The Judas Kiss by Sally Wentworth released on Nov 24, 1981 is available now for purchase.

    "How dare you come back to me, wearing another man's rings," he accused her when she returned to his Greek island of Illyaros.But Olivia wouldn't have come back at all if her grandfather hadn't been so ill. She'd known Andreas would resent her for having deserted the marriage three years ago. She hadn't forgiven him for his infidelity, either!So she couldn't tell Andreas of the existence of their son--the very thing he'd wanted from their marriage in the first place--and risk having her heart shattered a second time.

    She only knew that her new husband's heart seemed to have little room for love.Yet somewhere behind Vince's harsh unrelenting exterior, Cara glimpsed a man who might someday need more than a pawn in a deadly game of revenge.

    Claire Stenson was trying to look after her baby sister alone. She was on the verge of taking drastic action when she met Andreas Markopoulou, a sexy Greek tycoon -- and the answer to her prayers. Andreas offered to marry Claire and adopt Melanie. His adored grandmother longed to hold her great-grandchild before she died. It seemed Andreas would go to any lengths to grant his grandmother's wish, even if that meant deceiving everybody -- including his new bride.

    Now he was back in Kerry's life, and intent on remarrying her for the sake of their son. Kerry had no choice. She had to marry Alex--or risk tearing apart her proper English family with the exposure of her shameful secret. Yet this marriage could never work--not with all the hurts driving a rift between the two, not with all the doubts. . . .

    He made it quite clear that all he really wanted from her was a son, the sooner the better.It was, Charlotte thought desperately, a Beauty and the Beast situation, for she was powerless to escape him. Yet in this story, Beauty has fallen in love with the Beast. But Alex has made it clear that he has only one use for her!

    Jerard Daniels frightened her! He claimed to have known her--intimately--two years earlier, but her mind was a blank.Her husband's tragic death the day their son was born had triggered Velvet's amnesia; she remembered nothing. Yet why would this man lie?Velvet just couldn't believe she'd had an affair with a married man while engaged to Anthony. On the other hand, if she had loved Jerard as much then as she did now ....

    Despite her hatred of him, she desires him twice as much. But if she surrenders to his skillful seduction, she'll be at his mercy night and day....

    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.

    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!

    James demanded cool efficiency and exclusive loyalty from a secretary so Ria donned spectacles and learned to blend in with the sleek office furniture. But she couldn't escape her boss's notice. As James became increasingly fascinated by his elusive secretary, Ria found herself responding to him with a long-dormant passion. As their attraction grew, she wondered what James, a confirmed bachelor, would think when he discovered she was a warmhearted, tempestuous woman, the widowed mother of twins--and very much in love.

    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....

    The family business has fallen into the hands of merciless tycoon Alex Mandrakis. Summoned to his bedroom, Natasha is given an impossible ultimatum: sacrifice her virginity, or he will destroy her family!Captive on Alex's luxury yacht, Natasha finds her trembling fear turns to traitorous shivers of desire. By rights she should despise him, but slowly she finds herself wishing that her bittersweet seduction could last forever....

    She knew from experience the hurt a man could carelessly inflict on an innocent heart, and she realized how vulnerable she was to his brand of magnetism.Luke's proposal of marriage was a shock, as was his method of asking. It sounded very much like blackmail, and in the circumstances she had no alternative but to accept.

    The huskily handsome adventure story writer was drawn to the idea of a secretary who wouldn't answer him back, and hired her to work for him. It also seemed he was greatly attracted to having a biddable wife, for he asked Mandy to marry him as well. But Mandy wasn't sure that Brian was actually attracted to her - even though she was certain of her love for him - and there wasn't an easy way of telling him just exactly how she felt...'