Books Published in August 1988

• Aug-1988
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Highland beauty, MacGregor prode.... Scotland, 1745. Against the bloody background of the Battle of Culloden, another war was waged and won--the price was honor, the victory, love. A flash of petticoats, a banner of red-gold hair--one look at Seren...

• Aug-1988
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SWEET DREAMS... Sweet dreams had been all that lovely Shelby Jacobs had ever given Justin Ballenger. He'd loved her, wanted to marry her....and his sweet dreams had blown away. A Ballenger wasn't good enough for Shelby...she'd broken their engagem...

• Aug-1988
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She had been hurt too many times Accused by a malicious cousin of committing a scandalous crime, Lark Cummings was devastated. And, in the British courts, the prosecutor, ruthless James Wolfe, showed her no mercy. Then, incredibly, the case was...

• Aug-1988
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Languishing in the London home of her uncle, Chelsea Myles is offered an escape when she is asked to switch identities with a young woman on her way to an arranged marriage in Australia. Since she was a young girl, Chelsea Myles has performed with...

• Aug-1988
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She felt his tongue gently stroke her lips...and his hands, caressing her shoulders, moved downward to mold her hips. "No, please," she said, sobbing with desire... Beautiful Victoria Abermarle feared and fled the imperious desires of handsome Dam...

• Aug-1988
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When she slipped into Cameron Bandor's hotel suite disguised in veil and harem costume, Damita Shaughnessy was determined to force the powerful executive to help her find her mother Lola Torres, who the world knew only as a glamorous sex goddess. Bu...

• Aug-1988
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INNOCENCE BETRAYED She was born to wealth and privilege in colonial Newport. He was the handsome stable manager at her family estate, her friend and confidant since childhood. But Bethany Winslow had grown into an exciting beauty, naive enough to ...

• Aug-1988
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THE LURE OF INNOCENCE Vieve Donnelle always thought of herself as a girl who knew her own mind. But ever since she met Captain Tyson Gervais, her days were full of confusion and her nights were plagued by tantalizing dreams and half-understood yearn...

• Aug-1988
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It would be madness to succumb to him! A struggling young widow, Gina focused all her energy on earning money. Money enough for the operation that would save her daughter's eyesight. Yet when adventurer Liam Shannon, a man from her past, bu...

• Aug-1988
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PROUD AND BEAUTIFUL, HEAVEN CAME BACK TO THE HILLS--TO RISE AT LAST As Logan's bride, she would savor now the love she had sought for so long. And free from her father's clutches, she would live again in her backwoods town, a respected teacher and...

• Aug-1988
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In a young and lawless Texas, one woman stood ready for anything -- except love! She was Cricket, youngest of the ravishing Stewart sisters raised to shoot, ride, and fight as well as any man. On her pinto stallion, she roamed the harsh vast beau...

• Aug-1988
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Nothing was going to stop her -- Not even the powerful and arrogant Mexican Jaime Carreras! Sara Lawrence had vowed to find her archaeologist father because of a deathbed promise to her mother. And that was what she would do. Carreras had warne...

• Aug-1988
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There was no doubt she was to blame Whitney Lawford never imagined that when she slipped into an empty bedroom to escape a tedious drunken party, she would wake up next to Sloan Illingworth, the tall, attractive owner of Illingworth International....

• Aug-1988
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He expected her to expedite the deal! If Roberto Monteiro actually thought Charlotte was the kind of woman who'd use feminine wiles to gain her own ends, then he could think again. Yes, she'd intended to make him an offer for her grandm...

• Aug-1988
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There's nothing like the brisk autumn nights of the North As cold winds rattled through broken windows and loose doors. Farnum's Castle felt like an icebox. Marielle Brandt couldn't complain to the landlord - she was the landlord, having inherited...

• Aug-1988
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Head over heels, Georgie can barely stand to be apart from Nick for one night. Even when Nick's work as a hot-shot Wall Street lawyer keeps him away from their Connecticut family compound, Georgie reserves a hotel room and joins him in Manhattan. The...

• Aug-1988
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THE DOVE -- She'd been bought for a strip of land then abandoned: a bartered bride, married by proxy, determined to wreak revenge. As innocent Sara Bishop she'd paid dearly for freedom from her cruel, mocking family. As flame-haired jade-eyed Sabre W...

• Aug-1988
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When Inspector Thomas Pitt was asked to reopen a three-year-old murder case which had taken place in London's luxurious Hanover Close, he was all too aware that his superiors wanted him to smooth thinks over. But penetrating the reserve of high so...

• Aug-1988
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SHE COULDN'T ESCAPE HIM Lauren DeVries stared up at Captain Jason Stuart in dismay. Of all the men in London, she had managed to stumble upon the very one her guardian was forcing her to marry! And he was demanding a night in her arms as payment...

• Aug-1988
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A SPELL FOR ABERNATHY It all began when the half-able wizard Questor Thews announced that finally he could restore the Court Scribe Abernathy to human form. It was his spell that had turned Abernathy into a Wheaten Terrier--though with hands and a...

• Aug-1988
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New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer tells the haunting story of a passionate marriage endangered by the restless spirit of a sea captain’s widow.   John and Wilhelmina Constable uproot their lives in Boston so John can pursue his li...

• Aug-1988
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IT WAS A SUMMER OF WARMTH ... Kate Ryan and her husband, John, have a rollicking pub in the Irish village of Mountfern ... lovely twelve-year-old twins ...and such wonderful dreams ... IT WAS A SUMMER OF INNOCENCE ... But all that is about to ch...

• Aug-1988
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A NIGHT TO REMEMBER... Veronica Grant would have done anything to save her daughter's life--even become indebted to mesmerizing Jordan Cavendish, the man who'd left her without learning of the child they'd created. It had been an evening she'd nev...

• Aug-1988
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ALONE ON THE FROZEN KANSAS PRAIRIE Charity Burkhouser didn't stand a chance. Without a man's help the beautiful young widow would lose the homestead she'd traveled so far to claim and worked so hard to hold. When fate dropped a savagely wounded st...

• Aug-1988
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THE LADY AND THE BARBARIAN Clay Jones thought Jessica Mann was a mass of contradictions. She was tough, caught up with winning on the fast track, but also as gentle as the ocean after a spring rain. And she was everything he'd been looking for ......

• Aug-1988
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She'd share a roof but not a bed! When Shauna proposed marriage to Dr. Rob Stevens, she envisioned a business arrangement. It would provide a stable home for her young half sister, and would help Dr. Stevens out of a financial bind. But Rob...

• Aug-1988
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Shimmering with pageantry, emotion, and the court's passionate intrigues, here is the epic story of Arthur--the conqueror, the once and future king, who vanquished the Saxons and loved but one woman, the beautiful Morgan of Avalon. She was the lover ...

• Aug-1988
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It is an alien sphere, but one controlled by Man for millennia. A legend as old as the stars rules this world: when the seventh seventh seventh human Heptarch is crowned, he will be the Kristos and will bring eternal salvation...or the destruction of...

• Aug-1988
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She thought there was honor among thieves, until one of them stole her heart... LARCENY AND LOVE-- THEY'RE CLOSER THAN ONE MIGHT SUSPECT Niece-by-marriage of an impoverished lord, lovely Mary Anne Judson was most satisfied with her simple c...

• Aug-1988
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FROM THE PIECES OF THE PAST .. . Once, Julianna had been plain Julie Ann, the girl from the wrong side of the tracks who had dared to love beyond her station. Amazingly Gray Sheridan, scion of the local dynasty, had loved her, too--enough to marry...

• Aug-1988
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Set in the lush green splendor of Louisiana horse country in 1812, Shirlee Busbee's seventh novel is the breathtaking story of a tempestuous love between the fiercely independent Melissa Seymour and the devilishly irresistible Dominic Slade. Crossing...

• Aug-1988
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Nick Sandman's spine was shattered by a bullet in the Falklands. He has no money and no prospects, only a dream of sailing far away from his troubles on his boat, Sycorax. But Sycorax is as crippled as he is, and to make her seaworthy again, Nick mus...

• Aug-1988
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AN ANCIENT SHIP FOUND IN GREENLAND'S FROZEN WASTES...THE PRICELESS SPLENDORS OF A LOST CIVILIZATION...A PLOT TO PLUNGE THE WORLD INTO BLOODY CHAOS! Charts of lost gold...breathtaking art and rare volumes... maps of hidden oil and mineral deposits...

• Aug-1988
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Allyn Danner was in trouble. As the overextended owner and sole employee of Danner's Decadent Desserts, she couldn't afford to refuse Ian Reed's offer of free help...even if it did come with strings attached. But Allyn had been the "l...

• Aug-1988
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She'd always believed in love at first sight To raise her tuition for medical school, Jocelyn Eleanor MacDougall was holding down two jobs in Toronto, one as a nightclub singer. It was there that she met Niall Morgan. Their attraction was imme...

• Aug-1988
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He was ruthless beneath his charm And Helen chastised herself roundly for being taken in. Disappointment washed over her, as she realized how much she had wanted to like this handsome and wealthy hotelier. Dimitri Kastelli had given Helen an un...

• Aug-1988
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Calm turns to chaos in a fantastical journey of the Sonderbergs, a typical American vacationing family, who pick up an other-worldly hitchhiker and find themselves on the road to hell as time and space come apart before them...

• Aug-1988
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Tall, broad, and strikingly handsome, Adam Trent could tempt any woman, especially in his secret guise as the swashbuckling Captain Spectre. But when this daring buccaneer wages a seductive campaign against a beauty whose passion matches his own, he'...

• Aug-1988
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Don Pendleton's Private Investigator, Joe Copp is drawn into the corporate halls and backlots of Hollywood, behind the glamorous facade of the movie industry. The down-and-dirty scenario of death and mayhem becomes the focal point of the whole bloody...

• Aug-1988
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Young and beautiful Devina Dale was a rare woman. She was a courageous pioneer who dared to face the wild, tempestuous West, and nothing would stand in the way of her dreams. But Devina had haunting secrets from the past that threatened her safety an...

• Aug-1988
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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 ance...

• Aug-1988
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IRISH COMFORT The opportunity to restore an Irish castle was a dream come true for medieval historian Carra O'Neill. But she didn't intend to be charmed by Glencorrah's chief architect, Micheal Fitzgerald. Carra was immune to the romance of Irelan...

• Aug-1988
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Jed Ramsey was as darkly sleek and seductive as his black racing car, a rake with women and infuriatingly sexy... and Tara Brady wanted no part of him! Even if two of her sisters were happily married to two of his brothers, she wasn't about to succu...

• Aug-1988
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Grab a cup of coffee and settle down into your easy chair to ride the range with some of the most exciting tales of the Old West you'll find anywhere This collection is called BEST OF THE WEST for a very good reason-IT IS
These fourteen storie...

• Aug-1988
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"Possession is nine-tenths of the law." In Claudia's case, the old saying couldn't have been more true. The Tuscan farmhouse she'd just bought would perfect home for her soon-to-be husband. The landlord, it seemed, felt diff...

• Aug-1988
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V. I. Warshawski isn't crazy about going back to her old south Chicago neighborhood, but a promise is something she always keeps. Caroline, a childhood friend, has a dying mother and a problem--after twenty-five years she wants V.I. to find the fathe...

• Aug-1988
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There's nothing like the sun-kissed West Coast T. J. Hillyard said it all: it had been a long time since vacationing Manhattan attorney Abbie Jarvis had been in Wheeler, California. Fruit trees and sunflowers still graced the lawns and gardens. Ch...

• Aug-1988
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When devastatingly handsome Colonel Mark Hampton flew into the snowy Montana mountains on a secret rescue mission, Eden Landry wanted to run, to hideout it was too late. He'd already cast his spell, lit a fire inside her that threatened to consume th...

• Aug-1988
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Her family had moved, and Alexis Leighton never dreamed it would be so difficult to make new friends. Back in her home town, Lexi had been constantly going out and doing things, but here no one seems to care about her at all.

Finally a date wit...