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  • Emma's Orphans

    Loree Lough

    Emma Wright knows the loneliness of being an orphan. Maybe that's why her Maryland home seems to attract children left parentless by accident or by the recent Civil War. It is hard to care and provide for them on a nurse's salary, and finding Christi...

  • First Victory

    Scott G. Gier

    INVASION ALERT! The murderous alien force tore into hyperlight drive on the heels of an interstellar peace-seeking voyage. The creatures were determined to find the humans' home planet. Their first conquest? The beautiful, Earthlike Genellan. L...

  • Night In Eden

    Candice Proctor

    Bryony Wentworth's life is shattered when she is unjustly accused and sentenced to indentured servitude in New South Wales. Broken in body - but not in spirit - she fights for light, and for her life, wanting no part of the man who would save her, Ca...

  • The List

    Steve Martini

    Steve Martini turns his talents on the seductive world of entertainment, where a lawyer-turned-novelist has concocted the ultimate scheme to outwit the biggest players in New York and Hollywood. Nothing will stop her rise to the top. And nothing will...

  • Halloween Rain

    Christopher Golden; Nancy Holder

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

  • Brian Boru

    Morgan Llywelyn

    One thousand years ago, during the Viking Age, an extraordinary young man was born in Ireland. His people, plagued by warfare, were weary not only from the Vikings' brutal raids along the coast, but also from the continuous warring among local chieft...

  • Slocum and the Comanche Rescue

    Jake Logan

    Slocum is sent to rescue Myra McChristian from her Comanche captors but ends up rescuing two women and must return them to their families, if he does not make a mess of whole situation in the process. Original....

  • Lady on the Run

    J.R. Roberts

    Beautiful, spirited, and good with a gun, Jill Church seems like a woman out of every man's dreams. But knowing her is turning out to be Clint Adams's real-life nightmare. There's a price on the lady's lovely head, and gunmen are coming from miles ar...

  • Blood Rage

    David Thompson

    No pioneer knew the wilderness like the legendary Davy Crockett. His curiosity and wanderlust always kept him exploring, seeking new lands and new adventure. But sometimes his curiosity led Davy and his old friend Flavius into more trouble than they ...

  • Longarm and the Lady Faire

    Tabor Evans

    ALL'S FAIRE IN LOVE AND WAR Janet Faire was Longarm's first love. So sweet. So gentle. So loving. She was the last person Longarm figured on seeing in a one-horse Colorado town. But before she and Longarm have a chance to make up for lost time, some...

  • Pecos Death

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo must decide whether the gorgeous Ivy Cambridge is really an innocent, wealthy woman who needs protection from the desperadoes of New Mexico, or a seductive schemer with a hidden agenda of ambition and greed. Original....

  • Wild Masquerade

    Lisa Bingham

    Though the most sensible of the Pegigrue sisters, Constance has long harbored a romantic dream of working in the theater. But she never expected that a string of disasters would leave her stranded in New York -- and in debt to scandalously successful...

  • Here's Lookin' at You

    Marcia Evanick

    Of all the women in all the world, she walked into his dreams .... Morgan De Witt lead postponed his own happiness to ensure his sister's joy, but now that he was ready to take a bride, he didn't know where to look! Years ago a teenage Maddie Andr...

  • To Love a Stranger

    Connie Mason

    MARRIAGE ON THE RUN Wild and rowdy Pierce Delaney and his two brothers are notorious throughout Dry Gulch, Montana, for attracting all sorts of trouble. Now a misunderstanding has left Pierce with a bullet in his back, forcing him to take refuge in ...

  • Mayhem & Miranda

    Carola Dunn

    There was an old woman...with a matchmaking plan that could turn a lady's life upside down! "Sir, you are no gentleman," were Miranda Carmichael's first words to Peter Daviot -- after he had the audacity to kiss her. Indeed, Peter ...

  • Midnight Blue

    Monica Jackson

    What will prevail... As campaign director of a family-owned cosmetics company, Jessica Sanders is a young woman on the way up. Her road turns rocky when she suddenly finds herself in the middle of a dynastic war. On one side is Tom Jordan, the compa...

  • Highland Secrets

    Amanda Scott

    Proud Highlander Diana Maclean refused to yield to the English king... or to any member of her family's enemy: the treacherous Clan Campbell. Instead, determined to free her imprisoned mother, she steals into a castle dungeon right under the nose of ...

  • Annie's Hero // By Magic Born

    Maggie Shayne

    WHEN A LOVE DIES Sweethearts since childhood, Annie and Richard shared an unparalleled love filled with tenderness, passion and joy. Until the tragic day Richard vanished --- presumed dead after a terrible car accident --- leaving his adoring wife p...

  • The Wager

    Rexanne Becnel
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    Louisiana: the enigmatic bayou, the moss-draped river trees, the ghostly city of New Orleans, a setting for devilish intrigue and dangerous love. Four talented authors who make their homes in this mysterious state conjure tales of three desperate wom...

  • Saving Sirena

    Susan Krinard
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    The way to a man's heart? Some say kindness, some say food, some say flirting, or being good. But when mortal ways miss the mark, casting spells can conjure up sparks... Save cat, get witch: When a rescued black cat turns into a beautiful, ever-so...

  • The Haunting of Sarah

    Anne Logan
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    Louisiana: the enigmatic bayou, the moss-draped river trees, the ghostly city of New Orleans, a setting for devilish intrigue and dangerous love. Four talented authors who make their homes in this mysterious state conjure tales of three desperate wom...

  • Mountain Bride

    Susan Sawyer

    The Dissolute .Nobleman Banished for his reckless ways, Lord. John Winslow embarks for the New World, and the colony of "Second Sons." With nothing but his tide and his wits, the handsome, arrogant Englishman must make a fresh beginning, and his f...

  • The Bargain

    Jane Ashford

    It's more than ridiculous, it's damned embarrassing and inconvenient...for a scientist with his reputation to be called in to get rid of a ghost. But when the Prince Regent summons Lord Alan Gresham to London to solve the mystery of a hauntin...

  • Yesterday's Gold

    Bobby Hutchinson

    With her wedding to Mr. Right only two weeks away, Hannah Gilmore had more on her mind than traveling to a ghost town. Yet there she was, driving her widowed mother, an incontinent poodle, and a bossy nurse through a torrential downpour. And just whe...

  • Murder and Misdeeds

    Joan Smith

    Another mystery and, perhaps, another chance at love . . . Once again the indomitable Berkeley Brigade, a group of daring young aristocrats, returns to the scene of the crime--and to affairs of the heart. As the dashing Marquess of Luten and the beau...

  • Hawk's Lady

    Catherine Archibald

    Haughty young Kaylyn D'Arcy only wanted what was best for her little sister, Celia, when she traveled to the imposing fortress of Hawkhurst. For the brother of Hawkhurst's dark lord had wooed Celia, and Kayln was determined to make him do the honora...

  • No Regrets

    Pat Warren

    In a small town, a killer stalks ... Insurance investigator Ben Whalen has a tough job to do in the small town of Riverview on Michigan's upper peninsula. Looking into the deaths of two longtime friends insured for millions, he was a stranger to b...

  • The Secrets Within

    Emma Darcy

    A mother's lust for power... A daughter's desire for revenge. Eleanor Vandelier -- a woman of invincible strength and ruthless determination. She controls two of Australia's most prominent vineyards. Her family has been sacrificed in her lust for...

  • A London Season

    Patricia Bray

    A Country Miss With eight siblings and a bankrupt estate, Jane Segwick happily accepted her aunt's invitation to a London Season. Here was a chance to find a wealthy husband and get them out of the suds. But Jane's blunt country ways were considere...

  • A Marriage of Convenience

    Barbara Allister

    Between Two Fires Beautiful and spirited Jane Stanfield had made her choice between her two childhood friends, the dashing Lord Langston and the devoted Stephen Middleton. She had chosen to listen to Langston's impassioned proposal and turned ...

  • Foolish Fancy

    Dawn Lindsey

    The Irresistible Earl Miss Frances Dean, known to friends and family as Fancy, had very firm ideas about a woman's rightful place in the world. As far as she was concerned, a woman should be educated, independent, and never, ever bow to the ty...

  • Lord Wyland Takes a Wife

    Joy Reed

    Forsaking All Others... She had thought him an incorrigible wastrel, a man deserving of her contempt. Instead, Mary Grant found the new Lord Wyland to be fair, just--and handsome. He offered her everything she wanted to stay on at Wyland Manor to he...

  • Raspberry Island

    Willa Hix

    From the peaceful mountains of the Rockies to the Eastern windswept shores, there are small towns where gentle hearts can find a home -- and where true love is always right around the corner... Jenna Guildenbergh has known little excitement in her...

  • Winter Dreams

    Trana Mae Simmons

    Before she gets married, Laura wants to race her huskies across Alaska, and hires Sandy, in desperate need of a job, who accepts the position to train her dogs and realizes that she is his kindred spirit. Laura Goodman wants one last opportunity t...

  • Shadows of Camelot

    Quinn Taylor Evans

    He is the secret son of Merlin...separated from his true family by time and treachery, heir to a magic that belongs in a shining moment when the earth was good, green, and perfect, when there was a place called Camelot... Truan Monroe was raised a...

  • Crystal Memories

    Ginny Aiken

    Winona, Minnesota, 1997. Amelia Baldwin was thrilled to be costuming a vaudeville revival at a beautiful old theater. She loved clothing and homes and things from another time. But Amelia had no idea that she herself would soon become a part of the p...

  • The Nicest Guy in America

    Angela Benson

    THE DATING GAME When fun-loving Kimberla Washington, writer for a top women's magazine, is assigned a contest to find the perfect man, she isn't exactly thrilled. She knows from experience that he doesn't exist! But the man who wins the contest ju...

  • The Enchanting

    Sandra Davidson

    No man can resist her bewitching spell. But Lady Raena Caldwell has been raised among people who would never accept her special gifts. Taught to hide her sensual powers, she is suddenly called upon to captivate and wed Sir Valor Godwin in order to fu...

  • Long Ago and Far Away

    Marylyle Rogers

    In Ireland of 1127, the Fairy Kingdom is more than a beautiful tale to lovely young Hildie. It's the realm of Kieron, whom Hildie loves above all mortals. As a child she rambled at his side, listening with breathless wonder to his stories of magic an...

  • The Perfect Bride

    Eileen Putman

    Haunted by Love Amanda Fitzhugh was now far too levelheaded to be seduced by men's sweet promises or silken caresses. Handsome, heartless Lord Ramsey had once shattered her lofty notions of romance and brought her most firmly down to earth, where ...

  • The Reckoning

    Jeanette Baker

    WHEN LOVE DEMANDS AN ANSWER, WHEN THE HEART CANNOT BE DENIED, THERE IS A TIME AND A PLACE FOR...THE RECKONING Lady Alexandra Winthrop, the toast of London and beloved granddaughter of the Duke of Leicester, was an Indian captive. She had daringly ...

  • Beloved Captive

    Lauren Wilde

    Isabel trembled in fear when the Comanches raided her hacienda and stole her away. Held tightly by a young warrior astride his horse, she was terror-struck by what awaited her in the New Mexican desert...until she saw her abductor's face and a sh...

  • All Through the Night

    Connie Brockway

    A WOMAN COMPELLED In the glittering world of Regency England, Anne Wilder played a dangerous game. A widowed lady by day, by night she became a masked thief preying on society's elite. She roved high above London's black rooftops, compelled by pha...

  • Light My Fire

    Donna Kauffman

    He was 6' 7" of pure danger, in jeans, boots, and a reckless, knowing grin .... T. J. Delahaye rescued people for a living, but when he tumbled down a mountain to help Jenna King, he fell hard for the stubborn goddess whose strength and determinat...

  • Pagan Desires

    Veronica Ashley

    The Swan The daughter of a famous seer and a Byzantine military commander, Phaedra has made the swan her emblem as she creates potions rumored to drive men mad with desire. All the city knows of her elixirs, but few know her secret: she possesses ...

  • Firelight

    Linda Sandifer

    From the moment she saw the fiery red stallion on the cliffs near her reservation, Phoenix Shapell knew it was the supernatureal Fire Horse of her dreams. But while the spirited half Navajo beauty set out to tame the elusive animal, an angry flint-ha...

  • Chasing Rainbows

    Victoria Lynne

    SHE TRIED TO ESCAPE... The crowd cheered as the bandit was hanged--until his hat flew off, revealing the truth: the condemned man was a woman. But the noose was loose, the rope was frayed, and within seconds Outlaw Annie fell to the ground, rescued ...

  • The Devil's Bride

    Penelope Stratton

    'TWAS A MARRIAGE ALMOST MADE IN HEAVEN... Even before Lord Rupert Glennister arrives in Bath, he is the subject of dark and devilish rumors. But after he steals a kiss from the virtuous Calvina Bracewell, dreadful repercussions ensue. With nowhere...

  • Spellbound

    Jo Ann Ferguson
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    GOBLINS, GHOSTIES, AND A MAGICAL EVE TO FALL IN LOVE... The frost is on the pumpkins and the harvest moon shines bright when Halloween brings romance to the London townhouses and grand estates of Regency England. Now lords and ladies meet to make ...

  • The Soul of Indiscretion

    Karla Hocker
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    GOBLINS, GHOSTIES, AND A MAGICAL EVE TO FALL IN LOVE... The frost is on the pumpkins and the harvest moon shines bright when Halloween brings romance to the London townhouses and grand estates of Regency England. Now lords and ladies meet to make ...

  • Moonlight Masquerade

    Joy Reed
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    GOBLINS, GHOSTIES, AND A MAGICAL EVE TO FALL IN LOVE... The frost is on the pumpkins and the harvest moon shines bright when Halloween brings romance to the London townhouses and grand estates of Regency England. Now lords and ladies meet to make ...

  • Everything She Does Is Magick

    Maggie Shayne
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    The way to a man's heart? Some say kindness, some say food, some say flirting, or being good. But when mortal ways miss the mark, casting spells can conjure up sparks... When a trio of matchmaking witches chooses unsuspecting little Nathan McBride...

  • License to Thrill

    Stephanie Bancroft

    If his touch was as lethal as his smile, she was certain to swoon in his arms .... James Donovan's dossier might have read "Untouchable, unpredictable, and hard to hold," but when the handsome British agent faced the curator receiving the historic...

  • Scarlet Lady

    Sandra Chastain

    "If you win, the money's yours, but if I win, I get you ...." He ran his riverboat casino like the rogue he'd been named for, but Rhett Butler Montana wasn't prepared for the night a vision in crimson dared him to play her for everything he had! K...

  • Stray Hearts

    Annie Kimberlin

    Lovesick Melissa March was always more comfortable around her patients. As a busy veterinarian, she was used to wagging tails, sloppy kisses, and unconditional love. But when it came to men, she knew to trust her instincts anymore - they'd led he...

  • To Mend A Spell

    Lisa Higdon
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    The way to a man's heart? Some say kindness, some say food, some say flirting, or being good. But when mortal ways miss the mark, casting spells can conjure up sparks... When a young would-be witch carelessly places a curse on a handsome sea c...

  • A Spell of Mists and Roses

    Amy Elizabeth Saunders
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    The way to a man's heart? Some say kindness, some say food, some say flirting, or being good. But when mortal ways miss the mark, casting spells can conjure up sparks... Banished to a cursed castle, an arrogant nobleman seeks the help of a beautif...

  • Loving Spirits

    Lark Eden
    in

    A collection of spine-tingling, heartwarming romance treats sweetened with a touch of the paranormal includes the story of a skeptical reporter who investigates a New Orleans medium and imbibes a mystical love stronger than any potion. Original....

  • When Midnight Comes

    Lori Handeland
    in

    A collection of spine-tingling, heartwarming romance treats sweetened with a touch of the paranormal includes the story of a skeptical reporter who investigates a New Orleans medium and imbibes a mystical love stronger than any potion. Original....

  • The Shadow King

    Stobie Piel
    in

    A collection of spine-tingling, heartwarming romance treats sweetened with a touch of the paranormal includes the story of a skeptical reporter who investigates a New Orleans medium and imbibes a mystical love stronger than any potion. Original....

  • Cat Magic

    Lynda Trent
    in

    A collection of spine-tingling, heartwarming romance treats sweetened with a touch of the paranormal includes the story of a skeptical reporter who investigates a New Orleans medium and imbibes a mystical love stronger than any potion. Original....

  • Out of the Night

    Deborah Martin
    in

    Louisiana: the enigmatic bayou, the moss-draped river trees, the ghostly city of New Orleans, a setting for devilish intrigue and dangerous love. Four talented authors who make their homes in this mysterious state conjure tales of three desperate wom...

  • The Monk

    Meagan McKinney
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    Louisiana: the enigmatic bayou, the moss-draped river trees, the ghostly city of New Orleans, a setting for devilish intrigue and dangerous love. Four talented authors who make their homes in this mysterious state conjure tales of three desperate wom...

  • To Marry a British Lord

    Judith O'Brien

    Now, with her signature mix of love and laughter, Judith O'Brien crosses new boundaries by sending a lively belle from the war-torn South into the dazzling world of Victorian England's aristocracy--where she intends to wed, if not wisely, at least ve...

  • Heart of Alaska

    Kathleen Sage

    Innocence Lost... Bet Goldman has known Jesse Wheeler all her life. When she was a crippled child, he taught her to ride his stallion, Firestriker, giving her the strength to walk for the first time. When she was a young girl, they shared Christma...

  • Jade

    Norah Hess

    THE RANCHER Kane Roemer headed up into the Wyoming mountains hell-bent on fulfilling his heart's desire. There, amid the majestic peaks, the rugged horseman fell in love at first sight -- with a white stallion that had no equal anywhere in the West....

  • Gold as the Morning Sun

    Sylvia Halliday

    The Civil War is over, and the West is booming. Callie Southgate's father has brought his family to the rough-and-ready town of Dark Creek, where fortune beckons to those brave enough to follow...and where Callie's future has been bartered to...

  • Captain Jack's Woman

    Stephanie Laurens

    April 1811. They meet in a clash of swords, drenched in the moonlight of Britain's rugged eastern coast: Captain Jack, his handsome features etched in silver and shadow; his powerful physique compelling "Kit" Cranmer to surrender. He is her dream...

  • Ritual Sins

    Anne Stuart

    A WOUNDED WOMAN Rachel Connery is a woman with a mission--to destroy Luke Bardell, the charismatic man who seduced millions of dollars from her dying mother, thus robbing Rachel of her inheritance. Now Rachel wants revenge--and she's willing to e...

  • The Inscription

    Pam Binder

    UNDER THE MIST-SHROUDED WATERS OF A SCOTTISH LOCH, AN IMMORTAL WARRIOR FINDS THE WOMAN OF HIS DREAMS-AND A LOVE THAT DEFIES THE AGES. In a stunning debut novel, Pam Binder evokes the Highland mysteries of Loch Ness to create a shimmering love stor...

  • Perfidia

    Judith Rossner

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar -- the troubling story of a mother and daughter whose hostility and co-dependence may result in their deaths.In Perfidia, Maddy yearns desperately for the approval and love of her ...

  • Double Edge

    Dennis Etchison

    While working on a docudrama about Lizzie Bordon, Jenny Marlow's in-laws are inexplicably murdered, a black wreath is sent to her door, a channeler sees a frightening vision, and death begins to stalk the people in Jenny's life. Original....

  • Terror Spin

    Don Pendleton

    UNHOLY WAR A diehard extremist group, the Spear of Allah, has a grim record that includes death and destruction throughout Europe. But now they've brought their carnage to America, and have effectively thrown down the gauntlet. After heinous blood...

  • When Shadows Fall

    Brian Scott Smith

    Martin doesn't believe his aunt's sudden death was an accident, and he and his buddies are determined to find the truth. But when he starts sneaking around the house of his aunt's friends, he witnesses a blood-drenched satanic ritual with a young gir...

  • Quicker Than the Eye

    Ray Bradbury

    The internationally acclaimed author of The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury is a magician at the height of his powers, displaying his sorcerer's skill with twenty-one remarkable stories that run the gamut fro...

  • Alien Bounty

    William C. Dietz

    McCADE'S AN INTERSTELLAR BOUNTY HUNTER -- AND THIS TIME HIS QUEST IS THE HOLIEST RELIC IN THE GALAXY... For years only the thinnest barrier kept the II Ronnian Empire from launching full-scale war on mankind. Now that barrier is about to crumble: ...

  • The Wayward Knights

    Roland J. Green
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The heroic conclusion to the tale of Sir Pirvan the Wayward! Despite his humble beginnings, Sir Pirvan has managed to ascend to the highest orders of the knights of Solamnia. Along the way, he has become known as the founder of an obscure group of...

  • The Seraphim Rising

    Elisabeth Devos

    HERALDS FROM THE MESSIAH OR HARBINGERS OF A DOOMED MILLENNIUM? Most of the world wanted to believe the six special visitors were the messengers of God. The Seraphim themselves said they had come to open the gateway to paradise. There were, however...

  • Caesar's Bicycle

    John Barnes

    In order to stop the alien Closers, who have waged war on a million alternate Earths, private eye Mark Strang gathers his assortment of weaponry and confronts a mysterious closing of the Timelines. Original....

  • Elf Magic

    Martin H. Greenberg

    A collection of eighteen original tales by such writers as Jane Yolen, John DeChancie, and Rosemary Edghill features elves both mischievous and malicious, sprightly and regal, humorous and tragic, who enmesh unwary mortals in magic. Original....

  • The Stranger

    Eric James Fullilove

    In a troubled future, the search for redemption may carry the stiffest price of all.

    A teenage boy is found dead in the Los Angeles city subway with no identity--no prints, no records, nothing on file--an unusual, fatal fugitive from the digit...

  • You Only Die Twice

    Ryan Hughes

    Lo Wang: The Shadow Warrior. The darkness made whole, the night made flesh. Master of all martial arts. Master of all explosive weapons. These talents are of little use to Lo Wang, trapped beneath the rubble of a collapsed mountain. As his air and...

  • A Thousand Words for Stranger

    Julie E. Czerneda

    MIND-BLOCKED! Ambushed by unknown assailants, cut off from her escort, and on the run with no memory of who she was, what she was doing on the world known as Auord, or why she was driven by a compulsion to find a specific ship and head for an unkn...

  • Headhunters

    Mel Odom

    Jack Slater and his Shadowrunner team are hired to penetrate the high-tech security around a funeral home and retrieve the corpse of a double agent--a hot property that holds the key to an assassination. Original....

  • Retribution

    Bill McCay

    The survivors of the tragic war on Abydos stagger back to Earth through a smashed StarGate," through a storm of treachery, greed, defeat, and bitterness. Some are prisoners. Some are outcasts. All know the final war has yet to come. The titanic, p...

  • The Merro Tree

    Katie Waitman

    In the far reaches of our galaxy, the artist will face the ultimate censorship. Mikk of Vyzania, the galaxy's greatest performance master, commands stages on all the myriad worlds. His sublime, ethereal performances are unforgettable, drawing on t...

  • The Last Wizard

    Simon Hawke

    ARMIES OF THE DARK The Runestones' Avatars--Wyrdrune, Kira, Angelo, and Slade--are finally backed by the entire military in their war against the necromantic Dark Ones ... but it may be too little, and far too late. For on a dragon-infested pea...

  • The Mines of Behemoth

    Michael Shea

    Shipwrecked en route to their new job working in the perilous Costard sap mine, Nifft the Lean and his partner, Barnar Hammer-Hand, join forces with Bunt, who offers them a lucrative reward if they can bring him some of the precious fluid from the mi...

  • The Forever Man

    Carolyn Davidson

    Tate Montgomery Needed A New Life And Johanna Patterson was the kind of woman who could make him leave the past behind. But, how would he ever convince this reclusive spinster to open up her heart to him and his boys? It seemed to Johanna that ...

  • The Lawman's Legacy

    Phyllis Halldorson

    THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T MARRY Police chief Rick McBride knew right off the bat what kind of woman Jodi Hopkins was -- an earth mother, the type who would shower a man with love and want tons of kids. The kind of woman he had once wanted for himself...

  • The Kidnapped Bride

    Metsy Hingle

    SHANGHAIED FROM THE CHURCH? Slung over the broad shoulders of her ex-fiance as he kidnapped her from the church was not the way Lorelei Mason had envisioned her wedding day to her new fiance. Jack Storm had left her at the altar once; now he had ...

  • Clayton's Made-Over Mrs.

    Sandra Steffen

    THE BACHELOR: Rugged rancher and single dad Clayton Carson. This time around he was determined to marry a woman who couldn't manipulate his heartstrings. THE BRIDE: Diner owner Melody "Mel" McCully. She was danged tired of being overlooked by the ...

  • His Double, Her Trouble

    Donna Sterling

    Tonight's the Night Brianna Devon had romance in mind when she planned Evan Rowland's homecoming surprise--an intimate party for two. The surprise, however, was on Brianna. Too late she discovered she was in bed not with her high school sweetheart...

  • Spur-Of-The-Moment Marriage

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    A Whiplash Wedding Montana Millionaire Max McKendrick had a hankering for arranging whirlwind romances for his heirs. As his attorney, Cisco Kidd had executed the old man's plans with the precision of a master matchmaker. But the cowboy counselor ...

  • Almost a Family

    Marilyn Tracy

    WANTED: THE PERFECT DAD The Smithton triplets had picked Texas Ranger Steve Kessler to marry their mom. But how could they bring a big-city lawman to a place like Almost? Write him about the "murder" in town! Widow Taylor Smithton was aghast at...

  • Holding on to Alex

    Margaret Way

    Beautiful, traitorous Alex Alexandra Ashton had idolized Scott McLaren when she had come to live on his family's Outback cattle station as a lonely, grief-stricken little girl. He had been so protective of her, so vital and achingly handsome, ...

  • Please Say "I Do"

    Karen Toller Whittenburg

    SHE'S DETERMINED TO MAKE IT THE WEDDING OF THE CENTURY. The Brewster wedding was to be the triumph of Hallie Berhardt's career. Never mind that the bride hadn't shown up and the groom couldn't be found. Never mind the hurricane warning. Or that t...

  • Mr. Wrong!

    Mary Anne Wilson

    Melanie Clark - is "setling down" and "growing up" - is starting to crave commitment - is learning to love "Mr. Perfect" Sam Harrison - doesn't ever want to - breaks out in hives at the thought - is definitely Mr. Wrong! It's been hard wo...

  • No Wife Required!

    Rebecca Winters

    She wanted a husband... Lacey West's biological clock wasn't so much ticking as sounding alarm bells. And then Max Jarvis moved in to her apartment block. Six feet two inches of prime bachelor--the perfect male, except for one thing... ...

  • Father and Child

    Rebecca York

    He found out he was a father... One glance at the doe-eyed girl in the photo melted the icy walls around Zeke Chambers's heart. Till then, he'd kept his past secret, his feelings hidden. But now he had to reach out -- for the help he needed to res...

  • Vengeance in Death

    J.D. Robb

    In a time when technology links the law and the lawless, predators and prey can be one and the same... He is an expert with the latest technology ... a madman with the mind of a genius and the heart of a killer. He quietly stalks his prey. Then h...

  • Wanted: Husband, Will Train

    Marie Ferrarella

    EVERY MAN HAS HIS PRICE...RIGHT? Her father's will was positively medieval! Blue blood Courtney Tamberlaine had to select a blue-collar spouse -- pronto -- or lose her huge inheritance. Luckily, right on the Tamberlaine estate was a raw, earth...

  • The Cowboy Who Broke the Mold

    Cathleen Galitz

    He Was Rough, Untamed...She Was Soft, Innocent An arrogant, blue-eyed, half Native American cowboy with an attitude who thought prim one-room schoolteacher Carrie Raben couldn't hack it in the wilds of Wyoming. Guess again, cowboy. Chaste Carrie ...

  • The Bachelor Next Door

    Katherine Garbera

    SINGLE MOM STUCK IN BATHTUB! Cass Gambrel groaned at the memory of Rafe Santini coming to the rescue! The infuriating man had freed her with a gleam in his eyes that said, "I'm interested ...but not in commitment." Well, Cass sure didn't need a ma...

  • The Lightkeeper

    Susan Wiggs

    Once, the sea took everything he loved... Jesse Morgan is a man hiding from the pain of his past, a man who has vowed never to give his heart again. Keeper of a remote lighthouse along a rocky and dangerous coast, he has locked himself away from e...

  • Just Jessie

    Lisette Belisle

    A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE The bride: Jessie Carlisle, twenty-three and never been kissed The groom: Bad boy Ben Harding The wedding: A sham...or was it? Ben knew that Jessie Carlisle would do anything to save her beloved Stone's End f...

  • Saving Susannah

    Beverly Bird

    A WOMAN... Widowed dad Joe Lapp needed help. A nanny for his children, a woman to soothe his soul. And when Kimberly Mancuso showed up on his doorstep, looking for her long-lost brothers, his prayers were answered.... A HOME... Kimberly's daught...

  • Angel with an Attitude

    Carly Bishop

    A five-hundred-year-old passion simmers on... As far as Angelo could figure, it must have been the sight of the orphaned baby that caused Isobel Avedon, his one true love, to turn irrevocably mortal. Isobel had always wanted a baby...his baby. ...

  • In the Arms of the Law

    Anne Marie Duquette

    The Silver Dollar Ranch, near Tombstone, Arizona Morgan Bodine takes pride in two things: being a rancher and being a lawman. He's part owner of the Silver Dollar Ranch; he's also Tombstone's acting sheriff. Jasentha Cliffwalker is proud of he...

  • He's Got His Daddy's Eyes

    Lois Faye Dyer

    HE HAD HIS DADDY'S EYES... but not his daddy's name. And for four long years lonesome cowboy Josh Hightower hadn't even known his son existed. But now he knew... It had been heartbreak enough when Sarah Drummond hightailed it out of town witho...

  • The Knight, the Waitress and the Toddler

    Arlene James

    DESPERATELY SEEKING SIR GALAHAD Attorney Edward White's reputation was rock solid: he was as reliable...and romantic...as granite. Until desperate, penniless heiress Laurel Heffington Miller sought protection for her secret son - and made mincemea...

  • The Heart of the Matter

    Muriel Jensen

    Take one junk-food-loving single father named Jason Warfield, who's decided -- strictly for the sake of his kids -- that he'd better change his ways. Add one slightly uptight nutritionist, Laura Price, who's trying to teach that absolutely infuriatin...

  • Beauty and the Beasts

    Janice Kay Johnson

    Veterinarian Dr. Eric Bergstrom -- a ladies' man if you want to put it kindly, a womanizer if you don't -- is interested in a new woman. He's volunteered his services at the local cat shelter she's involved with. He's even adop...

  • This Child Is Mine

    Janice Kaiser

    Sometimes love is Destiny... The fortune cookies at Madame Wu's Destiny House are special: their predictions come true! Three women's lives are affected; three new loves are born.... PAIN CAN BE THE MIDWIFE OF JOY. That's what ...

  • Ruby

    Ruth Langan

    The Town Sheriff and the Town Tease... Ruby Jewel was a flirt of the first order who flouted authority at every turn, but she couldn't charm her way past Marshall Quent Regan. Quent had vowed he'd make Hanging Tree's heartbreaker toe the line, eve...

  • Little Girl Lost

    Adrianne Lee

    Would she lose her little girl if she regained her memory? When they survived a fiery bus accident, Jane Dolan and her infant daughter were given a new beginning--and new memories. But five years later those memories were challenged when Jane saw ...

  • Long Southern Nights

    Heather MacAllister

    The days were long... Kyle Stuart was on the brink of disaster! His company was crumbling, his employees were planning a mutiny and he was shunned from polite society in Jeffersonville, Georgia, simply because he was born north of the Mason-Dixon li...

  • Verdict: Parenthood

    Jule McBride

    Years ago, seven mysterious matchmaking millionaires secretly started an adoption agency in Manhattan called Big Apple Babies... and now 'the sexiest man in Manhattan,' Grantham Hale, has become the overnight adoptive daddy of quadruplets and twi...

  • The Scandalous Return of Jake Walker // The Rebel's Return

    Myrna MacKenzie

    Re-issued by the author in ebook as - The Rebel's Return TOO GOOD TO FORGET He'd left the town of Misunderstood without a backward glance, his bad-boy reputation firmly set in stone. And as Tess Buchanan had watched him drive away, a...

  • Accidental Roommates

    Charlotte Maclay

    How to lose your virginity... At twenty-eight, getting down and dirty should be real simple--except if you're a good girl from an excruciatingly small town. Why, Hannah Jansen even lives with her father and helps him run the local hardware store!...

  • The Mysterious Stranger

    Susan Mallery

    AMNESIA? From the moment the gorgeous, sexy stranger washed up on shore, millionaire Jarret Wilkenson was suspicious. Since he was one of the most eligible bachelors around, women were forever using strange antics to propose. And while this captiv...

  • The Fake Fiance!

    Leigh Michaels

    Bride versus Groom! Ridge Coltrain and Morea Landon disagreed about everything! And, being lawyers, they were experts at arguing. Well, they had plenty to argue about now -- wedding arrangements, prenuptial agreement. And the engagement wasn't ev...

  • Is There a Husband in the House?

    Lynn Miller

    Dinah Lane is desperate. She needs a husband and she needs one fast! There's no other way for the unwed mother to keep her baby and her job as the first female executive in such a straight-laced, small-town bank. Telling everyone she's engaged, Dinah...

  • Wife by Contract

    Raye Morgan

    BRIDE? WHAT BRIDE? Joe Camden came home to Alaska to find a bride and two adorable kids on his doorstep. Chynna Sinclair claimed she and her brood were his mail-order family, but when Joe tried to explain that it was his brother who'd sent for a ...

  • Daddy Woke Up Married

    Julianna Morris

    The unexpected wife! There were holes in the wedding pictures where his face should be, and his wife lived in a separate apartment! Something about Nick Carleton's marriage was wrong. Unfortunately, he had lost his memory and didn't remember what r...

  • The Lieutenant's Lady

    Rae Muir

    Lieutenant Matthew Hull was dashing, tall and heartbreakingly handsome. He was also the son of a disreputable lady. And Tildy MacIntryre knew the escape he offered her from a loveless marriage led straight into a snare of passion that no true lad...

  • The Officer and the Renegade

    Helen R. Myers

    TELL ME YOU'RE INNOCENT! Taylor Benning's urgent plea seared Hugh Blackstone's heart. All the spurned half-breed had to do was admit he'd been wrongly accused. He knew the right words would prompt her to throw her arms around him, maybe even win h...

  • The Patient Nurse

    Diana Palmer

    MR. OCTOBER THE DOCTOR: Ramon Cortero HIS PATIENT: Noreen Kensington, nurse with a serious condition of heartache. REMEDY: A dose of old-fashioned loving! Ramon's stormy past with Noreen made him the one man she didn't want rescuing her, now ...

  • Convincing Jamey

    Marilyn Pappano

    THE NEW GIRL ON THE BLOCK When Karen Montez blithely announced her plans to save the neighborhood, bartender Jamey O'Shea knew that driving her away was his only option. Everyone here was beyond salvation--and his lovely neighbor reminded him of e...

  • Wooing Wanda

    Gwen Pemberton

    Woo or Walk... Wanda Rockman wanted her husband back. Not that he'd actually left. He'd just become a stick-in-the-mud, married to his work. Nevertheless, she had a plan to retrieve the man she'd fallen in love with. Unfortunately, Wanda's sche...

  • Love, Marriage and Family 101

    Anne Peters

    PARENT TEACHER MEETING... Overworked teacher Hally McKenzie vowed that this year she would finally lose those five extra pounds and learn a new language--that is, until the gorgeous single dad of a troubled student turned to her for help. OR MARR...

  • Prime Suspect

    Maggie Price

    MAN OF ICE It was rumored that Lieutenant Michael Ryan had ice running through his veins. A dedicated detective, he never let emotion interfere with his job. But his unwavering discipline was shaken by one beguiling--and beautiful--suspect, a woma...

  • The Midnight Rider Takes a Bride

    Christine Rimmer

    DO YOU HAVE TO GET MARRIED, ADORA BEAUDINE? That's what all the town gossips were asking--and what else could she expect? Ladylike Adora was supposed to settle down to a life of solid respectability, and instead she was about to say "I do" to a mo...

  • Hidden Star

    Nora Roberts

    THE DAME WITH THE DIAMOND She couldn't remember a thing, not even who she was. But it was clear Bailey James was in trouble. Big trouble! And she desperately needed Cade Parris to help her live long enough to find out just what kind. The moment...

  • The Bride Rode West

    Kristine Rolofson

    Emilie Grayson was through with men! On her wedding day Emilie had caught her fiance in a torrid embrace. So she hightailed it west and landed up as a housekeeper for a rancher and his three daughters. She, a city girl who knew a lot more about or...

  • Before the Fall

    Patricia Rosemoor

    SEVEN SINS Conquer the sin and find true love. At least, that's the theory. But would it hold true? Or would these sins live up to their deadly billing? Could love be her salvation? Indicted for a crime she didn't commit, Angela Dragon is dete...

  • Michael: the Defender

    JoAnn Ross

    Michael O'Malley: Responsible, determined, loyal. As a private detective, Michael was used to taking care of people. No one needed his help more or wanted it less than... Lorelei Longstreet. Someone wanted to hurt the beautiful movie star whom Mic...

  • To Tame a Warrior's Heart

    Sharon Schulze

    The Lady Catrin Had Survived A Nightmarish Past Now her willful ways had plunged her headlong into danger -- and into the arms of Nicholas Talbot, a man whose very presence stirred up emotions she had long thought buried forever. He Alone Could...

  • MacNamara's Woman

    Alicia Scott

    THE SURVIVOR Ten years ago, Tamara Allistair learned that she had no one to rely upon except herself. Now her existence was threatened again--but this time there was someone to lend her a hand. Her protector? C. J. MacNamara, self-appointed resc...

  • Just One Night

    Kathryn Shay

    Zachery Sloan was no ordinary architect. His innovative designs had earned him the reputation of rebel. The media always had a field day wondering whether Sloan's projects pushed the boundaries too far. Annie Montgomery had married Zach straight ...

  • The Princess Gets Engaged

    Tracy Sinclair

    IF FAIRY TALES COULD COME TRUE... She was a dead ringer for a runaway princess. So American tourist Megan Delaney was hired to impersonate the missing monarch - at her arranged engagement to a real live prince! Riches galore would be Megan's durin...

  • After Dark

    Bette Ford

    THEY WERE ON OPPOSING TEAMS From the moment she met him at an exclusive Detroit restaurant, Taylor Hendricks knew Donald Williams was far from ordinary. The basketball superstar and prominent businessman was tall, commanding, and too gorgeous to be ...

  • Promise Me

    Robyn Amos

  • Embrace the Wind

    Chelley Kitzmiller

    Ginny Sinclair moves to Tucson to help her father start a newspaper and finds herself drawn to the handsome but feared Bonner Kincaid, a half-Apache man intent on avenging his people, who saves her from a violent skirmish. Arizona Territory. Tucs...

  • The Offer

    Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader: Phillip Mercerault and Sabrina Eversleigh first appeared in AN HONORABLE OFFER, a Regency romance published in 1981. The title has been changed to THE OFFER to reflect its new status as an historical romance, and the novel has been re...

  • Harper's Bride

    Alexis Harrington

    A WIFE FOR SALE... Stung by humiliation and fear, Melissa Logan realized she had been sold to pay her husband's debt. Marrying Coy Logan to escape her wretched homelife had been a terrible mistake. Worse off than ever, she was penniless with a n...

  • Love in a Chinese Garden

    Rachel May

    An adaptation of a medieval Chinese love story follows two young lovers who must overcome the obstacles of an ambitious mother, an arranged marriage, separation, and danger to find true happiness together. he news of a marauding group of mutinous...

  • Sisters At Heart

    Susan Bowden

    FAMILY REUNION Anne Barry Dysan hasn't seen her father Ryan Barry, in twenty-eight years -- since her mother's death, when he walked away, taking her sister with him and leaving Anne to be raised by and aunt. Now she has written to him at Hammer...

  • Duty and Dishonor

    Merline Lovelace

    A lifetime of duty..A moment of dishonor...Duty and Dishonor A LIFETIME OF DUTY Julia Endicott, daughter of the legendary Iron Man Endicott, has gone from Army brat to Air Force Colonel. Her highest goal will be met with a long-awaited promotion ...

  • Three Brides, No Groom

    Debbie Macomber

    All dressed up with nowhere to go... They were college friends with plans to become blushing brides. Gretchen had the beauty, Maddie the brains...and Carol the bounce--she was a cheerleader, after all! And they each had a man to marry. Gretchen...

  • For Her Eyes Only

    Sharon Sala

    A senseless death shocks a community... A woman dreams of murder... A lover's life is in danger... The great disaster of Grand Springs, Colorado, had given Jessica Hanson one nasty head injury and sinister visions of murder. But no one be...

  • Letters, Lies & Alibis

    Sandy Steen

    Revenge is sweet ... or is it? Rancher TRAVIS HARDIN is determined to right a sixty-year wrong and wreak vengeance on the Delacroix. But he hadn't intended to fall in love doing it. Is his desire for Shelby greater than his need to destroy her fam...

  • In Search of Her Own

    Carole Gift Page

    WHERE HAD THEY HIDDEN HER CHILD? Victoria Carlin yearned to find her son--the child she'd been forced to give up years ago. With the help of rugged private investigator Philip Anders, she searched for Joshua, clue by clue. Yet the truth remained h...

  • Home for the Holidays

    Irene Hannon

    HIDING FROM LOVE... Lovely Laura Taylor, owner of Taylor Landscaping, hid her beauty behind overalls and a baseball cap, and tucked her tenderness under a sassy attitude. Yet she still couldn't fool handsome architect Nick Sinclair. Powerfully dra...

  • Night In Eden

    Candice Proctor

    Bryony Wentworth's life is shattered when she is unjustly accused and sentenced to indentured servitude in New South Wales. Broken in body - but not in spirit - she fights for light, and for her life, wanting no part of the man who would save her, Ca...

  • Christmas Cowboy

    Diana Palmer
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    A Christmas keepsake...two special stories filled with holiday magic by Diana Palmer and Joan Johnston. Meet the men who make it so nice to be naughty! They're seductive, they're shameless, They're irresistible - and these Texans are experts at s...

  • A Hawk's Way Christmas

    Joan Johnston
    in

    A Christmas keepsake...two special stories filled with holiday magic by Diana Palmer and Joan Johnston. Meet the men who make it so nice to be naughty! They're seductive, they're shameless, They're irresistible - and these Texans are experts at s...

  • Promises

    Roger Elwood

    THE POWER OF A PROMISE... Carla Gearhart had fame, fortune and all the trimmings. But hard times and heartache had sent the beautiful country-western singer's career on a downhill slide. Enter Kyle Rivers. His remarkable talent left Carla speec...

  • Murder on the QE2

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    A QUEEN-SIZE SLAYING Jessica Fletcher, Cabot Cove, Main's acclaimed mystery writer, finds herself in treacherous waters when a dream voyage on the transatlantic luxury liner Queen Elizabeth 2 becomes a nightmare journey into danger. Jessica has...

  • Delilah Doolittle and the Purloined Pooch

    Patricia Guiver

    Sunny Southern California seems an unlikely place for a British widow to call home. But pet detective Delilah Doolittle is probably the least eccentric--if not the most civilized--of Surf City's resident population. With an astute Doberman pinscher n...

  • People in Glass Houses

    Tim Hemlin

    CANDIDATE FOR MURDER

    While congressional candidate Chip Gunn sweet-talks power brokers at his Houston fund-raiser, all hell breaks loose for catering chef Neil Marshall. In the kitchen, Gunn's guard is stabbed, and Neil's assistant is found gr...

  • Mrs. Malory and the Only Good Lawyer

    Hazel Holt

    London solicitor Graham Percy has always been a trial, but Mrs. Malory's kindhearted late husband never could turn his back on his old Oxford acquaintance. Now Mrs. Malory has inherited the persnickety, long-winded bachelor and his interminable four-...

  • Blood Red Roses

    Margaret Lawrence

    It is 1786, and summer has come to Rufford, Maine. As the hay ripens and roses perfume the air, the horrors of the recent war of Revolution seem to be fading. Then a series of murders rocks the town, and it is up to Hannah Trevor to employ every hit ...

  • Charm City

    Laura Lippman

    As a practiced reporter until her newspaper went to that great pressroom in the sky, P. I. Tess Monaghan knows and loves every inch of her native Baltimore, even the parts being slobb:,red on by the sad-sack greyhound she's minding for her uncle. It'...

  • Back to School Murder

    Leslie Meier

    TINKER COVE'S OWN AMATEUR SLEUTH LUCY STONE DISCOVERS THAT SCHOOL DAYS CAN BE MURDER. It's back to school time in the peaceful Maine town of Tinker's Cover, and for mother-of-four Lucy Stone it isn't a moment too soon. But trouble at the local ele...

  • Just Plain Pickled to Death

    Tamar Myers

    A WELL-PRESERVED CORPSE A Twenty-year-old barrel of genuine Pennsylvania Dutch sauerkraut isn't Magdalena Yoder's idea of a great wedding present from her future father-in-law. Especially when it has a corpse in it. And it sure puts Mennonite-born...

  • The Dead Man and the Sea

    Janice Steinberg

    When the body was pulled from the water, Margo both feared and doubted that it could be Hob Schreiber's. The clothes looked like Hob's--but he was a skilled sailor as well as an oceanographer. The sea was his element. How could he have drowned? But a...

  • A Stiff Risotto

    Lou Jane Temple

    THE KNIVES ARE OUT! Heaven Lee--proprietress extraordinaire of Kansas City's celebrated Cafe Heaven--knew she had to watch her back at Aspen's gossipy Real Dish Food Festival. But it wasn't until the saucy cook stumbled across the battered body of...

  • Backstab

    Elaine Viets

    Six feet tall in flats, sleek, sexy Francesca Vierling is a brash columnist for a big-time St. Louis newspaper who makes her living by knowing the story behind the scenes--the secrets the other papers miss. But every secret has its price, and when he...

  • 23 Shades of Black

    K.J.A. Wishnia / Ken Wishnia

    A mystery with brains. A heroine with guts. And a city full of attitude... Meet Filomena Buscarsela -- a street-smart cop who's finding that New York City is a far cry from her native Ecuador. She might be out of her element, but she's totally in sy...

  • Senatorial Privilege

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    When a teenage girl is brutally murdered, revered Iowa Senator David Cummings sees to it that a local youth is convicted of the crime, and only District Attorney Amy McGuire can uncover a deadly scandal. Reprint....

  • Threshold

    Bill Myers

    From the realms of science, the paranormal, and Bible prophecy emerges a novel for our times: fast-paced, carefully researched . . . with a warning none can ignore.

    Some say Brandon Martus has a mysterious ability to see into the future, to ...

  • Lord of the Necropolis

    Gene DeWeese
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    For a century and a half, Azalin had been lord, and prisoner, of the greatest domain In Ravenloft. For a century and a half, he had searched and fought for his freedom, and now, at last, it was at hand. To gain his long-sought freedom, all he had ...

  • Master and Fool

    J.V. Jones

    From dungeon to cathedral, from brothel to hermit's hut, the gambits of the mighty face the power of seers and stars. In the fortress of Bren, mad King Kylock and the wizard Baralis spread their sadistic terror across the shattered kingdoms. Meanwhil...

  • The World of Robert Jordan's the Wheel of Time

    Todd Cameron Hamilton

    Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters.

    The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that bec...

  • Klondike Fever

    Suzann Ledbetter

    LUST FOR GOLD Gold. Only it had the power to draw a flood of humanity to the most savage territory in America--the Klondike, a world of daring and danger. Here women would sell their bodies and men would sell their souls as they all gambled on strik...

  • Jedi Bounty

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born--a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia have grown strong with the Force, thwarting the evil Nolaa Tarkona and destroying the Emperor's plague. Now, with th...

  • Amber Beach

    Elizabeth Lowell

    A dazzling tale of high adventure and larger-than-life characters in the story of a legendary treasure that inspires consuming passion and treacherous betrayal ... the fabulous lost fortune that was once the Russian Czar's exquisite, world-renowned A...

  • Finding Laura

    Kay Hooper

    MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL It's an antique mirror that can reveal secrets ... or tarnish the truth. And for struggling artist Laura Sutherland, buying it is only the first step into a dark maze of lies, manipulation -- and murder. It brings Pet...

  • Vegas Sunrise

    Fern Michaels

    Fanny Thornton, the proud matriarch of the Thornton dynasty, will do anything for her family. Her four children, now grown, mean everything to her--as does Babylon, the most dazzling casino in Las Vegas, and the Thorntons' crowning achievement. But h...

  • Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist

    M.C. Beaton

    COLD-BLOODED MURDER HEATS UP AGATHA'S GREEK HOLIDAY... Everyone loves Agatha! Called "a glorious cross between Miss Marple, Auntie Mame, and Lucille Ball" by the St. Petersburg Times and "refreshingly sensible, wonderfully eccentric, thoroughly li...

  • The Dream Stalker

    Margaret Coel

    With promises of new jobs and millions in revenue, the Wind River Reservation agrees to use their land for a nuclear storage site. But Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden is not willing to let this happen. And with help from Father John O'Malley, she sets ...

  • Witness to Evil

    Janet Dawson

    Private investigator Jeri Howard can scarcely believe that someone is actually paying her to go to Paris, even if it is only to fetch a wild teenager home. But the wanderer, eighteen-year-old Darcy, turns out to have a serious reason for her unauthor...

  • Artist's Proof

    Gordon Cotler

    Ex-cop Sid Shale took early retirement from the NYPD and now relishes the peace and quiet of home -- a beach front bungalow in a small Long Island village where the latest "crime spree" is a rash of bicycle thefts. Sid now has two responsibil...

  • The Pied Piper of Death

    Richard Forrest

    Charming husband-and-wife sleuthing team Lyon and Bea Wentworth visit the estate of a power-mad manufacturer in this classic manor-house mystery. Children’s book author and occasional sleuth Lyon Wentworth arrives at the Piper estate prepared to co...

  • Birthright

    Andrew Coburn

    A haunting novel based on the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh's baby speculates on what would have happened if that the child had grown up in the family of his kidnappers, never knowing who he was until he was about to run for governor. 35,000 first ...

  • Delusion

    Joanna Elm

    When Emma Kane turns up dead in her Main Line mansion, no one is free from suspicion, least of all her husband of twenty-five years, New York media mogul Jack Kane. Too many people would love to see Jack Kane out of biusiness permanently, including a...

  • Deception Pass

    Earl Emerson

    As a rebellious teen, Lainie Smith hooked up with a drifter named Charlie --and she may have been an eyewitness to murder in the shadow of cliff-walled Deception Pass, where the water runs river-swift and turbulent. When justice--and the executioner-...

  • Murder at Wittenham Park

    R.W. Heber

    Wittenham Park Manor. Dark, imposing, and impossibly expensive to maintain. The cash-poor Lord Gilroy has tried everything to raise some capital, to no avail. When Lady Gilroy goes bankrupt, Lloyd's calls in its debts, and an unethical realtor threat...

  • Except the Dying

    Maureen Jennings

    As the unforgiving cold swirled around the girl's unclad body, the bleakness of malice reflected in her lifeless eyes. There was something more sinister than the frigid Canadian weather responsible for Theresa Laporte's death, and Detective Willia...

  • The Angel Tapes

    David M. Kiely

    On a clear summer day in Dublin, O'Connell Street is crowded with pedestrians when a bomb explodes directly beneath a black taxicab, sending several people to a horrific death. Police investigators led by Blade Macken, a weathered detective superinte...

  • Death's Autograph

    Marianne MacDonald

    MURDER'S BOLD INSCRIPTION "Whoever had broken into the shop might just have gone upstairs afterwards, might just be there still...My first reaction was anger: I wanted to roar up the stairs, only I could hear Barnabas saying, the way he used to wh...

  • Black Diamond

    Susan Holtzer

    MURDER MAKES AN UNEXPECTED VISIT TO THE U OF M'S COZY CAMPUS In exchange for some missed class notes, University of Michigan student and sports reporter Zoe Kaplan agrees to drive drab dorm-mate Clare Swann to her eccentric late aunt's estate for ...

  • The Radio Red Killer

    Richard A. Lupoff

    Bob Bjorner is the last of the "red hot lefties" at radio station KRED in Berkeley, Calif. His paranoia makes him bring his personal lock to keep intruders out of the studio while he's on the air--but they get to him anyway! He opens his lunch, takes...

  • A Psalm for Falconer

    Ian Morson

    When the body of a dead abbot is found fifteen years after his disappearance, the current abbot becomes the prime murder suspect, but Falconer is visited by the wraith of an ancient hermit who reveals the true treachery behind the crime...

  • Strange Brew

    Kathy Hogan Trocheck

    A TASTE FOR TROUBLE Cleaning lady cum sleuth Callahan Garrity has cautiously watched her seedy bohemian Atlanta neighborhood morph into a trendy haven for yuppies. But just as she fears, too much cappuccino and new money can be a bad mix. When the...

  • Hostage

    R.D. Zimmerman

    Todd Mills is getting ready for the coup of his career: an exclusive interview with right-wing congressman Johnny Clariton, whose positions against gay rights and AIDS research promise to make his appearance with Minneapolis's only openly gay journal...

  • Dead Room Farce

    Simon Brett

    Delighted to land a role in an acting company touring the provinces, struggling actor Charles Paris finds himself embroiled with two very different women and becomes a suspect in the death of an old drinking buddy, forcing him to turn sleuth to clear...

  • The Velocity of Money

    Stephen Rhodes

    Young Manhattan attorney Rick Hansen has ascended to the top of the financial ladder by landing himself a plum position at the blue-chip-global investment firm of Wolcott, Fulbright & Company. Here on "the Street," he is in close proximity to the peo...

  • The Matarese Countdown

    Robert Ludlum

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   “First-rate suspense.” -- People   Twenty years ago, top agents from the CIA and KGB banded together to bring down the Matarese Circle, an international cabal of power brokers and assassins whose sole objec...