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THE LOST INHERITANCE 8/1974
the fox from his lair 1970 ISBN: 55305484 Soon Annabelle Baird would be the wife of Philip Ancell, a dynamic international businessman whose work took him to the most glamorous capitals of Europe. But first he wanted her to meet his employers, and so she flew to Portugal for a sunny reunion with her absentee fiance. Instead she met icy stares. And a handsome playboy mysteriously returned from her past. And an enchanting little Portuguese boy whom only she could protect from nameless danger.
THE CORNER SHOP 1966
PRIVATE LIES 2/1993 ISBN: 0061080578 Too many questions get an ambitious reporter more than just a story in this mystery from short-story author Carol Cail. The cranks of the world seem to have nothing better to do than call reporter Maxey Burnell. But when Maxey's boss is killed in a fiery explosion, she pulls out her best investigative skills--and comes up with answers that spell trouble.
DEVIL'S BARGAIN 8/2005 ISBN: 0373513674 Jasmine "Jazz" Callender is on the downhill slide to ruin. Once a decorated homicide detective, she's lost it all: her former partner's been convicted of murder, she's been cashiered out, and she's drinking away what little self-respect she's got left. But Jazz has a talent for trouble, and somebody knows it. When a mysterious, sexy stranger comes looking for her with a fateful red envelope in his hand, she's about to make the deal of her life ... for good or bad. The deal requires her to enter into a partnership with a stranger and investigate cases that arrive in special red envelopes ... which is odd enough, but gets weirder as she and her new partner Lucia realize that they may be working for someone with supernatural abilities. And maybe they're not on the side of the angels anymore.
DEVIL'S DUE 1/2006 ISBN: 0373513879 Everything you do matters. Lucia Garza opened a detective agency with Jazz Callender, and discovered a whole new, eerie world of precognition, coincidence, and chaos. There's a chance that Lucia and Jazz can escape their fate, but it's risky. They need people they can trust ... but can Lucia trust Jazz's old partner, Ben McCarthy? Or is he working for the other side? Worse ... is their side really the right one?
LINE OF SIGHT 8/2007 ISBN: 0373389728 Katie Rush is a gifted FBI agent, but when she's called on to track two kidnapped students from the Athena Academy, even her gifts aren't enough on their own. But help arrives in the mysterious, and sexy, person of a Venice Beach street magician named Stefan Blackman, who claims to have a psychic connection to the missing girls. Katie Rush must decide whether to follow her instincts ... or lose it all.
IN A GLASS DARKLY 1966 Reflected in the mobile mirror atop an old museum, Margaret McLean had seen murder done. But the figures were too small to recognize, and she couldn't even identify the site. Only two people in the town really listened to Margaret's alarm--the man she loved, who only half believed her, and the unknown murderer, who had to silence her before she stumbled on the truth... In an abandoned quarry outside a sleepy town, a desperate man stalked a frightened girl, both knowing that only one of them would come out alive--but would it be the hunter, or the hunted?
THE LOCH 1968 ISBN: 1131973151 Janet Ogilvy began to fear the strange rumors circulated about the caves that mysteriously appeared after a tidal wave hit the town of Lochy, and relics of other ages were uncovered. Someone--or something--was living in the caves.
MURDER REMOTE 1973 ISBN: 0385004753 The trouble began on a fog shrouded road in the West Highlands of Scotland when a young woman named Elizabeth discovered a corpse in a steam roller. Before it was over, murder struck the peaceful fishing village of Mourie more than once, and Elizabeth knew with mounting certainty that it would strike again. It all seemed to be connected with a double search for sunken treasure just off Mourie's beautiful shore, but nobody was able to say how. Then Elizabeth stumbled across the clue that forced the murderer's hand, and she had no doubt who the next victim would be. Herself....
THE SHROUDED WAY 1/1974
SOME WALK A NARROW PATH 1977 ISBN: 0385004753
IRRESISTIBLE STRANGER 12/1994 ISBN: 0553442767 He promised to help her find her secret dream - then make it real...Leslie Kloslosky didn't believe her friend's premonition that she'd meet the perfect man on her vacation in England - right up to the instant a tall, dark stranger entered the cramped elevator and lit a fire in her blood! Fascinated by the willowy brunette whose eyes turned dark sapphire when he kissed her, Mike Smith wasn't about to let her go...but would he be clever enough to elude a pair of thieves hot on their trail?
KNIGHT'S SONG 1/1996 ISBN: 0821751948 The abbey was her haven.... The village of Audham lay on England's borderland - a wild savage backwater where Welsh raiders roamed, heedless of royal law. But to widowed Isobel Bayeux, the abbey at Audham was a refuge from a cruel world. She felt safe within its cloistered halls, where no man could control her life or her lands... until a mysterious knight invaded the sanctuary of her heart. Then the magnificent Sir Hugh appeared, claiming Audham as a reward from the king. He promised no disruption to the abbey, only peace and protection. Yet even he was powerless to control the unrest that simmered beyond the gates - or the passion that would plunge Isobel into a dark web of treachery and peril. Was he the loyal and tender lover he seemed to be? Or would Isobel's world be rocked by betrayal...and the perilous temptations of her own yearning heart?
LOOK CLOSELY 6/2005 ISBN: 0778321835 Look Closely. That's all the anonymous letter said, but attorney Hailey Sutter understands the meaning behind the well-chosen words. Someone wants her to investigate what happened to her mother, who died when Hailey was only seven. The death was ruled accidental, but Hailey beings having flashbacks that tell a different story: a pounding at the door...her mother struggling to stand...a man with a gold ring that flashed in the night as he held her mother's lifeless body. Obsessed with uncovering the truth, Hailey can't trust anyone, especially her father, whose secrecy both unnerves and protects her. Desperate to remember that fatal night, she seeks out the brother rand sister who left home after their mother's death. But they have disappeared. It's soon clear to Hailey that the answer is right in front of her-all she has to do is find the courage to look closely....RR@H's Novel Thoughts
A MEETING OF MINDS 7/2004 ISBN: 1930754531
GUILTY OF LOVE 9/1979 ISBN: 0373730489 A plunge into fear and evil! The day had begun like any other...But before it had ended, Catherine found herself plunged into a tangle of lies and deceptions, of intrigue and love. She had encountered a bizarre situation that threatened to turn her life upside down. Whom could she trust The handsome doctor who seemed able to plumb the depths of her very soul, or the unpredictable, disturbing Martin Bellec a man whose motives were impossible to gauge And although Catherine could not have known, her choice was a matter of life and death!
TRIAL BY LOVE 1/1980 ISBN: 0373730632
THE YOUNG WIDOW 1974 A private first class compartment on a luxury train speeding westward over the continent seemed a dream out of another century to lovely Erin Walker. But this journey was all too real. Aboard the train was the corpse of Erin's late millionaire husband, found mysteriously dead. And as the miles flashed by, Erin realized a killer was stalking her, a handsome stranger was offering her very dubious protection, and the train was roaring into a tunnel of terror from which Erin might not emerge alive...
HOUSE ON THE BEACH
THE SPIDER STONE
THE DEFENDANT 1/1997 ISBN: 0373224044 With her law degree in one hand and her little boy's in the other, Audrey McKenna excitedly returned to her hometown of Tabbs Corner, Virginia, to start fresh. But then she learned her first client would be none other than Conner Hastings - local bad boy, the only man she'd ever loved. Years ago she'd had to watch as Conner was wrongly convicted of a crime; she silently vowed never to tell him she she carried his child. Now she had the law on her side, but would her secret be destroy any chance she had of proving his innocence...and of getting him back?
HIS BROTHER'S KEEPER 2/1994 ISBN: 0373222645 His brother was a criminal. and he was the law. Just when Trevor Steele discovered he had a brother, he was assign ed to investigate his criminal acts and suicide. And to get the information the Feds were sure his not so grieving widow possessed.
ALL THAT SPARKLES 9/1986 ISBN: 0373220502 Some people would kill for diamonds...Paula Renfrew was proud to follow in her father's footsteps as a diamond finisher for the House of Kohl in Amsterdam. But years ago her father had been implicated in the theft of a valuable gem. And now that diamonds had begun to disappear again, Paula's motives for apprenticing at the family-run firm became suspect...
THE BEST REVENGE 2/1998 ISBN: 082175842X Rae Faith Maddy knows she can beat Dallas Calhoun if she can only resist the temptation to join him. Young Rae Faith fled her home. She ran from town to town, covering her tracks, until her trail was cold. Then she settled in tiny Decline, Georgia, where no one knew her past, or her terrible secret. As the years passed, she built a life that was safe, peaceful and secure. That all ended the day an arrogant stranger came to town, with a revelation that devastated Rae's world. Now, with nothing left to lose, Rae if following Dallas Calhoun to sultry Glory, Georgia, determined to teach the sexy millionaire a lesson as bitter as the one he taught her.
BODY OF EVIDENCE 3/2006 ISBN: 0778322785 Emma Lachance is taken by surprise when she runs into her old flame, Finn Duhon, at a construction site in Pointe Judah, Louisiana. But the last thing she expects to find is the corpse of her friend, a local journalist whose relentlessly scathing articles have enraged every lawmaker and opportunist in town, including the mayor—Emma's husband. When more bodies are found, Emma and Finn wonder if the link is Secrets, an eclectic support group for women in which all the murder victims were members. A groups that has helped Emma find the strength to divorce her abusive, unfaithful husband. Could an innocent women's club drive a furious husband or boyfriend to murder, or are the killings only made to look as if that's the connection? Emma and Finn intend to find out—before Emma becomes the next body of evidence . . . RR@H's Novel Thoughts
BREATHLESS 6/1994 ISBN: 0380772868 Angelica Dean has only one thing on her mind when she arrives at Sinjun Breaker's private island paradise - revenge. A respected journalist, Angel knows the enigmatic tycoon has to pay for his many sins - and she intends to exact a steep price. First she will gain Sinjun's trust...and then expose his sordid secrets to the world. But the powerful, seductive stranger who awaits Angel is not the ruthless businessman she expected - and more, perhaps, than she can handle. And Angel isn't the only enemy on Sin's exclusive island - or the only woman tied to him by fate. Now intrigue threatens Angel's plans, and maybe her life as well - as she finds herself swept into a world of dangerous passion.
A COLD DAY IN HELL 11/2007 ISBN: 0778324958 'Tis the season to be wary . . .Christmas is coming and all is far from calm in Pointe Judah, Louisiana. Newcomer Christian DeAngelo—Angel to his friends—is at his wit's end trying to manage Sonny, the hotheaded nineteen-year-old everyone believes is his nephew. In fact, Sonny is the orphaned son of a notorious mob boss, a protected witness . . . and Angel's responsibility. Angel has been commiserating with Eileen Moggeridge, whose lonely son Aaron has latched on to Sonny and gotten into deeper trouble than ever. But nothing could prepare Angel and Eileen for the boys' latest crisis: as they are horsing around in the swamp one afternoon, a shot rings out. Aaron is hit, but was the bullet meant for Sonny? Suddenly, a goodwill toward men is in short supply and Angel doesn't know who's more dangerous: the hoodoo mystic with an eerie hold over the boys, the hit man roaming the bayou or Eileen's volatile ex-husband, Chuck.
COLD DAY IN JULY 9/2002 ISBN: 1575668211 Toussaint, Louisiana, a sleepy bayou town where people are accustomed to feeling safe among the cypress trees, the mist off sluggish waters and Spanish moss trailing from live oaks. Good time living to a zydeco beat. Yeah! Then, the body of singer Bonnie Blue is found, her neck broken. Local doctor Reb O'Brien doesn't believe the gossip--that Bonnie accidentally fell to her death. She remembers all too well the murders of two other woman a couple of years earlier. The killer was caught and placed behind bars. Now, what happened to Bonnie raises chilling questions about a case thought closed--and someone is trying to frighten Reb into leaving well enough alone. Marc Girard believes the dead woman may be his missing sister and, though he vowed to stay away from his hometown of Toussaint, he comes back to search for the truth--even if it means joining forces with Reb, a woman he left behind along with his past. With only each other to trust, their mutual wariness gives way to a passion that marks them for gossip in a town ready to explode--and makes them vulnerable to the greatest betrayal of all.
A DEATH IN THE HOUSE 2/1989 ISBN: 037322107X Secrets...secrets of the past. What happened long ago in the cellars of Airstone Hall in Dorset, England, was coming back to haunt the present. Sue-Ellen Hill didn't realize that taking on the task of turning the old Elizabethan house into a bed-and-breakfast would unlock a mystery that was best forgotten... Edward Ormsby-Jones, master of Airstone, was pleased with the progress of his new hotel manager. That is until he was convinced she was in mortal danger of becoming a victim of his family's secret. They both had to find out how the past was connected to the present. Could they stop the menacing evil that lurked in the halls of Airstone before it threatened to destroy their love?
FRENCH QUARTER 9/1998 ISBN: 1575663120 The shocking death of her employer and patron Errol Petrie, the excesses suggested by the murder scene, and the investigation that is sure to follow are just some of the pieces of Celina Payne's nightmare. And the last man she trusts in now the only man she needs. Errol's business partner and friend Jack Charbonnet, is powerful, enigmatic, and not about to let Celina hide from the truth. Somebody in New Orleans' French Quarter killed Errol, and Celina Payne tops the list of suspects. Jack's past is as mysterious as the sultry bayou. He is said to be too dangerous to know, and deadly if crossed. Jack holds the key to Celina's deliverance or her destruction.....
GLASS HOUSES 8/2000 ISBN: 1575665867 British photographer Olivia FitzDurham is running for her life - all the way to New York City and a man she's never met. The pictures she took for a London magazine seem harmless, but the man who tried to push her off the tube platform definitely meant business. NYPD detective Aiden Flynn isn't the 'Sam' Olivia thinks she met on the Internet, but he suspects that the man who is poses a real threat to Olivia's safety - as well as his own. Suddenly Olivia and Aiden are the targets in a dangerous game that will take them across the country and the Atlantic. On the run from a ring of thieves desperate for Olivia's incriminating photos, the two strangers must work together to clear their names - and escape with their lives... Glass Houses
A GRAVE MISTAKE 11/2005 ISBN: 0778322343 The First Mistake... Dead: an ordinary man in a pressed suit and tie. Just the latest in a string of losers in the wrong place at the most disastrous time. Not the kind of case to yank New Orleans homicide detective Guy Gautreaux away from his leave of absence in Toussaint, Louisiana, the only home to offer him a sense of purpose after a tragedy that nearly destroyed his life. The Second Mistake... But there's someone in Toussaint Guy will do anything-even open up a dead cold case-to shelter. Jilly Gable is desperate to find the love of the family who abandoned her as a child. And when the wife of a powerful New Orleans antiques dealer and loan shark-and twisted degenerate-sweeps into town claiming to be her mother, Jilly is all too willing to love and forget. The Final Reckoning. Slowly and methodically, an evil envelops Jilly, and Guy must bare the truth to snatch her back from the edge. Connecting the dots between the Big Easy and Toussaint all but cinches his case, but Jilly and Guy are drawn deeper into corruption, and they have only each other for protection. Will that be enough? RR@H's Novel Thoughts
GUILTY PLEASURES 4/1997 ISBN: 0821756249 Every woman has a past, but beloved television personality Polly Crow has one she must conceal at al costs. Every man has his breaking point, but ex-Navy SEAL Nasty Ferrito is about to discover how far he will go to protect what he believes in. Every pleasure has its price - and every desire its dangerous side...When they meet, they ignite enough sparks to set Washington State on fire. Whe they fall in love, nothing...not Polly, Nasty or a town harboring a guilty secret of its own...can ever be the same. When the shadowy menace stalking Polly moves closer to home, it will take one woman's trust and one man's courage to fight a smoldering evil before it explodes, destroying a love stronger and truer than anything either has ever known...
KEY WEST 10/1999 ISBN: 1575664542 In Key West, hurricane season has arrived, sending the tourists fleeing while the locals sit tight, bracing themselves for the havoc that's on the way. For Sonnie Giacano, the storm is already here. One night, eight months ago, she lost everything--her husband, her unborn child, and a significant portion of her memory. Left with scars that are both visible and invisible, she knows what happened to her was no accident, but rather something so sinister she's blocked it from her mind. In a last desperate effort to piece her shattered life together, Sonnie is now back to find the truth.
KISS THEM GOODBYE 11/2003 ISBN: 1551667452 Just weeks after inheriting Rosebank, a once-magnificent plantation on the banks of Bayou Teche, David Patin was killed in a mysterious fire, leaving his daughter, Vivian, almost bankrupt. With few options remaining, Vivian Patin decides to restore the family fortunes by turning Rosebank into a resort hotel. Murder changes everything... Vivian's dream becomes a nightmare when she finds the family's lawyer dead on the sprawling grounds of the estate - with a rose in his chest and a brilliant lipstick mark on his cheek. Suddenly Vivian begins to wonder if her father's death was really an accident. . .and if the entire Patin family is marked for murder. Can the killing be stopped?... Sheriff Spike Devol is smart, honest, tough - and sexy. Rosebank is not in his jurisdiction, but Vivian, fed up with the corrupt local police, asks him for unofficial help. The instant attraction between them leaves Spike reluctant to get involved - until another shocking murder occurs and it seems that Vivian will be the next victim.
THE LATE GENTLEMAN 10/1989 ISBN: 0373221231 She was no stranger to the dead But the venerable scholar on Kristin Wallace's bed was recently dead-and Charles Belmain blamed her for the demise of the Belmain-family archivist. In England to conduct research, Kristin put her historical method to unexpected--and urgent--use. The answer to her colleague's death was shrouded in Belmain history. And Kristin's only clue was a scrap of paper that hinted at an ancient scandal. But Kristin couldn't fail. She had to know whether there was more between her and the dark, enigmatic Charles than a set of extraordinary circumstances. And whether the late gentleman was a suicide statistic or a victim of murder. What faced her was chaos No two documents seemed related or arranged in any logical order. What was going on here? Had someone messed up Harold Simpkin's efforts? Charles. She probably shouldn't, but she felt a driving need to see him. There was no one else to talk to. Something moved. With notebook in hand, she turned around...and stood absolutely still. A man, indistinct in the shade of the tall bushes outside, was removing his hand from the door he'd just closed. He ducked his head, pulled a grimy cloth cap low over his eyes and slipped away. How long had he stood behind her, watching, before he opened the door-to do what? She shuddered and crossed her arms around her chilled body. That face had been familiar. She picked up her pen, and a fresh ripple of cold climbed her spine. That man had watched her before. The question was when...and where?
A MARKED MAN 11/2006 ISBN: 0778323587 When Max Savage opens his practice in a remote, seductively beautiful bayou town, he hopes it's the start of a new life. He's got his reputation as a skilled surgeon, his two brothers by his side and a fresh chance here in the sultry heat of Toussaint. But soon Max discovers he can't escape a past riddled with accusations of murder...or the faces of two dead women. Especially since another woman is missing, and he was the last person to see her alive. Annie Duhon knows all about nightmares that shatter life's dreams and the need to escape the past. But her fascination with Max grows, even when disturbing rumors start to surface and her darkest visions seem to play out in living color. Can she trust Max with her secrets and her deepest desires? Or is he the specter she sees when she sleeps—a killer stalking women with his cleansing fire? Is she about to become his next victim? The object of obsessive hatred, Max is a marked man who has unwittingly attracted danger to anyone he's cared about. Now he loves Annie, and knows with chilling certainty that he faces one last chance to unmask a killer before there's nothing left to fight for. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
NOW YOU SEE HIM 11/2004 ISBN: 0778320995 Death at Mardi Gras... Ellie Byron witnessed the first murder. Two years ago during Mardi Gras a young woman was brutally killed with an ice pick. Charles Penn, a hard-eyed man with a history of violence, was convicted. But Ellie was never certain of his guilt. Now, while being transported between maximum security prisons, he's escaped. Death in Diamonds... Suddenly another woman is found dead, lying cold on a bed of diamonds in a New Orleans jewelry shop. Recognizing that both murders mirror the crimes in bestselling novels by Sonia Elliott and must be connected, the police show up at Ellie's Toussaint, Louisiana bookshop. The first murder had rattled Ellie, but their news of the second frightens her. Afraid for her own safety, she turns to the only person she really trusts: attorney Joe Gable. Joe would give his life to protect Ellie, but neither he nor Ellie knows just how deadly and brilliant an enemy they face - or how near he is. Death of a Witness... When the third book in Elliott's mystery series is released, Joe and Ellie realize that time has run out. In this book, the killer eliminates the only threat to his freedom. The last death will be the death of a witness.
PURE DELIGHTS 1/1994 ISBN: 0821747983 When headstrong, artistic rebel Paris Delight is approached by high-powered dealmaker Tobias Quinn, sparks fly. Tobias needs Paris to save his fortune and possibly his life. But between the two there exists a plethora of bad blood and dangerous secrets.
SHEER PLEASURES 10/1995 ISBN: 0821750933 Wilhelmina knows she's heading for treacherous waters when she sets out in search of her oldest friend, who disappeared from a private club in Washington State's Cascade Mountains. But she doesn't realize just how treacherous--until she meets Roman Wilds, an ex-Navy SEAL who's working undercover. The desire that ignites between them is as explosive as dynamite - and twice as dangerous...
SOME DIE TELLING 2/1988 ISBN: 0373220839 The job was waiting but her sister wasn't... Ellen Shaw arrived in London, England, to take her ideal job - managing an antiquarian bookshop - and met her ideal man. Strong and solid, warm and loving, Hugh Weston, the shop's owner, was a powerful man. But could she trust him? Ellen's sister had disappeared, and the explanations for her absence didn't hold up. Hugh had his own theory. His grandmother was dead - murdered. Believing her sister was behind it, he had to suspect Ellen, too. But as death began to stalk her through the streets of London and Ellen's concern slowly changed into terror, Hugh could not just stand by.
TARGET 4/2007 ISBN: 0778324257 Nearly two decades ago, a charismatic rnan called Colin controlled an isolated community hidden in the foothills north of San Francisco in what was supposed to be a life free of materialism. Instead, Colin turned The Refuge into a mass grave as he completed a sinister plan to exterminate his followers—all except three children, who slipped through his fingers and escaped with his secrets. Today, Nick Board and the two beautiful sisters, Sarah and Aurelie, who escaped with him, are living quietly under the radar in the little bayou town of Point Judah, Louisiana. But when the bodies at The Refuge are uncovered, the nightmare of the past forces the friends out into the open. To survive, they must stay one step ahead of the man who has been waiting for them to surface. Driven by greed and anger, he intends them to take his secrets to their graves. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
TELL ME WHY 2002 ISBN: 0821769308 Why has renowned jazz pianist Carolee Burns given up playing celebrated venues for a tiny bistro in suburban Seattle? Former athlete Max Wolfe wants to know-because more than Carolee's gorgeous music haunts him. The woman herself is a melancholy mystery-one Max can't stop thinking about. But Carolee isn't talking-at least not at first. Hiding from everything-the end of what she thought was a happy marriage, the painful estrangement from her cherished daughter-is the only was she can get through each day. Even the thought of a friendship with Max isn't possible-or is it? But just as Max and Carolee realize that companionship is the least of what they want from each other, tragedy shatters Carolee's fragile new confidence-and reveals that danger may wear a familiar face. Someone is determined to destroy everything--and everyone--Carolee loves...
TRUE BLISS 8/1996 ISBN: 082175369X Bliss Winters and Sebastian Plato were high-school sweethearts. But after Sebastian ditched Bliss, they didn't see each other for 15 years. Now they have another chance with each other. But the closer they get, the more murders occur; someone doesn't want them together again, under any circumstances.
UNDERCURRENTS 4/1991 ISBN: 0373704488 Mike Kinnear thought Susan Ackroyd was the pushiest woman he'd ever met. The nerve - trying to tell him how to care for his daughter. The woman clearly had some sort of problem. For her part, Susan had Mike pegged as irresponsible - a man who didn't deserve a child. If danger hadn't threatened, Mike never would have guessed Susan had such hidden strength...or such ready passion. Susan never would have realized that Mike knew so much about love and commitment. Neither would have believed they could find a love strong enough to overcome any obstacle.
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