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Click to view full description | 1. | Joyce, Brenda After Innocence
Avon October 1, 1994 Paperback used: good
The blossoming of a shy, introverted artist and the man who captures her he art are the engaging protagonists in Joyce's seventh historical romance aft er Promise of the Rose. Lame from a childhood injury-which seems to disappe ar midway through the book-Sofie O'Neil is certain she is destined to live out her life as an eccentric spinster devoted to her canvases. Edward Delan za, a self-serving rake with a reputation to match, takes Sofie's dilemma t o heart and decides to boost her ego. It is time, he figures, "to do someth ing noble and worthy for a change." Edward's scheme backfires as Sofie ends up head-over-heels in love with him and pregnant besides. Her solitude tur ns chaotic as her mother badgers her to give the child up for adoption whil e Edward, riddled with guilt, insists on a marriage of convenience. To Sofi e, social ostracism as an unwed mother is preferable to a marriage of unreq uited love. The ensuing events send her fleeing to Paris, where she becomes an extraordinary woman in her own right.
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| 2. | Joyce, Brenda Beyond Scandal
Avon October 1, 1995 Paperback used: good
Anne St. Georges may be Marchioness of Waverly, Countess of Campton and Hig hglow, Baroness of Feldstone, Viscountess of Lyons and one day Duchess of R utherford?but she is not happy. Four years earlier, Dominick St. Georges co mpromised her in a garden, married her and then left his unconsummated marr iage to travel, raise horses and entertain assorted mistresses. Anne, derid ed as an American adventuress and shunned by society, has lived a quiet lif e managing her husband's estate and making friends with his grandfather, th e powerful Duke of Rutherford, who actually engineered the match. When Dom returns home for his father's funeral, he sees how well Anne has developed and naturally decides to stay. Will she have him? With interminable heaving of her (small) breasts, Joyce's heroine vacillates passionately and unendi ngly. Someone is understandably trying to kill her. Could it be Dom? Or per haps the beautiful, buxom Felicity, whom Dom jilted? Or Felicity's brother Patrick, who supposedly loves Anne but is in the throes of an emotional cri sis? And who is trying to frame Dom for the murder of his father's male lov er? This heavy-handed, sexual melodrama set in Victorian England is weighte d down by a supposedly sensible heroine who is in fact perpetually overwrou ght and denser than a hedge.
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| 3. | Joyce, Brenda Captive
Avon May 1, 1996 Mass Market Pa used: good
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| 4. | Joyce, Brenda Fires of Paradise
Avon April 1, 1992 Paperback used: good
The Scorching Saga of the Braggs Continues . . . Heiress to the magnificent Bragg empire, lovely, headstrong socialite Lucy Bragg lives a life that flies in the face of convention. Dark and rugged half-breed Shozkay Savage lives an outlaw's life on the edge. These two people inhabit different worlds--hers, opulent and privileged; his, dangerous and wild. But on the vast and sweeping plains of Texas, their worlds collide . . .
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| 5. | Joyce, Brenda Firestorm
Avon November 1, 198 Paperback used: good
"Firestorm sizzles, smolders and erupts with sensuality...a fabulous read."
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| 6. | Joyce, Brenda Innocent Fire
Avon June 1, 1988 Paperback used: good
Leaving behind the sheltered life of a French convent, Miranda journeyed to the New World and an arraged marriage to a prosperous Texan rancher. Arriv ing in America, the innocent European met her fiance's freind Derek Bragg, a rough-hewn Texas Ranger, whose harsh manner and candid comments about her beauty enraged the shy miss. Although Bragg fought to deny his feelings fo r his charge, he knew that he was falling in love with her. Miranda, too, w as struggling with her desire for her escort as they trekked across the tre acherous wilderness. Drawn to the lawman--enflamed by his raw masculine vir ility--will Miranda sacrifice her innocence to the fire blazing out of cont rol in her heart?
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| 7. | Joyce, Brenda Scandalous Love
Avon November 1, 199 Paperback used: very good
The Scorching Saga of the Braggs Continues! Never A Bride Rebelliously independent Lady Nicole Bragg Shelton refuses to be constraine d by the stifling rules of Victorian England. And now desire has impelled t he beautiful heiress toward a shocking liason with Hadrian Braxton-Lowell, Duke of Clayborough. Bound by the dictates of honor and duty to another woman, Hadrian is hocked by Nicole's daring conduct, yet entranced by her fiery free spirit and breathtaking sensuality. Though resolved to making the raven-haired beauty his mistress, he will never agree to wed her. But Nicole is no man's plaything. And she is prepared to risk heartache in order to satisfy her wild, uncompromising passion...and win the dashing Duke's unwavering loyalty and undying love.
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| 8. | Joyce, Brenda Secrets
Avon April 1, 1993 Paperback used; good
This bodice-ripper, set in turn-of-the-century America, has all the subtlet y of a cartoon. Regina Shelton, whose daddy is an English earl, is travelin g by train through central California on an extended holiday from which she 'll return home to marry a man of her father's choice. Masked bandits intru de; one clearly has his eye on more than Regina's pearls. What's a virginal aristocrat to do? She hurls herself from the speeding train, winding up in the dust with a case of amnesia, a new identity and powerful sexual longin gs for her rescuer, one Slade Delanza, heir apparent to a financially troub led rancho. Slade is boorish and temperamental, but his body stirs the deli cate Regina. "He was not really a big man, but every inch of him was sculpt ed muscle," rhapsodizes
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| 9. | Joyce, Brenda The Finer Things
St. Martin's Press April 1, 1997 Mass Market Pa used; good
The Power...The Passion...The Incomparable Romance of Brenda Joyce The Pretender An orphan from London's East End, a fugitive from the poorhouse, Violet Cooper was tired of sleeping on stoops and being huntry and cold. But she dared to enter a world forbidden to her and her kind. Even marriage to a gentle elderly knight and the title Lady Goodwin could not open closed doors, stop the cold stares, or hush the shadowy rumors of murder...
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| 10. | Joyce, Brenda The Game
Avon March 1, 1995 Paperback used: good
The author of After Innocence creates a smoldering, if uneven, novel with a ll the pomp, pageantry and quite a few of the personages of the Elizabethan era. Heading home to Ireland from the Norman convent where she has spent s ix years, Katherine FitzGerald is abducted on the high seas by notorious pi rate Liam O'Neill, bastard son of a barbaric clan chieftain. From her kidna pper Katherine learns that her father is languishing in London under house arrest, deposed by his cousin FitzMaurice. If the pirate's report is true, Katherine's fortune and any hopes for a fitting marriage are lost, leaving her the pirate's prize. Given the stakes, she demands proof of the story in exchange for her pliancy. The pair's covert journey to London is interrupt ed when they are captured and brought before a furious Queen Elizabeth. Lor d Leicester and William Cecil urge the queen to keep Katherine under close watch as a Lady in Waiting?an uncomfortable situation as the vain and petul ant queen brooks no rivals for her favorites' affections, especially Liam's . If Joyce abuses the game motif (in part no doubt to push a Game contest a imed at retailers and distributors), this is nonetheless a lusty narrative that will appeal to her fans.
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| 11. | Joyce, Brenda The Rival
St. Martin's Paperbacks August 15, 1998 Paperback used: good
When Lionel DeVere, young heir to the earldom of Stanhope, vanishes, the ol d earl presumes that his second son, Garrick, is responsible and sends him into exile. But this Georgian by the author of Splendor really starts 14 ye ars later when the earl summons Garrick home and demands that he accept his responsibilities?including betrothal to a young twit who bores Garrick to death. Garrick is much more intrigued by her companion, Lady Olivia Grey, w ho's married to his lifelong enemy, Arlen Grey, an evil man who brutalizes Olivia and her young daughter because both have ESP. As is often the case, these special powers tend to substitute for more banal, but also more meani ngful, motivations. The lack of real sexual tension pulls down the plot, bu t it gains momentum when the long-lost Lionel suddenly reappears to claim h is earldom, which raises the question of where he has been and even who he is.
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| 12. | Joyce, Brenda The Third Heiress
St. Martin's Press August 1, 2000 Mass Market Pa used: good
A tangled web of love, lies, and murder begins to unravel as Jill digs into the scandal, revealing that very little has changed in the century since K ate Gallagher first caught Edward Sheldon's fancy--especially when the blue -blooded family lineage is threatened by an American upstart. When someone begins warning Jill off her research by ransacking her rented flat and slic ing her car brakes, she isn't sure if Hal's American-born cousin Alex Prest on is friend or foe. Alex claims to want to help, but Jill suspects that he is not telling her the truth. And with the threats against her life intens ifying, Jill is running out of options quickly. A well-crafted novel infuse d with passion and suspense, The Third Heiress will both delight Joyce's de voted fans and attract new readers. --Alison Trinkle
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| 13. | Joyce, Brenda Violet Fire
Avon December 1, 199 Paperback used: good
A scion of the imperious Bragg family, golden-boy Rathe Bragg finds a socie ty party all rather a yawn until a feisty suffragette bursts into the room. Wielding a six-shooter and shrieking feminist slogans from atop the grand piano, the impassioned lady makes a startling first impression on those gat hered, especially Rathe -- and from that moment the sparks between them onl y intensify.
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| 14. | Joyce, Brenda, Brockway, Logan, Mittman Outlaw Love - Brenda Joyce Anthology
Dell August 11, 1997 Paperback used; very good
This collection of Wild West tales by four prominent historical authors inv olves dangerous men and spirited women. Sundown by Brenda Joyce is the stor y of spinster Emily Anderson. She teaches the local schoolchildren, helps c are for her father's farm, struggles to deal with her mother's death, and w orries about her father's increasingly frequent drinking. Her days have a d reary sameness--until one morning when she goes to wake her father for brea kfast and finds instead a handsome, wounded man in her father's bed. Raphae l Caldwell, accused of robbery and murder, needs a place to hide out, and t he Anderson homestead seems as good a place as any. Raphael's wound heals, but he loses his heart to Emily. The collection's second treasure is Heaven with a Gun by Connie Brockway. W hen reporter Jim Coyne is exiled to Far Enough, Texas, in 1883, he searches for a story exciting enough to restore him to the good graces of his New Y ork editor. He finds that story in Lightning Lil, the female bandit robbing the good citizens of Far Enough. Determined to interview her, he places an ad in the paper, and much to his surprise, she responds. But the beautiful , innocent young woman that throws herself into his armsisn't quite what th e big-city reporter expected. Gillian--"Lightning Lil"--is equally surprise d by the brawny, handsome Irishman. What ensues is a tender story of a dari ng woman set on revenge and the strong, caring man who finally frees her fr om the ghosts of her past. In Lady Desperado by Cait Logan, Grayson Sinjin Steele is a powerful, rich Wyoming rancher, furious with a bandit named the Raven for stealing a book of erotic dr
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