Rachel Cosgrove Payes

Awakening after a century-long nap, Singra, the Wicked Witch of the South, finds out that Dorothy has killed the Wicked Witches of the East and West and tries to avenge their deaths.

When a young woman makes a journey to Guatemala in search of her missing brother, she finds unexpected excitement when a handsome stranger comes into her life. "You should be wearing emeralds--green, mysterious, exotic..." When she heard those words, the mahogany-haired Vicky Sinclair had already given her heart to the charismatic, darkly handsome Phil Mart. But their searing love is sorely tested in Emeralds and Jades, a lush, sweeping story of romantic suspense set in Guatemala, exotic land of the ancient Mayans and the bustling new... The tale begins in New York City, where Vicky, a student of pre-Columbian art, has recently received several disturbing postcards from her step-brother Chuck in Guatemala, imploring her to come. Vicky decides to make the trip, but on the eve of her departure, her neighbor takes her to a party. There she meets the mysterious Phil--and is immediately attracted to his cool, strong looks. They leave the party together--and Phil asks her to stay with him in New York. Though everything in her says yes, Vicky knows she must go to help her brother... But when Vicky lands in Guatemala, she discovers that she is being followed--and that her brother is missing. Soon she is plunged into a terrifying mystery, involving a ruthless smuggling ring, a priceless jade sculpture, and a foreign world where no one can be trusted--not her brother, not Phil, and least of all herself...

With dizzying speed, beautiful Fiona McQuade, 16, went from shopgirl to protege of a duke and duchess. Dazzled by the luxurious living, Fiona forgot her lowly origins and even dreamed of marrying Viscount Will Huxley, the duchess's handsome lover. But of course the arrogant duke and duchess had other plans for the lovely Fiona. They all were members of the dreaded Hellfire Club: jaded nobility who satiated their decadent desires on the young and innocent. And so the unawakened Fiona was ravished by many men, the handsome Will Huxley among them. She had been sold into sexual slavery, and Fiona vowed they all would pay, even the man she loved

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Beautiful, spirited young Mellie Wilton thought the handsome Earl of Henning was going to rescue her from her degrading life in London and take her to his wealthy estate in Kent because he wanted her for his wife. When he tricked her into marrying his son so that he would have an heir to his fortune, Mellie became enraged. Tormented by a husband who could never love her, yet consumed with desire for the man who had deceived her, Mellie was filled with a burning need for fulfillment and revenge. Published by Playboy Press, this is no Signet HR. Note the two wildly differing reviews on Goodreads. One is 5 star and the other is 1 Star.

Lady Alicia had a plan... Since the gallants who courted her were enchanted only by her face and her fortune, Lady Alicia Morgan Fitzhugh St. John was determined to seek true love elsewhere-away from London and all who knew her. So she created Morgan Fitzhugh, a gentlewoman of modest means and in need of employment. Answering an advertisement, Alicia was hired as personal secretary to Darcy Cummings, Baron Pennsfield. But then her strategem broke down. The baron was uncommonly bad-tempered and seemed to take an instant dislike to her. Clearly, love still eluded Alicia-but in the meantime, she just might enjoy a battle of wits.