Books Published in May 1985

• May-1985
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LAURELLIE ARMAND... Her competition with fellow reporter Matthew Bates went beyond professional rivalry; she fought the spark of sexual attraction as well. But when the two of them became unwilling partners investigating a mysterious death, Laurel ...

• May-1985
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The MacGregor clan was closely knit. Caine MacGregor's sister had married Diana Blade's brother, but the emotions Caine felt meeting Diana had nothing to do with family -- everything to do with desire. Caine was something of a ladies' man, a demo...

• May-1985
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Abby Carpenter longed for the type of romance she had read about in books. She loved Logan, but thought a little spice in her life might prove interesting. Then she met Tate Harding, the handsome stranger who had been watching her in the park. He ...

• May-1985
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For two years Pricilla Johnson watched John Sterling manage his cattle station, and at the tender age of eighteen she innocently surrendered her young heart to him. He was big, brash, brazen and Australian. Everyone called it infatuation, Priss knew ...

• May-1985
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The situation was explosive Selina Thorn arranged work with a prominent London QC not to break up his marriage -- the way her mother had once tried -- but to get to know her father secretly so that she could put her past behind her. She hadn...

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Seeing Slater again would cause Chris pain Natalie had always known how desperately in love with Slater Chris had been, and she'd arranged things so that Chris would have to return to England and face the man who'd rejected her. For as a f...

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He was more attentive as a lover Leonie had a tendency to drop things, knock things over or bump into them, a tendency that had irritated her husband Adam Faulkner when they'd lived together--a tendency that her lover seemed to find endearing....

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Bettina Daniels lived a fairytale existence of  glamour, endless parties, and luxury among  America's top celebrities -- simply because she was the  beautiful daughter of famous American author Justin Daniels. Then, in o...

• May-1985
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WHEN THE HEART'S ILLUSIONS SHATTER, REALITY CAN BE FRIGHTENING -- OR BEAUTIFUL Jessica and Ian Clarke...they were the golden couple -- young, glamorous, exciting. Most of all, they had each other, and marriage had only deepened their all-consumin...

• May-1985
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Smart, beautiful, and very rich, Kezia Saint Martin leads two lives: one as a glamorous socialite jetting between the poshest places in Europe and America; the other, under a false name, as a dedicated journalist committed to justice and her professi...

• May-1985
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In Rome, Isabella and her husband, Amadeo, have created an idyllic marriage and the House of San Gregorio, the most exciting name in European high fashion. But in an act of terrorism, Amadeo is kidnapped and taken from Isabella forever. Fleeing to Ne...

• May-1985
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Why was he talking to her about love? Julia was puzzled by the austere Professor van der Wagema's remark that there should be more to life than working at St. Anne's Hospital in London. "At the end of the day you know what that is," ...

• May-1985
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After twelve painful years Kim Trent finally accepted the truth: Brian was dead. A widow with twin sons, she rejoiced in Keith Norman's love. They agreed to live together, to move toward marriage in steps...until Brian returned from the dead, a ...

• May-1985
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The answer was crystal clear... Sara Frazer had no choice. She had to break into Adrian Saville's house to look for clues to the whereabouts of her Uncle Lowell. And once she was inside, she couldn't help doing some additional snooping around - just...

• May-1985
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She wasn't about to lose him again Jilly's confession devastated her Aunt Chloe. Her allegation that Ben Haskell had tried to seduce her three years ago had been false--as false as Chloe's love for Ben must have seemed when she'd ...

• May-1985
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Trust didn't come easily to Tess... Tess was wary of good-looking men. Too often they were sexual opportunists to whom fidelity meant nothing -- like her father. And she doubted if playwright Steve Houghten was any different. He'd turne...

• May-1985
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ENSLAVING PASSION His imperious blue eyes raked over her trembling body. She had never imagined that Kamal the savage sultan who dared make her a harem slave, would look so like a blond Nordic god. She had never dreamed that the warm, exploring t...

• May-1985
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HE PROMISES NOTHING LESS THAN LOVE WITHOUT END Exquisite, radiant Tania Orlinov -- incomparable prima ballerina, renowned Soviet defector, she expresses the dreams of love only dance can reveal...but seeks none of them for herself. Brilliant, ...

• May-1985
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She had reason to distrust him Jason Wingard's sudden reappearance in Laura's life proved how little she knew about her ex-husband. Three years ago when she'd fallen in love with him, she'd believed him to be a struggling artist...

• May-1985
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Pawn in a royal bargain, beautiful Felise Scelfton was handed in marriage to Sir Royce Leighton, the scarred and brooding lord of the grim keep of Segeland. And between them desire grew, bursting into a raging hunger that blazed at their merest touch...

• May-1985
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Should she stake her future on him? Kate had been brought up to believe that promises were not to be given lightly, and despite her husband's lies and blatant infidelity, she'd managed to hold on to her integrity -- if not her ability to t...

• May-1985
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Had she dreamed him up -- this man, this fantasy? Her fiancé's betrayal and her frenzied flight to a secluded beach near Sydney had been for Eve a nightmare -- until the moment a stranger held her in his arms and revealed a lotus land where...

• May-1985
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LONG-RIDIN' MAN Chantry came home to a murdered brother and a couple of squatters. Then the Mowatt gang moved in. They were looking for his brother's buried treasure. Chantry was going to lead them to it. Or else....

• May-1985
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TAILSPIN She'd known the job was hazardous, but the Coast Guard Search and Rescue helicopter pilot Lieutenant Storm Travis learned its true toll when she lost her husband. Suddenly, love seemed an impossible dream. Then Lieutenant Bram Gallaghe...

• May-1985
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Once a rake--always a rake? If only Ashlie's brother hadn't accepted work so far away from London. Perhaps then his wife wouldn't have fallen for her rakish boss and Ashlie wouldn't have had to interfere.. "You drive a hard ...

• May-1985
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NO MAN'S SLAVE! Berry was only eighteen - and a fresh-mouthed kid - when she left the wagon trails to find her father's claim in Missouri. She was happy to be free from her father's tyranny. But now with only her gentle young step mother beside her,...

• May-1985
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He was obsessively wary of love and marriage Slade Western was arrogant and overbearing, bent on having his own way. Passion seemed to be the only emotion he understood -- that and possessiveness. Lee had always wanted a home and a man willing ...

• May-1985
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Horror stalked the Four Lands as the Ildatch, ancient source of evil, stirred to new life, sending its ghastly Mord Wraiths to destroy Mankind. To win through the vile growth that protected the Ildatch, the Druid Allanon needed Brin Ohmsford -- fo...

• May-1985
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This beloved novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer tells the uplifting story of a single mom seeking independence and struggling to find her way.   Nell St. John is not living the life she imagined for herself -- not by a long ...

• May-1985
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On a muddy road near Dawson Springs, they met again Gwen Nolan looked at the face she had not seen in twelve years and heard echoes of all their breathless promises and whispered dreams. Memory stretched across the chasm of years and bridged the d...

• May-1985
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Had she gone mad? Laurel Henderson hadn't expected the burden of inheriting her father's farm to fall squarely on her shoulders. And if Sheriff Clay Kerwin couldn't catch the culprits who were sabotaging her best efforts, her hopes of selling it were...

• May-1985
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She should have run as fast as she could... Yet, looking back, Devon knew she wouldn't change a thing. Loving Jon Hardesty was worth all her turmoil. From the day three months ago when circumstances had forced them to share the only availab...

• May-1985
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Could they ever work together? Chelsea had dreamed of becoming the first female partner at Shelby Harris and Associates the most respected architecture firm in St. Louis And she'd backed up her ambition with long hours and hard work--only to h...

• May-1985
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She'd expected a little temptation Anna Douglas had realized when she left her fiance in California for a temporary job in Wisconsin that she'd meet other men. And she hadn't worried about it, believing she knew the strength of her com...

• May-1985
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Courtney Meade only meant to dissuade Jared Calhoun from shooting Ebeneezer, her son's pet hawk, when she dove over the fence and tackled him. But the gun he held went off... and wounded her furious neighbor in the foot! All the way to the hospital J...

• May-1985
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MISS HONEYFORD WAS SOUR ON ROMANCE Miss Honaria Honeyford was sent to London to save the family fortune by hunting a wealthy husband -- and being a loving if not entirely dutiful daughter, she obeyed. But if she was reluctantly willing to surr...

• May-1985
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WHEN A LADY'S BETROTHED SERVES THE RAKISH PRINCE REGENT, LOVE CAN BE A NATIONAL SCANDAL! SHE WOULD SACRIFICE ANYTHING FOR HER BELOVED -- ANYTHING BUT HIS HEART! Nothing could dampen Miss Deirdre Gower's spirits now that she was betrot...

• May-1985
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His dark eyes enticed her... It took less than a day for Norma Seton to fall into Roberto Cortelli's arms and change from a woman in control of her own destiny into someone ruled by rapturous emotion. And part of her wanted the tender magic to...

• May-1985
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First published in 1985 and long out-of-print, Big Fish, one of Thomas Perry’s most sought-after titles, is now available to readers in an e-book format. Powerfully-plotted and funny, Big Fish follows dangerous and mysterious Los Angeles entr...

• May-1985
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SEASON OF FIRE Nothing in Joanna's genteel Philadelphia upbringing had prepared her for life with her beloved Windhawk. Each time the handsome Indian warrior claimed her creamy flesh, she gloried in his fiery kisses and melted in his steely embr...

• May-1985
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RISKY BUSINESS Three weeks on the scenic Oregon coast at the Tropicana Royale was Carolyn Kenniwick's dream come true. It was time to leave her gift shop behind and make a change. New clothes, a new hairdo, and a new attitude were going to mak...

• May-1985
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LOVE'S SURRENDER Only desperate fear could have made young Alisa resort to trickery to force the handsome and wealthy American sea captain, Christian Reed, to marry her. Safely away from England, she vowed to give him all her love...yet she da...

• May-1985
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Worlds apart -- in all but love What was wrong with her? Moira Tennant was at the pinnacle of her modeling career in a place where it mattered... New York! Yet something vital was missing in her life -- until she met Patrick Casey. "You'...

• May-1985
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POLITICAL PRISONER He awoke in a tiny lightless cell, groping for memory ... memory that had been erased. Hope Hubris, Jupiter governor, progressive populist, warrior hero, and presidential candidate ... a "memwashed" tool of the enemy. And if his c...

• May-1985
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The towns at the end of the cattle trails north from Texas called for a special type of lawman. None of the peace officers available struck the Governor of Kansas as suitable to clean out the worst, most corrupt town of all. Yet it must be done befor...

• May-1985
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JILTED BEAUTY! Strikingly beautiful young Julia Hastings had been an inexperienced innocent when handsome, high-born Robin Marlowe induced her to elope with him -- only to abandon her without a word of explanation on their wedding night. Julia...

• May-1985
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Was he pursuing her for amusement? As far as Lorna was concerned, if Alex Kendall didn't consider her sister good enough to marry his cousin, then he certainly wouldn't find Lorna worthy of the family name, either. Lorna reproached him ...

• May-1985
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THE SUBJECT WAS MARRIAGE. Stacy Ernshaw went to Montana too interview a "professional housewife," Sandi Case, for Women First magazine. A few days with the Case family proved to Stacy that true love can create a perfect marriage. But a perfe...

• May-1985
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To him she was her brother's keeper Taryn had always been strictly honest while touring the Australian carnival circuit with her games of chance. But she had doubts about her brother, Luke. And when he cheated the vengeful Slade Douglas and...