Books Published in December 2003

• Dec-2003
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Discover how legends were made when Jacobsville founding father Big John Jacobs weds the daughter of a prosperous railroad tycoon! Will passion blaze when this fortune-seeking Long,Tall Texan brands his sweetly unassuming wife with his soul-searing k...

• Dec-2003
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Maggie, Nicki, Alice and Stella... For four close friends, it's the bonds of friendship that have seen them through life's ups and downs. Nothing can shake their support of each other -- until one of them drops a bombshell that will change their rela...

• Jan-2004
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Meet the Bedwyns--six brothers and sisters--men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality. Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction...where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal...and...

• Dec-2003
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Fern Michaels, one of the world's best-loved storytellers, delivers an emotionally charged and surprising tale of two very different brothers and the one woman who loved them both -- and who holds the key to a family secret. Handsome, rich, and ador...

• Dec-2003
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ONE SIZZLING KISS FROM... Thorn Westmoreland was not enough to convince Tara Matthews to risk her heart in love again...or was it? The beautiful pediatrician and the hard-riding motorcycle tycoon mixed like oil and water. Why, then, couldn't Tara ...

• Dec-2003
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What lies behind the Italian doctor's passion? Dark, handsome and impossibly wealthy surgeon Carlo Santini can have any woman he wants. But working alongside nurse Suzannah Wilde at St. Catherine's hospital, it's hard for him to deny t...

• Dec-2003
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In a hushed maternity ward, an infant dies, while twin brothers thrive. By morning, one mother is told that her only child is doing fine. Another is told that she has tragically lost one of her sons... Twins separated at birth, Nathaniel Cartwright...

• Dec-2003
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TROUBLE ALWAYS ACCOMPANIED THE RAINY SEASON Rain and isolation could make folks crazy in these parts. Sheriff Mitch Tanner -- the most eligible bachelor in the county -- would have his hands full for sure. Bigfoot sightings and sundry strange happ...

• Dec-2003
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The Danger Zone Detective Patrick Cavanaugh survived by the skin of his teeth, and was one of the fiercest law enforcers west of the Mississippi. He wasn't friendly or popular, but he waged a war against crime with a ruthlessness that scared his p...

• Dec-2003
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One Man Has A Knife. Twenty Men Have Guns. And The Odds Are Just About Even... Smoke Jensen never wanted to kill, but fate had other plans, and the Mountain Man has left plenty of blood, tears and fury in his wake. Angus MacDougal, the father of...

• Dec-2003
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A blonde's ambition Kenna Mallory is giving up "making it on her own" -- aka poodle groomer and accounts payable clerk, jobs that haven't used all her natural abilities -- to join the family biz and prove she's got what it takes to be VP of the ne...

• Dec-2003
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Meg O'Sullivan fell in love with Dr. Flynn Kelsey the moment he kissed her. But when she discovered a photo of Flynn's wedding, she jumped to the obvious conclusion: he was married. Flynn was a widower, yet in a very real sense he was stil...

• Dec-2003
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As an on-the-run single mother out to protect her little girls, Lisa Connors needed two things: money, and to keep her identity secret. But it was just her luck that the possibility of the former would threaten the latter -- for as the caretaker of t...

• Dec-2003
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SOMEONE WANTED HER DEAD... But the only man who could keep proudly independent Tamara Greystone safe was brooding crime scene investigator Clay James, who insisted she do things his way if she wanted to see tomorrow. Terrified by a crazed stalker,...

• Jan-2004
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One kiss... Abigail Mercer was breathless with anticipation at being reunited with Spencer Law, whom she met once and later married by proxy. But now the dashing Viscount Ravenswood denies all knowledge of their union! Far too many witnesses have...

• Dec-2003
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Velvet is about to breathe her last and doesn't even know it when Patrick O'Leary lays her on the bed in a very strange house. When she does awake from a fever-induced coma, she finds herself in a cabin with Dr. Hoyt Baxter, who's hateful, mean and s...

• Dec-2003
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“The dead don't talk. I don't know why.” But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of ta...

• Dec-2003
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Barbara Taylor Bradford captivated millions of readers with her saga of the indomitable Emma Harte. Now her unforgettable story continues in this novel of the sacrifice and secrets that shadow her extraordinary heritage... A LEGACY FOR THREE WOMEN.....

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Dashing real estate magnate Adam Richmond is Bah Humbugging his way through the holidays when he is driven to distraction by Russian beauty Sophia Petrovnova. Are Yuletide wedding bells about to ring?...

• Dec-2003
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Las Vegas private eye Charlee Champagne can charge into any situation without batting an eyelash. She's absolutely fearless-except for spiders and tall, drop-dead-gorgeous men. So when breathtakingly handsome Mason Gentry strides into her office, dem...

• Dec-2003
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Princess Zuleika of Dariyabar has no intention of marrying her ruthless cousin, even if she has to give herself to the enemy, the barbarian AmirKhan, to be free of him. AmirKhan is both intrigued and amused by this outspoken, beautiful creature who s...

• Dec-2003
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VALDEMAR A decade and a half ago Mercedes Lackey published Arrows of the Queen, the story of an outcast girl whose life takes a dramatic turn when she is "Chosen" by a mysterious horselike Companion and is inducted into the ranks of an elite corp ...

• Jan-2004
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TO SEDUCE AN ENGLISH LADY, A GENTLEMAN MUST ALWAYS REMEMBER TO... Gaze longingly into her eyes while declaring her beauty... Colonel Colin Mandland has wealth, power...everything but a bride. But although there is no mistress of his newly purchas...

• Dec-2003
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Isabella Corrales refused to fall for her newest client, Ross Ketchum. He was cocky and arrogant, with a devil-may-care attitude and dimples deeper than the Grand Canyon. Nope, she wasn't going to fall for him. Not even when she had to move into his ...

• Dec-2003
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FACE TIME A skilled compositor for the FBI, Kendra Smith has a way with witnesses, helping them to remember crucial details about their attackers they might otherwise have forgotten. She believes her work helps to provide closure for the victims a...

• Dec-2003
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When four women begin writing mystery books, they suddenly find themselves entering new lives of intrigue, danger - even love. Will their longing for adventure on paper take them to perilous places in real life? In this intriguing novella compilation...

• Dec-2003
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The world is at war. And there's a similar tension in the heart of Lilly Clark. With the war in Europe raging, Lilly lives for letters from her beloved Reggie. But then a stranger enters her life and changes everything. Heinrick Zook has become th...

• Dec-2003
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Kelly McGregor says she'll never marry. . .not after what she's seen her father do to her mother. She's determined to escape her father's overbearing ways and the drudgery of driving the mules that pull his boat along the canal. Kelly dreams of ownin...

• Dec-2003
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From the bestselling author of Between Husbands and Friends and An Act of Love comes a wise, wonderful, and delightfully witty “coming of age” novel about four intrepid women who discover themselves as they were truly meant to be: passionate, ali...

• Dec-2003
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AGENT...WARRIOR...FATHER Colorado Confidential agent Night Walker could track like a wolf and gentle the wildest beast. But learning that his night of forbidden desire with Colorado's own society princess had produced a son, and that his baby had ...

• Dec-2003
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A fragile peace has come to the country in the aftermath of the Civil War, but tensions remain strong in the hearts and souls of those who fought for their land...and for love. For beautiful, strong-willed Cameron Campbell, the war had one shining...

• Dec-2003
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Holly Springs Scandal Once upon a time, hockey player Joe Hart fell in love with sweet, beautiful Emma Donovan. But then Joe discovered that Emma's father owned the NHL team he played for. Heartbroken, angry and kicked off the team, Joe disappeare...

• Dec-2003
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July 19, 1983... The Kinards, the Richardses and the Webbers -- Seattle's Kennedys. Their "compound" -- elegant Forrester Square...until the fateful night that tore these families apart. Twenty years later... Their children were reunited. Repres...

• Jan-2004
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You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family. Investigative reporter Angel Buchanan dug up a whopping surprise: The late "Artist of the Heart" Stephen Whitney -- famous for his family values -- was the father who'd abandoned her ...

• Dec-2003
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God could not have chosen a worse time to send Dr. Grant Hardesty to Button Gap. Three abandoned children were depending on Maggie Davis's clandestine care until their mother returned. Maggie didn't think she could trust the by-the-book doctor with h...

• Dec-2003
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A Match Made in Rawhide From the moment she meets the new sheriff, Dr. Caroline Randall knows her homecoming is a mistake. Not only does he arrest and cuff her at their first meeting, Mike Davis matches her feisty attitude. After years, Caroline's...

• Dec-2003
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Kirk Chandler and Valerie Simms -- two people who'll do anything for children. Valerie is a juvenile court judge. She spends her days helping troubled kids -- including her own fatherless twin boys. Through her sons, she meets Kirk Chandler. Ki...

• Dec-2003
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Jeremy Solter is a teenager growing up in the late 21st century. During the school year, his family lives in Southern California--but during the summer the whole family lives and works in the city of Polisso, on the frontier of the Roman Empire. Not ...

• Dec-2003
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MR. ICE She'd painted notorious corporate raider Dominic Chakaris as she saw him -- hard, ruthless, predatory. The man had destroyed her family, and now he set his sights on her: the woman who'd dared capture the truth on canvas. Kelly Mac...

• Dec-2003
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July 12, 1939: Perry Nelson is driving along the palisades when suddenly another vehicle swerves into his lane, a tire blows out, and his car careens off the road and over a bluff. The last thing he sees before his head connects with the boulders bel...

• Dec-2003
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The Honorable Cowboy: Colt Wakefield His Profile: Intrepid, impassioned and irresistible His Soft Spot: His newly discovered daughter All it took was one glance at the toddler in Kaylee Simpson's arms for Colt to know the two-year-old was his. D...

• Dec-2003
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DON'T SAY A WORD Newly divorced schoolteacher Mia Anderson is looking forward to exploring her identity without her ex-husband's criticism. But a frantic call from her much wilder twin Margot suddenly plunges Mia into her sister's life, which Marg...

• Dec-2003
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At the end of Valhalla Rising, #1 New York Times bestselling author Clive Cussler shocked the world -- and his own protagonist -- with the introduction of Dirk Pitt's children. Born to a woman Dirk thought he had tragically lost more than twenty year...

• Dec-2003
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When an ice storm left professor Lucy Guerin stranded in rural Arkansas, she was forced to accept shelter in the secluded home of woodworker Richard Banner. Handsome as sin and twice as grumpy, Banner was not quite what Lucy had envisioned when she'd...

• Dec-2003
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"You're under arrest!" To a woman who was all fire, sass and temptation that was a hell of a hello! But army major Rafe Hunter had no choice. Karissa Baxter was a "Sooner" attempting to secure the homestead she wanted before the start of the Land ...

• Dec-2003
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A hard probe into stolen nukes puts Mack Bolan on a firefight through Scandinavia, racing to piece together a scenario involving China, thirty tactical nukes and an unknown target. With Phoenix Force's Gary Manning as point man, they're losing a batt...

• Dec-2003
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When not called to provide crucial assistance to its elite commandos on the ground in real-time battle, America's ultra-covert counterterrorist cyber warriors maintain a constant vigil against new global threats. Now, the West's worst nightmare is at...

• Jan-2004
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THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF CINDERELLA IN EVERY WOMAN . . . . . . except Darby Landon, or so she thinks before meeting the three fairy godmothers of Glass Slipper, Inc. They guarantee they can bring out the princess in any woman. But they'll have the...

• Dec-2003
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FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE A woman ahead of her time, Molly Murphy is determined to be a private detective. Having inherited the cases of her deceased mentor, Paddy Reilly, she's following philandering husbands, tracking down a runaway Dublin debutante,...

• Dec-2003
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Jane Green, author the best-sellers The Beach House and Second Chance, follows happily married Alice who moves from London to the USA only to discover that her life is not as fairy-tale as it seems in Spellbound. Alice has everything. So why isn't sh...