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New Books List: 531 titles


  • Harper Allen

    RENEGADE HEARTS If he hadn't received a letter from a dead woman who'd once saved his life, Quinn McGuire wouldn't have agreed to help a frightened Jane Doe to honor his unpaid debt. As her 24-hour protector, this burned-out soldier for hire would g...



  • J. Robert King
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    What beasts rule our dreams? Ancient Primevals enslaved our ancestors, and modern dragon engines enslave us. Plains dragons defend humans, and undead dragons destroy them. And all dragons hold mysteries deep within. Uncover the secrets of the d...



  • Elaine Marie Alphin

    The ghost of a young soldier from the Civil War haunts a troubled teen."I sat up. The jagged trenches were only soft grassy depressions in the sunny battlefield park. I felt tears burn my eyes, the relief was so strong, and then the misery of losing ...



  • Millie Criswell

    She's outspoken and outrageous. She's tired of swimming in the dating pool. And most of all, Annie Goldman has played bridesmaid for the last time. Of course no one would ever suspect that she still carries a torch for Joe Russo. Fourteen years ago, ...



  • Lois McMaster Bujold

    A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril has returned to the noble household he once served as page, and is named, to his great surprise, secretary-tutor to the beautiful, strong-willed sister of the impetuous boy who is next in line to rule. It is a...



  • Barbara Delinsky

    New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky paints an ingenious portrait of the secrets inside every marriage in a sharp-eyed novel filled with suspense and surprise. Three married couples in peaceful suburban Connecticut are challenged and fo...



  • Cathy East Dubowski

    Sabrina's roommates Morgan, Miles, and Roxie are driving her nuts, customers at the coffee shop treat Sabrina with no respect, and the people at the drive-through don't smile or say thank you. It seems to Sabrina that no one has any manners or sense ...



  • Christopher Golden

    They're real, and they're here.... Prowlers Jack Dwyer defeated the pack of Prowlers who had preyed upon the city of Boston with their leader, Owen Tanzer. Tanzer may be gone, but now that Jack is aware of their existence, he is on a constant lookout...



  • Holly E. Henderson

    A stranger among them... Joey doesn't like the new guest at the Potter Bed and Breakfast. Her sister, Bessie, raves about him, but to skeptical Joey, friendly Bobby Kryer seems too good to be true. Dawson's only too eager to help uncover a myster...



  • Constance M. Burge

    When wishes give dark powers life

    Stark disaster becomes rife.

    Danger, chaos, evil rise

    Before our unsuspecting eyes!

    While photopgraphing Stephen Tremaine, a wealthy businessman running for public office, Prue notices an ancient stone statue...



  • Carolyn Keene

    Mystery mouth's voice is Nancy's first clue! Nancy has a new set of hot green walkie-talkies to use in busy places like the mail. But when Bess and George try them out, one of the walkie-talkies disappears. Nancy thinks a bratty boy they know may ha...



  • Robert K. Tanenbaum

    New York: The city erupts in chaos when a black man is shot in the back by an NYPD "golden boy" street cop. As chief assistant district attorney Butch Karp soon discovers, certain higher-ups would rather whitewash the truth than lose votes in the upc...



  • Achy Obejas

    On New Year's Day 1959, as Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba, Alejandra San José was born in Havana, entering the world through the heart of revolution. Fearing the conflict and strife that bubbled up in the streets all around the new family, her pa...



  • Harry Turtledove

    World War 1--The Great War--has ended, and an uneasy peace reigns around the world. Nowhere is it more fragile than on the continent of North America, where bitter enemies share a single landmass and two long, bloody borders. In the North, proud Cana...



  • Valery Leith

    In a land torn apart by evil and time, a woman warrior emerges as the only hope for survival...

    Everien is in chaos, ravaged by a voracious timeserpent that can tunnel through earth and time itself -- calling forth terrifying monsters from t...



  • Patrick Sanchez

    This wickedly witty, urbane novel tackles the ups and downs of female friendship, and the ultimate question for every young woman searching for the perfect job, apartment, and man--or woman--in the big city: What's a nice girl like you doing with a l...



  • Edwin Howard Simmons

    A Marine who wielded both pen and sword in a long, distinguished career captures the heroism and horror of the early days of the Korean War in this gripping novel. As a young man -- with his own experiences in the war still vivid in his mind -- Simmo...



  • Karen Kingsbury

    EVERYTHING IS ON THE LINE . . . for Faith Evans. an up-and-coming newscaster. A woman of honor and integrity, who finds herself making a stand against the one man she never imagined would be her enemy... . . . for Jordan Riley, a powerful attor...



  • Roslyn Carrington

    As Rory and Odile, childhood friends who were separated by a tragic event which changed their lives forever, lead separate lives, they realize that they are forever linked by the events of their past and when they finally confront each other, they fi...



  • Tracie Peterson

    WILL THE FAITH THAT HAS BROUGHT HER SO FAR SUSTAIN HER IN THE FACE OF TRAGEDY? When heartache and loss invade Karen Pierce's care-fully ordered world, she is devastated. Her plans and dreams for the future seem distant and unattainable, and she is...



  • Donna Hill

    After the sudden and tragic death of her parents, Cora Harvey has nothing left except her incredible voice and her dream to share it with the world. But her dream will never come true in Rudell, Mississippi, especially if she marries the man she ador...



  • Janette Oke

    Christine and her older brother, Henry, grew up in the Delaney family as loved and nurtured as if they had been born to Elizabeth and Wynn. Now adults, they are ready to make new lives for themselves. Henry has found love and is planning a wedding....



  • Joe Gores

    Ephrem Poteet is a dancing bear at Universal Studio's tourist trap--and a pickpocket on the side--until somebody puts a knife through his fur suit right up his gut. Even as the police search for Ephrem's beautiful Gypsy wife, the men and women of the...



  • Peter David

    While adjusting to being joined with Genis, the son of the original Captain Marvel, Rick Jones battles a Hyssta calling itself Captain Marvel and rescues Marlo from the Canadian woods, after which Moondragon and her father further complicate his life...



  • Sean K. Reynolds
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Discover the Power and Master the Art

    Magic pervades Faerun. This guide explores the hidden lore and secrets of magic in the Forgotten Realms game setting. From the history of magic to magical variants (including gem magic, spellfire, and the ...



  • Mick Farren

    Victor Renquist, centuries-old nosferatu leader, is called to England. Some archaeologists are excavating a burial mound, but what they will uncover is no Saxon warrior but the being once known as the Merlin. And he's not the kindly old duffer of The...



  • Judith Gould

    Valerie Rochelle is a successful veterinarian. But beneath her independent, self-sufficient façade is a lonely little girl who yearns for affection and love. Then, one stormy evening, she is called to a nearby estate to tend to an ailing horse. No o...



  • Anne Kelleher

    THE NOBLEMAN...OR THE HIGHWAYMAN? Lord Wentworth has brought his daughter Elizabeth to Ireland in 1718 to show her the country estate that will be her dowry upon marriage to a young Lord Neville. With the wedding only two weeks away, Lady Elizabe...



  • Mel Odom

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends.... The Witching Hour Los Angeles is stunned when a priest is attacked by a woman who confesses to having murdered her own son. At the same time, Angel Investigations turns up reports of a madwoman...



  • Christopher Golden

    Buffy Summers' adjustment to life at U.S. Sunnydale has not gone smoothly. She feels awkward, insecure, and a bit jealous that Willow's all over the college life. So when the spirit of deceased Slayer Lucy Hanover appears to Buffy in a dream with new...



  • Kathleen Taylor

    BLAME CANADA? Ample-bodied, salty-tongued waitress Tory Bauer is no longer taking orders from anyone -- now that she has become co-owner of the only cafe in tiny Delphi, South Dakota. And since corpses on the premises are bad for business, Tory is...



  • Dawn Miller

    From the author of the acclaimed frontier novel The Journal of Callie Wade comes a magnificent chronicle of courage, trial, and triumph... Montana Territory, 1864: Jack Wade had nothing to lose when he left the wagon train that carried his sister Ca...



  • Frank Roderus

    They thought he was too old to fight back. They thought he was too tired to care. They thought wrong. Old Jug had been a ranch hand for more years than even he could remember -- and he wasn't getting any younger. Though not as quick or tough as he u...



  • Angela Benson

    Award-winning author Angela Benson brings HeartQuest readers realistic characters, touching romance, and an inspirational faith plot. In this sequel to Awakening Mercy, Angela hits on the tough issues in life as a married couple struggles to rekindle...




  • Ralph Cotton

    In the sequel to Hangman's Choice, Deputy Sullivan Hart is delighted to have finally arrested J. T. Priest, leader of the outlaw gang Los Pistoleros and the man who had killed his father, but he is forced to head back into action when Priest ...




  • Melynda Beth Skinner

    On the hunt for a spy, he found love instead... NO MISSION HAD EVER BEEN AS TEMPTING... When Kathryn St. David arrives in London for a season under her formidable aunt Ophelia's patronage, her first surprise is a masked ball in honor of her a...



  • Suzanne Forster

    She looks like she's from heaven. But she's leading him straight to hell... They call her Angel Face. She is as beautiful as her killings are brutal. Her victims are doctors. Her list of targets is long. And Jordan Carpenter is next. The CIA...



  • Rita Herron

    The Show Must Go On Maddie Summers is tired of waiting. To force her fiance into making a decision, she takes him on a talk show and gives him a choice: Marry me, or move on. The line he gives makes her realize it is time to star in her own life. ...



  • Reon Laudat

    Daria Mitchell made a choice-the wrong choice. Swept off her feet by the flashy brother with pro basketball potential, she overlooked the kindness and quiet integrity of the other.

    Jared Wilkes secretly pined for Daria, only to watch her succumb t...



  • Tina St. John

    In this captivating tale of forbidden love and star-crossed destiny by award-winning author Tina St. John, a dangerous knight on a rogueââ,¬â"¢s mission is reunited with the virtuous young lady who once adored him. . . .

    She was promised to a...



  • Tabor Evans

    Longarm rides south to rein in some outlaws… Longarm’s looking forward to some way-overdue R&R -- but his boss has other ideas. Seems a gang of rowdy outlaws is stirring up trouble in the most untamed part of the West -- a wild little se...




  • Jon Sharpe

    When an old friend is shot down while tracking a gang of vicious outlaws, a vengeful Skye Fargo sets out to even the score with the man responsible, a dangerous desperado named Mustang Jack McGhee. Original....



  • JoAnn Ross

    In the exclusive world of horse racing, Alec MacKenna is known as a hardheaded trainer who cares more for an animal's welfare than the financial bottom line. After a public altercation with a callous owner leaves his career on the brink of ruin, Alec...



  • Anne Stuart

    Aristide Pompasse is dead. But the evil in the great artist's soul still haunts the vineyards and lurks in the corners of his Tuscan villa. Known as much for his fabulous portraits as his penchant for young mistresses, Pompasse had not let anyone go ...



  • Velda Sherrod

    To save her sister, saloon singer Kate Hartland plays the hundred-dollar whore. Trembling in her innocence, she seduces a handsome outsider who appears safe, kind, and Irish. But the virile stranger turns out to be anything but safe. He awakens a dan...



  • Julie Moffett

    A Love Match An enchanted dagger bearing a mysteriously familiar inscription pointed Fiona Chancellor to Ireland in search of her missing cousin. Then a midnight visit to Celtic holy ground slid her into the seventeenth-century--and into the arms ...



  • Nicole Byrd

    Dear stranger... There's only one way for Miss Psyche Hill to gain control of her inheritance: marriage. Unfortunately, potential suitors have been run off by her uncle, who would like nothing better than to keep Psyche's money in the famil...



  • Christine Feehan

    They were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light... "THERE IS ALWAYS A PRICE TO PAY." So Darius warned her when she accepted a position with his traveling troupe. And gazing mesmerized at the merciless s...



  • Amanda McCabe

    Star-Crossed Lovers It has been six years since Carmen de Santiago y Montero, a Spanish countess, and Peter Everdean, Earl of Clifton, fell desperately in love on a Spanish battlefield. With only a soldier as witness, the two were blissfully marr...



  • Emily Hendrickson

    Counting on Fate Shortly before his death, the Earl of Huntingdon altered his will--leaving the bulk of his fortune to his distant cousin, Marcus. Now the earl's daughter, Charis, is virtually penniless-and absolutely heartbroken. Her only hop...



  • Barbara Hazard

    Apparitions Siblings Katharine and Edwin Whittingham have just inherited a mansion from a great-uncle they never met. But before Edwin can sign the deed to Bryce House, his uncle's will requires him to spend one full month there, nights included....



  • Susanna Kearsley

    In the early 1900s, in an elegant, isolated villa called Il Piacere, the playwright Galeazzo D'Ascanio lived for Celia Sands. She was his muse and his mistress, his most enduring obsession. She was the inspiration for his most stunning, original ...



  • Sandra Kitt

    Deanna and Stacy hadn't seen each other for almost seven years. But just days after receiving the news of her former friend's death, Deanna learns that she has been named guardian of Stacy's biracial daughter. For Deanna, Stacy's death is more than a...



  • Melanie Jackson

    "O, I forbid ye, maidens a', that wear gold in your hair, To come or go by Carterhaugh, for young Tamlane is there." 'Twas not Robert Burns's legendary elfin knight who greeted Amarantha upon her arrival at her folklorist...



  • Evelyn Rogers

    In the midst of the vast, windswept Texas plains stands a ranch wrested from the wilderness with blood, sweat and tears. It is the shining legacy of Thomas McBride to his five living heirs. But along with the fertile acres and herds of cattle, each w...



  • Theresa (1) Scott

    Bound and helpless, the blue-eyed prisoner is an enemy of her people. One who is going to die. But his powerful gaze tells Hope his spirit is strong, and suddenly she knows this man has a part in her future. Baron's will to live had fled during the C...



  • Adrianne Lee

    HER ONLY HOPE For Desire Hamilton, the mysterious death of her twin sister had left too many questions unanswered...and one obsessed stalker intent on claiming her as his own. Scared and alone, Desire had no place to turn -- until her old flame, h...



  • Kristin Gabriel

    Lost Springs Ranch was famous for turning young mavericks into good men. So word that the ranch was in financial trouble sent a herd of loyal bachelors stampeding back to Wyoming to put themselves on the auction block! IS THIS MAN FOR YOU? NAME: ...



  • Janelle Denison

    Lost Springs Ranch was famous for turning young mavericks into good men. So word that the ranch was in financial trouble sent a herd of loyal bachelors stampeding back to W...



  • Jo Leigh

    Lost Springs Ranch was famous for turning young mavericks into good men. So word that the ranch was in financial trouble sent a herd of loyal bachelors stampeding back to W...



  • Lynda Sandoval

    Rogue To The Rescue Iso Pacias had been happily coasting through life as a confirmed--and contented--bachelor. But the day he stopped to help the victims of a highway pileup, everything changed. He found the woman of his dreams...dreams he wasn't ev...



  • Carla Cassidy

    "FAILURE ISN'T AN OPTION!" -- Kyle Ramsey, top-gun pilot The tension between Montebello and Tamir was escalating when Firstborn Son Kyle Ramsey embarked on a special operation to patrol the skies between the two feuding territories. His mission? W...



  • Dianne Castell

    Sentenced To Marry! Marry Brice McCormack to end their families' feud? Prudence Randolph would sooner wed a snake! The arrogant, know-it-all rancher might be a handsome devil and the sexiest man in Serenity, Texas, but he'd been the bane of Pruden...



  • Sandra Chastain

    HE WAS THE PERFECT LOVER ON PAPER... Anne Harris needs a man -- fast. As the only single executive at Bundles of Joy baby products, she'll never get ahead. So, through the Bachelor-in-a-Box agency, she buys an imaginary fiance. Only, when her boss in...



  • Judy Christenberry

    The Randalls are back! A new generation will discover the meaning of family...and the power of love. Though not a Randall by blood, rodeo star Toby Randall had always been fiercely loyal to his adoptive family. And his desire to never disappoint ...



  • Cara Colter

    Brittany Patterson came to Miracle Harbor eager to start her new life as a brand-new business owner. So what if she dreamed of inheriting a boutique and instead got a bakery? And so what if she had to marry to keep it? She was determined to have it a...



  • Pam Binder

    Eilen Dougan, a modern-day woman with uncanny psychic talents, is drawn back to fourteenth-century Scotland and into the middle of a power struggle between Crusader Conor McCloud and his cousin, who has seized control of Inverness, the McCloud castle...



  • K.N. Casper

    The first daughter just might have a second chance Nineteen years ago, when she thought she knew everything, Kerry First ditched Craig Robeson at their high school prom and ran off with the class bad boy. It was a mistake -- one of many she would ...



  • Linda Lea Castle

    Single women weren't permitted to live in the charter town of McTavish Plain, in the North Dakota Territory. So the three Green sisters invented husbands! But Addie, Charlotte, and Mattie never reckoned on the loves that awaited them in the wild ...



  • Amy J. Fetzer

    A powerful, primal longing to be a mother enveloped Angela Justice. But her best friend, Dr. Lucas Ryder, intercepted the strong-willed unwed beauty at the sperm bank door, insisting some things be left to passion. At his touch, her body became a map...



  • Laurell K. Hamilton
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    Love, Supernatural Style Love is the universal language. And nowhere is this more apparent than in these extraordinary stories from four of today's hottest authors. From a futuristic cop caught in a crisis of the heart to a smoldering vision of a...



  • Brenda K. Jernigan

    BITTER BETRAYAL Elizabeth Trent knew she was meant to marry Jonathan Hird, the dashing soldier who had miraculously returned from war, wounded but alive. And though his kisses thrilled her and his tender touch made her feel completely loved, she was...



  • Linda Winstead Jones

    The trial was supposed to be television reporter Shea Sinclair's big break -- her chance to show the world she wasn't just some empty-headed "weather girl." Then she became the story when Nick Taggert, a contractor on trial...



  • Gail Gaymer Martin

    PAST IMPERFECT Social worker Kate Davis had faced her share of problems, but she'd managed to put them behind her -- until now. Temporarily sharing a roof with her roommate's strapping, kindhearted brother, she was constantly reminded of her irrev...



  • Curtiss Ann Matlock

    Marilee James has a complicated life, caring for a special-needs son, playing surrogate mother to her abandoned niece, and temporarily running the local paper until the new managing editor arrives. She's so busy attending to everyone else that her ow...



  • Joan Elliott Pickart

    She needed him. For not even her close-knit family could protect Jessica MacAllister from the danger that surrounded her. Lieutenant Dan Quinn might have been a ...



  • Karen Rose Smith

    TO BEGIN AGAIN A tragic accident had taken everything from Dane Cameron -- his wife, his child, even his skill as a surgeon -- so he'd come here to the New Mexico desert to practice a different kind of medicine. He was searching for a new beginnin...



  • Sharon De Vita

    "I'd rather eat nails than bend to his will!" In the aftermath of Joe Colton's explosive birthday bash, honorary son Sheik Ali El-Etra had his own fires to extinguish. For the brooding heir to the throne had promised to present hi...



  • Jean Brashear

    WAS SHE A MIRAGE...OR A MIRACLE? The enchanting blend of tomboy and temptress who stopped to help him tune his T-bird knew him only as Nikos -- not Dominic Santorini, formidable empire builder, intimidating tycoon, forever pursued by females dreamin...



  • Carolyn Davidson
    in

    Bestselling authors Susan Mallery, Bronwyn Williams, and Carolyn Davidson bring you three brand-new stories about Montana's most popular family -- the Kincaids, men and women who carved out lives in Big Sky Country and found true love in Whitehorn, M...



  • Janelle Denison

    HIS FANTASY Mitch Lassiter has lusted after Nicole Britton for years. So when he gets the chance to team up with Nicole in a fantasy version of Survivor, he's determined to do something about the raging chemistry between them. Their objective -- to ...



  • Dianne Drake

    Meet Dr. Jack Sutton and nurse Lacy Archer -- they're SUPPOSED to be running a small-town medical practice, but the craziest things keep happening. Jack can't wait to get back to the big city, while Lacy's making Sunstone her home. And in the midst...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    You loved the Maitlands -- now discover a new branch of the family! Independent rancher Rafe Maitland had never met his wealthy relatives -- and planned to keep it that way. But when matriarch Megan Maitland's lovely personal assistant arrived on hi...



  • Elaine Fox

    NOT LOOKING FOR MR. RIGHT Dr. Delaney Poole thinks Harp Cove, Maine, will be the perfect place to settle down and raise her infant daughter--though she can't say why. Something wonderful happened in this charming, two-stoplight coastal town on a p...



  • Karen Fox

    The historic Chesterfield Hotel once offered visitors the graceful charm of its sumptuous rooms and the healing waters of its nearby hot springs. In the present day, as five people unearth the hotel's century-old hope chest, each will be transported ...




  • Susan Grace

    A WILD DAUGHTER Daughter of an infamous lady sea pirate and a swashbuckling nobleman, Diana Grayson is a free-spirited beauty who happily defies convention. But she never thought she'd find herself running from the law, until an accidental shooting ...



  • Maria Greene

    Against the glittering opulence and lush intrigue of Georgian England, passion and adventure go hand in hand--and gentlemen with secrets go to daring lengths to claim the hearts of the women they love. THE FACE OF A STRANGER When Rafe Howard ret...



  • Annette Broadrick

    "My assignment does not include making love to Elena Maldonado!" -- Joe Sanchez, undercover army intelligence agent No one messed with Joe Sanchez. But one little slip of pure, delicious woman could bring him to his knees. He'd taken the shy beauty...



  • Patricia Coughlin

    He was an officer...but no gentleman. Once a dashing, decorated test pilot, embittered Major Hollis "Griff" Griffin no longer gave a damnabout anything -- except fulfilling his late aunt's eccentric last request, then leaving all lin...



  • Candy Halliday

    Attorney Cassie Collins is in big trouble! Her mother's prize pooch has gotten up close and personal with the mutt next door, and pups are on the way. Nick Hardin, owner of Earl the mongrel scamp, refuses to take the matter seriously. Instead he u...



  • Lori Handeland

    Sometimes good things go bump in the night. To Garrett Stark, bestselling horror novelist, Savannah is the place his career began. So when a deadline looms and he still has only a couple of sentences on a page, he returns to the city that once spa...



  • Barbara Hannay
    in

    Genni's Dilemma by Margaret Way Genevieve has loved cattleman Blaine Courtland since childhood, but he's only ever seemed to see her as a pretty social butterfly. A passion-filled kiss alters everything -- just as Blaine is about to walk her...



  • Cindy Harris

    Victorian Dublin comes to life in Cindy Harris' delightful new quartet featuring four unforgettable ladies--all left penniless and without a shred of self-esteem. Brought together in friendship by a gentlemanly benefactor, each will find the courage ...



  • Metsy Hingle

    The Princess -- New Orleans's most luxurious hotel. Sixty years ago, ownership of the hotel was lost to the powerful Jardine family in a wager that cost its matriarch her g...



  • Cindy Holbrook

    WHO NEEDS A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE... For Matthew Severs, Earl of Raleigh, a marriage of convenience--to a bride with the funds he so sorely lacks--is the only sensible course of action. What's become quite inconvenient, however, is the way his pro...



  • Carolyn Madison

    Affairs of State spark and affair of the heart... A PASSIONATE SPIRIT... Adam Darrach, Marquess of Falconer, is on a mission to enlist the wealthy Earl of Derring's support for a diplomatic cause. Duty has its limits, however, and spending time w...



  • Susan Mallery
    in

    Bestselling authors Susan Mallery, Bronwyn Williams, and Carolyn Davidson bring you three brand-new stories about Montana's most popular family -- the Kincaids, men and wom...



  • Melissa McClone

    She didn't believe in love or marriage -- for herself at least. For others, wedding consultant Kelsey Armstrong Waters planned the most perfect weddings -- and hoped for th...



  • Berta Platas

    Nothing But The Truth As a private investigator, Candela Escovedo knows how to read between the lines...and she knows instinctively that the client who just walked in isn't giving her the whole story. Alfonso Rivera is maddeningly uninformative--and...



  • Terese Ramin

    HE WAS BIG AND DANGEROUS AND SAFE-LOOKING ALL AT ONCE. Six foot plus of hard-hewn Native American, Guy Levoie was a tracker -- a man with a hunter's instinct -- and Hazel's only hope. FBI Special Assistant Hazel Youvella had known returning to ...



  • Christine Rimmer

    "YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE IT -- THE REDHEAD'S SURPRISE." His dying father's wickedly whispered words sent memories spinning in Marsh Bravo's mind.... He and Victoria Winningham learning about love in the backseat of his old Plymouth Duster. The fina...



  • J.D. Robb
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    In early spring of 2059, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called off-planet to face a grueling ordeal - giving a seminar at the largest police conference of the year, to be held in a swanky resort. A resort which just happens to be owned by her husband, Roar...



  • Shirley Rogers

    WOOING A WIFE... Justin Bond knew all about forging steel ties, but human bonds were another matter -- especially when it came to winning back his wife! And with Heather agreeing to accompany him to Texas to meet his Fortune relatives, he'd reluct...



  • Kristine Rolofson

    When the annual Matchmaking Festival gets going in Bliss, Montana, the folks there know to just go along with it -- everyone, that is, except loner Owen Chase. He's the onl...



  • Debra Salonen

    Eve Masterson is missing... The successful, attractive TV personality quit her prestigious network job in New York for a mysterious "dream job" in Atlanta. Now she seems to have vanished from the airwaves, and nobody's heard from her in weeks. Th...



  • Sue-Ellen Welfonder

    Hell was never so sweet... A FIERY ANGEL, A COLDHEARTED DEVIL, AND A MARRIAGE HOTTER THAN HELL! Linnet MacDonnell was the youngest of seven sisters, and not the family beauty. With her flame-bright red hair, sharp tongue, and strange gift of s...



  • Elaine Alonso-Cruz

    Rhythm Of The Heart Marco De Cordova came to south Florida seeking the Cuban culture he'd been denied in suburban Philadelphia. Now he finds himself smitten by a Flamenco dancer--hardly the kind of woman he'd envisioned bringing home to his traditio...



  • Judith Arnold

    Irrepressible widow Sally Driver, owner of a New Age coffee bar and mother of a sassy five-year-old, is trying to get on with her life. While packing up her late husband's clothes, she discovers a stack of letters -- cloying, unbearably flowery love ...



  • Anne Avery

    Big And Tall -- And Bashful Sheriff DeWitt Gavin was quite an assortment of surprises to merchant Molly Calhan. Saddled with a scandalous past and a giant-size sweet tooth, he also had a truly giving heart. Now if only she could convince him to g...



  • Adrienne Basso

    HER DESPERATE PROPOSAL When pampered Faith Linden's father and her titled fiance, Viscount Dewhurst, die, she suddenly finds herself in a desperately precarious position. The only way Faith can hold on to her beloved family home is to convince...



  • Pamela Bauer

    Have you seen this man? Ten-year-old Alex Harper is putting up posters everywhere. He wants to find his dad, but only so the judge can force the "deadbeat" to pay the support he owes. Maybe then his mother can stop working all the time, and she a...



  • Lisa Jackson

    FIRST ONE BODY... A prostitute lies strangled in a seedy French Quarter hotel room. Miles away, in a rambling plantation house on the sultry shores of Lake Ponchartrain, popular late-night radio host Dr. Samantha Leeds receives a threatening crank...



  • Arlene James

    "Is there anything I can do for you?" Remembering Winston Champlain's offer, Danica Lynch shook her head. Something told her that as a neighbor Winston was going to be a problem. Well, she was certainly in no danger of becoming enamored of the man...



  • Leslie Kelly / Leslie A. Kelly

    SHE KNEW WHAT SHE WANTED... Wealthy Pamela Bradford is determined to lose her virginity, one way or another. Only, when her plan to seduce her faithless fiance backfires, she figures she might as well enjoy the sensual, decadent honeymoon she'd arran...



  • Debra Kent

    "You're wild tonight," Roger said. But it was hate, not lust, that made me want to tear his flesh away. Countless fans have delighted in the sexy confessions of V--suburban mom, wife, and psychotherapist--in the scandalously popular serial on the ...



  • Lynnette Kent

    Set against the magnificent background of Montana comes the saga of the Maxwells -- one of the state's most influential ranching families. Ranching is in Thea Maxwell's blood, just as it's been in her ancestors' for generations. But now the famil...



  • Susan Krinard
    in

    Love, Supernatural Style Love is the universal language. And nowhere is this more apparent than in these extraordinary stories from four of today's hottest authors. From a futuristic cop caught in a crisis of the heart to a smoldering vision of a...



  • Edith Layton

    A heart must be won...and cherished A BODY BROKEN Many times Alexandria Gascoyne has been called upon to nurse forest animals back to health-but never before have her brothers brought her a wounded man! Though pale and grievously injured, the unc...



  • Rachelle Morgan

    WHO IS HONESTY MCGUIRE? That's what undercover Pinkerton agent Jesse Justiss wants to know. Honesty claims to be a helpless innocent alone in the big bad West -- but Jesse's been conned by the best of 'em...and this sassy beauty is the best he's e...



  • Linda Needham

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  • Anna Schmidt

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  • Paul B. Thompson; Tonya Cook
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  • Mary Ann Mitchell

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  • Miranda Jarrett

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  • Gail Sattler

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  • Pamela Griffin

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  • Patricia Keelyn

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  • Jo Leigh

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  • Margo Maguire

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  • Joe Gores

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  • Thomas Swan

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