Silver Lady - by Mary Lyons - Harlequin Presents - # 1610 - 1991.

Lost At Sea.
Francesca Patterson and Matthew Sinclair share a stormy past. In fact, the animosity they feel toward each other is equaled only by the disturbing undercurrent of unresolved attraction between them. Matt is the trustee of Francesca’s inheritance. She needs her money now, but Matt is going to make her work for it. Literally.
As chief cook and bottle washer aboard his yacht, Silver lady, and salve to his demanding guests, Francesca’s been sentenced to eight weeks of hell on the high seas. And each scorchingly hot day in paradise is fueling a dangerous passion that is all too close to flaring out of control.

The Silver Casket - by Patricia Lake - Harlequin Presents - # 578 - 1983.

Laura knew there was no future for them.
Right from their first meeting, Laura felt that Tom Farrell would change her life.
Somehow he brought her painfully out of her cocoon of work and uninvolvement as no one else had done. At last she was fully aware of herself as a woman; aware of new dreams coming into her life.
But Tom Farrell had made it perfectly clear that he could offer nothing but an affair, and loving him as she did, Laura realized that for her it just wouldn’t be enough.

Perfect Passion - by Patricia Lake - Harlequin Presents - # 501 - 1982.

She had ruled love out of her life.
Fay’s every instinct urged caution from the moment she met writer Gabriel Winters, even though his clear gray eyes reflected his deep attraction to her. Love, Fay reminded herself, had taught her a bitter lesson once. She wouldn’t tempt fate again.
But she hadn’t realized the stubborn strength of Gabriel’s passion, or the power of her own echoing response.
Nor did she suspect at first the shadow that darkened Gabriel’s past. A shadow that filled her with anger, and mistrust of the man she now knew she loved.

Moment Of Madness - by Patricia Lake - Harlequin Presents - # 593 - 1983.

“You’re blinded by adolescent dreams!”
The memory of Jase’s humiliating rejection still cut Lexa to the quick.
True, as a teenager she had worshiped her handsome stepbrother with the idolatry usually reserved for rock stars. But as Lexa matured, infatuation blossomed into love and abstract adolescent passion became a physical craving that jolted her with all the power of an electric current whenever Jase was near.
He thought of her as a child. How could she convince him she was a woman, with needs as strong as his own?

Fascination - by Patricia Lake - Harlequin Presents - # 986 - 1987.

He penetrated all her defenses.
Pretending indifference to Jordan Hayes was too much of a challenge to Lise Holbrook’s acting abilities. From the instant they met at a party in London, the wealthy patron of the arts dominated her thoughts.
Lise was still emotionally scarred from a brutal encounter in her youth, and she tried to distance herself from Jordan, instead she found him difficult to trust, and impossible to avoid.
Home again in San Francisco, Lise was amazed to find Jordan there, too. But the real shock came when her convalescent grandfather asked her to marry the powerful businessman, right there in the hospital room.

A Step Backwards - by Patricia Lake - Harlequin Presents - # 570 - 1983.

"Dan’s my only hope” Joe said desperately.
Cathy felt she was being pulled two ways. She could ignore her brother’s plight or appeal to Dan, the husband she had left, for a loan.
In the end, she had no choice, for Joe was in serious trouble. Dan agreed to provide the money on one condition. “I want you back as my wife.” he demanded.
Could she do that? The reason she had left had not changed, neither had her consuming love for him. And again, it seemed, her life was out of control.

Trail Of Love - by Amanda Browning - Harlequin Presents - # 1742 - 1995.

You’re in trouble with a capital T!”
Kay Napier was a happy, intelligent young woman who had been brought up in a loving home. But then lightning struck.
The first bolt came in the disturbingly attractive shape of Ben Radford.
The second - the unraveling of a well-kept secret - was a very challenge to her identity. She wasn’t who she thought she was! But then something else came to light.
Ben wanted her body, but not her love. He was marrying Nita!

Savage Destiny - by Amanda Browning - Harlequin Presents - # 1724 - 1995

He was just using her.
Five years before, Pierce had married Alix one day and rejected her the next. And why? Because she had been his route to a fleet of ships and his revenge. He had been passionate and she had been in love, but once was enough for Alix to have her fingers burned.
Now he was back and as demanding as ever. She must now marry him to help her sick father and the ailing family business, and again she had no choice. But this time things were different. Before she had to love him, now she hated him. She was determined not to suffer again as she had before, but was he too hot to handle.

Perfect Strangers - by Amanda Browning - Harlequin Presents - # 1055 - 1988.

She must not lose him a second time!
Doctors had ordered Zoe Winthrop not to try to see Ross Lyneham. His amnesia following the accident had robbed him of all memory of her. But Zoe was compelled to find out if there was still a chance for happiness.
She longed to tell him who she was and what they had once meant to each other. Yet she dared not, lest he discover that the woman in his past whose cruel betrayal caused his deep distrust of woman was Zoe, herself.
Surely there must be some way out of their situation.

A Promise To Repay - by Amanda Browning - Harlequin Presents - # 1432 - 1992.

“A very devious, dangerous man.”
That was how Kate described Aidan Crawford. She had been looking forward to ruining him, had thought about little else than the prospect of revenge.
When the opportunity came, however, she found herself against a worthy adversary, a man with devastatingly masculine wiles.
Until Aidan kissed her, she had thought herself frigid, unable to respond physically to a man. Why did it have to be Aidan who melted the ice that encased her? And was passion enough to free her from the shadows of her past?

Girl In Blue - by Katrina Britt - Harlequin Presents - # 207 - 1977.

Felicity knew that the voice on the telephone had been that of Nora Staffordly. Although Felicity had never really doubted her husband’s faithfulness, Nora’s words filled her with unrest.
A brilliant young lawyer, Curt found that his work and his clients made great demands on him. Though she didn’t like the situation. Felicity accepted it, realizing that there were times when she simply had to share Curt.
But she was not going to share her husband with another woman.

No Gentle Seduction - by Helen Bianchin - Harlequin Presents - # 1527 - 1993 - A Year Down Under Series.

A Conspiracy Of Desire.
Lexi Harrison, one of Sydney’s top international fashion models, was accustomed to being pursued by men who wanted to share her fame and fortune. It made it difficult for the beautiful woman to trust men, especially a man like Georg Nicolaos, whose arrogant countenance was simply infuriating.
But when Lexi’s ex-husband tried to blackmail her by threatening to destroy her family name and her professional reputation, Lexi was forced to turn to Georg for advice. She agreed to fall in with his plans and go along with a pretend their pretend engagement. But was Georg sincere in his offer to help? Or were there ulterior motives behind the charade?

The Greek’s Bought Wife - by Helen Bianchin - Harlequin Presents - # 2501 - 2005 - Wedlocked Series.

Made To Marry, For Her Baby’s Sake.
Nic Leandros knows that most people want only his money. So when he finds out beautiful Tina Matheson is pregnant with his late brother’s child, he’s certain her price will be high.
However, Tina must agree to his terms: no Leandros heir has ever been born out of wedlock; they will marry for the baby’s sake.

Edge Of Spring - by Helen Bianchin - Harlequin Presents - # 415 - 1981.

Why wouldn’t he leave her alone?
After a brief disastrous marriage, Karen had managed to keep all men at bay for five years. But then she had never encouraged one like Matt Lucas. He’d made up his mind, it seemed, whether Karen like it or not.
And Karen didn’t like it, not one bit. She firmly believed that Matt Lucas looked upon her as only a diverting challenge, someone to pursue and claim, briefly.
Karen still bore the scars from one encounter with love, why invite further heartache?

Valentine’s Day - by Jayne Bauling - Harlequin Presents - # 663 - 1984.

Valentine was living, loving on borrowed time.
Once Kemp Irvine knew who she was, and the part she had played in his cousin Philip’s tragic death, he would feel nothing for her but hatred.
Only by Philip’s death had Kemp come into his unwanted inheritance, and he cherished a bitter grudge against the unknown woman who had destroyed his family and his own hopes for the future.
She must tell him, that was certain. But Valentine’s coward spirit begged for a little more time to love him.

Matching Pair - by Jayne Bauling - Harlequin Presents - # 863 - 1986.

They were two of a kind.
Onstage at Dominic Lord’s hotel at Lake Malawi, Frith Adeane sang and entertained holiday makers with a smoldering display of sensuality. But it was all an act.
“We’re two of a kind,” Dominic told her after her performance one night. “We’re both hedonists, pursuing pleasure, not allowing emotion to shadow enjoyment. To Dominic, their affair was inevitable. To Frith, such a liaison seemed impossible.
They were alike all right, one having chosen to live life on the surface, the other feeling she had no other choice, neither of them having ever really been touched by love.

Abode Of Princes - by Jayne Bauling - Harlequin Presents - # 928 - 1986.

Was there no quarreling with Fate?
Before journeying to beautiful Rajasthan in India to meet her fiancee’s best friend, Jon Steele, Cadence had blithely believed she controlled her destiny.
She’d no idea that a vast consuming passion would redefine her feelings about love and friendship and make her engagement impossible. Jon, on the other hand, read the danger signs immediately, knew exactly what he and Cadence would have to do to shield the man who was like a brother to him. They’d have to deny love.
But what would happen was out of their control, no matter how Jon and Cadence tried to resist.

The Valentine Child - by Jacqueline Baird - Harlequin Presents - # 1795 - 1996 - Wedlocked Series.

Would Valentine play Cupid?
When Zoe's baby arrived on February 14, it seemed only natural to call him Valentine! But as far as Zoe was concerned, Valentine had been the only romance in her brief marriage to Justin Gifford. And since Justin had harshly declared that he never wanted to see her again, she hadn't had the chance to tell him that he had a son. But then the unthinkable happened: Valentine became desperately ill and Zoe knew that she would do anything to save him, even if that meant seducing her own husband.

The Italian’s Blackmailed Mistress - by Jacqueline Baird - Harlequin Presents - # 2543 - 2006 - Bedded By Blackmail Series.

Goldie’s world had tumbled down.
But that was seven years ago and out of the ruins she had built a new life, with a new name.
“Marie Doumerque” had no desire to be reminded of the past. So why had she fallen into Rayner Millard’s arms so easily when he’d turned up at the chateau in France?
Was Rayner really her destiny? And was his rekindled passion fueled by love, or a desire for revenge.

To The Victor, The Spoils - by Jenny Arden - Harlequin Presents - # 1063 - 1988.

She still clung to a love from the past.
When Imogen’s fiancee died, she needed someone to help soothe away her sudden pain and loneliness, someone to care about her, someone to care for. Kirk Cameron was there, and she married him.
He was also there with his financial wizardry when Imogen’s beauty business began to falter. But when their marriage started resembling a business merger more than a loving relationship, Imogen wanted out.
Kirk, however, didn’t. He’d planned his future around Imogen, and for him, there was no looking back!

Running Scared - by Jenny Arden - Harlequin Presents - # 1399 - 1991.

Elin didn’t want Garel in her life.
He’d caused her too much unhappiness the first time. To think he’d had the gall to barge into her calm, well ordered life for the second time unnerved her.
A lot of water had flowed under the bridge since they’d parted. And her marriage and subsequent divorce from another man was none of his business.
But when Garel said, “You’re the same wayward witch I knew four years ago, and I still want you!” she knew she was dealing with a very determined man.

This Time, Forever - by Jenny Arden - Harlequin Presents - # 1311 - 1990.

Her marriage had been a mistake.
It had been an attraction of opposites with charming, cynical Jim Logan, one that hadn’t worked out.
Now that Alexandra was happily engaged to Roxby, she could forget the past, until she encountered Jim again in Sorrento.
“You’re not complicating my life any more,” she told him, and made it quite clear that she wanted nothing to do with him, so she wondered why he was pursuing her. After all, he had the glamorous Juliette as his companion, just as he had three years ago.

Tropical Eden - by Kerry Allyne - Harlequin Presents - # 783 - 1985.

There was no way she could like him.
Devon Matthews couldn’t imagine living anywhere but at her home on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. So naturally she resented Hunter Kincaid for threatening her security by making an offer to buy her father’s private island resort.
She tried desperately to turn the tide, emphasizing the island’s least attractive features, but Hunter Kincaid was a man who knew his own mind and trusted his own instincts, which was more than he would say of Devon.
Devon found him positively vexing, detestable on occasion, yet always irresistibly fascinating.

Coral Cay - by Kerry Allyne - Harlequin Presents - # 513 - 1982

He didn’t deserve to know he was a father.
Ravelle had hoped for a quiet pleasant holiday in Queensland, on the Barrier Reef with her fiancee, Matthew. But somehow that wasn’t to be.
One of the first people Ravelle saw there was none other than Steele Cunningham, the man who had so ruthlessly rejected her love four years earlier. And the memories of their encounter came flooding back.
Suddenly Ravelle’s proposed new life seemed threatened. Steele had ruined her life once and could easily do it again, if he discovered her secret.

Unchained Destinies - by Sara Wood - Harlequin Presents - # 1796 - 1996 - Destiny - Book 2.

"I know your game and refuse to play it, in fact, you're going to play mine."
Mariann loved a challenge, but it seemed that no amount of quick thinking and fast talking could outwit ruthless publisher Vigado Gabor. His laser-sharp instincts made him a formidable opponet and he knew that Mariann's reasons for being in Budapest weren't quite what they seemed.
Mariann couldn't allow herself to become intoxicated by Vigado's raw sexuality and brooding charisma. But Vigado played to win, and demanded nothing less than total surrender.
How could Mariann resist?

Threads Of Destiny - by Sara Wood - Harlequin Presents - # 1802 - 1996 - Destiny Series - Book 3.

You made the mistake of trusting me, and now you're even more in my power than before!"
He'd appeared without warning, out of the mysterious beauty of a moonlit Hungarian night.
Suzanne was spellbound, unable to resist the potent charisma of this elusive stranger. But Laszlo Huszar had more in mind than idle flirtation, his goal was revenge, using Suzanne as a pawn in his passionate vendetta. Suddenly Suzanne found herself locked in a circle of blackmail and hatred, the cruel legacy of her family's dark past. Could she break the threads that bound her destiny of Laszlo's.

Tangled Destinies - by Sara Wood - Harlequin Presents - # 1790 - 1996 - Destiny Series.

Perhaps I'm not your brother after all."
Those words bewildered Tanya. how could Istvan be anything else? Growing up with him in a Devonshire vicarage, she'd idolized him until her discovery that he'd seduced her best friend, with tragic consequences.
Now, four years on, they were in Hungary for an emotional family wedding, and Istvan expected Tanya to listen to his side of the story, and accept that the only man she'd ever loved suddenly wasn't out of bounds.

Sicilian Vengeance - by Sara Wood - Harlequin Presents - # 1470 - 1992.

She would play along with him.
As far back as Jolanda could remember silvery tongued Vito Velardi had done everything in his power to make her father's life hell, and she'd been hurt unbearably in the process.
So when Vito turned up out of the blue, she knew better than to take his words at face value. She'd hear him out, even if it meant getting hurt again when he revealed his true motives, because she had to find out what he was up to.
Jolanda couldn't deny the passionate bond between them, but this time, she assured herself confidently, Vito wouldn't be able to string her along.

Pure Temptation - by Sara Wood - Harlequin Presents - # 1070 - 1988.

Eve thought of herself as plain.
Yet something with her responded deeply to glamorous, sophisticated Matt Cavell from the first time she saw him. Dancing wildly with a mysterious young companion in the soft Mallorcan night, he held Eve spellbound.
They were worlds apart, until his daughter?s need of Eve?s specialized help brought them together.
Unsure of herself, unsure of him, Eve almost rejected this one opportunity to get to know Matt, to fully get to know herself, to share his life, which would have been a great pity!

Mask Of Deception - by Sara Wood - Harlequin Presents - # 1628 - 1993 - Postcards From Europe Series.

Destination: Venice, Italy.
Attractions: The Grand Canal. Piazza San Marco and Lucenzo Salviati.
He's a wolf in designer clothing, attentive and sexy on the outside, ruthless and cunning beneath. Lucenzo's also the man who believes that Meredith's grandmother blackmailed his clients, the wealthy Corosini family. Meredith is determined to prove that Lucenzo's accusation is false, to get to the bottom of her Gran's so called deception, but first she's clearly torn between pushing Lucenzo into the Grand Canal and kissing him senseless.

The Count’s Vendetta - by Sara Wood - Harlequin Presents - # 1166 - 1989.

There was a price to pay for her freedom.
When her brother gambled away her inheritance, Jemma was left entirely in Count Vittorio de Vasari di Montevecchio's power. And he was a man bent on revenge.
Three years earlier Jemma had fallen in love with the devastatingly attractive Count, but that was before his favorite cousin defied him by marrying Jemma's brother. The Count made it plain he found her family's morals and standards unacceptable.
Now he demanded Jemma come to Italy and work for him to repay her brother's debts, or face the consequences.

Desert Hostage - by Sara Wood - Harlequin Presents - # 1414 - 1991

Her well-ordered life became a nightmare.
One moment Tiffany had been happily engaged in building her business; then everything came to a standstill when the harsh, all-powerful Sheikh Hassan swept into her world.
According to Hassan, Tiffany was an unfit mother and she had not rights where her beloved little son, his nephew, was concerned. Her late husband had seen to that.
“The judgment of Solomon, all over again,” she protested. “My son will be cut in two if I stand up for my rights. And I lose him if I don’t.” Was there no alternative?

A Man To Marry - by Carole Mortimer - Harlequin Presents - # 2086 - 2000.

A Man To Marry, A Man To Trust?
Cat wasn’t interested in a brief fling! She’d been hurt in the past by two-timing fiancee who’d been using her to find out a lucrative secret. She felt she would never trust a man again, until she met her new neighbor, the dark, enigmatic Caleb Reynolds.
The gorgeous bachelor was intriguing, his young son was adorable. Yet Cat couldn’t help being suspicious of Caleb’s motives. She longed to surrender to Caleb’s passion, but that would also mean trusting him with that well-guarded secret.

Golden Fever - by Carole Mortimer - Harlequin Presents - # 579 - 1983.

For five years she tried to forgive him.
During that time Clare had become a confident, mature, engaged woman, as well as an internationally famous film star.
“Rourke Somerville is bad news for any girl.” the young Clare had been told. If only she had listened she would have spared herself a lot of pain, for Rourke had made a mockery of her love.
Yet seeing him again brought back memories as vivid as yesterday. And Clare was soon making a mockery of her engagement to another man.

Glass Slippers And Unicorns - by Carole Mortimer - Harlequin Presents - # 939 - 1986.

Darcy was not good at pretending.
Although she was a good secretary to Reed Hunter, Darcy Faversham became easily muddled when events around her got too hectic. Not much of a match for a London investor used to making split-second decisions involving millions of dollars. But Reed did need her.
Someone was sabotaging his business deals in America, and he wanted Darcy to pose as his lover on a trip to Florida, to call attention away from the real purpose of his visit.
Darcy wasn't at all sure she could live up to the pressure, it was no good pretending she was in love with Reed, not when she really was.

Freedom To Love - by Carole Mortimer - Harlequin Presents - # 473 - 1981.

Women were just playmates to him.
Adam Wild was a dynamic man, a talented photographer, exceptionally attractive, but cynical to the core. Women flocked to him, but his affairs never lasted long. In his own words, “Only freedom can give happiness.
So when Katy found herself with no alternative but to share her holiday in the Canadian Rockies with him, she was determined to resist his powerful charms.
Much as she longed to be that special woman in his life, she knew it was impossible. She’d only end up getting deeply hurt.

The Flame Of Desire - by Carole Mortimer - Harlequin Presents - # 418 - 1981.

Only Luke made her feel so alive.
Sophie didn’t like anything about Luke Vittorio, but she fell in love with him just the same.
Luke was attractive to women; as a portrait painter there were many in his life. Worse, Sophie suspected he was having an affair with Rosemary, her stepmother. He was bossy and arrogant.
Yet Sophie knew that no other man could arouse the fiery response in her that the magnetic Luke had. When he asked her to marry him, she accepted, hoping that someday his desire would turn to love.

Elusive Lover - by Carole Mortimer - Harlequin Presents - # 556 - 1982.

Erin had a profound distrust of all men.
Nothing in her life had persuaded her to think otherwise from her father to the men she met in her daily routine.
Was Josh Hawke any different? His proposition indicated not, but he had recognized her need for human warmth and had responded with kindness and comfort.
Her situation was desperate and left her with little choice but to accept it. Then why was he so angry when she did, accusing her of a lack of self-respect.

The Failed Marriage - by Carole Mortimer - Harlequin Presents - # 675 - 1984.

Lots of men stray in a falling marriage.
And Joshua had good reason. After all, it was nearly a year since Joanna had denied him access to her bed and body. Yet it seemed only yesterday that their fragile love had shattered with the death of their only child.
“I’m taking Angela to the States,” he had stated coldly, “and you must find yourself a lover, too!” That he demanded a year away with someone else, and the same for Joanna, was hurtful.
But the rekindling of desire between her and Joshua right before his departure troubled Joanna most of all.

A No Risk Affair - by Carole Mortimer - Harlequin Presents - # 812 - 1985.

Sin had Robyn running scared.
Married at eighteen, the neglected mother of twins at nineteen, divorced at twenty-two, Robyn had faced a lot in her marriage to a no-good, selfish charmer.
So right from the start she tried to discourage easygoing author Sinclair Thornton from invading her life. “The twins have enough problems adjusting to one part-time father” she informed him. “A second one would be just too much!”
Robyn wanted his caresses without emotional intimacy, but Sin wouldn’t be satisfied until she went all the way.

After The Loving - by Carole Mortimer - Harlequin Presents - # 1019 - 1987.

She had no illusions after her affair.
Bryna Fairchild knew she was just one of Raff Gallagher’s women. True, she had lasted longer than the others, but any day she expected to find that Raff, a powerful businessman, had tired of her, too.
For Bryna, the owner of a successful modeling agency, it was her first real love affair. From the beginning she hid her emotions and her inexperience. “We both know the rules,” she’d told him. “No ties, no commitments.”
But how, she wondered months later, would Raff react when he discovered she was carrying his child?

Devil Lover - by Carole Mortimer - Harlequin Presents - # 430 - 1981.

Andreas had ever reason to hate her.
Regan’s father had run off with the wife of Andreas Vatis, and Andreas wasn’t the kind of man to take that lightly. He wanted revenge; and now that her father was dead, Regan was the only one who could appease Andreas’s wounded Greek pride.
“I want what your father deprived me of,” he told her insolently. “A wife, and the sons I need to inherit the Vatis empire.”
Regan knew how much he despised her, and she would never willingly give him what he so ruthlessly demanded.

Captive Loving - by Carole Mortimer - Harlequin Presents - # 603 - 1983.

How could she have let him kiss her?
Besides her husband, no one had ever kissed Jessica until Matthew Sinclair did. And after seven years of coldness in a desperately unhappy marriage, she was shocked to find herself stirring in response to this stranger’s lips, gravitating to the warmth of his arms.
But she was a wife and mother, and Matthew was her husband’s boss. There could be no future for them.
Then her husband was killed, and suddenly Jessica was torn, between wanting to be loved and fearing another marriage as painful as her first.

Liam’s Secret Son - Carole Mortimer - Harlequin Presents - # 2411 - 2004 - Do Not Disturb Series.

How could she tell him the truth?
When Liam O’Reilly insisted on being a part of Laura’s world again, her first instinct was to turn him down. It wasn’t that she didn’t find him attractive. But in the time they’d been apart, Laura had married, had a baby and been widowed. She was older and wiser now.
What really bothered her was that if Liam had stayed all those years ago, he would have found out something Laura now felt compelled to keep a secret from him, he had a son.

Living Together - by Carole Mortimer - Harlequin Presents - # 423 - 1981.

Would her tragic past blight her future?
Helen was not emotionally ready for any man much less the forceful actor Leon Masters. A brief disastrous marriage had left her terrified of men.
She wanted desperately to forget her past, but she couldn’t, not yet. And she couldn’t expect Leon to wait for her.
She must get out of his life before he found out her secret, for surely he would hate her for it. Anything was better than having Leon hate her even living without him, the man she loved with all her heart.

Love’s Only Deception - by Carole Mortimer - Harlequin Presents - # 594 - 1983.

Her sudden wealth seemed like a curse!
A beloved friend had left Callie large shares of his family’s firm, Spencer Plastics. Overnight she’d become one of Britain’s wealthiest women and, it seemed one of its most desirable!
A Spencer heir’s insistent courtship troubled her, until she discovered his family’s plot for her marriage, and divorce. But she was too much in love to see what lay behind the attentions of her next suitor, mysterious millionaire Logan Carrington.
Too late she discovered how true the adage, money can’t buy happiness, or love!

Lovers In The Afternoon - by Carole Mortimer - Harlequin Presents - # 829 - 1985.

He was more attentive as a lover.
Leonie had a tendency to drop things, knock things over or bump into them, a tendency that had irritated her husband Adam Faulkner when they’d lived together, a tendency that her lover seemed to find endearing.
“I suggest we make another appointment,” Adam asserted easily after Leonie missed their rendezvous when the elevator stuck. “Sometime in the afternoon,” he added.
Leonie found herself forgetting the inhibitions that had made their marriage an agony. Adam was irrepressible, not at all like her husband. How could she resist.

No Longer A Dream - by Carole Mortimer - Harlequin Presents - # 909 - 1986.

Was he offering her a second chance for love?
To research her book, author Cat Howard had chased down Caleb Steele, the arrogant owner of a film studio. But when she woke up in his bed one morning, unable to remember how she’d got there, she was horrified.
Her only love had died five years earlier, and she had never stopped missing him. Now she was torn between loyalty to the past and a powerful attraction she could not deny.
Cat’s genuine innocence and fiery wit captivated Caleb and he was determined to win her. If only her memories would release her.

One Chance At Love - by Carole Mortimer - Harlequin Presents - # 1117 - 1988.

A golden Apollo swimming in the nude.
That had been Dizzy James’s first sight of Zachariah Bennett. It was hard to reconcile what she had seen then with the stodgy-looking, scholarly professor who stood before her now, silently condemning Dizzy for her waywardness and loose morals.
In fact, the man knew nothing about her except what he had been led to believe. And all because Dizzy, who despite her name was anything but, had agreed to a charade to help out a friend.
What Zach thought of her had been a matter of supreme indifference to her. Now, it wasn’t.

One-Man Woman - by Carole Mortimer - Harlequin Presents - # 1863 - 1997.

It didn't add up!
Ellie was only interested in one-to-one relationships, so as rakishly handsome as he was, Daniel Thackery wasn't her kind of man. But she had to keep him talking: he certainly seemed to be up to no good and even more importantly, he knew the whereabouts of her sister's estranged husband.
Ellie's persistence seemed to encourage Daniel to think that she could yet be persuaded to join his harem. Ellie was having none of it, until Daniel's determination made her realize she had put two and two together to make five.