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Savage Surrender
Charlotte Lamb - 1980
Working there as secretary to Madame Lefkas was like a dream come true. It was far away from England and the secret, impossible love for Simon that she had to forget.When Alex, Madame's playboy son, began a campaign to add Sophie to his list of casual conquests, she was merely indifferent. No one could replace Simon anyway.Or so Sophie thought... until the night Alex found her in Simon's arms. Then began a campaign of a different sort-one Alex was determined to win.
A Lingering Melody
Patricia Wilson - 1987
There she had met Matthew Silver.Meeting him again four years later was no accident. He had manipulated events to put her back in his power, and she found that the gentle, considerate lover she'd known had become an unfeeling, hard stranger.He blamed her for their breakup yet he was the one who had left. Carrie had resolved Matt would never know that her husband was a figment of her imagination and that her twin daughters were his own.
The Passionate Lover
Carole Mortimer - 1985
Kenny's relentless pursuit, his proposal, frantic wedding plans--all became meaningless once Shelby revealed the terms of her inheritance.And now the arrogant Kyle Whitney was escalating his campaign against Shelby. He assumed she was mercenary enough to try her wiles on him now that his young cousin had dropped out of the running.Surely, once he knew the truth, Kyle would realize that Shelby had never been influenced by money, but acted strictly from the heart...
Chateau of Flowers
Margaret Rome - 1971
Fleur had married Alain because she loved him -- not, as he thought, either because he was blind and she felt sorry for him, or because he was rich and her motives were completely mercenary.But how could she ever convince him of the truth?
The Billionaire's Blackmailed Bride
Jacqueline Baird - 2008
To exact his plan will be no hardship, as Emily Fairfax is as beautiful as she is virginal.It's only after that Emily realizes Anton is blackmailing her. Yet she can't stop her body betraying her as they spend their days parted in anger and their nights locked in passion ...
Some Sort of Spell
Frances Roding - 1987
He'd even nicknamed her "Cinders."Well, handsome prince or no, she hadn't invited him to interfere. And although silently grateful for the added household discipline, Beatrice drew the line where Elliott seemed most intent on crossing--her personal life!
Breaking Point
Emma Darcy - 1992
When he proposed, she'd been deliciously happy - happy to give up her job without a second thought, and devote herself to decorating their beautiful new home in Sydney's most prestigious neighborhood.She hadn't realized then that the only intimacy he wanted with her was in their bed. Rafe put business - including his cool blond personal assistant - first.Tanya was not about to spend the rest of her life waiting for a man who thought another woman was more important than his wife. The honeymoon was over. The marriage was at the breaking point.(Out of Print)
Angel of Darkness
Lynne Graham - 1993
He spun her round with frightening strength.Look at me! He demanded with inborn arrogance, glittering dark eyes scanning her pale, distraught face. Your freedom is gone and not only for now, cara. It's gone for as for as long as I want. I will keep you and I will clothe you and you will not make a single move that you haven't cleared with me first. Your are mine and you had better adjusting to that idea fast. I am not the most patient of men.
Valley of the Devil
Yvonne Whittal - 1991
If Jo wanted to save her brother and the family business, she had to marry Rafe and bear his child.Not that Rafe was a total stranger--he was the husband she'd parted from in bitter anguish only three years earlier.Rafe was the last person, in all of Africa, she'd wanted to see again. She thought they'd finished with each other--and couldn't imagine why he wanted to stir up the past again....
Mistress of the Groom
Susan Napier - 1997
She'd had to prevent her best friend from making the biggest mistake of her life... . Marrying Ryan Blair would have been disastrous. He was too rich, too powerful, too hot to handle!There was only one solution: to stand up in church and declare that she, Jane Sherwood, respectable businesswoman, was having a secret torrid affair with Ryan! It had worked. The wedding was finished. But now Ryan was determined to make Jane pay for his wrecked marriage - by making her his mistress for real!
Ruthless Awakening
Sara Craven - 2009
Now she's a guest returning for a wedding at Penvarnon--and billionaire Diaz Penvarnon is back, too, seemingly as arrogant and ruthless as ever!Diaz has one aim--to keep gold digger Rhianna away from the house. He's also the descendant of a Spanish pirate! So he kidnaps Rhianna and she finds herself captive on his luxurious yacht...where her inexperience is no match for his merciless desire!
Song of the Waves
Anne Hampson - 1976
She was young, beautiful, wealthy and fun-loving.They'd have been shocked if they'd known Wendy's secret. But she had vowed to tell no one what had changed her life.Yet, loving Garth Rivers, knowing that he loved her, how could she let him go on believing they had a future together? For Wendy, there was no future at all!
Strangers In The Night: My Broken Heart, Prey, Predator
Jordan Silver - 2015
Three tales told from the male perspective. In My Broken Heart, Hollywood heartthrob Dylan Constantine is having a heck of a time accepting that his lover and fellow star Rebecca Stevens has been caught in a rather compromising position with a fellow co-star. His mind, in order to deal with the betrayal,takes him on a journey into darkness. A journey that involves kidnapping her and holding her hostage until he gets her with child. Prey A very wealthy man who cannot find female companionship because of the size of his organ, whose family legend holds that there will be one woman made specifically for him has given up all hope. That is, until he scents her while vacationing in the Louisiana Bayou on a hot summer day. He knows for the legend to come to pass, he must first go to her under cover of night. She cannot know him until the time is right, but in the meantime his goal is to get her with child to bind them together, to leave his scent in her, so that she would find her way home. Predator He sees her, he wants her, he can't have her; she's engaged. Billionaire Josiah Steel doesn't care much for the word no, so when the young woman he meets and has a strong reaction to tells him in all innocence that she's meeting her fiancé, he hides his disappointment well, but he in no means gives up. Climbing through her bedroom window at night is just the beginning. Before he's through he will own her body and soul; and if he has to get her with child to solidify his cause, well then...
Gold Ring of Betrayal
Michelle Reid - 1996
He believes Sara, his wife, cheated on him with another man, and Lia is the result of that betrayal.So Sara and Nicolas are separated - until the silence between them is forcibly broken - Lia has been kidnapped! Nicolas knows he is the only one who can secure the little girl's safe return, but it means he must go back to Sara - and find that, even after three long years, she still wears his ring...
Blind Obsession
Lee Wilkinson - 1995
Autumn Milski had to see Saul Cresswell just one more time before she could reconcile herself to the fact that the man she loved hated her.... It was a reckless decision. Despite her assumed name, there was always a danger that Saul would recognize the girl she'd once been. A girl he blamed for the accident that had robbed him of his sight -- and whom he would clearly never forget or forgive!