This book is a classic romance, originally published in 1983.After escaping from an abusive relationship, Cathy Whiteheart has sworn off men. She has no desire to date, and she’s not looking for love.When her meddling sister, drags Cathy on to Sinclair MacDonald’s yacht, neither the handsome man nor his considerable charm is going to change Cathy’s mind. At least not at first. But Sinclair is handsome and kind and when the two are thrown together t...

Silver Carlysle has no illusions about the cutthroat movie business. She lives over her mega-star mother’s garage, avoids parties, and writes sharp-edged articles about Hollywood bastards like movie executive Rafe McGinnis, who makes brainless movies, pushes people around, and still manages to charm everyone he meets. Everyone but her.Rafe McGinnis wants to entertain people and make money, but he’s working in a business where getting stabbed in the back is just part of the day, so ...

When Maggie Bennett is sent to rescue accused murderer Mack (Snake) Pulaski, she doesn’t realize the trouble she’s getting into. Not only do they have to dodge drug lords, organized crime and an unhinged gun for hire on their international journey, they have to deal with the unwanted and unavoidable fact that they’re falling in love when they simply have no time for it. Now they just have to stay alive long enough to do something about it.

What happens when you take a 1930s comedy like My Man Godfrey and turn it into a Victorian romance? Chaos ensues.Georgiana Manning has finally found something she wants, something worth fighting for—her family's mysterious, newly hired butler.Rafferty is a thief, out to find a cache of money belonging to his former boss. When he’s unexpectedly offered the job of butler in the house where it’s hidden, he ju...

Maggie Brown is sensible, responsible, and worried. Her irresponsible sister has run off with a revolutionary, their feckless mother swears she’s dying, and Maggie has no choice but to brave the forests of San Pablo to reunite her family.To do so, she needs Ben Frazer, a rough and tumble soldier of fortune who seems a little too interested in Maggie and has a tendency to head in the wrong direction. Throw in a counter-revolutionary named El Gallo Loco and life isn’t nearly as sensi...

When Bastien Toussaint vanishes, his wife Chloe knows only one thing: Something very bad must have happened to keep him away from her. She’s determined to find him, and she does, in the catacombs of Paris. There’s only one problem. He insists he doesn’t know her, which would be bad enough, but he’s decided to hold her as a hostage. Nothing she can say or do will get him to recognize her, and he’s become like the Bastien she first knew—dangerous and deadly--but she’s afraid if she escapes, ...

Angela MacKenna and Brody Jackson shared a kiss one teenage summer night. Ten years later, in the snow-covered hills of Vermont, they’re enemies. Except that Angela remembers that kiss, and so does Brody, and they both want more.With the snow swirling down on the lakeside village, babies are born and love happens. Brody brings her a Christmas tree. Angela brings him cookies. A candle burning bright works its magic.Christmas is the time for miracles, but Angela and Brody are...

Take one high-flying, forties-loving heiress looking for her missing sister, add one hardboiled private detective who has his feet planted firmly in this century, add a priceless stolen sculpture, blackmail, disorganized crime, organized gangsters, and a very rich father, and you have the makings of a very bad day for two people who have nothing in common.Sally MacArthur is desperate to find her kidnapped sister, so desperate that she hires James Diamond, even though he’s all busin...

Anne Kirkland is in love…with a home. The 200-year-old stone mansion has been in her family for generations and nothing is more important to her. A renaissance woman, who doesn’t realize how gifted she is, Anne has poured her blood, sweat and tears, along with every penny she has, into restoring the house that she owns along with her father and siblings. But the ravages of time and nature have taken a toll, and despite her best efforts, Anne is losing the war.Noah Grant comes to th...

This collection contains all three novels in the Maggie Bennett series:Escape Out of Darkness:When Maggie Bennett is sent to rescue accused murderer Mack (Snake) Pulaski, she doesn’t realize the trouble she’s getting into. Not only do they have to dodge drug lords, organized crime and an unhinged gun for hire on their international journey, they have to deal with the unwanted and unavoidable fact that they’re falling in lo...

Dillon Gaynor was a bad boy, the epitome of a teenage girl’s shy dream. In the case of seventeen-year-old Jamie Kincaid, the dream ended in a nightmare at someone else’s hands, but she’d never gotten over Dillon.Twelve years later, he was back in her life, as arrogant and sexy as he’d been so long ago. But Jaimie has been hurt too badly, and he scares her on every level. She just wants to get away from the only man she ever loved.Too bad Dillon isn’t taking no for an answer...

Jeannie MacPherson left her ice cream empire to find peace on a rustic Maine island. Instead she found irascible Matthew Connelly, recovering from a suspicious gunshot wound.It didn’t help that he was drop-dead gorgeous. Or that he was just as reluctantly attracted to her as she was to him. Connelly had secrets, and Jeannie didn’t trust him.But that wasn’t enough to keep her away from him. Or to keep her from following him when he left without warning.Neither of the...