As the choppy sea lanes of the African coast are rife with bloody battles over trade booty, Sir Francis Courteney and his 17-year-old son Hal embark on a seafaring quest for the treasure-laden galleons of the Dutch East India Company. But soon the ho...
EYE OF THE STORM Advanced electronic and space-based surveillance capabilities enable the ultrasecret operations force of Stony Man Farm to monitor a volatile international climate. Now a storm is brewing in the Pacific, and the field commandos move...
RETURN FIRE A paramilitary fringe group linked to acts of right-wing terrorism has come under Mack Bolan's lethal assault. One leader is down, but the other. a hard-core mercenary, escapes the firelight in Idaho and regroups with an arms-smuggling...
Just after the second millennium began, a nuclear firestorm changed the face of the Earth forever. Roaming the devastated landscape of the new America, now known as Deathlands, is a small group of men and women who are trying desperately to escape th...
The third in a series of novels about the life and times of Tom Chatto follows Chatto as he leaves the merchant marines to begin a life in the Royal Navy Reserve, where he finds himself commanding a ship that leads German U-boats to their demise....
Famous for its yearly Elizabethan Festival and annual Arabian Horseshoe, Empty Creek, Arizona, would truly be nowhere without a visit from a semi-professional baseball team. Barely out of the dugout, trying to break a hot losing streak, the Coyotes a...
The Sins Of The Past Must Be Paid For Again And Again And Again When Gilly Ainsley shows up on Jo Beth sidden's doorstep, the smart and feisty bloodhound trainer and tracker is stunned by the woman's bizarre tale of deception and manslaughter. Gilly...
Bernie Rhodenbarr, burglar extraordinaire and bookseller ordinaire, has left New York City to spend a wintry weekend at a cozy New England inn famed for its quaint atmosphere and, not coincidentally, its rare books. And there is no book rarer than th...
While housesitting in the Hamptons, Alice Nestleton finds herself the primary suspect in the murder of Bea Verdi, a sensitive young poet, and she sets out to clear her name, with the help of some feline friends...
For Charlie, managing Chaps, with its veritable menagerie of eccentric patrons, is one adventure after another. Especially when Zack Hunter, a former television heartthrob who's just too good-looking for his own good, decides to run for political off...
"Jason [is] a thoroughly engaging multidimensional character, whom readers will look forward to meeting again."
--Publishers Weekly
When Jason and his wife, Grace, find the remains of a young girl beneath the porch of their beautiful new ho...
It’s midnight and Ariel Gold has just arrived on Kiawah Island, a few miles south of Charleston, North Carolina. She’s come to her grandfather’s home for a break from LA … from gridlock and drive-by shootings and tremors … and from a proble...
The room pulses with electronic life. His mind on overload, he activates the computer program that alters vital patient statistics -- and kills them, one by one... A busy St. Louis hospital uses its computer to issue medical orders for its patient...
When a serial killer begins stalking the streets of suburban Chicago near the convent of Sister Mary Teresa Dempsey, the enterprising nun turns sleuth and begins putting together the clues to help police detective Richard Moriarity find the killer....
Investigative filmmaker Maggie MacGowen's past catches up with her when Vietnamese expatriate Khanh Nguyen asks for help in finding a man. Maggie's only link with the Vietnamese community is the one person she won't touch with a ten-foot pole--her ex...
Investigating the mysterious death of photographer Gary Friedman, who died after a suspicious fall, Nancy covers the story for the
Those hilarious southern sisters, who prove that sibling rivalry never ends, are heading for a vacation at the beach. Mary Alice's flamboyant behavior aside, serious, sensible Patricia Anne looks forward to relaxing at her sister's beachfront condo i...
MEXICO, MARGARITAS AND MURDER! The residents from Camden-sur-Mer retirement home think Halloween south of the border is pretty frightening. Terrifying tableaus, mummies, candy skulls...and one of their group suddenly- dead of a heart attack. Then,...
DIGGING UP TREASURE-AND TROUBLE Jackie doesn't have a man in her life right now--so she's spending a little extra time with Mom. But while accompanying her on a volunteer visit to the Forest View Nursing Home, Jackie stumbles into a mystery that may...
ACADEMIC SLEUTH BEN REESE IS BACK -- SMOKING OUT A KILLER IN SCOTLAND. Parson Jonathan MacLean is too healthy and widely loved to die so young. Yet suddenly and mysteriously he's dead. Archivist Ben Reese, in Scotland to appraise the treasures of ...
Japanese-American Rei Shimura is a 27-year-old English teacher living in one of Tokyo's seediest neighborhoods. She doesn't make much money, but she wouldn't go back home to California even if she had a free ticket (which, thanks to her parents, she ...
The Gourmet Detective: He's got a gift for food, a taste for adventure-and a nose for nabbing a killer. Critics hailed Peter King's debut novel, The Gourmet Detective, the first in a delicious mystery series featuring the Gourmet Detective-a chef-tu...
All Simona wants is a few weeks in the sun along the Long Island coastline. But vacation fun quickly turns to foul play when her neighbor and friend, New York advertising mogul Bud Warren, is found floating in the inlet behind his beach house. Now, a...
Long before entering the Order of the Daughters of Compassion, Sister Joan made a pact with her art school classmates. Was it coincidence or fate that led them to set a tomb--Elizabeth the First's in Westminster Abbey--as their meeting place? -- Tw...
This is an excellent value omnibus edition of the first three books in Fred Secombe's entertaining and nostalgic series. It is comprised of: How Green Was My Curate, A Curate for All Seasons and Goodbye Curate. Set in sleepy Welsh valleys at the clos...
It's St. Patrick's Day, but Jimmy doesn't want to participate in the silly customs. Who will win in this brother-sister tug-of-war? Ages 7-10. Cul-de-sac Kids book 14....
As three couples fight to stay alive in the turbulent tide of Nazi control, their struggle takes you to the depths of God's provision and grace. With quiet determination and courageous hearts, they risk everything to stand for their faith....
In The Judas Factor, part 4 of Roger Elwood's six-part series, Cyril Fothergill finds himself trapped underground at the mercy of a traitor. As the horrors of an ancient cult come to light, he must find the way of escape before it is too late....
A carefree childhood is shattered forever when Meredith overhears her father's plans to sell Tilly, their slave and her friend. Guided by true devotion, Meredith defies her father when she helps Tilly and her mother set out on the perilous road to fr...
As her beloved city of Richmond is transformed into a Civil War battlefield, Carrie Cromwell puts her nursing skills to work in a Confederate hospital. Does she really want the South to win? Will the war cost her the man she loves?....
California has just divided into two separate states. Daniel Bellardi, a man of strong Christian values, would like the state of North California to take a hard stand against its seemingly uncontrollable social problems of drugs, crime, homosexuality...
ABBY STANFORD WAS ONE SMART COOKIE... And she'd always given 200%--especially to her job. But there was more to life... There was home, family--and the love of a good man. So she filled her cozy house with the aroma of fresh-baked cookies. She cro...
VIRGIN BRIDE! Thirty-year-old Kate Lodge had been saving--and saving and saving--herself for marriage. So when her fiance ditched her cold, this Miss Goody Two-Shoes was just about ready to do something shocking with the first man she saw .... ...
IT'S A GIRL! Marriage to handsome Fabulous father Devlin Hamilton was a dream come true for Abby O'Reilly...evin if it was for convenience' sake. She was now a full-time mother to their merged little brood, and had a tall, strong husband to call her...
OPPOSITE MINDS... Dakota Bennington is committed to her cultural heritage in everything from her traditional African clothing to her unforgettable sculptures. To her, corporate attorney Pierce Ellis is just another uptight, upwardly mobile professio...
When a media spokeswoman realizes that her new employer, a chemical company, is responsible for sickening the inhabitants of her hometown, an African-American community in Texas, she faces a difficult choice. Reprint....
WHAT IF YOUR DARKEST SECRET WAS THE ONLY THING THAT COULD LIGHT UP YOUR LIFE? Though she grew up in the poorest pocket of rural Appalachia, sophisticated, smart Ruby Maxwell now has everything: a national talk show with soaring ratings, an exquisi...
THE ROAD TO LOVE Cass Morrow tried to keep her eyes on the road, but her gaze kept straying to the rearview mirror of the limousine she drove for another glimpse of her newest passenger. Ben Wyden was exactly what you'd expect from a powerful bus...
THE BRIDE HAS AMNESIA The woman Dean Radcliffe had hired to care for his motherless children believed she was his wife! Having lost her memory, shy Susan Graves had been transformed into an exciting, passionate woman--who wanted him to claim his h...
OH...BABY Vivacious, gorgeous, break-the-rules Kate Ross drove conservative, straight-arrow Robert Devlin crazy - or as crazy as he ever let himself get. But when the long-standing rivals were thrown the corporate challenge of their lives - saving...
Parish Dunford worked hard on his cattle station: he was tough, rugged and definitely all male! And he was determined not to pamper his latest -- female -- employee.... Gina Petrocelli was addicted to life's little luxuries -- like hot showe...
He bet breakfast in bed that he was irresistible ! As soon as Brooke met Garrett she knew he was a charmer. Women probably just rolled over when he petted them, much the same way her cats, traitors all, had responded to him. The best thing for ...
For better and for worse! Seth Carrington needed a girlfriend and Daisy needed a ticket to the Caribbean...it seemed like a fair exchange! But having survived Seth's extremely thorough interviewing technique -- which included kissing -- Daisy ...
Three brides, three grooms -- and they cell meet at THE WEDDING OF THE YEAR Damian Skouras thought he was allergic to marriage, and Laurel Bennett didn't make it to the church on time .... But, still, they collided as guests at the Wedding of ...
"Daniel Raife was devoted to Phoebe, his teenage daughter. He'd brought her up single-handedly, and he wanted her to be a lawyer. But Phoebe dreamed of being a model. Lee Meredith knew all about being sixteen and headstrong -- she had eloped....
She has to choose between her secret and a chance at love… Teacher Jeannetta Rollins is about to lose something infinitely precious…her eyesight. Only surgeon Mason Fenwick has the skills to perform the delicate operation to remove the tumor t...
It all started with a kiss... Bel was planning to marry Roderick, but then Andrew Storm, a complete stranger, turned her life upside down. Andrew skillfully and masterfully seduced Bel in ways she's only imagined in her dreams. He was a fir...
Adopting a baby wasn't easy. Dr. Tristan Lockwood couldn't believe that he was offering to help Bethany Trahern adopt her much loved friend's orphaned baby, Daniel ... she was usually so nervous and inefficient around Tristan. But when ...
THE WOMAN HE COULDN'T REMEMBER Not long ago, Justin Hallwood had been a hard-driving, big-city executive. Now he was inexplicably drawn to the little village of Haven -- especially to Sarah Conroy, a lovely single mother with an adorable baby so...
DO OPPOSITES ATTRACT? They must, since years ago, the only thing high school freshman Georgia Lavender had in common with rough-and-tumble orphan Jack McCormick was the mutual wish to get Georgia out of the clutches of her controlling father. Geor...
He wasn't looking for trouble, but suddenly there she was... Levi Horst groaned with pleasure and frustration as he caught a whiff of Georgia De Witt's seductive perfume! His gorgeous employer was a delectable distraction, but he had no business f...
GREEN CARD WEDDING The only way nanny Maggie Weller could remain in the country was by marrying her hardheaded boss, who was exactly the kind of irresistible bachelor she needed to avoid. But she would do anything to ensure his little girl's happi...
Tara Lee wants nothing more than to be a successful actress--and to spend the rest of her life with Lance Michaels, her boyfriend and lead guitarist of the hottest band in town. So when Tara lands a role on a major soap opera, it seems as if all her ...
Capturing Lizzie was easy... Caleb Trent told himself that kidnapping Elizabeth Lancaster was for her own good. Besides, his little brother's last wish was for him to take care of the woman. As a rogue ex-commando, Caleb had no trouble "rescuing" ...
Darcy's devilishly determined decree: The goal: To rid her family's company of all interlopers! The plan: To learn the business from the ground--oops!--the bottom up! The problem: An outrageously sexy stuffed shirt who stood in her way! Darcy...
RUNAWAY BRIDE A teary-eyed bride in a long, white getup and veil was on Luke O'Dell's property--with no husband in sight. Uh-oh! Runaway bride on her honeymoon alone at his Lazy O Dude Ranch! Luke knew too well what happened when he comforted a s...
AS SHE SEES IT. AS SHE SEES IT. BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY! DEV'S STORY, CATHY'S STORY. HE SAID -- Exotic and romantic presentations left his audience begging for more. And Devlin Gilpatrick's moneymaking TV show proved his formula was a winner....
He left a trail of broken hearts behind him... Mike Tremayne had come home. After eight years of drifting, he was finally ready to face beautiful Beth Nightingale, the woman who'd haunted his dreams since the night he left her. But running into Be...
Love was just one life-threatening episode after another. Celeste Huntington is a murderer. Reporter Rob Friedman is determined to prove it before she can hurt anyone else. By default, he's now protector of a woman who'd rather throw herself in fr...
A daring deception... This time Natasha Larsen's identical twin sister has gone too far. She's abandoned her fiance, Chase Calder, while he's recovering from an accident! So what else can Natasha do but stay by Chase's bedside? ...
YOUNG AND RECKLESS Neighbors in White Creek, Georgia were scandalized when local "bad girl" Spring De Witt ran off to marry her childhood sweetheart, John Nelson, the handsome scion of a well-to-do family. Wagging small-town, tongues whispered tha...
You are cordially invited to a most dazzling and unforgettable event... From the depths of broken dreams, Valentina Cummings harnessed grit, determination, and her unalterable belief in romance to launch EVERY BRIDE magazine--and she revolutionize...
Substitute Groom If only Annabelle were getting married... Then her nutty, but wonderful family would stop chanting "poor Annabelle" every time the once-jilted bride walked into the room. Enter one groom. Well, not exactly. Adam had convi...
It's us again. Malia an' Chelsea an' Garrett Boy, they say us two-year-olds are difficult but grownups are MUCH badder! We wish Torn an' Amy would play nice together--it would sure make our lives easier! Know what? We think they need a time-out We'll...
He looked like a movie star and kissed like a fallen angel.... Sam Schaefer was too young, too handsome, and altogether too willing to start a wildfire Ellen Layne could never put out! Dazzled by the pleasure Sam taught her with every touch, she r...
Erika St. James long ago stopped believing in miracles. The she learns she is about to inherit a fortune--provided she comply with the unusual terms of the will. For one year, she must manage an old friend's estate in cooperation with her benefactor'...
A town is plunged into darkness... The mayor is missing... Two doctors race the clock to save lives... As a blackout paralyzed Grand Springs, Colorado, Dr. Noah Howell was back on the job in Vanderbilt Memorial's ER, thrown together with Dr....
A lush mix of romance, suspense, and drama, LOVE ALWAYS sears the soul as it confronts the difficult choices women must make to turn love into forever. . . .
Boston financial consultant Simone Harper is red hot. Gorgeous and respected, she has...
On a warm spring night in a New Orleans Garden District mansion, the pick of society are gathering. Masquerading as Legendary Lovers, they have come to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Duchaise masquerade ball. Charles and Millicent Duch...
Betsy Monger, recently widowed, is slowly returning to normality. However, running an art class to supplement her pension soon becomes rather less cultural than intended, when the uninhibited actions of her 'mature' students outrages Major Alex Barte...
WHAT I DID FOR LOVE Pushing thirty and never been...well, you know...pediatrics nurse Matty Stewart was forever nurturing other people's offspring. Until a tipsy birthday dare had her winging to the Bahamas -- to wed a single dad desperate for a ...
THE BUSINESS OF LOVE Simone Doucet had an image to uphold -- her mother's. After all, it was her mother's corporate empire, her mother's drive and ambition -- and her mother's mistrust in men -- that Simone had inherited. Everything the self-suf...
The unmarried wife! Karis had been married once, and didn't intend to repeat the experience! She was devoted to her baby daughter, and she loved working as nanny to five-year-old Josh. She didn't need a husband -- and, even if she did, Jos...
The seven-year itch! On the outside Gina Tyson seemed to have the perfect marriage -- but inside she ached with frustration at the distance Reid had placed between them. So Gina decided to challenge her husband -- and was shocked by what she he...
THE WOMAN HE'D MARRIED? Had he truly forgotten his wife? Ex-cop Nick Ryder couldn't believe that any man could have forgotten Jayne Robards. She was a vision of loveliness in his hospital room -- and a quick thinker when a man came after t...
WIVES WANTED...? Seemed all of Temptation, Texas, was wife-hungry - except for Harley Kerr! The rugged rancher had done the wedded bliss thing before, and he'd rather wrestle a rattler than get tied up with another woman, even one as pretty as his n...
HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS Single mother Mariah Barrett had carved out a nice life for herself and her three children in the small town of Granbury, Texas. Until a handsome stranger appeared out of the blue -- and offered her a surprising ultimat...
Camilla Pritchard hadn't seen Jon Campbell in nearly twenty years. Now he's shown up in her classroom posing as one of her students. His presence brings back all her memories of the worst days of her life and threatens to destroy everything s...
Have you heard the latest? Don't tell anyone, but... The groom was having an affair-with his bride's best friend! Jane had been desperate to stop the wedding. She'd had to prevent her best friend making the biggest mistake of her life...Marrying ...
SECOND CHANCE AT PARENTHOOD The last time Prudence Randolph saw her husband, Case had been asking for a divorce. He'd never wanted children, but she'd naively thought he would want her baby .... He hadn't, and he hadn't wanted her, either. Sudd...
Marta is beautiful and wayward: Ann, quiet and reserved. Both are in love with the handsome and bitter Ken. Yet Ann knows he loves Marta. The war intervenes and Ken is taken prisoner in Germany. He eventually returns, dreaming of the new world he wil...
A POWERFUL AND PASSIONATE STORY OF THREE SISTERS Torn apart by tragedy, Molly, Lena and Tessa McBride chose different paths ... until fate and one man reunited them. Molly chose God -- but could never forget the child she gave away ... or her s...
she came Las Vegas. Keeley Owens had planned this trip months ago, hoping a romantic weekend would perk up her relationship with her boyfriend, Troy. Maybe he'd even pop the question .... She saw Before she knew it, she was standing in a tac...
A FATHER... Had a wish. The heart transplant had turned his four-year-old into a happy and healthy child. But Nick Malone couldn't risk him getting attached to his favorite nurse. For they'd already been abandoned by one woman when the going got tou...
Pine Hurst has been home to the wealthy Steel family for generations. And since her mother's death, eldest daughter Beatrice has controlled the estate -- ruling her father, Simon, and her three younger sisters with an iron fist. For Beatrice, control...
Once wasn't enough... Zanna Westcott was a successful businesswoman with a track record for ruthless takeovers and always putting business before pleasure. Jake Lantrell was pleasure...sheer unadulterated pleasure. Zanna's attraction to...
One week is plenty of time to learn how to look after a baby, right? Well, it had better be ... because that's how long confirmed bachelor West Gallagher will be stuck with the little bundle of 'joy' somebody left on his doorstep. Now he's also stuck...
THE SINS OF THE PAST HAUNT THE PRESENT. GLENNA--A small-town doctor whose beloved husband rescued her from a desperate life, she has never had cause to look beyond her safe existence. Then a letter from the mother who gave her away at birth sends ...
Twenty years ago, Claire Maloney was the willful, pampered, tomboyish daughter of the town's most respected family, but that didn't stop her from befriending Roan Sullivan, a fierce, motherless boy who lived in a rusted-out trailer amid junked cars. ...
During her vacation on a Montana ranch, Susan Klein's birthday fireworks light up more than the night. The resulting bush fire has rancher Wyatt Whittaker burning with temper, but when the flames of anger cool, the city lady and the cowboy start maki...
Her lie came back to haunt her. Ten years ago Rachel and Stephen had had an affair -- the result was little Jamie. For reasons of her own, Rachel had told Stephen that Jamie was someone else's child. But when Rachel finally admitted Stephen was t...
As in her splendid adult debut, Waltzing in Ragtime, Eileen Charbonneau has written a rich and powerful historical novel of a family torn apart both by loss and by reunion.In 1815 the Windover Plantation sits in triumph on the banks of the James Rive...
EVERYTHING HE WANTED. AND MORE THAN HE BARGAINED FOR. Innocent yet enticing, Isadora Chavez mesmerized tycoon Harrison Stone like no woman ever had. In fact, she nearly brought the sought-after bachelor to his knees. And that's when she made her s...
How do you know if you're ready? A huge sort of tremor ran through me. After so long, so much fantasizing, I'd actually kissed him. I hope he didn't see that shiver, I thought. I don't want him to know how overwhelmed I am, not yet....
Rebel groom! Thea Birch is a sensible woman from a family of adventurous females. Seven years ago, one kiss from Damon Free had convinced her she was just as wild as her relations. So Thea had left town, and only necessity has brought her back.......
MAN OF HONOR... Jake Forrest had always believed in honor. It was how he lived his life, made his choices. Dressed in army greens, he stood tall and proud, his startling blue eyes focused on the task at hand, his broad chest swelled with pride. Th...
They were childhood buddies who swore they'd never let a girl come between them. Then they met the only girl who ever could: beautiful, funny, smart Kate Moran. Yet it was Paul who finally married her--and Mike who resigned himself to a lifetime of h...
THAT TOUCH OF LOVE Ever since his divorce Zack Burke had little time for romance -- and little faith in its promises. He'd already learned the hard way that love never lasted. Then he fell under the gentle spell of massage therapist Skye Delaney...
TIME TO STOP RUNNING Poised on the brink of a sensational music career, violinist Kate Saarinan is still haunted by secrets of her youth. She agrees to spend a week teaching at a country school far from the glamour of her life in Manhattan. But th...
Devoted wife and mother of three, Miranda Schaeffer has put the best years of her life into being Stephen Schaeffer's better half. Her husband, however, rewards her by taking off to California ... with all their money. Devastated and desperate to ...
Some secrets just won't stay hidden Why had Jaime Harris left a perfectly good job to come to work for his stepmother, Catriona? Dominic Redding was curious--and intrigued. Jaime had come to Bermuda with a purpose--to find out more about Ca...
Gerrie Jean Cartwright does a slow burn when she meets Judge Zachariah Edward Brenham. It's a shame for a free spirit like her to fall for a stick-in-the-mud like His Honor. But love lights a fire under Zach, and by the Glorious Fourth, he's sparklin...
I HONESTLY LOVE YOU It wasn't the snow-capped Denver mountains that took Ginger Thompson's breath away. It was architect Vince Danelli, an Adonis on skis who was too rich and handsome to ever notice someone like Ginger. Unless she dared to inven...
Was it the heat of the fire that singed her skin, or the touch of his lips? He'd fought through flames to save her, but Jack Riley insisted he was no brave knight to the rescue. Shielded by his body from the deadly heat, Mary Jo Simpson felt her f...
WELCOME HOME, ROBIN DIGBY.... Now, a few things have changed while you've been away. For instance, there's a perfect stranger -- well, maybe not perfect, but pretty darn close -- sleeping in your bed. But there's a good explanation for...
FOR AS LONG AS IT TAKES... When the "Dear Jane" break-up note came over her friend's fax machine, Genna Wade couldn't believe her eyes. Well, she wasn't about to let Mr. Tall, Blond, Rich and Gorgeous off the hook so easily. She was just going to ...
"I now pronounce you husband and wife...." Rachel just couldn't tell David that her twin, Roxanne, had left him at the altar -- so she took her sister's place, with no one the wiser. Now Rachel was on a very unplanned honeymoon, wi...
College friends Anne Hayden and Adam Weston value independence beyond everything, but then a sultry Fourth of July weekend at a seaside cottage sets off sparks of passion, and they face the choice of letting the embers die or revelling in the splendi...
THE BEST-LAID PLANS Holly Aldridge had the perfect plan to win back the affections of her ex-boyfriend Brad -- she'd make him jealous. Her friend Sam was just the man to do it. Especially since the handsome contractor agreed to share Holly's bun...
Have Matchmakers. Will Marry! Tibby Mack -- sweet Tibby Mack. She's twenty-seven, which makes her the youngest resident of Yaqui Springs, a retirement community near California's Salton Sea. The folks there have become her family, her friends...he...
WAS SHE REALLY A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS? For country veterinarian Whit Morgan, taking in strays was just part of the job. But the helpless-looking beauty who just wandered into his office with an injured kitten happens to be one of New York's hottest...
On a warm spring night in a New Orleans Garden District mansion, the pick of society are gathering. Masquerading as Legendary Lovers, they have come to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Duchaise masquerade ball. Charles and Millicent Duch...
On a warm spring night in a New Orleans Garden District mansion, the pick of society are gathering. Masquerading as Legendary Lovers, they have come to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Duchaise masquerade ball. Charles and Millicent Duch...
He tempted her with wildflowers and challenged her to learn the truth .... Alex Coleman was a sucker for a damsel in distress, especially when she'd gotten lost in the rain on his mountain! Nicole Sanders insisted she'd rather get stuck in the mud...
Second Chance at Marriage Three little orphans had one big, brawny cowboy wrapped around their fingers! Miranda Sykes was so happy that her estranged husband's dreams to be a daddy had finally come true. But her own dream to be a mother -- and Br...
Hired by Peterson and Company, Nicole Johnson is irresistibly drawn to company president Mark Peterson, despite the rules forbidding office relationships, until they are thrown together by circumstances beyond their control at an exotic Jamaican reso...
Prisoners of love... Elizabeth Wakefield is furious. She was swept off her feet by Prince Laurent de Sainte-Marie--the most romantic guy she's ever met in her life. But that certainly isn't the problem. The problem is Antonia, his fiance! And Antoni...
"I bet that smile gets you everything you want...." As soon as Alec Prentice spotted the spicy brunette in red silk, he vowed that the tempting con woman would not escape him! Dennie Banks was prepared to do anything to get her story, even...
FIRST COMES MARRIAGE... David Adams desperately needed a wife to keep custody of his children, so he proposed a temporary marriage to lovely Carrie Monroe. But once David held Carrie in his arms, would their arrangement turn into more than just a...
MAKE ROOM FOR BABY -- AND DADDY,TOO! It wasn't as if Kate Anden's life was empty, exactly. With a ranch to run and a houseful of adopted kids to raise, she had plenty to keep her busy. Even so, she couldn't close her heart to a troubled teenager w...
SOMETHING WILD When it came to her job, bicycle messenger Tanya Preston was a fast, free-spirited devil on a five-speed. She'd never admit that under her wild exterior was a woman looking for love. She'd certainly never admit it to the handsome ...
Once upon a time... They called him the "Perfume Prince" but Philip Fairchild had never exactly seen himself as a storybook hero. But that was before he tracked down the three winners of the "most fragrant rose" contest and met their beautiful god...
FATHER OF THE BRIDE Wade Mackey didn't know the first thing about planning a highfalutin wedding, which was why he hired Leah Houston. The curvaceous consultant knew exactly how to appease his daughter and her soon-to-be groom. But working closely...
Fighting fire with fire? Jeri Monahan is a volunteer firefighter in her Arkansas hometown -- and Dan Contini, former navy officer, is the town's new fire chief. Jeri's a natural risk taker -- and Dan's a protector, a man who's...
MR. JULY His Name: Rafe Courtenay His Challenge: To rescue a kidnapped child His Accomplice: Beguiling Valentina O'Hara Their Destination: A remote canyon where danger will merge with desire When Rafe Courtenay is on a mission, nothing stands ...
A pregnant woman had stolen his identity! After months overseas, New York Times journalist Max Tremaine returned--only to have the door of his brand-new suburban home opened by a sexy pregnant stranger. Apparently, the curvy redhead had been livin...
Animal Magnetism! Nick Montgomery was a cop, not an animal trainer. At least, not until he quit his job on the promise of an inheritance and found out he owned half of Wild Action, an animal talent agency. The other half belonged to Carly Dum...
The prodigal daughter? All her life Rio had been considered wild, from the wrong kind of family. Only one man had shown any faith in her--Kane Langtry's father. But it wasn't a case of like father, like son. Kane respected his father's...
ONE STRONG COWBOY... From the moment Dena Colby returned to Lander, Wyoming, handsome rancher Ry Hardin was there for her. Her father had just died and left her the ranch. But Dena had no intention of lowering her defenses for anyone, least of all...
A Prince in Wolf's Clothing Jenna Jean Anderson wasn't falling tug that "marry a nice doctor" routine. Dr. Stan Michaels was not husband material. She knew him when he was one of the bad boys in town, and Jenna prided herself on being very, very g...
An undead super soldier possessed by the devil aims to destroy the world in this thriller from the international bestselling author of Dark Visions. HE WAS THEIR DEADLIEST KILLER The late Roth Tiberius Cain, legendary CIA hit man, is gone, but not fo...
"SOMETHING'S ALIVE IN THERE!" She was just a little girl, with a tiny horn in the center of her forehead, funny-looking feet, beautiful silver hair, and several curious powers: the ability to purify air and water, make plants grow, and heal scars ...
Major Trouble in a Minor Key If he'd known all the trouble following her, itinerant photographer Michelangelo "Mage" Magistrale would have thought twice about helping the beautiful, distressed woman at the bus station. In return for a ticket she g...
Bretta, Henry Martyn's daughter, is ejected from her spaceship and left for dead by her father's enemies, but the resourceful Bretta makes her way to a world of escaped slaves, where she vows revenge." At the Publisher's request, this title is being ...
RETURN OF THE DEADLY DUO Anne Lesley Groell dazzled readers with her fantastic, action-packed adventure Anvil of the Sun. Now Jenifleur and ,Thibault, known as the Cloak and Dagger, are back to take on their first genuine assignment as full-fledge...
TOR LEONNE -- the heart of the Dominion of Annagar, where the games of state are about to become a matter of life or death--and where those who seek to seize the crown will be forced to league with a treacherously cunning ally....Tor Leonne, ancest...
The art of storytelling and the power of a mother’s love imbue this feminist fantasy novel -- a contemporary riff on the tale of the frog prince Once upon a time there was a middle-aged woman whose husband dumped her the month after their tw...
Threatened by an interstellar menace from beyond the galaxy, the great Goldenwing ship, Gloria Coelis, with her crew of Wired starmen and cats, heads to the advanced planet Yamato to enlist the aid of the greatest military power in the human galaxy. ...
Psychologist Richard Brandon's recurring visions of a fantasy realm called Midland leads to forays into alternate worlds, in which four of his alter egos are enlisted by wizards in a struggle against evil. Original....
Drought, plague, and war have left the Isle of the Mighty battered and its heart, the beloved Arthur, grievously injured--until a secret relic is brought before the dying King; a Holy Grail that heals his wounds and restores his vigor. But soon ev...
As scheming human land developers threaten to exploit the magic lands, now exposed through the worn-too-thin World Walls that separate the "real world" from the Faerie world, David Sullivan and his friends must stop the High King Lugh from destroying...
When her little brother, Denny, uses his magical talents to transform their mean Aunt Matty into a hideous mythological monster, a griffin, it is up to a long-suffering Natalie to come up with a way to undo the monstrous spell. Original....
It's not every day you get proof-positive that your maniac seven-year-old brother can shove the very molecules of the world around. Now it's up to fourteen-year-old Natalie to keep her little brother, Denny, from taking everything apart and putting i...
First they were Left Behind. Then they formed the Tribulation Force. Now they must face Nicolae. In Nicolae, the most explosive of the three books thus far, the seven-year tribulation is nearing the end of its first quarter, when prophecy says t...
Aereas is dead. His daughter is growing up to be a beautiful woman, learning from her unle the business of espionage. Nina is close to dying. Her son is training in music at the shop of Boffo the Gnome. The Blood War itself still rages. Even the heav...
THE CRUCIBLE OF A KING Prince Rodrigo was born to rule--or was he? The spoiled young heir of Caledon has paid scant heed to duty, compassion, or the Power he must wield... until the queen's death leaves him a hunted outlaw. To claim his crown, Rod...
Having slipped through a newly formed astral portal, the intrepid Lyra finds herself in the beautiful, haunted world of Cittagazze--a city where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and the wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky. But she...
Worlds collide when a comet crashes into the mountain village of Aston Point. When the comet is revealed to be a starship, the townsfolk are dragged into a deadly battle between the alien Rael and a sinister artificial intelligence....
Dreaming of becoming a member of the Olympic equestrian team, Natalie is tempted to use her little brother Denny's magical talents to transform her little horse into a champion, but she soon discovers the consequences of transforming the nature of so...
Ambitious in its scope and provocative in its content, the saga of the undying Count Saint-Germain is a monumental feat of the imagination.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's novels have powerfully captured Saint-Germain throughout his long existence, fro...
Golden Umbria is home to breathtaking scenery and great art; it is also where Hannibal and his invading band of Carthaginians ambushed and slaughtered a Roman legion, and where the local place-names still speak of that bloodshed.Unsworth's contempora...
AIR FORCE ONE
It is called the flying White House, the most tightly guarded airborne fortress in the world . . . until now. Terrorists have seized Air Force One thirty thousand feet above the ear...
The riveting account of the O.J. Simpson murder trial is told in the uncensored words of Simpson's closest confidants and attorneys. American Tragedy reveals the answers to many of he case's unexplained questions for the first time. What happened ...
We can't tell you who we are. Or where we live. It's too risky, and we've got to be careful. Really careful. So we don't trust anyone. Because if they find us ... well, we just won't let them find us. The thing you should know is that everyone is...
Explore the marvelous complexity of Lovecraft's writing -- including his use of literary allusions, biographical details, and obscure references in this rich, in-depth exploration of great horror fiction from the acknowledged master of the weird, inc...
In this delightful follow-up to My Brother, Ant, Anthony comes face to face with a growling bear, pretends to be a dog, and hears a giant tapping on the window. These enchanting stories capture the relationship between Ant and his brother with warmth...
From the moment Athene sprang full-grown from her father Zeus's head, a new image of the feminine was born to Western consciousness. Starting from a penetrating analysis of the goddess's mythologies and beginnings, Ann Shearer examines how mainstream...
From Stoneybrook to Palo City, it's 3,000 miles of fun, friends, and adventure! It's BSC road trip time! Two RVs are parked in front of Claudia Kishi's house. Dawn's dad, Mr. Schafer, will drive one. Watson Brewer, Kristy's stepdad, will pilot the...
Hop aboard and get ready for the ride of your life as bus driver Barney takes the whole gang to some of their favorite imaginary destinations. First stop, a castle just for Brett where he can rule in the land of make believe. Then, it's back on the b...
On his first solo flight, Batbaby gets caught in a rainstorm, is blown into Squirrel's tree, and gets into all sorts of trouble before he finally falls asleep. In the morning Batbaby returns home where he must go to bed again! With a sweet surprise e...
In 1965 Bird, christened Avocet, aged six, is living with her family in a Florida citrus grove. Daddy and Mama, who run a general store, fight frequently and drink too much; Bird and her older sister Phoebe are beaten equally frequently. Daddy is eve...
Murray gives readers the redefined essence of his lifetime meditation on the blues as this musical style informs American life. Here are incisive essays on writing, music, and art that go beyond the social-science fiction of Negrohood to describe in ...
Thirteen terrifying tales to take you on a heart-pounding journey to the dark side! Including:
Bodies of the Dead by Ambrose Bierce: Is it your worst fear to be buried alive? Live your greatest nightmare in these four chilling tales. The Golden Ra...
A collection of spooky short fiction includes the stories of a pair of special dancing shoes that save the day, a boy and his dad who become custodians of a unicorn, and a family that tampers with powers it does not understand. Original....
An extraordinary debut and exciting new voice in multicultural fiction, Patti Kim's A Cab Called ReliableWinner of the Towson University Prize for LiteratureNominated for the Book-of-the-Month Club's Stephen Crane Award for First FictionAhn Joo Cho e...
The soldiers on both sides of the Civil War were united by a common history, and yet the legacy of this past was ambiguous, upholding both rebellion and union. Union and Confederate men went to war as Americans, convinced they fought an un-American, ...
Struggling to understand the man beneath the charm, newlywed Lydia is forced to confront the forces that have shaped her husband, including his deceptively sleepy hometown of Fawley, magnetic cousin Kyle, and some long suppressed passions. 12,500 fir...
A jaded newspaper columnist is jolted back to reality when a reader who had called him for help turns up dead two days later, and during his efforts to find out why, he begins to feel that he has been given a second chance at life...
When sweet Violet moves to the woods, all her neighbors come visiting with yummy gifts. Together they make a delicious dinner in this charming cumulative story ideal for preschoolers. In a distinctive style that has an incredibly wide appeal, J...
Londoner Francesca Campbell finds more than she bargained for in the remote Hebridean Island of Cullin, when she chaperons American travel writer Tod Harriman on a research trip for his latest tourist guide - and also helps him trace his family roots...
In a mixture of exuberant full-color drawings and short stories, the author celebrates the spirit, strength, and kinship of the African-American women who have affected her life, from grandmothers to girlfriends to imaginary doppelga+a5ngers. T...
When Mary Ellen's best friend, Justine, returns from a year in Paris obsessed with her appearance and with food, Mary Ellen believes that Justine may have an eating disorder and must decide whether to ignore the problem or tell someone Justine is hea...
A young orphan drifting in the sea in an open boat, Allanaq is taken in by the tribe of the Real People, where he grows up and marries only to leave for the tribe of the Seal People, where he and his wife learn the ancient arts of magic. Original....
The Devil's Carousel is a magical tour on the floor of the Centaur Car Company automobile plant. It is a place peopled by bizarre and memorable characters - Tombstone Telfer, who believes smiling causes cancer; Curly Brogan, the militant shop steward...
After a long period of suppression, Milhail Bulgakov was discovered in the West in 1967 with the publication of his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita. Diaboliad and Other Stories is the only complete translation of his first collection of sh...
Whoosh! Splash! Chug-chug! Brrrrrm! Dig in with the workers and their trusty backhoe as they fix a broken water pipe! Little fingers can pull the tabs, lift the flaps, and turn the dials to flash the lights, drill through the concrete, and dig with t...
A quietly influential force in African American literature and art, Clarence Major makes his Penguin Classics debut with the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Dirty Bird Blues The PRH Audio book of Dirty Bird Blues by Clarence Major won a 2022...
The only survivor of a plane wreck in the jungle, George is raised by apes, but at twenty-six years old, George finally comes face-to-face with humans when Ursula accidentally happens upon him during one of her safaris. Original. Movie tie-in....
Home from the battlefields of Flanders to claim his inheritance, a young Catholic nobleman, Ludovick Milburn, finds an England on the brink of Civil War. the last uneasy days of peace, awash with rumour and apprehension,serve merely to deepen the est...
The Saddle Club girls are participating in a new kind of horseback activity -- endurance riding. They'll have to condition their horses and themselves for the grueling contest if they plan to make it across the finish line. But an annoying rider name...
In this text, Heymer, a retired police officer, looks at spontaneous human combustion (SHC). He tells of how he once investigated a case of what he remains convinced was SHC and how this led to him delving into possible causes and the widespread sile...
In 1868, after their father is wrongfully convicted and deported on the last prison ship to Australia, twelve-year-old Patrick and the rest of the McWaid family determine to stay together and follow him to the far-off continent...
In this magical jet-fueled saga, a Hollywood actor is granted a new face--and gets more than he bargained for. By virtue of his unique face, Taylor Powell is the greatest lover in Hollywood history. But he's sick of being "The Face, " so, after mirac...
An international thriller follows John Sarikov, a New York journalist, on the trail of a vast conspiracy involving a Nazi concentration camp, the Kremlin, Russian criminals in New York, and a rogue policeman. Original....
A city holds its breath.
A terrorist planted a bomb somewhere under Los Angeles--just before he was frozen alive!
To locate the bomb and stop the blast, supercop Sean Archer must literally trade faces with his archenemy, using sophisticated la...
Young Ethan Fairchild and his childhood friend, David Stuart, are heading for Oregon in ox-drawn covered wagons to make lived for themselves. between the two is beautiful Jessica Thorne, daughter of the train's strict leader. The pursuit of Jessi...
Laura Kearnan finds out that the woman she's always known as her mother is, in fact, her aunt. Her real mother, believed to have died in World War II, went to live on a remote island off the coast of Australia and has died only recently. Laura flies ...
Chuck Carlock volunteered to become a helicopter pilot in August 1966, convinced that by the time he finished training, the Vietnam War would be over. Little did he know that he would see some of the war's most intense action, including the Tet offen...
Twelve-year-old Benjy's life has changed since the tragic fire at his mother's animal shelter that had killed two greyhounds, and while he investigating a research clinic that he suspects of the arson, he realizes there are many sides to every story....
When a bizarre epidemic threatens the inmates of the twenty-first-century labor camp run by planet Earth on the distant planet of Ra, one man's search for a cure leads him to uncover a colossal conspiracy. Original....