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  • Savage Secrets

    Cassie Edwards

    Searching the wilds of the Wyoming Territory for her outlaw brother; Rebecca Veach was captured by the one man who fulfilled her heart's desires. But could she give herself to the virile warrior without telling him about her shameful quest? Blazin...

  • Death Dream

    Ben Bova

    It's the ultimate adult playground. Cyber World  will use the latest technology in computer produced  virtual reality to provide thrills and chills  beyond any ever experienced at a theme park. Here  children of all ages will live out their w...

  • Winning Colors

    Elizabeth Moon

    "The difficult we do immediately. The impossible may take a little longer:..." Booted from the fleet as her reward for saving a villainous superior from catastrophe, Heris Serrano has been marking time captaining a rich lady's interstellar yacht. ...

  • Nez Perce Nightmare

    Jon Sharpe

    A routine call to duty brings Skye Fargo face-to-face with a lynch mob out to string up a Nez Perce youth, a vengeful group of Native Americans on a blood hunt, and a preacher's voluptuous widow. Original....

  • Quicksilver's Knight

    Christopher Stasheff

    SWORD AND SORCERY. SOME GUYS HAVE IT ALL... Geoffrey Gallowglass is a young man in demand--who must make a choice. Should he trust the beautiful, brave Quicksilver--a bandit who stole the land of a lord for herself? Or should he fall for the sultr...

  • Deadly Pursuit

    Theodore V. Olsen / T.V. Olsen

    On the verge of turning fifty, Silas Pine defies advice to tend to his bad heart and travels to Grafton, Wyoming, determined to set things right with his son, but the reunion is not quite what he had planned when he arrives in the middle of a bank ro...

  • Weeping Moon

    G. Clifton Wisler

    Remembering his carefree boyhood days before the arrival of the white man, Buffalo Horn, a member of the Southern Cheyenne, witnesses his tribe's failing courage and spirit and becomes a motivator in a fight to preserve their land. Original....

  • The Trackers

    Jake McMasters

  • Dark Trail

    James Reasoner

    Struggling to maintain order in the face of the transcontinental railroad, rivaling miners, and a justice-seeking marshal, Cole Tyler and Billy Casebolt encounter more trouble in a vengeful stranger from New Orleans. Original....

  • The Omaha Heat

    J.R. Roberts

    To the Gunsmith, there's no one more low-down than a rich man who pays other people to do his dirty work. Michael Percy. a businessman from Omaha, Nebraska, seems to be in the habit. First, he has his own mistress killed. Then, he has a corrupt sheri...

  • Thunder in the Valley

    Jim R. Woolard

    Western writer Jim R. Woolard’s classic award-winning debut still rides hard and fires point blank from all barrels . . .Bitter experience has taught Matthan Hannar wound his way upriver, avoiding settlers that wanted to hang him, and Indians seeki...

  • Longarm and the Kansas Killer

    Tabor Evans

  • Longarm and the Unwritten Law

    Tabor Evans

    When a man suspected of sleeping with a married woman is shot by the jealous husband, Longarm prepares for a simple arrest, until the husband, looking to escape his sentence, accuses Longarm of also sleeping with the woman. Original....

  • Santa Fe Floozy

    Dirk Fletcher

    Spur McCoy, while enjoying the attentions of his latest paramour, will let nothing stand in his way of ending the White Brothers' reign of terror against secluded ranches and lone travelers. Original....

  • Slocum and the Spotted Horse

    Jake Logan

    AN OUTLAW, A DRIFTER...AND A LOSER Will Jameson fancied himself a gamblin' man, but he could barely win a hand...even when he cheated. And as his traveling companion, Miss Delia Tremaine, could attest, he wasn't too skilled at other games, either....

  • Midnight Rogue

    Elaine Barbieri

    WILLING TO LOVE Her sheltered existence at a New Orleans convent school has protected Gabrielle Dubay from the world's harsh injustices... until the night a shadowy stranger steals into her bedroom and spirits her away to his ship. Gabrielle hide...

  • Embrace the Night

    Amanda Ashley

    MASTER OF DARKNESS, MISTRESS OF LIGHT A creature doomed to wander the earth in eternal darkness, he searched the ages for someone to share the endless night of his existence, for that one woman who would recognize the man within the monster. An...

  • Lady Vengeance

    Sarah Eagle

    THE EARL AND THE INGENUE From the moment he first laid eyes on her, Marcus Knowles, Earl of Ashmore, knew that Celia Tregaron was the woman for him -- never mind the pistol she aimed at his chest. Celia wasn't interested in his opinion of her, tho...

  • For All Time

    Angela Benson

    When their happy dreams are challenged by the unexpected loss of a job, newlyweds Joshua and Gloria Martin find themselves confronting unexpected stresses that threaten to break up their happy marriage. Original....

  • Amethyst Moon

    Janice Bennett

    ON AN EXOTIC PLANET OF ENDLESS OCEANS... The beautiful Princess Dia swims for her life through the violet seas of Kerrian. A savage uprising has killed her father and all but destroyed her beloved planet. Now Dia is her people's only hope for freedo...

  • Whispers in the Night

    Barbara Benedict
    in

    Julie Ward is a woman without a memory. She finds it again when she enters an empty Long Island mansion -- and lands in a long-ago era where danger and a mystery lover are waiting.......

  • Lion's Pride

    Janice Bennett
    in

    Twenty-two-year-old Jessica Howard is taken away from a northern California coastal town... in a ghost ship! Carried back to the Elizabethan Age, she finds a man who is more than a dream: he is her heart's desire....

  • The Gift

    Rosalyn Alsobrook
    in

    Trapped in a car wreck, Crissy Townson makes a plea for deliverance -- only to awaken in a frontier town, where a handsome sheriff accuses her of helping to rob a bank.......

  • Winter Moon

    Elaine Barbieri
    in

    Set in different parts of the U.S. in the 1800s, each story focuses on a different season and each heroine's personality reflects the season's temperament. ELAINE BARBIERI - WINTER MOON Judd McBain was a widower, certain he would never love again...

  • Miss Henderson's Secret

    June Calvin

    The Lord of License It was bad enough that the radical writings of the Earl of Dudley had filled Miss Eden Henderson with shocking notions of the immorality of marriage and the virtue of free love. It was even worse when the beautiful governess en...

  • Abilene Gamble

    Margaret Conlan

    Southern Belle. Living in the war-torn South, beautiful widow Samantha Winchester did all she could to keep hope alive for her family. Now she was heading west to be a bookkeeper in Abilene, Kansas. Northern Soldier. Stripped of his rank during t...

  • Golden Harvest

    Lori Copeland
    in

    Set in different parts of the U.S. in the 1800s, each story focuses on a different season and each heroine's personality reflects the season's temperament. ELAINE BARBIERI - WINTER MOON Judd McBain was a widower, certain he would never love again...

  • Daughters of the Grail // Children of Destiny

    Elizabeth Chadwick

    Thirteenth-century France. Bridget has grown up mastering the mystical gifts of her ancestor, Mary Magdalene, whose unbroken female lineage has kept a legacy of wisdom alive for a thousand years. But the all-powerful Catholic Church has sworn to dest...

  • Loving Honor

    Christina Cordaire

    Love changes everything... AMANDA She returned to her family's Texas ranch to escape the fury of the Civil War in Virginia--and to care for her brother's ten-year-old daughter... REESE He came to the same ranch for different reasons--...

  • From This Day Forward

    Deborah Cox

    MAIL-ORDER BRIDE Caroline Marshall had taken a terrible chance in marrying a stranger by proxy. Of course, Jason Sinclair wasn't really a stranger -- hadn't she fallen in love with him through his touching letters? But here, on a remote co...

  • Aspen

    Lynn Erickson

    RULED BY WEALTH, FUELED BY PASSION Matt Connelly--A charismatic, scandal-ridden senator who'll do anything to protect his family. Lee Connelly--Matt's gracious wife, who deals with the clan the only way she can--through the numbing effects of a...

  • The Crystal Heart

    Katherine Deauxville

    IT WAS A TIME OF POMP AND PAGEANTRY, ILLICIT DESIRE... Emmeline gave herself to a sensual stranger in a night aglow with candlelight and mystery. Then she sent him away. Wed by arrangement, Emmeline desperately needed to provide her aged husband wit...

  • The Best Man

    Phoebe Gallant

    ONE WOMAN -- Sometimes, a woman has to risk being daring and outrageous. For Esty Foster, that means getting out of her rut. Her job and her long-time relationship are going nowhere, her daughter has grown up... even her own mother has fallen in lo...

  • Taken by Storm

    Danelle Harmon

    WANTED When the last of a rare breed of racehorses faces extinction, Lady Ariadne St. Aubyn resorts to desperate measures. Cramming her brilliant red hair into a stableboy's cap, she steals the one-of-a-kind stallion from her wastrel brother -...

  • Canyon Moon

    Carol Finch

    SHE WAS RISKING EVERYTHING FOR A MAN... The accident that killed her father brought Elyssa Rawlins Cutler to a crossroads in her life. She took a fresh look at her fabulous corporate job in Oklahoma City and her on-and-off fiance who had the scruple...

  • Summertime Blues

    Amy J. Fetzer
    in

    When unconventional artist Kayla Fairchild stumbles into an abandoned Texan well, she also stumbles into a different century...as a frontier schoolteacher with a lesson to learn about love....

  • Prince of Dreams

    Lisa Kleypas

    She is his future...and his past A wealthy and bitter exile, the most dangerous and desirable man in all of England, he burns to possess a proud, headstrong beauty who is promised to another. But winning Emma Stokehurst's exquisite hand through t...

  • A Rake's Journey

    Violet Hamilton

    Gwyneth Winword swooned -- and then she slapped Major Giles Fitzalen-Hill. The handsome, haughty British officer seemed to think that one stolen kiss would make her breathless. Well, in truth, it did, but Gwyneth would sooner die than admit it. Never...

  • Sweet Enchantment

    Elizabeth Graham

    FROM THE GLITTERING BALLROOMS OF CHARLESTON... Proud, high-spirited Calista Shelby is determined to keep Meadowmarsh, her family's sprawling island plantation. Her mother's will has made it clear: in order to do so, she must marry before h...

  • An Innocent Ruse

    Mary Morrow

    A YOUNG LADY OF CHARACTER When orphaned Madeline Smythe returned to England and a home she had never seen, her mother's family had high hopes of using her as a pawn in an arranged marriage. But while Madeline might be from the wilds of Canada, she...

  • Renegade Lady

    Kathryn Hockett

    VENGEANCE IS MINE Josie McLaury had come to Showlow with one purpose: to kill the man who'd shot down her younger brother in cold blood. She thought she'd found him...only to end up in a deadly duel. Before she knew what had happened, she ha...

  • Wishes

    Kathleen Kane

    Journeying to her late sister's home in order to retrieve an orphaned nephew, New York spinster Matilda anticipates the loving responsibilities of family until she meets Mike, a sheriff in the young boy's hometown who also wants to adopt him. Mati...

  • Fire in the Dark

    Susan Macias

    SHE FOUGHT FOR WHAT WAS HERS As head of her family's ranch, Regan O'Neil didn't have time to think about her heart--not when she was busy fighting a bitter range war. And besides, frivolous things like romance were for pretty ladies who never muddie...

  • Summer Storm

    Karen Lockwood
    in

    Set in different parts of the U.S. in the 1800s, each story focuses on a different season and each heroine's personality reflects the season's temperament. ELAINE BARBIERI - WINTER MOON Judd McBain was a widower, certain he would never love again...

  • Touched by Moonlight

    Carole Howey

    THE LOVESICK READER Terence Gavilan could turn a sleepy little turn-of-the-century village into a booming seaside resort overnight. But the real passion of his life was searching for Emma Hunt, the mysterious and elusive creator of the tantalizin...

  • Call It Paradise

    Mary Jane Lloyd

    Molly and Porter Drummond: the ideal engaged couple. Never was a man so suitable. So eminently acceptable. So...appropriate. Molly feels a lot of tenderness for Porter; she thinks it might even be love. But...no fireworks. Then two surprising and ...

  • Tonight and Forever

    Brenda Jackson

    Meet the sexy Madaris men and the women who tame them… Don’t miss a single reader-beloved story in this unforgettable collection from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson!Tonight and ForeverAfter her marriage ends in bitter divorce, L...

  • The Bridesmaid

    Leah Laiman

    Oscar-winning movie star Melinda Myles has left Hollywood behind to wed the charismatic rebel leader Diego Roca in San Domenico. But her husband's newly acquired lust for power is stirring up trouble in paradise--and threatens to shatter their marria...

  • The Marrying Season

    Martha Kirkland

    Miss Sommes Under Siege Lovely Miss Columbine Sommes, better known as Colly, mocked the thought of marriage. Her season in the London marriage mart had convinced her that a single state was the best of all possible worlds. But now Lord Ethan Raym...

  • Leap of Faith

    Katharine Kincaid
    in

    Casey O'Donovan, Olympic show-jumper, falls from her horse and into another life -- her great-grandmother's. Now, she's about to be wed to a stranger whose precious love Casey could lose in a blink of time.......

  • Vanquished

    Valerie King

    Beloved romance author Valerie King is known for her stories that capture Regency England in all its excitement and intrigue. Now, that era's gilded ballrooms and elegant boudoirs become the backdrop for the sensual tale of a woman haunted by desire ...

  • The Wallflower

    Linda Francis Lee

    In the heart of Texas lives a family as big and bold as the state itself. The Daltrys are as different as they come, each with his or her own strengths--and weaknesses. Every time a Daltry turns twenty years old, they are presented with a task by t...

  • An English Alliance

    Dawn Lindsey

    At war with love Proud and beautiful Sorcha MacKenzie had been taught by her Scots father to hate the British with all her heart. That deep dislike flamed into fury when English troops invaded her family's new homeland in America and burned the na...

  • Conquer the Night

    Selina MacPherson

    He is tall and lean, and shockingly sensual; a devilishly handsome charmer with the look of a fallen angel. Lovely, sensible Fallon Deane is stunned and totally captivated by the man who boldly presents himself as the new minister. But he is not wh...

  • The Mummy's Mirror

    Dawn Aldridge Poore

    With her three sisters finally wed, Miss Roxanne Sydney is free to pursue her favorite pastime: a mystery! Accompanied by Miss Flora Rowe, her poor but proper traveling companion, Roxanne is off to uncover the grandest of all mysteries, the land of E...

  • Just a Kiss Away

    Jacqueline Marten

    Just a Kiss Away is the story of orphaned Katie Coffee. At the age of twelve, she leaves Florida, and discovers a very different way of life in Pennsylvania Amish country. As Katie grows older, she begins to yearn for something beyond the boundarie...

  • The Mad Miss Mathley

    Michelle Martin

    SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO HOLD HIM TO PROPRIETY--INSTEAD SHE FORCED HIM TO THE EDGE OF DISASTER! Ordered to marry the next man who offered, Melinda Mathley devised a scheme to provide so horrific a match that her father have to retract his demand. Her "...

  • Wayward Angel

    Sue Rich

    A Man of Secrets... Tormented by clouded memories of a malicious crime, Bragen Alexander has searched for the one man whose lies could send Bragen to the gallows. Now, tantalizingly close to confronting his most hated enemy, he strikes a bargain ...

  • Sea Princess

    Wanda Owen

    Growing up on her sea captain father's ship, the willful Stormy Monihan finds romance with rugged sailor Jason Hamilton, who vows to face any risk in order to save Stormy from a brutal attacker. She was passionate and wild... The willful daug...

  • Celia

    Lois Menzel

    SHE THOUGHT SHE'D FOUND THE PERFECT HUSBAND. BUT LOVE CAN THWART EVEN THE BEST-LAID PLANS. ... Celia, the last of the five Demming daughters to appear on the Marriage Mart, made the match that would be the envy of her elder sisters. For soon she w...

  • A World Away

    Pam Rock

    A privileged passenger on the skyliner Moon Courier, Alena Yor was waiting for the journey to end and her new project as a high-ranking cartographer to begin when she first met virile officer Garner Rie. Handsome and courageous, Garner intrigued Alen...

  • Wild Texas Bride

    Dana Ransom

    He gave her her first kiss when she was thirteen. But now Billy Cooper has taken up with a dangerous gang of outlaws. So seventeen-year-old Sarah Bass dons boots and breeches and rides out to rescue the man she loves from a life of crime. But when in...

  • Abiding Love

    Melody Morgan

    THE SPINSTER No one in the sleepy town of Grand Rapids, Ohio, would have ever expected to see shy Irene Barrett tearing up the local barroom. But after joining a women's temperance group the spinster schoolteacher found herself face-to-face with the ...

  • A Basket of Wishes

    Rebecca Paisley

    "I AM CALLED SPLENDOR WHILE I AM WITH YOU I WILL DO WHATEVER YOU DESIRE." Clad only in her ankle-length copper tresses, Splendor lay atop the twelfth Duke of Heathcourte, who was speechless at having been thrown by his horse and caught by a violet...

  • Timeswept Bride

    Eugenia Riley

    TIMELESS DESIRE The death of an unfaithful wife has left Jake Blarney with twin daughters to raise and a farm to run on his own. Desperate and angry, he challenges Destiny to bring him a new helpmate --- and is rewarded with a breathtaking gift from...

  • Warrior Moon

    Sara Orwig

    VANESSA: Her father controlled a railroad and could call up the military with a word. Yet he could not control his oldest daughter. Vanessa was en route to a Denver convent when she escaped the wagon train to bathe in the river. First, a small ch...

  • The Keeper of Time

    Joan Overfield
    in

    Tourist Gillian Brooke enters a quaint antique shop... and is suddenly swept into Victorian London, where a handsome scientist could be her only hope of returning home... or her one, passionate reason to stay....

  • Loving Mollie

    Jeane Renick

    A SONG OF LOVE PLAYS FOREVER Stranded overnight in an airport, Mollie McDeere is astonished to encounter world-famous musician Gray Walker. They were lovers as teenagers until Gray's sudden disappearance eighteen years ago--a wound in Mollie's hea...

  • An Irresistible Pursuit

    Rebecca Robbins

    Pursuing her obsession for ancient relics, young dilettante Phoebe Lawton plots to hide in the London Museum and "purchase" an Egyptian amulet, but her plan is thwarted by the appearance of archaeologist Sir Malcolm Forbes. Original....

  • Miss Meredith's Marriage

    Lindsay Randall

    A SCANDALOUS PROPOSAL Meredith Darlington had long ago rejected the ton, preferring to be a true "Original "--a group of unconventional women. But now she was desperate to do a most conventional thing--marry. According to the terms of her papa's wil...

  • Born in Ice

    Nora Roberts

    When the harsh storms of winter descended upon western Ireland the locals stayed indoors--and visitors stayed away. Brianna Concannon's bed-and-breakfast became a cold and empty place. But that was fine with Brianna. She enjoyed the peace and quiet, ...

  • Time After Time

    Antoinette Stockenberg

    HE WAS THE DARK HERO OF EVERY WOMAN'S DREAMS Her face was covered with plaster and dust when he came calling-and she tumbled out of her attic crawl space into his arms. Jack Eastman was as arrogant, as effortlessly elegant as his Newport mansion, wh...

  • Gentle Rain

    Evelyn Rogers
    in

    Set in different parts of the U.S. in the 1800s, each story focuses on a different season and each heroine's personality reflects the season's temperament. ELAINE BARBIERI - WINTER MOON Judd McBain was a widower, certain he would never love again...

  • Fever Pitch

    Elizabeth Neff Walker

    Neurologist Dr. Nan LeBaron and emergency room chief Dr. Steven P. Winstead, are fighting for their medical lives. They are co-defendents in a malpractice suit after their best efforts failed to save a patient's life. But even as the drama of their l...

  • Come the Dawn

    Christina Skye

    Dearest Reader, If you like adventure--along with a heady blend of passion--I'm certain you'll enjoy this second book in the exploits of the eccentric and aristocratic Delameres. Handsome, cynical, and exquisitely charming, the twelfth earl of ...

  • Fortune's Wheel

    Lisanne Norman

    MIND-LINKED They had been brought together by mutual need when both their peoples were faced with the threat of the warlike Valtegans, an enemy bent on conquering any other race it encountered. She was Carrie, the daughter of the human governor...

  • Bride of the Lion

    Elizabeth Stuart

    In an age of chivalry tainted by bloodshed and betrayal, two unlikely lovers are swept up by a passion strong as steel, sensual as velvet; and eternal as the stars... JOCELYN MONTAGNE Reckless, exotic daughter of a Celtic noblewoman and a Norma...

  • Barbados // Silver Sea

    Cynthia Wright

    He promised to protect her, but he seduced her instead.... 1818: Adrienne Beauvisage was both outraged and intrigued by the dashing rogue hired to be her protector. She knew little of the danger that lurked in the beautiful English countryside.....

  • Longer Than Forever

    Bronwyn Wolfe

    WHERE ANGELS GO, LOVE IS SURE TO FOLLOW TWO LOST SOULS Patrick was in trouble, alone in turn-of-the-century Chicago and unjustly jailed with little hope for survival. And then the honey-haired beauty came to him, as if she had heard his praye...

  • Stinger

    Don Pendleton

    America's finest tactical neutralization arm, Stony Man is the Presidents wild card in the deadly game of global terrorism. Acting both within and beyond the law, these dedicated combat and techno warriors operate on one principle: terrorists must pa...

  • Omega Game

    Don Pendleton

    BOMBS AWAY Mack Bolan's worst nightmare is now a reality: the Mob is going nuclear. At the helm is Don Luigi Calo, whose burgeoning global syndicate, the Star, has branched out beyond routine Mafia trafficking to infringe on international diplomac...

  • Fifth Quarter

    Tanya Huff

    THE SONG OF DEATH Bannon and Vree, brother and sister, they are assassins of the highest caliber who have long plied their trade for the Havalkeen army. But all their skill and experience cannot save them from a magic-sprung trap that will see the...

  • Thirst

    Pyotyr Kurtinski

    BEYOND THE GRAVE… He has lived -- undead in time and space, master of darkness, servant to none. A soulless being cursed by the sunlight, exalted by the night’s embrace, he stalks his human prey with little danger or retribution. As old ...

  • The Iron Throne

    Simon Hawke

    Anuire. The Great Empire... It rose from the wreckage of gods-death, from the tumbled lands where the pantheon had died to stop one of its own from destroying the world. In the chaos after Deismaar, one man, Roele, founded an empire that would sp...

  • Cloud Castles

    Michael Scott Rohan

    The Spiral: where past and present meet, where myth and legend infiltrate the mundane world, where Hy Brasil and Babylon are but a short voyage away - via the cloud archipelagos...You can't always find it - but it can always find you.And when it find...

  • Yor's Revenge

    Roy V. Young

    Welcome back to Leiblein, where the redoubtable outrageous captains--Yor, Dword, and Trebormatch wits against Yor's ex-lover, the treacherous Lady Katherine Lee, and her deadly minions. Before they can recover Yor's stolen amulet, the petrified eye o...

  • Conquerors' Heritage

    Timothy Zahn

    In Conquerors' Pride, Timothy Zahn, Hugo Award -- winning author of the New York Times bestselling Star Wars trilogy, unfurled an epic tale of drama and courage as the interstellar Commonwealth faced savage invasion by alien starships of unknown orig...

  • Testament

    Valerie J. Freireich

    Treated like an outcast in a genetically engineered world, human throwback Gray Bridger hopes to escape Testament and the powerful Bridger matriarchy that plots to use Gray for its own devices. Original....

  • The Hidden City

    David Eddings

    WAR TO THE DEATH The Pandion Knight Sparhawk had bested the massed forces of the God Cyrgon upon the field of battle. But victory turned to ashes when the foul God's minions kidnapped Sparhawk's wife, the beautiful Queen Ehlana. Sparhawk must surr...

  • Nanodreams

    Elton Elliott

    Anarchy and chaos rules in a world of nanotechnology in which virus-sized, self-replicating machines create any object, eliminate disease, reverse energy, and increase human intelligence, in an anthology featuring works by Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, a...

  • Ghostlight

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    What is the Truth? Truth Blackburn's father thought he knew what it was. Thorne Blackburn and his followers settled at Shadow's Gate, a magnificent old house in upstate New York, and sought the Truth about life through ritual and magic. One night,...

  • Witch

    Donald E. McQuinn

    Rose Priestess Sylah's successful quest for ancient knowledge had shattered the unity of the Church and branded her a witch. Her only protection, and the only hope for a better future, lay with Gan Moondark, ruler of the united Three Territories. But...

  • Hard Drive

    David Pogue

  • Planetfall

    Scott G. Gier

    FIRST CONTACT...TWICE Genellan--a beautiful, Earthlike world where intelligent cliff-dwellers waited in fear for the day the warlike bear people would return... Genellan--the only refuge for a ship's crew and a detachment of spacer marines, aba...

  • 1945

    William R. Forstchen; Newt Gingrich

    The year is 1945. In Europe, the Third Reich reigns triumphant. The Soviet Union is a fragment of its former self, and Britain has accepted a dictated armistice. In the Pacific, after a brief, sharp war with Japan, America is the only significant mil...

  • Limbo Search

    Parke Godwin

    Protecting planets from corporate exploitation, space veteran Charley Stoner receives a distorted summons that warns of a forthcoming alien invasion, and Stoner must lead an untested crew into combat against an unknown threat. Original....

  • The Cursed Land

    Teri McLaren
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    DARK LEGACY Centuries ago, hungry for power, the wizard Nohr destroyed the Clan Tree of Cridhe, trying to harness its magic for his own uses. Nohr's deed brought a curse upon his family, divided the Clan--and plunged the island of Cridhe into gene...

  • In the Empire of Shadow

    Lawrence Watt-Evans

    A handful of ordinary Americans -- housewives, lawyers, interior decorators, and the like -- found themselves caught up in a transdimensional conflict, and transported from their homes to realms where magic worked, to desert planets and rebel worlds,...

  • Neptune Crossing

    Jeffrey A. Carver

    When John Bandicut sets out across the surface of Triton, he's hardly ready for the storm of chaos that's about to blow through his life. The alien quarx that soon inhabits his mind is humanity's first contact with an alien life. The quarx, part of a...

  • Hell On Earth

    Dafydd ab Hugh; Brad Linaweaver

    They were creatures seemingly spawned straight from the pits of hell--demons, zombies, fire-breathing imps, all too horrifically close to the stuff of nightmare to be real. But they were. And on the inhospitable moons of Mars, Corporal Flynn "Fly" Ta...

  • Knee-Deep in the Dead

    Dafydd ab Hugh; Brad Linaweaver

    The Gates were there on Phobos when mankind first arrived. Inert, unyielding, impossibly alien constructs, for twenty years they sat lifeless, mute testaments to their long-vanished creators, their secrets hidden. Then one day, they sprang to life......

  • The Triumphant

    Keith Laumer

    Two new powerhouses of science fiction, David Weber and Linda Evans, continue the amplified history of the Bolo, the nearly indestructible tank/artificial intelligence that changed the shape of the galaxy. David Weber tells the story of a Bolo, th...

  • Black Trump

    George R.R. Martin

    Exposed by a reporter and her joker sidekick, the Cardshark Conspiracy plots to unleash the Black Trump, a biological weapon that destroys anyone with a wild card genetic structure, and time is running out for ace Mark Meadows. Original....

  • Firehand

    Andre Norton

    Preparing to travel through time in order to face a band of predatory aliens, Ross Murdoch plans to leap into the feudal period of Dominion, where he can help win a war that will bring defeat to the aliens. Reprint....

  • Slow Funeral

    Rebecca Ore

    Running away from Bracken County and its corrupt magical practices after her parents are killed, Maude Fuller attempts to deny her witch destiny, until her beloved grandmother's impending death summons Maude back home. Reprint....

  • Virtual Death

    Shale Aaron

    Giving up her career as a near-death experience performer, celebrity Lydia Melmoth is unwilling to subject herself to another brush with death, until her mother's pressing need for money pushes Lydia into a comeback. Original....

  • Suitors Duel

    Douglas Niles

    The immortal game continues...with a deadly duel! Princess Danis Vanderthan is proud, beautiful, intelligent . . . and stubbornly independent. When her father the king announces a contest for noble suitors, Danis insists that her friend Holton Jak...

  • Daughter of the Drow

    Elaine Cunningham
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The child's mother will be leaving this house," Gromph Baenre told the elf-size golem. "See to it, and inform her family that she met with an unfortunate accident on the way to the Bazaar." The stone servant bowed and then disappeared into the wal...

  • Wizard's Heir

    Daniel Hood

    UNHOLY ACTS Despite what people think, inheriting a wizard's familiar did not make Liam a wizard. But he is shaping up to be quite a detective. When his late friend Tarquin's magic artifacts are stolen, and then used to commit further crimes, Liam...

  • Grunts!: A Fantasy With Attitude

    Mary Gentle

    WHAT IS AN ORC? An orc is a fire plug of a fighting machine made of muscle, hide, talon and tusk, with a villainous disposition and a mean sense of humor. And, of course, an orc is a poor dumb grunt--the much abused foot soldier of the Evil Horde of...

  • Dragonslayer's Return

    R.A. Salvatore

    THE FINAL BATTLE It's been four years since Gary Leger slew a dragon and returned home from Faerie. And almost half a year since his father died. Ever since that fateful day, he's been aching to take his wife, Diane, leave Earth behind, and go bac...

  • The Seventh Sentinel

    Mary Kirchoff
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Shadow of the past! A wizard sacrificed himself to preserve the secrets of magic. Centuries later, the survival of magic is again in question. The key is a young lord whose heritage is tied to the tuatha dundarael, faerie folk who practice powerfu...

  • Alien Harvest

    Robert Sheckley

    ALIEN TREASURE: A MISSION IMPOSSIBLE This time the humans are taking the offensive! Stan Myakovsky is a once-famous scientist fallen on hard times. Now he dodges spaceship repo men and dreams of the marketability of his cybernetic ant. Then a woma...

  • Jump Pay

    Rick Shelley

    THE LUCKY 13TH The 13th Spaceborne is the elite fighting force of the Accord of Free Worlds. For decades the Accord tried to keep out of the war that divided the galaxy. But now they have no choice--it's fight or die. And the soldiers of the 13th ...

  • The Way to a Man's Heart

    Esther Friesner
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Playing to Win

    Laurel Ames

    SERA HAD ALWAYS LOVED A CHALLENGE, BUT TONY WAS PROVING TO BE DIFFICULT EVEN FOR HER CONSIDERABLE SKILLS! Despite her bookish exterior, Sera Barclay was an imp with outrageous charm and depths undreamed of by London's stuffy ton. A woman who wou...

  • Somebody's Baby

    Charlotte Vale Allen

    She was somebody's baby, but whose? A woman's entire life is turned upside down by her mother's deathbed confession: Snow Devane was stolen as an infant and is someone else's child. At thirty-one. Snow believes she has everything she wants--a s...

  • On Thin Ice

    Susan Andersen

    FIRE AND ICE On the ice, Sasha Miller sizzles--seducing her audience with her spectacular skating moves, leaving her fans begging for more. Off the ice, she can't escape the loneliness of her life and her tragic past, or the loss of her skating pa...

  • Velvet Bond

    Catherine Archer

    LORD RAYNOR WAS NO MATCH FOR THE LOVELY WOMAN HE'D BEEN FORCED TO TAKE TO WIFE Though Lady Elizabeth Clayburn was no stranger to the flattery of men, the enigmatic Baron of Warwicke wielded a power over her more potent than anything she had ev...

  • Trusting Sarah

    Cassandra Austin

    Two Lonely Hearts, Destined To Meet Again Sarah Tanton had headed west seeking the promise of a fresh start, and freedom from the memories that haunted her...Yet, little did she know that every step brought her closer to the man she'd loved and lost...

  • The Wilde Bunch

    Barbara Boswell

    MR. AUGUST Wilde Man: Rancher Mac Wilde desperately needed a woman's help. Not-so-wild Woman: Kara Kirby could be a wonderful wife, but would she agree to Mac's marriage proposal? Mac knew Kara hadn't come to Montana to find a husband! But ...

  • Wild in the Night

    Patt Bucheister

    He'd recognize her scent in a roomful of women.... She expected he'd be grateful that his office was no longer an impossible mess, but instead Paul Forge told efficiency expert Coral Bentley that he wanted all his junk back exactly where he'd left ...

  • The West Virginian

    Sharon Brondos

    FAMILY COMES FIRST Charismatic frontiersman Jacob Barr has made a life for himself and his twelve-year-old daughter deep in the forests of West Virginia. But his success has brought him enemies, and now his home, Jacob's Well--the unique community...

  • An Improbable Wife

    Sally Carleen

    THE RIGHT MAN? Emily James was delighted with her new apartment, until she discovered her landlord was the grumpiest, most conservative, sexiest man in town! Whenever Carson Thayer 'discussed' her impulsive ways, all Emily could think about was how ...

  • Peacekeeper

    Marisa Carroll

    NICK APOSTALIS -- OUR FOURTH STRONG MAN MAJOR NICK APOSTALIS REPRESENTED EVERYTHING SHE'D CAST OUT OF HER LIFE He was used to danger. He was a risk taker, a man who put hi life on the line for a cause. Kara Hartman had been widowed by on such...

  • Pagan's Paradise

    Susan Connell

    She ached to get into trouble with him -- just once.... Jack Stratford was hold-your-breath handsome, a blue-eyed rogue who knew everyone in San Rafael, but photographer Joanna McCall refused to believe his warning that she was in danger -- except...

  • Second Chance at Marriage

    Pamela Dalton

    For better, or worse... It had been a long time since Dina Paxton had shared her home with a man, but now she knew almost everything about her brazenly male housemate, Gabriel Randolph...including what he wore to bed! The young widow had resigned ...

  • The Rancher and the Redhead

    Suzannah Davis

    OF BACHELORS AND BABIES What was rancher Sam Preston to do when he found himself saddled with an infant? Holler for his best pal, of course. A single gal like Roni Daniels might not have first-hand experience raising kids, but at least she was a w...

  • The Last Hero

    Alyssa Dean

    LAST OF THE TOUGH GUYS Wade Brillings: U.S. Navy. Hero with a capital H. Extremely practical. Wade found women a pleasant, occasional distraction. Until he met -- Cassandra Lloyd: Beautiful but completely impractical. Why, he was surprised she ...

  • The Magician's Quest

    Claire Delacroix

    HEIR TO AN ANCIENT LEGACY Yusef was a breed apart. Yet though his soul held the aura of kings, he fought against the savage stirrings in his blood, until the fate of a dancing girl entwined with his own, and released the timeless power of love......

  • Scarlet Woman

    Barbara Faith

    Growing up on the wrong side of the tracks and then marrying the son of the wealthiest man in town had made Holly Moran the center of gossip. So she'd left home. But even now, years later, returning for a visit as a widow, Holly was stirring up m...

  • The Women in Joe Sullivan's Life

    Marie Ferrarella

    From single, without children, to... Women? Sexy bachelor Joe Sullivan considered himself an expert. But little girls? What Joe didn't know about children would fill volumes. Yet suddenly the beleaguered uncle had three rambunctious nieces to raise. ...

  • Apache Springs

    Lynn Erickson

    The lawman was captured by another man's wife! Two high-profile guests die under suspicious circumstances at the Zimmermans' resort in Apache Springs, Arizona. Deputy U.S. Marshal Jed Mallory comes home to investigate, only to find that his old fl...

  • Done Driftin'

    Janis Flores

    The Dunleavy Legacy Octavia Whitworth Dunleavy - formidable matriarch of the family - wants to hand over once-renowned Dunleavy Farm to her three grandchildren. Will they accept her offer? And will they be able to overcome old fueds and betrayals ...

  • The Bride Price

    Ginna Gray

    NOT THE MARRYING KIND... Hell would freeze before a mere female brought proud Wyatt Sommersby to his knees. The macho millionaire always got what he wanted -- and then moved on. But Maggie Muldoon proved immune to Wyatt's money, and indifferen...

  • Moonspun Dreams

    Elizabeth Gregg

    PASSIONATE DECEPTION Beautiful Dessa Fallon had never met a man like Ben Poole. Raised in the best society, sheltered by her family's wealth, she could not imagine a man who looked so rough could be so tender...a man so self-reliant could be s...

  • Fallen Skies

    Philippa Gregory

    PEACE HAS COME -- IT IS TIME TO LIVE AGAIN Singer Lily Valance wants to forget the war. She vows to live for the present and enjoy the music and glitter of the frantic 1920s. Captain Stephen Winters joins in on the post-war frenzy, and falls in lo...

  • Listen Up, Lover

    Lori Herter

    Confirmed bachelor mistakes: 1) Rather than act like a gentleman during your bizarre introduction to a woman, make a terrible first impression. 2 ) Told to apologize, pay her a visit, and instead, make confirmed bachelor mistake #3. 3 ) Tell...

  • Heart of the Hunter

    BJ James

    AGENT: JEB TANNER MISSION: TO PROTECT A LADY Jeb was used to tough assignments, but this latest would be the biggest challenge of his career. The prey: a ruthless murderer--and his ex-best friend. The bait: pretty Nicole Callison--the killer's si...

  • Fantasy Wife

    Julie Kistler

    He'd been blacklisted by baby-sitters everywhere Single dad Alex Thornhill could manage multimillion-dollar deals, but he couldn't manage his own children ... nor could anyone else! What his two little girls needed most was a mommy. What Alex need...

  • Cowboy for Hire

    Dorsey Kelley

    Cowboy Wanted: For Bent Murray, winning the world rodeo championship had happened in another lifetime--one he wanted to forget. But sassy cowgirl Kate Monahan forced him to recall his glorious past--and other pleasures he'd long since set aside .....

  • Star-Crossed

    Susan Krinard

    A beautiful aristocrat risks a forbidden love ...with a dangerously seductive man born of an alien race. STAR-CROSSED At sixteen, Lady Ariane Burke-Marchand had loved Rook Galloway with all the passion and pain of unrequited love. It didn't mat...

  • Tempting Jake

    Molly Liholm

    HE WAS A TEMPTING SIGHT Jake Collins: Six feet two inches of raw male animal. Bedroom eyes. Gorgeous smile. So what was he doing driving a bus full of rowdy senior citizens? Tour guide Nora Stevens had her suspicions about her latest Merry Trav...

  • Man Overboard

    Karen Leabo

    WHAT PAIGE DID ON HER VACATION... Prim and proper Paige Stovall knew that Harrison Powell was after something ...and it certainly wasn't her body! After all, Paige was just a small-town gal on a big-time vacation, not the type that a debonair, car...

  • Before I Wake

    Terry Lawrence

    In boardrooms throughout Chicago, the traders call him the Vampire, for Gabriel Fitzgerald never sleeps. Instead the darkly handsome financier works deep into the night, parlaying his brilliance and energy into a rapidly growing fortune. But Gabe kno...

  • Hunted

    Jo Leigh

    Becky McCullough: Once she'd shared her bed, her children, her world, with Mike. Though their marriage had ended, she'd never stopped caring about him .... Mike McCullough- He'd thought the worst was over when Becky walked out. Now his family was ...

  • Catch Me If You Can

    Victoria Leigh

    Just because she didn't know it didn't means she wasn't his.... Intrigued by Abigail Roberts's mysterious invitation, Tanner Flynn faced the woman who was his fiercest rival -- and vowed to explore the heat that still sparked between them! He'd a...

  • The Silver Dolphin

    Diana Lord

    Abandoning Houston high society for a simpler life in Hawaii, heiress Carrie Debary marries marine biologist Alex Madison, only to be swept up in an affair with another man when Alex is seriously injured in an accident. Original....

  • The Rogue Knight

    Merline Lovelace
    in

    In Pozzessere's "Seize the Wind," a highwayman makes a stand against corrupt government officials, while in Michaels's "Apache Fire," a warrior fights prejudice in order to claim the woman he loves and in Lovelace's "The Rogue Knight," a mercenary wo...

  • The Cowboy and the Cossack

    Merline Lovelace

    THE RELUCTANT RULER Alexandra Jordan was hardly thrilled to be appointed leader of her late grandfather's ancient Russian tribe, but she had to help her people, who were long on troubles and short on everything else, especially weapons -- and men!...

  • Apache Fire

    Theresa Michaels
    in

    “Raine Cantrell is a powerhouse writer whose emotional intensity keeps you enthralled.” -- Kathe Robin, RT Book Reviews Widowed and childless, Angie is named The Woman of Sorrow by Niko, a noble warrior of the Apache. But as passion ignites betw...

  • Dark Star

    Sheryl Lynn

    The greatest danger was her own memory Fact: Twenty-five long years ago, Star Jones's parents had vanished. Now Star was haunted by dark images--were they nightmares or actual memories? With no real evidence, no family and no friends to help her, ...

  • Wanted: Perfect Partner

    Debbie Macomber

    Single mom Meg Remington and her teenage daughter begin a conversation. Daughter says nervously: "Uh, Mom, maybe this would be a good time to tell you about Steve." Meg says absently: "Who?" Daughter says quickly: "Umm, Steve--your date for ...

  • A Family of Her Own

    Ellen Tanner Marsh

    A sweet little girl, all alone in the world, had been entrusted to Jussy Waring's care, and she was determined to shelter her from any more heartache. But Jussy hadn't counted on the big-city stranger who came to small-town South Carolina to take awa...

  • Baby Talk

    Julianna Morris

    When Cassandra met Jake... She knew he was trouble. Her solo baby-making plans just couldn't include the carefree bachelor. Besides, Jake had way too much sizzle for a daddy candidate. So why couldn't she stop daydreaming about babies who had Jake...

  • Cowboys Don't Quit

    Anne McAllister

    ROUND 'EM UP, COWBOY! Lu Tanner wasn't afraid of looking danger rip in the eye. He'd wrestled his way through his share of ornery situations, and he'd never run from anything--or anyone--in his life! Except once.... Jillian Cran...

  • Texas Temptation

    Barbara McCauley

    FORBIDDEN LOVE Tormented by haunting memories, Stone denied himself happiness. But when sultry Annie Baily unexpectedly came back to town, he desperately wanted to believe in forgiveness. Because his brother's ex-fiancee was everything he wanted, ...

  • I'll Love You Till I Die

    Meg O'Brien

    A WOMAN'S DESPERATE SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH PLUNGES HER INTO A WEB OF DECEPTION, DESIRE, AND DANGEROUS OBSESSION. Joanna Carr awakens in a hospital after six months in a catatonic state, only to be told that her beloved husband, David, has been bruta...

  • Bewitched

    Constance O'Day-Flannery

    If there's one thing successful career woman Suzanne Griffin and her New Age friend Leslie agree on, it's that chivalry is dead and men aren't what they used to be. Until Leslie offers to conjure up a lover from yesteryear. Suddenly, there he is: Ian...

  • The Case of the Accidental Heiress

    Victoria Pade

    THE CASE: An "accidental" heiress THE CLIENT: Maggie Morgan was dead. At least, that's what everyone told her. But as she pursed her lips and moved her muscles, she knew she was very much alive.... And in a heap of trouble! THE DETECTIVE: Viril...

  • Heart of Dreams

    Jeanne Rose

    Dreamstalker... Mara Fitzgerald couldn't get Luke Naha out of her dreams. Nightly she was haunted by frightening--yet erotic--images of him that left her breathless and wanting. Even more disturbing was the mysterious, brooding Native American's ...

  • Defiant

    Patricia Potter

    Only the desire for vengeance had spurred Wade Foster on, until the last of the men who had destroyed his family lay sprawled in the dirt. Now, badly wounded, the rugged outlaw closed his eyes against the pain...and awoke to a tender touch. He'd neve...

  • Up Close and Personal

    Diane Pershing

    He loved her rough and tender .... A master at getting others to reveal their secrets, Evan Stone never let a woman get close enough to touch the scars that marked his soul. But when teacher Chris McConnell dared confess the sorrows that haunted h...

  • MacDougall's Darling

    Emilie Richards

    TO LOVE AND PROTECT Fiona Sinclair had come home to face the demons of her past. And when Andrew MacDougall offered the shelter of his arms, she was ready to face her future. This compelling man made her long for more than protection. Now she want...

  • Seize the Wind

    Heather Graham Pozzessere
    in

    Available for the first time in ebook! Plunge into the drama and romance of this historical from New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham. Originally published in the anthology Renegades in 1995.Traveling through the forest north of London, K...

  • The Bachelor Party

    Paula Detmer Riggs

    THE LAST BACHELOR Sheriff Ford Maguire had no time for romance. Keeping the peace in Clover, South Carolina, kept him busy, while reminding him that most people weren't to be trusted. Then single mom Sophie Reynolds came to town, testing Ford's no...

  • Because You're Mine

    Nan Ryan

    STOLEN LAND, CAPTURED HEART Golden-haired Sabella Rios knew that she was the rightful owner of the Lindo Vista ranch in the lush cattle country of Southern California. But her legacy had been stolen by the father of handsome Burt Burnett, who now ...

  • At the Midnight Hour

    Alicia Scott

    A CHILD'S KEEPER Elizabeth Guiness had her work cut out for her. Her precocious young charge quoted morbid statistics twenty-four hours a day, desperately seeking just one ounce of his father's affection. But brilliant scientist Richard Keaton see...

  • Undying Laughter

    Kelsey Roberts

    More than one man had a date with Destiny... Destiny Talbott, The Rose Tattoo's newest headliner, was head-turningly gorgeous, but her arresting allure brought on more than her share of suitors, including Wesley Porter, the boss's sexy son. But a ...

  • Beauty vs. the Beast

    M.J. Rodgers

    And then there was one... When psychologist Damian Steele killed off the nasty half of his dual-personality patient, he never expected that the 'widow' would file a wrongful-death suit. Nor did he expect that a breathtaking beauty would be his sav...

  • Lovers and Strangers

    Candace Schuler

    IT WAS LUST AT FIRST SIGHT Cynical reporter and ladies' man Jack Shannon is back. Bachelor Arms was his home - until his brother's tragic and mysterious suicide. Now Jack's returned to find some answers...and maybe assuage his guilt. Having a drin...

  • Imitation Bride

    Christine Scott

    Hired Bride... Single mom Lacey Keegan had received some odd assignments through her personal errand service, but Michael Damian's request was downright outrageous. The man actually expected her to pose as his bride-to-be! Still, he was her best cli...

  • Bed of Roses

    Suzanne Simmons

    AN ANGELIC LADY The last thing the beautiful and determinedly unmarried Lady Alyssa Gray wanted at her ancestral home was a man. Yet the Queen had heard about the "haunting" of Graystone Abbey and was sending an emissary to investigate. Since Alyssa...

  • What She Did on Her Summer Vacation

    Tracy Sinclair

    ROYAL SINGLE DAD! So this was England! American tourist Melanie Warren was enchanted, even by the rain. Until a ferocious downpour left her stranded - and at the mercy of David Crandall, the wickedly sexy seventh Viscount of Castlebury. Still,...

  • True Lies

    Ingrid Weaver

    WHO WAS EMMA CASSIDY? That was what Detective Bruce Prentice had come to the Maine woods to find out. But the more he learned about her, the less he understood. All he knew was, those flights across the Canadian border in her private plane simply ...

  • Nobody's Child

    Pat Warren

    WHOSE CHILD AM I? All her life, adoptee Liza Parker had tried to answer that question. But when she located the sleepy community of Pine Bluff, it looked as if the key to her identity was suddenly within reach. And then everyone in town stopped ta...

  • Naughty by Night

    Tiffany White

    DO YOU HAVE A SECRET FANTASY? Ashleigh Frost does. She'd always been a good girl: pleasing others, marrying the man her parents thought was the right choice, letting her husband protect her. Well, look where that had gotten her. Divorced and broke...

  • Counterfeit Husband

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    TO DO: - Get a haricut - Cancel appointments - Hire husband? It was the only way Chloe Sumner could protect herself from a lecherous business rival on a luxury cruise. But what "husband" could Chloe trust to spend every day -- and every night -...

  • Too Many Grooms

    Kay Wilding

    Here comes the groom... When daredevil Hunter Townsend was told he was dying, he did the honorable thing--and jilted Susan Willingham so she wouldn't have to witness his demise. Trouble was, two years later Hunter felt downright healthy. And when ...

  • The Last Chance Ranch

    Ruth Wind

    A WOUNDED SOUL For years Tanya had dreamed of the day she'd be free, and able to be with the young son for whom she'd sacrificed everything. Antonio was her baby, her entire reason for living... A PASSIONATE HEART Ramon had known that somed...

  • The Eyes of Derek Archer

    Vickie York

    Derek Archer had been called a killer.. . He'd been hunted, stalked and pursued as a fugitive--until he'd vanished altogether. Shortly after the case against Derek Archer was closed, the man managed to escape and create a new identity. Then he set...

  • Dr. Nightingale Goes the Distance

    Lydia Adamson

    ON A HIGH HORSE ... FOR MURDER Intending to forget about her sick cats and ailing cows for one night, Deirdre "Didi" Nightingale, DVM., is all dressed up for a champagne-sipping pre-race gala at a posh thoroughbred farm. She never expects death to...

  • Sauce for the Goose

    Robert Campbell

    Jimmy Flannery is as Chicago as the Cubs. He's a streetwise city sewer inspector, the Twenty-seventh Ward Democratic committeeman, and an amateur detective. He's also happily married and a new dad. Mary, his wife, suggests he improve himself by takin...

  • Praying for Sleep

    Jeffery Deaver

    A storm-lashed night. A dangerously paranoid schizophrenic. a woman with a reason to be terrified. And a desperate search for the ultimate truth behind a shocking murder. Michael Hrubek has escaped from a mental hospital for the criminally insa...

  • Brandy & Bullets

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    MURDER BY THE BOOK Cozy Cabot Cove, Maine, has a country luncheonette, but not much high culture. Mystery author Jessica Fletcher is the only writer in residence, but the renovation of the local Worrell mansion into an art colony may bring scores ...

  • The Boy's Tale

    Margaret Frazer

    SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN... Who could ever want to harm two young boys, ages five and six? When the boys are half brothers to Henry VI, King of England, the list is long and distinguished. A lady in their mother's household flees with the boys t...

  • Cold Light

    John Harvey

    Struggling through the daily beat during the Christmas season, police inspector Charlie Resnick investigates a woman's disappearance and realizes that it is linked to a sinister chain of events. Reprint....

  • Widows' Watch

    Nancy Herndon

    Elena Jarvis is an officer in the Crimes Against Persons department of the Los Santos, Texas, police. She's got a sharp mind and a strong sense of justice. She's also got a condescending boss, a chauvinist partner, and an overprotective narc ex-husba...

  • A Far and Deadly Cry

    Teri Holbrook

    BURIED SECRETS The crime scene showed that a cunning mind and a passionate hatred lay behind the killing of Lisa Stillwell. But New Scotland Yard would not have been called to this remote Hampshire village if the baby-sitter's employer hadn't been...

  • Red Card

    Richard Hoyt

    At the first U.S.-hosted World Cup, a package is delivered to German team manager Jens Steiner. Inside, Steiner finds one red and two yellow cards. Hours later, two of the team's hottest players are killed. Steiner realizes that in soccer the cards r...

  • In Murder We Trust

    Eleanor Hyde

    LYDIA MILLER WANTED TO SAVE A LIFE, BUT NOW SHE MAY LOSE HER OWN .... A holiday weekend in the Hamptons turns into a date with disaster when fashion magazine editor Lydia Miller discovers her millionaire host dead in his swimming pool. But a tragi...

  • Grounds for Murder

    Kate Kingsbury

    WELCOME TO THE PENNYFOOT The London aristocracy has discovered the pleasures of seaside holidays in Badgers End, and it's Cecily Sinclair's job as the owner of the Pennyfoot Hotel to keep them comfortable and entertained. Detective work is not part ...

  • Stage Fright

    Clare McNally

    Picking up the pieces of her life after a crazed psychopath brutally murders her lover and best friend before committing suicide, theater director Hayley suspects that the killer has returned from the grave to claim her...

  • These Bones Were Made for Dancin'

    Annette Meyers

    Leslie Wetzon is dusting off her tap shoes for a good cause: a benefit revival of the landmark Broadway musical Combinations. Using her headhunting smarts, she tracks down the original cast from eighteen years ago -- all except for Terri Matthews, wh...

  • High Desert Malice

    Kirk Mitchell

    Investigating the murders of two people in the Nevada sagebrush country, U.S. Bureau of Land Management ranger Dee Laguerre fears that her chief suspect is a down-and-out cattleman for whom she still has feelings...

  • Till the Butchers Cut Him Down

    Marcia Muller

    FLYING SOLO Now that private investigator Sharon McCone has struck out on her own, she needs all the clients she can get--even a shady character from her Berkeley days. T. J. "Suitcase" Gordon's made millions as a "turnaround man," a corporate tro...

  • Death at Gallows Green

    Robin Paige

    A Body in McGregor's Garden An American living abroad in Victoria's England, Kathryn Ardleigh spends her days penning pseudonymous "shilling shockers" for an eager, sensation-hungry populace. But now that she is sole mistress of Bishop's Keep, Kat...

  • A Wolf in Death's Clothing

    Elizabeth Quinn

    HUNTER OR HUNTED? PREDATOR OR PREY? A trail of blood leads Dr. Lauren Maxwell, Anchorage-based investigator for the Wild America Society, to Alaska's remote Nowitna Wildlife Refuge to investigate the near-fatal shooting of her friend Belle Doyon. The...

  • Justice Denied

    Robert K. Tanenbaum

    THE SYSTEM IS MURDER A diplomat is gunned down in midtown Manhattan. A girl is raped and thrown out a tenement window in Alphabet City. A Mafia muscle man is running rings around the law. A beautiful Yuppie's career is cut short with a knife. In a...

  • Farenheit 666

    Andrew Harman

    Everybody needs a holiday, and demons are no exception. There may be an important election going on in the hellish city of Mortropolis, but most minds are on forthcoming breaks -- maybe possession of a teenage nymphomaniac for a fortnight, or canoein...