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New Books List: 707 titles



  • Mette Ivie Harrison

    A SISTER'S LOVE, THAT IS ALL MIRA WANTED. Abandoned by her parents, then apprenticed to a witch, Mira is captivated by the witch's other young apprentice, who adopts her as a sister. Mira would do anything for this beautiful girl--and that's just ...



  • Jill Gregory
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    A full moon is in the sky--and love is in the air... ...in this all-new collection of short stories from "four of America's most beloved romance authors" (Publishers Weekly) New York Times bestselling authors Nora Roberts, Jill Gregory, Ruth Ryan ...



  • Marianne Willman
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    A full moon is in the sky--and love is in the air... ...in this all-new collection of short stories from "four of America's most beloved romance authors" (Publishers Weekly) New York Times bestselling authors Nora Roberts, Jill Gregory, Ruth Ryan ...



  • Ruth Ryan Langan
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    A full moon is in the sky--and love is in the air... ...in this all-new collection of short stories from "four of America's most beloved romance authors" (Publishers Weekly) New York Times bestselling authors Nora Roberts, Jill Gregory, Ruth Ryan ...



  • Connie Brockway

    The breathtaking love story of a dashing Scotsman who is duty bound to protect the one woman who incites in him a wild passion. How exactly can he save her from himself? By day, celebrated beauty Helena Nash works as a proper companion to one of ...



  • Max Allan Collins

    Rebecca Bennett, the estranged stepdaughter of a well-to-do Las Vegas businessman, is hounding the Las Vegas Police Department to reopen the investigation into her mother Rita's death -- alleging that, despite appearances to the contrary, Rebecca's g...



  • Donn Cortez

    METHOD
    He is the Closer -- a remorseless executioner whose modus operandi is terrifying in its brutal simplicity. He captures his prey, tortures them until they confess their sins, and disposes of them as they deserve. His victims hav...



  • Chassie West

    Former D.C. cop Leigh Ann Warren is starting a new job and looking forward to a blissful wedded life. But someone is not willing to let her escape so easily -- a lethal adversary with a grudge who's determined to make Leigh Ann pay ... and keep payin...



  • Jake Logan

    Slocum bleeds justice out of an unjust town!In Del Rio, justice is swift and innocence is no defense. You’re tried in the morning and hanged at noon. And if you’re a lawyer, winning an acquittal for your client can be fatal if it goes against the...



  • Nora Roberts
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    A full moon is in the sky--and love is in the air... ...in this all-new collection of short stories from "four of America's most beloved romance authors" (Publishers Weekly) New York Times bestselling authors Nora Roberts, Jill Gregory, Ruth Ryan ...



  • Josephine Cox

    Their love was as young and hopeful as the new century ... Emily Ramsden knows that her feelings for John Hanley go far beyond teenage infatuation. It is love, pure, strong, and as glorious as the surrounding English countryside, and John shares h...



  • Christopher Golden; Thomas E. Sniegoski

    They are beings of myth and legend. They possess powers beyond imagining. They are our only hope... Behind the facade of a stately Boston brownstone, humanity's last defenses are being marshaled. Called to action by the enigmatic, brilliant man know...



  • Dave Duncan

    Supremely skilled warriors, bonded by magic, their destiny is to serve without question... The realm's most feared swordsman, Sir Wolf has earned his name, the "King's Killer," well. Unlike many of his brother Blades, however, Wolf detests his swo...



  • Laurell K. Hamilton

    As consultant to the Regional Preturnatural Crime Investigation Unit, Anita's called in on what appears to be a case involving a vampire serial killer who may be preying on strippers. But her professional judgment may be clouded by a conflict of inte...



  • S.J. Rozan

    Jimmy. Markie. Vicky. Sally. Tom. Jack. Marian. Their friendships are strong, and their futures bright--until one shattering night that changes everything. Two of the friends will die young. The others are left to pick up the pieces in the shadow of ...



  • Michael Culp

    Follows David Meadows, Director of Research at a large Wall Street brokerage firm, as he puts into play a special assignment from his CEO that will generate twenty million dollars, if he can make things go his way. Reprint....



  • Susan Fletcher

    Winner of the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award.

    "Susan Fletcher's first novel . . . is one of those lyrical books about childhood in which the physical details―the sights, the smells―take on a vividness that's entrancing."―Polly Shulman,...



  • Philippa Gregory

    In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen. One woman hears the tidings with utter dread. She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows that Elizabeth's ambitious leap to the t...



  • Patrick O'Brian

    To the delight of millions of Patrick O'Brian fans, here is the final, partial installment of the Aubrey-Maturin series, for the first time in paperback.Blue at the Mizzen (novel #20) ended with Jack Aubrey getting the news, in Chile, of his elevatio...



  • Max Allan Collins

    Rebecca Bennett, the estranged stepdaughter of a well-to-do Las Vegas businessman, is hounding the Las Vegas Police Department to reopen the investigation into her mother Rita's death -- alleging that, despite appearances to the contrary, Rebecca's g...



  • Josephine Cox

    Their love was as young and hopeful as the new century ... Emily Ramsden knows that her feelings for John Hanley go far beyond teenage infatuation. It is love, pure, strong, and as glorious as the surrounding English countryside, and John shares h...



  • Alan Dean Foster

    From New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster comes a fantastic new Pip and Flinx adventure starring a certain twenty-four-year-old redhead with emerald eyes and uncanny abilities and his devoted mini-dragon protector. Time and again, the d...



  • Lani Diane Rich

    Took a swing at lawyer Lost job Fell in love out of my league Can I start over? WHEN LIFE GETS A LITTLE STICKY... There should have been hazard warnings on the road to Wanda Lane's thirties. Her parents haven't spoken to her in years. Her ex-h...



  • Alison Kent

    Meet the men of the Smithson Group--five spies whose best work is done in the field and between the sheets. Smart, built, trained to do everything well--and that's everything--they're the guys you want on your side of the bed. Go deep under cover? No...



  • Donna Kauffman
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    The one thing brand-new yacht captain Burke Morgan didn't need is a last minute replacement cook who also suffers from motion sickness. But once he sees luscious Kamala Apolo, he's got a perfect idea for getting her body in sync with the rhythm of th...



  • Gilbert Morris

    Sharon Winslow is artistic, wealthy, socially prominent--and determined to remain single. Having lost her first love in the Great War, she is certain that marriage is not for her. Then she meets Temple Smith, a rough man who appears as uncouth as he ...



  • Maryjanice Davidson
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    Dressed as a sidewalk Santa, undercover cop Corinne mistakes Tony Danielson for a purse snatcher. What Tony sees is a beautiful, lonely workaholic, and he'd love to take her out of disguise and help her slip into something a little more comfortable.....



  • Lucy Monroe
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    Successful model Bella Jackson may look steamy on covers, but under them, she's a total novice. What she needs is someone who can make her feel the way she looks. And hunky Texan Jake Barton seems exactly what she needs in her Christmas stocking......



  • Susanna Carr
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    Showing up naked in Tyler's bed has more to do with Karen's rotten luck and bad sense of direction than actual intent. But Tyler's sure she's right where she belongs, and he's got one Christmas snowstorm to prove it to her......



  • Jenifer A. Ruth

    Alana Devlin is a stage magician performing in Las Vegas. What no one knows is that she doesn’t do magic tricks, but true magic. Alana has the ability to create real glamours, fairie illusions that can fool all the senses. But what she does on stag...



  • Nancy Warren
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    When perky Chicago weather girl Marisa Langley gets stuck in the cold with her survivalist cameraman, Rob Sheridon, she can't begin to forecast just how steamy it can get between the two of them......



  • Erin McCarthy
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    Josh Black is so in love with his friend Cassidy that he writes her into his cartoon strip, making Cassidy think he's fallen for another woman. Can two confirmed "friends" unwrap their true feelings in time to share a night of unforgettable holiday p...



  • Madeline Howard

    More than a century ago, the cataclysmic struggle between the wizards and the mages ended in their mutual destruction -- leveling great cities and reducing grand palaces to dust. From the vast graveyard that remained, the Empress Ouriana rose up to p...



  • Curtiss Ann Matlock

    Looking for real life. The scrawled graffiti on the bathroom wall was innocent enough, cliched even. But for Claire Wilder, it was a wake-up call: start searching for your roots and find the happiness you lost long ago. Divorced from her high school ...



  • Alton Gansky

    An abduction...a trail of disturbing clues... Politics are about to become deadly. As the controversial mayor of the beautiful coastal community of Santa Rita, Madison 'Maddy' Glenn likes to face things head-on. But nothing can prepare her for a host...




  • Courtney Litz

    Lena Sharpe wants her life to be the fabulous kind that movies are made of. She works in television, so she's familiar with the heroine, the hook and when to break for commercial. The problem is, she's always telling other people's stories. When will...



  • Sarah Mlynowski

    MB is for a M aster's in B usiness degree. Supposedly. It's also for: Multiple Bed-hopping Definitely Kimmy 's favorite subject. And who cares if her conquests are already taken? If only business school offered a minor in boyfriend embezzlement...



  • Catherine Palmer
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    Discover a cowboy's heart in these stories of love at Christmastime. Victoria Jennings is in desperate need. But when she returns to her parents' ranch, she discovers that it's now being run by Jesse Conroy -- the man whose heart Victoria broke wh...



  • Lindsay Faith Rech

    From fast friends to fast girls... For shy, awkward Stella Gold, the only good thing to come out of junior high gym class was her friendship with Emily Martin, the effortlessly cool rebel. Emily is now a trendy New York fashion designer with a pen...



  • Stephanie Rowe

    With her life in complete and utter disarray, Shannon McCormick, recently fired from her prestigious job, must get back on track and discover what she truly wants, despite her sister's impending nuptials to a wealthy plastic surgeon and a complicated...



  • Judith Tarr

    National bestselling author Judith Tarr's House of War was hailed as a "beautifully researched, masterfully written fantasy" (Booklist). Now she tells the tale of a land in turmoil and a young man who would be king... For five hundred years the Sa...



  • Linda Goodnight
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    Discover a cowboy's heart in these stories of love at Christmastime. When drifter Seth Blackstone shows up at Raven Patterson's homestead, Raven thinks this may be the solution to all her problems. But Seth's mysterious past is about to catch up w...



  • Lisa Harris
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    Discover a cowboy's heart in these stories of love at Christmastime. Pinkerton detective Cole Ramsey has been hired to investigate a rancher suspected of sabotaging his neighbors' property. But Cole's investigation may be compromised when he falls...



  • Clive Barker

    Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the amazing world of the Abarat are getting more strange by the hour. Christopher Carrion, the Lord of Midnight, has sent his henchman to capture her. Why? she wonders. What would Carrion want with a girl from Minnes...



  • Collen Dixon

    Alex Baxter knows what it’s like to fight for your survival on the meanest streets of Washington D.C. And he knows what it’s like to cross over to the other side, into a world where money flows like water, power is more precious than gold, and se...



  • Ruth Axtell Morren

    All her life, Geneva Patterson had known what it was to be an outcast in Haven's End, a little town on the harsh Maine seacoast. Plain, awkward, thought to be unmarriageable, she endured the cruel taunts of the townspeople in solitude. But then she e...



  • Dee Davis
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    Snow falls, but this is no ordinary white Christmas. There's no festive cheer, no carolers, no mistletoe. Three women are running for their lives: a college student home on break, the wife of a murdered DEA agent, a Denver widow. They're frightened a...



  • Evelyn Rogers
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    Snow falls, but this is no ordinary white Christmas. There's no festive cheer, no carolers, no mistletoe. Three women are running for their lives: a college student home on break, the wife of a murdered DEA agent, a Denver widow. They're frightened a...



  • Naomi Neale
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    Things left to pick up: • A gift for Mom (Flannel nightgown? Too boring. Lingerie? Ugh!) • Amnesia so I forget what happened at the Holiday party last night • A job I love, or at least one that doesn't drive me insane • Someone else to pay off ...



  • Stephanie Rowe
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    Things left to pick up: -- A gift for Mom (Flannel nightgown? Too boring. Lingerie? Ugh!) -- Amnesia so I forget what happened at the Holiday party last night -- A job I love, or at least one that doesn't drive me insane -- Someone else to pay off m...



  • Tamela Hancock Murray
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    The perfect ingredients for tasty reading, these four stories follow the culinary adventures--and misadventures--of a cooking instructor and three of her students who want to stir up a little romance....



  • Sally Laity
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    In four interwoven novellas set in 1941, an American OSS officer enlists a mother and daughter in America and two of their relatives in Europe to carry out a clever plan. They sew dolls for the children of the war-torn continent...but add a life-savi...



  • Dirk Fletcher

    Investigating the murder of a land office agent, Spur McCoy goes up against a legendary outlaw while trying to choose between Maggie, a local lady with many talents, and Colette, a sultry saloon singer. Original....




  • Myrna MacKenzie

    Dearest Godmother, You said all I must do to regain my youth is play matchmaker for twenty-one couples. Well, it's harder than you made it sound! Luckily, I've only got six more to go. Take my latest attempt: ex-ugly-duckling Jackie Hammond and...



  • Sandra Madden

    The Men of Annapolis come home for the holidays in Kiss Me at Christmas, the third story of the officers of the newly founded Naval Academy in Maryland...from beloved historical romance author Sandra Madden. A VOW TO REMEMBER To honor the wishes...



  • Diana Killian

    As Halloween comes to the English village of Innisdale all manner of trickery leads to intrigue and mortal danger.... American schoolteacher and literary scholar Grace Hollister has extended her stay in the Lake District to do research and act as ...



  • Christine Locksy

    The perfect romance begins... An Improper Introduction Miss Clara Edwards's fine watercolor paintings may be the pride of her parish, but her insistence on placing the pursuit of art over the pursuit of a husband has her family most perturbed. Ev...



  • Cindy Dees

    Q: What's beautiful, hard to trace...and cold as ice? A: Black-market diamonds. And Amanda McClintock, the covert operative assigned to dismantle a diamond smuggling ring. Thanks to Amanda's double-agent father, killer instinct was in her blood. H...



  • Anna DeStefano

    Carrinne Wilmington vowed she'd never return to the Georgia hometown she fled as a pregnant teen. But now she has no choice. Carrinne's life depends on finding her father, a man she never knew...and the key to the transplant she needs. So she decides...



  • Sonia Icilyn

    Latisha Fenshaw is fed up with romance since discovering that her long-term boyfriend has been deceiving her. To make up for Latisha's broken heart, he's given her the house they shared, but it's not helping - especially when Latisha discovers that t...



  • Monica Jackson

    The Magic of Love A storm is blowing through the quiet rural Georgia life of strong, voluptuous, dark-skinned Bless Sanderson. She has never the beauty of her family, and her gift of "second sight" has been more a curse than a blessing. In fact, a...



  • Melissa James

    Lucy Miles was outraged when a sexy playboy claimed her precious jackpot -- a beautiful vacation home. It was a sweepstakes slipup. The company had accidentally issued two winning tickets. Now she'd have to share her beach bungalow -- until the real ...



  • William W. Johnstone

    Out Of The Fight--And Into The Fire A deadly confrontation with the outlaw who murdered his wife has left Frank Morgan a wounded shell of his former self--until a woman he once knew calls him back to Parker County. Married to another man, Mercy Monf...



  • Tamara Siler Jones

    WHERE DOES THE FEVER OF ILLUSION STOP...AND THE COLD TRUTH BEGIN? This unique debut thriller combines forensics, fantasy, and edge-of-your-seat suspense like never before. In a world where sorcery illegal, someone is murdering young women in ways ...



  • Mona Gedney

    Will Christmas Complications... Violet Leigh has always loved the Christmas season...until she finds herself at a holiday house party she earnestly wishes to avoid. Not only must she curb her flirtatious widowed mother and two high-spirited siblings...



  • Barbara Plum

    DOUBLE THE PLEASURE CEO Ben McDonald is doing his best to raise his little daughter Molly after the untimely death of his wife. Buttoned-down Ben doesn't have time to fool around--but he just got his black socks knocked off by a woman in white: Dr. ...



  • Cynthia Pratt

    Even The Wariest Of Widows... The very last thing Sophie Banner feels like indulging in is the holiday spirit. Three years ago, she followed her heart and married a dashing poet--only to discover too late that he was as unreliable as he was brillian...



  • Pat Pritchard

    Once In A Lifetime The White River is treacherous even in good weather, but steamboat captain Isaac Chase hopes to make one more round trip before winter sets in. He has no choice--he must earn enough money to repair the vessel by spring. Then, duri...



  • Brenda Joyce

    VENGEANCE RULED HIS DAYS AND NIGHTS PRIDE INFLAMED HER SPIRIT LOVE CONQUERED THEM BOTH An infamous sea captain of the British Royal Navy, Devlin O'Neill is consumed with the need to destroy the man who brutally murdered his father. Having nearly...



  • Tracy Kelleher

    Lauren Jeffries needed a scoop, something that would get her her first serious newspaper story and away from writing obits. When she sort-of faked Harry Nord's obit, she never dreamed it'd get published, let alone that a hot guy would show up asking ...



  • Laurie Brown

    Just In Case... Related to a duke? Matty Maxwell doesn't believe a word of that preposterous tale -- especially since her unexpected visitor, Davies Preston, insists that he has been sent to America by the Queen of England herself to reunite Mat...



  • Pamela Browning

    Can She Overcome the Fear Factor? Gina Angelini never wants to see Josh Corbett again, and everyone knows why. Two years ago he romanced her in front of millions of TV viewers -- then surprised the world by picking another contestant to share his li...



  • Wanda E. Brunstetter
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    The perfect ingredients for tasty reading, these four stories follow the culinary adventures--and misadventures--of a cooking instructor and three of her students who want to stir up a little romance....



  • Catherine Mulvany

    NOWHERE TO RUN. NOWHERE TO HIDE. Fleeing her dark past, Tasya Flynn desperately breaks into a mansion -- and is caught red-handed by its owner, legendary millionaire and cat burglar Ian MacPherson. Fiercely intelligent and strangely attractive, h...



  • Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    With a couple of techno-geniuses and a corrupt politician wreaking havoc on the House of Sinanju, Remo, with the help of Chiun and CURE, must stop a maniacal father-son team of inventors who have created an undergound civilization filled with Mole Pe...



  • Lisa Noeli

    NOW YOU SEE IT... Nigel Wollaston must interfere when his dear old uncle falls in love with a much younger woman. Miss Phoebe Sharpe is no more than a fortune hunter but her legendary charms--two of her charms, to be precise--have simply bedazzled t...



  • Wendy Warren

    Elaine Lowry is a divorcee with a plan: to have a baby on her own. Why shouldn't she have the child she always dreamed of -- the child her ex-husband is now having with his new wife! As if it's not enough that he's taken the house and, with it, her s...




  • Debra Webb

    INTERNAL AFFAIRS The newest addition to the Colby Agency team was assigned the most difficult mission: use all means necessary to eliminate a ruthless mercenary who'd infiltrated the firm, starting with the man's daughter Jayne Stephens. But Heath...



  • Allison Lane
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    In The Ultimate Magic, a governess has caught the eye of a sworn bachelor, a man above her station. And at the Yuletide ball, it's clear that she is the one who needs a chaperone.......



  • Barbara Metzger
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    On the most magical night of the year, a practical young widow makes a wish. When fate sends her an old magician claiming to be The Enchanted Earl of her dreams--and wanting a kiss--she wonders if, just once, she should let herself believe in magic.....



  • Jeanne Savery

    Sometimes The Perfect Match... Sardonic and older than his years, Vincent George Beverly seems hardened, even cynical. Yet to his friends, no one has a kinder, more giving heart. Thus, it is no surprise to them when on his way to his cousin Georgian...



  • Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman
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    9 Romances Stitched with Love Treasure this collection of nine historical romances. Faced with finding the right fit in life and love, nine young women seek the courage to stitch together romance. But when unexpected obstacles abound, will love un...



  • Lauren Bach

    HIS MISSION: HIGH RISK FBI Special Agent Adam Duval is deep undercover with one mission: gain the trust of his cellmate, Lyle McEdwin, one of the notorious McEdwin family, by staging a prison break with him. Lyle promises they can hide out with his ...



  • Edith Layton
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    A father hires a former soldier to keep his Two Dancing Daughters from creeping out to holiday festivities. But when the handsome hero meets his charges, he'll have to keep up his guard, lest he fall for the darker, more demure beauty.......



  • William C. Dietz

    You're only a hero... The Legion has repelled a war that was waged against all sentient creatures. And they've gained new allies in the process: two alien races. It's up to Legion General Bill Booly to stabilize the Confederacy -- and crush the last...



  • Lisa Noeli
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    All Lord Henry Whittaker wants for Christmas is a peach--Miss Susan Peach, to be precise. But the high-spirited young miss, his distant cousin, is far too busy scrambling up ladders to hang boughs of holly and ivy to pay attention to her very proper ...



  • Melynda Beth Skinner
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    When penniless Miss Emily Winthrop wanders unto Lord Winter's estate, he's happy to offer her shelter--until he realizes the blasted woman is traveling with an elephant! He can't allow her to ruin the house party he's planned for the holidays, but so...



  • Cathy Marie Hake
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    In four interwoven novellas set in 1941, an American OSS officer enlists a mother and daughter in America and two of their relatives in Europe to carry out a clever plan. They sew dolls for the children of the war-torn continent...but add a life-savi...



  • Kelly Eileen Hake
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    In four interwoven novellas set in 1941, an American OSS officer enlists a mother and daughter in America and two of their relatives in Europe to carry out a clever plan. They sew dolls for the children of the war-torn continent...but add a life-savi...



  • Gail Gaymer Martin
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    Love Illuminates Mysterious Shadows Romance is blossoming, and lives are on the verge of exciting changes -- but these four women are also threatened by suspicion, mystery, and danger. Gerri Seward poses as a housekeeper at Emory Estates, hopin...



  • DiAnn Mills
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    Love Illuminates Mysterious Shadows Romance is blossoming, and lives are on the verge of exciting changes -- but these four women are also threatened by suspicion, mystery, and danger. Shelby Landry, hoping to learn the source of her recurring ...



  • Lena Nelson Dooley
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    As long as women have been sewing, there have been boxes of scraps and recycled garments in their homes. The women of the Collins family have such a treasure box, which down through time is opened by Bridgit, who stitches her wedding dress on the Dak...



  • Rhonda Gibson
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    As long as women have been sewing, there have been boxes of scraps and recycled garments in their homes. The women of the Collins family have such a treasure box, which down through time is opened by Bridgit, who stitches her wedding dress on the Dak...



  • Birdie L. Etchison
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    The perfect ingredients for tasty reading, these four stories follow the culinary adventures--and misadventures--of a cooking instructor and three of her students who want to stir up a little romance....



  • Pamela Griffin
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    The perfect ingredients for tasty reading, these four stories follow the culinary adventures--and misadventures--of a cooking instructor and three of her students who want to stir up a little romance....



  • Charlaine Harris
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    Layla Rue Le May is no ordinary dancer -- her partner, Sean McClendon, is a three-hundred-year-old redheaded vampire. So when Layla Rue acquires a stalker, she's forced to face the music...and wonder if this will finally be her last dance....



  • Candace Camp

    Despite its graceful beauty, Winterset remains shrouded in the mystery of its dark psat... Ever since Anna Holcombe inexplicably refused his proposal, Reed Moreland has been unable to set foot in the home that was the backdrop to their romance -- ...



  • Wes Demott

    Peter Jamison is an aerospace engineer who wanted nothing more than to save his contract for a tactical weapons system. But together with his girlfriend, attorney Melissa Corley, he uncovered a crime of corruption, power and violence, a crime that ha...



  • Amanda McCabe
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    A once-handsome naval captain has vowed never to show his scarred face again. But when, Upon a Midnight Clear, he encounters a Jamaican beauty rumored to be a witch, something stronger than her potions will draw him to her.......



  • Amanda McCabe

    THE MOST VALUABLE JEWEL Lady Emily Kenton has a parade of suitors, yet nothing excites her--or worries her--more than the unexpected return of her best friend from childhood to English society. David left for India when she was eight, after his ...



  • Mark K. Roberts

    SOMETIMES VICTORY COMES DOWN TO JUST ONE MAN... ...and in the days before the Second Gulf War, that man is Chemical Ali--the notorious head of Saddam Hussein's chemical and biological weapons programs. For this high-risk assignment, seven combined s...



  • Sandra Hill

    What do you get when you cross a Viking with a Navy SEAL? A warrior with the fierce instincts of the past and the rigorous training of America's most elite fighting corps? A totally buff hero-in-the-making who hasn't had a woman in roughly a thousand...



  • Cheris F. Hodges / Cheris Hodges

    Dana Ellison's life is not her own. For 29 years, she has lived in her parents' image. Her true passion is in the kitchen, though. But her mother and father feel that having a daughter who cooks for a living is a waste of time. Andre Harrington, her ...



  • Julie Hogan

    PROJECT PARTNER...OR PASSIONATE PLAYMATE? Daisy Kincaid had finally given up. Her gorgeous playboy boss was never going to reciprocate her feelings and turn her secret crush into a real-time love affair, leaving her no choice but to quit. Now Alec...



  • Joan Hohl
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    When Three Very Different Roommates... Adorable, disorganized Alycia Matlock is a dedicated history major who keeps her nose buried too deeply in her books to notice the scores of men who would gladly make her theirs...until she meets handsome histo...



  • Alice Holden
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    When youngsters Connor Hamil and Sissy Eaton were parted after months in the parish workhouse, they never expected to meet again. Ten years later, circumstances have changed drastically for them both -- and lovestruck Connor vows to wed the young wid...



  • Stef Ann Holm

    The California coastal town is named for its romantic beauty and spectacular moon. People here know that when a ping moon appears, something unexpected happens. . . When single mom Lauren Jessup sees a picture of Bella Luna on a postcard, a strang...




  • Kara Lennox

    TO SERVE AND PROTECT A top cop who'd taken a wrong turn, bounty hunter Gavin Schuyler was now back on track, and luckily his sexy officer, Shelby Dorset, agreed. But his ordinary days quickly turned extraordinary when Gavin learned Shelby's life h...



  • Jane Graves

    HE WAS TOO HOT TO HANDLE . . . Defense attorney Ethan Millner is paid handsomely for his ability to charm a jury while ruthlessly slashing the prosecution. He's living life in the fast lane, until he's slapped with a reckless-driving charge and sent...



  • Donna Birdsell

    Secrets Some say that a phantom haunts Elmstone Manor. A young woman, heavily veiled, has been seen walking among the estate's lavish rose gardens. The townspeople are afraid to go there, but Lucien Delacourte has no choice. Regrets Hired by the...



  • Annette Blair

    A Merry Gentleman Rocking a cradle is no diversion for a rogue--but the new earl of Blackburne has no choice. Ashford Blackburne cannot clear his debts or save his family's estates unless he comes into his inheritance, and his grandfather's will mak...



  • Catherine Blair

    He Was The Epitome Of Propriety... Once Cambridge astronomy professor John Caldwell's only passion was for the pursuit of knowledge. Then he met a woman more intriguing than the most radiant star. Lady Eleanor Whitcombe, with her quiet reserve a...



  • Stephanie Bond

    ONE WOMAN IS FURIOUS Tallie Blankenship is a small town girl out to make her mark onManhattan's publishing scene, even at the expense of a personal life. She's thrilled to be working with a high-profile mystery writer, until sleazy superagent Jerry ...



  • Peter Brandvold

    This Prophet is riding to hell and back Bounty hunter Lou Prophet is escorting a Russian noblewoman through Arizona on the trail of her missing sister—and a buried treasure that is being sought by a gang of desperadoes....



  • Carol Cox
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    Love Illuminates Mysterious Shadows Romance is blossoming, and lives are on the verge of exciting changes -- but these four women are also threatened by suspicion, mystery, and danger. Laurel Masters's only friend at her estranged grandmother's...



  • Francine Craft

    Nightclub owner Clea Wilde has never forgotten surgeon Robert Redding, her ex-fiance' and her one and only love. Although she is now dating an R&B record mogul, her thoughts still turn to Robert and what might have been - if only his socialite mother...



  • DiAnna Crawford
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    In four interwoven novellas set in 1941, an American OSS officer enlists a mother and daughter in America and two of their relatives in Europe to carry out a clever plan. They sew dolls for the children of the war-torn continent...but add a life-savi...



  • Claudia Dain
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    Snow falls, but this is no ordinary white Christmas. There's no festive cheer, no carolers, no mistletoe. Three women are running for their lives: a college student home on break, the wife of a murdered DEA agent, a Denver widow. They're frightened a...



  • Jenna McKnight

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    in

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    in

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    in

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    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

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    in

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  • Natalie Dunbar

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  • LARRY J. KOLB

    Book 2

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  • Susan Krinard

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  • Susan Mallery

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