She’s tough yet compassionate, doing whatever it takes to get them back on their feet . . . and she’s met her match in Sloan Whittaker. Bitter, angry, resentful, Sloan is ready to give up. But Joy doesn’t let anybody quit, especially not a man as talented as this brilliant tycoon—a man who, somewhere along the way, has won her heart.   After weeks trying to push Joy away, Sloan realizes he’s a fool. She’s determined to piece him back together, and now he knows why: Deep down, she’s as broken as he is. Joy is prepared to give him everything, and now Sloan wants to give her something in return. He can be the one to show Joy that she’s perfect inside and out—if she’s willing to let go of her own painful memories and make happy ones with him.

    But that didn't stop Amelia from performing her entire act for the swarthy chairman of the board-complete with shimmering sequins and jingling bangles. So after Worth had Amelia fired, the last thing she expected was to be offered a job as a companion for his mother. But Worth hadn't ignored her startling beauty. Now he was determined to bid for her on his own terms.

    Reissue.

    The attraction--compelling, magical, overwhelming--was definitely mutual.The first woman in a male-dominated field, Chris had enough to handle without beginning a love affair. But the powerful feelings between them were irresistible, and with Dan she could soar to such ecstatic heights ....

    An Impractical Passi by Vicki Lewis Thompson released on Nov 22, 1985 is available now for purchase.

    and yearning to know his heart. Ryder was a man with a past full of secret pain, she discovered, of hurts only she could soothe. But could the tender lover who'd whispered his dreams learn how to give his trust?

    And when their plane was sabotaged and she and Sam were left behind in the jungle so that the plane could take off again, she knew she would have to.Fortune had it that a devious, conniving guardian angel led Sam to believe Bernadette was a nun. How else could safe passage be guaranteed for the woman who set Sam's renegade heart on fire?An affair with Sam would be assuredly glorious--but brief. And Bernadette wanted Sam's love to last forever.

    In the six years since her husband had vanished, she had accepted her strange role, though she had missed Jim every day of those six years.When Leah met her husband again he was Jacob Surratt, a prominent Phoenix physician. He didn't know her at all.Yet this fine man fell deeply in love with her, so that Leah was tempted to play a dangerous game.She urged Jacob to remember, while someone else worked to lock the past away forever....

    For Sable Arrington, love and marriage went together. Until a man offered both, she would keep her mind on her bikini designs!Mark Taylor was the wrinkle in her plan.... He was sexy and sensitive, but he'd been married once before. Living together was now his idea of a perfect arrangement.They should have debated their differences before it was too late, before they were irresistibly in love....

    Trina loved racing for the sheer thrill of it and for the knowledge that when she won, the victory was hers and hers alone.She could beat her toughest male competitors - until Slate Montgomery came along. Then everything she valued, including her independence, was threatened. Though she resented his enormous ego, she had to respect his superior driving skills.Almost before she knew it, Slate had become her number-one thrill, her forever-lasting passion...

    Adam was still hurt, still resentful, and when he discovered she had a son--his son--his anger grew.Then the truth behind Natalie's disappearance, behind the secrecy surrounding their child, came out, and Adam's shield of rage was replaced by love. Together they prepared to battle the horrors of her past that threatened to separate them once again ....

    No one knew this was all part of Tyne's plan...she wasn't both an ace reporter and a crack shot for nothing. It was Falconer Darcourt, the high-powered businessman she was sworn to protect, who threw her into turmoil. Suddenly she was deeply involved with him, in bed and out. She couldn't afford to fall this way - distracted and in love - when Falconer was so dangerously exposed...

    But when, in the middle of rescuing a trapped cat, she found herself in Chip Chandler's arms, she felt for the first time how good it could be to depend on someone else';s strength. Chip wanted to make Jill's life as full of joy as her warmth and tenderness had made his, but his efforts to help her realize her secret artistic dreams filled her with uncertainty -- would his love give her the courage to risk making her wishes come true?

    Ever since then, she'd kept a wary distance from the Halifax police force. A fairly successful silversmith, Kit came home one day to find that her house had been vandalized--and that she now needed the police. David Yeager, a young detective sergeant, was the investigating officer on the case. He believed that whoever had committed the break-in posed a real threat to Kit. But she refused to accept his warning--as'well as her growing interest in him. Even later, when she saw a face peering in the window, she still couldn't acknowledge her fear...

    But when an accident in the oil fields sent him storming into Kelly Blanchard's office, he learned there was one kind of fire even he wasn't equipped to handle.

    All Or Nothing by Rosalyn Alsobrook released on Mar 25, 1985 is available now for purchase.

    Katherine Beresford-Hawke came to Hawaii in 1870 to find the family she had never known — she never wanted to be plunged into a tense family drama in which she alone held the key that could destroy them all...Including the arrogant, proud and intensely disturbing Gareth Hawke.He would stop at nothing to gain control of the family ranch, but was a man who had vowed to follow his heart capable of cold-bloodedly marrying a woman he didn’t love to secure his ambitions?

    

    Now she had more pressing things to think about--things like Rynn s gorgeous smile.Falling in love with the widowed father of the bride wasn't discussed in etiquette books, so Maressa had to make up her own rules. But getting Rynn to play by them--to let loose the passion that she knew smoldered beneath his straitlaced facade--presented a challenge....

    Losing the case was a shock, but Kennedy's obvious interest in her was even harder to handle. Now that the trial was over, their mutual attraction couldn't be ignored.She tried to resist, but the cool professional succumbed to the woman within. Suddenly she was in his arms, recklessly, passionately in love. Their love was honest, but scandal surrounded the relationship. With a misrepresentation suit filed, and her reputation on the line, Hayley's love went on trial.

    Before he'd even left the dock, though, the Meyer girls, who were most of his crew, had already knocked supplies overboard and nearly collapsed at the thought of leaving their hair dryers behind. And Jessie Meyer, who'd been promised a bonus and a credit for her photographs of the experience, behaved as though he were about to shanghai her and her three daughters.Mark was certain he'd triumph over the wilderness, but he seriously doubted he'd survive a week with the Meyer girls, especially when their mother looked so young and inviting.

    where she runs Women’s Surgical with an iron hand. And not a single one of her resentful staff can guess the reason for such sharpness. They certainly never suspect that handsome surgeon Patrick Egan is the cause of her unhappiness, for although Sarah obviously dislikes him he’s never done anything to offend her — or has he? The tougher Sister Sweet gets, the more Mr Egan begins to remember a hazy incident in the paist...

    — Carly's insistence on an acting career of her own had cost her her marriage to brilliant English director Daniel Stone. — But she had succeeded, and proven at last that her faith in herself had been justified. — Now, ten years later, Daniel was asking her to join his Canadian theatre company. The temptation was great, but could she really risk surrendering herself, as an actress and a woman, to his absolute control again?

    Harassed unbearably, she escaped to a Brussels high school. Luc LeBlanc resident journalism teacher, was impossible to work with — the last thing she needed...at first. Slowly his energy and integrity revived her, and their passion eclipsed the pain of their mistakes. But Luc's passion for the truth wouldn't let him forget his aborted mission abroad. Paula awaited his return from Central America, with no guarantee he would get out alive.

    

    But society wasn't enough for Cassie, and when the chance to manage the Twin River Ranch was offered as her last chance for independence, she headed west. Cassie never expected Kirk North, the ranch foreman, to stand in her way. But first she had to prove herself to him before he would teach the city girl all about horses, ranches and love on the lone prairie.

    Now she was bedridden in a Venetian hospital, accused of drunk driving, possibly worse. She couldn't remember the accident, but she'd been behind the wheel. Only a brilliant lawyer could save her.Valerio Lucci was certainly brilliant--but he was also the man she'd jilted at the altar. It had been ten years, but one look in Valerio's dark eyes and it seemed like yesterday. Time had not softened the pain, nor had it diminished the passion. Now the one man who had just cause to hate her held her fate in his hands....

    There, she tried to make peace with her father's mother—an embittered, eccentric old woman who was convinced her artist son had deserted her years earlier.Nicole was met with rejection and coldness, not only from her grandmother but also from the housekeeper, Delia, and her son, Mark. Nicole's only comfort was the suave and sophisticated doctor, Alan, who treated her grandmother.Though Mark remained remote and secretive, Nicole found herself drawn to him. But Nicole's life was in jeopardy and her relationship with Mark threatened...unless the truth that lay hidden in a sealed letter was revealed...

    

    She was a woman with flesh and blood and feelings.She found it hard to believe that Cristian Casas might use her to repay her brother-in-law for starting up his own Mediterranean restaurant after quitting his job as Cristian's star chef. Or that Cristian would lavish attention on her to make his ex-lover, the haughty Azucena, jealous.One thing was certain. Whatever the reason, Cristian did intend to seduce Anna. She could feel the tugging at her heartstrings.

    He'd broken her heart...Five years ago Olivia had been deliriously, ecstatically happy, she'd felt so sure of Raoul's love....She still remembered the pain of learning that all the time Raoul de Varennes had wooed her with promises of love and marriage, he'd planned on discarding her--without hesitation, without explanation--for the woman he really loved.And now that they were being thrown together at his French chateau for her cousin's marriage, he had no right to act as if it had been his heart--and not hers--that had been shattered.