She had jewels and fine satins to caress her tawny skin, everything a woman could want--except the urgent warmth of a man's passion...For the thousandth time, Diamond searched the mirror and found there the gypsy orphan girl who had fled to London only six years before. But had she escaped? Was she now free to love the man whose dark eyes had burned into her soul on that never forgotten night…MY NAME IS CLARY BROWN

    A munificent inheritance from an unknown benefactor...a fabulous Victorian mansion in San Francisco, the only one on Juniper Hill to escape destruction in the great earthquake...a ghostly pianist who plays a locked grand piano in the depths of the night...an eerie séance in the flickering candlelight...a beautiful young woman- very much in love- threatened by a desperate killer as she unravels the mystery of the musical ghost.

    She accepted a job on the island of Madeira - in a beautiful castle high in the mountains off the coast of Africa. She was to be the companion of the aged Dona Christina. She was presented with a mysterious locket, a gift from the grateful lady. But that gesture of love slowly transformed her happiness into dread. For the jewel had belonged to Dona Christina's step-sister, a woman gone mad with the pain of a long-lost love. And Jennifer seemed suddenly touched by that same evil fate - a fate that drove her into loneliness and desperation, that followed her, like footsteps, into the cold arms of death.

    But a unique inheritance compels Jessica Clavering to marry the owner of a fabled opal mine and leads her to faraway Australia. There she will discover the mysteries - and evil - surrounding the greatest opal ever found. There she must confront the danger that lust for the stone has aroused even in her own husband - and there she must find love.

    

    I am not Kate. I am only her twin.... All Caroline knew when she came to her senses was that she had been in a coach accident. That she had rushed to Italy in response to her twin sister Kate's plea for help.Now suddenly Kate had disappeared and Caroline found herself wearing Kate's clothes and unable to convince anyone she was really Caroline. But she had to convince someone. And quickly. Because Kate was about to marry her Italian nobleman cousin, Leoni.

    was not enough to keep lovely, orphaned Denise Leclerc from visiting the chateau that was the home of her only surviving relatives. Left totally alone by the death of her aunt, and then discovering that she was both an heiress and a member of a distinguished Canadian family, nothing her lawyer said could deter her from seeking out her newfound uncles. Even the letter left by her aunt, with its mysterious warning of the danger that awaited her at the chateau, could not persuade Denise to change her plans. Yet if her lawyer could not convince her to remain in Boston, he could at least provide her with some protection in the person of his nephew, Robert Gordon, the handsome young man who in their one brief meeting had made a deep impression on Denise's heart.But the chateau held sinister surprises for the young heiress. And from the moment she knocked upon its massive door, Denise committed herself to a nightmare of terror, becoming the captive in a deadly game of deceit from which even Robert Gordon might not be able to rescue her...