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Diane Haeger
MY DEAREST CECELIA: A Novel of the Southern Belle Who Stole General Sherman's Heart 4/2003 ISBN:0312282001 As she enters the Commencement Ball at West Point on a spring evening in 1837, Cecelia Stovall looks and feels like the perfect, innocent Southern belle. But at that dance she will meet the man who will change her life--and the lives of her fellow Southerners--forever. Cecelia falls instantly in love with the dashing young Northern cadet William Sherman, and they embark on a fiery, secret rendezvous despite their broad cultural differences.
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CHARMED PASSAGE 9/2000 ISBN: 0970054424 Kristie Somers is happy in her life. She has a promising career ahead of her, grandparents who love her, and no time for a man. Or so she thought, until she was dropped into the year 1864 at the close of the Civil War. The handsome Union colonel, Eric Langston, was a man to be hated. Her grandparents told her so. He commanded the Yankee regiment that invaded her ancestral home; he condoned the mistreatment of the plantation women; he was responsible for Whispering Willows being burned to the ground. Why then, does her heart pound every time he enters a room? Why do his fiery kisses stir her like no man ever has before? And how can she just overlook the fact that she KNOWS he is destined to die an alcoholic?
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CUPID'S KISS 2/1996 ISBN:0505520761 Anthology featuring Marriage Made in Heaven by Patricia Hagan, Heaven on Earth by Bobby Hutchinson, Heaven in His Touch by Linda Madl, and Gift from Heaven by Bobbi Smith. A Marriage Made In Heaven by Patricia Hagan - Pennsylvania, 1850. With the assistance of her guardian angel, a wealthy spinster searches for the ideal husband. But she soon learns that earthly perfection is no substitute for a passion straight from paradise; Heaven On Earth by Bobby Hutchinson - Indiana, 1889. Divine intervention helps a country doctor and a rural beauty realize that, while duty is important, life is meaningless without laughter and love; Heaven In His Touch by Linda Madl - Colorado, 1885. A rugged rancher and a fiery filly have always longed for one another, but it takes a heaven-sent messenger to set them on a trail to fulfillment; and A Gift From Heaven by Bobbi Smith - Tennessee, 1865. A Yankee soldier and a Southern belle are ready to start their own civil war - until a heavenly visitor draws up terms of surrender that will bring them eternal bliss.
Patricia Hagan
THE DARING 7/1991 ISBN:0373286848 There was no going back and they risked everything. Jessica Coulter, pledged to marry a man she loathed, was bound by the code of the mountains to obey her father and keep the land thriving. Then the new minister, Derek Stanton, arrived. He was so handsome, so sensual, and Jessica felt a longing she couldn't deny. Could she risk her honor and his reputation and succumb to a blazing, undeniable passion?
THE DESIRE 10/1992 ISBN:0373287437 The War Between the States was just beginning, but beautiful Caroline Meredith found her life shaken to its very foundations by private battles more violent and tempestuous than those fought by North and South.
HEAVEN IN A WILDFLOWER 3/1992 ISBN: 0061040959 It was in the sultry heat of a Louisiana summer that they came together for the first time - the plantation owner's headstrong daughter, Anjele Sinclair, and the bronze-skinned, muscular Cajun worker known only as Gator. In the secret darkness of the bayou, they found a joy that broke all the rules. But a love like theirs could never be, and they were driven apart. Anjele was sent to England to finish her schooling and to forget Gator's searing touch. After four long years, she returned home to her beloved South, to a land devastated by the War Between the States. It was there that the lovers' paths crossed once more, only this time, they were on opposite sides of a raging conflict.
LOVE AND WAR 1978 ISBN:0380019477 Torn between two lovers. Katherine Wright's world was crumbling. The Civil War had destroyed her southern home, killed her peace-loving father, and caused her mother to slip into madness. Her aristocratic fiance was off fighting the Yankees. But Kitty's ordeal was just beginning, and the only man who could set her free was the very man who was holding her captive. Travis Coltrane knew trouble when he saw it, and his beautiful, feisty prisoner fit the bill. Kitty made it plain that she despised all he stood for, and that she loved another man. But when Travis took her in his arms, igniting a passion she had never known, he vowed to make her his own, forever.
LOVE'S WINE 1985 ISBN: 1850180512 She'd sworn vengeance against them all. Every Yankee scoundrel who trod the charred ruins of her once beautiful South—and Magnolia Hall, the family home she vowed to reclaim. An encounter with a stranger changed everything. In the secluded beauty of the gentle willows, tender whisperings enchanted her, love's caresses thrilled her with new sensations, searing kisses scorched her lips with a flame that reached the very depth of her soul. And she was lost in the trembling passion of her own desire. But it had been a cruel deception. Holly had lost her heart to Scott Colter, the Yankee Commander!
PASSION'S FURY 1981 ISBN:0380777274 Kidnapped from her plantation home on the eve of the Civil War, lonely April Jennings found herself the unwilling partner of reckless adventurer Rance Taggart. But April was determined that even his sensual fire and bold caresses wouldn't stop her from trying to reclaim her beloved home - or escaping her own passionate hungers. Rance had every intention of letting April go after she helped him carry out a dangerous, high-stakes deal with the Yankees. But once she branded him with her courage and fiery innocence, he would search desperately across the war-ravaged South to find her - and gamble all to seize desire's glorious promise.
SOULS AFLAME 1980 ISBN:0061082198 A savage assault foretold the end of a way of life for Julie Marshall, whose brother Myles had been branded a traitor, whose home, Rose Hill, was threatened by the onset of war and greed, and whose destiny would bring her from battlefield to brothel as a spy in the service of both sides. Engaged to marry a fortune-hunter to save her beloved plantation from ruin, Julie set sail on the Ariane, a blockade-running frigate bound for London--and her hated fiancé. But her journey was interrupted by Captain Derek Arnhardt, whose warm caress she met with a raging fire of her own. Arnhardt had never really loved a woman, the sea was his lover…until he was shipwrecked on the Gulf Stream with Julie. Together they plunged recklessly into a passion neither could control, tempting fate and British cannons from Bermuda to Savannah…to the shadowy intrigue that could divide them forever--or seal at last the love that set their souls aflame!
Deborah Hale
CARPETBAGGER'S WIFE 2/2002 ISBN: 037291957 What did she really know of this stranger who'd rescued her home and thawed her ice-hard heart? Caddie Marsh was a proud Confederate, a widow for the Cause...or was she? For Manning Forbes bore a disturbing, dangerous, desirable resemblance to the husband she'd mourned as slain...Though a battlefield vow bound Northerner Manning Forbes to a Rebel's wife and family, he was stunned to find Caddie Marsh and her children to be everything he desired. Yet with her husband's blood upon his hands, was such happiness truly deserved?
Joanna Hampton
WOVEN DREAMS 1/2000 ISBN: 0515127272 A tender-hearted and compassionate young woman, Sarah Granger runs the Second Avenue Mission for Needy Children in New York City. One night, Sarah and a neighborhood policeman, Benjamin McCauley, find a young boy crouching in a deserted alley, clutching a basket that contains a small baby and a beautiful quilt. Though the mission has fallen on hard times, Sarah doesn’t hesitate to take in the two motherless youngsters ---and Benjamin, touched by Sarah's gentle ways, vows to protect them all. Sarah is busy teaching her charges how to stitch beautiful quilts, but she is distracted by Benjamin’s kindness and charm ---and together ---as the Civil War rages around them ---they craft an unlikely and precious love ...
Peggy Hanchar
THE GILDED DOVE 2/1991 ISBN:0449147150 Kansas McKay could feel Cole Slater's desire stirring her own buried passions. But she couldn't forget the heartbreak and humiliation of running from the town and the man who'd always see her as a whore's daughter. Here in Virginia City, where she'd escaped to make a new life, her grace, her style, and her .22-caliber derringer made her place, the Kansas Palace, into the greatest gambling hall in the most notorious town this side of the Rockies. Beautiful and generous, she'd won the love and respect of the rough Nevada mining town. Still it wasn't enough. She longed to be a lady of virtue in the eyes of the only man she'd ever love. Then the new sheriff rode into town, Cole Slater. A man tough enough to tame this lawless boomtown...and tender enough to stake his claim on the love of Kansas McKay...
Lori Handeland
BY ANY OTHER NAME 3/1998 ISBN: 0505522527 For Julia Colton, it means the difference between war and peace, friendship and hatred. From birth, her father has taught her that the Jayhawkers of Kansas are the enemy--especially the Murphys. But when Ryan Murphy steps in like a hero from a fairy tale, and saves her from a group of Jayhawkers, Julia begins to question her alliances. She sees a tenderness in his blue eyes that she has never seen in any man, and she feels an undeniable spark between them.
Evelyn Hanna
STOLEN SPLENDOR 12/1978 ISBN: 0345272161 Valeria Lee, an elegant and beguiling southern aristocrat, was the beautiful cousin of General Robert E. Lee. But in the bitter aftermath of the Civil War, her breeding and taste counted for nothing. Surviving sudden poverty, the burning of her beloved Atlanta, and the near-murder of her brother, she was forced to develop qualities she never knew she had: a fiery will of iron, a haughty mask of detachment, and a shocking disregard for the morals of her highborn heritage. But even more shocking to Valeria, herself, was that one very essential part of her nature seemed to have persisted in the flames of the war—the ability to love, to be a whole woman. Until she met two men: Sam Garvey and Josiah Eaton. One offered enormous wealth and power, and challenged everything she had ever believed about herself. The other represented a much deeper threat—the stirrings of uncontrollable passion, the one feeling she could never, never allow!
Ginger Hanson
RANSOM'S BRIDE 4/2004 ISBN:0821775340 The Civil War is over and cavalry officer Ransom Champion is coming home, hoping to find peace with his darling Sabrina at last. But his fiancée is dead—and only her sister Angela knows that Ransom fell in love with an illusion she created. Hoping to conceal her faithless sister’s indiscretions and pretend that all was well, she signed Sabrina’s name to countless letters to the brave soldier fighting on the front lines. Their chance meeting in a quiet country graveyard leads Ransom and Sabrina to find comfort in each other’s arms…and to a night of passion she can never forget. Ransom is determined to make Angela his bride—come hell or high water. But her past just caught up with her: Angela volunteered to spy for the South and the Yankee captain she once outwitted is bent on a terrible revenge. He’s scheming to have the spirited beauty arrested on trumped-up charges of murder. Only Ransom can rescue her from the gallows…and only if she says “I do…”
TENNESSEE WALTZ 1/2004 ISBN:0821775332 The Civil War put an end to Billie's dreams of raising the best horses in the state of Tennessee, especially when an arrogant Yankee officer commandeered her finest mount. And now that the fighting's over, Billie is determined to get Destiny back by any means possible, even it means a long, weary journey north—and a bold attempt to steal the magnificent stallion under cover of night. But William Grayson catches her in the act. Fortunately, her ragamuffin's disguise has the handsome officer fooled…Grayson can't help but admire the courage of the slender youth who traveled so far to reclaim Destiny. He ought to turn the scamp over to the authorities, but he doesn't. His soldier's instincts tell him that Billie is hiding something—though what it might be is a mystery. And when her feminine form is revealed in all its glory, he's stunned…and utterly smitten. All he wants is Billie by his side, now and forever. But true love never did come easy…
Karen Harper
PROMISES TO KEEP 11/1994 ISBN: 04511852529 In the small town of Lockwood, Ohio, Amanda Wynne harbored special hopes for this first Christmas after the Civil War. Yet so much had changed. Her husband, Matt, had returned a broken man and would soon be lost forever. And while she took two war widows into her crumbling mansion, Amanda's heart felt as bleak as the dreary winter...until, at the newly declared holiday of Thanksgiving, three visitors appeared at her door. A former slave, whom Amanda had once helped on the Underground Railway, arrived with her daughter and with a desperate plea for help. Then Lincoln Garner came, a homeless Southern soldier running away from something, searching for something. Soon they were banding together like a family, giving and sharing, through hardship and dangers. And when the miracle of love and desire broke through all barriers to unite Amanda and Lincoln, they knew they were home...and it was Christmas...and everything was possible for those who dare to dream...
Marilyn Harris
AMERICAN EDEN 1987 ISBN: 0385188161 Their hearts fired by the dreams and ambitions of a glorious heritage, Mary Eden Stanhope and her husband, Burke, built a new dynasty in lush, bountiful Alabama following the Civil War. The magnificent plantation flourished. Theirs was a dazzling world that defied all boundaries…until the night the hooded riders would come to shatter the dream—first with murder, then with a violent kidnapping. Missing was their daughter, radiant blond haired Eve Stanhope, swept away to a destiny that would test her to the core. And their only hope lay with young Stephen Eden, a British stranger with his own dark secrets and the indomitable courage to fight for freedom and love.
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
THE OUTCAST 5/1998 ISBN: 0316644455 Benedict Morland's comfortable life is overset when an old enemy's dying wish leaves him guardian of an orphaned boy. No-one, including his wife Sibella, can understand why Benedict accepts Lennox Mynott into his household and, amid growing hostility at Morland Place, he takes the boy to America, to join his daughter Mary at Twelvetrees Plantation. Here, Benedict, as well as Lennox, fall in love with the Southern way of life, just at the moment when bitter civil war is about to destroy it forever.
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CHRISTMAS ROMANCE 12/1990 ISBN:0380762056 Includes "A Christmas Melodie" by Catherine Hart; "A Match Made in Heaven" by Linda Ladd; "Candle in the Snow" by Barbara Dawson Smith; "Silent Night, Starry Night" by Katherine Sutcliffe; and "Six Little Angels" by Betina Krahn.
Derek Hart
FOR LOVE OR HONOR BOUND 10/2001 ISBN: 1401026699 One hundred and thirty-seven years ago, the Countess Isabelle Sophia Bario, diplomatic representative of Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil, sailed to war-ravaged America, to negotiate with President Lincoln to allow Brazil to trade with the Confederate States of America. In fact, she was a Rebel spy and instead of treaties, Sophia was after Union secrets. What she found instead was intrigue and murder. Fleeing for her life, Sophia was rescued by Captain Robert Norton, a Confederate cavalry officer. Thus began a torrid love affair with strategic implications.
Holly Harte
THE CHRISTMAS PORTRAIT Short story in DECK THE HALLS 12/1996 ISBN:0821751506 After Meghan Tompkins learns that her husband has been killed in the Civil War, the belle has only his fading photograph and dying vow to return. It is a romantic, impossible promise...until the Christmas Meghan discovers in Travis Garner the magic of true love.
Robin Lee Hatcher
PASSION'S GAMBLE 10/1986 ISBN:0843924128 At a tender age, young Alexis Ashmore was torn from her lush Virginia plantation home to live in the untamed new territory of Idaho, where her father sought his fortune. It was there that her first passionate embrace with ruggedly handsome Colter Stephens told her that she would never be able to love another. Yet through an odd turn of events, Alexis became the wealthiest woman in the county, making her prey to a man whose lust for power drove him to make her his own. The impropriety of his charm and deceit made her desire Colter all the more. But the gamble she was forced to take to win him back might lose his love forever..
STORMY SURRENDER 2/1984 ISBN:0843935731 She fought for the South, but yearned for a Yankee's forbidden embrace. Married to a man she could never love, beautiful Taylor Bellman was stunned when a gallant Yankee visitor awakened her heart to the thrill of illicit passion. Though their feelings could not be denied, they were on opposite sides of the conflict that divided the nation, and bound by ties of affection and blood to the man who stood between them - Taylor's husband. Despite burning tragedy and heartfelt grief, Taylor steeled herself to renounce her one great love, but she was drawn ever deeper into a tempest of desire from which it seemed she could never escape....
Diana Haviland
DEFY THE STORM 1/1981 ISBN: 0449143791 She defied the world to share the passion of her adventurous privateer…Selena Halstead challenged society and followed her daring privateer, Brian McCord, though it was for bidden for a beautiful young woman to voyage aboard a Confederate gunship. It was 'also forbidden for an unmarried woman to bear a love child—but she braved society's scorn and kept her baby born of her great passion. Selena resisted even when men of power at the decadent French court insisted that she bow to the Emperor's desire. But Fate sentenced her to slavery in North Africa and a painful separation from the man she adored...
David Healey
SHARPSHOOTER 12/1999 ISBN: 0515126934 Petersburg, Virginia, Nov. 1864. Lucas Cole, the hardened Confederate sharpshooter, will gladly kill any Yankee he spots, and he willingly accepts his latest mission: find and kill the North's most famous general: Ulysses S. Grant. With fierce determination and his trusted Sharps rifle, Cole sets out to accomplish his mission. But, the "perfect plan" soon falls apart as Grant's most trusted officers begin to suspect an assassination attempt. Before long Cole is the one being hunted, but he won't give up easy. Will Cole find a way to kill Grant and force the North to surrender?
Venita Helton
DIAMOND 9/1998 ISBN: 0843944277 A loyal Confederate, Rafael Laffite had almost completed his assignment to obtain a precious diamond and thwart the rampaging Union army. But terribly wounded, Rafe staggered back to Huntsville, Alabama, and into the arms of Lizzy McCord. Though it had been seven long years since he'd left her, the fiery inventor was still the most precious jewel he's ever seen. When the handsome Louisianan collapsed at her feet, Lizzie's first thought was to let him die. But against her better judgment, the headstrong beauty helped him escape from her Yankee-occupied town. As they soared toward freedom in her hot air balloon, Lizzy found it difficult to tell if the explosions around them were from enemy gunfire or from Rafe's fiery kisses. There, in the sky, Rafe showed her the heights of ecstasy, and Lizzie knew this ride would yield the adventure - and the love - of a lifetime.
SAPPHIRE 6/1993 ISBN:006108090 Divided by war...bound by passion. When New Orleans beauty Arienne Lloyd first gazed into the eyes of the stranger who snatched her from the jaws of the sea, she though she had died and gone to heaven. At the very sight of this powerfully handsome man, she was filled with an unworldly longing. In turn, Major Joshua Langdon, a Union officer posing as a Confederate soldier, was captivated by the sapphire-eyed rebel. She was a temptation he could not resist. But realizing his first duty was to a secret mission, Joshua rejected the one woman who could make him forget his loyalties. With her own allegiances to her beloved South, the bold Arienne had to fight for the heart of the man she called her enemy - even if it meant risking everything..
Shirl Henke
TERMS OF LOVE 10/1992 ISBN: 0843933453 The Heiress - Cassandra Clayton could wield a blacksnake whip as well as any mule skinner and cuss as well as any Denver saloon girl. She could run her father's freighting empire without the help of any man, but there was one thing she couldn't do alone - produce a male child who would one day inherit it all. The Prisoner - Wrongly accused of murder and rescued from the hangman's noose, Steve Loring was just what Cass needed - a stud who would perform on command. What she hadn't counted on was the cost of his services. The Price of Love - From the first, Steve made it clear that silver dollars would never be enough - he wanted Cass's heart and soul in the bargain. His sarcastic taunts made her dread the nights when she must give him her body, but his exquisite lovemaking made her long to give him all that he asked - and more!
Linda Herring
DREAMS OF GLORY 1/1996 ISBN: 1557488355 Mary Anna and Daniel Thornton are intent on building a future for their children on the Texas frontier. Then the South goes to war and Daniel feels honor-bound to join, fighting for a man's right to run his home without government interference. Mary Anna single-handedly provides for her family, but one question echoes in her heart: What happened to Daniel? There are no letters and his name doesn't appear on the lists of those killed or missing. Have Daniel's dreams of glory supplanted the dreams of their youth? As Mary Anna gazes out at the horizon, a tear kisses her sunburned cheek.
Lisa Higdon
UNFORSAKEN 8/2000 ISBN:0821766600 She Could Never Forgive Him...Olivia chandler´s heart was shattered when her fiancé, Matthew Bowen, returned from war-with a pregnant wife on his arm. Devastated, she spent long hours at the family lumber mill, trying to forget him. But when tragedy struck, and Matthew was suddenly left widowed, struggling to raise his young daughter alone, Olivia couldn´t deny the motherless child.or the man who still made her weak with longing. He Could Never Forget Her...In the midst of war, Matthew found comfort in the arms of a woman who had saved his life. It was an abandoned moment of passion that created a beautiful daughter.and a marriage born of duty. But when his wife died, he needed Olivia more than ever to be a mother to Sarah-and to give him a second chance to prove his love. Together They Risked Everything...As Matthew and Olivia´s fragile union becomes tested by the ruthlessness of outsiders, Olivia must discover that blessings come in many disguises: the innocent eyes of a child, the caprices of fate-and the calling of her heart.
Martha Hix
RIVER MAGIC 4/1995 ISBN: 0821748637 India Marshall took one look at the Union Army's Rock Island prison Camp, on the banks of the Mississippi...and prayed for strength. The determined Confederate belle had vowed to set her brother free at any cost. If she could somehow entice Major Connor O'Brien into trusting her, she might be able to stage a prison break...until she found herself caught between fear and desire, desperation and a passion that promised to break her heart. West Point soldier Connor O'brien fought for the North, even though his big, brawling family came from Tennessee. He had mixed feelings about guarding this prison camp, but no doubts about the southern charmer who was placing both their lives at risk. now, as the dark currents of war and treachery swept them toward certain betrayal, Connor and India were trapped between the loyalties they held dear and the love they could no longer resist...
Cindy Holby
CROSSWINDS 2/2004 ISBN: 0843952792 Ty- He was honor bound to defend the land of his fathers, even if battle took him from the arms of the woman he had pledged himself to protect. Cat- When her husband rode off to fight in Virginia, the feisty beauty swore she would be at his side, even if she had to risk the babe that grew beneath her heart. Cole- A Texas Ranger, he thought the conflict would pass him by until he had the chance to capture the fugitive who'd sold so many innocent girls into prostitution. Jenny-She had vowed she would no longer run from the demons of the past, and if that meant confronting Wade Bishop in a New York prisoner-of-war camp, so be it. No matter how far she must travel from those she held dear, she would draw courage from the legacy of love her parents had begun so long ago. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
WINDFALL 12/2004 ISBN: 0843953063 Jake—He awoke form months of unconsciousness with his body healed, but his mind full of unanswerable questions. Was there a woman waiting somewhere for him? A family? A place he belonged? Shannon—She had walked away from her abusive father and the only home she'd ever known. Could a soldier with no past be the future she prayed for? Grace—She had tried to be brave when the need to capture a traitor ripped her lover from her arms. Would it take even more courage to face him again now that his seed blossomed within her? Jenny—Her grandfather's beloved ranch had become a haven for all those she held dear, but now the greed of one underhanded land baron threatened everything they'd worked for. How could she keep the vision of her murdered parents alive for the generations to come? For each, life had exacted a heavy toll of tears and loss, but to each love would bring a blessing of an unlooked for Windfall. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Teresa Howard
CONFEDERATE VIXEN 10/1993 ISBN:0821743422 When Confederate spy Kinsey Blake sets her beautiful eyes on the dashing Union officer who supposedly killed her husband, she soon finds herself fighting a consuming, forbidden passion.
Angela Elwell Hunt
THE VELVET SHADOW 2/1999 ISBN: 1578561310 It is said that as Cahira, daughter of the great Irish king Rory O'Connor, lay dying of a wound from a Norman blade, she lifted her hand toward heaven and beseeched God that others would follow...breaking forth from the courses to which they are bound to restore right in this murderous world... To Kathleen O'Connor, Cahira's story was nothing more than a legend-until research divulged that the tale was true. Stunned, Kathleen realizes she herself bears Cahira's mark. Is she destined to continue the legacy? To find the truth, Kathleen must delve into the past to find the truth about The Heirs of Cahira O'Connor... When Flanna O'Connor, a young medical student in Boston, is cut off from her family in Charleston at the start of the Civil War, she decides to disguise herself and move south with the Union Army. While in disguise, she must prove herself as a soldier and a doctor, both to her messmates and to Major Alden Haynes, brother to the man she has tentatively agreed to marry. But when Flanna and Alden are trapped between two armies, can Flanna trust God with her future...and with the love she has sought all her life?
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