Merline Lovelace Books In Order

A Savage Beauty

Their passion was a daring adventure…
From the Uncharted Wilderness Louise Therese Chartier knows all about the hardships of life in the wilderness. She has learned to survive by trusting her own instincts. But when her husband is killed, she finds herself left in the care and protection of Sergeant Daniel Morgan To the drawing rooms of New Orleans society Against her will, Louise becomes part of an expedition to chart America’s new frontiers and act of fate that will alter the destiny of a country and her heart. A woman whose harsh life taught her more about survival than about men, Louise is stunned by her desire for her rugged protector. But Daniel is a man of honor, bound to his duty, his country and another woman. Passion is a daring adventureAs Louise’s exotic beauty, proud sensuality and secret royal heritage open the doors to the elite drawing rooms of a young America, new opportunities and new dangers await. But the beating of her wild heart calls out to one man, a man whose destiny is inexorably linked with her own…

Perfect Double

Maggie Sinclair had played everything from a nun to a call girl in her work for the supersecret OMEGA agency. But now she really had her hands full, impersonating the vice president of the United States. And more unsettling still was her partner in crime OMEGA’s mysterious director, Adam Ridgeway. For years Maggie had yearned for a relationship with Adam which was…
well, less than businesslike. For years she’d dreamed of breaking down Adam’s aristocratic reserve to get at the hot blooded man she knew lurked underneath. And maybe now the time had finally come…

Hot as Ice

They called him Project Iceman. The U 2 pilot who, incredibly, hadn’t aged since the day his top secret mission went south into the Arctic Ocean…
forty five years ago. Biologist Diana Remington had the duty of monitoring the scientific marvel, but her OMEGA objective was to learn from the fiercely guarded flyboy what had happened during that fateful flight. From his buzz cut to his June Cleaver ideal of women, Major Charles Stone should have riled Diana’s defenses. Instead, she ached for all that he’d lost…
and welcomed his heated touch despite the rules and the risk. Because someone seemed determined to let sleeping spies lie forever…
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Diamonds Can Be Deadly

If diamonds were a girl’s best friend…
Then emeralds came in a close second. So when ex model turned agent Jordan Colby Code Name: Diamond was sent to Kauai to find a missing green gem, she jumped at the chance. There was just one hitch: the presence of her ex fianc , T. J. Scott, a former New York City cop who’d turned his back on everything that had meant anything to him. Starting with her…
Or had he? T.J.’s sizzling stares were starting to convince her that his feelings for her had never cooled, and his protectiveness convinced her that he was one of the good guys after all. But if there was one thing she was beginning to learn, it was that dazzling surfaces were no reflection of what lay beneath…
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Closer Encounters

To Drew ‘The Riever’ McDowell, this seemed like a fairly straightforward assignment: track down Tracy Brandt and find out her connection to a top secret mission. But when Drew finds her, he realizes Tracy has a mission of her own solving the sixty year old murder of Trixie Halston, a mysterious, mesmerizing singer of the 1940s. In fact, Tracy’s obsession with Trixie goes beyond interest at times she actually seems to become Trixie. She goes from demure but contemporary woman to the brazen big band singer on a dime. And the scary thing is Drew is falling hard. For both of them

Stranded with a Spy

Escape from hell?To hell was more like it! When Mallory Dawes, suddenly infamous in the States, decided to take that vacation to France, her problems were just beginning: a lost passport. A car swept out to sea. Missing travelers’ checks. And a mysterious, if intriguing, man who always seemed to turn up just when she was in trouble…
Cutter Smith code name: Slash was told to keep the beautiful blonde in his sights. But as his interest in her veered from the professional to the intensely personal, Cutter knew the cost of falling in love would be high indeed. And he would have to pay the price…

Match Play

Olympic athlete turned secret agent Dayna Duncan always plays to win. Her assignment to guard an international sports sensation would be no different. Then the one man who could throw Dayna off her game appears. Fighter pilot Luke Harper never did play fair…
. Years ago, knowing that he could jeopardize her shot at the gold, Luke broke things off with Dayna. Now he’s back…
for keeps. Even as Dayna tries to resist the man she believes chose his career over her, reigniting passion adds fuel to an explosive conspiracy that could end this match, once and for all.

Undercover Wife

Playing the part of Gillian Ridgeway’s tourist husband might be OMEGA operative Mike Callahan’s toughest assignment yet. Keeping his hands off the too young, too innocent, stunning novice field agent while they were supposed to act all lovey dovey? Right. He’d have to rely on all his torture training and focus on their mission: to track down the source of a potentially deadly virus in Hong Kong.

When their job was complicated by pint sized scam artists who wiggled their way into Mike’s heart, Gillian knew her undercover husband wasn’t as jaded as he claimed. But to turn their cover into a real life arrangement, first they’d have to come home alive.

Seduced by the Operative

For psychologist Claire Cantwell code name Cyrene the stakes couldn’t be higher. Tapped for a top secret mission for the president, the OMEGA covert operative needed the unique expertise of a man with whom she’d shared danger and her bed. Lethally attractive special ops agent and ultrasuave diplomat Luis Esteban wanted more than Claire was ready to give. Now, with their very survival at stake, Claire has to trust Luis with her life…
even if that means surrendering the one thing she vowed never to give: her heart.

Double Deception

As sharp witted as his code name Blade implies, spy Clint Black is used to having the upper hand. But now he’s a prisoner, trapped by dangerous criminals and a gorgeous woman who just might be a double agent or his only chance to stay alive. Special Agent Victoria Talbot is as icy as the St. Petersburg that surrounds her she needs to be to succeed in her quest. That means racing against time to find a mysterious treasure and keep her reluctant hostage safe. But she’s not above torturing her handsome captive, stoking flames of a desire that’s hardly covert. Will this be their last mission together, or just the beginning of a lifelong partnership?

River Rising

An Air Force Major finds herself assigned to investigate the murder of another female officer. She learns to her dismay that her ‘best’ witness is an MIT educated, one time hockey superstar…
and an ex convict. His respect for law and order is severely lacking, as is his desire to help the Major. But as she investigates the crime, she learns that her witness isn’t as cynical as he likes to pretend, and their relationship wanders from the professional to the personal…
. Praise for Merline Lovelace: ‘Fascinating, behind the scenes details of military life and the serious consequences of falling into forbidden relationships makes this fast paced thriller gripping as well as timely.’ Publishers Weekly starred review, for Call Of Duty ‘Sizzles with excitement.’ Nora Roberts, for Duty And Dishonor ‘A great yarn told by a masterful storyteller. It could have happened.’ Brig. Gen. Jerry Dalton, USAF Retired, for Duty And Dishonor ‘As always, author Lovelace’s command of the plot is impressive…
. Readers will definitely appreciate this intense and evocative military legal thriller for its unusual and well written story.’ Gothic Journal

Dark Side of Dawn

In this sizzling military romantic suspense thriller, chopper pilot Joanna West has always believed that there’s nothing she can’t handle. But when she pulls Alexander Taylor the rich, charming, darkly handsome grandson of a former president from a fiery car wreck, she gets swept into a dangerous passion she can’t resist. Alex seems to understand her every desire, anticipate her every move. Soon everything Jo cares about is in jeopardy her career, her chance at new love, her life.

After Midnight

Back when she was a scrappy eight year old, Jessica Yount and her mother were escorted out of their hometown by the local sheriff and she never found out why. Now she is back in Valpariso, Florida, drawn into a police investigation surrounding the death of a local man and into an irresistibly passionate, tension filled affair with Sheriff Steve Paxton.

Eye of the Beholder

‘It’s been months since that horrible day USAF captain Miranda Morgan flew her C 130 Hercules into lethal cross fire in Afghanistan. But Randi still can’t believe Ty, her best friend her anchor when a disastrous marriage left her a single mother is really gone. Now back on her Ancestral land in southeastern Oklahom, Randi knows she did all she could to get Ty out safely, but his billionaire father is convinced there’s blood on Randi’s ahnds, and through his fog of hatred will stop at nothing to punish her. But when physics professor Pete Engstrom asks permission to study the mysterious rune stones scattered around her property, Randi is convinced she’s found the one man willing to watch her back. That is, until a buried secret is revealed. And someone with an eye cast on fortune is lurking, ready to strike a final blow.’

A Man of His Word

Reece Henderson knew that the two most sacred things in life the truth and a man’s marriage vows were also the hardest to stick to. So he’d sworn to uphold the former and avoid the latter. Then beautiful Sydney Scott’s return tested his promise. Ten years ago, Sydney had left in disgrace. Now she was back, determined to do the job she’dbeen hired to do and move on. But she hadn’t counted on Reece Henderson. He got her thinking that maybe, with the right man by her side, she could go home again…
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Mistaken Identity

THE INVESTIGATOR: Special Agent Marsh Henderson. THE SUSPECT: Becky Smith…
or was it Lauren?Marsh Henderson’s mission was to find the lone witness to a drive by shooting. He had a description and a name. The description long legged, sensuous, beautiful fit the woman he found. But the name…
The woman in front of him claimed to be Lauren not Becky Smith. But, Marsh decided, he could still use her as bait. Even though he’d located the wrong sister. Or had he?

Twice in a Lifetime

Ever since the day his wife was killed, rugged rancher Jake Henderson felt like his life had ended, too. And then came that invitation to dance from a woman with the best pair of legs he’d ever seen. Suddenly Jake was falling fast, though he doubted that lovely investigator Rachel Quinn saw him as her ideal man prime suspect was more like it! Silhouette Romance Sensation

The Horse Soldier

Determined to locate her missing husband, New Orleans belle Julia Bonneaux and her young daughter have made a long and dangerous journey to the Wyoming territory. But at Fort Laramie Julia finds, instead, a piece of her past as she comes face to face with Major Andrew Garrett: the dashing rogue she had secretly married six years before, the Union spy who had betrayed her…
and the man she thought was dead all these years. Time has eased the pain of Andrew’s months in a Confederate prison but not the memory of Julia: the temptress who had enticed him, the woman who had nearly destroyed him…
and the wife who now wears another man’s ring. When she walks back into his life, asking for his help, Andrew is torn between duty and desire. Now, with his career and his heart in jeopardy, he must choose between the misunderstandings of the past and the promise of a new beginning.

The Colonel’s Daughter

She wasn’t afraid to fight…
Beneath the polish of an Eastern finishing school lies a soldier’s daughter who can ride, shoot and deal cards with the best. Which is why Suzanne Bonneaux calmly boards the infamous Cheyenne Deadwood stage to search for a longtime friend before the winter snows erase her trail.

The Captain’s Woman

She followed her heart…
and found her destiny. FROM THE DRAWING ROOMS The spirited daughter of a Wyoming newspaper baron, Victoria Parker has two grand passions: journalism and Captain Sam Garrett. But her gift for writing has been confined to the society page and the captain’s heart belongs to another. Now, as dramatic events and sensational headlines sweep the nation, everything is about to change. TO THE FRONT LINES A reckless combination of innocence and optimism convinces Victoria that anything is possible even winning Sam’s heart. When he joins Teddy Roosevelt’s infamous Rough Riders as they prepare to charge into battle, she follows and is inspired to report on the heroic efforts of American nurses who tend the sick and wounded. But instead of a joyous reunion with the man to whom she has surrendered body and soul, she finds chaos and heartache. LOVE WAS WORTH FIGHTING FOR…
As Victoria grows from novice reporter to dedicated journalist, she will find herself transformed from an idealistic girl into a proud, courageous woman unafraid to fight for her country, her ideals and her heart.

A Question of Intent

U.S. Army Major Jill Bradshaw was used to giving orders, not taking them so when she met brusque Commander Cody Richardson, the medical officer in charge of her top secret mission, she was a little taken aback. Of course she was also taken with him a problem, because despite his sterling credentials, she wasn’t exactly sure who he was. Or where he came from…
Cody had always maintained military and medical protocol at all costs, and he wasn’t about to stop now which meant a hands off policy as far as a certain lovely army major was concerned. But it was all for the best, Cody told himself. He had secrets to keep and they were best kept at a distance. She was best kept at a distance…
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Full Throttle

TEMPERATURE’S RISING…
and it had nothing to do with the weather! For when hurricane hunter Kate Hargrave met hotshot test pilot Dave Scott, everything started heating up. But it was a warming trend cautious Kate once burned by her philandering ex was determined to ignore at all costs. Because Dave’s love ’em and leave ’em reputation was a label she was finding all too familiar…
. Air force pilot Dave Scott had had an eye for the ladies to be sure but that was in the past. For once he saw the sexy, gorgeous researcher assigned to be his partner on the Pegasus Project, he knew that he was meant to be a one woman man. Now if he could only convince the skittish Kate that appearances could be deceiving…
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The First Mistake

Ten years ago, former special agent Cleo North ignored her gut instinct and a young sergeant wound up brutally murdered. Finally she is in a position to find out what went wrong. Cleo is certain the official story a murder suicide is wrong. Now she has a new assignment working with Major Jack Donovan and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, offering security to a pampered celebrity as a front for a terrorism fact finding mission. At last she has access to the one man she’s sure is involved in the decade old murder. But as Cleo is plunged into a tangle of violence and lies, she must quickly decide who the real victims are. And who’s covering up a first deadly mistake.

The Middle Sin

When a young woman vanishes without a trace, former special agent Cleo North is hired to find her. But cold trail after cold trail lead to nowhere, until Major Jack Donovan special agent with the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations and the on again, off again man in Cleo’s life joins the case. Soon they are trying to determine why a lowly employee had access to engineering schematics of a ship carrying dangerous cargo. When the evidence leads them to Malta, they uncover a massive threat with international consequences. Absolutely nothing is as it seems and time is running out for them to find the key to a terrorist’s deeply hidden sins.

The Last Bullet

The Last Deadly Bullet Former special agent Cleo North thought she had sworn off bureaucracy forever but the Air Force Office of Special Investigation has other ideas. They need her expertise and are willing to pay her extravagant fee. The case? An off duty U.S. fighter pilot recently took a bullet under suspicious circumstances and wound up dead. It doesn’t take long before Cleo and Major Jack Donovan from the OSI along with some help from British Intelligence discover the pilot was involved in some questionable activities. But why was he so interested in a U.S. Army Corps C 46 that went down in the English Channel in 1943? When another murder links a far fetched story of wartime international intrigue to millions of dollars in gold, only one question remains: who is behind the ultimate cover up? And could Cleo be the next bullet’s victim?

Risky Business

From career woman…
to camp fire girl? As regional chief of employment and training, Sue Ellen Carson gets to sit in a comfortable, air conditioned office and make funding decisions she just doesn’t do fieldwork. But this time her boss insists that she evaluate a program firsthand three weeks of survival training with at risk teens in the Florida wilderness. Entering the rough and tumble world of camp founder USAF Chief Master Sergeant Joe Goodwin isn’t her idea of fun especially once she gets the hang of the rules: 1. Never wear perfume. Bugs stinging, biting bugs love designer fragrance. 2. Never pretend to be up on the latest street lingo. Acting too cool for school around troubled teens can have disastrous consequences. 3. Never, ever get too close to Sergeant Goodwin. Because resisting this man’s animal magnetism is such Risky Business, even a seasoned exec like Sue Ellen can’t pull it off…
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The CEO’s Christmas Proposition

A case of mistaken identity landed Devon McShay on the receiving end of a mind blowing kiss from her new client! CEO Cal Logan was an undeniably handsome man, and despite their business relationship, Devon couldn’t help thinking about kissing him again.

When a crippling ice storm traps them in Salzburg for Christmas, sharing a room is their only option. And sharing a bed becomes their pleasure. Could this passionate encounter evolve into anything more than a holiday affair?

The Duke’s New Year’s Resolution

The setting was picture postcard perfect; the hero, bonafide royalty. Sabrina’s worst fear was that she would wake up and discover it was all a dream. Duke and doctor Marco Calvetti had almost run her off the road. Now Sabrina was playing houseguest in his Amalfi coast villa. Marco’s romantic words and skilled hands gave new meaning to the term ‘bedside manner,’ but his brooding eyes hid secret wounds or was it a secret agenda? Either way, the duke promised her a New Year’s she would never forget.

The Executive’s Valentine Seduction

Amor was on the menu…
And Rory Burke was intent on having Caroline Walters as the main course. This meeting he’d arranged in beautiful Tossa de Mar was no mere business transaction. Having learned the truth about his long ago lover, Rory had gone to great lengths to orchestrate this Valentine reunion in sunny Spain. His plan? To lure Caro back into his bed as his bride. With his powers of persuasion, the high powered executive was certain he would get his way until the power of pasi n turned the tables on him…
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All the Wrong Moves

USAF Lieutenant Samantha Spade and her techies try out the latest gizmos for the military. On a test run with the Ergonomic Exoskeletal Extension EEEK, Sam stumbles over two dead bodies in the desert. With the help of handsome Border Patrol Agent Jeff Mitchell, Sam must unravel a cover up involving an illegal arms deal.

Now You See Her

From the USA Today bestselling author of All The Wrong Moves When military gadget girl USAF Lieutenant Samantha Spade tests the latest experimental goggles, she spots a sniper aiming for Sergeant Diane Roth. The assailant is taken out but the high level investigation is just beginning.

Catch Her If You Can

Even a robot dog can sniff out trouble…
USAF Lieutenant Samantha Spade is in the heat of the west Texas desert testing a dog like robot for military use, when the device leads her and her team to a pick up truck. The driver comes at them with a gun and is shot in self defense by Sam’s friend. And then a gruesome discovery is made: three human heads in a cooler in the back of the truck. Because the dead man was on the FBI’s most wanted list, Sam stands to get a hefty reward. Too bad the technology to keep her shady ex husband from sniffing out cash has yet to be invented. His appearance, along with frightening issues from her boyfriend’s past, make it hard to tell just who is responsible for the pipe wielding thug who attacks her. All Sam knows is that her luck has taken a doggone turn for the worse…

Mind Games

For Air Force special agent Taylor Chase, invading a billionaire’s island fortress was headache enough. But partnering with Dr. Mark Wolfson forced her to revisit the darkest chapter of her past. As his lab assistant, she’d been his lover and turned into another one of his telekinetic experiments. He’d influenced her thoughts and dominated her very being, and she’d sworn off him forever. Yet when the sheer horror of the billionaire’s plan was revealed, Taylor and Mark realized only their telepathic bond could save them. But could they handle the deep rooted extrasensory passion that had blown up in their faces years ago? Their very lives depended on the answer…
of just who was controlling whom…
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A Soldier’s Christmas

Three emotional stories from three unforgettable authors! I’ll Be Home by USA Today bestselling author Rachel Lee Seth Hardin is devoted to his career as a Navy SEAL, but his ex couldn’t handle the pressures of being a military wife. Now he’s resigned to spending the holidays alone…
until he gets snowed in with Maria Hoskins and finds there are far greater gifts than just the material kind. A Bridge for Christmas by USA Today bestselling author Merline Lovelace As commander of her combat engineering team, Air Force reservist Abby Trent has a job to do and Special Ops major Dan Maxwell is determined to get in her way. But as they work together on a crucial bridge, Abby discovers there’s a lot more to the major than meets the eye. The Wingman’s Angel by Rita Award winning author Catherine Mann There’s just one thing keeping Air Force officers Joshua and Alicia Rosen from finalizing their divorce the Arctic survival course they must pass together. But when they find themselves chased by armed pursuers, even the frozen tundra is no match for the heat of their desire.

Full Throttle / Ruling Passions

TEMPERATURE’S RISING…
and it had nothing to do with the weather! For when hurricane hunter Kate Hargrave met hotshot test pilot Dave Scott, everything started heating up. But it was a warming trend cautious Kate once burned by her philandering ex was determined to ignore at all costs. Because Dave’s love ’em and leave ’em reputation was a label she was finding all too familiar…
. Air force pilot Dave Scott had had an eye for the ladies to be sure but that was in the past. For once he saw the sexy, gorgeous researcher assigned to be his partner on the Pegasus Project, he knew that he was meant to be a one woman man. Now if he could only convince the skittish Kate that appearances could be deceiving…
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One of the Boys

Colonel Jake McAllister doesn’t doubt that Maura Phillips has the qualifications and the know how to handle a spot on his all male, high tech team at Elgin Air Force Base. As the test pilot in charge of top secret stealth weapons development, he’s more worried about what’s going to happen when her ‘free spirit’ is introduced into the project’s touchy pressure cooker environment. He’d been expecting to meet a buttoned down engineer in a severe blue suit, which is why he’s not exactly sure what to make of the leggy California girl with riotous curls, funky clothes and clunky jewelry who comes flying through his door. He soon concludes the lady is deadly serious about her job and a deadly threat to his self control.

Holiday With A Vampire II

A Christmas Kiss by Merline LovelaceVampire Delilah Wentworth’s hunt for a dentist on Christmas Eve lands her in the arms of Sergeant Brett Cooper, a mortal who gave up on the Christmas spirit, and on love, years ago. Incapable of returning home by herself, Delilah needs Brett’s protection for the night a night that leaves her aching for a forbidden mortal romance, and leaves Brett questioning whether he has truly given up on love after all. The Vampire Who Stole Christmas by Lori DevotiOn a mission for revenge against his adoptive family, vampire Drystan Hurst needs daemon Aimee Polk to help him put his plan into action. But Drystan doesn’t expect to fall in love with Aimee especially when it means choosing between her affection and the ultimate family payback he has always dreamed of.

The Hello Girl

All that’s standing in the way of the Dunbars’ divorce is Brian Dunbar’s unwillingness to sign the papers. And though his wife, Lieutenant Colonel Anne Dunbar, loves him as madly as she did on their wedding day eleven years ago, their differences intensified by the pressures of career and family are irreconcilable. Or so she thinks.

When a long lost file lands on Anne’s desk, she learns some unexpected lessons about love and trust from the remarkable story of a World War I ‘Hello Girl’ telephone operator. Marie Reynaud fought valiantly for love a love immortalized in diary entries that transcended war and time. A love inspiring enough to save Anne’s marriage?

Baby, It’s Cold Outside

The best way to keep warm when the weather turns cold:1 Seek shelterOpting to spend the holidays in solitude, Emilie Sutherland has found the perfect place: a hunting lodge in Alaska! But when a hunky stranger comes seeking shelter during a blizzard, Emilie wonders if maybe isolation is overrated, after all .2 Build a cozy fireNothing ruins an adventure to Antarctica like being stranded on a lifeboat! But when a hot Air Force pilot rescues Mia Harrelson, she wonders if she’s escaped the danger of freezing only to lose herself in the sexy fire of his eyes .3 Curl up with a nice, hot male She is a consummate professional. Until Stacy Bristol finds herself working on a series of photo shoots with a gorgeous Viking er, Olympic skier. But the minute his shirt comes off, Stacy is torn between icy professional resolve and her melting knees!

Full Throttle / Wrong Bride, Right Groom

Full Throttle When hurricane hunter Kate Hargrove met hotshot test pilot Dave Scott, everything started heating up. But it was a warming trend cautious Kate was determined to ignore at all costs, because Dave’s love ’em and leave ’em reputation was a label she found all too familiar. Dave had had an eye for the ladies to be sure, but that was in the past. And once he saw the sexy, gorgeous researcher assigned to be his partner, he knew that he was meant to be a one woman man. Now, if he could only convince the skittish Kate that appearances could be deceiving . Wrong Bride, Right Groom When her flighty sister decided she couldn’t go through with her wedding, Abby Davis reluctantly agreed to give the groom to be the bad news. And when the prospective groom was assigned to active duty, his supervisor in the air force, Pete O’Brian, offered to make his excuses to his comrade’s jilted bride. So, of course, Pete greeted Abby with a kiss! Abby was horrified at first talk about surprise! She had expected to find her sister’s spurned fianc . Instead, Pete was looking more and more like the right groom for her!