2008年9月21日 星期日

What You Made Me - by Penny Jordan - Harlequin Presents - # 770 - 1985.


She hadn't seen him in almost eleven years.
They'd been very much in love. but if Philippa had married Scott, he would have lost his birthright. So Philippa had told him she was in love with someone else.
Seeing her again, unleashed Scott's bitterness. He was pleased to think that Geoff had refused to marry Philippa despite her pregnant condition. Scott was so blind to Philippa's love, he couldn't see even the obvious, that young Simon was very much his father's son.
"After you left, Philippa, my grandfather withheld from him what he thought I wanted most. Take care" Scott warned. "That I never discover what you treasure."

An Eagle Swooped - by Anne Hampson - Harlequin Presents - # 37 - 1974.


Tessa had loved Paul Demetrius from the start, but from the moment she introduced him to her beautiful sister Lucinda he had had eyes for no one else. At last, unable to bear seeing the two of them together, Tessa had gone away.
Now, two years later, she was home again, expecting to hear that they were married, only to learn that they had never in fact married, that after a terrible accident in which Paul had been blinded, Lucinda had walked out on him and he was now living the life of a recluse in Cyprus. So Tessa took her courage in both hands, went out to Cyprus, pretending to be Lucinda, begged Paul’s forgiveness, and married him.
Would her love be strong enough to stand the strain of living such a lie? And what if Paul ever found out?

A Kiss From Satan - by Anne Hampson - Harlequin Presents - # 13 - 1973.


“Place your hand on a woman’s heart and she’s yours instantly,” said the arrogant Greek Julius Spiridon, who was certainly devastating enough to know what he was talking about.
But Gale was not just any woman, she had been hurt and embittered after being cruelly let down by the man she loved, and had vowed never to let a man touch her heart again. She was absolutely determined to fight the attraction she so unwillingly felt for Julius; it was, after all, only physical attraction she felt for him, not real love, so it ought to be easy enough to control.
Only it wasn’t. Gradually Gale found herself being drawn into a situation she had never wanted but couldn’t get out of. Was this man too going to break her heart?

Beloved Vagabond - by Anne Hampson - Harlequin Presents - # 470 - 1981.


She soon regretted her careless words.
In anger, Lynn had called the dark Gypsy stranger “one of the dregs of society.” Much to her horror, this had provoked him to bodily kidnap her. The final blow had come after their Gypsy wedding.
But she was powerless to escape: the Gypsies watched her by day, and Rad kept her imprisoned, in his arms, by night.
He told her nothing of himself, or his life, but Lynn began to understand his enigmatic, almost dual personality, and the gentle, autocratic half attracted her very much.

Bride For A Night - by Anne Hampson - Harlequin Presents - # 463 - 1981.


"Foolish, silly girl! He’s a good catch!”
When Alida was seventeen, her father promised her to a wealthy but brash young Greek, who had no idea of how to treat a woman,. She rebelled and fled to England, but not before she became his wife.
Eight years later, Darius Valaris came into Aida’s life again to ruin her Bahamian island paradise with hotels and parking lots. But he’d changed, and despite herself, she found him very appealing.
No, she told herself. Never again. But the fire in his eyes was melting her resolution.

Dangerous Friendship - by Anne Hampson - Harlequin Presents - # 168 - 1976.


Jennifer looked at Lena with an odd expression. “You’re the first woman who hasn’t fallen for my cousin Kane on sight.” She said. “Couldn’t you fall in love with him?”
Startled by the unexpectedness of the question, Lena just stared and maintained a cautious silence while she carefully chose her words.
“I’m not anxious to fall in love at the present time,” she said finally, but suddenly her pulses were racing. She was remembering Kane’s strength and his gentleness when he had saved her life.

Dark Avenger - by Anne Hampson - Harlequin Presents - # 28 - 1973.


In the ancient Greek legend, Hades, lord of the underworld, had carried off the beautiful Persephone to live in his dark kingdom for four months of every year. And now, Julie Veltrovers found herself a present-day Persephone, meeting a fate that had been awaiting her for ten years, ever since Doneus Lucien had been wronged by Julie’s family and had vowed that one day, when Julie was old enough, he would bear her off to Greece as his wife, to live there for seven months of the year. That day had come, and rather than ruin her family’s happiness, Julie was forced to submit to his plans. But she had never foreseen that she would fall in love with this strange husband of hers, a man that had only used her as an instrument of revenge.

Dear Plutocrat - by Anne Hampson - Harlequin Presents - # 125 - 1976.


From the commonsense point of view, Mark Copeland was right. Kate should sell her small holding to him. It adjoined Mark’s big spread and was too small to do anything with.
But Kate was not in the mood for common sense. She’d been misinformed, condescended to, and humiliated; she was not about to give or sell, Mark Copeland anything.
"You’re too darn pig-headed for a woman!" he told her. "It’s out of place in the weaker sex."

Dear Stranger - by Anne Hampson - Harlequin Presents - # 7 - 1977.


Shara couldn’t blame her foster-brother Carl for having had nothing to do with her for years; his parents, after all, had virtually rejected him for her.
But now he had come back into her life, prepared to be friends. Friends?
It had never been as a friend that Shara had thought of Carl; she had never even thought of him as a brother.

The Fair Island - by Anne Hampson - Harlequin Presents - # 115 - 1975.


As different as possible in character from her identical twin, Alaine Marsland was persuaded to take Estelle’s place on a cruise to the Greek islands. Away from the drudgery of her work, relaxing in the sun, enjoying the sightseeing, Alaine blossomed, and learned that life could be beautiful. Cimon Duris, boarding the ship at Pireaus, added the perfect romance.
Then, along with the realization of her love for Cimon came an equally disturbing discovery. It was Estelle, who had sown the seeds of the trouble, but it was Alaine who was about to reap the harvest of revenge.