Books Published in July 1986

• Jul-1986
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AN OCEAN OF LOVE Kate Hardesty had inherited a pile of mysterious ocean charts. Her practical, no-nonsense father had had a dream -- sunken treasure -- and he'd left a map leading to a gold-laden ship. Determined to complete her father's explorati...

• Jul-1986
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When Maggie Kingsbury walked down the aisle as Maid of Honor at her best friend's wedding, she had no idea that twenty-four hours later she'd be married to the best man! Glenn Lambert had been her best friend in high school. Afterward they'd gone th...

• Jul-1986
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THE SETTING: New York THE CAST: Bett Cambridge, aspiring actress. She had devoted her entire professional life to escaping her backwoods past and was now a Broadway star. The one blot on her resume -- an ill-fated affair with America's most promis...

• Jul-1986
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THEY'D COME FULL CIRCLE Shay was the raven-haired beauty the Falconer brothers called Gypsy. The four men each found her irresistible. But it was Lyon Falconer who claimed her - when he didn't have the right - and sealed her fate. And it was Ri...

• Jul-1986
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A MAN POSSESSED If there was truly a devil who could lure and seduce the innocent, Lord Sloan Treveryan was that man. Captain of the Sea Hawk and bound to the king's business, he might have been a lord but he was no gentleman. He carried Brianna o...

• Jul-1986
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SHAY KENDALL Bright, determined, she had lived her life in the shadow of her movie-star mother. But now that Rosamond's illness had forced her into retirement and obscurity, Shay's life was fading as fast as her mother's Hollywood glory. MITCH...

• Jul-1986
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It began as a daring, desperate scenario to flush out a terrorist, a man whose crimes were serious enough for Sedikhan security chief Clancy Donahue to kidnap a stunning American singer to act as bait. A man who'd never known any true lover but d...

• Jul-1986
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When Colonel Scott dies, his will points the way to clearing the unspoken secret that shadowed his retirement and turned him from a WW II hero into a disgraced and broken man. It is up to Adam to follow. The path leads to a Swiss bank and a vault, ...

• Jul-1986
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At first he heard only her voice in the darkness. Then, when the lights clicked on, Noah Thorne knew he was in for something just a little wild! The revelation that interior designer Alex Bennet had been a lion tamer for four years both delighted h...

• Jul-1986
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He was a hard man to forget... The last thing Marni Lange wanted was to appear on the cover of a national magazine. Instinct told her she was making a huge mistake...and when she walked into the photographer's studio she knew she'd been ri...

• Jul-1986
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Elizabeth I Denounced as a bastard, imprisoned in the Tower of London by her fanatical sister, the iron-willed daughter of Henry VIII nevertheless was certain it was her destiny to become Queen of England. And when the crown finally came to her, s...

• Jul-1986
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HE IS SKYE O'MALLEY'S HANDSOME YOUNG BROTHER...SHE'S A BEAUTIFUL STARNGER Conn O'Malley is an Irish rogue no woman can resist. Known as the handsomest man at court, he has been seducing and abandoning wenches and royal ladies alike, until he meets...

• Jul-1986
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He fixed everything that mattered When Diana Thatcher, widowed mother of two, advertised for a live-in handyman, she expected a history scholar in tweeds and horn-rims. Not this suntanned fraud in cutoffs, who grinned easily and complained of the ...

• Jul-1986
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Everyone saw them as a perfect match! "People aren't chess pieces to be pushed around, Maman," Piers said. "I've no intention of tying myself to a girl I don't love." "You can't be serious!" Amanda's ...

• Jul-1986
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He invaded a lot more than her privacy Playing a sexy villainess on TV was a challenge for actress Abby Swan. She was the woman America loved to hate. But for one person fantasy was reality, and Abby's life was in danger. Sam Garrett, FBI, had...

• Jul-1986
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Justine Jamieson's head was spinning She'd weathered her mother's death, the shocking revelation that the man she'd called father was not her father. But losing her job on trumped-up charges or having pirated designs to the competi...

• Jul-1986
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Fritzi Taylor had always wanted a water bed -- but she never imagined it would come equipped with someone to keep her warm! It all began on New Year's Eve when she sped to the rescue of Ryan E. Majors, charming even when inebriated. One day later...

• Jul-1986
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"Oh!" Clarice Jenkins fumed at the audacity of Mr. Grady O'Toole. It was bad enough that he'd set up his tacky tamale stand right next to her uncle's elegant restaurant, but then he had the nerve to stand there bare-chested selling his wares! Why, it...

• Jul-1986
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Love carried their passion through flames of war ALL SHE COULD THINK ABOUT WAS THE POWER SHE FELT IN HIS EMBRACE...THE ECSTASY SHE FOUND IN HIS KISS... "I want to lie with you -- now," whispered the handsome Virginian, defying the danger of mak...

• Jul-1986
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JANE DOE wasn't just another patient. And in all his years of training, no one had touched Joshua Martane like the fragile young woman who had been brought to the psychiatric ward five months earlier. Suspected prostitute. Brutalized victim of a ser...

• Jul-1986
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Bernie and his friend Carolyn were planning to rob the lovely West Side brownstone...until they discovered they had been beaten to the punch. Fortunately, the first burglars left behind some decent goods...emerald earrings, a Piaget watch--and a valu...

• Jul-1986
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THE TROUBLE WITH ANGEL Blake Carlyle wouldn't have chosen Angel Bennington for a wife if she were the last woman on earth. He needed an obedient corporate wife, not a capricious bohemian artist. But their union was inevitable, due to a comi...

• Jul-1986
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WILD HEARTS... It was plain to Angie Faulkner that Rafferty Sharpstone was a mean son-of-a-steer-wrestling roper. But he wasn't going to get rid of her without a hassle. She'd sunk every penny into Strawberry, her prizewinning roan. The...

• Jul-1986
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Grattan, Texas is a bad place to get an education -- and a worse place to be a teacher. One by one, the school masters and marms were given a choice: Take a permanent recess...or a bullet in the brain. In no time at all, the schoolhouse was empty. Bu...

• Jul-1986
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Being the daughter of celebrity Claire Drummond was not easy. Everyone expected a shallow display of glamour when they first met Joanna. And thought Joanna as just an assistant to a U.S. Senator, she wanted to be taken seriously. So when her boss...

• Jul-1986
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The Montana Kid, El Keed south of the border, slips a marriage noose to join Mateo Rubriz, prince of Mexican outlaws, in a wild cross-border raid. The target: a gold and emerald crown stolen by the governor of Duraya from the church under his protect...

• Jul-1986
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Clark's Harbor was the perfect coastal haven,  jealously guarded against outsiders. But now  strangers have come to settle there. And a small boy is  suddenly free of a frenzy that had gripped him since  birth....

• Jul-1986
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The old mill has been silent for a hundred years, its dread secrets locked from view. Still, the people of Westover, Massachusetts, remember . . . and whisper of that terrible day when horrifying flames claimed eleven innocent young lives. The day th...

• Jul-1986
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LONE STAR LOVE West Texas was everything fashion model Barbara Holcomb had expected: hot, barren and wholly uninviting. If it hadn't been for the pleading letter from her Aunt Ellie, she would never have left the comfort of New York. But then she ...

• Jul-1986
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ALLURE OF THE FORBIDDEN At the tender age of seventeen, Alex Carson had swept Stephanie Randolph off her feet. They were an unlikely combination--a young woman of breeding and a car mechanic -- but Stephanie had been enraptured. Alex was tough, se...

• Jul-1986
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Who cared if he liked her or not! Marti couldn't envision life beyond the city limits. When her father insisted she represent him at a rodeo in the Australian bush country, she felt banished to the ends of the earth. Not wanting to disappoi...

• Jul-1986
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No one would play him for a fool Cressida didn't trust Lord Rupert Dearham. Not one bit! He pretended to be an explorer with no head for business. But Cressida had seen the way he'd stood up to her father's bullying. Thank goodness...

• Jul-1986
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They married for money neither of them wanted Penelope Bloom Harris had chosen the dilapidated Great Salt Marsh as the last place that anyone would look for her, her plans were just to escape her Uncle Henry until her twenty-first birthday, when s...

• Jul-1986
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Mayor Ben Corbett thought that a night in jail was just the ticket. It would show lovely movie scout, Morgan Gerard, that his Long Island community had rules--and it would ensure that she leave town at dawn. But neither Ben nor Morgan had anticipated...

• Jul-1986
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More than half a century ago, Papa Drovek opened his small grocery store at the junction of two country roads. As he bought more and more land, the roads became highways, and now the Droveks own a complex of hotels, restaurants, a truck stop, a shopp...

• Jul-1986
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Interest in a new man was not part of her plans After her traumatic experience, Cathy was convinced her newly acquired teahouse in the Canadian Rockies was the place to start life afresh. Perhaps it was drastic action, but Cathy wanted time to ...

• Jul-1986
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She had to keep him away from her Katherine Marie Farlough was young, beautiful and the daughter of a very rich and distinguished man. But inside that gilded cage, Kate was a mere pawn in her father's life. The ruthless Kentuckian cared mor...

• Jul-1986
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Erin tried to bury her heart in her work When British author Erin Page went to Florida to interview Jago Miles, star of a TV soap opera, she expected to meet a vain celebrity. Instead, Jago intrigued her. In spite of his generous salary the bl...

• Jul-1986
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Plain Jane, maybe -- but no easy conquest Jane Fairchild, garden editor for Northwest Life, described herself as unglamorous and reserved. It suited her just fine...until she met Blake Bannister. As Seattle's most eligible male, Blake was o...

• Jul-1986
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Kate thought she had it all As owner of an adventure tour company, Kate Flannigan had the perfect life -- far-ranging travel, exotic experiences. She was fancy-free -- until she met Adam Cooper. Adam traveled the world, too, as a hotel executiv...

• Jul-1986
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Looking for love... DANGER! In the hidden New York, the long-forgotten tunnels beneath Wall Street, librarian Mollie Fletcher discovered not just a window on the past, but danger and love beyond her wildest imaginings. Sebastian Barnett, th...

• Jul-1986
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ADVENTURING WAS HARDLY HER STYLE Katherine Theodopolis was going to have to dispense with her "lady-of-the-manor" routine. It seemed irrelevant after being rescued by a handsome pirate in the South Pacific. At least Blackie Lowell had all the...

• Jul-1986
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IT WAS ENOUGH TO DRIVE A SANE WOMAN MAD ... John Peal, irritating John Peal, was back in Indiana and courting Talullah Metcalf, teacher and self-confessed spinster. That suited the town matchmakers just fine. Everyone liked Talullah, and John was Ta...

• Jul-1986
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LOVE'S CHERISHED TREASURE Trembling with fear, Charity Brown let her shapeless woolen gown fall to the ships deck and, with a silent prayer dived naked into the dark waters of Chesapeake Bay. In the distance lay the moonlit shores of the American ...

• Jul-1986
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Let him race cars, gamble, live the playboy life! Mary Ellen Campbell cursed Ty Stevenson as she left Chicago on a European tour. He was nothing but a tease, a flirt. And now she had steeled herself to life without him, when he had the gall to reappe...

• Jul-1986
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Together they searched for Isobel's past After the car accident impaired her memory, Isobel St. Aubyn had only haunting flashbacks and the evasive accounts of her family to bring back her past. Until she met Eliot Richardson. Torn between h...

• Jul-1986
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"I must believe that, she reminded herself. It is all I have." Lorabeth Whitaker has fled an unacceptable marriage arranged by her mother in England, only to fall in love with a handsome young Virginia planter, Cameron Montrose, whose marriage to ...

• Jul-1986
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Jenna Macklin couldn't deny her nature Something in her needed to help. It was why Jenna was a physician, why she worked in the emergency room of a big-city hospital -- and why she'd come back to Lake of the Woods, Minnesota, to search for...

• Jul-1986
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In Deadfall Bill Pronzini's popular "Nameless Detective" returns in his most baffling -- and harrowing -- case to date. While staked out on a routine car repossession, Nameless all but witnesses the shooting of a San Francisco lawyer, Leonard Purcell...

• Jul-1986
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It's August, and Emily has big plans at the library. She's going to read lots of books and tack a paper fish next to her name for each one. Then Dawn Bosco says she can read more books than Emily. Not only that, both Emily and Dawn want to keep Pickl...