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"Falling Stars" by Anita Mills
Topaz, September 1993 Reviewed on 8/18/00 | |||||
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Kate Winstead's noble father had been destroyed by his weakness for gambeling. Now Kate was
taking a gamble that would have made her father blanch. She was giving her hand in marriage to a man she barely knew
and going to live in a foreign land. Her husband, Count Alexei Volsky, was as mysterious as he was masterful, yet strangely
cold even at the burning peak of passion. What secret did he and his ravishing sister conceal on his vast estate deep
in Russia? And would Kate dare turn for help to Bell Townsend, London's most notorious rake who had fled from scandal
at home to purue his desires abroad? Kate was torn between a husband she did not trust adn a libertine lord who made
her doubt herself. It was a game of danger and desire - the stakes were shockingly high, the key cards were hidden, and
love held the final startling trump.
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"Touched by Moonlight" by Carole Howey
Leisure Books, August 1995 Reviewed on 5/26/00 | |||||
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Terence Gavilan could turn a sleepy turn-of-the-century village into a booming seaside resort
overnight. But the real passion of his life was searching for Emma Hunt, the mysterious and elusive creator of the
tantalizing romances he admired. When he found her, he planned to prove that real life could be so much more exciting
than fiction. To the proper folk of Braedon's Beach, Philipa Braedon was the prim daughter of their community's
founding father. Yet secretly, she enjoyed swimming naked in the ocean and writing steamy novels. Philipa had no
intention of revealing her double life to anyone, especially not to a man as arrogant and overbearing as Terence
Gavilan. But she didn't count on being touched by moonlight and ending up happier than any of her heroines.
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"The Princess and the Barbarian" by Betina Krahn
Avon Books, August 1993 Reviewed on 4/9/00 | |||||
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Lovely, tempestous and devoted to her subjects, Princess Thera must marry before she can
be crowned Queen of Mercis. But her reluctant search for a husband had plunged her into gravest peril - and into
the arms of a handsome barabarian. Powerful, hot-blooded, as cunning as he is untamed, Saxxe Rouen rescues Thera
from a band of savage mercenaries - only to demand as his reward three nights of pleasure in the royal beauty's bed.
Even as all Mercia falls victim to Saxxe's raw, beguiling charm, the proud princess vows to resist the scoundrel who
has breached the battlements of her sheltered world. But a passionate, irresisibla yearning entreats Thera to surrender
her heart and kingdom to this sun-bronzed warrior who would vanquish her enemies to win her steadfast love.
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"Beast" by Judith Ivory
Avon Books, April 1997 Reviewed on 4/9/00 | |||||
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An exquisite American heiress, Louise Vandermeer is beautiful, brillant... and bored - which
is why she has agreed to a daring adventure: to travel across the ocean to marry an aristocratic abroad. Rumor has
it her intended is hideous - a grim prospect that propels her into a passionate, reckless relationship with a compelling
stranger she never sees in the light of day. Though scarred by a childhood illness, Charles d'Harcourt has successfully
wooed Europe's most sophisticated beauties. For a lark, he contrived to travel incognito on his own fiancée's
ship - and seduce the young chit in utter darkness. But the rake's prank backfired. it was he who was smitten - while
the hot-tempered Lulu, now his wife, loves only her shipboard lover, unaware it was d'Harcourt all the time! And
Charles will never have her heart - unless he can open her eyes to the prince who hides within.
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"Princess of Thieves" by Katherine O'Neal
Bantam Books, December 1993 Reviewed on 3/22/00 | |||||
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Saranda Sherwin followed the mysterious black-clad figure into the night, knowing she sould
resist but unable to turn away from the fire in his seductive dark eyes. He was the greatest con artist in the world,
a demon whose family was responsible for her parents' deaths, and though he might be luring her to damnation itself,
for one night she would surrender to the dizzying ecstasy of his embrace. She was his far the night, her calculated
surrender both intoxicating and infurating, for Mace Blackwood knew that one evening alone with this blue-eyed
siren would never be enough. And yet how could he possibly care for a woman who was his sworn enemy - a temptress
who knowingly used her wits and wiles to make tough men weak? It was a question that haunted him, night after night,
until Saranda's latest romantic charade led to tragedy and sent her fleeing for her life - and Mace knew he must follow,
no matter what the cost.
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"Seized by Love" by Susan Johnson
Bantam Books, Mayn 1994 Reviewed on 3/22/00 | |||||
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She knew him by reputation; a amn unmindful of convention, it was said he offered sensual
delight beyond a woman's wildest dreams. Yet even forewarned of his wild and reckless past, Alisa Forseus found
herself responding to the dark smoldering gaze and the quick warmth of Prince Nikolai Kuzan's stolen caresses.
she knew too well that love netween them was impossible - forbidden - but she could not resist the rapturous pleasure
of one moment in his arms. She was to be his prize, his ultimate conquest, but when Nikki found himself alone
with the lovely and chaste Alisa, he was shocked to discover that it was more than her body he desired to possess.
he had three days to win the heart of this proud and passionate beauty, three days - and nights - to steal her from
the man she called husband in name only. For what began as a simple challange had become a dangerous passion
for a woman he'd surrender anything and everything to love - even his renegade heart.
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"Crooked Hearts" by Patricia Gaffney
Topaz Books, April 1994 Reviewed on 3/22/00 | |||||
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Reuben Jones walks on the wrong side of the law - a card shark, a master of deception, a man
who long ago buried the truth of his life so deep that no one would ever find it. Grace Russell has had to learn a few
tricks herself in order to hold on to the crumbling California vineyard that is the only thing in the world she can call
her own. When Grace meets Reuben she's dreassed as a pious Catholic nun; he's posing as a blind Spanish aristocrat.
But he gets an eyeful when the pretty sister lifts her skirts to adjust the little silver derringer strapped to her thigh...
So begins this sexy, rollicking ride through the gambeling halls and sinful streets of 1880's San Francisco, where
two "crooked hearts" discover that love is the most dangerous - and delicous - game of all.
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"Call of the Trumpet" by Helen A. Rosburg
Leisure Book, May 1998 Reviewed on 4/23/98 | |||||
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Realizing that France no longer held anything for her, Cecile Villier decided to return to the
land of her birth, the Sahara. Half French and half Bedouin, Cecile knew that life in the desert had to be better that
the one she led in France. Yet on her arrival, Cecile is kidnapped and sold into slavery. But she is rescued by El Faris,
the horseman, and she begins her journey into the desert. That's when she learns that El Faris is actually Englishman,
Matthew Blackmoore. As the two cross the Sahara, they not only have to deal with the dangers of the desert but with
their growing attraction. But love doesn't come easy for Cecile and Matthew, they both must learn that love is stronger
than pride and jealousy. And when they do, their love will be unbounded.
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"Christmas Pie" by Emma Craig
Leisure Books, December 1997 Reviewed on 12/31/97 | |||||
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Polly MacNamara knew she didn't the normal life of girls her age. She worked for a
living to take care of her mother and didn't go to parties or have any beaux. But none of this really bothered her
until she received a mysterious coin from a Chinese woman in a curio shop. As her wishes started coming true,
Polly was thrown together with her boss, James Drayton. Not only did she discover that he wasn't the Scrooge
she thought he was, but Polly realized that she was falling for the handsome lawyer. James knew that Polly was
different from the other women he knew but he wasn't sure that she could put aside their differences. But with wishes
and lots of love the two make all their holiday dreams come true.
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