Books Published in June 1985

• Jun-1985
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Was she foolish or wise to follow her instincts? The house had stood vacant for ten years, but Maggie Fitzgerald knew she could call it home. An award-winning songwriter, Maggie had sought peace and solitude from the Los Angeles celebrity hounds a...

• Jun-1985
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As the new assistant manager of an Alaskan freight company, Carly Grieves had a lot to get used to -- especially with a man like Brand St. Clair around to keep her on her toes. The rugged daredevil pilot had an uncanny knack for unsettling her com...

• Jun-1985
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Could she exorcise her dreams of love? Looking back, Christy realized that Simon hadn't wanted to fall in love with her six years ago -- while she'd had no other choice. Still, she shouldn't have assumed he'd want to marry her. ...

• Jun-1985
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Could it be more than infatuation? "You're still the most beautiful woman I've ever seen," Ben Seton/Dickon told Shelley. And admittedly she was more than flattered by his interest in her. But how could she take him seriously? B...

• Jun-1985
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In Chandler, Colorado, every man dreamed of winning Houston Chandler and her twin sister, Blair. But for Kane Taggert, a rugged stranger with dark eyes and new money, Houston was the lady he vowed to make his wife. Beneath her gracious mien lay a wom...

• Jun-1985
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Luz Kincaid Thomas has everything--wealth, two lovely teenagers, prestige, beauty and love-until her husband leaves her for a younger woman. Suddenly adrift, Luz confronts fear, loneliness and the rebellion of her son and daughter. When she meets mag...

• Jun-1985
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HENRY WAS NO GENTLEMAN In fact, Henry was not a man at all. Henry was a young lady, if you could call any female a lady who refused to go by her proper name of Henrietta but preferred her most unsuitable tomboyish nickname. But now Henry had to be...

• Jun-1985
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Their dreamworld had crumbled Alex, always the strong, dominant personality in their marriage, had refused to admit his affair. Instead, he'd demanded Sara's unquestioning trust as proof of her love, without any demonstration of love in re...

• Jun-1985
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Megan McKearn could make heads turn with just the flash of her smile. But acting as president of her father's brokerage firm left her with little time for men -- and that included the handsome, assured stockholder Garrett Reaves. Garrett wanted t...

• Jun-1985
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She wasn't the type to come between brothers Jenny Ross could cheerfully have killed Tony Knight, her lodger and friend -- one terrible tease. He shouldn't have introduced her to his family in Sydney as his "very special live-in lady.&...

• Jun-1985
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Wilderness explorer Jubal Sackett was the son of Barnabas Sackett, the first of that name to come to the New World. Jubal feared no man, nor backed away from any challenge. His fierce determination to blaze new trails took him across the vast, savage...

• Jun-1985
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WHERE THE HEART IS... For as long as Shelley Wilde could remember, she had wanted a home of her own, a place where she was understood, where she was safe. After a divorce and years of putting finishing touches on homes for other people, she had f...

• Jun-1985
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When they met, Karim el Khalid de Torres called it Fate... Mesmerized by his strong personal magnetism, Linda Layne had gone along with the events that followed their meeting as if in a dream. A delicious, romantic dream! But now that the clo...

• Jun-1985
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In the detective business, Spenser sometimes had to bend the law. Other times, he broke it. But he lived by his own inviolate rules. He didn't kill unless he had to. He helped a friend in trouble. And he loved just one woman -- even though she was th...

• Jun-1985
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HE WAS A KING FOR ALL HIS LIFE--AND LIKE ANY KING, WAS BOTH HATED AND LOVED... At the age of nine months, Henry VI became king of a turbulent England. Three women who came into his life were to have a deep and lasting effect not only on him but on...

• Jun-1985
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Welcome to the world of terror! Let the one and only Stephen King take you into a world where a macabre mist traps humanity in its swirling horror...where a beautiful young girl offers satanic seduction...where a child's toy becomes the ultimate inst...

• Jun-1985
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Finding wealthy Elaine Boldt seems like a quickie case to Kinsey Millhone. The flashy widow was last seen wearing a $12,000 lynx coat, leaving her condo in Santa Teresa for her condo in Boca Raton. But somewhere in between, she vanished. Kinsey's cas...

• Jun-1985
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Celebrate life's journeys with the beloved author whose stories of life and love have touched the world.With her evocative bestsellers The Shell Seekers and Coming Home, Rosamunde Pilcher opened your heart to the extraordinary powers of love, heartbr...

• Jun-1985
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So much for her dreams of a peaceful cruise... "By the time we dock in Fiji, " Cassandra's sister enthused, "I'll find you a millionaire, too. It won't be difficult if you play your cards right. " As if Cassandra could ...

• Jun-1985
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Kitty Radachek played to perfection her role as the demure wife of a powerful army commander she could never love...until a stolen kiss from a daring cavalry captain awoke in the countess a flaring passion more devastating than the fires of war that ...

• Jun-1985
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His generosity had a price Layne had never asked her estranged husband, Kyle Emerson, for any favors since the breakup of their marriage. So when he offered to pay their son's medical expenses, she wondered what she had to give in return. S...

• Jun-1985
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The clock in Emergency read 3:00 a.m. Bleary-eyed, Cassie removed the bits of Pacific Coast Highway embedded in his skin while the patient complained loudly. Then she saw the scar. It couldn't be. But how many men had long scars on their po...

• Jun-1985
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Summer lightning -- that described Jake Torey had fallen in love with him as a teenager, but he'd regarded her as a child. Singed by the experience she met and married another man. Now, seven years later, she'd returned to California as ...

• Jun-1985
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Born into Old-World elegance, beautiful Maria Espinosa lost her parents and her fortune when plague ravaged Mexico City. Now she lay in the blazing heat of the Santa Fe trail, sole survivor of a brutal Apache raid. Rescued by Diego Masferrer, Maria c...

• Jun-1985
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ELISE WAS SURE ALL MEN WERE BRUTES. THEN SHE MET REYNAUD CHAVALIER... A widow at twenty-five, beautiful Elise Laffont had been married to a beast of a man who left her with a strong aversion to sex. She was quite content to manage her small Loui...

• Jun-1985
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THE FIFTH OF THE FAMOUS ARMITAGE GIRLS WISHED SHE WAS NO GIRL AT ALL! Poor Diana Armitage! All she cared for was the hunt, and she loves to hunt while dressed as a man! With her lustrous black hair and enormous dark eyes, Diana is shy of men yet d...

• Jun-1985
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Quackery and his duckling brothers and sisters are very busy learning the ins and outs of being a duck--how to swim, where to eat, and how to steer clear of danger. They're anxious to grow up and know all there is to know--especially his brother Zack...

• Jun-1985
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SHE PREFERRED COWBOYS Sophia Athena Bennett had been raised by geniuses to shine in the rarefied atmosphere of academia. Instead she chose to live in Texas, where men were men, and a cowboy's prowess in barroom brawls and at breaking broncos was m...

• Jun-1985
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STOPPING WELLINGTON'S FORCES IN SPAIN AND DESTROYING MAJOR RICHARD SHARPE IS A PERFECT PLOT FOR NAPOLEON An unfinished duel, a midnight murder, and the treachery of a beautiful prostitute lead to Sharpe's imprisonment. Condemned to die as an assas...

• Jun-1985
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He conjured up more heat than she could handle Dell Delaney's parents had been magicians. Yet that zany, vagabond life had never been her style. Her obvious preference for accounting struck her relatives as weird! Then Adam 'ABC" Cooper explode...

• Jun-1985
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"The CLUSTER series of adventures is set in a future focused on colonization of distant planets, where every living thing has a Kirlian aura that can be measured. Through transfer, a refinement of mattermission technology, the mind and personality of...

• Jun-1985
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LOVE'S POTENT SPELL The warmth of his mouth entraps her moist lips, and he urges her to complete surrender. Can she deny the blazing desires of this hot-blooded English lord who had once protected her as a child and now seeks to conquer her as a woma...

• Jun-1985
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A love story, an adventure, an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's LONESOME DOVE is the grandest novel ever written about the last, defiant wilderness of America. Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove, and meet the kinds of unfor...

• Jun-1985
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ECSTASY'S WHIRLWIND Tempestuous, blue-eyed Tauren bristled with anger at the mere thought of Holt Reston. The black-clad overlord of Somerset had the manners of a cad and the charm of a cobra. Yet one look into his piercing hazel eyes and she was ...

• Jun-1985
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He'd broken her heart... Five years ago Olivia had been deliriously, ecstatically happy, she'd felt so sure of Raoul's love.... She still remembered the pain of learning that all the time Raoul de Varennes had wooed her with promises of love an...

• Jun-1985
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MATCHMAKER, MATCHMAKER... Make me a match. Rune McLaughlin's mother would stop at nothing to find him a wife -- including telling all to a reporter writing a "Ten Most Eligible Bachelors" article. Women up and down the Eastern Seaboard...

• Jun-1985
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Surgeon Greg Wilder wanted to court the feisty and beautiful widow who'd been caring for his four kids, but she just wouldn't let him past her doorstep! Sure that his interest was only casual, and that he preferred more sophisticated women, Maggie M...

• Jun-1985
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A RARE BREED The day Stassney arrived on the island, Paul Windham made his position perfectly clear. He proved his reckless nature with one jostling jeep ride, a ride that left her clinging to the edge of her seat. Paul led a rugged life in this l...

• Jun-1985
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Phoebe Vaughn was desperate. She would do anything for her younger sister. Even hold Calvin Prescott at gunpoint and demand that his pharmaceutical company supply the costly drug that could save Pat Vaughn's life. Phoebe's outrageous tactics won Cal'...

• Jun-1985
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"Welcome home," he said softly Despite its savage beauty, Marakizi, Jarrod's African game reserve, was no longer home to Cathy. She'd come back because Jarrod had ignored her letter asking for a divorce. But a few minutes in Jar...

• Jun-1985
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The Book of Love To Royce Argent, "love" was a word that belonged in the children's books she wrote and illustrated -- definitely not in her life. So when a dear old friend put his lavish London home at her disposal, Royce rolled up her sleeves a...

• Jun-1985
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Eyes of dark amber. A mocking smile. An infinitely arousing kiss. Her youthful heart given freely, then shattered. All of this Allison forced herself not to regret. Regret was for those afraid of living, and she was doing just fine. Then Matt Wake...

• Jun-1985
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Ever since 1862, when a dashing Yankee captain had negotiated a "surrender" with the lady of the house, there'd been a unique family tradition at Magnolia Trails. Now, so many years later, a brash Yankee entrepreneur named Kane Benedict had come to t...

• Jun-1985
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Shandy was angry, angry and frustrated Chedoona Downs was a beautiful place to stay--even as a virtual prisoner. And once Shandy knew no harm was intended, the shock of having been kidnapped disappeared. But since she was not the person he'd in...

• Jun-1985
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Terror in the skies... George Warren has been looking forward to taking his girlfriend, Enid Rollins, as a passenger on his first licensed flight. Afterward he's going to tell her something he's known for a long time - he doesn't love her anymore, a...

• Jun-1985
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Jessica's had it with Sweet Valley... Jessica Wakefield is sick and tired of taking second place to her twin sister, Elizabeth. Everyone adores Elizabeth; she's kind and loving and generous. But Jessica can't seem to do anything right. Then Jes...

• Jun-1985
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Two hundred miles from home, completely on our own, with the easiest work in the world -- I can hardly wait! It has to be the best summer of Victoria Martin's life! She and her best friend, Steffi, are going to be waitresses at Camp mohaph, and a...

• Jun-1985
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"Falling in love is supposed to be fun. " To Paul Baldwin everything was simple. He and Kristen were in love, and she needed him. Of course they would be married.... But to Kristen there was an obstacle to their happiness, and she could...

• Jun-1985
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It just wasn't done The moment Rynn Taylor stepped off the plane, Maressa Scott's well-laid plans for her brother's wedding started to go awry. Now she had more pressing things to think about -- things like Rynn' s gorgeous smile. ...

• Jun-1985
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THIS WAS AN OFFER SHE COULDN'T REFUSE! An attractive coal-mining magnate, a beautiful valley homestead and the perfect teaching job -- Alana Campbell's star was definitely on the rise! Opening up young Bruce's silent world was the m...