Linford Romance Library

Faith Bridges should be wedding dress shopping with her bridesmaids, finalising the menu for the reception, house hunting. Instead she's up close and personal with Harry March - the last man on earth she’d trust with her heart - a fractious baby and a four year old diva. She and Julian may not have had the most conventional of courtships but he’s wise, responsible and utterly dependable. The exact opposite of Harry, who thinks that all he has to do to get her to stay and take care of his sister's children is to tease her, charm her and, when that doesn’t work, make love to her. It won't work; Faith knows that love is like meringue — all sugar and air, and about as substantial. And she has made a promise that she isn’t about to break. So why does she find it so hard to walk away?

When she woke up in hospital the name 'Carol Legat' was on her name tag, and although it didn't sound right she accepted it. She began a new life with a man who wanted to help her trace her past. But she wanted to forget. Gradually, the nightmare she had shut out of her mind caught up with her, and then there was only one thing to do: confront it, with the help of the man who loved her.

Millionaire Sir Charles Bainbridge, at the end of his patience with his daughter Georgette's behaviour, sends her to Kenya. Humiliatingly, she must work as an assistant to the ultimate male chauvinist Lukas on a location shoot. They met once before-- in rather strained circumstances! In fact, she'd showered him with flour and he hadn't been pleased. And now she must be nice to him. This will take every ounce of acting ability Georgette possesses-- and she is no actress.

Fenella Shaw leaves England to start a new life on a Canadian cattle ranch, bequeathed to her by the father she hasn't seen since childhood. Understandably, she relies for help and advice on Max Geerling, the ranch-manager. So it comes as no surprise when the news of their engagement is announced: it appears to be a true love match. But it soon becomes clear that blond Max is not all he appears to be, and Fenella finds her fiancé with another woman. Moments after, in a blind fury, she has a wild and passionate night a stranger, and begin the most hair-raising adventure of her life. She rides with the stranger through the Canadian wilderness to the magistrate's office - to become Mrs. Gail O'Shean. Then they part forever, or so she thinks. Try as she might, Fenella cannot forget Gail's handsome face and beautiful eyes. But repentant Max wants her back desperately. Suddenly, in a rush of kidnapping, bandits, and sheriff posses, Fenella is involved in a breathtaking intrigue. Three men want her, but only one loves her. Will she discover him before it was too late?

Esmeralda and Jacobina have a younger sister Cindy. Alda is plain, but a musician with good taste. Jac is fat, placid, and quite insecure. But Cindy is pretty, blonde, blue-eyed, and popular. Alda is, in truth, the real Cinderella of the story. Besides being the focal point of the narrative, she does the kitchen work and generally looks after the others.

Juliet hoped that Switzerland would help her to get over her broken engagement, but all that happened was that she fell in love with Richard Thornton, who was not interested in her.

On her wedding day, Tara was abducted by the masterful Leon Petrides, dragged off to Greece and forced to marry him. And from the start it had been a real marriage, not an "in name only" one. Yet hadn't Tara any mind of her own at all? Why hadn't she flatly refused to marry him? Why didn't she try to run away? After all, she loved her fiancé David, didn't she, and wanted nothing but to get back to him. This feeling she had for her pagan husband, a feeling she couldn't deny, was only physical attraction, wasn't it? So what was stopping her?

Beth was in love with her boss, but he could only dream of the brief passionate interlude he had shared with a Japanese girl long ago, and of the child he had never seen. Beth agrees to accompany him to Japan in search of his daughter. There, perhaps, the ghost of Madame Butterfly would be laid, and he would turn to her for solace. Her loyal heart is lead along dark and dangerous paths before finding the love she craves.

Heaven or horror? Penny Padroni left the city and bought a country house, ugly and decrepit though it was, so that she could budge her fiance, Arthur Westbrook, out of his mother's apartment. It worked for a while, but the more she saw Arthur, the more she saw of his mother too. Mrs. Westbrook tried to take over and redesign Penny's house to suit her own tastes. This, in turn, led to clashes between Penny and Arthur, and to Penny's eventually turning to her handsome neighbor, Cork Corbett, for help with her domestic as well as romantic problems. Would Cork take Arthur's place in Penny's life, or would her old love win out? Would Penny's house become a heaven or a horror for her?

The bitter irony of fate, Rachel thought. She had resented Nick Retford for so long that it was hard to believe she could be in love with him. What was the use anyway? Loving Nick Retford was like reaching for the moon. He was just as magnetic and just as difficult to attain. Only one name dominated his world - Vanessa Maybury. The news of their proposed marriage hit Rachel like a thunderbolt!

Madeline felt that her lines had fallen in pleasant places when she was asked to go to Morocco with her employer, a charming American woman - so charming, in fact, that Madeline soon discovered that she was doing her best to manufacture an engagement between her secretary and her nephew, Brooke Van Cleefe. Certainly Morocco was a place made for love. Its very air breathed romance. But, life being what it is, Madeline's heart was captured not by Brooke but by the glamorous Doctor Victor Tourelle - the one man who seemed permanently unaffected by Morocco's romantic spell!

Alex Daimon is an incubus--the incarnation of desire, the soul of carnality. For centuries, Alex has brought down the just and wicked alike to corrupt the innocent. When he came to the bed of Callie Wisdom, a young heir to the New Orleans witch who had bound him to darkness, she was ripe for possession. Soon, Callie learns her heart will save their souls. Slain long before in a moment of despair, Cain was collected by the Evil One and forced into servitude. He became a demon with one purpose: to stalk the night, stripping away women's fears and tasting their desire. In their moment of ecstasy, he takes their souls. He's done so a thousand times and felt nothing. This time will be no different. But when he slips into Sophie Alexander's dreams, she evades his pursuit. In her kiss, there is sweet redemption. Love is no longer the trap he'd believed it to be—and his lust is no longer a weapon but a tool. With it he will break his bonds, and together he and Sophie will overcome the evil that imprisons them and create a whole new world.

She would never love another man. Liane Goulden had loved Richard Wilding for six years, but he saw her only as his efficient, self-effacing secretary. So when he became engaged to another woman, Liane took a holiday at her cousin's in South Africa to unravel her tangled emotions. The last thing she wanted was to get involved with someone else--and especially the imposing Flint Dawson. And she lost no time in telling him so! Then why was she so disappointed when he took her at her word?

Caroline Cliburn was to be married next Tuesday, and yet she suspected that gratitude was the wrong reason to become a bride. Perhaps that was why she and her younger brother Jody had taken the long drive north to Scotland in search of her missing brother Angus. As the landscape grew more stark and wintry with each passing mile, Caroline recognized the coldness inside her even more. But she never dreamed that a sudden spring blizzard would leave them stranded by the roadside. Or that snow in April could give both her and a lonely young Scot one last chance to find the healing warmth of love...

Bachelor alert! "Your word, like any other woman's, Kate, is worthless." Kate's latest assignment was the answer to her prayers, but she'd have turned it down flat if she'd known that Jason Warwick was to be her boss! His devastating looks ensured constant female attention, yet he cynically branded all women as faithless and incapable of love. Kate wasn't interested in a temporary affair, but that was all Jason appeared to be offering. So conjuring up an imaginary boyfriend seemed the best defense against his seductive charm. But who was Kate really deceiving--Jason, or herself?

It was with a mixture of pleasure and regret that Marie Todd arrived from New York to spend Thanksgiving at the family home in Renfrew. Her two brothers and her sister had gathered at the old homestead, too -- and all were there to discuss the sale of Renfrew seemingly necessitated by Mr. Todd’s enforced early retirement. Marie soon learned that other problems were brewing in the once-placid family. Only Jack Baird, a young psychology professor boarding with the Todd’s, seemed unperturbed and ready with a solution -- not only for not selling the house but for also providing Marie with a new outlook on life.

Sitting on a California beach at summer's end, Jane Marsh thought back to her childhood at the estate called Elvie in a remote corner of Scotland. She remembered not only the heather-covered hills and lonesome loch, but her grandmother... and, of course, Sinclair. She had secretly dreamed of marrying rakishly handsome Sinclair and settling at Elvie forever. Now an urgent visit from her grandmother's lawyer would become the catalyst for her return to Scotland...where waiting for her was passion, not gentle love, and the chilling realization that she might be ready to wed the wrong man.

Julie Alnaker was rich, young and lovely. She and Toby Grant, who recently qualified at the Central, had been childhood sweethearts, grown up together. But now Julie was engaged to Rupert Ferris, an eligible architect of whom even Julie's mother approved. Julie injured four days before her wedding in a riding accident and with Toby being on call was the first doctor to reach her and the first to realise that Julie might never walk again...

His heart was hers - If she could teach him to love again ... Striking, redheaded Jane Drummond, daughter of Central Hospital's chief orthopedic surgeon, was a woman accustomed to going after what she wanted - and getting it. Right now, what she wanted was the love of Michael Adversane, the handsome, gifted young surgeon she had known since childhood. After years of devotion, it didn't seem too much to ask, and yet, in the aftermath of a tragic accident, Michael's affection for her seemed to dim. Why? What, Jane wondered, would happen when Michael himself was wheeled into the operating room - under the scalpel of a man who loved her more than Michael ever did?