Books Published in December 1992

• Dec-1992
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Stephanie Bloomfield and Charles Tomaselli -- an unpredictable romance Stephanie Bloomfield returns home to Orchard Valley, Oregon; her father has suffered a heart attack, and all three sisters are gathering at his side. Fortunately, by the time...

• Dec-1992
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A TOUCH OF HELL Hoping to cool off a twenty-five-year-old feud between two neighboring families, Cassie Stuart only succeeds in pouring kerosene on the flames. Both sides have warned her to get out of Texas pronto... or they will burn her father'...

• Dec-1992
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Double-edged sword Diana had waited years to exact revenge against Reece Falcon, time only fueling her hatred. Finally her obsession was to be satisfied. Reece Falcon's Achilles' heel was his son. Diana's elusiveness and cool beauty...

• Dec-1992
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Sexual compulsion She was sensitive and naive--and incredibly innocent--and he was about to ruin her life. There was no justification for what he was doing. After all, Greeks respect their women; they don't take advantage of them. But he, o...

• Dec-1992
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The doctor meets his match... Patience Martin is a country girl with a sharp tongue and absolutely no interest in the latest fashions. She's hardly the sort of woman who normally attracts the attention of wealthy Dutch surgeon Julius van der ...

• Dec-1992
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THE BOUGHT BRIDEGROOM Eleanor Transome found her father's wealth a dubious blessing, for he was determined that she wed a nobleman. Lord Randolph Falloden, on the brink of ruin, could not resist the lure of cold cash, despite his passionate al...

• Dec-1992
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BARBARY WHARF Ashamed of the past Afraid of the future Irena Olivero had made front-page news after joining the Sentinel. Shy, demure and extremely beautiful, she turned heads wherever she went--and every eligible man at the paper wanted her. ...

• Jan-1993
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From the shimmering cities of a faraway land to the heather-scented hills of the Scottish Highlands comes this passionate tale of adventure and dangerous desire by one of America's bestselling and beloved authors, Iris Johansen. TIGER, TIGER, BURN...

• Dec-1992
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In a long, splendid life rich with struggles and satisfaction, above all Brandon Halloran treasured family. So the proud patriarch had meddled shamelessly in his darling brood's love lives...until finally the tables had turned! For the merry wido...

• Dec-1992
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Had she found her identity or her destiny? Rebel had been fortunate to be adopted-by the James family. The Australian clan fully supported her search for her mother's roots--even though it took her to England. But when Rebel arrived at Dave...

• Dec-1992
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Best friends . . . to the end! Who is Honey Perkins? She's been telling everyone in Shadyside that she's Becka Norwood's best friend. But Becka's sure she's never met Honey before. Honey systematically moves in on Becka's life, copying her in e...

• Dec-1992
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She was out of her element and someone -- or something -- was hot on her trail. When her brother disappeared, last seen leaving a forest lodge, Crysta Meyers left the big city behind her to join in the search for her missing twin. The haza...

• Dec-1992
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Jake Silver was a teenage misfit, a misunderstood genius who'd been cruelly tormented by his own sadistic father and others in his little Louisiana hometown. Jake was the perfect disciple for THEM. They'd come from another world;disembodied beings...

• Dec-1992
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A maniac broke into the home of Officer Benjamin Harrison Weston--then brutally snuffed the model cop, his wife and his children. But five-year-old "Junior" Weston was hiding in a closet...and somehow avoided the psycho's bloody blade. Everyone lo...

• Dec-1992
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Laura wasn't surprised when she saw Dirk Thornton with a glamorous brunette: her estranged husband's reputation as a womanizer was well-known to her. But she was shocked by her feelings for Dirk -- they weren't dead at all and, what was m...

• Apr-1992
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The real thing Serina hasn't seen Aaron Kingsley for eleven years, but she hasn't forgotten him. When they meet again, it's clear that what had begun as a schoolgirl crush has blossomed into a mature adult love. He shares the attractio...

• Dec-1992
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AH-H-H... THE CLOUDLESS PEACE OF THE BEAUTIFUL COTSWOLDS... After Agatha's years of slaving to promote other people's success, her new life in a picture-book English village is a dream come true. And how better to make friends than by entering th...

• Dec-1992
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Damsel in distress When Dooley James glimpsed a lovely young woman being held at gunpoint in the apartment across the way, he reacted as any strapping Southern gentleman would -- he dashed to the rescue. Funny...his feisty neighbor didn't seem...

• Dec-1992
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SHE DARES TO LOVE A MAN WHO DOESN'T DARE LOVE... Tess Gregory's brilliant career as a researach scientist hides her longings for a husband and child. Though deaf, she is a free spirit -- a woman full of life and love. She is struck down all too soon...

• Dec-1992
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Laura Cameron thinks she has suppressed her sensual nature behind a facade of Victorian propriety, until she meets the courageous army major Ian Cameron. The golden-eyed Laura offers hope for a new life to Ian after his years of captivity in Central ...

• Dec-1992
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After two hundred years of civil war the planet Oriana is dying. Most of the surface vegetation is gone, the air is nearly unbreathable, and the people themselves are dying. Now, the two warring factions have finally sat down to talk peace, and Capta...

• Dec-1992
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Christmas bells, wedding bells Sergeant Nick Gallagher had come home to the Gallagher farm to be in a Christmas wedding. But the carefree bachelor had only planned to be his brother's best man, not a groom! Nick had never thought about settling do...

• Dec-1992
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PASSION'S GAMBLE There's fire in Jessica Sommers' hazel eyes. She's out to get the scoundrel who shot her father, and she needs a hired gun to help her protect the family silver mine. Garrett Devlin arrives in town just in time to take on the job....

• Dec-1992
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In the eye of the beholder Kerry had earned a stunning reputation as a photographer and it was no wonder that Max Harper wanted her--in a professional capacity, of course. Kerry was the best--she was brilliant at capturing everything that was u...

• Dec-1992
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TWO LIVES DEPENDED ON HIM Micah Parish: Deputy Sheriff. Six feet, four inches of solid muscle. Half-Cherokee. Tough, proud, a loner. Faith Williams: Mother-to-be. Fragile-looking blonde running for her life. Quiet, scared of her own ...

• Dec-1992
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Can a Mr. Wonderful fall for a Ms. Average Charlotte Perivale certainly hoped so! Because the attractive and dynamic Dean Richmond was exactly her definition of wonderful. She met him on a cruise in the Indian Ocean, a sort of sentimental journ...

• Dec-1992
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Sagittarius man Bruce Venables seemed like a proper English schoolteacher, but Helena Walker knew better. He was a footloose and fancy-free bachelor at heart, and agreeing to become temporary headmaster of Easthaven School was the only kind of commi...

• Dec-1992
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The Bride needed the groom. The Groom wanted the bride. A Wedding was the only solution! A marriage of convenience. A business arrangement. A temporary measure. Andrea Constantine wasn't surprised when her former fiance, Thor Thorsen, propos...

• Dec-1992
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THE THREE WILY AND BEAUTIFUL McDOUGAL SISTERS COULD SWINDLE A MAN FASTER THAN IT TOOK TO LASSO A CALF. But their luck was running out when the wagon hauling the sisters to jail came under attack by Comanches. Then a dumbfounded Abigail watched a...

• Dec-1992
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True colors Amber's art gallery in Sydney demands all her time and energy, leaving little room for anything--or anyone--else. Especially overbearing, temperamental artist Joel Matheson. She wants his paintings--not his undivided attention. He&...

• Dec-1992
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Senior registrar Dr. Jo Harding had hoped she might get the job as consultant in obstetrics and gynecology, but instead it went to a man called Alex Carter. To her horror, he was the man she had met so briefly four years previously and knew only as ...

• Dec-1992
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ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS Colorado cowboy Jess Cooper knew better than to believe in Santa Claus. And if he ever made a Christmas list, "wife and family" would never make the cut. Still, ever since Alison Richards had returned to the Roc...

• Dec-1992
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"I believe that speculative fiction--science fiction in particular--is the last American refuge of religious literature. Real religious literature, I think, explores the nature of the universe and discovers the purpose behind it. When we find that pu...

• Dec-1992
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HE REQUIRED A DRAGON WHO COULD BRING HIS CHARGES UP TO THE SOCIAL MARK! Having inherited a Gothic horror of an estate and a pair of fifteen-year-old brats to marry off, Lord Percy Hunterdon despaired. Even he realized that, short of a miracle, fin...

• Dec-1992
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VENGEANCE IS A DISH BEST SERVED HOT Imperial Intelligence couldn't find them, the Imperial Fleet couldn't catch them, and local defenses couldn't stop them. It seemed the planet-wrecking pirates were invincible. But the pirates made a big mistake ...

• Dec-1992
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Their eyes met across a crowded room... But the sparks that flew were not sparks of attraction. In fact, the only thing that flew was a bag of flour -- covering Lukas Karel in white powder as Georgette Bainbridge scored a direct hit. Georgett...

• Dec-1992
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SNAKE PIT Hoshab Nassim, a ruthless Mideast leader, is holding eight international hostages, one a top-level CIA operative. Soon there will be "trials" followed by "executions." In the language of terrorism, Mack Bolan knows this means torture and...

• Dec-1992
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WAS HE THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST... Or was it really Nick Masters who reappeared so unexpectedly? Nick was the only man who ever made Tess Armstrong hunger, the only man whose emerald eyes looked through to her soul. The only man she'd ever love...

• Dec-1992
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ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS... Attorney Jake Raglan didn't mind attending a wedding -- as long as it wasn't his own. But when ravishing Rebecca Bellamy caught his niece's bouquet, she also caught his eye. The counselor practiced love the ...

• Dec-1992
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Dunc's not afraid of ghosts, although Amos is sure that the old Rambridge house is haunted by the ghost of Blackboard the Pirate. Then the best friends meet Eddie, a meek man who claims to be impersonating Blackbeard's ghost in order to live in the h...

• Dec-1992
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MR. DECEMBER Hot Guy: Wickedly sexy Samuel Shepherd. He's downright dangerous... Fiery Redhead: Valerie Shroeder. Underneath that cool exterior beats the heart of a temptress .... Spontaneous Combustion: If you generate enough heat, it's bound ...

• Dec-1992
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GRAY -- Nobody Wore Jeans Better or Looked Hotter Than He Did.... Gray McCall remembered the pretty high school student who'd had such a crush on him, shed nearly flunked his biology class -- but now Elissa Emory was a knockout, all delectable...

• Dec-1992
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Cinderella and the born-again hell-raiser The combination was impossible...and so was the man. Michael Slane was a Hollywood actor with a bad reputation and an unsettling way of talking himself into Alexis Brooke's ordered life-first her apart...

• Dec-1992
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Parker Nolan, a notorious liar, is sure he saw someone photographing football plays from the coach's secret book. None of his Kudzu teammates believe him, even though the opposing team has predicted the Kudzus' every move in the last two games. Park...

• Dec-1992
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DESTINATION: Belgium ATTRACTIONS: delicate lace, luscious chocolates, spired palaces and Jan Breydel Art expert Geraldine Simpson was awed by the Breydel estate's collection of masterpieces. But businessman Jay Breydel was only interested i...

• Dec-1992
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SHE WAS FIGHTING FOR HER INHERITANCE...AND RISKING HER HEART Amanda Todd wondered if other battles had been fought on lush, breeze-kissed Lawson Island in the Bahamas. Her father's death had made her co-owner of a nearly bankrupt San Antonio newsp...

• Dec-1992
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SNOWBOUND WITH A STRANGER They went down on an icy mountain. It was a miracle they survived. For Alana Halpern, flying Judd Singer was supposed to be a quick favor, and then home for Hanukkah. But when her plane went down in New Hampshire, it ...

• Dec-1992
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SOMETIMES BLESSING COME IN UNEXPECTED PACKAGES Charles Montgomery seems to have everything -- money, health, intelligence, the perfect family. But everything is not enough. His wife is threatening divorce. His children are spoiled rotten, And he ...

• Dec-1992
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Home is where the heart breaks For Eleanor Wilding, home was Wildingsher family's antebellum estate in Mississippi. Wildings...where she'd foolishly fallen in love with her handsome stepbrother, Edan Bond. And where Edan had rejected that ...

• Dec-1992
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His firm, sensuous lips pursed around an expensive cheroot, Ruark Stewart waited impatiently as the lavish paddle wheeler made yet another stop along the banks of the great Mississippi. But when he caught sight of the spirited black stallion and the ...