The arrogant tycoon vowed that Margie's sister would not marry his younger brother, and Margie was just as determined that the wedding would take place. Margie expected Cal's assault but not the cynical game of love he played with her on his lavish Florida estate. Suddenly Margie was gambling with her sister's future—and her own—with a passionate adversary who made his own rules... until he met his match.

    When they finally touched, passion set their souls on fire…but their friendship turned to ashes. Now Madeline feared she was no more than a mistress to him. And John was tormented by desire for–and doubts about–Madeline's love. Yes, Madeline loved John. But would love sustain her as they made the sensual journey from friends to lovers?

    Terror clutches at her. Then cool reasoning inspires a plan to exact revenge...Determined to find Liam's inner weakness, Amie meets his demands with lightning speed and calculated seduction. But the kisses she provokes send her reeling into ecstasy and confusion. Trapped by Liam's power both to expose her past and to conquer her heart, she's consumed with the realization that, in avenging the past, she may be destroying all hope for the future.

    For millions of people of all colors, that book was Alex Haley's Roots. Roots was an instant success, winning a Pulitzer Prize and spawning the most-watched miniseries in television history. Alex Haley's legacy has had as great an impact on American families as any story in the twentieth century. Now, from the author of Roots, comes Alex Haley's Queen - the saga of his father's family. Lovers of sweeping generational epics will find much to rejoice in here. Once again, this is a personal saga, but one played out against the broad canvas of American history. The story begins in Ireland, where Haley's white great-great-grandfather, James Jackson, Sr., is born. From there we travel with Jackson to Nashville, where he meets Andrew Jackson, the future president of the United States. The two men become business partners, and James Jackson makes his fortune. He establishes his grand plantation, The Forks of Cypress, in Alabama, while Andrew ascends to the White House, and the rumblings that will explode into the Civil War gather force. James's son Jass Jackson inherits the plantation just as the genteel, well-ordered antebellum world begins to crumble. His adolescent attraction to the beautiful and strongwilled slave named Easter blossoms into a powerful and lasting love, and from their passionate union comes Queen - the heroine of the tale, Alex Haley's grandmother. This is history at its most compelling - from the Irish sod to the settlement of the South; from the Trail of Tears to the battlefield at Manassas; from the agonies of slavery to the tribulations of freedom - all rendered with the eye for telling detail and the sense of historical significance that readers have come to expect of Haley. In this, his final book, Alex Haley has created a truly multicultural family saga, the capstone to one of the great, classic American stories. The television miniseries of Alex Hal

    But she couldn't understand why Max Fielding, the company director, had hired her.Max made it painfully clear he thought she was promiscuous and heartless. He seemed determined to believe she was a threat to every red-blooded male.Yet he had no reason to hold her in such contempt -- and as an engaged man, no right to want her with such undisguised desire.

    A Charm For Adonis by Meg Hudson released on May 25, 1983 is available now for purchase.

    — HOW FRAGILE IS THE LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE... — Lady Fairfax had lovingly raised her two orphaned grandchildren, beautiful sisters, but as unalike as a lion and a lamb. Where dark-haired Adele was pale and gentle, Clairice was a quick-tempered red head with a sharp tongue and a propensity for getting into trouble. As for marriage, Clairice would allow her grandmother to arrange a match when she was good and ready; let Adele marry that rich snob of a dandy, Lord Ault, whom she, Clairice, detested. But Fate had made her own plans for Clairice. Trapped in France on the eve of a planned invasion of England, Clairice and Lord Ault must bargain with their lives to save the people they love... and in so doing discover that quiet Adele had chosen her own husband, and Clairice and Lord Ault had chosen each other....

    Touch Of Fire by Cathy Gillen Thacker released on Nov 24, 1983 is available now for purchase.

    Without his help, the story she’d risked her life to write would come to nothing. And without his love, she would never again live life fully....

    A risky operation and Aldora's unbeatable courage lifted her back on shaky feet to resume her career as a muralist. Her daily challenges came from within until Aldora won the highly coveted position of artist of the Edgely Foundation in Los Angeles--and its director Adam Holcomb appeared in her life.Adam's passion made Aldora see beyond herself and into the painful shadows of his past that unite them in a fiery destiny!

    or so it seemed to Amanda. Arresting good looks, power, prestige and wealth. But his life had been touched by a tragedy so great that nothing could comfort him--not even his money could prevent his impending blindness.Amanda had recently suffered her own misfortune, but her heart still answered Antonio's silent cry for love.Determined to face his grief alone, Antonio desperately resisted the smoldering fires between them. Amanda was equally determined that together they would face the future--that love could conquer all.

    Marcus Stafford, moonlighting geophysicist and son of one of her boarders, was a devastating giant who swept Lindsey Delaney off her sensible feet. A widow with two young daughters, Lindsey tried to keep a cool head at all times. But Marcus was dangerous, virile, exciting--and determined to penetrate her safe little cocoon. His searing passion aroused her to heights she'd never known before. Too quickly the "handyman" was a fixture in her life, challenging her to abandon the past in his arms.

    When an accident on an Indian reservation curtailed her painting trip through the Great Smokies, she was forced to accept his help.The devastating Cherokee doctor made it clear, though, that she was unwelcome in his world. Everyone warned her he was a loner with a tragic past.He fought to keep her at a distance. Yet not even the proud Ross Adair could quell the storm of sensuality that raged between them.

    Drew McKenna was running from her threatening ex. Fate stepped in with an excuse to be half a world away, in West Berlin. Rolf Erhardt wanted to escape, and would do anything to get out of the East. Suddenly he saw his chance, the daughter of America’s most brilliant scientist—now a pawn within his grasp. A plane full of innocents, grounded because of a storm and held prisoner in East Germany, would be freed only with Drew’s promise to help Rolf escape the country. The promise: so alarming, yet so crystal clear, she had no choice but to agree. Neither Drew nor Rolf could guess that their desperate struggle for freedom from chains of the past would arouse unbidden passions--so like the wild and wicked storm that had brought them together. Though Rolf coerced Drew into a secret marriage, from their first kiss—her first sigh—Drew’s heart became his willing hostage. But once Rolf secures asylum in the United States, no longer requiring their union, will he simply throw Drew aside—into a freedom she no longer desires?

    Toprove his innocence, he needed the help of an insider---somebody like the beautiful, willful rich girl he'd had a bitter wrong-side-of-the-tracks affair with ten years before.Zoe Murdock came from Austin's elite, but as a private investigator, she knew the city's mean streets, too. And she knew Jake Knight. Whatever he was, he was no horse thief. The trouble was, proving it meant spending day after infuriating day, and night after disturbing night, with the most arrogant, demanding---and seductive---man she'd ever known....

    But she was inexperienced and didn't know how to handle the handsome womanizer or the overwhelming new emotions he stirred inside her. He said he loved her, but could she trust him? His proposal overcame her doubts. Until she learned something to his discredit and she fled immediately, ignoring all her heart told her.

    Now she felt that it was time for her to go out and work in the field.However, her feelings were mixed when she discovered her uncle had arranged for her to accompany his new, young manager, Thane Fraser, on his expedition. Under Thane's arrogant jurisdiction Lesley knew she would have to struggle to assert her hard-won independence. Worse yet, she felt herself inevitably drawn to the desire she read in his dark eyes.