18 books like Two Loves
Sweet Cassandra
Would he ever marry her?
Cassandra's happy homelife vanished with her mother's remarriage to a man Cass called the "General." He was an overbearing tyrant, used to his own way, who considered Cass a nuisance. Yet he did not hesitate to pass judgement on her boyfriends--and he absolutely forbid her to marry Kevin Martin. And her timid mother agreed with him. Leaving home would cut her off…
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Nightingale's song
It all happened too fast....
Celia's long lost father appeared and announced that he was a millionaire. Now, in his last days, he wanted to share his life, and his wealth with his only kin - his daughter. Celia was taken from her drab London flat to her father's fabulous villa in Monte Carlo. There she met Philippe, the dashingly handsome Frenchman who swept her into a confusion of fiery…
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The Fire of Love
The Malevolent Legacy
The mysterious Lady Lynche's dying wish was that her small son be returned to Lynche Castle where he could claim his inheritance. Lovely Carina Warner, alone and penniless, agreed to accompany him despite misgivings. What she would discover at Lynche Castle would more than justify her fears.
Along with their dreadful secret, the ancient walls held a darkly handsome young…
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Falconridge
Beautiful, young Lauren Moore had been left penniless and homeless after the death of her mother, and Aunt Helena's unexpected invitation to live with her at Falconridge seemed almost too good to be true. She also found herself strangely drawn to darkly and handsome Norman Wade, her arrogant cousin by marriage. It wasn't long before Lauren realized that many inexplicable things happened at this…
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The Master of Phoenix Hall
One dear friend--One deadly foe
One day lovely young Angela Todd was a seamstress struggling to sustain herself in London; the next, she was independent and owner of a charming country cottage. Her legacy gave her everything she had ever wanted. Not even a series of cruel pranks, strange "accidents" and shrill threats could shake her resolve to remain at Dower House.
Gentle Greg Ingram, the…
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Danger at Dahlkari
Lauren Gray leaves England for exotic India after finishing school, but on the way her caravan is attacked by ritual murderers and her life barely saved, she begins her great adventure.
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You Have Chosen
Toni tried to boy love, but she didn't know the price would be so high...
Toni Kenyon was young and pretty and passionately fond of all that life had to offer, but at this particular moment it seemed to offer nothing but unhappiness. For her best friend Helena had become engaged to the most wonderful man Toni had ever met. Nicholas Brendon; but Toni knew she was marrying him not for love, but…
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Armour Against Love
Uncertainty.
Christine read the letter in disbelief. Was she really to have another chance? Could she bear to return to her childhood home to care for her brother's three orphan children? She had run away with a married actor twenty years before and the village had not forgotten the scandal. Hunger and failure and loss of love had altered Christine's golden-haired beauty, but in spite of…
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The Changing Years
She discovered that her husband was married with another woman.
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A heart is broken
Too late for love.
Lovely young Mela thought her heart was broken when her fiance Tim found a new love. Jilted, she tries to escape from unhappiness by flying to England, perhaps working as secretary for her uncle, who is a member of the Government, she could forget the loss of love. But when she arrived in London, her uncle was dead, killed through enemy action. She finds there is some mystery…
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Betrayal at Blackcrest
Spiderweb of Passion.
The great, grim manor of Blackcrest held many secrets for beautiful young Deborah Lane. London and safety seemed worlds and centuries away as she tried to discover what had happened here to her lovely cousin, whose face and name none in the house claimed to remember.
Yet even as she tried to pierce the veil of fearful mystery, Deborah felt herself falling -- like her…
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Wherever Lynn Goes
Rings of doom.
The phone calls had started again, even after Lynn had the number unlisted. They were always the same, the same low, husky voice saying "Lynn, Lynn, it's Daddy." They were sick, someone's poor idea of a joke. Lynn's father had been dead for years.
Then one night Lynn's aunt phoned, tried to warn her about something and was disconnected by death. The police said that her murderer…
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Room Beneath the Stairs
As a child, Carolyn Dawson had love playing on Greycliff, an island off the Cornish coast owned by the rich and powerful Brandon family. There, she had met dashing once with Grey Brandon, the heir to the estate, and she had never forgotten him. Yet he had no memory of their brief, but shattered past. Now, he wanted to make her mistress of Greycliff Manor, his magnificent but eerie estate.…
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The Seagull's Cry
A tempestuous love story set in one of the wildest corners of Cornwall.
Tansy Trehearn was born and bred in the beautiful and little Cornish port of the village St. Ruthyn, where Martin Wyde was opening a small hotel, The Seagull's Cry. Tansy was falling in love with her employer Martin. She had never been so bewildered, she had met the one man she could ever love, and found that she had to…
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The First Long Kiss
Gemma Grantham and Bette Dickens decide to have a really luxurious holiday and pool their joint savings, they had seen pictures just like this in glamour magazines, smart sun brown girls in chic clothes in the south of France. Longing for romance they move into a suite at the fabulous Hotel Splendide, and to add excitement to their joy. The fabulous resort palace that loomed before Gemma seemed…
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Loving and Giving
Friday's child is loving and giving. Juliet had devoted her life to the care of crippled and deprived children. But when she left London to work in the South of France, the phrase was to take on a deeper meaning. For Julia's new life was to bring her too much love, and too much pain, when she fell in love with a man who belonged to someone else.
Juliet had always thought of love as a sacred bond…
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Stranger by the Lake
New man at the manor.
Pretty Susan Marlow had always loved Greenwood Manor and its crusty, delightful mistress, her aunt, Lady Agatha Gordon. But now, when Susan returned to the stately old mansion, all seemed utterly changed. There was a man at Greenwood now, a tall, powerful, breathtakingly handsome man. His name was Craig Stanton, and Lady Agatha had made him her permanent guest. She called…
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When Emmalyn Remembers
The weathered blood of Henrietta Stern still stained the veranda of the dilapidated seaside mansion she had willed to Emmalynn, who lapsed into a state of amnesia rather than remember the horror of the ax murder she had witnessed.
But perhaps it would be better to close the case as the police had done when Burt Reed, the accused murderer, died in jail. Certainly it would be wiser, for Burt's…
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