Irresistible by Mary Balogh

From beloved New York Times best selling author Mary Balogh comes this passionate tale of a proper lady who discovers just how desirable she really is after one very improper night….It was unthinkable. It was irresponsible, It was…

IRRESISTIBLE

Sophia Armitage was a friend, indeed. She had agreed to help Sire Nathaniel Gascoigne find a husband for his cousin Lavinia in the glittering city of London – only half hoping that she’d find one for herself. Sophia knew the odds were against her. Men simply did not seem to be attracted to her – not that way. Even her late husband had treated Sophia more as a companion than a lover. But then something shocking happened in London – Sophia found herself in the arms of Nathaniel himself ! Not only did this act of indiscretion threaten their lifelong friendship, it revealed a depth of passion that defied everything Sophia believed about herself..

ISBN: 978-0-425-22103-7
Type: Historical Romance

Star Flight by Phyllis A. Whitney

From the inside jacket cover:

The hauntingly beautiful mountains of North Carolina provide the stunning back-drop for the latest novel from Phyllis Whitney. She spins a chilling tale of Lauren Castle’s search for the truth behind her husband’s accidental death and her famous grandmother’s suicide. Two generations divide these tragic events, yet both seem curiously and inextricably linked.

In 1938, two of Hollywood’s most glittering young stars, Victoria Frazer and Roger Brandt, were cast in a movie set in these mountains. Drawn to each other with a passion that was destined to cool, their ill-fated affair ended with the birth of an illegitimate daughter, Victoria’s death, and the end of Roger’s career. Ostracized by the movie industry, judged morally corrupt by fans, Roger Brandt stayed on in North Carolina, but still the scandal became the stuff of Hollywood legend.

Many years later, Lauren Castle is drawn into Brandt’s orbit by a more recent tragedy: the death of her filmmaker husband. Only Lauren  knows that she is the daughter of Roger and Victoria’s love child. As she begins to make sense of what happened to her husband and what happened in her family’s past, she risks exposing herself to an evil that reaches with undiminished virulence across two generations.

IBM 0-517-59499-4

Murder in the Hamptons by Amy Garvey

From the back cover:

Maggie Harding has a few rules for living. Order, control, and carefully checked-off to do-lists equal a safe life. Safe is good. What’s not good is, oh, hmmm, maybe having a wild, passionate, naked pizza-eating weekend fling with type A  Brody, the kind of guy who leaves a girl shaken and stirred, deep down. Bad. Bad, bad, bad. What to do? Run away. Constraint is better than chaos. Right?

So what’s that same girl to do when she runs into the guy five years later at a big Hamptons bash, and he’s staring at her with that naughty, right-here-right-now grin, while she’s trying not to make an idiot of herself in front of lots of rich people and “It” list Hollywood stars? Make another run for it. Except that she can’t. Because somebody’s dead on the lawn and “house party” has just become “house arrest”. The only way out of this insanity is for Maggie to find the murderer herself, even if the biggest mystery is why she ever belived that saying good-bye to Tyler was the right thing to do…

ISBN 0-7582-1041-8