Patti Beckman

• Apr-1988
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A FADED CORSAGE... was Kathy Ayers's only memento of her high school sweetheart, Dak Roberts. An Olympic gold medalist, he was the hero of Endless, Texas. But without explanation he'd left their small town -- and Kathy -- ten years ago. ...

• Mar-1987
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Globe-trotting photojournalist Dusty Landers scoffed at danger and thrived on adventure. For CIA agent Mack O'Shea, hopping a jet to quell terrorism was all in a day's work. Forever on the go, they had barely enough time to fall in love, much less li...

• Jul-1986
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As a cartoonist for the politically outspoken Austin newspaper, Leida Adams was well aware of the steamy nature of Texas politics. Her work won much acclaim, as she anonymously drew the biting, satirical cartoons of the politicians whom the newspaper...

• Dec-1985
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The Chronicle's chief editor knew sparks would fly when he teamed up his two best reporters. Combine Bart Tagert's expertise at probing into political hanky-panky with Janelle Evan's zeal for investigation, and he'd blow the lid off the hottest story...

• Oct-1985
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What happens when a world-famous French ladies' man marries a young woman determined to become queen of the Sport of Kings? Nikki Cameron found out when she became Mrs. Jacques Trenchard at the tender age of twenty -- it meant someone had to g...

• Mar-1985
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THE FINAL CURTAIN While reluctantly taking a vacation from the lights and glitter of Broadway, actress Jennifer O'Brian had agreed to direct an original musical production about a legendary North Carolina family. But she soon realized that ...

• Mar-1985
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THE MOVIE ... Special effects, skyrocketing budgets and mega-stars. That was the new Hollywood. Natalie Brooks was the reigning young star of the moment. Kirk Trammer was one of the new breed of brilliant directors. They both moved in a world o...

• Jan-1985
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Determined to save her family's failing business, Andrea Castille arrived in Nashville to persuade top country-western singer Jess Clark to endorse the once legendary Castille guitars. From the moment they met, it took more strength than she p...

• Jun-1984
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Reluctantly, Lindi MacTavish agreed to give up her career in New York to take over her family's small weekly newspaper in Florida. The decision was difficult, and the Clarion's managing editor, the brooding, mysterious Travis Machado, didn...

• Apr-1984
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A TIME TO GROW... Like a budding flower that opens itself to the world each spring, Sue Ellen Gilbert was ready to move on with her life. Making new friends, starting her own business and setting up a new apartment, she was forging ahead, and noth...

• Jan-1984
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WOULD SHE FLY SOLO FOREVER? Kristen was flying solo in her first cross-country race. And if she won, the prize money would be enough to buy her own business. She was literally sky high. Then Gentry O'Keefe landed in her life again, upsetting all h...

• Aug-1983
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As a stuntwoman, Ginger Lombard lived with danger, but nothing had prepared her for the greatest danger of all: falling in love...again. On the set of Thunder At Dawn she came face to face with her ex-husband, Link Rockwood, the man who had broken...

• Jun-1983
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RESTORED TO LOVE When a slight injury forced Jacquelyn La Salle to return to her uncle's elegant but decaying estate outside New Orleans, she didn't plan to stay long -- not with Scott McCann nearby. Her passionate romance with Scott had been shatte...

• Apr-1983
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Haunted by her past. Sandy Carver worked to build a new life. One with no room for love. Carl Van Helmut saw something in Sandy that cried out to him. That left him longing to make her life -- and his -- complete. When the past came back to tor...

• Dec-1982
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After the crash that took her memory and altered her appearance, Lilly Parker began to search for the identity that eluded her. As she searched she could not escape the memory of Kirk Remington, the husband of whose love she had never been sure. As a...

• Oct-1982
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SUBMERGED IN LOVE. She was Amy Peterson, a mermaid who danced in the liquid depths of the world-famous Aquarena. But when she came up for air, she faced the financial burdens of the Peterson family. Amy could no longer pay off their debts, and her...

• Jun-1982
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FAST TRACK TO LOVE Glamour, daring, mystique, class... Lord Richard Templeton had everything. But it was up to Andria Carloni to make America's newest race-car idol an offer he couldn't refuse. If she could get the elusive English lord to ...

• Apr-1982
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SHE COULD NEVER FORGET HIM She was Veronica McDonald, public relations consultant. He was her first--and only--client: Slade Huntington, senatorial candidate and the husband she'd left two years before. But the passion that had once flamed through...

• Jan-1982
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SHE WAS TRAPPED BY HER MOTHER'S BEAUTIFUL FACE. As far as Felicia Farr was concerned, being the Magic Glo Cosmetics woman had ruined her mother's life, and she had vowed she would never follow in her footsteps. But Roderick Bearstern's ruthless de...

• Oct-1981
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Chubby Melissa daydreams about high school football hero Greg, but Greg only dates cheerleaders. After her aunt buys her a health club membership, Melissa slims down and learns about hair, clothes, and make-up, only to return to school for her junior...

• Aug-1981
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AN INFURIATING MAN! That was Katy O'Hara's personal opinion of movie superstar Craig Sverenson. But as junior editor of Personality Magazine, she had to remain objective and get an in-depth interview with Sverenson while he filmed his late...

• Apr-1981
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SHE WAS FINALLY ON HER OWN! At twenty-four years of age Deborah Denhoff asserts her independence. Despite parental disapproval she travels to Texas to research the life of Clement Vaulkhurst -- Nobel Prize-winning novelist and a distant relative -...

• Jan-1981
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HE WAS HER FIRST LOVE. Susanne L'Anjeau had been fourteen, and Bart Stone, twenty-four. Back then Susanne's Louisiana family had been wealthy, and Bart, a rough Creole lad, was the son of a servant and had courted her sophisticated older s...

• Oct-1980
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WHO DID THE MYSTERIOUS BEACHCOMBER THINK SHE WAS? Mariette met him on a deserted beach and was unable to forget the passion he had roused in her. But at least her role as "Julie Long" in a local theater production helped to keep her mind o...

• May-1980
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"I WILL HAVE YOU WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT...." JoNell knew that the wealthy South American playboy Jorge Del Toro would carry out his threat. He played the game of love and business with a fierce determination to win. But JoNell was unpre...