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Aftershocks
Georgina "George" Hathaway is a 23 year old model with her whole life ahead of her. Smart, funny, beautiful and athletic, George could have any man she wanted. And George sets her sights on Dr. Elliot Mallory, a 39 year old divorcee. They have fun together and find themselves relating to each other in spite of the large age difference that seperates them. They soon find themselves falling in love with one another. George begins thinking of marriage...
Beyond Eden
At the age of seventeen Lindsay Foxe was raped by her half sister's husband. Now ten years later she's a professional model, known to her fans as Eden. Her life's just how she wants it. Until she meets S.C. Taylor, who is hired by Lindsay's agent to protect her. Lindsay doesn't want to be attracted to this man, yet she is. But at the same time someone's threating Lindsay's life. Who is it? Her family? The man who raped her? To figure it out Lindsay has t...
Blindside
Putnam, July 2003, 25.95, 384 pp. ISBN 0399150560 A child goes missing and his father is petrified because ex-FBI agent Miles Kettering knows all too well what could happen to a snatched child. While Miles prays in his Coburn, Virginia home, his son Sam escapes from his abductors. The local sheriff of Washington County, Tennessee completes the rescue. Katie Benedict phones Miles who immediately flies up to retrieve his son. Accompanying him...
Blow Out
Married FBI agents Sherlock and Savich are vacationing in the Poconos when Savich is approached by a "ghost" who asks for help. When he realizes what is going on, he doesn't believe it at first. Then the same night, him and his wife are called back to Washington to help solve the murder of a Supreme Court judge. Enlisted to help is a DC cop Ben Raven who is stuck with journalist Callie Markham to keep her from spreading the story to the press. As...

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Calypso Magic
Lucien Savarol wanted his daughter Diana to marry well and to leave the West Indies. To that end he sends her to a distant cousin Lucia, Lady Cranston, for a season in London. Diana was born and raised in the West Indies on her father's sugar plantation and finds London wet and cold and hates it. Lyonel Ashton, Earl of Saint Leven, has recently found his fiance,, Charlotte, in an extremely compromising position with a lover. He broke th engagement, ...
Earth Song
The main female character overhears who she thinks is her father saying that he'll marry her off to some disgusting old guy, so she jumps into a wool wagon and heads out thinking she'll go to her cousin (who turns out to be evil). Her father's wool is stolen by a rogue (the main male character) who keeps her as a hostage, though he never ends up ransoming her. The cousin kidnaps the female character and the female character escapes. She weds the main ...
Eleventh Hour
Putnam, July 2002, 24.95, 400 pp. ISBN 0399148779 It's midnight in San Francisco and Father Michael Joseph is in his church to hear confession from a man who killed twice and intends to go on killing. Father Michael plans to inform the police because he feels the killer is not truly repentant, but only confessing to brag about his murders. When the culprit realizes what the priest intends to do, he kills Father Michael, not realizing there was ...
Fire Song
Cheating death, young Kassia finds herself wedded to a stranger. Graemlam is a warrior who finds himself married to one who should be dead. Things start out fine, but Graemlam was raised believing women were inferior possessions of men and pulls a doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on us. Its an excellent, delightfully horrifying read. The guy is truely unlikeable, a rapist and infidel, definitely a convict today. But he is who he is and it in the end things ...
Hemlock Bay
HEMLOCK BAY Putnam, Aug 2001, 24.95, 384 pp. ISBN: 0399147381 The husband and wife FBI team of Savich and Sherlock are coming down from the high of apprehending a killer of young children when they learn that Lily Savich Frasier is in the hospital. They arrive in Hemlock Bay, California only to conclude that Lily's husband and father-in-law are trying to drive her out of her mind so that she commits suicide. With her brother and his wi...
Impulse
The main character's mother is in a coma. The main character, a reporter, finds her mother's journals and finds out that a mobster is her real father, so she goes to the island to write his bio in order to destroy him. There, she meets Marcus, the man who operates the island's resort. Little does she know that he is undercover for the US Customs Service, trying to take down her mobster father. There is also someone trying to kill the mobster. (The m...

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Jade Star
ISBN 0-451-20612-6 pp. 390 When Saint Morris heard Juliana (Jules) was captured by Jameson Wilkes and to be sold at a slave auction, he charged to the rescue. He had been her best friend since 6 years ago before he left Maui. Now, Jules was all grown up and beautiful but she shouldn't have to fend off his sexual urges after suffering Wilkes's attention. To protect her from himself, he returned her to her parents. In spite of his goodwill, returning J...
Lord Harry
Henrietta Rolland is a young lady whose brother was killed at Waterloo and whose death she blames on Jason Cavander, marquess of Oberlin. He father obsessed with his duties in the House of Lords and the corn laws. He is an ultra conservative to his toes and ignores most of what Henrietta does. What Henrietta does is dress up as a young nobleman from Scotland and goes in search of Jason Cavander. She has learned how to duel from an older brother and as a ...
Lord of Falcon Ridge
Cleve is a freeman turned diplomat assigned to arrange the marriage of Chessa, Princess of Ireland, to William of Normandy, nephew and heir to Duke Rollo. Chessa is daughter of the king of Ireland who used to be Hormonze. a wizard. She is kidnapped by Ragnor of York who is being forced by his mother to marry with Chessa. A storm blows Ragnor's ship off course and they take refuge on Hawkfell Island where Chessa convinces everyone that she want to m...
Lord of Hawkfell Island
Rorik is a Viking warrior, Lord of Hawkfell Island, and has been searching for the man who attacked his farmstead and killed his people including his wife and twin babies 2 years ago while he was on a trading trip. He has found his enemies' stronghold and is captured during his own attack. His enemy is gone at the time but he is wounded and nursed back to health by Mirana, the beautiful dark haired half sister of his enemy Einar. She knows nothing of t...
Lord of Raven's Peak
Merrick Haraldsson, is the youngest brother of Rorik, from Lord of Hawkfell Island. He still lives at Malverne with his parents and older brother, Erik, who will be lord of Malverne upon the death of his father. Merrick knows that someday he and his men will have to leave Malverne and to that goal go trading every summer. This summer Merrick plans to return with a new slave for his mother whose hands are paining her, so she can teach the slave to weav...
Lyon's Gate
Jason Sherbrooke is the son of Douglas Sherbrooke and the twin brother of James Sherbrooke. In the past, he fell in love with a traitorious woman who tried to hurt his family, and for this he cannot forgive himself, so he self-exiled himself to Baltimore. After five years, he decides it is time to return to home to England. After he arrives, he decides he wants to start a stud farm and his brother tells him of neighboring estate up for sale, Lyon...

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Mad Jack
Grayson St. Cyre, Baron Cliffe has a mysterious past and present. One morning he is visited by his 2 great-aunts, his mother's aunts and their valet, Mad Jack. Their home has suffered a fire and then a flood and they wish to stay with him while repairs are being made. He invites them into his home for as long as they desire. There is something strange about Mad Jack however. First of all, he is not strong enough to lift and tote traveling trunks and he ...
Midnight Star
Chauncey FitzHugh had a plan. She would seduce Delaney Saxton, bring him to his knees and destroy him; just the way he ruined her father. But she did not plan on him being so handsome, sweet and charming. She created endless opportunities with the elusive man and was rather successful (without her knowing) because Del found the English heiress breath-taking and regarded her as a mysterious puzzle, waiting to be solved. However, quite accidentally she ...
Midsummer Magic
Alexander Kilbracken, Earl of Ruthven once saved the life of Charles Hawksbury, Marquess of Chandos. The Marquess promised the Earl anything thinking he would ask for money. Instead he said that one day he would need a husband for one of his daughters. The Marquess agreed. Now on his sick bed the Marquess sends his 2nd son and heir, Phillip(Hawk) to Scotland to choose a bride from the 3 daughters of the Earl. Hawk is not pleased with this particular lo...
Night Fire
The main female character is married to a husband who tortures her, yet he's old, fat, and impotent. An English lord major who fought in the Napoleonic Wars dreams about coming home to her, finds she distrusts men, kidnaps her, forces her to marry him, and she eventually falls head over heels in love with him. They start leading a good life until the mean old man's son tries to rape and beat her again, but eventually, she's saved by her second husband....
Night Shadow
The main female character's employer (she was a nanny and was scheduled to marry her employer) is killed by two bad men who were partners in his jewel thievery and who he double-crossed. The bad men follow the main female character to try to get the jewels, but she has no idea where they are. After the children's uncle nearly raped her, she takes the children to live with the main male character, her employer's cousin. Eventually, they fall in love, k...
Night Storm
The main male character loses his wife in childbirth, leaves England with his baby daughter, and travels the world with her in his ship. He comes to Baltimore expecting to find a man running a shipyard, but it turns out to be a girl, the main female character (the daughter of the man who used to run the shipyard but was too ill). The main male character likes a challenge, so he seduces the main female character, and she is very willing after that. ...

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Pendragon
Meggie Sherbrook has been desperately in love with her "almost cousin", Jeremy Stanton-Greville, for 6 years. Her feelings are not reciprocated and she becomes heartbroken when he marries another woman.Then Thomas Malcombe enters into her life. The new Earl of Lancaster is instantly smitten with Meggie amd asks for her hand in marriage. Although Meggie is in love with another man, she accepts his proposal because she admires him and likes him very much...
Riptide
This is about a girl named Becca who is being stalked by an old enemy. The stalker kills many innocent people, and seeks revenge on Becca for a crime she didn't even commit. A family member of hers committed the crime by accident, and now they are both paying the price for this mistake....
Rosehaven
Hastings of Trent and Severin of Langthorne are married before as her father, Earl of Oxborough, draws his last. Hastings has just met her husband a few hours prior to the marriage. Severin is marrying Hastings because she is an heiress and he needs her money to restore his own lands. The Earl's only requirement is that Severin add his name to that of Langthorne. He has researched Severin thoroughly and has insisted upon the marriage as a means of pro...
Season of the Sun
Zarabeth lives with her step-father and much younger half sister in the town of York. Even though she is beyond old enough to wed her step father, Olav the Vain, has no intention of marrying her off as he wants to wed with her. He is just biding his time. One day Magnus Haraldsson a Viking farmer and trader visits York and decides he wants Zarabeth for his wife. She refuses him because Olav has told her that she cannot take her younger sister with...
Secret Song
Roland de Tournay is a landless knight whose dream is to buy his own land and home. He knows what keep he wants to buy and is earning the money to buy it. He accepts a job from Damon le Mark to rescue his niece from the Earl of Clare. Daria of Fortescue, niece of Damon le Mark was promised to wed. On the journey to her betrothed her escorts are murdered, she is kidnapped and taken to the Earl of Clare who wishes her for his wife. She has no desire to...
The Countess
Andrea Jameson is an heiress with an unconventional upbringing. He mother died when she was 10 years old and she went to live with her grandfather whom she loved dearly. He father disappeared upon her mother's death. Her grandfather taught her to play chess, drink brandy, shoot a pistol among other things. While she lived with her parents however her life had been one of misery. Her father had several mistresses and openly tumbled the maids. Andy had ...
The Courtship
In this installment of the "Bride Series", we are re-introduced to Spenser Heatherington, Lord Beecham, and Helen Mayberry. Helen, who is talking to her friend, Alex Sherbrooke, is overheard by Lord Beecham, who is intrigued by their conversation and decides he would like to meet this very tall lady. Helen, also wants to meet Lord Beecham because she thinks he would be a good partner in her adventure to find an ancient artifact, King Edward's Lamp, s...
The Cove
Putnam, Nov 2003, 19.95, 327 pp. ISBN: 0399150862 Whatever Sally St. John Brainerd knows about her arms dealer father's murder, she obviously trusts no one including the FBI. Instead of turning to the authorities to tell them what she knows about Amory St. John's murder, Sally flees to her aunt's remote home in THE COVE, Oregon. FBI Agent James Quinlan tracks Sally to the picturesque coastal town, but does not attempt to bring her in. Instea...
The Deception
Evangeline de Beauchamps is half English and half French and was raised mostly in England. After Napoleon is defeated the first time her father returns with her to France, his native country. One evening there is a break-in and she and her father are kidnapped and taken to Paris. Evangeline is forced into becoming a spy for France to save her father's life. She is sent to the home of Richard Claredon, Duke of Portsmouth, and widower of her cousin. She i...
The Duke
Ian Carmichael, Duke of Portmaine, is a wealthy, proud aristrocrat and has been a widower for several years. He has a nominal heir, his cousin Giles, but understands that he must do his duty to his title and estates and marry again. He endures part of the London season and becomes engaged to Lady Felicity Trammerley who reminds him of his first wife physically and who he believes to be like her in personality also. He hates the Season however and is de...
The Edge
Ford has a sister who lives in Edgerton with her husband. They're both scientists. The main adversary, the wealthy man of the town, hired them to come out and work for him, and to develop a drug that renders people immune to bad memories. One of the side effects is that it drives people crazy with lust so that they can hardly control themselves. Ford, an FBI agent, wants to know what happened to her sister when she drove her Porsche off a cliff. She...
The Heir
typical Coulter. An aristocrat is forced to marry a young relative. He thinks she has a lover but eventually the couple's passion and fire overcome all obstacles. ...
The Heiress Bride
Sinjun Sherbrooke has grown up around 3 older brothers and is comfortable with the way they talk about women and sexual matters. She is a evesdropper by nature. She has never wanted for anything in her life. She is also a serious heiress. She is in no hurry to marry. She is in her 2nd London season and her brother Douglas, Earl of Northcliffe has assured her that he simply wants her to enjoy the season. Sinjun is bored. One evening at a ball Sinjun se...
The Nightingale Legacy
Caroline Derwent-Jones is a young woman who on the eve of her 19th birthday escapes her greedy uncle after his near rape of her by kidnapping his wimpy son and riding out to find her aunt, her only caring living relative. As it is raining, they stop at an inn and it is there that she meets Frederick North, Lord Chilton. Her cousin has taken ill during the rain and she and Lord Chilton nurse him back to health. She does however take Lord Chilton's horse ...
The Offer
When Lady Sabrina Eversleigh's brother-in-law attempts to rape her, she feels she has no choice but to flee her home. Her sister has turned against her and Sabrina fears for her Grandfather's safety if she tells what Trevor did to her. But Sabrina becomes lost in a blizzard while she escapes. Viscount Philip Merecerault, also lost in the blizzard, comes across Sabrina while she is freezing to death in the wilderness. He takes her to an abandoned hunti...
The Penwyth Curse
Jove, Jan 2003, 7.99, 352 pp. ISBN: 0515134368 In 1278 England, Dienwald de Fortenberry, son-in-law to King Edward I, bestows knighthood on Sir Bishop of Lythe for rescuing his wife, Philippa. The English monarch also reward Bishop for rescuing his favorite daughter born out of wedlock by naming him the latest spouse of eighteen year-old Merryn de Gay, a four time widow and mistress of Penwyth Castle. His Highness believes that Bishop might jus...
The Scottish Bride
Mary Rose, a Scotswoman, is an illegitimate girl who she doesn't believe anyone should want, but Ericson MacPhail tries to marry her. He goes so far as to try to rape her, but she always escapes him. After getting battered in a river, she ends up at Kildrummy Castle, whose new owner (the new baron) is a vicar from England. They are the ones who end up marrying. When they go back to England, though, the vicar is a changed man. He went from sober ...
The Sherbrooke Bride
In this action packed romance, Douglas Sherbrooke, tired of the constant harrassment to marry from his family to achieve an heir for his earldom, decides to marry a woman he was attracted to three years before while he was still in the military. As he gets ready to depart and marry his bride, he is informed of an important mission he must complete. While Douglas leaves on his mission, he sends his cousin, Tony, as his proxy to marry. Tony instantly...
The Sherbrooke Twins
In another chapter of the Bride Series, James and Jason Sherbrooke, twin sons of Douglas and Alexandra, are called to protect their father from an unknown assassin who has re-emerged from Douglas Sherbrooke's spy past. James and Jason, who are infamously good looking men, are called forth to join their father in London to investigate. Corrie Tybourne-Barrett is the tomboy neighbor of the Sherbrooke's, who has grown up as an annoying tagalong to...
The Target
A judge, on leave, due to a traumatic event that happened in his courthouse, is visting the Smoky Mountains. While there, he chances upon a little girl, unconscious, brutalized, unknown, and it angers him. Who has raped her? By taking her in, Judge Ramsey Hunt is sure to find out......
The Wild Baron
Rohan Carrington, Baron Mountvale receives mysterious letter and sets off to discover that his deceased brother, George, has left a wife and daughter behind. Rohan takes his sister-in-law, Susannah, her daughter and little brother back to his estate, Mountvale. Shortly after arriving a man breaks into the house and leaves a second story window open so the young daughter, Marianne, can climb out onto the balcony and endangering her life. Susannah then con...
The Wyndham Legacy
Set in Regency England, "The Wyndham Legacy" is first in the Legacy trilogy. Marcus Wyndham has known Josephina Cochrane for almost ten years. Ever since she was nine years old, she has been called The Duchess, a name arrogantly given by Marcus when they were children. When her father dies, Duchess finds herself with an extravagent fortune, one that she feels should belong to Marcus. With help from some loyal friends, she tricks Marcus into marriage s...
Valentine's Legacy
The main male character has known the main female character since she was 14, and since then, they've competed against each other in horse racing. She goes to Europe after he supposedly "ruins" her. She goes to his cousins and offers herself as a nanny. She used to be a tomboy, but starts wearing dresses and doing her hair in lovely styles so that when the main male character comes to bring her home (as per her father's instructions), he doesn't recog...
Warrior's Song
Graelam de Moreton has heard about the warrior woman, Chandra de Avenell and has been trying to arrange a marriage with her for 2 years. Her father has been making excuses not to arrange the marriage for that time. He has selected for her Jerval de Vernon. Chandra has been the apple of her father's eye. He has taught everything he knows about being a warrior and did not think at all about her learning how to direct servants or run a castle. Her moth...
Wild Star
Brent Hammond was a distrustful, cynical guy but he couldn't help falling in love at first sight with Byrony DeWitt, soon to marry Ira Butler, a man many years her senior. It further irked him to know she was just another Laurel (his vile stepmother). At every opportunity, he would ridicule and insult her but he couldn't stem his longing for her. Byrony was in fact an innocent, who enter a farce of a marriage to avoid the punishing hands of her hateful f...