[COLOR="DarkOrchid"]Blue Velvet
by Iris Johansen
Date: Mar-1985[/COLOR]

[COLOR="Purple"]Part gypsy, part untouched golden child of the sea, Kate Gilbert was the most bewitching woman Beau Landry had ever seen. Rashly he agreed to help rescue her friends, risking his ship, his crew, even his life. But Kate was no damsel in distress, he discovered, and showed him it was all he could do to match her bravado. But under the sultry moonlight, Beau took the lead, teaching his untutored Kate the exquisite joys of loving, vowing to make her happy, yet fearing that meant letting her go… [/COLOR]

Spellbinder (Loveswept, No 221)

Publication Date: 10/1/1987


Book Description:
Brody Devlin had a notorious temper, a mesmerizing voice, and a presence so powerful he could hypnotize any audience into believing he was a king, a god, or the devil himself.

Sacha Lorion knows Brody Devlin must be a part of her family. Brody vehemently denies it. Brody discovers that Sacha is in great trouble; he moves heaven and earth to protect this innocent wild child. Sacha's streetwise friend, Louis Benoit, refuses to answer Brody's questions on the basis that it is Sacha's place to tell Devlin about her hidden past. Louis has spent his life protecting Sacha; now he knows the only one who has any hope of keeping her deadly past at bay is Brody Devlin.

ONE TOUCH OF TOPAZ - Loveswept
by Iris Johansen
Date: 1988

IN HER IMPOSSIBLY BEAUTIFUL EYES HE SAW DESIRE AND KNEW HE MUST POSSESS HER...

Samantha Barton was ethereal as moonlight, but she was also Topza, a woman whose courage had

survived a revolution- and Fletcher Bronson wanted to protect her and ravish her all at

once. The enigmatic industrialist had offered his helicopter for a rescue mission; now he

was marooned on an island with this angel of the night until the helicopter could return for

them. Hiding with him where for so long she had lived with fear and loneliness, Samantha was

irresistibly drawn to Fletch. In his arms she felt his savage need and the sweet warmth of

hope, but whose tenderness moved her as powerfully as his passion. In her impossibly

beautiful eyes he saw desire and aching hunger, and knew he must possess her, mark her with

his lips and hands as his. Lying in his arms Samantha felt the sweet warmth of hope, but

Fletch had given her no promise of forever. Could she teach him that the steel beneath her

softness made her all the women he'd ever want?

An Unexpected Song
(1990)
A novel by
Iris Johansen


THE BROODING, ENIGMATIC COMPOSER...

When Jason Hayes heard Daisy Justine's spectacular voice, he felt a fierce joy, and a shocking need to possess her! She was born to sing his music for Desdemona, but when she refused his offer and wouldn't say why, Jason vowed he'd never give her up....Daisy reminded him she'd never been his - but both knew she would be. She wanted the role, but even more she wanted to be touched, devoured, absorbed by this tormented, beautiful man who was all brawny muscle and arrogant male power. When he tangled his fingers in her hair, Daisy reveled in the danger and the pleasures he promised.....But beneath Jason's spellbinding seduction was haunting pain that shadowed their lovers' bed. Determined to invade his fortress and capture his heart, Daisy knew only she could banish the darkness that caged Jason's soul...But could she make him understand his music had been searching for her all his life - and so had he?

Star-Spangled Bride (Loveswept, No. 622)
Publisher: Loveswept
Publication Date: 5/1/1993

Book Description:
GABE - A LARGER-THAN-LIFE HERO WHO'D ALWAYS BE HER LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS...

The last thing that Gabe Falkner expected was to be rescued by a golden-haired angel, but photojournalist Ronnie Dalton would dare anything to free the man who'd saved her life years beofre! He'd never let anyone close enough to touch him, but Ronnie was a seductive blend of brash child and world-weary woman - and when he embraced her with reckless abandon, he felt an overwhelming sense of possession.

BOUND TO HIM BODY AND SOUL...

Stunned by the electrifying heat of Gabe's touch, Ronnie felt at once utterly cherished and dangerously vulnerable. She yearned to belong to the man who'd been her inspiration, her secret fantasy, but she doubted she could ever be part of his life. Gabe desperately wanted to give Ronnie something she valued as much as he did his freedom, but would destiny let them join their dreams forever?