And in the ensuing publicity she, and not Carol, had been branded a cheap little adventuress. So when novelist Simon Egan offered her a job as his secretary and the chance to escape with him to Colorado, Meg eagerly accepted.Little did she know Simon had been personally involved in that tragedy, and mistaking her for Carol, had planned an elaborate revenge.Why couldn't Meg convince him he'd chosen the wrong victim?

    She was appalled that arranged marriages still existed.But Luis Alvarado de Montalba was not a man to be crossed. "You forced your way into my life, " he informed her when he discovered the deception, "and now you will remain in it. "While she conceded he was entitled to his anger, it was her life and future he had taken under control. And he simply ignored her protests.

    You really expect me to sleep with you to pay my father's debt?Italian magnate Max Quintano knew exactly how to get his way...by blackmailing Sophie into becoming his mistress.Sleep is not what I have in mind.Sophie will do anything to prevent her family's ruin -- even if it means living in Max's luxurious Venetian palazzo -- and being beholden to him...and will be until she discovers exactly why he hates her so much....

    But the only life about to be ruined was Annie's - by Cesar! In reality, she was a shy virgin, but Cesar preferred to believe in her glossy image. He passionately believed that she had torn apart his family in the space of a night. And now, in the cold light of dawn, he wanted his revenge!

    I own you." Fury is all Elle St James feels when she looks at the man she once thought of as family. Apollo Savas has mercilessly destroyed her father's company, but she holds the last little piece! Elle is determined to stop the stepbrother who is both sensual fantasy and darkest enemy. But their forbidden desire gives way to one illicit night that leaves untouched Elle with a life-changing consequence. Now that she is irrevocably bound to Apollo, will nine months be long enough for Elle to redeem this brooding Greek? When one night…leads to pregnancy!

    And Jared Faulkner was demanding a reckoning.Purdey wasn't proud of the way she'd treated Jared in the past, even though at the time she could see no real alternative.But it was a fearful price Jared wanted to extract from her-far greater than she'd expected to pay. And just as before she could see no other way out. Jared had her in his power and could so easily crush her....

    "I intend to marry you," he said, "but you'll never get under my skin again. I won't make that mistake twice."He had haunted Victoria's dreams since she was little more than a child. He had walked like a god through her world.But Victoria had spent the last six years trying to put the past behind her. She knew that Damien wasn't interested in her as much as in her inheritance--and she was determined not to succumb to him.

    But Angelos can't forget how she used him—and he'll stop at nothing to bring her down. Not even seduction…

    He'll ruin Caroline's family by buying out their company and throwing them out of their mansion...unless she agrees to give him the wedding night she denied him five years ago....

    So what better way to punish the woman who nearly ruined him, than marry--and destroy--her? Only she's now carrying his love-child....

    Her marriage to the distinguished lawyer, James Fox, had been nearly ideal. Now there was nothing between them but cold contempt. In her loneliness Caroline turned to her old friend Jake Redway, the successful actor. He offered companionship — and was willing to offer much more. But she could not relinquish the austere, driven husband who had once held her heart. He had become brutal, icy; every encounter with him was dangerous. Caroline had to save him — no one had ever needed her more!

    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!

    Then he insisted she marry him--not because he loved her, but because of the result of his own unbridled passion. "No child of mine," he claimed, "is going to suffer for my mistakes. "Their marriage, seeped in mistrust, was doomed from the start. Rachel refused to be a surrogate wife and fled before Nick could stop her....And before her hungry, foolish heart told her to stay and fight for his love.

    In fact, he assumed she was a gold-digging little tramp, interested only in the Beringer fortune.He did everything he could to make it clear her presence on the family's New Zealand sheep station was an unwelcome intrusion.But his eyes gave him away. They flamed with violent desire that Arminel was powerless to resist.

    The most primitive duel of all.When Laura left her glittering life in Boston to learn more about her father's past in Australia, she didn't realize she'd be confronting her own destiny in the arrogant, yet attractive, form of Jared Eastern.The sizzling awareness that flowed between them could not be denied, yet Jared was highly suspicious of Laura's motives. "Right at this moment," he declared, "I'm not sure whether to hate you ... or kiss you senseless!"