
Rosie Powell had been jilted by the only lover she had ever known. Now, visiting her brother Danny in Spain, the honey-haired painter from the Midwest found her heart at risk again. Juan de Arevalo, the world-famous flamenco guitarist and proud ar...
It was too much the dream come true. Felicia Hollingsworth, ski champion and Olympic hopeful, fell deeply in love with her instructor, Grant Mitchell, married him... and lived happily ever after. Until the divorce, and the devastating choice that dro...
At 16, country-fresh, penniless Ceci Gramont was wooed, then scorned by the darkly handsome Lord Armin Sherlay. Now at twenty-six, a wealthy, titled widow, she's heir to the famed Chadbourne Luck at cards. It lasts only as long as its possessor ...
It was the perfect "glamour assignment" But to Eileen Connor, Switzerland only meant escape from the heartbreak of a failed love. In cosmopolitan Geneva, as French-speaking secretary to the Marsden Ad Agency's most dashing executive, she thought s...
Seven fateful years after Tiffany Harte left Cougar Beach and Clay Gossard's arms for wealthy Winchester Regen, she returned. Divorced. A dramatic, expensive-looking blonde in a flame-colored Jaguar. Could she blame Clay for despising her, the wom...
The Artist and the Earl...She was Sara Roche, eccentric, mysterious, exquisite--and a portraitist of renown. He was Edward. Earl of Ramsey, aristocrat and gentleman. From the instant they met his arrogant manner clashed with her independent spirit. A...
Once Nan had let her heart rule her life. Now the auburn-haired beauty is divorced and making it in the high-powered world of real estate. By the breathtaking mountains and emerald waters of Lake Tahoe, she suddenly finds herself working hand in glov...
Cathy Dawson had left breathtakingly beautiful Malawi to escape the memories, the heartbreak--and Derek Guenther. Six years have passed when she returns, unwillingly, to manage Africa House, the estate and wildlife preserve of her ailing uncle. Me...
Still a captivating beauty ten years after her own scandal-tainted season, Eleanor Portland returns to London. Facing down and finally dazzling the society that would shun her, Eleanor comes into her own. As a girl, she'd loved unwisely and borne...
Romantic excitement surrounded voluptuous Christine Hanover in sun-splashed Honolulu. Yet she lived in the dim, cool shadows of the Hanover mansion with her in-laws, devoted to the memory of her "hero" husband. But when Nick Carruthers, vital, sen...
At long last Valerie Sheppard had it all: her own business--and Barry Raynor, her true love lost... and regained. Too soon she was pulled away to the wilds of Utah to rescue her headstrong young cousin Patty from romantic disaster. The object of P...
MEETING WITH THE PAST Portugal! The quaint charms of Sintra and Cascais, the sophistication of Lisbon. Training as an agent for Globe Travel Unlimited, lovely Alex Jameson would see it all now... now that she was starting over after the sad collap...
They are Americans in Ireland. But Jennifer Logan--with her wine-red hair and green-gold eyes--might have been born in the small seacoast village of Glengarriff. And Steven Donlevy--with his proud, willful stance--could pass as a true Irish lord. The...
Charming, handsome, and a world-renowned horse trainer, the wealthy Belgian aristocrat Jacques Valbonne is more than any woman could hope to handle. Ariane Charles is sure of it. Yet the lovely, auburn-haired young widow cannot resist him...any more ...
They met at the Mardi Gras�"beautiful Lorelei Averill, siren-like in her shimmering green costume, and rugged Rathe Drummond in buccaneer garb. When they fell in love, the sea-soft breezes of the Bahamas could scarcely cool their ardor. Only the wav...
Hot-blooded, headstrong Sheldon Whitney meets his match in the cool, composed young widow who works for him in his London ad agency. Beverly Milford knows she's driving Sheldon mad, yet she can't afford to be anything but remote and efficient around ...
Scouting for antiques, Julie Boland roams the narrow lanes of Scotland's verdant highlands. And she encounters Ian Fraser, a wickedly handsome, devilishly sharp-tongued Scotsman who is irresistibly attractive. But when she learns he's jilted his ...
In the cool mountain heights of Panama, fair, delicate Sara Mancini is determined to succeed with her agricultural experiments on the Thoreson coffee plantation. Soon, though, the young widow's toughest task is to resist the magnetism of Eric Thoreso...
Titania Evans, as elegant as the models in her fashionable boutique...and heartsick. She loves her ex-husband Jeremy who wants an "open marriage" she cannot endure. Then the dream man of her teens steps back into her life, and she's su...
Tawny-haired Lindy Williamson fled the sun-graced south for the promise of the Alaskan frontier -- leaving behind Jake, the rugged ex-husband who'd tormented her even as he tempted her. Facing a challenging job with an oil-drilling company, Lindy...
Alex Wood knew this was the most exciting job she'd ever have--photographing the ruins of a Mayan city sunk deep below the Pacific. Vic Clarke, the handsome archeologist who'd made the incredible find, had thought "Alex" was just the "man" for the...
A job in the theater! A great chance for lovely, dark-eyed Stacy Bennett to forget the painful memories of her husband's death and come alive amid the glitter of Long Island's millionaire row. Stacy is attracted to tall, muscular actor di...
Enchanting, seductive Venice beckons Lindy Thorne. She needs time to forget her punishing divorce, to forget her radio career which ended in a blaze of controversy. But time evaporates when she meets Justin DiPalma, the suave city planner who steals ...
The rock cliffs of Yosemite and the white water of Idaho's Salmon River challenged Julie Frost, but Dan Schuyler challenged her even more. The rugged, intense New York ad man had hired her and her all-American family for a series of TV commercials. ...
GIFT OF ORCHIDS Beautiful, emerald-eyed Dr. Leigh Harris is a professional botanist-and a good one at that! But to cold, arrogant Paulo Silva she is only a woman, unfit to make the dangerous trek into the Amazon jungle. Undaunted by his chauvinist...
At 27, lovely Tyler Bennett is proud to be manager of the prestigious New Palace Hotel in fascinating Bangkok, and relieved to have escaped a disastrous affair back home... until the magnetic Rick Stewart comes on the scene. The golden-haired beau...
A jewel in the Pacific, Sapphire Island was a Samoan paradise that offered Susan McRay escape from her ex-fiance's bitter betrayal. But she hadn't reckoned on Kaleb Knight -- bronzed, masterful and determined to conquer...but never to lose hi...
The Great Bowl of Aphrodite was one of the most precious artifacts in the world, and finding it had launched Jessica Lofting's brilliant career as an archaeologist. Now Jessica's rival France Diamond is calling it a fraud.... France is a l...
Alone and penniless on a remote Mediterranean island, Andrea Donnelly finds herself freed by widowhood from a disastrous marriage, but still bound by emotional trauma. A job as cook at the secluded Villa Verdon offers her a chance to rebuild her sha...
When chance forces Meredith Moore to seek refuge at Ward Sanderson's Mexican estate, she thinks the worst is behind her. But her host, magnetic and mysterious, is alternately cold, then kind. Winning the trust of Ward's small daughter and invalid br...
As silvery blond Janice Morgan sat in her design shop creating beautiful wedding dresses for blushing brides, she tried not to think about the man she'd lost--and the wedding she'd never have. Then Chase Brandon returns, hardened, changed. His dev...
HEARTTHROB Another man in the music business! That was the last thing lovely photojournalist January Warburton needed after her disastrous marriage to music producer Mike Stone. But bold, sensuous Lance Devlin, lead singer for the rock group L.A. Ex...
No one could be happier than Anthea Heberdeen when the dashing Titus, Earl of Vane, claimed her for his bride. But her dreams were shattered when heartache kept her husband from her side. Abandoned, Anthea seeks refuge in the theater. Here, she be...
Melinda Mathews is bold and decisive as the president of a cosmetics empire, but vulnerable and insecure as a woman mourning her fiance, Hollywood's greatest stuntman. Then naturalist Richard Carson enters her life-and touches her dormant heart. T...
Emerald-eyed Maggie Devlin was willing to tell the world what she thought of George MacDonagh. She even quit her job with Limelight magazine rather than tone down her article criticizing the brilliant film director for selling out. What Maggie was...
By day, dark-haired engineer Cait Monahan was the only woman for the job--troubleshooting a behind-schedule pipeline in Argentina. By night, she was a woman alone, tormented by dreams of her husband's tragic death. In her need, she reached out to Dom...
Aglow with the success of her one-woman show, free-lance photographer Terry Rovik jumps at a new assignment -- a book on the natural wonders of America's heartland. But there's a drawback...her former love, handsome TV journalist Brad Andrews...
Wounded by a power-hungry fiance, heiress Toni MacGregor swore off marriage... until she fell under the spell of tycoon Nick Caldwell. Ignorant of her wealth, but more than aware of her beauty, he swept Toni off her feet�"and into a jet bound for a ...
Jack Welbourne had returned! Lady Joanna's heart fluttered as he stepped from his curricle, valiantly trying to conceal the wound he'd earned in Wellington's Army. Years before, Joanna had obeyed her father's wishes by marrying Sir...
Disillusioned, sassy Stacia Marshall couldn't deny the attractions of Paul Curtis, but she couldn't stand him either. And the cynical, sharp-tongued millionaire couldn't tolerate her--the reporter assigned to cover his society wedding. A plane cra...
Jonathan Barton-Hyde called himself the great white hunter. In the grasslands of Kenya he stood powerful and alone, with the manners of a ruffian and the cunning of a jaguar. He wanted Cassie Dearborn... She'd come to photograph a fashion spread i...
Ivan Akira, a striking Eurasian industrialist, had all the arrogance of his samurai ancestors�"and his own disdain for working women. He infuriates Rea Harley. She needs his sponsorship to rebuild the career her ex-husband destroyed... but in a m...
Alaska was the land Kelly loved. But she's left it gladly for Jack, whose kiss fired her soul - only to find he was really wealthy Jonathan Templeton III, who took her to a Boston society that chilled her as no Alaskan winter could. Fleeing back ...
Carlo Benoni wasn't exactly handsome. He was magnificent! Alexis Dimitroff could hardly believe her good fortune. Her ex-husband had claimed she couldn't even survive on her own, and here she was arranging a tour for this devastating man, a world-fam...
They met, scandalously, in her bedroom at midnight, and shared a daring escape from France. Now, in London, cynical, mocking Sir Nicholas Thomas is high-spirited Roberta Rushforth's hired protector and seeming suitor in an elaborate masquerade. The s...
RUNAWAY LOVE Fleeing in confusion after tragedy ended her loveless "society" marriage, Kate Danbury sought refuge in a remote Wisconsin farmhouse -- and blissful escape in the arms of Blake Koehler. Their "arrangement" lasted an id...
Marla Stanford returned to Quebec to face the man she'd loved once and rejected forever -- Brent Stevens. Now, still bitter, Brent exacts a cruel revenge. To save her family business, Marla must marry him. Mocking, proud, and utterly sure of h...
From Nashville to the Big Apple, the singing sensation of Dave Winston and Ellen McKay streaked to fame, while Ellen resisted the wild magic in her blood calling her into Dave's beckoning arms. For Ellen had once been married to a handsome country st...
One reckless night in London had changed D'Arcy Kincaid's life forever...one star-crossed night of passion with a man she had never been able to forget. Now, incredibly, five years later, Keele Petrakis strides back into her life. D'Arcy is assig...
Lisa Callaway hadn't heard from her husband Clint in a year. Hiding her hurt, she poured her private passion into a public fight against a local highway project. Then Clint returned... the handsome owner of the company constructing the new highway--a...
They are the envy of all London, the talk of the ton! As the lovely young widow Amelia Carrington and her escort Justin Farnham, Earl of Croyden, dine and dance through glittering Regency London, almost consumed by their desire for each other, Justin...
Three years have passed since a violent snowstorm forced Barrie Coltrane into the arms of Jordan Steele. But Barrie can still feel the rapture she once knew with this ruggedly handsome and sensitive stranger. Now, determined to succeed as a staine...
Beautiful, tempestuous and newly-divorced, Storm Reynolds is determined to succeed as a bush pilot in Alaska. The sportsmen she flies into the wild are a lusty lot, but she can handle any situation. . . and any man�"except Jim Talbot, her lean, broo...
Low on the horizon! That's. what Corey Kenyon's horoscope proclaimed�"yet she foresaw nothing but a terrible mess! tier young sister was pregnant and the hither wanted to marry, but his big brother stood in the way. And big brother Kyle Zachary was ...
Amber Larsen is cat-sleek, kitten-soft-and wary. The triumph of her swimming career and marriage to an Olympic hero turned to tragedy on a honeymoon drive. Paralyzed and embittered, her husband set their small, competitive world against her... Now...
Meredith Buchanan was a woman alone in a world of men, and her icy, businesslike manner kept them all at bay...until Jeff Ryan came along. He was the pilot assigned to test the plane she'd helped design -- and no more to be trusted than the fianc...
Society gossips called Lady Charis de L'Isle the Mourning Bride and remarked on her devotion to a voting husband killed long ago. But they knew nothing of her pain. Death had cruelly taken her perfect love, and she felt mercifully numb, her heart fro...
Spirited Kathy Carter is an all-American beauty hidden in a small town. She married her high-school sweetheart...only to lose him in a tragic accident. Now she's making it on her own. Then famous rock star Neil Stratton roars into town on his ...
At twenty, she first loved him. But proper Christa Rosati could never live the life of unwedded bliss that struggling artist Mark DeVries offered. While her heart wept, her head ruled, and she wed a "safe" man. At thirty, divorced, Christa retreat...
They'd shared more wild passion, sweet moments, and furious arguments in one year than most people had in a lifetime. But now it was finished! Cleora Orwell never did things halfway -- in her fashion designs or in her love life. So she marched ou...
Honey Caldwell's stubborn determination is like the unrelenting Nevada desert she loves. Widowed, she vows to close the dangerous abandoned mines that claimed her young husband's life. But Turner Jameson, sent by the government to "help" her cause, s...
Film animation was Carol's only love -- until she met Raul Deza while studying her art in Mexico City. Raul! Friend...lover...artist.... They created soaring beauty in their lives and on the screen. But Raul could not commit himself to love, and ...
Aurora Marshingham knew all too well the part that money played in love. When she had been left penniless after her father's death, the only man she ever loved had vanished, leaving the auburn-haired beauty bitter, but determined. In London to fin...
They met on a shimmering Greek isle and spent magic nights locked in ardent embrace. To Nana Williams, a singer on an international tour, Stefanos Meletious was as powerful and beautiful as a god. And, like a god, he cruelly and whimsically disappear...
What Britt any Sinclair lacked in worldly experience she made up for in courage and a quick tongue. She was no fool. She knew a playboy when she met one�"and race-car driver Blake Kincade, handsome son of her elderly employer, fit the bill exactly ...
She knew he was dangerous, driven, and intensely private, but Ashley Forrester wanted newspaper heir Nathan Trent�"for an exclusive interview Success would mean a career coup... and revenge on Clay Pridemore, her paper's editor�"and her womanizing ...
Spunky Gillian Lockwood could beat any man in a battle of wits--except Bill Youngblood. He made her temper flare, her tongue lash out in sarcasm... and her body throb with desire. Thrown together to devise a top-secret security system, they're any...
Much as she enjoyed her work with a prestigious New York publisher, Mollie Paine was grateful for a vacation to escape the assignment to edit Roger Herrick's new novel... a novel as infuriating as its author was attractive. Suddenly Roger appears ...
Henry Romney was a notorious rogue and ladies' man. How, then, could Alexandria Linnell seriously consider his outrageous proposal of marriage? True, her position as companion to a harridan aunt was unbearable. And her childhood sweetheart had jilted...
Bereaved by death, betrayed by love, nurse Gin Selton seeks a safe, new life in Minnesota. But Noah Grady--whose reputation as a lover exceeds his renown as a physician--makes excessive demands at work that bring them into explosive opposition... unt...
Skye Anderson knew about love�"its pain and aching loss. As executive secretary at the Hayes Corporation, she had found safety in a cocoon of hard-working days and lonely nights. James Steele threw her into turmoil. Elegant and impossibly virile...
Cynthia and Russ were powerful opponents on the tennis court and in every argument--but friends nonetheless. Then they went their separate ways. Reunited years later, both single once again, their comfortable companionship suddenly burst into a torri...
Sparks flew whenever fiery-haired actress Tara Collins and domineering producer Devlin Bradley came within shouting distance. Who would have guessed they'd been engaged once before... Then circumstances force Tara to make a pact with her torment...
SULTRY NIGHTS Deserted by her husband, newscaster Annie Carroll ran her life with clockwork precision. No one could penetrate her defenses--until Ellis, a New Orleans art collector. Suave, sophisticated, sure of himself--and his women --he drew he...
Nell Trant knew Sir Charles Grayson kept several light-skirts. She had jilted him for that very reason -- at their betrothment ball no less. A shocking scandal! Later she regretted her haste -- though she admitted it to no one... Now she is beside...
Spirited Allison Scott thought she had everything -- a promising career and Jason, an exciting lover. Together, as photographer and model, they would make it to the top. Then Jason left, shattering her heartfelt dreams. Allison's new model, Rick L...
Jessica Romney was wonderfully happy in Australia--until the sudden death of her husband brought heartache and financial ruin. Now even the beloved family home must be sold. And Peter Savage, the irresistible new owner who barges into Jessica's li...
Since the day years ago when Diana's romantic dreams were destroyed forever, the proud beauty has lived and fought to keep the family winery. Now her flirtatious sister plans to marry James Stuart, the iron-willed businessman who alone can solve ...
Dirk Chandler was a man like no other -- the "invincible" leader of their expedition into the mysterious Amazon...and a breaker of women's hearts. Balecia Jordan had met men like him before -- and she knew that in this dangerous paradise ...
For a brief, idyllic time Brooke and Morgan shared a rare and tempestuous passion--before his suspicions and angry accusations sent her away. Now she lives in a run-down section of Boston and works in a dingy nightclub, forcing herself to smile seduc...
Belle Abington was the toast of London--a beautiful young widow with a business and a mind of her own. Until she challenged Lord Kentington St. John in a war of words and wits--and won. Suddenly she was a scandal, frozen out of the ton. But the rake ...
Jan McFarland isn't the slightly frumpy and definitely dreamy young woman she was six years ago when Paul jilted her. She's elegant, poised, determined. She lacks only one thing -- a sophisticated and successful-looking man at her side. And t...
Italy was made for lovers, but romance was the last thing on Jennifer Denning's mind when she arrived in stately, golden Florence. Though she looked as fragile as a flower, she was determined to resume the teaching career her ex-husband had ridiculed...
Maggie Sullivan had no choice. Her latest assignment as an efficiency expert demanded that she ride with Police Sergeant Jared Walsh -- though after their first, humiliating encounter, she'd hoped they'd never meet again. He exuded a danger h...
Once passions flared high between rugged rodeo rider Jesse Franklin and dewy-eyed Marlene Whitney. He formed the center of her existence, and everyone knew her as “Jesse's Girl.” Years later Marlene, now a sophisticated magazine reporter, retu...
Lovely widow Laurel Campion was living a lie -- and Doug Stewart knew it. Bursting into her staid country-club life, Doug saw the yearning beneath her ice-cool veneer. But he didn't see how isolated Laurel was from her late husband's wealthy world --...
Lady Christina hated the Ferrier name--yet it was her very own, a scar from her few fleeting hours of marriage to Charles Ferrier. She'd loved him truly, but his passion was for her money alone. When he died in a duel on the day of their elopement, s...
When Nelda and Lute made love, their hearts and bodies sang in a rapturous duet... until the death of their infant daughter drove them into discord and destroyed their marriage.... Years later, Nelda returns to Iowa, anxious to reassess her futu...
Casey Adams worked her way up from a chambermaid to become Boston's most fashionable caterer. But she faced the greatest challenge of her career when virile Matt Stoner made a bet with a foreign industrialist, then hired Casey to win it. From the ...
When Gillian West arrived in China as an historical consultant on a film being directed by Burke Ferrara -- Hollywood's "golden boy" -- she was furious. The studio had hired her against his wishes, and he wanted no part of her. But Bur...
Once Dusty Winthrop loved life. But since her husband's untimely death, the dark-haired beauty has hidden her exuberant soul beneath a sophisticated exterior, becoming immersed in her work as a New York City art dealer. No one in her glamorous world ...
Fiery-haired divorcee Claudia Spencer threw herself into her prosperous jewelry design business with anguished fury, determined to put her ex-husband Johnny and his globetrotting, reckless ways behind her. Then Rick Morgan, as proud and spirited as t...
Callie had her chance to marry long ago, and lost it. Now she vows that her sisters' charms will impress the wealthy Earl of Rutledge and save them all from destitution. But from the moment he first encounters Callie up a tree, Rutledge prefer...
Juliana Blair lived a rational, well-ordered life dedicated to medicine. Then she returned to her family's ranch -- and experienced a mad passion for Scott Austen. Just a chemical reaction, she tells herself. Just the shock of seeing the impul...
Since her husband's tragic death, Audra Blair has been devoted to her anthropological studies, content with life but untouched by passion. Then, unexpectedly, in the stacks of the library on a sweltering day, she is drawn into the arms of a viril...
Ken Rexford is a former senator with a notorious reputation. Sandy O'Hara is the feisty young widow hired to protect him on an around-the-world luxury cruise. In the ship's posh ballrooms and on sun-kissed beaches, they encounter scandal, int...
Eight years before, Ryan's lips had awakened hers with youth's first fiery passion. But Stacey left him, hiding dark secrets to pursue a city life. Now, her recent engagement broken, she returns home to Shiloh Bend. How could she know that Ryan wo...
Phillipa O'Keefe's fiery temperament and fierce dedication served her well as trainer on the El Marees horse farm. But Derek Remmington, the tall, elegant heir to the ranch, had new plans for it, and a sharp-tongued equestrienne didn't fi...
Young, impoverished, with nowhere to turn, Eleanor Glyndon impetuously married a dashing stranger. But after a blissful wedding night, she awoke to an empty bed, with no way of finding her errant husband. Years later, Eleanor confronts the proud, ...
Lee Walker strode through a man's world with the proud strength of her Cherokee ancestors, outbidding the toughest competition in the construction industry - and hiding the hurt of a secret loss. Then she unwittingly switches suitcases at the air...
Brandeis Evans had to get away--from the loss of her husband and child, and from her medical practice, which resurrects their memory. Attempting to heal her ravaged spirit, she retreats to a small Ozark village. But Dr. Matt Wilde--a man more arde...
Darcy Cummins was beautiful, divorced--and toasting her new freedom alone. Until a stranger offered her a drink, and she daringly accepted his company, his kisses... and almost his bed... Then Darcy's mother introduces her to Jordan Ives--the tant...
It wasn't Teel's habit to lie--but then, Chazz Herman, with his devastating golden eyes and glittery jet-set world, was a dangerous man. He'd stop at nothing to get a woman he wanted--and he wanted every inch of Teel. If he thought she was a nun--she...
Linda Redfield didn't stand a chance against prosecutor. Jefferson T. Langford. After all, she was just another public defender, a street-smart professional from the wrong side of the tracks who'd earned her law degree with hard work and determinatio...
In Belgium on the eve of Waterloo, the world seems turned upside down, but Louisa Varley must bravely face the truth. She is penniless and abandoned, and forced to become an actress--much to the horror of her suitor. . . and his older brother, Richar...
Alone, afraid, beautiful Leigh Bransom was about to deliver her child beside a deserted Texas highway. Gratefully she accepted the help of a handsome, dirt-streaked stranger...and in the excitement of the moment a special feeling sparked between them...
In the beginning they lived on love and dreams. Then success divided them...jealousy tore them further apart...distrust led to the final break. Adam left -- and Bridgette told herself she didn't miss him. Later, the head of Bounty Studios insi...
That spring, Robbie burst into her life like a fever in the blood--one day nothing, the next, a yearning unlike anything Cathy had experienced in the ten years since her divorce. At 35, mother of four, she'd given up her romantic dreams. It took Robb...
"Know your enemy," the handsome stranger warns, but, as a storm rages outside, trapping them together, Laurel neglects the threat to the lighthouse that shelters them. She forgets her routines and responsibilities, drawn to this man whose thr...
None of Casey Mallory's scientific training prepared her for Storm Carmichael. A troubleshooter hired to investigate a laboratory accident, Storm made trouble for Casey the moment he walked in the door. From that instant, he wants her. But Ca...
Headstrong and sharp-tongued, Lady Rosanna Wythe felt equal to the challenge posed by the Earl of Leighton. A notorious rake, he had proclaimed himself guardian of her and her twin sisters and whisked them off to London. But Rosanna resolved to have ...
Addy wasn't married, but she had a daughter--button-eyed, fairy-like Grendel. Of course, no man would want an unwed mother. But that was just as well, since Addy was finished with men. She'd made her own life and had Grendel, whom she treasured above...
Kate Flannery hired a stranger to help aboard the Kathryn D and was instantly attracted to his physical strength and endurance -- until she learned he was her most powerful adversary, Jim Carlisle, heir to the Carlisle Refineries. The oil company'...
Dragu Cosmetics was in trouble, and marketing executive Anne Hopkins had a solution. She was eager to launch the new product in Rome, but dreaded spending time with Justin Bradley, the firm's urbane, womanizing--and altogether too attractive--attorne...
Carrie Thorne was intrigued by Morgan King's paintings -- and even more fascinated by the artist himself. His turbulent past and reclusive present aroused her journalist's instincts, while his seductive appeal reawakened her long-dormant desi...
Kacie Daniels' career in computer programming skyrockets--until she challenges rugged Jake Weston, company president. Though she proves her professional ability by streamlining his firm's operations, Jake's attention seems fixed on Kacie's personal q...
Diana Fletcher will do anything to save her family's estate from the despicable Lord Coventry. Even accept money from Lord Aubrey Brampton, a dashing stranger. Even follow Lord Brampton through the Great Fog to London to be a companion to his ecc...
Once a flamboyant strawberry blonde, now an aloof "Snow Queen" hiding within the corporate bureaucracy; Amie Fletcher is promoted to assistant to president Liam Kane -- and faces her deadliest enemy. Terror clutches at her. Then cool reasonin...
Shy, young, and city-bred, Trisha was swept off her feet by rugged, demanding Kern Lowery. She married him eagerly, but left him abruptly when country life and the responsibilities of marriage became too much for her. Trouble brings Trisha back t...
What can Shay MacAllister do when six-and-a-half-foot modern-day Viking Dag Haldan lays siege to her hard-won independence and expects her to play handmaiden to his conquering hero? She can't call her mother: Phyllis is on Dag's side. She can...
When Taryn Tremayne lived in suburban luxury, she conformed with a vengeance-even planning to marry "Mr. Right"-but the days passed meaninglessly, and passion seemed an elusive dream. Now sprung from that mink-lined trap and working as a musical l...
What is independent Halina Barkley to do when confronted with Cameron Connors, her intriguing new tenant? He blithely pays a full-year's rent for a six-month lease, dresses like a businessman though he's rarely seen going to work, and enterta...
Dazzling, impetuous Damaris had loved Robert, the high-spirited partner of her girlhood, for as long as she could remember. But as passionately as she proclaimed her will to marry, nothing could convince her guardian, Robert's older brother Giles, th...
Marcy Hanson's sultry voice and stunning good looks had skyrocketed her to fame and fortune, but happiness eluded her. If only she could forget the fire in Dirk Baxter's devastating brown eyes. If only the years would erase the pain of their doomed r...
Beautiful and independently wealthy, her towering social position assured, Margaret Anthony could have bought a yacht or a palace with the stroke of her pen. But to her free-spirited business partner Chip Thorn, she was little more than a spoiled bra...
Five years ago Davina Fabian made the biggest mistake of her life--she abandoned her love for Alexander Stratton to become her father's business manager. Now, haunted by memories of cherished moments with Alex, she returns to Santa Fe in the hope of ...
The stranger who walks into Reva Jonathan's cheese emporium epitomizes her fantasy of the ideal lover. But Drake McQuaid is very real -- and every inch a powerfully attractive man... For years Reva has placed her son Brian's needs before h...
Exotic Leilani Richards only lost once in the game of love. Betrayed by her athletic fiance who left her for a less competitive woman, Lani buried her pain beneath a drive to succeed which soon won her an executive position with a prestigious ad agen...
Reality melted away the night Robyn gazed into Shane's emerald eyes. At that explosive moment, she dream-walked into a world turned upside down... Soon the mood of her enchantment changes--when Shane forces their impulsive lovemaking into a pl...
Fiery journalist Erin Quinlan doesn't want to write the military expose assigned to her. But the job will give her a chance to hurt the Air Force as it hurt her. Revenge will be sweet�"even if it can't bring back her husband. Captain Ty Phillips ...
Before her glorious Italian summer, Professor Elda Schapiro had never known the splendor of running barefoot through a moonlit vineyard. . . or taking a midnight ferry across the Adriatic.. . or dancing wildly to gypsy songs. Nor had she ever respond...
Joy Osoff never regretted rejecting marriage to pursue a glamorous public-relations career. But her vague longings take shape... and her dreams of romance are fulfilled... when she encounters raven-haired Bill Birke. They meet in glorious Paris an...
Dana McNeil thought she had fully recovered from her tempestuous love for reporter Edouard Roubaix -- until he re-entered her life with a tantalizing offer. The chance to introduce computerized graphics to French national television is a golden op...
Finally out of Simon's shadow and adventurously on her own in sun-gilded Genoa, Jenny Armstrong meets a dazzling stranger who, in one vibrating instant, seems to know her intimately. As the hazy glow of the Riviera spins its shimmering illusio...
A California golden girl, Laura Gerard found perfect happiness in New York City as an up-and-coming children's book illustrator and loving wife... until her husband's tragic death tore her life apart. Now, on Santa Barbara's balmy coast, she meets...
Megan Lambert was shocked into realizing how hard Josh Bennett drove the employees at his ad agency when she lost her husband to the overwhelming pressure. She'd learned of Josh's power over women the night he nearly lured her from marriage with a ki...
For Hilary O'Brien, producing commercials for notorious textile heir Tath Justin becomes an overnight catastrophe. First he accuses her of scheming to marry him for his money and family prestige. Next he fires her. When he tries to make love to her.....
When Mark Haggard offers lovely Susannah James the chance to become an international model, she vehemently turns down the opportunity...and anything else he has in mind. But her angry refusal hides the shattering uncertainty she's felt about her ...
Eileen Younger fell immediately in love with Talbot Wendell's boyish charm and sensual good looks. And she knew, as only a woman can, that he was attracted to her. Yet why did he act so strangely? Why was he so aloof? Why did he make cutting rema...
When strong-willed socialite Laureen Reisel inherits controlling shares in a near-bankrupt foot- ball team, she also acquires its star player, Vince DiMoro--who just happens to despise rich women. Tension crackles between them--and then Vince arro...
Carla Gelsey returns to her childhood home intent on restoring the Victorian mansion she always admired. But handsome Blake Mercer is equally determined - along with the town council - to tear it down. When Carla hires a group of carpenters to begin ...
Elizabeth Salisbury has little time for love. She's taken refuge from a broken engagement in the demanding job of editing tomorrow's bestsellers. Then she's assigned Dr. David Spinelli's first novel, a book in desperate need of her expertise. Unli...
Cathy Phillips never takes chances�"and she's not about to start now. When she returns to close up the New England lake house where tragedy shattered her golden existence, she intends to leave her memories ... and way of life... intact. The vital...
The first time their lips met, Kate Lonigan knew Mike Fleming was the man for her. It wasn't just his authoritative demeanor and incisive moves as temporary troubleshooter in her insurance office. There was something about his warm green eyes and wit...
Freelance book designer Kate Elliot had submerged her creativity and sacrificed her independence once -- and once was enough. Now she automatically steers away from any potentially domineering male...no matter how original or intriguing his approach...
Strictly business brings wealthy Heather Andrews to the isolated Pacific island where her devastatingly handsome ex-husband practices medicine. Years ago Ross chose to leave her glittering social world far behind; now she refuses his invitation to ex...
In the heart of San Francisco, Sidney McKenna's first meeting with the computer magnate, Philip Oliver, was a disaster. Handsome, powerful, he shook her up so much that she botched the job interview: But she was intrigued ... However, the awesome...
After bitter experience, Leigh vowed never to marry -- but she desperately wanted a child. In this age of medical breakthroughs, she decided on a bold plan -- to have a mere acquaintance, Brian Hathaway, father a child for her by scientific means. ...
Allie Larson escaped to Honolulu, hoping to forget the past�"and a betrayal more devastating than the secret she hid behind dark glasses. Then into her bookstore walks charismatic Dane Thaxter, a top photographer she worked with when she was a c...
When Toby Thorsen chose college rather than Geordie McAndrew's marriage proposal, she thought their romance was over forever. But eight years, a short-lived career, and one broken engagement later, Toby was home in coastal Maine again -- and winn...
Kathleen trembled with astonishment -- and excitement -- when Guy Maslin sauntered into her dance rehearsal. She thought she had put the charismatic conductor behind her after their brief, disastrous marriage five years ago. Yet here he was in Vienna...
When beautiful Savannah McLean concocts a scheme to become president of her family's construction company, powerful Brendon Sloane, her arch rival, agrees to help. But Brendon -- the scoundrel! -- has ideas of his own. He wants Savannah -- no str...
Nicole Starr had managed the Seawinds boutique on Silver Cay ever since the death of her husband. For five years she had devoted herself to her work, unmoved by the romance of the Bahama resort or the attentions of men. Then Grant Sutton, self-sty...
They always work as a team: Rebel, the beautiful president of Sinclair Hotels; Donovan, her male secretary par excellence. There's nothing extraordinary about their traveling to Wyoming together on business... or is there? To circumvent the annoyi...
They met at the casino on St. Maarten�"he, a tall, blond stranger who called her Lady Luck; she, a promising playwright revising her script for Broadway. When they met again in New York, he was directing her play. From the first, their onstage an...
Tawny-haired Carrie Chandler was searching for a rare antique locomotive when she came to the raw lands of western Texas. But from the moment rugged Bat Bartholomew held her in his powerful arms, Carrie knew she had found something even more valuable...
Julie Logan had co-authored anonymously for far too long, and she dreamed of getting her own byline. But when she finally secured a coveted assignment to interview reclusive vintner Jonathan Brook, he was strangely uncooperative...as well as devastat...
Cassie Prentis is eager to assume her new position as assistant veterinarian at the Albuquerque zoo...but totally unprepared for the stark sensuality of her boss, Paul Kelly. Her senses reeling with wild attraction, she inadvertenly sets off one comi...
Could Lucy Travers' office computer describe Caleb Bannister's "ideal woman"? Lucy agreed to see -- on behalf of her moony-eyed best friend. Sure enough, the print-out revealed that Beth would be perfect for him. Imagine Lucy's su...
When Ralf Traggart died, the country lost a brilliant politician...and Gwen lost a husband she loved dearly. To pay homage to his memory, she settles in his hometown, never expecting to meet a fabulous man there -- Jason Cornell. With a single, sultr...
While jogging along a mist-shrouded French beach, Diane James sees a man emerge from the sea like a god, his muscled body wet and gleaming. From that moment Greg Kimball brings enchantment to her summer days on the Brittany coast... But Diane is c...
Bliss McCord steps demurely from a fifth-floor window ledge into an unknown office--and encounters exuberant, overwhelming Cade Rankin, who claims she's an angel sent from heaven especially for him! As Cade woos her with passion, whimsy, and devil...
When uninhibited, flamboyant Shay Morrison accidentally walks in on Ian Douglas as he steps naked from the shower, she is slightly amused, sensually aware, but otherwise unperturbed. He, however, is clearly displeased. Why? Because his profession is ...
Never again! Nickie Monroe had vowed when her first collaborative writing venture proved a professional and romantic fiasco. But how can she resist world-famous tycoon Thomas Robinson Starr's challenging, lucrative offer to write his authorized biogr...
Their love was like no other -- tempestuous, impassioned, unrestrained. Then they threw it all away, thoughtlessly betraying their God-given gift. Heaven itself seemed to frown in disapproval... When Zen Driscoll and Damon Aristides meet again yea...
Loren Shephard doesn't want his help, but the brawny stranger won't take no for an answer. Masterful Buck Leeds wins over Loren's tippling grandfather and flighty sister, bringing order to the chaos of her madcap household. He even becomes Mr. Fix-it...
To professor Viola Bennett, Stephen Silkwood presents more of a riddle than the detective stories he pens. Years ago, as a sensitive, eager new author, he stole her innocent heart -- and broke it. Later he began writing mysteries featuring a callous,...
For Celia Norwood, arriving in New Mexico, the future looks as bright as the great southwestern sky. Especially when her job as site-planner for Enchanted Canyon Monument brings her face to face with tawny-haired, blue-eyed Ramos Valdez. The inten...
Megan Brookfield's world is deeply shaken when her "husband" is exposed as a spy... and she is accused of being his accomplice! Suddenly England seems a very hostile place indeed. When handsome agent Steve Callahan is assigned to guard Megan, he p...
Attorney Sarah Harbison must be objective and pragmatic in the courtroom, but Jim Laney's broad shoulders and warm brown eyes set her sights on the bedroom instead. Soon his burning kisses fan her steamy fantasies into a torrid reality... But the ...
After years of rootlessness, Alexis has finally found a home. In San Tomas, where she works as a city councilwoman, she enjoys a sense of settled belonging. Then destiny brings her Griffon Cochran. Their intellectual rapport sparks a physical year...
She's Emma the Avenger, sworn to exact revenge on the unscrupulous Greg -- alias Hi -- Seas, for his jilting of her cousin Josie. With the utmost stealth and cleverness, she seeks him out and plots a most fitting retribution. She'll pretend t...
Psychologist Lee Gregory arrives at the Pittsburgh courthouse prepared to give expert testimony in the Crist kidnapping trial -- and remain unshakable under the defense attorney's hard questioning. But when she herself is briefly abducted by the ...
The last thing Eden Winslow needs is another dominating man -- and Aaron Barka is just that. Powerfully built and overwhelmingly male, he infuriates Eden when he questions her ability to learn the volatile diamond business. When Eden is forced to ...
Los Angeles businesswoman Liz Bentley has forsworn love. Armed with a joke and a smile, she wards off pursuers. But when she meets Boston financier Bill Hale in sun-glazed Bermuda, she's defenseless against the sweet passion that blossoms between the...
Management consultant Barbara Cooper knows her job -- and she's sure that Carl Walther's robot manufacturing concern will go bankrupt unless he takes her advice. So she arrives with her quirky computer Ozzie ready for action. But as she tr...
Michael Moreno is tough, a "bad boy" -- but Chris Barnes is sure she can handle him. When she loses her job, she even invests her earnings as a champion skier and TV sportscaster in Michael's ski resort. And she teases him about having Sy...
Katrina is determined that her company, Stevens Advertising, will triumph over rival Lockridge Advertising. But her hopes burst when a scandalously embarrassing event traps her in an elevator with an oh, so witty, oh, so attractive stranger -- who tu...
Tall, beautiful Sandra Mandrell demands to be treated as a professional first and a woman second, whether she's running a marathon or proving herself as a dynamic management consultant. Then she's thrown into competition with Hank Donnell, he...
Divorced and on her own, Julia Leighton can't afford dreams. She's busy raising two teenagers and working hard to further her fledgling banking career--though she longs to study the sea instead. Just as compellingly, she's drawn to Erick Spencer, the...
Helena Wydmark strode confidently through busy days, reveling in the freedom to pursue her career and raise her daughter. But Barrett Shaw--bold, witty, and persistent--could make any woman forget the practicalities of life, the lessons of the past.....
Mackenna Scott has built roads and bridges throughout wild, lush Indonesia, proving unquestionably her ability as an engineer. But when her new project lags, her boss, Brock Hampton, dares to challenge her as a professional--and as a woman. They c...
Nine years ago, Richard Whitaker blindly accused his wife of infidelity. Condemned and disowned by his family, Lorna vowed never to speak to a Whitaker again. But when her son needed help, she was forced to swallow her pride. With Richard dead, she h...
He was everything Carly Anderson detested. Josh Cade was a soft, sophisticated city slicker, and a representative of Americo Oil Company. His geological survey would result in the mining of shale oil--and the destruction of her ranch. She was determi...
It was an unusual way to get a contract. Running to catch a plane, Vanessa Harrington slipped and, grabbing wildly for something to break her fall, fastened on the muscular arm of Jason Carlysle. In short order, Jason had hired Vanessa as Industrial ...
Shattered by her husband's death, Cathryn Bracken retreated behind a facade of pleasant smiles and hard work. Although she ached for a husband and child, she knew she would never have them, or ever love again ... Dynamic Joshua Hunt, president of ...
Randy Waring had always been prone to flights of fancy. And at the center of them all--as her imaginary dragon slayer, knight in shining armor, even marauding pirate--was young, idealistic Oliver Adams. Although he pledged undying love, Oliver's own ...
Ethan Taylor burst like a comet into Amanda Farr's life. Tall, athletically built, dressed in faded cans and cowboy boots, Ethan hardly looked the playwright genius he was, Broadway's newest "star." But his laid-back attitude hid a burning intellect ...
Genius often walks alone, but brilliant, brooding Randall St. James never had. The consummate concert pianist was always surrounded by his professional entourage, his fans, his own brand of glitter. All of it hid the man behind the legend from Lacy H...
Biologist Miranda Dunn feels at home among microscopes and test tubes, the conversation and company of other scientists. Then famous poet Brian O'Bannon charms his way into her life with clever words and a blithe spirit. As rugged as the Killarne...
As vice-president of Chicago's exclusive Hallard's department store, Nell Carlton has an unerring eye for style. It's love she has difficulty recognizing... Until S. F. Shea, her apartment-house neighbor, storms across her foyer and into her life....
Theater veteran Elizabeth Bradford is mortified when she finds herself accidentally trapped inside a stage prop -- with a virile stranger! Soon, however, her embarrassment is replaced by a sensual awareness she's thought long dead...by a throbbin...
After her tragic first romance, quiet, elegant Joanna Greer vowed never again to give herself to a man unless he was trustworthy, committed, and interested in marriage. But when rugged, charismatic Cliff Duquesne swept into her life, her good intenti...
There's steel in Sharon Dysart, forged by a childhood on the wrong side of the tracks. When she returns to Pennsylvania's Otawnee Valley, it's not as the daughter of a mill worker, but as an expert consultant to SomerSteel's heir, the...
Coolly poised tax accountant Martine Dahl is, above all, a lady. But self-assured entrepreneur Rade Hardin seems determined to prove otherwise. Daring her to reveal the explosive sensuality he senses beneath her aloof exterior, Rade teases her with i...
Gallery owner Carly Meadows drives upstate to collect art -- not artists. Nonetheless, she discovers rugged Brad Weston -- sculptor and carver of incredible canoes -- who then refuses to become her latest gallery "find." Even as he responds t...
Arriving at her lighthouse retreat on sleepy Block Island, Kate Lonergan is floored to find herself facing a gloriously virile, nearly nude roommate. Matt Kincade, high-powered contractor, defies all her attempts to evict him. Resenting Matt's...
Reporter Lacey Thomas has reason to be wary of the mysterious drifter from Fisherman's Cove who refuses to reveal his name. But the muscular, bronzed stranger who readily, though angrily, offers her first aid hardly seems dangerous--except to her imp...
Susan Reed is at the end of her rope -- literally dangling from a sheer cliff -- when she's lifted into the arms of a massively powerful, thrillingly handsome mountaineer. Master climber Jack Cameron tackles the Alps with awe-inspiring strength a...