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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — FEBRUARY 1991

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New Books List: 429 titles

  • Art in the Blood

    P.N. Elrod

    CRITIC BY NIGHT I'm a vampire, not an artist, but I know what I like. And I don't like murder. So when the career of a talented young artist is fatally cut short, I know I won't sleep easy in my coffin until I find the killer. But the world ...

  • Choose Your Enemies Carefully

    Robert N. Charrette

    WHEN MAGIC RETURNS TO THE EARTH its power calls Sam Verner. As Sam searches for his sister through the slick and scary streets of 2050, his quest leads him across the ocean to England, where druids rule the streets...and the throne. But all is not w...

  • Fatal Exit

    Michael Serrian

    They are players on the edge of terror, wild survivors of the sixties and of the Vietnam War wired for action in the film dream factories of the Hollywood hills at the start of the '90s. There's Kane, the burnt-out, coked-up vet who'll go to any leng...

  • The Flight from Winter's Shadow

    Robin A. White

    FAA investigator Brian MacHenry and Major Pete Barnes must stop a secret scheme mastered by renegade elements within the U.S. power structure that allows Russian hard-liners to bring about a nuclear "accident" on American soil. Reprint....

  • Recon Strike Force

    Rick MacKin

  • The Silence of the Lambs

    Thomas Harris

    Clarice Starling, a precociously self-disciplined FBI trainee, is dispatched by her boss, Section Chief Jack Crawford, the FBI's most successful tracker of serial killers, to see whether she can learn anything useful from Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Lecter'...

  • The Gap into Conflict: The Real Story

    Stephen R. Donaldson

    Angus Thermopyle was an ore pirate and a murderer; even the most disreputable asteroid pilots of Delta Sector stayed out of his way. Those who didn't ended up in the lockup--or dead. But when Thermopyle arrived at Mallorys Bar & Sleep with a gorgeous...

  • Ghost-Walker

    Barbara Hambly

    Elcidar Beta Three--a tranquil, undisturbed planet strategically located between the Federation and the Kiingon Empire. Home to the Midgwins, a race of people who throughout all time have lived in peace with their planet, and themselves. But now, tim...

  • The Art of Ken Kelly

    Ken Kelly

  • Asimov Chronicles

    Isaac Asimov

    Fifty years after his first professional sale, Isaac Asimov is still writing, prolifically, and turning out high-quality work. In commemoration, Greenberg has brought together one story from each of those 50 years, beginning with that very first sale...

  • The Broken Wheel

    David Wingrove

    THE FUTURE HAS ARRIVED. A GLOBAL EMPIRE WEARS THE FACE OF ANCIENT CHINA BUT NOW THE FORCES OF CATACLYSMIC CHANGE GATHER... Seven continents. Seven Chinese kings. A benevolent rule and a stable, sensual, high-tech society. But the T'ang overlords n...

  • Daredevil: Marked for Death

    Stan Lee

    SC, TPB, NM/M, New, in cello, Story by Roger McKenzie. Art by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson. Published in March of 1990, Softcover, 96 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95. If you want additional books, I ship as many books as you want for a low fl...

  • The Forge

    S.M. Stirling; David Drake

    Raj Whitehall was a young noble of the Civil Government, the last remnant of galactic civilization on the planet Bellevue. Possessed of an unparalleled strategic genius, Raj dreamed of leading his people's armies to victory against the barbarians who...

  • Future on Fire

    Orson Scott Card

    "New writers bring vision. The writers of the eighties changed us all, quite often against our will." --FROM ORSON SCOTT CARD'S INTRODUCTION TO FUTURE ON FIRE 'Future on Fire is the first volume in a series that will collect representative stori...

  • The Generation Warriors

    Anne McCaffrey; Elizabeth Moon

    Meet the people who will save the Galaxy... Lunzie, fresh from her adventures in The Death of Sleep, has discovered that the one good heavyworlder she ever met isn't so good after all... Fordeliton, sent off to investigate the connection betwee...

  • Hidden Fires

    Katharine Eliska Kimbriel

    He had spent a hundred years seeking the woman called Silver; he still didn’t know if he was going to kill her.

    Garth Kristinsson’s parents were free-traders, the aristocracy of con artists, able to fleece the dishonest with their ow...

  • Lost Destiny

    Michael A. Stackpole

    THEY HAVE CONQUERED The Clan invaders are driving toward their ultimate objective--Terra, cradle of humankind and hub of the ComStar communications network. NOTHING WE HAVE CAN STOP THEM The heir to the throne of the Draconis Combine is missing....

  • Mentor

    Kris Jensen

  • One-Eyed Jacks

    George R.R. Martin

    Something is stirring on Ellis Island, something strange and dangerous enough to subdue even the white-hot tensions between Wild Cards and naturals. The Jumpers are rising.... The members of this vicious gang have the power to jump their minds int...

  • Punisher: Intruder

    Mike Baron

  • The Singers of Time

    Frederik Pohl

    When the conquering aliens on Earth find out that their home planet has been destroyed, they turn to the humans--whom they have long treated as intellectually inferior--for the scientific help they need to rescue their planet...

  • Starbridge

    A.C. Crispin

    The crew of the Desiree was unprepared. The Simiu were unexpected...Earth's first contact with an alien race turns to disaster when a friendly encounter erupts into inexplicable violence and the threat of interstellar war. But two ordinary individ...

  • Union Forever

    William R. Forstchen

    SPLIT IN THE RANKS ON A CRACKED-MIRROR WORLD Colonel Andrew Keane and his blue-coated soldiers were not the first humans time-space-warped to a world so familiar yet so foreign. Humans abounded on the perverse planet--humans treated like cattle by...

  • Visions from the Twilight Zone

    Arlen Schumer

  • Comeback

    Ritchie Perry

  • The Darkened Room

    Anna Clarke

    Found innocent of her husband's murder because of insufficient evidence and desperate to escape the notoriety, Mary Wentworth moves into a London boardinghouse, where she meets the inquisitive Malcolm...

  • Death Among the Angels

    John Walter Putre

  • Death Roll

    Sam Llewellyn

    Martin Devereux, one of the world's top twelve-meter helmsmen, has just watched half a million pounds worth of boat slip into the Tasman Sea, taking his shot at the America's Cup with it. Back home in Marshcote, on the English coast, there's big trou...

  • Down by the River

    Monte Schulz

    When a sixteen-year-old girl is raped down by the river, she tells the police that tramps committed the crime, and the angry townspeople descend upon a camp of drifters seeking revenge. Reprint. NYT. ...

  • Down Will Come Baby

    Gloria Murphy

    Going through therapy in order to get over her friend Amelia's drowning death, Robin, who blames herself for the tragedy, is unaware that she is about to experience the terror all over again. Twelve-year-old Robin had a terrifying experience a...

  • The Fate of Princes

    P.C. Doherty / Paul Doherty

    A bloody war. An infamous king. A legendary story. Paul Doherty explores the mystery of the Princes in the Tower in his unforgettable novel, The Fate of the Princes. Perfect for fans of C.J Sansom and Susanna Gregory. In this gripping novel, master h...

  • The Last Gambit

    David Delman

  • The Man from Raffles

    William Overgard

    Lawrence Slinng returns after twenty-five years to Singapore's Raffles Hotel in search of his father's killers, a guest that leads him into the rain forest and into confrontations with headhunters, an Australian tycoon, a mysterious blond, and his fa...

  • Midnight Razz

    Preston Pairo

    On Florida's Gold Coast, people change when the lights go out ... especially those who live on the dark side.Todd Palmer was a knock-around guy who happened to be in the wrong place at the right time. He pulled fast-track banker Jay Rigges out of a t...

  • The Moscow Club

    Joseph Finder

    Did Lenin, on his deathbed, write a testament denouncing the newly founded Soviet Union as a police state? Did an ultra-secret American organization aid Beria in a failed coup following the death of Stalin? How do these two seemingly unrelated incide...

  • Mourning Becomes the Hangman

    Mark McShane

  • The Night Remembers

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    Ed Gorman wrote this 1991 gem as a tribute to Bill Pronzini's Nameless series. Now Pronzini provides a foreword to this much-deserved reprint of a classic modern noir about past crimes and their punishment....

  • The Prosecutor

    Tom Philbin

    Book Eight in Tom Philbin's thrilling Precinct Siberia series. Four police officers -- Joe Lawless, Barbara Babalino, Leo Grady, and Arnold Gertz -- work to uphold the law at the tough Fifty-Third Precinct, a vicious, crime-ridden precinct that is th...

  • The Seventh Raven

    Peter Dickinson

    "A Phoenix Award winner from the Children''s Literature Association.This steady, sober hostage story is not quite a thriller . . . but anyone . . . can be engaged by the argument and enveloped in Dickinson''s carefully textured citadel.""- Ki...

  • Sliver

    Ira Levin

    A chilling psychological thriller that explores the menacing evil behind the glittering facades of Manhattan’s skyscrapers.Kay Norris, a successful and lovely book editor, moves into the posh Carnegie Hill district of Manhattan, into an apartment i...

  • Southern Exposure

    Linda Lightsey Rice

    A lyrical voice from the South weaves a searing psychological drama around a small town shocked by its first murder, hurtling a calm and complacent community into a harrowing realm of alienation and distrust. Essex, South Carolina, is a town where do...

  • Suicide Squeeze

    David Everson

    Robert Miles's baseball career is barely a footnote in the annals of America's pastime, but as an Illinois P.I., he's a heavy hitter. That's why he finds himself in the starting line-up of a baseball fantasy camp "dream" game at Wrigley Field. Blackb...

  • Threnody for Two

    Jeanne Hart

  • Thursday's Child

    Teri White

    When an orphan runs away from home, his grandfather hires an ex-cop to find him Four months ago, Beau Epstein watched his parents die. For fourteen years, he lived with his family in the jungle village of Santa María, ignoring the outside world. It ...

  • Waiting for Orders

    Eric Ambler

    Waiting for Orders collects nine short stories that span the sixty-year career of master spy novelist Eric Ambler. The stories include thrilling portrayals of wartime Europe in “The Army of the Shadows” (1939); six cases featuring a refugee Czech...

  • One Step Ahead

    Linda Stevens

    Hunter or hunted? Patrick Rourke needed to find the men who'd murdered Bridget Houlihan's parents. He'd promised he'd keep the child safe, and he'd let nothing, even his old enemy Flynn, stand in his way. Flynn needed Patrick Rourke out of his ...

  • Shattered Vows

    Rebecca York

    Know your enemies... Maid of honor Jo O'Malley had a bad case of prenuptial jitters. A new kind of psychopath was stalking the normally intrepid private investigator, one who seemed to know the intimate details of her private life, one who used in...

  • Belinda Goes to Bath

    Marion Chesney

    The delightful Miss Hannah Pym returns to the English countryside in search of adventure and romance in distress. With her infallible wisdom and charming demeanor she can steer even the most misguided of hearts back on course! No sooner does Mi...

  • A Certain Magic

    Mary Balogh

    A Friend In Need Lovely young widow Alice Penhallow and handsome Piers Westhaven, the future Lord Berringer, were ideal friends. Piers provided Alice with a charming companion. Alice offered Piers understanding and advice he sought a suitable wif...

  • Hearts in Hiding

    Anne Hillary

    A LOGICAL MATCH How had be gotten himself in such a damnable mess! How had a few careless words led to such a colossal misunderstanding? Now his entire family believed him to be married--and Simon was not about to enlighten them, not with his pride ...

  • Highland Rivalry

    Lucy Muir

    SHE fixed his interest but lost her heart Society was all a flutter when a Scottish laird came to Town to choose himself an English bride. Miss Phoebe Hartwell found herself among the contenders, but she fancied her chances to be prodigiously sli...

  • An Infamous Sea Bath

    Emily Dalton

    SHE was determined to rescue him at any cost! Miss Georgiana Lacy cared not a whit for the avaricious manoeuvrings of her socially-conscious mother. To discover that she had unwittingly sprung her mother's trap put her sadly out of curl. Th...

  • Love's Parole

    Elizabeth Lowther

    HER heart was more treasonous than he could ever be Olivia Kingston and her parents were in straitened circumstances. They all agreed it would do no harm to billet a French prisoner of war for a small but much-needed fee. Only, Miles Gilbert w...

  • The Marquis of Carabas

    Elizabeth Brodnax

    Helping her card-sharp father, the phony Marquis of Carabas, in his hoax, Catherine "Cat" Brown poses as the Marquesa of Carabas, finding London society at her feet, except for the suspicious Alex Carrock, in a Regency retelling of "Puss-in-Boots"...

  • Moonlight Charade

    Judy Christenberry

    A HEART UNMASKED BY LOVE It was a daring, desperate gamble -- hiring a perfect stranger to impersonate her long-lost cousin. But the headstrong young beauty Katherine St. Cloud had no choice. Unless she located a male heir -- immediately -- her ...

  • Ruled by Passion

    Lois Menzel

    SHE RATHER LIKED BEING UNDER HIS PROTECTION--THOUGH SHE COULDN'T FATHOM WHAT HIS PURPOSE MIGHT BE.... Still grieving over the loss of her scholarly father, Anne Waverly realized it was time to put her excellent education to use and earn a living f...

  • Scarlet Lady

    Monette Cummings

    The stage was set for love... Lord Donald Hawes thought actresses were famed for their scandalous reputations. How surprised he was, then, when the lovely Teresa spurned his advances. Intrigued, Lord Hawes vowed to pursue her. But suddenly the ...

  • The Substitute Bridegroom

    Charlotte Louise Dolan

    A Marriage of Necessity Elizabeth Goldsborough was the happiest of young ladies. Not only was she the Incomparable of the London season, she was to wed the most handsome gentleman of the ton, the dashing Simon Bellgrave. Then, shockingly, all w...

  • The Unlikely Chaperone

    Dorothy Mack

    The Blinding Beauty When Alexandra Farrish had to shepherd her younger sister Didi through a London season, there was one worry she did not have. There was no problem finding suitors for her charge. Every man who met Didi became a slave to her sen...

  • Valentine's Day Ball

    Donna Bell

    A ROMANTIC TRADITION Tradition held that at eighteen years of age, all the Heartland ladies met the man they would marry at the Valentine's Day Ball. So it was that Miss Jane Lindsay was on the shelf at the advanced age of twenty-four -- for w...

  • The Willful Widow

    Valerie King

    The lovely young widow, Mrs. Henrietta Harte, was not all inclined to pursue the sort of romantic folly the persistent King Brandish had in mind. She had to concentrate on marrying off her penniless sisters and managing her spendthrift mama. Surely M...

  • Daughter of the Sunset Isles

    Dinah Dean

    Gytha is the daughter of ill-fated Harold Godwinsson, elected King of England only to suffer defeat and death at the hands of William the Conqueror. Her youngest brother Ulf is taken to France; her mother Edith becomes ill and mute with grief. Gytha ...

  • Dooley Mackenzie is Totally Weird

    Janice Harrell

    Andie faces the trials of teen life when the boy she is dating sends a Christmas card to her parents signed "your future son-in-law," and one of her new friends, Dooley Mackenzie, is getting into trouble so his father will notice him...

  • Looks Aren't Everything

    J.D. Landis

  • Lovers and Sinners

    Linda Sole

    This romance, with a regional setting of Cambridgeshire fens, is set in the forties and fifties and tells the story of a woman hanged for the murder of the only man she ever loved. Betty Cantrell was once a housemaid in a lonely windswept house in...

  • Road Trip

    Alison Page

    A SUDDEN CHANGE IN PLANS... Brock and I were headed for a week in Coconut Beach, Florida, and the greatest spring break ever. Except before we hit the freeway, we had completely broken up. I was ready to head back home when Gabrielle and Megan off...

  • The Victim

    W.E.B. Griffin

    A brutal Mafia slaying rocks the city of Philadelphia when the only living witness is revealed - a wealthy debutante involved with the targeted mobster. One of the suspects is a cop, Matt Payne, unwittingly takes on the ultimate battle between organi...

  • A Time for Love

    Constance O'Day-Flannery

    Elizabeth Mackenzie had decided long ago that happily-ever-after was just an illusion. Her career was what mattered, and the ambition that had carried her through many a lonely Saturday night brought her out west to land a new account for her firm. T...

  • A Cool Breeze on the Underground

    Don Winslow

    Neal Carey is not your usual private eye. A graduate student at Columba University, he grew up on the streets of New York, usually on the wrong side of the law. Then he met Joe Graham, a one-armed P.I. who introduced him to the Bank, an exclusive New...

  • A Fistful of Empty

    Benjamin M. Schutz

    Despite the plea of girlfriend Samantha, who is anxious to talk with him about something, Haggerty works late to help out bounty-hunter Arnie Kendall. But the fugitive they apprehend hides a key in Kendall's car, leading to a break-in and to Samantha...

  • The Irishman's Horse

    Michael Collins

    One-armed detective Dan Fortune finds a new mystery when he is hired to investigate the disappearance of a U.S. Embassy attache in Guatemala, leading to untold dangers as he encounters an international drug smuggler known as "The Irishman"...

  • Meet Me at the Morgue

    Ross MacDonald

    Four murders spurt technicolor blood over various pieces of gorgeous smog-kissed Southland real estate before Howard Cross, County Probation Officer, comes to the end of a heartbreaking road that began with the kidnapping of a four-year-old kid, a ra...

  • Too Many Questions

    Lesley Grant-Adamson

    "YOU'VE HAD YOUR WARNING, FLYNN. NOW I'M GOING TO KILL YOU." Private investigator Laura Flynn is not sure who her nasty caller is. Possibly the same person whose anonymous threats have already sent her client, beautiful fashion designer Kate Mulle...

  • Blood on the Bayou

    D.J. Donaldson

    HOT NIGHTS... COLD-BLOODED MURDER Death has many forms and New Orleans Chief Medical Examiner Andy Broussard has likely seen them all. But the body of a young stripper -- with its puncture marks and ghastly bites -- is different. His sense of forebod...

  • Crimes of the City

    Robert Rosenberg

    Detective Avram Cohen is a man on the line. Around him, Jerusalem explodes--warring factions bomb and wage street battles; the intifada rages. In the midst of chaos, a double murder sends shock waves through the city. The search is on for a killer wh...

  • False Notes

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Exit--the famous French tenor, dead on the stage during a performance at the San Francisco Opera House. Enter--Charlie Moon, called in to determine who in the international company most hated the dead singer. The suspects can make up alibis in severa...

  • Heartshot

    Steven F. Havill

    Posadas County, New Mexico, hugging the San Cristobal mountains separating it from Mexico, has very few mean streets. No city-slick cop shop either, but an earnest, elected Sheriff and his aging Undersheriff, William C. Gastner. Pushing sixty, and th...

  • Immaculate Deception

    Warren Adler

    IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL, EVERYONE PLAYS TO WIN....ESPECIALLY WHEN THE GAME IS MURDER! Congresswoman Frances "Frankie" McGuire was deadset against abortion and let everyone know it ... Until they found her dead in her luxury Beltway apartment. The ...

  • This Blessed Plot

    M.R.D. Meek

    Lennox Kemp is hired by poor Mrs. Sorrento to follow her errant husband, and by the rich Courtenay twins, Vivian and Venetia, to oversee the legalities of their massive inheritance. But when the paths of these clients cross, Kemp discovers he's unwit...

  • Elizabeth Gail and the Great Canoe Conspiracy

    Hilda Stahl

  • The Long Farewell

    Michael Innes

    The head of Scotland Yard probes the suspicious death of a Shakespearean scholar with a collection of secrets in this classic British mystery. Lewis Packford, an Elizabethan scholar, is found shot in his library. It was rumored Packford recently acqu...

  • Walk on the Water

    W.R. Philbrick

    When the wife of a mysteriously vanished writer accuses Fiona Darling of plagiarism, editor Megan Hawkins and her wheelchair-bound, amateur sleuth husband Jack investigate and encounter many strange characters and multiple murders...

  • What Eric Knew

    James Howe

    Who pushed Eric down the stairs? Right before he moved away, Sebastian Barth's friend Eric had an unfortunate accident. Now he's sending Sebastian mysterious notes hinting it wasn't an accident at all. Was it the ghost in the cemetery? Was Eric's acc...

  • A Woman's Own Mystery

    Hannah Wakefield

  • The Firm

    John Grisham

    AT THE TOP OF HIS CLASS AT HARVARD LAW; HE HAD HIS CHOICE OF THE BEST IN AMERICA. HE MADE A DEAD MISTAKE. When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The fir...

  • Children's Crusade

    Rebecca Brown

    The narrator relates her childhood memories of parental and sibling relations, with all of their bewildering boundaries and limits, and finds herself drawn into a bizarre custody battle which separates her from her brother...

  • Cousin It

    Lynn Caraganis

    A surreal satire of American life and language follows seventeen-year-old Vicki Fowler, an orphan who moves into the fabulous ranch house of her mysterious cousin Itzel and experiences the joys and cliches of American pop culture...

  • The Ouroboros

    Howard Coale

  • Angel in Marble

    Elaine Coffman

    A FALLEN WOMAN Tibbie Buchanan was a heavenly beauty, yet some still whispered about her sins. Her glorious honey-colored hair wouldn't stay hidden under her bonnet. Her drab dresses couldn't hide her alluring curves. Once she'd loved a ...

  • Comanche Moon

    Catherine Anderson

    They called him Hunter, the fierce Comanche warrior chosen by his people to journey across the western wilderness in search of the elusive maiden who would fulfill their sacred prophecy: For the sake of the Comanche, find the honey-haired woman; ...

  • The Conquest

    Jude Deveraux

    Lovely 17-year-old Zared Peregrine is the pride of her family, a treasure her rough-hewn brothers, Rogan and Severn, will strive at any cost to protect from their ancient enemies, the Howards. The Peregrines have suffered loss enough in this blood fe...

  • Contraband Desire

    Lucy Elliot

    Healing the Wounds of War The Civil War was drawing to its bitter close, and runaway slaves were streaming across the Union lines by the thousands, fleeing the ravaged plantations of the South. Elizabeth Whitley, a courageous abolitionist dedicated ...

  • Devil's Moon

    Suzannah Davis

    Disguised as a Japanese native, Miri approached the ruggedly handsome English sea captain, the infamous Tony Benedict. Passage on his ship was her only hope of rescuing her young sister from a forced marriage to her father's murderer. Terrified of di...

  • Fires of Midnight

    Karen Finnigan

    SHE WAS A PROUD IRISH BEAUTY ... torn from her beloved homeland, spirited away to England, and forced to take part in a treacherous conspiracy against her country's legendary hero. HE WAS AN INFAMOUS IRISH REBEL ... driven by bold dreams of veng...

  • Forbidden Fire

    Heather Graham Pozzessere

    Deceit . . . Proud and beautiful Marissa Ayers grew up among England's poorest coal miners, determined to escape her life of hardship. When her wealthy mistress asked Marissa to impersonate her for an arranged marriage to a brash American, Marissa...

  • The Gilded Dove

    Peggy Hanchar

    Kansas McKay could feel Cole Slater's desire stirring her own buried passions. But she couldn't forget the heartbreak and humiliation of running from the town and the man who'd always see her as a whore's daughter. Here in Virginia City, where sh...

  • Highland Bride

    Kathryn Kramer

    Their heritage made them enemies. But their desires made them lovers.... Beautiful, emerald-eyed Moira was sworn to another-but she knew once she laid eyes on the devastatingly handsome Captain Ryan Matthew Paxton, that no other man could possess...

  • Highland Heather

    Ruth Langan

    Traitorous heart. The Queen's Savage As Brenna MacAlpin looked at the fierce, dark warrior, who had spent a lifetime defending his English queen, her blood ran cold. For she was the leader of a Scottish border clan and would give her life for h...

  • The Lily and the Leopard

    Susan Wiggs

    THE LILY France in 1414 was a country at war, overrun within by marauding knights and besieged from without by an ambitious English king. THE LEOPARD England in 1414 was ruled by King Henry V, a driven monarch who was determined to regain his Fr...

  • The Long Road Home

    Lori Wick

    He had been sure God would heal her. He had prayed so hard. What kind of God would do this? “She can’t be dead!” the young pastor cried as he looked down at the still, white face of his new bride. Blinded by bitterness, Paul Cameron leaves h...

  • Love's Sweet Bounty

    Colleen Faulkner

    RECKLESS FURY Jessica Landon was on a train bound for the Washington territory when masked bandits stole her carpetbag containing all the money she had in the world. Left with nothing but her fury, she set out after the thieves herself, without c...

  • Midnight Fire

    Linda Ladd

    CARLISLE KINCAID Her sheltered youth bred a proud and reckless spirit--one that would carry her into the heart of a violent foreign land. CHASE LANCASTER A bold adventurer, he swore to protect the unpredictable, convent-raised beauty--driven by ...

  • Missouri Flame

    Gwen Cleary

    SHE WAS HIS FEVER Missouri-bound Bevin O'Dea had never even met the farmer she was journeying to wed, but she believed a marriage based on practicality rather than passion would suit her fine...until she encountered the smoldering charisma of th...

  • River's Dream

    Virginia Lynn

    He was the romantic hero of her innocent fantasies, and she would risk body and soul to win his heart... PLAIN, PENNILESS DRUCILLA DUCKWORTH yearns for the love and excitement she finds in romance novels--and secretly dreams of a real-life hero of...

  • Rough and Tender

    Selina MacPherson

    1807, Indiana A fierce battle of wills ensues when rugged frontiersman Eben St. Claire is paid to escort the independent-minded Raven Delacour eastward across the American frontier. When adventurer Eben St. Claire’s horse is lamed in an accid...

  • Scandal

    Amanda Quick

    With her reputation forever tarnished by a youthful indiscretion, lovely Emily Faringdon is resigned to a life of spinsterhood, until she embarks on an unusual correspondence and finds herself falling head over heals in love. Sensitive, intelligent, ...

  • Secret Song

    Catherine Coulter

    You met Roland de Tournay in Earth Song - a handsome rogue with a subtle wit and quick tongue who was variously an actor, and adventurer, a master of disguise. Now in Secret Song he meets his destiny when he must rescue from a Welsh stronghold Dar...

  • Silken Dreams

    Lisa Bingham

    HE WAS A WANTED MAN. SHE WAS A WOMAN WHO KNEW WHAT SHE WANTED... He was her Highwayman, a lusty, sensuous stranger existing only in Lettie Grey's mind: a man whose mere gaze unleashed her most wanton passions, whose velvet touch left her aching...

  • The Silver Link

    Patricia Potter

    New Mexico 1846 Why would her heart not listen to reason? Antonia Ramirez knew that the tall, blond American was not to be trusted. Hadn't it been American soldiers who had killed her mother and left her father a cripple? Yet Tristan Hampton ha...

  • Steal the Flame

    Joanne Redd

    WOMAN OF FIRE She alone survived the deadly raid on her wagon train. Captured by a handsome savage, Brandy Daniels's fiery spirit was undaunted. The fierce warrior had saved her from death --- but for what other fate? His sensuality taunted her, his...

  • Tempting Texas Treasure

    Wanda Owen

    SHE VOWED TO CAPTURE HIS HEART With her flowing raven tresses, glowing golden skin, and tantalizing curves, Mexican beauty Karita Montera aroused a fever of desire in every redblooded man in the wild Texas Blacklands. But the sensuous senorita had e...

  • The Tokaido Road

    Lucia St. Clair Robson

    After the execution of her father, the young and beautiful Lady Asano, who now calls herself Cat, is in grave danger: the powerful Lord Kira's campaign against her family is continuing and she must find Oishi, the leader of the fighting men of the As...

  • Touch the Wild Wind

    Cassie Edwards

    THE BACK OF BEYOND Alone and penniless, beautiful Sasha Seymour had thrown in her lot with a rough bunch, and she was bound for an even rougher destination --- the Australian Outback, where she and her jackaroos hoped to carve a sheep station from t...

  • Twice Blessed

    Leigh Bristol

    The muscular arm that gripped Tori and carried her from Don Diegos's hacienda belonged to an undeniably dangerous man. Strong, tall, looking every inch the Texas Ranger he once was, Ethan Cantrell had been sent by Tori's father to retrieve his spitfi...

  • Wild Irish Heather

    Ashland Price

    SHE WAS A HOSTAGE TO HIS KISSES Heather Monaghan was shocked that she had been mesmerized at a country dance by the powerful physique and lusty kiss of Sean Kerry, the notorious bride-snatcher! In her wildest fancies, Heather was thrilled with the...

  • The Wind Dancer

    Iris Johansen

    Legend held that whoever possessed it would rule the destinies of nations. Renaissance Italy, where intrigues were as intricate as carved cathedral doors and affairs of state were ruled by affairs of the bedchamber ... where the rustling richness ...

  • Wishes on the Wind

    Elaine Barbieri

    TWO HEARTS FROM DIFFERENT WORLDS, DESTINED FOR EVERLASTING LOVE... A tragic mining accident devastated the O'Connors, the proud Irish immigrants who worked in the Pennsylvania coal mines owned by the rich Lang family. Now one determined young w...

  • Yesterday's Promise

    Dianna June

    FORGOTTEN PROMISES Headstrong and hauntingly lovely, Faith Jenninggs had returned to Texas and the men who awaited her. Ruthless DIEGO MONTEZ, a distant cousin, was determined to take her beloved ranch, no matter what the cost. Respectable MAT...

  • Black Madonna

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    Lee Karr

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    Harrison Arnston

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    Tracy Stern

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    Paul Watkins

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    Carol Farley

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    Susanna Rowson

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    Mary McGarry Morris

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    Philip Roth

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    Marilyn Kaye

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    David McPhail

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    ...

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    Simon Webb

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    Aubrey Menen

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