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Margo Jones had dearly loved Michel Cassilis, although in the end he had married someone else – someone who met the demanding requirements of his aristocratic family more suitably than Margo did. She had never forgotten him, and now, five years later, learning that he had died, Margo found herself going to the French chateau of Satancourt, on the coast of Brittany, to look after his small son. And there, at Satancourt, she met Paul Cassilis, Michel’s inscrutable brother, to whom women were just playthings; but in ‘Miss Jones’ Paul was to find one woman who was determined not to be. It was not easy task, forcing herself to withstand the devilish attraction of this masterful man. Would it be any easier after she had begun to suspect that Paul had been involved in his brother’s death?

Morag Grant had been holidaying in Greece when she met Pericles Holmes. Pericles, it appeared, was in urgent need of a wife — mainly to take care of his motherless two children — and when he proposed to Morag she at once accepted. Partly she was glad of the chance to get away from home and from her beautiful, spoilt stepsister Delia, who was accustomed to getting everything she wanted — especially from Morag! —and partly, she had to admit, because she had promptly fallen in love with Pericles. And she might in time have persuaded him to fall in love with her, had not Delia arrived in Greece herself, announcing that this time she wanted Morag's husband!

All that she needed was a wedding ring Then the money would be hers, to use for a very special reason. Her late grandfather's will had put Jasmine into an impossible situation. Hadn't he visualized that she might ask any man to marry her - so long as he was free - merely to get her hands on the money? Sloan Lancaster, the brilliant writer, just might be the one who could fit into her plans. From their first meeting she found him arrogant and aloof - yet she couldn't deny that he somehow aroused desires she had never felt before....

His love was only an illusion On her wedding day, Kate felt how miraculous was to truly love and beloved. As Hugo's wife, she knew the rest of her life would be blessed Then Kate overheard her husband's grim plan for their future together--a plan of revenge against Kate! Desperately hurt and afraid of the stranger who was her husband, she ran away to Majorca, to heal her broken heart in safety and solitude But she underestimated the power of Hugo's will and the compulsion that drove him to reclaim her--for better, or for worse! Note to all mortals (a.k.a. limited time to read): This is just awful, dnr, just read GR reviews instead

Gilda Decker needs a new bag, what with her second husband being suddenly crippled and her ex-husband hiding himself and his money somewhere in the hinterlands of Mexico. Gilda's recently retained lawyer, Tom Aragon, Mexican himself, is the best man for the job. But the deeper Aragon digs into her ex-husband's past the more dangerous his job becomes. One of Millar’s few reoccurring characters and her only foray into the tradition of Chandler and Hammett, Tom Aragon, ranks among her best creations. A sarcastic but talented young lawyer with a few rough edges, Aragon finds himself navigating one entitled nest of vipers after another, not to mention racial prejudice.

Frances is determined to escape from her brutal uncle, and runs away hidden in the Marquis of Aldeborough’s carriage. Once he discovers who she is though, it is clear that they must marry, even though they know little about each other. As their married life develops, they learn more about the problems in both of their pasts, and love starts to grow. But as strange accidents start to befall them, they must also worry about how to make their future safe.

She went for a child but stayed for a man... Katherine soon knew she was in trouble! She agreed to take a "tug-of-love" child to Scotland, out of his father's reach. Coralie the mother, obviously loved her son and was frightened for him, and Katherine believed her. Unfortunately Katherine's mission failed when Charles Moreton snatched the child -- and Katherine -- whisking them to his remote Highland home, to hold them virtual prisoners there. But Katherine learned there were two sides to every story... Whose should she believe?

"Performance uses the alphabet as an organizational device to present a series of short pieces that approach performance from multiple perspectives and various compositional strategies. Pelias's essays, poetry, dialogue, personal narratives, quick speculations, and other literary genres explore the key themes in this field, encapsulating the essence of performance studies for the novice and providing food for thought for the expert. Its brief, evocative, and reflexive pieces introduce performative writing as a method of research for those in performance and many other fields"--

It's a joy to announce that John Sandford is still doing everything right," wrote the Cleveland Plain Dealer about the second adventure of Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers. "Virgil acts like the best series protagonists—becoming someone we just enjoy spending time with."Virgil's always been known for having a somewhat active, er, social life, but he's probably not going to be getting too many opportunities for that during his new case. While competing in a fishing tournament in a remote area of northern Minnesota, he gets a call from Lucas Davenport to investigate a murder at a nearby resort, where a woman has been shot while kayaking. The resort is for women only, a place to relax, get fit, recover from plastic surgery, commune with nature, and while it didn't start out to be a place mostly for those with Sapphic inclinations, that's pretty much what it is today.Which makes things all the more complicated for Virgil, because as he begins investigating, he finds a web of connections between the people at the resort, the victim, and some local women, notably a talented country singer. The more he digs, the more he discovers the arrows of suspicion that point in many directions, encompassing a multitude of motivations: jealousy, blackmail, greed, anger, fear. Then he finds that this is not the first murder, that there was a second, seemingly unrelated one, the year before. And that there's about to be a third, definitely related one, any time now. And as for the fourth . . . well, Virgil better hope he can catch the killer before that happens. Because it could be his own.Rich with the brilliant plotting and compulsively readable prose that are his hallmarks, Rough Country is another immensely satisfying tale by one of our very best suspense writers.

A Parker novel, which has the main character in Sagamore, Nebraska, at the request of Joe Sheer, a retired safe cracker who carries many of Parker's criminal secrets.

A chimpanzee that is able to communicate with the use of plastic symbols is the sole witness to a murder in a medieval Arab kingdom.

Juliet Grey was delighted when Lance Crimond offered her a job as secretary to his delightful mother in a lovely part of Scotland, although she wasn't very keen on Lance himself. She was even more delightful, though, when she arrived at Castle Ross to work and met Lance's brother Gareth...

To get her young brother out of serious trouble Genista needed a lot of money - and the one person who could help her was the enormously wealthy tycoon Marc Kiriakos. He agreed to help - but of course he wanted something in exchange, and what he wanted was Genista for his wife. He explained that it was a matter of convenience: he needed someone who would act as his hostess and also protect him from all the other women who were pursuing him. Genista had taken it for granted that he meant the marriage to be in name only, but it seemed she had been over-optimistic...

She had a quest, and nothing would stop her High in the Andalusian mountains, Frances sought information on the rare Spanish imperial eagle. Finishing her late father's book was all-important. Another kind of predator, however, thwarted her attempts--El Conde, who abducted Frances for a purpose of his own. "Tradition has imposed upon me the duty to produce an heir," he arrogantly informed her. Frances, swayed by the mystery and superstition of his Gypsy ancestry, fell under his irresistible spell...and fell in love.

Would he break her heart, this modern-day conqueror? Unlike his Viking ancestors, Kyle Anderson wasn't the type to sling a woman over his shoulder and cart her off to his boat He was more likely to drop anchor, storm her defenses and claim her heart. Right from the beginning, Kyle wanted Carly to call off her engagement to Andrew, the man who'd saved her from a lonely childhood and offered her love and a secure future. She'd be crazy to throw it all away on a man who'd eventually move on in search of new adventures--more exciting conquests--and leave her with nothing.

He reached down and plucked her from the thick mud, then lifted her effortlessly into his lap, setting her crosswise on the tall gray horse. He was a total stranger, who thrilled her with danger and desire. Abigail Bliss couldn't tell him her real name. Her father had insisted on an alias on thier Oregon-bound wagon train. Tanner McNight was everything her father warned her against: a bounty hunter, lawless, untamed. She couldn't know that she was the bounty she sought, even as she melted in his fiery embrace...

Hurt and embittered when her fiance broke their engagement on the eve of the wedding, Shelly Jenner had vowed never to get emotionally involved with a man again. Certainly not with someone like Craig Allard, who represented everything she most disliked in a man. He was critical, carping, and made it clear that her feminine charms did nothing for him. "I may have had my heart broken," Shelly said slowly, "but it hasn't left me heartless. I could never, ever marry without love!"

Had Harriet been wise to return? Against her better judgment, Harriet Voyle flew back to Rome when summoned by her former employer, the Contessa de Filippo. Harriet hoped the year in her native England had cured her hopeless love for the contessa's grandson, Tarquin. For he was obviously in love with the beautiful Emmy Luciano. But the moment she saw Tarquin again, every fiber of her being cried out that she loved him now more than ever before!

Marton Manor, in rural Herefordshire, makes a romantic setting even for a hastily organised wedding. And it is a quickly-arranged ceremony indeed that Fleur Jarvas is demanding - even though marrying before her twenty-first birthday means forfeiting a large inheritance. Naturally all the guests, including banker-turned-sleuth Mark Treasure and his wife Molly, are dying to know why. But that's only the first mystery lurking beneath the surface of this increasingly sinister country weekend. The real question is why the long-straying father of the bride shows up uninvited. As the wedding-eve rituals gather pace, so does the tension. And when the next day dawns, it is not to bells and confetti but to two unexplained deaths, a pointed disappearance - and a testing case for Treasure. [From Pan MacMillan]

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"I will pretend you don't even exist!" Mr. Farrant, her only neighbor, was quite indignant that his solitude had been interrupted by Anna's arrival to stay at her ex-employer's beach cottage. She knew that to stay out of this man's way would be wise, but perversely, Anna wanted him to notice her. She wanted to upset him, if he upset so easily! Never did it occur to her that she might fall in love with this chauvanistic and arrogant, moody artist -- but fall she did....

Caroline Norton had inherited her grandmother's farm jointly with her cousin Heinie, and she was determined to keep it in the family. Her cousin, though a charming man, was weak and irresponsible. The task of running the farm was going to be difficult without the help of their capable neighbor, Darval Pretorius. Unfortunately, Heinie disliked the arrogant Darval as much as Caroline had come to love him. Would he cooperate, or would the farm be lost? (Harlequin #1613 - 1972)

Elise Lennan did not welcome Lester Kings back into her life. He reminded her of all the childhood humiliation that she had endured from him. Since he made it plain that he did not like anything about Elise or her solitary life-style, what chance was there of any new relationship between them? Yet his cynical but unquestionable magnetism strangely attracted her. And though she kept telling herself she hated him, Elise knew it wasn't true.

It was sheer coincidence that Mark Newman should turn out to be the half-brother of Robert Lang, who had almost destroyed Tobie’s life – and when Mark invited her to go on holiday with him to the Caribbean to meet his family, she could not resist the chance to see Robert again – and if at all possible, pay him back for what he had done to her. But Tobie didn’t know all that had happened to Robert since they had last met. She couldn’t foresee that, although he had lost his memory and didn’t even recognise her, he still had the power to hurt her, just as he had hurt her before…

Never again would she dance on the stage Birdie 's career as a ballerina was over, ruined by a fluke accident. Reeling from shock, she lets sympathetic friends lure her to the island of Menorca to rest and heal herself. It was there she meets Vulcan, the Conde, who is the antithesis of all she knew a--and would not not let her retreat into herself. He was overbearing and manipulative; and offers her the role of a companion to his ward to teach her balle and takes her to his castle . When he asks "of what are you afraid senorita", Birdie knew he could wreak more havoc in her life....

Miss Caprice Vaughan could hardly wait to take possession of the lovely Tudor manor house she had been left by her great-uncle, so it was disconcerting, to say the least, to find a lodger already installed who showed no signs of wishing to leave. How was she to get rid of Mr. Richard D'Arcy Winterton?

"Don't underrate yourself," Gavin said But Sophy's lifetime habit was hard to break. After all, if family and friends thought you were a dimwit, what chance did you have? Sophy had arrived at Gavin Tighe's home raging to confront this cynical tiger of a man she blamed for upsetting her life. But she stayed to work for him and found he completely upset her again. This time, though, a confident new Sophy welcomed the change -- a change brought about by their love!

Jemima Shore, Investigator, a perfectly fine label for an investigative TV reporter, but somehow less appropriate when the question of real murder arises—particularly when that murder takes place in a secluded tower at Blessed Eleanor's Convent in Sussex, and when the victim is an old school friend who has left a note proclaiming "Jemima will understand what is going on here. Jemima knows..." But Jemima doesn't. Even though the nuns are complacently confident that the apprehensive Jemima will learn the truth—from Mother Ancilla to little Sister Edward, they seem as alike in their serene assumption as in their dress. For starters, Jemima must rediscover the world of the convent school. The grounds are just as she remembers, though Blessed Eleanor's Retreat has become not just a crumbling tower but the place where Sister Miriam was trapped, alone. The elderly nuns are still kind, if disapproving. The girls are full of rumors and disturbing hints about Sister Miriam's death. Jemima, armed with her journalist's sense of a story, and her indefatigable curiosity, finds herself in the eye of a worldly storm of fear that has descended on the convent. The more she learns, the clearer it becomes that more lives—including her own—are being threatened. The search for the true legacy of Sister Miriam, Jemima realizes, is turning inexorably from the mysterious to the terrifying...

The dream of Frazer Madigan's life was to find a priceless opal -- and she knew she would find it on Jay Dexter's land. But Jay didn't exactly welcome her. And Frazer had another reason for getting the better of him...

'My dear Kathie, My godson, the Marques de Barrateira, and his stepmother have arrived unexpectedly, several days before I was looking forward to having them. I would like you, dear child, to come and join us for the weekend, and I hope this won't upset any of your own personal arrangements! My car will pick you up at two thirty this afternoon.' Kathie's two sisters could not understand this invitation from Lady Fitzosborne. Why would she invite quiet, plain young Kathie instead of her much more attractive sisters? And indeed Kathie was puzzled too. But she reasoned that no doubt Lady Fitzosborne needed someone to help with the household arrangements rather than someone to help entertain her guests, and so she set off for the weekend intending to be as useful as possible.

When her aunt had been taken to hospital after a bad stroke, Amanda was left in charge of her house. Amanda knew about her aunt's dog but she didn't know about the secret underground shelter built beneath the house. This hiding place had been put to secret and illicit use by a workman who had known of its existence when it was first built, before Amanda's aunt bought the house. A murderer had been hidden in the secret room: a man who had recently killed a young woman : a man far from sane, who had a sane, loyal and dangerous ally in his half-brother. From these men's points of view it becomes imperative to eliminate Amanda, whose predicament has been made worse by her having undertaken to look after the baby of some friends who have gone on holiday. Amanda and the baby are hounded through empty, snowbound streets, cornered and threatened by these ruthless men. from Goodreads

Emily Thorne considered her-self the steady, quiet one of her family; she carried on with her job, saved for the future, hardly gave a thought to love and marriage. But was it true, or was she simply unawakened? Perhaps her stormy relationship with the wealthy Demis Kaladonis would provide the answer.

(From the back cover) "Place high, or win, or else..." Toni knew what her father would do if she failed to come first--or nearly first--in the cross-Britain motor rally. He had once been a driver, and now Toni was his successor. She had to be good. That was why having Adam York as rally navigator was so irritating. What did he know about racing? Just because he was her sponsor didn't mean he could help her win. Toni cringed at the thought of spending days cooped up in a car alone with Adam--but she was in for a few surprises!

A strange assignment took Lynn to the pink chateau in the Pyrenees... and brought her to a sinister link with the past. To Lynne, the job seems a golden opportunity - nurse to an elderly invalid at a beautiful chateau high in the Pyrenees. But Mme Eugenie de Selincourt turns out to be a remarkably fit old lady, and Lynn discovers that she has nothing to do but join in the life of the idle rich. Why, then, is a trained nurse required? Everyone, or almost everyone, is charming to her, and the handsome Marcel becomes her very willing escort.

In the years just before World War II, years of wild pleasure before...the darkness, there lived an enchanting young girl, Jacqueline. A woman of strength and passion, she bewitched men with her beauty. Ravished by a king-to-be, pursued by a powerful Nazi leader, Jacqueline was always sought after, but the passion she yearned for always eluded her. From the gilded palaces of Bucharest to the ancient hills of Rome, from the high society of Berlin to the glittering cafes of Paris, she searched--until at last she found what she desired, the love she had always dreamed of....

No situation could be more ridiculous To be "hiding out" as a rich man's maid at Abbott's Arbory did not suit Pandora at all. She was thoroughly modern, enjoying her university friends and her fast motorcycle. And she thought that rich people were greedy capitalists! But there seemed nothing greedy about Sir James Arbory, baronet, wealthy though he was. Pandora was too smart, however, to make a fool of herself over a member of the nobility. Even if he was handsome. Even if she wasn't really his servant. Even, in fact, if she loved him....