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The Cowboy's Gift-Wrapped Bride
by Victoria PadeTexas cowboy Matt McDermott was craving his first white Christmas on his family's Wyoming ranch. But a blizzard delivered more than Matt bargained for-a petite, pretty motorist stuck in a snowbank, with a bump on her head and her memory gone!The woman melted Matt's heart like a puppy at a pound. But hadn't Matt learned that loving someone with secrets was just plain dangerous? Still, he couldn't help but wonder-if he gift-wrapped his heart and gave it away, might this beautiful mystery woman become his bride?
The Cowboy's Hidden Agenda
by Kathleen CreightonCAPTOR…OR LOVER? 0ne minute they'd been dancing…the next Laurie Brown found herself abducted, with a charming renegade, Apache cowboy Johnny Bronco, as her jailer. She was angry at his deception, but more furious with her own body for wanting the man with the fierce eyes and the skin-shivering voice. For wanting the man who held a politician's daughter captive in the name of blackmail… Though logic said otherwise, the mysterious cowboy's kindness and sympathy hinted at a hidden agenda. And even more inexplicable was the feeling that, if she could trust him, everything might turn out all right…
A Cowboy's Secret
by Anne McallisterRugged J. D. Holt had a life full of secrets--none of which he intended to share with brainy, beautiful Lydia Cochrane. He wasn't sharing anything with Lydia--until he found out she'd bought his ranch and was now his boss! Well, he could handle it. He was tough, wasn't he? But Lydia had a way of getting under a cowboy's skin, making him want things he had no business wanting. A home. A family. A woman like her. Everyone knew she wasn't his kind of woman. But what if everyone was wrong-and some secrets were meant to be shared?
The Cowgirl's Man
by Ruth Jean DaleBEAUTYOf course, Niki Keene had followed her sisters 1 to Hard Knox, Texas-the Keene triplets wereinseparable. And yes, she helped run their fledgling dude ranch. But when the townsfolk entered her in the Queen of the Cowgirls contest, she had to laugh. How could you be Queen of the Cowgirls when you were terrified of horses? Besides, she was sick to death of being "the beautiful one."AND THE BESTShe wasn't laughing when hotshot cowboy Clay Russell launched an all-out campaign to change her mind. He was so sexy and so persuasive, she figured she was doomed one way or the other. It was either ride and rope-or lose the only man who'd ever made her glad
The Cozakis Bride
by Lynne GrahamOlympia has no choice. Either she begs Nik Cozakis to reconsider a marriage of convenience, or her mother won't get the medical treatment she needs. Nik agrees, but on his terms: in return for a generous allowance, Olympia must bear him a son and heir. This is what Olympia has been dreading . . . Nik has seized his chance for vengeance! Ten years ago, Nik ended their engagement because he believed Olympia had betrayed him. Now he is about to realise how mistaken he was . . . when he discovers that his bride is a virgin!
The Cozakis Bride
by Lynne GrahamHarlequin Presents® offers another chance to get your hands on one of Lynne Graham's fabulous Greek tycoons in this sizzling reissue...A deal with her husband!Olympia has no choice. If her mother is to get the medical treatment she needs, Olympia must beg Nik Cozakis to reconsider a marriage of convenience. Nik agrees, but on his terms: in return for a generous allowance, Olympia must bear him a son and heir.Finally, Nik has both vengeance and his fiancée within his reach. Ten years ago, Nik broke off their engagement because Olympia had betrayed him with his best friend. Now he is about to realise how mistaken he was...when he discovers that his bride is a virgin!
Crazy for Cornelia
by Chris Gilson"Once upon a time, a gorgeous debutante found her knight in shining armor as he held open the door to her luxury co-op --" so the legend passed through generations of New York's top doormen. Kevin Doyle, a struggling artist-turned-doorman at one such posh Fifth Avenue building, dismisses the fairy tale... until the lovely Cornelia Lord steps into his life.
Crescent City Rhapsody
by Kathleen Ann GoonanKathleen Ann Goonan's first novel, Queen City Jazz, propelled her into the front ranks of speculative fiction. Her lyrical and imaginative renderings of a near future transfigured by the wonders and dangers of nanotechnology provide readers tantalizing glimpses of scientific advances just beyond the cutting edge...and the unpredictable human consequences following in their wake. Now comes Goonan's most ambitious, penetrating look yet into the exotic future already flowering around us--and perhaps within us.<P> It begins with silence. A powerful electromagnetic pulse high in the atmosphere triggers a communications blackout, causing electronics and computers to fail the world over. In that moment of anachronistic quiet, a brilliant astronomer named Zeb Aberly, scouring the heavens with equipment of his own design, makes the discovery of a lifetime: the pulse originated in space--and it carried a message from an intelligent source. But Zeb is not alone. Shadowy forces within the government seek to decipher the message and to keep its existence secret at all costs. Fleeing for his life into the back streets and alleys of Washington, D.C., Zeb embarks on an odyssey that could cost him his family, his sanity, and everything he loves.<P> And it begins with murder. In New Orleans, mob boss Marie Laveau--a descendant of the famous voodoo priestess--is brutally gunned down by nameless, faceless enemies. But Marie's vast wealth has purchased the best life insurance of all: resurrection. Reborn by means of nanotechnology, Marie discovers that her husband and young daughter were also hit, their bodies too badly damaged to be repaired. Now she will stop at nothing to track down and punish those responsible. But her quest will lead beyond vengeance, into the very technology that saved her...and a conspiracy linked to the mysterious event now known as the Silence.<P> Recurring at unpredictable intervals, the Silence renders electronic-based technology unreliable and dangerous. A substitution must be found before civilization collapses; breakthroughs in nanotech and advances in genetic engineering give hope of a new kind of communication in the future. But now, as babies born around the world in the months following the first Silence grow to adulthood, demonstrating uncanny physical and mental characteristics that bring suspicion and violence, nanotech plagues unleashed by ecoterrorists and fearful governments wreak havoc on an already panicked populace.<P> The eye of the apocalyptic storm is a radically transformed New Orleans, where Marie Laveau works feverishly to build a safe haven for the hunted and oppressed, gathering the best and the brightest to build her utopia dream. But time is running out. With the military might of a new and repressive world order ranged against her, Marie's only hope lies in the most dangerous piece of nanotechnology ever devised: A technology capable of saving the human race--or destroying it.It begins with silence. A powerful electromagnetic pulse high in the atmosphere triggers a communications blackout, causing electronics and computers to fail the world over. In that moment of anachronistic quiet, a brilliant astronomer named Zeb Aberly, scouring the heavens with equipment of his own design, makes the discovery of a lifetime: the pulse originated in space--and it carried a message from an intelligent source. But Zeb is not alone. Shadowy forces within the government seek to decipher the message and to keep its existence secret at all costs. Fleeing for his life into the back streets and alleys of Washington, D.C., Zeb embarks on an odyssey that could cost him his family, his sanity, and everything he loves.
Crooked River Burning
by Mark WinegardnerIn 1948 Cleveland was America's sixth largest city; by 1969 it was the twelfth. For Easterners, Cleveland is where the Midwest begins; for Westerners, it is where the East begins. In the summer of 1948, fourteen-year-old David Zielinsky can look forward to a job at the docks. Anne O'Connor, at twelve, is the apple of her political boss father's eye. David and Anne will meet-and fall in love-four years later, and for the next twenty years this pair will be reluctant star-crossed lovers in a troubled and turbulent country. A natural-born storyteller, Mark Winegardner spins an epic tale of those twenty years, artfully weaving such real-life Clevelanders as Eliot Ness, Alan Freed, and Carl Stokes into the tapestry. His narrative gifts may bring the fiction of E. L. Doctorow to some readers' minds, but Winegardner is very much his own man, and his observations of Cleveland are laced with a loving skepticism. His masterful saga of this conflicted city is a novel that speaks a memorable truth.
Cruel Venus: The suspenseful novel from the Sunday Times bestseller
by Susan LewisAllyson Jaymes has it all - celebrity, power, and a glamorous marriage. Until her world is destroyed by the bitterest betrayal of all: her husband's explosive affair with her 19-year-old assistant, Tessa Dukes.Tessa's ambitions burn fiercely. Her chilling manipulation of fame and her steady destruction of so many dreams and ambitions lead all concerned into a fatal minefield of sexual obsession, psychotic jealousy and deadly treachery.Moving from the dazzling, yet sinister, lights of London, to the deceptive haven of Italy's romantic Amalfi Coast, Cruel Venus is a suspense-filled story of love at its very best - and absolute worst.
A Dad at Last
by Marie FerrarellaConnor O'Hara had a family now. At least, he had a son. And a mother. And a whole mess of relatives he hadn't even known were his close kin. and then there was Lacy. Sweet Lacy Clark. Who'd suffered so much for bringing little Chase, his son, into the world. Frankly, it was all too much to take in for a guy used to being a loner, To belonging nowhere, To living life on his own terms. In his heart, Connor knew what Lacy wanted-the fairy tale, The white picket fence, The whole nine yards. But really, he was having trouble right now giving her even an inch!
Dad by Choice
by Marie FerrarellaDr. Abby Maitland was used to existing in a goldfish bowl, but life at her family's renowned maternity clinic had never been tinged by scandal. . . till now!Kyle McDermott knew that raising his sister would be challenging, but he never figured he'd be challenging Marcie's decision not to marry her baby's father!Abby had her hands full. Ethically, she had to support the administration of Maitland Maternity Hospital when rumors began to fly. Likewise, she had to resist Kyle McDermott's insistence that she push her young patient into a marriage she didn't want. Resisting Kyle himself, however, was entirely another matter!
Dad in Blue
by Shelley Cooper"WILL YOU HELP ME HELP MY SON?" The beseeching words were spoken by the most enchanting woman police chief Carlo Garibaldi had ever encountered. But Samantha Underwood was offlimits, the widow of an officer he'd lost during his watch. Now she stood before him, enlisting his help to make her boy smile again. Carlo's gut told him to refuse, but in his heart, his very soul, he wanted to be a hero to mother and son. He couldn't resist trying to coax quiet Jeffrey to talk again, laugh again, be a little boy. And he couldn't resist falling for the one woman he didn't have the right to love…
Daddy by Choice (Maternity Row #4)
by Paula Detmer RiggsSECOND CHANCE...Dr. Luke Jarrod remembered Madelyn Foster as a seventeen-year-old beauty with whom he'd shared one night of stolen passion. Nine months too late, he returned to discover she'd had his child but had been forced to give their daughter away. Now, after twenty years, Madelyn was back in his life, pregnant again, and needing his help desperately. Luke knew this was his chance to make good on the one truly wonderful thing that had ever happened to him. This amazing woman deserved a knight in shining armor. Could the wary Luke be both a father to her baby-and a man worthy of her precious love?
Daddy By Surprise
by Pat WarrenLITTLE-AND BIG!-DARLIN'(S) Devin Gray had long ago made two resolutions about what was NOT in his future-marriage and fatherhood. And then along came beautiful, lovable and sexy neighbor Molly Shipman to test his resolve on the former. As to the latter, well, when adorable six-year-old Emily showed up on his doorstep, with only a ratty old teddy bear... and a note, claiming HE was her father, well... what was a bachelor to do? Learn to braid hair, for starters. And have tea parties. And chase away bad dreams. And maybe, just maybe... learn how to make both Molly and Emily his own?
Daddy in Dress Blues
by Cathie LinzOPERATION: Daddy Boot CampSUBJECT: Three-year-old Blue, the daughter whom--until three days ago--U. S. Marine Curt Blackwell didn't know existed. MISSION: Fatherhood. Bedtime stories. Plaiting hair. Holding hands. COMPLICATIONS: Preschool teacher Jessie Moore. They had a past, but Curt avoided those waters. Unlike Blue's fear of monsters under the bed, a woman's emotions truly spelled danger. And he was growing defenseless against this woman's warmth and beauty. . . . MISSION SUCCESS: Uncertain. Curt would survive--but not necessarily with his heart intact!
The Daddy Search
by Shawna DelacorteRANCHER DAD? When Lexi Parker first set foot onto Nick Clayton's dude ranch, she had one goal in mind: to vacation undercover and find out if Nick really was the father of Lexi's precious, now-motherless nephew. It seemed like a perfect plan… Until Lexi herself succumbed to the cowboy's devastating charms—and found out that this big hearted, honorable rancher was nothing like the love-'em-and-leave-'em rake her sister had portrayed. But if Lexi revealed her secret agenda to Nick now, would she lose her chance with the one man who'd ever stolen her heart?
Dakota Born
by Debbie MacomberBuffalo Valley, North Dakota. Like so many small towns, it's dying. Stores are boarded up, sidewalks cracked, houses wanting a coat of paint. But despite it all, there's a spirit of hope here, of defiance. The few people still left in Buffalo Valley are fighting for their town.Lindsay Snyder is a newcomer. She's an outsider, even though she spent childhood vacations here. Now she returns to see the family house again, to explore family secrets and to reevaluate her life.To her own amazement she decides to stay. Her decision marks a new beginning for Buffalo Valley--and for Lindsay Snyder, who discovers in this broken little town the love and purpose she's been seeking.
The Dakota Man
by Joan HohlShe called him an arrogant, overconfident ram hiding inside the trappings of civilized clothing. And Mitch would not have his startlingly beautiful new assistant believe otherwise. Yet their fierce passion knew no such falsehoods. Dynamic Maggie was destined to be the Dakota man's lover...he was made to set her soul on fire. And suddenly Mitch's carefully constructed world was rocked. The woman in his arms was a prize the bullish bachelor had never expected...but could he break his number one rule and allow sweet Maggie to tame him?
Damiano's Return (Latin Lovers Ser. #5)
by Lynne GrahamDamiano Braganzi is back! Damiano-the husband whom Eden had thought she'd never see again....Eden and Damiano had been married only a short time when he disappeared, and things had not been good between them. So, though Eden knows her love for Damiano is as strong as ever, she fears that he will want a divorce...unless she can overcome her hang-ups in the bedroom....
The Dangerous Gentleman: The Rogues of Regent Street (Rogues of Regent Street #1)
by Julia LondonWith her trademark sensuality and dazzling storytelling, Julia London brings us the Rogues of Regent Street, three dashing, aristocratic gentlemen whose scandalous exploits are the talk of the ton. Adrian Spence, Earl of Albright, has earned his notoriety on the dueling field, and in the finest drawing rooms--and boudoirs--of England. This is his story....It was strictly business as Adrian Spence claimed the woman his brother desired. A hasty wedding, and Lilliana Dashell was his--sweet revenge on the father who disinherited him and the brother who let it happen. Their wedding night is a revelation as passionate, innocent Lilliana ignites fires Adrian tries desperately to deny. By day he is a stranger. By night he is the lover of her dreams, and she a shameless wanton in his arms. But Adrian is determined that no woman will ever possess him. And Lilliana knows that her only hope of taming this very dangerous gentleman is to unlock his deepest mysteries and open his shuttered heart to love....From the Paperback edition.
Dangerous Kiss: A Novel (The Santangelo Novels)
by Jackie CollinsThe seductively beautiful, street-smart, and powerful Lucky Santangelo, star of four of Jackie Collins's previous international bestsellers—Chances, Lucky, Lady Boss, and Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge—returns in Dangerous Kiss.In Chances, Lucky grew up in a top crime family; in Lucky, she was married three times; in Lady Boss, she took on Hollywood and bought Panther Studios; and in Vendetta, she fought off a lifelong enemy to keep the studio, and her husband.Now, in Dangerous Kiss, when a member of her family is brutally gunned down in a random holdup, her fury knows no bounds. While she is tracking the killer, her relationship with her husband, charismatic writer and director Lennie Golden, is put to the test. Then, suddenly, into her life comes a man from her past—a man with a dangerous kiss.Dangerous Kiss is a story of raw anger, love, lust, murder, and revenge, and at its white-hot center is Lucky Santangelo, a strong, exciting woman who dares to take chances—and always wins.
Dangerous Liaisons
by Maggie PriceA MATCH MADE IN MURDER A dance marked their first meeting. A slow, sensuous waltz amid wedding revelers, though they'd felt alone…and entirely too intimate. Because homicide sergeant Jake Ford had given up women, and Nicole Taylor knew the darkly handsome, intensely shuttered cop was far from her perfect match. Murder marked their second encounter—the victim, a client of Nicole's dating service. Without doubt, she knew Jake wouldn't be going away. Nor would her blazing desire for this man who'd awakened feelings both reckless and raw. Feelings she saw mirrored in eyes that contained hidden pain. Though her head warned her that Jake was all wrong, why did her heart scream that loving him was so very right?
A Daring Deception
by Amanda BrowningDeception leads to seduction. Rachel Shaw had been in love with Nathan Wade for two years, but, despite her protestations of innocence, she knew he was convinced that she was the kind of woman he'd always despised: a scheming, cold-hearted gold-digger. Rachel was determined to change Nathan's mind about her -- and the perfect opportunity had just arrived. Rachel's grandfather, also Nathan's business partner, had pleaded with them to undertake a most daring deception -- and that meant a weekend in each other's company and sharing a bedroom.