
Sarah loved her happy single life in London. But the sweet memory of Carl Duris and their first encounter in Greece made her heart wander, her mind wonder. Soon she was back in Carl's arms -- a captive bride, a prisoner of love and revenge on ...
Britt Ryan had never dreamed that her flair for photography would take her to France to visit the historic Chateau de Laon. Now she had only to pin down the elusive Philippe, master of the chateau, and she would have all the shots she needed for a st...
FOR $20,000 JESS WOULD DO ANYTHING! And when Derek Thorpe offered that sum to Jess Stanton to photograph his jungle expedition, she jumped at the chance. However, when Thorpe learned the "Jess" stood for Jessica, he wasn't pleased with the idea...
CLINT DIDN'T KNOW WHO KAREN WAS -- AND WHAT WOULD HAPPEN WHEN HE FOUND OUT? Karen began her masquerade as Clint's staid, middle-aged housekeeper in a fit of pique. He had said she couldn't act. Well, she would show him! At first it ...
When Megan Taylor accepted the job as private secretary for Yolanda Delgado, she knew she might meet Jacques Ducruet, the unscrupulous playboy businessman she blamed for her father's bankruptcy and suicide. But the appeal of a charity drive and the n...
ONLY FOOLS PLAY WITH FIRE TWICE. Five years ago Melody Travers had fled in humiliation and anger from her marriage to Brand Travers. He was a hard man used to making decisions and having them instantly obeyed. Now he was forcing her to marry him a...
FORBIDDEN PASSION She had come to Sweden to discover her roots, only to find a love beyond her wildest dreams--and an ancient curse that said it could never be hers. From the first explosive moment they met, Eve Tremaine knew she would never forge...
"I WILL HAVE YOU WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT...." JoNell knew that the wealthy South American playboy Jorge Del Toro would carry out his threat. He played the game of love and business with a fierce determination to win. But JoNell was unpre...
LONG AGO, ALAN HAD SPOKEN OF THIS MAGICAL PLACE .... Now with Peter Merrick as guide, Hensley has the chance to admire the cool meadows and snowy mountain peaks her brother once loved. Peter and Alan had been the best of friends, and so it had see...
INDIA -- A TRIP OF A LIFETIME! When Beth Jackson learned of her buying trip to India her only concern was to purchase the precious gold wedding dress and ruby necklace for her employer. Yet before she realized it, Beth had fallen in love with I...
THERE WAS A SNAKE IN EDEN.... It seemed like the perfect job--assisting Guy Anderson in his London antique shop, working beside the most devastating bachelor Abigail Forrest had ever met. But the shadow in the picture was her young and beautiful n...
IT WAS A BATTLE FOR LOVE. Emily Fairchild had dreamed of a vacation like this: a whole summer spent in a romantic cottage on the water where she would be free to paint and cook and sing and live as joyously as her passionate nature demanded. Bu...
HE WAS PLAYING TO WIN--AND SHE WAS PLAYING OUT OF HER LEAGUE! Nikki Warren had answered Michael Cragun's ad only as a joke. He couldn't have meant it to be taken seriously. After all, what woman would want to have a stranger's baby? But Michael...
At last Sarah had the job she always wanted--head gardener for a country estate in northern California. And in Kight Ramsey, the owner, Sarah felt her dreams--and her desires--could be filled for life. But his presumptuous manner and his childhood...
Cathy Bissette thought she had left everything behind-the publishing job, the glamour of New York, the broken heart-for a quiet three-month vacation at home on the shores of North Carolina. But the moment Jared Parsons sailed the lavish Sea Gypsy in...
SHE WAS A PRISONER OF HER PAST. Clare had dedicated herself to the memory of her fiance, but it was hard to keep that vow under the warm, star-filled Caribbean skies in the strong arms of Luke Mortimer. And Luke was waging a campaign to win Cla...
TINA FOUND HER DEEPEST FEARS TO BE JUSTIFIED. Tina Harcourt, hired by Brant Wakefield to write a history of his family, expected an enjoyable summer. But from the moment she met Brant, nothing seemed to go right. Most disturbing of all, though...
COMING TO VENICE WAS LIKE COMING HOME. Almost in spite of herself, Gemma Savage found herself falling in love with Venice. She felt immediately at home living in the decaying palazzo, a relic of another time, with the grandmother she had never kno...
POOR, LONELY RICH GIRL Tiffany Maxwell left her wealthy father's house three years ago, convinced it was no longer her home. She fled to Paris where she plunged into a life of frivolity--and forgetting. Returning home to assume control of the f...
DANGEROUS PARADISE! Business had brought Carol Anne to the lush, fragrant island of Jamaica. But it was aloof, virile Robert Innes who made her want to stay forever. Then jet-setting Kathy McKinnon came home to claim Robert, and Carol Anne kne...
TAKEN BY SURPRISE Stacy found herself engaged to the dashing Drew Pitman after spending less than an hour in his disturbing presence. And it did not take her much longer to find out what her heart had always known. This was the man she'd been wai...
HE HAD A HEART MADE OF STONE. Terri Thompson was a photographer--a good one--and she was thrilled to be working with writer Derek Storm on a book about ancient Mexican culture. But her joy soon turned to ashes, for not only was Derek an impossible...
BLOWN BY THE WINDS OF FATE ... Tiana Spencer left Georgia with the hope of establishing a career as a commercial artist. Instead, she became the toast of New York in her role as The Elf. Created by advertising genius Bayne Dahlquist to promote a n...
DO DREAMS EVER COME TRUE? As Simon Wades research assistant, Jane Sullivan found herself part of a glamorous world she had never known. Simon was a famous author whose most recent books had been made into successful movies. But none of this matter...
WAS MARRIAGE HER ONLY OUT? When she became the victim of a cruel blackmail scheme, Leslie Foster had no choice but to approach her boss, Rod Castle, for help. And when he had solved her problem she rashly promised that she would do anything to rep...
THERE ARE SOME THINGS MONEY CAN'T BUY... When Julia Harcourt's wealthy father tried to buy her a place in Derek Veblen's class, the famed artist was ready to walk right out the door. But a look at Julia's paintings convinced him to...
COULD THIS MARRIAGE CONTINUE? Paula Blake realized, when first she saw her new employer, Ramon Calzada Gonzalez, that she may have been hasty leaving England to accept a job in Puerto Rico as his secretary. Worse than arrogant, Ramon seemed t...
OUT OF THE FRYING PAN, INTO THE FIRE! For years Sally Baxter's ungrateful family had taken advantage of her, never giving her time for a life of her own. They were outraged when she told them she was going to Australia. She was determined, how...
THEIR WILLS CLASHED ON THE SET--AND OFF! No one knew about Marisa Marshall's secret marriage to Llewllyn Stone, Hollywood's most successful screenwriter. And no one could guess what had turned their one year of delirious happiness into a nightmare...
FOR EIGHT YEARS SHE TRIED TO FORGET HIM! Liza Marsh worked hard to pull her life together after that one fateful summer. She was now a respected actress, on the verge of leaving her hit Broadway show after a year's run. But when Liza begins...
TIME WAS RUNNING OUT.... Shane McKittrick wanted to hire a woman to be his wife and bear his child. Karen Muir, driven by her love for him and sure that she could win his love before the time limit on their marriage had expired, became his wife. ...
HER DREAM HAD BECOME A NIGHTMARE! When Jan Warren inherited the Rancho Arroyo dude ranch, she thought all her troubles were over. At last she and her young brother, Benjie, would have a home of their own, a place to be secure--together. But Der...
HOW COULD IT BE WRONG WHEN IT FELT SO RIGHT? Only four years earlier, a skiing accident had destroyed her dreams of a dancing career. Now Eve Martin had returned to Vail, Colorado to prevent her impulsive sister Marilyn from making the same mistak...
HER HEART WAS BEYOND MENDING. For Lynn Forster, the restoration of fine paintings had always been a peaceful living -- until she went to La Casa Española, home of aristocratic wine-importer Brett Sackville. Lynn couldn't keep from fallin...
HOW MUCH COULD JULIE FORGIVE? Julie Barclay secretly married Blaise Richards, a man she hardly knew, in return for the cost of an operation which would save her mother's life. Andrew Barclay, her wealthy grandfather, made this match as penance ...
BITTERSWEET MARRIAGE It had begun as a harmless deception, a white lie to ease the last days of Trevor Barrone's grandmother. Finally, Trevor was going to grant her dying wish and marry Robyn Christopher. And now Robyn found herself exchanging wed...
WHO DID THE MYSTERIOUS BEACHCOMBER THINK SHE WAS? Mariette met him on a deserted beach and was unable to forget the passion he had roused in her. But at least her role as "Julie Long" in a local theater production helped to keep her mind o...
LYLE WOULD NEVER TRUST A MAN AGAIN. BUT THEN SHE MET THAD.... After her painful involvement with Stan, Lyle thought she would never dare to love again. When a tragic car accident claims the lives of her parents, an internationally renowned pian...
IT WAS A DREAM COME TRUE! Robin O'Neil had known only the sheltered life of an orphanage until she became a governess en route by luxury liner to Hawaii. But the time aboard ship was even more exciting because of a mysterious sailor who cavali...
BIRD IN A GILDED CAGE Lynn couldn't marry without her guardian's permission -- permission his stepson would never let him grant. So in a desperate bid to gain control of her fortune and her life she married that same stepson: Paul Loukas, ...
THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME Hired as a tutor for some American children on Abaco island, Lynn Hartwell had the unique opportunity to study the Bahama coral reefs firsthand as research for her graduate thesis. And when world-renowned marine biologi...
ONE SIGNATURE WAS THE KEY TO HER FORTUNE This was Jennifer's big break. All she had to do was sign a talented Balinese artist to an exclusive contract to sell her work to Jennifer's boss, the owner of a large New York art gallery. Bali ...
COULD SHE TRUST HIM? Jenny Brevan, the Sun's promising young journalist, wanted to believe that the brilliant and attractive American, Richard King, had come to Australia's Surfers Paradise as a consultant to help the ailing paper. But now, it ...
THEIR PASSION BLAZED A TRAIL ACROSS THE DESERT. As soon as she had forced the truck off the road, Jenny Ross was sorry. But sorry didn't help when the driver followed her to inflict his own searing brand of punishment. Despite his anger, Nick Butl...
SHE WANTED HER FREEDOM.... Or so Rachel Cleary thought until she met the virile Corsican, Achille Corlotti. When he insisted that she interrupt her vacation to take the job of tutor for his daughter, her heart betrayed her head. For now she knew t...
FAITH FORGOT THE LAW OF THE LAND. Faith Hallister's peaceful strolls across old Watson's land ended the day she encountered a strong, dark man on a horse-the Tennessee property's new owner. When she found employment at the Donnell mansion, Faith ...
STRANDED IN ITALY Leigh Sheridan's dream of working on an Italian newspaper as a reporter turned into a nightmare when she failed to land the job. Her seemingly hopeless plight drove her to the beautiful Isle of Capri to find employment with M...
SHE TOOK A CHANCE.... Orphaned since early childhood, Tanya Steele had been shuttled from relative to relative. For the past five years she had lived with distant cousins; now they were dead, and she was alone again. But that was before she met...
MARRY IN HASTE, REPENT AT LEISURE. And Valerie had plenty of time to repent--four long years. Her marriage to Sean Hunter had been deliriously happy until her desire to become a dancer had torn them apart. Her husband gone, Valerie lost her career...
MARRIAGE TO A STRANGER Laura had been half in love with David from the moment they met, but her opinion of his employer, D. Jonathan Lattimer, was far from complimentary. Then one morning she awoke to find herself married -- to David Jonathan L...
A MARRIAGE OF FATE After the death of her great-uncle, Eleanor Stewart left her native England for the Greek island of Rhodes to take over the house which he had willed her. Here on this sun-blessed island she discovered a destiny that she had ...
HE HAD NO LOVE TO GIVE. Jill had married Adamandios Doxaros only to ease his ailing mother's heart; theirs was a marriage only of convenience. Or so she thought, until, by imperceptible degrees, she fell in love with her husband. But she h...
HER WORLD WAS FALLING APART After her father's death, Leah Deerfield is nearly destitute. Her last hope is with her stepmother in Australia; but it isn't long before Leah realizes she is an unwelcome visitor. Seeking to escape the confi...
HE WAS HER FIRST LOVE. Susanne L'Anjeau had been fourteen, and Bart Stone, twenty-four. Back then Susanne's Louisiana family had been wealthy, and Bart, a rough Creole lad, was the son of a servant and had courted her sophisticated older s...
WINTER'S PASSION, WINTER'S NIGHT Maria Vernon had no idea who her rescuer was the night that she nearly froze to death in a sudden Maine blizzard. She had come to New England for a brief vacation before going home to her parents in the Northwest. ...
THEY WERE THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS. Cindy Lancaster had grown up loving her Blue Ridge Mountain home but dreaming of another life--a life in the city with a man who loved her. Then one night the stranger came. Rane Dartsfield Randolph III was a...
SHE WOULD SOONER TRUST THE DEVIL! So Robina told herself as she flew to Madeira to meet with the husband she had left two years ago -- Carlos da Milaveira. Carlos had finally decided to give her the freedom that was her only wish, if she agreed to...
THEY WERE ALONE IN THE WILDERNESS.... When her small plane was forced down in the Alaskan wilderness, Christie hoped eagerly for rescue. But how could she have known that rescue would come in the form of Scott Kingsley, a reclusive author who had ...
IT WAS EDEN NO MORE The island paradise of Chimera had been her father's dream come true, and now Petrina had to watch it become just another tourist trap. Worst of all, the man responsible for the change was David Palmer -- the man she had se...
A HOTEL, DEEP IN THE PERUVIAN JUNGLE, WAS HER HOME. Lexie Reed's legacy from her father was his beloved Green Paradise lodge. It had been their home, and Lexie would do anything to keep it... even if it meant she had to accept help from her enemy,...
HOW COULD SAMANTHA TELL CHRISTIAN THAT SHE WAS "SAM" BLAKELY? For Samantha it began as a dream come true. She finally landed a staff photographer's position on Daylight Magazine. She was well on her way. And then she met the owner, Chr...
HER MARRIAGE WAS A BARGAIN When their father is lost in a storm, Nicole and her brother are left penniless. Then help comes from an unexpected source when Nicole's rich girl friend, Angela, walks out on the eve of her society wedding. If Nico...
A NEW LIFE BECKONED.... Jennifer Evans had come all the way from Oklahoma to take the job at Rainbow Ridge Ski Lodge in California. Here, at last, was the chance she had been dreaming of--or so she thought. That was before she had met her new b...
SHE WAS DESTINED FOR HEARTBREAK. Jenny had never approved of her stepmother Sylvia's plans to marry Glavcos Kyrou, an old and wealthy Greek. She was made even more miserable once she reached his island home, for there she met his handsome, arr...
IT HAD SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA When Harriet Ferrer's godfather unexpectedly asked her to visit his hotel in Gambia, she accepted with alacrity. She did not know that he had also invited the world-renowned playboy and hotel magnate, Phineas de...
ADAM WAS THE ONE MAN SHE TRIED TO HATE. She was a reporter looking for a job, and he was an ad executive in search of the perfect model. Susan Thomas first locked wills with Adam Kincaid when he brusquely rejected her for the position she neither ...
SEVEN YEARS STOOD BETWEEN THEM... Seven years since Lani's love for her aristocratic stepbrother, Daniel, had turned to anger and cold dislike. Now he was back -- to steal away the small brother she had raised. He gave her an ultimatum: acc...
SHE COULD NEVER ABANDON HER FAMILY Cindy Templeton expected to inherit a company after her father's death. Instead, to gain her legacy, she had to marry the one man she hated: Boyd Hamilton, a businessman to whom control, of companies and of w...
HER FUTURE WAS UNCERTAIN. Living out west had always been Debra Waynfield's dream, but she had never imagined sharing it with the tall stranger, Marcus Reede. Now that she had met him, she knew that she could never let him go. But she had found no...
SNOWBOUND IN A SECLUDED HILLTOP CABIN! Reporter Julie Dever thought she knew everything about New Mexico's youngest senator, Nicholas Raffer, not only his politics but his intimate social life as well. However, when he rescues her from a car wreck...
A HONEYMOON FOR ONE ... That's how Shauna saw the cruise after her fiance jilted her, but she vowed to go anyway. Far safer to marry for money than love, she thought. And where better to meet a wealthy man? Charismatic Adam Steele is a thre...
SHE WAS FINALLY ON HER OWN! At twenty-four years of age Deborah Denhoff asserts her independence. Despite parental disapproval she travels to Texas to research the life of Clement Vaulkhurst -- Nobel Prize-winning novelist and a distant relative -...
TROPICAL NIGHTS MIRRORED THEIR PASSION.... Hannah Blanchard was thrilled about the unexpected invitation to the Isle de Cozumel off the coast of Mexico. It offered a needed respite after her recent illness. But her stepsister, Jill, has other pl...
HE WAS THE ONE MAN SHE COULD NEVER TRUST. Alex had every reason to distrust Damon Montaigne. Hadn't he cheated her father in business and' driven the family away? Yet now she had to live with him and try to forget the past. She resented his det...
DID SHE DARE BELIEVE IT? A fabulous job as fabric designer for Torelli Silks, a studio in a private wing of an ancient villa on the shore of Lake Como, and the undivided attention of Antonio Torelli, handsome scion of the leading Italian silk fami...
SHE WANTED ALL HIS LOVE. Nicola's had never been a real marriage; Steve's real wife had been his job, and she only his mistress. He thrived on the dangerous life of a foreign correspondent until one day she gave him a choice: he could keep...
FORBIDDEN LOVE Penniless, a burden to her relatives, Grace Lawson had rashly married a virtual stranger to escape an intolerable home situation. She looked forward to making a new life in the Australian Outback. Soon she learned that she had be...
SHE TOOK A GAMBLE ON LOVE.... Leigh Mallory knew that Dow Madigan was a man to be reckoned with from the first moment he had strolled arrogantly into her California office. His East Coast reserve had angered her, but his gentle touch had opened he...
INTO A NEW LIFE When she woke up after the accident, Anne knew that there had been a mistake. Her name wasn't Angela, and she certainly had never been married to Rory Hawthorne. But Angela and Rory were dead, and Anne could never go back to ...
SHE HAD NO TIME AND ONLY ONE CHOICE .... With her sister's death Carrie Franklin is faced with the awesome responsibility of raising her infant nephew, Mike. His father, a member of the wealthy Revell clan, earlier denied paternity. And only Carri...
"COME TO AMERICA. YOUR HOME IS WITH ME NOW." Adelia Cunnane's uncle had written her. So Adelia had left Ireland to join him on what he had described as the finest horse farm in Maryland. Adelia agreed with her uncle about the farm. But what ...
TRAPPED! When Tamara "borrowed" company funds to help her invalid mother, she had every intention of replacing the money before anyone discovered the loss. Then the company was taken over by the ruthless entrepreneur Bickford Rutledge. ...
AT LAST SHE WAS HOME! After graduation, Clementine Masters returned to Glenmeadows Farm in Kentucky where the death of the farm's owner evoked a unique legacy. An unknown relative inherits everything after a year; however, Glenmeadows can ...
MARRIAGE FOR PROPRIETY Jilted and brokenhearted, Megan Jordan believed she would never trust another man, until she met Dr. Alex Dominic. A widower with two sons, Alex's sensuality and the vulnerability of the Dominic children attract Megan...
ON TO ADVENTURE... Nicola had great hopes for her Australian holiday, and even the fact that her friends couldn't meet her plane didn't dampen her spirits. In fact, her adventure started right away when a handsome stranger offered to drive...
MORE THAN SHE BARGAINED FOR! When her once wealthy father died leaving only bad debts, beautiful, jet-setting Ann Milan found work with the darkly handsome Julian Terrace, owner of the famous Terrace Inn. Soon Ann found herself falling desperatel...
THE SEARCH FOR HIS “DREAM HOUSE” ENDED IN THEIR LOVE. Carly Andrews disapproved of the wealthy people who spent their summers in Bar Harbor as they waited for the fall social season to begin but Adam Noble was different. Raised in the commu...
MARRIAGE IN NAME ALONE Four years ago they had been engaged, but that ended abruptly when Suzanne found him with another woman. Now tragedy brought her back to sun-splashed Miami--and to the dynamic Alex Tyndale, the man who had forever imprisoned...
SHE WOULD ONLY MARRY FOR LOVE Lifting her glass in salute, Hilary congratulated herself for nipping her father's plans in the bud. Ever since he decided to arrange her marriage, Hilary had been fending off wealthy entrepreneurs whose only real...
THE STARS HAD FORETOLD IT. Miranda Wade had traveled to exotic Sri Lanka to take fashion photographs and to advance her career. In no way did she want to become involved with the domineering blond Englishman, Adam Ferguson. Nor would she have chos...
FORBIDDEN LOVE Juli Townsend was sure that Thorne Taylor, the dynamic, arrogant owner of Taylor Electronics, had cruelly wronged her family. She was convinced that he had stolen the profits from her brother's secret invention for his company and h...
HER PEACEFUL SUMMER BECAME A SEASON OF UNREST Kate Brown chose North Carolina's coast for its privacy and beauty. She planned to teach watercolor to amateur artists during the summer, but Cameron Greyville had other plans. According to him the Gre...
BROKEN PROMISES, SHATTERED DREAMS Monique was hurt when Miles told her that they had to hide their engagement if she was to follow him to his new job on Grand Cayman Island. It seemed to foreshadow the end of the engagement, and her fears were ...
DRIVEN TO DESPAIR . . . From the moment they met, Paige Garrison knew that Linc Tanner was someone special. Arrogant and magnetic, he seemed to her as dangerous as his profession: auto racing. She came from a different world, and her wealthy fa...
AN INFURIATING MAN! That was Katy O'Hara's personal opinion of movie superstar Craig Sverenson. But as junior editor of Personality Magazine, she had to remain objective and get an in-depth interview with Sverenson while he filmed his late...
SHE HAD WON THE PRIZE -- AND LOST HER HEART. When Danee Hathaway won a trip to Acapulco, she thought all her dreams had come true. What could be better than cloudless skies and beaches of soft, white sand? Then she met Travis.Cameron. This hand...
NEVER A BRIDE? Heather Ashton wanted to be a wife and mother more than anything in the world. Her compassionate heart had led her into three engagements, but she had never been married. Now she was beginning to think she was incapable of truly fal...
WHOM DID HE REALLY LOVE? Temple could hardly believe her luck when she landed the glamorous singing job at St. Thomas's most fashionable nightclub. It was her chance to be somebody, to live the good life on the exotic, sun-baked island. B...
THEY COULD NEVER ESCAPE THE PAST. Alys had married Rand three years ago, and they had never revealed the marriage to anyone, even though they had separated soon after. Thrown together again, they are now forced to live out a guilty charade. Eac...
SHE WAS LOST IN THE FIRE. Surprisingly, Dinah loved working for "Sir Gee," her autocratic boss. But working for his son was another matter entirely. Greg Randal had all of his father's arrogance with none of the older man's unde...
HE WAS A MAN USED TO VICTORY. An unhappy marriage had cured Carrie Spencer of love forever. All she wanted from life was to control the small firm of Elliot Bay Electronic and be left strictly alone. But powerful entrepreneur Matt Lyle had othe...
HE THOUGHT HER A SELFISH SPENDTHRIFT. When Caroline Adams secretly shouldered her cousin's debt, she certainly didn't expect that it would entail marrying rich and cynical Steve Revellion. Not willing to let her cousin down, Caroline agree...
HER HAPPINESS WAS IN THE HANDS OF A STRANGER. Justin Navarro's arrival from Morocco jolted Katharine O' Shea's sheltered world when he came with news of the long lost father she thought she'd never see again. Justin -- the son o...
HE THOUGHT...! Alison Ramsey decided to make the last night of her Key West vacation something special. It started off beautifully when she met Matt Edwards -- and ended in disaster when he mistook her for an expensive call girl. Back home in u...
SHE COULDN'T DENY HER FEELINGS ANY LONGER. Three years after Shari escaped from the Lancaster family patriarchs, she returned home at the news of her mother's stroke. The reunion with her stepbrother, Whit Lancaster, brought the unexpecte...
THEIR FUTURE WAS AT STAKE. Keely insisted that she had come to the Pacific paradise of Salutu only to write about its reclusive inhabitant, successful Canadian businessman Jordan Lang. But Jordan, who accepted her presence only grudgingly, refu...
"YOU MUSTN'T DO IT, HYDEE!" Ellie's reaction was instantaneous, and Hydee Merrill knew her best friend was right. It would be madness to accept the terms offered by the arrogant Marques Carlos de Alva Manrique! Hydee had answere...
IT WAS JUST A SPARK... yet the inferno it had started had destroyed her life. Her husband's carelessness had caused the fire, but Lorraine had been the one to suffer from it. She had lost everything -- career, pride, even the man she'd ma...
ART FOR ROMAN'S SAKE Shannon had no wish to be merely one in a succession of models for Roman Morgan's nude portraits. But Roman's promise of funds to locate her fugitive fiance lured her into his studio and then into his marriage bed....
HER LIFE WAS FINALLY FALLING INTO PLACE! Lila Drake had a part-time position tutoring twins and in her spare time she worked on the novel she hoped would be published. But psychiatrist Jason Tobias, the twins' guardian, wanted more than her par...
SHE WAS NO LONGER A STAR but a glimmer of recognition still lit his eyes. An accident had altered Sara's looks so that Doug Farrell could not have known that she had once been Sheila Star, the famous singer. Now, her deception had gone too far....
BLISS GOT EVERYTHING SHE WANTED, UNTIL SHE WANTED JAMES! Bliss Bonner had enjoyed her quiet life in London. That was before she met James Etchison. James demanded that she keep her playboy brother, Benji, away from his sister. But Benji's impulsiv...
JILL BARTON HAD BEEN LOOKING FOR AN ESCAPE FROM LOVE When she drove into Logan Matthew's artists' colony, Mill Valley. Recently jilted at the alter, Jill pretended to be a writer so that she could retreat into this seemingly safe haven. But L...
TRAPPED WITHOUT A PAST! She felt that she couldn't be Jayne Stewart. Yet they told her, after the plane crash that robbed her of her memory, that that was her name, and she could only accept and tremble. She trembled with humiliation, for J...
ALL WAS NOT SMOOTH SAILING! When Molly Weston was sent by her employer to take a weekend cruise with Brett Sterling, a wealthy California playboy, she thought that it would be just a business trip. Brett, however, did not see it as such, and he w...
SHE WAS A LADY IN DISGUISE. Tired of fighting off passes from boss after boss, Samantha Lorrimer took on a new look for her new job. When Cory Talbott, the Wizard of Wall Street, hired her, he thought he had taken on a staid, middle-aged spinst...
A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN? He was the Good Samaritan who offered her roadside help, then stepped into his green sportscar and disappeared. Abbie Scott suddenly forgot the broken heart that had brought her home to Eureka, Arkansas. She only remembered...
HE WANTED AN HEIR, BUT NOT A WIFE. Kim Rosswell was young, beautiful, and desperate. Vidas Christou was wealthy, and determined that the child she carried bear the Christou name. Kim knew she should have told Vidas the truth. There could not p...
NOW WAS HER CHANCE.... Jamie MacPherson had always dreamed of seeing the Highlands. She wanted to leave London forever and concentrate on her painting. Now that her uncle had died, she could claim her inheritance -- a cottage on the land of her ki...
THE LOVE SHE LEFT BEHIND He was the only man who had ever called her Mike. And now, years after their bitter parting, Michelle Miller Scott had to face Erick McCord once again. She had returned to Northern Michigan to negotiate a merger between he...
WINTER PASSION When Laurel Martin traveled to Winterfire Castle in upstate New York, it was like traveling back in time. Certainly Evan Templar, the family scion, was the very image of a feudal lord. She had come to receive the priceless Templ...
SHE WAS PLAYING A DANGEROUS GAME when Erin Brady agreed to go to Jamaica for a week with Jason Dimitrou. It was the only way that she could pay back her brother's debt. Jason was cruelly determined to take advantage of the situation. Yet when a gent...
SHE WAS TRAPPED BY HER MOTHER'S BEAUTIFUL FACE. As far as Felicia Farr was concerned, being the Magic Glo Cosmetics woman had ruined her mother's life, and she had vowed she would never follow in her footsteps. But Roderick Bearstern's ruthless de...
REVENGE WAS SWEET Or so Tristan Sharpe believed. Now he would repay Larissa for once having made a fool of him. He had never understood that she had broken their engagement out of fear--that her youth and inexperience had not prepared her to deal ...
HE RULED WITH AN IRON HAND. Jennifer Robins had happily left Chicago to visit her favorite, newly-married cousin, Caroline Dubrow in Oregon. Once there, she found that the ranch, and possibly her cousin's life, too, was run by her arrogant, m...
SHE WAS A SUCCESS Hillary Baxter had been only twenty-one when she left rural Kansas to pursue a New York modeling career. When Bret Bardoff, owner and publisher of fashionable Mode Magazine, offered her a prestigious six-month contract, the sky w...
WHICH WOULD SHE PREFER? When her fiance, Kelvin, deserted her in Greece, Martine was grateful for Luke Leoros's proposal. It gave her a chance to show Kelvin he meant nothing to her. Luke had also been hurt in love, and now he no longer be...
ACCIDENTAL LOVE! Jody Sommers was nervous about her new job as Assistant Cruise Director aboard the super-luxury ocean liner, Caribe Queen. But here she was on her first cruise, responsible for entertaining four hundred glamorous, wealthy, and dem...
HE WAS THE HUNTER AND SHE HIS PREY Kate knew that when Marc Athicos wanted something, he went after it -- and got it. She also knew that now he wanted her. They had met when he had come to claim her orphaned nephew, Stevie, and take him to Gree...
CAMPAIGN FOR LOVE Although Jana Parrish tried to forget her husband Miles by moving away and starting a new life, she could never forget the kindness and devotion of the proud Parrish family. When her mother-in-law begged her to return and pose a...
FULL-TIME HEARTACHE Lisa Winters wasn't looking forward to working with Dan Nolan. He seemed more of a media star than a lawyer. He wasn't very impressed with her, either, so the sparks really flew between them. That was during the week. On the...
"YOU'RE ONE OF BLAKE'S GROUPIES," Alex accused, his blue eyes flashing. And suddenly Cara Demorest understood his antagonism toward her. Alex believed that she was chasing his playboy older brother, helping him in his scheme to destr...
HIS TOUCH WAS WORTH MORE THAN HER FAME. Christa Emery had always lived vicariously through Paul. His triumphs as a concert pianist were hers. Now his pain was hers as well. Paul was just reaching his peak when the accident crippled his hand and...
IT WAS NO GAME TO HER! Christina Lennox went to North Carolina's Grandfather Mountain Games with high hopes. She had business worries aplenty, and her fiance had just jilted her, but with Alex Stewart's help, she was going to have a good time. Aft...
DESTINY'S RING! Kathryn Dalton was thrilled with the antique ring she had found. How could she know that it would lead her to both love and heartbreak? She thought Leon Coletis had married her for love. But his real desire had been for the ...
ONE ENCHANTED SUMMER... Portia Cochrane had been only eighteen years old the summer her father, a well-known professor, engaged Simon Farrow as his assistant. Portia had fallen irrevocably in love with him. Now, five years later, she found hers...
CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO WORLDS .. . Gayle Eberly had grown up in California's Napa Valley, famous for its fine wines, and had planned a career in the family winery. When the handsome Mexican, Ramon Albariza, bought her heritage, her whole future was in...
SO MUCH AT STAKE... On assignment in Bermuda for Meredith Travel Guides, it was Allendre's job to rate Shannon House objectively. How could she remain, objective when so much was at stake? Her cool, professional logic was thrown into utter con...
WOULD HER DREAM END IN DISASTER? The Trevi Fountain... St. Peter's... a villa in the Alban Hills. All this would be easily accessible to Linda Morse, companion to wealthy Althea Berenson. She had eagerly looked forward to this once-in-a-lifeti...
CRYSTAL GENTRY WANTED TO LEAVE DALLAS FOREVER. It had been the scene of too many unhappy memories. Orphaned, jilted and penniless, she was relieved when her family lawyer found her a job on the large Texas spread of Garrett Dean, the powerful oil ...
SHE WAS DETERMINED TO PUT THE PAST BEHIND HER. Her engagement was over, and gorgeous realtor Wilhelmina Silverthorne was determined to live her life her way. She'd stick to the things she knew and trusted - fast cars and haute cuisine - and steer ...
WHY DID SHE FIND IT SO HARD TO LEAVE WYOMING? Family obligations had led Samantha Evans to the land of windswept plains and towering mountains. But she had every intention of returning to the East after her sister's baby was safely born. Un...
HER JOB WAS CHALLENGING. When Cara Logan joined The House of La Deaux--her aunt Estelle's decorating firm--she was determined to make a career for herself, and not get trapped into domesticity as her mother had been. But that was before she ha...
RUNAWAY HEART Anne had gone to Morocco to help her brother and his bride-to-be elope. But she never anticipated being abducted herself--by the very man the runaway lovers were trying to elude. Carlos had made the situation all too clear: Either...
SHE FELT LIKE CINDERELLA AT THE BALL! Whisked from typing pool obscurity to overnight fame as The Nightstar Girl--the ultimate model for Rayven Cosmetics' sensational new perfume--Caren Ainsley felt that at any moment the dream would vanish, that ...
COULD FAIRY TALES COME TRUE? When her adoptive parents died, Jody Hendrick felt that her life was over, for they had left her almost nothing with which to make her way. When she found out that a distant relative had left her half of a luxury h...
CAUGHT IN HER OWN TRAP! When Merlyn Somers flew to Hong Kong under false pretenses, she never dreamed that she would be met by darkly handsome Sullivan Ashe. Nor did she ever imagine that he would accompany her to Australia and to the Outback he l...
LOVE CAME WHEN SHE LEAST EXPECTED IT. Fireworks sparked the first meeting of Julia and Vincent Galbraith. In the best of times, Julia would have mistrusted the Laird of Galbraith Hall. He was too handsome -- and too used to getting his own way. B...
COULD SHE DENY HIM? When Helen Freeman books a room in a Paris hotel, she finds that a handsome stranger has prior claim to it. This virile, determined man threatens to take advantage of the situation. But Helen is wary -- especially when she disc...
HOW COULD HE EXPECT THIS OF HER? Judith Sommerville and Alexis Vasilis had once been engaged, but that had come to an end years before. When she took the position of nanny to his small nephew, they were brought together again. Alexis made no s...
THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME! She was to live undercover in Palm Beach! Kelly Lindsay, New Orleans' youngest and prettiest TV reporter, could hardly believe that the glamorous assignment to develop an insider's view of the idle rich was hers. ...
A DIVORCEE'S DESIRE Four years after her divorce, Vanessa Cantrell owned an interior decorating firm, a European sports car, and an apartment in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Even though she filled her home and her life with expensive ...
FAST TRACK TO LOVE Glamour, daring, mystique, class... Lord Richard Templeton had everything. But it was up to Andria Carloni to make America's newest race-car idol an offer he couldn't refuse. If she could get the elusive English lord to ...
DECEPTION'S WEB Caryl never wanted to dupe Sir Geoffrey Goudham. But Brad convinced her that the only way to bring peace to the old man's final days was to have Caryl pose as Brad's former fiancee, Caryl's own sister, Emma. How ...
FORBIDDEN LOVE He was the most attractive man Sabrina Burke had ever met. But then she learned he was Jules Danner, son of her late father's business partner. After all those bitter years, he had returned to Glenhaven, the family estate that they ...
COULD SHE GAMBLE ON LOVE? Kit Delacorte was merely polite to Wendi Miller, an aspiring young singer eager to further her career at the Lake Tahoe resorts. Then Wendi took advantage of Kit's father, the playboy ruler of a casino, and to Kit'...
"YOU'RE A GOLD DIGGER," HE SAID. "The real Jill Taggert is dead." The moment they met, Lance Darrel called her a fraud. They were instant enemies thrown together by her rich great-uncle's whim. Jill should have been sati...
UNFINISHED BUSINESS .. . Leigh Melville came home to settle her grandfather's estate. She had not planned to see Jason Randall, the only man she had ever loved. Horrified by his ruthlessness, she had run away from him five years earlier, determine...
SHE HAD NO CHOICE. Laura had practically raised little Mandy, but she had no legal claim to the homeless child. And now the authorities wanted to take Mandy away. Paul Penalis could help her to keep Mandy, but his price was marriage. Was the pr...
THEY CALLED HER SUMMER. She had lost her memory in the accident that brought Bracken Bohannon into her life, and now Summer had no real name, no real home. Bracken felt obligated to take care of her until her memory returned, and Summer almost ...
THE BIDDING WAS HIGH . . . BUT SO WERE THE STAKES! Penny thought it only fair that business tycoon Pierce Reynolds offer her employment. After all, it was his last-minute bid on an Amati violin that had cost her her last job. The next thing she...
SEARCH FOR LOVE He harbored dark suspicions about Serenity and her parents. He was jealous, impossible and demanding. He was enigmatic, charming and aristocratic. He made passionate love to her even while condemning her. So why in heaven's name...
LIBERATED! That's how Frances felt after buying her new home. Her independence was hard won, and she wasn't about to give it up for a mere man. Her neighbor, Cabel McCloud, felt the same way about women. And he had a personality every...
SHE HAD LOVED HIM SINCE CHILDHOOD. When Analisa Durant was informed by her dying father that he had promised her in marriage to Rafael Santiago -- the son of his old friend, the Spanish Don Jose -- she could not gainsay him. She remembered all too...
WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED? When Kelly James went to Australia it was to fulfill a promise to her father: to see the woman who had been his first love, Maureen Kilpatrick Cassidy. How could she have known that in Maureen's son Jake she would f...
HE WAS NOT HERS TO LOVE. Judi Duggan had gone to Spain to design and stitch the trappings for the Arnalte family chapel. She certainly did not plan to fall in love with Don Joaquin de Arnalte y Pizzaro, scion of the aristocratic Arnalte family -- ...
HER FUTURE LOOKED BRIGHTER THAN EVER. Helen had dreamed of this: a summer in Greece, then two years teaching at the American School in Athens. All so desirable -- except for the unsettling presence of Demetrios Criades. Deep and mysterious, thi...
ACE OF HEARTS... One night of love made her his forever, bound by memory -- and a child. Linda Brown tried to escape, to become a singer and raise her son alone. But recording tycoon Jason Reynolds tracked her down and swept her into his life as h...
FIRST HE HIRED HER. THEN HE WANTED HER. From the moment she met him, Marnie Stevens regretted signing on as Damon Wilson's underwater photographer. But with a will as steely as his penetrating gray eyes, he refused to let her break her contract . ...
SHE HAD HER WORK CUT OUT FOR HER. Maggie Jordan had come to the English countryside to restore Deane Park. But after meeting its aristocratic owner, she realized the real challenge would be the man, not the job! Edan Deane's arrogance initially...
A SUMMER PARADISE Even though the trip was business, Emma looked forward to seeing the romantic island of Hatteras. Meeting the dark, handsome Dan Slater had not been part of her plans. But the situation she walked into grew as sizzling as the ...
HE LURED HER INTO THE MAZE OF HIS HEART. Years ago, Alexis Walker had been easily wooed by the splendor of Greece and the charm of Drayce Tombazkis. Beneath the majestic columns of the Acropolis, they had shared a love that seemed blessed by the g...
SHE HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO FLY. When Kalim Al Kahira, one of the most influential industrialists in the world, requested that Jennifer Fairchild return with him to Egypt aboard his private jet, her career demanded that she go. But her job could n...
HOW COULD SHE MARRY A STRANGER? Finally, Jill Carteret was going to Brazil. But she was not going to work in her uncle's company as she had planned. Instead, her uncle, now deceased, had arranged for Jill to marry his younger partner, Simon Todd. ...
AN INSURMOUNTABLE CHALLENGE Suzanne Collins had no idea what was in store for her when she left for Italy. Expecting a quiet visit with her father, she never dreamed she would end up falling in love with his business partner! But Jared Caine wa...
How long could their love last? She had been an impetuous teenager when she had defied her love for Slater MacBride to marry a Texas millionaire, and she regretted her mistake. After eleven years of marriage without love, Dawn Lord was returning ...
WHAT SHOULD SHE DO? Christine had known Luke Curtis for years; he had been her friend and support since childhood. But Christine was changing, becoming a woman, and her relationship with Luke was changing, too. Suddenly he was asking more than...
SUBMERGED IN LOVE. She was Amy Peterson, a mermaid who danced in the liquid depths of the world-famous Aquarena. But when she came up for air, she faced the financial burdens of the Peterson family. Amy could no longer pay off their debts, and her...
HE WOULD NOT BELIEVE HER. When Laine Simmons comes to Hawaii for a reconciliation with her long-estranged father, she does not expect Dillon O'Brian, her father's handsome young business partner, to oppose her. But Dillon is convinced that Laine...
WOULD THE PAST ALWAYS COME BETWEEN THEM? Her name was Diana. But Caleb Buchanan mockingly called her the Goddess of the Hunt, and thought his brother Barrett was her fallen prey. With a bitterness belied by his velvet-smooth eyes, he blamed Diana ...
DREAMS OF FOREVER... What had gotten into her? Brenna Gallagher had been all ready to build a quiet, domestic future with her fiance, Lee, when handsome golf pro Marc Lawter walked into her life -- determined to change it. Forceful, arrogant an...
COULD LOVE FIND THE WAY? When Connie took a teaching job in the south of France for the summer, she hoped the idyllic afternoon with mysterious George Trevelyan would fade from her mind. But his presence in Aix, for a visit with his daughter, soo...
SHE WAS AN ACTRESS IN A REAL LIFE DRAMA! A successful actress, Lisa Hayley thought she had everything she wanted. But then she met James Tarrant, a serious artist who disapproved of Lisa's career in popular films. He urged her to return to her...
A NEW LIFE, A NEW LOVE Loretta had come all the way to South Africa just to marry Lee, a man she'd cherished for years. So how could she possibly have fallen in love with someone else? And worse, Paul Tremayne -- severe, commanding and rugged...
CANDIDATE FOR LOVE Kara Barnett had dreamed of a wedding complete with satin gown and orange blossoms. But that dream was shattered when she was caught in a seemingly compromising position with devastatingly handsome Matthew Jordan -- minutes befo...
SHE WASN'T LOOKING FOR LOVE... Interior designer Timi Johnston had never met a man like Don Ricardo, her arrogant, steely-eyed employer on the Baja building project. Suddenly she was living and working in the exotic splendor of his family'...
HOW COULD SHE DENY HIM? On a remote sheep station in southern Australia Alida Beech found herself unexpectedly in the employ of the only man she had ever loved. She had first met him four years earlier when she had been an innocent seventeen -- an...
FROM DEFIANCE TO DESIRE... Brook Adamson never suspected that the lonely little girl she met on the beach would turn out to be a millionaire's daughter! When she agreed to attend the girl's birthday party aboard the fabulous yacht Aphrodite, she ...
ONE HEART TO GIVE... For Susanne, working with famous novelist Nick Merridew was an exciting challenge. But when she met his brother Richard, it was love at first sight. Then, just weeks before their wedding, a car accident left Susanne blinded...
STRANDED . . . Lacy's first trip to Guatemala seemed doomed from the start. First her friend was called home unexpectedly, then Lacy's luggage and handbag were stolen...until finally she was rescued by the enigmatic Jordan Stone. But w...
LOVE HOAX On a ski trip to Switzerland, Belinda fell desperately in love with Adam Lloyd, a handsome Welsh farmer. But before the vacation was over, her scheming identical twin had lured Adam into marriage. Then, unexpectedly, her sister deserted A...
HER HEART REMEMBERED. When fashion designer Kati Autumn arrived in Mexico City, the last person she expected to meet was haul Torres, her dark, handsome -- and estranged -- husband. She still hadn't forgotten how he'd left her for his ...
AFRICAN ADVENTURE .. . Patricia Wells had vowed to forgo romance and dedicate herself to her career as a dance therapist. But then--on vacation amid the lush beauty of Africa--she encountered Armand de Vincent, a wealthy Frenchman. He was wild...
TREE TRIMMINGAND SLEIGH RIDING . . . Christmas festivities were the furthest things from Leslie Stiles' mind when she left the city for her aunt's house in Vermont. The season held bitter memories for Leslie, and she hoped to avoid all the...
A ROMANTIC CARIBBEAN CRUISE It was the perfect holiday from Janis Morton's demanding career as a fashion buyer, especially when she met Clive Trent, handsome heir of a famous French designer. Before she knew it, Janis found herself hoping for ...
LUCKY ACCIDENT .. . On the one hand, the car accident that introduced Christina Lacey to Daniel Belmont turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Christina needed a job and Daniel gave her one. On the other hand, Christina's heart was suddenly ...
TRIAL BY LOVE There was little question that Joanne Rodgers had met her match when playboy barrister William Oliver decided to enlist her to help him advance his career. Amused by Will's arrogant demands, at first Joanne willingly acquiesced, ...
AN UNEXPECTED DILEMMA When B. J. Clark, the young and pretty manager of the Lakeside Inn, met the new owner, Taylor Reynolds, she was fully prepared to dislike him. For she feared-with good reason-that he planned to transform her sleepy old hotel ...