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New Books List: 464 titles

  • .52 Caliber Shoot-Out

    Kit Dalton

    Buckskin stumbles upon a whole new world of trouble when he arrives in San Diego and is immediately confronted by murderers, gunslingers, and claim jumpers, and once the smoke clears, he is only too happy to try his luck with the local ladies. Origin...

  • 'Twas The Night Before Chrismukkah

    Andes Hruby



    Celebrate the holidays in the O.C.

    It's the night before Chrismukkah and all through the mansions, not a creature is stirring except for Seth, Ryan, Marissa, and Summer.

    Catch the Chrismukkah spirit along with the gang.
    ...

  • 2Cool2BTrue

    Simon Brooke

    They're moving on up... Charlie Barrett, male model, is ready for a career change. It's not that modeling for ten years hasn't been fun -- the Paris shows, the VIP lists, the cool flat and even cooler model girlfriend. But he and Lauren are proba...

  • Above Suspicion

    Lynda La Plante

    In the footsteps of Jane Tennison, immortalized by Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect, comes Anna Travis, a rookie female detective about to embark on her first murder case. The murders couldn't be more gruesome. The method of killing is identical, the ba...

  • An Accidental Goddess

    Linnea Sinclair

    AN ACCIDENTAL GODDESS Gillaine Davre' is wondering where the last three hundred years have gone. Waking up in an unknown space station, the last thing the Special Forces captain remembers is her ship being attacked. Now it seems that while she was t...

  • Accidental Hero

    Loralee Lillibridge

    He'd come to claim her heart...but he didn't seem to have one of his own. Yet from his midnight-black hair down to his dusty cowboy boots, Bo Ramsey still radiated sexiness. Months ago he'd left without saying goodbye, on the arm of another woman, bu...

  • An Acquired Taste,

    Susan K. Downs
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    Couples clash over cups of coffee in these delightful novellas by a talented team of authors. In Fresh-Brewed Love, every reader's thirst for romance will be well satisfied. From a bookstore's coffee corner to neighborhood caf?s to a coffee company i...

  • Across

    Blue Dawson

  • Across the Bridge of Sighs

    Jane Turner Rylands

    From the author of the acclaimed Venetian Stories, a captivating new collection about Venice from the perspective of its residents. A professor writes lectures on Venetian literature for American millionaires. A baroness falls in love with the archit...

  • Adriane on the Edge

    Paul Mandelbaum

    At the center of this hilarious, dazzling tale is Adriane Gelki, hapless employee of the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Enhancement, who desperately wants to cultivate a life of devil-may-care, transcendent abandon, inspired by her hero, Thelonious M...

  • The Adventure of the Missing Detective

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    From traditional mystery stories with devious doings and a plot full of clues to terse thrillers with edge-of-the-seat climaxes to the nail-biting tale of psychological suspense, no field of popular fiction can match contemporary crime writing in div...

  • All Roads Lead to Texas

    Linda Warren

    Running away or running home? Callie Lambert flees New York with her three young siblings for the small Texas town where she was born, waiting for the day their abusive stepfather is put in jail and it's safe to return to the city. The four of them...

  • All the Gold of Ophir

    David M. Drury

    When two of the Conglomerated Mining and Manufacturing Company employees are killed on the space station Jupiter - a "gold mine," as wealthy as the great Biblical mines of Ophir - in what appears to be an industrial accident, Private detective Mike F...

  • Almost a Lady

    Jane Feather

    In this exhilarating new novel of romance and intrigue, New York Times bestselling author Jane Feather tells the tale of an adventurous young woman and the hardened spy who is unexpectedly -- and most inconveniently -- captivated by her.... Indepe...

  • Already Dead

    Charlie Huston

    Those stories you hear? The ones about things that only come out at night? Things that feed on blood, feed on us? Got news for you: they're true. Only it's not like the movies or old man Stoker's storybook. It's worse. Especially if you happen to be ...

  • Amistad: The Story of a Slave Ship

    Patricia C. McKissack / Pat McKissack

    In Spanish, Amistad means friendship. It was also the name of a slave ship. In 1838, the Amistad took hundreds of kidnapped Africans on a long journey across the Atlantic, but the brave captives would not give up their freedom, taking over the ship s...

  • The Amulet

    Joanna Wayne

    In the glow of the chandeliers, her hair was the color of molten gold. She had an ethereal quality about her that made it seem as if she were more dream than reality... Bart Finnegan had come to the Fernhaven Hotel to investigate a murder. But fro...

  • Antique Bakery, Volume 2

    Fumi Yoshinaga

    • As Tachibana, Ono, and Kanda continue to run the bakery "Antique," their daily routine is suddenly interrupted by the appearance of a tall, mysterious man in dark sunglasses. Addressing Tachibana as "my lord", his name is Chikage Kobayakawa....

  • The Antonakos Marriage

    Kate Walker

    When one night leads to total possession... Skye Marston is being blackmailed into marriage. But she'll have one night of passion first, with a man she'll never meet again.... Theo Antonakos isn't used to rejection. His passionate partner has s...

  • Apache Strike

    Jason Manning

    When the woman he loves, a beautiful half Apache, is murdered by the bluecoats, Kiannatah creates a bloody swath of vengeance across the Sierra Nevada that results in a final confrontation with the army's best Apache hunter. Original....

  • Ask a Shadow to Dance

    Linda George

    Two riverboats. Two people in different centuries. Can love find a way to keep them together? While attending a dance on board the Memphis Queen III, Dr. David Stewart sees a woman standing in the shadows, dressed in black, with a veil covering her f...

  • At the Court's Mercy

    KaShamba Williams

    What happens when an unseen tragedy occurs? Life begins to unravel and skeletons begin to leap out of the closet - as in the case of Nasir, a young man haunted by his past and torn between street life and fatherhood. Forget the fact that his baby mom...

  • Atlantis Reprise

    James Axler

    GLORIOUS FOLLY For Ryan Cawdor, leader of a small group of post-apocalypse survivalists, it's the inner fire of survival that guides them through this hell on earth...to whatever lies beyond the daily fight for existence. There are times when the obl...

  • Baby of Shame

    Julia James

    Will one night of unforgettable pleasure lead to a lifetime of hatred and desire...? Rhianna has struggled against the odds to survive since that fateful night. But she knows that, one day soon, the secret she carries will cost her.... Sure en...

  • Banking on Love

    Janice Thompson

    Success defines Kellie Fisher. She's always had a head for numbers and vision of the tomorrow. But when her father is hospitalized, she leaves the big city behind and rushes to be at her parents' side. Nathan Fisher loves his life. His wife Kellie is...

  • Be Mine

    Kimberly Morris

    When Raven has a vision that Cory doesn’t get anycards on Valentine’s Day, she asks Eddie to give him a lesson in how to talk togirls. Eddie teaches Cory to rap to help him impress his crush, and suddenlyCory finds he’s the most popular boy in ...

  • Be Mine, Be Mine, Sweet Valentine

    Sarah Weeks

  • Bella Baxter and the Itchy Disaster

    Jane B. Mason; Sarah Hines Stephens

    When she learns that Dr. Frederick is coming from England to stay at the Sea Inn, Bella is excited and so decides to decorate his room with an assortment of special flora for his arrival, but when she accidentally lays poison ivy all over his sheets,...

  • Beside Still Waters

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    When evil leaves her destroyed, Eva Riley will never be the same. Her friendship with Jonesy must end. Even if he did feel more than friendship for her, knowledge of her soiled present and tragic future would turn his love sour. Pushing him away is a...

  • Beware the Gingerbread House

    Emily Rodda

    Another crime-busting adventure from the internationally bestselling author of Deltora Quest!

    Sunny has always been terrified of the Gingerbread House, a peculiar pastry shop with a giant cage for trapping naughty children. Now she's been aske...

  • Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

    Maggie Shayne

    For the first time in one volume, the New York Times bestselling author presents three tales of paranormal romance. In "Everything She Does is Magick," a trio of matchmaking witches chooses unsuspecting little Nathan McBride as the perfect mate f...

  • Bindweed

    Janis Harrison

    The murder weapon itself was unusual--a hornet's nest placed inside a small room. But the choice of victims was stranger still. Who would kill Toby Sutton, a slow-witted but endearing young man who did odd jobs for the shopkeepers of Hawthorn Street ...

  • Black Bodies and Quantum Cats

    Jennifer Ouellette

    Physics, once known as "natural philosophy," is the most basic science, explaining the world we live in, from the largest scale down to the very, very, very smallest, and our understanding of it has changed over many centuries. In Blac...

  • Black Madonna

    Tina Shaw

  • Blackmailing the Society Bride

    Penny Jordan

    Marriage: Millionaire banker Marcus Canning has decided it's time to become a father -- and a husband.... Penniless: Lucy is facing crippling debts alone -- having kicked out her cheating, stealing ex-husband, Nick.... Wedded: Lucy knows sh...

  • Blaze

    Barbara Keaton

  • Blessed Is the Busybody

    Emilie Richards

    Meet the unconventional Aggie Sloan-Wilcox, a minister's wife with her own calling: helping troubled souls in need of justice ... Aggie's free-spirited ways have been raising many an eyebrow at the Consolidated Community Church, tucked away in th...

  • Blessed Vows

    Jillian Hart

    When waitress Rachel McKaslin reluctantly let Jake McCall move into the apartment above her family's diner, she never dreamed the handsome tech sergeant would be so charming. Soon into their joyful courtship, Jake surprised her by proposing. Now, Rac...

  • Blood Avatar

    Ilsa J. Bick

    BODY OF SECRETS... The first body that turns up in Farway, a secluded town on the planet Denebola, is from out of town. When the Denebola Bureau of Investigation and the legate's office from half a planet away decide to help identify the murder vict...

  • Blood Moon over Britain

    Morag McKendrick Pippin

    London, 1942 With the clouds of war dark and cold hanging over her, Britain is fighting the Nazis nearly alone. German U-boats are sinking homeland-bound supply ships, the Desert Fox's panzers are winning in North Africa and the Luftwaffe is shoot...

  • Blood on His Hands

    Willo Davis Roberts

    While on the run from the cops, young Marc goes in search of his father for refuge, but after so many miles with only his dog Rat to keep him company, Marc decides to give up his crazy life and come to terms with what he has done in the hopes of star...

  • Bloody Mary

    Garth Ennis

    IN 1999, WE ALL WENT BACK TO WAR. In a world only slightly worse than our own, a third great European conflict has dragged the major powers into a lethal war of attrition. Now, Mary Malone, the most dangerous assassin in a land of killers, must face ...

  • Body Box

    Lynn Abercrombie

    Terror He calls it the Body Box. It's a space too small for his victims to sit up or lie down. But it's the perfect place to keep them for his games--the perfect place to watch them while they die. Can't Be Bad choices and big mistakes have ...

  • Body in Berkley Square

    Ashley Gardner

    When an opulent ball is marred by murder, Captain Lacey's insufferably upright former friend, Colonel Brandon, is the prime suspect. With the man's fate in his hands, Lacey finally has a chance to avenge the wrongs Brandon has done to him--but at wha...

  • Boudica And the Lost Roman

    Mike Ripley

    A wry and witty new series from one of Britain's best mystery writers Despatched to the Iceni territories, Olussa arrives to hear that the Iceni king has died and his widow, Boudica, has been elected Queen. But Procurator Catus and a force of ?Specia...

  • Bought By The Greek Tycoon

    Jacqueline Baird

    Why stop at just one night--when he can buy so many more...? Greek multimillionaire Luke Devetzi will do anything to get Jemma Barnes back in his bed for a night of blazing passion.... When Luke discovers that Jemma's father is in financial...

  • Bound By Honor

    Donna Clayton

    "DO YOU OWE ME, GAGE DALTON?" His answer, like his vow during their unceremonious nuptials afterward, had been, "I do." Before each other, they'd promised to love and honor, but unspoken was their own pledge. For Jenna Butler had saved this strang...

  • The Boys and the Bees

    Joe Babcock

    A gay 12 year old boy begins his first year of junior high with the vow that this will be the year that he kisses a boy. Like The Tragedy of Miss Geneva Flowers -- only lighter, brighter and more youthful -- The Boys and the Bees is set in Minneapoli...

  • Bravo Unwrapped

    Christine Rimmer

    As editor of Alpha, the ultimate men's magazine, B. J. Carlyle is out to prove to her father, the publisher, that she's got what it takes to become editor in chief -- even if it means swallowing her pride and getting her ex, Buck Bravo, for December'...

  • Breaking New Grounds

    DiAnn Mills
    in

    Couples clash over cups of coffee in these delightful novellas by a talented team of authors. In Fresh-Brewed Love, every reader's thirst for romance will be well satisfied. From a bookstore's coffee corner to neighborhood caf?s to a coffee company i...

  • A Bride By Christmas

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    HIS LAWFULLY BEDDED BRIDE... Wedding planner Maggie Jenkins did not want to marry.... Well, she did, but when it came to matrimony, she was jinxed. Any time a Jenkins fell in love, she endured heartbreak. Saying "I do" was not in her future -- exc...

  • A Bride Worth Waiting For

    Caroline Anderson

    HE'S HAD TO WAIT NINE YEARS TO SAY, "I LOVE YOU..." Annie Shaw thinks her boyfriend, Michael Harding, died in a brutal attack nine years ago. Little does she know that Michael has been forced to live undercover with an assumed identity.... Now ...

  • Bridge of Rama

    Ashok K. Banker

    The original Ramayana -- a classic tale of war between absolute Good and Evil -- was written 3,000 years ago by Valmiki, a reformed thief-turned-sage. Now, with breathtaking imagination, Indian novelist Ashok K. Banker has recreated this epic tale ...

  • Bridge of the Separator

    Harry Turtledove

    Rhavas was a good, holy, and pious man-and the cousin of the Avtokrator. He would probably have become ecumenical patriarch of the Empire in the capital, Videssos the city . . . if his world had not suddenly and tragically fallen apart when the Empir...

  • Brighid's Quest

    P.C. Cast

    TORN BETWEEN THE POSSIBILITIES... Fleeing her centaur clan's increasingly militant beliefs, Brighid Dhianna has begun to find peace and acceptance among the humans of Clan MacCallan. Still, she agrees to leave her newly formed friendships to guide...

  • Cajun Heat

    JoAnn Ross
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    Louisiana men? Honey, talk about the Big Easy... Bad boy bayou movie star Gabe Broussard has come back to his Louisiana hometown for some peace, but things only heat up the minute he reunites with Emma Quinlan. With her lush body and hearty appeti...

  • The Captain's Lady

    Margaret McPhee

    HE SAW THROUGH HER DISGUISE When dashing Lord Nathaniel Hawke rescued a girl from drowning, the last thing he expected was for that same girl to turn up on board his ship -- disguised as a boy! Respected naval captain of the Pallas, Nathaniel had ...

  • Card Sharks

    Liz Maverick

    When they discover that all the good men are holed up around the card tables to play Texas Hold'em, Marianne and her best friend, Bijoux, decide to take up the game in the hopes of finding the men of their dreams, a scheme that goes awry when Mariann...

  • The Cardinal Rule

    Cate Dermody

    SOMETIMES A SPY HAS TO MAKE A TOUGH CHOICE. OR THREE. Somewhere in Italy, a powerful and secretive organization was creating an army of weaponized robots. The goal? To "persuade" the world that their vision of the future was the right one. And age...

  • Carolina Isle

    Jude Deveraux

    New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux uncovers the passions and scandals that take a small town by storm when two cousins switch lives. Ariel and Sara never imagined their high-spirited attempt to step into each other's shoes would caus...

  • Cat Breaking Free

    Shirley Rousseau Murphy

    "What happened? You're ready to claw the world apart." The fur starts flying when a criminal gang from L.A. invades tranquil Molena Point, California--the fur of Joe Grey, Feline P.I., that is. Joe's called Molena Point home since he was a tiny k...

  • The Cat Dancers

    P.T. Deutermann

    When two lowlifes rob a gas station, murder the attendant, and then incinerate bystanders who are filling up their minivan, the Manceford County, North Carolina, police quickly arrest the killers at a nearby motel. But a stubborn judge throws out...

  • Catastrophies, Chaos & Convolutions

    James P. Hogan

    James P. Hogan stands among the foremost writers of science fiction today, and is renowned for his ability to combine accurate science from the cutting edge of present-day research with living, breathing characters in fast-paced, suspenseful stori...

  • Catch

    Will Leitch

    Everything comes easy for Tim Temples. He’s got a sweet summer job, lots of love from the ladies, and parties with his high school buddies. Why does he need to go to college?

    Then Tim falls hard for Helena -- a worldly and mysterious twenty-...

  • Catherine: The Great Journey

    Kristiana Gregory

    Fourteen-year-old Prussian princess Sophia finds herself entangled in her mother's efforts to arrange a marriage between Sophia and Charles-Peter, a young German duke and nephew of the Russian empress Elizabeth. As Sophia's mother moves to make the m...

  • Chain a Lamb Chop to the Bed

    Denise Dietz

    Weight Winners, in Colorado Springs, is a support group for people who want to lose weight. Ellie Bernstein is its group leader. When Ellie's significant other, Peter Miller, a homicide detective with the C.S.P.D., invites her to vacation with him fo...

  • Chances

    Carolyn Brown

    Adelida Broussau took a big chance by saying she was Rueben Hamilton's new bride. But even a rat will stand up and fight when it's cornered and she was surely feeling the pinch of being pushed in the corner. Her sister, Maria, was dead. Her sorry, Ya...

  • Changelings

    Anne McCaffrey; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

    Twin brother and sister Ronan and Murel are tr children of Petaybee, the sentient planet that is their home. Like their father, they are changelings, able to converse telepathically with creatures and to transform into seals. The Petaybeans wish to p...

  • Charmed And Dangerous

    Kelsey Roberts

    WANTED He hadn't needed some dossier to remember FBI agent J. J. Barnes. Killer looks. Killer body. Killer instincts. She could take care of herself. Officially, U.S. Marshal Cody Landry led a detail to ensure J.J. lived to deliver testimony a...

  • Chasers

    Lorenzo Carcaterra

    It’s 1985, and the city that never sleeps is about to wish it had stayed in bed. The heinous machine-gun murder of innocent bystanders in a Manhattan restaurant shocks all five boroughs. The brutal slaying propels the surviving members of the Apach...

  • Cheating at Solitaire

    Ally Carter

    She's made a lot of money being single. But money isn't everything... Self-help guru Julia James is so good at being single that she's become famous for it -- advising women that they don't need a man to be happy. Then the unthinkable happens. Just ...

  • Christmas Day Fiancee

    Lucy Clark

    The doctor's Christmas proposal! Dr. Marty Williams, the new pediatric registrar, is causing quite a stir amongst the female staff at St. Gregory's. Not only is he an excellent doctor, he is gorgeous, funny and single -- and he intends to stay tha...

  • Christmas on the Children's Ward

    Carol Marinelli

    Her Christmas wish come true... Nurse Eden Hadley hopes for only two things this Christmas. More than anything she wishes that the little orphaned boy on the children's ward, who has stolen her heart, can have one real family Christmas before ...

  • Chromosome 8

    Peter Holt

    When his lung-damaged daughter, Katya, lies at Death's door, Dr. Gastro Nister goes to extremes to save her, awakening a set of ancient genes left over from primeval times. Not only does Katya survive, but now she has astonishing new inhuman abilitie...

  • City for Ransom

    Robert W. Walker

    Welcome to Chicago, 1893 -- where new wonders are being unveiled . . . and a monster feeds on the unsuspecting. Tens of thousands are flocking to a bustling, wind-swept metropolis in the middle of America for the great Exposition of 1893 -- to se...

  • Close to Perfect

    Tina Donahue

    COVER ME, BABY... Real estate mogul Josh Wyatt is hotter than hot. That body. That wicked grin. Those eyes. The man can melt panty elastic with just one look--hell, he could melt driveway ice with just one look. And the tabloid photos of him emerg...

  • Coffee Scoop

    Kathleen Miller
    in

    Couples clash over cups of coffee in these delightful novellas by a talented team of authors. In Fresh-Brewed Love, every reader's thirst for romance will be well satisfied. From a bookstore's coffee corner to neighborhood caf?s to a coffee company i...

  • The Colonel's Daughter

    Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

    A poignant and emotional love story

    In the summer of 1954, George West met young Josella Grace, the daughter of a retired colonel, and fell passionately in love with the reserved but beautiful girl a love that seemed destined never to be fulfi...

  • Conrad's Lady

    Leo Frankowski

    One moment Conrad Schwartz was suffering from a severe hangover as he hiked through the mountains of present-day Poland, the next he was hurled back to the same country in the 13th century. He remembered from his history classes that in another te...

  • The Constant Princess

    Philippa Gregory

    "I am Catalina, Princess of Spain, daughter of the two greatest monarchs the world has ever known . . . and I will be Queen of England." Thus, bestselling author Philippa Gregory introduces one of her most unforgettable heroines: Katherine of Arag...

  • The Courtesan

    Julia Justiss

    SEDUCING THE SEDUCTRESS After years of dangerous fighting on the Peninsula, Captain Jack Carrington has returned home to take up family duties and find himself a wife. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he views a fencing lesson unlike any o...

  • Coyote Frontier

    Allen Steele

    The saga of Earth's first space colonists continues as the Hugo Award -- winning author of Coyote and Coyote Rising presents a riveting novel of their struggle to create a new civilization light-years away from the world--and the problems they though...

  • The Crediton Killings

    Michael Jecks

    THE DEVONSHIRE TOWN of Crediton is awaiting an important guest, the Bishop of Exeter. But a band of mercenary soldiers is already in residence, and though mercenaries are a common sight in the fourteenth century, these men are bent on havoc. They ter...

  • Crossroads: and Other Tales of Valdemar

    Mercedes Lackey

    In March 1987, Mercedes Lackey, a young author from Oklahoma, published her first novel, Arrows of the Queen. No one could have envisioned that this modest book about a magical land called Valdemar would be the beginning of a fantasy masterwork serie...

  • Cruel Rider

    Charles G. West

    Deadwood’s always a dangerous town, but the worst is yet to come.   Bill Pike wasn’t born a bad man. It took years of hardscrabble living and a cruel, violent upbringing to forge Pike into what he is -- a savage killer with no mercy for tho...

  • Crunch Time

    Mariah Fredericks

    Leo, Max, Jane, and Daisy don't have much in common. But when they all blow off their SAT prep in favor of forming their own study group, they actually begin to bond -- over why there's so much competition over a stupid test. And what it really measu...

  • Cry from the Deep

    Ramsey Flynn

    A “superb account” of the disastrous loss of a Russian submarine off the nation’s northern coast and its repercussions (Publishers Weekly).On August 12, 2000, during one of the most important military demonstrations in post-Soviet history, an e...

  • Cult Following

    Donn Cortez

    Lieutenant Horatio Caine of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab is called in to investigate a mysterious death at an organic eatery. He finds the victim, waiter Phillip Mulrooney, bent over a stainless steel toilet, his clothing shredded. There are burn marks o...

  • A Dark and Deadly Deception

    Eleanor Taylor Bland

    Chicago detective Marti MacAlister has her work cut out for her these days. First, during the filming of a big Hollywood movie on location in Lincoln Prairie, the body of one of the film's stars turns up dead, along the shores of the Des Plaines Rive...

  • Dark Blue Death

    Jan Grape

    Austin Police officer Zoe Barrow, first seen in the Anthony award-nominated Austin City Blue, is assisting field officers in role-playing for the new police cadets at Austin Police Department's Training Academy. Zoe and fellow training officer Ann...

  • The Dark Blue Depths

    Arthur C. Clarke

  • The Dating Game

    Shirley Jump

    NOW CASTING FOR LOVE AND THE AVERAGE JILL! The Average Jill: Mattie Grant, who'd trained for a spot on a survival show but instead landed on a dating show. Mattie had never backed down from a challenge, not even one as good-looking as Bachelor #1....

  • Dawn

    Erin Hunter

    DARKNESS, AIR, WATER, AND SKY WILL COME TOGETHER...AND SHAKE THE FOREST TO ITS ROOTS. The young cats who set off on a quest many moons ago have returned with a chilling message: The Clans must move to a new home, or risk extermination. But the dan...

  • The Dead Can't Kill

    Anne Hampson

    When Sally Renshaw receives a solicitor's letter informing her of an unexpected legacy she is surprised, and not a little curious - especially when she is summoned to spend a weekend at Hazeldene Manor, along with five other beneficiaries of the will...

  • Dead Reckoning

    Linda Castillo

    Assistant D.A. Kate Megason is about to prosecute the case of her career -- a senseless double homicide caught on video. But before she can bring it to trial, someone starts sending her terrifying messages. Someone who obviously knows Kate's deep, da...

  • Dead Roots

    Nancy J. Cohen

    A haunted hotel, a family curse, mysterious Cossacks, hidden treasure, murdered guests . . . what looked to be a routine family reunion is turning into a serious Bad Hair Day indeed. One that's trouble all the way down to the .. . Marla Shore thou...

  • Dead Secret

    Beverly Connor

    In the depths of an unmapped cave, forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon makes an astonishing discovery: a decades-old skeleton. Soon, the remains of two more bodies are found--one in an old car submerged in the waters of an abandoned quarry, another ...

  • Deadly Web

    Christine Green

    A Kate Kinsella Mystery The unheralded arrival of a new client causes Kate to pause before agreeing to take on the case. The investigation surrounds the death of surgeon Rupert Decker-White at a New Year party at Fair Acres Private Hospital. His wido...

  • Dean Devlin's Triangle

    Dean Devlin

    For centuries, the Bermuda Triangle has been the location of hundreds of mysterious vanishings. Ships big and small, fighter jets, by-planes, and crafts of all sorts have simply gone missing with no explanation and no clues. All kinds of theories hav...

  • Dear Departed

    Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

    It's Detective Inspector Bill Slider's day off and he had hoped to have some quiet time with Joanna, his pregnant fiancee. But a woman's body is found in the park and he finds himself back to work sooner than he expected. At first glance, it looks as...

  • Death at King Arthur's Court

    Richard Forrest

    Children’s book author Lyon Wentworth must solve an impossible locked-room murder with a medieval twist -- or risk landing on death row. Lyon Wentworth sprints through the woods, chest heaving, dragging a broadsword behind him. He doesn’t remembe...

  • Deception

    Terri Lynn Wilhelm

    Terrified Isabel Millington has fled her home without money or social connections -- shattered by the discovery that her uncle and guardian was responsible for her parents' deaths. Until she can contact a distant relative currently overseas, she wil...

  • The Decoy Princess

    Dawn Cook

    Princess Contessa of Costenopolie knows everything a royal should about diplomacy, self-defense, politics... and shopping. She ought to. She had every reason to believe that she was groomed to rule. But her next lesson is in betrayal... The sudden...

  • Desert Star

    Kim Carrington

    Engaged to Kyle, the man of her dreams, successful businesswoman Jill Alexander wants her best friend Bebe to find love too, but when her matchmaking attempts lead to disaster, she finds both her friendship with Bebe and her relationship with Kyle th...

  • Destiny in Disguise

    Angie Daniels

    She has a secret…Mystery writer Desiree Davidson has been swept into a situation wilder than any she ever dreamed up in her books. She’s hiding out in a rundown house in Delaware, she’s changed her name to Destiny Davis, and has ...

  • Destiny of the Mountain Man

    William W. Johnstone

    Smoke Jensen was once the fastest draw in the West. He was also tired of taking on every tinhorn upstart out to make a reputation. So Jensen hung up his .45s for good. Or so he thought... WHEN A WAR NEVER DIES, A SOLDIER NEVER RESTS. In the bush c...

  • The Devil's Game

    David Holland

    It is 1834, and the town of Bellminster is thrown into the turmoil of a by-election for Parliament. Reverend Tuckworth tries to stay away from it all, but when a political rally turns deadly, the town turns to Tuckworth in hopes of staunching the blo...

  • Diamonds Take Forever

    Jessica Jiji

    Hot for the rock . . . If her old-fashioned family had never left Morocco, Michelle Benamou would have been in big trouble, being almost thirty and nowhere near married. Luckily, in the hardy multicultural stew of New York City, she's been able to...

  • Diary of a Domestic Goddess

    Elizabeth Harbison

    The Goddess Rulebook: Rule #1: Figure out what you want -- and go after it Columnist Kit Macy's dream house was almost hers. Then the entire staff of her old-fashioned household magazine was fired by the new, hip, handsome boss. No job meant no...

  • A Different Kind of Man

    Suzanne Cox

    Emalea LeBlanc is a different kind of woman. Nicknamed "Doc" by the locals, she's a psychologist, a member of the volunteer search and rescue team and an avid motorcycle enthusiast. But she's haunted by memories of an abusive father and relationships...

  • Dirty Secrets

    Karen Rose
    in

    “Karen Rose writes hold-your-breath suspense” (Karen Robards) and in this breathtaking novella she’s at her seductive best as an unexpected reunion between two friends ignites the dangerous impulses in a secret enemy… Emma Townsend is asto...

  • Disappearing Nightly

    Laura Resnick

    I'm not a heroine--I just play one. Along with psychotics, vamps, housewives and hookers. As my agent is fond of pointing out, there are more actors in New York than there are people in most other cities. Translation: beggars can't be choosers. Th...

  • Don't Look Down

    Suzanne Enoch

    The heat is on in Palm Beach -- and Rick and Samantha are sizzling. Samantha Jellicoe is no ordinary thief. At least, not anymore. She promised her significant other, British billionaire Rick Addison, that she'd retire from her life of crime. ...

  • Doomsday Conquest

    Don Pendleton

    Accountable only to the Oval Office and fully committed to the security of the U.S. in an ever-morphing terrorist landscape, the warriors of Stony Man never relent, tire, or fold. America's last line of defense understands that all it takes for evil ...

  • Double Dare

    Vicki Hinze

    IT'S CHRISTMAS EVE. BIOWARFARE EXPERT CAPTAIN MAGGIE HOLT IS AT THE MALL. AND SHE'S NOT SHOPPING. Intel said the crowded mall was the target where twisted mastermind Thomas Kunz would release his lethal supervirus. To add more pressure, this...

  • Dragon Champion

    E.E. Knight

    "Gray dragons are different, my son. It means you must be careful; your skin will be pierced more easily. But on the other hand, having no hunger for gems and gold will allow you to live in the Upper World and far from men." High in the mountains,...

  • Dreams of Justice

    Dick Adler

    Dick Adler reviews mysteries and thrillers every other week in his Crime Watch column for the Chicago Tribune. He is the co-author, with the late Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, of Public Justice, Private Mercy: A Governor's Education On Death Row. Anthony Le...

  • Duelling Princes

    Tyne O'Connell

    Dating Britain's royal Prince Freddie has made Year Eleven at St. Augustine's the best one so far for Calypso Kelly. Together with best friends Star and Georgina, and new chums Portia and Indie, LA-born Calypso at last seems to have everything she's ...

  • Edge of Hell

    Don Pendleton

    MASTERMIND OF TERROR For more than a century the world's most famous serial killer case has remained unsolved. Now, on the streets of London, the legend has come back to life-with a new twist. Jack the Ripper's grisly work is being recreated, lea...

  • The Ellsworth Trail

    Jory Sherman

    THE RAMRODDER Jock Kane would do anything for his buddy Chad Becker -- except drive the rancher's longhorns to the Ellsworth railhead in Kansas. Having lost his fortune and his faith on his last herd, and his beloved wife, Twyla, to a killer, Jock'...

  • The Emancipator's Wife

    Barbara Hambly

    As a girl growing up in Kentucky, she lived a sheltered, privileged life filled with picnics and plantation balls. Vivacious, impulsive, and intoxicated by politics, she is a Todd of Lexington, an aristocratic family whose ancestors defeated the Bri...

  • Endless Night

    Carla Cassidy
    in

    An innocent blind date spins out of control when two young lovers find themselves locked in a deadly embrace, trying to outrun the dark impulses of a killer.......

  • An Ensuing Evil and Others

    Peter Tremayne

    One of the most highly regarded writers of historical mysteries, Peter Tremayne has written novels and stories that have been enjoyed by readers worldwide. For the first time, An Ensuing Evil and Others collects fourteen of his historical mysteries r...

  • Envy

    Robin Wasserman

    Kane and Harper know what they want: Beth and Adam. And they know how to get it: Break up the shiny happy couple once and for all. Miranda thinks she knows how to hit on Kane (Mr. Unattainable). But she could take a few pointers from the all-know...

  • The Epicure

    H.R. Howland

    As renowned Dr. Bennett Sykes, along with an elite society called the Epicureans, prepares to partake in an ancient ritual of eating human flesh to renew his soul, young Susie begins having visions of this madman and fears for the lives of those she ...

  • Essential Spider-Woman, Volume 1

    Marvel Book Group

  • Even Now

    Karen Kingsbury

    Sometimes hope for the future is found in the ashes of yesterday. Shane Galanter--a man ready to put down roots after years of searching. But is he making the right choice? Or is there a woman somewhere who even now remembers--as does he-- those l...

  • Exiles - Volume 2: A World Apart

    Judd Winick

    Collects Exiles (2001) #5-11. Deep in the Canadian outback lurks the gamma-spawned behemoth known as the Incredible Hulk, but can the Exiles and Alpha Flight save an entire nation from the green goliath's rampage?...

  • Exiles - Volume 3: Out of Time

    Judd Winick

    Collects Exiles (2001) #12-19. The reality-hopping Exiles run into the team known as Weapon X, Mimic faces off against Namor, and Morph is forced to host his own TV show!....

  • Extreme Satisfaction

    Brenda Jackson
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    This sexy novella, previously released in Mr. Satisfaction and Some Like It Hot, is now available as a standalone by New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson!Successful financial adviser Cathleen McAlister has worked hard to achieve what she ...

  • A Fabulous Wedding

    Dianne Castell

    Her Second Chance After a health scare leaves Dixie Carmichael shaking in her cowboy boots, she puts her deli job on the back burner and pursues a lifelong dream of becoming an ace reporter. Ready to make a flaming statement about her brand-new outl...

  • Fade the Heat

    Colleen Thompson

    Someone is setting fires in the Houston barrio, and Dr. Jack Montoya is the first intended victim. Is there some connection between the torching of his apartment and the gorgeous blonde from his past who appears at his clinic on the same day? For sur...

  • Fancy Nancy

    Jane O'Connor

    Meet Nancy, who believes that more is ALWAYS better when it comes to being fancy. From the top of her tiara down to her sparkly studded shoes, Nancy is determined to teach her family a thing or two about being fancy. How Nancy transforms her paren...

  • Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne - Volume 5

    John Byrne

    Learn the fantastic mysteries of Mister Fantastic's past as he searches for his time-tramping father and reveals his pre-FF invasion-foiling credentials in a fight against a monster in the classic Marvel style! Travel to a world of cowboys and amazon...

  • Fantastic Four, Volume 3: The Return of Doctor Doom Digest

    Mark Waid

  • Feels Like Home // A Mommy for Christmas

    Maggie Shayne

    Wife Wanted Love not required or even desired. Or so Chicago cop Jimmy Corona thought when he returned to his Oklahoma hometown and ran smack into Kara Brand. All Jimmy wanted was to find a mother for his son, someone to keep little Tyler safe wh...

  • Fetish

    Tara Moss

    Mak is young, beautiful--and in grave danger. An international fashion model, she arrived in Australia on assignment, only to find her best friend brutally murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer with a very deadly fetish. Before she knows it,...

  • Fevreblau

    Kenneth M. Hoover

    Nikolai Sholokhov has arrived in Moscow for what is euphemistically called "Privilege," after spending eighteen months on the Moon calibrating an array for the Star Whisper Project - an ultra-secret program that has detected radio signals around a di...

  • Fields of Gold

    Bridget Kraft

    Kellen O'Roarke is out for revenge. Wealthy Jonathan Clark swindled Kellen's family, and when his heartbroken father died in poverty, Kellen vowed to bring Clark down. Now, with his plans to open a hot springs resort, he is within reach of his goal. ...

  • Final Betrayal

    Elaine Taylor

    Catherine Calabretta, CEO of Emerging Technologies Consulting, is the country's most admired computer consultant. Before she appears on the cover of BusinessWorld as America's Guardian of Privacy, a friend introduces her to a handsome and sophisticat...

  • The Final Key

    Catherine Asaro

    The Final Key is the second and concluding part of the story known as Triad, which began in Schism. Schism ended with the Skolian Empire torn asunder by personal conflict within the royal family, as Sauscony defied her father and joined the Skolian m...

  • Finding Love Again

    Shelley Galloway

    Denise Reece returns to Peyton, Ohio for a variety of reasons. Her fiancée broke up with her, life in California didn't turn out like she hoped, and she's inherited a run-down theater. Things become even more confusing when she meets Ethan Flynn--th...

  • The Five Senses

    Herve Tullet

    "By introducing young readers to the marvels of the five senses-see, hear, smell, touch, taste-this is a book to tickle the senses of all ages!
    The five senses are the gateways children use when exploring their world. This charming book will help...

  • Flirting With Disaster

    Sherryl Woods

    OPPOSITES ATTRACT, BUT THEY DON'T LAST At least that's what improper Southern belle Maggie Forsythe thinks after being unceremoniously dumped two weeks before getting hitched to a man even her mother approves of. Maggie has never given two figs wh...

  • Flirting With Disaster

    Deborah Nicholson

    The delightful new Kate Carpenter Mystery It's springtime in the city and the first festival of the summer is taking place. Amidst clowns and bands and face painters, Kate Carpenter and her friends are working for the Festival while enjoying the suns...

  • For Love or Money

    Wendy Wax

  • Forbidden Magic

    Cheyenne McCray

    STRANGERS D'Anu witch Silver Ashcroft knows she walks a perilous line by practicing gray magic. But it's the only way to protect herself from the evil that surrounds her. After the horrors she has witnessed, Silver thinks she is ready for anything.....

  • Forgotten Souls

    T.G. Arsenault

    Andrea Varney spent her childhood in cemeteries, finding a certain peace in the quiet cities of the dead. As the first whispers of the dead fill her ears, Andrea learns of a mission she must fulfill: to remember the dead who have lost their hold in t...

  • Friends With Benefits

    Randi Reisfeld

    Las Vegas has never seen stars as bright as these. Four young celebutantes who know that what happens in Vegas--and their clique--stays there. These girls never have to pick and choose when it comes to hooking up. Why should they? They can have it al...

  • The Friendship Test

    Elizabeth Noble

    One late wine- and gossip-fueled night, four friends on a lark create a fateful test of friendship -- one that challenges the very principles and boundaries of their alliance. To pass it means to never, at any cost, betray one another. Twenty years l...

  • Fugitive

    Christine Harris

    If you make the wrong choice, you die. Jesse is on assignment again, to track down and bring into C2 headquarters a man called Ari. Why is C2 so desperate to find this man? How will Jesse seize him when he is protected day and night by a clever, rut...

  • Gacha Gacha, Volume 2

    Hiroyuki Tamakoshi

    A TROUBLING TRANSFORMATION

    Kouhei was just developing feelings for his childhood friend Kurara when she went on vacation to Hawaii. On her return, she brought home a sexy new split personality, “Arisa.” Kouhei swore to stay by Kurara’s s...

  • Geezer

    Jonathan Lowe

  • George and Rue

    George Elliott Clarke

    It was, by all accounts,, a “slug-ugly” crime. Brothers George and Rufus Hamilton, in a robbery gone wrong, drunkenly bludgeoned a taxi driver to death with a hammer. It was 1949, and the two siblings, part Mi’kmaq and part African, were both h...

  • Get a Life

    Nadine Gordimer

    A young man's treatment for cancer inspires profound changes in his family. Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in South Africa, believes he understands the trajectory of his life, with the usual markers of vocation and marriage. But when he's diagnosed wit...

  • Ghost Hunt, Volume 2

    Fuyumi Ono

    HOUSE OF HORROR

    High school student Mai Taniyama, her handsome boss Kazuya Shibuya (aka Naru), and other members of Shibuya Psychic Research are now tackling the eerie case of the Morishita family. What is the tragic story hidden within the Mo...

  • Gift of a Family

    Sarah Morgan

    When it comes to relationships, E.R. consultant Josh Sullivan is very happily single, and despite the attempts of the beautiful women he dates, he intends to stay that way. Single mom Dr. Kat O'Brien would usually be completely off-limits to him,...

  • The Girl Who Came Back

    Barbara McMahon

    Home, Sweet Home? When Eliza Shaw was sixteen, her life was torn apart. False accusations meant the only home she'd ever known -- a foster home -- was destroyed, and she and her two foster sisters were separated. That same year, tragedy struck Cad...

  • Good Day in Hell

    J.D. Rhoades

    Bail enforcement officer Jack Keller is doing a skip trace on a young woman from the right side of the tracks who somehow got involved with the wrong kind of man. But Laurel Marks’s history doesn’t matter to Jack -- she’s wanted on a parole vio...

  • Good Girls Don't

    Kelley St. John

    THE GOOD GIRL PLEDGE By Lettie Campbell 1. A Good Girl doesn't lie. OK, except when I'm on the job. At My Alibi, I'm well paid to provide cover stories 24/7. 2. Good Girl knows money isn't everything. I'm not greedy, honest! The fast cash ...

  • Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It

    Lucy Monroe

    SURPRISE, SURPRISE The last woman business consultant Marcus Danvers expects to find at Kline Electronics is Veronica Richards. He's supposed to be rooting out a corporate spy, not rehashing an old love affair--with the woman who sold out the compan...

  • The Granville Affaire

    Una-Mary Parker

    The women of the Granville family find their lives changed -- and endangered -- as World War II rages in this novel in the “sweeping and poignant series” (Booklist).   The Granville family has fled bomb-torn London for Hartley Hall in Surrey...

  • A Grave Error // Murder in Rome

    Roy Lewis

    Archaeologist Arnold Landon's attendance at a conference in Rome leads him into the world of professional grave robbers, when he stumbles upon a revenge killing in the Etruscan city of the dead. Back in less glamorous Northumberland, DCI O'Connor has...

  • Gravity: Big-City Super Hero Digest

    Mike Norton

    You've made your way through high school and moved out of your parents' house. You're finally ready to get a job, pick a major, and meet the girl of your dreams. You've got it all figured out... right? Meet freshman Greg Willis, NYC newbie from the r...

  • The Great Fake-Out

    Alice Alfonsi

    When Phil's class goes on a field trip to Pickford Tomato Ranch where everybody gets barefoot to stomp on tomatoes, Phil becomes nervous that his classmates will discover his secret that he's from the future since he only has four toes....

  • Grin and Bear It

    Leslie LaFoy

    Question: How am I, a smart, confident -- and did I mention, innocent? -- woman supposed to react when smack-dab in the middle of my messy divorce the single-engine plane of my soon-to-be ex-husband crashes into the mountains of Montana's Bitterro...

  • The Gutter And the Grave

    Ed McBain

    Detective Matt Cordell was happily married once, and gainfully employed, and sober. But that was before he caught his wife cheating on him with one of his operatives and took it out on the man with the butt end of a .45. Now Matt makes his home o...

  • Hand in Glove

    Andrea Jackson

    The ancient Staff of the Nakisisi is supposed to have religious and magical properties. Victor Santiago has agreed to recover the stolen artifact for his old mentor. Victor's Afro-Latin good looks and cool manner are used to shield his unquenchable...

  • Happy Heartwood Day

    David Kirk

  • Havoc

    R.J. Pineiro

    When CIA Officer Tom Grant was pulled out of early retirement to investigate a recent high-tech robbery at United States Nanotechnologies, America's government-run agency for the development of nanoweapons, he had no idea that he would be propelled i...

  • Heart of the Dove

    Tina St. John

    On a wild, enchanted shore, magical love awaits... The darkest heart . . . Everything that Randwulf of Greycliff loved was torn from his grasp in a night of fire and terror. His wife and child slain, his manor destroyed, Rand now lives for one ...

  • Her Scoundrel

    Geralyn Dawson

    Dear Friends, Bad luck, bad timing and a truly bad decision have taken the mischief right out of this Menace. Grown-up and wiser, I'm finally ready to take charge of my life. I'm through being impulsive. I'm done being reckless. I will not take up...

  • Her Sexiest Mistake

    Jill Shalvis

    HER CHOO'S WERE MEANT FOR WALKING... Mia Appleby has it all. Just ask her. A fab career in marketing with a salary that keeps her in her favorite designers and a condo in the Los Angeles hills... everything she dreamed of as a little girl gazing out...

  • High Heels and Homicide // Maggie In Too Deep

    Kasey Michaels

    When mystery author Maggie Kelly pops across the pond for a movie shoot--accompanied by her once-fictional, now all-too-real (not to mention sexy) hero, Alexandre, Viscount Saint Just--she's in for a jolly good time... We are not amused... Don...

  • The High-Impact Infidelity Diet

    Lou Harry; Eric Pfeffinger

    A WHOLE NEW WAY TO CHEAT ON YOUR DIET Meet Brin and Martin, Cheryl and Doug, Dierdre and Randy. Three normal married couples who share a common problem: all of the husbands weigh over 300 pounds -- and not much of that’s muscle. The concerned wive...

  • The Hired Hand

    Robert D. San Souci

    Out of greed, Young Sam tries to duplicate the healing powers of the new hired hand at his Virginia saw mill, but when he ends up killing a woman instead of curing her, he learns to repent his old ways. Reprint....

  • His Comfort and Joy // The Player

    Jessica Bird

    Getting tangled up in fantasies about some man Joy saw maybe five or six times a year was ridiculous And it wasn't like Gray ever encouraged her. He remembered her name. But that was as far as it ever got. Well, except in her dreams. In real l...

  • His Mother's Wedding

    Judy Duarte

    When private investigator Rico Garcia arrived to visit his recently engaged mother, becoming involved with her wedding planner was the last thing on his mind. But his matchmaker of a mom had other ideas -- and an assignment to find the starry-eyed Mo...

  • Home Spun

    Nilita Vachani

  • The Homecoming

    Anne Marie Winston

    Feel the emotion as a special woman reunites a father with his long-lost son...and three people become a family. After his son's disappearance, millionaire Danny Crosby couldn't go home again and fled to a private hideaway off the coast of Hawaii. B...

  • Honor

    Kevin Killiany

    #58 STARFLEET CORPS OF ENGINEERS While repairing an observation post, P8 Blue and Domenica Corsi find themselves caught in the middle of an interplanetary conflict involving a pre-warp civilization -- with one side unwilling to fight, even to defen...

  • Hot Whispers of an Irishman

    Dorien Kelly

    When Ballymuir's sharp-witted artist Violet Kilbride, who inherited the gift of second sight from her beloved grandmother, decides to sell her nan's cottage in Duncarraig, she returns to a town that holds complicated memories. Vi fell in love with Li...

  • Hot Wired

    Jane Isenberg

    A Bum Rap At long last, fifty-something New Jersey community college professor Bel Barrett can kick back and appreciate life with a loving new husband and the kids grown and on their own. But when an angry ex-student posts a nasty hip-hop screed ab...

  • How Do I Love You?

    Leslie Kimmelman

    From little muddy feet to chocolate cheeks to favorite silly dances, there are many reasons to love -- and there are even more ways to express love.

    Celebrate the bond between parents and children in this sweet and playful counting book tha...

  • Hugville

    Court Crandall

    Hugville is a town full of unusual hugs. If you come to visit, learn how to squeeze a friend with the Octopus Hug, twist him with the Tornado Hug, and tickle him with the Monkey Hug! The friendly Mayor will guide you on a tour of Hugville, and he’l...

  • Hush, Little Baby

    Brian Pinkney

    Mama has errands to run, so it is up to Papa and big brother to stop baby sister from crying. And, as families familiar with this popular American lullaby know, they will try just about anything to convince baby to smile again.

    Award-winning...

  • Ice Princess

    Joy King
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    Extreme Satisfaction
    by Brenda Jackson
    Successful financial adviser Cathleen McAlister has worked hard to achieve what she considers the perfect life. There isn't much else she could possibly want . . . except the man who got away while she...

  • Icing on the Lake

    Catherine Clark

    New Year's Resolutions by Kirsten (with help from Crystal, Jones, and Emma) 1. Survive the month at my sister's house. Survive my 3-yr-old nephew and crazy sister. 2. Learn to ice skate better. Or not fall down. Or just get a cuter skating outfi...

  • In Good Hands

    E.C. Sheedy
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    Louisiana men? Honey, talk about the Big Easy... How does Esme Shane let her sister talk her into these things? Sketching a zillionaire's Gulf Island hideaway in exchange for a free vacation is turning out to be no day at the beach. Dane McCoy is ...

  • In Lucia's Eyes

    Arthur Japin

    Lucia works as a servant girl in Italy and is engaged to be married. But after the pox disfigures her face, she flees in shame without telling her lover. Years later, as a reknowned Amsterdam courtesan who never goes out without her veil, Lucia is at...

  • In The Arms Of The Sheikh

    Sophie Weston

    THE BRIDESMAID AND THE BEST MAN! Natasha Lambert is a stylish career girl who's horrified by what she has to wear as her best friend's bridesmaid! Worse, the best man is Kazim al Saraq--an infuriatingly charming sheikh with a dazzling wit and an o...

  • The Insatiable Spiderman

    Pedro Juan Gutierrez

    Pedro Juan Gutierrez exploded onto the literary landscape three years ago with his bestselling novel, Dirty Havana Trilogy. Hugely acclaimed for its honest depiction of a Cuban capital characterized by sleaze, sex, poverty and hedonism, in The Insati...

  • Island Intrigue

    Wendy Howell Mills

    Sabrina Dunsweeney, who has a tendency toward hypochondria and very bad cooking, moves to tiny, isolated Comico Island to recover from a cancer scare and the sudden loss of her mother. There she meets a man who tells her about Walk-the-Plank Wrightly...

  • The Isle of Stone

    Nicholas Nicastro

    For twenty-seven years, the Peloponnesian War has raged between Athens and Sparta, its intensity and destructiveness unprecedented in ancient times. In 425 B.C., a pivotal battle is fought on the island of Sphacteria. Under siege by the Athenian navy...

  • It's Hug Day!

    Sarah Willson

    It's Hug Day in Blue's Room -- and there are lots of games to play! Doodleboard is drawing pictures for a guessing game, and Polka Dots has three clues for a special Hug Day suprise. Can you guess what it is?...

  • The Italian's Convenient Wife

    Catherine Spencer

    A marriage proposal... When Paolo Rainero's niece and nephew are orphaned, he arranges to marry Caroline Leighton, the twins' American aunt, to protect them. But first he must show Callie that he's changed since their affair nine years ago. And a...

  • Jane Millionaire

    Janice Lynn

    TUNE IN On the set of Wolf TV's hot new reality show "Jane Millionaire," the steamiest scenes aren't in front of the camera--they're in between takes. TURN ON With twelve gorgeous bachelors at her beck and call, Jill Davidson (AKA Jane) should b...

  • The Jinx

    Jennifer Sturman

    When everything's going right, it's a sure sign that things are about to go very, very wrong. Rachel Benjamin's life might look glamorous but she has worked into the early morning on more nights, canceled more weekend plans and slept in more Holid...

  • Keeping Her Safe

    Myrna MacKenzie

    "Nothing scares me...except losing control of my life." -- Natalie McCabe, investigative journalist When investigative journalist Natalie McCabe discovers a local investment bank is taking retirees for a ride, she's all over the case, even going...

  • The King Imperiled

    Deborah Chester

    Now, evil strikes from the unlikeliest source amidst spells, intrigue--and heartless betrayal... Twelve years ago, King Faldain and his beloved warrior-wife Queen Alexeika, rescued their two daughters, taken forcefully from the palace by the barba...