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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!

Playing the Dutiful Wife


Carol Marinelli - 2013
    But she will play her part in exchange for Niklas’s signature on the divorce papers!Except she hasn’t bargained on their mind-blowing connection being as undeniable as ever. Last time it led usually sensible Meg into a Las Vegas wedding chapel. This time the consequence of giving in to their chemistry will bind her to Niklas for ever...

The Wedding Night Debt


Cathy Williams - 2015
    She owes him a wedding night...and he will collect!Billionaire Dio Ruiz's convenient union was meant to secure two things: vengeance and the enticing Lucy Bishop.But from their wedding night onwards Dio's found his marriage bed inconveniently empty.Two years later, his virgin bride wants a divorce.But freedom has a price...Hurt and humiliated to learn their vows were just a business transaction to Dio,Lucy has played the perfect wife in public, while their cold war waged in private.She wants to walk away--not bow to his command!Can she pay Dio's price and survive ten days as true husband and wife?

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.

The Kouros Marriage Revenge


Abby Green - 2007
    But behind the happy scenes lay a different story....Love had nothing to do with it; Kallie had married Alex to save her family's business. He'd have great pleasure taking revenge--for the mistake that had destroyed their youth-- when he took her as his arranged bride!

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!

Raffaele: Taming His Tempestuous Virgin


Sandra Marton - 2009
    She's not what he was expecting...but her dowdy clothes can't hide her lusciously feminine figure or her wildcat temperament!Chiara Cordiano will not love her husband!She's tried everything to avoid her fate, but in the blink of an eye Chiara is swept away from her quaint Sicilian town to New York! She wants to hate Rafe, but seduction is in his blood. With his dark, brooding looks and tempting masculinity, she'll be purring like a kitten!

The Power of the Legendary Greek


Catherine George - 2010
    Isobel James, the last single girl (or so it seems!), can't believe she's come to Greece on her own, but she had to escape the wedding fever that's gripped her best friends.When reclusive tycoon Lukas Andreadis finds Isobel washed up on his private beach, he thinks she's another journalist acting the "damsel in distress." He whisks her to his villa, where interrogation leads to seduction.Now Isobel's struck down by something much more dangerous than wedding fever--a powerful infatuation with the legendary Greek....

The Italian's Token Wife


Julia James - 2004
    His proposal of marriage comes with a large financial reward--all she has to do is spend six months as Rafaello's wife in name only.But though Rafaello hadn't planned on sleeping with his new wife...he can't resist her!

Untouched Until Marriage


Chantelle Shaw - 2010
    When infamous Raul Carducci learns that a little baby may challenge his inheritance he will stop at nothing—a new Carducci heir will not take away what is rightfully his.To safeguard baby Gino, unassuming Libby Maynard has been forced to pretend she is his mother—but she hasn't counted on having to convince the wolfish Raul Carducci of her deception.And when Raul, with his achingly seductive voice, asks her to marry him, Libby is powerless to refuse...even if their wedding night will blow her cover!

A Diamond Deal with the Greek


Maya Blake - 2016
    But, unbeknownst to Rebel, her father embezzled money from the formidable magnate and now she must pay back the debt by whatever method Draco demands. Arabella may take risks for a living as a champion skier, but the cold weight of Draco's diamond ring and the branding heat of his public attentions feel like too high a price to pay—especially when the prospect of sharing Draco's bed draws inevitably closer…

The Great Escape


Amanda Carpenter - 1984
    Not a bodyguard, not a lover, but a private investigator hired to track her down.She'd been running for nine months, attempting to elude him. Sooner or later she'd have to stop.And on that day she would be forced to surrender to Mike Carridine--and allow him to return her to the vicious relatives and unwanted fortune she'd so desperately tried to escape....

An Offer She Can't Refuse


Emma Darcy - 2012
    She's got the one thing he wants - the Zavros heir Magazines regularly devote gossip column inches to Greek magnate Ari Zavros and the supermodels gracing his arm - and his bed - each week! Tina Savalas is nothing like Ari's usual playmates, but this ordinary girl hides the most scandalous secret of all: four years ago her red-hot fling with Ari left her pregnant...Her bombshell revealed, Ari can see only one solution: the innocent Tina is perfect for the role of Good Greek Wife...And it seems marriage into the Zavros family isn't a choice - it's a command!

A Secret Understanding


Patricia Wilson - 1989
    Jordan knew that Cassy resented him, and whenever they met sparks seemed to fly. So it seemed rather odd that Jordan should offer her a way out of her personal predicament. It was possible, Cassy thought, that in accepting she just might be leaping from the frying pan into the fire . . . .

Too Proud to be Bought


Sharon Kendrick - 2011
    That is until she finds herself unexpectedly at an exclusive party, and manages to captivate the most sought-after man in the room - Russian oligarch Nikolai Komarov.For Nikolai, there's something about Zara's beauty that makes her stand out from the first-class crowd. Experience has taught him all women have their price, but he has never encountered anyone like Zara - a young woman who is too proud, too independent, too willful to be bought.