The convenient bridegroom... Rachel is forced to offer Vito Farneste a marriage of convenience. She has his most prized possession--surely he'll say yes? The bartered bride... Vito won't be blackmailed, but at last Rachel's caught in his web--and she'll wear his ring...his wedding ring of revenge!

"English rose Flavia Lassiter has never been comfortable in her father's glitzy world. Summoned to yet another of his ostentatiously lavish parties, she finds that her one order is to be "nice" to a wealthy investor. Her body may be on offer, but she shields her heart behind an icy shell. Leon Maranz emanates a dark power that sends shivers through her body-threatening to shatter her frosty facade. To let the self-made billionaire bed her would be to do her unscrupulous father's bidding. But to turn Leon down would be to deny her body's deepest desires."--P. [4] of cover.

When Alessandro Marchese strides into the headquarters of his latest business acquisition, one person is particularly struck by his awesome presence…. The tingling of Cassie's skin lets her know her new boss is the man who left her pregnant with twins! And now it seems he's forgotten her altogether. But the formidable Italian is more affected by Cassie than he lets on. The darkness in his memory is lifting. Now Alessandro needs just one more thing to complete the picture—Cassie, with his wedding ring on her finger….

Someplace Between Heaven and Hell… Four years ago, Guy Frabosa had hurt Marnie so deeply that she vowed never to set eyes on him again and had divorced him in a blaze of pain and anger. He fought her, but she'd had a trump card and had been desperate enough to use it. Now Guy held all the cards—Marnie needed his financial help and had little choice but to play be her ex-husband's rules. He demanded her body and soul, but the thought of returning to his side as his wife filled her with a raging hatred—made all the more consuming by her utterly wanton desire for his lovemaking.

Blue Summer was a self-made man who had everything money could buy–except a wife and children. He craved the respectability his tough upbringing had denied him. Allison Lancaster was his passport to a socially acceptable world of power and privilege. A banker's daughter, she'd be the perfect wife!

Rachel Vail is still haunted by Vito Farneste's cruel public rejection of her, just hours after she surrendered her virginity to him. But tragic circumstances mean that Rachel must contact Vito once more. She comes armed with Vito's most prized possession - surely he'll drop everything to be her bridegroom? Only Vito won't be blackmailed by anyone, especially not a cheap little gold-digger like Rachel.

Jilted at the altar! No one could do that to Ryan Falconer and get away with it. That' s why, two years later, Ryan' s back. He' s going to reclaim his bride– and he wants revenge.

A Spanish billionaire has a lot to learn when a beautiful ballerina declares she’s carrying his child in this gripping romance. When Spanish tycoon Javier Casillas learns his explosive night with Sophie Johnson left her pregnant, he’s adamant they wed! But not even the red-hot pleasures of their marriage bed can thaw the ice around Javier’s dark heart . . . Until warm, compassionate Sophie demands more. To truly claim his wife and unborn child, can Javier accept that giving them his all is the key to his redemption?

Duty forced Nikki Ferliani to leave the only man she'd ever loved—Massimo Androletti—and marry another. Massimo was left with the bitter memory of Nikki, the gold-digging seductress. Now she's widowed and broke, and the only person who can help Nikki is the very man she once betrayed…. Massimo has purchased her body for revenge, and she's paid with her heart. Little does he realize that Nikki's now carrying his child, and would have given him both for free….

This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.