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New Books List: 576 titles

  • Fistful of Desire

    Nalinaksha Bhattacharya

  • North of Havana

    Randy Wayne White

    White's newest thriller takes Doc Ford to Havana, where a friend is being held by the Cuban government. Still haunted by his suspected involvement in a plot against Castro, Ford leaves Florida and ventures to Cuba--where he finds himself entangled in...

  • The Roaring Girl

    Greg Hollingshead

    A collection of short fiction, a winner of Canada's Governor-General's Literary Award, includes the title story about a boy whose life is changed after his parents take into their home a tough, adolescent drifter. Reprint. 25,000 first printing....

  • Leaving Missouri

    Ellen Recknor

    Follows the life of Chrysanthemum "Clutie Mae" Chestnut, who rises from life with her redneck family to travel across the country and abroad, befriend royalty, and establish herself as the "Duchess" of Dollar Creek. Original....

  • Assassin's Quest

    Robin Hobb

    From an extraordinary new voice in fantasy comes the stunning conclusion to the Farseer trilogy, as FitzChivalry confronts his destiny as the catalyst who holds the fate of the kingdom of the Six Duchies...and the world itself. King Shrewd is dead...

  • Bug Park

    James P. Hogan

    DON'T STEP ON IT -- IT MIGHT BE YOU When you're a teenager, even a teenager with a rich, indulgent parent, you don't have a lot of power. But when things get very small, the rules change. Physics changes. What everybody knows, ain...

  • The Big Picture

    Douglas Kennedy

    On the face of it, Ben Bradford is your standard Wall Street hot shot - Junior partner in a legal firm, 6 figure income, wife and two young kids straight out of a Gap catalogue. But along with the WASP lifestyle comes the sting - Ben hates it. He w...

  • The Awakening

    Thomas K. Martin

    Around the fires, in the cold of winter, the old tales of the Time of Madness are still told... Tales of the MageLords, sorcerers near godlike in their power, who looked upon ordinary men with contempt. Who fought great battles among themselves, v...

  • The Harvest

    Richie Tankersley Cusick

    NEW SCHOOL. SAME ASSIGNMENT. Something's wrong in Sunnydale, California...something more than the usual bad hair day. As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. One girl in all the world to find them where they gather and st...

  • The Stone Prince

    Fiona Patton

    THE PRICE OF POWER-- The DeMarians, the royal line of Branion, have been blessed, or cursed, with the power of the Flame, a magic which--if wielded properly--none can stand against. But called upon by one untrained or not strong enough to control ...

  • Rocky Mountain Nightmare

    Jon Sharpe

    Gadding about in the farthest reaches of the Rockies, Skye Fargo runs right into a gigantic castle complete with a monstrous hunchback, a master with more gold than sense, and a mistress sizzling with sensuality. Original....

  • Slocum and the Lady in Blue

    Jake Logan

    When the beautiful Betty Welles acquires the title to a sprawling Arizona ranch, she is targeted by a brutal gang of killers and a schemer named Ralph Moore, and she hires John Slocum to protect her passage to Arizona. Original....

  • Matched Colts

    Don Bendell

    Aided by his friend, Nez Perce warrior Man Killer, Chris Colt, Chief of Scouts, sets out to to find Charley, his previously unknown sister, when she takes on the role of gunfighter to find and destroy her husband's killers. Original....

  • Homestead Law

    J.R. Roberts

    Around Truxton, Missouri, there's only one thing folks hate like death. And that's taxes. So when the Homestead Inspector is shot through the heart, no one cares--save for Clint Adams. The Gunsmith thinks he knows the cowards who did it. And he's abo...

  • Blood Hunt

    David Thompson

    With only his oldest friend and his trusty long rifle for company, Davy Crockett explored the wild frontier, looking for adventure ... and finding it. The courageous pioneer had the strength and cunning to get out of any scrape and face any enemy, no...

  • Longarm and the Indian War

    Tabor Evans

  • Wooden Guns

    Max Brand

    Working hard to establish himself as the fastest gun the Western mountains, Big Jim Conover is driven from his home only to return years later, a broken man facing a score of vengeful enemies. Reprint....

  • Burn the Breeze

    Jack Brennan

    Returning from the Civil War to learn that not everyone thinks he is a hero, Abel Braddock wants to settle down to quiet ranch life but is soon fighting for his life against someone who also wants to destroy the Comanche nation. Original....

  • One Heart

    Rosalyn Alsobrook

    WHEN FAMILIES ARE DIVIDED... Widowed Brenna Nelson had to get to Peshtigo, Wisconsin before her mother died to help make a cherished dream come true. Her father's final Christmas present for the woman he adored was to build her a real frame ho...

  • Soul Mates

    Bridget Anderson

    With their marriage threatened by the hectic pace in their lives, Cheryl and Jamal Houston decide to take a Caribbean cruise to reignite the passion in their lives, but their new happiness is turned upside down by a stranger out to possess Cheryl, an...

  • Simply Love

    Catherine Anderson

    SIMPLY WILD The wealthy owner of a Colorado mining empire, Luke Taggart has seen and done it all. Now, bored with saloons, gambling and loose women, he feels a restless yearning -- for what, he doesn't know. Until he meets a woman as fresh and p...

  • Sleeping Alone

    Barbara Bretton

    After years of lies, loneliness, and betrayal, she's finally left her wealthy husband in London -- and moved into her own house in the run-down resort town of Sea Gate, New Jersey, the place of her childhood dreams, and now, her grown-up hopes. ...

  • Forbidden

    Suzanne Brockmann

    He was gorgeous as sin, but definitely off-limits.... He'd saved her from a drenching storm, had gently placed her in a steaming tub, and looked great in firelight, but was that reason enough for Kayla Grey to kiss a handsome cowboy with reckless ...

  • Hidden Agenda

    Rochelle Alers

    DANGER BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER.... Powerful, predatory, irresistibly male, Matt Sterling has been called a solider of fortune-and worse. But for Eve Blackwell, he's the perfect man for a dangerous job: to track down Alejandro Delgado, Eve's wealthy e...

  • Texas Embrace

    Rosanne Bittner

    With her father murdered by renegade Apaches, Tessa Reeves feared she'd be their captive forever - that no one would ever find her. And even if she were found, she'd be scorned by those who called Indians savages...and their woman prisoners forever u...

  • Just Before Dawn

    Donna Ball

    In a quiet, resort community in Florida, a chilling scenario emerges--the parents of a missing teenage girl are receiving cryptic midnight phone calls from a young woman who sounds unmistakably like their daughter. Worse yet, they're finding they're ...

  • The Lighthouse

    Linda Eberhardt

    There is a place that lives within every heart ...a special place where only love can bloom. And from the peaceful mountains of the Rockies to the Eastern windswept shores, there are small towns where gentle hearts can find their home--and where true...

  • Lady Cecily's Scheme

    Gayle Buck

    The Undutiful Daughter Lady Cecily Lester had the best reason to be badly vexed with her daughter Vanessa. Though Vanessa was bright, beautiful, and charming, and excellent rider to boot, she refused to go to the London marriage mart to find a mat...

  • Savage Heart

    Cassie Edwards

    Christa and her brother David left Boston with hope of making a fortune in the timber country near Seattle, Washington. But cholera had taken their parent on the journey west, and now an isolated cabin near Puget Sound was all they possessed. Until...

  • First Impression

    Margot Dalton

    The case: A parent's nightmare. The moment his mother turns her back, three-year-old Michael Panesivic vanishes. The cop: She grew up on the streets of L.A., so Detective Jackie Kaminsky understands the troubled kids and broken families she deals ...

  • The Seduction

    Laura Lee Guhrke

    WHEN AN HEIRESS AND A ROGUE MEET... Although her father sent her to England to fin a titled husband, beautiful and headstrong Margaret Van Alden rejects every fortune hunter she meets. The only man who does excite her is Trevor St. James, an unsenti...

  • Harriet's Beau

    Emily Hendrickson

    Tempting the Teacher Miss Harriet Mayne clearly was heading for dismal disaster in her first London Season. Her clothes were frightful, her freckles unfortunate, her riding in the park scandalously uninhibited. In short, she represented a challeng...

  • To Love a Dark Stranger

    Colleen Faulkner

    In a moment of shattering violence, Meg Randall's life changes forever. Desperate to save her newborn son from her husband's murderous wrath, she kills this cruel, deformed tyrant she was forced to wed against her will. Now, with blood on her...

  • Blaze

    Norah Hess

    HUNTER He was the last person Blaze Adlington wanted to see when her covered wagon pulled into Fort Bridger. The beautiful orphan was desperately trying to make a new life for herself in the wilds of Wyoming. But now she was face-to-face with the ma...

  • Daddy Material

    Marcia Evanick

    He'd awakened with a stranger in his arms--and a brand-new dream... Desperate to find the mystery woman with whom he'd shared the most passionate night of his life, Adam Young had searched for weeks, even hired a private detective! Now he stood in...

  • Damsel

    Debra Hamilton

    THEY HAD SHARED THE HOPES AND DREAMS OF CHILDHOOD As children they had played together -- Hunter Kinshella, a groomsman's son and Tamasin Cullen, a beautiful peasant girl who longed to be a lady. Her desperate need made her the perfect pawn in...

  • Folly's Reward

    Jean R. Ewing

    WAYLAID BY LOVE... Miss Prudence Drake sought to keep her young charge, six-year-old Lord Dunraven, from the clutches of his cruel guardian by fleeing with him to a Scottish seaside cottage. She has no time for a shipwrecked gentleman. But as he...

  • Highland Wolf

    Lois Greiman

    A LADY'S SECRET Tara O'Flynn is hardly a woman that a man like diplomat Roman Forbes could become seriously involved with -- especially since he is on a mission to deliver a priceless necklace. Yet Roman cannot deny that he finds the lovely taver...

  • Silent Warrior

    Donna Kauffman

    Touching her was tempting fate--and tempting him to risk it all.... Her note read, "fin in trouble," and John McShane sensed the desperation in Cali Ellis's plea for help. He'd flown to the Caribbean on a rescue mission, but the woman whose defian...

  • An Unconventional Miss

    Alice Holden

    Love Scores A Hit Amanda Lofton, daughter of an exceedingly wealthy merchant, has fashionable clothes, impeccable grooming, and dreamy brown eyes. What she doesn't have is a suitor who wants her love, not her money. Meeting a blond stranger en...

  • If You Believe

    Nancy Kelly

    A WOMAN WITH A PAST Child psychologist Liz Havens has returned to her Washington State hometown for one reason only: To find the son she was forced to give up the day he was born. Finding Jesse can make her dreams come true ...or become a nightma...

  • Beast

    Judith Ivory

    THE BEAUTY An exquisite American heiress, Louise Vandermeer is beautiful, brilliant. . . and bored--which is why she has agreed to a daring adventure: to travel across the ocean to marry an aristocrat abroad. Rumor has it her intended is a hideous c...

  • Skye Legacy

    Krista Janssen

    Journeying to the Dakota valley where her half-Sioux father had grown up, Skye MacKinnon is hired by Kyle Wyndford, who is unaware that she is related to the Native American tribe he holds responsible for his brother's death. Skye Mckinnon has...

  • Vignette

    Valerie King

    A desperate lady and an incorrigible rake become caught up in a scandalous game of intrigue and irresistible desire... FIRST ACT Treachery and seduction, magnificent entertainment and midnight assignations are part of Lady Somercote's elegant...

  • The Primrose Path

    Barbara Metzger

    'TWAS MORE THAN JUST A BONE OF CONTENTION BETWEEN NEIGHBORS! Seventh Viscount Knowle--a war hero, a rising star in politics, a nonpareil in tonnish circles-- has become a laughingstock. His legacy has gone to the dogs--literally. Primrose Cott...

  • The Earl's Revenge

    Allison Lane

    The Runaway Bride Elaine Thompson prayed she would never see the Earl of Bridgeport again. She had been barely past girlhood when she fled a forced marriage to this libertine lord who had wanted a wife only to produce an heir. Now, she was a stron...

  • Mountain Moonlight

    Elizabeth Leigh

    After the cruel fires of Civil War destroyed all that mattered most, Betsy Tyler retreated to the edge of town. Here, deep in Tennessee's Smoky Mountains, she lives a life of self-imposed seclusion. Until the day a stranger comes calling - and offers...

  • Beneath a Crimson Moon

    Christine Michels

    Deep undercover to infiltrate a smuggling ring, Singai, a beautiful young warrior, had no time for anything except stopping the flow of banned Earth weapons - until she was attacked by deadly assassins. If it weren't for the timely help of a mysterio...

  • Home Again

    Lenora Nazworth

    A battle of wills between antiques lover Jody Calhoun and wealthy developer Chase Spence culminates in Jody's being sent back in time to the Civil War, where she and Chase play lovers in order to put a ghost to rest. Original....

  • Molly in the Middle

    Stobie Piel

    Sheep, sheep, sheep Ach! The bumbling boobs were everywhere, and as far as Molly was concerned, the stupid beasts were better off mutton. But Molly was a sheepdog, a Scottish Border collie, and unless she found some other means of livelihood for her ...

  • Petticoat Rebellion

    Joan Smith

    WHY MUST SEDUCTION BE A SPORT ENJOYED SOLELY BY GENTLEMEN? For Abbie Fairchild, an art teacher and aspiring artist, the opportunity to spend a week at Penfel Hall with its grand art gallery is a dream come true. But the field trip takes a scandalo...

  • A Cottage by the Sea

    Ciji Ware

    Some might call it running away... But after a scandalous Hollywood divorce, Blythe Stowe considered it damage control for body and soul. The pain, the humiliation, the daily tabloids shouting details as her famous husband dumped her for her own si...

  • In Too Deep

    Raeanne Thayne

    She was a sweet taste of heaven after a journey through hell.... He stopped her for speeding on a Wyoming back road, but when Andrea McPhee couldn't resist teasing Sheriff Will Tanner about his roadside manner, the green-eyed rebel really got unde...

  • Forever Enchanted // By Magic Enchanted

    Maggie Shayne

    Bridin’s destiny is to rule a faraway fairy kingdom, but another sits on her rightful throne, so the enchanting lady is forced to flee into the mortal realm. Bridin awaits for the man who can help her return home, but the stranger who shows up is ...

  • Fortune

    Erica Spindler

    A MOTHER'S ULTIMATE SACRIFICE... A BROTHER'S DARK OBSESSION... AND ONE WOMAN'S DESPERATE FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL... Something dark and dangerous had long shadowed Skye Dearborn's life. She had seen the fear of it in her mother's eyes. It was ther...

  • Some Like It Hotter

    Deb Stover

    Abigail Kingsley can't believe it! Hasn't she been through enough deprivation and heartache in the wake of the Civil War? Now a big, handsome Yankee has appeared uninvited in her great hall, insisting he's from the future.... For Natchez detectiv...

  • Change of Heart

    Violet Hamilton
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    Mothers and love go together, no matter what the century. This delightful Regency collection gathers together a beautiful bouquet of Regency romances selected especially for Mother's Day... Violet Hamilton's "Change of Heart" proves that a widowed...

  • A Gentle Kidnapping

    Valerie King
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    Mothers and love go together, no matter what the century. This delightful Regency collection gathers together a beautiful bouquet of Regency romances selected especially for Mother's Day... In Valerie King's "A Gentle Kidnapping," a concerned hous...

  • Sweet Companion

    Nancy Lawrence
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    Mothers and love go together, no matter what the century. This delightful Regency collection gathers together a beautiful bouquet of Regency romances selected especially for Mother's Day... In Nancy Lawrence's "Sweet Companion," a much too serious...

  • Darling Daughters

    Jeanne Savery
    in

    Mothers and love go together, no matter what the century. This delightful Regency collection gathers together a beautiful bouquet of Regency romances selected especially for Mother's Day... Jeanne Savery's "Darling Daughters" sweeps us away to a c...

  • Conspiracy

    Margie Walker

    Forced by circumstances beyond her control to walk away from her lover, Marcellus Cavanaugh, Pauline Sinclair returns as unexpectedly as she had left, only to become the prime suspect in the poisoning murder of the president of Marcellus's company. O...

  • No Angel's Grace

    Linda Winstead

    Falling in love with the sharp-tongued Grace Cavanaugh, who is in his charge and out of place on his western ranch, Dillon Becket tries to educate the European miss in the ways of frontier life. Grace Cavanaugh was no angel. Not as far as Dillon ...

  • Underneath the Lemon Tree

    Jenna Jones
    in

    Never is love so sweet as in Regency England! Whether it is a London season a-bloom with matchmaking mamas, stunning Incomparables and notorious rakes ready to be reformed by love...or a rustic romance for a charming country miss, romance is always i...

  • Always In My Heart

    Donna Valentino

    SHOTGUN WEDDING One minute Matt Kincaid was negotiating the business deal of his career --- the next, he was getting married in North Platte, Nebraska, a century past, and with a bullet in his shoulder! It was an accident. Shooting him, that is. K...

  • Branded

    Vivian Vaughan

    "WHEN A MAN HAS NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE, BEWARE." Five years ago, Jacy Kimble was devastated by the scandal that sent her brother to prison and destroyed her father's political career. Now, far from her pampered life in Arizona, near-destitute in El ...

  • The Aunt of the Ancient Mariner

    Carola Dunn
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    Never is love so sweet as in Regency England! Whether it is a London season a-bloom with matchmaking mamas, stunning Incomparables and notorious rakes ready to be reformed by love...or a rustic romance for a charming country miss, romance is always i...

  • Chances of Love

    Cathleen Clare
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    Never is love so sweet as in Regency England! Whether it is a London season a-bloom with matchmaking mamas, stunning Incomparables and notorious rakes ready to be reformed by love...or a rustic romance for a charming country miss, romance is always i...

  • Arabella to the Rescue

    Mona Gedney
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    Never is love so sweet as in Regency England! Whether it is a London season a-bloom with matchmaking mamas, stunning Incomparables and notorious rakes ready to be reformed by love...or a rustic romance for a charming country miss, romance is always i...

  • Country Comforts

    Virginia Lee

    Infuriated by the busybody preacher's wife who calls her a hoyden and threatens to take away her little sister unless she settles down, Josie announces her engagement to town newcomer Jack, much to the gentleman's surprise. The biggest gossip in ...

  • Dream Dancer

    Denise Dietz Wiley

    Struggling to keep her father's failing circus afloat in the face of her father's drinking problem, Calliope Kelly faces new disruptions when Brian O'Connor, a dashing animal tamer whom Calliope has long adored, returns and an unknown enemy sets out ...

  • Beggar's Banquet

    Daniel Hood

    A DRAGON FAMILIAR DOES NOT A WIZARD MAKE... Liam Rhenford possesses a wizard's familiar, but he's not a wizard himself. He's solved a few crimes, but he's no detective. Yet, when a priceless family heirloom--a magical jewel--is stolen from Liam's ...

  • Tainted Blood

    Andrew Billings

    Moving to the lumber town of Buckthorn after the death of his wife, Peter Cochran learns that the town and his family have been terrorized for years by an elusive murderer who is targeting young men. Original....

  • Character Witness

    R.A. Forster

    Kathleen Cotter worked her way through law school, and all it got her was a shared cubicle in a strip-mall firm. Then her uncle, the legendary criminal attorney Gerry O'DouI, invites her to join his practice in Beverly Hills. But O'Doul's firm tur...

  • The Clinic

    Kip Langello

    In the heart-pounding tradition of Robin Cook and Michael Palmer, a new master of medical terror inverts the wonders of fertility science to reveal its unthinkable possibilities. In this harrowing, suspenseful novel, Kip Langello crafts the tale of a...

  • Carnivore

    Leigh Clark

    In an Antarctic research outpost, a group of scientists made a discovery. For the first time, modern man would come face-to-face with the ruler of the prehistoric world, the king of the dinosaurs--the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Blinded by scientific zeal, th...

  • Exile's Song

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    THE HERITAGE OF ALTON She was Margaret Alton, the daughter of Lew Alton, the Darkovan representative to the Terran Imperial Senate, but she remembered almost nothing about the planet of her birth, or her early and tumultuous childhood. What fleeti...

  • Echoes of Issel

    Diann Thornley

    Reunited with his son, Tristan, and his wife, Darcie, who were marooned for years on a wild planet, Lujan Serege realizes that the war in which he has played a major role is not over when Tristan is called to return to action. Reprint....

  • The Dragon and the Unicorn

    A.A. Attanasio

    A QUEEN, A PILGRIM, AND A DEMON -- AND A KING WITH A WORLD TO SAVE Beneath every beloved legend there is a deeper legend still, etched in ancient stone. The Dragon and the Unicorn begins before the beginning of Time, as light first cools to matt...

  • An Exchange of Hostages

    Susan R. Matthews

    "Above all, do no harm."--The Hippocratic Oath "The Bench endorses the principle of swift and certain punishment for crimes against the judicial order."--The Inquisitor's Writ A promising young surgeon, Andrej Koscuisko has come, with great rel...

  • Double-Blind

    Loren L. Coleman

    BATTLEMECH BLITZKRIEG Using fast and furious hit-and-run tactics, Marcus GioAvanti and his Avanti's Angels mercenaries have earned a tough reputation throughout the Inner Sphere. But the Inner Sphere isn't where their newest job is taking them--beca...

  • Wizard of Bones

    Robert N. Charrette

    THE LIGHT FROM TIME BEFORE The defeat of the drakkenree at Rastionne has given Yan Tanafres the solitude he needs. In a remote cavern far from the imperial city Sharhumrin, he broods over the Serpent's Eye, seeking to reawaken the mysterious orb a...

  • Ancient Games

    Scott Ciencin

    Once Tom Keeper desired no more than to become a great painter. Now knowledge and power have set him on a different path--one that leads across a scourge-ravaged land into the darkest heart of the Realm of Shadows. For the natural orders have been di...

  • Personal Agendas

    Al Sarrantonio

    LINKS IN THE CHAIN G'Kar, once the Narn ambassador to Babylon 5, is a warrior's warrior. Now, with his homeworld enslaved by the Centauri, he is a prisoner on his enemy's planet. Despite the chains that bind him, he keeps the one freedom that fate a...

  • The First Casualty

    David L. Seidman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Hercules possessed a strength the world had never seen, a strength surpassed only by the power of his heart. He journeyed the Earth, battling the minions of his wicked stepmother, Hera, the all-powerful Queen of the Gods. Wherever there was evil, whe...

  • Atlantis Found

    R. Garcia y Robertson

    When four expedition teams go missing after undertaking a dangerous journey back to the Bronze Age, Jake Bento and his Argo rescue squad teammates are sent to discover what went wrong and undertake a history-threatening mission. Original....

  • Spiritride

    Mark Shepherd

    GHOST BIKERS IN THE SKY... Randolf "Thorn" Wilson died a long time ago. But that doesn't stop him from riding his ghost Harley through the sky, trying to help other bikers. Now he's caught in a battle between an elven King and his skateboard-ridin...

  • The Wild Baron

    Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader: Rohan Carrington, Baron Mountvale, proud scion of a family renowned for its philandering and charm, is bewildered. He has received a letter stating that his late, younger brother, George, ruined a young lady. But how could this be pos...

  • Stop the Wedding!

    Trisha Alexander

    THE RIGHT BRIDE As her wedding day approached, Kristin Blair looked forward to it with feelings decidedly unbridelike. Her fiance was fine on paper, but his embraces left her cold--unlike another man who, years before, had ignited her passion and th...

  • Jennifer's Outlaw

    Karen Anders

    THE LADY AND THE LONER He was an outlaw. A rebel. A man she'd sworn to avoid. A drifter more comfortable roaming the range-alone-than taking a wife and building a family. But from the moment he became her protector, Jennifer Horn felt a connection...

  • Look-Alike Bride

    Laura Anthony

    MISSING MOVIE STAR GETS AMNESIA? by I. Del Chatter, gossip columnist Hollywood honey Elizabeth Destiny is staying at ex-fiance and megamillionaire Kurt McNally's Texas ranch. Are wedding bells finally ringing for the starlet and the cowboy? O...

  • The Sheriff's Son

    Stella Bagwell

    WHOSE BABIES WERE THEY? When single mother Justine Murdock found baby twins abandoned on her doorstep, she saw the Murdock chin and big green eyes in those sweet little faces. Oh, maybe she was just imagining the family resemblance. Or maybe she w...

  • Knights Divided

    Suzanne Barclay

    Though Emmeline Spencer captured Jamie Harcourt as her prisoner, the rogue adventurer stole kisses from her that were sweet beyond her wildest imagining. Yet how could Emma love the man suspected of the murder of her beloved sister? Heir to the So...

  • Fancy's Baby

    Pamela Bauer

    Some lucky baby is about to be discovered by talent scout Kika Mancini, and hopeful parents in Tyler are all stirred up! The only baby she wants, though, belongs to Nick Miller. And he's not even tempted by what Kika is offering his daughter. W...

  • Surrender the Heart

    Nina Beaumont

    Christopher Blanchard was everything she'd ever needed... yet didn't want. Ariane de Valmont prized her independence above all else, and to secure it, she'd struck a seductive bargain with a tantalizing American. Now she feared that in this heart's g...

  • Lucy and the Loner

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    MR. APRIL THE MASTER (FOR A MONTH): Boone Cagney. When irresistible Lucy Dolan cried pitifully about her trapped three-year-old, how was the hunk fire fighter to know she was talking about her...cat? Now he's spending his days -- and his nigh...

  • Compromising Positions

    Beverly Bird

    DEADLY DESIRES ... PASSIONATE ALLIANCES A prominent socialite had been murdered. And all the evidence pointed to District Attorney Jesse Hadley and Chief Medical Examiner Angela Byerly -- but they were both innocent. Now they had to work together ...

  • One Enchanted Night

    Debra Carroll

    ONE NIGHT WAS ALL THEY COULD EVER HAVE Lucy Weston didn't believe in romance or marriage ...until David appeared on her doorstep, half-dead from the winter storm outside. She kept him alive with the warmth of her own body, and reacted to him as sh...

  • Guilty Pleasures

    Stella Cameron

    Every woman has a past, but beloved television personality Polly Crow has one she must conceal at all costs. Every man has his breaking point, but ex-Navy SEAL Nasy Ferrito is about to discover how far he will go to protect what he believes in. ...

  • Porcupine Ranch

    Sally Carleen

    THE HUNGRIEST COWBOY IN TEXAS Clayton Sinclair ran the toughest ranch in Texas, and all he wanted at the end of a long day was a steak dinner and a tidy house. But his pretty new housekeeper couldn't boil an egg to save her life. Maybe the lad...

  • Parker and the Gypsy

    Susan Carroll

    JUST LIKE A DAME... "!t was one of those days when life arrives on your doorstep, unannounced. A day full of weak coffee and bourbon-colored memories. A day, like every other. Until she walked in the door..." Private Investigator Mike P...

  • Midnight Wishes

    Carla Cassidy

    Motive: To protect her son Everyone around Abby Connor believed she was guilty of killing her ex-husband. Now even she wasn't certain of her own innocence--or her sanity. She'd lost chunks of time, botched simple tasks, misplaced things .... Could...

  • Behind Closed Doors

    Carla Cassidy

    SOON YOU'LL BE MINE... A t first Ann Carson thought the notes were a prank. Then came more sinister threats... and the eerie awareness that someone was watching her. Ann dreaded the long, hot summer nights--until rugged policeman Clay Clinton beca...

  • Nanny in the Nick of Time

    Donna Clayton

    DESPERATE DADDY: Widowed police officer Jason Devlin. Taking care of his baby girl was usually a piece of cake...till his housekeeper quit, leaving Jason desperate enough to hire the first qualified person who rang his doorbell. DAM!. t_ N DISTRE...

  • The Almost-Perfect Proposal

    Toni Collins

    A LONG-LOST PROPOSAL My dear, I love you, and being apart from you has made me realize how much I really need you. I hope you'll be able to promise that I'll be coming home to you. Say you'll be my wife.... All my love always Amy ...

  • The Wrangler's Bride

    Justine Davis

    Meet the Fortunes--a family whose legacy is greater than riches. Because where there's a will...there's a wedding! THE COWBOY He'd always been an outsider. And Grant McClure liked it that way. Stepson to the Fortunes, he'd made his own destiny...

  • Million-Dollar Mommy

    Jacqueline Diamond

    The Prince and the Promise Kim Morris had more to contend with than a bump on the head when she woke up with amnesia ...and a new husband. Jack LeGrand was every woman's fantasy. Handsome, charming -- oh, and titled -- he was, in fact, Prince ...

  • Dr. Holt and the Texan

    Suzannah Davis

    THE GOOD DOCTOR Physician Mercy Holt always kept her cool in the E.R. Then rodeo rider Travis King showed up - half-naked and needing a strong dose of T.L.C. Suddenly, Mercy was seventeen again - longing for the one footloose cowboy she couldn't h...

  • Lover Unknown

    Shawna Delacorte

    He came to her in the night... Lauren Jamison sensed danger and secrets when Kyle Delaney entered her waterfront store. Not for a moment did she believe the dark stranger was an ordinary man. Instinctively she knew he lived on the edge, belonged t...

  • The Wedding Escapade

    Kate Denton

    It should have been the wedding of the year... But if Amy thinks arranging millionaire Max Evans's wedding will put her wedding consultancy on the map, she's wrong.... The bride doesn't show up, the guests run riot and the groom falls ...

  • Your Baby or Mine?

    Marie Ferrarella

    BOSS + BABIES = LOVE Her handsome boss was finally about to kiss her--until a baby began wailing at the top of its tiny lungs! And since single mom Marissa Rogers was the hired help, she had to leave those elusive lips to give his baby--or maybe h...

  • Bogus Bride

    Emily French

    HE MARRIED THE WRONG SISTER . . . Ten years after he left England, Sam Jardine wrote home for a bride, but instead of the angelic beauty he remembered, the fiery Caitlin Parr had arrived on America's shores. A decade of silent infatuation had f...

  • Outrageous

    Lori Foster

    He was totally outrageous! One minute, the sexy-as-sin cop was rescuing Emily Cooper from drunken hoodlums. Five minutes later he was tearing his clothes off in front of a group of voracious women. What kind of man was he -- and why couldn't Em...

  • A Wife for Dr. Sam

    Phyllis Halldorson

    HOW TO MARRY A DOCTOR... The gossip around town was that Dr. Sam Lawford would rather swallow his stethoscope than marry, but woman after woman faked sore throats and got stung by bumblebees just to have Sam's hands on their bodies. So what was an ...

  • First Prize

    Lynn Jacobs

    She'd won her dream date! Tamsin has dreamed about Nick Sullivan for years. She'd had a teenage crush on him, and when he'd left their small hometown to become a successful international journalist, she never stopped wanting him.. Now N...

  • What to Do About Baby

    Martha Hix

    HUSH LITTLE BABY Through a miracle of modern medicine, Caroline Grant's fifty-nine-year-old mother gave birth to a baby girl. Now, two years later, Caroline has "inherited" little Natalie. Caroline had always wanted a child of her own -- but rais...

  • The Mother of His Son

    Janis Reams Hudson

    THE WOMAN HE HAD NEVER STOPPED LOVING What under heaven had driven Bethany Martin from his arms? What had made her abandon their dreams, disappear without a trace? For years Luke Ryan had asked those questions--and cursed Beth's betrayal. But he'd...

  • The Miracle Baby

    Janice Kay Johnson

    If having a baby with a stranger is what it'll take to save her daughter's life...Beth McCabe is willing to have one. Is the stranger? Nate McCabe hasn't seen or spoken to his identical twin brother, Rob, for fifteen years. Now Rob is dead an...

  • Forever, My Love

    Linda Ladd

    ACT OF BETRAYAL Belinda Scott had no choice but to become a spy. An indentured servant threatened with losing the only family she had left, her four-year-old sister Annie, she was placed in the New York home of Gabriel Elliot and ordered to report...

  • The Rescued Heart

    Melinda McRae

    A HANDSOME STRANGER Beautiful young Bess Williams was resigned to living a quiet life of genteel poverty in the English countryside after her officer father died fighting Napoleon. Then one day a stranger arrived, the most handsome, irresistibly gall...

  • The Trouble With Tonya

    Lorna Michaels

    She was a walking disaster area! Tonya Brewster's life was a mess. Little things like holding down a job or driving within the speed limit baffled her. So why in the world had her grandfather found her a job at an inner city youth center? She knew n...

  • His Kind of Trouble

    Vivian Leiber

    The bodyguard The last person Austin Smith wanted to guard was a pregnant woman. Especially one he'd once been in love with. But he was duty bound to watch over Tarini Schaskylavitch; he'd promised his buddy - and Tarini's ambassador fiance - that...

  • The Other Amanda

    Lynn Leslie

    Amnesia was less than the painful truth! Amanda Braithwaite, pampered niece of hospital administrator Randall Chambers, is found badly hurt in a park, but can't remember how she got there. In fact, she can't even remember her own name. The only pe...

  • This Matter of Marriage

    Debbie Macomber

    If I want to get married & have a family (& I do) it's time for a plan!! Starting now. --From Hallie McCarthy's diary The alarm on Hallie's biological clock is buzzing. She's hitting the beg three-O and there's no prospect of marriage, no man in ...

  • Tallchief

    Dinah McCall

    A Dream...Or A Nightmare? Ever since the night Morgan Tallchief lost the only woman he would ever love, he has struggled to seal away the past. But now Kathleen Ryder is back in his life--still pursued by the deadly secrets that forced her to flee...

  • The Nanny and the Reluctant Rancher

    Barbara McCauley

    THE BACHELOR AND THE NANNY From the first moment Kat Delaney walked through his door, single dad Logan Kincaid knew his life was about to be turned upside down. There was something decidedly unsettling about his daughter's new nanny, but he vowed ...

  • The Beauty of the Mist

    May McGoldrick

    CRUEL BETROTHAL Maria, had been forced to marry at 17, then was left widowed shortly thereafter. Now 5 years later, her brother had chosen another husband for her sight unseen--the boy king of Scotland. Maria, who had never known passion or love, re...

  • A Stranger to Love

    Patricia McLinn

    A STRANGER TO LOVE Cully Grainger was the one who got away. Actually, it was worse than that--Jessa Tarrant had all but pushed the man out of her life. Men like Cully didn't show up in a town like Bardville, Wyoming, every day. Not that it matt...

  • Looking After Dad

    Elizabeth Oldfield

    Single dad requires protection! When Lorcan Hunter is threatened by someone opposed to his latest business project, and leggy blonde Jess Pallister presents herself as the person to protect him, Lorcas is more than a little skeptical! But when his...

  • Love, Marriage and Other Calamities

    Debbi Rawlins

    Jolie Duval often leapt before she looked... That's how she wound up losing so many jobs. And needing this one badly enough to marry Mike Kramer to get it. Which led to Calamity #1 Maybe signing on as cook hadn't been such a hot idea. Well, a...

  • Secrets in Satin

    Haywood Smith


    He thought she was as cold as ice.

    With her pale face and black mourning gown, Elizabeth, Countess of Ravenwold, was completely emotionless as she stood over the body of her dead husband. But Edward Garrett, Viscount Creighton, had no idea...

  • Twice the Spice

    Patricia Ryan

    Emma was in for the adventure of a lifetime--or two. Emma Sutcliffe was content playing the "good" twin to her outrageous double, Zara. But after she walked a mile in Zara's killer spike heels and leather miniskirt--followed by the sexiest man sh...

  • Maggie's Man

    Alicia Scott

    MAGGIE FERRINGER WAS NOT HAVING A GOOD DAY... It was bad enough being called for jury duty - but being taken hostage...! Ok, maybe her captor appealed to her on a primitive level, but getting involved with a convicted murderer was hardly a sensibl...

  • The Deed

    Lynsay Sands

    Lady Emmalene Eberhart was dying to DO IT. She even begged the King to make her husband do it to her--because she wanted to be a good wife. But then her husband died, and Emmalene was still as much a virgin as on the day she wed. Suddenly, the in...

  • Tessa's Child

    Dallas Schulze

    National bestselling author Dallas Schulze takes her Walker family saga to new heights. A WOMAN...PREGNANT AND ALONE On the run from a heartless past, Tessa Wyndham left her home for the open road. Then the fragile beauty found refuge from the st...

  • The Perfect Couple

    Maura Seger

    THEIR FUTURE HANGS IN THE BALANCE... First the argument ripped Shane Dutton and Brenna O'Hare apart. Now a plane crash has stranded Shane in the Alaskan wilderness. Miles apart, all they can do is wait. And hope. And remember... THEIR PAST IS ...

  • Marrying Well

    Lynda Simons

    How to Marry a Millionaire by Jeannie Renamo 1. Irk your boss, handsome magazine publisher Kyle Hunter, by creating controversial new column--"Marrying Well: A Practical Guide." 2. Accept Kyle's challenge to follow guidelines and land a rich h...

  • Chancy's Cowboy

    Lass Small

    JUST ONE OF THE BOYS Chancy Freedman had grown up on the Bar Q ranch. She had learned how to rope and ride, and the ranch hands had looked out for her 'best they could.' But they couldn't teach her the art of being a lady, and poor Chancy had made...

  • Buchanan's Return

    Pamela Toth

    THE BUCHANANS ARE BACK! Kirby Wilson didn't know if she was more mad or grateful. In one shocking moment she had learned that she was adopted--and that she had two brothers she had never known about. The revelation brought her to brother Donovan's...

  • Outlaw Love

    Judith Stacy

    Of All the Rotten Luck! Kelsey Rodgers was already in trouble up to her elbows. The last thing she needed was a U.S. Marshal staying at her hotel. Especially one as sharp, sexy and dangerous as Clay Chandler was turning out to be! Clay just kn...

  • Danielle's Daddy Factor

    Sherryl Woods

    THOSE WATKINS BOYS! THAT WILDE WOMAN! When handsome single dad Slade Watkins came to town, all Riverton wagered that a wedding was in the offing. The hapless widower hadn't a clue about taming his two rambunctious sons--until pretty Danielle Wilde...

  • Amy

    Peg Sutherland

    A golden wedding usually means a family celebration. But the Hardaway sisters drifted apart years ago. And each has her own reason for wanting no part of a family reunion. As plans for the party proceed, tensions mount, until it even begins to look a...

  • The Mommy School

    Valerie Taylor

    He was the perfect mom! Janet Resnick could juggle an appointment book with the best of Wall Street, but two days of caring for her sister's three kids stopped her cold. They'd already eaten her out of house and home -- including Vaseline, housep...

  • One Hot Cowboy

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    HOW TO MARRY... One hot cowboy! - Keep a lasso handy. - Saddle a fast horse - Chase him into the sunset. Maggie Porter planned to find a cowboy husband, not a job! Yet, when she rode onto Jake MacIntyre's ranch, she agreed to stay -- as nanny to Ja...

  • One Mom Too Many

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    The Game of Matchmaking The players--Maureen O'Malley and Bridget Kingsford Two mothers with marriage on their minds--for their kids. Little do they suspect that they have done their work too well.... The pawns--Daniel O'Malley and Rose Kingsf...

  • The Dark Side of the Moon

    Margaret Watson

    HER LIFE WAS ON THE LINE.... Eagle Ridge was turning out to be far from the tranquil oasis Tory Falcon had envisioned. A serial killer was loose in the town, preying on single women, and the police feared Tory would be his next target. She could t...

  • The Wrong Wife

    Eileen Wilks

    HE WOKE UP NAKED, IN BED WITH HIS BEST FRIEND'S SISTER... One minute Gideon Wilde was lamenting his recent broken engagement. The next, he was saying "I do"--only, he'd married the wrong wife! Always in control, Gideon had no room ...

  • The Redemption of Deke Summers

    Gayle Wilson

    A man without a name... Deke Summers was a man on the run, with no possessions, no connections. Caring about another person was his most forbidden luxury. A woman without a heart... Becki Travers was the kind of woman who always set an extr...

  • Strangers When We Meet

    Rebecca Winters

    IS IT POSSIBLE? During Desert Storm, Rosie Armstrong's husband went off to war. He didn't return. She was told that he was missing in action -- and presumed dead. For years, she couldn't accept that Nick was dead, couldn't believe it. But she...

  • Touch of Texas

    Judy Christenberry

    THE TEMPERATURE'S RISING... Dr. Susan Kelly returned home eager to start a medical practice and enjoy a more relaxed, uncomplicated life. But she didn't realize how little had changed in the dusty west Texas town since she'd left so many years be...

  • No Holding Back

    Kathi Webb

    THE THRILL OF LOVE Divorced Kaitlin Ross is too busy launching her fashion consulting business and organizing a community charity event to even think about starting a new relationship. Then a rugged, world-famous stuntman called Blaze walks into ...

  • Cody's Girl

    Lois Faye Dyer

    GIVING LOVE A CHANCE Feisty and self-sufficient, Rebecca Colter is still the most eligible woman in town. But since inheriting her uncle's ranch, she has only two dreams: becoming the best horse trainer in all of Idaho; and having a child. ...

  • Escorting Alicia

    Victoria Chancellor

    CINDERELLA IN ST. LOUIS Alicia Myers is a bundle of nerves over the prospect of her fifteen-year high school reunion in St. Louis. Not even a makeover and a new dress can turn the shy, single financial manager into what she isn't: sexy, glamorous,...

  • Wandering Heart

    Patricia Lynn

    WHERE IS LOVE? Jo Allison has spent the last ten years trying to outrun the painful past, and the unforgettable betrayal that turned her heart against the false promises of love. Until her car breaks down and she finds herself -- feverish and str...

  • The Best Man

    Mara Fitzcharles

    FIRST COMES LOVE... Attorney Cara Hilliard has good friends, a beautiful home, and a successful career. Yet there's something missing that would make her life complete: a baby. But the wary divorcee isn't looking to get married again --...

  • Night and Day

    Marilyn Jordan

    LOVE'S A TREASURE Palm Beach maitre'd Devon Stratter has just learned that she's the descendant of a wealthy Civil War bride. But the only way to collect her inheritance is by deciphering a series of mysterious clues. And who better to help her ...

  • Because of Francie // Falling For Her Boss

    Karen Rose Smith

    ROMANCE ON ICE When businessman Noah Gordon arrives in the quaint town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to sell off one of his "Roller Fun" skating rinks, no one is more surprised than the rink's manager, Francie Piccard. Because of her, Roller Fun is...

  • Finders Keepers

    Sharon Sala

    MORE THAN JUST A DADDY Little Joey knew his father was absolutely perfect, but the toddler craved a mother too. Then he blundered into Molly Eden's backyard and knew he'd found the mommy of his dreams. Joseph Ross was entranced by his son's cho...

  • Dead in the Mud

    Connie Feddersen

    SHE'S GOT LAS VEGAS LEGS, BUT SHE'S HAD IT WITH LIFE IN THE FAST LANE. SHE'S AMANDA HAZARD--SAVVY CPA AND AMATEUR SLEUTH--AND SHE'S ABOUT TO STIR UP A TORNADO OF TROUBLE IN THE OKLAHOMA BOONDOCKS! A DIRTY WAY TO DIE Amanda is fit to be tied. To...

  • An Unspoken Promise

    Georgia Bockoven

    SHE MADE A VOW TO SAVE HER SISTER--NO MATTER WHAT. From the time her little sister first escaped her playpen, Diana Winchester has been Amy's only protector in a life filled with crises. But when Amy hits bottom at age twenty-four, Diana realizes ...

  • Wind Water

    Jeanne Williams

    Tells the story of Cap and his adopted daughter, Julie, who travel around the Heartland erecting windmills, but when they stop to help three boys living on their own, tragedy strikes and Julie must go on alone...

  • Free Reign

    Rosemary Aubert

    On the day he graduated from law school, there was little doubt that Ellis Portal would have a brilliant future. He and five of his similarly gifted colleagues commemorated the splendor of their shared expectations with the presentation, to each, of ...

  • Spiderweb

    Susan Berman

  • Dead Man's Hand

    Catherine Dain

    When Freddie kills a teenage mugger, she tries to soothe her guilt by helping out his family. Instead she finds herself involved in a murder - and wondering if it's true that no good deed goes unpunished....

  • The Highland Fling Murders

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    A SLAYING IN SCOTLAND Jessica Fletcher and a group of her friends from Cabot Cove, Maine, take off for the British Isles and end up at a castle in Scotland. It would be a great vacation -- except for the ghost. And the murders. Scotland's mos...

  • Trial

    Parnell Hall

    Hall's latest one-word title describes the further adventures of Manhattan investigator Stanley Hastings. Attorney Richard Rosenberg, the personal injury specialist who usually employs Stanley, has him investigate the alibi of his latest client, a ri...

  • The Xibalba Murders

    Lyn Hamilton

    The co-owner of a Toronto antiquities store, Lara McClintoch is obsessed with finding rare and beautiful artifacts. Her travels take her to the ends of the earth, where history jealously guards its treasures--and where the mysteries of the past meet ...

  • Come Away, Death

    Mollie Hardwick

    TILL DEATH DO THEM PART... Doran Fairweather and her husband, ex-vicar Rodney Chelmarsh, are both secretly relieved when she decides to sublet a friend's London apartment for a while. Maybe the separation will put the spice back into their relatio...

  • The Maggody Militia

    Joan Hess

    MURDER PAINTS MAGGODY Chief of Police Arly Hanks is the law in Maggody, Arkansas (pop.755), a peaceful little Ozarks town snuggled in the heartland of America. Until a group of camouflage-clad patriots march in with maneuvers--and murder. It be...

  • Taken to the Cleaners

    Dolores Johnson

    IF THE SUIT FITS... Mandy Dyer is all business. She has to be. Left high and dry by her would-be-lawyer ex-husband, Mandy turned to her uncle's Denver dry-cleaning company--and soon found herself in charge. Now, amid the hissing presses, rattling ...

  • Fly Fishing Can Be Fatal

    David Leitz

    It was spring in Vermont. The tree frogs were singing, the trout were stirring, and the biggest fish of all was coming to Whitefork Lodge... Call it a deal with the devil. Max Addams needed the money. And one very powerful man--the head of a Cosa ...

  • A Stirring of Dust

    Susan Sizemore

    When a string of decapitated murder victims is discovered, vampire detective Nick Knight suspects a recently released former inmate who had killed his wife the same way, but he wonders if one of his own kind is really responsible. Original. TV tie-in...

  • Hunting a Detroit Tiger

    Troy Soos

    It is early spring. 1920, and all Mickey Rawlings wants is a .250 batting average, twenty stolen bases, and a regular place in the Tigers' lineup. But when Emmett Siever, an old-time baseball player trying to organize a players' union, is killed at a...

  • Lethal Lessons

    Karen Hanson Stuyck

    As a public relations professional, Liz James strives to keep the reputation of the Houston Mental Health Center spotless. But when a charismatic colleague is accused of murdering her own husband, Liz is painfully reminded that sometimes bad publicit...

  • Revenge of the Barbeque Queens

    Lou Jane Temple

    WHEN HEAVEN LEE IS JUDGING THE BARBEQUE CONTEST, TROUBLE SEEMS TO STICK TO HER APRON. Although she's Kansas City's premier restaurateur and a helluva barbeque queen, this time around Heaven Lee is just a judge at the Barbeque World Series. But tha...

  • Death Brims Over

    Barbara Jaye Wilson

    MEET BRENDA MIDNIGHT She's a savvy young designer with her own hat shop, who has never even thought of chasing crooks. But when crime invades her cobblestone Greenwich Village neighborhood and the cops don't have a clue, Brenda has to drop everyth...

  • Death of a Winter Shaker

    Deborah Woodworth

    SISTER ROSE IS ON A MISSION... TO CATCH A KILLER The peaceful Shakers, pledged to hard work, worship and nonviolence could scarcely believe there was a dead body in their herb house. The handsome young drifter known as a "Winter Shaker" had professe...

  • The Psalm Killer

    Chris Petit

    In the explosive city of Belfast, where senseless, violent death is a daily affair, Detective Chief Inspector Cross discovers the grisly handiwork of a serial killer. A man obsessed by homicide, Cross--both British and Catholic--finds working among h...

  • The Broken Sword

    Molly Cochran; Warren Murphy

    Camelot in New York? Not long ago, Arthur was an ordinary boy. Now he knows that he is the legendary King Arthur, returned to lead not just Britain, but all mankind into a new era of justice, peace, and freedom. Accompanied by the wizard, Merlin; ...

  • The Rival

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    A LAND SCARRED BY WAR MUST FACE A CONQUEROR WITHOUT MERCY Twenty years after their first attempt, a new Fey invasion threatens Blue Isle, headed by the ruthless Black King Rugad. The island is more than a stepping-stone to conquest of the continen...

  • Triumph of the Darksword

    Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman

    In a realm where magic is life, Joram was one of the Dead. Born without power, he was denied his royal birthright and sentenced to the Turning--his mind to be imprisoned inside a husk of living stone. Yet at the last moment, Saryon took his place...

  • Intellivore

    Diane Duane

    The Great Rift lies between the Sagitarius and Orion arms of the galaxy. Stars are scarce there, beyond the authority of the Federation, and legends abound of lost civilizations and of ancient monsters that prey on those who dare to venture into the ...

  • The Stars Dispose

    Michaela Roessner

    The story of Tomasso de Befanini, son of the astrologer to the Medicis, whose quest to become Catherine de Medici's master chef is interrupted by war, intrigue, and magic, includes a glossary and recipes for several of the dishes involved. Reprint....

  • Diversity Alliance

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born--a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia have grown strong with the Force, thwarting the evil Nolaa Tarkona and destroying the Emperor's plague. Now, with th...

  • Illusions

    Janet Dailey

    Delaney Wescott, a beautiful security expert, is urgently summoned to New York after Lucas Wayne, a rock star turned movie star, is attacked and almost killed in his hotel room. His assailant is Rina Cole, a sultry sex-siren actress - and an old flam...

  • Potshot

    Gerry Boyle

    "Boyle has a wonderful sense of place--in this case, Maine, where Jack McMorrow has fled to escape the workaholic drive that led him to become a top reporter for the New Yolk Times Now he works as a freelancer, which leads him into places most report...

  • The Harlequin Tea Set

    Agatha Christie

    A priceless treasure for collectors and fans, The Harlequin Tea Set brings together nine brilliant Christie stories that have remained long out of print--until now. In "The Mystery of the Spanish Chest," featuring Hercule Poirot, the legendary detec...

  • Out of Body

    Thomas Baum

    Recently paroled from prison for a rape he has no memory of committing, Denton Hake begins experiencing terrifying memory lapses, which he believes are caused by out of body experiences, and he becomes a prime suspect when his girlfriend is shot to d...

  • The Genesis Code

    John Case

    A phone call in the dead of night brings Joe Lassiter shattering news. His sister and young nephew have died in a fire in their home near Washington, D.C. Yet Lassiter soon learns a chilling fact: His loved ones were brutally murdered before the blaz...

  • Room 13

    Henry Garfield

  • A Whisper of Black

    Clay Harvey

    In the sequel to A Flash of Red, former special operative Tyler Vance hopes to return to a quiet retirement with his family, but millions of dollars from illegal gun deals are still floating around, and Vance finds himself charged with gettin...

  • The Hour of Our Death

    Alison Joseph

    While investigating the sudden and suspicious death of Gail Sullivan, Sister Agnes meets attractive artist Alexander Jaffe and agrees to sit for him, and the more she gets to know him and his violent tendencies, the more he seems capable of murder...

  • To Bury the Dead

    Brian Andrew Laird

    On the way back to the O'odham reservation from Los Angeles, Gary Napoleon is shocked when the dead body of his dear friend Ryder, whom he is bringing home for an Indian burial, disappears and realizes he must find the body to fulfill his promises...

  • An Image to Die For

    Mike Phillips

    Street-smart reporter Sam Dean finds himself embroiled in another whodunit when the television producer who offers Dean the onscreen job of investigating a murder is himself murdered, leaving Dean to solve both mysteries....

  • First Cut

    Leah Ruth Robinson

    Dr. Evelyn Sutcliffe's world is a place chaos, violence, and, sometimes, miracles. Now terror has followed her into the emergency room of University Hospital.

    A tough professional addicted to the adrenaline rush of life-and-death emergency medicine...

  • The Night Crew

    John Sandford

    Bestselling author John Sandford takes all the action and suspense of his acclaimed Prey novels and heads west to the dark gleam of L.A. - where the Night Crew works. A mobile unit of video freelancers, they prowl the midnight streets for news to sel...

  • Simon Said

    Sarah R. Shaber

    SHE HAD A CAMEO CHOKER AROUND HER NECK Eyebrows are raised as yellow crime-scene tape drapes across the once-distinguished Colonial Bloodworth House. For the mansion, nestled cozily amidst the tranquil academia of Kenan College, may have once been t...

  • The Walls of Jericho

    Jon Land

    American Ben Kamal is a Detroit police detective whose police training makes him valuable to the new Palestinian police force on the West Bank. He's glad to help--but hooking up with the Israelis to find a serial killer was not part of the deal. Dan...

  • Rage of a Demon King

    Raymond E. Feist

    A loyal soldier and a wealthy merchant have served bravely in the flames of an enduring war that is ravaging their land. But swords, bows, wits and courage will no longer be enough to defeat the scourge that is descending upon their home. For a foul ...

  • Interface Masque

    Shariann Lewitt

    In the ancient and future city of Venice, poised above the drifting tides of her canals, is House Sept-Fortune: a guild specializing in the making and breaking of data systems. Cecilie is a senior apprentice in Sept-Fortune, on the brink of her adult...

  • Princess Charming

    Jane Heller

    What happens when you put three divorced women and one desperate hit man on a ship bound for the Caribbean? You get Jane Heller's sparkling new novel of love, sex and murder... Every since they first met in divorce court, Elaine Zimmerman and her ...