Books Published in August 1984

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After two years as Reese Edwards' personal secretary, Janet Montgomery was beginning to believe that gentlemen did prefer blondes. Reese's platinum beauties paraded past Janet's desk daily, while he treated her and every other brunette in...

• Aug-1984
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STORYBOOK PASSION The last thing in the world romance writer Katriane wanted to do was spend Christmas with her roommate's arrogant, infuriating brother. A rugged Wyoming rancher like Egan Winthrop belonged in New York City about as much as sh...

• Aug-1984
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He neither loved nor respected her A link had been forged the day Claire saved the heir to the desert kingdom of Omarah from assassins. Otherwise, she wouldn't have agreed to masquerade as the infant's mother -- and Raoul D'Albro's...

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She didn't have to guess how Rafe felt about his wife Brooke Adamson knew the whole bitter story. Because she was Rafe Charlwood's wife, or rather she had been, before the terrible car accident Rafe believed had claimed her life. Now, t...

• Aug-1984
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Sometimes forewarned is not forearmed. He had an easy charm and the ability to make Keilly feels as if she was the only woman in the world. But wasn't that part of his act? Keilly wouldn't allow herself to fall in love with a man like...

• Aug-1984
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When he appeared on his stallion, galloping over the hot sands, seizing her and sweeping her into a luxuriously carpeted tent in the oasis, Alex Randall wasn't afraid. She was furious. And her fury grew when she found he was no brigand but Dan D'...

• Aug-1984
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MALLORY O'CONNOR McKENDRICK To the daytime TV audience she was the ruthless Other Woman, but the real Mallory's marriage seemed to be falling victim to a woman who was truly as unprincipled as the character Mallory played. NATHAN McKENDRICK ...

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Her perfect arrangement left out love Beautiful impetuous Heather Strand had big plans for running the family's Tucson resort. And one in particular was quite unorthodox. She wanted a marriage of convenience with devilishly handsome Jake Lavender,...

• Aug-1984
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Stuntwoman Kendra Michaels was just about fearless: tumbling down mountains and falling off horses were second nature to her. Until the night she met Joel Damon, though, she'd never been swept off her feet and into the arms of a man. Joel was a so...

• Aug-1984
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She wanted love and marriage--not a fling It was one thing to match wits with Patrick Hagan on a TV talk show, where authors were expected to promote their wares in as frivolous a manner as possible. It was quite another to be madly pursued in the...

• Aug-1984
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OLYMPIC TRIALS Raine Chandler-Smith belied her slight figure with a surprising strength. She had the skill, timing, and sheer guts it took to guide a Thoroughbred through grueling cross-country endurance events. For Raine, the Olympics was the cul...

• Aug-1984
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As far as Melly could see, she and the worldly Jourdan Lanier had nothing in common, except the rare blood that flowed in their veins. Yet Jourdan wanted Melly was his wife, and not because she'd just saved his life. Melly was exactly the wom...

• Aug-1984
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She dangled the bait -- and he bit. Suddenly Samantha Maitland had the funds to finance the deal of her lifetime �" loaned by an angel with tarnished wings. From the moment they'd met at the posh California spa to his brash arrival at her island...

• Aug-1984
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Who is Matt Hagen? The disheveled vagrant he first appears? The successful businessman Annie Seaton hears rumors of? Or the rugged outdoorsman who turns her world upside-down by renting a room in her house and insinuating his way into her heart? A...

• Aug-1984
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To Sherry love was priceless Sherry agreed with her abrasive Outback neighbor, Scott Brady, that marriage between her brother and his sister would be unwise because of their extreme financial differences. But she resented Scott's arrogant a...

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Life without him had been dull -- but safe Max Wilde had taken over as executive editor of New Zealand's leading fashion magazine just to create havoc, Sarah Carter thought bitterly. He wasn't content with changing the magazine's fo...

• Aug-1984
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Hollywood superstar Adam Wakeman was the man of every woman's dreams. And he took full advantage of that fact. He had made love to many glamorous, gorgeous women, but he depended on only one: discreet, dependable, unflappable Susie Chadwick. O...

• Aug-1984
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FROM DAZZLING LAS VEGAS TO LONDON'S WILD DISCOS, FROM ATHENS TO HOLLYWOOD, JACKIE COLLINS REVEALS IT ALL...THE BITCH Fontaine baled reigns over the jet set, a sensational beauty, hard as a diamond, rich as a queen. Women envy her, men adore her, ...

• Aug-1984
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Running a Florida gift shop was a full-time challenge for spirited Courtney Spenser But when her lively widowed mother started chasing around town with seventy-year-old motorcycle enthusiast Clyde Merrill, the shop was suddenly the least of her worri...

• Aug-1984
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"I am your prisoner," Alexis murmured bitterly when she found herself aboard an American naval vessel. But no man could hold her prisoner for long, not even the lean, green-eyed Captain Tanner Cloud whose slow, sensuous touch aroused a fire of passio...

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Elizabeth Englin was not the Betsy he remembered When Grady Logan arrived in Chicago he didn't expect to find a woman managing the prestigious Englin Hotel--certainly not the one woman he remembered with nothing but bitterness. As for Eliza...

• Aug-1984
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His voice murmured huskily through the night, reaching out to embrace her senses across the airwaves -- and Charity Jane Webster was smitten! Deejay Rory Runyon was a perfect fantasy love, calling her "darlin'" and sharing love songs with...

• Aug-1984
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A LADY IN DISGUISE Valentine Ardsley disguised herself as a teenaged boy to take a job as a groom on the magnificent Yorkshire estate of the arrogantly self-assured, imperiously handsome, Lord Diccon Leyburn. But her daring escape from the narrow ...

• Aug-1984
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Marty Davis had thoroughly enjoyed her visit with daughter Missie, even though a tragic accident had extended it far longer than originally planned. But now she and Clark are home again, and there are changes to make. The family begins to adjust to C...

• Aug-1984
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GARDEN OF EDEN A hopeless romantic, Lisa had transformed her old Pocono Mountains hotel into an idyllic spot for honeymooners. And when the charming, sophisticated David Spencer checked into her Paradise Inn, she let herself believe that romance ...

• Aug-1984
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She wanted him to ask her to stay They'd agreed before their marriage to give each other enough freedom to come and go as they pleased. And it had worked extremely well--until Jessica Gower had discovered that Alun Gower was seeing another wo...

• Aug-1984
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SOMETHING WAS OUT TO GET HIM After that firewalking gig in Polynesia, the whole world was suddenly changed around him. Instead of fundamentalist minister Alexander Hergensheimer, he was now supposed to be Alec Graham, an underworld figure in the m...

• Aug-1984
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A BRAVE NEW WORLD When she landed on the scorching plains of west Texas, Lois "Petey" Palmer was looking for more than her inheritance. Underneath the bravado and courage was a woman fervently searching for a purpose. Some answers were provided...

• Aug-1984
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IRRITATING HORSEYE! Many worlds of the Humanx Commonwealth boasted of "natural wonders," but Horseye was truly unique--the planet, had the most spectacular river valley anywhere in the known universe and was home to three alien cultures. The fa...

• Aug-1984
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“The heiress apparent to Agatha Christie.” -- Los Angeles TimesChief Inspector Wexford is in China, visiting ancient tombs and palaces with a group of British tourists. Is he hallucinating, or does a bent old woman with bound feet follow him ever...

• Aug-1984
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HE WAS ALL WRONG Grant had never fit comfortably into Abigail's life. She was the daughter of one of Pittsburgh's wealthiest families; he was the son of an immigrant steelworker. It took eight long years for her to put him in her past -- ...

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THREE AGAINST ONE In all her considerable experience, Maggie Trent, television producer, divorcee and mother of a teenaged daughter, had never met anyone more attractive than the man she stumbled over making love to a gorgeous, brainless blonde. C...

• Aug-1984
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She had come to be alone in Paradise Donna Webster had fled to the Caribbean to escape the pressures of her jet-set life-style. The uninhabited island called Paradise had seemed to offer her a perfect refuge. She hadn't expected to find her...

• Aug-1984
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Persia knew that there were more important things in life than dieting down to a size six. She knew that real men didn't care about thin thighs. And Marsh Randolph was a real man. Still, Persia hoped desperately that he wouldn't connect he...

• Aug-1984
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It wasn't very easy to like Seton Chambers As a director of powerful and compassionate documentaries, he had inspired Madge to become a filmmaker As a man and an employer, he was utterly impossible, and she came close to hating him. He was ...

• Aug-1984
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From the storm-swept high seas to the sultry deep south, she fought his scorching desire... Beautiful and spirited Kathleen Haley set sail from England for the family estate in Savannah. On board ship, she met the man who would forever haunt her h...

• Aug-1984
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How long had Laine Sinclair lived on hope? Her work-touring, speaking, keeping alive an active interest in recovering the Vietnam vets still missing in action-had become her whole life and kept that hope alive. Now it was dead. She knew for certain. ...

• Aug-1984
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Offering indisputable evidence of the early talent that was to lead him to the top of the bestseller lists everywhere, these fourteen tales of crime and corruption, of sleuthing and suspense, of treachery, intrigue, and revenge, by the incomparable J...

• Aug-1984
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Can you love and hate at the same time? It was unusual for Megan Westcott to put her trust in a stranger so quickly. But Roan was no ordinary stranger. He was the most extraordinarily dynamic man she'd ever met Without fear or hesitation, M...

• Aug-1984
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It was all a terrible misunderstanding Alex Saunders loved little Nicki as though he were her own, but she was his aunt, not his mother. And she wasn't the hardened gold digger Andros Kostos thought she was when she arrived at his luxurious ho...

• Aug-1984
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An outcast teacher and her former student pursue life and love on the unforgiving frontier in the acclaimed author's tender Western lesbian romance.Pennsylvania, 1870s. Schoolteacher Imogen Grelznik is unashamed of who she is, even if she's had to es...

• Aug-1984
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He was always just one step behind her Wherever Dee went, Mike Carridine followed. Not a bodyguard, not a lover, but a private investigator hired to track her down. She'd been running for nine months, attempting to elude him. Sooner or late...

• Aug-1984
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“John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters [and] The Witches of Eastwick [is one of his] most ambitious works. . . . [A] comedy of the blackest sort.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewToward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snu...

• Aug-1984
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"I'll get rid of you, " Rhys had promised her And Alexis had no doubt that he meant it. She needed her job as cashier at the Casino Venetia, in London's racy Soho district, but her employer's tough Welsh bodyguard was determine...

• Aug-1984
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ONCE BURNT, TWICE SHY Stephanie had been crushed and humiliated when Jean-Louis had jilted her. She swore that she would never again be involved with a Frenchman. A nice, safe Englishman would be more her cup of tea! Pierre was hardly the gentl...

• Aug-1984
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A devil in disguise... The Wakefield twins are wild with excitement. Glamorous, sophisticated Suzanne Devlin is coming to Sweet Valley from New York City. For two weeks, Elizabeth will show her around town while Jessica has the time of her life in...

• Aug-1984
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She's a wildcat in disguise.... Elaine's closest friends -- Kit, Alex, and Lori -- are the only ones who know that she is also the rowdy school mascot, Wilbur the Wildcat. To the rest of the school, she is shy, soft-spoken Elaine Gregory "the Brai...

• Aug-1984
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She didn't want to be his wife -- until she burned to be his lover... "I FIND THAT I AM IN LOVE WITH MADEMOISELLE DE FLEURANCE," SAID ST. BRIAC TO THE KING. "I CAME HERE TO ASK HER TO BE MY WIFE:' What a thrill to hear those words from him! Yet...

• Aug-1984
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This time he'd gone too far. Sunny Caruthers' impulsive, impoverished father had used all their savings to purchase a vineyard in California. Now she had to make her father's foolhardy vision profitable--or they'd be ruined. Sunny's efforts were m...

• Aug-1984
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BREE DALTON She had a fine line to walk. As head of a coal company, she had to do her best for the business, but she also wanted to preserve the hills where the coal was found. RYAN KELSEY He was literally under fire when he met Bree, and thing...