Best of
Romance

1980

Skye O'Malley


Bertrice Small - 1980
    She is the courageous seafaring captain of her own mighty fleet, and intelligent enough to win a battle of wits with Queen Elizabeth herself. Follow along as Skye O'Malley is swept up in a journey filled with romance and passion that takes her from glittering Ireland, to lush Algeria, to the heart of London in pursuit of a unique and eternal love.....

Last April Fair & The Course Of True


Betty Neels - 1980
    Her job as nurse-companion was taking her and her patient to the Canary Islands...and away from her persistent ex-boyfriend Philip.But the trip was a disaster, and if not for the help of handsome Dr. Pieter can Siddardt, Phylly would have been in dire straits.She soon realized she could happily spend the rest of her life with Pieter...but all he could do was urge her to marry Philip!

Caroline's Waterloo


Betty Neels - 1980
    But Professor Radinck Thoe van Erckelens did propose to her and she accepted. What Radinck wanted in a wife was a convenient hostess! Caroline had to decide whether to settle for that, or set about changing Radinck's feelings for her.

When May Follows


Betty Neels - 1980
    Perhaps it's because the tall and broad-shouldered Raf doesn't make her feel like a giant. It certainly isn't a love match. She doesn't love Raf, and he seems indifferent toward her…. Everything changes, though, when Raf's ex-girlfriend, Beyke, returns and shakes up this marriage of convenience. Suddenly Katrina's emotions are in turmoil. She couldn't be jealous, could she?

The Ring


Danielle Steel - 1980
    When her father and brother disappear, Ariana is arrested by the Reich. Facing imprisonment and repeated rape at the hands of unscrupulous soldiers who desire to humble the lovely blond, Ariana jumps at the opportunity to become a cook for a kind Nazi officer. Gradually, the two are able to put the specter of war behind them and fall in love. But calamity strikes again, leaving Ariana alone once more and running for her life. Desperately sick and pregnant, Ariana lands in New York, part of the wave of refugees brought there by relief organizations. Sponsored, then befriended, then betrayed, by the Liebman family, Ariana slowly recovers in time for the Christmas birth of her son. And Noel, a kind man who loves Ariana, gives her the strength to make a life for herself and for him, which she does, finally finding true happiness. Danielle Steel creates a tale of the phases of life and love that we all experience against a brutal background that hopefully will not be experienced ever again. --Alison Trinkle

Adora


Bertrice Small - 1980
    And in the dying days of the great Byzantine Empire - that last vestige of what had once been Imperial Rome - her value as the emperor's daughter was priceless.Three men claimed her as wife. Orkhan, the powerful Ottoman sultan; the dashing pirate Alexander, lord of Mesembria; and Prince Murad, to whom Adora's heart truly belonged. In a grand epic that sweeps the reader from the golden palaces of fourteenth-century Byzantium to the blazing sensuality of the sultan's harem, Adora was a woman who firmly controlled her own destiny because she and Murad were meant only for each other. And together their passions would forge an empire.Adora! Her name was the secret of all love.Publisher Note: This story was previously published elsewhere, 1980-1995.

Love and Cherish


Dorothy Garlock - 1980
    She meets a man named Sloan Carroll, who proposes to her, but he finds that it will take a little more to win her heart.

Practice to Deceive


Patricia Veryan - 1980
    When her uncle announces her betrothal to his crony, the odious Roland Otton, she is very upset. Then she finds a chance for rescue from an unexpected source when she stumbles upon her uncle and Otton torturing a fugitive Jacobite--who Penelope realizes is her childhood friend Quentin Chandler. Desperate to save both Quentin and herself from the evil pair, she plans an escape that leads to a breathtaking journey across England.

Name of a Shadow


Ann Maxwell - 1980
    But soon there will be no flowers, no lovers, no tomorrows. The planet Malia has violated the Sole Restraint of Concorde, the space federation, by waging undeclared war on its former colony world, Vintra. Now Malia faces a swift and terrible fate: world-consuming molecular fire. As time ticks toward extinction for all Malians, Kayle, the mind-link, and Ryth, the pattern-master, race to discover why a people would knowingly commit an act of self destruction. Their only hope is a beautiful, unwilling accomplice, Faen, the last of an ancient aristocracy. She alone knows the secret of the sarsa, the musical instrument that can summon the undying wisdom of the shadows. She alone can call its name....

Mistress of Willowvale


Patricia Veryan - 1980
    WE HAVE PARTS TO PLAY, YOU AND I-YOU MAY LOATHE MY EVERY FIBRE, BUT WE MUST APPEAR TO BE DEEPLY IN LOVEOnce, Leone believed that her marriage to the handsome Christopher, Lord Aynsworth, would be her every dream come true. But the shivers of anticipation with which she had once awaited her wedding night turned to dread at the mere thought of the man now addressing her as husband. Everything was all so terribly wrong between them. Leonie had dreamed of no one but Kit and their life together, even when the war had taken him from her. Even when she had suffered such terrible disgrace . . . she had still dared to dream that one day they would be together. And then they were married. In his eyes, too, her innocence had turned to shame. And his love for her was dead, replaced by a cold, hard pride she could not melt. So much had happened they could not change. Or forgive.Until, in spite of themselves, they began to fall in love. All over again . . . .

Caprice


Sara Hylton - 1980
    After her archaeologist father's death, she had returned from Egypt content to take a paid position as companion at Milverton Hall -- the great house that had brightened her childhood -- and eager to serve Caprice, the radiant, raven-hared beauty who had once ridden so gaily at Thorn Lytton's side. But Caprice was gone, vanished. And the woman Thorn had married instead, the frail, beautiful Elsa, was hovering on the edge of madness. What dark tragedy had befallen this once happy place? Only Thorn seemed to know, and he was locked in a bitterness that Carla longed to pierce -- for her girlish infatuation had become the deeper passion of a woman. And in some eerie way, she sensed that Caprice was guiding her, for in this mystery-shrouded house, Caprice seemed to live on...willing Carla to unravel the secrets and find the happiness she herself had lost.

Her Man of Affairs


Elizabeth Mansfield - 1980
    A taste for magnificent clothes and extravagant parties has led beautiful Lady Theodora Fairchild to the brink of financial disaster. Only handsome bookkeeper David MacKenzie knows the depths of her money woes--and the despair of a love she thinks can never be fulfilled.

Love, 3000


Charles G. Waugh - 1980
    L. Child By ChronosLee, W. A Message From CharityScortia, T. N. When You Hear the ToneGalouye, D. F. Share AlikeBanks, R. E. The Littlest PeopleMacDonald, J. D. Ring Around the RedheadSheckley, R. Human Man's BurdenMcKenna, R. Home the Hard WayVinge, J. D. Tim Soldier

The House of Counted Hatreds


Grace Corren - 1980
    But Donna’s stay will prove to be anything but relaxing. She arrives to find her hostess unconscious after a mysterious fall from her bedroom window. But did Ellie really fall…or was she pushed? And is Donna destined to become the next victim?