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Books : Romance : Authors, A-Z : ( T ) : Toombs, Jane
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Fiery-haired Octavia travels far from the drawing rooms of her native England to the new United States' Lake Ontario. Stranded by the War of 1812, she's surprised to find herself drawn to the wildness of a Seneca warrior......Silver Grass, Octavia's daughter, fleeing from the white men's attacks on her people in New York States, finds refuge near Lake Superior with the Chippewa. Her heart dark toward all whites, how can she admit to any attraction when blacksmith and copper miner Olav Johanson courts her?......Elma, older daughter of Silver Grass, raised near Lake Erie by her father and stepmother, favors the Union cause during the War Between The States. Why, then, does she find herself drawn to Confederate prisoner Hunt Drury?......Marta, rebellious younger daughter of Silver Grass, flees her staid home to become a logging camp cook's helper in the wilds of Wisconsin near Lake Michigan. When she meets the son of the wealthy Easterner who owns the camp, she knows his attentions mean only heartache for her. Yet she finds herself unable to resist him......Henrietta, Marta's daughter, lives near Lake Huron. Even as a child, she has her heart set on captaining a Great Lakes boat--an unheard of ambition for a woman. To reach her goal, however, must she give up the love of her life?......Five generations of fiery, stubborn women discovering their destinies beside the five Great Lakes...
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(Romance / Historical Romance) Bramwell Sumner, a hot-shot Philadelphia lawyer, travels into the Minnesota Territory to intervene when he believes a con woman is tricking his wealthy stepbrother, Ronald, into marriage. Upon his arrival, however, Bramwell discovers that Ronald has already left his residence, and he fears he is too late. Fueled by indignation and determined to stop the wedding at all costs, he hunts down Ronald's supposed fiancée, Jennara Gray, an attractive and determined frontier doctor. But when Jennara tells him that his stepbrother has fallen in love and run off with her sister instead, Bramwell doesn't believe her, thinking she staged a ruse for his benefit. He also doesn't believe her warning when she claims that the territory is in a midst of a major and dangerous Indian uprising. Bramwell discovers his error, however, when he and Jennara go in pursuit of their wayward relatives. And before he knows it, he is forced to swallow his pride, put his trust in Jennara, and follow the capable young woman's every directive in order to stay alive in the wild and savage frontier...
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In the early 1800s, Jurissa Campbell Winterton, pressured into marriage to a man she scarcely knows, sails with him from Boston toward New Orleans. Since her husband, Philip, double her age and fond of alcohol, is ill and can't tolerate her presence, Jurissa spends much of her time alone on deck. There, she meets a dashing Creole gentleman, Leon du Motier, who's entranced by her beauty and pays romantic court to her. The result is they both fall madly in love. One fateful night, Philip Winterton falls overboard under mysterious circumstances, but due to his heavy drinking, no one is blamed and he's presumed dead. Believing she's a widow, Jurissa enters New Orleans nearly penniless, and with Philip's two slaves, a brother and sister, in tow. Meanwhile, in order to save his family's plantation when his father dies, Leon must go through with an arranged marriage of his own. But deeply in love with Jurissa, he continues to see her in secret until she learns of his impending nuptials. Grief-striken of living without Leon, Jurissa also faces potential scandal when she realizes she's pregnant with his child, and makes desperate plans of her own. Will Jurissa ever be able to forgive Leon for his betrayal? And will she ever be able to forgive herself for keeping the knowledge of his child from him? And what will happen to her when Philip Winterborn suddenly resurfaces, very much alive and desperate to reclaim his wife?
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Mary Vere, servant girl, is determined to become a lady and locate her missing father. When the chance arrives to make her dreams a reality, she leaves Alabama for California and gradually reinvents herself into the alluring and mysterious Monique Vandreuil. Monique falls in love, giving her heart to Jeremy Johnston, one of the men who helps her establish her new identity. But when Jeremy weds another woman in San Francisco, a despondent Monique heads for the rip-roaring, lawless town of Virginia City, Nevada, accompanied by Philippe Manigault, a professional gambler and the man who taught her to be a lady. Life is no easier in Virginia City, however, when Monique and Philippe quickly run afoul of Alex Campbell, the ruthless, lethal, and self-styled 'king of the town.' Forced to take drastic measures to earn a living, Monique opens a high-class parlor house, which she christens The Flame, and eventually becomes a power in Virginia City. Yet continually haunted by controversy and scandal, and plagued by Jeremy's moral wife, how can Monique bring down Alex Campbell for all the evil he's bestowed upon her? And will she ever find true and everlasting love?
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Spinster Celeste Prescott has no use for rakes. The Earl of Campion has no time for straight-laced young ladies. Fate throws these two unlikely-to-suit the other into a situation where both are striving to keep a love-struck young lady and a lovesick prince apart. Just when they think they may have prevented any chance of the prince and his love ever getting together, Celeste and the Earl find themselves mired in the quicksand of overwhelming mutual attraction. Impossible! Surely sense and sensibility must triumph over what can't possibly be love...
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From the pen of Jane Toombs comes two complete Regency Romances in a single volume. Included are the tales......A Mischievous Matchmaker (Wade Mathias, third Earl of Kendrick, and Elnora Precott, a parson's daughter, meet at a sordid baby farm, each there to retrieve a baby girl neither has ever seen. When, from three almost identical babies, they both pick the same infant, the stage is set for conflict and chaos. And when they wind up reluctantly cooperating to take all three children, the stage is also set for mischief and magic.)......Music Of The Heart (Juliet Grant meets Malcolm Rothwell, Lord Talland, at the Valentine Ball, and though he's about to leave for the war, he promises to meet her at the ball the following year. But Malcolm breaks his vow. Once he returns from the war, he holes up at Hart's Hall, refusing to see anyone, let alone attend social events in order to meet with his beloved Juliet. It takes his well-meaning but devious Aunt Elaine and a dulcimer to make the ancient rhyme of Hart's Hall come true and reunite the heartbroken lovers. But will her plan succeed?)
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Upon discovering her father, a Union doctor, is ill and imprisoned in Virginia's infamous Libby Prison, Barbara Thackery is determined to travel south from Ohio to bring him the medicine he needs. Her attempt to catch a train, however, results in her being hauled into a boxcar by Rebel prisoner Trevor Ishmael Sandoe, a Confederate officer who escaped from the stockade on Johnson Island, just offshore from her home. Attraction and rejection flare on both sides as Barbara and Trevor must join forces, since their goal is the same--to reach Richmond. One dangerous obstacle after another rises to impede their journey. But when they finally reach their destination, neither is able to accomplish want they'd hoped--until Trevor makes Barbara an offer. If she accepts, her father will go free, but she will be betraying her country. Before her final decision, the ship on which they're traveling is blown off course during a storm. Danger awaits on Jamaica's shores, then later when they finally reach Ohio and Lake Erie. By now both their love and their lives seem doomed. Will either survive a horrible fate?
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Only a rogue would trifle with a lady's affections, Maud knew. Yet she was ready to forgive Lord Montrain, until he had the effrontery to ask her help in pursuing her beautiful older sister's affections. He deserved the comeuppance she planned—until her whole world turned topsy-turvy when she discovered nothing at all was what it seemed to be.Deception is everywhere, even in the attentions of the mysterious Frenchman who is a guest at Maud's home. She must learn the hard lessons of who to trust and who not to, in order to survive and find her way to love.
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When Kegan Kendall, an English aristocrat in 1812 America, rescues an Indian Maiden held captive by the Sioux, he has no idea his life is forever changed. Snow Flower, a respected Mide shaman among the Anishinabe, has vowed never to wed a white man. But Kegan's rescue changes her mind--and her life. When Kegan fails to return to Snow Flower, she sails to Regency England, determined to find the man she regards as her husband, only to find he's to wed another...
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Deirdre Darrington's widowed father marries unexpectedly. Deirdre accepts her new family, only to be crushed when she discovers the man of her heart, Clive Shadbourne, is engaged to Phoebe, the elder of her stepsisters.
After Clive goes off to war still unwed, the Darrington family is invited to Harmon Hall, where all three young women meet Edward Fox, who will one day be Lord Harmon. A notorious rake, Edward sets his sights on both Deirdre and Phoebe—not for marriage but for dalliance.
But what will happen when Clive returns to London, traumatized by the wound that left him with an ugly scar?
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Trouble is Everywhere!
From Louisiana to New Mexico and Texas, from Iowa to the Rockies--Colorado, Montana, Idaho--then Washington and Nevada... Trouble, the black cat, a traveling ambassador of romance, shows lonely hearts that love is just around the corner, or found in a new location, or even at a blackjack table. Love can be accompanied by a wandering dog, or discovered at a Christmas bazaar or during a trip into the past.
Getting lost can bring love. So can a fire, even the police sometimes arrive with it. Trouble becomes the catalyst whenever she encounters those who need a second chance at love. And when Trouble gets into trouble of her own, the results surprise everyone into happy-ever-after.
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Justine Riggs expects to despise Quentin Fletcher when she, disguised as a male jockey, challenges him to a race set up by Lord Alton, a so-called friend of his. She's ahead, winning, when she sees runaway horses dragging a carriage. At the risk of her life, she veers off course and halts the panicked carriage horses. Saving Mrs. Baldwin's life drastically changes Justine's future.
Both being stubborn, Justine's and Quentin's stormy relationship seems doomed to fail until Lord Alton reveals his true, dastardly colors…
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When the moon is full, Sussie Sironen struggles with a wild impulse to dash out and dance naked under its silvery rays. When, unexpectedly, something out there calls to her to join him in dancing, her fear drives her to enact a Finnish rite with a cedar cat that temporarily kills the desire. What waits in the moonlight? And what will happen if her yearning grows too strong to resist?
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When a red-haired nurse comes to work at California's Harper Hills Hospital, fireworks erupt. Nurse Lynn Holley, attempting to make a new start, believes she's left her past behind her in Boston. And she intends to have nothing to do with men—especially doctors!
Dr. Nick Dow, however, does his best to change Lynn's mind about men, never dreaming that when her past catches up with her, his plans for seduction will throw them both into deadly peril.
Though it's not her fault, Lynn's arrival in California plunges the entire hospital into turmoil. Because of her, lives change—for better or worse. And when doctors like Nick Dow vie for Lynn's attention, they are unaware that any man who gets close to her is marked for fiery death...
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