Books Published in May 1997

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Holding out for a hero.... Arabella Atherton adored the bestselling tales of Palfrey. No man she'd met in real life could quite match up to the gallant fictional hero! But she knew nothing about the author of the Palfrey stories: the man gu...

• May-1997
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GROOM FOR HIRE Hannah Pace needed a pretend husband--fast! She lied to her long-lost mother about being married, and now she had to produce the groom. So she hired hometown bad boy Nick Archer. Though he wasn't every mother's dream, he sure was Ha...

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Even in an age of cutting-edge technology, old beliefs die hard... Conducting a top secret investigation into the death of a fellow police officer has Lieutenant Eve Dallas treading on dangerous ground. She must put professional ethics personal lo...

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The Pernicious Proposal Miss Charity Duncan had no illusions when she said yes to the marriage proposal of Lord Anthony Earheart. This arrogant aristocrat made it painfully clear what he wanted of her. Would Charity agree to be the wife he needed ...

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Seven-year-old Keighly Barrow never forgot the night she spied a boy her own age at her grandmother's Redemption, Nevada, mansion. He was staring back at her form an antique mirror in the ballroom, standing among gaudily dressed women in an old-time ...

• May-1997
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No Greater Love... Here, in this very special collection, are four exquisite tales by today's most beloved and talented writers of romantic fiction. Shimmering with emotion, brushed with scandal, and touched with insights into the human heart, these ...

• May-1997
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A great evil has awakened in the land of Corona, a terrible demon determined to spread death and misery. His goblin armies and fearsome giants ravage the settlements of the frontier, and in the small village of Dundallis their merciless attack leaves...

• May-1997
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"Romy Salisbury was everything he despised in a woman" Dominic Dashwood smiled--a cold smile--as his mind lingered on the pleasure and the retribution he was going to exact in the next few days. He had waited five years for his moment a...

• May-1997
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Have you heard the latest? Don't tell anyone but... It had to be a cover-up! Daniel Wolfe listened as Annabel Parke told her version of the night's events when a prominent politician had been found dead in her motel room. A journalist, ...

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In 1969, Jake Cazalet saved the life of a Frenchwoman in Vietnam, and a brief, passionate affair ensued. Years later in Paris, he was introduced to another beautiful young woman - his daughter. For many reasons, their relationship remained a secret. ...

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Accidentally killing the cat that kept getting in his way during basketball practice, Marty believes that cats everywhere are seeking revenge against him when he sees cats wherever he goes and begins having terrible nightmares. Original....

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From the New York Times�"bestselling Goosebumps series, a boy writes a horror story about a scary monster, and then his make-believe creature comes to life. A famous horror writer. That's what Zackie Beauchamp wants to be. He's writing a story a...

• May-1997
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Thirteen-year-old Holly is dealing with the major concerns of every preteen and teenage girl: boys, family, and school. But with the help of her friends and her faith in God, Holly is able to survive her first boyfriend and her first breakup, a crus...

• May-1997
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MELODY LOGAN WAS AS ALONE AS SOLITARY GULL, WITH ONLY THE WILD ATLANTIC WIND TO LIFT HER SPIRITS... When Melody Logan's mother died in a car accident, Melody lost the last shred of family she had ever known. She was practically a stranger to the Log...

• May-1997
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The prime suspect was a sleepwalker For the second time in her life Clancy Jones had awakened at a murder scene--this time with the murder weapon in her hand. Without recall, she insisted she was innocent, framed and the real killer after her. To ...

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THE CHARADE He'd finally gotten his revenge. Tough loner Max Cooper had been given the perfect opportunity to put his high-and-mighty partner, Kristina Fortune, in her place. The pampered princess had lost her memory and was depending on Max to f...

• May-1997
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Devious. Dangerous. Devastating. Link Robards, through and through. Georgia Bennett knew the type and had never been swayed ... until now. "The very last thing in the world I need is a high-powered husband," she seemed to recall telling...

• May-1997
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He was a man full of secrets who never fought by the rules.... Flashing the lethal weapon he called a smile, Dillon Kinky informed Sami Reed that he wouldn't be an easy tenant for her small airport to please! The handsome charter pilot looked as i...

• May-1997
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Rewrite of Traveling Man SAFE...After the pain of betrayal and divorce - after years spent decorating other people's houses - Shelley Wilde's cherished dream has finally come true: a home all her own, where she can live happily, secure...and alone...

• May-1997
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She'd hired him as an escort... The wedding was to be a major social event -- Georgina just couldn't face it on her own. How could she sit there and watch her ex-fiance marry her beautiful, shallow cousin? A desperate solution was needed: a...

• May-1997
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Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. There lies the ultimate secret of the Museum Beast. When two grotesquely deformed skeletons are found deep in the mud...

• May-1997
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Their in-name-only marriage would serve as bait Belinda Connor in no way wanted to be a temporary wife - especially to Derek Walker, who'd sneaked back into her heart with the stealth of a thief. But when it became apparent someone wanted her dead...

• May-1997
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The fake fiance Victoria had adored Nick King, and even though they were now grown-up and had grown apart, she felt taken aback when she heard that Nick was planning to get married to another woman. But when he was with Victoria, Nick didn't be...

• May-1997
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The bachelor and the baby! Lisa hadn't planned to fall in love. If only she hadn't accepted an invitation to be Angus Hamilton's guest and found herself in a different world, seduced by glamour, a jet-set life-style...and Angus! She...

• May-1997
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Chief Walking Thunder believes that the blue-eyed woman he has found in the Montana wilderness is meant to care for his orphaned infant nephew -- and be his woman. But before they can revel in TOMORROW'S PROMISES, he must ease Davinda Norris'...

• May-1997
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Sex and power games! Brett King wanted to possess Tasha.... He craved her body and the passion he knew they could share, so he planned a seduction campaign to drive her out of her mind with desire! Tasha wanted Brett, but she wasn't interes...

• May-1997
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No Greater Love... Here, in this very special collection, are four exquisite tales by today's most beloved and talented writers of romantic fiction. Shimmering with emotion, brushed with scandal, and touched with insights into the human heart, these ...

• May-1997
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This single guy's biological clock's ticking and there's no bride in sight. How does he get a baby? Find out in Kasey Michael's love story PARENTS DESIGN....

• May-1997
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AN UNFULFILLED HEART Joanna Wingate knows something is missing from her life, something she never dreamed she'd find in an handsome stranger's children--mischievous six-year-old twin sisters who look up at her adoringly. . .and call her Mama.. AN...

• May-1997
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A CONVENIENT MARRIAGE Rose Murdock had married the most handsome rancher in town, but love hadn't gotten Harlan Hamilton to the altar. They'd struck a dry-eyed deal to live together in holy matrimony, and Rose knew the tall, dark and irresistible ...

• May-1997
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HE WAS HER ONLY HOPE Esther Jackson needed Craig Nighthawk's protection. The father she'd helped put away for murder was now seeking her out, so against her reclusive nature, she welcomed the darkly handsome Nighthawk into her home, hoping he cou...

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He was only after one thing her baby! Natalie had been in love with Pierce Donellan since she was eleven, and when he came knocking on her door again she just couldn't turn him away. But she hadn't considered the possible consequences. ...

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WOULD HER PRINCE EVER COME? Forget the prince--pregnant Maddie Palmer needed an M.D.! But since she was stuck in a traffic jam--about to give birth!--the handsome cowboy up ahead would have to do.... Joshua Blackwell knew Maddie was trouble the...

• May-1997
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Taming the land came at great price. Will their love survive the loss? It has required long, difficult years to tame the virgin prairie of Dakota Territory, but in spite of heartache and back-breaking labor, the hardy immigrants recognize that G...

• May-1997
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A powerful persuasion Abby Sommers is an excellent lawyer, with a particular interest in representing teenagers, so it's no surprise when she secures the case of young Greg Lane. At Greg's insistence she sets up a meeting with his father, ...

• May-1997
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Thirty years later, St. Louis piano teacher Sarah Collins is captivated by a handsome Indian, Daniel Eaglefeather, who wants her to teach him to play. When scales and cadences lead to kisses and caresses, Sarah learns that the key to her past -- and ...

• May-1997
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E.R. Professionals: Dr Ryan O'Connor / Dr Ginny Jeffries Just sex, Dr Ryan O'Connor told himself. No commitment. Nothing permanent. How else could Ryan justify his wildly out of character behavior around the new E.R. intern, Dr Ginny Jeffries? He ...

• May-1997
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Laurel Bancroft has lived for years like a recluse, isolating herself from a town that has branded her a murderer. But now, convinced people have finally forgotten, she is ready to resume her life. Then Laurel meets Alec Stanton. Hired to help he...

• May-1997
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THE PRICE OF LOVE Mechanic Darcy Kearn is everything a man would ever want in a woman: beautiful, intelligent -- and as skillful at fixing cars as she is at making romantic candlelight dinners for two. When attractive attorney Seth Halloran's ca...

• May-1997
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Gentle Reader: My husband Gerald Grandville, is dead and my four-year-old son is the new Earl of Weston. Perhaps even more catastrophic, however, is the news that my husband named his brother the guardian of Giles and of all the immense Grandvill...

• May-1997
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Sharing a love that most people envy, Charlie and Mary find their lives shattered when Mary is unfaithful and Charlie turns murderous, a situation that has Charlie on the run and Mary ostracized by her peers...

• May-1997
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Nine people have gathered for the reading of Aurore Gerritsen's will. Some are family, others are strangers. But all will have their futures changed forever when a lifetime of secrets is finally revealed. Aurore Gerritsen left clear instructions:...

• May-1997
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He was talented, successful...and fatherhood was the last thing on his mind. But the stork-and a woman from his past-had other plans in Emilie Richard's A STRANGER'S SON....

• May-1997
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Jane Whitefield is a name to be whispered like a prayer. A shadow woman who rescues the helpless and the hunted when their enemies leave them no place to hide. Now with the bone-deep cunning of her Native American forebears, she arranges a vanishing ...

• May-1997
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Trouble always comes in threes... And it had been three years since Abbie had married Grey Lockwood. Three blissful years. She'd had it all: a glamorous, jet-setting career, a beautiful home and, best of all, a loving husband to come home to. ...

• May-1997
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Mark Dooher is a prosperous San Francisco attorney and a prominent Catholic, the last person anyone would suspect of a brutal crime. But Dooher, a paragon of success and a master of all he touches, is about to be indicted for murder. Charged with ...

• May-1997
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SINGLE MOM NEEDS A HELPING HAND Amanda Williams's troubles were just beginning when the sexiest cowboy in Wyoming accepted a job on her ranch. Now, instead of having only business on her mind, she was fantasizing about long, lazy hours in a be...

• May-1997
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A proofreader realizes his power to edit the truth on a whim, in a "brilliantly original" novel by a Nobel Prize winner (Los Angeles Times Book Review).   Raimundo Silva is a middle-aged, celibate clerk, proofing manuscripts for a re...

• May-1997
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A Most Unsuitable Duke! Adrian Fitzwalter, the Duke of Barroughby, wore the taint of scandal with flair, his very presence charged with the promise of forbidden things. But the gentle Lady Hester knew the rakish pose was only a mask, hiding a desp...