RIVALS OF FORTUNE: Joanna Rowntree thought she would die when her true love married another, but she then lived to flirt again with not one but two new rivals for her affection: roughhewn Jonathan Erland and polished Sir Rollin Denby.

THE IMPETUOUS HEIRESS: When Lady Alicia Alston is accidentally tossed into a ravine after a wild gallop with Ian MacClain. she expects a proposal as soon as convenient. Ian finds the spoiled wanton insufferable, but that doesn’t explain what they find so damnably passion-inducing about one another…