Eighteen glamourous romantic stories from your favourite Mills & Boon authors!

This is the first history of Mills & Boon. McAleer examines the relationship between editorial policy, morality and sales. He also examines the Mills & Boon formula and demonstrates how these novels were tailored to ensure the highest sales.

The last time Andreas Ferrante saw Sienna Baker, she was naively trying to seduce him. While her provocative sensuality is emblazoned on Andreas's memory, the terrible consequences torment him. So the news that they must marry to secure his inheritance is unthinkable.... Once devastated by his heartless rejection, seeing Andreas again makes Sienna's humiliation burn brighter. And as for marrying him? They'd be lucky to last the ceremony without killing each other But there's a fine line between love and hate.... Will these flames of anger turn to white-hot passion on their wedding night?

Lines like these sent hearts fluttering and pulses racing by the light of the bedside lamp as eager eyes devoured the latest Mills & Boon novels throughout the sixties, seventies and eighties. Today, Mills & Boon novels are more popular than ever before, as enthrallingly passionate as they always have been with a sensual style to suit the sophistication of the 21st century . . . but there is still a place for the nostalgic romance of yesteryear. In Swept Away, three of the best-selling novels from three of the most popular authors, one each from the sixties, seventies and eighties, are brought together in one breathtaking volume to take you back in time to a more innocent world. Even then, however, the path of true love never ran smoothly