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New Books List: 646 titles

  • Vanishing Acts

    Jodi Picoult

    How do you recover the past when it was never yours to lose? Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her beloved, widowed father, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own search-and-rescue bloodho...

  • The Autumn Castle

    Kim Wilkins

    Christine Starlight lives with her lover, Jude, in a hip artists' colony in modern-day Berlin. Haunted by a troubled past, she is shocked when her missing childhood friend, May, suddenly reappears. Abducted as a young girl, May now presides over a ma...

  • Keep Me in Mind

    Nancy Holder

    Hgh school student Buffy Summers and her companions battle the forces of evil, in an interactive adventure featuring a variety of possible endings in which readers take on the role of the Slayer and determine the course of the action. Original. (A sy...

  • Matters of the Blood

    Maria Lima

    If you thought your family was strange... Try being Keira Kelly. A member of a powerful paranormal family, Keira elected to stay among humans in the Texas Hill Country when the rest of the clan moved (lock, stock, and grimoire) to Canada. But family...

  • Tale of the Thunderbolt

    E.E. Knight

    WELCOME TO THE YEAR 2070. EARTH IS UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. Possessed of an unnatural and legendary hunger, the Reapers have come to Earth to establish a New Order built on the harvesting of enslaved human souls. They rule the planet. They thrive o...

  • Bodyguard of Lies

    Robert Doherty

    WHO GUARDS THE WORLD OF COVERT OPERATIONS? Enter the Cellar, a most secret spy organization hiding deep within the United States. Two women become inextricably involved in a dangerous web of lies, intrigue, and betrayal as they fight for their li...

  • Brevig Mission Plague

    Frank Simon

    "SECURITY" IS THE NAME OF THE GAME FOR JOHN MASON AND GARY NESBITT BUT TERRORISM IS NO GAME. Fresh off a job testing the defenses of Britain's crown jewels, the SecurityCheck company is approached by the U.S. government with an assignment of much ...

  • The Chairman

    Stephen Frey

    When the legendary founder of New York's premier equity firm meets an untimely end, thirty-six-year-old superstar Christian Gillette gets the top job. With power and prestige, however, come great risks. Gillette is not surprised to find that he now h...

  • Dead of Night

    Randy Wayne White

    It starts with a simple request: check up on the mysteriously reclusive biologist brother of an old friend. But what Doc Ford stumbles upon in the doctor's secluded island home is a nightmare. He has hanged himself--and his body is host to a rare str...

  • The Hostage

    Duncan Falconer

    * NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING DOMINIC COOPER - READ IT BEFORE YOU SEE IT! *THE ENEMY HAS A WEAPON. SO DO WE.Discover the hugely bestselling debut thriller by a former member of the elite Special Boat Services - the toughest men in the world - and his s...

  • Lost Lake

    Phillip Margolin

    On a summer night in Portland, Oregon, violence erupts at a Little League game--and attorney Ami Vergano watches in horror as the quiet, gentle artist she recently befriended does the unexpected and unthinkable ... In a cheap motel room in Washing...

  • Missing Persons

    Stephen White

    Psychologist Alan Gregory’s friend and fellow therapist Hannah Grant has died suddenly and mysteriously. The police are baffled, leaving another unsolved homicide in Boulder, Colorado. Only Alan can decipher Hannah’s clues -- a quest that will ta...

  • The Rizzoli Contract

    Kevin Stevens

    Divorced and fonder of whisky that he should be, Harry Donohue moves through the familiar debris of a failed American life. But Harry has a book to publish. Obtained in classic Boston-Irish style, replete with high-level political favor-trading, itâ€...

  • Saving Cascadia

    John J. Nance

    A few hundred years ago, Cascadia Island didn't even exist. Like the Washington seacoast, it was rock submerged beneath the Pacific. A massive earthquake changed that, exploding the rock upward, making it land -- unstable land, according to seismolog...

  • Threat Level Black

    Jim DeFelice

    New York Times bestselling author Jim DeFelice's unconventional hero, FBI Special Agent Andy Fisher, returns in a chilling novel of international terror within our national borders. North Korean scientists have developed a new weapon -- the "E Bo...

  • Enemy Territory

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    The Elabrej Hegemony For centuries, the Elabrej firmly believed that they were alone in the universe, and that no sentient life existed outside their home star system. But their beliefs are shattered when a controversial exploration vessel of their ...

  • Engines of Destiny

    Gene DeWeese

    THE MACHINE AGE After the apparent death of James T. Kirk on the U.S.S. Enterpris NCC-1701-B, Montgomery Scott decides to leave Starfleet. A chance encounter with a mysterious woman named Guinan leads him to hitch a ride on the U.S.S. Jenolen -- whi...

  • Shadow of the Giant

    Orson Scott Card

    Julian Delphiki grew up being called Bean, because he was so very small as a child. But within that tiny body was a mental giant. He was the smallest and youngest student at the Battle School, but he became Ender Wiggins's right hand. Since then h...

  • Small World

    David Mack

    STARFLEET CORPS OF ENGINEERS The da Vinci 's latest mission involves bringing precious cargo to the Mu Arae system -- an entire world that, through a miraculous feat of engineering, is being stored in a small, pyramid-shaped box. Unfortunately, a ho...

  • Taking Wing

    Michael A. Martin; Andy Mangels

    After almost a decade of strife against foes such as the Borg, the Cardassians, the Klingons, and the Dominion, the United Federation of Planets is at the dawn of a new era. Starfleet is renewing its mission of peaceful exploration, diplomacy, and th...

  • Death Dealer

    James Silke

  • You Bet Your Planet

    Martin H. Greenberg

    Galactic game shows are the center of this collection of fantastical stories that take reality TV to a brand new level far into the future and features contributions from Esther M. Friesner, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Ed Gorman, Robert Sheckley, and Sus...

  • Anywhere but Here

    Jerry Oltion


    In a world dominated by America's heavy hand, an independent scientist reveals the secret of fast, cheap interstellar travel, sparking an exodus like none in history. When anyone with a few hundred dollars and a little ingenuity can build their ...

  • Asgard's Heart

    Brian Stableford

    The gods of Asgard are in deep trouble. If they can’t defeat their internal enemies, the starlet in the macroworld’s core will blow up, killing trillions humanoids in its various layers. Only one man can save this articifial planet, and he can on...

  • Earth, Air, Fire and Custard

    Tom Holt

     A novel set in the magical offices of The Portable Door, now a majorly fantastical film starring Christoph Waltz, Sam Neill, and Miranda Otto. “Tom Holt may be the most imaginative satirist to land on our shores since Douglas Adams.” -- C...

  • Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne - Volume 4

    John Byrne

    Not since the days of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the trailblazers of the Marvel Universe, had someone so perfectly captured the intense mood, cosmic style and classic sense of adventure of Marvel's first family of super heroes. Writer/artist John Byrne...

  • The Federation of Humanity

    Christopher Anvil

    Vaughan Roberts and his two companions had been trapped on a crime-ridden, chaotic planet until they bamboozled the population with a gigantic hoax--which brought them to the attention of the Interstellar Patrol, who were looking for a few good con m...

  • Freefall

    Judith Reeves-Stevens; Garfield Reeves-Stevens

    The year is 2008 The next race to the Moon has begun Not to make new discoveries But to bury old secrets THE PLACE The International Space Station. Docked to it, the Space Shuttle Constitution. Crewed by ten astronauts trained to recover the $100...

  • Gambit: House of Cards

    John Layman

    Collects Gambit #1-6. Ever wonder what Gambit gets up to when he's not out saving the world with the X-Men? Welcome to the exciting but treacherous terrain of the New Orleans underworld, where Gambit's skills and mastery are unquestioned but this ti...

  • Lost In Translation

    Edward Willett

    A thrilling sci-fi novel of communication and learned trust between human and alienKathryn was a human empath whose world and life had been destroyed when, as a young child, she watched helplessly as the alien S’sinn slaughtered her parents be...

  • Metallic Love

    Tanith Lee

    In her now-classic tale The Silver Metal Lover, award-winning author Tanith Lee told the spellbinding story of Jane and her forbidden love for a robot named Silver. In this stunning follow-up, the legend of their tragic romance lives on. But nothing ...

  • Nebula Awards Showcase 2005

    Jack Dann

    In an annual tradition, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America present the Nebula Awards to honor the authors of the year's most astounding fiction-compelling stories that widen the imaginative boundaries of the genre. Incl...

  • New World Order

    Ben Jeapes

    Only the completely original and unalloyed Jeapesian imagination could think of launching a full-scale alien invasion right into the middle of the English Civil War. Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army, as well as a young King Charles II, face the ful...

  • Pashazade

    Jon Courtenay Grimwood

    Part mystery, part speculative fiction, and wholly unforgettable, Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s celebrated Arabesk series portrays the dark, hard-boiled story of a man out to prove his innocence in an alternate world where the facts aren’t always th...

  • The Prometheus Project

    Steve White

    Only a Gigantic Hoax Kept the Earth from Being Taken Over by Aliens--but the Secret was About to be Leaked by a Traitor in THE PROMETHEUS PROJECT Bob Devaney was a soldier in the Special Forces in the early 1960s until a traumatic event which h...

  • The Sunborn

    Gregory Benford

    Their historic mission to Mars made Julia and Viktor the most famous astronauts of all time. Now, decades later, they are ordered by the Consortium to Pluto, where they will rendezvous with another star- ship led by the brilliant, arrogant Captain Sh...

  • Sunstorm

    Arthur C. Clarke; Stephen Baxter

    Returned to the Earth of 2037 by the Firstborn, mysterious beings of almost limitless technological prowess, Bisesa Dutt is haunted by the memories of her five years spent on the strange alternate Earth called Mir, a jigsaw-puzzle world made up of la...

  • Woken Furies

    Richard K. Morgan

    In a world where real and virtual are one and the same and the dead can come back to life, Takeshi Kovacs was once a galaxy-hopping Envoy. Now he battles against biomachines gone wild, searches for a centuries-old missing weapons system, and endures ...

  • The Almond Picker

    Simonetta Agnello Hornby

    The child of poor farmers, La Mennulara became a maid for a well-to-do local family when she was only a girl; by dint of hard work and intelligence, she became the indispensable administrator of the family's affairs. Still, she was a mere servant,...

  • As Simple As Snow

    Gregory Galloway

    Anna -- who prefers to be called Anastasia -- is a spooky and complicated high school girl with a penchant for riddles, Houdini tricks, and ghost stories. She is unlike anyone the narrator has ever known, and they make an unlikely, though happy, pair...

  • The Big Boat To Bye-Bye

    Ellis Weiner

    When would-be blackmailers get hold of obscene outtakes from a popular children's TV show, private investigator Pete Ingalls is called in to find the culprits and save the show, only to confront murder in the wonderful world of puppets. Reprint....

  • Black Serpent

    Tom Wilson

    Blackfoot operative Link Anderson must foil a terrorist attack being orchestrated by the Native American Sociedad Serpiente, which leads him into the heart of the northwestern redwoods where one of the world's most feared terrorists has been recruite...

  • Black Tiger

    Robert Brace

    He knows his weapons. He knows his women. And most importantly, he knows when to duck... It was pure luck that Lysander Dalton got up to use the bathroom seconds before someone shot his bed full of bullets. An ex-special ops Marine, Dalton knows ...

  • Blood Father

    Peter Craig

    From the highly praised author of Hot Plastic, a gripping, suspenseful novel about a young woman being chased by her violent past, and the flawed father forced to come to the rescue. It's been three years since Lydia Carson ran away from her privileg...

  • Breaker's Reef

    Terri Blackstock

    Murder and mystery continue in Book Four of the Cape Refuge series A famous mystery writer has just moved to Cape Refuge when a teenage girl is found murdered. Sheila Carusoâ€"ex-con, mother to Sadie and Caleb, and resident of Hanover Houseâ€"is work...

  • A Brief Lunacy

    Cynthia Thayer

    Jessie and Carl have made a terrible mistake. They should have been more careful. When Jonah came to their cabin in the Maine woods, asking to use the phone, they should never have let him in. But he told them his campsite had been robbed and he was ...

  • Cast of Shadows

    Kevin Guilfoile

    This icily innovative thriller begins with every parent’s worst nightmare, when Davis Moore’s teenage daughter is brutally raped and murdered by an unknown assailant. It gets worse. For Davis Moore is a fertility doctor, dealing with cutting-edge...

  • Category Five

    Philip S. Donlay

    Best-Selling and Award-Winning AuthorWhen the only option is to maneuver a crippled plane into the calm eye of a category five hurricane In the Atlantic Ocean, Hurricane Helena is gathering strength, becoming the most powerful storm in recorded histo...

  • Cheapskates

    Charlie Stella

    Former bus driver and ex-con Reese Waters wants to help his prison buddy Peter Rizzo, but his good intentions will land him in hot water with the mafia and the Nation of Islam, as well as New York's finest....

  • Creature Cozies

    Jill M. Morgan

    A clever cast of crime-solving canines and felines highlights an entertaining assortment of eleven mysteries, written by J. A. Jance, Jan Burke, Carole Nelson Douglas, Ed Gorman, Jane Haddam, Jill M. Morgan, Dick Lochte, Marlys Millhiser, Maxine O'Ca...

  • Dangerous Curves

    Judith Skillings

    Rebecca Moore thought she left violent death behind her, but the bodies keep mounting ... and they're begging for justice. Having abandoned her career as a Washington, D.C., reporter to run her late uncle's classic car restoration shop, Rebec...

  • Dating is Murder

    Harley Jane Kozak

    Wollie Shelley is a greeting card artist struggling to keep afloat financially and to pursue--despite a series of recent disasters--the search for the love of her life. She reluctantly agrees to be a contestant on the reality television show Biologic...

  • The Dead Stone

    Vicki Stiefel

    It starts with a mysterious phone call, summoning homicide counselor Tally Whyte back to the hometown she thought she'd left far behind her. Almost as soon as she arrives, Tally hears that a young woman she knew as a child has been found ritualistica...

  • Death On Grave Street

    Barbara Burgess

    Tyrone Trotman takes early retirement from the homicide and special investigation unit of the Detroit Police Force to accept the position of Police Chief in the small town of Port Ottawa on the shores of Lake Huron. Having lost his wife in a drive-by...

  • Detour

    James Siegel

    They want what every young couple wants: a child of their own. But Paul and Joanna Breidbart have been trying to conceive for five long years-a torturous process of failed medical procedures that nearly tore their marriage apart. When they finally de...

  • Drama City

    George P. Pelecanos

    Lorenzo Brown loves his work. As an officer for the Humane Society, it is his job to cruise the city streets, looking for dogs that are being mistreated - underfed, unclean, trained to kill. He takes pride in making their lives better. And that pride...

  • Dying for Love

    Gwen Moffat

    Culchet is everyone’s idea of the idyllic Lake District village, with geese on its tree-shaded green and friendly, well-behaved residents going quietly about their business: Bart Milburn is doing up the Old Hall, the gourmet chef at the pub is prep...

  • Enemy of My Enemy

    Allan Topol

    National bestselling author Allan Topol returns with a lightning-paced thriller that takes readers into the shifting sands of global intrigue and the silent war against terror. In Syria, a downed American pilot from a powerful political family bec...

  • Exit Strategy

    Michael Wiecek

    BLIND FEAR An assault on Blindside, a high-tech corporation dealing in computer espionage, encryption, and code breaking, leaves eight employees blown away. All evidence is incinerated. But the faceless killers made two mistakes. They left two witne...

  • Hide Your Eyes

    Alison Gaylin

    New York Rule #1: Don't get involved Samantha Leiffer already has a self-centered self-help guru for a mother, a cadre of off-kilter Greenwich Village pals, and an ex-boyfriend who cheated on her with both sexes. She doesn't need more grief. But whe...

  • Home Is the Sailor

    Day Keene

    After years at sea, Swede Nelson just wanted to find a nice girl and settle down. What he found was Corliss Mason: sensual, irresistible--and deadly. Soon Swede's helping Corliss cover up a killing, but how long can they get away with murder? And why...

  • Kiss Her Goodbye

    Allan Guthrie

    A Scottish thug needs help clearing his name when he’s accused of killing his daughter in this hard-boiled mystery by the author of Two-Way Split. When people in Edinburgh need to borrow money, they go to Cooper. When they don’t pay it back, they...

  • A Landlord's Tale

    Gammy L. Singer

    While eluding a drug lord to whom he owes a great deal of money, Amos Brown, a down-on-his-luck gambler, unexpectedly becomes a landlord when he inherits two brownstones and meets a cast of colorful characters, all of whom help him unlock the mysteri...

  • Midas

    Russell Andrews

    New York's Hamptons are the summer playground for Wall Street big shots, Hollywood starlets, and all species of glitterati in between. But when a Middle Eastern man rigged with explosives walks into a chic restaurant and blows himself up, all that gl...

  • Murder in Vegas

    Michael Connelly

    In Murder in Vegas, the International Association of Crime Writers and New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly have gathered twenty-two crime and mystery stories about the ultimate playground and what can happen behind the glitz and glamou...

  • Nocturnes

    John Connolly

    In his first collection of short fiction, New York Times bestselling author John Connolly offers a selection of dark, daring, and utterly haunting tales. Here are lost lovers and missing children, predatory demons, and vengeful ghosts. In "The New Da...

  • Pecking Order

    Chris Simms

    A gripping psychological crime novel that follows the success of his first, Outside the White Lines.

    Rubble lives in a caravan and works on a battery farm. Totally oblivious to the outside world, he spends his days disposing of the sick and in...

  • See Isabelle Run

    Elizabeth Bloom

    A cross between Jennifer Weiner and Lisa Scottoline, this novel follows a jilted bride uncovering sinister secrets at a multimedia empire.Isabelle Leonard made headlines when she danced on the tables at what would have been her wedding reception- if ...

  • Self's Punishment

    Bernhard Schlink

    As a young man, Gerhard Self served as a Nazi prosecutor. After the war he was barred from the judicial system and so became a private investigator. He has never, however, forgotten his complicity in evil.Hired by a childhood friend, the aging Self s...

  • Shadows Over Baker Street

    Michael Reaves

    Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes is among the most famous literary figures of all time. For more than a hundred years, his adventures have stood as imperishable monuments to the ability of human reason to penetrate every mystery, solve every puzz...

  • The Shooting Script

    Laurence Klavan

    Following his critically acclaimed novel The Cutting Room, Laurence Klavan returns with The Shooting Script. Establishing shot: New York City, present day. Zoom in on a run-down tenement building, somewhere west of Times Square, the home of Roy Milan...

  • A Shred of Evidence

    Kathy Herman

    The first book in the Seaport Suspense seriesEllen Jones, first introduced in the Baxter series, is enjoying a leisurely lunch at a Seaport restaurant when she overhears a private conversation at the table next to her -- and disturbing accusations in...

  • SilverFin

    Charlie Higson

    The dark waters around a Scottish castle hold a sinister secret ... SilverFin. SilverFin is deadly. SilverFin is the future. One man with a thirst for power will use it, whatever the cost. One boy stands in the way. His name is Bond, JAM...

  • The Single Girl's Guide to Murder

    Joanne Meyer

    I just know my alibi's around here someplace... ...maybe under the bed, next to my Manolo knock offs. By the way, I'm Karen Doucette: showroom girl-slash-model-slash-aspiring actress. Add another "slash" for novice sleuth--because if trying to make ...

  • Speak Softly, She Can Hear

    Pam Lewis

    New York City, 1965: Two Manhattan prep school students, Carole and Naomi, make a pact to lose their virginity before graduation. Eddie, a slick Upper East Side dropout, is handsome, fatally charming, and more than willing to help the girls accomplis...

  • Storm Gathering

    Rene Gutteridge

    In this exciting prequel to The Splitting Storm, we meet Mick Kline at a time when his life is spiraling out of control. Mick finds himself accused of the kidnapping of a woman he hardly knows, and he refuses to turn to his estranged brother for help...

  • Submerged

    Alton Gansky

    While Henry Sachs lies in a hospital bed, dying from a mysterious illness, Perry must uncover the secrets of his father's past to try to save his life. Perry believes that Henry's condition stems from a time when he worked to investigate a secret und...

  • Suicide Squeeze

    Victor Gischler

    Fifty years after he made baseball history, somebody just put a price on Joe DiMaggio's head. The high spot of Teddy Folger's life was the day in 1954 that he got a very unusual autographed baseball card from Joe DiMaggio himself. It's been downhi...

  • Swing

    Rupert Holmes

    Two-time Edgar Award winner Rupert Holmesâ€"author of the critically acclaimed Where the Truth Lies and creator of the Tony Award -- winning musical whodunit The Mystery of Edwin Droodâ€"now fuses gripping suspense and evocative music in an innov...

  • The Sword of Attila

    Michael Curtis Ford

    TWO MEN, TWO WORLDS, ONE MOMENT OF DESTINY... For centuries, Rome had ruled from Africa to the wilds of Britain. Now, from across a broad plain of waving grass, a new enemy had poured out of the East-to be led by a man whose goal was not just victor...

  • Sympathy Between Humans

    Jodi Compton

    On the streets of Minneapolis, Sarah has worked everything from vice to missing persons. But six months after the death of a small-town criminal in rural Minnesota, Sarah is still protecting the identity of a killer. And now a zealous D.A.'s investig...

  • Terminal 9

    Patricia Rushford; Harrison James

    Two dead bodies. A web of conspiracies and cover-ups. A young detective, searching for answers to the case . . . and to his heart. The body of a retired, wheelchair-bound rail yard worker has been discovered on the tracks near his home. A tragic...

  • The Assassin

    Rachel Butler

    Selena McCaffrey knows what it's like to fight for your life, to hone your body until it's sharp and to never let down your guard -- for anyone. A beautiful artist with a dark, painful past, Selena also knows how to keep secrets. With a .40-caliber S...

  • Calculated Risk

    Stephanie Doyle

    ANYTHING THEY CAN DO, SHE CAN DO...BETTER At the ripe old age of twenty, girl genius Sabrina Masters was booted from the CIA for "willful insubordination." Now, ten years later, they want her back for a mission only she has the brains to complete ...

  • Close to You

    Christina Dodd

    Who knows the truth about her family? Who wants to keep her past hidden forever? Caitlin Prescott was only a baby when her parents disappeared. Adopted by a wealthy Texas oil family, she became Kate Montgomery, and grew up with no memory of her p...

  • Covert M.D.

    Jessica Andersen

    SHE COULD TRUST HIM WITH HER LIFE...BUT NOT WITH HER HEART Something sinister was taking place in the shadowy basement of Boston General Hospital -- and Dr. Nadia French was determined to stop it. A transplant specialist, Nia French was called in ...

  • Dangerous Curves

    Pamela Britton

    Special Agent Cece Blackwell is smart, savvy and knows her way around a race car. Heading up a team to investigate the murder of a NASCAR driver is right up her alley. The only problem is NASCAR star Blain Sanders, the man who requested her. Blain...

  • Dare to Desire

    Julie Elizabeth Leto / Julie Leto
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    A secret agent's life-and-death mission hinges on the delicious blackmail scheme of her hot-blooded former lover. He'll give her any information she needs, if she'll surrender to him the one thing he still desires......

  • Deep Freeze

    Lisa Jackson

    HER BIGGEST FAN... When she wakes up, she's very cold. Colder than she's ever been in her life. She can't move or speak. And then she sees him. The one who took her. And before she dies, she wishes she could scream... IS ABOUT TO BECOME... Form...

  • The Drifter

    Lori Copeland

    This is the story of Beau Claxton, a cowboy who finds himself obliged to a young widow after she saves him from near death on the prairie. Beau and Charity face the difficulties of life on the prairie and ultimately find joy and hope.

    Belov...

  • Endgame

    Dee Davis

    Their next move could mean life or death... FBI criminal profiler Madison Harper understands dangerous minds.Tough, tenacious, with nerves of steel, she's the best of the best. So is her new partner, Gabriel Rourke, a crack CIA operative who likes...

  • Familiar Texas

    Caroline Burnes

    FAMILIAR TROUBLE Hank Dalton couldn't resist a damsel in distress -- and beautiful city-slicker-turned-rancher Stephanie Chisholm certainly fit the bill. She'd come home to Pecos, Texas, to settle her aunt and uncle's ranch estate, but when she le...

  • Fast Boys

    Jennifer Apodaca
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    Doesn't it just figure? You meet the guy of your dreams. There's enough electricity to start a wild fire. And then there's a murder to put a crimp in your plans. But not necessarily... Tess Collins can't believe she managed to get caught up in a s...

  • Flee the Night

    Susan May Warren

    Ex-CIA operative Lacey Montgomery is a liar, a murderer, and a fugitive -- or is she? Former Green Beret Jim Micah must either prove her innocence or bring her to justice. Too bad his heart won't stay out of the way. With a little girl's life and nat...

  • Flirting With Danger

    Suzanne Enoch

    Playing With Fire Will Get A Girl BURNED... The Palm Beach job should have been a slam dunk for thief extraordinaire Samantha Jellicoe: relieve a British playboy millionaire of a priceless antiquity. But when an explosion throws her into the arms ...

  • Killing Kelly

    Heather Graham

    IT WAS THE MOST DANGEROUS ROLE OF HER CAREER...AND POSSIBLE THE LAST. Playing Marla Valentine, the malicious, man-hating advice diva on a popular daytime soap, actress Kelly Trent has garnered wealth, fame -- and more than her fair share of hate m...

  • Lethal Lies

    Laurie Breton

    Chelsea Logan never gets the chance to file the story that would have shocked the blue-collar town of Serenity, Maine, to its core. Her death is ruled a suicide, but her cousin Faith Pelletier knows Chelsea better than that. Faith returns to their ho...

  • Not-So-Secret Baby

    Jo Leigh

    LIKE FATHER...LIKE SON The empty crib, the warning note -- Jenny Granger recognized the signs that her secret life had been discovered. To save her son, she became the willing captive of a man arrogantly convinced that her baby was his child. But ...

  • Nothing to Lose

    Jill Shalvis
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    A beautiful antiques dealer is persuaded to find her missing ex-husband. An offer of a cool million is irresistible...and so is the stranger who puts it on the table. But what forbidden secret--and illicit passion--is she about to discover?...

  • One Way Out

    Michele Albert

    ONE HEATED RIVALRY... Sexy renegade treasure hunter Cassie Ashton and hunky by-the-book paleontologist Alex Martinelli are sworn enemies. She thinks he's a snooty Ph.D. with a womanizing streak (and denies his dangerously rugged appeal). He think...

  • The Orchid Hunter

    Sandra K. Moore

    "IN THE JUNGLE YOU STAY SHARP OR DIE. IT RY TO STAY SHARP." More hunter than botanist, Dr. Jessie Robards had dedicated her life to tracking down the world's rarest flowers. But finding the Death Orchid was different. The legendary medicinal flowe...

  • Payback

    Harper Allen

    UNBREAKABLE Highly trained assassin Dawn O'Shaugnessey was hard to kill -- but the superhealing powers she'd been born with had become almost a curse. Dawn had learned the horrifying truth behind her origins from the women of Athena Academy, and s...

  • The Perfect Family

    Carla Cassidy

    If he can't have her, no one can... In just one perfect moment... It's been a difficult winter, but for the first time since her husband's death Marissa feels a new strength. Business at the gift shop is good, her two young children are slowly ad...

  • Playing for Keeps

    Cherry Adair
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    A woman's daring and bravery has earned her a death warrant from vengeful adversaries. Her ex-husband is the only man who can save her. If she lets him get close enough. But can he win back her trust in time to save her life?...

  • Rocky Mountain Maneuvers

    Cassie Miles

    ROCKY MOUNTAIN WEDDING Molly Griffith was determined to prove she was a capable field investigator and no one -- especially her by-the-book boss, Adam Briggs -- was going to stop her. Only, going undercover as a blushing bride-to-be posed some cha...

  • Shiver

    Cynthia Cooke

    SPINE-TINGLING SENSATIONS... Detective Riley MacIntyre had long ago stopped being anyone's protector. Until a scared Devra Morgan needed his help. But the beautiful blonde's dependence only went so far. Were her secrets the key to the grisly murder ...

  • Silent Weapon

    Debra Webb

    My name is Merri Walters. I'm twenty-seven years old. Two years ago, I suddenly went deaf... My teaching career ended and my fiance walked out. I survived -- and learned to lip-read. I grew very good at it. Maybe too good. So here I am, two years ...

  • Single White Dead Guy

    Amy Garvey
    in

    Doesn't it just figure? You meet the guy of your dreams. There's enough electricity to start a wild fire. And then there's a murder to put a crimp in your plans. But not necessarily... Lanie Burke's luck has gone from awful to downright...well, wh...

  • The Substitute Sister

    Lisa Childs

    GHOSTLY WHISPERS Rocking chairs moving to and fro in the night...and an inherited house straight out of the eeriest of ghost stories. These were the things Sasha Michaelson found when she arrived on Sunset Island to collect the body of her identic...

  • Ten Little Idiots

    Maryjanice Davidson
    in

    Doesn't it just figure? You meet the guy of your dreams. There's enough electricity to start a wild fire. And then there's a murder to put a crimp in your plans. But not necessarily... "It was Professor Tanten who did it, in the ballroom, with a m...

  • Three Men and a Body

    Nancy J. Cohen
    in

    Doesn't it just figure? You meet the guy of your dreams. There's enough electricity to start a wild fire. And then there's a murder to put a crimp in your plans. But not necessarily... Reality show contestant Heather Payne's assignment is simple: ...

  • Touching Midnight

    Fiona Brand

    Deep within her soul Lady Victoria Quinton Mallory knows she has a gift. Since childhood she has dreamed of a sacred, long-lost past, of ancient mysteries and buried passion that will reawaken with a vengeance. Growing up at the mission in Valle Del ...

  • Cut from the Same Cloth

    Kathleen Baldwin

    MIRROR, MIRROR... Finding a husband is never easy, and Elizabeth Hampton has nothing but her beauty to recommend her. Elizabeth's flair for fashion has attracted the ton's esteem, though the insufferable Lord St. Cleve is soon showing up h...

  • Dance With Me

    Lisa Noeli
    in

    Passing himself off as a dancing master seems a fine way to find a bride, but Neville Dunsleigh discovers that London's ladies are not the fleet-footed lot he imagined--until lovely Penelope Spencer waltzes into his life. Her grace can't be denied, b...

  • A Delightful Folly

    Glenda Garland

    He Was A Man Of Restraint... Benedict Hadley, Viscount Fitzhugh, has always been a cautious man -- never more so than in his choice of wife. That is why he comes to London to woo virtuous Dorrie Bourre, a woman who will please his disapproving, dis...

  • Diamond Dreams

    Sandra Heath

    Miss Ellie Rutherford has endured one tragedy after another. The deaths of her parents, Josiah and Mary Elizabeth Rutherford, along with the loss of the family fortune, leave her unsure of her future. Her only saving graces are her uncle, a pottery o...

  • The Highwayman Came Waltzing

    Kathleen Baldwin
    in

    When Elizabeth Claegburn learns that her childhood sweetheart Lord Ryerton will be investigating a string of robberies in the village, she doesn't expect a shared waltz to rekindle their attachment. As romantic as the dance was, she knows she cannot ...

  • Lady Larkspur Declines

    Sharon Sobel

    Performance of a Lifetime Jilted by her fiance, Lady Larkspur finds herself in a very vulnerable position. As the only unattached daughter of a peer, she is in danger of becoming an old maid at twenty-four. Until her father arranges a marriage beh...

  • My Lady Faire

    Emily Hendrickson

    Guardian of Love At twenty-seven, Claudia, Lady Fairfax, has her hands full caring for her precocious stepson, Edward. The last thing the beautiful widow needs is Noel Clifford, Lord Hawke, interfering. Her intimidating, infuriating neighbor may s...

  • The Rebel and the Rogue

    Mona Gedney
    in

    With her stepfather determined to marry her--and her fortune--to his youngest son, Vivian Woodruff is desperate to find a husband of her own choosing first. Infamous rakehell Anthony Mallory is the perfect candidate. She doesn't intend to remain marr...

  • A Summer's Day

    Lisa Noeli

    KITTENS AND KISSES Lord William Kent hoped to spend a tranquil summer at his country house, but his young niece and nephew, Caroline and Charlie, have turned his life upside down. The dear children are running wild--along with their cherished pet ...

  • Abigail's Story

    Ann Burton

    The Bible is filled with women of faith, bravery; and cunning. Here is one woman's tale -- as it might have happened.... Abigail of Carmel hopes against hope that someday she'll marry for love and have children --but her family needs her at home, ...

  • Andy's Song

    Mary Leask

    After the death of his wife, electrician Andy Thompson had become a recluse. He rarely socialized, instead choosing to ease his grief via the sad chords of his guitar.

    But spring has come to Stewart's Falls.

    While wiring new equipment at the ...

  • Chasing Galahad

    Molly Charles

    Zephronia has lost at love and given up on happily-ever-afters. But she has not abandoned her dream of finding Galahad - a rare carousel sea horse at the heart of her plan for a children's park in Portland, Oregon. Unexpectedly, her quest takes her h...

  • Country Charmed

    Nicola Merrells

    Taryn Christiansen never shied away from hard work, yet the challenges she was facing were growing too quickly. She'd landed at the remote Aspen Creek Inn and Ranch desperate to prove herself as a hotel manager. If she could turn a profitable season ...

  • Diamonds Are a Cowgirl's Best Friend

    Suzanne Walter

    When Chase Dymond woke up in Abigail Blue's barn, he had a splitting headache and couldn't remember how he had gotten there. When he woke up again ten minutes later, after being smacked with a horse brush wielded by Ms. Blue herself, he couldn't wait...

  • Double Dare

    Cathy Hopkins

    "What exactly do boys want?" asked Cat as we sat on the bus on our way to school. "I wish I could get into a boy's head for just twenty-four hours and see what goes on on in there." "You wouldn't find a lot," said Squidge, laughing. "Not in Mac's he...

  • Expectations

    Melanie M. Jeschke

    An unforgettable tale of dreams pursued in Tolkien's Oxford and romantic Paris. A beautiful autumn afternoon in 1965 finds Kate, David, Austen Holmes, and Yvette Goodman each on their way to the Eastgate Hotel to meet the others. Kate has just lea...

  • Going Going

    Naomi Shihab Nye

    Florrie's favorite coffee shop, with its open mike night, dreamy candles, and cute waiters ... Going?

    The mysterious little hut selling fresh lemon ice on the west side of town ... Going?

    The boutique featuring clothes you don't fin...

  • The Hatbox Letters

    Beth Powning

    A luminescent debut novel following one woman's journey through love, loss, grief, and renewalIn her rambling Victorian house, surrounded by heirloom gardens and the gentle sounds of a river, fifty-two-year-old Kate Harding faces her second winter si...

  • Impossible

    Danielle Steel

    When a high-powered gallery owner collides with an offbeat artist, it's the perfect recipe for disaster. Sasha is widowed and knows she was lucky to have been married to a wonderful man. Liam's impulsive behavior has helped tear his marriage apart. W...

  • The Last Chance Texaco

    Brent Hartinger

    The guy looked at me with a stare that would have frozen antifreeze.

    "You the new groupie, huh?"

    "Yeah," I said. "So?"

    "So no one wants you here. Why don't you go back where you came from?"

    I can't go bac...

  • Lydia's Passion

    Tracey J. Lyons

    Lydia's aunt Margaret always had a way of meddling in the lives of her three nieces, so it was not shocking to hear that Aunt Margaret had appointed Lydia to be the new schoolteacher in the town of Surprise.

    Lydia is horrified to think that she'l...

  • Marina // A Greater Love

    Susan K. Downs; Susan May Warren

    Where is the God who promised to protect the heirs of Anton? Marina Shubina believes God has abandoned her. She's widowed and pregnant-and Hitler's Third Reich has just invaded Russia. As a partisan, she's ready to give her life for the Motherland, b...

  • The Marryin' Kind

    Nancy J. Parra

    At the ripe old age of twenty-three, Madeline Morgan is resigned to the idea that love and marriage are not for her. Unfortunately, her father disagrees and comes up with an ingenious plan. To curb the love life of his youngest, Robert Morgan proclai...

  • Nectar from a Stone

    Jane Guill

    It is 1351 in Wales, a country subjugated by England, beaten down by superstition, war, and illness. Elise, prone to strange visions and the sole survivor of a plague-ravaged family, has fled her village for distant Conwy with her servant Annora, run...

  • Prom

    Laurie Halse Anderson

    A Cinderella Story Ashley Hannigan doesn't care about the prom, but she's the exception. It's pretty much the only good thing that happens in her urban Philadelphia high school, and everyone plans to make the most of it -- especially Ash's best frie...

  • The Queen's Fencer

    Caitlin Scott-Turner

    In this swashbuckling historical romance, Ardys Trevallon is the strong-willed daughter of Queen Elizabeth's fencing master, and a master fencer herself. She is taken prisoner by Desmond Kirkconnell, a scoundrel and rogue who eventually wins her hear...

  • What Comes After Crazy

    Sandi Kahn Shelton

    Fast-paced, warm, and laugh-out-loud funny, What Comes After Crazy chronicles a quest for normalcy that nearly drives a woman nuts. Maz Lombard craves a nice, quiet life -- and who can blame her? Having grown up as the daughter of Madame Lucille, “...

  • Wish I Weren't Here

    Sandra D. Bricker

    Drew Nolan is the antithesis of everything that Victoria Townsend holds dear. The suntanned Floridian's sickeningly healthy and relaxed view of life contradicts her chain-smoking, business-suited, take out-ordering New York existence in every way. No...

  • Bad Blood

    Geraldine Evans

    Detective Inspector Rafferty battles to set the world to rights
    Investigating the murder of wealthy widow Clara Mortimer, estranged from her family and living alone in an up-market sheltered apartment, Rafferty fears his own family estrangement. ...

  • Binding Ties

    Max Allan Collins

    Ten years ago, Las Vegas was terrorized by "CAST" -- a vicious serial killer responsible for nearly half a dozen brutal murders, and who tested the mettle of the LVPD's new Captain, Jim Brass. After a two-year spree, CASt suddenly disappeared and has...

  • Crazy Eights

    Elizabeth Gunn

    THE BLIND SIDE OF JUSTICE It's a bad blow for Jake Hines when a killer is found not guilty due to a technicality -- and Jake himself is blamed for fouling up Benny Niemeyer's airtight conviction. But before the Rutherford, Minnesota, chief of detect...

  • Minos

    Marcos M. Villatoro

    The award-winning Home Killings, Marcos M. Villatoro's first Romilia Chacon novel. won dazzling acclaim for its fusion of character. suspense, and a gripping police procedural swirling around a fiery Latina detective. Now, in a new novel filled with ...

  • With No One As Witness

    Elizabeth George

    The police never suspected a serial killer was at large until they found the fourth murdered boy--the first white victim--his body draped over a tomb in a London graveyard. Suddenly a series of crimes and a potential public relations disaster have Sc...

  • The Assassin's Dream

    J.D. Townsend

    2174 A.D. Acquired Genetic Neurological Syndrome has killed nearly two-thirds of Earth's male population, and women have risen to dominate all aspects of life. The Whole Body governs with chilling efficiency; the Ministry of Termination dispatches th...

  • I Hunger for You

    Susan Sizemore

    In her steamy new vampire romance, acclaimed author Susan Sizemore pits vampires against mortals, destiny against desire.... Mia Luchese comes from a long line of vampire hunters but has never believed in the supernatural. When she's attacked by va...

  • Night Bites

    Nina Bangs

    Cindy Harper had an ice-cream flavor for every emotion. Vanilla caramel fudge eased the stress of dealing with her weird and wacky guests at the Woo Woo Inn. But no sweet treat from her freezer was smooth, creamy, or tempting enough to cool down her ...

  • Seal Island

    Kate Brallier

    Cecil Hargrave lives in a cramped apartment in New York City, hates her job, and has no close friends. She yearns for something more, but what? When Cecil inherits a beachfront house and a thriving business on picturesque Seal Island in Maine, sh...

  • Tiger Eye

    Marjorie M. Liu

    Long ago they roamed the earth; plentiful and powerful, men with form of beast. Dragons, tigers, crows: shape-shifters. Their world was magic. That world is gone, but some remain. HERS TO COMMAND He looked completely out of place in Dela Reese's...

  • To Kiss a Frog

    Elle James

    WANTED: Single woman, very near-sighted, who doesn't care about height (3") or skin flaws (green and bumpy), who can see past minor details (like not being entirely human) to find and love the man beneath the warts. Craig Thibodeaux is cursed. Fro...

  • All the Flowers Are Dying

    Lawrence Block

    Scudder, a complex character who has grown and aged in real time, confronts the implacable challenge of mortality. But he must also tackle a determined, relentless, and icily inhuman adversary, perhaps the most unforgettable villain Block has ever cr...

  • Burned

    Carol Higgins Clark

    Regan Reilly is vacationing at the Waikiki Waters Playground and Resort, spending one last girls' weekend with her best gal pal before she ties the knot with Jack "no relation" Reilly. But the fun is suddenly interrupted when the body of Dorinda Dawe...

  • Cold Service

    Robert B. Parker

    When his closest ally, Hawk, is beaten and left for dead while protecting a bookie, Spenser embarks on an epic journey to rehabilitate his best pal, body and soul. But that means infiltrating a ruthless mob--and redefining his friendship with Hawk in...

  • Mr. Lucky

    James Swain

    Tony Valentine made his living and his name as a cop in Atlantic City -- and is now known worldwide for his ability to spot the kinds of scams, grifts, and rip-offs that cost casinos billions every year. A man with a biting wit who drives a '92 Honda...

  • Nightcrawlers

    Bill Pronzini

    Bill Pronzini's "Nameless" detective has become one of the longest-lived, and consistently highly praised, private investigators in the annals of American crime fiction and the award-winning author proves, once again, that his skills are unmatched.Th...

  • Ten Little New Yorkers

    Kinky Friedman

    Kinky Friedman has always proven himself to be a master of the offbeat and irreverent, and still manages to pull off a helluva whodunit in the process. Now the Kinkster may have met his match in this superbly crafted, fiendishly clever tale of a murd...

  • Death Splits a Hair

    Nancy Bell

    When Joe Junior McBride, the beloved barber of Post Oak, Texas, is brutally murdered, friend and loyal customer Judge Jackson Crain is as disturbed by the news as everybody else. Especially since his own teenage daughter, Patty, is close friends with...

  • A Killing Night

    Jonathon King

    The South Florida PI is back in the Edgar Awardâ€"winning series from a national bestselling author and “the master of the high-stakes thriller” (Michael Connelly).   National bestselling author Jonathon King continues his Edgar Awardâ€"winn...

  • Last One Down

    Joyce Lavene; Jim Lavene

    Reluctantly, Sheriff Sharyn Howard has been forced to attend a training school for the local law enforcement officers. For years she's managed to skirt around it, but now it's time for her to take a helicopter up to Sweet Potato Mountain to attend a ...

  • Silent Witness

    Rebecca Forster

    USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Forster's inimitable California defense attorney Josie Baylor-Bates returns to defend the man in her life from a murder charge, walking the fine line between lover and lawyer, trust and truth. Already under the...

  • Sleeper

    Gene Riehl

    FBI agent Puller Monk is losing his mind. His father passed away six months ago and left him a predisposition for Alzheimer's disease. Add to that a lethal American spy raised by the North Koreans, and Monk's life just got a lot more complicated. ...

  • Bones and the Cupcake Mystery

    David A. Adler

    Detective Jeffrey Bones is always ready to help when a mystery strikes. This time, there is a missing cupcake at school. Armed with a code breaker, walkie-talkie, and clever jokes, Jeffrey Bones sets out to solve this sweet mystery!...

  • Danger At The Zoo

    Kathleen Ernst

    Kit lands a summer job with her local newspaper. As she noses around the zoo gathering facts for a kid's column, Kit stumbles into some strange monkey business. Her reporter's instincts tell her that she's onto something worth investigating -- and sh...

  • Dead of Night

    Brandilyn Collins

    All words fell away. I pushed myself off the path, noticing for the first time the signs of earlier passage -- the matted earth, broken twigs. And I knew. My mouth turned cottony. I licked my lips, took three halting steps. My maddening, visual brain...

  • Endless River

    Elizabeth Fackler

    When Nathan Wheeler is taken from school by a drifter posing as a policeman, his girlfriend Amy Sterling, her mother, and a retired homicide detective spend the night searching the mountains for him and following his attacker....

  • The Fight In The Dog

    Wayne D. Dundee

    Private detective Joe Hannibal makes a welcome return to mystery fiction in The Fight in the Dog, his newest adventure by Wayne Dundee. When his reporter girlfriend, Jan Mosby, is viciously threatened in an attempt to keep her from investigating a wa...

  • Gasa-Gasa Girl

    Naomi Hirahara

    From the time she was a child, Mas Arai’s daughter, Mari, was completely gasa-gasa -- never sitting still, always on the go, getting into everything. And Mas, busy tending lawns, gambling, and struggling to put his Hiroshima past behind him, never ...

  • The Ghost of the Chattering Bones

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    The Alden children knew they would be investigating a mystery at Eton Place, but they had no idea there would be a ghost there, too! An old family friend, Norah Eton, believes there is a valuable piece of jewelry hidden somewhere on her property....

  • It's a Baby, Andy Russell

    David A. Adler

    While Andy Russell's parents are at the hospital with his newborn baby brother, Andy is having big problems at home. His strange aunt Janet has come to babysit, and she's on a mission to rid the house of germs in preparation for the baby. Andy is con...

  • Legacy of Masks

    Sallie Bissell

    This killer is so evil, he wears the most deceptive face of all.... Legacy of Masks Ex-prosecutor Mary Crow didn't expect a hero's welcome when she returned home to Pisgah County, North Carolina. But what she did expect was the job she'd been ...

  • The Magdalen Martyrs

    Ken Bruen

    Jack Taylor is walking the delicate edge of a sobriety he doesn't trust when his phone rings. He's in debt to a Galway tough named Bill Cassell, what the locals call a "hard man." Bill did Jack a big favor a while back; the trouble is, he never lets ...

  • Miss Gazillions

    Richard Weber

    "That"---she said regally, in the direction of the coffin being wheeled offstage---"that can be delivered later. Let's go." Lydia gave a queenly toss of her head, careful not to lose its invisible crown. "I need some fresh air." Delivered later......

  • Murder In Stratford

    Audrey Peterson

    "When a famous man dies," says Anne Hathaway Shakespeare, "it's always the men who write about his life. Why don't they ask the wife?" And so she tells the story "the way it was," including their early days, William's rise to success as a playwright,...

  • Murder of the Month

    Elizabeth C. Main

    Hoping to attract customers to her Juniper, Oregon, bookstore, Jane Serrano started the Murder of the Month book club. Happily, it's a hit. But thanks to her flaky, irrepressible daughter, Bianca, the group is trying to solve a case of true crime in ...

  • A Rocky Road

    Glen Ebisch

    When Susan Cantwell leaves her suburban teaching job and travels to Colorado to become a guide on a bus tour of the Rocky Mountains, she expects her life will be a little more exciting. What she does not expect is that a female passenger will die mys...

  • Scare the Light Away

    Vicki Delany

    Secrets from the past… For thirty years Rebecca McKenzie has tried to forget her life in Hope River, the isolated rural town where she was raised. But when she travels home to attend her mother's funeral, she has to face her estranged family…a...

  • Sex, A Mystery

    Fiona Quirina

    Taking up a lucrative new career as a high-class courtesan--or "sex surrogate"--after her whistleblowing leads to her dismissal from her job as Senior VP for a major conglomerate, Lydia Quess begins to have second thoughts when one of her clients is ...

  • The Silent Stranger

    Janet Beeler Shaw

    Kaya’s village is preparing for the powerful winter Spirit Dances when an injured stranger arrives. She doesn’t speak, and no one can reach her but Kaya’s beloved dog, Tatlo. Who is the stranger and why is she so silent and alone? Kaya searches...

  • Sly the Sleuth and the Pet Mysteries

    Donna Jo Napoli

    There are some strange new pets in Sly's neighborhood: a cat on a diet that keeps getting fatter, a fish that seems angry at its owner, and a peculiar pet named Wilson that suddenly disappears! Only Sly the Sleuth can solve these mysteries. Grade-sc...

  • A Spy On The Home Front

    Alison Hart

    When Molly's aunt flies in for a visit, she unknowingly brings trouble - and a frightening mystery. While searching for clues, Molly discovers that even on the home front, war can change friends and family forever. At the end of the story, the "Looki...

  • The Trojan Dog

    Dorothy Johnston

    I should ask your department's accountant whether he's missing nine hundred thousand bucks This is the anonymous message that changes Sandra Mahoney's life After taking time off to raise her young son, Sandra Mahoney is nervously re-entering th...

  • The Yellow Yacht

    Ron Roy

    Y is for YACHT... Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are having a great time visiting their friend Sammi, the prince of Costra. They swim, soak in the sun, and admire the bright yellow yacht that is moored just offshore. But the owners of the yacht are actin...

  • A Changed Man

    Francine Prose

    What is charismatic Holocaust survivor Meyer Maslow to think when a rough-looking young neo-Nazi named Vincent Nolan walks into the Manhattan office of Maslow's human rights foundation and declares that he wants to "save guys like me from becoming gu...

  • Forest of the Pygmies

    Isabel Allende

    Alexander Cold knows all too well his grandmother Kate is never far from an adventure. When International Geographic commissions her to write an article about the first elephant-led safaris in Africa, they head -- with Nadia Santos and the magazine's...

  • The Three Mrs. Parkers

    Joan Medlicott

    From Joan Medlicott, the nationally bestselling author who created the wonderful world of Covington, comes a heartwarming story about three generations of women who find their way past old hurts and losses to understanding, forgiveness, and love. Wi...

  • Almost a Bride

    Jane Feather

    Fate deals one stubbornly single young woman and one deceptively heartless man a shocking hand in a high-stakes bet. But is love in the cards? Jack Fortescu gambles to win, and this time his prize is not only his rival's lavish mansion but everyth...

  • Ashes of Dreams

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    Amanda Jeffrey has not been dealt an easy hand in life. Widowed at a young age, she is left on her own to raise three small boys, tend to her ailing father-in-law, and maintain a languishing horse farm in 1880s Kentucky bluegrass country. Not one to ...

  • The Bachelor // Loving Diana

    Kate Bridges

    SHE'D WON HERSELF A MOUNTIE But Diana Campbell knew even a brief relationship with Officer Mitch Reid, her bachelor auction "prize," could lead only to disaster for her family -- and heartbreak for herself. For she wanted this marvel of a man not ...

  • The Bridegroom's Bargain

    Sylvia Andrew

    "Till death us do part." A solemn wedding vow, and one Lord Deverell's young bride most ardently wishes to bring about -- sooner rather than later! Only minutes after the wedding ceremony Alexandra is brandishing a pistol, accusing her...

  • Dreams of Stardust

    Lynn Kurland

    A magical love story about a modern man who's swept back into medieval England and the beautiful woman he yearns to possess... Jack Jake Kilchurn travels the world to unearth exquisite stones for this one-of-a-kind creations, but it is during an ...

  • Dylan

    Norah Hess

    Dylan Quade was a man's man, whether he was running cattle on his Bar X ranch, breaking a bronc or carousing in the rowdy saloons of Jackson Hole. He had no use for any woman, least of all the bedraggled charity case his shiftless kin were trying to ...

  • The Enchantment

    Betina Krahn

    New York Times bestselling author Betina Krahn breathes life into history in a spellbinding tale of a legendary swordswoman, a time of bloodlust and myth, and a love story so powerful it will take your breath away. A Woman’s Heart Strong, stunn...

  • Every Whispered Word

    Karyn Monk

    IN A CONSPIRACY OF HEARTS ... When Lady Camelia Marshall barges uninvited into Simon Kell London laboratory with a business proposition, she finds the fam inventor not at all as she had imagined. Far from the elderly scholar expected, Kent is handso...

  • The Exploits and Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy

    Elizabeth Aston

    The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy takes readers back into the imagined family of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Their musical daughter Alethea makes a disastrous marriage to a man whose charming manners conceal an unpleasant nature. Fl...

  • Falcon's Honor

    Denise Lynn

    Would duty make him blind to passion? Against her will, she would be married to the devil's own spawn. Truly, Rhian of Gervaise should despise the knight who would deliver her to a terrifying future. But the more perilous their journey became, the...

  • Further Than Passion

    Cheryl Holt

    CAN LONDON'S MOST MOTORIOUS ROGUE... Kate Duncan agrees to help her young cousin land a husband though she draws the line when she learns the foolish girl wants to use an apothecary's love potion to snag the notorious Marcus Pelham! To prove...

  • Heart of the Flame

    Tina St. John

    Six months in an enemy's dungeon might have broken a weaker man, but the former Templar knight Kenrick of Clairmont has emerged from imprisonment with an unyielding determination, consumed by a single, daunting quest: to find the Dragon Chalice, a my...

  • Highland Conqueror

    Hannah Howell

    Bestselling author Hannah Howell captures the breathless danger and desire of the Highlands in this exciting tale of a fierce Scotsman who lays siege to the heart of a proud English beauty... Lady Jolene Gerard is running out of time--each moment ...