Harlequin Presents — Multiple Authors

• May-1973
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Helen Stewart was disenchanted with the whole idea of love and romance, while Leon Petrou, it was said, had no time for women -- so when he suggested that she should marry him, to provide a background for his small niece and nephew, she agreed, feeli...

• May-1973
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Thane Benedict was the last person Loren Knight would have chosen to be her guardian. However, there it was: he was indeed to have charge of her until she was twenty; and here she was, at Moonrock, his vast cattle station in the middle of Australia&#...

• May-1973
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The Conde, with his looks, his money, his castle in Portugal, was not the kind of man who could forgive anyone who tried to deceive him. When Toni Morley attempted to do just that, the Conde proceeded to exact a very subtle revenge. "Look,"...

• May-1973
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Five years ago Raphael Madralena had left Laura Fleming, renouncing their passionate relationship, to return to Spain to marry the girl he had been betrothed to since childhood. Now, he was a widower and they were to meet again. It was inevitable tha...

• May-1973
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Margo Jones had loved Michel, although in the end he married someone else. When five years later he died she found herself going to the French chateau of Satancourt to look after his son. There, Margo met Paul Cassalis, Michel's inscrutable broth...

• May-1973
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Domini had married Paul Stephanos to save her family from disgrace and exposure. Now she fought against the warm feelings she had for her husband because of the bitter knowledge that he had tricked and deceived her. When Barry Sothern, her old love, ...

• Jun-1973
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Shara couldn't blame her foster-brother Carl for having had nothing to do with her for years; his parents, after all, had virtually rejected him for her. But now he had come back into her life, prepared to be friends. Friends? It had never been a...

• Jun-1973
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It was five years since Rachel had left her husband Andre Sanchez, and she was only coming to him now because he was the only one who could help her beloved father. But the marriage had broken up in the first place because of the suffocating influenc...

• Jun-1973
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Rea Glyn went to the coast for a quiet visit with no thought of marriage in her mind, but soon she found herself married to a man she had never met before and pledged to play her part in a fantastic game of "let's pretend." Burke bent ...

• Jun-1973
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It was five years now since Shani had married Andreas Manou -- but the marriage had been in name only and she had not seen him since the wedding day. And now Shani was planning to marry again -- and Andreas had chosen this moment to come back into he...

• Jun-1973
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"Who rides the tiger dare not dismount" goes the Chinese saying -- and Dominique felt the proverb could well apply to her strange, impulsive marriage to Vincente Santos. She dared not dismount from the tiger she rode -- but what if she was th...

• Jun-1973
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The Savidges of Dragon Bay were as wild and savage as their name, bitter and totally unable to love. But Kara Stephanos did not realize this until after she had married Lucan Savidge.... Pryde sat in a wheelchair, yet he made it look like a thron...

• Jul-1973
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"Place your hand on a woman's heart and she's yours instantly," said the arrogant Greek Julius Spiridon, who was certainly devastating enough to know what he was talking about. But Gale Davis was not just any woman, she had been h...

• Jul-1973
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Domine was surprised to find that far from being alone after the death of her guardian, Great Uncle Henry Farriday, she was con-signed to the unknown James Mannering --an attractive man who already had several equally attractive women vying for his a...

• Jul-1973
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She didn't know the facts of her own life. But somehow Ynis Raiford realized that she didn't quite belong in Gard's world. Gard St. Clair, embittered by the accident that had ended his career, was as mysterious and wild as his house on th...

• Aug-1973
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Melanie Rawson had been very young and inexperienced when she agreed to marry Leandros Angeli and it was inexperience that had made her take fright and break off the engagement. But all that was seven years ago and Leandros had faded into the past. O...

• Aug-1973
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She remembered Adam as an older brother So, when Maria wanted to getaway from home, who better togo and stay with while she decided what to do with her life? But she hadn't seen him for five years. The Adam she met in London now was a succe...

• Aug-1973
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Lise supposed she should be grateful to the imperious Conde Leandro de Marco Reyes for helping her out of an awkward situation -- but not so grateful that she would pretend to be his fiancee. A domineering conquistador-type Spanish nobleman was not h...

• Sep-1973
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The only way Daros Latimer could save Toni Freeman from the ancient Cretan law of vendetta was to marry her. As Daros was charming and rich, Toni might well have done worse for herself -- except that she didn't care about him any more than he did...

• Sep-1973
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It had not taken Rebecca long to fall wildly in love with Piers St. Clair -- not much longer, in fact, than it had taken her to discover that he was married. So, all too swiftly, that idyll on a romantic Pacific island had had to come to an end. N...

• Sep-1973
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Ravena Brenin dearly loved the kindly guardian who had brought her up -- and she loved his son Rhodri Brenin even more. But she was marrying a virtual stranger, the forbidding Sardinian Mark di Curzio, a man for whom she felt nothing but apprehens...

• Oct-1973
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When Janis married Perry Caton, after a very short acquaintance, she was in no doubt as to what she was doing. It was a marriage of convenience. If he did not marry by a certain date, Perry would lose his inheritance and the family home he loved a...

• Oct-1973
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Dallas was forced to accept his charity! Dallas always felt responsible for her young sister, Jane. But Jane's announcement that she was expecting a baby by rich, young Paris Stavros --and then the news of his death in a car crash--was just to...

• Oct-1973
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Yvain Pilgrim had been named after a character in a fairy-tale, a maiden who had been assisted by a lion in her fight against a dragon -- and in her present situation she could not help feeling that the fairy-tale had come true. Shipwrecked while ...

• Nov-1973
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"What is there in marriage for a woman? I wouldn't marry the best man breathing!" declared Kim Mayfields -- and meant it. Married women, she was convinced, were downtrodden, exploited, at the mercy of their selfish husbands, and she want...

• Nov-1973
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Nicola had never met Jason Wilde, but she hated him for the way he had hurt and deceived her sister, and was determined to be revenged on him. So she worked out a plan that seemed fool-proof. She took a job with the oil company for which Jason wo...

• Nov-1973
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Marny Lester was sufficiently well off not to have to work if she didn't want to, but an aimless, leisurely life in the country was not really enough for her, and when a friend recommended her for the post of secretary to a celebrated osteopath i...

• Dec-1973
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In the ancient Greek legend, Hades, lord of the underworld, had carried off the beautiful Persephone to live in his dark kingdom for four months of every year. And now Julie Veltrovers found herself a present-day Persephone, meeting a fate that ha...

• Dec-1973
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They loved Monkshood but hated each other! Monkshood complicated Melanie's well-planned life. Soon to marry a London lawyer, Melanie couldn't really consider living in the Scottish Highlands house she'd inherited. But she did want to s...

• Dec-1973
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Elvi wanted all of Rodari's love Elvina Lloyd knew why she'd married Rodari Fortunato: she loved him. She was not at all certain why he had made her his wife. Nevertheless, he had married her, a quiet little English nurse he scarcely kn...

• Jan-1974
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Eleanor was delighted when the Portuguese Conde Ramiro Vicente Miguel de Castro offered her a job -- as companion to his young sister, in the splendid Castro family home at Sintra. It was a chance that was not likely to come her way again, and she wa...

• Jan-1974
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He despised her but wanted her as a wife Jake Howard and his wife, Helen, were outwardly a perfect couple with a perfect marriage. Jake was immensely attractive, rich and successful. Helen was beautiful, intelligent and wellbred. But Jake had c...

• Jan-1974
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When Della Neve went on a Mediterranean cruise she wanted a rest, not a holiday romance. Her future was already bound to Marsh Graham, the fiance to whom she owed everything -- who had brought her up, moulded her into a great star, and who loved her ...

• Feb-1974
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"Wanted, good-looking young man to perform simple task. Few hours only. Generous remuneration." When Ricky had blandly jilted her in order to make a more advantageous marriage and had then had the nerve to invite her to the wedding, Tara M...

• Feb-1974
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Although Karen Frazer had been divorced by her husband Paul two years before, and had heard that he had since become engaged to another woman, she still loved him. But she was not yet free of him -- for Paul's married brother was pursuing Karen...

• Feb-1974
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Eden loved Lafe, but Gale wanted him The two sisters were aptly named. Gale was wild, turbulent and demanding; Eden was the quiet one, gentle and kind. Gale found the money, power and luxury she wanted when she met wealthy, handsome and magneti...

• Mar-1974
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Tessa had loved Paul Demetrius from the start, but from the moment she introduced him to her beautiful sister Lucinda he had had eyes for no one else. At last, unable to bear seeing the two of them together, Tessa had gone away. Now, two years lat...

• Mar-1974
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Jarrod guarded Sara even against himself Sara Robins had never even heard of Jarrod Kyle until he became her guardian. He was far removed from anyone Sara, at seventeen, had known in the small, quiet world she'd lived in until her grandfather&...

• Mar-1974
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Considering that she was an orphan with no background and no special aptitude for any-thing, Janna Smith seemed to be doing very nicely for herself, here on the glamorous Cote d'Azur as secretary/companion to a well-known lady author. But for sec...

• Apr-1974
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Liz had never particularly wanted to be married -- she hadn't a high enough opinion of men! -- and she certainly hadn't wanted to marry the half-Greek Nigel Shapani. Yet here she was, married to him indeed and firmly settled in his beautif...

• Apr-1974
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Why do some women always manage to fall for a man who they know from the start can never be any good to them? Julie Kennedy, like most girls, had hero-worshipped the famous television singer Manuel Cortez from afar, but it had never entered her he...

• Apr-1974
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It annoyed Doctor Avery Chase to hear his cousin Robert denounce as a phoney the frightened young girl found late one night sitting on the doorstep of Chase, the family home on the edge of the Devon moors. But Robert was convinced that the girl wh...

• May-1974
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~~~ first published by Mills & Boon hardcover in 1950 ~~ first softcover published by Mills & Boon Romance #205 - April 1966 Hoping for some degree of solitude and complete relief from woman, Julian Caswell had gone as plantation manager to the t...

• May-1974
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Four young amateur archaeologists -- Jane Bryant and her brother Guy, Jane's fiancé Dr. Stuart Colson and his sister Pauline -- were all eager to go to Greece to work with the celebrated Dr. Nikolas Vallas on his exciting excavations at My...

• May-1974
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Paula MacKinnon was a dedicated doctor, whose work and whose patients would always be more important to her than her private life. Jason Scott was a rich man's son, an admitted playboy, whose idea of work, when he bothered to work at all, was to ...

• May-1974
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Sancha was thrilled with her assignment--to interview the famous author, the Conte Cesare Alberto Venturo di Malatesta. Entering his palazzo was like stepping back into the Renaissance, its poverty-stricken appearance at odds with his success. The...

• Jun-1974
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When Judi Langham's selfish stepsister Hannah, an up-and-coming film actress; needed a professional name, she hadn't hesitated to appropriate Judi's. Judi couldn't care less -- she had far more pressing problems on her mind; principal...

• Jun-1974
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Kate Warwick was abruptly brought back from Holiday to face bad news: her father's illness, and some unaccountable difficulties in the family business, a huge luxury store. Marcus Brent offered to help her pull through; but Kate, mistrustful a...

• Jun-1974
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Emma Seaton was comfortably if unexcitingly engaged to Victor Harrison; he was a wealthy business tycoon, and Emma could look forward to a life of ease and luxury with him -- but was that all she wanted from life? She became even more aware of her...

• Jun-1974
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A woman's mind is a jungle Heron Brooks recalled Edwin Trequair's words and what he'd said afterward. "It's the one jungle in which a man should never get lost." Why, then, had he asked her to marry him? And why had she ...

• Jul-1974
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Kim Lyttleton's flighty young foster-sister was about to ruin her life by running off with a married man, and her family were worried to death about it. It was the practical Kim who decided that something drastic would have to be done -- and s...

• Jul-1974
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Compassion and loyalty -- two endearing qualities, but they had brought Gerda to heartbreak and almost wrecked her chance of ever finding happiness. Compassion had led her into a brief and tragic marriage, and the sacrifice of her integrity in the ey...

• Jul-1974
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"Piotr must have a mother". -- Carolyn Clarke, already devoted to the little half-Polish boy, found it impossible to resist the plea from a dying man. And so she became a stepmother, married a few hours before his death to a man she scarcely ...

• Jul-1974
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It was only desperation that had brought Dionne back to the Camargue, that remote, still little-known part of southern France that had been so important -- and so tragic -- a part of her life three years ago. Back she had to come to the Mas St. Sa...

• Aug-1974
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~~~ first published in 1951 by Mills & Boon The first time he saw Tess Bentley, Dave Patterson mistook her for a boy. When he found that she was, in fact, a nineteen-year-old girl, and that she was running, single-handed, a general store in the...

• Aug-1974
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For years Tina and her sister Moira had been spoiled and indulged by their stepfather Austin. Everything they wanted, he gave them; there was never any question of either of them earning their own living. So when the girls decided they would like a h...

• Aug-1974
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There had been two men so far in Madeline's life--her late husband, Joe, and her boss, Adrian. Both had been kind and uncomplicated, wanting only to cherish and look after her. But now another man had surged into her life--Nicholas Vitale. Han...

• Aug-1974
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The celebrated explorer Ramon Vegas had been given the nickname "Caramuru" -- Man of Fire -- by the Brazilian natives, and that, said Tina Donnelly's botanist aunt, was exactly what legend had him to be -- a truly volcanic personality. &#...

• Sep-1974
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Although she had spent all her life in Greece, young Serra Costalos was only half Greek -- and she couldn't endure the thought of the cold-blooded, arranged Greek marriage that was all that was in store for her. In fact, she had already run aw...

• Sep-1974
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Castle in the Trees -- the very name of it filled Stephanie with excited anticipation. The reality -- the fairytale castle home in Portugal of the aristocratic Maroc family -- was even more fascinating than she had imagined. It was mysterious, fabulo...

• Sep-1974
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The child of a broken marriage, seventeen-year-old Tamsyn wasn't at all looking forward to going to Wales to visit the father she hardly knew -- until she arrived there and met Hywel Benedict. Her first feelings of antagonism towards him soon ...

• Sep-1974
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It had been a dreadful shock to Caroline when her sister disappeared, leaving her baby with Caroline, but she vowed to herself she would do the best she could for the infant. So when the baby's uncle, Domenico Vicari, appeared, with an offer t...

• Oct-1974
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There was an old tribal saying, Carl Denver told Roanna Barrett, after circumstances had caused her to spend a month with him in the jungle, that if a person saves another's life three times then he can claim that person as his property. Carl had...

• Oct-1974
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Lucie Marlow was a young, talented, and completely dedicated ballet dancer, well on the way to fame and fulfilment in her chosen world. This might have made things different when she met and married Julian Summerford, who had nothing whatever to d...

• Oct-1974
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Six years ago Julie's world had turned upside down; she had married Michael Pemberton and left England--and Robert. Now Michael was dead, and Julie and her small daughter, Emma, had come home again--only to learn that Michael had appointed Rob...

• Oct-1974
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At Cindy's first dramatic meeting with Stuart Newman in the Queen City, she sensed a kind of ruthlessness about him -- ruthlessness of touch, manner and determination in that nothing should or would stand in his way. He was a man who took what...

• Nov-1974
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It was for the sake of that dear old lady, Mrs. Harnby, that Patricia agreed to the fantastic suggestion that she should masquerade for a few days as Michael Harnby's wife. How was she to know that the deception would spread wider and wider until...

• Nov-1974
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They were an ill-assorted pair -- Stella Percy, cool, aloof lady of leisure, with every quality needed to live a life of luxurious elegance except money; and Matthew Armstrong, bluff, honest Yorkshire, who believed in calling a spade a spade, but had...

• Nov-1974
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Perhaps Tamar had been too young when she fell in love with Ross Falcon, master of the Big House, Falcon's Head, in her Irish village home. At any rate, it had all ended in disaster, with Tamar's heart broken, her life in ruins -- and Ross...

• Nov-1974
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Ruan was nineteen, shy and unsophisticated, and always overshadowed by her far more glamorous and assured stepsister -- just about the most unlikely candidate, it would seem, for the attention of Tarquin Powers, the handsome and celebrated actor. ...

• Dec-1974
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~~~ first hardcover published in 1948 ~~ first softcover Mills & Boon Romance #209 June 1966 The conditions under which Clare Meriden agreed to go out to Nigeria with Ross Brennan were unusual, to say the least. Facing an eighteen-month postin...

• Dec-1974
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Because Jane desired a little mastery in her husband she turned down the gentle and accommodating Scott Kingsley, and had never regretted it. Now, four years later, she had come to work in Barbados, and in this beautiful, romantic Caribbean setting h...

• Dec-1974
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Nowadays we all take supermarkets for granted -- but how many of us give a thought to the small shopkeeper, gradually being forced out of business by the huge business combines? That was what happened to Amanda Stewart's father, and it was theref...

• Dec-1974
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Helen simply couldn't believe her eyes when, stranded in the snow in the wilds of Cumberland, she found herself confronted by a leopard! But luckily it was a tame one, and its owner, the mysterious Dominic Lyall, was able to offer Helen shelter i...

• Jan-1975
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Marigold was very young, very inexperienced, and very trusting -- so perhaps it was hardly surprising that as soon as she met the well-known author Lindley Marne, handsome, worldly, and -- or so he claimed -- unhappily married, she should fall wildly...

• Jan-1975
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Philippa had an absorbing job on the "heart page" of a big newspaper. Then she advised a young girl to elope with her boyfriend. Unfortunately, the girl turned out to be the niece of Philippa's boss, the formidable newspaper tycoon, Mariu...

• Jan-1975
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Susannah met and fell in love with Fernando Cuevas in London. She little thought when she traveled out to Spain to work for a wealthy family that the child she had come to teach was Fernando's child and that she would be meeting Fernando himself ...

• Jan-1975
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Steven Daintree had saved Andrea Swanson's life, and on learning that she was alone in the world, her memory gone, he had taken her back to his vast Queensland estate, Mokhana, until she recovered. So Andrea owed him a lot. All the same, did t...

• Feb-1975
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Roxanne had always been rather used to doing as she was told without question -- which was presumably why, when the mysterious Mexican Don Juan Armando Ramires, known as 'the Black Eagle', swept into her life, married her, and carried her off...

• Feb-1975
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Sharon had had no ulterior motive when she took on the job of looking after Paul Sanderson's small daughter--but if he had any inkling who she was, he was certain to suspect her of one. For Sharon was a young, up-and-coming singer who was having ...

• Feb-1975
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Kimberly Freeman was worried to death when her fiance, who had gone out to Sierra Leone in West Africa, seemed to have disappeared with-out trace, and she decided the best thing to do was to follow him out there and see if she could discover what had...

• Feb-1975
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All her life Johanna Coleman had been used to getting her own way where men were concerned, and now that she had decided she wanted to go on this exciting expedition among the lagoons of northern Australia's Timor Sea she didn't anticipate mu...

• Mar-1975
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Helen had always been fond of her friend Sylvia, and she felt an enormous debt of gratitude towards Sylvia's mother -- so she had always felt obliged to keep a protective eye on her friend, so much less self-reliant than Helen and so apt to land ...

• Mar-1975
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Even after her father's death, Perdita had always had a perfectly happy relationship with her attractive young stepmother Olivia. She was certainly no Cinderella! So when Olivia's chance of making a new life for herself came along, Perdita...

• Mar-1975
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To do a friend a favour -- and also because it suited her at the time to get away from home-- Anthea offered to take over temporarily the friend's new job, as housekeeper to the high-powered tycoon Mark Allen. But Mr. Allen, it seemed, preferred ...

• Mar-1975
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It was on the invitation of the elderly Marquesa de Mendao that Malcolm Trevellyan and his young wife Rachel were staying at the imposing quinta in Portugal. But Rachel was far from happy there. Malcolm was being embarrassingly rude and demanding ...

• Apr-1975
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Helen had never wanted to marry Nick Vakotis. She could never understand why he, a fabulously wealthy Greek ship-owner, should want to marry her -- but he did. On their wedding day he told her, "Remember always that you're mine. Should ano...

• Apr-1975
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When Gillian McBride flew to Swaziland to take up her inheritance of her father's farm she had no qualms about the future. She knew she could depend on Graham Barry, the farm manager. Graham did turn out to be a tower of strength and she relie...

• Apr-1975
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Vanessa was used to turning men's heads -- but perhaps she was a little too complacent about her ability to attract them when she crossed swords with the masterful Callum Grayne. Their very first meeting had hardly given him a good opinion of ...

• Apr-1975
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Was this she had longed for? Mrs. Amy du Mont was a rich, vulgar social climber. No wonder quiet, well-bred Altar Garret resented being trapped in her employ. It was through Mrs. du Mont's efforts that they met the imposing Spanish grandee,...

• May-1975
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Janet was naturally worried when she heard from her mother, who had gone to live in sunny Ibiza, that someone was trying to make life difficult for her by, apparently, trying to cheat her out of her rights, and she went post-haste to the little islan...

• May-1975
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Christina thought the long university vacation would be an excellent time to visit her brother and sister-in-law in southern Portugal. But she soon realized that she was unwelcome and she was thankful when she was offered a job by the local lord of t...

• May-1975
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Lisa Farrel was at her wits' end, wondering how she could possibly raise the money to get her beloved brother out of serious trouble, when Brad Norton appeared on the scene, like an answer to a prayer. Within a few days of their meeting, he ha...

• May-1975
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Gena Landon was a city girl, sophisticated and worldly; Cyrus Brandt was one of the biggest cattle barons in Western Australia. Perhaps it was the attraction of opposites, but from the first moment she set eyes on him Gena couldn't ignore Cy. ...

• Jun-1975
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When Andrew MacNeill married Gail he had made it clear that he did not want a wife but a mother for his children; he had not had the best of wives, and his experience of marriage had made him reluctant to trust, let alone love, any woman again. Ga...

• Jun-1975
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It would be easy, Eve Hollister told Sophie. All she had to do was to go to Trinidad and pretend to be the granddaughter of the wealthy Brandt St. Vincente for four weeks and the money she needed would be hers. But when Sophie met the disturbin...

• Jun-1975
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When twenty-year-old Laura, after a careful, sheltered upbringing, was suddenly thrust into the turbulent household of the 'dark Trevaynes' she felt young and defenseless, and always overshadowed by her glamorous cousin Cleo. There had bee...

• Jun-1975
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Jaine Dare was, to say the least of it, swamped by her spectacular relatives -- her aunt, a spoilt darling of the London stage, and her equally glamorous cousin Laraine. She was accustomed always to take back place to them and making herself useful i...

• Jul-1975
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To Antonia, drama was something that happened to other people -- until the day when the pleasant prosperity she had always known was abruptly swept away, and she had to face the appalling fact that her own father was a criminal. She felt that the ...

• Jul-1975
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Seven years ago, Caroline had considered Gareth Morgan unsuitable as a husband. Now she was to find herself part of Gareth's life again when she got a job in Central Africa where he was living. And Gareth wasted no time in telling her. "If yo...

• Jul-1975
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Lucille Lamb had plenty to put up with in her job as secretary to the film star, Shani Sharon, but she had deliberately chosen the job knowing it would give her opportunities to travel and to experience the glamorous world of films. What she hadn&...

• Jul-1975
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Paige Norton's friendship with Joel Benedict was progressing very satisfactorily. In fact, it had reached the stage of his "taking her home to meet the family". Home was Koombala, the vast Benedict cattle empire in the middle of the Au...

• Aug-1975
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"It'll be fun meeting one of those strong, silent explorer types," Gail Denning said blithely when she joined the all-male expedition Max Christiern was to lead into the Peruvian jungle in search of a lost valley and the flower reputed to...

• Aug-1975
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When Erica went to work in Venice she had never dreamed that she would end up by falling in love with the attractive, immensely rich Conte Filippo Rosetti. And Filippo's close friend Claudia Medina, it soon appeared, was going to see to it tha...

• Aug-1975
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Karen Sinclair was deeply ashamed of her brief, inglorious love affair with Alexis Whitney seven years earlier. Since then she'd settled down - with an interesting job and a steady boyfriend. Everything was so calm and pleasant that when Alex...

• Aug-1975
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Since her father had never taken any interest in them, Catherine had had to act virtually as a mother to her two small half-brothers, and she simply adored them. So she could hardly believe it when her father died--and left the two boys to the gua...

• Sep-1975
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Kalinda was Christie Irvine's dream come true -- almost! She'd inherited her uncle's Pacific Island home and business -- but she'd inherited problems as well. She could learn about shells and coral and island living -- but what could ...

• Sep-1975
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To Leona, Konnon Wyndham was no different than any other man -- at first. Proud and arrogant, Leona despised all men. Not until Kon beat her in a yacht race did he come in for her special treatment. Only, unlike the other men she'd known, he just...

• Sep-1975
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Emily Lamb thought Luke Adams was attractive and powerful enough to arrange his own marriage--but when her friend Gina Harrick asked her to marry him for business reasons, Emily had her own reasons for agreeing. It was, of course, to be a temporar...

• Sep-1975
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He wanted her, but did he love her? Jake Seton was all wrong for Ashley Calder. He was too old, too sophisticated, too wealthy -- his social sphere too far from her own. And he was engaged to be married. Even her cousin Karen had seen the signs...

• Oct-1975
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When Gwyneth married Van Owslie she thought she had buried the past, finally and irrevocably. She had believed her mother's statement that the child she had had secretly after her brief, tragic bigamous marriage was dead! Only when it was too ...

• Oct-1975
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Patrick had warned her: "If you marry me there's no going back. If you decide you don't like Venezuela, I doubt if I could ever bear to let you go. Our marriage is a contract, and our commitment to that marriage can be based on nothing le...

• Oct-1975
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It was ten years now since Kathryn's brief, youthful marriage to Jon Wright. They had parted in anger and misunderstanding, and she had never seen him again. Since then, the only important thing in Kathryn's life was security. It was for s...

• Oct-1975
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On the face of it, Grace Wilde had every-thing -- youth, beauty, wealth, and a title. All that goes to make up the life of a society queen was hers; only one thing was lacking -- happiness. For the gay society life was none of her seeking; she had...

• Nov-1975
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As different as possible in character from her identical twin, Alaine Marsland was persuaded to take Estelle's place on a cruise to the Greek islands. Away from the drudgery of her work, relaxing in the sun, enjoying the sightseeing, Alaine bloss...

• Nov-1975
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Carefree, content, young Kerry Derwin wanted life to go on forever just the way it was. To Kerry, love was a lot of nonsense. Certainly she wasn't interested in marrying and settling down. And every one in the village knew it. So she wasn'...

• Nov-1975
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A horrified "No", was Melissa Benton's first reaction to Prince Louis' proposal. Rich, beautiful, head of the powerful Benton Company--she had no interest in a man she'd never even met. And that was a!I right with Prince Louis -- ...

• Nov-1975
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As if she were involved in a miming play, Marielle watched the two groups clowning and bargaining --gold coins being offered, scorned, accepted.... Only afterward did she learn that she had participated in a Romany wedding. Now, Marielle Moore was...

• Dec-1975
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"Miranda," Rafael said through clenched teeth, "I beg of you, do not drive me too far!" Rafael was annoyed. No woman of his own nationality had looked at him in quite that way before. Had she no respect - this girl from England! D...

• Dec-1975
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Indifferent. That's how Marisa would have described her attitude to Dirk Sterling. Three years ago he had walked out on their marriage -- now she was just waiting for their divorce. But that was before Dirk came back to town - as dictatorial a...

• Dec-1975
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"I do not carry passengers, Miss Palmer," Celik Demaril told her sternly. "You are a member of the crew as far as I am concerned--and will be expected to do your share of the work. You came of your own freewill!" He was right Linsi...

• Dec-1975
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A place out of a dream - but to Persepha it seemed more like a nightmare from which she couldn't awake... A place to love - had she loved Don Eduardo, her husband. But Persepha didn't even know him and so the beautiful Hacienda Ruy seemed...

• Jan-1976
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Brought up to think of herself as an orphan, Alix Farley learned, to her surprise and joy, that she had a mother after all. The discovery that her mother was the world-famous singer, Nina Varoni, added a heady new excitement But Alix soon realized...

• Jan-1976
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Stacy needed time to adjust Stacy's world collapsed with the death of her father. She had to sort herself out; decide what she wanted to do with her life. The secluded cabin in a Texas valley seemed a perfect place to think. But when Stacy ...

• Jan-1976
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From the commonsense point of view, Mark Copeland was right. Kate should sell her small holding to him. It adjoined Mark's big spread and was too small to do anything with. But Kate was not in the mood for common sense. She'd been misinfor...

• Jan-1976
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An odd combination--young in years, mature in emotions. But that was Sophie. From childhood, Sophie's whole world had revolved around her stepbrother, Robert, and her feelings had not lessened with the years. But how could she get anyone to...

• Feb-1976
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"I am more your type than you think," Joel Blake had said. "We're the same sort of people, Harriet. We both cherish dreams and we both hide it." But there was no way Harriet was going to admit that. After all, there was noth...

• Feb-1976
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Elise had been loyal and loving for years; it was going to be hard to break the habit now. "You don't owe me a thing!" she assured Jacques. "But I can see now all these years my mind has been occupied only with thoughts of you. It ...

• Feb-1976
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To Sacha, La Valaise and its owner, Madame Cassel, had always been a haven. This time, she arrived to find three strangers in residence and herself a prisoner. What had happened to Madame Cassel? What would happen to her? Although the mysteriou...

• Feb-1976
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Coming to life again was painful. For over two years Destine had been in a sort of frozen limbo -- a composed, efficient woman whose life had seemed to stop with the death of her husband, Matthew on their wedding day. Now, like it or not -- in t...

• Mar-1976
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Surely heartbreak doesn't last forever, Casey Gilmore thought. It was ironic, actually, because Casey hadn't wanted Flint McCallister to manage the ranch at all. Her hostility had been open. Now, here she was contemplating a world without ...

• Mar-1976
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Tragedy had hit Teri Manders and her brother Jon at the same time, when Jon's wife ran away with Teri's fiance. So the unexpected offer to Jon of a farm in the Transvaal couldn't have come at a better moment. It would give Jon a chance to...

• Mar-1976
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Her situation was impossible, Ryan realized, more impossible than even Alain could imagine. What had he said? "We are married, Ryan. I suggest we attempt to salvage something from the wreck." But friendship was something she and Alain c...

• Mar-1976
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"I want you to go away, Catherine." She would go away because Coyne Macmillan asked her to; she would have the grand adventure, round off her education. But Catherine Fitzgerald was sure, as she had never before been sure of anything, that...

• Apr-1976
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For the first time since the break-up of their marriage, Julie began to have doubts. Should she have believed Jonas instead of Angela? But suppose Jonas was innocent? Even if he weren't, it was no use deceiving herself any longer. "I th...

• Apr-1976
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Now I know, him better, thought Marilyn bitterly. Blair Barron van Heiden would allow no woman to lure him in any direction. He would pursue a relationship as far as he desired, then walk away from it as though it had never been. Holiday romances ...

• Apr-1976
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Sarah had all kinds of names for the guardian she hadn't seen for years--the G.I. (Guardian of Innocence), The Myth, Poor Fish -- just as she had all kinds of ingenious plans to get rid of him when he came. She wanted no interference in her young...

• Apr-1976
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"Toni," he said, "I can't just let you go out into the world, so that you can give your hungry little heart to the next rotter who comes along. Nor can I take you eternally sailing as my cabin boy. I can only make you my wife...."...

• May-1976
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"Don't you want to tell me how much you love and adore me and how you can hardly wait to marry me?" Coley asked mockingly.' "I was so looking forward to that part." Even though her own heart was breaking, she could still de...

• May-1976
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"I don't think you and I have anything to say to each other, Mr. Lawrence," Toni replied. She didn't want to cross any more swords with him. There were no doubt plenty of girls who were ready to fall for his charms. She just had to...

• May-1976
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He wasn't the marrying kind "Me - I'm a loner," Dimitri said sardonically. "I want no little woman to warm my slippers on a winter's evening and cook me exotic eastern food!" Joanne was furious, as much with herself ...

• May-1976
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It was all Woolf's fault -- he had no right to force her into a false engagement. Before he came to Silversea, life had been uncomplicated, and if there were tense undercurrents, Cathy had not been pulled into them. "You'd have to drag...

• Jun-1976
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"Fate," Dorian Coralis had said. Juliet dwelt on this, instinctively recalling those days when he had so despised her. She wondered how he would react if she told him that she was the girl he had met at her aunt and uncle's home. "...

• Jun-1976
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She was no longer a schoolgirl. These past few weeks had made her a woman. But what point was there in remaining at Paradiablo? Declan despised her for revealing her immature feelings so openly; Clare no doubt found the whole affair unutterably amusi...

• Jun-1976
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"I would just like to make it quite clear," Simon smiled grimly, "that I am not running a charity. I expect to be fully rewarded for what I do, and don't you forget it, my dear Liza." His words rang in Liza's ears. This man...

• Jun-1976
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When her flighty cousin Penela O'Dell jilted the Greek tycoon Heraklion Mavrakis at the last moment, Fenella took her place at the wedding and married Lion herself, under false pretenses. When he discovered her deception he was at first, naturall...

• Jul-1976
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"You've taken the world on your shoulders." Zachary's voice was a soft, caressing whisper that was oddly soothing and hypnotic. "You've made Chris your sole responsibility and refuse help from everyone. Haven't you ever wa...

• Jul-1976
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Rachel had tried to escape the torture of her thoughts and memories. She had loved Joel--loved him with all the wealth of tenderness and passion she possessed. He had taken her love and destroyed it... . Now she heard Joel say, "I know what I ...

• Jul-1976
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"Believe me, Jody, this is no joke." Adam's dark eyes held hers, and for the first time in her life she felt afraid. Really afraid. Her aunt and uncle, Detective Morgan, the magistrate and the people who had to bear the brunt of her escapades had ...

• Jul-1976
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Hurt and embittered when her fiance broke their engagement on the eve of the wedding, Shelly Jenner had vowed never to get emotionally involved with a man again. Certainly not with someone like Craig Allard, who represented everything she most dislik...

• Aug-1976
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"Why don't you just admit you're homesick for the excitement of city life and stop trying to kid both of us?" Lije snapped. "I told you even before the subject of marriage was brought up how much this ranch meant to me. I love you...

• Aug-1976
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When attractive Don Ramon Eduardo de Cabrera y Molina told Lauren, at her own engagement party, that she didn't really love Roger Burden, she was furious. To make it even worse, Don Ramon insisted he was the right man for her. "It's de...

• Aug-1976
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Emma Maxwell knew her stepmother, Celeste, must have some scheme in mind, even before they arrived in Venice. When she heard what it was, Emma wanted no part of it. Then she met Count Vidal Cesare, on whom Celeste had designs, and decided he was old ...

• Aug-1976
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For most of her life Sarie had been tormented by Blake Meredith. Now, she discovered with guilty fascination that she had never really seen him as a man. Once he had spelled out authority and restraint; now, incredibly, he was everything she wanted f...

• Sep-1976
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Somewhere under all the planning and preparations Alison cherished a faint hope that her business-arrangement marriage with, Julian would turn into the kind of relationship she'd always dreamed of. But now, Rosalie was free again and Julian no...

• Sep-1976
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Justina was in a dilemma. As she listened to his words, she realized her plan had backfired. "But we're not strangers, are we?" he questioned grimly. "We're husband and wife and somehow I don't find your explanations very r...

• Sep-1976
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A rolling stone, Doranne had called him, a man without a care in the world. "A born nomad," Rhian agreed with a smile, "roaming through jungles and across deserts, leaving behind nothing but my footprints in the sand. And without a wom...

• Sep-1976
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"Like it or not, you will become my wife," Adam promised grimly. "Either willingly or unwillingly; the choice is yours. But if you decide to fight me, don't forget I won't be the first Fox to capture a Maxwell woman by force!"...

• Oct-1976
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"Sometimes it can be like that between two people," Rob said calmly. Cathie's eyes glittered with anger as she studied the man standing so arrogantly over her--Rob Douglas, new owner of the home so precious to her. After turning her...

• Oct-1976
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Liz was looking forward to her new job at the Queensbridge Civic Theatre until she learned that the director was to be Adam Carlyon. He was a man she had no wish to meet again. During their brief acquaintance, Adam had made it quite plain she had ...

• Oct-1976
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Jealousy stabbed Philippa as she thought of Rose and Luke together. Jealousy--and a deep sense of loss. Loss of what? Of Luke? Was she so possessive that she couldn't bear to think of him with another woman even though she didn't want him ...

• Oct-1976
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Carol was stunned by his proposal. For five years she had stood alone and fought for Teri, but now-- now a man offered to share that burden. It was a terrible temptation just to give in and not fight any more. "How can I be sure you don't ...

• Nov-1976
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After Jan Kelly had roamed the world photo-graphing its most exciting spots, she felt that she could cope with just about any situation. Then she met the forceful Nick Redfern, and the two of them were marooned on a tiny, deserted Pacific island. ...

• Nov-1976
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"Of course I don't want you to go!" Carl assured her. "But I feel guilty for tying you to me. It was supposed to be two years, Laura, not a lifetime." Later Laura thought about his words. In spite of the danger, Carl had decide...

• Nov-1976
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Susan didn't want to admit it, but Amanda was right. She shouldn't feel this way; she should try not to think about Dominic Halstad. But Susan found that even the prospect of spending time with his son was infinitely more desirable than remai...

• Nov-1976
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"And you mean to tell me," Murray Denning growled, "that you still intend to marry him -- a man as cowardly, as craven as that." He paused. "Then you deserve everything you're asking for -- every single miserable moment!" ...

• Dec-1976
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"You are still legally my wife," Rad pointed out bluntly. "All I'm asking is that you resume those duties once more." Lainie stared at him. What a fool she had been not to accept his previous offer. But that refusal had been di...

• Dec-1976
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Jennifer looked at Lena with an odd expression. "You're the first woman who hasn't fallen for my cousin Kane on sight," she said. "Couldn't you fall in love with him?" Startled by the unexpectedness of the question, Len...

• Dec-1976
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Blaize caught Miranda by the shoulders and shook her as if she were a rag doll. "You're crazy," she gasped. "I don't know what's the matter with you." He seemed to be furious with jealousy. "I'm tired of pretend...

• Dec-1976
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Morgana tried to wrench her wrist away from Luis. "Let me go!" she cried, trying desperately to control her tears. "I don't want to listen to you. What you intend to do with your life is not my concern!" But that wasn't rea...

• Jan-1977
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Laurie read the caption beneath the newspaper picture. "Hotel owner and entrepreneur Rian Montgomery seen escorting the rising young newcomer LaRaine Evans at a recent Hollywood party." Laurie tried to be glad that Rian and LaRaine were to...

• Jan-1977
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Juliet tried not to think of her last scene with Carlo. Eventually she would be able to laugh at his misjudgment of her--but for the present the hurt was still new and she loved him too much. It was too late now to tell him she was Janice's tw...

• Jan-1977
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"Andrea," the voice began, "I told you once that I didn't care to be mistaken for a fortune-hunter. So, with your father's permission, I contrived to play a little trick on you...." The tape continued to turn, but Andrea he...

• Jan-1977
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"I might have known," Sarah whispered to herself. There was no longer a shadow of doubt in her mind that this man was Zain Hassan bin Hamid, high lord of this place, and he had let her confess to him some of the most indiscreet remarks of her...

• Feb-1977
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"Don't lose your temper," her mother warned Andrea when she set out to tell top TV interviewer, Maxwell Lane, just what she thought of him. Andrea was sure his ruthless interview with her beloved uncle had contributed to his death. ...

• Feb-1977
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"I don't expect you to believe anything," Lizbeth almost screamed at him. "And I don't care what you believe! I care nothing for you or your opinions, Danny Ferguson, and the sooner you get out of my life the better!" But e...

• Feb-1977
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Joanna loved Shannon Carne and he loved her -- but there were several overwhelming reasons why they should not marry. "All right, Joanna," Shannon said harshly. "I love you. But it's no use. It never was, and it never will be. We&#...

• Feb-1977
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That one hour with Raf Ventura had been more distressing to Dina Caslyn than anything that had ever befallen her. His words returned mockingly to her: "You're a protegee for your godmother to be proud of. In a few more years the coatings o...

• Mar-1977
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"I don't regret helping you," Teo said gallantly "You're still like the boy you pretended to be -- and a good companion; I appreciate you." Peta listened to his assessment with mixed feelings. Apparently she possessed so li...

• Mar-1977
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"I forgot, Amanda --" Jarod's dark eyes mocked her as he spoke "-- you're wrapped up in those romantic notions about husbands and wives and the happily-ever-afters." But Amanda kept her secret fear that some day all this ha...

• Mar-1977
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What a fantastic coincidence that she and Charles should meet here, on the island of Bali, after all these years! It had been the merest chance that Kara was there at all. If Hugh's secretary had not let him down, she would never even have had...

• Mar-1977
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Melisande Godfrey had had a grudge against Andre Lubeck since her childhood, and she had longed to be revenged on him for years. Now her chance had come. Her method was to force him to marry her -- and the terms were such that he had no alternative b...

• Apr-1977
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"You will do as your father wishes," Roarke stated in a very quiet and very firm tone. He gave her a little shove. Tisha was defeated and she knew it. One glance at her father showed the glimmer of respect in his eyes for the strong author...

• Apr-1977
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Kate Gibson knew that when she took over the job of factory doctor it would be difficult to persuade the men to accept a woman. She certainly hadn't expected to have the same trouble with Joshua Howard, the forceful head of the company. "Y...

• Apr-1977
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Six years ago Catherine Fulton and Jared Royal had met and clashed embarassingly. Now, when her father's will stipulated Jared as her guardian for the six months prior to her twenty-first birthday, Catherine was no more enthusiastic about the arr...

• Apr-1977
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Karen went toward the painting of Glenn like someone sleepwalking. Then, in a spasm of violent, uncontrollable anger, she plunged the points of the scissors into the canvas and ripped it open. When she saw the results of her action and her brain s...

• May-1977
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Kidnap Greek businessman Charon Drakos? The outrageous plan was basically weak Sarah Gilmore thought, but she felt obliged to help her girlfriend. As with so many well-laid plans, it backfired. It was Sarah who was kidnapped, and whisked off to Ch...

• May-1977
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"It can't be true," Beth said to herself. "How can I love a man I met only a week ago?" In a way, however, she had known him much longer--ever since she'd first arrived at Powys months before. Every family portrait she studied, every page of famil...

• May-1977
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Charlotte's heart lurched sickeningly at the thought of going away. She honestly didn't know what Alex meant when he answered his mother's question confidently. "Oh yes," he said. "I will be staying now, won't I, Charlotte...

• May-1977
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Doubt and uncertainty flooded Doranne's mind. Should she surrender? ... follow her father's example and give up the struggle? Defying Kieran's wishes was becoming increasingly difficult. Yet she remembered his grim, angry words: ...

• Jun-1977
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Lacey Vernon couldn't understand her mixed feelings. She should be glad that Troy wasn't behaving as her lover. Bad enough that in a few short days she would have to accept him as her husband. "Does it disturb you when I remind you wha...

• Jun-1977
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It had all happened. The heavy gold band on her finger proved that she was now Mrs. Colter Langston. But even her name on his lips sounded strange, as if he were talking to someone else. "I don't particularly like myself," Colter wa...

• Jun-1977
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"Gavin's right about you," Sara's aunt told her. "You don't love him enough. Maybe you're only in love with the memory of that first love. Perhaps now that you're seen him again you'll be able to forget him." ...

• Jun-1977
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The plan for revenge had filled Abby's mind. Not once had she thought of what would happen if it succeeded. Still, she didn't understand why Luke had married her. Or, indeed, how she had come to let him! It had never been part of her plan...

• Jul-1977
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Stay away from Saracina. But to the willful Joanna, used to having her own way, the words were a challenge! Unfortunately the warning was real: her reception on the mysterious Mediterranean island was far from welcoming. She found herself held a p...

• Jul-1977
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Lady Margaret's words echoed in Laura Vernon's mind. Words she wasn't meant to hear. "We don't want her falling in love with you," she'd said to Bren Dewar. But it was too late. Laura was already in love with Lord Br...

• Jul-1977
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Suzanne's decision to visit Villa Falcone was an impulse. Suddenly she was thrust into a family whose passions and jealousies pervaded their ancestral Italian home. Perhaps she had been meant to go, Suzanne thought later; otherwise she woul...

• Jul-1977
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Elise Lennan did not welcome Lester Kings back into her life. He reminded her of all the childhood humiliation that she had endured from him. Since he made it plain that he did not like anything about Elise or her solitary life-style, what chance...

• Aug-1977
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Catriona had left her quiet Scottish home and come to London to marry Jeremy Lord -- only to find that Jeremy had forgotten about his holiday romance. Instead, she found herself involved with his sophisticated uncle, Jason. And Jason was even more ...

• Aug-1977
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"I don't blame you for hating me at first," Jake said. "After all, I forced you to marry me. But you do see why I had to tell you all this, don't you? You've been so honest with me that I had to be the same with you. Tanya&...