Best Selling Books by Anne Stuart

A mysterious man masquerades as political fugitive Emmet Chandler, but his mission becomes complicated by his growing attraction to Chandler''s beautiful sister, Rachel. Reissue.

It’s a long, hot summer, and when Caleb Spenser comes to town, everyone knows he’s trouble. No man should be that good-looking, and his sinfully sexy smile is enough to melt even the strongest backbone. Good girl Jassy Turner doesn’t know what to do with the outsider who’s come into their midst, infiltrating the very proper Turner family and setting his sights directly on her. After a lifetime of good behavior, she’s more than ready to fall from her pedestal, straight into Caleb’s bed. But there are dark secrets lurking in the sultry atmosphere. As summer heats up and the heat lightning builds, so do the desire and the danger, and all Jassy can do is hang on for dear life, wondering if she’s made the worst mistake of her life. Or the best mistake ever.

Angela Hogan is a pilot. A good pilot, and one of the few female flying aces of the 1930s. Struggling to make a living while the Great Depression rages, Angela has no problem running a small business and competing with men who believe a woman’s place is in the home. She has a plan to bring in business. All she needs to do is break the record for flying from Newfoundland to Havana, and that’s exactly what she plans to do. But when a competing air freight company threatens her livelihood, Angela has no choice but to hire a hotshot pilot with a reputation for setting records in the air and being a lady’s man on the ground. Jack Clancy doesn’t like bossy women. He prefers blondes with more beauty than brains, but he takes the job at Hogan Air Freight in order to save enough money to ship his own plane back to the States and get it the repairs it needs. He tries to tell himself that’s the only reason, even as he is drawn inexplicably to Angela Hogan. The female pilot and her determined attitude bother Jack, but that doesn’t stop him from fantasizing about what lies beneath that prim and proper exterior, even as she squares off to fight him at every turn. Soon Jack and Angela’s shared passion for flying turns into a passion for one another. But Jack has no intention of becoming tied to a woman like Angela and having his wings clipped. And Angela has no intention of leaving the flying to the men so she can become a homemaker. She intends to finish what she started and break the record for the flight she had planned, even when it turns out that the record she’s breaking belongs to Jack Clancy.

Megan Carey was ready to embark on a trip to Europe, finally taking time to do something purely for herself, but when she finds her father on the brink of suicide, her plans go out the window. Her father is being blackmailed by a reclusive genius who’s demanded TK Carey show up to answer for his crimes. Panicked, Megan volunteers to go in his place. Ethan Winslowe is a brilliant, eccentric architect with a grudge. In his odd, rambling mansion, he waits for Megan’s father to enact his revenge, but when Megan comes in his stead, Ethan has a new prisoner to answer for the crimes. At first, Megan is afraid of the strange, dark man who tormented her father with threats of public ruin. Ethan is mysterious and deeply secretive, refusing to allow himself to be seen in the light of day. But soon, Megan’s fear is replaced by curiosity and a desire to see the man who haunts her dreams, and even as she’s kept prisoner she’s drawn to him, obsessed by him, on the edge of falling in love with a phantom. Is there any way she can learn to trust a creature of darkness before the outside forces of evil destroy them both?

Francey Neeley''s life has been torn to pieces. Her handsome and charming Irish boyfriend turned out to be a terrorist who was only after her fortune and planned to kill her once he got it. His \"sister\" forced Francey to help her attempt a rescue when his cover was blown during a mission to assassinate a world leader. Francey barely escaped with her life in the shoot-out. Now Francey''s secluded herself amidst the beautiful, healing atmosphere of Belle Reste, her cousin''s resort on a Jamaican island. She''s emotionally shattered and remains under a cloud of suspicion even after being interrogated by every major law enforcement agency. Warning bells go off from the moment British school teacher Michael Dowd arrives to recuperate from a car accident. Though he''s obviously recovering from serious injuries, she sees glimpses of a coldly efficient predator that make her wary of her intense attraction to him. She made one horrible mistake already . . . Michael Dowd is there to find out the truth about her involvement; he''ll seduce her if that''s what it takes. And if he learns she was one of the terrorists, he''ll kill her. But someone on the island is trying to kill them both. How will Francey know who to trust when Michael disappears and reappears as a perfect stranger? Who is the villain, and who is the savior? The wrong answer means death. Anne Stuart is currently celebrating forty years as a published novelist. She has won every major award in the romance field and appeared on the NYT Bestseller List, Publisher''s Weekly, and USA Today. Anne Stuart currently lives in northern Vermont.

Caught dancing barefoot in the moonlit woods, dressed only in her shift, Elizabeth Penshurst is considered by decent folk to be notorious and disgraced. Sent by her father, a reverend, to serve penance with a cousin in Hernewood, Lizzie sets her thoughts on becoming the perfectly demure and reserved young woman any suitor would want. But evil haunts the woods of Hernewood Abbey. As the Druid festival of Beltane approaches, a sinister cult seeks a virgin sacrifice. Their intended victim: Lizzie. Her only defender--and the man likely to relieve her of her dangerous maidenhood--is the mysterious Gabriel, the Dark Man, a fellow outcast and scholar of Druidism. The forest calls to them both. Their irresistible attraction, both mystical and bawdy, may be the only force more powerful than the cult''s dark purpose.

Victim. Lover. Both? His dark game is seducing her-- just as it was when they were young. How can he still have that power over her? Eighteen years ago, she saw him die. Wealthy, selfish, and greedy, the McDowell family raised Carolyn McDowell--a foster child--like a modern Cinderella. Neglected and ignored, good-hearted Carolyn adored scion Alexander despite it all, though even he tormented her. When Alex ran away one night, Carolyn followed and witnessed his murder, though she never told anyone. Her beloved Alex died when he was seventeen. There was no doubt. Eighteen years later, Carolyn returns to the decadent milieu of the McDowell clan to care for her dying foster mother, Sally. As greedy relatives gather to claim their inheritances, a stunning stranger arrives, claiming to be Alexander. To Carolyn''s utter shock, Sally greets her \"son\" without question, and no one but Carolyn believes he''s a fraud. As she delves into the mysteries of both the past and present, Carolyn quickly realizes that the resurrected Alex is a dangerous combination of seduction and power. Is this stranger after the McDowell fortune, or is he really, somehow, the Alex of old, come back to claim her? How can he be an imposter and yet know family secrets only the real Alex would remember? Was someone helping him? What would you do if the boy you loved returned almost twenty years later, and you fell in love with him all over again--even if you were sure it couldn''t be him?

Viscount Benedick Francis Alistair Rohan wants a proper wife he can ignore while indulging his appetites. When he finds out that his brother''s newly revived Heavenly Host has graduated from carnal debauchery to sadistic violence, he investigates.

This Valentine''s Day, three unsuspecting couples won''t know with hit them--but Cupid will! The Cupid Connection is a collection of three heartfelt tales about men and women who fall prey to Cupid''s red arrows--on the most romantic day of the year. These stories by three bestselling authors are sure to make your readers swoon! Republished titles.

Rancho Diablo by Anne Stuart released on Apr 24, 1990 is available now for purchase.

Reporter Suzanna Molloy is looking for the story that will change her world, and she’s pretty sure that story is Dr. Daniel Crompton, a gorgeous, grumpy genius, obsessively working in his lab on something secret. Suzanna loves secrets, and she’s not averse to gorgeous geniuses, either, so a trip to Compton Labs is a moral imperative. Daniel Compton is working on a project he knows will change the world. Instead, a lab explosion changes him, giving him fantastic powers. But with great powers come great enemies, and now he’s on the run with Susanna, stuck with a power that’s hard to control and a woman who’s hard to resist.

My Valentine 93 by Anne Stuart\Judith Arnold\Anne McAllister\Linda Randall Wisdom released on Dec 25, 1992 is available now for purchase.

My Secret Admirer by Anne Stuart\Vicki Lewis Thompson\Marisa Carroll released on Dec 25, 1998 is available now for purchase.

This edition contains, \"Partners in crime, by Anne Stuart, and also \"Playing for time, by Barbara Bretton.

When you dance with the devil, you hold hands with temptation...

Her power-hungry husband takes pleasure in her pain, but she''s done playing the victim. Three years ago, ex-operative Sophie Jordan made the mistake of falling in love--and marrying--her target. Now she''s paying for it tenfold. Her husband might be one of the sexiest men alive, but he''s also a psychopath. She''s been a virtual prisoner, and the time has come for retribution--and escape. Undercover agent Malcolm Gunnison has his orders: get intel from Sophie''s arms-dealer husband, then kill him. He plans to get rid of her, too, if she gets in his way, but he''s unprepared when she gets under his skin instead. Whose side is she on? And what is she hiding behind those mesmerizing eyes? Sophie vowed to never fall for another man again, but this sexy undercover agent is different. With danger mounting, can Malcolm and Sophie trust each other--and their growing passion--enough to get out of this operation alive?

From USA TODAY bestselling authors comes a special 3-in-1 in which one magic candle beings hope and love to three women. Three short stories in which the wintry magic of Crescent Cove, Vermont, reaches out to touch three very different women during the holiday season.

Two lighthearted stories from the Harlequin Romance( line compose this special sampler. In Stuart''s \"Kissing Frosty, \" Megan McGraw is ready to meet the perfect man, so she and a friend cast a spell on a snowman. And in Leclaire''s \"The Boss, the Baby and the Bride, \" businessman Reed Harding hires Angie Makepeace as his 13th secretary--and is convinced she is his guardian angel.

Wrongly accused of his father''s murder, handsome Valerian Romney must flee his vengeful pursuers.

Lost In The Night by Barbara Delinsky\Anne Stuart\Tara Taylor Quinn released on Jul 25, 2003 is available now for purchase.

Chasing Trouble by Anne Stuart released on Sep 24, 1991 is available now for purchase.

From a trio of New York Times–bestselling authors, a “quirky charmer . . . an enjoyable paranormal romp that’s definitely not just for dog lovers” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) Abby has just arrived in Summerville, Ohio, with her placid Newfoundland, Bowser. She’s reluctantly inherited her grandmother’s coffee shop, but it’s not long before she’s brewing up trouble in the form of magical baked goods and steaming up her life with an exasperating college professor. And then there’s Daisy, a coder, and her hyperactive Jack Russell, Bailey. Her tightly wound world spins out of control when she discovers the chaos within and meets a mysterious dog trainer whose teaching style is definitely hands-on. Finally there’s Shar, professor of ancient history at Summerville College, who wakes up one morning to find her neurotic dachshund, Wolfie, snarling at an implacable god sitting at her kitchen table, the first thing in her life she hasn’t been able to footnote. What on earth is going on in this unearthly little town? It’s up to Abby, Daisy, and Shar to find out before an ancient goddess takes over Southern Ohio, and they all end up in the apocalyptic doghouse . . . “Equal measures of sexy romance, captivating characters, and clever writing . . . [a] rich cast of quirky secondary characters (including one of the best villainesses ever written) . . . Dogs and Goddesses is absolutely sublime.” —Booklist (starred review)

Seduction and murder. Adam Traywick may be capable of both. In this celebrated gothic romance, will Miranda be the next victim of Barrett''s Hill? When her father''s will sends strong-willed, irreverent Miranda to the New England estate of nearby Barrett''s Hill to live under the guardianship of her elder cousin--the sour Reverend Smathers--and his scheming family, trouble quickly brews. Two decades earlier a murder took place on Barrett''s Hill, and the suspects are few. Miranda''s spirited investigation raises the fear of public scandal among her hypocritical relatives--the Reverend''s alcoholic wife and viciously manipulative daughter--especially since the suspects are the Reverend, his toadying assistant Fathimore, Miranda''s own father, and the darkly irresistible Adam Traywick. Adam turns his masterful charms on Miranda, and she falls in love. Yet as it becomes clear she''s provoked the killer''s survival instincts, with herself his target, she can''t help wondering if Adam is seducing her or planning her murder.

A damaged beauty. The cruellest beast. Ruined beyond repair, and shunned by London society, lovely Miranda Rohan rebelliously embraces the freedom of having nothing left to lose. However, this dangerous course throws her under the power of the darkly enigmatic Lucien de Malheur known to many as the Scorpion. Seeking to destroy the Rohans, Lucien traps Miranda in a marriage she thinks is based on friendship but instead is rooted in vengeance. Yet when she realises the truth their enmity fuels a shocking passion and perhaps even more

Marike is a satisfied woman. She has her business making creative maternity clothes, she has her passion helping pregnant women in need, and she has her absurd house outside Chicago. She doesn’t need someone like Will Lambert upsetting the peaceful flow of her days. Will is a frustrated man. Working a high profile job in Chicago just doesn’t feed his soul, but he’s going through the motions, doing what he’s supposed to do, until he runs across Marike, her bevy of pregnant helpers, and her tumbled-down brownstone. Will needs some shaking up, and Marike is just the woman to do it. He’s just got to make sure she gets shaken up as well. Because it doesn’t take much for Will to decide that Marike is The One. Convincing her is the challenge.... (Previously published in the Valentine Babies anthology)

Dive back into RITA Award-winner Anne Stuart’s dark tale of unlikely love with Black Ice. BLACK ICE Living paycheck to paycheck in Paris, American book translator Chloe Underwood would give anything for some excitement and passion -- even a little danger. But when she’s offered a lucrative weekend gig translating at a business conference in a remote chateau, she jumps at the chance to shake things up. Then by chance Chloe discovers her employers are anything but the entrepreneurs they appear, and suddenly she knows far too much. Her clients are illegal arms dealers, and one of them is ordered to kill her. But instead, Bastien Toussaint drags Chloe away, and the next thing she knows she’s on the run with the most terrifying and seductive man she’s ever met. Titles originally published in 2005.

Fragile Laura Fitzpatrick has lived her entire life with the certainty of an early death, and her wealthy family hasn’t been able to do anything to change her fate. Over the years, she’s come to think of death as a friend, a long-lost companion she is bound to meet again someday. But she isn’t prepared to meet Death himself, human for a short time, up in the snowy mountains of Colorado. She only knows he is the one she loves, the one she is waiting for. He had never been so bemused by a gentle human. All he can do is stop everything, life and death and time itself, to discover everything about her, knowing in the end he would have to let her go. But why, when she looks at him, isn’t she afraid?

Ghislaine has one goal–to kill the man who abandoned her to the horrors of the French Revolution. When poison fails to do the trick, she finds herself kidnapped by her nemesis and dragged across war-torn Europe, and while her need for vengeance stays strong, so does her re-awakened passion for the wicked, beautiful man. Nicholas Windham has no interest in morality, politics or guilt. Ghislaine, on the other hand, captivates him, and her justified murderous streak is almost a beguiling as her sweet body. He just never expected to fall in love with her. Can two enemies find peace in each other’s arms? Or will the wounds of the past destroy their happy ending?

The Soldier Tough, gorgeous soldier of fortune Reilly (Whatever his other name is) promised his best friend he’d take care of his wife and baby, bringing them out of the war-torn South American country they were stuck in. He was expecting a spoiled, glamorous socialite, not a quiet, stubborn girl devoted to the tiny infant. The Nun Carlie Forrest had been waiting a long time to take her final vows, but caring for the new-born baby of a dead woman was more important, leaving her stuck in the abandoned convent. She wasn’t going to just hand the baby over to a man who looked like he’d never changed a diaper in his life, and she didn’t mind pretending to be the dead socialite in order to keep the child safe. The Baby Everyone wants him – the rebels, the dead dictator’s army, the rich American grandparents, and Carlie. Can she let him go when the safest place was cold and heartless? The Problem He’s all business – he has no intention of falling for his best friend’s widow. She’s all business – she doesn’t want to fall in love with this big, tough, gorgeous man. But love and trouble don’t listen to good intentions, not when you’re thrown together with your unexpected and inconvenient soul mate.

The interview with the anonymous assassin is the coup of Madison’s short journalistic career. The man is heartless, soulless, and determinedly seductive, and she leaves feeling shaken. Constantine should never have given in to the pressure to speak to the reporter, but once he does, he is caught by her innocent sensuality, so much so that he can’t forget her. Scaling her balcony on a rainy Paris night is even more suicidal, but it doesn’t matter. He has to have her. Just as she has to have him. Love is not in the cards for his broken soul, but he didn’t count on someone like Madison breaking down his resolve, his barriers, his very life. Happy endings aren’t for the likes of him. That doesn’t mean he won’t fight for it. Warning: this novella contains violence and strong sexual content. Not for the faint of heart.

Strangers In The Night by Anne Stuart\Chelsea Quinn Yarbro\Maggie Shayne released on Aug 25, 1995 is available now for purchase.

The stunning finale to RITA Award-winner Anne Stuart’s The Ice Series brings us back to Japan, where deadly machinations have an odd couple in their crosshairs. In the wake of a failed love affair, Jilly Lovitz takes off for Tokyo. She’s expecting to cry on her sister’s shoulder, then spend a couple months blowing off steam in Japan. Instead, she’s snatched away on the back of a motorcycle, narrowly avoiding a grisly execution attempt meant for her sister and brother-in-law. Her rescuer Reno is the Committee’s most unpredictable agent. They’d met once before and the attraction was strange—opposites in more way than one—but electric. Now Reno and Jilly are pawns in a deadly tangle of assassination attempts, kidnappings, and prisoner swaps that could put their steamy partnership on ice. Previously published.

MORE THAN MEN The man had secrets… Blindsided by a hurricane, Katie Flynn was seeking shelter from the storm—but all she found was a moody, broody recluse named O''Neal. Trapped with him in his house on a windswept cliff overlooking the wildly tossed sea, Katie tried to fight the feelings O''Neal awakened in her—both of sensuality and fear. She began to suspect that something haunted the tall, gray-eyed man''s domain, something more than the wicked servants or family ghosts…something strange that only O''Neal himself could reveal. Anne Stuart Three-time winner of the prestigious Romance Writers of America RITA Award!

Jane Dexter is in need of a criminal. After her brother is killed in a car accident, the secret formula that had been his life’s work is about to be auctioned to the highest bidder, a fact that Jane knows would make her brother roll over in his grave. With no legal recourse, Jane has decided that her only option is to burn down the lab where her brother worked and destroy the formula in the process, so she approaches long-time criminal, Jimmy (the Stoolie) Calvin and asks him to help her commit arson. At least she thinks she does. Thanks to a typo in the newspaper, the man Jane believes is Jimmy the Stoolie is actually his high-powered attorney, Alexander Caldicott. Alexander (Sandy) Caldicott is bored. Everything about his life is predictable until Jane Dexter appears at his door asking him to commit arson. Sandy goes along with her plan, telling himself that pretending to be the seasoned criminal is the only way to prevent Jane from committing a felony. Together the unlikely partners work to discover a way to keep the formula from falling into the wrong hands, all the while trying to stay one step ahead from a dangerous man who may be willing to kill to get the formula for himself. With danger lurking around every corner, Jane and Sandy have no where to turn but to each other.

The Gunslinger... Mad Billy Maddox, aka the Angel of Death, comes to the tiny town in Johnson County, Wyoming as a gun for hire to scare away the settlers. He’s a man who makes his living with his guns, and he never expects to find someone to make him want to change his ways. The Lady... Sara is the sweet and shy wife of the biggest bully in town. She’s learned not to let anything scare her, but the way Will Maddox looks at her shakes her up far worse than her husband’s heavy fists. She knows she should hate him, but she can’t. Together... He’s a bad man, and she’s a good woman. There’s no future for them in the wild Wyoming territory. But Maddox is a man who gets what he wants, no matter how high the price, and he wants Sara. Not even the fact that he killed her husband will get in his way. (Previously published as “Dangerous Touch” in the One Night With a Rogue anthology)

Malcolm MacLaren has come to the small Scottish island of St. Columba for one reason—revenge. He hasn’t counted on a beautiful, fairy-like widow to haunt his footsteps, a woman so irresistible that he could almost forget his reason for being there. Ailie Spens is an old soul. She dances barefoot in the moonlight, floats like a fey creature among the relatives who try to rule her life and does her best to convince everyone she is half-mazed. And she knows when a man is under an enchantment. He walked from the sea, terrifying the townspeople, and everyone knows he must be a selkie, a man on land and a seal in the icy North Atlantic. But Ailie knows he has come for her, to rescue her from the stifling future her relatives have deemed proper. Now she simply has to convince him to take her with him when he returns to the deep, dark sea.

Dreamscape by Jayne Ann Krentz\Anne Stuart\Bobby Hutchinson released on Aug 25, 1993 is available now for purchase.