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New Books List: 588 titles


  • Peter Blauner

    THE PAST IS A DANGEROUS NEIGHBORHOOD Lynn Schulman returns to suburban Riverside, New York, with her family, believing you really can go home again. But that's before a headless body floats down the Hudson River and the victim is identified as som...



  • Russell Blackford

    Judgment Day is coming! Following the events of Book 1 (Dark Futures), the future war between the human Resistance and the forces of Skynet takes an unusual twist as Terminators from an alternate timeline invade the world of John Connor and his mothe...



  • Bill McCay

    Atlantis--a floating city five hundred feet in the air--is suspended by the force of the magical Magestone. But its power comes at a price. The precious gems must be strip-mined from the earth by human and Dwarven slaves under the ruthless command of...



  • Robert Asprin; Esther Friesner

    WIZARDRY ON WALL STREET--DOW-JONES MEETS DARK SORCERY! E.Godz, Inc.'s stock-in-trade was magic. When Edwina Godz inherited the family corporation, she had put to work all the sorcery she knew, taking shamans on board as subsidiaries, and raking in...



  • Helen Chappell

    Sometimes you have to go home again, even if you know the trip is going to be one from hell. When Carrie points her van in the direction of Oysterback, Maryland, her old hometown, she does it only because she has no choice. Her momma, the indomitable...



  • Terry Pratchett

    A nightmarish danger threatens from the other side of reality ... Armed with only a frying pan and her common sense, young witch-to-be Tiffany Aching must defend her home against the monsters of Fairyland. Luckily she has some very unusual help: t...



  • Mike Collins

    When your ship falls under the thrall of the ancient Landru super-computer, or when you discover an alien device planted on your world before life evolved, call in Captain David Gold and the miracle workers from the Starfleet Corps of Engineers team ...



  • Lisa See

    When the body of an American archaeologist is found floating in the Yangzi River, Ministry of Public Security agent Liu Hulan and her husband, American attorney David Stark, are dispatched to Site 518 to investigate. As Hulan scrutinizes this death--...



  • Julian Jay Savarin

    Featuring Muller and Pappenheim, heroes of A Cold Rain in Berlin A network of snipers, highly skilled professional killers, has been murdering apparently unconnected victims. The apparently happy family men who have been targeted share a secret from ...




  • Barbara J. Ferrenz

    Theodora Zed dresses the part of the gothic author wearing heavy make-up and tight leather skirts, then heads home to her life as Mary Kate Flaherty, suburban wife and mother. At a horror convention, Mary Kate is implicated in a murder. Mary Kate has...



  • Anthea Fraser

    Meet Rona Parish, a talented biographer who has a skill for writing about the past and encountering danger along the way, and her adorable golden retriever, Gus.When Rona Parish is asked to write the biography of an acclaimed thriller writer who dro...



  • Marne Davis Kellogg

    Meet Kick Keswick, an elegant and self-possessed American who has been at London's venerable Ballantine & Company Auctioneers for over thirty years. She is an expert on paintings, furniture, and objets d'art, and so far has lived a perfectly happy li...



  • Hannah Alexander

    Book 3 of The Healing Touch. The town of Dogwood Springs has been deluged by spring storms. As tornadoes and torrential floods rage, Archer and Jessica Pierce struggle with doubts about their local church ministry. In the midst of the havoc, Archer d...



  • Sally Spencer

    'Spencer's latest is her best: an ingenious puzzle that goes straight to the heart' - Kirkus Starred Review A miscarriage of justice for DCI Woodend Though it is thirty years since Margaret Dodds was tried and executed for the brutal murder of ...



  • Maggie O'Farrell

    Falling in love at first sight with the mysterious architect Marcus, Lily finds herself moved into his waterfront loft within a week, where she learns about his ex-girlfriend, Sinead, who seems to have disappeared abruptly and whose lingering aura be...



  • Clare Curzon

    The first novel by bestselling crime-writer Clare Curzon, originally published only under the pseudonym of Marie Buchanan and the title Greenshards. Greenshards had been Olive Minton's family home for years, but now it was owned by the Blanchards - t...



  • Pam Rosenthal

    A Daring Masquerade... For three years, London's haute ton has been captivated by the cool elegance of a dandy named Mr. Philip "Phizz" Marston. Tall, refined, an expert gambler with a cold, unerring eye for style, the mysterious Mr. M...



  • Barbara Seranella

    Munch Mancini is one of those fictional characters who jump off the page and into readers' hearts. Mechanic, limo driver, mom, Munch -- short for Miranda -- has lived a hard life and done it all: sex, drugs, you name it. But now she has her adopted e...



  • Brian K. Vaughan

    With a pregnant girlfriend, a demanding mistress, and an institutionalized mother to care for, 19-year-old Parker Robbins can barely make ends meet. So when the small time crook finds mystical apparel that grants him strange powers, he decides to for...



  • Thomas Sanchez

    On New Year's Eve 1957, a terrorist bomb rips through Havana's famous Tropicana nightclub. King Bongo, a rogue Cuban American, tortured by a mysterious past and possessed of a mythic musical talent, goes on the hunt for the culprits, and for his sist...



  • Erin Hart

    When farmers cutting turf in a peat bog make a grisly discovery -- the perfectly preserved severed head of a young woman with long red hair -- Irish archaeologist Cormac Maguire and American pathologist Nora Gavin team up in a case that will open old...



  • James H. Pence

    Disillusioned by the tragic loss of his family, Thomas Kent just wants to die. But a mysterious message and a voice from the past stir him to fight for his life and the lives of a family he doesn't know. He is reluctantly drawn into the murderous plo...



  • Randy D. Singer

    Bright but inexperienced attorney Mitchell Taylor is torn between warring personal and professional interests. Can he help his client -- a young surrogate mother -- and save the child she carries without sealing the fate of others? A FIGHT FOR LIFE....



  • Lynda Curnyn

    When one ex-boyfriend gets married, a girl can laugh it off. With two, she begins to get nervous. But three? Three? Angie DiFranco is starting to take it personally. What is it about her that doesn't incite men to plunk down large sums of money in...



  • Stephen Coonts

    Stephen Coonts asks what happens when you load a Catalina flying boat with five tons of bombs, a half dozen machine guns, and a crew that walks a line between valor and suicide. In the Pacific Theater of war, the Japanese Navy is about to discover th...



  • Yvonne Lehman

    Set in the panoramic Blue Ridge Mountains and the backdrop of the Nantahala River's rushing waters, His Hands is the story of two strangers whose lives are irrevocably changed by each other. Matthew MacEwen was a celebrated artist when he rescued a y...



  • Leo Kessler

    A new adventure for Major Dalby and his young sidekick Sergeant Mackenzie May 1940: the 'phoney' war is about to come to an end. The head of the German Secret Service is attempting to flood the UK with spies and Dalby and Mackenzie are determined to ...




  • Keith Laumer

    The Convulsing Earth had shattered Civilization --and Something Was Moving In To Pick Up The Pieces ? Mal was heading across an America ravaged by worldwide earthquakes when he ran into a dying stranger who babbled of men who weren't really men. ...



  • James White

    At Sector General, anything can happen-and frequently does. In this vast hospital in the depths of space, the thousands of staff, human and alien both, have a single mission: to care for all patients, of all species. For decades, these dramas of huma...



  • J.G. Hertzler; Jeffrey Lang

    "The true test of a warrior is not without...it is within." Sins of the past collide with hopes for the future as Martok fights for the right to lead the Klingon Empire. With the secret of his usurper exposed, the ousted chancellor and his ragtag ba...



  • Bill Pronzini

    Shamus Award-winning author

    Few writers have ever had such a loyal reader following as Bill Pronzini and his "Nameless Detective." In terms of life on the printed page, the "Nameless Detective" celebrates his 35th birthday in 2003. The fourteen st...



  • Karen Brichoux

    Twenty-six-year-old Nicci Bradford doesn't exactly love her job fixing the grammar in company brochures, or living in Boston, or going on awkward fix-ups with men she barely knows. What she does love is Kung Fu movies...especially the ones starring J...



  • Helen R. Myers

    Metal sculptor Bay Butler spent six years in a Texas prison for a crime she did not commit -- until the efforts of a powerful client get her conviction overturned. Suddenly Bay is free, but she is still plagued with questions. Why was she imprisoned ...



  • Kate Clemens

    In the bestselling tradition of Olivia Goldsmith and Jane Heller comes a wickedly funny, outrageous novel, in which two women trade places only to discover that every ordinary life has its extraordinary moments... Jayne Wants To Sample Life Pampe...



  • Susan Squires
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    FOR EACH, THERE COULD BE ONLY ONE They came from the darkest places: secluded monasteries, the Carpathian mountains, galaxies under siege. They were men with the blackest pasts--warriors, vampire monks, leaders of armies--but whose passions burned...



  • Nancy Holder

    BIGGEST BADDEST BUFFY OF THEM ALL The First has come to Sunnydale and set its sights on taking down the Slayer. On the side of the White Hats: Buffy, Xander, Willow, Anya, Dawn, Giles, Spike, Faith, Angel, and an assortment of young, innocent,...



  • Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    A new novel of the Old West from the critically acclaimed author of Relentless and Ghost Town...

    When Marshal Ben Tully came riding back into his town, there wasn't a soul stirring. Not the sprawled, bloody man outside his door. Not the stra...



  • Christine Feehan
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    FOR EACH, THERE COULD BE ONLY ONE They came from the darkest places: secluded monasteries, the Carpathian mountains, galaxies under siege. They were men with the blackest pasts--warriors, vampire monks, leaders of armies--but whose passions burned...



  • V.C. Andrews

    Three girls from different worlds with one thing in common: They were born to be wild. Robin...With a mom who's more absorbed in her singing career than in her own daughter, Robin's left to her own devices when the two move to Nashville. That's wh...



  • James Axler

    A dark and Brooding land hungrily awaits the next generation... BLIND FORTITUDE Survival in America's nuke-blasted frontier is both a curse and a salvation for Ryan Cawdor and his warrior companions. Though the basic needs of existence must be fough...



  • James Axler

    The Struggle To Save The Future Finds A Treacherous New Battlefield: The Past Imperium of Evil Two centuries have tortured earth's nuke-altered frontier into a grim new world, clasped in the bloody vise of a power struggle between hybrid barons...



  • Susan Grant
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    Novella, republished as Star Raider Raider Captain Romjha B’kah seeks out the riskiest missions. After a lifetime of loss, only the rush of adrenaline can make him feel fully alive. That changes when Taj enters his life. For the first time he co...



  • Emily Toll

    Widowed in her early fifties, Lynne Montgomery has rediscovered her first love--travel. With the money from her husband's insurance policy, she's able to buy the travel agency she worked for. But leading tour groups of well-heeled vacationers becomes...



  • Cameron Judd

    BROTHERS IN ARMS Joseph and Liam Carrigan may have the same strong Irish blood running in their veins, but the similarity ends there. Where Joseph is level-headed and forthright, Liam is temperamental and roguish. After fighting on opposing sides...



  • Leanne Banks

    "You want me to find a husband for your daughter?" As personal assistant to the rich and eccentric, Katie Collins thought she'd heard it all. Now to keep her job she has to play matchmaker for her boss's only child. With her shapeless clothes and pri...



  • Kay David

    Hannah Crosby and Quinn McNichol are perfect for each other -- everyone thinks so. But sometimes being perfect isn't enough. Hannah wants more. Marriage, children, a future... Quinn doesn't think marriage -- let alone children -- is a good idea. H...



  • Gail Dayton

    A marriage proposal was the last thing Micah Scott expected to hear from the stunning blonde who'd come to his exclusive club seeking sanctuary. But Sherry Nyland was in desperate need of a stand-in husband. And, try as he might, the once-burned busi...



  • Jacqueline Diamond

    JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED... Dr. Quent Ladd had dedicated his life to bringing babies into the world, but that didn't mean he was ready to have his own. So when this very confirmed bachelor suddenly found himself the guardian of two beautiful, ...



  • Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo teams up with a wolf-hunting wild man!Skye Fargo thought he knew the dangers of the Wyoming Territory -- until he got bushwhacked with a bullet in the side.   It seems the local rancher and his two sons are looking to keep the land f...



  • Shannon Donnelly

    A SCANDALOUS IMPROPRIETY In order to protect his elder brother from disinheritance, Theodore Winslow must incur his father's wrath. How better than to marry a low-born strumpet? He sets out to find someone to play the part in return for a handsome s...



  • J.R. Roberts

    A TRIP TO NOWHERE Robert Dawson had always been a man with a knack for stirring up trouble. Now he's dead, and his beautiful widow is going to wind up buried beside him if Clint Adams doesn't hightail it quick to Byrne, Kansas. It turns out that the ...



  • Roz Denny Fox

    Duke Fontaine is dead, but he's left behind a daughter no one knew he had. A daughter who's about to inherit one-third of his estate. Noelani Hana is the secret daughter of Louisiana sugar magnate Duke Fontaine -- and the secret sister of his childre...



  • Bonnie Gardner

    Welcome to Millionaire, Montana, where twelve lucky souls have won a multimillion-dollar jackpot. And where one millionaire in particular has just... CLAIMED HER "EX" AS HER OWN All of Jester is abuzz with news of Air Force captain Sam Cade's ...



  • Julie Kenner

    Jason Murphy could talk to creatures of the sea. He could also change into a dolphin, and had a ton of other superpowers like all Protectors; but none of them really helped his situation. The love of his life didn't trust him anymore -- thought his d...



  • Nita Abrams

    London, 1813: Napoleon is retreating under the relentless British advance, but as those loyal to him scramble to form new alliances, no one can be trusted and no motive is without question. And for James Meyer, the rebellious son of one of Wellington...



  • Carrie Alexander

    HE'S SWEET... Chef Kristoffer "Kit" Rex is hot, pure and simple. But for Sabrina Bliss, he's off-limits. Thanks to a bet with her sister, Sabrina can't sleep with a man for one year...unless she falls in love. With the help of a regular diet of choco...



  • Lisa Bingham

    Mail-order bride Phoebe Gray should have come stamped "handle with care." Guarding dynamite in a lightning storm would be easier than guiding this one willful redhead all the way west, Gabe Cutter fumed. Yet his Pinkerton-honed instincts told him he ...



  • Fiona Brand

    OUT OF THE SHADOWS, INTO HER LIFE... The breakup of her marriage had been devastating, but Tyler Laine had rebuilt her life and now moved in a world of money and privilege, a far cry from the mean streets of his world. And yet Gabriel West, ex-SAS...



  • Rebecca Brandewyne

    Racing along the rocky coast of Cornwall, on a night fit for neither man nor beast, Verity Collier's coach is attacked by the notorious highwayman plaguing the Cornish countryside. The villain's commanding strength and cloak of dangerous sensuality h...



  • Beverly Brandt

    Maid service was something she required... Jet-setter Katya Morgan believes that love comes in gilt-wrapped packages tied with neat red bows. So when her father disinherits her, her first priority is to get her money and cushy life back. Meanwhile, ...



  • Kylie Brant

    Sam Tremaine could charm the thorns off roses, and Juliette Morris both wanted and hated him. The CIA agent had learned her secret identity -- and had used it to gain her help to catch an international criminal. Even worse, she was falling for this m...



  • Laurey Bright

    Widow Triss Allardyce's fragile world nearly shattered the day she learned her new business partner was none other than her late husband's protege, handsome entrepreneur Steve Stevens. He had always aroused complicated feelings in her -- pass...



  • Pamela Browning

    Karma's sister is in town mixing business with pleasure. Azure O'Connor is to consult with a local high-flying businessman. Little does she realize that the businessman is Leonardo Santori, aka Lee Sanders, the beach bum she met at Karma's wedding an...



  • Robert Vaughan

    It Wasn't Your Land Until You Fought For It. It Wasn't Your Life Until You Were Willing To Die... Cole Collier once was a preacher, but in the smoke and fire of the Civil War, he found a bloody calling--with a gun that was faster and deadlier tha...



  • Jake Logan

    After claiming their reward money for destroying four of the ruthless Conrad brothers, Slocum and Sam Biggle find themselves in hot water when a con-artist, using two brazen beauties as bait, tries to swindle them out of their hard-earned money. Orig...



  • Kate Donovan
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    Come experience the magic and joy that only true love can bring in this heartwarming collection of tales featuring three governesses who find romance when they least expect it... "Love Passages" by Kate Donovan Miranda Kent has no idea w...



  • Jennifer Drew

    Librarian Katy Sloan doesn't know what to do when she realizes Hiho, Ohio, is actually celebrating its ninety-ninth, not one hundredth, birthday. Can she keep guest of honor Joel Carter from spilling the secret? Only if she slips into a bikini and en...



  • Judy Duarte

    HELP! Footloose cowboy Jake Meredith was perfect at rabble-rousing and rodeo riding. But when instant parenthood befell him, he was scared spitless of failing as a father for his tiny orphaned niece and nephew. Where to turn for help? YOU'VE GOT A F...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    Special Agent C. J. Jones looked forward to impending motherhood but cursed being sidelined on a serial killer case because of it. And her irresistible partner Byron Warrick made it hard for her to play it safe. Then, one night, C.J. went into labor ...



  • Lori Foster
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    These men are heroes -- strong, fearless...and impossible to resist! Fireman Ethan Winters ran headlong into a burning building to find Rosie Carrington. Rescue worker Brett Gannon defied the aftershocks of a San Francisco earthquake to prevent Ha...



  • Holly Jacobs

    Meanwhile, the chase is on to discover Hiho's secret. Will Zoe Wallace, festival chairperson, be able to foil intrepid reporter Mace Mason's quest for the truth? Sure, he's an out-of-towner, but with each minute he's not only closer t...



  • Janice Kay Johnson
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    Twelve years ago, one bad decision ruined Nora's life. She lost everything -- her best friend, her boyfriend, her future. Now, for the first time since that awful night, she's coming home. She doesn't expect understanding or even forgiveness from any...



  • Debra Kastner

    Dr. Kyle Hart seemed able to heal everyone -- but himself. The handsome widower had come to Safe Harbor to find peace. But the town matchmakers had other plans for him. And Kyle soon hatched a scheme with the spontaneous Gracie Adams to outwit the ma...



  • Donna Kauffman
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    These men are heroes -- strong, fearless...and impossible to resist! Fireman Ethan Winters ran headlong into a burning building to find Rosie Carrington. Rescue worker Brett Gannon defied the aftershocks of a San Francisco earthquake to prevent Ha...



  • Susan Kearney

    RYKER STEVENS: Ex-Special Forces soldier..with an MBA ASSIGNMENT: Go undercover to protect a targeted socialite A JOB HE COULDN'T REFUSE Bold, rugged special operative Ryker Stevens agreed to pose as heiress Daria Harrington's new accounta...



  • Sylvie Kurtz

    SHACKLED HEART On a stormy Texas night, Tyler Blackwell awoke from a car crash to find himself in a castle dungeon, bound under lock and key by an ephemeral jailer with haunting eyes and virginal flesh that begged for a man's touch. Mysterious Mel...



  • Elizabeth Lane

    Alone, pregnant and on the run! Desperate Times Called for Desperate Measures.... And widow Cassandra Logan was as desperate as they come. Who could blame her for the audacious falsehood she told for the sake of her baby? No one -- except mayb...



  • Jill Limber

    THE RANCHER... A man would have to be blind not to notice pretty, sophisticated Julie Kerns, Ferndale's newest arrival. And good-looking Tony Graham was far from visually impaired. But when the fiercely independent beauty needed him to renovate he...



  • Heather MacAllister

    The City: San Francisco, California The Single: Desperate but determined computer geek Marnie LaTour The Solution: The skirt! After the guy she thinks she's dating tells her she's not "girlfriend" material, Marnie LaTour decides to make some cha...



  • Janice MacDonald

    Hannah Riley's life revolves around her daughter, Faith. They live with Hannah's mother, who refers to the family home as the henhouse. "We're like a bunch of hens clucking around our chick," she explains. Especially true when Hannah's sister and t...



  • Margaret Moore

    WANTON INNOCENT The instant Lady Diana Westover spies Edmond Terrington, Viscount Adderley, across a crowded room, the lovely, sheltered miss believes she's found the man she's been searching for. Though she knows nothing of men, Diana longs to pe...



  • Merline Lovelace

    LSCC Member: Luke Callaghan -- millionaire and secret agent Social Status: He plays the rakish adventurer...but inside, Luke's a solid man who protects his own Method of Seduction: Has eyes for only one woman... Though Luke was temporaril...



  • Karen Fox

    Brandon Goodfellow may be the greatest illusionist in the world, but he's no magician. Just ask Rose Thayer, the beautiful faery who possesses the one thing he covets most of all: true magical power. Years ago, she captivated his senses and captured ...



  • Donald Moffitt

    Many centuries ago, an alien race known as the Nar was able to recreate human beings from genetic code, broadcast from Earth into outer space by a beleaguered humanity. They allow a group of humans to travel millions of light years through the galaxy...



  • Kerry Newcomb

    IN A WILDERNESS BURNING WITH WAR, JOHN STARK HAD NO PLACE TO HIDE, AND ONLY ONE PLACE LEFT TO GO... "Johnny Stark was big, ugly, and wasn't about to die..." So begins this extraordinary saga set on America's first frontier--in the heart of the Fr...



  • Kevin O'Brien

    Different Victims The blonde film student. The brunette paralegal. The red-headed artist. Different Methods The first victim is strangled. The second is stabbed repeatedly. And the third is pushed out an open window. Same Madman In the...



  • Don Pendleton

    A misguided patriot unleashes a death squad . . . Maximum Gain Mack Bolan has been sanctioned to neutralize threats the law can't touch. His next assignment: there's a death squad operating from America's shores, a brainchild of a government in...



  • Don Pendleton

    MAXIMUM EFFECTIVE Considered one of the most dangerous anti-West terrorist groups, the Al-Jabbar ply their lethal trade quietly and efficiently. But now, state-of-the-art intelligence and the interdiction of Mack Bolan have foiled them twice in de...



  • Pamela Browning

    Hunky rancher Slade Braddock is tired of roping the wrong female, so he signs on as a client at Rent-a-Yenta matchmakers of South Beach, Miami. He's willing to leave it to the professionals to find him a mate! Karma O'Connor is desperate to make a su...



  • Rachel Lee

    A former top cop and now a crackerjack attorney, Chloe Ryder always gets to the heart of the matter with stunning precision. She never lets anything or anyone get past her cool, protective exterior. Yet even she can't keep her feelings on ice when a ...



  • Alex Minter

    WELCOME TO NEW YORK A PERILOUS PLAYGROUND FOR THE RICH, THE YOUNG AND THE TROUBLED, AND THE CRIMINALS WHO PREY UPON THEM. Fueled by black coffee and vengeance, Felix Novak speeds across the country to New York City on a mission to find and kill ...



  • Kimberley White

    Greyson Ballantyne has been in love with Sutton since he was seventeen, but never confessed his true feelings...until the day she married his rival, wealthy Alex Galloway. Still haunted by regret years later, Greyson resigns from his law firm and ret...



  • Karen White-Owens

    Lisa Daniel's long cherished dream of a husband and a family gets a rude awakening when her fiance breaks off their engagement. Strung at the cruel rejection and vowing never to let herself be so vulnerable again, she throws herself into her career a...



  • Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    HOPELESSLY IN LOVE Youthful, soul-shattering mistakes? Deborah McCloud had made more than her share. She'd believed in her father, only to discover her trust had been cruelly misplaced. And her heart? She'd misplaced that, too, by falling hopelessly...



  • Eileen Wilks
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    After years of silence, evidence has surfaced of government experiments in genetic manipulation. The media has even speculated that these experiments were successful and that the extraordinary children could be anywhere...and anyone. Wild rumors are ...



  • Anne Marie Winston
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    After years of silence, evidence has surfaced of government experiments in genetic manipulation. The media has even speculated that these experiments were successful and that the extraordinary children could be anywhere...and anyone. Wild rumors are ...



  • Rebecca Winters

    Wealthy, womanless and temporarily at loose ends, Formula One race-car driver Rick Hawkins finds himself in Texas visiting his newly married father. While he's there, he becomes involved with his stepmother's family -- especially her twenty-eight-yea...



  • Nicole Burnham

    HE LIVED IN ONCE UPON A TIME! When beautiful Princess Isabella of San Rimini needed an expert to probe the secrets of the royal palace, all roads led directly to dark, mysterious Nick Black -- a contemporary example of potent masculinity if ever t...



  • Janet Chapman

    A tempestuous passion begins with a battle of wills... When Sadie Quill comes upon an unbelievably gorgeous man lying naked beside a lake, she can't resist taking his photo -- and is quickly trapped in a passionate confrontation with the fierce s...



  • Maureen Child

    FALL IN LOVE WITH TWO UNFORGETTABLE NOVELS Meet the Candellano family: Angela, the matriarch, Tony, the oldest son and town sheriff, Nick and Paul, the twin brothers with completely different personalities, and Carla, the daughter whom Mama is still...



  • Linda Conrad

    TEXAS HEAT Rancher, security expert, family man. Cinco Gentry has already had enough excitement for one lifetime. Now all he wants is to run his ranch -- and his family -- without any complications. Until the arrival of U.S. Air Force Captain Meredi...



  • Jasmine Cresswell

    Charlotte Gray's world has been turned upside down. Her husband of six months has disappeared, and now FBI agents inform her that Dan, the love of her life, is a wanted international terrorist. But before Charlotte has a chance to absorb their sho...



  • Emma Darcy

    To bed...or wed? When Serena's engagement to a property developer ends, she vows to avoid rich men! As a hairdresser, she wasn't good enough for her fiance -- as she overhears tycoon Nic Moretti comment at a party! Serena's shocked ...



  • Mona Gedney

    CAN A BOLD DECEPTION... Elise MacGregor is in a fix. While visiting London to buy clothes for her upcoming marriage to an older gentleman, she develops a tendre for a handsome young man. Only after Elise has written to call off her engagement does...



  • Maria Greene
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    "Father knows best"...unless he's denying his family the chance to find him true love! Some stubborn papas need a bit of encouragement to try romance once more...but we know the fathers in these special stories will charm you from the sta...



  • Deborah Hale

    Could She Defeat His Darkness and Bring Him Back to Life? Handsome rakehell turned scarred recluse Lord Lucius Daventry had returned from battle intent on forgetting the past. Yet once home, Lucius was presented with one final mission: marry Angel...



  • Lori Handeland
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    Come experience the magic and joy that only true love can bring in this heartwarming collection of tales featuring three governesses who find romance when they least expect it... "Love Passages" by Kate Donovan Miranda Kent has no idea what lies...



  • Elizabeth Harbison

    To sexy police chief Dan Duvall, a man of few words, Beldon's annual "Rocky Top Chili Cookoff" was one huge pain in the posterior. The locals got rowdy, and his sleepy little town was overrun with city slickers. Bah! But this year, one visiting Ne...



  • Rita Herron

    TO LOVE AND PROTECT When vulnerable beauty Alanna Hayes appeared on his doorstep with a baby in tow, Cain Caldwell didn't know what to think. On the run after uncovering evidence of secret experiments at the Coastal Island Research Park, she claimed...



  • Victoria Hinshaw
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    "Father knows best"...unless he's denying his family the chance to find him true love! Some stubborn papas need a bit of encouragement to try romance once more...but we know the fathers in these special stories will charm you from the sta...



  • Hannah Howell

    Bestselling author Hannah Howell returns to her magnificent Murray family with the first in a stunning new trilogy -- a tale of vengeance and passion in the wilds of Scotland... Sir Payton Murray's reputation as a lover is rivaled only by his...



  • Margo Maguire

    Dorothea Bright would never be the same... Life On The Run Certainly Had Its Attractions When she left quiet Oxford for her esteemed father's London home, Dorothea Bright never dreamed she'd be thrown into intrigue and danger with the likes of ...



  • Lissa Manley

    THE TROUBLE WITH BACHELOR #1 The assignment -- sending the city's most eligible bachelors out on blind dates, then writing about how they turned out -- should have been easy for a skilled reporter like Erin James. But the first man on her list wan...



  • Dinah McCall

    THERE'S NO PLACE TO HIDE FROM THE TRUTH.... CIA agent Jonah Slade is back from deadly undercover work in the jungles of South America, battered, bloodied, but successful in putting a notorious drug czar behind bars. But, he discovers, the war has ...



  • Barbara McCauley

    A BURNING PASSION Emily Barone could remember nothing about her near-death experience in a Boston fire -- except for the rock-hard chest and strong arms of the fireman who pulled her to safety. She and Shane Cummings generated a heat hotter than a...



  • Melissa McClone

    For nearly two weeks they were trapped together on a tropical island, forced to endure Survivor-like challenges in order to win a grand prize. But for the normally business-minded Cade Armstrong Waters, the toughest part became resisting his pampered...



  • Judi McCoy

    SO I WANTED A LITTLE ADVENTURE Believe it or not, I, Anne McAllister, once led a boring life. But that was all before I was forced to leave the past behind and rebuild my dreams. Now, I've got all the adventure I ever wanted as a U.S. Marshal, guard...




  • Patricia McLinn

    THERE'S NOTHING LIKE A WEDDING TO PUT YOU IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE.... Max Trevetti had known Suz Grant for years. He was like a big brother to her. But when he saw her at his sister's wedding, it wasn't brotherly affection he was feeling.... Suz h...



  • Susan Meier

    Jet-setting playboy Jake Malloy knew he was a fool to hire hometown nice girl Hannah Evans as his baby's nanny. He wasn't used to a beautiful woman sleeping in his house unless she was warming his bed, and he sure as heck hadn't expected Hannah's inn...



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    in

    Come experience the magic and joy that only true love can bring in this heartwarming collection of tales featuring three governesses who find romance when they least expect it... "Love Passages" by Kate Donovan Miranda Kent has no idea what lies...



  • Raye Morgan

    Bored playboy Prince Damian of Nabotavia reluctantly succumbed to family pressure to consider marriage to an "appropriate" woman. Then an accident changed everything, leaving him challenged at every turn. But had it been an accident, or was Damian's ...



  • Brenda Novak

    Who's going to win the battle of Dundee, Idaho? The town's bad girl or its favorite son? Rebecca Wells desperately wants to overcome her reputation. She's finally trying to put an end to her twenty-four-year rivalry with the perfect Josh Hill, a ...



  • Kathleen O'Reilly

    If there's one thing Hilary Sinclair knows, it's how to make a bed. Well, okay, a mattress. As an executive at MacAllister Beds, she's new to the company, but she can manufacture with the best of them. Besides, it's a fresh start in a fresh city. The...



  • Marta Perry

    "YOUR SON." Two words had never held such power over CEO Tyler Winchester. He wouldn't have believed them, but the child in the photo he stared at resembled someone he'd never forget: Miranda Caldwell, the woman who had stolen his heart eight years ...



  • Debbi Rawlins

    Welcome to Twin Oaks -- the new B and B in Cooper's Corner. Some come for pleasure, others for passion -- and one to set things straight... Check-in: Veterinarian Alex McAlester is the man to go to in Cooper's Corner for sound advice and a shoulde...



  • Kaitlyn Rice

    Terms of the Will Lethally sexy playboy Jack Kimball raise a baby? No way! Abby Briggs yearned to keep her orphaned twin niece and nephew together. But the will gave her the baby girl and Jack the baby boy! The devil-may-care bachelor couldn't possi...



  • Christine Rimmer

    THERE'S A...VIKING IN MY LIVING ROOM! Elli Thorson, displaced Nordic princess, was used to an occasional reminder of where she came from. But even she was surprised at the sight of the handsome if hulking man in her apartment. He said he'd come by...



  • Emilie Rose

    MORE THAN SHE BARGAINED FOR Motivational speaker Brooke Blake spent her life making other people's dreams come true, and yet she'd decided she'd have to go to a sperm bank to make her fondest dream a reality. But that was before one shattering nig...



  • Cynthia Rutledge

    Lori Loveland knew her faith would help her achieve her goals. And when she'd completed a six-month stint as nanny to Drew McCashlin's girls, she was determined to start her own adventure. But once she set eyes on the handsome single dad, she knew sh...



  • Deirdre Savoy

    Sometimes It Takes Chemistry...To Make Magic Everything changes for free-spirited freelance artist Jacqueline "Jake" Bouvier Troubat McKenna when she inherits custody of her stepbrother's six-year-old daughter, Dani. In addition to unexpected moth...



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    in

    These men are heroes -- strong, fearless...and impossible to resist! Fireman Ethan Winters ran headlong into a burning building to find Rosie Carrington. Rescue worker Brett Gannon defied the aftershocks of a San Francisco earthquake to prevent Ha...



  • Maggie Shayne
    in

    After years of silence, evidence has surfaced of government experiments in genetic manipulation. The media has even speculated that these experiments were successful and that the extraordinary children could be anywhere...and anyone. Wild rumors are ...



  • Donna Simpson
    in

    "Father knows best"...unless he's denying his family the chance to find him true love! Some stubborn papas need a bit of encouragement to try romance once more...but we know the fathers in these special stories will charm you from the start! "The...



  • Donna Simpson

    A LADY'S CHANGE OF HEART... Rachel Neville is the envy of the ton, possessing youth, extraordinary beauty, and a supremely "suitable" fiance. Yet despite the secure future that lies ahead, she is suddenly restless--bored with the amusements of the S...



  • Eboni Snoe

    A dangerous destiny...a timeless desire Adventurous Sienna Russell would give anything to have a normal life with handsome, enigmatic intellectual Hennessy "Hawk" Jackson. But it isn't long before her duty as the Last of the Stonekeepers -- prote...



  • Vickie Taylor

    THE LAST MAN SHE WANTED... Del Cooper was the only person who could spare Elisa Reyes from a fate worse than death. Though she had every reason to distrust the Texas Ranger accused of accidentally shooting her fiance, Elisa knew that without his hel...



  • Marilyn Tracy

    How could he tell the woman who touched his heart about the nightmares that haunted him? Mack Dorsey's scars served as a permanent reminder of the children he couldn't save in a school bombing, even though he had been hailed a hero. The tortured teac...



  • Laura Wright

    Living alone in the Colorado Rockies, U.S. Marshal Dan Mason didn't want company. Still, Dan couldn't resist a damsel in distress, especially when a hiking accident left violet-eyed "Angel" on his doorstep with no memory and no identi...



  • Katherine Greyle

    The rookeries are slums, but an assassination is being planned there and Marcus Kane, Lord Chadwick, will not be able to navigate the labyrinthine underworld alone. His time spying in France is not experience enough; he will require a partner. Fantin...



  • Jessica Hall

    Raven has no intention of returning to her life as an undercover government agent. The stunning beauty doesn't doubt that years ago she was betrayed by the agency she worked for--and by her devastatingly handsome boss, General Kalen Grady. Instead...



  • Gayle Buck

    A Gallant Rescuer The lovely heiress, Miss Thea Stafford, has just come into her own. But in the bat of an eye, her hopes for a happy life are dashed like the chards of her mother's porcelain. One night, her sister's betrothed kidnaps Thea...



  • Nancy Butler

    Healing Hearts Repaying a debt of honor by helping the illustrious General Sir Janus Paltry write his memoirs, Morgan Pearce must leave London -- and a most delectable married woman -- behind. And though he's not happy about venturing out to t...



  • Johnny D. Boggs

    When General Sherman appoints lawyers Thomas Ball and Joe Woolfolk as counsel to Satanta and Big Tree, two Kiowa warriors who have been accused of murdering seven cowboys, Thomas and Joe, ordered to prove them guilty, instead find themselves defendin...



  • Laura Marie Altom

    When bad girl Geneva McBride died, she assumed she'd go straight to hell, but it turned out the Big Guy had a sense of humor. To earn her angel's wings she had to match her former husband with his ideal mate. Luckily, she had a foolproof plan...



  • C.J. Barry

    Tess MacKenzie was a successful singer/songwriter. Then Cohl Travers picked her up. Of course, it wasn't exactly how she was used to being "picked up." Cohl dropped down from outer space with his robot Pitz and zapped her--so that they could save ...



  • Holly Cook

    When Myles Dampier saves her from drowning, Sabina Grey imagines him to be a selkie: a legendary seducer from the deep who means doom to foolish maidens. He is no myth, however, but a flesh-and-blood Englishman, one she falls in love with and marries...



  • Genell Dellin

    AN OUTLAW HEART A proud Cherokee Lighthorseman, Black Fox is determined to hunt down the notorious Cat -- a brazen thief who robs from the wealthy to give to the poor. But his satisfaction at finally capturing the elusive outlaw turns to shock whe...



  • Lynn Kerstan

    The Golden Leopard was the first book in Lynn Kerstan's powerful new trilogy. Now, she continues her mesmerizing saga with an unforgettable tale of vengeance and forbidden passion... One of the most beautiful women in all of England, Mira Holcombe...



  • Katie MacAlister

    sometimes love is like a smoking gun... Dear Worthy Reader: I take quill in hand to warn you of the inaccurate picture hinted at in this very tome of my modest self. A poor widow I returned to England eager to take my place in the ton only to f...



  • Tabor Evans

    A Tucson gang is on fire, but Longarm turns up the heat!A gang of killer bandits are on a spree -- hijacking gold and silver shipments and gunning down anyone who might get in their way. Longarm goes in to stick close to the wagon train owner -- only...



  • J. Robert King
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The battle rages on! Amid the titanic clash between Phage and Akroma, all Dominaria shuddered. Now, out of the destruction and chaos a new force arises, and Kamahl must face his greatest foe: Karoma. Her arms spread to the very clouds, and her rob...



  • T.H. Lain

    This title chronicles the latest adventure of various iconic characters from the Dungeons & Dragons core rulebooks. This series of novels is designed to bring readers closer to the feeling of actually playing a D&D adventure. This seventh tit...



  • Paul B. Thompson; Tonya Cook
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The mighty Ergothian empire is gripped by civil war. Centuries before the first Cataclysm sunders Ansalon, two imperial dynasties struggle for supremacy. Brutal warlords jockey for power, while corrupt wizards sell their skills to the highest bidd...



  • Melanie Tem

    The Devil, they say, is in the details. The small decisions we make every day. But for the Harkness family, this expression is all too literally true. For many years the members of this family have gotten seemingly helpful advice at key moments in th...



  • Wen Spencer

    Meet Ukiah Oregon, a unique young man with accelerated senses who was raised by wolves, domesticated by two women, and trained as a tracker by a private investigator. And that's the normal part of his life.... Ukiah's alien-enhanced abilities are ...



  • Scott Ciencin
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    When the gods are banished from the heavens, they must travel through Faerûn in the guise of mortals. When four companions, last survivors of the Company of the Lynx, find themselves in possession of a mysterious amulet, they must escape death at ...



  • Doranna Durgin

    Inspired by the popular board game, the adventure continues as the mighty force of change rages across the Atlantean Empire -- and exiles mount a sinister campaign of their own. . . . As the dedicated members of the Black Powder Rebels make the...



  • Brian Keene

    When a horrifying plague turns most of the world into powerful flesh-eating zombies, Jim Thurmond, while on a cross-country quest to save his son, joins forces with an elderly preacher, a scientist, and a reformed prostitute to save civilization from...



  • Holly Lisle

    GLORY OF THE DRAGON Based on a science of sorcery called Dragon magic, the Hars Ticlarim is a miraculous place of magnificent mansions and luscious gardens. But this incomparable-beauty hides a dark core: Dragon magic draws its power from the agon...



  • James M. Thompson

    A Desire Beyond Reason As a vampire, Elijah Pike (alias Roger Niemann) has been a slave to instinct--consuming human blood to satisfy an unquenchable thirst. As a doctor, he relies on his intellect in the pursuit of a cure that will end not only h...



  • Andrea Semple

    When Martha Seymore finds out about her boyfriend's one-night-stand she doesn't know what to do. And Martha's business is relationships. She's the girl who gets paid to sympathise with the cheated and jilted, the under sexed and over attached at Glos...



  • Caroline Burnes

    THE BLACKTHORN HEIRESS Aurelia Agee had come to Natchez, Mississippi, to claim her unexpected inheritance, the Blackthorn estate. But her arrival stirred up age-old hatreds that wouldn't rest. Anonymous threats and eerie cries wouldn't drive her awa...



  • Bethany Campbell

    Nick Belyle has come to town, and no one's happy to see him. He's the new point man for the corporation that's trying to buy up land and turn Crystal Creek into suburbia. He's also public enemy number one, or so the Concerned Citizens have decided...



  • Judy Christenberry

    Another Match Made in ... Cactus Suddenly a single mom and a ranch owner, city girl Suzanne McCoy needed help in a hurry when the matrons of Cactus, Texas, came to her rescue. Their solution -- Ryan Walker, the best rancher in town and a single pa...



  • Darlene Gardner

    What's a sexy D.C. blue blood doing in sultry Savannah? Cutting loose -- that's what! Tiffany Albright trashes her conservative suits and corporate briefcase for a few days of fun, fun, fun. She's lobbying for a weekend fling with a hot guy. He has t...



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  • Brenda Harlen

    BULLETS. ARSON. BOMBS. SOMEONE WANTED HER DEAD. Arden Doherty had dedicated her career to protecting families, but now her own life was on the line. The driven attorney hadn't thought things could get any more dangerous...until she wound up in bed w...



  • Lahisha Wallace

    Claudia seeks the love of her dreams and proceeds to confide in her best friend, when, lo and behold, her friendship is put to the test when she finds out that he, her best friend, also has the same objective: Her!...



  • Kate Welsh

    BABY BEQUEST Wealthy playboy Brett Costain met virginal Melissa Abell at their siblings' wedding...but their one stolen kiss led to disaster and humiliation. Now, years later, a tragedy reunited them, forcing Brett to find the woman he'd coldly sp...



  • Sophie Weston

    From a war of words -- to wedding vows! Pepper is rendered uncharacteristically speechless when she encounters brilliant Oxford college master Steven Konig in a live TV debate. The man is gorgeous but infuriatingly provocative, and Pepper is stunn...



  • Sheri Whitefeather

    BOUND BY BABY One look. One dance. One night of passion. Julianne McKenzie had experienced it all with one sexy man. And now she was expecting a child, the Cherokee baby of Bobby Elk. What other surprises did life have in store? Too much hearta...



  • Larry King; Thomas Cook

    From Larry King, host of CNN's Larry King Live, and Edgar Award--winning mystery writer Thomas H. Cook comes a madcap caper about the bright lights and dimwits of Manhattan. When the lovely Allison Vandameer disappears, she has no idea what forces...



  • Giles Blunt

    In the wake of a dual murder during a freak winter warm spell, Algonquin Bay homicide detectives Delorme and Cardinal link the killings to other unsolved murders spanning back some thirty years, a case with possible connections to Quebec terrorist ac...



  • John E. Gardner

    The second book in the new detective series from a master storyteller The year is 1941, and London is still at war. After her adventures in Bottled Spider, WPC Suzie Mountford is back, and working the beat in West End Central - a notoriously dangerou...



  • William W. Johnstone

    America's Secret Strike Force ... They Get The Job Done! Strike Back, Strike Fast Today, when bomb-throwing madmen rule nations and crime cartels strangle the globe, justice demands extreme measures. For twenty years, ex-CIA agent John Barrone ...



  • Stan Jones

    “In a robust sequel to White Sky, Black Ice, this Alaska state trooper is still burdened by his urban upbringing and his aversion to ice and snow . . . Active maintains his awe of the vast Alaskan tundra, a forbidding region that Jones renders...



  • Roberta Isleib

    PAR FOR THE CORPSE Up-and-coming golfer Cassie Burdette a through the hell of Qualifying School--only to land herself in the hell of a pro-am tournament. Placed on a team with four doctors from the pharmaceutical company Meditron, she hopes she ca...



  • Suzann Ledbetter

    "The simple truth is, I was born clever...." So says spirited young Denver City detective Joby (Josephine Beckworth) Sawyer -- and she isn't bragging. With a whip-sharp mind, self-taught expertise in biology, herbology, chemistry, criminality, and le...



  • J.G. Hertzler; Jeffrey Lang

    "The true test of a warrior is not without...it is within." Sins of the past collide with hopes for the future as Martok fights for the right to lead the Klingon Empire. With the secret of his usurper exposed, the ousted chancellor and his ragtag ba...



  • Francis Ray

    Kristen Wakefield grew up the privileged, beloved daughter and sister of a wealthy family . . . yet she felt eclipsed by the achievements of her older brother, Adam, a renowned neurosurgeon. In New Orleans, Kristen believes she now has the opportuni...



  • Karen Van Der Zee

    Seducing Sam to the rhythms of the night... The last thing Sam had wanted was a stranger in the house for three long months! David was always there -- making her angry, making her laugh, giving her all the fun she'd been missing...and, duri...



  • Myrtlemay Crane

    Melissa Wilabee never had a strong relationship with her mother, Darlene. But Darlene, now suffering from Alzheimer's disease, requires constant attention, and Mel is the only one who can provide it. Now, she must put her mother's needs before her ow...



  • Linda Ford

    Joining her husband, Kingston, who has returned to his family's farm in Canada following the Great War, Maryelle faces the trials of her new life. Two years and many miles have separated the couple, who were married just before the war. Now, all Mary...



  • Terry Fowler

    GENNY HAS BOOKED A PERMANENT GIG IN STEPHEN'S HEART. Backstage after a country music concert, Genny Smith goes into premature labor. The young widow, a guest of the band, is helped by Stephen Camden, the lead singer, who goes out of his way to sho...



  • Cathy Marie Hake

    Vanessa's heart does a funny flip-flop when a father and son with matching soulful brown eyes appear at the counter of her pet store. Soon she and the puppy she is training as a guide dog are spending time - a lot of time - with Nathan and Jeff and t...



  • Denise Hunter

    Emily Wagner will be a mail-order bride. This arrangement will answer all of her problems - best buried. But when she arrives in Cedar Bend, Kansas, she finds her world has been turned upside-down. Cade Manning needs a mother for his son Adam. He ...



  • Sally Laity

    Unable to forgive the Germans for her brother's death in the war, Tricia travels to England to do her part to fight the enemy. Working for her uncle at an American news service, Trish finds herself attracted to photographer Doug St. Claire. But beyon...



  • Yvonne Lehman

    Having been fired because of her faith, Ellen Jonsen is desperate for work. When she takes a job at a Christian conference center, she can't deny the sparks of attraction that seem to leap between her and her new boss, Richard Williams. But every tim...



  • Joyce Livingston

    Valene thinks she's ordinary, but that's not Jordan Young's first impression. When he accidentally hits Valene's dog, Hero, with his pickup, Jordan immediately insists on taking them to the animal clinic. The handsome navy fighter pilot persists in h...



  • Darlene Mindrup

    Before her mother died, she arranged for Disa to marry Thorvald, a man of mystery to the settlers of Greenland. But their leader, Erik and Red, trusts Thorvald, and Disa knows she has no choice in the matter. If she does not marry, her land will be g...



  • Mat Johnson

    Horizon Realty is bringing Harlem back to its Renaissance. With the help of Cedric, Bobby, and Horus-three ex-cons trying to forge a new life-Horizon clears out the rubble and the rabble, filling once-dilapidated brownstones with black professiona...



  • Madeleine E. Robins

    On the mean streets of Regency London, a truly different adventure-with an unforgettable heroineIn a Regency London that isn't quite the one we know, young women of family whose reputations have been ruined are known as the Fallen. Young Sarah Tolera...



  • James W. Huston

    In the dead of night, a daring desert raid into Sudan by a Special Forces team led by Lt. Kent "Rat" Rathman ends with the apprehension of the world's most wanted criminal. But the methods necessary to achieve the goal are brutally unorthodox--and a ...



  • Max Brand

    The three novellas collected here showcase Max Brand s outstanding ability to create living, breathing characters whose unforgettable exploits linger long after the last page is turned. In The Canon Coward, you ll meet Harry Clonnell, a tracker who r...



  • Naomi Rand

    Single motherhood hit Emma Price like a sledgehammer -- a double whammy to go along with the considerable pressures of her job as an investigator with the Capital Defenders Office. Having to raise a toddler and a troubled teen and dig up mitigating e...



  • Les Savage Jr.

    Arriving in Laramie after a stint in a Confederate hospital, Scott Walker comes home to turmoil and chaos when he learns that his sweetheart has married his older brother and his father has waged war on a deputy surveyor with the railroad, which lead...



  • V.C. Andrews

    Three girls from different worlds with one thing in common: They were born to be wild. Robin...With a mom who's more absorbed in her singing career than in her own daughter, Robin's left to her own devices when the two move to Nashville. That's wh...