
THE SHADOW OF THE BULLRING TURNED THEIR LOVE TO HATE LIONA'S FIANCE WAS THE PRIDE OF SPAIN El Sol they called Miguel de los Reyes, because of his blond good looks, his flamboyance in the ring. Though still publicly unannounced, Liona treasu...
A SIMPLE JOB BECAME A DEADLY JUNGLE TREK To Diana Green, reporter, it seemed easy: go to Machu Picchu, snap a few pictures, take notes, then return. Thousands of tourists did it every year. But the remote Incan ruins attracted more than just si...
DRIVEN BY HER HEART'S BETRAYAL, SHE SOUGHT REVENGE AGAINST LOVE SHE KNEW THE PAIN OF LOVING WAS INEVITABLE Marriage had left Megan emotionally shattered-her faith in men destroyed as her husband, Erich, had destroyed himself. Now, years ...
ROBIN KNEW IT WAS WRONG TO LOVE HIM Robin Hamilton's archaeological job on a Mexican hacienda promised to be an exciting venture. But she soon found herself drawn into the midst of a dark devastating turmoil. She should never have let herse...
LOVE'S RAGING PASSIONS SWEPT THEIR SUNLIT ISLE MARISA WALKED RIGHT INTO A VELVET TRAP It was in Tahiti airport that Marisa began to have doubts. That's when she found that Antoine de Vigny had tricked her. Her furious protests were b...
BOUND BY THE PAST, SHE REJECTED LOVE -- UNTIL PASSION BETRAYED HER THE KEY TO HER FUTURE WAS LOCKED IN THE PAST Denise's new job was ideal--to a marine biologist, the research project in the Bahamas would be fascinating. And it would allow ...
ALL THE DAYS OF HER LIFE HAD BEEN A YEAR A sense of hopelessness came over Sara as she remembered their brief marriage. She wondered if she was forever destined to be a shadow among shadows because she had loved unwisely. Luke. A surge of emoti...
INSTEAD OF PEACE SHE FOUND PASSION London life offered Penelope a tempting proposition. Theater designer Nigel Burnett wanted her beside him as he skyrocketed to fame. Only his terms struck Pen as immoral. So she escaped to her peaceful Lakelan...
"YOU'RE A BIT TOUCHY AREN'T YOU, JOY?" That did it! His sarcastic carping was driving Joy crazy! She didn't care if he was a famous British spy--she had feelings even if he didn't! When she was assigned to edit James Dun...
THEIR LOVE WAS MORE POWERFUL THAN THE RAGING NORTHERN SEA "LIKE IT OR NOT -- YOU'RE STAYING HERE!" Gregory Godwin's jaw jutted out like the rocks of his isolated northern island. And his voice was firm. Polly confronted him c...
SHE HAD TO LEAVE HER INNOCENCE BEHIND When Lyn's new guardian, Tor Hansen, arrived at her home -- an isolated cabin in the beautiful northern Canadian wilderness -- her life changed drastically. Changed because he insisted on taking her to ...
"FOR GOD'S SAKE, TASHA -- GROW UP!" Ben's last words to her echoed through her mind. The words stung now as they had on their wedding night so many years ago. Even across the years the memory of Ben Craig, her husband and yet no...
THEIR PASSIONATE UNION DEFIED THE POWERS THAT TORE THEM APART LOVE RECAPTURED, THEN LOST AGAIN... Laddy Penreith was seventeen the night she met Soviet writer Mischa Busnetsky. Surrounded by a watchful crowd, neither could reveal the searing p...
LEE NEVER MIXED BUSINESS AND PLEASURE And that was only one of the problems in her new job as marine archaeologist. Diving for treasure in a sunken galleon off the Florida coast should have been a glamorous job. Especially with the adventurous,...
SHE RAN HEADLONG INTO HEARTACHE... Billie kissed goodbye to small-town Canadian life and took off for Europe. She had no idea what to expect. Accepting a job with a famous scriptwriter and traveling to Yugoslavia seemed to hold all sorts of possib...
SUSPICIONS PLAGUED HER WEARY, ACHING HEART A fantastic job offer lured Karin into the enchantment of Quebec, a city long known for its exciting but dangerous traditions of conflict and romance. Right now she didn't need either! Karin's...
THEY WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO FALL IN LOVE -- BUT PASSION MADE A MOCKERY OF THEIR VOWS I CAN'T DO IT, CHRISTY THOUGHT. I JUST CAN'T. All week long she'd tried to convince herself that she, Christy Steele, Aunt Martha's properly b...
TO SEE HIM DANCE WAS TO SEE LIVING FLAME No ballet dancer was more electrifying than Nikolai Sharmanov. And when producer Tiffany Furrow was assigned to film him in Moscow, she should have been overjoyed. Instead, she was shattered. Years earli...
THE COST OF LOVING WAS MUCH TOO HIGH As an executive in New York's frantic advertising world, Sarah found it was lonely at the top. Funny, she'd never quite realized how true that saying was. Yet hard work had brought its own reward. Th...
THEIR PASSION WAS ALIVE BUT THE PAST REFUSED TO DIE A PIERCING SCREAM WAS ALL SHE REMEMBERED They told her she was Sally Rossi. Wife of David Rossi--the man mysteriously by her side throughout her recovery from the accident, the man watching he...
BOUND BY TIES TO THE PAST, THEIR LOVE STRUGGLED FOR A FUTURE TONI COULD NO LONGER DENY HER NEED FOR LOVE She had long clung to the memory of her dead husband, permitting herself only working relationships with men. Meeting the cynical Dr. Lu...
PASSION FLAMED IN THE AFTERMATH OF TRAGEDY For terrifying hours after the wreck Tara had been clutching a frail rubber raft on the storm-swept ocean. She lost consciousness as a final wave washed her limp body onto a rocky beach. A man found he...
THEY WERE AS DIFFERENT AS SUN AND MOON... Jenny Mowry believed she could handle any complications that might arise on her archaeological assignment in Egypt. But she hadn't anticipated that two dynamic men would pursue her from the moment she a...
CAMILLA REFUSED TO BELIEVE THE TELEGRAM Missing. Presumed Dead. Her beloved sister, Megan, could not be dead. So Camilla flew to Afghanistan, determined to find her. Being a stranger in an even stranger land was most unnerving--until she met th...
SHE COULD NEVER BE PART OF HIS WORLD Strong-willed Holly MacKnight met her match in Captain Arif Hakal, a proud Turkish horseman firmly tied to his country's traditions. With smooth mastery he quickly conquered her heart. But Arif was bound by ...
DIGNITY AND DESIRE STRUGGLED WITHIN HER For Pamela Courtland, boutique owner, it was the event of a lifetime. The Casamias fashion showing, held on a Grecian isle, proved spectacular. Even more exciting was meeting the dark and fiery Michael Yanni...
THEY WERE DRIVEN BY PASSION BUT LOVE CHOSE A DIFFERENT PATH COULD SHE GIVE UP THE MAN SHE ADORED? Toni loved her job as chief engineer of a Texas oil operation. It was exciting and challenging...a dream come true. But her new boss, Mark Ander...
WHO DID NANDO BONAVIA THINK HE WAS... ? The suave dark Italian had turned up on Amy's doorstep, calmly informing her that she was part owner of a prosperous winery in Italy -- and then told her he was going to buy her out! Even though she h...
SHE WANTED FREEDOM, BUT WAS CHAINED BY LOVE Coming home was traumatic enough. Finding Ethan Greenlaw controlling her grandfather's construction firm was an added shock. Carol had fled her possessive, manipulative family two years earlier. T...
SHE WASN'T A WOMAN WHO ACCEPTED DEFEAT Jessamine knew Bensen Everhart was annoyed with her. Too bad! She hadn't meant to dig up family skeletons -- but she had to research her historical novel, and that included his pioneer ancestry. St...
SHE HAD UNDERESTIMATED THE POWER OF PASSION When Dr. Michael Stratton chose Tracey for his arts scholarship she cried for joy. At last she could quit waitressing and write full-time. But she didn't trust the attractive doctor's motives. Mo...
IT HAD TO BE ALL -- OR NOTHING Stephanie had little choice but to accept Cade Steele's demand. As production coordinator she would be personally responsible to him while her company filmed on his ranch. But working with the formidable, deva...
HOW COULD SHE RESIST THE POWER OF HIS KISS? Gemma Culver, as a woman and an artist, was moved by the sensuous beauty of Jordan di Mario's sculptures. She'd often fantasized about meeting the master of erotica, the man who could breathe sex...
Sydne knew she was one lucky woman. Even for an archaeologist, a job working on shipboard in the sun-dazzled Caribbean didn't come along every day. Nor did a chance to be surrounded by attractive bronze-skinned men. But Sydne didn't trus...
DIAMONDS AREN'T A WOMAN'S BEST FRIEND Kaye was richer than any woman need be. She was also a failure, a divorcee whose attempt at love had left her wary and confused. She met her match in Creighton Jarvis. The dark, elusive darling of M...
HE'D BRANDED HER WITH HIS TOUCH... Midge was instantly, disturbingly drawn to the brooding, remote Brian Vandervelt. He was a puzzle she somehow had to solve. Soon, however, Midge found herself more than intrigued by the handsome young news...
SUSPICION SHADOWED A FRAGILE TRUST Samantha had never forgotten Peter Drummond, the sandy-haired English chemist. Nor could she erase the memory of their passionate affair. Together they'd shared all the heady excitement of a deepening love......
THEIR LOVE WAS A PASSIONATE TEMPEST, A WILD AND TENDER STORM... EVERY WHISPER OF LOVE WAS A WOUNDING LIE... Jed Foster claimed he loved her, needed her, wanted to marry her--but Megan wasn't buying any of it. After five years of working for...
CAREFULT TO RISK NOTHING, SHE RISKED EVERYTHING The night that Deputy Minister Donovan Hawkes severely embarrassed Shelby at the glittering embassy ball was the last night she ever wanted to see him. Yet she found herself helping him track dow...
LOVING HIM SET HER ON A COLLISION COURSE Like a star-struck fan, Vicki was dazzled by Jason Meredith. She'd seen the famous actor perform on stage and on TV. Now, meeting him in the flesh, he was more electric and ruggedly masculine than ever....
A WHIRLWIND ROMANCE ON A MAGICAL ISLAND.. Swept away by the taste of passion, Kim married Martin Ste. Croix, the devastating Frenchman she'd met on Maui. But immediately after the ceremony he disappeared. Kim used all her expertise as a pol...
HE WANTED HER HEART -- FOR THE PLEASURE OF BREAKING IT DID HE LOVE HER OR DID HE ONLY WANT REVENGE? He had Jace's eyes--dark and compelling. Those eyes carried Vanessa back ten years to the magic of Jace, the glow of their love. But Jace wa...
NO MAN HAD EVER AROUSED SUCH FEELINGS As assistant museum curator, Liza respected the power Christian Chase radiated in the art world. And as a woman, she was alive to his vibrant personal charm. But how dare he try to destroy the perfect relat...
IT WAS LIKE LIVING ON ANOTHER PLANET Holly questioned her own sanity. What was she doing as camp cook for a group of fossil hunters in the South Dakota Badlands? Her real milieu was the glittering world of New York fashion modeling. But everyth...
A POTENT MAGNETISM DREW HER TO EGYPT Robyn Douglas, Ph.D. candidate in ancient languages, was deeply moved by the mysterious desert land. She felt she was home at last -- doubly so when she met Sayed al-Rashad, the dizzyingly attractive archaeolog...
FOR ONCE MONA WAS DOING THE TAKING All her life she'd stepped aside and allowed her stunning sister to lay claim to her men, only to see Claire drop them when she grew bored. But it hadn't mattered, because Mona's heart had never been ...
HE HAD A DANGEROUS HOLD ON HER... In claiming her inheritance -- a sprawling ranch in a remote part of Mexico -- Sirena knew she'd accepted a challenge. But she was unprepared for the antagonism of the dark, aristocratic Ramon Savedel, the man...
HIS PASSION AWAKENED WHAT HER DARK PAST DENIED Dissatisfied with the shallow world of fashion modeling, Daye jumped at the chance to visit her friend Charles on his Tahitian isle. Soon the peaceful enchantment of sun and silver sands was disrup...
THEIR LOVE WAS A PRECIOUS ISLAND IN A TUMULTUOUS SEA BLAINE COULD NEVER FALL FOR AN OIL MAN She just couldn't risk it. Her father and brother had lived in pursuit of the liquid gold -- and had died in a rig blowout. So when Blaine met Ga...
SHE FLED FROM PASSION'S TORMENT Sal Si Puedes...Escape If You Can. The plantation's very name should have warned Eleni. She had come to this Peruvian hideaway to purchase rare gems, but found the mysterious gem dealer, Lucio Ferraz, far...
SHE CARRIED HER HEARTACHE LIKE A SEARING FLAME Nightclub singer Jillian Lambert had a special earthy quality to her voice that excited critics and audiences alike. Her fans didn't know that the deep emotion she poured into her music was evoked by ...
ALIX FELT HER VERY SOUL RUSHING TO MEET HIS Alix faced the archaeological trek, deep into the Sahara, with great trepidation. The notorious Lai Renard, sponsor of her late mother's expedition was to accompany her, too. She could not forget ...
A PILGRIMAGE IN THE NAME OF LOVE... Monica knew it was foolish to real time as a tour guide. But she had to find out why Ian MacGregor--the handsome laird with whom she'd fallen rapturously, irrevocably in love a year earlier--had cut her off ...
SHE NEVER WANTED TO SEE HIM AGAIN.... Diana hadn't seen Rhys Morgan in ten years -- not since their tumultuous three-day affair. What erupted between them so long ago had been impossible to resist. Before he even spoke to her she knew she want...
DRAWN BY LONGING, DRIVEN APART BY DOUBT Dark and compelling Ben Andress was a temptation Natalie had not anticipated when she chose to work as a charter captain in the Florida Keys. Had he not been such an enigma -- passionate yet coldly secret...
THEIR LOVE WAS CHAINED BYA LEGACY OF BITTERNESS Veterinarian Kit Shannon was struggling to build her dream: a game reserve on the African land she'd inherited. But opposing her was Devin Michaels, as bold and rugged as magnificent Mount Kenya. ...
THEY WERE LOCKED IN A BATTLE OF WILLS The unyielding Thorn Catlin was determined to force Sabrina to leave Brazil. She was set on staying--for purely professional reasons. Unforeseen events shook her resolve. Marooned with him in the exotic and...
IT WAS ALREADY TOO LATE TO AVOID THE HURT Paul Cypress thrilled audiences the world over with his velvet baritone voice. Accompanying him on the piano was more exciting than Shannon had ever anticipated. But she could not have foreseen her prim...
WOULD HER FANTASY LOVER COME BACK TO HER? He was young, standing beneath a blue-gum tree, the sun in his gleaming hair and golden eyes. She was there with him, and it was good to laugh, to touch and kiss in innocence...with Christopher. Janet w...
THE STUFF OF WHICH DREAMS ARE MADE... Samantha Hall was thrilled to practice tropical medicine on the lush Micronesian island of Good Providence. It was an exotic fairy-tale world--with Chris Girard, the island's lean, virile benefactor, as the cl...
SHE WANTED MORE THAN A PASSING ADVENTURE Beryl had no intention of joining the Everest expedition when, in place of her ailing brother Brad, she flew to Nepal with supplies for his team. Then fate and Rock Rawling's dark magnetism conspired...
BITTER MISUNDERSTANDING THREATENED THEIR STORMY LOVE WHICHEVER SHE CHOSE SHE STOOD TO LOSE Nothing in Alicia's life had prepared her for Michael MacNamee. Strong, dark and passionate, he utterly captivated her. Their aching longing drove th...
SHE COULDN'T TRUST ANOTHER MAN... Recovering from the shattering failure of her marriage, architect Terry Morrison found peace of mind in Taos, New Mexico -- until Neil Brewster arrived to force her out of hibernation. Their joint oppositio...
COULD THEIR LOVE TURN TRAGEDY TO TRIUMPH? Antonio Hernandez y Vega had it all...or so it seemed to Amanda. Arresting good looks, power, prestige and wealth. But his life had been touched by a tragedy so great that nothing could comfort him -- not ...
THE FUTURE HELD A RAINBOW OF PROMISES Alison Bennet arrived in Texas with high-flying expectations. This was it: new life, new career, new home--all financed by the inheritance she was about to receive. But her grandmother's will held some ...
HIS RUTHLESS VENDETTA TAINTED THEIR LOVE Briana Ivensen didn't know why Drake Rutledge hated her family. But the wealthy young hotel owner had set out to ruin them--and he had succeeded. He proved a generous victor--he gave her a job allowed he...
THEY COULD HAVE BEEN PERFECT TOGETHER... Dr. Mark Temple, distinguished psychiatrist. Jennifer Caroline, known as J.C., dedicated social worker. An ideal couple one would think -- at least on the surface. But Mark had suffered a tragic accident...
HER DIGNITY CLASHED WITH HIS RIGID PRINCIPLES Helen's world turned nightmarish when Luis San Roque arrived, bearing news of her brother's fraud. For her brother's debt to Luis was enormous, and as a proud man who believed uncompromisin...
SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS HAPPENING TO HER From the start, some part of Laurel knew she and Morgan Hamilton didn't belong together. They fell into love with dizzying speed, but he was out of her league--an absurdly charming jet-setter who u...
HE SEEMED SO HAUNTINGLY FAMILIAR Maybe because Nikolas Mylonis looked like a Greek god, falling under his spell seemed only natural. But falling in love was the last thing Candace had expected. A journalist--and a good one--she couldn't keep he...
IF ONLY MARLA COULD GIVE IN... Just this once.... Just this once to feel something for a man without her mind's sickening warning of rejection. Yet Marla dreaded feeling love for horse breeder Stefan Gerhardt. To him, love meant marriage...and...
WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO THE MAN SHE ONCE KNEW? Shock and disbelief assailed Terra as Grant Ingraham strode back into her life. The man she had adored when she was growing up, the university student who used to visit her father, was now a high-powe...
SHE BOLDLY PLAYED THE TEMPTRESS... Jennifer Blake arrived in Bogota with one purpose: to meet--and bewitch--Alejandro Adler. The wealthy Colombian businessman was guilty of a drug-smuggling offense he'd pinned on her brother. She was determined to...
HE ROSE FROM THE SEA LIKE A GOLDEN GOD In the soft light of dawn Allison watched him approach, his bronzed body glistening, and long-forgotten passions deep within her sprang to life. With the morning light came harsh reality. This was no god b...
SHE WANTED A LOVER--NOT JUST A PARTNER Since the tragic accident that had all but ended her career in ballet, Raine had feared she would never dance again. Choreographer Brandon du Rivage drove her mercilessly to erase that fear. He challenged the...
PERIL SNARED THEM IN A WICKED TRAP -- DESIRE HELD THEM IN THRALL HE WAS CUNNING--BUT SHE WAS NO FOOL Who was this Carey Hudson? Just a businessman, as he claimed? Or was he "the sleeper," the sexy hardnosed corporate spy sent to assess ...
ONE SECRET DARKENED THEIR DAWNING LOVE When Leslie Kairns met oil man Steve McRory at a business lunch, the air between them sizzled. She found it difficult to concentrate on selling either her skills as a geologist or her revolutionary theory on ...
SHE KNEW WHAT IT WAS TO BE A WOMAN DESIRED... Alexander Cortlandt was a compelling man -- a startling combination of English aristocracy and a wilder Asian origin. As a political speechwriter, Caylie Quinn had corresponded with the brilliant ec...
HE HAD BUILT A WALL TO DIVIDE THEM Hope Standish was stunned by the speed with which Ross Adair took control of her life -- and her heart. When an accident on an Indian reservation curtailed her painting trip through the Great Smokies, she was for...
SHE WAS A FOOL TO FALL IN LOVE Fate played a cunning trick on tourist journalist Meg Brown. Because of a dizzying series of mishaps in romantic Venice, she found herself entangled with the most stunningly attractive man she'd ever met. Marco M...
IT COULDN'T BE A WORSE TIME TO GET INVOLVED... Selina was proud to be a professional chef. But her dreams for success didn't stop there. She was determined to build a rewarding career, and nothing could stand in her way. Except Gilmarti...
HIS OTHER PASSION STOOD BETWEEN THEM No question, Karla Fleming was in love with her husband. She loved Rick fiercely, devotedly, and she didn't care who knew it. He was her man. But Rick craved more in life than a fulfilling relationship. A Gr...
THE DEFINITION OFA MAN... For Mariette it was Francisco Lorca. A proud Castilian who'd grown up in the sun of the plains and in the shadow of his brother's musical genius. A tender gypsy whose lean fingers made their own music on her skin. But a m...
SHE REFUSED TO LET HIM DESTROY HER DREAM Joanne Patton was determined to climb the majestic Dhaulagiri, a treacherous peak in the Himalayas, and only one man stood in her way. As head of the all-male expedition, James Bryant could choose the team ...
RIGHT NOW...ANY MAN WOULD DO Bea Allen had told her tour group she was meeting a "friend" in Paris ... but he didn't show. To save face she needed a stand-in. And John Robertson filled the bill. But he was more than shed bargained for. Suddenly...
LIGHTNING CAN'T STRIKE TWICE! Or could it? What did Katie Connelly really know about Ramon Galverra? There was so much to learn and so little time... They were exact opposites in every way. Katie - independent, contemporary, successful career-...
SHE HAD ALWAYS BEEN A FIGHTER But being kidnapped by the dark powerful stranger completely terrified Shulamith St. John, heir apparent to her father's giant lumber business. Then, on the peaceful British Columbia island where he brought her, ev...
HE WANTED DESPERATELY TO SET HER FREE... Stunningly beautiful -- that was Karen Smythe. Yet the wealthy heiress-social worker, so warm and open with the teenagers she worked with, kept meticulously aloof from any male admirers. She had a secret bitt...
ARIEL COULD LOVE SUCH A CHALLENGE ... Zachary Drake labeled her a "flower child." She saw him as a walking caricature, the corporate man. He was hardly the type to sympathize with the goals of her ecology group or to appreciate vivacious Ariel Mac...
SUDDENLY LIFE SHONE WITH BRIGHT PROMISE David McCormack and Samantha Roberts had played together as children under hot summer skies in Phoenix. That they should meet again and find love in the August of their lives was a miracle. David's home w...
DESIRE BANISHED THE YEARS OF EMPTINESS Samantha Austin's return to Collins Island was haunted by memories of Jonathan Blake. Jon had been her first, her only love -- until the bitter argument that split them irrevocably apart. Samantha soon...
THEIR PASSION-FEVER RAGED HOTTER THAN THE SUN SHE WAS RAVISHED BY THE WILD WINDS OF TROUBLE... To veterinarian Morgan McCullough, Africa meant practically everything. So she couldn't welcome home the prodigal son, Joshua Thorn, the daredevil bu...
TOGETHER THEY WERE AS WILD AS THE ROARING SURF When Cory Wells accepted a temporary job in Kauai, she hadn't planned on falling in love with the jewel-like island -- or with the charismatic Buck Bower. Buchanan Bower -- scion of one of Hawa...
EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM WAS A MYSTERY As an anthropologist, Sara Westcott had come to San Francisco to research the Russian community, not to fall in love. Then she met Alexei Varentsov. Alexei was an enigma in so many ways. He spoke little of his...
GUILT WOULD NOT LET HER LOVE When Laura Adams was offered a teaching job in Japan, she snapped it up -- just what she needed, a new horizon. Little did she know she would soon meet Geoffrey McDermott, the man who had falsely married and then de...
THEY HAD THIS CHANCE TO HEAL EACH OTHER Baird Langston didn't believe anyone in town wished him well--including Dawnelle Belanger. Life was tough for a marine scientist scrabbling for specimens along California's rugged Redwood Coast. Tough for an...
FIERCELY SHE REBELLED AGAINST THEIR FATE From the tumultuous moment they'd met, Ravenna Jones was captivated by Luke Rathbourn. Fresh from Kentucky, she was ready for a worldly adventure. He was a British aristocrat, caught off guard by her...
THERE WAS MORE THAN CHEMISTRY BETWEEN THEM On an urgent cross-Canada blitz to promote her lire of fragrances, Camille Beesley was shadowed by a vaguely enticing spy. By the time she hit Toronto, the man had taken definite shape--and action! Profes...
SHE KNEW WITH HIM NOTHING WAS FOREVER Jan Jordan had spent all her life in the peaceful isolation of her mountain home in Maine. Even in her wildest dreams she could never have imagined a man as compelling as Jason Farrell. Jan had helped rescu...
LEARNING TO LOVE SHE FORGOT HER FEAR India--home of the world's most eloquent monument to enduring love, the Taj Mahal. Even to seasoned newspaperwoman Julie Connell, India seemed an unlikely place to be tracking down international terrorists--...
SHE DIDN'T WANT A SECOND CHANCE Barely twenty-one, Nicola Wynter, budding lawyer, met and married Andrew Mather, legendary attorney, thirty-two years her senior. Now, seven years later, Nicola was suddenly widowed. Marriage to Andrew hadn't bee...
LOVE WOULD MAKE HER LESS OF A WOMAN Her mother's painful example had taught architect Lenore Randolph to retreat from involvement with men. There was just too much of herself to be lost. Only Mangas Taylor, an impossibly private man, could have...
THEY HAD TO PLAN TO BE LOVERS For Susie Costain, designing Mardi Gras costumes set her free. To be creative was as necessary to her as the air she breathed. Sy Avery understood Susie's dedication to her work. Being a gifted photographer, he...
SHE COULDN'T AFFORD TO MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE TWICE When she first met Jonah Duncan, the famous pianist, Raine Hunicutt was a music student, as freshly innocent as a spring blossom. Open and trusting, she had offered her love completely -- only...
A BLAZE OF SUDDEN NEED BLINDED HER TO THE TRUTH He was the man most women dreamed of. Looks, charm, brains, wealth--Todd Ballard had it all, and by rights Janet should be hopelessly in love. The bitter truth was that Todd was not only the archa...
IT WASN'T ENOUGH THAT SHE LOVED HIM When Timothy Flanagan came to her rescue in a pub in south Boston, Anne Clarendon couldn't believe her luck. She was even more surprised when she discovered this man with the twinkling green eyes and coppery ha...
THEY WERE MISFITS IN A LOVE STORY Camille Curtis, exalted romance novelist, had never lived the passionate adventures that thrilled her fans. Enter film director Tate Landon. With the insight of the lonely, he sensed the emptiness behind her words...
THERE WAS NO EASY ANSWER Eden Sonnier was making her mark. As an interior designer, she was on the brink of success. Then she met Nicolas Devereaux. Suddenly Eden was full of doubts. Nick had a way of making her examine her goals. Was success e...
HE WAS THE ONE MAN SHE COULDN'T IGNORE Hunter V Pierce, investigative reporter extraordinaire for KMKX-TV in Kansas City, wasn't who he was pretending to be. And Cary Blame had selected him as the best engineer her personnel firm could find for Om...
POLITICS WAS NO LONGER A PART OF HER LIFE The assassination of her governor father and the victimization of her mother convinced Anna Kay Elliott that she wanted nothing more to do with ambitious politicians. But when Robbin North's electio...
LOVE PLAYED HER ON A LONG LINE Portillo ski resort, synonymous with sleek money, sleeker patrons. Reporter Anne Mahoney was wrung dry by tragedy stories ... and by her best friend's death. In this cushioned holiday climate she would feel again, so...
FINALLY SHE HAD MET HER MATCH The television commercial Samantha Griffin produced starring former singer Boston Grey went off without a hitch. But it wasn't until after the cameras stopped rolling that the action really began. Boston was as hig...
WHAT DOES A WOMAN DO WHEN SUCH A MAN APPEARS? Holly Court was tired of being the wealthy oil heiress, scrutinized by the press, betrayed by opportunistic friends. Maybe in Singapore, working for her father's company, she would find the emotion...
HE LOVED HER TOO MUCH TO MARRY HER For Dr. Robin Mitchell, marriage was the ultimate expression of love. For Dr. Paul Wilcox, it signaled the beginning of the end. He had seen too many disastrous marriages -- his parents' included. Neverthe...
HE WAS THE ONE WHO HAD TO CHANGE Her shallow urban existence for life in the Ozarks -- journalist Alexis Smythe's gutsy trade. If the mountain people accepted her. Especially John Webber. Through her days with him, Alexis learned to live more s...
HE LOVED THE CHALLENGE OF A DANGEROUS WOMAN Kirk Russell had courted death many times, flying close to wildfire as an Alaskan bush pilot. Tracy also knew the unnerving captain of her company's most recent and treacherous operation had loved ...
HE HURT HER ONCE -- HE COULD HURT HER AGAIN Seven years ago, Barth Tramande had sailed into Bay Point like a Viking hero and conquered Miel McCrae's heart. But he didn't want it -- not then. Determined to forget, Miel had abandoned her ...
They longed to be alone to love. First-time author Sara Daniel was determined to make her book take off. A private woman, still she confronted irate consumers and corporations on an exhausting Midwest promo tour. Ross Marshall she couldn't handle. He...
HER CLEVER DECEPTION CLOUDED THEIR LOVE Lindsay Ashton had long ago given up believing in Prince Charmings and happily ever afters. But if there was one man who could convince her otherwise it was Mark Cavanaugh. Of all men. The handsome, succe...
THEY APPEARED AN UNLIKELY TWOSOME A self-possessed antique-shop owner and a burly, skydiving football player--what possible common bond could they discover? Recently widowed Haley Roberts found a refreshing compatibility and a surprising passio...
HE BROUGHT HER MORE JOY THAN SHE'D THOUGHT POSSIBLE If only...if only Mandy was really the carefree photographer she seemed to be. If only she was truly free to join her life with that of Piers Redden, whose fathomless eyes probed the mysteri...
HIS PERSISTENCE REVEALED HER DEEP-SEATED GUILT Managing her Cape Cod inn gave Petra NcNeil enough to worry about without enduring Dan Halliwell's intrusions into her life. Besides, Petra had no use for a man who refused to recognize a woman's capa...
THEY WERE LONERS, BUT LONELY Federal wildlife agent Victoria Bartlett invaded sheep country to track down the killer of a golden eagle. She would succeed on the job...though she had failed her husband. Conservationist Grant Mackenzie was the fi...
NEITHER KNEW WHAT WAS IN THE CARDS After witnessing a crime, Nathaniel Blair had been given a new identity by the FBI. They had promised him protection but had been unable to prevent the subsequent death of his wife. Now, two years later, Nathan w...
IT WAS A NO-WIN SITUATION Dirk Van Der Maas had the power and style of a Madison Avenue executive yet an artist's soul -- a combination Andrea Campbell found alluring. But Andrea couldn't let personal feelings affect her work--not when ...
ALL IS FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR Taking a potshot at a rival paper's snobbish dining columnist was all in a day's work for restaurant critic Sara Courtney. But she certainly hadn't intended to fire the first volley in a war of words that ha...
SHE SHUNNED THE SATIN-SOFT LIFE Colleen Conaughy was adrift, a society heiress with more than parties on her mind! She needed to be needed. She needed a job. Crewing on a broken-down troller through the Alaskan Panhandle initiated her into the ...
COULD THIS BE THE RIGHT MAN? Lia Andrews was a blackjack dealer. Flint Tancer was a gambler. At least that's what it looked like to the patrons of Lake Tahoe's Goldorado casino. In fact Lia was a psychologist working on her master's thesis. And...
WHAT WOULD PEOPLE SAY? Rachel Hopis had only just become a widow, and who should be pounding down her door but Tommy Lee Gentry. Tommy Lee. Crazy boy. The hell raiser of Russellville, Alabama, had three marriages behind him and a string of fast...
As rioting beset the Malaysian capital, two strangers sheltered in a basement -- and fell in love. The madness of the world was purged with the night. With the dawn they were separated.... Until four years later in Washington, when cultural advi...
SOMETIMES ONE JUST KNEW... International intrigue was not the usual preoccupation of Willy Patterson, art gallery owner, world-class skier. But she could not refuse to help an old friend take refuge in the U.S. Hyde Vandemeer, quintessential CI...
EACH UNDERSTOOD THE OTHER TOO WELL Tracy knew Rory Buchanan was out of her league. He was one of the "big boys" from Chicago; she was bright but unschooled, all bluff and thunder. Yet she had something he needed. Her small commuter a...
TURNING TO EACH OTHER WAS ONLY NATURAL Jennifer had been happy, married to Michael Page. He died after a tragic illness, and now all she wanted was to be left alone. Then Nathan Page, Michael's younger brother, arrived, determined to take c...
THEY WERE THE ORIGINAL ODD COUPLE Tally Bishop, one of New England's hottest architects, wore a lavender hard hat, handled an eighteen-wheeler like a pro and called her crossbred bobcat Splendid. To the English, Bram Ramsdale was Troy Castleman...
NOTHING WAS EXACTLY AS IT SEEMED A dark night. A car -- a bicycle -- a boy. Raw fear sliced through Angela Carruthers on impact -- but she swore the accident wasn't her fault. Dr. Patrick Merrill believed her, and his passionate caring help...
HAD SHE COME TOO FAR TO LOOK BACK NOW? When Kathryn was seventeen, the fiery excitement of Judson Taylor's touch had seared itself into her imagination and flesh forever. Seven years after she'd been devastated by his abandonment, she h...
SHE DIDN'T WANT TO SAY GOODBYE The former weather girl no longer brought disaster to the job. She was an incisive reporter now - and an exciting woman. When NASA spokesman Mike Webster tried to get close to Caroline Travers, she backed off. He...
SHE WAS A WOMAN NOW But to D.A. McCormack, Mary Russell would always be little Mary from the Rocking R ranch--even when she was the one who helped him put back the pieces of his life after his disastrous firs~ marriage to the worldly Sarah. Mar...
IT WAS A RISK WORTH TAKING Child psychologist Lezlie Garrett had made it a point never to become emotionally involved with her patients. But when she saw the pain in Merri Bradinton's eyes, Lezlie knew instinctively that sharing the secret of ...
WITH HIM CAME THE SPARKLE IN LIFE Diana Ashley had been told that the house next to hers in the picturesque New England fishing town was empty. It came as a shock that she did indeed have a neighbor--Dr. Jaime Medeiros. Jaime had been her surge...
BOTH THEIR FUTURES WERE AT STAKE Minta Cordero, FBI undercover agent, had been ordered to take a vacation and stay out of trouble. She chose the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean. So did Brad McMillan who was conducting top-secret tests on his un...
SHE HAD BEEN GIVEN A SECOND CHANCE By arranging the rescue of her estranged husband, David, from a prison camp in Central America, Chris Spencer could try to make up to him for walking out on their marriage four years earlier. She'd never dream...
HER BACK WAS TO THE WALL And the Glory Circle, her zany late aunt's family, was closing in.... The relatives coveted what had been dropped in Sharli Cook's lap -- the ancestral cottage complete with hidden wealth. As for Rochan Richet, ...
FALLING IN LOVE SHOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT... Alisa Fairlight had always felt like an outsider. Exiled from her mother's political life-style by her youth, and separated from her father by continents, she knew she could only count on herself. ...
SHE WAS A SINGER WITHOUT A SONG Suffering from a failed marriage and broken dream Claire Parnell returned home to Palm Shores, Florida. She had begun to think she would never sing again, until she met Dylan Jamison. This gentle and caring man r...
There was a saying that the Pelente men loved only once, and when Mayi Jenners married Laurens Pelente, she knew it would be forever. They would spend their lives in a fairy-tale village in the high Pyrenees, the Basque country Mayi readily adopted a...
SHE'D WAITED ALL HER LIFE... Tessa always felt like Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole whenever she encountered Jean-Paul Heidemann, the austere new president of a Swiss bank. Despite Jean-Paul's insistent advances, she was determined ...
IN THIS CASE SHE WOULD RESERVE JUDGMENT Anna Provo was an American success story. The child of poor immigrants, she had overcome all obstacles -- including love -- to secure a seat as a Seattle county court judge. At thirty, she had put youth and ...
HER BIOLOGICAL CLOCK WAS TICKING... Kina Katanich wanted a child, but the father would have to be three things -- tall and dark like her... and temporary. She didn't expect loyalty from any man. Only motherhood mattered now. On a trek through...
BOTH OF THEM HAD A LOT TO LEARN... Angie Nichols, public-relations consultant, needed Ben Sheaffer to make her promotional campaign a success. She was prepared to do almost anything. Ben Sheaffer, computer jock, devoted himself to his floppy di...
HE GAVE HER THE GIFT OF LAUGHTER Tied to a rigid work schedule and scarred by the memory of a troubled marriage, Jocelyn rarely laughed. Then she met Dun--an intriguing stranger who surprised her with joy and courted her with a gentle, whimsical l...
He taught her to see with her heart. Ginny Matthesson's trip to Australia marked the first anniversary of her divorce. She wasn't looking for love, but John-Simon Black had other ideas. The blind French singer was slated to become the hottest item on...
WHAT SHE WANTED MOST SHE FEARED MOST Drawing strength from her beloved Colorado Rockies, Lindsay could almost forget how much she'd lost. She'd risked everything to make Kendall her husband, only to lose him in a fiery plane crash. Kend...
In Montreal, Paula Emanuel had been warned to play by the boss's rules -- the boss happened to be her lover. Harassed unbearably, she escaped to a Brussels high school. Luc LeBlanc resident journalism teacher, was impossible to work with -- the last ...
He entered her life with a flash of drama. Sean O'Hara...or Murphy. Caitlin MacRaith wasn't sure which name belonged to her dark-eyed rescuer in the pub. Maybe neither. There was certainly a mystery about the man, and an irresistible appeal. Caitlin ...
HER LIFE WAS AT A CROSSROADS... But Alexandra Crawford took comfort in the prediction that she'd easily recognize her predestined path. Jake Brannigan kept getting in her way. Retired at forty-two from the police force, Jake projected the a...
SHE GAVE HIM HER LOVE--HE NEEDED HER TRUST Senator Seth Hill and his wife, Marnie, had been arguing when the shot was heard. Seth Hill lay dead, and Marnie was accused of murder. Ian Dunn was the only defense attorney brave enough--or foolish e...
WHAT SHE DIDN'T NEED WAS A "RELATIONSHIP" Diane Armstrong would never forget the terror of having to land a small aircraft after her husband suffered a fatal heart attack at the controls. Nor would she forget her wanton reactions to the kindness o...
PROTECTING HIM WAS THE EASY PART Kane Stone lived a life filled with danger and adventure -- just the man for Shasta Masterson. Assigning herself as his bodyguard brought her the excitement she thrived on, but the real challenge turned out to be ...
FATE KEPT THEM FREE FOR EACH OTHER Leah Stone was a single mother...but still a wife. In the six years since her husband had vanished, she had accepted her strange role, though she had missed Jim every day of those six years. When Leah met her ...
SHE HAD A SURPRISE RIVAL Elizabeth Swenson got a shock when she drove her Porsche into Ridleyville, Arkansas. Her estranged husband, her big-time corporate shark, was the minister at the Good Samaritan church! The bigger shock was finding out s...
THERE WAS MAGIC UNDER THE BIG TOP When she was in the cage with her cats, lion trainer Tanya Rhodin had the upper hand. So why, when it came to Wade Broderick, did she feel so out of control? The millionaire businessman had run away to the circ...
WHOSE SIDE WAS SHE ON? Maggie McAllister had nabbed a plum assignment as the lawyer chosen to help prevent skiing on Mount Shasta. Her drive for the environmentalists' cause was sure to win favor in her law firm. But the chief advocate for a sk...
SHE WANTED IT ALL -- BUT NOT ALL AT ONCE! The life of an astronaut-surgeon was incredibly demanding, but Dr. Erin Ness thrived on the challenge. And she was absolutely ecstatic when NASA appointed her to a history-making shuttle launch! Only ...
THIS WAS AN OFFER SHE COULDN'T REFUSE! An attractive coal-mining magnate, a beautiful valley homestead and the perfect teaching job -- Alana Campbell's star was definitely on the rise! Opening up young Bruce's silent world was the m...
AGAINST THE McCORD WAYS, SHE HAD NO CHANCE Kate Bannister was going home to Florida, on her first project as a graduate architect. She hadn't counted on wealthy builder Chance McCord blowing into her life with as much fury as the summer storm that...
MEN WANTED HER FOR IT, OR IN SPITE OF IT.. Just this once Arianne Sawyer wished her psychic powers would work for herself, not just for other people. Her attractive and mysterious house guest, Leo Donev, was one man whose mind she definitely wante...
SHE HAD THE NEST EGG BUT NO NEST... Marcy Telford's life as a struggling copywriter changed overnight when she won a fourteen-million-dollar lottery. Nearly every kook in Canada besieged her. Twenty-four-hours later she found herself in Paris ...
She longed for a past to haunt her. But she had no memory of her former life. The hospital roster listed her as Beth Doe, amnesia victim. And in three months. no family member stepped forward to claim her. Overjoyed to learn her husband, playwright S...
NOTHING HAD CHANGED EXCEPT HER... Miranda Calvert had worked hard the past five years. She owned her own business, her own home -- going back to Florida presented problems. The Southern Ocean Racing Conference was not her only reason for return...
SPRINGTIME IN NEW ORLEANS WAS A TIME TO CELEBRATE! Mardi Gras was magical, but Bethany Walker also loved its more practical aspect -- as a mask maker, it was her most profitable time of year. After Justin Dumontier had deserted her and their unbor...
SHE HAD NEVER KNOWN SUCH HAPPINESS Nora Lane had come to the small Montana town to try to forget the tragedy that had almost destroyed her. A gentle cowboy named Paul Russell brought back her joy for living. Paul dreamed of one day owning his o...
He proved to be the perfect inspiration. Mystery writer Donna Madison had gone to Cape Cod to cure a case of writer's block. She hadn't anticipated the added attraction of a beached freighter or the instant carnival that sprang up along the shore. Hu...
TOO MUCH TO DO WAS THE NAME OF THE GAME Sabrina Prescott, an irrepressible San Franciscan, jumped at the opportunity to carry out her first full-fledged directing assignment in Tokyo. Overwhelmed by the challenge of transposing an American musi...
TOGETHER THEY COULD HEAL THE WOUND This isn't really happening. That's what Shelley Kessner tried to tell herself the night her husband died. She hoped it was a nightmare -- but it wasn't. She needed time to think, and Vermont was t...
SHE WAS ONLY DOING IT FOR THE MONEY! Trina Mallory was a famous and glamorous model, but that profession was only a means to support her real passion -- race-car driving. Trina loved racing for the sheer thrill of it and for the knowledge that whe...
The Bahamas were paradise, especially to a northerner like Gia O'Flaherty. She basked in the sun and indulged her every whim. But when her freckle-dusted nose inadvertently poked into someone else's business, she discovered intrigue, suspicion -- and...
There had to be a middle ground. After one night on the town with Kevin Anderson, Lisa Malorey knew she was falling in love. Kevin was handsome, intelligent and compassionate, and his dedication to his work matched her own. That was the problem. As a...
He had never faced a real crisis. Pierce Lanson's charm and looks had carried him gracefully through life's challenges. Until he was forced to run from a jealous husband with underworld connections. Alone and broke, Pierce accepted a job on a...
HER MOUNTAIN HAVEN BECAME HER PRISON Nothing could induce Nicole Buchanan to leave the mountain sanctuary where she created haunting canvases depicting New York life. Through her oils and her brushes, her painful secrets remained alive. Rand Di...
TOGETHER THEY MADE THEIR OWN KIND OF MAGIC... Leigh Adams had planned to be firmly established as a film director before she fell in love. Zachary Stewart, producer, changed that. Working together day and night on Lodestar, Leigh and Zach disco...
SHE'D NEVER MET SUCH A ZANY MAN When Nick Hawthorne burst into the ladies' room and asked her to dance, Laura Jensen knew her life was about to take a dramatic turn. Nick was a golf pro with a vision of health for the world -- personali...
She was the toughest challenge of all order. Serenity. her own oil company. Until Rick Hagen came to town. Kate Cummings, owner of her own Colorado based oil company, had it all, until she met Rick Hagan, hot corporate Robin Hood. He asked her help i...
FATE BESTOWED THEM WITH A SECOND CHANCE Two years ago, Greer Beckett had lost everything. Her husband, her child, even her dreams. Getting on with her life was easier said than done, but now she was willing to try. It was time to go back to Eng...
HOW TO SEDUCE A SEDUCER? That was the question that plagued Jennifer McCord. She had determined to live her life without a man, but Lucas DeSalva haunted her imagination. Jennifer worked as a translator for Lucas's company, but she had never se...
LOVING HIM WAS DEFINITELY A CONFLICT OF INTEREST! "Palimony." The word was bandied about a lot, but when it affected one of Lindsay's clients, the lawyer in Lindsay became outraged. The injustice of a rich man neglecting his duties to ...
THE BOND WAS STRONGER THAN EVER Whenever she thought of Yugoslavia, Beth Melville remembered the handsome boatman who had given such a sweet-sad glow to her brief trip there. When they had parted, she was sure she would never see him again. But...
HIS WAS THE HOUSE THAT LIES BUILT Private detective Autumn Raintree knew all about men like tabloid publisher Justin O'Neal. Her closest relative had been heartlessly destroyed by yellow journalism. Autumn had no scruples about going undercover...
THEY HAD THE WORLD BY THE TAIL Rick and Dori Williams were one of the hottest husband-wife dance teams in the world. The International Ballroom Dancing Competition was only months away. This year, they were going to win. Suddenly a freak accide...
"YOU DON'T GIVE AN INCH, DO YOU?" Garth D'Anno was used to getting his own way. What he wasn't used to was women like the unyielding Katie O'Connell--especially when he found out she was the new high-school wrestling coach. Garth had expected a...
SHE WAS A FOOL -- FOR LOVE Making others laugh was the raison d'etre of professional clown Laura Fenton. All she wanted in exchange was the sight of a less troubled brow or sad eyes suddenly alight with joy. That and enough cash to keep her small ...
THE SCHEME WAS ABSURD: IT WOULD NEVER WORK! Tricking little old ladies was not Alison Eriksen's strong suit. And posing as a lady's companion for the sake of a dubious painting was not her idea of a fun summer. Despite fake credentials ...
SHE WAS DETERMINED TO SUCCEED... Faye Hunt inherited her grandmother's farm only to discover outsiders weren't welcome in Lexington, Kentucky. But Faye didn't care. She desperately wanted to make the farm work, for suddenly, setting down in a plac...
NEITHER ONE COULD SAY GOODBYE Kate Cleary's dream was to become a world-famous curator. She had other dreams, too. The tall, dark and handsome type. They came true when she met Cass Yashima. From that moment on they were inseparable. Business t...
SHE COULDN'T EVADE HER PAST FOREVER When Natalie Carter fled her home in British Columbia eleven years ago, she disappeared without a word to Adam Rutherford, the man she loved. Her return threw her and Adam together again, but the reunion ...
ONE ROMANTIC NIGHT CHANGED THEIR LIVES Everyone in the press corps was talking about the illustrious David Whittaker. When Bret Donovan an accomplished journalist herself, met him, she understood why. The man was perfect. Not long after David l...
WHAT BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER WAS TEARING THEM APART Carrie Prescott knew Mac Kincaid was a first-rate reporter. Helping him research his story on adoption search seemed simple enough -- but it wasn't. She couldn't foresee that Mac had a s...
CONFIDING IN DEL MIGHT SPELL DISASTER She couldn't climb and couldn't even see without her contacts! But that didn't stop TV reporter Amy Stavin from accompanying a rescue team to Pearl Pass. Her brother Roger was up there in that plan...
THEIR DIFFERENCES SEEMED INSURMOUNTABLE No television host was more dynamic than Neil Kerrigan. And when Dinah Blake was assigned to cohost a special with him, she should have been thrilled. Instead she was terrified. Neil was a ruthless report...