Books Published in October 2000

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The town of Promise, Texas, is a good place to live, to raise a family, to spend the rest of your days with the person you love. Cal Patterson and his wife, Jane -- also known as Dr. Texas -- certainly think so. The last thing they expect is a thr...

• Oct-2000
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From seduction in the royal sheikhdom to high adventure in the hot Arabian desert comes a breathtaking love story by international bestselling author Diana Palmer.... Sheltered small-town girl Gretchen Brannon was out of her element when she align...

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Left to handle the rumors of her family's bankruptcy and impending eviction, Larissa Ascot's wishes for a merry Christmas seem to be in peril for the first time in her sheltered life. A charming would-be "benefactor," Vincent Everett,...

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Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes�"and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on their great-grandmother's farm in the V...

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Years ago, David Crighton went missing. Deliberately. He'd walked away from his close-knit family, beautiful home, and a scandal of his own making. Since then he's met Honor Jessop. A spirited woman with more warmth and compassion than he's ever know...

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New York City, 1909: A woman ahead of her time, Temperance O'Neil is happily married to her work -- helping single mothers on the city streets -- which she funds with her inheritance. When her disapproving stepfather, Angus McCairn, cuts off her...

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A surprise proposal Claudia Ramsay first met Mr. Thomas Tait-Bullen when he was asked to discuss the health of her great-uncle, Colonel Ramsay. Claudia wasn't at all sure what she thought of the eminent surgeon -- and she was astonished when, after ...

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When Susannah McKittrick leaves Nantucket for the boomtown of Seattle, she is hardly looking to strike it rich; she is headed west to care for a newborn left motherless after Susannah's cousin died. Although the rigorous trip depletes all of her savi...

• Oct-2000
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Romance - Contemporary What You Wish For ISBN: 1-57566-573-5 Author: Fern Michaels Pub Date: Oct-00 Imprint: Kensington Format: Hardcover Price: $24.00 Qty: Fern Michaels has entertained millions of read...

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To love, honor and...betray? Seven years ago Caroline Newbury had fallen in love -- and into bed -- with Luiz Vazquez. Thinking he'd betrayed her, she'd fled to England hoping never to see him again. Now, because her father owes money to L...

• Oct-2000
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SHE WOKE UP WITH A NEW FACE... Not only has Marla Cahill survived a deadly car accident, but her beautiful features have been restored through plastic surgery. She should be grateful. Instead, she's consumed by confusion...and panic. For the peopl...

• Oct-2000
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THE RELUCTANT DADDY Once upon a time, Michael Delacourt's tempting kisses had sent Grace Foster's heartbeat ricocheting. Now, here she was on an isolated Texas ranch with the only man she'd ever loved...the man she could never marry. So, when a ti...

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October 8, 1871 - One small spark ignites the entire city of Chicago, sending its residents into panic. But amid the chaos, a case of mistaken identity leads to an unexpected new love. As the historic fire ignites across town, Kathleen O'Leary fin...

• Oct-2000
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With each kill, I grow wiser, and with added wisdom, I grow stronger. Powerful assassin Artemis Entroi tightens his grip on the streets of Calimport, driven by the power his hidden drow supporters. Brut his sponsor Jarlaxle grows more ambitious, a...

• Oct-2000
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If he wanted a marriage of convenience, it would be at her convenience! R. J. Maitland, President of Maitland Maternity, was forced to do some major damage control. The media circus surrounding allegations that he had fathered an abandoned child h...

• Oct-2000
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Maggie Stovall is trapped inside a person she's spent years carefully crafting. Now the truth about who she is--and what she's done--is bursting to the surface and sending Maggie into a spiral of despair. Will she walk away from everything, or can Ma...

• Oct-2000
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A Recipe for an Unforgettable Christmas of Love & Laughter Serves: Everyone Holly berries; 1 pair of enchanted spectacles; 4 couples; 8 lonely hearts; 1 fairy godmother; 1 miracle; Elves Take four heroines, created by some of Romance's hottest au...

• Oct-2000
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He was a nobleman. She was a commoner. It was the perfect recipe for perfect sin. PERFECT PLAN He was the ultimate rake. But Randall Clayton, 7th Duke of Beldon, harbors a hidden motive for seducing the fiery haired, passionate Caitlin Harmon....

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Journalist Katherine Johnson made the mistake of getting too close to the secrets of international crime boss Jack Fox - but Fox made the mistake of killing her. Katherine's ex-husband is Blake Johnson, head of the clandestine White House department ...

• Oct-2000
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You hold in you hand the key to a shadow world of shivers and screams. Take a step away from the safe, comfortable world you know. Unlock the door to terror. There's always room for one more in...THE NIGHTMARE ROOM. Danielle Warner was only pretendi...

• Oct-2000
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Say hi to Luke. Today is not his lucky day. It's the first day of school, and he just got his locker assignment -- locker 13. Lucky 13? No. Not for Luke. He has just opened the door to The Nightmare Room....

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THE MISSION: FIND MOTHER AND CHILD Finding Isabella Montenegro and her young daughter and bringing them back to testify should have been easy. But one look at Isabella and Texas Confidential Agent Jake Cantrell remembered a woman he'd cherished......

• Oct-2000
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The Code Name series features ex-CIA agent John Barrone. For 20 years, Barrone fought his country's dirty back-alley wars. Now, he spearheads a secret strike force of elite law enforcement and intelligence professionals on a seek-and-destroy mission ...

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THE AGENT: Burke Lonigan, weapons expert and world-class charmer THE MISSION: To destroy a dangerous traitor, while defending his woman and child! Facing off with a deadly menace was easy for Burke Lonigan -- until a beguiling beauty stepped i...

• Oct-2000
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HE'D GET MORE THAN A MINT ON HIS PILLOW! For Hannah Novak, running a bed-and-breakfast with her two best friends was adventure enough. But they didn't feel that way. They wanted to devote the summer to serious manhunting -- loser cleans toilets! F...

• Oct-2000
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TERROR WAS JUST OUT OF SIGHT Accident victim Faith Parker has done what her doctors feared she never would: awakened from the coma that held her prisoner for weeks. But she has no memory of the crash that nearly killed her - or the life that led u...

• Nov-2000
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TO CATCH THIS KILLER, SHE MUST BREAK EVERY RULE AND CROSS EVERY LINE. A picture-perfect Tennessee town has just become a monster's hunting ground. Two bodies are found tortured to death. A third person goes missing. What little evidence is left be...

• Oct-2000
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When Kidd - artist, computer whiz, and professional criminal - learns of a colleague's murder, he doesn't buy the official story: that a jittery security guard caught the hacker raiding the files of a high-tech Texas corporation. It's not what his fr...

• Oct-2000
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She can't resist her husband... After ten years Xavier Valdespino has appeared again in Rose's life, only to whisk her away to Spain and blackmail her into, marriage. It's clear to Rose that Xavier blames her for something she didn&...

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The Rules of Engagement: Choose a bride from this year's debutantes. Decide on a proper settlement. Send an announcement to The Times. Inform the bride of her good fortune. Rules of Respectability Devon Mathewes, earl of Kerrich, has a plan...

• Oct-2000
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The captivating first book in the acclaimed, award-winning and New York Times bestselling God series sweeps readers back to the streets, porches, and parlors of civil rights-era Ohio to bring to life the beginning of an enduring friendship between tw...

• Oct-2000
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They needed no words between them... The man had no identity, no past, and the mind of a genius packaged in rippling muscles and sun-seared skin. It was Dr. Elizabeth Holden's job to uncover the mystery of this man, who seemed to speak only the la...

• Oct-2000
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STORMY HEARTS A torrential hurricane stranded Karen Beckett in a tiny motel room with Gunnery Sergeant Sam Paretti, the one man she never wanted to see again! Just months before, Karen had severed all ties with the gorgeous marine -- but bitterswe...

• Oct-2000
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A MOST UNEXPECTED MARRIAGE Victoria Fontaine's mischievous nature and brilliant, biting wit have scandalized the ton...and earned her the nickname "Vixen." But her reputation pales before the infamous Lord Althorpe's, known as "Lord Sin." The year...

• Oct-2000
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Christy Award winner!

The story of Rahab, book two in the popular Lineage of Grace series by the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and A Voice in the Wind

She was a woman with a past to whom God gave a future.
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• Oct-2000
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Thwarting an attack by a suspected serial killer puts Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta in the harsh-glare of the spotlight. As her personal and professional lives come under suspicion, she discovers that the so-called Werewolf murders ...

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TWO COUPLES FORCED TO FACE THE TRUTH...OR RISK LOSING EACH OTHER FOREVER Good fortune smiled on lawman Jack McCain when he wooed and wed beautiful heiress Grace Phelps. But both had secrets yet to be revealed, secrets that could change their marri...

• Oct-2000
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I know that out in the big, bright world, it is usually the mommy and daddy who announce their baby's arrival. Well, there's still seven months before my auspicious debut, but I'm announcing myself. Now. See, Mommy is keeping me hush-hush...

• Oct-2000
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The rogue met his match in the woman he was forced to wed.... No woman could resist Julian Dane. Except Lady Claudia Whitney. Julian had known her since childhood, but the headstrong lass had grown into a beautiful woman. Julian vows to teach her ...

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BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY Mitch Taylor had faith in his gun, his badge, and his years of experience. But he knew society girl Casey Maynard was trouble, and protecting her would be hell. Twenty years on the force had toned Mitch's body and honed his...

• Oct-2000
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Enter a thrilling, sensual world as threatening as it is beautiful, replete with the consuming passions of immortal beings once worshiped as gods or demons. Full of earthly pleasures and dazzling magic, A Kiss of Shadows will hold you under its hypno...

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The year is 1861. The American Civil War has just begun, and London arms dealer Daniel Alberton is becoming a very wealthy man. His quiet dinner party seems remote indeed from the passions rending America. Yet investigator William Monk and his bride,...

• Nov-2000
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To escape marriage to a despised man twice her age, Lady Aurora Demming makes a scandalous arrangement with Nicholas Sabine, a dangerously handsome American facing execution for murder and piracy. She agrees to become his wife for one day...and one g...

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WHEN DARKNESS FALLS... In a windswept Scottish cemetery, Jade MacGregor's carefree vacation abroad is marred by a seemingly random tragedy. A year later, back home on a shadowy French Quarter street, she glimpses an oddly familiar face. Coincidence--...

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His convenient wife was pregnant! James Carter's proposal of marriage was a surprise to Matilda Trent. Nevertheless, Mattie loved James, and she accepted -- intending to prove she could be more to him than just a convenient wife. The result...

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Grey Calderwood was furious to discover that his mother had employed Lucia Graham -- the woman he believed had defrauded him.... Lucia knew she'd wronged Grey, but she had been desperate to help her father. Now that they'd been thrown toge...

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Unforgettable Courage and Romance From Lauraine SnellingWarming countless hearts and bringing history to life, Lauraine Snelling's Sisters of the Confederacy is an exciting tale of courage, adventure, and romance. After finding her expected safe have...

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Alessandro Salvatore was stunned when a woman appeared on his doorstep carrying a baby -- claiming he was the father! Alessandro wasn't looking for a wife and he wanted Lauren Williams, whoever she was, off his property.... Lauren could unders...

• Oct-2000
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WANTED: Women with religious upbringing, high morals, and a strong sense of adventure, willing to marry decent, God-fearing men. Applicants may apply by mail. Must allow at least two months for an answer. On the run from a no-good scoundrel, Glor...