
PRISONER OF HER PAST . . . Long ago they had been husband and wife--when Angie Hall was just a teenager. Now, under the burning Texas sun, they are enemies--and lovers once again as Deke Blackwood's lean, hard rancher's body rekindles the ...
HE HAD WRITTEN THE BOOK ON HER. Rachel Grant had worked hard to put her unhappy past behind her and thought she had succeeded, until Jason Wilder's novel, based on her life, shattered her thin veneer of confidence. When they met in the secluded...
MUSIC ALONE COULD NOT SATISFY THEIR DESIRES.... Alexandra Stephanus, beautiful and talented, lacked the discipline that drove a performer onward seeking new heights of acclaim. Marcus Rivera, proud and bitter. Was a virtuoso pianist robbed of his ...
AT LAST SHE WAS HOME! Grenada shone in the golden light of a setting sun, and Raul Valaquez still kindled unpleasant memories for Julie McKay's past. Even though he hated her, he couldn't stay away. An unexpected hunger raged between them, a...
RIGHT AND WRONG HAD NO MEANING. They came together in a lush tropical garden . . . a man and a woman in their own private world. One look in Evan Forrester's dark, compelling eyes had made Anne Beale forget her purpose in coming to Hawaii...fo...
SHE WOULD ALWAYS BE HIS AURORA! As beautiful and uncontrollable as nature's wonder that bore her name. As naive and reckless as that first sensual awakening that drew them together, leaving them powerless .... Aurora Matthews accepted the challen...
She was Laurel Patterson, the girl who walked out of the mist and into his heart. He was Stephen Tanner, the man who had tamed the land beneath the silver sky. And as the seasons rolled ahead and summer reached its zenith of molten sunlight and f...
Sydney Cullen had been hurt, but in Daniel Bates' slumbrous, passion-filled eyes she saw the promise of a new happiness. His hands swept fire through her body and taught her that the woman she had been was only half the woman she could become. T...
THEY COULD MAKE. TOMORROW LAST FOREVER. Brooke Lawson lost a successful past in the accident that almost look her life, but the healing winds of Hawaii brought her peace. In the tropical splendor of an island night she learned from Ashley Graha...
It had been ten years since Alexis Kellogg had left her Texas home. Ten years since she had seen Cade Morse �" a spectre from her past. Yet time heals all wounds and the burning desire that flared between them so long ago had not dimmed, but thr...
PASSION PLAY Jennifer Waring was building her present on the ashes of the past, but a marriage in which she had been played for a fool had left her without hope for happiness. Ham Bertout taught her to be a woman again, but he promised nothing. ...
POSSESSION! Gillian North's heart belonged to Roman Barclay, and from the moment he made her his bride she entered a world of pleasures she had never known. He wove a web of sensual delights that kept her a willing prisoner and let nothing come...
SHE COULD NEVER FORGET HIM She was Veronica McDonald, public relations consultant. He was her first--and only--client: Slade Huntington, senatorial candidate and the husband she'd left two years before. But the passion that had once flamed through...
TWO MIRANDAS There were two sides to Miranda Jeffreys: the practical English miss and the daring dreamer, wild and free. In Jake Delacroix, a man as elusive as the morning mist over the Florida Keys, she found a searing passion that would weld ...
HER HEART'S KEEPER... Elissa Sheldon fought her way up the corporate ladder -- and into Wade Taggert's arms. Her sultry innocence intrigued him, and he set out on a campaign of seduction that stripped her emotions bare and left her quivering i...
HE WAS AN ENIGMA SHE COULD NOT DECIPHER -- And a man she could not resist. Beneath the silver Mexican moon, beside the sacred Well of Souls, Antonio Ferrara, a man of fierce Mayan pride, took Rhea Glenn on a journey of passion that encompassed th...
SECOND TIME LUCKY Having been mistaken in her first marriage, Shelley Armitage wasn't thinking of love -- until Jason Steele found her and taught her the meaning of desire. He urged her to feel again, to trust, to seek the light of passion ...
No matter how much she might have wanted to deny it, Anna Stone was a woman -- with a woman's fears, a woman's needs. In Lew Coleman's compelling gaze she saw the answer to all the dreams she had never dared to dream, and when his lips...
Nine years without Padgett Williams, the man who had seduced and abandoned her, had taught Leigh Vincent the world's hardest lesson: a woman can depend only on herself. Then Padgett returned, and with his laughing eyes and tender touch, he gave th...
Jan's self-confidence was gone; she was sure that no man could love a woman who wasn't perfect. But to Rod Landers she was everything a woman should be: intelligent, giving and warm enough to set the Alaskan nights aflame. Beneath the brillianc...
Dani Ronsard and Ty Morgan, the heiress and the major league pitcher. What match could be more unlikely? Yet his muscled athlete's body awoke in her a response that more civilized men had never known, and the passion that lay beneath her veneer o...
Jessica Stanton -- otherwise known as The Black Widow -- had once been a wife in a marriage rocked by scandal. But in Nikolas Constantino's arms she found a peace she had never thought she would know. His lips told her of the delights that were t...
LOVE'S GOLDEN SHADOW Guy Medfield's waning sight left him feeling bitter and alone. But Tracy Graham's healing touch taught him to live again. From her he learned to see with his heart, to read in the touch of her lips on his and in the feel of...
GAMBLE OF DESIRE Kendra Dant was unhappy with her singing career when she met Paul Kadar. Throwing caution to the wind, she went with him to Martinique, land of shadowed forests and scorching sands. And she learned that true happiness comes onl...
Carly Newton had made her decision. She had chosen a career. And no man had made her regret that choice. Then she met Adam Blake and the storm he unleashed in her swept away all doubts. The fire in his eyes, the passion in his kiss, the winds that b...
“Don't I know you?” It was the oldest line in the book, but when Lucas McKay said it to Karin, it held the ring of truth and the promise of tomorrow. The lonely rich girl she had once been faded away when she was in his arms. Alive and unafr...
INFROM THE COLD... Tracey White had once been an actress, but in Scott Kingsly, her new employer, she found the first man ever to kindle in her the fires she had always shammed. Slowly they learned to trust, to share a passion and an intimacy s...
Blair St. James had a heart filled with music but untouched by love--until she met Dirk Brandon. Dirk taught her the melody of desire, and her body responded to his touch like a fine-tuned instrument in the hands of a master. Together they write a se...
FOLLOW THE DREAM... That was Nina's intent when she set out to write her first screenplay. And the success of one dream led to the birth of another. In studio mogul Robert Whitney, she found the one man who could make her blood run faster; the...
BARBADOS! Land of searing heat and fiery sunsets. This was where Susan chose to make her home with Travis Sennett, the husband she barely knew. And there in that honeyed land, on a lush island made for love, they would carve out their future and f...
TEARS OF YESTERDAY... But no tears for tomorrow. Paige and Lane Morgan had once shared the secret joys of marriage but had been unable to make the magic last. Given a second chance, they must find their way into each other's arms though a glitt...
FROM THE AGE WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER... THE IMMORTAL ROMANCE THAT BECAME A ROYAL SCANDAL All the colorful characters and events of fabled Camelot come vividly to life in this unique new account of the legendary King Arthur, Lancelot du Lac, ...
Cole Everett watched Heather Shaw grow from a child into a girl hovering on the edge of womanhood. She had a body ripe for love, a heart ripe for a man's invasion. She sang songs of love, a love she didn't fully understand, but with Cole's help s...
Europe--home of elegant traditions and enduring romance. Europe--where Holly and Slade lived out a love story of their own. His the demand to hold her close, to sear her with his touch and be seared in return. Hers the desire to teach him the less...
Leya Brandon thought her heart was protected against Court Tremayne, but she had underestimated his determination to win her for his own. He set out on a campaign to challenge her heart and storm the barriers in her mind. And before he finished, ...
In the wooded Ozark hills Joanna met proud-hearted Linc Wilder. His gold-flecked eyes mocked her; his country-born spirit clashed with her city-wise ways. His lean body challenged her, sparking her senses till Joanna was as sweetly glowing as the fox...
MAGNOLIA MOON .. . Nothing went right for Nicole Bridges when she went to New Orleans without a job until, at the Mardi Gras, she found magic. Ryan St. James was a man with everything under control--until he met Nicole. She made his blood ru...
The feelings Dirk Lancaster, outback lord, raised in Risa were enough to leave her aching for his touch. Yet to be the woman he needed would challenge her as nothing had before. This land of torrential raw and dry spells of searing intensity would...
Botanist Tara Deer had plans aplenty. Then she met Kane Boland, and the dreams she had once nurtured grew to include the lean Oklahoma rancher who held her heart and happiness in his hands. He could touch her with passion, with tenderness and love...
Cocos Island...land of mystery, of steaming jungles, of drowning rains, barren rocks and pagan majesty--a land that hid its secrets well, a land of romance with a link to the past. Here Terry Long and Dean Saunders met and clashed and came togethe...
COLLISION COURSE... At last the woman who had never lacked for anything had everything she wanted. Lindy Randolph met her match when she met Neil Hammonds. He was a man to dream about; the challenge was to make him dream of her. Lindy's br...
PROUD VINTAGE .. . Katharine Carson was a child when she married and a woman afraid to trust when at last she regained her freedom. Then, in California's Napa Valley, she met Adam Redmont, a man of pride, of power, and of passion. Adam taught h...
ALL SHE EVER WANTED was to continue her mother's dream. To Victoria, the school her mother had run was everything. Then Clifford Pennington entered the picture, and suddenly she wanted something new--this virile lawyer whose touch awoke the passio...
SUMMER MAGIC ... For Alexa Jones this was to be a summer of rest and relaxation. But a vacation in Adam Carlyle's disturbing presence turned her world around. No more could she hold herself aloof from life, from men. Adam stormed her citadel, d...
When nurse Fern Morgan met Jonathan Delafield, she knew she had found someone special. She and the handsome district attorney struck sparks off each other from the first, but it was not until an injury placed him under her care that they learned ...
AN INDEPENDENT WIFE... ...and determined to stay that way--that was Sallie Jerome Baines. Her husband Rhydon Baines had broken her heart and once, she had vowed, was enough. Then fate brought them together again, and the new Sallie fell for Rhy...
Sara Dantan was her own woman, making her own way in the world, but Dr. Court Pride had plans to end all that. He planned to make her his woman, and the more she resisted, the more he enjoyed the fight. His kisses taunted her, his caresses torment...
LOVE HAS ITS REASONS. Cara Lang had been slumbering, waiting, though she hadn't known it until Sloan Montgomery stormed into her life and awakened the woman inside her. She shivered beneath his touch, gloried in his dazzling gaze and reveled in...
A divorce had left Sylvie Kruger unwilling to trust. But Jordan Garner Rutledge, son of an old Kentucky family, was determined to change all that. He wanted Sylvie as he had wanted no other woman. He ached to hold her, to lead her into love. Again...
FINDERS KEEPERS... All that Hallie Parrish had found in her brief marriage was unhappiness; her only solace, the child she bore. Now her late husband's brother, Trenton Northcutt, has entered her life, and the current flowing between them i...
When Paige took a Caribbean cruise, she never dreamed that it would lead her from the dark, unhappy past into a tomorrow filled with hope. In Mac Lane's arms she found a peace she had never thought to know again--and a soul-stirring excitement tha...
Merry had dreamed of a marriage made for love, but it seemed that such was not to be. Still, Jake Darcy, her husband, could arouse in her feelings of an intensity she had never known. Jake was a man of hidden strength and he believed in satisfied...
Casey Hampton had found the life she wanted, but one youthful indiscretion still haunted her. And in the searing heat of the Yucatan, she came face to face once more with that specter from her past: Brandon Whitney. The silver light of the moon b...
Valerie Jordan felt that her own life had ended with the death of her fiance, but she was wrong. Life -- and love -- beckoned to her once more in the person of Jonas Thorne. A man of moods, of bewildering arrogance and stunning tenderness, he mad...
Vicki had left Alex once because he insisted on treating her as a possession, not a woman with a mind of her own. But she had never really stopped loving him. Thrown together again, their passions given free rein once more, they had all the past t...
SILVER FIRE... They called her the “Baby Tycoon,” but at twenty-four Erica Warren was very much a woman, lacking only the man who could fulfill the promise that shone from her eyes. In Steven Kimball she found that man. The fire in his silver...
For Amanda Tracy life seemed simple -- until she met Simon Langhorne. From the moment they met she was forced to reconsider the rules she had always lived by, for Simon was a man who didn't believe in rules. He also didn't believe in commitment, b...
Alanna Evans' nights had been sleepless too long when she met Alexander Knight, who did more to disturb her rest than all her business worries combined. He achieved what she had thought impossible: He stormed the citadel of her heart and stole...
"Foxy loves Lance"--it had been true when she was a teenager, but now...? No longer a gangly adolescent, but Cynthia Fox was still attracted to Lance Matthews. Years ago, she had indulged in dangerous pleasures with a dangerous man -- the ruggedly ha...
Christine Winters planned to fall in love only once and to make that once last forever, but Mark Harrison upset all her plans. Falling in love with him was easy, but how could she hope to make love last when he had no heart to give? She soon le...
After the crash that took her memory and altered her appearance, Lilly Parker began to search for the identity that eluded her. As she searched she could not escape the memory of Kirk Remington, the husband of whose love she had never been sure. As a...
Dallas knew she was in over her head from the moment she met Nick. Her feelings for her devastatingly handsome colleague washed over her like a tidal wave: He was irresistible, dangerous and more exciting than anyone she had ever known. She fought...
LOVE WITH A PERFECT STRANGER... and in a perfect setting: aboard the Orient Express. Against all reason, Torey had given her heart, eared away by the romance of her surroundings. But in less than twenty-four hours the trip would he over and Peter W...
A trip to Japan with Brett Wells, the secret love from her past -- how could Carolyn ask for more? But ask she did, for she would never be happy until Brett's heart was hers. And in the mysterious East she saw her dream come true beneath the b...
Shallie had to make her way in rodeo, a man's world, and Hunt McIver's help was invaluable to her. But the man himself remained a mystery. Why would he help a woman whose motives he didn't trust? Yet together they warmed the western ni...
Alaine's heart never had so much as a sporting chance of escaping unscathed once she met ballplayer Doug Morrow. The tough, charismatic pitcher was used to having his own way, and Alaine soon stopped trying to fight their mutual attraction. What ...
Patrice Harrows had known too much sorrow when she met Madison Brannen. Ono man had already hurt her, and she was not yet ready to trust another. But Madison was different -- as the passage of time proved -- and there was one thing the lady lawye...
Mike Sutherland was surprised to learn that Sam Morgan, of Morgan Construction, was a woman--all woman--but that didn't stop his determination to buy her ailing company. But Sam was equally determined not to sell, and so began a battle of wills th...
For Dynah Renfro, writing about horse training was no longer enough once she saw Dandy. But Reed Harlan, long her professional nemesis, wanted the beautiful filly, too. Together they struck a bargain, sharing ownership until Dandy could prove hers...
Art historian Pia Martell and photographer Jules d'Arcachon seemed made for each. other. They met in Cannes and again in Cambridge, but it seemed that love would not be enough to conquer the jealousy and mistrust that had come between them. Only b...
Until Caroline Conal set sail with Jake St. Simon she had never known real work--or real love. To Jake she was a poor little rich girl, someone not to be trusted--especially in love. But their attraction was too strong to be denied, and beneath...
Carla Santucci tried to remind herself that Harrington Bates was her boss, but the special evening they had shared refused to leave her memory. She had seen a side of him that no one else knew, a Harrington Bates whose music welled in her heart wh...
SEASON OF SEDUCTION...of innocence lost and ecstasy found. In keeping her tennis-pro sister out of trouble, Michele Haworth ran into a problem of her own: Damon Pierce, one-time demon of the circuit. Damon was the kind of man who played to win -- ...
Unspoken past ... Unspoken, but not unremembered. How could Anne ever forget the brief hours she had shared with Kyle Harrison--or his anger when he discovered that she wasn't free to love? Three years had passed, years which hadn't di...
Nina's future in the ballet seemed assured, as did her future in love. But nothing was as it seemed, and soon both were gone. Suddenly she was free to explore her relationship with British tycoon Dextor Rolfe, the man who had been tempting her...
Lacey Tyler and Cole Vancleave were fellow members of the Kentucky horse racing set, though it was his vengeful interest in her past that held them together. But the past lost all meaning in the passion that drew them into each other's arms. Their...
Operatic set designer Nydia Lear seemed to have every-thing she needed to make life complete, including a job with world-famous maestro Kurt Klausen. Kurt Klausen ... He intrigued Nydia, but she had a job to do and no time for love. Or so she thou...
Winds of change from the north, Chinook winds, swept across the Montana plains to bring Niki into Steve's arms once more. In the heat of the Arabian desert their marriage had shattered; in the shadow of the Montana oil derricks they found each oth...
The act of mistaken anger that led Luke Griffin to "kidnap" Randy Dunne soon gave way to a cresting wave of passion that swept them both into a fiery embrace from which there was no turning back. Yet before the game could be played out and their f...
Journalist Nia Phillips' assignment to interview the five most eligible bachelors on the East Coast introduced her to Daniel Strahan, head coach of a top Boston basketball team. Daniel had no desire to be interviewed �" and then no intention of l...
A kiss from a stranger, given at her own request, was Chrissa's first step in learning what love was all about. Isaac Fielding was a man worth loving, but his past was as unhappy as Chrissa's own, and to win his heart seemed hopeless. Like...
Alanna went to Costa Rica to meet Colonel Matt Breckenridge with all the wrong motives. She had been sent to expose him, but in the end she exposed only her own heart, her own vulnerability where he was concerned. She fell in love with the arrogan...
Lannie was no longer the woman who had wanted Brandon for what he was worth, not for the man he was. This time she saw beneath the glitter and longed to build a life with him. This time, she vowed, when he gave her diamonds they would not he the p...
THE SPLENDORED SKY still spread its vast canopy above the Montana plains where Amber Rowland had grown up. Back again to run the family ranch, her heart yearned for the man she had loved and left, darkly compelling Austin Kane. As a girl she ha...
Haunted by her past. Sandy Carver worked to build a new life. One with no room for love. Carl Van Helmut saw something in Sandy that cried out to him. That left him longing to make her life -- and his -- complete. When the past came back to tor...
They had been uneasy high school sweethearts: ambitious Charlene, and Burt, from the wrong side of town. But people change. An unhappy stint as someone else's " club wife" had left Charlene longing for real love and a real man. With Burt she found...
As if redoing a scene for one of her films, actress Jessica Steele had a chance to try again with the one man who had mattered in her life: her ex-husband, Grahme Foreman. She was different now, mature, a woman of position, but still afraid to tru...
Pat Jessup thought she had found her own private paradise in Mexico. Sparkling waters, palm trees and the job of her dreams. . .What more could she ask? Local mayor Santos Ribera showed her the one ingredient that had been missing: passion intense...
Probation officer Meredith Jennings gave her whole heart to her job . . . until the day that job led her into the chambers of Judge Warren Baxter. Suddenly she saw career demands--hers and his -- in a different light, because they were keeping her...
Alexandra O'Neill hadn't been her own woman when she first knew Matt Farraday, the one man who had stirred her blood as a woman's blood was meant to be stirred. Matt Farraday . . . Five years had passed since their last meeting, but time hadn't di...
LOVE'S GENTLE CHAINS bound Lynn and Drew together, even though five years and one deep deception stood between them. Their marriage had never really ended; and once Drew discovered that he had fathered a child, Lynn doubted that it ever would. ...
ALL's FAIR in love and war. But which was it between automotive engineer Kitty Gordon and race driver Steve Duncan, the man whose car she had designed? At sixteen it had been love -- for Kitty, at least. But her love only brought pain; perh...
Back to North Carolina went Carole, back to the site of the feud that had been the ruin of her youth. There in the hills she rediscovered Jon. Though his family was anathema to hers, he drew her to him with a sensuous spell she was unable to resis...
Heather Strand, blind since birth, had overcome her handicap to become both a sculptor and a rancher. Reid Hunter, though blessed with sight, saw less clearly than Heather the path they were destined to walk together. Haunted by his own nightma...
Having been used by one man for personal gain, Victoria Van Straaten was not about to trust another. Andreas gave her no choice. Though she took pains to conceal her identity, he recognized her right away and set out to teach her a lesson in lovin...
For Keeley Sanders, football was no lighthearted game, especially since star quarterback Linc Hunter entered her life. She wanted him off the team because she cringed each time the opposing players forced him to the ground. Yet as acting business ...
For Jennifer Howard there had been one trouble too many. Running into Everett Black, the childhood sweetheart against whom she had measured all other men, was the final straw. The dam broke and all the old emotions came flooding back. Before their...
TOUCH OF GREATNESS... touch of healing. Two years had passed since the death of Torey's husband. Two years, and she was ready to love again, as Andrea Scarpi intended to prove to her. In a temple surrounded by the endless sweep of Sicilian se...
Carol Durand found it hard to reconcile her feelings as a woman with her role as therapist to sculptor Simon Forties' young daughter. Simon's hands could turn inanimate clay into sculptures of stunning eroticism, and his touch was no less potent o...
Lindsay Dunne had traded one career for another without leaving the dance behind. Then she met architect Seth Bannion, an intensely private man who loved his haven on the Connecticut coast. He loved the private Lindsay but feared that her need to ...
Clover Reed's way of life had little in common with Keith Sheridan's. She loved the glitter of her journalistic career in San Francisco; he loved the clear skies and rugged hills of the California gold country. Only when death stretched out his ha...
Past and present flowed together at the meeting of Brynne Hunter and Ross Fleming, true descendant of the Lord of the Isles. In their loving came the fulfillment of an ancient Scottish love -- a love that had known no happy ending. As Brynne and R...
WILD IS THE HEART... And wild is the sea that flows through the hearts of the men of Brittany. So Luc Devereux told Tory Allworth when she came to the ancient chateau he rated. The waves crashed against the cliffs with elemental fury and inevit...
Fate seemed no friend to Linda Seton when it led her back into the arms of Judd Kendall, the man whose embrace had haunted her for years. A true Texan, Judd had once wanted to protect Linda, expecting her to lose herself in his love. Linda had bee...
Australia had never figured in Leslie's plans--until she inherited an outback ranch and came into conflict with wider Mackenzie, land baron and owner of Danduroo Station. At first they fought over Leslie's refusal to sell him her land, land he fel...
Grant Kilmartin had been so busy building his construction company that he had given little thought to building relationships. Natalie Kent changed all that. They clashed professionally, especially when he felt that she wasn't playing fair. But ev...
Lisa loved Japan, but she didn't like Keith Brannon, the man she met there. For one thing, he was a test pilot, just like her former husband, the unreformed playboy. For another, he was pitted against her beloved uncle in a difficult business situati...
Even after a divorce and years apart, Tyler Steel was still the only man for Kristal. Their lives had taken different paths, his to a small West Virginia town where he practiced medicine, hers straight to the top of the Houston interior decorating sc...
As a stuntwoman, Ginger Lombard lived with danger, but nothing had prepared her for the greatest danger of all: falling in love...again. On the set of Thunder At Dawn she came face to face with her ex-husband, Link Rockwood, the man who had broken...
Jed Dancy was beginning to think it was time he settled down. All he needed was the right woman. He certainly didn't expect A. R. Kennel the freelance writer he'd hired to do a family history, to be that woman, because he'd assumed tha...
If only Jill could pretend that none of it had ever happened, neither the accident that cut short her riding career nor the ill-starred affair with Greg Shepard. Now she was on the verge of losing her second career--as a photographer--and only ris...
Santina Fiore knew there was something different about Cal Macy. It wasn't just his rugged good looks, or the way the films he made captured the essence of people. Somewhere in his past there was a secret, a secret that had left him both vulnerabl...
Wylde Tremaine had been the love of Bethany's youth and she had carried the pain of his betrayal in her heart ever since. Business brought them together again, and the lush tropical setting in which they met made it very hard not to mix business w...
He changed her life with the force of the storm that had brought them together. He was Jordan Trent, gentleman farmer. She was Alexis Summers, novelist and New Yorker, visiting Mississippi on family business. From the moment they met they struck s...
For doctoral candidate Rebecca Blakely, writing about the past was no longer enough. For thriller author Ryan Prescott, writing about the present was no longer possible. In the clear air of Maine they learned to see beyond their limitations. As th...
Ruth Bannion had never met anyone like Russian emigre choreographer Nickolai Davidov. Ruth was open, giving, but Nickolai's background had left him reserved, even wary, and his pride would not let him reveal his need for her. Fear of rejection ke...
Bryan Stewart made his living diving beneath the sea. The underwater world held no terrors for him, but the world of emotion was another story altogether. Laurel Rand's job was to film a documentary on Bryan's latest expedition, but she soon fell ...
When Kane Webster bought the Seattle bank he bought trouble. One embezzler had already been uncovered and there was certain to be an accomplice. The evidence seemed to point to Erin O'Toole, but evidence is sometimes circumstantial. Kane listened ...
Once Lane Winters had been a girl with dreams of glory: She would sing and the world would listen. Ross Matthews was the man -- the lover -- she had left behind in her quest to make it on her own. The dream had come true. Her voice had indeed b...
LIA'S DAUGHTER-- but her own woman; that was Kaly Rossitec. Lia had once hidden Kaly's very existence; now Kaly sought to hide her connection to her famous mother. Mick Demarkis fell in love with the Kaly of the present, but before he could re...
Colleen Wainwright, wealthy oilman's daughter, and West Burdock, wildcatter, taker of risks, faced each other in court, where they fought over custody of his daughter, the infant Colleen had adopted before he knew of its existence. Then they faced...
Priscilla Larson and Boston blueblood Craig James Pinckney III come together over a house that both of them wanted. She won the prize, but the battle was far from over. The ways he represented clashed with her modern eccentricities, but finally tr...
Three weeks on sequestered jury duty looked like heaven to Abby Barnes, who had problems she was only too eager to leave behind. Then she met fellow juror Ben Wyeth and suddenly she had a new problem -- one she was forced to confront. Love didn...
Dayna Palmer was a travel agent--and used to excitement. But the whirlwind of emotion in which Brand Rentrow swept her up was something new to her. Brand was the man whose professional life Dayne had been sent to investigate. She had heard compla...
Kristin Jonsson was ready for a new life, but not a new man. She would save her emotions for her photograph her pictures would never disappoint her the way people could. When she met Grayson Lowry she nearly changed her mind, but he was as afraid ...
Adrienne gave herself to her music, heart and soul. Rock's most glamours chanteuse had a public persona that delighted the media, but a private emptiness no man had yet been able to fill. Cal McQueen had once known her world better than anyone, bu...
Adair Anderson had the courage to do almost anything -- except reveal her true identity to Gray Bennett, the man who quickly came to know her heart, if not her real name. Adair's "marriage" was nothing more than a piece of paper and an...
From the moment Karen McAlister saw Rand Prescott, she knew that he was the one man with whom she could share her future. But Rand's own vision was limited, and he was unwilling to bind himself to o woman he could not see. Fate, however, saw ever...
Dreams of sunken riches fired Alix Pendenning's imagination when she went in search of treasure hunter Ponce Cabrera. Together they sailed the ocean in their quest for the wealth of the past, but the gold and jewels they were seeking were nothing in ...
Stacy Lorimer had carried her hatred of film director Craig Ankers with her for years -- and now she had the perfect instrument of revenge. Stacy was a reporter, and Craig hated reporters, but Stacy had accepted a legitimate job on his latest fil...
It was a fire that began the moment Kristie Hall, a doctor who had spent her life in the African bush, met conservationist Richard Cagney. The flames leaped and danced, consuming them both, the heat of their passionate conflagration a rival for the e...
THE BEST WAY TO LOSE . . . When Pilar Santee lost her husband, Elliot, she expected never to love again. How could she ever meet another man as fine? But Elliot had a son from the days before he met Pilar, and Trace Santee was every bit a Sante...
As the writer of a soap opera, Debra Barry had no trouble controlling the lives of her characters, bringing them grief or happiness with the stroke of her pen. But finding happiness for herself...that was a different matter. Graham Reid was the ca...
Rae Hamilton was trying to run the oil company left to her by her father, an inheritance she wasn't entirely sure she wanted until Jonathan King showed up to take it away. He had the option to buy her out, an option he planned to exercise--until h...
A Gift Beyond Price... Freedom was one such gift. Having grown up in the vast spaces of Wyoming, Erin Hennessey had always known and appreciated it. For Mikhail Demertov, though, it was a rare and precious privilege. Mikhail was newly freed from a...
They had once made a promise to belong only to each other, but he was Marc Fremont of the Louisiana Fremonts, and she was only Megan Mahlar, of the nowhere-in-particular Mahlors, and the promise made with the hot impetuosity of youth was destined to ...
It was April in Paris and love was in the air when Anna Foray met Count Rudi Andrassy. They were strangers in paradise, two seekers after beauty in the halls of the Louvre, and the night they shared was no less magical than the season and the setting...
Amelia Payne had problems. Her father's death had left her with a lot of debts, and her fiance's defection had left her wary of men. She was ready to love again, but afraid of commitment. Then she turned to Josh Morgan. Josh was interested...
Adam Craddock was out to buy what Whitney Baines wanted to sell: a valuable piece of Alabama beachfront. But that was only the beginning of their dealings, because once Adam saw Whitney he wanted her every bit as much as he wanted the land. They w...
They had shared both good times and bad, but the brief marriage between Shannon and Deke Masterson had resulted in the creation of one true treasure before their divorce: their son Michael. And although it was Michael whose skiing accident brough...
Kay and Alan were the perfect couple, with a marriage that fulfilled their emotional needs and with dual careers for intellectual excitement. Of course, when they had a child he was perfect, too. But the sky fell in when their small son died, and ...
Jennet Howe was a dreamer. She had always hoped to expand her gourmet cooking school and even start her own catering business. But her dreams faded amid the realities of maintaining El Paseo, the dilapidated building that had been in her family for g...
For Claire Wyndham it was the time to choose: life in the convent where she had been brought up, or life in the real world, with its challenges, its dangerous temptations. Scott Carver epitomized all those dangers for her. She saw him as a playboy...
It would have been a routine case for attorney Courtney Ross if her adversary had been anyone except millionaire oil driller Blaze Devlin. Courtney knew she was guilty of unethical conduct when his arms locked around her--even though Blaze had much m...
Melissa Grey ran her life by the clock. Time was quite literally her business. But from the moment Bart Freeman walked through the door of Time Was, she lost track of everything, because how could the sun do anything but rise and set in time with suc...
Love by the book would never be enough, but Publicity Director Justin Frye didn't know that when he took an active interest in romance author Ann Straus's novels. Too active an interest as far as Ann was concerned: Justin had actually begun t...
They met on a misty mountain morning, but the magic that hung over their anonymous first encounter was destroyed by the introductions made at their second. Lane Matthews had entered the Kentucky hills to preserve their folk culture for future generat...
As a child, Karen Conway had seen her mother fall in love with a man who could never be hers. Now Karen herself was in love with that same man's son, Riccardo Tornese. Rik's father had left Karen an interest in the family company, and Rik was furi...
Kathryn had played so many roles -- society bride, wife of a senator, charming hostess -- until the whirling carousel of politics ground to a halt with the death of her husband. In the woods of West Virginia, one man dared to break her sad silenc...
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST . . . Layne MacDonald's search for the mother who had given her up at birth took her from the world she had always known to a sprawling Nebraska ranch, where the West wove its spell around her But when she met Creed Dawso...
Judge Laura Remington's father had gone to jail for pirating Dallas Jones' country-western songs. By rights she and Dallas should have been enemies; yet when they met, nothing seemed to-matter except the magnetic energy neither could deny. There w...
They met as a matter of business. Randi Warner needed money to meet her father's debt, and Caleb Stone needed a child. Their marriage was a matter of contract: For nine months she would live as his wife, then bear him a child before leaving him to...
It had all started with a phone call, an urgent message that sent Nicole Barrett racing off to save her kid sister. Suddenly Nicole was trapped in a plot to protect her sister from the wrath of one of San Francisco's wealthiest businessmen, Flint Loc...
Journalist Megan Fielding had to research corruption in the construction industry without letting people know what she was doing. And, like any good reporter, she had to keep personal feelings out of it. That became impossible once she met Michael...
Once Cade Thornton had been a man with everything: a wife, three fine sons and an adored daughter. Tragedy had stolen them all, except for his daughter, Deby. He had been left afraid to love again, and Deby had become a frightened, sullen child. ...
Professional dancer Maggie Winthrop was determined to audition for famous Hollywood director Carson McDermitt, even though the part called for a spunky eighteen-year-old, even though it meant walking down her old high school halls masquerading as a s...
It was the year that Lacey Wynward had inherited the family estate on remote Eyrie Island. It was also the summer that Lacey, trembling on the brink of womanhood, had fallen in love. Now that she was back, she remembered him -- tanned, virile, handso...
Tiffany was often haunted by her own reflection, an image that revealed only the shell of a woman. She had fallen in love with a young doctor, but had lost him when the pressures of his job had shattered her perfect life. Alan Winslow was a dedica...
Season Templar found happiness. The only problem was that pirates couldn't be expected to return what they stole, and ship salvager Champion O'Keefe had stolen Season's heart. No matter where they were, the sandy beaches of his private isle or und...
For Stacy Cooper, Matt Logan was both the answer to a prayer and the devil in disguise. When he hired her charter boats for the film he was directing, he pulled her back from the brink of bankruptcy. But he didn't want to end their relationship there...
It took every ounce of courage Diane Hunter possessed to walk into an office and face Jeff Corbett again. Four years earlier a bitter argument had cruelly ruptured their love. Now, while negotiating over her sister's booking at his Las Vegas hotel, t...
The last thing Vance Banning needed was a charitable neighbor--especially the blond cheerleader type! But he had no idea how persistent Shane Abbott could be when it came to giving a helping hand--or a loving heart. For a while it looked as though...
Megan was convinced she could have it all: a husband, children, and an exciting writing career. But that was before her marriage to photographer Case Ballantine shattered along with her hopes. Now, two years later, the husband she still longed fo...
Jared St. Vincent, the dashing tycoon, had asked her to marry him on the condition that she give up her career and follow him to the Amazon. And when Lindsey Phillips, prima ballerina with the Metropolitan Ballet Company, said no, that she could not ...
Two's company, three's a crowd, and four...? What, Kate Davenport asked herself, was four? She was a widow with a ten-year-old son who needed a man's influence. Morgan Chandler was divorced and had a teen-aged daughter who was in need of a woman's ha...
When Kirstie Kaye first met Adam Prescott he held her passionately in his arms until she couldn't help but love him -- then thrust her away when he learned how young she was. When they met again Kirstie was old enough to love, but Adam was to...
Cally and Jesse had shared many a madcap adventure while growing up on the Texas coast. Their fate together was sealed -- or so everyone thought -- until that rainy day when Jesse decided to end a battle with his parents by leaving town. At nineteen,...
The postman had to ring only once for Lacey Adams. Each day was an adventure when Rafe Chancellor besieged her with a barrage of whimsical messages just to convince her to date him. Lacey was intrigued by her mystery man, but how could the real Rafe ...
Reluctantly, Lindi MacTavish agreed to give up her career in New York to take over her family's small weekly newspaper in Florida. The decision was difficult, and the Clarion's managing editor, the brooding, mysterious Travis Machado, didn...
After two years of waiting, Meli O'Connor knew that Tor Halliday wasn't the marrying kind. And, lately, as the sole owner of a fishing resort in the Montana wilderness, she'd felt the need of a helping husbandly hand. Tor's offer t...
When Claire Andrews, the elegantly beautiful widow on one senator and daughter of another, agreed to run for her husband's vacant senate seat, she had no intention of being the figurehead her party--and Matt Drummond--expected. If the newspaper heir ...
SHOOTING STAR... That was the only way to describe the impact actor James Reid had on Cassie Mills' life. She was a chief obstetrics resident, well on her way to qualifying as a full-fledged doctor, when James showed up to research his latest ro...
Every day had been much like another for Marie Russo. Overwhelmed by grief after her fireman husband was killed, she had simply stopped caring. But one day the pale face she didn't recognize in the mirror convinced her it was time to start a new life...
When a distant relative bequeaths a Scottish castle to Christina Murray, the beautiful college professor is off to a distant land to claim her inheritance. It is there that she meets Ian Douglas, a breathtakingly handsome man who may hold the key to ...
When Phillip Kincaid was scouting locations for his new movie, he didn't expect the long arm of the law to point him in the right direction. But when he was jailed for speeding, he realized Friendly, New Mexico, was just the godforsaken little town h...
Courtney certainly seemed to fit the stereotype of "the other woman" -- she was beautiful, successful, self-assured, and, frankly, not too domestic. But when Eric Collins pursued her, she found herself swept off her feet like a young girl, ri...
COME LIE WITH ME and be my love. How Dione Kelley longed to hear those words. But Blake Remington could never speak them to her. An accident had left him unable to walk, and her therapy had made him whole again. She had given him back the strengt...
SATURDAY'S CHILD works hard for a living. But Brynne didn't have to work hard at acting out her role on the set of "Saturday's Child," Hollywood's hottest soap opera. She just remembered the cruel kiss-off from Jarrod Hunt, the superstar who had ...
When profits dropped drastically because the vice presidents were all too busy flirting with the boss's daughter, Roxe's father declared she had to go. But Roxie had a more outrageous solution---a contest, and the VP with the greatest profit margin w...
Shane Kennedy had lost his life in Northern Ireland, or at least that's what his father told Mara. Four years later, Mara had finally come to grips with the fact that Shane was gone from her life. Then suddenly, inexplicably, he reappeared -- as ...
Persia knew that there were more important things in life than dieting down to a size six. She knew that real men didn't care about thin thighs. And Marsh Randolph was a real man. Still, Persia hoped desperately that he wouldn't connect he...
Mish was a model of success, with talent, independence and her own thriving creative design firm. She didn't need a man to complicate her life -- certainly not a man who would claim her heart. Then one idyllic summer in Montreal, Joel Webster ...
This time he'd gone too far. Sunny Caruthers' impulsive, impoverished father had used all their savings to purchase a vineyard in California. Now she had to make her father's foolhardy vision profitable--or they'd be ruined. Sunny's efforts were m...
Their love was a rhapsody in blue. Two promising music students, Ayn Remington and Gerick Grier, met at Juilliard. Their time together had the perfection of a clear, shimmering melody--as romantic as Chopin, as passionate as Beethoven. But it ended o...
Hollywood superstar Adam Wakeman was the man of every woman's dreams. And he took full advantage of that fact. He had made love to many glamorous, gorgeous women, but he depended on only one: discreet, dependable, unflappable Susie Chadwick. O...
There was to be no mixing of business with pleasure. Grant Brawley, company president, had said so. Then Grant met his newest employee, corporate attorney Kate Howard, and suddenly he knew that rules were only made to be broken. There was just ...
Although she knew Mr. Anthony Nugent would not be enchanted to meet her, Lisa Knight would not take no for an answer. She was determined to interview the former football star, millionaire businessman and philanthropist for a national magazine. She...
Hospital administrator Katie Brentwood had vowed never to get involved with a surgeon again. Then Dr. Bryce Emerson started working at the shock trauma center, and she knew she was in trouble. With just one glance, Bryce stirred in her the same vi...
Dr. Kendall Spencer had never allowed a man to get close to her. She was too committed to her patients to have room in her life for anything--or anyone--else. Then Sloan Hunter walked into her office, and she knew that was going to change. Sloan r...
As acting director of Fantasy Toys, Drew Sinclair faced more than the usual problems of putting the company back on its feet. Working under her was Casey McCord, the man she had once loved and lost. How would Casey react to having her give him ord...
Katrina Bright had sweated through countless hours, bending and stretching, punishing her body to work off every ounce of fat. But from the moment Fletcher Ramsey ambled into the health club she had founded and informed her that he'd taken over the b...
Whoso takes this woman in love The sea shall tear asunder... Despite the cool voice of rationality, the family curse had haunted Danielle all her life...especially after the sea had claimed her husband's life nine years before. Untouched,...