Books Published in February 1989

New Books List: 369 titles

  • Vengeance of Orion

    Ben Bova

    Fresh from a space battle, Orion finds himself thrust back in time to confront gods in the ancient world, to Greece where he must prevent the Greek army from destroying the citadel of Troy, to Jericho to bring down the walls, to Egypt... If he fails,...

  • Mallory and the Trouble with Twins

    Ann M. Martin

    Mallory knows she's a good baby-sitter. She's been looking after her seven younger brothers and sisters for years. So when Kristy offers her a steady job baby-sitting for the Arnold twins, Mal thinks it'll be easy money. The twins sure are cute in...

  • Citadels of Mystery

    L. Sprague de Camp

  • Ask Me What I Want

    Rosemarie Santini

    Talented and attractive, young Alice Martin must make some difficult choices--between a career as a veterinarian or a fashion model, and between shy Bobby Benton and outgoing Matt McDain--while trying to please everyone....

  • A Mother's Secret

    Carolyn Haddad

  • Farewell Horizontal

    K.W. Jeter

    The cylinder was the world and within it lived the Horizontal dwellers--factory drudges and the wealthy, privileged few. Seeking to escape the Horizontal, Ny Axxter, a free-lance graffex artist, took to the Vertical, the outside of the Cylinder. Here...

  • The Heart's Secrets

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    A tempestuous Irish beauty. A California gentleman. A love challenged by... AMID THE ARROGANT MANSIONS OF SAN FRANCISCO'S NOB HILL, AN IRISH FIREBRAND WON A RARE AND SPLENDID LOVE... Dublin O'Driscoll left her tiny Irish island, traveling hal...

  • Burning Water

    Mercedes Lackey

    Something ancient and incredibly powerful is stalking Dallas. First it attacked cattle, now it's going after people: men, women, even children-dozens at a time. And it leaves behind an aura of supernatural evil. Detective Mark Valdez feels that ev...

  • Raiders

    Barry Myers

  • Ride for Vengeance

    J.R. Roberts

    The six bank robbers had taken more than gold from the vault. They took the sheriff's life...and left Rick Hartman a bloody, beaten mess. Now, the Gunsmith's friend is lying unconscious with a slug in his chest. The doc says it is a coma, and all the...

  • Doc Leroy, M.D.

    J.T. Edson

    Doc Leroy was the best sawbones on the range--and a cowboy to boot. But those foolish enough to cross him quickly found that Doc Leroy was mighty handy with a gun, and he could cure all their ills with a lightning draw....

  • On the Trail of Four

    Max Brand

  • Lone Star and the Medicine Lodge Shootout

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki track down a crooked banker to save a town in the seventy-ninth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the martial ...

  • Longarm in a Desert Showdown

    Tabor Evans

    A DESERT HELL RUNS RED WITH BLOOD... Arizona's Sonora Desert is the closest thing to hell Longarm's ever seen. It's hot as a stove, and water is more precious than gold. But the Papago Indians and a few rugged ranchers manage to scratch out a livi...

  • The Hangman

    Justin Ladd

  • Love's Sweet Captive

    Blaine Anderson

    Lady Braetana is taken captive by Thorgunn, a Viking sea captain, and, although the Vikings had killed her mother, Lady Braetana can feel only desire for her attractive kidnapper. RAPTURE'S SLAVE -- As the limestone cliffs of her Glendonwyck van...

  • Wayfaring Stranger

    Jackie Black

    A BEAUTIFUL, DETERMINED AMERICAN WOMAN A desperate search for truth drove Anne Gatewood to grab the first plane to Peru. The American embassy had wired that her sister, Linda, had been killed in an auto accident, but Linda's last letter hinted at a ...

  • An Intriguing Desire

    Janice Bennett

    Charles Marcombe was ready to retire. The British secret agent had done his bit against the blasted Bonaparte -- legends would be told about his exploits as Le Maniganceur, The Intriguer. Now it was time to nurse his wounds and come to terms with the...

  • The Right Suitor

    Rebecca Ashley

    HOW COULD SHE WED AN ENGLISHMAN? SHE KNEW LITTLE OF THE ENGLISH AND EVEN LESS OF MEN! As much as Priscilla Springton longed to remain in India, her parents insisted on a proper English marriage. They'd even picked the groom! Priscilla, however, wa...

  • Heaven Sent

    Virginia Brown

    BEAUTY AND THE BOUNTY HUNTER To the wild green hills of Idaho came lovely Hannah McGuire. Teaching in her father's missionary school, flame-haired Hannah braved the lawless frontier with a prayer on her lips. Leering men and scream-bullets cou...

  • Tender Savage // Beloved Warrior

    Phoebe Conn

    TOO FAST TO STOP When innocent Erica Hansen fled to Minnesota to escape the Civil War's horrors, she had no idea she was stepping right into the middle of an Indian uprising. And until a painted, whooping brave swept her onto his stallion, she never...

  • Acts of Love

    Helen Chappell

  • Escapade

    Marian Devon

    SOARING ACROSS THE CHANNEL WITH A ROGUE? HER ADVENTURES WERE JUST BEGINNING! Lady Maria Carlton, woefully tired of her insipid life, eagerly followed the exploits of the intrepid lady aeronaut, Madame Blanchard. But when she attended one of Madame...

  • The Heather and the Blade

    Marian Devon

    IN STRUGGLE WAS BORN THEIR PASSION. IN SURRENDER THEIR LOVE. Spirited Laurie Campbell was a pawn of peace -- married into the traitorous MacDonald clan to end an ancient feud. Proud and defiant, she boldly challenged the mocking eyes of her new ...

  • Prisoner of Passion

    Jean Haught

    PRINCE CHARMING Virginia Branson was tired of being a slave to her father's drunken tirades. After leaving their home in Texas, he had practically wasted all of the profits from their small business on whiskey and gambling - and Virginia had all to...

  • Night Fire

    Catherine Coulter

    ONLY HIS BURNING LOVE COULD SAVE HER Trapped into a loveless marriage, Arielle Leslie knew a life of shame and degradation. Even after the death of her brutal husband, she was unable to free herself from the shackles of humiliation. Only Burke Dru...

  • Foul Play

    Steffie Hall

    When Amy Klasse loses her TV job to a dancing chicken, handsome veterinarian Jake Elliott rescues her with an offer to be his receptionist. Jake just can't resist a damsel-in-distress and Amy certainly doesn't mind Jake's charming sinceri...

  • The Silver Land

    Nancy Harding

    She was the beauty who fired men's dreams-the shing heart of a legendary age. Daughter of a peaceful Celtic clan, Melangell fell captive to Nechlan, the firece warrior-king. The green-eyed beauty was his destined bride-and his fate, according to anc...

  • In My Wildest Dreams

    Ellen Tanner Marsh

    She recklessly tasted his passion. Now she yearned for the sweet wine of his love... Fiery-haired Rowena de Bernard had been exiled by Napoleon's conquests from the luxurious French chateau of her birth to the snowy moors of Scotland. Then Capta...

  • The Rialto Affair

    Jan Mathews

    Two years ago, Dr. Amanda Pearson gave hotshot criminal lawyer Tyler Marshall more than just the professional testimony he needed to win the biggest case the town of Rialto had ever seen. Amanda had given Tyler herself, too. And then he was gone. She...

  • Firebrand

    Susan Kyle

    HE DARED TO TEACH HER LOVE Gaby Cane had always been a bit afraid of Bowie McCayde. When Gaby was fifteen and shaken by tragedy, Bowie's parents had taken her in; yet even on their sprawling Arizone ranch, she had sensed his simmering resentment. ...

  • Hall of Sparrows

    Beth Carlsey Jones

    The battle cry of bloody Viking invasion swept across Britain, dividing its people into vengeful enemies in a kingdom at war... And with a blazing spirit as furious as the raging battle was the unconquerable Emma, a fallen noblewoman driven from h...

  • Fortune's Bride

    Cheryl Spencer

    LOVE'S HAUNTING QUESTIONS Bound by a mysterious contract made years earlier by her father, young, innocent Kaytlene Newell broods as she awaits the arrival of her bridegroom. Equally furious, Daevon Merrick, Earl of Merrick, assumes only blackmail w...

  • Frontier Temptress

    Patricia Pellicane

    SHE'D DO ANYTHING TO GO WEST When high-spirited Mattie Trumont learned her sister's killer was living comfortably in Sacramento, the black-haired beauty swore she'd travel there and give him his due. But after she hired towering Mike Callahan to be...

  • San Antonio

    Sara Orwig

    SAN ANTONIO, the untamed territory of Texas, where acres of wilderness were up for grabs and fortunes were waiting for every man who had fought for Texas. SAN ANTONIO, where Luke Danby, growing up in this land of peril and promise, was driven by a...

  • Savage Revenge

    Theresa (1) Scott

    UNBEARABLE BONDAGE...UNBRIDLED PASSION...UNFETTERED LOVE... A fiery Indian beauty, Haina would accept no man as her master, not even the virile warrior who had made her his captive. For years their families had been fierce enemies, and now Chance ha...

  • Savage Heat

    Nan Ryan

    SHE WAS THE GENERAL'S GOLDEN-HAIRED DAUGHTER. Recklessly she danced the night away. Newly arrived at the Denver cavalry post, she was the darling of the regiment... until a shadow fell across her path -- a raven-haired man who made her blood run hot...

  • Moonshadow

    Susan Wiggs

    PASSION'S SURRENDER Brash, beautiful Jessica Darling preferred to forget what she'd done to survive her destitute childhood. Now, her shameful past safely behind her, she found contentment as the governess of two motherless children -- until their...

  • Reckless

    Sherryl Woods

    SHE CAN SMELL A DETECTIVE A MILE AWAY. Amanda Roberts is a natural, a New York-bred ace reporter who got stuck doing boring stories for a rural Georgia newspaper, like covering a cooking demonstration by the world-famous Chef Maurice. But when the ...

  • Deep Quarry

    John E. Stith

    First published by Ace Books.

    In Deep Quarry, Stith once again successfully combines mystery with hard science fiction. Ben Takent is a private eye on a hot, dusty world at the edge of the civilized galaxy. When he's asked to find out who is ...

  • The Struggle

    Jerry Ahern

    IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY -- WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE…? In the post-apocalyptic world, consumed by World War III, right and wrong, virtue and vice have skewed their meanings. Old animosities remain; new and deadly all...

  • The Shinglo

    Alex Kane

    It started in Vietnam. Deep in the steaming jungles of war, a hidden, sacred cave offered refuge to a handful of desperate American soldiers. It was their only chance for survival. And the horror of that moment, that hideous underground hell, would h...

  • After Sundown

    Randall Boyll

  • The Trench Soldier

    Barry Sadler

    Casca Longinus. Curst by Christ on Golgotha. Condemned to outlive the ages and wander the globe a constant soldier. Forever fighting, surviving, waiting for Him to return. World War I. It was mankind's first taste of modern warfare. And before it ...

  • Late at Night

    William Schoell

    BEDTIME STORY They had gathered for a weekend on notorious Lammerty Island, a harsh outcropping of rock off the coast of Maine with an unsavory reputation for repeated violence and bloodshed. But none of the assembled guests believed rumors of an ...

  • On the Seas of Destiny

    Ru Emerson

    In this, the third tale of the Nedao people, Nisana the AEldra of the cat-kind narrates her experience among the beleaguered humans. She wishes that there were others left to speak of such a story, yet she is the only witness able to tell of it. Shar...

  • Razor's Edge

    Robert W. Walker

  • Backblast

    Lee McKeone

    Conek Hayden had been ducking both planetary and space police for much of his life, smuggling, running, and dodging blaster bolts -- until he had enough to buy his good-guy license. Now it's back to square one. The militaristic Amal have taken ove...

  • The Ascension Factor

    Frank Herbert; Bill Ransom

    “This final collaboration between the late Herbert (Dune) and Ransom is a worthy sequel to their novel The Lazarus Effect.” -- Publishers Weekly   Pandora’s humans have been recovering land from its raging seas at an accelerated pace sinc...

  • Wizard's Bane

    Rick Cook

    What do you get when a computer geek crosses a wizard? Answer: A very angry wizard--and a computer geek in a lot of trouble. Spells are a lot like computer programs: they're both formulas, recipes for getting things done. And they both can be bu...

  • Feather Stroke

    Sydney J. Van Scyoc

    Dara, an outcast girl of the mountains with magical powers and the ability to commune with birds, returns to her village where she must fight to save her people from tyrannical rule and herself from a loveless, arranged marriage...

  • The Black Jade Road

    Kathryn Grant

  • Space Folk

    Poul Anderson

  • New Moon

    Midori Snyder

    Oran is simmering with tension... Two hung red years ago, the Fire Queen destroyed her rival queens of Earth, Air, and Water in the fateful Burning and took power over the land. No child with a trace of the elemental magic was allowed to live. Yea...

  • Vettius and His Friends

    David Drake

    For centuries Rome ruled the most diverse grouping of races and cultures ever under a single dominion. But sorcerous powers as black as Time itself gather barbarians to shatter Roman peace. Vettius, a soldier as ruthless as his age demands and Dama, ...

  • Terry's Universe

    Beth Meacham

    This collection of all new short fiction by thirteen of today's top science fiction writers represents a memorial to the late Terry Carr and includes contributions by Ursulia K. Le Guin, Roger Zelazny, and Robert Silverberg, among others...

  • The Sea Sword

    Adrienne Martine-Barnes

  • Metaconcert

    Julian May

    All over the world, the metapsychics are honing their skills, learning to stretch their incredible minds far beyond the ken of ordinary humans. Most are dedicated to the harmony of the human soul. But some have darker intentions...

    If the meta...

  • Prison Planet

    William C. Dietz

    Convicted of a crime he did not commit, Jonathan Renn is sentenced to life in the Swamp, a prison-planet death row in a distant galaxy. Renn only has two choices: Escape the Swamp or die in the process. Defending himself from attacks by deadly, na...

  • Proteus Unbound

    Charles Sheffield

    Behrooz Wolf lost his job with the Bureau of Form Control when his great love Mary left him. The solar system''s expert on form control sat hooked to a dream machine to escape his lonely and hallucination-filled reality. Then the form control mach...

  • Revenge of the Damned

    Allan Cole; Chris Bunch

    THE GREAT ESCAPE Sten had fully expected to die in a blaze of glory, taking his Emperor's greatest foe with him. Instead he was a slave laborer in a P.O.W. camp deep in the heart of enemy territory. But sitting out the action had never been Ste...

  • Daughter of the Lion

    Jennifer Roberson

    THE POWER OF THE LIR IS HERS-- She is Keely twin sister to Corin, and, daughter of Niall, the ruler of Homana, and she alone has the power to shapechange into any form, a power akin to that of the Firstborn. And like her brothers, Keely has been c...

  • A Rebel in Time

    Harry Harrison

    Can history be changed?Can the South still win the War Between the States?Colonel McCulloch thinks so...and his gold, his gun, and some very special blueprints stand behind him to help him prove it.Sargeant Harmon is a black man who hopes not...and o...

  • One Whiff of Scandal

    Judith Arnold

    Can love survive scandal? Sex, money and power -- for weeks, Griffin had been investigating what promised to be the worst scandal ever to hit the sleepy Rhode Island communities. Then Granby Record reporter Jill Bergland stumbled onto the story. S...

  • Family Ties

    Kay Bartlett

    HEARTSTRINGS For social worker Ben Norwood, Anne Gregory had become much more than the mother of a boy who was one of his cases. But how could he tell her that he fantasized about making love to her? The truth would destroy his professionalism and...

  • Near the Edge

    Patt Bucheister

    When Joanna Kerr insisted in a honey-smoke voice that she didn't need protection, Alex Tanner drew closer, welcoming her resistance. There was little satisfaction in easy conquest, and something in her cool eyes tempted him to melt her ladylike f...

  • Arizona Vixen

    LaRee Bryant

    Sabra Powers knew that her fate had been decided the moment she locked eyes with the handsome stranger in the park. Although she too was new to the Arizona territory, she didn't recognize the man from the various social events she'd been frequenting....

  • Calypso's Cowboy

    Lynne Marie Bryant

    When Smokejumper Caly Robbins parachuted onto the wilderness ranch, she expected to fight a fire-but instead she was swept into the arms of the gorgeous black-haired cowboy of her dreams! With a thoroughly masculine smile he provoked his captured ang...

  • A Death in the House

    Stella Cameron

    Secrets... ...secrets of the past. What happened long ago in the cellars of Airstone Hall in Dorset, England, was coming back to haunt the present. Sue-Ellen Hill didn't realize that taking on the task of turning the old Elizabethan house into a b...

  • A Most Convenient Marriage

    Suzanne Carey

    BABY BOOM Widow Rachel Vanden Ross couldn't believe her ears. Marcus Davenport, one of the richest men in Europe had proposed to her! It should have been a scene out of a fairy tale, but there was a catch--Marcus only wanted a wife in order to hav...

  • A Man Around the House

    Donna Carlisle

    HUSBAND FOR HIRE There were squirrels in the fireplace, dust balls in the hallways, and her cat refused to eat. To busy executive Kendra Phillips, Househusbands, Inc., sounded like the answer to all her problems -- a man at your service twenty-fou...

  • Kissed by An Angel

    Kathy Clark

    She would always have the guilt... And it changed Kristi Harrison's life. She could not do her job; she could not stay in Denver, where it all began. The only thing she could do was get away. Her friend's Florida beach house was the perfect retrea...

  • The Reckoning

    Joleen Daniels

    Laura Wright was haunted by her past -- a rugged Texas cowboy, a night of unequaled passion and a love that wouldn't die. Seven years ago she'd turned down Cal Sinclair's proposal, and he'd wedded her sister on the rebound. But n...

  • On Wings of Angels

    Aimee Duvall

  • Heart to Heart

    Marie Ferrarella

    LISTEN WITH YOUR HEART Living in an almost silent world, Christie Clayton learned how to speak with her heart and body. A talent for mime had made the petite, dark-haired beauty into the star performer at Atlantis Marine Park -- it had given her t...

  • Stranger at the Wedding

    Joan Mary Hart

    PRIDE AND PASSION Debra McLeod planned to hold her head up high and attend her ex-fiance's wedding, even though celebrating was the last thing on her mind. But what she hadn't counted on was meeting Clint Rasmussen, a dashing, rakish stranger. Cli...

  • Gone Fishin'

    Elizabeth Glenn

    She wasn't ready for the world of the rich and famous Bronwyn Jones thoroughly enjoyed her summers at River's Bend fishing camp. Although working at the family-owned resort meant sharing space with two old-fashioned grandparents and seven ...

  • The Tender Tyrant

    Victoria Glenn

    STRICTLY BUSINESS Jennifer Ramsey had to find a husband fast: terms of her father's will demanded she marry -- and what better choice was there than her father's business partner, Seth Garrison? After all, Seth was a trustworthy, straitlac...

  • Light Another Candle

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    Every time Sandy met Richard Gearing, he ended up soaking wet -- and it was all her fault! First she knocked the smoky-voiced professor with Greek god muscles into a parking lot puddle, then she drenched him in the stream that ran between their homes...

  • Desert Star

    Sally Garrett

    WHAT SHE'D DONE WAS UNFORGIVABLE For twenty-five years Caroline Noble had cut off every emotional attachment. She never went near Granville Kane, the man who'd fathered her child--the child she'd given away. Then Carrie met her "baby," now a ri...

  • A Simple "I Do"

    Joanna Gilpin

    Her feelings were not negotiable Once upon a time Gail Sheridan might have given in to man's demands. But not anymore. Her decorating business had taken off, and with it her self-confidence. This was one old-fashioned girl who was liberated an...

  • High Jinx

    Nancy Gramm

    LUCK, BE A LADY Wildcat oilman Mike Bannister was in desperate need of some good luck if he wanted to save his business, but he never expected it to show up in the form of a beautiful Cinderella, scrubbing floors in her evening gown. From the mome...

  • No Right or Wrong

    Katherine Granger

    Anne Emerson's campaign to build a modern library sparked heated controversy in rustic Chadfield. Handsome traditionalist Stephen Hunter proved the key opponent to outspoken Anne's cause -- until his sudden, scorching kiss left her literally ...

  • A Pirate at Heart

    Marcy Gray

    HE WAS IRRESISTIBLE.... When Gabriella Michaelson met the wildly attractive pirate at the Halloween party, naturally she knew he wasn't actually Long John Silver. But the struggling sculptress never suspected him to be the roguish rascal he r...

  • Ask Not of Me, Love

    Phyllis Halldorson

    Few men could have gone through what Caleb Winters had -- and lived to tell about it. But Nancy Lloyd quickly discovered that few men were like Caleb, period. In no time the Washington Island nurse fell irreversibly in love with her appealing patient...

  • Night Flame

    Catherine Hart

    CHEYENNE CAPTIVE She was stunningly beautiful -- her hair a vivid blaze of red, her eyes the burning blue of a fire's heart -- and from the moment he saw her, Night Hawk knew she must be his. She was his Flame, and the desire to possess her soft b...

  • The Gentleman Insists

    Joan Hohl

    MR. FEBRUARY... Who? Hank Branson What? One lean, rugged, devastating male. With? An uncontrollable desire for Laura Seaton. Why? She was the most irresistible female ever to sizzle a man's senses! Hank couldn't believe it! Five minutes wi...

  • It Takes a Thief

    Kay Hooper

    Dane Prescott was charming, gallant, a man of mystery and shadows whose smile could make a woman forget her name! Jennifer Chantry was terrified when he caught her with a pilfered diamond bracelet, stunned when he kissed her breathless, and delighted...

  • Jo

    Tracy Hughes

    JO: Spirited defender of the rights of every man, woman and household pet in Galloway Corners; feisty rebel searching passionately for a cause worthy of her fiery nature. E.Z.: Rock and roll heartbreaker whose own heart is committed to America&#...

  • Side by Side

    Muriel Jensen

    United forever... That's what Janessa Knight and Clay Barrister proclaimed as fanciful children. It was a bond they vowed would never be broken... But childhood dreams could not anticipate adult realities. When Janessa became involved in ...

  • Always a Bridesmaid

    Patricia Knoll

    The ring came as a real shock .. . "What's the worst he can do to me?" Shelby Featherstone wondered as she bluffed her way to A. J. Court's table. She intended to crash the great god's business lunch and railroad him into renti...

  • Perchance to Dream

    Kathleen Korbel

    TO SLEEP . . . Nightmares. They'd tormented Jason Mitchell ever since the night his partner had been killed, so he'd fled to the only place he knew to regain peace of mind--his isolated cabin. But, unknown to him, he was being watched by the most ...

  • One Sultry Summer

    Laura Leone

    SILENT PARTNER What would a hotshot architect like Race Bennett want with a kennel? That was what Vicky Wood needed to know when she discovered her late business partner had given half his property to his illegitimate son. Her dream had been almos...

  • Master of the Hunt

    Lee Magner

    THE MASTER OF HER HEART Deep in fox hunting country, Richard Faust was finally closing in on his prey. Years after his conniving stepmother had introduced herself, following his father's mysterious death, he still hoped to ensnare her with her ow...

  • Almost An Angel

    Debbie Macomber

    A WOMAN'S PLACE Bethany Stone had been in love with her handsome employer, Joshua Norris for years...secretly. He probably didn't even know her first name -- let alone the passion she felt every time she thought about him! Certain Joshua would ne...

  • Summer's Promise

    Bay Matthews

    A year after losing her teenage daughter, Joanna Morgan knew that both her husband and son were drifting away from her ... or was it she who was drifting away from them? Grief was a cold, numbing fog, and she was lost in it, unsure how to find her wa...

  • Grady's Lady

    Bevlyn Marshall

    Love 'em and leave 'em was tennis pro Ryan Grady's creed--his aloof family and faithless ex-wife had taught him the dangers of real loving. That included falling for voluptuous blond bombshell Blythe Peyton. His brother Guy's alleged paramour, a dead...

  • The Lady Disguised

    Elizabeth Mansfield

    When the Honorable eight-year-old Stanley Farrington vanished, his sister Ada set out to find him. Disguising herself in boys' clothing, she started her perilous search in a nearby gypsy camp, ending it in the splendid drawing rooms of the London ton...

  • Only Forever

    Linda Lael Miller

    LET THE BUYER BEWARE Nick DeAngelo was home with the flu, but he started feeling better the moment he switched on the TV shopping channel and saw Vanessa Lawrence. The charming hostess offered a wealth of intriguing items - her heArt, however, was...

  • Changing Winds

    Florence Moyer

    Beautiful and proud southerner Moriah St. James becomes an unwilling spy for the Union when she is blackmailed into stealing the Confederacy's plan for a new sea going vessel-the submarine. When Moriah meets the dashing Zane she realizes her task wil...

  • Blue Flame

    Helen Mittermeyer

    The alabaster skin, the amethyst eyes--Dev Abrams shook his head. Why, after all this trine, did he think he saw his dead wife in the theater lobby? Then he looked again and met the shocked eyes of the only woman he had ever loved. Felicity felt stun...

  • Good Vibrations

    Lynn Patrick

    SHE BELIEVED IN LOVE Alyce McKenzie still lived by the values she'd learned in the sixties. She gave her love freely to her family and friends--and she was passionate in her efforts to help feed the hungry and homeless of Minneapolis. But when ...

  • Sky Pirate

    Laura Pender

    Her best reporter had been found--dead on the docks Rachel Morgan felt personally responsible when her business reporter turned up dead on the Puget Sound wharves. Police insisted it was a mugging gone awry. But Rachel suspected something more sin...

  • Between the Thunder

    Patricia Potter

    Divided Loyalties Ryan Mallory had risen from the ashes of personal tragedy with a fierce passion for life. In the Colorado hideout of her Rebel brother, she won the hearts of every soldier with her gentle ways and giving nature. But her greatest ...

  • Twilight's Key

    Christine Robb

    MYSTERIOUS LOVE As the stage rumbled on through winding canyons and sandstone hills, Heather Loring had the strangest sensation. Bound to Twilight Mesa to write an article on long-vanished cliff dwellers, she could sense the past approaching. She ...

  • Rainbow Fire

    Emilie Richards

    AT THE RAINBOW'S END. Far below the dusty Australian outback lay a buried treasure that burned with crystal fire and awakened lust in the hearts of men: opal. And it was there, in the dark tunnels of the Rainbow Fire mine, that Kelsey Donovan was ...

  • The Hawk's Lady

    Colleen Shannon

    He was a pirate. She was his slave... In a strange exotic land, she was a prisoner of passion... Beautiful and boldly defiant, Lady Victoria sailed away from England to escape an obligation of marriage. Then, the unthinkable happened. Her sh...

  • Apache Heartbeat

    Judith Steel

    Stripped naked beneath a blistering sun, Philadelphia debutante Hillary Collier had never suffered such humiliation. All the sienna-haired beauty had wanted from her trip to Arizona was to marry the Fort Apache officer who was her fiance. But shrieki...

  • Never Let Go

    Deborah Smith

    Confusion, fury, and disbelief filled Rucker McClure's soul when he saw his wife across the airport waiting room. A year ago his beloved Dinah had vanished without a trace, but he'd never stopped looking for her, never given up hope, until now, when ...

  • More Than a Feeling

    Elaine K. Stirling

    HE COULDN'T SURVIVE WITHOUT HER Andonis Sotera was the kind of man a woman might encounter in a Moroccan cafe or on a luxury cruise ship. In short, he was the kind of man Karen Miller would never meet. And yet they fell in love. Suddenly the ci...

  • My Wicked Valentine

    Linda Vail

    They called her the Lady of the Lake. She was gorgeous, remote, ice-blond Dominique Saint Cloud, whose lavish estate dominated Lakeshore Drive--and whose slightest whim intrigued the wealthy, restless residents of Lake View Heights. Dom was throwi...

  • Passion's Prisoner

    Casey Stuart

    When Cassandra Lansing put on men's clothing and entered the Rawlings saloon she didn't expect to lose anything -- in fact she was sure that she would win back her prized horse Rapscallion.... Josh Rawlings though that a little gambling was just what...

  • Tangled Dreams

    Julie Tetel

    Dangerous Temptation Amid the gracious suites of Maddox Hall, golden-haired Marianna Lowth gave herself in marriage to the ruggedly attractive Lord Anthony Maddox. It was a marriage of freedom. The newly titled lord needed. a wife to oversee his e...

  • Be Mine, Valentine

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    There was nothing predictable about her love life If it hadn't been for a freak snowstorm, Roxie Lowell wouldn't have felt compelled to take eccentric Charlie Hartman under her wing--only to become the object of his matchmaking zeal. He claimed he...

  • Rhapsody in Bloom

    Mona Van Wieren

    A HIDDEN TREASURE... was what New York art exporter Kane Powell found in small-town gardener jenny McCarthy. Kane was sure that with his advice and guidance, jenny could develop her green thumb further. So he contracted her to landscape his estate...

  • Promises

    Pamela Wallace

    Amid the glamour and opulence of Edwardian high society, they found the promise of a lifetime. Destined to Love Cruel fate had cast Belinda Sutton from riches to rags. But nothing had prepared her innocent heart for the mysterious American whos...

  • Rebel's Desire

    Robin Leanne Wiete

    Her heart pounded and her breath grew shallow as his lips possessed hers. A rush of excitement, terror, and longing seemed to burst inside her. There was no escape.... Beautiful Sarina Chapman knew that Braden Welford was the last man in the world...

  • Lady's Choice

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    Whoever called it midlife crisis? At forty Abby Townsend faced a dozen crises a day. Her son was leaving San Diego for law school--and refusing to leave Zach Randolph's daughter behind. Abby's daughter had discovered boys, clothes and credit cards...

  • Cast a Tall Shadow

    Diana Whitney

    Ex-probation officer Nathan Brodie was man enough to fight for his ideals. He wouldn't pander to the investigator assessing his ranch for troubled juveniles. He knew Kristin Price was one tough woman, that she could make or break his dream-he never s...

  • How Sweet It Is!

    Roseanne Williams

    Chocolate -- not man -- is a girl's best friend This was the creed that cookbook author Cait Rafferty lived by. Her belief in the wise words wavered, however, when devastating and dynamic Adam Webster jogged onto the set of the talk show where...

  • Murder in Paradise

    Ann Cleeves

    The honeymoon was over... and Jim and his English bride, Sarah, had come home to Kinness to settle down. But first there was to be one huge celebration for the newlyweds, with the whole island present. And before the party was over, there would be a...

  • Dark Place

    Aaron Elkins

    SAVAGE HUNGER Deep in the primeval rain forests of Washington State, the body of a brutally murdered man is discovered. And a chilling mystery unfolds. Could the spear that killed him really be identical to one used by primitive hunters ten tho...

  • Video Kill

    Joanne Fluke

    LIGHTS...CAMERA With painstaking care, he "casts" his victims, each woman resembling an Alfred Hitchcock star, each killing echoing six of the legendary director's films. The only clue he leaves behind is a gruesome video of his handiwork. But the...

  • Fatal Flashback

    Eileen Fulton

    Nina McFall can't wait to take a long-overdue vacation from the pressures--and dangers--of "The Turning Seasons" set. The rambling old farmhouse she's rented in upstate New York seems the ideal spot for a long, peaceful rest. With her friend Robin Ta...

  • The Danger Within

    Michael Gilbert

  • Die Like a Dog

    Brett Halliday

    Mike Shayne goes grave robbing in a pet cemetery to solve the case of a millionaire’s murder It’s 11:00 am, and Mike Shayne has just poured himself a cognac, when Henrietta Rogell strolls into his office. Normally, Shayne would extend no special ...

  • The Cold Front

    Sean Hanlon

    Pres Riordan, reporter for the "Anchorage Herald," gets a big break when he is asked to investigate claims of a "miracle fertilizer," but behind the innovative product is a man with a taste for murder...

  • Deathwatch

    Ray Harrison

  • Going to the Dogs

    Dan Kavanagh

    Duffy receives a message from the country mansion of Vic Crowther, an old and dubious acquaintance, that a dead body has been found in his library. So the uncommon street-smart, cynical, neurotic, bisexual private investigator leaves London and proce...

  • On Ice

    T.J. MacGregor

    She was beautiful. Blond. And bloody. McCleary doesn't know who she is. And he can't remember who he is.
    When the maid walked into the motel room, she found Mike McCleary sacked out on one bed and a dead woman on the other. To the police, the priv...

  • Ninth Life

    Don Matheson

  • Knock-Off

    Christopher Newman

    The designer of the trend-setting new sportswear line of the Close Apparel label is found bludgeoned to death in the corporate offices. Missing items point to a piracy ring that could cost the company plenty. Still, Detective Joe Dante wonders whethe...

  • Death in Wessex

    Audrey Peterson

  • The Polka Dot Nude

    Joan Smith

    DANGER. DECEIT. AND DEATH... For biographer Audrey Dane, it was the chance of a lifetime. The legendary Hollywood star, Rosalie Hart, had selected Audrey personally to write the memoirs of her dazzling life and career. A visit to the great lady's ...

  • Desert Strike

    Don Pendleton

    POWER PLAY The murder of the king of Saudi Arabia turns the entire Gulf area into a powder keg. Officially the U.S. government's hands are tied. Unofficially the - President wants to know who's behind the assassination--and he wants the killer ter...

  • Conan the Hero

    Leonard Carpenter
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    In the steaming jungles of Venji, Conan of Cimmeria fights in a war seemingly without end, a war against drug-crazed raiders who strike without warning and vanish like smoke, a war against the implacable wizard, Mojourna. Yet his enemies are not only...

  • Darkwell

    Douglas Niles
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The ultimate struggle of good and evil. . . . At stake, the survival of the Moonshae Isles. Tristan Kendrick, newly crowned High King of the Ffolk, must forge a lasting alliance between the divergent peoples of the Isles. The druid Robyn must conf...

  • South of the Border

    John Byrne Cooke

    Butch Cassidy combines forces with a silent movie company in 1919 to take a trek to the Mexican deserts, where they encounter a bloody revolution and create the ultimate romance of the Wild West--which includes the famed Pancho Villa...

  • Star

    Danielle Steel

    Young, innocent and strikingly beautiful Crystal Wyatt was an outcast, envied and resented by all but her devoted father, with whom she shared a dep love for their remote California ranch. When her father dies, Crystal is alone and unprotected. Devas...

  • Now and Then, Amen

    Jon Cleary

    A nun is found murdered on the steps of the Quality Couch, Sydney's most expensive house of ill repute. She was Sister Mary Magdalene, an idealistic young woman who previously had worked at a mission in Nicaragua. Detective Inspector Scobie Malone, t...

  • The Snake Tattoo

    Linda Barnes

    Carlotta Carlyle, ex-cop, struggling private eye, and 6'1" of long tall redhead, takes any case that walks through the door. This time the door opens twice. First in is her old partner, Lieutenant Mooney of the Boston police, unfairly charged with br...

  • Betrayals

    Brian Freemantle

    On the eve of her wedding, a woman must fight to rescue her fiance from an international terrorist plot.

    It''s been nearly a year since Janet''s husband, Hank, died of a terrible illness. Though she thought she would never love again, John S...

  • The Edge

    Dick Francis

    "BEWARE. MANY PEOPLE ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM" So proclaims the ad for the Great Transcontinental Mystery Race, a glittering rail junket that not only promises the opportunity to race a thoroughbred on some of the world's great courses, but somethin...

  • Foolproof

    Philip Daniels

    Jeremy Newton is one of the brighter young men coming along in the City. In time, he will be a respected and prominent figure in London's financial world. But Jeremy is impatient. He has access to insider information on the stock market and knows how...

  • The Mother Murders

    Dale L. Gilbert

  • Curses!

    Aaron Elkins

    STICKS AND STONES...AND BONES Mayan ruins in the Yucatan ... a secret room in a tomb ... an ancient skeleton. To Gideon Oliver, anthropologist, this archaeological find is paradise on earth. He and his wife, Julie, have joined his old mentor, Abe ...

  • Carnivores

    J.R. Levitt

    San Francisco police department detective Jason Coulter investigates the related but seemingly patternless killings afflicting the area, an investigation that becomes more urgent when the detective's personal life is touched...

  • Death in a Distant Land

    Nancy Livingston

    EXCESS BAGGAGE It is impossible for the honorable G.D.H. Pringle to refuse his beloved Mavis Bignell anything that her heart desires. A trip to Australia--via Singapore in the Somerset Maugham fashion--would be so romantic. Since it's costing him ...

  • Murder Keeps a Secret

    Haughton Murphy

    Historian David Rowan is riding high. He's a Pulitzer Prize winner, a speech writer for a leading Presidential candidate, the lover of a glamorous TV anchorwoman, the biographer of a great Supreme Court justice. So it's big news when someone pitch...

  • Abracadaver

    Ralph M. McInerny

    NOW YOU SEE HER... NOW YOU DON'T A magic show at St. Hilary's one snowy night proves entertaining for the stragglers who braved the weather. Aggie Miller allows her ring to be used in a disappearing act and Father Dowling chances to notice the ins...

  • The Problem of Virtue

    M. David Pohlman

  • Murder in the Oval Office

    Elliott Roosevelt

    MURDER IN THE OVAL OFFICE Who shot Alabama Congressman Winstead Colmer to death in the Oval Office of the White House? With all the windows and doors bolted from within, it appeared to be a suicide. But too many people around Capitol Hill were bre...

  • Extenuating Circumstances

    Jonathan Valin

    To P.I. Harry Stoner, Ira Lessing had everything to live for: money, a beautiful wife, good friends, and a reputation that would do credit to a saint. But Lessing disappeared one hot July night, and Stoner knew in his gut that the man was dead. Yea...

  • Smart House

    Kate Wilhelm

    Former N.Y. arson investigator and retired cop Charles Meiklejohn and his wife, Constance Leidl, a psychologist, return in a taut, high-tech mystery abounding with ingenuity. The ultimate dream of child prodigy Gary Elringer, the founder of Bellringe...

  • The War Chest

    Porter Hill

    The Bombay Marines are the East India Company's private fighting ships, defending India's coast and naval trading routes. Captain Adam Horne is the commander of history's first naval commandos and a hero in the mould of Hornblower, Alexander ...

  • In a Dark Dream

    Charles L. Grant

  • Seven of Swords

    Carole Nelson Douglas

  • The Player of Games

    Iain M. Banks

    The Culture -- a human/machine symbiotic society -- has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels ...

  • Lost Love Found

    Bertrice Small

    To the ivory palaces and harems of the East comes the exquisite Valentina, driven by destiny, heritage...and passion. VALENTINA HAD BEEN ADMIRED, MARRIED, WIDOWED, YET HAD NEVER KNOWN LOVE.... ...Not even at the illustrious Court of Queen Eliza...

  • The Reluctant Ghost

    Sheila Rosalynd Allen

    In his lifetime, Harry was a rogue and a rake. Now he's a ghost -- visible only to those in love. He roams the halls of Steadford Abbey, atoning for his romantic sins by helping others find romance sometimes, with the most unexpected -- and charm...

  • Renegade Heart

    Madeline Baker

    A WANTED MAN AN INNOCENT WOMAN A WANTON LOVE When beautiful Rachel Halloran took Logan Tyree into her home, he was unconscious, a renegade Indian with a bullet wound in his side and a price on his head. To Rachel he was nothing but trouble, a ma...

  • The Boyfriend School

    Sarah Bird

    All she wanted was a little romance. All she got was love... YOU'RE SINGLE, BROKE AND ABOUT TO GO OUT ON A DATE WITH A WISPY GOON. ISN'T LIFE ROMANTIC! Gretchen Griner is the underpaid, under-appreciated photographer for the AUSTIN (tha...

  • My Perfect Valentine

    Judy Baer

    Love in disguise... Carissa Stevens is devastated when her boyfriend of sixteen months, popular Glen Matlock, dumps her for a vivacious cheerleader - and right before the Valentine Masquerade. Shy Carissa believes she'll never have another boyfrie...

  • Arly

    Robert Newton Peck

    Although Arly Poole seems bound to follow in his father's footsteps as a field worker in Jailtown, Florida, where his family lives in 1927 in the shadow of a cruel boss, his world suddenly seems larger when a schoolteacher comes to town....

  • Teamwork

    Francine Pascal

  • The Case of the Rising Stars

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy, Bess, and George are in Chicago for the Mystery Lovers convention -- and two of the two stars scheduled to appear have been kidnapped! Some think it’s just a ratings ploy, but Nancy uncovers the truth. Can she save the missing stars before s...

  • Hong on the Range

    William F. Wu

    In this science fiction satire of westerns, after the American West was destroyed in a series of biological disasters, rebuilding it is a lot like building it in the first place, but there are crucial differences. For example, new, partly mechanical ...

  • Norby Down to Earth

    Janet Asimov

  • Visions from the Sea

    Robyn Tallis

  • Watch

    Rick Bass

    These quirky, brilliant stories launched Rick Bass on his literary career.

    Set in the South and West, they pursue themes of friendship, loyalty, and freedom, of escape, where valiant holdouts refuse to grow up, or to grow old....

  • No Other Place

    Jack Gould

  • Cockroaches of Stay More

    Donald Harington

    With this wonderfully irreverent comic novel, Harington leaves off chronicling the human inhabitants of the Arkansas Ozark town of Stay More and turns his attention to its insect world. In depicting the cockroach community, who perambulate on gitalon...

  • Leo Africanus

    Amin Maalouf

    "I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called ...

  • A Nice Surprise for Father Rabbit

    Brian Mangas

  • He Huffed and He Puffed

    Barbara Paul

    Wealthy financier A.J. Strode was as ruthless as he was dirty, acquiring and discarding both wives and companies with equal aplomb. Now he wants to sink his teeth into a company called the House of Glass. He needs this company - and will stop at noth...

  • Sins for Father Knox

    Josef Skvorecky

    “Ten more mystery stories by the gifted Czech novelist. . . . Offbeat. . . . tongue-in-cheek entertainment for aficionados of classic puzzlers in the Ellery Queen tradition―especially those who’ll also appreciate Skvorecky’s darkish, edgy ...

  • Tristan and the Hispanics

    Jose Yglesias

    When an upper-crust and self-conscious Yale freshman is sent to Florida to settle the estate of his Hispanic grandfather, he expects to do business quickly but finds himself deeply enmeshed in his history and in selfdiscovery...

  • Ironbottom Sound

    Lindsay Baly

  • Private Renaissance

    Maria Bellonci

  • Any Old Iron

    Anthony Burgess

    Fifty years in the lives of two families--one Russian-Welsh, another Jewish--are traced from WW I to the founding of Israel. PW described this as ``a novel that is for the most part breathlessly readable, touching and funny by turns, and which passes...

  • Firebird

    James Carroll

    Firebird, the author's seventh novel, is about the most fateful act of espionage of the twentieth century. Set in the era of Hiss, Fuchs, McCarthy and the Rosenbergs, all of who feature in this story. It is a breathtaking political thriller. But unli...

  • Sleeping in Flame

    Jonathan Carroll

    “Jonathan Carroll is a cult waiting to be born, a novelist of rare and terrifying power.” -- Pat Conroy
     
    Ricocheting between Vienna and Los Angeles, between the worlds of desires and dreams, Sleeping in Flame is a hypnotic literary nove...

  • The Cage Keeper: and Other Stories

    Andre Dubus

    Passion and betrayal, violent desperation, ambivalent love that hinges on hatred, and the quest for acceptance by those who stand on the edge of society-these are the hard-hitting themes of a stunningly crafted first collection of stories by the best...

  • Indecent Proposal

    Jack Engelhard

    Reviewers have called it "powerful" and "brilliant." Newly released for its 25th anniversary edition, Jack Engelhard's novel "Indecent Proposal" has found its place alongside such classics as Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and Tolstoy's "Anna Kar...

  • Eighty-sixed

    David B. Feinberg

    "In 1980, B. J. Rosenthal''s only mission is to find himself a boyfriend and avoid setbacks like bad haircuts, bad sex, and Jewish guilt. In post-AIDS 1986, B.J.''s world has changed dramatically - his friends and lovers are getting sick, everyone ...

  • The Story of My Wife

    Milan Fust

  • The Wisemann Originals

    Ron Goulart

  • A Fine Line

    Ken Gross

    The victim of an intended mugging at the airport, Jack Mann kills his attacker and then takes the one million dollars he was carrying, setting himself up as a target for the cops, the mob, and the IRA...

  • The Dreamers

    Brian Hall

  • Revenge of Ho-Tai

    Dorothy Hoobler; Thomas Hoobler

  • Charades

    Janette Turner Hospital

    This stunning and intoxicating novel speaks of passion and obsession, ranging in setting from an Australian rainforest to Boston and Toronto. A mysterious and elusive love affair haunts the lives of three women in Australia. Twenty years later, on th...

  • Dead and Gone

    Mary Kittredge

    DEADLINES When writer Charlotte Kent began researching her latest self-help book, Tricks for the Sick! at a renowned East Coast medical center, she hadn't planned a chapter on tips to avoid murder. A slimy, unprincipled medical student is dead....

  • Smugglers Notch

    Joseph Koenig

    For Larry St. Germain, an ambitious sheriff's lieutenant in a sleepy Vermont county, there isn't all that much to do. Mostly he marks time waiting to take over as commanding officer and dreams of future glory. But when the teenage daughter of the ...

  • Red Branch

    Morgan Llywelyn

    In a land ruled by war and love and strange enchantments, Cuchulain -- torn between gentleness and violence, haunted by the croakings of a sinister raven -- fights for his honor and his homeland and discovers too late the trap that the gods have set ...

  • Menage

    Anthony Mancini

  • Juffie Kane

    Beverly S. Martin

    Chronicles Juffie Kane's rise to fame on Broadway, her upbringing in lavish surroundings, the success she achieves based on beauty and gritty determination, and the sins of her father--for which she will be made to pay...

  • Like Men Betrayed

    John Clifford Mortimer

    It is the tale of Christopher Kennet, a respected solicitor and a private man, who discovers his son's involvement in a mysterious and possibly illegal manipulation of the funds of a longtime client. As the deal unfolds, both father and son discover ...

  • The Househusband

    Christine Park

  • The Wind in the East

    Pamela Pope

  • The Survivor

    Fritz Joachim Raddatz