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It was to get away from a troublesome love affair that Victoria Monroe had taken on the job of governess to little Sophie von Reichstein in the Austrian alps-but she arrived at the schloss to find another challenging situation awaiting her. The child, it appeared, had already got rid of two previous...

"Me-I'm a loner," Dimitri said sardonically. "I want no little woman to warm my slippers on a winter's evening and cook me exotic eastern food!" Joanne was furious, as much with herself as with him. It was no use speculating now on what might have happened if she had not...

He had to protect her from himself! Life was complicated enough for William Quentin without his ex-wife turning up on his doorstep. He'd been crazy about Francesca, and the agony of her betrayal still haunted him. Will knew he should heed his grandmother's warnings, but he couldn't turn Francesca...

It was only desperation that had brought Dionne back to the Camargue, that remote, still little-known part of southern France that had been so important-and so tragic-a part of her life three years ago. Back she had to come to the Mas St. Salvador, and to Manoel, who hadn't wanted her before...

Is Helen Gregory a woman of passion? To outsiders, Helen appears to be a typical cool English blonde. Only Matthew Aitken guesses that her icy exterior hides a warm and vibrant woman …and he wants her! In the heat of Barbados Helen finds her inhibitions melting and her feelings toward...

"I can't go through with the wedding!" Helen's announcement a few hours before she was due at the church stunned her family…especially since she gave no reason. But how could she explain that a man she'd known less than a week, a man who had rejected her, had turned her world...

Christina thought the long university vacation would be an excellent time to visit her brother and sister-in-law in southern Portugal. But she soon realized that she was unwelcome and she was thankful when she was offered a job by the local lord of the manor, Dom Carlos Ramirez. Soon, however,...

It was five years since Rachel had left her husband Andre Sanchez, and she was only coming to him now because he was the only one who could help her beloved father. But the marriage had broken up in the first place because of the suffocating influence of the Sanchez family. Now there was a danger...

When Carolyn joined her archaeologist father in Mexico, she found herself immediately in conflict with Don Carlos, who owned the valley where her father was searching for a Zapotec city. Don Carlos thought she was "a typical product of the permissive society" and Carolyn let him know that...

Five years ago, Jane's marriage to Demetri Souvakis ended. Devastated and betrayed, she left him and started a new life. Now Demetri needs an heir and demands a divorce. But they have one last night together-for old times' sake…. However, that one last loving has dramatic results. How can Jane tell her soon-to-be-ex-husband that she's pregnant with his child?

Would a lie keep them apart? SEA, SUN AND… MATTEO Expecting sun and relaxation from her stay with a friend in Italy, Grace Horton actually found herself walking into an emotional minefield. Her friend was clearly set on marrying Matteo di Falco. He was wealthy, gorgeous and equally...

"Our marriage was a farce," Piers said. Abby couldn't deny Piers's statement. Time had certainly proven that true, but the young Abby had loved him with all the passion within her. At that time she could not have foreseen the awful events that had led him to deny his own son....

A new year…a new start…a new baby. The miracle Felicity could only dream about has finally happened-her husband, missing, presumed dead, is alive and well-and coming home! But much has happened in their four years apart and Morgan seems like a virtual stranger to her now. Fliss's love for...

Demetri Kastro has dark suspicions about Joanna, the young and very attractive woman who has escorted his father home to Greece. Though the elderly millionaire is ill, Demetri is certain Joanna isn't what the doctor ordered! However, Demetri's attempts to dig beneath Joanna's coolly beautiful...