Books Published in September 2000

• Sep-2000
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NOT TO BE TRUSTED? Even though he agreed to protect her cover -- even though her own dad vouched for him -- Allison Fletcher refused to be seduced by Jonah Blackhawk's smooth charm and good looks. She was too much of a cop to fall for a shady char...

• Sep-2000
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There's something special about Alaska -- and about the town of Hard Luck. Scott O'Halloran grew up there; he's been away for years, but now he's back. To stay? Everybody's wondering -- especially Chrissie Harris. The girl he left behind......

• Sep-2000
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There was no escape! Joaquin Del Castillo was as proud as his Latino heritage, and he instantly acted to right the wrong that he believed had been done to his elderly, loyal employee. He would lure the girl who owed the old man money to Guatemala,...

• Sep-2000
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Her husband...her lover? Annie can't believe Dominic Carlyle's claim. How can he be her husband? Why would she have walked out on him and forgotten all about their marriage? To jog Annie's memory, Dominic insists they move in togeth...

• Sep-2000
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A MASQUERADE BALL IS PLUNGED INTO DARKNESS.... A WOMAN IS POISONED.... A MILLIONAIRE BACHELOR BECOMES A FATHER.... As a blackout gripped Grand Springs, Colorado, CEO Jonathan Steele was having quite a night. First, Cynthia Morgan -- a.k.a. "...

• Sep-2000
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When a cop killer cuts loose in a club called Purgatory, New York Detective Eve Dallas descends into an underground criminal hell. 'She stood in Purgatory and studied death. The blood and the gore of it, the ferocity of its glee. it had come to this...

• Sep-2000
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She raced onto the green, desperate to stop a duel. In the melee, Jocelyn Dudley, Duke of Tresham, was shot. To his astonishment, Tresham found himself hiring the servant as his nurse. Jane Ingleby was far too bold for her own good. Her blue eyes we...

• Sep-2000
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Revenge can be oh so sweet... Successful manager Shayla Kirkland has landed her dream job with one of Chicago's top new firms, Chenault Electronics. Now she's in a perfect position to destroy the company for unjustly ruining her mother's career. But...

• Sep-2000
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Jordan Sommerville, healer of helpless animals, rescuer of strays, a man who could seduce a woman with his voice alone. Yet he didn't use that power often. His brothers kidded that he was holding out for a paragon of virtue...and not many in Buckhorn...

• Sep-2000
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Welcome to Grace Valley, California -- where blood runs thicker...ties bind stronger...and love is all the more sweet. Visitors to the town often remark about the valley's peace and beauty -- both of which are plentiful. Unlocked doors, front porc...

• Sep-2000
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LOEREM: A world where humans, elves, dwarves, and orken co-exist in a fragile balance maintained by the Dominion Lords, warrior-peacemakers forged from the magic of the Soveriegn Stone. But evil slumbers at the sacred Stone's core. Second in line ...

• Sep-2000
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Ten years ago Joe Lakota had left behind his small Oregon town and the only woman he'd ever truly loved for the empty promises of the big city. Now he's returned, seeking to raise his young son with values you can only find at home, and longing to re...

• Sep-2000
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THE WOMAN WHO CAPTURED HIS HEART... Never let anyone get too close were words single father Tyler Breckinridge chose to live by. And except for occasional bouts of loneliness, he did just fine...until his three little girls led him to lovely books...

• Sep-2000
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In post-apocalyptic, dystopian North America, an ex-mercenary leads forces against an evil brewing in Mexico -- from a USA Today�"bestselling author.   The patriot army of Ben Raines went toe-to-toe with the most powerful enemy in the world -- ...

• Sep-2000
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It had been three years since Sanchia had last laid eyes on Caid's rangy, sexy body, his powerful Greek ancestry apparent in all its glory. Caid's forceful charisma still had the ability to steal her breath away. Yet Caid's reaction to her now was on...

• Sep-2000
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Cool English beauty finds... Outback heat A life of luxury on an English country estate or the hazards of the Australian Outback? For Lady Francesca de Lyle there is no doubt. She's in love with rugged Grant Cameron and knows the Outback h...

• Sep-2000
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Holly blushed to remember her last encounter with Niall Wesley. He'd rejected her teenage crush on him, making Holly vow that next time she saw Niall she'd be beautiful -- and he'd come begging.... Years later, Niall had indeed come be...

• Sep-2000
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He had a son! Alik Jarman has only just met his six-week-old son -- and he isn't going to let him go now! Even though the baby's mother broke his heart less than one year ago.... Blaire never told Alik the real reason she called off the...

• Sep-2000
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A JOURNEY OF THE SOUL Serena Rogan had traveled from Ireland to pursue a new dream in America. Yet as a washerwoman for Blackjack Kingston in a Dakota mining camp, she knew only slavery and submission. Until she risked her life rescuing a group of S...

• Sep-2000
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No one could find special agent Jack Raine if he didn't want to be found. So who was the beautiful amnesiac on his doorstep, and how had she gotten to his hideaway? When a killer soon followed, Jack suspected a trap -- so he took the lady and ran.......

• Sep-2000
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It happened one snowy night... When Chantel Miller gets lost during an unexpected snowstorm, a stranger named Dillon Broderick rescues her. In the hours they spend together they become very close and the intimacy of that night creates a special b...

• Sep-2000
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Bessie Randall is stunned to learn that her sister engaged in a long distance flirtation with an army officer using Bessie's name. Even more shocking is the fact that Jasper Mendenhall is now her husband by proxy--thanks to her sister's meddling. But...

• Sep-2000
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Volunteer fireman Taylor McAden is driven to take terrifying, heroic risks to save lives. But there's one leap into the unknown he can't bring himself to make: He can't fall in love. A man who likes to rescue troubled women, he inevitably leaves them...

• Sep-2000
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There once was a king who ruled over a darkened kingdom. Crops were planted and then failed, houses were built and then neglected, people were impoverished and dispirited. But when a traveler arrives at the crumbling palace, he shows the monarch his ...

• Sep-2000
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HOUSE OF SHADOWS The house on Sunset Boulevard has witnessed everything: from the infamous murder-suicide of a '50s starlet and her lover, to the drug-fueled commune in the '60s, to the anguish of its present owner, Jilly Meyer, who is struggling to...

• Sep-2000
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TALL, DARK, AND TENDER When Angela Santini felt the power of First Sergeant Dan Mahoney's smoldering gaze, she dared to throw caution to the wind. It had been so long since she'd been held, kissed, touched.... But how was this straitlaced single m...

• Sep-2000
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Four Christmas Love Stories in One Book! Bestselling author Tracie Peterson presents four Christmas love stories from World War II. Moving from the homefront here, to the front line, to the South Pacific, each story in Tidings of Peace features brave...

• Sep-2000
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MARRY IN CONVENIENCE... All her adult life Lacey Bravo had loved Logan Severance, but the good doctor -- always hell-bent on doing the right thing -- had never even made an improper advance toward her. Well, maybe one, about nine months ago. So the...

• Sep-2000
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Here is the fascinating story of two families who have clashed for centuries -- and two women who dare to explore the dark side of passion and a legacy of betrayal that leads to cold-blooded murder... When Cassandra de Warenne meets Antonio de la ...

• Sep-2000
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Slowly tumbling into ruin, once-stately Coltrane House is nevertheless a place of mirth and mischief, dazzling variety, and endless surprise. Any visitor can quickly see why: the sparkling presence of Meredith Fairfax, the red-haired imp who is ward ...

• Sep-2000
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WEDDING CANCELLATION NOTICE You are cordially uninvited to witness Maddy Chandler's marriage! The bride is obliged to inform you that her once true love, Joe O'Malley, suddenly swept back into her life, wanting to claim her as his wife. But tha...

• Sep-2000
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The engagement assignment! Vivian badly wanted to win an advertising account with Lleyton Dexter's company -- but enough to spend a week with him? Lleyton clearly considered it a fair exchange. He needed a fiancee to deter matchmaking relative...

• Sep-2000
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Daddy knows last... Nat Grady is finally home -- older and wiser. A year and a half ago, when the woman he'd loved had hinted at commitment, Nat had run far and fast. But now he knows he can't live without her. So he's back, hoping they'll be able...

• Sep-2000
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SHE SEEMED TO HAVE IT ALL... Amy Winter was a top-notch TV reporter who thought work was all she needed to make her happy. Until handsome attorney Cal Richards walked into Amy's life. Suddenly he had her questioning everything she'd ever believed...

• Sep-2000
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Erin O'Halloran has witnessed the atrocities of war first hand. But when she travels to Western Ireland to attempt to save a dying friend and mentor, she faces her greatest challenge yet. And when she happens to meet the love of her life, matters bec...

• Sep-2000
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A COMMON LADY For years she had thought he was dead. Yet when Addis de Valence strode into Moira Falkner's cottage, there was no mistaking the sharp planes of his face, and the scar she herself had helped to heal. The young squire who had once bee...

• Sep-2000
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A DESPERATE NEED Sassy Grace Atwood never expected to find her proper self accidentally tumbling into a stranger's bed. If she weren't desperate for a man to lead a wagon train of brides to a woman-starved town out West, she never would have gone ne...

• Sep-2000
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The Earl of Ashlin needed a respectable wife, and seductive Riley Fontaine was anything but. One kiss, though, convinced him that a marriage of convenience was the last thing he wanted. Mason St. Clair, the new Earl of Ashlin, has inherited a titl...

• Oct-2000
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Pastor and fireman Nick Foster found the body in the inferno engulfing his church. From the bullet wound in the head, it's clear this is no ordinary fire victim. The quiet community of Newpointe, reeling from the shock of the dead man's identity, str...

• Sep-2000
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The Winthrops are America's royal family, and its Prince Charming is the sexy, charismatic Gary Winthrop. Now the man on his way to becoming the Senate's brightest new star is found murdered in his home--the latest in a series of accidents that have ...

• Sep-2000
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As a Knight of the Word, John Ross has struggled against the tireless dark forces of the Void for twenty-five years with the magic he wields. Now Ross has learned of the birth of a gypsy morph, a rare and dangerous creature formed of wild magics spon...

• Sep-2000
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When a half-drowned elf is found floating in the seas of the Blue Divide, an old mystery resurfaces. Thirty years ago, an elven prince led an expedition in search of a legendary magic said to be more powerful than any in the world. Of all those who s...

• Sep-2000
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BACHELORHOOD LOST Once, years ago, Pippa Davis and Luke Danton had been everything to each other. Then fate had led Luke one way...and Pippa and their unborn child the other. Now she had to find her way back to Luke. For her daughter's sake, o...

• Sep-2000
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THE LOCKHARTS OF TEXAS It had taken Jake Remington seven years to propose to Jenna Lockhart, but who was counting? Theirs had been puppy love when they were kids, pure and sweet. But tragedy had shattered their perfection. Now Jake was all man and...

• Sep-2000
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A sassy, shameless romantic adventure about a man betrayed and the woman who rocks his untamed world... Marnie Wright has seen more than her fair share of testosterone, having grown up with four over-protective brothers. But now a longhaired mount...

• Sep-2000
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Thursday: Subject is still combative after four days of applied pain, sleep deprivation and minimal food. Vice squad detective Bobby Vasquez, for months on the trail of a slippery underworld figure, receives an anonymous tip that directs him to a ...

• Sep-2000
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They'd not seen each other for three long years until the night Liv turned up on Ben's doorstep -- in the biggest fix of all time. Still spellbound by her warmth and loveliness, he could only offer himself and his home up to her, her cant...

• Sep-2000
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Melanie Parker never wants to leave Elk Springs, Oregon. After a lifetime of moving, she finally has a big house with a picket fence. To Kevin McNeil, that sounds like prison. They could walk away from each other right now -- if they weren't falling ...

• Sep-2000
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RECRUITED! They told him his uncle Ian died in a car accident. But fourteen-year-old Alex Rider knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in his uncle's windshield confirm his suspicions. But nothing prepares him for the news that the uncle he always...

• Sep-2000
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Terms of a Ten Million Dollar Texas Wedding (Excerpt from Granny Dawson's will) Stop furrowing your brow, Gabe! Don't like the change to my will? Didn't think you would. But someone had to bring you to your senses. You can be so s...