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Judith O'Brien
RHAPSODY IN TIME 6/1994 ISBN:067187148X After another impossible blind date in 1990's New York, blue-jean clad Liz falls from a train and regains consciousness in the Roaring Twenties - where she finds love more glorious than her wildest dreams with a famous composer who died in a 1935 plane crash.
WIND OF DESTINY 1988
Linda O'Brien
BELOVED PROTECTOR 11/2001 ISBN: 0380813440 Bodyguard and... Determined to help a friend in need, pretty Eliza Lowe groans at the thought of having to be escorted by a stodgy Pinkerton detective -- then she meets Case Brogan. Broad-shouldered and lean-hipped, he is the most gorgeous man Eliza has ever met! Suddenly, sharing a wagon with him feels like a real adventure -- especially when she sees the desire in his eyes! Lover? This journey is turning into a nightmare for Case. He was hired to protect Eliza, but all he wants to do is make love to her! This wildly exciting young miss needs to learn that men can't be trusted -- and especially not the one sleeping beside her beneath the moonlit night. Even a small taste of passion could be dangerous for them both. Does Case dare risk his mission and his honor for the sake of his heart?
COURTING CLAIRE 9/1999 ISBN: 0380802074 Lovely Claire Cavanaugh returned home to find her family home and fortune lost - but her innocent heart leaped for joy when handsome Tyler McCane came to the rescue. Devastatingly masculine, he seemed a knight in shining armor as he helped her out of hot water, and healed her broken heart. But when Tyler finally made her a proposal, he wasn't suggesting a lifetime of married bliss - no, Claire was horrified to find he was discussing business! Tyler wanted Claire's land badly, and he planned to own it no matter who got hurt. But her spirited beauty and faith in him unexpectedly touches his heart - and soon this life-long scoundrel finds himself changing his wicked ways. Could it be possible that this small-town girl had stolen his wayward heart?
HIS FORBIDDEN TOUCH 11/2000 ISBN: 0380813432 An Unexpected Reunion... Mariah Lowe has returned to Coffee Creek, dreading the moment she'll have to face Jake Sullivan again. Once, she gave this rugged, handsome man every ounce of her love and trust -- and he betrayed her in the worst way imaginable. But she's wiser now and her small town desperately needs her medical skills, so Mariah's determined to ignore the unwanted spark that flares to life every time she sees the dark-haired, powerful mine owner. An Unexpected Love... Jake knows there's more between them than Mariah's willing to admit. But he's protected her from the full truth of the past for so long, how can he ever regain the love and passion they once shared? His powerful sense of responsibility forbids Jake from telling the truth, but when danger threatens the woman he loves, all else is stripped away -- and Mariah's healing heart shows them the way.
Shannon O'Cork
ICE FALL 9/1988 ISBN: 0373970846 They were Newport's elite - the richest of the rich, whose glittering jewels and polished manners hid tarnished secrets - on a voyage the world would not forget. Audrey Lockholm: She was trapped in a blackmailer's grip, desperate to protect her husband from scandal. Tory Van Voorst: Beautiful and tragic, she was never without her cyanide in case her hidden past came to light. Swan and Smoke Lockholm: Twins and best friends, they were now rivals for the same man. They had it all, and they had everything to lose. Their secrets would either destroy the gilded lives of those around them or fall deep into the icy waters of the North Atlantic, never to be heard. Only fate would decide.
TITANIC: A Love Story 1998 reprint of ICE FALL ISBN:1551665069 They were Newport's elite - the richest of the rich, whose glittering jewels and polished manners hid tarnished secrets - on a voyage the world would not forget. Audrey Lockholm: She was trapped in a blackmailer's grip, desperate to protect her husband from scandal. Tory Van Voorst: Beautiful and tragic, she was never without her cyanide in case her hidden past came to light. Swan and Smoke Lockholm: Twins and best friends, they were now rivals for the same man. They had it all, and they had everything to lose. Their secrets would either destroy the gilded lives of those around them or fall deep into the icy waters of the North Atlantic, never to be heard. Only fate would decide.
Constance O'Day-Flannery
HERE AND NOW 10/2001 ISBN: 0380819570 A woman alone, just weeks before she is to deliver a new life into this world, Suzanne McDermott is determined to remain strong and accept whatever the future might bring. But she never dreams it will bring her ... the past. The stranger who washes up on the New Jersey shore is badly injured - and unprepared for the world into which he is about to walk. For the last thing Charles Garrity knew, it was the Roaring Twenties, and his life's ambitions were about to be realized. Yet a beautiful woman is telling him it is nearly eight decades past his time! Suzanne has rescued him and has...opened his eyes and soul to new wonders. Now it is he who must save her - heart and his own - with the power of something neither of them has ever known:real love.
Josie A. Okuly
PACIFIC BREEZE HOTEL 11/2004 ISBN: 0975286862 Felicia Avery arrived in Hollywood with dreams of succeeding in the movie business. But now a powerful movie producer is dead and someone is stalking Felicia through the sunny boulevards and dark alleys of post-war Los Angeles. Her dreams of stardom shattered by scandal, Felicia finds solace in the arms of a handsome detective. Can he protect her from the unknown assailant? Or are her days in Hollywood numbered? RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Marina Oliver
THE COBWEB CAGE 1994 ISBN:033039682X Born into the grim poverty of a Midlands mining village, Marigold Smith knows her future lies with her family. And so Marigold makes an agonizing decision - she gives up her son, the only living memory she has of Richard, to the parents-in-law who threw her out - in return for the financial security her family so desperately needs.
THE GLOWING HOURS 1995 ISBN:0451182103 Set in 1920,s Birmingham, this is the story of three very different women who become friends through their mutual love of dancing.
THE GOLDEN ROAD 1996 ISBN: 0718141008 When Josie Shaw's stepfather dies, leaving nothing but debts, her mother Dora despairs. Josie, however, is made of sterner stuff. Strong, lively, unpredictable, she has no intention of following her mother's wishes and using marriage as the means to rescue them both. She intends to start a career--it is the 1930s now, after all. Josie finds a job in Birmingham's jewelry sector, working for her stepbrother Leo. Fascinated by the business, she is soon equally entranced with their new hobby of car racing. Introduced to it by her cousin Lizzie and Lizzie's boyfriend Matthew, a whole new world opens before her: rallies, hill climbs and the dizzying prospect of the Monte Carlo run. So busy is she that she fails to notice how attracted her new friends are by her energetic charm--particularly Leo. Leo lost his father twice over: when he married Dora, and then when he died. The last person he ever thought he would fall for is Dora's daughter. Handsome and wealthy, Leo has never before had any trouble attracting girlfriends--but he soon finds Josie is not like his other women. The future seems assured therefore--until Josie becomes the target of a false accusation. Then she has to face reality of the deepening Depression without her job and few hopes of a new one....
Katherine O'Neal
SILENT SURRENDER 6/2003 ISBN:0553581244 He broke her heart...Now a struggling actress must put on the performance of a lifetime. Orphaned at the age of thirteen, actress Liana Wycliffe was no stranger to life's cruelties. But nothing had prepared her for the despair she felt when the man she loved betrayed her. Known as Ace, he was a devastatingly handsome fighter pilot stationed in Paris--and he was everything Liana wanted. But after one night of blazing passion he disappeared, leaving her with a brusque note--and a broken heart. Liana swears she will never again allow a man to violate her trust. But when the man who never stopped haunting her dreams returns, can she keep her vow?Ace has become Spencer Sloane, renowned director of the silent screen--and he wants talented Liana as the star of his next film. He has never forgotten the ingénue who came closest to piercing his disillusioned soul, and he will stop at nothing to ensure that she fulfills his vision. This time Liana is determined to have him only on her terms. In the face of such powerful desire, who will be the first to surrender? RR@H's Novel Thoughts
WRITTEN IN THE STARS 10/1998 ISBN:0553573802 He is her sworn enemy. She is the prize he wants above all. Diana Sanbourne is faced with an impossible choice: ignore her father's dying wish or seek out the one man who can fulfill it. The one man she despises--Jack Rutherford. Once, she had loved him, only to be betrayed, and she vowed never again to fall under the power of his seductive caress. Now he's a rogue hunter of ancient relics, with the daring and instincts that could lead to the fabled treasure her father asked her to find. Yet even as he joins her on her quest--one that will lead from England's shadowy underworld to a treacherous distant land--Diana must guard not only her life but her heart. For Jack makes it clear he intends to reclaim her for his own. And she is just as determined not to surrender.
Cynthia Ozick
HEIR TO THE GLIMMERING WORLD 9/2004 ISBN: 0618470492 Rose Meadows unknowingly enters this world when she answers an ambiguous want ad for an "assistant" to a Herr Mitwisser, the patriarch of a large, chaotic household. Rosie, orphaned at eighteen, has been living with her distant relative Bertram, who sparks her first erotic desires. But just as he begins to return her affection, his lover, a radical socialist named Ninel (Lenin spelled backward), turns her out. And so Rosie takes refuge from love among refugees of world upheaval. Cast out from Berlin"s elite, the Mitwissers live at the whim of a mysterious benefactor, James A'Bair. Professor Mitwisser is a terrifying figure, obsessed with his arcane research. His distraught wife, Elsa, once a prominent physicist, is becoming unhinged. Their willful sixteen-year-old daughter runs the household: the exquisite, enigmatic Anneliese. Rosie's place here is uncertain, and she finds her fate hanging on the arrival of James. Inspired by the real Christopher Robin, James is the Bear Boy, the son of a famous children's author who recreated James as the fanciful subject of his books. Also a kind of refugee, James runs from his own fame, a boy adored by the world but grown into a bitter man. It is Anneliese"s fierce longing that draws James back to this troubled house, and it is Rosie who must help them all resist James"s reckless orbit.
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