Valentina Luellen

Th author responds to the myth that Claude Eatherly was a symbol of a guilt-ridden America.

After bitter conflict and bloodshed over its precious water rights, by the 1840's the Valle de Lagrimas is one of the most peaceful, thriving areas of California. Until its owner, Ysanne de Rivas, returns after spending six months in Monterey to find that the valley is once more filled with tears. Caught up in a feud to gain possession of it, who can she trust? Her only brother Felipe, or Ruy Valdez, the man she believes is responsible for her father's death the only man she will ever love?

Emma Fraser willingly accompanies her spoilt cousin Anne to Russia in 1761, where she is to marry Prince Nikolai Adashev, for it can hardly be worse than her present life as unpaid drudge. On their arrival in St Petersburg she is horrified to find that the man she took to be a fellow servant is Prince Michael, head of the House of Adashev. It is Michael who has arranged Anne's marriage, and he has plans for Emma too. But how can she trust him when he has already deceived her once? Especially when he seems to be so closely involved with the Czarine Catherine. As Catherine's struggle for control of the country intensifies Emma is caught up in the fierce battle and the man she most mistrusts is the one man she finds irresistible.

At long last she was returning home. Isabel could hardly wait to see her beloved Scotland again. But when she arrived she found her family riddled with treachery, her father dying, a vicious heir seizing power, and her gentle brother Duncan outlawed and in hiding, accused of a foul crime. Sure of Duncan's innocence, Isabel tried hopelessly to convince the man she loved, James MacLeod, a ruthless chieftain who believed in Duncan's guilt and swore he'd make him pay. Isabel knew she would have to choose between the bond of blood and the bond of love-but either way meant heartbreak!

Maria Elena is the proud and beautiful daughter of a Spanish grandee at the court of Elizabeth I. She is passionately torn between her love for a Scots privateer — the formidable Adam MacDonald — and loyalty to the men he has sworn to kill — her own father and brother. Against the turbulent background of 1586, with Philip of Spain massing his men and ships for an invasion of England and her own father secretly plotting to assassinate the Queen, Maria Elena is a fragile pawn in the political game. She finds herself facing a charge of high treason — or life with a man who has sworn he will never love her in return.

There will be more than one man in your life . . . Alexandrine d'Albret — country bred, convent reared — and newly married to elderly Luc Boussieres, Marquis de Meziere, refused to believe Solange, the gypsy fortune teller. If she stays faithful to his death, Luc will make her a rich young widow; an easy vow to give before Alain Ratan, Due de Balaincourt, invaded her safe existence. Nothing had prepared her for the glittering, immoral court of Louis XV. A world of gaiety, high living — of intrigue and deception — of betrayal! Beware the hunter when coloured lights fill the sky . . . Solange's second prophecy would determine Alexandrine's future ... and she was helpless to prevent it.

“Save that bullet—I’m coming back.” When war weary Jared Ruell arrives in Tanglewood, a vast cotton estate in South Carolina, he doesn’t expect to find it defended by its proud young mistress, Holly Beaufort. Nor does he expect to fall so deeply in love with her, for he is a Yankee major with orders to destroy Confederate plantations and she has sworn to kill anyone who tries. So Jared rides off leaving Tanglewood’s barns in flames, Holly swears revenge—if he comes back . . . and if she has the courage to shoot the man she loves.

Raven took what he wanted--gold, jewels ... and women Beautiful and headstrong, Angelina Blackthorne was plunged from the licentious court of Charles II into a world of treachery and intrigue, as she roamed the high seas in a desperate bid to save her deceased father's business from ruin. Then her ship was raided and she fell into the clutches of the notorious Raven, the very man she held responsible for her troubles.... But was he as heartless as he appeared? As cruel and oblivious to her pleas for freedom as she believed? And why, especially since she'd been abducted by this ruthless pirate, did she feel as if she belonged in his arms?

The H sets out to take revenge against the h because she has married another man after she had pledged to marry him. She had married this other man because he was blackmailing her family.The H, who was supposed to love her, did horrible things to destroy not only her but her family.

“Find me a wife and I'll marry her now!” Overwhelmed by pity and believing he had only a few hours to live, Roxanna agreed to marry the stranger she met in a Cornish inn. How could she have known that she would find herself caught up in a web of intrigue and treachery, where jealousy wrestled with a new found love. Snatched from death by the husband she thought dead, could she trust the stranger who demanded his rights, handsome enigmatic Ross whom she suspected of being not only a smuggler but a traitor to his country?

Amid the brooding mountains of Glen Coe and the bleak windswept Rannock Moor, the bitter enmity between the families of the Campbell's and the MacDonald's blazes ever fiercer. Though it is fifty years since that first terrible massacre, Catriona Campbell, daughter of the Laird of Darna, has been taught to fear and hate the black hearted MacDonald's. So when she meets Rorie the 'Red' MacDonald, she is amazed to find that he is not the monster she had always supposed him to be. But how, in the face of her family's implacable opposition, can she ever have the courage to live with the man she loves in that hate ridden atmosphere?

Standing beside her brother, Silvano, Duc of Allessandro, in the Vatican apartments of the Pope, Francesca Novar came face to face with the notorious Borgia family and began to wonder if the rumours travelling the Italian countryside were little more than malicious gossip. All three looked genial enough - beautiful Lucrezia, smiling a smile of angel innocence, handsome Cesare, silent, watchful, and their father, Pope Alexander, hands out-stretched in welcome. At their side stood Raoul de Sebastini, the mercenary whose sword was at the disposal of the Borgias. At that moment Francesca had no way of knowing this was the man who was to bring both love and tragedy into her young life - the life she would come near to losing before happiness could be won.

Would his love take second place to his desire for revenge? Roy MacKenzie would never love another woman as he loved Anne Frazer, even though she was a member of the clan who were his family's deadly enemies. He was going to marry her and keep her. But how could Anne become his wife, knowing it would cause more bloodshed? Unless Roy could keep separate his love for Anne and his hatred for Ewen, her brother, the heather would run red with blood. Roy had given his word that he would not be the first to raise his sword in anger against her brother, but neither would he refuse a challenge when it came. And it would come when the Frazer discovered that his sister had become the MacKenzies's Lady!