New Release Books by Susan Napier

The Mistress Deception - Susan Napier When Rachel offered to help Matthew Riordan undress after a party, her intentions were purely innocent. She'd been trying to avoid a scandal -- instead she found herself being blackmailed! Yet Matthew oozed sex appeal; he didn't need to blackmail Rachel into his bed! But they'd clashed over a business deal...was Matthew planning to make Rachel his mistress simply out of revenge? Gold Ring Of Betrayal - Michelle Reid Nicolas Santino doesn't accept that Lia is his daughter. He believes Sara, his wife, cheated on him with another man, and Lia is the result of that betrayal. So Sara and Nicolas are separated -- until the silence between them is forcibly broken -- Lia has been kidnapped! Nicolas knows he is the only one who can secure the little girl's safe return, but it means he must go back to Sara -- and find that, even after three long years, she still wears his ring... The Bridal Suite - Sandra Marton The newspapers call her new boss a financial genius; the gossip columns brand him gorgeous. But Dana knows Griffin McKenna takes whatever he wants, be it a company or a woman. She can think of other words to describe him: arrogant, egotistical, self-important... When Dana and Griffin arrive at an important conference to find they have to share a room, Dana is ready to run! A whole weekend with Griffin in the Bridal Suite? But then she experiences for herself the McKenna take-over technique...to genius and gorgeous, add great lover!

He’s threatening her with the memories of their passionate time together… Rachel is working hard to keep the security company left by her late fianc? afloat. One day, she receives shocking photos of her and Matthew Riordan, a powerful figure in the business world, together in bed. The sender is Matthew himself. With her company’s future at stake, she must find out what he is after while also trying to forget that passionate time with him...

They’ve only just met, but her heart is as turbulent as a storm… Helen is being fitted for her wedding dress when her fiancé’s brother, Alexander Knight, suddenly appears. He stares at Helen with his ardent black eyes and asks her, "Have you forgotten that night in Hong Kong five years ago?" What is he talking about? She’s never met him before! But there are blank spots in Helen’s memory due to a past illness… Is there a secret between the two of them hidden in her lost memories?

Kate had learned certain lessons as Drake Daniels’ lover. Lesson number one: the price of loving Drake was not to love him. Lesson number two: never give him what he expected. Discovering she was pregnant certainly fulfilled lesson number two. Drake had made it clear commitment and children were not on his menu. Now Kate must break her news. But when she sees Drake, passion kicks in, begging to be indulged again...just once!

This bundle contains :DARK OASIS ,THE LOVE CONSPIRACY , and THE BABY WHO SAVED CHRISTMAS.Several months into their engagement, Kit found her fiancé in bed with another woman. In order to get her head back together, she left everything behind and went to Morocco, only to be robbed by hoodlums and knocked unconscious. She wakes up to find herself in a hospital, and next to her is a stranger named Gerard. He asks for her name, but she can’t remember it. She’s lost her memory! She’s thankful to Gerard for being so generous, but as she learns of his true intentions, she feels a vague uneasiness rising from the depths of her memory…

Elizabeth Lamb is a college researcher who simply loves old books?her love comes from her uncles, who run Lamb’s Tales, a bookstore. In a recent acquisition, they stumbled upon the La Fl?che de St. Clair, a glorious golden necklace with a crimson heart in the center. Elizabeth is tasked with returning this very important family heirloom from the Hawk Hotels estate to the family. Her personal fears of losing the necklace on her trip give way once she meets the dashingly damaged Jean-Jacques Hawkwood, the youngest heir in the family, who is close with his elderly, Holocaust-survivor grandfather. The necklace belonged to his grandfather’s wife and is one of the few physical treasures he’s kept all these years. While it’s a simple accident that it ended up in Elizabeth’s hands, Jack Hawk may take this lamb to slaughter over her supposed thievery. Did she steal their necklace…or just his heart?

Roz, a famous actress, is caught in a scandal involving a stalker she’s never met before. Roz’s family, who sense her distress, coordinate a getaway trip and send her to the tropical island of Tioman in the South Pacific. But there Roz finds herself fed up with a stubborn accountant who was not only on the same flight as hers but is even staying in the same hotel. His inability to have fun is putting a damper on her vacation, but she has a plan to loosen him up?she’ll teach him a thing or two about the art of seduction… Never in a million years did Roz think her innocent game would wind up with him seducing her!

Honor Sheldon is a plain but diligent twenty-five-year-old who has been living in the shadow of her supermodel sister, Helen. But then, while helping out at the Valentine’s Day Ball, a charity event, the goddess of love finally smiles upon her. Suffering from a severe cold that night, she takes medicine and accidentally falls asleep on a bench outside. When she wakes up, she finds herself in her car with a rose next to her. A few days later, she receives a letter from the mysterious man who rescued her that night. The letter is addressed to H. Sheldon, so she writes him back and they start exchanging letters. They talk about books, international affairs and life in general, but soon his letters become more passionate. Her heart beats faster and she starts falling for her phantom lover. But this happiness comes to an abrupt end with a shocking discovery?when she receives the next letter, she finds out that he thought he was actually writing to Helen the whole time…not Honor.

Veronica came to Paris from New Zealand to sightsee. But right after she arrived, she spent her days in bed with the flu. Her only pleasure was staring at the attractive man sitting in the bar across from her hotel. On her last day in Paris, she recovered from the flu and decided to go to the bar he frequents. One thing led to another and they decided to go sightseeing together. They couldn’t communicate well linguistically, but Vanessa had an amazing night with the man she’d been dreaming about for the past few days. The next morning, she left him without saying goodbye to keep their meeting as a good memory of being in a foreign country. But when she arrived at her next destination, he was at the station!

The story of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's life and work, including his significant impact on Japan and the world A thirtieth-century toxic jungle, a bathhouse for tired gods, a red-haired fish girl, and a furry woodland spirit—what do these have in common? They all spring from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki, one of the greatest living animators, known worldwide for films such as My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, and The Wind Rises. Japanese culture and animation scholar Susan Napier explores the life and art of this extraordinary Japanese filmmaker to provide a definitive account of his oeuvre. Napier insightfully illuminates the multiple themes crisscrossing his work, from empowered women to environmental nightmares to utopian dreams, creating an unforgettable portrait of a man whose art challenged Hollywood dominance and ushered in a new chapter of global popular culture.

One day when Vanessa, a butler, woke up, the owner of the house she worked in, Benedict, was sleeping next to her…and they were both naked! What on earth had happened? Vanessa sleeps in the house’s various guest rooms to make sure they’re each routinely aired out and ready for visitors. Last night she was a bit drunk and decided to sleep in Benedict’s room since he wasn’t supposed to be staying at the house. She can’t believe he decided to share the bed with her. Later on when he woke up, he asked her if she knew who it was he’d slept with the night before. He had no idea it was her!

“Give back what you stole from me!” Nora is in trouble. She meets the rich and famous businessman Blake MacLeod at a charity fund-raiser. Living up to his reputation as a playboy, he invites her to his penthouse suite for the night, but Nora loses her nerve and runs away while he’s in the shower. The next morning, he comes to her apartment and accuses her of stealing something important from him. Before she finds out what she’s supposedly stolen, he whisks her away to his summehouse in the middle of nowhere to keep watch over her…

“I don’t want this psychic ability!” Because of the talent she was born with, Seven has closed herself off. One day, she mentions a girl who has been missing for six years. “She’s still alive.” Then the missing girl’s sexy father barges into Seven’s house, calling her a fraud…

Katherine’s friend has asked her to pretend to be his fiancé when he returns home to his family, the owners of Bishop Bank. Kat gives a stellar performance as Todd’s fiancé for the uptight and stuffy Bishop clan, but the moment she meets Daniel, the head of the family, she cannot tear her eyes away. He has perilously blue eyes and a perfect face… He’s supposed to be a boring banker, but his air of danger has captured Kat’s attention. So what is she to do when, at a family party, Daniel pulls her away for a smoldering interlude?

Bestselling novelist Drake Daniels’s private life is shrouded in secrecy, to the point that his editors can only reach him by email. Kate, one of his fans, happened to hit it off with him at his launch party and they spent a passionate night together. Since then, Kate had been waiting for him to call her, but when she realized that she was carrying a new life inside of her, she decided to track him down. But she doesn’t find just Drake?he’s with a beautiful woman…and he’s cruelly kicked her out of his home!

After trying to save her best friend from a loveless marriage, Jane Sherwood has been constantly harassed by the upset groom, Ryan Blair. From bankrupting her to having her kicked out from her apartment, Ryan has been getting his revenge for the past three years. One night, Jane decides she needs some revenge of her own and punches Ryan so hard it leaves her hand injured. To make up for such a humiliating spectacle, Ryan attempts to make Jane his mistress and takes care of her while she heals. Just how much more suffering will Ryan put her through? Is he really trying to get revenge or is there something else behind his actions?

Jenny, who cares for her aging mother by herself, ends up marrying Sebastian, a mature, wealthy businessman she happened to meet, out of convenience. As part of the agreement, she gets the child she’s always dreamed of having via artificial insemination. And he gets the successor he’s wanted so badly. Even if the marriage were to go sour for some reason, Jenny’s still willing to give it a try to have her baby. But when Sebastian unexpectedly dies, she is visited by his son…who claims to be the father of her child!

Dangerous Liaisons Too Close for Comfort! Anne: it was a daring deception, but she always put her family first. Her sister desperately needed some time alone and Anne would at last have the chance to study at college. But there was something—someone—she hadn't bargained for…. Hunter Lewis: visiting professor and Anne's very attractive neighbor. He was soon immensely suspicious of her…. However, Hunter's arrogant assumptions about Anne made it easier for her not to let him into her apartment—or into her heart. For it would be disastrous if Hunter discovered that Anne had been left—quite literally—holding the baby! Byt the author of Savage Courtship. "Susan Napier is a whiz at stirring up both breathtaking sensuality and emotional tension that keeps readers booked till the boiling point."—Romantic Times

9 to 5 Behaving badly… Harriet attended the company's New Year's Eve party in all innocence. It wasn't her fault that the punch she'd been drinking was stronger than expected—so that she'd ended up confiding in a gorgeous stranger about her broken engagement. How was she to know she'd been pouring her heart out to the chairman himself, Marcus Fox? …at the office party! Now Harriet has to work with Marcus. Luckily, she's since changed her image, dyed her hair blond and is a model secretary. Unluckily, Marcus still recognizes her—and seems determined to punish Harriet for her reckless conduct! "Susan Napier is a whizz at stirring up both breathtaking sensuality and emotional tension."—Romantic Times

Breaking Making Up Two irresistible men from Down Under—one Aussie, one Kiwi. The time has come for them to settle old scores and win the women they've always wanted! Miranda Lee Something Borrowed Ashleigh is marring James. He's kind and reliable—unlike Jake, his wild identical twin, who loved Ashleigh and left her long ago. This time, Ashleigh is sure she's chosen the right brother…. Until her wedding night turns out to be so passionate that she wonders if she knows her new husband at all! Susan Napier Vendetta Vivian goes in place of her sister to face Nicholas Thorne's retribution—and walks into his trap. Nicholas is now Vivian's captor and she must play him along until she can outwit him. But Nicholas has waited ten years for this…. To seduce Vivian into falling in love with him will be the greatest revenge ever! Breaking Making Up Two original stories in one unique collection by Miranda Lee and Susan Napier.

Nina knew she’d lost her memory — because when she met Ryan Flint he clearly recognised her, but Nina had no idea who he was. Had they once been lovers? Ryan was obviously hiding something. He seemed angry with Nina, yet intent on seducing her. The tense sexual attraction between them demanded release, but when passion finally exploded between them, what secrets would be revealed? Mills & Boon Modern — Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.

Just Once As Drake Daniels' lover, Kate Crawford knows that the price of loving Drake was not to love him and to never give him what he expected. Discovering she was pregnant certainly fulfilled one of those facts! Drake had made it clear commitment and children were was not for him. Now Kate must break her news. But when she sees Drake, passion kicks in, begging to be indulged again...just once! Vendetta After an accident for which millionaire Nicholas Thorne was blamed, he plans to keep Vivian a prisoner in revenge, luring her onto his private island. She's engaged to be wed to another man but Vivian finds his seductive charm increasingly difficult to resist! A Passionate Proposition Scott Tyler might want a red–hot affair with Anya Adams – but that doesn't mean he likes her. On the contrary, he's managed to get her suspended from her brand–new job! Realising he's gone too far, Scott offers Anya a temporary job at his home. But having her around is playing havoc with his self–control. Soon all he gives Anya a proposition – that she share his bed to their mutual satisfaction...

A Lesson In Seduction When Rosalind Marlow first met Luke James at the airport, he seemed quiet and a little shy. Definitely not the type to flirt – especially with a famous actress like her. But was he really as innocent as he seemed? Roz decided he needed a lesson in flirtation – and she was going to be his teacher! Luke was a fast learner. In fact, Roz soon discovered that Luke didn't need lessons at all and he could teach her plenty about the art of seduction! Secret Seduction Nina should be sympathetic towards the mysterious amnesiac man she's rescued in a storm. After all, she knows what it's like to lose one's memory – two years are missing from her own life. She's both drawn to him and strangely frightened by him...and why does he refuse to leave? In Bed With The Boss For three years, Kalera has been a model secretary to Duncan Royal, with only one hiccup in their otherwise perfect relationship: a one–night stand that should never have happened, and which both have tried to forget. Or so Kalera thought. But Duncan is haunted by their one night of unbelievable passion, and secretly longs for their relationship to develop after office hours. Whatever it takes, Duncan intends to entice her into his bed once more – and this time it will be forever.