Ann Cristy

One reckless night in London had changed D'Arcy Kincaid's life forever...one star-crossed night of passion with a man she had never been able to forget. Now, incredibly, five years later, Keele Petrakis strides back into her life. D'Arcy is assigned to do a story on Keele's shipping firm, but as they travel together from the sun-drenched Greek isles to the glittering towers of Manhattan, she must hide the passion that rages inside her like a storm. For Keele must never find out the secret that she has hidden from him for five long years...

Tragedy had struck her life again and again. The last time had left lovely Wyeth MacLendon a widow and driven her to Quebec's glorious Chateau Montbel. Perhaps here she could rest, begin again as part-owner of the magnificent resort hotel. But Colin MacLendon, her late husband's brash nephew, had other ideas. From the moment they met he had shown his determination to sweep her off her feet, to proclaim himself lord of the manor and master of her destiny. Never before had Wyeth felt such rage - or such passion. He claimed her more completely than any man she had ever known. But bad luck seemed to stalk her every step...Could she offer him a love she knew was jinxed?

After six years her secret was public knowledge, and the one man she had tried to avoid finally knew the truth: Rennie Gilbert, famed children's book author, was Lee Chatham, the wife who had deserted him so long ago. Price Chatham reeled her back into his life with the passion and rage of a man with a score to settle and ready knowledge of how to bait his prey. There was another man in her life...until Price's cruel kisses rekindled the embers that had never really died. She had thought she wanted a quiet kind of love, but when price took he in his arms, she was lost, and her treacherous heart threatened to give her legal husband and wedded enemy the sweetest vengeance of all...

Was he, or wasn't he...her husband? Widowed, wealthy and beautiful Madeline Stone was well on her way to fulfilling her dream of becoming a fashion designer. Then, six years after being lost at sea, her prodigal husband returned. And to Madeline's amazement the newfound Russell Stone was nothing like the old, womanizing rascal she'd married. Her new man was loving and considerate, kind, romantic and...very sexy. Madeline found herself doing something she thought she would never do--falling in love with her husband! Now Madeline faces a dilemma: Should she accept her happily-ever-after ending, or should she expose the troubled, yet loving stranger who now shares her bed?

Shortly after the new girl in Mystique, Presley Caine, touches his body, seventeen-year-old Bauer Grant comes back to life at his own funeral--unfortunately a sinister government agency suspects there is a cause and effect.

Karen Sinclair was deeply ashamed of her brief, inglorious love affair with Alexis Whitney seven years earlier. Since then she'd settled down - with an interesting job and a steady boyfriend. Everything was so calm and pleasant that when Alexis unexpectedly came back into her life, Karen was shocked to realize she still found him disturbingly attractive. But Alexis hadn't been the least bit interested in marraige all those years ago. And with his beautiful stepmother, Michelle, around, why should he be interested now...?

Was she saving her neck or cutting her own throat? One minute, beautiful, penniless Pan Belmont was fleeing an irate restaurant manager; the next, she was standing in Silver Galen's sumptuous penthouse, a ragged waif accepting his strange offer. She'd live with him for a month for a fee of $75,000! It would buy time against a world of trouble and desperate secrets -- but there'd be no love. Little did she dream that Silver's wildly lavish care, his passion to protect her, would lure her into his powerful arms...that he would give her the strength to love him ...to face the past and shatter secrets...to claim all the wealth, power, and joy that was truly her own.

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She was an innocent. He was a worldly sophisticate. She was a student at UCLA. He was heir to the throne of a small but wealthy Middle Eastern kingdom. From the moment they met they were swept away by feelings they could barely control. And yet it was the very headiness of those passions. their suffocating power, that sent Philipa running from her husband, from the luxurious court at Dharan back to New York in search of independence. And she found it. A successful model, part-owner of her own agency. She had made her own life, But now, years later, Romain Al Adal had come: arrogant, unchanged, denying their divorce, determined to have her back. A whirlwind of fiery passions held them both in an unrelenting grip. She was his desert princess. He adored her. But could she love him, make a life with him without losing her very soul? (less)

Confused about her troubled marriage, Kendra Taylor needs time to sort out her feelings. Retreating to an abandoned cabin left to her husband, Isaac, by the maternal grandmother he never knew, she is quickly welcomed into the rural community of Toms Brook. She soon becomes curious about a beautiful heirloom quilt and the past Isaac has always refused to explore. The unusual quilt clearly has a story to tell, and Kendra hopes that helping her husband connect with his roots may also help him reconnect with her.At first Isaac's reluctant visits to the cabin only underscore the difficulties in their marriage. But as circumstances force them to piece together a new relationship, Isaac discovers that the history of a family he never knew may hold the key to his future.As a passionate story of strength, loss and desperation unfolds, the secrets of the quilt are revealed and the threads of an unraveling marriage are secured.

SHE WAS THE ONLY WOMAN HE'D EVER LOVED.... — The alabaster skin, the amethyst eyes -- Dev Abrams shook his head. Why, after all this time, did he think he saw his dead wife in the theater lobby? Then he looked again and met the shocked eyes of the only woman he had ever loved. Felicity felt stunned, dizzy at the sight of her husband in the magnificent flesh. He'd been reported killed in the middle of a revolution, but her heart shouted with triumph that it wasn't true. He'd identified her body by the wedding ring he'd given her, but now destiny had revealed the shocking truth. Dev claimed Felicity with an embrace of such violence and hunger she wept, then returned his kiss with a fierce need that echoed his own. Drawn into a passionate maelstrom that overwhelmed them both, Felicity and Dev fought to recapture ecstasy's memory, but shadows in the night still threatened their lives. Seared by savage desire, consumed by wild need, could they protect the eternal flame of their love?

Thane was a hunk to be sure, Tru admitted, but was he a man to be sure of? Feeling dizzy and happy and just a bit reckless was a wonderful change for her from the months of hurt and struggle as her marriage was ending, but could she find a place in Thane's fast-lane life? — Thane cherished her, melting her resistance with tender embraces -- nothing was going to stand in their way, now that the Fates had brought them together. But when old sorrows forced her to choose between hurting the man she'd come to love and giving up her new dreams. Tru ran. Yet there was no escaping a man who'd met his destiny. Thane would fight with loving weapons drawn for the lady who'd bewitched his heart, but could he prove that his caring was a magic to trust?

Every fiber of Domino O'Dare's body was on red alert. Eight months after their stormy parting, Zane Hardesty's molten sexuality still set the blood pounding in her veins. She'd forced herself to believe that their explosive relationship was over. But was it? As a guest of Zane's grandmother, Domino had come to exclusive Palm Beach to interview a reclusive millionaire. Everything was fine until Zane appeared to fan the embers of relentless passion. She swore that this time he wouldn't overwhelm her. Even as chilling danger threatened, she refused his protection. But how long could she elude the man she loved--a man obsessed, determined to possess her forever?

They'd shared more wild passion, sweet moments, and furious arguments in one year than most people had in a lifetime. But now it was finished! Cleora Orwell never did things halfway--in her fashion designs or in her love life. So she marched out of Devon Carstairs' life and went around the world to start over. But tempestuous souls come in pairs. Devon not only follows her, but moves into her apartment! She orders him out. He refuses to budge. And so the war is on... a war as stormy as the love that started it...

Return to the sensual worlds where the fierce desires of your heart keep you enthralled... Whether the feral passions of a werewolf; a steampunk fight against pirates; or a family curse that dooms a woman to kill the man she loves, these stories will captivate your senses, and keep you forever in their control...