The Haviland touch

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Elizabeth Ashton

The big ambition of Clare's life was to write a romantic novel—but how could she, when she had absolutely no personal experience of love or romance? Then she met Christopher Raines, who was certainly romantic and an experienced man of the world—but was he really the best person to choose for her research? Wouldn't any experience she shared with him be likely to be hurtful rather than useful? For Chris's pet name for her was 'brown sparrow'! Where was that going to get her—especially when his old flame, Violetta Albanesi turned up, ready to rekindle the fire!

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Helen MacInnes

When a penniless undergraduate and the daughter of a wealthy family fall in love, the odds are against them. But this draws them closer than a love more easily won.

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Mary Wibberley

Shelley's father made her life unbearable When Shelley's domineering father, Charles, sent her to Avala on business, she thought he had finally acknowledged her independence. Then handsome island entrepreneur Vargen Gilev pointed out that Shelley was being followed. Charles's spy was proof that Shelley was still under her father's thumb. But Vargen offered a means of permanent escape. All it would cost Shelley was six months of her new freedom--six months of marriage to Vargen!

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Anne Rivers Siddons

A single event in her childhood irrevocably marked Catherine Gaillard -- and made it impossible for her to leave her cloistered mountaintop town in Tennessee for the next thirty years. But her devotion to her husband, Joe, and her desire to forever put the incident behind her propel Cat on a life-changing trip to Italy.Making their way across the countryside of Tuscany with two other couples, Cat and Joe soon feel themselves pulled in different directions, and the fabric of their marriage begins to unravel. Expanding beyond the bounds of a carefree trip, their journey takes them deep into the heart of their relationship...and becomes the ultimate test of their love.