Books Published in February 1990

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Only child Amy Johnson was destined to run her father's multimillion-dollar corporation someday. Then she met Josh Powell. Rugged, handsome and sexy, he awakened the hungry, loving woman within her and uncovered her long-buried desire to raise a fami...

• Feb-1990
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The wedding brought them together again For Kate it was a shock to meet the man she'd loved and believed had betrayed and abandoned her. What was he doing at her daughter's wedding? Joss Bennett was an unexpected guest. And Kate's w...

• Feb-1990
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Townsfolk called him devil. For dark and enigmatic Julian, Earl of Ravenwood, was a man with a legendary temper and a first wife whose mysterious death would not be forgotten. Some said the beautiful Lady Ravenwood had drowned herself in the black, m...

• Feb-1990
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THE PAST IMPERFECT Lovely Grace Howard had every reason to be devoted to Sir Perry Lampman. This wealthy and gallant gentleman rescued her from poverty by making her his bride. Even more nobly, he did not withdraw his proposal or his affection whe...

• Feb-1990
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TAKING CHANCES... After a broken love affair, Amanda Scott grasped at one straw after another, until finally she ended up in a line waiting to have the latest popular self-help expert autograph his book. Was it fate that placed Jordan Richards bes...

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THEIR PASSION WAS AS FREE AND SPLENDID AS THE TOWERING WILDERNESS OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST... Devastated on her wedding day by a shattering revelation, Melissa Corbin turned to a stranger with a brazen bargain: she would take his name in exchange fo...

• Feb-1990
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Reality was much more satisfying Katherine Inskip's ideal man didn't exist in this century. Nevertheless, her dreams and the books she wrote were dominated by a swashbuckling pirate. She'd never imagined she'd encounter him in the flesh . . . unti...

• Feb-1990
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THE UNTAMED DESIRE OF, TWO WILD HEARTS... Fiery, free-spirited Eugenia Paxton swore she'd make a pact with the devil himself if it meant saving her father's shipyard from destitution. But a partnership with the wealthy British sea captain Alec Car...

• Feb-1990
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With nowhere to go, no one to help her, will Leigh flee into the arms of the one person she shouldn’t run to? Don’t miss this fifth and final installment in the Casteel family saga from the New York Times bestselling author behind Flowers in the ...

• Feb-1990
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In the Nevada mountains, an avalanche traps the residents of a luxury building indoors -- while a killer walks among them -- from the New York Times�"bestselling author.  One By One . . .   Ellen Wingate thinks she’s hit t...

• Feb-1990
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Death Mine A diamond empire unites them. A struggle for power divides them. Johnny Lance and Benedict van der Byl, almost brothers, have come to the crossroads of their lifetime rivalry. Far beneath the African earth waits a fabulous cache of min...

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BROTHERS AND RIVALS Heartbreakingly lovely, Melanie Stanton had been promised to Josh Brennan for as long as she could remember. But marriage was the last thing on her mind until Josh's long-lost twin returned to take his rightful place raising Te...

• Feb-1990
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It wasn't the best way to get acquainted .. . It was no way to make a good impression, Hilary thought gloomily--especially with an attractive man. And that was an understatement. Hilary had believed Rhodri was an intruder--that's why sh...

• Feb-1990
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MIXED BLESSING Elizabeth Hardy was afraid - afraid of her ability to see things she had no way of knowing, and afraid to risk her heart again. In Colonel Sam Oliver she found the one man who could give her courage - and tempt her to love once more...

• Feb-1990
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BOY TROUBLE .. . Just what was widower Daniel Quinn supposed to do with a ten-year-old whiz-kid with more freckles than friends and a perpetual frown on his face? His sulking son stubbornly refused to give his new neighborhood--or his father--a ch...

• Feb-1990
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Hartman strikes again! Old Charlie Hartman was out of his mind! To insist that Spence Jegger would marry the first woman he saw on Valentine's Day was pure madness, given Spence's opinion of marriage. And an aging vagabond playing St. Valentine wa...

• Feb-1990
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Forbidden Magic Three hundred years have passed since the death of Allanon, and the Four Lands are sadly changed. The Elves have vanished, and the Dwarves are enslaved. The Southland is now under the totalitarian rule of the Federation, and magic ...

• Feb-1990
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Quite unwittingly she played the fool The argument in Jessica Terry's little restaurant was more than a single, isolated scene. For her infuriating customer turned out to be Daniel Tyson, hot new comic sensation in the world of entertainment. B...

• Feb-1990
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Shane had forced Rowan to run away She ran from her home, her family, and the blackmailing attempts of her stepbrother. It catapulted her headlong into the life of the unsuspecting Nathan Kennedy. Falling in love with him was easy, but confron...

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Somehow she had managed to survive. Though it hadn't been easy for Camryn Hastings since her husband's death had left her to bring up their child alone. The bed-and-breakfast trade she ran from their home provided a reasonable living ...

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Since a strange alien virus created the superhuman beings known as Aces and Jokers four decades ago, they have struggled for respect and recognition. Now they are key players in a presidential convention torn by hatred and dissent as assassins stalk ...

• Feb-1990
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They said she murdered her best friend. The trial is for murder. Ann Rice is dead. Her best friend, Sharon McKay, stands accused. But there is no body. And the three witnesses to the crime only heard what happened, and did not see it. Nevertheless...

• Feb-1990
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BY DAY SHE CHAMPIONED WOMEN'S RIGHTS, BUT BY NIGHT SHE DREAMED OF ROMANCE No young lady was more devoted to the teachings of that infamous bluestocking Mrs. Waverley than her adopted daughter Felicity. However, unlike her mentor, she vowed to ...

• Feb-1990
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THE SCHOOL FOR MANNERS If you have a Wild, Unruly, or Undisciplined Daughter, two Ladies of Genteel Birth offer to Bring Out said Daughter and Refine what may have seemed Unrefinable. We can make the Best of the Worst. Amy and Effy Tribble plac...

• Feb-1990
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Lacey Montana was alone in the world except for her father, so when he was sentenced to twenty years in Yuma Penitentiary, she had no choice but to follow the prison wagon. The long trek across the plains had barely begun when things took a surprisin...

• Feb-1990
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MR. FEBRUARY Name: Michael J. Donovan. Official Status: The sexiest man on the Missouri Highway Patrol. Pitfalls To Avoid: Love and marriage. Irresistible Obstacle: Gorgeous Sabrina Sheldon--working mother, suspected drug smuggler--and all w...

• Feb-1990
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ELIZA DOOLITTLE MEETS HENRY HIGGINS The search for an heiress led urbane attorney Kenyon Ames to the Louisiana swamps, where he found naive, carelessly pretty, desperately poor Sabre Callot. She would inherit a fortune on one impossible condition ...

• Feb-1990
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In a Nation Divided, One Woman Would Conquer the Land with Unbridled Spirit, The cruel tides of the Civil War leave young Joline Masters widowed, with a vast Kansas farm to manage on her own. She learns to accept her loneliness, and she's not afra...

• Feb-1990
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THE MAN WHO WOULD BE SATAN Parry was a gifted musician and an apprentice in the arts of White Magic. But his life of sweet promise went disastrously awry following the sudden, violent death of his beloved Jolie. Led down the twisted path of wic...

• Feb-1990
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CONTRACT The Mob is muscling in on New York's building trade, their web of corruption extending from union racketeering to controlling supplies. The law seems powerless to stop it, and the ruthless Five Families are playing rougher by the minute. ...

• Feb-1990
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A police detective struggles to outwit a twisted killer in this "breathless" crime novel by the New York Times�"bestselling author of Undercurrents (Chicago Tribune).   Carmel, California is a scenic, peaceful tourist haven where J...

• Feb-1990
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The feeling was mutual They hated each other. Oriel thought American banker Jake Emmerson was a thoroughly nasty, bad-mannered male chauvinist. Based on their first unfortunate encounter, Jake thought Dr. Oriel de Montfort was a certifiable lun...

• Feb-1990
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WAS SHE FALLING IN LOVE WITH A MAN WHO COULD ONLY BRING HER HEARTACHE? Susan Henley had inherited the Highperch Cottage legally--if somewhat notoriously--and no insufferable baron would cheat her out of the dear old place! She would fight Valenti...

• Feb-1990
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Alison Springer had a lot of problems Top priorities at the moment were a decaying water supply system and trying to avoid the local sheriff, who took more than a passing interest in her activities. Stedman Colson solved one problem when he mov...

• Feb-1990
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Someone knocking on the door at 3 A.M. is never good news. For V.I. Warshawski, the bad news arrives in the form of her wacky, unwelcome aunt Elena. The fire that has just burned down a sleazy SRO hotel has brought Elena to V.I.'s doorstep. Uncoverin...

• Feb-1990
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It begins one momentous October day when an unexpected letter arrives, inviting Lynn McLeod to the Virginia Blue Ridge home of Stephen Asche, her former husband. Stephen's daughter - by another woman - is troubled and needs her help. Lynn is a clinic...

• Feb-1990
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THEY WERE LIVING ON MEMORIES Nursery owner Paul Tremaine grew stately oaks and graceful birches -- but the humid jungles of Vietnam plagued his dreams. Bonnie Hudson taught her son that his father was a hero, an antiwar activist who'd died ...

• Feb-1990
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In life, Jane Ann never had much use for a halo, but in her violent death she finally earned one. When they found a suspect, everyone relaxed except Hugh MacReedy.Maybe he should have stayed out of it, but MacReedy owed a big debt to the patsy they w...

• Feb-1990
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DEVIL'S KISS It was five years since Elizabeth Alcester had laid eyes on her former stable boy Ivan Tramore . . . five years since her world had collapsed in devastating ruin around her. Now, penniless and desperate, she finds herself at the mercy o...

• Feb-1990
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Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist.  It tells a love story troubled by incest.  It is also at once a fairy ta...

• Feb-1990
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Caitlin Deverell had been born in SwanSea, the magnificent family home on the wild, windswept coast of Maine, and now she was restoring its splendor to open it as a luxury resort. When Nico DiFrenza asked her to let him stay for a few days, caution ...

• Feb-1990
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TEN STEPS AHEAD OF DEATH They escaped from the vengeful eye of Kevin McDonald and the seamy trap of his bordello...and tumbled right into Slocum's path. Any other time, Slocum would be mighty pleased to find himself in the company of four young be...

• Feb-1990
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One afternoon identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield are playing outside when they find a cat that has no home. Cats aren't allowed inside the Wakefield house because Mr. Wakefield and Steven have allergies. But more than anything the twins ...

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SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF KC Logan couldn't believe her eyes. She'd arrived in Harmony, Montana, expecting to rescue her sickly grandfather from financial ruin. Instead, the old fellow was in the money and kicking up his heels. And as for KC, she...

• Feb-1990
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There are many legends of great mountain men, hunters and trappers who manage to survive on their own in the harsh landscapes and forests of the West. The frontier is full of adversity, from blood-hungry natives to the vicious beasts of th...

• Mar-1990
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IT'S TIME FOR ME TO GO, GEN. IF YOU CAN GET TO RANGOON THERE'LL BE HELP GO TO NEW YORK--I COULDN'T--AND GOD BLESS YOU After he writes these words, Gen Ferris's missionary father commits suicide. The year is 1950, and suddenly orphaned at sixteen, ...

• Feb-1990
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DANGER ON DEPOSIT! The safe at the Bentley Bank has turned into the unsafest place in town. And when Nancy investigates a series of safe deposit box break-ins, she walks into a vault full of trouble. Whatever the burglars are after, it's not cash...

• Feb-1990
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Nancy stalks some missing jungle cats -- but finds a human animal deadliest of all! To help clear George's boyfriend, Nancy takes on a baffling case at the River Heights zoo. Four wild cats have vanished, and Owen Harris, a handsome grad student wor...

• Feb-1990
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FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD... . . . was where Ann Forties longed to be, not trapped at a tiresome party. And when she found herself under the eye of one gorgeous attorney, all her instincts screamed, "Run!" Once badly burned, she now steered clear...