Penelope Neri

After her husband confesses to a racy but ultimately unfulfilling affair, Sophie Gibson's rage leaves her raw, unable to process his attempt to repair the damage by suggesting she have her own tryst.Soon, though, the idea of sex as retaliation begins to intrigue her--a no-strings-attached, sexually subversive liaison may be just what she needs before she can forgive Andrew. Hooking up with Peter, a dark and dangerous artist willing to push the limits of Sophie's lustful, quivering need, fits the bill perfectly.Sophie's covetousness for Peter was always about experiencing intensity in the moment, but soon the affair runs its course and now it's time for her to focus on her future...with Andrew. Except, Peter is convinced he can't live without her. Then come the cards, the presents, the calls...the hint of a threat. One way or another he will have Sophie. Even if that means exacting revenge of his own.

"It is 1947, the year Jackie Robinson breaks major-league baseball's color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers - and changes the world. This is the story of that season, as told through the eyes of a difficult, brooding, and wounded man named Joseph Burke. A veteran of World War II and a survivor of Guadalcanal, Burke is hired by Brooklyn Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to guard Robinson. While Burke shadows Robinson, a man of tremendous strength and character suddenly thrust into the media spotlight, the bodyguard must also face some hard truths of his own, in a world where the wrong associations can prove fatal."--BOOK JACKET.

NOW JOINED BY BLOOD ARE WE... For decades the Highlanders fought each other, as well as the English from the south who spilled over the borders. But children know nothing of clan hatreds, no of enemies. When sixteen-year-old Graham MacKenzie and ten-year-old Skyla MacLeod swore a blood oath to eternal friendship, it was the beginning of a love as deep as the lochs of their homeland and as enduring as the heather on the hills. SO JOINED FOREVER MORE SHALL BE! Ten years later, Gray was a grown man, laird in his own right, and read to make sweet Skyla his bonnie bride. But on the morn of their betrothal, her uncle was found murdered, with Gray's dirk buried deep in his heart. Gazing at the suspicion in his beloved's eyes, he knew he had but one choice-to steal his bride away and prove that love could unite both their bodies and their clans.

LIGHT OF HER HEART Morgan St. James was by far the most virile man Miranda Tallant had ever seen. From his thick locks of midnight silk to his well muscled chest rippling with unchecked power, Miranda realized at once that this man was no ordinary lighthouse keeper. But while she did not know if he had come to investigate her family's smuggling or if he truly had been disinherited, one glance at his emerald dark eyes promisd her untold nights of desire. KEEPER OF HIS LOVE Bent on discovering the blackguards responsible for his friend's death, Morgan didn't expect to be caught up in the stormy sea of Miranda Tallant's turquoise eyes. The lovely widow consumed his every waking thought and his every dream with an all encompassing passion. For while he could not abandon his duty to his friend and his family, he knew that he could not rest until Miranda's heart was his.

He was a British convict, framed for murder, sentenced to rot in an Australian prison. She was a highborn lady on her way to a new life. Nathan Kincaid and Lady Mariah Downing were bound for two very different worlds . . . until the winds of fate left them shipwrecked on a tropical island that became their own seductive Eden. Their future was filled with danger and uncertainty; their pasts held secrets neither could face. But as sun-drenched days and star-streaked nights blended together in a delicious haze of pleasure, they surrendered to a love that swept them away to the very shores of paradise!

Tyler Mackenzie and Jenny Delaney are farm children from two 2 warring families, who grow up and fall in love. When they are not allowed to be together, Tyler goes off to fight in the Civil War. This leaves Jenny to make a crucial decision - to choose the life she has known since childhood or to leave the farm and search for the man she loves.

She would always be his... Badly in need of a change, newly divorced Kelly Michaels traveled to Arizona to forget her troubles and put her life in order. But instead of letting go of her past, Kelly was haunted by nightly dreams of a raven-haired Indian warrior who drove away her worries with his powerful loving, kissing her tenderly, caressing her boldly and pledging his undying love. His searing tough was more than intimate -- it was oddly familiar. And as he sensed her deepest desires, filling her with a consuming ecstasy, Kelly knew her handsome, bronze-skinned lover was no phantom, for the passions he awakened with his teasing touch were all too real. He seemed to be calling her back to another time, to a place where they would find a chance to love again. He would always be hers... To the proud Comanche warrior White Wolf, it seemed that a hundred years had passed since the spirit of his beloved wife had taken flight into another world. For many moons, he'd shared blissful days of tenderness and nights of scorching passion with his wondrous blue-eyed treasure, reveling in the satiny feel of her ivory skin, her lustrous dark tresses, her firmly rounded curves -- until a great tragedy had robbed his precious Blue Beads of her very soul, leaving White Wolf with amere shell of a woman. But now, the spirits had granted him the power to reclaim her from the world of tomorrow, and White Wolf vowed to hold her in his arms again, to bring her back to the place where their love would last Forever and Beyond.

SENSUAL OASIS Kidnapped from her French Foreign Legion escort, indignant Alexandria Harding had every reason to despise her nomad prince captor. He'd forced her brother tope into the ruthless Saharan wasteland, bound and tortured the soldiers sworn to protect her--then ordered the independent firebrand to share his saddle! But as they traveled to his isolated mountain kingdom, the proper, demure Englishwoman couldn't help but be aware of the strength of his embrace and the thrumming of his heart. Without knowing when it happened, Alexandria found her hate melting into desire, with a force that could never be denied... MIDNIGHT MIRAGE When the powerful chieftain Sharif Al 'Azim found the green-eyed temptress trespassing with his expansionist enemies, he knew he had to keep the sumptuous spire. Faced with such voluptuous beauty it was easy for the virile leader to forget that his people would demand her life in vengeance against the whites, that his jealous concubine awaited him, or that a British prisoner could start a war with the Empire. All he could see were her luscious curves, all he could smell was her scent of roses, all he could feel was her ecstatic response as he made love to his delicious DESERT CAPTIVE

HE COULDN’T BELIEVE HER LIES When Roarke Gilchrist first found a coarsely clad beauty nearly buried in new-fallen snow, he took desperate measures to revive her. He warmed her with his naked body and thoroughly massaged every inch of her flawless skin. Convinced she was a slave, the lusty laird plundered her charms and took his pleasure. But when he discovered this was no lowly chattel, Roarke felt misled and suspected this ebony-haired wench was sent to be his assassin. Whatever her mission, the virile male planned to take advantage of each heated moment the mysterious goddess was in his embrace--in his chambers if she was innocent and in his dungeon if she was a spy! SHE COULDN’T RESIST HIS LIPS When high-born Catriona felt the first touch of warmth after having been cold so long, the grateful girl clung to the towering strength of the man who’d saved her life. But as she succumbed to a tidal wave of ecstasy, she was horrified: perhaps this handsome stranger was her would-be killer who’d left her to die in the blizzard. Each waking moment Catriona plotted her escape. Then Roarke would sensually caress each of her silken limbs and his tongue would trace each of her smooth curves. And even as her mind fought his masterful invasion, her unsatisfied body made her a willing victim of Roarke's exciting touch and an eager prisoner of his BOLD BREATHLESS NIGHTS

SHE'D SLAP HIS HANDSOME FACE When she fled Wyoming to escape her lecherous boss, golden-haired Silver Dupres was sure she'd be safe disguised as a boy on an expedition to chart the Colorado River. Then she gazed at the explorers' rugged, towering scout, and her powerful response reminded her full force how much of a woman she was. Half hoping he somehow desired her, too, the aroused beauty dreamed of how she'd spurn the muscular male if he ever discovered her sex! HE'D TASTE HER SATIN FLESH As the treacherous rapids closed over the lad's head, daring Jesse Wilder dove in to rescue him--only to find he was a she! In his anger, the green-eyed guide decided he'd show her time and again just what a wench was good for. But as he stroked her silken curves, Jesse's rage flared into rapture. There'd be enough time later to punish her; now all he wanted was the pleasure he could get from his sultry Silver Rose...

Viking Trilogy #1 TEMPEST OF FURY When arms of steel trapped her slender waist and hungry lips branded her lustrous skin, 18 year old Freya's rage exploded. How dare her enemy ignore her noble birth and treat her like any other female captured in battle! But even as the wild-haired beauty vowed eternal revenge, the spark of ecstasy was kindled deep inside her, and her supple body betrayed her. Then she couldn't help but swear allegiance to the man who made her vibrate with passion and beg for satisfaction... WINDSTORM OF LUST Hot- tempered Alaric, 23, had long planned the humiliation of his hated foe's daughter. Finally he clasped her hard against him and made free with her ample womanly charms... but the ruthless prince never expected her musky feminine scent to intoxicate him, her full provocative curves to drive him wild. Alaric had thought only of making the wench from across the ocean his lowly bedchamber slave; he'd never accept that now she was mistress of his heart, his treasured, beloved SEA JEWEL

SARAH WAS NO LADY..... — the moment she shamelessly appraised handsome Dr. Heath Ryan. His aura of raw power and rugged virility flung her unto a whirlpool of frightening yet wonderful emotions. He made her want to splash naked in the sparkling Pacific, to caress his muscled back, to hold him in a bed of sweetly scented flowers where he alone could rescue her from a tidal wave of unknown longing. HEATH WAS NO GENTLEMAN..... when his gaze raked Sarah's lustrous black hair, her exotic turquoise eyes, her thrusting breasts beneath white lace. His blazing desire made him forget she was just eighteen and he knew he would conquer the innocent girl. He would taste the honeyed nectar of her full lips against his own, and press the soft warmth of her body to his flesh in their tropical arbor of love, their fragrant... Jasmine Paradise.

"Beloved Scoundrel" by Penelope Neri is a sequel to "Passion's Rapture." Four characters from that book are in this book as well, including the "hero" of this book, Captain James Mallory. The Particulars: James is summoned to New Orleans by Nellie Flagg, the madam of a house of ill repute and friend of James.

They were as different as satin and steel --- the spoiled British heiress and the brash American cowboy who'd been hired to protect her. And there was no love lost between them. He was well acquainted with women's deceits, and expected little more than lies from his lovely charge. His arrogance infuriated her and she fought him at every turn, even when her willfulness led to danger greater than either imagined. Yet there was a seductive magic between Angelica Higgins and Nick Durango that neither could resist. From London and Paris to Venice and Cairo, their passion burned with a fierce heat that would leave them forever branded by its fire!

Viking Trilogy #3 A chill mist blankets the verdant hills of 9th-century Eire, while in far-off Britain Edana of Kenley waits for the blue-blooded nobleman betrothed to her when they were children. But the fierce, emerald-eyed stranger who gallops up to her castle is not her bridegroom. A hooded falcon perches on his shoulder. A silver-and-black wolf shadows his every step. He is called Kerrin, the "Dark One," feared by man and beast alike. His mission is to escort Edana to her bridegroom's distant keep. Yet from the moment they meet, Edana is swept away by her passion for this sensual, mysterious warrior who is haunted by a legacy of blood and treachery...even as he hungers for the love that could set him free.

A young thief is drawn into a life of magic and adventure after picking the pocket of the powerful wizard Nevery Flinglas, who has returned from exile to attempt to reverse the troubling decline of magic in Wellmet City.

Former CIA agent Bailey Jones has spent months trying to forget her night of passion with mercenary Sean Reilly. An elite and methodical assassin, she has no room in her life for a reckless, rule-breaking Irishman, and she's vowed to steer clear of the tempting bad boy who lured her into his bed under false pretenses. When Sean is implicated in the robbery of a Dublin bank, Bailey knows something isn't right. So what if she can't trust him? There's no way Sean would end up on the wrong side of the law. In fact, he's stuck in the middle of a dark and dirty conspiracy that could put his twin brother's life at risk with one wrong move. And Bailey's life too when she agrees to help. As the stakes are raised and Bailey finds herself torn between two brothers, the fine line between danger and desire is crossed...and it'll take more than a killer instinct to survive.

Marked by unwarranted rumour, Victoria's dance card was blank but for one handsome suitor: Steede Warring, eighth earl of Blackstone. Known behind his back as the Brute, he vows to have 18 year old Victoria for his bride. Little does she suspect that Steede will uncover her body's hidden pleasures, and show her that only faith and trust can cast aside the bitter pain of scandals.