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Beloved Tyrant / Court of the Veils / Palace of the Peacocks (Harlequin Omnibus, No 6)
Beloved Tyrant / Court of the Veils / Palace of the Peacocks - Harlequin Omnibus, No 6 Author:Violet Winspear Beloved Tyrant -- After the tragic death of her fiancée David, all Lyn Gilmour wanted was to get as far away from her old life as possible and the offer of a temporary job as nanny to a seven-year-old girl in California seemed just what she was looking for. — Monterey was a beautiful place to recuperate, and the job ... more »was interesting. Everything, in fact, would have been perfect, but she had not bargained for the child's uncle, the hateful Rick Corderas.
Rick, a bold, handsome and ruthless as any of his Conquistador Forebears, was quick to pronounce Lyn unequal to the job of coping with his fiery, willful niece, Leoni. It was not a good beginning. Buy Lyn resolved to try, for the child's sake. Rick just could not be ignored him anyway. It was all helping her to forget David, but just where was it going to lead her? He made her feel alive again! But he hated her. It didn't matter a jot what this proud and haughty Spanish American thought of her. Then why couldn't she dispel his pagan image from her mind? Her mind rebelled, her heart loved.
Court of the Veils -- "In many respects the desert is like a woman. Anything might crop up in the desert, as in a relationship with a woman But a man can enjoy the desert without getting involved emotionally." Duane Hunter's words made it quite plain to Roslyn Brant that there was no future for her in his life.
Palace of the Peacocks -- Temple Lane had gone out to the Java Seas to marry her fiance, but all her plans fell through when she found someone else had taken her place. In her desperate endeavours to get away from the situation, she met the Dutchman Ryk van Helden -and promptly found she had jumped out of the frying pan into the fire! It was difficult enough being the only white girl for miles around - but the greater problem was how to cope with what she soon recognised as the devastating attraction of her new employer.
True, he seemed to look on her as just another of the waifs and strays he was so fond of collecting - and Temple knew he had never forgotten the girl he had once loved, and lost -but nevertheless, he was a man of magnetic appeal, and even if he could remain impervious to the situation, could Temple?« less