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THE FALCON AND THE SWORD 8/1993 ISBN:0821742744 (Celtic) Captured by barbarians as a child, the orphaned Judith had spent her girlhood locked behind convent walls. Determined to escape her cloistered life, she fled to the safety of the Frankish court - only to be swept up into a firestorm of murderous intrigue! Shocked at the pagan passions that ruled the palace, the spirited innocent was even more astounded when a tall, broad-shouldered nobleman reached out to take her in his powerful embrace! His tender kiss on her silken skin filled her with the wonder of a woman's desire, as his fiery caress ignited a hungry yearning that only the rapture of surrender could satisfy...

THE TROUBADOUR'S SONG 11/1997 ISBN:082175787 (Medieval) Widowed French noblewoman Allesandra Valtin is a troubadour in the southern region of the Languedoc, where poetry and courtly love flourish. Until the chill wind of the Inquisition blows, and Allesandra vows to defend her homeland and way of life. But her heart is soon challenged by a bold and courageous knight whose duty binds him to possess her lands, but whose heart desires only to win the fair lady for himself. Gaucelm Deluc, vassal to the King of France, is under orders to conquer the independent provinces of the Languedoc. Though sworn to defeat the stunning baroness, he is unprepared for Allesandra's seductive beauty. Against a world of incendiary battle, through days of struggle and nights of burning passion, Deluc and Allesandra fight for the promise of a better tomorrow . . . all in the name of love.

VELVET DREAMS 5/1994 ISBN: 082174562X (Victorian) Amanda Whitney's mother is determined to marry her fiercely independent daughter off - preferably to a title. But Amanda harbors dreams of romance, and vows she will only wed for love. Edward Pemberton, the Duke of Sunderland, has sworn off love forever. he is short of funds, and has come to America, quite simply, to marry an heiress. They couldn't be more wrong for each other. yet he is irresistibly intrigued by her spirited beauty; and she finds his rakish charms impossible to resist. From the gilded ballrooms of New York to the magnificent estates of Newport, from the dazzling salons of Paris to exotic Monte Carlo, they become partners in a dizzying dance of desire - bound by a love stronger than any fantasy...

A LADY OF INDEPENDENT MEANS 1995 ISBN: 0263144224 (Regency) Miss Louisa Finsham thought it would be a casual affair-visiting the battlefields of Waterloo with her aunt Amelia. But from the moment their ship set sail, Louisa encountered all sorts of difficulties, including one Lord Hugh Deverill, the most irritating man, who had come to her rescue! But rescue her he did, from the lack of sea legs to a line of suitors waiting to ask for her hand in marriage. Although her wealth attracted all manner of marriage-minded men, Miss Louisa felt that Lord Hugh had other, more tantalizing things on his mind than her money...

THE LILY AND THE LEOPARD 2/1991 ISBN: 0727842838 (Medieval) France in 1414 was a country at war, overrun within by marauding knights and besieged from without by an ambitious English king. England in 1414 was ruled by King Henry V, a driven monarch who was determined to regain his French lands, even if it meant war. Lianna of France was mistress of a great castle in Normandy. Rand of England was King Henry's most fearless and trusted warrior. They were fated to meet in a sunny forest glade, just as their countries were fated to meet on the battlefield of Agincourt. Their turbulent yet triumphant love story symbolized the clash of two mighty nations. With them, the lily and the leopard could be united, finally, under one banner.

THE RAVEN AND THE ROSE 11/1991 ISBN: 0727843427 (Regency) The Raven . . . Daniel Severin--A ruthless mercenary with a heart of stone, he has been sent to the Hospice of Saint Bernard's, high up in the Swiss Alps, with a deadly mission. The Rose . . . Lorelei du Clerc--A woman raised by the holy men of Saint Bernard's, she knows little of the world beyond the mountains, yet her very existence threatens the foundations of Napoleon Bonaparte's ever-widening empire.

DARE TO LOVE 1977 ISBN:044681826 (Victorian) Who dared to love Elena Lopez? Who was willing to risk reputation and wealth to win the Spanish dancer who was the scandal of Europe? Kings, princes, great composers and writers..the famous and wealthy men of the 19th century vied for her affection, fought duels for her. She was the queen of desire and the slave of passion, traveling the world--London, Paris, San Francisco--and taking love where she found it. Elena Lopez--the tantalizing, beautiful moth--dancing out of the shadows, warmed, lured and consumed by the heart's devouring flame.

THE MERMAID'S SONG 7/1997 ISBN: 0312962568 (Victorian) Falsely implicated in a terrible crime and desperate to flee England, Flora O'Donnell strikes a deal with mysterious Blaise Cheney. She will go to Chateau Morgaine on the coast of France to usher his ward, Johanna, into society. A town of whispering mermaids and faerie spells, Flora finds herself drawn into a realm of secrets of the past.

THE HEART'S WAGER 4/1995 ISBN: 0373288638 (Regency) The Duke of Avon had gone missing and it was up to Devon to find him. Colonel Devon Burke knew little of the alien world in which he traveled. Yet he was determined to find the man to whom he owed his life, or die trying. and the mysterious Julie de Valme seemed his only hope for success. Once the toast of Paris, Julie's life had been destroyed the night of her father's death. Now she lived by her wits in a dangerous underground existence. And the one man whom she had come to trust was blind to the woman beneath the protective guise....

MY LADY'S DARE 6/2000 ISBN:0373291167 (Regency) This time the Earl of Dare had gone too far. After wagering a small fortune for a French gambler's mistress, and winning his days of reckless seductions and leisure were soon to end. Even the matchmakers in high circles and the ton bet that the infamous Mrs. Carstairs, whom the Earl appeared to have so skillfully won was soon to become a Sinclair Bride.

DAUGHTER OF THE RED DEER 11/1991 ISBN: 0451403347 (Prehistoric) When tainted spring water fatally poisons the women of the tribe of the Horse, the clan's young men set forth to kidnap new women from the matriarchal tribe of the Red Deer—a quest that must succeed or their people will die out. Golden-haired Mar, the leader of the young men, falls in love with the beautiful Alin, daughter of the Red Deer priestess. And though they are born to embrace different traditions, raised to worship different gods, Mar will fight to claim this strangely powerful woman of his own.

WHITE HORSES 8/2004 ISBN:0778320979 (Regency) January 1813. The British army is preparing to cross the Pyrenees and advance against Napoleon's army. Only one thing stands in the way—funds. It will take two people masquerading as lovers to carry out a dangerous plan...Despite inheriting the traveling Cirque Equestre—France's proudest equestrian tradition—Gabrielle Rochon has no loyalty to the emperor who destroyed her family's way of life. Independent and headstrong, she pledges to help the British army, knowing her late father would have done the same. But her mission to smuggle gold across France within the cirque to the Duke of Wellington's headquarters in Spain is one the British won't let her do alone. Colonel Leo Branford—an arrogant, striking foreigner—is ordered to play the part of her husband so that he may escort the gold without arousing enemy suspicions. While Gabrielle is annoyed that she must publicly bow to his every whim, the danger of the mission binds them in a disturbingly intimate way. With French troops precariously close to uncovering their charade, it is imperative that neither of them forget their purpose. . .or themselves.

Shirley K. Wolford

HEAVENLY VENTURE 7/2001 ISBN:1583459669 (French Revolution) At the height of the Reign of Terror in Revolutionary France, Gwyn Holloway receives a frantic summons to rescue her sister, married to a French aristocrat and about to be denounced as an Enemy of the People. Gwyn rashly departs for France on the next ship with only her maid and the mysterious messenger from Jillian. Dashing Jeremy Madison, a friend of Gwyn's brother and the man she loves, is coincidentally on the same ship, sent to France on a diplomatic mission. Drawn to Gwyn, Jeremy gambles everything on rescuing her, her sister and her nephew from the guillotine on a new-fangled invention -- a fragile balloon.

A BATTLE FOR LOVE 7/1986 ISBN: 0345332709 (Renaissance) A Battle for Possession…In which the beautiful young French widow Michelene Tevoulere becomes the pawn in a royal scheme involving England's King Henry VIII and the court of France's Francois I. A Battle for Power…In which handsome young Earl of Sandhurst is betrothed against his will to the bewitching Michelene, but conceives an even grander plot to outwit the kings and test both Michelene's honor and her sensuality. A Battle for Passion…In which the splendid Michelene finds the very depths of her womanhood aroused and tormented by a man her body adores but her mind resists.

YOU, AND NO OTHER 8/1984 ISBN:0345308077 (Renaissance) 'I find that I am in love with Mademoiselle de Fleurance,' said St. Briac to the King. 'I came here to ask her to be my wife.' What a thrill to hear those words from him! Yet Aimee was certain that he spoke them out of pity, not love. St. Briac knew that only his own marriage proposal could keep the King from seducing her - a fate she was desperate to avoid. Aimee tried to tell herself that she felt nothing for St. Briac. Gratitude, yes, for saving her from the King. But nothing more. Then she thought of the brilliance of his turquoise eyes. The strong, slim outline of his body. The taste of his lips. And she knew her fate was locked in his heart...

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