Frank Carlson Library

Olivia didn't expect returning home to be easy. And it wasn't. Especially when it was Matthew Ryan who met her at the airport when she returned to England from her grandmother's funeral. Matt and Olivia had once been passionate lovers and he had been desperate to marry her. Instead, she had chosen to leave him, although it had nearly broken her heart. But that had been ten years ago, part of their past. Until Olivia discovered their past...

He'd always been a law unto himself. Rafe Lindsay, Earl of Invercaldy, was lord of all he surveyed. But the days when a nobleman held the right to seduce any village maiden he fancied were long gone. Not that the message had reached Rafe! But then Isobel Jacobson was hardly a maiden. She was a widow, struggling to raise an unruly teenage daughter on her own. She was also a woman who longed to feel the passion that intimacy held....

Miranda refused to listen to warnings. She didn't love Mark Sanders, but that didn't matter. He was heir to the estate where her mother was housekeeper. As Lady Sanders, Miranda could ensure a better life for her mother as well as herself. But Mark was killed just before the wedding-the day her mother suffered a paralyzing stroke. Jaime Knevett, the new heir, suggested a way out of Miranda's dilemma. But Miranda had detested him for years...

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...

Could he ever belong to her? Antonia was devastated to learn that the very attractive man she had met at Celia's party was none other than Reed Gallagher, Celia's fiancé. He hadn't acted like a man in love, but perhaps their sort of people behaved differently. And Antonia was very definitely not their sort. Although she resolved to forget Reed, Antonia couldn't escape him. He invaded her life and her heart. And despite her guilt feelings, she...

Emma Seaton was comfortably if unexcitingly engaged to Victor Harrison; he was a wealthy business tycoon, and Emma could look forward to a life of ease and luxury with him-but was that all she wanted from life? She became even more aware of her doubts about Victor when she met the disturbing Miguel Salvaje, who made no secret of his attraction to her, and Emma soon admitted to herself that she in turn was attracted to him. The situation grew even...

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...

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...

It hadn't been easy-coming to see Tristan Ross. He might deny being the father of her dead sister's baby, but Caryn was determined to make him accept responsibility. When he finally conceded, however, his conditions were not what she had in mind. She was to accompany the child to his home. "I wouldn't work for you," she declared angrily, "and I wouldn't live in your house if you paid me in diamonds!" But, even fearing the magnetism of this devastating...

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...