Anne Stuart
1) Fire and ice
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"In the wake of a failed love affair, brainy beauty Jilly Lovitz takes off for Tokyo. She's expecting to cry on her sister Summer's shoulder, then spend a couple months blowing off steam in Japan. Instead, she's snatched away on the back of a motorcycle, narrowly avoiding a grisly execution attempt meant for her sister and brother-in-law. Her rescuer is Reno, the Committee's most unpredictable agent. They'd met once before and the attraction was odd--...
2) Ruthless
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Few outsiders will ever witness the dark misdeeds of the Heavenly Host. And among this secret society, where exiled Georgian aristocrats gather to indulge their carnal desires, fewer still can match the insatiable appetite of their chief provocateur, the mysterious Viscount Rohan.
Pursuit of physical pleasure is both his preferred pastime and his most pressing urge, until he encounters the fascination of a woman who won't be swayed. And while his...
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Jessica Hansen's success and icy calm hide painful secrets and a past that shapes her life. That is, until she meets Springer MacDowell, her best friend's son. One decision sets off a series of cataclysmic events that rip apart her safe life. Retreating to an old summer house in Vermont, Jessica slowly learns to accept friendship, the past, and the new family she's made. She's building a hopeful future, until Springer comes back into her life, ready...
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"The man who’d broken into Elizabeth Hardy’s Colorado house was no lost ski bum. Her inexplicable and intuitive powers, those unwanted gifts, were always vague, but she knew that much. Sam Oliver was tall, dark, and deadly—a liar and a trickster, and she’d finally found a man she couldn’t ignore. Off limits . . . She didn’t look like a fraud and a liar, and after years in Army Intelligence Col. Sam Oliver should know. Instead Elizabeth...
5) Reckless
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Adrian Alistair Rohan, a dedicated member of the depraved Heavenly Host, intends to use drab Charlotte Spencer as a toy till better prey arrives, but finds the woman as enchanting as she is brilliant; soon Charlotte becomes the seducer, and Adrian the seduced.
6) Breathless
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Ruined beyond repair and shunned by London society, lovely Miranda Rohan rebelliously embraces the freedom that comes from having nothing left to lose. However, this dangerous course throws her under the power of the darkly enigmatic Lucien de Malheur. Seeking to destroy the Rohans, Lucien traps Miranda in a marriage she thinks is based on friendship but instead is rooted in vengeance. Yet even when she realizes the truth, their enmity fuels a shocking...
7) Shameless
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A string of tragic loves haunts Viscount Benedick Francis Alistair Rohan. Cynical and world-weary, he wants a proper wife he can ignore while indulging his appetites. But Lady Melisande Carstairs is nothing less than a tornado storming into his measured life. And when she informs Benedick that his brother's newly revived Heavenly Host has graduated from carnal debauchery to sadistic violence, he's compelled to investigate ... undercover.
8) Nightfall
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This is my fate . . . to die for unspeakable crimes. All I ask is that a stranger give herself to me and to my secrets.
Richard Tiernan has been sentenced to death. With an ulterior motive and a heart full of dark truths, he agrees to tell all to an ailing writer whose greed and ambition are so strong that he will even give his own daughter to Richard in return for one last Pulitzer-winning story.
I want Cassidy Roarke. I need her. But she has to...
9) Tangled lies
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For fifteen years, Rachel Chandler's brother Emmett has been missing. Still, every year on her birthday another porcelain butterfly arrives postmarked from a new exotic place-a gift from Emmett, who's been on the run since being implicated in a bombing.Now that he's been spotted in Hawaii, Rachel will stop at nothing to find him again. But the man occupying her brother's cottage is a stranger. A man haunted by his past. A man looking to use Rachel...
10) Moonrise
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Annie Sutherland is a woman determined to uncover the truth about her father's death. She had thought he was a low-level bureaucrat but after his murder begins to suspect his true profession was more complex. She goes seeking answers from her father's protégé and successor at the CIA, James McKinley. What she gets from him instead is a one-way trip to a shadowy underworld filled with intrigue, terror-and passion. Now she's in over her head.
11) Shadow Dance
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Valerian Romney, falsely accused of murdering his father, has no choice but to hide out in women's clothes, posing as his brother's wife, which makes falling in love with Sophie an admitted problem. In the meantime, his brother Phelan is falling for Juliette, who, disguised as a boy, is on the run from an abusive husband. Murders, mistaken identities, and true love are only some of the complications that abound in this Shakespearean-inspired romance....
12) Heartless
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A strong, resilient woman who learned to survive in a world of betrayal Emma Cadbury had been an innocent, a whore, a charity worker, and a surgeon. She chose a life without love until she saved a dying soldier in a charity ward. A scarred soldier who fought to redeem himself from the horrors he'd committed Brandon Rohan had lost himself to drugs and degradation, wanting to die, and only one person could save him. But she'd disappeared. A love neither...
13) Still Lake
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It was a dream come true. Buying a run-down farm in a beautiful Vermont town is the start of a new life for Sophie Davis. She moves her mother, Grace, and her half-sister, Marty, out of the city, hoping the change will help both women sort out their complicated lives. And for Sophie, turning Stonegate Farm into a quaint country inn is the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. She doesn't even mind that the farm was the scene of a grisly multiple murder...
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A governess is not a murder investigator. To new governess Lorna MacDougal, that seemed a safe and reasonable assumption. Until her employer, the grand matriarch of the Cameron family sees fit to change all the rules of childcare. The woman seriously expects Lorna to discover who murdered her husband.
The family's three sons are obvious suspects: Stephen with his shallow wife, Gentle Charles who wouldn't hurt a fly, and the most dangerous of them...
15) Crazy Like a Fox
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Left broke and all but homeless by her shiftless husband, widow Margaret Jaffrey turns to his family in hope of a better life for her daughter . . . until she realizes the decaying family mansion in Louisiana comes complete with a domineering matriarch, a drunken uncle, and a madman locked in the attic.
The madman in question is Peter Delacroix, and he doesn't seem that crazy. In fact, Margaret is starting to find him irresistible. But if Peter isn't...
16) Now You See Him
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Francey Neeley's life has been torn to pieces. Her handsome and charming Irish boyfriend turned out to be a terrorist who was only after her fortune and planned to kill her once he got it. His "sister" forced Francey to help her attempt a rescue when his cover was blown during a mission to assassinate a world leader. Francey barely escaped with her life in the shoot-out. Now Francey's secluded herself amidst the beautiful, healing atmosphere of Belle...
17) Barrett's Hill
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Seduction and murder. Adam Traywick may be capable of both. In this celebrated gothic romance, will Miranda be the next victim of Barrett's Hill? When her father's will sends strong-willed, irreverent Miranda to the New England estate of nearby Barrett's Hill to live under the guardianship of her elder cousin–the sour Reverend Smathers–and his scheming family, trouble quickly brews. Two decades earlier a murder took place on Barrett's Hill, and...
18) Prince of Magic
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Caught dancing barefoot in the moonlit woods, dressed only in her shift, Elizabeth Penshurst is considered by decent folk to be notorious and disgraced. Sent by her father, a reverend, to serve penance with a cousin in Hernewood, Lizzie sets her thoughts on becoming the perfectly demure and reserved young woman any suitor would want.
But evil haunts the woods of Hernewood Abbey. As the Druid festival of Beltane approaches, a sinister cult seeks a...
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It takes a thief to steal her heart.
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A reformed cat burglar. Can he be trusted?
Self-made socialite Francesca "Ferris" Byrd is too sharp to be fooled by even the smartest--and sexiest--man, even when he's notorious ex-thief Patrick Blackheart, now one of San Francisco's most eligible bachelors. Blackheart runs a respectable security business these days, and seems like the perfect man to protect the fabulous Von Emmerling emeralds. All he...
20) Falling Angel
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Next stop: Hell. Unless ...He was a driven, heartless businessman, trampling anyone who got in his way, until one night when his grinchy-heart exploded. Now, he's back on earth with a second chance to avoid his fate. His task? To right three of his wrongs. Fail, and he's not going to like how his story ends.
All her fault ...Carrie Alexander lives a quiet life in a tiny town in Minnesota, recovering from a broken heart and her guilt. She'd been fool...