Diana Palmer: The Essential Collection — Multiple Authors

• Apr-2011
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THE BIGGER THEY COME... Rugged as an oak, moody as a thundercloud, rancher Callaghan Hart awed women and intimidated men. So how could one scrappy little redhead nearly bring Callaghan to his knees? THE HARDER THEY FALL Easy! Tess Brady, the ran...

• Apr-2011
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SWEET DARLIN' Although Calhoun Ballenger had raised Abby since childhood, she was now nearly twenty-one years old. How dare he keep her under his thumb, protected like a hothouse flower! Abby had to teach Calhoun a lesson. With the fury of a S...

• Apr-2011
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SWEET-TALKIN' TEXAN With only a quick glance at Nell Regan, a man might miss the beauty in the shy face, or the sexy figure hidden beneath the shapeless clothes. Nell had learned the hard way the she had nothing to offer a man. Her future was here...

• Apr-2011
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SWEET ROSE OF TEXAS Arabella Craig had been eighteen when Ethan Hardeman opened passion's door, then slammed it just as fiercely. His subsequent marriage to another woman left her devastated, and Arabella knew she'd lost the only man she'd ever l...

• Apr-2011
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SHY BRIDE... Penelope Mathews had spent her entire adolescence worshipping the elusive C.C. Tremayne - from afar. Until one night, trying to protect the mysterious loner from his once yearly bender before he landed in a Mexican jail, Pepi was forc...

• Apr-2011
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HARD-HEARTED TEXAN... Born into a sprawling ranching family, rugged Harden Tremayne was the toughest, wildest man ever to come out of Texas. And the loneliest. Until he met Miranda Warren, the lovely Chicago widow who aroused feelings too long de...

• Apr-2011
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A TEXAS BACHELOR... Ever since she could remember, Anna Cochran had been passionately, shamelessly in love with tall, strapping Evan Tremayne. But the stubborn man refused to take innocent Anna seriously. To Evan, Anna would always be in need of ...

• May-2011
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LADY BEWARE �" TEXAN ABROAD! From the moment the elegantly dressed society woman walked into the bar on the wrong side of town, rugged Texan Donavan Langley knew she was trouble. But the lovely Fay York awoke a tenderness in him that he'd never k...

• May-2011
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SOS . . . Daddy in distress! Single dad Emmett Deverell thought moving to Jacobsville, Texas, would mean "quality time" with his children. Then he realized the truth --- his kids were uncontrollable! He knew the three little rapscallions needed a ...

• May-2011
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Lone Star Sweethearts... The last thing Ted Regan wanted was a lovestruck filly swooning over him! But Coreen Tarleton had fallen hard for the sexy, millionaire cowboy. Whenever Coreen was near, he could feel his restraint slipping...yet he couldn...

• May-2011
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MR. MARCH NAME: Todd Burke BIGGEST CHALLENGE: Saving Jane Parker's Ranch BIGGEST PROBLEM: Jane Parker... Once-burned Todd Burke had no intention of getting hitched to anyone. Having one temperamental female under his roof was enough. Still...

• May-2011
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RUGGED RANCHER Sparks flew the moment Kasie Mayfield arrived at Gil Callister's sprawling Montana ranch to temporarily care for his two adorable daughters. Yet never in her wildest dreams did the innocent young woman imagine that her formidable ne...

• May-2011
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ARE HIS BACHELOR DAYS NUMBERED? He was strong, seductive and set in his ways. She was shy, unassuming and achingly innocent. Together, next-door neighbors Jordan Powell and Libby Collins were like oil and water. Yet when Jordan made it his persona...

• Jun-2011
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The Hard-headed Cowboy He was everything Tiffany Blair wanted. He was danger. He was love... and she was meant to spend forever with him. Trouble was, the almighty Kingman Marshall insisted marriage was for fools. But for better, for worse, Tiffan...

• Jun-2011
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RULES OF ENGAGEMENT FOR A LONG, TALL TEXAN! Louise Blakely, MD: Doctor with a heartache She didn't want to love Jeb Coltrain. The legendary Texan treated her like the enemy. And Coltrain's shocking marriage proposal demanded surrender. . . . ...

• Jun-2011
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From the moment powerfully seductive Rey Hart first set eyes on Meredith Johns, he became mesmerized by the lovely young woman. For not only did Meredith stir his jaded soul with her tempting innocence, he discovered she was a top-notch biscuit maker...

• Jun-2011
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HIS WINTER BRIDE...? As the holiday season approached, the residents of Jacobsville were whispering about Janie Brewster's hopeless crush on Leo Hart. Up till now, all her efforts to lasso the dynamic cattleman had crumbled quicker than those mout...

• Jun-2011
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Hot-tempered rancher Powell Long had once stolen Antonia Haye's heart. But small-town lies tore their young love apart, forcing Antonio to flee. Years later, she returned to find Powell raising a daughter alone. Fatherhood hadn't tempered with his wi...

• Jun-2011
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TENDER MERCY A vacation at her godmother's ranch near Abilene would have been the perfect place for Maggie Turner to escape her ex-husband's threats. Perfect, that is, if it hadn't been for Gabe Coleman. Tall, lithe and lean, he was just as blunt, r...

• Jul-2011
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At the sprawling Whitehall cattle ranch, one indomitable woman dares to follow her desire no matter where it may take her. When Lacy Jarrett and Cole Whitehall are unwittingly compromised into marriage, her dreams of a passionate forever are met w...

• Jul-2011
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"No woman will ever be allowed within striking distance of my heart!" --Simon Hart, iron-hearted, insufferably stubborn Long, Tall Texan He'd sworn off romantic entanglements forever. But every man had a weakness, and his was the beautiful, beg...

• Jul-2011
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They're long and lean ... and impossible to resist. Mavericks through and through. And they have all the ladies in Jacobsville swooning. But not just any women can tame these rugged Texans and make them give up their bachelor ways. Because when these...

• Jul-2011
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STORYBOOK PASSION The last thing in the world romance writer Katriane wanted to do was spend Christmas with her roommate's arrogant, infuriating brother. A rugged Wyoming rancher like Egan Winthrop belonged in New York City about as much as sh...

• Jul-2011
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HE WAS A REAL HARD CASE, BUT SHE HAD LOVE ON HER SIDE.... Like most of the young ladies in Fort Worth, Noelle Brown was smitten by handsome, charming Andrew Paige. But when she challenged the steely-eyed gaze of his stepbrother Jared, something in...

• Jul-2011
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FIT TO BE TIED Eccentric neighbor, loyal friend, and totally innocent tease, impish Elissa Dean was exactly what Kingston Roper needed-to get him out of a romantic bind, that is. His sister-in-law's intentions were anything but sisterly, and King ...

• Jul-2011
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IT WAS A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE. But convenient for whom? Jude Langston had practically kidnapped Bess and brought her to his San Antonio ranch. It wasn't that he'd wanted her so desperately -- his cool green eyes were firmly fixed on the shares...

• Aug-2011
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That Texas man was long and lean...and just ripe for loving on a hot summer night... But convincing him of that fact would be a difficult task indeed. Because men from Jacobsville, Texas, are a different breed, and tough to convince in matters of ...

• Aug-2011
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NORA NEEDED TO BE TAUGHT A LESSON...AND CAL WAS JUST THE MAN TO DO IT Nora Marlowe had come to Texas with visions of dashing cowboys and great adventure -- but one despicable man with infernal laughing eyes put an end to her illusions. Cal Barton ...

• Aug-2011
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Make it happen! That's what shy secretary Eleanor Perrie was determined to do! She was fed up with Curry Matherson's treatment of her. His nontreatment, that is. Her tall, dark Texan boss -- the man who consumed her every thought -- barely ...

• Aug-2011
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BUBBLES GALORE! Underneath her bubbly, carefree facade there was more -- much more -- to the champagne girl. Catherine Blake maintained high personal standards, including a sense of duty to her widowed mother, which brought her back to Comanche Fl...

• Aug-2011
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FROM FRIENDS TO LOVERS They'd been close for years, but suddenly Madeline hungered for John in a new way. When they finally touched, passion set their souls on fire... but their friendship turned to ashes. Now Madeline feared she was no more ...

• Aug-2011
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HE WAS HER SECRET DESIRE: Sweet, gentle schoolteacher Natalie Brock's life changed forever when handsome rancher Mack Killain branded her with his masterful kisses and gave her a tantalizing taste of true passion. Ever since that first sensual awake...

• Aug-2011
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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...

• Aug-2011
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TOO LATE TO LOVE? When Abby went home to the Big Sky country she'd always loved, she seemed more like a wounded bird than a glamorous fashion model. After what had happened in New York she could never let any man touch her again. But Cade McLaren ...

• Aug-2011
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Shelby Kane wasn't about to let her friend's bossy brother run her off his family's ranch again! Kingston Brannt kept a tight rein on his emotions, but made it clear he resented her presence - and the passion she stirred in him. Ruggedly handsome and...

• Aug-2011
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A Christmas keepsake...two special stories filled with holiday magic by Diana Palmer and Joan Johnston. Meet the men who make it so nice to be naughty! They're seductive, they're shameless, They're irresistible - and these Texans are experts at s...

• Aug-2011
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Where is it written that a rancher's daughter has to marry a long, tall Texan-or lose the ranch? In her father's will-and Dana Mobry's just discovered that her partner in this marriage of convenience is none other than the sexiest cowboy in Texas-Han...

• Aug-2011
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The dangerous desires of men and the seductive powers of women are explored by three of the romance genre's most celebrated writers in this captivating collection of short fiction....

• Aug-2011
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For two years Pricilla Johnson watched John Sterling manage his cattle station, and at the tender age of eighteen she innocently surrendered her young heart to him. He was big, brash, brazen and Australian. Everyone called it infatuation, Priss knew ...

• Aug-2011
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LOVE CLASH Teddi Whitehall longed to escape from her hectic life as a New York model, and a summer in the wilds of Canada with her best friend's family sounded perfect. But arrogant rancher Kingston Devereaux seemed intent on making her feel anyth...

• Aug-2011
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After months in the dust and grime of Arizona, Trilby longed more than ever for the cool, green bayous of her ancestral home.... But the family mansion in Louisiana was a long way from where she found herself -- in an isolated wooden frame house n...

• Sep-2011
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Wholesome Maggie Kirk had always been wary of commanding cowboy Clint Raygen. So if her best friend's forbidding older brother rubbed her the wrong way, how come she'd chosen his ranch to recover from a broken heart? She knew the dangers that...

• Sep-2011
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ADVENTUROUS HEART For Gabby Darwin, working as a paralegal for one of the most famous criminal lawyers in Chicago was a full-time job. J.D. was demanding, and never gave Gabby a thought --until the unforeseen happened and they were on a secret m...

• Sep-2011
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LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER She'd met Eric Van Meer entirely by chance during an unforgettable vacation in Mexico, and with reckless abandon, she'd agreed to marry the mysterious blond stranger. Dani St. Clair, prim southern bookseller, had expe...

• Sep-2011
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THE PAST FINALLY CAUGHT UP WITH HIM Diego Laremos had never forgotten the last night he'd spent with Melissa Sterling five years before. She'd fled their home after a bitter dispute, hoping to escape their unhappy marriage. He hadn't forgiven her ...

• Sep-2011
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SOLID AS A ROCK Rock star Sabina Cane had heard plenty about the wealthy Hamilton Regan Thorndon III, head honcho of Thorn Oil. His brother, Al, warned her of Thorn's reputation for breaking hearts, but singing was Sabina's life and she was gratef...

• Sep-2011
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MR. OCTOBER THE DOCTOR: Ramon Cortero HIS PATIENT: Noreen Kensington, nurse with a serious condition of heartache. REMEDY: A dose of old-fashioned loving! Ramon's stormy past with Noreen made him the one man she didn't want rescuing her, now ...

• Sep-2011
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MR. MARCH Name: Dane Lassiter Description: A private eyeful at home... and on the range. Secret Sorrow: A family is forever denied to him. Current Focus: Tess Meriwether, gentle, vulnerable -- and targeted for danger. He had been a Texas...

• Sep-2011
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MARRIAGE ACCORDING TO NICK REED: My sister thinks I should. But what can I say? I'm a private eye and I like excitement, change. I get bored hanging around a place for long. That kind of attachment - marriage...no, definitely not for me... MARRIA...

• Sep-2011
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THE PINING PRIVATE EYE Kit Morris would simply quit and let financial wizard Logan Deverell see for himself just how far his Midas touch took him ... without a secretary! For three years she'd kept his books, losing her head over one singularly st...

• Sep-2011
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KEEPER OF THE FLAME... At thirty-four, Blake Hamilton was an arrogant lady-killer determined to keep his heart free. But to Kathryn Mary Kilpatrick he was a guardian stricter than the father she'd lost. She tried to rebel in the arms of another man....

• Sep-2011
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CINDERELLA STORY All Denny Cole ever noticed was her typing speed. But Kenna Dean promised herself that one day the Atlanta lawyer would see beyond his efficient secretary to the woman beneath. It seemed an uphill battle until Denny's partner and ...

• Sep-2011
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A SECOND CHANCE She'd been a teenager with a furious crush, and he'd been an experienced man out to avenge himself on the girl he really loved. Eleanor Whitman hated the memory -- and she hated him. But even four years later, the sight and...