Bid for Independence - Yvonne Whittal





He was being overprotective .. .

Maura was determined to strike out on her own. Her decision to teach school enraged Clayton, her stepbrother, and the administrator of the family's considerable wealth.

Ten years older than Maura, Clayton had always shared an affectionate relationship with her. He'd respected her intelligence and recognized her independent spirit.

But now his affection was eclipsed by fury, and Maura was at a loss to understand why.

One thing was becoming increasingly obvious. His feelings went beyond brotherly protectiveness and affection... .

Yvonne Whittal - Dark Heritage





"Your eyes harbor dark secrets."

The truth in Rick's remark flustered Dale.

When her parents were killed in a plane crash, Dale was thrust out of her lonely world at boarding school into a new life with her handsome guardian, Rick Crawford. Then she discovered the disastrous truth about her heritage.

Now she dared not fall in love with Rick. He knew the humiliating circumstances of her past, and besides, he had Melissa. She possessed everything Dale longed for--beauty, confidence, a proud heritage . .. and Rick.

September Morning - Diana Palmer








KEEPER OF THE FLAME...
At thirty-four, Blake Hamilton was an arrogant lady-killer determined to keep his heart free. But to Kathryn Mary Kilpatrick he was a guardian stricter than the father she'd lost. She tried to rebel in the arms of another man...until a furious Blake promised to teach her a lesson she'd never forget, plunging them both into a fiery passion that was dangerously close to love!

Kiss Yesterday Goodbye - Leigh Michaels




Time hadn't changed her feelings for Dane

There had always been a peculiarly bitter hatred between Jenny and her stepbrother, Dane Sutherland. She'd so much resented his influence with her father she had run away from home.

Now, five years later, she was back in Iowa, and apparently nothing had altered. Dane, not ******* with controlling the family, was trying to take over her father's business, too.

It didn't occur to her that there might be something more to her emotions than mere sibling rivalry ....

Storm Over Paradise - Robyn Donald



If only lightning would strike him!

Seven years had passed since their last meeting, but Dominic Maxwell still found Fenella Gardner's morals suspect. She was--and always would be--a gold digger.

The fact he had misjudged her wouldn't have normally bothered Fenella. At least not if Fala'isi, an island in the South Pacific, hadn't been so small, and not if he'd kept his opinions to himself. Fenella didn't want her young half brother Mark to be hurt by Dominic's arrogant assumptions.

And Fenella wouldn't have cared what Dominic thought of her if his opinion hadn't really mattered--if the attraction between them hadn't been so strong.

the hero is her brother's half-brother so her mother and his father had an affair