Books Published in December 1997

• Dec-1997
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LADY ON THE LAM It should have been a piece of cake. All he had to do was pick up some pretty little bail jumper who wasn't even bothering to hide. But cynical bounty hunter Jack Dakota soon discovered there was nothing easy about spitfire M.J. O'...

• Dec-1997
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Headstrong Casey Straton inherited her mother's beautiful eyes and her father's stubborn temperament. So when she is denied the responsibility of running her grandfather's ranch despite her unladylike prowess at roping, riding and shooting the high-s...

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Cole Clayborne had always walked a dark path and flirted with a life of crime. While his three brothers chose to settle into married life, Cole rebelliously refused to be tied down. Now, an elusive stranger draws him into a shadowy chase that will br...

• Dec-1997
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With a wife he loves and an exciting London-based career, architect Charles Waterston's life seems in perfect balance. Nothing prepares him for the sudden end to his ten-year marriage -- or his unwanted transfer to his firm's New York office. Christm...

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Lonely Annie McFarlane is having a blue holiday...until a baby in a basket is left on her doorstep. When a handsome man appears to claim the child, Annie faces losing the most precious gift she's ever been given...or getting another Christmas surpris...

• Dec-1997
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Jim Beckett was everything she'd ever dreamed of....But two years after Tess married the decorated cop and bore his child, she helped put him behind bars for savagely murdering ten women. Even locked up in a maximum security prison, he vowed he would...

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HE WAS THE LAST PERSON SHE COULD TRUST...AND THE ONLY MAN SHE COULD TURN TO. Ever since her beloved husband Ken was gunned down on the mean streets of Chicago. Dana Miller has been living for one thing: to see his killer caught and punished. She g...

• Dec-1997
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MOTHER-BY-ACCIDENT Angela Adams refused to have anything to do with her unborn baby's reluctant father, much less marry him! True, her pregnancy was unexpected, but Clint Brady didn't have to act so dazed when she announced her impending motherho...

• Dec-1997
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Despite having been on opposite sides of the war, Yankee doctor Josh Coltrane is unprepared for the continued bitterness of long-lost love Angel Summers. Can these two former sweethearts learn to forgive and forget the past?...

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Everyone thinks they know the story of the Evil that terrorized Corky Corcoran and the cheerleaders of Shadyside High. But the true story has remained hidden. Only Sarah Fear knows where the Evil began. What it wants. And why it kills. Read Sarah’s...

• Dec-1997
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Danger: Keep Out There's an old story about the tunnels under Shadyside High. Some kids used to party down there, back in the sixties. Until something horrible happened. Something that left a bunch of people dead. It's just a story, right? There's n...

• Dec-1997
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Readers are placed in a new home that proves to be a swamp house and the site of a hidden treasure, a sewer ghoul, and a swamp thing, in a spooky story with more than twenty possible endings. Original....

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Evan Ross can't forget about Monster Blood-the evil green slime that never stops growing. It can turn ordinary pets into ferocious animals and twelve-year-old kids into freakish giants.But now there's a new kind of Monster Blood in town. It comes in ...

• Dec-1997
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SWEETER THAN A DREAM Charles Wycombe, the dashing--if incorrigible-- Earl of Billington, needs a bride before his upcoming thirtieth birthday if he hopes to earn his inheritance. The vicar's vivacious, determined daughter, Miss Eleanor Lyndon, nee...

• Dec-1997
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She Claimed Her Baby Was His Yet Chase Calloway swore he'd never met the mysterious pregnant woman who appeared at his family's ranch. True, an accident had blocked parts of his memory, but he wouldn't have forgotten the desire that flared betwee...

• Dec-1997
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A proud and spirited woman whose life was stolen from her... A man of secrets accused of a terrible crime... In a place of new beginnings their destinies are joined in a gloriously romantic new work from the incomparable storyteller Kathleen E. Woo...

• Dec-1997
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A small, faded photograph had turned Blair Stephens' world upside down. She'd suddenly learned she was adopted -- and that, somewhere, she had a twin sister who was her spitting image! With nowhere else to turn, she hired the services of hunky Devin ...

• Dec-1997
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THE BABY IN HIS IN-BOX Workaholic Evan Quartermain had no time for love. So when someone left a baby on his secretary's desk, claiming it was his, he was in shock. What did he know about babies? Single mother Claire Walker could see her handso...

• Dec-1997
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Ben Curry knew it was a dog eat dog country and if you survived you had to have big teeth. From a secret fortress in the wild, broken canyon country his men rode hard and smart as far as Canada and Mexico, from San Antone to Los Angeles to pull jobs ...

• Dec-1997
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She was his forbidden desire, a flame in his heart and under his skin.... Too late for a quick getaway, Sam Wyatt groaned when he saw Rachel Lawrence's car drive toward the ranch house. She hadn't been back to Wyoming since her husband die...

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For Christmas, she wanted her family back For single mom Theresa Mathews, the Christmas holidays were extra special because of her son. And because in him she still held part of Sullivan -- the man she'd once loved. But now their child was mis...

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THERE'S SOMETHING ROTTEN IN SHAKESPEARE... Lily Bard was running from shattering memories when she moved to Shakespeare, Arkansas. Now cleaning houses pays her bills. Working out helps her heal. Still protecting her scars, she hides a hard body an...

• Dec-1997
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Scandalous seduction? Luke Armytage can't get over the change in Saskia. The hostile, ugly-duckling teenager whom he went out of his way to avoid has grown up into a very desirable swan. Saskia is surprised at her intense feelings for Luke....

• Dec-1997
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ON THE FIRST DAY OF CHRISTMAS... Finding herself in bed with her childhood love after being jilted at the altar by another man wasn't exactly Casey Oakes's idea of a merry Christmas. But she knew she wouldn't have wanted to spend her &...

• Dec-1997
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SIERRA MADRID Woman of today. Bold. Determined. Her lifei s about to be turned upside down. MARY KATHRYN McMURRAY Young pioneer on the Oregon Trail. She is filled with anger at being uprooted from her home. Two women, centuries apart, are...

• Dec-1997
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When a slightly retarded fifteen-year-old girl dies on a school trip, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and his friend psychologist Alex Delaware are stumped. There's no sign of a struggle and no evidence of sexual assault. Just an innocent young girl--dea...

• Dec-1997
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She Played a Dangerous Game Carolyn Browne was a poor bookseller's daughter and an enlightened thinker, delighting London with her scathingly witty columns, written under the name Charles Copperville. Penetrating the ton's gilded salons in male di...

• Dec-1997
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A FINE FEATHERED FIEND A magical maniac is loose in Alanda. The victims are always women, always lower-class, and the weapon is always a three-sided stiletto, most often found among Church regalia. But the killers are never churchmen, and they alw...

• Dec-1997
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Santa never looked so good! Jo Cassidy had always had a weakness for cowboys -- especially strapping, sexy devils like Russ Gibson. In one short night, he'd done more than make her weak -- he'd love every inch of her...and then walked out....

• Dec-1997
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Princess Zara had been raised a warrior, always at her father's side in battle against the Arabs who had stolen, their land. So when she was taken prisoner by Sheik Jamal abd Thabit during a raid, she was determined not to succumb to his wishes. She ...

• Dec-1997
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From This Day Forward... On a well-deserved vacation in exotic Mexico, sensible, practical accountant Vanessa Blanchard allows a maelstrom of desire to turn her world upside down. She's not sure why she dared to trust gorgeous, mysterious Joshua K...

• Dec-1997
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LIVES. LOVE. A GOOD MAN'S NAME. ARE THEY THE COST OF TELLING THE TRUTH? Among the 151 people who died in the crash of Flight 94 was Mick Hammon, the plane's captain and Erin Russell's close friend. Herself a pilot, Erin narrowly missed being on t...

• Dec-1997
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Craig Locksley thought he couldn't be charmed by his beautiful business associate, Delia, because he couldn't see. However, temporarily parted from his young daughter and his beloved dog, Craig was forced to accept Delia's offer to act as...

• Dec-1997
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Five-year-old River Sierra wants a mother - a mother just like the beautiful fairy in her storybook. So when J.J. Randell turns up on her daddy's doorstep it seems her wish has come true. Only River's daddy is less convinced. Raven Sierra has...

• Dec-1997
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Merging two families “Daddy, do you think you’ll ever find another mummy for me?” Alice said. Inexplicably Hugh thought of Judith, and banished the thought as idle fantasy. Maybe, one day,” he replied. He bent and hugged Alice. “I’m not ...

• Dec-1997
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A CONVENIENT CHRISTMAS FATHER He claimed he was no Santa, so why had Nick Clark made Faith Hewitt's Christmas wish come true? After charming her son, single-handedly saving the Christmas pageant and making the usually staid Faith swoon at the most...

• Dec-1997
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WEDDING DREAMS... The handmade quilt had been stored with care--along with Rosemary Brinson's cherished dreams. The wedding was called off and Rosemary vowed she'd never marry. Then Kirk Lawrence arrived, hired to renovate the historic town chu...

• Dec-1997
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WILL THE LAST BEVERLEY DAUGHTER MARRY FOR MANNERLING? Lizzie is the sixth and youngest daughter of the late Sir Beverley, the patriarch who gambled away their beloved estate, Mannerling. Each of Lizzie's sisters had been entrusted by their ambitio...

• Dec-1997
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Emilie Dalton didn't mean to lie. After she fled with her two nieces and nephew from Boston, her car broke down in a small New England town, and the only shelter was a deserted house waiting for its new owner. So Emilie began a desperate deception th...

• Dec-1997
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THE ORIGINAL BAD BOY Reid Donovan had heard himself described that way so many times that it was impossible to think of himself as anything but. Then he met Cassie Wade - a woman who believed in him, and whose love made him almost believe in himse...

• Dec-1997
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THE RELUCTANT EMPEROR Ever since the devastating Werenight that spelled the end of the Elabonian Empire, Aragis the Archer has been saying he doesn't want war with Gerin the Fox, also called King of the North. But the Archer is ambitious and feels...

• Dec-1997
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COWBOY GIVES GOOD LOVIN' THIS CHRISTMAS! Prim Deb Harrington didn't ask Santa for a tall, handsome stranger to charge into her office and tell her how to do her job! The too-sure cowboy made her feel in need of strong, masculine hands caress...

• Dec-1997
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A Forgotten Fiancee Gray Falconer went to the West Indies for four years -- not once did he write. When he strides back, without any explanation, and confident that she'll "forgive and forget," it's Minerva's turn to test his patience. An Unfor...

• Dec-1997
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Sole heir to her family's once formidable fortune, Ellie Parrish Duveen divides her time between running her small restaurant and trying to take care of her beloved grandmother. The last thing she has time for is men.. "Dan Cassidy, formerly a New Yo...

• Dec-1997
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A gorgeous stranger... It was simply by chance that Morgan Cassidy had stumbled across Riley Hanrahan -- lying injured in the desert after being shot. She couldn't leave him there -- but after three days in his company, Morgan was beginning to...

• Dec-1997
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SHE SOUGHT PROTECTION When Dillian Whitnell sought refuge at Arimnede Manor, she never dreamed the price would be her virtue. But someone had already made an attempt on her cousin's life, and Dillian was determined to prevent another. Even if it mea...

• Dec-1997
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In the violent and lawless days following the Civil War many infamous outlaws cut a bloody swathe across the West ... John Wesley Hardin, Bad Bill Longley, Sam Bass, Frank and Jesse James, the Daltons ... all rode and shot their way to notoriety .......

• Dec-1997
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An exciting collection of stories includes restored and uncut typescripts and magazine appearances filled with adventures, hardships, and the glory of the Old West, from one of the most renowned Western writers. Original....

• Dec-1997
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The classic fantasy duology, combining The Dreamstone and The Tree of Swords and Jewels in an omnibus for the first timeIt was that transitional time of the world, when man first brought the clang of iron and the reek of smoke to the lands which befo...

• Dec-1997
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Alaska. A place where men could be men ... and women were scarce! For Tanner O'Neill, that was the whole charm of it. He'd had it with pushy females trying to con him to the altar. Then an eight-year-old stowaway named Sam showed up ... w...