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D.K. Abbott
THE PATH TAKEN 3/2006 (ebook) A handsome young minister in town has captured the hearts of the young women of Trumble, including beautiful Emily Walsh, a shopkeepers daughter. Will she finally find the love she so desperately searches for or will she again, loose at love? RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Elizabeth Adler
FORTUNE IS A WOMAN 1/1992 ISBN: 038530529X The Fabulous Lai Tsin Empire...The three met in the aftermath of San Francisco's devastating 1906 earthquake - the Mandarin Lai Tsin, a runaway American heiress, and a young Englishwoman. Against all odds they made their dreams come true, building one of the world's largest trading companies and most luxurious hotels...The Lai Tsin Curse...They had only each other - and bloody secrets to bury even as they rose to dizzying heights, wary of love yet vulnerable to passion in its most dangerous forms...The Lai Tsin Legacy...The Mandarin would pass his multibillion-dollar empire only to the women in the Lai Tsin dynasty - along with one last devastating truth...
PEACH 1986 ISBN: 044020111X Peach de Courmont -- Wild child, teenage temptress, exquisite woman. The adored granddaughter of Leonie and heiress to the de Courmont dynasty, she grew up in luxury, used to having life -- and love -- on her own terms. Noel Maddox -- Raised in an Iowa orphanage, used to the mean streets of Detroit, he fought his way from the assembly line the pinnacle of power. Peach --and the automobile empire she commanded -- were part of the dream he meant to have... at any price. From wartime Paris to the dazzling Cote d'Azue... from the frenetic boardrooms of Detroit and the palatial homes of Grosse Pointe to the stately English countryside, their indomitable wills collide in a saga of consuming passion and raw power played out against the backdrop of a rich and reckless world.
LÉONIE 1985 ISBN: 0440146623 With only her exotic beauty, seductive innocence, pride, and fiery spirit, Leonie came from the provinces to find her future in Paris. From the shame of music halls, she rose to international fame singing songs of love and longing, straight from the heart. From Paris to the Cote d'Azur, from New York to Brazil, from Cuba to Cairo, she moved in a dazzling world of money, passion, and power--a world darkened only by the relentlessly hunger of one man's obsession--a man determined to possess her . . . a man who could never lover her, never let her go . . . .
PRIVATE DESIRES 1985 Reissued as LÉONIE
Ginny Aiken
CRYSTAL MEMORIES 10/1997 ISBN: 0515121592 Winona, Minnesota, 1997. Amelia Baldwin was thrilled to be costuming a vaudeville revival at a beautiful old theater. She loved clothing and homes and things from another time. But Amelia had no idea that she herself would soon become a part of the past...Winona, Minnesota, 1900. When Amelia awoke in a turn-of-the-century opera house, she thought she was in heaven, or watching a period movie, or maybe she’d gone crazy. But her surprising new life was no dream - nor was the gorgeous sky-blue-eyed man who needed her so...
Rosemary Aitken
AGAINST THE TIDE 10/2004 ISBN: 0727860291 Winnie and Dora’s father wants to see his daughters married well, and his plans do not include Dora falling in love with local miner’s son Davy. Eventually, fate and family conspire to put an end to Dora’s romantic hopes and her beloved job. Then the Great War intervenes in their lives and Dora attempts to forge a life that she wants. But can it include Davy?
CORNISH HARVEST 8/1998 ISBN: 0752812106 'Lizzie looked around her: at the sunshine, the corn, the sea and the cliffs. Of course her father was right. These things were eternal.' But are they? It is 1914, the lights are about to go out allover Europe and Lizzie Treloweth's stable and happy Cornish life is plunged into confusion. One of ten children, she and her family struggle to run her father's butcher's shop and, when he enlists, she misses him and the Jago brothers from the neighboring farm more than she believed possible. Lizzie volunteers to nurse the wounded at Little Manor, as does the spoilt and wayward Tamsin Beswetherick. But Tamsin's actions threaten to disgrace them both, and a despairing Lizzie is forced to leave Penzance and seek a new life in the Land Army after she loses the man she loves. As the war to end all wars takes its grim toll in France, on the bleak Home Front Lizzie learns to live again, and finds that love may be found in unexpected places. A tender and perceptive story of hope and the possibility of happy endings, Rosemary Aitken transports the reader back to a time of passion and pathos, of heartbreak and hard work in a novel which captures the essence of wartime Cornwall and its inhabitants.
THE GIRL FROM PENVARRIS 8/1995 ISBN: 1857976363 Born into a large family in a Cornish tin-mining village at the turn of the century, young Katie Warren is forced to abandon her dreams of working as a pupil-teacher when her mother dies in child-birth. Instead she goes into service at the big house with her sister Fanny. Katie is soon content with her work and against her will finds herself growing fond of the shy but kind son of the house, George Trevarnon. However, thanks to George's unscrupulous but attractive brother Robert, the girls are dismissed and Katie is obliged to struggle for a living in the alien city of Truro, while a disillusioned George enlists to bury his emotions in the dangers and devastations of the Boer War. . . When the two meet again after much tribulation and heartbreak, each is married to another; but the webs of fate weave their lives inextricably together through joy, tragedy and torment, until they are at last able to unite - in the deceptive peace of an Edwardian summer. Melding fascinating tin-mining lore with the self-indulgent lives of the aristocracy in a world teetering between war and unemployment, The Girl from Penvarris delivers a rich blend of romance and realism that will tug the heartstrings. habitants.
THE GRANITE CLIFFS 2/2003 ISBN: 0727858548 Victoria Flower, motherless and nearing womanhood, is beginning to chafe against the restrictions of her life as the vicar's only daughter in a remote Cornish mining town. Her honorable and well-meaning father, though disillusioned by the impossibility of his spiritual task, thinks he has found a suitable companion for her when he introduces a gentle, musical young curate into the parish. Indeed a friendship blossoms, as Victoria finds a fellow-sufferer in his rather gauche and awkward ways. All this is to change, however, when a accident at the granite-pit brings Victoria into close contact with stone-worker Daniel Olds, whose rugged muscularity she has already secretly admired, and finds the admiration mutual. However, there is no possibility of a match. Convention and society are against them, and Dan is already promised to local girl, Mollie Coombs, who is not likely to give up her beau without a struggle. The Curate, too, shows a determined side, though he proves to have a secret of his own. Set at a time when Edwardian convention was absolute and when the Penwith mining industry was in crisis and decline, this book offers a lively glimpse at the social and economic realities of love, life and loss in early twentieth-century Cornwall.
THE SILENT SHORE 11/2001 ISBN: 0727857436 After a startling revelation led "Sprat" Nicholls to break off with her childhood sweetheart, Denzil Vargo, and quarrel with her family, she was determined to get as far away from her native Cornwall as possible - and London, three hundred miles from home, seemed like a pretty good start. For a time, the capital provides some amusing diversions, including a new suffragette acquaintance and the startling appearance of Tom Courtney, Denzil's nemesis. But the stifling atmosphere of the city streets soon has Sprat longing for the fresh, peaceful cliffs of her home, for the open arms of her forgiving parents - and for the bewildered Denzil, who has no idea at all why he and Sprat can never be together.
STORMY WATERS 5/2001 ISBN: 0727857282 Wilhemina 'Sprat' Nicholls has lived all her life in 'the Cove', below the Cornish village of Penvarris, isolated from mainstream Cornish society. Now new opportunities are beckoning in the shape of a position as companion to retired music-hall star Violet Gresham. Denzil Vargo and his mother are long-time residents of Penvarris, and have learned to adjust to life without Denzil's drunken bully of a father. Even better, Denzil is progressing nicely as a clerk in a shipping company. When Stan Vargo returns unexpectedly, however, it becomes clear that their tiny cottage won't hold two grown men with very different outlooks on life. Mixing with strangers is frowned upon for both Denzil and Sprat, but they have managed to evade their family long enough to strike up a friendship. But a sixteen-year-old secret is about to shatter all their hopes and dreams.
Charlotte Vale Allen
MOOD INDIGO 3/1998 ISBN: 0965743713 It is late winter 1934 in Manhattan when DeeDee Carlson dies after falling from the balcony of her apartment at the Ansonia. Her boyfriend, Chip Stevenson, begs Honoria Barlow-his late mother's closest friend, and his, as well-to look into the circumstances of DeeDee's death. Honoria insists that her experience as a script doctor doesn't qualify her to play gumshoe, but out of love for Chip, and against the wishes of her protective, Russian-born husband, Mikhail, she agrees to do a little sleuthing. This commitment takes Honoria and her assistant, Maybelle, into some of New York's most elegant dwellings where they meet the dead girl's mother and friends. Some of DeeDee's friends adored her; some loathed her. The young woman had many secrets, and as Honoria begins to uncover them, the situation turns as dangerous as the murderously cold weather. With homeless families living in a Hooverville in Central Park, and the popular radio shows, restaurants, nightclubs, and shops, the era is meticulously reproduced; it's black and white, like a film that's the end-product of one of Honoria's doctored scripts. It's Manhattan; it's a clever, unique woman working her way through a puzzle; and, ultimately, it's a matter of whether Honoria will survive the experience.
PAINTED LIVES 5/1990 ISBN: 1892738333 Mattie Sylvester, widow of one of America's most celebrated painters, spends most of her time gazing out to sea on an island off the Atlantic Coast, remembering. Her new secretary, Sarah Kidd, is fascinated by the eccentric household, and its mistress - elegant, red-haired, feisty, and brooding. There must be tales she could tell about her fifty years with Gideon Sylvester. Slowly, as an unlikely bond forms between the two women, Mattie unravels the past - her early life, her circle of artist friends in the 1920s, her handsome, amusing, sexual wizard of a husband, their sons - but Sarah is shocked as nostalgia gives way to a simmering rage. As they talk through the nights in the rambling old house, she learns the truth about Gideon, the enormity of what he did to his brilliant wife. And Sarah realizes she holds the key to a revelation that could stagger the outside world...
Carol Anderson
A PRIVATE AFFAIR 1995 ISBN: 0747252114 A Lady Chatterly style drama set in 1920s Norfolk.
Catherine Anderson
SUMMER BREEZE 1/2006 ISBN: 0451217101 The year is 1889, and Rachel Hollister hasn't set foot outside her house in five years. Ever since a savage attack left her family dead, she's cordoned herself off from the outside world, afraid to let anyone into her home—or into her heart. But now trouble has appeared on her doorstep—and suddenly she has no choice but to let a handsome rancher invade her well-guarded existence...Confirmed bachelor Joseph Paxton grudgingly offers to take up temporary residence at the Hollister ranch—even though it's obvious that Rachel doesn't want his protection. But once he catches a glimpse of his beautiful young ward and her remarkable spirit, he'll do anything to break through the dark spell that's walled off her heart. It may take a miracle, but he's determined to make her see the refuge he's offering in his embrace—and the splendor that exists beyond her front door. Otherwise he'll just have to build a safe haven big enough for the both of them...RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Linda Anderson
OVER THE MOON 2/1995 ISBN: 0451404947 Everyone in Big Ugly Creek, West Virginia, knows that Lillibet Springer is destined to be more than just a coal miner's daughter. Torn between the constraints of duty and the urgings of her heart, Lillibet faces perhaps the greatest challenge of her life, as she learns to put her trust in one man.
Leslie Arlen
FATE AND DREAMS 1981 ISBN: 0515068985
LOVE AND HONOR 8/1980 ISBN: 0515054801 Saga of the Borodins, one of the families who for centuries steered the golden destiny of Russia, amid the fabled Court of the Tsars. The dynasty that rode high to the crest of power-only to reach the brink of a rebel-torn New Age. Prince Peter: the unbending heir to the tempest of change. Ilona: the heartstrong Princess, slave to a renegade passion. George: the roving American journalist, tied to the great family's fortunes. Tatiana: the wildest young beauty in a restless hour. Bound by pride , the Borodins must stand against the fated forces that threaten their priceless birthright and the dark-eyed monk who holds their monarch in thrall. A story of the longings of a people stirred by the false promises of unscrupulous men, and struggle to uplift the silken banner of their fragile world.
WAR AND PASSION 1981 ISBN: 051505481X The Borodins - a dynasty as old as their homeland. Born to soft privilege and iron power, they are now swept into a tempest of War and Passion. And as the old ruler falls and his glittering empire turns to dust, the Borodins and those they cherish must hold fast to love and honor.
Margot Arnold
MARIE 9/1979 ISBN:0671819194 Marie Laveau insinuated her way into Creole Society, the businesswoman who ran a brothel that became a hub of wartime espionage, the healer whose very powers destroyed the only love she ever knew; the Voodoo Queen who mourned her enemies as she buried her friends, the irresistible icon of fire & ice whose secrets were more powerful than death itself!
Keri Arthur
BENEATH A RISING MOON 4/2003 ISBN: 1893986382 On the werewolf reservation of Ripple Creek, a killer is on the loose. Three women are dead, their bodies mutilated and faces slashed. A fourth, Neva Grant’s twin, lies in the hospital, fighting for her life. Psychically linked, Neva shared the horror of her twin attack and makes a silent vow by her sister’s hospital bed. She’ll hunt down the killer, if Savannah finds the strength to live.The Rangers believe the killer is a member of the Sinclair pack, but Neva knows the Sinclairs will never talk to an outsider. To begin the hunt, she first has to seduce a Sinclair---and then she has to keep him interested long enough to find the killer. The only Sinclair not under suspicion is a wolf with a hard drinking, hard loving reputation. But has she got what it takes to attract a man with such experience? Neva doesn’t know, but for her sister’s sake, she has to try. Duncan Sinclair has been called back home to find a killer, and he wants nothing more than to complete his task and get out of the town for which he has no love. Then he’s approached by a wolf who obviously has more than seduction on her mind, and he finds himself ensnared in a growing web of desire and deceit.As the murders continue and the killer’s shadow draws ever closer, Duncan and Neva find themselves having to trust each other in order to survive. But can they trust the emotions flaring between them? Or will the lies of the present, the deeds of the past, and a killer’s bloody intentions tear them apart?
Violet Ashton
LOVE BY FIRE 1980 ISBN: 0449143600 Three beautiful Russians seek sanctuary in London in the 1920's.
SWAN SONG 1979 ISBN: 0449142639 In St. Petersberg, in the wild and decadent years just before the revolution, unfolds this towering novel of grand passions and spectacular moments of men and women caught up in forbidden love and the savage destiny that lay in wait for them. "A tumultuous panoramic novel of lovers caught in the raging lusts of Russia on the eve of the revolution."
Gwyneth Atlee
NIGHT WINDS 7/2000 ISBN: 0821766422 Ever since her mother vanished when she was a child, Shae Rowan's embittered father has kept her a virtual prisoner of their Gulf Coast home. To escape his tyranny, she reluctantly agrees to marry the selfish heir to a shipping fortune. But all that changes when she meets a handsome stranger on the beach, and suddenly finds herself giving in to dangerous, unyielding passion. Phillip Payton's unconventional beliefs have isolated him from others, until Shae gives him the strength to pursue his dreams -- and captures his lonely heart. Yet before they can embrace a magnificent love, Phillip must free his beautiful beloved of the one thing that haunts her: the truth about her mother's past. Discovering it could shatter what they share... or forge a bond that can never be broken.
Lynne Austin
A WOMAN'S PLACE ISBN: 0764228900 They watched their sons, their brothers, and their husbands enlist to fight a growing menace across the seas. And when their nation asked, they answered the call as well... Virginia longs to find a purpose beyond others' expectations. Helen is driven by a loneliness money can't fulfill. Rosa is desperate to flee her in-laws' rules. Jean hopes to prove herself in a man's world Under the storm clouds of destruction that threaten America during the early 1940s, this unlikely gathering of women will experience life in sometimes starling new ways as their beliefs are challenged and they struggle toward a new understanding of what love and sacrifice truly mean. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Anne Avery
FIRE AND ICE 7/2001 ISBN: 0505524422 It is a huge old mausoleum, a place where p's and q's matter more than people do. Kate had escaped it once, though it still haunts her dreams, along with bitter memories of the boy she'd loved. Now she is back to claim a forgotten legacy, and Elliot is a grown man, no longer gentle but hard and dangerous. People say he is a killer, but the fire between them leaps as fiercely as ever, making Kate wonder whether her mother's bequest to her is the glittering diamonds for which she searches or a proclivity for giving her heart to an ill-fated love.
SUMMER FANCY 7/1997 ISBN: 0451407393 Suddenly taken with Rocky Ford, Colorado's most eligible bachelor, the normally fiercely independent Miss Sophronia Carter hatches a humdinger of a scheme to take Zeke Jeffries's mind off of his beloved watermelon farm.
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