
AMOROUS AMBUSH Under Kalinda Brady's cool silk surface was a smoldering heart waiting to be set afire. But the beautiful tycoon hadn't expected the sparks to fly with Rand Alastair, artist and fisherman, the stranger whose caresses left her yearn...
SHE DIDN'T WANT HIM! She had already tried marriage once, and for Laura, once was enough. Since then she had made a new life for herself and she was determined not to let anything--or anyone--disrupt it. She told herself she didn't need men. Bu...
HE WAS HER SECRET SHAME..... And now Noah Weston would pay for a passionate indiscretion committed seven years ago. As the newest employee of Noah's firm, Dianna Hammond planned to collect a long-overdue debt...even as she tried to avoid The Boss ...
WAS IT ALL A LIE? With his rugged good looks, smoky blue eyes and easy charm, Tom Courtenay had captured her heart in an instant! Within hours she was in his arms, surrendering to his lovemaking. But then Jenna found out that "Tom Courtenay...
SHE HADN'T PLANNED ON LOVE .... She was a dirt farmer's daughter from west Texas, passionately involved with the boss of the Diamond T empire. But Cassie Creighton was driven to achieve stardom in country music, her passport to wealth, ind...
HAD SHE SURRENDERED TOO QUICKLY TO HIS CHARMS? The audacious Frenchman swept Jean Paxton off her feet. Only later did she learn that Paul Beaudier, owner of Chateau La Brouille, was one of the vintners she planned to visit on her wine-buying trip ...
JORDAN WOULD ALWAYS REMEMBER THE NIGHT SHE MET REEVES... When his misty green eyes and sensual mouth had instantly aroused her. Before long, his devastating onslaught of kisses had willed her into total surrender. Now, Reeves believed she was ...
MAKE NO PROMISE... Cassie was instantly attracted to Steele, attracted in a way that she had never been to any man. She couldn't get Steele Malone out of her mind, even though only hours before she had thought she was engaged to his brother, Paul....
SHE WAS A LONE WOMAN IN A MAN'S WORLD. Tall, lissome Carly Scott was hardly Tyler Carson's idea of a civil engineer. She knew he expected a man to build his treasured dam and reckoned the sparks would fly. But what began as a battle of wills blaze...
HERS WAS THE FACE THAT LAUNCHED A DREAM OF LOVE... . She was Treneau Cosmetics' goddess of beauty, Diana Nolan, the company's newest rising young executive, suddenly plucked from behind the camera to star in front of its relentless eye. But the sh...
SWEET SURRENDER... Tawny, elegant Lacey Seldon was determined to cut loose from her librarian past and find liberation in the Northwest. An island paradise in Puget Sound seemed the perfect place to begin...until she met Holt Randolph. Holt was u...
HE WAS A SHADOW FROM HER PAST. Jace Whitehall had given Amanda her first taste of passion. His silver eyes had held a forbidden fascination for her, but at sixteen she had been too inexperienced to understand the fiery message in his searing kisse...
LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER. TV newsperson Toni Lawrence was on the fast track to fame when photographer Theo Chakiris swept her off her feet at the royal wedding, in a London alight with love. How had she abandoned herself to this adventurer sh...
BENEATH THE STARRY SKY. Greece -- a land of romance. But for Gena Fielding it became much more, this land she would call home. In Alex Andreas' dark eyes she saw a passion and a glory, a flame to light her senses and melt her resistance beneath th...
SHE WAS DESIRE'S WILLING CAPTIVE. Maxwell Ross had set into motion a plan to avenge his younger brother. But he was wreaking revenge on the wrong woman, as Gemma Coleridge was only too happy to tell him -- at first. But soon, too soon, her heart o...
SECRETS OF LOVE He had seared her innocence with burning desire. Now, six years after their divorce, Barron Skyemaster, superstar, tried to claim her again. But how could Amber face him after denying him the knowledge of his son -- a son he had ev...
CHAUCER WAS HER FIRST LOVE. Professor Chelsie McBride was thoroughly acquainted with her subject: the sometimes humorous, sometimes bawdy Canterbury Tales that could make even her students blush. A respected professional in her field, she was no s...
HER LEGACY WAS WINE FOR REMEMBRANCE.... The fields of Kia Ora were all that remained of Alex's turbulent past, and Lindsay was bound to honor her husband's memory by taking an active part in the New Zealand vineyard. The exotic splendor of Kia Ora...
PASSION IN PARADISE The light in his amber eyes lit embers that hadn't died. But Reyna MacKenzie vowed she'd never again succumb to Trevor Langdon's promise of love. He'd come to Hawaii to reclaim her. But six months in the tropic...
HOME RUN TO LOVE... Carney Gallagher was baseball's golden boy, now in his troubled last season. Flame-haired Jo Ryan, the Atlanta Star's rookie woman sports reporter, made her first career hit at his expense. Gallagher vowed to even the s...
TO THE FARTHEST SHORES OF DESIRE... Kai Shanpei, mysterious Eurasian tycoon, was as much a part of Hong Kong as its crescent harbor, teeming streets and the jagged mountains looming above. From the moment she met him, Anne Hunter was lost in his s...
THE WAR BETWEEN THE SEXES ... Gabi Studer couldn't resist Peter Imhof's offer of work in Switzerland, her own ancestral homeland. But she hadn't reckoned on living in the same magnificent Alpine chalet as the famed author, this tall, blue-eyed, co...
PASSION PLAY Murphy Roarke literally knocked Joanna Davenport off her feet . . . then swept her into the glamorous world of publishing. Breathless, Joanna followed the devastating author into the eye of a hurricane, buffeted by passions she'd neve...
DANGEROUS DESIRE He was the devil in disguise: Face McCord, the silver-haired client Courtney Roberts tried to keep at arm's length. But the New Orleans building tycoon took possession of her from the first. Too quickly, he aroused feelings she th...
RENAISSANCE ROMANCE Rare-book dealer Alina Corey decided to live like the heroine of her favorite Renaissance book, presiding over a court of glittering literati, a witty distance from love. It worked...until Jared Troy, a combative Renaissance sc...
KEEPER OF THE FLAME... At thirty-four, Blake Hamilton was an arrogant lady-killer determined to keep his heart free. But to Kathryn Mary Kilpatrick he was a guardian stricter than the father she'd lost. She tried to rebel in the arms of another man....
LOST WEEKEND She was Halloween's most bewitching temptress: green-eyed, flame-haired Cara Williams, who abandoned herself to a devastating stranger in one wild night of love. Three months later, icily elegant, she sat in publisher Quinn Alexander'...
STRANGER IN PARADISE As the silver Moroccan moonlight cast its spell over the fabulous Mendoub rose gardens, Philippa Bentley was swept away by a passion that rivaled the splendor of the Arabian nights. Raoul Mendoub claimed her as though it were ...
LEGACY OF PASSION She had inherited Santa Fe's most famous galley, but Jana Fleming hadn't expected artist Fletcher Logan to be part of her legacy as well. With careless ease he swept her through the dazzling purple twilight to the magnificent ado...
RELUCTANT GODDESS Her azure eyes glowed with fear and fathomless desire, reflecting his smoldering charcoal gaze. Amanda Adams, prim and proper film goddess with a Boston Brahman past, had finally met her match in Alex Wojyclas, principal backer o...
THE DEVIL WITHIN A MAN OF MANY TALENTS... With his carefully groomed Southern manners, Yale Ransom might have stepped straight out of Gone With The Wind. But stockbroker Dara Bancroft sensed a primal force beneath the glossy surface of her prosp...
SWEET REVENGE He said his name was "Mr. Lawrence," but Candra Bishop soon discovered the truth. The mystery man who had saved her from bankruptcy was the childhood idol she'd driven away. Josh was rich now. The tables had turned. But the years apa...
A ROLLER-COASTER AFFAIR Harris Linton was a charmer, the kind of man Jessie Hampton despised--and couldn't resist. This beautiful lakeside hotel was the perfect setting for romance. But here, in his passionate embrace, she was lost, scared, totall...
CONFLICT OF INTERESTS Ski instructor Joda Kerris was post from the moment she gazed into Egan O'Neill's midnight blue eyes. He pretended to be a beginner, but she suspected that he knew what he was doing right from the start. By the time she learn...
THE HEART'S SURRENDER Before she even knew he was her boss, ravishing Leslie Grand abandoned herself to a dark, compelling stranger for a single, wanton night. How could she tell him she wasn't that kind of woman, that it had been love at first s...
MORE THAN A MISTRESS, LESS THAN A WIFE Just when she thought he was safely out of her thoughts, Adam Kendricks returned to San Francisco, wealthy, devastating, dangerous. Burning with seductive memories, Gia Flynn tried to keep her distance, even ...
AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER Holt Sinclaire thought everything had its price -- until he met a woman who couldn't be bought. Adena West had come to him on a matter of business, but suddenly it was a different affair. With reckless courage she entere...
HE SHATTERED HER WORLD -- NOT ONCE, BUT TWICE. When Serena had been just a child, Tom Reynolds had destroyed her happy life. She had rebuilt her life since then but had never been able to erase the pain of her past. With Tom's reappearance...
WAYWARD HEART Diana Moreland tried to hate Joshua Cambridge, her dead sister's husband--especially now that he had returned to claim his son, the child she raised all alone. Ashamed, she tried to deny the mutual attraction that threatened to blaze...
IT WAS AN OFFER SHE COULDN'T REFUSE. When rock star Stuart North agreed to buy and preserve historic Brogan House, he made it perfectly clear that black-haired, gray-eyed Robin Elliot was part of the deal. How could any woman resist his devastatin...
SEDUCTIVE PROMISE “I intend to be your lover.” From the beginning Tyler Scott made his intentions clear. The problem was that he was Hailey Ashton's boss, the man she tried--and failed--to resist. He radiated sexuality, a raw, masculine power ...
ASK ME NO SECRETS ... And I'll tell you no lies. Those were the words Allison whispered to herself when she returned to Houston after four years of lonely exile. The past was behind her, and when she looked into Forrest Bennett's coal-black eyes, ...
A CALL TO ARMS He was too smooth, too rich, too handsome--the perfect target for cartoonist Kit Sinclair's wicked pen. But tycoon James Steele struck back with a challenge of his own. All too soon Kit was spellbound by the wild, sweet magic of lip...
ENCOUNTER WITH DESTINY Brad Morrison was her boss and fiance, but from the moment Abby Kent saw sculptor Travis Connery, she sensed danger ahead. Not even her feeble attempts to resist him--or her own tumultuous feelings--would suffice. Alone toge...
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES LEAD STORY: LOVE Fiercely independent Victoria Brown was hoping to land herself a job at a prestigious L.A. paper when she met wealthy and handsome Kurt Morgan. She was immediately attracted to him, and her plans began to c...
Tawny, feline Summer McAllister was a born sailor, captain of her own ship, but one look at jet-setter Brandon Marshall and her heart was caught. When Brandon chartered the Sea Mist for two weeks, he was astonished to find her in charge. From the mom...
PROMISE FOR THE FUTURE ... Miranda Bowen, TV newswoman, had everything going her way when she met marine biologist Julian Hunter. From that first moment on the beach they had something special between them, something no fears, no fighting, could d...
BY PASSION POSSESSED His burning kisses drove her to the farthest reaches of desire. But the cowboy named Cal, who plundered Melinda Adams' senses, was the same rich and arrogant Colin Marsden who now held her captive to his will. He alone could g...
A QUESTION OF HONOR Icy silver eyes held her captive until Ryder Sterne decided that his lovely prisoner wasn't a trespasser after all. But the electric encounter between the daredevil writer and beautiful philosophy professor Brenna Llewellyn...
FROM FRIENDS TO LOVERS They'd been close for years, but suddenly Madeline hungered for John in a new way. When they finally touched, passion set their souls on fire... but their friendship turned to ashes. Now Madeline feared she was no more ...
LOVE'S LEGACY Shelley Grant had vowed to run her small mining company alone, but Deke Jordan had rights that were not to be ignored. How could she feel that her land was her own so long as this rugged man could lay equal claim? And how could she f...
UNFORGETTABLE WORDS "I'm going to win you, Charla, no matter what I have to do!" Artist Charla Evans traveled to Japan to study raku pottery--and to escape an unhappy love. She thought there could never be another ... until tycoon Stephen Conners ...
SPELLBOUND When Raine Morgan awakened, she found that the man who had saved her life when she lost her way skiing in Minnesota's desolate northern hills was none other than America's heartthrob, Devlin Paige, singer, composer...and every w...
STAR-MAKER, HEARTBREAKER When Julia Somers stepped off the stage in triumph, producer Roy Allison came from the backstage shadows to offer her the chance of a lifetime -- a demanding but star-making part in his next movie. Roy's kisses were a...
LADY-KILLER ON THE PROWL Selena Caldwell tried to escape to a Utah resort, but York Sutherland followed, like a jaguar stalking its prey He would have her and his revenge on the man she'd left, the competitor he promised to destroy by taking a...
LOVE'S FIRES REKINDLED Fate had first united them eleven years before in a brief, explosive encounter. But lightning was about to strike twice as Chloe MacDaniel, now a geological consultant, and Ross Stephenson, real estate developer, found t...
SIREN IN A MAN'S WORLD With her raven hair and violet eyes, Jessica Brooks looked more like a movie star than the Houston Galaxies' newly hired sports psychologist. But she soon discovered that psyching up the basketball team for victory was easy...
A FORGERY OF LOVE... When Natasha Barron locked eyes with Marc Duchaine at a chic Manhattan party, she felt a surge of emotion she had never known before. Even when the Frenchman suspiciously disappeared the next morning -- with a priceless Matiss...
THEIR LOVE WAS HIDDEN, BURIED-- AND WILD. Libby Collins had two passions: one for discovering oil and one for Jared Harper. Although Jared had stormed out of their youthful marriage, Libby still ached for his embrace and for the kisses that had le...
MIXED MEDIA . . . Monica left the chill of Chicago for the heat of New Orleans and hey old career as a photographer for a new one as a journalist. Her prose could bring her prizes, but 1 greatest prize of all was one that only her heart could e...
FREEDOM, HE CALLED IT... the hauntingly beautiful sculpture that brought them together. Hoyt Renton was a rare talent, a sculptor of precious metal, a blond giant of a man who captured Mandra's heart the moment she approached him about showing hi...
FLOODTIDE OF DESIRE From the moment dashing marine biologist Blake Demorest strode into her life, Kathy belonged to him body and soul. Her natural reticence melted in his fiery embrace; time and again she was swept away ... only to awaken alone, a...
THE BRIDEGROOM NEVER SHOWED UP... But the best man at Treva Kennedy's wedding did, and Treva felt a wave of passion under Brock Terrell's golden gaze. Hurt once, Treva was hesitant about risking her heart again, but Brock was a determined ...
LOVE SONG Karlin Jeffries should have known better than to lose her heart to a musician--especially to famed flutist Ross Morand, whose genius was so desperately needed to save her troubled Columbine Chorale. She'd mixed business with pleasure, br...
ESCAPE TO PARADISE He'd swept her away from the war-torn Middle East to safety on the idyllic isle of Crete. But Cassie Maynard could never forgive Griff Hale for shattering her hard-won independence just to claim her again. She tried to keep...
DANGEROUS PASSIONS Marc Durand played by his own rules--to win. From the moment Tracy Cole stepped into his Idaho wilderness she knew she had met her match. Her employer, Magnum Mining Company, wanted Marc's land, and she was there to buy it. But ...
PLAYERS IN A TOUCH-AND-GO GAME Shelley Banning was an enterprising accountant determined to acquire aid for one of her financially ailing clients. Her first task was to secure a loan from Joel Cassidy, ruler of a successful video-game empire. But Jo...
SWEET RECKONING Divorced and edging toward a second marriage, Chalis Kenyon escaped New York's high-powered art establishment to take refuge back home at Quarter Moon Pond. But not even the isolated cabin in North Carolina's woods could...
PASSIONATE GHOST Magpie Ames had never known her beautiful, free-spirited grandmother, Florida novelist a legacy that would forever alter Magpie's life: a package of ten-year-old letters, an enigmatic portrait and a clandestine liaison that co...
BITTER YESTERDAY, SWEET TOMORROW As food editor for Going Places magazine, Darcy Roberts had often sampled and reviewed exotic dishes in foreign countries. Then, one hot, sunny afternoon in Greece, Andreas Gregory joined her for lunch and changed h...
DANGER, MAN AT WORK! He was hardly the handyman she'd expected. Marcus Stafford, moonlighting geophysicist and son of one of her boarders, was a devastating giant who swept Lindsey Delaney off her sensible feet. A widow with two young daughter...
PRIME-TIME LOVE On the outside Faith Daniels seemed the epitome of her aunt's straightlaced upbringing--she kept her life as crime novelist Fanny Duvall carefully under wraps. Then an unexpected award at the Mystery Writers' Banquet sent her strai...
A FORBIDDEN AFFAIR Brilliant law professor Grant Chapman was the talk of the campus, as much for his rugged good looks as for the mysterious scandal that surrounded him. But for graduate student Shelley Browning, ten long years simply disappeared ...
NEVER AS STRANGERS Before they met, Mark Birmingham had been the center of Deanna Hunt's romantic fantasies. Before they were properly introduced, the dignified heiress to Atlanta's Hunt International Hotel had abandoned herself shameless...
REACH FOR THE SKY As a reputable horse trainer, Dany couldn't honor the contract her ex-husband had made with Sam Reese. It was ludicrous to hope that a feisty stallion raised in a herd of wild mustangs could ever compete as a Grand Prix jumpe...
CHEMICAL ATTRACTION How could she feel so involved with a man she'd known only twenty-four hours? Top photographer Kiki Andrews had returned to Texas to photograph country singing sensation Stoney Blue for Lifestyle Magazine, never imagining the c...
TREACHEROUS BEAUTY Hers was the face that launched a thousand ads. Holly North was known to the world as the sensual and untouchable Shannon--the object of countless men's dreams. But to Lincoln McKenzie, the rancher Holly had always loved, the beau...
TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT She was a lady contractor in a man's world, fighting for the right to build Phelan Cannon's lavish island home. Enraged that he'd unwittingly hired a woman, the eccentric tycoon attacked Gabrielle Seberg at first sight with a...
LAWLESS ABANDON From the moment they met, Detective Lieutenant Adam McCord vowed to make Taylor his. The cool cellist with the Knoxville Symphony wasn't so easily won, however. There was no room in her well-disciplined life for the disruptive infl...
Like the heroine of one of her romances, bestselling author Margie Silver was willing to rise to Cal Van Dyne's challenge. The arrogant tycoon vowed that Margie's sister would not marry his younger brother, and Margie was just as determined that the ...
THE HIGHEST STAKES As a successful art dealer, Joanna Dillon knew how to identify a precious work of art, and she prided herself on her ability to outbid every other collector. At a quiet auction on a wintry night, one man dared to challenge h...
SHE WANTED A BABY . . . but she didn't want a husband, and Caro thought she had the ideal solution. With the help of her doctor and her lawyer, she would get the family she had always wanted. J.T. Cole had different ideas, however. He was perfect...
LONELY ARMS, LOVING DREAMS What began as a prank soon backfired as Jenny Brown, proprietor of the Garden of Eden Florists, delivered a bouquet of weeds to Knoxville's most eligible bachelor. Daniel usually kissed off his ladies with roses, but fin...
LOVE ME TODAY A writing assignment in Old Vegas was just what Abby Holland needed to forget the painful breakup of her marriage. Then she met photographer Dan Jenkins, and overnight she forgot her firm resolution to stay away from men. Abby kne...
"I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU MINE, JESSIE. TOTALLY & COMPLETELY" Their strong wills clashed from the moment the small plane crash-landed in the desert. But only one could win: Lucas Kincaid, primitive male, who dared to claim Jessica Travers...
A TOUCH OF FIRE Tall, honey-blond with gray-blue eyes, Jennifer Gardiner hardly fit the role of Publicity Director for the Philadelphia Freedom football team. A lawyer and a professional in a rough-and-tumble world of men, she'd learned to be ...
RECIPE FOR SUCCESS Katsy Spencer had thrown her heart, soul and savings into her Cabaret, a colorful restaurant that was quickly gaining prestige among Houston's gourmet food critics. She thought she'd heard it all ... until D.W. Gardner, an intri...
AS FREE AS THE AIR . . . That was Mickie Kilpatrick, who reveled in her life as an Alaskan bush pilot--until Matt Greenslade bought her out. Suddenly she, who had always been as wild as the northern wind, had to answer to a man who seemed bent on...
GHOST OF PASSION After three years she'd finally come face-to-face with the unknown brother-in-law she held responsible for her sister's death. Karen Prescott hated Jean-Paul Picard. Yet she had come to France as a hotel management professional, a...
HIGH-FLYING LOVER He was just another handsome pilot stealing her hard-earned job. Not even her journalism and public relations degrees from the Air Force Academy could secure Captain Ronda Voss's position as Chief Information Officer for the SAC ...
CALL OF THE MOUNTAINS When Romany Caris agreed to paint portraits of the Sinclair children, she welcomed the opportunity for a summer of solitude. Her looks and profession matched her gypsy name...but names could be deceiving -- and Cameron Sincla...
STORM WARNINGS She came to the Smokies to lure a reclusive film star back to the movies with an irresistible script. Reluctantly, producer's assistant Kate McCullough agreed to visit David Vine at his rustic mountaintop retreat. But she hadn...
SILENT AWAKENING Weary of selling her beauty as a fashion model, Kate Ryder had abandoned the world of glamorous wardrobes and parties for a more rewarding career. Now she could teach the ways of the world to those who heard only silence. Widow...
A GAME WITH NO RULES All Noel Heyward knew was that handsome Ross McCormick was a quarterback and that was enough-she didn't want to interview him on her television talk show. She refused to play games with him because she'd been hurt before by a ...
ONE NIGHT IN A STRANGE TOWN Was it accident or fate that led vacationing journalist Jennifer Lawrence to the Fairhope Inn--and the arms of Clint Forrest, the most devastating man she'd ever met? Jennifer had thought she'd just be passing through O...
TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT Writer Ginger Holland had lived in SummerSon for two years, lovingly restoring the magnificent old house before applying for National Landmark designation. Then Michael Merrick returned to reclaim his family home, promising...
WARRING DESIRES... It started so innocently, when rugged, sensual Gage Fletcher challenged Rani Cameron to a war game. But Rani soon felt his desire to dominate her, to make her leave the charm of New Mexico, and to take her back to Dallas to conf...
AN ARTIST'S PASSION Sculptor Lysandra Dillinger was haunted by her vision of the perfect man. And then one night she met him in the flesh -- Adam Honour, whose flashing blue eyes and arrogant stance were her fantasy come true. Following him...
NEVER SAY NEVER TO LOVE After Diana left Ross, it was three long years before she saw him again. Tall, dark and rugged, he would always be Diana Branscomb's one and only love, the husband she had left behind. She was Houston's top inter...
RECKLESS RAPTURE Foolishly Victoria Johnson thought she could handle the handsome stranger. Business, not pleasure was on her mind at the West Coast word-processing exhibition. But one abandoned, unforgettable moment in Clayton Harper's arms chan...
A ROSE IN THE DESERT After twenty-five years of searching for her own brand of happiness, Perris Fleming was settling down to the life her parents had chosen for her: a corporate fiance, country club dances, well-to-do friends, and lazy summers in...
TOO LATE TO LOVE? When Abby went home to the Big Sky country she'd always loved, she seemed more like a wounded bird than a glamorous fashion model. After what had happened in New York she could never let any man touch her again. But Cade McLaren ...
HE WAS PROTECTING HER FOR HIMSELF Being saddled with a paid bodyguard for two weeks in Hawaii was not Sabrina's idea of a dream vacation. But her mother took the kidnapping threats seriously, like it or not, she was stuck with Jake Devlin as s...
SONS AND LOVERS Shortly after Quintin Ward stormed into her office to accuse her of leading his teenage son astray, an overwhelming attraction drove Stephanie Brandt into the brash stranger's arms. How had she, president of one of Nashville...
CANDY IS DANDY But an affair with architect Simon Farlow would be quicker--and more instructive. Lucy Whitcomb, proprietress of The Sweet Tooth, was in a hurry to learn about love. After twenty-five years of too much indulgence in her own wares, ...
HEIGHTS OF PASSION Terri King was in her element when she was soaring above the clouds, but movie star Ryder Jack preferred to be on the ground, surrounded by his adoring fans. Yet his kiss was a reminder of all the things Terri King thought she d...
DREAM LOVER Desiree Beaumont literally dreamed up her ideas for her exquisite negligees, then simply put them down on paper. But when a dark-eyed man invaded those fantasies, the solution wasn't so easy ... especially when he stepped out of her dr...
HE WAS A MAN WITH A MISSION Art historian Caitlin Scott had been hired by Clovis International to turn Glenkiddy, an ancient estate in Ireland, into a luxury hotel. Her job was to achieve authenticity, and she supervised every detail, from the sc...
REUNION It was a lifetime since high school, being overweight and socially awkward. And when Brenna Richards returned to Mansfield, Indiana--proud owner of three fitness salons, with the figure and grace to prove it--heads turned. No one was mo...
CINDERELLA STORY All Denny Cole ever noticed was her typing speed. But Kenna Dean promised herself that one day the Atlanta lawyer would see beyond his efficient secretary to the woman beneath. It seemed an uphill battle until Denny's partner and ...
TO THE VICTOR THE SPOILS When Cleo Lawrence came to Oklahoma's Gallagher Ranch to see her Great Uncle Wint, she hardly expected to become bait for Wint's oil-and-cattle-baron boss! Arrogantly, Roane Gallagher sized her up, said he neede...
THE STRONGEST SUIT Yvette Culhane vowed to beat Brandon Fitzhugh at his own game. Soon they would face each other across a packed courtroom, two lawyers battling over one of the most hotly contested wills in Chicago's history. Evie wasn't ...
CHANGING COURTS How could she tell her fiance that his best friend and client had once been her lover? Melissa Edwards had accompanied the man she meant to marry to Joel Robertson's posh California resort, but once she arrived, her purpose.. w...
HE WAS HER ENEMY BEFORE THEY EVEN MET. When Carole Reeves went to exotic Hong Kong to research her doctoral dissertation, she was determined to erase the pain her father's single-minded pursuit of success had caused. She was sure that his busin...
DOUBLE IDENTITY... Alyssa Chandler was a woman of two worlds. During the week she was a probabilities expert, cool and down to earth as she sorted through facts and figures. On the weekends she entered the fantasy world of Las Vegas and put her k...
LOVE PARTNERS Laura Davis had finally returned home to The Cliffs, the rambling Victorian inn where she had been raised. But her plans for the future were shattered by a handsome, arrogant stranger named Ryder Bantel. Ryder was determined to pr...
LOVE ON STAGE Claudia Carstairs had fallen in love only once, and vowed that it would never happen again. After that insane, wonderful night with Mark Hanson twelve long years ago, she had never seen him again--except in her dreams. Then sudden...
A SWINGING AFFAIR Golf pro Asia Morgan was all business when the brash stranger on the ninth fairway offered her a job at his golf course in Scottsdale, Arizona. Not even the Jake Elliot, architect and ladies' man, could lure Asia away from her pr...
SHE LOST MORE THAN HER WAY.... When Lee Jordan got lost on her way to a business conference she lost her heart, as well. The man to whom she turned for directions was none other than Jake Talbot, the man she was to meet. But introductions were ...
COULD SHE TRY AGAIN? For Jessie Young the world had ended with the death of her son, and even the love of her husband, Philip, could not console her. She left Philip in order to heal her wounds in private and build a life of her own, but her ni...
TOWARD A WILDER SHORE Desperate to escape the memory of a bitter divorce, Larain Ashby had fled her carefully ordered life in San Francisco for North Carolina's wild Cape Hatteras seashore and a job as manager of Silas Flynt's art gallery. Sop...
THEY WENT HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD to find each other again. Once Halette Alexander and Kale Vaughn had been married, lovers who had sworn never to part. But some promises seemed made to be broken. An angry misunderstanding had shattered their...
PRISONER OF LOVE Ten years ago Keri Thomas left Louisiana and Reid Beausan to begin again in Houston. Ironically, none of Reid's oil millions could have bought the satisfaction she now enjoyed as proprietor of a growing gourmet business. She had n...
THREATENED PARADISE Art connoisseur Robyn Stuart had arranged her life fastidiously and precisely. So when she traveled to Fiji to lure portraitist Philip Holt back to civilization, she wasn't prepared for the disturbing call of his primitive para...
AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER In one astonishing afternoon Arden Stuart had been attacked by the reclusive tycoon whose biography she'd ghostwritten -- then swept away to his Florida Key to write the only authorized biography Flint Masters had ever pe...
HE BURNED WITH LOVE...OR HATE It was an honor to be accepted as a student under the great Dr. Benjamin Reno. But the moment she returned to Larsen Park, Terry knew she should never have tried to come back, back to the man who had claimed her body...
SLUMBERING DRAGON Tabitha Graham thought she had found a soulmate when she rescued Dev Colter from a dangerous situation on a remote Caribbean island. She thought he was a kindred spirit: gentle, shy and in need of love. But Colter proved to b...
POLITICS AND JOURNALISM DON'T MIX. It was the most important night in Wallis Carmichael's life--celebrating her mayoral victory. But it was the congratulatory kiss of a stranger that proved most memorable. When Wallis finally found out who he ...
WRITING WAS EASY, but acting as though she were married to a man like Trent Daily was next to impossible. As a successful mystery writer whose equally successful sleuths just happened to be married, Lily Lansden had been hired to do a winery co...
HOW NICE IT WOULD BE... Haley thought, just for once to disregard logic, to put aside all notion of what she should or shouldn't do. After all, it wasn't as if she could really get herself into trouble. This was Adam they were talking about--her ...
FORBIDDEN DESIRES Raine Taylor had loved him since she was sixteen. But Jade Kincaid was her brother-in-law: he belonged to her sister Michele -- until Michele left their South Dakota town -- and Jade -- to conquer the New York theater. Suddenly t...
SWEET PASSION REMEMBERED Why, after seven long years, did Luke Ford still have the power to hurt her? She'd left their marriage behind and tried to forget, succeeding beyond her wildest dreams as a caterer in New York. But Bonnie was home again, ...
YOUNG AT HEART Virginia Carson had played the fool once, and that was enough. No more romance, she had decided -- just a sensible and chaste dedication to her grandmother. But Marge, her grandmother, had other ideas--and they came in the dangerou...
LOVE'S NATURAL LAW Biologist Libby Stapleton was ready for anything when she met her unwilling partner on a government environmental study - anything, that is, except forest manager Dan Wagner, whose animal grace and disturbing honesty filled her ...
WAS SHE TO BID FAREWELLTO "BON VOYAGE"? For years Hadley Bainbridge had enjoyed her role as celebrated restaurant critic for "Bon Voyage." But now her boss was threatening to take it all away if she didn't play according to his romantic rules. ...
WHERE THERE'S SMOKE ... It was hard to make a good impression when everyone wished you weren't a woman, but firefighter Isabel Dailey was determined to try. It didn't help matters that her superior officer, Lieutenant Mark Grady, had the most beau...
DEEP SEA DIVER From the moment she met Kirk Roberts, Holly Bishop experienced a feeling foreign to her--vulnerability. As a chemical engineer as well as the only woman aboard an offshore California oil rig, she couldn't afford that. Though she ha...
THE LADY WAS DETERMINED TO GET HER MAN She was the Face of the Century -- exclusive model for Kingman Cosmetics. Marlayna O'Brian's world was golden. Then the invitation arrived. Noah Drake was getting married. Noah Drake, the man who'...
CONSEQUENCES The last thing Laney McLeod remembered after fainting in a stalled elevator the night of a blackout in New York City was waking up the morning after in a stranger's bed. A perfectly devastating stranger, it was true, but Laney fled to...
AN INDEPENDENT LIFE Kyna O'Brien was an independent woman and she liked it that way. It was a hard-won struggle, but she proved she could make it on her own. When Blade Maddox jogged by her with an appreciative glance one misty morning, her li...
LOST AND FOUND... Claire Angeli's son was lost in the mountains, and it was up to Cord McCloud to find him. How was Claire to know that in finding her son she would lose her heart? Cord upset all her neatly laid plans for her life. She wanted...
YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR... . As a mail-fraud investigator, Casey Bennett had learned how far from true that adage was. But an investigation into a suspect coin company taught her the truth of another: good things come when you least expect them....
EVERYBODY IN MICHIGAN WAS LOSING THEIR JOBS But Christie had no idea that the recession had caused the breakdown of her marriage. Until she accidentally ran into Raif at their cabin in northern Michigan, she had no idea that the crazy hours h...
PLEASURE BEFORE BUSINESS Rashly, Nina Sterling-Moss went to dinner with the rugged stranger and succumbed to his devastating charm before learning that Abe Prescott, literary agent, was the very man she'd been warned to avoid! A notorious mal...
SPELLBOUND If there was one thing Ariana Warfield understood, it was money. As a financial planner in charge of her family's accounts, she'd known immediately that her Aunt Philomena was being swindled by a charlatan psychic. Lucian Hawk, devasta...
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER The last thing Randy Harris expected to find when she arrived home was a charming English journalist in her bathtub. Grant Copeland hadn't received her cable canceling their agreement to sublet her apartment during, the ...
CALL OF THE WILD Forced to share an office with the science department's new darling, Doug Traxler, Meredith found that her year teaching literature was a nightmare. She never knew what she might find floating in formaldehyde on her desk. Now...
ROPED AND TIED Emily Asperson was determined to make her mark as a woman in Montana's macho rodeo world. She believed she'd never find a man who wasn't threatened by her profession until Alex Calloway came to the Double A Ranch to learn roping. A ...
RUSSIAN ROULETTE Carrie couldn't say no. Playing doubles at Wimbledon with Russian superstar Nikolai Zanov was an opportunity she just couldn't turn down--even though she thought the temperamental tennis champion was a publicity hound and a playbo...
A DANGEROUSLY ATTRACTIVE MAN Callie Foster had worked hard to create a secure life for herself, and she wasn't about to shake it all up for a man--certainly not for one as arrogant as Reid Dillon. Handsome, ruthless, and a little bit wild, Rei...
HE WAS ALL WRONG Grant had never fit comfortably into Abigail's life. She was the daughter of one of Pittsburgh's wealthiest families; he was the son of an immigrant steelworker. It took eight long years for her to put him in her past -- ...
SHE WAS SWEET ON HIM Tilley's frantic days as a Wall Street stockbroker were over. Now as the owner of a candy shop, her life revolved around holidays--chocolate bunnies for Easter, Halloween candy, Christmas sweets, and, of course, Valentine's Da...
STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART A successful contractor in New Mexico, Danielle Britton was a divorced mother who tried to steer clear of love--until Peter Weston, entrepreneur and former rodeo star, hired her to redesign his bedroom, and was astonished ...
NEVER BEFORE Carla Roche knew what it was like to be loved by a man. Hadn't she left her family and friends and risked everything to follow her husband to New York? And when Alec was gone, Carla was sure she would never feel as deeply about anyon...
DOUBLE OR NOTHING Lori figured that a small town and a class of third-graders could drive even the most dedicated teacher crazy after a while. A summer at Lake Tahoe was just what she needed to shake up her life a bit. But she got more than sh...
FARMER'S DAUGHTER Red hair and a nose covered with freckles only made Kathryn Lambert appear innocent, Mitchell Grant realized after he made the supreme mistake of underestimating her. When he'd offered her a job in his Boston firm after seeing he...
IT WAS A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE. But convenient for whom? Jude Langston had practically kidnapped Bess and brought her to his San Antonio ranch. It wasn't that he'd wanted her so desperately -- his cool green eyes were firmly fixed on the shares...
SEA CHANGE Lori Fairchild poured her heart into her work with dolphins. She loved the clever, innocent creatures; with them she could communicate an affection she usually found difficult to demonstrate. As hard as it was for Lori to admit a n...
FULL FATHOM FIVE Alyson had signed on to dive for a sunken galleon off the coast of Ecuador, and she knew there would be no avoiding Ivan Kyriokos, leader of the expedition. She knew Ivan wasn't a man to be trifled with-he was the sort of man...
LAND OF MORNING CALM Clover McBain had come to love Korea--its people, its beauty, and its rich heritage. As a city planner she tried to blend its Eastern traditions with her innovative designs. But Roarke Deveraux, the engineer on her housing pr...
THE TEARS OF A CLOWN... Sam Madison had always used humor to hide her feelings of inadequacy from the world, but when she met talent manager Jake Benedict her armor failed her. Jake made her a star, and she was grateful to him for that, but he ...
SHADOW OF THE PAST Boston architect Lindsay Forrest had lived without Ryan McCrea for three years when he suddenly walked back into her life again -- the same dark, moody, brilliant master who had taught her everything she knew -- and had broken ...
DEAD OF NIGHT Cassie was alone in the old mansion when the lights went out. Then three knocks on the heavy front door resounded through the house. Lashed by rain, Justin Drake stood at her doorstep. A sudden bolt of lightning illuminated the dark...
"DID MY HEART LOVE TILL NOW..." For Bryce Trafford and Beverly Darwin, it was exactly that sense of awesome inevitability that hit them with their very first glance. Fate it may have been, but that didn't make it easy. Beverly was ...
LIFE SAVER Leah Stevenson was a trained fire fighter, and all she knew when she battled her way through the smoke and flames was that there were lives to be saved. Now two innocent children were trapped inside a burning house, and Gil had trust...
COMPROMISING POSITIONS Maggie's election had been considerably helped by the incumbent senator's bad luck in getting caught up to his ears in a kickback scheme. She wasn't going to be so foolish as to get involved in anything that mig...
RAIDER OF THE LOST HEART Dana was an archeologist. She had often thought that life would be much less complicated if some strong Viking raider would stride out of the past and carry her away. Then one evening in the deepening Danish twilight Dr. ...
"KEEP AWAY FROM ME, STACEY, OR WE'LL BOTH REGRET IT." They were two very different people, but Stacey wasn't sure that regret was what she felt in Jordan's arms. Exhilaration? Perhaps. Fear? Maybe a little. Wonder? Definitely....
SHE'D LOST HER RENEGADE PLAYER But Willy Silverthorne Faulkner had kept on going--now sadly widowed, but still possessing that same lazy, loose-jointed walk that drove men wild. Her independent life on the Carolina coast suited her languid leaning...
SHE HAD IT ALL FIGURED OUT. . . . Madeline Mark would devote herself to a career conducting the classical music she loved and steer clear of romantic involvements that threatened the inner calm she needed. Then popular composer Gus Noble disturbed...
FROM FATHER TO SON Steve Hagen had come to claim his son. The knowledge sent Brina's senses reeling. She had left him five years before and moved to California, pregnant and devastated, sure that her love had been betrayed. He had come for his ...
SSSSSSSSSS ... Desire had wrapped itself around Brett Archer's heart from the first moment she saw Pierce Graham standing in front of the Pacific Rattler's cage at the San Diego Zoo. Snakes were her profession, but one look at Pierce's golden eyes...
TOO MANY COOKS It began with a war of words when Wade Prescott, America's playboy chef, publicly declared male superiority in the kitchen. Enraged, California restaurant owner Erin Quinn vowed to beat him at his own game. The opportunity arri...
THE ART OF LOVING Danielle would never fall for an artist. After her famous father had abandoned her and her mother, she had concluded that creativity and irresponsibility went hand in hand. Then she inherited her father's home on the wild...
HEIRESS INGOGNITO Merlyn Forrest Steele couldn't refuse the offer -- work for a living for one month, and her father would stop his clumsy matchmaking attempts. Maybe she'd somehow find a man who had eyes for her, not her bank account, an...
A HAUNTING REFRAIN ... was playing when Hattie Lawford first walked into the lovely, empty old Charleston mansion that was Jay Summerfield's family home. The apricot scent of the trees surrounded them as she and Jay stood above the Ashley Rive...
HOUSE OF CARDS There was a sad shadow in Casey Delaney's green eyes, a memory of the husband who had tried to mold her into what he wanted, and who had scorned her for what she was. But time without him had helped her to cultivate a veneer of fla...
BON VOYAGE, MY HEART Jessie Welles had no room in her life for love. Newly promoted to creative director of a top ad agency, her strongest priority was to maintain a professional stance in a competitive business. Then Martin Caldwell walked out of...
THE TOSS OF A COIN "Heads, you come to Paris with me. Tails, you don't." Myles' eyes held their usual mischievous gleam, but Paula knew he was serious. Once Myles had been no more than her late husband's devil-may-care youn...
MOUNTAIN MAN Sporting wild dark hair and an unkempt beard, and smelling like he'd taken a bath in liquor, Zachary Billings looked like a mountain yahoo when he turned up in the Emergency Room. At least that was Dr. Dana Chandler's impression--unt...
RAINBOW CHASERS To Ria, a rainbow was the spectrum produced in a complicated lab procedure. As a scientist, she dealt in concrete terms; her rules were grounded by caution and security. Steve Early was a rainbow chaser. He piloted a hot-air bal...
LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT, Brett McKenna made his way into Lissa Armstrong's life, and he kept getting in the way of her ambitions. Lissa was a police officer working on her first big case -- one that might make her a detective. The myster...
ONE TOUGH CUSTOMER As a woman bar owner, Kit was used to dealing with difficult situations. But when Harrison Tyler strode into her bar and impaled her with his black-eyed stare, her famed self-possession fled. Ty had come for his runaway nie...
TOO HOT TO HANDLE! A blowout in the oil fields was bad news for everyone--a loss of time and money for the owners, day and night danger for the men who fought valiantly to cap the raging flames. Sam Tyler was one of those men, cool-headed in th...
TRAPPED BY LOVE Sleek high-fashion model Kristi Cole bore scant resemblance to the teenaged tomboy Jason McAlister had known. But inside she was the same person who'd spent her life in love with him. Jason was like a wildcat, tawny-haired...
NOT JUST ANY GOOD SAMARITAN... When she was practically crushed by her writing desk while moving into her Manhattan apartment, Fredericka O'Shea knew it wasn't her day But then she watched a very attractive pair of muscular legs carry her desk ups...
THE PRICE OF LOVE Just as Emelina Stratton was about to break into an empty beach cottage, a man materialized out of the fog with a Doberman at his heel. Julian Cotter was as quietly lethal-looking as his dog. A man who exuded an aura of command ...
AN UNLIKELY COMBINATION After a high point that wasn't all that high, Emily McCloud's life had begun a slow, gentle decline, and there was no reason to believe it would ever climb again. A spinster schoolteacher, Emily was a bit old-fashi...
A STAR IS BORN When a brand-new star swam into sight in astrophysicist Luke Tyler's telescope, he knew it was a remarkable find. But his greatest stellar discovery would turn out to be quite outside his field of expertise. Gypsy Hamilton, inte...
LIKE SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT . . . Sabrina Caide ran the marina on Thunder Cay, the island that was her refuge from an unhappy former life. Then Chase Cutter entered the harbor and took over her days--and her nights--forcing her back into the...
PASSIONATE POLITICS They both worked for the government in the education field, each with a lesson to teach the other. According to Jeff MacKennon, director of program funding, ambition was the secret to climbing the ladder of success in the fa...
THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM It all started with an unexpected phone call one blustery March morning. Laura Carson was instantly intrigued by the very masculine voice on the other end of the line. And when she met the darkly attractive Brandon McGuire,...
THE OUTLAW AND THE DEBUTANTE When Carson Wayne approached Miss Mandelyn Bush of Charleston with his outlandish proposal, it was My Fair Lady in reverse. The ornery, reclusive cattleman claimed he wanted to learn how to court a lady, and the gentee...
TRAPPED! Through her office door Heidi Barnett could hear a man's angry voice demanding to see I.M. Hungry--Gotham Magazine's witty, wildly sarcastic restaurant critic--aka Heidi Barnett. Her review had said that dining at Wes Evans' fancy restau...
A former child prodigy, Sarah Abbot had finally managed to steal away from her top-secret job as a Pentagon cryptologist for a few blissful weeks alone in the Greek Isles. Yet soon a handsome stranger invaded her vacation hideaway. Tender, provocativ...
'Stay away from dreamers.' That was what Amber Sinclair had been telling herself ever since her day-dreaming ex-husband had walked -- or floated -- out the door for the last time. She was a basically a realistic girl, and no starry-eyed Don Juan wa...
DAREDEVILS Chyna O'Brien was a stuntwoman, a professional risk taker. She also had a reputation as a troublemaker on the set, because she was more concerned with safety than with costs. In Matt Harrigan she met her match. The producer of her n...
SECRET DESIRE Jenny Zachery was a model of respectability in the Texas town where she'd been raised. Everyone believed the preacher's daughter was demure and proper, but Jenny knew better -- and so did Blade Taylor. Blade threatened he...
THE SHADOW KNOWS When mild-mannered reporter Michael Hamilton created fictional hard-driving, hard-boiled detective Mack Dawson, he didn't know how hard it was going to be on him. When Mack's fictional adventures came too close to fact for...
ABBY HAD TO BE CRAZY to accept Max Grant's offer to run his highly disorganized country inn. But then she found herself looking into his penetrating blue gaze, extricating herself from the claws of his cat, and mindlessly agreeing to whatever he...