Charlotte Lamb Knihy

Baletka Dylan se do přitažlivého Rosse zamilovala na první pohled a stejně rychle se za něj provdala. Vzdala se kvůli němu všeho - kariéry, přátel a domova. Ničeho však nelituje, zvlášť když zjistí, že právě na vánoce dostanou dárek nejkrásnější: miminko. Její očekávání však náhle zkalí pochybnosti o opravdovosti manželových citů... Dylan je totiž přesvědčena, že Ross miluje jinou ženu!

Laura se dokáže ve světě mužů prosadit. Když se však rozhodne koupit si domek na venkově, narazí kosa na kámen. Jejím budoucím sousedem je Josh, který jí dává od počátku najevo, že to s ním nebude mít lehké. Pro Lauru to znamená výzvu k boji - ale když se do něj pouští, netuší ještě, jak bude tvrdý...

Nerissa je sice Benovou manželkou, ale skrývá před ním hrozné tajemství.... Nehoda jejího bratrance způsobí v jejich vztahu velmi vážnou krizi!

Měl to být nejšťastnější den v Gabriellině životě – den její svatby. Jenže muž, kterého si měla brát, ji děsí k smrti. A tak místo aby vykročila k oltáři, dala se na útěk. Své vlastní touze však nedokáže uniknout…

Ten muž je Keiře v patách. Sleduje ji přes půl světa jako dravec svoji kořist: Gerard Findlay, novinář, který větří senzaci. Zdá se, že zná všechny její chyby, všechna tajemství. Nedokázala před ním skrýt ani to nejhorší: nenasytnost.

Mladá herečka je romanticky zamilovaná do filmového režiséra, který prožil dětství v jednom z benátkých paláců a tam přišel o matku, která byla zavražděna. Herečka mu ji připomíná, jejich vztah je však negativně ovlivňován rodinnou minulostí a nevysvětlenou sebevraždou jeho ženy.

Randal Harding Though Pippa refused to get involved with him when she worked for him as his secretary, she's never quite been able to forget her ex-boss. Now Randal is back and is turning Pippa's neatly arranged life upside down; he wants her! But Pippa can't let her barriers drop. She tells herself that all the things that were against them then still hold true now. However, Randal is determined to prove at least one thing - that Pippa wants him, too!

Vicky didn't want to take Ricco seriouslyAfter all, she'd come to Florence to hide out. Bitter from the discovery that her fiance, however famous, was a first-class heel, she wasn't ready for another relationship.Besides, Ricco always seemed to have the glamorous Bianca in tow. His claim that it was only business, that she was one of his top recording artists, didn't dispel Vicky's doubts.Surely she couldn't be jealous? It just wasn't the right time or place for her to fall in love! Even if Ricco was the right man...

Temptation with a capital T Claudia had been warned -- working for Ellis Lefevre, the dynamic head of a multinational corporation, would be more than challenging. She knew he was a troublemaker, but then, that had been part of the job's appeal. But when Ellis locked her in his hotel suite to type a confidential report for an important meeting, Claudia began to have serious doubts about her boss and his unusual working methods. She was tempted to tell him what to do with his job, but that would mean severing their relationship. And Claudia didn't know if she could do that to the one man who finally set her heart on fire...>

I'll do the work, he'll get the credit Kit firmly believed that's what would happen when she had to team up with the great Adam Rothbury in making a TV documentary. Adam was brilliant, attractive, sarcastic - and Kit had never liked him. Adam acknowledged Kit's competence, but believed she owed her position to being the TV company owner's niece. In tracing the life of a deceased Polish wartime flyer and poet, Adam and Kit discovered each other - the true selves behind their working facades. And they discovered love!

Gil Martell was an infuriating man. He was getting to her again, and Caro had no idea how she had let it happen. She'd been angry with him one moment, breathless the next, all without rhyme or reason. Caro knew she wasn't as beautiful as the glamorous Miranda. She also knew that Gil only wanted her so he could retain control of Westbrooks—the family department store in London that her father was determined to buy. One thing was sure—she wouldn't be part of any business deal. But first she had to learn to resist Gil's advances....

FORBIDDEN "Something worth fighting for " Sancha's first instinct was to burn the anonymous letter. Its malicious message couldn't be true: " Do you know where your husband will be tonight? Do you know who he'll be with?" Sancha adored Mark now as much as when they were first married, even though family life meant that they were no longer so close. She'd never dreamed that her tough, handsome husband would fall into the arms of another woman The battle was on--though when Sancha confronted Mark, she discovered that the physical attraction between them was as strong as ever. But she wouldn't let herself be seduced by him.... Not yet When passion knows no reason.... "FORBIDDEN "

Surely the most terrifying thing that could happen to any woman must be for her child to be snatched — and indeed it was without doubt the worst thing that had happened to Marisa; that moment when she came out of a shop to find baby Jamie vanished would always feel like the end of everything. For most women in that dreadful situation, though, it would at least be some comfort to be sustained by their husband’s love — but for Marisa it only meant that it had brought her estranged husband Gabriel back on the scene; the last thing she had wanted to happen. For nothing had changed in the two years since she had last seen him; the same gap still yawned between them. And meanwhile — where was Jamie?

Five years ago Gerard's voice made Stephanie's knees give. Today it made her feel sick with dread as he crashed back into her life. For how long could she fight him?

"I must have an heir." Juliet stared at Simeon blankly, then her mind reeled with appalled realization--he wanted her to bear his child. She'd been forced to marry Simeon when she was just seventeen, but had fled after their disastrous wedding night. It had taken her years, but she'd finally put the whole episode behind her--she should have known she couldn't escape forever. Now Simeon had found her--and he was asking for the impossible. He needed an heir--he claimed it was the only way he'd inherit the estate. But how could she bring a child into the world when its parents didn't love each other--or did they?

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Nadine had learned to cope with the rigors of a new life in the world of television. But after one chance meeting with Sean -- a year after their divorce -- peace had fled and excitement flared dangerously. He knew it,too... and was ruthlessly prepared to use Nadine"s weakness against her. Their marriage had been a battleground of mistrust and anger; his fame as a producer had come between them... and so had hers as a model. Would the unresolved desires that held past, present and future at bay seduce her into something she knew spelled disaster?

Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition with this ISBN here. Was the past ever dead and buried? Caroline left her alcoholic husband, Peter, in an act of desperation--to save herself and their little daughter from harm. Their three-year security was shattered when Nick Holt, Peter's cousin, turned up on her doorstep--to tell her that Peter was dead and to bring them home to Peter's mother. But hardest of all to bear was Nick's contempt for her. There was no way now of counteracting the lies that Peter had told him about her--and Caroline found herself wanting Nick's good opinion.

A dark flush invaded his face. His brows met, his grey eyes threatened. "You will marry me though!" he told her curtly "Or take the consequences, and I assure you Leonie I will win. I always do."

Should she believe a stranger's words? Lissa had never heard of Luc Ferrier before. But he was well-known as Lucifer at the hotel casino where she worked. All her instincts cried out that he was dangerous--not only as a gambler, but as a man. So why should she blindly accept the shocking things he was telling her about Chris, her longtime fiance? And even if he was right about Chris, trusting Luc would be like jumping from the frying pan into the fire. For she knew exactly what Luc was after....

The fact that Christie was a successful actress and film star didn't mean that she wasn't fit to be a mother to her little son Kit - but her ex-husband Logan seemed to think it, and he was determined to take the boy away from her. Could he possibly do it?

Annie Lang, star of the TV police drama The Force, is a character known to millions. Men want to protect her; women want to be her friend. But the actress with the innocent face harbours her own terrible secret. Two very different men dominated Annie's past and both of them vanished eight years ago. Since that fateful night, ambition has driven Annie to the top. Now at the peak of her success, she has everything she has ever wanted except love. And then one day love begins to stalk her . . . How is this connected to what happened eight years ago? What else does Annie's perfect façade hide? And, after all this time, will love bring about Annie's end?

Why had Drew shown up in Paris now? Helen had managed to avoid Drew for the past six years, ensuring that if he was in one country she'd be in another. After all, theirs wasn't a real marriage anyway—Drew had wanted the business connection with her father and Helen had merely wanted to escape her parents. It was a bizarre but comfortable arrangement. But now Drew meant to claim his rights as her husband, and she had nowhere to turn. His sudden demands were frightening and confusing—as were her own surprising responses....

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LET SLEEPING PARTNERS LIE Once, Lauren Bell had nearly played spider to Sam Hardy’s fly. Seduced by his charm and devastating looks, she’d fallen for the rugged photographer. But his love ‘em and leave ‘em reputation preceded him. Lauren got out with her heart intact. . . barely. Now she was engaged to a charming and eligible man. So why was Sam’s reappearance in her life so disrupting? He haunted her dreams and her waking hours, teasing, baiting, challenging her to the final showdown. Tormented beyond reason, Lauren yearned to succumb to desire—but at what price?

Laura didn't like and didn't trust Dan Harland, and she couldn't understand why her grandfather thought so highly of him. It was obvious that Dan wanted to take control of the family firm - and her grandfather was actually encouraging him to marry her as a means of doing so. And she was horribly afraid that Dan didn't just want possession of the firm; he wanted her too...

The chemistry was explosive!Annabel's brilliant friend Charlie was a bit of a mad scientist. And although the first explosion he caused at Jerrard's lab in Norfolk had been a minor affair, this last one threatened to get him sacked.Sam Jerrard refused to listen to reason. He resented Annabel's impassioned plea on Charlie's behalf and misinterpreted it, too, in more ways than one.So Annabel stowed away in Sam's car to get him alone and have one last go at persuading him to change his mind. Then the chemical mix became truly volatile!

Sara had run away from Alex Stevenson's demands of unquestioning love, but her amnesia made her forget her year away from him... Until she saw the woman who had caused the break up of their marriage. Then shatteringly, everything fell back into place and she saw the caring and protestations of love were all part of the plan to make her stop their divorce. Her parents were in on that too constantly trying to bring them together. All of them treated her like a child - they didn't seem to realise that the pain and hurt of the past year had made her grow up into a confident woman, sure of what she wanted...but was she so sure of not wanting Alex?

Laura would never have gone to Venice had she known Sebastian would be there: despite his animal magnetism, the director of the film for which she's been nominated best supporting actress - and her former lover - has an aura of darkness and death around him. And people do die around Sebastian - deaths for which he always has a motive. So when Laura rejects Sebastian for Domenico, she is putting herself into mortal danger.

When Claudia and Ben first meet on the banks of the Seine, the sexual frisson between them is powerful, instantaneous - and mutual. But Claudia quickly begins to suspect that Ben is less interested in her than in her honorary godfather Hugh, the enigmatic Englishman who had been her father's best friend. Then Claudia's apartment is ransacked, and she herself threatened by a pair of sinister thugs. As she flees in terror to Hugh's exquisite villa on the beautiful Cap d'Antibes, Claudia is followed by Ben - and one of her attackers. The solution to the puzzle lies in the dark days of World War Two, when Edward, exiled in the South of France, with Wallis Simpson, plots deadly treason against his native land. As Claudia struggles to understand the complexities of the past, she must also grapple with her own turbulent lover or deadly enemy, Ben has caught tight hold of her heart.

I want him, she thought, and that, in itself, was shattering….Bianca was enjoying her first holiday since the death of her beloved husband, three years ago…. Until she met Gil Marquez, the owner of the hotel where she was staying.Gil opened up such intense feelings of desire in Bianca, which she hadn't known she possessed. How could she want this man with such dark intensity, yet be certain that she was falling in love…? Love can conquer the deadliest of Sins.

Seducing the boss?Bianca Milne looks the part of the ambitious female executive, with her sleek, touch-me-not looks and her cool, controlled manner. But there's another Bianca underneath she never lets the business world see. Until she's assigned to buy out Matt Hearne's company.Matt has heard rumors about Bianca—so how far will she go to clinch this deal? When he's called home to look after his little daughter, Bianca impulsively offers him her help, not anticipating that the enforced proximity will only ignite the smoldering physical attraction between them.

For years Helen's marriage to Paul Eastwood had been a disaster and a mockery. Paul was weak, selfish, and blatantly unfaithful to her. But she was still his wife and some sense of duty, some undercurrent of feeling that perhaps she was to blame in some way, made her stay with him. Paul, she felt, was a spoiled child at heart and depended on her as he did on no one else; without her he might well be finished. But now Mark Eliot had come into her life, and Helen soon had to admit that the passionate love she felt for him bore no relation to the duty and pity that was all that was left of her feeling for her husband. What would happen to her sense of duty now?

Suzy's affair with the dynamic Liam Moor had been tangled from the start and perhaps it was not suprising that it had ended in tragedy. She hadn't seen him since and didn't want to meet him again, so it was unfortunate that they were thrown together when Suzy's film director boss decided to film Liam's book. What hurt most, though, was that the unpleasant, scheming female character in the story was based on Suzy herself - a warped, bitter impression of her. How could she work with Liam under those circumstances? And would he ever believe that he was wrong about her?

Why was Gerard Findlay following Keira? He knew her secret, yes, but she could hardly believe that the foreign correspondent who had so poignantly covered the devastation of war would really be interested in the story of a supermodel who was fighting a constant battle with food. No, Gerard definitely wanted something more. Certainly, a wild attraction was flaring between them, but Keira's hope that it would turn into something more satisfying might just be pie in the sky. Or was Gerard actually the man who could fill her hunger for love?

Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition with this ISBN here. Nowhere to run Linzi York loved her husband -- but Barty had changed. His rage and growing despair since the accident had taken a brutal toll. Linzi was trapped in a nightmare. And Ritchie Calhoun knew it. Linzi and Ritchie's relationship had always remained on a cool professional level - but now facades were beginning to crumble. Needs and desires they were powerless to deny tormented them...and it was Linzi who was paying the highest price. Then a horrible tragedy shattered their lives - and Ritchie's courage proved his love in a way that few men ever could...

Ever since they got to Rome she had been fighting an erotic awareness ofhim. She couldn't silence it, this beating sensuality whenever Bruno camenear her... Bruno Falcucci was a nasty piece of work. Not only had hemanoeuvred himself into a position of power at the bank where Martine Archerworked but he had now set his eyes on conquering Martine herself! Andhowever much she found Bruno attractive, there was no way she was going tolet some Italian with come-to-bed eyes get the better of her!

Lassen Sie sich verzaubern von der wildromantischen Landschaft Cornwalls!§Kuss der Rose:Auf nach Cornwall! Rose ist sehr gespannt auf das Haus, das sie hier geerbt hat. Kaum angekommen, begegnet sie in einem malerischen Fischerdorf dem attraktiven Greg Trelawney, der ihr mit einem einzigen Kuss das Herz raubt. Dabei weiß Rose so gut wie nichts von diesem geheimnisvollen Mann, der sie an einen verwegenen Piraten erinnert.§Das Cottage am Moor:Mitten in der Nacht klopft es an der Tür. Juliet ist verblüfft, als ausgerechnet Simeon Gerard vor ihr steht - der Mann, mit dem sie zumindest auf dem Papier noch verheiratet ist. Wie hat er davon erfahren, dass sie in dem einsamen, idyllisch gelegenen Cottage am Moor Urlaub macht - und warum sucht er sie hier auf? Will er endlich anfangen, um sie zu kämpfen?§Felsen der Liebe:Der Blick aufs Meer ist atemberaubend, und Meg müsste überglücklich sein: Plötzlich gehört ihr die Hälfte von"Heron's View", ein hoch auf den Klippen gelegenes majestätisches Anwesen! Doch der andere Besitzer ist Guy Delacroix. Vor Jahren hat sie eine einzige leidenschaftliche Nacht mit ihm verbracht - und Meg erkennt erst jetzt, dass sie nie aufgehört hat, ihn zu lieben ...

Des yeux verts sous des cheveux de cuivre : Alix évoque l'image d'un beau fauve, dont elle peut avoir aussi les violentes réactions. Proie irrésistible pour le chasseur impitoyable qu'est Philippe de Vidone. Un hasard les a mis en présence ; une ruse de Philippe va attirer dans son piège la tendre proie déçue par l'amour. Va-t-elle consentir à se laisser apprivoiser par un maître à la fois autoritaire et passionné? Ou se lassera-t-elle du jeu cruel où l'amour a peu de part ?

Stunden voller Harmonie/Die Vergangenheit lässt micht nicht los/So kann nur ein Engel sein - bk873; Silhoutte pocket_book Verlag im Cora Verlag; Margery Hilton/Charlotte Lamb/Mary Wibberley; pocket_book; 1900

Die schöne junge englische Schauspielerin Laura begegnet auf dem Filmfest von Venedig ihrem früheren Liebhaber, dem Filmregisseur Sebastian Ferese, wieder. Noch immer fühlt sie sich von der dunklen Aura, die ihn umgibt, angezogen. Sie wird erneut seine Geliebte. Kurze Zeit später erhält sie Drohbriefe. Doch Laura lässt sich nicht einschüchtern; sie trifft sich weiterhin mit Sebastian und übernimmt die Hauptrolle in seinem Film. Doch ein Fluch scheint auf Lauras Anwesenheit in Venedig zu liegen ...