The Desert Sheikh's Captive Wife

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Penny Jordan

The debt: Ionanthe will leave her freedom at the castle doors. Ancient laws demand an eye for an eye—she must pay the price for her sister's mistake.The payment: Recently crowned Prince Max plans to bring change to his country, but only after his new bride has arrived—as settlement for the debt he is owed....The price: A ruthless ruler and his virgin queen. Trembling with the fragility of a new spring bud, Ionanthe will go to her husband: She was given as penance, but he'll take her for pleasure!

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Georgette Heyer

The only question which hangs over the life of Sir Richard Wyndham, notable whip, dandy and Corinthian, is one of marriage. On the eve of making the most momentous decision of his life, while he is contemplating a loveless marriage with a woman his friends have compared to a cold poultice, he is on his way home, a little worse for drink, and finds a perfect opportunity for escape by her boring destiny. He discovers a beautiful young fugitive climbing out of a window by means of knotted sheets, dressed in boy's clothing lovely Penelope Creed is fleeing from London. She is a brilliant London heires with and lavish life, and a proposed marriage to her repulsive fish-lipped cousin, a man she loathed. She has a shimmering dream of a love she had known once--and lost. Discovered by Sir Wyndham, he can't allow her to travel to the countryside all alone, so he offers himself as her protector. And with her in flight across a landscape of excitement was a man like no other she had known-- handsome, sophisticated, but cynical. They had met by accident, been drawn together by danger. And now only his masked emotions and the shifting impulses of her own wild young heart would tell what their destiny would be.... When their stagecoach overturns, they find themselves embroiled with thieves, at the center of a murder investigation, and finally, in love.

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Helen Dickson

When rugged Captain Zack Fitzgerald sails into Santamaria, Shona McKenzie see's him as a ticket to freedom. But her sister-in-law's scheming places them in a compromising position. Zack is mesmerised by Shona, but marriage would destroy his plans to obtain guardianship over his child. So he devises a plan to make sure the wedding stays a sham. But weeks later Shona shows up on his London doorstep, and Zack must learn to deal with a very defiant wife.

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Sandra Heath

Miss Rosalind Carberry defied all warnings when she accepted Lord Philip Southvale's proposal. Her father distrusts the breathtakingly handsome, fabulously wealthy Englishman, and meanwhile rumors continue to run riot about his persisting passion for his beautiful first wife. Overshadowing everything is war fever between Philip's country and Rosalind's America. Nonetheless, Rosalind believes his warm words and her heart's ardent answer, and alone she sets sail to England to join him in wedlock. It is only when she lands that she discovers the awesome odds against her. She comes face to face with a rival who seems to hold all the cards in a game of love with no rules.