Romance eBooks

A scorching seduction?

Jacinta knew as soon as Paul McAlpine opened his front door that she shouldn’t stay. Gerard had warned her not to fall for Paul, his cousin, during her visit to Waitapu, New Zealand. But she already had ? ten months ago! She’d kept her distance then, determined not to give into the compelling attraction she’d felt for this man. Now she faced spending a long, hot summer in Paul’s company. How on earth was she going to deny their mutual, sizzling desire?

‘I'm going to stick close to you...closer than a lover, but I'm not going to touch you...’

He called himself Duke and, like a prince on a charger, he’d rescued Stephanie from a nightmare kidnap situation.

Stephanie felt it would be foolish to trust him when, it seemed, his tender passion could change without warning to uncompromising ruthlessness.

In effect, she was still a hostage...to Duke’s smoldering sexuality — to her own desire. And she couldn’t help wondering what the price of her freedom would be!

Meant to marry ? divided by scandal.

Anet Carruthers had always kept her past firmly where it belonged, until she met Lucas Tremaine!

Lucas Tremaine, a writer of considerable prowess, was in pursuit of Anet’s past ? for therein lay an unresolved scandal! He encountered a woman of Amazonian proportions to match his own, a woman he’d forgo anything to have.

Anet wanted Lucas but believed she was being seduced for her story. He wanted her but couldn’t get close.

Even when two people are quite clearly meant for each other, distrust is a great divider. It will take more than magic to unite this pair!

‘A mirror marriage, picture perfect but insubstantial, a mere reflection of the real thing.’

In marrying Drake Arundell, Olivia Nicholls will secure Simon’s future...and condemn her own! Though she yearns for a ‘real’ marriage with Drake, too many secrets, too many lies stand between them and the love, the passion, the substance she longs for in their relationship — but then, perhaps she has a guardian angel on her side!

‘I thought I was rid of you ? why the hell did you have to come back?’

It was eleven years ? two lifetimes ago ? since Perdita Gladstone and Luke Dennison had met last. Now the legacy of their shared past required another encounter. Perdita was no longer a gawky girl, but an assured woman with an international career. But did she have the confidence to handle a man like Luke, who made it clear that her reappearance in his life was not a welcome one?

Not only opposites attract!

When Lecia first spotted Keane Paget, his presence burned like a shining beacon. He was handsome, certainly, and profoundly male, but the face that stared back at her was otherwise her own!

Lecia was stunned...hypnotised...and it wasn’t just his likeness — an unsettling, wild attraction immediately coursed between them. They say that the greater the resemblance, the happier the relationship. But Lecia’s passions had only ever led to heartbreak — and guilt!

No, Keane Paget was dangerous. Not only did he have her face, he seemed to see inside her soul! They were too alike for comfort. Resist, resist...

Stranger in her bed.

Capri recognised the handsome man in front of her as her husband. She knew his name was Rolfe, but other than that he was a complete stranger to her. In fact, she could remember nothing at all about her life, prior to waking up in the hospital bed. Perhaps all she needed was to get home to New Zealand and her memory would return.

It didn’t, despite some shocking revelations about herself and her marriage. One thing she did know: whatever their marital problems might have been, the chemistry between them was as strong as ever. But how could she sleep with a man she barely knew — even if he was her husband?

The price of deceit...

It has been twelve years since they met — Felicia had been only a child — no wonder Joshua Tagget doesn’t recognise her. But Felicia remembers him and how he betrayed her stepsister. And now, by making his attraction to Felicia more than clear, Joshua has unwittingly given her the means to pay him back in kind for his deceit...

But Felicia isn’t immune to Joshua’s charms, and she could find it’s herself she’s deceiving if she things she can walk away from him with her heart intact...

‘Too handsome, too clever, too sure of himself, too everything.’

Lacey Kerr, at seventeen, had thought that of Tully Cleaver, before she’d made the mistake that had altered her life. And in ten years she hadn’t changed her mind. For her daughter’s sake Tully was welcome in their lives, and he had surprised Lacey by becoming a good father who wanted to be involved in Emma’s life — but he wasn’t husband material. However, when Lacey announced that she was to marry Julian Wye, Tully took action! After all, he was the father of the bride’s daughter...

In the heat of the summer...

Sunny, sensitive and full of life, Blythe Summerfield was adored by everyone ? except her mysterious new neighbour.

Jas Tratherne was the antithesis of Blythe’s spirit and he seemed determined to keep her at arm’s length. But Blythe was equally determined to free the warmth and passion she sensed behind Jas’s aloof exterior.

She succeeded ? more than a little ? but despite her pursuit and their blossoming relationship Blythe still felt that Jas held secrets he refused to share, and that if she pushed him too far what she’d unleash might be more than she could handle...

Second-time seduction!

Alex Fairchild was back! But since that shameful night seven years ago, when Judith had allowed herself to be seduced by Alex, she’d vowed she’d never lose control again...

Judith was determined to keep Alex at bay — he could only want to settle old scores. But, hard as she tried not to, she still loved and desired him. Then he offered her a challenge: spend another night with him and then, come the morning, try and walk away!

Escape from obsession!

Ebony is an Australian supermodel. She is also Alan Carstairs’s ward. Once they were close, but now it is no secret in Sydney’s glamourous fashion world that Ebony and Alan are openly hostile toward each other.

Why?

What nobody knows is that Ebony and Alan are caught up in an obsession for each other. However, both can no longer bear the pain of their all-consuming passion, and each has a plan to break free. Ebony intends to leave Alan, while he is determined to make her pay for those years of tortured desire.

She wanted a baby — but not a man!

After Miles met Maddie, she stayed on his mind. In the end he returned to Australia to get Maddie out of his system by bedding her for six months or so — marriage would never be a part of his agenda.

Which suited Maddie just fine. She adored men, but had no faith in them — and no intention of marrying, either. But she did want a baby! And Miles had all the qualities Maddie wanted in the father of her child: brains, breeding and beauty...not that she would ever let him know...

Single mum seeks experienced live-in carer for baby boy. Immediate start. Fly-by-nights need not apply.

Nick Joseph was every woman’s fantasy: darkly handsome and great with kids. Linda just couldn’t say no when he offered his services as temporary nanny to her baby boy.

Soon she was as attached to Nick as little Rory was. But Nick had made it clear he was not a marrying kind of man, so how could Linda tell him that she wanted him to look after her, and not just Rory, permanently?

What's more, how would Nick react when he learned that he was caring for his own son?

A night never to be forgotten!

Luke St. Clair had it all: looks, international success, females at his feet. But was his life-style the recipe for lasting happiness? Luke wondered if he should marry a nice Australian girl and start a family...

But would that ever happen? Eighteen months ago Luke had met the girl of his dreams in Sydney, but she’d disappeared into thin air after their brief, passionate encounter. Then a stroke of luck led him to discover her name.

Now what should Luke do ? the woman he’d always remember was Mrs Rachel Cleary!

A little white lie...

‘I’m terribly sorry,’ Hannah could hear herself saying, ‘I don’t know what came over me. I simply couldn’t let that coldhearted ambitious lady take you for another ride. When you lost the last six weeks from your memory ? including your whirlwind romance ? I thought that might be the end of Felicia. But then a nurse at the hospital said that a fianc?e had been mentioned and would I please call her. I pictured Felicia winning you all over again with her looks and her lies, so before I knew it I’d opened my stupid mouth and said I was your fiancée.’

A lingering kiss...

Angie was determined to throw off her memories of Lance Sterling. It had been nine years since her brother’s impossibly handsome friend had stolen her fifteen-year-old-heart with a kiss.

It was time to move on, time to stop comparing every man she met with Lance, time to let a man love her. Maybe there would be someone eligible at her brother’s party?

But there was an unexpected guest...Lance arrived and announced that his marriage was over. Now the temptation for a certain twenty-four-year-old virgin to try to seduce him was impossible to resist!

Look ? but don’t touch!

Carolyn was delighted when her mother married Julian. She waved off the happy couple on their honeymoon and prepared to oversee the renovation of their new home...only to discover that the architect her stepfather had commissioned was Vaughan Slater, the man who’d turned her life upside down ten years ago.

It seemed that Vaughan wasn’t deterred by Carolyn’s hostility. To him, those past events were hardly his fault; now he wanted Carolyn in a way he’d never wanted a woman before. Did he mean that this time he would seduce her, make her fall in love with him ? and stay?

In bed with her enemy!

Justin Waite made it plain that Lucy could lose everything if she didn’t marry him ? so she agreed to tie the knot. Justin had claimed he only wanted a marriage of convenience, but soon it became clear he actually wanted a wife ? in the fullest sense of the word! Justin was supposed to be Lucy’s enemy, so why was she tantalised by the thought of sleeping with her own husband?