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New Books List: 535 titles


  • Keith R.A. Decandido
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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  • Philip Friedman

    Prosecutor Ben Kaplan, New York chief of Major Crimes in the US Attorney's office, has always known exactly where his loyalties lie. But when his investigation of commercial fraud by a group of orthodox Jews uncovers a brilliantly counterfeited hund...



  • Cherie Bennett

    When Colleen Belmont explores her past lives under hypnosis, one thing is clear.On her eighteenth birthday-whether as a middle-class English girl swept up in the horrors of WWII or as a southern belle in the midst of civil war-Colleen is faced with a...



  • Catherine Asaro

    WEB OF DECEIT Ballerina Lucia del Mar has two great passions: dance, which consumes most of her waking hours, and the World Wide Web, which brings the outside world into her tightly regimented life. Lucia's two passions collide when a White House pe...



  • Hannah Howell

    When it comes to enchanting her readers with sweeping tales of lasting love, there is no author more cherished than Hannah Howell. In these special holiday novellas, two spirited women embark on an incredible journey...and meet the two men who will m...



  • Felicia Mason
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    In "The First Noel" by Felicia Mason, Franklin Williams is determined to show Kia Simmons that the true wonder of the holiday lies in a love shining as bright as a Christmas tree star....



  • Margie Walker
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    In "Kwanzaa Kupendi" by Margie Walker, Michelle Craig lets Simon Stevenson help her plan a Kwanzaa celebration, and finds her holiday blues replaced by a newfound joy to last a lifetime....



  • Brenda Jackson
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    In "Truly Everlasting" by Brenda Jackson, divorcee Felicia Madaris and football great Trask Maxwell embrace a blazing passion that will light their way through the New Year and beyond....



  • Stephen Dedman

    When Mike Galloway, a regular sort of guy for San Francisco, 2014, descends into the nightmare world of poverty and joblessness, he finds he must face more than starvation and homelessness. He's now at the mercy of a deadly world of political intrigu...



  • Margaret Weis
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The novels that introduced the Dragonlance line, collected in an annotated paperback.

    This annotated version of Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night, and Dragons of Spring Dawning contains extensive notes by New York Times bests...



  • Nancy Holder

    EVERYONE'S GOT HIS DEMONS.... For Angel, life as a vampire was a constant thrill. Power, danger, cool clothes (never getting old, also a plus). But in the end, it was all about the kill -- until he killed the wrong girl. "Gypsies, in my exper...



  • William R. Forstchen

    WHAT PRICE FREEDOM? It has been over a decade since Andrew Keane's Union regiment was mysteriously pulled away from the Civil War and marooned in time on a hostile alien planet. But now it appears as if everything the Lost Regiment has fought and ...





  • J.R. Roberts

    DIVINE JUSTICE Passing through Peculiar, Missouri, the Gunsmith recognizes the kindly town reverend as J. D. Land -- a legendary gunslinger who disappeared without a trace ten years earlier. It turns out that Land heard "the Call," and transformed...



  • Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    Just when Les Graves finally earns a chance at a respectable life in Cedar Rapids, his brother T. Z. shows up in town with plans to rob the bank where Les works, and loyalty to his brother lands Les in jail. Reprint....



  • Mike Flanagan

    LIFE CAN BE A WILD RIDE....SOMETIMES ALL YOU CAN DO IS JUST KEEP HANGING ON. THE OLD BULL Ex-rodeo champ Jack Lomas is a stubborn old rancher of the ornery sort. He does things only one way... his. A lifetime of hard work and regret has taught him s...



  • Tabor Evans

    CLEAN LIVING, DIRTY DYING Longarm felt good, damn good. Until Marshal Vail got orders to send him to a Colorado spa -- and it ain't for a facial. Turns out the elite retreat is owned by a big-shot doctor, and the U.S. Justice Department wants Cust...



  • Lynsay Sands
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    TWELVE DAYS In the Year of' Our Lord, 1155, Menton Castle was the same as any other: It had nobles and minstrels, knights and servants. Yet from the great hall to the scullery there were signs that the house was in an uproar. This Yuletide seaso...



  • Flora Speer
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    TWELVE DAYS In the Year of' Our Lord, 1155, Menton Castle was the same as any other: It had nobles and minstrels, knights and servants. Yet from the great hall to the scullery there were signs that the house was in an uproar. This Yuletide season wa...



  • Stobie Piel
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    TWELVE DAYS In the Year of' Our Lord, 1155, Menton Castle was the same as any other: It had nobles and minstrels, knights and servants. Yet from the great hall to the scullery there were signs that the house was in an uproar. This Yuletide season wa...



  • Constance O'Banyon
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    TWELVE DAYS In the Year of' Our Lord, 1155, Menton Castle was the same as any other: It had nobles and minstrels, knights and servants. Yet from the great hall to the scullery there were signs that the house was in an uproar. This Yuletide season wa...



  • Sheridon Smythe

    Wealthy Englishman and new arrival Cameron Hawke is creating a stir around town, but attempts to learn anything about his past--especially by the lovely teacher of his children, Polly Sutherland--turn up nothing concrete. When wealthy Englishman C...



  • Geri Guillaume

    NO GREATER PASSION When her mother Myra impulsively takes off with a cruise-ship Romeo, sensible Kira Dodd is stunned. Certain that Jimmy Jolivet is a womanizer of the worst sort, Kira heads for his Texas ranch, determined to bring Myra home for Chr...



  • Constance Hall

    A TIME FOR GIVING... Meagan Fenwick hasn't had a happy Christmas since the death of her parents. Any hopes of this season being different are dashed when her stepbrother Harold informs her that he's gambled away their estate -- and her hand ...



  • Jill Henry
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    Passing through Moose Creek, Montana, Sara Mercer prays for a single glimpse of the infant girl she gave up for adoption four years before. Instead, she finds herself snowbound with little Mary and her widowed father, Sheriff Gabe Chapman. Sara never...



  • Cait London

    Sleepless Nights Hard and haunted--an outsider in his own family--Hogan Kodiak is determined to live his life alone. Love has burned the strong and silent eldest Kodiak brother in the past, robbing him of sleep and leaving a chip on his shoulder a...



  • Saranne Dawson

    A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN WHO LONGS FOR ADVENTURE IS WHISKED AWAY TO A STRANGE AND FASCINATING NEW LAND BY A HANDSOME STARSHIP CAPTAIN. SERENA HAD ALWAYS BEEN CURIOUS: Insatiable in her quest for knowledge and voracious in her appetite for adventure. No ...



  • Susan Delaney

    Still distraught over the death of her husband, Peggy Millwright finds a delirious man lying on the beach outside her Jersey Shore home who claims to be a nineteenth-century sailor and rediscovers passions through his innocent eyes. Original....



  • Christine Cameron
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    Cassandra MacIntrye has no love for the English who killed her family and conquered her beloved country. Yet, for the sake of the clan she leads, she must obey the English king's order and marry Baron Drake. Over the twelve days of Christmas, she...



  • Lynn Collum

    AN UNASSUMING HEIRESS There was no question that Miss Emily Collins would agree to accompany Lord Carson's three motherless children from India to their uncle's estate near Bath. An orphan herself, Emily knew what it meant to be abandoned to the mer...



  • Diana Palmer

    HER LOVE FOR HIM WAS LIKE A PAPER ROSE, WHICH LONGED FOR THE MAGIC TO MAKE IT REAL... Compellingly handsome Tate Winthrop once boldly came to Cecily Blake's rescue. Her devotion to him knew no bounds, but since the fiercely proud Native American ...



  • Tina Runge

    When Amanda agreed to buy Amishman Josiah Miller's family quilt, she had no idea it would turn out to be worth a fortune. In fact, the pattern was a disguise for a treasure map As the two search for hidden riches, they discover the priceless treasure...



  • Joyce Carlow

    In HIGHLAND FIRE, Joyce Carlow gave us the stirring tale of highland beauty Edana McLean. Now in HIGHLAND FLAME, the second book of this series set in eighteenth-century Scotland, she weaves the story of Edana's identical twin sister, Aileena Cam...



  • Liz Carlyle

    When Elliot Armstrong, the dissolute marquis of Rannoch, pursues a spiteful mistress into the wilds of Essex to sever their relationship, he is surprised to find himself hopelessly lost -- in more ways than one. Inexplicably drawn to a warmly lit hou...



  • Carol Carson

    WANTED FAMILY MAN. MUST LOVE CHILDREN. PAYMENT NEGOTIABLE. Rider Magrane knew what "wanted" meant; he'd spent time running from the law. Those days were over now, and he'd come back to Drover to make amends. But the man he's wronged was no longer...



  • Kimberly Cates

    Caitlin of the Lilies was born to a terrible prophecy -- one day she would destroy Crom the Ever Truthful, the revered Irish chieftain. For his own protection, Crom sends her to be raised in a far-off convent. Knowing nothing of her destiny, Caitlin ...



  • Tracy Sumner
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    Katherine Peters thought she knew everything there was to know about Tanner Barkley. He was a newspaper man and he was the handsome scoundrel who had broken her heart. His arrival in the small South Carolina town of Edgemont was enough to spoil her C...




  • Debra Dier

    THROUGH THE MISTS OF TIME 1999. He appeared to her out of the swirling fog on the cliff's edge, a ghostly figure who seemed somehow larger than life. Dark, handsome, blatantly male, he radiated the kind of confidence that led men into battle and wom...



  • Carol Finch

    Disguised as a man, Kat Diamond flees from her step father's murderous goons with a fortune in heirloom jewels. With fate on her side, her path crosses Judd Lassiter's -- a notorious bounty hunter she desperately wants to hire. When Kat offer...



  • Kathryn Fox

    TORN BY TRADITION Unaware that Cara Tarakanov is the daughter of a foreign fur trader his clan despises, Tlingit warrior Tall Dancer saves the beautiful white slave from death at the hands of her brutal master. With her settlement so far away, and a...



  • Katharine Kincaid

    HER UNTAMED HEART... As high-strung and beautiful as the horses she rode so skillfully, no one could tell Mercy Collier what to do. She had defied her father's wish to marry and was an outspoken supporter of the American revolution. At once bewitch...



  • Kate Huntington

    STAR-CROSSED... Lydia Whittaker's horrid Uncle Henry has cast her, her widowed mother, and sisters out of their Yorkshire home. Now Lydia must not only hand over the estate she has thriftily managed for years, but also enter the marriage mart...



  • Janice Bennett

    Regency readers were first introduced to Xanthe -- an irrepressible fairy godmother and friend to young hearts -- in THE CANDLELIGHT WISH. Now she's back to play matchmaker for another unlikely couple. All she needs to commence her spells is the ...



  • Kate Holmes

    Christmas is a magical time filled with mistletoe -- and miracles. In this trio of cozy romances, three Bouquet authors introduce strong willed heroines who unexpectedly discover the most precious gift of all -- love......



  • Vella Munn

    Christmas is a magical time filled with mistletoe--and miracles. In this trio of cozy romances, three Bouquet authors introduce strong willed heroines who unexpectedly discover the most precious gift of all--love......



  • Nora Roberts
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    Wearing an ancient star pendant, an enchanting woman journeys to an otherworldly land -- and introduces a skeptical stranger to the magical powers of love......



  • Lisa Jackson

    WHEN SECRETS ARE REVEALED Shelby Cole thought she'd put Bad Luck behind her. Bad Luck, Texas, that is. She'd left her hometown ten years ago, her world shattered and her illegitimate baby dead. Now she's receiving anonymous letters claiming that her...



  • Emma Jensen

    A SECRET IDENTITY Ailis O'Neill is not the average Dublin miss. She spends her time teaching English to the Gaelic peasants - and painting the local wildlife. But with her brother running for British Parliament on behalf of Ireland, Ailis is expec...



  • Anne Kelleher

    A cry for help, echoing through the centuries, inspires a young teacher to rewrite history -- and rediscover a passion she only dreamed of... At first, everything seemed ideal for Katie Coyle. She was delighted with her new job as a professor of ...



  • Jane Kidder

    MUSIC BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER... As the lovely young student of Alexei Romanov, Natalie Worthington made beautiful music...and beautiful love with the world famous pianist. But when the semester ended, and Alex asked Natalie to accompany him back to t...



  • Barbara Bretton

    Maggy O'Brien's ex-husband is getting remarried. Her daughter has dyed her hair purple. And for her thirty-fifth birthday, her sisters have arranged a weekend getaway -- complete with makeover and limo. It's all Maggy can do to hold on to...



  • Terri Brisbin

    Present Day, Scotland. A thoroughly modern man with a very busy schedule, Dr. Douglas MacKendimen has no patience for his family's legacy of time travel. But during a vacation at his beloved ancestral home in Dunnedin, he steps into the past -- a...



  • Betty Brooks

    A WOMAN LOST IN THE PAST One minute she was headed for a vacation out west. The next, Anne Faraday was swept up by the force of a twister and tossed back in time to 1851 Wyoming. Wandering dazed through the land of blue skies and sagebrush, she's re...



  • Suzanne Barrett

    Christmas is a magical time filled with mistletoe--and miracles. In this trio of cozy romances, three Bouquet authors introduce strong willed heroines who unexpectedly discover the most precious gift of all--love......



  • Elizabeth Graham

    A SEASON TO HOPE... Lovely schoolteacher Sarah Calder was looking forward to sharing in Little Bethlehem's joyous holiday festivities, until she discovered Hunter Winslow had moved back to town. Seven years ago, Hunter had jilted her and married...



  • Megan Gray

    A DANGEROUS REBELLION Promised to a man she will never love, lovely Flora Buchanan flees the genteel poverty of her father's Edinburgh home and plunges into the confusion of the Jacobite rebellion. Rescued from her father's fury by a Highland soldie...



  • DeWanna Pace

    When it comes to matters of the heart, you can always trust your friends... Where Heroes Sleep Thanks to her best friend Rose's generosity, Kenzy was able to fulfill her dream of becoming an architect. And when Kenzy returns home to build the orpha...



  • Judith Ivory

    No man, gentleman or otherwise, has ever looked at Lady Edwina Bollash the way the brash, handsome man standing before her is doing now. Edwina has accepted the challenge to transform incorrigible Mich Tremore into a gentleman in just six weeks. And ...



  • Rebecca Hagan Lee

    A passionate new story of danger, rescue, and a love that scandalized society... Lord Blake Ashford had long ago stopped believing in fairy tales, but the first time he sees Cristina Fairfax, it's clear she needs rescuing--from a real-life prince ...



  • Marsha Canham

    When a woman who's ready for love meets a dangerous, passionate man, she can easily get Swept Away... Bestselling, award-winning author Marsha Canham's breathtaking new novel transports readers to Regency England as a young woman rescues a...



  • Jaclyn Reding

    Lady Grace Ledys was sure her marriage to the handsome Christian Wycliffe, Marquiss Knighton, would fulfill all her hopes of love. But her innocent dreams are dashed when her husband proves cold and indifferent -- and harbors strange secrets. For ...



  • Evelyn Richardson

    Music and Mischief Mademoiselle Isobel de Montargis had a passionate soul, a strong will, and a proud determination to be more than the music tutor to the dashing Lord Christian Hatherleigh's niece and nephew. Her dream was to become an actrice de...



  • Adrienne Basso

    SUGAR AND SPICE... Lauren Stuart hasn't spent years perfecting her craft as a pastry chef only to let a stranger steal one of her prized recipes. Writing the definitive dessert cookbook is more than enough to keep Lauren busy, without investigating ...



  • Sharon Sala

    HE COULDN'T FORGET Clay LeGrand's heart shattered the day his wife, Frankie, disappeared. Had she run away? Been kidnapped? Or had she simply left him for another man? Two years later, he's still asking the same burning Questions when he comes hom...



  • Margaret Evans Porter

    No Woman could Marry Him. He was one of London's most notorious rakes-a man so skilled at seduction that no woman had ever told him no.or led him to the altar. When Kerron Cashin is suddenly called to his country home, the local misses admire him ...



  • Lynn Bailey

    He's the only one who can put an end to the strife that's destroying the faery kingdom of May Mell. But his mission involves a mortal woman with a yearning heart--and a newly awakened passion will inspire him to risk his life for love... Beautiful...



  • Constance O'Day-Flannery

    Something inexplicable has led Maggie Whitaker to the sixteenth century. Always a woman who has tried to do the right thing and live up to expectations, Maggie is beginning to learn the joy of following her own heart--even if it leads her across cent...



  • Katherine Sutcliffe

    Love Never Ends Childhood sweethearts Leah Starr and Johnny Whitehorse had nothing in common. She was a senator's daughter. He was the proud grandson of an Apache medicine man and the local "bad boy." But their passion made the rest of the world s...



  • Connie Mason

    He rode into Chirk Castle on his pure black destrier. Clad in black from his gleaming helm to the tips of his toes, he was all battle-honed muscles and rippling tendons. In his stark black armor he looked lethal and sinister, every bit as dangerous a...



  • Laura Matthews

    A Time For Love... Lady Caroline Carruthers was enjoying her visit to the Hartville home. But one thing made her life at the estate complicated -- Lady Hartville was intent on convincing her son Richard that Caroline would be a perfect wife for h...



  • Susan Bowden

    What terrible secrets are hidden in Lisa Cooper's torrent of dreams? For years the thirty-one-year-old artist has been plagued by the same inexplicable fears. Fears that have stolen her nights since she was a little girl. Fears that have intensified ...




  • Ronda Thompson

    Camile hadn't earned the name Prickly Pear for nothing. Everyone knew that Camile could rope her way out of Hell itself. Now, Cam knew that her father was looking for a new foreman for their ranch - and she was sure she knew where to find one. Dad...



  • Robin Wells

    THE TUGBOAT CAPTAIN Desperate for a short-order cook, Cole Dumanski hired a penniless socialite, only to discover she couldn't boil water. Still, the prim and proper Josephine Evans had no trouble raising his body temperature. But while she aimed to...



  • Patricia Werner

    SHE WAS A BEAUTIFUL SCROOGE... As the devoted director of the Cherry Valley Retirement Home, Jenny Knight will do anything to make her elderly residents happy. But pretending to be joyful this Christmas season is turning out to be more difficult than...



  • Bess Willingham

    Would she marry for love or for money? Her mission was to wed... The disillusioned Lucinda Partridge knew there was only one reason for a woman to marry--money. About to lose all of hers, the desperate opera singer realized she must quickly find ...



  • Jean Wilson

    Though deserted by her husband years ago, Isabella Jordon inherits his entire estate when he dies-saving her, her daughter, and a rag-tag family of orphans from the street. Blessed with a home for the holidays, they pack up thier belongings to begin ...



  • Christy Yorke

    Seven years is a long time to stay away from home. But when Jane Gregory left Pendleton, Vermont, she was running from a life gone wrong. Now she's returning to town with her young son--and Pendleton will never be the same again. Jane never wanted...



  • Robyn Carr

    Elly, Sable, Barbara Ann and Beth. They have been drawn together by the sudden death of their friend Gabby -- and the favor she has asked of them. For these four women, whose own lives have become unhappy works of fiction, a summer sorting through Ga...



  • Judith E. French

    Proud, iron-willed Tennessee widow Tamsin MacGregor is wanted -- dead or alive -- for a crime she didn't commit. But out West the law is shoot first, ask questions later. So she's running for her life -- with notoriously handsome bounty hunte...



  • Christina Skye

    A year 2000 computer glitch got her $1 million and a cowboy--and the wildest adventure of her life . . . P.R. whiz Tess O'Mara is burned out. She's looking for a change. Something wild and crazy. The year 2000 has arrived. And that's when the trou...



  • Carola Dunn
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    Injured war hero Damian Perrincourt never expected his homecoming would be turned topsy-turvey by an impish kitten! But Pirate has an uncanny sense of mayhem -- or is it being in the right place at the right time? For without his newfound friendship ...



  • Mona Gedney
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    Determined that her kittens will have both the master and mistress of her choosing, nothing escapes the notice of cunning mama cat, Ginger. Half the time, Graham Livingstone is read to throttle the mischief-making orange feline who seems to have ado...



  • Valerie King
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    Miss Grace Havistock and Lord Cheriton are in for quite a surprise when they attend a series of plays chosen and performed by their beloved nieces and their pets. In an unexpected turn of events - and with a little help from five darling kittens - G...



  • Stephen White

    It was a cold case…The unsolved double murder of two teenage girls. They vanished on a crisp autumn night more than decade ago. Their mutilated bodies were found the following spring beneath the melting snow of the Colorado Rockies. Now--at the req...



  • Sarah Gregory

    A TRIAL OF CAPITAL PROPORTIONS The charismatic son of a political icon, Texas Congressman Will John Benedict falls from grace when he is accused of murdering an office intern with whom he was having an affair. With the Benedict power and money beh...



  • Chet Cunningham

    They are the elite of the elite. Handpicked by a reclusive billionaire/patriot from among the top members of the CIA, the FBI, the Navy SEALS, Britain's M1-6; and, Israel's Mossad, they are the most talented--and dangerous--fighting force ever assemb...



  • Don Pendleton

    SHOW OF FORCE Mexico is in chaos, with the government under siege by revolutionaries and drug smugglers rampant along the borders. Mack Bolan's probe to discover who's behind the terror, assassinations and narcotics traffic turns hard when the Exe...



  • James Axler

    ALIEN SPECTER Though the devastation of the nukecaust has long passed, the unseen force that rules the earth's grim destiny watches over the polarized world of garrisoned cities and lawless Outlands. Once an enforcer of the New Order, Kane is a reneg...



  • Don Pendleton

    DOGS OF WAR Algeria is a hotbed of death squads and terrorism, claiming thousands of lives each year as Libyan and Iranian-backed dissident armies murder and maim with abandon. When a CIA contract agent falls victim to the bloodlust. Mack Bolan en...



  • William C. Dietz

    An interplanetary smuggler gets caught up with revolutionaries in this action-packed novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of Legion of the Damned. Even smuggling has rules. The first is: Don’t get caught. Meet Pik Lando, a con a...




  • Elizabeth Moon

    NATURAL ALLIES ... Esmay Suiza and Brun Meager should be friends--they're both bright, brave, likable and adventurous. But true friendship doesn't run any smoother than true love. Brun thinks Esmay's a stuck-up prig, and Esmay thinks Brun's a spoi...



  • Devin Cary

    The King Is Dead The northern kingdom of Albor is in mourning. The realm's benevolent ruler has fallen victim to a fatal accident. Under his reign, Albor has known peace and prosperity, and all the denizens fear that time has come to an end. The kin...



  • Troy Denning
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The seer Alaundo prophesied that seven scourges would sweep Cormyr way in ruin. For centuries the royal family has stood watch against that day and devoted their lives to the protection of the realm. But in a time when their ancient guardians slum...



  • Gabriel King

    'Absolutely magical... Always intriguing' Richard Adams author of Watership Down.

    Behind the realm of man lie the wild roads. Weaving through time and space, these hidden pathways carry the natural energies â€" the spirits, the dre...



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

    Before the Brothers' War. Before the five colors of magic. Before history itself, the plane of Dominaira was ruled by the Thran. They built machines and artifacts, the likes of which have never since been seen. But amid this civilization, a shadow...



  • Susan R. Matthews

    When her brother runs away to embrace a new faith that is based on heresy, orthodox believer Salli sets out to find him, facing in the process experiences that will cause her to question all she believes...



  • Don Perrin
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    A young boy stood on the dock of his fishing village and watched the minotaur war barge approach. It would change his life from a lad who would have grown to follow in the footsteps of his father, to the greatest weapons-smith in the history of Krynn...



  • Anne Lesley Groell

    THE ASSASSINS' DESCENT -- INTO DECADENCE... They are known as the Cloak and Dagger. The rookie assassins Jenifleur and Thibault barely survived their first official mission. Now they're looking forward to a change of pace: protecting life--instead...



  • Jane M. Lindskold

    As a first step in fulfilling his dreams of world conquest, an evil shapeshifter reintroduces the plague to Africa, but he is opposed in his efforts by Changer, another shapeshifter who is perhaps the Earth's oldest being...



  • Rick Shelley

    Lon Nolan has risen through the ranks of the DMC like none before him, consistently showing his courage under fire--and making his mark as a leader of men. Now, with a growing family of his own, Lon has begun to grasp the higher responsibility that c...




  • Jane S. Fancher

    In the third volume of Jane S. Fancher's acclaimed series, three telepathically linked brothers must unite their powers to face an enemy that could destroy them all. The magic behind the rings which power their city may be their only hope--in an epic...



  • Carol Cox
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    Introducing four brand-new novellas in modern settings that reflect on the anticipation of entering a new year--new calendar, new goals to accomplish, and a new chance at love. Rejoice in the transformation of a young woman in Remaking Meridith by Ca...



  • Peggy Darty
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    Introducing four brand-new novellas in modern settings that reflect on the anticipation of entering a new year--new calendar, new goals to accomplish, and a new chance at love. Rejoice in the transformation of a young woman in Remaking Meridith by Ca...



  • Philippa Gregory

    In this enthralling, freestanding sequel to Earthly Joys, New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory combines a wealth of gardening knowledge with a haunting love story that spans two continents and two cultures, making Virgin Earth a tour de...



  • Alexandra Scott

    A Christmas proposal... Gorgeous Zachary McGuire's last words to Abbi Gervais five years ago had been that he would be back as soon as he could and that nothing would keep them apart. That was the last she had seen of him, until recently, when...



  • Margot Early

    The Midwives: Home to Alaska. To her ex-husband. Her family. And the babies waiting to be born.... Midwife Francesca Walcott has plenty of good reasons to stay away from Alaska. Her ex-husband, Charlie Marcus, for one. Her family, for ano...



  • Margaret Moore
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    Two wounded souls, a roguish mercenary and a stern beauty, teach each other how to live and love again during a yuletide blizzard......



  • Sally Laity
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    Experience a family saga that begins in 1860 when the painting of a homestead is first given to a young bride who leaves her beloved home of Laurelwood. Then follow the painting through a legacy of love that touches down in the years 1890, 1969, and ...



  • DiAnn Mills
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    Experience a family saga that begins in 1860 when the painting of a homestead is first given to a young bride who leaves her beloved home of Laurelwood. Then follow the painting through a legacy of love that touches down in the years 1890, 1969, and ...



  • Andrea Boeshaar
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    Experience a family saga that begins in 1860 when the painting of a homestead is first given to a young bride who leaves her beloved home of Laurelwood. Then follow the painting through a legacy of love that touches down in the years 1890, 1969, and ...



  • Valerie Hansen

    He gave her shelter... With a heart full of hope, Sara Stone took refuge in the serenity of the Ozarks. But she never counted on getting stranded in the middle of a raging storm. Like a godsend, brooding ex-cop Adam Callahan gallantly offered her...



  • Joan Hohl
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    A bride was not what a Texas-Ranger-turned-rancher was expecting for the holidays. Will his quest for a home lead to love?...



  • Lenora Worth

    SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME Widowed young, deep in debt, lacking even children to cherish, Lily felt lower than her precious Texas bayous. Until her late husband's brother--her long-ago love--came back to town, vowing to watch over her always.... ...



  • Day Leclaire

    WELCOME TO THE CINDERELLA BALL: COME SINGLE, LEAVE WED! AS IF BY MAGIC, MEET AND MARRY YOUR PERFECT PARTNER -- ALL ON ONE SPECIAL NIGHT... SHAYNE BEAUMONT dressed for the ball knowing she'd never meet a man she loved as much as her ex-husband...



  • Allison Leigh

    HOLIDAY STRANGER? She was beautiful, aloof... and the only thing Sawyer recognized since the accident that had stolen his memory. Instinctively he knew they weren't strangers -- not when his emotions reacted so strongly, and not when he coul...



  • Christy Lockhart

    DELIVERED BY CHRISTMAS... Lilly Baldwin knew all too well how irresistible rancher Nick Andrews was. After one unforEseen night of passion, she now was expecting a very special Christmas delivery. But if Lilly gave in to the rugged dad-to-be's con...



  • Loree Lough

    Love Happened To Other People..... Not to a man wanted - dead or alive! For ten years, Jake Walker had been on the run from murder, marshals and memories. But now he'd found Bess Beckley, whose caring heart and depthless soul could stop any man i...



  • Heather MacAllister

    The Good: Preacher's daughter, Maddie Givens - but she's not that good. The Bad: Rebel Steve Jackson - but he's not that bad. The Cuddly' Maddie's infant nephew Luke - who would have been cuddly if he hadn't been kidnapped on the way to his first Chr...



  • Charlotte Maclay

    IN THE FAMILY WAY. When lovely Loretta Santana signed on as Griffin Jones's temporary butler, the wealthy playboy discovered he suddenly had a few unexpected problems. One: his petite new butler was a she. Two: she was pregnant. Three: she was eigh...



  • Karen Hughes

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