Despite her contempt for the lust-filled seamen who overrun her island home, Hillary Reynolds finds herself attracted to dashing Ryan Gallagher and, in a moment of wild abandon, she offers herself to him in hopes of becoming his bride
The bestselling author of Passion's Chains, Texas Flame, Texas Torment, and Nevada Captive tells of a spirited Georgia belle who comes to Texas to save her brother from a hanging--only to have her heart taken prisoner by the very man who has condemned her brother.
High-spirited Caley McAlister was determined to make her father's struggling McAlister Stage company a success. But when the tall and handsome Marshal Brody swaggered into town to bring order, Caley found it more and more difficult to keep her mind on her work.
After rescuing Meghan Kearny from a cutthroat gang in the Bahamas, arrogant American Devlin Montague insinuates that Meghan should serve his baser needs and the freedom-loving beauty wonders if she traded one kind of imprisonment for another
Spunky schoolmarm Jessie Clare got more than she bargained for when she was captured by marauding Apaches who threatened to release her only to the man who claimed to own her. For Jessie had no idea that when rancher Ben Chandler claimed her he would also claim her body with passionate caresses!
She vowed to resist him.... Proud and strong-willed, Lainey Prescott dared to stake a claim for her family in the booming Oklahoma territory. It was a treacherous place for a woman alone, but she was determined to make her way--without the help of her self-appointed rescuer, Ethan Holt. He needed to possess her.... She was every inch a lady, and every inch a wildcat. And when he branded her with his kiss he staked his own claim to her body and soul. There was no turning back.... She fought her own passions until she could fight no longer, surrendering to the fire of his touch. Soon danger and desire brought turbulent days and raging nights--in the arms of the devilishly handsome Texas lawman who had taken her by storm....
A bestselling author of hot historical romances tells the story of a cowgirl having a high old time in the Scottish Highlands. Callie had been spoiled by her brothers on their Texas ranch. So her father decides to pack her off to Europe to find a husband. But the sworn enemy of her clan isn't what Daddy had in mind. . . .
The dictates of the will were clear. Fiery, independent Dallas Brown had to marry the overbearing, arrogant Ross Kincaid, or she would lose her inheritance. And though she considered him a low-down opportunist, she couldn't deny the way he made her pulse race with an inexplicable flaming need.
In the embrace of a passionate enemy, one woman challenges her heritage and dares to listen to the song in her heart. . . . Drawn by a haunting melody, Sir Brian Devereux, knight of the realm, leaves the cold stone walls of Ballymorna Castle in search of the strange music that stirs his dreams. Into the lush Irish countryside he discovers an emerald-eyed temptress playing her harp. From the moment they gaze at each other, their eyes lock in silent combat. Ceara Brennan knows that this man is the English king's warrior sent from across the sea to break the spirit of her people. And Brian knows that to touch the lovely Irish Ceara is forbidden. But the temptation is too much to resist. . . . Surrendering to a Celtic passion beyond her control, Ceara is possessed in body, in spirit, and in marriage by her greatest enemy--and her only love. Together they must face the king Brian has defied, the village Ceara has betrayed, and the scorned man who makes a blood vow to claim Ceara as his own.
The prolific, bestselling author of Wild Texas Rose now writes a hot historical of an Australian heiress and a rakish American. Falsely accused of a crime, Alexandra Sinclair wondered how she would survive imprisonment in an Australian jail. Her only hope lay in indentured servitude to arrogant American Jonathan Hazard.
Though her young life had been disrupted by the ravages of war, Katie refused to let her pride be crushed by the conquering Yankees, even one as handsome as Brent Morgan. Yet a spark had struck between them guaranteed to kindle a blaze. But would it be hatred or love?
Six years after she is abandoned on her wedding night, a heartbroken and humiliated Claire Parmalee fantasizes about her husband's pleas for forgiveness until a remorseless Rand actually returns. Original.
Analise Howard is powerless against the political tide along England's Scottish border. As a pawn for peace, she is married off to Ronan Armstrong, the Scottish leader of a fierce band of border reivers-men. Though treachery, not love, brought them together, Analise cannot deny her growing desire.
Like Mexico itself, the McNab family story tells of a rich mix of culturesFrench, Scottish, Zapotec. The Thistle and the Rose captures that complexity, providing a unique lens through which to view a magnificent, complicated country during critical years of change. In The Thistle and the Rose, author Catherine Nixon Cooke narrates the story of John George McNab, a handsome Scotsman, and Guadalupe Fuentes Nivon McNab, a beautiful Oaxacan, and how they fell in love against the impossible challenge of building the famous Tehuantepec Railroad across the malaria-ridden isthmus of Mexico. Cooke weaves a rich tapestry using multiple threadsresearch by renowned Latin American scholar Teresa Van Hoy, documents and photographs found in the Pearson Archive in the United Kingdom, rare Mexican historic texts, personal interviews, family letters, diaries, photographs, and genealogical data from Ancestry.com. The author provides a sense of the rough-and-tumble country in early twentieth-century Mexico and the danger and challenge of building a link between the two oceans. She gives further insight into the McNab familys role in shaping Mexicos oil and transportation infrastructure. A story about love and courage in revolutionary Mexico, The Thistle and the Rose narrates the journey of self-discovery for a family that dared to embark on this quest.
In her exhaustive publishing history of Frances Burney's Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress, Parisian mines an extensive archival record that includes portions of the original manuscript, annotated page proofs, legal records relative to its copyright, and an abundance of letters, to chronicle the composition, printing, and publication of Frances Burney's Cecilia from its first edition in 1782 to the present-day Oxford World's Classics paperback. Her timely history demonstrates the importance of Cecilia to the art of the novel and the history of the book.
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