FICTION · ROMANCE FICTION
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I'm ten years old, my whole life you've called me Vanya.
— from Enchantment
Most acclaimed
Fascination
2004
Pretty but penniless Grace Wren yearns for love ... but must marry for money. So she consents to wed Lord Arran Rossmara, the ancient and ailing Marquess of Stonehaven -- unaware that her fiance is considerably younger and healthier than she has been led to believe. But the handsome, reclusive lord wants a plain and docile mate who will bear him children and leave him alone -- not a fascinating temptress who arouses his long-suppressed desires with her breathtaking sensuality. And so Arran sets out to seduce the misled miss incognito, thereby exposing Grace to the world as a shameless fortune hunter -- never dreaming that his intricate and shockingly intimate game of hearts will go romantically, passionately awry.
Midnight Lover
Your father is alive... Those four words irrevocably changed Leonie Lincoln's whole conception of her past. She had to find him, talk to him--discover the hidden "whys" about herself. But however remote West Africa seemed in England, when she got there some things were surprisingly immediate--like the threat of tribal war and domineering foreign correspondents. "Take some advice, " Greg Thornton told her when he learned about her mission. "Fly back to England. There are all manner of dangers in the jungle.... "
Tears of gold
Vengeance leads Nicholas around the world in search of the temptress Mara until their meeting turns his desire for revenge into passionate love. Haunted by the memory of her aristocratic father's desertion of his mistress and children, Mara O'Flynn grew up despising men. She sought her livelihood in the theater, where, as a beautiful actress, she found vengeance in enchanting and discarding suitors, teasing them with subtle promises of ecstasy only to reject them with an air of finely tuned cruelty. It was an amusing sport... until the young Lord Julian--half mad with desire--shot himself. Then Mara, with her brother Brendan and his small son Paddy, departed for America. Brendan hoped to strike it rich in the California hills... Mara wanted only to forget young Julian's desperate act. She had no idea that Julian's uncle, Nicholas Chantale, was in pursuit. Dashing, reckless and rich, Nicholas Chantale had vowed revenge on the temptress who brought his nephew to such an extreme. Nicholas desired one thing--to win the affection of this evil beauty and then spurn her! Unsuspecting, Mara found herself in love, her long-suppressed passions awakened for the first time... by a man whose seductive allure concealed the hate in his heart!