THE CURSE What was the secret shame that had driven India's proud father from England—and made him so fanatically determined to shield his daughter from all knowledge of the world? What inner torment had turned India's Aunt Maude from a legendary young beauty into a hideously obese aging woman living out her days in bitterness and self-hate? What demonic danger now threatened India herself, as she discovered that she was torn between two handsome, iron-willed suitors—each warning her of the other, and each demanding that she surrender herself body and soul to him alone? Somehow, the answer lay in the depths of the glowing black pearl necklace that held India in its hypnotic spell...

THRESHOLD OF TERROR The fabulous black pearl necklace was blood-warm around beautiful Carolyn Stuart-Brice’s throat, but icy fear filled her heart as she stood before the altar with the man she knew only as Jack Cade. This handsome, iron-willed stranger had swept her off her feet, brushed aside her protests, and compelled her to say yes to his startling marriage proposal.

DARK LEGACY The Black Pearls. Bethany Stuart had made the long and perilous journey from Victorian England to gold-crazed California to claim her family legacy. Behind her lay heartbreak - and ahead of her an unknown fate in a place of lawless men and unchecked passions. In the company of two other women, each shadowed by a grim danger...in the hands of two men, both of whom promised love and threatened betrayal...in a twisting labyrinth of abduction and assassination, temptation and terror...Bethany learned that the Black Pearls of her desire could turn from a blessing to a curse - and that she, like her sisters before her, could become a slave to their satanic spell....

DOUBLE DANGER Beautiful young Rosalia Cade was far from home - and close to horror. She had accompanied ailing Odalie Kingman from the Cade ranch in northern California to the fortresslike Kingman mansion in violent 19th-century Los Angeles. Now she learned that she had been lured into a trap of perverse passion. Two brothers - twins in appearance, opposites in nature - lusted for her. Each aroused in her a feeling that she feared yet could not control. And whichever one of her rival suitors claimed her at the altar, the other would not let her go - until death or a fate even worse did them part... or else damned them together....

CRUEL KISSES Theodora Peltier was on a voyage from exotic India to unknown California when she first felt Fergus MacLean’s lips crushing hers. But her flowering love was swiftly ripped to shreds when she learned that this handsome adventurer was to wed another woman. Then next time Fergus kissed Theodora was in a magnificent mansion where murder was master, Fergus’s wife was dead; suspicion shrouded him. Yet Theodora found herself surrendering to lips skilled in lying; and trembling at the touch of hands surely stained by blood. Desire was leading Theodora into the heart of danger—and not even the black pearls that were her legacy could protect her now….

Unholy Wedlock Beautiful Patricia Stuart-Brice had dreamed of wearing her family's fabled Black Pearl necklace at her wedding. But now the necklace loomed in her imagination like a nightmare noose. Patricia's father had given her in marriage to a man Patricia had never met but knew of all too well. A man whose noble name could not silence the scandal of his loose living and wanton womanizing. A man returned to England to claim his birthright after years of exile in an exotic land. A man who welcomed Patricia to Gresham Castle with a mocking smile and hungering gaze. From her first moment face to face with her future husband, Patricia felt fear—but no fear could equal the full terror of the truth…