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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JULY 1999

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  • Ann M. Martin

    The BSC will never be the same again.... It's a summer the BSC members will never forget. For some, it's time to leave the club. For others, it's time to make a new beginning. Plenty of surprises await them--boyfriend troubles, friendship feuds, t...



  • Mary Jo Putney

    Bribed by Kyle, his twin brother, Dominic Renbourne agrees to take his twin's place for a few weeks at Warfield Park where he is to pay court to Lady Meriel Grahame, the orphaned heiress Kyle intends to marry. The last thing Dominic expects is to be ...



  • Aaron Allston

    The X-wing fighter pilots have earned their reputation as the Rebel Alliance's ultimate strike force by overwhelming enemies with their rapid-fire assaults. But now they are about to embark on a diplomatic mission that will prove to be even more haza...



  • Nancy Kress

    Includes the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novella, Beggars in Spain"Every story of the thirteen reprinted in this volume has, in addition to the science--sometimes rigorous and detailed, sometimes extrapolated and fantastically ramified--compelling ...



  • Mary Lynn Baxter

    ONE SUMMER EVENING, A RECKLESS ACT OF LOVE CHANGED HER LIFE FOREVER... Now, nine year later, Cassie Wortham has returned to Louisiana, to the lush home of her parents, to the roots left behind in the wake of desperate acts. She's been living a nig...



  • Philip Athans
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    Bhaal Must Be Stopped! Someone is sabotaging the iron mines of the Sword Coast, pushing powerful toward a bloody war, and a young mercenary toward an unimaginable secret. Evil gods, giant spiders, murderous doppelgangers flesh-eating ghouls, an...



  • Nancy Holder

    "She's stronger than any Slayer you've faced. Force won't get it done. You gotta work from the inside. To kill this girl...you have to love her." For Buffy the Vampire Slayer, birthdays aren't all parties and cake -- hers tend to involve a life-or...



  • Cory Daniells

    IN A WORLD OF DANGER AND DARK ENCHANTMENT, THE MOST TREACHEROUS MAGIC IS DESIRE.... Trained in the arts of war and possessed of extraordinary healing gifts, Imoshen was one of the last of the legendary T'En, an ancient race who'd ruled Fair Isle ...



  • Gary McCarthy

    With Marshal Matt Dillon laid up with a broken leg, Deputy Festus is in charge of the town, and now Festus has to face his first challenges--a gang of cowboys out to stir up trouble, and the townspeople of Dodge City who do not think that he is up to...



  • Jake Logan

    Slocum gets distracted by a pretty little flower -- who comes with thorns...Slocum has his eye on the dangerous Rose Miller. Besides being a real American beauty, Rose is rumored to be the mistress of a notorious train robber. But the minute Slocum g...



  • Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo finds himself in over his head when he takes two dangerous jobs--delivering a herd of valuable Scotch Highland cattle to an ambitious rancher and training inexperienced troops as Indian fighters--either of which could get him killed. Origi...



  • J.R. Roberts

    When the mayor of a small Mexican village catches the Gunsmith's good friend Pete in a compromising situation with his daughter, Pete is forced to shoot the man in self-defense, and now Clint has only three days to rescue Pete from the hangman. Origi...




  • Peter Brandvold

    Stranded in the rugged region of the northern Rockies, a wagon train of settlers falls prey to a vicious gang of outlaws, until one man who has nothing left to lose risks his life to stop them. Original....




  • Connie Mason

    Dreams and Desire Kitty O'Shay desperately dreams of marriage and a family. Yet whisked into the company of robbers when she finds herself orphaned, she sees no choice but to protect her virtue by dressing as a boy, until one man uncovers her ...



  • Kimberly Cates

    Rhiannon Fitzgerald never knew her true heritage -- or if her talent for healing was bequeathed by fairy magic, as her father believed. The gentle lass who roamed the hills of Ireland knew only that she must help creatures in need. But her sweet, she...



  • June Calvin

    An Unexpected Courtship Amanda Garfield's beloved sister Penelope was a well-known beauty, and would surely be the first to marry. So when handsome Lord Jack Maitland arrived for a shooting party, Amanda assumed he had come to woo her sister. ...



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    Set in the wilds of frontier Montana, Julia Hanlon's "A TASTE OF MAGIC" unveils the simmering romance between two kindred spirits. Searching the countryside for asparagus, a plant with deep roots that express the commitment and security of true love,...



  • Jean Wilson
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    Jean Wilson's "KISSES SWEETER THAN..." sizzles with the crackling, down-home flavors of late 19th-century Texas. Reporter Laura Leigh Westbrook's assignment is to follow a new cookbook author. But instead of a Miss, the chef turns out to be downright...



  • Janice Bennett

    The first in an enchanting new trilogy introduces Xanthe -- an irrepressible fairy godmother and friend to young hearts. All she needs to commence her spellcraft is the ripple of water in a mirrored bowl and a gigantic white cat named Titus... Xa...



  • Thea Devine

    DECEIVED BY BEAUTY Alexander Deveney, the Earl of Mere, was on an undercover mission to ferret out secrets from his deceased brother's wife, an enemy to Queen and country, and a courtesan available to any man for a price. He fully expected the ...



  • Miranda Jarrett

    As proprietor of the most fashionable shop in Boston, Amelie Lacroix knows all about creating the elegant style and glittering gowns her wealthy clients adore. But Amelie herself has no time for flirtatious games with eligible men - until a magical w...



  • Betina Krahn

    A SOFTHEARTED BALTIMORE HEIRESS Lovely but disastrously tenderhearted Diamond Wingate has terrible trouble saying "No": to the poor and unfortunate who beg at her gates; to entrepreneurs with big plans and no money; and worse, to the silver-tongue...



  • Jenni Licata

    THE BODY AT THE BALL When a disguised courtier delivered him a secret message from Queen Anne, Alexandre Rawlings had no idea that he'd later find the man murdered. Standing over the victim was a mysterious woman in white, and one look at her lus...



  • Rachelle Morgan

    TEMPTING FATE The most superstitious lady in Horseshoe, Texas, Linsey Gordon is mistakenly convinced that she has less than three months to live, and she's determined to do one last good deed before she passes on. But playing matchmaker for her ti...



  • Emma Craig

    LABOR OF LOVE Cattleman Cody O'Fannin has never shied away from an adventure in his life, so when a high-pitched scream rings out across the harsh New Mexico Territory, he rides straight into the heart of danger, expecting to find a cougar or ...



  • Leigh Greenwood

    SHE LET PRIDE GET IN THE WAY OF LOVE... Owner of a Kentucky horse farm, Courtney Clonninger is determined to succeed in a world dominated by men-even when she finds herself crushed by debt. Though Idle Hour Farm is her legacy and her life, pride won...



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    In Judith A. Landsdowne's story, Fascination is the only word to describe beautiful heiress Miss Priscilla Pritkin's emotion after her first encounter with the scoundrel, Lord Hawksworth. If spirit is what it takes to tame a black sheep, then the Haw...



  • Jeanne Savery
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    Jeanne Savery's tale Temptation tells of Miss Tenacious Smythe, who believes that Lord Brant has taught her all she needs to know about rakes. Once the wickedly handsome nobleman sets his sights on the innocent young lady, Tenny learns that a true ra...



  • Janice Bennett
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    In Janice Bennet's spicy story of Seduction, Miss Amanda Grieves will do anything to save her brother from debtor's prison, even deal with the infamous Lord Rivenhall. When she wagers her honor with the dashing peer, she loses her heart as well....



  • Hannah Howell

    Eric Murray was the youngest of his brothers, determined to gain his rightful inheritance after thirteen years of bitter dispute with his father's family. Starting out alone to confront his tight-fisted kinsmen, he encountered a chestnut-haired beaut...



  • Holly Harte

    A HEALER'S TOUCH With the marriage of her dreams over, free-spirited Sheridan Kinmont vowed never to let another man into her heart and set out to make a fresh start by accepting a job as physician in Shafter, Texas. In a town this desolate, She...



  • Barbara Hazard

    An Invitation to the Dance...and More In the short time Constance Ames had been at Moreston House, the proper country miss had found herself bedeviled by the most unusual circumstances. First were the anonymous, threatening letters hinting at her ...



  • Jill Henry

    HE LOST HIS PAST Marshall Jack Emerson awoke to find himself injured and in a strange bed with a beauty claiming to be his fiancee. How could he remember proposing to Lissa Banks if all he could recall was his first name? Nothing seemed right exc...



  • Cynthia Sterling

    What's a lovely widow to do when her dearly departed refuses to depart? Pony Springs, Texas. 1855. It's been nearly a year since Tessa Bright's husband passed away. But Will Bright never went away--and even with the guidance of the spirited compan...



  • Simona Taylor

    While visiting Trinidad to do a true-to-life story about the island, American journalist Marcus Lucien meets tour guide Rhea De Silva, and when a hurricane hits, both must trust each other enough to save what they cherish ...



  • Theresa Weir

    SHE HAD NOT IDEA WHAT SHE WAS LOOKING FOR...UNTIL SHE FOUND IT. She's the most exotic thing Egypt, Missouri, has ever seen--and Daniel Sinclair mistrusts her instantly. A small-town cop with big-city suspicions, Daniel figures that Cleo Tyler, a p...



  • Rachel Lee

    JUSTICE GONE WRONG Five years ago Carey justice was a young prosecutor who helped convict an innocent man. Today she's the hottest talk show host on radio and won't rest until he is cleared--no matter what it costs her. She has exactly three weeks...



  • Juliette Leigh

    A PLUCKY HEIRESS CAUGHT BETWEEN SUSPICION...AND DESIRE With a gasp of dismay, Shelby read the letter informing her of her grandfather's grave illness. He had lived alone at Wychwood for years, with only his valet, his dog, and of course, the famou...



  • Wendy Corsi Staub

    When it comes to matters of the heart, you can always trust your friends... When Cira Valentino was turned away at Ellis Island and forced to return to Europe without her family, she never thought she'd ever set foot on American soil. But fate had...



  • Heather Graham

    MARNIE LIVED FOR PLEASURE. DID SHE DIE FOR IT, TOO? She was a high-powered attorney with beauty, brains, and a brand-new dream house. Men found her irresistible. Women called her out-of-control. And when Marnie Newcastle disappeared one fateful ni...



  • Ciji Ware

    The sultry allure of New Orleans comes to dazzling life in this enthralling tale of romance and mystery that sweeps from the modern heart of the Big Easy back to the shimmering city of a century past. Reporter Corlis McCullough's search for the truth...



  • Lynn Kurland
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    Scottish nobleman Ian Macleod falls asleep in a medieval dungeon --- and awakens in a room filled with long white dresses. Jane Fergusson longed to create great fashions, but instead toils in a bridal shop. Will their fateful meeting over dressmaker'...



  • Maggie Shayne
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    Fleeing thugs, con man Jack McCain jumps into a well --- and into the past. Mistaken for a criminal, he's headed for prison, until he's freed --- with a wedding proposal! The widow Hawkins marries him to get help for her farm, but the attraction betw...



  • Angie Ray
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    A time machine hurtled Lucy Taylor back in time to Regency England --- and into the middle of a wedding to a dashing gentleman! Could she change history to save her future, without falling in love with a handsome new husband?...



  • Ingrid Weaver
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    On the eve of her wedding, museum curator Alanna Moore is cataloguing antiquities, when suddenly a Celtic warrior appears --- claiming to be her long-lost betrothed! Can she listen to her heart, and remember a love that was destined to be?...



  • Julie Miller

    A DANGEROUS FIELD TRIP Sarah McCormick had one last shot at adventure. Resigned to the life of a spinster, the prim schoolteacher planned to lead five teenage girls to the shadowy isle of Tenebrosa. There, in a tropical paradise, they would study an...



  • Christina Dodd

    THE PRINCESS MUST MARRY Princess Laurentia leads a fairy-tale life, attending glittering balls and wearing beautiful gowns. But after the ball is over, Laurentia finds herself getting into bed...alone. She dutifully agrees to choose a husband, but...



  • Karen Drogin

    TO HEAL A LITTLE GIRL'S HEART... For the first time in her career, attorney Chelsie Russell wants to lose a case. Representing her parents in the custody battle over their two-year-old granddaughter, Alix, has been a mistake, and only added to her ...



  • Quinn Taylor Evans

    A SORCERER'S LEGACY Orphaned by the only mother she had ever known, the fiercely independent Rianne had grown to womanhood outside Camelot's circle of wealth and power--unaware that she was heiress to a legacy of magic forged in the mists of Avalon....



  • Sally Fairchild

    From the sun-drenched hills of Tuscany to the shimmering seaport of Miami, from the cutthroat business of rival shipping empires t the passionate battles of the heart comes a novel of desire, ambition and deadly betrayal. Known affectionately as t...



  • Brenda Jackson

    Two years ago, geologist Corinthians Avery had brazenly sneaked into a hotel room to seduce Dex Madaris, head of Madaris Explorations and the longtime object of her affection. But the man who emerged from the shower to find Corinthians clad in next t...



  • Penny Jordan

    Prominent lawyer Max Crighton has it all -- money, power, the perfect home life. But for a man add to the dark and dangerous side of sexual attraction isn't enough. He goes from affair to affair, seducing his grateful female clients, putting his ch...




  • Mickee Madden

    ALIVE WITH LOVE In any other place it would seem impossible. But within the enchanting walls of Baird House, Beth and her beloved Lachlan are together again--reunited in another time, and in an embrace not even death can sever Blessed with a second ...



  • Kathryn Kirkwood

    LOVE'S SECOND SEASON Four years ago, one waltz with a handsome costumed "pirate" told Holly she'd met the love of her life. One kiss, and she promised to meet him the next afternoon for a romantic tet-a-tet,. But never did she see his face, for th...



  • Jill Marie Landis

    An innocent girl of nineteen, Olivia Bond is on the run from an ugly and dangerous past. She finds herself alone, lost deep in the frightening world of an Illinois swamp. Then, out of the mist, comes a man to save her. A reclusive loner, Noah LeCr...



  • Allison Lane

    A Brush with Passion Clad in spectacles and plain dresses, Joanna Patterson would make no impression at all on Lord Sedgewick Wylie, if she didn't keep running into him ... literally. The great arbiter of fashion for London society, Sedge had t...



  • Cherie Claire

    AN UNLIKELY PAIR Amanda Rose Richardson was compromised beyond repair! Fearing she'd become an old maid, she had thrown herself at the town rogue. Now she was standing in front of a priest pledging marriage to Rene Comeaux, a darkly handsome Ca...



  • Kathryn Attalla

    CAN ONE NIGHT OF DESIRE... On the eve of a yearlong transfer to Singapore, fabric designer Caitlin Adams threw caution to the wind. Spending a soulful night in the arms of sexy Andrew Sinclair made her want to put hard-won cynicism aside and believe...



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    In Joyce Carlow's "A TASTE OF FIRE," Bostonian Michael Hamilton discovers the tantalizing delicacies of New Orleans. The year is 1803, and the sultry, decadent French Quarter is teeming with exquisite food and gorgeous women, but none more captivatin...



  • Donna Hill

    A SECOND CHANCE... Tragedy brought Maxine Sherman and Quinten Parker together years ago, until another woman stole Quinn away from her. For as long as Maxine could remember, her nights were filled with dreams of his return. That was then. Now Quinn ...



  • Claire Cross

    Italy, August 1420. A gypsy named Lilith sees her lover hanged for a crime he didn't commit. On the gallows, he swears to return to her. Convinced that one day he'll be reborn, she searches for a fabled elixir -- rumored to grant immortality....



  • Connie Mason

    He blew into Trouble Creek on a raw April wind, a fast gun for hire to the highest bidder. But when Chloe Sommers offered him a job protecting her herd, she had no idea Desperado Jones had a hidden agenda as deadly as his Colt .45. All she saw was a ...



  • Patricia Werner

    AT THE CENTER OF THE STORM... Carrying on the work of her late father, legendary weather wizard Sherman Tucker, Florida meteorologist Kelly Tucker lives for the thrill of flying through howling gales to reach the calm, beautiful eye of a hurricane. ...



  • Margaret Chittenden

    Having ditched a cheating husband, Charlie Plato has had it with romance and is determined to dodge the advances of her business partner Zack Hunter, even if he does look devilishly handsome in the tuxedo he's wearing at her best friend's wedding. Th...



  • Elizabeth Bevarly

    That Man is Up to Something! When investigator Leo Friday is sent to unravel the shady goings-on at the Kimball family mansion, he never dreamed his primary suspect would be pretty Lily Rigby, the eccentric family's social secretary. Everyone just...



  • Connie Brockway

    They are the Merricks, two brothers and a sister, restless, daring, proud. English by birth, they came to Scotland with their father to occupy McClairen lands. And there each would find a love as wild and glorious as the Highland isle they claimed as...



  • Katherine Deauxville

    A SURPRISE INTRODUCTION The twelfth duke of Westermere was enjoying a peaceful drive until an Amazonian beauty with disheveled golden-brown curls tossed herself into his coach. That alone would not have flummoxed Sacheverel deVries, but when the str...



  • Sharon Pisacreta

    Salome Hall would do just about anything to win her fiance back--even if that meant leaving behind her teaching job and the safety of Black Horse, Missouri, and working in a traveling magic act. But her small-town upbringing had not prepared her for ...



  • Eugenia Riley

    JUMPING JEHOSHAPHAT! YOU'VE SHANGAHIED THE NEW SCHOOLMARM!" Ma Reklaw bellowed at her sons and wielded her broom with a fierceness that had all five outlaw brothers running for cover; it didn't take a PH.D. to realize that in the Reklaw household...



  • Evelyn Rogers

    It was as forthright and independent as the women who braved the rugged land, and sunset-haired Kate Calloway was as feisty an example of the breed as Cord had ever seen. A Texas woman. He had not dealt with one in a long time, but he recognized the ...



  • G.A. Kathryns

    In the spellbinding tradition of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Borders of Life captures the soul of a small town on the edge of reality, where nightmares shimmer in and out of focus--and the supernatural is just a step beyond......



  • Don Pendleton

    THE GUARDIANS The ultracovert arm of the U.S. Justice Department. Stony Man has an ongoing mission to keep the world's trouble spots from exploding, by destroying the agents of terror who threaten humanity. Now, as deadly nerve gas slaughters inno...



  • Don Pendleton

    BLOOD RESURRECTION A soft probe turns hard with no time for prisoners when U.S. and German factions of the neo-Nazi group Black Dawn unite in an unholy alliance that promises hell on earth for millions. On a collision course with the enemy, Mack Bol...



  • Kip Langello

    Jodie Simms lives for two things: her job as one of television’s top investigative journalists and her father, Carl, who is slowly losing his mind to the scourage of Alzheimer’s disease. Almost beyond hope, the best Jodie can do is hold her fathe...



  • James Watson; Mark Roberts

    At Firebase Loadstone, the SEALs went in with weapons blazing and saved the day--extracting a stranded Special Forces company from the middle of an all-out NVA invasion. Now, with a group of American prisoners being checked into the dreaded "Hanoi Hi...



  • V.C. Andrews

    “We lived in such a perfect world. Why were we so imperfect?” All Misty ever wanted was a normal family. But like so many others, Misty’s parents didn’t stay together. Now they use Misty to hurt each other, to deliver tiny cruelties in an en...



  • Mary Ann Mitchell

    Book OneHistoires de Le Vampire Marquis de SadeAs a vampire, the Marquis de Sade has survived the French Revolution, the two World Wars, and the swiftly changing centuries. However, for how long can he survive the taunting and heckling of his Dominat...



  • David Drake

    THE LONG WAY HOME Hammer's Slammer Don Slade is coming home to the planet Tethys, to his son and the woman he loves. But the space between is dark and cold. And the stars he must pass shine their light on planets which beckon to the weary traveler...



  • Nick O'Donohoe

    At the height of World War II, Grady Cavanaugh, a young American engineer and draft reject working for an industrial furnace manufacturer in New England, receives an odd order that leads him to the discovery of an incredible underground world populat...



  • Sheila Finch

    In the year 2345, young heroes have been yanked from 1999 to battle an alien menace. Soon they must seek help from the more distant past....



  • Eric Flint; David Drake

    EVIL FROM BEYOND TIME The Malwa Empire squats like a toad across 6th century India, commanded by ruthless men with depraved appetites. The thing from the distant future that commands them is far worse. AN ADVISOR WITHOUT A BODY Those who oppose ...



  • Peter Crowther

    In honor of the thirtieth anniversary of Apollo 11's landing on the moon, a collection of original science fiction tales explores the moon once again, in tales by Brian Stableford, Alan Dean Foster, Robert Sheckley, Brian Aldiss, Gene Wolfe, and othe...



  • Steven Piziks

    In the sequel to Company of Mind, Lance Michaels is sent out to reprogram a rogue hive of microscopic nanobots before a disaster can occur, only to discover that the hive is under the control of a psychotic child with plans to send the nanobo...



  • Sharon Green

    "Beware and be warned. In three hundred years will come a time of greatest crisis. In this crisis there will appear a Chosen Blending. They will stand against the reemergent evil, and will do their utmost to triumph." The Chosen Five--wielders of ...



  • Sean Russell

    THE END OF MAGIC Lord Eldrich is the last mage. A mysterious and menacing figure, he has dedicated his unnaturally long life to eradicating all vestiges of magic from the world, for he has had an apocalyptic vision of a terrible cataclysm brought ...



  • Robert Silverberg

    It Was The Worst of Times...

    Fifteen feet tall, the Entities land in cities across Earth. Ignoring humankind, they wall themselves in impenetrable enclaves, enslaving a few willing collaborators with their telepathic ...



  • Ashley McConnell

    In order to escape total annihilation, the people of M'kwethet pay homage to the evil forces of Apophis by providing their best and strongest specimens as host bodies to the Goa'uld for their young; when Colonel Jack O'Neill and his SG-1 team are str...



  • John Peel

    These growing pains are...monstrous.

    Thirteen-year-old Lucas Wright is hiding out for his life. The space research station he and his family live on has been invaded by a dangerous alien. One by one each member of the station team has disappea...



  • William C. Dietz

    PART HUMAN. PART ALIEN. ALL HERO. In a Ton gone ax, Colonel Bill Booly, with his mixed-blood and by-the-book attitude, is a misfit. So when he steps on some important toes, the brass is quick to make him pay. His punishment: assignment to the ...



  • Ru Emerson

    Vengeance will be served A village burns while its attackers flee into the night. Enraged, the King of Keoland orders an aging warrior to lead a band of adventurers on a retaliatory strike. As they prepare to enter the heart of the monsters' lair,...



  • Hannah Alexander

    Once, Kimberly Bryant was a sixteen-year-old runaway rebelling at life after her parents were killed in a car wreck. Now, at twenty-two she is coming back to Sunrise Christian Retreat to try to rectify her past by working with troubled teenagers. But...



  • Yvonne Lehman

    After her unfaithful husband is killed in an auto accident, Brooke Haddon faces the challenge of rebuilding her life. Most of her money is gone, so she must move with her five-year-old son to the honeymoon cottage on Hilton Head Island where her marr...



  • Mary Louise Colln

    The war Between the States has torn the small valley community apart, with residents' still holding allegiances to both sides of the conflict. Charity Morgan, too, has strong feelings, hating the Yankees for what they've done to her family and home-b...




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    He is friend, lover, provider and protector. He's as sexy as sin. And he's all yours! DO YOU TAKE THIS MAN? Say "I want!" to one seductive Stetson-toting reluctant father, from bestselling, award-winning author Diana Palmer. Say "I will!" to a...



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    He is friend, lover, provider and protector. He's as sexy as sin. And he's all yours! DO YOU TAKE THIS MAN? Say "I want!" to one seductive Stetson-toting reluctant father, from bestselling, award-winning author Diana Palmer. Say "I will!" to a...



  • Evelyn A. Crowe

    Not so long ago, Avery Jensen had it all... A beautiful home. An interesting career. Family and friends. Power, money and even a fiance. But that's in the past, in the life she lived before her brother framed her and she was sent to jail. Now all...



  • Emily Dalton

    He'd fathered her son -- and didn't know it. Yet! The guy with the sexy smile staring at Cassie Montgomery from Single Men of Alaska magazine wasn't just fantasy fodder -- but the answer to Cassie's personal mystery. Cassie didn&#...



  • Kay David

    Cole Reynolds is an outsider. He's lived in High Mountain all his life but never felt he belonged. That's okay, though. He's a man who likes his space -- and in West Texas there's plenty of it. But everything changed the day he met Ta...



  • Alyssa Dean

    LOOKING FOR LOVE IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES Reporter Tara Butler is thrilled with her assignment from Real Men magazine: updating "Forty-Nine Things You Need To Know About a Real Man" from the first issue of the magazine in 1949. This is a chance to ...



  • Cheryl St. John

    COME CLEAN... OR COME UP WITH A HUSBAND I, Francie Karr-Taylor, take thee, Ryan MacNair, in marriage to convince my grandmother and my tenth-reunion class that I'm happily married -- you provide the kids. A week should do it. You should pledge to ...



  • Anne Marie Duquette

    In Florida's Everglades, Carson Ward is the law. As a ranger, he's sworn to protect the land. But Carson's taken a private oath, too - that he will track down the poachers who killed his father. Alisha Jamison is a well-known wildlife photogra...



  • Carolyne Aarsen

    JOE BREWER DID NOT BELIEVE IN LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT.... Still, the cowboy's lonely heart skipped a beat at first sight of Rebecca Stevenson. With her warm smile and sky blue eyes, this beautiful stranger was Joe's dream come true. He had to know mor...



  • Stella Bagwell

    HAVING HIS BABY... Hardly a soul in Lincoln County believed any man could get near enough to kiss Judge Penelope Parker -- let alone get intimate! But someone had gotten a heck of a lot closer -- because Penny Parker was pregnant! Yep, Penny ...



  • Beverly Barton

    SHE WAS HIS WOMAN.... Dane Carmichael was the last of a dying breed -- a gentleman through and through. And he was the only man who could keep Annie Harden safe. From the moment he laid eyes on stubborn, beautiful Annie, he knew she would be his.....



  • Jo Beverley

    1760's Yorkshire, England Young Rosamunde Overton is forced into a daring deceit when her elderly husband's inability to sire an heir threatens everyone she cares for. Fleeing a scandalous masquerade, she rescues an injured nobleman, who just migh...



  • Lisa Bingham

    Baby Boom! Stephen Dubois was sexy, gentle, funny... and the instant dad of quintuplets left on his doorstep! He was overwhelmed by endless diaper changes and bottle feedings, so his new assistant was the answer to his prayers--and the embodiment ...



  • Sally Carleen

    BORROWED BRIDE Dark and devastating RI. Nick Claiborne's love 'em and leave 'em policy was suddenly in jeopardy. Because his new client, Analise Brewster, not only insisted on "helping" him uncover the mystery of her fiance's past, her irrepressib...



  • C.J. Carmichael

    Jessie has a father. She wants a mother, too! Grace Hamilton is an unflappable businesswoman whose self-discipline helped her build a successful company and brought her a glamorous life. But even she is momentarily unhinged when fourteen-year-old ...



  • Teresa Carpenter

    THERE WAS A MIXUP AT THE SPERM BANK.... And now Lisa Langdon was expecting millionaire Jared Steele's baby. The dashing executive was determined to be an exceptional father, and Lisa couldn't deny her unborn baby his love. However, she ne...



  • Tori Carrington

    Marc McCoy: Secret Service agent extraordinaire. His mission: to stop the woman he loves from marrying another man. And to save her life, if she'll let him. Melanie Weber: Marc's former partner and ex-lover. She's determined to give her unborn chi...



  • Judy Christenberry

    The Baby Is His! The minute Alexandra Logan made a grand reentrance into Cactus, Texas, Tucker Langford sensed a change. Seems that though Tuck could never forget the woman who'd stolen his heart, she couldn't remember him. Nor how she got pregna...



  • Shelley Cooper

    PROTECTOR As far as security specialists went, Steve Gallagher was the best. Driven and downright tenacious, he'd never lost a client. And he refused to let harm befall the woman who'd once been his wife. LOVER With just a look, Kate owned his h...



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    Melanie Tucker found herself trapped on the same party boat with nemesis Adam Stone! He was still too smooth, too sexy. And it was too much when they both fell overboard--and wound up stranded together! What could they do about all that delicious bod...



  • Susan Fox

    Two rebellious cousins -- and the men who tame them! Maddie St. John knows that Lincoln Coryell has dismissed her as a spoiled, glamorous socialite. He seems alternately amused and annoyed by her, which infuriates Maddie, as she badly needs his he...



  • Marcy Froemke

    When Margaret Gould returns to Chattanooga with her young son to nurse her estranged mother, Rhonda, she is instantly reunited with her old boyfriend, Adam Morgan. Adam has recently lost his wife and is struggling to raise his teenage daughter. Maggi...



  • Cathleen Galitz

    FROM WYOMING RENEGADE... Cameron Wade reveled in the solitude of mountain vistas and a cloudless Wyoming sky. He was a man of the land, but his life was about to be invaded by three ornery kids and their single mom, Patricia Erhart. His bachelor ins...



  • Jennifer Greene

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