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An unwanted desire
With the death of his wife still raw, Jack Connolly's mood is dark and dangerous. He's not looking for a woman, until he meets buttoned-up but beautiful Grace Spencer, who stirs his senses back to life. Yet Jack cannot act on his feelings, as Grace belongs to another! An impossible affair
Trapped in a fake relationship to safeguard her family, Grace knows crossing the line with Jack would risk everything she holds dear....
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Her situation was impossible, Ryan realized, more impossible than even Alain could imagine.
What had he said? "We are married, Ryan. I suggest we attempt to salvage something from the wreck."
But friendship was something she and Alain could never share, and she shrank from his pity.
If all he could offer was friendship for appearances' sake, there was no future for either of them.
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"Who rides the tiger dare not dismount" goes the Chinese saying...and Dominique felt the proverb could well apply to her strange, impulsive marriage to Vincente Santos. She dared not dismount from the tiger she rode...but what if she was thrown?
Vincente drew out a case of cheroots and extracted one calmly.
His tawny eyes surveyed her almost indifferently, as if assessing her qualifications. "I want you to break your engagement to Harding and...
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A new year... a new start... a new baby. The miracle Felicity could only dream about has finally happened - her husband, missing, presumed dead, is alive and well - and coming home! But much has happened in their four years apart and Morgan seems like a virtual stranger to her now. Fliss's love for her husband had once consumed her and it's not long before his return begins to stir her long-suppressed desires. With the dawning of a new year it's the...
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It was on the invitation of the elderly Marquesa de Mendao that Malcolm Trevellyan and his young wife Rachel were staying at the imposing quinta in Portugal. But Rachel was far from happy there.
Malcolm was being embarrassingly rude and demanding to his hostess, who made it clear to Rachel that she at least was very far from welcome. And the Marquesa's son Luis, the Marques de Mendao, made no secret of his contempt for Rachel and her husband.
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Joanna loved Shannon Carne and he loved her-but there were several overwhelming reasons why they should not marry.
"All right, Joanna," Shannon said harshly. "I love you. But it's no use. It never was, and it never will be. We've had today. Let's just remember it as a day out of time."
Joanna stared at him numbly-envisaging the future, bleak without him. She had to find some way to make him change his mind!
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It was to save her father from ruin that Stephanie had married Santino Ventura and gone to live with him in his castle in Sicily.
Santino had made it clear that he had not married her because she wanted a real wife, but a companion for his small daughter-but why, oh, why had he done it at all?
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He could still make her want him.... Maggie would never have made the journey to Northumberland to see her ex-husband if it hadn't been for their rebellious teenage daughter. Lindsey had formed a disastrous relationship and Neil was the only person who could help. Clearly, Maggie's treacherous betrayal some years ago still rankled with Neil because why else would he so provoke and humiliate her? She was ashamed of the fact that he could still make...
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"Don't be deceived, Emma," Damon said violently. "I'm not letting you go because I feel sorry for you. I'm letting you go because I have no intention of losing my self-respect over a little cheat like you."
It didn't seem to matter anymore what his reasons were. Emma knew only that she needed him now-more than at any other time of her life. The love she had felt for him when she was seventeen had not died. It had deepened. And today her love for...
10) Dark Castle
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For the first time since the break-up of their marriage, Julie began to have doubts. Should she have believed Jonas instead of Angela?
But suppose Jonas was innocent? Even if he weren't, it was no use deceiving herself any longer.
"I think you ought to know, Angela," Julie said, "I still love Jonas, no matter what he did. I may go after him."
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Sancha was thrilled with her assignment-to interview the famous author, the Conte Cesare Alberto Venturo di Malatesta.
Entering his palazzo was like stepping back into the Renaissance, its poverty-stricken appearance at odds with his success. The Conte himself-a modern, powerful figure-was dynamite, as Sancha soon realized. And she seemed to have the same effect on him.
But the truth was Cesare was hard up; he did need to marry money. With the...
12) Wicked Caprice
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Was Isobel Herriot a marriage-breaker? Patrick Shannon's sister certainly believed her husband was having a torrid affair with Isobel. But when Patrick paid a visit to Isobel's Cotswold craft shop he couldn't be so sure. How could he reconcile the fact that someone so reserved could also be promiscuous? Or that someone who played down her generous curves could also arouse him to uncontrollable passion? Patrick wasn't interested in a relationship that...
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Some secrets just won't stay hidden… Why had Jaime Harris left a perfectly good job to come to work for his stepmother, Catriona? Dominic Redding was curious - and intrigued. Jaime had come to Bermuda with a purpose - to find out more about Catriona - and her attentive, good-looking stepson could jeopardize all that. Catriona was very possessive of Dominic, so much so that Jaime began to suspect the true nature of the relationship between stepmother...
14) Sinful Pleasures
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Falling for a younger man Megan Cross hasn't been back to the Caribbean island of San Felipe since her parents' ugly divorce and her mother's second marriage. Now her mother's husband is desperately ill and wants Megan's forgiveness for separating mother and daughter. So Megan has returned, to find that much has altered in the intervening sixteen years, not least of all her stepsister's son, Remy. When they last met he was a nine-year-old to her superior...
15) All the Fire
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"Me-I'm a loner," Dimitri said sardonically. "I want no little woman to warm my slippers on a winter's evening and cook me exotic eastern food!"
Joanne was furious, as much with herself as with him. It was no use speculating now on what might have happened if she had not written the letter, but she still could not understand why suddenly everything was going wrong!
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Seventeen-year-old Domine thought she was alone in the world when her guardian and only relative, Great-Uncle Henry Farriday, died; nevertheless she was a little daunted when she learned that Great-Uncle Henry had consigned her to the care of the unknown James Mannering until she was eighteen. She was no less daunted when she actually met James and went to stay with him and his mother in their home in Yorkshire. For James was only thirty-seven and...
17) Moon Witch
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Jarrod guarded Sara even against himself.
Sara Robins had never even heard of Jarrod Kyle until he became her guardian. He was far removed from anyone Sara, at seventeen, had known in the small, quiet world she'd lived in until her grandfather's death.
Jarrod Kyle was just twice her age, handsome, rich, successful and surrounded by sophisticated women. Perhaps it was inevitable that Sara would fall in love with him.
But was it love or only...
18) Guilty
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The man of her fantasies belonged to another-her daughter.
Slim, lovely Laura Fox didn't look like the mother of a twenty-one-year-old, although her safe, predictable life-save the occasional run-in with her headstrong daughter-quite befitted that of a country matron.
Her world turned upside down when she met Jake Lombardi. Was it simply lust for something she'd never had-or did this passionate man's potent sensuality savage her emotions and...
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Why do some women always manage to fall for a man who they know from the start can never be any good to them?
Julie Kennedy, like most girls, had hero-worshipped the famous television singer Manuel Cortez from afar, but it had never entered her head that she might meet him, let alone that he would show an interest in her. But it all happened, and before she knew where she was Julie had fallen hopelessly in love with him. Hopelessly-because, as...
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Too hot to handle, too strong to deny...Dominic Montoya was darkly handsome and, oh, so dangerous to know. Cleo knew he was strictly off-limits. But she couldn't turn her back on him altogether; he had information that could change her whole life... Cleo was torn as to which path she should choose, but reluctantly agreed to follow Dominic to his home on the sultry Caribbean island of San Clemente. Soon they were caught in the tangled web of their...
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