Belinda Grey

When Miss Sara Saunders married brooding Sir Tarquin Pengelly, she little dreamed of the depths of passionate delight he might awake in her. But once stirred, Sara vows she will never leave his side - even if that means embarking for Spain, where her new husband is to join his regiment for the campaign of 1808. And it is in Spain that she discovers that Tarquin is both a perfidious womaniser and a traitor to his country. But now that she has experienced the heat of his desire, how can she contemplate life without the only man she loves and needs?

The two sons of Duncan, Laird of Clan Seidhe, are different in more than birth and looks. Lachlan, the legitimate heir, is reckless, generous and a convinced Jacobite: Jamie, his bastard brother, is cold and cares for nothing but his own gain. Fiona Seidhe Maclaren, their orphaned cousin, is caught in their bitter struggle when, loving Lachlan, she is forced to marry Jamie. The feud begun between children in a Scottish glen in 1736 comes to a terrible climax nine years later, at the Battle of Culloden, when the Stuart Cause is fought to its end.

The Lady Gida Rune vows never to see Sir Adam de Clancy again. Soon, however, the rebellious Gida is forced to admit that marriage - even to Sir Adam - is preferable to the alternative of being banished to a nunnery.

Sir Piers Tregarron, handsome, ambitious and a man of fair estate, should be the ideal husband for any girl. At Queen Elizabeth's Court he is important, intent on rising even higher, but Catherine Benton is not impressed by this man selected as her bridegroom. She is even less impressed when his gallantry to the Queen prevents him attending his own wedding! Yet what do Sir Piers's heartless aspirations matter when the man Catherine truly loves is dead? How can she be other than indifferent to her husband's attentions? Can their marriage by proxy be anything but doomed, especially when Catherine learns that her beloved Will may still be alive?

The boring round of trivial politenesses endured by all women in Victorian society has not prepared Jessica Linton for the devastating charm of Prince Paul Varinsky. How can she have fallen in love with so totally unsuitable a man? Not only is he married - and Jessica is unwilling to risk a scandal - but he is Russian, England's foe in the war brewing in Turkey. Desperate to blot him from her mind, Jessica embarks for Scutari in the Crimea as one of Florence Nightingale's staff, dedicated to saving lives in the primitive conditions there. A chance encounter reunites her with the one man she is trying to forget - an enemy now both of her country and her patriotic heart....

Adam-Leap-The-Mountain ... a Navajo half-breed Indian born of the wilderness in the Western plains of America a man capable of killing ruthlessly to survive. Deborah ... an English girl who has ventured into a savage land and been befriended by gentle Quakers in the Wild West. Then, horror strikes out of the lonely wilderness when the Quaker missionaries are massacred. Surviving the attack, Deborah finds her future can be guaranteed only as the woman of Adam-Leap-The-Mountain, who has already proclaimed his desire for her at their chance meeting beside a waterfall. How can she reconcile her strict Victorian upbringing with life as an obedient Navajo squaw? A man and a woman divided by civilization but bound by passions older than time itself ...