The books found below are those that made the best romance novel lists or that received great reviews on several romance sites throughout the web. Unfortunately, many of the older novels from our author list had not been reviewed. Please let us know if there is a great romance novel from this period we've missed.
Jill Barnett
SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY 6/2001 ISBN:0671035347 Kitty Kincaid grew up in the shadow of her father, a famous research scientist. But when she is captured by the Nazis in French Morocco, she must rely on her own wits to survive. J.R. Cassidy is a U.S. Army officer, an expert who specializes in impossible missions where rules don't matter...only winning does. But when he infiltrates a mountain stronghold to get Kitty out, they are trapped, with only one route of escape -- through the burning Sahara Desert. Charlotte Morrison is a barnstormer's daughter who courageously ferries planes to Britain's Royal Air Force. But soon she is torn between two men: an idealistic younger man who will follow her into the jaws of the enemy and an intense stranger who cannot let go of the past. Red Walker has spent his whole life in a small Texas town -- until the day someone special gives him the courage to walk away. George "Skip" Inskip is a renowned þying ace in the British Royal Air Force, a man whose actions aren't driven by patriotism, but by a powerful need for vengeance. In a love story spanning three continents and an inÞnite range of human emotions, these spirited men and women live hard, love hard, and Þght hard. On burning sands, in blue skies, and under screaming Nazi bombs, they all make their own personal journeys. But when fate brings them together in a place where duty comes before love, they can no longer live only for today -- not if they ever want to see tomorrow.
Jude Deveraux
SWEET LIAR 1992. ISBN: 0671689746. It was her father's dying wish that Samantha Elliot search for her grandmother, who'd disappeared from Louisville when she was a baby. So here she was, in big, dirty New York City ...her parents were dead, her divorce was final, and she was all alone .... Michael Taggert was Samantha's landlord, and he was easily the most beautiful man she'd ever seen. He was charming, too--his zest for life was so contagious that in his presence Sam bloomed like a flower after the rain. Yet Mike could only get so far with her--when he tried to get closer, it was like running into a brick wall. But Mike wouldn't give up. As they probed her grandmother's past, he was slowly uncovering the joy and affection Samantha had buried long ago--and leading them closer to the dangerous truth about a bloody spring night in 1928, and a seductive blues singer named Maxie ....
WISHES 11/1989. ISBN: 0671743856. Jace Montgomery was a stranger in Chandler. Tall, proud, and ruggedly handsome, he would make any woman's heart beat faster. Even shy, sweet Nellie Grayson -- Nellie, who thought only of her beautiful younger sister's happiness. With Nellie's tireless aid, Terel Grayson easily became the belle of Chandler, Colorado. Yet Jace, homesick for his closeknit family in Maine, took immediately to Nellie. For the first time, Nellie was the center of attention. It was a heady, delightful feeling... almost as wonderful as the moment when Jace gave her her very first kiss. Nellie was sure her romantic idyll would end -- how long could Jace resist the lovely Terel's charms? But with the help of an enchanting new friend, Nellie would discover that her flirtatious sister might not be the woman to win the gallant Jace Montgomery....
Kathleen Eagle
SUNRISE SONG 3/1996. ISBN: 0380776340. A mixed-blood Lakota Sioux, Zane Lone Bull spent long years fighting -- on a distant foreign battlefield and in his own countryand has vowed to fight no more. Now a tragic crime has brought Michelle Benedict into his life. A beautiful woman seeking the truth, it is her courage and indomitable spirit that rekindle the lost fire in Zane's heart -- drawing them into a decades-old mystery of a lost boy, a dark place, and a daring passion. For in the beautiful, terrible secrets of a shrouded past, another love holds the key to their destiny together -- and to a promise of devotion, desire, and honor that must stand for all time.
Patricia Gaffney
WILD AT HEART 1/1997. ISBN: 0451407938. They called him "the lost man"--beautiful, wild, without speech, without civilization. Only one woman saw through the wildness to the man. She wanted to love him, not tame him--but could love save him from his "civilized" enemies? Only Sydney, daughter of a renowned anthropologist, saw beyond the wildness to the man. Something in his fierce loneliness called to her, imploring her to help him -- to save him. Fascinated, drawn by compassion and then desire, Sydney used gentleness to tame him, patience to educate him, kindness to make him her friend. And he would need a friend, for the world was not nearly so understanding, and his new life was still haunted by the mysterious tragedy of his past. But now he wanted more from her than friendship. He wanted all of her -- her love, her heart, and her soul.
Dorothy Garlock
WITH HEART 11/1999. ISBN: 0446605891. Bestselling author Dorothy Garlock, whose enthralling Depression-era novels have made the New York Times extended list, returns once again to the troubled '30s...as the spirited niece of Tom and Hod stakes her future on a new town, where love, danger, and excitement awaits. Tillison County, Oklahoma, 1938. Though scarcity and hardship have taken their toll on the spirit of the nation, one young woman still dares to dream. Kathleen Dolan has high hopes for her investment in the Rawlings, Oklahoma Gazette. But the feisty newspaper woman hasn't even reached the city limits when trouble strikes: Hijackers try to steal her old Nash; and though handsome rancher Johnny Henry rides to her rescue, the attack is only a taste of the perils to come. For Rawlings is a town steeped in dirty secrets, and soon, though Johnny tries to shield her, Kathleen will find herself pitted against a powerful man and his unscrupulous cronies-men who will go to any lengths to silence this gutsy redhead and the man she loves.
Stef Ann Holm
HARMONY 12/1997. ISBN: 0671002058. When prim deportment teacher Edwina Huntington finds herself co-owner of a warehouse with rugged sportsman Tom Wolcott, togetherness in Harmony, Montana, is anything but. And as soon as they discover that they clash more than their choices of paint color--lemon yellow and slaughter red--sparks fly in every shade. Edwina wants to educate women on the ceremonies of society, as preparation for marriage--though she's resigned to spinsterhood. Tom hasn't thought much about matrimony one way or the other--his world of big guns and big grizzlies has kept him plenty occupied--until now. Equally fierce-willed, Edwina and Tom square off for a showdown. But they're both helpless in the face of the powerful attraction that explodes between them, and soon the battle of the sexes rages in a new direction . . . true love.
Jonathan Hull
LOSING JULIA 3/2000. ISBN: 0440234859. In a world torn apart by war, one man would search a lifetime to find what he once lost: a woman named Julia....Patrick Delaney was just a boy when he marched off to war in 1918. But on the stark battlefields of France, amid the horror and the chaos, Patrick forged a bond that would shape the course of his life. Daniel was Patrick's best friend, his comrade-in-arms. But it was Daniel's lover, Julia, who would change Patrick forever. Julia's letters, shared by Daniel in the muddy trenches, touched Patrick in ways he never could have expected. But years would pass before he finally met her at a war memorial in France. There, on a field still scarred by battle, Patrick closed his eyes in silent prayer and opened them to the woman he had never seen but always loved: Julia. After a brief, passionate encounter, Patrick made a fateful choice and Julia slipped away, perhaps never to return. It is just the beginning of an astonishing story that will span almost a century, a story of memory and desire, history and destiny -- and of the people who slip from our grasp, only to hold us forever....
Judith Ivory
THE INDISCRETION 4/2001. ISBN: 0380812967. Daring to love Lady Lydia Bedford-Browne's small rebellion becomes the adventure of her life, when her coach crashes and leaves her stranded on the treacherous Dartmoor with the only other passenger: a rugged, disarmingly attractive Texan named Sam Cody. Sam's slow, melodic drawl and dark, hypnotic eyes tempt Lydia in ways she never thought possible. But dare the lord's daughter loosen her proper English restraints any further? Foul luck has caused the dashing American millionaire to miss his own wedding to an unforgiving bride...for the second time!Worse still,he's stuck in the middle of nowhere with a straight-laced noble beauty. But there is an unmistakable spark of courage, sensuality, and wild passion beneath Liddy's prim exterior, daring Sam to pursue even further what his heart and his soul now desperately desire - even though both the Texan's and the lady's vastly different worlds will be rocked if thay dare surrender to...The Indiscretion
THE PROPOSITION 12/1999. ISBN: 0380802600. No man, gentleman or otherwise, has ever looked at Lady Edwina Bollash the way the brash, handsome man standing before her is doing now. Edwina has accepted the challenge to transform incorrigible Mich Tremore into a gentelman in just six weeks. And although the linguist is sure she can rise to the task, she isn't at all certain she won't swoon under his frankly sensuous gaze before her job is done. Mick has lived outside of London society long enough to know that appearances can be deceiving. Edwina might look all buttoned up-the perfect English lady-but there is unleashed passion existing just below her placid facade (not to mention a great pair of legs!). And as she prepares him to take his place in society, Mick prepares Edwina to take her place in his heart...and in his bed.
Susan M. Johnson
LOVE STORM 1981. ISBN: 0553563289. Desperate to avoid a loathsome match, Zena Turku ran from the glittering ballroom into a snowy night - and threw herself on the mercy of a darkly handsome stranger. He was her only hope of escape, her one guarantee of safe passage to her home in the Causasus Mountains. But Prince Alexander Kuzan mistook the alluring redhead for a lady of the evening, the perfect plaything to relieve the boredom of his country journey. Only after her exquisite innocence was revealed did the most notorious rake in St. Petersburg realize that his delicious game of seduction had turned into a conquest of his heart...
Linda Francis Lee
CRIMSON LACE 12/1997. ISBN: 0515121878. Amidst the opulence of high society in 1896 New York, Lily Blakemore returns. Ten years have passed since Lily's fall from grace. Crimson Lily has returned to New York society, only daring to hope she will be welcomed. She never in her wildest dreams imagined she would find love as well. That night so long ago, New York's elite had stood in their elegant finest, quivering with shock, speechless, before the whispers had begun. Everyone, it seemed, had known that no good could come of Lily Blakemore. The scandal was devastating. The damage irreparable. Lily Blakemore's fall from grace was notorious. But details about the incident remained a well-guarded mystery in New York society -- a secret as elusive as Lily herself, who disappeared shortly after her disgrace. But now ten years have passed -- and Crimson Lily is finally coming home. She dares to hope she will be welcomed. She does not dare to hope for love -- until she meets Morgan Elliott. But Morgan must resist Lily's legendary charms -- and discover what really happened that fateful night ten years ago. Because Morgan has a secret of his own. And until he knows the truth about Lily's past, his love for her can only be denied....
EMERALD RAIN 12/1996. ISBN: 0515119792. Standing in a doorway on a crowded New York street -- sheilded from a sudden, drenching rain -- Nicholas Drake whispered those words into Ellie Sinclair's ear. At that moment, it didn't matter that Nicholas and Ellie were on opposite sides of a battle that threatened to rob Ellie of her hone -- or Nicholas of his honor. All that mattered was the powerful attraction that drew them together. Ellie knew that to complete a daring business venture, Nicholas had to purchase a block of houses, including her own. But for Ellie, selling the property would unearth a family scandal of twenty years past -- a startling connection that unknowingly bound the two lovers together...and threatened to tear them apart.
Jill Metcalf
MARRIAGE BY DESIGN 7/1999. ISBN: 0843945532. Forced to marry a Canadian man to escape deportation, a beautiful young woman is surprised to find her new husband is an undercover inspector with the Northwest Mounted Police.
Stephanie Mittman
THE MARRIAGE BED 5/1996. ISBN: 044022182X. Set on the Williamson Farm in 1897 Wisconsin, we are introduced to Olivia and Spencer on their wedding night. Spencer's life has been beset with tragedy; Olivia is his second wife and a poor consolation prize for a man whose family was torn from him by Scarlet Fever. Olivia has been a friend and neighbor to him throughout his life and she has been in love with Spencer for as long as she can remember. Now she only wants to make him happy again and to help replace some of what he has lost. Fighting his growing love for Olivia, Spencer makes terrible and hurtful mistakes, pushing Olivia away before he is finally able to court his wife and to accept the love she offers -- and to give love in return.
Pamela Morsi
SIMPLE JESS 4/1996. ISBN: 051511837. The last thing widow Althea Winsloe wanted to do was remarry. Unfortunately, her meddlesome mountain neighbors had other plans. So, one autumn night they banded together and gave Althea a shocking ultimatum: She was to find herself a husband by Christmas...or the town would do it for her! Althea knew she had her choice of any single man in Marrying Stone, Arkansas. Yet the only one she felt truly comfortable with was Simple Jess. Sweet and gentle, Jess wasn't as smart as your average man. But his tender manner stirred Althea's heart in ways she had never dreamed possible. It would take a miracle to find a husband in Marrying Stone. But sometimes miracles are right under your nose...
Katherine O'Neal
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.
LaVyrle Spencer
YEARS 1986. ISBN: 0515084891. 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 wit whom she would live. 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 real as the emotions of the heart.
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