Rachel Lindsay

A horrified "No", was Melissa Benton's first reaction to Prince Louis's proposal. Rich, beautiful, head of the powerful Benton Company--she had no interest in a man she'd never even met. And that was a!I right with Prince Louis -- he didn't really want to marry her either! It came as a rude shoc kto both of them to learn that the Benton money and their marriage was the only real solution to Motavia's troubles and behind-the-scene pressures. But with the lovely Countess Elise waiting in the wings for Louis, would patriotic fervor sustain their marriage? Melissa doubted it!

Natalie is a schoolteacher who is pressed upon by her close friend, to take care of her dating agency business, when close friend falls ill. This brings Natalie into conflict with surgeon Miles, who accuses Natalie and her dating agency of setting up his sister with a con artist, out for all he can get out of Miles' wealthy family, with Miles vowing to put the dating agency out of business .....

The heroine is his secretary. She's good, dignified woman who married her boss to keep the gold digger at the bay. The gold digger was his ex-fiancee who abandon him when he was involved in job-site accident which led him paralyzed. Eventually love ensues.

Fight as she might against her feelings for Rafael Rodriguez, Lorna had to admit them in the end. But the two of them were separated by barriers of nationality, language, and two completely different backgrounds. Lorna was in the position of having to accept an alien way of life for herself, or give up the man who had become so dear to her. Should she back out while there was still time, or could there be a future for them together?

Juliet and Janice are identical twins; Juliet is a photographer, while Janice is a model, whose work has included some racy lingerie photos. She meets Tony, an Italian racing driver from a rich family and gets pregnant, but dies giving birth to his son, after Tony himself is killed in a car race in Australia. To get full custody of baby Anthony, Juliet pretends to be Janice and moves to Italy when Carlo, Tony's older brother convinces Juliet Tony's son should be brought up in his father's homeland. Though Carlo is attracted to Juliet, thinking she's Janice, of the loose morals (due to racy lingerie photos), he treats her badly, but Juliet gives back as good as she gets - eventually all is revealed for the HEA !!!

After years of estrangement, Miranda had been dubious about accepting her French grandmother's invitation to visit at her home in Provence, and she set out rather reluctantly. She might not have been so reluctant had she known she would be offered a dazzling career as a dress designer, and that she would meet two attractive men as well. At least, Pierre Chambray was attractive; Miranda wasn't so sure about Alain Maury.

Nicole Herriot took a dislike to Pierre Dubois the moment she met him, and worked hard to free her uncle's world-famous couture firm from his influence. Then she found, belatedly, that her feelings towards him were changing ... yet she could not turn aside from the path she had marked out. Her loyalty was still to the House of Lorraine, and to Lucien Chausson whom she had promised to marry. While Pierre, it seemed, was himself bound to the glamorous Janice Worth. Would the situation ever sort itself out?

Lizbeth works as the PR director for a British TV company, and crosses swords almost immediately with Danny Ferguson, the son of the company's new owner. A beautiful actress and a young actor get in the way of Danny and Lizbeth finding that they actually love each other more than they hate each other.

Flannery Rivers is content to let her sister Harper carry on the family dynasty—at the Rivers hospital where they both work and on the home front. Now that Harper is settled and soon to be happily married, Flannery can ease back into her life of casual flirtations and find all the excitement she needs in the ER. She's even got her next playmate all lined up, or so she thinks. Abigail Remy is a city girl who accepts a position at the imperiled country hospital in the hope of finding a stable, safe community for her teenaged trans son. Unfortunately, when she arrives to work, she discovers the current ER chief is less than happy to be replaced by a fresh-out-of-residency newcomer. Add unexpected attraction to the incendiary mix of city and country, fire and ice, tradition and change—and the prescription is combustible. —Back cover

Laurel wasn't sure whether she loved Tony enough to marry him, and the holiday in Greece was to give her an opportunity to make up her mind. And there she encountered Dimitri Janis, who thought he could master everyting and everybody - including Laurel! How dared he interfere!

When Erica went to work in Venice she had never dreamed that she would end up by falling in love with the attractive, immensely rich Conte Filippo Rosetti. And Filippo's close friend Claudia Medina, it soon appeared, was going to see to it that it remained only a dream!

anya dazedly tried to understand what Adrian was saying. "Six years ago," he went on, "your government announced that all its citizens who were married to foreigners had divorced them. So seeing you was something of a shock." Something of a shock! The understatement almost made Tanya laugh, except that she was the butt of the joke. Not only was she in an alien country, but the man to whom she had come no longer wanted her. Even worse, for five years he had believed that she no longer wanted him!

If only she could turn back the clock! Juliet Stone was an acclaimed actress and a very happy bride-to-be. But disaster struck when a strange illness ruined her career and caused her fiance to desert her. Lonely and desperate, Juliet accepted Dr. Damon Masters's proposal of marriage. It would enable him to take an important job in the Middle East, and at least it would keep her busy. She had no feelings for Damon--or so she thought until Monique Lamont, beautiful and brilliant, came back into his life. And by then it was too late ...

"I seem to be an extremely bad judge of women," Phillip said at last. "Either that or you're the best actress I've ever met!" It seemed so ironic. Now that the way was clear for her and Phillip to love each other, Lesley couldn't marry him. Nor could she tell him the real reason; she didn't trust him. How could you tell the man you love that you think he killed his wife? Phillip would just have to believe she didn't love him.

The photographs were explicit and damning Marcos Santana was right: no one would believe that he and Sharley had not been having an affair the pictures said it all. Sharley knew there was good reason for the blackmail. The labor disputes in Marcos's Portuguese vineyards and the merger with her Godfather's English Corp. would blow up if the pictures were released. There was no alternative but to destroy the photographs scandal value. They must get married-quickly! The marriage would be in name only, but would Marcos's girlfriend, Teresa understand that? Would Marcos...?

Piotr must have a mother. Carolyn Clarke, already devoted to the little half-Polish boy, found it impossible to resist the plea from a dying man. And so she became a stepmother, married a few hours before his death to a man she scarcely knew, and burdened with responsibilities of which she had never dreamed. For, taking Piotr to England to meet his relatives for the first time, Carolyn found a situation very different from what she had been led to expect. When she learned the terms of Piotr's aunt's will, she realised how suspect her motives must have appeared to the family -- but even this did not account for the strange and hurtful attitude of Alvin Thyssen, a man Carolyn might dislike but could never ignore.