Successful defense attorney Juliet Mason knows it will take more than high ratings and juicy scripts to give sex soap start Tim Canfield a brighter tomorrow. Evidence is rapidly mounting that daytime TV’s hottest actor knows a lot more about the murder of his beautiful temperamental costar than he’s telling.
With consummate legal skill, Juliet begins rewriting her campaign to prove Tim’s innocence. And as the savvy counselor’s maneuvers begin igniting dangerous out-of-court fireworks, she quickly finds that Tim’s surprising vulnerability is fast putting her own cleverly defended heart at risk.
SEPTEMBER 2011
FAIR GAME
(Contemporary Romance)
She was born to wealth and power,
but destined for danger and
an unconventional love
She was both an important attorney and Senator Joseph Fair’s daughter—a porcelain and gold beauty who worked among Washington’s political elite. And when Ashley Fair joined her father’s hectic Presidential campaign, her life took her to the very pinnacles of fame and power. Then she met Timothy Martin, the intriguing and darkly handsome police lieutenant assigned to protect her father. To Tim, Ashley was strictly off-limits, a woman from a world impossibly separated from his own by a chasm of class and money—until the differences in their backgrounds dissolved in desire and their closeness drew them into the depths of an intoxicating passion. But in the shadows, danger was waiting for Ashley, sweeping her toward tragedy and the dark places of the heart where love becomes a torment..or the fulfillment of all dreams.
RECENTLY RELEASED
HISTORICAL ROMANCES
ENJOY THE ENORMOUSLY POPULAR
THE PANTHER AND THE PEARL
An Amazon Best Selling Historical Romance
in the United States and the United Kingdom
“In the Ottoman Empire of 1885, the
Pasha of Bursa could have anything
he wanted…except her”
The American Beauty: When an innocent excursion to Constantinople took an unexpected twist, Sarah Woolcott found herself a prisoner in the harem of young and virile Kalid Shah. Headstrong and courageous, Sarah was determined to resist the handsome foreigner whose arrogance outraged her—even as his tantalizing touch promised exotic nights of fiery sensuality.
The Turkish Prince: Never had he encountered a woman who inflamed his desire like the blonde Westerner with the independent spirit. Although she spurned his passionate overtures, Kalid vowed to tempt her with his masterful skills until she became a willing companion on their journey of exquisite ecstasy!
PANTHER’S PREY
The Sequel To
THE PANTHER AND THE PEARL
In 1895, Turkish Rebel Malik Bey must
choose between his country’s freedom and
his passion for a forbidden woman
He rode from out of the Turkish wilderness atop a magnificent charger. Dark and mysterious, Malik Bey swept Boston-bred Amelia Ryder into an exotic world of sultans and revolutionaries, magnificent palaces and desert camps. Amy wanted to hate her virile abductor, to escape his heated glances forever. But with his suave manners and seductive charm, the hard-bodied rebel was not mere thief out to steal the proper young beauty’s virtue. Amy grew ever closer to surrendering to unending bliss in Malik’s fiery embrace.
OTHER HISTORICAL ROMANCES
BY DOREEN OWENS MALEK
THE HIGHWAYMAN
A tempestuous story of love and
betrayal in Elizabethan Ireland
It was a bold and perilous plan – disguising herself as a boy and stealing aboard a ship bound for the far-off shores of Ireland. But from the moment orphaned Lady Alexandra Cummings arrived at besieged Inverary Castle, her life and heart were no longer her own. Captured by rugged Irish rebel Kevin Burke, the daring English noblewoman became a pawn in a dangerous game of treachery and betrayal.
For she lost her heart to the one man she dared not trust, and her passion could not be swayed by reason. But cruel fate tragically plunged Kevin into exile and Alexandra into a loveless marriage. Enemies and lovers, their forbidden desires swept them across a divided realm. A man and a woman bound together pledged their lives toward liberty and love.
THE LION AND THE LARK
A Roman officer and his Celtic captive
transcend the barriers of war
to find an undying passion
The Year is 44 B. C. Julius Caesar is dead. And as rebellion divides Italy and Britain, a Roman centurion and a Celtic princess forge a bond no woman or man can rend asunder…
To ensure peace between her tribe and their savage conquerors, the exquisite Bronwen has been promised in wedlock to a high-born Roman tribune. But the British beauty is also a secret spy ready to risk her life to free her people.
Dispatched to Britain by Mark Antony, Claudius is irresistibly drawn to the flaxen-haired, cobalt-eyed Bronwen. Yet he knows he dare not trust the woman who is bound to him by law––not love.
THE RAVEN AND THE ROSE
A Roman centurion and a Vestal Virgin
forge a forbidden liaison, while a noblewoman
falls in love with her Celtic slave
Set against the tempestuous backdrop of Ancient Rome in the final days of Caesar...comes the stunning love story of a man and a woman who defy destiny to follow their hearts—only to be swept up in a forbidden and all-consuming passion.
She is Julia Casca, a young noblewoman pledged against her will to the sacred order of Vestal Virgins...dedicated to a life of eternal chastity. He is Marcus Demeter, the powerful centurion and war hero sworn to protect Julius Caesar...betrayed by his own desperate desires.
As a land seething with intrigue and treachery erupts in murder—turning honorable allies into deadly enemies—Julia and Marcus become lovers in an explosive liaison that rocks Rome and could destroy them both...
TORCHLIGHT
A mine owner’s daughter in post
Civil War Pennsylvania is irresistibly drawn
to the union organizer working to destroy
her father’s company
One look into the fires of Sean Jameson’s rebel eyes and Elizabeth Langdon knew she would forsake everything for the shattering pleasures of his forbidden embrace. Sean was bent on the destruction of all her family stood for, but Elizabeth vowed her love would triumph over the society that tore them apart.
Sean tried to keep away from the woman who represented all he could never have–but one illicit moment with Elizabeth, and his hunger for her rivaled his commitment to the rebellion he led. How could he resist the daughter of his sworn enemy, when her heart spoke the language of his soul?
COMING SOON FROM
DOREEN OWENS MALEK
Another Marriage of Convenience (Contemporary Romance): The sequel to the enormously popular A Marriage of Convenience. Visit the next generation of Braddocks as they find heartbreak and romance on the ranch in present day California. Watch Tay and Sharon survive a rocky patch in their enduring marriage to prove once again that love conquers all.
Abra’s Arranged Marriage (Contemporary Romance): A law student marries her estranged stepbrother to keep him out of jail, then discovers a new life of sensuality and commitment with the last man on earth she would have chosen.
Cupid’s First Strike (Teen Love in the 80’s): A collection of three young adult novels that portray the special happiness and heartbreak that teens experience with their introduction to love. Included are Season of Mists (June 2012), Call Back Yesterday, and Where the Boys Are.
OTHER WORKS BY
DOREEN OWENS MALEK
Available for Digital Download at
www.doreenowensmalek.com
Big Sky Drifter
Daddy’s Choice
An Officer and a Gentle Woman
Made for Each Other
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Gypsy Autumn
Where the Boys Are
Call Back Yesterday
Firestorm
Crystal Unicorn
The Eden Tree
A Ruling Passion
Trial by Fire
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