrayal of the cause for which her husband and brothers died. As a punishment, she commissioned Clay, a talented sculptor, to create a memorial for Cedar Grove's fallen heroes, hoping that every name he carved into stone would carve remorse into his heart. But, as Meg spent months watching Clay work, she began to see strength instead of cowardice. And she discovered that a hero could be found in the most unlikely of men. That passion could be sculpted from a heart hardened by bitterness. And that sometimes love -- like courage -- whispers instead of shouts. 

Sandra Hill

SWEETER SAVAGE LOVE 8/1997.  ISBN: 0505522128.  Dr. Harriet Ginoza is a psychologist, author of a bestselling book on sexual fantasies, and women's rights advocate. Etienne Baptiste, a former Union spy, is an unabashed 1870 male chauvinist pig.  Harriet is writing a new book about dumb men. Etienne gives her enough data to fill three books. Harriet is not at all like Ginny Brandon, the heroine of Rosemary Rogers's romance classic, SWEET SAVAGE LOVE. Etienne is not at all like Steve Morgan, Ginny's legendary lover. Well, maybe a little. Harriet would never succumb to that politically incorrect fantasy -- forceful seduction. Etienne would never deliberately seduce a woman. Hah! The stroke of surprisingly gentle hands, the flash of fathomless blue eyes, the scorch of white-hot kisses...And once again, Harriet Ginoza was swept away into rapturous fantasy. The up-to-date psychologist knew the object of her desire was all she should despise, yet time after time, she lost herself in visions of a dangerously handsome rogue straight out of a historical romance. As politically incorrect as her dream lover was, Harriet never believed he would cause her any trouble. Then a twist of fate cast her back to the Old South, and she met him in the flesh. But to her disappointment, Etienne Baptiste refused to ravish her -- or fulfill her other secret wishes. If Harriet had any hope of making her amorous illusions become passionate reality, she'd have to seduce the charming Creole with a sweeter savage love than she'd imagined possible... and savor every minute of it.

Jillian Hunter

INDISCRETION 4/2000.  ISB: 0671026836. The scandal of Anne Kerr's foolish, stormy affair with a Scottish nobleman's son was averted when her parents quickly married her off to the scoundrel's cousin, a respectable English baron. A widow now, Anne has never forgotten Patrick Sutherland, who had seduced and abandoned her - and indeed, disgraced - her, no matter how she tries to lose her feelings in her furious horse rides across the heath. But even a woman of Anne's spirit can't ignore a royal summons that reunites her with Patrick under dire and mysterious circumstances. The suspicious death of a relative calls for a clandestine investigation inside a Highland hunting fortress. Anne and Patrick find themselves commanded by Queen Victoria to lay rumors of murder to rest. Anne sees nothing but trouble and temptation in the Queen's order to work with the rogue who shamed her. To Patrick, however, the chance to serve as Anne's bodyguard is a dream come true. But even the best dream can take a wicked twist...and when he learns he is not to pose as her ladyship's protector, but as her butler, the proud Highlander must helplessly submit as Anne exacts the delicious revenge he deserves for breaking her heart.

Judith Ivory

SLEEPING BEAUTY 6/1998. ISBN: 0380786451 Once a long time ago, Coco Wild learned to never allow a man's kiss to mover her, for that way led to downfall. A slender beauty with alluring eyes, she built impregnable defenses around her emotions. The men who came to adore her, fought to conquer her and learn her mysteries, made her the toast of London, but none were able to rouse her passions. But that hard-taught lesson is about to unravel because of Sir James Stoker. Back in England with a treasure of gold from his adventures, newly knighted by Queen Victoria herself, and feted everywhere, the handsome explorer has the world at his feet. He's exactly the man Coco might have dreamed about when she was young: a tall, fair hero with a charming smile. Now he's turned his energy toward winning her, the most desirable and the least attainable woman he knows; and Coco's afraid James may just fined his way past the thorns that have so long protected her from the world, and awaken her slumbering heart...with just one kiss.

Brenda Joyce

BEYOND SCANDAL 10/1995.  ISBN: 0380781468. Victorian. Adoring and innocent, Anne Stewart was seduced by Dominick Saint Georges, Viscount Lyons, then brazenly abandoned on their wedding night. Now four years have passed, and England's most mysterious lord has returned to Waverly Hall. Anne can never forgive Dominick for the shame he caused her. She is determined to resist his advances and ignore the gossip and speculation surrounding them. But shocking revelations and deadly intrigues are drawing her ever closer to the enigmatic husband, to whom she dares not surrender again - this secretive stranger who holds the key to her survival...and her heart.

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.

Betina Krahn

THE PERFECT MISTRESS 10/1995.  ISBN:  0553565230. The daughter of an exquisite London courtesan, beautiful and candid Gabrielle LeCoeur 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.

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 could find.

NO SWEETER HEAVEN 8/1993.  ISBN: 0451403665.   A clash of cultures -- a bond of passion. He was 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 and 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 bought 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.    

Laura Kinsale

FLOWERS FROM THE STORM 10/1992.  ISBN: 0380761327.Victorian. 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 from his solitary torment - never dreaming her warm, healing touch will eternally bind them together in need, in desire...and in love.

THE SHADOW AND THE STAR 10/1991. ISBN: 0380761319.  The Shadow--Wealthy, powerful and majestically handsome, he is a man of dark secrets--a master of the ancient martial arts, of an exotic distant land.  Scarred by a childhood of shocking degradation, he was sworn to love chastely...but burns with the firs of unfulfilled passion.  The Star--Lovely, innocent and nearly destitute, she is drawn to him by a fevered yearning she could never deny--following her enigmatic "shadow warrior" into a dangerous world of desire and righteous retribution.

Kristen Kyle

THE LAST WARRIOR 6/1999.  ISBN: 0553579630.  Meghan McLowry has come to the dangerous San Francisco waterfront in search of the notorious Captain Talbert after hearing of his fondness for sword collecting and his ability to fight as no westerner can. She makes him a deal: If he can protect her father from the deadly vengeance of the Tong, she will gladly hand over five exquisite swords she has recently received as a birthday present from her father. Little does she know that Talbert is no crude sailor to be bent to her will, but a dangerously attractive warrior who will stop at nothing to get what he wants--whether it's honor, revenge, or a woman's heart.

Johanna Lindsey

LOVE ME FOREVER 10/1995.  ISBN: 038072570.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. And no other suitor will satisfy her - especially not the common, if uncommonly handsome, horse breeder, Devlin Jefferys. 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.

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.

Meagan McKinney

LIONS AND LACE 5/1992.  ISBN: 0440212308.  She played by high society's rules. The gaslight's glow lit Alana Van Alen's golden hair.  Born to luxury, she belonged with the Astors and the Vanderbilts at cotillions and soirees.  But she shivered with fear and something more as  she faced the handsome, ruthless Trevor Sheridan.  He had bankrupted her fortune and would expose her family's scandalous secret unless she accepted his outrageous offer, his emotional blackmail...his heart-stopping kiss. He Broke them all.  born Irish, brought up in the streets, Trevor "the Predator" Sheridan learned early how to get the wealth and power, he played one that would destroy every famous family who had snubbed him.  Tricking the beautiful Alana was his trump card.  Be he never intended to want her...until her beauty and her resolve stole his breath away.  Now their desires swept them toward rapture...or ruin.    

WHEN ANGELS FALL 2/1990. ISBN: 0440205212. Devil's Kiss-- It was five years since Elizabeth Alcester had laid eyes on her former stable boy, Ivan Tramore...five years since her world had collapsed in devastating ruin around her.  Now penniless and desperate, she finds herself at the mercy of a cruel, ruthless stranger--a man who vows to possess her, whose hot searing caresses fan the treacherous flames of her darkest desires.  Angel's Defiace--Tramore had returned home in triumph--the unwanted bastard was now Lord Ivan, eleventh Marquis of  Powerscourt--the most powerful man in London.  Yet one woman had sworn to defy him...the proud beauty whose touch had branded him forever.  But when at last he holds Lissa trembling in his merciless embrace, his lust for vengeance suddenly explodes in a frenzied fever of passion.  And now no power on heave or earth can tear him from the innocent arms that hold him captive, or protect her from the rapturous moment.    

Fern Michaels

CINDERS TO SATIN 1984.  ISBN: 0345303598. From the squalid back alleys of Dublin to the posh downtown streets of New York. From a tough and cynical teenager to an elegant and charming young woman. . . Callie James makes the challenging climb from Cinders to Satin As a teenager she would do anything to survive. As a young woman she would do anything to succeed. As an innocent girl in love she would give her body to a reckless, irresponsible man and suffer the direst consequences. As a woman she would resist the love of a wonderful man until she became all she could be. Spirited. Smart. Steadfast and sensuous. Callie James' life gallops along in the pages of this wonderful novel and will capture your heart as she captures every heart she finds on the journey from CINDERS TO SATIN

Pamela Morsi

COURTING MISS HATTIE 10/1991.  ISBN: 0553290002.  The news spread like brush fire though the whole county when widower Ancil Drayton announced his intention to start courting Miss Hattie Colfax. She was certainly spirited and delightfully sweet natured, and she'd managed to run her family farm almost single-handedly. But wasn't a twenty-nine-year-old lady farmer too old to catch a husband? All his life handsome, black-haired Reed Tyler had worked Miss Hattie's farm - and dreamed of one day settling down on his own piece of land with the pretty young woman he'd sworn to marry. Hattie was someone he could tell his hopes and troubles to - someone he looked on as a sister. So he thought, until the idea of Ancil Drayton calling on her made him seethe. Until the night a brotherly peck became a scorching kiss...and Reed knew nothing would bank the blaze - and that his best friend was the only woman he would ever love.

GARTERS 8/1992. ISBN: 0515108952.  A lady doesn't go courting...but that doesn't matter a whit to Miss Esme Crab. Unlike her featherbrained sisters, the proud, practical hill girl knows sweet talk won't put food on the table -- so she's bent on finding a sensible man to marry. Cleavis Rhy seems like a smart choice...so amidst the cracker barrels and jam jars in his general store, Esme makes her more... She doesn't realize that daring to set her sights on someone like Cleavis Rhy will turn the town -- and her heart -- upside down.

Linda Needham

EVER HIS BRIDE 7/1997. ISBN: 0380787563. The Darkest Heart -- His looming form blocks the firelight. His voice is like midnight fog, shivering along her skin. Yet Felicity Mayfield must marry hard, cold Hunter Claybourne, or go to debtor's prison. Boldly, she proposes a bargain to the wealthy financier; she'll become his wife in name only for one brief year -- if he allows her the freedom to continue living an independent life. Surely her newspaper scribblings are a matter of indifference to him. The Brightest Love -- He never suspected a wife would be such a nuisance. It was supposed to be a simple business arrangement. Instead, she has invaded his cavernous home -- rearranging the furniture, winning over his servants, blinding him with sunlight. Her constant presence in unsettling, her vanilla scent everywhere, her skin a soft temptation. Suddenly it seems only right that she should wear his ring... and share his bed. After all, she is his wife. Yet even as Felicity opens a chink in Hunter's heart, her expose of the scandalous workhouse threatens to uncover his darkest secret, forcing him to choose between his hard-won empire and the miracle of love...

Constance O'Day-Flannery

TIME-KEPT PROMISES 8/1988.  ISBN: 0821735543. A distant past.  Kristine Gavin was depressed about turning thirty until she received a most unusual gift from her brother. It was a portrait he'd found in the attic of their family home in Virginia, a portrait of a woman who must have been their ancestor; judging from Kris' resemblance to the beauty. But it wasn't the painting that intrigued Kris....And old newspaper clipping about the woman's strange disappearance caught within the frame drew her in. Just as Kris was uncovering a fascinating secret from the past she sensed a change in the air-and found herself thrown back in time into a strange room, staring into the eyes of the sexiest man she had ever seen! An uncertain future. Sean O'Mara froze when he saw his wife Christia standing before him. She had vanished and the news had written about in all of the papers-he had been charged with her murder!

Rebecca Paisley

A BASKET OF WISHES 8/1995. ISBN: 0440216516. The only magic that could keep her by his side was love...."I am called splendor.   While I am with you I will do whatever you desire." Clad only in her ankle-length copper tresses, Splendor lay atop the twelfth Duke of Heathcourte, who was speechless at having been thrown by his horse and caught by a violet-eyed sprite. She couldn't tell him she was a fairy princess, chosen to conceive his child, but then she and her baby must leave the human world, or die. Unless....Was he mad? Or dead? Suddenly Jourdian Amberville, of the Midas touch and ironbound heart, wed a naked stranger to stop a burgeoning scandal. But instead of an ordinary duchess to bear his heir, his wife was an alabaster-skinned temptress who drank of his kisses and wept diamond teardrops.

Laura Parker

REBELLIOUS ANGELS 10/1988.  ISBN: 0446348368. Lord Drayton lured Allegra toward dark, delicious pleasures and the promise of heartbreak and breathless love.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

JUST IMAGINE formerly titled RISEN GLORY 9/2001 ISBN: 0380808307 The War Between the States may be over for the rest of the country, but not for Kit Weston. Disguised as a boy, she's come to New York City to kill Baron Cain, the man who stands between her and Risen Glory, the South Carolina home she loves. But unknown to Kit, the Yankee war hero is more than her most bitter enemy -- he's also her guardian. And he'll be a lot harder to kill than she's figured on.. Believing that Kit's a boy, Cain offers the grubby rapscallion a job in his stable. But he has no idea what he's in for, and it's not long before the hero of Missionary Ridge discovers the truth. His scamp of a stable boy is a strong-willed, violet-eyed beauty who's hell-bent on driving him crazy. Two hard-headed, passionate people....Two stubborn opponents with tender souls....Sometimes wars of the heart can only be won through the sweetest of surrenders.

Candice Proctor

WHISPERS OF HEAVEN 7/01 ISBN: ISBN: 0804119317. After years of schooling in England, Jesmond Corbett returns to her family's estate along the coast of Tasmania. Betrothed since childhood to a wealthy neighbor, Jessie comes home determined to conform to the expectations of her family. But nothing in Jessie's life has prepared her for the mysterious stranger who works in the stables, a man with searing eyes who jaunts her dreams and awakens passions she never existed. Irishman Lucas Gallagher arrived on the island in chains, a convict sentenced to a lifetime of labor for the English gentry. For four years he has lived a dead man's existence, using every spare moment to plan his escape. But when he meets Jessie, she touches his cold, angry heart. And although their love has no future, he finds himself unable to deny the longings that threaten to destroy what may be his last chance to reach for freedom...

Mary Jo Putney

SILK AND SHADOWS 12/1991. ISBN: 0451402774.  He called himself Peregrine, and like the falcon he was wild and free. He was superbly handsome, fabulously wealthy, overwhelmingly seductive. He cut a dazzling swath through Victorian society--and wove a web of desire around beautiful and proud Lady Sara St. James, pledged to wed another man. In Peregrine's arms Sara learned the meaning of forbidden passion-and forbidding mystery. Only the turning power of love could pierce Peregrine's chilling silence about his secret past and hidden purpose ... as Sara plunged into a whirlpool of yearning and uncertainty with a man who was everything a woman could want and fear

Karen Robards

LOVING JULIA 12/1986. ISBN: 0446300578.  "You'll have to learn to speak, to dress, to conduct yourself as a lady." Those orders were intoned by Sebastian, the cold haughty Earl of Moorland to Jewel Combs, the cockney commoner defiantly facing him in his luxurious drawing room. Despite his icy demeanor, Jewel couldn't help but notice that the Earl was a breathtakingly handsome man. Still, the only thing that checked her saucy reply was the realization that the Earl's outlandish plans would give her a home, and she would never be hungry, shivering, or frightened in dark dockside alleyways again. Fate had brought Jewel to the mansion on Governor's Square, now she was going to grab the gold ring of chance and become "Julia Stratham," a genuine upper-crust, silk-and lace aristocrat. She didn't know why blue-blooded Sebastian had accepted the challenge to transform her from a diamond in the rough into a glittering gem. She did know she had a surprise in store of her own. She would teach this titled nobleman that although she wasn't a lady, she was all woman...and the one with whom he was going to madly, unwisely, and passionately fall in love with!

Robin Schone

AWAKEN, MY LOVE 7/1995. ISBN: 380782308. Trapped in a passionless marriage, computer analyst Elaine Metcliffe awakens one morning to find herself in a stranger's bed. Some incomprehensible magic has transported her to another time and place, and cast her in the body of another man's wife... destined for a sensuous adventure beyond her wildest dreams.Embraced by Charles Mortimer, a handsome, hot-blooded English baron bent on seduction, Elaine craves the exquisite passion of his eager touch. But even as their souls unite in irrepressible desire, dark sorcery threatens to destroy their magnificent union... unless a dangerous tide of secrets and treachery can be conquered by the power of a love that knows no boundaries. 

GABRIEL'S WOMAN 9/2001 ISBN: 1575666987 Destitute and terrorized by a nameless pursuer, thirty-four-year-old Victoria Childers has only one thing of value left—her innocence. Its price will buy her safety. But Gabriel, the dangerously beautiful man who purchases her, doesn't want her virginity—he wants the man who stalks her. Trapped together in a house where every desire can be fulfilled, Victoria and Gabriel are plunged into a deadly game of passion and pursuit, where the greatest threat is carnal hunger and the only rule is survival.

THE LADY'S TUTOR 8/1999. ISBN: 0821762885. Victorian. Married young to a man hand-picked by her father, Elizabeth Petre is an ideal Victorian lady. She has borne two sons and endured sixteen years of selfless duty in a passionless marriage. Craving a man's loving touch yet loyal to her wedding vows, Elizabeth is determined to seduce her coldly indifferent husband. She knows of only one man who can teach her the erotic secrets of love. The bastard son of an English countess and an Arab sheik, Ramiel Devington was reared to embrace both Western culture and Eastern pleasure. Scorned by society and challenged by prim Elizabeth's request, he undertakes her instruction in the art of sensual delight. But when the lessons become a temptation neither can resist, Elizabeth is forced to choose between obligation and a bold, forbidden passion.

Christina Skye

THE RUBY 8/1992.  ISBN: 0440208645.  When a mysterious stranger sweeps her from danger on a gaslit London street, Barrett Winslow finds herself dangerously intrigued. From the snow-swept streets of Victorian London to the misty tea highlands of colonial Ceylon, they fight a driving passion -- and the dark secrets of a priceless, blood-red ruby.

Katherine Sutcliffe

FEVER 6/2001 ISBN:0743411978 Orphaned and penniless, Juliette Broussard is overjoyed when her godfather, Max Hollinsworth, plucks her from an isolated French convent. Then she discovers his plan for her to marry his shiftless son Tylor so that he can acquire her family's dilapidated sugar cane plantation, Belle Jarod. Juliette's dreams are of rebuilding her once-glorious home and she wants nothing to do with marriage -- until she comes face-to-face with a blue-eyed temptation who unleashes the same passions that drove her mother, Louisiana's most beautiful and notorious prostitute, to destroy every man who loved her. Chantz Boudreaux, Max's bastard first-born, has one desire: for his father to acknowledge him. But the moment he drags Juliette's naked body from the flood-driven Mississippi, he is swept into a liaison that unsettles his priorities and threatens his life. Soon their forbidden passion burns like a fever. As they struggle to revive Belle Jarod, betrayal and a deadly plague threaten everything they hold dear.

MY ONLY LOVE 4/1993. ISBN: 0515110744. Her passionate nature and secretive past made Olivia Devonshire one of the most notorious women in England.... Miles Warwick was a disreputable rogue, the black sheep of his family. But he never gambled on losing his heart to the woman he married for money.... Bound at first by empty vows, their union flared into an unquenchable climax of passion that no force on heaven or earth could ever pull asunder.

SHADOW PLAY 3/1991.  ISBN: 0380759411. Shadow Hero -- A god to the Indians of the Amazon, a lusty adventurer whose courage was renowned, Morgan Kane was in truth a rogue and a charlatan -- a handsome deceiver whose legend was more illusion. Shadow Past -- Leaving the glitter of London behind, beautiful Sarah St. James sought justice in a lush and savage wilderness -- surrendering her destiny to Kane -- a virile opportunist who secretly planned to use and then abandon her... Shadow Play -- Bound by ties of vengeance, together they braved the merciless heart of darkness -- only to be swept up in a raging tide of danger... and a passionate ecstasy beyond dreams...

Bonnie Vanak

THE FALCON AND THE DOVE 11/2002 ISBN: 084395132X In the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, there was born a love that could never be broken - that of a young queen and a great warrior. And while the warrior's duty to combat the infidel was strict, and though his beloved was the wife of pharaoh, the two would be separated only by death. And then only for a time. Elizabeth Summers came to the dig at Akhetaten in 1892. Great things were being discovered! English archaeologists had made huge advances and Egypt's fantastic history was being laid bare. But Elizabeth was not destined to simply study history - she was to be a part of it. Swept away by desert raiders, the pale beauty found herself in the arms of a great sheikh. And while Elizabeth didn't know whether she was the reincarnation of an ancient queen, she realized that in this man's arms she had found her destiny.

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

ASHES IN THE WIND 1979. ISBN: 0380769840. Dark-haired Alaina MacGaren, orphaned by the Civil War, is forced to flee her family'S plantation. Masking her beauty under the disguise of a ruffian youth, she stows away aboard a riverboat bound for New Orleans, where she finds passion and love in the arms of a handsome Yankee surgeon.

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