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The Cozakis Bride
Lynne Graham - 2000
What can she do? Olympia has no choice. Approach Nik Cozakis and ask him to reconsider the marriage they abandoned ten years ago, in return for financial help? Nik agrees, but on his terms: he wants a son. Yes, Nik has seized his chance for vengeance!
Blackmail
Penny Jordan - 1982
Hopelessly because his spurned lover vowed to have him back. Hopelessly because Gilles felt nothing for her.
The Devil's Arms
Charlotte Lamb - 1978
"So stop the charade about amnesia, Lyn. I don't want to hear any more of your lies."The girl's eyes darkened with hurt and weariness. What did he mean? He called her "Lyn," but she didn't really know who she was or where she had come from. He said they were engaged, yet he treated her with savage antagonism. He even suspected her amnesia to be a lie!Bewilderment and unhappiness fought in he paleface. If only she could remember . . . .
Echoes of the Past
Sally Wentworth - 1990
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....
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.
Uncertain Destiny
Carole Mortimer - 1988
But drawn to Justin by a fierce mutual passion, the usually sensible Caroline married him knowing that he couldn't love her--just as she couldn't help loving him.She accepts the hazards of a marriage to the arrogant, magnetic lawyer--his aversion to love, sudden changes in mood and his restless nightmares. But how will Justin react when Caroline announces she's pregnant with his baby...?Originally published in 1987
Not Part of the Bargain (Western Lovers #47)
Susan Fox - 1989
He'd also given Wade his daughter.Joanna, an insecure, overweight seventeen-year-old, had fled. Now, three years later, Wade stood in her doorway--the epitome of the understated millionaire rancher.Joanna guessed she'd always known he'd come for her eventually. But she wasn't going to kid herself. His presence was strictly business--the only fantasies and sappy emotions involved would be her own.
The Morning After
Michelle Reid - 1996
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!
The Cost of Her Innocence
Jacqueline Baird - 2013
Until she encounters the merciless lawyer who helped wrongfully imprison her all those years ago….Still convinced of her guilt, Dante Cannavaro is stunned when his anger boils over into passion! There's no chance he'll allow Beth to escape—especially now she's carrying his heir!Faced with a proposal that is more of a command than a request, will Beth ever be able to prove her innocence? Or will she be forever beholden to her enemy?
Comparative Strangers
Sara Craven - 1988
He couldn't be serious!One day Amanda was happily engaged to Nigel, a flamboyant British car rally driver, the next she was the reluctant fiancee of his stern, laconic older brother, Malory Templeton.As if she hadn't been through enough. Hadn't finding Nigel in the arms of another woman been more than she deserved? The hard glitter in Malory's eyes told her otherwise.Malory was a virtual stranger to her, but Amanda had no choice. Her own foolish pride had caused the crazy switch in fiances, and Malory, it seemed, was going to hold her to it.
Man of Stone
Frances Roding - 1988
That was before she was forced to marry Luke Gallagher, almost a total stranger.Cressy, Sara's selfish stepsister, had filled Luke's head with lies, and now he believed Sara to be a despicable fortune hunter. There was no way to change his mind.But Luke's hatred was only part of the trouble. For despite her efforts to the contrary, Sara found herself falling in love with her new husband.
The Sicilian's Marriage Arrangement
Lucy Monroe - 2005
Brought up by her wealthy but distant grandfather, she is used to fading into the background and being ignored.But Luciano's sensual lovemaking makes her feel vibrantly alive. Hope falls in love with her husband and is blissfully happy--until she discovers that Luciano ruthlessly married her...for convenience!
Jake Howard's Wife
Anne Mather - 1973
Jake was immensely attractive, rich and successful. Helen was beautiful, intelligent and wellbred.But Jake had chosen Helen purely as a lovely possession to crown his success. Helen had accepted him as the only alternative to earning her own living. They both wanted to live their own lives.What kind of a marriage was that? On such shaky foundations, how could it last?
To Love, Honor and Betray
Jennie Lucas - 2012
She thought she'd found the perfect man in her dangerously seductive boss, Eduardo Cruz, but "Get out!" wasn't exactly the morning-after treatment she'd hoped for.Holding her wilting bouquet, Callie waits for her groom—her best friend, a man she'd never kissed, or even wanted to kiss.But once the eminently powerful Eduardo knows about the bump concealed under Callie's oversize, secondhand wedding dress, there's no way he's going to let her walk up the aisle with someone else.
The Sicilian's Virgin Bride
Sarah Morgan - 2007
All he'd wanted was a lovely, biddable wife. Instead Francesca had taken off before the first dance at their wedding breakfast! But Rocco has tracked down his runaway young bride, and now she's back by his side--where a good Sicilian wife should be! Rocco was cheated out of his wedding night--and now nothing's going to stop him from taking his virgin bride....