Candlelight Ecstacy Supreme — Multiple Authors

• Aug-1983
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What a fool she'd been! She'd given him more of her soul than she'd ever thought possible. Given him herself. She burned within, thinking of how she'd come to him, teased him, loved him, lain beside him in intimate abandon. Blair Morgan--daughter...

• Aug-1983
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Everyone, it seemed, wanted to take charge of her life! One moment Kelly Valentine was safe in her modest Ann Arbor jewelry shop, thrilled at the chance to set an emerald for Brian Fort, heir to a fabled fortune. The next, they were being swept from ...

• Aug-1983
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She'd worked hard to get to the top--to become an associate producer. When a malicious scandal forced her to switch networks, Juliet York swore that unfounded rumors would never threaten her reputation again. But she'd no sooner arrived at Union B...

• Aug-1983
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It began in L.A. and could have ended almost anywhere. One minute Chris was in the midst of a barroom brawl; the next she was quitting her job, taking off for Las Vegas with a handsome stranger. Silver spoon and tin plate--from the first, Chris kn...

• Sep-1983
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Her face was her fortune. But when Kea Mason's light plane crashed outside L.A., her life shattered with it. Her husband was dead; her brief, unhappy marriage over; her future as a respected TV interviewer uncertain; her position in a world of we...

• Sep-1983
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Attraction, longing, desire -- but not love...that couldn't be what she felt for the beautiful young man who held her so passionately in his arms.... The unmerry widow, Jennifer Morris had devoted her every waking moment to running the Morris ...

• Sep-1983
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A leading daytime soap opera, “The Sinners”, had jumped to the top of the ratings. But success meant serious trouble. Now catastrophes scripted for the characters were happening off-camera--to the cast! Casey Fredericks, exquisite private eye, ha...

• Sep-1983
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Could she be jealous of her own teenage daughter, a budding blond beauty who had apparently enchanted a man more than twice her age? Ridiculous! Katherine Meadows thought she had good reason to mistrust the arrogant new neighbor her two children a...

• Jan-1984
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The Bermuda Triangle. It wasn't at all what Jessica had intended. She'd used her vacation from the magazine to join Brad Taylor for a week on location -- Brad, who was no longer the person she'd known all her life, the man she had meant t...

• Jan-1984
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Crash-landing on a remote South Pacific island put fashion executive Skye Delaney at a distinct disadvantage. And when she learned that her arrogant pilot was none other than Kyle Jagger, the mysteriously reclusive international entrepreneur, she kne...

• Jan-1984
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With her elegant Nordic beauty Helga Tarr looked as though she were born to play a leading part in Washington's high society. Her Minnesota law firm had sent her to the Capitol. A legal secretary, she now had the chance to begin again, to study l...

• Jan-1984
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She'd asked for it! Weary of her lonely life as a legal librarian, Rhea longed to attract the attention of Addison Chambers, Denver's most devastating attorney. And she didn't stop to ask why her neighbor, Steve Bradley--whose forte was remodeling Vi...

• Feb-1984
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"You've miscalculated." he announced in a low voice. "You'll be mine...body and soul!" Not likely! Stacey Trent, courtroom psychologist, was intent on doing her job -- helping J.D. O'Bannon, corporate attorney and Texas...

• Feb-1984
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Sparkling Amanda Sterling, radio personality, host of Speak Up, Houston, knew she must be going mad. She could say yes and turn her long-term affair with Kyle Steffens into a lifetime commitment, yet here she was careening into Brad Granger's waiting...

• Feb-1984
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Eastern Mountain Inn -- a haven of natural beauty only 85 miles from New York City. But Lisa Bennett hadn't gone there to play. Operations manager for Eastland Industries, she'd been sent to get the figures that would put the inn up for sale, put mil...

• Feb-1984
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She'd pay for today's happiness with tomorrow's grief, but casting director Sarah Bailey couldn't say no to Charles Trainer, who'd come halfway around the world to claim her again. He said he worked for World Oil -- but couldn&...

• Mar-1984
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Erin McCabe, internationally acclaimed fashion model, was determined to make her dream come true. For as long as she could remember, she had wanted to finish college and teach. Her trip to the Soviet Union was the first step in accomplishing that. ...

• Mar-1984
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With his astonishing good looks and treacherous ways Kyle Richardson might have been the devil himself. In Charmayne Brennan's eyes he was. She would never forgive him for the unscrupulous scheme that had almost destroyed the little town of Kearney, ...

• Mar-1984
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Travel reporter Kelly Millburn never seemed to get the exciting assignments. Instead she was covering yet another dull package tour. But one member of her group didn't fit the tourist profile. From the first, Bill Clayton surprised her. He looked mor...

• Mar-1984
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Flying -- it was the world to her. Then, in one terrible moment, her world shattered. Captain Blake Warner, best pilot in her class, was grounded for the duration of her Air Force career. As maintenance officer, supervising test planes and pilots...

• Apr-1984
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As far as Amy Sinclair was concerned, Jordon Kent, head of Securities Unlimited, was more than a top-notch security agent. Three years ago he'd managed to steal -- and break -- her heart. But now, as coordinator of St. Tropez Run, a Virginia Beac...

• Apr-1984
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It was a lie. Elliot Douglas could never have children. For thirteen years he'd let Maryanne believe there was hope. It had taken an old Vietnam buddy at their high school reunion to blurt out the truth... a truth everyone knew. Now Maryanne knew....

• Apr-1984
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The man had wined her, dined her, promised her a job -- then assaulted her. She'd barely escaped with her innocence, only to find herself in jail, arrested for "stealing" his car! That was when Atlanta's finest attorney and most eligi...

• Apr-1984
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She'd abandoned her marriage and her surgical practice in Baton Rouge to voyage into the unknown as ship's doctor aboard the Royal Princess Star. But could a round-the-world cruise, a year's escape, outdistance the demons within? Or was D...

• May-1984
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Lea McKenna, private eye, had nailed Las Vegas casino czar Tony Cappa in divorce court with evidence she now believed to be as false as his venomous ex-wife. It was too late to make amends, but it was a perfect opportunity to salve her conscience whe...

• May-1984
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She'd escaped her manager, fled the grueling demands of a highly successful acting career, and embarked on an idyllic vacation. Nothing appealed to Gabriella Ford more than a lazy week alone with her father on the Dixie Lee. But even as she prepa...

• May-1984
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She was a true peach. Former Miss Georgia, first runner-up in the Miss America Pageant, Dale Chastain had parlayed her looks, talent, and brains into an education and the job of her dreams--movie reviewer for WNBS-TV Chicago. And he was Sloane Avery,...

• May-1984
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She'd been warned. Star quarterback Jack Thayer pulled no punches. His philosophy was strictly "love 'em and leave 'em," and Colby Dalton, he insisted, was just not "his type." But from the first moment they met, Colby ...

• Jun-1984
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London, Paris, New York -- the glamour run was the envy of every flight attendant, but Laurie Abbott was ready to fold up her wings and begin again. At thirty-eight, she was ready for a change -- and totally unprepared for David Warren, the dashing p...

• Jun-1984
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After eight long years Rachel Quinn couldn't wait for her husband to resign his commission in the navy and come home to Norfolk, Virginia, where she'd worked so long and hard to maintain their home. But strong, stubborn Adam showed no sign...

• Jun-1984
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Cole Bishop had appeared in her hour of need and she'd done it--hired him ... a male housekeeper! Perhaps now, with her twin boys in his care, she could get back to her demanding career in advertising. In no time her chaotic household was running ...

• Jun-1984
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As second in command of Renninger Corporation's New York office, Jo Lawrence was used to handling the problems of a multimillion-dollar hotel business. Then her boss had a car accident, and suddenly his arrogant, moody brother from Atlanta was in cha...

• Jul-1984
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It was a dream come true. As top fashion designer for a prominent New York manufacturer Veronica Harbison had arrived in Paris for her first feature show. But a bitter betrayal by her handsome boss had left her to roam the streets of Paris alone. ...

• Jul-1984
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FBI Special Agent Cecelia Montemayor was more than ready to leave a run-of-the-mill New York City assignment to return to her native Southwest. As the only woman in the El Paso branch, she was eager to take on the kind of risky undercover work for wh...

• Jul-1984
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Samantha Thatcher was seeing red! The very thought of the redheaded knight-of-the-road who'd fixed her flat tire still filled her with fury He was a brute! A beast! Beautiful Sam had come to San Francisco with a single purpose: to many a millionai...

• Jul-1984
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Sports doctor Annie Kneeland wasn't ready for Nick Winters to walk back into her life. But when the sensual, hot-tempered tennis superstar arrived in her office with an injury, she soon realized that his old infuriating magic still worked. Taking ...

• Aug-1984
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When he appeared on his stallion, galloping over the hot sands, seizing her and sweeping her into a luxuriously carpeted tent in the oasis, Alex Randall wasn't afraid. She was furious. And her fury grew when she found he was no brigand but Dan D'...

• Aug-1984
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From the moment they met on the grounds of Marshall State Hospital, Joanna Henderson knew she'd met a man she could love forever. But behind the tenderness in his eyes was a deep sadness -- the specter of a tragic past -- and a woman he couldn...

• Aug-1984
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Running a Florida gift shop was a full-time challenge for spirited Courtney Spenser But when her lively widowed mother started chasing around town with seventy-year-old motorcycle enthusiast Clyde Merrill, the shop was suddenly the least of her worri...

• Aug-1984
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It was a long way from Silicon Valley to backwoods Tennessee, but Laurette Hailey was ready to escape the fast-paced California computer world to come home to the Smoky Mountains and let memories of a disastrous marriage fade into the summer air. ...

• Sep-1984
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She was the widow Charboneau, young, shockingly beautiful, and off limits to outsiders -- the rugged drillers in the southern Louisiana oil fields. Anne-Marie was rich, but lived like a pauper under the thumb of her powerful father. No man had ever c...

• Sep-1984
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He looked more like a professional athlete than a professor of philosophy. And he was good at running too -- running away. Two years ago Daniel Logan had left the university, left Grace Mitchell without a word of explanation. Now, as suddenly as he&#...

• Sep-1984
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She was struggling to keep her head above water. Her Houston area restaurant was floundering. Even worse, her fifteen-year-old sister and ward was growing up too fast. And when Kathy appeared with a man twice her age in tow, Ashley Stevens laid down ...

• Sep-1984
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As newly appointed president of Tannaco Oil, Michela Aberdeen commanded power and respect as a true oil tycoon. But when it came to Jet Lethbridge, her heart yearned to be ruled. He first swept into her life on the glittering streets of New York--...

• Oct-1984
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Independence was all--in work and in love! Makeup artist Laura Dawson came to New York to make a name for herself. She hadn't expected to meet a man like Gordon Chase, head of CTC Television, who offered jobs and contacts that could carry her straigh...

• Oct-1984
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She thought him a rank amateur. He thought her a naive, wealthy girl who'd never had to work for anything she wanted. They were both wrong. Jessica Hart was a capable candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives. Nick Kosachezk, campaign manag...

• Oct-1984
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She was only a young girl when they first met, but handsome, magnetic Rath Dixon had made an indelible impression. By the time Liz Butler left her family's lavish Nevada home, her catastrophic marriage behind her, to open her own design studio in ...

• Oct-1984
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For as long as she could remember, Bobbie Jo Tate had dreamed of being a jockey. A petite spitfire, she'd stood up to ridicule, fought for the right to take her place in the male-dominated world of Thoroughbred racing, and succeeded. Now Jeremy and R...

• Nov-1984
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Walking on Fifth Avenue, savoring her success as an artist, Mann Shannon's head was in the clouds. When she careened into Nick Scarpelli, she knew at once he wasn't the perfect stranger. What had changed her mind--blackmail? His irresistible virility...

• Nov-1984
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I have no memories of Nick Falcon, she told herself. But it wasn't true. Alexis Adams would never forget the tough city kid her father had all but adopted, the boy who'd turned his back on her seven long summers ago. And now Nick was back, no...

• Nov-1984
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He took her for an old maid schoolteacher! Near-sighted, slim as a reed, Olivia Waring had made Horizon House, her nursery school, the center of her life, her pride and joy. And been content until an angry little girl and boy invaded her heart. Jake ...

• Nov-1984
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A blizzard blew her into his life, but from the very first it wasn't snow but sparks that began to fly. Stranded in the tiny Wyoming town, Rana Alcott swore she'd rather die than accept help from a man like Gunner Montay. But what choice did she have...

• Dec-1984
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A dynamo of a man, Jake Darrow had put his formidable energies into forming a coalition to help victims and take drunken drivers off the road. Carla Jeffreys, producer of Corpus Christi's hottest talk show, knew she could do a brilliant documenta...

• Dec-1984
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She thrilled to change and excitement. She made her living leaping from tall buildings and walking through fire. How much trouble could stuntwoman Cat Roy get into in ten short days? After that, Dr. Luke Eliot, renowned psychiatrist, would be gone--o...

• Dec-1984
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Clad in scarlet, she was a ravishing gypsy entranced by a handsome minstrel. If it hadn't been for the Kansas City Annual Renaissance Festival, they might never have met. Shy, overcautious Alison Smith almost never took chances. Greg Masters had give...

• Dec-1984
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The sight of the Grand Canyon filled her with awe -- and pain. Once she'd been able to portray and create beauty. The accident had put an end to that. She'd never sculpt again. Lynne Savant was on a journey, seeking something to fill the ...

• Jan-1985
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It had been three years since Trish Sanders left her husband's Texas ranch and returned to Savannah to manage an interior design shop and raise show dogs. But when a tragic crime took her father's life and she began to get anonymous death threats, sh...

• Jan-1985
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Witch, princess, monster, or minstrel--Holly Sutton could speak in a million voices. A whirlwind of casual creativity, a magnet for every kid within calling range, she made a handsome living doing TV cartoon voice-overs. Her life in Thousand Oaks was...

• Jan-1985
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He'd come to the secluded cabin in British Columbia to sweep her away to Los Angeles in protective custody as witness for the prosecution in a notorious murder case. But Christopher Petrie didn't know that the gorgeous "gangster's moll" lounging sedu...

• Jan-1985
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The neon nights, the steamy sense of danger, the strangeness of the Strip -- it was a world that small-town, unsophisticated Madeline Catlin might never have entered. But if the police wouldn't help her, then Victor Canelli would. She'd come all the ...

• Feb-1985
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Her brother described Michael Venner as saintly, but the hard-muscled man who appeared before her looked more like a black-bearded pirate. This was the man she was to "marry" and smuggle back into the States -- all to save her brother's g...

• Feb-1985
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Elementary school principal Anne Carlson had fought hard to reach the top: too hard to let freewheeling Michael Evans put her off her stride. And the Puget Sound community wasn't about to approve of the blue-jeaned newcomer or anyone sympathetic ...

• Feb-1985
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They'd been best friends--Abby, Peter, and Jordan. Even after Abby and Peter married and both men rose in the world, it seemed the bond between the three of them had held. But all that was changed now. Abby and Peter were divorced. Peter was gone, an...

• Feb-1985
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He was the perfect man for the perfect part. Vanished for ten years after a near fatal accident, Wade McAllister had returned to play the starring role in Scorpio, and she, Lucy Moran, casting director of Pentacle Pictures, had engineered it. It was ...

• Mar-1985
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She appeared to the world as a successful free-lance journalist-- a sleek, sophisticated young woman. Who would have believed that Rikki Logan was actually a security agent hired to protect the man who seemed to be her escort? It was a life filled wi...

• Mar-1985
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Thirty million! Katrina McAllister was over a barrel. That was what she needed to save KLM Oil, the company she'd inherited from her father, the late Houston wildcatter and oil baron. It was a gamble, but she'd come to New York to see the one...

• Mar-1985
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Her wicked game of blackjack had earned her the title. Only a touch of aloofness in her elegant manner hinted at her tragic past. Rhiannan Collins had lost everything - her husband and two children - when a hostage-held plane crashed into her Richmon...

• Mar-1985
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A fresh start. Kate Stuart thought they'd made it. From the moment she'd first seen Tony Fielding in the prison waiting room, she'd been certain of one thing and suspected another. She was attracted to him, and there was a good chance he was innocent...

• Apr-1985
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It was a mission impossible. Ever since a tragic accident had cost the lives of friends in the Himalayas, photographer Kate Muldoon had been unable to snap the shutter. Yet her editor at Earth History magazine insisted. Her subject: Dr. Sam Connery. ...

• Apr-1985
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Stress psychologist Katherine Parrish often met resistance and resentment toward her work. But in renowned textile executive Phillip Holloman, she knew she faced her ultimate challenge. Driven, magnetic, he seduced her with his charm even as he resis...

• Apr-1985
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For two exquisite nights Martha Hamilton and Alex Brock had been lovers. Then he'd vanished without a word. And now, after seven years, Alex was back, poor boy who'd made good. His nonfiction book, Infamous, had topped the best-seller lists. He'd not...

• Apr-1985
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Debbie Cheong, Chinese translator for the U.S. government, was determined to help her best friend escape Vietnam and join her American fiance. As a reporter, Debbie had already tangled with the notorious mercenary Ben Sako-- and didn't care to do it ...

• May-1985
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Struggling young actress Libby Sloan had arrived in Arizona to play a small part in a big western movie. She'd had her eye on her opportunity -- not on Craig Wicklow: yet the cool, sardonic stuntman had clearly singled her out for a little on-loc...

• May-1985
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An innocent dressed in skimpy black satin, Lotus Sinclair Weston took the job as a roving photographer in a Las Vegas casino with one purpose: to learn who had run up huge gambling debts in her uncle's name. If she failed, her whole family would be d...

• May-1985
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Microbiologist Dr. Erin Barclay had never met her mysterious employer, the legendary owner of Scott Research and Development. But when a threatening phone call forced her to destroy her own top secret work and flee, Erin was suddenly given a disturbi...

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

• Jun-1985
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She knew the value of fine turquoise. For two years, ever since her husband's death, Royale Summer had worked in her Scottsdale, Arizona, shop, making and selling Indian jewelry. The need for stones led her to Cody Hammersmith. It wasn't long before ...

• Jun-1985
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Did she look a likely candidate for a summer fling? In fact, she was a candidate for the bar. A beautiful young widow, Melissa Bennett intended to become her father-in-law's corporate attorney and return to make her home with him and her little daugh...

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

• Jun-1985
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His hands explored the body his eyes couldn't see. His touch was everything shed dreamed it would be. On an outrageous impulse shed come to him, posing as the “professional” her playboy brother had sent as a gift to his temporarily blinded friend...

• Jul-1985
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Kathryn Barstow had worked long and hard to earn the coveted position of director of San Francisco's Kraig Art Gallery. So when renowned adventurer and New York society darling Nicholas Hale was hired instead, she knew her days at the gallery were nu...

• Jul-1985
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Just when Eve was certain she was safe, Kyle Morgan crashed his plane into her mountain and invaded her very private life. The isolated cabin where she'd come to paint and forget the hurt and scandal of the past was her retreat from romantic involvem...

• Jul-1985
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He was just doing his job -- trying to get the facts on the prime suspects in a major jewel robbery. But what was Amanda Mills doing, falling in love with Clay Kendall, the man who'd appeared out of the blue to accuse her sister of being a thief?...

• Jul-1985
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Puente del Norte -- the last place on earth Maddy Lambert had expected to find herself. Yet here she was in the middle of Central America in an embattled guerrilla camp on a mission impossible. She'd come to get her dying father, whose ideals...

• Aug-1985
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Torn between love for her father and concern that he might be involved in unsavory business, Laura Weymouth -- the industrialist's idealistic daughter -- fled to the family's secluded Montana hideaway. She never expected to wake at midnight t...

• Aug-1985
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She'd only meant to boost her ego after the blow of a broken engagement. She'd set out to snare a man -- and succeeded beyond her wildest expectations. Had it not been for a strange turn of events, she'd have surrendered utterly to Adam L...

• Aug-1985
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They were a terrific team -- fantasy writer Valerie Lindahl and artist Anne Delaney. Together they'd found the perfect vehicle for their talents in the sexy swordswoman, Valarya the Valiant. Sometimes Valerie felt that if she could only step into...

• Aug-1985
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As executive chairman of Selby Oil, Charlene McLanahan wielded a great deal of power. She could make or break a career. And when renowned biologist Dr. Leon Leatherman appeared before her grant committee, requesting money to pursue his controversial ...

• Sep-1985
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She'd lied to her best friend, bragging that she'd married a famous surgeon. Now Jillane Simms had to produce a husband, and Slater Holbrook was the best she could come up with. In desperation she made a deal. He'd play the part in exchan...

• Sep-1985
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The Mexicans called him El Capitán, the dangerous American available for any job--at the right price. Nick Diamond was the only man who could help Alexis Julian find little Jenni, her beloved goddaughter presumed kidnapped in the aftermath of the ...

• Sep-1985
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It wasn't just her job. It was her life! Nikki Anderson had helped found Freedom College. She flourished in an atmosphere of inspired chaos. But only the desperate fact of sudden unemployment could have led a straight arrow like Harry Rostin, boy...

• Sep-1985
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Jo Benoit was sure of one thing: She knew how to take care of herself. She’d defied her brilliant family to become a free-lance artist. When her husband died only weeks before their divorce became final, her life was her own. But when she'd agr...

• Oct-1985
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Block Island. She thought of it as her island. Elizabeth Dale-Jones - gallery proprietor, amateur photographer, all-around dilettante, and local heiress - was certain of two things: No one was going to put up a hotel that blocked her parents' view of...

• Oct-1985
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She had no choice. She was his prisoner. She hadn't committed a crime. She’d seen one. As state's witness in a murder case, Lorna Doria was invaluable--and in danger. It was New York City undercover cop Andrew Trudeau's job to...

• Oct-1985
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As a police investigator and forensic chemist, Amanda Blakeman had seen her share of danger and excitement. But she'd never known anyone quite like Jack Vance, the daring homicide officer who'd put the San Antonio SWAT Team on the map. Jack&#...

• Oct-1985
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Time was not on her side. Her biological clock was ticking away, leaving lovely stained-glass artist Heather Evans with some risky medical options. Everything might be solved by simply having a baby -- but was that an option, with no man in her life?...

• Nov-1985
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One look in his smoky gray eyes and Sarah Phillips knew: To have such a man fall in love with her would be exhilarating, exciting -- and dangerous. Lord Justin Steele was a renowned English horse breeder. Thoroughbred racer. and bloodstock agent. The...

• Nov-1985
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For lunch, Keira Martyn played Lotto; for dinner, she depended on the men she could charm into picking up the check. The salary of a Tacoma, Washington, department store clerk was barely enough to buy lipstick, let alone lasagna. And real estate inve...

• Nov-1985
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One minute she was grasping at a dream; the next, she was grasping at straws. Waitressing in Paris enabled Jackie Archer to live in the city she loved. Being suddenly jobless and homeless--thanks to the wild antics of a handsome stranger--was a disas...

• Nov-1985
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It was easy for Kathy Stevens, newly graduated marine biologist, newest Texas Parks and Wildlife Department employee, to come back home to the Texas Gulf Coast, back to her beloved Bay Area. But she could never have contrived the circumstances that m...

• Dec-1985
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She'd been shanghaied! One minute she was relaxing aboard the Rosalie, the next a modern-day pirate had taken charge. Callie Simpson's St. Croix vacation was geared to give her a change of pace. Expecting island calm, she never dreamed she...

• Dec-1985
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She thought she'd had enough of football to last her a lifetime. A bad marriage to a star football player had left journalist Ashley Buchannan with a love and knowledge of the game but a healthy distrust of the men who played it. Yet the offer of...

• Dec-1985
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She'd saved his life! When she tracked Michael Andrews, the brilliant young geneticist, to his Maryland home, he was almost gone--felled by gas fumes. Who would have believed that mouth-to- mouth resuscitation could lead to searing kisses? And how co...

• Dec-1985
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Their brief encounter was flash-fire passion shared in the face of death. Sylvia Goddard hadn't even seen Hank Weston's face as they hid in the dark hut, escaping the gunfire of the Paraguayan police. She knew only the comfort of his hands, his kind ...

• Jan-1986
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Was it the chance she'd been waiting for? Uncertain of her expertise. Joanna Kinsman hesitated. As assistant to the director of a leading art auction and appraisal firm, she was to go to Spain to assess a collection that might be worth millions. Bols...

• Jan-1986
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For a moment it was like a movie--romantic, adventurous, exciting. Then Hillary Ann Worthington snapped back to reality-albeit reality of a rather exotic sort. The Blue Flamingo--a vintage railroad train that rivaled the Orient Express--was her late ...

• Jan-1986
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Heart of diamond, soul of ice -- Jessie McMillan's reputation as a high-level bounty hunter hadn't been built on hearsay. She could act like a beautiful socialite or a cat burglar with equal aplomb. And now she was stalking a man who'd ma...

• Jan-1986
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Her life depended on it. Or at least her future as an aspiring young journalist. That was the only reason Katie Hudson would confront the man she'd always resented. Her in-depth interview with Ken Hart, superreceiver for the Sarasota Saxons, turn...

• Feb-1986
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Holly Mitchell was following orders. And her job was to follow them well. The man called Andrew Bates had been a top physicist in his own country before his defection. Now, his appearance altered, his identity changed, he was to fly to the States. Wi...

• Feb-1986
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He was a stranger from the wrong side of town. First he'd saved Gabrielle Bennett's life. Then he'd taken possession of her very soul. She'd been so young but had quickly come to love Marc Stephano with all her heart. Until he had betrayed her. Now, ...

• Feb-1986
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Thoughts of Jacob Yoder filled her with a sense of urgency and excitement. Ruth Mueller had never longed for a man before. Years of research and study had allowed her to ignore her own emotional needs....

• Feb-1986
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She loved the thrill of the chase. Tohni York, Atlanta agent for Eagle Eye Investigation, had been hired to find Reese Kreuger. She'd no sooner tracked him to Lake Chickamauga, Tennessee, when it became impossible to take her eyes off him. Posing as ...

• Mar-1986
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He'd tracked her down, saved her from her brutal kidnappers, but he couldn't save her from herself. Arrogant, self-possessed, yet still innocent in love, shed begged for his kiss, unaware that the woman within would burst into flames at the first tou...

• Mar-1986
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Dawn Hastings was caught between the devil and the deep blue sea--or rather, between Brent Graham, the man shed married, and Scott Larkin, whom she'd loved for as long as she could remember. They'd all been kids together. Then Scott was sent away to ...

• Mar-1986
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Mitchell McNaughton was her last hope. He'd helped years before in her sister's lawsuit. And won. But victory had cost him his small-town family law practice. Kristina Neilson finally found him in Austin, grown prosperous handling oil and gas leases....

• Mar-1986
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Jody had had good reason to leave her husband. Yet now, suddenly widowed and left with a young son to support, she faced an impossible choice. Her husband had died in debt to his brother. And now Doug had given her an ultimatum -- share her business ...

• Apr-1986
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She was an innocent. He was a worldly sophisticate. She was a student at UCLA. He was heir to the throne of a small but wealthy Middle Eastern kingdom. From the moment they met they were swept away by feelings they could barely control. And yet it wa...

• Apr-1986
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It began with a scrap of yellowed paper hidden in Lee Ramsey's custom-made guitar. Determined to unravel the paper's meaning, the sexy, renowned jazz musician arrived at Kendra Garrett's shop. Like her father before her, she made instruments musician...

• Apr-1986
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She wore white linen. He wore blue jeans. She was a member of an elite country club, polishing her golf game for the upcoming tournament. He was assistant ground keeper. Yet Tony Dunn was the most devastating man April Quinn had ever set eyes on. It ...

• Apr-1986
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Lillie Laughton thought she held all the strings. She had the face of an innocent. hair like a flaming halo, and she sang like a smoky-voiced angel. Those virtues -- and her grandfather's love -- had taken her straight to the top and made her a s...

• May-1986
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Her boutique in Mobile was a success. Blythe Donaldson reveled in southern comfort until Micah Caine forced himself back into her life. Once before, they'd been in love. Micah's betrayal had sent Blythe rushing off to marry another man. She'd divorce...

• May-1986
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Life had taught Lita Winslow to take care of herself. Danger had threatened her once before and had forced the successful young singer off the stage and into seclusion. But now reluctantly she was returning to the limelight again. When her cousin sud...

• May-1986
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Julie Thornton returned from Europe in the nick of time. Her own mother was going to move in with Brad Channing's father. She was determined to put a stop to it. But from the moment she charged into Brad's life, demanding he control his father. Brad ...

• May-1986
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He thought she had the allure of a modern-day Cleopatra. She thought he had hidden crime connections. It was to follow this thread that Liz Patrick came to New Orleans, claiming to want to interview Michael Anton, brilliant D.A., and candidate for th...

• Jun-1986
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Sumner Brown, with his brilliant blue eyes and his rugged good looks, had completely enchanted her. From the moment she felt his touch. Holly Griffith knew that she was his. His searing kisses convinced her that fate had chosen Sumner for her. She wa...

• Jun-1986
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Once Stacy McAllister had been Carver High's Most Likely to Succeed, and Mike Harper had been the class outcast. But at the reunion a devastating new Mike Harper, a man she'd never known, swept Stacy off her feet. With the sadness and failures of her...

• Jun-1986
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The beach house was half hers. Susan Anderson swore she'd die before selling her share to David Lane. The arrogant son of the man who'd left her a rare legacy -- and owner of the other half -- David assumed the worst. If he thought her a beau...

• Jun-1986
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It wasn't easy for Beth Phillips to come home to Kentucky -- not when the last man on earth she wanted to see was there! But Daniel Reynolds, her ex-husband. was suspected of sabotaging her father's business. She had to confront him to find o...

• Jul-1986
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He was a man of mystery, a veritable Houdini. Nothing could keep Miles Delaney out. Not triple locks, or even electric eyes. And when Kelle O'Brien's customers began calling him to check out her specially designed security systems, that got her Irish...

• Jul-1986
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Let him race cars, gamble, live the playboy life! Mary Ellen Campbell cursed Ty Stevenson as she left Chicago on a European tour. He was nothing but a tease, a flirt. And now she had steeled herself to life without him, when he had the gall to reappe...

• Jul-1986
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Amy Hagen had desperately wanted her marriage to work. But Craig Davisson couldn't give her what she really needed -- a home, a family, and a life of security. Craig said he needed time. As far as Amy was concerned, his time had run out. After th...

• Jul-1986
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He caught her in the act of breaking and entering. But all that mattered was getting into her sister's little gatehouse. Nicole Forrester was determined to solve on her own the mystery of her sister's disappearance. If there was one thing she couldn'...

• Aug-1986
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“This is who and what I am,” Alida declared defiantly. Her mysterious disappearances had made Logan suspect she had another lover. He'd been prepared for the worst. But the raven-haired beauty who stood before him in fringed buckskin took him com...

• Aug-1986
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Adam and Eve - in spite of their names they were worlds apart. Dark, handsome Adam Kane was cynical police inspector, Eve Darcy a warm, earthy astrologer. Eve had helped solve a series of crimes before, and now she was forced to work with Adam to fin...

• Aug-1986
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Brenna McKennon was desperate when she jumped from a window and escaped -- on her wedding day! And it was sheer, luck that Adam Chaney spotted her before she vanished beneath the waves forever. Brenna had always been sheltered -- by her father, her f...

• Aug-1986
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"It's not over, not by a long shot. I want you back!" he shouted, eyes blazing. The arrogance of the man! If Clint Jessup thought she'd run into his arms, he had some surprises coming. Eight months ago they were to have been married. He'd vanished...

• Sep-1986
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"Nothing like this has ever happened to me before!" Katie panicked as Nick took her in his arms. With total arrogance, he assumed she'd fall into bed with him. And how she wanted to-yet so much was at stake. Powerfully muscled, rugged, bronzed fr...

• Sep-1986
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Hawaii--the ultimate escape. Evelyne Winters had chosen it in the wake of a devastating divorce. She'd have a fling, decide what to do with a life that was suddenly her own. But even for exquisite Evelyne--daughter of a legendary movie mogul, ex-wife...

• Sep-1986
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As daughter of a renowned investigative reporter, Lynn O'Rourke was no stranger to eccentric behavior. But she'd met her match in willfull, prize-winning journalist Brian Devereaux. Notorious womanizer, ruthless soldier of fortune, he was arrogance i...

• Sep-1986
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One moment in his arms and she was dizzy with desire. He was rich, conservative, the most eligible bachelor in North Carolina. Only chance could have brought them together. Kendra McAllis was convinced that they should stay apart. For all his sensual...

• Oct-1986
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Grasse--an exquisite world of flowers! Veronica Stephens had come to France to sell her legacy--a small cottage--to her neighbors, the famous St. Pierre perfumers. How could she have known that the devastating stranger who swept her into his arms in ...

• Oct-1986
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Caitlin the Explorer! She'd grown up a tomboy, but it was high time to put all that behind her. Her Caribbean vacation was meant to be a major step toward discovering real romance. But when she walked down the moonlit beach, little did she dream ...

• Oct-1986
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Every fiber of Domino O'Dare's body was on red alert. Eight months after their stormy parting, Zane Hardesty's molten sexuality still set the blood pounding in her veins. She'd forced herself to believe that their explosive relationship was over. But...

• Oct-1986
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Maggie Johnson loved a challenge. Robert Langley's office was certainly that. It would take weeks to sort out the mess -- exactly what the irresistibly handsome, brilliantly eccentric inventor intended. Getting close to Maggie was the challenge h...

• Nov-1986
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Flame Garret had to be free. Her husband, Logan, left her no choice. Possessive, proud, resentful of her success as a pop singer and her help in his years as a struggling young lawyer, he'd forced her decision. Flame thought their passion had bur...

• Nov-1986
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Her chance of a lifetime had one hitch -- partnership with a man she despised. Brenda Dupree was a whiz at law and numbers. Steve Kingsley had the hands-on know-how they needed to monitor KLM's oil wells. But how could she trust him? Contemptuous...

• Nov-1986
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Carly Jaymes had exciting plans. Filled with sunny enthusiasm, she moved to Trent County, North Carolina, and into the old Wainwright mansion. But someone had other plans for her. A malicious ghost, a mysterious phone-caller, and a menacing visitor b...

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She'd auctioned off antiques, but never bachelors. "Bid for Bachelors" was a brilliant idea for a benefit affair. The male pick of Portland would be put on the block and Lara Maitland would be the exquisite auburn-haired auctioneer. The p...

• Dec-1986
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Years before, she'd left him to follow her passion: the dance. Charlotte "Charlie" Wells thought she'd kissed James Murphy good-bye until a knee injury forced her to take a stopgap job as activities director of New Eden. Charlie was shocked to discov...

• Dec-1986
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One moment she was soaring free as a bird over the Tennessee wilderness; the next, she was a captive, held by a powerful stranger who took her breath away. Freddie Davenport had no choice but to do Nat Steele's bidding. With her sailplane down so far...

• Jan-1987
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She met him in Paris, and then he swept her off to his own world--India. Suddenly Laure Hastings was a princess in an exotic fairy tale as Bharat Bhati lavished her with jewels, fulfilled her every sensual fantasy, her every need, her every wish. He ...

• Jan-1987
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For as long as she could remember, Shay Michaels had been the girl-next-door--the wild tomboy with skinned knees and braces who'd looked up to Kurt Barron with an odd mixture of adoration and mischievous disdain. But all that had changed. At twenty-t...

• Jan-1987
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"I think you're dangerous" she said. "Only to those who try to stop me" Jake Bronson replied. But was that true? Alyse Skye had practically been kidnapped, her boat commandeered by a rugged blond pirate who'd stalked her on the golden sands of ...

• Jan-1987
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It was one thing to read about adventure, another to live it! A desperate phone call sent Samantha Prince flying from the safety of her New Orleans bookstore to Rio and into the wilds of the Amazon. Her mission: to find her brother and a hidden treas...

• Feb-1987
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What was she to believe? One minute he was tender, passionate; the next, bitter and evasive. But Carrie Winters couldn't help herself -- Asa Bradley was irresistible. Carrie had come to Hawaii determined to enjoy herself. After all the years of r...

• Feb-1987
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Kate Asher had her suspicions. She was determined to pursue them -- with or without Matthew Gage's help. The mysterious deaths of two insurance investigators were too coincidental to ignore. Especially when one of them had been her husband. Two y...

• Feb-1987
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She'd been a wild teenager willing to risk anything for revenge. But when she seduced Leif Johnston, she hadn't counted on falling helplessly in love... hadn't believed her family would intervene and sweep her off to Switzerland. Seven years later, T...

• Feb-1987
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What dark scheme had Amy Litchfield been lured into when her half sister invited her to Alaska? Swept off her feet by rugged Cass Blakely, Amy had no idea she'd become a pawn in a dangerous game. If Cass's burning kisses urged her to stay on,...

• Mar-1987
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He was everything she knew she should avoid--a handsome, lusty trucker dedicated to the single life. Chelsea Ingram was running from a world of high finance and low politics ... and a wedding that should have taken place the very night she found hers...

• Mar-1987
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An interest in ruins brought Cally Stevens to Central America. Now a dangerous band of insurgents threatened to see that she never left. What would become of her if they discovered she was not the daughter of the powerful American they believed her t...

• Mar-1987
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He was a mountain of a man. She was as delicate as porcelain. He craved adventure. She wanted security. But Christina Mattlock had taken the biggest risk of all. Wealthy, powerful John Mattlock thought he could have what he wanted when he wanted it. ...

• Mar-1987
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Was she saving her neck or cutting her own throat? One minute, beautiful, penniless Pan Belmont was fleeing an irate restaurant manager; the next, she was standing in Silver Galen's sumptuous penthouse, a ragged waif accepting his strange offer. She'...

• Apr-1987
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Ellie Dalton had come to the tiny Central American island on an important mission: to pick up a baby for a childless American couple. Little did she know that she would be caught in the sudden fury of a revolution--and with handsome Alex McCoy, no le...

• Apr-1987
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Flame-haired flight instructor Farrell O'Connor was furious. It was supposed to be an easy job: fly to Tulsa, demonstrate a new plane to playboy-adventurer J. D. Collins, get his signature on the bill of sale, and go. But when the infamous J. D. refu...

• Apr-1987
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Two women in tan raincoats, two look-alike diskettes, and suddenly Fran Barnette's holiday weekend in Tahoe was filled with cloaks, daggers, and danger! With her new computer graphics company off and running, Fran thought she could afford a little re...

• Apr-1987
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She was going to get her land back if it was the last thing she ever did! Who did Colin Wyndham think he was? He'd bought her family's farm with his big-city bucks. Clearly he'd never learned a thing about corn or goats on the sidewalks of Chicago! S...

• May-1987
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Magdalena knew only too well the dangers of loving a matador. She'd come home at last to the beautiful Mexican valley where her family bred fighting bulls, still vowing never to marry a man as old-fashioned and macho as a bullfighter. But from th...

• May-1987
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Was it impulse, instinct, or intuition that made Raquel surrender to a total stranger? By morning she was no longer a waitress at a Chicago truck stop but a woman on her way to an isolated Wyoming ranch with Holt Tyler, the man who knew all her secre...

• May-1987
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Flowers had been Nicole Sabine's family business for generations. Rand Jameson was a rank newcomer and already the main competition. It was war until they agreed to share a shipment of imported flowers. Nicole never dreamed that an order of fine lili...

• May-1987
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Christmas in Austria--the dream of a lifetime! Anna Stanfield had won the trip from a radio DJ's call-in contest. She had to go. Still, it was lonely so far from her young son. But soon Anna was a guest at Mark Prince's elegant chateau. Or was she a ...

• Jun-1987
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She had a new name, a new face, a new identity-even a new personality. For ex-agent Mari Chandler, the past was dead and gone. Only her love for Reid Morgan refused to die. She went back to Mexico determined to let that love go. T=What brought Reid t...

• Jun-1987
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There was no denying it. Lara Blakely and Tracy Cormier were stunning look-alikes. From the moment he'd set eyes on Lara, private investigator Tom Drake though he'd found his woman. Would a weekend at an isolated island estate reveal that she was ind...

• Jun-1987
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One day Tory Talbot was minding her struggling boutique in LA; the next she was in Tombstone listening to a will left by the father who had aboned her so long ago. She was bittter about the past. And she deserved more than half a treasure map. A mot...

• Jun-1987
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Some people like nostalgic walks down memory lane. Not Gail Nolan. She lived in the present. She was young to be head nurse, but she loved her work. She was content with her life, with dating Dr. David Benedict, a man at ease with traditions of wealt...

• Jul-1987
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Was turnabout fair play? On the plane, he'd been the most exciting, seductive man she'd ever seen. Lerisa deliberately set out to seduce him -- and almost succeeded. But when she walked into Logan West's office in San Diego to discover he was her bos...

• Jul-1987
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He'd bossed and bullied her. He'd been the menace of her childhood. And now that Charity Bigham had come home to a legacy of wealth and treachery, Tell Layton was still there, watching out for her, insisting he wanted her. True to her name, Charity k...

• Jul-1987
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There was a first time for everything. Amelia had never seduced a man before but she was going to try. She'd made a deal. Her brother was in danger and his safety depended on it. But surely the devastating Colt wasn't the kind to be tricked b...

• Jul-1987
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Two treasure hunters discover the ultimate prize is love. When diver Jason Price's oxygen tank fails during a hunt for sunken treasure, he knows he's going to die. In fact, he knows the beautiful mermaid he sees swimming toward him will usher him to ...

• Aug-1987
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An element of mystery and danger surrounded him. Michael Rutledge was a loner. Years of "delicate" government work had made him all too familiar with violence and betrayal. Here in Hawaii, Mei Li's life had centered around her big, warm family and he...

• Aug-1987
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• Aug-1987
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Why did she love men who loved danger? Skylar Dennis had just accepted a medal for her ex-fiance, a man in blue who'd died in the line of duty. Homeward bound, she'd been virtually kidnapped by an outrageous stranger. Clad in pink and green plaid, he...

• Aug-1987
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Could she be in love with two men? Brenda O'Shea had come to Ireland to begin again. Working as a consultant to American businessmen like Zack Ehrens was a start. They'd barely begun to scour the beautiful countryside for a site for his new plant bef...

• Sep-1987
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Brittany Tate knew she'd taken on a challenge. The beautiful raven-haired actress was doing her best to please her temperamental European director, but Nicolas Constantin wasn't easy to satisfy -- or understand. Harsh and critical one minute, tender ...

• Sep-1987
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Her salons were an international sensation. One look at exquisite Andrea Rendell and it was evident what her skin-care techniques could accomplish. Recently widowed, self-sufficient Andrea was determined not to unsettle her daughter's life with a str...

• Sep-1987
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One minute they were new neighbors; the next, partners with a dangerous dilemma. Exquisite Angela Welles thought she'd left the past behind. From the moment she saw Max Gallagher's sun-bleached blond hair and super surfer build, her only thought was ...

• Sep-1987
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