Jude Deveraux
"The Awakening"
Pocket Books, 1991

Amanda Caulden led a sheltered life on her father's California ranch -- until the day Hank Montgomery stormed into town. A hot-blooded union organizer with a taste for ladies and fine champagne, he sensed the fire that smoldered beneath her prim, virtuous beauty...and he vowed to make her his.
Hank's assault on her orderly life made Amanda furious -- and all the more enticing. Slowly, he drew her into a world of sensuous pleasure: sumptuous meals and moonlit dances, carefree laughter and stolen kisses...gently stirring the sleeping embers of passion. But even as a fierce love rose between them, violent rebellion threatened to destroy the Caulden ranch -- and their lives!

Jane Feather
"Almost Innocent"
("Brazen whispers")
Bantam, 1990
Edito in Italia da Mondadori (I Romanzi).

Growing up behind the impenetrable walls of an English fortress, young Magdalen does not know that she is the illegitimate daughter of a powerful English prince and his murdered French mistress -- or that she has been a pawn in the struggle between England and France ever since she slipped from her dying mother's womb.
All she knows is that she longs for excitement. And then one day, as if in answer to her prayers, the splendid figure of Guy de Gervais, a true knight in shining armor, rides into her cloistered world and spirits her away.
For Magdalen it is love at first sight. The one and only love of her life. Yet Guy sees only his responsibility to keep Magdalen safe until she can be wed to his nephew and thus fulfill her political destiny.
Then duty calls Guy to the bloody battlefields of France, and when he returns, time has transformed Magdalen into a stunningly sensual beauty. Suddenly the noble knight is fighting the fiercest battle of his life: against a searing desire for a woman he cannot have.

Sandy Hingston
"The Suitor"
Jove, 2002

Beautiful, wealthy Katherine Devereaux doesn't just think she's better than everyone else -- she knows it.
Her snobbish ways alienate everyone she meets -- and her parents fear her marriage prospects are ruined. Determined to uncover their hard-hearted daughter's soft side, they apply to Countess Christiane d'Oliveri for help.
The countess has the perfect solution: She pays French ne'er-do-well Alain Montclair to court the duke's daughter and break her cold heart in two. But in the process of earning his pay, Alain discovers that Katherine, behind her haughty airs and petty pretensions, is a deeply lonely young woman who is desperate for love.
But no one is more surprised than Katherine to learn how much she is willing to give up in the name of love, once she dares to let Alain into her heart.

Judith Ivory (Judy Cuevas)
"Dance"
Jove, 1996

Three years ago Marie Dy Gard fled Paris on the eve of her wedding to Sebastien de Saint Vallier's brother.
Now she has returned, slimmer, prettier, bolder and even more of a challenge to Sebastien who has never forgotten their one illicit liaison.
Marie has spent the intervening years in America where she has perfected her film-making skills and received some acclaim, yet she longs for her father's acceptance and is secretly pleased that he has sent Sebastien to meet her at the station. Marie's long ago crush on Sebastien has become a mere glimmer, but seeing him rekindles her memories and desires.
Fate brings them together in the French countryside where Marie is working on her latest film on the grounds near Sebastian's ancestral home. When he unwittingly gets into a movie scene and break his leg, Sebastien uses the injury as an excuse to stay and stoke the fires of passion, accepting Marie's silent challenge.

Lisa Kleypas
"Where Dreams Begin"
Avon, 2000

Zachary Bronson has built an empire of wealth and power -- now he needed a wife to help secure his position in society...and warm his bed in private.But not just any woman will do for a man whom all of London knows is not a gentleman. Then he unexpectedly swept Lady Holly Taylor into his arms for an unasked for -- but very alluring -- kiss, and suddenly he knew he had found a woman whose fierce passions matched his own.
Lady Holly Taylor was beautiful, generous, and, as a widow, destined to spend her life playing by society's rules, even when they went against her bolder instincts. But Zachary's kiss had aroused her, and though the shocking offer he made didn't include marriage, she was compelled to risk everything and follow him to the place where dreams begin.

Johanna Lindsey
"Prisoner of My Desire"
Avon, 1991
Edito in Italia da Euroclub.

Spirited Rowena Belleme must produce an heir -- or incur the dangerous wrath of a ruthless stepbrother who stands to forfeit his ill-gotten wealth. And the magnificent Warrick deChaville is the perfect choice to sire her child--though it means imprisoning the handsome knight. . .and forcing him to bend to her amorous whims.
Vowing to resist but betrayed by his virility, noble Warrick is intoxicated by Rowena's sapphire eyes and voluptuous beauty. Yet all the while he plans a fitting revenge -- eagerly awaiting the time when his sensuous captor becomes his helpless captive. . .and is made to suffer the same rapturous torment and exquisite ecstasy that he himself has endured

Candice Proctor
"Night in Eden"
Ivy, 1997

Bryony Wentworth's life is shattered when she is unjustly accused and sentenced to indentured servitude in New South Wales. Broken in body--but not in spirit--she fights for light, and for her life, wanting no part of the man who would save her, Captain Hayden St. John. But the mother in her cannot turn away from Hayden's needy infant and the woman in her cannot deny her passion for the rugged, enigmatic man she is bound to serve.
Against the sweeping panorama of a harsh, gorgeous, and unforgiving land, two hungering souls learn to trust, to love, and to triumph over the danger that will shadow their lives--until destiny and desire become one.

Candice Proctor
"Whispers of Heaven"
Ivy, 2001

After years of schooling in England, Jesmond Corbett finds little has changed on her family’s estate along the sea-battered coast of Tasmania. Betrothed since childhood to a wealthy neighbor, Jessie comes home determined to conform to the expectations of her family and the society in which they live. But nothing in Jessie’s life has prepared her for the mysterious stranger who works in the stables, a man with searing eyes who haunts her dreams and awakens passions she never knew existed.
Irishman Lucas Gallagher arrived on the island in chains, a convict sentenced to a lifetime of slave labor for the English gentry. For four years he has lived a dead man’s existence, using every spare moment to plan his escape. But when he meets Jessie, she touches his cold, angry heart. And although their love has no future, he finds himself unable to deny the longings of his battered soul– longings that threaten to destroy what may be his last chance to reach for freedom. . . .

Mary Jo Putney
"Veils of Silk"
Signet, 1992

Laura Stephenson fights to suppress her sensual nature behind a facade of Victorian propriety-until courageous army major Ian Cameron offers her a marriage proposal she dares to accept. After years of captivity in western Asia shatter his dreams, Ian finds in Laura's amber eyes hope for a future he thought impossible. Together they struggle to build a marriage unlike any other. Yet the danger and intrigue that surround them are less perilous than the veiled secrets of their own hearts. Only indomitable courage and unshakable love will free them to claim the fiery passion they both fear. ..and desire.

Julia Quinn
"Romancing Mister Bridgerton"
Avon, 2002

Penelope Featherington has secretly adored her best friend's brother for...well, it feels like forever. After half a lifetime of watching Colin Bridgerton from afar, she thinks she knows everything about him, until she stumbles across his deepest secret...and fears she doesn't know him at all.
Colin Bridgerton is tired of being thought nothing but an empty-headed charmer, tired of everyone's preoccupation with the notorious gossip columnist Lady Whistledown, who can't seem to publish an edition without mentioning him in the first paragraph. But when Colin returns to London from a trop aboard he discovers notyhing in his life is quite the same -- especially Penelope Featherington! The girl haunting his dreams. But when he discovers that Penelope has secrets of her own, this elusive bachelor must decide...is she his biggest threat -- or his promise of a happy ending?

Julia Quinn
"An Offer from a Gentleman"
Avon, 2001

Edito in Italia da Mondadori (I Romanzi).
Sophie Beckett never dreamed she'd be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball -- or that "Prince Charming" would be waiting there for her!
Though the daughter of an earl, Sophie has been relegated to the role of servant by her disdainful stepmother. But now, spinning in the strong arms of the debonair and devastatingly handsome Benedict Bridgerton, she feels like royalty. Alas, she knows all enchantments must end when the clock strikes midnight.
Who was that extraordinary woman? Ever since that magical night, a radiant vision in silver has blinded Benedict to the attractions of any other -- except, perhaps, this alluring and oddly familiar beauty dressed in housemaid's garb whom he feels compelled to rescue from a most disagreeable situation. He has sworn to find and wed his mystery miss, but this breathtaking maid makes him weak with wanting her.
Yet, if he offers her his heart, will Benedict sacrifice his only chance for a fairy tale love?

Karen Ranney
"My Beloved"
Avon, 1999

Ensnared in villianous plots, Sebastian, Earl of Langlinais, must turn to the wife he has not seen since the day they wed as children. He had not counted on being enchanted by her beauty, and soon wants her not only by his side, but in his bed. Convent-bred Julianna had spent her days learning the wifely arts, and her nights longing for the man she had wed so long ago. Summoned to join him, the native bride comes face-to-face with a man so virile, so powerful, she trembles in his presence.

Lisa Valdez
"Passion"
Berkley, 2005

Young widow Passion Dare thought she'd never love again. But a handsome earl has been pursuing her- and after a lifetime of propriety, Passion ponders throwing caution to the wind. After several heady encounters, the pair must face blackmail, learn a shocking truth-and choose between duty and desire.