Books Published in December 2009

• Dec-2009
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Three years after the unprovoked attack on a peaceful colony, the war between the Rojok dynasty and the Tri-Galaxy Fleet rages on. Born of that war is the Morcai Battalion, a fleet comprised of Centaurians and humans -- the first collaboration of its...

• Dec-2009
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Texas Mystery Man... Always in the middle of trouble, be it during roundup or at Jacobsville county dances, Harley Fowler emerges unscathed. Until he meets whirlwind, top-notch investigator Alice Jones, who is trying to solve a murder involving the ...

• Dec-2009
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In his hand was a contract to prove she owed him thousands... Ilios Manos wasn't interested in Elizabeth Wareham's sob story. So what if she was broke and had nowhere to stay? He wanted his money back and his revenge, and he would exact hi...

• Dec-2009
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BEDDED BY THE TON'S MOST DESIRABLE RAKE! Society gossip has kept Lady Juliet Boyd out of the public eye since the suspicious death of her husband. Although she's been persuaded to accept an invitation to a summer house party, all she really wants is...

• Dec-2009
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Mr. December: Duncan Patrick, CEO Scrooge His Objective: Lose the "bah humbug" attitude His Plan: Find the right (temporary) mistress A powerful businessman, Duncan didn't like ultimatums, unless he was making them. But the board demanded his public...

• Dec-2009
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Investigating a female tourist's disappearance on a Staten Island ferry ride, NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas wonders: if she didn't jump, and she's not on board, then where in the world is she?...

• Dec-2009
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THEY CAN RUN, BUT THEY CAN'T HIDE FROM THE SISTERHOOD. Once upon a time there were seven very different women who had been broken but not beaten by life. In those tough days of healing, they became the Sisterhood, a group of devoted friends who vo...

• Dec-2009
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THE SISTERHOOD MAKES THINGS RIGHT After years of trying to become pregnant without success, Rachel Dawson and her husband Thomas felt their dreams had finally come true the day they brought home their newly adopted twin babies. Though the lawyer Bar...

• Dec-2009
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His price: her undoing Natasha Kirby had long been saddened by her family's feud with the Mandrakis men...now she's caught in its savage cross fire. The family business has fallen into the hands of merciless tycoon Alex Mandrakis. Summoned...

• Dec-2009
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Secrecy and intrigue ignite dangerous passions in New York Times bestselling author Hannah Howell's seductive new novel... It is whispered throughout London that the members of the Wherlocke family are possessed of certain unexplainable gifts. But L...

• Dec-2009
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With a brand-new novella featuring Hart Winston, whose switch with his identically hot twin brother has landed him in some serious foul play, it's a safe bet that in the game of love no one is going to follow the rules....

• Jan-2010
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Virgin River is abuzz with the news that a stranger bought the town's abandoned church on eBay. The buyer, a young widowed reverend, is a little like the building itself: in need of some loving care. Noah Kincaid arrives ready to roll up his sleev...

• Jan-2010
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Wounded in battle, Major Reese Dewar returns to England--but his injuries are nothing compared to his shattered heart Years ago, love-struck Reese departed his home at Briarwood with a promise from raven-haired Elizabeth Clemens that she would mak...

• Jan-2010
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SECRETS ARE AT HOME HERE . . . The Heavenstone sisters live with their mother and father in a grand old mansion in bluegrass Kentucky. Semantha, the younger and prettier one, is afraid of so many things -- darkness, strange noises, mysterious wh...

• Dec-2009
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"I only take yes for an answer." While searching for clues in a murder victim's apartment, Detective Taylor McIntyre stumbles upon an intruder. Thinking she's got her killer, Taylor handcuffs him to a railing. The next morning, she's shocked when sh...

• Dec-2009
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WHERE THERE'S FIRE... THERE'S SMOKE.... Santa Clara, Colorado, is 24 hours by train from the land where Smoke Jensen found peace and prosperity on his Sugarloaf Ranch. But somehow, Smoke can't stay away from Santa Clara -- and from an evil cattle bar...

• Dec-2009
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What can you feel in the dark? How far are you willing to go beyond it? Lora Leigh does it... in the lair of a strange breed, part man, part wolf, on the hunt for the woman he craves-and needs-to fulfill a hunger clawing at him from within Angela K...

• Dec-2009
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In the heat of the Arizona desert, a raging fire pushes temperatures to a deadly degree, and one woman is left to burn. Pulled naked and barely breathing from the fire, the victim has no idea who she is, let alone who would do this to her -- or why. ...

• Dec-2009
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Two sassy brides knock these brooding bachelors sideways! Nyree Allcott's thrilled when she inherits a ramshackle farmhouse. A little TLC and she'll finally have a home of her own. Property developer Brant Hollister wants the land, but if ...

• Dec-2009
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Dr. Ben Richardson is trying to make yet another new start, this time in the emergency department at a Melbourne hospital. It's been nearly four years since he lost his wife and unborn child -- and he still hasn't let go. So it comes as quite...

• Jan-2010
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Nine years ago Kate Grayhawk Pendelton walked into Wyatt Shaw's life--and out of it the next morning. Now Wyatt's back--and has the power to shatter Kate's future with the man she loves. By reputation, Wyatt Shaw is a brutal killer who always gets...

• Dec-2009
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A ROSE IN LOVE -- AND DEATH When Sheriff Matt Buchanan discovers FBI profiler Jenna Taylor snooping around his crime scene, he isn't pleased. The last thing he needs is the FBI meddling. But Jenna is determined to find her best friend's murderer, an...

• Dec-2009
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If you love a real Cinderella story, the magic begins here... Once upon a time there was a girl who shied away from the limelight.... Until she arrived at Chateau de Belles Fleurs and became the star of her own real-life fairy tale.... Dana is stun...

• Dec-2009
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When photojournalist Kamaria Trayhern goes undercover at the Mason family ranch, she's hoping to find her real father, not romance. But keeping everyone convinced she is who she claims to be will be harder than she expects--especially where one sexy ...

• Dec-2009
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Pregnant with De Angelis's baby! After seeing Bethany Maguire's captivating curves in a tantalizing silk dress, Cristiano De Angelis indulges in one night of passion with this beauty. A string of society heiresses have graced his bed -- w...

• Dec-2009
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JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS... As far as Christmas packages went, Brandon Thomas was one tall drink of water. And at the moment he was in over his too-handsome head. He'd showed up at the Colby offices covered in blood and desperate for help unraveling a m...

• Dec-2009
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Men like Marc Castellano don't forgive. They get revenge… Five years ago, Ava McGuire married Marc's business rival, causing a high-profile scandal. But no one knows that Ava was forced to say "I do." Now a widow, she's left with nothing but cri...

• Dec-2009
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In the stillness of a golden September afternoon, deep in the wilderness of the Rockies, a solitary craftsman, Grady Adams, and his magnificent Irish wolfhound, Merlin, step from shadow into light ... and into an encounter with mystery. That night, a...

• Dec-2009
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Hannah Shay has finally shown the town of Black Falls what she's worth. Her Three Sisters Cafe is a success, and she's soon to become a prosecutor. When the cafe becomes an epicenter for investigators trying to pierce a violent crime ring that's leav...

• Jan-2010
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From the New York Times bestselling Jane Feather, author of To Kiss a Spy and Kissed by Shadows, comes a deliciously sensual tale of intrigue and temptation…The last thing Lord Nicholas Kincaid expected to see in the gloom of a London tavern was a ...

• Dec-2009
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Bartered, betrothed and bedded! As quiet and dangerous as a jungle cat, achieving the impossible is one of Luc Garnier's defining characteristics. Princess Gabrielle is invaluable -- a pearl beyond price. Yet Luc has defied the odds, and a ...

• Dec-2009
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Looking solemn, Michael Sutton arrives in Kinsey Millhone's office with a story to tell. When he was six, he says, he wandered into the woods and saw two men digging a hole. They claimed they were pirates, looking for buried treasure. Now, all these ...

• Dec-2009
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No One Will Find You An aspiring artist. A high-school senior. A stripper. Three women who seemed to have nothing in common except their sudden disappearance. But one man knew them all. Wealthy, privileged Craig Thornton even claimed to love them....

• Dec-2009
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"Throw a penny in the fountain of the Twilight town square, and you'll be married to your first love..." For ten years, pretty Flynn MacGregor has been turning down the same solid, upright man's marriage proposal. Her friends at the Sweethearts' K...

• Dec-2009
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Sixteen of today's hottest fantasy authors--including Tanya Huff, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Fiona Patton, and Judith Tarr--visit Lackey's world of Valdemar, adding their own special touches. Includes a brand-new novella by Lackey....

• Dec-2009
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When girl next door Beth Rogers pounded on Detective Kevin Grove's door in the middle of the night, she awakened not only the cop, but also the die-hard protector. His spunky neighbor had uncovered scandalous secrets about a murder and someone was th...

• Dec-2009
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The Crime Thanos Savakis watches stunning Tahlia Reynolds like a wolf stalking its prey. She wronged the Savakis name, and for that she will be punished.... The Punishment A proud, loyal man, Thanos seeks shamelessly to make her trust him, then dest...

• Jan-2010
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His Nantucket neighbor is trying to fix him up with Marci Clay? First of all, Dr. Christopher Morgan doesn't date. Not since his last relationship ended in tragedy. And second, he and the pretty waitress with the secretive past come from two differen...

• Dec-2009
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You may know me best as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. In the fey and mortal realms alike, my life is the stuff of royal intrigue and celebrity drama. Among my own, I have confronted horre...

• Dec-2009
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Join Geronimo for his biggest, most fabumouse adventure yet! Dragons, mermaids, and much, much more await readers in this very special edition!I, Geronimo Stilton, never expected to find a golden staircase in my attic. But one day I did! At the top o...

• Dec-2009
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Law professor Myles Eaton knows a lot can happen in ten years. A decade ago, Philadelphia's finest bachelor was a hotshot attorney engaged to a woman he swore he'd love forever -- until she left him to marry a powerful politician. The only thing more...

• Jan-2010
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The Earl of Clifton intended one day to find the perfect countess... ...then he met Lucy. The improper daughter of an infamous spy, Lucy Ellyson saved Clifton's life and taught him everything he needed to know about serving his country...even ...

• Dec-2009
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A Ranger To The Rescue Trapped in a mine shaft with a little girl, September Stevens prays for someone to save them. When help arrives in the form of army ranger Mark Hawkins, the best friend of her late fiance, they both feel God's hand at work. To...

• Dec-2009
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Leah is no good at cooking, cleaning, sewing, gardening--the skills that young women need to make a proper Amish wife. All she wants to do is write stories, but she's sincerely tired of being a disappointment. Will she ever find someone who accepts h...

• Dec-2009
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His Majesty requests your company for banquets, ballroom dancing...and a little bombshell? Stepping into Prince Aleks's turreted castle is like going back in time. Five years ago he didn't tell Sara he was a prince, now he's wearing a ...

• Dec-2009
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THIS CHRISTMAS HE RECEIVED THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL...AND TACKLED THE MOST CRUCIAL CASE OF HIS CAREER Investigator Derrick McKinney's quiet bachelor life was shattered when the son he just learned existed was abducted right out from under the watchf...

• Dec-2009
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The baby that saved him... On a trip to Italy Ferne Edmunds is dazzled by lighthearted charmer Dante Rinucci. What she doesn't realize is that it's easy for Dante to live for the moment when every day could be his last.... But when Ferne discovers ...

• Dec-2009
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Merry Christmas to Friends, Neighbors...Lovers? Next-door neighbors and fellow single parents Travis Carson and Holly Baxter don't know what they'd do without each other. Besides being good friends, they're each other's backup in times of domestic c...

• Dec-2009
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For Texas Cattleman's Club member Alex Montoya, the long wait for revenge has finally paid off. But will love have the last laugh? He'd been the housekeeper's son, foolish enough to fall for the boss's daughter. Kicked to the curb, Alex Montoya had ...

• Dec-2009
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Once Upon a Cowboy... Former football player Adam Mackenzie arrives in small-town Oklahoma to fix up a camp for underprivileged kids. But the city slicker doesn't know horse tack from a touchdown. He's desperate for help -- and the pretty rancher ne...