Cirrus@Austlit

'Carly Taylor had made it on her own for six years, raising her daughter and hiding from the heartbreaking memories of the husband who d betrayed her.

'But when her daughter's life was threatened, Carly was desperate enough to go to the man she'd tried to forget and ask for his help.

'Stefano Alessi was the embodiment of power and once he learned he had a child, he was determined to wield that power ruthlessly. He gave Carly one option: return to his home and to his bed.

'And that was where the danger lay. For once Carly was locked in Stefano's embrace, the world would cease to matter. For how could she fight the sheer force of a man whose greatest weapon was the desire she felt for him?' (Publication summary)

She was blinded, almost deafened by the explosion of her anger, a fury that was fed by her own reaction just to the sight of this man...

When Fiona Boyd managed to acquire a large piece of land, her dreams of running a dog-training school in the depths of Tasmania seemed about to come true. But that was before she discovered her new neighbour was millionaire sheep farmer Dare Fraser. However hard she tried to keep to herself he seemed to find an excuse to bother her at all hours of the day and night. Would there be any way for her to remain truly independent from this man or would she have to submit to his every wish time and again? - back cover (Chatswood, 1990)

'Carefree, content, young Kerry Derwin wanted life to go on forever just the way it was. To Kerry, love was a lot of nonsense. Certainly she wasn't interested in marrying and settling down. And every one in the village knew it.

'So she wasn't very pleased at the upheaval caused by the arrival of a film unit making a movie on the moors. As for the star of the film, Paul Devron, he was conceited and a confirmed ladies' man. Kerry had no intention of adding herself to his long list of conquests.

'But that, of course, was before she actually met Paul Devron...'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Toni had left her job and a go-nowhere romance to join her brother on Mandargi, the cattle station which he managed. She hadn't met the owner, Damon Nyland, but had heard enough about him to determine that she at least wasn't going to fall on the great man's neck when he finally condescended to visit them!' (Publication summary)

'All her life Johanna Coleman had been used to getting her own way where men were concerned, and now that she had decided she wanted to go on this exciting expedition among the lagoons of northern Australia's Timor Sea she didn't anticipate much trouble. Not, that was, until she met Nick Bannon, the leader of the expedition, who made it clear from the start that he wasn't having her.

'And so began a battle of wills between them – Nick, who for once had an iron hand without a velvet glove, and Johanna, who found to her dismay, in no time at all, that there was no one else in the world for her but Nick Bannon.

'But Nick, it seemed, didn't want her – now or at any time in the future. Was Johanna, for once, going to lose?' (Publication summary)