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  • Camilla's Roses

    Bernice L. McFadden

    Refusing to look back on her life or to acknowledge the people, places, and events that had scarred her childhood, Camilla is forced to come to terms with the truth about her past, the limitations of motherhood and reconciliation, and the dark legacy...

  • Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man, Volume 6

    Stan Lee

    Collects Amazing Spider-Man #51-61, Amazing Spider-Man Annual #4. This action-packed volume collects an "amazing" selection of Spidey tales by legends Stan Lee & John Romita Sr. Includes a four-part Doctor Octopus epic â€" plus appearances by the...

  • Cuba

    Emily Barr

    EMILY BARR DELIGHTS READERS WITH A TALE OF A SINGLE YOUNG WOMAN FINDING HER PLACE IN THE WORLD. Maggie moved to the seashore to get a fresh start after breaking up with her boyfriend, but she didn't imagine her new life would be so lonely. So when...

  • Legend

    Robert Doherty

    FROM THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON TO THE MISTS OF AVALON--THEY WERE THERE. NOW THEY ARE OUR ONLY HOPE.... They were born on a planet in the spiral arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. In a bloody revolution they became known as "godkillers"--two humans who le...

  • Taking Time

    Lynn Abbey

    To free a family from a generational curse, time traveler Emma Merrigan journeys back in time to uncover the truth about a horrific act of violence that will transform the lives of a dynasty and begins to realize the possibility that to save those in...

  • Blood of the Land

    Noel-Anne Brennan

    Now on the throne of Saeditin, Rilsin is faced by a would-be invasion of her deposed cousin, who has joined forces with her own kingdom's long-time foe Runchot, an unsettled situation further complicated by the kidnapping of her baby, the disappearan...

  • Smooth Talkin' Stranger

    Lorraine Heath

    USA Today bestselling author Lorraine Heath pens the simmering story of two star-crossed souls who find a passionate love under the expansive Texas sky. Serena Hamilton has never had a one-night stand, but the supreme loneliness she feels after t...

  • An Irresistible Bachelor

    Jessica Bird

    He was a confirmed bachelor--and a gorgeous work of art. For struggling art conservationist Callie Burke, the chance to restore a world-famous painting is the opportunity of a lifetime--one that no one in her right mind would turn down. Call her c...

  • Flashpoint

    Suzanne Brockmann

    From unrelenting action to intense emotion, from high-stakes drama to break-neck pacing, New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann is a novelist who does it all. Now after her blockbuster hardcover debut, Gone Too Far, Brockmann delivers an...

  • Double Helix

    Nancy Werlin

    THE SECRET IS PART OF HIM. Although Eli Samuels is barely out of high school, he's offered a job at prestigious Wyatt Transgenics by Dr. Quincy Wyatt, the legendary molecular biologist. The salary's amazing, the work is interesting, and Dr. Wyatt se...

  • Whisker of Evil

    Rita Mae Brown

    A mysterious death in a Virginia farm town has the locals scratching their heads--while frisky feline Mrs. Murphy and her friends, fat-cat Pewter and corgi Tee Tucker, uncover clues as they curl their way around a cold-blooded killer. This balmy s...

  • Mina

    Jonatha Ceely

    In the musty attic of an upstate New York house, a woman finds a clasped box, hidden away for over a century. Inside, wrapped in cambric and tied with a green ribbon, is an old manuscript written by a girl dreaming of a better life, fighting for sur...

  • The Floodmakers

    Mylene Dressler

    With his family in turmoil and his own life in a shambles, Harry Buelle agrees to join his parents, his sister, and her husband at their Southern beach house retreat, only to find that having the whole family together under one roof gives rise to old...

  • Miss Julia Meets Her Match

    Ann B. Ross

    Finally, the answer to the most burning question of all: Will the feisty Miss Julia meet her match in love? Miss Julia--that beloved steel magnolia of a certain age--has been doing just fine for herself in the years since her philandering husband...

  • Alternate Empires

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • The Coil

    Gayle Lynds

    YOU CANT RUN FROM THE PAST... Professor Liz Sansborough, former CIA operative and daughter of notorious Cold War assassin, Carnivore, thinks her old life is dead and buried. But her father's legacy is impossible to escape. The kidnapping of her cous...

  • Knighthood of the Dragon

    Chris Bunch

    Storm arced around a towering cumulus cloud, and dove through a tunnel in the next one....The dragon seemed just as happy to be up here sporting about, no one else in the shy, instead of snarling after enemies like Hal.... Having proved his mettle...

  • My Fake Wedding

    Mina Ford

    When Katie Simpson discovers her boyfriend boffing "Fishpants Fraser," she vows to eat toenail clippings before getting involved again. Life as "the ginger spinster of Pelham Parish" will be lonely, but bearable as long as she shags lots of strangers...

  • A Case of Crooked Letters

    Lori Copeland

    Just when things are settling back to normal in the sleepy town of Morning Shade, a series of chain letters throws the townspeople into a tizzy. Who is trying to bilk little old ladies out of their money with promises of good health and untold millio...

  • Passing Through

    Colin Channer

    Spanning the early 1900s up to modern times, the stories trace the intersecting lives of travelers, expatriates, and local folks in ways that shock, illuminate, and reveal. From the American photographer who finds her world disturbed by new forms of ...

  • Ladies With Prospects

    Cynthia Hartwick

    The Larksdale Ladies are back - with a solid portfolio of friendships and, of course, stocks. They've made some money. Okay, a lot of money. And now, ten years later, at the height of the tech boom, their investment club is about to witness firsthand...

  • Eden Hall

    Veronica Heley

    After 24 years, she's learning the truth that was hidden from her as a child. Now the fate of many people depends on what she will do with it. At the age of four, Araminta 'Minty' Cardale was exiled from Eden Hall on the wings of a scandal. Twenty ye...

  • Success Is the Best Revenge

    Tracie Howard; Danita Carter

    Lyle Johnson is a hot and handsome Wall Street investment banker with no intention of settling down. His new partner is Tess Aventura Dubois -- recently widowed and bequeathed a multi-million-dollar fortune. What she’s investing in now is interest ...

  • Ex-Girlfriends

    Kylie Adams

    He Was The One Who Got Away...Thank God Stop the presses--Dean Paul Lockhart, America's favorite bachelor, is getting married! It's sending shock waves through the tabloids, and rocking the worlds of the three former friends who were once all his......

  • Glory in the Name

    James L. Nelson

    April 12, 1861. With one jerk of a lanyard, one shell arching into the sky, years of tension exploded into civil war. And for those men who did not know in which direction their loyalty called them, it was a time for decisions. Such a one was Lieuten...

  • Sudden Moves

    Charlotte Vale Allen

    After years of self-imposed reclusiveness, Lucinda Hunter has started moving out into the world. She has found her family and her isolation has ended, largely thanks to Katanya Taylor, who ventured into her garden five years earlier and beckoned t...

  • Inappropriate Men

    Stacey Ballis

    With her marriage spiraling toward divorce, sexually confident and unapologetically sized-24 Sidney Stein finds herself drawn into an illicit affair with Geoffrey Fahl -- not only married and twenty years her senior, but also her father's business pa...

  • The Matzo Ball Heiress

    Laurie Gwen Shapiro

    Q: How does Heather Greenblotz, the thirty-one-year-old heiress to the world's leading matzo company, celebrate Passover? A: Alone. In her Manhattan apartment. With an extremely unkosher ham and cheese panini. But this year will be different. T...

  • Miranda Blue Calling

    Michelle Curry Wright

    She's the breezy voice on the telephone, bringing life into the lonely days of her elderly clients ... But who's calling Miranda Blue? Not a soul -- which is the way Miranda likes it. From her sweet, ramshackle house in the middle of Colorado's pi...

  • Thieves' Dozen

    Donald E. Westlake

    SO MANY HEISTS, SO LITTLE TIME... THIEVES' DOZEN Horse Laugh: Dortmunder always avoids thefts that involve four-legged creatures. Then why is he somewhere out in New Jersey, listening to sirens wailing in the distance, holding on for dear life to...

  • Object of Virtue

    Nicholas B.A. Nicholson

    A dazzling debut about the power of family and the pain of betrayal set within Manhattan's Fifth Avenue apartments, the opulent mansions of the new Moscow, and the pre-revolutionary palaces of Saint Petersburg. Sasha Ozerovsky is a young expert ...

  • Pearl

    Lauraine Snelling

    Book 2 of Dakotah Treasures. Author Lauraine Snelling takes readers further forward in Ruby Torvald's story as Dove House becomes a well-known establishment. Ruby plays matchmaker between the lovely but hidden Pearl and the carpenter Soren, who longs...

  • Shout Down the Moon

    Lisa Tucker

    Her acclaimed debut, The Song Reader, won her praise as a "brilliant new literary talent" (The Albuquerque Tribune). Now, Lisa Tucker returns with a starkly lyrical novel of page-turning intensity and rare emotional power. Patty Taylor can handle an...

  • The Wedding Season

    Darcy Cosper

    SEVENTEEN WEDDINGS. SIX MONTHS. ON THE STRONG SURVIVE. Joy Silverman and her boyfriend, Gabriel Winslow, seem perfect for each other. Living together in New York City, they have everything they want and everything in common--most important, that nei...

  • In Silent Graves

    Gary A. Braunbeck

    Robert Londrigan seems to have it all. He is a newscaster with a rising career. He has a beautiful wife, Denise, and a new baby on the way. But in just a few short hours Robert's world is turned upside down. Now his family is gone.but the torment onl...

  • The Rage

    Richard Lee Byers
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Renegade dragon hunter Dorn hates dragons with a passion few can believe, let alone match. He has devoted his entire life - a life spent in the twisted body of a half-golem - to killing every dragon he can find. You might feel the same way if one of...

  • The Midnight Hour

    Brenda Jackson

    Sexy, dangerous, unforgettable. . .the Madaris family and their unlikely band of friends captured readers' hearts and souls. Now, in The Midnight Hour, bestselling author Brenda Jackson brings us another breathtaking novel featuring the Madaris famil...

  • The Love of a Stranger

    Anna Jeffrey

    Now she returns to the dusty town of Callister, Idaho, where a peaceful exterior hides the wildest passions.... A belligerent blonde swinging a tire iron is the last thing Doug Hawkins expects during a romantic rendezvous with another woman. Deep ...

  • Reunion

    Michael B. Oren

    From the best-selling nonfiction author, Michael B. Oren comes his first novel. Set in Belgium's Ardennes Forest, the site of a brutal, last-ditch assault by the Nazis in December 1944, Reunion reunites the surviving members of the 133rd Infantry Bat...

  • Unforgettable

    Adrianne Byrd

    Ladies man Marcel Taylor got his nickname, Casanova Brown, the old-fashioned way - he earned it. His life of privilege has been filled with the finer things and the finest women, but he's becoming bored with it all...until a mysterious seductress ent...

  • Beyond Compare

    Candace Camp

    Though Kyria Moreland is beautiful enough to earn the sobriquet "The Goddess" and rich enough to attract London's most sought after gentlemen, she has yet to find love and refuses to marry without it. When she receives a strange package under mysteri...

  • Fit for a Sheikh

    Kristi Gold

    HOT PURSUIT Tracker Darin Shakir worked alone. The mysterious Cattleman's Club member had been burned in the past and he wasn't about to see innocents hurt on this mission. But plans had gone awry -- he'd wound up injured, and in bartender Fiona P...

  • The Legend of Banzai Maguire

    Susan Grant

    The year: 2006. The mission: routine. Or so U.S.A.F. pilot Bree "Banzai" Maguire thinks. Then she's shot down over enemy airspace, captured and put in bio-stasis. When she wakes, everything's changed. It's one hundred and seventy years later--2176--t...

  • Gods Old and Dark

    Holly Lisle

    Live magic has returned to the Earth -- as the demons of every universe gather to destroy it ... The World Gates offer passage into countless realms, dimensions, and nightmares, changing forever those few with the courage to cross over. Lauren Dan...

  • Once a Bride

    Shari Anton

    My Enemy, My Love To Eloise Hamelin of Lelleford, 'tis the stuff of nightmares: Her betrothed dies on the church steps. Her beloved father disappears after being charged with treason. And the king places her home in the hands of a knight she l...

  • Petals of Promise

    Diann Hunt
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    The wedding bouquet symbolizes the hope that love will sail into the life of the person who catches it. Romance, though, is the last thing four of Abby's wedding guests want. But when a whirling ceiling fan disintegrates Abby's carefully crafted nose...

  • A Blast to the Past

    Virginia Farmer

    When the bomb goes off, U.S. Navy explosives technician Brian Skelley figures he's been blown to Kingdom Come. Instead, he's been blown to fourteenth-century Scotland -- and into the arms of the most beautiful woman ever. Can he give up his c...

  • Barefoot and Pregnant?

    Colleen Faulkner

    SHE HAD EVERYTHING A GIRL COULD WANT -- EXCEPT A HUSBAND! So career-girl Elise Montgomery turned to The Husband Finder, a trendy guidebook, to locate one. Only, according to the manual, her choice -- sexy farmer Zane Keaton -- was definitely Mr. W...

  • The Kissing Gate

    Fiona Carr

    THE KISSING GATE The new Earl of Wraxham, Lionel Westfall, was unprepared to move from town life to the doldrums of his late father's estate. He was even less prepared to find Sophie Bowerbank. The girl had turned voluptuous woman, but she was still...

  • The Three Sisters

    Rebecca Locksley

    AS ONE, THEY ARE DESTINY.. . Once Tari ruled in the land of Yarmar--a mysterious race of visionaries and healers whose power has since faded to legend. Then the armies of Mir came to destroy and enslave. Now, in their relentless drive for dominati...

  • The Upright Man

    Michael Marshall

    Ward Hopkins is afraid. He's seen something dreadful in the high plains of the Columbia River. It's sent him fleeing cross--country, forever running. In his wake, one by one, people are dying...the lonely night manager of a Seattle hotel, an u...

  • Wolf Mountain

    L.J. Martin

    THE DEADLIEST ENEMIES ARE THE ONES YOU TRUST The McQuade family had carved out a homestead from a fierce Montana mountainside and paid for it in blood; two brothers and a mother were buried in the soil of Rocky Butte. Now, Colin and Kevin McQuade ...

  • Mommy Said Goodbye // Their New Family

    Janice Kay Johnson

    What would you think if one day your wife disappeared, and everyone believed you were responsible? How would you feel if the only thing that kept you from being arrested was your child's insistence that his mommy told him she was leaving? And...

  • The WYRM

    Stephen Laws

    An ancient evil, released from its dark grave, is determined to stop the inhabitants of Shillingham from tearing down the old gallows at the crossroads by unleashing a campaign of bloodshed and revenge. Something hideous is about to happen to Bor...

  • Ramrod Intercept

    Don Pendleton

    In the covert world of clandestine operations, Stony Man is the President's deniable expendable -- a ready-reaction force that officially doesn't exist. For this elite fighting team, there's no glory, just the knowledge that a successful mission mean...

  • Fair Game?

    Julie Kistler
    in

    No more catching the bouquet... Three bridesmaids catch their man. Plan-it-to-death Serena Stafford believes that only her wildly impetuous sister could fall in love in three days. But Serena hasn't planned on her chemistry with best man Tom Erick...

  • Colorado Corpse

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo forgets his name -- but not how to fight!Some low-down varmint in Mountain View, Colorado, has framed Curt Cates for murder. And when Skye Fargo goes in search of the truth to set matters straight, he ends up in the same lot of trouble -- ...

  • First Class Killing

    Lynne Heitman

    Corruption. Deceit. Cold-blooded murder. These skies are far from friendly. Tough, resourceful, and beautiful, Alex Shanahan survived the cutthroat corporate world on her own terms. But now, she's using her hard-earned experience for herself -- as...

  • The Managing Mamas

    Alice Holden
    in

    Benjamin Whitlock and Jillian Blair have been companions since childhood -- a relationship that suits them perfectly. Their mothers, however, long to see their children wed -- to each other! Will their romantic schemes succeed -- or will the young co...

  • The Society Bride

    Fiona Hood-Stewart

    Ramon Villalba is handsome, gifted and wealthy. So why would he want a bride of convenience? Nena Carvajal is an exquisitely beautiful young heiress who needs protecting from fortune hunters. It would be no hardship for Ramon to enjoy the pleasure...

  • Shadows of the Past

    Frances Housden

    DON'T LOOK BACK Ten years ago, a harrowing kidnapping had taught Maria Costello to be on her guard and trust no one. So when gorgeous entrepreneur Franc Jellic caught her eye, she should have run for cover. Instead, she yearned to lose herself in ...

  • The General's Daughter

    Kate Huntington

    An Unconventional Lady For war hero Adam Lyonbridge, the ton's social minefields are more treacherous than most battles. Little wonder he dreads the prospect of marrying his general's fashionable daughter, Isabelle. But before the nuptials, ...

  • Scandal Between the Sheets

    Brenda Jackson

    TANGLED LIES... When reporter Jasmine Carmody began sniffing around Savannah's most respected family looking for a story, watchdog Wesley Brooks warned her off. Day and night, she sensed him shadowing her every move, felt his every breath, wanted ...

  • Rose in Bloom

    Sandie Petit
    in

    The wedding bouquet symbolizes the hope that love will sail into the life of the person who catches it. Romance, though, is the last thing four of Abby's wedding guests want. But when a whirling ceiling fan disintegrates Abby's carefully crafted nose...

  • Father By Choice

    M.J. Rodgers

    Emily Barrett wants a baby in her life -- not a husband. And that's the reason she went to a sperm bank. Through some detective work she's able to work out who the donor is, but she doesn't ever plan to reveal to Dr. Brad Winslow that he's about ...

  • A Passionate Proposal

    Emilie Rose

    A LONG, HOT SUMMER... After drowning in a slow-burning kiss with Tracy Sullivan at their high school reunion, an enamored Cort Lander realized she'd blossomed from a bookworm into a sultry beauty with a body made for lovin'. His lovin'. Whoa! That...

  • Wanted: An Interesting Life

    Bev Katz Rosenbaum

    With twenty-nine fading fast and thirty on the horizon, single-again Lou Bergman vows to become the capital-I Interesting person she knows she was meant to be. Which means ditching her cheesy job as a wedding videographer to write screenplays, mov...

  • Stress & The City

    Stephanie Rowe

    And forget the world. Cassie Halloway is definitely not losing it! So she sucked face with a perfect stranger to prove she was over her ex-fiance. So the new guy nearly made her swoon and forget anyone else was around. And so he turned out to be T...

  • Flowers for a Friend

    Gail Sattler
    in

    The wedding bouquet symbolizes the hope that love will sail into the life of the person who catches it. Romance, though, is the last thing four of Abby's wedding guests want. But when a whirling ceiling fan disintegrates Abby's carefully crafted nose...

  • The Perfect Mother, Retired

    Jeanne Savery
    in

    With her three stepdaughters married, young and widowed Anne Vernon is free, for the first time in her life, to do as she pleases. On the Continent, she expects nothing more than to see the Old World--and instead meets a mysterious stranger who offer...

  • My Lady Housekeeper

    Jeanne Savery

    A DARING DISGUISE... Lady Sarah Staunton would rather die a spinster than marry out of desperation. She's refused every suitor her father championed, with the result that at six and twenty, Sarah finds herself banished from London to a ramshackle co...

  • Cattleman's Heart

    Lois Faye Dyer

    He exuded a heat that had nothing to do with the Montana sun... One look at the shirtless cowboy sauntering toward her, and Rebecca Wallingford knew she was in trouble. Now Jackson Rand was telling her in a husky drawl that sent shivers up her spi...

  • Louisa and the Missing Heiress

    Anna MacLean

    Gentle Reader, In the days before I achieved renown as the author of Little Women, I was writing and selling stories of a more lurid nature, inspired by my spellbound fascination with the dark and mysterious. But nothing I could conjure from my ow...

  • Dead Men Rise Up Never

    Ron Faust

    Dan Shaw, night school law student and ex-army investigator, has fifty-seven hours to find a man who may already be dead. Peter Falconer is one of the golden boys of Bell Harbor, Florida--or he soon will be after inheriting the family fortune. But wh...

  • The Fraternity

    Stephen Gresham

    Blood Brothers It's pledge week for the fraternities of Mantis College in Sweet River, Alabama, and the rites of passage for those seeking membership in the Alpha and Omega houses involve more than pranks and hazing. The pledges must be willing to...

  • Longarm and the Talking Spirit

    Tabor Evans

    Indians are on the war path -- and Longarm’s in the way.An Indian war party is ready to massacre a group of miners, blaming them for the murder of their clan sister. The miners say they only found the body -- and they may be telling the truth. But ...

  • Putt to Death

    Roberta Isleib

    WHEN THE STAKES ARE HIGH, GOLF CAN TURN INTO A CONTACT SPORT... Cassie Burdette is going through a rough patch on the LPGA Tour, so snagging the touring pro job at a posh Connecticut country club is a stroke of good luck. But many members feel tha...

  • Merely the Groom

    Rebecca Hagan Lee

    Barely a Bride introduced the dashingly debonair -- but staunchly single -- men of the Free Fellows League. Now, in the second book, another confirmed bachelor is about to discover the unexpected pleasures of matrimony... On this, the seventh day ...

  • Slocum and the Bad News Brothers

    Jake Logan

    For this criminal clan, revenge is a family affair… Out a-bounty-hunting, Slocum’s just passing through the God-forsaken town of Breakneck. But when his quick thinking saves a rancher’s life from one of the notorious Beamer brothers, the g...

  • Beauty Queen

    Julia London

    Rebecca, the middle sister of the prominent Lear family, is pretty, privileged, and popular. She even married well. You'd never know it, but the former Miss Texas is a perfectly poised mess. Her marriage is a sham, her life is empty, her friends are ...

  • Of Immeasurable Worth

    Joan Croston
    in

    In these brand-new novellas, four women of different eras are bound together by an ancient Gutenberg Bible: Her arranged marriage brings Lorice threats of death and days of fear--will she only find escape at the cost of her life? Paige despises arist...

  • The Rules of Love

    Amanda McCabe

    How To Win A Heart Rosalind Chase would be quite content running her conservatory for young girls--if it wasn't for the constant antics of her brother Allen, constantly led into trouble of all sorts by that insufferable rake Lord Morley. As th...

  • Patriot's Stand

    Mike Moscoe

    With Loren Hanson's Roughriders, a ruthless band of mercenaries, destroying everything in their path, Grace O'Malley and her vastly outnumbered forces mount a last ditch defense of their planet, as they attempt to enlist the assistance of highly trai...

  • Napalm Dreams

    John F. Mullins

    A shattering novel of courage, heroism, and unbreakable bonds forged in the heat of battle. Green Beret Captain Finn McCulloden and his troops are having a very bad day -- even by the nightmarish standards of Vietnam. They've just been dropped int...

  • The Scandalous Widow

    Evelyn Richardson

    Love Lessons Lady Catherine Granville may have lost her social status when her husband died, but she will not allow her husband's family to dictate how she will live. With firm resolve, she opens an academy for genteel young ladies. But then she r...

  • Big-Sky Bandits

    J.R. Roberts

    Three years after ridding Cielo Grande of the depredations of Dutch Dreyman and his gang, Clint Adams returns to the desert town, only to find that it once again is faced with trouble, this time in the form of Jeremy Teaghan and his outlaws. Original...

  • Cause of Fear

    Robert Ross

    She's Been Watching...Waiting... All her life, Linda Leigh has been a plain Jane--the kind of woman no one notices. That all changes when handsome college professor Geoffrey Manwaring falls in love with her. The only shadow cast over their upcomin...

  • Consequences

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Officer Noelle DeRicci is investigating a murder in the domed colony of Armstrong on the Moon. The victim was one of the Disappeared--outlaws in hiding who are wanted for crimes against alien civilizations--whose family had her brought home, believin...

  • Dead End

    Judith Skillings

    Rebecca Moore has had more than her fill of dead men . . . The first, her lover David, took his own life in her bedroom just outside of Washington, D.C. -- a totally senseless act of violence that causes a severely shaken Rebecca to quit her job ...

  • The Wedding Night

    Barbara Dawson Smith

    Dear Diary, Four years have passed since the utter humiliation of my wedding night. But it seems like just yesterday that my husband left me--before consummating our marriage. So why, then, do I still harbor feelings for the selfish cad I once adore...

  • Political Pressure

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    SMEAR CAMPAIGN One by one, America's most corrupt public servants are dying violent deaths. Call it coincidence, cal it a spontaneous clamor for a cleaner, brighter America, call it years of clever plotting by a brilliant mastermind, or simply cal...

  • Sailor's Moon

    Merline Lovelace
    in

    While traveling to her unwanted wedding to a brutal nobleman, the notorious Lady Elizabeth Stanton was taken captive by Captain Richard Blake, an all-too-appealing American with vengeance on his mind! But the trouble was that Elizabeth soon wanted...

  • The Devil's Own Moon

    Miranda Jarrett
    in

    On a madcap wager, Harry, the fast-living Earl of Atherwall, assumed the guise of a reckless highwayman and unknowingly ordered Sophie Potts, his lost love, to stand and deliver. When Sophie refused, Harry had no choice but to kidnap her instead!...

  • White Fire

    Susan King
    in

    On a moonlit Scottish coast, Jenny Colvin searched for proof to halt her rogue father's hanging. Stopped by the mysterious and brooding Sir Simon Lockhart, she begged for his help, aware that only this once-daring smuggler could save her father from ...

  • Backseat Bridegroom

    Jane Sullivan
    in

    No more catching the bouquet... Three bridesmaids catch their man. Plan-it-to-death Serena Stafford believes that only her wildly impetuous sister could fall in love in three days. But Serena hasn't planned on her chemistry with best man Tom Erick...

  • Love is a Beach

    Isabel Sharpe
    in

    No more catching the bouquet... Three bridesmaids catch their man. Plan-it-to-death Serena Stafford believes that only her wildly impetuous sister could fall in love in three days. But Serena hasn't planned on her chemistry with best man Tom Erick...

  • Flowers by Felicity

    Janet Lee Barton
    in

    The wedding bouquet symbolizes the hope that love will sail into the life of the person who catches it. Romance, though, is the last thing four of Abby's wedding guests want. But when a whirling ceiling fan disintegrates Abby's carefully crafted nose...

  • Pale Moon Rising

    Ginna Gray

    Years ago, Joe Connally married Olivia Jones because it was the right thing to do. But when they lost the baby, there seemed to be no need to carry on the charade. Olivia put her broken heart on a shelf and set out to leave her past, and its pain, be...

  • The Princess Masquerade

    Lois Greiman

    A BRAZEN DECEPTION Cunning Megan O'Shay is many things -- a barmaid, a beauty, and the notorious thief known as "Magical Megs." She gets much more than she expects, however, the day she separates a certain gentleman from his pocket watch . . . and...

  • Right from the Start

    Cathy Marie Hake
    in

    In these brand-new novellas, four women of different eras are bound together by an ancient Gutenberg Bible: Her arranged marriage brings Lorice threats of death and days of fear--will she only find escape at the cost of her life? Paige despises arist...

  • A Treasure Worth Keeping

    Kelly Eileen Hake
    in

    In these brand-new novellas, four women of different eras are bound together by an ancient Gutenberg Bible: Her arranged marriage brings Lorice threats of death and days of fear--will she only find escape at the cost of her life? Paige despises arist...

  • Ransom's Bride

    Ginger Hanson

    Yours Very Truly... The Civil War is over and cavalry officer Ransom Champion is coming home, hoping to find peace with his darling Sabrina at last. But his fiancee is dead -- and only her sister Angela knows that Ransom fell in love with an illusio...

  • Rebel Baron

    Shirl Henke

    Wealthy widow Miranda Auburn hides her femininity behind a facade of cold calculation. Her only womanly emotions are reserved for her daughter, whose fondest wish is to marry a peer. Brandon Caruthers hopes to put the lost cause of the Confederacy be...

  • Beyond My Dreams

    Tammy Hilz

    For Glory And For Gold... The stately homes and greenswards of England are no more than a pleasant memory for Gavin McLeod, the Earl of Blackwell, sent to Egypt on a secret mission for his King. Though Napoleon's soldiers and spies are everywhere, G...

  • Stolen Kisses

    Julie Kenner

    It took a thief... Melissa Tanner is just your average, everyday cat burglar, desperately trying to walk the straight and narrow path. So wouldn't it figure that on the night she's trying to return some jewelry, she'd find herself caught up in the...

  • Heart of a Hunter

    Sylvie Kurtz

    THE HUNTER BECOMES PREY... U.S. Marshal Sebastian Falconer was a workaholic, dedicated to catching dangerous fugitives. But when his wife became the victim of a vengeful escaped felon who had vowed to destroy Sebastian, he knew he could no longer ...

  • Cover-Up

    Ruth Langan

    SECRETS IN A SMALL TOWN Devil's Cove, Michigan, hadn't been Jason Cooper's home for over ten years. Now the town's former troublemaker turned successful novelist had returned. He never expected to rekindle the flame of his first love...or put her ...

  • The Trouble With Twins

    Jo Leigh

    What was he thinking? Shelby Lord was on a mission. Suddenly it had become vital to her to find her birth mother, and a tenuous lead had brought her to Gray Jackson's door. What she found was a man hopelessly out of his depth, struggling to care f...

  • The Pied Piper's Bride

    Myrna MacKenzie

    TROUBLE IN RED ROSE... Notorious businessman Parker Monroe had left Red Rose years ago, and most of the men had followed. Now Ellie Donahue, his childhood friend, hopes -- unlike the fairy tale -- he can also lead the men back. Whether or not P...

  • Mostly Married

    Lisa Manuel

    Where There's A Will...There's A Wedding When and why did he say "I do"? Lucas Holbrook, the Duke of Wakefield, cannot recall the marriage ceremony now that he has awakened to find sweet Charity, a fiery-haired beauty, nestled in his arms. The imper...

  • Claiming His Love-Child

    Sandra Marton

    When Cullen O'Connell sees Marissa again, he discovers that one night of passion has created more than a memory. She's pregnant with his love-child! Cullen offers a marriage of convenience to claim his baby. Marissa has no choice but to...

  • The Last Rogue

    Connie Mason

    All London is stunned by Lucas, Viscount Westmore's vow to give up the fair sex and exile himself to St. Ives. The infamous rake is known for his love of luxury and his way with the ladies, just as the rugged Cornish coast is known for its savage...

  • Mimosa Grove

    Dinah McCall

    Laurel Scanlon has the gift of sight, an ability passed down to the eldest daughter of each generation. It is this gift -- or curse, perhaps -- that drove her own mother mad and has left Laurel unwilling to trust in love...except in her dreams. An...

  • Match Made in Heaven

    Judi McCoy

    TWO SET-IN-THEIR-WAYS SOUL MATES DISCOVER THAT TRUE LOVE EXISTS...BUT SOMETIMES IT JUST NEEDS A LITTLE EXTRA HELP... SOME SET-UPS... Prim headmistress Honoria Hewitt can't believe she let herself get talked into such a humiliating predicament. If h...

  • While Others Sleep

    Helen R. Myers

    Who says lightning never strikes twice? Campbell Cody has twice experienced the strike of lightning, and both times proved to be a deadly portent of things to come. The first time lightning struck, she lost her friend, and her job as a police offi...

  • Flawless

    Carolyn Neal

    A CHANCE ENCOUNTER... Advertising executive Kayla Marshall is a lifelong high achiever, with a high-profile career and high-flying boyfriend to match. But when a key player at her firm is murdered and her love life takes a temporary downturn, Kayla ...

  • It Should Happen To You

    Kathleen O'Reilly

    If (good) looks could kill... Mickey Coleman has a whiz-kid IQ, a stellar job in astronomy and ambition to boot. So how can she slip up? When a sexy one-night fling results in a homemade videotape, Mickey is feeling a new kind of heat...she's bein...

  • Too Many Mothers

    Julia Parks
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    Margaret Tate believes the orphaned Duke of Fairhaven should receive proper parenting--from his guardian, Major Aiden Ash. Unfortunately, the confirmed bachelor has no patience for a spinster's advice until he realizes that he wants much more from Ma...

  • Lady Killer

    Meryl Sawyer

    SOME MEN... He preys on a certain type of woman--smart, successful, professional, the kind who doesn't realize how vulnerable she is until it's too late. The last terrifying sight she sees is the face of a ruthless serial killer... WILL CHARM YOU...

  • Beloved Enemy

    Mary Schaller

    Only the heart sees what the eyes can't... HOW COULD SHE FALL IN LOVE WITH A YANKEE? Julia Chandler was a true daughter of the Confederacy, believing any man who wore Union blue was no man at all. But the magic of a costume ball transformed...

  • Somewhere Past Forever

    Dallas Schulze

  • To Have and to Hold

    Janice Sims

    After finding the man of her dreams on a dangerous Ethiopian trip, archaeologist Solange DuPree thought her life was going to settle down into a peaceful routine. But now she and her insurance investigator fiance Rupert Giles are in the middle of a r...

  • Mr. Complete

    Sheridon Smythe

    "This is your lucky night. I just happen to be wearing black silk boxers." That was exactly the kind of confirmation Lydia Carmichael was looking for. Proof positive that the drop-dead gorgeous date: provided by Mr. Complete Escort Services was a gi...

  • My Lady Luck

    Hayley Ann Solomon

    No bet is too high when love is at stake... A DARING GAMBLE Honor Finchley loathes the conventions of polite society she's been taught at Miss Bramble's Seminary for Young Ladies. Clever and rebellious, she yearns to be wicked, and decide...

  • Come Summer

    Sandra Steffen

    IN SEARCH OF HER SISTER'S PAST, SHE'LL MEET HER OWN FUTURE HEAD-ON. When artist Liza Cassidy heads for tiny Alcott, New Hampshire, she's traveling back in time--to the last year of her twin sister Laurel's life. Five years have passed since Laurel...

  • Early To Bed?

    Cara Summers

    Early to bed and early to rise makes a man... Healthy? Talk about early! Tony Romano and Lily McNeil hadn't even introduced themselves before they were burning up the sheets! But the exercise didn't do Tony's health any good. Since luscious ...

  • Agent Cowboy

    Debra Webb

    A MAN UNLIKE ANY OTHER In jeopardy and running for her life, Kelly Parker was the lone witness to a ghastly triple murder. And her only chance for survival rested on the impossibly broad shoulders of Trent Tucker. His mission: Protect Kelly from a...

  • A Kept Woman

    Sheri Whitefeather

    "THERE ARE ALL KINDS OF CAGES." Once the glamorous mistress to a high-powered mob boss, Natalie Pascal was now a kept woman of a very different sort. Her new keeper: U.S. Marshal Zack Ryder, the handsome man assigned to give her a new identity and...

  • The Matchmaker's Plan

    Karen Toller Whittenburg

    Cupid's Plan Goes Awry When Her Arrows Hit Home... For once, intrepid matchmaker Ainsley Danville Dunbar doesn't know how to proceed. There's instant chemistry between her brother Matt and her new friend Peyton O'Reilly, but Ainsley sees no reason...

  • His Virgin Secretary

    Cathy Williams

    Millionaire business tycoon Bruno Giannella is gorgeous, proud and successful. Katy West cannot believe her ears when the sexy Italian demands that she become his personal assistant! But Bruno is determined to find the real woman hiding beneath Ka...

  • In Plain Sight

    Gayle Wilson

    An atmospheric tale of two people who suddenly have nowhere left to run... Robin Holt has struggled to make a life for herself and her son, Taylor, knowing all the while that one false move could put him in harm's way. But years of being on the ru...

  • For the Sake of His Child

    Bonnie K. Winn

    After tragedy deprives her of the two people she loves most, Brynn Alder decides to leave her old life behind and start over in Texas Hill Country. Here she'll help troubled kids get their lives in order -- it's the only way she can make sense of eve...

  • Summer Breeze

    Courtni Wright

    From the moment she lands in Bermuda, schoolteacher Eve Turner knows that this tropical Eden is going to be her new home. As the sand and surf begin to work their magic, she meets charming math professor David Scott, who shows her the hidden treasur...

  • Out Of Nowhere

    Rebecca York

    SHE CAME INTO HIS LIFE FROM OUT OF NOWHERE... And landed right into his murder investigation. Spy-turned-detective Max Dakota had seen it all -- until he rescued a beautiful blonde who plunged off a Florida bridge. She had no memory, no ID -- noth...

  • Flames of Justice

    David Thompson

    In the untamed wilderness of the Rocky Mountains, there is frequently only one law.the law of survival. But sometimes even the brave men and women living on the brutal frontier must answer to the justice of so-called civilization. This is the lesson ...

  • The Siege of Troy

    Greg Tobin

    It was the Age of HeroesValiant warriors like Hector, Ajax, wily Odysseus, and brave Achilles, their exploits in battle, their secret passions and hidden strengths, their friendships and rivalries -these are what legends are made of.It began with a s...

  • Sworn Allies

    David Drake

    PLEDGED TO PROTECT US ALL In the remote darkness of space, they've fought the most fiery battles the stars will ever witness. On hellish planets with poisoned atmospheres, they ward off the ruthless Khalian horde. Now, the brave men and women of t...

  • Between the Strokes of Night

    Charles Sheffield

    TO DEFEAT THE IMMORTALS, YOU MUST BECOME AN IMMORTAL After the Nuclear Spasm in the 21st century, homo sapiens was extinct, save for a tiny remnant scattered in small, primitive space colonies. At first Solar Humanity had only one goal: survival. ...

  • The Long Road Home

    Joyce Livingston
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    In these brand-new novellas, four women of different eras are bound together by an ancient Gutenberg Bible: Her arranged marriage brings Lorice threats of death and days of fear--will she only find escape at the cost of her life? Paige despises arist...

  • The Fifth Internationale

    Jack King

    ONE MAN ALONE .. . Stan Penskie is an FBI agent working as the legal attache of the American Embassy in Warsaw. It used to be mostly a routine desk job--until a terrible event changed his life forever. Robert Sito, an officer of the Polish Secret Se...

  • Code Name: Diva

    J.M. Jeffries

  • Time Is of the Essence

    Angie Daniels

    Although it's been two years, Captain Mark Saunders has never forgotten the hot affair in the arms of sexy schoolteacher, Essence Monroe. When he finally returns to Wilmington, he hopes for a second chance only to discover she isn't the only thing he...

  • Point Position

    Don Pendleton

    Bankrolled by a drug czar turned arms dealer, Europe's most dangerous right-wing splinter group grabs a cache of stolen chemical weapons. Doubling the score, the terrorists seize a prototype weapon, the brainchild of a U.S. black ops project so cover...

  • Eliza

    Mildred Colvin

    Eliza Jackson deals with the aftermath of her mother's death. Determined to care for her father and her younger brother, she desires to keep her family to herself - but the Lord has other plans. As her father falls in love again, it seems as though E...

  • Refining Fire

    Carol Cox

    Orphaned, then mistreated by her guardian, Jenny Davis has learned some hard lessons in life. For one thing, she believes God doesn't love her. How could He, when He's allowed such terrible hardships to befall her? Jenny decides any happiness she may...

  • Changing Seasons

    Colleen Reece; Renee DeMarco

    For Emily Ann Carr, life has been a series of obligations. Putting aside hopes for love and a family of her own, Emily raised her niece and nephew after the death of her brother. Now, with the children grown and gone, she has time to revisit some of ...

  • Secret Admirer

    Gail Sattler

    Shannon Andrews thought she'd never have to see her older brother's obnoxious best friend again. But, out of the blue, Todd Sanders has come back into her life. It's too much to believe he's reformed himself, but somehow, he is different... Todd h...

  • Haunted Revenge

    Darlene Pitts

  • The Wizard's Ward

    Deborah Hale

    Years before, the peaceful world of Umbria was torn apart by the ruthless Hanish invaders... Yet that is the only life Maura knows. Until her wizard guardian announces she is to be queen -- but that first she must find and unite with their country...

  • Flirting With Trouble

    Leandra Logan

    Can A High-Society Girl Give Up Life In The Fast Lane For Love In Fairlane? Shop-till-you-drop socialite Amanda Pierpoint is the New York gossip columnist everyone's gossiping about. Trying to please her father, she's almost ready to settle d...

  • A Family of Her Own // First Love, Second Chance

    Brenda Novak

    Pregnant...and alone? When Katie Rogers returns to Dundee, Idaho, it's not because she wants to. It's because she's disillusioned, broke -- and pregnant. She was going to make something of her life in the big city. Instead, she's paying a high pri...

  • A Cowboy Summer

    Debra Salonen

    Anne Fraser can't refuse her stepfather's request to manage his ranch while he's away, but she has reservations about taking her daughter back to Nevada for the summer. Especially when she discovers that her stepfather has also talked his...

  • Husband In Harmony

    Sharon Swan

    Mixing Business And Pleasure -- Or Just Getting Mixed Up? Adam Lassiter is one of the top men in his field, a consultant who specializes in turning around unsuccessful businesses. He's married to his job, which explains why he's now divorced and w...

  • Beneath the Ice

    Alton Gansky

    At the bottom of the world lies a secret: a mysterious object buried three miles beneath the Antarctic ice. Famed engineer Perry Sachs and his crew face subzero temperatures, shifting ice, and the opposition of men determined to erase all knowledge o...

  • The Moon by Night

    Gilbert Morris; Lynn Morris

    Book 2 of Cheney and Shiloh: The Inheritance. Cheney and Shiloh Irons-Winslow return to New York from their honeymoon and enthusiastically begin work--Shiloh at Winslow Brothers Shipping and Cheney in her medical career. But their tranquility is shat...

  • Outside the White Lines

    Chris Simms

  • Dark Mirror

    Craig Shaw Gardner

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends... THE SINCEREST FORM In his two-plus centuries on Earth, Angel's seen his share of imitators: kindly, misguided people intrigued by the exotic business of being a P.I.; not-so-kindly misguide...

  • The Awful Secret

    Bernard Knight

    A terrible truth that could shake Christendom to its core.1195. Gilbert de Rideford â€" Knight of the Temple of Solomon and old acquaintance of county coroner Sir John de Wolfe â€" arrives in Exeter, begging for Sir John’s help.He claims to have co...

  • The Right Address

    Carrie Karasyov; Jill Kargman

    The Right Address sears through the upper crust of New York’s glittering Park Avenue scene to dish the dirt on the ladies who lunch, the gents who club, and the desperate climbers who will stop at nothing to join the backstabbing, champagne-sipping...

  • Wellspring of Chaos

    L.E. Modesitt Jr.

    L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s Wellspring of Chaos continues his bestselling fantasy series the Saga of Recluce, which is one the most popular in contemporary epic fantasy.Kharl's life has been always been as ordered and dependable as the barrels he makes. His...

  • Out of the Darkness

    Harry Turtledove

    Harry Turtledove's rousing saga of a fantastic world at war, which began in Into the Darkness and continued through Darkness Descending, Through the Darkness, Rulers of the Darkness, and Jaws of Darkness, draws to its climactic conclusion in Out of t...

  • Midnight Mass

    F. Paul Wilson

    HOW CAN MORTAL MEN DEFEAT AN IMMORTAL AND SEEMINGLY INVINCIBLE ENEMY? Vampires control all of Europe, India, the Far East and the major cities in North and South America. It seems that nothing can stand in their way and that humanity will become c...

  • Crossing the Line

    Clinton McKinzie

    Clinton McKinzie writes powerhouse thrillers that are like nothing you've ever read-- novels that crackle with raw emotion and brilliantly explore the nature of risk: the risk that lovers take, adventurers seek, and men and women live with on both si...

  • Remembering Sarah

    Chris Mooney

    Mike Sullivan is determined to raise his six-year-old daughter Sarah to become a tough, independent woman. His own mother left when he was twelve, promising to return and rescue him from his father, an abusive and violently unpredictable thief who, M...

  • Finding Bess

    Victoria Gordon

    Bess Carson writes steamy, historical romances, but she certainly doesn't want a man. So when fellow author Geoffrey Barrett, a Tasmanian author of rugged, outback historical adventures, suggests she leave her beloved Colorado and fly to Australia so...

  • Tattoo Blues

    Michael McClelland

    Runaway rich girl Desiree Dean is nobody's condiment. So when she discovers her brand-new Chinese character tattoo actually reads "with hot sauce," she confronts the artist at his parlor--and accidentally ignites an explosion that blows away half the...

  • Till the Cows Come Home

    Judy Clemens

    "She's smart. She's tough. She's sexy. She's a dairy farmer?" -- BooklistStella Crown works hard and loves her life. She runs her own Pennsylvania dairy farm with the trusted help of longtime farmhand Howie who stuck with her after her parents died. ...

  • The Body in the Attic

    Katherine Hall Page

    Caterer Faith Fairchild and family are living in one of historic Cambridge, Massachusetts', venerable Brattle Street houses while the Reverend Tom teaches a course at the Harvard Divinity School and does some soul searching--is his Aleford parish his...

  • Rain Valley

    Lauran Paine

    As he so aptly demonstrated in his novel "Open Range," which was made into a movie starring Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall, Lauran Paine is one of the West's most powerful storytellers. In the title novella of this collection, Burt Crownover caus...

  • Truth at Gunpoint

    Ray Hogan

    The first time in paperback, a master of Western fiction presents a collection of gripping short stories set in the Wild West, including "Ben Sutton's Law," "The Homecoming," and "The Man Who Wore the Star." Reprint....

  • Shadow Men

    Jonathon King

    Eighty years after three men--a father and two sons--vanish without a trace while working on a project to build a road through the Florida Everglades, a descendant of the men enlists former police officer Max Freeman to uncover the truth. Reprint....

  • Twice

    Lisa Miscione

    Lydia and her partner, P.I. Jeff Mark, must confront not only a brutal murderer but the demons from their own past. Julian Ross, a brilliant and acclaimed New York City artist, has been charged with brutally killing her second husband. She was fou...

  • Southern Fried

    Cathy Pickens

    GO HOME AT YOUR OWN RISK Attorney Avery Andrews left her BMW behind in Columbia, South Carolina, along with her job at a high powered law firm. She's come back home to Dacus where the vehicle of choice is a pickup truck with a doc chained in the b...

  • Murder Is Academic

    Christine Poulson

    All is not well at Cambridge University's St. Ethelreda's College. The head of the English Department is dead, and Professor Cassandra James is appointed the task of running the department. Faced with the choice of whipping her underperformin...

  • The Perfumed Sleeve

    Laura Joh Rowland

    An unusual death, a puzzling clue, and an uncompromising investigator... Sano Ichiro-, Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, is faced with his most challenging case when he investigates the death of Senior Elder Makino, th...

  • The Road to Ruin

    Donald E. Westlake

    "Pariah!" Monroe Hall wishes that people would stop using that word. So what if he was born rich but scammed his own conglomerate for more than the boys from Enron and WorldCom combined? And so what if he takes a little pleasure in reporting people t...

  • Last Lullaby

    Denise Hamilton

    Los Angeles Times reporter Eve Diamond has spent the day at LAX, shadowing U.S. Customs Supervisor William Maxwell. He's got his eye on an incoming flight from Beijing via Seoul and Tokyo. The flight's packed with the usual mass of humanity, ranging ...

  • The Magyar Venus

    Lyn Hamilton

    During a night carousing with her old college gang, Lara McClintoch attends an opening at a museum where an extraordinary artifact is revealed. The Magyar Venus is the head and torso of a woman carved from mammoth ivory during the Upper Paleolithic p...

  • The Serpents Trail

    Sue Henry

    A brand-new mystery series starring Maxie McNabb--an independent retiree whose adventures across the country in her motor home are destined for murderous roadblocks... At sixty-three, Maxie isn't sure that leaving everything behind for a new life is...

  • Jackson Square Jazz

    Greg Herren

    Greg Herren's Bourbon Street Blues, featuring Scotty Bradley--stripper, P.I., psychic, and droll commentator on gay life (his own and everyone else's)--hit a chord with readers everywhere. Now, the buff, blond ex-go-go boy is back, embroiled with a f...

  • Decorated to Death

    Dean James

    Not everyone can claim both Hercule Poirot and Nancy Drew as inspiration. Of course, not everyone is a vampire sleuth from the States who pulled up stakes to live in a small English village. Even the eccentric denizens of Snupperton Mumsely might be ...

  • The Zenith Angle

    Bruce Sterling

    Pioneering computer wizard Derek "Van" Vandeveer has been living extra-large as a VP for a booming Internet company. But the September 11 attacks on America change everything. Recruited as the key member of an elite federal computer-security team, Va...

  • Necropolis

    Tim Waggoner

    From author Tim Waggoner comes a novel featuring a home for all of those creatures that go bump in the night . . .

    Centuries ago, when Earth's Darkfolk -- vampires, werewolves, witches and other creatures -- were threatened by humanity, they depa...

  • Therapy

    Jonathan Kellerman

    Behind the yellow crime-scene tape,-a brutal tableau awaits. On a lonely lovers' lane in the hills of Los Angeles, a young couple lies murdered in a car. Each victim bears a single gunshot wound to the head. Though the female remains unidentified, he...

  • Unforced Error

    Michael Bowen

    "A modern-day Nick and Nora, the quick-witted Rep and the literature-loving Melissa trade sophisticated quips that may make readers wish they had paid more attention in English class. Good fun." -- BooklistIntellectual property attorneys, romance pub...

  • It Had to Be You

    Jill Churchill

    Comfortably ensconced in their late great-uncle's "Grace and Favor" mansion, brother and sister Robert and Lily Brewster are riding out the Depression, penniless but in high style. Now a new day is heralded by Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration. Barel...

  • Kings of Infinite Space

    James Hynes

    Paul Trilby is having a bad day. If he were to be honest with himself, Paul Trilby would have to admit that he's having a bad life. His wife left him. Three subsequent girlfriends left him. He's fallen from a top-notch university teaching job, to a t...

  • The Journal of Professor Abraham Van Helsing

    Allen C. Kupfer

    Professor Abraham Van Helsing was the fictional creation of Bram Stoker for his dark work of fantasy Dracula …or was he?Fragments of a recently discovered journal suggest otherwise.For the first time, in his own words, the legendary vampire hunter ...

  • The Last Prophecy

    Jon Land

    In this seventh installment in Land's action series featuring U.N. investigators Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea, the two must unlock the mysteries of a sixteenth-century prophecy in order to stop the destruction of the U.S. Barnea, trained as an assas...

  • The Face of the Assassin

    David Lindsey

    He reconstructs the faces of the dead. But nothing has prepared him for the true face of fear. Now one man must confront the frightening puzzle of his own personality while navigating a treacherous, hidden world where that which is alien becomes fami...

  • Moonrise

    Mitchell Smith

    Civilization survives in pockets of warmth, most notably in the vast, Mississippi-based Middle Kingdom of North America and in glacier-covered Boston. Boston, where high technology that borders on magic is used to create the "moonrisen," people with ...

  • Wind Spirit

    Aimee Thurlo; David Thurlo

    When an arson fire claims the life of the wife of a Navajo Councilmember who spearheaded gun control measures, tensions flare throughout the Rex. Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah's search for the killers is hampered by what happened to he...

  • The Ocean Between Us

    Susan Wiggs

    On the surface Grace Bennett has it all -- three wonderful children, a devoted husband and a life of adventure and travel. But somewhere between her husband Steve's demanding career, raising a family, the constant uprooting and the Navy's routine, Gr...

  • Windy City Knights

    Michael A. Black

    How much do you owe a past love? Ever wonder about it? Private Detective Ron Shade does when he bumps into his former lover, Paula Kittermann, late one lonely December night in a hotel bar. Paula had once been a major factor in Shade's life, but tha...

  • The Tumbler

    Peter Bowen

    Gabriel Du Pre, the old Metis fiddler at the center of Peter Bowen's atmospheric, engrossing series set in the dirty, dusty Montana that's rarely featured in travel brochures, has a knack for finding trouble. Or rather, trouble has a knack for findin...

  • Out of the Deep I Cry

    Julia Spencer-Fleming

    A DARK PAST THAT COULD BRING... On April 1, 1930, Jonathon Ketchem's wife, Jane, walked from her house to the police department to ask for help in finding her husband. The men, worn out from a night of chasing bootleggers, did what they could. But n...

  • Live Bait

    P.J. Tracy

    Minneapolis detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are bored - ever since they solved the Monkeewrench case, the Twin Cities have been in a murder-free dry spell, as people no longer seem interested in killing one another. But with two brutal homici...

  • Return Engagement

    Harry Turtledove

    It's 1941, and an alliance of peace holds in check the most powerful nations of the world -- but it is an uneasy peace. Japan dominates the Pacific, the Russian tsar rules Alaska, and England, under Winston Churchill, chafes for a return to its forme...

  • Doctored Evidence

    Donna Leon

    After the body of a wealthy elderly woman is found brutally murdered in her apartment, the authorities suspect her maid, who is on the run with a large sum of money. But when the maid herself meets an untimely end trying to escape from border police,...

  • Save the Last Dance

    Marie Sparks

    Marla Shelton is a young woman with spirit and grit, and she isn't afraid to go after what she wants. She recently graduated from college with plans to teach school. However, her father's accident throws a wrench in things and she must return to her ...