Books Published in August 2002

• Aug-2002
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Italian count Marco di Vincenti feared for baby Angelina's safety. He needed a wife to get custody -- so he proposed a marriage of convenience to the baby's English nanny, Alice Walsingham! Having secretly fallen in love with Marco, Alice ...

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He was the brazen stranger who had made it his mission to chaperone innocent, beautiful Phoebe Carson around his native land. But what would Phoebe do when she discovered her suitor was none other than Prince Nasri Mazin -- and he had seduction on hi...

• Sep-2002
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'The heat was murder. Some managed to escape. But most just had to live through it.' Louie Cogburn has spent three days holed up in his apartment, staring at his computer screen. His pounding headache is unbearable like spikes drilling into his brai...

• Aug-2002
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It is the story of an ex-cop, a missing girl, and a killer locked in a race where there can be only one winner--and the losers die trying. In a trailer in a Florida swamp, time is running out for eighteen year-old Erin Seabright. A pawn in a kidn...

• Aug-2002
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Welcome back to Grace Valley, California, where the best things in life never change... Here in this peaceful community, folks look out for one another like family, though sometimes a little too well. In a town like this, it's hard to keep a secre...

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The London ton is abuzz with the latest scandal. Jillian Whitney, well-born but penniless, has been living under the roof of a wealthy nobleman old enough to be her father. When Adam Hawthorne, the mysterious Earl of Blackwood, meets the lovely rebel...

• Aug-2002
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Ten terrifying tales that will haunt you forever... "Some stories are too terrifying to tell," says R.L. Stine. "They are the ones that live in the darkest corners of my mind. The ones that give me chills in the dead of night. The ones that I must t...

• Aug-2002
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Two years ago, Elbe Grant would have fallen apart at any reminder of her ex-husband, Tucker. But now she doesn't bat an eye when "their song" comes on the radio. She's unfazed by the thought of Tucker's perky new girlfriend. Ellie Grant is over him. ...

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From the moment she was rushed into Blair Memorial's emergency room, Dr. Reese Bendenetti's famous new patient had turned his solitary life upside down. For the first time, this dedicated surgeon was beginning to wonder if healing others might not be...

• Aug-2002
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The dead woman on a cold slab in the Arizona morgue was a talented artist recently arrived from the West Coast. The Washington State Attorney General's office thinks this investigation is too big for a small-town female law officer to handle, so they...

• Sep-2002
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Woven from the color and pageantry of the Middle Ages... From the burning passions of bold and beautiful women... From the brave hearts of strong and courageous men... Welcome to a world of chivalry and honor, of danger and desire, of legend, ...

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It is a boiling hot summer in Boston. Adding to the city's woes is a series of shocking crimes in which wealthy men are made to watch while their wives are brutalized--a sadistic demand that ends in death. The pattern suggests one man: serial killer ...

• Aug-2002
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LSCC Member: Dashing bachelor Dylan Bridges Social Status: This judge's son may be single, but this lady-killer is searching for a certain Mission Creek socialite Method of Seduction: Boldly showing beautiful Maddie Delarue that he's the man...

• Aug-2002
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A very special doctor! Returning to her career as a nurse has been especially traumatic for Fleur Hadley -- and then gorgeous new hospital consultant Mario Ruffini arrives on the scene. Little by little the Italian doctor is making everyone's ...

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A KINGDOM'S HONOR depends on the actions of the man assigned to protect the princess... When Princess Samira Kamal found herself pregnant and abandoned, she faced shaming her family and threatening the peace between Tamir and neighboring Montebello....

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The "Big One" Hits California on New Year's Eve Hundreds Trapped by Quake Racing against time to save victims in a ravaged, burning city, golden boy Lieutenant Wes James discovered an angel in disguise: plain-Jane rescue worker Lieutenant Callie ...

• Aug-2002
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Operation: Seduction As a love-struck teen, Beth McCormick had offered her innocence to Zach Ashton...only to have him turn her away. Now, years later, he'd returned to their one-horse hometown, a successful legal crusader legendary with the ladie...

• Aug-2002
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Be careful what you wish for; you just might get it. Violet did. After her husband died, she swore off lackluster men and a dull life. She wished for someone to put a sparkle in her eyes and excitement in her life, like an old love did year ago in...

• Aug-2002
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FATE, IT SEEMED, HAD DONE ITS WORST With his life in ruins, Richard, Duke of Cleybourne, returned to his country estate to deal with the tragic loss he had suffered four years earlier. His plans, however, were interrupted by the arrival of Miss Je...

• Aug-2002
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MURDER: TAKE TWO The Atlanta suburb of Lawrenceton is the set of a TV movie about a serial killer who terrorized the town ten years earlier. Interestingly, it happened to be Aurora Teagarden's first mystery to solve. Moreover, Aurora's ex,...

• Aug-2002
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WAN-WAN-KAIT Monster bones. They were the stuff of Indian legend, which warned that they must not be disturbed. But lovely, golden-haired Dayanara and her father were on a mission for the Smithsonian Institute to track down the mysterious bones and ...

• Aug-2002
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Kara Galway thought moving home to Texas after years in New England would put her life back in perspective. An up-and-coming defense attorney, she intends to concentrate on her career and on spending time with her Texas Ranger brother, Jack, and his ...

• Aug-2002
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The single mom's secret... Jake Hogan, millionaire businessman and Pennington success story, knocked Sarah out... well, almost. But he was gentleman enough to escort her home ,and so began an enthralling affair. Though she was incredibly at...

• Aug-2002
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It was a dream come true. Buying a run-down farm in a beautiful Vermont town is the start of a new life for Sophie Davis. She moves her mother, Grace, and her half sister, Marty, out of the city, hoping the change will help both women sort out the...

• Aug-2002
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Despite a happy childhood, successful entrepreneur Addison Fox has always yearned to find her birth mother. And with the unexpected death of her adoptive parents comes a renewed determination to fill in the missing pieces of her life--to find her "ot...

• Aug-2002
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Real magic and witches are far more exciting than anything pop culture has dreamed up. Modern-day Witches live by one commandment-Harm None. But even knowing the Rule of Three-that which you do returns thrice to you-following that commandment isn't e...

• Aug-2002
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IT HAPPENED ON VALENTINE'S DAY One day she was the prim-and-proper executive assistant, the next day Celia Tuttle fell madly, hopelessly in love with her boss -- mogul Aaron Bravo, bachelor extraordinaire. She knew he'd never marry...she'd bought ...

• Aug-2002
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Lond before he was president or head of the CIA, before he fought terrorist attacks on the Super Bowl or the White House, even before a submarine called Red October made its perilous way across the Atlantic, Jack Ryan was a historian, teacher and re...

• Sep-2002
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Woven from the color and pageantry of the Middle Ages... From the burning passions of bold and beautiful women... From the brave hearts of strong and courageous men... Welcome to a world of chivalry and honor, of danger and desire, of legend, ...

• Sep-2002
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Woven from the color and pageantry of the Middle Ages... From the burning passions of bold and beautiful women... From the brave hearts of strong and courageous men... Welcome to a world of chivalry and honor, of danger and desire, of legend, ...

• Aug-2002
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LOVE AND DECEPTION HAVE A LOT IN COMMON. Meet the Goodnights, a respectable family who run a respectable art gallery -- and have for generations. There's Gwen, the matriarch who likes to escape reality; Eve, the oldest daughter who has a slight ident...

• Aug-2002
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Pursuing his lifelong ambition brings heartrending decisions.... A passion for writing has burned brightly in Thorliff Bjorklund's heart for as long as he can remember. But college life is not as he had imagined, and he finds himself longing for thi...

• Aug-2002
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A head-to-toe makeover, fancy balls, and royal consorts had never been part of Dorothea Hebden's plan. The London barmaid had reckoned on a normal life and family with her very common childhood sweetheart. Then former royal Randolph waltzed into Dott...

• Aug-2002
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ONE TERRIFIED CHILD Veronica Tremain's nightmare begins with a phone call. Her anthropologist brother, Dr. Scott Ferris, has been savagely murdered. Within days other scientists on three continents start to die or disappear, and their labs and notes...

• Aug-2002
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A DREAM LOST Pediatric nurse Tess Morgan had dreamed of having a large family. But when her fiance was murdered, her hopes and dreams, along with her faith, were shattered by a single bullet. Until she met Peter "Mac" MacPherson, no stranger to trag...

• Aug-2002
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Talk about reinventing himself! Once Jack Carstairs had nearly been drummed out of the Omega Agency -- all for falling for the beautiful and powerful woman he'd been assigned to protect. Now the crackerjack agent was back, protecting that same woman ...

• Aug-2002
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Privilege was granted to one, poverty to the other. Identical twin brothers, separated at birth, are finally reunited in this Randall family saga. Gabe Randall struggled his entire life to own his Wyoming ranch, and it cost him the love of sweet J...

• Aug-2002
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Check-in: TV news reporter Laurel London has booked a room at the new Twin Oaks B and B, and so has noted travel writer William Byrd. Owners Clint and Maureen Cooper are hoping for a great review! Checkout: Then suddenly, William Byrd vanishes. Po...

• Aug-2002
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Her dreams are within reach--all she has to do is learn to hold on... A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG WOMAN WITH A DEFIANT spirit, A. J. Sutherland spends a small fortune on a horse with a wild reputation, and is forced to sacrifice her position at her family's...

• Aug-2002
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Good news! Fannie’s back in town--and the town is among the leading characters in her new novel. Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, w...

• Aug-2002
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Presents a collection of four novellas which explore alternate history, including "The Daimon," in which Sokrates leads his soldiers to victory over the Spartans, and in "The Last Ride of German Freddie," Nietzsche finds himself in Tombstone, Ariz....

• Aug-2002
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Once, long ago in the Scottish Borders, two sisters were stolen away by a cruel laird. But before they were taken they received a secret sign from their mother, a constant reminder of their true birth, of their kinship with the Secret Clan... She ...

• Sep-2002
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Woven from the color and pageantry of the Middle Ages... From the burning passions of bold and beautiful women... From the brave hearts of strong and courageous men... Welcome to a world of chivalry and honor, of danger and desire, of legend, ...

• Aug-2002
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Enough Rope, a collection of superb stories, establishes the extraordinary skill, power, and versatility of contemporary Grand Master Lawrence Block. Block's beloved series characters are on hand, including ex-cop Matt Scudder, bookselling burglar...

• Aug-2002
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Erika Welby had a secret she thought no one would ever discover. But someone knew... Erika's worst fear is realized when her well-kept secret shows up on her doorstep. As she reaches out to the daughter she gave up for adoption nearly twenty-two ye...

• Aug-2002
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ROMANCE ON THE RANCH Gentle-hearted Faith Broderick had come to the Triple Bar Ranch to start a new life, not to get involved in a matchmaking scheme intended to get Cooper Adams to cast off his bachelor coat-of-arms. But suddenly stranded with th...

• Aug-2002
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Vittore Mantezzini had finally found Lio, his beloved baby son, living with an aunt in London. He demanded he take the child back with him to Italy, but he didn't count on the strong bond between Lio and his aunt, Verity Fox. Verity could feel...

• Aug-2002
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She was a creature of nature... Raven-haired beauty Lady Leila Staines has always felt like an outcast among her magically gifted, fair-haired sisters. Desperate to discover a similar talent of her own, she hatches a plan to seek out Dunstan Ives,...

• Aug-2002
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Run over by a stampeding bull and bulldozed by a cheating ex-wife, rancher Wade Ryder doesn't want anything to do with women. Too bad for him that his tricky cousins decide a woman is just what he needs. They've hired gorgeous Laura Seymour to keep h...