Football season is looming ahead and, much to his surprise and dismay, the unathletic Randy finds himself--with the unsolicited help of his friends--spending his summer vacation training for team tryouts...
NEWS/WORLDWEEK is up for grabs. The Communications conglomerate that owns many of America's largest newspapers, magazines and television stations is the target of a hostile takeover bid by French media magnate Marcel Bresson. But something sini...
Things are looking up for the Tigers when their lackluster football team is boosted by talented tight end Pete Reiser, but when he quits without explanation, there is frantic effort to get him back in the game...
Kira found it hard to maintain a truce Kira's late husband had given Glenn Mason guardianship of her stepdaughter, Heather -- a fact Kira deeply resented. As far as she was concerned, it gave him no rights to interfere in her life! But as G...
THE SCIENCE OF MAGIC-- is what lures people from all over the galaxy to the world of Ivory. Ivory, exotic and dangerous, where everything is for sale, and law exists only to protect the most powerful families. And to anthropology student Theodora of...
THE IMPOSSIBLE MR. GOWER Lady Rachel Palmer was quite used to men falling helplessly in love with her. Every gentleman in aristocratic society, including her devoted fiance, Lord Algernon Rivers, fell a willing victim to Rachel's dazzling beauty a...
IN DEFENSE OF VIRTUE Miss Emily Howland's prime duty as companion to her cousin, Lady Georgians Chilworth, was to assure the preservation of her charge's virtue. For not only was Georgians society's most exquisite beauty; she was woefully innocent...
A LEARNER IN LOVE Miss Calista Standish had been taught by her scholarly father to exercise her mental powers to their fullest--but never had she faced so difficult a problem as Mr. John Witton. How could a country Miss like Calista possibly at...
In an autobiographical novel, Leon Solomon, a Jewish historian, plans to commit suicide after being caught stealing priceless documents on Judaica but instead writes of his life--his internment in Auschwitz, the losses he has suffered, and his loves...
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...
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...
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...
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 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....
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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, 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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: 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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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 ...
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...
"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 ...
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...
“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 ...
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...