Books Published in February 1996

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Hard Luck, Alaska -- a town that needs women! Location: 50 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Population: 150--mostly men--but growing! Because the O'Halloran brothers, who run a bush-plane service called Midnight Sons, are heading a campaign t...

• Feb-1996
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HER HERO Barrie Lovejoy needed a savior. The terrorist group holding her hostage surely wouldn't tolerate her silence much longer. Instead they would silence her-forever. Then out of the darkness he arrived. Grizzled and dangerous, he led Barrie f...

• Feb-1996
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P for predator, P for passionate, P for prey! These words came to mind when Bella thought of Rico da Silva. The international financier was definitely a predator -- hadn't he pounced when her defenses were down? Passionate? Their lovemaki...

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The Uncommon Commoner Miss Cora Downes was only a merchant's daughter. But when she saved a duke's son from drowning, her reward was entry into London high society. Cora had a style of beauty and mode of manners that made her a fish out of water i...

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IF YOU HAD JUST ONE WISH, WHAT WOULD IT BE? A brilliant career, two adoring husbands--none of it is enough to erase the memory of Ariel Hart's one true love. Back when she was plain, starry-eyed Aggie Bixby, a dark-eyed boy touched her heart . ....

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Molly Abberwick, trustee of her late father's foundation, is furious with her new consultant, scientist-philosopher Dr. Harry Stratton Trevelyan. Harry is brilliant, sexy, and absolutely impossible -- and his outrageous suggestion of a scientifi...

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Burning with passion! Kit and Liam were business partners by day and lovers by night. But Liam was content to hold Kit at arm's length emotionally. Kit was frustrated--they were two mature people, for goodness' sake; surely by now they sho...

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ENJOY A COLLECTION OF STORIES THAT ARE IDEALLY SUITED FOR THIS SPECIAL SEASON OF HEARTS AND FLOWERS. IN ALL THREE TALES, LOVERS FIND EACH OTHER WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM CUPID. ONCE THEY DO, ROMANCE IS LIKE A BOX OF VALENTINE'S MY CHOCOLATES: SWEET; DE...

• Feb-1996
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A year and a half ago Melissa Horton made a mistake that cost the lovely single mother her one true love--and her baby girl a father. Now Texas rancher Cody Adams was back, shocked to discover he was a parent--and determined to make Melissa his wife....

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Disguised as the magic-wielding outlaw called the Crimson Shadow, Eriadoran noble Luthien Bedwyr has struck the first blows for his people's liberation. But now his ragtag rebel army of elves, dwarfs, and humans must rally against the threat of a new...

• Feb-1996
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Once wasn't enough Harrison Nash was convinced he only needed to make love with Kimberley once, and she'd be out of his system for good. Kimberley Ryan knew Harrison wasn't looking for commitment -- but she couldn't help loving him...

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They say something horrible happened that day, but Martha can’t remember any of it -- not even the smallest detail. They say it will come back to her in time. But someone wants her to remember now. She draws his face, over and over -- the face of a...

• Feb-1996
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WHEN DUMMIES SPEAK...EVERYBODY LISTENS! Trina O'Dell's dad used to have a ventriloquist act. That's why he has all those dummies in the attic. He calls it his Dummy Museum. There's a dummy with freckles. And one with a sneer just like Rocky. Trina an...

• Feb-1996
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The story of one man whose quiet strength in his convictions makes an entire town believe -- and of one woman who rebuilds a shattered life and a broken heart. Of one person fighting to forget the past. And one vowing... ALWAYS TO REMEMBER Refu...

• Feb-1996
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Desperately seeking daddy.. . Erin Collins was a mother-to-be, but the daddy was nowhere to be found! "Brady, come home. Love, Erin." Erin had nothing to lose by placing the personal ad. And lo and behold, Brady Lockwood was found--months af...

• Feb-1996
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Compelled, charmed... and compromised! Mariel Browning loved Bride's Bay Resort, its Sea Island location, its friendly staff. She'd jumped at the offer to translate there again--but soon wished she hadn't. For one thing, working for a ...

• Feb-1996
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BORN OF FIRE Awakening from a drugged sleep in a cold cell, the princess Kiara finds herself a prisoner of the merciless marauders who threaten her father's planetary kingdom. Miraculously, a rescuer appears, but behind his fearsome mask is the hands...

• Feb-1996
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She was a beautiful bride Or she would have been, had the groom bothered to show up. And then, at the exact moment Nina Cormier would have said 'I do,' the empty church exploded -- sending a loud message that someone was after the bride-to...

• Feb-1996
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WEDDING DAY Pretty, flighty Daisy Devreaux can either go to jail or marry the mystery man her father has chosen for her. Arranged marriages don't happen in the modern world, so how did the irrepressible Daisy find herself in this fix? Alex Mar...

• Feb-1996
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"You will be mine...on my terms..." Nathan Audley was a powerful man. What he wanted he usually got...and he wanted Annie! He'd branded her a gold-digger, a widow in search of a rich husband; yet he was determined to control her life ...

• Feb-1996
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Mount Dragon: an enigmatic research complex hidden in the vast desert of New Mexico. Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca have come to Mount Dragon to work shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest scientific minds on the planet. Led by visionar...

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The cries came night after night, a child's anguished sobbing, echoing through the halls on the mansion that was Julie Kingsdon's legacy. And there was no possible explanation for them, except perhaps the haunted eyes of the man she shared th...

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Everything comes to he who waits.... Josy Fereday, widowed and wary, has decided that she isn't marriage material. But now that her twin sister, Belvia, is happily wedded, Josy must get on with her own life. Dacre Banchereau is offering her...

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When a will leads to a wedding... It's Kyra's turn: "My father's legacy allowed me to assert my independence after years of being the pampered Landon 'princess.' But I've discovered independence has its own problems....

• Feb-1996
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FORBIDDEN DESIRE Honed by danger and haunted by the past, Lord Michael Kenyon finds it easy to risk his life for his country's sake. But in the shadow of war, he faces a far more dangerous threat --- the loss of his heart to the beautiful battlefi...

• Feb-1996
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A LADY'S CHAMPION Only a threat to her life could have made strong-willed Lady Alisoun hire Sir David of Radcliffe to protect her castle. Although he had once been a hero and master swordsman, the good life had been a little too good to the lord, ...

• Feb-1996
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Simon "Devil" Dure is as cynical about love as spirited Charity Emerson is innocent of it. But she is certain she can meet his wifely expectations, and he is charmed and amused enough to believe her. Their ensuing engagement is as shocking as...

• Feb-1996
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Secretly admiring the Ottawa chieftain Silver Arrow, Yvonne is enthralled by his mystical powers and seductive ways, but disputes between the warrior's tribe and the frontierspeople threaten to keep the couple apart. FIRST LOVE, WILD LOVE Y...

• Feb-1996
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Blackmail bride! Carlton Reef wanted a bride -- and Katie needed the money! His proposal was outrageous, but simple. He would pay her family's debts if Katie would agree to become his wife... But what possible reason could this ruthless, ...

• Feb-1996
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SECRET AGENT, SECRET SONS Secret agent Torch Palamaro had finally found her--the mysterious Alexandra Holt who'd disappeared six months ago with something he desperately wanted. The woman was his only chance for revenge against the man who'd taken...

• Feb-1996
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WHAT EVERY WOMAN WANTS... ...is what Evie Jones has wanted all her life--husband, children, the white picket fence. But these ordinary wishes have eluded her miserably...because Evie is far from ordinary.... ...IS ONE GOOD MAN Erik Riggins, with...

• Feb-1996
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THE HOUR OF CHOOSING IS AT HAND.... In "Lammas Night" a young weaver of spells is persuaded to bide a while in a small village, to make-their village spells and keep the Dark at bay. As part of their persuasion, the villagers have given her the hous...

• Feb-1996
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A DEPT OF HONOR A SCANDALOUS DUTY The reckless and impoverished heiress Phadra Abbott swore that no amount of scandal would stop her from finding her spendthrift explorer father. Not even her forbiddingly handsome guardian Grant Morgan could stand in...

• Feb-1996
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Stop that man -- or the wedding! Ross Laxton was determined to stop his brother's "shotgun wedding"! And the only person who could stop him was Claire Marcroft! The sister of the expectant bride to be, she had more reason than most for...

• Feb-1996
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A PIRATE'S PASSION He is Morgan Scott, an English nobleman once held captive on the high seas by the brutal Spanish master and crew who murdered his family. Now he sails the seas as a British privateer, taking his revenge by attacking and plunde...

• Feb-1996
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A FATHER'S DILEMMA Giles Haverill adored his adopted son, though he couldn't seem to show it. He knew the boy longed for his lost mother, just as Giles himself ached for a woman's gentle touch. But how did you tell a child that he'd ...

• Feb-1996
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Innocent House, a mock-Venetian palace occupied by Britain's oldest book publisher. Here, after a spate of malicious pranks, someone killed Gerard Etienne, the ruthless managing director, and jammed the office mascot, a stuffed snake, in his mouth. ...

• Feb-1996
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An enchantress from seventeenth-century Massachusetts collides with a future beyond her imagining...and with a handsome cynic who's about to learn a lesson in the power of love. AN EXQUISITE ENCHANTRESS LOST IN TIME Arian Whitewood hadn't qui...

• Feb-1996
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Dr Sophie Lynton was determined that even if Kevin's work meant cancelling the wedding she was still going to Australia for their honeymoon, where he would join her later. But her arrival was not without drama, which brought her into closer contact ...

• Feb-1996
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Frozen enemies make for a chilling challenge in this fifth book in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Pike’s Spooksville series -- now on TV!Adam and his friend are exploring the forest near Spooksville when they come across huge blocks ...

• Feb-1996
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NOT EXACTLY A NINE-TO-FIVE JOB... Maggie Sinclair has played everything from a nun to a call girl in her work for the supersecret OMEGA agency. But now she really had her hands full, impersonating the vice president of the United States. And more ...

• Feb-1996
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For former San Francisco cop Dismas Hardy, Guinness Stout with Bass Ale is the drink of choice, but a straight Irish whiskey will do anytime. The news of young Eddie Cochran's death calls for a double. The cops think it's suicide, but even to a lapse...

• Feb-1996
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THE FATHER OF HER CHILD WAS A SHEIK? A decade ago Ben Shalik had disappeared from Megan O'Sullivan's life, leaving her with nothing but memories... and a baby. Now he was back, causing Megan to tremble with more than desire. For Ben was o...

• Feb-1996
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Mr. February The eager groom: Travis Kane, former heartbreaker of the country. The very reluctant bride: Megan O'Brien, hardest-working woman in Texas. The too-good-to-be-true proposal: Marry him, and save the ranch. The only thin...

• Feb-1996
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Two families--the Wakefields of nobility and the lower-class Morgans--are the focus of this sweeping generational saga, joined by intriguing personalities such as Elizabeth I, William Tyndale, and John Bunyan. Linking the people and events through th...

• Feb-1996
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HE DIDN'T BELIEVE IN LOVE Dean Gates was burned out. His high-powered job and his ex-wife's demands were driving him crazy. On top of it all, he was fast approaching Black Wednesday--Valentine's Day. He needed to escape! When he first set eyes on ...

• Feb-1996
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When an asteroid out of nowhere threatens to hit Earth, a space shuttle is sent to nudge it into a safe orbit. Venturing to the surface, three crew members become trapped as the asteroid suddenly leaves orbit, transporting them to a strange planet li...

• Feb-1996
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Tennessee,1865. A Yankee soldier and a Southern belle are ready to start their own civil war--until a heavenly visitor draws up terms of surrender that will bring them anal bliss....

• Feb-1996
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SPOILS OF WAR A new white slavery ring is being set up in Europe, and Mack Bolan's mandate is to shut down the operation, by any means necessary. His take-no-prisoners blitz begins in Bosnia, with and lightning pimps strikes who are against th...

• Feb-1996
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Treasured Tales IV His gaze made her feel pinned, captive, as if he'd never let her go.... They called him The Predator, the investigator who never left a case unsolved, and now Dane Colbourne had set his sights on her! Adria Burke knew her qui...