Books Published in May 1986

• May-1986
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SLEEPING BEAUTY With Her Serene Highness Gabriella Bisset suffering from amnesia and her kidnappers still on the loose, Prince Armand lost no time in calling in his close friend, American detective Reeve MacGee. Poor Brie could remember nothing; eve...

• May-1986
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Darcy was not good at pretending ... Although she was a good secretary to Reed Hunter, Darcy Faversham became easily muddled when events around her got too hectic. Not much of a match for a London investor used to making split-second decisions inv...

• May-1986
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If only two weeks could turn into a lifetime Charity's job as a typist at St. Augustine's Hospital certainly kept her busy, be she long for something more -- something exciting in her life. So when the renowned Professor Wyllie-Lyon off...

• May-1986
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Sunbridge - the 250,000-acre spread near Austin, the dream and obsession of the late Seth Coleman, the scene of passion and intrigue - now belongs to Moss and Billie's daughter Maggie. Maggie has invited all the family and several hundred guests - to...

• May-1986
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VENGEANCE IS MINE The blonde on the beach was screaming. A dead man lay at her feet. It didn't take Detective J.P. Beaumont long to find out that the man had been murdered, and that both the lady and the corpse were members of the State Parole Board...

• May-1986
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Where she was concerned Trent had no scruples Nothing--not even Trent's divorce--could alter the fact that he'd cruelly jilted Melly in favor of a more advantageous marriage. His undeniable love for her only made his betrayal all the more ...

• May-1986
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She was bewilder by her own reaction Clary couldn't deny the attraction that flamed between herself and Morgan Caird when they met in England. But she didn't believe in love at first sight. Neither did she believe that a powerful, exper...

• May-1986
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Eight stories deal with an old prospector, a drifter who encounters a gang of cattle rustlers, a coward who must prove himself, a young rancher who refuses to be driven from his new home, and a corrupt sheriff...

• May-1986
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PARADISE LOST Chase Wilcox came to Hawaii to study volcanoes -- but it was Nicole Ballard, with her dancer's body and hair like a river of flame, who poured fire over him. And he hated himself for wanting her. Cynical, disillusioned by his ex-wi...

• May-1986
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A high-class New York madam hires Spenser to find a missing hooker. But when Spenser tracks down April Kyle, he uncovers the murder of yet another prostitute. Now Spenser is searching through a world of se; for sale. Because somewhere between Bost...

• May-1986
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Who needed a man who oozed sensuality? To her annoyance Sheridan Weaver found out she did. Richard St. Charles, with his free and easy life-style, didn't fit into her routine...damn his beautiful black eyes. But wouldn't you know he'...

• May-1986
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Audra...a hospital nurse who knows the pain of poverty, who experiences great love and great sacrifice to forge her dream for the daughter she adores above all else. Christina...her brilliantly gifted daughter who rises to build a fashion empire, den...

• May-1986
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NIGHT TERRORS There is something spooky about this one, even for the dark side of L.A. A child molester's grisly suicide. A shockingly brutal double murder. A hidden network of perversion in high places. And a terrified seven-year-old girl who coul...

• May-1986
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India found love in the arms of an enemy Giles Ballantyne, heir to Ballantyne Enterprises, had treated India with contempt since the day she'd married his father. A fortune huntress, he called her, and worse. Suddenly, a year after her husb...

• May-1986
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LIFE WAS FINALLY HERS FOR THE TAKING! Meredith Logan was just about to pay off the last debt left over from a no-good husband. She could almost taste the freedom. A fun-filled trip to Arizona was first on the agenda.... For thirty-six-year-old ...

• May-1986
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Self-control was only a mask she wore Gina Bennett, victim of a freak accident, had suffered plenty. She wasn't about to let her publisher, Leo Sterne, open old wounds -- especially the memory of her disastrous first infatuation. It was bad...

• May-1986
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They were light-years apart in their needs Journalist Sara Mellor realized that marriage was a serious commitment. It was Dave, the sensuous, famous sportsman -- and her husband -- who hadn't. They had both been deluded into believing that wan...

• May-1986
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Someone declares unholy war on the holiest of places when the quiet, ordered world of a yeshiva in the California hills is shattered by an unspeakable crime: a woman is brutally raped as she returns from the mikvah, the bathhouse where women perform ...

• May-1986
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ON THE MYSTERIOUS MOORS OF CORNWALL... Young, innocent Annora Cadorson falls in love with her neighbor, the charismatic Rolf Hanson, believing they will be wed someday. But then, one night, everything changes -- shattering Annora's illusion...

• May-1986
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He was her fantasy, the mirror image of the man she didn't marry years before. From the minute Officer Steve Hayden ticketed her for speeding, Cee Ann Masters was ready for the race. Too ready for the shy policeman who thought she was too fast for hi...

• May-1986
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Her future lay in a romance writer's hands Shelby had rejected a manuscript only to have it top the New York Times Best Seller list for another publisher. And now her star author wanted to quit. Just like that! There was only one thing to ...

• May-1986
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AS DIFFERENT AS A METEOR AND A DAISY An industrial espionage consultant working in Stillwater, Oklahoma? Talihina Montgomery, baker, mother, and head of a large and eccentric household of nine, found the situation laughable: But Bennett Reid wa...

• May-1986
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Two favorite thrillers from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christopher Pike are now available in one bone-chilling collection.When Alison first got the chain letter signed “Your Caretaker,” she thought it was a sick joke. But then it became...

• May-1986
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STRAY CAT STRUT Flint Cottrell had been driven all his life by a restlessness that didn't allow any peace. He chased legends and treasures, wrote about them, sold his stories to magazines when he could, did odd jobs when he couldn't. But ...

• May-1986
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CAUTION: HIGHLY FLAMMABLE! The last thing he saw before they splashed into the pool were green eyes spitting fire and"a pretty face blazing in anger. How did Brett Fletcher ever get himself into publicly wrestling this young hellcat? And Mila D...

• May-1986
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NO GREATER LOVE He was her family's bitterest enemy...and now he stood before her, his magnificent body in chains, captured by her brother -- enslaved. But from the moment ravishing Maria Delgato gazed into Gabriel Lancaster's burning emer...

• May-1986
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Veronica went home to be whole again An accident on her wedding day had left Veronica Spencer physically scarred. Emotionally shattered. So she returned to the one place she had ever felt secure -- Chapman Ranch, in the heart of Wyoming -- only...

• May-1986
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They are poor little lambs who have lost their way: a murderous madman feigning madness; a beautiful woman, dangerous to look at and lethal to touch; a shy little boy quietly testing his newfound power to destroy. In this ingenious collection, multip...

• May-1986
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The Haven Women--born into Hollywood sin and scandal, they inherited their mother's passion... Venetian, Paris, India-three beautiful women, each named for the city or country in which she'd been conceived, each driven by passionate needs for su...

• May-1986
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CAPTIVE TO HIS SAVAGE PASSION... A moan escaped Jana Greyson as this strong, handsome stranger invaded her lips with his demanding kisses. He had stolen her from her world, made her his prisoner, and now enslaved her with the trembling rapture of h...

• May-1986
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The estate was Joshua Pinson's inheritance from his oddball uncle Elijah: isolated in the deep Florida woods, with a half-built solar house stocked with enough supplies to weather a siege. Josh decided it was time to rake his two young children away ...

• May-1986
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INSOLENT VARMINT She was backed into a corner, and he knew it -- the varmint. It was either accept Jack Sinclair's vile proposal of marriage or sell the Colson Ranch -- and that was the one thing pretty Maggie Colson would never do. He might get his ...

• May-1986
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HIJACK! FLIGHT 741 Departs Munich for New York. It will never arrive. Beneath the scorching Mideast sun, a nightmare begins to come true as Flight 741 sits like a silver coffin at Beirut International Airport. U.S. foreign policy is on the l...

• May-1986
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It would be like returning to a prison For five years Leonie had tried to put the past behind her, make a new life for herself and Jade, the daughter her husband had never seen. Now, Badyr's sudden appearance in London had shattered her orderl...

• May-1986
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IMAGES OUT OF TIME AND SPACE -- The terrifying, prophetic vision of a not-too-distant future here on Earth...An ever-changing journey through Gates in time with countless beginnings but only one End....A world where man and machine define life -- a...

• May-1986
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Caine Saxon had to wonder: if good things came in threes, could the delightful Post triplets be too much of a good thing? His brother had been engaged to one until a furious argument broke it off. Now his own head was spinning over Juliet Post, who&#...

• May-1986
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Had she learned to be too cautious? Katya Andreyev knew how disappointed her aristocratic grandparents were--what with cousin Vonnie spinning from one tragic affair to another and Katya, a teacher in Paris, showing no signs of failing in love at a...

• May-1986
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AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE Lucas Greywolf was her forbidden fantasy -- wild, rebellious, an escaped convict who was also a Navajo Indian. Aislinn had been terrified when he had first grabbed her, but now she was intrigued. Why had he taken her hostage-and...

• May-1986
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THE SAGA OF A RENEGADE, A LADY, AND A LOVE THAT BECAME A LEGEND Out of the Ozark's deep valleys the notorious Luke Morgan gallops toward destiny ... for on the train carrying the gold he seeks to steal is another treasure -- gray-eyed Jenny Leigh ...

• May-1986
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WAGONS WEST Gingham-clad girls, twangy-speeched hillbillies, and lush green hollows among rugged mountains made Tennessee the natural birthplace of pioneers. But so rich was the countryside, so sweet the land, that carpetbaggers came to steal the ...

• May-1986
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IN HER ENEMY'S ARMS Returning to her father's Texas ranch after two years at an Eastern boarding school, silver-blonde, violet-eyed Laurel Burke was more beautiful than ever. As she stepped off the train, her gaze met that of rugged young rancher ...

• May-1986
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Their relationship was wonderful and utterly unique For five years, Roberta Frankel and Kyle Stratton had written to each other regularly, yet they couldn't merely be called pen pals. They'd first met on a beach in Madison, Connecticut -- ...

• May-1986
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Landing a spectacular job with a new Broadway musical was Maggie Doyle's idea of a lifelong dream come true. But en route to Los Angeles airport in Hank August's taxi her fine Irish luck ran out. It was bad enough to land in the hospital with a broke...

• May-1986
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THE EXILE RETURNS TO THE MOON OF THREE RINGS Three wanderers. Three exiles. Three quests linked together between the moon of three rings. MAE/LEN: Exiled Thassa sorceress, stealer-ofbodies, Moon Singer; she returns to her forbidden home seeking...

• May-1986
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Simsa, the beggar whose mind held the ancient legacy of the Forerunners, had escaped her claw-and-fang life in the Burrows, with the off-planet Rangers. But the Rangers wanted her in captivity for study by historians. So Simsa and Zass, her winged...

• May-1986
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Joey Stewart bet that is he wished hard enough, the handsome doctor who'd fixed his broken arm at the clinic would ask his sister Lainie for a date. Lainie warned the boy she had devoted herself to raising that he'd better hope for something ...

• May-1986
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Right man, wrong time! As a busy model, Neille Trenchard was furious when her overprotective boyfriend, Lewis, hired a bodyguard to protect her in Paris. Try as she might to dodge the man--and the attraction sparking between them--Jack Rea stuck l...

• May-1986
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"WHY DON'T WE HANG THIS MAN INSTEAD, MARSHAL?" Slocum didn't like the joke. And he didn't like the stranger's derringer pressed against his ribs. "Just raise your hands. mister, I'll take the gun: the deputy growled. Within two minutes, the "law men"...

• May-1986
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Three old men die on a stormy November night: one by deliberate violence, one in a road accident and one by an unknown cause. Inspector Pascoe is called in to investigate the first death, but when the dying words of the accident victim suggest that a...

• May-1986
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WITH THE SWIFT STROKE OF A PEN, ANNE HAMILTON WAS NO LONGER THE WIFE OF A WEALTHY SURGEON, no longer an elite member of Dallas society. Alone with her children, Anne was piecing together the fragments of their lives when a mysterious summons arrived ...