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The Ivory Cane


Janet Dailey - 1977
    "Maybe when I can think clearly I'll be able to offer an apology. Right now all I want to do is wring your neck!"Sabrina would not consider the possibility that Bay had been prompted by desire for her. Her blindness had touched him - his emotion was based on pity.All at once she could no longer regard Bay as a friend. She had started thinking of him as a man...and for her that was dangerously foolish!

Expectant Bride


Lynne Graham - 1999
    Until she overheard Dio Alexiakis discussing a top-secret deal, and he insisted that Ellie was an industrial spy! Ellie was unnerved by her confrontation with Dio Alexiakis. However, Dio knew just how he would deal with her....Ellie found herself on her way to Dio's island, and two days and nights of perfect passion... followed by an unexpected pregnancy. Dio had the perfect solution -- they'd marry for the baby's sake. By now, Ellie was in love with Dio, but could he learn to love his expectant bride?

The Nine-Month Marriage


Christine Rimmer - 1997
    In her hero-worshiping eyes, the Wyoming rancher could do no wrong. But one urgent April night, Cash made a woman of Abby... and Abby came up pregnant. Cash cursed himself for stealing her innocence and vowed to give their baby his name. Then he'd set sweet Abby free -- to find herself a better, younger mate. After all, when a man loved a woman, heartache was nothing... but honor was all.Conveniently Yours...The Bravo men's marriages may have begun in name only -- but were they destined to be love matches after all?

Princess


Alison Fraser - 1984
    She was a tragic little figure existing in a shadow world that she had constructed as a fortress to pain. Then Adam Carmichael pierced her defenses and established himself as a force in her life.In time Serena became a lovely, vital young woman. But she jealously guarded her innermost feelings for fear that Adam would use them against her.Adam demanded her love... but first he would have to force Serena to confront her fear.

Devil In Disguise


Jessica Steele - 1980
    Clare knew it couldn't be true. Even worse, she learned that to appease his great family pride, Lazar intended to exact like payment from Clare for his sister's seduction. Fate, however, decreed differently. Strangely, slowly, out of the bizarre situation a new Clare Harper emerged -- a young woman ready to love and be loved....

Stay


Chelsea Camaron - 2015
    It’s not sweet. It’s far from anything you would want to imagine. This is a story to leave you feeling dirty. Are you willing to stay the course all the way to the end? Nothing about us is normal. Nothing about us is natural. Can love ultimately be defined in such ways, truly? This is our story. He is a hitman, the very one who took my family the night that changed us both forever. Something in my eyes stopped him from killing me. Something in my eyes called out for him to take me. At ten, he captured me. At fifteen, he consumed me. And at eighteen, he owned me. Outsiders think he’s my father … That is so far from the truth. Our twisted desires fuel the darkness that lies deep inside us both. My innocence never existed, and he takes me as I am. *Due to the graphic nature of some scenes this book may be a trigger for some readers and is recommended for those over the age of 18. This is part one of a trilogy. This is a second edition update from the original stand-alone publication in 2015.

Defying the Boss


A. Zavarelli - 2015
    For the last three years, I’ve stood tirelessly by Kane Stryker’s side. My media mogul boss is the ruler of his domain and my life. Wealthy and drop dead gorgeous, he can get any woman he wants at the snap of his fingers. Too bad he’s completely oblivious to the fact that I’m in love with him. Fed up and unable to take any more, I’ve accepted a job on the other side of the country… as far away from Kane as I can reasonably get. I’ve packed my bags and written my resignation. Now the only thing left to do is give it to him. But what happens when Kane decides he isn’t ready to let me go just yet?

Lost and Found


Katerina Winters - 2016
    Rescued from sleeping on the streets, Misha stepped into the dangerous family of the Russian mafia. Her smiling bright nature was in violent contrast with the mob boss. Mikhail Kulakov was quiet, lethal, calculative, --and ten years her senior. As she grew older gratitude turned into a secret desire towards her hardened criminal guardian. Forbidden feelings... At first, she was simply just a distraction to his routine life. Then the years passed taking the young girl with them, leaving behind a beautiful young woman under his roof. It took everything Mikhail had to ignore his ward's sweet and innocent allure. His little Misha did not deserve a hardened criminal. But he would be damned before he let another man have her. (This novel contains very mature erotic content)

The Italian's Stolen Bride


Emma Darcy - 2005
    or passion? Luciano Peretti may still be the handsome and hot-blooded man she fell for six years ago, but now Skye wants nothing to do with him! She can't forget Luc's rejection of her then, or how she refused his wicked family when they tried to bribe her to end her pregnancy. Since then, she's raised her son single-handedly--poverty-stricken but proud. But Luc is determined to take back the bride and the child who were stolen from him--and there's one quick and effective way to do it: marriage!

Seduced by the Boss


Lexi Noir - 2020
    Taboo. Betrayal.When Saylor goes to Vegas for a bachelorette weekend, she doesn’t expect to see her secret crush, Everett Barrett. Otherwise known as her boss.Everett can’t believe his eyes when he sees his sexy assistant, Saylor, walking into the bar he is in. She looks sexy and he knows that he can’t ignore his feelings any longer.After a sexy dance, he takes her back to his suite for a night that neither of them will forget.But when Saylor doesn’t hear from him the next day, she knows that it’s going to be awkward at work. She’s right. Everett ignores her.After weeks of being ignored, she’s shocked to see Everett at her front door. But he’s the one in for a shock when she tells him what happened in Vegas didn’t stay in Vegas.

The Spitfire


Bertrice Small - 1990
    Just as beautiful Lady Arabella Grey, the young cousin of England's King Richard III, speaks her wedding vows to Sir Jasper Keane, the Scotsman Tavis Stewart, Earl of Dunmore, abducts Arabella as payment for Jasper's murder of his fiancee. Irresistibly, deliciously, Arabella surrenders to her enemy with fierce abandon--knowing that there may be only one way to get what is rightfully hers....

Acts of Mercy (Men of WRATH Book 5)


Eleanor Aldrick - 2021
    

Shattered Trust


Jacqueline Baird - 1990
    "And I always get what I want."Since Nick's cruel rejection, Abby had built a satisfying new life for herself and little Jonathan. And now Nick needed his son and was quite ruthlessly blackmailing her into returning him.But he needn't think he'd have everything his own way; this time Abby was determined to show that she was more than a match for him. If only the old attraction between them weren't still so powerful...

The Twelve Nights of Christmas


Sarah Morgan - 2010
    Woken by an outrageously sensual kiss, Evie feels her body come alive...until she realizes her seducer is Rio Zaccarelli, her dangerously attractive new boss! This Christmas, it's imperative that Rio's reputation appear spotless -- but innocently enticing Evie is a temptation he can't resist! Their scorching chemistry leads to twelve nights of endless pleasure. But will it last once the decorations come down?

After the Music


Diana Palmer - 1998