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Last Updated: 07/18/2008

KNIGHT'S RANSOM (#335) 10/1996 ISBN: 0373289359 (Medieval) Kidnapped! In a heartbeat, Catherine Sommerville's world had changed, transforming her from a cosseted heiress to a prize held for ransom by a battle-scarred knight. Reason demanded that she despise Gervase St. Juste, but her soul whispered that they had been born beneath the same star...Though murderous blood flowed through her veins, the woman Gervase had stolen was not the coldhearted shrew he had been led to believe. Gentle as a spring rain, Cat brought on a fury of an entirely different sort, raising within him a tempest of forbidden desire...

GLEAM OF GOLD 1992 ISBN: 0747238626 (1920'S-30'S) Paris... Gwendolen Whitchurch's sheltered life is turned upside down when the elegant Comte de Labasse suggests that the young furniture designer accompany him to Paris in order to furnish the interior of his home. Once there she quickly becomes one of the darlings of the burgeoning Art Deco movement - and attracts the love and admiration of Tamaki Hayakawa, a renowned lacquerist. Tokyo... His father's death means that Tama must return home and the two set sail for Japan. But it is only sixty years since Europeans were admitted to Tama's country and Gwen's life there is made almost unbearable by her new family's alien culture. She decides to stay only when, to Tama's great joy, she becomes pregnant with their child. But this beautiful yet cruel land now becomes master of her fate, in a different way. Singapore... Gwen and her baby daughter begin the long journey back to Europe. A forced landing in Singapore however introduces Gwen to a place she can really call home, a land of cosmopolitan opportunity. Here she can raise her child and work on her furniture designs. Then just when life seems full of promise the advent of World War II threatens everything....

THE SILVER LINING 9/2003 ISBN: 0727859188 After Karen loses both her job and her boyfriend at the same time, she is offered the job of escorting a small French boy, Roly Dartieux, from Cambodia to Paris. Then, when Roly’s English father, Jeffrey, who has been wounded by an acrimonious divorce, offers her a job working for him, she finds herself travelling all over Europe, and at the same time getting caught up in the complicated lives of Lynwood father and son.

TENDER CRUSADER 9/1997 ISBN: 0821757512 (Medieval) The Holy Land at the time of the Crusades - a place of chivalrous deeds and treacherous intrigue - where scented oils perfume the air and the hot sun arouses forbidden desires...Defiantly independent, Brielle d'Avignon leaves the safety of the French abbey of St. Bernadette to embark on a perilous journey: the search for her missing father rumored to have died in a Muslim dungeon. Dependent on Reynaud de St. Remy, the enigmatic Templar knight, for protection, Brielle is offended by his contempt for her mission - one he is certain is a fool's errand. And yet, his voice makes her heart race and his touch sends a disturbing heat to her flesh. The idealistic Reynaud de St. Remy entered the religious military order to please his father. Disillusioned with mankind and religion, he had little patience for this innocent beauty's misguided guest. But as they travel together, facing dangers at sea and betrayal on land, each step brings them closer to the truth about her father, and to a rousing passion that will test the bounds of love.

SURRENDER THE HEART 4/1997 ISBN: 0373289626 (Victorian) Arianne de Valmont prized her independence above all else, and to secure it, she'd struck a seductive bargain with a tantalizing American. Now she feared that in this heart's gamble, le beau sauvage, as Parisian society had named him, held all the cards... The son of scandal, Chris Blanchard caused a sensation among the 'beau monde,' intending to settle old scores and quickly be gone again. Until he was caught by the gaze of Ariane de Valmont, whose eyes bespoke a forever kind of love...

SWEET TRANQUILITY 1/1997 ISBN: 0821755447 (Regency) Tranquility Hartford yearned for romance and adventure. Instead, her mother decreed she must be married—within two weeks! Tranquility, who was anything but serene, always had the ton a-twitter over her last bit of mischief. Now she was as desperate as she was defiant...and so she fled all the way to Paris—unchaperoned! If anything went amiss on her journey, she would be utterly ruined. Of course everything did. In fact, Tranquility was soon in dire need of a hero. The Marquis de Beaulieu had neither the time, nor the spare francs, to save a spoiled English beauty. He needed to tend to his crumbling castle, and that meant resisting the desire to take Tranquility in his arms. His solution? Install her in a convent until he could dispatch her home. But the very handsome unusually obstinate nobleman had underestimated the power of amour. As for Tranquility, she didn't know just how dangerous a kiss could be...

SWEET DEFIANCE 7/1995 ISBN:0671887122 (Civil War and Victorian) In the middle of her wedding ceremony, celebrated artist model Marguerite DuBois is abducted by Bram St. Charles, a Civil War soldier who had been presumed dead and who wants to rebuild his home and claim Marguerite as his lawful wife.

DANGER IN MONTPARNASSE 1967 ISBN: 0340108878 When a sinister figure from the past suddenly appeared and a mysterious theft took place, Fiona realized with terror that she was being used as a pawn in a charade of love and deception. Could the man she loved rescue her now when she needed him most...

DEVIL WIND 8/1991 ISBN:0373286899 (Georgian) Danger was as close as desire. High on the cliffs overlooking the sea, Devil Wind castle loomed dark and foreboding. This was Rochella's new home - and she knew instantly that her husband, Lord Devlin, was equally unhappy with their arranged marriage. At first sight of his enchanting bride, Devlin longed to defy his name and its burdens. For Rochella's safety, he must keep their a marriage in name only. Yet, how long could he run from the need to love her as his heart demanded? Spellbound with desire Rochella would soon discover the dark secrets that cast their shadow on a man who had sworn never to love.

ROYAL PASSION 1985 ISBN: 0449147908 (French Revolution) Amid the color and music of a gypsy camp in the foothills of France, Mara Delacroix of Louisiana and Roderic, Prince of Ruthenia, met for the first time. She was the daughter of Andre Delacroix, who had lost his great love, Angeline, to Roderic's father in a daring gamble. Now Mara was involved in a deception of her own. Visiting France with her grandmother - who had gotten then into debt to the ruthless Nicholas de Landes - Mara had to seduce Roderic (for reasons de Landes would not explain) or see her dear grandmother suffer. Mara wanted only to use Roderic in a game of intrigue. Roderic was well aware of her beauty and charm but didn't want to be anyone's fool. How could they know that passion would explode between them?

WILDEST DREAMS 8/1992 ISBN: 0449906175 (Time Travel/Victorian) When Joletta Caressa's beloved grandmother dies, she takes with her the secret formula to a legendary perfume believed to have been worn by Cleopatra and Empress Josephine - and which is now the most desperately sought perfume on the market. Joletta's only clue to the formula is the journals written by her ancestress, Violet Fossier, who in 1854 made a grand tour of Europe. Joletta realizes she must follow Violet's itinerary across the European continent, using the events that took place and the scenes she visited to decipher the code to the formula. As Joletta follows Violet's journey, the story goes back in time, to nineteenth-century Europe and a scandalous love affair that is intimately bound up in the mystery of the perfume. In the present, Joletta finds herself attracted to - and suspicious of - Rone Adamson, a Southern playboy whose astounding knowledge of perfume makes Joletta wary. Yet his chivalrous charms prove too much for her scruples and Joletta succumbs to her dubious white knight, even as danger swirls around them.

SWEET ABANDON 4/1990 ISBN: 0821729764 Burning with desire... Sent away from her beloved sun-drenched island of St. Dominique for a proper convent education in Paris, Angelique Gilbert was a girl on the verge of womanhood - ripe for adventure and for love. So when the legendary Captain Wesley Locke arrived in Paris, Angelique didn't hesitate to disguise herself in rags and steal away from the convent to see the American hero for herself. With one look at the rugged, daring sea captain, Angelique knew that here was a man to die for. Here was a man to teach her about passion, about ecstasy, about what it meant to be a woman... Blinded by passion... Lockie was completely bemused by the arresting little slip of a girl who had thrown herself at his feet in a Paris tavern. On impulse, he took her with him on board the Sea Wolf. Obviously a girl of the streets, she could always pay for her keep by warming his bed during the lonely nights at sea. Not until he had stripped her of her rags did he realize his mistake. But though she had the pampered white body of an innocent young lady, she would not leave his bed without being branded by his skilled loving and enslaved to passion's Sweet Abandon!

PROUD PASSION 1976 ISBN: 0722117744 (French Revolution) Honor - Love - Desire! In a breathtaking tale that captures the turbulence of an era and the stormy emotions --- jealousy, lust, hate --- of its characters, we follow Odette Morel as she flees the brutal excesses of the French Revolution, endures the hardships of an ocean voyage to America and faces unthinkable dangers in the frontier wilderness. In Odette's story, we meet the men who want to own her, dominate her, violate her and who brutally try to break her fiery spirit. And we meet the man who loves her enough to risk everything --- even his life --- for her. PROUD PASSION this is a love story so powerful, passionate and enduring you will never forget it. Beautiful and brave Odette was a woman destined for great love and high adventure. Odette Morel was beautiful, proud and innocent. Men had always found her irresistible. But nothing in her past had ever prepared her for the terrifying events that would take place on her wedding night --- events that would make the beginning of the most daring romance a woman could ever imagine or survive!

DEVOTED 9/1995 ISBN: 0451403967 (Medieval) When Elin, a woman of the Forest People, saves Owen's life, he carries her away from her Saxon captors. Owen, the Bishop of Chantalon, is surprised that under the filth she applied to appear less attractive to her captors, Elin is a beautiful, brave, and intelligent woman. Truly, she is the perfect partner for him except for their religions differences.

BRAZEN ANGEL 8/1997 ISBN: 0440224128 (Georgian and French Revolution) She was every man's fantasy--and most dangerous desire. One bewitching look, the whispered promise of unspeakable ecstasy, and London's richest and most notorious rakes followed the Brazen Angel like sheep--to be fleeced. All London was in her thrall as she waltzed from masquerade to masquerade, seducing and stealing with impunity she met her match in the dark and dangerous lord who vowed to unmask her. He raced through the streets of London after the sapphire-eyed beauty, determined to catch London's most audacious thief. Giles Corliss, Lord of Trahern, had come home to honor his father's last request and marry a woman he'd never met, Lady Sophia D'Artiers. It was to be a marriage of convenience to beget an heir. But Giles had yet to discover that behind the fragile, ailing facade of his intended, Lady Sophia, lay the mistress of disguise--an irresistible brazen angel who was about to lure him into a reckless passion that threatened to destroy them both . . .

BRAZEN HEIRESS 1/1999 ISBN: 0440226384 (Regency) Napoleon lusted for her fortune while Paris swooned at her feet. Adelaide de Chevenoy, claimant to the de Chevenoy fortune, captivated jaded Parisians with her fresh beauty and mysterious past. No one suspected that the newly returned heiress was really Lily D'Artiers Copeland, Adelaide's dazzling double, sent by the British government to retrieve a cache of priceless journals. At her side was the aristocratic adventurer who had lured her into spying, a man she'd spent her entire life trying not to love . . . Bold, dashing Webb Dryden remembered the reckless hoyden who'd pursued him as a child. But this Lily, transformed into a woman who stole his breath away--seemed frustratingly indifferent to his charms. Posing as her fiance, Webb planned to work undercover, but Lily's brazen ways commanded the attention of Napoleon's intrigue-filled court. Suddenly Lily was more than Webb bargained for, a beauty who touched his heart and haunted his dreams, inciting passions that imperiled their very lives . . .

ECSTASY'S WINGS 11/1989 ISBN: 082172830X. (Regency) A Bonapartist and godchild of the former empress of France, Nanon de Cavanac was terrified when she fell into the hands of her enemy, Colonel Devin D'Amboise. Her only consolation was that she had thwarted his plot to kidnap Josephine...Now, trapped on a ship bound for Martinique, Nanon yearned to return to France and her beloved father. But when the dashing colonel held her in his muscular arms and kissed her with power and passion, all thoughts of loyalty, country, and home disappeared in a haze of desire and longing for the rebellious rake's embrace...The future of France had depended on him and instead of spiriting the empress away, he had taken aboard a young chit of a girl who had ruined everything. Until he could return her to her family, there was nothing left to do but to make the best of it - and he knew exactly how to do that! They would spend their nights locked in each other's arms as he explored her alluring curves, caressed her satin skin, drank of her tempting lips and sent her soaring on Ecstasy's Wings.

DESIRE IN DISGUISE 1987 ISBN: 0446323802 (French Revolution) Born Geneviève Saint-Georges, she reigned as the belle of Paris until the French Revolution sent her fleeing to England. Now, she leads a daring double life: By day, having entered into a marriage of convenience with her cousin, Lord Justin Trevelyan, she plays the role of a silly, scatterbrained wife, for whom he has little time or inclination --- much less love. But at night, masked in scarlet and known as the "Crimson Witch," Geneviève is the wanton smuggler who sails across the English Channel to rescue French aristocrats from the guillotine. One night, as she sneaks across the rooftop of one of the most-heinous prisons in all Paris, Geneviève comes face to face with her male counterpart --- an infamous spy and master of disguise known as the "Black Mephisto," with whom she is fated to fall in love. For only he can match her exploit for exploit, sword thrust for sword thrust, as they carry out their dangerous masquerade in the name of freedom and revenge.

LADY OF GOLD 9/1997 ISBN: 0821756842 (Medieval) As marauding freebooters ambushed the Countess de Bar's cortege, the royal charette toppled into a swiftly moving stream, drowning all but one. In that instant, Amalie Michaut was swept from the raging stream by the countess's newly appointed confessor, Father Fabien de Rais. Gone was the countess, chosen by the king to negotiate the ransom of a cardinal in Calais. In her place was Amalie, her servant, indebted to the handsome priest who risked hellfire and damnation to save her life, then demanded that she assume the role of the dead mistress-or they both would die. He donned the robes of a churchman in order to enter Calais and free an unjustly imprisoned man, but now Fabien de Rais is left with only his wits and a counterfeit countess to save his skin. When a company of English soldiers arrives to rout the bandits and escort them to Calais, Fabien and Amalie are trapped in their dangerous masquerade. And soon Amalie becomes the price for the cardinal's release, promised to the English commander even as she and Fabien risk everything for a love that is perilous, forbidden and fated to be.

THE CAPRICORN STONE 1980 ISBN:0385145969 (Victorian) It was a cruel fate for a young woman brought up in luxury. Birdie Chance discovered quite suddenly that she had no home, no friends, no money, and only a legacy of shame from the man who had been her beloved father, but whom death had transformed into a thieving stranger.

THE KING'S MISTRESS 1/2005 ISBN: 0373293356 (Medieval) There were worse things than to be shackled in marriage to a handsome, powerful lord who desired her — but Marguerite of Alencon was bred to be consort to a king and could not abide her fate. She had great power as Henry Plantagenet's mistress, and to be set aside and promised as a bride to noble Orrick of Silloth was an insult she could not bear…!Orrick knew his reluctant bride was a creature of the court with many secrets. And yet, Marguerite of Alencon would make him a perfect partner — accomplished and gracious, a true Lady of the Keep  — if only she could release her turbulent past and embrace a passionate future…in his arms!

THE KING OF SPADES 7/1974 ISBN: 0373017936 Did she love enough to forget the past? Sara Everette was stunned by the suicidal death of her best friend, Maura Penhurst. And she knew who to blame for it. Maura's last letter had told of the heartbreak she had suffered when she was jilted by Armand Romond de Poulain. So when Sara met Armand on a holiday in Monte Carlo, she was determined to seek revenge. But fate turned the tables and somehow she found herself in love with a man she hated!

PROMISE ME HEAVEN 2/1994 ISBN: 0380775506 (Regency) Determined to wed a wealthy man in order to help her impoverished family, Lady Catherine Sinclair asks notorious rake Thomas Montrose to teach her the art of seduction, but after a few lessons, the student instructs the teacher.

DAUGHTERS OF THE STORM 5/1990 ISBN:0553284487 (French Revolution) Breaking over France in the spring of 1789, the French Revolution transforms the lives of everyone in its path. . . . Fresh out of England, Sophie is discovering the richness of life and a love that promises freedom; her beautiful, aristocratic cousin Heloise knows that no amount of rebellion can free her from the shackles of her class and a man she hates; and Marie Victoire, Heloises maid, grasps early on that the revolution will bring freedom but has no idea of the price. Frances fate and theirs weave together in a gripping story played out in the shadow of the guillotine.

BELOVED HONOR 6/1995 ISBN: 0821749684 (Medieval) A fiery-spirited beauty, Cat Douglas is sworn to support her ancient Scottish homeland against its savage enemies. A once-illustrious knight, Rene Faurer is now despised as a traitor to the sacred cause of Robert the Bruce. They meet in the great hall of a castle keep and surrender to a fated, forbidden passion...before Rene is forced to flee to France in exile - and into the arms of another woman. From the heather-strewn hills of the Highlands to the glittering debauchery of the Parisian court, Cat and Rene find themselves pawns in a battle for a throne, two lovers divided by warring loyalties and a conspiracy of lies. But they can never forget the promise they have made, nor the desire that unites them. On the battlefield of the heart, Cat and Rene will fight for their future with love their blazon and their and their banner - tonight, tomorrow, and forevermore!

MISS SEDGEWICK AND THE SPY 12/2000 ISBN:0786222158 (Regency) With Napoleon Bonaparte in exile, Europe is once again open to travelers. In a remote area of the French countryside, the sensible Miss Drusilla Sedgewick encounters the legendary Col. MacRory Holt, Wellington's top military intelligence officer. Holt, impressed by Drusilla's cool nerve, quick wits, and idiomatic French, wishes to recruit her into the "Great Game" of spying. Dru agrees and soon finds herself immersed in intrigue. Despite Holt's disconcerting habit of materializing in her bedroom at odd hours in various disguises, Dru finds herself experiencing a most unladylike excitement at being in Holt's company.

OF SILENCE AND SLOW TIME 11/2004 ISBN: 0709075804 (1914-1932) August 1914, German Occupied France. Twelve year old Amelie stumbles across an injured British soldier, Captain James Winter, in the woods and throughout the first winter of the Great War her family keep him hidden from the enemy. Early in 1915 James disappears. Seventeen years later his son comes to the village to find out what happened to his father. Now the secrets of the past look certain to come out, although there are those intent on preventing them from doing so.

GYPSY LADY 12/1977 ISBN:0380018241 (Regency) Catherine Tremayne's aristocratic loveliness was a flower no man had yet dared to pluck.  But when Jason Savage first beheld the violet-eyed beauty, she was disguised as a Gypsy---a maiden long ago stolen from her father's Cornish estate. Only after he had carried her off to Paris on a dangerous mission for President Jefferson did Jason bare Catherine's secret. Yet Catherine's destiny drew her on, into a world of intrigue and danger, and she fled from Jason to the city of New Orleans---through an odyssey of peril and sexual captivity---to ecstatic reunion with the fearless adventurer who at last would quench the fire in her burning Gypsy soul!

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