Helene Thornton

She risked everything for love. Lady Jane Digby, a beautiful, accomplished noblewoman, lived in the post-Regency world of high romance. Love was what truly mattered to Lady Jane, and finding it was her goal, no matter what society might think or do. Scandal did not stop her from plunging into a passionate affair outside her marriage when her blue-blooded husband gave her nothing but his name. And not even betrayal could put out the burning flame within her as she searched for the one man who matched her in daring and desire. Based on one of history's most enthralling heroines, this Scarlet Ribbons Romance sweeps from the elegant country manors of England to the windswept sands of Arabia...and from the depths of a woman's search for true love to the heights of her ecstasy...

In an exotic land, their lost love blazed anew into glorious passion! FATE HAD ONCE TORN THEN FROM EACH OTHER...BUT A LOVE SO SPLENDID COULD NEVER DIE Despite the fire glowing in her windblown hair and defiant heart, Tessie Gallagher had yet to find true happiness in a man's arms. When she arrived in the mysterious land she had dreamt of since childhood, she was stunned to encounter the love of her wild-hearted youth. Tessie vowed not to give the handsome enigma called Jason Lancaster the chance to hurt her again...as he had done in far-off San Francisco ten years before. But the sudden disappearance of her favorite uncle forced her to accept Jason as her guide through a perilous mountain terrain. Traveling with him deep into misty realms, Tessie risked danger from her uncle's enemies...and from the tender feelings aroused in her by Jason's potent charm. Unable to restrain the rush of yearnings, she gave herself to him in passion's abandon. Yet as her body tasted exquisite pleasure, Tessie was tormented by fear. Their love seemed wondrously reborn...but a new betrayal might be waiting behind Jason's fervent embrace!

Aimee had been born for love. Shepherded through childhood by her beloved native nurse, a brown giantess of a woman named Damama, Aimee was forced to leave her beloved island of Martinique on the very brink of womanhood. Her silvery blond hair, eyes of turquoise, and a body created for pure pleasure set every man's passions on edge. In France during her stay at the convent, a stranger kidnapped her and with him Aimee discovered the delights of love. Armed with this thrilling new knowledge of herself, she set out to return to Martinique - and a future beyond her wildest dreams...

Against the dazzling backdrop of medieval Venice and the Orient unfolds this opulent tale of exotic adventure of treasure beyond imagining -- and a love story that became a legend. Nothing in Diego's life had prepared him for what he found when he followed Marco Polo to the mysterious East. There, in the vast domain of Kublai Khan, he met the most beautiful girl he had ever seen -- Lotus Flower, whose strange eyes captured his very soul and nearly made him forget the riches he had come to claim. But Lotus Flower would not be Diego's without a struggle, for she was desired by the great Khan himself . . .