Books Published in March 1991

New Books List: 526 titles

  • Palindrome

    Stuart Woods

    WHEN BOTH YOUR PAST AND FUTURE SPELL FEAR. Award-winning author Stuart Woods has crafted a masterful novel no reader will soon forget. For years, Liz Barwick has been battered by her brutal husband, a famous pro football player. This time it takes...

  • Millionth Egg

    Bernice Myers

  • Whales in Lake Tanganyika

    Lennart Hagerfors

    In March 1871, Henry Morton Stanley went to Africa to find David Livingstone. This is a retelling of this expedition, in the form of the journal of John Shaw, one of two white men who accompanied Stanley. Stanley's obsession with finding Livingstone ...

  • Fuse Point

    David North

  • The Nightingale

    Kara Dalkey

    Transferring Hans Christian Andersen's tale of the nightingale from China to Japan and transforming the bird into a young woman who plays the flute causes the story to lose some of its enchantment. Although Dalkey (The Curse of the Sagamore) authenti...

  • Sentinel

    Greg Walker

    DEATH FOR SALE He has no ideology. He's loyal to no one. Yet he's the deadliest assassin ever to explode upon the free world. A mercenary-terrorist known only as "Sentinel" ... who provides destruction and bloodshed -for a price. Now he's about to b...

  • Captain Quad

    Sean Costello

    Imagine you're a sudden quadriplegic, confined to bed and wheelchair, locked inside your head... Now imagine you're watching the person you've loved drift away, inexorably, despite your screams... How long would it be before your anguished howls b...

  • Death Zone Attack

    John Sievert

  • Rage in Chupadera

    Norman Zollinger

    Although his father, a legendary sheriff turned bloody renegade, has been dead for twenty years, young Corey Lane discovers that old hatreds die hard and that he must become involved if he is to prevent a genocidal conflict with the Apache. Reprint....

  • Guns Don't Argue

    J.R. Roberts

    Ever since Clint Adams got the invitation from his old friend, Hank Sayles, he'd had an unsettling feeling that something in Plains was just plain wrong. Cattle rustling, ballot-box stuffing, bride selling. gunfighting...all in a town that was little...

  • Man from Two Rivers

    Luke Short

    They wanted his land. They should have taken his life.He'd shot to defend his property. Now Hobe Carew was wanted by the law. First Hobe found an ally in a half-breed named Jim. Then he found a friend in a runaway girl and a good reason to come back ...

  • Lone Star and the Alaskan Renegades

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki ride a frozen trail of blazing bullets in the one hundred and fourth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the mar...

  • An Easter Bouquet

    Therese Alderton

    A CYNICAL WAGER It was just the sort of absurd wager in which bored London fashionables delighted. In return for a prime piece of horseflesh, Lord Vyse the most decadent of town sophisticates, would pose until Easter as a virtuous Rector in a countr...

  • Surrender a Dream // The Bargain

    Jill Barnett

    Adelaide Amanda Pinkney was glad to bid Chicago farewell. After the bustle and crowds of the growing city, the news that her aunt and uncle had left her their California farm was like a dream come true. But Addie's idyll was shattered the mome...

  • Comanche Embrace

    Betty Brooks

    HE WAS HER PASSIONATE CHAMPION Lady Brandy Tremayne wished she had never gone on this blasted buffalo hunt! She'd been separated from the hunting party and was now frantic with fear. And just when she thought she'd die in the wilderness, she stumb...

  • Wild Captive Fire

    Caitlin Adams Bryan

    A RICH MAN'S DAUGHTER He was the handsomest man she'd ever seen. It didn't matter that he was an outlaw who had kidnapped her at gunpoint, bound her wrists together, and carried her away on horseback to an abandoned trapper's shack...

  • Seafaring Stranger

    Carolyn Chase

  • Bold Rebel Love

    Christine Dorsey

    She yearned to betray him Fiona and her clan wanted no part of the revolution that was sweeping the Colonies. Fiercely loyal to the Crown, the spirited Scottish beauty was willing to risk her life spying on Colonel Zeke Kincaid, an arrogant Amer...

  • Lover's Knot

    Maria Greene

    A MATCHMAKING MASQUERADE The current fashion called for blond hair, blue eyes, and a superficial charm...and Amanda Bowen, with her quiet, dark beauty and penchant for book-reading, had been largely ignored by London's eligible bachelors. That...

  • Highland Belle

    Patricia Grasso

    BEAUTIFUL HELLCAT Flame-haired Brigette Devereux had the face of an angel and the spirit of a wildcat. Wed by proxy to a savage Scot, the willful ward of Queen Elizabeth fled... straight into the arms of a wickedly handsome stranger, his eyes dark a...

  • Enchantress

    Constance O'Banyon

    In the Turkish court of her stepfather, Brittany Sinclair was known as the daughter of the English Rose, that legendary beauty who had stolen Lord Simijin's heart. Raised between two worlds -- the proper English ways of her mother and the exotic sens...

  • Captive Rose

    Miriam Minger

    A WARRIOR'S PASSION With the sheer strength of his muscular body, Crusader Guy de Warenne overpowered his captors and fled the hell-hole of the Syrian prison. Yet he couldn't leave Damascus without rescuing the lovely violet-eyed "slav...

  • Taboo

    Olivia Rupprecht

    The Man She Adored--and Dared Not Love... Cammie Walker and Grant Kennedy had been raised as brother and sister since the terrible night her family had died in a car crash. No one knew her better, or cared for her more than Grant--and no man she'd ...

  • Love's Sweetest Secret

    Gina Robins

    She found passion where she least expected it! SURPRISED BY LOVE Headstrong Liberty Jordan had fled the West Indies to escape an arranged marriage, only to find herself trapped into another engagement the moment she set foot on American soil. De...

  • Island of Dreams

    Patricia Potter

    DREAMS OF DESIRE As the winds of war blew across America, twenty-two-year-old Meara O'Hara felt safe in the privileged world of Georgia's enchanted Jekyll Island. Then she made a fatal mistake. She fell in love with the enemy. The seductive stran...

  • Captive Dove

    Sonya T. Pelton

    SHE COULD NEVER FORGIVE HIM Lovely, emerald-eyed Tamara Anderson had never desired a man the way she desired the handsome half-breed, Daniel Tarrant. Willingly, recklessly, she surrendered to the bronze warrior's soul-searing embrace, never dreamin...

  • Desperado Passion

    Patricia Pellicane

    HE ALWAYS GOT HIS MAN Marshal Tanner Maddox swaggered into Willowbrook, Nevada on business, but after encountering the beguiling Elizabeth Garner, his mind was fixed on the pleasures of her honey-smooth skin and temptingly-ripe lips. Lucky for him...

  • Romantic Rebel

    Joan Smith

    Behind her enlightened words beat the heart of a true romantic... Left penniless and betrothed against her will, Emma Nesbitt vented her pique in a blast of purple prose that became the toast of emancipated women everywhere. And though she secretl...

  • Bound by Ecstasy

    Kristal Leigh Scott

    She was his prisoner until she found the key to his heart! SHE WANTED TO HATE HIM Sadie Moran looked at her kidnapper and muttered an unladylike oath. Her stubborn streak had finally gotten the red-headed beauty in trouble -- big trouble. Her f...

  • Shadow Play

    Katherine Sutcliffe

    SHADOW HERO A god to the Indians of the Amazon, a lusty adventurer whose courage was renowned, Morgan Kane was in truth a rogue and a charlatan -- a handsome deceiver whose legend was more illusion. SHADOW PAST Leaving the glitter of London beh...

  • An Independent Lady

    Lois Stewart

    She would not allow his iron will to rule her heart... A WILLFUL MINX Lady Araminta Beresford was quite capable of taking care of herself. After roaming eastern Europe and Syria -- often unchaperoned! -- she had little patience, upon returning to...

  • Lady of the Mists

    Clara Wimberly

    She should never have come to Stillmeadows. Now, it was too late... "You don't belong here, Julia. And you never will." It took Julia a long time to get over her broken engagement to David Damron. But when she learned that he had married a we...

  • Blockade

    Don Pendleton

    NO OPTIONS A new faction of Irish freedom fighters known as the Curran Brigade is in fact a group of ruthless terrorists using patriotism as a front for a horrifying conspiracy. Financing a growing arsenal of sophisticated weapons by drug smugglin...

  • Payback Game

    Don Pendleton

    NO TERMS Horrifying film footage of the hanging, lifeless body of a U.S. Marine colonel executed by Middle East terrorists stuns the nation--and propels Mack Bolan into action. The President wants aboveboard negotiations only and issues a direc...

  • Out for Blood

    John Peyton Cooke

    THE PRICE OF ETERNAL LIFE Creatures of dark legend, they roam the Earth to feed on the living. A race older than time -- despised, feared and misunderstood -- immortal souls damned for all eternity. Now young Chris Callaway has joined their ra...

  • Bleeder

    Gene Lazuta

    As part of an assignment, freelance writer Nick creates a horrific fictional character known as Nasty Andrew, but now the deranged killer has come to life, embarking on a cross-country bloodbath that seems to be heading straight for Nick...

  • Devil's Gate

    Elizabeth Ergas

  • Dusk

    Ron Dee

    It settles over civilization with a blood red sun . . . over the landmarks of modern rational man, his freeways and skyscrapers, the yuppies, scumbags wannabes and pushers . . . over men and women yearning for someone else's flesh, and blood . . . Th...

  • The Fire Within

    Graham Watkins

    The winners had one thing in common, a lifetime of terrifying, blood-soaked nightmares. But now they hoped to escape all that, to cast off the pressures of civilization in a sun-drenched paradise by the sea. Soon, their inhibitions faded away; their ...

  • Stoneskin's Revenge

    Tom Deitz

    CRACK BETWEEN THE WORLDS The war in Faerie is over -- and David Sullivan's Cherokee friend, Calvin McIntosh, has returned to Georgia. But the young brave has unknowingly left the portal to Galunlati open -- and Spearfinger has entered his world. ...

  • Scorpio Descending

    Alex McDonough

    No Time Like The Twentieth Century Savage Hunters are tracking the alien known as Scorpio. The chase has crossed two planets and thousands of years, and the Hunters are finally caching up. In a last, desperate gamble, Scorpio flees blindly through ti...

  • The Hunter Returns

    David Drake; Jim Kjelgaard

    ALONE IN A LAND OF MONSTERS! Cast out by their tribe, Hawk and an injured girl must face tigers with six-inch fangs, packs of dire wolves-and most dangerous of all, a war party of brutish humans! But the folk of Hawk's tribe, straggling across ...

  • Vengeance

    David Drake

    When the heartless rulers of the galaxy send Captain North and his crew to study a new planet, they mysteriously disappear. Then after three more fleets of ships vanish, the rulers decide they have no choice but to send out one mor...

  • Chanur's Homecoming

    C.J. Cherryh

    A FIRST CONTACT UNLIKE ANY OTHER When those strange entities called "humans" sent their first exploration ship into Compact space, the delicate power balances of the seven races of the Compact were catastrophically disrupted. And by giving shelter...

  • Heroes, Inc.

    Kyle Crocco

  • Little People

    Jack Dann

  • Random Factor

    Joel Henry Sherman

  • Mistress of Ambiguities

    J.F. Rivkin

    Danger, deceit and double-cross . . . Her beloved city in dire straits after a bloody civil war, the spellcasting Lady Nyctasia is forced to seek alliance with a neighboring state. But the rumored marriage-treaty has loyal swordswoman Corson whettin...

  • The Dreamstone

    J.F. Rivkin

    Beyond the Mistwall, the Dark Lord gathers strength, turning his enemies' worst fears to reality with . . . THE DREAMSTONE Bith the sorceress and her companions - Cal the outlaw, Hathor the troll, and Endril the elf, have armed themselves with ...

  • The Lost Colony

    Kevin D. Randle

    ALL-ACTION SPACE COMBAT SERIES - JEFFERSON'S WARTHE LOST COLONYA young warrior risks his command—to free a planet of slaves. . . AN EMPTY WORLDAn entire civilization has vanished from a lush planet—cities intact, no corpses, no trace of...

  • Last Reckoning

    Mike Shupp

  • Sadar's Keep

    Midori Snyder

  • On the Planet of Zombie Vampires

    Harry Harrison

    Bill—the perfect Starship Trooper: big, brawny, and brainwashed. Possessor of two right arms (impressive when it comes to saluting) and a foot that is threatening to turn into something more suited to being an umbrella stand than anything th...

  • Song of the Saurials

    Kate Novak; Jeff Grubb
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    When the Harpers judged the Nameless Bard responsible for the death of his apprentices, they sentenced him to exile and obscurity. Now the Harpers are reconsidering their decision, but with the arrival of the monster Grvpht, Nameless's new trial diss...

  • Return of the Breakneck Boys

    Geary Gravel

    TO FLUSH THE ENEMY What fix-it man Howard Bell thought was the key to the executive washroom in Boston's new Matrix Building turned out to open a door into the Fading Worlds, stranding Howard smack in the middle of some very deadly alien wargames....

  • Blind Justice

    S.N. Lewitt

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    ""The Mary Damned went into hell with her captain and crew. But she comes back where the void is black to catch the likes of you.""

    The legend was sung aboard the Justica's prison ships, and told in spaceport bars. But everyone knew that t...

  • Eye

    Frank Herbert

    Eye features the startlingly original collaboration The Road to Dune, a walking tour of Arakeen narrated by Frank Herbert and illustrated by acclaimed British artist Jim Burns. Also included is an introduction by Herbert describing his personal feeli...

  • Shadowkill

    Jo Clayton

    Now in ebook for the first time, the third and final book of Clayton's classic sci-fi trilogy...

  • The Gods in Anger

    Adrian Cole

    With the vast armies of the evil Anakhizer threatening Omara, Simon Wargallow and his allies, armed with the rod of power, journey deep into forbidden lands to discover the truth about the perils that endanger the world...

  • Fulfilments of Fate and Desire

    Storm Constantine

    Third in the Wraeththu Chronicles trilogy, 'The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire' concludes the first saga of the androgynous race that has become the dominant race on earth. Calanthe, erstwhile companion of Pellaz, (the har who has now become leader o...

  • Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves

    Alan Dean Foster

  • Fire Crossing

    Cheryl J. Franklin

    THE TAORMIN MATRIX To the wizards of Serii the Taormin Matrix was the ultimate tool of sorcery. Three Immortal wizards had reversed the flow of time itself to set the matrix in its proper place, reopening a time/space portal which the people of Ne...

  • Jungle Assault

    P.M. Griffin

    Armed for justice, trained to kill they are the best of the best. Star Commandos. A military elite, forged in a galactic conflict. War's end marks the beginning of their mission: to protect human colonies from the blood-drenched clutches of post-war ...

  • The Illusionists

    Faren Miller

  • Glory Lane

    Alan Dean Foster

    THE FATE OF THE UNIVERSE IS IN THEIR HANDS Seeth, a bored punk rocker looking for excitement. Miranda, an air-head beauty who lives to shop. And Kerwin, a nerd who just wants to fit in. They're not friends, and they don't even particularly like...

  • A Man for the Night

    Maggie Baker

    One explosive night together! Lust--not love--turned professor Susan Harkness into the passionate woman who'd dragged Nick Taurage to bed on their first--and only--date. She wanted tenure, so she'd hired him to impress her university colleagues. N...

  • Would You Marry Me Anyway?

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    Hank Collins was strong, sensitive, handsome -- and a carpenter. Construction supervisor Catherine McGillis thought the whole package was terrific. Her family disagreed. Their "baby" should marry a man with more prospects -- starchy white-col...

  • Heart and Soul

    Lynn Bartlett

    NO WAY OUT College professor Brenna Hawthorne enjoyed her solitary existence--until the walls of her ivory tower began to crumble around her. One of her colleagues was missing, the FBI suspected her of espionage, and Special Agent Mitch Carlisle w...

  • Lucky in Love

    Beverly Barton

    STRIKE THREE! Cole Kendrick couldn't take it anymore! The big-time baseball player had slid into the Holly House bed and breakfast to get some well-earned rest and relaxation. Instead, he got an eyeful -- in the form of small-town honey Lucky Darn...

  • A Whisper in the Wind

    Madeline Baker

    THE BLACK HILLS, 1876 It was a land where a man could ride for days without seeing anything but fragrant pines, an occasional deer, or a lone eagle soaring in the limitless blue sky -- a land where the Indian still roamed wild and free -- a land t...

  • Morning Sky

    Constance Bennett

    The lovely widow Lacey Spencer has launched an unheard-of campaign to expose the crooked cattle rangers that are threatening to overtake her hometown. Even her sophisticated beauty and elegant demeanor cannot erase the townspeople's evident disapprov...

  • A Man Worth Loving

    Pamela Browning

    A MYSTERY WRAPPED IN A MEMORY Biographer Swann Triplett didn't know her latest subject. But her one encounter with Child Michael had the sweet wonder of a child's bedtime story. Swann had been five years old, the neglected daughter of w...

  • Ballenrose

    Mallory Burgess

    BLOSSOMING DESIRE Molly Flowers was torn between two strong and proud men. One was the elegant, immensely powerful Duke of Buckingham, whose golden wealth and warm praise made this poor flower girl blossom into an exquisite young lady. The other w...

  • Every Woman's Dream

    Bethany Campbell

    He was every woman's dream Like manna from heaven, Cal Buchanon's photograph landed on Tess Avery's desk. It would guarantee the success of the calendar project she'd been assigned. It would launch Tess in New York's advertisin...

  • Wild Lily

    Caryn Cameron

    The Fairest Flower... Virginia tomboy Lily Wilde was used to taking care of herself. Why should that change now that she'd come north to sedate Washington, D.C.? And why did infuriating and compelling Englishman Jordan Brant insist on meddling in ...

  • Diamond on Ice

    Lacey Dancer

    PRICE OF PERFECTION Jason Starke had earned the name "Iceman" both on and off the ice. The Olympic gold medalist was a dazzling master of the silver blades--perfection on ice. But inside, Jason felt like an imposter, a showman who glided and twirl...

  • Taking Love in Stride

    Donna Clayton

    RUN TO LOVE Track coach Andrea O'Connor was fuming at the audacity of Ian Powers, the very attractive father of one of her students. He had offered to buy school equipment only if Andrea agreed to train him for a marathon. Well, train him, ...

  • Starting Over

    Kathy Clark

    HIS MONIKER WAS "TRAVELING MAN" Kate Cramer hoped he'd settle down. Rusty Russell was more than the mechanic, salesman and crack pilot she'd hired to turn her business around -- Rusty was a friend. And Kate was as vulnerable as ...

  • Firebrand

    Sandra Chastain

    The Hot-Blooded Cowboy... Cade McCall wasn't the kind of man to answer an ad as mysterious as Rusty Wilder's--but he'd never needed a job as much as he did this one! When he met the feisty green-eyed rancher, whose wild red hair echoed her fiery spi...

  • The Scent of Magic

    Margaret Chittenden

    It had to be coincidence... Vintage-clothing-boutique owner Casey Templeton did not believe in magic potions, even though the mysterious old woman at the antique fair assured her that the perfume in the beautiful glass bottle was guaranteed to giv...

  • Ben & Liz & Toni & Ross

    Frances Davies

    Four people in a tug-of-love Liz Tall, dark and handsome -- I'd been waiting all my life for a man like Ben Malloy. Only Toni, my roommate and best friend, hadn't. She and I were like sisters -- always looking out for each other. Now th...

  • Byron's Child

    Carola Dunn

    Jodie Zaleski meets Giles Faringdale, a lord no less, in contemporary Oxford -- only to find herself transported with him back to his ancestral home in Regency times. An impetuous and determined researcher, Jodie lands Giles and his ancestors in more...

  • The Sicilian

    Lucy Gordon

    FIRE FLOWER The instant cool, calm Melanie Carlyle saw raven-haired Vittorio Farnese she knew she'd never be the same. She had come to sun-drenched Sicily to claim her inheritance -- Terrafiore. But Vittorio said the land was his, and when he took M...

  • Step From A Dream

    Judi Edwards

    The last thing hiker Grant Van Arden expected to encounter was a scantily clad sunbather draped provocatively in the cold, hard Canadian Rockies. But when closer examination revealed the woman's sensual lips were blue, the man who'd bitterly left beh...

  • Out of the Mist

    Christine Flynn

    From the moment she arrived in quaint Brigen Glen, Sara Madigan was enchanted by the mystical Irish village of her grandmother's girlhood. Yet nothing prepared her for the heart-stopping stranger who emerged from the swirling fog, rugged Devon O&...

  • The Rocky Road to Romance

    Janet Evanovich

    When the delightful, daffy Dog Lady of station WZZZ offered to take on the temporary job of traffic reporter, Steve Crow tried to think of reasons to turn Daisy Adams down! Perhaps he knew that sharing the close quarters of a car with her for hours w...

  • A Touch of Love

    Patricia Hagan

    Sunny Days, Hot Nights Kelly Sanders had plenty of reasons to run away. Her parents insisted on ruling her life. Her possessive boyfriend was trying to trick her into marriage. And her job demanded 90% of her time. When her high-spirited eccentric...

  • Sweet Southern Caress

    Wendy Garrett

    HE WAS HARD TO RESIST Fiery Alisa couldn't wait for her twenty-first birthday. Finally, the Georgia beauty would own Windlea and would be able to free her slaves and run the Sea Island cotton plantation the way it ought to be run. All she had to do ...

  • Starbright

    Billie Green

    The Perfect Man with So Many Secrets... Garrick Fane was a brilliant lawyer, but all his wealth and power seemed useless to save his marriage to Elise Adler Bright. Once, the stunning, surprising model had lost herself in his midnight eyes and mad...

  • Texas Tycoon

    Martha Hix

    GOING TO THE CHAPEL... Maureen Miniver believed that anything was possible -- after all, hadn't she transformed a talent for baking into a thriving cookie company? But her work was cut out for her when she decided to mend the relationship betw...

  • Hearts in Hiding

    Kelly Jamison

    UNEXPECTED PLEASURE Tess Rand had just had a rotten day! First, she arrived home to find unrequested workmen fixing her roof, then the kid next door knocked her over with his bike--sending purse, pizza and caged mouse to the ground. But things pic...

  • Daddy's Girl

    Janice Kaiser

    NOBODY'S BABY Andrea Perrin couldn't believe the devastatingly handsome man who'd appeared at her door. A young widowed mother, Andrea was struggling to raise her child in a safe, healthy environment. Why was Slade Cutler, one of the w...

  • The Restless Heart

    Tami Hoag

    The Wicked Cajun Rogue... Remy Doucet was no ones idea of the perfect nanny for a houseful of wild kids, but Danielle Hamilton was desperate enough to hire the dark-eyed hunk with the boxer's build and the sexiest grin she'd ever seen! The world-c...

  • The Return of Slade Garner

    Dee Holmes

    The heat between Slade and Celina went way back, but even as high school sweethearts, Celina's passion for learning had vied with Slade's passion for hockey. Now the entire town was cheering hockey star Slade Garner's return, while Celina...

  • McAllister's Lady

    Naomi Horton

    MR. MARCH Name: Devlin McAllister Profile: Tough. Sinfully handsome. Enigmatic. Case History: The best cop on the force -- until scandal ended his career. Now living on a remote island. Memory he can't shake: Hauntingly beautiful Jess -- the ...

  • Honorbound

    Tracy Hughes

    A CENTURY OF AMERICAN ROMANCE 1890s --1 990s A cease-fire has been declared in Indochina, but in Carrie Hunter's heart, the war rages on. A tragic loss fuels her political activism...but disillusionment won't be healed by rallies and rhet...

  • Journey's End

    Bobby Hutchinson

    Tania Wallace thought she knew best When her father had a heart attack, she insisted he move to Vancouver's Mountain View Lodge where he could be better cared for. Now he had run away, disappeared in northern B.C., and she had to reassess the choi...

  • A Gentleman's Desire

    Mary Kingsley

    UNFORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCES The Earl of Chatleigh was not a man easily taken in by manipulative misses, but he'd certainly botched things this time! Yet how was he to know that the beautiful young doxy in his bed at the Hart and Hind was of the Q...

  • Close Quarters

    Karen Leabo

    SEPARATE BEDS What was a nice girl like Halley Jernigan doing in a mess like this? Her assistant had absconded with company funds, her new apartment had been rented out from under her... and she had no one to turn to but Jay--her bossy ex-husband!...

  • Passion's Flight

    Terry Lawrence

    The Sensual God of the Dance... Stash was a legendary seducer, a famous Russian defector--and a star who was determined to join Mariah Heath's dance company, to partner the graceful tigress in a passionate pas de deux! From the moment the great da...

  • Rugged Splendor

    Robin Leigh

    LOVER'S BOUNTY A sweet-talking scoundrel left Silver Matlock stranded at the altar, escaping with the meager remains of her family's fortune. Faced with financial ruin, the rebellious Colorado beauty turned to bounty hunter Jared Newman for help--en...

  • Stardust and Whirlwinds

    Pamela Litton

    Trial by Fire A land of broken dreams...In the dusty town of Santa Angela, the only law was the gun, and Amelia Cumming's no-good husband had died by it, leaving her with a debt-ridden mercantile business. Gunslinger Ross Tanner seemed anxious for h...

  • Granite Man

    Elizabeth Lowell

    HEART OF STONE Cash McQueen was a hard man, a man who believed in the land and nothing else. With the land, a man knew where he stood. It was different with a woman. There wasn't one alive who could be trusted--and Mariah MacKenzie was no exceptio...

  • Sweet Justice

    Jan McKee

    The Hunter... Morgan Rossiter - bitter, dark and hungry for justice - was searching for the accomplice of his brother's killer. Now he'd stumbled upon the woman his agents swore was his quarry. But could Jessica Miller be an outlaw's woman? Even Mor...

  • Miss Gordon's Mistake

    Anita Mills

    The Hateful Lord Haverville Lovely Miss Kitty Gordon did not have to meet Lord Haverville to deeply detest the beastly Baron. For Haverville had forced Kitty's dearest friend, Jessica Merriman, into a monstrous marriage in name only - then left he...

  • Beneath a Texas Star

    Emma Merritt

    WORTHLESS YANKEE TENDERFOOT Beautiful Clementina Jones wore her sheriff's badge with pride. It had been her father's until he was shot in cold blood, and Clem was determined to use it to bring justice to his killer, and peace to Lawful, Texas. She h...

  • Accompanying Alice

    Terese Ramin

    For her thirty-fifth birthday, divorced Alice Meyers received news of her upcoming grandmotherhood, a pink slip, a thousand seed pearls to sew on her sister's wedding veil and a pistol pointed at her by a gorgeous, gun-wielding stranger who insisted ...

  • Favors of the Rich

    Sara Orwig

    THE SINS OF A FATHER The most ruthless oilman in America, Laz Kaminski doesn't just buy out his competitors, he ruins them. And when that rival is his only son, he becomes a man possessed with the need to win ...no matter whom he betrays or how he l...

  • Harden

    Diana Palmer

    HARD-HEARTED TEXAN... Born into a sprawling ranching family, rugged Harden Tremayne was the toughest, wildest man ever to come out of Texas. And the loneliest. Until he met Miranda Warren, the lovely Chicago widow who aroused feelings too long de...

  • Nightingale

    Patricia Phillips

    From the grinding poverty of a remote coal-mining village...to the sensuous opulence of an Italian villa...the bright flame of their love never wavered... In the sweet spring darkness of the Welsh countryside, beautiful Mair Parry had given her inno...

  • The Willful Lady

    Eva Rutland

    He was no match for her, or so she had thought. SHE would not go willingly into his bed When it came to plain speaking and fierce pride, Miss Amelia Allen was no flat. The daughter of an artist, she was barely accepted by the ton, and no one&#...

  • Night Shadow

    Nora Roberts

    IN A CITY RULED BY FEAR... ...a solitary figure shrouded in black walked the night, determined to awaken a terrified metropolis from the nightmare of crime. There was nothing -- no bullets, and certainly not legal technicalities -- that could deter ...

  • Dead Ringer

    M.J. Rodgers

    It was a case of mind over murder Detective Wyatt Lockhart had a kind name for it: shock. But after the bomb exploded in a Washington supermarket, psychologist Claire Boland seriously wondered if she were losing her mind. Though the victim's fa...

  • Bright Secrets

    Jane Silverwood

    Where was the last missing orphan? Elderly communications magnate Owen Byrnside had assigned lawyer Jake Caine to track down three abandoned orphans, one of whom might be Owen's long-lost granddaughter. With the help of his beautiful and efficient...

  • Under Venice

    Madelyn Sanders

    Clea knew about secrets That's why Clea Beaumont fled to Venice, where she leased an apartment in the Palazzo Corelli. There, Clea hoped to resolve the terrible mystery at the center of her life--or bury her secrets forever. Marcantonio Corelli...

  • The Simple Truth

    Sandy Steen

    ANGEL FIRST CLASS Nurse Carly McShane couldn't help comparing Danny, or any other toddler, to her own missing son. Maybe if she could just keep herself out of pediatrics, she could save herself painful memories. But ever since this charming little...

  • The Duke's Design

    Margaret Westhaven

    The Irresistible Lord's Decidedly Improper Proposition Miss Matilda Graham made it clear what she thought of the Duke of Arden's proposition. Yet how could she refuse this lord whose looks, wealth, and charm won him any woman he wanted. Es...

  • For Heaven's Sake

    Brenda Trent

    THE PISCES MAN If there's only one fish in the sea for you, catching the passionate Pisces man will require a special kind of bait--charm and perseverance! Reel him in slowly... . ONE PISCES MAN IN PARTICULAR Meticulous Steve Jamison was in a ru...

  • No Easy Task

    Chloe Summers

    SURPRISE PACKAGE Doone Daniels was on her way out the door when her boss handed her a last minute assignment. The task sounded ridiculously simple, but if Mr. Shackley wanted to pay her a thousand dollars to drop every-thing and deliver a package ...

  • All About Adam

    Moyra Tarling

    A MAN WITH A PAST English teacher Paris Ford wasn't about to put up with losing classroom performances from members of Brockton College's championship-bound basketball team. She approached the new athletic director for help--and found herself face...

  • Making It

    Elise Title

    Hannah Logan: New York City urban planning consultant. For Hannah, marriage was just another business proposition--a limited partnership. Marc Welles: VP at Ryder Data Inc. Marc believed that sentiment and business didn't mix--not even in marriage...

  • Lady Elmira's Emerald

    Winifred Witton

    They were in the suds in more ways than one IF he had to beg, borrow or steal, so be it When Lady Imogen Remlow stole a kiss in the gazebo, wearing a "borrowed" necklace, she had no notion that she had lost anything more than a touch o...

  • A House Becomes a Home

    Linda Varner

    THE TAURUS MAN Waving a red flag to tempt the Taurus man will surely send this stubborn, bullheaded hunk charging in the opposite direction. Instead, woo him gently and let him think it was his idea! ONE TAURUS MAN IN PARTICULAR Rough-and-ru...

  • Bittersweet Destiny

    Luanne Walden

    Caitlan Webber was shocked to discover the seemingly lifeless body of a man near the Mississippi boardinghouse where she lived. But she was even more shocked to learn that the man was Rafe Bradrick whom fate had returned to her after years of lonelin...

  • Russian Nights

    Kelly Walsh

    A passionate Russian Anatol Vronsky risked his career by inviting Americans to join a Soviet business venture. He never thought he'd also be risking his life . . . and his heart. An American businesswoman Laura Waiters expected a tough job i...

  • Child of Mine

    Mary Anne Wilson

    Fearless father... A VERY SPECIAL CASE To stuntman Cade Daniels, the biggest challenge of his life wasn't on a movie set--but fighting for custody of his baby son. And to win, he'd have to convince court psychologist Megan Lewis that jumping fr...

  • Till I Loved You

    Pat Warren

    When urban refugee Lainey Roberts needed some hired muscle to help renovate her country home and stables, she didn't expect a gentle, intelligent, gray-eyed stranger with shoulders a mile-wide. Soft-spoken Zac Sinclair was undeniably attractive and p...

  • Voices in the Night

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    HIS VOICE WAS HER HEARTBEAT Malnutrition, cruelty and blazing heat were the unbearable realities of the South American prison. All that stood between newscaster M. J. Blake and the madness of despair was a stranger's voice. As the days turned i...

  • Gideon's Fall

    Bronwyn Williams

    Gideon McNair Was The Devil's Own Angel True, Prudence and her brother had mistaken Captain McNair for a pirate, but that didn't give him the right to drag them off to his whaling camp and force them into slave labor. If the insufferable Gideon th...

  • Queen of Angels

    Greg Bear

    CRIME, PUNISHMENT--AND THE BORDERS OF THE MIND In a world of wonders, wealth, and "perfect" mental health, a famous poet commits gruesome murder...WHY? That crime, that question, leads a policewoman to a jungle of torture and forgotten gods; a ...

  • Payment in Kind

    J.A. Jance

    AN EDUCATION IN DEATH The bloody corpses stashed in the broom closet of the Seattle School District building were lovingly entwined. It looked like a classic crime of passion to Detective J.P Beaumont--especially when Pete Kelsey admitted that his...

  • Dogtown

    Mercedes Lambert

    A terrific debut mystery featuring the sisterhood's answer to Philip Marlowe--a pair of crime-solving cohorts whose Los Angeles makes Raymond Chandler's look like Disneyland. When Whitney Logan teams up with a street-smart Chicana prostitute, the res...

  • Murder at Teatime

    Stefanie Matteson

    PARSLEY, SAGE, ROSEMARY...AND POISON What better antidote to the pressures of Broadway than a vacation on an elegant island off the Maine coast? That's what Charlotte Graham thinks ... until her seaside getaway lands her knee-deep in local intrigue....

  • Murder Most Fowl

    Kate Morgan

    Small town librarian Dewey James gets some exercise in detection when the man in charge of providing grants to an ornithological research station is found murdered, and the staff of birdwatchers provides a long list of suspects...

  • Cracking Up

    Ed Naha

  • Sweetwater Ranch

    Geoffrey Norman

    TROUBLE ON THE REDNEXK RIVIERA You won't find northern Florida's steamy Panhandle on a picture postcard. But its sluggish streams and piney woods suit Morgan Hunt just fine. Some hard time in the slammer has left him on a short fuse. He needs slow...

  • B & E

    Dave Pedneau

    THE INCIDENT: An interrupted burglary on a peaceful Milbrook street ends in the stabbing of a citizen and the murder of a cop. And that's only the beginning of a criminal nightmare for special investigator Whit Pynchon. THE INVASION: Whit has go...

  • One Man's Poison

    John R. Riggs

    The earthquake that rocked Oakalla was a harbinger for the UNnatural disasters to come... Cyanide has tainted the water supply. A father and son are missing.And the town judge turns up murdered. Garth Ryland teams up with Oakalla's newest stranger ...

  • Cockfighter

    Charles Willeford / Charles Ray Willeford

    In the criminal underbelly of the 1960s rural South, a silent, iron-willed man is ready to sacrifice anything to rise to the top.A former professional boxer, actor, horse trainer and radio announcer, Charles Willeford (1919-1988) is best known for hi...

  • The Anastasia Syndrome

    Mary Higgins Clark

    Judith Chase -- a beautiful historian engaged to the next Prime Minister of Great Britain -- is at the top of her professional and personal life. But the streets of London are pulling Judith back to a time beyond her past. In a search for her childho...

  • El Lazo

    Larry Jay Martin

    In the 1840s Alta California is on the verge of revolution. The Mexicans are struggling to keep their gracious life-style intact. The Indians have sworn to defend their tribal heritage against all invaders. Both are doomed by the inevitable war with ...

  • Seize the Sky

    Terry C. Johnston

    SON OF THE PLAINS Few names of the American frontier resonate like that of George Armstrong Custer. His fiery temperament and grand vision led him to triumph in one season and tragedy in another. Now bestselling chronicler Terry C. Johnston brings t...

  • The Lords of the Sword

    Hugh Cook

    SON OF THE DEMON-- That was what his former master had named young Drake Douay, when, maddened by illness, he founded the religion of the Flame and claimed Drake as his chief enemy. But Drake, fleeing his apprenticeship as a maker of swords, would...

  • Contamination

    John Vornholt

    The Enterprise crew is stunned when famed scientist Lynn Costa is murdered in one of the ship's science labs. She and her husband Emil were known as science's greatest ongoing collaboration and, together, they had received the Federation's highest ho...

  • Wurm

    Matthew Costello

    Twenty-seven years ago, five friends decided to play a game... But if it was just a game, why is there blood? If it was only in their imagination, why is it crawling toward them? If they thought it was dead, why are they still afraid? To ...

  • Lives of Value

    Sharleen Cooper Cohen

    Suzanne Winston is on top of the world when her latest novel makes the New York Times best-seller list. To her younger sister, Steffani Blacker, Suzanne has it all--or nearly. A successful writer of popular fiction, mother of three and a beautiful, v...

  • Musical Chairs

    Kinky Friedman

    It’s the last week of December, a brooding time of year even for a hip, sardonic, New York cowboy/private eye. When a ex-Texas Jewboys guitarist comes to crash, Kinky’s gloom turns to horror: his ‘housepest’ gets savagely murdered in the show...

  • Piano Man

    Noreen Gilpatrick

    Musician Paul Whitman is hired by a mysterious employer to restore old pianos on a lonely Puget Sound island, but someone is stealing piano strings, the accommodations stink, and the neighbors are unfriendly...

  • The Dreaming Damozel

    Mollie Hardwick

    The author of Upstairs, Downstairs continues her internationally bestselling mystery series. Antique dealer Doran Fairweather is absolutely elated to find a beautiful little oil painting portraying the doomed Pre-Raphealite Lizzie Siddal. When she di...

  • Say It With Poison

    Ann Granger

    MARRIAGE, MYSTERY, AND MURDER The wedding of her godchild Sara is reason enough for Foreign Service Consul Meredith Mitchell to return to England to stay with her cousin, Eve Owens, glamorous film star and mother of the bride. When Meredith arrive...

  • Lieberman's Folly

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    Sixty-year-old Chicago police detective Abe Lieberman is having all the troubles he can handle when Estralda Valdez, a stunning Mexican prostitute, comes to him with a proposition he can't refuse: Estralda will help him with valuable information if h...

  • Murder Saves Face

    Haughton Murphy

    To save his old firm, Reuben Frost must find a killer in the heart of Hell’s Kitchen   It’s the last business day of the year and Tom Henderson is alone in the library of prominent Wall Street law firm Chase & Ward. He’ll be out the do...

  • Prior Convictions

    Lia Matera

    Willa Jansson, a cynical ex-radical, figures the walking dead had more fun than she did last year. At least none of them were selling their souls to a corporate Los Angeles law firm, trying to make their resumes look good. After a year of misery, tho...

  • Immaculate in Black

    E.J. McGill

    A pair of married sleuths, attorney "Sherm" Sherman and his wife Becky, investigate the brutal rape and murder of a Tucson woman, and their search takes them to bridge tournaments, porn movies, and into a strange religious cult...

  • A First Class Murder

    Elliott Roosevelt

    DESTINATION:MURDER With horns blasting and crowds cheering, the great luxury liner Normandie steams out into the Atlantic -- her elegant staterooms graced by the rich and famous of the world, including America’s First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. ...

  • Bones

    Joyce Thompson

    Not even her work reconstructing faces for the Seattle police from the remains of homicide victims has prepared Frederika Bascomb for her father's murder and mutilation at the hands of a faceless killer. Reprint. K....

  • Daphne Dead and Done For

    Jonathan Ross

    When a husband advertises for his missing wife, Detective Superintendent George Rogers investigates and must decide what connection a body, a missing attorney, and an underground tunnel have to the puzzle...

  • The Spotted Cats

    William G. Tapply

    With his client, Jeff Newton, a professional hunter, lying near death--the victim of an attack by an African cat--Brady must investigate the disappearance of Newton's priceless pre-Columbian treasure by himself. Reprint. NYT. PW. ...

  • Deeds of Trust

    Victor Wuamett

  • Dracula Unbound

    Brian W. Aldiss

    THE TIME IS THE FUTURE, THE TERROR IS TIMELESS Two men, one of the future, one of the past, embark on an astonishing and horrific journey. They chase the most elusive and deadly creatures ever to stalk the earth. Theirs is a trek of time, life, de...

  • The Burning

    Graham Masterton

    While investigating the death of his fiance+a7e, who burned herself to death with a smile on her face, Lloyd Denman learns that she has become a Salamander, a creature of fire and smoke-made flesh. Reprint....

  • Storms of Victory

    Andre Norton; P.M. Griffin

    The Witches of Estcarp defeated Pagin of Karsten when they caused The Turning, a massive catadysm that moved mountains to block the invasion. But the witches' enormous use of magic crippled their powers and brought chaos and destruction to all of Wit...

  • The Eighth Rank

    David D. Ross

  • The Golden Barbarian

    Iris Johansen

    FROM THE HALLS OF A PALATIAL PRISON TO THE HOT SANDS OF AN ENDLESS DESERT... Here is a timeless story of love and adventure set among hills of gold, warring tribes, and fabled kingdoms -- the story of a fearless princess and a barbarian sheikh.....

  • Passion's Child

    P.J. Thomas

  • Silver Linings

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    HE WANTS HER BACK. SHE HAS HER DOUBTS. LOVE BURNED THEM ONCE --- NOW THEY'RE TWICE AS HOT! Successful but shy, Seattle art dealer Mattie Sharpe fell for handsome, outspoken, professional adventurer Hugh Abbott at first sight. So she turned up her...

  • Stolen Love

    Carolyn Jewel

    THIEF OF HEARTS Elizabeth Willard had been the childhood friend of dashing Nicholas Villines -- until the difference in their ages and the vagaries of fortune thrust them part. When they met again, everything had changed. Poor relation Elizabet...

  • Murder on the Iditarod Trail

    Sue Henry

    IDITAROD: A grueling eleven-hundred-mile dog sled race across a frigid Arctic wilderness--a tortuous test of endurance, skill and courage for a $250,000 reward. But this year, the prize is survival. One by one, the top Iditarod contestants are dyi...

  • Song of the Silent Harp

    B.J. Hoff

    Song of the Silent Harp, Book One of BJ Hoff’s acclaimed and bestselling Emerald Ballad series begins the five-book saga of three friends raised in a tiny Irish village devastated by the Potato Famine of the mid-1800s, as they struggle to survive a...

  • Dirty Deeds

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • Through the Doll's House Door

    Jane Gardam

  • Into Thin Air

    Carolyn Keene

    George’s neighbor Mark Rubin has been canned by his detective agency. J. Christopher Johnson, subject of an embezzlement investigation, has vanished in a helicopter crash -- and Mark’s boss blames him for blowing the case. But Mark is convinced t...

  • Space Pioneers

    Rick North

  • The Perfect Girl

    Francine Pascal

    Stung when her collegiate boyfriend pays less attention to her and more to the beautiful Vicky, Robin Wilson is convinced that dieting is the answer, a plan that has Elizabeth Wakefield thinking anorexia...

  • Project Boyfriend

    Stephanie St. Pierre

    Stacey Hollis is a couch potato and proud of it. Her favorite activities are reading, singing, and playing the guitar. She knows nothing about sports and cares less -- until she meets Max Friar, a handsome junior at Windmere High and a member of the ...

  • The Fire Game

    R.L. Stine

  • Jessica's New Look

    Francine Pascal

    Soaring when cute Aaron Dallas asks her out, Jessica is brought to earth when she learns that she has to wear glasses, and it will take the intervention of her clever sister to get her to ever go out again...

  • Mademoiselle Jessica

    Francine Pascal

    A model family ...



    Jessica Wakefield is sick and tired of spoiled Lila Fowler's constant bragging.  So when she reads about the Model Family contest being sponsored by Teenager Magazine, she's tempted to enter just to put Lila in her...

  • Mixed Emotions

    Carolyn Keene

  • Fire Mask

    Charles L. Grant

  • Breaking the Ring

    Donna Walsh Inglehart

  • The Faces of Ceti

    Mary Caraker

    Teenage Maya and the other colonists on the planet Ceti try to resist being taken over by another hostile Earth colony on a neighboring world, while debating how to treat the native, possibly intelligent creatures called hlur....

  • Billy Watson's Croker Sack

    Franklin Burroughs

  • The Macguffin

    Stanley Elkin

    Of Stanley Elkin, The New York Times Book Review has said "no serious writer in this country can match him." In this 1991 National Book Award Finalist, Elkin combineshcockian plot as he narrates the mysterious events that take place in 40 hours in th...

  • Slow Suicide

    William Jovanovich

  • Invisible borders

    Polly Koch

  • Going for Broke

    Paul Lyons

  • The Moralist of the Alphabet Streets

    Fabienne Marsh

    Meredith Saunders, eighteen and red-haired, is born wise, bossy, funny and a bit of a brooder. When she wrestles with the big issues, her best friend Custer calls her The Moralist. She is in remission from leukemia and feels a bit lonely because al...

  • September Song

    Edward Mathis

    Texas private detective Dan Roman loves his ex-wife, even though she has remarried, and he must protect her from men against whom she had testified, despite a new husband who thinks protecting her is his job...

  • How to Make an American Quilt

    Whitney Otto

    “Remarkable . . . It is a tribute to an art form that allowed women self-expression even when society did not. Above all, though, it is an affirmation of the strength and power of individual lives, and the way they cannot help fitting together.” ...

  • The Woman Who Walked into the Sea // Death in Vineyard Waters

    Philip R. Craig

    SURRENDER TO THE PERILOUS TIDES Acerbic professor Marjorie Summerharp was reborn on Martha's Vineyard her mind and acid-tongue sharpened by the island's gentle waves and whispering breezes. So why would she walk into the ocean on a warm June morni...

  • The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka

    Josef Skvorecky

    Things looked very black for Lieutenant Boruvka in The End of Lieutenant Boruvka. But in this, the fourth and (perhaps) final volume in the series, the sad-eyed detective turns up again, this time in Canada.Boruvka is working as a parking-lot attenda...

  • Making Shapely Fiction

    Jerome Stern

    A deft analysis and appreciation of fiction -- what makes it work and what can make it fail. Here is a book about the craft of writing fiction that is thoroughly useful from the first to the last page -- whether the reader is a beginner, a seasoned w...

  • Florid States

    Rod Usher

    Ned Quinn's impulsive response to a lonely hearts ad draws him out of his self-imposed solitude into the Australian outback and an unexpected affair. But Quinn suffers from schizophrenia, and his developing relationship with Jennifer Duncan is threat...

  • Western Tales

    Mary Atkins

    Compiles short fiction by a writer who captured the spirit and romance of the Old West, including well-known stories such as "The Luck of Roaring Camp," as well as others that are now difficult to find...

  • Emerald

    James Baddock

    Second in the Cormack and Woodward series. Based on a true story, Emerald is the fast-moving sequel to The Dutch Caper, showing Cormack and Woodward being flown into Berlin in order to bring out ‘Emerald', the mistress of a high-ranking member of H...

  • The Land Was Ours

    Charles W. Bailey Jr.

    A newspaper editor, his wife, and a self-made banker turned newspaper publisher battle raw nature and tumultuous social change on America's Great Plains, in a novel that spans seventy years of national upheaval, from 1870 to 1940...

  • Death and Other Lovers

    Jo Bannister

    Light like a great pink chrysanthemum bloomed far away over the distant perimeter, hanging high in the quiet air. Others would describe it as a fireball and speak of the deep booming roar as the fuel tanks, full to capacity at the start of the plane'...

  • A Model World and Other Stories

    Michael Chabon

    From the wondrously talented author of The mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys comes a magnificent collection of ironic, understated tales that confirm his reputation as "the young star of American letters." -- Washington Post Book World. Here ar...

  • The Ice

    Louis Charbonneau

    Kathy McNeely, a marine biologist and environmentalist, and a Russian scientist investigate a mysterious oil spill in pristine Antarctica despite storms, tourists, a reporter, and a series of so-called accidents at various research stations...