https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Missmary 2026-05-31T14:28:27Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.34.2 https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Return_To_Yesterday&diff=70557 2008-07-26T20:19:02Z

<p>Missmary: New page: Perhaps, at seventeen, Catlin had been too young to marry such an experienced, attractive man as Conal Loring; at any rate, the marriage had broken up in a very short time and she had not ...</p> <hr /> <div>Perhaps, at seventeen, Catlin had been too young to marry such an experienced, attractive man as Conal Loring; at any rate, the marriage had broken up in a very short time and she had not seen him for six years. Now, though, she had to see him again, to ask for help that only he could give her.<br /> <br /> And Conal was having the effrontery to suggest that she might go back to him! Yet he was still the same Conal who had been too much for her before, still the same Conal with a never-ending stream of glamorous girl-friends. What was the point of trying to revive anything between them?</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=A_Forbidden_Desire&diff=70556 2008-07-26T20:16:42Z

<p>Missmary: New page: Already promised Jacinta knew as soon as he opened the door that she shouldn’t stay. Gerard had warned her not to fall for his cousin during her visit to Waitapu. But she already had - ...</p> <hr /> <div>Already promised<br /> <br /> Jacinta knew as soon as he opened the door that she shouldn’t stay. Gerard had warned her not to fall for his cousin during her visit to Waitapu. But she already had - ten months ago! She’d kept her distance then, terrified by the compelling attraction she’d felt for this man. Now, to spend the whole summer in his company - how on earth was she going to do it?<br /> <br /> Paul McAlpine promised himself as she stood on his doorstep that he would not submit to his desire for this woman who had mesmerised him in Fiji. He’d vowed to spend his time in Auckland this summer, but somehow she kept drawing him back to Waitapu. She was clearly out of bounds to him - even if she seemed to forget that she was engaged to his cousin...</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Shadow_Of_The_Past&diff=66064 2008-06-11T11:59:06Z

<p>Missmary: New page: 'What the hell are you doing here?' He spoke softly, but his hostility was clear. Morag would have enjoyed returning to Wharuaroa, where she'd been happy as a teenager, except for meetin...</p> <hr /> <div>'What the hell are you doing here?'<br /> <br /> He spoke softly, but his hostility was clear.<br /> <br /> Morag would have enjoyed returning to Wharuaroa, where she'd been happy as a teenager, except for meeting Thorpe Cunningham again. His words showed that he still believed she had treated his brother, Graham, badly.<br /> <br /> Of course, if she'd had any sense of self-preservation she'd have refused to accompany Sally and her children up here when she discovered her employer was Thorpe's sister. But she was here to do a job. She wouldn't let Thorpe's opinion bother her!</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Wife_In_Exchange&diff=66063 2008-06-11T11:58:16Z

<p>Missmary: New page: He was a man without mercy Kaara knew that before the night was over she would become Juan de Carvallos's possession. Abducted, held prisoner, she would be ravished like some captive woma...</p> <hr /> <div>He was a man without mercy<br /> <br /> Kaara knew that before the night was over she would become Juan de Carvallos's possession. Abducted, held prisoner, she would be ravished like some captive woman of old, a victim of the Spaniard's lust for revenge against her brother.<br /> <br /> Fear clogged Kaara's throat so that she couldn't speak. It was like a nightmare but the man facing her was real.<br /> <br /> 'You can't prevent me from doing what I want with you,' Juan said harshly 'I'll keep you shackled close to me, Kaara, until you learn to love the chains that bind you.'</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Summer_At_Awakopu&diff=66062 2008-06-11T11:57:29Z

<p>Missmary: New page: He was a 'love 'em and leave 'em' man Janey Bowden could never cope with man like Theo Carrington - a man who had captured hearts and cast them aside at his pleasure. And Janey was the ki...</p> <hr /> <div>He was a 'love 'em and leave 'em' man<br /> <br /> Janey Bowden could never cope with man like Theo Carrington - a man who had captured hearts and cast them aside at his pleasure. And Janey was the kind of selfless, untouched young girl Theo had never known.<br /> <br /> 'You're a fool to love me,' he told her savagely. 'Go away before I forget the last bit of chivalry I have left!'<br /> <br /> Janey had to obey. But would she spend the rest of her life longing for a man who needed no one?</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Prince_Of_Lies&diff=66061 2008-06-11T11:54:29Z

<p>Missmary: New page: 'I'm going to stick close to you...closer than a lover, but I'm not going to touch you...' He called himself Duke and, like a prince on a charger, he'd rescued Stephanie from a nightmare ...</p> <hr /> <div>'I'm going to stick close to you...closer than a lover, but I'm not going to touch you...'<br /> <br /> He called himself Duke and, like a prince on a charger, he'd rescued Stephanie from a nightmare kidnap situation.<br /> <br /> Stephanie felt it would be foolish to trust him when, it seemed, his tender passion could change without warning to uncompromising ruthlessness.<br /> <br /> In effect, she was still a hostage...to Duke's smoldering sexuality - to her own desire. And she couldn't help wondering what the price of her freedom would be!</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Tiger_Eyes_-_Robyn_Donald&diff=66060 2008-06-11T11:53:25Z

<p>Missmary: New page: Love Trap... &quot;He's tough and he's brilliant and he's got no weaknesses.&quot; That was how Leo Dacre's brother had described him. And Tansy Ormerod was about to find out just how accurate thos...</p> <hr /> <div>Love Trap...<br /> <br /> &quot;He's tough and he's brilliant and he's got no weaknesses.&quot; That was how Leo Dacre's brother had described him. And Tansy Ormerod was about to find out just how accurate those words were! Leo intended to find out exactly what had happened to his drop-out half-brother Ricky. Tansy knew, but had no intention of telling him. But Leo wasn't used to being denied...especially by someone like Tansy! So when bribes and threats failed, he kidnapped her. Tansy was confident she would survive the ordeal intact. But that was before she realised the passions that Leo could release in her...</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Dark_Fire&diff=66059 2008-06-11T11:52:06Z

<p>Missmary: New page: Dancing with the devil... 'You're certainly not in love With Paul. Because you want to go to bed with me.' Devilish words indeed. But what made Flint Jansen so arrogantly assume that Aura...</p> <hr /> <div>Dancing with the devil...<br /> <br /> 'You're certainly not in love With Paul. Because you want to go to bed with me.' Devilish words indeed. But what made Flint Jansen so arrogantly assume that Aura would choose him over Paul - his friend and Aura's warm and loyal fiancee? From the moment they met, he had shattered Aura's world. It was true, she found him undeniably attractive, overwhelmingly charismatic. So much so that she now faced a battle with her conscience and with Flint; both demanded that she abandon security and her fiancee . She had to cancel the wedding - but could she entrust herself to Flint's dark seduction...?</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=The_Colour_Of_Midnight&diff=66058 2008-06-11T11:50:22Z

<p>Missmary: New page: 'I'm Stella's sister And Minerva Robertson wanted to know why, with everything to live for, Stella had chosen to die. The only person who might be able to give her an answer was wickedly ...</p> <hr /> <div>'I'm Stella's sister<br /> <br /> And Minerva Robertson wanted to know why, with everything to live for, Stella had chosen to die. The only person who might be able to give her an answer was wickedly attractive Nick Peveril, Stella's husband. But he wasn't the conventional grieving widower. What was Minerva to make of him? And should she fight the passion she felt for him?</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Island_Enchantment&diff=66057 2008-06-11T11:49:55Z

<p>Missmary: New page: Just for thought She'd fallen into his plans like the naive fool she was - allowing him to charm her totally and to use the bewildering response of her body against her. Behind his devas...</p> <hr /> <div>Just for thought<br /> <br /> She'd fallen into his plans like the naive fool she was - allowing him to charm her totally and to use the bewildering response of her body against her.<br /> <br /> Behind his devastating facade was a ruthless businessman-a man determined to steal her home and her livelihood in the north of New Zealand.<br /> <br /> That had been seven years ago. Now, face-to-face once again with Guy Lorimer , Mike couldn't run from the dark spell that still drew her to him. And she knew the only way to break free was to give in to her desires - totally, recklessly - and let the pieces fall.</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Paradise_Lost&diff=66056 2008-06-11T11:45:59Z

<p>Missmary: New page: Tide of passion Blair Doyle had set off in search of paradise - or at least a refuge from the real world, a place where she could pick up the pieces of a failed marriage and learn to feel...</p> <hr /> <div>Tide of passion<br /> <br /> Blair Doyle had set off in search of paradise - or at least a refuge from the real world, a place where she could pick up the pieces of a failed marriage and learn to feel again.<br /> <br /> On a strip of beach she met Hugh Bannatyne, a man who had also known suffering. Hugh made it clear that he shared her determination to remain unattached. Yet beneath his outward composure burned a heat that called to something as intense in Blair.<br /> <br /> By night, Hugh's desire summoned her, freeing them both from invisible chains. But come daybreak, the barricades surrounding Hugh's control were back. And the paradise that Blair had glimpsed was lost....</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Pagan_Surrender&diff=66055 2008-06-11T11:45:14Z

<p>Missmary: New page: Reckless Tegan hadn't seen Kieran Sinclair in ten years, but the memoory of his ruthless words still branded her - his savage contempt for the way he believed she'd so heartlessly jilted ...</p> <hr /> <div>Reckless<br /> <br /> Tegan hadn't seen Kieran Sinclair in ten years, but the memoory of his ruthless words still branded her - his savage contempt for the way he believed she'd so heartlessly jilted his wheelchair-bound friend marked her soul.<br /> <br /> Now their lives collide again and it's as if the intervening years had never happened. Kieran is fired by a dangerous excitement; he remains as threatening as the dark clouds of an impending storm. And Tegan still can't fight the unbridled attraction she has always felt for him. But is there any hope for a relationship where the final surrender remains shrouded by so many unanswered questions?</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=The_Stone_Princess&diff=66054 2008-06-11T11:44:43Z

<p>Missmary: New page: Once upon a time... Exciting, dangerous men do not make good husbands. But neither do excitable, passionate adolescents make reasonable wives. And so, with a little help from a big misun...</p> <hr /> <div> Once upon a time...<br /> <br /> Exciting, dangerous men do not make good husbands. But neither do excitable, passionate adolescents make reasonable wives. And so, with a little help from a big misunderstanding, Petra's marriage to New Zealand businessman Caine Fleming had failed very quickly.<br /> <br /> fu the eight years since Caine had left, Petra had grown up - hiding her pain behind a glossy, brittle mask of sophistication. Now her cool demeanor only makes Caine more determined to break through that calm, serene shield to force the real Petra Fleming out of hiding - and turn the stone princess back into a passionate woman.</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Once_Bitten,_Twice_Shy&diff=66053 2008-06-11T11:44:00Z

<p>Missmary: New page: Beauty and the beast Fashion model Simone Atkinson had her reasons for being afraid of men whose guarded expressions hid private demons. Which is why all alarms went off when Angus Grey b...</p> <hr /> <div>Beauty and the beast<br /> <br /> Fashion model Simone Atkinson had her reasons for being afraid of men whose guarded expressions hid private demons. Which is why all alarms went off when Angus Grey began his pursuit. He' d obviously convinced himself he knew exactly the kind of woman she was.<br /> <br /> Lost in a wasteland of bitter desire, Angus expected a greedy little sensualist, but Simone vowed to prove him wrong. Fascinated by his strength, his gentleness, the passion he kept so fIrmly under control, she was tempted to let down her guard. Dare she give love a second chance?</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=The_Golden_Mask&diff=66052 2008-06-11T11:43:28Z

<p>Missmary: New page: She wasn't a child anymore! Eden knew little of life beyond her family's New Zealand sheep station. She realized exactly how little when Blade Hammond returned to Onemahutu. Five years...</p> <hr /> <div> <br /> She wasn't a child anymore!<br /> <br /> Eden knew little of life beyond her family's New Zealand sheep station. She realized exactly how little when Blade Hammond returned to Onemahutu. Five years had only enhanced his golden looks and rugged physique - and Eden's teenage crush. A crush that was now fueled by desire.<br /> <br /> Blade made it clear he still thought her a child. She couldn't compete with the glamorous sophisticates he dated - she could only suffer the torment of loving a man so far out of reach. But had Eden just imagined the flash of white-hot emotion behind the golden mask of Blade Hammond' s features - or had Blade finally realized she was a woman...?</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Some_Kind_Of_Madness&diff=66051 2008-06-11T11:42:47Z

<p>Missmary: New page: 'Yuu're running scared, Laurel.' And according to Alick Forsythe, she didn't even know what she was really running from. Wrong. Laurel knew all too well. Alick was exciting but dangerous...</p> <hr /> <div>'Yuu're running scared, Laurel.'<br /> <br /> And according to Alick Forsythe, she didn't even know what she was really running from.<br /> <br /> Wrong. Laurel knew all too well. Alick was exciting but dangerous, and that kind of potent attraction in a man had led to her disastrous marriage - an experience she never wanted to repeat.<br /> <br /> Alick, however, made it Quite clear that he didn't intend to take no for an answer. Laurel thought about trying to get away - but, for some reason, she knew that submitting to the inevitable would be so much easier</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=A_Summer_Storm&diff=66050 2008-06-11T11:42:02Z

<p>Missmary: New page: His intentions couldn't be honorable 'I find you profoundly, shatteringly attractive,' Blaize Stephenson told Oriel. But what on earth could a man with his success and money see in a gawk...</p> <hr /> <div>His intentions couldn't be honorable<br /> <br /> 'I find you profoundly, shatteringly attractive,' Blaize Stephenson told Oriel. But what on earth could a man with his success and money see in a gawky primary schoolteacher with an inferiority complex?<br /> <br /> Oriel didn't doubt that Blaize might be intrigued by her, but certainly not on a long-term basis. And Oriel wasn't prepared to be a rich man's passing fancy.<br /> <br /> Extricating herself from Blaize's grasp was more complicated than she expected. The fact that she'd fallen in love with him didn't help....</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=A_Matter_Of_Will&diff=66049 2008-06-11T11:41:16Z

<p>Missmary: New page: Women fell for Matt Duncan like ninepins Lora, however, had no intention of being added to the throng. 'I wouldn't have Matt Duncan,' she said, 'if he were delivered to me on a plate, wit...</p> <hr /> <div>Women fell for Matt Duncan like ninepins<br /> <br /> Lora, however, had no intention of being added to the throng. 'I wouldn't have Matt Duncan,' she said, 'if he were delivered to me on a plate, with an apple in his mouth and a bottle of French champagne.'<br /> <br /> After all, she had reason enough to dislike the man before she even met him - he<br /> <br /> was responsible for hounding her half-brother out of the country.<br /> <br /> Matt was a dangerous man to cross. And, as lora soon realized, a stunningly attractive one....</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=No_Guarantees&diff=66048 2008-06-11T11:40:37Z

<p>Missmary: New page: It was hard to keep a distance between them Because her late husband had made no secret of his hatred for auinn Fraser, Camilla had tried to keep away from the man. But auinn Fraser was ...</p> <hr /> <div>It was hard to keep a distance between them<br /> <br /> Because her late husband had made no secret of his hatred for auinn Fraser, Camilla had tried to keep away from the man.<br /> <br /> But auinn Fraser was an arrogant, superior aristocrat-not the sort to respond to that sort of treatment. He was used to taking what he wanted. And it appeared he wanted Camilla.<br /> <br /> However hard she fought the attraction between them, she knew that the end result was inevitable. Perhaps she should just give in and save herself the struggle....</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=A_Bitter_Homecoming&diff=66047 2008-06-11T11:39:46Z

<p>Missmary: New page: He was wrong in his assessment of her Completely wrong. But as far as Leon Venetos was concerned, there was no smoke without fire. The scandalmongers had branded Alexa as the mistress of...</p> <hr /> <div>He was wrong in his assessment of her<br /> <br /> Completely wrong. But as far as Leon Venetos was concerned, there was no smoke without fire.<br /> <br /> The scandalmongers had branded Alexa as the mistress of wealthy financier Sam Darcy and that was enough for Leon. 'Women like you are easily bought for the price of a fewjewels,' he told her contemptuously.<br /> <br /> That was why Alexa fought so hard against the attraction that drew her inexorably toward him. A man who could never offer her what she really wanted....</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Love%27s_Reward_-_Robyn_Donald&diff=66046 2008-06-11T11:39:04Z

<p>Missmary: New page: She'd been taught never to trust anyone Wealthy socialite Cathy Durrant had grown up in a family where the ability to dominate was regarded as an art. Eventually her acquired ruthlessness...</p> <hr /> <div>She'd been taught never to trust anyone<br /> <br /> Wealthy socialite Cathy Durrant had grown up in a family where the ability to dominate was regarded as an art. Eventually her acquired ruthlessness had led to a failed marriage and wreaked havoc with innocent lives. But after five remorse-filled years. cathy had changed.<br /> <br /> Try telling that to New Zealand playwright Jake Ferrers. though. He was sure she was still a predatory siren - and bent on destroying his sister's marriage to a childhood friend of Cathy's.<br /> <br /> Faced with Jake's suspicions. Cathy was distressed by the sizzling currents flowing between them. She knew that she and Jake were scarred souls for whom trust would come slowly - if ever.</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=The_Sweetest_Trap&diff=66045 2008-06-11T11:38:29Z

<p>Missmary: New page: &quot;You'll be quite safe with me.&quot; Initially these simple words comforted Cressida, narrowly saved from the terrifying storm at sea that had taken her father's life. Physically and emotio...</p> <hr /> <div> <br /> &quot;You'll be quite safe with me.&quot;<br /> <br /> Initially these simple words comforted Cressida, narrowly saved from the terrifying storm at sea that had taken her father's life. Physically and emotionally she needed the security of her rescuer, Luke Scrivener's New zealand homestead and his powerful broad shoulders to lean on.<br /> <br /> But once surrounded by Luke's calm, immovable strength, Cressida, after years of being cloistered and controlled by her father, instinctively rebelled.<br /> <br /> It would be far too easy to become dependent once again - dependent, powerless and possessed by the magnetism of this vital man.</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Captives_Of_The_Past&diff=66043 2008-06-11T11:37:05Z

<p>Missmary: New page: Jennet was sure of one thing... There'd be no welcome for her at Te Purirj Station - especially not from her stepbrother, Rafe Hollingworth. To Rafe she would always be an amoral, schemin...</p> <hr /> <div>Jennet was sure of one thing...<br /> <br /> There'd be no welcome for her at Te Purirj Station - especially not from her stepbrother, Rafe Hollingworth. To Rafe she would always be an amoral, scheming troublemaker!<br /> <br /> Still, she had to try. She just couldn't let her half sister, Melly, marry Derek Compton.<br /> <br /> Jennet's own marriage to Derek Compton had ended four years earlier - for reasons she'd never disclosed to her family. But now, to save Melly, she'd have to risk her own chance for future happiness. And risk Rafe's continued hatred and contempt. If onlyshe didn't love him....</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Long_Journey_Back&diff=66040 2008-06-11T11:36:20Z

<p>Missmary: New page: Where she was concerned Trent had no scruples. Nothing - not even Trent's divorce - could alter the fact that he'd cruelly jilted Melly in favor of a more advantageous marriage. His unden...</p> <hr /> <div>Where she was concerned Trent had no scruples.<br /> <br /> Nothing - not even Trent's divorce - could alter the fact that he'd cruelly jilted Melly in favor of a more advantageous marriage. His undeniable love for her only made his betrayal all the more searing, her return to New Zealand even more unsettling.<br /> <br /> Trent wanted her back. No, demanded it! Passion, trust...the lot. His single-minded ambition was to lay bare her love for him at any cost. Yet he hardly even tried to explain the past.<br /> <br /> And until he did, how could Melly trust opportunity not to sway his ambition a second time?</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=The_Guarded_Heart&diff=66039 2008-06-11T11:35:21Z

<p>Missmary: New page: His was a terrible vengeance Alannah's thoughtlessness when she was sixteen had caused an accident with tragic consequences. Then, three years later, when she'd finally come to terms with...</p> <hr /> <div>His was a terrible vengeance<br /> <br /> Alannah's thoughtlessness when she was sixteen had caused an accident with tragic consequences. Then, three years later, when she'd finally come to terms with the past, she was painfully reminded of her guilt. Nicholas Challoner, haunted, brooding for his dead wife and unborn child, was not a man to forget -or to forgive.<br /> <br /> He demanded a retribution that only Alannah could pay. And the elaborate web he had woven as part of his revenge left her no way<br /> out!</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Mansion_For_My_Love&diff=66038 2008-06-11T11:34:37Z

<p>Missmary: New page: 'He's not a good man to fall in love with!' Faine had not ignored the warning, but even without his wealth, charm and good looks, Burke Harding had a magnetism. His determined pursuit an...</p> <hr /> <div>'He's not a good man to fall in love with!'<br /> <br /> Faine had not ignored the warning, but even without his wealth, charm and good looks, Burke Harding had a magnetism.<br /> <br /> His determined pursuit and assault on her heart soon overcame her wavering resistance. She agreed to marry him, but some deep instinct of self-preservation kept her from revealing her love - and in time her decision was vindicated.<br /> <br /> 'I carefully avoided telling you that I love you, ' he told her when Faine discovered she was a stand-in for the woman he really loved - but could not have.</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=The_Dark_Abyss&diff=66037 2008-06-11T11:33:46Z

<p>Missmary: New page: Amnesia wrapped her in its soft cocoon Luce had awakened in hospital with no memory. And the New Zealand police, despite an extensive search, had found no trace of her former self. So for...</p> <hr /> <div>Amnesia wrapped her in its soft cocoon<br /> <br /> Luce had awakened in hospital with no memory. And the New Zealand police, despite an extensive search, had found no trace of her former self. So for two years she had simply got on with living.<br /> <br /> Then she met Conn Ramsay ... and something stirred in her darkened mind. Every glance he gave her, every touch evoked a passionate response. Surely she must have known, him intimately in the past!<br /> <br /> Luce couldn't help falling in love with Conn, But she feared him, too. He held the power to make her remember…..</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=The_Interloper&diff=66036 2008-06-11T11:33:04Z

<p>Missmary: New page: She would sacrifice everything for Mark. Meredith had no choice after her mother's death but to turn to her estranged grandfather for help. To keep her two-year-old brother, Mark, from hi...</p> <hr /> <div>She would sacrifice everything for Mark.<br /> <br /> Meredith had no choice after her mother's death but to turn to her estranged grandfather for help. To keep her two-year-old brother, Mark, from his tyrannical clutches, however, she pretended that Mark was her own illegitimate son.<br /> <br /> Meredith's life with her grandfather, even on his Fiji island paradise, wasn't easy; and his overbearing business manager, Dane Fowler, was a fascinating complication Meredith could well do without.<br /> <br /> Dane was a clever man, she guessed. She must never let herself forget that he was ruthless, too.</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Bay_Of_Stars&diff=66035 2008-06-11T11:32:18Z

<p>Missmary: New page: Was she only a diversion? Superstar Bourne Kerwood was a famous singer and composer, and Lorena an unsophisticated university student. Despite herself, Lorena knew she was succumbing to ...</p> <hr /> <div>Was she only a diversion?<br /> <br /> Superstar Bourne Kerwood was a famous singer and composer, and Lorena an unsophisticated university student.<br /> <br /> Despite herself, Lorena knew she was succumbing to his undeniable charm. But what could he see in her - other than someone to alleviate his boredom when he wasn't writing his songs!<br /> <br /> He had no right to make casual love to her. She wasn't Mount Everest - to be conquered just because she was there!</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Bride%27s_Dilemma&diff=66031 2008-06-11T11:20:44Z

<p>Missmary: New page: Could love really turn into hate? Tina had never felt more miserable or vulnerable. She had married John Recarrel, a wealthy, distinguished sculptor, a man she loved with all her heart. B...</p> <hr /> <div>Could love really turn into hate?<br /> <br /> Tina had never felt more miserable or vulnerable. She had married John Recarrel, a wealthy, distinguished sculptor, a man she loved with all her heart. But why had John married her?<br /> <br /> Tina could never compete with the memory of his fabulously beautiful first wife, Joanna. Perhaps all John required was a mother-cum-friend for his young daughter, Liza....<br /> <br /> For all his other needs were obviously filled by the beautiful, glamorous Paula Carrish.</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=The_Sheik%27s_Captive&diff=66030 2008-06-11T11:20:04Z

<p>Missmary: New page: Diane knew what Khasim had in mind And the prospect was terrifying. The fact that she'd brought it on herself by foolishly riding alone in the Sahara desert, didn't help. After Diane was...</p> <hr /> <div>Diane knew what Khasim had in mind<br /> <br /> And the prospect was terrifying. The fact that she'd brought it on herself by foolishly riding alone in the Sahara desert, didn't help.<br /> <br /> After Diane was thrown from her bolting horse, Sheik Khasim ben Haran's trained hawk had spotted her golden hair and had brought its master to her.<br /> <br /> But fate could be cruel! For when the Sheik learned her identity he planned to use Diane to wreak vengeance on her grandfather, his longtime enemy. By violating her chastity he would make her grandfather suffer!</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=The_Love_Battle&diff=66027 2008-06-11T11:18:27Z

<p>Missmary: New page: Moonside had become like a home to Wilda, and there was just nowhere else to go. The thought of once again starting a new life elsewhere filled her with panic. For she knew that if Damien ...</p> <hr /> <div>Moonside had become like a home to Wilda, and there was just nowhere else to go. The thought of once again starting a new life elsewhere filled her with panic. For she knew that if Damien told her employer about her past she would be thrown out.<br /> <br /> It frightened her that Damien Demonides had come, bringing with him memories of a time and a place she wanted to forget. That she had been entirely innocent was quite beyond proving....<br /> <br /> She wasn't, as Damien believed, an experienced woman of the world!</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=The_Sun_Tower&diff=66026 2008-06-11T11:17:41Z

<p>Missmary: </p> <hr /> <div>&quot;I want only what's best for you, Dina.&quot;<br /> <br /> Bella, Dina's godmother, sensed from their first meeting that Raf Ventura was a disruptive force. He wanted to save Dina from the perfect marriage Bella had arranged for her to one of California's most eligible bachelors.<br /> <br /> Raf was a dark, passionate stranger - a man as different from Dina's elegant friends as fire from ice. He was not acceptable in Bella's circles, so he couldn't be acceptable in Dina's heart.<br /> <br /> And yet nothing seemed able to keep them apart - not even Bella's startling act of revenge.<br /> <br /> <br /> That one hour with Raf Ventura had been more distressing to Dina Caslyn than anything that had ever befallen her.<br /> <br /> His words returned mockingly to her: 'You're a protégée for your godmother to be proud of. In a few more years the coatings of ice will be so thick on your flesh and your feelings that you'll glisten like a diamond - a lovely frosty diamond with no fire at its heart.'<br /> <br /> No, Dina knew, she couldn't risk seeing him again!</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=The_Burning_Sands&diff=66025 2008-06-11T11:16:39Z

<p>Missmary: New page: 'I might have known,' Sarah whispered to herself. There was no longer a shadow of doubt in her mind that this man was Zain hassan bin Hamid, high lord of this place, and he had let her co...</p> <hr /> <div><br /> 'I might have known,' Sarah whispered to herself. There was no longer a shadow of doubt in her mind that this man was Zain hassan bin Hamid, high lord of this place, and he had let her confess to him some of the most indiscreet remarks of her life!<br /> <br /> With shock, Sarah studied the hard, brown face of the man who arrogantly supposed she would fall in with his incredible wishes. 'No,' she cried, 'I wouldn't be your wife if you were the last man on earth!'</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=The_Child_Of_Judas&diff=66024 2008-06-11T11:15:45Z

<p>Missmary: New page: 'The fates have worked it so I find myself your husband,' he said, 'and as you are a fairly presentable female I might as well make the most of you. I am the head of the family, I have the...</p> <hr /> <div>'The fates have worked it so I find myself your husband,' he said, 'and as you are a fairly presentable female I might as well make the most of you. I am the head of the family, I have the respect and awe of my brothers - it is my right to expect it from you - my wife.'<br /> <br /> Wife ... the word sent a shock through Fenny. The strange dream shattered and the reality swept over her. She was indeed the wife of Heraklion Mavrakis.</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Satan_Took_A_Bride&diff=66023 2008-06-11T11:14:53Z

<p>Missmary: New page: 'Toni,' he said, 'I can't just let you go out into the world, so that you can give your hungry little heart to the next rotter who comes along. Nor can I take you eternally sailing as my ...</p> <hr /> <div><br /> 'Toni,' he said, 'I can't just let you go out into the world, so that you can give your hungry little heart to the next rotter who comes along. Nor can I take you eternally sailing as my cabin boy. I can only make you my wife....'<br /> <br /> With every particle of her lonely young heart, Toni wanted to be with Luque in whatever capacity he asked of her, but that didn't quiet her youthful apprehension about the future.</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Dearest_Demon&diff=66022 2008-06-11T11:14:00Z

<p>Missmary: New page: Coming to life again was painful. For over two years Destine had been in a sort of frozen limbo - a composed, efficient woman whose life had seemed to stop with the death of her husband on...</p> <hr /> <div>Coming to life again was painful. For over two years Destine had been in a sort of frozen limbo - a composed, efficient woman whose life had seemed to stop with the death of her husband on their wedding day.<br /> <br /> Now, like it or not - in the Casera de los Rejas - she had to face the fact that she couldn't live in the past. But what was her future to be?<br /> <br /> Emotionally reawakened, she wanted to cry out her love for Don Artez, but knew she must hide it instead - as if it were something shameful!</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=The_Devil%27s_Darling&diff=66021 2008-06-11T11:13:06Z

<p>Missmary: New page: A place out of a dream - but to Persepha it seemed more like a nightmare from which she couldn't awake... A place to love - had she loved the Don, her husband. But Persepha didn't even kn...</p> <hr /> <div>A place out of a dream - but to Persepha it seemed more like a nightmare from which she couldn't awake...<br /> <br /> A place to love - had she loved the Don, her husband. But Persepha didn't even know him and so the beautiful Hacienda Ruy seemed like a prison...<br /> <br /> Yet Don Diablo had said - and Persepha could only hope it was true - 'In Mexico, senorita, the knowing and the loving come after the marriage...'</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Palace_Of_The_Pomegranate&diff=66020 2008-06-11T11:12:15Z

<p>Missmary: New page: Palace Of The Pomegranate On the face of it, Grace Wilde had everything - youth, beauty, wealth, and a title. All that goes to make up the life of a society queen was hers; only one thing...</p> <hr /> <div>Palace Of The Pomegranate<br /> <br /> On the face of it, Grace Wilde had everything - youth, beauty, wealth, and a title. All that goes to make up the life of a society queen was hers; only one thing was lacking - happiness.<br /> <br /> For the gay society life was none of her seeking; she had been coerced into a loveless, meaningless marriage with the uncaring, unfaithful Tony Wilde. And then, on an expedition into the Persian desert, she fell into the hands of another man, Kharim Khan, who was different from any other man she had met.<br /> <br /> Would he succeed in melting the ice that was Grace's heart? And even if he did, how could she expect ever to be of any importance to him?</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=The_Glass_Castle&diff=66019 2008-06-11T11:10:23Z

<p>Missmary: New page: The Glass Castle 'Out in the East they say that the mind of a woman is a jungle, and it is the one jungle in which a man should never get lost.' That was the code by which Edwin Trequair ...</p> <hr /> <div>The Glass Castle<br /> <br /> 'Out in the East they say that the mind of a woman is a jungle, and it is the one jungle in which a man should never get lost.' That was the code by which Edwin Trequair lived - or so he told Heron.<br /> <br /> Why then had he asked her to marry him? More to the point, why had Heron accepted? True, he had much to offer her - money, and his fascinating house, the house which had meant so much to Heron all her life, the Glass Castle -but Heron was not the type of girl to marry for mercenary reasons like that.<br /> <br /> Yet her feeling for him was of fear and curiosity more than any other emotion. Could she ever understand such a strange, arrogant man? Still less make him a successful wife...</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Love%27s_Prisoner_-_Violet_Winspear&diff=66018 2008-06-11T11:09:32Z

<p>Missmary: New page: Love's Prisoner Eden - and Gale: two sisters who were aptly named, for Gale was wild, turbulent and demanding, while Eden was the quiet one, gentle and kind. Gale wanted money, power and ...</p> <hr /> <div>Love's Prisoner<br /> <br /> Eden - and Gale: two sisters who were aptly named, for Gale was wild, turbulent and demanding, while Eden was the quiet one, gentle and kind. Gale wanted money, power and luxury, and these seemed to be within her grasp when she met the handsome and magnetic Lafe Sheridan, already, at thirty-six, a near-millionaire.<br /> <br /> But it was Eden who saw behind Lafe's dynamic facade, to the lonely, poverty-stricken Irish boy he once had been, and she loved him for the qualities he tried grimly to hide. It was a situation that threatened heartbreak - for Gale, willing to marry without love; for Lafe, whose meteoric career had bypassed love; and for Eden, whose love must be hidden deep within her.</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=House_Of_Strangers&diff=66017 2008-06-11T11:08:45Z

<p>Missmary: New page: House of Strangers Marny Lester was sufficiently well off not to have to work if she didn't want to, but an aimless, leisurely life in the country was not really enough for her, and when ...</p> <hr /> <div>House of Strangers<br /> <br /> Marny Lester was sufficiently well off not to have to work if she didn't want to, but an aimless, leisurely life in the country was not really enough for her, and when a friend recommended her for the post of secretary to a celebrated osteopath in his smart London clinic, Marny jumped at the Opportunity. 'If you're unsuitable, he'll soon tell you,' her friend had said. 'But if you are suitable, then I think you'll find him an extremely interesting man to work for.'<br /> <br /> Marny found Paul Stillman interesting in more ways than one. But it was clear from the first that she must resign herself to being just his efficient secretary, for Paul had eyes only for his fiancee, the glamorous Ilena Justine.</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Beloved_Castaway&diff=66016 2008-06-11T11:07:51Z

<p>Missmary: New page: BELOVED CASTAWAY Shipwrecked on the remote Brazilian island of Janeleza, Morvenna found herself pitched into the situation that for one month - until the next steamer came along - she mus...</p> <hr /> <div>BELOVED CASTAWAY<br /> <br /> Shipwrecked on the remote Brazilian island of Janeleza, Morvenna<br /> found herself pitched into the situation that for one month - until<br /> the next steamer came along - she must accept the authority of the island's autocratic overlord, Roque de Braz Ferro. She found the prospect, to say the least, daunting. And yet...</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=The_Strange_Waif&diff=66015 2008-06-11T11:07:05Z

<p>Missmary: New page: One love forgotten, another forbidden? Robert denounced Lygia as a fake. He thought she was out to get what she could from his wealthy cousin, Dr. Avery Chase. Avery was incensed. He had...</p> <hr /> <div>One love forgotten, another forbidden?<br /> <br /> Robert denounced Lygia as a fake. He thought she was out to get what she could from his wealthy cousin, Dr. Avery Chase.<br /> <br /> Avery was incensed. He had found the frightened girl on the doorstep of his home on the edge of the Devon moors, suffering from amnesia.<br /> <br /> Lygia was torn between Avery's devotion and her attraction to the enigmatic Robert...and distraught over the impression of a ring missing from the third finger of her left hand. Was she forever chained to a forgotten past - or free to love?</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=The_Unwilling_Bride_-_Violet_Winspear&diff=66014 2008-06-11T11:05:57Z

<p>Missmary: New page: Why should Ravena have to pay? Ravena dearly loved the kindly guardian who had brought her up - and loved his son, Rhodri Brenin, even more. But it was Mark di Curzio she was marrying - ...</p> <hr /> <div>Why should Ravena have to pay?<br /> <br /> Ravena dearly loved the kindly guardian who had brought her up - and loved his son, Rhodri Brenin, even more.<br /> <br /> But it was Mark di Curzio she was marrying - a forbidding Sardinian stranger. Ravena was doing it for love of her guardian because Mark had threatened to tell him that Rhodri had been responsible for the tragic death of Mark's only child.<br /> <br /> Mark wanted Ravena to bear him a son to replace the one he had lost. Was it too high a price for Mark's silence?</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=The_Little_Nobody&diff=66013 2008-06-11T11:05:05Z

<p>Missmary: New page: She didn't know the facts of her own life But somehow Ynis realized that she didn't quite belong in Gard's world. Gard St. Clair, embittered by the accident that had ended his career, was...</p> <hr /> <div>She didn't know the facts of her own life<br /> <br /> But somehow Ynis realized that she didn't quite belong in Gard's world. Gard St. Clair, embittered by the accident that had ended his career, was as mysterious and wild as his house on the stormy Cornish cliffs.<br /> <br /> And Ynis was going to marry him - or so he told her. But what could such an experienced man want of Ynis, the convent-reared girl who had lost her memory?<br /> <br /> Especially when his old love, the beautiful Stella Marrick, was his for the asking....</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=A_Silken_Barbarity&diff=66012 2008-06-11T11:03:55Z

<p>Missmary: New page: Had she no say in her destiny? Lorne couldn't quite believe that her grandfather had practically pawned her in order to hold on to his precious L'Oasis, the plantation that lay on Razul a...</p> <hr /> <div>Had she no say in her destiny?<br /> <br /> Lorne couldn't quite believe that her grandfather had practically pawned her in order to hold on to his precious L'Oasis, the plantation that lay on Razul al Kebir's land.<br /> <br /> &quot;You've no idea how ruthless men can be in pursuit of what they desire,&quot; Razul advised her by way of explanation the night her grandfather died. But Lorne learned quickly - and she knew enough to feel immediately threatened by her captor.<br /> <br /> Razul was stealing her away to his desert kingdom as easily as a thief might steal a purse...and might discard her just as lightly.</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Rapture_Of_The_Desert&diff=66011 2008-06-11T11:02:55Z

<p>Missmary: New page: Rapture of the Desert 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 t...</p> <hr /> <div>Rapture of the Desert<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> Could even Chrys be proof against it?</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Love%27s_Agony&diff=66008 2008-06-11T11:01:59Z

<p>Missmary: New page: Would he misconstrue her love as pity? Angie's love for Rique de Zaldo was only intensified by the tragedy of his blindness. She had loved him all her life. Called by his Spanish family ...</p> <hr /> <div>Would he misconstrue her love as pity?<br /> <br /> Angie's love for Rique de Zaldo was only intensified by the tragedy of his blindness. She had loved him all her life.<br /> <br /> Called by his Spanish family to their Mediterranean island, Angie hoped to nurse Rique out of his despair. Patience and compassion would surely conquer his bitterness.<br /> <br /> But it wasn't enough. What Rique needed was to feel the passion of a woman. And Angie knew she had to be that woman, even though it meant Rique would despise her for it...</div>

Missmary https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=The_Loved_And_The_Feared&diff=66007 2008-06-11T11:00:04Z

<p>Missmary: New page: Rumors linked him with the Mafia One night in Rome Donna Lovelace's life suddenly changed. That night she fell in love with a mysterious stranger. But Rick Lordetti was a hired bodyguar...</p> <hr /> <div><br /> Rumors linked him with the Mafia<br /> <br /> One night in Rome Donna Lovelace's life suddenly changed. That night she fell in love with a mysterious stranger.<br /> <br /> But Rick Lordetti was a hired bodyguard, and he already belonged to her new employer, Serafina Neri, the beautiful retired actress who'd engaged Donna to help in writing her memoirs.<br /> <br /> Convinced that Rick was more than a bodyguard to Serafina and had fathered Serafina's son, Adone, Donna resolved to forget him, But as Rick said, 'When night falls and the stars take shape again, we are inclined to forget our resolutions!'</div>

Missmary