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New Books List: 544 titles

  • Heat

    Nancy Holder

    In his first year in Los Angeles, Angel, the vampire with a soul, came across an inter-dimensional hunter named Jhiera. The seductive woman was only trying to protect other females in her culture from being stripped of their emotions -- intense emoti...

  • Shattered Twilight

    Yvonne Navarro

    Even Willow's own coven has turned against her now. Condemned for saving Buffy from their evil phantom and for not protecting the other coven members fully, as she had promised, Willow must come up with a way to restore herself to them -- and to rein...

  • Anarchaos

    Donald E. Westlake

    An early work by one of Science Fiction's grand masters
    Anarchaos is a planet, inhabited by humans, where anarchy is the only law; where each man protects himself as best he can; and where the weak are soon dead. Malone's brother had dies that way...

  • Assassin

    Ted Bell

    Clive Cussler called Ted Bell's action thriller Hawke "rich, spellbinding, and absorbing." Now, a desperate race to avert an assault on America has Bell's brilliant intelligence agent battling terrorists on a breathtaking worldwide scale. Alexande...

  • Call to Treason

    Jeff Rovin

    When a shortsighted congressional committee cuts Op-Center's budget, the first victim is General Mike Rodgers. But he may not be out of work for long. Dynamic Senator Donald Orr is making a run for president as the head of his own third party - and...

  • Day of the Dead

    J.A. Jance

    Thirty years ago, a local Papago girl was brutally murdered, her butchered body found stuffed into a large cooler left on the side of Highway 86. No one was ever charged for the crime. Few even cared. And no one suspected it was only the beginning...

  • For the Defendant

    E.G. Schrader

    Attorney Janna Scott represents a renowned doctor who is accused of sexually assualting one of his patients, while her occasional lover, Detective Jack Stone, tracks a serial killer called the Soldier of Death and gets a break in the case when a vict...

  • Going East

    Matthew D'Ancona

    Mia Taylor’s life is enviable: she has a high-profile career, a glamorous, powerful family, and feels trust and love for the world that surrounds her. And then a terrorist bomb destroys it all in one night. Struggling to comprehend the loss of ever...

  • The Halo Effect

    M.J. Rose

    At the Butterfield Institute Dr. Morgan Snow, one of New York's top sex therapists, sees everything from the abused to the depraved, from couples grappling with sexual boredom to twisted sociopaths with dark, erotic fetishes. Cleo Thane is one of ...

  • Indelible

    Karin Slaughter

    Two armed men enter the police station in tiny Heartsdale, Georgia, and open fire. When the shooting stops, an officer is dead, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver is seriously wounded, and the survivors--including a class of grade-school children and medi...

  • Rain Storm // Choke Point // Winner Take All

    Barry Eisler

    Now Eisler takes Rain to the ends of the earth, where old habits die hard...and violently. John Rain has fled to Brazil to clear his killing conscience. But his talents are still in demand. The assignment: take out an arms dealer in Southeast Asia...

  • The Reckoning

    Jeff Long

    Armed with only a camera and iron determination, thirty-year-old photojournalist Molly Drake arrives in modern-day Cambodia to cover the U.S. military search for the remains of an American pilot shot down during the Vietnam War. In this eerie was...

  • The False Peace

    Jude Watson

    In this ninth adventure in the Jedi Quest series, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi must counter a threat to the Senate under the watchful eye of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine-or the whole galaxy might be thrown into darkness! The Senate keeps chaos...

  • Sargasso Sector

    Paul Kupperberg

    STARFLEET CORPS OF ENGINEERS The assignment seemed mundane enough: clearaway a "junk pile" of abandoned ships that are adrift in a region of space that is in the way of a convoy of colony vessels en route to a new world. But the S.C.E.'s missions ne...

  • A Time to Hate

    Robert Greenberger

    On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain and his new command, Riker's marriage to ...

  • A Time to Kill

    David Mack

    On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's long time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain and his new command, Riker's marriage to ...

  • Chloe, Queen of Denial

    Naomi Nash

    This companion story to Eyeliner of the Gods follows Chloe Bryce, who, sent to Egypt by her parents to study the Tomb of Tekhen and Tekhnet, matches wits with snotty January James, and finds adventure--and hot guys--amidst the heat, scorpions...

  • Eyeliner of the Gods

    Katie Maxwell

    HELP! I'm stuck in Egypt with a pushy girl named Chloe, a cursed bracelet, and a hottie who makes my toes curl......

  • 3 x T

    Harry Turtledove

    Hugo Award winner and best-selling author Harry Turtledove has garnered high praise for his mastery of alternate history science fiction, and for his fantasy adventure novels, but he is equally a master of science fiction adventure, as he proves in t...

  • Avengers: Living Legends

    Kurt Busiek

  • AVP: Alien vs. Predator

    Marc Cerasini

    Two of 20th Century Fox's biggest franchises ever " Alien and Predator "come together in one movie!

    A team of drillers, scientists and archaeologists led by a billionaire industrialist travel to Antarctica to investigate ancient pyrami...

  • Bengal Station

    Eric Brown

    Jeff Vaughan, a world-weary telepath employed by the spaceport on Bengal Station, discovers a sinister cult that worships a mysterious alien god. The Church of the Adoration of the Chosen One uses drugs to commune with the ultimate - and murder to si...

  • Bio Rescue

    S.L. Viehl

    Commander Dair mu T'resa heads up a squadron of SEAL (surgically enhanced/altered life-form) pilots. They provide planetary patrol for the Pmoc Quadrant, including Dair's home planet, Kevarzangia Two--a world populated by the underwater-dwelling 'Zan...

  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Watcher's Guide, Volume 3

    Paul Ruditis

    As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. One girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers.

    From the first vampire staking to the last glimpse of Sun...

  • Comics Creators on Spider-Man

    Tom Defalco

    The greatest creators in comics discuss the impact and importance of Spider-Man, and talk about how they have brought the web-slinger to life on the page over four decades. Illustrated with original script pages and all stages of artwork from sketchb...

  • Emerald Sea

    John Ringo

    The Battte Against Those Determined to Rule the World--or Destroy It--Continues In the future the world was a paradise--and then, in a moment, it ended. The council that controlled the Net fell out and went to war, while people who had never known...

  • Essential X-Men, Volume 5

    Chris Claremont

  • Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne - Volume 2

    John Byrne

  • Grasp the Stars

    Jennifer Wingert

    CONFRONTATION AT EARTH PORT Since the creation of Earth Port, Humans, one of the younger races in space, had played host to countless alien ships, and had established sometimes precarious diplomatic and trade relations with a number of sentient ra...

  • Hour of The Wolf

    Mark W. Tiedemann

    When a new threat arrives from the future, Sarah and John Connor take on a cyborg killing machine out to destroy a man who is unaware of the key role he will play in the time before Judgment Day. Reprint....

  • Hulk: Gray

    Jeph Loeb

    Collects Hulk: Gray #1-6. Examine in new detail the earliest days of the Incredible Hulk. As Dr. Bruce Banner makes his first transformations into his brutish alter ego, relationships that will influence his life and the life of the Hulk are forged ...

  • Iron Sunrise

    Charles Stross

    A G2 star doesn't just explode--not without outside interference. So the survivors of the planet Moscow, which was annihilated in just such an event, have launched a counterattack against the most likely culprit: the neighboring system of New Dresden...

  • Judge Dredd: The Judge Child Quest

    John Wagner

    Join Judge Dredd on an epic journey across the Cursed Earth and then into the depths of space in search of the saviour of Mega-City One... The Judge Child.

    A huge catastrophe has been predicted for Mega-City One, and only a special child who bears...

  • Minnie's Diner

    Dayle Ann Dodds

    With a singsong rhythm, comical illustrations, and a down-home flavor, Dayle Ann Dodds and John Manders serve up a humorous lesson in multiplication.

    Down on the farm one morning, Papa McFay orders his sons to hop to their chores. But from Min...

  • Punisher: Confederacy of Dunces

    Garth Ennis

    In the first story "In the Beginning," Frank Castle's old associate Microchip is back, and he's after the Punisher. But first, he's got an offer for Frank that he'd better not refuse. Get ready for blazing bullets, bloodbaths, and bold beginnings! In...

  • The Tawdry Yellow Brick Road

    David Bischoff

    Madrigal "Maddy" Harper is a parole officer and the single mother of a mildly autistic 12-year-old son, Skylar. His fascination by the science fictional universe of Star Train brings them both to ElfCon, a fanfest and SF extravaganza. When Abner Fare...

  • Uncanny X-Men Vol. 5: She Lies With Angels

    Chuck Austen

    Collects Uncanny X-Men (1963) #437-441. A riveting tale about a young human and a young mutant falling in love, and what terrible consequences it will have not only for them, but for their family and friends. How will the X-Men react?...

  • Visions of Liberty

    Baen Books

    The Future of Freedom—as Explored by Top Science Fiction Writers in a New Volume of All Original Stories.As Thomas Jefferson put it, That government is best which governs least. And, as Will Rogers wryly quipped, We're lucky we don't get all t...

  • The Wilding

    C.S. Friedman

    It is two hundred years since the great Braxana general Zatar the Magnificent, and the psychic Azean general Anzha lyu Mitethe pursued their personal war among the stars, and in doing so altered the very flow of human history. The psychics of the Aze...

  • X-Men: Old Soldiers

    Chris Claremont

  • After the Rain

    Chuck Logan

    Headlights off, a panel truck drives by moonlight across an open field, following tracks that have been there for decades ... Nina Pryce and her husband, Phil Broker, couldn't have more opposite views of the military. Broker's loyalty to the men h...

  • Angel's Crest

    Leslie Schwartz

    It only takes a moment for a life to change forever. Ethan Denton is a lucky man. Lately things have gone his way"like being granted custody of Nate, his three-year-old son. But when he takes the child up to Angels Crest early one morning to show h...

  • The Assignment

    Mark Andrew Olsen

    With the action and suspense of a Ted Dekker novel and the spiritual warfare of This Present Darkness, Olsen’s first solo novel poses an intriguing question. What if the Restrainer of II Thessalonians, the Holy Spirit who “holds back the lawless ...

  • Bait and Switch

    Larry Brooks

    The man: Wolfgang Schmitt: former model, newly single, habitual wiseass. It’s a profile only his ailing mother could love -- but it makes him perfect for one thing . . . The bait: Billionaire Nelson Scott wants Schmitt to seduce his wife -- settin...

  • Be Mine

    Rick Mofina

    Obsession The others were all wrong for her. He would make her understand that. When she saw his work, she would feel awe at his power...and she would have to love him... Is Another Word San Francisco crime reporter Tom Reed has seen a lot o...

  • Blood on the Leaves

    Jeff Stetson

    For James Reynolds, Mississippi's only black deputy district attorney, success is almost enough to heal the pain of growing up during brutal segregation-and ease the recurring, unexplained nightmares he's had since childhood. But he knows this case w...

  • The Buck Stops Here

    Mindy Starns Clark

    When Callie learns that the man she loves is somehow connected to the man who killed her late husband, she confronts Tom. But he informs her that his hands are tied by the National Security Agency and he can tell her nothing.

    Despite the se...

  • Buddy Cooper Finds a Way

    Neil O. Connelly

    When you lose for a living, it's pretty hard to fail. Once, like all of us, Buddy dreamt of success. He and his wife, Alix, had just bought a new place, not too far from the beach. Their daughter, Brook, was out of the hospital. And the fans were ...

  • Coswell's Guide to Tambralinga

    Scott Landers

    A sure-handed fiction debut takes a darkly comic and unsettling look at the quest for adventure in exotic landsIn a last-ditch effort to save their marriage, Conrad and Lucy Shermer embark on a second honeymoon in the fashionably exotic--and politica...

  • Country of Origin

    Don Lee

    Lisa Countryman is a woman of complex origins. Half-Japanese, adopted by African American parents, she returns to Tokyo, ostensibly to research her thesis on Japan's "sad, brutal reign of conformity." When she vanishes, Tom Hurley, who is half-Korean...

  • The Crime Trade

    Simon Kernick

    When Operation Surgical Strike, a police sting designed to catch Colombian drug traffickers in the act of selling a large consignment of cocaine to undercover police officers, goes horribly wrong, suspicion quickly falls on one of the police officers...

  • D.B.

    Elwood Reid

    A stunning fictional imagining of legendary American folk hero D. B. Cooper's daring hijacking and its aftermath, by one of the toughest, most distinctive voices in American fiction. On the day before Thanksgiving 1971, just as a Seattle-bound 727...

  • Dark Woods

    Jay C. Kumar

    When he and his fellow hunters wound what they believe to be a large animal, Deputy Frank Vaughn follows its bloody trail only to discover an unimaginable creature that is now hunting him, thirsty for revenge. Original....

  • Deadfall

    Lyndon Stacey

    Bay Tremayne, heir to a viscountcy and manager of his father's Dorset estate, has one burning ambition - to be selected to ride on the British Olympic three-day eventing team. But his dream is about to be put on hold. Arriving at the stables late one...

  • Due Preparations for the Plague

    Janette Turner Hospital

    From the author of ‘Oyster’ comes a powerful and gripping literary thriller that is as timely and relevant as it is chilling.Lowell feels contagious with doom. A divorced father with young children, he dreads the anniversary of a hijacked Paris-N...

  • East Side

    John Mackie

    As New York City prepares for a much-heralded papal visit, a serial killer targets priests, and Detective Sergeant Thornton Savage, while trying to stop the killer before he strikes again, makes a shocking discovery that could topple the church. Orig...

  • Fake

    Francine Pascal

    I like staying with Skyler. It feels safe. Secure. Worry free. The perfect situation, really. Now he's forbidden me to leave the house. I like that, too. Because Skyler always has my best interests in mind....

  • Fear Itself

    Walter Mosley

    Mild-mannered Paris Minton is delivered a pile of trouble when Fearless Jones shows up with a simple request: help find a beautiful woman's husband. Lending a hand gets him hit upside the head, hogtied, kidnapped, and threatened with a gun the size o...

  • Fiddler's Green: or, a Wedding, a Ball, and the Singular Adventures of Sundry Moss

    Van Reid

    Devoted fans of the enduring characters of Van Reid's nineteenth-century Maine are in for a fabulous treat with Fiddler's Green--an old-fashioned mulligatawny of high and low comedy, unabashed romance, adventure, and eerie mystery. Escape to a seemin...

  • Five Days in Summer

    Kate Pepper

    She was supposed to be right back. Before the long drive home from vacation on Cape Cod, Emily Parker made a quick run to the grocery store...and disappeared. When her car is found abandoned in the parking lot, her husband, Will, turns to a retire...

  • For the Dogs

    Kevin Wignall

    Ella is young, bereaved, and in danger. Lucas is ruthless, brutal, and cold. Think again. Ella is bitter, determined, and dangerous. Lucas is vulnerable and lovelorn. Ella Hatto is on vacation in Italy with her boyfriend. It's a beautifu...

  • Garden of Beasts

    Jeffery Deaver

    Paul Schumann, a German American living in New York City in 1936, is a mobster hitman known as much for his brilliant tactics as for taking only "righteous" assignments. But then Paul gets caught. And the arresting officer offers him a stark choice: ...

  • The Ghost Writer

    John Harwood

    What evil lies within a family’s secret history? “A first-class creeper, a literary ghost story in the Victorian tradition” by the author of The Séance (The Boston Globe).   Timid, solitary librarian Gerard Freeman lives for just two thin...

  • Hidden

    Paul Jaskunas

    As unnerving as it is mesmerizing, Hidden is an evocative, emotionally charged domestic drama -- a willful and traumatized woman's painful search for the truth about the man who assaulted her one summer night. Six years after the attack, Maggie Wi...

  • Hide Yourself Away

    Mary Jane Clark

    WATCH YOUR BACK. TRUST NO ONE. Nobody in this perfect seaside resort town ever imagined that the body of a missing heiress might be found deep in a tunnel beneath her family's crumbling Newport estate. Nobody, that is, but the last person to see her ...

  • Left for Dead

    Kevin O'Brien

    SOMETHING SHE CAN'T REMEMBER When Claire Shaw wakes in a Seattle hospital, she remembers nothing of what has happened to her. She doesn't recognize the concerned faces of her husband and friends. She knows only that she is lucky to be alive, the sin...

  • Lord of the Kill

    Theodore Taylor

    A chilling murder in the wild… When a half-eaten body is found inside a locked jaguar cage, eighteen-year-old Ben Jepson knows it's no prank -- someone is trying to make trouble for the Los Coyotes Big Cat Preserve and its manager, Ben's father. ...

  • Love and Death in Brooklyn

    Glenville Lovell

    With its introduction of a bold new voice in crime fiction, Glenville Lovell’s first mystery, Too Beautiful to Die, was called a “page-turner” (New York Daily News) and “stylish entertainment” (Booklist). Now Lovell is back, with a timely n...

  • A Mourning in Autumn

    Harker Moore

    In New York, autumn has brought a chill to the night air. Young women are dying. Drugged and abducted from dance clubs, the victims are treated as laboratory specimens before their mutilated bodies are wrapped mummylike in sheets of Visqueen and dump...

  • The Murder Exchange

    Simon Kernick

    When ex-mercenary Max Iversson accompanies a nightclub owner to an ill-fated rendezvous in a deserted north London industrial estate, it turns out to be not so much a set-up as a bloodbath. Three men have been shot, the briefcase Iversson has been gu...

  • Now You See It

    Allison Lynn

    David and Jessica have almost everything they could want: he is an accomplished journalist, she teaches at an elite private school, and they travel in a circle of alluring friends. Theirs is an enviable life -- until one night when David returns from...

  • Parting the Veil

    Jay Davis

    For most of his life, John Creed never gave much thought to an afterlife. That all changed the day he died.He'd been clinically dead for ten minutes. At least, that's what the doctors told him when he woke up in intensive care. It had been a freak ac...

  • Premonitions

    Jude Watson

    WHERE HAS EMILY GONE? Gracie has premonitions. They've haunted her since before her mother's death. She doesn't know how to deal with them, and doesn't want to. She never knows whether she's seeing the past, the present, or the future. It just com...

  • Priceless

    Marne Davis Kellogg

    Kick Keswick, one of the most charming, enchanting, and best-dressed heroines of fiction, discovers that a life of crime can be impossible to leave behind. Kick Keswick has lived an extraordinary life. For twenty-five years she was the power behin...

  • Regrets Only

    Nancy Geary

    ONE COP IS ABOUT TO SEE HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES--AND KILLS. Born in Boston and raised in the rowdy, loving atmosphere of a big Irish family, Lucy O'Malley was destined to follow in her father's footsteps and become a cop. Now, newly assigned to t...

  • Royal Heist

    Lynda La Plante

    From Lynda La Plante, one of the world’s greatest crime writers, Royal Heist is a big, dashing novel of deception, passion, and international suspense, in which a man with a dangerous double life masterminds the greatest robbery of all time.With a ...

  • Skinny Dip

    Carl Hiaasen

    Marine biologist Chaz Perrone can't tell a sea horse from a sawhorse. And when he throws his beautiful wife, Joey, off a cruise liner, he really should know better. An expert swimmer, Joey makes her way to a floating bale of Jamaican pot -- and then ...

  • Tijuana Straits

    Kem Nunn

    When Fahey, once a great surfer, now a reclusive ex-con, meets Magdalena, she is running from a pack of wild dogs along the ragged wasteland where California and Mexico meet the Pacific Ocean -- a spot once known to the men who rode its giant waves a...

  • Twisted City

    Jason Starr

    WINNER: Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original

    From the acclaimed noir novelist Jason Starr comes this savage portrait of a misanthropic man stuck in a New York nightmare. Written in caustic, streamlined prose, Twisted City is a chilling de...

  • Bait

    Karen Robards

    When beautiful advertising executive Maddie Fitzgerald is attacked in a New Orleans hotel, she thinks that she's a victim of random, senseless violence. FBI agent Sam McCabe thinks otherwise--that she's the target of a serial killer who's eluded the ...

  • Fourth Victim

    Jan Coffey

    Two decades ago, the mass suicide of the members of a New Mexico cult shocked the nation. Miraculously, four people -- one adult and three children -- managed to get away safely. But now it appears that none of them will escape the tragedy that took ...

  • Intensive Care

    Jessica Andersen

    HOT BODIES After another patient mysteriously turned up dead, Dr. Ripley Davis began desperately seeking answers. Until radiation safety officer Zachary Cage stormed into her office with an array of accusations and brimming with male sex appeal. R...

  • Kiss Me While I Sleep

    Linda Howard

    Efficient and unapologetic, Lily Mansfield is a hired assassin working as a contract agent for the CIA. Her targets are the powerful and corrupt, those who can't be touched by the law. Now Lily is playing a deadly, unauthorized game, seeking her own ...

  • Kiss of the Blue Dragon

    Julie Beard

    Instead of joining the family fortune-telling business, Angel's busy saving the world. And dating? Why bother when she's got Humphrey Bogart, her sweet-talking robot? Welcome to Chicago circa 2100. The legal system is in shambles, robots are a woman'...

  • Lawful Engagement

    Linda O. Johnston

    HE LIVED BY THE CODE OF THE WEST Fledgling reporter Cara Hamilton had just landed the story of her life. But it was the aggravating -- yet oh-so-appealing -- Deputy Mitch Steele trailing her every step of the way, insisting they share information,...

  • Laying His Claim

    Beverly Barton

    PASSION -- PAST AND PRESENT Trent Winston had spent years trying to forget the only woman he'd ever loved and the tragedy that had torn their world apart. But now she was back in town, stirring up unwanted memories and unwelcome desires -- and dem...

  • No Escape

    Heather Lowell

    Death is the only exit .... Kelly Martin is a frightened teenage runaway who made a scandalous accusation, then vanished, leaving Los Angeles prosecutor Tessa Jacobi with a ticking time bomb of a case on her hands. When the investigation leads her...

  • On the Line

    Kathryn Shay

    No one portrays the lives and loves of firefighters more realistically than award-winning author Kathryn Shay. In After the Fire, her blend of breathtaking danger and richly layered emotions gripped readers by the heart. Now, she returns to the town ...

  • Promise Him Anything

    Carla Cassidy

    She promised not to leave him. She lied.... A year ago, Juliette Monroe took her young son and fled from her violent husband with only the clothes on their backs--and the terrifying fear that he would find them. A powerful man of seemingly limitl...

  • Protecting the Innocent

    Cassie Miles

    HER CHILD NEEDED SECURITY... Single mother Anya Bouchard Parrish lived in a guarded institution with her prodigy son who was schooled by elite instructors. Anya never felt more at risk...or more attracted to the handsome businessman who watched he...

  • She'll Never Tell

    Hunter Morgan

    BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR... Overweight and insecure, Marcy Edmond has always lived in the shadow of her gorgeous identical twin sister Phoebe. She hates her job as a CPA. Hates the fact that her children ignore her and her husband seems indiff...

  • Sight Unseen

    Gayle Wilson

    SECRETS UNVEILED For the past six months, hardened Phoenix agent Ethan Snow had been pursuing a powerful secret organization with ties to terrorism. At a dead end, he sought help from Raine McAllister, a sculptor who'd worked with the CIA as a speci...

  • Sudden Alliance

    Jackie Manning

    A MAN LIKE NO OTHER... When Liam O'Shea found a young beauty on the side of the road, battered and incoherent, his razor-sharp instincts -- honed by years of training as an undercover operative -- warned she was in trouble. Honor demanded he offer h...

  • A Thousand Kisses Deep

    Wendy Rosnau

    HIS FINAL MISSION Government agent Sly McEwen knew the rules when he agreed to play -- join the Onyxx agency for seven years, and at the end of it, disassemble. Disavow. Disappear. But he also knew he was going to have to bend the rules a little -...

  • Undercover Encounter

    Rebecca York

    Pressure and danger don't faze New Orleans Confidential agent Alex McMullin. Working with the woman he loved and left...now, that's another matter. He'd ended their fiery affair to save her from himself. Now Confidential agent Alex McMullin had to...

  • Veiled Intentions

    Delores Fossen

    She bet her badge and her honor when she bent the rules to hunt the deadly sniper who'd declared open season on newlyweds. Now police detective Katelyn O'Malley would answer to hotshot Sergeant Joe Rico, her new boss -- and temporary fiance. Joe h...

  • Velvet Ropes

    Patricia Rosemoor

    NO COVER CHARGED NO ID REQUIRED SECRECY GUARANTEED When Star Jacobek had been brutally attacked as a teen, Dermot O'Rourke appeared like an avenging angel, tending her wounds and giving her the courage to heal. So when her childhood hero was fra...

  • The Duke and Mrs. Douglas

    Donna Simpson

    Can a beautiful young widow win a cynic's heart? A DISTRUSTFUL DUKE Scarred by the betrayal of his late wife and his latest mistress, the Duke of Alban has become cynical about the fairer sex. Indeed, the only female he fully trusts is his ad...

  • The Harem Bride

    Blair Bancroft

    A Fateful Night Miss Penelope Blayne is outraged. She considers herself perfectly capable of managing her late aunt's estate, but unfortunately, her aunt has chosen Jason Lisbourne, Earl of Rocksley -- the one man she wished never to see again...

  • Lady Scandal

    Shannon Donnelly

    A LONG AND WINDING ROAD Alexandria, the beautiful young widow once known as Lady Scandal among the ton of London, is trapped in France when war breaks out once more. Returning to England with her niece will be a dangerous journey indeed, and one t...

  • The Last Leprechaun

    June Calvin

    A Rake's Destiny Elizabeth Longford wants only one thing from her cousin John Blayne, Earl of Wayneathe -- his help in saving the cherished forest where they played as children -- and where they once caught a glimpse of a leprechaun. But Lord ...

  • A Rakish Spy

    Laura Paquet

    A Spirited Schoolmistress Vicar's daughter Charlotte Gregory spent much of her girlhood infatuated with the dashing Francis Burnham, Viscount Finchwood. As he was far beyond her touch, Charlotte accepted a suitor of more modest means, but when her f...

  • Winter Dreams

    Sandra Heath

    Passionate Intrigue Judith Callard has a nagging fear about the safety of her twin brother, an attache with the British embassy in Portugal. So she follows the official responsible for her brother's position--a man she spurned years earlier--i...

  • After Hours

    Lynn Erickson

    The daughter of famous parents, Portia Carr Wells has shunned the spotlight her entire life. But now, trying to continue the work of her late husband -- the former president of the Nature Preservation Society -- she finds herself more and more in the...

  • The Alchemy of Fire

    Gillian Bradshaw

    Constantinople, 672 ad. Ex-concubine Anna is attempting to raise her daughter well, but as an Arab invasion threatens and Kallinikos an alchemist working on a secret weapon to use in the seige comes into their lives, a secret about her daughter is fo...

  • The Awakening

    Angela Elwell Hunt

    Aurora Rose Norquest is different from her neighbors, different from most people. Still single at thirty-five, she spends every hour of her time in an elegant Manhattan apartment, quietly caring for her invalid mother.

    Then her mother dies, an...

  • Charmed and Dangerous

    Lori Wilde

    Former Olympian Maddie Cooper keeps her trim, taut body in great shape...and her heart safe from any man. Until her thrill-seeking twin, Cassie, gets in big trouble and Maddie has to come to her rescue-again! FBI agent David Marshall has a big hea...

  • The Coming Storm

    Tracie Peterson

    FROM HER FAVORITE HILLTOP perch, the unadorned beauty of Montana-- in all its rugged, untamed charm--fills Dianne Chadwick with serenity and purpose. But fear gnaws at that peace, for her fiance, Cole Selby, has yet to return from his journey east. W...

  • Duty and Desire

    Pamela Aidan

    Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice is beloved by millions, but little is revealed in the book about the mysterious and handsome hero, Mr. Darcy. And so the question has long remained: Who is Fitzwilliam Darcy? Pamela Aidan's trilogy...

  • An Elegy for Melusine

    Claire Delacroix
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    A romantic fantasy anthology with four novellas from renowned authors of romance and fantasy...

    USA Today best-selling author Claire Delacroix gives readers a revisionist version of the medieval legend of Melusine. USA Today best-selling autho...

  • Fallen Angel

    Sharon Shinn
    in

    Four stories of fantasy and exquisite romance... A romantic fantasy anthology with four novellas from renowned authors of romance and fantasy... USA Today best-selling author Claire Delacroix gives readers a revisionist version of the medieval...

  • The Gorgon in the Cupboard

    Patricia A. McKillip
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    Four stories of fantasy and exquisite romance... A romantic fantasy anthology with four novellas from renowned authors of romance and fantasy... USA Today best-selling author Claire Delacroix gives readers a revisionist version of the medieval...

  • Hard to Love

    Kimberley White

    Meet the next members of Detroit's black elite group... Alexandra Bramble will do anything to save Jhoni Cosmetics. When her company loses a large contract, she must find a way to recoup the revenue. She's all business until she meets the insati...

  • Inadmissible: Love

    Donna Wright

    Attorney Danni Price is climbing the corporate ladder by working hard, trying difficult cases, and winning. She doesn't have time to fraternize with the enemy. And Michael Sommer is most definitely the enemy.

    Unfortunately for her, when Michael o...

  • The Inheritance

    Annabel Dilke

    The Chandler family lead a charmed life … In their ravishing country estate, surrounded by servants, they cling to the trappings of aristocracy and privilege. Eighteen-year-old Alice is marrying the heir to another great house. Her cleverer sist...

  • Maxed Out

    Brenda L. Thomas
    in

    Going south for her summer break, a high school math teacher puts her assets to work as an exotic dancer in Maxed Out by Brenda L. Thomas. But when her secret double life follows her home to Philadelphia, things swing wildly out of control as she tri...

  • Ready, Wlling And?abel

    Linda Lattimer

    Lynne Murphy, a children's book illustrator, moves to the mountains of Tennessee for some quiet solitude away from everyone and to look for some inspiration. She finds more than she ever expected when her next door neighbor saves her from a near cata...

  • The Real Deal

    Fern Michaels

    Raised by her loving but eccentric aunt, former F.B.I. agent Quinn Star has always relied on herself -- how else could she have survived the Bureau's old boys network, or navigated the heartbreak of a thwarted affair with her boss? Now Quinn risks he...

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    Worlds collide when a street-smart beauty scores with a multimillionaire during a summer that climaxes with the New York City blackout. Crystal Lacey Winslow captures the edgy thrills -- and the dark side -- of carnal pleasures in Sex, Sin & Brooklyn...

  • Studying Boys

    Stephie Davis

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    Rochelle Alers
    in

    In Rochelle Alers' Summer Madness, a sexy brother with a mysterious past turns a pretty librarian's play-it-safe Hamptons vacation into a torrent of sensual delights. But can she trust him without knowing his whole story?...

  • The Tale of Two Swords

    Lynn Kurland
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    Four stories of fantasy and exquisite romance... A romantic fantasy anthology with four novellas from renowned authors of romance and fantasy... USA Today best-selling author Claire Delacroix gives readers a revisionist version of the medieval leg...

  • This Time Love

    Tara Randel

    Lindsey was perfectly comfortable with her life--living on her parents' property in a quaint cottage and tending to her beloved niece, Dawn. But then, Gabe Banner moves back into town and with him come all the memories of her schoolgirl crush on him ...

  • Using What You Got

    Karen E. Quinones Miller

    Eighteen-year-old Tiara Bynum is pretty as a princess and just as spoiled. Her castle is the Harlem housing project where she lives with her younger sister, Jo-Jo, and her doting father, Reggie. Every time Tiara snaps her perfectly manicured fingers,...

  • Vanity and Vexation

    Kate Fenton

    A clever and cunning modern day retelling of the adored Jane Austen novel "Tall, dark, and arrogantly handsome---not to mention distinguished, powerful, and rolling in money. Mr. Darcy? No, that's just the woman director of Pride and Prejudice," r...

  • Why the Sky Is Blue

    Susan Meissner

    What options does a Christian woman have after she’s brutally assaulted by a stranger...and becomes pregnant? That’s the heartrending situation Claire Holland faces. Happily married and the mother of two when she is attacked, Claire begins an ...

  • Alone at Night

    K.J. Erickson

    Tired of the politics, publicity and endless nights that go with major homicides, Detective Mars Bahr and his partner Nettie Frisch have moved to the Cold Case Unit, which covers the Minneapolis Police Department's oldest unsolved cases. One of their...

  • The Burning Girl

    Mark Billingham

    Some fires never go out ... X marks the spot -- and when that spot is a corpse's naked back and the X is carved in blood, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne is in no doubt that the dead man is the latest victim of a particularly vicious contract kille...

  • The Dance Master

    Peter Turnbull

    Hennessey and Yellich are led a not so merry dance
    When Matthew Hopkins leaves his hell-hole council flat to seek out funding for his heroin addiction, he spots a plastic bag on the landing outside. Pouncing on it hopefully, he finds it contains o...

  • When Red is Black

    Qiu Xiaolong

    When the murder of a woman is reported to the Shanghai police while Inspector Chen is on vacation, Sergeant Yu is forced to take charge of the investigation. The victim, Yin Lige, a novelist known for her banned book, has been found dead in her tiny,...

  • Whiplash

    Graham Ison

    When the traffic police call the local police station, who call CID, DI Brock is none too pleased to be forced to attend the scene of a traffic accident when he doesn't see how it's any of his business. But then it turns out that the body of a woman ...

  • Dark Destiny

    Christine Feehan

    They were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light.... Her childhood had been a nightmare of violence and pain until she heard his voice calling out to her. Golden and seductive. The voice of an angel. He...

  • A Kiss of Fate

    Mary Jo Putney

    Laird of an ancient Scottish clan, Duncan Macrae also possesses the secret powers of the Guardians--humans with mystical abilities to control nature's forces and see into the hearts of others. Duncan has sworn to use his abilities for the greater goo...

  • Surrender

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    in

    Anthropologist Eve Baptiste is no stranger to erotic dreams, but her nightly encounters with Gypsy king Viktor Savitch are starting to consume her. From the moment she closes her eyes,Viktor brings her to the brink of madness, showing her pleasures o...

  • Tall, Dark & Hungry

    Lynsay Sands

    It bit: New York hotels cost an arm and a leg, and Terri had flown from England to help plan her cousin's wedding. The new in-laws offered lodging. But they were a weird bunch. There was the sometimes-chipper-sometimes-brooding Lucern, and the wacky ...

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    in

    Lost in the mists of Agent John Cameron's memory is a dangerous secret -- one that's buried so deep, even John can't remember it. Only the touch of Dr. Bonnie Anders breaks through the barriers he's set up in his mind. But it's John's touch that blow...

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    Julie Kenner
    in

    Luc Agassou lives a half-life, a cursed life. Part feline, part human, he stays in the shadows, searching for his true mate, the one woman who can save him. When he finds Caitlyn Raine, he knows she's the one. But in order to tame him, Cate will have...

  • The Dangerous Hour

    Marcia Muller

    Complacency can make a person careless, and Sharon McCone, who makes crime her business, should know that better than most. One minute she's riding high with her detective agency expanding, her bank account growing, and her only "problem" a marriage ...

  • A Darkening Stain

    Robert Wilson

    When schoolgirls begin to disappear on the West African coast, “troubleshooter” Bruce Medwy tries to stay detached. Meanwhile, he reluctantly acquires a new job from former nemesis and mafia capo Franconelli. Yet as Bruce sets out on his assignme...

  • Little Scarlet

    Walter Mosley

    Easy Rawlins returns to solve a mystery set amid the flames of the hottest summer L.A. has ever seen. Just after devastating riots tear through Los Angeles in 1965 - when anger is high and fear still smolders everywhere - the police turn up at Eas...

  • Louisiana Lament

    Julie Smith

    Allyson Brown, the Girl Gatsby, is a woman of wealth, hostess of fabled parties, patron of the arts--especially of poets. Found floating in her own swimming pool, shot to death.

    Poet and fledgling detective Talba Wallis gets an urgent call fro...

  • Murder Plays House

    Ayelet Waldman

    Location, location, location. Juliet Applebaum has heard it a gazillion times. But the public defender turned stay-at-home mom and sleuth is expecting another baby--and she needs more space for her growing brood. Now, between chasing clues and wiping...

  • R is for Ricochet

    Sue Grafton

    Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Nord Lafferty was already in his fifties when Reba was born, and he could deny her nothing. Over the years, he quietly settled her many scrapes with the law, but wasn't t...

  • The Sterling Inheritance

    Michael Siverling

    Private Investigator Jason Wilder has the toughest boss in River City. His own mother. And given the choice, he'd rather just play guitar. But gigs are sometimes few and far between in a middle-sized city. Jason's lucky that his parents not only taug...

  • Dark Water Dive

    Kathy Brandt

    THE CRIME SCENE: A TROPICAL PARADISE... I, Hannah Sampson, recently retired homicide detective and team leader of the Denver police scuba team, swore never, ever to dive into the icy black water again. So why am I pulling on a dry suit one more ...

  • Darkly Dreaming Dexter

    Jeff Lindsay

    Meet Dexter Morgan, a polite wolf in sheep's clothing. He's handsome and charming, but something in his past has made him abide by a different set of rules. He's a serial killer whose one golden rule makes him immensely likeable: he only kills bad pe...

  • Deadline

    J. Madison Davis

    When a woman's body is found at the bottom of a hotel air shaft in Times Square, it looks like a routine suicide. Enter Detectives. Lennie Briscoe and Ed Green. Something about the woman seems out of place in the tourist trap. Her clothing suggests w...

  • Over and Under

    Mat Coward

    No Laughing Matter... Murder is horrible, of course, as Inspector Don Packham will attest. But when the weapon is a baseball bat - in a cricket pavilion, no less - well, that's a crime of another sort. The grim display appeared at the annual cricket ...

  • Under the Manhattan Bridge

    Irene Marcuse

    When social worker turned cabinetmaker Anita Servi uncovers the body of an unidentified teenager in the vacuum press of her husband's woodworking shop, her innate skills at deciphering human motivation are put to the test. Trying to identify the boy,...

  • Walking Money

    James O. Born

    State police officer Bill Tasker faces the toughest case of his career when he is framed for a crime involving more than a million dollars of stolen money, a corrupt FBI agent, and a murdered key witness. Reprint....

  • The Donor

    Frank M. Robinson

    RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES OF TOMORROW'S NEWSPAPER Dennis is running for his life. He woke up in a small private hospital, after a minor car accident, to discover that one of his organs was missing. He's an involuntary transplant donor. He fled to ...

  • Murder Suicide

    Keith Ablow

    HE POSSESSED WEALTH, FAME, GENIUS - An hour before inventor John Snow is to undergo experimental brain surgery, he's discovered outside Massachusetts General Hospital, dead from a single bullet wound. Did he commit suicide as the police suspect - ...

  • Big Bratty Book of Bart Simpson

    Matt Groening

    Bart Simpson is back with another big book dedicated exclusively to that rabble"rousing, misbehaving menace " Springfield's favourite son, Homer's only son, and TV's favourite son " Bart Simpson!

    Following the great success of Big B...

  • The Case of the Sweaty Bank Robber

    George Edward Stanley

    IT'S DO OR DIE FOR THE THIRD-GRADE DETECTIVES! Todd and Noelle are volunteering at a blood drive when they get shocking news: Both banks in town have been robbed! This may be the Third-Grade Detectives' most important case yet. The new police...

  • Danger Music

    Jackie Hyman

    When an investigative reporter begins digging into a Hollywood cold case, someone will go to any lengths - including murder - to ensure the truth remains hidden. Freelance writer Kenny Rubin has an unusual magazine assignment: to solve the strangulat...

  • Disturbed Earth

    Reggie Nadelson

    Winter 2003. Still reeling from 9/11, New York City is hit by the worst blizzard in years. On the verge of making peace with his own turbulent life, Artie Cohen-Reggie Nadelson's Russian-born, angst-ridden detective-is called to investigate a pil...

  • Family Matters

    Joel Rosenberg

    When aging, balding, copyeditor Ernest "Sparky" Hemmingway (no relation) got a call from Tenishia, the daughter of his late Vietnam buddy George Washington (also no relation), he was faced with a choice: head out to Minneapolis to help her out of a j...

  • Lipstick, Lies and Lady Luck

    Brian A. Hopkins

    This collection brings us two short novels featuring Brian A. Hopkins' most memorable character, Martin Zolotow. Martin has a weakness for damsels in distress, a nose for sniffing out trouble, and the scars to prove that he can dish it out as well as...

  • Mansions of the Dead

    Sarah Stewart Taylor

    BURY THE CORPSE, MOURN THE DEAD, Sweeney St. George concedes that having lunch in Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery might be a bit macabre. Yet the graveyard fits her interests as an art professor with a specialty in cemetery statuary and mourning jewe...

  • Pale as the Dead

    Fiona Mountain

    Still struggling to find the elusive roots of her own heritage, genealogist Natasha Blake has a passion for history, for locating the links between the living and the dead, and now, for uncovering their secrets... Bethany Marshall, a young photogr...

  • The Vampire's Vacation

    Ron Roy

    V is for VAMPIRE... Grab your garlic, Green Lawn! There's a villainous vibe coming from the pale, dark-haired man Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose see in the supermarket. When they follow him into Ellie's Diner, the stranger vanishes! But there's a cut on ...

  • Weddings

    Colin Cowie

  • Maximum Security

    Rose Connors

    At the urgent request of Harry Madigan, Marty takes on the defense of Louisa Rawlings, a woman suspected of murdering her wealthy husband. Harry is Marty's law partner. He's also her lover -- but he used to be Louisa's. Marty is simultaneously int...

  • Unlucky in Law

    Perri O'Shaughnessy

    AN UNWINNABLE CASE. AN UNLUCKY CLIENTS. AN UNSTOPPABLE LAWYER. The case seemed strange but not unwinnable: A hapless but likable two-time felon named Stefan Wyatt robbed a grave, stealing the long-buried bones of a Russian émigré. Nina Reilly, now...

  • At Home in Covington

    Joan Medlicott

    roubles have laid a dark cloud over the usually cheery farmhouse of the three ladies. Grace is grieving over the loss of someone dear to her, and then a mysterious diary from the past turns Hannah's life upside down, destroying her peace of mind. To ...

  • The Summer Guest

    Justin Cronin

    With a rare combination of emotional insight, narrative power, and lyrical grace, Cronin transforms the simple story of a dying man’s last wish into a rich tapestry of family love. On an evening in late summer, the great financier Harry Wainwright...

  • All Or Nothing At All

    Patricia Abbott

    Author of Goodbye Dear, I'll Be Back in a Year

    A watershed year, 1945 is an end and a beginning: the end of the largest and most profound war in human history; the beginning of an unprecedented period of growth for the United States and its emerge...

  • Devil's Bargain

    Jade Lee

    THE ROAD TO RUIN The death of her father made Lynette a penniless relation. Rather than burden her family, she resigned herself to the inevitable: selling herself into marriage. But to whom? Viscount Marlock--a dark devil, carnal and unrepentant--...

  • Every Storm

    Lori Wick

    A Different Kind of Hero 1945 Rigg thought about his ideals as he'd entered the war. He'd told the Lord he was up for anything. He told God and his family that if he had to lay down his life for his country, he was willing. What he hadn't banked on...

  • The Four-Leaf Clover

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    Lucky--that's how Norman Sterling felt when he fell in love with beautiful Mildred Gresham. And the four-leaf clover he just found by their Fourth of July picnic blanket is a sign that their love was meant to be. He's waited six long years to propose...

  • The Horseman

    Jillian Hart

    Dillon Hennessey was a man like no other... Strong yet caring, determined yet kind. But he was still a man, Katelyn Green reminded herself, and therefore not to be trusted. Hadn't her own husband abandoned her in her hour of need? And yet the whisper...

  • In the Shadow of the Ark

    Anne Provoost

    As the rain grows heavy and hard, the dark beauty Re Jana and her family, living in the marshes, are forced to flee their home and journey to the desert. There, a boat of unprecedented proportions is under construction. Its builder and his family are...

  • Into the Prairie: The Pioneers

    Rosanne Bittner

    Into the Prairie continues Rosanne Bittner's retelling of the growth of America through the descendants of Noah and Jess Wilde, featured in the first book of this series, Into the Wilderness. Grandson Jonah Wilde, his wife Sadie, and their three-year...

  • Irene

    Linda Ford

    Eager to leave England after the Great War, Irene agrees to a marriage of convenience with a widower in Alberta, Canada. She soon learns, however, that Zachary Marshall wants only a housekeeper and mother for his two small sons. Irene must be content...

  • The Magical Elixir

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    Step right up, ladies and gentlemen...only one dollar a bottle. The Independence Day picnic always means good business for patent-medicine salesman Allardyce Hannigan. But one look at pretty Katie Donovan stops him in mid-spiel. If there's a cure for...

  • My Forever Love

    Marsha Canham

    FALLING FROM GRACE... Ciaran Tamberlane was once an honored warrior -- until the day he lost his faith in both church and crown, and was branded a traitor by his fellow countrymen. Excommunicated by the church and surrounded by dark rumors, he lives...

  • The Mysterious Miss M

    Diane Gaston

    THE REGENCY UNDERWORLD -- SEX, SCANDAL AND REDEEMING LOVE The Mysterious Miss M is a living male fantasy -- alluring, sensual, masked. But when Lord Devlin Steele finds himself responsible for her -- and her child -- he comes to know the real Ma...

  • One Wicked Night

    Sari Robins

    One Wicked Night of Passion Can Change EVERYTHING To escape her tyrannical father's designs, Miss Lillian Kane gambles her reputation and transforms herself from insipid Miss Wallflower to Daring Sensation, dazzling Polite Society and the opportune...

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    Newspaper owner Maggie Phillips packed her best fried chicken, potato salad, and a triple-decker piece of cake for the box lunch auction--and it's going, going, gone! To Malachi Jones, the editor and owner of a rival newspaper--exactly the man she ho...

  • A Perfect Bride

    Samantha James

    PERFECTLY MARVELOUS Devon St. James must surely be dreaming! She closes her eyes in London's poorest slum, and awakens wrapped in fine linens ... staring into the eyes of the most gorgeous man she has ever seen! Sebastian Sterling, marquess of Thu...

  • A Perfect Stranger

    Anne Robins

    IN HIS ARMS The Castle Walk, the Peabody, and the Lambeth Stroll--dancer Isabel Golightly could do them all and never miss a step. She's the toast of the Titanic, and the center of attention in its most elegant ballroom. The swells don't have to kno...

  • The Perfect Temptation

    Leslie LaFoy

    THE PERFECT WOMAN To Aiden Terrell, Alexandra Radford is a captivating combination of British propriety and eastern exoticism. But this confirmed bachelor has sworn off love and instead has decided to assist at his friend's private investigation bus...

  • The Price of Pleasure

    Kresley Cole

    A man noted for his courage and integrity, Captain Grant Sutherland journeys to Oceania to find Victoria Dearbourne, an English girl lost at sea a decade before. He's given her ailing grandfather his word -- as a gentleman -- to find and protect her....

  • Scandal

    Pamela Britton

    ROGUE, RAKE, RASCAL, AND GENTLEMAN! Rein Montgomery, the Duke of Wroxly, live as a commoner? His late uncle's will is painfully clear: Rein must survive without his wealth or title in the meanest of London's streets for one month, or else lose his...

  • The Society Catch

    Louise Allen

    RUNNING AWAY FROM LOVE! Miss Joanna Fulgrave has turned herself into the perfect society catch to be worthy of dashing Colonel Giles Gregory. But all her hard effort to improve herself comes to nothing when it looks as if Giles is about to propose...

  • Some Enchanted Evening

    Christina Dodd

    Once upon a time, high in the Pyrenees Mountains, there were two happy and prosperous kingdoms. In one kingdom, a son was born and declared the crown prince. In the other kingdom, three daughters were raised in royal splendor. This is the story of...

  • Somebody Wonderful

    Kate Rothwell

    THE LUCK OF THE IRISH Michael McCann has a gentle way with women, and Timona Calverson is no exception, despite her ragged clothes. She is lovely--and in dire need of immediate rescue. The brawny policeman makes short work of the ruffians that have ...

  • The Sultan's Harem

    Colin Falconer

    From the author of the critically acclaimed When We Were Gods comes a dramatic, unforgettable novel of cruelty and passion, set in the great Harem of the Ottoman Empire.

    In Constantinople there is only one ruler: Sultan Süleyman the Magnifice...

  • Texas Bride

    Carol Finch

    Forbidden Territory. That was where Maddie Garret was leading him -- not just through the wilds of Texas, but deep into the secret reaches of his heart. But could Texas Ranger Jonah Danhill, half Comanche and all lawman, accept the tragedy of his peo...

  • Time's Captive

    Kate Lyon

    As the War Chief of his Comanche tribe, Black Eagle would use whatever means necessary to protect his people. So when white men began killing off the buffalo, he was forced to take action. On a quest to save his people from death and starvation, he e...

  • To Find You Again

    Maureen McKade

    It has been seven years since Emma Hartwell's capture by a tribe of the Lakota Sioux. But her recent rescue by the US Cavalry feels like anything but salvation. She has been forced to leave behind her beloved child, and return to the family who can't...

  • To Tempt a Rogue

    Adrienne Basso

    She Ran From A Broken Heart... A pillar of decorum and decency, Harriet Sainthill suddenly finds herself the object of scandal when her cad of a fiance jilts her. Ever practical, she accepts a position as a governess to a wealthy Scottish merchant,...

  • The Trouble with Harry

    Katie MacAlister

    1. He was Plum's new husband. Not normally a problem, but when you considered that Harry advertised for a wife, and Plum was set to marry his secretary, there was cause for a bit of confusion. 2. He had a title. Plum had spent the last twenty year...

  • A Whale of a Marriage

    Diann Hunt

    Since she first heard her father's tales of life aboard a whaling vessel, Adelaide has wanted to experience the adventure herself. But in 1856, "respectable" woman do no such things - and Adelaide is convinced her dreams will never become reality. Th...

  • Yours Until Dawn

    Teresa Medeiros

    Gabriel Fairchild's valor during battle earns him the reputation of hero, but costs him both his sight and his hope for the future. Abandoned by the fiancee he adored, the man who once walked like a prince among London's elite secludes himself in his...

  • Alosha

    Christopher Pike

    Almost everyone, at some time, dreams of being the hidden king or queen of a far-off land. Almost everyone dreams that someday that secret identity will be revealed, heralding a new life filled with magic and power and love. Teenager Ali Warner ha...

  • Beware!

    R.L. Stine

    Dim the lights, lock the doors -- and BEWARE! It's time to read R.L. Stine's favorite scary stories. Discover a ghastly secret in "The Judge's House," a terrifying tale of evil rats by Bram Stoker, the author of dracula. Laugh out loud at the scar...

  • Endless Night

    Richard Laymon

    Sixteen-year-old Jody and her best friend Evelyn's twelve-year-old brother escape from a bloody massacre that claimed the lives of Evelyn and her parents, while Simon is forced by the killers to hunt these two witnesses down, and, if he fails, his ow...