Books Published in April 1993

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  • Dreams Underfoot

    Charles de Lint

    Welcome to Newford. . . .

    Welcome to the music clubs, the waterfront, the alleyways where ancient myths and magic spill into the modern world. Come meet Jilly, painting wonders in the rough city streets; and Geordie, playing fiddle while he dr...

  • Night's Pawn

    Tom Dowd

    For years, Jason Chase was at the head of the pack, shadowrunning with the best in the business. When time dulled his flesh and cybernetic edge, he knew it was time to get out, or get dead. Now, his past has come back to haunt him. To protect a yo...

  • Testament

    David Morrell

    Master of the high-action thriller, David Morrell is a five-time New York Times bestselling paperback author (First Blood, The Covenant of the Flame). Back in print after eight years, Testament--a chilling novel of a race for survival against a fanat...

  • The Throat

    Peter Straub

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story brings the chilling Blue Rose Trilogy to an astonishing close -- secrets unearthed, demons revisited, and mysteries solved. • “A masterpiece…. The most intelligent novel of suspense to com...

  • On Basilisk Station

    David Weber

    HONOR IN TROUBLE Having made him look the fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her. Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship's humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket ...

  • The Starship Trap

    Mel Gilden

    En route to an important diplomatic reception, the U.S.S. Enterprise suddenly is set upon by a Klingon warship. This unprovoked assault, Kirk discovers, is in response to what the Klingon ship's captain claims are recent Federation attacks on several...

  • A Philosophical Investigation

    Philip Kerr

    A powerful, thought-provoking thriller set in London in 2013 with a difference that takes the reader on a terrifying journey into the head of a serial killer and to the heart of murder itself. Kerr has produced an unusual work of suspense which puts ...

  • All About Allergies

    Susan Neiburg Terkel

    Answers numerous questions that children have about common and uncommon allergies, discussing the causes, the typical sufferer, possible treatments, and more. By the author of Ethics and Abortion: Facing the Issues. ...

  • The City Who Fought

    Anne McCaffrey; S.M. Stirling

    SHELLPERSON WITH A MISSION Simeon was bored. Not with being a shellperson--like Helva, The Ship Who Sang, and Tia, The Ship Who Searched, he rather pitied "softshells" their mayfly lives and absurdly limited senses--but with running the mining and...

  • Divergence

    Charles Sheffield

    A group of single-minded researchers--among them Darya Lang, Hans Rebka, and Louis Nenda and the Cecropian--follow the trail toward the Builder artifacts released from the Quake during Summertide, the planetary upheaval. Reprint. NYT....

  • Iapetus

    William S. Kirby

    On a one-way trip to the moons of Saturn, Jefferson Kayoto, a private detective fleeing some dangerous people, must face a colony of homicidal telepaths too lethal to live anywhere but Iapetus. Original....

  • Live Long and Profit

    Leah Rewolinski

    A nearly bankrupt StarFreak Command orders Captain Jean-Lucy Ricardo on a money-making mission: find the Fountain of Youth and bottle its precious waters for sale throughout the universe. Unfortunately for Captain James T. Smirk, financing the missi...

  • The Mind Pool

    Charles Sheffield

    Calling all humans... In the 23rd century, out of all the races of the galaxy, only humanity has discovered the secret of travel between the stars-not so much because we're so smart, but because we are incredibly gadget-oriented. We are also, comp...

  • Nebula Awards 27: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year

    Harcourt Brace

  • Nightmare Asylum

    Steve Perry

    INVISIBLE IN DARKNESS, THEY WAIT FOR THEIR PREY.... LIKE OILED MACHINERY, THEY MOVE SILENTLY TO THE KILL.... MINDLESS MONSTERS, THEY CANNOT BE TAMED....THEY ARE ALIENS. Wilks, Billie, and Bueller were the last survivors of a devastating assault on...

  • Nightside of the Long Sun

    Gene Wolfe

    It has been nearly a decade since the completion of Gene Wolfe's four-volume epic The Book of the New Sun, "one of the modern masterpieces of imaginative literature - an evocation of a world so far in the future that magic and technology, poetry and ...

  • Quantum Force

    Victor Appleton

    A QUANTUM LEAP INTO DANGER! Tom has just completed a supersecret project in the Swift laboratories: the creation of a powerful force field capable of protecting all types of vehicles, both on earth and in space. Now he's taken the device one step fu...

  • Retief and the Rascals

    Keith Laumer

    Terran diplomat and interplanetary troubleshooter Jame Retief must stop the belligerent, five-eyed Groaci from invading the beleaguered planet of Bloor, which is already plagued by violence between rival gangs. Original....

  • Spider-Man: Venom Returns

    David Michelinie

  • Timeslide

    Simon Lang

    In search of rare historical data, the crew of the USS Skipjack go back in time to observe Earth during World War II and the planet Eisernon on the eve of its devastating One-Day War. Original....

  • Too Close for Comfort

    Ashley McConnell

  • Wild Country

    Dean Ing

    Ted Quantrill is a human weapon. He has been a soldier, a commando, and, finally a hit man for the United States government.

    But a man can grow tired of killing, and Quantrill has turned his back on the past. Here in the rugged wilderness of t...

  • The Animal Hour

    Andrew Klavan

    Oddly unrecognized one morning by the people who used to know her, Nancy Kincaid wanders the city streets with only one thing on her mind: a voice that whispers in her ear that someone will be murdered that night. Reprint....

  • The Cassandra Prophecy

    Charles Wilson

    Searching for the killer of his errant younger brother, Secret Service agent Clay Rodgers finds all kinds of slimy clues crawling out from under the rocks of his Mississippi Delta hometown in this uneven tale of crime in the New South. When their fat...

  • Chimney Rock

    Charlie Smith

    Novelist Charlie Smith takes on the illusion and madness of America's fantasy factory. Hollywood is home for Smith's narrator, Will Blake, the scion of two generations of movie folk, himself an actor by default, though a good one, for who could bette...

  • Dead Fit

    Stephen Cook

    While pumping iron at the Squash Club, police officer Judy Best finds that she has attracted the attention of Duncan Stock, an arrogant investment banker and a man later found dead under two hundred pounds of weights....

  • Eye for an Eye

    Erika Holzer

    Consumed by rage and determination after her daughter becomes the victim of a vicious street crime and the attacker is released, business executive Karen Newman finds herself in the midst of a violent vigilante group that tracks down criminals. Repri...

  • The Gibraltar Factor

    Matthew Hunter

  • Hostile Intent

    Clive Egleton

    Clive Egleton, Britain's leading thriller writer, captures the current political scene in this post-cold war thriller, where the rules have changed, nuclear menace has merely gone underground, and the world's secrets are up for grabs.It is spring of ...

  • Jordon's Showdown

    Frank C. Strunk

    A murder in the Depression-devastated Kentucky coal town of Buxton brings roadhouse manager Berkley Jordon out from behind the bar and into a dangerous race to prevent the next killing. By the author of Jordon's Wager. ...

  • L.A. Times

    Stuart Woods

    DEADLY AMBITION After turning a film student's directorial debut into a hit movie, New York mobster and movie fanatic Vinnie Callabrese takes off for the bright lights of Hollywood, where he begins a new life as Michael Vincent, Producer. A natura...

  • The Lesson of Her Death

    Jeffery Deaver

    From the bestselling author of the Bone Collector novels, soon to be an NBC seriesBill Corde looks down at the face of the murdered girl and sees the horror of sudden death. He cannot know, as he stands there at the trampled, muddy scene beside the ...

  • A Lingering Doubt

    Warwick Downing

    Jack Bard, a successful veteran lawyer, is pitted against Keane Williams, a grandstanding young prosecutor with designs on elected office. Bard's client Drusus Church is a former gang member whose climb from the mean streets of Long Beach is made con...

  • Minerva Cries Murder

    Mignon F. Ballard

    When Eliza Figg investigates her first mystery, she must delve deep into the atmosphere of the South. By the author of Cry at Dusk, Raven Rock, Deadly Promise, The Widow's Woods, and Final Curtain. ...

  • Mortal Memory

    Thomas H. Cook

    Along with Jamie and my mother, Laura died at approximately four in the afternoon. It was almost two hours later that Mrs. Hamilton, a neighbor from across the street, saw my father drive away. During those long two hours in which he remained in t...

  • Mother's Day

    Joshua Quittner

    Convinced that the new baby-sitters they have found--two middle-aged sisters--are too good to be true, Lucy and Em Grazer leave their newborn with them, but the baby's disappearance soon sends them on the chase of their life...

  • The Name of the Game Was Murder

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    Novelist Augustus Trevor has written a manuscript that reveals the darkest secrets of his guests. Whoever can solve Trevor's clues can have his story removed from the book. But when Trevor is bludgeoned to death, the survivors (along with the reader)...

  • Natural Enemies

    Sara Cameron

    Former lovers Sam Hawthorne, an American journalist, and Maya Saito, a biologist, are thrown together as they attempt to help James Wangai, an unorthodox African detective, track down ecoterrorists who have murdered Kenyan government officials. Repri...

  • Never Walk Behind Me

    Lin Summerfield

    Eighteen-year-old Rowena is in love with her adoptive brother, Simon, who is twenty-six, but the arrival of Simon's beautiful fiancee sets into motion a series of tragic events that could implicate Rowena...

  • Noble Rot

    Will Harriss

  • The Ones You Do

    Daniel Woodrell

  • The Rich Detective

    H.R.F. Keating

    After winning a million pounds in a lottery, Detective Inspector Bill Sylvester resigns and uses his winnings to investigate the mysterious deaths of a series of dowagers who willed their estates to a prominent antiques dealer. Reprint....

  • Running Dead

    Robert Coram

    In the bestselling tradition of Joseph Wambaugh and David Lindsey comes a novel of intense suspense by Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Robert Coram. Running Dead pits a master terrorist who holds the key to a decades-old secret about a leading po...

  • Sandman, Sleep

    Herbert Lieberman

  • Shattered Silence

    Judith Marshall

    The head of Megtex after her father's murder, Alison Archer begins to fear for her life when a disembodied voice on the telephone, eerie whispers, and flickering lights warn her that the killer will strike again. Original....

  • Shella

    Andrew H. Vachss

    From the author of the acclaimed Burke private-eye series comes an ambitious and chilling novel that shows us not only what evil is, but where it comes from. For Shella is nothing less than a tour of evil's spawning ground, conducted by one of its na...

  • The Solomon Organization

    Andrew Neiderman

    From the bestselling author of The Devil’s Advocate comes this “fast-moving thriller with an up-to-the-minute premise: a secret conspiracy of men” (Publishers Weekly).   Scott Lester’s bitter divorce includes accusations of adultery, alc...

  • Someone Is Killing the Great Chefs of America

    Nan Lyons

    Just after Switzerland's Enstein Clinic releases formerly obese murderer Achille van Golk, culinary sleuths Natasha O'Brien and Millie Ogden once again set out on the trail of a serial chef killer--this time stalking American cooking experts. 35,000 ...

  • Stephanie

    Winston Graham

    Stephanie, a young woman with a brilliant future, finds that future at risk when she discovers that Errol, her worldly lover, may have had something to do with the recent murder of a prominent gentleman's daughter...

  • Twisted Justice

    Jeffrey Ashford

    When Detective-Sergeant Gerry Stone's teenaged son stumbles home after midnight in a drunken stupor, one headlight broken on the car, Stone is irritated but unsurprised at the folly of youth. But irritation turns to distress when the policeman learns...

  • Bittersweet Legacy

    Jenna Ryan

    Rook takes pawn in a game of revenge. The heirs would pay...with their blood The hellish nightmare began on a stormy night with the reading of a will. To Melanie Rossi and Damien McCall was bequeathed a vast empire...and a legacy of past sins. ...

  • Cat and Mouse

    Dawn Stewardson

    In the hunt for sunken treasure, she swam in dangerous waters... They say that a cat has nine lives... But master thief "El Gato" - The Cat - had even more. With rakish charm and clever disguises, he stayed one step ahead of the law as...

  • Deadly Devotion

    Sheryl Lynn

    Had she exchanged one dangerous lover for another? Someone was out there... ...sending Melanie Rogers white roses and darker valentines. The man entered and left her house silently, taking nothing, leaving only the subtle threat that he was get...

  • Night Vision

    Deborah Nicholas

    DREAMS OF TERROR One-time cop turned mystery writer, Simone Gerard was making a splash in the book world with her series about a couple running a detective agency in 1960s New Orleans. Then nightmares about her supposedly fictional characters drove ...

  • Nowhere to Run

    Pat Warren

    When Detroit socialite Carly Weston's father is murdered by a madman bent on vengeance, she is forced to flee from the killer, who has taken to stalking her. By the author of 'Til Death Do Us Part. Original....

  • Werewolf Moon

    Sharon Green

    IT HAPPENED WHEN THE MOON WAS FULL... In Elgin, New Mexico, howls could be heard in the night, shadowy figures of wolves seen in the moonlight. Was the myth true? Was a werewolf stalking and killing human prey? Laine Randall was in shock over th...

  • Ask Me No Questions

    Patricia Veryan

    PENNILESS, DISGRACED, AND WITH TWO SMALL NEPHEWS TO SUPPORT, SHE IS IN DIRE STRAITS INDEED.... But by pure luck and a dash of feminine wiles, Ruth Allington is able to put her generous artistic talent to work by restoring an ancient mural at the e...

  • Blissful Betrothal

    Valerie King
    in

    Arranging a brilliant match for her daughter to the very handsome Earl of Braunston delights Olivia Charing, but falling in love with her daughter's fiance is certainly not part of her plan......

  • The Butterfly Net

    Melissa Lynn Jones
    in

    When the widowed Baron Ranstow sets his amorous sights on Selina Springer as the perfect candidate for wife and mother, the independent-minded miss soon discovers that love can ensnare even the most resistant heart......

  • Captivated Hearts

    Valerie King

    They were unable to resist the magic of Cupid's touch... A LADY'S DECISION When she first heard the Marquis of Brandreth's boast that he would make her fall in love with him, Lady Evanthea Swanbourne could not help but laugh. The nerve of the m...

  • The Duke's Deceit

    Leslie Lynn

    IT HAD BEEN AN INNOCENT LIE BORN IN THE FACE OF DESPERATION... When Mary Masterton informed the handsome stranger that they were engaged, he had no reason to doubt her. After all, his head injury had resulted in complete memory loss. Mary, however...

  • The Earl's Return

    Emma Lange

    The Avenging Earl Alyson Haydon had been a mere seventeen when she broke the heart of Damon Ashford. It had broken her heart as well when she was brutally commanded to wed another. But that was years ago. Alyson was a young widow now, and Damo...

  • Gentleman Butler

    Maria Greene

    Too handsome for a butler.... That was what Miss Marianne Darby thought about the new man. If only this elegant Mr. Sherry were a gentleman, she thought idly...not that it would matter a whit. She was sure no man could love her, whether he was fr...

  • Gifts of the Heart

    Mary Kingsley
    in

    It takes a precious gift of life to reunite the Marchioness of Stowe with her aristocratic husband-and recapture the excitement of their magical first love....

  • Her Special Day

    Teresa DesJardien
    in

    On the eve of her daughter's betrothal ball, Lady Cawley is unprepared for the tender passion her handsome husband reawakens in her heart....

  • Lady Samantha's Choice

    Olivia Fontayne

    A BEWILDERED BRIDE... Under the conditions of her father's will, Lady Samantha Ashley has a harrowing choice -- marry a perfect stranger, marry her awful cousin Gerald...or remain unwed and lose her fortune. Her head spinning, Samantha opts for ...

  • Lord Harry's Angel

    Patricia Oliver

    A Dangerous Situation When lovely young Angela Walter wed Major Harry Davenport, the sixth earl of Castleton, both of them knew the marriage terms. Angela would get the title that her wealthy father wanted for her. Davenport would gain the money ...

  • Miss Gabriel's Gambit

    Rita Boucher

    A DANGEROUS GAME Suddenly eligible after inheriting a barony and a vast fortune, dashing David Rutherford devises a clever scheme to defeat the army of marriage-minded maids who now flock to his door. He will wed only the miss who can best him at ...

  • Miss Tonks Takes a Risk // Miss Tonks Turns to Crime

    Marion Chesney

    The fashionable Poor Relation hotel has rescued its six owners from genteel poverty, but they need ready cash for its upkeep. Once more, one of them must discreetly rob a rich relative. The faded spinster Miss Letitia Tonks is dispatched to disgui...

  • The Nonpareil

    Dawn Lindsey

    THE LUCKLESS YOUNG LADY Clearly fortune was not smiling on Phila Ainsley First her parents died leaving her impoverished. Then she was forced to reside with a family whose daughters were much more beautiful and fashionable than she. Next her g...

  • A Perfect Match

    Meg-Lynn Roberts

    Francesca Verdant found her prolonged stay in London rather tiresome, and she wasn't particularly impressed with any of the gentlemen she met, especially the one they called "My Lord Perfection". After rudely bumping her at the Chattering...

  • Reversal of Fortunes

    Nina Porter
    in

    When Phillipa's mama decides to reverse the family fortune by marrying the fascinating--and wealthy--Viscount Valdane, Phillipa is scandalized. What's a daughter to do when she's in love with her mother's betrothed!...

  • A Singular Miss Marsh

    Sara Blayne
    in

    Summoned to Cedars by the Duke of Ratherton, Rebecca Marsh never expects to find a group of children desperately in need of a mother, and a handsome Duke equally in need of a wife......

  • Toast of the Town

    Margaret Evans Porter

    The Insistent Earl Trevor Cotterell, the Earl of Leafield, was not only wealthy and titled. He was strikingly handsome, virile, and charming to boot. So when he chose Flora Campion to be his latest mistress, how could she refuse? Flora might be br...

  • The Glory of Love

    Angela Elwell Hunt

    Ages 13-16 The final book in the Cassie Perkins series. Everyone likes Dustin Gray--everyone except Cassie, that is. Oh sure, he's tall, good-lloking, and muscle-bound--but there's just something about him that bothers her. Unfortunately, even her fa...

  • Pictures of the Night

    Adele Geras

    SINCE ARRIVING HERE THE WHOLE OF AMY NORMAL LIFE SEEMS TO HAVE NO MORE REALITY THAN THE PAINTED BACKDROP OF A PANTOMIME SEEN LONG AGO. At eighteen, beautiful Bella is singing with a band, perform in London and Paris, and falling in love for the fi...

  • Sunset after Midnight

    Cherie Bennett

    A guy in my class is connected with a stable on the island where Molly could learn to horseback ride again. And I actually got her to agree! I think she's really coming out of her shell. This guy's a charmer though, and I hope Molly's not doing ju...

  • The Wind Blows Backward

    Mary Downing Hahn

    Lauren and Spencer were best friends in junior high, but good-looking Spencer quickly becomes a popular jock in high school with no time for quiet, bookish jock Lauren. Now they're in senior year, and suddenly Spencer is back in her life, sharing ...

  • Death of a Glutton // Death of a Greedy Woman

    M.C. Beaton

    THERE'S NOT A CLOUD IN CONSTABLE HAMISH MACBETH'S SKY.... Just plenty of warm sunshine and not quite enough of beautiful Priscilla Halburton-Smythe. But as eight hopeful members of the Checkmate Singles Club converge on Tommel Castle Hotel for ...

  • A Taste for Death

    P.D. James

    Their throats slit, the two men have turned the old vestry of St. Matthew's church red with blooed. In death united, in life no men could have been more disparate: onea Baronet and Minister of the Crown; the other and alcholic derelict. Commander Ada...

  • Time Expired

    Susan Dunlap

    It was part street theater, part civil  disobedience, and pure Berkeley: Someone was waging  guerrilla warfare on the city's meter maids and their  beloved parking meters. But when the prankster took  detective Jill Smith and her colleagues o...

  • Some Days You Get the Bear

    Lawrence Block

    The bear is on the prowl in many different guises. He may be the master thief stealing into Graceland, an intense young passenger experimenting in terror, or a psychiatrist haunted by his patient's nightmare. Or maybe he's beautiful, lethal woman i...

  • Some Things Never Die

    Robert Morgan

    Second in the Supernatural Mystery series featuring the P.I. with a knack for solving eerie crimes—Teddy London.

    The mother of a Chinatown murder victim insists her son was killed by vampires, but London is skeptical to say the least&...

  • Till the Old Men Die

    Janet Dawson

    THE PAST NEVER DIES, IT'S JUST COVERED UP. When Dr. Lito Manibusan, a Filipino professor of history at Cal State, is murdered, the police chalk it up to the random urban violence that is no stranger to San Francisco. But four months later, a woman...

  • Dark Summer

    Jon Cleary

    In the heat of an Australian summer, Inspector Scobie Malone of the New South Wales police finds the body of a promising informer, Scungy Grime, floating face down in his family’s backyard swimming pool. Scobie is investigating Sydney’s major dru...

  • Endangered Species

    Rex Burns

    Denver homicide detective Gabe Wager follows a murder/arson into the world of ecoterrorists and finds himself caught up in a plot to destroy the Denver metropolitan area....

  • False Dawn

    Paul Levine

    "

    The client admits he killed a man...
    His lawyer doesn''t believe him...
    The truth is buried beneath a conspiracy of theft and murder.

    Linebacker-turned-lawyer Jake Lassiter heads to Havana and untangles a deadly plot involving the CIA,...

  • In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead

    James Lee Burke

    Hollywood has sent its emissaries to New Iberia Parish to film a Civil War epic in the steaming mists of the Louisiana bayou -- reawakening the ghosts of a past best left undisturbed. The restless specters wait in the shadows for cajun cop Dave Ro...

  • Jazz Funeral

    Julie Smith

    Homicide detective Skip Langdon finds herself smack in the middle of a sweltering New Orleans summer with a most unenviable case: the stabbing death of the universally beloved producer of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. But it's not on...

  • Make No Bones

    Aaron Elkins

    A RAG AND A BONE...AND A MURDER Not much was left of Dr. Albert Jasper. His jaw bone and a few charred bits were installed in a place of honor in an Oregon museum to create a fascinating, if macabre, exhibit. It was a fitting end for a great foren...

  • Murder in the Maze

    Sarah J. Mason

    FATAL FETE The village of Redingote anticipated the usual misbehavior during the annual summer fete. But no one expected a murder... least of all the victim, Dr. Radlett's beautiful young wife, found dead center in the hedge maze. INTRODUCING TRE...

  • Cops and Robbers

    Donald E. Westlake

    The Grand Master of Mystery delivers “nerve-end-entertainment” when two of New York’s finest set out to become two of New York’s richest (Kirkus Reviews).   Tom and Joe have been walking the beat on the mean streets of the Big Apple long...

  • Jessi and the Jewel Thieves

    Ann M. Martin

    America's favorite baby-sitters are detectives, too! Jessi can't wait to get to New York City to see her friend Quint dance in his first big ballet. What could be more exciting? Lots! Jessi and Quint overhear two men discussing a jewel heist! J...

  • Final Argument

    Clifford Irving

    When state attorney Ted Jaffe give up his prosecutorial job in Jacksonville in favor of a partnership with a prestigious Sarasota law firm, he does it for the security of his family. But in leaving Jacksonville, he also turns his back on the memories...

  • Blood Dance

    James William Brown

    The insular, inbred country life on her Greek island home oppresses Amalia, who imagines herself possessed by gods, but her encounter with a Scandanavian tourist leads to a conflict that is expressed through five incantatory voices. A first novel....

  • Beloved Deceiver

    Laurie Grant

    Unholy Marriage Elise de Vire was a widow of the battle of Agincourt, and would not rest until the last Englishman had departed France. Yet could she hide her true purpose from Adam Saker, the English knight she had been commanded to wed, or would...

  • Beneath Passion's Skies

    Bobbi Smith

    Desperate to escape the clutches of her brutal brother-in-law, headstrong Angel Windsor kidnapped her young nephew and fled Philadelphia. But an even more dangerous destiny awaited the emerald-eyed innocent in New Orleans when she hired a notorious h...

  • Bless The Child

    Cathy Cash Spellman

    AN INNOCENT CHILD IN MORTAL DANGER. AN AGE-OLD BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. Bestselling author Cathy Cash Spellman imagines a terrifying realm of devilish menace in a novel that will touch your heart -- and chill you to the bone. Vibrant, youth...

  • Captive Splendor

    Rochelle Wayne

    With his Sioux brother convicted of a crime he hadn’t committed, rugged half-breed Bart Chandler devised a plan to save him from the hangman’s noose. He would kidnap the daughter of Fort Laramie’s commanding officer; then ransom her in exchange...

  • Captured Moment

    Coral Smith Saxe

    Picture of Passion Alec MacKenzie had a dream--and it didn't include rescuing single-minded Rowan Trelarken from disasters of her own making. He had no place for a woman in his life, especially one who was wild at heart and crowned by a cloud of c...

  • Cherish the Dream

    Jodi Thomas

    THEY CHERISHED A MOMENT IN TIME WHEN DREAMS TRIUMPHED ON THE WINGS OF LOVE... From childhood through nursing school, Katherine and Sarah were best friends. Now they set out to take all that life had to offer - and were swept up in the rugged, posi...

  • Cheyenne Dreams

    Peggy Hanchar

    HIS GLOWING DARK EYES REFLECTED HER OWN HEART'S DESIRE Broken and beaten by the treacherous South Dakota trial that had taken the lives of all she knew and loved, Colly Mead bravely pushed on --until she could go no more. She surrendered to th...

  • Come Be My Love

    Patricia Watters

    Headstrong Sarah Ashley didn't travel all the way to Canada just to have her dreams smashed to bits by Vancouver Island's arrogant young governor Jon Cromwell. Come hell or high water, the stunning suffragette will open her own mercantile business - ...

  • Dangerous

    Amanda Quick

    From a magnificent ballroom ablaze with lights to an imposing country house steeped in shadows comes a breathtaking tale of an impetuous miss - and a passion that leads to peril... At five and twenty, Prudence Merryweather knew very well the risks...

  • Deceived

    Mary Balogh

    SHE COULD NOT FORGIVE HIM - OR FORGET HIM Beautiful Lady Elizabeth Ward had been young and innocent when she wed the man she loved, Christopher Atwell. She thought his love matched hers - until she found him in the arms of another, learned of his ...

  • Desert Eden

    Patricia Grasso

    HER INDOMITABLE SPIRIT Ravishing, emerald-eyed Heather Devereux set sail for France to marry the Comte de Beaulieu, a man she'd never seen. But a band of Arab pirates hijacked the ship bringing the beautiful young Englishwoman as a prize to their no...

  • Embrace the Wind

    Linda Sandifer

    SHE WAS AS ELUSIVE AS THE WIND Sky McClellan ... did she even exist? Pinkerton agent Matt Riordan thought he'd seen her once, silently skirting the edges of his campfire at night, haunting in her raven-haired beauty. If the rumors were true, this ...

  • Fair Is the Rose

    Meagan McKinney

    THE BEAUTY BEHIND THE BLACK VEIL Christal Van Alen was wanted from Maine to Missouri. Swathed in widow's weeds, she was running to Wyoming Territory ... when the outlaw Macaulay Cain captured their stagecoach and the aristocratic new Yorker was pris...

  • Flames of Love

    Colleen Faulkner

    A WOMAN DREAMING OF THE FUTURE Jilted by her prospective bridegroom, Lady Alexandra Lambert left England behind and set sail for colonial America. But in the unknown wilds of Maryland, she was captured by a band of renegade Indians. As she was about...

  • Fleeting Splendor

    Julie Moffett

    The Scottish Lass -- For Alana MacKenzie, life in the majestic Scottish Highlands was filled with the joy of watching her childhood friendship with Malcolm MacGregor grow into a deep, mystical love. But that love would be forever threatened the day t...

  • Forever After

    Jill Gregory

    DANGER drove her from the shadowy back streets of London. DESTINY swept her into a dazzling world of society and scandal. DESIRE transformed her into a woman who would risk everything for the love of one extraordinary man... One night of ...

  • Gentle Hearts

    Deborah Wood

    A LOVE THAT ENDURES ALL HARDSHIP IS A LOVE TO TREASURE FOREVER... LAURIE: She cherished the little girl she was hired to care for. But her gruff employer was a hardened cattleman through and through. GABE: He loved his daughter, Ammie, but he n...

  • Golden Destiny

    June Wyndham Davies

    Unprotected and destitute, Connecticut-born single mother Alicia Langdon must rely on her own resourcefulness and the help of Chen Kai Tsue, an immigrant with a knowledge of herbs, to survive life in California's Gold Rush region...

  • Green City in the Sun

    Barbara Wood

    With World War I behind them, the Treverton family set out from England to make its fortune in the unspoiled paradise of Kenya. Sir Treverton, eccentric and handsome, vowed to carve a vast coffee plantation out of the virgin wilderness. His frail wif...

  • The Green of the Spring

    Jane Gurney

    Laura Brownlowe, recently returned to her English family's estate after attending a French finishing school, concentrates on winning the affection of Edward Allingham, but war in Europe intrudes on their idyllic plans...

  • Hearts Are Wild

    Teresa Hart

    THEY WERE SISTERS AT HEART, three mail-order brides who meet on their journey westward. This is the sweeping tale of the courage thata changed their destinies forever -- and the passions that shaped the glorious frontier! LACEY HONEYCUTT. A cardsh...

  • Her Sister's Keeper

    Linda Barlow

    WHAT TRUE LOVE HAS TORN ASUNDER ONLY TRUE LOVE CAN HEAL VERITY TREVOR--The oldest, but never the favorite child, she was heir to the Trevor land, its vast fortune, and the curse put on her family by the rebellious Carnes...unless she defied societ...

  • Hidden Flame

    Elizabeth Bailey
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    Miss Theodosia Kyte knew she only had herself to blame for her present dire circumstances, but her only alternative was, she felt, totally closed to her. So as companion to the old tartar, Lady Merchistan, she mad the best of a bad job -- until Mr. B...

  • Hidden Gold of Widow's Mountain

    Patricia Werner

    Whoever goes to Widow's Mountain...dies. For years, Hilary Fenton had dreamed of finding her father - ever since Gaspar Fenton had struck for the gold mountains of the Yosemite Valley to claim his fortune - and never returned. Then fate summoned ...

  • Highland Ecstasy

    Mary Burkhardt

    SHE HAUNTED HIM WITH PASSION When his youngest brother fell on the field of battle -- and King George stripped him of his title and lands -- Ian Sinclair swore everlasting vengeance against the English crown. But first the enraged laird had to regai...

  • The Highwayman

    Doreen Owens Malek

    A tempestuous story of love and betrayal in Elizabethan England THE NOBLEWOMAN AND THE IRISH PATRIOT It was a bold and perilous plan--disguising herself as a boy and stealing aboard a ship bound for the far-off shores of Ireland. But from the m...

  • His Magic Touch

    Stella Cameron

    Seeking vengeance for his lost birthright, handsome, highborn James St. Giles plots to seduce and defile his enemies' exquisitely innocent daughter -- thereby halting her impending nuptials to a wealthy lord. Though chaste and unworldly, lovely Celin...

  • In a Rogue's Arms

    Virginia Lynn

    He was too dangerous to love, too tempting to resist... HE WAS A DANGEROUS OUTLAW WHO HAD SWORN VENGEANCE One moment Chloe was lost in daydreams about her new Texas home; the next she was holding on for dear life as gunfire echoed and her uncle's...

  • Jewel of the Sea

    Susan Wiggs

    A generation after Columbus made his great discovery, the tired old World is striving to conquer the new lands in the West, seeking gold and riches beyond their wildest dreams. From Spain to England to the Caribbean, follow the fortunes of Armando...

  • The Keepsake

    Marylyle Rogers

    LIZ: With waist-long hair as fiery as her temper, the wild-riding, very rich Lizzy Hughes of Wyoming's Double H Ranch felt her emotions boil over when she realized she had been tricked into marriage -- with a hoity-toity British duke. Handsome Gr...

  • Legend!

    Ruth Jean Dale

    Boone Smith dragged into the sleepy town of Jones, Texas, hoping to leave his reputation as a notorious gunslinger behind him. Instead, his arrival set the town on its ear, especially when he took a hankering to Rose Taggart--the marshal's sweetheart...

  • Louisiana Caress

    Terri Valentine

    VIRTUOUS VIXEN On the brink of taking her final vows, convent-bred Desiree Dufour trembled at the sight of a magnificent golden-haired god astride a snowy-white steed. Yet little did the Louisiana innocent know that the stranger she'd spied in the c...

  • Love's Secret Fire

    Deborah Satinwood

    She was his secret passion. War-weary and disillusioned, Forrest York returned home to the provincial town that had once so cruelly shunned him. But he couldn't forget the bewitching, golden-haired beauty who'd dared to befriend him when no o...

  • The Magic

    Robin Lee Hatcher

    THE PIRATE Determined to ruin Farley Dunworthy, Captain Damian Tate of the Magic would use any means at his disposal - even his enemy's innocent niece. But the daring buccaneer never bargained on being captivated himself by the silver-haired b...

  • The Mammoth Stone

    Margaret Allan

    The people of the mammoth have wandered the world for thousands of years, surviving starvation, plague, and predators, fleeing the ever encroaching ice, following the mammoth herds for life and sustenance. Finally they come to a place of prophecy whe...

  • My Loving Enemy

    Lisa Ann Verge

    HONOR PRIDE, AND HERITAGE ... SHE WOULD RISK ALL FOR HIS LOVE Headstrong heiress Alienor de Tournan cheered when her father captured the renegade knight who had stolen her dower lands and ruined her chances for marriage. Yet when she saw the gravel...

  • My Only Love

    Katherine Sutcliffe

    Her passionate nature and secretive past made Olivia Devonshire one of the most notorious women in England... Miles Warwick was a disreputable rogue, the black sheep of his family. But he never gambled on losing his heart to the woman he married for ...

  • New Orleans

    Sara Orwig

    NEW ORLEANS... the cotton kingdom's capital of splendor and sensuality on the eve of the Civil War, where great families ruled, beautiful women were revered, fortunes were made on the turn of a card, and lives were ended with the thrust of a dueli...

  • The Pool of St. Branok

    Philippa Carr

    WHEN THE BELLS OF ST BRANOK RING, DISASTER IS SURE TO FOLLOW... Angelet heard them that fateful day when she met a terrifying stranger at the pool, the day she and her childhood hero -- her cousin Benedict -- encountered an evil that brought her n...

  • Renegade's Kiss

    Barbara Ankrum

    SHE COULDN'T LET HIM GO Widowed and alone as the Civil War raged around her, ebony-haired Andrea Winslow was relieved when Jesse Winslow, her brother-in-law -- and first love -- arrived at Willow Banks farm. But when be told her be intended to s...

  • Ryan's Enchantress

    Connie Harwell

    THE ENCHANTING BEAUTY She could ride, fish and hunt with the best of the boys, but auburn-haired Susan Bradford was determined to be more than just an innocent tomboy. And when she first felt the gaze of her handsome new neighbor, she was shocked to...

  • Sea of Desire

    Christine Dorsey

    DEFIANT CAPTIVE The daughter of a debt-ridden English gambler, Lady Merideth Banistar was shocked to discover her father had been selling information to the American revolutionaries. But now he was dead, and his murderer--the notorious colonial priv...

  • Sean Donovan

    Lori Wick

    CHARLOTTE DIDN'T KNOW THAT MEN LIKE SEAN DONOVAN EXISTED... Feeling betrayed by his father and alienated from the God he once loved, Sean Donovan leaves Santa Rosa as an angry young man. Joining a gang of thieves, he is caught during his first ban...

  • Secrets

    Brenda Joyce

    Injured during a train robbery; Regina Shelton awakens with no memory of who she is -- and in the arms of the most handsome man she has ever seen. The dangerous stranger calls her "Elizabeth," and his touch sets her blood racing -- impelling ...

  • Silk and Sword

    Pauline Bentley

    Conrad D'Artan made no secret of his hatred for the Twyneham name, nor of his all-consuming determination to see the D'Artan flag flying once again over Highford Castle. The land once his inheritance was now the prized dowry of a beautiful noblewoman...

  • Sweet Seduction

    Julie Tetel

    Fair Game A swirl of petticoats disappearing up a tree had been James Stewart's first sight of the impetuous Miss Shaw. And though he wondered whom she met at her early morning rendezvous, he wondered even more what she looked like without all tha...

  • Tapestry

    Maura Seger

    A LOVE THAT NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN Lady Aveline realized that at the age of twenty most women her age were mothers several times over, cloistered nuns or already dead. Instead she lived quite happily among the holy sisters of Thorney designing ma...

  • Wild Rose

    Sharon Ihle

    WINNER TAKES ALL Born beneath a wandering star, spirited Maxine McKain spent her girlhood roaming the mining tows of the California gold country. But her freedom ended abruptly when she was lost in a bet a San Francisco gambling saloon -- to seduc...

  • Wilderness Flame

    Barbara Cummings

    When her mountain home was destroyed by rampaging Indians, Mennonite Hannah Yost fled into the perilous Pennsylvania frontier with nothing but her instinct for survival and the haunting memory of a handsome English officer's stolen kisses. But fate w...

  • Wyoming Wildfire

    Anne Harmon

    A SPIRITED WOMAN Lily wandered innocently into a rough part of town--but found a protector in the dark-haired man who plucked her from danger... A STUBBORN MAN The ranchers rugged body disguised a wounded heart -- a heart determined to resist lo...

  • Blood Feud

    Sam Siciliano

  • Bloody Waters

    B. Wilson

    With her ex-husband far away in Los Angeles and a new husband in Virginia, Kara Noble Worthington finally feels safe, that is, until her new husband becomes a stranger--loyal only to his strict, bitter mother. Original....

  • Calling All Monsters

    Chris Westwood

  • The Cheater

    R.L. Stine

    Under pressure to perform well on her math exam, Carter Phillips persuades math whiz Adam to take the test for her in exchange for one date, but one date is not enough for the dangerous young man....

  • Deadly Stranger

    M.C. Sumner

    Without their parents knowledge, Kelly and Lauren sneak off on a ski weekend that quickly becomes a deadly nightmare when the handsome hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a demented lunatic intent on killing them. Original....

  • The Ghost in the Mirror

    John Bellairs

    It was a warm summer day in 1951 when Rose Pottinger and Mrs. Zimmermann entered the tunnel. When they had emerged, it was snowing...and the year was 1828. Mrs. Zimmermann had felt that the ghost of Granny Wetherbee, who had taught Mrs. Zimmerma...

  • He Told Me to

    Simon Lake

    When the brightest and nicest kids in town begin committing crimes, sophomore Jo Latera becomes convinced that someone else is responsible for her honor roll friends' sudden transformation into petty criminals and juvenile delinquents. Original....

  • Leaving Eldorado

    Joann Mazzio

    Maude must fend for herself in the mining town of Eldorado, New Mexico, after her mother dies and her father's "gold fever" inspires him to take off for the Yukon. Her strong desire to leave the frontier town and become an artist makes her take a job...

  • The Promise

    Robert Westall

  • Silent Stalker

    Richie Tankersley Cusick

    “BEWARE OF THE ONE WHO HIDES, WHO WATCHES IN THE DARK!” Before Jenny Logan even entered the forbidding castle -- a replica of the Worthington’s ancestral home in England -- a terrified stranger warned her away. Was the warning real -- or ju...

  • The Stepdaughter

    Carol Ellis

  • The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral

    Robert Westall

    """I dreamt I was standing in the dark, looking up at the south-west tower ... And our Kev was up there on top, in the dark, and screaming as if some wild beast was eating him.""

    When steeplejack Joe Clarke is hired to repair the stonework at Mu...

  • Farrier's Lane

    Anne Perry

    When Mr. Justice Stafford, a distinguished judge in the court of appeals, falls ill and dies of opium poisoning, his shocking demise resurrects one of the most sensational cases ever to inflame England: the murder five years before of Kingsley Blaine...

  • The Venus Deal

    Ken Kuhlken

    While the rest of San Diego is dealing with the rages of World War II, Tom Hickey--half owner of a local club--is making money. But when the club's young singer Cynthia Moon disappears, business drops precipitously. Sometime private detective Hickey ...

  • Before the Mask

    Michael Williams
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  • Crypt of the Shadowking

    Mark Anthony
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    When the evil Zhentarim attempt to take over the richest of the Caravan Cities, an ex-Harper agent tries to foil the wicked plot Under a dark cloud, Caledan Caldorien left the Harpers seven years ago. Now a mysterious and beautiful messenger fro...

  • The Barbary Coast

    Josh Edwards

    THE FINAL BOOK IN THE SERIESThe burning quest that drives John Stone leads him to San Francisco -- a crime-ridden city where he’ll need more than his famed quick draw to keep himself alive. The trail of his long-lost Marie is hotter than ever -- in...

  • Blood in the Snow

    John Legg

    Trouble forces Civil War veteran Travis Rhodes to flee Iowa, but he finds more of the same on the Oregon Trail and decides to take matters into his own hands by becoming the marshal of a Colorado town. Original....

  • Come A-Smokin' and Horses, Women and Guns

    Nelson Hye

    Two novels by the Western author introduce two Western heroes--Grete Marratt, a wanted man who sets out to clear his name, and Jim Final, a wronged man who shoots up the state of Arizona during his quest for revenge. Reprint....

  • Daniel Colton Kidnapped

    Elaine L. Schulte

  • Desperado

    B.W. Lawton

  • The Gates of Zion

    Thomas Nelson

    The Zion Chronicles series covers the events surrounding Israel's statehood in 1948. Each book vividly portrays the intense struggle of the Jewish people in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the forces, within and without, which engulf the Middle...

  • High Country Climax

    Joseph Meek

  • The Kansan

    Robert E. Mills

    The Old West is full of fast guns and even faster women who will just as soon kill a man as look at him. But Davy Watson, the Kansan, is a dangerous man with a gun--or a woman. In Trail of Desire, the Kansan aims to save the sultry Deanna from the bu...

  • Klondike Cutie

    Dirk Fletcher

    YUKON HO! A boomtown full of the most ornery vermin ever to pan a river, Dawson was the perfect place for a killer to hide -- until Spur McCoy arrived. Fresh from a steamboat and the steamiest woman he’d ever staked a claim on, McCoy knew the ...

  • A Light in Zion

    Thomas Nelson

    The Zion Chronicles series covers the events surrounding Israel's statehood in 1948. Each book vividly portrays the intense struggle of the Jewish people in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the forces, within and without, which engulf the Middle...

  • Lone Star and the Gold Mine

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie's kidnapped and Ki's fighting back -- on a deadly trail through the rockies!While on a trip to the Rockies to check out the latest Starbuck investment, a gold mine, a bandit kidnaps Jessie, and Ki must rescue her before it is too late....

  • Longarm on the Butterfield Spur

    Tabor Evans

  • Montana Showdown

    Dale Colter

    Journeying to Montana to rescue his cousin Lucy from an evil cattle baron, Sam Slater returns to a state where he is wanted for murder and encounters another deadly foe determined to kill him. Original....

  • Mountain Fury

    Taylor Brady

    Like dust in the prairie wind, they scatter to the far corners of the territories -- drawn by destiny to the still-savage wilderness, where the dreams of a bold new breed are nourished in the rich western earth. Peril and promise await the childre...

  • Of Corsets and Secrets and True True Love

    Fiona McHugh

    RACHEL LYNDE'S TOOTHACHE, WHICH SHE FIRMLY believes will kill her, soon becomes the least of her woes, as Marilla offers Green Gables as home to two adorable but rambunctious orphans. To make matters even worse, intrepid journalist Olivia King, w...

  • Rawhide Moon

    D.R. Benson

    Seeking revenge, soft-spoken lawyer Cole Brandon joins a cattle drive as a cook to find one of the members of the outlaw Kenneally gang that had been responsible for the slaughter of his family. Original....

  • Renegade

    Frederic Bean

  • Shadow of the Grizzly

    Larry Jay Martin

    California's great central valley, the San Joaquin, is a land of hope and promise, but also of danger. Stalking Clint Ryan's ranch is a band of vicious hardcases, who are nothing compared to the grizzly who lays in wait in the willows and cottonwoods...

  • Shooting Star

    Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

  • The Silent Gun

    Douglas Hirt

  • Slocum and the Forty Thieves

    Jake Logan

    When a snake-oil salesman's deadly potions kill four innocent people, Slocum, acting as sheriff of Brushwood Gulch, follows the murderer back east and along the way encounters a group of dangerous thieves. Original....

  • Sons of an Ancient Glory

    B.J. Hoff

    In classic B.J. Hoff style, Sons of an Ancient Glory continues the magnificent saga of the immigrants who came to America from the Emerald Isle, hoping to find promise-peace-and a future. Through tragedy and triumph, Morgan Fitzgerald, Michael and S...

  • Tenderfoot

    David Thompson

  • Texas Triggers

    Jon Sharpe

  • The Two Medicine River

    Richard S. Wheeler

    RIVERS WEST Discover one of the most thrilling frontier series of our time...tales of mountain men and intrepid women, pioneer families and Native American warriors. Discover North America in all its awesome splendor. THE TWO MEDICINE RIVER Down...

  • Valley Massacre

    J.R. Roberts

    Tracking down political assassins isn't the sort of thing Clint Adams usually does. But when a friend asks him to lend a hand--and a gun--he agrees. After a day on the case, he knows why he doesn't care for this kind of work--nothing is what it se...

  • The Demon Lover

    Victoria Holt

    IT BEGINS AS A SMALL DECEPTION. IT BECOMES A NIGHTMARE OF PASSION AND TERROR... Kate Collison is exquisitely beautiful and filled with fiery spirit. Like all the Collisons before her, she paints miniatures. So when her father begins to lose his ...

  • Gathering Darkness

    Jane Toombs

    Despite the isolation of their California fortress, designed to keep out mysterious assassins, the Volek family faces the dangers of their own dark powers--powers that mutate with each succeeding generation. Original....

  • Madness

    Olivia Rupprecht
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    Over three hundred years ago, Rachael Dobbs cursed the bloodline of her lover, Jonathan Nightingale, whose testimony condemned her as a witch. Only a journal and a golden locket hold the key to the spell--and in these breathtaking stories of danger a...

  • Magic

    Charlotte Hughes
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    Over three hundred years ago, Rachael Dobbs cursed the bloodline of her lover, Jonathan Nightingale, whose testimony condemned her as a witch. Only a journal and a golden locket hold the key to the spell -- and in these breathtaking stories of danger...

  • Moonlight

    Suzanne Forster
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    Over three hundred years ago, Rachael Dobbs cursed the bloodline of her lover, Jonathan Nightingale, whose testimony condemned her as a witch. Only a journal and a golden locket hold the key to the spell--and in these breathtaking stories of danger a...

  • Night Mist

    Helen R. Myers

    "Help...me." At the faint words, Dr. Rachel Gentry stopped on Black Water Creek Bridge, straining to see through the night's foggy mist. Then she saw him -- a pale, ghostly figure, his T-shirt soaked with blood, his intense, dark blue eyes begging...

  • Return to Bloodstone House

    Jane Toombs

    Something wicked this way comes... Centuries before the first white man set foot on Mount Sangre, the ancient ones warned that something slept there, something unspeakably evil...And yet, one terrible night, that evil was awakened by innocents too...

  • 13th Gen

    Neil Howe

  • Africa Brothers and Sisters

    Virginia Kroll

  • After Henry

    Joan Didion

    In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles, from a TV producer's gargantuan "manor" to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts. At each stop she uncovers the mythic narratives ...

  • Alex, the Kids With Aids

    Linda Walvoord Girard