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A high-powered woman executive returns home to be served with divorce papers on grounds of adultery and that her work makes her unfit to be the mother of her children. The novel follows Claire Raphel as she battles her husband and a chauvinist judge, finally indulging in an affair with her CEO of which she was falsely accused. By the author of Shades of Grace.

April Raine was married and pregnant at eighteen, divorced ten years later, and has struggled to provide for her children. Now a successful businesswoman, she accepts a challenge from a daytime talk show to compete in a thirty-day battle of the sexes. April is up against a television psychologist who claims her organization hurts the very people she alleges to help.Dr. Jefferson Prentiss, television's Dr. Jeff, is haunted by the loss of his wife and...

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Butterfly comes a provocative, riveting tale of one woman's escape from her haunting past. The rich, the glamorous, the powerful all come to STARS-to gossip, to make deals and to indulge luxuriously in their most erotic fantasies. At the magnificent and secluded Palm Springs mountaintop resort, bodies-and souls-are offered up to save fragile careers or are used to extract the final succulent and satisfying...

Detective Kincaid of Scotland Yard investigates the murder of a promiscuous woman whose tea warehouse in the dockland of London was coveted by a builder. Sex crime or business crime?

When Sara Lander returns to her home town with plans to open her own bakery, she doesn't count on Allen Masters, ex-Navy SEAL, taking all her focus away from starting her own business.

A feud between two women gangsters in Hollywood. One is Lucky Santiago, the thrice-married owner of a film studio, the other, Donna Landsman who is attempting a hostile takeover of the studio. Donna fakes the death of Lucky's husband, which causes Lucky to fall into the arms of a director, only to learn the husband is not really dead, but is a prisoner in a cave. Lucky strikes back.

Running a high-profile casino and hotel complex that ruthless billionaire Armand Jordan is plotting to take from her, Lucky engages in a power struggle against him, while Bobby becomes inadvertently involved in best friend Frankie's drug problems.

When a contestant in the pumpkin pie contest is found crushed under an enormous pumpkin, Val Harris, the owner of Pie Town, wonders if this will be her last Halloween.

When two orphaned boys and their aunt arrive for Thanksgiving supper at church, retired army colonel Brett Stanton feels his heart tugged. Despite having her hands full, young businesswoman Haley Jennings handles her nephews with a smile. Still, Brett can't get too close to the needy trio. He lost his son and brother to the uniform, and isn't about to set himself up for loss again. Soon sweet Haley and the boys remind him of old dreams-;and teach...

A self-made millionaire inherits 51% of a former business associate's high-tech lighting company, butting heads with the niece of the deceased, who holds the rest of the the stock, until extortion and murder force them to join forces.