Only love could bring understanding One moment Lauri had been a ballet student living peacefully with her aunt in Downhollow--the next, a tall, dark maitre de ballet strode into her life. Carried off by Maxim di Corte to his Venetian palace, she became like a slave to the dance. But with Maxim, Lauri also began to understand the love behind true balletic expression. There was no doubt Maxim would make Lauri submit to him as a dancer. Would she do the same as a woman?

Ravena Brenin dearly loved the kindly guardian who had brought her up — and she loved his son Rhodri Brenin even more. But she was marrying a virtual stranger, the forbidding Sardinian Mark di Curzio, a man for whom she felt nothing but apprehension and dread. She was doing it for love — but for love of her guardian, whose life would be ruined if Mark told him, as he had threatened to, that it was his son who had been responsible for the tragic death of Mark's only child. The price for Mark's silence was a high one — for all he wanted of Ravena was that she bear him a son to replace the one he had lost. Could she bring herself to pay it?

"You will stay and marry my brother." Julio Valdez spoke contemptuously. "Because of you, my brother, Ramon, is now a paralyzed cripple, with very little to live for. But he wants you, so he shall have you." Julio's hard unyielding expression warned Darcy Beaudine it was useless to argue. He was determined to tie her to a man she didn't love, in a marriage that could never be consummated. She would be forced to spend the rest of her life at Julio's Spanish estate, devoting herself to Ramon, but loving Julio. Edition Notes Original hardcover edition published in 1978 by Mills & Boon.

Chrys didn't trust men, and she had no intention of allowing herself to fall in love with one and sacrifice her career as a result. Anton de Casenove--was just the type of man she most needed to be on her guard against -- half Russian prince, half man of the desert; a romantic combination. Could even Chrys be proof against it?

What, Merlin Lakeside wondered, could she do with the love building inside her? There seemed no way to release it except by just being here... hoping that Paul van Setan wouldn't realize she was the person he had cause to hate. What would she do with the hate if she suddenly found herself at the mercy of it, deadly in Paul's blind eyes. Sang harimau, the natives called him -- king tiger. She remembered his question: "Does the word vengeance really appall you, Miss Lakeside?" MILLS AND BOON back cover: "As a nurse, Merlin had worshipped the brilliant surgeon Paul van Setan - and she was completely shattered by the dreadful accident in which she was the unwitting cause of destroying his sight and his career into the bargain. She was determined to make amends in some way - and when she learned tht Paul was now living on an island off the coast of Indonesia where he was trying to build a new life, and that he needed a secretary, she managed to get the job. But of couse he had no idea who she really was. How long could she keep the truth from him - and what would be his reaction if and when he found out?"

At the age of twenty Lorna Morel went alone to the East to see the golden sands of her dreams. She felt compelled to make a pilgrimage to the Oasis of Fadna, the place her father had loved. But there was danger for Lorna in the glowing sands. Swept up on horseback by desert kidnappers, she was rescuded by a cloaked rider who rode with her into the flaming night to his encampment beneath the Arabian stars...