Books Published in May 2000

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She was in danger and he fought to protect her. But this sweet-natured beauty yearned for so much more. Sally Johnson dreamed of a lifetime of love in Ebenezer Scott's powerful embrace. Could she slip through his iron-clad defenses and become this be...

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TV reporter Tiel McCoy is driving to New Mexico for a well-earned vacation when she hears the news on the radio: The teenage daughter of Fort Worth tycoon Russell Dendy has been a kidnapped. Immediately, she abandons her holiday plans to chase down w...

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Marriage-on his terms! Olympia's mother needs expensive medical treatment now. What can she do? Olympia has no choice. Approach Nik Cozakis and ask him to reconsider the marriage they abandoned ten years ago, in return for financial help? Nik ...

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Katie Crighton has been persuaded to take her place in the family business, but she feels like an outsider, since most of her friends and family are in happy relationships -- whilst Katie is a virgin. Sebastian Cooke's smoldering sexual energy...

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The tycoon's trap... With her financial situation so precarious, Paige Tennant has walked right into Nikolas Petronides' hands. It's obvious that he's not forgiven her for waling out on him years ago. But what else could she have d...

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Desert Rogues: Will passions flare under the hot desert sun for these brothers? Set in the kingdom of an exotic fictional country. Sheik princes who are fit to be tied when their feisty American brides vow to the get the upper hand. THE LADY...

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In Boston and an ocean away, in Ireland, two young women - both virgins - find themselves pregnant. Around the world, epidemics, droughts, famines, floods, and worse threaten major cities. Terrifying forces of light and darkness are gathering, and fo...

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A unique novel written by a host of accaimed authors--Dave Barry, Richard Bausch, James Crumley, James W. Hall, Lee K. Abbott, Tami Hoag, Tim o"Brien, Ridley Pearson, and Les Standiford-- follows a kooky cast of characters on the pro-golf circuit as ...

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SHE HAD THE KIND OF SECRET NO WOMAN COULD KEEP... When Josie O'Malley found herself pregnant, she knew her father would surely mete out the Texas law of the West -- and shoot the no 'count before he'd demand a shotgun wedding. What her dad didn't...

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SPARKS! When Lisa Billings swept into Bryce Walker's fire station looking for her missing daughter, he was smitten with the enticing single mother. The handsome firefighter had long ago realized that white picket fences and parent-teacher meet...

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WHERE EAGLES DARE The Oklahoma Panhandle is one hundred miles of lawlessness and danger: a no man's land designed to separate Texas from pro-Union Kansas. Through this desolate strip rides legendary gunslinger Falcon MacCallister, a young Indian boy...

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As part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials!   From the jungles of Borneo to the hidden canyons of the American West, from small-town fight clubs to a Parisian café at the end of W...

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The Fortunes of Texas: Membership in this family has its privileges... and its price. But what a fortune can't buy, a true-bred Texas love is sure to bring! THE PROTECTOR His mission was clear: bring home Texas blue blood Victoria Fortune. But...

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GOING FROM GEEK TO GODDESS AIN'T EASY! As far as Kent Wright was concerned, Becca Lewis was just fine the way she was. A little mousy, maybe, but a sweet friend and a darn good chemist. So why did she have to go and wreck it all by having a makeo...

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An offer she couldn't refuse ...? Michele willingly accepted Tyler Garrison's offer to help her out by pretending to be her lover-a role he'd play to perfection! Then Tyler made an even more provocative proposal: they should make love...

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Caleb McMann embarked on the most emotional journey of his life, the search for the little girl who had received the ultimate gift -- a new heart. His daughter's heart. Hitting pay dirt, he temporarily moved next door to Erica Clemmons and her ch...

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SHE DOESN'T KNOW SHE HAS A TWIN! A twin sister -- who's in love with the man she loves.... When Catherine Casey falls in love with David Britton, she's sure her life has just become perfect. She's got a successful career, a wonderful adoptiv...

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In life she was a high-profile model. In death she is the focus of a media firestorm that's demanding action from Lucas Davenport. One of his own men is a suspect in her murder. But when a series of bizarre, seemingly unrelated slayings rock the city...

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Could she resist him? Jeger Urquart was in need...of a woman! A millionaire executive, he could command almost anything, but this time only a woman's touch - and, more particularly, Fennia's - would do. Jeger needed a temporary nanny for his ...

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The marriage scheme Millionaire Joe Romano's surprise birthday gift is a live-in cook Lucinda Barry. But the beautiful, blue-blooded blonde can't even fry an egg, so Joe instantly realizes it's all a scheme to find him a suitable wife!...

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The spark of love stands the test of time and is fanned to a flame as four couples are reunited. These contemporary novellas include four reunion celebrations -- high school, college, family, and organ donors -- that will tug at the tightest of heart...

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Kate Corsi always dreamed of working for her family's world-famous explosive demolition business -- a wish her old-fashioned father denied her until the day he died. According to his will, Kate will receive a fortune, while her ex-husband, Donovan, w...

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Sun Hawk was adopted by the Ojibwa after his family was slaughtered by a renegade Indian band. He soon rose in prominence and became chief of his tribe. Then a chance encounter with a beautiful woman -- in need of rescue from villianous trappers -- c...

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Three years after the sudden death of her husband, Lucy Blacker Swift has finally got things under control. Leaving behind the cutthroat world of Washington, Lucy and her two children move to a Vermont farmhouse and start to rebuild their lives. But ...

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One wedding leads to another... Essie Russell met millionaire businessman Xavier Grey at a wedding: she was the chief bridesmaid; he was a distant relative of the bridegroom. They were strangers, yet for some reason Xavier clearly disapproved of Ess...

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Lincoln Rhyme, the renowned criminalist from The Bone Collector and The Coffin Dancer, faces his ultimate opponent: a kidnapper and murderer dubbed the Insect Boy. But Rhyme is in for a surprise when he learns that catching a criminal is one thing .....

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UNDER SUSPICION... Michelle Pelletier had no alibi, a fuzzy memory and an utterly gorgeous detective on her doorstep accusing her of murder. Philip Betancourt wasn't buying her plea of innocence. After all, she'd confessed only half the truth.... ...

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Driven Apart by Their Past, Can the Bonds of Sisterhood Survive What Lies Ahead? From the dramatic tradition of such classics as Little Women and A Thousand Acres comes Tracie Peterson's contemporary novel, A Slender Thread. Well-known for her Westwa...

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THINGS TO DO BEFORE THE WEDDING... 1. Pick up dress 2. Do nails 3. Divorce first husband Seems like bride-to-be Jenna Bravo had left one teensy thing undone before she accepted her nice-but-boring fiance's proposal -- divorce her first husba...

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A CURSE OF FIRE When Archer and Nel Chitward moved their family from a small rural village to the bustling city of Haven, it was cause for great celebration. After all, their textile skills had made them leaders among their Guilds, welcomed into ...

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An outback marriage? Lydia had been thrilled by her temporary assignment on an Australian cattle station -- until she came face-to-face with Joe Jordan on her first day! Tough, sexy Joe: the man Lydia's impulsive sister had planned to seduce.....

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THE WRANGLER Travis Evans loved beautiful women-and Gwen Hawthorne was defintely a beauty. But before he could make Gwen his, another tiny female stole his heart. HIS WOMAN Gwen Hawthorne had a weakness for cowboys-especially hunky. Travis Evans. Sh...

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As the most notorious rakehell in Regency London, Lord Damien Sinclair sought only his own pleasure, until his beloved younger sister, Olivia, was injured and her reputation ruined during a forbidden tryst. Now Damien will do anything to destroy the ...

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A Scottish bride meets her absent groom... Come hell or high water, Lady Christy would have her long-awaited wedding night at last. But first she had to seduce the dashing rogue who has claimed her as bride -- in name only! A SCORNED WIFE'...

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SUDDEN PASSION After prosecuting the biggest case of her career, New York district attorney Sara Sterling was looking forward to relaxing amid starry desert nights in her childhood home in New Mexico. Then she met her enigmatic neighbor Salem Lassit...

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Government-agent-turned-marine-biologist Doc Ford sails an endless sea of questions when he agrees to investigate a death from the past. Years ago, off Florida's Gulf Coast, a teenaged girl found an ancient gold medallion. Then she began having night...

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INTERLUDE WITH AMOROUS ENEMY... Martina Logan dangerously shared a passionate affair with her family's nemesis, handsome Noah Coltrane. But when she became pregnant, Martina was determined to have the baby alone. So, armed with baby booties, she...

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The beautiful Englishwoman had brought him such good luck that Sheikh Ali Ben Saleem wanted to reward her. But Frances refused his valuable gifts. All she wanted was an interview for a newspaper. Ali decided to oblige -- on one condition: She must ac...

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MORE THAN HE KNEW Rand Hamilton vows to rebuild his Charleston plantation with the only means left to him: a long-lost treasure that has lured and cursed two families for centuries. But to finance his expedition, he must agree to the terms of his we...

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Carol Starkey is struggling to pick up the pieces of her former life as L.A.'s finest bomb squad technician. Fueled with liberal doses of alcohol and Tagamet, she's doing time as a Detective-2 with LAPD's Criminal Conspiracy Section. Three years have...

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Dear Readers, I had heard the gossip. Who in London hadn't? But whether or not the elusive Venus Duras would favor one of her numerous suitors didn't concern me. After all, I had a surfeit of obliging lovers. And then I bumped into her. Literally....

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Austin Weaver was a most sought-after man. Every company wanted to employ him--every woman wanted to marry him! But there was only one woman Austin wanted as his wife. Paige. He'd loved her, and lost her.... Paige McDermott was shocked to see ...

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Sheriff Jack Murray isn't the man for her Beth Sommers isn't looking for love. She's concentrating on her daughters and her business -- and on convincing her ex-husband that their marriage really is over. Even if she was looking, it wouldn't b...

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Rule One: Don't Let Him In When photographer Nick Coltrane saunters into Daisy Parker's office, all she sees is the man who broke her heart nine years ago. Never mind that he wants to hire her as his bodyguard--ah, security specialist -- or that h...

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A ready-made family Tom Bradley definitely isn't happy to be stranded with a heavily pregnant woman in the middle of nowhere! Although Rose Allen keeps trying to reassure him that she isn't due to give birth for three weeks, it seems the b...

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Will her heart ever find the peace she yearns for? AFTER YEARS OF TURMOIL, Virginia Lewis is finally satisfied with her life. God has blessed her with the love of her husband Jonathan and four wonderful children, one of which is the daughter of her ...

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The freedom of the range, the bawling of the longhorns, the lonesome night watch beneath a vast, starry sky -- they get into a woman's blood until she knows there is nothing better than the life of a cowgirl...except the love of a good man. A...

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Only Mark Remington could make her heart melt. But he wasn't the one she married. Now, widowed and pregnant, Lauren McKenzie was surprised to find him on her doorstep again seven years later. She didn't know why he'd come back -- or why h...

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Jane Verey was not going to marry Lord Philip Delahaye! He was rude, insulting, and a drunkard! And at the thought of spending a lifetime with him, Jane would even lower herself to deception in order to dissuade her boorish suitor. But Philip's h...