Time-Travel Romance : Author - W

Author: Wendy Markham
Title: If Only In My Dreams
Time: [Modern Day to Past]
Description:
Actress Clara McCallum isn't looking forward to spending Christmas alone in New York City, especially since she's still reeling after a diagnosis of breast cancer.
But she has to be on location in the city for her next big movie. She's playing a woman in love with Jed Landry, an American soldier doomed to die at Normandy....
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Imagine Clara's astonishment when she steps off an old fashioned locomotive from the set and finds herself whisked back in time--and into the arms of the real-life Jed. She's convinced it's some sort of hallucination brought on by he diagnosis. But before long, she finds herself swept away by this handsome soldier and wondering if maybe her plunge into the past could change the course of the future--and turn out to be the best Christmas present ever....

Time-Travel Romance : Author - V

Author: Veronica Wolff
Title: Master of the Highlands
Series: Highlands - Story I
Time: [Modern Day to Past]
Description: [From Fictiondb]
SHE'S BACK IN TIME...
Lily Hamlin has finally realized that her life isn't as perfect as she once thought. Lily hopes that making a pilgrimage to Scotland, a land she's only heard about in lullabies, will help her to find her place again. But while exploring the Highlands, she discovers an overgrown maze and a strange stone map--and lands in the Lochaber of 1654...
...JUST IN TIME FOR HIM.
Ewen, Chief of the Clan Cameron, is a busy man who must figure out how to save his people from the brutal redcoats and has time for little else. Having sired an heir, the widowed Ewen has no need--or room--for another romance. Then into his life drops a saucy lass with a peculiar accent, no regard for his title--and an arousing body. Drawn to each other despite their differences, they both realize that they don't want Lily to go back to her own time. But with battles brewing between the Camerons, the redcoats, and a rival clan, staying is a gamble.

Time-Travel Romance : Author - T

Author: Teresa Medeiros
Title: Breath of Magic
Series: Lennox Witch - Story I
Time: [Past to Modern Day]
Description: [From Fictiondb]
An enchantress from seventeenth-century Massachusetts collides with a future beyond her imagining...and with a handsome cynic who's about to learn a lesson in the power of love.
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AN EXQUISITE ENCHANTRESS LOST IN TIME
Arian Whitewood hadn't quite gotten the hang of the powerful amulet she'd inherited from her mother, but she never expected it to whisk her more than three hundred years in the future. Flying unsteadily on her broomstick, she suddenly finds herself among towers of glass and metal, then tumbling from the sky to land at the feet of a man with frost-gray eyes and a seemingly flint-hard heart...
A SKEPTICAL TYCOON OUT OF HIS ELEMENT
Reclusive billionaire Tristan Lennox didn't believe in magic, but he had his own reasons for offering one million dollars to anyone who could prove it existed. Now he finds himself besieged by fakes, frauds, and an old nemesis ready to leap on this opportunity to destroy him. But the smoky-voiced beauty who appeared to fall from the clouds into his climate-controlled existence is something else entirely - a woman able to enchant his lonely heart with wonder, but who can't possibly be what she seems...

Time-Travel Romance : Author - S

Author: S.A. Martin
Title: Dream Weaver
Time: [Modern Day to Past]
Description: [From Fictiondb]
Strange dreams haunt Gwen's sleep, of a lonely cabin in the woods and a tall, dark man she's never met.
While visiting a restored village, Gwen is flung back in time, and meets the man of her dreams! All Christian wants is to practice medicine in the Pennsylvania wilderness, to inoculate the settlers against smallpox.. He certainly doesn't want to deal with a crazy lady who shows up at his doorstep, claiming to be from the future. And the last thing he wants is to fall in love. But Gwen and Christian can't escape their past or their future. They must surmount the dangers that threaten them . . . or die together.

Time-Travel Romance : Author - R

Author: Robin Bayne
Title: The Will of Time
Time: [Modern Day to Past]
Description:
Leia McGarland is only thirty days from losing her home. . unless she marries within the month to meet the terms of her grandfather's will.
Trapped in 1863. . .after slipping through a time portal in her cellar, Leia meets Brant Douglas, a Union soldier with a hidden agenda. Could the McGarland home's portal to the future be the final stop for slaves traveling the underground railroad? The more she learns about Brant's secret, the further Leia falls for him. If only she could fall back to the twentieth century, with Brant as her husband, but is that the will of time?

Time-Travel Romance : Author - P

Author: P.C. Cast
Title: The Avenger
Time: [Modern Day to Past]
Description: [From Fictiondb]
For Alexandra Patton, the Time Raiders project sends the reluctant psychic back to 60 AD Briton -- a world where she can barely understand the accents, let alone its culture of brutality and superstition. Armed only with her "freakish" ability to talk to the dead, Alex must use all her gifts to entice Caradoc, a savagely sexy Druid warrior, into helping her succeed in her mission.
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What they discover along the way is pure passion.
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Now, torn between duty and the man of her dreams, should Alex return home if given the chance? Or dare she risk everything to begin anew in this strange and mystical land?

Time-Travel Romance : Author - O

Author: Olga Bicos
Title: Wrapped In Wishes
Time: [Modern Day to Past][Past to Modern Day]
Description:
New Orleans law professor Chloe Plum is desperate enough to try anything--even hypnosis--to finally get a decent night's sleep.
But every time she goes "under", she slips into Victorian London, with handsome Egyptologist Harrison Connors always close at hand. Just as she's getting to know Harrison better, she's whisked away to reality. Then, without warning, she and Harrison meet on a modern-day American street. Has Harrison traveled across the years to find her?
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Sent back through time by an accident in hypnosis, attorney Chloe Plum falls in love with rogue adventurer Harrison Connors only to return to her own time, but his appearance in modern-day New Orleans offers Chloe a second chance to be with him. Original.

Time-Travel Romance : Author - N

Author: Nora Roberts
Title: Time Was
Series: Time & Again - Story I
Time: [Future to Modern Day]
Description: [From Fictiondb]
Studying the past hardly prepared anthropologist Liberty Stone for loving a man from the future.
Caleb Hornblower, with hair as black as deep space and eyes as blue as the Oregon sky his ship had fallen from--made her level head spin. In his arms time stood still, but soon he'd go where she couldn't follow.
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Born in 2222, Cal couldn't believe he'd crashed through a gateway to the past and was being sheltered in a remote cabin by a captivating twentieth century woman-one whose strength and innocence filled him with an aching desire. He belonged in the future, but if Libby was part of the past, how could he leave it--and her--behind?

Time-Travel Romance : Author - M

Author: Madeline Baker
Title: Feather In The Wind
Time: [Modern Day to Past]
Description: [From Fictiondb]
BLACK WIND
He gazed out over a land as vast and empty as the sky, praying for the strength to guide his people, and he saw her face. She came to him in a vision, a woman as mysterious as the new moon over the prairie, as tender as springtime in the Paha Sapa. And he knew his life was changed forever.
SUSANNAH
She saw his face in a faded picture, and his eyes, restless as the wind, seemed to call to her. It was said he'd been hanged nearly a century ago for kidnapping a white woman, yet his story seemed unfinished. To the writer in her, he was an inspiration, but to the lonely woman within he was a dream come true who would lure her across the years to fulfill a love beyond time.

Time-Travel Romance : Author - L

Author: Laurie Brown
Title: Hundreds of Years to Reform a Rake
Time: [Modern Day to Past]
Description: [From Fictiondb]
SHE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN HELP HIM
Deverell Thornton, the ninth Earl of Waite, must convince her to come back to his time and foil the plot that would destroy him...
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HIS PLEA IS IRRESISTIBLE
Josie Drummond is a modern career woman, and she doesn't believe time travel is possible, until her overpowering attraction conquers all doubt...
BUT WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN THEIR TIME RUNS OUT?
As a modern woman, thrust back in rime to the sparkling social whirlwind of the Regency period, Josephine Drummond must contend with the complex manners and mores of the day, make sure no one discovers her real identity and unmask a dangerous charlatan. And in the end, she must choose between the ghost who captivated her or the man himself, who is clearly determined to sweep her off her feet and shows no mercy when it comes to seduction...

Time-Travel Romance : Author - K

Author: Karen Marie Monning
Title: Beyond The Highland Mist
Series: [Magic Highlander Story I]
Time: [Modern Day to Past]
Description: [From Fictiondb]
He would sell his warrior soul to possess her. . . .
AN ALLURING LAIRD
He was known throughout the kingdom as Hawk, legendary predator of the battlefield and the boudoir. No woman could refuse his touch, but no woman ever stirred his heart--until a vengeful fairy tumbled Adrienne de Simone out of modern-day Seattle and into medieval Scotland. Captive in a century not her own, entirely too bold, too outspoken, she was an irresistible challenge to the sixteenth-century rogue. Coerced into a marriage with Hawk, Adrienne vowed to keep him at arm's length--but his sweet seduction played havoc with her resolve.
A PRISONER IN TIME
She had a perfect "no" on her perfect lips for the notorious laird, but Hawk swore she would whisper his name with desire, begging for the passion he longed to ignite within her. Not even the barriers of time and space would keep him from winning her love. Despite her uncertainty about following the promptings of her own passionate heart, Adrienne's reservations were no match for Hawk's determination to keep her by his side. . . .

Time-Travel Romance : Author - J

Author: Jane Goodger
Title: Anything For Love
Time: [Modern Day to Past]
Description: [From Fictiondb]
SOMETIMES ONE LIFETIME ISN'T ENOUGH...
A terrible fire leaves supermodel Victoria Ashford injured and longing for death...until she hears about a mysterious doctor with the power to give her a new life. But in order to save herself, Victoria must become Sheila Casey, a poor Irish immigrant in the late 1800s. Desperate, she says yes...
TO FIND TRUE LOVE
Suddenly Victoria finds herself in the body of a saucy red--haired scullery maid who died after giving up her newborn daughter for adoption. Driven to find the baby, Victoria enters the elegant world of Boston society and discovers a man haunted by shattered dreams. Almost from their first meeting, Jack Wilkins and Victoria feel a passion hotter than fire and greater than reason. But Victoria's borrowed life can be snatched away at any time, and love can heal or break her heart....

Time-Travel Romance : Author - I

Author: Ingrid Weaver
Title: Conyn's Bride [SS from Veils of Time]
Time: [Past to Modern Day] [Traveller: Hero]
Description: [From Fictiondb]
On the eve of her wedding, museum curator Alanna Moore is cataloguing antiquities, when suddenly a Celtic warrior appears --- claiming to be her long-lost betrothed! Can she listen to her heart, and remember a love that was destined to be?

Time-Travel Romance : Author - H

Author: Heather Graham
Title: Home in Time for Christmas
Time: [Past to Modern Day][Traveller:Hero]
Description:
Centuries ago, by a scaffold in Manhattan, rose petals drifted gently to the ground...
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...like snow on a wintry Massachusetts night. Melody Tarleton is driving home for Christmas when a man--clad in Revolutionary War-era costume--appears out of nowhere, right in the path of her car. Shaken, she takes in the injured stranger, listening with concern to Jake Mallory's fantastic claim that he's a Patriot soldier, sentenced to death by British authorities. The last thing he remembers is the tug of the noose.
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Safe at her parents' house, Melody concocts a story to explain the handsome holiday guest with the courtly manners, strange clothes and nasty bump on the head. Mark, her close friend who wishes he were more, is skeptical and her family is fascinated--though not half so fascinated as Melody herself. Jake is passionate, charming and utterly unlike anyone she's ever met. Can he really be who he claims? And can a man from the distant past be the future she truly longs for?
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With the aid of enchanted petals, ancient potions and the peculiar magic of the season, Melody and Jake embark on an unimaginable Christmas adventure--and discover a love that transcends time.

Time-Travel Romance : Author - G

Author: Gwyn Cready
Title: Seducing Mr. Darcy
Time: [Modern Day to Past]
Description: [From Fictiondb]
Mr. Darcy just isn't Flip Allison's style.
She prefers novels with hot sex on the bathroom sink to the mannerly, high-tension longing of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. That is, until she pays a visit to Madame K, who promises a therapeutic massage with an opportunity to "Imagine Yourself in Your Favorite Book." Somehow, on the way to a sizzling sink-top session with a Venetian Adonis, Flip lands right in the middle of Regency England -- and dangerously close to handsome Mr. Darcy. So close, in fact, that she discovers a side of him even Jane Austen couldn't have imagined.
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Waking from her massage, Flip is on top of the world and ready for her upcoming book club -- that is, until she notices a new scene in which Darcy and spunky heroine Lizzy Bennet are arguing over...Flip Allison? Her rapturous liaison with Darcy has had disastrous consequences for Austen's characters -- not to mention millions of Pride and Prejudice fans! Flip has twenty-four hours to put the story back on course, and Magnus Knightley, a sexy but imperious scholar whose brooding good looks and infuriating arrogance are decidedly Darcy-like, is the only one who can help. The only problem is, Flip can't keep her hands off him, either....

Time-Travel Romance : Author - F

Author: Flora Speer
Title: Love Just In Time
Time: [Modern Day to Past]
Description: [From Fictiondb & FantasticFiction]
When a modern-day beauty is cast back in time, she finds passion in the arms of a scandalous farmer.
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A freak accident sends Clarissa Cummings into the arms of a handsome stranger in another century, but their passion is overshadowed by secrets from the young Englishman's past and Clarissa's mistrust of men after her husband's betrayal.

Time-Travel Romance : Author - E

Author: Elizabeth Chater
Title: The Elsingham Portrait
Time: [Modern Day to Past]
Description: [From Fictiondb]
Just jilted and very much mired in twentieth-century concerns, a rain-soaked Kathryn Hendrix sought refuge in a musty picture gallery whose only treasure was an eighteenth-century portrait of a stunning red-haired library.
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Suddenly, Kathryn found herself mysteriously transported two hundred years into the past, to that lady's opulent home, with the sneering Lord Elsingham for a husband and Lady Elsingham's body - and complicated domestic life - as her own!
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Kathryn racked her poor, pretty head - how to return to own time and place? But as Lord John's cold demeanor grew warmer, Kathryn began to hope she would be waylaid in history forever...

Time-Travel Romance : Author - D

Author: Dawn Calvert
Title: His and Hers
Time: [Modern Day to Past]
Description: [From Fictiondb]
Tell Me What You Want...
Sitting in her favorite coffee shop, Jane Ellingson realizes a frappucino can't fix a broken heart. She used to have a cool job, a best friend, and a fiance--and she lost them all in one really bad day. Hey, can she have a do-over? How about a whole new life?
...What You Really, Really Want
But Jane is about to get a second chance when she finds a stone that comes with a wish. With nothing to lose, Jane figures she'll go for it--and suddenly she finds herself in Victorian England, meeting the dashing Curran Dempsey. Before long she's smitten--and completely unable to stay in her corset. In fact, she feels just like the heroine in a romance novel, madly in love with a man who's too fabulous to be real...and too sexy to give up.

Time-Travel Romance : Author - C

Author: Candice Kohl
Title: A Twist In Time
Time: [Modern Day to Past]
Description: [From Fictiondb]
A YOUNG CAREER WOMAN, FLUNG BACKWARD THROUGH TIME...
Judy Lambini crash-lands in the Middle Ages, clutching a tote bag filled with her life's essentials—from makeup and razor to laptop and cell phone. All of which are either useless or quickly used up, and all of which seem tangible proof of her sorcery. Only one man believes Judy is not a witch, and his faith in her wins her heart. But is their love strong enough to hold her in that distant time and place?
A LANDLESS KNIGHT IN NEED OF A WELL-DOWERED BRIDE...
Andrew of Laycock finds himself smitten with a wandering waif who has no kin, let alone a dowry. She speaks oddly, clothes herself like a boy, and carries a satchel filled with curious devices. Judith claims to come from a future Andrew cannot truly fathom. But as she's made her way to him through the centuries, he vows never to lose her, not to another man nor even to another age...

Time-Travel Romance : Author - B

Author: Barbara Baldwin
Title: Indigo Bay
Time: [Modern Day to Past]
Description: [From Fictiondb]
Michaela Marie Chadwick (nicknamed Mica) has inherited Sea Crest, her great-great-aunt's home on the island, Indigo Bay.
Built in the early 1800's, the old home has been converted to a bed and breakfast. Mica sees her inheritance as an opportunity to escape and come to grips with her life. She's initiated a divorce against her irresponsible husband, and she's unhappy working in her father's law firm. As Mica searches for her answers, she hears loud voices and music from the second floor. She investigates, passing through a door to another section of Sea Crest where she encounters T. Logan Rutledge, whom she assumes is a guest, but who is actually the original owner of the island, which he calls Indigo Bay. Because Sea Crest has maintained the antiques and grandeur of a previous century, Mica visits Logan several times before realizing the door she passes through leads from her present day back in time to 1850.
Logan Rutledge is intrigued by the mysterious, beautiful woman who keeps appearing and disappearing in his life.
But even as he finds himself falling in love with her, Indigo Bay is plagued by unexplained fires and crop destruction guaranteed to bring disaster to his plantation. And in the middle of all his problems, Mica insists she's from the future, and she can help him find the solution to his problems from journals in her time. While past and present travel parallel to each other, Mica and Logan are drawn into intrigue where mystery and treachery intertwine and threaten their lives and their love.

Time-Travel Romance : Author - A

Author: Allie MacKay
Title: Highlander In Her Dreams
Time: [Modern Day to Past]
Description: [From Fictiondb]
After stepping through a magical gateway, Kira Bedwell finds herself face-to-face with Aidan MacDonald, the irresistible Scottish highlander who has visited her in dreams.
Now that their romance transcends dreams to reality, they find themselves under attack by Aidan's enemies. And it will take all of their courage and will for their love to survive beyond time itself...

Scarred Heroine Romance : Author - W

Author: Wendy Rosnau
Title: One Way Out [Modern Romance]
Description: [From Fictiondb]
SHE COULD BE HIS MISTRESS...
For one stolen night, they'd shared a scorching passion and intimate tenderness, giving Rhea Williams hope for the future -- and a family. But Joey Masado belonged to another family -- and was promised to another woman. Rather than be Joey's mistress, Rhea fled, never telling him she carried their child. But when her son disappeared, she knew he'd found out....
OR HIS WIFE
The moment he saw her, Joey knew he had to claim Rhea for his own. But the depth of his desire for her put them all in grave danger. Now Joey had stolen their son to bring Rhea to his side -- and somehow had to give her the protection of his name without revealing the feelings in his heart....

Scarred Heroine Romance : Author - T

Author: Teresa Medeiros
Title: A Whisper of Roses
Definition: [From Fictiondb]
DARING WARRIOR...
As she peered over the edge of the gallery, Sabrina Cameron trembled at the sight of the sun-bronzed giant striding into view. But she never recognized the stranger ... not until the moment she found herself surrounded by arms of warm steel--and drowning in smoldering green eyes that had once held cool disdain but now shimmered with passion. Morgan MacDonnell, the boy, had been her tormentor. Now it looked as if Morgan, the man, would prove infinitely more dangerous....
A DEFIANT BEAUTY...
Though hatred divided their clans, Morgan MacDonnell had come to Cameron Glen hoping for a truce... only to find that by evening's end the only way to avert bloodshed between the two families was for him to marry his enemy's daughter. But even as Morgan spirited Sabrina away to his rugged fortress, his battle would not be won. For this delicate rose of a girl would put up a bold fight ... and the spoils of victory would be nothing less than a heathen MacDonnell's heart.
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Quick Note: Halfway of the story/book is when the Heroine loses the use of her legs.

Scarred Heroine Romance : Author - S

Author: Shana Abe
Title: A Rose In Winter
Description: [From Fictiondb]
At sixteen, Lady Solange had pledged her love to Damon Wolf, had dreamed they would be together forever.
But when her ruthless father threatened Damon's life unless she agreed to marry another, Solange did the only thing she could: she scorned her true love and sent him away. . . never imagining the fate that awaited her, never knowing that one day her destiny would be entwined with Damon's once more.
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For nine long years, Solange has lived a nightmare, wed to a wealthy lord whose handsome face hides a soul of darkest evil. Yet now, just as she is poised to finally make good her escape, Damon suddenly appears at the castle gate. Gone is the gentle hero of her childhood, replaced by a fiercely attractive, thunderously angry knight, who makes it clear he has never forgiven her betrayal. Convincing Damon to escort her to safety will take all Solange's ingenuity--but the real challenge lies in breaching the walls that Damon has built between them, to win back his trust. . . and his hardened heart.

Scarred Heroine Romance : Author - R

Author: Rachel Gibson
Title: True Confessions
Description:
Welcome to Gospel, Idaho where everyone knows that there are two universal truths.
First, God did His best work when He created the Sawtooth Wilderness Area. Second, every sin known to heaven and earth -- from the hole in the ozone to alien abductions -- is all California's fault. This is the story of what happened when a Californian came to visit...
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L.A. based tabloid reporter Hope Spencer has come to Gospel hoping for inspiration.
Well, she gets inspiration...Hope has never met anyone quite like the resident of Gospel. From the Dean sisters with their color-coordinated hair to the toilet-tossing sportsmen...to the murder victim whose body had been found in her house years before. She discovers that really is stranger than fiction -- even tabloid fiction!
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And then there is local sheriff Dylan Taber. He is no made-up character from one of her stories. Dylan is all too real...and soon Hope is forced to face the awful truth -- she's been too long without a man. But once she gets wind of a Hollywood actress somehow mixed up Dylan's life, Hope realizes that if they are to have a future together, he has some true confessing to do.

Scarred Heroine Romance : Author - P

Author: Patricia Gaffney
Title: To Have & To Hold
Description: [From Fictiondb]
Sebastian Verlaine, the new Viscount D'Aubrey, was cynical, sophisticated, and too handsome for his own good.
He was also bored. Why else would he agree to sit on the bench with two fellow magistrates to judge the petty crimes of his tenants and neighbors? It was all a lark -- until a beautiful prisoner came before him, and he realized he held her fate in his hands.
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Rachel Wade knew everything about helplessness and sexual degradation.
Her husband's violent death had freed her from that nightmare, but ten years in prison for his murder was only another kind of torture. Now a jaded viscount was offering her freedom -- but at a price. "Housekeeper," he termed her new position at Lynton Hall. "Lord D'Aubrey's whore," the scandalized villagers called it.
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A ruthless, unkind bargain.
But neither of them guessed how the tables could be turned. How a game that began in base desire could lead to a breathtaking gamble in love.

Scarred Heroine Romance : Author - O

Author: Olivia Gates
Title: The Desert Lord's Bride
Description:
Seduced For A Kingdom!
The future of Judar rests with Farah Beaumont, a foreigner who wants nothing to do with her heritage.
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And to secure his country's peace, prince Shehab Aal Masood must make her his bride--by any means necessary.
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Hiding his identity and sweeping Farah off her feet is a start. But the joyful, seemingly innocent Farah is nothing like he expects. And Shehab's calculated seduction soon becomes an affair too powerful to control....

Scarred Heroine Romance : Author - N

Author: Nan Ryan
Title: Wanting You
Description: [From Fictiondb]
Heiress... or Impostor?
She has no memory of her life before being captured by the Apache and becoming ward of a convent. Then suddenly she is given a name, a past -- and most of all, a future beyond her wildest dreams. Anna Regent Wright, the long-lost Regent heiress, has come home at last.
Adversaries... or Destined Lovers?
There is no doubt in Brit Caruth's mind that Anna is an inpostor. But as the summer heat grows, so does an unsettling heat of another kind. The beautiful stranger has a hold on his body but he'll be damned if he'll let her get her hands on an inheritance that the Regents have long said was his...

Scarred Heroine Romance : Author - M

Author: Mary Jo Putney
Title: Silk and Shadows
Description: [From Fictiondb]
He called himself Peregrine, and like the falcon he was wild and free.
He was superbly handsome, fabulously wealthy, overwhelmingly seductive. He cut a dazzling swath through Victorian society--and wove a web of desire around beautiful and proud Lady Sara St. James, pledged to wed another man.
In Peregrine's arms Sara learned the meaning of forbidden passion-and forbidding mystery.
Only the turning power of love could pierce Peregrine's chilling silence about his secret past and hidden purpose ... as Sara plunged into a whirlpool of yearning and uncertainty with a man who was everything a woman could want and fear...

Scarred Heroine Romance : Author - L

Author: Lisa Kleypas
Title: Again The Magic
Description: [From Fictiondb]
She gave him her innocence . . .
Lady Aline Marsden was brought up for one reason: to make an advantageous marriage to a member of her own class. Instead, she willingly gave her innocence to John McKenna, a servant on her father's estate. Their passionate transgression was unforgivable -- John was sent away, and Aline was left to live in the countryside . . . an exile from London society
. . .and he took her love.
Now McKenna has made his fortune, and he has returned -- more boldly handsome and more mesmerizing than before. His ruthless plan is to take revenge on the woman who shattered his dreams of love. But the magic between them burns as bright as ever. And now he must decide whether to let vengeance take its toll . . . or risk everything for his first, and only, love.

Scarred Heroine Romance : Author - K

Author: Karen Ranney
Title: A Promise of Love
Description:
Twice widowed Judith Cuthbertson is nothing but another unwanted mouth to feed in her miserly father's home -- until he sells her off to a visiting Scotsman.
Now, en route to the Highlands, Judith is forced to bury her fears and ponder her fate in an unknown land as the reluctant bride of a complete stranger.
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After the battle at Culloden claims his father and older brother, Alisdair MacLeod becomes the new laird of a once-great clam, and the unlikely savior of a proud people, struggling for their survival. A widower himself, MacLeod suddenly finds himself wed to a sharp-tongued Englishwoman who defies him at every turn, yet who awakens a passion he will battle anything to claim--even the impossible, irresistible Judith herself...

Scarred Heroine Romance : Author - J

Author: Jill Barnett
Title: Dreaming
Description:
Most English girls meet their heart's desire across a crowded ballroom or in a genteel parlor.
Letitia Olive Hornsby finds hers when she knocks him out of a tree. A curly-haired, blue-eyed hellion of only eleven, she decides even then that Richard, the dashing, handsome, and totally disreputable son of the Earl of Lennox, is the white knight of her dreams.
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Now fully grown and unexpectedly beautiful, Letty is spinning a plan to save Richard from himself ... by marrying him, of course.
And he soon has the bruises to prove it. The insufferable, albeit unforgettable, chit has come back into Richard's life with a crash -- literally falling into his arms. He is struck by her softness, her dizzying scent, and her impossible meddling in his ruinous drinking, gambling, and amorous liaisons. But when fate makes them prisoners of a ring of dangerous smugglers, Richard discovers in his mischievous cellmate a pure, romantic, questing spirit that sparks a flame in his own shadowed heart. If only they can escape, a wondrous passion can blaze free ... and they can find a lifetime's adventures in each other's arms.

Scarred Heroine Romance : Author - I

Author: Iris Johansen
Title: The Spellbinder
Description:
Brody Devlin had a notorious temper, a mesmerizing voice, and a presence so powerful he could hypnotize any audience into believing he was a king, a god, or the devil himself.
But the man behind the jaded facade was what intrigued Sacha Lorion, made her try to persuade him they were related so he'd let her into his life. Amused against his will by the bony-haired gypsy sprite, Brody decided not to send her away -- at least not until he'd proven her claim wrong and taken the enchanting witch to his bed.
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But when a sniper's bullet revealed a danger from Sacha's hidden past, Brody exploded with a surprising gallantry, declaring himself her protector -- even if every bone in his body told him that she must belong to him body and soul, or he would go mad!
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Living in his spotlight was risky, Sacha knew -- but loving this man was the only future she wanted... enough to sacrifice her happiness for his. Could Brody make her see that what she'd begged for was hers for all the years to come?

Scarred Heroine Romance : Author - H

Author: Hannah Howell
Title: Highland Warrior
Description:
Fleeing an obsessed suitor, Fiona MacEnroy rides recklessly into Scotland's wildest hills and is captured by a horde of well-armed men.
Instead of battling for her life, she finds herself swept away by a powerful stranger and carried off to a remote, forbidding keep. Oddly, here at Scarglas, a place shrouded in mystery and the black reputation of the rogue clan MacFingal, Fiona feels a strange, comforting sense of safety...and a consuming passion for its rugged laird.
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Spellbound by Fiona's beauty yet determined to fight the longing she ignites, Ewan MacFingal plots to ransom Fiona back to her kin.
Sworn to protect his eccentric clan against the dangers invading Scarglas, he refuses to be weakened by the power of a woman whose every glance and touch tell him that she is everything his heart desires. Now, as pride and passion war within, dark peril and forbidding secrets will force them to trust what has yet to be spoken--the unshakable power of a timeless love.

Scarred Heroine Romance : Author - G

Author: Gail Ranstrom
Title: A Rake by Midnight
Description:
HIS DESIRE IS TO KEEP HER AS HIS MISTRESS!
James Hunter cannot forget the night he rescued Eugenia O’Rourke from a terrifying ordeal - how she felt in his arms, warm and vulnerable. Now working in the Home Office by day, he doesn’t find it difficult to assume the role of her rake protector by night...
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Gina is painfully aware that James witnessed her deepest humiliation. Her biggest fear was her captor’s return, but as midnight strikes she’s more afraid of being the object of James’s pity.
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But pity is not what James feels...

Scarred Heroine Romance : Author - F

Author: Fiona Brand
Title: High-Stakes Bride [Modern Romance]
Description:
Special Forces agent Carter Rawlings was back -- and Dani Marlow's world was spinning in his wake.
The local arson attacks for which she was being blamed were only part of the problem. The feelings Carter's reappearance had ignited threatened far more dangerous territory -- a past she tried to keep hidden, especially from him.
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With the trouble on her land and Carter's tantalizing presence, Dani had to think about her future.
Did she want to keep avoiding the truth -- that she loved Carter and wanted to make a life with him -- or could she finally face the stakes head-on, deal with her enemies and seal her heart to that of the only man she's ever loved?

Scarred Heroine Romance : Author - E

Author: Edith Layton
Title: The Cad
Description:
INTIMATE STRANGERS
Bridget Cooke possesses the gifts London society prizes: genteel manners, intelligence, an exquisite figure. She lacks, however, a fortune. A companion to icy relatives, Bridget resigns herself to a life of solitude, especially because of the childhood scar that mars her lovely face. Little does she expect to receive the vigorous attentions of darkly handsome, rich widower Lord Ewen Sinclair, Regency England's most infamous rake.
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In a matter of days, the Sinclair whisks Bridget to the altar and into his passionate embrace. Dismissing the vicious rumors surrounding their hasty marriage, Bridget is sure of Ewen's love, even when he is mysteriously called away. But then a shocking secret from his past emerges, threatening her happiness. If Ewen is a cad and their wedding a lie, as the gossips say, then why does Bridget's very stubborn heart still believe his love is true?

Scarred Heroine Romance : Author - D

Author: Debra Lee Brown
Title: Ice Maiden
Description:
When Scottish chieftain and sole shipwreck survivor George Grant awoke on the ice-crusted shore of a strange land, he knew his mission: return home in time to wed the dainty bride his king had chosen.
But that was before he met his captor, a giant, blue-eyed Viking hellion whose price for freedom was a temporary marriage -- to her!
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Rika was as cold and hard as the hammered metal covering her wrists. Yet the blush of her cheeks belied her frosty facade. She needed the seasoned warrior to secure her bride price, for it would buy her brother's prison release and free her from an abusive fiance. How could she know that George's fiery passion would melt her frozen heart?

Scarred Heroine Romance : Author - C

Author: Carol Marinelli
Title: Blackmailed Into The Greek Tycoon's Bed [Modern Romance]
Description:
Inexperienced English rose...
Bookish heiress Karin has failed in her first act of defiance! She's tried to take back the symbol of everything good in her life, but ruthless billionaire Xante Rossi has caught her red-handed!
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...bedded by a Greek tycoon
Why is this shy beauty stealing from him? Xante is intrigued. Karin's purity belies the corruption her family name represents. To save her from scandal and uncover the truth, he'll make a proposal. If Karin wants her precious heirloom, she'll have to earn it back in his bedroom!

Scarred Heroine Romance : Author - B

Author: Barbara Dawson Smith
Title: One Wild Night
Description:
I have always taken pride in my bad reputation.
Polite society viewed me as depraved and utterly dissolute, for I was a disciple of passion. Pleasure was my hallmark, women my pastime. That is, before the incomparable Lady Charlotte Quinton disrupted my life--again.
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Due to a scandal of her own making, she had been banished from home for five years. Apparently she decided that a life of boring respectability was the key to her happiness., We might have continued dawn our divergent paths if not for a vicious attack on our families.
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Tracking a dangerous criminal occupied my time, but the tart-tongued spinster Lady Charlotte occupied my mind--and my desires. Certainly no other woman in London was immune to my charms. Yet the more Charlotte spurned me, the more I vowed to have her. After all, I can resist anything but temptation...

Scarred Heroine Romance : Author - A

Author: Ally Blake
Title: Falling for the Rebel Heir
Description:
All she wants is to feel safe
Never going beyond the boundaries of her small town, Kendall York craves safety and security since the accident that injured her and claimed her fiance's life.
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Danger is his middle name
Returning from his latest assignment as a war-zone correspondent, risk-taker Hudson Bennington III finds Kendall swimming in the pool at his estate, and is enchanted.
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Will she say yes to this rebel's proposal?
Their lives and ambitions are so different, but he's vowed to ease the pain of her past. Can Kendall trust that he'll be around for her future?

Scarred Hero Romance : Author - Y

Author: Yvonne Lindsay
Title: Claiming His Runaway Bride [Modern Romance]
Description: [From Fictiondb]
He Didn't Want Her To Remember...
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The accident that had taken Belinda's memory had provided Luc with the perfect means for revenge. His beautiful bride had no recollection of fleeing her groom on their wedding day...or the real reason behind their union. All she recalled was the unbridled passion they still shared--and the steely-eyed mogul planned to take full advantage of it.

Scarred Hero Romance : Author - V

Author: Victoria Dahl
Title: One Week As Lovers
Description: [From Fictiondb]
Some Pleasures, Once Tasted...
Even after finding his betrothed in the arms of another man, Nicholas, the Viscount Lancaster, knows he must wed. Propriety--and the dire state of his finances--decrees it. At least a visit to his country estate provides relief from playing the role of loving fiance, as well as a surprising encounter with Cynthia Merrithorpe. Once his childhood companion, Cynthia has grown into a lovely, alluring woman--one who's undertaken a daring ruse to avoid being sold into a miserable marriage.
Are Too Delicious To Forget...
When Nicholas left for London to assume his new title, Cynthia was forced to put aside her girlish infatuation. Now he's returned, more wickedly attractive than ever. And this time, Cynthia is determined to experience the pleasure she's dreamed of for so long. But with a man like Nicholas, seduction is only the beginning of a sensual journey that will tempt them both to defy convention, and uncover the very heart of desire...

Scarred Hero Romance : Author - T

Author: Teresa Medeiros
Title: The Bride and The Beast
Description: [From Fictiondb]
Dear Reader,
I'd been prowling the crumbling ruins of Castle Weyrcraig for so long that I could no longer remember if I was man or beast. Then one stormy night the superstitious Highlanders of Ballybliss decided to leave a helpless virgin bound to a stake in the castle courtyard to satisfy my insatiable appetites.
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My demands might strike terror in the hearts of men, but this bold beauty dared to defy me. After she informed me that she didn't believe in dragons, I had no choice but to make her my prisoner--or risk being exposed to those I had sought to deceive with my dangerous masquerade.
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Soon I found myself stealing into the moonlit tower just to watch her sleep. Little does she know that beneath this beast's gruff exterior beats the passionate heart of a man. Gwendolyn Wilder may not believe in dragons, but I intend to use all my sensual wiles to teach her to believe in something even more magical--true love.
Eternally yours,
The Dragon of Weycraig

Scarred Hero Romance : Author - S

Author: Sabrina Jeffries
Title: Married To The Viscount
Description: [From Fictiondb]
One kiss...
Abigail Mercer was breathless with anticipation at being reunited with Spencer Law, whom she met once and later married by proxy. But now the dashing Viscount Ravenswood denies all knowledge of their union! Far too many witnesses have made it impossible for the secretive Spencer to reject his "bride" without causing a scandal. So he has proposed a marriage in-name-only until they can locate his mysteriously absent younger brother -- who is responsible for everything! -- and untangle this messy affair.
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Abigail is incensed, irate...and irresistibly attracted to this handsome, infuriating man who hides his smoldering passion behind a proper exterior. So the lady will agree to his terms on one condition: Spencer must seal their bargain with a kiss. But he finds that one deep, lingering, unforgettable kiss isn't nearly enough. And keeping his hands off his pretty wife is going to be much harder than he thought...

Scarred Hero Romance : Author - R

Author: Rona Sharon
Title: Once A Rake
Description: [From Fictiondb]
Irresistible Seduction Only Leads To. . .
War had scarred the Earl of Ashby's face...and perhaps his soul. Before being wounded in the Napoleonic war and shunning society, the dashing lord had been a notorious rake. Now, Isabel Aubrey, a proper lady, dares to approach the masked, reclusive nobleman for a large donation to a worthy charity--and decides she must save him from his self-loathing. She begins to flirt. He responds. She invites him to a masquerade ball. He accepts and dazzles her with a kiss.
The Most Scandalous Passion. . .
But Isabel already has a fiance and despite her attraction to the earl she knows she must reject him. Yet no force on earth is greater than the passion that leads her into his bed; nothing she has ever experienced is more exciting and erotic. Now he asks her to stay with him although it will mean her ruin. Isabel must not say yes--and the smitten earl cannot let her say no. To win her body and her heart, he initiates an outrageous scheme that only a rake would devise--and no woman can resist.

Scarred Hero Romance : Author - P

Author: Patricia Frances Rowell
Title: An Impetuous Abduction
Description: [From Fictiondb]
Moments after Persephone Hathersage stumbled upon a band of thieves, the terrified young lady was spirited away on horseback!
But trepidation soon gave way to scandalous desire when her brooding captor tenderly nursed a feverish Phona back to health.
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Spellbound by the battle-scarred blackguard who kept her confined in an ancient fortress, Phona knew any impropriety with this nameless rogue would tarnish her reputation forever, not to mention plunge her into even further peril! However, appearances could be quite deceiving....

Scarred Hero Romance : Author - N

Author: Nicole Byrd
Title: Beauty In Black
Description: [From Fictiondb]
Although many assumed that lovely widow Marianne Hughes would marry again, she has no desire to do so and is content with her independent single state.
But her status as a respectable widow makes her an ideal chaperon, so she reluctantly agrees to guide the beautiful Louisa Crookshank in her first London season. She never imagines that soon she and Louisa will be rivals for the same enigmatic gentleman...
Man in Shadows
John, Marquess of Gillingham, had been a recluse since smallpox had left him scarred, too proud to be the object of pitiful stares. But the-need for an heir has forced him to London to seek a bride. One golden beauty catches his eye, but it is her elegant chaperon who keeps his attention. Soon he finds himself entangled in a web of desire and deception, but someone else is spinning a web of danger around them all, and threatens to destroy all John and Marianne hold dear--including each other...

Scarred Hero Romance : Author - M

Author: Mary Balogh
Title: The Secret Pearl
Description: [From Fictiondb]
PASSION FLOWER
Fleur. That was her middle name. The name she told the man to whom she sold herself out of desperate want. But her full name was Isabella Fleur Bradshaw, gently born and brutally expelled from her sheltered life. His name was Adam Kent, Duke of Ridgeway, the wealthiest lord in England, but scarred in war, bitterly betrayed in marriage.
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She feared his overpowering physical passion. He fought to keep from loving her. They each had so much to teach each other and so much to learn... 'n a drama of desire played out on a vast estate - where a man and a woman come closer and closer to their moment of heart-pounding truth...

Scarred Hero Romance : Author - L

Author: Laura Kinsale
Title: The Prince of Midnight
Description: [FromFictiondb]
They called him the Prince of Midnight--a legendary highwayman, once dashing and dangerous...now a tarnished, forgotten hero, exiled and alone.
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She sought his fabled skills in the ruins of a French castle-a proud and desperate English beauty, drawn to the myth...but bewildered by the man.
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Across perilous mountains and tempestuous seas, together they pursued their separate dreams--of vengeance, of passion, of glory reborn...kindling the all consuming fires of a bold and unexpected love, that would set the midnight skies ablaze.

Scarred Hero Romance : Author - K

Author: Karen Ranney
Title: Tapestry
Description: [From Fictiondb]
Their destinies were bound by a shimmering thread of desire...
For Lady Laura Blake, there is only one man in the world: Alex, the Earl of Cardiff. Yet ever since he was wounded in battle, Alex has locked himself away in his great stone castle at Heddon Hall. Believing himself to be less than a man, he conceals his ravaged face behind a leather mask... and hides his scarred soul beneath an icy aloofness.
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A mere child when he went off to war, Laura has blossomed into a beautiful young woman Alex scarcely recognizes. The compassion and desire he sees shining out of her eyes tempts him to ease his pain in her sweet, sensual embrace. But as need flames into uncontrollable passion, an evil fate conspires against them both, weaving a web of treachery and betrayal that could bring heartbreak or happiness to those who dare to love...

Scarred Hero Romance : Author - J

Author: Janice Kay Johnson
Title: Snowbound [Modern Romance]
Description:
Outside a storm is raging...
When a blizzard strands Fiona MacPherson and her students in Oregon's Cascade Mountains, their only hope of survival is to seek shelter at Thunder Mountain Lodge. Their host is John Fallon, a handsome, enigmatic war veteran haunted by secrets and scars that may never heal.
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John Fallon never imagined he'd be playing host to this captivating teacher and her eight teenage charges. But when his solitude is shattered by their arrival, his world shifts on its axis. He needs Fiona--but does she need him? There's only one way to find out. The ex-soldier must find the courage to reach out to the remarkable woman who has transformed his life....

Scarred Hero Romance : Author - I

Author: Iris Johansen
Title: The Magnificent Rogue
Description:
SHE WAS A BEAUTIFUL PAWN IN A GAME OF LOVE AND DEATH
When Princess Kathryn Kentyre is snatched from a life of captivity by the mysterious Black Robert of Craighdhu, she is torn between absolute terror and soaring hope. He had been chosen to protect her from the dangers surrounding her, yet the moment he swept her away she knew this rogue of a Scottish laird would prove a greater threat than any she faced from her enemies...
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HE WAS A WARRIOR-CHIEF TORN BETWEEN DUTY AND DESIRE
Sensuous as sin itself and wild as his native Scottish Highlands, Robert MacDarren had no intention of settling down with one woman. Yet the agreement he'd struck to keep the peace required he marry the orphaned beauty and bring her back to his castle at Craighdhu for safekeeping. It was to be a marriage in name only - and only for one year. He never suspected that the meek hostage he had been promised would prove to be this firebrand of a woman who would challenge his mind, arouse his passion, and lay siege to his heart...

Scarred Hero Romance : Author - H

Author: Hannah Howell
Title: Beauty and the Beast
Description:
BEAUTY...
Betrothed to the heir of Saitun Manor, lovely Gytha was shocked to learn on the eve of her wedding that her bridegroom had been killed. Caught up in a whirlwind beyond her control, she found herself married to the new heir. a rough mercenary knight called the Red Devil.
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AND THE BEAST...
Unsuited to gallantry and the wooing of fair maidens, the Red Devil had never sought a beautiful wife. But now Gytha was his, and her honey gold hair and sparkling blue eyes bewitched him. He knew of only one way he could hope to bind her to him--with the passionate ardor of his warrior's body, and the undying love hidden deep in his lonely heart.

Scarred Hero Romance : Author - G

Author: Gaelen Foley
Title: The Pirate Prince
Series: Ascension Trilogy BOOK I
Description:
On a calm moonlit night, as the scent of jasmine and pine embraces the island of Ascension, the pirate prince Lazar di Fiore returns with lethal grace to avenge what was stolen from him: his kingdom, his birthright, his soul...
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When Allegra Monteverdi, the daughter of Lazar's sworn enemy, throws herself on his mercy, Lazar agrees to spare the lives of her family--but only if Allegra sails away with him as his captive.
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Alone at sea with this dark, intriguing man, moving between seduction and fear, Allegra realizes it will take more than her growing love for this pirate prince to bring peace to her beloved home. For Lazar must face the demons of his shattered past--if he is to forge the destiny that is theirs to claim...

Scarred Hero Romance : Author - F

Author: Fiona Brand
Title: Heart of Midnight [Modern Romance]
Description:
MAN WITH A PAST...
For Special Air Service agent Gray Lombard, the past seven years had been a nightmare. Not only had he been unable to nab his brother's killer, he'd also lost Samantha Munro, the only woman he'd ever loved. Seven years ago they had shared their dreams -- and the same bed. But when Gray's mission took over his life, Sam had walked away....
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Now Sam was back. Her life was in danger, thanks to her involvement with Gray, and losing her was not something he wanted to relive. But could he protect her from a dangerous killer -- and safeguard his heart from the secret she had yet to reveal?

Scarred Hero Romance : Author - E

Author: Edith Layton
Title: The Chance
Description:
ALL'S FAIR...
A brave nobleman who'd successfully fought Napoleon's toughest soldiers, Raphael Dalton was no stranger to treachery and warfare. Yet nothing this modest hero has experienced can prepare him for the famous beauty Annabelle, the toast of the London ton.
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With his unruly red hair and solid, honest face, Rafe doesn't think he has a chance with the flirtatious beauty who seems not to notice him. And when scandal threatens to ruin the reputation of a friend's sister, Breanna, Rafe's hopes may be dashed for good. To stop malicious tongue-wagging, Rafe offers to marry the exotic, raven-haired beauty. It isn't only honor, though, that sparks the proposal, for a smodering attraction draws him to this spirited woman as well.
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Little does Rafe know, however, that Annabelle still wants him for her own. While he's a master at outwitting opponents on the battlefield, the painfully shy soldier is defenseless when it comes to the fairer sex--and Annabelle will use every weapon she can, while Breanna hopes for his attention too. Now Fafe has the chance to find true love--but only if he doesn't lose his head...

Scarred Hero Romance : Author - D

Author: Danelle Harmon
Title: The Beloved One
Series: de Montforte Book II
Description:
The bluest of blood; the blackest of rogues; the de Montforte Brothers will take your breath away -- meet Lord Charles:
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"On the eve of battle, I find my heart is restless and uneasy. And when a fellow is three thousand miles from home, love makes a far more desirable companion than loneliness." Lord Charles de Montforte, Boston, Massachusetts, 1775
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Wounded in battle, Englishman Charles de Montforte has awakened to find himself in the tender care of a sensuous, sloe-eyed local miss, whose beauty would be a joy he would treasure always...if only their paths had crossed in some other place and time. Charles's heart is profoundly moved by Amy Leighton's desperate plight, and her curvaceous dark loveliness and gentle, healing touch are enflaming his desire. But the noble British lord is already taken, though Amy soon lures him away from past loyalties to Crown and fiancee with a golden, rapturous promise of love happily forever after.
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Amy has long prayed for someone special to enter her life -- someone who would take her far away from the daily drudgery imposed upon her by a cruel, unloving step-family. Now fate has brought her the strong yet gentle man of her dreams; but the handsome stranger is from an enemy land...and he's sworn to love another.
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Quick Note: Blinded hero -- from head injury.

Scarred Hero Romance : Author - C

Author: Carla Kelly
Title: Reforming Lord Ragsdale
Description:
The Rake's Progress
Emma Costello owed a debt of honor to one of the most dishonorable lords in the realm. The infamous Lord Ragsdale was as rich as sin, as sinful as he was rich, and as heartless as he was handsome. But he had saved Emma from a fate worse than death when he stopped a lecherous brute from buying her as an indentured servant.
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It was Emma's turn now to save Lord Ragsdale from his wicked ways. She had to find a way to stop his drinking, his gaming, his wild revelry. She had to make him break with his mistress, the superbly sensual Fae Moulle. She had to make him a suitable suitor for the ideal wife that the prim and proper Lady Clarissa Partridge would be. And above all, she had to keep his lustful eye from lingering too long on herself--even as she struggled to keep her own growing desire from undoing all her hard work in the unmaking of this irresistible rake...

Scarred Hero Romance : Author - B

Author: Barbara McMahon
Title: Banished
Description:
Arabella, Countess of Waverly, was banished to the North of England four years ago by her irate husband.
Falsely accused of scandalous behavior, she had no recourse but to acquiesce to his harsh decree. Now she's come into an inheritance which will enable her to return to London.
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Justin, Earl of Waverly was reported killed by Napoleon's troops in Spain.
When he returns home unexpectedly on the eve of Arabella's return to London, the sparks fly. Scandal is one thing Justin refuses to allow taint his name. But his control over his wife has lessened in the intervening years and she is now capable of setting up her own home in London. Which would feed the gossip he is trying to avoid.
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They strike an agreement. He will lend his countenance if she will agree to behave with propriety and assist in launching his younger sister to the ton. Justin vows he will watch her every move. Arabella agrees, determined to find a way to clear her in her husband's eyes and prove once and for all she was innocent of the scandalous behavior he believes of her.
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Quick Note: Hero also has a noticeable limp.

Scarred Hero Romance : Author - A

Author: Adele Ashworth
Title: Winter Garden
Description:
Though a celebrated French beauty in 1849, Madeleine DuMais's cleverness is her greatest asset -- and one she puts to good use as a spy for the British.
When her expertise is needed in the south of England to break up a smuggling ring, Madeleine willingly puts her life on hold to help the crown...
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Arriving in the quaint resort town of Winter Garden, Madeleine meets her partner in subterfuge. Thomas Blackwood is unlike any man she has ever met. His quiet confidence and mysterious intensity send shivers of pleasure coursing through her ... shivers that slowly melt into a desperate passion. As duty gives way to desire, surrender holds its reward. And Madeleine will never recover from the touch of Thomas's hands on her body -- and the touch of his heart on her soul...
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Quick Note: Hero also has a pronounced limp.

Paranormal Romance : The Shadowmen Series

Author: Jennifer St. Giles
Title: Touch a Dark Wolf
Series: The Shadowmen Book I
Description:
JARED
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Yesterday, Erin Morgan worked for a pioneering Manhattan medical center. Today, she's on the run, witness to a chilling conspiracy. Fleeing for her life in the Tennessee mountains, she is run off the road by a mysterious beast . . . and things only get stranger when she wakes the next day to find a naked Adonis sprawled on the hood of her car.
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For centuries, Jared has been a shape shifter, sworn to protect mortals like Erin. But in saving her, Jared has damned himself, for the poison from his battle wound stirs a terrible blood lust. Determined to protect Erin, Jared stays by her side and discovers a sensual rapture beyond imagining . . . and a love that can change his fate. But can Jared overcome his savage thirst and protect Erin from the beast within?

Paranormal Romance : Sons of Destiny Series

Author: Jean Johnson
Title: Shifting Plains
Series: Sons of Destiny Prequel
Description:
Centuries before the time of the Sons of Destiny, a female shapeshifter became the leader of the people of the Shifting Plains...
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Tava Ell Var never really knew her mother, but she did know her tragic fate at the hands of a band of cruel shapeshifters-a history set down by Tava's father as a warning about life on the Shifting Plains. But after her father is murdered, Tava encounters a Shifterai warband fighting to rid the Plains of the terrorizing bandits
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Shifterai leader Kodan Sin Siin is sympathetic to Tava's suffering, but he's determined to bring the wary young woman to the Plains. Because he knows her secret: She, like he and his men, is a shapeshifter. Once she joins them, he knows that she will see for herself the true fate that awaits her on the Plains, and most of all, lose her fear of his people. And, in time, he knows she will find her place is in their fight-and by his side.

Paranormal Romance : Midnight Bay Series

Author: Janet Chapman
Title: Moonlight Warrior
Series: Midnight Bay Book I
Description:
KENZIE Gregor
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Can a powerful highland warrior tame the only woman he can't resist?
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Eve Anderson is darned tired of Kenzie Gregor meddling in her business. She might be struggling to keep herself and her ailing mother financially afloat, but she's no princess in need of a strong, capable knight in a black SUV to rescue her -- even if he is easy on the eyes. Besides, there's something very odd about him...and she's sure the strange events occurring in their small coastal Maine town are linked to his recent arrival.
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Once an immortal warrior cursed to live as a panther, Kenzie is finally free to live and die as a man, and his destiny is to help other displaced souls. Of course, if he can get tiny, blue-eyed, curly blond Eve out of the deal, well...life doesn't get any better. But she's as stubborn and fierce as a lioness, and in order to win her love, he must tempt her with forbidden desires....

Paranormal Romance : Pine Creek Highlander Series

Author: Janet Chapman
Title: Charming The Highlander
Series: Pine Creek Highlander Book I
Description:
GREYLEN - Clan MacKeage
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A feisty beauty tempted by a bold highlander's touch...
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When a plane crash strands brilliant scientist Grace Sutter on an icy mountaintop in Maine, she finds herself alone in the wilderness with the only other surviving passenger -- Greylen MacKeage,a sexy, medieval warrior who's been tossed through time to find the woman he's destined to love. Forced together to survive the harsh, wintry landscape, neither expects the fierce passion that flares between them. But Grace is not used to letting her heart take control, and Greylen will settle for nothing less than her heart's surrender....

Paranormal Romance : The Shadowdwellers Series

Author: Jacquelyn Frank
Title: Ecstasy
Series: The Shadowdwellers Book I
Description:
INTRO:
At one with the darkness, the mysterious Shadowdwellers must live as far from light-loving humans as possible in order to survive. Yet one damaged human woman will tempt the man behind the Shadowdweller throne into a dangerous desire...
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WORLDS COULDN'T KEEP THEM APART
Among the Shadowdwellers, Trace holds power that some are willing to kill for. Without a stranger's aid, one rival would surely have succeeded, but Trace's brush with death is less surprising to him than his reaction to the beautiful, fragile human who heals him. By rights, Trace should hardly even register Ashla's existence within the realm of Shadowscape, but instead he is drawn to everything about her--her innocence, her courage, and her lush, sensual heat...
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After a terrifying car crash, Ashla Townsend wakes up to find that the bustling New York she knew is now eerie and desolate. Just when she's convinced she's alone, Ashla is confronted by a dark warrior who draws her deeper into a world she never knew existed. The bond between Ashla and Trace is a mystery to both, but searching for answers will mean confronting long-hidden secrets, and uncovering a threat that could destroy everything Trace holds precious...