Candlelight Ecstasy Romance — Multiple Authors

• Dec-1980
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Long ago, in a moment of wild, rioting, ecstasy, Judd Cammeron had vowed to love her always. Now as Anne Moore looked at her stepbrother, she saw a total stranger, a man who planned to take control of his father's estate and everyone on it. Anne knew...

• Dec-1980
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"Don't ask me to stop," he whispered in a husky voice that came from deep in his chest. "I want you so badly...." Simon Kendrick had charged suddenly into her life. Commanding, intimidating, as her boss he controlled her job. ...

• 2016
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Eva lowered her camera and allowed her eyes to meet the sophisticated stranger's challenging gaze. How could she know that soon he would no longer be a stranger? Soon his lips would seize hers, silencing her protests, dominating her with the force of...

• Jan-1981
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Oh, she was mean-minded, possessive, Katie told herself ashamedly. And scared. When four-year-old Kim learned that Sasha Kimberly was his real father and threw his arms around Sasha's neck, she felt a knife-thrust of jealousy and fear. It wasn...

• 1981
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Maureen finished her song and bowed to the applause. Her sultry glance swept the crowded room, then stopped short as she met the piercing steel-gray eyes of Daniel Lord. The memory of a night three years ago flashed across her mind like a movie sc...

• Feb-1981
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"Jason!" she cried, sensing his catlike grace, feeling herself trembling against him with a hungry passion she couldn't deny. She had everything -- beauty, wealth, power. A senator's daughter, in months Lindsay Sheffield was to mar...

• Mar-1981
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"But you don't even know me," she whispered hoarsely. "I will," he replied, silencing her protests with a kiss that left her trembling. He had to be mad, barging into her life, making his proposal so bluntly that it stunned her. ...

• Mar-1981
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How could she forget him? A memory of hard brown hands caressing her skin into unbearable pleasure, and a firm, sensuous mouth driving her wild with desire still exploded in her mind. But David Carmichael was just that -- a memory. Anna Mason had put...

• Apr-1981
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It was a moment of exquisite torture. Cynthia's nerves tingled madly under his piercing blue-eyed gaze. "Understood?" he asked, his voice as commanding and arousing as his look had been. "Yes," she managed, turning away, break...

• Apr-1981
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"Stop! Oh, please, stop!" she sobbed. A primitive and strangely beautiful fire licked through her veins, and a painful yearning seared her body. Buffy Vallentine had just won a sensational victory at the Bahamas Invitational Tennis Tournament. But...

• May-1981
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Wealthy and beautiful Samantha Denning was an independent woman who was determined to stay that way. But when her father died, his will included the shocking stipulation that she marry within five months or lose her inheritance. To solve her problem,...

• May-1981
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Nicki Swithin gazed out over the bejeweled city skyline. Once she had been happy to think of going home to a peaceful English village, to dream of being a quiet, dependable wife. With kisses of fire and a touch the ignited passions, she couldn't de...

• Jun-1981
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Julia blushed to think of the shy young brides on their dower-strewn marriage beds. It was the time for weddings, for love. But not for Julia. She must leave -- leave India at once. She had found so much: the fulfillment of work, a sense of belong...

• Jun-1981
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"There's a nasty term for women like you--and for what you do to a man." Eden recoiled. He hadn't believed her! He thought everything they had said about her back home was true! And here they were, "temporarily" married for...

• Jun-1981
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The scent of his skin rushed at her. His hands tightened on the nape of her neck, pressing her forward. Then his lips were hungrily on hers. Was it a dream? Luz Rivas loved her job at the studio. She loved her life in the barrio. She had no illusions...

• Jul-1981
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Never before had she been kissed so thoroughly--and so thoroughly forgotten. It left her stunned. Kristen Hartley was set on having her own way. When she went to San Antonio to help Mrs. Faraday, the elderly novelist and historian, research Mexica...

• Jul-1981
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Lucky at cards, unlucky at love? That's what Savannah Emery had always been -- and she knew she should have stopped while she was ahead. That night at the party the wine and her winning streak had gone to her head. She had bid too high and lost.....

• Jul-1981
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She had surrendered herself totally -- to the mesmerizing flames of the campfire, the sweet smell of the pines, and the tender hands caressing her, sweeping her higher and higher into the vortex of desire. But now, driving through Maine, to Pine ...

• Aug-1981
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Writer Nick Maxwell arrives at a Virginia bookshop to find the owner causing problems for his father's credit card company. Abigail Wetherby turns out NOT to be a dusty old bibliophile, but a gorgeous, sexy woman making changes -- in more ways than o...

• Aug-1981
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Though she struggled to maintain control, Andrea couldn't deny the waves of pleasure coursing through her body as his strong hands caressed her knowingly. Breck Carlson -- blond, blue-eyed, towering above her like a Ming warrior. His vigor and...

• Aug-1981
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A glorious day on the sparkling Utah slopes lay behind her. Flames blazed on the hearth in front of her. Before she knew what possessed her, Camille had surrendered utterly to the virile stranger -- a man like no man she had met before. Two ...

• Sep-1981
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Micki had tried to forget, but the memory of that weekend of abandoned passion lingered on. Wolf Renninger... he was all that his name implied -- devastatingly handsome, charming, lean...and hungry -- a beautiful male animal on the prowl. lie co...

• Sep-1981
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"Wait for me;" he said. "When this is all over, I'll come for you." Reva had fled the danger, left South America, longing for him, never believing he would make good his promise. But he had. Just when she thought she had her li...

• 1987
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Kidnapped! On her father's orders! And now she was a prisoner on a ranch in the middle of nowhere with a tough, lean, macho cowboy as her jailer. Colby Duncan was a fighter. She'd learned every trick her tycoon father could teach her. He wasn't goi...

• Oct-1981
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He was a mystery. Tall, lean, rugged, Jason Stewart had been cold, arrogant, inexcusably rude from the start. And he had done nothing to endear himself to her -- until tonight. Tonight his caressing hands, his burning kisses, had swept her recklessly...

• Oct-1981
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Every line of his face, from the deep-set eyes to the arrogant nose and harshly carved cheekbones, declared that this was a man who lived by his own rules. He hadn't come to Tucson for his health. Hunter Manning wanted revenge. Stacy Rylan looked i...

• Oct-1981
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“Mi preciosa, when you look on these, remember the afternoon use spent together.” The nerve! To insinuate intimacy on a card her family was sure to see! Ana Maria looked at his expensive gilt with shock and indignation. He had invaded her life...

• Nov-1981
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His cool gray eyes and volatile temper should have been warning enough to Lee Masterson, award-winning playwright. She was on her way to the top, and her first opportunity had come from Paul Devon, who forgot about her talent the moment he saw her fa...

• Nov-1981
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The very sight of him made her weak with desire - this "brother-in-law" she barely knew. What cruel fate drove her into his arms and tempted her to yield to his outrageous demands? Jason Manning's arrogance knew no bounds. First he ex...

• Nov-1981
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"I'm sorry," she said gently. "Do I know you?" "Before you took off without saying good-bye, I thought you did. You're my wife." Julie's eyes widened incredulously as she studied the handsome face, searching ...

• Dec-1981
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No other man had aroused her as Thorne had done with a touch -- or merely a look. Once, they had found each other. Once they had fallen in love. Once he had been the world to her. Even now the pain of betrayal pierced Rhea's heart like a stiletto....

• Dec-1981
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They were enemies--adversaries who would soon face each other across the courtroom in a taut murder trial... one arguing for the prosecution; the other for the defense. Yet Laura Grandine found this commanding giant of a man irresistible. And he l...

• Dec-1981
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She was a fantastic secretary. But what made men think her willingness to share their work meant a willingness to share their beds? More than once Keri's mischievous green eyes, auburn hair, and sensuous body had cost her a perfectly good job....

• Jan-1982
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What a child she had been! What an idiot child! Her mother had told her there were men with strong arms and soft black hair who were just out for a good time, and she'd found one. With her new dress, her new face, and her new name-- Crystal Bell--...

• Jan-1982
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His fevered kisses filled her with burning desire, but his coolly kept secrets drove her to even greater passion. What was Rod Wilshire, deep-sea salvager, really seeking that summer in Nantucket? And just where did she, Melissa Starbuck, fit into hi...

• Jan-1982
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He was hard and she knew it went deeper than his broad shoulders, lean hips, and strong thighs. Southern California machismo and money! His power was vastly more compelling than the superficial charm of other men, but he used it to the same purpose -...

• Jan-1982
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It had been seven years, a lifetime since Shannon MacLeod had returned to Shagbark Inn and confronted Adam Byrne. Yet here he was, a challenge, a threat, a promise of trouble to come. One look and the memories flooded back -- his arms, his lips, and ...

• Feb-1982
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Was it the shock of the accident... or the driver himself who made her feel so faint, so vulnerable? Nicole Tanner had nearly been hit by the speeding Mercedes. How could she have known that the rugged slate-eyed man behind the wheel was none other t...

• Feb-1982
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His masculine grace and power mesmerized her. His arrogance infuriated her. Janna had to keep reminding herself that she owed him her life. Without his help, stuck on the highway in the midst of a raging Wyoming blizzard, she would never have survive...

• Feb-1982
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First he appeared out of nowhere to rescue her from a liar and a bully, then he treated her as if she were the kind of woman who provoked every man she saw and invited attack JoAnna was beside herself. And there was no escape. There he was, just d...

• Feb-1982
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Just who did Dr. Paul Douglas think he was? Before they even met, he had pegged Dee Woods as the neglectful mother of seven-year-old Beanie, for reasons of her own, she had let him believe the worst In fact, she was Beanie's loving aunt, the one w...

• Mar-1982
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She was the only survivor of a tragic plane crash, a promising young artist who had lost her entire family in a cruel twist of fate. But when Gillian Montgomery awoke from a seven-week coma, Jed Dawson was waiting to claim her. Who was this compe...

• Mar-1982
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Kit had invented him out of thin air. Rafe Morgan -- tall, handsome, incredibly successful, totally irresistible. There had been moonlight and ocean breezes and -- well, now they were almost engaged! How could she tell her friends the unvarnished ...

• Mar-1982
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Elisa wanted moonlight and roses. She had no use for her stepsister Charlotte's scheming ways. Nor could she understand the young girl's interest in Garth Brandau, a man 15 years her senior. But when Charlotte suddenly ran off to Europe.....

• Mar-1982
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With his jade eyes and jet hair, Locke Channing made Kelly Winfield weak with desire -- and dismay! He had the power to ruin her career and break her heart, and the easy assurance of a man who always got his way. Now that he had been hired to cat...

• Mar-1982
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One look in those penetrating gray eyes and Lauren was convinced she could drown in them. One moment spent in Leland Cross's company convinced her that he would never lift a hand to save her. She had done the unforgivable--made a fool of the m...

• Mar-1982
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He was as strong as the tempered steel of a fine Toledo blade. He moved with the savage grace of a panther. Alexandra Blake thought she had seen the devil himself in his coal-black eyes. Who was Thorne Tremayne? Why had he come now, demanding that...

• Apr-1982
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She had had no choice. In desperation she had bought the blond wig, flown to Las Vegas, and singled out Brad Lucas for a night of unforgettable passion -- then fled, not even waiting for the dawn. How could she know that the memory of his touch wo...

• Apr-1982
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Millions of women adored him: Drake Sloan, star of America's favorite soap opera. But Lauri Parrish knew the kind of man he was -- selfish, egotistical, arrogant. She knew from the moment they met. Well, he wasn't her concern. As a gifted...

• Apr-1982
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It began innocently enough. A ski weekend in the Adirondacks. But when the blizzard began and the tour bus was forced to stop at a wayside motel for a snowbound weekend, it became something else again. All around her, wide-eyed Jennifer Lengle cou...

• Apr-1982
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With his startling green eyes and jet black hair, he looked like a panther. And he was rumored to be a man who loved the hunt but walked away free while his prey lay bleeding... Morgain McMichaels didn't need to be told. One look and she knew...

• Apr-1982
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She could barely resist his soft caress, the scent of his skin, his lips pressing hungrily on hers. She could barely believe she was in his arms again. A year ago, Karyn had been a radiant bride with her whole life ahead of her But within hours th...

• Apr-1982
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Love me, love my dog? No -- that was all wrong! As owner of her own boarding kennels in the Florida panhandle, fiery-haired, hot-tempered Irene Malone despised Matt Davis. But his pit bull terrier Rocky, was another matter. She had gone so far as to ...

• May-1982
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She was a policewoman with the LAPD, on vacation in Malibu. Work was far from the mind of silver-blond, violet-eyed Carlyn Thomas when she first met the dark, dashing Nick Sandini. She had never allowed a man the liberties he took for granted. One...

• May-1982
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A strange flash of elemental recognition arced between them. The shock was staggering. Kendra Loring gasped as she met the full force of Case Garrett's night-dark gaze. Yet they had never met! And once she finished her business, she promised herse...

• May-1982
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Casey Reynolds, the Boston-based Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, was burned out and looking for escape. Acapulco seemed the perfect getaway ...until she discovered that her Mexican hideout was already occupied by a brash stranger who believed in lea...

• May-1982
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He was her husband and he vowed to possess her till his dying day. Callie had returned to Chandler Matthews despite her desperate attempt to escape him. Now he claimed her body and soul. In exchange for the money to finance her stepfather's criti...

• May-1982
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"Is that how it is? My arms last night, his today?" With a gasp Frayda jerked out of Pete's grasp. Is that what he thought? For years they had fished America's best trout streams together-- Frayda; her brother, John; and his best friend, Pete. And...

• May-1982
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He was the most handsome man she had ever seen. Without warning, he strode across the room, took her in his arms, and kissed her as she had never been kissed before. Her own brother! Or was he? No, the man who assaulted her senses was not the man ...

• Jun-1982
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"You're mine now, Jessie. You'll always be mine." Once those were the words Jessica Benchley had longed to hear -- the fulfillment of all her dreams. What a fool she had been...a naive schoolgirl who thought Steve Dalheurst a "...

• Jun-1982
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She was Laura D'Asti Spandoni, owner and operator of the legendary D'Asti winery, her consuming passion until wine broker Vic Remo strode into her life, devastating her carefully constructed defenses with a single look. He was electric. She was drawn...

• Jun-1982
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Movie director Quentin Wainwright was everything Chara Styles despised in a man - sophisticated, world-weary, harsh - and he claimed her as his wife with the air of a born conquerer. She tried to resist, but his silver quartz eyes pierced her def...

• Jun-1982
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Jaclyn Taylor closed her eyes against the tears that threatened to fall. Who did Shane Jaeger think he was? The elusive actor-race car driver guarded his own privacy with a will. Why had he insisted on invading hers? It didn't matter that his ...

• Jun-1982
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His steely-gray eyes challenged her. His kisses claimed her. She longed to trust him, but did she dare? Amanda had come to North Carolina to work with her uncle's Thoroughbred hunters, to forget the cruel past, to begin again. But she hadn't coun...

• Jun-1982
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His kisses demanded more than she had ever given. The dark stranger swept her away in a riptide of desire.... Was it mere chance that had led her to Rick Donovan -- mere coincidence that he was the great-grandson of the man who had broken Maggie's...

• Jul-1982
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His blue eyes glittered with icy fire. His smile mocked her. Her every instinct cried "Danger!" But Maile Riordan had no one to protect her now. Mike was dead, and unless she made Jake Weston her partner, her own brother could go to jail! The spee...

• Jul-1982
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He was a playboy tycoon -- a sharp, ruthless womanizer who made it his business to hire a woman to bear his heir--so no one could tie him down for good. Dee Ann Wagner didn't meet Derek Howell until she awoke in his bed with only a shaming memory ...

• Jul-1982
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It was a battle for dominance from the moment they first locked wills over the bargaining table. Slade York had taken Calla Nevin's challenge from the boardroom to the bedroom, where he was determined to conquer her once and for all! She vowed...

• Jul-1982
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In one searing glance merchant prince Chad Butler took total inventory of his newest employee. Katherine Dunn was shaken by their first encounter; determined to keep him-- and all other men-- at arm's length. She had been burned once and had vowed, "...

• Jul-1982
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Senator Drew Charles said they had unfinished business. His burning kisses appeared to seal a passionate pact. How had this devastating man penetrated so quickly to his beautiful opponent's fiery core? For five years Dr. Daran Patterson had remai...

• Jul-1982
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Could she agree to the terms? Could she marry a cold, arrogant stranger--and pretend to all the world that she truly loved him? Once, everything in Molly's being had shrieked "No!" Yet she had agreed. She had adored her father, and the...

• Aug-1982
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What had come over her? Exactly who was she -- Brandy, the smoldering, uninhibited lady of the night, or B. J. Abbott, brilliant young architect, whose dreams were filled not with erotic languor, but with visions of concrete and steel. For the first ...

• Aug-1982
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"I don't always get the point of your articles, but you know what they say about athletes," he taunted. "All brawn and no brains." With his sky-blue eyes and perfect form, Doug Hayden was the Adonis of the golf links...to all b...

• Aug-1982
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Charly Ryan was living on borrowed time, torn between the government job that had brought her to North Carolina and the passion that erupted like brushfire when Noah Van Horn rescued her in the remote mountain wilderness. It all began with the ra...

• Aug-1982
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Like a tidal wave, Dan Allen swept away her reserve and her will. Bobbie Schaeffer had made her name as a cartoonist on the Milwaukee Post at the expense of Milwaukee's bachelor mayor--until she met him in the flesh. Too quickly the handsome polit...

• Aug-1982
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Stare for stare, she matched him, her blue eyes an impenetrable barrier against his as he probed for her slightest weakness, then arrogantly asked, "Where did you meet my mother? Are you expecting a free ride?" Dressed in worn jeans, Raine...

• Aug-1982
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"Fool!" she cried, scolding herself sharply. "You're behaving like an idiot!" Danica Morgan had fashioned her own success. First as a top model, then -- secretly -- as a best-selling novelist. She had had enough of the limelig...

• Sep-1982
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His eyes moved insolently over her, following the slim curves of her body down to the delicate instep of her heeled sandals. Amanda met his mocking gaze with cool eyes. She remembered him. The formidable Reid Buchanan, a man who changed women as e...

• Sep-1982
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Blackmail! Talia Haywood could hardly believe she was so desperate. But something about Kane Sebastian drove her to it: anything to get the information that only he could provide. She thought she knew his type: an arrogant industrial tycoon, the k...

• Sep-1982
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After six years her secret was public knowledge, and the one man she had tried to avoid finally knew the truth: Rennie Gilbert, famed children's book author, was Lee Chatham, the wife who had deserted him so long ago. Price Chatham reeled her bac...

• Sep-1982
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She was a beautiful heiress far from home who dreamed of being loved for herself alone. Arrogant and powerful, he didn't ask questions. He commanded and took her trust, love, and passion -- then left her with only her cold stubborn pride. They...

• Sep-1982
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From the moment he appeared on the beach -- tall, sun-bronzed, and impossibly handsome -- Kenda knew that she wanted him, loved him.... Kenda had survived the tropical storm that killed her father and destroyed his research lab. Alone on one of Fi...

• Sep-1982
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Safety -- that was what she needed most after the shock she'd received when she discovered that Carl, the man she'd thought was hers, was about to be married -- to her sister, Marla! A refuge -- but could she find it here on her uncle'...

• Oct-1982
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"I don't play by the rules," he said. Any fool could see that Cord Langdon was a made-to-order playboy. Trying to ignore the electricity between them, Leslie Garrison swore to finish her interview with the multimillionaire philanthropist and leave...

• Oct-1982
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She was a widow, too young and beautiful to be alone. But Anne Boulton was determined to spend a week in the isolated Vermont cabin. As a storm raged without and a snug fire burned within, it was perfect -- until he burst into her life. In less th...

• Oct-1982
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She was a social worker returning an abandoned child to the father he'd never met. That done, Dawn Lounsbury planned to drive on to California and start a new life. She hadn't reckoned on Evan Crane, wealthy farmer, father of a child he'd never kn...

• Oct-1982
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When Devon awoke, she had no regrets. The night had been rapturous. Ryan loved her. And yes -- oh, yes! -- she would marry him. What a fool she had been. Within days he was gone. Married to kindly Ben Andrews, she had survived the heartbreak days,...

• Oct-1982
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Eden McAllister shivered under the majestic ponderosa pines. What should she do? Stay? Go? She had come to Lassiter House to prove herself as an architect, to build a splendid resort hotel on the edge of Lake Shasta. She had thought she would give an...

• Oct-1982
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"Thanks for last night," Nick said softly. "You were wonderful." His warm smile and fiery blue eyes left Abby Riordan speechless. Beside her stood Gordon Sprague, the man she meant to marry. Was Nick Gabriel -- ex-baseball star, a...

• Nov-1982
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They called her the Ice Princess. Drawn to her like a magnet, men gazed into her violet eyes and longed to shatter the beautiful porcelain mask she wore. But Heather felt nothing. Once it had been different -- before her mysterious disappearance f...

• Nov-1982
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“Who would have thought there was so much soft excitement under that sophisticated veneer?” he whispered. “What other secrets are you hiding, sweet witch?” Secrets...the word clicked in Lacey Holbrook's mind and reason flooded back. Yes, s...

• Nov-1982
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Theirs was the shock of instant recognition: two fates locked in a single glance. Not even her wildest memory of a love long gone could match the flashfire feeling Rachel Johnston had for this dark stranger who could read her like a book. The circ...

• Nov-1982
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She didn't want to want him! Searle Delacorte was young and lovely, on her own, and liked it-- until playboy Buck Carlton disrupted her neatly ordered existence. She and Buck would mix about as well as oil and water, thought Searle. She was determ...

• Nov-1982
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He wanted her! His kisses aroused and demanded a passion she had never known. Nicholas Coleman had given her everything -- the chance of a lifetime. Now he demanded--and offered--so much more. Seven years had passed since she had come to New York....

• Nov-1982
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Tragedy had struck her life again and again. The last time had left lovely Wyeth MacLendon a widow and driven her to Quebec's glorious Chateau Montbel. Perhaps here she could rest, begin again as part-owner of the magnificent resort hotel. But Col...

• Nov-1982
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Once his brown eyes, his virile grace, had almost lured her into an impossible, forbidden love. Now he stood before the portable cameras of WKIV-TV and coolly responded to her reporter's questions. It was Amanda's first New York assignmen...

• Nov-1982
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Soon history would record her as the first woman in space: Dr Jill Danbury, who would accompany Col. Jake Whitney to the Venus Space Station in the greatest adventure since Armstrong walked on the moon. But what they couldn't record were Jill&...

• Dec-1982
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The world knew him as Christian Dent, best-selling author and surprise lecturer at Dartmouth's summer writers' workshop. But to Allison Saunders, ex-teacher, ex-executive, and now aspiring writer, the devastating stranger was none other than Cate Har...

• Dec-1982
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One searing kiss -- that was all it took! The barriers were broken. Her foundation was shaken. He wanted her, and, worst of all, his desire equaled her own. A gambler! Vichy moaned. Ninety-nine percent charm and one hundred percent opportunism. Sh...

• Dec-1982
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It was a Halloween party she'd never forget! The Bunny and The Bandit! Masked, costumed strangers, they'd fallen into each other's arms at the witching hour. Dr. Virginia Farrell gasped at the memory. At the stroke of midnight she'...

• Dec-1982
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Why couldn't she practice what she preached! As coach of her son's Little League team, she found it easy to say, "We win some, we lose some." Was she the sore loser? Or was it the better part of valor to be content with what she ha...

• Dec-1982
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"If you so much as touch me -- with one finger -- I'll disappear so fast, you won't know what happened!" The deal was made. Cindy would work for Alan Michaels, celebrated author of children's books -- the stranger who'd sav...

• Dec-1982
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He was a complete stranger, yet she'd seen his rugged face in her dreams night after tormented night. Herbalist Judith Longfellow was shocked when Jason McNair finally appeared in the flesh: the psychic investigator assigned to share her home and exp...

• Dec-1982
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Behind her lay a ruined romance and a glamorous city job she could no longer endure. Ann Taylor had come home to the Ohio farm determined to reclaim her roots and forget about love. But one look at rugged Nathan Warner and her grim resolve failed....

• Dec-1982
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Deaf to her pleas, blind to the truth, he swept her into his arms, kissed her--then left her in a white heat of outrage and passion. But Aaron Stone, San Francisco real-estate magnate, would be back, convinced that Wynn Harris made a business of p...

• Jan-1983
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Sara awoke in the hospital, a stranger to herself. An accident had swept away all trace of the past. Soon she would leave for a home she didn't know, with a tall, handsome stranger -- Roarke Alexander her husband. Haunted by shadows of memory, Sar...

• Jan-1983
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Long, lean, and mean; he stepped out of the windy Chicago night, reappearing as suddenly as he'd vanished months before. Cat Morgan was stunned, torn between loathing and love. Only, Logan Blake had the kind of money she so desperately needed ...

• Jan-1983
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Fresh from the shower, wrapped only in a white towel, he made it clear that he would cooperate -- but only on his own terms. Nicki Alexander had done the impossible. She had gotten into the Viking clubhouse. Now she stood face to face with the bas...

• Jan-1983
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Free at last! Amanda Phillips had left her nine-to-five job and opted for adventure. As pianist on a Mississippi riverboat, she was sure to find it. From the moment she stepped aboard the Cotton Queen, Amanda was surrounded by real rogues and sout...

• Jan-1983
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"I've been offered bribes before, but this is the first time anyone's offered me his own daughter." Laine winced at the truth so plainly spoken. She could be had for a price: one million dollars. Always the quiet one, the plain one, u...

• Jan-1983
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She had dreamt of burning kisses, of sizzling honeymoon nights in the hot glitter of Las Vegas. Now Gina stood on the edge of an icy mountain stream, miles from civilization, and glared at her new "husband". Many marry in haste to repent a...

• Jan-1983
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Their marriage had left her singing the blues. Six years ago Mitch Archer had walked out on her, leaving Michelle with a budding singing career and a broken heart. Now she was a success and he was back, ready for Round Two-- arrogant, irresistible...

• Jan-1983
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There was no use pretending. His eagle eye had penetrated her disguise. Abby pulled the pins. Her platinum hair cascaded down her shoulders. She no longer blended with the woodwork -- the perfect executive secretary to the irascible trial lawyer ...

• Feb-1983
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"To sum it all up, I see myself stranded, with neither past nor future, in a small house, with a very beautiful woman:' April Wilde's heart pounded, her mind was in a whirl. What was she to make of this handsome shipwrecked stranger? Marooned in h...

• Feb-1983
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"Those macho types don't appeal to me," Rachel Pritchard insisted. 'Jason Brand leaves me totally cold." Easy enough to say, but was it true? A blue-eyed Adonis in tight jeans and T-shirt, he had invaded her freshman Composition class. An unschool...

• Feb-1983
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It was no use -- no use at all. Cathy Taylor's promising acting career -- her whole life -- suddenly seemed doomed to fail. Wildly, impulsively, she had quit her Hollywood job and driven cross-country in hope of doing summer stock in Upstate New ...

• Feb-1983
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"I'll never see things your way!" Leigh raged. Arrogant, imperious, Derek Mallory -- famed English rock star -- watched her with mock surprise. Had he summoned her to his palatial estate on Star Island to offer her the chance to prove ...

• Feb-1983
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Yes -- she couldn't deny it -- she still wanted him. But it could never be as it had been before. A few short years ago Stacie Smythe had been his student at the university. Awed by his brilliance, overwhelmed by her own desire, she had becom...

• Feb-1983
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With some misgivings, lovely Diana French said good-bye to her safe, quiet, staid life as a librarian and took the job at Quillian's Modeling Agency. Swept into the high-powered world of fashion and advertising, she was geared for excitement, steeled...

• Feb-1983
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He was part of her past, and that was exactly where she meant to keep him. Yet, she would never forget her eighteenth summer, the summer he had appeared- not a boy, but a man with a man's passions- to teach her the searing pleasures of first love. ...

• Feb-1983
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Lesley Gardner had flown across the world, joined an archaeological dig in the heart of Africa, and buried herself in work to forget the crushing heartbreak she had left behind. Yet, she had given her promise. She would go home to Oregon for Chris...

• Mar-1983
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She was burned by moonlight, scorched by the searing kisses of the devastating actor she'd been hired to direct. And now Penny Phillips had to work with him -- Joel Sanborne -- the volatile star of the soap opera Dream of Life. There was dange...

• Mar-1983
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Tall, lean, and powerful, he towered over her -- Ross Leyton, the man who had put an end to all her childish, innocent dreams.... The Thousand islands -- was it a thousand years ago, or only ten? She had been seventeen that summer, a girl who beli...

• Mar-1983
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Affairs. They were her specialty. Catered affairs. Most particularly weddings. Among her clients Diana Leighton numbered many good friends, not to mention her own very-much-married mother: No one knew more about tying beautiful matrimonial knots t...

• Mar-1983
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A fine beginning! It was pitch-dark, raining snakes and alligators, and she was totally lost -- stumbling blindly through the treacherous Everglades! PR Director Whitney Latham had been confident she could pave the way for a modem housing developm...

• Mar-1983
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Was she doomed to endure a marriage she had never wanted to a man she hardly knew? Morgana Cassity had no choice�"not this time�"not if she meant to keep the little that was hers. Her portion of the vast Cassity empire was the run-down Rocking M...

• Mar-1983
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In the space of one nippy November afternoon she'd lost her coveted spinning wheel -- utterly outbid at auction -- and now she was losing her heart -- utterly undone by a stranger's charm. Sara Gilman bristled at the danger. Growing up as ...

• Mar-1983
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Like oil and water, they'd never make a proper mix, yet Lee knew she'd met her match. Wealthy and powerful Jake Rhome had been willing to give her anything--but her freedom--so she'd left him to take a job as a geologist with an oil company in the...

• Mar-1983
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Anger. Fear. Fury. She had been prepared to feel anything but her own answering desire as he took her in his arms offering everything--everything she had ever wanted.... Jennifer Preston studied him with care. Joe Brennan, creative maverick of th...

• Apr-1983
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Beautiful Kali Havelock was all business. As VP of Interaction Automation, Inc., she was determined to outsmart the competition and corner the rights to the most advanced industrial robots...robots invented by the impossibly brilliant, outrageously h...

• Apr-1983
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It was a long time since any man had made her feel like a woman. But Jacob Santini, brash coach of the Cleveland Warriors, threatened to melt Jennifer Arlington's ice castle at their first encounter. Suddenly they were news--the beautiful reporter...

• Apr-1983
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He was sly. A predator. An opportunist And countless women were only too willing to be his prey.... She had been warned about Sloane Harper the smiling, silver-haired stranger who'd gazed into her eyes for one all-consuming second and sent her hea...

• Apr-1983
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She didn't want to see him again -- not ever. But evading him required an explanation, and Kathleen Bolton didn't want to reveal that part of her past -- not to anyone. Stephen West -- once heir apparent, now owner of the fabulous West Hotel chai...

• Apr-1983
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It seemed so long ago that Jessica Cole, swept away on a tidal wave of passion, had married the only man she ever loved. Almost immediately the seventeen-year-old child bride and Jason Rawlings were divorced, victims of family and fate. Now, eight ye...

• Apr-1983
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He was obstinate, rude, primitive-and the most dangerously attractive man Megan Jonas had ever met. rom their first explosive encounter rugged farmer Alan McDonald Had peeled away her sophisticated businesswoman's veneer, had penetrated her cool self...

• Apr-1983
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It had been so easy...easy to give in to his hungry kisses, his urgent passion, and her own desperate longing.... But the aftermath had been the most difficult experience of her young life. Kate Austin had fled the past, determined to deny the rec...

• Apr-1983
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His business was music. Cameron Stone was a starmaker--a dealmaker. Persuasion was his forte. He had convinced Julia Hollis to move in with him only hours after they met. They were to be strictly roommates sharing the same beautiful town house, b...

• May-1983
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The Bahamas--a gentle, exotic world of white sand, turquoise water, and golden sun. Nikki Blake, reporter for The Ashton Herald, genuine Georgia peach, breathed a sigh of relief She had come to relax, to forget her grief -- the flash flood that ha...

• May-1983
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"I want you," he said, the hunger in his voice echoing the heat of desire in his eyes. But Francyne LaRue had had enough men in her life who wanted her. Now she wanted nothing less than love. And who was Brendan O'Shea, the bewitching stranger fro...

• May-1983
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Brains. Was it Amy's fault she had them? The academic world was her oyster, but did every fellowship won have to mean a love lost? She pictured herself plain -- her future passionless -- until ace photographer Rick Patterson breezed into her ...

• May-1983
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Revenge! All through the bitter divorce, through her brief second marriage and the long, lonely months of her pregnancy, Samantha had ached for it! She had wanted Greg Howland to pay for his jealousy -- for having thought her an unfaithful wife. B...

• May-1983
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Cows, cowboys, and tumbleweeds -- that's what Kathryn Coleman expected of Texas. But Twin Oaks was lush and urbane. And she had her work cut out for her firing up an old run-down house, getting her antique business underway and steering clear of Matt...

• May-1983
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She knew his reputation. Warren J. Hamilton could pour on the charm with accomplished ease, then zero in on his prey with lethal accuracy. It worked in the courtroom time after time. Surely it worked as well in his private life. But Chris Davis ha...

• May-1983
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A wild and wanton need to touch him burned inside her. And yet she couldn't...must not! Why had Jord Deverone, a man who spent his days, jetting across the world from one high-level business deal to the next, suddenly appeared in her Iowa hayf...

• May-1983
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"Come, I need you!" he had cabled, and she hadn't hesitated. But what could Fletcher Robbins need? He was as big and tough as all Texas! And how could Casey hide her shock and pain when she arrived to find him involved with a beautiful...

• Jun-1983
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From the moment they collided on a busy Boston street Monica Grant knew that Michael Shaw was a cop -- and a man -- unlike any she'd ever met before. A pickpocket brought them together, and soon nothing could tear them apart -- not even Michael&#...

• Jun-1983
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Lance Sullivan had a talent for attracting women and for opening successful restaurants. But not a talent for love. Engaged to Haley's best friend, Julia, he also had Haley's heart. Yet, he had married Julia. And now that, too, was over. ...

• Jun-1983
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What was she doing on a raft hurtling down the Colorado River? Sleeping bags and camping gear were as foreign to her as equipment for flying to the moon! Certainly churning white water and Grand Canyon wilderness were a world apart from life in a ...

• Jun-1983
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"I want you," she sighed. "I want you now!" But did she? Here on Windy Hill, surrounded by wildflowers, it all seemed so right. But was it? Was she longing for the Dan Sommers she had known in college--the mountain-climbing young man ...

• Jun-1983
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She was a Chickasaw Indian princess returning to Mississippi in search of her roots. Dr. Raven Jackson, psychologist, thought she'd left love behind to regain a piece of her past. But she hadn't reckoned on Marc Summers, the wealthy, influ...

• Jun-1983
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His savage, lying kisses made her bum with anger -- and passion. Andrea Malone knew that Lyon Ratliff thought she'd do anything to win a cable-ill interview with his famous father, a reclusive war hero who'd suddenly agreed to her request. She sho...

• Jun-1983
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Seeing her drenched to the skin on his doorstep, he took her for a scheming witch with a Halloween trick up her sleeve. Jessica Wren had been ready to make for any port in the storm, but within seconds she swore she'd rather drown with her car in...

• Jun-1983
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She breezed into the Bahamas as lightly as a silver-blond cloud in a clear blue sky. Looking as harmless as a hummingbird, hiding behind a facade of featherbrained chatter, she was determined to rest, to let no one -- nothing -- would ruffle her sl...

• Jul-1983
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"Witch! Seductress! Temptress!" The words struck out in anger. They were not the words he had first used. Two strangers aboard a ship cruising at sea, their words, their kisses, their touch, had been filled with a fierce, tender passion. And Ronni...

• Jul-1983
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Del Harris had struggled against every prejudice in the book to rise to the rank of police sergeant. Now a new promotion was in sight. She'd never allowed herself to look beyond ambition-- until Mitchell Parrish walked into her life. A renowned d...

• Jul-1983
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" You owe me, " he said, pushing his luck. " The price is dinner -- and evening together. " Clearly they were on a collision course. First he'd barged into her office, an IRS agent who never stopped to consider that Jaycee Warne...

• Jul-1983
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She was the original Ice Princess--tall, blond, aloof Amanda Richards, Associate Librarian of Deer field College, a woman with everything under control -- until an arsonist set the campus ablaze and a persistent detective set her heart afire. Brad...

• Jul-1983
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The ranch had always been her world. Now she was on her way to the National Championship. If she won, her financial problems would be solved. There would be high stud fees, a chance to make Casa Contenta the finest Arabian horse-breeding farm in Cali...

• Jul-1983
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"You've been playing at life for too long!" Erin Wentworth McIntee winced at the words. Her grandmother controlled her inheritance. She had no choice but to agree. Two months -- she had two months to prove herself working as assistant on Congressw...

• Jul-1983
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She'd been lucky. Already in demand as a top-notch photojoumalist, Jenny Stuart could call her own shots. Max Dunn, the Don Juan of Dallas, might be the hottest agent in town -- and her agent as well -- but she'd never be another notch on his...

• Jul-1983
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He was everything she abhorred. His seductive success at public relations for museums, theaters, and art galleries spilled over into his private life. Kaynon Edwards should have been labeled "Lethal -- Destructive to Women!" Tara Hallworth...

• Aug-1983
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"Good girls finish last, and I've always been at the head of the class." That's what Vixen Mallory would say, and Vikki Kirkland was saying it now...to Dan Falkner, ace reporter, who'd come to do a story on the soap opera -- an...

• Aug-1983
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Some Mata Hari she'd turned out to be! Her first attempt to get the goods on the playboy electronics wizard Brian Thmer had led from a socialite soiree to his Washington, D.C., hotel suite, where she'd turned a seduction scene into sheer mayh...

• Aug-1983
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An officer -- and a lady! -- West Point graduate Susan Vance was determined to do her duty. But she would not succumb to her dashing new Commander in Chief First the playboy general promoted her to the rank of major. Now he claimed her as his own....

• Aug-1983
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Madness! It must have been madness that drove cool, collected industrial-management consultant Dr. Kay Paget into the arms of her most troublesome client. She'd been hired to do a job and now he dared her -- a woman! --to do it. He infuriated ...

• Aug-1983
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She was driven. Abby Windsor's advertising career was her whole life. She wanted success. Was it any surprise she insisted on perfection? How she had changed! Once all she had wanted was Joel Richmond -- his eyes gazing into hers, his hands ca...

• Aug-1983
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Molten desire carried the heated message to every cell in her body. It would have blazed a path to her eyes, to burn brightly there, but Neal couldn't let him see.... Memories-- all they had were memories. A starry-eyed teenager and a magnetic you...

• Aug-1983
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"Do you believe in love at first flight?" The note came attached to a bottle of Dom Perignon. Loy McDaniel, professional balloonist, pilot, and owner of Cloud Soaring, Inc., wasn't flattered; she was livid. A veteran of two short-lived marriages, ...

• Aug-1983
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Self-styled hermit Jess Haggerty was a successful writer of westerns long before publisher Torrance Tyler III learned the truth: His best-selling "men's" author was a woman! And Jess was no less astounded to discover in Tory Tyler a man who looked th...

• Sep-1983
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Fresh from her first success in Nashville, Gem Reasoner -- heiress to an oilman's fortune -- looked like a waif singing for her supper in a small-town club miles from nowhere. When the going got rough, it was Roan Christiansen who came to her ...

• Sep-1983
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Unlucky thirteen! Jenna thought. It was two years since she'd met him, eleven months since he'd vanished. Their marriage had lasted exactly thirteen months. Together they'd been the music world's most beautiful�"and explosive�"couple. Since they...

• Sep-1983
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Him! It was him! Yesterday he'd terrified her, tracking her through Washington. Today he infuriated her, barging into her office to introduce himself -- Reid Mecena, the Arizona senator's son. The sophisticated East and the rugged West had met. C...

• Sep-1983
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Are you happy? Are you married? Are you tired of life in the fast lane? The answers were "yes," "no," and "maybe." As her postcards implied, Devon O'Neal, star reporter, had done well in New York. She wasn't sure ...

• Sep-1983
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Was it possible? Was she immune to his masculine charms? Every woman south of the Mason-Dixon line might be at his beck and call, but Shannon knew better. She'd met the seductive gaze of his sea-blue eyes with glacial indifference. Cayce Hamilton-...

• Sep-1983
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Shotgun justice-- was that what Heath Tanner wanted? Had he kidnapped her and imprisoned her on his Montana ranch because he wanted to watch her suffer? Was it fair? Shelby Constantine had already paid for her "crime." Just a girl, could she have ...

• Sep-1983
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For anyone else it would have been a dream come true. Cal Bishop was the designer of the decade. His estate was too luxurious to be real. Being singled out to model his luscious new line of sportswear then being miraculously swept into his arms -- wh...

• Sep-1983
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Money...she needed it more than love, more than anything he had to offer. Sloan Tallet was tired of struggling, of doing it all on her own. When Westley Adams -- retired all-American quarterback -- arrived on her doorstep, she decided to marry hi...

• Oct-1983
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Deil-- the name was Scottish for "devil." Had the master fiend himself invaded Kelly Watson's life? No one had warned her. When Kelly's roommate had left for England, she'd made no mention of her brother coming to take her plac...

• Oct-1983
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Windy Ryan had left Not Springs years ago. In the concrete canyons of New York she'd learned to cut her losses. Only modestly successful as a model, she'd invested in a new dream -- Ryan's Oasis -- and come back to create her future. Was ...

• Oct-1983
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He was a passionate obsession. Her memories of him just wouldn't disappear. But Lauren McCloud left home for Georgia's older, wiser, still determined to forget the man whose memory had burned within her for five long years. Yet even fate was consp...

• Oct-1983
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"You have the disposition of a witch, the tongue of a shrew--and the body of an angel;" he whispered seductively in her ear.... Just the kind of thing a man like Garrett Morganson would say. What had Chandra Loring let herself in for? Engaged, ...

• Oct-1983
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He was just what the doctor ordered -- only she was the doctor, and while he'd once been her patient, he was clearly in command now. Between her office, the hospital, and her ever-present beeper, Barbara Weimer M.D., hardly had time to breathe. T...

• Oct-1983
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"Has it ever occurred to you;' he asked, towering over her, "that anyone who hates so passionately must love just as passionately too?" It had not. Before Ty Rundell came hurtling into her life, exquisite Leigh Carlow had been cont...

• Oct-1983
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She was cornered: Maggie Sterline's past had caught up with her. What strange twist of fate had led her to walk unknowingly back into the lion's den? Saxon Tremayne was a hot-blooded giant of a man. What had happened between them was a misunderst...

• Oct-1983
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Commitment--all her life beautiful Kate Churchill had managed to avoid it, diverting herself with second-rate men. Her success as advertising and promotion director of a once- legendary New York department store was more than compensation. Or at l...

• Nov-1983
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"But I can't give you what you want," she murmured urgently. A day of her time was all Geoffrey Parker wanted. Once he'd had it all. Sara had been his wife, an eighteen-year-old Iowa farm girl invading the Parker's fabulous domain of wealth and p...

• Nov-1983
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He took wicked delight in provoking her. And Ellen was shocked at her own fiery response as she rose to his outrageous challenges. A ski weekend with a group of friends had thrown them together. He was divorced and she was committed to a memory, ...

• Nov-1983
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Divorce was her business. An expert at untying matrimonial knots, beautiful Blair Bennett was one of the best lawyers in the Shenandoah Valley. But never before had her home been invaded by an irate ex-husband crying fraud. He demanded food and shelt...

• Nov-1983
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They met at a Philadelphia black tie gala. RoseEllen Robbins, the elegant psychologist, was in total control until Jonathan Wood, self-proclaimed 'junk dealer;' pierced her cool composure with a single glance. What could they possibly have in comm...

• Nov-1983
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“You make it hard for a man to say no.” Was he making fun of her? With his suave manners, his roguish charm, and talent for collecting rare females of the species, Dart Griffiths, president of the Big Valley Zoological Society, was just the ki...

• Nov-1983
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She would beat him at his own game. Yale Upton self-made man, Palm Beach sophisticate, had made it clear he knew what he wanted and took it. Well, cool and casual Hannah Blake would tease and elude him. He'd never have his way. But she should hav...

• Nov-1983
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"Well...I suppose we could have...one for the road." Garret's breath was quick, his hands hot. How hard he felt against her softness. He thought she was being flippant; couldn't believe she'd leave him. Each time they touched it was like the firs...

• Nov-1983
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The Ozarks�" these legendary hills held the secret and the shame�" of her past, the past that had to be faced before she could shape her future. No longer a wild hot-blooded girl, daughter of a poor tenant farmer, Blair Logan had come home a wea...

• Dec-1983
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She'd escaped him once before. Stacy Kemble, ace photojournalist, had led San Francisco -- she'd married another man! But Don Kemble was gone forever. And Stacy was well settled in the San Joaquin valley when Ward Fallbrook came back into ...

• Dec-1983
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She would never give in. Her father had meant the Emerson Mills Gazette to be a rural Maryland paper. Award-winning publisher Claire Tanager meant to keep it that way. It would never be part of Spence McCabe's new East Coast chain. But there w...

• Dec-1983
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The lady in command--graduate of Annapolis--beautiful Alex Page had put a career in Naval Intelligence and a bitter marriage behind her. Now, as security chief of a major firm, her main charge was guarding the body of its dashing president. Proud,...

• Dec-1983
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He took her for a brazen gold digger. He thought she'd come in answer to a personal ad for a Texas mogul's mistress! He was handsome, refined, as polished as a fine gem, but his insinuations were shockingly crass. A talented, independent designer,...

• Dec-1983
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Baseball was in her blood. Absolutely at ease in the locker room, utterly unschooled in the kitchen, she'd been relegated to The Back Burner- a cooking show! Sally Denning, WQEK's newest TV sportscaster, was seething. A rating war, a crazy twist of f...

• Dec-1983
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Who was Simon Lord? Everyone in Savannah was suddenly scurrying at his beck and call. From the moment she set eyes on the handsome electronics magnate, sparks flew. Adrian made it clear she knew what she wanted, knew where she was going. She meant to...

• Dec-1983
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Glitter! Glamor! Excitement! For ten years Cassandra Howard had made her living as a blackjack dealer on the Las Vegas Strip...and had been vaguely discontented until Jarratt Vandenburg walked into the Tropical Paradise to lose at the tables but win ...