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An unwanted desire
With the death of his wife still raw, Jack Connolly's mood is dark and dangerous. He's not looking for a woman, until he meets buttoned-up but beautiful Grace Spencer, who stirs his senses back to life. Yet Jack cannot act on his feelings, as Grace belongs to another! An impossible affair
Trapped in a fake relationship to safeguard her family, Grace knows crossing the line with Jack would risk everything she holds dear....
2) Moon Witch
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Jarrod guarded Sara even against himself.
Sara Robins had never even heard of Jarrod Kyle until he became her guardian. He was far removed from anyone Sara, at seventeen, had known in the small, quiet world she'd lived in until her grandfather's death.
Jarrod Kyle was just twice her age, handsome, rich, successful and surrounded by sophisticated women. Perhaps it was inevitable that Sara would fall in love with him.
But was it love or only...
3) Loren's Baby
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It hadn't been easy-coming to see Tristan Ross. He might deny being the father of her dead sister's baby, but Caryn was determined to make him accept responsibility.
When he finally conceded, however, his conditions were not what she had in mind. She was to accompany the child to his home.
"I wouldn't work for you," she declared angrily, "and I wouldn't live in your house if you paid me in diamonds!" But, even fearing the magnetism of this devastating...
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Seventeen-year-old Domine thought she was alone in the world when her guardian and only relative, Great-Uncle Henry Farriday, died; nevertheless she was a little daunted when she learned that Great-Uncle Henry had consigned her to the care of the unknown James Mannering until she was eighteen. She was no less daunted when she actually met James and went to stay with him and his mother in their home in Yorkshire. For James was only thirty-seven and...
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Too hot to handle, too strong to deny...Dominic Montoya was darkly handsome and, oh, so dangerous to know. Cleo knew he was strictly off-limits. But she couldn't turn her back on him altogether; he had information that could change her whole life... Cleo was torn as to which path she should choose, but reluctantly agreed to follow Dominic to his home on the sultry Caribbean island of San Clemente. Soon they were caught in the tangled web of their...
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Miranda refused to listen to warnings.
She didn't love Mark Sanders, but that didn't matter. He was heir to the estate where her mother was housekeeper. As Lady Sanders, Miranda could ensure a better life for her mother as well as herself.
But Mark was killed just before the wedding-the day her mother suffered a paralyzing stroke.
Jaime Knevett, the new heir, suggested a way out of Miranda's dilemma. But Miranda had detested him for years...
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The Italian's savage passion...
When Juliet meets broodingly handsome Italian Raphael Marchese, there is an instant and dangerous attraction between them. But because of the pretense Juliet has agreed to in order to help a friend, Rafe mistakenly thinks she's a gold-digger who's engaged to another man!
However, the tension between Juliet and Rafe is stronger than reason, and it erupts. Raphael makes love to her-passionately and savagely. He reasons...
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When Carolyn joined her archaeologist father in Mexico, she found herself immediately in conflict with Don Carlos, who owned the valley where her father was searching for a Zapotec city. Don Carlos thought she was "a typical product of the permissive society" and Carolyn let him know that "I am not one of your peons".
It seemed an inauspicious beginning to their relationship. And yet...
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Innocence betrayed...
Memories of a long-ago summer night still taunt Laura Neill. With all the provocative innocence of youth, she stole into her stepbrother Oliver's bedroom, and discovered love and fleeting happiness in his arms.
Driven away by his apparent betrayal, it's been eight long years since Laura last visited home. Can she now face Oliver without confessing the aching love she still feels for him-or the secrets she's held all this...
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The child of a broken marriage, seventeen-year-old Tamsyn wasn't at all looking forward to going to Wales to visit the father she hardly knew-until she arrived there and met Hywel Benedict.
Her first feelings of antagonism towards him soon changed into something so deep and violent that they threatened to overwhelm her completely, and it was clear that she affected him in some way-but marriage? No, he said. He was too old for her, her father's...
11) A Savage Beauty
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Emma Seaton was comfortably if unexcitingly engaged to Victor Harrison; he was a wealthy business tycoon, and Emma could look forward to a life of ease and luxury with him-but was that all she wanted from life?
She became even more aware of her doubts about Victor when she met the disturbing Miguel Salvaje, who made no secret of his attraction to her, and Emma soon admitted to herself that she in turn was attracted to him. The situation grew even...
12) Come the Vintage
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Her situation was impossible, Ryan realized, more impossible than even Alain could imagine.
What had he said? "We are married, Ryan. I suggest we attempt to salvage something from the wreck."
But friendship was something she and Alain could never share, and she shrank from his pity.
If all he could offer was friendship for appearances' sake, there was no future for either of them.
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"Who rides the tiger dare not dismount" goes the Chinese saying...and Dominique felt the proverb could well apply to her strange, impulsive marriage to Vincente Santos. She dared not dismount from the tiger she rode...but what if she was thrown?
Vincente drew out a case of cheroots and extracted one calmly.
His tawny eyes surveyed her almost indifferently, as if assessing her qualifications. "I want you to break your engagement to Harding and...
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"Don't be deceived, Emma," Damon said violently. "I'm not letting you go because I feel sorry for you. I'm letting you go because I have no intention of losing my self-respect over a little cheat like you."
It didn't seem to matter anymore what his reasons were. Emma knew only that she needed him now-more than at any other time of her life. The love she had felt for him when she was seventeen had not died. It had deepened. And today her love for...
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Sancha was thrilled with her assignment-to interview the famous author, the Conte Cesare Alberto Venturo di Malatesta.
Entering his palazzo was like stepping back into the Renaissance, its poverty-stricken appearance at odds with his success. The Conte himself-a modern, powerful figure-was dynamite, as Sancha soon realized. And she seemed to have the same effect on him.
But the truth was Cesare was hard up; he did need to marry money. With the...
16) Morgan's Child
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A new year... a new start... a new baby. The miracle Felicity could only dream about has finally happened - her husband, missing, presumed dead, is alive and well - and coming home! But much has happened in their four years apart and Morgan seems like a virtual stranger to her now. Fliss's love for her husband had once consumed her and it's not long before his return begins to stir her long-suppressed desires. With the dawning of a new year it's the...
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Could he ever belong to her?
Antonia was devastated to learn that the very attractive man she had met at Celia's party was none other than Reed Gallagher, Celia's fiancé. He hadn't acted like a man in love, but perhaps their sort of people behaved differently. And Antonia was very definitely not their sort.
Although she resolved to forget Reed, Antonia couldn't escape him. He invaded her life and her heart. And despite her guilt feelings, she...
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Why do some women always manage to fall for a man who they know from the start can never be any good to them?
Julie Kennedy, like most girls, had hero-worshipped the famous television singer Manuel Cortez from afar, but it had never entered her head that she might meet him, let alone that he would show an interest in her. But it all happened, and before she knew where she was Julie had fallen hopelessly in love with him. Hopelessly-because, as...
19) Guilty
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The man of her fantasies belonged to another-her daughter.
Slim, lovely Laura Fox didn't look like the mother of a twenty-one-year-old, although her safe, predictable life-save the occasional run-in with her headstrong daughter-quite befitted that of a country matron.
Her world turned upside down when she met Jake Lombardi. Was it simply lust for something she'd never had-or did this passionate man's potent sensuality savage her emotions and...
20) Dark Castle
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For the first time since the break-up of their marriage, Julie began to have doubts. Should she have believed Jonas instead of Angela?
But suppose Jonas was innocent? Even if he weren't, it was no use deceiving herself any longer.
"I think you ought to know, Angela," Julie said, "I still love Jonas, no matter what he did. I may go after him."
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