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Margaret Walker
JUBILEE 1967 ISBN: 055308171 The true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress, a Southern Civil War heroine to rival Scarlett O'Hara. Vyry bears witness to the South's prewar opulence and its brutality, to its wartime ruin and the subsequent promise of Reconstruction.
Teresa Warfield
MEG'S GARDEN 1/1997 ISBN:0515120049 Meg - The war claimed her beloved husband and left her young son fatherless - but she refused to let it rob her of her spirit... Richard - In the War Between the States, he nearly lost his legs - and his will to live... Richard Foster didn't understand why Meg McBride was always smiling. She had lost even more than he had in the war, yet her step was always light when she strolled through her lush country garden. Richard tried to keep to himself while staying at her Kentucky inn...but it was impossible to ignore the spirited Meg or her small son, Ian. Like Richard, Ian had difficulty walking - but the little boy refused to let that hold him back. Richard soon realized that little Ian could teach him a lot about life...and that pretty Meg could show him how to love again...
Rochelle Wayne
REBELLIOUS HEART1991 ISBN: 0821733648 Although spying for the North was not a task Union Captain Wade Jordan relished, there was no other way to uncover the identities of the Alabama gunrunners. Deanne Brooks was the key--his superiors were sure this lovely southern belle was part of the conspiracy. And once he beheld the flaming tresses and daring desire of his prey, Wade's blood was on fire to seduce this rare beauty--a beauty he was bound to betray. She was the enemy...yet for tonight he would damn the consequences and sample her inviting lips, caress her luxurious curves and share her cries of ecstasy!
RECKLESS PASSION 1985 ISBN:0821716018 No one despised the Yankees as much as beautiful Leanna Weston. They had killed her brother, taken over her home-and now one of them had caught her spying for the Cause! At first she struggled against the thieving no good Major. then suddenly he set he blood afire just a surely as General Sherman burned down all in his path....
SURRENDER 9/1995 ISBN:0821750674 When Michelle Beauclair, the spirited mistress of Tall Oaks plantation first lays eyes on handsome northerner Brent Sheldon, she knows it will be the love of a lifetime. But she has no illusions. They believe in different dreams, live in separate worlds - worlds about to collide in bloody conflict... Soon, war rages across the land, dividing a country and pitting brother against brother. As a high-ranking Captain in the Union army, Brent has a duty to his country, to his men... and to the undying love fate will force him to betray... Now, across a ravaged nation, Michelle and Brent will find one another again - each forever changed by the spoils of war. Somehow, they must find it in their hearts to forgive and forget before they dare hope to make their Heaven on Earth.
SURRENDER TO ECSTASY 1984 ISBN:0821713078 I want to love you, not hurt you, the stranger softly murmured into Amelia's delicate ear. From that moment on all the golden-haired beauty could think about was the pleasure he brought her when he sneaked into her bed, showing her the ecstasy that could be found in a kiss and completely arousing her desire. If only she could see his face! If only she knew his name! She had no idea that he was her enemy--a tall handsome Confederate who came into her unhappy life, stole her heart and would find a way to make her his own...
Susan Weldon
TEMPT A LADY 10/1994 ISBN:038077738X. Rayne was a little girl when her father, Jasper North, abandoned her to make his fortune out west. Now as a woman, she heads to Nevada for a reunion with the supposedly repentant reprobate. But someone else is waiting for the proper, finishing school-bred beauty when she steps off the stage: Jasper's handsome young business partner Case O'Malley, Virginia City's most notorious sinner. A spy for the Union cause, Case cherishes his reputation as a hellraiser for it masks his dangerous mission. The last thing he needs is some meddlesome do-gooder trying to reform him - so the sooner he sends Jasper's straight-laced daughter packing, the happier Case will be. But he never expects Rayne to enchant him so thoroughly with her innocent sensuality - compelling Case to pursue a very different sort of undercover activity.
Patricia Werner
A BRIDE FOR GIDEON Short story in BLUSHING BRIDES 6/1998 ISBN: 082175906X
Rosalyn West
THE PRETENDER 6/1999 ISBN:038080302X Deacon Sinclair is an intelligence agent for the Confederacy. His current mission is to obtain the telegraph code the Union is using. The inventor of the code is the daughter of William Davis, a telegraph operator for the Union cipher corps. Deacon is willing to do anything for his cause, but he never counted on falling in love with Garnet Davis. In order to complete his mission, he will have to betray her trust and destroy the fragile bond that has developed between them. After Deacon’s mission is complete, it is five years before he sees Garnet again. Five long years for Garnet to nurse the hurt he inflicted on her and plot her revenge. Garnet shows up on Deacon’s doorstep five years later, the mortgage to his house in her hand. She also has a husband and a young son with her. She’s not the foolish young girl she once was, however. She intends to bring Deacon to his knees by taking his home and his land. When she is through with him, Deacon Sinclair will know what it is like to lose everything he holds dear. The problem is, Garnet risks losing her heart to him all over again.
THE REBEL 11/1998 ISBN:038080301 Noble Banning has a choice--he can spend the duration of the war in a Union prison or follow his enemy to New Mexico territory and fight for a common cause. For Noble, it is a matter of honor. His men are fighting men and he can’t stand to watch them waste away and die in prison. But his motivation is two-fold. Noble knows someone in his command betrayed them. He intends to find out who it was and mete out his own brand of justice. Juliet Crowley is used to following the drum wherever her father’s duty takes him. She can make a home anywhere she goes, she is self-reliant and intelligent. But the one thing Juliet wants is the one thing she has no knowledge of--love. The last person she can imagine falling in love with is that insufferable Southerner, Noble Banning. Brought together by fate, Noble and Juliet’s very different worlds collide and the result is explosive.
Becky Lee Weyrich
ALMOST HEAVEN 5/1995 ISBN: 1570960275 Angela Rhodes has just found out the hard way that there is life after death. A fatal automobile crash along a snowy Maine road has sent her spiraling toward heaven. But she has left behind unfinished business: her husband an infant daughter. Standing before heaven's gate, Angela demands a chance to look after her loved ones. But first, she must learn how to be a guardian angel. Soon, she finds herself journeying back in time...with a handsome spirit guide named Al. From Constantinople to Ancient Rome and Spain, from the fall of Pompeii through the Civil War, Angela untangles the web of her many lives as she searches for the key to eternal happiness - and discovers a timeless love that is all that heaven allows...
SUMMER LIGHTNING 1985 ISBN; 0449127974 They were playing a game of double masquerade. But their lusty passion could not be denied....He was Captain Damien Clay, a freewheeling, swashbuckling, handsome member of Morgan's Raiders daringly disguised as a woman to help win the war for the Confederates. But underneath the disguise, he was all man. She was Lavinia Rutledge, a voluptuous redheaded beauty who whacked off her long hair with a skinning knife and masqueraded as Private Vinnie Rutledge of Thunderbolt Plantation. But this "young man" was really a hot-blooded woman. So when they found themselves together, it didn't take long for passion to explode and love to strike like summer lightning...
SWAN'S WAY 11/1997 ISBN: 0821757830 Swan's Quarter, a grand old Virginia plantation nestled in the lush Shenandoah Valley, still echoes with the memories of another time. It is there, among the faded portraits of its original owners, crash survivor. Young, handsome, and disturbingly familiar, he is someone Ginna swears she knows. But from where...and when? Her questions are answered when a walk in the garden sends Ginna and Neal spiraling back through the decades to the time of the Civil War, when two lovers were parted by death, their fates unfinished, their destinies waiting. Now, these two travelers from another century will be plunged into a world of lost dreams to embrace a passion that time cannot dim...and to fight for one last chance to love again.
Karen White
IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON 8/2000 ISBN: 0505523957 A lunar eclipse. A twentieth-century comet. And suddenly, thoroughly modern Laura Truitt is swept off mysterious Moon Mountain, away from her enchanting Southern home--and over one hundred years into the past. . . There, dashing Confederate soldier Stuart Elliott whisks her to his eerily familiar plantation, and his powerful masculinity evokes impossible desires. But the Civil War rages, forging unspeakable danger, threatening to wrench Laura from Stuart's arms. She must await the moon's magic to come full circle. But will it carry her back to the future, heartbroken and alone? Or keep her with Stuart in this passionate, perilous past?
WHISPERS OF GOODBYE 10/2001 ISBN: 0505524554 "I need you. I am so afraid." As soon as she had read the words, Catherine set off for Louisiana to help her older sister. Upon entering the moss-draped woods surrounding the plantation house, Cat found herself immersed in a mystery as murky as the mighty Mississippi River. For Elizabeth had disappeared, and Cat couldn't help but suspect her sister's husband knew more than he was saying. His dark eyes told her he had great sadness; his arms said he had much warmth; and his lips had a language all their own. But not even a whisper of her sister. Drawn into a web of family secrets and ancient superstitions, Cat hardly knew what to fear most: the deceptively peaceful swamps, or the dashingly powerful man who could steal her breath and sear her heart.
Robin LeAnne Wiete
FREEDOM ANGEL 10/1990 ISBN:0451402189 Beautiful young Kelsey Tremayne tried to hate Garrett O'Neill for claiming half of the great estate that should have been her legacy alone. She tried to mistrust this handsome, reckless man whose clandestine movements after dark were cloaked in mystery and intrigue. She tried to resist his gaze, his voice, his lips, his touch. But resentment was not match for passion, suspicion no match for love, as she surrendered to desire...and joined him in a world of danger and adventure...
Lauren Wilde
REBEL HEART 1986 ISBN:082171802 From the moment she stepped into the ballroom, Desiree felt her eyes drawn to the magnetic gaze of one man: Captain Jason Montgomery. She had heard tales of this daring rogue and of his womanizing reputation and knew she should fear him and keep her distance. But when Jason gathered her into his strong embrace and swept her onto the dance floor, Desiree knew something else--a feeling of fire burning through her veins, a passion mounting deep within her, making her blind to everything other than the wild beating of her own Rebel Heart.
Bronwyn Williams
A PROMISE KEPT Short story in HARLEQUIN HISTORICAL CHRISTMAS STORIES 1992 11/1992 ISBN:037383245
Pamela Willis
HEARTS OF THE STORM 4/1995 ISBN:0061083526 Josie Campbell could put a bullet through a man's hat at a hundred yards with as much skill as she could nurse a fugitive slave baby back to health. But she hadn't done much thinking about men...until the dashing Clint McCarter rode into town. From the moment Josie saw the handsome Texas cowboy, her heart was never the same. But the black clouds of the cowboy, her heart was never the same. But the black clouds of the Civil War were gathering on the horizon, and there was little time for love, unless Clint and Josie could find happiness at the heart of the storm.
Caryl Wilson
TONIGHT AND FOREVER 12/1993 ISBN: 0671799053 In one magical night, they unveiled the passions, and the perils, of the heart's ultimate surrender. Believing that a deceitful lover's broken promise brought an innocent young lady to take her own life, pre vengeance drove her sister, beautiful English ballerina Courtney Asquith, to a relentless search for the arrogant heartbreaker responsible. The dancer's delicate grace and petite build belied the determined fury of her quest, which would not end until the American scoundrel she sought had paid dearly. Fleeing England for Charleston, she narrowly escaped the crude advances of a stable hand when a stranger intervened and carried her aboard his ship, where she fell into the inescapable embrace of the most seductive man she had ever met. Traveling the seas by night, Courtney deduced that Captain Sean Caddell was a smuggler. But the night held other dangers: hungry kisses and taunting caresses that lured her into the captain's own game of deception and desire. For even as Courtney was falling under his irresistible spell, she could not know the dark truth: Sean Caddell was the very man she sought, the man to whom she was bound by her own uncertain destiny.
Clara Wimberly
THE EMERALD TEARS OF FOXFIRE MANOR 4/1990 ISBN; 0821729675 Kathryn, orphaned and alone, knew that she must marry wealthy but crippled Robert Kincaid. Even though she was drawn to his brother Matthew, she tried to resist her feelings. Kathryn soon found herself wrapped in a nightmare of terror from which there seemed to be nowhere to escape.
GENTLE HEARTS 6/1996 ISBN: 0821753371 As the Civil War raged through a divided land, Lida Rinehart felt safe in her simple Amish world - sewing, cooking...and dreaming. Then, one dark night, her brother died helping John Sexton lead runaway slaves to freedom - and her serene homespun life was no more. Lida had been taught to obey; now she decided to rebel. Plunging into an unknown and perilous world, she struggled to carry on her brother's work - and battled with her own heart. For as the war intensified all around her, so did her feelings for rugged, mysterious John Sexton. An outsider to her people's ways and a threat to all she believed, he was also a man who awakened desire...and now demanded the one thing she was forbidden to give: her love.
KENTUCKY THUNDER 7/1993 ISBN:0061080993 A defiant southern belle... Her emerald eyes ablaze, Leanna McNairy aimed her pistol at the Yankees heart, her pulse pounding. How dare he ask her to leave her beloved home? How could he suggest that her father had betrayed the Southern cause and entrusted her to his care? A daring Union soldier.. The tall, raven-haired man they called the 'Nighthawk' could be caring and passionate one moment, cruel and distant the next. In the days to come, Leanna would be forced to trust Major Alex Slayton in spite of herself. Her survival depended on him. As the din of battle drew ever closer, threatening everything they held dear, Leanna and Alex would both learn its harsh, unforgettable lessons. Torn by the winds of war, they were fated to find a love and destiny amid the wild roar of...Kentucky Thunder.
Linda Winstead
IN ENEMY HANDS 5/1996 ISBN:0843939532 Rumors describe the elusive Confederate blockage runner, Captain Robert Sherwood, as a dark haunting figure, but the true culprit behind the covert operations was ever more of a mystery. Voluptuous, golden-haired Lily Radford had cleverly orchestrated every last one of the missions while posing as the Rebel's mistress. Her dedication to the cause was firm until handsome Quintin Tyler invaded her bed and her heart. A Union spy, Quintin had been sent undercover to stop the infamous Captain Sherwood, even if he had to seduce the scoundrel's woman to do it. But soon, irresistible Lily was weakening his defenses with her cool Southern charm and lovely sea-green gaze. Lost in the beauty's soft, feathery touch and intoxicating kisses, Quintin could almost forget where his loyalties lay. And as their passion flared, he would risk placing his love...
Lois Wolfe
THE SCHEMERS 5/1991 ISBN: 0553289802 Amid the treachery and turmoil of war, they surrendered to a magnificent love...She was a well-bred British beauty unwittingly lured into a dangerous secret mission. He was a half-breed Cherokee soldier sworn to avenge his tragic past. A world apart, they would fight each other as they fought their enemies-and lose their hearts in a raging firestorm of forbidden desire. In the name of family loyalty, Devon Picard had agreed to board the Confederate train bound for North Carolina, little realizing the danger she was in...until she discovered that a brooding stranger named Gentry Morgan was following her...until her train was attacked by a ragtag band of renegades...until she became Morgan's captive, sharing the sweat and dust of hot pursuit as he led her behind enemy lines-and into a dangerous midnight embrace that almost made her forget: he might be her enemy. Against all reason, they surrendered to the passion that flared between them. But soon, enmeshed in the intricate schemes of foreign powers represented by ruthless men, they would find their lives threatened and their destinies sealed-in a showdown on the snow-packed plains of the Missouri Territory, where the bait was an innocent child.
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
ASHES IN THE WIND 1979 ISBN: 0380769840. Alaina MacGaren is forced to flee the devastation of her homeland in the guise of a young boy, only to find sanctuary in the arms of an enemy. Cole Latimer is a dashing Yankee surgeon who has served the Union faithfully, and his tender heart compels him to help a ragged, innocent "lad" in need--never suspecting the rags conceal a bewitching belle suspected of being a rebel spy. But Alaina's masquerade does not fool Cole for long. And the strength, courage, and breathtaking sensuality of this woman whom it would be treasonous to love sets duty and desire at war within him. Yet Destiny has joined them for good or ill--and they both must follow where their hearts would lead them, if they are to build a glorious new life together out of the ashes of the old.
Don Wright
THE LAST PLANTATION 11/1990 ISBN:0812509919 A novel of unforgettable people whose lives are irrevocably entwined by the Civil War, a war they neither want nor understand, by love that dares to cross the barriers of class and race, and by a way of life that disappears with the last plantation. Locked in the passions of love and war, some fight because of honor, some to defend a way of life and others to destroy it. (Ingram)
Diane M. Wylie
MY ENEMY, MY LOVE 3/2005 ISBN: 1593741634 It was November 1863 and Captain David Reynolds of the Seventeenth Pennsylvania Cavalry was fully prepared to die. Someone had once told him that dying was quite painless. He didn’t believe it, though he secretly hoped it was true as he and his men prepared to ride into chaos and horror. The battle of Mine Run had begun. Jennifer Winston could hear the booming sounds of cannon fire miles away from her Virginia home. She knew that the war had begun two years ago, but had been insulated from it all by her father. Little did she know that her life was about to irrevocably change and she would be tested to the limits of her courage and endurance for a man—a man who was the enemy. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
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