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Patricia L. Waddell
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.
Elizabeth Neff Walker
THE LADY NEXT DOOR 5/1981 ISBN: 0449501817 For years the red-haired, hazel-eyed beauty had been the favorite subject of gossips and rumormongers. But Marianne had held her head high and ignored the sly glances, the leers, the niggling remarks, the whispers.were they really true, those stories about that night years ago? Marianne had never replied to the questions, never answered the rumors or the accusations. Never, until she met Pressington Derwent, the Earl of Latteridge. After so many years of silence, it mattered desperately to her that he know the truth. Marianne could not deny this handsome man answers, no matter what he asked...
H. Dyke Walton
THE BANISHED ISBN:0505516683
Charlotte Ward (aka Marion Chesney)
THE WESTERBY INHERITANCE 6/1982 ISBN:0523412762
Ciji Ware
A COTTAGE BY THE SEA 4/1997 ISBN: 0449150399 Some might call it running away . . . But after a scandalous Hollywood divorce, Blythe Stowe considered it damage control for body and soul. The pain, the humiliation, the daily tabloids shouting details as her famous husband dumped her for her own sister demanded a serious getaway: to the wild coast of Cornwall and a cottage by the sea that her Wyoming grandmother claimed had been home to her ancestors. Some might call it chance . . .But Blythe encountered more than just a quaint retreat nestled amid vivid skies and gorgeous ocean. And she had the odd sensation that her wickedly handsome neighbor Lucas Teague was more than a British gentleman going broke. He might be her destiny...
ISLAND OF THE SWANS 1988 ISBN: 044900273X In this resplendent love story a dazzling era comes vividly to life as one woman's passionate struggle to follow her heart takes her from the opulent cotillions of Edinburgh to the London court of half-mad King George III . . . from a famed salon teeming with politicians and poets to a picturesque castle on the secluded, lush Island of the Swans. . . . Best friends in childhood, Jane Maxwell and Thomas Fraser wreaked havoc on the cobbled streets of Edinburgh with their juvenile pranks. But years later, when Jane blossoms into a beautiful woman, her feelings for Thomas push beyond the borders of friendship, and he becomes the only man she wants. When Thomas is reportedly killed in the American colonies, the handsome, charismatic Alexander, Duke of Gordon, appeals to a devastated Jane. Believing Thomas is gone forever, Jane hesitantly responds to the Duke, whose passion ignites her blood, even as she rebels at his fierce desire to claim her. But Thomas Fraser is not dead, and when he returns to find his beloved Jane betrothed to another, he refuses to accept the heartbreaking turn of events. Soon Jane's marriage is swept into a turbulent dance of tender wooing and clashing wills--as Alex seeks truly to make her his, and his alone. . .
WICKED COMPANY 11/1992 ISBN: 0553295187 Set in 18th-century London's bawdy Drury Lane. Attempting to begin again, after her father is unjustly accused and dies in prison, Sophie McGann takes on London's glorious and lurid theatre world, where a brilliant theatre manager encourages her to pursue her skill as a playwright.
Patricia Werner
TIMBERS AND GOLD LACE 7/1987 ISBN: 0770106005 She arrived in New York penniless, but hopeful, where she succumbs to the amorous advances of a handsome and dashing British naval officer. Now fate, intrigue, and destiny threaten to destroy them both...and dash their chance at happiness forever..
Becky Lee Weyrich
GYPSY MOON 1986 ISBN: 0449129713 She was a golden-haired beauty - who craved the dark kiss of a Gypsy prince. His name was Mateo. Magnificently sexy. Charlotte knew she had found the one man for her. But fate tore them apart before they could even come together, as Charlotte was kidnapped by another Gypsy man and told that tradition decreed they must marry. How could Charlotte marry any one but Mateo? But he was no more free than Charlotte. The victim of an ancient curse that caused him to go mad beneath the fiery light of the Gypsy moon, Mateo could only break that spell by marrying a Gypsy woman...
Robin LeAnne Wiete
WHEN MORNING COMES 2/1993 ISBN: 1930782020 Rebecca Osborne was a beautiful young widow with a small child, alone but unafraid on the American frontier. Cain was the name of the man she sought, a white man who lived among the Shawnees, and whose powers of healing she desperately needed to treat her injured child. They met in a wilderness ravished by violence, as a brutal military and a proud native American tribe struggled for the virgin land. It was there, in the shadow of danger and in the dawning of burning desire, that they discovered they were not strangers but lovers, joined together by a passion stronger than the past and as dazzlingly bright as the future...
Jennifer Wilde
ANGEL IN SCARLET 8/1986 ISBN: 0380897822 She was the toast of London - a breathtaking vision every woman envied and every man longed to possess. Few would have dreamed this violet-eyed beauty was the precocious child of a country schoolmaster...the feisty girl who had spurned the "fairy tale prince" to surrender her innocence to his illegitimate brother... the young woman who had come to London with nothing but a broken heart - and a fierce determination to survive. Now she was a celebrated actress; immortalized on canvass by Gainesborough; adored by the playwright who made her his star; desired by the golden-haired lord obsessed with making her his lady...and still tormented with longing for the man who had branded her very soul with his passion, and has now returned to reawaken past splendors of a love he means to reclaim....
LOVE'S TENDER FURY 1976 ISBN: 0446305286 The turbulent story of an English Beauty...sold at auction like a slave....who scandalized the New World by enslaving her masters...She was a indentured servant, an irresistible mistress, a woman with a will of her own.
ONCE MORE MIRANDA 5/1983 ISBN: 0345306945 There has never been a heroine as feisty and bright as Miranda James... Never a hero as sexy and masculine as Cameron Gordon. Meet Miranda James. As a ragged pickpocket, she stole the Londoners’ money. As a celebrated novelist, she stole their hearts. But only one man could capture Miranda’s love..
WHEN LOVE COMMANDS 11/1984 ISBN: 038089193X Beautiful Marietta Danver was a prisoner - snared in the dangerous intrigues of a glittering imperial court. A captive of the broodingly handsome Count Gregory Orlov, she bowed, body and soul, to the powerful Russian's passionate whims and violent, insistent desires. But in her ravaged heart, Marietta held the cherished dream of another - the bold hero who would follow her to the ends of the Earth to recapture the glorious rapture they had once shared.
Terri Lynn Wilhelm
FOOL OF HEARTS 6/1995 ISBN: 0061082694 After the untimely death of her father, Lady Gillian Ellicott is left at the mercy of her mysterious new guardian Calum, Marquess of Iolar. Desperate to outwit the bold Scottish laird, Gillian sets into motion a scheme so outlandish it couldn't possibly work. Or could it? What she didn't figure on was the undeniable desire that blazed between her and her protector and threatened all she cherished most. Lord Iolar's duty demanded that he properly protect the Lady Gillian, despite her skillful falsehoods and reckless wiles. But no amount of resolve could keep Calum away from the tempting heat of his ward's defiant spirit - or from risking life and honor for love's glorious promise.
A HIDDEN MAGIC 6/1996 ISBN: 0061083836 Cicely Honeysett didn't exactly cheat Griffin Tyrell when she sold him her late husband's family estate. She just didn't tell him that his housemate would be a howling, mischievous ghost. After an encounter with the unwelcoming spirit, Griffin demanded that Cicely return and send it on its way. And while no living man could remain unaffected by Cicely's demure beauty and gentle ways, they weren't much help in handling a not-quite-departed soul. The flesh-and-blood Griffin, in fact, was soon aching to trade the ornery ghost for a different kind of heavenly creature - the slightly scheming female who would share his bed instead of the one trying to chase him from it.
HIGHLAND JEWEL 5/1999 ISBN: 0451408349 Hero Frasier lives a pampered existence in London. But when her family leaves her destitute, she is forced to journey to her beloved aunt who lives in the wild north of Scotland. Taking shelter in a ruined abbey, she finds more than she ever bargained for. With her in the abbey is the highlander Ciaran MacLoarn--the last warrior of his clan, sworn to avenge his family's slaughter. The pair brave the dangers of the Scottish Highlands in search of Hero's mysterious aunt, while also following a trail of clues which may uncover the treachery behind the MacLoarn clan's annihilation. Together, they are drawn over the hills by the power of their desire for freedom, vengeance--and each other....
Claudette Williams
SUNDAY'S CHILD 1977 ISBN: 0449239861 Barbara Rochdale was desperately in need of help. In order to insure her inheritance, she had to marry, and her guardians had already selected the bridegroom. Babs detested him. There was only one person who could help her. Tristem, Lord Belfort - her oldest and dearest friend. Babs knew he couldn't refuse her. If anyone could find her a suitable husband, he could. But suddenly there was one big problem. Babs wished Lord Belfort weren't so intent on looking for a mate for her. Because Babs had fallen in love. With Tristen Belfort...
Lauren Willig
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE PINK CARNATION 2/2005 ISBN: 052594860 Deciding that true romantic heroes are a thing of the past, Eloise Kelly, an intelligent American who always manages to wear her Jimmy Choo suede boots on the day it rains, leaves Harvard’s Widener Library bound for England to finish her dissertation on the dashing pair of spies the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian. What she discovers is something the finest historians have missed: a secret history that begins with a letter dated 1803. Eloise has found the secret history of the Pink Carnation—the most elusive spy of all time, the spy who single-handedly saved England from Napoleon’s invasion. The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, a wildly imaginative and highly adventurous debut, opens with the story of a modern-day heroine but soon becomes a book within a book. Eloise Kelly settles in to read the secret history hoping to unmask the Pink Carnation’s identity, but before she can make this discovery, she uncovers a passionate romance within the pages of the secret history that almost threw off the course of world events. How did the Pink Carnation save England? What became of the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian? And will Eloise Kelly find a hero of her own? RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Robert Anton Wilson
THE WIDOW'S SON 1985 ISBN: 0312944578 It is Paris, 1772, and Sigismundo Celine knows he is destined to play an important part in this history-behind-history. The masons, the English nobility, the Jacobites, the Rosicrucians, the ruling clique of pre-Revolution France: these are but a few of the factions involved in the machinations and intrigue in which Sigismundo has become enmeshed. Thrown into the Bastille, shot at, assaulted by assassins, tortured, and brutally interrogated, he knows only what he is and what he must do to become the one spoken of in the old texts. But what he doesn't know could kill him: the secret powers of Maria, the Italian beauty who has become an English Lady; the Irish fisherman, Moon, who stumbles across the inner workings of an unsuspected cult; and the question they keep asking...
Joan Wolf
HIGHLAND SUNSET 10/1987 ISBN: 0451400488
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MARRIED AT MIDNIGHT 10/1996 ISBN: 038078615X Anthology with the following stories: Kathleen E. Woodiwiss tells of the wedding of Jeff Birmingham of The Flame And The Flower and his new bride Raelynn inflames the jealous ire of a determined rival...In Jo Beverley's compelling story, a woman abandoned on the battlefield discovers that dreams can come true when an honorable commanding officer gallantly offers his name.... Tanya Anne Crosby's tale involves a rebellious heiress who must wed by the stroke of midnight learns that a twist of fate has fulfilled her heart's deepest desire... and in Samantha James's emotional romance, a young woman's reckless scheme to defy her father's ultimatum leads to a hasty union and unexpected passion...
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THREE WEDDINGS AND A KISS 9/1995 ISBN: 0380781220 Anthology in which Kathleen E. Woodiwiss reintroduces us to the beloved characters from The Flame and the Flower - including Jeff Birmingham, who seals an impetuous proposal with one brief, precious and passionate kiss; Catherine Anderson calls us to meet a tempestuous pair of wild western hearts, in a tale of a frontier revenge that backfires; Loretta Chase melts our hearts with a story of an unconventional young woman's offer of marriage to a 'mad' and presumed dying earl; and Lisa Kleypas shows us how true love will always win in a romance about one stubborn lady - and the persistent suitor who opens her heart.
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
BEYOND THE KISS short story in MARRIED AT MIDNIGHT 10/1996 ISBN:038078615X
THE FLAME AND THE FLOWER 4/1972 ISBN: 0380005255 Fearing for her innocence, doomed to a life of unending toil, Heather Simmons commits a shocking and desperate act. Now she must flee - and seek refuge in the arms of a virile and dangerous stranger. Captain Brandon Birmingham is a lusty adventurer married to the sea. Though courting scorn and serious peril through his actions, he abducts the beautiful, sapphire-eyed fugitive from the tumultuous London dockside. For it is destiny that brings Heather to Brandon's side, and no power on Earth will force him to relinquish his exquisite prize. Only she can unlock the tenderness in his heart; and Brandon vows she will be his - to love, to cherish, to desire, and to carry off to far, uncharted realms of sensuous passion.
THE KISS short story in THREE WEDDINGS AND A KISS 9/1995 ISBN: 0380781220 Jeff Birmingham seals an impetuous proposal with one brief, precious and passionate kiss.
SHANNA 1977 ISBN: 0380385880 Behind the foreboding walls of Newgate Prison, a pact is sealed in secret--as a dashing and doomed criminal consents to wed a beautiful heiress. . .in return for one night of unparalleled pleasure. In the fading echoes of hollow wedding vows, a promise is broken - as a sensuous free-spirit flees to a lush Caribbean paradise, abandoning the handsome stranger she married to the gallows. But Ruark Beauchamp's destiny is now eternally intertwined with his exquisite, tempestuous Shanna's. And no iron ever forged can imprison his magnificent passion. . .and no hangman's noose will deny him the ecstasy that is rightfully his.
Janet Woods
ANGELINA 5/2002 ISBN: 0709069790 Angelina's arrival is a catalyst for many changes at Wrey House. Her mother, the countess, is forced to come to terms with a daughter she didn't even know existed and her sister, the exotic Rosabelle, is not so accommodating. But are they really sisters? Certainly the countess cannot recall having given birth to twins and it takes a dramatic confrontation with her husband's mistress before the truth is revealed. Soon the young women become involved in intrigue. Who is the highwayman? Is it the enigmatic second son, or the bastard half-brother who is imprisoned for the crime? Angelina knows, but refuses to betray the felon
A FAIR PRETENDER 2/2004 ISBN: 0709075405 Alone in 18th century England, a strange and cold country, and without means of support, when Graine Seaton impersonates Evelyn Adams it's simple because she wants to survive. Her new identity comes with a fortune and betrothal but she doesn't count on falling in love and when her pretence is exposed will she be rescued.
FROM THIS DAY FORTH 11/2002 ISBN: 0709071272 In order to prevent the loss of his estate in a wager, Remy St Cyres agrees to abduct and wed the first woman who comes through the inn door. It's Fleur Russell's misfortune to be that woman and her subsequent kidnap and stay in a neglected country house compromise her reputation with only one way to save it - a forced marriage to the very man who abducted her. Meanwhile, England is at war with Spain. The son of a Spaniard, Remy is recruited as a spy, but unbeknownst to him, his recruiter has ulterior motives...
Cynthia Wright
SPRING FIRES 1983 ISBN: 0345275144 She was meant for love. Lisette was fiercely independent—until she met Nicholai. Sweeping from Philadelphia in 1793—the nation's capital where Lisette's coffee house was the gathering place for all the important people of the day—to the drawing rooms of London society, here is the utterly delicious story of a headstrong woman and a stubborn man for whom love is the ultimate challenge.
TOUCH THE SUN 1978 ISBN: 0345275128 Meagan Sayers, rebellious Southern beauty, was a runaway. The newly-orphaned daughter of Virginian aristocracy, connected to Madison, Jefferson and General Washington himself, arrived in bustling Philadelphia disguised as a lady's maid. Irresistibly drawn to dazzling young Lion Hampshire, pride demanded she keep her secret as he arranged a loveless marriage to advance his political career. As passion drew them together, bitter intrigue drove them apart. In an atmosphere of breathless excitement on the eve of the First Inauguration, they were forced to risk their happiness, their future, their lives before they could answer the fiery yearnings of their wild, impulsive hearts.
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