Books Published in December 1984

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EACE ON EARTH… And good will to men. Especially one man -- Cooper Masters. But Ashley Robbins would like to be the recipient of more than good will from him…. This year Ashley has finished her education, launched her career and affirmed h...

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HEIRESS INGOGNITO Merlyn Forrest Steele couldn't refuse the offer -- work for a living for one month, and her father would stop his clumsy matchmaking attempts. Maybe she'd somehow find a man who had eyes for her, not her bank account, an...

• Dec-1984
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Love may be the only thing a woman wants and the one thing a man cannot give UNTIL A WOMAN KNOWS A MAN'S DESIRE, SHE CAN NEVER KNOW HIS LOVE. When she overheard him refuse to marry her, she swore to make him suffer any way she could. But Chase ...

• Dec-1984
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Nicole was a passionate French beauty, kidnapped by mistake and swept across turbulent seas... to be the bride of a stranger. In 18th-century Virginia, the lush lands embraced the rivers that abounded the great plantations. There Clayton awaited ...

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She wanted him for herself Eugenia knew what surgeon Gerard Grenfell needed: a woman who would never feel threatened by his devotion to his work at London's St. Clare's Hospital; a woman who would love him to distraction. And she was that woman. ...

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She had no desire to share her life Susanna was pleased with her life. As a successful commercial artist, she made good money that enabled her to enjoy a comfortable life-style in London. Her mother and her friends had given up careers when they m...

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Surviving a helicopter crash, Ellis Jackson is taken prisoner in Vietnam and placed in a special camp designed for brainwashing. His beautiful captor, Madame Ny, seduces him into confusion, but fellow prisoner Brigadier General James Maxwell St. Clai...

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In the isolated sanctuary of her Montana ranch, no one could hurt Brooke Kennedy, whose gift had led her to build a wall of ice around her heart. One person had stormed those barricades: her friend Pepper, who embraced the world and meddled in the ...

• Dec-1984
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In the ashes of war, they were bitter enemies, bound by fate, fortune, and sweet desire. Spirited, schooled to trust no one, Kit Weston came to New York with a pistol in her pocket and murder in her heart, sworn to kill her mysterious guardian, her ...

• Dec-1984
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She couldn't reveal her true feelings Zare Forturini was convinced that Laine Balfour would say or do anything to get her hands on the Forturini wealth. "It's a pity, " he said contemptuously, "my brother didn't notice your...

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A small town is rocked by a string of suspicious accidents in this suspense thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of The Other Child. The moment Marian Larsen sees the patrol car stop outside her house, she feels a shiver of foreboding. T...

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Fascinated by the past, Charlotte Butterfield felt perfectly at home working in Nashville's legendary Tolliver House -- the elegant mansion steeped in Civil War history. It was said the library was haunted by the ghost of a Confederate soldier, b...

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RELUCTANT BRIDE Lovely young Gabrielle LaFarge had resigned herself to the life of a nun in a French convent. But the future that awaits her is far different, for she is informed that she is to marry Philippe St. Cyr, a wealthy plantation owner fr...

• Dec-1984
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Could Cara's love cancel the debt? "Marry me, and your father can have twelve months more on his loan." Vince Steiner's insolent, faintly sensuous smile told Cara she was as much an object of desire to the South African constructio...

• Dec-1984
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THE TOSS OF A COIN "Heads, you come to Paris with me. Tails, you don't." Myles' eyes held their usual mischievous gleam, but Paula knew he was serious. Once Myles had been no more than her late husband's devil-may-care youn...

• Dec-1984
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First published in 1968, The World is Full of Married Men was branded as "shocking," especially coming from a female author but despite being banned in several countries for its scandalous content became a #1 bestseller in just two weeks! Always a...

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Eager to assist her sister and brother-in-law, who had been recently injured in a car accident, Shannon Murphy arrived at Wranebow's Inn, in the foothills of the Ozarks, prepared to take over. But when she discovered that her co-manager would be none...

• Dec-1984
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HE WAS A PERFECT RAPSCALLION, BUT ALL HE STOLE WERE LADIES' HEARTS.... Lord Belami fancied himself a sleuth. So when the Duchess of Charney's diamond necklace was stolen during a midnight ball at his home, he knew he had to find it. He also fou...

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It wasn't the first time Dandy had taken flight The day before her wedding, Dandy realized she simply couldn't marry a man she didn't love and who didn't love her. So she ran away... . At her grandfather's cabin in rural Ver...

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Only love would change his heart Richard Atherton presumed Tess Brannen was a promiscuous New Orleans nightclub singer. Yet there was something compelling in her eyes, an innocence so appealing and open to interpretation. But Richard was so sur...

• Dec-1984
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Pioneers poured into the West; Civil War ravaged the East. But as upheaval racked the continent, the Cheyenne brave Lone Eagle and his courageous white woman Abigail Trent rediscovered their desire in the peaceful New Mexico territory. Their family g...

• Dec-1984
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A knight of ghosts and shadows!Jordan was a ghost in Castle Roogna now, spending his time with little five-year-old Ivy and watching his own past unfold on the magic tapestry. But once he had been a valorous knight, riding his ghost horse Pook on a f...

• Dec-1984
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Abducted from her beloved England, trapped aboard a pirate ship, and rescued by a handsome American captain, beautiful Danielle Shaw had had her fill of adventure! She should have been terrified when Captain Travis Radbourne informed her they were no...

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She represented a noble investment Lady Morva Eden was living proof the aristocracy's breeding program still existed. Once her family realized her brother's illegitimacy would cost them their nobility, they naturally turned to Morva. And so for...

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“This land is min...” The Syrians are seeking territorial control of the Middle East, and they have a plan to annex Israel and drive the Israelis into the sea. The Syrian weapon: canisters of deadly nerve gas stolen from the United States. ...

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There was no way she could like him Devon Matthews couldn't imagine living anywhere but at her home on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. So naturally she resented Hunter Kincaid for threatening her security by making an offer to buy her fath...

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Olivia Lawson had come to the Outer Banks to relax. Courtland Heller knew what she really needed, though, and he was determined to provide it. As relentless as the tide that eroded the foundations of her house, Court was determined to seep into ev...

• Dec-1984
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THE TIES THAT BIND... CAROLINE DAWSON had married Roscoe Lancaster, a man thirty years her senior, and she had been a loving wife to him. But the deepest love in her heart was reserved for his son. RINK LANCASTER had broken teenaged Caro...

• Dec-1984
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LOVE CALLED THEM ACROSS THE SEA AND BOUND THEIR FATE TO A GOLDEN LEGEND. In faraway Spain Aurora's fortune was foretold -- the exile from the home of her aristocratic ancestors, the journey to the steaming jungles of Peru, and at last, the lov...

• Dec-1984
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THEY HAD KNOWN LOVE.... They had known passion and the joy of shared dreams--and they had had everything but time. Danielle Davis and Keir McBride had shared the kind of love few ever know, but her abrupt disappearance, necessary to save her li...

• Dec-1984
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No one could move without being followed. No one could speak without being overheard. The almost sentient computer system was everywhere. The prison was billed as "escape-proof," and sofar that was true. But Danny Romano was not about...

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Like father, like daughter. Such was the handsome Lord Moreton's bitter reflection at the first sight of his brother's fiancee, the beautiful and spirited Diane de Verette. Knowing that her father was a traitor, he was determined that no offs...

• Dec-1984
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She thrilled to change and excitement. She made her living leaping from tall buildings and walking through fire. How much trouble could stuntwoman Cat Roy get into in ten short days? After that, Dr. Luke Eliot, renowned psychiatrist, would be gone--o...

• Dec-1984
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A LADY IN LOVE... Lovely Lady Pendcrrie was the daughter of an earl... and well aware of the drawbacks of a noble birth. First, there was the business of her parents' estate, now firmly in the hands of her skinflint brother Godfrey. Then, there wa...

• Dec-1984
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One moment writer Whitney Jordan was strolling the aisles of McNeil's Department Store, plotting the untimely demise of a soap opera heartthrob; the next, she was nearly knocked over by a real-life stunner who implored her to be his fiancee! The ...

• Dec-1984
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She'd had enough pain and regret If a knot couldn't be untied it had to be cut, and that was exactly what Holly intended to do: cut the legal ties that bound her in partnership with her late husband's stepbrother, Jared Kent. She wa...

• Dec-1984
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BETRAYED! That was how TV newswoman Jade Sweet felt when she discovered Barney McNab's true colors. She had trusted him as the one person she could talk to about Leon, the man she had loved and lost. Then she learned that Barney's hands were less...

• Dec-1984
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"What the hell do you want to do, see me bleed?" Loving a man like Damien Kent could be hell, Jessica King thought, on the evening of the party to which he was escorting another woman. A woman he was thinking of marrying - for business re...

• Dec-1984
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FOR SLOCUM, EVERYONE ON BOARD WAS A SUSPECT -- AND HE WAS EVERYONE'S TARGET. The Excalibur was supposedly an ordinary riverboat, but even before it left port. the pilot had been shot dead. Once underway, someone tried to kill Slocum. Then the boat wa...

• Dec-1984
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A tangled web ... Elizabeth Wakefield is stunned when Nicholas Morrow asks her for a date. A newcomer to Sweet Valley, Nicholas is fabulously wealthy and extremely handsome. Even though Elizabeth would never cheat on Todd Wilkins, her steady boyfri...

• Dec-1984
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Elizabeth and Jessica in a tug-of-war... Chubby Robin Wilson has been following Jessica around for months. First she wanted to be her friend - now she wants to join Pi Beta Alpha, Sweet Valley High's snobby sorority. When Elizabeth, Jessica's twi...

• Dec-1984
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Bad girl in town ... Steven Wakefield is crushed when his girlfriend, Tricia, dies after a tragic illness. The only things that keep him going are the memory of their love and his promise to Tricia to take care of her sister, Betsy, after she's gon...

• Dec-1984
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A tangled web ... Elizabeth Wakefield is stunned when Nicholas Morrow asks her for a date. A newcomer to Sweet Valley, Nicholas is fabulously wealthy and extremely handsome. Even though Elizabeth would never cheat on Todd Wilkins, her steady boyfri...

• Dec-1984
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POSSESSED BY LOVE When the armies of William the Conquerer swept across England, it was Lord Robert of Devlin who stormed Cheltenham Castle and claimed the flaming-haired, violet-eyed Catherine as his prize. Trembling with fear, but fired by defia...

• Dec-1984
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The Marquis of Peterborough had kissed Juliana in public -- in order to win a bet. Now, she was the subject of another, even more degrading wager. His gambling companions had given him six months to win her hand in marriage. Juliana was new to the wa...

• Dec-1984
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SHE HAD BEEN GIVEN A SECOND CHANCE By arranging the rescue of her estranged husband, David, from a prison camp in Central America, Chris Spencer could try to make up to him for walking out on their marriage four years earlier. She'd never dream...

• Dec-1984
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Love was simple in a world of daydreams Reality was always disappointing and Stacey had no desire to spoil the image of the Jon Callan of her daydreams. Stacey protested vigorously as she was ushered backstage to Callan's dressing room. When s...

• Dec-1984
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Amanda risked everything to see Craig just one last time... Brandy and orange juice. Hot chocolate and vanilla ice cream. Beer and fried seafood. Missing pieces of the past that were the puzzle of a woman named Laura Collins. Craig Brandon had be...

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SHE WAS A RAVISHING FIREBRAND, TORN BY PASSION AND POLITICS, LOYALTY AND LOVE. ABIGAIL LYDDEN--A Yankee rebel on England's shores, she was a countess determined to reclaim her dead husband's estate, a headstrong beauty who'd tasted freedom and vow...

• Dec-1984
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Mike Bradford scarcely knew what hit him! Tackled by a pint-sized dynamo, he was thrown to the pavement, safe from a runaway trash can. His rescuer rebelled when he insisted on carrying her to the infirmary to attend to her bloodied knee, but Jamie B...