Author: Danelle HarmonTitle: 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.
Title: Reynold de Burgh: The Dark Knight
Series: de Burgh Book VII
Description:
The "black sheep" of the de Burgh family is a title Reynold wears well.
Outcast and injured, this knight is journeying alone. But his bitter pilgrimage is interrupted by a very determined damsel who holds him to his knight's vow--to protect and serve!
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Sabina Sexton knows her reluctant rescuer is skeptical about her quest. But the danger is very real, and wary Sabina must place her life--and her heart--in this dark and dangerously attractive knight's keeping....
Author: Deborah SimmonsTitle: The Devil's Lady
Series: de Lacis Book I
Description:
Piers Montmorency
'Twas whispered that the mysterious Red Knight was more than mortal. Perhaps he'd even struck a devil's bargain to assure his warrior prowess. Yet Aisley sensed that Pier's shadows veiled a deeper secret.
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Aisley de Laci
Like a whirlwind, Aisley descended on Dunmurrow castle to claim the Red Knight as her husband. And Piers knew his world was forever changed. But could a creature so full of joy and sunlight ever accept a life of passions draped in darkness?
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Quick Note: Blind hero.
Title: Three Nights...
Description:
Three nights of passion...
With a turn of the cards, her father is ruined -- and innocent Aveline Stoddard is lost. To honor the gambling debt, she agrees to submit for three nights to Lucien DuFeron's every desire, three nights of blistering sensuality and unparalleled ecstasy in the arms of the dashing, dark rogue they call "Lucifer." But the time passes all too quickly...and when the debt is paid, the handsome devil vanishes.
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An eternity of desire.
Treachery delivered Lucien into the hands of evil brigands. Now five years after his abduction and imprisonment he has returned to London, searching for the enemy responsible -- and finding instead the beauty who still haunts his dreams. Aveline has grown more alluring since those unforgettable nights when she melted beneath his touch. Yet Lucien's need for vengeance must be satisfied. If the trail leads to someone close to Aveline, will it destroy forever the one love powerful enough to free his tormented heart?
Title: Midnight Sonata [Modern Romance]
Series: Midnight Book I
Description:
He thought his heart was broken until her music healed his soul.
CEO Skylar Remington's heart is broken. Literally. The discovery of a potentially fatal condition has run him to ground. Avoiding the press and family concern, he goes into hiding to prepare for surgery in suburban California, where he meets a precocious young boy and his mother, a woman whose music and life make him wish his heart was whole.
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Widow Evie Parker has heart problems of her own. Her 11-year-old son is in desperate need of a father figure, her mother-in-law is after her to remarry and her unwise heart races every time she sees the new neighbor. But the past she thought left behind is reaching out to find her, threatening the peace shes worked so hard to create. Will falling in love with the man next-door mean finally having her happily ever after or will he show her the true meaning of heartbreak?
Title: Prelude To Scandal
Series: Scandal Book I
Description: [From Fictiondb]
Having been raised in the jungles of South Africa, assisting her father in the study of mammal copulation, Lady Justine Fedora Palmer sweeps back into London to embark upon her coming out. She quickly discovers animals are far more civilized than the men surrounding her.
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When her father's observations are made public, proving buggery is natural to the animal kingdom, all of London is in a huffing outrage, including His Royal Majesty. Her father is imprisoned and slapped with outrageous penalty fees they simply cannot pay.
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Lady Justine becomes more than willing to trade her good name and her place in London's gossip hungry society to secure her father's release. There is only one person she knows she can trust: her father's patron, the Duke of Bradford. A dashing libertine, yes, but one she passionately adores for his unwavering kindness, wit, humor, and a willingness to support her father's studies even as everyone else had laughed her father off.
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To her astonishment, the Duke of Bradford is not the same man. His newly marred face hides a scandal that is about to test them both...
Author: Delilah MarvelleTitle: The Perfect Scandal
Series: Scandal Book III
Description:
Scandal was the last thing on their minds.
If there is anything Tristan Adam Hargrove, fourth Marquis of Moreland, has learned to avoid, it's scandal. For the dark and dashing lord is not only an honorable gentleman who would never seduce a woman for his own gain, he is also the author of How to Avoid a Scandal, the infamous red book that has swept like wildfire through the better part of London society.
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When a raven-haired beauty arrives as his new neighbor, he knows better than to succumb to the desire he feels. He knows little about her -- only that she is high born, a protégé of the Crown and completely unsuitable for the base passions he hides from the world. If only he had never glimpsed the vulnerable beauty one fateful night. If only her lips were not so ravishingly red. If only it were not already too late to save her and himself from the untamed passion he is about to unleash in the name of love.
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A little red book. Three unlikely couples...and scandal galore.
Author: Diana PalmerTitle: Annabelle's Legacy [SS from Love's Legacy]
Description:
Annabelle’s Legacy is a variation of the overdone Beauty and the Beast story.
Annabelle Coleman’s family moves to El Paso where she befriends next-door neighbor John Torrance.
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John is a Texas Ranger recovering from torture suffered at the hands of Indians who disfigured him. Annabelle learns the secret of John’s alienation from society and helps him in more ways than one.
Title: Blind Promises [Modern Romance]
Description:
SHE WAS THE LIGHT OF HIS WORLD
Dana Steele loved her work. Her career in nursing had brought her great joy, a joy she tried to share with all her patients. Yet in all her years of caring for the sick, she'd never met a patient quite like Gannon van der Vere.
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Gannon had been temporarily blinded, and despite her hours of prayer, kindness, and sheer persistence, Dana couldn't penetrate his wall of darkness. But in this case, Dana had made one mistake - she'd fallen in love with her patient. And now the only remedies were a gram of faith and a heart full of hope...
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Quick Note: Blind hero.
Author: Diana PalmerTitle: Lord of the Desert [Modern Romance]
Series: Hutton & Co Book III
Description:
Sheltered small-town girl Gretchen Brannon was out of her element when she aligned herself with Sheikh Philippe Sabon, the formidable ruler of Qawi.
They came from different worlds, yet she found a soul mate in the powerful, sensual man who'd suppressed his passions for far too long -- and harbored a secret anguish. Nevertheless, he made the virtuous young woman aware of her own courage...and, in turn, she aroused his sleeping senses as no other woman could.
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However, now that Gretchen's heart belonged to the Lord of the Desert, danger loomed when she became the target for vengeance by the sheikh's most diabolical enemy. In a final showdown that would pit good against evil, could love and destiny triumph...?
Author: Diana PalmerTitle: Christmas Cowboy [SS from Lone Star Christmas][Modern Romance]
Series: Long Tall Texans Book XVII
Description:
A Christmas keepsake...two special stories filled with holiday magic by Diana Palmer and Joan Johnston.
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Meet the men who make it so nice to be naughty! They're seductive, they're shameless, They're irresistible - and these Texans are experts at sneaking kisses under the mistletoe.
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Join Diana Palmer and Joan Johnston as they return to the land they know best!
Corrigan Hart learns the meaning of love when he's reunited with his long-lost lover.
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Quick Note: Hero has a limp. Heroine also has scars.
Author: Diana PalmerTitle: Love With A Long Tall Texan [Modern Romance]
Series: Long Tall Texans Book XXI
Description:
CHRISTOPHER DEVERELL
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They're long and lean ... and impossible to resist. Mavericks through and through. And they have all the ladies in Jacobsville swooning. But not just any women can tame these rugged Texans and make them give up their bachelor ways. Because when these Long, Tall Texans fall in love, it's for real, for live, no holds barred....
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LUKE CRAIG: The elusive bachelor. He won't be lassoed -- until the most infuriating lady he's ever met careens into his life.
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CHRISTOPHER DEVERELL: The man on the move. An ambitious reporter is about to break the story of a century -- unless he can stop her....
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GUY FENTON: The rogue. With a bad-boy reputation, he's beyond redemption. Until a prickly publicist vows to bring him to his knees....
Title: Outsider [Modern Romance]
Series: Long Tall Texans Book XXXIII
Description:
Former black ops CIA operative Colby Lane, now retired from his wild years as a mercenary, has found his new calling as assistant chief of security for the mammoth Ritter Oil Corporation.
All he wants is a new start. What he discovers, though, is that the past is never far behind. Colby is soon enmeshed in plans to trap a notorious drug trafficker, and it seems that his ex-wife, Sarina Carrington -- whom he so cruelly left after one day of marriage -- may be more involved than she's letting on.
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Not only that, but Sarina has a six-year-old dark-eyed daughter whose father is mysteriously absent -- or is he?
Author: Diana PalmerTitle: Secret Agent Man [Modern Romance]
Description:
The Man: Lang Patton, former secret agent, scarred-body and soul.
His Mission: Adjust to everyday life and avoid romance at all cost.
The Obstacle In His Way: Ex-fiancee Kirry Campbell, currently being stalked by one very angry admirer.
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Lang Patton had battled his conscience for years after breaking his engagement to pretty Kirry Campbell. She had wanted promises he couldn't make, needed him in ways he couldn't fulfill. Now Kirry was back in his life, whether he wanted her there or not. She desperately needed his skills to protect her from a violent pursuer. And this time, Lange vowed not to let her down - or let her go!
Title: The Unlacing of Miss Leigh
Description:
Disfigured in battle against Napoleon's forces, Captain Graham Veall has become a recluse, spending months alone on his estate and appearing masked in public. Yet Graham is determined not to forgo life's pleasures forever... especially the delight of a woman's touch.
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He hardly expects virginal Miss Margaret Leigh to respond to his advertisement for female company, thinking he sought a lady's companion. Still, the impoverished vicar's daughter is a surprising temptation he can't ignore. His proposition? That she live with him for two months as his mistress in exchange for supporting her and her brother for the rest of their lives.
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But Margaret has a secret. Graham once saved her life as a child and she has dreamed about him ever since. As he awakens her desire, she longs to soothe his inner wounds -- though only two months with her damaged hero may not be enough....
Title: Return of the Rogue
Series: Sinclair Brothers Book I
Description:
Marriage was her only means of escape . . .
Though Honora Tannach came of age amid the misty moors of the Scottish highlands, where warring clans battled to the death for the future of their wild land, nothing frightens her so much as a lifetime trapped in the castle of her cruel stepfather. She is thrilled when a marriage is arranged to the son of a Scottish laird . . . until her betrothed is revealed to be Cavan Sinclare. Though the savage warrior once saved her life, Honora knows no one can tame the heart of such a brute, no matter now finely chiseled his features or how enticing his eyes . . . .
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After escaping his captors, Cavan's only concern is protecting his clan from the menacing invaders who threaten at every turn--and his beautiful wife is a dangerous distraction. But in the face of fiery passion, their reluctance will fade . . . and Cavan will discover that there is no greater strength than the power of true love.
