Distant heart

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Katherine O'Neal

The secrets they keep are priceless. Under cover of darkness, they will steal something more precious... Beneath the sparkling facade of wealth and elegance, Jules Habsburg is living a nightmare—blackmailed into marriage by the unscrupulous robber baron Dominic DeRohan, the same man who gunned down her lover. Until the night she awakens to find a stranger in her bedroom—the notorious cat burglar known to Cote d’Azur as the Panther. Her blood pounding, she recognizes in him the one man strong enough to free her from the sadistic shackles of her husband... But the Panther is not one to be manipulated, even by a woman whose provocative beauty is matched only by her determination. Now, in the hedonistic playground of artists, actors, and aristocrats, Jules is losing her closely guarded heart to a man without identity. As forbidden passion deepens to love, is there even more danger for her in an alliance with a seductive man whose secrets could destroy them both?

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Penny Jordan

Prominent lawyer Max Crighton has it all -- money, power, the perfect home life. But for a man add to the dark and dangerous side of sexual attraction isn't enough. He goes from affair to affair, seducing his grateful female clients, putting his charmed life-style at risk. Then his luck runs out. Max is brutally attacked. And the man who comes home from the hospital is a stranger to his wife, Maddy, to his children and to himself. Can Maddy trust this man who now desperately wants them to be a family? Should she believe that this perfect sinner has truly repented?

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Lisa Gardner

What you don't know can kill you.Twenty years ago, Melanie Stokes was abandoned in a Boston hospital, then adopted by a wealthy young couple. Gifted with loving parents, a doting brother and indulgent uncle, Melanie has always considered herself lucky. Until tonight. Tonight, a has-been reporter turns up investigating her past. Tonight, the first note arrives saying, "You Get What You Deserve." And tonight, Melanie has her first, horrifying vision of the past. Melanie has no memory of her life before the adoption. Now, someone wants to give it back, even if it includes the darkest nightmare the Stokes family ever faced: the murder of their first daughter in Texas. As Melanie pursues every lead, chases every shadow in search of her real identity, two seemingly unrelated events from twenty years ago will come together in a dangerous explosion of truth.From the Paperback edition.

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Cara Colter

Once upon a time, a woman was courted by two men - but she could marry only one. So Tory Bradbury chose the safe man, the steady man. She bade goodbye to the man who made her pulse pound and her breath unsteady. And then discovered that nothing in life was ever certain .... Now a widow, Tory never expected to see her first love again. Then Adam Reed, the dangerously sexy bachelor she'd been so afraid to give her heart to all those years ago, came back. Adam claimed he'd come home only to make her smile again, but Tory saw something in his dark eyes that promised more. Could it be the rugged bachelor was ready to be a groom-- and she was the bride he was waiting for?