Sarah Holland

Kate didn't want Luke's autograph! She just wanted to go home, she was tired but her friend Linda insisted and Kate was dragged along. This was Linda's chance of a lifetime to actually speak to a world class singer and she wasn't going to miss it! Later Kate acknowledged that bizarre circumstance had played a part in the events that followed. Mainly though it had been the force of Luke Hastings' personality that compelled her into his orbit... A chance brush with a superstar turned her world-and her heart!- upside down.

He could neither forgive nor forget. Nothing Olivia could say would diminish Nick Baretta's hatred for her. The woman who had cruelly rejected and deceived his brother Greg would suffer for her callousness. Now, though she was innocent, Olivia must deal with Nick's dangerous threats. "I make a point of getting what I want, " he informed her, and Olivia knew she must escape. For it was obvious that while he wanted to hurt her, he also wanted to make love to her ...and she doubted she could refuse him.

How could she still love such a man? What would it take for Laura to learn her lesson once and for all? First a father with a string of mistresses and then a husband who had cheated on her on their wedding day! Men were not to be trusted with a woman's heart! And oh, how her heart had broken. She'd loved Jake so much. But not now, not ever again. That was a year ago. She was over it --or was until Jake suddenly turned up again!

"It wasn't quite the 'morning after' she was hoping for ... Oh, dear. Bella Manchelli is so not having a good day. First, she's deliciously exhausted from last night's sizzling one-night stand. Second, there's a (gulp) dead body at her back door. Third ... um, that scrumptious one-nighter is at her front door ... and he's wearing a badge! Police Officer Jacob Madden is all about duty. Until he shows up looking for a homicide ... and runs right into last night's slice of sexy heaven! Damn, he just can't think straight when he's around Bella. All he wants to do is lick her up one side and down the other. Can duty and smoking-hot sex blend for a while? Definitely! Until Jacob discovers that several of the guys Bella's dated have turned up dead. Jacob loves being around Bella. But is he ready to be used as target practice?"--Publisher.

'You're too beautiful to touch, too cold to marry and you spend your life looking after a career instead of love, marriage and children.' Alicia was devastated at this pronouncement. After all, she had found that loving let to heartbreak, whereas a career was safe. David was also safe - and Alicia liked that. But Jean-Marc Brissac's vocabulary didn't include the word. He made her feel out of control, and she didn't like that one little bit.

"Won't you sit down Mr........" "Stone," he said softly, and smiled as he sank down into the chair opposite her, his powerful body making her nerves quiver as he put his hands behind his strong dark head, leaning back, watching her from below hooded eyelids, "Gabriel Stone." "An unusual name," Rhiannon said conversational. "Although deeply classical." "One of the four archangels. Gabriel, Raphael, Micheal and Hod. A divine quartet. Untouched by sin."His blue eyes glittered. "Unlike me." "Ah yes. Angel by name, sinner by nature."

Lucy Winslow and Randal Marlborough met - or, rather, collided passionately - when Lucy went in search of her gambling father. Right away, Randal made it clear that he found her very attractive but Lucy turned to safe, comfortable Edward. When her father became bankrupt and Randal demanded that Lucy marry him, she had no choice but to go along with his wishes. Did her feelings for Edward really stand between her and Randal, or had she met her kindred spirit?

When Natasha stormed into Dominic Thorne's office and kissed him, she was trying to prove that she wasn't an ice queen. But kissing Dominic was a big mistake! It started an obsessive desire between them, which could only be resolved, so Dominic decided, by Natasha's presence in his bed! Natasha wanted more, much more, from their relationship: she wanted Dominic to belong to her - body, soul and heart...

She loved him more than life itself Mark Blackthorne knew the moment he first saw Elizabeth, a struggling young singer from London, that he had to have her. And he pursued her with a persistence bordering on obsession. Theirs was a whirlwind romance. Before she knew it, Elizabeth's capacity to love him had become limitless--and frightening--especially when she realized how vulnerable she'd allowed herself to become. She loved Mark beyond all reason. Yet, although he'd asked her to become his wife, he'd never actually told her why he wanted her so much... .

'We became involved the minute our eyes met ...' Sparks flew between Emma Baccarat and Patrick Kinsella the first time they met - but Emma didn't understand why. After all, she was a confirmed cynic who didn't believe in love, and even if she did, a notorious womanizer like Patrick was the last man she'd choose! But Patrick was a master of seduction, and pretty soon Emma was wondering how long she'd be able to resist his passionate kisses ...

"I am master and here—I am the law" Sheikh Suliman El Khazir was a powerful man and used to getting what he wanted, and what he wanted was for Beth to be his desert bride! Despite her growing attraction, all Beth's instincts told her to resist. They were worlds apart—she was an independent woman and he wanted a wife who would obey his every whim. But then he kidnapped her and, alone with the sheikh, Beth was finding it increasingly difficult not to surrender to her desert destiny.

Once they had been everything to each other, but he had chosen to believe the lies of Roger, his spoiled, willful brother. Alex's jealousy had suffocated their love, leaving her life in shreds. Working with him, the violent undercurrents between them were hard to ignore, and Alex seemed determined to stir up memories she had desperately tried to forget.