Books Published in April 1985

• Apr-1985
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BLACK SHEEP'S RETURN... The world stopped for Susan Blackstone when she looked across the crowded room and saw the stranger, and then her heart stopped when she learned his name. He was Cord Blackstone, the family black sheep, and her own cousin b...

• Apr-1985
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Sarah Harper had loved Rome Matthews silently for years. She had seen him marry her best friend, then lose his wife and sons in a tragic accident. When, years later, he turned to her for comfort and made her his wife, she felt that her world was at l...

• Apr-1985
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From England's bawdy wharves to Virginia's elegant mansions, their love was kindled by chance, flamed by passion.... Forsaken by her guardian, scorned by her fiance, ethereal Regan found safety in the strong arms of a stranger. Rough-hewn Travis,...

• Apr-1985
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Kirsten McQueen's life had become on giant headline: "NEWSWOMAN SUES STATION FOR AGE DISCRIMINATION!" She had won the first round, but the network brought in its secret weapon for round two: Dane Ferguson, a high-powered attorney with...

• Apr-1985
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HE CRAVED A CROWN--BUT HOW LITTLE HE KNEW OF THE CARES OF A KING As bold, lusty Henry of Bolingbroke, he roused England's nobility to triumphant rebellion against the weak and unwise King Richard II, who lost first his throne and finally his life ...

• Apr-1985
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Scandal, intrigue, and romance at a lively weekend party... HE WAS SO COLDLY HANDSOME, IT WAS POSITIVELY CRIMINAL. Why, his icy blue eyes made Elizabeth's heart flutter at their very first meeting. No doubt about it, the rumors were right:...

• Apr-1985
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Her entire world was about to change Jessica Hansen vowed to climb the corporate ladder and make it to the top no matter what she had to do on the way. But her tough-as-nails exterior was a mask, hiding the frightened woman underneath crying for e...

• Apr-1985
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California Tempest Raised high in the magnificent Sierras, lovely Tempest McClaren learned early how to survive alone in the world. Proud, fiery, innocent, she had everything to learn about the savage passions of civilization. Three strong men...

• Apr-1985
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Hers was a small secret mission Juliana's father had been born and raised on the alpine sheep station of Thor's Hill, but he had left it under mysterious circumstances and never returned to New Zealand. Now, as private-duty nurse at Tho...

• Apr-1985
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THE WOMAN She is Kendall Moore -- a spirited southern belle as proud as she is beautiful, driven by a cruel marriage-bed betrayal to risk her life in a dangerous gamble for freedom... THE MAN He is Brent McClain -- the Confederate agent who ...

• Apr-1985
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They call her wanton, a woman of wild and independent spirit. But Trista Windham knows her heart -- and nothing can shatter her dreams. For love, in need, she surrenders her innocence beneath a radiant sky -- and binds her soul forever to Blaze D...

• Apr-1985
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NO MAN IS AN ISLAND ... When hard-edged businessman Jarvis Dacre bought Morag Lewis's beloved Scottish birthplace of Brannock Island and promised to begin "improving" it immediately, Morag resolved to do whatever was necessary to protect it. She a...

• Apr-1985
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EVERY WOMAN FOUND HIM IRRESISTIBLE. BUT ONLY ONE COULD WIN HIS HEART... He was Romany Jake, darkly handsome, mysterious, and very much the gentleman, even in his gypsy camp. To the pretty impressionable Jessica Frenshaw, he was so much more glam...

• Apr-1985
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SWEET PROTECTOR Jasmine Forsythe had the perfect combination--large blue eyes, silky blond hair, the face of an angel, and the strongest snap kick in the Tiger's Eye Academy of the Martial Arts. No one would suspect that Dr. Nick Konover's beauti...

• Apr-1985
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SOUTHERN VIXEN When he gazed into Shannon Fitzgerald's emerald eyes, Bryce Edwards was lost in their shimmering green depths. Instantly the Army captain felt afire with desire and he resolved not to leave the Virginia belle until she completely su...

• Apr-1985
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Brilliant, unpredictable ruler of a great French perfume dynasty, Prince Alexander Vorzenski lived more like a pirate than the title he was born to. For without one woman, he was nothing. She was Liz Chartres, daughter of his greatest business riv...

• Apr-1985
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YOU CAN'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER, but Grant Sloane had Mara Whitcomb, acclaimed artist, read before he'd ever laid eyes on her. Soon, however, her emerald green eyes and fiery red hair added new colors to the inaccurate portrait he had ...

• Apr-1985
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IF A RAKE COULDN'T MAKE A GIRL'S HEART BEAT FASTER, HE WAS NO GOOD AT HIS JOB! A tempting package of wealth, lineage and beauty, Miss Lyndell Markham had managed to avoid every roguish expert with rakish ways. Men, she decided, were toads, especia...

• Apr-1985
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Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Samuel Clemens ("Mark Twain"), Henry James, Ernest Hemingway--Joyce Carol Oates evokes each of these American literary icons in her newest work of prose fiction, poignantly and audaciously reinventing the climactic e...

• Apr-1985
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A Soviet agent has entered the United States -- carrying a terrifying weapon -- in this Cold War thriller by the #1 New York Times�"bestselling author . . .   Agent Andy Clayton has been inactive for eighteen months, kept under tight s...

• Apr-1985
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"This novel's great strength lies in its two heroines, who both find themselves drawn, without plans, hopes or full understanding, into the inevitably mythological process of pregnancy and childbirth....It is beautifully and matter-of-factly told."

• Apr-1985
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Something strange is happening to the Hawks' infield.... Third baseman Penny Farrell is amazed by the sudden change in her teammates on the Hawks softball team. First Shari, and now Karen, have suddenly turned into super athletes -- just what her ...

• Apr-1985
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It begins as a three-million-dollar heist from a Dominican priory. It spirals into a case of lethal complexity that may unite big corporate conspirators, Chicago's underworld bosses, and the Church itself in a very unholy communion. V .I. Warshaws...

• Apr-1985
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Indicted by the state of New Jersey for the murder of retired Colonel William Farber. Dr Carl Coppolino had been having an affair with Farber's wife, Marjorie.Did he kill Marjorie's husband and his own wife so he could marry Marjorie? If he did, he m...

• Apr-1985
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Here, in an astonishing debut by a gifted storyteller, is the magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave...

• Apr-1985
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The searing summer heat stunned journalist Tracey Tate when she arrived in Texas on assignment to profile a working ranch. But it was nothing compared to the way rancher Matt Ramsey set her blood to boiling. Intimidatingly masculine and infuriatin...

• Apr-1985
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Around bleak Dartmoor, where the Hound of the Baskervilles once bayed, three children have been brutally murdered. Now Richard Jury of Scotland Yard joins forces with a hot-tempered local constable named Brian Macalvie to track down the killer. T...

• Apr-1985
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NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET For Jessica Todd life meant the pressures of too much work and too little sleep. One day her body told her it was time for a vacation, but she never doubted that she would soon return to her high-powered world. Kyle M...

• Apr-1985
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A fierce will to live, a poignant desire to love... December 7, 1941. Maggie Lawrence's security as an Army nurse in Manila changed irrevocably after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Aboard a steamer retreating to Corregidor, she met Anthony Gargan...

• Apr-1985
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It seemed like an impossible dream come true. Simply by answering a newspaper ad, Marni Gayle was suddenly en route to Venice to deliver a little girl to her father. Elegant, autocratic, disturbingly sensual, Count Caesare Branzini lived up to his...

• Apr-1985
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He was out of this world! Science-fiction writer Kevin Walker landed on Lynn Potter's doorstep one day and swept into her well-ordered life. Her agent had arranged for them to collaborate on a new book. She was to supply the romance... But Kevi...

• Apr-1985
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THE HEATHER HILLS OF STONEWYCKE, Book One in The Stonewycke Trilogy, begins in Scotland during the mid-nineteenth century. The story revolves around a prominent, land-owning family, the Duncans. Seventeen-year-old Margaret Duncan feels that the dista...

• Apr-1985
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BOUND BY PLEASURE Celiese, the lovely slave girl, gasped when her betrothed emerged from the shadows. She had been secretly sent in her mistress's place to wed the much-feared Mylan. But instead of the cruel savage she had expected, he was a magni...

• Apr-1985
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Cameron knew he could never hold her for long... Jo Ella was like a hummingbird that brought shimmering beauty into his world for a moment then vanished. Over the years, their paths had crossed and recrossed, and though Cam understood Jo Ella's re...

• Apr-1985
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Blackmail had been a profitable sideline for attorney Clayton Gladwell until someone put an end to it -- and to him -- with a well-placed bullet. -- Lieutenant Sigrid Harald of the New York Police Department soon finds that opening the dead man'...

• Apr-1985
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What was it about him that made her nervous? Serenity had little experience with men, but something warned her Hudson Grey was dangerous. She couldn't see how he could pose any threat to her, though. Her position as his housekeeper on Lake ...

• Apr-1985
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CAUGHT IN HER OWN TRAP ... Nicola Grey had told the lie only to soothe her battered ego. She had never expected it to get back to Jethro Vallance, the enigmatic man she had met on a cruise and whom she had claimed was the new love in her life. ...

• Apr-1985
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THE UNHEAVENLY HONEYMOON John Haverfield, the Marquess of Vare, was in no hurry to take a wife--and certainly not one like the tomboyish, outrageously independent, thoroughly intractable young Lady Laura Lockridge. For her part, Laura wanted n...

• Apr-1985
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She had made the wrong impression from the start Briony couldn't blame Sydney-tycoon Stanford Barron for being surprised when she began working as his aunt's gardener. After all, the last time he'd seen her she'd been the lead guit...

• Apr-1985
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A troubled Secret Service agent is needed to bring down a major counterfeiting ring -- a job that will force him to come face to face with his tragic past....

• Apr-1985
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MacDonald's genius as a storyteller is seen once again in this moving, inspiring story of Alec Forbes and his friend Annie.

Orphaned as a child, Annie's special friendship with Alec is a source of strength and security which sees them both thro...

• Apr-1985
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What's worse than a blue Monday? For Richard "Beast" Best, it's a purple Monday spent climbing a fat brown rope with fat brown knots. Beast wishes he could climb up that rope like Emily Arrow and Matthew Jackson. Just looking at it hanging down fr...

• Apr-1985
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The ongoing war between Humanity and the Ulat is a battle of attrition that humanity is unfortunately losing. However, humans have the advantage of trans-hyperdrive technology, which allows their climber fleet, under very narrow and strenuous conditi...

• Apr-1985
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She is the last hope of good in the war against the evil sorceress known as the Lady. From a secret base on the Plains of Fear, where even the Lady hesitates to go, the Black Company, once in service to the Lady, now fights to bring victory to the Wh...

• Apr-1985
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SOME ENCHANTED EVENING It was already twilight--that uncertain time between night and day--when Kareth Langley's car broke down in the midst of the Big Thicket. Enormous pine trees stretched out as far as the eye could see; in their midst pale dog...

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NEVER HURT, BUT ALWAYS WIN! These were the rules of an honorable man of Portugal. Dario Montoya lived by these rules. But Jenna Hart had rules of her own -- and someone was bound to get hurt. Both Dario and Jenna were fighting for custody of...

• Apr-1985
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Dale took everything seriously--especially love! Dale Christensen was a visionary, pioneering medical advances that would someday restore happy, normal childhoods to sick and injured children. When Dale decided to take her first break from work, i...

• Apr-1985
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Everyone in town had plans for Abby Fisher and Joe Gilbraithe -- throwing them together every chance they got -- but no matchmaker could guarantee they'd fall in love. Besides, the ex-pro quarterback had a romantic game plan all his own, and Abby...

• Apr-1985
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PROTECTING HIM WAS THE EASY PART Kane Stone lived a life filled with danger and adventure -- just the man for Shasta Masterson. Assigning herself as his bodyguard brought her the excitement she thrived on, but the real challenge turned out to be ...