Jayne Ann Krentz

Cleopatra Robbins has imagined the moment when she’ll meet the man of her dreams. When Max Fortune strides into her life, she knows it’s him–even though he’s all wrong. Max is looking for five priceless paintings bequeathed to him by his mentor; when he takes one look at Cleo, however, he nearly forgets his mission. Soon the duo are swept up in suspense and desire.

Head of the giant Curzon Hotel chain, a cynical man with a passion for rare works of art, Max is looking for five priceless paintings left to him by his mentor, Jason Curzon. With one long look at Cleo Robbins, Max knows he’s gazing on a masterpiece…and for the first time in his life, the solitary and powerful executive is overcome with the strangest desire for that wonderful institution called home. But despite their mutual attraction, Max suspects Cleo of hiding something – and by the time he realizes her secrets have nothing to do with the lost treasures, it may be too late to save her from the danger rising out of her past.

Shy, studious Irene Stenson and wild, privileged Pamela Webb had been the best of friends for one short high school summer. Their friendship ended the night Pamela dropped Irene off at home-and Irene walked in to discover her parents’ bodies on the kitchen floor. It was ruled a murder-suicide, and Irene fled the northern California town of Dunsley. But seventeen years later, when Pamela sends a cryptic e-mail asking for help, Irene returns to her hometown to find her old friend has died suddenly, leaving behind a lot of ugly, unanswered questions.

Caught up in a firestorm of desperate deceit and long-buried secrets, Irene knows it would probably be smarter to just pack up and leave Dunsley behind again, but her reporter’s instinct-and her own hunger to know the truth-compel her to extend her stay at the local lodge. Even more compelling is the man who runs the place-a hazel-eyed ex-Marine who’s as used to giving orders as Irene is to ignoring them. Luke Danner can see the terror beneath Irene Stenson’s confident exterior-and he is intent on protecting her. But he is also driven by passions of his own, and together they will risk far more than local gossip to sort out what happened to Pamela Webb, and what really happened on that long-ago summer night. . .

Eugenia Swift is a young woman of singular sensibilities, a connoisseur of beauty … and naturally inclined to tackle even the most difficult of tasks on her own. As the director of the Leabrook Glass Museum, she’s been asked to travel to Frog Cove Island – an artistic haven near Seattle – to catalog an important collection of art glass belonging to the late Adam Daventry. But thanks to unsavory rumors surrounding Daventry’s death, the museum insists that Eugenia take along Cyrus Chandler Colfax – a rough-hewn private investigator whose taste in glass runs to icy cold bottles filled with beer. When Colfax declares they must pose as a couple, Eugenia protests in terms as loud as his Hawaiian shirts. She’s loath to disclose the secret purpose of her trip: investigating the disappearance of her good friend Nellie Grant … the late Adam Daventry’s lover. Meanwhile, the green-eyed calm of Colfax’s gaze shields his own hidden agenda – locating a priceless Daventry treasure that will help him avenge an old wrong. While Eugenia has always kept her heart on a shelf, their very lives soon depend on making an utterly convincing couple. Because among the chic galleries of Frog Cove Island lurks a killer, and their only chance for survival is the boldest, most artful collaboration they can dare to imagine.

Alyssa Chandler and Jordan Kyle meet in Vegas. Alyssa is there to win money to support her sister and brother-in-law. She is a probabilities expert and would lose her job if she is found in Vegas. She meets Jordan there who is a professional gambler and their evening ends in one of passion. Alyssa decides to live a double life: to see Jordan on the weekends and work during the week. However, things heat up when Jordan shows up at her door in the middle of a business party. Alyssa is not happy and fears that he will ruin her life. She soon realizes that her world and Jordan’s is very similar in that they both have elements of illusions and that the players tend to get rough. It soon comes down to a choice that Alyssa has to make between these two worlds.

Writing as Stephanie James

Had she listened to a lover’s lies? Amy Shannon met Jase Lassiter under the sign of the serpent, and she should have heeded the warning. At first he promised paradise, offering her nights of love and days of sheer delight. But the taste of honey turned to ashes on her tongue when she thought she’d been betrayed, and only when he spoke the words of love she’d never thought to here was she returned to paradise, the serpent gone at last.

Olivia Chantry may keep her desk in disarray, but she’s a dynamo when it comes to business: her Seattle-based company, Light Fantastic, organizes dazzling events that create the flash her clients need to promote their products or their causes. Her marvelous success has almost made up for a marriage that ended in disaster and left her wedded to a career instead of a mate.

She certainly has enough on her well-sculpted shoulders when she inherits a portion — 49 percent, to be precise — of Glow, Inc., her uncle’s high-tech lighting firm. But it’s the interloper who bagged the other 51 percent with whom Olivia has butted heads: Jasper Sloan, a venture capitalist and dealmaker known as a man with all his ducks in a row, and his neat, orderly life under control.

Her heart was on the line

Jamie Garland loved working for the eccentric Miss Isabel. Her job often threw her into the company of the most fascinating people . . . like Cade Santerre. From the start, he made no secret of the fact that he desired her. And only last night, he’d tenderly made love to her ….

A morning visit from the authorities changed everything. And, angry over Cade’s apparent betrayal, Jamie sent him away. But weeks later a question still burned within her–one that could only be answered by seeking out Cade.

ISBN:  978-155166-798-0

Published:  1986

Format:  Mass Market Paperback

Pages:  249

Weight:  204g

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