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Kathleen Sage
HEART OF ALASKA 10/1997 ISBN: 0515121584 Bet Goldman has known Jesse Wheeler all her life. When she was a crippled child, he taught her to ride his stallion, Firestriker, giving her the strength to walk for the first time. When she was a young girl, they shared Christmases at his ranch, warming each other with innocent kisses. Now they are in their thirties, and though each is promised to someone else, Jesse's face is still etched in Bet's dreams...his velvety voice still sounds in her head. But like a favorite fantasy, he is too exquisite to entertain... Then, on a steamship bound for the Klondike, the fates give Bet a roommate. Jesse has come to win her with long, slow kisses and hungry caresses. Bet tries to fight the searing attraction she has long denied, but they are alone in a tiny cabin, with all the time in the world - and all the passion of a lifetime...
Lisa St. Aubin deTeran
NOCTURNE 11/1993 ISBN: 031209888X When the army assigns Stefano Altini the job of companion to Allesandro Mezzanotte, a blind, severely mutilated World War II veteran, the emotionally scarred young soldier becomes the older man's first confidante in 40 years. Stefano learns how Allesandro's darkness has been illuminated by his memories of Valentina, the Gypsy girl he loved before the war.
Margaret St. George
AMERICAN PIE(#345) 6/1990 ISBN: 0373163452 Spirited and ambitious, Polish immigrant Lucie Kolska arrives in New York on the eve of the twentieth century. Work is scarce, labor is cheap and the tenements are teeming. But Lucie's greatest challenge is born of the heart... Proud and daring, Dublin native Jamie Kelly dreams of feasting on his slice of the pie - and he's willing to risk everything to succeed in this brave new world of horseless carriages and moving pictures. But to make it, Lucie and Jamie must cast off the baggage of their old ideas before they can embrace the best of what the best of what America offers: hope for the future and a love that is glory, refuge and strength... A love that is as brilliant as the promise of the American Dream.
Carola Salisbury
A CERTAIN SPLENDOUR 1985 ISBN: 1853265063 Faith Dangerfield enjoys the privileged life of British naval high society in the golden early years of the twentieth century. She acts as hostess for her father, the widowed Commodore Dangerfield on his luxury yacht as it cruises to Monte Carlo, Malta and Alexandria. And there is Jack Cummings, to whom Faith is irresistibly drawn. Her world collapses when Jack testifies against her father at a Court Martial; the Commodore is found guilty and ruined. Faith strives to repair her shattered life despite the enmity of rich femme fatale Natasha Chalmers, and the revelation of her father's terrible secret.
Gail Sattler
THE TRAIN STOPS HERE 12/2001 ISBN: 1586604759 Hard times that began with the stock market crash of 1929 are only worsening for Elliott Endicott. With his dreams crumbling around him, Elliott has one last hope: a job on the West Coast. He'll be taking the train--but not as a paying passenger. Louise Demchuck's father works for the railroad, and one of his duties is to remove hobos from the trains. Day after day, Louise's kind heart aches with compassion for the homeless men she sees. She always prays for them and does what little she can to feed them. What will happen when a hobo named Elliott crosses the path of a railroader's daughter named Louise? Will the locomotive whistle announce love or simply another disappointment?
Kate Saunders
NIGHT SHALL OVERTAKE US 7/1994 ISBN: 0099162016 Rory, a wild child with unruly red hair and a deep Irish brogue, is the leader of four girls who meet at an elite private school. On the eve of her expulsion she suggests they make a blood vow of eternal friendship. A rebel, a fighter for women's rights, and a great beauty, Rory is the linchpin keeping the friends together through the years - until she commits an act of betrayal that destroys their vow. Francesca, a fragile innocent who is nothing like her scandalous mother, resembles a porcelain doll dressed up in expensive clothes and lavish jewels. She is so lovely, no one guesses the feelings of shame that fill her dreams with nightmares - and make her question her ability with nightmares - and make her question her ability to ever love someone. Jenny, a practical schemer and daughter of an impoverished clergyman, is determined to rise above the genteel poverty of her youth - even if it means marrying a man she doesn't love. But when true love enters her life, she questions everything she has previously believed about herself. Eleanor, plain and shy, longs for romance and defies her social-climbing family by falling in love with a handsome, brooding student whose heritage includes a scandal of lust, murder, and madness. Blindly confusing sex with love, she makes a desperate plan to win his affection that leads her into a life that is more hell than heaven. Set against the upheaval of impending war and social chaos, this novel tells the story of friendship, betrayal, and forbidden desires. But most important, it is a celebration of relationships - of love lost and love won.
Kim Vogel Sawyer
WAITING FOR SUMMER'S RETURN 6/2006 ISBN: 0764201824 All alone on the Kansas prairie, Summer Steadman has few options. With her husband and children lost to illness, she has no desire to continue on farther west to where she and her husband planned to build their future. Instead, she seeks employment in a small Mennonite community in order to be near the graves of her family. Widower Peter Ollenburger, the local gristmill owner, needs someone to teach his young son. When he hears of a "learned woman" in town, he believes she is the answer to his prayers. He soon discovers, however, that helping this outsider may have troublesome consequences. There is little this father will not do for his son, but as the boy begins to look at Summer as more than a teacher, Peter must make a choice. Does he marry this woman to give his son a new mother, or does he marry only for love? Will Summer's broken heart ever be able to love again? RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Judith Saxton
A FAMILY AFFAIR 2/1990 ISBN: 0312039662 This sprawling saga spans two generations and two countries—from staid Victorian England, to exotic China in tumult during the Boxer Rebellion—as it plays out the legacy of this tremendous, unfulfilled passion.
THE GLORY 12/1983 ISBN: 0712601783 After his years in America, Mark returns to New Zealand. There he finds a son he cannot understand..and the beginning of a new romance. In England, Tina's family is growing up. When the Great War starts, Frank joins up, but one terrible day in the trenches will change him forever. Louis, the eternal optimist, returns unscathed from the War to find that his wife and mistress have met, and that fate is catching up with him at last.
HARVEST MOON 1/1997 ISBN: 0312151381 Takes place in 1926 in the Birmingham slums. Foxy Lockett, an orphan girl, has a burning desire to better herself. She starts helping with the hop picking at Bees-wing Farm in Herefordshire. Foxy falls in love with the farmer's son and befriends Laurie, the son of the local squire. When the boys return from the Spanish Civil War, Foxy is faced with the most difficult dilemma of all. Which of these guys does she really love and which loves her.
SOMEONE SPECIAL 5/1991 ISBN:043467267X The story of three girls born on the same day in 1926, one of whom will become Queen Elizabeth II. Born into completely different circumstances, one poverty, another royalty, they find their lives intertwined as the the decades pass.
THE SPLENDOUR 10/1984 ISBN:0600206416 Louis returns from Australia for his father's funeral to find he has lost Sarah to his own nephew. Val visits Berlin to see the 1936 Olympics and becomes involved with the tragedy of a Jewish family struggling to escape the Nazi horror.
THIS ROYAL BREED 3/1991 ISBN:0246135034 The young orphaned daughter of farm workers on the island of Jersey is adopted by her parents' employer, with whom she works to rear his treasured orchids. But then war breaks out, and he is taken away by the Nazis. An American on his way to the island will change everything.
Dallas Schulze
SATURDAY'S CHILD(#349) 7/1990 ISBN: 0373163495 Daughter of immigrants, child of the footlights, San Francisco seamstress Katie McBride has never known a day without work. Her industry finds its rewards when she's hired to sew the trousseau for the Nob Hill wedding of the 1905 season. Former Rough Rider and gold miner, Wyoming rancher Quentin Sterling hopes to find a suitable bride among the debutantes at his sister's wedding.
THE WAY HOME 1/1995 ISBN: 0440214653 Now He'd Kissed Her. And Everything Was Changed. She was the waif he'd befriended when she was only four years old, the beautiful blue-eyed, ten-year-old he'd taken for a dizzying ride in his plane, the dazzling seventeen-year-old stranger who caught his eye when he returned years later. Tyler McKendrick had dreams of stunt flying on the Hollywood circuit. He hadn't reckoned on Meg Harper, the child who had touched his heart, the young woman who took his breath away. It was almost as if fate had driven them together again. When he'd buried her broken doll and mended her broken heart with friendship, the rich boy from the Hill had won the poor little girl's love forevermore. But Meg Harper could never let Ty McKendrick know how much she cared. Not even when he swept her into a marriage of convenience to rescue her from a brutal home. Together they set off for Hollywood and stardom, only to return to Iowa and to the passions of the past, where she was forced to face her ghosts, and fight for the love she almost lost.
C.B. Scott
KINDRED SPIRITS 12/2003 ISBN:189389634X Amazing Grace...What kind of paranormal prank is this, anyway? Shoved from tower of the haunted Van Buren mansion, 21st century chick magnet Rufus Sinclair wonders how in Hades he’s landed in Atlantic City in the Roaring Twenties. Why does he have to be the one to help wayward flapper Izzy Van Buren find redemption? Worse, why does he have to go and fall for flirtatious Izzy’s best friend, daredevil barnstormer Grace LaRue? Even in her tomboy togs and aviator goggles, needs-a-man-like-bees-need-knees Grace instantly kindles his erotic interest—then hijacks his love-proof heart. It’s almost as if he’s lived—and loved her—before...She Dubbed Him Ace...Who is this sheik-sexy stranger who appears out of nowhere, claiming amnesia and wearing pilot’s wings? A gift from above, sent to help restore her stunt pilot reputation? Or a Federal agent intent on bringing down her scandalous friends? All Grace knows for sure is that the zing-zap electricity shooting between her and Ace threatens to short-circuit her self-control....Kindred Spirits?...With the friction between them mounting, Rufus risks life and limb to wing-walk on Grace’s Word War I biplane...slow dances and swills bootleg hooch with her in an all-night speakeasy ...and creates a media frenzy guaranteed to restore her rep as the East Coast’s best aviatrix. Together, they generate enough sexual heat to melt Grace’s fear-driven defenses and his no-strings-attached armor. But his panic grows by the hour. He dreads he’ll be blown back to the future, failing to save Izzy...and leaving his amazing Grace—and his heart—behind.
Maura Seger
CATHERINE 4/1988 ISBN:0373970676 They dared to cross a forbidden line for love... From the moment he saves her from a gang of Boston toughs, Catherine Bennington loses her heart to handsome Evan O'Connell. Against all odds the Beacon Hill Beauty and the boy from the Irish slums pledge their hearts in marriage. With guts and determination Evan builds a great business empire, only to fall victim to sabotage, and even Catherine's boundless love can't heal his wounded pride. As prejudice and vicious rivalry thwart their lives and love, Catherine withdraws from Evan and becomes a formidable businesswoman in her own right. But as World War I dawns the memories of the love they shared draw them together in a world filled with turmoil.
THE TEMPTING OF JULIA(#224) 11/1994 ISBN:0373288441 For generations, Belle Haven had been a place of strong women determined to live on their own terms. Julia Nash was no different, prizing her independence above all else. Finding joy in life's simple things. Until the night she beheld a broad-shouldered stranger swimming naked in the moonlight...! Canny Wall Street financier Brand Delaney was certain everything was a business deal. Even choosing a wife. Offer wealth and position in exchange for children and stability, and what society miss could resist? But he hadn't gambled on falling in love with a woman who could do just that!
Maggie Shayne
A HUSBAND IN TIME 1/997 ISBN: 0373501838 The stranger had come to Jane Fortune from out of nowhere. He couldn't explain who he was, but Jane's young son could. The little boy insisted Zach was his imaginary daddy come to life, the father he's always wanted. And even Jane couldn't deny that he was oddly familiar. But the clock was ticking on the family they'd formed, because Jane had discovered Zach's identity - and only a twist of time could keep him home.
Barbara Sheridan
TIMELESS WISH 4/1999 ISBN: 0515124990 While redecorating her friend's house, Laura Bennett travels 100 years back in time to 1898 Oklahoma - where she meets the man of her dreams. A man she thought she would only ever see in her friend's family photos. NYC, 1998. Lovely Laura Bennett had fallen in love with the right man at the wrong time. As she stared at the old photograph of him in her friend's family album, she couldn't resist a little wishful thinking. And then a sudden fall throws her a hundred years into the past - and into the arms of Corby Hillhouse, the man of her dreams...
Valerie Sherwood
THESE GOLDEN PLEASURES 11/1977 ISBN: 0446307610 They called her "That Barrington Woman". She was beautiful and notorious. But beneath the silks and the diamonds, within the supple body so many men had embraced, was the heart of a girl who yearned still for love. Now on this fateful night in 1906, here in San Francisco's most glittering atmosphere, will she at last be able to reveal her secret longing?
Mary Kay Simmons
A FIRE IN THE BLOOD 6/1977 ISBN: 067180913X Driven from glamorous New York to the streets of Paris, Julie ached for the fulfillment of one man! Julie was a tempestuous beauty, expelled from the convent because of her wayward desires. Mark was a flame-haired man no woman could capture. Could Julie set a fire in his blood that would not be quenched?
Trana Mae Simmons
TENNESSEE WALTZ 6/1997 ISBN:0515121355 In a story of extraordinary sacrifice and selflessness, young socialite Sara leaves her home in New York to escort an orphan, Mairi, to her family in Tennessee. Although she thought her heart was in New York, Sara grows to adore the MacIntyre family and when Mairi’s older cousin Wyn, a man of the mountains, begins to pay her all the attention of a princess, she realizes where her heart really is. As Sara begins to feel femininity dawn on her life, she wonders why Wyn doesn’t seem to return her passion. She continues to spend her days working as the school mistress in the small community in Tennessee but what would it take to prove to Wyn how much she loves him?
WINTER DREAMS 10/1997 ISBN: 0515121649 In the harshest cold, love radiates warmth... Laura - Longing for one real adventure before settling down with her childhood sweetheart, she was determined to run a grueling Alaskan sled race with her beloved huskies. Sandy - With a sister and a motherless child to support, he grudgingly accepted the position of trainer to this rich man's daughter and her dogs. Laura is engaged to be married, and Sandy must keep his mind on the job he was hired to do. But she can't resist the challenge of breaking through his gruff exterior - and he can't ignore her headstrong spirit and hauntingly familiar beauty. And as they work together to realize Laura's ambition, they find themselves sharing another dream...
Laura Simon
GARDEN OF DREAMS 12/1992 ISBN: 0425135594 Two young immigrants, they arrived the same day in the land of dreams... Nina Colangelo came from Italy, part of a large, loving family struggling to survive and find their way in a new world. Wim Pieter de Groot arrived alone - an ambitious man in search of new challenges and new successes. But even in a young country full of promise, there were boundaries that divided them - boundaries only the bold would dare to cross... They journeyed from separate worlds. But together, they discovered America - planting new roots in a place of hope, a garden of dreams - and believing through all obstacles that it was a place big enough to hold the uniting of their two hearts...
Katherine Sinclair
A DIFFERENT EDEN 1988 For Eleanor, destiny and desire were inextricably bound. From turn of the century Boston, where an aristocrats twisted needs forced her to flee...to the treacherous shadows of a rambling Welsh estate, where jealousy and madness consumed all love...Eleanor never surrendered her dreams. Somehow, she would forge her own path to fulfillment. Somewhere, she would find A Different Eden. Dramatic and captivating, Katherine Sinclair's breathtaking epic saga will sweep you away to the ends of the earth - the magnificent estates of nobles, the exotic mysteries of Ceylon, and the untamed wilderness of the American southwest. Here is the glorious journey of a woman's heart. A soul searching novel of love and dreams, people and places you will never forget.
A DISTANT DAWN 8/1991 ISBN: 0425129756 Since the days growing up together at Rathbourne Abbey, they were best friends, as close as sisters, and forever bound to a destiny of war and love, heartache and hope - Jane Weatherly - The daughter of a stableman, her heart's convictions would lead her to the challenges of a turbulent era - from women's suffrage to the hardships of a world at war, to the discovery of a timeless and unexpected passion... Claudia Abelard - the privileged charge of a wealthy English lord, she would give her heart to a dangerous man - and pay the price of ill-fated desire...
VISIONS OF TOMORROW 11/1989 ISBN: 1557732760 They were lifelong friends, sharing their triumphs and downfalls as only best friends can. Then a night of tragedy tore Megan and Joanna apart—and sent them on two separate journeys of the heart. Journeys that cast them into new and changing worlds where they challenged the future and shaped their own fates.....Megan—Gifted and ambitious, yearning to be a doctor, she embraces a dream that few women dare—and learns the price of following the voice within ....Joanna—The daughter of an English aristocrat, her life is saved by a mysterious man whose own dark secrets lead her to the heart's hardest choices ....
Rosemary Anne Sisson
THE BRETTS 9/1987 ISBN:0670817686 Saga of a fascinating British theatrical family in the late 1920s.
FOOTSTEP ON THE STAIR 11/1999 ISBN: 0727854674
BE MINE TONIGHT 6/2006 ISBN: 0060848367 I am called Chapel...For nearly six centuries I have roamed the night, a mortal man no longer. Would that I could undo the past—when I entered the sanctuary of the Knights Templar to wrest from them the Holy Grail, only to discover the chalice I raised to my lips was not the sacred relic but a hellish cup of damnation. Now I shun the day and all things human, driven by an ungodly thirst. And yet... Never have I known a maiden the like of Prudence Ryland, whose beauty and spirit awaken a heart I feared long cold and dead. But her young life is slipping away, and she also seeks the deliverance of the Grail—unaware that the cost of her search could be her soul. I must help Prudence, for in six hundred years, no other woman has stirred my passions so. But dare I tender to my beloved that which she most desires—the sensuous "gift" of forever that is both rapture and a curse: my immortal kiss? RR@H's Novel Thoughts
TAKEN BY THE NIGHT 11/2007 ISBN: 006124502X They may call me Saint, but there is nothing saintly about me...I enjoy carnal pleasures like any mortal man, but six hundred years of existence have taught me loss. Best to stay away from people and save myself the heartache. Then I arrive at the notorious London brothel, Maison Rouge, and my life, such as it is, will never be the same again. Ivy Dearing, daughter of the infamous Madame, has requested my assistance. Two of her friends have been murdered, and she is determined to find their killer. I know better than to agree to help, yet Ivy is impossible to resist. No stranger to vampires, she has awakened desires within me that are as potent as my thirst for blood—desires that can only be satisfied by ivy herself. But when there is another murder, it is all I can do to protect the woman I love from an evil more powerful than the undead... RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Lauraine Snelling
BELIEVING THE DREAM (Return to Red River 2) 8/2002 ISBN: 0764223186 A passion for writing has burned brightly in Thorliff Bjorklund's heart for as long as he can remember. But college life is not as he had imagined. Both time and distance have created a rift between him and his childhood sweetheart, and the only bright spot in his life is his job at the newspaper. When summer arrives, things are looking up at school, but Thorliff must return home and confront his faltering relationship with Anji. Will he find the bonds of love still strong? For Elizabeth Rogers, marriage seems out of the question. Since learning that her mother died giving birth to her, Elizabeth has determined to become a doctor in order to save the lives of other women in childbirth. Will she achieve her dream when it is nearly impossible for a woman to enter medical school?
Linda Sole
ALL THEIR DAYS Even as a small child, Nellie Pearce sensed that her mother did not love her. But she always had her Granddad and her beloved Da - until, on her fourteenth birthday, her mother sends her into service with the Harringtons of Beaumont House. Nellie fells abandoned and miserable. Then she meets Lucas Harrington, a brilliant artist, though fearfully scarred and possessed of an unpredictable temper. Since his accident he has become almost a recluse, but there is something about the young girl that makes him feel compelled to paint her. His gentle-natured Aunt Alice encourages the unlikely association between master and servant, ignoring the inevitable heartbreak and disillusion it must bring...Soon after the outbreak of the Second World War Nellie is offered another chance - but will the secret of her mother's tortured past destroy both her and the man she loves, or will she find happiness?
AMY 7/2004 ISBN: 072785870X Amy Robinson and her fiancé Matthew are struggling to resist the temptations faced by a soon-to-be-wed couple. To avoid these, Matthew throws himself into a new job that takes him away from Amy, and she goes to work in an exclusive new dress shop, where she meets Mary Maitland. As her relationship with Matthew deteriorates, Amy becomes increasingly attracted to Mary’s cousin, Paul Ross, and a bitter rivalry ensues . . .
BRIDGET 1/2003 ISBN:0727858688 Bridget has always taken responsibility for her family and with a drunken mother, an unemployed brother and a sister vulnerable to the affections of disreputable men, it’s hardly surprising. No wonder she turns to the kind figure of Joe Robinson, but evil threatens and is determined to thwart their happiness.
GIVE ME TOMORROW 11/2004 ISBN: 0727861522 When Jessie Hale loses her nursing job at the end of the First World War, she leaves London to take up the post of nursery maid to the Kendle family in Devon. But when she arrives it is to find an unhappy household. The elderly nanny has collapsed with a slight stroke and Captain Kendle, although a loving father, is apt to retreat into long silences and depression following his experiences during the war. Gradually Jessie finds her niche within the household, becoming devoted to Captain Kendle's lively son and his lovely but quiet daughter - and also to his invalid mother. But although Jessie loves her job and her life at Kendlebury Hall, problems arise when she begins to fall in love with her employer...
KATHY 5/2004 ISBN: 0727858696 Kathy wants to do her bit for the First World War, and train to be a nurse. During training she meets again Tom O’Rourke, Bridget’s youngest brother, now a doctor, and they strike up an intimate friendship. When the war is finally over, Kathy must make a decision about her future, believing it to be the only possible solution…
THE LAST SUMMER OF INNOCENCE 1992 ISBN: 0312070152 Kate Linton is content with a straitened life in a fenland village-as long as she and her mother are together. But Emma wants more, for both of them - she wants it enough to send sixteen-year-old Kate, in 1913, to live with her wealthy Refern cousins in the home she herself fled when hardly older. Homesick and lonely at first, Kate soon finds companionship with her new family-and something more with handsome, devil-may-care Harry. But with news of Emma's death a shocking secret is disclosed which drives the two apart: Kate to bury her grief in nursing, and Harry his despair in the trenches of Flanders. As both face the harrowing experiences of war and Kate gradually unravels the depth's of her mother's deception, yet another mother's secret holds the key to all their fates...>
Beverly Sommers
TIME AND AGAIN 8/1987 ISBN: 0373970420 Time had kept them apart. Their passion will bring them together.
Pamela South
DAUGHTER OF THE SAND 5/1979 ISBN: 0872165418 Consumed by passion, driven by desire, Heather was driven from elegant England to the shifting sands of Arabia; from old Vienna to the speakeasies of Prohibition America. Her wicked ways would ignite her world into flames and scandalize the lives of all who loved her.
LaVyrle Spencer
THE FULFILLMENT 1979 ISBN: 0380470845 Two brothers work a rich and bountiful land - and one extraordinary woman shares their lives. To Jonathan Gray, Mary is a devoted and giving mate. To Aaron, she is a beloved friend. But seven childless years of marriage have forced Jonathan to ask the unthinkable of his brother and his wife - binding the two people he cares for most with an act of desire born of compassion...awakening Mary to the pain of infidelity, and to all the bittersweet joy and heartache that passionate love can bring.
NOVEMBER OF THE HEART 2/1993 ISBN: 051511331X Lorna Barnett was from a wealthy St. Paul family; summers were spent at their second home, where her father was absorbed in his yacht racing, her sisters taken by the latest hairstyles. But at eighteen, Lorna wanted more...Jens Harken was an odd-jobs man, hired to serve and be silent. But he dared to offer his services as a shipbuilder and be commissioned by Lorna's father to build a racing yacht. And as he entered the Barnett's privileged world, his heart fell for Lorna's sweet innocent beauty. But as summer turned to fall, they weathered the tumult of a scandal that would change their lives forever - and shake the boundaries of a world of rigid expectations and unspoken desires.
THAT CAMDEN SUMMER 2/1996 ISBN: 0399141200 The year is 1916. The place is a tiny New England village called Camden - where a newly divorced woman learns that love can be more special the second time around. When free-thinking divorcee Roberta Jewett returns to her hometown of Camden, Maine, she discovers that small-town folk consider a divorced woman little more than a prostitute. Condemned by a mother and scorned by neighbors, she nonetheless perseveres in her struggle to forge a good life for her girls and herself. Behaving like no 'respectable' woman would, she gets a job as a country nurse, learns to drive, and buys her very own Model T. Embittered by her painful marriage to an unfaithful husband, she has no intention of being any man's victim again. So when widowed carpenter Gabriel Faley begins work renovating her house, Roberta's first response to him is blatant resentment. But Gabriel's quiet, vibrant masculinity soon finds a way to soothe Roberta's heart. And in the ultimate test of will and devotion, she must depend on the man she has grown to love and summon the courage to stand up to an entire town.
YEARS 1986 ISBN: 0515084891 Linnea - Eager to begin her first teaching position, lovely Linnea Brandonberg stepped off the train looking as grown up and worldly as her eighteen years would allow. The golden fields and fragrant wheat of Alamo, North Dakota, were as new and different as the Westgaard family with whom she would live. Teddy - Farm life in 1917 was hard and bitter - but tiny, spirited Linnea was determined to brave its challenges. And as World War I threatened to take those she held dear, Linnea grew to womanhood in the arms of Teddy Westgaard, a man who thought he'd never find love. A story of passion. A story of heartache. A story of a way of life that will long be remembered - with people and places as a real as the emotions of the heart.
Sally Spencer
OLD FATHER THAMES 1999 ISBN:0750509694 Sam and Lil are a devoted couple. They are united in their determination to take on whatever life throws at them. Problems such as their son Eddie's interest in new-fangled automobiles, their daughter Peggy, will break the law to buy a goat, and Annie, who maybe making the wrong choice in love.
THE SILENT LAND 1996 ISBN: 0727848682 80 years of history telling the story of Anna Mayakovsky, a peasant girl who became the Red Princess of the Russian Revolution. Now she must fight another battle against her great-granddaughters who wants to put her in an institution.
SOUTH OF THE RIVER 1998 ISBN:0752805312 In turn of the century Southwark, times are changing. Traffic on the river is waning, replaced by the railways, and the mass of new inventions - the telephone, moving pictures, motor cars - is beginning to transform every day life. It's all change for the members of the closeknit community too, and some find it easier to adapt than others. Belinda is forgiving her way as an independent woman; Mary tries to find the courage to stand up to her mother; Fred faces the ultimate challenge when the docks go up in fire; Maggie driven by the loss of her baby, and Tom cannot escape his checkered past.
THOSE GOLDEN DAYS 11/1996 ISBN: 075280443X The shadow of war hangs over the village of Marston, and Becky worries that her hot-headed son Billy will enlist the army. Her daughter Michelle is another cause for concern - since her illness she has withdrawn into herself, and Becky fears she will never be able to find real happiness. And Becky is not even aware of the great danger which looms on the horizon in the shape of her wicked brother -in-law Richard Worrel, who is determined to use his own son to destroy Beck's family.
UP OUR STREET 6/1994 ISBN:1857975596 Continues the story of Becky Taylor and her family as they struggle against the odds to find happiness. Becky is now earning her living running a bakery, her husband Michael and brother Jack in Africa.
Judith Stacy
MARRIED BY MIDNIGHT 8/2002 ISBN:0373292228 One unforgettable kiss from Nick Hastings had ended Amanda Van Patton's girlhood and ruined her for other men. Now he'd married her, but only to win some benighted wager! Well, if he expected her to adorn his bed like a spanking new trophy, he was in for a rude awakening. For as of their wedding night, all bets were off...! A whirlwind courtship won Nick Hastings both a bride and a bet he barely remembered making. But unless he could convince his indignant, impassioned Amanda to take a chance on love, their firecracker physical chemistry would go snap, crackle...stop!
THE ONE MONTH MARRIAGE 10/2004 ISBN:0373293267 Brandon Sayer wanted his wife back. What could be simpler? Jana would come home, and they could resume their marriage. All he had to do was give her a little guidance - as all wives needed. But Jana was not the naive girl he married, and didn't seem to want his guidance! Jana Sayer wanted a Divorce... Brandon's business dealings still kept him too busy to be married, let alone be a father to the son he'd never seen. But he insisted Jana try marriage for one month more. And her traitorous heart had her deciding to give the man he'd become one last chance...
Danielle Steel
CROSSINGS 9/1982 ISBN: 0385281226 Despite rumors of impending war, the majestic ship Normandie makes its transatlantic voyage from Washington D.C., to France. Aboard is beautiful, American-born Liane De Villiers, devoted to her much-older husband, the French ambassador to the United States, and her two daughters. She meets Nick Burnham, an American steel magnate, a kind man trapped in a loveless marriage. Their passion remains unacknowledged. But when the outbreak of World War II forces Liane to flee Paris, she and Nick meet again -- and pledge a love that can no longer be denied.
GRANNY DAN 6/1999 ISBN: 0440224829 She was the cherished grandmother who sang songs in Russian, loved to roller-skate, and spoke little of her past. But when Granny Dan died, all that remained was a box wrapped in brown paper, tied with string. Inside, an old pair of satin toe shoes, a gold locket, and a stack of letters tied with ribbon. It was her legacy, her secret past, waiting to be discovered by the granddaughter who loved her but never really knew her. It was a story waiting to be told. . . The year was 1902. A new century was dawning as a motherless young girl arrived at a ballet school in St. Petersburg, Russia, at the age of seven. By age seventeen, Danina Petroskova had become a great ballerina, a favorite of the Czar and Czarina, who welcomed her into the heart of the Imperial family. But events both near and far away shook the ground upon which she danced. A war, an extraordinary man, and a devastating illness altered the course of her life. And when revolution shattered Russia, Danina Petroskova was forced to make a heartbreaking choice--as the world around her was about to change forever.
JEWELS 6/1992 ISBN: 0385304900 On the eve of Sarah Whitfield's seventy-fifth birthday, she stands at the window of her chateau bedroom in France, waiting for her family to join her. As she watches her children and grandchildren arrive, Sarah is reminded of the years that have brought her to this moment. Sara's memories take her back to New York in the 1930s, where she was raised in Manhattan and Southhampton, a beautiful young woman with a magnetic personality and rare intelligence. But when her marriage to a childhood friend ends after just one year, Sarah is shattered and ashamed. She turns inward and withdraws. In a time when only 'that' woman, Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, took such a shameful step, divorce becomes Sarah's guilty secret. After great protest, Sarah's parents finally convince her to join them on a trip abroad. And despite the growing turmoil in prewar Europe, they set sail on the Queen Mary....
MIRROR IMAGE 12/1998 ISBN:0385315090 Olivia and Victoria were the beloved daughters of a man who never fully recovered from his wife's death bearing them in 1893. Shy, serious Olivia, born eleven minutes before her sister, had taken over the role of mother in their lush New York estate, managing not only a household but her rebellious twin's flights of fancy. Free-spirited Victoria wanted to change the world. She embraced the women's suffrage movement and dreamed of sailing to war-torn Europe. Then, in the girls' twenty-first year, as the first world war escalated overseas, a fateful choice changed their lives forever. It began when Victoria's life was about to become a public scandal. It led to a painful decision, and brought handsome lawyer Charles Dawson into the Henderson's life and family. Hand-picked by the twins' father to save his daughter's reputation, Charles was still mourning his wife's death aboard the Titanic, struggling to raise his nine year-old son alone, determined never to lose his heart again. Charles wanted to believe that, for the sake of his son, he could make an unwanted marriage work. But in an act of deception that only Olivia and Victoria could manage, the twins took an irrevocable step, which changed both their lives forever; and took one of the twins to the battlefields of France, the other into a marriage she longed for but could not have.
NO GREATER LOVE 11/1991 ISBN: 0440213282 It was the maiden voyage of the Titanic, the greatest ship ever built, and in one fatal, unforgettable night, the sea shattered the lives and future of an extraordinary family, the Winfields. Edwina Winfield, returning from her engagement trip to England with her fiancé and her family, instantly becomes a woman mourning the death of her parents and the man she loved. She returns to San Francisco with her five younger siblings and takes on responsibilities at the family newspaper and at home that are overwhelming and unexpected. Edwina is intent on keeping the family together and Phillip, the oldest boy, tries to help before going on to Harvard and the Great War. But madcap George, the source of laughter in the family, is drawn to Hollywood, and his sister Alexis eventually follows him, courting both excitement and disaster in the film world. The two youngest, Fannie and Teddy, remain with Edwina. For twelve years Edwina carefully avoids any romantic involvements, but as each child sets off on his or her own - to Hollywood, to Europe, and elsewhere - Edwina frees herself from the ghosts of those she loved and lost on the Titanic. Her life is far different than it would have been, but in some ways far more exciting than she expected.
THE RING 10/1980 In Germany engulfed by war and hatred, the beautiful wife of an influential banker fell in love with a German author. His Jewish heritage led them both to death. The husband who survives her lives on to protect her memory, and their children. And the ring he passes on to his daughter, Ariana von Gotthard, remains a bond of love between them. Separated from her family, and unable to escape Germany, Ariana is finally arrested. A young Nazi officer offers her survival and hope for the future. Tragedy and a sudden twist of fate carries Ariana to America, to a chilling deception, and a new life of unfamiliar terrors. Her past seemingly lost forever, her future uncertain, the ring she still clings to is all she has left of her father and brother. And in time it will become the bridge from her past to her future.
THURSTON HOUSE 1983 Jeremiah Thurston built Thurston House, San Francisco's grandest mansion. When he found himself alone with his infant daughter, Sabrina, he was determined to bring her up to run the biggest mining business in California. Nothing would stop her from taking over his dynasty -- not the San Francisco earthquake, the deadly schemes of a cunning rival, the Great depression, or her own needs and determination as she carries on the traditions established by her father.
VANISHED 1993 ISBN: 0440217466 In the late 1930s, in the shadow of the Lindbergh kidnapping, and as war looms in Europe, Marielle Patterson shares her life with her husband, Malcolm, and their little boy, Teddy, in an elegant brownstone on New York's Upper East Side. But their lives are filled with secrets. Haunted by a past she has kept hidden even from her husband, Marielle secretly lights a candle each year for a child who died in a tragic accident when he was scarcely more than a baby. Consumed with a guilt, Marielle is nevertheless a devoted wife and mother. Malcolm, stern and successful, is a man everyone admires. On the eve of little Teddy's disappearance, Marielle runs into her first love, American expatriate Charles Delauney. The ache of memory is instantly revived, their brief moments together bittersweet and explosive. And when Teddy is kidnapped, Charles is first blamed, then arrested. Suspicions and accusations mingle with terror and heartbreak as the Pattersons, the New York Police, and the FBI turn the city, and eventually the country, upside down, looking for Teddy...
WINGS 1994 ISBN: 0440217512 From a house on the edge of her family's dusty farmland airstrip near Chicago, the child Cassie O'Malley would sneak into the night to look at the planes sitting shimmering in the moonlight. Her World War I veteran father, Pat, wanted his son to be a pilot, not his reckless, redhaired daughter. But it was Cassie who had the gift. Observing all the while was her father's junior partner, Nick 'Stick' Galvin, a fellow war ace and airborne daredevil. Nick would become her confidant and best friend, willing to break all the rules to teach her to fly. When entrepreneur Desmond Williams sees Cassie in a local air show he invites her to California, where she breaks new ground in aviation by becoming a test pilot. Drawn by Desmond's plans for her to break Amelia Earhart's records, but determined to avoid her mistakes, Cassie trains for the remarkable journey around a world preparing for World War II. From public appearances to press conferences, easily used by both her husband and the press, Cassie realizes that there is more to life than making headlines. Wings is set in a time of constant change, when the world was on the brink of war and the skies were filled with adventures, a time when courage and daring forever changed modern-day aviation
ZOYA 1989 ISBN: 0440203856 Against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution and World War I Europe, Zoya blossoms into womanhood as destiny sweeps her from the court of the Tsar to Diaghilev's Ballet Russe in Paris to a glittering life in New York, into the pain of the Depression, and finally to a brilliant career, which ultimately saves her. From the roaring twenties to the 1980s, Zoya remains a rare and spirited woman whose legacy will live in her children.
Kay Stephens
STONES OF CALDERDALE 5/1993 ISBN:0747206872 Set in 1930's West Yorkshire
WEST RIDING 11/1988 ISBN:0712624813
YORKSHIRE GOLD 2/1994 ISBN:0747208913 A Yorkshire saga set against the background of the West Riding textile trade during the '30s and '40s.
Sally Stewart
ECHOES IN THE SQUARE 1989 ISBN: 0593019970 Two families-one rich, one poor-in peace, in war.... Young Janey Rowland lived in Linden Mews, in the flat over the garage. She was the housekeeper's daughter, the chauffeur's daughter, and even though she was a bright and sensitive child, she had been taught to know her place when it came to going round to the big house - the Marchant house - in Linden Square.
Jessica Stirling
A BLUE EVENING GONE 10/1981 ISBN: 0312087179
DRUMS OF TIME 1980 ISBN: 0345290615 A novel of a woman in love with two men during the 1920's. Vivid characters are depicted in the overlapping worlds of the novel-antique buying and selling, burglary and fencing of stolen goods, the gambling rooms and other party spots for the early Roaring Twenties.
THE PIPER'S TUNE 4/2002 ISBN: 0312288700 Lindsay Franklin's life is an adventure she has just begun to enjoy. At eighteen, Arthur Franklin's cosseted daughter has left her Glasgow school and finds her role as a marriageable young lady with a widowed father more than agreeable. And the source of her family's wealth, the Franklins' shipbuilding yard on Clydeside, is prospering as the long peace of Queen Victoria's reign gives way to the feverish arms race of the new century. But Lindsay's life takes an unexpected turn when she is given a share of the family business. Equally unexpected is the appearance of Forbes McCullough, her charming Irish cousin whose attentions she secretly welcomes. To everyone's surprise, Lindsay decides to master the family business as carefully as her male cousins. What is not surprising is that several eligible men have decided that it is time to master Lindsay. As the mysteries of shipbuilding open to her, and the puzzle of male behavior becomes both more fascinating and more dangerous, Lindsay is forced to make some fateful decisions.
PRIZED POSSESSIONS 8/2001 ISBN:0312280572 Glasgow during the Depression. Lizzie Conway has clawed her way out of the worst slums of the Gorbals, all for the sake of her three precious daughters, Polly, Babs and poor, deaf Rosie. But the girls themselves seem to be determined to make marriages as unwise as the one she made.
Antoinette Stockenberg
THE CHALLENGE AND THE GLORY 9/1987 ISBN: 055326706X This sweeping, multi-generational saga brings to life the glorious history of the America's Cup silver trophy--and the men and women who dared to possess it, set against the backdrop of newport, Rhode Island, a city of ornate mansions, money and power.
Sarah Stonich
THESE GRANITE ISLANDS 3/2001 ISBN: 0316815837 On her deathbed, Isobel recalls the haunting and fateful summer of 1936, when her world was transformed. A story of friendship, a portrait of marriage, and a glimpse into the depths of loss, the events of that summer become a prism that refracts the essence of Isobel's life.
Angel Strand
LA BASQUAISE 7/1995 ISBN: 0352329882 The scene is 1920s Biarritz-French Bohemian life is sizzling and the fabulously wealthy are parading their vices. Oruela is a modern young woman who desires the company of artists, hedonists and intellectuals. Jean is the seemingly devoted lover who will help her realize her wildest dreams. But she has to put her social aspirations aside when she is suspected of her own father's murder. As Oruela becomes embroiled in a series of sensual games, she finds that blackmail can be used to obtain pleasure as well as money.
Stuart-Thompson-Thacker
THE CUPID CONNECTION 2/1998 ISBN: 0373201443 One More Valentine by Anne Stuart: Helen Emerson needed a savior - James Sheridan Rafferty needed to be a hero. They were destined for each other. If only James hadn't died sixty-four years ago... Be Mine, Valentine by Vicki Lewis Thompson: To Roxie Lowell, Charlie Hartman was just an endearing, eccentric old man. Who'd have guessed he was Cupid in disguise?...Baby On The Doorstep by Cathy Gillen Thacker: Alec Roman and Jade Kincaid were the perfect couple. Unfortunately, they didn't think so. But Cupid was going to bring them together - even if he had to wear diapers to do it!
Anne Stuart
ANGEL'S WINGS 10/1990 ISBN: 0373163614 Flying ace Angela Hogan dreams of making a record-setting run from Newfoundland to Cuba. But the Depression threatens her very survival--and in a last-ditch effort to save Hogan Air Freight from bankruptcy, Angela recklessly hires Jack Clancy. A renowned war hero and barnstormer, Jack's reputation attracts business--but his daredevil style spells trouble in and out of the cockpit. As Angela and Jack lock horns, they are evenly matched in their fiery tempers, their passion for life's adventure and in their smoldering need for the one certainty in an uncertain world--the soaring love that will carry them like wings.
DEMONWOOD 9/1979 ISBN:0440117747 Demonwood. Its very name sent shivers down her spine. Why had she ever come to this forsaken place in the snow-covered Vermont wilderness? Connell Fitzgerald. Mary said his name and blushed. Cynical, aloof, Connell was the most strikingly handsome man she had ever seen. Black hair framed his sun-tanned face. His fierce blue eyes pierced her soul.
ONE MORE VALENTINE 1993 ISBN: 0373164734 When James Sheridan Rafferty died in the famed Saint Valentine's Day massacre, he'd no idea that Cupid's wicked angels would give him a second chance...in 1993. All he had to do was fall madly in love within forty-eight hours. But could a real Chicago gangster with a chip on his shoulder - and a down-and-dirty twenties style even Bogart would envy - fall truly in love? It hardly helped that the day of hearts and flowers fell on Friday the 13th. Helen Emerson complicated matters, since the good-hearted gangster didn't have time to save damsels in distress. No doubt Helen would make a fabulous lover, but she was no gun moll. Still, with time running out, she was Rafferty's only hope.
Tracy Sumner
TIDES OF PASSION 7/2002 ISBN: 0821773593 Spirited Savannah Conner is passionately committed to stamping out social injustice. Yet when she arrives in the seaside town of Pilot Isle, North Carolina, ready to take up a new cause, she quickly finds herself on the outs with the town constable. Zachariah Garrett is the most arrogant, infuriating, maddeningly attractive man it's ever been her misfortune to meet. And suddenly, Savannah is fighting a whole new battle—this one against her own yearning for a man who is impossible to resist. Ever since his wife's death two years ago, Zachariah Garrett has dedicated his life to keeping the peace. So when he sees the pretty newcomer atop a wobbly wooden crate stirring up the crowd, he doesn't hesitate to haul her off to jail. But Savannah Connor isn't any ordinary law-breaker. She's a beguiling beauty with the power to awaken emotions he thought he'd never feel again, and the tenderness to help him forget his fears…and risk his heart once more.
Katherine Sutcliffe
A HEART POSSESSED 1988 ISBN:0451153103 Reunited with Lord Nicholas Wyndham, raven-haired Ariel Rushdon finds Nicholas a mere shadow of his former self--he's now pale, melancholy, and unable to recognize her. As his memory clears and their passion reignites, Ariel realizes that someone in Nicholas' manor is out to kill him--and her.
PRIMROSE LANE short story in SECRET VALENTINES 2/1998 ISBN: 0515122262
Sutcliffe-Lee-Freiman-Lewis
SECRET VALENTINES 2/1998 ISBN: 0515122262 Anthology featuring Primrose Lane by Katherine Sutcliffe; A Secret Cupid by Rachel Lee; For C., Who Changed My Life by Kate Freiman; and Send Me No Flowers by Sherry Lewis.
Leda Swann
Madge Swindells
SUMMER HARVEST 1983 In a harsh new land of dreams and desires, she risked all to gain everything, Power, Respect, fabulous wealth - and a proud dynasty to inherit it. Everything...except what she wanted most...It was 1938. Her name was Anna van Achtenberg, and she was the beautiful, headstrong daughter of Cape Town's richest landowner. Seduced by the hungers of her blood into a rash elopement, she knew passion's glory and surrender's shame...until she vowed to take her destiny into her own hands. And with only her daring to guide her, she carved an empire out of a wilderness...chose between the husband she loved and the lover she needed...reaped the joys of success and paid its ultimate price....
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