No one knows his name. No one has seen him and lived to tell. A megalomaniac, EG plots corruption and political skullduggery. His plan? To reshape the world into his personal fiefdom.

EG's success seemed assured. Indeed, this state of affairs would have continued but for Donald Niall, EG's money man who has plans of his own. For seven years now, Niall has been obsessed with finding his niece, the last person standing in the way of power, fortune and and status in the form of a Scottish earldom.

In Heart on Hold, Gwen Burrie, newest member of the University of Washington's Archaeology Department, is right where she wants to be, doing exactly what she likes. . .until the day she is attacked in the middle of the Olympic National Forest. That day, she learns that Fate has other plans for her. A random event, the attack places her squarely in the path of Commander Ian Loudoun, US Coast Guard.

Red-gold hair, green eyes and a Scottish burr, she intrigues Ian. In fact, he's more than happy to follow the doctor's orders that he drive her home to Seattle. At the time, he was not looking for love and certainly not marriage. Yet the longer he's in her presence, the deeper she gets under his skin. The problem? She seems indifferent which leaves him with no choice but embark on a campaign to win her heart.

The very moment Gwen allows Ian to do what no man had ever done, seduce her, the telephone rings, her lawyer calling to inform her that her mother has been found dead, a victim of a shooting.

Ian recognizes the physical threat to her, and jumps into the fray. He lets her know that he will stand between her and her uncle. So what had begun as a simple love affair, turns into a fight to keep her out of Donald Niall's hands.

Gwen is lured by the safety he offers. She is tempted to accept. But can she trust him or what he offers? Can she trust herself to keep her head? With such a man as her uncle, is walking away even possible?

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In Spanish Sonata, Columbian drug lord Ernesto Miranda, another of EG's creatures rules the streets. He thinks of himself as master of Malaga, a city on the south coast of Spain. When Oliver Jamieson fails to bring an important list of contacts, a list Jamieson has left with his fiancee, Miranda demands that he lure her to Malaga.

Six words on a postcard and concert pianist Sara Gordon rushes to her fiance's aid. He needs help and she cannot refuse him. But once there, she doesn't know where to find him.

After three days of hopeless waiting at a cafe, Sara is approached by a strange couple who claim her fiance has sent them. Frightened, she flees through Malaga's beautiful gardens right into the path of Colonel Gil Loudoun, aka the Count of Sayamayor, son and heir of the Duke of Villalba.

The Colonel, chief of the National Police for the Province of Malaga, has other plans for Miranda. Since taking up the post, he has been working with an international crime-fighting task force to end Miranda's reign. The work is slow and frustrating.

Suddenly the game takes a twist when the colonel witnesses a young woman running across a busy boulevard, at her heels, Miranda's lieutenant. Gil sees her fear and has no choice. He must follow. He knows this fiance of hers, not as the fellow musician Sara believes but as Miranda's man. He builds bombs, consorts with criminals and terrorists: a man wanted in four countries.

For Gil, what began as a crime against Sara turns into a personal struggle to resist her allure. He knows that to give in is a mistake. He's a policeman, a hunter of barbarians, and worst -a libertine in lust but never in love. Yet this soft woman living in a world of music has seduced him. He stumbles. He falls, and then discovers he cannot live apart from her gentle soul and the magic of a Spanish Sonata.

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In His Golden Dancer, the adversaries in the war have changed but they are still ruthless. And they are still EG's minions. It is now a Russian gang intent on taking over Miranda's empire. Ex-KGB murderer, Stefan Kalin, has been sent to kidnap Henry Ross, financier and former British intelligence agent now living in Malaga. The Duke of Villalba has come to warn him. The duke owes Ross a debt of honor and of blood when twenty-six years before, he had saved the life of his then only son, Gil.

When this old enemy resurfaces, Ross understands that he has to disappear as he too has been engaged in the fight against EG. Yet he has a daughter he loves. To keep her safe, out of the hands of his enemies, he asks Captain Salvador Perez de Saa, nephew of the duke to do more than just look after her. Ross wants Salvador to marry her. Because, he informs Salvador, anything less than that, she'll go off on her own and wind up in Kalin's hands.

Celia lives a normal life. University. Job as her father's office manager. Gofer. On occasion, she does think of marriage. In fact, she thinks she's found the perfect man. A Russian which has set her father to grinding his teeth. As for a hobby, she loves to dance. Ballet, Flamenco, Sevillanas, and is considered quite good. When her father suddenly disappears, she finds herself in the arms of a man who takes duty seriously. But Celia does not want him. She wants her father back, and her life restored.

When Salvador sees her dancing in the sun, his frozen heart unlocks. He wants her desperately, and is frustrated that she remains oblivious to him. Little does she know her peril - that the more she refuses to acknowledge him, a man starved for love - the more he's determined to win her heart.

Law-enforcement agencies around the world wonder - who is EG? How can they get to him before he accomplishes his goal? So they've pinned their hopes on a rumor that someone's out there who has seen him in the flesh. A woman they know only as Rosa.