Fiona Harrowe

They wed in haste—Nora Thorngoode, to save her ruined reputation, and Grayson Lowell, to rescue his estate from foreclosure for unpaid debts. Each resents the necessity to exchange vows that will bind them for all time, and yet from the first, passion flames between them…quickly engulfing them in a sensual obsession…But soon the lover that Nora married becomes a dark stranger to her, a man torn apart by guilt over his brother's recent, mysterious death…and driven half-mad by ghostly specters who demand that Grayson expose the truth. Has Nora married a murderer whose wicked deeds blacken everything around them? Or, together, in the secret passageways of Blackheath Grange and along Cornwall's remote coastline, can Grayson and Nora discover what really happened that terrible night…and in setting free the troubled ghosts, free themselves as well?

Her name was Alice, and she was very young and quite lovely. But she was only a serf. Which was why they took such trouble to disguise her when they thrust her into Lord Simon's bed. A barren wife, a ruthless mother, an innocent girl, and a plot to ensure an heir for Tribourne, one of 14th-century England's great noble households, become the stormy center of this rich and robust novel.

Her fiery beauty was a burden, her passion a curse Joanna Coke was the apple of her father's eye. And while his lowly position could never protect her from the advances of men who lusted after her, Joanna's own spirited loveliness was more than a challenge. From the pastoral village where she bloomed to beauty, to the squalor of a seedy London teeming with wine-soaked noblemen and cunning wenches, Joanna made her way, never escaping the dark passions that pursued and inflamed her - and never forgetting the one man whom she touched with love....

She was a victim of the Spanish Inquisition. He was a soldier sworn to destroy her. Together, they found a love no one could ever destroy.... The year was 1649. The place was exotic Mexico City, the New Spain in a brave new world. But the long treacherous arm of the Spanish Inquisition had moved across the ocean to seek out all "traitors" of Catholicism and the Spanish throne. For the voluptuous Francisca de Silva, the Inquisition meant great fear. She was a converso, a Jew whose wealthy family had practiced their religion in secret for generations. Never could she ever speak the truth of who or what she was. Never could she marry outside her faith -- even as her heart and tempestuous spirit made her long for freedom. But then she met the charismatic Miguel del Castillo, a nephew of the Grand Inquisitor of Seville himself. And from that moment on, she would never be free again. From that moment on, Francisca and Miguel would share a love so passionate, so complete that nothing -- not the Inquisition, not her family, not life itself -- could still their desire....

She was a Lady destined for an arranged marriage. He was a Squire sworn to defend a desperate cause. They loved each other over years of longing — in a world that kept them agonizingly apart. EVERARD OF GUILLOME — the young squire who rescues a beautiful girl from rape, only to ravish her himself. Though he thinks her merely a peasant, he finds himself falling hopelessly in love. LADY THAISA — of the streaming golden hair and pale creamy skin, whose sparkling eyes, blue as gentians, shine with a love to which she can never fully abandon herself. She is rushed into marriage with the old, violent — and madly jealous — Gilbert of Barbosa. HUGH OF JAFFA — Everard's master, a libertine who enjoys all kinds of women. But the only one he truly loves is his beautiful cousin... MELISANDE — a strong, ambitious beauty, determined to become Queen at any cost. Even a lovely marriage to a much older man...

Falconer #1 She was willful, wanton, and very beautiful... What can you expect, people said. She was her mother's daughter. Sweeping from 19th-century New Orleans to glamorous San Francisco to the California gold fields and Virginia during the Civil war, here is the spellbinding story of Carmella Hastings, whose passions always seemed to cause trouble. Cavorting recklessly, marrying foolishly, obsessively trying to understand her mother's bawdy life, Carmella's hidden innocence attracts Miles Falconer, who's willing to protect her in spite of herself... Spicy passion and grand excitement as a brazen young girl becomes a confident woman... Falconer Series: Passion's Child Dark Obsession

She burned for the touch of a man who was her enemy.... — Amelie Townsend is the lovely golden-haired Southerner, a girl as loyal to the Confederate cause as she is to Thaddeus Warner, her childhood sweetheart.... Damon Fowler is the dashing, sexy Yankee who disrupts her very life and awakens delicious, forbidden passions in her.... Babette Townsend is Amelie's vixenish younger sister, who lets no traditional morals prevent her from seeking the lusty pleasures she craves.... Willie Harper is the virile object of Babette's desire, a man controlled by a will stronger than his own.... Fiona Harrowe weaves together the thrilling strands of their compelling story, bringing you a fiery tale of love and betrayal--set against the exciting backdrop of the Civil War.

Deirdre Morse, a beautiful young widow intent on saving Wildoak, her family plantation, falls in love with Ian Montgomery, a bankrupt English nobleman.

When Theo Carstairs begins a love affair with a younger man, she discovers that she finally has the courage to take charge of her life