Harlequin Presents brings you four new titles for one great price! Escape with these four stories by USA TODAY bestselling authors. This Presents bundle includes An Heiress for His Empire by USA TODAY bestselling author Lucy Monroe, Commanded by the Sheikh by USA TODAY bestselling author Kate Hewitt, The Uncompromising Italian by USA TODAY bestselling author Cathy Williams and A Deal Before the Altar by Rachael Thomas. Look for 8 new exciting stories every month from Harlequin Presents!

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Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles for one great price! Look for Harlequin® Desire’s November 2014 Bundle 1 of 2, filled with even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes! THE COWBOY'S PRIDE AND JOY (Billionaires and Babies) By USA TODAY bestseller Maureen Child A wealthy rancher who loves his reclusive mountain, Jake could never resist Cassidy. Especially not when she introduces him to his infant son…just as a snowstorm forces them to face everything that’s still between them… FROM ENEMY'S DAUGHTER TO EXPECTANT BRIDE (The Billionaires of Black Castle) By USA TODAY bestseller Olivia Gates Rafael Salazar is poised to destroy the man who stole his childhood, but his feelings for his enemy’s daughter may threaten his plans. When she becomes pregnant, will he have to choose between revenge and love? THE BOSS'S MISTLETOE MANEUVERS By Linda Thomas-Sundstrom Chad goes undercover at the agency he bought to oversee a Christmas campaign. But when the star ad exec with a strange aversion to the holiday jeopardizes the project, Chad doesn’t know whether to fire her or seduce her!

Harlequin® Presents brings you four new titles for one great price! This Presents box set includes: MARRIED FOR AMARI'S HEIR (One Night With Consequences) by Maisey Yates Relinquishing her virginity should have covered Charity's debt, but her one white-hot night with the enigmatic Rocco Amari has unexpected consequences. Now Rocco is determined to legitimize his heir…by making Charity his wife! A TASTE OF SIN (Seven Sexy Sins) by Maggie Cox Restaurateur Gene Bonnaire always gets what he wants, and he wants Rose Heathcote's shop for his new restaurant—and its current alluring owner in his bed! Securing the shop is easy. But seducing this defiant beauty may be his greatest challenge yet… SICILIAN'S SHOCK PROPOSAL (Playboys of Sicily) by Carol Marinelli Eight years ago, being caught in Luka Cavalieri's bed destroyed Sophie Durante's pride and her reputation. He owes her, and now she's come to collect. To placate her ailing father, Luka must become her fake fiancé! VOWS MADE IN SECRET by Louise Fuller Art expert Prudence Elliot is shocked when a new job brings her face-to-face with Laszlo de Zsadan. Even more shocking, not only is Laszlo a secret millionaire, but their youthful pledging of love was legally binding—he's her husband! Look for 8 new exciting stories every month from Harlequin® Presents!

Harlequin® Presents brings you four new titles! This Presentsbox set includes: THE GREEK DEMANDS HIS HEIR (NotoriousGreeks) by Lynne Graham Leo Zikos is pleased to have secured aperfectly convenient fiancée, until Grace Donovan's impeccable beauty tempts himto pursue one last night of freedom… But that night, and the positive pregnancy testthat follows, blows Leo's plans apart! THE PERFECT CAZORLA WIFE by Michelle Smart Charley Cazorla strides back into her soon-to-beex-husband's life with a plan. Except Raul has his own ideas! To save Charley'sbusiness, the Spaniard demands his own payment: she must resume her role as the perfectwife—in every sense! THE MARAKAIOS BABY (The MarakaiosBrides) by Kate Hewitt Margo Ferras knows that she must give updevishly seductive Leo Marakaios in order to protect her heart. But when she discoversthat she's pregnant with his child, Margo walks back into Leo's life and asks himto marry her! CLAIMED FOR HIS DUTY (Greek Tycoons Tamed) by Tara Pammi Stavros Sporades agreed to marry heiress Leah Huntingtonto protect her, but now she's demanding a divorce! Stavros wants proof Leah'stroubled past is behind her, but one night of desire reveals that she might have beeninnocent all along…

Step behind the hotel room doors of The Chatsfield, London, for five fabulous novellas full of style, sensation…and scandal! In Revenge in Room 426, by Michelle Conder, journalist Rory Jones has a plan: Use the press junket for Noah Black's latest movie to get revenge. She'll use him, seduce him and…once he's begging? Cut him loose. But what if her plan is the one thing standing in the way of her happiness? In Strangers in the Sauna, by Caitlin Crews, Jenny Harding is left stranded in London's most opulent hotel in nothing but her underwear. Sneaking down to the sauna to "borrow" a shirt, she encounters a gorgeous stranger, and the temptation to live dangerously for one wild night is outrageously irresistible…! In The Bodyguard in Her Room, by Sophie Pembroke, actress Bethany Lord is hiding from a scandal that could threaten everything she's worked for. But it isn't the press outside The Chatsfield that's her biggest threat—it's the shocking sensual tension caused by the man who has been sent to protect her! In Doctor at The Chatsfield, by Carol Marinelli, disillusioned receptionist Natasha finds herself playing emergency midwife in The Chatsfield lobby…and listening to delicious Dr. Joshua Mason's instructions over the phone! Maybe he's what she's been looking for all along? In The Secret in Room 823, by Dani Collins, Lady Hamilton-Smyth is releasing her inner sex goddess with sinfully hot Hayes—real name unknown! But when the young socialite's case of naughty toys goes missing in The Chatsfield, her reputation is at stake! Only Hayes can help, but will revealing their identities ruin the fantasy? Will they find love in London? Find out in volume one of The Chatsfield novellas!

Romance novels have attracted considerable attention since their mass market debut in 1939, yet seldom has the industry itself been analyzed. Founded in 1949, Harlequin quickly gained market domination with their contemporary romances. Other publishers countered with historical romances, leading to the rise of "bodice-ripper" romances in the 1970s. The liberation of the romance novel's content during the 1980s brought a vitality to the market that was dubbed a revolution, but the real romance revolution began in the 1990s with developments in the mainstream publishing industry and continues today. This book traces the history and evolution of the romance industry, covering successful (and not so successful) trends and describing changes in romance publishing that paved the way for the many popular subgenres flooding the market in the 21st century.