Still living in the same white farmhouse where she grew up, Curry watched those closest to her leave—her parents by tragic death, her husband to war, and her best friend, Tom, who walked away because he couldn't deal with being left alive. Then one day, without warning, Tom returns. Curry appears as down-to-earth as she ever was, but her survival has come at a cost and now it's up to Tom to help Curry re-open her heart to life's joy.

    For Dr. Paul Wilcox, it signaled the beginning of the end. He had seen too many disastrous marriages - his parents' included.Nevertheless, Robin would do anything to be with Paul. He was so special, so sensitive, so funny and warm, she coudn't imagine her life without him. When Paul suggested they live together, Robin agreed.Though they were happy, Robin knew they could be happier still. She could only hope he'd abandon his bitterness and believe in what a new kind of love could do...

    She freed his heart from its confinement, and most of all she opened his eyes. But the lovers weren't lost to an uncaring world... for Sunny's life was threatened by a man from the past she couldn't recall....

    Gil, the one man who believed in her, the man who had broken through her defenses and touched the woman inside. No matter what it cost her, she couldn't let him down. She had to get through the choking, terrifying darkness; somehow Gil's love would bring her out again.

    A self-made millionaire, ruler of a publishing empire. he flourished in a fast-paced world of power and beautiful women. Yet Liz couldn't forget the strong arms that had held her so tenderly, the warm lips that had claimed hers only once--and forever. Years ago Rath Dixon had told her she was too young for love. How could she win back her heart from the man who haunted her dreams . . . the man she still secretly loved--and had vowed to forget.

    Feeling out of her element, she escaped into the protective darkness of the garden to catch her breath--and instead felt her throat tighten in stunned longing. The man who approached her was tall, dark, and irresistibly handsome, like the hero in a fairytale, and an electric current of desire raced through her heart. Alex Delanore was a man caught by circumstance between two different worlds--and Kate was the key to the one he loved. With warmth and humor she could help him renew his dreams . . . for here was a woman to take home to Wisconsin...

    She was furious. And her fury grew when she found he was no brigand but Dan D'Alesio, the renowned journalist and film maker.Black-haired, jet eyed, exuding all but irresistible virility, he insisted she return to safety and civilization. But the exquisite Dr. Randall was determined to stay, to find her father, the famed Egyptologist who'd vanished on the verge of their history-making expedition. Brilliant,hot-headed, independent, how could Alex accept the fact that her survival here depended on this man? How could she relinquish her rage to beg his protection? And once they'd made their deal and she'd embarked on the charade of being his "wife"... when it was all over... how could she bear to let him go?

    Her parents' example had soured her on the institution of marriage... and in the scheme she'd hatched no one would get hurt, while she would know the joy of motherhood.At first everthing went according to plan, and the weekend Shay and Adam spent in each other's arms was more wonderful than she'd ever thought possible. Then fate -- and Adam Wickwire -- began to play havoc with her plot... and her emotions.

    She saw the perfect opportunity to save enough for a fall wedding by accepting a job as secretary in a mountain summer camp.But her dreams were overshadowed by the towering ego of the camp's doctor, Barrett Anderson. His arrogance infuriated Kim, yet he left her as breathless as did the beauty of the mountains themselves . . . challenging her commitment to a man and a future she had planned on for years.

    A Pocketful Of Dream by Lyn Ducoty released on Sep 24, 1984 is available now for purchase.

    The Road by Emma Goldrick released on Oct 25, 1984 is available now for purchase.

    Tess was working on a prototype airplane, and Shep was the man chosen to test its wings. For months her work on the plane had obsessed her, but now Shep had entered her heart and she was facing one frightening fact: If there were even one mistake in the plane, the man she loved would forfeit his life.

    and she is accused of being his accomplice! Suddenly England seems a very hostile place indeed.When handsome agent Steve Callahan is assigned to guard Megan, he proves a suspicious jailer, and Megan chafes under his cold regard. Then, in the intimacy of their enforced isolation on a remote Welsh mountain, their distrust slowly warms to burning passion... and Megan seeks sweet refuge in Steve's strong arms. But their tenuous understanding remains fraught with uncertainty... and with the unspoken knowledge that their idyllic days may be numbered.

    But when she discovered that her co-manager would be none other than handsome blue-eyed Mitch Wranebow, Shannon wasn't sure she could keep her promise. How could she live calmly under the same roof with her own ex-husband when memories of their soaring passion still lingered so disturbingly near? She'd left Mitch once when he stubbornly refused to give up his dangerous job in the steel industry. Now he was "safe," yet safety didn't seem to solve the problem. Would she ever be prepared to embrace the risks that went along with his love?

    — Despite the cool voice of rationality, the family curse had haunted Danielle all her life... especially after the sea had claimed her husband's life nine years before. — Untouched, untouchable let her be — Or lie ten fathom under... — Danielle took one look at Seth Whitlaw, her Nantucket neighbor, and knew that to remain untouched by him would require all her resolve. Seth had his own ghosts to wrestle with, but his determination to have Danielle was as fierce as the sea in a wild summer storm.

    Former Miss Georgia, first runner-up in the Miss America Pageant, Dale Chastain had parlayed her looks, talent, and brains into an education and the job of her dreams--movie reviewer for WNBS-TV Chicago. And he was Sloane Avery, the brilliant critic whose daily column she read avidly, whose work she revered. But the man himself was another matter. He managed to insult her in private, then attacked her in print. Little did Dale realize that behind the sharp-tongued, cynical, unkempt critic lurked a shy, lonely man in love, a man who would patiently transform himself from frog to prince for her sake. From the Windy City to an embattled English movie set and back, he would astonish her with his tender passion, amaze her with his newfound "style" But could he really accept that she was beautiful and brainy? If she returned his love, could he believe she really cared?

    Etna, Louise Jordan found herself hating her career as a journalist.She'd met Europe's most newsworthy millionaire, a powerful man whose bid for privacy was legend. And he trusted Louise with the secret truths of his life.She became captivated by the man behind the myth. But how could she file a story on the real Bruno Xavier without forever turning him against her?

    Suddenly Samantha Maitland had the funds to finance the deal of her lifetime -- loaned by an angel with tarnished wings. From the moment they'd met at the posh California spa to his brash arrival at her island home on Puget Sound, venture capitalist Gabriel Sinclair had made it clear he wanted Samantha at any price. What would happen if he discovered the true motive behind her scheme to block Drew Buchanan's Arizona real estate deal? Had Samantha traded her edge in this dangerous game for a reckless passion with Gabriel, a man she barely knew? Or for the ultimate revenge on Drew Buchanan, the lover she couldn't forgive... or forget.

    So when she traveled to Fiji to lure portraitist Philip Holt back to civilization, she wasn't prepared for the disturbing call of his primitive paradise.Robyn found herself pulled into the sensuous pulse of the island--and found abandonment in the arms of its devastating inhabitant.But Philip's failing eyesight threatened not only his talent. Could it be that she was just a balm to help him forget the dimming of his world--and could this proud artist ever accept the depth of her commitment?

    He was calm, serious--almost settled--yet he got through to her as no one else ever had. He grew to know and love a Jess who was as vulnerable as a child--but very much a woman.

    At least that was Dr. Dana Chandler's impression -- until she got to know him better.Dana was a doctor, but Zachary taught her things about her body she'd never learned in medical school. Could she succumb to his appeal? She was in debt and overworked. Perhaps she had lost perspective on herself -- but she wasn't sure she could rise to meet Zack's challenge.Except every Jack has his Jill, and there's a remedy for every ill -- and love is the best medicine for the heart.

    Instead she was covering yet another dull package tour. But one member of her group didn't fit the tourist profile. From the first, Bill Clayton surprised her. He looked more like an Olympic athlete than the accountant he was. But she would have been shocked to know that what he carried in his briefcase would soon make him a pawn in the vicious world of computer piracy.Before they left Frankfurt, the mysterious microchip would sweep them both into danger and into each other's arms. Racing madly from Delhi to Bombay, from Bangkok to Hong Kong, they were drawn ever deeper into a menacing maze filled with shadowy twists and turns. Eluding unknown enemies, fleeing their own pasts, they were plunged into a perilous adventure that threatened their lives even as it challenged them to trust each other and their own unerring hearts.

    Patrick was the kind of man who was so concerned with the icing that he didn't deserve the cake.Unlike her young patients, who loved Murph for herself, Patrick was just the sort to notice little things like tattered stockings and missing buttons and to object to Murph's comfortably messy home. Murph wasn't the least bit interested in Patrick--until he informed her that he wasn't interested in her type of woman.

    Not even the Jake Elliot, architect and ladies' man, could lure Asia away from her projects in Albuquerque. But Jake always got what he wanted. Step by subtle step he eroded her defenses until she was swept away on passion's tide, afraid to love again, helpless to stop. She thought she could never balance marriage and a career -- until she met the man who made her want to try.

    It was too late to make amends, but it was a perfect opportunity to salve her conscience when Tony's security chief hired her to help save Sinbad's--Tony's popular casino-- from a ring of thieves who intended to skim Tony blind.She knew he'd explode when he saw her on the job. But only Lea, posing as a dealer on the casino floor, could put the sting on a sophisticated con game. And suddenly, explosively, only Lea could fill his arms with a passion born of danger and desire. If it cost her life, she'd save Tony's casino, restore his trust--then gamble the rest on love!

    

    She'd been raked over the coals by its admittedly charismatic host, Luke Maxwell!Jessica vowed to turn the tables and as a corporate president she had the resources to do so. But all thoughts of revenge faded as she got to know the real Luke. He was warm, teasing, kind...and a dynamite lover.

    The last thing in the world she needed was a man walking into her life and reminding her that she was still a woman.Recuperating from an accident away from the city, big-time lawyer Marsh Franklin was as tender and passionate as he was patient. But Pamela had been alone too long to trust anyone with her heart. Marriage was a dangerous dream that she had long ago stopped believing in. Yet hou could she turn her back on love, when something deep inside her was begging for more?

    Love interfered with concentration and undermined a dancer's discipline.Yet there were times when she felt as if life was passing her by somehow; she envied the freedom of her flamboyant roommate Bonnie, who could eat as much as she liked, keep late hours and fall in and out of love with carefree abandonCarrie had fallen in love, just once, on a moonlit night in Florida. But she knew her career depended on one thing: Alex Taylor must never have any part in her life!

    By Mutual Consent by Marion Smith Collins released on Feb 23, 1984 is available now for purchase.

    After all, she'd written a book on the subject, hadn't she? And love at first sight was not to be trusted!But her theories fell apart when she met irresistible Max Stanwood--handsome, warm and immediately in love with her. Max urged her to join him in a headlong plunge into love, and Samantha yearned to follow. But her mind cautioned restraint. Until the day she was forced to decide whether to love by the book--or throw it away....