Charlotte Vale Allen

Illusions. Atheneum, 1987.
Two people, each in the grip of a terrible loss, meet on a plane and commence an ambivalent but sexually charged relationship. But what begins as two lonely people finding solace in each other's company grows into a shocking obsession. By the same author: Grace Notes (2002).

Tilly Bagshawe

Adored. Warner, 2005.
Siena McMahon, the grandchildren of a famous philandering Hollywood movie star, is determined to make her own mark in the business, in spite of the objections of her film-producer father. Ruthlessly ambitious, Siena makes as many bad decisions as good ones, in both her career and choice of men.

Pamela Beck & Patti Massman

Rich Men, Single Women. Delacorte, 1988.
Three gorgeous women meet in LA when they are bridesmaids in a mutual friend's stunning marriage to a rich Hollywood lawyer. Vowing to make similar matches themselves, they chuck their careers and take a benefactor up on his offer of the use of a mansion free for a year - the perfect setting to lure wealthy men.

Rexanne Becnel

My Gallant Enemy. Dell, 1990.
This sensuous romance proves that things were far from stodgy in the 13th-century. When Corbett of Colchester returned from the Crusades, he insists upon enforcing an old contract to make Lilliane of Orrick his wife. Soon hostility and mistrust blossom into something very different. By the same author: The Bride-maker (2002), The Old Boyfriends (2006), The Payback Club (2006).

Norman Bogner

The Madonna Complex. Forge, 2000.
Billionaire financier Teddy Franklin buys and sells corporations at will and holds the careers of powerful lawyers and politicians in the palm of his hand. Nothing, it seems, is beyond his reach--until he meets the beautiful, mercurial, and perverse, Barbara, who toys with him until he is pushed to the brink of insanity by his desperate obsession.

Pat Booth

Barbara Bretton

Guilty Pleasures. Mira, 1996.
Two strong, proud women with a lifetime of mistakes between them face off in the sinfully seductive world of a multimillion-dollar cosmetics empire where beauty isn't enough to mask some of life's ugliest truths. By the same author: Shooting Star (1986), One & Only (1994), Maybe This Time (1995), Destiny's Child (1995)

Suzanne Brockman

Hot Target . Ballantine, 2004.
The sexy and enigmatic Cosmo Richter, is hired to protect an equally sex film producer from Neo-Nazis who object to her current project--a gay film.

Connie Brockway

McClairen's Island: The Passionate One. Dell, 1999.
He was a notorious rogue with a reputation for hell-raising and heartbreaking. But family secrets forced Ashton Merrick to do his ruthless father's bidding--and escort Rhiannon Russell back to McClairen's Isle. Ash suspected that his father intended to make the innocent beauty his fourth wife. But he didn't expect the passions she would ignite in his own wary heart. Followed by: McClairen's Island: The Reckless One (2000) and McClairen's Island: The Ravishing One (2000).

Sandra Brown

Seduction by Design. Warner, 2001, 1983.
Hailey Ashton, the director of guest relations at a theme park, puts more effort into her job then her love life...until she meets the park's handsome and sexy owner, Tyler Scott. Also by Sandra Brown: Send No Flowers (1984), Two Alone (1987), Adam's Fall (1988), Texas! Lucky (1991--Followed by Texas! Sage and Texas! Chase), The Silken Web (1992), Exclusive (1996), Fat Tuesday (1997), Standoff (2000), and many others.

Candace Bushnell

Lipstick Jungle. Hyperion, 2005.
The author of Sex and the City (1997) proves she knows a lot about just that. Three rich and powerful women will to anything to stay at the very top of their chosen fields, even if it means jeopardizing their personal and professional relationships. By the same author: Four Blondes (2001), Trading Up (2003).

Stella Cameron

Cold Day in July. Kensington, 2002.
Local doctor Reb O'Brien seems to be the only one who believes a serial rapist/murderer is is on the loose in Toussiant, La. She finds an unexpected ally in Marc Girard, Reb's high school crush,, who has returned to town after many years trying to unravel a family mystery. Danger and sizzling romance ensue. By the same author: French Quarter (1998), Pure Delights (1998), More and More (1999), All Smiles (2000), Now You See Him (2004), etc.

Rita Ciresi

Remind Me Again Why I Married You. Delacorte, 2003.
After five years of marriage and motherhood, Lisa Diodello Strauss, stay-at-home mom and aspiring novelist, begins to feel as though her love life has lost its spark. And its's hard to re-ignite the passion when making love on a schedule in order to get pregnant again. So the last thing she needs is a sexy realtor making eyes at her husband. Sequel to Pink Slip (1999). By the same author: Blue Italian (1996), Sometimes I Dream in Italian (2000).

Sharleen Cooper Cohen

Love, Sex & Money. Dutton, 1988.
The story of three women--Pam, Trish and Hillary--friends for life, whose passions and ambitions are fueled by love, sex, and money.

Jackie Collins

Hollywood Wives. S&S, 1983.
They lunch at Ma Maison and the Bistro on salads and hot gossip. They cruise Rodeo Drive in their Mercedes and Rolls, turning shopping at Giorgio and Gucci into an art form. They pursue the body beautiful at the Workout and Body Asylum. Dressed by St. Laurent, they dine at the latest restaurants on the rise and fall of one another's fortunes. They are the "Hollywood Wives", a privileged breed of women whose ticket to ride is a famous husband. Followed by Hollywood Husbands (1986), Hollywood Kids (1994), Hollywood Wives--The New Generation (2001), Hollywood Divorces (2003).

Also by Jackie Collins:

The Stud (1969), The Bitch (1979), Chances (1980), Lucky (1985), Lady Boss (1990), American Star (1993), Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge (1997), Thrill! (1998), Dangerous Kiss (1999), Lethal Seduction (2000), Deadly Embrace (2002), Lovers & Players (2006).

Joan Collins

Misfortune's Daughters. Hyperion, 2005.
Sisters Atlanta and Venetia, the daughters of an actress and a wealthy shipping magnate, live in a world of wealth and privilege, but those luxuries come hand-in-hand with heartache, tragedy and betrayal. By the same author: Prime Time (1988), Love, Desire & Hate (1990), Infamous (1996), Star Quality (2002).

Shirley Conran

Lace. S&S, 1982.
Lili, a young actress thought to have no morals, gathers together three former school chums to find out which is the mother who gave her away as a baby. Followed by: Lace II (1985), By the same author: Savages (1987), Crimson (1992).

Jasmine Cresswell

No Sin Too Great. Mira, 1996.
Caroline Hogarth will do anything to get her 3-year-old son back from the clutches of her father-in-law, who will do anything to prevent it. When she encounters Episcopal priest Jack Fletcher, she wonders if her prayers have been answered. by the same author: Desires and Deceptions (1994), To Catch the Wind (1993).

Jennifer Crusie

Bet Me. St. Martin's, 2004.
After being dumped by her boyfriend, Min Dobbs overhears the lout making a bet with hunky Cal Morrisey that Cal won't be able to bed Min in a month. Min figures she can string Cal along for the month, use him as a date for her sister's upcoming wedding and then dump him right before the bet deadline. Also by Jennifer Crusie: Tell me Lies (1998), Crazy for You (1999), Welcome to Temptation (2000), Fast Women (2001), Faking It (2002), Don't Look Down (2006).

Thea Devine

Bliss River. Brava, 2002.
In 1898 South Africa, Charles Elliott runs a polo club for the rich, dissolute British aristocrats. But it is all a complicated plot to avenge his father's death. By the same author: Dark Desires (1999), Pleasure Came (2000), Seductive (2001), Her Lord and Master (2003).

Eric Jerome Dickey

Drive Me Crazy. Penguin, 2004.
"Driver" is an ex-con trying to make his life right but his real troubles begin when his boss’s wife--a woman who once hired him to kill her husband only to have him renege on the deal--decides to make his life miserable. By the same author: Between Lovers (2001), Cheaters (1999), Genevieve (2005), etc.

Carrie Fisher

Surrender the Pink. S&S, 1990.
It is appropriate that Dinah Kaufman writes scripts for a living: her life is full of bad lines. Particularly where men are concerned. They are all losers. Then she finds a real man, Rudy Gendler. Alas, he is not what he seems and the marriage ends just short of disaster. Dinah pulls herself together and finds...that she still loves Rudy! How can she win him back? By the same author: Postcards from the Edge (1987), Delusions of Grandma (1994), The Best Awful (2003).

Judith Gould

The Parisian Affair. NAL, 2004.
Cash-strapped New York jewelry designer Allegra Sheridan agrees to fly to Paris and bid up to $100 million on an emerald ring and finds herself caught up in a tangled web of intrigue. ,By the same author: Dazzle (1989), Never Too Rich (1990), Forever (1992), Too Damn Rich (1995), Rhapsody (1999), A Moment in Time (2001), The Best Is Yet To Come (2002), The Greek Villa (2003).

Linda Howard

Mr. Perfect . Pocket, 2001.
During a night out on the town, Jaine Brught and three other professional women devise a sexy and sassy checklist outlining their collective requirements for the "Perfect" man. The next thing their list has become not only the talk of their company, but the local news media as well. But some find the List sexist and offensive, and what started out as a joke becomes deadly serious when one of the four women is murdered. Good thing for Jaine her sexy neighbor is an undercover cop. Other romantic suspense titles by the author: Now You See Her (1998), A Game of Chance (2000), Killing Time (2005).

Eloisa James

Enchanting Pleasures. Delacorte, 2001.
A sensuous romp set in regency England. Brought from India to marry a foppish man who isn't the least bit interested in her, Gabrielle Jerningham marries his dashing brother, Quill. But a riding accident has left Quill unable to love her without suffering incapacitating migraines. The lively Gabrielle sets out to find a cure for what ails him. Preceded by Potent Pleasures (1999) and Enchanting Pleasures (2001).

Tara Janzen

Crazy Hot. Dell, 2005.
In this steamy action-adventure, Regan McKinney searches for her missing grandfather and finds former Air Force pilot Quinn Younger, an undercover government agent hiding out in Arizona after nearly being killed. Very quickly, they are under the covers and his cover is blown. Also by Tara Janzen: Crazy Cool (2005), Crazy Kisses (2006), Crazy Wild (2006).

Erica Jong

Fear of Flying. HRW, 1973.
Isadora White Wing travels to Vienna with her psychiatrist husband where she embarks on a voyage of self-discovery in an attempt to define herself as a daughter, a wife, a woman, a Jew, and a writer. Followed by: How to Save Your Own Life (1977) and Parachutes and Kisses (1984).By the same author: Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones (1980), Serenissima: A Novel of Venice (1987) , Any Woman's Blues (1990), Sappho's Leap (2003).

Erica Kennedy

Bling. Hyperion, 2004.
Set in the world of hip-hop and R&B divas, a small town girl is tapped for megatsardom by a music mogul but learns that wearing the hottest designer fashions, hanging with a decadent A-list crowd, and being escorted through the velvet ropes into the city's most exclusive clubs comes with a high price.

Nina Killham

Mounting Desire. Bloomsbury, 2005.
Jack Carter, born-again virgin (after a failed marriage and too much casual sex) and best selling author of genteel romances, reluctantly takes in a friend of his sister who has just been fired from her job for sexually harassment as well as having been evicted from her apartment. Soon his new roommate is writing decidedly steamy romances, using the pseudonym Molly Desire. Can these two opposites attract? Also by Nina Killham: How to Cook a Tart (2002).

Lisa Beth Kovetz

The Tuesday Erotica Club. Sourcebooks, 2006.
There's hot-stuff aplenty between the sheets (of paper that is) when what was once a rather dry and boring lunchtime literary club at a law firm becomes something very different as four women share their own penned steamy fantasies.

Judith Krantz

The Jewels of Tessa Kent. Crown, 1998.
Raised by an unloving family, Maggie has always looked forward to her glamorous, movie star sister's infrequent visits Then the truth comes out:Tessa is really her mother. Maggies reacts by cutting off all contact with Tessa. Years later, Tessa approaches the auction house where Maggie is employed and offers a high-stakes auction of the valuable collection of famed jewels lavished on her by her late husband...but only if Maggie, who has been lucky in love and enormously successful in her own right, works with her on the sale. By the same author: Scruples (1978), Princess Daisy (1980), Mistral's Daughter (1982), I'll Take Manhattan (1986), Dazzle (1990), Scruples II (1992), Spring Collection (1996), Lovers (1994).

Jayne Ann Krentz

All Night Long. GPPS, 2005.
Another fast-paced, sensual romantic thriller from Krentz. A cryptic notes from an old friend brings journalist Irene Stenson home. When that friend dies mysteriously before they can meet, Irene begins to look into the matter (with the help of a sexy ex-marine) and discovers that it is somehow linked to the deaths of her parents years earlier. Also by Jayne Ann Krentz: Full Bloom (1987), Grand Passion (1994), Absolutely, Positively (1996), Lost & Found (2001), Falling Awake (2004), etc.

Johanna Lindsey

The Malory Novels
Lindsey adds considerable spice to the Regency romance genre with this series featuring the tempestuous Malory family: Love Once More (1990), Tender Rebel (1988), Gentle Rogue (1991), The Magic of You (1993), Say You Love Me (1996), The Present (1998), A Loving Scoundrel (2004), Captive of My Desires (2006).

Elizabeth Lowell

Eden Burning. HarCol, 2002.
While working together on a project in the Hawaiian islands, scientist Chase Wilcox and research assistant Nicole Ballard discover that desire can erupt that rival the nearby volcanoes. Originally called Fires of Eden (1986). .

Kinley MacGregor

Master of Desire. Avon, 2001.
What is it about Scotsmen that send authors and readers into ecstasy? Must be those kilts. Ordered by the king himself to take in the daughter of his foe in order to forge a peace between their feuding houses, Draven de Montague, finds himself tempted by Emily's beauty and spirit. MacGregor is also the author of: Born in Sin (2003), Master of Seduction (2000), Midsummer's Knight (2003), Sword of Darkness (2006), Taming the Scotsman (2003).

Colin McDowell

A Woman of Style. Crown, 1991.
After discovering how poor her Italian aristocrat husband is, Constance Simpson sets up a simple hat-making business-a venture that increasingly becomes her obsession as it grows into a major force on the Italian fashion scene. Yet the more successful she becomes, the more she alienates her pleasure-loving husband.

Kat Martin

The Fire Inside. Pocket, 2002.
Reckless and rebellious, Kassandra "Kitt" Wentworth, the disobedient daughter of a viscount, scoffs at the idea of giving up her independence by subjugating herself to the will of any man. Rakish Clayton Harcourt has no intention of ever taking a wife. But when these two gorgeous, headstrong people meet, sparks fly. By the same author: The Devil's Prize (1995), Desert Heat (2004) Hot Rain (2002), etc.

Teresa Medeiros

The Bride and the Beast. Bantam, 2000.
In this sensuous spin on the "Beauty and the Beast" fable, plumpish but spirited Gwendolyn Wilder--the only available virgin to be sacrificed to the feared Dragon of Weyrcraig--learns that the beast she has fallen for is really a man. By the same author: Yours Until Dawn (2004), One Night of Scandal (2003), A Kiss to Remember (2001), etc.

Grace Metalious

Peyton Place. Julian Messner, c1956.
Secrets, murder, incest, and adultery in a small New England town. Still a good read after all these years. Followed by: Return to Peyton Place (1959).

Judith Michael

Acts of Love. Crown, 1997.
Upon discovering a box of letters written by his late grandmother's Protegra, actress Jessica Fontaine, theater director Lucas Cameron realizes that he has fallen in love with her. He seeks out the passionate, talented woman to convince her to return to the stage and finds that fate has dealt her a cruel blow. Also by Judith Michael: Ruling Passion (1990), Poseidon (1990), Sleeping Beauty (1991), Pot of Gold (1993), A Certain Smile (1999).

Fern Michaels

Celebration. Kensington, 1999.
After her husband vanishes, along with the $8 million trust fund she had naively given him the power to control, Kristine Kelly's life sinks to its lowest point. Banker Aaron Dunwoodie comes into her life to offer passion, a strong shoulder to lean on, and a relationship to believe in, but she is reluctant to commit her heart again. By the same author: Vegas Rich (1996), Vegas Heat (1997), Vegas Sunrise (1997), Finders Keepers (1998).

Karen Moline

Belladonna. Warner, 1998.
Just before WWII, Isabella Ariel Nickerson's innocence is taken by a group of noblemen who call themselves The Club. By the 1950's, she has changed her name to Belladonna and begun taking her meticulous revenge upon the men who violated her. Also by Karen Moline: Lunch. (1994).