Judith McNaught

On wealthy philanthropist Cecil Wyatt's eightieth birthday, all the money in the world won't bring back his missing grandson, William Wyatt. The family, the police and the media all have tried in vain to discover the young man's fate. Now suspicion has turned shockingly toward William's own half-brother, the rather distant and enigmatic Mitchell Wyatt. Kate Donovan is tagged as a suspect in a high-society murder case, after a chance romantic encounter...

In 1820, a shipwrecked sailor, Stephen Westmoreland, is found on a Scottish shore with a treasure chest of gold and jewels. He is nursed to health by Cory Drummond and they are married by her vicar father. But Drummond is spirited away by members of his crew who inform Cory that he died. A year later she spots him in London, walking down the street, but he has no recollection of her or their marriage. By the author of Paradise.

A policewoman in a small Florida community, Sloan Reynolds knows that her modest upbringing is a long way from the social whirl of Palm Beach, the world inhabited by her father and her sister, Paris. But when an FBI agent informers her that her father and his associates are suspected of fraud, conspiracy, and murder, Sloan agrees to accept the sudden invitation they extend to have her join them for the Palm Beach season.

When Cole Harrison approached her on a moonlit bacony, Diana Foster had no idea what to expect---or how extraordinary the night ahead would be. Foster's Beautiful Living magazine was her family's success story, and Diana knew that being jilted by her fiance and having the story all over the media was extremely daming to her magaine's image of upscale domestic tranquility. But now, the pride of Dallas society, Cole Harrison, was closing in on her......

Abducted from her convent school, headstrong Scottish beauty Jennifer Merrick does not easily surrender to Royce Westmoreland, Duke of Claymore. Known as "The Wolf", his very name strikes terror in the hearts of his enemies.

When the Bancroft family empire is threatened by a hostile takeover, Meredith Bancroft flees into the arms of Matthew Farrell, a man with whom she once had a passionate affair.

Four holiday tales capture the magic and romance of the Christmas season