
LOVE SO FEARFUL Never have an affair with your boss! That was the first rule of business Megan Cyan had learned. Yet right from the start, rodeo star Bart Dutton made it clear he wanted her -- and not because his ranch desperately needed a veterin...
Lark McIntyre had had enough of charming con men and adoring lovers eager to fulfill her slightest whim, and Rand Whitcomb was certainly different. Forceful, self-confident, and coldly indifferent to any woman's wiles, the Rogue River guide was a cha...
Golden-haired Adrian Anders knew she'd be the center of masculine admiration at an American Army base in Turkey. But she was hardly ready for the tantalizing attentions of audacious Sergeant Adam Wade, who pushed aside all competitors to claim her as...
WELCOME INTRUDER "What do you think you are doing in my studio?" Jean Howard had been told that Louis Castillo was the most demanding master of painting at Windover, and their stormy first encounter proved it. In class he pushed her to the limi...
Did she dare trust the enigmatic man who had once shattered her dreams? Garth Logan swept into Deirdre Mallory's life, stormy eyes flashing, accusing her of a deed she knew nothing about. But their bitter argument dissolved in one night of unforgetta...
"Deny that you want me," Greg demanded. "Just try and deny it..." Auburn-haired Mickey Callahan had never met a man as infuriating as architect Greg Bennett. Couldn't he understand that his cold steel skyscraper was all wrong f...
Unable to fulfill her dream of becoming a classical pianist, Judith Vanover had turned to musical agenting. But she kept her standards high, scorning popular musicians -- until she met Oliver. Forced to accept the charismatic rock star as a client, s...
Chris was a struggling actor and Mary a struggling scholar, but their marriage was a perfect, passionate union -- until the glitter of Hollywood and a dazzling starlet stole Chris away. At the time when she needed him most, he betrayed and failed her...
They met when her car skidded on ice. She was a cultivated Bostonian, striving toward a Ph.D., he a rough-and-tumble hockey pro, a few goals from the Stanley Cup. Worlds apart, but in one unforgettable moment of passion Mariette and Bull found a priv...
"I wouldn't go to bed with you if you were the last man in Greece...' From the start of the Greek tour, Lydia had disliked Nick Aristou's arrogant ways. Neither his darkly handsome looks nor the fact he was buying the tourist cruise business she w...
“I won't be used by you, Dane Vestry!" Linet Emmonds knew she was a professional, a top TV reporter who'd never failed to get a story. And she wasn't about to ruin her record now, especially not over her latest assignment, self-made business tyc...
Golf pro Jason Gerard's playboy reputation hadn't prevented Chesten Malone from agreeing to paint his portrait, but she was on her guard. She told herself that his gentle teasing was a con man's pitch, that the passion in his dark eyes was not for he...
Rock star Tait Jeppeson was handsome, magnetic, as dynamic onstage as off and, to his new personal aide, Sabra Reynolds, as elusive as his haunting melodies. She knew she could easily melt in his arms, but Sabra's rule was never love where love was n...
Was he too good to be true? Eve Forsythe's talents as a photographer met their match in male model Roger Halpern's incredible good looks, but it was the warm promise of his smile that stirred her as a woman. Willingly she surrendered to him in an ...
Dynamic, sophisticated Jane Burton had never met a man she couldn't handle -- until Francisco Portalba swept into her life. Handsome, magnetic Francisco was like a swashbuckling hero from a more romantic age. As captain on this voyage in search o...
When the dashing stranger grabbed Thea Todd off the sunny Viennese street, she thought her life was in peril. Then she looked into his dark eyes, and she feared instead for her heart. Her abductor was famous T.V. producer Wolfgang Eckhert, and he had...
Dr. Jacqueline Spencer had never had time for romance; her patients had always come first. But she had never before met a man like Mark Dolan, the amnesia victim who came into her care. Although she didn't know who he was, she couldn't resist...
"Do you make a practice of seducing every woman you meet?" When talented, beautiful Alexandra Howard became film editor for famous movie director Ian Fletcher, she knew what she was facing. Ian was legendary for his genius, his temper--and his way...
Gil Archer was a man of the world--the high pressure, high society world of international finance and diplomacy. Cecilia Vargas, his daughter's riding instructor, was a woman outside that world, but he saw in her the warmth and love his grand estate ...
Susanne Lawrence vowed she'd never again be seduced by Jay Monahan's genius with words or yield to the burning passion ignited by his touch. No longer the innocent college student overwhelmed by this dazzling poet and playwright, she was a woman now,...
For her, he was the most dangerously desirable man in the world... From the moment talk-show host Melissa Merrill began taping the interview with German wine expert Karl Hauptmann, she could feel the seductive magnetism of the man. Their whirlwi...
Maris's body betrayed her, and she found her righteous anger transformed into passionate longing... With her husband's sudden death, Maris Verney was left to carry on their latest scientific project alone. Turning to marine biologist Owen Wyatt fo...
Egypt -- exotic land of shifting sands and ancient empires. But to beautiful, independent Noble Sherrow, Egypt also meant a new territory to conquer for her travel agency. With the help of the darkly handsome, enigmatic Director of Tourism, Talat Faz...
Beautiful, talented Patrice Edwards vowed not to make the mistake her mother had. Never would she sacrifice her dazzling future as leader of a modern-dance company for love. Then Jeffrey Northrop entered her life. Handsome, wealthy, strong and sensit...
Nadine Barnet was a young and impressionable student on a footloose tour of Italy when she first met famous artist Lawrence Stebbing. Their passion was as sudden and overwhelming as the Italian rainstorm in which it began, as warm and glorious as the...
"Arianna, you and Paul Roarke are still legally man and wife." Arianna was stunned at her lawyer's words. Was this what Paul meant when he said he'd never let her go? Her business tycoon father had warned that Paul was a two-bit...
At first. Rachel Devlin wanted only one thing from Colin Knight: Revenge. The devastatingly handsome Olympic figure skating champion had seduced Rachel's younger sister while she trained at his famous skating academy. Rachel took a job as an inst...
Debonair, devilishly handsome, there was a strength in Max Randolph, a subtle power both intense and tender, to which Sabrina Whitfield couldn't help responding. Yet something warned her to beware, for this ambitious businessman was both co-worker an...
Brilliant and ambitious young astronomer Althea Thorne had her gaze fixed on the heavens when, out of the blue, baseball star Matt Powers eclipsed all else. This self-assured big-league pitcher woke Althea to all she had been missing as a woman, but ...
Talent, beauty, ambition: Karen Meredith had it all. Yet twice her dream of becoming a prima ballerina had been shattered, once at her father's command, and once by the selfishness of her former fiance. Karen's own chance for stardom was past...
Single parenthood suited freelance book jacket designer Courtney Delmastro perfectly, for her adopted two-year-old daughter Tracey--and her work--filled her life with meaning. Courtney, herself the child of a broken home, had vowed never to get trapp...
From the moment she'd first met dynamic physicist Stephen Blackford, brilliant Hester Mather's logical, analytical mathematician's world was changed forever. After the formal, unemotional life she'd shared with her scientist father, Stephen's boundle...
Apache Tears--that was the name of the gemlike stones beautiful young Catriona Frazer mounted in the exquisite jewelry she fashioned. She went to the Indian reservation, leaving behind the secure world of her established life, to learn from the famou...
As an editorial cartoonist on a big St. Louis newspaper, Jennifer Aldrich made her living pointing up the follies and weaknesses of the nation's politicians. But all her scorn for politicians deserted her when she met Congressman Ben Trostel. Here wa...
Could Lacy Barnett love the man who had almost destroyed her father? That question burned into the beautiful young painter's heart when she learned the truth about Ward Blaine. Ward was handsome and charming, but he was not the friendly ranch han...
Dark-haired historian Merilyn Pierce was investigating the past when she went to the old New England inn. But what she found was a very modern romantic dilemma in Morgan Drake, the captivating, domineering, yet mysteriously aloof real estate tycoon w...
Needing a weekend getaway, insurance executive Jennie Winters couldn't resist buying the dilapidated schoolhouse in rural Connecticut. Nor could she resist charming Grady O'Hara, the virile, strong-willed carpenter she hired to renovate her n...
Janelle Richmond was a winner. She had worked long and hard to become a junior partner in a prestigious New York law firm, and she wasn't going to let anyone come between her and her ultimate goal--starting her own practice. But Janelle never even ha...
Beauty, a brilliant singing career, loyal friends; Tara Lindsay thought she had everything she wanted--until Louis Dupierre walked back into her life. When his father married Tara's mother, Louis became Tara's adored big brother. And when he disappea...
Gwen Franklin knew that to yield to the overwhelming attractiveness of hard-driving executive Kurt Jensen could short-circuit her own budding business career. Yet on a company trip to romantic Mexico. Gwen's professional sense surrendered to sensual ...
Talented and dedicated architect Erin Kelly planned a breathtaking house perched over cascading falls. It was a bold and daring design and would save the career nearly ruined by her greedy ex-husband. Bent on success, Erin struggled to gain the respe...
It was just like a scene from a soap opera: stunning woman meets handsome doctor, falls in love and...But to Katherine Mallory it was all too real. Needing a vacation from her famous role as the bed-hopping bad girl of TV's most popular soap, Kath...
Art curator Jenny Moffatt was determined to beat the big money interests that were out to replace her museum with a condominium development. She was sure she would prove a match for Ryan Powers and his fellow investors. But in a confrontation with Ry...
Darcy, the protected daughter of an auto tycoon--and Chason, a daring, ambitious race-car driver. Their whirlwind, ten-day courtship led to a perfect marriage--or so Darcy thought until her mother convinced her that Chason had married her to get on h...
After her husband's death, beautiful, talented Lauren Rose had vowed never again to let anyone come between her and her career. Now, on a glamorous cruise aboard the Queen Elizabeth II, she was facing the supreme challenge of her life, as a dress des...
For Kelly March, Eagle's Nest was a haven where she could prove herself both as a talented potter and an independent woman. She'd opened her crafts shop there to escape becoming just another executive's wife, but what she found waiting for her was fa...
The Mississippi pleasure cruise was a much-needed vacation for dedicated young lawyer Kate Sewell. Yet before the trip was over, she seemed perilously close to foundering on the shoals of love. A brilliant defense attorney, she could find no protecti...
Ann Lafton was cool--a brilliant scientist, a daredevil pilot, and now a hand-picked astronaut. But working with Colonel Edward Saber, her mission commander, was sheer emotional chaos. Whenever he was near her, whenever he touched her, Ann's hard-won...
Very few people know that K. L. Michaels, painter of the Old Wild West, is a woman. And when stockbroker Hunter St. James storms into her life, determined to buy a not-for-sale painting, Kate offers to sell it to him if he masquerades as the reclusiv...
To talented film editor Anna Markham, marriage was a trap she'd escaped once and was determined not to fall into again. Never would she sacrifice her talent, her career opportunities, to be any man's sweet little plaything. Then she met novelist Ben ...
High-powered realtor Margo St. Clair had almost given up her secret dream of becoming a successful playwright when gentleman carpenter Jonathan Forestier swept her into a blazing affair. Encouraged by Jon's tender reassurance, Margo created a play th...
Looking to make a splash in the fashion world, talented designer Laura Renati was naturally drawn by the success of dynamic, competitive promoter Ryan Hastings. But she never dreamed how much his ambition -- and seductive charm -- would disrupt her l...
Anne Keene's creative drive led her to devilishly handsome Jeremy Breck and a fabulous commission of a huge stained-glass window for the country inn he was launching. It didn't take long before Jeremy insisted Anne move in with him so he could help s...
Nat Langley couldn't believe his eyes. A young woman, complete with red hair and dimples, driving a truck? But fiercely independent Kay O'Hara did indeed ride the highways in a huge rig, and her fondest wish was to own her own truck --the exact model...
Chase Kincaid was baseball's golden boy. His handsome face was in the newspapers, on television--and haunting Julie King's dreams. If just his picture was emotionally exciting, how could she hope to handle his superb flesh-and-blood presence? Chase w...
Electricity sparked instantly between them, and Lucia was certain -- despite Rock's mask of icy reserve -- that here was a man worth knowing. Her intuition was proved right in a wildfire night of exquisite passion that went far toward destroying ...
Psychologist Laurel Phillips was expert at solving other people's problems. But handsome, virile, vagabond Cass was a problem too hot for her to handle. Cass had seemed like a chivalrous knight when he rescued her from another man's unwanted ...
By all rights they should never have met -- shy and lovely Susan Morgan, and Ricardo Montoya, baseball's hottest superstar. But a winter storm brought them together and in the glow of firelight, they discovered a magical passion. It should have ended...
Andrea Fleming was the perfect Californian: blond, gentle, and devoted to the wonderfully intelligent whales she trained at Ocean Kingdom. Quinn Avery was a typical New Yorker: brash, charismatic, and determined to make money from Andrea's "d...
Graduate student Shane McBride went to the small Georgia island in search of archeological artifacts, but instead found herself overwhelmed by the beautiful primitive paradise and the enigmatic magnetism of its owner, Dirk Holland. Dirk invaded Shane...
From the moment Jan Baxter gazed into newsman Dave Barrie's tantalizing blue eyes, she knew she was lost. Entranced by his seductive charm, the former Olympic medalist shared a memorable night with Dave. To Jan, it was a night of glorious passion tha...
Longing to raise champion race horses, feisty Billy Weston purchased the idyllic farm in upstate Washington, never imagining her neighbor was the wealthy Belgian aristocrat Nicholas du Vremey--the darkly handsome owner of a first-class breeding stabl...
Marcy Jamison, manager of Fort Lauderdale's largest supermarket, was headed straight for the top -- until Drew Bradford, a handsome, out-of-work CPA, walked into her store and asked for a job. With his seductive smile and Nordic blue eyes, Drew s...
Breanna Michaels, a beautiful young teacher, was looking for a challenge when, sight unseen, she took a job on a Texas ranch to guide a deaf boy to a normal life. But she was not prepared for the very special challenge of the boy's uncle--handsome, d...
When Vanessa came to Maine to escape being Jack Hamilton's beautiful, rich daughter, she lied about her identity to Rory McGee, the guide she talked into taking her on a canoe trip into the wilderness. From the moment she was alone with him, she ...
Luke Bannister could go elsewhere with his infuriating charm and his knock-'em-dead good looks. Samantha Adams was not ripe for love. She was determined to make Adams Air Freight a success, and Bannister Air Freight was her competition. But after mir...
"Heaven help me from a man like him..." Costume designer Vicky Owens had no defenses against the roguish Irish eyes and commanding presence of director Patrick Wallingford. She couldn't resist his fiery embrace years ago in London. She couldn't r...
Never trust a politician. That's what Barbara Danbury told herself when she first became involved with Morgan Newman. But the handsome Chicagoan, a dynamic, rising political star, was like no other man Barbara had ever met. And she believed him when...
Beautiful Casey Gray prided herself on being a cool executive -- tops in the world of management consulting. But underneath was a slight zany and very generous woman who gave up her vacation each summer to teach at a camp for delinquent girls in the ...
As the successful partner in an executive security firm, Jillian Tara Kennedy was her own woman. Contracted to protect handsome computer executive Travis Tyrell, Jillian herself was his personal bodyguard. Yet all her experience didn't prepare her fo...
Alaskan bush pilot Erinne Parker wasn't a bit interested in hearing compliments from Jansen Lancaster, the handsome, dark-haired wildlife biologist who signed on as her passenger. She was more curious about his fanatic interest in endangered species....
Beautiful, talented Sabrina Melendey certainly had not expected a famous paleontologist to be at the showing of her most important sculpture. And when Colin Forrester stood there raving about some fossils he found embedded in the stone she had used, ...
When beautiful Caroline Carruther visited Jay Hamilton at his ranch in Wyoming, she knew his appraising look and incredible blue eyes spelled danger. Caroline, the daughter of an ambassador, had no intention of rushing into an affair--but when Jay sw...
He had never noticed her as a woman before. It wasn't until diet and exercise helped Rachel Scott lose weight and become a sleek, sensuous woman that blue-eyed David Gearhart saw her as more than his friend. David had always liked her, but thi...
Anything Griff Deane wanted--he got. Bethany Sheridan quickly discovered that the handsome stranger determined to have her as a racing partner was business tycoon Griff Deane. Her champion sled dogs would make him a sure winner in the Rohn Relay a...
Commercial artist Whitney Campbell loved her Malibu Beach home--a place away from the world where she could pursue her work in peace. But Whitney's privacy was violated when her house was broken into by the "Malibu Intruder" and the press printed sto...
As lovely and exotic as the rare flowers she raised, Jackie Allison was determined to make her Florida greenhouse a success. And with the help of another nursery owner, dynamic Cal Prescott, that dream was coming true. Yet Cal taught Jackie far more ...
Diana Bach was the daughter of an infamous international jewel thief. lyre Smyth-George was a determined Scotland Yard Inspector. Diana was impulsive, impetuous, beautiful and clever. lyre was cautious, handsome, and naturally suspicious. They wer...
Lia Cooper, efficiency expert, could make any business run like clockwork--but could she manage a relationship with charming, unpredictable Brett Rayner? A brilliant but mercurial entrepreneur, Brett was her first big client...and the first man to ar...
Successful New York real- estate agent Mara Sullivan traveled to the French countryside determined to convince a very stubborn and eccentric Luc deMontbard that it would be practical and profitable to sell his family's failing ancestral chateau and v...
Ballerina Monica Bradshaw swept across the rehearsal hall in one last pirouette, whirling right into the arms of an irresistibly handsome stranger. From that first electrifying embrace, Monica knew she'd been fated to move through life's music with t...
Jeni O'Brien had come to the campsite in the Utah forest hoping that Timmy, the child she was adopting, would join her before the vacation was over. She definitely hadn't come to meet a man. But when her sparkling green eyes met Brad Carey's deep bro...
Kristin Cole vowed she would never get involved with another mountain climber. Her extraordinary talent had made her a better climber than her husband and ruined their marriage--even before a tragic fall claimed his life. Now the lightning touch of e...
Her every instinct cried out "danger" when Fallin O'Hara first saw Preston Smithwick. The handsome financier had brought his motherless daughter to her stable for riding lessons and now he was invading her fantasies. Fallin reminded herself that she ...
Spirited Tria O'Connor had always relied on her second sight for guidance -- but nothing could prepare her for Carfax Tower or its broodingly handsome owner, Sir James. And though his reaction to finding this American psychic investigator in his ...
Living in a lighthouse off a tiny fishing village was just what Veronica Coyne wanted - for the summer, at least. A beautiful oceanographer who had just received her degree, Veronica looked forward to two golden months of research and relaxation on L...
Tax returns, yes--love affairs, no. Straightening out artists' financial tangles was Megan Saunders' specialty as an accountant, but her disastrous marriage to a painter had taught her that artists' business affairs were all she wanted to handle. Yet...
Handsome and famous TV newsman Gabe Whitfield was everything a woman could want --and everything beautiful Rachel Novak feared. When Gabe took over the old Whitfield mansion, he seemed to embody all the forces of change that threatened the historic t...
"I swore I would never get involved with a man again.... " Gifted artist Isabel McCarthy vowed to keep every moment spent with Leo Sinclair strictly business. Painting a portrait of this popular young senator could give her reputation a tremendous bo...
Samantha Roderick was certain she had ended up with the wrong man, in the wrong place, at the wrong time. A single parent, she was unexpectedly spending her vacation as a counselor at her son's summer camp. And so was handsome Neal Sorenson -- Sa...
Paris--the City of Light, where the promise of love whispers in the air.... Yet for shy Theo Stafford, Paris meant the seclusion of the American Embassy where she hid herself--and the painful stutter she'd suffered since childhood-- decoding secret d...
Shivers of desire shook Gretchen Amsdell when Bret Taggart took her hand. Six years before, he had left her. Now the president of powerful Milburn Industries, Bret wanted her back-- to head the company's marketing division. He offered her a fantastic...
Alinda Jamison, pilot and aerial photographer, knew the only way to overcome her guilt at her partner's recent crash was to fly again. But when Drew Fletcher hired her to map out the site of his new ski resort in Wyoming, she suddenly realized the jo...
Skates flashing, Orin O'Malley performed with an electrifying excitement in the arms of handsome Olympic champion Kellem King. Kell wanted beautiful green-eyed Orin to become his new partner and share his dream of becoming the world's best in profess...
Gourmet food expert Allegra Russo felt her emotions ignite with both rage and desire as she confronted Mark Trackman, the ruggedly handsome editor of Trailblazer magazine. Allegra desperately needed to rent office space from Mark for her growing busi...
Lovely raven-haired Alison Mitchell was a genius with computers, but when it came to men she was lost. Scarred by a disastrous marriage, she buried herself in research, certain she would never be able to believe in another man. But then dynamic entre...
Signing on as gourmet chef aboard the yacht Elegante was part of McLain Rutherford's plan to begin her own catering service. The too handsome and confident First Mate, Coby Hunt, was not. But with the ocean breeze in her hair, and Coby's arms...
Art journalist Dania Barrow was determined to get an exclusive interview with Michael Kramer-- "Mr. Sandpaper" to the New York art world, for his prickly standoffishness. But the handsome artist also had a tender side...as Dania discovered when she b...
Karen Watts was a successful eye specialist, but she didn't need a degree to see that handsome, sensual marine biologist Ariel Singer was irresistible to women. Karen had come to Cape Cod to find a new beginning, to forget a cold, passionless marriag...
For the first time in his career as an undercover agent for U.S. Customs, Jason Wolfe was seriously considering packing up and leaving a job unfinished. It wasn't the assignment--posing as an art collector to track down a smuggler--it was blond, beau...
Annie Rawlins heard the fan screaming Ricardo, Ricardo and felt the excitement exploding inside her. In Rome representing Chandler Records, Annie had the power to offer Italy's hottest rock star a fabulous contract, but the incredibly appealing Rica...
When supermodel Patsy Clark found herself in big trouble with an unscrupulous investment syndicate, she turned to her best friend's kid brother for help. Like Patsy, dark-haired, dynamic Michael Melville had come a long way since junior high. A brill...
Even her advanced degree in anthropology couldn't help Liz Landry figure out her own behavior when it came to Garth Kincannon. A champion bullrider and a worldclass male chauvinist, Garth could be infuriating, but he was an ideal subject for her ...
Brenden Morgan, stunt pilot turned flying instructor, made his living in the sky, but his feet were firmly planted on the ground...until Kitty Larkin signed up for lessons. "Safety first" was Brenden's motto -- in business and in pleasure...