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Marisa and her young brother Tony were alone in the world, and life was not being too easy. It seemed the last straw when Tony got into serious trouble, and when Cesare Gianelli suddenly came on the scene and offered his help, Marisa was only too thankful to accept it. There was one condition, however - Cesare wanted her to marry him. Where did she go from there, though? For although she very rapidly fell in love with her new husband, he made it clear that all he wanted was a competent housekeeper. Could she ever expect to find happiness with him?

Even as Janna pleaded with Rian for mercy, she realized it was futile. Rian hadn't forgotten anything that had passed between them seven years earlier. Not forgotten--and not forgiven. Why had he come back? What did he intend? Rian laughed sardonically. "You always knew I'd be back, and you know why as well. Hang on to your courage, sweet witch. You're going to need every last ounce of it by the time I've done with you!"

For the sake of her family’s fortunes Leonie had agree to an arranged marriage with her cousin Paul. Paul was handsome, rich, and charming, and Leonie had always hero-worshipped him – so on the face of it she wasn’t making such a sacrifice, and there seemed a reasonable chance that in time the two of them might make a success of the marriage. But Paul had never been a one-woman man, to put it mildly, and nothing about his behaviour suggested that marriage had changed him. Particularly where the beautiful but malicious Diane Irvine was concerned…

Rich girl Andrea Connelly was holidaying at an Austrian ski-resort when she met Baron Axel von Mahlstrom - an attractive man, certainly, but Andrea was under no illusions about the type of man he was. A fortune-hunter, pure and simple - and he was not getting the chance of laying his hands on her money! In fact, Andrea worked out what she thought would be an effective way of teaching him a lesson, by changing identities with her dull, far from rich cousin Janet and then watching Axel go into action. But unfortunately he turned the tables on her in an unexpected and decidedly disturbing manner…

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 !!!

The heroine has spent most of her life on a small tropical island with her father, the areas doctor. She is also a doctor. NATO personnel come to the island to survey it as a new airstrip and fuel depot. She and the Islanders strongly object as it will destroy their way of life and eliminate their livelihood based on fishing and growing coconuts. However she is strongly attracted to the Major in charge of the surveying unit.

Everyone in the office thought Zachary Benedict was the most attractive man for miles around - but to Jenny he was simply the most conceited man she had met for a long time, and she had no intention of adding herself to his long list of conquests. In any case, after the way Max had let her down she didn't want to get involved with any man again. But Zachary, for reasons of his own, pursued her relentlessly, and gradually Jenny found herself weakening. She still couldn't believe, however, that Zachary saw her as anything but another scalp on his belt - and then Max turned up again, to complicate things still further ...

WAS SHE THE VICTIM OF A DARK ENCHANTMENT? Since childhood, beautiful Juliet Cunningham had dreamed of living in a small French town. now, at last, her dream had become a reality. But then a mysterious series of events threatened to turn her rustic village into a deadly nightmare. First a goat was killed by a black cat. Then a young girl was strangely crippled. Next another girl was inexplicably blinded. A strange terror began to stalk the streets. At night, bands of armed men prowled the countryside searching for a disfigured, one-eyed gypsy sorceress. Alone and penniless, whom could Juliet turn to in this sinister witches' den? Could she trust the dark, dashing stranger, Michael Faulkner, who offered help? Was he a friend? Or would he turn out to be the most dangerous enemy of all? DARK ENCHANTMENT A novel of heart-stopping suspense and romance by the author of THE UNINVITED

It was time to live for herself Brooke had held the family together ever since her mother's death, putting off her own dreams for the sake of her father, younger brother and sister. So when her sister, staying at a chateau in France to upgrade her French before university, developed a crush on the chateau's owner and decided to stay, it was only natural that Brooke should rush to the rescue. And it was also only natural that Brooke, naive and inexperienced with men, after meeting the handsome worldly Jourdain Marchais, should fall in love with him herself!

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!

Jacquie, recklessly defying her parents, had left home. Now she was stranded in Tombstone, Arizona, without a car or money. Choya Barnett was unmoved by her feminine wiles; Jacquie had no other choice than to let him settle her accounts. But could she repay him in the way he demanded? Could she sacrifice her self-respect and her innocence? "You'll pay me one way or another," Choya taunted. "After years of calling the tune, you finally have to pay the fiddler." Jacquie didn't realize that she would pay with her heart!

Love can never be bought, or sold. Sally had to save her father from bankruptcy. Only one man could help her - financier Luke Andretti, who had a reputation for driving a hard bargain. "I will put your father's affairs in order," Luke said, "for a price. You must marry me, and give me a son." She had to accept on his terms. But Sally, 23, vowed Luke, 37, would rue the day he had forced her into a loveless marriage. She was going to fight him every inch of the way.

HE WAS A MAN WHO TOOK WHAT HE WANTED... Brooke knew that either she or her sister, Louise, would have to marry money to avoid selling the family estate. But not for anything would she marry Paul Corelli, the human dynamo who had fought his way out of the gutters of Naples to become a millionaire. It was unfortunate that Brooke felt that way, because Corelli had already made up his mind that he wanted her. And he absolutely refused to take no for an answer!

The terms of her father’s will were outrageous and Tracey was not going to tolerate having a stranger as her guardian dictating the conditions of her life for the next two years, even if that stranger was ‘family’. "If you defy me, girl, there'll be trouble." Tracey shrugged off Ryan's warning indignantly. As far as she was concerned the Alexanders could keep their precious money, and their guardianship. She was her own mistress, and she planned to stay that way! But Ryan wasn't about to let Tracey rule her own life. She would spend the next two years on his Outback sheep station, and that's all there was to it. There was no way, however, that Tracey would accept Ryan's domination meekly ....

Before Caryn's sister Loren had died, giving birth to a baby, heartbroken because the father had deserted her, she had told Caryn his identity: he was Tristan Ross. But, having gone to his home in Wales to confront him with the evidence, Caryn couldn't be quite so sure about Tristan. Surely Loren had been telling the truth? Tristan vehemently denied responsibility for the child—yet he had taken the baby into his home and given Caryn a job as his secretary so she could be with the child, so what was she to make of that? And then she found herself faced with another

She had been hurt too many times Accused by a malicious cousin of committing a scandalous crime, Lark Cummings, 22, was devastated. And, in the British courts, the prosecutor, ruthless James Wolfe, showed her no mercy. Then, incredibly, the case was dropped. And--out of the blue--impoverished Lark was offered an ideal job by a rich widow. She gladly accepted--unaware that disconcerting James Wolfe, 30, was her employer's enigmatic son. With James's reappearance in her life, Lark feared the powerful currents pulsing between them. She couldn't bear to risk her trust. Not to the man who'd once treated her so callously.

Caroline refused to let her wealthy father force her into an arranged marriage. To escape his tyranny, she fled to a mountain valley in Spain. Instead of the old childhood nurse she expected to find there, she met Pio Viroda. The rebellious son of a poor revolutionary, and an artist, Pio's political cartoons had made him an enemy of the establishment world to which Caroline belonged. The only interest she shared with Pio was her need for personal freedom. But when he drew her into his arms and kissed her, she ceased to care about the differences that divided them...

Every novel in this collection is your passport to a romantic tour of the United States through time-honored favorites by America’s First Lady of romance fiction. Each of the fifty novels is set in a different state, researched by Janet and her husband, Bill. For the Daileys it was an odyssey of discovery. For you, it’s the journey of a lifetime. Your tour of desire begins with this story set in Oklahoma.

The world-famous film star Serafina Neri made slaves of the men who surrounded her. Yet her life was hedged about by fear, and a strangeness that made her rely on the companionship of the ruthless Rick Lordetti day and night – or so people said. And it was Rick whom Donna Lovelace had met in the moonlit Colosseum on the never-to-be-forgotten night; Rick with whom she had fallen in love. But then, when she took a job as Serafina’s secretary, Donna met him again, only to find that he treated her as a stranger…Was that one night of romance all that Donna would ever have of Rick?

Every novel in this collection is your passport to a romantic tour of the United States through time-honored favorites by America’s First Lady of romance fiction. Each of the fifty novels is set in a different state, researched by Janet and her husband, Bill. For the Daileys it was an odyssey of discovery. For you, it’s the journey of a lifetime. Your tour of desire begins with this story set in North Dakota.

For years Helen’s marriage to Paul Eastwood had been a disaster and a mockery. Paul was weak, selfish, and blatantly unfaithful to her. But she was still his wife and some sense of duty, some undercurrent of feeling that perhaps she was to blame in some way, made her stay with him. Paul, she felt, was a spoiled child at heart and depended on her as he did on no one else; without her he might well be finished. But now Mark Eliot had come into her life, and Helen soon had to admit that the passionate love she felt for him bore no relation to the duty and pity that was all that was left of her feeling for her husband. What would happen to her sense of duty now?

For years Andrea had been used to getting her cousin Clare out of scrapes - but this one really took some beating! Clare, it appeared, had made a rash promise to marry a Frenchman whom she had never even met, and he was insisting on keeping her to the promise. So Andrea found herself agreeing to go to France in Clare's place, to sort the situation out. She had certainly never foreseen what would ensue: that in a short time she would find herself married to the forbidding Blaise Levallier, and in the centre of a mystery from which there seemed to be no escape. She had not foreseen, either, that she would fall in love with Blaise - a man about whom she still knew nothing . . .

‘I’ve never wanted anyone as much as I want you, and I warn you, my dear, I have never failed to get what I want,’ Randal Mercier told Laura Hallam. But Laura loved Tom Nicol, had always loved him and always would. Then Laura discovered that her father was in serious trouble, that Randal, who was his employer, had found out about it – and that the only way she could rescue him was to marry Randal after all. So what alternative did she have – especially as Tom still showed no sign of asking her to marry him himself? Married to one man and desperately loving another – how could Laura ever hope for happiness again?

It was paradise...with one fatal flaw Julie Lancaster thought her new job was perfect. She had a gracious employer, a charming teenager to teach, and best of all, the splendid beauty of Hawaii. Then Ruel Chandler came on the scene. Her pupil's brother and head of the household, he was aloof, indifferent, bored with women. Yet something in Julie reached out to him no matter how hard she tried to deny it. Ruel stirred a flame in her. Could she resist, or would she lose everything - her job, her new home, herself...?

Juliet soon learned: never love an enemy! Juliet went to Italy to check on her siste, Jan. According to Jan, she'd arrived just in time. Wealthy, powerful Santino Vallone was trying to prevent Jan from marrying his young brother, Mario. With courage and determination, schoolteacher Juliet came to the rescue. Bravely she led Santino down a false trail by pretending to be Jan. But Juliet only had one side of the story. When Santino kidnapped her, taking her to his castle by the sea, she realized the path she'd chosen led to danger - and heartbreak!

Even before she met Matt Hume Leigh had decided he must be the most selfish, heartless man on the face of creation—and when they eventually met, and he offered her a job as his secretary, she accepted, with the sole idea of punishing him for his callousness to her young cousin, and to all the other girls he had encouraged and then tossed aside. But Matt turned the tables on her by declaring that he intended to make her his property—and by wearing down her resistance with all the skill he possessed. Could Leigh get out of the situation before it was too late ?

Every novel in this collection is your passport to a romantic tour of the United States through time-honored favorites by America’s First Lady of romance fiction. Each of the fifty novels is set in a different state, researched by Janet and her husband, Bill. For the Daileys it was an odyssey of discovery. For you, it’s the journey of a lifetime. Your tour of desire begins with this story set in Arizona.

She was afraid she'd never become a woman. After her desperately unhappy marriage to Barry, the last thing Vicki Peters wanted was another involvement. Being an unloved widow was better than risking her heart again. But almost against her will, she found herself married to Garth Travis. Vicki was convinced she had done it mostly for the sake of Garth's little son. Then she discovered two things: that she was madly in love with Garth--and that he was no better than Barry had been....

Jealousy stabbed Philippa as she thought of Rose and Luke together. Jealousy--and a deep sense of loss. Loss of what? Of Luke? Was she so possessive that she couldn't bear to think of him with another woman even though she didn't want him herself? But she did want him! The realization stunned her. It was an annihilating admission that destroyed the whole fabric of pretense she'd constructed from the day she had married Luke.

She hadn't expected a memorable summer. Julie had come to the Canadian summer resort to forget about her father's tragic suicide. Adam Price her fiancé, would handle the business details. All she had to do was relax. But how could anyone relax under the pressing attentions of Dan Prescott? Vibrantly attractive, and the son of a prominent New York family, he was vacationing nearby. Julie was too serious a girl for a summer fling – and she soon realised just how strong her feelings for Dan were. But everything seemed against her: Adam, Dan’s family – and her own common sense!

Running away had accomplished nothing! Briony Adair fled to her aunt's Yorkshire cottage as a refuge. Away from the pressures of her father's plans and the unexpected return of her estranged husband, Logan -- missing for a year, presumed dead, on a foreign assignment -- she hoped to sort out the muddle of her life. But it was more than painful memories she had to face. Logan himself turned up there -- different from the man she'd married, as she was changed from the young girl bride. And Logan was determined not to let her escape again!

Joanna didn't know what to expect... Necessity forced Joanna Seton to accept a position as governess to Jake Sheldon's daughter. She set out for Ravensgarth, his farm in the Lake District, with a determination to make the best of what she found. What she found was a man whose scarred face reflected his battered life--who had cut himself off from all social contacts. His daughter, too, had suffered. She was a wild, uncontrollable child. Even though both of them seemed to hate her, Joanna's heart went out to these two survivors of past tragedy!

As soon as she heard that the dashing TV star Matt Wolfe was coming to live in her quiet Cornish seaside home Lisa sensed there would be trouble – and how right she was! For right from the beginning he began to intrude into her life far too often for her peace of mind. His brittle, sophisticated world was not her world, and she knew she would only be hurt if she didn’t keep away from it. And in any case, she had no desire whatsoever to become part of any triangle in which the glamorous Livia Marlowe formed the third side!

"Don't lose your temper," her mother warned Andrea when she set out to tell top TV interviewer, Maxwell Lane, just what she thought of him. Andrea was sure his ruthless interview with her beloved uncle had contributed to his death. "Of course, I won't," Andrea replied firmly. "I'm going to be cool, calm and demolishing!" So much for good intentions. Somehow Andrea found herself working for Maxwell Lane as a research assistant and her chances of getting even with him seemed more remote than ever!

Miranda hadn’t married Jaime Knevett for love; in fact she hardly knew him, and she had never liked what little she had know – but her mother needed help and this was the only way Miranda could provide it. In fact it had never been a true marriage and the two of them had parted almost immediately after the wedding. All that had been four years ago, but now Miranda was thinking of marrying Paul Courtenay, so here she was in Brazil, to meet Jaime once again to ask for an annulment. But Jaime was still a man to be reckoned with; even if he would agree to the end of their marriage, could Miranda be absolutely sure, now, that that was what she really wanted?

"See the island of dreams," they urged. And Sally Herrick, recently arrived on another Indian Ocean island, was intrigued enough to go. It was a turning point in her life. Spoiled, rich and used to having her own way, she came face to face with Luke Vilis, a hard, calculating man seeking revenge for the harm she had thoughtlessly done his sister. His demand that she marry him was madness. Yet Sally soon discovered that she was in no position to refuse!

Maybe he'd change after the wedding But Jan didn't really think so, and she dreaded her approaching wedding. She and Jeremy were growing further apart, while her mother kept pushing her into this fashionable, expedient marriage. Desperate for a few days' peace, Jan had to get away. Her Aunt Jessie's house on the Cornish coast seemed just the right spot. But Aunt Jessie wasn't there! In charge was a stranger--rough and threatening-looking. Nerves at the breaking point, Jan felt her life being forced into a new and frightening direction!