Books Published in December 1986

• Dec-1986
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HOW TO MARRY A WEALTHY MAN There has to be another way; Lily decided after playing "Moon River" in the hotel lounge for the thousandth time. She had to marry a man who could take care of her and her grandmother in style. But she needed hel...

• Dec-1986
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AUNT LILLIAN HAD STARTED IT ALL . . . "The boss is fading fast. His last request is that a writer compose his memoirs" was Aunt Lillian's plea. Helping the elderly oilman seemed natural to Mari. But Ward Jessup was anything but old and sickly .....

• Dec-1986
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Their hearts taught them to trust...their desire taught them to love. Courtney Harte gasped in disbelief. There, in a Texas newspaper, was a photograph of her beloved father...thought slain several years back in a savage Comanche massacre. The hon...

• Dec-1986
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Caitlin couldn't believe what she had done! She'd met a complete stranger in a bar. He'd flirted outrageously and, angered and insulted, she'd left. But her car had refused to start, and she'd had to accept the stranger'...

• Dec-1986
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Was it dream or reality, this handsome mystery man who'd come to Katrina Denver's tropical island and swept her away on a tidal wave of passion? Mike Taylor, a trespasser, had appeared out of the blue to "rescue" her from a bizarre tr...

• Dec-1986
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SHE BRAVED THE HEIGHTS OF A PASSION BEYOND REASON... Lauralee Parker knew too well what drink could do to a man. Her own husband had died at the door of a town saloon. With hymns and hatchets, Lauralee and the women of Halpern's Ferry closed down ...

• Dec-1986
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"You'll have to learn to speak, to dress, to conduct yourself as a lady." Those orders were intoned by Sebastian, the cold haughty Earl of Moorland to Jewel Combs, the cockney commoner defiantly facing him in his luxurious drawing room. D...

• Dec-1986
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He was skilled in the art of love The legacy of a house from her aunt gave Lyn the opportunity she needed to escape from her unloving, snobbish family. Now, on her own, she could pursue her art. Her new next-door neighbor was a pleasant surpris...

• Dec-1986
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Off the coast of Eastern China, archaeologist Billie Simpson is leading a dig for Malaysian artifacts on Howling Island when her expedition is raided by a crazed scientist vowing to kill them all. Barely escaping, Billie now desperately wants to retu...

• Dec-1986
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THE EVIL THAT MEN DO The body lay- amid the garbage behind a Seattle grocery store--a tall. well-built male--dead. Detective J.P Beaumont's twenty years on the force had given him a sixth sense about people--especially guilty ones. So when he foun...

• Dec-1986
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DEVIL INCARNATE OR ANGEL IN DISGUISE? Tory Wells arrived a Sundance Ranch with only her battered suitcase, little more than two dollars and a letter from a friend, promising her employment. An Olympic-class diver recovering from knee surgery, Tory...

• Dec-1986
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A passionate attraction in romantic Spain He offered her marriage -- but said nothing of love.... Rodrigo Esteband Diaz ignited the most intense and passionate emotions Laura Marsh had ever felt. Her new job as nurse-companion to Rodrigo'...

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GAZING INTO HER CRYSTAL, THE PSYCHIC PREDICTED MONEY, BUT NOT MURDER. . . GUINEVERE JONES - Fortune-telling seemed a harmless game. But when it became clear that Madame Zoltana was making big profits by playing on her clients' fears, Gwen knew sh...

• Dec-1986
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"Something's coming. And it involves a man." The tarot and the pendulum were in agreement, but Sybil Richardson was dubious. Despite her position as secretary of the Society of Water Witches, Sybil's psychic skills were notoriously mediocre. When ...

• Dec-1986
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DECEIVING APPEARANCES Her auburn hair tucked into a severe chignon, dressed in a shabby brown bombazine, Merrie Trelawney was the picture of dowdy widowhood and sober respectability. No one would guess that those demurely lowered eyelids hid a spa...

• Dec-1986
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"In less than a year I shall buy your farm." Byron Rockford's words challenged and infuriated Frances King. Since childhood Frances had dreamed of cattle ranching, so when her offer for Thorndale was accepted she was ecstatic. But B...

• Dec-1986
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Once he'd made promises of love... Now Denzil Fox vowed eternal retribution. But for the life of her, Jet couldn't understand why. She was the one who'd been sorely deceived! Six years ago he'd said he loved her, wanted to marry...

• Dec-1986
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Riding high in her silver Jaguar, hotshot ad executive Cass McCason came home to Reuter Flats, Texas. She'd gone far, but Luke Travers was determined to put her in her place. Seeing him again was an unexpected shock. The gawky boy had become a de...

• Dec-1986
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HIS UNEXPECTED GUEST BECAME A WELCOME ONE Molly hated to force the issue, but she had to convince Jake Cannon that he was not going to spend his long-awaited vacation alone. As star witnesses to a crime, both knew they must leave Detroit immedi...

• Dec-1986
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Lucy Reardon and Finn Mundy were strangers -- but not to calamity! From the instant Finn spotted Lucy's black net stockinged legs perched on a ladder outside his bedroom window, he was an accident waiting to happen-and she was the fuse on the...

• Dec-1986
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Life offers few second chances. Schoolteacher Elise Ramsey had chosen duty over love and lost her only chance for happiness. Then, in the middle of her life, fate played a strange trick, she was offered yet another opportunity to find her heart's des...

• Dec-1986
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She had to stop running away from love In the magical city of Venice, Sandra Clarke impetuously married Marco Morosini. Then, just as suddenly, she left the wealthy executive and fled back to London believing that he had deceived her. Determine...

• Dec-1986
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From refugee to tyrant of Jupiter, Hope Hubris is an exile of the planet he once ruled in this sci-fi saga from the New York Times–bestselling author. This is the fifth in the series Bio of a Space Tyrant, featuring the stages in the life o...

• Dec-1986
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NUCLEAR REACTION A series of "accidents" at nuclear power stations across the United States is destabilizing America's energy program. In the fallout of this highly complex plot, the United States will be forced to rely on Third World oil, oil ...

• Dec-1986
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WANTED – DEAD$5000It might have been the normal poster put out by a law enforcement office that the Ysabel Kid held out, until the others read the name of the wanted man – Dusty Fog!“For five thousand dollars, every bounty hunter an...

• Dec-1986
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A SECOND CHANCE... Five years of marriage were wiped from Chase Buchanon's mind in the wake of his kidnapping. Returned to his wife, he had only instinct to go on, and instinct told him that he loved this woman. For Gwenn, his return was t...

• Dec-1986
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MADCAP TOMBOY When the local magistrate jailed Jacelyn Trevaine's pet dog as a public nuisance, the country miss knew he meant to blackmail her into socializing with his nephew. High-spirited Jaceelyn decided to free her dog by kidnapping the...

• Dec-1986
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A novel of suspense and mystical adventure in China from the New York Times�"bestselling author of Jian and the Nicholas Linnear series.   A martial arts expert and former agent of the top secret US government agency known as the Qu...

• Dec-1986
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Once upon a time, a beautiful schoolteacher won a trip to a land of royalty and romance. A Mediterranean kingdom, Maurab was very far from Ohio -- the place Kirsten Stevens called home. On a deserted beach during the twilight hour, Kirsten met Ste...

• Dec-1986
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A RARE BIRD Banker Cordelia Richardson spent her days with the most successful men in business -- but they left her cold. Then along came a half-naked handyman with holes in his sneakers, calluses on his palms and a chest that inspired awe, and sh...

• Dec-1986
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"I don't trust men anymore, and there's not a man alive who's going to change my mind!" Katelyn Ryan had begun to believe she would never respond to a man's touch again, especially after her ex-fiance's smooth-sounding lies. She had come home to Med...

• Dec-1986
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Los Chisos. They were ruthless outlaws who smuggled desperate Mexicans into Texas for an outrageous fee, and they would have no qualms about killing border patrol agent Samantha Spencer. Then one of them, the mysterious arid Handsome Ross de la Garza...

• Dec-1986
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EDITORIAL REVIEW: The best collection ever of Arthur C. Clarke's short fiction, including the stories on which 2001: A Space Odyssey and Childhood's End were based. The Sentinel is a magnificent retrospective showcase of Arthur C. Clarke's finest s...

• Dec-1986
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Why wouldn't he leave her alone? Why wouldn't Ryan Forrester accept the fact that Devan's writing career was over? She couldn't continue to write about something she didn't understand. It was that simple. Her books were ab...

• Dec-1986
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PARADISE LOST -- AND REGAINED Falsely accused of treason, beautiful Rachel Burke was forced to flee England for the shores of the Virginia colony. In that paradise, she hoped to make a new life for herself. But the paradise soon turned into a livi...

• Dec-1986
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A WEALTHY WIDOW BELIEVES AN INDIAN GHOST has gotten sidetracked in her parlor on his way to the Happy Hunting Grounds. And, while Slocum is more familiar with spirits that pour straight from bottle to shot glass, the big Southerner feels there's defi...

• Dec-1986
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She would never repeat her mother's mistake Her mother's life had been ruined by the irresponsible actions of her artist husband. Now Carrie faced a double threat -- the desire of her sister, Krys, to follow in their father's footst...

• Dec-1986
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INNOCENT LOVE Swept up in a whirlwind courtship and a hasty wedding to handsome Court Wayne, Ricky felt nothing could possibly go wrong for two people so much in love. But then Court was shipped off to fight the Germans, and the powerful Wayne fa...

• Dec-1986
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Do opposites attract? Bruce Patman and Regina Morrow in love? No one at Sweet Valley High can believe it. Regina is beautiful and shy, one of the nicest girls at school. Bruce is a real snob, and the only person he's ever cared about is himself. ...

• Dec-1986
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The last chance... Sally Larson is thrilled when she moves in with her cousin Dana's family. After years of living in foster homes, Sally longs to have a real home, and she's determined to make a good impression. As long as Sally lets Dana control h...

• Dec-1986
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CHECKMATE The men who gave the orders had no choice. Florry was the only man for the job--so they gave him no choice but to go to a land that East and West had turned into a blood-slick battleground of terror and counter-terror. Florry's missio...

• Dec-1986
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A magician's life offered more than illusions... Camille Bayard had left Paris because her ex-husband had made her an unwitting accomplice in a coin theft. Then Justin St. Cyr arrived at one of her magic shows. Camille had known him ever since he...

• Dec-1986
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Madame Karitska has a style all her own--a rare blend of psychic power, an exotic past, and an uncanny gift for common sense. But when a chance encounter with Detective-Lieutenant Pruden of the Police Department catapults her into the midst of a seam...

• Dec-1986
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Nancy Drew is on a white water adventure that soon becomes a deadly game of cat and mouse. When George wins a rafting trip on a wild Montana river, Nancy and Ned agree it's time for a vacation. Bess is persuaded to go because there will be boys in...

• Dec-1986
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She lost her pride -- and her innocence! BREATHLESS GASP As the setting sun gilded Trace Cord's strong shoulders, innocent Jenny Graham could barely contain her rage. How dare that slick railroad negotiator bathe in her river and sneak around...

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• Dec-1986
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HEAVEN TO KISS Tanner. His name still sent her blood pounding. He'd been Indiana University's heartthrob, but Laura Fullerton had been too young and afraid of the look in his eyes to give him a chance. Yet his kiss still burned--and her marriage h...

• Dec-1986
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Years before, she'd left him to follow her passion: the dance. Charlotte "Charlie" Wells thought she'd kissed James Murphy good-bye until a knee injury forced her to take a stopgap job as activities director of New Eden. Charlie was shocked to discov...

• Dec-1986
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If Ben Adams heard thunder in the hills, he never suspected that the storm would bring a minx of a woman who was more trouble than a sack of wildcats! Kate Midland decided she'd do anything to save a doomed magnolia tree -- even if it meant seduc...