Books Published in December 1988

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Having fled to Seattle to weather a broken heart, Lindy Kyle was unprepared for a roommate like Rush Callaghan. Strong, sensitive and sexy, the temporarily dry-docked naval officer was everything she'd ever dreamed of in a man ... in a husband. But ...

• Dec-1988
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Her tender passion turns to love...and master to slave Kidnapped and sold into slavery, Chantelle Burke was led into the Pasha's scented chambers swearing she'd never surrender to this ruthless master. But she was stunned by the magnificen...

• Dec-1988
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Her lips softened and clung to his, seeking the warmth and taste of him. His tongue feathered against hers, and she shivered with a craving more powerful, more urgent, than hunger or thirst. . . . Exquisitely beautiful Mira Germain was only eight...

• Dec-1988
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1810. She has taken London society by storm. Christina Bennett... the ravishing beauty with the mysterious past. Rumor whispers she is a princess from a far-off kingdom on the continent. But only she holds the secret --until the night Lord Alexander ...

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RIVALS IN BUSINESS A successful advertising executive with impeccable family connections, Flame Bennett had attracted Malcolm Powell as a powerful ally. As her mentor, he wanted to see her succeed. As a man, he wanted more of Flame than she was wi...

• Dec-1988
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History was repeating itself Diana Prentice needed a break from the power games of the corporate world. She picked the charming mountain town of Fulbrook Corners as her sanctuary, not knowing that mysterious forces had lured her to the scene of a...

• Dec-1988
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They were bound by fate Pregnant! Diana Prentice knew she should be ecstatic - bearing Colby Savagar's child - but she wasn't. The idea of motherhood frightened her. Almost as much as the recurring dreams that told her she needed Colby...dreams th...

• Dec-1988
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A whirlwind courtship, then a year apart Megan had been fully prepared to wait for Devlin's return from his year-long filming trip to the Amazon. Despite the differences in their backgrounds and their ages, she knew their love was right. Bu...

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Long ago, a young Brenna Douglass had declared her undying love to her sister's boyfriend, Warren Stone. The result was a passionate kiss, followed by a panicked rejection that devastated Brenna. Ten years later, after her sister Honor's d...

• Dec-1988
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Raised among eleven brawny, boisterous brothers, beautiful Islaen MacRoth knew nothing of the tricks a maiden uses to trap a husband. Instead, her desperate father had arranged a match at court -- with a man who had sworn never to wed again. But f...

• Dec-1988
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In Paris, a Cambridge University student is murdered. When his body arrives in England it will be stuffed with pure heroin .... On a training field used by Britain's elite Special Air Service, a young sergeant hones his killing skills to a savage pit...

• Dec-1988
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When Robin Stuart was plucked, drenched and shivering, from the stormy seas, she clung desperately to the arms that had reached for her--but had she escaped from one terror into another? She'd been too close to danger not to recognize it again in the...

• Dec-1988
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Julia knew she could cope with Luc Marchal -- And as long as they were in England, where she was nursing his little niece, Justine, she did just that. It was when Luc insisted on her accompanying them back to his home in the Camargue that her tr...

• Dec-1988
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ONLY HER DEFIANT PRIDE KEPT HER FROM BEGGING FOR HIS LOVE... Behind her proper schoolmarm ways, sunny blond Mercy was the same sassy spitfire she had been as a child. An orphan raised by the Quill family with her foster brother Danny, she had alwa...

• Dec-1988
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Sibling rivalry threatened to destroy their love Charlotte Page ran into Craig Bishop at the Sandowne Races. She'd never forgotten him, ever since her sister first brought him home to the Abbey six years ago. It had been love at first sigh...

• Dec-1988
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Sophie thought marriage was for the birds! When she saw her boss, Alexander Paget, jilted at the altar, Sophie's heart bled for him. But she didn't appreciate the rush of interest the ex-bridegroom soon showed in her. Sophie refused to ...

• Dec-1988
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Blackheart had promised to give up a life of crime. Ferris Byrd had no intention of marrying a cat burglar. She trust her fiance, but when news came of jewel robberies in European cities Blackheart had recently visited, she began to wonder. Had h...

• Dec-1988
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HAPPY IS THE BRIDE .. . Elizabeth Chatham wasn't looking for romance . . . until she met her new boss, dynamic Nicholas Lancaster. And she soon found that he was just as smitten with her. After a whirlwind courtship, Nick proposed. Elizabeth's pri...

• Dec-1988
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She was truly out of her depth! Perhaps Serena had rushed into accepting work in a nightclub just shy of respectable. But she'd been desperate. And wasn't her new job as governess at an isolated grazing station more dangerous still? The...

• Dec-1988
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Would he never forgive her? Alex had dropped Greg Wilde, a successful London photographer, from her life two years earlier. She'd believed he had been unfaithful. Now on assignment with him in Japan, she discovered she'd been wrong -- she&...

• Dec-1988
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DESERT BLOOM In the first blush of youth, Andrea Rawlins had fallen for the foreman of her father's ranch. But Tony Ramirez had mysteriously left El Paso -- and Andrea -- behind. Now, years later, she was struggling to keep the ranch in busine...

• Dec-1988
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A LOVE IN BLOOM HATH MANY THORNS LADY GENEVIEVE - proud and beautiful, she vowed to save the castle of Edenby through a single, dangerous act of passion - offering her hand in marriage to the invading enemy she despised... LORD TRISTAN - One of...

• Dec-1988
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Her best friend's death looked like suicide But Jessica Lowell, a reporter for her hometown newspaper in Ohio, knew it was murder. And all because Suzette had spun dreams of glory, having joined a senator's staff in Washington, D.C., to gather mat...

• Dec-1988
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Swept Away It had to be the worst day of her life. Hilary Brookfield sat on a bus bench, the wind whipping fiercely about, her eyes slowly drowning in a pool of tears. This was meant to be a vacation, a time for peace and quiet, a time to mend her...

• Dec-1988
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First she jilted him... Then she jailed him. Arid now she said she wanted back in his life. Half-Navajo journalist Chase Whitelaw had a one-word answer for that, and it wasn't yes. Sure, he wanted a wife and family--he was tired of being the o...

• Dec-1988
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When an alien virus struck the Earth four decades ago, it spawned a new breed of superhuman men and women known as Aces and Jokers. Now, in New York's Jokertown, a savage street war has broken out between the Mafia and the gang known as the Shadow Fi...

• Dec-1988
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How Flick had waited for this first day to go out with his brother and sisters to see the "outside world." The excitement was almost too much to bear as they all got in line. Mother had explained all of the rules and signals over and over again, for ...

• Dec-1988
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The Irish Rose Fresh from the lush green countryside, young Moira Dauntry enchanted all of London society with her exquisite beauty. But it was the enticing wildness of her spirit that lured James Raeburn to her side. Gowned in silk and satin, ado...

• Dec-1988
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WHO WAS DAN OGILVY? That was the question aspiring writer Susan Knight wanted to answer. She'd come to Windmill Island for a relaxing vacation, not to boost her social life--and certainly not to play detective! But once Dan arrived, all of her goo...

• Dec-1988
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"HOME FOR CHRISTMAS" Those words had never meant as much to Bryce as they did now. For the first time in years he was back in tiny Angel's Peak, living once again in his childhood home. But there were problems, too. For one thing, t...

• Dec-1988
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PLAYING WITH FIRE Young and lovely Miss Sylvia Jensen-Graham knew all about the Earl of Greyfalcon. She knew of the reckless gambling that threatened to ruin his estate. She knew of the conquests that made him society's most notorious and successful...

• Dec-1988
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A LOVE FOR ALL SEASONS Publicist Stephanie Benson had gone on nationwide author tours before, but always with women -- never with a man...alone. Escorting handsome novelist Colonel Alexander Sloan from coast to coast was a test of her professional...

• Dec-1988
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Violent reality had taught ex-cop Quinn Gallagher the folly of caring. Therefore, moving into gentle Laura Sutherland's guest cottage was a dangerous mistake. Laura's kindness shed light on the darkness of Quinn's soul--but there were shadows within...

• Dec-1988
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TEMPESTUOUS PASSION When proper Elizabeth Livingston went seeking the long-lost cousin named as her guardian, she never expected to find him running a fancy saloon in infamous Dodge City, Kansas! Notorious "Chance" Fitzwilliam, gambler and w...

• Dec-1988
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STRANGE BEDFELLOWS . . . If Lucia Lorenzo hadn't been so exhausted, she would have realized that the person already occupying the bed wasn't her cousin Dina but someone decidedly masculine: Ryan Dandridge, the man she had been trying--unsuccessful...

• Dec-1988
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ISLAND ENCOUNTER The last thing Jarl Hendricks ever expected was to find himself face-to-face with a woman aiming a shotgun at his head! But behind Sara Chapman's bravado, Jarl sensed a very real fear. What--or whom--was she afraid of? He had to f...

• Dec-1988
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In the terrifying title story, a tortured soul called Boone seeks refuge in a necropolis in the wilds of Canada, where he finds the shape-shifters known as the Nightbreed. Only the courage of this strange human can save them from extinction. And only...

• Dec-1988
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FIRES OF DESIRE Adam King stormed across the ballroom, and as he came near, Emmaline Pickworth's pulse hammered like thunder. Within moments, the dark-haired American rancher had swept her around the room to a popular waltz. In the warmth of his e...

• Dec-1988
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She knew trouble when she saw it! New Englander Madeleine Charbonneau was too big a girl to think of marriage -- five feet ten inches, to be precise. Her problems consisted mainly of keeping a roof over her head in the quiet town of Laconia, New H...

• Dec-1988
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A PROUD, BEAUTIFUL HEIRESS Torn from her ancestral home by her cousin's treachery, the bewitching Scottish beauty Kayleigh Kerr found a new life in New Orleans as the notoriously proud pickpocket whom every man wanted but no man could touch. Keepi...

• Dec-1988
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There was trouble in paradise Dialectician Kelly Madison hadn't seen anything like it. The servants eavesdropped. The chauffeur opened Max's mail. And Brazilian billionaire Maximilian Steel's Florida island was so secure that even Max ...

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NO PLACE LIKE HOME . . . Action novelist Alex Jordan had seen his share of real-life adventure. But he'd returned to his hometown determined to settle down--until a series of mysterious fires threatened the close-knit community. Then insurance inv...

• Dec-1988
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IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH ... Mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance and detective Max Darling are finally tying the knot, but a bizarre sequence of events might unravel this blissful marriage before it begins. With the ceremony completed and the ...

• Dec-1988
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A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE CAN BE A DEADLY THING. Dustin Larrimore knew damn little about the night his pa died. Just what his mama managed to tell him twelve years later on her deathbed. Now he aims to go back to the family ranch and dig up the truth. Wh...

• Dec-1988
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CAMPAIGN OF CONQUEST Miss Leah Cole's father was a commoner-but he was uncommonly rich. His vast wealth plus Leah's breathtaking beauty was the lure to tempt the highborn and handsome Anthony Barsett, the Viscount Lyndon. As a dutiful d...

• Dec-1988
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A dangerous game... Ronnie Edwards is having the time of his life. By betting successfully on high school sports, he's made more money than he knows what to do with. He's even offered Jessica Wakefield a loan. Unfortunately, he hasn't been keeping up...

• Dec-1988
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FORBIDDEN PASSION Was she really half owner of a Montana ranch? Tracy Moorland couldn't believe it. Nor was she pleased to find that the co-owner was someone as insufferable as Slade Dawson. From the moment Tracy had set foot on the Double J, Slad...

• Dec-1988
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SHE WAS A MISTRESS OF DISASTER -- AND HE DEMANDED SHE KEEP HER DISTANCE! With his broad shoulders and flashing dark eyes, Lord Ravenel could have stepped from the pages of lady author Gwenda Vickers's gothic novels! Certainly she hadn't...

• Dec-1988
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SHE WAS PERFECT Fitness director Leila Forester taught her clients to focus on their inner qualities rather than their physical appearance. She had learned from bitter experience that beauty could attract the wrong kind of people. And the results ...

• Jan-1989
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LIFE AT RISK With a broken marriage and a nervous breakdown barely behind her, Melissa sails for Europe, reluctantly and absolutely on her own. When a strange traveler urgently asks her to deliver a book to a secret address, Melissa apprehensively...