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  • 50 Clues He's Mr. Right

    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 ...

  • Aaron Lets Go

    Katherine Applegate

    They've all grown up together on a tiny island. They think they know everything about one another...but they're only just beginning to find out the truth. Aaron lets go and gets into a fight at Ben's party because he's so desperate to win Claire's ...

  • The Accidental Bride

    Jane Feather

    The tale of an awkward young woman perched reluctantly on the verge of marriage. Soon she finds herself truly falling in love with her intended, and in the process discovers a daring new attitude within herself. Three unconventional women take a...

  • Acorna's People

    Anne McCaffrey; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

    "WELCOME HOME, LINYAARI CHILD!" With the help of her "uncles" and the thousands of humans who love and admire her, Acorna has found her true people, the peaceful, telepathic Linyaari. But Acorna still has much to do before she can enjoy her new ho...

  • Acts of Malice

    Perri O'Shaughnessy

    Amid the sparkling snow-swept mountains of Lake Tahoe, Nina Reilly has made a home, juggling the demands of her one-woman law practice and raising a teenage son alone. Now Nina has taken on a case that will threaten everything she holds dear, drawing...

  • Adam and Evil

    Gillian Roberts

    Philly Prep English teacher Amanda Pepper fears for her bright senior student Adam Evans. Increasingly erratic and isolated, Adam is an accident waiting to happen. So when a young woman is murdered at the landmark Free Library while Amanda and her cl...

  • Against the Giants

    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,...

  • Agent of the Black Watch

    BJ James

    LEAN. MEAN. DANGEROUS. His reputation spoke for itself. Ruthlessly dedicated to his covert unit, secret agent Kieran O'Hara lived and breathed the Black Watch. His latest mission pitted him against a crafty killer...and the prime suspect's beautif...

  • Alien at St Wilfred's

    Adrian Plass

  • The Alien Years

    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 ...

  • All I Desire

    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 ...

  • All That

    Lynn Mason

    GETTING PLAYED... As the sexy lead singer of Tallulah High's hottest band, Jason always gets every girl he wants...until he meets Trudy. The harder he tries with Trudy, the more she disses him. His close friend Raina warns him that Trudy's bad news,...

  • Amazing Lizards!

    Fay Robinson

  • And Babies Make Ten

    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 ...

  • And the Groom Wore Tule

    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'...

  • Angel Called Mervin

    Jennifer Rees Larcombe

    Mervin the Angel lectures his angelic students on all the big events in the Bible. See the events of the Bible in a totally new way, through the eyes of angel Mervin. As he lectures the student angels at the Celestial Training School he tells the ...

  • The Angel Chronicles, Volume 3

    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...

  • Apache War

    Peter McCurtin
    in

    In Hangman's Knot, Sundance is given a chance to escape a death sentence for killing a drunk in a barroom brawl by capturing an old friend, outlaw Joe Buck, while in Apache War, Sundance is sent to Fort McHenry, Arizona, to prevent an...

  • Arnold

    Mick Inkpen

  • As It Is in Heaven

    Niall Williams

    A man content to let life pass him by, schoolteacher Stephen Griffin is about to experience a miracle. For a string quartet from Venice has arrived in County Clare and, with it, worldly and beautiful violinist Gabriella Castoldi, who inspires love in...

  • At the End of the Day

    Anita Richmond Bunkley
    in

  • Auntie Peggy's Windmill and Other S

    Jennifer Rees Larcombe

    These beautiful stories from Jennifer Rees Larcombe capture the adventures of childhood, but also the difficulties, bringing children to a realisation of where strength can be found. AUNTIE PEGGYĂ•S WINDMILL is the story of two children and their ...

  • Babies, Rattles & Cribs... Oh, My!

    Leanna Wilson

    Luke Crandall could handle a woman, but was clueless about the adorable pink bundle of energy screaming in his arms. So to be the best single dad ever, he needed a guide through the baby jungle. With lovely Sydney Reece, he'd hit pay dirt. She could ...

  • The Baby and the Cowboy

    Janice Kaiser

    Welcome to THE COWBOY CLUB! A place where romance and the West come alive. Meet the cowboy of your fantasies...the man of your dreams. I fyou kiss him, legend says you'll be hitched 'fore the year is out! The entire town is in an uproar! Someone ...

  • The Baby Bargain

    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...

  • The Baby Due Date

    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...

  • Bad Karma

    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...

  • Baldur's Gate

    Philip Athans
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    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...

  • Beaker's Dozen

    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 ...

  • Bedazzled

    Bertrice Small

    Determined to elope with a peer whose name has been blackened by his murderous brother, Lady India Lindley boards a ship bound for Italy with her intended. But when the vessel is taken captive by Ottoman pirates, the independent beauty becomes a slav...

  • Before I Sleep

    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...

  • Beginning

    Peg Sutherland

    It's fifty years since the Lyon family of New Orleans ventured into what was then an exciting new business--television. Despite objections from some in the family, Margaret Hollander Lyon believed it was the wave of the future. . .and the past fifty ...

  • Beneath a Dakota Cross

    Stephen A. Bly

    IN SEARCH OF A NEW LIFE OUT WEST, BRAZOS FORTUNE FINDS HIS FAMILY ENDANGERED BY THE VERY QUEST HE HOPED WOULD SAVE THEM. With these simple words, Brazos Fortune sets out on his journey in the first of Stephen Blys new Fortunes of the Black Hills seri...

  • The Berenstain Bears in the Wax Museum

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Excitement comes to Beartown! It’s summertime and the cubs of Bear Country School are thrilled when Madame Bearsaud proposes to open her world-famous wax museum in Beartown. But some of the elder bears, especially Gramps, are skeptical of the c...

  • The Best Man Switch

    Liz Ireland

    IDENTICAL TWINS... The last thing in the world best man Grant Whiting wants is to be set up with the maid of honor at his friend's wedding. So he blackmails his identical twin brother into performing the best man switch. Only, after Mitzi decks Gr...

  • Bettypalooza

    Elizabeth Lenhard

    When Cher transforms hugely popular alterna-star Talia D'art--an angry young woman--into a happy pop singer who revels in her newfound Bettyness, her fans and agents are less then pleased, and Cher must remedy the situation. Original....

  • Beyond Mayfield

    Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

    When prejudicial acts begin to effect Meg's happiness at school, she starts looking forward to going back home, yet once there, she realizes that great changes are taking place and begins to see the world, including Mayfield, in an entirely new way....

  • The Big Con

    David Maurer

    The classic 1940 study of con men and con games that Luc Sante in Salon called “a bonanza of wild but credible stories, told concisely with deadpan humor, as sly and rich in atmosphere as anything this side of Mark Twain.”
     
    “Of all th...

  • Big Easy Backroad

    Martin Hegwood

    Martin Hegwood brings Dixie grit and flavor to a novel of a Florida Gulf mob murder that twists faster than a back swamp road. After drowning in a barmaid's sea-green eyes, P .I. Jack Delmas agrees to track down her missing pal--only to find him m...

  • Birds of a Feather

    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...

  • Birdsong Road

    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...

  • Black Dawn Rising

    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...

  • Blackhawk's Sweet Revenge

    Barbara McCauley

    THE BRIDE'S DEMAND He was the renegade, the outcast...and the object of her youthful affection. And when Native American Lucas Blackhawk triumphantly returned to his hometown, on a quest for revenge, Julianna Hadley readily agreed to his shocking...

  • Bliss Jumps the Gun

    Bob Sloan

    New York City homicide detective Lenny Bliss's biggest mistake wasn't bungee-jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge. The mistake was handing his gun to the previous jumper, a young Chinese girl: she's gone. Bliss's wife has a successful career as a stand-up...

  • Blitz Harvest

    Peter Leslie

    England is at war and London is burning, but an even deadlier peril than the Nazi bombers threatens the planned Allied invasion of continental Europe. A network of 'sleeper' agents awaits the signal to move into action and reveal to Hitler every deta...

  • Blood Mountain

    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....

  • Blood Ties

    Jennifer Lash

    Set mainly in Ireland, Jennifer Lash's dark, exhilarating novel is about the redemptive power of love. It tells of Violet Farr and her loveless marriage, her wild, unfathomable son and his illegitimate son, all of them bound together in a repeatin...

  • Blue Moon

    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...

  • The Borders of Life

    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......

  • Boy Meets Girl

    Francine Pascal

    I've finally found him. Jeremy. The one who loves me for who I am. The one who helps me forget... Forget what? Forget Will. The one who never really bothered to know me at all....

  • Briar Rose

    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...

  • A Bride Most Common

    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?...

  • Bride of Trouville

    Lyn Stone

    Wedded by force, bedded by will... SHE WAS ALL HE HAD EVER WANTED When Edouard Gillet, Comte de Trouville, wed the beauteous Lady Anne of Baincroft, he thought he had found his heart's desire. But was the passion he had willingly declared f...

  • The Bride's Secret

    Adrianne Lee

    He disturbed her dreams, her waking moments, with his looks, his touch... Nikki Navarro came to Chris Conrad's isolated cliff-top mansion in search of the truth about her parents. Instead, she found Chris, the new owner... a lover beyond her wilde...

  • Brink of War

    Keith Douglass

    GOODWILL GAMES? It's America vs. Russia in an airmanship contest. A friendly mission, all fun and games...until Russia starts playing rough... Admiral "Tombstone" Magruder and the USS Jefferson are sent in to win the post-Cold War by cozying up...

  • Broke Heart Blues

    Joyce Carol Oates

    The much-anticipated reissue of a novel that is one of Joyce Carol Oates’s personal favorites among her oeuvre; featuring a new afterword by OatesIN THE HEART OF A LANGUID JULY, ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD JOHN REDDY HEART drives a traffic-stopping, salmon-col...

  • Broken Vows

    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 ...

  • Brought to You by the Number 1

    Sarah Albee

  • The Burglar in the Rye

    Lawrence Block

    Bernie Rhodenbarr, bookseller by day, burglar by night, is on the prowl again. Pretty Alice Cottrell has hired him to infiltrate the crumbling old Paddington Hotel and steal back the letters of reclusive author Gulliver Fairborn from his once-upon-a-...

  • Bushwhacked Bride

    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...

  • Buzz

    S.R. Martin

  • By Blood Alone

    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 ...

  • By Honor Bound

    Dodge Tyler

  • A Cajun Dream

    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...

  • Calder Pride

    Janet Dailey

    Cat is a Calder, through and through: proud, headstrong, intelligent, and beautiful. When her fiance is accidentally killed, she vows never to love again. But one reckless right with a handsome, gray-eyed stranger changes everything, giving her a son...

  • Can You Wave Bye, Bye, Baby?

    Elyse Gasco

    Daring, tough, and darkly humorous, these linked stories have at their centre the relationship between parents and children. As devastating in their emotional honesty as they are poignant and wise, these stories map the intricate terrain of adoption ...

  • The Candlelight Wish

    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...

  • Captor of My Heart

    Donna Valentino

    While ministering to the sick in the English countryside, a lovely young woman and her father are abducted by a dashing aristocrat loyal to the deposed Stewart king as part of his scheme to regain his family's honor and destroy Cromwell. Their de...

  • Case of the Stolen Baseball Cards

    James Preller

    Yeesh! Eddie brought his baseball cards to school and now they are missing. It's time for Jigsaw to step up to the plate. He's no rookie detective! Solving this case is sure to send Jigsaw and Mila straight to the Detectives' Hall of Fame....

  • The Cat and the King of Clubs

    Carole Nelson Douglas

  • Cat By the Tail

    Sarah Verney

    "I urge you to worship me." -- Salem Salem is being terrorized! When Hilda brings home a tiny kitten she finds, Salem feels out-cuted and downright ignored. What's worse is that the "temporary" guest acts more like a permanent pet, sleeping in Salem'...

  • Cat's Big Night // Dog Behind Bars

    Nancy Krulik

    In two stories about CatDog, an animal who is half cat and half dog, Cat is invited to a fancy party where dogs aren't welcome, and Dog chases a ball into a big city where the dogs can't stand cats, only to be captured by the dogcatcher....

  • Catdog Catcher

    K.Emily Hutta

  • Catdog's Big Idea

    Ann Braybrooks

  • Celebrate the Year with Winnie the Pooh

    Disney Book Group

    Complete with instructions for easy-to-make crafts, this collection provides a different tale for each holiday throughout the year and shows how Pooh and his friends find different ways to show their affections towards one another with each passing e...

  • Centaurus

    David G. Hartwell

    An original anthology of works from writers living down-under includes pieces by Peter Carey, Terry Dowling, Rosaleen Love, Sean McMullen, George Turner, Lucy Sussex, Greg Egan, Phillippa C. Maddern and A. Bertram Chandler. 15,000 first printing....

  • The Change

    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...

  • Cheaters

    Eric Jerome Dickey

    Stephan Mitchell and his best friends Jake and Darnell are living well with good jobs, fine clothes, and beckoning futures. For Stephan and Jake, who attract plenty of beautiful sisters, variety is the spice of life. But Darnell is different: He has ...

  • Chi: A Novel of Virtual Reality

    Alexander Besher

  • Chickie Riddles

    Katy Hall

    From the author of Sheepish Riddles and Snakey Riddles comes a hilarious assortment of forty-two easy-to-read jokes and riddles about chickens, complemented by amusing, full-color illustrations. Reprint....

  • Child's Play

    David Malouf

    In a sunlit piazza on an April morning, women throw buckets of water over the cobbles and men deliver trays of pastry to trattorie. In a barren room above, a fanatic watches, engaged in the details of his life's most important project: the assassinat...

  • Choices

    Eva Rutland
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  • Chump Change

    David Eddie

    David Henry, a young man in New York City bent on literary stardom, finds himself a complete failure and must decide how low he will sink when the opportunity to make some big money presents itself. A first novel. Original. Tour....

  • Cinnamon Gardens

    Shyam Selvadurai

    Set among the upper classes in the gracious, repressive and complex world of 1920s Ceylon (Sri Lanka), this evocative novel tells the story of two people who must determine if it is possible to pursue personal happiness without compromising the happi...

  • A Code for Tomorrow

    John J. Gobbell

    In this eagerly awaited sequel to John J. Gobbell's The Last Lieutenant, Lieutenant Todd Ingram returns to find himself fighting to win the war and save the woman he loves... NATIONS LOCKED IN DESPERATE BATTLE... As the war in the South Pacific ...

  • Coffin's Game

    Gwendoline Butler

    PLACES IN THE MIND A series of random terrorist acts have struck the heart of Commander John Coffin's Docklands area. The body of a dead woman, rendered unidentifiable by her killer, is at first believed to be that of Stella Pinero, Coffin's wife....

  • Come Play at Home

    Susan Breen

    Baby Mickey has all his friends over for playgroup. The babies choose lots of fun toys from the big toy box. But Baby Daisy has trouble reaching a toy since she is so little. Baby Daisy goes off to play in another room where the toys end up finding h...

  • Come Play at the Park

    Susan Breen

    The Disney Babies head to the park for a day of fun. They swing on the swings, play in the sandbox, read books, and enjoy a picnic lunch. By the end of the day, they are sad to leave but they know tomorrow will be another fun-filled day!...

  • A Comforting Lie

    Linda Phillips Ashour

    Helen Patterson, a lonely single mother who runs an interior design shop, begins a relationship with customer Ray Richards, refusing to recognize the distrust her teenage son feels for him and blind to Ray's aura of potential violence...

  • The Company of Glass

    Valery Leith

    The Key of Knowledge Opens the Door to Power.... EVERIEN A high civilization, long vanished but for the enigmatic Knowledge left sleeping in its very stones. THE SEKK Beautiful. Terrifying. Enemies to the Clans who settle in Everien. Only the...

  • The Compass of the Soul

    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 ...

  • The Con and the Crusader

    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...

  • Conor

    Ruth Langan

    An Honorable Rogue... Gifted with a smooth tongue and a sharp blade, Conor O'Neil sought to avenge the hardships his people had endured. But while he played a risky game of politics and power, Emma Vaughn played an even riskier game still. An...

  • Conyn's Bride

    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?...

  • A Cop's Good Name

    Linda Markowiak

    The last thing Joe Latham expected to be doing was defending his badge--and his reputation. But-one dark night, one fleeing suspect, one split-second decision later -- Joe's fourteen-year career as an outstanding cop is about to end. Only lawyer Magg...

  • Corporate Mentality

    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...

  • Countdown: August

    Daniel Parker

    COUNTDOWN It's 1999. There's no cure for the end of the world. Or is there? AUGUST The survivors of the plague thought everyone over twenty was dead. They're in for the shock of their lives. Because a cure exist. Its discovery could lead to a new hop...

  • The Cowboy's Bride // Western Blessings

    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...

  • Cradle and All

    Zachary Alan Fox

    When strange accidents begin happening to their eight-month-old son Alex, Kate McDonald--a social worker--and her husband Paul--a deputy D.A.--are accused of child abuse and are plunged into a nightmarish world that forces Kate to confront dark secre...

  • Creepy Creations

    Golden Books

  • Crime Zero

    Michael Cordy

    What if the plague of violent crime could be eradicated from the earth forever? What if the cure was more lethal than the disease? The death penalty is no deterrent. Prison reform has proven useless. With violent crime on a steady rise, a powerful ca...

  • Cross the Stars

    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...

  • Cruel Justice

    Patricia D. Benke

    Until Proven Innocent Deputy District Attorney Judith Thornton has a full-time job before she ever gets to work. Every day she struggles as a single parent and caregiver to her critically ill mother, giving all she can and still feeling guilty tha...

  • The Cure

    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...

  • Cuttings

    Anne Underwood Grant

    SMELL THE ROSES The card was unfinished. The flowers were perfect. And both were found near a dead man in the crowded Charlotte Convention Center. The occasion was a world-class gathering of floral. designers. The deceased was a leading practition...

  • Daddy Unknown

    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...

  • Daughter of Camelot

    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....

  • Dead Heat

    Joanna Campbell

    Melanie Graham is thrilled. She loves exercise riding, and she's good at it, too! Her aunt Ashleigh says Melanie would make a great Jockey-she's really thriving at Whitebrook.

    But Melanie's not alone. Her friend Kevin McLean also wants to ex...

  • Depth Charge

    Bobbi J.G. Weiss

    When Allen Strange--a Xelan alien--accompanies his friends Robbie and Josh on a day trip to San Diego, they discover strange energy waves that are linked to a shipment of torpedoes, and they must race against time to defuse the deadly weapons....

  • The Descent

    Jeff Long

    We are not alone. Some call them devils or demons. But they are real. They are down there. And they are waiting for us to find them. In a cave in the Himalayas, a guide discovers a self-mutilated body with a warning: Satan exists. In the Kalahari D...

  • Destiny's Shield

    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 ...

  • Doctor Dolittle and Tommy Stubbins

    N.H. Kleinbaum

  • Doctor Dolittle Meets the Pushmi-Pullyu

    N.H. Kleinbaum

    Doctor Dolittle must sail to Africa with his animal family. The monkeys are sick, and they need his help. Doctor Dolittle has some amazing adventures on his journey, and even meets the rarest of all animals - the two-headed pushmi-pullyu!

    Base...

  • Don't Forget to Die

    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...

  • Double Helix: Quarantine

    John Vornholt

    Like intertwining filaments of human and alien DNA, a ruthless campaign of revenge has threaded its way through the galaxy, touching billions of sentient beings -- and changing forever the life of Lieutenant Thomas Riker. Tom Riker, an identical dup...

  • Double Helix: Red Sector

    Diane Carey

    Like the biological weapons they employ, a sinister conspiracy has spread across the Delta Quadrant and across many years of Starfleet History. Now the mysterious menace surfaces again--to strike at the heart of the Romulan Empire. An artificial v...

  • Doug's Itchy Situation

    Jeffrey Nodelman

    After getting a case of chicken pox, Doug tries to hide it from Patti because he still wants to take her on their first date, yet when Patti finds out, she puts his fears to rest by staying with him through his illness and postponing their special ou...

  • Downhome Darlin'

    Victoria Pade

    In Downhome Darlin, Abby Stanton sets out to prove she's not boring and predictable by being a wild woman the day of her wedding. She attempts to woo cowboy Cal Ketchum, but he happens to be looking for the girl-next-door....

  • Eden Springs

    G. Roger Corey

    In the sleepy midwestern town of Eden Springs, life moves at an easy pace. You can count on the local diner for home-cooked specials. Sturdy old residences house generation after generation of families with the same name. And nothing but routine stor...

  • Edge of Honor

    Richard Herman

    Madeline Turner, the first female U.S. President, has already weathered global crises during the first months of her administration. But the balance of power has suddenly shifted dangerously and dramatically in Europe--the Russian government has fall...

  • Elmo Says, Don't Wake the Baby!

    Constance Allen

  • Enraptured

    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...

  • Escape from Film School

    Richard Walter

    Escape From Film School tells the sprightly tale of a young man who makes it in Hollywood without ever leaving film school.When Stuart arrives in California in the Sixties, he is fleeing the draft and he quite literally stumbles into USC's film schoo...

  • Escape From Horror House

    R.L. Stine

    After things begin to move on their own and strange writings appear on the wall, it becomes apparent that a poltergeist has moved into their home in this latest edition to the Goosebumps series for middle readers. Original....

  • Essential Saltes

    Don Webb

    Matthew Reynman, an Austin used bookstore owner and fireworks devotee, investigates the strange disappearance of his late wife's ashes, finding himself suddenly deeply involved in an unlikely criminal world....

  • Eternally Yours

    Jennifer Baker

  • Every Little Thing About You

    Lori Wick

    THE FIRST MEETING BETWEEN SLATER RAWLINGS AND Liberty Drake could hardly be called ideal. As acting deputy of Shotgun, Texas, Liberty is simply enforcing the town laws. But Slater, a former Texas Ranger with a restless spirit, is surprised to find hi...

  • Everything Changes

    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...

  • Evil Queen Tut and the Great Ant Pyramids

    Dan Greenburg

    Uh-oh! Thanks to a heaping helping of a new dietetic sugar substitute, Zack shrinks down to the size of a bug. It's not all that bad--until he discovers an army of ants who are building an ant pyramid for their despotic pharaoh-queen!...

  • Expose

    Laura Van Wormer

    Two years ago Sally Harrington abandoned the adrenaline rush of working for a Los Angeles magazine to return home to Castleford, Connecticut. Now she works for the local paper, chasing leads from Crazy Pete Sabatino, the town's conspiracy theorist, a...

  • Eyes Of Justice

    Jake Thoene

    After being rescued from the battle of Trafalgar, William Sutton arrives back home in England and tells his grandfather of the amazing encounter with a man who looked just like him. Meanwhile, his long-lost brother, now a spy for France, returns t...

  • The Face of Apollo

    Fred Saberhagen

    Ancient Greece has many heroes. Young Jeremy Redthorn, seemingly doomed to virtual slavery as a farm laborer, doesn't think of himself as one. But when he risks his life for a beautiful, wounded stranger, he soon finds himself on a perilous mission. ...

  • Falconer and the Great Beast

    Ian Morson

    It is 1268. Oxford is forced to play host to the Tartars, a tribe from the East whose deeds have wreaked havoc in France and Germany. This time they claim their mission is a peaceful one -- they merely wish to gain audience with the king. But are the...

  • A Family Man

    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...

  • Fangs for the Memories

    Bill Myers

    MADCAP MYSTERIES WITH A MESSAGE New Edition! with a note by the author. Why is there a coffin-shaped shadow in the basement of the old Zanker house? What's with the high-tech, fancy black limo? Giant bats, late-night robberies, black capes . . . coul...

  • Fantastic Tales

    Italo Calvino

    The acclaimed author presents “a rich and wide-ranging anthology” of 19th century fantasy and horror stories -- with an original introduction for each (Library Journal).   Vampires, ghosts, and other horrors abound in this collection of nine...

  • Fascination

    Judith A. Lansdowne
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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...

  • Father, Lover, Bodyguard

    Cassie Miles

    CAPTIVE HEARTS: From hostages to prisoners of passion -- Held at gunpoint in a mysterious crime, three women are soon bound by desire to the men sworn to protect them at all costs... Amanda Fielding remembered nothing of the crime she was suspec...

  • The Fifth Proposal

    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...

  • The Final Mission: Spooky 8

    Bob King

    The Final Mission tells the story of Bob King, who for seventeen years, beginning with his military career as a member of the Special Forces Unit in Vietnam, led an incredible double life, carrying out the U.S. government's high-risk missions--withou...

  • Fire and Desire

    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...

  • The First Immortal

    James Halperin

    In 1988, Benjamin Smith suffers a massive heart attack. But he will not die. A pioneering advocate of the infant science of cryonics, he has arranged to have his body frozen until the day when humanity will possess the knowledge, the technology, and ...

  • First to Fight

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Flint's Honor

    Richard S. Wheeler

    Sam Flint, a committed Old West journalist, returns with a dangerous attempt to start an honest newspaper as competition for the corrupt and powerful Silver City Democrat in the newly formed state of Colorado. Reprint....

  • A Floating Life

    Simon Elegant

  • For This Week I Thee Wed

    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 ...

  • Foreigner

    Nahid Rachlin

    "A rare, intimate look at Iranians. . . . I have read [this book] four times by now, and each time I have discovered new layers in it." -- Anne Tyler, New York Times Book Review "Nahid Rachlin has an intimate insider's knowledge of present-day every...

  • The Gal Who Took the West

    Myrna Temte

    EMMA BARNES WAS THE MOST INTERESTING BRIDE CANDIDATE SUNSHINE GAP, WYOMING, HAD EVER SEEN! But no man was a match for the feisty spitfire. Unless she dared look the way of Cal McBride -- the too-handsome, heart-stirring cowboy mayor... who was sud...

  • Gemini Rising

    James Axler

    Rumors of trouble bring Ryan Cawdor home to West Virginia, where he'd left his nephew Nathan at the head of the barony. But a welcoming committee is waiting for him with a band of sec men, and a usurper of the Cawdor name. Unable to help a mysterious...

  • A Gentle Magic

    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 ...

  • Gentle Rosie

    Mary Morgan

  • Geographies of Home

    Loida Maritza Perez

    After leaving the college she'd attended to escape her religiously conservative parents, Iliana, a first-generation Dominican-American woman, returns home to Brooklyn to find that her family is falling apart: one sister is careening toward mental col...

  • The Ghost

    Marc Olden

    The Ghost -- the code name for the secret member of an undercover cop's backup team. It is the Ghost's job to remain hidden, blending into the scenery, maintaining close observation of his assignment's surroundings. In short, he's supposed to keep th...

  • Ghost Dance

    Mark T. Sullivan

    World-weary documentary filmmaker Patrick Gallagher finds himself drawn to local police officer Andie Nightingale as a series of grisly, senseless murders threatens to unlock evil secrets from the past and to reveal a dark legacy for which a maniacal...

  • A Gift for the Groom

    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...

  • Glass Slipper Bride

    Arlene James

    It was a fairy tale come true...almost. Charming, courageous Zach Keller had asked poor little Jillian Waltham to be his bride. But his proposal was just a formality. For the sexy bodyguard had promised to protect Jillian with his very life, and the ...

  • The Gnomewrench in the Dwarfworks

    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...

  • God Bless the Gargoyles

    Dav Pilkey

    Gargoyles have been feared and misunderstood for centuries, but now Caldecott Honor artist Dav Pilkey tells the real story of these gentle stone creatures come to life.Behind their cold, stone faces, gargoyles have warm, loving souls -- yet most peop...

  • Golden Anniversary

    Ruth Jean Dale

    It's fifty years since the Lyon family of New Orleans ventured into what was then an exciting new business--television. Despite objections from some in the family, Margaret Hollander Lyon believed it was the wave of the future. . .and the past fifty ...

  • Gonzo's Book of Out-of-this World Puzzles

    Laura Driscoll

  • Goyim

    David Rosenbaum

  • Graveyard Dust

    Barbara Hambly

    It is St. John's Eve in the summer of 1834 when Benjamin January--Creole physician and music teacher--is shattered by the news that his sister has been arrested for murder. The Guards have only a shadow of a case against her. But Olympe--mystical and...

  • Great Gonzos in the Galaxy

    Kiki Thorpe

  • Grotesque

    Ellen Steiber

    Stone Cold

    A serial killer is stalking the city, slashing his victims' faces before killing them. But when the murderer is caught, he claims to have been possessed by the spirit of an ancient, malicious gargoyle--one he fe...

  • Grover's Guide to Good Manners

    Allen

  • Guardian Groom

    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...

  • Gunslinger

    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 ...

  • Hang a Left at Venus

    Dan Greenburg

    When Zack and his dad come upon an alien whose spacecraft is running on empty in Central Park, it's easy enough to find more fuel. (Mayonnaise!) But retrieving the abandoned spaceship from the NYPD is quite a different story!...

  • Hard Merchandise

    K.W. Jeter

    Feared and admired, respected and despised, Boba Fett enjoys a dubious reputation as the galaxy's most successful bounty hunter. Yet even a man like Boba Fett can have one too many enemies.... When Boba Fett stumbles across evidence implicating Pr...

  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

    J.K. Rowling

    The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby...

  • The Haunted Heart

    Cherie Bennett

    When inexperienced Gina and her family move into the haunted house called Canterville Chase, she's stunned to find herself torn between the irrestible, aristocratic Jonathan Canterville and his archenemy, the moody, sensitive Thomas.Thomas happens to...

  • A Head for Poisoning

    Simon Beaufort

    The second book in the critically acclaimed medieval mystery series featuring Sir Geoffrey MappestoneIn the year 1101, Sir Geoffrey Mappestone returns to his home at Goodrich Castle on the Welsh border. He is travelling in the company of a knight who...

  • The Heart of the Matter

    Sandra Kitt
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  • Heartthrob

    Meredith Webber

    E.R. Professionals: Dr. Peter Jackson & Dr. Anna Crane Dr. Peter Jackson was "Hospital Heartthrob of the Month." But Peter was quick to tell his new colleague, Dr. Anna Crane, that the posters plastered all over the hospital were just for fund-rai...

  • Hell's Half Acre

    James Reasoner

    When a deadly gang of bank robbers kidnaps the family of a wealthy, powerful banker, Walker and Trivette must search the streets of Dallas to find the hostages before it is too late. Original. TV tie-in....

  • Her Eyewitness

    Rita Herron

    Her Alibi... Blinded in the line of duty, police officer Collin Cash received a transplant to regain his eyesight -- and woke to a vision of murder. He alone knew that the beautiful woman accused of the crime was innocent -- but who would believe he...

  • Her Man Friday

    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...

  • Her Own Ranger

    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...

  • Highland Promise

    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...

  • The Hindenburg Crashes Nightly

    Greg Hrbek

    In the summer of 1975, Thomas Markham is a slight boy of ten, Lindsey Paris a troubled girl of eighteen. When Tom's mother dies in childbirth, his family is shattered and he surrenders to the warm embrace of college-bound Lindsey, who is all too f...

  • Hindenburg,1937

    Cameron Dokey

    "Anna, promise me..." Her grandfather never finished his last wish as he died clutching their tickets for a trans-Atlantic voyage of the Hindenburg. But Anna Becker is certain he would want her to take the tickets and leave Germany before her rut...

  • Hocus Corpus

    James Tucker

    As chief resident of surgery at Pittsburgh University Medical Center, Dr. Jack Merlin knows that patient fatalities are a fact of life. But when four people die after successful routine operations, he has cause for suspicion. The victims have nothing...

  • The Homecoming

    Steven Farley

    Danielle is thrilled to be helping Alec Ramsay escort a vanload of racehorses from New York to Florida. She'll also get to visit her horse, Redman, who has been earning his oats at a riding camp up north. When an extra stall unexpectedly becomes avai...

  • Honk!

    Mick Inkpen

  • Hope Everlastin'

    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 ...

  • Hot Water

    Herman Weiss

    SET A COURSE FOR MISADVENTURE... Joe Chelsea and Josh Novick can't seem to settle into their roles as retired NYPD officers, much to their wives' dismay. Instead of relaxing under the Florida sun, they're reliving their days on the force--and growin...

  • How to Ruin a Friendship

    Francine Pascal

    Elizabeth and Salvador share a secret kiss.... Why oh why oh why did Elizabeth ever kiss Salvador? No way can they tell Anna what happened. Especially now. She's having such a hard time with the anniversary of her brother's death coming up an...

  • The Hunted

    Jerry Kennealy

    When a young immigrant girl witnesses a horrific murder, she barely escapes...with a vital piece of evidence. Investigating the crime is an intrepid female San Francisco police inspector who bucks the system when it suits her. Before long, the inspec...

  • Hunter's Woman

    Lindsay McKenna

    WHATEVER HUNTER WANTED... HUNTER GOT And the long, lean military man wanted his woman back from the moment he set his piercing gaze on her again. 'Cause Ty Hunter might have let Dr. Catt Alborak walk away once, but not even a passionate Texas hell...

  • The Hunters

    James Salter

    Captain Cleve Connell has already made a name for himself among pilots when he arrives in Korea during the war there to fly the newly operational Fâ€"86 fighters against the Soviet MIGs. His goal, like that of every fighter pilot, is to chalk up enou...

  • Husband for Hire // The 10-Year Reunion

    Susan Wiggs

    Every Man Has His Price! Lost Springs Ranch was famous for turning young mavericks into good men. So word that the ranch was in financial trouble sent a herd of loyal bachelors stampeding back to Wyoming to put themselves on the auction block! ...

  • A Husband for Holly

    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...

  • I Choose You!

    Tracey West

    POKEMON EMERGENCY! Eleven-year-old Ash Ketchum wants to be the world's greatest Pokemon master. With Pikachu, his brand-new Pokemon at his side, he sets out to capture and train every Pokemon he can find. Will he do it? Ash is determined, and Pikach...

  • I Think I'll Just Curl up and Die

    Rosie Rushton

  • If Looks Could Kill

    Elizabeth Cage

    The Spy Girls are hightailing it to Asia to scope out "Luscious" Lucien West, a hypnotically hot guru with a way-devoted following. Lucien and his young American recruits are turning the tiny depressed country of Kinh-Sanh into a land of peace and ha...

  • In a Heartbeat

    Tina Wainscott

    EACH BEAT OF HER HEART When Jenna's husband Paul dies in a car wreck, he leaves his desperately ill wife one last gift: his heart. Now, as Paul's heart beats strong within Jenna, something strange is happening. Paul is leading Jenna back to Texas--t...

  • In Honored Glory

    Robert Vaughan

    A historical novel about the Spanish American War follows General Joseph Murchinson and his son, Lieutenant Todd Murchinson, who is assigned as one of the white officers to the Buffalo Soldiers. Original....

  • In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu

    Tony Ardizzone

    The Santuzzus are poor Sicilian farm laborers at the turn of the century who endure back-breaking work in the fields of a tyrannical landlord. Wanting more for their children and grandchildren than a lifetime of servitude, Papa Santuzzu and his wife ...

  • Inspector Gadget

    Scott Sorrentino

    Tells of how everyday John Brown was magically transformed into a super crime-fighting detective after receiving treatment from a talented scientist following a near-fatal car accident. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Instant Daddy

    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&#...