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  • Battle Flag

    Bernard Cornwell

    THE BATTLE FOR MANASSAS IS A FIGHT TO THE DEATH, IN THE THIRD VOLUME OF THIS ACCLAIMED AND POWERFUL CIVIL WAR SERIES Distinguishing himself at the Battle of Cedar Mountain, Confederate Captain Nate Starbuck's career is jeopardized through the susp...

  • Blood Debt

    Don Pendleton

    A series of terrorist attacks between Lima and Berlin is revealed to be the result of a deadly plot, and the Stony Man team prepares a retaliatory three-pronged attack in the hopes of identifying the plot's source. Original....

  • The Darwin Conspiracy: The Confessions of Sir Max Busby

    James Scott Bell

    Years after convincing himself that fabled manuscripts by Sir Max Busby, which identified flaws in Darwinism, were nonexistent, James Scott Bell repudiates an inaccurate editorial on origins and is astonished when his letter brings the Busby manuscri...

  • Genesis Echo

    James Axler

    BLIND FORTITUDE Survival in America's nuke-blasted frontier is both a curse and a salvation for Ryan Cawdor and his warrior companions. Though the basic needs of existence must be fought for and won with blood -- each day alive means another chance...

  • Line of Fire

    D.A. Hodgman

    Creating a special police unit to counteract a sudden rise in the local crime rate, Miami Chief of Police John Kearn masterminds a series of successful stakeouts, until the leader of the Shotgun Gang plots to get revenge. Original....

  • Select Fire

    Don Pendleton

    THE WILD HUNT An assassin known as the Huntsman is plying his lethal skills across the globe. Mack Bolan has taken down the killer--twice--only to have him resurface in another part of the world. Arms deals, counterfeit currency and the eerie,...

  • Specter

    Keith Douglass

    In the former Yugoslavia, the wars still rage. And across the border in Greek Macedonia, a fanatical group of extremists is trying to break away from Greece--no matter what the cost. To prove it, they have kidnapped a U.S. congressional delegation an...

  • Against All Odds

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • Black Tide

    Brendan DuBois

    Brendan DuBois's riveting debut novel, Dead Sand, introduced Lewis Cole--late of government intelligence, convert to the New Hampshire seacoast life, and writer for the local magazine. When murder foiled his plans, he turned again to his investigativ...

  • Bury the Bishop

    Kate Gallison

    It was dark in the cloakroom. And Mother Lavinia Grey thought she had stepped on a dead rat. Until she turned on the lights and discovered the doughy hand of the bishop under her sensible shoes. Certainly, she and the bishop had their differences. He...

  • The Clue on the Silver Screen

    Carolyn Keene

    NANCY FINDS MYSTERY AT THE MOVIES...AND DANGER IN THE DARK! Nancy has come all the way from River Heights to attend the Martha's Vineyard Film Festival honoring the late, great director Joseph Block. Even Velma Ford, the queen of the silent screen...

  • Dear Irene

    Jan Burke

    Death has written to Irene Kelly...personally. Tenacious and daring, newspaperwoman Irene Kelly will brave any danger to track down a good story. But this time the story is stalking her. A letter from "Thanatos" reaches Irene's desk--a cryptic ...

  • Dr. Nightingale Goes to the Dogs

    Lydia Adamson

    SIT, HEEL MURDER! Veterinarian Deirdre "Didi" Quinn Nightingale has the birthday blues. It's her day, and it's been a disaster. First she's knee-deep in mud during a "bedside" visit to a stud pig. Then she's over her head in murder when she finds ...

  • Grave Matters

    Leo Axler

    When a mysterious midnight message contradicts a coroner's report of death by dog attack, funeral director Bill Hawley struggles against his own fear of dogs to uncover a ring of illegal dog fighting with the help of a sleuthing pooch. Original....

  • Groomed for Death

    Carolyn Banks

    So Texas horsewoman Robin Vaughan isn't much surprised to find herself flat on the sidewalk the first time she leaves her hotel. More surprising is the young woman who picks her up. In her black fishnet stockings, Flora looks more like a hooker than ...

  • Hardscape

    Justin Scott

    Ben Abbott, just returned to his small Connecticut hometown, is hired by a New York City private eye to videotape the activities in newcomer Rita Long's bedroom--where the ravishing Rita cheats on her husband. But murder wasn't part of the deal. And ...

  • The Julius House

    Charlaine Harris

    AS LONG AS YOU BOTH SHALL LIVE... Aurora "Roe" Teagarden is busy planning her wedding to Martin Bartell, a successful businessman with a past he hasn't completely shared. His gift to her is a storybook house shrouded in mystery: its owners, the Ju...

  • Kiss and Tell

    Carolyn Keene

    A TASTE OF ROMANCE LEADS NANCY TO A RENDEZVOUS WITH DANGER! Esme Moore, America's hottest romance writer, has come to River Heights, and the rumors are swirling. She's written her autobiography, a book of true confessions, and the scandals are sur...

  • The Knotted Strings

    Jake Page

    The movie in progress is based on a true episode, the story of a Native American victory over Spanish invaders. But some Indians deeply resent the movie company's filming on tribal land. Shooting has just begun when a deadly real-life scenario rapidl...

  • Murder in a Hot Flash

    Marlys Millhiser

    Reluctant psychic Charlie Greene is called on to solve the case when a horror-film director gets the ax -- and Charlie’s mother is the prime suspect  Between doing lunches, making deals, and being a full-time single mom, Hollywood literary age...

  • Murder in the Napa Valley

    David Osborn

    Nestled among the sprawling hills and vineyards of Napa Valley, the 200-year-old Abbaye de Ste. Denise Winery has proved four generations of Seldridges with the finest cabernet sauvignon in America. Until a shocking act of sabotage results in the dea...

  • Pirate Trade

    Rick Boyer

    When Doc Adams buys a purse adorned with genuine carved ivory for his wife Mary, he unknowingly purchases a ticket into the underworld of modern-day piracy. In this case, the treasure is the precious ivory of endangered elephants and walruses, and th...

  • Stonedust

    Justin Scott

    Hardscape, in Susan Isaacs' words, had "enough suspense to make the reader hyperventilate". Now witty, literate Ben Abbott--who served time for a Wall Street indiscretion and is struggling to revive his family's real estate firm--returns in a mystery...

  • Stranglehold

    Jennifer Rowe

    After seventy-year-old radio star Max Tully announces his engagement to his young, seductive housekeeper, Mai Tran, Verity Birdwood is called in to investigate nasty threats against the enigmatic beauty, threats that lead to murder. Original....

  • Suitable for Framing

    Edna Buchanan

    Pulitzer Prize--winner Edna Buchanan leaves no body unturned as she exposes the hot and steamy streets of Miami. In Suitable for Framing, Britt Montero--the tough-as-nails police beat reporter--finds herself targeted by a scheming apprentice with eye...

  • Friends No Matter What

    Mark Littleton

  • The Sunset Gate

    Isabella Alden

    Raised deep in the woods, Weevon suddenly finds herself alone and friendless, left with nothing but a yearning she doesn't understand. A heartwarming story of faith and love by Grace Livingston Hill's aunt, similar in style and tone to Hill....

  • To My Dear Slimeball

    Rich Miller

  • The Triumph

    Gene Edwards

    This title is no longer available from Tyndale, but it can be ordered from SeedSowers / 4003 N. Liberty Street / Jacksonville, FL 32206
    In this dramatic rendering of the Crucifixion, the reader becomes acutely aware of the enormous struggle betw...

  • Unforgiven Sins

    Joe Dallas

    "If you do nothing," the haunted figure on the videotape said solemnly, "you'll never forgive me for laying a burden of truth on you which you'll spend a lifetime fighting to ignore." Greg Bishop is caught in the cross fire. A midnight suicide, a to...

  • Anne

    Muriel Canfield

    Anne Lindsay's summer job as a waitress at the Hamlet Inn leads to mystery and romance as she and the inn owner's son investigate an unexplained death that may point to Mark's sister, but Anne worries about the depth of her feelings for a man who is ...

  • Any Given Moment

    Laura Van Wormer

    Dorothy and Henry Hillings, owners of the Hillings & Hillings Literary Agency, have nurtured and developed their authors' talents for almost fifty years. When their small agency becomes the target of a corporate takeover, the Hillingses' most success...

  • Bachelor Husband

    Kate Hoffmann

    Apartment for rent One bedroom Bachelor Arms 555-1234 Come live and love in Los Angeles with the tenants of Bachelor Arms. Meet colorful neighbors you'll bump into again and again. First, meet Tru Hallihan. He and his buddies at Bachel...

  • Bachelor's Family

    Jessica Steele

    He was two different men! "You must be the most impudent female I've ever employed!" Vere Tolladine had a nerve--how dare he imply that she was the one with the attitude problem? The man was infuriating, objectionable! So why did he...

  • Boyfriend Blues

    Lauren M. Phelps

    Tough sledding... To make money for a school ski trip, Kristen Barrett, her boyfriend Jason, and her best friend Heidi start an outdoor babysitting service taking little kids sledding and playing in the snow. When they discover they need more manp...

  • The Bride Wore Blue Jeans

    Mary Anne Wilson

    THE WEDDING MARCH BEGAN... ...and the bride bolted. An eleventh-hour discovery about her would-be groom sent Annie Thomas on the run. She was desperate to reach her daughter before he did, when her car was run off the road by a reluctant savior in a...

  • A Brief Encounter

    Catherine George

    A woman alone? "I didn't imagine a woman like you would have reached your age without several men in her life...." Olivia's carefully cultivated veneer of indifference was usually enough to deter admirers. But Max Hamilton seeme...

  • Burning With Passion

    Emma Darcy

    "February the fourteenth...a day made for romance..." ST. VALENTINE'S DAY is a special day for lovers all over the world. And this year it has a special significance for Caitlin Ross. This year she is sure that David Hartley will admit...

  • Can't Stop Loving You

    Peggy Webb

    "Ready to be wooed, wildcat?" Helen Sullivan made her entrance in a red dress that fit like sin -- and Brick wanted to toss his ex-wife over his shoulder and make love to her until she confessed why she'd left him. He'd come seeking revenge, but ...

  • Change of Heart

    Adrienne Ellis Reeves

    Deciding to finally live her own life after the deaths of her husband and mother, Emily Brooks undertakes a business venture that introduces her to author David Walker, a man who makes her realize that it is not too late to start over. Original....

  • Come Midnight

    Suzanne Forster

    His famous art photographs captured women at their most emotional, their most vulnerable. But was Nick Montera really a man of such seductive power? He was accused of a crime of passion, of enticing a model to reveal her most intimate secrets -- and ...

  • The Courtship of Dusty's Daddy

    Muriel Jensen

    Little Dusty Archer... ...needed a mom. Preferably one who looked like the Sun Queen -- a beautiful, and very cool lady from his Burn Starby comic books. She'd be the perfect match for his dad, the Mission Master. Sexy Shane Archer... ...

  • The Cowboy's Courtship

    Patricia Thayer

    That Night in the Rockies... Colorado cowboy Lafe Colter never refused a willing female. Until the night heartsore Michelle Royer let him kiss away her tears -- and her inhibitions. Lafe had nobly sent Michelle packing. He wasn't a man who make prom...

  • Cowboys Don't Cry

    Anne McAllister

    MR. FEBRUARY The rock: Ranch foreman Robert Tanner-a man who never let any woman get close to him. The hard place: The Bar C--the Wyoming spread he was used to running like it was his own. And in between was Maggie MacLeod--the unwanted, unw...

  • A Dad Like Daniel

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    SINGLE MOM Olivia Venner liked exciting, reckless men. So why did wholesome Daniel McGuane suddenly look so yummy? A post-pregnancy hormone surge was the only explanation for her powerful attraction to Mr. Nice Guy. She would simply avoid Daniel u...

  • Daddy's Little Girl

    Geeta Kingsley

    Fantasy Groom If Jason Graham wanted custody of his daughter, he needed a wife--and Sara Adams was perfect for the job. She had charmed his little girl, but hadn't even tried to charm him--which was exactly how Jason wanted it. Marriage to sweet, sh...

  • Dangerous Flirtation

    Liz Fielding

    First impressions are sometimes misleading... Rosalind thought she had her life all mapped out -- a job she loved, a thoughtful, reliable fiance...what more could she want? How was she to know that a handsome stranger with laughing blue eyes a...

  • Dearest Love

    Betty Neels

    An offer she couldn't refuse? "I wish to marry for the wrong reason, although perhaps they are no worse than many others, I am not love with you..." Tirus Taverner was a busy and successful medical man who lacked a wife. Arabella had applied f...

  • Deception and Desire

    Janet Tanner

    Ros Newman has disappeared, but the police are not concerned. They believe her high-pressure job at Vandina, a world-renowned fashion firm, and the obsessive jealousy of her hard-drinking husband have driven her to take an unannounced vacation.But Mi...

  • Desperate

    Kay David

    ONE RECKLESS MOMENT It was so easy to make mistakes when you were from the wrong side of the tracks and crazy in love. Tye Benedict's youthful folly had cost him dearly. Now fate had given him a second chance with Cara Howard. But this time, T...

  • Dragon's Eden

    Glenna McReynolds

    "If you kiss me, l swear I'll never let you go...:" When he awakened and met the gaze of a sensual, silver-eyed angel, Jackson Daniels couldn't decide whether the tropical island was his prison--or sanctuary! Sugar was fascinated by the powerful w...

  • A Family Home

    Celeste Hamilton

    THE BRIDE Practically-never-been-kissed Lainey Bates had hooked herself the sexiest man in Tennessee. And as if marrying Adam Cutler wasn't a dream enough, she was gaining an adorable son. But there was a catch... THE GROOM Single father Ada...

  • Family in the Making

    Dani Criss

    From Forever Single... Megan McAllister wanted a fresh start -- with no emotional complications. But her new neighbor Sam Armstrong was irresistible...and so were the toddlers he was raising. To Beloved Wife and Mom? Despite her best intenti...

  • Father in the Middle

    Phyllis Halldorson

    A Father's Wish Clay Rutledge needed help caring for his daughter--and like a miracle, Tamara Houston appeared. And though the handsome widower believed he'd never love again, day by day Tamara won his heart. Everything seemed perfect. Clay had foun...

  • First Loves

    Jean Stone

    In this moving novel about the power of second chances, Jean Stone proves that it’s never too late to go after the one that got away.   For every woman, there is a first love. And for Meg, Zoe, and Alissa, that love has never been forgotten. N...

  • Garden of Love

    Eileen Hehl

    Julia Maxwell is just beginning to relax into widowhood and looking forward to her long-awaited trip to Greece. The last thing she needs is a strange man marching into her garden, pushing a wheelbarrow with a sundial in it! -- But when she learns t...

  • The Good Father

    Peg Sutherland

    TYLER STERNE WANTED TO BE A GOOD FATHER But when his ex-wife literally dropped his teenage son on his doorstep, he found he had a lot to learn about fatherhood. Things were difficult enough. Then his unconventional mother moved in after she and he...

  • Hearth, Home and Hope

    Kaitlyn Gorton

    Cooper Sanford was back -- and Hope Rowan had no place to run. Looking as devilishly sexy as when he left, Hope was more attracted to Coop than she'd ever been. But she wasn't the sweet innocent he remembered. A lot had happened since Coop ha...

  • His Brother's Wife

    Audra Adams

    ONE STEAMY SUMMER NIGHT It was all Michael and Johanna had ever had. Before he broke her heart. Before she eloped with his brother. But the memory of those stolen passionate moments still tortures them both. TWO PEOPLE WHO CAN'T FORGET Now J...

  • The Honeymoon

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    NATALIE BRANNON'S RECIPE FOR "HONEYMOON ON THE ROCKS" TAKE: One husband, usually aboard ship somewhere. ADD: One miniscule apartment--with a "sea view" that is only visible from atop the kitchen counter, but which comes fully equipped wit...

  • Hot Southern Nights

    Patt Bucheister

    She made him burn hotter than a city in flames... He was brash, brilliant, and too damn sure of himself, but Brett Southern knew the worst: filmmaker Sam Horne was no gentleman! Determined to use her historic plantation for his documentary, he cha...

  • Intimacies // Final Scream

    Lisa Jackson

    A TOWN SEETHING WITH SIN AND SCANDAL The youngest daughter of the town's richest man, Cassidy Buchanan was sixteen the summer all hell broke loose in Prosperity, Oregon....the summer she fell hard for Brig McKenzie, the handsome hell-raiser from t...

  • Into Thin Air

    Karen Leabo

    WITHOUT A TRACE Their disappearances had haunted Detective Caroline Triece for longer than she cared to remember--young girls in trouble who had simply vanished. She'd known with chilling certainty that something was very wrong, and now she had th...

  • An Irresistible Man

    Kylie Brant

    UNDER SUSPICION Five minutes after meeting her new partner, Madeline Casey had to concede that Detective Cruz Martinez was the epitome of the perfect man. With his rock-hard body and killer smile, he could charm the ice off an igloo. But was the p...

  • Jenni Finds a Father

    Brittany Young

    Chilly British nobleman Alec Devereaux seethed with desire to reclaim his ancestral estate. Warmhearted American Tess Parish longed to gain custody of her orphaned kid sister and give Jenni a daddy. Via one sly document, both could achieve their dre...

  • Legacy of Lies

    JoAnn Ross

    A white-hot story of passion, revenge and obsession. Talent would take Alexandra Lyons to Paris and into the world of haute couture-a kaleidoscope of dreams, ambitions and bold sensuality. And it would take her to Hollywood, where her star burned ...

  • Lone Star State of Mind

    Bethany Campbell

    SOME FOLKS SAID IT WOULD NEVER BE THE SAME There was a new doctor in town, and he just wasn't their sort. Though Dr. Purdy said Sonny Dekker was the best, the man was a troublemaker. He was messing with the football team, risking boys' futures. An...

  • Lovers and Friends

    Claire Bocardo

    When Ivy Darling's third husband decamps with a bimbo, moving in with her long-widowed friend Flo Hunnicutt seems like a perfect plan. Ivy and Flo have been helping each other out of jams since high school even though they're as different as ...

  • A Man of the Land

    Carol Devine

    THE COWBOY AND THE LADY When Zach Masterson returned home to sell the family ranch, he never expected a complication like Sarah Solomon. This prim-and-proper lady was running from something and needed his help. But Zach knew to beware. Alluring th...

  • Mandate for Marriage

    Catherine O'Connor

    Fee was bowled over by Grant's charisma and rushed headlong into marriage. But the old saying "Marry in haste, repent at leisure" soon proved all too true. She should have known that the handsome American would have an ulterior motive for...

  • Marriage in Name Only

    Doreen Owens Malek

    INDECENT PROPOSAL Years ago Ann Talbot had been forced to leave Heath Bodine without a goodbye. Now she was back, and though Heath still had the power to make her insides quiver with longing, he had changed. Yes, he was proposing marriage. But no...

  • Marriage on Demand

    Susan Mallery

    To hear Glenwood's womenfolk whisper, notorious Austin Lucas was temptation incarnate. Delicious as forbidden sin, he even tempted bashful, cherubic Rebecca Chambers. But, amid countless adoring females, he'd never notice the tongue-tied do-gooder. ...

  • Moonlight Lady

    Barbara Faith

    New York cop Sam O'Shaughnessy preferred his females big, brunette and lusty. The petite blonde he found stranded was none of the above. Yet the moment prim Lisa Collier straddled his hot black Harley, Sam was bewitched. Bothered. And definitely bewi...

  • Mr. Romance

    Pamela Bauer
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    The only 'date' hunky bachelors Nicholas, Tristan and Alec have on New Year's Eve is consoling one another! Determined to find the woman of their fantasies by Valentine's Day, they each run a very special personal ad... Cocky Tristan Talbot knows...

  • My First Love

    Callie West

    In over her head ... Amy Wyse has everything--except love. She doesn't want a boyfriend to get in the way of her dreams of college and a swimming scholarship, goals for which she's worked so hard. But then she's swept off her feet by Chris Shephe...

  • No Means No

    Francine Pascal

    Jessica has found the perfect guy in James Montgomery, a guy who is gorgeous, intelligent, and adoring, but her sister, Elizabeth, has learned something terrifying about Jessica's new boyfriend and it is up to her to save her sister before it is too ...

  • No Place for Love

    Susanne McCarthy

    His father's mistress... Lacey Tyrell's relationship with Sir Clive Parrish was entirely innocent. The only people who didn't believe that were Clive's sexy stepson, Jon, and the journalists who were after Lacey's blood... Jon Parrish was deter...

  • Obsession

    Debra Carroll

    DO YOU HAVE A SECRET FANTASY? Celebrity author and recluse Emma Jordan does. She's collaborating on a screenplay of her bestselling erotic thriller with talented, sexy-as-sin Sam Cooper. The last thing in the world Emma wants is any kind of involv...

  • Over the Moon

    Linda Anderson

    Dangerous Dreaming A child of the West Virginia mountains, Lilibet Springer dreamed of being more than a coal miners daughter. She would go to law school and carve a better future for her family and the land that had nurtured her. There was no place...

  • Paige

    Judy Baer

    Paige Bradshaw's world is turned upside down the day a dark-suited stranger enters her family's life. When he claims to be her missing uncle, her father decides the man is after a share of the Bradshaw inheritance and angrily orders him to stay away ...

  • The Paris Type

    Christine Grieg

    Rachel wasn't at all amused when her high-handed playboy boss Silas Tredeger suddenly decided to find her attractive and ask her to marry him. For three years he had treated her with as much enthusiasm as an efficient piece of office furniture! Y...

  • A Perfect Marriage

    Laurey Bright

    BROKEN VOWS To their friends, family and neighbors, Celine and Max Archer had a perfect marriage. Only the Archers knew they'd never been in love, and that nights of passion were few and far between. Still, both thought the other happy with the dr...

  • The Pom-Pom Wars

    Francine Pascal

    The dream team Jessica Wakefield has started her own cheerleading squad! Determined to outdo obnoxious Heather Mallone, the new captain of the official team, Jessica is going to make sure that the Sweet Valley cheerleaders don't get to the state c...

  • The Real Elizabeth Hollister...

    Trisha Alexander

    The locket found clutched in her hand years before was the only clue Grace Gregory had to her past. But that alone had led her to a family of great wealth and power -- and to a man who, despite his unconcealed suspicion, made her long for far more th...

  • Reason to Believe

    Kathleen Eagle

    Young lovers from starkly different lives and worlds, Clara and Ben Pipestone came together in passion and in tenderness. But their marriage could not endure deception -- or the betrayals of a tormented, searching soul. And now, though time and pain ...

  • The Reluctant Bodyguard

    Lorna Michaels

    THE THREAT Dear Chad, I'm waiting for you. We'll be together soon. Rose, your phantom lover THE TARGET: Tall, dark and handsome, Chad Foster is hardly aware of the effect he has on women. The popular TV station manager is recognized wherever he...

  • The Rogue Who Came to Stay

    Arlene James

    SWEET-TALKING COWBOY MEETS... Joan Burton was no pushover for sweet-talking cowboys. But when Griff Shaw showed up on her doorstep, injured and alone, she had to take him in. But that didn't mean she'd fall for his seductive grin...or his soul-stirr...

  • Royal Invitation

    Julia Fenton

    The invitation promised a glorious weekend aboard the yacht of a shipping magnate - and the company of some of the world's most famous people, including Prince Henri of Costa del Mar. But for starry-eyed American tennis star Teddy Warner, the cruise ...

  • Same Time, Next Year

    Debbie Macomber

    HIS SUMMER BRIDE That sparkly New Year's Eve in Vegas, dignified Judge James Wilkens impulsively rescued a most seductive damsel in distress. And one unforgettable night with Summer Lawton had him vowing to meet her at the same time, the same plac...

  • Seasons

    Constance O'Day-Flannery

    Three Sisters... The Sullivan sisters seem to have it all. They all grew up beautiful and their every dream came true--Allie's "Donna Reed" perfect marriage; Ginny's wealth and success; and Nancy's exciting life on the fast track of an advertising c...

  • Secret Obsession

    Charlotte Lamb

    Pride comes before a fall.... Will Nerissa's love for another man come before her husband? Nerissa is married to Ben and she has tried to love him. But, since she was a child, Nerissa has also adored her cousin, Philip. Now Philip lies in...

  • Service With a Smile

    Carolyn Andrews

    WHO IS SUNNY CALDWELL? AND WHY DID SHE FIRE THE NANNY? Sunny Caldwell is a determined-to-succeed woman who owns a grocery-shopping service. She has two rules: 1. Business first. Personal life second. 2. Never get involved with a client. S...

  • Shining Through

    Barbara McMahon

    "I don't believe in love and shan't risk it again." When Melissa worked for him, Bret Terrell accused her of espionage. Married to him, she was nothing more than the obliging stepmother of his son. Was there any way that Melissa co...

  • Sleepless in St. Louis

    Tiffany White
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    The only 'date' hunky bachelors Nicholas, Tristan and Alec have on New Year's Eve is consoling one another! Determined to find the woman of their fantasies by Valentine's Day, they each run a very special personal ad... Alec McCord isn't losing s...

  • Stalking the Giant

    Victoria Leigh

    He touched her soul without laying a finger on her.... Alex Hastings was more than Mr. Tall, Dark, and Interesting, Jacqueline Sommers decided--he was all her secret dreams of England rolled into one gorgeous hunk! Romancing her with flowers, tem...

  • Stroke of Midnight

    Kathy Clark

    The Ultimate Cinderella Story A random act of thoughtfulness -- a stranger's kind bequest -- and Shelly Lowell zoomed from rags to riches. Suddenly, this single mother's money woes were history. She felt as though she'd stepped into th...

  • Taboo

    Ellen Archer

    Dreading an appointment with artist Sally French, Alex Langley is stunned by the instant attraction he feels for the jeans-clad blonde, who immediately resists her own urges by reminding herself that her work is her first love. Original....

  • That Devil Love

    Lee Wilkinson

    "I mean to have and own you completely." Annis Warrener had only agreed to accompany her friend Stephen to an office party out of kindness and was expecting a rather dull evening. So she was taken aback to discover that Stephen's new b...

  • Together Alone

    Barbara Delinsky

    THREE WOMEN EXPERIENCE LOSS -- AND DISCOVER THEMSELVES Emily, Kay, and Celeste have been best friends forever. Their daughters are close, too, but all the girls are off to college now, and the mothers must redefine themselves as women. Emily, on...

  • The Trouble With Babies

    Madeline Harper

    TROUBLE TIMES TWO The Trouble with Anne... Annie Valentine was too serious. Sure, Cal Markham needed the PR expert to fix his bad-boy image. The tabloid articles were getting out of hand! But Annie got so fired up when she heard about the pater...

  • Trust Me

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    Desdemona Wainwright thinks Sam Stark looks much too calm for a man who has just been left at the altar. But she was hired to cater his wedding, not save it. She marches into Stark's den to demand the much-needed payment for the canceled reception-- ...

  • Truth or Dare

    Caroline Cross

    FIRST COMES MARRIAGE... To U.S. Marshal Dare Kincaid, guarding an uptight schoolmarm was as exciting as watching water boil. But when the town gossip began buzzing about Victoria Cooper's scandalous behavior with him, Dare announced he was her hus...

  • Unwelcome Invader

    Angela Devine

    "I'm not a poor little thing! I'm tough and unscrupulous and you'd better not forget it!" But beneath her show of bravado Jane West had to face the truth: Marc Le Rossignol had her exactly where he wanted her! The arrogant F...

  • Unwilling Wife

    Carolyn Zane

    Double Take Suddenly Will Spencer was seeing his children's nanny in a whole new light. She was more vibrant than he'd ever realized and more desirable than he'd ever dreamed. Had the perfect woman been right under his nose all along? Double Trou...

  • A Very Secret Affair

    Miranda Lee

    Propositioned by an alpha male! Matt Sheffield was a womanizer -- and experience had taught Clare to avoid men like him at all costs. Though the attentions of one of Australia's biggest celebrities were very flattering, Matt wasn't offerin...

  • Way of the Wolf

    Rebecca Daniels

    The Verdict As a girl, Raeanne Martin had always defended Rafe "Wolf Boy" Rawlings's mysterious history -- and loved his wild looks. Now, as a woman and public defender, Raeanne was up against Rafe in a murder case -- and still filled with desire ...

  • Where the Heart Is

    Patricia Keelyn

    Maddie Adams A woman on the rebound. With a broken engagement behind her, she's come home to put her life back in order-not to complicate it. But she hasn't counted on running into Nick Ryan, her once-best friend and first lover. Nick Ryan. A ...

  • Winner Take All

    Terri Herrington

    Carny Sullivan, suspicious about suave, handsome Logan Brisco and his charming ways, is drawn to him, despite her best intentions and her determination to expose his plans for her quiet Texas town. Original....

  • Your Heart's Desire

    Elise Title
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    The only 'date' hunky bachelors Nicholas, Tristan and Alec have on New Year's Eve is consoling one another! Determined to find the woman of their fantasies by Valentine's Day, they each run a very special personal ad... Divorced Boston lawyer Nic...

  • The Polish Officer

    Alan Furst

    September 1939. As Warsaw falls to Hitler's Wehrmacht, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited by the intelligence service of the Polish underground. His mission: to transport the national gold reserve to safety, hidden on a refugee train to Buchares...

  • Archangel

    Mike Conner

    A novel of a world that might hare been. It is the early 1930s in Minneapolis, and everyone is dying of the plague that ended World War I -- everyone except black people, who are immune. Young newspaperman Danny Constantine discovers a series of wei...

  • Arrows of the Sun

    Judith Tarr

    Estarion, the embittered heir to the Endros empire, grieves over the murder of his father while journeying to the Golden Palace of Asanion, where conspirators wait to kill Estarion before he can claim the throne. Reprint....

  • The Book of Earth

    Marjorie Bradley Kellogg

    Follow the adventures of the four elemental dragons and their human guides in the first book of the history-spanning Dragon Quartet fantasy series."In the beginning of the World, four dragons were raised from elemental energies and set to work creati...

  • A Calculated Magic

    Robert Weinberg

    Journeying to Las Vegas on a quest for his master, Merlin the Magician, Jack Collins seeks out Old Man in the Mountain, a demon force that plans to unleash a deadly biological plague and can only be countered with advanced mathematics. Original....

  • The Crystal Rose

    Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

    Third book in the MERI trilogy. The events set in motion in THE MERI and TAMINY come to an explosive climax in the high mountain aerie of the Hildwild. Their Chieftain, Catahn has brought Taminy here to keep her safe, but is there any place safe for ...

  • The Darkness Before the Dawn

    Ryan Hughes

    Companions half-elf Jedra and ex-templar Kayan search for a mentor that will help them to develop their psionic powers, and are forced to compete against one another in a fight to the death for the gladiatorial games. Original. 75,000 first printing....

  • Dawn of the Dragons

    Joe Dever

    After defeating the Deathlord of Ixia, readers are further challenged to assume the role of the Grand Master after it is revealed that Naar has sent a horde of dragons to overcome the untested Kai warriors and destroy Sommerlund. Original....

  • Death Masque

    P.N. Elrod

    His first love. His only love. His undying love... When he died, Jonathan Barrett was buried. But it was not his fate to stay in the freshly turned earth--the legacy of a new vampire bloodline pulled him from that early grave. Is his strange desti...

  • The Forever Drug

    Steve Perry

    Abandoning his life on Earth after his lover is murdered, Venture Silk starts over on New Earth with Zia, a beautiful spy who is hunted by enemy agents for the secret she holds--the key to eternal life. Original....

  • Harp of Winds

    Maggie Furey

    Now the magnificent saga of Aurian and her people sweeps on in a blaze of glory, terror, and mystic enchantment.... Driven from the holy city of Nexis by the crazed Archmage Miathan, the flame-haired Lady Aurian has survived the deadly sandstorms ...

  • Larque on the Wing

    Nancy Springer

    Going through a messy mid-life crisis, forty-year-old wife and mother Larque Harootunian gets carried away with her latest doppelganger--herself at age ten--who helps transform her into a young, strong, courageous, and gay man. Reprint....

  • Northlight

    Deborah Wheeler

    Venturing into dangerous territory against orders, Kardith and her missing friend's brother Terricel, set off to find Avi, leaving Laureal City in turmoil after an assassination and uncovering a secret beyond their wildest imaginings. Original....

  • The Road Home

    Joel Rosenberg

    All Jason Cullinane - swordsman, baron, and son of the Warrior, Karl Cullinina - knew was that he had to find and stop his friend Mikyn. Mikyn, who had been his childhood playmate; Mikyn who knew all too well the cruelties of slavery; Mikyn, who had ...

  • Rogues to Riches

    J. Robert King

    "Wait! I've got a plan!" Rengie and Tholes have a scheme to get rich quick... . Little do they know they'll have to journey to the ice cap, ride cranky horses, joust warriors, fight frost giants, bargain with witches, use chickens to defeat dra...

  • The Sherwood Game

    Esther Friesner

    STEAL FROM THE REAL Carl Sherwood had always dreamed of being a swashbuckling hero. Alas, buckling that old swash is not so easy when the word "computer geek" could have been coined just for you. And what's the use of being the sharpest AI softwar...

  • Ships of Merior

    Janny Wurts

    As the prophecy foretold, the art of power over light and dark was channeled through two princes: And the fogs that had smothered Athera's skies were dispersed. But in defeat, the Mistwraith set its two royal captors at odds under a powerful curse of...

  • The Sword of Bedwyr

    R.A. Salvatore

    Young noble Luthien Bedwyr is too privileged to understand that his-once-proud land, Eriador, suffers under the demonic oppression of Wizard-King Greensparrow. Until the day Luthien seeks justice for a friend's murder--only to become a fugitive fleei...

  • Tooth Fairy Magic

    Joanne Barkan

  • Triumph of the Dragon // The Palace of Souls

    Robin Wayne Bailey

    Two brothers, hailed as saviors by the people of Palenoc, become separated in the land of menacing black unicorns and shimmering dragons and must reunite against the evil sorceress, Heart of Darkness, before their world is destroyed. Original....

  • Troll-Quest

    Rose Estes

    Desperately searching for their stolen babies in the long-forgotten world beneath the streets of Chicago, Katherine Sinclair and her mysterious, nonhuman companion, Crystal, are drawn into the war between the Under Dwellers and the human race. Origin...

  • The Unicorn Hunt

    Elaine Cunningham

    When his mother's life is threatened by a deadly illness, a young boy and his uncle begin a search for a unicorn and its powers of healing, and learn that certain forms of magic cannot be seized, but must be earned...

  • The Adventures of Maqroll

    Alvaro Mutis

    The next installment in a highly acclaimed saga by an author Gabriel Garcia Marquez has called "one of the greatest writers of our time." In the first novella in this volume, Amirbar, Maqroll finds gold in an abandoned mine in a Sout...

  • The Age Of Consent

    Geoffrey Wolff

    Ted and Maisie's parents moved to the community of Blackberry Mountain in upstate New York full of hope for the future; they would live a wholesome life rooted in the natural world, free from social constraints and the ugly urban climate of the early...

  • Aladdin

    L. Spencer Humphrey

  • All Is Burning

    Jean Arasanayagam

    This collection contains nineteen stories of rare power from the heart of war-ravaged Sri Lanka. In these stories Jean Arasanayagam brings us voices that are not normally heard: those of anonymous men and women searching for order and reason in the m...

  • Amelia's Notebook

    Marissa Moss

    A nine year old, a blank notebook, and a busy year -- that's AMELIA'S NOTEBOOK. Nothing gets by Amelia. She's one of those kids who is always wondering why things are the way they are and she puts it all down in her notebook. There's a family move t...

  • Angel Angel

    April Stevens

    A droll and poignant novel of family dysfunction, certain to be relished by Anne Tyler and Alice Hoffman fans. April Stevens' spare prose and ear for the varied vernacular of life-styles and generations make her debut novel a wonderfully appealing, a...

  • Animal Lingo

    Pamela Conrad

  • Banana Rose

    Natalie Goldberg

    A young woman journeys from New Mexico to the Midwest, trying to make sense of her life as an artist and how it meshes with her family, faith, and inner self Nell Schwartz is a Brooklyn-born Jewish girl who reinvents herself in the communes of Taos...

  • Barbie: Birthday Surprise for Skipper

    Andrea Haas Schneider

  • Becky, Boys, and Ballet

    Emily Costello

    With Glory Elementary School's talent show coming up, Becky creates a ballet that she and her friends from ballet school will perform, but suddenly Jillian and Megan refuse to cooperate and Dean, tired of being teased by classmates, threatens to quit...

  • Betrayals

    Charles Palliser

    At once a hypnotic murder mystery, scathing literary parody, soap opera, and brilliant pastiche, Betrayals is an astonishing virtuouso performance by a modern master of literary gamesmanship in the tradition of Vladimir Nabokov and John Barth.
    The...

  • Big Bear's Treasury, the Green Collection

    Candlewick Press

  • Big David, Little David

    S.E. Hinton

    The acclaimed young adult novelist focuses on young readers in a delightful story about a playful battle of wits between Nick and his father, David, when Nick discovers a boy named David in his class....

  • Bless Me, Father

    Mary Kriegel

  • Bombardiers

    Po Bronson

    From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Should I Do with My Life?, Bombardiers is Po Bronson’s first novel, a devastating satire of the business world told through the lens of a crazed and colorful group of salespeople forced to pu...

  • Border Music

    Robert James Waller

    Most people don't run out the back door of a place called The Rainbow Bar in Dillon, Minnesota, with someone they don't even know, get in a pick-up truck, drive all day, and end up in a motel room. But that's exactly what Jack Carmine and Linda Lobo ...

  • A Bridge Between Us

    Julie Shigekuni

    Four generations of Japanese American women make  their home in a large house in San Francisco,  united by the obligations of family and tradition and,  perhaps, by love. In alternating chapters, the  four wome...

  • Brigitta and Other Tales

    Adalbert Stifter

    The heroine of "Brigitta" makes a corner of the Hungarian plains bloom. "Limestone" tells of a priest whose erotic encounter determines his behaviour. "Abdias" is the epic story of a Jew raised in the African desert. The hero of "The Forest Path" is ...

  • Brotherman

    Herb Boyd

    "[AN] OUTSTANDING COLLECTION...
    The powerful opening excerpt by Frederick Douglass evokes his boyhood as a slave, and the collection closes with an eloquent discussion of the race problem today by Cornel West. A distinguished addition to black stu...

  • Bug Off!

    Terri Fields

    Krista's little brother Tyler is such brat that she wishes he would disappear--or turn into a bug--but when he actually turns into a beetle, she has to get him back to normal before Mom gets home. Original....

  • The Bunnies' Easter Bonnet

    Nan Roloff

    When twin bunnies Clarence and Clarissa Cottontail set out to win a bicycle built-for-two in the Easter bonnet contest for the Alfaville Easter Parade, they have lots of competition from other animals who are putting together fantastic creations....

  • A Child's Good Morning Book

    Margaret Wise Brown

    The irresistible illustrations of renowned author-illustrator Karen Katz bring this charming story to life for a whole new generation of Margaret Wise Brown fans in this sturdy board book, perfect for little hands! This delightful and lyrical stor...

  • Children in the Woods

    Frederick Busch

    "Powerful . . . Fiction of a very high order . . . Frederick Busch at his best."
    -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
    "[These] provocative tales center around relationships gone awry, families grappling with loss, and lonely men and women strugglin...

  • Cleo

    Jean Brody

    As a teenager, Cleo hits the road, armed with only $20 in egg money, her dead father's trumpet, and a copy of My Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-Neel. She had tried to grow up as afast as she could on a farm in Robina County, Oklahoma, in the ...

  • Cobra Dane

    John Campbell

    A remote island off the coast of Alaska is the last line of national defense as the Russians seize Cobra Dane, an advanced radar system, and four Americans attempt to hold them off--and survive the murderous arctic weather. Original....

  • Cock-A-Doodle-Doo

    Philip Weiss

    Encountering the daughter of a political candidate at the Democratic National Convention, Jack Gold, an idealistic lawyer, finds himself caught up in Burry's world of dirty tricks, society parties, and the New York media. A first novel....

  • Counting Cats

    Michi Fujimoto

  • A Crooked Man

    Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

    After a chilling threat against his young son, Senator Nick Schlafer struggles with unseen enemies, probes his teenage daughter's death under suspicious circumstances, and uncovers the dark underside of Washington politics and the horror of power gon...

  • Crossing Over Jordan

    Linda Beatrice Brown

    "A DEEPLY AFFECTING NOVEL about the hidden legacy of slavery--from the waning of the Civil War to the early twenty-first century."
    --Essence
    Georgia McCloud lives to see emancipation. Her daughter Sadie discovers that, though she might be free,...

  • Crossing the Mangrove

    Maryse Conde

    In this beautifully crafted, Rashomon-like novel, Maryse Conde has written a gripping story imbued with all the nuances and traditions of Caribbean culture. Francis Sancher--a handsome outsider, loved by some and reviled by others--is found dead, fac...

  • The Cunning Man

    Robertson Davies

    “An amazing coup . . . a brilliant, never less than engaging work of fiction which is also a philosophical meditation on the business of living.” -- Financial Times   When Father Hobbes mysteriously dies at the high alter on Good Friday, Dr....

  • Cured by Fire

    Tim McLaurin

    Two men on opposite ends of the social scale are united among the homeless in Seattle after losing what they hold most dear and find support and redemption in each other, a journey through America, and their own hearts. By the author of The Acorn...

  • Danger at the Fair

    Peg Kehret

    Ellen and Corey Streater from Terror at the Zoo and Horror at the Haunted House continue their adventures at a county fair. While chasing a pickpocket, Corey and Ellen wander into the River of Fear ride where they soon discover they are the ones bein...

  • Demon Knight

    Randall Boyll

  • Disney's Heavyweight: Junior Novel

    Jordan Horowitz

    Thirteen-year-old Gerry Gardner is looking forward to the best summer ever--until he finds out his parents have enrolled him in a camp for overweight kids. He soon finds out the camp isn't as bad as he expected. The good times end when a fitness frea...

  • A Diving Rock on the Hudson

    Henry Roth

  • The Dixon Cornbelt League, and Other Baseball Stories

    W.P. Kinsella

    Nine short stories include the title work, in which a young baseball player looks for a break in the cornfields of small-town Iowa and instead discovers something disquieting about his roommates. Reprint....

  • Dreamland

    Hilary Hemingway; Jeffry P. Lindsay

    For the past eight years Hilary Hemingway and her husband Jeffery P. Lindsay have researched the UFO enigma. They sat in on abductees hypnosis sessions, traveled to crop circles, and reviewed their findings with the Department of Defense. The startli...

  • Duckling's Surprise

    Bettina Paterson

    Duckling does not have much luck on her Easter egg hunt, but she fills her basket with something much better, in a delightful holiday board book that features charming rhymes and colorful pictures--just right for little ones' Easter baskets....

  • The Easter Bunny Battle

    Francine Pascal

    Jessica Wakefield can't wait! Sweet Valley Elementary is having an Easter egg hunt -- and the prize is a bunny! Best of all, Jessica's twin sister, Elizabeth, is in charge of hiding the eggs. Jessica's positive she can trick her sister into telling h...

  • Elizabeth the Seventh Grader

    Francine Pascal

    Elizabeth The Seventh-Grader High expectations... Elizabeth Wakefield is thrilled when she hears the news: Her teachers want to skip her to seventh grade! Everyone is proud of her -- except her identical twin, Jessica, who wants her sister back in si...

  • Friends Matter

    D. Judith Dunn

  • Get Lost, Laura!

    Jennifer Northway

    Lucy and her cousin Alice, two African-American girls who do not want to play with Lucy's little sister, Laura, suddenly learn a lesson about responsibility when Laura cannot be found during a game of hide-and-seek....

  • Ghostly Tales of Love and Revenge

    Daniel Cohen

    Daniel Cohen, best-known for his collections of monster and ghost stories, presents a scary collection of tales about ghosts, lovers, and revenge that will dispel any doubts about the existence of our unearthly companions. Ethereal yarns. . . . A goo...

  • The Ghosts of War

    Allan Ahlberg

    A breezy and entertaining tale set in the days when school desks had inkwells features a renowned, but slightly nutty, doctor, a kidnapping, some notorious criminals, a lonely girl, and an extremely humongous baby....

  • Gluskabe and the Four Wishes

    Joseph Bruchac

    A retelling of a Native American folktale, enhanced by colorful pastel illustrations, chronicles the adventures of four Abenaki men who journey to Gluskabe, helper of the Great Spirit, to have their wishes granted....

  • Go

    Holly Uyemoto

    Facing an identity crisis in the week before her twenty-first birthday, Wil struggles with her Japanese-American family's high ideals and a failed relationship and finds solace in the wisdom of her ancestors. By the author of Rebel Without a Clue...

  • Goodbye, Desert Rose

    Susan E. Kirby

    When she learns her family must move from their Arizona home, Kathleen plans way to take her pet burro, Biscuit, along, but her fund-raising scheme is threatened by stuck-up Fawn and her prize-winning, imported burro. Original....

  • Gordy

    Anne Mazer

  • The Great Gazoo Snafu

    Golden Books

    Fred and Barney think they have struck it rich when they find a magical green man from the planet Zatox, but greed gets in the way, in a colorful picture book featuring seven hilarious sound effects including "Yabba-dabba-doo."...

  • Happy Easter, Bunny!

    Bettina Paterson

    A sturdy holiday board book, die-cut in the shape of an Easter Bunny, introduces a dressed-up bunny who gets a sweet surprise when he delivers eggs to his friends and features delightful rhymes and bright, collage-style pictures....

  • Haunted Flute and Other Japanese Stories

    Grace James

  • Hilda and Pearl

    Alice Mattison

    To Frances, an only child living in McCarthy-era Brooklyn, her mother, Hilda, and her aunt Pearl seem as if they have always been friends. Frances does not question the love between the two women until her father's job as a teacher is threatened by a...

  • The Hippopotamus

    Stephen Fry

    Now a major motion picture: A “deliciously wicked and amusing” tale of a cranky curmudgeon investigating strange goings-on at an English country house (The New York Times).   “I’ve suffered for my art, now it’s your turn.” So begins ...

  • Holy Terror

    Josephine Boyle

    Newlyweds John and Emily Wakelin can't believe their luck when they discover the quaint cottage of their dreams in Essex. Emily, a talented embroideress, and John, a rising accountant, settle into a peaceful life. But they get their first inkling of ...

  • Humpty Dumpty and Other Mother Goose Songs

    H.A. Rey

  • I Want to Learn to Fly

    Judy Barron

  • I'd Rather Be Eaten by Sharks

    Elaine Moore

  • I'm a Baby, You're a Baby

    Lisa Kopper

  • In The Year Of The Long Division

    Dawn Raffel

    Dawn Raffel's debut delivers us to the wild spaces of a youth in the Midwest and to the blank terrors of the heart. There is a cold wind blowing through these stories, whose sentences come to us as a rebuke to anything felt. In her flight from sentim...

  • Jack and Jill

    Eric Weiner

    Blackmailed by a classmate, computer geek Martin Rucker, Jack Washburn and Jill Marshack set out to rid themselves of their parasitic tormenter, but they soon discover that true evil is difficult to destroy. Original....

  • Jellybeans!

    Bea Sloboder

  • Jeremy Kooloo

    Tim Mahurin

    A unique alphabet book, full of richly evocative paintings and containing works in ABC order, follows Jeremy the cat as he gets in all kinds of hilarious trouble trying to get to some tempting and delicious milk....

  • Jericho Years

    Aileen Armitage

    Jericho Farm, high in the Pennines, has been in the Hemingway family for generations. Although life on the farm was hard, the place has a rugged compulsion for those who lived and worked there. But now James Hemingway was thinking of breaking wit...

  • Jessi and the Troublemaker

    Ann M. Martin

    Need a baby-sitter? Save time! Call: THE BABYSITTERS CLUB and reach seven experienced baby-sitters. Kristy Thomas, President Mary Anne Spier, Secretary Claudia Kishi, Vice-President Stacey McGill, Treasurer Shannon Kilbourne, Alternate Of...

  • Karen's School Mystery

    Ann M. Martin

    From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation!The spiesKaren and Addie are elected to the safety patrol. Karen is so proud to wear her badge and keep the halls safe. But uh-oh....

  • Karen's Ski Trip

    Ann M. Martin

    Hit the Slopes! Karen can't wait to go to a ski resort at Shadow Lake. She is excited to spend time with her big-house family and try a new sport. Karen is sure she'll be a good skier. But once she's on the slopes, Karen keeps falling down. And...

  • Keepers of the Dawn

    Alfred Silver

    In 1750, the Mohawk Valley was a heaven of peace and plenty. Indians and Englishmen lived in amity and harvested the same rich land. But Tskleleli, the little bird of rumor, sang of trouble coming. Sage Canienga counselors sought to prepare for futur...

  • Kiss of Death

    Peter Beere

    Sadie Ross is finding life difficult and a little scary because she cannot stand her stepsister, her boyfriend is away at college and now, someone is stalking her enemies and everyone is calling her the "kiss of death."...