Jo Beverley

MY LADY NOTORIOUS 3/1993.  ISBN: 0380767856.  To save her sister, Lady Chastity Ware hold up a coach. Unfortunately, instead of containing an elderly lord or a wealthy merchant, it holds Captain Lord Cynric Malloren, bored after time at home recovering from sickness. To her exasperation, he insists in helping her, regarding the whole thing as an adventure. While evading the villain who seeks to snatch her sister's child, and the military raised to search for all of them, Chastity and Cyn fall deep in love. But Chastity is a ruined woman whose father will never let her marry a Malloren, and Cyn's brother, the formidable Marquess of Rothgar, will surely not permit such a disastrous alliance.

SOMETHING WICKED 7/1997. ISBN: 0451407806. Lady Elfled Malloren is restless. She doesn't see why her twin brother should have adventures while her life is so dull. So she plans something wicked. But what she has in mind is a trip to a Vauxhall masquerade. What she gets is an encounter with treason, a brush with death, and a night of passion with her family's most dangerous enemy. Fortitude Harleigh Ware, Lord Walgrave has one purpose in life -- to destroy the Marquess of Rothgar. Until, that is, he meets an intriguing masked Frenchwoman called Lisette Belhardi...

DEVILISH 4/2000. ISBN: 0451199979. The Marquess of Rothgar has been haunted all his life by witnessing his mother turn mad and murder his baby sister. With such blood in his veins, he is resolved not to marry, but then he meets Lady Arradale. Diana, Countess of Arradale is that rarest of creatures, a peeress in her own right, holding extraordinary power and influence for a woman. To marry risks losing her independence, and yet when she meets the Marquess of Rothgar, for the first time she is tempted. She is tempted in a strictly physical way as well, and surely that might be safe when he is the one man in England who does not want to marry her wealth and power. Both decide it would be wiser to part, but then the king, alarmed by awareness of such a powerful woman loose in his realm, commands Rothgar to escort the countess to London.

THE DEMON'S BRIDE 9/1993. short story in MOONLIGHT LOVERS 9/1993 ISBN: 0451177223 Rachel Proudfoot has enough trouble resisting the temptation of rakish Lord Morden without supernatural intervention. When she plays the traditional role of the Demon's Bride, however, a mighty earth spirit wants to use them both to return to the world.

THE DETERMINED BRIDE 10/1996. short story in MARRIED AT MIDNIGHT 10/1996 ISBN:038078615X Tricked by a clever seducer, Kate Dunstable finds herself a pregnant army campfollower. She will not let her child be born a nameless bastard, however, and pursues the father into a battlefield, determined on marriage. There, however, she finds that her lover is dead. In despair, in labor, she accepts the offer of one of his fellow officers, a man who expects to die. But Charles Tennant does not die, and soon they discover that their midnight marriage has created as many problems as it solved.

Olga Bicos

SWEETER THAN DREAMS 6/1995. ISBN: 0786001429. ....a quest for treasure, and a voyage into the unknown. Leydianna Carstair, bookkeeper and dreamer, meets nobleman Quentin Alexander Rutherford. Lord Ruthless, as she calls him, is handsome, wealthy unpredictable...and about to have his well-ordered life turned upside down by his mischievous new employee. It's the beginning of a wild adventure where anything can happen—and does—from kidnapping to kisses, piracy to passion.

Connie Brockway

THE RECKLESS ONE 2/2000.  ISBN: 0440226279.  Raine: The Reckless One...there was sin in his smile and wildness in his soul.... Raine Merrick's wild, reckless spirit had earned him time in a French prison. When a mysterious beauty gains his freedom only to betray him, Raine Merrick sets out for his father's castle on McClairen's Isle, seeking the treasure hidden within. But strange surprises await him in the Highlands. He never expected to find his deceitful angel masquerading as an honored guest. Or to want her with all the searing passion in his sinner's soul.

Marsha Canham

THE BLOOD OF ROSES 10/1989 ISBN: 0440224551. The sequel to "The Pride of Lions". She was born an Englishwoman, but he made her a Scot, pledged to fight for her beloved husband—even against the country of her birth. Catherine Ashbrooke Cameron had committed the unpardonable sin of falling in love with her husband—a Scottish spy she married in her English home. Now, as she raced to the Highlands, into the strong, tender arms of Alexander Cameron, the innocent English beauty would learn the passions of wa—and the price of love . . . He fought to keep her safe as he battled the English enemy—and betrayal from within. Alexander Cameron was a man with a price on his head and enemies to burn. Love had made the legendary warrior vulnerable. Now he must protect Catherine from the dangers that threatened them both. But as he rode into battle against the English, she refused to stay behind. He had claimed her, touched her, loved her, and she vowed nothing would ever separate them again.

MIDNIGHT HONOR 4/2001 ISBN: 0440235227. Powerful, brave, irresistibly seductive, Angus Moy, chief of Clan Chattan, was everything Lady Anne could desire in a husband and a lover. But that was before the winds of war tore through her homeland. While Angus was pledged to fight for the English, Anne embarked on a course no ordinary woman would dare. Fiercely loyal to the Jacobite cause, she led her clan in battle—with the dangerously attractive Captain John MacGillivray at her side. Angus knew only too well the price of waging war. But something else made him play the traitor—a secret he was bound to keep from Anne at all costs. How could he know Anne would risk her life—or that his own actions would drive her into the arms of another man? As the tides of battle turned, and Anne was captured by the enemy, Angus had but one last chance to rescue her—and redeem himself in the eyes of the woman he had vowed to honor and protect forever...

PALE MOON RIDER 1/1999 ISBN: 0440222591. Like a wraith he appeared in the Coventry night, the notorious highwayman called Captain Starlight. Renee d' Anton watched, breathless, as the cloaked figure commanded, "Stand and deliver!" and her coach shuddered to a halt. Little did he know Renee had come in desperation to meet him. For the dark, seductive highwayman was her only hope in a perilous game of chance..She was pure temptation, challenging Tyrone Hart to steal a set of heirloom rubies and name his price. He couldn't resist her. So he agreed to risk his life for the fiery beauty - to recover the jewels that would free her from an arranged marriage and an unspeakable threat. But first Renee had to win his trust - even as she ignited passions that seduced him out of the shadows to sweep her into his arms..

THE PRIDE OF LIONS 3/1988 ISBN: 0440224578. They were torn between pride and passion. . .It was a boastful wager, a bold flirtation meant to win a proposal from the most eligible officer in His Majesty's Royal Dragoons. How was the spoiled and pampered Catherine Augustine Ashbrooke to know the handsome stranger with the brooding midnight eyes would see through her plot and make her the pawn in a dangerous game of his own? United by a reckless game of chance. . .Alexander Cameron may have won the highborn English beauty in a duel, but not even the lure of long-forgotten desires could keep him from his meeting with destiny. He had no choice but to carry his reluctant bride off to the Highlands, to a world of ancient blood feuds and a brewing rebellion—a world where fiery passion and breathtaking courage would prove that even legendary warriors could lose their hearts

Susan Carroll

THE BRIDE FINDER 5/1998.  ISBN: 0449003884.  Chosen by the Bride Finder, a man blessed with amazing insight, Madeline Breton has come to Cornwall to meet her new husband, the enigmatic Anatole St. Leger. But her dream of happiness soon diffuses in his overpowering shadow. Anatole knows only too well the legacies that to him have been more curses than gifts. But as Madeline embarks on an odyssey both otherworldly and undeniably real, she and her husband fall hopelessly in love--until she sees a haunting vision of murder and a terrifying enemy emerges to threaten both their lives. . . .

THE NIGHT DRIFTER 5/1999. ISBN: 0449005852.  Lance St. Leger is defying his destiny. The eldest son and heir to Castle Leger, he has returned from the army determined to continue his role as rakehell and black sheep, plagued by an infernal restlessness that cannot be appeased. Perhaps because the St. Leger legacy of strange powers is most pronounced in Lance's own dubious gift. He calls it night drifting--his ability to separate his body from his soul, to spirit into the night while flesh and bone remain behind. And it is on one wild night's mad search for a magnificent stolen sword--the icon of St. Leger power--that he finds her. Rosalind, a young, sheltered widow with a passion for the Arthurian legend, mistakes Lance's "drifting" soul as the ghost of Sir Lancelot. Seeing that she is in need of a champion, the St. Leger rogue assumes the role of the tragic knight, not knowing that this woman is his destiny, his perfect mate. But deep down in her heart, Rosalind is all too aware she is a mortal woman with very real desires that only a man of flesh and blood can fulfill--a man like Lance St. Leger. The scandal-plagued scoundrel teases and tempts her, fills her with a yearning her chivalrous phantom knight cannot satisfy. And in this place imbued with both true love and otherworldly magic, where blood ties run as deep as eternity, a new dire portent vows to come full circle. As a murderous enemy challenges the St. Leger power, Rosalind must tempt magic herself to save her beloved from the cold depths of eternal damnation.

Kimberly Cates

GATHER THE STARS 6/1996.  ISBN: 0671897462.  Rachel de Lacey, the clever daughter of Lord General de Lacey, was about to embark on her own private war. She had been kidnapped in the midst of a British officer's ball and carried to the forest lair of the infamous Glen Lyon. Prepared to face the Scottish rebel who had become a legend, Rachel vowed she would defy him with her last breath. But when the blindfold was ripped from Rachel's eyes, she saw Gavin Carstares, earl of Glenlyon, for what he really was. A strong yet gentle man, haunted by secrets, Gavin was the hero Rachel had always dreamed of. Now she became his pawn in a desperate game to save the women and children of Scotland from the slaughter waged by Sir Dunstan Wells—Rachel's own fiancé. But in Gavin's battle he had never envisioned losing his heart—and then breaking it when forced to give Rachel back to the man he hated most. As the heathered hills caught fire with their passion, Gavin and Rachel forged an everlasting bond that swept them toward an ecstasy worth defying a king's army....

Catherine Coulter

DEVIL'S EMBRACE 8/1982. ISBN: 0451987195. For beautiful Cassandra Brougham, the seething city of Geona seems a world away from the great 18th-century estate where she was raised. It is here that she meets Lord Anthony Welles, the brutally handsome aristocrat who swears that he will win Cassie's heart even as he conquers her body. To give you an idea of how much Anthony - the devil - wants Cassandra, he kidnaps her on the eve of her wedding to another man and sails away with her!

Christina Dodd

A WELL PLEASURED LADY 8/1997.  ISBN: 0380790890. Prim, plain, desperately virtuous Lady Mary Fairchild stared at the seductive gentleman and wondered-- did he remember the events of the night they met? Surely not. In the ten years since, she had abandoned her youthful impetuousness and transformed herself into a housekeeper-- disguising her beauty beneath a servant's dour clothing-- determined to conquer the passions of the past. But Sebastian Durant, Viscount Whitfield, did recognize her as a Fairchild, one of his family's bitter enemies. When he demanded her help recovering a stolen diary, she dared not refuse him. When he proposed they masquerade as a betrothed couple, loyalty forced her to agree. And when the restraint between them shattered and pleasure became an obsession, Mary had to trust a powerful man who could send her to the gallows… Or love her through eternity.

Jane Feather

LOVE'S CHARADE 1986.  ISBN: 0821772023. She called herself Danny. A runaway fighting to survive on the shadowy boulevards of Paris. A lady who concealed her beauty and her dangerous secrets beneath tattered rags as she waited to right a terrible wrong. He was Justin, Earl of Linton. An English aristocrat moved by compassion to save a wretched street waif from a life of hardship...only to discover a woman with much to offer - and so very much to hide...

Tracy Fobes

TO TAME A WILD HEART 8/2001. ISBN: 0743412788. The villagers think her one of the fairy-folk, for she was found wandering the Highlands at the age of four, able to communicate with the creatures of the moors. Now eighteen, Sarah quietly uses her gift to heal wounded animals. But when word of the lovely changeling spreads, her peaceful existence is shattered. Convinced Sarah is his long-lost daughter, the powerful Duke of Argyll offers to bequeath her his estate if she will but take her place in society. Her first duty is to become a lady -- under the tutelage of the duke's erstwhile heir, the dangerously provocative Earl of Cawdor. Sarah savors the simmering passions the cynical earl arouses in her even as she suspects he is merely using seduction to secure his birthright. In this civilized world where desire and deception are one and the same, how can she ever trust in love?

Gaelen Foley

THE PIRATE PRINCE 9/1998.  ISBN: 0449002470.  On a calm moonlit night, as the scent of jasmine and pine embraced the island of Ascension, the pirate prince Lazar di Fiori returns with lethal grace to avenge what was stolen from him: his kingdom, his birthright, his soul. . . .Allegra Monteverdi, the daughter of Lazar's sworn enemy, proves an uncommonly powerful adversary. She throws herself on his mercy, her courage and beauty touching his cold, unforgiving heart. He agrees to spare the lives of her family--but only if Allegra sails away with him as his captive. For his quest for vengeance still burns fiercely, and he will settle for nothing less than Allegra's body and soul. Alone at sea with this dark, intriguing man, moving between seduction and fear, Allegra gazes into eyes as deep and mysterious as the night and sees who this pirate really is. Lazar--the prince of her childhood dreams. Though he was rumored to be murdered years ago, she always believed someday he would return. But it will take more than her love for this pirate prince to bring peace to her beloved home. For Lazar must face the demons of his shattered past--if he is to forge the destiny that is theirs to claim. . . .

Diana Gabaldon

CROSS STITCH 7/1992. (Outlander Published in Europe under this title.) First in a three-book series that combines time travel, humor, and passionate romance. While Claire and her husband visit an ancient stone monument in 1945 England, Claire is suddenly thrust back to the year 1743--and becomes torn between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives

DRAGONFLY IN AMBER 8/1992. ISBN: 0440215625. Following on the heels of the mass market publication of Outlander, which introduced readers to Claire Randall and her journey through time, Dragonfly in Amber returns us to the heroine 20 years after her fantastic voyage through the stones in Scotland. Claire finally reveals the truth to her daughter, Brianna, about her journey through the stones, about Jamie Frasier, the gallant highland warrior who stole her heart, and her desire to return to the love she left behind.

DRUMS OF AUTUMN 1/1997.ISBN: 044022425X. Time-transcending soulmates Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall return in this novel of romance and adventure. Jamie and Claire have landed on the shores of Charleston, South Carolina, in the year 1767--the eve of the American Revolution. In search of a new life far removed from the perils of war, they join a community of exiled Scottish Highlanders. When Jamie's daughter Brianna crosses into the past in search of the father she has never known, Jamie realizes that war spares no one--and that love is the only thing worth fighting for.

THE FIERY CROSS 11/2001 ISBN: 0385315279. The year is 1771, and war is coming. Jamie Fraser’s wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift of dreadful prophecy -- a time-traveler’s certain knowledge. Born in the year of Our Lord 1918, Claire Randall served England as a nurse on the battlefields of World War II, and in the aftermath of peace found fresh conflicts when she walked through a cleftstone on the Scottish Highlands and found herself an outlander, an English lady in a place where no lady should be, in a time --1743 -- when the only English in Scotland were the officers and men of King George’s army. Now wife, mother, and surgeon, Claire is still an outlander, out of place, and out of time, but now, by choice, linked by love to her only anchor -- Jamie Fraser. Her unique view of the future has brought him both danger and deliverance in the past; her knowledge of the oncoming revolution is a flickering torch that may light his way through the perilous years ahead -- or ignite a conflagration that will leave their lives in ashes....

OUTLANDER 7/1991. ISBN:0385302304. First in a three-book series that combines time travel, humor, and passionate romance. While Claire and her husband visit an ancient stone monument in 1945 England, Claire is suddenly thrust back to the year 1743--and becomes torn between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

VOYAGER 1/1994 ISBN: 0440217563. Two decades before, Claire Randall had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth- century Scot name Jamie Fraser. Then she returned to her own century to bear his child, believing him dead in the tragic battle of Culloden. Then Claire discovers that Jamie survived. Torn between returning to him and staying with their daughter in her own era, Claire chooses her destiny.

Patricia Gaffney

SWEET TREASON 1988.  ISBN: 0843948027. Exquisitely beautiful, fiery Katherine McGregor had no qualms about posing as a doxy, if the charade would strike a blow against the hated English. But her certainty turned to confusion when she was captured and confronted by the infuriating Major James Burke. Now her very life depended on her ability to convince the arrogant English officer that she was a common strumpet, not a Scottish spy. Skillfully, Burke uncovered her secrets, even as he aroused her senses, claiming there was just one way she could prove herself a tart...but how could she give him her yearning body, when she feared he would take her tender heart as well?

Diane Haeger

COURTESAN 3/1993. ISBN: 0671740652. Diane de Poitiers: her fear hidden behind her radiant beauty, Diane walked regally into the court where the King of France and his noblemen were gathered. After five years of exile, she had returned to face the whispers about her past. She never expected still to be the object of the King's desire...and she never would have guessed that her destiny lay with his handsome, hotheaded son. When she had last seen young Henri, he had been just a boy. Now, as his strong hand clasped her slender fingers, he was undeniably a man...whose touch told her that, as wrong as it was, their hearts were joined by fire and fate. Henri de Valois: Rage against a lifetime of his father's indifference lay like a shadow across his rugged face. Second to the throne, he had been forced to betroth a foreign princess when there was only one woman he desired - Diane de Poitiers, the lovely blonde widow whose blue eyes gazed into his troubled soul, and whose kiss aroused his first sweet taste of ecstasy. Her embrace was all he wanted in the world. But the rising tides of fortune were sweeping Henri toward the crown in itself and leaving Diane with a perilous choice...to forget the powerful man she would give her life for, or risk everything for a magnificent, incandescent love.

Danelle Harmon

THE WICKED ONE 1/2001 Meet Lord Lucien The head of his noble family, the dark and dangerous Duke of Blackheath spends his time manipulating other lives without giving a thought to finding a wife of his own. Yet Lucien must admit he finds exquisite Eva de la Mouriere most intriguing. What adventurous, red-blooded male would not be intrigued by a flame-haired beauty who appears in his chambers demanding that he make love to her? Certainly this hot-tempered minx would make a delightful bedmate -- though surely not a bride. Eva knows Lucien is the cause of all her current misfortunes, Yet he refuses to be humiliated. But the worst betrayer is her own heart. No match for Lucien's seductive mastery, Eva craves the blackguard as she's never craved another, She must resist this rogue, but how long can she deny her own passion -- or Lucien's blossoming genuine love -- in the face of his scheming family's successful attempts to force a wedding?

Catherine Hart

SPLENDOR 7/1993.  ISBN:  038076878X. The most feared pirate to prowl the waters, handsome Devlin "Devil" Kane is magically transformed by a bolt of St. Elmo's fire- and impelled by a strange irresistible force toward the Carolina Colonies...and the woman who is his destiny...Only the soft, sensuous touch of prim and lovely Eden Winters can banish the spell that is Devlin's curse...and his salvation. But unknown dangers await Eden in the arms of her mysterious "Ghost Captain"- sweeping the reluctant beauty into a wondrous, unexpected realm of rapturous passion, perilous adventure and love's sweet splendor.

Virginia Henley

DREAM LOVER 2/1997.  ISBN: 0385318138. Georgian. After five long years on a prison ship, Sean O'Toole, Earl of Kildare, makes his escape in order to exact his plan of revenge upon the Englishman who killed his brother and framed Sean for the crime. While imprisoned, Sean honed his body to rock-hard perfection, steeled his will against all sentiment, and filled his mind with thoughts of retribution against the man he had hated for years. But at night his dreams were filled with memories of his enemy's daughter - the half-Irish, half-English Emerald, whose fiery beauty had beguiled him when they met, and whose bold and fearless spirit he had never forgotten. His memories of Emerald are not enough to prevent Sean from going through with his plan to use her as a pawn in his quest for revenge His scheme: to kidnap Emerald and bring her to his home, where he will keep her long enough to sully her reputation and bring disgrace upon her family. Sean is shocked when, instead of the defiant temptress he once knew, the memory of whom kept him alive for five long years, he finds his quarry is now a timid, fearful woman afraid of her own shadow. Locked in prisons of their own making, Emerald and Sean must find a way to break free of their bonds, or risk losing themselves - and each other - forever.

Georgette Heyer

THE TALISMAN RING 1936. ISBN: 0373834470.  Wealthy, handsome and intelligent, Sir Tristram Shield might be anyone's dream husband -- except for a young woman intent on romance and adventure. So Eustacie de Vauban promptly grew enamored of the wrong man, the charming, disguised smuggler Lord Lavenham, whose quest to prove himself innocent of murder promised to be MUCH more exciting. Luckily Miss Sarah Thane arrived in time to smooth the troubled waters the impulsive Eustacie left behind -- and before long grew embroiled in some romantic plotting of her own....

Jillian Hunter

FAIRY TALE 4/1997.  ISBN: 0671001574.  Duncan MacElgin, of the devil's own reputation and sinful past, had been forced to return home to his crumbling Scottish castle -- only to be ambushed by a woman!  Worse, the tartan-clad female was impertinently, unrepentant, and beautiful... convinced Duncan was the enemy, Marsali Hay ordered her bedraggled clansmen to attach the powerful chieftain.  She never dreamed he was the infamous "Black Duncan," returning to bring his embarrassing clan of rebels under control.  Determined to assert his authority, Duncan vows that Marsali will pay dearly for her mistake.  The price for revenge, however, could be higher than he'd bargained for.  Marsali and her eccentric clansmen have more than a few surprises in store for their unsuspecting laird--meddling old wizard and apprentice witch among them.  But when Marsali confronts danger, Duncan realizes that in order to regain control of his castle, he might have to fight the battle of his life...and surrender his hardened warrior's heart.

Susan Johnson

SINFUL 8/1992.  ISBN: 0553293125. He was the most profligate rogue in London, but Sinjin St. John, Duke of Seth, had never met a lady who could bring him to his knees...until Chelsea Fergusson slipped into his carriage, begged him to grant one small favor - and forever changed his life! He tried to act the gentleman with the delectable minx, but Chelsea needed the rake in him to save her from marriage to a man she didn't love. When she moved impulsively into his arms, desperate to persuade him to help her, Sinjin felt his pursuit of pleasure and his passion for his racing stables pale beside his sudden, fierce longing to possess her. Swept by sensation and an outrageous wager into unexpected ecstasy, Chelsea lost her heart to a man who vowed he'd never be trapped into marriage - not even for love. But undaunted by the challenge of seducing Sinjin into admitting he wanted her, Chelsea dared him to satisfy his hunger - all the while insisting she wanted no promise of always. Could a spirited vixen who trained and secretly raced thoroughbreds rein in the most eligible bachelor in England?

Laura Kinsale

THE PRINCE OF MIDNIGHT 11/1990 ISBN: 0380761300 They called him the Prince of Midnight - a legendary highwayman, once dashing and dangerous...now a tarnished, forgotten hero, exiled and alone. She sought his fabled skills in the ruins of a French castle - a proud and desperate English beauty, drawn to the myth...but bewildered by the man. Across perilous mountains and tempestuous seas, together they pursued their separate dreams - of vengeance, of passion, a glory reborn...kindling the all-consuming fires of a bold and unexpected love that would set the midnight skies magnificently ablaze.

UNCERTAIN MAGIC 3/1987 ISBN:0380751402 He was called the Devil Earl and scorned by gentle society. But to Roderica Delamore, this disreputable Irish rake would make the perfect husband...for a young woman whose gift—or curse—was to hear every thought that passed through a man's mind. Here at last was a man whose deepest thoughts she could not read, but whose dancing blue eyes spoke of pleasures beyond belief. She offered her entire fortune for this chance at marriage, and the Devil Earl readily accepted the bargain. In his arms, Roderica was swept into the intoxicating ecstasy of her most passionate dreams—to awaken again and again to the torment of the dark secrets hidden in the mind of the stranger beside her. But consumed by the fiery desires he had stirred, she could listen only to the thundering voice that echoed in her own heart...for better, for worse, forever, my love...

Arnette Lamb

HIGHLAND ROGUE 7/1991.  ISBN:0671730010. An indentured servant from Virginia, Juliet White came to Scotland to find her niece, the child her sister had borne before she died. The search took her to the castle of Lachlan MacKenzie, duke of Ross, where she was accepted as governess to the four illegitimate daughters of the lusty aristocrat, all sired in one lascivious season at the Scottish Court.

Johanna Lindsey

THE PRESENT 11/1998. As the entire Malory family gathers at Haverston to celebrate the season, all is not well. Underlying tensions threaten to dampen the holiday spirit -- until a mysterious present that arrives anonymously is opened and shared by all. The gift is an old journal - a tender and tempestuous account of the love affair between the second Marquis, Christopher Malory, and a dark gypsy beauty named Anastasia, who seeks a love match with a non-gypsy in order to save herself from a pre-arranged marriage to a brute. Though the dashing English lord Anastasia sets her sight upon burns for the exquisite, exotic miss, Christopher could never consent to wed such a lowborn lady. But miracles have been known to happen in this season of peace and giving and love, as two extraordinary people separated by circumstance of birth begin a passionate dance of will and wiles. And in the miraculous blossoming of a glorious romance at a long ago Christmas time, there are wise and well-learned lessons that will enrich the hearts of the Malory descendants, and indeed, of everyone who has ever dreamed.

Kat Martin

NOTHING BUT VELVET 7/1997 ISBN: 0312962436 Lovely Velvet Moran has renounced all thoughts of love. To save her family from ruin, she will wed the hard-faced Duke of Carlyle. But instead of becoming a nobleman's bride, Velvet finds herself a notorious highwayman's prize - her resolve to escape his forest lair warring with the wicked heat sparked by his caresses. Falsely branded a murderer, Jason Sinclair has secretly returned to clear his name and stop the wedding that would deny him his stolen dukedom. In an outlaw masquerade, he'll kidnap this sensuous minx and detain her as long as is necessary. But can he bridle the surge of passion that has captured his soul...and could imperil them both?

SILK AND STEEL 1/2000 ISBN: 0312972814 Lady Kathryn Grayson is a gently bred noblewoman with a privileged future ahead of her...until her greedy uncle decides to steal her fortune by committing her to an insane asylum. Her only escape is to stow away in the carriage of Lucien Montaine, Marquess of Litchfield, who hears her story with disbelief and suspicion. Yet Kathryn's instincts tell her Lord Litchfield is a man of honor - and her only salvation. Desperate to save herself, she attempts to seduce him and forces him into marriage. The moment Lucien encounters the ragged, hungry waif with the dignity of a queen, he fights against wanting her. Though captivated by her intellect, strong will, and beauty, he will never love the woman who has deceived him. Though their battle of wills grows stronger every day, desire threatens to overpower his fury. Can this maddening woman who is now his bride melt his heart of steel? Or will her silken touch only strengthen his vow never to fall prey to the dangers of love?

Teresa Medeiros

THE BRIDE AND THE BEAST 7/2000. ISBN: 055358183X. Dear Reader, I'd been prowling the crumbling ruins of Castle Weyrcraig for so long that I could no longer remember if I was man or beast. Then one stormy night the superstitious Highlanders of Ballybliss decided to leave a helpless virgin bound to a stake in the castle courtyard to satisfy my insatiable appetites. My demands might strike terror in the hearts of men, but this bold beauty dared to defy me. After she informed me that she didn't believe in dragons, I had no choice but to make her my prisoner--or risk being exposed to those I had sought to deceive with my dangerous masquerade. Soon I found myself stealing into the moonlit tower just to watch her sleep. Little does she know that beneath this beast's gruff exterior beats the passionate heart of a man. Gwendolyn Wilder may not believe in dragons, but I intend to use all my sensual wiles to teach her to believe in something even more magical--true love. Eternally yours, The Dragon of Weyrcraig.

Maggie Osborne

LADY RELUCTANT 12/1990.  . ISBN: 0312924410. No one dares say no to Blusette Morgan...except Thomas, the handsome English stranger who docks at her island home. It is a cruel blow for the fiery daughter of the pirate founder of Morgan's Island. All around her is the passion of the tropics, but she has yet to experience it first hand. With time, Blu is sure she can change his mind. But time is not to be hers. Determined that she become a lady, her father is shipping her off to England, to a mother she never knew. Still, Blu won't be denied the most thrilling adventure a woman can know. She has one last chance - on board the ship commanded by the man she desires above all else...on board the ship that will transport her to an unknown world.

Katherine O'Neal

THE LAST HIGHWAYMAN 3/1993.  ISBN: 0553560654. Known for her shocking love affairs, Christina Wentworth-Gibbons, the celebrated mistress of the Crown Prince and an intimate of Oscar Wilde, meets her match in the Brighton Bandit. Her escapades were legendary, her love was shocking. He was the rugged ruthless outlaw. Yet the moment he clashed with her, he was lost, in the sensual magic of an unforgettable woman who made him burn for what could never be his.

Christina Skye

BRIDGE OF DREAMS 5/1995.  ISBN: 0380773864.  1794: Rake and reckless hero, Gabriel Montserrat falls prey to blackest treachery--his death a mystery to be locked away forever in the deepest recesses of Draycott Abbey.1994: American-born beauty Cathlin O'Neill finds herself named in a strange bequest. But to claim her legendary treasure, she must spend seven days--and nights--in the hauntingly beautiful British Abbey where her mother was murdered years before. Her co-inheritor is Dominic Montserrat--arrogant ex-royal bodyguard and confirmed cynic--who must now protect Cathlin...and help heal the secret pain of her wounded heart. For grave danger prowls the abbey's ghostly halls--where Cathlin and Dominic must confront the dark shadows of a mysterious past... in the sacred cause of a love too long unfulfilled and a passion too long denied.

Patricia Veryan

THE DEDICATED VILLAIN 3/1990. ISBN: 0449218007.  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....

Ciji Ware

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.

Jennifer Wilde

ONCE MORE MIRANDA 5/1983.  ISBN: 0345306945. Miranda James is a wildcat, a beautiful fighter who has learned survival the hard way. Pitting her wits against the world on the rat-infested streets of eighteenth-century London she scrabbles for food and shelter. A brawler, pickpocket, a thief, Miranda is above all a survivor! Cameron Gordon is an idealist. A Scottish rebel, he is hot-tempered, rough and rugged. And the last thing he needs is the responsibility of a foul-tongued street urchin. But at Bow Street Magistrate's Court -- and despite themselves -- the two are legally bound to one another. 

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.

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

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.

A ROSE IN WINTER 12/1982.  ISBN: 0380844001. The fairest flower in Mawbry is Erienne Fleming, the enchanting, raven-haired daughter of the village mayor. Charming, spirited and exquisitely lovely, she is beset on all sides by suitors, any one of whom would pay a king's fortune for a place in her heart. But Erienne has eyes for only one: the dashing and witty young Yankee, Christopher Seton. But marriage for love is not to be, for her irresponsible and unscrupulous father, crippled by gambling debts, is intent on auctioning off his beautiful daughter to the highest bidder. And in the end, Erienne is devastated to find it is the strange and secretive Lord Saxton who has purchased her--a mysterious, tragic figure who wears a mask and a cloak at all times to hide disfiguring scars gained in a terrible fire some years back. But in the passing days, Saxton's true nature is revealed to her. A gentle and adoring soul, he treats his new bride with warmth and abiding tenderness, yet appears to her only by daylight. She, in turn, vows to be a good and loyal wife to him. And then Christopher Seton reenters Erienne's world. Conflicted by emotions she cannot suppress, Erienne valiantly attempts to remain honorable to her elusive, enigmatic husband but feels herself irresistibly drawn to Seton's passion, his fire, and his secrets. Entangled in intrigues she doesn't yet understand, Erienne Fleming will soon have to make a devastating choice: between love and honor...between her duty and her heart.

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.

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