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A Gentle Feuding
Jamie Mackinnion is a feared laird in Scotland who spots the beautiful Sheena and instantly falls for her. Unknown to him, she is part of the Fergusson clan, the hated enemy of the Mackinnions. After a series of events Sheena turns up at the Mackinnion's castle and Jamie cannot believe his luck and is determined to marry her, however Sheena knows who he is and has heard stories of his brutal unkind nature and refuses to have anything to do with him. ...
A Loving Scoundrel
Raised on the streets, Danny has no memory of her real family. After she is banished from her gang because she helped Jeremy Malory steal back his friend's jewels, she blackmails him to give her a job in his house. Danny dreams of becoming respectable and having her own family. Although he wants the beautiful and unique Danny as his mistress, Jeremy concedes into giving her a job as his upstairs maid. Later, with the help of Jeremy's cousin Regina, D...
A Man to Call My Own
Atria, Jul 2003 ISBN: 0743456335 On the train coming home from a Chicago business trip, Mortimer Laton fell between cars and died. Following the funeral in his hometown of Haverhill, Massachusetts, Mortimer's attorney Albert Bridges reads the will in which the preponderance of the estate went to his twin daughters equally. Worried about fortune hunters, Mortimer had one stipulation. To inherit, the girls must marry, but until they do his siste...
A Pirate's Love
A Pirate's Love is the story of a young French girl named Bettina Verlaine, who is forced into an arranged marriage by her mother and stepfather, to Comte Pierre de Lambert. On the voyage to marry the Comte, Bettina's ship is captured by pirates and the captain, Tristan holds them captive, or so she believes. Tristan makes a deal with her: if she has sex with him, and does not fight him in anyway, he will spare her crew. Bettina is forced to agree, but t...

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All I Need is You
Casey Straton at 18 years of age wants to take over her grandfather's ranch. Her father does not believe she can manage the running of the ranch. They quarrel and she leaves her home to prove to her father that she can live in a man's world. She wears men's clothing and it is believed that she is a young man named Kid. She does not disabuse this belief and in no time due to her tracking skills and skill with a pistol she becomes a bounty hunter in high...
Angel
In a small town in Texas, Cassie Stuart, who is visiting her father from her hometown in Wyoming, decides to play matchmaker between two members of two feuding families. Instead of making things better, she now has both families threatening her unless she leaves for home. The problem is her father broke his leg while negotiating a deal away from home and he will not be able to come home any time soon, leaving her to run the ranch. So she decides ...
Captive Bride
Christina Wakefield longed for adventure. However, when she was kidnapped by Sheik Abu, it was definitely not the adventure that she had in mind. Sheik Abu, also known as Phili Caxton, once proposed to Christina, but was refused. Now she is his slave. He swore torture and revenge, but one look at her, all is forgotten. Although nothing could keep them together, yet nothing could keep them apart. Soon after her return to England, Philip followed hoping to...
Defy Not the Heart
Lady Reina is in trouble because he father died in the crusades without settling her marriage plans. Now she is getting attacked by men who want to marry her for her wealth and estates. When she is taken captive by the mercenary knight Ranulf, she strikes a bargain with him. Instead of taking her to the despicable old Lord Rothwell, she will agree to marry Ranulf. He is handsome beyond belief and a giant of a man who she thinks can protect her lands. ...
Fires of Winter
Viking Garrick Haardrad's father captures Celtic Lady Brenna, a courageous woman with sword skills and a fighting spirit, and some other women in her community in revenge against her countrymen for capturing and beating his son. She is given to Garrick as a slave and treated as such. Garrick on several occasions goes against her wishes to be 'bedded' and this angers her greatly, enough to encite her to try to escape. This failed escape and a betrayal by ...
Gentle Rogue
Georgina Anderson is on her way home to Connecticut from England and posing as a cabin boy on a ship sailed by James Malory. Her plan is to find one of her five brothers at one of the stops they make during the long trip and get home that way. She doesn't expect to get close and eventually fall in love with James along the way. When they stop in Jamaica, she finds her brother Drew and he sets sail for home before she can tell James goodbye. Weeks lat...

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Glorious Angel
Angela Sherrington was the poor daughter of a sharecropper in Alabama during the civil War. At age 11 she fell in love with Bradford Maitland, eldest son of the plantation owner, Jacob Maitland. Unbeknownst to her Jacob was carefully observing her upbringing as he had promised her mother years ago when she had died. Upon the death of Angela's drunkard father in a bar brawl, Jacob took Angela to his mansion and told her a little of her mother and sent her...
Heart Of A Warrior (Romance)
Morrow, May 2001, 25.00, 384 pp. ISBN: 0380978547 Dalden follows Jorran to planet earth to stop the rebel from using his mind-altering rods to gain control of the world. However, in his wildest dreams as a warrior Dalden never anticipated dealing with the complex California mall. He is fortunate that Brittany Callaghan takes pity on the obviously lost soul and agrees to become his guide. Dalden quickly realizes the impossible has occ...
Heart of a Warrior (Science Fiction)
Brittany Callaghan was instantly drawn to the gorgeous 7-foot tall stranger when she saw him. Being 6-foot herself, she had a difficult time finding men to date. She also had a difficult time letting go and so found herself a virgin at the age of 28. But when she spotted the sexy foreigner, Brittany found herself wondering what he would be like as a lover. Unfortunately, the stranger disappeared before Brittany could find out anything about him...only to...
Hearts Aflame
Kristen Haardrad, daughter of a viking merchant, sneaks away on her brother's boat in search of love and adventure. Disguised as a boy, Kristen tries to aid her brother and their friends as they get caught on a raid and is captured by Royce of Wyndhurst. Soon, after making Kristen a slave along with her viking companions, Royce discovers that Kristen is a woman and assumes she is their whore. Kristen recognizes that Royce is the man for her and sets o...
Home For the Holidays
The Mallory clan is back and this time celebrating Christmas at Haverston manor. However, not everyone is happy at the yuletide season. James Mallory has a tiff with his wife when she has heard her daughter blurting out foul language which she learned from her uncle, James' brother, Anthony after coming home one day. James's ire extends to Anthony, who is unrepentant about the misdeed. And when Rosalind, Anthony's wife, learns about it, she gets angry at...
Joining
Neville Crispin saves the life of Guy de Thorpe. To repay the act and to bond the friendship Guy and Neville enter into a marriage contract for their children. Neville promises his first born daughter,Milisent, to Guy's first born son, Wulfric. A few years later the two meet for the first time and the meeting results in Wulf being attacked by Milisent's falcon. The attack results in the death of the bird and in Milisent's ankle being broken. While it wa...

Johanna Lindsey novels

Keeper of the Heart
Shanelle Ly-San-Ter flees from the man she gave herself who was chosen as her lifemate. Confused about her feelings for him and frightened by his loss of control, she runs away only to be pursued by him....
Love Me Forever
Love Me Forever is about Lady Kimberly who needs a husband fast. As a result of her taking the customary year of mourning her deceased mother she has lost her betrothed who didn't have the patience to a wait as he needed her dowry to pay his gambling debts. In an effort to find a husband she is sent to Sherring Cross the home of the Duke and Duchess of Wrothston. There she meets Lachlan MacGregor, a Laird. He happens to be looking for a rich wife since h...
Love Only Once
Regina Mallory is the toast of London society, a first-diamond-in-the-water belle, and the beloved niece of the affluent and distinguished Mallory brothers. She has flitted from one party to another, season after season looking for her ideal mate. When she has been caught in a compromising situation with notorious rake Nicholas Eden, her single life comes to an end as she has been forced to marry the man. Just following their wedding ceremony, Nicholas l...
Man of My Dreams
Beautiful Megan Penworthy wants to marry the Duke of Wrothson after receiving a humiliating cut direct from Lady Ophelia Thackeray, the woman who possesses the loftiest title in their neighborhood. When horsebreeder Devlin Jeffery suddenly appears in their home, Megan finds Devlin exasperating and antagonizes him every time they meet. She constantly points out his lack of breeding and boasts to him that she'll marry a great titled man. Despite her negati...
Marriage Most Scandalous
Lady Maggie Landor goes to France to search for her guardian long, lost disinherited son, Sebastion. After experiencing no success, she decides to hire an investigator known as the Raven, who turns out to be the man she is looking for. Sebastion, who carries the guilt of a duel gone bad and the pain of being rejected by a father he had adored, rejects Maggie's proposal of coming home to help find who is causing all of his father's "accidents". Mag...
Once A Princess
Forced to accept the throne as King of Cardinia due to his father's grave illness, Prince Stefan Barany is shocked to discover that he is betrothed to an exiled princess. Years ago, in order to save Princess Tatiana Janacek from certain death at the hands of her familys' enemies, the princess was whisked away to America under the protection of a Russian woman, Baroness Tomilova. When the Baroness died of an illness contracted en route to America, Tanya...

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Paradise Wild
Jared Burkett leaves his native Hawaii for Boston to exact revenge on the man he believes responsible for his broken-hearted mother's suicide. Unable to ruin him financially he weds his daughter, Corinne, after raping her, and leaves her publically humilitaed and pregnant. Corinne pursues Jared back to Hawaii to avenge her injust treatment, by pretending to be promiscuous to humiliate Jared on his own home turf, but finds herself pregnant. She gives birt...
Prisoner of My Desire
Morrow, Dec 2002, 19.95, 352 pp. ISBN: 0060509325 In 1152 England, her odious stepbrother Gilbert D'Ambray forces Rowena Belleme to marry the elderly Godwynne Lyons because her sibling wants to use his new in-law's vast estate to fight a tough enemy. To force her to bend to his wishes, he threatens Rowena's mother Anne with brutal punishment. However, on their wedding night, her new spouse, old enough to be her grandfather, dies. To produce an...
Savage Thunder
A nineteenth english Dutchess, Jocelyn Fleming, travels the world after she becomes a young widow to a Duke in England. After many years of sightseeing with her personal entourage, she visits the United States and the Wild West. While in the West she discovers a man named Colt Thunder, who's ancestory includes a white father, and a Cheyanne Indian mother, who raised him as a full-blooded Indian savage most of his life until he was civilized, and ...
Say You Love Me
Kelsey Logan's family is on the brink of financial ruin shortly after the death of her parents, and it's up to her to guarantee a safe future for her dear sister Jeane. The ruin is almost immediate, so there is only one option; become the mistress of a wealthy lord. At the House of Eros, a place of poor character, Kelsey is put up for auction. Rich, handsome, and sensual, Lord Derek Malory did not intend to buy himself a mistress that night. However, ...
Secret Fire
Katherine St. John was just trying to save her sister from eloping. She had no idea that dressing like a servant to follow her sister, would get her kidnapped at the whims of a Russian Prince. Being a daughter of an Earl, Katherine told the servants that she would not stay and sleep with the Prince and demanded her release immediately. What she didn't count on, was being given a drug to persuade her otherwise. After a night with Prince Dimitri Alexan...
Surrender My Love
Selig Haardrad, the dark and handsom Viking, was captured and mistaken for a spy. In the dungeon of Lady Erika of Gronwood, he suffered greatly. Vaguely he remembered the cruel laughter of this Danish lady, whom he had sworn revenge. Now everything is changed. Selig's exquisite and honey-haired tormentor is delivered into his hands. He will enjoy breaking the proud spirit of his captive beauty. However, he soon will find himself vanquished by the ...
Tender Rebel
Roslynn Chadwick has inherited great fortune and assets when her grandfather died. She comes to London society looking for a husband in order to secure her wealth before her cousin can manage to take it away from her. Anthony Mallory is a certified rake and a heartthrob bachelor among London's genteel women especially married women. One look at Roslynn he decides that he will be her lover after she is safely married. So he proposes to her that he will ac...
The Heir
Archibald Mactavish is the owner of a large Scottish Highland estate. He raises sheep and ships the wool all over Europe. He has out lived all 4 of his sons and is raising his only grandchild, Duncan, who lost his parents when only 8 years of age. Neville Thackery, is an English earl, with wealth and vast estates who allowed his only child to marry Archie's son with the agreement that their first son, who happened to be Duncan, would assume the earld...
The Magic of You
This is the fourth book in the Malory series. Amy Malory, a minx and now of marriageable age, has already chosen her mate: Warren Anderson. Warren, who is bitter, cynical, and had tried to have Amy's uncle James hanged, considers himself the least appropriate person to be paired with young Amy. Though he is determined to resist Amy's shocking advances, he finds himself surrendering to her charms after they are taken captive by a Chinese warlord intent...
The Pursuit
Morrow, Mar 2002, 25.95, 306 pp. ISBN: 0380978555 In Scotland, sixteen interfering, muscular and fearsome MacFearson uncles insure that none of her suitors meets the different criteria set by each one of Melissa MacGregor's caring relatives. To help Melissa, find a spouse, her parents (stars of LOVE ME FOREVER) pry her away from the well meaning crowd and plan to send her to London. Before leaving her family on her adventure, Melissa ...
Warrior's Woman
Tedra De Arr is a warrior woman of the 22nd century who is trying to free her enslaved planet from an evil ruler. Experienced in battle but not in the art of love, the beautiful warrior flies to a planet ruled by barbarians. She loses a challenge against the first one she meets and becomes his "slave" and soon finds that as primitive as he is, he is also disciplined and soon teaches her a few lessons of an intimate nature. Tedra resents her position s...
When Love Awaits
Lady Leonie of Montwyn, had been mistress of Pershwick since her mother passed away many years ago. Since her father abandoned her for drink, Leonie never expected to marry at the advanced age of nineteen and had become accostomed to her independance. Now she has been told she is to marry Rolfe d'Ambert, the Lord of Kempston, the man who has destroyed the lives of her beloved neighbors and friends by stealing their property. Rolfe d'Ambert wants to br...
You Belong To Me
Alexandra was betrothed to Vasili, whom she did not feel very fond of. Vasili never really fell in love with Alexandra, but after a short time with each other, they discover they had some things in common, like passionate love....