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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — AUGUST 1993

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New Books List: 490 titles

  • Gentle Persuasion

    Veda Boyd Jones

    Julie Russell holds athletes in contempt. Not only does she think they are overrated, but she's spent her life having her academic achievements overshadowed by the athletic accomplishments of her sister and brothers. As a teacher, Julie has seen spor...

  • Indy Girl

    Brenda Bancroft

    A.J.'s friends and family have been calling her Indy Girl since she was a toddler. Now this accomplished race car driver is determined to make the Indy 500 within two years. She won't let anything stand in her way. Not the business pressures at the f...

  • Gone West

    Kathleen Karr

    Johnny and Maggie Stuart, booksellers par excellence, are vibrantly young and full of faith as they begin their two-thousand-mile journey West to dispense the Word and their own special brand of love in the untamed wilderness. Ever the dreamer, Jo...

  • Cave of Wonders

    Ann Braybrooks

  • Devil Knocks

    Frank Rich

  • Requiem for a Rustler

    R.C. House

  • The Lost Padre

    Nelson Nye

  • High Country

    Jason Manning

    Tennessee woodsman Zach Hannah accepts a challenge offered by the Hudson Bay Trading Company and battles the fury of nature, hostile Indian tribes, and competitive fellow trappers in order to trap beaver. Original....

  • Samurai Hunt

    J.R. Roberts

    Clint Adams is having a fine time in San Francisco, enjoying the high-stakes poker, fancy eateries, and fast women...until he meets up with Toshiro Matsu, a samurai in California on a sacred quest. It seems a couple of desperadoes have stolen the ...

  • Maverick Guns

    Jack Ballas

  • Rapid Fire

    Jack Slade

    At the end of the Civil War, General Jackson Kilby took some of his fellow Confederates south to settle in a new land: Parimba Province, Brazil. There they prospered, and were continuing to prosper when Jorge Suarez, a violent revolutionary and his a...

  • Winterkill

    David Thompson

  • Lone Star and the Steel Rail Sellout

    Wesley Ellis

    A mysterious gold coin sets Jessie and Ki on the trail of a greedy killer!A coin slipped into Ki's pocket by a stranger leads Jessie and Ki into an ambush, and the Lone Star duo must tangle with a greedy baron and his henchmen who plan on blowing up ...

  • Longarm and the Captive Women

    Tabor Evans

  • Longarm and the Navaho Drums

    Tabor Evans

    MURDERED CAVALRY...MISTAKEN IDENTITY When Longarm takes to the canyons in response to an urgent appeal from General Sherman, he expects Indian trouble. Since the death of Kit Carson in '68, snipers in rimrock hideaways have turned Four Corners Cou...

  • Death Warrant

    Hank Edwards (1)

    With cattle baron Terrill and the T Bar Ranch in trouble and someone fixing to stir up a vicious range war, tough as nails Federal Judge Clay Torn must put aside his justice's robes and pick up a rifle. Original....

  • Colorado Gold

    Douglas Hirt

    In the Arizona outpost of Yuma to find out who is stealing money from an upriver mining company, Harrison Mandell must face a muddy stretch of the swirling Colorado River and a motley collection of misfits. Original....

  • Rebel Mine

    Joyce Adams

    SOUTHERN SPITFIRE After a Union bullet killed her beloved twin brother, golden-haired Brianna Devland risked her life time and again for the Rebel cause, vowing vengeance against all Northerners. Then she met Major Trevor Caldwell. With one breathle...

  • A Moment of Madness

    Barbara Allister

    A Fateful Flowering Once upon a time Georgiana Carrington had been an ugly duckling, a tall and gangling girl stumbling awkwardly through her first London season. Now time had passed, and Georgiana had grown to be an enchanting beauty. Once upo...

  • Adobe Palace

    Joyce Brandon

    A proud widow with a young son, Samantha Forrester staked her claim in wild, untamed Arizona in 1889. Indomitable and determined, she built her own cattle ranch -- but a high-born lady living alone was prey to the greedy vultures of this isolated fro...

  • The Bengal Rubies

    Lisa Bingham

    Aloise Crawford's father had imprisoned her for years in a French academy before he ordered her back to George III's England for a scandalous reason: to auction her to any suitor who bid highest for her and her dowry of the fabulous Bengal Ru...

  • Swept Away

    Jean Anne Caldwell

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

  • Master of Moonspell

    Deborah Camp

    Destiny calls lovely and spirited Julienne Vale to Moonspell in the Florida Keys -- to serve as governess to the motherless child of the grand estate's enigmatic master. And from her first glimpse of Captain Buccaneer LaFlamme astride a galloping sta...

  • The Glitter and the Gold

    Marion Chesney

    THEY'D BEEN MARRIED UNDER FALSE PRETENSES. NOW IT WAS TIME TO SET MATTERS TO RIGHT. Fanny and her groom had been tricked! Both sets of impoverished parents had decided to recoup their families' losses by marrying their offspring to the pro...

  • Hush Little Baby

    Sally Emerson

  • Pirate Moon

    Kathleen Drymon

    Katelin Ashford was a bit hotheaded, but hardly wicked enough to be exiled from her beloved London to the wilds of the Caribbean just to avoid a scandal! But her trip across the Atlantic turned out to be fraught with peril and passion when a storm bu...

  • Band of Gold

    Zita Christian

    A GOLDEN TRAIL TO HEARTBREAK AND HEAVEN "Take up a man's profession and there's not a man alive who will think of you as a woman!" Remembering her mother's words, young doctor Aurelia Breighton thought herself quite without cha...

  • Heart of the Wolf

    Saranne Dawson

    The stranger and his comrades had rescued Jocelyn from her enemies, yet the young princess wasn't sure if Daken was friend or foe. Long ago she had heard the stories of Daken's people and their magical power to assume the shape of wolves. If the lege...

  • Royal Rapture

    Robin Gideon

    A Dressmaker's Dream Natasha's amazing talent with needle and thread had earned her a coveted position as seamstress to the Russian Princess Anastasia. But the excitement of working within the sumptuous royal chambers could not compare with the thri...

  • Lord of Legend

    Charlene Cross

    SCOTLAND'S FLAME-HAIRED BEAUTY The hawk swooping after a female sparrow near her castle sent a chill of foreboding through lovely Chandra Morgan, Lady Lochlaigh. Legend said the ladybird would feel the hawk's talons in her heart as he carried her aw...

  • The Scandalous Masquerade

    Marissa Edwards

    A larcenous lady. Her dear mother would faint dead away! But their current straitened circumstances had left Cara Brentwood little choice but to don cloak and boots and roam the midnight highways in search of unsuspecting noblemen. After all, the ton...

  • Secret Captive

    Olivia Ferrell

    On a Montana prairie in 1866, Lydia Bannock awakes after a riding accident to find herself surrounded by a Crow hunting party. With no memory of her life before the accident, Lydia turns to the Crow for her future. She soon earns the tribe's resp...

  • Mine Forevermore

    Maria Greene

    To save her precious dress shop from ruin, Minerva was forced to become a pawn in a rich man's revenge. Against her better judgment, she agreed to seduce her benefactor's hated enemy, Roarke Harding, and then heartlessly cast him aside. But when and ...

  • The Magnificent Rogue

    Iris Johansen

    SHE WAS A BEAUTIFUL PAWN IN A GAME OF LOVE AND DEATH When Princess Kathryn Kentyre is snatched from a life of captivity by the mysterious Black Robert of Craighdhu, she is torn between absolute terror and soaring hope. He had been chosen to protec...

  • The Temporary Bride

    Glenna Finley

    A DANGEROUS GAME OF LOVE Sassy career girl Dana McIntyre had gone out on one disastrous date with sophisticated Marc Elliot, her brother's law partner. She failed so miserably at acting like a "woman of the world," that she had avoided...

  • Summer of Fear

    Carolyn Haines

    Returning to the East Coast, riding instructor Connor Tremaine marries Clay Sumner, a charismatic politician who may not be telling all he knows about his first wife's death....

  • River of Passion

    Kathryn Hockett

    IRRESISTIBLE PASSION Damn! The last person rugged riverboat captain Dante Roth wanted on a perilous voyage up the Congo River was a prim and proper female physician with an icy manner! But he needed the money, and once he had shown Doctor Lawton wha...

  • Monday's Child

    Barbara Hazard

    Newly, and happily, widowed, Lady Sarah Lacy is lured home under the guise of her mother's illness so that her parents may take over the handling of her money. They even have a wealthy new husband picked out. But after a brief but hellish first marri...

  • Wild Sierra Rogue

    Martha Hix

    SHE WAS RIPE FOR SEDUCTION If she hadn't been absolutely desperate, Margaret McLoughlin never would have hired the very rogue who'd wronged her family to guide her through perilous bandit territory...and wouldn't now be standing face to face with th...

  • An Intriguing Affair

    Mary Kingsley

    The announcement of the Viscount Stanton's marriage was to be expected, thought Althea regretfully. She and Jeremy had been friends far too long for her not to know of his father's debts and his need for ready funds. But how could Jeremy offe...

  • The Princess and the Barbarian // Three Nights With the Princess

    Betina Krahn

    JEWEL OF THE REALM Lovely, tempestuous and devoted to her subjects, Princess Thera must marry before she can be crowned Queen Of Mercia. But her reluctant search for a husband has plunged her into gravest peril - and into the arms of a handsome barb...

  • Passion's Secret

    Doris Lemcke

    SHE'D NEVER GIVE UP Georgia born-and-bred Camilla Langesford was outraged when she learned that her father had struck a deal to save their ailing plantation ... with a Yankee carpetbagger of all people! She hadn't spent the last six years working ...

  • The Mistress of Blackwater

    Paula Paul

    Overwhelmed by her husband's death, Caroline Forsythe arrives at the Blackwater Plantation on the edge of New Orleans, only to discover that her husband had been bankrupt upon his death and that her plans to sell the plantation are threatened. A ...

  • Small Town Secrets

    Andrea Parnell

    Successful businesswoman Brenda Baron thought a trip to Georgia would provide a perfect escape from the pain and humiliation of a devastating divorce -- and give her the chance to find the birth mother who’d given her up for adoption thirty years b...

  • Nights of Fire

    Patricia Pellicane

    BEGUILLNG THIEF With the bank about to foreclose on her family's land, Emy Du Maurier desperately needed money. So she boarded a Mississippi gambling boat with the intention of fleecing an unsuspecting traveler But when she met Cole Brackston--a sha...

  • Wyoming Ecstasy

    Gina Robins

    The tempestuous tale of a man and a woman who are drawn together against their will into a love so strong that nothing can drive them apart. When handsome private investigator Nacona Bleu rejects July MacKenzie's bid for partnership because July is a...

  • Dakota Promises

    Dana Ransom

    HE WAS HER PAST The minute Norah Denby first laid eyes on handsome Rory Prescott, she knew her heart would belong to him forever. But the rugged South Dakota cowboy clearly didn't feel the same way about her, and when she realized that as his wife ...

  • A Kiss at Sunrise

    Charlotte Sherman

    Recently widowed and retired from a long teaching career, Ruth Nichols felt totally free for the first time in her life. Free, and ready for adventure. So, instead of selling the Coachman motor home that had sat in her driveway since she lost her hus...

  • The Mischievous Maid

    Rebecca Robbins

    A SCANDALOUS ENTERPRISE After two unendurable years spent living with unloving relatives, beautiful but penniless Genevieve Quince flees to her late parents' abandoned country estate -- intending to support herself by turning the ramshackle manor in...

  • Wind Across Texas

    Donna Stephens

    TAMED THE WILD WIND Beautiful and impetuous Shay Alexander longs to escape from her domineering father --- and needs to find a pliable male who will take her far away from Twin Creeks ranch. And so she sets her sights on hired hand Cale Breland ...

  • A Time to Love Again

    Flora Speer

    A LOVE BEYOND TIME When India Baldwin went into work one Saturday to update her computer skills, she had no idea she would end up backdating herself! But one slip on the keyboard and the lovely young widow was transported back to the time of Charlem...

  • The Last Duchess of Wolff's Lair

    Jo-Ann Power

    “If you knew the shocking truth, you would flee this place…” As the only daughter of an impoverished vicar, Alicia Pennington had little choice but to grant her father's deathbed wish and wed the notorious, much-married Duke of Worminste...

  • Rapture in His Arms

    Lynette Vinet

    Sold into slavery following Cromwell's conquest of his divided homeland, fiery Irish patriot Donovan Shay had never known anything but life's cruel hardships. Yet even as he sweated and toiled on the exotic shores of a faraway island, he swore that s...

  • Exiled Heart

    Susan Tanner

    Raised the son of an English knight, laian Gillecrist was horrified to learn his true sire was one of the Scottish barbarians he despised. His hatred notwithstanding, he would claim his birthright and protect it by marrying a lass from his new homela...

  • Dancing in the Dark

    Susan P. Teklits

    LOVE SNARED BY HATE Running from her abusive father, Maria Vandenburgh had nothing to lose by spurning London's high society for a passage to the Americas as nursemaid to Beau Gardiner's motherless son. And Beau had everything to gain--for he plan...

  • Wild Summer Rose

    Amy Elizabeth Saunders

    REVOLUTION CHANGED THEIR LIVES...LOVE CHANGED THEIR SOULS THE FRENCH MARQUIS When his grandfather died, Phillipe St. Sebastien inherited his beloved ancestral home, but no money. Without any other hope to save his family legacy, Phillipe traveled...

  • Sweet Revenge

    Jean Stribling

    Letitia Ramsey never expected to meet the man of her dreams in the middle of a nightmare.As a result of her vindictive grandmother's dying wish, Letitia was left homeless and penniless. She set out for California;hoping to find refuge with the stepfa...

  • The Falcon and the Sword

    Patricia Werner

    SHE YEARNED TO SOAR FREE Captured by barbarians as a child, the orphaned Judith had spent her girlhood locked behind convent walls. Determined to escape her cloistered life, she fled to the safety of the Frankish court-only to be swept up into a fir...

  • East of Forever

    Christina Skye

    Emperor's ransom of seeker's epitaph? Like a cat, a beauty prowls London's night-dark roofs, stealing into the boudoirs of the rich and powerful in search of an ancient jewel-encrusted pillow book, an erotic treasure, to barter for her captive fathe...

  • Montana Surrender

    Trana Mae Simmons

    THE CONVICT Wrongly accused of a vicious crime, Storm resolved to clear his name--and bring the real villain to justice. But then the lovely Jessica Callaghan innocently stumbled into his tangled web of deception, and stole his heart even as she ups...

  • Homebody

    Louise Titchener

    The Toni Credella Mystery 1 After setting up residence in an apartment where a young woman was once brutally murdered, interior designer Toni Credella finds herself caught in the mystery of the woman's life and death. Finding a cheap apartm...

  • Taking Chances

    Janelle Taylor

    Kirstin Lowrey wasn't accustomed to widowhood yet, but she was all too familiar with being at the beck and call of her three grown children and their children. Now, though, she had finally summoned the courage to start over again--a new job, anew...

  • Summer Storm

    Teresa Warfield

    ALL THE ROMANCE AND BEAUTY OF AMERICA'S GREAT LAKES... CAPTIVATING NOVELS OF LOVE YOU WILL NEVER FORGET... KATHERINE The orphaned farm girl learned to be a lady at school. But no lesson could temper her natural spunk--or her passion for Nicholas ...

  • Flames from the Ashes

    William W. Johnstone

    "Whether I live or die, the Rebel cause will go on." -- Ben Raines A DEADLY EVIL REBORN The evil Jesus Mendoza Hoffman, descendant of one of the most infamous Nazis of all time, and his fanatical New Army of Liberation pose a dire threat to the ne...

  • Evil Code

    Don Pendleton

    NO IMMUNITY A Burmese delegate to the United Nations is smuggling heroin into the U.S. via diplomatic pouches. The Feds attempt to pursue the matter through official channels, but Mack Bolan knows that red tape is a poor weapon against the world's...

  • Spartan Run

    David Robbins

  • Afterage

    Yvonne Navarro

    As a plague of vampires creeps across the country--reducing thriving cities to ghost towns--a few scattered survivors hide behind fortified walls and raid deserted stores for supplies as they plan to fight back. Original....

  • Heart-Beast

    Tanith Lee

    SEASON OF THE BEAST In the streets of the sukh, Daniel Vehmund moves among snake charmers and dagger jugglers. Wanted for murder, he travels the world, lured on by a brilliant diamond and a curse, caught in the sway of every full moon.... On a ...

  • Night Beasts

    T.W. Stetson

    An experiment in genetic warfare turns deadly when genetically altered winged bats multiply uncontrollably and begin devouring their human hosts, until only a few human survivors remain on the planet. Original....

  • Space Winners

    Gordon R. Dickson

    Stranded on the Quarantined World of Quebahr, the first high-school students selected to leave Earth for study in the Galactic Federation must overcome their lack of training and learn to adapt and survive. Reprint....

  • Legion of the Damned

    William C. Dietz

    When all hope is lost--for the terminally ill, for the condemned criminal, for the victim who cannot be saved--there comes one final choice. You can choose life--as a cyborg soldier in the Legion. Both more and less than human, these steel warr...

  • A Night in the Lonesome October

    Roger Zelazny

    Jack the Ripper's faithful watchdog, Snuff, relates the shady tendencies of his master, as well as those of a vampire, witch, demented clergyman, and others who band together and are also accompanied by animal familiars. Reprint....

  • Majyk by Accident

    Esther Friesner

    DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAJYK? Kendar Gangle's the worst student magician on the world of Orbix. He's a flop at mastering Majyk--the stuff that puts spunk in spells--until he chases an Earth cat called Scandal into a Majyk cloud. Now Kendar has the bigg...

  • Countermeasures

    W. Michael Gear

    In the stunning conclusion to Gear's remarkable sci-fi trilogy, the rift between father and son -- both trained killing machines -- will reach an explosive climax. The Forbidden Borders -- an unassailable gravity-powered barrier -- confines riva...

  • Marooned on Eden

    Robert L. Forward

    Just what is it that makes us human? Just what quality impels us out to the stars, to search for meaning in our cold universe, to struggle against entropy and discover the nature of things? The scientists on the first mission to Barbard's Star and...

  • Blood and War

    Gordon R. Dickson

  • No Clock in the Forest

    Paul J. Willis

  • Quest to Riverworld

    Philip Jose Farmer

    By the banks of a ten-million-mile river, everyone who has ever died enjoys a new life, in a collection of science fiction stories--by Harry Turtledove, George Alec Essinger, and Philip Jose+a7 Farmer, among others. Original....

  • The Wizard's Shadow

    Susan Dexter

    BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT Crocken the peddler had made a bad bargain. For a bag of gold and a chance to keep breathing, Crocken had grudgingly agreed to conduct the shadow-remnant of a murdered wizard to the distant kingdom of Armyn. Crocken kept...

  • Galatea in 2-D

    Aaron Allston

    DA VINCI NEVER HAD DAYS LIKE THIS... Illustrator Roger Simons always thought that art should imitate life -- until the day his painting came to life and propelled him into danger. On one fateful day he learns three things that change his life: tha...

  • Golden Trillium

    Andre Norton

    One of the famed triplet princesses who defeated the evil sorcerer Orogastus, Kadiya ventures forth into the choked swamplands of Ruwenda to seek her own destiny among the Oddlings she once led in battle. Armed with her mystical three-eyed sword, she...

  • Dragons!

    Jack Dann

    A collection of dragon stories from some of the masters of the fantasy genre includes contributions from James P. Blaylock, Avram Davidson, Tanith Lee, Lucius Shepard, and L. Sprague De Camp. Original....

  • Harm's Way

    Colin Greenland

    In a teeming Victorian metropolis, a prostitute loses her life...and with that one quick slash of an assassin's blade, a child's fate is forever altered. Sophie Farthing is a survivor challenged by life with a gloomy and repressive father. Somewhe...

  • Book of Stones

    L. Dean James

    Dvi Darynson, the duke of Gosney, desires nothing more in this world than to attain the powers of magic ... until the lovely, Sandaa D'Lelan arrives at Castlekeep to serve as lady-in-waiting to Queen Jessmyn. But Sandal has come to serve other, darke...

  • Dark Horizon

    K.W. Jeter

    On July 31, 1991, the final episode of Alien Nation, "Green Eyes" aired, ending the series with a blockbuster finale and an exciting cliffhanger. In "Green Eyes" the Newcomers were faced with a deadly new bacteria created by a ruthless group of human...

  • Dancing With Myself

    Charles Sheffield

    “One of the most imaginative, exciting talents to appear on the SF scene in recent years.” -- Publishers Weekly“A master of hard science fiction.” -- NoumenonThis collection contains sixteen stories and science articles by the remarkable auth...

  • The Twenty-Second Gear

    Mike Sirota

    When Jack Miller reaches the 22nd gear on his bike, he is transported to the Ultimate Bike Path, where he discovers rests with a sexy catwoman, chases windmills with Don Quixote, and coasts the gateway to hell. Original....

  • Virtual Girl

    Amy Thomson

  • Relic of Empire

    W. Michael Gear

    THE CALL TO BATTLE... The Forbidden Borders, an unassailable gravity-powered barrier, confine rival human empires to a few star systems, leaving them to strive endlessly against one another for domination. Now the balance of power has shifted so dra...

  • Coming Up Roses

    Catherine Anderson

    NO ROSE CAN BLOSSOM WITHOUT LOVE Widow Kate Blakely knew nothing of love -- but she knew plenty about unhappiness. She'd married young, hoping to put down roots in a safe haven, but her husband had shattered her naivete and made her fear for h...

  • Paladin's Woman

    Beverly Barton

    TALL, DARK -- AND DANGEROUS Nick Romero, Navy SEAL, DEA Agent, Latin lover, was a man alone -- and satisfied to remain that way. Until the night he rescued Addy McConnell, a tall, cool woman with hair like fire. And, rumor had it, a soul like ic...

  • Flashfire

    Judith Arnold

    Matt Calloway He'd had his fill of fighting twenty years ago, but the way he figured it, when a buddy ripped you off, there was more than one battle to wage. Gary Villard Matt's former comrade in arms and a desperate man...desperat...

  • A Wedding for Emily

    Elizabeth August

    A lifetime of waiting Sixteen years ago, Ryder Gerard watched as Emily Sayer was deserted by her family and scorned for her unwed pregnancy. His dead brother was the father of her son--and Ryder worried that this boy would share the Gerard secret...

  • Hero in Disguise

    Stella Bagwell

    Partners in crime Tragedy had forced Victor Damien to leave crime reporting for the safer -- and saner -- world of business news. Now he was known as the Ice Man and nothing blew his cool -- until his boss gave him the bad news. Not only was he be...

  • Knight's Honor

    Suzanne Barclay

    The Family Rogue How could Jesselynn Harcourt look upon Alexander Sommerville, rakish son of a House her own had sworn to hate, and see anything more than the face of an enemy? Yet the man possessed a leonine glory that twisted her heart and set h...

  • Future Perfect

    Suzanne Brockmann

    Bed and Breakfast Juliana Anderson had carved out a pleasant life running a bed and breakfast in rural Massachusetts. Dressed in Victorian garb to match the old mansion, Juliana kept the place tidy, cozy, and running like a charm. Guests were tr...

  • Kane's Way

    Dixie Browning

    HOW NOT TO PLAN A WEDDING Aurora Hubbard's wedding was two weeks away, and she still hadn't decided on a dress, a church -- or whether this marriage would be a big mistake. So when her fiance's best man arrived, full of advice and funn...

  • Playing Love's Odds

    Michaila Callan

    Follow The Mark It was not the sort of investigation Logan Burke usually handled. Nowadays he was hired by your average Joe -- not sleek, polished corporate players in plush Houston office suites. But it was a straight-forward case of industrial e...

  • Believing Heart

    Lynne Marie Bryant

    DUKE -- A Tall, Dark Fantasy Pirate Whose Lips Tasted of Danger... He'd been shanghaied by a sunset-haired sea witch, Duke King realized as her boat sailed off beneath a moonlit sky and he took the lady in his arms! Mamie MacBride knew it was re...

  • Colorado Gold

    Linda Cajio

    A WOMAN OF DISHONOR Desperate family circumstances had forced Mary Alice Macaffee into a life of crime ... running a dozen fancy scams clear across Colorado -- and she wasn't about to let U.S. Marshal Hud Jackson get the better of her now! There was...

  • Twice in a Lifetime

    Christy Cohen

    FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, AN ACT OF BETRAYAL TORE FOUR BEST FRIENDS APART.... SARAH. A lonely newlywed in a new town, she was thrilled when Annabel came into her life. Suddenly Sarah had someone to talk to--and the best part was that her husband seemed t...

  • Tender Wishes

    Jo Anne Cassity

    Even the most stubborn heart can be swept away -- by true love... JOHNNA MAE Jilted by her fiance, Johnnie's tomboy spirit got the best of her -- and a perfect stranger got the brunt of her anger! ADAM Crossing paths with the lady scorned...

  • The Lady and the Tomcat

    Bethany Campbell

    Max Dunne is a pirate... And he's stolen Lindsey's young son's cat! But that isn't quite how Max sees the situation. He claims he found the odd-looking kitten abandoned in Key West, and after investing a small fortune to make "...

  • At Her Captain's Command

    Patricia Chandler

    SHE HAD COURAGE Angie de Vasconceles felt the power of the sea and, like her father before her, knew firsthand of its mercilessness. But she defied its strength, to prove the sea flowed in her veins. HE HAD POWER Captain Joseph Callais revered t...

  • His Woman's Gift

    Lacey Dancer

    Chase Away The Night Then Professor Sloane McGuire was asked to escort a certain guest lecturer during her visit to Duke University, he couldn't say no. Eve Noble's writings had touched him, made him think, wish and remember. She was living proof ...

  • Fire on the Mountain

    Marion Smith Collins

    DARKNESS That was Major Vincent Thornborough's new world. A fiercely independent man, the air force pilot wasn't prepared to accept help, especially when it came from Amanda Upton -- a woman with whom he shared a special past. Although Vin...

  • Family Matters

    Marie Ferrarella

    The aunt said: "The Iceman cometh," Daisy Channing muttered as she awaited the arrival of her buttoned-down Wall Street brother-in-law. The uncle said: "My sister-in-law is as nutty as a California almond grove," Andrew Ad...

  • Another Woman

    Margot Dalton

    Leah Temple is living a nightmare. Somewhere in her past -- a past she cannot recall -- is a secret she is terrified of uncovering. Paul Temple is fighting his own demons. His wife is back! Or is she? Gone is the conniving, devious shrew who'...

  • The Prodigal Husband

    Pamela Dalton

    Beautiful dreamer Elizabeth James had married, dreaming of the happy days and loving nights ahead with her new husband. But a husband who spent most of his days and nights on the road turned out to be her unhappy reality. After three lonely years ...

  • A Very Stylish Affair

    Emma Darcy

    Contents flammable! Sydney lawyer Jason Lombard is a ten on the male Richter scale in every superficial sense. He also seems unable to even look past Sophie's hair, which is a bit...well...flamboyant at the moment. She suspects her days as his...

  • Stubborn As a Mule

    Roz Denny

    Shadow Mountain Ranch, near Jessup, California Franzi DeLisle--She's not your typical rancher--she raises mules. But then, there's nothing typical about Franzi, from her skill as a tracker to her distrust of lawmen. She's tough and sel...

  • Stormy Weather

    Gail Douglas

    MITCH -- A Teasing Rogue Whose Wicked Grin Promised Endless Pleasures... Even though she wasn't wearing a sarong and lei, Mitch Canfield knew instantly that the pretty woman in the sunny yellow coat had to be Tiffany Greer! The native Hawaiia...

  • Instant Father

    Lucy Gordon

    Hunter and son Driven by ambition and power, Gavin Hunter had sacrificed everything that mattered--including his wife and child--to success. Now his son, Peter, needed him, and Gavin dropped everything to rush across the country to the desolate mo...

  • Presumed Guilty

    Tess Gerritsen

    Someone was sleeping in her bed.... But he wasn't really sleeping. He was dead. Miranda Wood hoped it was just a bad dream, but the man had been stabbed with her knife, in her house. And worst of all, he wasn't a stranger. So the nig...

  • A Silence of Dreams

    Barbara Faith

    'Til death do us part... Nicky Fairchild had backpacked her way to Venice hoping to find sunshine and warmth. Instead she'd nearly died of pneumonia, then been swept off her feet by Dr. Carlo Santini, the sensuously brooding widower who...

  • Mail-Order Male // Mail-Order Millionaire

    Carol Grace

    Special delivery Miranda Morrison had handled her share of irate callers at a Vermont mail-order company, but Maxwell Randolph Carter took the cake! It wasn't her fault the cranky meteorologist was stuck at a remote weather station in three fe...

  • Bride on the Run

    Leann Harris

    GOIN' TO THE CHAPEL Detective Lucas McGill never walked away from trouble -- except when trouble came in the form of a certain pint-size lady lawyer. Personally, Luke didn't like J.D. Anderson. Unfortunately, his body did. And somehow he&#...

  • More Than He Bargained for

    Carole Halston

    IT TAKES AVERY SPECIAL MAN TO WIN THAT SPECIAL WOMAN! Some might refer to him as "that cranky Clark Strong," though he liked his personality just fine. And he didn't need some sweet-talking next-door neighbor trying to alter his dispos...

  • Home Again

    Janice Kay Johnson

    THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES Rebecca Halstead wanted a rose arbor. A simple thing, really, yet neither of the men in her life was willing to help her. Her teenage son, Alan, had more important things on his mind-such as wreaking havoc on her relationship...

  • Indecent Exposure

    Kate Hoffmann

    IN THIS BUSINESS, ETHICS WAS THE "E" WORD When reporter Casey Carmichael found photographer Matt Garrison hiding in the same hotel closet as she was, looking for the same scoop, she knew she had trouble. Not only was he gorgeous, but he would sell...

  • Galatea's Revenge

    Elizabeth Jackson

    In Dangerous Hands It was bad enough that Sir Oliver Townsend mistook beautiful Georgiana Oversham for a lightskirt instead of the well-brought-up and wealthy young lady she was. It was even worse that he wanted her not only to satisfy his desires...

  • All for Quinn

    Kay Hooper

    QUINN -- A CHARMING SCOUNDREL WHO STOLE HER HEART, AND TOOK HER BREATH AWAY... He was a prince among thieves, a legend who could open any lock, elude any pursuer, but only a special woman had ever captured the mysterious Quinn -- and then only for...

  • After the Lights Go Out

    Barbara Kaye

    HOSPITALITY--TEXAS STYLE! Crystal Creek...where power and influence live in the land, and in the hands of one family determined to nourish old Texas fortunes and to forge new Texas futures. TROUBLE'S BREWIN' Jealousy was the last thing Scott Har...

  • No Sweeter Heaven

    Katherine Kingsley

    A Clash of Cultures -- a Bond of Passion. He was legend among the French -- handsome and mysterious, loved by all but a man whose heart was known to none. She was a legend among the British -- a wild and willful heiress -- and it was said neither...

  • Paris When It Sizzles

    Julie Kistler

    Isn't It Romantic? When Annie Porter received the letter from the Framboise Champagne Company, she was thrilled. She was a finalist! Her romantic fantasy was one of four chosen by the judges. If she made it through the next round, scheduled to tak...

  • The Founders

    Coleen L. Johnston

    In 1750, young immigrant Thomas Gairden boldy rides from Pennsylvania Colony to start a weaving shop in booming Charles Town, South Carolina. He leaves behind his first love Sarah Roberts, who has been promised to his rival, Jamie Lowe. Battling th...

  • White Lily

    Linda Ladd

    THEY CAME TOGETHER IN LOVE AND WAR Ravishing, golden-haired Lily Courtland is both blessed and cursed with the eytraordinary gift of second sight. But even she can see no way to escape from the men who have abducted her--and from the nightmare of ...

  • Date With An Outlaw

    Lynn Lockhart

    SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL OUTLAW Deke Baxter was a man with a reputation that justice, Missouri, had barely recovered from since he peeled out of town on graduation day, blackening the starched shirts of the town fathers. And leaving young Carly Riddle w...

  • Escapades

    Cathie Linz

    BREAKING THE RULES Private investigator Rick Dunbar named his own price. A cool ten thousand was the tag for tracking down a spoiled runaway heiress like Holly Redmond. But sexy, unpredictable Holly was unlike anything Rick had expected. Her wacky...

  • Groom Wanted

    Debbie Macomber

    Aleksandr Berinski was a brilliant Russian biochemist, but his days in the United States were numbered--unless he got married! And who else could make him a groom but the very woman who needed him to stay--Julia Conrad? Her company would go under wit...

  • A Dad for Billie

    Susan Mallery

    It all began with a baseball .... From the moment it smashed through Adam Barrington's window, the banker's quiet life was never quite the same again. The guilty party, an adorable eight-year-old tomboy with a slightly erratic curveball, was soon tur...

  • The Lake Effect

    Leigh Michaels

    "Offer him anything -- but get him back!' What was Kane playing at? High-powered lawyers don't abandon their careers, their life on the fast track, and take up beachcombing. Kane was up to something. But what? Alex's mission was...

  • Wild Card Wedding

    Jule McBride

    THE BRIDE VANISHES! With only weeks left until her society wedding, bride-to-be Peachy Lofton fled Manhattan for the West Virginia backwoods-only to find herself staring down a shotgun at Bronson West. One look at her spike heels and feather bo...

  • Whitehorn's Woman

    Barbara McCauley

    ARIZONA HEAT Jonas Whitehorn was a gorgeous, grouchy, all-round unbearable man, but that was his business. His grandfather, though, was Brook Devlin's business, and she wasn't leaving Arizona until the elderly potter agreed to sell his work. But w...

  • One Foot in Heaven

    Laraine McDaniel

    HOT PURSUIT IN PARADISE . . . When headhunter Mackenzie Ford finally found Sam McPhee--the elusive heir to a desert island--the man turned out to be nothing more than a devilish down-on-his-luck vagrant! But something in Sam's mesmerizing eyes ...

  • Keeper of Dreams

    Lynn Armistead McKee

    In the ancient everglades, a woman had only her strength and her spirit to guide her... Stranded by a violent storm, the beautiful shaman Mi-sa was forced to turn to a stranger for help. Cota was not of her people...but no one else could help sav...

  • Commando

    Lindsay McKenna

    Jake Randolph was no stranger to peril. As a mercenary, he'd faced danger and walked away unscathed. Yet, as a man, he'd confronted love-and lost much more than his heart. But his latest assignment, locating beautiful Shah Sungilo Travers, reminded J...

  • Lord of the Night

    Cara Miles

    PASSION'S PRIZE... When Jaime Mortimer storms into the chapel to halt the wedding between Lady Aleta Somerset and Lord Evan Grey, it is to claim the bride as his own and take his vengeance against the would-be groom. Betrothed to Aleta in his yout...

  • Heartbreak Hotel

    Cassie Miles

    All shook up! Susan Quentin wanted a quiet thirtieth birthday, but she got lots more: a sexy wake-up call over the airwaves, deejay Johnny Swift in the flesh ... and an Elvis impersonator who died in her arms. By dubbing Susan's quaint bed-and-...

  • Betting on Love

    Ann Patrick

    Wild Hearts Michael was sick and tired of playing the hatchet man. This cloak and dagger assignment at the Glass Slipper would be the last time he'd go undercover for his father's corporation. Someone was stealing from the Las Vegas casino, and hi...

  • Gentleman Rogue

    Barbara Neil

    RYDER STARR WAS NO GENTLEMAN Preying on the sensibilities of the not-so-good ladies of Nardingham, Ryder was determined to bring his misadventures to the attention of the man who had stolen his inheritance. Surely then Lord Matchless would be for...

  • Smooth Operator

    Ruth Owen

    JACK--The Desire in His Eyes Melted Her Resistance Like Hot Blue Flame.... Security whiz Jack Fagen woke to the sound of alarm sensors, and knew an intruder had entered his garden! He tumbled his unexpected visitor to the ground, shocked to discov...

  • Night of Love

    Diana Palmer

    The Man: Steven Ryker, strong-willed, determined...dangerous to love! The Myth: That this tough guy didn't give a thought to any woman. The Legend: He was a man no female could resist, with a heart no woman could claim. The Awful Truth: Meg ...

  • Sweet Annie's Pass

    Marilyn Pappano

    ALL ALONE... Josiah Miller had once found happiness carrying out his ancestors' legacy--farming the rocky Arkansas Ozark soil and raising a family. Now, his marriage over and debt piling up, Josiah spent his lonely days cloaked in sorrow, pining f...

  • Aurelia

    Andrea Parnell

    The Siren's Call With the mark of Black Dawn upon her snowy flesh and the lure of riches beyond imagining, Ria Kingsley was diablesse. The she-devil. Or so Chane Bellamy had named her, certain the witchery of the sea coursed through her veins. Eve...

  • Garden of Deceit

    Laura Pender

    More than flowers in the garden... When a corpse was found in his flower bed, Robert Atwood felt sorry for the unidentified woman ... until he realized he was the police's number-one suspect in her murder. Katherine Lawrence was certain her old...

  • Only a Dream Away

    Doreen Roberts

    IN TOO DEEP Footloose rodeo rider Hank Tyler reckoned he'd taken one brain-scrambling tumble too many. Why else would he have agreed to endure six long weeks on the road, cooped up in a camper with a woman he'd spent fifteen years hating, all to b...

  • Dragonslayer

    Emilie Richards

    SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER US Thomas Slonehill: A minister who's lost his faith in God, in himself, in love. Garnet Anthony: A free-clinic nurse practitioner who has every reason to give up-but won't. Garnet had gotten herself on the wrong side o...

  • The Visitor

    Jenna Ryan

    Lightning split the tight A land of make-believe As she drove through Klausberg, Germany, vivid images jarred Delanie Morgen's concentration. Visions of sinister fairy tales invaded her senses as the dense, barren forest came alive. A dark p...

  • Born Innocent

    Christine Rimmer

    BORN INNOCENT Joe Tally had always cared for Claire Snow, but with a reputation as the town bad boy, he had to be content at remaining "just friends." Yet when one night of compassion turned into an evening of passion, Joe knew he had revealed too...

  • Love Only Once

    Sherry Roseberry

    A CAPTURED WOMAN Arriving in New Mexico as a mail-order bride, Falisha Harrington was captured and sold into white slavery south of the border. A COURAGEOUS MAN The spirited and sensuous beauty aroused Granger Hawks's desire... and seeing her in...

  • The Prince & the Showgirl (Dance with a Dynasty)

    JoAnn Ross

    Once Upon a Time... When she'd still believed in fairy tales, Sabrina Darling had fantasized about becoming a princess. And it happened--sort of .... But she had learned there was no such thing as a happy ending when her marriage collapsed and her...

  • Con Man

    Maris Soule

    KURT--A Rugged Hunk Who Could Heat Her Up from the Inside Out... Instead of letting his usual investigator check out a prospective grant recipient, Kurt Jones decided he'd try undercover work, but once he met expert rider Micki Bradford, he wante...

  • Chance McCall

    Sharon Sala

    A LIFETIME OF LOVE Chance McCall was hired on at the Triple T when Jennifer Ann Tyler was just a little tomboy with a china-doll face. She's been in love with him for years, but he's stubbornly kept his distance. Chance thinks that his monthly pay...

  • Lovers' Secrets

    Glenda Sanders

    SECRET PANELS, GHOSTS, CRYPTIC WARNINGS... Life in the sleepy Southern town that Hayley Addison had left New York for had become alarmingly like a B movie. And she knew exactly when things had begun to spin out of control--it was when she'd met th...

  • The Seduction of Deanna

    Maura Seger

    A wounded American spy trapped in a loyalist's barn was as good as dead. Edward Nash had thought his time was up, until he was discovered by a pretty hellion with a soft spot for rebels and a look that sent his senses reeling. Torn between her loy...

  • Silent Heart

    Deborah Simmons

    France Was A Blood Bath Caught in the madness that gripped her homeland, Gabrielle knew that keeping her head meant keeping her secrets. There were few people she could trust, yet she found herself drawn to Alexandre Vestier, a man whose silence s...

  • John Loves Sally

    Joan Smith

    Suspicious characters So the legendary secret agent known as the Silver Fox was back to his old tricks, was he? Well, CIA agent John McCallum intended to find out the truth about him--and the lovely young woman he claimed was his niece. Whoever Ms...

  • The Seventh Night

    Amanda Stevens

    Tattoo of terror Compelled to visit the island of Columbe by a strange missive from her father, Christine Greggory found herself in a different world. Vodoun drums were everywhere, beating out a blood-pulsing rhythm that blurred all rational thoug...

  • Balanced

    Lass Small

    HE WAS A NOSY NUISANCE! Hard-boiled Tim Bolt thought he knew a thing or two about women, until he was assigned to guard Carol Brown. He would keep at it--after all, her father was paying him big bucks--but he'd never been involved in a surveillanc...

  • Minor Adjustments

    Beverly Sommers

    TO: Whom It May Concern FROM: Veronica Warner It started out just like every other day at work. I was sitting in my cubicle, staring at the stack of files that needed dictation. As an insurance adjuster for a taxi service, I never run out of wor...

  • Heartbreaker

    Laura Taylor

    MICAH--A Bold Viking Adventurer Who Needed Her Beyond Reason... He was furious, hostile, and desperate to seize control of his life--but Micah Holbrook was also more magnificently handsome than ever, Bliss Rowland decided when the Naval Intelligen...

  • You Were Meant for Me

    Elise Title

    MISERY LOVES COMPANY.. . Emily has loved Chris. Since second grade. He loves knowing he can count on Emily, his best pal, for TLC when love goes wrong. David has loved Liza. Since third grade. She loves knowing she can always depend on her best...

  • Dreams of Glass

    Brenna Todd

    ONCE SHE'D HAD A DREAM... Actress Haley Riverton had had the world at her feet until, poised on the brink of success, she was stalked and shot by a demented fan. Grateful to escape with her life, she fled to Oklahoma and turned her back on Hollywo...

  • The Green Fox

    Winifred Witton

    AN UNEXPECTED INHERITANCE DOES NOT ALWAYS MEAN GOOD FORTUNE. THE CHASE WAS ON! When Robert Greenwood learned he was heir to a title and property in France, he thought his ship had come in--if only he could overcome his seasickness to get there!...

  • The Seducer

    Linda Turner

    NIGHT WORK Horse trainer Jake Knight had been framed, and the conspiracy reached into the highest circles of Texas society, where a hard-edged nobody like him wasn't exactly welcome. To prove his innocence, he needed the help of an insider - someb...

  • Texas Jewel

    Shannon Willow

    GAMBLER'S PASSION When Bern Kendall first laid eyes on the poker-playing vixen, he didn't know whether to kiss her... or send her to jail. DEALER'S DESIRE When Caroline was given the choice of prison or employment, she took one look at the hands...

  • Hot Money // Bayside Deceptions

    Sherryl Woods

    CHARITY BASH BY THE BAY The "Save the Environment" gala was a black-tie affair at the palatial Vizcaya estate, Miami's Versailles. Molly DeWitt and dashing detective Michael O'Hara were in the swim with the society sharks when Molly hooked the mos...

  • Whispers in the Wilderness

    Colleen L. Reece

    The handsome cowboy from the Double J ranch in Arizona is not exactly what folks expect. As he follows the myrid trails that may lead him to his father, Reverened Joel Scott uses his riding, roping, and preaching talents to win souls for Christ. I...

  • Heart of the Wilderness

    Janette Oke

    George McMannus traveled night and day from his wilderness cabin when the tragic news arrived that his daughter and son-in-law had died in a river accident. His only granddaughter, Kendra Marty, not yet four years old, had been left behind. McMannus ...

  • This Business Is Murder

    Joyce Christmas

    FORCED OUT OF A JOB AND INTO A MURDER INVESTIGATION Betty Trenka isn't exactly looking forward to retirement. She knows how to run an office better than men or women half her age. But she has no choice, and she takes her pension and retires to a s...

  • Sacrifice

    L.L. Enger

    In the late 1960s, two young men left a small Michigan town. One was Gunsten Pedersen, who went on to a career with the Detroit Tigers. The other was Harry Summers, a gifted infielder who disappeared from Copper Strike on a rainy June night. Now an e...

  • Napoleon Must Die

    Quinn Fawcett

    When her husband is unjustly accused of theft and murder in Napoleonic France, Mme. Victoire Vernet sets out to clear his name and finds herself in the middle of a plot to assassinate Napoleon. Original....

  • The Anonymous Client

    J.P. Hailey

  • Shallow Graves

    Jeremiah Healy

    Boston PI John Cuddy doesn't know that he'll be working under the eagle eye of mob boss Tommy ''the Temper'' Danucci when he agrees to look into the death of fashion model Mau Tim Dani for his former employer, Empire Insurance. He learns soon enough ...

  • If I Should Die

    Judith Kelman

    Fear made their hearts race, palms sweat, breaths come in panicked gasps.  Dr. Maggie Lyon's phobia patients sat in their therapy group, imprisoned by their own secret terrors, depending on her to set them free . . .  "The bridge was just a few s...

  • Body Count

    William X. Kienzle

    "As regular as the solstice, Kienzle annually provides a new Catholic whodunit, inviting the readers to shut out the rest of the world and spend a few absorbing hours watching his venerable alter ego, Koesler, peel back the layers of a puzzle to plum...

  • Against a Dark Background

    Iain M. Banks

    They had government permission to hunt down and assassinate her. What the religious Huhsz cult wanted was simple--the most deadly and enigmatic weapon constructed, the Lazy Gun, lost among the planets of the Thrial star system. Whoever controls the G...

  • Saving Grace

    Julie Garwood

    England, thirteenth-century. A woman determined to fight for her freedom... a woman whose life would be transformed by the rare, unexpected gift of love. When Lady Johanna learned that she was a widow, she vowed she would never marry again. Only s...

  • Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet

    M.C. Beaton

    ROMANCE--ANDMURDER--WAFT UPON THE SWEET COTSWOLD AIR.... The feisty Agatha Raisin, until recently a London public-relations executive, believes that the attractive new village vet has taken a shine to her. Yet before romance can bloom, Dr. Paul Bl...

  • To Die Like a Gentleman

    Bernard Bastable

    In 1842, the young Queen Victoria is on the throne, and the landed gentry is in its prime. At Elmstead Court, Sir Richard Hudson rules his household with a subtle tyranny.Despite simmering tensions, Miss Frances Weyland is impressed by the warmth of ...

  • The Button Man

    Brian Freemantle

    A serial killer's murder of a woman working in the American Embassy in Moscow leads to joint Russian-American murder investigation, full of Byzantine intrigues, political double-dealings, and media hysteria. 40,000 first printing. $40,000 ad/promo....

  • Montezuma's Man

    Jerome Charyn

    Teaming up with a cop who occasionally deals on the wrong side of the tracks, police commissioner Sidel plans to raid Mafia hideouts and finds himself on a trail of ancient puppets, heroin, and corruption that leads straight to Sicily. Reprint....

  • Mr. Smithson's Bones

    Richard Timothy Conroy

    When ancient and modern bodies suddenly start appearing around the Smithsonian Institution, ex-Foreign Service officer Henry Scruggs, now working for the Institution's stodgy Foreign Affairs Office, finds his quiet days completely disrupted...

  • Take a Number

    Janet Dawson

    In Alameda County, east of San Francisco, the all-American pastimes of adultery, divorce, and mindless violence prosper--and a cad like Petty Officer First Class Sam Raynor, USN, fits right in. Private investigator Jeri Howard is working for Raynor's...

  • The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis

    Ron Burns

  • The Lost Keats

    Terence Faherty

    A man with more questions than answers, Owen Keane has one foot in the priesthood, the other in detective novels - a trait that finds him questioning his own vocation. So when a fellow seminarian disappears, Owen sees it as a chance to unravel a myst...

  • Dead Man's Island

    Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

    When arrogant media magnate Chase Prescott is nearly killed by a box of cyanide-laced candy, he dials his long-time lover, retired newshound Henrietta O’Dwyer Collins, with a simple request: He’ll assemble all the suspects if Henrie O will kindly...

  • The Rotary Club Murder Mystery

    Graham Landrum

    It's Rotary Day in Borderville (smack on the Virginia-Tennessee line), and attendance is way up. But the eagerly awaited district governor is late...literally. Shot with his own gun in his chain-locked motel room, it is unarguably a suicide. The c...

  • Grievous Sin

    Faye Kellerman

    Peter and Rina are delighted with their newborn baby girl, but the scene at the Los Angeles hospital is a nightmare. Budget cutbacks and staff shortages so compromise security in the nursery that Peter, the ever-anxious cop, worries about his family'...

  • Demons

    Bill Pronzini

    Searching for Nedra Merchant, a missing femme fatale whose trail of broken hearts includes a politician, a lawyer, and a psychopath, the Nameless Detective uncovers a web of sexual obsession that strikes a bit too close to his own heart. Reprint....

  • Mischief

    Ed McBain

    Investigating a series of cryptic murders in the worst section of the city, detective Steve Carella of the 87th Precinct uncovers the trail of the returned Deaf Man, an elusive stalker of vandals and other mischievous outlaws. Reprint....

  • North Star Conspiracy

    Miriam Grace Monfredo

    Glynis Tryon joined forces with Elizabeth Cady Stanton a few years back in the fight for women's rights. Now the independent librarian-sleuth finds herself embroiled in an equally compelling campaign against injustice--helping to lead fugitive slaves...

  • A Sudden, Fearful Death

    Anne Perry

    In a London hospital, Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had once been one of Florence Nightingale's angels of mercy in the Crimean War, meets sudden death by strangulation. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to investigate this horr...

  • Never Die in January

    Alan Scholefield

    Tough detective George MacRae and his sophisticated partner, Leopold Silver, return in a third mystery as Silver is ordered secretly to investigate MacRae's private life and discovers that his partner is the focus of a murderous revenge plot....

  • A Member of the Family

    Nick Vasile

    Based on his own experiences in law enforcement--three decades of high-level mob investigations--Nick Vasile gives us a novel that reverberates with authenticity.Paul Dante is hired by the Washington D.C. Mafia to track down their godfather's missing...

  • The Wyndham Case

    Jill Paton Walsh

    St. Agatha's College in Cambridge, England, provides the setting for nurse Imogen Quy's investigation into a series of deaths connected to the special library called the Wyndham Case, which has a strange and possibly violent legacy....

  • Lion of Judah

    Victor Ostrovsky

  • Otherwise

    Margaret Wander Bonanno

  • Savage Illusion

    Cassie Edwards

    Visions of Destiny A Blackfoot Indian raised by white settlers, Jolena Edmonds had never lived among her own people. Yet in her dreams, a hard-bodied brave came to her, filling her with a fiery longing. And on a trip through the Montana Territory,...