Books Published in December 1985

• Dec-1985
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SHE COULD BE ANY WOMAN HE WANTED... As "Amanda Jamison," Ariel Kirkwood suffered stoically through the daily traumas of a popular soap opera. She was adored by her loyal fans, as well as the real people in her life. Booth DeWitt had written hi...

• Dec-1985
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CHANGE PARTNERS Jo Marie first met Andrew, her dream man, in the crush of a Mardi Gras parade. But by Christmas, he was introduced to her as someone else's fiance. Yet Jo Marie noticed that Andrew and his intended didn't always act like...

• Dec-1985
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RISKY BUSINESS When Amelia Glenn walked into Worth Carson's boardroom wearing a trench coat and a belly dancer's outfit, Chicago's most powerful construction magnate was fit to be tied. But that didn't stop Amelia from performing her...

• Dec-1985
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WHEN LOVE IS BOTH TORMENT AND ECSTASY... Her life changed forever the night she was abducted from a dark London street and carried to a stranger's townhouse. At first Regina Ashton was amused, then outraged at the arrogance of this bronzed, golde...

• Dec-1985
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Sarah believed in love at first sight One enchanted evening at a masquerade ball Sarah French fell in love with a sapphire-eyed stranger. "I want to make love to you," he murmured. As if in a dream Sarah answered, "I want it, too......

• Dec-1985
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Could he slay all her dragons? After years of watching her mother's gullible heart drive her from one man to the next, Laurel had decided to marry, for sensible reasons. She didn't believe in fairy tales, knights in shining armor and happy...

• Dec-1985
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Morgan didn't play Holly's kind of game Morgan Kane arrived on Pulpit Island in the Caribbean with strict instructions: collect his boss's daughter and bring her back to London. Holly Forsyth had no intention of leaving her job at t...

• Dec-1985
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In a chance encounter on Virginia's riverfront, Leah, a beautiful waif, unwittingly captured the one man she had always loved! Handsome, well-born Wesley, in an unexpected twist of fate, becomes Leah's reluctant husband. Determined to forge a n...

• Dec-1985
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THE MOCKING MARQUIS Miss Elizabeth Rossiter was finished with love forever - after a disastrous episode that had left her with a broken heart and a reputation that would be ruined should her scandalous secret be revealed. She had sought safety by ...

• Dec-1985
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Holly Llewellyn's life was suddenly swept away in the current of controversy. She was an honest, hardworking cookbook author. But her brother was a fugitive who left Holly with his young son, calling only to ask for money. And Holly's cousin was a...

• Dec-1985
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RIGHT PLACE, WRONG TIME When Dr. Elliot Mallory met Georgina "George" Hathaway, almost everything seemed to be right. They liked the same jokes, shared a love of sports, and the chemistry that drew them together was the most powerful he'd ever kno...

• Dec-1985
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Dear Reader: Lord Graelam de Moreten is a warrior, a man both hard and ruthless, a man who takes what he wants and never looks back. Kassia de Lorris of Brittany is gentle yielding, untested in the ways of men. She cheats death only to find her...

• Dec-1985
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He appeared in her life with the unexpected force of a desert sandstorm, sweeping her from terrifying danger into the sweet haven of his arms. Daniel Seifert was a fierce man, used to taking whatever he wanted, but Zilah, the spirited woman he'd ...

• Dec-1985
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Tiffany Rhodes's problems with her breeding farm started long before she met Zane Sheridan, a horse breeder with a reputation for shady dealings. Yet she couldn't help feeling relieved when Zane offered to buy her out. Though Tiffany didn't trust...

• Dec-1985
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Love was easy... in paradise Chelsea Ross was devoted to finding missing children. But Samuel Prescott London, the son of a wealthy Boston socialite, was not the usual runaway--he was a forty-year-old executive! Discovering Samuel's hideaway ou...

• Dec-1985
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It hadn't been a storybook marriage But all the same Caitlin had been shattered when her husband dies. She threw herself, heart and soul, into building up Justin's business, determined to further the prospects she had always held dear. ...

• Dec-1985
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Una Cavan doesn't believe in ghosts. But ghosts seem to believe in her. At least, her father's ghost does, walking into and out of her life as casually as if he were entering and exiting a room. Una has always believed the Cavan women had the...

• Dec-1985
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"So, what am I going to do?" It was a question Leonie couldn't quite answer. But suddenly, she knew she couldn't go through with her plans of revenge against Guy Richardson. She'd been going to try to make him fall in love w...

• Dec-1985
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Ria was tired of leading a double life James Everett, the domineering head of Everett Communications, had never found a secretary who could meet his impossible standards -- not until Ria Duncan came along. James demanded cool efficiency and exc...

• Dec-1985
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She found him dangerously attractive Lynn Renford planned to combine her holiday in Greece with her ambition to learn everything she could about the tour business. Except that her attention was seriously diverted by Andreas Stephanos, an internati...

• Dec-1985
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Past and present came shatteringly together! Christie understood Lyle Venniker's shock at meeting her again. She felt the same. If she'd known he was supervising the archaeological dig in South Africa, she'd never have applied for the ...

• Dec-1985
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It was different when it was your own life Lainie Tucker couldn't believe that Griffin had left Los Angeles. After a whirlwind courtship and seven short months of marriage, how could he leave? Lainie would have counseled one of her clients to ...

• Dec-1985
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THE GRIM GUARDIAN For lovely young Miss Patricia Patterson, life seemed a delightful dream -- until the spectre of her guardian, Lord Charles Gaunt, cast a shadow over her carefree days of idleness and enchanting evenings of dazzling balls and del...

• Dec-1985
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NO LAUGHING MATTER Lesley Belmont had always held back -- from success, men, from love. But now she had a chance for her first solo interview, and she was determined to give it her all. She planned to have Travis Hagen, America's premier carto...

• Dec-1985
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HANDYMAN From the first moment she laid eyes on him, Mary Judith thought there was something suspicious about Nolan Tanner. Why was her brooding new tenant so secretive about his background? Though his past was shadowed, Nolan always made the futu...

• Dec-1985
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Ever since her gaze locked with Lone Eagle's over a crimson campfire, young Abigail Trent knew her fate lay with the virile Cheyenne scout. She had married him, borne him children, and endured all the hardships of the rugged frontier. But even though...

• Dec-1985
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To pursue his ultimate goals, the tyrant of Jupiter disguises himself as a rebel leader in this sci-fi saga from the New York Times–bestselling author. He was shaping his times as no one before him dared, mercilessly scourging an entire pla...

• Dec-1985
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The Storyteller is the powerful saga of Joe Crown, a poor kid from Brooklyn with a burning ambition to write. Joe fights his way up from poverty, taking on the explosive New York world of gangsters and whores, reveling in the seductive glitter of Hol...

• Dec-1985
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A CHRISTMAS ANGEL For Kate Warren, Christmas was a time of indifferent parents and empty feelings. So when she saw the beautiful child lost among the holiday shoppers, she vowed to give the neglectful parent a piece of her mind. But she was unp...

• Dec-1985
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There had to be a catch... "You're not to be afraid," the stranger on the flight from Denver reassured Stacey. And suddenly her predicament seemed less overwhelming. His warmth and strength instilled courage in her as if by osmosis. ...

• Dec-1985
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In just one day her life spun out of control Brooke Waters had to be talked into the event -- it wasn't her style to attend a big bash in Central Park, especially when it was held for people with unusual names. Nor was it like her to be attrac...

• Dec-1985
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Was she being bribed to put love on hold? Alyssa had only days left to free herself from the clutches of her late husband's creditor. So the offer of twenty thousand pounds from Sheikh Tariq's uncle seemed a miracle--even if it meant leavi...

• Dec-1985
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Deck the halls of Sweet Valley High... The Wakefield twins and their friends at Sweet Valley High are in festive spirits. It's Christmas vacation, the annual parade is just days away, secret Santas are busy buying surprise gifts, and everyone's ta...

• Dec-1985
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Walter Lloyd. Middle-American. Easy-going Texan. Soon to face the biggest test of his life when his past comes to haunt him with a vengeance. Donna Lloyd. Housewife. Kidnapping victim. She'd do anything for her family. Now she'll learn that they'l...

• Dec-1985
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A brisk and entertaining novel of a barren, mysterious planet that may save humanity—or destroy it—by the author of Star Wars: Heir to the Empire (Publishers Weekly).   Chasing a new frontier, humankind sends a manned stars...

• Dec-1985
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THE MAN WHO SLEW A DRAGON When the Black Dragon seized the Deep of Ylferdun, young Gareth braved the far Winterlands to find John Aversin, Dragonsbane--the only living man ever to slay a dragon. In return for the promise of the King to send help t...

• Dec-1985
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FROM THENDARA TO THE HELLERS AND BEYOND... Return with Marion Zimmer Bradley and the Friends of Darkover to the planet of the Bloody Sun, the world of Darkover, where powerful families gifted with rare mental powers of loran rule the land, where T...

• Dec-1985
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Garbage wasn't anyone's cup of tea Yet examining a month's haul of garbage was, in theory, no different from a prehistoric dig--a precise, painstaking science. But when Raine Webber and her University of Maine anthropology class arrived at the hun...

• Dec-1985
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Romantic Jessamyn Baird had to pinch herself to realize she wasn't dreaming. She really was in Great Britain on a trip she had wanted to take all of her life. But it wouldn't last forever. Soon she would have to make some hard choices about her futur...

• Dec-1985
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"I'm not giving up this marriage without a fight!" Ross Tempest vowed, and his wife Sage shivered at the fury and hurt in his voice. Married very young to the dynamic industrialist, Sage felt she'd never belonged in his life. His family had cowed her...

• Dec-1985
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SHE NEEDED SOME TIME ALONE Marisa Perett was on her way home when Hurricane Bertha swept through the Florida Keys, leaving destruction in her wake. When Marisa rescued newsman Michael Novak from the sea, his effect on her was just as devastating....

• Dec-1985
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Meet Fritti Tailchaser, a ginger tom cat of rare courage and curiosity, a born survivor in a world of heroes and villains, of powerful feline gods and whiskery legends about those strange, furless, erect creatures called M'an. Join Tailhaser on his m...

• Dec-1985
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In raw November Tina Merritt returned to her seaside home in Cape May, New Jersey, seeking solace, escape. But there was no escape from Dirk Tanger, who held the key to her trust fund--and to a lock on her heart. She tried to hate him, to blame him f...

• Dec-1985
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"The Committee" has masterminded a fiendish, far-reaching plot rooted in the highest corridors of power. Code name: Tantalus. Tantalus -- all the more daring because it is so obvious -- strikes at the very lifeline of humanity. Its aim is enormous, h...

• Dec-1985
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The #1 New York Times�"bestselling author's classic novel of life and death drama inside a major American hospital -- "easy to read and hard to stop reading" (Kirkus Reviews)."The author of Airport and Hotel has the natural storyteller's gift of kee...

• Dec-1985
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IN AN ICY WILDERNESS, A DELICATE BEAUTY DARED TO LOVE--THE TOUGHEST MAN IN THE YUKON! Lovely September Malloy traveled from San Francisco to Alaska with one dream-to find her renegade gold miner father. Then she was robbed by a smooth con man, and...

• Dec-1985
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GHOST RIDER! Black Jack Slade was supposed to be dead, hanged long ago by a vigilante gang in Virginia City -- but did they really do the job? Somebody's still robbing the Julesburg Stage on its hardscrabble run up to Holyoke. Somebody who knows whe...

• Dec-1985
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Was love worth the risk? With the opening of her exclusive interior-design boutique Cathryn Mulqueen thought she'd attained all her goals -- she was chic, successful, a local celebrity whose photograph appeared regularly in the West Palm Beach...

• Dec-1985
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As far as Clint Adams is concerned, having a reputation is bad enough, so when he finds out that The Legend of the Gunsmith is selling like hotcakes he hightails it to New York to track down the author. He's not disappointed when he learns it's so...