She gave her love to Lord Byron - scandalous, irresistible English poet. their brief tempestuous affair left her with a shattered heart, a few poignant mementos - and a daughter he never knew about.Boston, today: Allegra Brent - modern, independent, restless. She learned the secret of her ancestor and journeyed to Venice to find the di Rienzi heirs. There she met the handsome, cynical, blood-stirring Conte Renaldo di Rienzi, and brought full circle the passionate romance begun in Venice so long ago....

    The sportsmen she flies into the wild are a lusty lot, but she can handle any situation. . . and any man — except Jim Talbot, her lean, brooding boss. Jim wants her fired! But why?On a night of tender sorrow, the desire they have refused to admit bursts into soaring passion. But in the frozen wilderness they face a final, brutal test that threatens their love. . . and their lives!

    Work was far from the mind of silver-blond, violet-eyed Carlyn Thomas when she first met the dark, dashing Nick Sandini.She had never allowed a man the liberties he took for granted. One look, one touch, and she was aflame, afraid of the depths of her feelings, joyous in the discovery of love. Until her vacation ended, Nick vanished, and she was plunged into the most dangerous undercover assignment of her career.She'd find Nick later, she thought. Until he found her--the woman he thought he knew...a woman whose life depended on not letting him discover the truth.

    She would start over. All over. But the moment she arrived, her senses were jolted. Where was her uncle? And who was Boyd? Was he merely her uncle's foreman? He mocked her, maddened her, and taunted her with his insolent macho ways. What made him think he could read her mind... or possess her, body and soul?

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    And his voice was firm.Polly confronted him coldly. She'd brought his nephew here; her responsibility was ended. Se had to get on with her own life. And that didn't include days spent peering at a cliff full of birds - even with someone as rugged and vital as this wealthy businessman turned ecologist!Besides, though Gregory was formidable, overbearing - Polly knew she was attracted to him. Seeing him daily in this fairy-tale situation would be asking for trouble ...

    

    But one of them, arrogant Greg McKenzie, seemed enraged by her and all she did - and rudely told her so.To her dismay, she learned he was the one person struggling Tiger Tours could least afford to offend.Appeasing him proved just as dangerous as provoking him - and, as repulsion turned to attraction, infinitely harder to handle.

    She had deceived him--and now she loved him!Decorating the villa of the Marques del Acazar was the plum assignment Terry needed to launch an international career as an interior designer.But Terry hadn't counted on the business schemes of her friend & partner backfiring--or on both of them falling in love with the handsome dueno of Majorca!And now she had to choose: she could betray her friend...or betray her heart.

    Slowly they learned to trust, to share a passion and an intimacy she had dreamed of but never found, creating between them a blaze strong enough to melt the Colorado snows and keep out the winter's chill.

    Kennedy to upset her patients, her staff or herself. What she didn’t reckon on was the devastating effect he would have on her.She finds herself agreeing to marry him — a marriage of convenience only, for he convinces her that he and his daughter Jessica need her. But what happens in a marriage when one of the partners falls secretly and wildly in love with the other?

    until she fell under the spell of tycoon Nick Caldwell. Ignorant of her wealth, but more than aware of her beauty, he swept Toni off her feet -- and into a jet bound for a Majorcan honeymoon.But had Nick only taken a wife to win control of the family firm? Had she alone meant their tender vows of love?

    Five years passed before they met again, and once more they felt the fire of their passion burn out of control, a conflagration to engulf the past. But from the ashes of their unhappiness their love, like the phoenix, rose afresh, new and bright and stronger than ever --a love to last for all eternity.