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Terri Valentine
TRAITOR'S KISS 1/1989 ISBN: 0821725696 There was only one way Rhys Winghurst knew of to relieve the pressure of his latest undercover assignment—a romp in the hay with a beautiful lady. The red-blooded male was impressed when the innkeeper sent up the voluptuous lightskirt, but when he crushed her lips and fondled her curves, his passion was unexpectedly ignited as never before! The skillful captain showed the young wench the myriad ways of pleasure....then showed her the door. But Rhys never figured that the memories of rapture would haunt him—nor that he'd need that one incredible woman by his side to successfully fulfill his mission.
Joan Van Nuys
BELOVED AVENGER 12/1989 ISBN: 0380758784 The Pearls of Naipoor -- long ago, Lucian Thorne had been convicted of stealing the fabled jewels and stripped of his command. Becoming the elusive "Ghost," he sailed storm-tossed seas, preying upon the ships of the villain who had ruined him. Until the day he claimed an unexpected "cargo" -- his enemy's sable-haired fiancee, Sarina Fairburn ... Immediately, Lucian vowed to steal Sarina's virtue in revenge. But in the dark, sultry nights that followed, she became far more than mere pirate's plunder. She was a fever in his blood, a delirious dream of satin skin and lush kisses. And even as he acknowledged his own folly in desiring the woman promised to his enemy, he opened his embittered heart to the passionate power of love.
Aola Vandergriff
THE BELL TOWER OF WYNDSPELLE 1975 ISBN:0446786160 To whom must Caryn be true -- the King of England or the Master of Wyndspelle? Was her first duty to the King and the British soldiers quartered in her home? Or to her husband whose revolutionary band plotted against England?...Caryn must choose, and upon her words hung many men's lives ..
WYNDSPELLE 5/1975 ISBN:0446786152 Wyndspelle...sanctuary or house of Satan? The rocks tore Adria's bare feet as she climbed the forbidding crag to Wyndspelle. Only here would Adria find haven, safety form the Puritans ready to burn her as a witch. She opened the great door to shelter and life, and looked upon death. Wyndspelle's mistress lay upon a candlelit bier, cold and still. Adria could remain here, if she consented to become the new wife of the blind man with the scarred face and soul, the master of Wyndspelle.
WYNDSPELLE'S CHILD 1976 ISBN:0446788953
Valerie Vayle
ORIANA 11/1981 ISBN:0440167795 Oriana...Delicate silver-haired sprite. Born of the Viking Princess, she braved the icy seas in her father's ship with a spirit no man could match. Only an adventurer as bold as Gaerith could claim her heart, command her body, possess her soul. Their entwined destines swept them across oceans to the exotic Caribbean colonies, into London society, and into the perilous heart of battle to fight alongside legendary Celtic warriors for Scotland's honor and glory
Lisa Ann Verge
BLAZE OF PASSION 7/1989 ISBN: 0445209488 She captured Kilian herself. He was a rogue, a poacher, a commoner trespassing on her land, a man she would press into service on her late husband's estate. For Aimee needed his help. With her chateau about to be forfeited to the king, the silvery-eyed, raven-tressed beauty would do anything to save it. She had even brazenly offered herself to the foppish Duc de Montchamp. Indeed, Aimee, the widow of an aged aristocrat who had never claimed his marriage rights, thought she could easily share a loveless bed. But she was still an innocent. Then, one apple-scented night, the mysterious cavalier called Killian laid her beside him in the sweet meadow grass - and made her shiver with desire. Only later would she wonder: Was it all part of a cruel game of power and vengeance, or the beginning of a glorious new love?
Gina Veronese
HOUSE OF SATAN 3/1981 Vienna, 1785 She watched him move slowly toward her. He was the one they called Count Satan. Eloise was amazed that such a man had earned this cruel nickname. For it was immediately apparent to her that the handsome young Vienese nobleman was not the cruel heartbreaker he was said to be. She could see behind his cool facade of disdain and arrogance-to the mysterious sorrow, the sadness not quite hidden in the shadows of his dark eyes. Eloise was determined to discover his secret....but Count Satan was just as determined to keep it to himself!
Patricia Veryan
ASK ME NO QUESTIONS 4/1993 ISBN: 0312086997 Penniless, disgraced, and with two small nephews to support, she is in dire straits indeed... But by pure luck and a dash of feminine wiles, Ruth Allington is able to put her generous artistic talent to work by restoring an ancient mural at the estate of Sir Brian Chandler. She forgets to mention, however, her young wards or her past riddled with debt and despair.
CHERISHED ENEMY 1988 ISBN: 0312017464 Enemies in battle, could there be truce in love...? Exquisitely beautiful Rosamond Albritton, genteel though she was, found herself hating the Jacobite rebels who had caused her fiance's death. And for some reason, she immediately distrusted the handsome, haughty Dr. Robert Victor, who tended her injuries during a channel crossing. Why did his searching glances and probing hands fluster her so? Rosamond's pristine world spun out of control as her heart succumbed to this inscrutable rogue. But as the world conspired against them, Rosamond and Robert were forced to fight for their honor and their lives before they could save their love.
THE DEDICATED VILLAIN 3/1990 How the devil could a fellow make love to a girl who giggled when he tried to kiss her?!... Fiona Bradford was more amused than offended by handsome Roland Farleigh Mathieson's passionate ardour. He was acting, she suspected - a talent that seemed to come quite naturally as he managed to wangle his way into the caravan of traveling actors led by Fiona's father. Indeed, everyone had a part to play. The troupe was actually a band of Jacobite sympathizers secretly transporting Bonnie Prince Charlie's treasure. And Roland, a self-professed rake, duelist, soldier of fortune, and dedicated villain - who had every intention of profiting from these turbulent times - planned to steal the loot for himself. That is, until he encountered the charming, unpredictable, and thoroughly confounding Fiona....
HAD WE NEVER LOVED 8/1992 ISBN: 0449222187 The Gypsy and the Gentleman... It is a turbulent era of intrigue and deception; the struggle for England's throne wages fierce and bitter. In the midst of this strife is born the sinister League of the Jewelled Men, hatching another deadly conspiracy. Lord Horatio Glendenning is unaware of the noose tightening about his family and fortune - his thoughts center solely on a certain Miss Amy Consett, a veritable gypsy hoyden who stole his purse and, heaven help him, his heart. While he feels compelled to give cheeky Amy a lesson in honesty, the bewitching maid has a few things to teach him about survival, loyalty, and courage. And as the dastardly league springs its trap, conspiring to send Lord Glendenning and his family to the gallows, their survival depends on the ingenuity of a most wayward miss, who dares to risk all for love...
JOURNEY TO ENCHANTMENT 1986 ISBN: 0312906226 Only their passion could burn as bright as their love for their country!
LOVE ALTERS NOT 1987 ISBN: 0449216659 Impetuous Dimity Cranford bravely sets out to rescue her wounded friend by delivering a crucial cipher to his fellow Jacobite sympathizers. But her midnight coach is overturned and she is forced into a bold deception to avoid questioning. Masquerading as Mrs. Catherine Deene, the guardian of a young boy orphaned by the accident, she plots to complete her mission. When she arrives at the lavish estate of her new charge, however, she comes face to face with the infamous Lord Anthony Farrar, the knave who deserted her very own brother's troops in the midst of battle! Unfortunately, the cowardly yellow dog is extremely good to look at. Soon Dimity finds herself torn in a most daring test of courage--and of love . . .
THE MANDARIN OF MAYFAIR 11/1995 ISBN: 0312135629 As a devious plot swirls to overthrow the monarchy, Gwendolyn Rossiter, whose brother leads the fight to defend the Crown, finds her lively wit and outspoken nature largely ignored by the haut ton. With one exception: August Falcon, a devilishly handsome resistance conspirator. Yet the passion Gwendolyn inspires in him is more rage at her audacity than tenderness. And if she is even mildly fond of him, she conceals it admirably. But as riots in London escalate and the League of Jewelled Men brings its fiendish machinations to the fore, Gwendolyn will suddenly find unexpected love in the arms of a man who swore he was immune to her charms . . .
MISTRESS OF WILLOWVALE 5/1981 ISBN: 0449501809 We have parts to play, you and I. You may loathe my every fibre, but we must appear to be deeply in love... Once, Leone believed that her marriage to the handsome Christopher, Lord Aynsworth, would be her every dream come true. But the shivers of anticipation with which she had once awaited her wedding night turned to dread at the mere thought of the man now addressing her as husband. Everything was all so terribly wrong between them. Leonie had dreamed of no one but Kit and their life together, even when the war had taken him from her. Even when she had suffered such terrible disgrace . . . she had still dared to dream that one day they would be together. And then they were married. In his eyes, too, her innocence had turned to shame. And his love for her was dead, replaced by a cold, hard pride she could not melt. So much had happened they could not change. Or forgive. Until, in spite of themselves, they began to fall in love. All over again.
NEVER DOUBT I LOVE 3/1995 ISBN: 0449224120 Zoe Grainger arrived in London for a Season under the auspices of her dreadfully vain and disagreeable sponsor, Lady Clara Buttershaw. But even the awful Lady Buttershaw could not spoil Zoe's chances for love, especially when a chance encounter threw her in the way of Lieutenant Peregrine Cranford. And as love embraced Zoe, so did danger. For when Zoe discovered that her brother had become the target of the nefarious League of Jewelled Men, she courageously endeavored to protect him--and the man who had come to claim her heart. . . .
PRACTICE TO DECEIVE 1986 ISBN: 0312902980 A romantic saga taking place during Scotland's Jacobite Rebellion.
THE RIDDLE OF ALABASTER ROYAL 11/1997 ISBN:0312171218 Which was more intriguing -- the grand estate or the feisty female? When Captain Jack Vespa suffers a head injury in battle, he chooses to recuperate at his family's estate, the dilapidated - some say haunted - Alabaster Royal. It is there he meets, in a rather surprising fashion, Lady Francesca and her lovely, if volatile granddaughter, Miss Consuela Jones. Determined to discover who murdered Consuela's father, it seems these two interlopers have made themselves at home. The mystery, Consuela avows, has to do with this estate. And much to his dismay, Jack indeed discovers some devilish doings at the old manse. Moreover, he cannot help but discern that the lovely Consuela is as enticing as the riddle of Alabaster Royal!
THE RIDDLE OF THE DEPLORABLE DANDY 12/2002 ISBN:0312290977 Elspeth Clayton's family has been living in considerably reduced circumstances, and to improve their finances, her brother Vance becomes a soldier of fortune. His assignments take him to France, where he is caught up in political intrigues. Injured in an attempt to escape a troop of dragoons, he is arrested and held in a French gaol for questioning and probable execution. In an effort to save her beloved brother, Elspeth turns first to his best friend and then to her most devoted suitor, but both are prevented from coming to her aid. Meanwhile, she has unintentionally antagonized Gervaise Valerian, a quick-tempered dandy, much admired in Town, but whom she finds far from enchanting. Valerian has devised a daring plan to smuggle his father, a fugitive from justice, out of England. When his accomplice in the scheme is rendered helpless, he blames Elspeth. Despite their mutual antipathy, they are each desperate to aid their loved ones, and with considerable reluctance they eventually decide to work together. Hunted by authorities on both sides of the Channel and pursued by unknown assassins, their efforts are fraught with danger but they persist with their struggle, in the course of which their feelings for each other undergo a marked change.
THE RIDDLE OF THE LOST LOVER 11/1998 ISBN:0312193246 Captain Jack Vespa, an aide-de-camp of Lord Wellington's in the battle against Napoleon, is sent home from Spain after having been badly wounded. While he's convalescing, Jack, his military friends, and a spirited young lady from a neighboring estate, Consuela Jones, become embroiled in, and then successfully foil, a murderous scheme to defraud the government. In the process, Jack discovers that his own father was behind the terrible plot. Or was he?
THE RIDDLE OF THE RELUCTANT RAKE 11/1999 ISBN:0312204744 A Question of Honor...When Lieutenant - Colonel Hastings Adair agreed to escort Alice Prior home from a party, he never imagined he would awaken two days later in a most compromising position. Now, publicly drummed out of the service, Adair discovers that the miss who made the allegations about his behavior has disappeared. Determined to find her, he goes to the Prior home, where spirited Cecily Hall, Alice's best friend, seems equally determined- to shoot him! A Matter of Love...Cecily never thought she would doubt Alice's words. But when Adair gallantly came to her aid after the dueling pistol misfired, she was inclined to look at the much-maligned gentleman more favorably. Now, amidst the mystery surrounding Adair's besmirched reputation was a riddle with malicious consequences. But the sweetest result was the love Cecily and Adair discovered first...
THE RIDDLE OF THE SHIPWRECKED SPINSTER 4/2001 ISBN:0312269420 Mrs. Regina Stansbury, a woman of high fashion and dwindling fortunes, has just trapped London's most courted bachelor into agreeing to marry her daughter Cordelia. Though young Miss Cordelia Stansbury has admired the handsome and dashing Gervaise Valerian for years, she is mortified by the circumstances of their engagement. Duty bound to obtain her father's consent for this match, Miss Stansbury becomes lost at sea while traveling to meet him in Egypt. But Valerian's hopes for a long and carefree bachelorhood are dashed once again when Miss Stansbury reappears after a year spent shipwrecked on a desert island. Ignoring the Code of Honour, Valerian rescinds his offer of matrimony. To restore the family name, Piers Cranford, a distant cousin of Valerian's, is bullied into proposing to the disgraced young lady. His offer is rudely rejected, but under pressure from his great-uncle General Lord Nugent Cranford, Piers is forced to pursue Miss Stansbury or risk losing his family manor. Piers is reluctant to marry a haughty girl he barely knows, especially now that he has just met a delightfully intriguing young lady named Mary Westerman...His worries are compounded when his estate is plagued with a series of disasters. Are these troubles linked to old foes from the Jacobite Rebellion, or could they be the work of a mysterious bidder, intent on bringing down the value of Muse Manor and buying Piers Cranford's beloved family estate?
A SHADOW'S BLISS 7/1994 ISBN: 0312105436 Jennifer Britewell was one of the few people in the Cornish hamlet of Roselley to show kindness toward the wreck of a man who dragged himself into the village, bound for a life of grinding poverty-far removed from Jennifer's world...Moreover, she was intrigued by this shadowy vagrant, a disconcertingly handsome man who was clearly well bred and educated, but had no memory of his past.
TIME'S FOOL 9/1991 ISBN: 0312059787 He feared she was a wanton, and she'd heard he was a libertine...Captain Gideon Rossiter, his handsome face pale from his war experience, returned to England after six years to find naught as he had left it. His father was accused of bank fraud, his family ruined and disgraced -- and his betrothal to the enchanting green-eyed Lady Naomi Lutonville broken off by her disdainful papa. Barely out of the schoolroom when he last saw her, she had been in his dreams ever since. But Naomi, now the toast of London, had heard horrid rumors of Gideon's dalliance abroad and would have none of him... though her heart beat prodigiously fast whenever he was near. And though the gossips held his spirited lady to be a scamp and a flirt, Gideon strove in vain to resist her charms. Yet first he was resolved to unmask the foul conspiracy behind his father's downfall. And when he and Naomi were imperiled by highway robbery and threats concerning a mysterious jewelled chess piece, the dark threads of intrigue and even treason would have to be untangled before romance could truly blossom....
THE TYRANT 1987 ISBN: 0449216667 They plotted treason together--until love got in the way... Brooks was gallant, handsome, and loved her dearly, and perhaps Phoebe loved him in return. But thoughts of her betrothed fled the evening her brother enlisted her aid with his rebel cause--and Phoebe met her match with Meredith Carruthers, The Tyrant. His handsome face and devilish eyes befit Lucifer himself. Worse, when Phoebe’s outraged father discovered the two of them alone--Carruthers was forced to offer for her!! Phoebe soon found herself at the monstrous collection of ruins Carruthers called a home, thwarting the attempts of militia men and bounty hunters, caught up in a web of danger...and in the elusive secrets of her own passionate heart.
THE WAGERED WIDOW 1985 ISBN: 0312853416 Rebecca Parrish is a beautiful young woman whose engaging, if somewhat foolish husband was killed in a duel. Left a near pauper by her husband's gambling debts, she has just finished the customary year of mourning and is determined to find a wealthy father for her six-year-old son. No sooner does she trade in her black gowns than she attracts two suitors: the dashing but impoverished Trevelyan de Villars, whose intentions are far from honorable, and the handsome, rich, and always thoroughly correct Sir Peter Ward. But after she becomes the object of a wager between these two very different men, her innocent flirtation suddenly turns serious: Two men she loves prepare to duel over her--to the death.
Joan Vincent
A BOND OF HONOUR 8/1980 ISBN:0440108586 Lady Juliane Perrill was determined to practice whatever deceit was necessary to escape France, to bring her orphaned niece and nephew to safety in England. When fate forced her to cast her lot with the Earl of Tretain, they became a 'family.' To all appearances, they were husband and wife. Juliane was safe. Lord Adrian had promised to protect her. Could he? Would he? The road was long and hazardous; the country aflame with revolution. But most frightening of all was this dangerous charade that thrust Juliane into the arms of the one man she could neither resist--nor trust.
THE CURIOUS ROGUE 4/1981 ISBN:0440111862 In the dark of night he leaped into her coach, swept her into his arms, and kissed her with a fervor that haunted her still. But he had vanished as mysteriously as she had appeared. How could Elizabeth now marry a powdered fop like the Comte de Cavilon? Elizabeth's plain features concealed a proud beauty. Her sharp tongue hid a woman of daring and wit . . . a woman who longed for a rogue's passionate kiss even as she was drawn to a dandy's curiously tender ways. Soon she would be forced to choose. Was there more to love than met the eye?
THE EDUCATION OF JOANNE 7/1980 ISBN:0440123038 She was a surly wench, rebellious at heart. Who would have guess that Joanne, daughter of the Earl of Furness, would one day bloom like a rose? Banished from Kentoncombe, the shrew finally met her maker: Lord Jason Kenton, determined to transform her into a lady, duty-bound to cast her into the gilded trap of London's ton, into another man's arms--and marriage. Jason Kenton was the only man she ever desired. Was Lady Joanne woman enough to teach her tutor a lesson in love
THE PROMISE ROSE 2/2003 ISBN:0803495773 A tingle of pleasure startled Lady Barry as she accepted the hand of the masked stranger at Raneleagh Gardens. But he is now the Earl of Prideau and no stranger, having broken his pledge of love in their youth. Suddenly he is everywhere she turns. Lady Barry, struggling to free her late husband's estate, Gromley Hall, from his debts, finds her life turned awry with the revelation of his identity. Attempts are made on her stepson's life and she is accused. This charge does not worry her as much as Prideau, who torments her. When a summer house party is arranged at Gromley Hall, all pieces of the puzzle are in one place. Will Prideau be discovered as the villain or will he, as Lady Barry's heart dares to hope, solve the mystery and once again present her with a promise rose?
RESCUED BY LOVE 1/1981 ISBN:0440174333 They could dream to their hearts' content, but how could those dreams ever come true? Petite, raven-haired Sarita and her sister, Deborah, were Reverend Durham's daughter's, struck away in a remote Sussex rectory where tyrannical Lord Pergrine kept them impoverished and in danger. The breakdown of a coach and the sudden arrival of spritely Lady Phillippa, Dowager Marchioness of Bawden, plump Lady Imogene, Dowager Countess of Lackland, and haughty Lady Brienne, Dowager Baroness of Mickle seemed designed only to make matters worse. How could they know that the ladies had ridden in search of adventure? Mayhem, matching--and matrimony--were bound to follow in their wake!?
Lynette Vinet
PIRATE'S BRIDE 6/1989 ISBN:082172696X Captured by the Hawk...All young Bethlyn Talbot had wanted when she set sail for the Colonies was to track down the husband she'd been forced to wed as a child. Then her ship was attacked by the infamous privateer 'Hawk' and the honey-haired prisoner had to think of how to escape the brash buccaneer. But with his magnetic personality and towering physique, Bethlyn was more trapped than had she been bound in chains. For after years of marriage to a complete stranger, the yearning, passionate woman was ripe for romance with the phantom of the seas! Enamored of a doxy...With his dangerous life and spirit of adventure, the hot-blooded Hawk never hesitated to indulge in a brief, torrid love affair. And when he saw the curvaceous beauty aboard the ship he was raiding, Hawk decided then and there he'd claim her before nightfall. Then the lightskirt pretended maidenly virtue, and the aroused male became even lustier...only to discover she'd been telling the truth. Past the point of no return, Hawk commanded Bethlyn, for this voyage only, to submit to his will as the captain's mistress, and without a ring or preacher to be the Pirate's Bride.
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