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  • Live the Dream

    Josephine Cox

    Plain, down-to-earth Amy Maitland can't help but notice the sad and handsome stranger who spends every Tuesday at the local cafe -- an artist who puts his heart and turbulent emotions on canvas in vivid, powerful paintings. No stranger herself to the...

  • Blood Red Dawn

    Karen E. Taylor

    A New Beginning...Or A Bloody End? For Deirdre Griffin and her lover, Mitch, the prospect of immortality is bearable--as long as they can spend everlasting life together. At their English seaside pub, The Black Rose, they charge tourists by the pint...

  • Dog Warrior

    Wen Spencer

    Meet Ukiah Oregon, a unique young man with accelerated senses who was raised by wolves, domesticated by two women, and trained as a tracker by a private investigator. And that's the normal part of his life.... Atticus Steele is en route to Cape C...

  • Incubus Dreams

    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...

  • Love and Death

    Jeff Mariotte

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends.... BLOOD RUSH Incited by an outspoken radio host named Mac Lindley, hordes of monster killers have descended upon the Los Angeles area. They're out to rid the city of the demons that have overr...

  • Bahamarama

    Bob Morris

    As unpredictable as island trade winds, Bahamarama twists and turns its way to a stunning slam-bang conclusion and announces the arrival of Bob Morris, a writer who is sure to surprise and delight readers for years to come. STAYING ON THE STRAIGHT...

  • Betrayal of the Trust

    Leslie Esdaile Banks

    Darien Price, Ill, privileged son of a wealthy family and executive director of Philadelphia's prominent Educate America program, is in deep trouble. Certain "inconsistencies" have been found in his business accounts--and no one could be happier to h...

  • Wives and Sisters

    Natalie R. Collins

    Decades ago, young Allison Jensen and her best friend Cindy were separated in the woods. Cindy disappeared forever. Allison survived amid a web of small-town secrets and lies that greeted every anguished question she asked about that fateful afternoo...

  • The System of the World

    Neal Stephenson

    England, 1714. London has long been home to a secret war between the brilliant, enigmatic Master of the Mint and closet alchemist, Isaac Newton, and his archnemesis, the insidious counterfeiter Jack the Coiner. Hostilities are suddenly moving to a ne...

  • After the Fall

    Peter David

    Three years have passed since the events depicted in the novel, Stone and Anvil, and for the past and present crew members of thr U.S.S. Excalibur, life has taken many surprising twists and turns. Captain Elizabeth Shelby has been promoted to admiral...

  • Cally's War

    John Ringo; Julie Cochrane

    LOOK INTO THE ABYSS-- For as long as Cally O'Neal could remember, she had lived in danger. She had been raised practically on the front-lines of the war with the Posleen that had erased five billion humans from the face of the earth. The abyss ...

  • Duty, Honor, Redemption

    Vonda N. McIntyre

    Cadets that enter Starfleet Academy have two mantras drilled into them from their very first day. They must do their duty for the Federation and Starfleet, and they must strive to honor their oath as Starfleet officers. Among those who have best embo...

  • The Empire Strikes Back

    Ryder Windham

    A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... An Empire grows stronger. A rebellion is threatened. A young apprentice learns from a wise master. An identity is revealed. The journey takes a dark turn....

  • Hard Contact

    Karen Traviss

    As the Clone Wars rage, victory or defeat lies in the hands of elite squads that take on the toughest assignments in the galaxy--stone-cold soldiers who go where no one else would, to do what no one else could. . . . On assion to sabotage a nanovi...

  • Jedi Trial

    David Sherman; Dan Cragg

    The barren world of Praesitlyn, home to a crucial Republic communications center, is under siege by a massive Separatist army. If the center is destroyed, countless Republic worlds will collapse--giving the Separatists a major advantage for victory i...

  • Return of the Jedi

    Ryder Windham

    A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... A rebellion makes its most desperate move. A galaxy hangs in the balance. A new Jedi rises. A circle is completed. The journey ends....

  • A Time for War, A Time for Peace

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain and his new command, Riker's marriage to ...

  • Asgard's Secret

    Brian Stableford

    They call it Asgard, the Home of the Gods. Beneath its artificial shell are at least three vast cave-systems, each one the size of an Earth-like world; and beneath those, possibly many more. No one knows how many layers there might be, and no one kno...

  • Air: Or, Have Not Have

    Geoff Ryman

    Chung Mae is the only connection her small farming village has to culture of a wider world beyond the fields and simple houses of her village. A new communications technology is sweeping the world and promises to connect everyone, everywhere without ...

  • The Boy Who Would Live Forever

    Frederik Pohl

    In 1977 Frederik Pohl stunned the science fiction world with the publication of Gateway, one of the most brilliantly entertaining SF novels of all time. More than twenty-five years later, Pohl completed a new novel set in the Gateway universe: The Bo...

  • Disappearing Act

    Margaret Ball

    TO ESCAPE PURSUIT, SHE TOOK ON ANOTHER'S IDENTITY-- AND FOUND HERSELF MARKED FOR DEATH! Maris's work with the local underworld on the huge space station was anything but honest, but life was much more pleasant than it had been before the gang's l...

  • For More Than Glory

    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...

  • The Grantville Gazette

    Eric Flint

    RETURN TO GRANTVILLE -- THE AMERICAN TOWN LOST IN TIME Ed Piazza, the Secretary of State of the small United States being forged in war-torn Germany during the Thirty Years War, has a problem. A religious conference has been called in nearby Rud...

  • Hunters of the Deep

    Randall N. Bills

    Sea Fox Clansmen are space-bound, nomadic warrior-merchants who live and die aboard their naval vessels, going planetside only to negotiate a new deal or for combat--often the same thing for a Fox. Divided into five autonomous Khanates, they are led ...

  • Last Breath

    Christopher Golden; Rick Hautala

    "When a psycho wants to make a statement, and nobody gets it, he's only going to say it louder the next time." Jenna thought spending her summer in Somerset would be quiet and relaxing. With classes over and the students home on break, the campus ...

  • The Last Heroes

    Steven Grant; Gil Kane

    Originally published as Edge in the early 1990s, The Last Heroes collects and finishes Grant and Kane's testament to the world of superheroes. They were ordinary men and women, until Professor James Carnell recruited them to test a process that would...

  • Less Than Human

    Maxine McArthur

    Using the same flavor of gripping suspense and mystery set in a science fiction world, she employed in her successful first novel Time Future, Maxine McArthur brings us a new novel set in near future Japan where she explores the line that separates h...

  • Lux

    Maria Flook

    A searing, poignant, darkly comic novel set on Cape Cod by the author of the bestselling true crime story Invisible Eden. Young Alden Warren's husband has vanished without a trace. Her daily routine -- working for the National Park Service at the Cap...

  • Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics Volume 1

    Carl Burgos

    In celebration of 65 years in comic book publishing the House of Ideas is proud to present the first four issues of the comic series that launched Marvel Comics. This monumental hardcover volume re-masters and restores these first four historic issue...

  • Overworld: Confessions of a Covert Operative

    LARRY J. KOLB

    Book 2

    Trystam Kith made a bold debut with his first novel, Trouble in the Forest: A Cold Summer Night. Now, in the second book of the duology, the battle for good versus evil in Sherwood Forest is about to come to a head, with the good Sheriff of...

  • Overworld: The Life and Times of a Reluctant Spy

    LARRY J. KOLB

    An intriguing memoir that journeys into the complex and dangerous world of covert statecraft and espionage describes growing up as the son of a high-ranking American spymaster, his refusal to take a job with the CIA in order to pursue a life in busin...

  • The Shadow of Saganami

    David Weber

    STUDENTS OF HONOR The Star Kingdom of Manticore is once again at war with the Republic of Haven after a stunning sneak attack. The graduating class from Saganami Island, the Royal Manticoran Navy's academy, are going straight from the classroom to...

  • Sliding Scales

    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...

  • The Sundering

    Walter Jon Williams

    The Dread Empire of the Shaa is no more, following the death of the last oppressor. But freedom remains elusive for the myriad sentient races enslaved for ten centuries, as an even greater terror arises. The Naxids--a powerful insectoid species thems...

  • Zero Hour

    S.D. Perry

    BEFORE THE MANSION. BEFORE THE DISASTER. EVIL IS BORN. Sent to investigate a series of grisly murders in Raccoon City, S.T.A.R.S. Bravo Team scrambles into action. On the way to the scene, Bravo's helicopter crashes. Although everyone survives, ...

  • Absent Friends

    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 ...

  • At the Track

    Richard Peyton

    An anthology of twenty-three winning tales from the race track, a place that consistently spawns good writing. AT THE TRACK showcases the very best racing thrillers of the past 150 years and includes renowned authors such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, R...

  • A Christmas Visitor

    Anne Perry

    The Dreghorn family is gathering for an anticipated reunion in the Lake District of England. The blissful tranquility of the snowbound estate, however, is soon shattered by what appears to be an accidental death. The victim's distraught wife, Antonia...

  • A Clock Without Hands

    Guy Burt

    "I want to turn back the hands on the clock and change it all, make it different; three friends who meet up by chance in an old city and share a beer and laugh at old stories and jokes. But it wasn't like that; and the clock has no hands, so I can't ...

  • The Closer

    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...

  • Double Homicide

    Faye Kellerman
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    DOUBLE HOMICIDE: BOSTON After a basketball match leads to a fatal shooting, Detectives Dorothy Breton and Michael McCain are looking to make an open-and-shut case. For Dorothy, who knows the victim's mother, the crime hits close to home. And for Mic...

  • Double Homicide

    Jonathan Kellerman
    in

    DOUBLE HOMICIDE: BOSTON After a basketball match leads to a fatal shooting, Detectives Dorothy Breton and Michael McCain are looking to make an open-and-shut case. For Dorothy, who knows the victim's mother, the crime hits close to home. And for Mic...

  • The Easiest Thing in the World

    George V. Higgins

    The Easiest Thing in the World is a riveting collection of stories, film treatments, plays, and two never-before-published novellas -- the titular work and Slowly Now the Dancer. This is the prose we've come to expect from Higgins: tough tales of cor...

  • Every Shut Eye

    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...

  • The Fund

    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...

  • Getting Garbo

    Jerry Ludwig

    Set in the glamorous, cruel and often bizarre Hollywood era of the 1950s, Getting Garbo is a hilarious and suspenseful novel of the cinema’s Golden Age, when autograph hounds were relentless as they sought the names of stars who became legends in t...

  • Good Morning, Darkness

    Ruth Francisco

    Everybody was in love with Laura: the Mexican fisherman who admired her through her kitchen window in the predawn darkness, the boyfriend who refused to take no for an answer, the detective who instructed her in martial arts, and the creepy boss who ...

  • The Incumbent

    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...

  • Lake of Sorrows

    Erin Hart

    American forensic pathologist Nora Gavin has been called to an archaeological site in the bleak midlands west of Dublin to assist at an excavation where a well-preserved Iron Age body has been found buried in a peat bog. How many hundreds or thou...

  • Me and Billy

    James Lincoln Collier

    Life at Deacon Smith’s Home for Waifs would be completely dreary if it weren’t for Possum’s best friend, Billy, who “thinks up lies faster than he can talk” and provides plenty of excitement for the other boys. When Billy hears that gold is...

  • The Murder Artist

    John Case

    As a television news correspondent, Alex Callahan has traveled to some of the most dangerous corners of the globe, covering famine, plague, and war. He's seen more than his share of blood and death, and knows what it means to be afraid. But what he's...

  • Murder at the B-School

    Jeffrey Cruikshank

    Eric MacInnes is the golden boy of Harvard Business School-until an incident in a hot tub turns him into a beautiful corpse. Now the B-School elders need somebody to placate both Eric's parents and the Boston police. First on their list is assistant ...

  • The Prince of Beverly Hills

    Stuart Woods

    His first night back in uniform, Rick Barron witnesses a car accident in which Clete Barrow, a drunk Hollywood A-lister, is involved. Though the other driver dies, Rick performs "Hollywood damage control," whisking Clete away from the scene. Centurio...

  • The Reunion

    Sue Walker

    Innes? Innes, it's Isabella. Isabella Velasco ... Don't ask me how I got hold of you ... We live quite close, you know, would you believe? God, you sound just the same. Just the same! ... I need to talk to you ... see you. Can you call me as soon as ...

  • Seeds of Doubt

    Stephanie Kane

    Denver defense attorney Jackie Flowers doesn't want to take the case. Convicted child killers are not her favorite clients. Thirty years ago, Rachel Boyd was just a child herself when she was found guilty of killing her little playmate, Freddie G...

  • Shotgun Alley

    Andrew Klavan

    Honey is the vivacious, seventeen-year-old daughter of a politician running for state senate and eventually (he hopes) the presidency. But his sweet little girl has a penchant for drug dealers, mad-dog bikers, booze, sex, crank, and guns. She's run ...

  • Skinny-dipping

    Claire Matturro

    When you swim with the sharks…paddle fast! Lilly Cleary is an attorney for a prestigious Sarasota law firm. But her killer cross- examination technique and take-no-prisoners courtroom attitude haven't stopped the senior partners from dumping one s...

  • The Star of Kazan

    Eva Ibbotson

    The adventure of a lifetime Annika has never had a birthday. Instead she celebrates her Found Day, the day a housemaid and a cook to three eccentric Viennese professors found her and took her home. There, Annika has made a happy life in the servants...

  • Taking Care of Moses

    Barbara O'Connor

    Who left the baby at the Rock of Ages Baptist Church?Randall Mackey has a secret. He knows who left the baby on the steps of the Rock of Ages Baptist Church. But he can't tell anyone, not even his best friend, Jaybird. And he certainly can't let Jayb...

  • Tales from Wrescal Lane

    Mick Foley

    Come one, come all, to Wrescal Lane.It's the bestest place to seeyour favorite WWE Superstarsas kids like you and me!First there's young Mick Foley,with missing teeth and dirty shirt.One look at him will tell youhe's not afraid of getting hurt!Kurt A...

  • Total Silence

    T.J. MacGregor

    TOTAL FEAR In the woods of North Carolina, a killer waits, ready to unleash a shocking plan of revenge. Soon the victims will understand what it is to be helpless and alone. They will wish for mercy, but there will be none. Because actions have cons...

  • Twisted

    Jeffery Deaver

    New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver delivers an electrifying collection of sixteen award-winning stories that will widen your eyes and stretch your imagination. Diverse and provocative, Twisted showcases Deaver's amazing range and signa...

  • At the End of the Bayou

    DiAnn Mills
    in

    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 ...

  • Bounty Hunter Redemption

    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...

  • Buried in the Past

    Jill Stengl
    in

    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. Stephanie Keller is seeking a new start in England, helping...

  • Christmas Stalking // Christmas Undercover

    Jo Leigh

    KIDNAPPED, BODY AND SOUL The sexy Santa with the ice-blue eyes swept senator's daughter Jade Parker off her feet and into captivity. And soon Jade feared he'd also captured her heart. For although reporter Max Travis's tale of her father's guilt i...

  • Double-Cross

    Meredith Fletcher

    An orphan with an unknown past, CIA operative Samantha St. John used her quick speed and sharp mind to make up for her small size. Sam was about to go AWOL on a mission for vengeance--bringing down the legendary killer she believed was responsible fo...

  • Full Exposure

    Debra Webb

    Specialist Cole Danes's investigation revealed the unthinkable: a trusted, longtime personal assistant to Victoria Colby had been the source leaking highly sensitive information that could have resulted in the agency's destruction. But it soon became...

  • The Girl With The Golden Spurs

    Ann Major

    From the cradle, Lizzy Kemble had the powerful sense that she didn't belong in her family's notorious Texas empire. Her desire for land-grabbing Cole Knight, embittered son of the neighboring rancher, proved her right. Her daddy had done everything p...

  • Heat of the Moment

    Jessica Hall

    Jessica Hall raises the stakes as she ignites a spark between two lovers torn between danger and desire.... The heat is on. A serial arsonist has struck again, torching a New Orleans bar and killing fifteen people--including the wife of a Mafia cr...

  • I'm Watching You

    Karen Rose

    I KNOW THEIR CRIMES. Star prosecutor Kristen Mayhew has a dangerous secret admirer. He seems to knows her every thought, her every move. He sends her letters. And he kills the criminals she herself is powerless to stop. I HUNT DOWN THE GUILTY. ...

  • Just Past Midnight

    Amanda Stevens

    THE DARKEST PART OF THE NIGHT IS THE MOST DANGEROUS Stalked for years, Dr. Darian West has become an emotional recluse, a woman at the mercy of a skilled killer. Threats to her family have kept her silent, but every man who has become involved wit...

  • Killer Chameleon

    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...

  • Killer Instinct

    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...

  • Light My Fire

    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...

  • Northern Lights

    Nora Roberts

    Lunacy was Nate Burke's last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he'd watched his partner die on the street--and the guilt still haunts him. With nowhere else to go, he accepts the job as chief of police in this tiny, remote Alaskan town, where the peace pro...

  • Out of the Storm

    JoAnn Ross

    Southern hospitality can kill you.... There's no escaping the sweltering heat when White House correspondent Laurel Stewart arrives in Somersett, South Carolina, and discovers that her best friend -- the vice president's protocol advisor -- has di...

  • The Parisian Affair

    Judith Gould

    When you trap an innocent woman in the world of international intrigue, high-stakes glamour, and dangerous romance you get New York Times bestselling author Judith Gould at her delicious best... Manhattan jewelry designer Allegra Sheridan has been...

  • Private Agenda

    Natalie Dunbar

    "SOMEONE WILL PAY FOR WHAT HAPPENED..." The last year of her life had been hell. CIA agent Reese Whittaker's attempt at marriage and motherhood had ended in heartache. Now her brother had been killed in an embassy bombing and the CIA wanted her to...

  • Pure Dynamite

    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 ...

  • Shadow Soldier

    Dana Marton

    IN HIS PROTECTIVE CUSTODY Despite the fringe benefits of watching over Nicola Barrington, her covert "bodyguard" itched to get back into the fray. Assigned to the elite Special Designation Defense Unit, Alex Rodriguez leaped into action after a di...

  • Situation: Out of Control

    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...

  • Still of the Night

    Dee Davis
    in

    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...

  • Then Came Darkness

    Gail Gaymer Martin
    in

    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...

  • Tracked

    Claudia Dain
    in

    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...

  • Watcher in the Woods

    Carol Cox
    in

    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...

  • What She Doesn't Know

    Tina Wainscott

    WHAT SHE DOES KNOW CAN HURT HER. On the brink of falling for a man she met on the Internet, Dr. Rita Brooks naively assumes Brian LaPorte is everything he says he is...and all that she's hoped for. But before she can come face to face with him, Rita...

  • Whole Lotta Trouble

    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 ...

  • Wild Heart

    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...

  • Wounded

    Evelyn Rogers
    in

    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...

  • The Beautiful Miss Mousey

    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...

  • The Christmas Matchmaker

    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...

  • A Duke for Christmas

    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...

  • The Enchanted Earl

    Barbara Metzger
    in

    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.....

  • The Green Gauze Gown

    Sandra Heath
    in

    Just when a widow and her two boys could do with some Christmas magic, signs of it appear in their new home -- among them The Green Gauze Gown that materializes in her closet. Then an old flame turns up -- and he's even more dashing than she reme...

  • A Merry Gentleman

    Lisa Noeli
    in

    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 ...

  • A Notorious Lady

    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...

  • On the Twelfth Day of Christmas

    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...

  • Once Upon a Christmas

    Melynda Beth Skinner
    in

    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...

  • The Perfect Bride

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    A Plan Gone Perfectly Awry... A duel has left Lucian, fourth Earl of Wandersee, with a wounded arm and a sudden distaste for London society. Traveling in secret to the country, he is laid low by a raging fever -- and he finds himself recuperating in...

  • A Promise Kept

    Alice Holden
    in

    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...

  • A Proper Introduction

    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...

  • The Star of India

    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 ...

  • The Two Dancing Daughters

    Edith Layton
    in

    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.......

  • The Ultimate Magic

    Allison Lane
    in

    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.......

  • Upon a Midnight Clear

    Amanda McCabe
    in

    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.......

  • Amore

    Laura Wolf
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    A STAR-STUDDED STORY COLLECTION FEATURING AMERICA'S RED-HOT WOMEN WRITERS They're taking liberties--and pursuing happiness on their own terms! Jennifer Weiner (In Her Shoes) learns "The Truth About Nigel"--and the trouble with falling for an in...

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    Melody Carlson

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    Aisha Ford

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    Cynthia Rylant

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    Simon Cheshire

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    Cheris F. Hodges / Cheris Hodges

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    Josephine Cox

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    Paul McCusker

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    Annetta P. Lee

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    Brian James

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    Gilbert Morris

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    Rose Wilkins

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    Lisa Samson

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  • Wild Rose

    Ruth Axtell Morren

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  • Blood Retribution

    Aimee Thurlo; David Thurlo

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    Jon Talton

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    Max Allan Collins

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  • In a Dark House

    Deborah Crombie

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  • London Bridges

    James Patterson

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    Kirk Russell

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    Carol O'Connell

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    Lori Handeland

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    Emily Carmichael

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    Jenna McKnight

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    Janeen O'Kerry

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    Lisa Cach

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    Angela Knight

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    Catherine Mulvany

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    Susan Krinard

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    Eileen Wilks

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    James C. Mitchell

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  • Green Thumb

    Ralph M. McInerny

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  • Hour Game

    David Baldacci

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  • Color Blind

    Jonathan Santlofer

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  • Keep Me Alive

    Natasha Cooper

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  • Scared Money

    James Hime

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  • Simpsons Holiday Humdinger

    Matt Groening

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  • The Awful Abbey

    Dorothy R. Kliewer

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  • Cam Jansen and the Snowy Day Mystery

    David A. Adler

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  • Case of the Vanishing Painting

    James Preller

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  • Chasing the Dragon

    Domenic Stansberry

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  • The Coffin Trail

    Martin Edwards

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  • Eye of Newt

    Denise Dietz

    Sydney St. Charles is descended from a long line of witches. She owns an apothecary shop in Manitou Falls, Colorado, where she sells spells, potions and talismans. Sydney's charms are very popular, but it isn't witchcraft that has the town buzzing. C...

  • First, Do No Harm

    Larry Karp

    The past comes rearing up to bite the next generation when a son digs too deep into his family's past.... Martin Firestone can't figure why his father, the eccentric painter Leo Firestone, is throwing a fit. All Martin did was tell his dad he'd been ...

  • Heist and Seek

    Amy Sandrin

    Late one night, while working at a bank with the janitorial service she owns, Robyn Jeffries intercepts a robbery in progress. She's taken hostage, along with Killian Hart, an FBI agent. Taken high up into the mountains, they are held captive by a ma...

  • The Midnight Tree

    Dorothy R. Kliewer

    COVER OF DARKNESS When Rufus County sheriff Aaron Blaine is found murdered in plainclothes in front of a courthouse outside his jurisdiction, investigative reporter Deedra Masefield tackles the most heartbreaking story of her life. Not only was he t...

  • The Mongol Reply

    Benjamin M. Schutz

    Serena Tully's troubled marriage has gone over the dam. Her husband, Tom, is a volatile pro-football coach and former player with a hair-trigger temper (he was responsible for a death on the field and has no regrets). Tom's attorney, Albert Garfield,...

  • Murder at Union Station

    Margaret Truman

    Louis Russo, former mob hit man and government informer, arrives at Union Station in D.C. on the last lap of what will turn out to be his one-way trip from Tel Aviv. Two men meet his train. One is the man who will kill him. The other is Richard Marie...

  • Murder, My Tweet

    Bruce Hale

    Right in the middle of a run-of-the-mill case, the powers that be finger Chet's fine-feathered partner, Natalie Attired, as a no-goodnik blackmailer and boot her out of Emerson Hicky quicker than you can say, “Boot her out of Emerson Hicky.” Chet...

  • Plains Crazy

    J.M. Hayes

    Spring bursts into bloom-and a whole lot more-as murder-by-arrow rattles Benteen County, Kansas.Nothing ever happens in Benteen County, Kansas. Then, on a perfect spring morning, a member of the reality TV program filming in a local pasture dies with...

  • Sammy Keyes And the Psycho Kitty Queen

    Wendelin Van Draanen

    Sammy's never been what you might call lucky. But finding a dead cat on her birthday? That ranks up there in her top-ten unluckiest moments. And not just because it was the ugliest dead thing she'd ever seen. No, it was more because of the chain of...

  • Speak Now

    Margaret Dumas

    Charley Van Leeuwen can tell by a kiss whether someone has been drinking Taittinger or Veuve Clicquot. But a connoisseur of men she is not. Which is why it's such a shock to her friends when the confirmed commitment-phobe theater director returns to ...

  • Thieves Break In

    Cristina Sumners

    The Reverend Kathryn Koerney is looking forward to guiding a group of her New Jersey parishioners through historical Oxford, England. She's also eager to visit her cousin, Richard, who works for a baronet at Datchworth Castle. But just before she dep...

  • Truecrime

    Jake Arnott

    “Funny, fast, witty, and brutal.” -- David Bowie

    Jake Arnott’s brilliant trilogy of criminal life in England forms a kind of Godfather-like history of Britain’s gangland, spanning 40 years. The first, The Long Firm (1999), caught ever...

  • The Vanished Priestess

    Meredith Blevins

    The indomitable Annie Szabo has lost too many friends and loved ones, so the death of Margo Spanger hits hard. Margo, Annie's neighbor, was a cultural icon with money and fame. Maybe too much. She used one of her projects, a New Age circus, to fund a...

  • A Watery Grave

    Joan Druett

    The year is 1838, and after more than ten years in the planning, the famous United States Exploring Expedition is set to launch into uncharted waters from the coast of Virginia. A convoy of seven ships filled with astronomers, mapmakers, naturalists,...

  • Persuasive Evidence

    R. Barri Flowers

    Since her husband's death, Assistant District Attorney Jordan La Fontaine has worked non-stop to get the position of Bureau Chief of the Homicide Division, competing with fellow ADA Jerrod Wresler. But the law's taken on a whole new importance to Jor...

  • Child of My Right Hand

    Eric Goodman

    The stunning third novel from acclaimed author Eric Goodman is the story of a middle class family: college professors Jack and Genna Barish and their two children, fourteen-year-old Lizzy and seventeen-year-old Simon. The four have just moved to Tipt...