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"The Villa"
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001, Hardcover Reviewed on 3/26/01 | |||||
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Sopia Giambelli has never worries about competition. For three generations, the Giambelli wines have been renowned for
their quality throughout the world. The pride of the Giambelli family and a top PR executive, Sophia loves her job - and
excels at it. But things are about to change at Villa Giambelli. Tereza, the matriarch, has announced a merger with the
MacMillan family's winery - and Sophia will have a new role. As a savvy businesswoman, she knows she must be prepared
for anything... but she isn't prepared for Tyler MacMillan. They've been ordered to work together very closely, to facilitate
the merger. Sophia must teach Ty the finer points of marketing - and Ty, in turn, must show Sophia how to get down
and dirty, to use the sun, rain, and earth to coax the sweetest grapes from the vineyard. As they toil together, both
in the fields and in the company offices, Sophia is torn between a powerful attraction and a professional rivalry. At the
end of the season, the course of the company;s future - and the legacy of the villa - may take an entirely new direction.
And when acts of sabotage threaten both the family business and the family itself, Sophia's quest will be not only for
dominance, but for survival.
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"True Betrayals"
Jove, May 1996 Reviewed on 1/9/01 | |||||
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Kelsey Byden always believed that her mother was dead. But now, after all this time, she has discovered the truth: Naomi
Chadwick is still alive - after spending years in prision for the murder of her lover. Now, at Naomi's Virginia horse farm,
Kelsey is trying to sort out a lifetimeof deception - and her feelings about her mother. The bonds of love can be fragile...
as Kelsey learned from her recently ended marriage. But as the two women rebuild their relationship - and Kelsey finds
herself swept into an unsettling new relationship with Gabe Slater - she must decide once and for all who she can trust,
and who threatens to betray her.
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"Sweet Revenge"
Bantam Books, January 1989 Reviewed on 12/18/00 | |||||
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At twenty-five, Princess Adrianne lives a life most people would envy. Beautiful and elegant, she spends her days dabbling
in charities adn her nights floating from one glamorous gala to the next. But her pampered-rich-girl pose is a ruse, a
carefully calculated effort to hide a dangerous truth. For ten years Adrienne he lived for revenge. As a child, she could
only watch the cruelty hidden behind the facade of her parents' fairy-tale marriage. Now she has the perfect plan to
make her famous father pay. She will take possession of the one thing he values above all others - The Sun and the
Moon, a fabled necklace beyond price. Yet just as she is posed to take her revenge, she meets a man who seems to
divine her every secret. Clever, charming, and enigmatic, Philip Chamberlain has his own private reasons for getting close
to Princess Adrianne. And only when it's too late will she see the hidden danger... as she finds herself up against two
formidable men - one with the knowledge to take her freedom, the other with the power to take her life.
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"Genuine Lies"
Bantam Books, September 1991 Reviewed on 12/18/00 | |||||
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Eve Benedict. The glamorous screen star is still beautiful, still tough - and still has a heart as big as the legend that surrounds
her. But Eve is a woman of mystery, whose passionate affairs and tempestuous marriages have fueled gossip columns
for decades. Now she is ready to reveal her secrets to one woman... but will opening herself to Julia Summers's scrutiny
endanger the only person who will tell her truth... her way? Julia Summers. A renowned writer, as astonishingly lovely as
she was private. Julia cares for her young son - and not at all for a place in the spotlight. But no subject is as irresistible
as the glorious Eve... and no story more challenging to tell than the one nobody in Hollywood wants told. She cannot
refuse the dream job Eve offers her... but can she be seduced into keeping the secrets she learns? Paul Winthrop. Eve's
stepson and the hottest novelist in a very hot town, Paul provokes a different kind of fantasy with his bronzed muscles
and panther's grace. He has a stake in keeping Eve's image just as history has written it... but will he sacrifice the woman
he's always loved for a chance to write his own happy ending?
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"Carolina Moon"
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2000, HC Reviewed on 5/7/00 | |||||
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Tory Bodeen grew up in South Carolina, in a small run-down house, where her father ruled with an
iron fist and a leather belt - and where her dreams and talents had no room to flourish. But she had Hope, who lived in
the big house just a short skip away and whose friendship allowed Tory to be something she wasn't allowed to be at home:
a child. After young Hope's brutal murder, unsolved to this day, Tory's lifebegan to fall apart. And now, as she returns
to her hometown, with plans to settle in and open a stylish home-design shop, she is determined to find a measure of
peace and free herself from the haunting visions of the past. As she forges a new bond with Cade Lavelle - Hope's older
brother and heir to the family fortune - she isn't sure whether the tragic loss they share will unite them or drive them
apart. But she is willing to open her heart, just a little, and try. Living so close to those unhappy memories will be more
difficult and frightening than Tory could ever have expected, however. Because Hope's murderer is near by as well.
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"River's End"
Jove, May 2000 Reviewed on 5/7/00 | |||||
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Olivia's parents were among Hollywood's golden couples... unitl the night a monster came
and took her mother away forever. A monster with the face of the father... Sheltered from the truth, an older
Olivia only dimly recalls her night of terror - but her recurring nightmares make her realize she must piece together
the real story. Assisted by Noah Brady, the son of the officer who found her cowering in her closet so many years
before, she may have her chance. Noah wants to reconstruct the night that has become an infamous part of Hollywood
history. He also wants to help Olivia and heal the longing in her lonely heart. But once the door to her past is opened,
there's no telling what's waiting on the other side. For somewhere, not far away, the monster walks again.
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"The Reef"
Jove, October 1999 Reviewed on 11/9/99 | |||||
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Marine archeologist Tate Beaumont has a passion for treasure-hunting. Over the years, she
and her father have uncovered many fabulous riches, but one treasure has always eluded them: Angelique's Curse -
a jeweled amulet heavy with history, dark with legend, and tainted with blood. In order to find this precious artifact,
the beaumonts reluctantly form a partnership with salvagers Buck and Matthew Lassiter. Having to share this dream
is more than tate can bear, but she has little choice. As the Beaumonts and Lassiters pool their resources to locate
Angelique's Curse, the Caribean waters thicken and darken with shadowy deceptions and hidden threats. Their partnership
is placed in jeopardy when Matthew refuses to share information - including the thruth behind his father's mysterious
death several years earlier. For now, Tate and Matthew continue their uneasy alliance - until danger and desire begin
to rise to the surface.
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"Homeport"
Jove, March 1998 Reviewed on 7/5/99 | |||||
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The Maine air is bitterly cold when Dr. Miranda Jones arrives at the family home after a busy
lecture tour. But her blood turns to ice when she suddenly feels the knife against her throat. The unseen assailant
steals her bags, slashes her tires, and disappears. Deeply shaken, Miranda is determined to put the experience
behind her. Distraction comes when she is summoned to Italy - to verify the authenticity of a Renaissance bronze
of a Medici courtesan known as The Dark Lady. But instead of cementing Miranda's reputation as the leading
expert in the field, the job nearly destroys it when her professional judgement is called into question. Emotionally
estranged from her mother, with a brother immersed in his own troubles, Miranda has no one to turn to... except
Ryan Boldari, a seductive art thief whose own agenda forces them into a reluctant alliance. Now it becomes clear
that the incident in Maine was not a simple mugging - and that The Dark Lady may possess as many secrets
as its beautiful namesake once did. For Miranda, forced to rely on herself - and a partner who offers her both unnerving
suspicion and intoxicating passion - the only way home is filled with deception, treachery, and a danger that threatens
them all.
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"Carnal Innocence"
Bantam, January 1992 Reviewed on 7/5/99 | |||||
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Strangers don't stay strangers for long in Innocence, Mississippi , as witty, urbane and beautiful
Caroline Waverly is quick to discover. Fame has taken its toll on the celebrated concert violinist, what with grueling
tours and high-pressure performances, climaxing in an all-too-public breakup with the world-class conductor who is
also her lover... All Caroline wants from her stay in Innocence is a chance to be out of the spotlight - to live quietly
in her family's secluded old bayou home with it's lace-curtained windows and shady front porch. But what she is about
to learn is that even in a town called innocence secrets have no place to hide, and in the heat of the steamy summer
night it only takes a single spark to ignite a deadly crime of passion... For the sleepy bliss of Innocence is shattered
forever by the deadly strikes of a killer at large, and Caroline falls under the spell of a town with a darkly deceptive
nature... and a smooth-talking, irresistible Southern charmer named Tucker Longstreet whose seductive touch awakens
her own carnal desires - and ensnares her in a killer's crazed dreams.
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