Books Published in August 2005

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Cleary, North Carolina, is a sleepy mountain town -- the kind of place where criminal activity is usually limited to parking violations. Not so, lately. Four women have disappeared from Cleary over the past two years. And there's always a blue ribbon...

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A high society bride for the taking! Silas Carter -- American billionaire and bachelor, he's at the top of every celebrity party guest list. Love isn't in Silas's plans -- but a practical marriage is! Julia Fellowes -- beautiful, we...

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Meet Nik Prince, Oscar-winning actor-turned-director. He's bent on transforming a worldwide bestseller into a blockbuster movie, and he must track down the reclusive author of the book. But stubborn Jinx Nixon is in his way... Jinx knows the identity...

• Sep-2005
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HE WANTED HIS MONEY, AND THE WOMAN OUT OF HIS LIFE... With his taut muscles and powerful gaze, bodyguard Tanner Keane was Madison Hilliard's only source of safety. Hired to rescue her, he kept her safe from a corrupt ex-husband who wanted her dead...

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DANGER LURKED IN THE SWAMP'S DARK DEPTHS Big-city lawyer Lorena Fortier's suspicions about her father's death brought her to a small Florida town nestled in the Everglades. Then whoever -- or whatever -- had killed her father started claiming more...

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Dear Reader: Five years after Jason Sherbrooke leaves England for Baltimore and the Wyndhams (The Valentine Legacy), one of the premiere racing families in the area, he wakes up early one morning with Horace's ugly pug face staring him down, and k...

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A wife at his command... Anton Luis Scott-Lee has to marry the woman who so callously rejected him years ago. His revenge will be sweet.... A mistress at his service... Cristina Marques will be totally at Luis's bidding -- bought and paid fo...

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Will he get his wedding-night baby? Virginal beauty Cally Maitland has become accustomed to life on the run since fleeing her marriage to British aristocrat Sir Nicholas Tempest. But Nicholas isn't prepared to let Cally go. He has a harsh u...

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In this gripping novel of suspense by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson, a small timber town nestled in the shadow of Oregon s Cascade Mountains is the perfect place for a killer to hide
For the wealthy Buchanans, the town of P...

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Made to marry -- for her baby's sake! Nic Leandros knows that most people want only his money. So when he finds out beautiful Tina Matheson is pregnant with his late brother's child, he's certain her price will be high.... However...

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THE NECKLACE PROMISED GREAT HAPPINESS OR GREAT TRAGEDY -- AND NOBODY COULD ELUDE ITS POWER... To British privateer Ethan Sharpe, Grace Chastain is nothing but a pawn for vengeance against Harmon Jeffries, the traitor responsible for his brutal yea...

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APRIL HAD ALWAYS FELT LIKE AN OUTSIDER. Her older sister Brenda was tall, athletic, competitive, and sure of herself. But April Taylor was short, sensitive, and overweight -- and she couldn't bounce back from their father's cutting criticisms th...

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Since her mother's death, FBI Special Agent Cate Kowalski had to cope with the deep emptiness she felt -- and the shocking revelation that she was adopted. The news came too soon after losing her fiance and destroyed the very foundation of her identi...

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Fifty years ago, when she was five, Sister Mary Katherine witnessed something terrible ... A former Seattle policeman now working for the Washington State Attorney's Special Homicide Investigation Team, J.P. Beaumont has been hand-picked to lead t...

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MEETING A RICH, RUGGED CATTLE BARON... Discovering her late father was a billionaire cattle king makes Casey McGuire one of the famous "McIvor heiresses." She's worked hard all her life, and she's never had the prospect of money --...

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The first in a two-part miniseries from Margaret Way! Darcy McIvor is shocked at the contents of her late father's will. She might have inherited half his estate -- but the other half has gone to her estranged sister! Not only that, her father...

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A nameless woman appears to be just another body at the morgue--until Boston medical examiner Maura Isles sees the corpse open its eyes. The now-frantic Jane Doe is rushed to the hospital, where with cool precision she shoots a security guard and sei...

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Everyone assumes Rosa Lee Altman lived a life without passion. But buried secrets are meant to be revealed. And no one is prepared for what they discover beneath Rosa Lee's overgrown roses--or how her legacy will change their lives with love. The ...

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Exclusive: Australia's richest, most ruthless tycoon bares all! Reporter Amelia Jacobs has got a scoop with Vaughan Mason. She'll spend a week in this rich man's world... Revealed: the passionate playboy... But Vaughan's skill at...

• Aug-2005
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One gorgeous Spanish doctor... Cool, commanding Dr. Ciro Delgato is the new doctor temporarily working alongside nurse Harriet Farrell, and he wastes no time in making sure she's at his beck and call--day and night! One very unexpected baby....

• Aug-2005
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You met star quarterback Kevin Tucker in This Heart of Mine. Now get ready to meet his shark of an agent, Heath Champion, and Annabelle Granger, the girl least likely to succeed. Annabelle's endured dead-end jobs, a broken engagement ... even her ...

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A lavish summer wedding is being planned at Bitter Creek ranch. In one month, Clay Blackthorne will wed socialite Jocelyn Montrose. But when she hears stirrings of a corporate takeover by the family's archrival, North Grayhawk, Jocelyn covertly heads...

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He would fight for their marriage -- in the bedroom! Reece Diamond knew that Alanna would make the perfect trophy wife! Stunning and sophisticated, she wanted nothing more than a marriage of convenience. And that was fine by Reece! But sudden...

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Will he discover that she's having his baby? Santiago Morais is strong, proud and fiercely passionate--everything that Lily's treacherous husband wasn't. It's in Santiago's arms that Lily finds herself awakened--she's not t...

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AGATHA RAISIN...AND THE CASE FROM HELL She's nosed in on murder investigations, annoyed law enforcement on two continents, and been targeted by everyone from a hit man to a killer secretary. But now Agatha Raisin must take on her greatest nightmar...

• Aug-2005
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MEET JANE DOE... He found her, barely conscious, on a dark Utah mountain road -- a woman with an affinity for obscure languages and seemingly no memory of her identity. But ex-agent Mason Keller was not about to fall for that -- and despite his at...

• Aug-2005
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NOTHING TO SEE As director of an inner-city women's shelter, Dana Dupinsky safeguards many secrets. Some are new identities; some are new addresses; and some are even hidden truths about herself. Passionately dedicated to Hanover House and the wom...

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DEATH AND THE CITY Detective Rowen O'Connor never expected she'd come face-to-face with Evan Hunter -- the enigmatic man who'd broken her heart years ago -- especially not while working a murder investigation that left the city of Boston overrun w...

• Aug-2005
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The stakes are too high!

Attorney Gray Baron has come to Las Vegas on a mission to find a woman -- Dawn Lincoln Kittredge -- the long-lost grandchild of his uncle Jonas Baron. But single mom Dawn is not about to make it easy for him.

O...

• Aug-2005
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Bestselling author Mary Monroe won rave reviews from critics and readers alike with her first two novels, God Don't Like Ugly and The Upper Room, both Main Selections of the Black Expressions Book Club. Now she returns with the masterful Gonna Lay Do...

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Jo Marconi has her hands full working hard at the family business and struggling to get her belated college degree. The last thing she needs is a ten-year-old boy to look after. But that's exactly what she gets when her stepbrother comes to live with...

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Behind the men who shaped history are the heroes who forever changed it. In The Prince, beloved author Francine Rivers illuminates the life of Jonathan. In this new series of hardcover biblical novellas from beloved author Francine Rivers, each novel...

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Schoolgirl Geneva Settle's research project into her slave ancestor Charles Singleton unearths more than just an interesting story. Suddenly Geneva seems to be the target of a professional assassin. A man who will ruthlessly kill anyone in his way un...

• Aug-2005
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Zoe's a security specialist and a Costas through and through. Her eccentric, rather dubious family runs an Atlantic City spa that's just this side of legit. So Zoe isn't fooled by the charm or good looks of Ryan Baldwin when he shows up claiming to b...

• Aug-2005
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The Hot Zone For Immediate Release Contact: Micki Jordan, co-owner of The Hot Zone Sports Agency Micki Jordan, publicist to the brightest stars in the sports world, is pleased to announce the end of her tomboy ways, effective immediately. While ...

• Aug-2005
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A beauty looking for her inner nerd. Movie star Zoe Tarleton has everything but respect. Now she's determined to get it by snagging the coveted role of a plain-Jane chemist. All she needs is for her decidedly un cool attorney, Flynn Granger, to teac...

• Aug-2005
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The war against Voldemort is not going well; even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of the Daily Prophet, looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Ph...

• Aug-2005
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When revenge, secrets and passion ignite! Cass can't continue with a relationship that involves just her body when her heart is breaking.... But the deal she made with Sicilian tycoon Maximos Borsellino was for sex -- and when that fails to be...

• Aug-2005
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It's been years since her child's father dumped her, and since then Kara McMillan has kept men at bay--although every day she aches more for a lover's touch. But to get that, the hard-boiled journalist must become vulnerable--a feeling she vowed neve...

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Bestselling author JoAnn Ross turns up the heat in a novel of heart-stopping suspense and white-hot passion that takes readers from the sultry South Carolina Lowcountry to the rugged Northern California coast, and ultimately into the darkest reaches ...

• Aug-2005
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Who is Geronimo Stilton? That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing adventure stories. Here in New Mouse City, the capital of Mouse Island, my books are all bestsellers! My stories are funny, fa-mouse-ly funny. They are whisker-lick...

• Sep-2005
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Linc Ketchum hadn't been a pussycat before the fire at the T Bar K burned his hands, but now he was next to impossible. And he knew no woman would put up with him, especially not Nevada Ortiz, the so-called nurse that Linc's cousin had sent to take c...

• Sep-2005
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TRUTH HAS DEADLY CONSEQUENCES Twenty-six years ago, even before a series of brutal murders rocked the idyllic town of Bowers Inlet, Cassie Burke lost her parents, her sister, and nearly her own life to a transient befriended by her father. Back th...

• Aug-2005
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When FBI agent Dylan Shields was killed in an undercover drug deal two years ago, his colleague (and fiancee) Annie Marie McCall was left alone with too many unanswered questions - and nothing to do but hit the job as hard as she could to escape the ...

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Disenchanted with the politics of working in an upscale Washington D.C. restaurant, twenty-seven-year-old chef Lydia Lord resigns from her job and resolves to make it on her own. She returns home to Baltimore with plans to launch a gourmet market...

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A Category Four hurricane has swept the west coast of Florida, creating havoc, changing lives, and reshaping the ocean bottom. It also uncovers a long-forgotten shipwreck that leads Doc Ford to an old woman in a secluded, worn-down mansion. She tells...

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ONE LAST MISSION Air Force captain Joe Greco had stood silently by when photojournalist Brigid Wheeler fell for his best friend, and he lent her comfort when Cooper was killed. Now he was forced to play protector as they embarked on the most danger...