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Marilyn Harris

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Born January 1, 1931
Died January 1, 2002 (71 years old)
Oklahoma City, United States
18 books
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Harris was born on June 4, 1931, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the daughter of John P., an oil executive, and Dora (nee Veal) Harris. Harris was educated in her home state, attending Cottey College from 1945 to 1951, then transferring to the University of Oklahoma, from which she received a bachelor of arts degree in 1953 and a master of arts degree in 1955. Harris's first collection of short stories, King's Ex, was published by Doubleday in 1967. After that Harris proved a prolific author, publishing seventeen books, including novels, short stories, romance/ historical fiction and children's fiction in a twenty-year period from 1970 to 1989. These works, in addition to those listed above, include In the Midst of Earth (1969), The Peppersalt Land (1970), The Runaway's Diary (1971), The Conjurers (1974), Bledding Sorrow (1976), The Portent (1980), The Last Great Love (1981), Warrick (1985), Night Games (1987), and Lost and Found (1991). Harris's work has received a wide readership; in 1983, nine million of her books were in print, and her work has been translated into many languages, including French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, and Japanese. She has also been an author in residence at Oklahoma's Central State University. She died January 18, 2002. *Goodreads

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The prince of Eden

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HE WAS THE POWER AND THE FURY OF A DYNASTY. SHE WAS THE LOVE THAT COULD DESTROY HIM Edward Eden, a noble and passionate man of the people pursued a course decreed by his bastard heritage. Heir to the vast wealth but not the title of Lord Thomas Eden's estate, he rose to become the most splendid libertine in all London...and fell into the iron grip of a sinister addiction. Dashing conqueror of hearts, more willing then wise, he drank freely, recklessly from the waters of passion...only to lose himself body and soul to the one woman whose intoxicating thirst he was -- and forbidden -- to quench. Her world was forgotten, his destiny sealed, a dynasty dammed, in one silent hour of love.

The last great love

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When forty-seven-year-old Catherine Wakelin suddenly finds herself in a hospital as an emergency cardiac patient, she must face the implications of her own mortality in her life and marriage.

The Runaway's Diary

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A diary of a young girl's experiences during the three months she spends in Canada after running away from her troubled home.

American Eden

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Their hearts fired by the dreams and ambitions of a glorious heritage, Mary Eden Stanhope and her husband, Burke, built a new dynasty in lush, bountiful Alabama following the Civil War. The magnificent plantation flourished. Theirs was a dazzling world that defied all boundaries...until the night the hooded riders would come to shatter the dream -- first with murder, then with a violent kidnapping. Missing was their daughter, radiant blonde-haired Eve Stanhope, swept away to a destiny that would test her to the core. And their only hope lay with young Stephen Eden, a British stranger with his own dark secrets and the indomitable courage to fight for freedom and love. EVE--The daughter who reaped the "sins" of the father, her Eden pride and passion would provide her with a fighting spirit to survive the South's cruelty and the West's wild new land. STEPHEN--The outcast whose heritage was a legacy of shame, his blazing love for Eve would send him on a dangerous quest to rescue the women he claimed as his own. MARY--The mother who had sacrificed her world for the husband she loved now much face a terrible truth about his loyalties and about the turmoil within her heart. BURKE--The father, whose fierce dedication to freedom for all men would jeopardize his family and put him between the rock of his beliefs and the hard place of losing all he loved.

Bledding Sorrow

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Legacy of Love As the new bride of Geoffrey Bledding--and mistress of his magnificent Yorkshire estate -- Ann hoped at last to fulfill her wildest dreams of happiness. But as the walls of Bledding's manor closed behind her, she was forced instead to re-enact a cruel destiny ordained in centuries long dead by two who loved in its shadow. And now--trapped in the madness of her husband's cruelty, tortured by the inhuman cries and warnings of an ancestral nightmare--Ann dared to seek escape. She would love James, the handsome stranger, though his outstretched hand might lead her through an agonizing horror--and beyond!

The Eden Passion

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Eden #3 When a man loses his honor in the arms of a forbidden woman, love becomes his impossible dream. John Murrey Eden came home to bury the man and legend of his father -- and to claim a castle and destiny named Eden. Standing amid the beauty of all that would one day be his to rule, was the woman that should never have been his to love -- the Lady of Eden, the mistress of his father... From their tragic, forbidden love, a woman fled into the tormented darkness of endless guilt, and a man wandered around the world searching for honor without sorrow, the future without the past, and love without end.

Lost and found

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Tobias and Charlotte Eggers are not on vacation. Well, I suppose they are on a vacation from everything they once knew. Locked within the walls of Witherwood, high upon a mysterious mesa, they are still looking for a way out. There are distractions, however. The very ground is shaking, and the creatures that protect the school are revolting. When one of their only friends goes missing it leads to a devastating secret. But there is hope. There are other students who have clear minds and are also fighting to get out. Luckily for everyone, Tobias has a plan. It's a dangerous one, but if it works, it could forever change their fate and Witherwood's future.