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Demetri Kastro has dark suspicions about Joanna, the young and very attractive woman who has escorted his father home to Greece. Though the elderly millionaire is ill, Demetri is certain Joanna isn't what the doctor ordered!
However, Demetri's attempts to dig beneath Joanna's coolly beautiful exterior reveal few clues as to the nature of her relationship with his father. She's giving nothing away...except an unwitting sexual attractiveness that...
2) Sirocco
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Rachel Fleming wished she had never stopped to help the stranger in distress. But it was too late now. The tables had turned.
Alexis Roche was no helpless victim. He was a seasoned hunter committed to the chase. He found out Rachel's name, address, even where she worked and set out to systematically change her whole life. First he toyed with her engagement, and then he closed in on her dangerously frazzled emotions.
Rachel's mind bid her to...
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The last person Olivia expected to see when she returned to her hometown was her ruggedly handsome ex-husband. Joel Armstrong was the reason she'd stayed away so long. The breakup of their marriage had been swift, but the scars were raw. Searing desire still flared between them. But how could they indulge it again... when their passion had led to an unexpected pregnancy, with an equally unexpected twist?
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Karen Sinclair was deeply ashamed of her brief, inglorious love affair with Alexis Whitney seven years earlier. Since then she'd settled down-with an interesting job and a steady boyfriend.
Everything was so calm and pleasant that when Alexis unexpectedly came back into her life, Karen was shocked to realize she still found him disturbingly attractive.
But Alexis hadn't been the least bit interested in marriage all those years ago. And with...
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Christina thought the long university vacation would be an excellent time to visit her brother and sister-in-law in southern Portugal. But she soon realized that she was unwelcome and she was thankful when she was offered a job by the local lord of the manor, Dom Carlos Ramirez.
Soon, however, she felt she had jumped from the frying pan into the fire. Dom Carlos had a feudal attitude toward women in general and Christina in particular, and the...
7) Diamond Fire
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Too hot to handle.
Camilla hadn't seen Virginia in years, but she certainly couldn't ignore her childhood friend's urgent plea to come to Hawaii. Her cool reception from Virginia's husband was both unsettling and understandable; Virginia and their young daughter had vanished.
Good manners dictated Alex Conti invite Camilla to stay in the guest room, but he made it clear she was neither welcome nor wanted. Though distant and desperately worried...
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Olivia Mora no esperaba que una noche de pasión desenfrenada con un guapísimo ejecutivo sudamericano llamado Christian Rodríguez pudiera ocasionar tantos problemas. Así que decidió escapar a una isla tropical con la intención de mantener en secreto su embarazo.
Pero Christian no era de los que se rendían... ni de los que se conformaban con un solo encuentro, por muy apasionado que éste hubiera sido.
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Emma Maxwell knew her stepmother, Celeste, must have some scheme in mind, even before they arrived in Venice. When she heard what it was, Emma wanted no part of it. Then she met Count Vidal Cesare, on whom Celeste had designs, and decided he was old enough and experienced enough to look after himself.
Emma was very firm about her own future. She informed the Dowager Contessa, "No, signora. When I marry it will be for love. And my husband will love...
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An odd combination-young in years, mature in emotions. But that was Sophie.
From childhood, Sophie's whole world had revolved around her stepbrother, Robert, and her feelings had not lessened with the years.
But how could she get anyone to regard her feelings seriously when her whole family-including Robert-didn't approve? Besides, there was Emma...
11) Stolen Summer
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Could it be more than infatuation?
"You're still the most beautiful woman I've ever seen," Ben told Shelley. And admittedly she was more than flattered by his interest in her. But how could she take him seriously?
Ben couldn't love her. She was five years older than him, a friend of the family's, for heaven's sake. Ben was simply fulfilling a fantasy from when he'd been eighteen and infatuated with Shelley. And he was ruining his engagement...
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He had to protect her from himself!
Life was complicated enough for William Quentin without his ex-wife turning up on his doorstep. He'd been crazy about Francesca, and the agony of her betrayal still haunted him. Will knew he should heed his grandmother's warnings, but he couldn't turn Francesca away, especially as she was in fear for her life.
Always so in control of her emotions, Francesca's unexpected vulnerability threatened to topple all...
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It was five years since Rachel had left her husband Andre Sanchez, and she was only coming to him now because he was the only one who could help her beloved father. But the marriage had broken up in the first place because of the suffocating influence of the Sanchez family. Now there was a danger that Rachel would be swallowed up in it yet again.
Andre's eyes darkened, "You're still a member of this family. You're a Sanchez."
Rachel shook her...
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La aparición del millonario Gabriel Webb en la vida de Rachel estaba a punto de cambiarlo todo.
Aquel hombre parecía sincero cuando se ofreció a ayudarlas a su hija y a ella. Pero Rachel no estaba preparada para que Gabriel hiciera salir a la luz ciertas emociones que ella llevaba tanto tiempo negando que existieran. ¿Podría permitirse abrir su corazón a Gabriel, o quizás a él solo le interesaba tener una simple aventura con ella?
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A wealth of passion...
The arrival of wealthy businessman Gabriel Webb in Rachel's life is about to change everything....
Gabriel seems sincere in wanting to help single mom Rachel and her young daughter. But she isn't prepared when he touches emotions in her that she had carefully hidden away. Can she allow herself to open up her heart-and her bed-to him? Or is Gabriel interested in only a fleeting affair?
16) Sandstorm
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She was betrayed by her own emotions!
Abby considered her marriage over. Why couldn't Rachid just accept the fact and give her a divorce?
In the two years since she left Abarein, the Middle East country where Rachid was crown prince, she'd tried to rebuild her life. Now Rachid had come to reclaim her-fiercely opposing divorce, urging her to return.
But the reasons for her leaving were still valid. Nothing had really changed. Except maybe...
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Rachel had tried to escape the torture of her thoughts and memories. She had loved Joel-loved him with all the wealth of tenderness and passion she possessed. He had taken her love and destroyed it...
Now she heard Joel say, "I know what I always said. And I used to believe it, too. But not any longer. I've been a fool, Rachel. You don't know how much of a fool."
But it was too late; she couldn't let herself believe him now.
18) Tender Assault
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Heart of paradise.
India had been thirteen when Nathan Kittrick was banished from Pelican Island. Now, shrouded in scandal, he'd come home, heir to his father's multimillion-dollar holiday resort-a man determined to claim what was rightfully his.
Nathan's return brought back bitter memories, and India greeted him with angry accusations of the past. And this time he had to listen, because she was no longer a child, nor his faithful shadow. In...
19) Proud Harvest
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Carne expected her to just meekly agree.
"What about me? Don't I have any say in the matter?" Lesley's eyes flashed indignantly. After all, Carne had ignored his wife and child for three years. Why should he be interested in them now?
Lesley only knew that if Carne gained custody of Jeremy and took him back to Ravensdale, the Radleys would turn the boy against her. She couldn't let that happen.
But Carne was ruthlessly determined ...and he...
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Five years ago, Jane's marriage to Demetri Souvakis ended. Devastated and betrayed, she left him and started a new life.
Now Demetri needs an heir and demands a divorce. But they have one last night together-for old times' sake....
However, that one last loving has dramatic results. How can Jane tell her soon-to-be-ex-husband that she's pregnant with his child?
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