Anne Mather

Power, passion, possession The moment Nick Armstrong saw Barbie Lamb, he had to have her. She was the sexiest woman he'd ever met! Completely forgotten was the teenage Barbie whose youthful crush he'd rejected years ago.... For Barbie, the sweetest revenge was to make Nick want her -- then cut him dead! Only, he didn't seem to remember her, and his desire sparked the realization of how deeply she still wanted him. Their passion was all-consuming -- but what would happen when they finally confronted the truth about their past?

SOUTHERN HEAT Abigail Pennyworth had traded the sultry heat of Georgia for the exotic beauty of New Orleans, where she combed the dangerous back streets in search of her missing younger sister. What she found instead was Jeremiah Hawk, an enigmatic lawman whose rugged good looks concealed a savage legacy. Tempted by Abigail's untouched beauty, he offered his help — for a price. SAVAGE DESIRE Thrown together with this fierce-eyed stranger on a desperate journey of hope through the vast Smoky Mountains, Abigail would discover just how far Hawk would go to escape the past — and how much she would risk for a future with the man who'd awakened her most secret and forbidden desires...

Stranded by a storm, a woman must rely on a seductive stranger whom she begins to suspect is a murderer With a megahit on Broadway, a gorgeous wife, and a legion of adoring fans, Justin Magnasun has the world at his feet—but it all comes crashing down one snowy night that ends in a brutal murder. Now the world-famous playwright lives a solitary life in the New England countryside, far from the relentless glare of the spotlight. Until Boston reporter Kristin Kennedy shows up. Braving the worst blizzard to hit Massachusetts in decades, Kristin finds herself stranded in the middle of nowhere with no hope of rescue. Then she wakes up buck naked in a stranger’s bed. She couldn’t have predicted the desire that would spark between them, plunging her into an affair with a man shadowed by secrets. Is Justin a cold-blooded killer? As Kristin tries to piece together what happened five years ago, she finds that she’s playing with fire, at the mercy of a murderer preparing to bring down the curtain on her final act.

Making the break. Olivia owes her stepbrother Richard everything - but now she is an adult, and determined to make her own way in the world. And yet Richard seems just as determined not to let her go. He has been very generous, but that doesn't give him the right to dictate how she should live now! Olivia knows that the only way to solve her problem is to leave Richard altogether – but why is she finding it so difficult to break away? Her feelings for Richard are clearly more complicated than she'd first thought.

When Carolyn joined her archaeologist father in Mexico, she found herself immediately in conflict with Don Carlos, who owned the valley where her father was searching for a Zapotec city. Don Carlos thought she was "a typical product of the permissive society" and Carolyn let him know that "I am not one of your peons". It seemed an inauspicious beginning to their relationship.

Detroit psychologist Alan Canty maintained a second identity as "Dr. Al Miller," an alleged physician who was drawn to the Motor City's lower depths. He began an affair with 19-year-old prostitute Dawn Spens and got to know her ex-convict pimp, John Fry; both of them were heavy drug users. The analyst lavished great amounts of money on Spens, well over a hundred-thousand dollars, all but bankrupting himself; his wife, also a psychologist, had no inkling of his double life or of his burgeoning debts. Finally, when Dr. Miller tried to break off the relationship, the pimp killed him.

Rich girl Andrea Connelly was holidaying at an Austrian ski-resort when she met Baron Axel von Mahlstrom - an attractive man, certainly, but Andrea was under no illusions about the type of man he was. A fortune-hunter, pure and simple - and he was not getting the chance of laying his hands on her money! In fact, Andrea worked out what she thought would be an effective way of teaching him a lesson, by changing identities with her dull, far from rich cousin Janet and then watching Axel go into action. But unfortunately he turned the tables on her in an unexpected and decidedly disturbing manner…

HE WAS DESPERATE TO REMEMBER... Jake wasn't sure why he'd agreed to take his twin brother's place on the flight to London. Nor why he'd agreed to commit Nathan's crime. Maybe it was misplaced loyalty, maybe it was the memory of their mother's sacrifices. But when Jake awakens in a hospital after the crash, he can't even remember his own name. He's told he's Nathan Wolfe. But he doesn't remember a life in London, or the beautiful woman who watches him so guardedly. Caitlin. His wife. SHE WAS DESPERATE TO FORGET... Her husband, seems like a stranger to Caitlin--a man who assumes there is love when none exists, intimacy where none is wanted, warm passion instead of cold resentment. He is totally different--so unbearably seductive, like the man she'd thought she had married. Until his memory returns. And with it, a danger that threatens them all.

When her husband of fifty years begins to slip into madness, Lily Butler turns for help to her only daughter.

Alix had her own reasons for wanting the job of cataloguing Oliver Morgan’s library at Darkwater Hall, and not one of them was calculated to appeal to him. So she travelled to Northumberland under false pretences, hoping that he wouldn’t find out the truth; and found herself in a situation that soon became complicated beyond her wildest imaginings. She might have fooled Oliver, but he had fooled her in return – the job she had been hired to do didn’t exist, and worse still, he had a disturbing attraction that threatened to upset all her plans. Could Alix escape? And did she want to?

Would a lie keep them apart? SEA, SUN AND... MATTEO Expecting sun and relaxation from her stay with a friend in Italy, Grace Horton actually found herself walking into an emotional minefield. Her friend was clearly set on marrying Matteo di Falco. He was wealthy, gorgeous and equally determined -- to see a lot more of Grace! Grace wondered what she could do to prevent her friend from getting hurt -- and stop herself from falling into Matteo's arms. Then some shocking news was revealed, which threatened to keep Matteo by her friend's side forever....

Emma’s visit to Venice was as eventful as it was unexpected. She ought to have known that Celeste, her stepmother, never did anything except for purely selfish reasons, and even a holiday in a sumptuous palazzo could not compensate Emma for the heartache she suffered because of it. For Celeste was intent on marrying the attractive Count Vidal Cesare, the impoverished lord of the palazzo, for the sole purpose of adding a title to her wealth. Could the Count really sacrifice everything for money? Was the physical attraction he obviously felt for Emma merely an amusement to him? And how was poor Emma supposed to feel about it all?

Charlotte had married Matthew Derby eleven years ago, to give her baby a father - after Logan Kennedy had deserted her. Now Matthew was dead, and Charlotte had met Logan again and realised that the past was by no means dead. And that Logan attracted her as much as ever.

Stephanie McMaster thought the world of her father, and would have done almost anything to make him happy – but she had never imagined that her loyalty to him would be stretched as it was being now. For her father was facing ruin, and the only way Stephanie could save him was to accede to Santino Venturo’s request that she should marry him and go to live with him in his castle in Sicily. Santino made it clear from the start that it was not a real wife that he wanted but a companion for his little motherless daughter; the marriage would be in name only just for the sake of propriety. In any case, it was clear that Santino was still devoted to the memory of his dead wife Sanchia. So why had he wanted to marry Stephanie at all? And where did her feelings come into it?

Just a few days before her wedding to Barry Carson, Helen met his half-brother Morgan Fox – and on the day of the wedding itself she knew she could not go through with it. Whatever this feeling was between her and Morgan, it was something that had been lacking in her relationship with Barry, and she knew now that a marriage to him would be disaster. So instead she accepted Morgan’s invitation to go back with him to Africa to look after his young daughter. But Morgan had not mentioned marriage, and in fact he had made it clear that the job was all he was offering her. Was Helen making a complete fool of herself – or worse.