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New Books List: 371 titles

  • Matchstick Men

    Eric Garcia

    Roy and Frankie are matchstick men -- con artists. Partners in elegant crimes for years, they know each other like brothers and have perfected the rules of the game. Roy is the careful one, saves every penny. Frankie is the adventurous one, hungry fo...

  • Poseidon's Kiss

    Gail Crease

    Long, long ago, the sea tried to claim the life of a young mother-to-be. But a mysterious man rescued the woman--and a promise was made to the great god of the sea... Chelsea Porter doesn't believe the old family legend about her great-great-gran...

  • Slocum and the Boomtown Bordello

    Jake Logan

    Second Impressions When Slocum first met his head honcho's daughter, Mariah, she was no bigger than a half-pint. More rambunctious than an untamed Appy, the little girl became fast friends with Slocum. But when the daring Mariah went missing,...

  • In All the Wrong Places

    Donna Anders

    Home-shopping fans everywhere adore Carolyn Langdon: she's the beautiful, outgoing hostess of the Atlanta-based National Neighborhood Network. Gifted with a perfect look and a vivacious on-air personality, her phenomenal success is owed to one simple...

  • The World Below

    Kevin Andrew Murphy

    Drawn from the highly popular comic book series, an enthralling novel follows marine biologist Aspen Matthews, who has no memory of her life before the age of eleven, as she unexpectedly discovers that the truth surrounding her existence lurks in the...

  • On Edge

    Barbara Fister

    Konstantin Slovo knows his way through the dark. He knows what it's like to live on the edge--of tragedy, of sanity, of humanity. A Chicago cop, Slovo's own life had come violently apart with the shooting death of his partner. Here on the picture-per...

  • The Queen's Gambit

    Deborah Chester

    The throne was her destiny--until Princess Pheresa lost her groom, Mandria's heir, to the dark magic that consumed him. Now Pheresa's fate is uncertain, even when the great King Verence names her Princess Royal--because the title comes with one condi...

  • The Indian Lover

    Garth Murphy

    With a sweeping sense of history and landscape that contributed to making Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove a classic, and the precise sense of character and passion that made Cold Mountain so successful, Garth Murphy has written a brilliant saga about ...

  • Under Abduction

    Andrew Neiderman

    THEY DON'T WANT HER MONEY. THEY WANT SOMETHING FAR MORE PRECIOUS.... In broad daylight, Anna Gold is abducted at gunpoint in a supermarket parking lot. Her kidnappers -- a deranged man and woman -- drive off with her and hold her captive, shackled i...

  • Matchstick Men

    Eric Garcia

    Roy and Frankie are matchstick men -- con artists. Partners in elegant crimes for years, they know each other like brothers and have perfected the rules of the game. Roy is the careful one, saves every penny. Frankie is the adventurous one, hungry fo...

  • The Lady Godiva Murder

    Laurie Moore

    In this crisply written and witty novel, the day arrives when homicide detective Cézanne Martin achieves her goal and passes the state bar exam. When her partner is charged with murder, Cézanne won't resign from the police department until she know...

  • Almost Strangers

    Delsa Winer

    How two women seek and embrace freedom is at the heart of Delsa Winer's stunning first novel "At fort, Ursula Korfield Gant believes she is independent of the usual pleasure people seek and connections they covet. She lives alone, although th...

  • Found Dead in Texas

    Jan Grape

  • The Scent of Spiced Orange

    Les Roberts

  • Tales from the Dark Woods

    Brendan DuBois

  • Everybody's Somebody's Fool

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    LADY KILLER When a beautiful corpse is found in a gazebo during a class reunion party, lawyer Sam McCain hopes to avoid involving himself in the ensuing complexities. However, the victim is the troubled daughter of a prominent family, and when loc...

  • The Bennie Arnoldo Files

    John Alfred Russo

  • Have You Seen Me?

    Laura Denham

    Laura Denham’s first novel about a young woman’s willful descent from part-time stripper, to self-employed prostitute, to low-rent S and M film star adroitly sidesteps the expectations inherent in sex-industry tell-alls, opting instead for an aes...

  • Ithanalin's Restoration

    Lawrence Watt-Evans

    Despite several years of study, Kilisha, an aspiring young apprentice wizard, has much to learn. After gathering ingredients for a lesson, she returns home to find her master, Ithanalin the Wise, transformed into a statue. A tax collector interrupted...

  • The Longest Night, Volume 1

    Joss Whedon

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends.... FROM DUSK UNTIL DAWN December -- sure, 'tis the season and all that, but evil generally isn't up for a holiday. And December 21 -- well, that's usually the winter solstice. A.K.A. the ...

  • The Cordelia Collection, Volume 1

    Nancy Krulik

    "Being popular is not just my right, but my responsibility, and I want you to know that I take it very seriously." -- Cordelia Chase Fashionista and leader of the pack, Cordelia Chase is known throughout Sunnydale High for her irrepressible ble...

  • Tales of The Slayer Volume 2

    Kara Dalkey; Michael Reeves

    "Sacred duty, yadda yadda." -- Buffy Summers Buffy the Vampire Slayer has always held an irreverent attitude toward her calling, but ultimately she understands the ramifications of her destiny and is prepared to die to protect the world from Evil...

  • The Gun

    Lyle Brandt

    Matt Price is weary. His reputation proceeds him wherever he rides, drawing would-be gunfighters to challenge him like moths to a flame. No matter how many men he leaves lying in the dust, he knows it's only a matter of time before a bullet strikes h...

  • The Making of a Bad Man

    J.R. Roberts

    MAD DOG The Yellow Dog Saloon in Clark, West Virginia, is as welcoming a place as any for a gunfighter. It's the kind of bar where a man can catch up with his old friends and keep track of his worst enemies--all in one night. But when C...

  • The Marshal of Kingdom

    J.R. Roberts

    As the marshal of a town called Kingdom, Sam Lance had a good life. Until he and his new bride found themselves suddenly caught between two gunmen. A few shots fired and Lance was the only one standing. Now, five years later, Clint Adams finds th...

  • Fighting for His Wife

    Paula Detmer Riggs
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    This is going to be our year! Love, Your Secret Admirer It's just a simple note, but for the three women who receive it, it has very different consequences.... HEART-POUNDING DANGER! A bouquet of flowers from a secret--and deadly admirer send...

  • Deep Rampage

    Don Pendleton

    As America stands firm in its resolve to stamp out terror across the globe, the country's most covert defense team works 24/7 to stop the free world's worst nightmares from becoming reality. At the heart of the Stony Man's fortified nerve center in t...

  • Not So Innocent

    Laura Lee Guhrke

    Sophie Haversham would give anything not to have the gift of foresight. After all, her "talent" has already cost her one fiance. And reporting a crime that hasn't happened yet is no easy task -- especially when the future victim turns out to be the t...

  • Dig Deep for Murder

    Kate Kingsbury

    MEET ELIZABETH HARTLEIGH COMPTON. SHE'S THE HOUSE-RICH, MONEY-POOR KEEPER OF THE MANOR--AND KEEPER OF THE PEACE... In WWII England, the quiet village of Sitting Marsh is faced with food rations and fear for loved ones. But Elizabeth Hartleigh Co...

  • Vendetta Force

    Don Pendleton

    Deadly Force Law-enforcement officers are being assassinated by a brutal, invisible killing machine. Coast-to-coast, this operation seems efficient -- and untouchable. Mack Bolan goes undercover with the Houston PD to penetrate the heart of this e...

  • Mountain Man

    David Thompson

    ALONE ON THE PRAIRIE Rosemary Spencer is a woman alone. All alone, except for her young children. She and her husband and their two boys sold their farm, bought a Conestoga wagon and some oxen, and joined a wagon train heading for a new life in Or...

  • The Ghost of Carnal Cove

    Evelyn Rogers

    "I AM A MAN WITHOUT CONSCIENCE." So claimed the dark stranger who accosted her amid the pounding surf and tearing winds of Carnal Cove. Taunting her with Legends of the place--stories of illicit trysts between the village girls and sailors--Captai...

  • An Honorable Man

    Rosemary Rogers

    Beautiful, headstrong Cameron Campbell knows her privileged life as a Mississippi senator's daughter is about to be shattered. Her fine Southern family has its share of secrets and scandal, and as her father decides to stand with the Union, long-held...

  • The Girl With the Persian Shawl

    Elizabeth Mansfield

    In Suffolk, every unmarried young lady knows that, if she ever wants to find a match, she must walk, speak, eat, even laugh properly. A young woman looking to marry is always sweet and demure, charming and gracious, and, of course, deferential. But n...

  • Destiny's Truth

    James Axler

    TAINTED LEGACY America has been forever alter by the ravages of a nuclear attack that sent it spiraling toward a virulent new destiny -- and by the vestiges of the pre-dark world itself, where humanity's internecine battle between good and evil rages...

  • Just Before Daybreak

    Elizabeth Turner

    Secret Dreams Born on the wrong side of a prosperous Lake Michigan lumber town, Claire Sorenson works as a maid for handsome lumber baron Cole Garrett, and daydreams about his charmed life. With his fine home and beautiful family, he seems to lead a...

  • Diamond in the Rough

    Patricia Waddell

    Olivia St. John Is In For The Adventure Of Her Life News of an inheritance in far-off South Africa is a dream come true for a governess who spends her few idle hours imagining exotic locales and exciting people. While a boardinghouse in a mining ...

  • Nebraska Gunrunners

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo heats up a hellhound hideout!In the town of Helldorado, bullets buzz through the air like flies, and any two-bit bandit is welcomed with open arms -- for a price. So when a shipment of army rifles is stolen, Skye Fargo knows just where to ...

  • Maid of Killarney

    Ana Seymour

    The untold love story of John Black, the doctor-turned-rebel from Ana Seymour's acclaimed Riordan Brothers trilogy... People called them witches. But Lily O'Farrell and her daughter tried to ignore the whispers and keep to themselves in a ...

  • Trek of the Mountain Man

    William W. Johnstone

    Johnstone Country. Where the Good Die Young. The Bad Die Sooner.Wanted: Smoke Jensen. Dead or alive.It didn't matter that the warrant was old, or that Smoke Jensen had been cleared of all charges -- A Texas bounty hunter wants that $10,000 reward. Wi...

  • Lord Ruin

    Carolyn Jewel

    THE DUKE OF SIN The Duke of Cynssyr didn't believe in love. He planned to marry for beauty. But a night of unforgettable passion left him a changed man--a man tied to a bespectacled spinster. Anne Sinclair's long legs drove him wild with des...

  • Sisters Found // Breathless Seduction

    Joan Johnston

    Charity Beautiful, bold and uncertain of love after being abandoned as an infant, Charity is bewildered by Kane Longstreet's marriage proposal. Despite her misgivings, she agrees to go home with Kane for the holidays. But at his cousin's engagement ...

  • Deadly Force

    Keith Douglass

    FREEDOM FIGHT Mojombo Washington and his followers are willing to do anything to free their African country from a corrupt government of thieves and murderers. Even hold the Vice President of the United States captive until the U.N. listens to the...

  • Longarm in Paradise

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm sends Paradise straight to hell!Marshal Monty Kilpatrick was nobody’s fool. That’s why his killers had to take him by surprise. But with a bullet in his belly, Monty knew just how to right the last wrongs of his life -- he wrote a letter ...

  • Busted Ride

    Mike Flanagan

    Texas, 1872. Looking to make enough money to start his own ranch, Will rode wild horses until they were fit for sale. But when folks started placing bets on who would be tamed-man or beast, Will discovered a gold mine that would become an American in...

  • Drums Without Warriors

    Fred Grove

    After an absence of ten years, Sam Colter's homecoming to Red Mound, Oklahoma, is tinged by sadness. Many of his childhood friends are gone, and Sam's move to a large spread in Texas had cost him his old sweetheart. And now the discovery of oil on th...

  • Storm Rider

    Cassie Edwards

    A STORMY BEGINNING A tragic accident leaves young Tabitha Daniel orphaned and alone in the wilderness, until she is rescued by an Indian tribe. Now grown up, this adventurous beauty has become a fearless warrior--with a spirit that is destined to ge...

  • The Wedding Journey

    Carla Kelly

    Luck Follows Love Captain Jesse Randall has never expressed his intense love for Nell Mason--not even as she blossoms into glorious womanhood before his eves. Her beauty is a treasure as rare and welcome as roses in January. But if Jesse were to t...

  • A Spinster's Luck

    Rhonda Woodward

    Lady Luck Luck has always eluded Celia Langston. When her parents passed away ten years ago, she had to make her own way in the world, forsaking a come-out Season in London and any chance at marriage. But Celia, now a governess, was never one for...

  • Quick Strike

    Mike Murray

    Major Joe Mears, leader of LEOPARD 1, an elite team of American Special Operations forces, is called in to investigate the mystery behind the hijacking of an American oil tanker, the spread of a lethal new virus, and a fortune in money laundered by a...

  • Dreaming of You

    Dixie Kane

    When Big Apple Meets Big Easy... To Maggie Mayfair, a Bayou belle living in a French Quarter building whose residents are as eccentric as its architecture, nothing much comes as a surprise. Nothing, that is, except the news that her beloved home has...

  • Proper Conduct

    Shannon Donnelly

    Can a perfect lady and an impeccable lord risk their reputations for true love? Penelope Harwood has no patience for starry-eyed, romantic daydreams. It's that sort of foolish thinking that saw her father plunge the family into financial disaster, a...

  • Hitched for the Holidays

    Jennifer Drew

    Expert organizer Mindy Ryder could use some professional help! Her father has decided he's visiting for Christmas, and he wants to meet Mindy's "boyfriend." Trouble is, she doesn't have one! Now she needs a man, and not just any man -- a doctor. Eric...

  • A Groom in Her Stocking

    Barbara Dunlop

    Lindsey Parker's financial career is looking up, up, up. And it's been how long since she's had a date? Forget dating -- during Christmas vacation at a luxury northern resort Santa delivers not one, but two fiances to ol' skinny Linney. But RJ Webste...

  • Texas Bride

    Leigh Greenwood

    NIGHT RIDERS They were a crack team of Confederate raiders, striking behind enemy lines under cover of darkness, operating with one mind, one heart. Until one of their number betrayed them all. In the aftermath of tragedy, they swore they would lire...

  • Whatever It Takes

    Winnie Griggs

    FLIRTING WITH PERFECTION To adopt the little girl she'd come to love, Maddy Potter needed a fiance, not a husband. Luckily, she'd found the ideal beau for her purpose: Clayton Kincaid had agreed to court her, propose marriage, and then lea...

  • The Farmer's Wife

    Lori Handeland

    Kim Luchetti couldn't get away fast enough from the Illinois farm she grew up on -- and from boyfriend Brian Riley. Now she's back. Her father is ailing, and so is Brian -- after his first sight of Kim causes him to tumble off a barn roof and brea...

  • Memories of Megan

    Rita Herron

    Cole Hunter had no memory of who he was or where he came from.Why did nothing or no one seem familiar -- except Megan Wells? And why did memories of passionate nights in her arms flash through his mind at the sight of her? Grieving widow Megan Wel...

  • Behind the Mask

    Metsy Hingle

    "I'll pay you one million dollars to find my wife and son." Ex-cop turned bounty hunter Michael Sullivan doesn't think any woman is worth that kind of money, but a job is a job. All he has to do is make the phone call... Just drop in the quarte...

  • Gone Courting

    Willa Hix

    THE MOST DARING FEAT OF ALL... Lucy Conroy can't catch a break. Not only has her beau run off with a girl from a competing circus, he's absconded with Lucy's savings, as well. What's more, handsome, rakish -- and completely inexperie...

  • Gentleman Caller

    Bobby Hutchinson

    Love Line Giggle, groan--change the baby--pant, moan--flip the grilled cheese. Maxine Bleckner had the drill down. Twenty minutes on the phone, 8-10 times a day and she could pay for rent, groceries and diapers. But then she got a new client who jus...

  • Lover Boy

    Michele Jaffe

    LOVER BOY IS DYING TO COME OUT AND PLAY. The rules: Two weeks before he intends to slowly and sadistically kill his prey, Loverboy sends a collage of the future crime scene to the FBI. If the agents can solve the riddles of the collage in time, th...

  • Badlands Heart

    Ruth Langan

    Kitty Conover was in for the surprise of her life... Kitty Conover was a familiar figure in Misery. Dressed in buckskins, with her yellow curls tucked under a wide- brimmed hat, she'd been known to follow a herd of mustangs for weeks. She felt as ...

  • Cupid.Com

    Karen Lee

    What happens when Cupid trades in his arrows for the Internet? Shot Through the Heart When E. Rose pitched Cupid.com to Chloe Phillips, she knew she had found the killer idea that would save her creative investment firm. A website that revealed...

  • Official Escort

    Jean Barrett

    Mitchell Hawke had closed the doors of the Hawke Detective Agency to take some much-needed time off when a top secret delivery arrived on his doorstep just days before Christmas. This was no ordinary package, but a witness in desperate need of protec...

  • A Summer Place

    Laura Abbot

    Have you ever ended up in strange town and felt as if you were home? The first time Laurel Eden sees Belleporte she realizes it's the perfect place to live. The dreams she's always had can finally come true. Little does she know that this simple d...

  • Randall Wedding

    Judy Christenberry

    Randal Rescue Gruff as a bear with a thorn in his paw, cantankerous loner Russ Randall simply didn't need the aggravation of playing hero to a stranded lady and her adorable toddler. Yet the code of honor held by all Randall men wouldn't allow him...

  • Lord Sebastian's Wife

    Katy Cooper

    He had broken every promise he had ever made her.... And her heart with them! A reckless promise, made in the glow of first love, now bound Lord Sebastian Benbury to the Lady Beatrice. But though her beauty still stirred his inner fires, nothing co...

  • White Tiger's Fancy

    Tracy Cozzens

    She Craved Adventure... The eldest of her mother's three remaining unmarried daughters, Pauline Carrington is dismayed to find herself the object of endless matchmaking schemes. A natural athlete with a zest for anything new or exciting, marriage i...

  • Haunted Heart

    Francine Craft

    CAN A REKINDLED PASSION Annice Steele lost the love of her life he day Lucas Jones walked out and never looked back. Determined to move on and carve out a career for herself, the budding psychologist has accepted a job on scenic Paradise Island, hel...

  • A King Without a Country

    Carolyn Davidson
    in

    A long-lost king has been discovered. And the false ruler will never let "Alex Carr" claim his birthright. But Alex has sharply honed skills from his dangerous past...and sweet Rebecca Hale to give him the strength to claim a destiny too long denied....

  • Cole

    Ana Leigh

    The last time Cole MacKenzie saw Maggie O'Shea, the daughter of his gold-hunting partner, Pop, she was a scruffy kid with dirt on her cheeks. Now the tomboy is all grown up -- and how! -- and she's Cole's sworn responsibility, since the suspicious pa...

  • True Devotion

    Kim Louise

    THE ART OF LOVE The pain of broken love affairs and lost loved ones has shaped Marti Allgood into a gifted artist who paints for healing, not for profit. But fabulously wealthy art collector Kenyon Williams believes Marti may be the next great Afr...

  • Lord St. Leger's Find

    Jennifer Malin

    THEIR GREATEST DISCOVERY... Melpomene Lowery cares not a whit for Society, but her archaeologist father is willing to indulge her unseemly passion for a nearby ruin only so far. With just two weeks to unearth a valuable antiquity before traveling to...

  • Dancing in the Dark // Reunited with the Billionaire

    Sandra Marton

    Welcome to Twin Oaks -- the new B and B in Cooper's Corner. Some come for pleasure, others for passion -- and one to set things straight... Check-in: When Wendy Monroe had left Cooper's Corner she'd been an Olympic hopeful in skiing......

  • The Price of Moonlight

    Sylvia McDaniel

    When Jean Cuvier was murdered, he left a legacy of scandal and betrayal that rocked New Orleans. For the wealthy Creole businessman had not one wife to mourn him, but three. Much to Nicole Rosseau Cuvier's shock, she was the second of the three Cuvie...

  • My Lady Knight

    Suzanne McMinn

    SHE COULD FELL ANY MAN WITH HER SWORD...COULD SHE CAPTURE ONE WITH HER KISS? As untamed as the wildflowers in the meadows beyond Castle Wulfere, Gwyneth knew that womanly pursuits such as embroidery and song suited her brother's new wife, Belle. G...

  • Her Royal Pain in the Highness

    Kasey Michaels
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    A new queen is to be crowned. And a mysterious assassin is hell-bent on stopping it. But Captain Devon Montcalm will see Princess Kelly Carradigne ascend to her throne as queen, even if it means throwing himself in front of a bullet....

  • An Arranged Marriage

    Peggy Moreland

    LSCC Member: Jaded Texas Ranger Clay Martin Social Status: Embarking on an arranged marriage with a spoiled socialite Method of Seduction: Introducing his virgin bride to the pleasures of lovemaking while trying to rein in her wild spirit....

  • It Had to Be You

    Peggy Moreland
    in

    This is going to be our year! Love, Your Secret Admirer It's just a simple note, but for the three women who receive it, it has very different consequences.... HEART-POUNDING DANGER! A bouquet of flowers from a secret--and deadly admirer send...

  • Lord of the Dark Sun

    Stobie Piel

    HER DARKEST HOUR Ariana awoke in chains, a captive. Her ship had been disabled and her friends hurt, and she was to blame. She had cajoled them into braving the outskirts of space, the uncontrolled areas beyond her father's rule. And now they were t...

  • The Dowager's Daughter

    Mona Prevel

    A Lady With A Fortune Althea Markham is a young woman with responsibilities, not the least of which is providing her family with a male heir. Of course, that would entail marrying, and for a lady too proud to entertain a sparse collection of gold-d...

  • A Convenient Marriage

    Debbie Raleigh

    After forty years of devoted service, Vicar Humbly is eager to retire to his pleasant cottage and tend to his garden. But before he can live in peace, he must salve his conscience by traveling to the homes of three couples whose marriages have troubl...

  • McCloud's Woman // Rebel Charm

    Patricia Rice

    A lot has happened to Mara Simon since she was a teenager. And although on the inside she's still the sweet, sensitive girl she was back then, the face she shows the world is that of a beautiful, high-powered Hollywood producer with a movie to make a...

  • Sudden Danger

    Sharon Sala
    in

    This is going to be our year! Love, Your Secret Admirer It's just a simple note, but for the three women who receive it, it has very different consequences.... HEART-POUNDING DANGER! A bouquet of flowers from a secret--and deadly admirer send...

  • Along Came Trouble

    Sherryl Woods

    Trinity Harbor's sheriff Tucker Spencer has seen some action...but finding an almost-naked woman asleep in his bed leaves him speechless. Especially because this same woman -- Mary Elizabeth Chandler -- broke Tucker's heart six years ago by marrying ...

  • She Went All the Way

    Meggin Cabot

    How far should a lady go for love? All the way! Success hasn't spoiled screenwriter Lou Calabrese -- it's just given her a taste for luxury. And it's put her in some bizarre situations -- like in a helicopter en route to the wilds of Alaska, sharing...

  • Reality Check

    Leslie Carroll

    IF LIZ CAN'T FIND "THE ONE" SHE'LL TAKE THE MILLION. Liz Pemberley is a smart girl with a weakness for bad boys, but for the first time in her life, her bad luck with men might just pay off. A hot new reality TV show called Bad Date is offering a...

  • Next Victim

    Michael Prescott

    He calls himself Mobius--and he's a serial killer who has eluded the FBI for years. Catching him is an obsession for Agent Tess McCallum. He murdered her lover. And now he's resurfaced in a new state with a new identity. And a new means of killing. ...

  • The Mantra

    Dmitry Radyshevsky

    Hear It His music is intoxicating. An incantation pumping every drumbeat into the blood. Every rhythm, every word, enslaving listeners into a blissful paralysis of the will. No wonder TuneRa has become the most popular performer in the world. ...

  • Death's Door

    Michael Slade

    A mummy has been stolen in London. Authorities believe the motive is the treasure hidden in its fetid wrappings. They're wrong. Mutilated bodies of young runaways are discovered washed ashore on Vancouver beaches. Authorities think they're victims...

  • The Truest Power

    Rebecca Neason

    THE TRUEST POWER THE HEART OF THE SCEPTER Rulerless Aghamore totters on the brink of catastrophic civil war, even though the blind seer Lysandra, her wolf companion (loud Dancer, and the priest Renan have found Sella, the young girl who possesses...

  • Nemesis

    J.M. Dillard

    Remus -- mysterious sister world to Romulus. A planet where hope surrendered to darkness long ago. A planet whose inhabitants have been without a voice for generations. But that's about to change. Earth -- home to Starfleet, where the crew of the U....

  • Doom's Break

    Christopher Rowley

    This is the fifth summer of the war. The fifth summer in which the sounds of battle ring out beneath the trees and on the beaches. The fifth summer of burials of the fallen, both mots and men. By now, the watermots no longer wonder why an army of men...

  • The Dragon Isles

    Stephen D. Sullivan
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The Dragon Isles: abandoned home of the good dragons, land of amazing adventure and legendary treasure. The trouble is, no one knows how to get there. Now Mikal Vardan and his crew have found the hidden route, but they're not the only ones interes...

  • Wind of War

    Jess Lebow

    The Steel Throne Sits Empty... Rokugan stands on the brink of chaos. As his brothers and sister seek the favor of the clans, the illegitimate son Akodo Kaneka forsakes grasping for power and takes up a new quest--defending the helpless and destroy...

  • Assassin's Blade

    Scott McGough
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    ASSASSINATION HAS ITS PRICE! Scheming, intelligent, and power-hungry, the emperor's assassin moves always in shadow. He kills whom his master wishes and plans his own rise to power. Against him, one man stands on his honor, determined to end the c...

  • The Poison Master

    Liz Williams

    Liz Williams is one of science fiction's boldest new writers and this novel is one of her most profound speculations on freedom, love, and human destiny. On a distant world ruled by an alien race, humanity is enslaved, having forgotten its own past a...

  • Servants of Chaos

    Don D'Ammassa

    The isolated little fishing village of Crayport, Massachusetts, might seem almost normal at first glance, but appearances can he deceiving. You would never be welcome there. Outsiders never are. The inhabitants of the village are unusually hostile to...

  • Darkness Falls

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    A hundred and fifty years ago, in the sleepy fishing village of Darkness Falls, Matilda Dixon would give the local children cakes and treats and accept their baby teeth as "payment." After her husband Sonny was killed in a boating accident and a kitc...

  • Darker Masques

    J.N. Williamson

    BE AFRAID Terror hides its true form in the blackest of shadows, patiently waiting to unleash a neverending nightmare upon hose foolish--or daring--enough to uncover its evil visage. From the farthest reaches of twisted imaginations to the deepest, ...

  • J. Michael Straczynski's Rising Stars, Book 2: Ten Years Aft

    Arthur Byron Cover

    Ten years after the meta-human Specials had their standoff against the government, they find themselves brought together once again, this time to stop the Special known as Critical Mass after she takes the city of Chicago hostage....

  • Red

    Jack Ketchum

    It all started with a simple act of brutality. Three boys shot and killed an old man's dog. No reason, just plain meanness. But the dog was the best thing in the old man's world, and he wasn't about to let it pass. He wanted justice, and he'd make su...

  • Curtains of Blood

    Robert J. Randisi

    London, 1888. A knife flashes in the fog. A madman has begun the most notorious and shocking series of murders in history. With each new discovery of a woman's mutilated body, the citywide panic grows. The police seem unable to stop the killer, even ...

  • The Brave and the Bold: Book One

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    AN ALL-NEW ADVENTURE SPANNING THREE GENERATIONS! The Malkus Artifacts: four deadly machines, wielded as weapons of absolute power by an interstellar tyrant thousands of years ago and scattered across the Alpha Quadrant when he was overthrown. Aft...

  • The Brave and the Bold: Book Two

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    CONTINUING THE ALL-NEW ADVENTURE SPANNING ALL OF STAR TREK HISTORY! Two of the Malkus Artifacts -- used as deadly weapons millennia ago -- have been uncovered since their discovery in the 22nd century. Now in the 24th century, two more artifacts li...

  • Beyond Flesh

    Jack Dann

  • A Younger Man

    Rochelle Alers

    THE PERFECT RECIPE...FOR PASSION Kumi Walker never suspected that love was on the menu when he offered to fix Veronica's flat tire in exchange for a home-cooked meal. It was not long before the sexy-as-sin ex-marine realized that the wealthy widow...

  • North Country Man

    Carrie Alexander

    SOME CALL HIM HERMIT OTHERS CALL HIM HERO NOAH SAARI IS A NORTH COUNTRY MAN A few years ago, Noah left the woods of Michigan, ready to make a difference in the world. After a tragic accident, he came back -- blamed by some, pitied by others, mis...

  • First Love, Second Chance

    K.N. Casper

    Michael First seems to have everything a man could want -- a wife he adores; beautiful children he delights in; loving parents and siblings who live close by the west Texas ranch where he works. Then fate turns his world upside down. Clare, his wi...

  • The Doctor's Pregnant Proposal

    Donna Clayton

    Dr. Grey Thunder's man-hunting female patients were on the prowl -- and he was their target! The handsome Native American had had enough. He came up with an unusual proposition for his nurse, Lori Young, who had problems of her own -- an unborn baby ...

  • Guess Who's Coming for Christmas?

    Cara Colter

    Yes, Jamie, there is a Santa Claus.... Or at least that's what Beth Cavell desperately needed her orphaned nephew to believe. Because the least Beth could do was fulfill his Christmas wishes. Besides, he only had two -- snow...and a daddy! What was t...

  • The Prince's Wedding

    Justine Davis

    THE COMMONER BRIDE! Will Montebello's crown prince claim his Cinderella bride at last? Jessica Chambers stared into the deep blue eyes of her baby's father and saw a stranger. The ranch hand with amnesia whom she'd called "Joe" was gone forever. For...

  • Calling All Glass Slippers

    Jacqueline Diamond

    Laura Ellison never thought her comic play about love would win an award. Now her alma mater is performing it...and her ex is directing! Ten years ago Jared Benton broke her heart, and she knows fairy-tale endings don't exist. When she notices that p...

  • Cindy and the Fella

    Jacqueline Diamond

    Cindy McChad can't believe it when her fiance breaks up with her...by email, no less! Never willing to accept defeat, she heads to California to win back her man. When she meets bumbling professor Hugh Bemling -- who's in love with her fiance's new g...

  • The Bride's Rescuer

    Charlotte Douglas

    IN SAVING CELIA Unconscious and wearing a torn wedding dress, Celia Stevens washed up on the shores of Solitaire and threw Cameron Alexander's peaceful seclusion into complete chaos. Not only did her presence force him to reexamine his reasons for h...

  • Family Practice

    Judy Duarte

    ALL OR NOTHING... After a very bitter -- very public -- divorce, high-society surgeon Michael Harper needed a vacation. But his plans for peace and quiet hadn't included falling in love with a stubborn, self-reliant cocktail waitress from the wrong ...

  • A Whisper of Suspicion

    Jane Edwards

    Penny Farnsworth inherits money from an aunt and decides to seek out the boy who constantly defended her when she lived in an orphanage in San Francisco. Over the years she has wondered what happened to Matt Devlin and especially wants to share her g...

  • Through the Storm

    Leslie Esdaile

    Freelance journalist Lynette Graves has always had a way with words, but the sight of Foster Scott Hamilton, Jr. leaves her speechless. After the recent breakup of her marriage--and seeing everything she owned washed away by a hurricane--romance is t...

  • Undercover M.D.

    Marie Ferrarella

    When he began his mission at Blair Memorial, undercover agent Terrance McCall collided with the only woman capable of rattling his equilibrium. Dr. Alix DuCane had grown haughty over the years, and he'd been the one to put the ice in her soul. Their ...

  • Bounty Hunter's Bride

    Carol Finch

    Hanna Malloy was desperate to make her way west. And Cale Elliot was the perfect choice to launch her into a life of adventure. Now, since their hasty wedding, the legendary bounty hunter dared her daily to try new things. But would it be wise to fal...

  • Casey

    Lori Foster

    Sawyer, Morgan, Gabe and Jordan -- they're the sexiest men in Buckhorn, Kentucky. But meet Sawyer's son, Casy... Like father, like son! Emma Clark was back in Buckhorn. As a teen she'd been the girl with the bleached-blond hair, too much mak...

  • The Baby Plan

    Susan Gable

    What he wants...is a baby. A child of his own. Jake Manning more or less raised his younger siblings; he loves kids and knows he's a natural father. However, he's had zero success as a husband. So he comes up with a baby plan, one that requires a wom...

  • Christmas Eve Wedding

    Penny Jordan

    Jaz Cavendish had shared an all-consuming passion with suave American business associate Caid Dubois -- but betrayal and disillusionment forced them apart. Back in England with the festive season approaching, Jaz discovers she has a new boss...Cai...

  • Hidden Blessing

    Leona Karr

    The last thing Shannon Hensley expected when she rented a summer cottage was to be confronted with a life-threatening forest fire. Used to being in control in the high-powered corporate world, she'd come to the small Colorado town to find herself. In...

  • The Christmas Groom

    Debra Kastner

    Footloose and fancy free is the motto Colin Brockman yearns to live by. After years spent in the navy, Colin gets his chance to let loose while studying to be a navy chaplain. No haircuts, no ironing, no watches, no rules! Colin is determined to ligh...

  • Royal Pursuit

    Susan Kearney

    HER UNDERCOVER PRINCE Narrowly escaping an assassin, Prince Alexander fled the Vashmiran embassy in Washington, D.C., with only the clothes on his back. But the playboy bachelor was determined to take matters into his own hands. With the help of stu...

  • Everybody's Hero

    Tracy Kelleher

    Picture-perfect. That's what Claire Marsden thinks when she first photographs professional hockey star Jason Doyle. Little does Claire know that Jason thinks the same of the beautiful magazine photographer. It's not long before she has him masqueradi...

  • More Naughty Than Nice

    Julie Kistler

    When plain, boring marketing drudge Stephanie Blanton reinvents herself as Stevie Bliss, the world finally takes notice! Her sizzling book, Blissfully Single, is soon rapidly climbing bestseller lists. Meanwhile, Stevie is sending men's libidos out o...

  • Sassy Cinderella

    Kara Lennox

    Prince Un-charming Jonathan Hardison didn't know whether to fire Sherry McCormick or take her to bed. Falling in love was not an option. Sure, she'd come to his ranch to help out with his kids while he recovered from a broken leg. But Sherry was a c...

  • Everlasting Moments

    Dorothy Elizabeth Love

  • The Billionaire Borrows a Bride

    Myrna MacKenzie

    Billionaire Spencer Fairfield hired Kate Ryerson to play the perfect wife-to-be at his grandmother's party. Kate was attractive, caring and -- most important -- temporary. But the confirmed bachelor's growing desire for his borrowed bride soon had hi...

  • Norwyck's Lady

    Margo Maguire

    Would the rescued maiden prove to be his downfall...or his desire? Women Could Not Be Trusted Bartholomew, Earl of Norwyck, had well learned that bitter lesson from his traitorous first wife. What, then, should he make of "the Lady Marguer...

  • A Cowboy & A Gentleman

    Ann Major

    "She'll have to run farther than the Big Apple to forget that night." -- Anthony Duke, rugged cowboy with marriage on his mind Anthony Duke knew he was in trouble when he made love to the sexiest woman of his dreams. All sweetness and sass, Zoe talk...

  • The Summer House: Marrying Mandy

    Susan Mallery

    Eight years ago, Mandy Carter and Rick Benson shared a whirlwind romance -- and a painfully short-lived marriage. Now that Rick was back in her life...back in her arms...would history repeat itself, or would their future hold a passion powerful enoug...

  • The Cowboy's Christmas Miracle

    Anne McAllister

    A CHRISTMAS SURPRISE Deke Malone got an early Christmas present -- an almost-two-year-old son! Parenthood had never been among Deke's priorities, but being a dad was the hardest -- and best -- thing he'd ever done. It took him home to Mont...

  • Royally Pregnant

    Barbara McCauley

    His dangerous edge hidden behind a playboy persona, Prince Dylan of Penwyck unexpectedly rescued a lovely damsel. But in saving sweet Emily, he had brought an unforeseen danger into the royal palace. Emily claimed to have amnesia, yet she was actuall...

  • One Tough Cowboy

    Sara Orwig

    What was a cowboy to do? When Josh Kellogg had rescued a stubborn damsel in distress from her burning car, he figured that was the last he'd see of her. But without any ID or memory of who she was, and with trouble on her tail, it looked like Ms. "La...

  • A Season to Believe

    Elane Osborn

    Who am I? She asked. But no one knew. A near-fatal accident had stolen Jane's past, and now she struggled daily with her new life. Only the knowledge that policeman Matt Sullivan was rooting for her kept her going. But when flashes of her memory retu...

  • Lionhearted

    Diana Palmer

    HIS WINTER BRIDE...? As the holiday season approached, the residents of Jacobsville were whispering about Janie Brewster's hopeless crush on Leo Hart. Up till now, all her efforts to lasso the dynamic cattleman had crumbled quicker than those mout...

  • The Marquis and the Mother-To-Be

    Valerie Parv

    Back in her lush, beloved Carramer, Carissa Day purchased the perfect B and B for raising her babies-to-be. Trouble was, an aristocratic "intruder" proved she'd been swindled -- her new home was actually his royal lodge. Worse, he proved ...

  • A Time to Forgive

    Marta Perry

    Some men were just unforgettable. And Adam Caldwell was never far from Tory Marlowe's thoughts. Now that she was back in town, Tory hoped that their one magical night might help Adam remember her...and help her fulfill a promise made. Adam wasn't ...

  • Simply Sexy

    Carly Phillips

    What do men want? That's what newly hired advice columnist Rina Lowell intends to find out. And, on a personal level, she really needs to know...because she definitely wants her new boss, sexy Colin Lyons. After years of living for others, she's tak...

  • Tall, Dark and Irresistible

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    COURTING CAROLYN... Adoption specialist Carolyn St. John had given up on ever holding her own baby. For Carolyn knew the handicap that distanced her from others barred a future for her and any man. And then she met Ryan Sharpe.... The architect was...

  • Just for You

    Doreen Rainey

    A Head Made for Business... Event planner Alexis Shaw's booming company, Just For You, plans everything--except weddings. As far as Alexis is concerned, marriage is a waste of time, heart, and money. The policy hasn't hurt her any--she's even named ...

  • Scrooge and the Single Girl

    Christine Rimmer

    All I want for Christmas: 1) A good bottle of champagne 2) A free-range turkey 3) A cozy snow-covered cabin With that list, lifestyle columnist Jillian Diamond was making a statement about what she didn't want for Christmas -- a man. Of cours...

  • Her Texan Temptation

    Shirley Rogers

    Rodeo star Deke McCall was back in town, and Mary Beth Adams wanted nothing to do with the love-'em-and-leave-'em cowboy who'd vanished two years earlier. She was too busy trying to save her family's ranch, but she needed help. Enter sexy-as-all-get-...

  • A Montana Christmas

    Kristine Rolofson

    What Child Is This? Melanie Briggs and her baby daughter create quite a stir when they suddenly arrive to stay at the Stone Ranch. She'd make the perfect wife in Jared Stone's opinion. Not that he has any intention to marry or become an instant dad...

  • My Husband, My Babies

    Debra Salonen

    Jenny, Andrea and Kristin Sullivan are much more than sisters -- they're triplets! Growing up as one of a threesome meant the days were never lonely...or dull. Now they're adults -- with separate lives, loves, dreams and secrets. But undernea...

  • Serving Up Trouble

    Jill Shalvis

    A PRECIOUS SECOND CHANCE Hardened cop Sam O'Neill knew a meddlesome woman when he saw one. He'd saved cocktail waitress Angie Rivers during a bank holdup, but he couldn't get her pretty face or the feel of her silky skin out of his head. She made ...

  • Secrets and Lies

    Maggie Shayne

    Former Secret Service agent Alex Stone was the best of the best, so impersonating missing foreign dignitary Thomas Barde seemed easy. Convincing the world that rough-and-rowdy Melusine Brand was actually Katerina, Thomas's ultrafeminine bride and the...

  • Name & Address Withheld

    Jane Sigaloff

    Dear Lizzie, My marriage is in dire straits. I know you must get hundreds of people writing to you with this problem, but I think my husband may be having an affair.... -- Name & Address Withheld Lizzie Ford is an urban sexpert, and her hip...

  • The Summer House: Courtin' Cassandra

    Teresa Southwick

    Marrying Mandy by Susan Mallery Eight years ago, Mandy Carter and Rick Benson shared a whirlwind romance -- and a painfully short-lived marriage. Now that Rick was back in her life...back in her arms...would history repeat itself, or would their fut...

  • The Wolf's Surrender

    Sandra Steffen

    When a powerful storm blew through town, attorney Kelly Madison found herself stranded at the courthouse -- and going into labor in Judge Grey Colton's chambers! The handsome, no-nonsense bachelor revealed a surprisingly tender side as he delivered h...

  • In Harm's Way

    Lyn Stone

    Maybe it was the whole Southern comfort thing -- the sinfully rich accent, that lazy smile, his heated touch, kindness that nearly disarmed her. But Robin Andrews knew better than to trust a man...especially this one. Did Detective Mitch Winton reall...

  • Their Instant Baby

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    Just Add Baby Amy Deveraux's biological clock was tick...tick...ticking! To make matters even worse, she had agreed to look after her three-month-old godson while his mother was out of the country. Except, sharing the baby-sitting responsibilities...

  • Cherokee Marriage Dare

    Sheri Whitefeather

    "I dare you to fall in love with me." The press labeled coed Maggie Connelly young, reckless, impulsive. Actually, she was a woman in love. With Lucas Starwind. But the hardened Cherokee P.I. hid his battered heart behind a macho bravado. Maggie h...

  • Montana Miracle

    Mary Anne Wilson

    Marooned In Montana Why had handsome, celebrated Dr. Mackenzie Parish vanished at the height of his career? Jaded writer Katherine Ames sensed a story, and headed into the wilds of Montana to find him. But when a blizzard trapped Katherine, Mac foun...

  • Baby & the Beast

    Laura Wright

    Caught in a raging snowstorm, imminent mother-to-be Isabella Spencer had never imagined that Michael Wulf, the sensual hero of her teenage fantasies, would come to her rescue. Now Isabella was ensconced in his high-tech mansion, secretly craving the ...

  • Christmas in Paris

    Margaret Barker

    When Dr. Alyssa Ferguson returns to work at the Clinique Ste Catherine in her beloved Paris, the last person she expects to see is her ex-lover, Dr. Pierre Dupont -- and now he is her new boss! As they begin to rekindle their passionate romance, P...

  • Dr. Blake's Angel

    Marion Lennox

    A Christmas to remember Dr. Blake Sutherland is the sole G.P. in town. Overworked and exhausted, he needs a miracle. He gets one in the form of seven-months-pregnant Dr. Nell McKenzie, who announces that he is to have a holiday while she takes ove...

  • More than a Gift

    Josie Metcalfe

    After waiting forever to find love, Laurel was devastated when she had to leave specialist Dmitri Rostropovich behind without even telling him why. Now, eight months pregnant, trapped in a snowbound car, she can only wonder whether she'll ever...

  • A Pawn for a Queen

    Fiona Buckley

    A quiet life at Withysham with her young daughter is all that widowed Ursula Blanchard desires. But as the waiting woman and spy for Queen Elizabeth I, she forfeits her needs for the sake of those she is pledged to protect--even at her own peril... ....

  • Body of Intuition

    Claire Daniels

    Meet Cally Lazar, Energy Worker. A "recovering attorney," Cally pulled a U-turn on her career path and set up shop as an alternative healer. Her sensory skills help her find the stress in her clients' auras. But once in a while, what she finds will m...

  • The Matchmaker

    Susan Furman

    Jill is a matchmaker, arranging marriages for the rich. When her friend Lisa is found dead, Jill turns to police detective Tony Rosetti for help. Together they will find out what really happened. At the same time they will be finding out that even a ...

  • Scam and Eggs

    Janet Dawson

    SCAM AND EGGS is a fine mystery anthology that contains mostly contemporary contributions, but also has two enjoyable historcials including a spin on First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln that will open readers' minds to this intriguing much maligned figure. ...

  • Retrovirus

    T.L. Higley / Tracy L. Higley

    Dr. Nicholas Donovan is a brilliant genetic researcher with little time for God. He's also damaged goods-and knows it-because one of his patients died in clinical trials for a genetic cancer therapy. So why would SynTech Labs be eager to hire the dis...

  • Pengarron Dynasty

    Gloria Cook

    The tangled lives and loves of the Pengarron family continue… Will the long-standing love triangle between Kerensa Pengarron, the beautiful wife of Sir Oliver, and her first love Clem Trenchard, ever be resolved? The christening of little Harry Pen...

  • The Neighborly Thing

    Wanda E. Brunstetter

    Sinda Shull has secrets from her past which are the reason she feels she can never marry. When Sinda moves next door to widower Glen Olsen and his daughter, Tara, she struggles to leave the past behind. Sinda's home business keeps her hands busy, but...

  • For a Father's Love

    JoAnn A. Grote

    Though eight years have passed, Mandy remembers as if it were yesterday the pain of turning down Jason's marriage proposal. But she knows her decision was right, and she's learned to live without him. But when his grandfather's heart attack brings Ja...

  • Red River Bride

    Colleen Coble

    Margaret knows she's too plain, too tall, and too outspoken for any man to want to marry her. All she wants is to prove to her father that she can manage their ranch as well as any man could. But when her father hires Josiah Cutler as the new fore...

  • The Flame Within

    Pamela Griffin

    Raised the only child of an influential patrician in first-century Rome, Moriah has been sheltered from the worst excesses of her world. As Moriah mingles with the powerful elite, she hears whispers suggesting she is not her parents' child. Those ...

  • The Lives of Dax

    Marco Palmieri

    THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN YEARS. NINE LIVES. ONE SOUL. Mother, father, engineer, ambassador, scientist, statesman, serial killer, Starfleet officer: At one time or another, Dax has been all of these things and more. The near-immortal part of a compos...

  • The Last Guardian

    Jeff Grubb

    In the mist-shrouded haze of the past, long before the beginning of recorded time, there stood the world of Azeroth. Every kind of magical being strode the countryside among the tribes of man, and all was at peace -- until the arrival of the demons a...

  • The Queen's Gambit

    Deborah Chester

    The throne was her destiny--until Princess Pheresa lost her groom, Mandria's heir, to the dark magic that consumed him. Now Pheresa's fate is uncertain, even when the great King Verence names her Princess Royal--because the title comes with one condi...

  • Tank Girl 1

    Titan Books

    From the depths of the outback comes a wildly anarchic, in-your-face heroine for a new age of madness...maverick British creators Alan Martin and Jamie (Gorillaz) Hewlett present Tank Girl!

    Join everybody’s favourite beer-swilling, chain-smoking...

  • A Little Help From Above

    Saralee Rosenberg

    Saralee Rosenberg's compelling debut novel, told in a warm, wise and endearing voice, is about sisters, mothers and daughters, and loss, sacrifice and love. When Shelby Lazarus returns home to Long Island in the midst of a family crisis, she is f...

  • Death in Dublin

    Bartholomew Gill

    The theft of the Book of Kells -- an exquisite ninth-century amalgam of Christian doctrine and Celtic legend -- from the Trinity College library is, in itself, a most shocking crime. But it is the brutal slaying of a night watchman that throws Peter ...

  • Heresy

    Sharan Newman

    Catherine LeVendeur is a creature of twelfth-century France. Her life is a mirror of that time but she is a unique spirit, determined to make her way in the world and armed with a keen mind and a curiosity that often puts her in peril. Her life is bo...

  • Celt and Pepper

    Ralph M. McInerny

    Martin Kilmartin is a popular young Notre Dame professor and a promising poet, and as far as everyone on campus knows, he's off to visit his ancestral Ireland over winter break. It's a shocking moment when Professor Kilmartin is discovered dead in hi...

  • Heart on a String

    Lois Carnell Alexander

    Fun-loving puppeteer Adrienne Madill is graduating from Arkansas University. With her Aunt Maida's help, Adrienne has successfully put herself through college conducting puppet shows for children and plans to turn the sidework into a full-time career...

  • Much Ado About Murder

    Simon Hawke

    Fledgling playwright Will Shakespeare and Symington Smythe, ostler and would-be thespian, and are now firmly ensconced in their theater company . . . But due to the plague, all of London's theaters have been closed, its players now broke, forcing our...

  • Windy City Dying

    Eleanor Taylor Bland

    Marti MacAlister, Eleanor Taylor Bland's popular African-American heroine, is forced to confront some extremely personal demons from long ago-her husband Johnny MacAlister is long-buried, but now someone from Johnny's past is back, looking for him, a...

  • Mistletoe and Murder

    Carola Dunn

    When it comes to mischief and murder, no one covers the case more stylishly than the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple. The latest installment finds the ever-adventurous heiress dreading Christmas in Cornwall with her distant, faintly scandalous family. She ...

  • The Arraignment

    Steve Martini

    After a lawyer friend is killed along with his client in a hail of gunfire outside the federal courthouse in San Diego, Madriani takes on another client who he believes is involved at the edges of the double murder. He takes the case not to defend th...

  • Death of an Innocent

    Sally Spencer

    'Superior work from a best-selling British author' - Library Journal A man and a young woman are found blasted away by a rifle in a remote farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors. But where is the farmer, why did he have such swanky furniture in his livi...

  • True North

    Rachel Evans

    Lee Korchuk is just hitting her stride as a photographer for a large museum in Toronto. Now she and her boss, scientist Oliver Caldwell, have set out on the adventure of a lifetime, way up in northern Canada where a mysterious guide, Jackson Shea, ha...

  • The Love Letter

    Shelley Galloway

    Strange things are afoot in the small mining town of Rocky River, Colorado during the spring of 1890. Millicent Drovers’ invitation to a picnic has fallen into the wrong hands. Marshall Bond, the local saloon owner, receives a mysterious letter ...

  • A Restless Evil

    Ann Granger

    The officer on duty at Bamford police station is skeptical when he takes a call from Guy Morgan. Morgan claims to have stumbled upon human bones in Stovey Woods in the heart of the Cotswalds, but surely animal bones are more likely? Morgan, though, i...

  • A Wanted Man

    Nancy J. Parra

    Brianna McGraw ventures out West to find and rescue her brother from bandits who will sell him illegally to the highest bidder. Separated after they were orphaned a few years ago, Brianna has worked hard as a librarian to save money for the trip. But...

  • By the Light of the Moon

    Dean Koontz

    On the road, on a hot Arizona night, Dylan O'Conner is overpowered by a stranger who injects him with an unknown substance. All he's told is that he's the "carrier," not of a disease but of something wondrous that will transform his life in remarkabl...

  • True Witness

    Jo Bannister

    A peaceful evening of stargazing for math teacher Daniel Hood turns tragic when his telescope focuses on the brutal murder of a young man on the pier in front of his house. Daniel saw the killer's face and he knows it does not belong to the prime sus...

  • An Artful Death

    Roderic Jeffries

    Wealthy and rakish Keith Vickers has lived at Ca'an Mortice, a luxurious estate on the Spanish island of Mallorca, ever since he experienced a series of failed business attempts back in England. Living off his inheritance and the profits of his lates...

  • What You Wish For

    David Cray

    To enthusiastic reviews David Cray staked out his gritty, darkly realistic territory in the field of crime fiction with the gripping police procedural Little Girl Blue. In it, he also introduced the tough-minded NYPD lieutenant Julia Brennan and disa...

  • The Playboy

    Carly Phillips

    It takes a very special woman to catch a Chandler man... Meet the Chandlers--a trio of sexy brothers and the most eligible men in town ... until their mother falls ill. As her three sons gather at her side, she' makes two desperate demands: "Get marr...

  • Blood Lake

    K.J.A. Wishnia / Ken Wishnia

    Wishnia transplants her New York City private detective Filomena Buscarsela back to the swampy town of Guayaquil in her native Ecuador in a mystery that successfully serves up exotic atmosphere, complex family relations, social unrest, and dazzling c...

  • Awful Advent

    Karl Fieldhouse

    'Tis the season to be jolly? Not for Pastor Abby Shaw, who finds a body in her Frederick County, Maryland, church four Sundays before Christmas. The dead woman, altar guild president Nancy Huff, has enough enemies to fill the pews at St. Luke's Ch...

  • Shannon's Ride

    Charles E. Friend

    U.S. Marshal Clay Shannon is enjoying a new life as a New Mexico cattle rancher when rustlers invade his land, steal his cattle, and kill several of his men. Angrily, Shannon pins on his marshal's badge and starts after the rustlers. The trail takes ...

  • Housebreaking a Husband

    Lori Soard

  • Child of My Heart

    Alice McDermott

    In Alice McDermott's first work of fiction since her best-selling, National Book Award-winning Charming Billy, a woman recalls her fifteenth summer with the wry and bittersweet wisdom of hindsight.

    The beautiful child of older parents, raise...