Books Published in January 1988

• Jan-1988
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Who was that masked man...? His trade was creating heroes, but comic book writer Mitch Dempsey had never seen himself as one. But something about Hester Wallace, the shy single mom who moved in upstairs, made him long to protect, honor and love her...

• Jan-1988
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Unemotional, levelheaded Thorndike Prince was certain his company's Christmas ball would be an utter bore... until a captivating mystery woman announced that she was Cinderella and he just might be her Prince. In mere hours she'd toppled his implacab...

• Jan-1988
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Ria Lavender hadn't planned on spending a passionate Christmas night in front of a roaring fire with Taylor Mackensie. But somehow the scents of pine tree, wood smoke, and male flesh produced a kind of spontaneous combustion in side her, and mor...

• Jan-1988
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Heather dreaded seeing Kyle Bennett again Six years ago, her stupid, childish jealousy had driven him away from the only home he had ever known. But for her father's sake, now she must ask for his help. "What are you asking me for, Heat...

• Jan-1988
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Jared's return could ruin her Robyn hadn't seen him in six long years. Now he was about to return to the family home in England, summoned by his ailing father upon the death of his older brother--Robyn's husband. Robyn prayed he wou...

• Jan-1988
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Were Dutch doctors always so arrogant? First of all, Marc van Borsale insisted on driving Claribel home in his Rolls as she waited for the bus one day -- then promptly delivered a lecture on how young women should not accept lifts from strangers....

• Jan-1988
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When the golden haired rogue in the black leather jacket dodged a barrage of bullets to rescue her, Quenby Swenson thrilled... with fear and with excitement. Gunner Nilsen had risked his life to save her, but when he promised to cherish her for a li...

• Jan-1988
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She was much more than his secretary Theirs seemed the perfect boss-secretary relationship. He was all hard-nosed business; she was efficient and anticipated his every need. But the roles Max and Clea played so well in the office underwent a ra...

• Jan-1988
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Nothing surprises Katie Stewart more than her "Personals" ad getting an overwhelming response -- and her handsome boss, sexy Ross Chandler, objecting. Claiming concern for her safety, Ross insists on screening her prospects and spying on her dates. T...

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FRONTIER BRIDE Filled with dreams of a better life, seventeen-year-old Genevieve Elliot made the perilous journey across the ocean to colonial Virginia. There, the British beauty fell passionately in love with handsome frontiersman Roarke Adair. T...

• Jan-1988
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Akar Kessel, a weak-willed apprentice mage sets in motion events leading to the rediscovery of the magical device, the crystal shard. But is it merely an inanimate device . . . or is it capable of directing the defeat of Ten-Tbwns? Or have the bar...

• Jan-1988
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Spring in Lapeer Parish, Louisiana. The warm sun beat down on the good, rich farm land making the best bean crop the county had ever seen. But something was stirring beneath the full, lush, green leaves. Something that had survived hundreds of thousa...

• Jan-1988
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Time was supposed to obscure memories, but when Kyle Griffon saw the sunlight glinting off Lucas Kendrick's hair, she knew she'd never stopped waiting for him. Ten years before, he'd awakened her woman's passion, and when he left without a word, her ...

• Jan-1988
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His arrogance was insufferable Eden had never before met anyone as rude as Sterne Parnell. His reaction to her brother's wish to marry his ward was positively violent. How could he believe that gentle, enamored Thomas was after money? Obvio...

• Jan-1988
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His plan had worked -- she couldn't leave! Helen Coulthard arrived in Sicily prepared for a work-filled two weeks. It was only when her "boss" deposited her at Carlo Manzitti's villa that she realized her plight. Carlo Manzitti ...

• Jan-1988
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A storm struck on the night Laura Shane was born, and there was a strangeness about the weather that people would remember for years. But even more mysterious was the blond-haired stranger who appeared out of nowhere--the man who saved Laura from a f...

• Jan-1988
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They needed more than love to make a marriage Wary of men since her tumultuous love affair with Luis, Carina did not relish the idea of returning to Portugal, in need of her estranged husband's help to find her younger sister. They had part...

• Jan-1988
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VALDEMAR'S PERIL! With Elspeth, the heir to the throne of Valdemar, come of marriageable age, Talia, the Queen's Own Herald returns to court to find Queen and heir beset by diplomatic intrigue as various forces vie for control of Elspeth's future. ...

• Jan-1988
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The rat race wasn't for her Spirited Kara Tiernan had finally gotten away from it all--permanently. Secure in her Hawaiian paradise, she led a tranquil, idyllic life. That is, until Adam Lassiter, a dedicated, hardworking San Francisco police capt...

• Jan-1988
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At a large Boston clinic, a world-class biologist stumbles upon a miraculous discovery, a major scientific breakthrough. Soon, healthy, middle-aged patients are dying of old age. And the ultimate experiment in terror begins... ...

• Jan-1988
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HE SAVED HER WITH CHIVALRY, HE LOVED HER WITH SAVAGERY -- SHE LURED HIM TO ECSTASY When handsome Lord Chatham rescued the golden-haired Ondine from England's gallows, he demanded only one thing in return...her hand in marriage. In gratitude, O...

• Jan-1988
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THE SHELL SEEKERS is a novel of connection: of one family, and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations. THE SHELL SEEKERS is filled with real people--mothers and daughters, husbands and lovers--inspired wi...

• Jan-1988
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R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a sportsman's scam that's anything but sportsmanlike, there's a body floating in Coon Bog, Florida--and a lot that's rotten in the murky wa...

• Jan-1988
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How had life gotten so crazy? One day Mallory was an efficient small-town home economics teacher, comfortably dating the school principal. The next she was caught in a mad whirl--juggling two suitors; battling hitherto unknown feelings of jealo...

• Jan-1988
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Come home to the magical America that might have been, and marvel as the tale of Alvin Maker unfolds. The seventh son of a seventh son is a boy of mysterious powers, and he is waking to the mysteries of the land and its own chosen people....

• Jan-1988
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A lovesick lord and a love-shy lady -- 'twas a case of cross-purposes indeed! "YOU'VE PUT THE WEDDING OFF THREE TIMES ALREADY. IT's NOW -- OR NEVER." When Lord Belami posed this dilemma to his lovely fiancee, Miss Deirdre Gower, that lady was tr...

• Jan-1988
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The West -- it had been Loralee's dream for as long as she could remember, and Indians were the most fascinating part of the wildly beautiful frontier she imagined. But when Loralee arrived at Fort Apache as the new schoolmarm, she had some hard...

• Jan-1988
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"I WANTED ITS SWEET EARTH WITH EVERY WAKING THOUGHT AND BREATH AND DREAM ...I WOULD HAVE DONE ANYTHING, COMMITTED ANY SIN, TO OWN WIDEACRE. " She lived in an 18th-century England where women were forbidden to inherit wealth or land. But Beatrice L...

• Jan-1988
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He presented a frightening challenge. Rachel Wells was young, but strong and mature beyond her years. Abandoned as a baby, brought up in foster homes, betrayed by her husband in a foolish early marriage, Rachel was used to hard knocks. So, her ...

• Jan-1988
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Maggie and Ira Moran have been married for twenty-eight years -- and it shows: in their quarrels, in their routines, in their ability to tolerate with affection each other’s eccentricities. Maggie, a kooky, lovable meddler and an irrepressible opti...

• Jan-1988
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Jackson Baines Hardin, known as Ole Devil, is assigned by Major Sam Houston to deliver a shipment of rifles to the Texas patriots fighting for independence...

• Jan-1988
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The fourth and final book in the epic Morgaine science fiction sagaMorgaine must meet her greatest challenge -- Gault, who is both human and alien, and also seeks control of the world and its Gate. She will meet the true Gatemaster -- a mysterious lo...

• Jan-1988
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A PEARL BEYOND PRICE Laura Jackway sought perfection in every aspect of her life. She was content to spend her time developing the most flawless gem known to man: the pearl. Living with the world but not in it, Laura never sought excitement --...

• Jan-1988
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His name was Will Fowler, an actor in the esteemed theatrical company called Lord Westfield's Men, a vibrant young man flushed from the success of a recent performance at the Queen's Head theatre. So exuberant was he that he persuaded the resourceful...

• Jan-1988
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An amateur matchmaker shouldn't play with fire The Butterworth men meant the world to Mickey, especially Judge Butterworth, her dear stepfather. Caring for him in his Adirondack retreat had never been a sacrifice. Besides, this summer promi...

• Jan-1988
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SHE DARED TO GIVE HER HEART TO A DANGEROUS AND FORBIDDEN PASSION A STRANGER'S LOVE Rachel tried to avert her gaze as the stranger's brazen blue eyes raked her body from head to toe. Yet her innocence compelled her to steal another look-...

• Jan-1988
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He didn't give a damn about tradition When Nash Canfield, abrasive enfant terrible of journalism, took over the staid old Lancashire Herald after the death of Christine's father, her conservative outlook clashed violently with his radical ...

• Jan-1988
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SHE KNEW HE WAS WAITING FOR HER . . . Kate Whittman never wanted anyone but Texas rancher Jason Donovan. Even as a teen, she had fantasized about his touch, masking her emotions in teasing banter and easy friendship. Now at twenty, Kate was a sen...

• Jan-1988
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In Flower City, a sleepy resort town on Florida's Gulf Coast, wealthy Elizabeth Stegman is murdered in a jewel heist gone bad - her missing jewels insured for £750,000.It falls to hardboiled ex-cop Cliff Bartells to find the killer, retrieve the jew...

• Jan-1988
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Clemmie, one of many classic novels from crime writer John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook.   Married, straitlaced, and struggling to rise out of middle management, Cra...

• Jan-1988
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TONY GRAHAM WAS ALL WRONG FOR THE JOB As they traveled the blue highways of Nevada, rolling into desert towns too small to appear on any map, Tony challenged Jill Wiley's authority, piqued her curiosity and made her uncomfortably aware of her...

• Jan-1988
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There was definitely a naked man asleep in Cassidy Cole's bathtub! With his ruggedly handsome face and "kissin' lips," Sagan Jones was a single woman's dream, and how could she resist a smoothtalking vagabond with roving hands who promised he'd stay ...

• Jan-1988
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When mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance is invited to stage a Mystery Night for the annual antebellum house tour of the Historical Preservation Society of Chastain, South Carolina, she instead finds herself the leading lady in a flesh-and-blood d...

• Jan-1988
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SHE WAS MIGHTY PRETTY... AND MIGHTY HANDY WITH A KNIFE, TOO! Her name was White Flower. She was a beautiful half-breed. Pursued by white men and Apache alike. Slocum figured he'd look after her for a spell. And together they rode a bloody trail throu...

• Jan-1988
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No life of her own ... Enid Rollins can hardly wait for her grandmother to come live with her and her mother. But when she arrives, Enid is dismayed that the kind, sprightly woman she remembered is now burdensome and demanding. Because Enid's ...

• Jan-1988
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Birds of a feather... Ginny Lu Culpepper had such high hopes for her life in Sweet Valley. But after just one day of being ridiculed by her new classmates, she's beginning to wish she was back home in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. When Elizabeth...

• Jan-1988
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LOVE'S BOLD DISGUISE Miss Georgy Verney doesn't wish to upset her mother, but she can't bring herself to flirt with the gentlemen of the ton--much less accept a marriage proposal based solely on social status or financial gain. Then she finds hers...

• Jan-1988
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She had to find the murderer -- before he found her On the morning after the annual Christmas bash, Shelby Corbin woke up in the executive suite of Westbrook's department store. Beside her was Westbrook's co-owner, Dutch Vanleer. He was dressed in...

• Jan-1988
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Mrs. Pollifax and her beloved husband, Cyrus, are off to the Far East for pleasure. No more life-threatening danger for Emily Pollifax, thank you very much--her mind's made up. But when on the very morning she and Cyrus are leaving for Bangkok, the C...

• Jan-1988
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NANCY GOES ON A MARDI GRAS ADVENTURE AND FINDS HERSELF IN THE MIDDLE OF A MILLION-DOLLAR SCAM! When Brian Seaton invites Nancy and her friends to join the fun in New Orleans, they plan a glorious week of parades and parties in America's most roman...