
DARK SIDE OF THE DREAM When Tonio Cruz walked back into Erica's life, ten years fell away. She was once again the teenage girl who had given him her love, body and soul, and received betrayal in return. But she had received something else a...
THEIR SONGS AND THEIR PASSION WOULD ELECTRIFY A WAITING WORLD. RAVEN WILLIAMS was a singer who had an overwhelming need to love and be loved, and whose voice had catapulted her to fame. BRANDON CARSTAIRS was a musician in whom the charming Iri...
HE WAS THE LIGHT IN A WORLD OF SHADOW. Courtney thought she had come to terms with the blindness that was slowly stealing over her. Then Joshua stole into her life. Joshua, with his amber eyes that shone through the darkness. Joshua, whose daughte...
WYNN CARSON was the new president of Carson Trucking, and her driving ambition was to prove herself to all the men who thought she couldn't succeed. But there was one man who thought she could run Carson's...and more. DONATO "DUKE"...
WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE.... When socialite Abbie Dennis went to teach at the Kaibeto Reservation school it was as if she had been reborn in a world of primeval beauty and primitive passions. And the most elemental force of all was Cody Strawhand, th...
IT WAS AN ISLAND MADE FOR LOVERS But developer Perri Courtland refused to admit that it should remain untouched, or to acknowledge her love for Krane Elliott, the man who fought her plans at every turn. The only time they didn't argue was when ...
THE MUSIC OF THE AGES PLAYED FOR THEM ALONE. Ryan Sagan had been the object of Holly's one childhood crush, the only emotional release she had ever allowed herself. But the boy he had been then had done nothing to prepare her for the man he had beco...
HER BEAUTY WAS MORE THAN SKIN DEEP. Libby Dreiser was a chemist who parlayed her knowledge into the ownership of a big-money cosmetics corporation. Jay Gatling was the man she went to when she needed financing for her newest idea. Together they...
Had she listened to a lover's lies? Amy Shannon met Jase Lassiter under the sign of the serpent, and she should have heeded the warning. At first he promised paradise, offering her nights of love and days of sheer delight. But the taste of ho...
LAUREN TAYLOR... She was as beautiful as the artworks she dealt with, and beneath her cool exterior beat the heart of a woman waiting to be awakened. CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS.. He was a genius on the brink of realization and the canvases he painted ...
ELISE LINDSTROM... She was torn between two worlds: the glamorous world of film, where she had to pretend to be someone she wasn't, and the wilds of Africa, where she was afraid she might not be woman enough to win the man she wanted. REED KI...
SHE WAS AN AUTHORITY ON MEN... Kasey Wyatt was an anthropologist, but her knowledge of men in general hadn't prepared her for one man in particular: Jordan Taylor. She was to help him with the research for his novel, but the study of the human hear...
THE ART OF LOVING... J.T. had expected to find new artists on her buying trip to Europe. She hadn't expected to lose her heart to the most difficult of them all. He was Jake Marshall, and despite his talent he had shut himself off from his...
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUSTED? Layna adopted a facade on the glorious Greek cruise. She became a woman of poise and sophistication, a woman at home with a man like Caleb Danner. Caleb, however, knew more than he was telling, though by profession he was ...
PERFECT PARTNERS IN A PERFECT LOVE . . . Solo St. Clair had built her life around dance to hide the pain of a wounded heart. Ben Savin was the man who had shattered her life and in the process nearly destroyed his own, as well. Neither time ...
CHARMED LIVES... She was April Juneau. One day spent watching the parade of light and shadow, the glory of the Spanish bullring, would change her life forever. He was Alejandro Cervantes, a matador, a man who wore the suit of lights and danced ...
HE WAS ASHE HARLAN, ONLY SON OF ALEC STONE, AND HE HAD GIVEN IN TO FORBIDDEN LOVE... . When Valerie de la Portilla met Ashe Harlan she wasn't free to love, nor did his harsh assessment of her cool beauty bode well for a future together. Yet there ...
TOO MUCH MONEY AND TOO LITTLE LOVE Cat Cochran took nothing from her ex-husband but a determination to earn her own way in the world. Her cameras provided her with the means of making a living. Yet no matter how successful she became, she still dr...
A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE . . . When Ali Cameron left behind the cosmetics industry and the city for a healing vacation in the Ozarks, she had her priorities straight. Work was the only item on the list. Adam Forrest changed all that. He awoke emo...
WINDS OF CHANGE... Jase Patten swept into Ti Caissen's orderly life like a cool wind from her unclaimed heritage: the Napa Valley. She left Philadelphia and went with him to the lush life she had never known, a life made seductive by the mirac...
THE HUNTER AND THE HUNTED... Honor Knight had to convince Judd Raven to let her go. Her life depended on it! But he refused to believe that the two men who had hired him to find her were anything but what they claimed to be: her father and brother...
SHE WAS THE PRIZE HE HAD ALWAYS SOUGHT... At seventeen Cathryn Ashe had fought Rule Jackson and lost her innocence, then fled to the anonymity of the city. At twenty-five she was back, sure of herself and her newfound independence and ready to cha...
FROM THE ASHES OF THE OLD . . . Heather Cavelle had made the acquaintance of violent death and sought never to face that dark spectre again. As editor of a small paper she tried to write only of the good in the world. Then David Sullivan took ...
THEY LIVED IN A WORLD THAT WAS NOT QUITE REAL. The unreality of filmed fantasy hung over their every move -- until Devon O'Neill met Spencer Tait and the real world came crashing in. He hated having to answer to the new studio president: ...
A MASTER OF THE MYSTERIOUS Pierce Atkins was a solitary figure, a magician who'd entranced audiences all over the world. Only one woman, Ryan Swan, had guessed the pain that lay behind his art, the past he'd chosen to conceal behind the flash and th...
SHE WAS THREE YEARS OLDER -- and a lifetime wiser. Now she knew that a man like Tobin Furnival came along only once in a woman's life, but for Kee it was a lesson learned too late. Three years had gone by since she'd loved Tobin--and left ...
RUN FOR THE ROSES... For Diana Jennings, the opportunity to cover the Kentucky Derby was made even more exciting by the fact that she had the inside track on a very exclusive story. But fellow reporter Beau Gatling challenged her at every turn and ...
LOVE WEAVES A TANGLED WEB... From the Moment Christina Chandler began to inventory the Fabrian estate she fell under the spell of one of it's heirs, Matthew Warden. But Matthew was forbidden to enter the treasure-filled house until her work was comp...
SHE WAS A MOTHER WITHOUT A CHILD After the death of her son, Arden Gentry felt a terrible emptiness. But she had another son, a child her ex-husband had forced her to give up at birth, a child who could ease her pain. Better than anyone, Arden ...
RACING FOR RESPECT... It was hard to be a woman breaking into a male-dominated field -- especially if that field was horse racing. Few men were willing to believe that a petite sylph like Sabina could handle half a ton of fractious Thoroughbred. ...
SHE SANG A SONG HE COULD NOT FORGET . . . LEIGH FARRAR was an opera singer who had a voice that could leave women weak with emotion--and men shaking with desire. But her own husband seemed determined to resist her song and follow the call of his ...
PERILOUS JOURNEY... When Stephanie Eastman was sent to interview reclusive writer David Harding, it seemed to be just another assignment, though perhaps more interesting than most. But the moment she met him she found herself in danger. At firs...
THEIR BIGGEST STORY WAS LOVE... Liv Carmichael was a glamorous Washington anchorwoman who always wanted to be first in everything: first to get the story; first to tell it to the public; and first in the heart of her man. T.C. Thorpe was her r...
INTO THE VALLEY OF DEATH . . . Reba Farrall, connoisseur of jewels, and Chance Walker, a man who searched the world for gems, met in Death Valley--and there they found life. Reba was a treasure beyond price, but the precious tourmalines that tied ...
With a throw of love's dice she staked her heart. Amidst the glamour and flash of Atlantic City's casino row, Nacia Barnes gambled with her future. Jared Ranklin was a builder and a man used to taking charge, but when he tried to take charge of N...
THE LADY AND THE COWBOY .. . Shannon DuVall had been born to wealth and brought up in a home where money and position were all. Yet her restless heart led her down a different path, one that took her straight into the arms of a man her family wou...
KATE GARVEY was in the business of "making" men. Her job was to train them to win elections, forgetting, when she was with them, that she was a woman. Kate was very good at her job. ANTHONY LARIMER was a man with a past he wanted to forget and a...
ONCE THEY HAD BEEN LOVERS... . Brenna Hyatt had fallen for Luke Townsend with all the passion of first love. He was older, worldly, but he responded with a passion of his own. Then Luke spent fifteen months in a Guatemalan prison. The world--an...
FROM THE DARK SIDE OF DOUBT Ten years before, Andrea Monroe had loved politician Jefferson Harmon, then watched helplessly as their relationship was destroyed by her brother's lies. Time had brought Jefferson renown and Andrea a career as a te...
"TRUTH IS BEAUTY....." Nowhere was that more true than in the opera, where the truest voice, the purest, had the beauty to call forth tears. Marina Karansky had such a voice, as did Paolo Cortelli. The duets they sang transcended artifi...
CASS DUVAL GAROLINI She had gone from small-town girl to international model, then home to New Mexico. Now she was the sheriff, but she was also something more: the Widow Woman, untouchable and unapproachable. CADE MONTOYA swore to make a dent i...
SUDDENLY THERE WERE NO RULES! Diana Manning's job was to go after the big story. So what if this assignment was going to throw her back into the arms of Nick Fremont, the man who'd once broken her heart? She was a professional; she could keep p...
KAT DOBRININ Her past stab at detente had ended unhappily when her Russian diplomat husband left her. She wasn't ready to love again, especially a man who painfully reminded her of former ties. SASHA GORDON had spent years fighting to escape...
SEARCH THE SKIES Tess Hamilton met Shep Ramsey under purely social circumstances, but it was a matter of national security that provided the real basis of their relationship. Tess was working on a prototype airplane, and Shep was the man chosen to...
CATHLEEN RICHARDS She had grown up a part of the Nashville music scene, but the fame and fortune her father had earned had dwindled with the years. Now she was on the verge of fame and a fortune of her own, discovering her own talents and the secret...
KATLAIN MORGAN After a career in advertising left her heart and her confidence shaken, Kat returned to Florida and her life as a charter captain. But she was far from being the captain of her own destiny. BAYLISS GRANGER He knew more about Kat's...
WRITTEN ON THE WIND... In the ancient Yucatan the God of the Wind had once watched as two lovers ran headlong into tragedy. Would that story be enacted once again? Joanna Morrow and Carlos Quintana met to work on a mural celebrating Mexico's past...
IT WAS A FIGHT NO ONE COULD WIN... Revel Tyson was determined to save the airline that bore her family name. Connor Winfield was just as determined that her planes would fly as part of his fleet. What neither one was ready for was the passion ...
IT WAS ONE FOR THE BOOKS . . . Sgt. James "Slade" Sladerman had practically been born to the force, but he wanted to be a writer, not a cop. No one was more different from him than Jessica Window, who was wealthy and working only because she wante...
A PROMISE GIVEN HAD TO BE KEPT... That was how Tracy Reinhardt saw things. And she had promised her ailing father to run the family firm until his return. Unfortunately, that threw her into conflict with Eric Jaeger, who had supposedly been hired...
ILLUSIONS OF INNOCENCE... BLAIR PEYTON was one of Hollywood's top makeup artists. She felt at home behind the camera, but when she was suddenly asked to star in front of it, her whole life changed. DRAKE McCLURE had the most to lose if ...
SWEET MEMORIES OF DESIRE.... Two people met on a Galveston beach and followed their passion into love. But the real world intruded, and that love was left only in memory. Two years later, Meryl Stevens and Reese Corbett met again, and this meet...
KAITI CHANCELLOR was at the top of the legal profession; the proof was that she had been asked to defend a very important client in a very important murder trial. She knew she could save her client, but could she save her heart? TOR ANGERMAN was...
ANDREA FORD... Threats and a search for love had driven the top model to Mexico. There the love she had counted on failed her, but just when things seemed darkest, she found her dreams coming true -- with the brother of the man who had betrayed he...
Annie Sparrow...was a political consultant who specialized in promises for the future, but she was on a collision course with her past. Peter Chambers...represented that past. He still worked for the man who had shattered Annie's dreams. They wer...
GWEN HALLIDAY... She wore blue crinoline and carried flowers beneath the Southern sun. CADS LANDRY... He was dashing in his Union uniform, the perfect soldier as the Civil War was fought again. Then the game of make-believe was over. The men...
OLYMPIC TRIALS Raine Chandler-Smith belied her slight figure with a surprising strength. She had the skill, timing, and sheer guts it took to guide a Thoroughbred through grueling cross-country endurance events. For Raine, the Olympics was the cul...
MIRANDA RICHARDSON She was the picture of a lady lawyer, but her heart was just waiting to be awakened by love. DAN AUSTIN He was an actor who played the ladykiller both on screen and off -- but never in a literal sense. So he was really thrown ...
MALLORY O'CONNOR McKENDRICK To the daytime TV audience she was the ruthless Other Woman, but the real Mallory's marriage seemed to be falling victim to a woman who was truly as unprincipled as the character Mallory played. NATHAN McKENDRICK ...
BREE DALTON She had a fine line to walk. As head of a coal company, she had to do her best for the business, but she also wanted to preserve the hills where the coal was found. RYAN KELSEY He was literally under fire when he met Bree, and thing...
ALLEGRA WHITNEY. At twenty-eight Allegra lived a life based on business, but in her heart there was a dream, a dream of one special man. SIMON YORK. He was a man with a secret mission, but he, too, had a dream, a dream of one extraordinary woman....
DEENA HARWELL She had been raised in the Kentucky bluegrass and she saw her chance to go back -- as well as to rebuild her father's reputation as a trainer -- if she could purchase Vindicator, a colt with championship potential. Her dream led he...
KATHERINE BISHOP She felt as if she were living a novel when she was kidnapped and carried into the Moroccan desert. RASHID BEN HASIR He had connections to two worlds: the civilized West, and the fierce East that was his heritage. They clashe...
LAURA SILVER She was as rare and special a woman as her name implied, but the happiness that should have been hers had been destroyed by one man. GREGORY STEIGER was the son of that man, and her new employer. Laura was determined to best him an...
COULD THEIR LOVE WITHSTAND THE TEST OF TRUTH? Dr. Erica Jordan dispensed advice on how to handle life's problems via her radio talk show, but when it came to handling her own difficulties she didn't find things so easy. She met Josh Ingram at ...
RETURN TO PARADISE . . . Liana Beldon had been raised away from her family's Hawaiian home, but an urgent call from her sister brought her back to the islands to save the family property. Her struggle brought her up against Jax McHenry, whose a...
LANE PATTON represented the chic East Side of New York. She was fashionable, as arty as the magazine she wrote for--and far too busy for that thing called love. DAVID COREY lived on the down-to-earth West Side. He was a doctor who took his respons...
CHELSEA VAUGHN had a new job as an automobile repossessor, but she failed in her very first assignment: she took the wrong car and landed an innocent man in jail. JASON MALONE bore Chelsea no grudge. In fact he was pleased, because she had inadver...
HIDDEN FIRES, HIDDEN DREAMS... Stephanie Tyler had overcome the grief of her widowhood with the help of Neil Moran, her late husband's best friend. Neil and Ty had played hard together on the football field, and even harder off it. Once Ty met Ste...
BROOKE GORDON was wary of her new assignment. Directing commercials was a fine art, and she was more than good at it, but working with an athlete . . .? PARKS JONES was a novice in front of the camera but a master of the game of baseball. At the g...
DIFFICULT DECISION .. . Jennifer Winters was in trouble at KZAM- TV: She had to come up with a big story or lose her job. Hot on the trail of advice columnist Darla Hart, she met Michael Casari instead. He seemed to be intimately connected to t...
COLD. Ice raining down. Darkness and wind . . . The nightmare woke Alana each night with a shock of absolute terror that did not diminish with waking. Those six lost days on Broken Mountain that she could not recall were tearing her apart. ...
BETRAYED! That was how TV newswoman Jade Sweet felt when she discovered Barney McNab's true colors. She had trusted him as the one person she could talk to about Leon, the man she had loved and lost. Then she learned that Barney's hands were less...
THEY HAD KNOWN LOVE.... They had known passion and the joy of shared dreams--and they had had everything but time. Danielle Davis and Keir McBride had shared the kind of love few ever know, but her abrupt disappearance, necessary to save her li...
SHE HAD HER OWN RACE TO WIN.... Casey Alexander had fought to succeed in vet school, and now fought even harder to get ahead in the male-dominated world of the racetrack. Paul Herron was one of the few who hired her to treat his horses. He gave...
THE TIES THAT BIND... CAROLINE DAWSON had married Roscoe Lancaster, a man thirty years her senior, and she had been a loving wife to him. But the deepest love in her heart was reserved for his son. RINK LANCASTER had broken teenaged Caro...
Assigned to desolate Kingdom Come, Texas, to work off her government loan, young Dr. Mary Margulies wanted only to put in her time and then to establish a profitable practice elsewhere. She had no ambition to form any lasting attachments in the pover...
APRIL SOUTHERLAND had never really known her husband. She had thought he was a doctor--and unfaithful--and she had finally left him, still not knowing the truth. GAINES SOUTHERLAND still loved the wife he had never cheated on. The revolution in ...
BECCA PETERS, Thoroughbred breeder, was devastated when Jason Chambers died. Now she would have to deal with his son, Brig, who would want her to honor his father's loan. Six years before, Becca had loved Brig, but he had accused her of drugging a ...
LIKE THE TWO STRANDS OF A DUET, the lives of Rachel Busek, flutist, and Jim Guthrie, private investigator, drew together until they became one. Rachel was a child of privilege, while Jim came from the wrong side of the tracks. There seemed no ...
SHE COULD GIVE NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH OF HER LOVE .... Angel had known only love and the irretrievable loss brought by death. Hawk had known only hatred and unforgivable betrayal. She was a woman without lies. He was a man who had never found truth...
LIFESAVER... On Lanie Rodman's first night in New York she saved a stranger from jumping off a ledge to certain death. She gave him the gift of life, and soon the gift of her love, as well. Betrayal descended on her the next day when the st...
MAGGIE RUSSELL She never got over the man who rescued her from a Central American revolution when she was only a teenager. The brief kiss he gave her when their adventure was over still burned on her lips. MICHAEL CURRY Once he had trekked throu...
HE HELD HER WITH CHAINS OF LOVE.... JULIE MAGUIRE She was a ten-year veteran of the U.S. Border Patrol, but one night's slipup left her on the verge of an early -- and final -- retirement. CHAYNE YOUNGER They called him the Blue-eyed ...
MORGAN JAMES . . . Her old life was a rut, one she was glad to escape. Then she was grabbed by a knife-wielding man on her first night in Greece, and she wondered if she would go on having any life at all. NICHOLAS GREGORAS . . . He was both...
DECEPTIONS OF THE HEART Meli Fancher acted on impulse when she rescued Jud Thompson. If she had thought, she never would have aided the handsome stranger, who swam away from a hail of bullets and into her island paradise. But is was Meli's hear...
HOMECOMING... Libby Kincaid has returned to the ranch where she grew up to heal the wounds that a broken marriage and the death of her beloved stepson have left. But instead of the solace she craves, she finds Jess Barlowe. For years Jess had ...
AISLINN PIERCE had inherited Ildathach, her family's magnificent Irish estate. The house promised her peace, but the man she met there gave her heart no rest. CONNOR CLAY met Aislinn by moonlight when she ran from the terror of her dreams in...
NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET For Jessica Todd life meant the pressures of too much work and too little sleep. One day her body told her it was time for a vacation, but she never doubted that she would soon return to her high-powered world. Kyle M...
HIDDEN TRUTHS... All Penny Baldwin wanted was to clear up the mystery surrounding her friend Marita's death. Instead, she found herself enmeshed in a growing web of intrigue. In the closed -- and dangerous -- environment of international diplomacy...
A SEASON FOR SURPRISES .. . Mistaken impressions were only the first barrier to love for Season Ashford and Gard Kincannon. Season's ex-husband thought he had hired Gard to keep an eye on Season, but he couldn't have been more wrong. Gard's only r...
BLACK SHEEP'S RETURN... The world stopped for Susan Blackstone when she looked across the crowded room and saw the stranger, and then her heart stopped when she learned his name. He was Cord Blackstone, the family black sheep, and her own cousin b...
SWORN ENEMIES Kari Wynne had every reason in the world to hate DA Hunter Mckee. In her eyes, he was ambitious, unprincipled, and too hard driving. Her feud with him had cost her the TV reputation she had struggled to win, the job that was her life...
LAURELLIE ARMAND... Her competition with fellow reporter Matthew Bates went beyond professional rivalry; she fought the spark of sexual attraction as well. But when the two of them became unwilling partners investigating a mysterious death, Laurel ...
DOUBLE GAME... They met by moonlight, but Maggie Summer's midnight foray into Kyle Spencer's bedroom wasn't what it seemed. She was a detective hired to protect him from whoever was threatening him, at the office and at home. The problem was Kyle...
IN SEARCH OF A DREAM . . . Brilliant and beautiful Cassia Jones had been sheltered in her scientific haven like a princess in a tower, lacking only a stranger's kiss to awaken her to the real world. Tristan Ward's adventurous spirit would have ...
WHERE THE HEART IS... For as long as Shelley Wilde could remember, she had wanted a home of her own, a place where she was understood, where she was safe. After a divorce and years of putting finishing touches on homes for other people, she had f...
HOME... Cass Wells needed to sort out her life, so she left her New York design firm behind and headed for the Utah ranch she called home. But her problems went right along with her. Her partner followed her, arguing against her desire to sell ...
ONE MIRACULOUS AFTERNOON... Mara's whole life changed when she met Alex Gautier, the prominent New Orleans attorney handling the estate her uncle had willed to her. Mara had never intended to live in the charming old house in the French Quarter, b...
ANNE REYNOLDS was a movie producer who found magic and beauty everywhere she looked, then tried to reproduce those qualities on the screen. CLINT WARD was an engineer who dealt with facts. His dreams reached as high as the sun and would bene...
A MANY SPLENDORED THING Her sister was gone, and Rosemary Harper intended to raise Vicky's son, come hell or high water. She hadn't bargained on Antonio de Santiago. It was Tonio's nephew she'd come to get, and he wasn't going ...
GEORGIA SILK led the kind of hectic life that left her little time for love. As a TV reporter she spent her time chasing after the kind of exciting story that brought viewers -- and excellent ratings -- to the station. SIMON HANNA started out as...
SPOOK BUSTER Poltergeists, ESP, strange and unusual happenings -- they were all run of the mill for parapsychologist Dr. Sonia Barnes. So when she met stuntman Dylan Hamlin, it wasn't his startling gift of precognition that disturbed her. It w...
RARER THAN RUBIES Andrea Thornton had come to Drogo Manor for one thing and one thing only: retribution. She had to clear her late husband's name. There was no room for error in her plans, no room for mistakes, and certainly no room for Zache...
LIES... Could she love a man who lied his way into her life? Brett Devlin had a job to spy on beautiful law student Angela Patria, niece of a powerful Manhattan millionaire. Angela's Uncle Frank was suspected of smuggling drugs, and it was ...
PRIDE GOETH BEFORE A FALL, and no one knew that better than horsebreeder Kendall Voss. Her farm was in trouble, but she was too proud to accept help, even from her too-attractive neighbor, Jordan Craig. Jordan was a neophyte in the horsebreedi...
DESERT FLOWER When Ginny Hooper first met Tony on her last day at the Workin' Late Bar, she knew he was someone special -- though she never would have guessed he was part of the vast DeLeon gambling empire headquartered in Las Vegas. Ginny ...
HE WAS A DARCY, and for Anthony that meant a life of obedience to an ancient code of duty and honor. He was an English nobleman, and she was merely Victoria Lombard, an orphaned American with no knowledge of her parents or her past. Or was she?...
HOLD FAST TO DREAMS Hope Gardener dreamed of the day when her ranch in the Valley of the Sun would be brought to life by a reliable well. It seemed like a foolish dream, until the day she met Rio. Rio was a man without dreams. He moved like th...
KATE FENTON had once acknowledged a man as her master, but she had become her own woman, and now made her living writing from a feminist perspective. ANDREAS CONSTANTINOU seemed to epitomize the attitudes Kate had fought to escape--but his poten...
The daughter of a famous Hollywood director, Chalice York had always known that the film industry was cutthroat. But when her first original screenplay -- which she considered her baby -- was snatched away from her and given to another writer, she vo...
THE REAL WORLD CAN BE VERY HARD ON A DREAM A blissful vacation in Jamaica brought two strangers together: Caren Blakemore needed to escape from a hectic Washington job and the loneliness of painful divorce. Derek Allen wanted some privacy, away f...
IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM Damon Demetrios temporarily "kidnapped" Sigourney Hamilton, a journalist whose by-line drew as much interest as her subjects. He wanted her to cover the Macedonian struggle for freedom, but she was afraid to become involved,...
FAMILY FEUD The feud between the Barons and the Murdocks spanned generations.... Jillian Baron was determined to make the Utopia ranch work -- for herself and to justify her grandfather's trust in her. Her heritage was important, and if making...
TWO'S COMPANY Ten years ago Nina thought that she and Alex had a future together, as a couple and as a musical team -- Alex wrote the words; she made the music. But now she realized that all she had was their past. Except that Alex had just...
UP AND AWAY... Lisa Heron longed to reach the stars, but her role in the space program seemed limited to the practice of psychiatry. Though she had been cleared for space flight, she had begun that her moment to taste the glory of the heavens would ...
SEAT BELTS FASTENED! Raine Michaels was soaring her way to the top, successfully managing her own consulting firm. When she made contact with Ashe Elliot, an ace pilot who reveled in danger and excitement, passion took control. Raine had seen h...
BLACKMAIL... Bryn had to retrieve the photos she'd taken of drummer Lee Condor. Her nephew had been kidnapped, and the kidnapper wanted only one thing in return: those photos. But why? And how could she possibly get them back from Lee? From th...
BEHIND THE SCENES Vea Valdez, L.A.'s most influential film critic, was both beautiful and acid-tongued. While millions of adoring fans thought Rafe Dougin, the lanky, maddeningly self-assured hero of countless Westerns, was the sexiest man ali...
HE WAS A HELL RAISER... Cage Hendren had chased more thin his share of women, but he loved only one--Jenny Fletcher, the quiet, serious girl who was engaged to his brother, Hal. Cage kept his distance until Hal was killed doing missionary work ...
RIGHT PLACE, WRONG TIME When Dr. Elliot Mallory met Georgina "George" Hathaway, almost everything seemed to be right. They liked the same jokes, shared a love of sports, and the chemistry that drew them together was the most powerful he'd ever kno...
ONCE IN A LIFETIME a woman like Kate Brenner came along. Derek Langley had been smuggled out of. Russia when he was a child. Now he had a chance to go back to rescue the father he dearly loved. Kate was a member of the acting troupe that was to pr...
SHE COULD BE ANY WOMAN HE WANTED... As "Amanda Jamison," Ariel Kirkwood suffered stoically through the daily traumas of a popular soap opera. She was adored by her loyal fans, as well as the real people in her life. Booth DeWitt had written hi...
SHE NEEDED SOME TIME ALONE Marisa Perett was on her way home when Hurricane Bertha swept through the Florida Keys, leaving destruction in her wake. When Marisa rescued newsman Michael Novak from the sea, his effect on her was just as devastating....
PORTRAIT OF A LADY... Leslie Harper was every inch a lady when she walked into the seedy Texas bar. Cutter was clearly no gentleman, but then, no gentleman could do the job she needed done. With Cutter's help she had to enter strife-torn Sa...
WHO WAS MARK JAMES? He had escaped from his jungle captors and reached safety despite a bullet in his leg. It was Dr. Mickie Blake's job only to heal his wound, but she soon took on the added task of healing his heart. His past was clouded...
LIFE IS BUT A DREAM... For Marty Newland those words seemed all too true. It scared her that what she dreamed might eventually come to pass, and never more than when she dreamed of the recently abducted girl. Marty had to convince the police to...
GABRIEL VENTURE HAD TAUGHT HER HOW TO LOVE--AND HOW TO HATE At nineteen Joy Anderson had been innocent, trusting, and wholly in love with Gabriel Venture. Gabe was a journalist on assignment. Joy had been his guide. Together they explored Lost Ri...
PRISCILLA JANE HAMILTON GREER Was she a society girl in over her head, or part of an espionage ring that could compromise U.S. interests for years to come? The only certainty was that she was a captive in Costa Rica, and her very wealthy, very wel...
PRODIGAL SON ... McKenzie Moore was seventeen when she realized she loved Jeb Langley--not as a stepbrother, but as a man. And what they shared was hot, torrid--complete. Until Carson Langley forced her to choose between him and his rebel son, but...
HOW TO STEAL A MILLION Adam Haines was an artist visiting the Fairchild mansion to do some undercover digging, and that was a problem for a man who preferred to be straightforward. An even bigger problem was Kirby Fairchild, daughter of the world...
BRIDE TO A STRANGER . . . When Chris Tarleton awoke in the bed of Marcus di Medici, she knew she was lost. Despite her claim that she wanted nothing more than to wed a di Medici man, she hadn't intended to marry Marcus--even though she loved him. ...
LOVE LETTERS Tall, brawny, magnificent -- with a black eye patch and slight limp that only added to his overwhelming masculinity --Trevor Rule might be the one man who could make Kyla Stroud forget her husband's death in the embassy bombing. ...
CASTAWAYS IN LOVE Diana Townsend wanted one thing from life -- to be the most successful hotel magnate in the world, no matter what the consequences to her social life. But when, due to her impetuous nature, she found herself on a deserted Hawa...
BETTINA'S BACK! Tina Lawrence wanted to avoid the hoopla surrounding her return to modeling, but publicity was part of the package. So, it seemed, was Adam Cole, the arrogant head of Century Cosmetics, whose products Tina would be advertising. ...
LOVE IN BLOOM .. . Emily had been a plain Jane all her life, but that hadn't stopped her from loving Adam Marshall, her charismatically handsome employer. She had never thought that Adam saw her as anything other than a secretary--until the day he...
NIGHTMARE Over and over, Kirk dreamed that he was falling...falling. Each night he awoke drenched in sweat, shaking and unable to decipher the dream. Finally, with no other alternative, he went to Nora Hilliard for help. As a psychologist, Nor...
SECRETS... The call from Washington was an unwelcome intrusion in the orderly life Jill Holmes had arranged since her last -- and final -- assignment. But no one ever walked away from the Agency. They needed Jill's special talent once again, a...
FIRST LOVE, LAST LOVE . . . At nineteen Kendra had been in love with Sloan Durant, but after one kiss that seared itself into her memory but apparently meant nothing to him, he'd abandoned her, to marry another woman. Kendra had left ranching a...
MEXICAN HEAT... For Annie McCallister, divorce was just another item for her list of failures. But here in Puerto Madero, she'd found a haven...good friends...time to forget...and the children. Her little refugees. She'd handled their tear...
PARADISE LOST Chase Wilcox came to Hawaii to study volcanoes -- but it was Nicole Ballard, with her dancer's body and hair like a river of flame, who poured fire over him. And he hated himself for wanting her. Cynical, disillusioned by his ex-wi...
SLEEPING BEAUTY With Her Serene Highness Gabriella Bisset suffering from amnesia and her kidnappers still on the loose, Prince Armand lost no time in calling in his close friend, American detective Reeve MacGee. Poor Brie could remember nothing; eve...
BETHANY JONES .. . She was determined to prove her theory that there was a connection between the Anasazi of southern Utah and the ancient Mayas of Mexico, and no one was going to stand in her way. MAX WERNER .. . Someone was stealing Anasazi ar...
AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE Lucas Greywolf was her forbidden fantasy -- wild, rebellious, an escaped convict who was also a Navajo Indian. Aislinn had been terrified when he had first grabbed her, but now she was intrigued. Why had he taken her hostage-and...
ACROSS THREE CONTINENTS Bret McAllistair chased the diamonds that had remained missing for forty years and led to the death of at least one man. Bret had always been driven to get the story, but this time there was something more. His remainin...
A HEARTFELT MELODY Jacques Duvalier had a voice that could melt steel -- plus looks, charm, and enough sex appeal to send any woman running for a cold shower. For years, Laura Williams resented that "awful French boy." Her Uncle Beau had given hi...
LOVEBIRDS Devoting her life to California's most respected bird sanctuary was Sara's way of avoiding the spotlight that had always followed her famous Hollywood family. Yet, when Cal Webster arrived at Cygnet House, offering to write about...
Twelve years ago, Erin O'Neill had left South Dakota and Hunter Brave Wolf. Though she loved him, she had seen no future for them, but her heart had never been the same. The death of her sister under mysterious circumstances brought her back ...
Looking for love... DANGER! In the hidden New York, the long-forgotten tunnels beneath Wall Street, librarian Mollie Fletcher discovered not just a window on the past, but danger and love beyond her wildest imaginings. Sebastian Barnett, th...
AN OCEAN OF LOVE Kate Hardesty had inherited a pile of mysterious ocean charts. Her practical, no-nonsense father had had a dream -- sunken treasure -- and he'd left a map leading to a gold-laden ship. Determined to complete her father's explorati...
THEY WERE OUT TO TRAP A KILLER and Ariel Spence was the bait. Ryan Jones was assigned to keep an eye on her without her knowledge, but in a small Montana town that was easier said than done. They became uneasy housemates, afraid to reveal too m...
JANE DOE wasn't just another patient. And in all his years of training, no one had touched Joshua Martane like the fragile young woman who had been brought to the psychiatric ward five months earlier. Suspected prostitute. Brutalized victim of a ser...
HE WAS A DESERT CHIEFTAN but he looked to the West for his women. Khalid Rajhi had risen above his primitive upbringing to become a man of the world, irresistible to women. Alyx came to him with a proposition that was also a plea. Her daughter ha...
ONCE THEY HAD BEEN LOVERS but Sondra had been too afraid to allow more, and she had broken the relationship off quickly because she knew Ben had the power to make her feel more than she wanted to feel. Now Sondra was prosecuting her first cas...
AN ARGUMENT FOR LOVE Federal prosecutor Drew Kenyon was the most devastatingly handsome man Laine had ever seen. From the moment he'd walked into the Grand Jury hearing room, they had been linked by smoldering... passion. Now they were together in...
CODE NAME: BEAUTY After three years away from the agency, three years since josh was murdered, three years since she'd channeled her pain into world-class photography, the FBI wanted Blair Browning back to catch the mercenary responsible for her h...
ONCE A SPY... Rose St. James thought she had left espionage behind, but they called her out of retirement to take one last assignment, and they wouldn't let her refuse. She had to investigate Jade Castle, a man of wealth and power, a man wi...
DARK HORSE They'd been like brother and sister. Then, when she as seventeen, in the middle of a hot summer night, their friendship became a passion they could no longer hide. She felt like a fool, because the next morning he was gone. Nine yea...
DREAM COME TRUE? One quick glimpse was all Julie had, but she was sure the man on TV was her husband. She had never believed the reports of Michael's death in a plane crash. She immediately flew to South America, where she came face-to-face with ...
MAN ON A MISSION Cozumel had been home to Liz Palmer for ten years. She was settled, respected. Her Black Coral Dive Shop was the best on the island. She no longer missed Houston, or thought about the man who didn't want her or their child. A...
ACCIDENT OR ATTEMPTED MURDER? Claire Weston had no memory of the month before her car was forced off the road, but she couldn't think of a reason why anyone would have wanted to kill her. Nathan Kellogg could, and he followed her to Jerusalem b...
DOUBLE IDENTITY... Loren Wells was not simply a computer engineer. She was also a US Customs agent on the track of smugglers who were selling American technology to the highest bidder. Her undercover job took her to Scott Electronics and introduce...
MEMORIES Anne hadn't wanted the family's money, power--or madness. Just their generations-old home in the Appalachians. Just freedom from memories of a marriage that had nearly destroyed her. Just the peace she'd found in her new life ...
SHE HELPED HIM ESCAPE, then disappeared. He was a student activist in Mexico, she an American on vacation. Their meeting was improbable, and they separated when she returned to her comfortable home and he went on to be his country's conscience. ...
HE CAME CRASHING INTO HER LIFE! They met over smashed fenders and clashing tempers, and if Jade never saw the arrogant stranger again it would be altogether too soon. It was not to be. His name was Jeff Martin, and he was the ex-baseball star c...
KIDNAPPED It was a land of beauty, fragrant with olive trees and wildflowers. Photographer Tracy Heath was in Turkey to shoot travel pictures, but the glittering waters of the Aegean made her forget the scenery and zoom in on a sailboat and its su...
HOLLYWOOD, SOUTH CAROLINA Diligence Hall Plantation was perfect for the filming of Glory Road, but reclusive Reese Benedict had no intention of letting Hollywood film people near the place. So Eva Sinclair, Marchetti Films' best troubleshoote...
RIVALS Sara knew she had to be wary of Nick Foster. As her chief rival, he displayed a fearlessness that was unmatched in Boston's business world. Something in his dark lion's eyes ignited a fire in Sara's soul, intense and dangerous. And with one...
DANGEROUS LOVER Helen Demarest's peaceful, orderly existence was shattered forever the night Matteo Montega burst into her life. Armed and wounded, Montega was a man on the run with a secret mission to complete. At first frightened, then fascinate...
A SECOND CHANCE... Five years of marriage were wiped from Chase Buchanon's mind in the wake of his kidnapping. Returned to his wife, he had only instinct to go on, and instinct told him that he loved this woman. For Gwenn, his return was t...
A LONG TWO MONTHS Although excited about the archaeological dig in Jerusalem, Alexandra Cauldwell had serious reservations about working with General David McKellen. Charismatic, headstrong and clearly in charge, he had no time for detours--busine...
FIRST IMPRESSIONS aren't always the correct ones. Stephanie Carnsbrough was an heiress, so Jared knew she had to be snooty, flighty and completely self-centered. And Stephanie was sure Jared was cold and invulnerable, a man destined to go through ...
A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS Christy's brother had disappeared without a trace in the Sahara Desert. Now Christy was in Morocco, determined to find him. The only one who could help her was Hassan Ben Kadiri, a man born and bred in the desert, who lo...
THIS WAS NO TV SHOW! This was the real thing: gritty, frightening and completely confusing. Amanda's first priority was to deal with her kidnappers. She had to explain to them that no one was about to pay for her return. Her second priority was...
PASSION'S TORMENT Two years ago, Lainie Hall had testified against a notorious underworld criminal and sent him to prison. But she put that behind her when Lainie Hall "died" and "Amanda Howe" was born. She acquired a new identity, a new job and a...
ONCE UPON A TIME, in a kingdom called Gregoria, a man met a woman and began to fall in love. Gavin Penderast was a U.S. ambassador whose mission went far beyond his attendance at the royal wedding. The balance of world power could easily depend o...
KELL SABIN WAS IN TROUBLE He knew it the minute the other boat drew near, the minute he heard the crack of rifle fire over water. Wounded and desperate, he flung himself into the Gulf and headed for shore. Rachel Jones wasn't looking for t...
PAST, PRESENT--FUTURE? Four years ago rugged Carson Blackridge had branded Lara with his masculine touch, then crushed her innocent heart. Utterly humiliated, she'd fled the Rocking B forever. Reluctantly she was returning, but strictly to researc...
NOTHING MEANT MORE THAN LIFE -- AND LOVE. Their marriage had ended, but not the love they felt for their son. And in five days one summer they discovered that their love for each other was still a powerful force. When their son was kidnappe...
SHE HAD TO HAVE HIM. Kerry Bishop needed a man. She needed someone tough enough and strong enough to lead nine orphans through enemy territory to a jungle airlift. Linc O'Neal needed to get out of Montenegro fast. He had a roll of film to deliv...
A HERITAGE OF HOPE... Carly McAllister was a doctor, and she planned to spend her life working with her people: the Sioux of South Dakota. But too many of them were dying of distinctly unnatural causes, and if Carly was to protect them, she had to...
SHE WAS EVERYTHING HE COULDN'T HAVE -- and everything he wanted. Not only was Krista MacLaren's father suspected of smuggling illegal aliens -- and possibly worse--across the border, but she was a typical child of privilege, too rich for Border Pat...
A WORLD OF MAKE-BELIEVE... Lisi designed costumes for the movies, escaping into a world of fantasy through her work, because what she knew of the real world was far from pretty. She had been so young when she got married -- and so much in love....
DESERT INTRIGUE Damon Noble was handsome, charming, exciting -- and the wrong man to fall in love with. After meeting Damon at a posh Washington, D.C., party, Jessica Stanton realized that she couldn't resist him. Still, she was wary of lovin...
BATTLE LINES... Theatrical agent Aurora Fields kept her personal life strictly separate from her professional one, but lines were crossed the moment she met David Brady. He had asked her client to participate in his documentary on paranormal pheno...
DESERT REFUGE Eden Mckenna was chief engineer on Project MECCA, a top secret defense plan her company was designing for the government. Jake Kenyon was a security investigator posing as an engineer on Eden's team. They had nothing in common, until f...
FOOLISH PLEASURE .. . Abby Colton knew she had been asked to teach at the reservation school only because they couldn't get anyone better. For "better" read "Indian," she thought--especially in Cat Tallman's mind. He was obviously attracted to her...
LONE WOLF A fire, a murder, no clues and a string of suspects as long as the Mississippi were what homicide detective Sam Long had to contend with. His only hope to break open the case was locked away in a little girl's mind. But psychology wasn't...
SECRET LOVE... As an undercover agent for the Macedonian government, Lady Phillipa Fleming had to pose as Giles Hayes-David's sister, which didn't give either one of them the chance to express their growing feelings for each other. And Phillipa...
MATCHMAKER'S VICTIMS . . . What were their friends thinking of? Chelsea Lattimer and David Winter couldn't have been more different. Chelsea was a writer. She lost herself in the past to make up for the inadequacies of the present. David was a doc...
NO TURNING BACK When Dr. Abbie Fitzgerald found herself taken hostage and staring down the barrel of a gun, she decided that she would have an affair with the next man who walked through the door--if she lived long enough. That man was Michael Viv...
HE BELONGED IN THE JUNGLE ... . When Tara first saw Rafe Tyler, she was reminded of a tiger preparing to stalk its victim. When he followed her, she realized she was right. He was a hunter, and he was hunting her. She was frightened, but she felt ...
They were searching for an ancient treasure...but they found a timeless love. MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD A deathbed request sent Bethany Adams to Hong Kong in search of the legendary Golden Dragon, symbol of eternal love to those who viewed him wi...
HERITAGE OF DANGER... Gwen Llywelyn came to Myrddin's Rock to sell the ancient Welsh castle that one branch of her family had called home for generations. But what she found when she arrived was a heritage she could not deny, a danger she could no...
CONFLICT OF INTEREST.. . A. J. McMichael never suspected that her brief encounter with a handsome stranger would turn out to be one of the most important moments of her life. She returned to North Carolina to run her late father's newspaper and...
HONOR VS. LOVE Who was she really -- Lily Fazekas, the name she had used since childhood, or Iiona Kormany, the name of her newly discovered baptismal certificate? Joseph Varga knew something about Iiona and needed to know more. She was his c...
KIDNAPPED! Lauren DeCoty hadn't expected to be greeted by gunmen when she opened her hotel room door. She was in France on assignment, and what reason would anyone, especially the Palestinian Nationalist Front, have for kidnapping a top fashion m...
RETURN ENGAGEMENT In Eve Hamilton's youth, His Royal Highness Alexander de Cordina had played the part of a fairy-tale prince. Cordina was still a storybook place, but seven years ago Eve had learned that its villains were undeniably real. She had...
A CLOSET ROMANTIC Dr. Toni Sinclair was a busy woman whose only time for romance was in her dreams. Then she took a much needed vacation in Egypt and discovered that the ages -- old country, with its ancient pyramids and exotic temples, was everyt...