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New Books List: 454 titles


  • Ru Emerson

    The keep has fallen on hard times. Raiders hatter the outer walls. Hordes of goblins and ores roam the countryside, attacking trade caravans and killing merchants. A mysterious stream of dark-robed priests travels through the keep's walls, h...



  • Sherryl Woods

    WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? Horse wrangler Wade Owens treated Lauren Winters like a pretty little interloper who had sashayed onto his turf. Wade's attitude sparked Lauren's temper, but she'd never backed down from a challenge. Weary from h...



  • Isaac Babel

    Language - English

    "A celebration of literary genius framed by 20th-century tragedy."--Richard Bernstein, New York Times

    Finally in paperback, this "monumental collection; gathers all of Babel's deft and brutal writing, including a wid...



  • C.J. Cherryh

    THE POLITICS OF SPACE It has been over two centuries since the starship Phoenix disappeared into space, leaving a colony of humans to fend for themselves on the world of the alien atevi. Since then humans have lived in exile using a single diplom...




  • Tim LaHaye; Jerry B. Jenkins

    Created by leading designers and artists of graphic novels for the general market, Left Behind graphic novels are an entirely new and exciting format for Christian product. These are not the comic books you remember, but a modern way to communicate! ...



  • Tim LaHaye; Jerry B. Jenkins

    Created by leading designers and artists of graphic novels for the general market, Left Behind graphic novels are an entirely new and exciting format for Christian product. These are not the comic books you remember, but a modern way to communicate! ...



  • Ben Bova

    The Asteroid Wars have begun.... Dan Randolph is one of the richest men on Earth--a planet spiralling into environmental disaster. His bitter rival, Martin Humphries, is the fabulously wealthy heir to the Humphries Trust. Both men know that space-...



  • Cate Tiernan

    I am coming into the sunlight at last. The dangers I faced are gone. And I'm in love. Deeply in love. But lately I've been having dreams. Visions of someone in terrible trouble. Someone who will die unless I prevent it. Who is calling me like t...



  • Stuart Woods

    When Holly's wedding festivities are shattered by a brutal robbery, she vows to find the culprits. With nothing to go on but the inexplicable killing of an innocent bystander, Holly discovers evidence that leads her into the midst of a clan whose mem...



  • John Carnell

    Middle Terra Firma was home to an idyllic countryside and a wondrous variety of fantastical beings and magical inhabitants. It existed in peace and contentment, until the arrival of the creature known as The Dark Rider, and the havoc he wreaked as he...



  • Harlan Ellison

    In a career spanning more than 50 years, Harlan Ellison has written or edited 75 books, more than 1700 stories, essays, articles and newspaper columns, two dozen teleplays, and a dozen movies.

    Now, for the first time anywhere, Trouble...



  • Christopher Golden

    HOMECOMING Joyce Summers is dead. Spike has been slain and Faith, rogue Slayer, is gone as well. Southern California has fallen under vampire rule. And Rupert Giles is Vampire King. Buffy can hold no one but herself responsible for this grim...



  • Francine Pascal

    I thought I loved Sam. He betrayed me. Now he's gone. I thought I loved my uncle. He doesn't know what love is. He only wants to use me. Who's left?...



  • Alice Borchardt

    Daughter of a mighty pagan queen, Guinevere has become a threat to her people and a prize to the dreaded sorcerer Merlin. Sent into hiding, she grows up under the protection of a shapeshifting man-wolf and an ornery Druid. But even on the remote coas...



  • Rita Mae Brown

    Sex makes monkeys out of all of us. If you don’t give in to it, you wind up a cold, unfeeling bastard. If you do, you spend the rest of your life picking up the pieces. . . .At the start of senior year at William & Mary, the six-foot-tall, rave...



  • Richard F. Newcomb

    Sailing across the Pacific, the battle-scarred heavy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis had just delivered a secret cargo that would trigger the end of World War II. Heading westward , she was sunk by a Japanese submarine. In twelve minutes, some 300 me...



  • Lori Copeland

    Lori Copeland, loved for her whimsical, folksy style, brings readers a feel-good Christmas story. A young widower with three needy children is snowed in at Henrietta Humblesmith's marrying parlor for the holidays. He has no idea what a special Christ...



  • Patricia Sprinkle

    The exciting sequel to THE REMEMBER BOX.Poised at the edge of a mystifying adult world, twelve-year-old Carley grapples with complexities she doesn't understand. Why the prickly tension between the beautiful divorcee, Maddie Raeburn, and the school p...



  • Richard Stark

    Between Parker’s 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the whole world of crime changed. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of a...



  • David Fulmer

    Storyville, 1907: In this raucous, bloody, red-light district, where two thousand scarlet women ply their trade in grand mansions and filthy dime-a-trick cribs, where cocaine and opium are sold over the counter, and where rye whiskey flows like an am...



  • Raymond Queneau

    Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with Gabriel, her female-impersonator uncle. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it shut because of a strike, Zazie looks for other means of amusement and is s...



  • Sean K. Reynolds
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Evil Powers Threaten Faerun

    Sinister cabals plot in shadows, while merciless armies gather for war. Explore the inner workings of infamous factions such as the Red Wizards and the Zhentarim. Discover more recently unveiled enemies, including t...



  • James Frenkel

    Once in a great while a science fiction story is so visionary, yet so close to impending scientific developments that it becomes not only an accurate predictor, but itself the locus for new discoveries and development. True Names by Vernor Vinge, ...



  • Caitlin R. Kiernan

    Chance Matthews has suffered enough tragedies. The latest--her grandfather's death--has left her shaken, convinced that she will always be alone. What she needs now is time--time to recover, time to determine what her future will be. What she does...



  • Gardner Dozois

    When mankind moves out to the stars, the colonists of the future will remake the worlds they inhabit in their image. Included here are twenty stories from the most imaginative writers in the field:Poul AndersonCordwainer SmithArthur C. ClarkeRichard ...



  • Judith A. Lansdowne

    A PASSIONATE VENTURE Refusing to be governed by the rules of men, free-spirited Desdemona Quiggley and her two close companions create Lucy Lavender Enterprises, an astoundingly successful business venture. When a stroke of ill luck plunges the co...



  • Dan Brown

    A shocking scientific discovery. A conspiracy of staggering brilliance. A thriller unlike any you've ever read.... When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency procl...



  • Judson Gray

    PAYOFF OR PAYBACK? Jim McCutcheon and Jake Penn are down on their luck and in desperate need of work. Then an old friend of Penn's--millionaire Abel Blain--entrusts him with an important mission. Unfortunately this trust doesn't extend to McCutche...



  • Barbara Bretton

    Once upon a time, Annie Galloway was a woman with boundless hopes -- and big, glorious dreams. There were so many good days, when everything she wanted seemed just a heartbeat away -- a career in art, a peaceful marriage, a house full of children. Bu...



  • Claire Cross

    TWO SISTERS...ONE DISASTER What did James Coxwell ever see in my twin sister, Marcia (I mean, besides her sparkling good looks)? I know what she saw in him--money, prestige, and more money... Well, she's stolen the boy's rose-colored glasses th...



  • J. Lee Butts

    Orphaned when Magruder and his gang massacre his entire family, U.S. Marshal Hayden Tilden embarks on a lifelong quest for vengeance, risking everything and fiercely pursuing evildoers on her personal crusade for justice. Original....



  • Tabor Evans

    Longarm’s tracking a fugitive -- and treading on thin ice!If there’s one thing U.S. Deputy Marshal Long can’t stand, it’s a yeller witness who heads for the hills just when the law needs him most. Harrison Dodge is one such lily-livered sleaz...



  • Susan Plunkett

    For Bethany James, freedom comes in the form of the River of Time, sweeping her away from her old life, to 1895. But on awakening in Juneau, Alaska, Bethany discovers a whole new batch of problems. For one thing, she has been separated from her siste...



  • Cassie Edwards

    A Fateful Return Engaged to a man she does not love and loyal to a father who demands her complete devotion, twenty-three-year-old Janelle Coolidge has come back to her native Missouri looking for answers. What she finds is her destiny. One face f...



  • Kathleen Eschenburg

    Maggie Quinn thinks she has room in her heart only for the helpless orphans in her care--until Gordon Kincaid walks into St. Columba's. A proud Southern gentleman damaged by the Civil War, he has come to Baltimore to find the daughter he never knew--...



  • Winnie Griggs

    Elthia Sinclare travels to Texas to become a governess. She arrives to find six children, not two; a man who had ordered a bride, not a teacher; and a household that needs someone to cook and clean, not read Latin. But worse than marrying Caleb Tanne...



  • Yvonne Jocks

    Jacob Ganzson was a respected rancher who could deal with stampedes, blizzards, and even range wars. But how was he supposed to handle his little girls falling in love? LAUREL The most tomboyish of all the Garrison girls, Laurel dreads the thou...



  • Connie Mason

    TIE DRAGON Renowned for his prowess on the battlefield and in the bedroom, the Dragon Lord had no desire to wed an heiress he had never before seen. But a landless knight had few opportunities to win a barony, and a faithful subject had no choice bu...



  • Mollie Molay

    There was a baby in his back seat! And when Sam Harrison noticed that the infant stowed away in his car was his own daughter, he ran his SUV right into a water tower! Luckily, no one was hurt, but the escapade left Sam and his baby stranded on La...



  • Marie Mosley

    FAMILY BLESSINGS Though outwardly different, the Chandler siblings share an uncommon closeness--and an unshakable devotion to their remarkable mother, Ellen. While Mark, a successful business and family man, faces middle age with growing dread, Clair...



  • Betty Neels
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    Eulalia cannot bear the thought of losing her home, especially at Christmas. But is marriage to handsome surgeon Aderik van der Leurs really the answer? Aderik appears to want Eulalia simply as a convenient bride -- but she is, in fact, his Dearest E...



  • Peggy Nicholson

    They're on a collision course -- again Rancher Tripp McGraw knows that only the big ranches will survive in southwest Colorado, and he's determined to buy the Circle C, a ranch that adjoins his own. If he wanted to, he could foreclose on a...



  • Brenda Novak

    Jaclyn Wentworth is on her own with three little kids. She used to be married to the golden boy -- former golden boy -- of their small Nevada town. The marriage was a disaster because her ex-husband never grew up. And he sure wasn't much of a daddy. ...



  • Linda O'Brien

    Bodyguard and... Determined to help a friend in need, pretty Eliza Lowe groans at the thought of having to be escorted by a stodgy Pinkerton detective -- then she meets Case Brogan. Broad-shouldered and lean-hipped, he is the most gorgeous man El...



  • Victoria Pade

    When Chicago sophisticate Clair Fletcher hit rough-hewn Elk Creek, Wyoming, seeking custody of her orphaned nephew, she thought she'd landed on another planet. And when she confronted rancher Jace Brimley, the mountain of a man who'd given his all...



  • Julia Parks

    SHE EXPECTS A ROGUE Companion to Lady Laura Ransom these last eleven years, Miss Eleanor Webster runs her dear friend's household with proficiency and grace, especially since Lord Ransom's recent demise. She certainly needs no interference from Laura...



  • Tracie Peterson
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    Surviving the harsh prairie elements - like surviving the storms of the heart - takes faith and determination, which four young women need to prove they possess. Can their hearts hold fast against the gales that buffet them? Will they find love waiti...



  • Cameron Judd

    Brady Kenton is dead. Or is he? The man whose pencil and sketchbook brought the living, breathing frontier into the homes of thousands of magazine subscribers, Kenton has been eulogized in the very publication he worked for. But one man--his sidekick...



  • Jake Logan

    When Slocum teams up with an old friend, they add a few more skulls to the valley!Slocum just got into Denver, but his long-awaited night on the town took a sharp and unexpected turn when he ran into his old friend Lemuel Parsons. And when Lem a...



  • Tim McGuire

    Clay Cole, a man on the run for a crime he did not commit, stops to save someone's life and is rewarded with an obligation to bring a Nez Perce baby back to her people, requiring them to embark on a perilous journey across dangerous terrain....



  • J.R. Roberts

    HOUSE RULES Saloon owner Matt Barstow is a gambling man--and his winnings have made him very rich and powerful. For that alone, most folks go out of their way to please him. But not the Gunsmith. He doesn't see the need to please a cheater. In fact, ...




  • Charles G. West

    Action-packed western adventure from the author of Crow Creek Crossing.Over a decade ago, a Shoshoni maiden loved mountain man Trace McCall. Her father did not approve of the union and stole her away -- unaware that she was carrying the white man's c...



  • Jane Sullivan

    HE NEEDS A WILLING WOMAN... Rebel Cole McCallum is back home, but not by choice. If he doesn't get married soon, he's going to lose his inheritance. But who would want to marry a complete stranger? Lucky for him, he has his pick of women. What this ...



  • Vicki Lewis Thompson

    THE NIGHTS BEFORE CHRISTMAS WEREN'T MEANT FOR SLEEPING... All Suzanne Talbot wants for Christmas is Greg Stone. She's fantasized about the sexy handyman for months. And she's recently heard from other women in her building that leaky pipes aren't al...



  • Jane Toombs

    Raising horses -- not spying on scheming females -- was rugged Russ Simon's passion. Still, for his family's sake, he grudgingly agreed to discover whether poor if pretty rancher Marigold Crowley was a gold-digging impostor...or a truly missing heire...



  • Deborah Simmons

    His Whole Family Was Cursed! How else to explain this rash of marriages by the Brothers de Burgh? Robin de Burgh alone swore to remain unwed, despite ironic fate, which used foul murder to mate him with The One -- spirited Sybil, a damsel in dist...



  • Donna Simpson

    KISSED BY FATE Arabella Swinley is in a most dreadful position. She has exactly one Season left to find a rich husband--and save herself from a lifetime of mended gowns, empty purses, and mountainous debts. But, alas, Arabella quickly discovers th...



  • Helen Spears
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    Four young women learn that there is no hiding from God - and love - in small towns among the rugged bluffs and clear-water lakes of Arkansas and Missouri. Amity and Emily face the biggest transitions of their lives, while Andrea and Carla fight the ...



  • Niqui Stanhope

    Nicholas Champagne has a gorgeous home in Jamaica and the attention of every attractive woman he meets. Despite his brother Gavin's recent wedding and his fond feelings for his sister-in-law, Nicholas believes the bachelor's life is the only one for ...



  • Crystal Stovall

    EVERYTHING HAPPENED FOR A REASON.... Was there anything worse than going dateless to three family weddings? Matt Wynn didn't think so -- until he stumbled upon an armed convenience-store robbery. Thanks to fervent prayers and quick thinking, he sa...



  • Alice Duncan

    Step behind the scenes into the exciting early days of motion pictures. Meet intrepid producer Martin Tafft, driven to make Peerless Studios the biggest name in the new frontier of silent movies. Experience the action, thrills, and passion that creat...



  • Judith Duncan

    WOMAN ON THE RUN The secluded cabin high in the snow-covered mountains was as far from Mallory O'Brien's glittering world of wealth and privilege as she could possibly have imagined. Yet this place -- and the proud, bitter man who lived there alon...



  • Lori Foster

    SHE NEEDED HIM FOR A GOOD CAUSE Amanda Barker had to have firefighter Josh Marshall. With his sexy body, killer smile, and incredible reputation as a lady's man, he'd sell a million of her fund-raising calendars. But Josh wasn't cooperating, and he ...



  • Melanie George

    Gray Sinclair has spent a lifetime doing exactly as he pleases -- and women are one of the things that please him most. But a fiery Scottish lass is determined to show him that indulgence has a price, and it's time this handsome libertine pay... ...



  • Carolyn Greene

    All he wanted for Christmas...was to get away from the hustle and bustle of another lonely holiday season. But when Tucker Maddock stopped at what he thought was a quaint country inn, he found himself at a reunion of the big, boisterous Marsh family ...



  • Jennifer Greene
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    Determined to repay the people who stood by him in his darkest hours, Ryan Fortune bestows on them three special gifts intended to bring love and the promise of family.... • The powerful sheik. Ryan gives wealthy sheik Nico Tan-efi his prized sign...



  • Susan Grant

    Ian Hamilton considers himself a typical guy, a finance major who finds all the excitement he needs in the stock market and his Harley. Then his stepfather offers him the crown to an empire and the reins of a mission critical to world peace. What can...



  • Judy Baer

    Because Tia has focused solely on her career, she really doesn't know herself, let alone the God who loves her. Tia's Story will touch the hearts of today's women with a message of hope and faith....



  • Robin D. Owens

    "Today you will meet your HeartMate." Rand T'Ash's blood thrummed in his temples as he stared at his Divination Dice... All his life, Rand T'Ash has looked forward to meeting his HeartMate, with whom he could begin a family. On...



  • Lori Wilde

    Thanks to a vengeful Gypsy, all the women in CeeCee's family are jinxed. Forever unlucky in love, she's determined to date guys who are all wrong for her. Until a misunderstanding allows Dr. Jack Travis to masquerade as his daredevil twin, Zack. Now ...



  • Lori Wilde

    When Dr. Janet Hunter discovers a naked man standing on her terrace, she knows it's not raining men! He's just another suitor her baby-crazed mother has drafted into service. Little does she guess that Naked Terrace Guy is actually her new medical co...



  • K.N. Casper

    Gideon First has found the woman he loves, wants to marry and spend the rest of his life with. But wedded bliss may not be his after an ex-girlfriend charges that the child she secretly gave birth to is Gideon's. Of course the news that her husban...



  • Carla Cassidy

    JUST LIKE THE OLD DAYS... Johnna Delaney's hectic world stood still the moment she laid eyes on Jerrod McCain again -- and her heart instantly leapt into motion. He was back in tiny Inferno, Arizona, to request an impossible favor -- and to remind...



  • Judy Christenberry
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    Hugh Blake, soon to become stepfather to the Maitland clan, has produced three high-performing offspring of his own. But at the rate they're going, they're never going to make him a grandpa! There's Suzanne, a work-obsessed CEO whose Christmas spi...



  • Elaine Coffman

    Born of tragedy and nurtured by scandal, Maresa Fairweather was a fifth daughter, all but abandoned by her widower father. Wild and headstrong, she was fortunate to have Percy Bronwell to keep her from harm's way. Now the childhood friends have grown...



  • Wilma Counts

    A LADY'S SWEET REVENGE.... A little wild, a lot mischievous, heiress Annabelle Richardson set society abuzz by rejecting three suitors in one season. Two were disreputable rakes after her fortune. The third, Timothy Wainwright, was simply too foolis...



  • Lilian Darcy

    Months ago, rancher Grayson McCall had impulsively married single mom Jill Brown to rescue her from a bad situation. They'd shared a brief, stirring kiss and then parted, sure they'd never meet again. Now Jill -- and her little boy -- arrived in M...



  • Carolyn Davidson

    All she wanted was a kitchen to run and a garden to tend. But when Doc Gray offered his name to her and the baby she carried, Ellie Mitchum was overwhelmed. How could she, a girl of "a certain reputation," ever be the kind of wife he needed -- and de...



  • Gail Dayton

    THE RUNAWAY SHEIKH... Security specialist Ellen Sheffield had done the impossible -- beaten elusive Sheikh Rashid "Rudi" Qarif at his own hide-and-seek game and brought him home. But was she his captor...or captive? She'd expected a spoiled pla...



  • Amanda Scott

    She refused to obey her outlaw Highland lord-- but she couldn't stop loving him... Once, long ago on the borderlands of Scotland, two sisters were stolen away by a cruel laird. But before they were taken they received a secret sign from their moth...



  • Donna Hill
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    NOTHING BEATS THE LOVE OF A SISTER... She's your best friend and sometimes your sworn rival...your childhood playmate and the maid of honor at your wedding... the one who stole your high school boyfriend and the one who gave you the best birthday pa...



  • Carmen Green
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    NOTHING BEATS THE LOVE OF A SISTER... She's your best friend and sometimes your sworn rival...your childhood playmate and the maid of honor at your wedding... the one who stole your high school boyfriend and the one who gave you the best birthday pa...



  • Janice Sims
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    NOTHING BEATS THE LOVE OF A SISTER... She's your best friend and sometimes your sworn rival...your childhood playmate and the maid of honor at your wedding... the one who stole your high school boyfriend and the one who gave you the best birthday pa...



  • Elisabeth Fairchild

    Seasonal Sweets When her father the Baron died, Jane Nichol thought she had lost every chance at happiness--and her newly-widowed step-mother's plans for her made things frightfully worse. Now, having escaped the Baroness's clutches by...



  • Shirley Kennedy

    Bewitched, Betrothed, and Betrayed When Lady Flora emerged from the waves she was stunned. Standing arrogantly before her, on a beach reserved for ladies, was Lord Richard Dashwood--his sinewy body magnificently revealed by the second skin of his ...



  • Lori Handeland

    Their friendship forged during the bloody battles of the War Between the States, they are men with nothing left but their honor. When one calls, the others answer -- and this time they will gather in the tiny town of Rock Creek, Texas, where their br...



  • Ruth Langan

    A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do... A MAN OF HONOR When Micah Lassiter made a promise, he kept it -- no matter what it cost him. But his latest undercover assignment -- protecting a wealthy man's daughter from the crazed killer stalking h...



  • Ruth Langan

    "DO I LOOK LIKE ONE OF YOUR SMOOTH-FACED GOLDEN BOYS? I DON'T THINK SO." Hard-boiled, cynical police detective Thaddeus Law had a mission: nab the sorry son-of-a-gun out to kill famous billionaire Joe Colton. This assignment would have been open and...



  • Marion Lennox
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    When Lia is forced to spend Christmas with Pete Barring, she tries to forget their broken engagement seven years ago. But their attraction is as strong as ever, and it becomes a Christmas to remember when Lia opens her front door to discover The Door...



  • Tina Leonard
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    Hugh Blake, soon to become stepfather to the Maitland clan, has produced three high-performing offspring of his own. But at the rate they're going, they're never going to make him a grandpa! There's Suzanne, a work-obsessed CEO whose Christmas spi...



  • Kate Little

    WHO SAYS YOU CAN'T BUY LOVE? After one bad experience with a jerk who broke my heart, I honestly thought it was no longer possible to fall in lust -- and downright absurd to fall in love. But Adam Richards, the older man who "bought" me at a chari...



  • Cait London

    Wyoming's most passionate women and powerful men all answer to one name: Langtry! THE LOST LANGTRY BABY IS COMING HOME... Sable Barclay is afraid and excited about what awaits her in Shiloh, Wyoming. Compelling evidence suggests that she might ...



  • Susan Mallery

    HE'D KIDNAPPED A PRINCESS! How dare he! And how dare her body betray her so recklessly at Prince Kardal Khan's heated touch? How dare she feel cared for in her captor's tender embrace? All the lonely princess had ever wanted was someone to love her....



  • Emma Craig

    Sophie Madrigal tells the fortunes of anyone curious enough to pass the velvet curtain of her makeshift parlor -- and Gabriel Caine is just such a man. The black-clad bounty hunter is on the hunt for a murderer, and nothing will stop him from bagging...



  • Claudia Dain

    It started with a kiss, an explosion of longing that could not be contained. He was a young knight bent on winning his spurs; she was a maiden promised to another man; theirs was a love that could never be. But a year's passing and a strange d...



  • Candice Poarch

    As head of her company's computer division, Shari Jarrod is the accustomed to challenging projects, but winning over Emmanuel Jones's heart may be the toughest one yet. The perpetual playboy is used to dating the hottest women, not some shy "computer...



  • Hebby Roman

    Love All Of Me Damian Escobedo can't believe his eyes. Not only is the ugly duckling next door all grown up, she's blossomed into the most exquisite woman he's ever seen. Until now, he's resisted settling down, but one look at Liana De Leon has hi...



  • Ann Roth

    Entrepreneur Will Stoner was a competent exec, but when he became guardian to the son he'd never known about, Will did the only thing he knew -- he hired help. Will employed nanny Dena Foster to parent his son, but soon he wanted more from this nurtu...



  • Sharon Sala

    It's December in Manhattan. Falling snow blankets the city - and covers the body of a murdered woman that bears a special message from a twisted killer. High in her elegant apartment, bestselling mystery author Caitlin Bennett shivers in fear, hol...



  • Tina Wainscott

    HAUNTED BY THE PAST... Life in the backwoods of Possum Holler is anything but idyllic, but Katie Malloy's childhood is remarkably happy-go-lucky--until her innocence is shattered by a shocking act of cruelty. Distraught, she believes she has endure...



  • Joanna Wayne

    HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS...WITH A TALL, DARK, SEXY STRANGER Surrogate mother Megan Lancaster had been prepared for what pregnancy would bring -- only, an FBI hunk stringing lights on her Christmas tree wasn't one of those things! But her life was in ...



  • Kate Welsh

    THE DARKEST HOUR... Jeff Carrington was fortunate to have survived a horrific riding accident, but lucky was the last thing he felt. His Olympic dreams shattered, he wanted only to shut himself away from everything and everyone -- including Hope T...



  • Eileen Wilks

    A TEMPORARY WIFE PLAYS FOR KEEPS... A few minutes in the Love Me Tender Chapel, and Maggie Stewart had toppled the giant of all bachelors, sexy-as-sin Luke West. But their marriage came with an expiration date -- on payment of Luke's colossal inhe...



  • Mary Anne Wilson

    Quint Gallagher in Love? It would take a miracle... Self-made millionaire Quint Gallagher could rule a boardroom and bend numbers to his will, but he'd rather lose a merger than analyze his feelings for day-care worker Amy Blake. He was too old for ...



  • Deb Stover

    The Wild West Was No Place For A Lady... Irish maid Molly Riordan never thought she would thank her lucky stars when her mistress indulged in one night's indiscretion with a masked American at a costume ball. But now Lady Elizabeth Summersby h...



  • Rexanne Becnel

    Troublemaker: one who makes mischief, who torments; a malcontent; a provoker; a firebrand. Someone to avoid at all costs. A WOMAN RUNNING FROM TROUBLE Sarah Palmer, a reckless beauty with a penchant for trouble, has enraged her family for the las...



  • Lynnette Kent

    Ten-year-old Maddie Tremaine is supposed to be the announcing angel in the town pageant this Christmas. But unless they can find someone to direct the show, Maddie's dream won't come true. Her dad's not much help. Ever since her mom went to heaven...



  • Barbara McCauley

    HIS WOMAN...HIS CHILD An accident had erased Lucian Sinclair's memory of one night -- the only night he'd shared with Raina Sarbanes. So, when he met her again months later, he couldn't fathom why she disdained his up-till-now infallible charm. Th...



  • Kim McKade

    Twelve years ago, Becca Danvers had offered herself to bad boy Colt Bonner, eager for him to rescue her from life under her mother's roof. But Colt had plans of his own, and playing Becca's hero was not one of them. He had something to prove ...



  • Lindsay McKenna
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    Morgan Trayhern's toughest mercenary is about to find his heart this Christmas when his matchmaking boss puts him in the path of Montana's prettiest widow....




  • Shari Anton
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    In this moving medieval tale, a nobleman disguised as a troubadour falls in love with a beautiful innkeeper who can't resist his magical music....



  • Tori Phillips
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    In this touching Tudor story, a charming knight masquerading as Sir Hoodwink accepts a challenge to tame a feisty beauty with a secret of her own!...



  • Bonnie Tucker

    When Rosey O'Leary runs her car up a post while admiring a jogger's fine behind, she doesn't intend to end up in court -- until she learns that the man with the terrific tush, Daniel Sullivan, is planning to tear down her home just before the holiday...



  • Jennifer LaBrecque

    Bride-to-be Delia "Dilly" Fitzgerald's only concern is fitting into her wedding dress -- until she learns that her groom has been given one heck of a Christmas present to marry her! That's when she takes off and finds herself alone on a holiday honey...



  • Hannah Alexander
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    Four young women learn that there is no hiding from God - and love - in small towns among the rugged bluffs and clear-water lakes of Arkansas and Missouri. Amity and Emily face the biggest transitions of their lives, while Andrea and Carla fight the ...



  • Gloria Alvarez

    Help Wanted: Miracle Worker Famed Manhattan child psychologist Victor Vega is a master at dealing with other people's children; it's his own rebellious six-year-old he can't handle. The heartbroken widower can see no alternative to sending his mot...



  • Robyn Amos

    HE'S TOO HOT -- BUT SHE CAN HANDLE HIM Jasmine White is tired of people questioning her ability to do her job. She knows she's the best bodyguard in the business, and she'll tell anyone who asks. And now she's got to take sass from her new clien...



  • Lauren Bach

    TROUBLE JUST ROLLED IN... A WOMAN IN DESPERATE NEED OF RESCUE A deserted stretch of highway, a young woman stranded in a fancy car, and the sound of motorcycles in the black night....Tess Marsh's cross-country trip ends all too suddenly when Dall...



  • Stella Bagwell
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    Pregnant with twins, a young woman sets out to find the family she never knew -- and discovers the perfect father when she falls for a sexy cowboy....



  • Leanne Banks

    When Maggie Gillian met Prince Michel Phillipe, his aura of command emanated from him like heat from the sun. His seeming perfection annoyed Maggie. Teaching His Majesty's young son was the reason she was in his kingdom, not the boy's surprisingly se...



  • Beverly Barton

    The last thing Peggy Jo Riley wanted this holiday was a hard-boiled charmer in her house 24/7. But if she wanted to stay alive, she needed Jack Parker. And once she was in Jack's well-muscled arms, she realized just how much she needed him.... Up ...



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    Determined to repay the people who stood by him in his darkest hours, Ryan Fortune bestows on them three special gifts intended to bring love and the promise of family.... • The powerful sheik. Ryan gives wealthy sheik Nico Tan-efi his prized sign...



  • Dixie Browning

    Rocky Waters first met Sarah Jones when she was a shy teenager. Now scandal had followed the senator's daughter to North Carolina, and Rocky had to warn her. Sarah fiercely guarded her privacy -- and the child she secretly supported. But Rocky was ju...



  • Charlotte Douglas

    THE MISSION: UNDERCOVER HUSBAND No woman had ever looked more beautiful to Kyle Foster than the trembling female he rescued from the wreckage of an explosion. But he never dreamed he'd marry Laura Quinlan just days later! When traces of the bomb led...



  • Michele Dunaway

    HAS PAMPERED SOCIALITE IT O'BRIEN FINALLY MET HER MATCH? New York's most notorious, not to mention most beautiful, heiress, Kit O'Brien, is trying to get a reputation as a working girl -- that is, a journalist. And her first interview subject is n...



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  • Elizabeth Harbison

    To: Lauren, Maggie, Julia, Sharon From: Jen Date: 11/01 RE: Due date -- 1 month! You've got to help me! Since my fiance died, his ruthless father wants custody of my baby. It's true he's wealthy, but he won't love my son as I do...



  • Cindy Harris

    Victorian Dublin comes to life in Cindy Harris' delightful new quartet featuring four unforgettable ladies--all left penniless and without a shred of self-esteem. Brought together in friendship by a gentlemanly benefactor, each will find the courage ...



  • Kate Hoffmann

    Isabella Trueblood made history reuniting people torn apart by war and an epidemic. Now, generations later, Lily and Dylan Garrett carry on her work with their agency, Finders Keepers. Circumstances may have changed, but the goal remains the same. ...



  • Kate Hoffmann

    The only thing that can bring down a Quinn, is a woman. . . The third Mighty Quinn. . . Travel writer Brendan Quinn is known for charming women out of their clothes -- then leaving on assignment when things get sticky. But he's at a loss when a s...



  • Janis Reams Hudson

    Fun-loving bachelor Trey Wilder was in for the surprise of his life when he discovered he was the father and sole guardian of a two-week-old baby girl! But what did an alfalfa farmer know about babies? Luckily, teacher Laurie Oliver was more than hap...



  • Linda Hudson-Smith

    Champion figure skater Omunique Philyaw has finally won the most precious gold of all: a wedding band. With her handsome new husband Kenneth Maxwell by her side, she's settling down to enjoy the blessings of newlywed life: passionate romance, a lavis...



  • Holly Jacobs

    For months, the town matchmakers had tried to set up stubborn single mom Libby McGuiness with every eligible bachelor in Erie, Pennsylvania. But Libby had sworn off men long ago and she wasn't about to give her heart to another member of the male spe...



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    Hugh Blake, soon to become stepfather to the Maitland clan, has produced three high-performing offspring of his own. But at the rate they're going, they're never going to make him a grandpa! There's Suzanne, a work-obsessed CEO whose Christmas spi...



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    Four young women learn that there is no hiding from God - and love - in small towns among the rugged bluffs and clear-water lakes of Arkansas and Missouri. Amity and Emily face the biggest transitions of their lives, while Andrea and Carla fight the ...



  • Linda Kay

    A Thoroughly Modern Woman Victoria Desmond is incensed to find her eccentric employer, billionaire Walter Harrington, has secretly transported them both back to 13th-century England. But things go from bad to worse when her boss is kidnapped, and ...



  • Suzanne McMinn

    The pageantry and adventure of medieval England is brought brilliantly to life with the residents of Castle Wulfere. In an age when men lived and died by the sword, a woman's life might be forever changed with a betrothal ring--and the promise of tru...



  • Jackie Merritt
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    Determined to repay the people who stood by him in his darkest hours, Ryan Fortune bestows on them three special gifts intended to bring love and the promise of family.... • The powerful sheik. Ryan gives wealthy sheik Nico Tan-efi his prized sign...



  • Kasey Michaels

    LADY BEWARE Few men in the world could leave Holly Hollis speechless. But Colin Rafferty -- with his sparkling eyes, disarming grin and indisputable charm -- sent Holly into a stupor whenever his magnificent form entered the room. Worse, she had j...



  • Kasey Michaels

    Oh, Baby! There are probably worse things in life than being single, filthy rich, and retired before your thirtieth birthday, but darned if Jack Trehan can think of any. With his major league career prematurely curtailed, his agent trying to convi...



  • Debbie Raleigh

    Sarah, Emma, and Rachel Cresswell are known throughout London as the Devil's Daughters--and rejected by the ton because of it. But like their charming rascal of a father, the Devilish Dandy, nothing can crush the spirits of these three indomitabl...



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    Leaving their rural Nebraska home far behind, the Delacourt sisters - Sharon, Danielle, Sabrina, and Denise - have chosen to pursue their dreams in a big city. Set on making an impact on the world, will they meet disappointment or delight? Working wi...



  • Tamela Hancock Murray
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    Leaving their rural Nebraska home far behind, the Delacourt sisters - Sharon, Danielle, Sabrina, and Denise - have chosen to pursue their dreams in a big city. Set on making an impact on the world, will they meet disappointment or delight? Working wi...



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    Leaving their rural Nebraska home far behind, the Delacourt sisters - Sharon, Danielle, Sabrina, and Denise - have chosen to pursue their dreams in a big city. Set on making an impact on the world, will they meet disappointment or delight? Working wi...



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    Train travel promises speed, convenience, and adventure for Americans of the nineteenth century. But four young women are carrying excess baggage on their journeys. Uprooted from secure homes and forced to reexamine their positions in life, can any o...



  • Birdie L. Etchison
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    Train travel promises speed, convenience, and adventure for Americans of the nineteenth century. But four young women are carrying excess baggage on their journeys. Uprooted from secure homes and forced to reexamine their positions in life, can any o...



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    Train travel promises speed, convenience, and adventure for Americans of the nineteenth century. But four young women are carrying excess baggage on their journeys. Uprooted from secure homes and forced to reexamine their positions in life, can any o...



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    Train travel promises speed, convenience, and adventure for Americans of the nineteenth century. But four young women are carrying excess baggage on their journeys. Uprooted from secure homes and forced to reexamine their positions in life, can any o...



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    Leaving their rural Nebraska home far behind, the Delacourt sisters - Sharon, Danielle, Sabrina, and Denise - have chosen to pursue their dreams in a big city. Set on making an impact on the world, will they meet disappointment or delight? Working wi...



  • Jodi Thomas

    Fleeing trouble in Pittsburgh, young Kara O'Riley has no choice but to travel as far West as her meager funds will take her. And when she hires on as bookkeeper for a sprawling Texas ranch, she quickly decides that her new employer, Jonathan Catlin, ...



  • Troy Soos

    On January 1, 1892, the first immigrant ship docked at Ellis Island, its downtrodden passengers seeking a new beginning in the land of opportunity. But the city's welcoming committee too often consisted of corrupt government officials, ruthless sweat...



  • Daniel Stashower

    In 1898, the Great Houdini's confidence in his own abilities is matched only by the indifference of the paying public. Now the master escape artist has the opportunity to make a name for himself -- by exposing the tricks of the medium Lucius Craig, d...



  • Matt Witten

    Lobbying hard for a gifted and talented program at the local school for their precocious offspring, Jacob Burns and his comrades are stunned when Sam Meckel, the unpopular principal at the school and a fierce opponent of their cause, is found dead, b...



  • David Locke

    "I'm going to kill some people..."At first, he was just a voice on the other end of the line. Just another crank caller."Your audience will hear me talk about it..."Now, they know he's not kidding. He has a definite plan he intends to execute."Then I...



  • Leonard S. Goldberg

    A veteran seaman drowns within yards of his yacht. A Russian immigrant is shot dead while digging an illegal grave. A politician succumbs to a rare cancer after receiving the best medical treatment money and power can buy. The cases seem unrelated â€...



  • Peter J. Heck

    When Mark Twain arrives in the unfamiliar town of Missoula, Montana, for a lecture tour, he's surprised to find a familiar face: Tom Blankenship, his boyhood pal and the real-life model for Huck Finn. While Tom has made a respectable new life for him...



  • Sam McCarver

    A mysterious figure has been lurking on the streets of London's red-light district. Dressed in clothing decades out of style, he has been seen only by local prostitutes--and he seems to vanish into thin air.... Scotland Yard pays little attention ...



  • Deborah Morgan

    ONE MAN'S JUNK IS ANOTHER MAN'S MOTIVE. Since Jeff Talbot left the FBI, he's been investigating yard sales as a professional antiques picker. From furniture to books, from old clothes to broken toys, nothing escapes his keen eye for appraisal. But...



  • Judith Smith-Levin

    For Cynthia Chapin-Rayner, the world was filled with wealth and power. Marriage to billionaire corporate raider, Dan Rayner, provided her with everything; everything except love. That she found in the arms of another man. A love so filled with passio...



  • David E. Meadows

    America is at war--and every battle may be its last... The United States has found itself embroiled in an all-out war in the Mediterranean Sea against an onslaught of adversaries, some familiar and some unknown--with no end to the bloodshed in sig...



  • James Axler

    VIRULENT DESTINY Eight generations after the atomic mega-cull, a shattered world still struggles to heal itself. The iron-fisted rule of the nine baronies is compromised by an intrepid group of warriors who have uncovered secrets as dark as they are...



  • Joseph D. Pistone

    FBI undercover specialist Donnie Brasco tests his luck when he travels to Julep, Louisiana, to investigate the Russian Mafia--who have set up shop at a swank private club featuring an illegal casino. Problem is, the last agent who went down bayou way...



  • Allan Topol

    Once a spy, always a spy. The dance begins… The CIA was Greg Nielsen’s life … until he was set up and marked for a fall. But the Company taught him well. He knew how to make himself disappear. With a new name, a new life, and a new love, Ni...



  • Lelia Kelly

    When a powerful software entrepreneur is brutally slain, it appears as if Atlanta Assistant District Attorney Laura Chastain is looking at an open-and-shut capital punishment case. The savagely battered corpse was discovered in the victim's own car t...



  • Don Pendleton

    SAVAGE DEPTHS An offshore drilling rig is more than a source of black gold. It's a narcotics manufacturing plant financed by corrupt CIA spooks in bed with the Mafia. An undercover Fed with Mob connections puts Mack Bolan in the middle of the Atla...



  • Don Pendleton

    BLOOD ORDINANCE The forces of murder and terror are igniting panic and death in cities across America. Behind the grim agenda of chaos and destruction emerge disturbing questions concerning the loyalty of men in high places. A connection to a larg...



  • Chris Pierson
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    ISTAR: THE MIGHTIEST EMPIRE KRYNN HAS EVER KNOWN. The Kingpriests have reigned for centuries in the name of Paladine, the supreme god of good. But danger lurks in the empire's heart. The Kingpriest has foreseen his own death, and dark forces converg...



  • Diane Carey

    Created by the incalculably ancient Iconians, whose transcendent technology is quantum levels beyond that of the Federation and its allies, the Gateways offer instantaneous transport across unimaginable distances. Throughout the known galaxy, from De...



  • David Garnett

    In the swinging sixties, Las Vegas rookie cop Wayne Norton was a straight arrow--though not exactly the sharpest one in the quiver. Then his girlfriend's mafioso father threw him into an experimental cryogenic sleep chamber--and forgot to leave a wak...



  • Dave Gross
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    TALBOT USKEVREN The second son of the Uskevren family fights a deadly battle within himself. Like most young men of his station, Talbot spends his days honing his swordfighting skills and, unlike the others, practicing the art of acting. Now, T...



  • Ken Wharton

    Cut off from Earth for more than a century, the inhabitants of the colony planet of Mandala have evolved their own unique society, a culture that could be turned upside down by the forthcoming arrival of thousands of new colonists from their home pla...



  • Stephen D. Sullivan

    The last book in the Clan War series, The Lion will generate a great deal of interest. All the great clan heroes from the six previous books play critical roles in this novel. This book provides an exciting conclusion that is eagerly anticipated by f...



  • Trisha Baker

    Psychologist Meghann O'Neill specializes in treating abused women and children and is also a vampire, created by a sadistic creature named Simon Baldevar, who has now come back seeking revenge by murdering her patients, but Meghann refuses to play hi...



  • Graham Masterton

    Two young girls are haunted by the spirit of their dead sister.
    Little Peggy Buchanan is dead, drowned in the family swimming pool on an icy winter day. When her sisters recreate her image in the snow, they have no idea of the eerie forces they ...



  • S.L. Viehl

    Having freed themselves from the Hsktskt slave traders, Cherijo and her husband, Duncan, wanted to start looking for a nice, quiet part of the universe where Cherijo's Creator, Joseph Grey Veil, wouldn't find them. But Joseph Grey Veil never gives up...



  • T.M. Wright

    Elmo Land was just a young man when he first met the strange and enigmatic Regina Watson. He’d heard she was crazy, that she kept a white-faced boy in her back room, but Elmo was drawn to her -- even though he knew there was something not right abo...



  • Mack Maloney

    Earth has become the center of the galaxy--a vast militaristic empire governed by an extended family of near-immortals who rule with brutal efficiency and stern repression. In nearly two millennia, no one has dared oppose their will. Except for on...



  • Lauralee Bliss

    When Jim Richards lost his wife and their unborn child to a sniper's bullet, he also lost something else: his precious faith. After a year, the only thing colder than the murderer's trail is Jim Richards' heart. When journalist Leah Hamilton requests...



  • Taylor James

    The Great War has recently ended, and in the contiuing border conflicts, Elena's home city of Smyna has fallen. Placed on a refugee ship with her sister Sophia, Elena is accidentally pushed overboard and left alone at sea. She cries out to her Lord--...



  • Marilou Flinkman

    Emily Goodman feels trapped in her Connecticut hometown. As the nineteenth century dawns, the country is growing westward, and Emily's sister is moving with husband's family to western New York to cust a new home out of the wilderness. Jonathan Mille...



  • Janet Spaeth

    Abbey knows exactly what she wants from life, and she's meeting each goal on schedule. As the successful manager of a busy store, with plans to return to school for her MBA, Abbey's already well on her way. Whatever happens after that, she's quite ce...



  • Anna Adams

    For a parent, life gets easier once your kid's in college -- right? Once she hears the three little words "Mom, I'm pregnant," Caroline Talbot Manning knows just how wrong that statement is. True, Shelly's boyfriend wants to do...



  • Judith Bowen

    They met ten years ago, and they've been friends ever since. Zoey, Charlotte, and Lydia. At their last reunion, they all accepted a challenge: look up your first love. Find out what happened to him, what kind of man he became. Since Zoey's spendin...



  • Kylie Brant

    Walker James felt a rush of adrenaline when he was assigned to infiltrate a terrorist compound and discover the location of a deadly virus. However, the brazenly sexy spy was incensed to learn he would be partnered with Jasmine LeBarr on this perilou...



  • Carol Grace

    Anne Sheridan would never have missed her best friend's wedding. It was the flowers she couldn't handle. And after taking one too many antihistamines, the allergy-ridden bridesmaid found herself being carried off by dashing groomsman Sheik Rafik Haru...



  • Valerie Hansen

    NEIGHBORLY LOVE Single dad Zac Frazier arrived in the close-knit town of Serenity expecting little more than a fresh start. But he never counted on having his wounded heart rejuvenated by his son's bubbly preschool teacher, who lived a few houses ...



  • Jillian Hart

    Linnea didn't dare dream of her future. Though she happily cared for her elderly mother, she secretly yearned for more. But no man, especially not one as fine as Seth Gatlin, could ever love a woman with a life as tainted as her own...! Seth's hea...



  • Doris Johnson

    June Saxon is determined to rebuild her life after a treacherous business partner cheated her out of her small inheritance. With a challenging, once-in-a-lifetime international job just within her reach, she certainly doesn't need handsome businessma...



  • Susan Kearney

    HE WOULD PROTECT HER WITH HIS LIFE... Architect Alexandra Golden insisted she didn't need the bodyguard her brother, Jake, had hired. Surely the papers Jake had sent weren't worth killing her for. Anyway, could she trust the handsome stranger? Sur...



  • Mindy Neff

    The Sheriff Surrenders He guarded his town with an eagle eye...but even Sheriff Cheyenne Bodine couldn't save himself from the outrageous Shotgun Ridge matchmakers. Seems they'd "rented" his house to lovely surrogate mom-to-be Emily Vincent. And w...



  • Anne Stuart

    Two men -- different as Night and Day... Michael Blackheart: The illegitimate son of a legendary cat burglar, Michael is going to steal the world's most valuable private collection, right out from under the noses of the rich and famous -- and beat...



  • Laura Van Wormer

    Sally Harrington is back in New York and this time the smart young journalist has found a dead body in the trunk of her rental car, a lovesick college intern on her doorstep and a group of crazed assassins hot on her heels. And did we mention the mob...



  • Gayle Wilson

    Two men -- different as Night and Day... Michael Blackheart: The illegitimate son of a legendary cat burglar, Michael is going to steal the world's most valuable private collection, right out from under the noses of the rich and famous -- and beat...



  • Patricia Cabot

    Lady Caroline Linford is horrified to discover... her fiance, the Marquis of Winchilsea, in the arms of another woman. Unfortunately, Victorian society considers such masculine peccadilloes a trifle; canceling their imminent wedding would be unthi...



  • Nancy Thayer

    A secret in a woman’s past returns to change her life forever in this riveting novel from New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer. Ambitious, brilliant, and engaged to a wonderful guy, Kelly MacLeod feels like her dreams are coming true w...



  • Larry Brooks

    THE GAME ...is a weeklong retreat. It's located in a remote region of northern California. It's designed to build teamwork, establish trust, and increase awareness. THE PLAYERS ...are three ambitious executives -- one woman and two men, each pre...



  • Reed Farrel Coleman

    Recently retired due to a freak accident, NYPD officer Moe Prager is lost. In pain and without the job he loves, Moe relunctantly settles on the notion of going into the wine business with his brother. When a suburban college student vanishes off the...