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  • The Wonder Book of Air

    Cynthia Shearer

    The fractured lives of three generations of a Southern family unfold in this lyrical and piercing debut novel. As a young man, Harrison Durrance comes into his own during World War II, but when the war ends, he loses his bearings. His notions of the ...

  • Star Lord

    Donald G. Phillips

    STEFAN THE TERRORIZER An ancient evil has slumbered for centuries, passing from generation to generation, until one day a man discovers the truth of his genetic heritage--and proclaims himself Star Lord of the Inner Sphere. Disguising his army of ...

  • The Gates of Twilight

    Paula Volsky

    In a fragile alliance, the natives are stirring uneasily under their foreign rulers. Rebellion is brewing, and at the heart of the conflict lies the bloody and powerful cult of the god Aoun, whose followers will stop at nothing to rid their land of a...

  • Sea Without a Shore

    Sean Russell

    THE LODESTONE The secrets of the Mages had been lost with the passing of Erasmus Flattery, a man of Talent who had served the last known Mage. It seemed to be the dawn of a new era--a time of reason, science, and exploration. And Tristam Flattery,...

  • The White Chip

    Nelson Nye

    The Lost Dutchman was the most fabled gold mine of the Old West. Since Jacob Walzer struck gold in the Superstition Mountains of southwestern Arizona, hundreds of hopefuls had risked everything to comb the deadly mountains for it -- and many never ca...

  • Angel Fire

    Jack Ballas

    Kurt Buckner reluctantly takes on the task of escorting Melanie Corbin through the dangers of the Colorado Territory, protecting her from the three men who would do anything to insure her death. Original....

  • Falconer's Law

    Jason Manning

    Setting out across the harsh desert in order to forge a new path to 1837 California, daring mountain man Hugh Falconer leads his band of roughnecks and outcasts through the dangerous land against menacing odds. Original....

  • Mexican Standoff

    Lee Morgan

    Captain Boyd McMasters is sent in by the Cattleman's Protective Association when rancher Ben Allison is threatened by vicious rustlers who may have been hired by a powerful scoundrel from across the Rio Grande. Original....

  • Utah Trackdown

    Jon Sharpe

    Lured into the desolate Unitas mountains by a beautiful woman's promise of a big payoff, Skye Fargo encounters a crew of mysterious murderers and a gang of religious fanatics called the Destroying Angels. Original....

  • Colorado Chippy

    Dirk Fletcher

    Secret Service agent Spur McCoy is torn in three directions when the government directs him to track down bank robbers, a gang of desperados tries to murder him, and a beautiful woman demands his attentions. Original....

  • Slocum and the Bear Lake Monster

    Jake Logan

    Hired by a wealthy professor and his gorgeous assistant to take part in an expedition to prove the existence of the legendary Bear Lake Monster, John Slocum begins to suspect that something is very wrong, especially when his old nemesis Haskell shows...

  • Darling

    Ellen Archer

    A PAST SHE CANNOT REMEMBER... They told her that her name was Selena Vale, that she lived in a grand English manor in the scenic Maryland countryside -- and that she was the wife of a very wealthy man. But to Selena -- her memory shrouded in am...

  • Buckskin Vengeance

    John Legg

    Swearing vengeance on the men who killed his trapping partners and stole their possessions, Alex Campbell pursues a cold trail in the dangerous high plains and finds help from legendary mountain man Kit Carson. Original....

  • Hot Texas Nights

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    A FAMILY... The Whitmore name in Austin, Texas, meant wealth, power, and ruthlessness. Run by patriarch Fletcher Whitmore, the family commanded respect--and fear. Then eldest son and senatorial candidate Phillip Whitmore was killed was shot and kill...

  • When Mona Lisa Smiles

    Carole Buck
    in

    MEET THREE WOMEN WHO HAVE SPENT YEARS UNLUCKY IN LOVE. NOT ONE OF THEM IS PREPARED FOR A PASSION OF LEGENDARY PROPORTIONS... With boyfriends ranging from a hypochondriac to a fiance who fancied himself as a kept man, spunky Southerner Cleopatra Mu...

  • The Famous Heroine

    Mary Balogh

    The Uncommon Commoner Miss Cora Downes was only a merchant's daughter. But when she saved a duke's son from drowning, her reward was entry into London high society. Cora had a style of beauty and mode of manners that made her a fish out of water i...

  • Love's Promise

    Karen A. Bale

    A GENTLEMAN Wild, free-spirited Rio McKinnon had known John MacGregor since childhood. Now, as her wedding to the wealthy rancher's son approached, she wondered if there was something missing from her life: Excitement. Danger. Passion... A GUNSL...

  • Too Tough to Tame

    Deborah Camp

    Framed and shot for a murder he did not commit, Blackfoot Storm-In-His-Eyes is rescued and nursed by beautiful Tess Summar, whom he resists because of her white heritage, until he hopelessly falls in love. She is Tess Summar, who dares to defy the...

  • Across a Moonlit Sea

    Marsha Canham

    THE PIRATE WOLF He was French by birth, half English by blood, and reported to be all larceny by nature. One of Queen Elizabeth's legendary sea hawks, the rogue nobleman Simon Dante nearly lost his life when his partner turned coward and betrayed ...

  • Gentleman's Choice

    Dorothea Donley

    He was a perfect prospect...But for which young lady? Although Nelly is unquestionably plain and hopelessly practical, her parents entertain hopes of a brilliant marriage for her beautiful sister Verena. And indeed, Verena's London season is quickly...

  • Suddenly

    Candace Camp

    Simon "Devil" Dure is as cynical about love as spirited Charity Emerson is innocent of it. But she is certain she can meet his wifely expectations, and he is charmed and amused enough to believe her. Their ensuing engagement is as shocking as...

  • Fortune's Mistress

    Mary Chase Comstock

    Never one to give in to the vapors, spirited London beauty Marianne Gardiner regarded her scandalous predicament with accustomed aplomb. She was with child and, as the father was soon to wed another, Marianne was quite prepared to make her way alone....

  • Winter Longing

    Christina Cordaire

    Lessons of love can be the hardest to learn... FRENCH Fired for being a suffragette, she thought she'd never teach again ... until her favorite aunt and uncle got her a job in Colorado. KYLE He thought he was hiring a tough young man to t...

  • A Dream Embraced

    Kate Donovan

    LOVE..for Molly Sheridan, descendant of a lost race of sorcerers, dreams were a doorway into supernatural worlds...opening places in the soul she never knew existed. When she met and married seductive mythology professor Matthew Redtree, she discover...

  • Splendor

    Christine Dorsey

    ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A BEAUTIFUL QUEEN... ...who lived in a tiny European kingdom. But she wasn't happy. Cassandra, ruler of Breslovia, was much too young to be head of state and fur too lovely to be married off to a pompous, self-centered...

  • Lord Barry's Dream House

    Emily Hendrickson

    The Best Laid Plans Lovely Lady Juliana Hamilton had bold plans indeed. She intended to follow in the footsteps of her late father, who not, only was a lord of the realm, but was also one of the finest architects in it. She would complete his grea...

  • Miss Charity's Case

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    SHE HAD FAITH AND HOPE... At six-and-twenty, Miss Charity Stuart, daughter of Bridgeton's late minister, was on the shelf. But she believed that her pretty younger sister could still snare an aristocratic suitor--especially when the invitation a...

  • Flames of Rapture

    Lark Eden

    ANCIENT SECRETS...TIMELESS LOVE When Lyric Solei fled the bustling city for her summer retreat in Salem, it was a chance for the lovely young psychic to escape the pain so often associated with her special sight. She decided she'd use her free tim...

  • The Scottish Bride

    Peggy Hanchar

    SHE ANSWERED THE WILD CALL OF THE HIGHLANDS AND THE TRAITOROUS YEARNINGS OF HER HEART... The pawn in a game between greedy men, Lillias McGinnis had been abducted by a rival clan and made the child bride of the chieftain's rebellious son. Fina...

  • A Marriage Made in Heaven

    Patricia Hagan
    in

    Pennsylvania, 1850. With the assistance of her guardian angel, a wealthy spinster searches for the ideal husband. But she soon learns that earthly perfection is no substitute for a passion straight from paradise....

  • Blush

    Suzanne Forster

    She was raised in a world of wealth and privilege. But that wasn't enough for Augusta Featherstone. It would take more than her family's trust fund to earn the freedom and respect she longed for so passionately. Her beauty could turn a man's head. He...

  • Born of the Night

    Sherrilyn Kenyon

    BORN OF FIRE Awakening from a drugged sleep in a cold cell, the princess Kiara finds herself a prisoner of the merciless marauders who threaten her father's planetary kingdom. Miraculously, a rescuer appears, but behind his fearsome mask is the hands...

  • Sundancer's Woman

    Judith E. French

    A MOTHER'S SACRIFICE Pride, courage and a steadfast devotion to her two small children have kept Elizabeth Fleming strong throughout her years of captivity. And now a handsome stranger has appeared to free the stunning, copper-haired beauty from t...

  • Home Fires

    Layle Giusto

  • Matchmaker

    Carla Fredd
    in

    ENJOY A COLLECTION OF STORIES THAT ARE IDEALLY SUITED FOR THIS SPECIAL SEASON OF HEARTS AND FLOWERS. IN ALL THREE TALES, LOVERS FIND EACH OTHER WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM CUPID. ONCE THEY DO, ROMANCE IS LIKE A BOX OF VALENTINE'S MY CHOCOLATES: SWEET; DE...

  • Always to Remember

    Lorraine Heath

    The story of one man whose quiet strength in his convictions makes an entire town believe -- and of one woman who rebuilds a shattered life and a broken heart. Of one person fighting to forget the past. And one vowing... ALWAYS TO REMEMBER Refu...

  • Sheik's Glory

    Carole Howey

    Hoping to maintain ownership of her horse ranch, no-nonsense beauty Missy Cannon enters a battle of wills with Flynn Muldaur, who has won half the ranch in a gambling bet and seeks to obtain the rest. Wild at Heart Missy Cannon was a woman wh...

  • Choice Deceptions

    Emma Jensen

    THEY COULD FOOL THE PUBLIC, BUT NOT THEIR HEARTS.... Lord Tarrant needed a woman. Aurelie Carollan needed a place to hide. Her advertisement and his offer seemed to ensure that both parties would get what they so desperately desired. He would g...

  • Heaven on Earth

    Bobby Hutchinson
    in

    Indiana,1889. Divine intervention helps a country doctor and a rural beauty realize that, while duty is important, life is meaningless without laughter and love....

  • Notorious

    Kathryn Kramer

    She is Devondra, daughter of "Gentleman James", a highwayman who steals from the wealthy to give to the poor... But now, with James captured and condemned to death, Devondra enters into a desperate bargain. To save her father from the hangman's noose...

  • Cupid's Bow

    Brenda Jackson
    in

    ENJOY A COLLECTION OF STORIES THAT ARE IDEALLY SUITED FOR THIS SPECIAL SEASON OF HEARTS AND FLOWERS. IN ALL THREE TALES, LOVERS FIND EACH OTHER WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM CUPID. ONCE THEY DO, ROMANCE IS LIKE A BOX OF VALENTINE'S MY CHOCOLATES: SWEET; DE...

  • Beyond All Measure

    Mandalyn Kaye

    When her dear friend Aiden, the Duke of Albrick, returns home from the Peninsular War, Lady Sarah Erridge realizes that the years apart have changed him. No longer the carefree youth she'd adored, Aiden is scarred by haunting memories of battle -- an...

  • Taken By You

    Connie Mason

    A PIRATE'S PASSION He is Morgan Scott, an English nobleman once held captive on the high seas by the brutal Spanish master and crew who murdered his family. Now he sails the seas as a British privateer, taking his revenge by attacking and plunde...

  • Heaven in His Touch

    Linda Madl
    in

    Colorado,1885. A rugged rancher and fiery filly have always longed for one another, but it takes a heaven-sent messenger to set them on a trail to fulfillment....

  • Wish List

    Fern Michaels

    IF YOU HAD JUST ONE WISH, WHAT WOULD IT BE? A brilliant career, two adoring husbands--none of it is enough to erase the memory of Ariel Hart's one true love. Back when she was plain, starry-eyed Aggie Bixby, a dark-eyed boy touched her heart . ....

  • Sea Raven

    Patricia McAllister

    THE RAVEN AND THE HAWK As proud and stubborn as the clan she springs from, as wild and unpredictable as the waters she sails, she is any man's equal on the high seas. Sworn to defend her homeland against English tyranny, she bravely confronts the ...

  • The Loves of Ruby Dee

    Curtiss Ann Matlock

    THE END OF THE ROAD The first moment Will Starr saw Ruby Dee D'Angelo step out of her Ford Galaxie, he knew she would have to go. Hired as a nurse for Will's ailing father, she was too young and beautiful to be stuck in the middle of nowhere with ...

  • Valentines

    Barbara Metzger

    BALD LIES Audrina is desperate to ensure that Lord Blanford not only notices her beautiful cousin but marries her as well. However, Max's head is beset by larger worries than matrimony--though he is curiously diverted by the antics of the flame-ha...

  • Made in Heaven

    Felicia Mason
    in

    ENJOY A COLLECTION OF STORIES THAT ARE IDEALLY SUITED FOR THIS SPECIAL SEASON OF HEARTS AND FLOWERS. IN ALL THREE TALES, LOVERS FIND EACH OTHER WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM CUPID. ONCE THEY DO, ROMANCE IS LIKE A BOX OF VALENTINE'S MY CHOCOLATES: SWEET; DE...

  • The Rose of Ravenscrag

    Patricia Phillips

    The daughter of a nobleman and a common peasant, Rosamund believed she was doomed to marry a simple swineherd. Then a desperate ruse swept the feisty lass from her rustic English village to a faraway castle. And even as Rosamund posed as the betro...

  • The Duke's Dilemma

    Nadine Miller

    A Compromising Position Miss Emily Haliburton could not hope to match her cousin Lady Lucinda Hargrave in either beauty or social standing. Certainly she could never compete with the lovely Lucinda for the hand of the devastatingly handsome, daunt...

  • 'Til Tomorrow

    Sandra Marton

    When Manhattan businesswoman Kathryn Russell inherits Charon's Crossing, her first instinct is to sell it. A busy career woman didn't need a tropical island getaway. But destiny brings Kathryn to Charon's Crossing discovers that her new possession is...

  • Breath of Magic

    Teresa Medeiros

    An enchantress from seventeenth-century Massachusetts collides with a future beyond her imagining...and with a handsome cynic who's about to learn a lesson in the power of love. AN EXQUISITE ENCHANTRESS LOST IN TIME Arian Whitewood hadn't qui...

  • Risque

    Laura Parker

    Transforming Madeline Foucant, an impoverished, convent-bred beauty, into England's most famous courtesan as part of a bet, Sebastian D'Arcy, the rakish Marquis of Brecon, is drawn despite himself to his own sensuous creation. Original....

  • Night Lace

    Emma Merritt

    NOW . . . Seeking a cure for a mysterious new virus, devoted doctor Beth Balfour travels to a far-off Scottish castle to find a remedy described in an ancient text: a delicate, silvery flower called Nightlace. It exists, to her dismay, only in the p...

  • Aim for the Heart

    Sue Rich

    Ten years have passed since the ruthless Boggs brothers massacred Jessalea Richardson's entire family. Now seventeen, the courageous beauty disguises herself as a boy and sets off to find the murderers and deliver her own brand of justice. Armed with...

  • Kiss An Angel

    Susan Elizabeth Phillips

    WEDDING DAY Pretty, flighty Daisy Devreaux can either go to jail or marry the mystery man her father has chosen for her. Arranged marriages don't happen in the modern world, so how did the irrepressible Daisy find herself in this fix? Alex Mar...

  • Tickle My Fancy

    Rebecca Paisley
    in

    MEET THREE WOMEN WHO HAVE SPENT YEARS UNLUCKY IN LOVE. NOT ONE OF THEM IS PREPARED FOR A PASSION OF LEGENDARY PROPORTIONS... With boyfriends ranging from a hypochondriac to a fiance who fancied himself as a kept man, spunky Southerner Cleopatra Mu...

  • Myth & Magic: Helen of Troy, New York

    Paula Detmer Riggs
    in

    MEET THREE WOMEN WHO HAVE SPENT YEARS UNLUCKY IN LOVE. NOT ONE OF THEM IS PREPARED FOR A PASSION OF LEGENDARY PROPORTIONS... With boyfriends ranging from a hypochondriac to a fiance who fancied himself as a kept man, spunky Southerner Cleopatra Mu...

  • Forever and a Day

    Connie Rinehold

    HE DEFIED THE BOUNDARIES OF TIME . . . He thundered out of the moonlit mist, out of her dreams, and onto the deserted English road leading to the inn she had crossed the ocean to claim. Dark and brooding astride his dappled silver steed, he watched ...

  • Romance, Inc.

    Jocelyn Raines

    In one unexpected turn of fate everything changed. Her Marriage. Her Future. Her Heart. Caroline Shaw had been a poor rag doll of a girl in golden Palm Beach, Florida. But her dreams were rich, formed by her wide-eyed visits to her mother's place ...

  • Cupid's Challenge

    Jeanne Savery

    ROSES ARE RED, A LADY IS BLUE Lady Anne Montmorency is an enigma. She hides her magnificent hair beneath a dreadful cap, moves into the garret of her sister-in-law's elegant mansion, and refuses to attend a single London soiree. In fact, confirmed b...

  • You Belong to My Heart

    Nan Ryan

    FROM LOVE TO HATE She was a blue blood. His ran dirt poor and red. That didn't matter to them. But it did to those whose devious trap destroyed their young love. FROM INNOCENCE TO ECSTASY As the Civil War raged, a different kind of war exploded ...

  • After the Storm

    Susan Sizemore

    A LOVE FOR ALL TIME Don't fraternize with the locals. Every member of the Time Search time knew that was the cardinal rule of team travel. But when Libby Wolfe was swept back to medieval England, she met the one man who could make her ignore it. Ba...

  • The Tomboy

    Mary Lou Rich

    In the heart of Texas lives a family as big and bold as the state itself The Daltrys are as different as they come, each with his or her own strengths--and weaknesses. Every time a Daltry turns twenty years old, they are presented with a task by thei...

  • Family Secrets

    Lynda Trent

    Caught up in a case in which a child's life is at stake, beautiful attorney Kirby Garrett finds her obsession threatening her relationship with her husband, while her sister, Mallory, trapped in a loveless marriage, seeks refuge in a series of love a...

  • Devotion

    Katherine Sutcliffe

    Trey Hawthorne had once been the most eligible man in Northern England. A notorious rogue, the young Duke of Salterdon had a line of admirers that could stretch all the way around his magnificent estate. But after being wounded, Trey suddenly found h...

  • A Gift from Heaven

    Bobbi Smith
    in

    Tennessee,1865. A Yankee soldier and a Southern belle are ready to start their own civil war--until a heavenly visitor draws up terms of surrender that will bring them anal bliss....

  • The Best Medicine

    Elizabeth Neff Walker

    LOVE IN THE SHADOW OF LOSS In San Francisco's prestigious Fielding Medical Center, Dr. Roger Janek was known as a brilliant, dedicated specialist in the operating room. But in his private life, he was locked in mourning for his beautiful wife, Ker...

  • McKenna's Fortune

    Lauren Wilde

    Georgianna Mead fled the staid respectability of 19th-century England to seek adventure in Spanish Florida, an unsavory frontier where Seminole chiefs traded with smugglers. Now, with a dangerous raid imminent, she is forced once more to take to the ...

  • Privileged Conversation

    Evan Hunter

    Successful psychiatrist David Chapman decides to stay in the city and work while his wife and children vacation on Martha's Vineyard. All is not tranquil in the city, however. A chance meeting with a Broadway dancer evokes his every erotic fantasy. B...

  • Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs

    Max McCoy

    Fresh from a ride on a Nazi submarine, Indiana Jones is persuaded by a beautiful missionary to search for her missing father in Mongolia. Professor Angus Starbuck has discovered a dinosaur bone in the Gobi Desert. But unlike other such discoveries, t...

  • The Dreamer

    L.D. Pierce

  • Elephantasm

    Tanith Lee

    Left homeless in the wake of a series of family tragedies, sixteen-year-old Annie Ember is shipped off to serve as a scullery maid on the exotic Smolte estate, where she is introduced to a dark, decadent, and perverse world. Reprint....

  • The Reckoning

    Connie Laux

    Working at Pine Lake Park despite their fear of the local curse of the blood moon, Kate and her best friend Al find their nightmares coming true when a young man is killed just before the arrival of the evil magician Max Kettering. Original....

  • The Spirit Gate

    Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

    The magic of Polia is broken, the delicate connection between its male and female elements, sundered. Blame for this and other calamities both natural and political has long been laid at the feet of the White Mothers-rare adepts who can handle both m...

  • Siege of Shadows

    Lynn Abbey

    Aristocratic twin siblings--Kyle, a young Hart-lord, and his sister Kiera, haunted by a dream of Rapture--set out to solve the mystery of the Siege of Shadows, a golden throne rumored to hide the mystery of life. Original....

  • Requiem of Stars

    Tracy Hickman

    Here's the long-awaited solo novel--the first of an imaginative interstellar trilogy--from the co-author of the New York Times bestselling Death Gate saga, Tracy Hickman.With more than ten million copies of the Death Gate novels in print, Tracy Hickm...

  • Shadow World

    Ian Hammell

    Swept into the perilous, magical world of Kulthea, the Shadow World, by a mysterious storm that rips through their house, Brion competes with his treacherous wife, Kella, for the safe return of their missing son. Original....

  • Above the Lower Sky

    Tom Deitz

    United by a strange shared experience in 2024, Kevin Mauney, his estranged sister Carolyn, and Thunderbird O'Conner are charged with resolving a multi-species conspiracy that has risen from the ocean's depths. Reprint....

  • Warhost of Vastmark

    Janny Wurts

    Tricked once more by his wily half-brother, Lysaer arrives at the tiny harbour town of Merior, to find that his brother’s ship yards have been meticulously destroyed and abandoned. But where is Arithon? The forces of light and shadow circle and fei...

  • Immortal Game

    Douglas Niles

    Queen Danis and farmboy-turned-knight Holton join their friends--a dwarf, a giant talking owl, and an absent-minded mage--on a quest to destroy the Crown of Vanderthan, a powerful artifact of the immortals, and save their world. Original....

  • Commencement

    Roby James

    The Sting was what made Ronica McBride special--that, and the years the interstellar government called the Corn had invested in teaching her how to use it. Class C talents could use the power called gathering to control their own bodies; the less com...

  • Protektor

    Charles Platt

    Trained to evaluate computer errors, Tom McCray serves as the Protektor to a pacifistic system that serves the entire known universe, but a band of hardcore cyberpsychos sabotage the system by turning virtual reality inside-out. Original....

  • Lammas Night

    Mercedes Lackey

    THE HOUR OF CHOOSING IS AT HAND.... In "Lammas Night" a young weaver of spells is persuaded to bide a while in a small village, to make-their village spells and keep the Dark at bay. As part of their persuasion, the villagers have given her the hous...

  • It Came from the Drive-In

    Norman Partridge

    Focusing on the world of drive-in theaters, B-movies, and steamy windows, a collection of first-run tales includes the titles "The Blood on Satan's Harley," "The Thing from Lover's Lane," and "59 Frankenstein." Original....

  • Delta City

    Felicity Savage

    The remaining survivors of the old order began to plan their rebellion against the god Pati - and only one person could lead this revolt - Humility Garden. She vowed to retake Salt from the Divinarch, even if it meant giving up the very thing which k...

  • Rogue Squadron

    Michael A. Stackpole

    JOIN THE MOST ELITE FIGHTING FORCE IN SPACE ON A DO-OR-DIE MISSION ONLY THE X-WINGS WOULD DARE! They are sleek, swift, and deadly. They are the X-wing fighters. And as the struggle rages across the vastness of space, the fearless men and women who...

  • Shiva Descending

    Gregory Benford

    The first strikes destroyed Cleveland, Tunis, and parts of Alaska, Canada, and Australia. That was barely the beginning.

    The swarm-- a cloud of meteors and asteroids 50,000 miles across--was coming. Hundred of missiles put Earth under siege fo...

  • Megan's Marriage

    Annette Broadrick

    Mr. February The eager groom: Travis Kane, former heartbreaker of the country. The very reluctant bride: Megan O'Brien, hardest-working woman in Texas. The too-good-to-be-true proposal: Marry him, and save the ranch. The only thing st...

  • Lion's Legacy

    Suzanne Barclay

    Revenge Ran Hot in Kieran Sutherland's Veins For the betrayal of his clan had driven him to denounce love for war -- until he met the Lady Laurel. A Highland witch in chain mail who had the power to inflame him with a need more urgent than any...

  • Twice Upon Time

    Nina Beaumont

    A long-ago and forbidden love... Though Sarah Longford's days were marked by the sorrow of an ancient curse, her nights were filled with dreams of a life of privilege and passion. A life she had known in another time... and another body. ...

  • Reckless Lover

    Carly Bishop

    She was vulnerable... Even the Witness Protection program couldn't hide Eden Kelley. When a dark and dangerous stranger blasted into her hideaway, she was imprisoned as much by the sorcery in his eyes as by the strength of his arms. But who was t...

  • A Match Made in Texas

    Ginger Chambers

    The Parker Ranch, West Texas Long before the War Between the States, Parker sons and daughters ranched Parker land. Eighty-one-year-old Mae Parker aims to keep things that way. And as far as Mae--and almost everyone else on the ranch--is concerned...

  • Guarding Raine

    Kylie Brant

    HE WAS AFRAID TO LOVE.... Macauley O'Neill had been hired to protect Raine Michaels--not to seduce her. No one knew better than he did what happened when a man let his guard down: the consequences could be deadly. But Raine filled him with desire--a...

  • His Secret Side

    Pamela Burford

    There are secrets no amount of charm can hide... Noah Stewart was the first man Kit Roarke trusted when she came to tiny Pratte, Vermont, to investigate her best friend's murder - a murder that mysteriously mirrored the tiny town's only other one thi...

  • Touch of Lace

    Margaret Brownley

    PINT-SIZED, PRETTY... Small as she is, Abby Parker holds her head high and her shoulders square. A real lady isn't supposed to throw a knife, swear like a sailor, or come-to Colorado alone -- Abby does all three. She is searching for her missing...

  • Keeper of the Rings

    Nancy Cane

    ON A DISTANT PLANET, FAR, FAR AWAY He was shrouded in black when Leena first laid eyes on him--his face shaded like the night. At first the lovely young archaeologist thought Taurin to be a farmer--but this man was no simple agrarian. With a comma...

  • Mystery Child

    Carla Cassidy

    The cries came night after night, a child's anguished sobbing, echoing through the halls on the mansion that was Julie Kingsdon's legacy. And there was no possible explanation for them, except perhaps the haunted eyes of the man she shared th...

  • Midnight Fantasy

    Jasmine Cresswell

    He was out of this world! Sensible, down-to-earth Ariel Hutton has always longed for adventure. For heart-stopping excitement...for soul-searing passion and romance. But being kidnapped by a sexy, blue-eyed stranger isn't exactly what she had...

  • Reese: the Untamed

    Susan Connell

    AN ELIGIBLE BACHELOR... Reese Marchand always knew when a woman wanted him. And Beth Langdon did--or at least he sensed she wanted something from him. When it came to women, Reese thought he could handle it all, but beautiful Beth went to his head l...

  • Kids, Critters and Cupid

    Ruth Jean Dale

    THE CAMERONS OF COLORADO Cupid, Colorado. This is ranch country, cowboy country--a land of high mountains and swift, cold rivers, of deer, elk and bear. The first Cameron came to Colorado more than a hundred years ago, and Camerons have owned and ...

  • Father Figure

    Rebecca Daniels

    DYLAN AND MARISSA HAD A PAST .... Small-town sheriff Dylan James had encountered his share of teenage troublemakers. But Josh Wakefield was different. He was Marissa Wakefield's nephew. Marissa--the woman who had broken Dylan's heart so long ago. ...

  • The Stormchaser

    Rita Clay Estrada

    Cane Mitchell...born in the eye of a raging Texas storm, he's been raising Cain ever since. His job, his passion, is to go where the danger is--fires, floods, tornadoes, tidal waves. He's there. And then little bitty, vulnerable Bernadette Conrad ...

  • Child of Midnight

    Sharon De Vita

    FOR THE CHILD'S SAKE Lieutenant Michael Tyler had a job to do--guard a little boy from a notorious killer. And it was up to Michael to find Gabriel and take him into protective custody. But that meant confronting the one woman he'd never been able t...

  • Valentine, Texas

    Kate Denton

    If you don't want to fall in love -- don't go to Valentine.... Jan had gone away and found family friends and seven-year-old BJ, whom she tutored at the Lazy M ranch. Valentine seemed just the haven she needed to recover from her recent ...

  • Bad to the Bone

    Debra Dixon

    Treasured Tales IV When he was good, he was very good -- but when he was bad, he was pure temptation... He was a brand of danger she'd never risked, with the most unforgiving pair of blue eyes that ever stared into her troubled soul, but Jes...

  • Indiscretions

    Robyn Donald

    Compelled, charmed... and compromised! Mariel Browning loved Bride's Bay Resort, its Sea Island location, its friendly staff. She'd jumped at the offer to translate there again--but soon wished she hadn't. For one thing, working for a ...

  • Savage Passions

    Cassie Edwards

    Secretly admiring the Ottawa chieftain Silver Arrow, Yvonne is enthralled by his mystical powers and seductive ways, but disputes between the warrior's tribe and the frontierspeople threaten to keep the couple apart. FIRST LOVE, WILD LOVE Y...

  • This Is My Child

    Lucy Gordon

    A FATHER'S DILEMMA Giles Haverill adored his adopted son, though he couldn't seem to show it. He knew the boy longed for his lost mother, just as Giles himself ached for a woman's gentle touch. But how did you tell a child that he'd ...

  • Michael's Angel

    Lyn Ellis

    HE HAD NOTHING TO LIVE FOR Michael Weldon had the perfect life, complete with a sexy, loving wife, Terri, and a terrific son, Josh. But then Josh died. And Michael walked out, leaving Terri to deal with her grief alone. AND THEN HE SAW AN ANGE...

  • Keeper of the Bride

    Tess Gerritsen

    She was a beautiful bride Or she would have been, had the groom bothered to show up. And then, at the exact moment Nina Cormier would have said 'I do,' the empty church exploded -- sending a loud message that someone was after the bride-to...

  • The 7 Lb., 2 Oz. Valentine

    Marie Ferrarella

    Desperately seeking daddy.. . Erin Collins was a mother-to-be, but the daddy was nowhere to be found! "Brady, come home. Love, Erin." Erin had nothing to lose by placing the personal ad. And lo and behold, Brady Lockwood was found--months af...

  • Illusion

    Emily French

    Sophy van Houton. Impetuous. Headstrong. Rich. The beautiful heiress needed to marry to access her fortune. But deep in her heart was a stubborn dream - to find a man who loved her for herself, not for her beauty or her money. In Seth Weston she ...

  • Flyboy

    Rosemary Grace

    He had the right stuff! Brave, built and with blue eyes to die for, Captain Blackjack McConnell was deadly in the air and a danger to female hearts. Only one thing scared the fearless flyboy - love! So when he found himself falling for scientist S...

  • Mail Order Wife

    Phyllis Halldorson

    WANTED: WIFE ROMANCE NOT REQUIRED Single dad Jim Buckley knew his daughters needed a mother. But he hadn't expected his meddling father to advertise for one. Now wife-candidate Coralie Dixon was stranded at his ranch, prepared to move in for good...

  • How Much Is That Couple in the Window?

    Lori Herter

    Mr. & Mrs. ... for a week Come see the couple living in the display window at Derring Brothers Department Store -- one week only! As sidewalk shoppers stare, Jennifer Westgate's job is to be the blushing bride who: whips up meals on state-of-...

  • Mackenzie's Pleasure

    Linda Howard

    HER HERO Barrie Lovejoy needed a savior. The terrorist group holding her hostage surely wouldn't tolerate her silence much longer. Instead they would silence her-forever. Then out of the darkness he arrived. Grizzled and dangerous, he led Barrie f...

  • Angel on a Harley

    Janis Reams Hudson

    Treasured Tales IV HE ROLLED INTO TOWN LIKE A THUNDERSTORM -- DARK, POWERFUL, AND MYSTERIOUS.... Faith Hillman wasn't at all what Dalton McShane expected when he faced the woman who claimed she was carrying his child. And Dalton McShane wasn...

  • Wild at Heart

    Faye Hughes

    Treasured Tales IV His body would make an angel want to sin -- and she didn't have a prayer... He'd crashed the party looking for a scandal and maybe a chance at redemption, but when Maggie Thorpe dragged him into a closet to elude his pursu...

  • Trinity Strike

    Suzann Ledbetter

    LAND OF PROMISE The Wild West in the 1880's during gold rush fever. It is a time when fortunes are made overnight and hopeful immigrants flock to America. From the heart of Ireland comes the irrepressible Megan O'alley, whose spirit mirrors that o...

  • The Wedding Contract

    Kelly Jamison

    Marriage Contract Party of the First Part: Jake McClellan I promise to hold Laura when she cries at silly movies, pour tea for Molly and her friends at tea parties and be the official family mistletoe hanger. From this day forward Molly is my dau...

  • Midnight Heat

    Donna Kauffman

    Treasured Tales IV His gaze made her feel pinned, captive, as if he'd never let her go.... They called him The Predator, the investigator who never left a case unsolved, and now Dane Colbourne had set his sights on her! Adria Burke knew her qui...

  • Diamond

    Ruth Langan

    The Jewels of Texas Diamond had him Dead in her Sights, And Adam Winter Didn't Even Flinch But she still hated him. It had to be hate, no matter what her newfound sisters claimed. For what else could make her blood burn as hot as a prairie fire? ...

  • Because of the Baby

    Debbie Macomber

    Hard Luck, Alaska -- a town that needs women! Location: 50 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Population: 150--mostly men--but growing! Because the O'Halloran brothers, who run a bush-plane service called Midnight Sons, are heading a campaign t...

  • The Husband Hunt

    Linda Lewis

    HE FINALLY POPPED THE QUESTION...BUT IT WASN'T THE RIGHT ONE! Sarah Brannan couldn't believe her ears. Jake Logan had asked her to live with him. But old-fashioned Sarah would be darned if she'd give Jake a wedding night without a wedding ring! ...

  • Perfect Double

    Merline Lovelace

    NOT EXACTLY A NINE-TO-FIVE JOB... Maggie Sinclair has played everything from a nun to a call girl in her work for the supersecret OMEGA agency. But now she really had her hands full, impersonating the vice president of the United States. And more ...

  • Honeysuckle DeVine

    Susan Macias

    THEY HAD A DEAL BUT FALLING IN LOVE WASN'T PART OF IT. Laura Cannon knew it was an unheard-of request, asking a cowboy she barely knew if she could join his cattle drive from Texas to Kansas. Asking him to marry her was even more outrageous. But i...

  • The Bewitching Bachelor

    Charlotte Maclay

    He came to her in the night... Julianne Olson had heard rumors of ghosts walking the halls of her grandmother's Alpine castle. She shrugged them off...until the very real Erich Langlois woke her one night. He was dark and dangerous, sexier than any ...

  • Daddy's Choice

    Doreen Owens Malek

    SINGLE DAD NEEDS... Taylor Kirkland would do anything to win custody of his only daughter. So when captivating Carol Lansing moved into town, Tay was struck with a brilliant idea. What better way to get his little girl back than with a beautiful b...

  • Assignment: Marriage

    Jackie Merritt

    THE COP SAYS, "I DO?" Marriage wasn't in his job description, but officer Tuck Hannigan's latest assignment was playing husband to an extremely vulnerable--and incredibly beautiful--witness. He'd protect Nicole Currie from danger--he'd even share ...

  • The Man from Forever

    Vella Munn

    WARRIOR FROM THE SHADOWS When she first came to the sacred tribal lands in the California wilderness, anthropologist Tory Kent paid little heed to the tales of a ghostly warrior keeping watch there. But then a dark figure appeared before her--and ...

  • The Bounty Hunter's Baby

    Jule McBride

    Had he been hired to track down the mother of his own child? Remy Lafitte was charismatic - a tracker of men, a seducer of women, a Cajun healer. But one steamy New Orleans night, it was prim attorney plain Jayne Wright who won the man's heart. M...

  • Sheik Daddy

    Barbara McMahon

    THE FATHER OF HER CHILD WAS A SHEIK? A decade ago Ben Shalik had disappeared from Megan O'Sullivan's life, leaving her with nothing but memories... and a baby. Now he was back, causing Megan to tremble with more than desire. For Ben was of royal ...

  • Shattered Rainbows

    Mary Jo Putney

    FORBIDDEN DESIRE Honed by danger and haunted by the past, Lord Michael Kenyon finds it easy to risk his life for his country's sake. But in the shadow of war, he faces a far more dangerous threat --- the loss of his heart to the beautiful battlefi...

  • Husband Material

    Rita Rainville

    THE LAST MAN SHE'D MARRY! Libby Cassidy knew from experience that Matt Flint wasn't husband material ...and marriage was definitely on Libby's mind. Oh his long, hard body and hot kisses were enough to make her swoon, but if Matt wasn't ready to s...

  • Friends, Lovers...and Babies!

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    THE BABY WAGER Sure, her best friend's brother was drop-dead gorgeous. But as long as Deedee Hamilton had known him, ex-cop Ryan MacAllister was also oddly aloof. So the matchmaking MacAllister clan might be wagering on Cupid, but Deedee knew ...

  • The Cowboy and the Centerfold

    Debbi Rawlins

    A Trustin' Texan... One minute Cash McCloud was a fine, upstanding cowboy in Maybe, Texas, and the next he was guilty of harboring a centerfold. He thought he'd hired a matronly tutor for his teenage son, but beneath her baggy T-shirts and baseba...

  • The Man, the Moon and the Marriage Vow

    Christine Rimmer

    WHAT EVERY WOMAN WANTS... ...is what Evie Jones has wanted all her life--husband, children, the white picket fence. But these ordinary wishes have eluded her miserably...because Evie is far from ordinary.... ...IS ONE GOOD MAN Erik Riggins, with...

  • To Lasso a Lady

    Renee Roszel

    "There should be a law against kissing like that." Amy Vale was determined to be the best rancher's wife in Wyoming. She'd found someone nice to spend her life with; someone honest who could make her smile. Passion, as far as Amy ...

  • Forever, Dad

    Maggie Shayne

    SECRET AGENT, SECRET SONS Secret agent Torch Palamaro had finally found her--the mysterious Alexandra Holt who'd disappeared six months ago with something he desperately wanted. The woman was his only chance for revenge against the man who'd taken...

  • Cinderella Bride

    Christine Scott

    THE BRIDE OF HIS DREAMS VANISHED AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT Millionaire bachelor Ryan Kendrick had every woman in town chasing him. But the playboy prince had eyes only for the mysterious woman he'd danced with at the ball. Though he didn't know he...

  • Veil of Secrets

    Maura Seger

    DARK MAGIC Conan, Baron of Wyndham, was a man dark of spirit. And he certainly wasn't pleased when the Queen commanded him to a mist-wreathed island in Glastonbury to investigate a monk's murder. There he found the accused, Alianor of the Lake, a wo...

  • Going to the Chapel

    Alice Sharpe

    ALWAYS PLANNING A WEDDING, BUT NEVER HER OWN For jilted bride Elinor Bosley, romance was strictly business. Her days were spent running the Lakeside Wedding Chapel, marrying impulsive strangers in quickie ceremonies. But Elinor had sworn off "happ...

  • Make-Believe Mom

    Elizabeth Sites

    DO YOU TAKE THIS WOMAN--FOR LIFE? Marriage? Prim and proper Laura Gardiner was shocked by rancher Nick Rafland's scandalous proposal. Why, they barely knew each other! And since she wasn't planning on saying "I do," she had no business wondering w...

  • Buchanan's Bride

    Pamela Toth

    ONE LONELY COWBOY... What was it about that long, tall cowboy that wouldn't let Ashley Gray keep her distance? Sure, Taylor Buchanan was a whole lot of man, enough to cause any woman a few sleepless nights. But there was far more to it than that ....

  • The Renegade

    Margaret St. George

    He was a great advertisement for heaven! The sexy blond guy who appeared before Brett Thatcher in the swirling Colorado snow looked anything but angelic. In tight jeans and a leather jacket, he almost made her forget she was the chief suspect in h...

  • The Cowboy and His Baby

    Sherryl Woods

    A year and a half ago Melissa Horton made a mistake that cost the lovely single mother her one true love--and her baby girl a father. Now Texas rancher Cody Adams was back, shocked to discover he was a parent--and determined to make Melissa his wife....

  • Queen of the Dixie Drive-In

    Peg Sutherland

    Welcome to Sweetbranch, Alabama. Folks are friendly, children are safe and down-home hospitality abounds. Once in a while, though, things are not quite what they seem.... "VALENTINES ARE FOR SAPS!" And don't you forget it, fourteen-year-old Carso...

  • Having His Baby

    Karen Young

    A marriage of convenience... It made perfect sense. Or so Dr. Talbot Rebichaux told Dr. Stephanie Sheldon. Since both had busy hospital practices, their baby would be much better off - and their own lives much easier - if they shared parental dut...

  • A Valentine Wish

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    HE DIDN'T BELIEVE IN LOVE Dean Gates was burned out. His high-powered job and his ex-wife's demands were driving him crazy. On top of it all, he was fast approaching Black Wednesday--Valentine's Day. He needed to escape! When he first set eyes on ...

  • See How They Run

    Bethany Campbell

    In this harrowing, pulse-pounding story of romance and danger by Bethany Campbell, two strangers race to save innocent children from a crime lord’s hit men.   A gifted teacher for special-needs children, Laura Stoner loves her charges, especia...

  • Dr. Nightingale Enters the Bear Cave

    Lydia Adamson

    DEATH CKAWS Veterinarian Deirdre "Didi" Nightingale is happily taking a break from her practice to join a research team tagging pregnant black bears in the northern Catskills. Awaiting her are the thrill of adventure, the fun of taking her friend ...

  • False Witness

    Patricia D. Benke

    Investigating the brutal murder of an affluent San Diego neighbor, Chief Assistant D.A. Judith Thornton finds her only clue in the work of a graffiti artist, whose spray-painted message claims that he witnessed the killing. Original....

  • Good Sons

    K.C. Constantine

    Although months have passed since Police Chief Mario Balzic retired, his successor still has not been named. When a local businesswoman is brutally raped, the likely candidate faces an unexpected and gruelling test of his character....

  • To Kill a Cop

    Robert Daley

    The murders of two patrolmen by assassins from FEAR, the Freedom and Equality Revolution, has New York City Chief of Detectives Earl Eisheid racing against time to find and stop the killers before they can turn the cops' funeral into a massacre...

  • Devil's Workshop

    Kate Gallison

    DELIVER US FROM EVIL The cats were missing. Mother Lavinia Grey noticed the signs pleading for the return of "fluffy" and several other pets. But she was busy, planning her first wedding at St. Bede's Episcopal Church--for 'which she'd serve as th...

  • Nevermore

    William Hjortsberg

    Though vaudeville is dying, Houdini still dazzles audiences--and wages war with corrupt mediums. At the same time, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle arrives in America to lecture on the occult, only to face frequent visits from what appears to be the restless s...

  • Original Sin

    P.D. James

    Innocent House, a mock-Venetian palace occupied by Britain's oldest book publisher. Here, after a spate of malicious pranks, someone killed Gerard Etienne, the ruthless managing director, and jammed the office mascot, a stuffed snake, in his mouth. ...

  • Mind Games

    Seth Kindler

    Twenty years after a Nashville singing star is murdered, a serial killer continues to strike down the artist's look-alikes, and the grown son of the victims, a police detective, vows to solve the mystery. Original....

  • Speak No Evil

    Rochelle Majer Krich

    THE DEFENSE RESTS -- PERMANENTLY The practice of law is a cutthroat profession. When a glamorous, aggressive, and widely disliked L.A. lawyer is found with her tongue cut out, it's a gruesome, but apt, demise. The leading suspect is Debra Laslow, ...

  • Dead Irish

    John T. Lescroart

    For former San Francisco cop Dismas Hardy, Guinness Stout with Bass Ale is the drink of choice, but a straight Irish whiskey will do anytime. The news of young Eddie Cochran's death calls for a double. The cops think it's suicide, but even to a lapse...

  • No Place Like Home

    Sherry Lewis

    When his headstrong son, Douglas, is accused of killing his ex-wife, seventy-three-year-old Fred Vickery turns to the local small-town gossip mill to help uncover the real culprit. By the author of No Place for Secrets. Original....

  • One Fearful Yellow Eye

    John D. MacDonald

    How do you extort $600,000 from a dying man? Someone had done it very quietly and skillfully to the husband of Travis McGee's ex-girlfriend. McGee flies to Chicago to help untangle the mess and discovers that although Dr. Fortner Geis had led an exem...

  • Murder Among the Angels

    Stefanie Matteson

    The search for a plastic surgeon draws Hollywood legend and amateur sleuth Charlotte Graham to upstate New York, where she discovers a utopian community’s darkest secrets Zion Hill is paradise in the Hudson River Valley. A religious utopia founded ...

  • Baffled in Boston

    Gary Provost

    Baffled in Boston marks the debut of the most likable--and unlikely--sleuth to come along in years. Burned-out true-crime writer Scotty Scotland has been abandoned by his wife, ordered to give up coffee by his doctor, and according to his latest revi...

  • Shore to Die

    Valerie Wolzien

    THE BODY IN THE BEACH HOUSE IS DEAD AS A DOORNAIL. Summer's coming, and Island Contracting's all-woman construction crew is working overtime, glitzing up the old house on the north end of the island. Then the firm's owner, redheaded Josie Pigeon, ...

  • Arc Light

    Eric L. Harry

    A political thriller by a military expert with extensive first-hand knowledge of the Russian military describes an accidental nuclear holocaust that erupts between Russia and the United States. Reprint....

  • Green Team

    Richard Marcinko; John Weisman

    In Portsmouth, England, an aircraft carrier has been sabotaged, killing the American Chief of Naval Operations, one of the few friends the Rogue Warrior had left in the Navy. Marcinko discovers a holy war is brewing--a violent religious movement, enc...

  • The Vampire Princess

    Michael Romkey

    "I HAVE FINALLY SUCCEEDED IN AWAKENING YOUR KILLER INSTINCT.... "There will be many opportunities for you to indulge in your wildest desires aboard the Atlantic Princess. But if you refuse to abandon yourself to my bloody bacchanals, I will find a...

  • Two Crowns for America

    Katherine Kurtz

    Bestselling fantasist Katherine Kurtz combines magic, Freemasonry, and revelation in this spellbinding tale of the American Revolution as it might have been... The year is 1775. In Europe, an unseen Master peers into a darkened mirror for the imag...

  • Scimitar

    Ashley McConnell

    THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE... He is immortal. A Scottish warrior born four hundred years ago. He is not alone. For centuries he has fought others like himself. He can die only if a foe takes his head, capturing his life-force in an event known as the Qui...

  • We Will Remember

    Elizabeth Darrell

    In 1946, members of the Sheridan family--David, a pilot scarred by Japanese torture in Sumatra; his mother, Marion, widowed by the war; and his sister, Vesta, a noted war artist--struggle to rebuild their lives in the wake of the devastation of war. ...

  • Remember Me, Irene

    Jan Burke

    MURDER MAKES THE GRADE In an unsettling encounter on the streets of Las Piernas, newspaper reporter Irene Kelly fails to recognize the homeless man who, without a trace of irony, declares, "I'm not who I used to be." Only later does Irene realize ...

  • Act of Betrayal

    Edna Buchanan

    When Britt Montero begins to investigate the disappearance of a teenage boy, she discovers a pattern of missing youngsters of similar age and 1 appearance. As Britt probes this baffling cake, she meets people who once knew her father, and the mystery...

  • Courage Under Fire

    Patrick Sheane Duncan

    Major Nat Serling investigates the shooting down of a medevac helicopter during the Gulf War, a crash that takes the life of Captain Karen Emma Walden, who is up for a posthumous Medal of Honor, and uncovers more than he expected about the incident. ...

  • Bloody Waters

    Carolina Garcia-Aguilera

    Lupe Solano's new case touched her heart: She'd been hired to find the biological mother of an illegally adopted baby. Her clients' child was dying, and the only way to save the girl's life was through a bone marrow transplant. What appeared to be a ...

  • The Gospel Makers

    Anthea Fraser

    When the small English village of Middlemarch is invaded by an insidious religious cult called the Revelationists, whose tentacles reach even into the local police department, Inspector Webb searches for a connection between the sect and a murdered w...

  • Sudden Exposure

    Susan Dunlap

    Berkeley cop Jill Smith is back in another adventure that could only occur in this brazen, eccentric town. Gym owner and former Olympic diver Bryn Wiley is in a turf war with sixties radical Sam Johnson, who owns a competing gym. When Bryn is shot, S...

  • Atticus

    Ron Hansen

    Colorado rancher Atticus Cody receives word that his wayward younger son, Scott, has committed suicide in Resurrection, Mexico. When Atticus travels south to recover Scott's body, he is puzzled by what he finds there and begins to suspect murder. ...

  • The Last Sanctuary

    Craig Holden

    The woman was too beautiful, the man too hyped. But Joe Curtis, hitching from Detroit to Seattle, got into their Chevy Nova on a deserted stretch of Montana highway -- in a chance encounter that would plunge him into a nightmare of terror and survi...

  • As She Rides by

    David M. Pierce

    V. (for Vic) Daniel, Los Angeles private investigator, is back - six feet seven inches, wearing loud Hawaiian shirts, and driving a classic pink-and-blue Nash Metropolitan - and he is at the top of his form. Now his precious peace and quiet is threat...

  • Purgatory Road

    Bob Reiss

    One year after accidentally causing the death of his best friend, Antarctica research scientist Jack Amirault's sister is killed, and his subsequent unauthorized investigations result in his being charged with murder...

  • The Butterfly Tattoo

    Barry Norman

    When Archie Beckway, a powerful London politician and notorious womanizer, becomes the target of a gang of blackmailers disguised as cartoon characters, he turns to old friend Donovan, a crime lord out to gain respectability, and ex-boxer-turned-priv...

  • McNally's Puzzle

    Lawrence Sanders

    Sex, secrets, and suspense. Nobody lives for them like Archy McNally, the playboy-turned-Palm Beach P.I. Wealthy bird-store owner Hiram Gottschalk feels his life is in danger. And he's right - as McNally realizes when his mutilated body is found. Bet...

  • Meadowlark

    Sheila Simonson

    Having recently moved with her professor husband from California up to the Shoalwater Peninsula in Washington state, Lark Dodge has been busy renovating their new home and setting up her bookstore, Larkspur Books. The former basketball player and occ...

  • A Personal History of Thirst

    John Burdett

    From former British barrister John Burdett comes a psychosexual novel in the tradition of Damage and Presumed Innocent. At the heart of A Personal History of Thirst is an ill-fated love triangle where all hunger for something and are willing to risk ...

  • Dead South

    Winona Sullivan

    MISSING IN MIAMI Last seen drinking Blue Lagoons in the Hotel Place St. Michel, CIA agent Bradley Locke has vanished into the steamy South Florida night. Soon thereafter the Miami underworld takes careful note of a beautiful nun driving a red F...

  • Prime Candidate

    Gordon Cotler

    Jock Caprisi lands himself a job as media consultant to the senior senator from New York, but when a woman is found stabbed to death in the backseat of the senator's car, Caprisi races against time to find the real killer to keep the senator out of t...

  • Mount Dragon

    Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child

    Mount Dragon: an enigmatic research complex hidden in the vast desert of New Mexico. Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca have come to Mount Dragon to work shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest scientific minds on the planet. Led by visionar...

  • The 37th Mandala

    Marc Laidlaw

    When Derek Crowe attempts to turn the unseen mandalas into guardian spirits to enrich his bank account, the cynical New Age charlatan uncovers the reasons past occult masters have left them alone. Reprint....

  • The Rod of Seven Parts

    Douglas Niles

    When the Rod of Seven Parts, a symbol of the conflict between law and chaos, gets broken and its pieces scatter throughout the land, an assortment of characters ranging from heroes to monsters compete to find the pieces...

  • The Dig

    Alan Dean Foster

    When an asteroid out of nowhere threatens to hit Earth, a space shuttle is sent to nudge it into a safe orbit. Venturing to the surface, three crew members become trapped as the asteroid suddenly leaves orbit, transporting them to a strange planet li...

  • That Way Lies Camelot

    Janny Wurts

    Journey through time and space to alternate worlds and the near future in a beautiful collection of interconnected short stories. In the title story, Wurts poignantly addresses mortality and what it is to wish. Sandy is in the last throes of life wit...

  • Hunting Cry

    Don Pendleton

    SPOILS OF WAR A new white slavery ring is being set up in Europe, and Mack Bolan's mandate is to shut down the operation, by any means necessary. His take-no-prisoners blitz begins in Bosnia, with and lightning pimps strikes who are against th...

  • Toward the Sunrising

    Gilbert Morris; Lynn Morris

  • Tracks of Deceit

    Gilbert Morris; Alan Morris

    Dangerous mountain passages. A rough gang of laborers. A ruthless murderer. Katy Steele must overcome these obstacles on her quest for justice. With her partner, ex-gambler and actor Sam Bronte, Katy trails the saboteur of the Central Pacific Railroa...

  • The Fields of Glory

    Gilbert Morris

    Two families--the Wakefields of nobility and the lower-class Morgans--are the focus of this sweeping generational saga, joined by intriguing personalities such as Elizabeth I, William Tyndale, and John Bunyan. Linking the people and events through th...

  • Yesterday's Reveille

    Robert Vaughan

    They were soldiers young and brave in a war that would change America forever. Some came from the gray cliffs of West Point. Some came from the bloody caldron of the Civil War. By train and steamship they traveled West to fight against an enemy ba...

  • Leslie

    Jeanne Anders