Rebecca Stratton

Too much, too soon... To the outside world, it looked as though all of Melissa Morland's dreams had come true--she was married to gorgeous Charles Revington, was pregnant with his child and lived in a palatial home in France. But Melissa craved the one thing she did not have: her husband's love. Perhaps someday.... Then, in one shattering moment, Charles learned the truth about the night their child was conceived. His anger and disillusionment created chasms impossible to bridge--except perhaps by one small miracle!

“You want Paradis for your collection!" Venture accused him, showing the bitterness she felt at her island home being desecrated with a holiday hotel. She had been prepared to hate the French hotel tycoon, and had pictured him as short, fat and elderly. Nicol Regalle, young and handsome and arrogant, was a shock. Her friend, Madam Barbe, had used her native powers to forecast trouble with his coming. Now Venture realized that the trouble might well involve her heart!

He was a stranger, a man of mystery Linsie bitterly resented Jean-Pierre Chardin, the disturbingly enigmatic Frenchman who had bought her grandfather's prosperous Loire vineyards. "Why is it you have such passionate hatred for me?" he asked, bewildered and hurt. And Linsie, engaged to quiet undemonstrative Andre, couldn't answer honestly. All she knew was that encounters with Jean-Pierre left her restless - and with the feeling that something very important was missing from her life.

Charlotte has traveled to Spain to be the secretary of her mother’s friend. Although there is a tacit understanding that Charlotte and her employer’s son make a match of it, Charlotte is instead swept off her feet by the local aristocrat, Don Gerardo.

No noblewoman in all of Britain was more beautiful -- or more defiant -- than raven-haired, emerald-eyed Elizabeth of Rivaux, daughter of Catherine and Guy. After a disastrous first marriage, Elizabeth, left with a secret shame, refuses to accept any man. Now on her way to Harlowe, the border castle that is her birthright, she is kidnapped by Giles of Moray known throughout the border country as "The Butcher". Even her shrewish tongue couldn't stop Giles from pledging his freedom to win her. Unexpected passion envelopes Elizabeth and she is forced to surrender her love to this Scottish lord. Fire Series: Lady Of Fire (Fire, #1) Fire and Steel (Fire, #2) Hearts of Fire (Fire, #3) The Fire and the Fury (Fire, #4) Winter Roses (Fire, #5)

Michelle was 22 years old before she learned that she had a twin brother. Apparently he was living in Greece where he had been brought up. She traveled post-haste to meet him there, and Georgi welcomed her with delight. The same, unfortunately, could not be said for Georgi's stern stepbrother Andrea.

From the jacket Inside the wall of a palatial Newport estate, a violent struggle was beginning. Christy Moreland had come back to Spindrift determined to uncover the truth behind the mansion's most tightly held secret: the reason for her father's death. It was a truth that, at times, Christy felt she was barely strong enough to face, for it meant openly confronting Spindrift's domineering mistress-her mother-in-law, Theodora Moreland. Yet it was a battle that Christy knew she could not escape, especially if she was to free her young son from the obsessive and destructive hold the Morelands had come to exert over him. As Christy searches out the mysteries that haunt Spindrift-and the people in it-she slowly unveils a tightly woven web of deceit that only murder can continue to conceal....

She'd fight every inch of the way! Bethany's life on a Greek island had been carefree and loving until her stepfather, Pavlos, died. Now his stern cousin, Nikolas, was determined that Bethany act like a traditional Greek lady. Not if Bethany could help it! Nikolas must realize she wouldn't be tamed. What Bethany didn't realize was that Nikolas Meandis usually succeeded in whatever he attempted. And inevitably, as Bethany changed from girl to woman, she found she didn't mind at all!

Delia knew she should never have let herself fall in love with the devastatingly attractive Kemal Selim. He was a Turk, with all the traditional Turkish preference for a meek and docile wife of his own nationality — someone like Suna Kozlu. But sometimes feelings were difficult to control.

Jane was determined to remain in Tunisia indefinitely with her boyfriend; her guardian was equally determined that she would not - and he arranged for his friend Jean Daker to separate the pair. Jean Daker was a force to be reckoned with. Would Jane be able to defy him?

Worried to death about what had become of her twin brother, Peter, Troy set off for Morocco to look for him. However, her searching proved futile - until Kadir ben Raschid unexpectedly offered his assistance. He was an impressive, powerful man, and his help was Troy's only chance. So she allowed herself to be whisked off to a desert oasis, never guessing she was a pawn in a game of revenge - and love.

Laura had heard so much about the little French village of St. Louis les Bigots from her Uncle John that she had always longed to visit it -- and now here she was at last. But what was the mystery surrounding Uncle John, and what had he done to make the villagers hate his memory? And why was Laura so anxious to clear his name, particularly where Jean-Pierre Herve was concerned?