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Jane Donnelly

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49 books
3.5 (211)
1,349 readers

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Jane Donnelly began earning her living as a writer as a teenage reporter. When she married the editor of the newspaper she freelanced for women's mags for a while. After she was widowed she and her 5 year old daughter moved to Lancashire. She turned to writing fiction to make a living while still caring for her daughter, she sold her first Mills & Boon romance novel as a hard-up singleparent in 1965. She wrote over 60 romance novels for Mills & Boon until 2000. Now she lives in a roses-round-the door cottage near Stratford upon Avon, with four dogs and assorted rescued animals. Besides writing she enjoys travelling, swimming, walking and the company of friends.

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Why do seasons change?

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"An examination of the phenomena and scientific principles behind the changing of the seasons"--Provided by publisher.

Max's proposal

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A suitable wife? It was a practical proposal. Max Vella, rich and famous businessman, needed a wife to organize his many social functions, and Sara needed money to help her sister. So Sara took on the role of dutiful wife, but just as she was beginning to realize that her feelings for Max were more than just business she discovered that she wasn't the only candidate he'd had in mind. The beautiful and enviable Imogen was everything Sara was not and if Sara wanted to keep her man it looked as if she had a fight on her hands!

Mighty giants of the wild

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Shows the sizes of different mammals and provides a variety of facts about such animals as elephants, whales, and grizzly bears.

The jewels of Helen

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A spoiled brat who liked her own way Eight years ago Max Torba thought Anni was self-centered-and that she didn't care if her demands made life impossible for those who loved her. Now, meeting again at Max's home in Turkey, it was clear he still held the same opinion, no matter how hard she tried to make a good impression. "You haven't changed much, have you?" he said. "You still don't give a damn for the trouble you cause." But did Max's opinion really matter? After all, Anni had no intention of adding herself to his admiring band of female followers...

Fetters of gold

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Dinah wasn't a gold digger, and she'd prove it Yet convincing powerful entrepreneur Marcus Christophi of that wasn't easy. Especially with her fiance, Nic, Marcus's weak-willed younger cousin, suffering memory loss from an accident. But Dinah didn't give up. As she stuck by the convalescing Nic -- at the Christophi home in Cornwall and then at the family's Greek Island getaway -- she finally began to make headway. Truth was, the headway was unexpected and unsettling, for her feelings were taking a drastic turn. The love she thought she had for Nic was nothing compared to what she now felt for Marcus...

No place to run

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The Kelly Group International (KGI): A super elite, top secret, family-run business. Qualifications: High intelligence, rock hard body, military background. Mission: Hostage/kidnap victim recovery. Intelligence gathering. Handling jobs the US government can't… SAM KELLY WAS HER FIRST LOVE. The last person Sam Kelly expected to pull wounded from the lake was Sophie Lundgren. Once they shared a brief, intense affair while Sam was undercover and then she vanished. She's spent the last months on the run, knowing that any mistake would cost her life and that of her unborn child -- Sam's child. Now she's resurfaced with a warning for Sam: this time, he's the one in danger. NOW HE'S HER LAST CHANCE. Sam has too many questions to let her slip away again -- like why she disappeared in the first place. This time he vows not to be seduced. But one look in her eyes, and the passion burns again, and Sam knows he'll do anything to keep her and his child safe. However, Sophie's dark past is more dangerous than he imagines, and the only way for either to survive it is to outrun it.

Force field

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Her affairs were none of his business! — Maybe here, Kerry hoped, in this colorful seaside Cornish village, she could briefly escape the real-life tragedy of her father's recent death. — The invitation to play Rosalind in an amateur performance of As You Like It at a summer festival came at precisely the right moment. And when her "sexy Rosalind" instantly attracted the ardor of young Adrian Caradoc, Kerry saw little harm in indulging in a mild holiday flirtation. Now, if only his imperious stepbrother, David, would stop his silly interfering!

Ride a wild horse

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The police thought Julie had amnesia when they left her in the custody of the Suttons, but twelve-year-old Barney Sutton soon discovers she knows perfectly well who she is and where she is from.

To cage a whirlwind

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Morag was a sort of hostage, buying time for her brother to pay back swindled money. But Morag truly remained for the undeniably attractive laird himself. But trying to make him love her would be impossible...and what point was there in trying when there was Rosalie?

Ring of crystal

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She'd never sought a man's affections Annie Bennett had always had a steady supply of suitors, but much to her parents' dismay, no one had ever captured her heart -- not even the man she'd once almost married. But when she came up against the forceful new editor of her hometown newspaper in Wales, Annie knew she'd met the son-in-law of her parents' dreams. And she was afraid she'd met her match. It came as a crushing blow for Annie to realize she'd been waiting for Adam Corbett all her life, although he refused to take her seriously.

Moon lady

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The good Moon Lady teaches Zabu, the Prince of Darkness, some beneficial uses of his black magic and shows a little boy how to overcome the mischievous side of his nature.

A fierce encounter

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Martin Jackson was a form of madness,Since their brief and blazing affair five years before, Lacey had not heard a word from Martin. He'd left Chadsford to pursue a brilliant career in television, and she knew he'd forgotten her completely.So, when he returned, apparently expecting Lacey to pick up where they had left off, wasn't it natural that she should resent his casual possessiveness?After all, she was engaged to another man, and her love for Martin was a thing of the past...

Call Up the Storm

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“There’s a wild streak in you.” Felicity had reason to remember her grandfather’s words when David Holle entered her life. She knew all about his womanising, and being the descendant of a legendary sea witch, she vowed to repay him for the way he had broken her friend’s heart. But Felicity became tangled in her own black spell. By the time she fell in love with him, he knew her as a cheat, unworthy of his trust—and his love.

Face The Tiger

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"Don't underrate yourself," Gavin said But Sophy's lifetime habit was hard to break. After all, if family and friends thought you were a dimwit, what chance did you have? Sophy had arrived at Gavin Tighe's home raging to confront this cynical tiger of a man she blamed for upsetting her life. But she stayed to work for him and found he completely upset her again. This time, though, a confident new Sophy welcomed the change -- a change brought about by their love!

Diamond Cut Diamond

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Why should Charlotte's father, who had always been so tolerant of her friendships, object so strongly to her relationship with Jeremy Wylde, when he knew she loved him and intended to marry him? And why did he so clearly approve of the obnoxious and overbearing Saul Laurenson? Then Charlotte found out—with a vengeance!

The frozen jungle

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It was not often that anyone got the better of the celebrated writer Duncan Keld, let alone managed to damage his reputation - but journalist Pattie Moss had unwittingly managed to do just that, with the result that Duncan, to put it mildly, had a very low opinion of her. So when Pattie was sent off to get an interview with him she was apprehensive, to say the least. She could only hope that his anger had subsided a bit by now, and perhaps he wouldn't remember her anyway. Then Pattie found herself snowed up with Duncan in the middle of Yorkshire, with all her worst fears realised .....

Flash point

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He was actually trying to bribe her! Liam Sherrard really believed that Carly was after his aunt's money. She was incensed when he even offered to recompense her if she'd refuse the old lady's invitation to visit their chateau in Brittany! "Why?" Carly taunted him. "Are you afraid she might change her will? Name me instead of you?" Carly was no gold digger. But if Liam Sherrard chose to see her as one--she'd certainly give him a run for his money!