The first book in the People of the Covenant Series, The Dawning is a majestic saga providing a gripping, entertaining story of the people and events surrounding Christââ,¬â"˘s last days on earth and the dawning of His Church. This Christian eBook i...
The unthinkable has come to pass: Peter Pan has grown up! Attorney-at-law Peter Banning lives in a world of cellular phones, never-ending meetings, and fast deals--a world that leaves little time for his wife and two children. Yet when Peter vi...
Chief White Bear and his Kiowa tribe would accept no more broken promises from the white man, so they left the Indian Territory reservations and crossed the Red River to the south. But heir last desperate attempt to regain the land of their ancestors...
Words, not weapons, are Morning Song’s tools, as they were her grandmother’s. And she has the power to wield them as skillfully… Morning Star, daughter of an Iroquois woman and a violent-natured French trader, learns early to be stubborn, br...
Follows French ex-army officer Antoine Berence and his wife and daughter across four decades, and a terrible secret which will tear apart the family, in a novel exploring the evil existing in "decent" men...
Frank thought that he'd found a new friend--but he never expected a war to come between them.It's 1941 , and Frank is miserable. If only his family had never moved to Hawaii. Everyone and everything on the island looks and sounds strange to him. Then...
Too close... At eighteen, Nicola had made a terrible mistake and eight years later is still punishing herself for her folly. But her shameful secret comes full circle when Matt Hunt walks back into her life -- as her new boss. Not that Matt recogn...
WAS SHE AN INNOCENT OR AN AMORAL TEMPTRESS? SHE WAS A USURPER AND A FORTUNE HUNTER Or so it seemed to Alex, Earl of Templestowe. Alex found himself deprived of part of his inheritance. The home where he had grown up had been left to his cousin'...
Too close for comfort When Professor Jake Rothman refused to allow Karen to accompany the all-male television documentary crew on what she knew could possibly be the most exciting expedition of her film career, her blood boiled! The fact that desi...
He was a dark and stormy knight... Riding in from the North to rescue Katie Lovewell from the dungeon of despair. She needed money and fast, not even her earnings from three jobs could save her Virginia home and land, which had been in her family ...
The Red Wizards rule Thay, perhaps the most wicked and corrupt land in all the Forgotten Realms. While the evil mage, Zulkir Maligor, builds a net of treachery and deceit, the Harpers seek to uncover his vile schemes. A small band is sent by the Harp...
Gabria's epic magical duel with Lord Medb has seemingly done little to change the opinion of sorcery amongst the clans who inhabit the Dark Horse Plains. But when the problems of the faraway city of Pra Desh threaten to spill over onto the plains, th...
After a five-year mission to the edge of the known universe, Erin is ready to return home. But her mission has stolen too much time away, and Erin returns to find her father dead and herself heir to a mining tug and a set of coordinates that may lead...
DAUGHTER OF MAGIC Return to the universe of the Drinker of Souls trilogy in a magical novel that explores a whole new domain in an enchanted world where rival gods vie for mastery by manipulating both the forces of nature and their own devoted mor...
A QUEST INTO THE HEART OF MAGIC Something is not all right with This Side, the alternate world where the guardians find themselves. Magic - or at least the rumor of it - is creeping out of Faerie at the border town of Ehvenor. And even though Jaso...
Last Tales is a collection of twelve of the last tales that Isak Dinesen wrote before her death in 1962. They include seven tales from Albondocani, a projected novel that was never completed; "The Caryatids," an unfinished Gothic tale of a couple bed...
The Marquis de Custine's unique perspective on a vast, fascinating country in the grip of oppressive tyrannyIn 1839, encouraged by his friend Balzac, Custine set out to explore Russia. His impressions turned into what is perhaps the greatest and most...
FROM POLITE BOSTON TO THE WILDS OF MONTANA, SHE CAME SEEKING A SAFE HAVEN FOR HER FAMILY -- AND FOUND UNEXPECTED LOVE. She was a whaling captain's widow, determined to keep her headstrong son from following his father's course. Molly Gallagher h...
GHOST AND BARD With the proper schooling young Rune would be one of the greatest bards her world has ever seen. Even if only she knows it. Unfortunately, the daughter of a tavern wench at the Hungry Bear, no matter how talented, doesn't get much i...
When the Gunsmith heard the shots, he knew he had to stop the pistol-packing killers before they turned the peaceful Wyoming sheep meadow into a bloody burial ground. But this is cattle country -- and the local ranchers are a mean bunch who don't tak...
Walt Shipley's plans to bring sheep to Signal Bench are circumvented by Frank Ivey, leaving Shipley's wife to round up some hired guns and begin a bloody range war....
Scheming bureaucrats on one side, Indian vengeance on the other -- and Jessie and Ki are smack in the middle in the one hundred and twelfth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, figh...
Three determined men--Sam Diggs, a quiet detective in search of the heir to a Philadelphia fortune; Isham Rye, escaping the memory of a dead lady friend; and Julius McCrea, a man with a secret--face off against cruel Roark Shado...
In 1835 the oppression of Presidente Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna had driven the colonist in Texas to rebellion. Major Gneral Sam Houston, realizeing that his small force could only hoep to face the vast Mexican army when conditions were favourable ha...
CAPTAIN MARISA "Neither you nor the Queen will stop me! " Marisa defied her stern father while the crew of her merchant sailing ship, Sea Siren, awaited orders for her next voyage. Newly returned from a profitable venture to the Azores, Marisa was d...
THE MOST MAGICAL THINGS CAN HAPPEN AT CHRISTMAS. In the Appalachian Mountains, there is an old and honored Christmas custom. An empty chair is left at the dinner table for a stranger who may arrive in need of a meal or a friend. At the home of a ...
"I swear to you that no matter where you may be, no matter how long it will take..." "By all that is sacred I will find you." A lover's pledge made in the 13th century echoes down the ages-a bold Knight Templar's vow of everlasting devotion to the l...
THE STUNNING STRANGER Jocelyn Burnwell lived in the everyday world of housekeeping and looking after her rather mischievous cousins. But one day she helped save a dashing, mysterious gentleman's life. And her world changed forever. Who was this...
His Vengeance Was Sweet Judith Easton knew that even the spirit of Christmas wouldn't stop the Marquess of Denhigh from settling the score with her. For the beautiful young widow had injured Denhigh's rigid pride years ago by jilting him ...
Emily Gorton knew from the nightly booming of cannons that war was fast approaching Block Island, but she never knew how fast until the night Captain Rob Sears abducted her. After losing his ship's doctor, Rob needed Emily's healing skills for his wo...
SHE LOST HER HEART Having already lost her father to the war, staunch Boston Federalist Samantha Wilder vowed to rescue her brother from the hated British. So when she arrived in Washington, the chestnut-haired minx eagerly accepted an invitation to...
DECK THE HALLS, AND MAN THE BARRICADES --- A LONG CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY COULD START FIREWORKS BETWEEN THE GUESTS! A bout of measles forced Jemima to replace her bedridden sister, Clarissa as the houseguest of her wealthy aunt for the Christmas season ...
LOVE'S SLAVE There is a wildness to her, a sense of the untamed. The ivory of her cheeks blush with the sun and her rich chestnut hair swirls recklessly around her shoulders. Her dark emerald eyes meet his with defiance. Hassan has never seen ...
She burned with love under a fiery Texas sky! THEY WOULDN'T ACCEPT HER Dr. Rachel Noyes was proud of her newly-earned medical degree and eager to begin her job as physician to a rough-and-ready frontier town, but the people of Stone Creek, Kansas...
CAPTIVE OF LOVE Spirited Lady Rowena Bellene must produce an heir--or incur the dangerous wrath of a ruthless stepbrother, who stands to forfeit his ill-gotten wealth. And the magnificent Lord Warrick Fulkhurst de Chaville is the perfect choice to s...
Meredith Miller was overwhelmed when she was suddenly appointed headmistress of Haverly Young Ladies Academy, but the talented young teacher believed she could handle the awesome administrative responsibilities and even the resentment of the other te...
A DARING BEAUTY Undaunted by the formidable dangers of the lush Brazilian jungles, spirited Victoria King was determined to help the oppressed peasants, and she wasn't going to let the dangerous darkly handsome Brazilian landowner Sebastian Black fr...
A CHILL OF SUSPICION HAUNTED HER LOVE... Young and destitute, Lydia Hall agrees to become the companion to wealthy Jonathan Eldridge's invalid wife, moving into the Eldriges' rambling Connecticut home, where she encounters dark family secr...
Amidst America's most tragic war they fought for hope and love. The autumn dawn broke over the Mississippi, hazy with smoke from Yankee set fires. In the Civil War's final days, the four women of the Tyler family prayed that the South would rise aga...
DOMINEERING DEVIL Penniless and abandoned by her family, Miss Amanda Waverley had no one to turn to but the mysterious highwayman who'd kidnapped her. Though Nick Malvern's elegant bearing seemed more suited to a gentleman than an outlaw, ...
TENDERFOOT Young and naive, Maggie had come to Deadwood in search of an old miner's hidden cache and a real-life Western hero... DAKOTA Cursing her innocence, he fought his burning desire as he guided Maggie to the heart of the wild west......
He called himself Peregrine, and like the falcon he was wild and free. He was superbly handsome, fabulously wealthy, overwhelmingly seductive. He cut a dazzling swath through Victorian society--and wove a web of desire around beautiful and proud Lady...
Honora, a duke's daughter, knows better than to expect her marriage to be a love match, but her uncles' choice of a vain, greedy widower won't do either. She has her welfare and the future of her sisters to think of. "I'd rather marry the devil himse...
Sometimes true love can be a shocking affair! A DISHONORED GENTLEMAN Once a brilliant government figure, Viscount Gideon Came had fled England amid scandal and betrayal. Determined to rebuild his life, he returned at last to find his once-success...
THIS WAS NOT AT ALL THE WAY JENNIE HAD PALNNED TO BEGIN HER SEARCH FOR EXCITEMENT AND A HUSBAND.... With her new inheritance and her quick wit, the former headmistress--endeavoring to sweeten her astringent reputation--was en route to the London M...
A favorite old movie...a leading man as dashing as Clark Gable in Gone With The Wind...and a dream that someday you'll meet someone as romantic and perfect to love... Jill Casler, an elegant guest at Beverly Hills' best hotel, stared in shock at t...
LOST IN HIS ARMS After her father's sudden death, lovely Amanda Lennox bad no money for the long trip from Boston to the ranch shed inherited in faraway Seattle. When she saw the advertisement for a "wilderness expert" to escort eleven-year-old Ro...
Magnolia Road There was perhaps no place in history more filled with romance and beauty than the old South in the days before the Civil War. Now, journey down Magnolia Road and visit the most majestic plantations of that gracious era ... Wyndham ...
Radiant, high spirited Barbara Thackery was horrified to learn that her beloved papa had been captured by the despised Rebels and imprisoned in Virginia. Deteremined to rescue him, the innocent Ohio beauty set out for Richmond only to be hauled into ...
VEILS OF OBLIVION Having barely survived a hair-raising archaeological dig in Tikal, Guatemala, Indiana Jones has returned to New York just in time to get caught up in a controversy. The mysterious writings of Colonel Percy Fawcett, a missing Brit...
HEADHUNTER A DEA special agent has sufficient evidence to wipe out the notorious Lima drug cartel. But when his plane crashes on Grand Cayman Island in the Caribbean, the head of the cartel dispatches a squad of gunners to silence the agent -- and...
“DEAR PROSPECTIVE KILLER: THERE IS SOMEONE YOU WISH WERE DEAD…” A computer generated chain letter begins to circulate among carefully chosen people in Dale Falls, New York. The recipients are all emotionally disturbed...and this is no ordin...
Jack's life had always been under control until the man from across the street paid him a call, and now Jack is evolving into something he cannot recognize or understand, as an evil force commits unspeakable acts before his eyes...
Returning home after eight months overseas, Air Force lieutenant Rick Walsh learns that his girlfriend, Maia, has been kidnapped. Walsh's determination to find her leads him into a conspiracy that spans two universes, because Maia is from an alternat...
Colene does not know what to think of the stranger she has rescued. Darius tells her he has traveled from his reality to find her. In proving to Colene that other worlds do exist, he uses up the power of the artifact that would allow them to travel b...
WHAT'S A NICE GUY FROM BALTIMORE TO DO? Sandy MacGregor doesn't want to be a hero. He has been unwillingly transported through time and space to the planet Zarathandra. He is being used for selfish purposes by a power hungry Goddess. He's stuck on...
Nearly grown and eager to leave home, Lealor, Jarl and Mirza's teenwitch daughter, is surprised when her adolescent antics cause her to become stranded on Widdershins, a missing world ruled by corrupt priests...
'The intricately plotted progress of characters from near to farfuture...on an Earth which, like an abandon playground, has long ago been left behind by an evolving humanity...human-scale action within a vast canvas' The Excyclopedia of Science Ficti...
The awesome world of epic war--where young Cabe Bedlam's magic battles sorcerers, mad lords, witches, demons, dark gods ... and the fiery, shape-shifting Dragon Kings. Now: the amazing saga of how the Dragonrealm came to be. A race of sorcerers fi...
COLD COMFORT By the mid-twenty-first century, Earth had thought that its environmental problems were behind it -- until global temperatures began to plummet, seemingly without cause. And when science could find no solution to the planet's precipit...
On the fabled world of Krynn, Lord Soth finally learns that there is a price to pay for his long history of evil deeds, a price even an undead warrior might find horrifying. Dark powers transport Soth to Barovia, and there the death knight must fa...
Like any great artist, Helen Wells craved immortality. Now, through the unholy kiss of Stephen Austra, her vampire lover, she can taste eternity. But her passion demands a cruel price--her utter surrender to the darkest animal urges...the aching need...
There's nothing safe about Haven, nor is there justice, truth, or honesty. The only thing stemming the forces of darkness from overtaking the city is the Guard, but even they are susceptible to bribes, threats, and general maliciousness. However, two...
After learning that her kidnapped son has at last been traced to Arko, currently under siege by the multinational forces of brilliant young general Chevenga Lion's Heart, Megan Thane becomes a mercenary in Chevenga's motley army. It's only a matter o...
They are a great family of witches and warlocks, alchemists and spellcasters. From generation to generation, from the Old World to the Salem trials and beyond, they hand down their secrets, their potions, even their family familiar . . . a will-o'-th...
Jennifer Logan was young, gorgeous, and utterly devoted to teaching Middle English. But to qualify for any decent teaching position, she'd have to make her resume stand out. Since her specialty was science fiction, she wrangled a berth on a trading s...
THEY'RE TWO DESPERATE MEN TRAVELING CROSS-COUNTRY AT OVER 200 MILES PER HOUR. THEY'RE ABOUT TO COLLIDE... To elude the government agents pursuing him, Chuck Simon has purchased a first-class ticket on the Bullet Train, which will whisk him from Sa...
Forced to flee her home on the windswept Texas plains, Amy Masters sought sanctuary in the golden hills of Oregon. There she began a new life, but could never forget her pledge to Swift Antelope, the magnificent Comanche warrior who had captured her ...
SHE WAS A MAIL-ORDER BRIDE The mail-order bride business was nothing but a scam! And newspaper reporter Casey Guthrie was ready to prove first-hand that the ads from "promising" bachelors were nothing but lies! But when Casey arrived in Texas to mee...
RANCHER TO THE RESCUE Rachel Hadley thought five years as a New York chauffeur had finally taught her to steer clear of trouble. But there she was again, stranded on a dead-end street -- no job, no home and nowhere to turn for help...until her ver...
A MAN IN HER LIFE Widow Julia Warren and her son were everything to each other. But now Chris was old enough to want a daddy, and to Julia's dismay, he had set his heart on Harris Hargrove. Harris was everything Julia had ever dreamed of --...
Star-crossed! Kate Osborne was angry. Her oldest daughter's mysterious neighbor appeared to have his telescope trained on her bedroom window! Actually, Police Commissioner Donovan Cade, an avid astronomer, had his eyes on more celestial bodies. Ev...
WILD HEART Virile, fiery Matthew Diamond didn't believe in love! And he certainly didn't like cool, collected women like Brittany Fleming. What Matthew loved was a challenge, and the chance to thaw this ice princess was one he couldn't pass up--so...
Case Longstreet is an Apache Tribesman who changes his name and learns the ways of the white men in order to change his future. Following a secret plan to destroy his enemies, Case is unprepared to fall in passionate love with a headstrong daughter o...
They Came From Two Worlds but Shared One Love From the moment Janelle Torrance arrive at the lush, sprawling Delacroix plantation in Louisiana, she is overcome by eerie memories of a distant past that both haunt and tantalize her. Then a freak sum...
Taking it to the limit From the moment Jess Hawkins entered reporter Signet' Jensen's life, Signet' knew she was in trouble. The daring rodeo star challenged her to investigate her own boss, putting her career -- and herself -- on the ...
THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS Leigh Cathcart became a believer when her college sweetheart's marriage proposal arrived with her Christmas mail delivered by a Santa Claus look-alike -- about two decades after it had been sent. Celebrating Christmas...
A Christmas honeymoon--without a husband Mollie was supposed to be celebrating the yuletide season in sultry New Orleans--on her honeymoon. The aspiring actress was in New Orleans, all right, but the Big Easy wasn't so hot. In fact, it was...
SHE could not have conceived of a worse start Miss Deborah Stormont would not call herself "managing." She simply had a knack for knowing the correct thing to do at the correct time. So it was that when Lord Auberon Crichton, who had o...
THERE ARE FIRES OF PASSION, AND FIRES FED BY GREED... MOST TERRIBLE OF ALL ARE THE FIRES SET ABLAZE BY CRUELTY AND INJUSTICE.... In a white-walled palace shimmering beneath the hot sun of southern Spain, a darkened room held unspeakable anguish. T...
Beloved Enemy... Lord Nicholas Spencer feared no man. Empowered by King Henry's royal might, he set out to uphold the king's justice. Wiping out a nest of pernicious smugglers would be no trouble for his stalwart troop. As for himself, he longed t...
CHRISTMAS MIRACLES Hannah Bradshaw waited on her doorstep as an old, bearded man fought blinding snow to deliver a long-lost letter--and her first Christmas miracle. Suddenly, she felt flooded by memories of the past and compelled to answer the...
HER COLD, COLD HEART Hotdog pilot Red Worthington had vowed he'd never see Meg Forrest again. For six long months he'd avoided his beautiful, stubborn, soon-to-be ex-wife. But now that she was leaving Alaska, he realized he couldn't st...
The Fortune Teller -- Dellie Valmont saw the future in her cards. A handsome stranger, foretold by the tarot deck, would soon enter her life and -- in his powerful arms -- carry her into new heights of desire. The Gambler -- Jared Durant also found ...
Her Sworn Enemy -- or Her Fated Love? When Judge Rasch Webber's ruling shattered her father's dream, Savannah Ramey vowed a gypsy's revenge! She wanted to make Rasch suffer as she'd been hurt -- by first enchanting him beyond reason, awakening long...
HEAVEN SENT Alexandra Logan was at her wits' end! She was nearly broke, her farm was failing, and the local townspeople were angry at her boarders. So she looked to the skies for help...and it miraculously arrived in the very pleasing form of Mich...
THE GATHERING STORM Kiri MacKay traveled ten thousand miles to claim Long White Cloud -- her only legacy from the father she had never known. The shimmering island off the New Zealand coast awakened something deep within her, something she had tho...
Jim had never planned to become their daddy But ten-year-old Ellie just knew that she and Billie and Arthur could depend on him. Jim Fleming would never let anyone send her and Billie to separate foster homes or put their baby brother up for adopt...
WAS IT AN OMEN? Trey Latimer lived just a stone's throw away from the reservation on the Missouri River -- just a stone's throw away from Frances "Frankie" Tracker, his old buddy's kid sister. Trey had returned to the Dakotas to rebuild his life a...
Not Pretty-Boy Handsome, but All Male... Dr. Thane Clayborne was a sexy stick-in-the-mud, Autumn O'Neil decided! Or why would he keep complaining about all the lively activities she planned for the residents of the nursing home he directed? It was...
FROM MARRIAGE ... TO PASSION ...TO LOVE ... Rebecca Mercer needed a husband -- and quickly -- or she'd lose the deed to her beloved Virginia plantation. Travis Brandt would do anything to track down his fiercest enemy -- even marry the hea...
The Brash "Hands-On" Publisher Who Wanted His Hands on Her... He was too gorgeous to be just an intruder, Casey McIntyre hoped, but when Alex McLean pinned her to the wall of the newspaper office and demanded to know why she was there alone at nigh...
They both knew it was too good to be true Two more unlikely fortune-hunters than Miss Jessica Franklin and Mr. Matthew Walsingham would be hard to find. But they had no problem locating each other in Bath. Jessica could not credit her luck to ...
It happened in a split second. Trace McFadden was driving down the street when he caught a flurry of movement in the corner of his eye. Instantly, he slammed on the brakes and leaped out of his car only to find the jogger sprawled on the pavement. Fo...
CHRISTMAS MEMORIES When a white-haired, red-cheeked mailman delivered a long-lost letter, Bret Underwood got the perfect excuse to escape another sunny California Christmas and go back home. Back to Clayville, Indiana, and an old-fashioned Currier...
Kelsey Campbell's business was granting wishes. This hospital children's ward rejoiced in her successes: a little girl who'd gone to Disneyland; a boy who'd met his baseball hero... Even so, when it came to the man she loved, this persistent mira...
A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND Ashli Wilkerson was happier digging for ancient artifacts than presiding over the social whirl of the palatial mansion she'd avoided since childhood. But on her first night home, she fell into the arms of the dynamic...
LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN Deep blue fjords...soft night winds...glittering stars. For Jenny Denton, a cruise to Norway held endless possibilities. Amid this ocean of dreams was the opportunity to pick up the pieces of her shattered heart after a br...
An Outlaw's Heart and a Bad-Boy Grin... Michael Hayward was the most blatantly sexy man January Stewart had ever seen! His sure, cocky smile made her insides throb with fiery need, but she knew the renowned journalist was more trouble than she...
The Doctor of Love... Dr. Drew Daniels had teased and tormented his new housemate until Caitlin MacKenzie just had to retaliate with a cream pie in his face! Enchanted to discover that serious Dr. MacKenzie had a sense of humor to match her lovely...
It was just before Christmas when San Francisco police Captain Gregor Remington discovered a woman who'd been dazed from a blow to the head that had stolen her memory. "Noel" had the face of an angel, and in her distress she needed him --- and he nee...
One moment of daring, scandalous behavior finds beautiful and willful Genny Stone banished from her family's Philadelphia home to a year on the lonely Nebraska plains far removed from improper temptation. Until an infuriatingly arrogant Lakota Sioux ...
HER FATHER'S DAUGHTER Natalie Ryan's father h groomed her for a prime place in his giant cosmetics empire. But now he was gone--and Natalie, beautiful and brilliant though she was, found herself very alone and more than a little afraid. Only she c...
The sixth Earl of Fenchmore had a rather jaundiced view of marriage-minded misses. They were all simpering, manipulative featherbrains and he'd have nothing to do with them or their ambitious mamas. So jaded was the arrogant lord that the forthri...
When Kathleen Langford Ramsey was informed that her husband was in the hospital in critical condition, she rushed over -- even though she'd left him six months earlier. He'd married her only to save their failing ranches, but she'd made t...
ONE CARESS...AND SHE WAS IN HIS ARMS Daniella Blackwood couldn't wait to leave stuffy Boston and return to her family's Arizona ranch. But before the stagecoach reached its destination, a band of Chiricahua Apache captured Daniella and tied ...
Home, At Last! When Lacey pulled up in front of the familiar old house she'd grown up in, she was ready to collapse. She'd brave an ice storm and driven for two days straight just to get back home to Deep Fork, Oklahoma. Unfortunately her pa...
THE WONDER OF CHRISTMAS Something marvelous and magical happened to Kristina Castleberry when she ignored the Christmas spirit one day in Chicago. The Spirit of Christmas came to Kristina.. . . It all began when a kindly, bearded gentleman with...
The Heartless Heartbreaker Lady Drewe Carlisle's beauty was as legendary as her conduct was scandalous. She was famous for making the most highborn lords her humble suitors, and infamous for dashing their hopes. It seemed a simple mater for the...
She was NOT married to Joseph Rockwell! Caitlin hadn't even seen him in almost twenty years. He was now a successful Seattle contractor, who happened to be renovating the office where Cait worked as a stockbroker. But one thing hadn't chan...
LADIES' MAN Christy Allen was every inch a lady; she would never get involved with a macho lumberjack like Vince Bonnell. Never mind that he was the sexiest man for miles around, his swaggering ways did nothing to light her fire! Besides, he owned...
DAD WITH A DILEMMA Problem child? Sullen teen? Just call Malinda Compton, also known as "Miss Prim." Her most recent case: confused single father Jack Brannan and his four squirming sons. No doubly about it, these kids were hellions, and they'd g...
As a man, Paul Monroe was sweet, charming ... and very sexy. As a client, he was a nightmare. He lived for the moment. Which was just fine--unless your business was to keep his business running. Bette Wharton's business was deadlines and commitmen...
Natural Father When Colonel Cotter Saxton found Elizabeth Waring hiding in the chaotic Confederate city of Richmond, he vowed to learn why she had betrayed his love and married another. Then he met Nicole. Elizabeth's young daughter, and discovere...
PROJECT LOVE Sydney Blackmun's penchant for projects was well-known to her family and friends. She was always taking on half a dozen new and outlandish schemes. But this summer, she vowed to relax and concentrate on one project--refurbishing a Vic...
Blythe Coopersmith had enough problems without some knuckle-crunching goon hanging around while she perfected EASY, the miracle weight-loss formula. But ever since she'd been forced to abscond with the unpatented "goods," she'd received several drast...
At the sprawling Whitehall cattle ranch, one indomitable woman dares to follow her desire no matter where it may take her. When Lacy Jarrett and Cole Whitehall are unwittingly compromised into marriage, her dreams of a passionate forever are met w...
THE SAGITTARIUS MAN The determined, restless Sagittarius man won't take no for an answer. Once struck by Cupid's arrow, his woman has no chance of escaping ... nor a desire to do so.... ONE SAGITTARIUS MAN IN PARTICULAR Dynamic R. G. Travers cou...
The Pilot Who Flew with the Devil on His Wings... Nicholas Santini thought he'd died in the car crash and gone to heaven-why else was a beautiful angel bending over his bed and whispering his name in a voice that could reach to hell and call him ...
Another dreaded Christmas! Adam Worth vowed to beat the annual Christmas Curse. But disasters were snowballing him again. The mall he planned to open was behind schedule, and worse, his Santa was jailed for drunk driving. Adam had to find another ...
A GUNMAN"S GAME Private investigator Kelley Samuels thought her only official business at her friend's wedding was as maid of honor--until all hell broke loose. Sudden blasts of gunfire drowned out the "Wedding March," and Kelley was losing her wr...
In a rough-and-tumble shantytown of shattered dreams and empty pleasures, one man would move mountains to win a woman's heart. . . . Sold into sin as a child, beautiful, tormented Angel never believed in love. Then Michael Hosea walked into her l...
When Jason McCready and Cary Adams were thrown together on a Yuletide skiing trip meant to please their children, they struck sparks off each other immediately. Then they realized that the fire burning between them was more than mere chemistry. It wa...
IN THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER... After a disastrous first season, Elizabeth Prym left London for her aunt's country estate. The plan was to transform her into a lady of gentility, to turn unremarkable Elizabeth into the belle of her second season. B...
MR. DECEMBER Who? Bob Brown. He's tall, handsome, and through with women forever. Why? He'd rather not talk about it. What... does he find? Stunning Josephine Malone, ace mechanic--and the most sinfully alluring female ever to lead a defense...
MAN OF THE ISLAND The turquoise waters and rugged hills of Santa Catalina Island were a paradise for most visitors. But not for Chad Carver. Painful memories came rushing back as he steered his boat into Avalon's harbor. He'd left this island ten ...
EVEN THE INNOCENT HAVE SECRETS TO HIDE.... Strangers don't stay strangers for long in Innocence, Mississippi, as witty, urbane, and beautiful Caroline Waverly is quick to discover. Fame has taken its toll on the celebrated concert violinist, what ...
Nothing in Sydney Hayward's background of wealth and privilege had prepared her to take the helm of her family's corporation. Her overflowing new responsibilities left no room for complications -- and Mikhail Stanislaski was definitely a complication...
The time had come Duncan Van Epp was old--and death was calling him. It was time to reveal the tragedy of what had happened in the town of Contention sixty years ago. It was time to tell the truth... . When Carrie Chase opened the door to Dunca...
A DANGEROUS WEB OF DESIRE The gorgeous ballgown that made Berry Angelique Cortabona look like a Spanish Princess was only a theater costume, just as her soft, aristocratic voice was only a technique learned in acting class, not in a drawing room. ...
She had to resist him -- Meadowlark Russell had a crazy idea. What better way to flush out her father's killer than to pretend the murder attempt had failed? So the gorgeous Apache half-breed decided to continue her father's work as the San Carlos In...
They were identical twins but they never knew each other Now one had disappeared, and the other, Gail Montgomery, was persuaded by government agents to pose as her missing sister, Monica, in the interest of national security. Once Gail took her...
DON'T IGNORE THE WARNINGS, JENNY.. . To be hired as governess to wealthy Alexander Hunter was a dream opportunity for Jenny DeVries. But her arrival at his forbidding estate signalled the start of a perilous nightmare. For the sinister servant...
Death walked the night Hazards cloaked every path through the blasted landscape of New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range. But Belara Fuller and Travis Hill were driven by need and by duty to violate the law and face the consequences. Belara's ...
Dangerous Deceptions Beautiful Lady Antonia Worthington did not shrink from playing a cat-and-mouse game with the law to save her village from ruin. But when the law came to be embodied in the devastatingly handsome, shockingly libertine Sir Owen ...
Weekend from hell! Nowhere in stockbroker Adrienne Burnham's appointment hook was there room for rugged, devil-may-care Matt Kirkland! He lived for adventure and spontaneity. She color coded her panty hose. She never should have accepted His of...
They were from different worlds Big Sur police chief Joe Devlin was not pleased to be called to the scene of a jewel theft at the elegant West Wind Inn. He had little sympathy for the troubles of the rich and famous. Nor was the West Wind's own...
Grace Cameron knew she was different from the other immigrants who were content to labor ten hours a day in the backbreaking silk mills of a small town. She loved her family - and she loved Ian. But nothing could tame the fierce ambition that led h...
FA LA LA LA LOVE When Matt Foxx borrowed an isolated Wyoming cabin, he expected to spend the holidays alone with his deadlines. But he was greeted at the door by a cheery rendition of "White Christmas". . . coming from the shower. Matt was overjoy...
Lawyer John Davis had little time for the holidays, until an emergency call from Uncle Roscoe sent him rushing home. But instead of finding Roscoe on his deathbed, his aged uncle was out decking the halls with pretty schoolteacher Ruth Mobley! Sudden...
THE ONLY WITNESS Lyndsey was scared to death! She'd moved to Seattle to escape a man who wanted her dead, and now she'd just been told she was the only survivor of an attack by a serial killer. But her mind was blank when it came to remembering th...
The Truth Would Set Her Free She never would have done it if she hadn't been desperate. Shelly York needed money to go East, and spying on a man suspected of stealing silver wasn't the worst thing she could do, she kept telling herself. Then Dillo...
An Imposing Figure of a Man Dr. Brendan Rafferty's size belied the gentleness with which he treated the sick of the tiny Mexican village where he lived and worked. He was a simple man, with few pretensions, until the arrival of the lovely Thomasin...
After one strictly business visit to the uncivilized wilds of Wyoming, globetrotting financial wizard Joshua Ames swore he'd never go west again. Yet, here he was, back on a sprawling ranch deep in snowy cattle country, confronted with the one woman ...
Raised in a home filled with violence, Arianne Pemberton experiences love and gentleness only after her arranged marriage to Richard, Duke of Gavenshire. But before she can feel confident both in Richard's love and in God's personal care for her, a m...
Edgar Award Winner: An NYPD detective navigates a lethal labyrinth in this entry in Adcock’s series of “gritty procedurals” (The New York Times Book Review). The old, shabbily dressed man who walks up to Neil Hockaday in the park one mor...
Preston Hauser, owner of a famous department store, asks his head of security, Quint McCauley, to investigate some threatening letters he has received. No sooner does Quint take on the job, than Preston is poisoned by one of his own vitamin pills. Wi...
A tarot card discovered at a murder scene provides a clue for Dr. Gideon FellIn a house in the English countryside, a man has just turned up dead, surrounded by a crime scene that seems, at first glance, to be fairly straightforward. He’s found wit...
KNIT ONE, KILL TWO Life's hectic enough for a housewife who must survive the politics of a church bazaar and finish the afghan from Hell -- without having to entertain house guests as well. So Jane Jeffry isn't exactly thrilled when her ol...
Following the death of her nasty husband, Elsie Bullan discovers that she has a penchant for killing and sets out to hone her skills, starting with her neighbors and then moving on to their nosy daughter...
STONE COLD DEAD A few pieces of bone rest in the tomato soup carton--all that is left of three young people who perished in an avalanche thirty years ago near Alaska's Glacier Bay. Gideon Oliver expects to be bored when he accompanies his wife, Ju...
WELCOME TO NEW HOLLAND, NEW YORK Recalling that he'd happened upon a corpse in a cornfield the last time he accepted a consulting job in an upstate village, New York architectural historian Winston Wyc wasn't too eager to head north again into the...
Inspector Ghote witnesses the murder of a woman with many enemies in high places, and soon he is torn between performing his duties as a police officer and protecting a friend....
A research psychiatrist specializing in near-death experiences, Jack Bishop has just experienced his own very final death at the hands of an unknown murderer. His wife, Kate, was Quin St. James's best friend in college. Now, she's the prime suspect i...
English art scholar Jonathan Argyll was amazed to find himself arrested for vagrancy--while searching for a long-lost Raphael in a tiny Roman church. Although General Bottando of the Italian National Art Theft Squad has little confidence in Jonathan'...
At the Cutting Edge Agua Dulce -- sweet water.... Only a few months ago the words would have meant little to Claire Sharples, shut away in the ivory tower of her microbiology lab at M.I.T. Now, transplanted in California's San Joaquin Valley, upro...
IT WAS THE PUBLISHING EVENT OF THE SEASON...UNTIL SOMEONE ADDED MURDER TO THE MENU. When Quentin Hale, the ruthless new takeover boss of one of Australia's oldest publishing houses, launched a glittering round of parties, interviews, and book sign...
EVERY BODY WANTS SOMETHING FROM SOMEBODY Wentworth Randall wants to embezzle his company's top-secret formula for Choice, a wonder drug that flushes fat from arteries, and sell it to a rival firm. Jean Newman, whose husband has access to the Choic...
Hancock, Connecticut, was bustling for Christmas: parties, cookie baking, concerts...and a missing body. Chic suburbanite Kelly Knowlson firmly believed her ex-husband Evan (who had recently moved his new bride into a dream home behind hers) would...
A woman of perfect beauty is too big for perfect grace as a ballerina; she will never be more than an understudy. Stardance is the story of one such, one with the body of Venus di Milo and a talent greater than Pavlova's. But if there is an answer, g...
In the glorious tradition of Watership Down comes a powerful tale of fantasy, courage, and epic adventure -- the heart-soaring story of a wondrous quest to recover a legendary lost weapon ... and of a bumbling young apprentice monk named Matthias, mo...
In the magnificent tradition of Watership Down, an extraordinary tale of courageous adventure--from the author of Redwall and Mossflower. In the Summer of the Golden Plain, the cunning fox, Slagar the Cruel, and his evil henchmen sneak into Redwal...
In the wondrous tradition of Watership Down, from the celebrated author of Redwall, comes an epic adventure of courage and fortitude ... and one magnificent mouse's quest to free an enslaved forest kingdom from the claws of tyranny. Generations be...
SHE TOOK THE GARDENER'S HOUSE, SOMEONE ELSE TOOK HIS LIFE. Leonora could not be a party to this. No, it was one thing for her oddball neighbors in their quaint English village to ignore her requests for privacy, to interrupt her painting sessions,...
LAST RESORT Permanent temp Bonnie Indermill needs no coaxing to trade cold, dreary Manhattan for tropical temptations -- courtesy of a ten-day stint as an aerobics instructor at a Bahamian resort. Though Flamingo Cove is floundering badly, Bonn...
Now that Falklands hero Major Patrick Gillard has been forced to resign from D-12, the supersecret section of British Intelligence, and his novelist wife has finished her manuscript, they're planning a third honeymoon … when Patrick's brother Larry...
Murder Served Piping Hot Minister's wife, sometime sleuth, and culinary artist Faith Sibley Fairchild is intrigued by rumors of mysterious doings at Hubbard House -- an elegant, secluded retirement home for the well-heeled Yankees of Aleford, Mass...
BEDROCK FEAR Grady Haas is a woman possessed, driven by panic, numbed by shock. What happened to her? And is this a case for the "Nameless Detective" or a psychiatrist? Reluctantly, "Nameless" answers her father's desperate summons and agrees to ...
Star Trek's William Shatner won widespread acclaim as a major science fiction writer with his electrifying novels, TekWarand TekLords. Now he's back--with his most harrowing adventure. Investigator Jake Cardigan enters the blasted ruins of twenty-fir...