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To Christie Deeth, desperate to forget a broken marriage, a humiliating lover, and the agonizing loss of her self-respect, Lucifer Cove seemed as good a place as any to start a new life. The spa was everything she had been told—beautifully verdant, sunny, nestled below a breathtaking cliff. But for reasons she couldn't explain, she sensed something wrong—a dark, otherworldly ambiance, an evil she couldn't define. And then she met Marc Meriden, the handsome, soft-voiced director of the spa. At first it bothered her when he seemed to know her secret thoughts, when he had answers before ...

Rachel Carewe flees the dangers of revolutionary France and seeks sanctuary amid Venice’s turbulent society. There, she meets a dark and dangerous man who is not what he seems. Venice, that city of water and shadows, is a place of mystery and peril where death may lie in wait for Rachel . . . but so may love.

Money isn't everything—but it's better than a broken heart. Married at fifteen to a heartless fortune hunter, Kay Amberley has learned her lesson. She is determined not to let another man marry her for her money. But when love sneaks up on Kay, she finds it hard to remember even the most hard-learned lesson of her life.

Spirited young Anne Wicklow left her post as housekeeper at a fashionable girls school to look after the safety of one of her charges who was suddenly taken to gloomy Chateau Moura by her strange guardian. But once at Moura, the shadowy secrets, haunting legends and hostile inhabitants of that terror-filled mansion quickly enveloped Anne herself in a menacing situation that threatened her own life and sanity. At the center of this hidden danger stood the virile, surly master of Moura, Edmond, whose brooding good looks and irresistible fascination lured Anne ever deeper into a love that ...

Six frightened people have gathered together to see if the dead can return. Will the unquiet specter of Sybil Thursten appear before them tonight to name her killer? Will she exact her own dreadful vengeance on the guilty person? And who has the most to fear: handsome, wealthy Mark Thursten, Sybil's seemingly bereaved husband; her sister Carol,who is almost too fond of Mark; or Dion Bates, the mysterious beachcomber, who is too knowledgeable about the family doings? Livia Carter, haunted by the death of Sybil, must learn for herself the secret of the mansion's menacing ghost. For if she ...

An evil presence is stalking the village of Maidenmoor. As Anne Wicklow seeks for answers, she uncovers the story of the Devil-Vicar, a man who was burned to death twenty years ago. His powers are apparently now reaching beyond the grave, as he brutally murders the villagers who were involved in the fire. But the more Anne discovers about the Devil-Vicar, the more she finds herself falling in love with him. Will her love be strong enough to overcome a ghost's hunger for vengeance?

When Anne Wicklow is employed to care for a lonely girl in an castle set high on an Irish cliff, she little suspects that evil will walk beside her through the castle’s gloomy halls. To save her young charge, Anne must uncover a terrible secret—even if it means betraying the man she has come to love.

LOVE DEFIANT... Every inch the heiress to the proud legacy of the magnificent Gaynor clan, Dinah Faire flaunted the conventions of her day when she gave her body--and her soul--to a dashing gambling man, Nick Corrigan. LOVE IMPERILED... Dinah discovered many things standing between their love...like Nick's passions for cards and danger...like her own indomitable family...and especially her beautiful aunt Shelley Wychfield, who usually got what she wanted. And now she wanted Nick. LOVE TRIUMPHANT... In the ultimate gamble, Dinah watched Nick risk his life and his love aboard a San Francisco ...

Young, penniless Devon Howard's dreams of becoming an actress began when she joined Boston's Dantine Players at a time when the unrest against British rule seethed towards revolution. As the players toured the colonies, Devon found herself torn between Denis Varney, the company's leading man, and his half-brother Michael Dantine, and helplessly involved in their political intrigues. Enmeshed in a real-life drama of love, hate and tragic death, Devon was hurled from confusion to despair before she could find true happiness.

IT STARTED on the ship. Claudia, a bride of a few days, was ecstatically happy as she sailed to join her new husband in their exotic Hawaiian home. Then she began to hear the rumors… OBVIOUSLY, they weren't true. But privately, she had to admit that Stephen was an enigmatic man, although irresistibly attractive. He did not even try to conceal the fact that there were strange secrets in his past… BUT HE had not told her what those secrets were. And she could not begin to guess how they would blight her happiness and alter her life!

When young Anne Wicklow took a temporary post in the distant village of Upshed, high on the bog-ridden moors, she hoped to see again handsome, mysterious, cynical Marc Branshaw. But she soon learned that the superstitious villagers believed Marc to be the evil reincarnation of their infamous Devil Vicar, who had died under eerie circumstances almost twenty years before. Now someone—or something—was stalking the isolated village, wantonly murdering everyone involved in the earlier accident. Was the cruel killer indeed Marc Branshaw, whom Anne had learned to love? Was Anne, who was coming...

Lucifer Cove lay a few miles south of San Francisco. When the sun shone it looked like a picture postcard--a beautiful, green spa where people could take a luxurious, memorable holiday. But shrouded in the fog that drifted in from the sea, it became a harbour for the lonely and the lost, an evil world huddled at the foot of a cliff ... a temple for Satan. Nadine Janos came to Lucifer Cove seeking not love, but power; not sunshine, but the twilight of false hopes. Nadine was a strong woman who always got what she wanted until she met Marc Meridon, the handsome, gentle director of the spa. ...

A TIMELESS EVIL WILL NOT REST UNTIL ANNE WICKLOW AND ALL SHE LOVES ARE DESTROYED. When Anne WickLow returns to Moura, the home she had shared with her late husband, it is as housekeeper for the mysterious Maitre Stavko and his daughter, Tyra. They have turned Moura into an academy for young ladies, girls innocent of the strange and terrifying events going on about them. Despite her constant battle with the memory of her love, Anne soon realizes what the schoolgirls do not: that Moura is pervaded by an evil so powerful, so dedicated to destruction that survival seems impossible. At the heart...

From the moment Nicholas Bertold first touched her, Alain Daviot knows her fate is sealed. The waves of desire she feels in his arms override her fears . . . including her haunting suspicions that Nicholas killed her brother.
 As Nicholas’s bride, Alain is swept from the English countryside to the gay salons of nineteenth-century Paris, and then to Nicholas’s home, the magnificent, imposing Chateau Bertold. There, she is powerless against her hunger for this man accused of an unspeakable crime. Does she really know the mysterious Nicholas Bertold—her lover, her husband—the man who...

Tana Maguire, a fiery Irish beauty, is led to believe that, at twenty-two, she is already an old maid, for she has spurned all of her family’s chosen suitors. Her sole intent is to honour her heart: she will marry only for love. Deserting her Cuban homeland, Tana sets out for the whirlwind life of New York and meets the notorious Cuban insurrectionist, Juan Diego. Sympathetic to the rebel cause, yet still deeply loyal to her Spanish heritage, Tana faces the decision of her life: a choice between the man she loves, and the birthright she has sworn to never renounce…

The child of a Dutch mother and a Cayuga father, Hansi Verni has grown up facing the prejudice of colonial America—and she'll give anything to escape it. Frontiersman Jess Taga's offhand, teasing manner infuriates Hansi, but Colonel Shelby Cameron, leader of the British forces, is gratifyingly obsessed with her beauty. When Shelby offers her marriage. Hansi believes she will be free at last from the brutalities and degradation of her life. Too late she discovers that her new husband's craving for her worship is another form of degradation . . . and that Jess's teasing had all along ...

Shelby Layne was at the top—the very pinnacle of movie stardom. And that was where she intended to stay. If remaining there meant being merciless, that was no problem. Shelby Layne was ruthless by nature, so she didn’t care who got hurt. As for the men in her life, they were mere stepping-stones across the river to everlasting fame. Her success was assured, her path unimpeded, until one day she came across the ultimate corruption…one man too many.

Pacific Cavalcade is the saga of an American family during the tumultuous years between Armistice Day, 1918, and the eve of World War II. Randi Lombard, a cool yet fiercely independent woman, transcends her humble beginnings and marries into one of San Francisco's most aristocratic families, becomes involved with one of Hollywood's greatest directors, and almost destroys her marriage. Rich in historical detail, this is the unforgettable saga of men and women struggling against the shifting tides of war and peace.

THE PURRING TERROR... Amanda Bishop's aunt had vanished. She had last been seen in the company of a sinister man who was probably a murderer. But the trail was cold-and Amanda had no idea where to begin her desperate search... Then the web of mystery became more intricate—and more soul-chilling. Aunt Judith had left a will—perhaps the strangest and most inexplicable will of all time. There were many people who might profit from Aunt Judith's death...many shadowy figures lurking in the background. AND THERE WAS THE CAT The cat that seemed, superficially, to be a cute, cuddly pet. But the...

A miner had been killed in Alkali, and there were those who wanted to give Padge Regan the necktie treatment before his wealthy parents could influence the law. But others were determined that the youngster should be given a fair trial, even though his mother might come to his defense and sway judge and jury by her beauty and her eloquence. Among Padge's defenders, if that could be a proper description of those who wanted to see him hang legally, was the town dentist, Doc Millard. But since he was a dark, cynical and somewhat dubious individual, there was a question as to the purity of his ...