Quicksilver's Catch

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She Was Too Much Woman For Half A Man

Delaney cursed the wayward bullet that had made him less than what he'd been. A jewel like Hannah Dancer deserved more than he could ever be again. And besides, she belonged to someone else. But fate, it seemed, had other plans .

The Law Had Moved In On Hannah Dancer

Her late husband's shocking bequest had given their home to Sheriff Gabriel Delaney and left her with more than one surprise. For now this hard–muscled, brooding lawman had taken up residence in her home and in her heart!","rating":"3.88","stock":0,"date":{"__className":"DateTime","date":"2012-07-06 00:00:00.000000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Australia/Sydney"},"sale_date":{"__className":"DateTime","date":"2012-07-06 00:00:00.000000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Australia/Sydney"},"product_id":12010,"isbn13":"9781460857496","title":"The Marriage Knot","seo":"the-marriage-knot","summary":"...","image":"https://harpercollins-millsandboon-au.imgix.net/covers/9781460857496.jpg?auto=format&w=298&blend=https://supadu-imgix.s3.amazonaws.com/harpercollins-millsandboon-au/EBOOK.png&blend-mode=normal&blend-size=inherit&blend-y=0","hide":false,"categories":[{"name":"Historical","type":"bisac","seo_name":"FIC027050"},{"name":"Romance / General","type":"bisac","seo_name":"FIC027000"}],"scheduled":[]},{"description":"
SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER HER

One look at the rugged, denim–clad, 100% man in her doorway told Sara Campbell she wasn't dead yet only dreaming. She'd met detective Joe Decker just yesterday, when he'd scooped her off the pavement after the South Side Ripper had tried to kill her, and held her hand until she woke up. Now he was back to protect her, because Sara, all alone in her mansion, was the only living witness to the maniac's face. But she couldn't remember that face! And that meant she was in danger, with only this one man to keep her safe. But even if he kept the maniac from harming her, what would happen to the heart that was already his?","rating":"3.62","stock":0,"date":{"__className":"DateTime","date":"2012-07-06 00:00:00.000000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Australia/Sydney"},"sale_date":{"__className":"DateTime","date":"2012-07-06 00:00:00.000000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Australia/Sydney"},"product_id":12411,"isbn13":"9781460861943","title":"Just One Look","seo":"just-one-look","summary":"...","image":"https://harpercollins-millsandboon-au.imgix.net/covers/9781460861943.jpg?auto=format&w=298&blend=https://supadu-imgix.s3.amazonaws.com/harpercollins-millsandboon-au/EBOOK.png&blend-mode=normal&blend-size=inherit&blend-y=0","hide":false,"categories":[{"name":"Romantic Suspense","type":"bisac","seo_name":"FIC027110"}],"scheduled":[]},{"description":"
HE COULDN'T SAY NO

She had a face like an angel and a body designed for sin, and she wanted him to help her disappear? Sam Zachary was a private investigator, not a magician. So he showed Laura McNeal the door

to his house. Nestled in the country, he figured it would be the ideal hideout. But between the bullets flying through his kitchen window and the alluring damsel in distress seeking shelter in his arms, his embrace his bed his home was anything but safe. Laura had turned his ordered, lonely life upside down, and while he could live without the gunfire, he was damn sure he couldn't live without the lady.","rating":"3.78","stock":0,"date":{"__className":"DateTime","date":"2012-07-06 00:00:00.000000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Australia/Sydney"},"sale_date":{"__className":"DateTime","date":"2012-07-06 00:00:00.000000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Australia/Sydney"},"product_id":11160,"isbn13":"9781460847022","title":"Bluer Than Velvet","seo":"bluer-than-velvet","summary":"...","image":"https://harpercollins-millsandboon-au.imgix.net/covers/9781460847022.jpg?auto=format&w=298&blend=https://supadu-imgix.s3.amazonaws.com/harpercollins-millsandboon-au/EBOOK.png&blend-mode=normal&blend-size=inherit&blend-y=0","hide":false,"categories":[{"name":"Romantic Suspense","type":"bisac","seo_name":"FIC027110"}],"scheduled":[]},{"description":"

Gideon Summerfield

Bank robber. Prisoner. Let out of jail only on the condition that he capture his cousin. Well, it might take a thief to catch a thief, but Gideon didn't plan on being caught himself–at least not by a bright–eyed female full of vinegar…and honey. Sweet, warm honey.

Honey Logan

Banker's daughter. Pampered debutante. Now a woman determined to abandon everything for a life with the outlaw who'd robbed her father's bank. She'd cuffed herself to him before she could think, before she'd looking into his eyes and known that she'd lost the key forever.

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She hated molasses–paced Moonglow, Texas. She hated her new homespun identity. And she didn't know whether to strangle or kiss the handsome Hawaiian–shirt–clad handyman who ruined more than he repaired. But for all that ?Molly Hansen? missed her old life, making memories with Dan Shackelford didn't seem so bad?.

Sure, his sudden return home had the gossips talking and the women flocking. But Dan seemed interested in her alone – something that both terrified and titillated her. Because she was no dummy, and Dan was no Mr. Fix–It. Was he the enemy she'd gone underground to avoid? Or was he the man who would make it possible to love Moonglow and being Molly – so long as he was part of the package?","rating":"3.90","stock":0,"date":{"__className":"DateTime","date":"2012-07-06 00:00:00.000000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Australia/Sydney"},"sale_date":{"__className":"DateTime","date":"2012-07-06 00:00:00.000000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Australia/Sydney"},"product_id":10672,"isbn13":"9781460841396","title":"Moonglow, Texas","seo":"moonglow-texas","summary":"...","image":"https://harpercollins-millsandboon-au.imgix.net/covers/9781460841396.jpg?auto=format&w=298&blend=https://supadu-imgix.s3.amazonaws.com/harpercollins-millsandboon-au/EBOOK.png&blend-mode=normal&blend-size=inherit&blend-y=0","hide":false,"categories":[{"name":"Romantic Suspense","type":"bisac","seo_name":"FIC027110"}],"scheduled":[]},{"description":"
Drop–dead–gorgeous cop Sonny Randle had enough charm and raw sex appeal to turn a woman inside out. Melanie Spears should know in the few months of their marriage, he'd blasted her perfectly planned life into chaos. Even with her dreams of white picket fences and two point five kids shattered, Melanie had never gotten over Sonny but she had wised up. In fact, the newly organized Ms. Spears had a hot date with a sperm bank!

Her baby plan seemed perfect. Then she got an eyeful of her new neighbour. All six feet two heartbreaking inches of Sonny Randle, right next door with his own plan to do things the old–fashioned way!","rating":"3.68","stock":0,"date":{"__className":"DateTime","date":"2012-07-06 00:00:00.000000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Australia/Sydney"},"sale_date":{"__className":"DateTime","date":"2012-07-06 00:00:00.000000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Australia/Sydney"},"product_id":10622,"isbn13":"9781460840757","title":"Baby, Baby, Baby","seo":"baby-baby-baby","summary":"...","image":"https://harpercollins-millsandboon-au.imgix.net/covers/9781460840757.jpg?auto=format&w=298&blend=https://supadu-imgix.s3.amazonaws.com/harpercollins-millsandboon-au/EBOOK.png&blend-mode=normal&blend-size=inherit&blend-y=0","hide":false,"categories":[{"name":"Romantic Suspense","type":"bisac","seo_name":"FIC027110"}],"scheduled":[]},{"description":"
Darkly handsome doctor Sir Dominic Chiara raised female pulses everywhere he went. But few admirers guessed at the torment behind his coolly assessing gaze. Nick's son had stopped speaking – and Nick, who had been knighted for his invaluable service to the royal family, did not know why. Until a beautiful new nanny offered hope....

Children's therapist Sarah Hunter answered a royal summons to help Dr. Chiara and his son. But her cover as the nanny was soon blown away by her discovery that the child had witnessed a murder – and by her attraction to his father. Falling in love with a man who treated kings would be foolish, yet as she helped father and child, she couldn't seem to help herself...


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Marcus Quicksilver Moved Like A Mountain Lion On The Prowl

And if Amanda Grenville had any sense, she'd be putting miles of prairie between them, instead of running straight into his arms.

Even covered in trail dust Amanda Grenville still radiated plenty of appeal five thousand dollars' worth, to be exact! Now if only bounty hunter Marcus Quicksilver could keep his eyes on the prize and forget about the heiress!","rating":"3.16","stock":0,"date":{"__className":"DateTime","date":"2012-07-06 00:00:00.000000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Australia/Sydney"},"sale_date":{"__className":"DateTime","date":"2012-07-06 00:00:00.000000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Australia/Sydney"},"product_id":13122,"isbn13":"9781460870372","title":"Quicksilver's Catch","seo":"quicksilvers-catch","summary":"...","image":"https://harpercollins-millsandboon-au.imgix.net/covers/9781460870372.jpg?auto=format&w=298&blend=https://supadu-imgix.s3.amazonaws.com/harpercollins-millsandboon-au/EBOOK.png&blend-mode=normal&blend-size=inherit&blend-y=0","hide":false,"categories":[{"name":"Historical","type":"bisac","seo_name":"FIC027050"},{"name":"Romance / General","type":"bisac","seo_name":"FIC027000"}],"scheduled":[]},{"description":"
Jack Hazard Needed A Wife

And Anna Matlin was the perfect woman for the job. Though she seemed like a timid mouse, Jack was convinced that the file clerk possessed a multitude of charms. Charms that he would soon expose as he drew her into his dangerous game of revenge.

Anna's colourless existence ended the day she became the \"wife\" of her hero, Jack Hazard. But though she was learning that beneath legendary Pinkerton detective's dashing exterior was a haunted, lonely man, still she longed for the brief assignment to become the role of a lifetime!","rating":"3.56","stock":0,"date":{"__className":"DateTime","date":"2012-07-06 00:00:00.000000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Australia/Sydney"},"sale_date":{"__className":"DateTime","date":"2012-07-06 00:00:00.000000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Australia/Sydney"},"product_id":13675,"isbn13":"9781460876695","title":"Darling Jack","seo":"darling-jack","summary":"...","image":"https://harpercollins-millsandboon-au.imgix.net/covers/9781460876695.jpg?auto=format&w=298&blend=https://supadu-imgix.s3.amazonaws.com/harpercollins-millsandboon-au/EBOOK.png&blend-mode=normal&blend-size=inherit&blend-y=0","hide":false,"categories":[{"name":"Historical","type":"bisac","seo_name":"FIC027050"},{"name":"Romance / General","type":"bisac","seo_name":"FIC027000"}],"scheduled":[]},{"description":"
10th ANNIVERSARY

Trouble In Paradise

Spinster Libby Kingsland was in heaven when she finally returned to the ranch her father had named Paradise. Until she learned that she and her sister would lose it all unless one of them married Shadrach Jones!

A half–breed loner, Shad had no intention of getting married. But now, thanks to Amos Kingsland, he would have to marry one of Amos' daughters, or say goodbye forever to the only real home he'd ever known.","rating":"3.86","stock":0,"date":{"__className":"DateTime","date":"2012-07-06 00:00:00.000000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Australia/Sydney"},"sale_date":{"__className":"DateTime","date":"2012-07-06 00:00:00.000000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Australia/Sydney"},"product_id":12581,"isbn13":"9781460863978","title":"Storming Paradise","seo":"storming-paradise","summary":"...","image":"https://harpercollins-millsandboon-au.imgix.net/covers/9781460863978.jpg?auto=format&w=298&blend=https://supadu-imgix.s3.amazonaws.com/harpercollins-millsandboon-au/EBOOK.png&blend-mode=normal&blend-size=inherit&blend-y=0","hide":false,"categories":[{"name":"Romance / General","type":"bisac","seo_name":"FIC027000"},{"name":"Historical","type":"bisac","seo_name":"FIC027050"}],"scheduled":[]},{"description":"
Libby Jost's plan to save her family home has just hit a snag: a sexy stranger with a generous streak and a penchant for distracting her. How could she be expected to focus when David could render her senseless with just a kiss?

Billionaire David Halstrom wants what Libby has. It should have been a simple business deal, but instead he…lied. Now amid a maelstrom of intense passion and twisted hotel sheets, David's white lie could cost him the one thing he's never been able to buy... Libby's love.","rating":"3.65","stock":0,"date":{"__className":"DateTime","date":"2012-07-06 00:00:00.000000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Australia/Sydney"},"sale_date":{"__className":"DateTime","date":"2012-07-06 00:00:00.000000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Australia/Sydney"},"product_id":6983,"isbn13":"9781460819104","title":"The Magnate's Takeover","seo":"the-magnates-takeover","summary":" Libby Jost's plan to save her family home has just hit a snag: a sexy stranger with a generous streak and a penchant for distracting her. How could she be expected to focus when David could render...","image":"https://harpercollins-millsandboon-au.imgix.net/covers/9781460819104.jpg?auto=format&w=298&blend=https://supadu-imgix.s3.amazonaws.com/harpercollins-millsandboon-au/EBOOK.png&blend-mode=normal&blend-size=inherit&blend-y=0","hide":false,"categories":[{"name":"Contemporary","type":"bisac","seo_name":"FIC027020"}],"scheduled":[]}],"scheduled":[],"products":[]}