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New Books List: 519 titles

  • Jack Maggs

    Peter Carey

    The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda returns to the nineteenth century in an utterly captivating mystery. The year is 1837 and a stranger is prowling London. He is Jack Maggs, an illegal returnee from the prison island of Australia. H...

  • Lethal Practice

    Peter Clement

    LETHAL DISCOVERY St. Paul's Hospital. Buffalo, New York. Scandal rocks the medical community when someone murders the chief administrator, plunging a long thin cardiac needle into his heart with deadly precision. LETHAL PURSUIT Top ER physician ...

  • Why the Tree Loves the Ax

    Jim Lewis

    After an astounding debut with his novel Sister, Jim Lewis once again proves his remarkable talent with Why the Tree Loves the Ax.Caroline Harrison is a young woman drifting across the country from a secret past to an uncertain future. Stranded by ac...

  • User Friendly

    Spider Robinson

    Spider Robinson has won every major award that the science fiction field has to offer with his Heinlein-influenced, solidly scientific, warmly human stories. User Friendly is a new solid chunk of Spider's universe that is inimitably reader friendly....

  • Signs and Portents

    Jane Killick

    A comprehensive episode-by-episode guide to the first thrilling season of Babylon 5! 

    Babylon 5: Signs and Portents, kicks off with a foreword by actor Michael O'Hare, better known to viewers as Commander Sinclair, and features a fascinating ...

  • Dragons of Argonath

    Christopher Rowley

    A SORCEROR'S REIGN OF CHAOS Battle-scarred and weary, the mighty Bazil Broketail and dragoneer Relkin return home to cheering crowds, great feasts, and raging bonfires. But now, out of the mists and across the green valleys of their native land come...

  • Freebirth

    Robert Thurston

    THE CONSPIRACY EXPERIMENTS Dispatch Horse to the planet Huntress! The orders to investigate the secret experiment being done by the Falcons on the Smoke Jaguar homeworld came down from the Jade Falcon Khan herself. But does the covert mission requ...

  • Night of the Living Rerun

    Arthur Byron Cover

    A History Lesson? As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. one girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. As if real life wasn't already over...

  • Steel to the South

    Wayne D. Overholser

    In "Steel to the South," Clay Bond finds himself in the middle of a range war brought about by the railroad, while in "Fabulous Gunman," gunslinger Bill Womack has to use his gun often as he attempts to hang it up for the last time. Original....

  • Montana Stage

    Jon Sharpe

    In order to collect a big reward and the heart of a beauty as a bonus, Skye Fargo must find the thieves who hijacked the swiftest stagecoach in the West, following a trail of terror through a wild country of unmarked graves and masked motives. Origin...

  • Texas Wind

    J.R. Roberts

    After Clint Adams wounds outlaw Pete Jensen and kills his two brothers in a shootout, the ornery outlaw is looking for revenge, but the Gunsmith has other plans to settle their differences--permanently. Original....

  • Comanche Country

    David Thompson

    Trying to cross the vast Western praries in their sixth adventure, Davy and his old friend Flavius brave a roaring wildfire and a stampede of buffalo, only to come face to face with the dreaded Comanches. Original....

  • The Dying Town

    B.J. Lanagan

    During the Civil War, they sought justice outside of the law, paying back every Yankee raid with one of their own. No man could stop them. No woman could resist them. And no Yankee stood a chance when Win and Joe Coulter rode into town.   All Wi...

  • Longarm and the Wyoming Wildwomen

    Tabor Evans

    Relaxing in his favorite saloon, Longarm watches a woman gun down the drifter sitting next to him, and in his search for the vigilante, encounters a band of wild and dangerous Wyoming women who are pretty--and dangerous. Original....

  • Winter Range

    Alan Le May

    A novel by the author of the classic western, The Searchers, takes place in an Arizona prairie town where the death of a powerful cattleman-banker threatens to ignite an all-out war on the range. Original....

  • Blood on the Brazos

    Jake Logan

    ALL SLOCUM WANTED WAS A DRINK The saloons around the Brazos River boasted the finest whiskey and the prettiest ladies known to man. But Slocum hadn't even wet his whistle when a nasty varmint tried to shoot up an innocent boy. Never one to suffer co...

  • Met by Moonlight

    Rosemary Edghill

    In Salem, Massachusetts, Diana Crossways, a modern witch, sees an otherworldly figure exposed by lightning and tumbles back in time to 1647 England, where she comes face to face with a ruthless witch hunter with the power of life and death, who finds...

  • Secrets of the Heart

    Joan Lord Matthews

    Ravenna Marisse didn't believe in curses, but something was wrong at Harlixton Hall. None of the wives of the four brothers who resided there had safely delivered an heir. And when Anne Pembroke lay dying giving birth to her son, Raven's renowned ski...

  • Night To Remember

    Niqui Stanhope

    SOME MOMENTS A WOMAN CANNOT FORGET Traveling home to visit family in Guyana, Dr. Alana Britton found herself fascinated by a tall, handsome man in the airport giftshop. Moments later, she was gazing into his warm charcoal eyes, and struggling to kee...

  • A Valentine From Venus

    Cindy Holbrook
    in

    When Cupid wagers Venus she cannot bring two unlikely lovers together, the goddess of love finds herself faced with the Marquis of Waverly, a writer of love poems, and his lovely assistant, Amelia Thornton, who dispassionately analyzes the romantic n...

  • Cupid's Ace

    Jeanne Savery
    in

    Pretty little Charity Morris thought all her dreams has come true when she maried her childhood sweetheart, the dashing young Lord Crandle. But Timon is out of charity with his bride-for reasons she cannot guess.It's not until Cupid reveals the ace u...

  • Lady Diana's Courtship

    Mona Gedney
    in

    The wastrel Earl of Glenwood had often pressed his daughter to wed a wealthy gentleman, but Lady Diana Crosswell turned down all offers as marriage meant leaving her happy-go-lucky younger brother to fend for himself. But when handsome John Derringer...

  • 'Til There Was You

    Elizabeth Ann Michaels

    A PASSIONATE MEDIEVAL SAGA OF A SPIRITED YOUNG WOMAN TORN BETWEEN A SACRED PLEDGE AND HER LOVE FOR A VALIANT NORMAN KNIGHT... Leah de Troyes is the daughter of The Savager, a ruthless land baron determined to use her as a political pawn--until she...

  • Comanche Sunset

    Betty Brooks

    He Made Her A Captive To His Will The rattlesnake struck Spotted Wolf just outside the white man's fort. Unable to save himself or free his Comanche brother held captive by the soldiers, he was at the mercy of the beautiful, ivory-skinned woma...

  • Wishes Come True

    Kathleen Nance

    "YOU'RE SO SERIOUS ALL THE TIME. YOU DON'T LAUGH MUCH. YOU DON'T SEE ANYONE. FACE IT, MOM, YOU NEED A GENIE." No, thought Zoe Calderone, a genie was exactly what a hard-working, pragmatic, single mother like herself DIDN'T need. But when she went ...

  • Savage Heat

    Cassie Edwards

    Ever since the sweltering summer day when Zoe Hawkins pinned on her father's tin star, she'd sworn to uphold the law in rough-and-ready Gracemont, Oklahoma. But how could the lovely sheriff maintain order when she couldn't even subdue her own waywar...

  • The Wedding Ransom

    Geralyn Dawson

    With just the right blend of laughter and romance, Geralyn Dawson weaves an air of enchantment in her tales of old-time Texas, with characters who charm their way right into our hearts. Now she pairs a handsome thief and an unconventional beauty to s...

  • Flight of Fancy

    Judy Veisel

    When Marcus Blackerby, Earl of Rexford, was sent in seach of carrier pigeons to replace those slaughtered by Napoleon's men, he was determined to ruffle no more than a few feathers. His plan was simple: He would secure and invitation with Miss Amanda...

  • Shadows on the Bayou

    Patricia Vaughn

    Between a man and a woman, there can be an arrangement... A young woman of color in 1800s French New Orleans had one destiny--to become the mistress of a rich Creole gentleman. For Sylvia Dupont, her exquisite beauty was a curse. She attracted males...

  • The Outcast

    Rosalyn West

    The Men of Pride County When War began, the boys of Pride County went off to fight for honor and glory. They returned as men: war-ravaged, shattered, yet determined to find lore and rebuild their lives in a world that had crumbled around them. These...

  • Play It Again, Sam

    Victoria Alexander

    So, You Think You Know Romance? You don't. Not unless you know Spencer St. Gregory and Philippa Morgan. Now theirs was a love for the ages. Just boy meets girl -- a story we've all heard -- or think we have. I had. I thought I'd heard ...

  • Rendezvous

    Bridget Anderson

    SHE RAN FROM DANGER... Lovely, educated Jade Bassett had married a handsome man who told her lies, took all her money, and then was found murdered. Reeling from her shattered world, she is running for her life on the streets of Atlanta, knowing that...

  • My Reckless Heart

    Jo Goodman

    Decker Thorne's carefree ways have done little to impress his employer, Jonna Remington, the poised and unflappable owner of Remington Shipping. But when he captains her best ship on a record-breaking voyage and saves her life in the same day, their ...

  • The Legend's Lady

    Kathryn Hockett

    THE LEGEND'S LADY Whack! He slapped her on the posterior and swept her into a passionate kiss. Then Clint Tanner told Stephanie Winslow he mistook her for a whore. This crude cowboy couldn't be the legendary gunfighter Stephanie immortalized in di...

  • Three for Brighton

    Martha Kirkland

    Falling in Love is as Easy as One, Two, Three... Constance Mitchell had the beauty, her younger sister Felicity possessed the brains, and their cousin Regina Farrington, formerly a lady's companion, had the only money among them... five hundred po...

  • Lord Avery's Legacy

    Allison Lane

    Country Affairs Penelope Wingrave was extraordinary -- from her flaming red hair to her scheme for raising ostriches. Alas, she was also on the shelf, too highborn to marry down, too poor to marry nobility. Her sister, on the other hand, was being...

  • Lady Meg's Gamble

    Martha Schroeder

    Penniless Lady Margaret Enfield was given an option to save her home, Hedgemere. She could marry a wealthy stranger, Captain James Sheridan. The captain had spent his life at sea, escaping his past. And though Hedgemere satisfied his longing for a ho...

  • Secret Hearts

    Alice Duncan

    He was irresistible. Handsome as sin. And he filled her nights with dreams no proper lady should enjoy.... HE WAS EVERYTHING SHE EVER WANTED -- AND COULD NOT TOUCH... By day she was Claire Montague, prim, demure housekeeper of Partington Place. B...

  • The Heart Breaker

    Nicole Jordan

    A CONVENIENT BRIDE Burdened by Family debts, Heather Ashford has no choice but to exchange her dreams of romance and accept the proposal of ruggedly handsome cattle baron Sloan McCord. However the widowed rancher is more than she bargains for. Tor...

  • The Best Revenge

    Stella Cameron

    RAE FAITH MOODY KNOWS SHE CAN BEAT DALLAS CALHOUN IF SHE CAN ONLY RESIST THE TEMPTATION TO JOIN HIM. Young Rae Faith fled her home. She ran from town to town, covering her tracks, until her trail was cold. Then she settled in tiny Decline, Georgia...

  • Cupid's Darts

    Karen Harbaugh

    Love Struck Pretty Miss Aimee was utterly dazzled by dashing Lieutenant Kenneth Hathaway. Then, without warning, he left for the Continent-and didn't return for years. Now Aimee hoped absence had made his heart grow fonder. Alas, absence had made ...

  • An Uncommon Bequest

    Emily Hendrickson

    The Unexpected Season Left without a farthing by her papa's untimely death, Sophie Garnett was quite resigned to being a genteel lady's companion. Then a letter arrived, summoning her to the reading of a relative's will. She never expected the sec...

  • Saving Serenity

    Jenna Jones

    Sweet Serenity She thought he was a cad... As long as she lived, Miss Serenity Hoffenduffle would never forget the scene. Kidnapped in the middle of the night and brought to a house of ill repute, she was stunned to find her fiance, Randall Torre...

  • Dream a Little Dream

    Susan Elizabeth Phillips

    A DESPERATE YOUNG MOTHER Rachel Stone's bad luck has taken a turn for the worse. With an empty wallet, a car that's spilling smoke, and a five-year-old son to support, she's come home to a town that hates her. But this determined young widow with a ...

  • The Homecoming

    Kimberly Rangel

    Tortured by nightmares twenty years after her slumber party had made national news when a killer butchered three of her friends and drove another insane, Darby Jayson worries that the killer may not have been executed after all. Original....

  • Go for the Gold

    Constance O'Banyon
    in

    After being jilted at the altar, Abbie Taylor Hunt never thought she'd be ringing in the New Year with a dashing Frenchman, who teaches her to 'Go for the Gold' when his ski instruction turns to passionate lessons in love....

  • Lottery of Love

    Bobbi Smith
    in

    When caterer Elise Matthews lands her biggest account ever, she finds herself torn between two handsome men, and realizes she holds the winning ticket in a "Lottery of Love"...

  • On the Way to Gretna Green

    Marian Devon

    SHE HADN'T SET OUT TO STIR THINGS UP -- ESPECIALLY HER OWN HEART... Though recently jilted at age seven-and-twenty, Claudia Wentworth was about to embark on a whirlwind adventure. It all began when she enlisted the aid of Lord Thornton after h...

  • Rhyme and Reason

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    The Scandalous Secret... Emily Talcott has enough to worry about, trying to see her lovely younger sister suitably married before their father's lamentable lack of skill in cards sends them to the poor house. Now this well-bred miss is fending ...

  • An Irish Wind

    Kate O'Donnell

    Cian O'Connor watched Bronwynn Fitzhugh toy with her betrothed. Cian despised her conniving ways, but she was his only hope to escape from bondage at Castle Carrick. So the Irish rebel took her hostage, never reckoning that the fiery beauty would bec...

  • After Midnight

    Robyn Amos
    in

    AT NEW YORK'S MOST ROMANTIC SETTING--VALENTINE'S DAY CAN BRING LOVE'S SPECIAL SURPRISE Amid Manhattan's most elegant restaurants, The Rainbow Room casts a golden glow with nights filled with fine dining, magical music and the splendor of dancing h...

  • A Perfect Match

    Gwynne Forster
    in

    AT NEW YORK'S MOST ROMANTIC SETTING--VALENTINE'S DAY CAN BRING LOVE'S SPECIAL SURPRISE Amid Manhattan's most elegant restaurants, The Rainbow Room casts a golden glow with nights filled with fine dining, magical music and the splendor of dancing h...

  • The Engagement

    Shirley Hailstock
    in

    AT NEW YORK'S MOST ROMANTIC SETTING--VALENTINE'S DAY CAN BRING LOVE'S SPECIAL SURPRISE Amid Manhattan's most elegant restaurants, The Rainbow Room casts a golden glow with nights filled with fine dining, magical music and the splendor of dancing h...

  • Primrose Lane

    Katherine Sutcliffe
    in

    A life of petty crime kept bad boy Joe Norton far from the lovely Camille. Until a twist of fate leads him back to his secret love. Now finally, for her, he's ready to change his ways......

  • A Secret Cupid

    Rachel Lee
    in

    A widowed minister fights his attraction to his secretary, unaware that his daughter--with a little help--is determined to make their Valentine wishes come true....

  • For C., Who Changed My Life

    Kate Freiman
    in

    When a professor runs into her prize student from ten years past, the attraction is instant. But when he doesn't recognize her, she pretends to be someone else. And now, their love is entangled in deception......

  • Husband, Lover, Stranger

    Suzanne Forster

    Sophie Weston was young and impressionable when she married Jay Babcock, a rich man with a wild heart. Everyone said he was wrong for her, but for Sophie, it was too late. She'd already surrendered to passion -- that suddenly turned to pain -- wh...

  • A Private Affair

    Donna Hill

    Nikita Harrell's drive and determination took her to the pinnacle of the New York publishing world. And it also swept her into the arms of Quinn Parker. A proud man with the soul of an artist and the strength to survive on the mean streets of Harlem,...

  • Send Me No Flowers

    Sherry Lewis
    in

    For fear of ruining their friendship, David Randolph never confessed his love to Shawna. Now, seven years later, she reappears in his life. And it's finally time to be more than a friend......

  • The Anniversary That Never Was

    Elaine Fox
    in

    When Gwyn comes home from her grandparents' golden wedding anniversary she doesn't expect to run into the man she almost married - or that together they'd toast 'The Anniversary That Never Was.'...

  • Ever a Bridesmaid

    Kathleen Nance
    in

    An attendant at her best friend's wedding, Kristen Lucas meets tall, dark, and handsome Alex Devereaux, brother of the bride - who just might make her abandon her vow of being 'Ever a Bridesmaid.'...

  • My Lady in Time

    Angie Ray

    SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 1998 Handsome playboy Derek Sinclair didn't have time to go looking for love. Then one night, the ghost of Lady Allison Pelsworth appears, asking him to travel back in time and prevent her marriage to the wretched Wilfred. Now, ...

  • Garden of Dreams

    Patricia Rice

    A modern-day fairy tale set in Kentucky, featuring a spunky math teacher and a motorcycle-riding computer CEO in a sizzling adventure of danger, dueling wits, and steamy desire... JD Marshall is on the run with his sixteen-year-old son, his comput...

  • Shocking Pink

    Erica Spindler

    THEY WERE ONLY WATCHING The mysterious lovers the three girls spied on were engaged in a deadly sexual game no one else was supposed to know about. Especially not Andie and her friends, whose curiosity had deepened into a dangerous obsession.... ...

  • Letting Loose

    Sue Civil-Brown

    EDEN IS NOT ALL IT'S CRACKED UP TO BE... Jillie McAllister escaped to Paradise Beach to start over somewhere beautiful and far away from her philandering ex-husband. But she's already lost her job, run over a mailbox, become embroiled in a heated ...

  • An Angel for Emily

    Jude Deveraux

    Emily Jane Todd has just found her guardian angel. Actually, the small-town librarian had just been stood up by her fiance when she ran into the errant angel with her car. And while he appears to be unscathed, "Michael" continues to insist that his p...

  • Wild Highland Home

    Alexandra Raife

    When Clare Sommerville gives up the London rat race to buy a rustic, isolated cottage in the Scottish Highlands, she finds herself drawn to Donald Macrae, a man of quiet strength who is fighting inner conflicts of his own. Original....

  • Final Act

    Tracey Tillis

    Framed for the murder of her stepson, Shannon LaCrosse turns to private investigator David Courtney--a former cop who helped put her in jail--to ask for his assistance in finding the killer who framed her and now seems determined to end her life...

  • My Wicked Fantasy

    Karen Ranney

    An Explosive Encounter Mary Kate Bennett was married too early, widowed too young, and left to fend for herself without a penny. Her path was never meant to cross with Archer St. John's, except for a terrible carriage accident with the wickedly h...

  • Dark Angel

    Donna Ball

    WHAT SHE REMEMBERS IS TERRIFYING. WHAT SHE CAN'T REMEMBER COULD KILL HER The lucky survivor of a freak accident, Virginia Beach teacher Ellen Cox is pulled from the wreckage of her car shaken...and deathly afraid. Her name belongs to a stranger. T...

  • Code Red

    Nancy Fisher

    A twisty, medical thriller that combines a deadly Ebola-like filovirus, art smuggling, and international intrigue, with a host of believable and engaging characters including a beautiful virologist, and the charismatic chairman of a medical aid organ...

  • Deep Attack

    Don Pendleton

    SILENT RUN A new drug conduit is funneling record quantities of cocaine through the Florida Keys to America's streets by means unknown. Mack Bolan's hard probe uncovers a threat that escalates the drug war to a disastrous new level: mini submarines d...

  • Rites of War

    C.A. Mobley

    Female NSA agent Jerusha Bailey must prevent a full-scale war by going head-to-head with the commander of a German U-Boat, after attacks are instigated on a North Korean submarine and a U.S. command ship. Original....

  • Ambush in the Ashes

    William W. Johnstone

    A rebel patriot force goes to battle against a resurgent Nazi army in Africa in this post-apocalyptic adventure by the New York Times bestselling author.   After a nuclear strike decimates America, retired soldier Ben Raines refuses to let his o...

  • Music in the Night

    V.C. Andrews

    Laura Logan dreams of a glorious Cape Cod day when all the dark secrets are swept away....For Laura Logan, life on Cape Cod has been nearly perfect, full of magical days spent enjoying the sea with her beloved twin brother, Cary. But then, like the c...

  • Anvil

    Nicolas Van Pallandt

    ILLUSION IS THE LIE YOU SEE.... The city of Kyara is a wasteland made livable, a shining tribute to the future's unlimited technology. But not all is perfect in this perfect world, where one woman has already met a sudden, nasty death. Gabriel ...

  • The Changeling Prince

    Vivian Vande Velde

    Weiland, a changeling who can assume many forms, is desperate to escape the sorceress who uses him and others as tools for her vengeance, until he meets a thief named Shile, who offers to help free him from the grasp of the sorceress. Original....

  • The Prisoner Within

    Donald E. McQuinn

    THE PRISONER WITHIN Given one last chance to save himself from death and dishonor, Captain Lannat is smuggled to a tyrannical planet to hunt down Etasalou, the man responsible for his arrest and disgrace. But Etasalou holds a position of unassaila...

  • Trader

    Charles de Lint

    When Max Trader, a quiet, responsible guitar maker and Johnny Devlin, a lady-killing, drunken, unemployed loser, inexplicably awaken in each other's bodies, Max must venture into the streets of Newford where he must confront Devlin and his own deepes...

  • Homecoming

    John Dalmas

    Seven centuries ago, Earth's infant first colony was mysteriously cut off without a ship of its own. For thirty generations the colonists have focused on survival, establishment, growth; their agrarian society evolving in an absence of war, with coop...

  • Overshoot

    Mona Clee

    In the year 2032, eighty-year-old Moira Burke watches as life on Earth becomes a series of natural disasters due to global warming--and the planet's only hope may be a bold new genetic experiment called "The Green Man." Original....

  • Smoke on the Water

    Brian Daley

    Though they contemplated a final suicide mission of blood, guts, and glory, the Exts knew their warrior superskills were no match for the LAW--Legal Annexation of Worlds--who were sent into space by the mighty Periapt potentates to colonize new popul...

  • Prisoner of Conscience

    Susan R. Matthews

    Andrej Koscuisko is an Inquisitor for the Bench federation of worlds. It is his duty to root out--quickly, efficiently, quietly--anyone who would threaten the ruling order. Andre] has been posted to the penal facility at Port Rudistal. Here hundr...

  • Halfway Human

    Carolyn Ives Gilman

    Tedla is young, beautiful, and blond--but it is neither he nor she. And Tedla has a remarkable story to tell of witchcraft, lust, and rebellion on a far-off closed world which has taken its own evolutionary path. There, an asexual class of "blands" e...

  • War in Heaven

    David Zindell

    RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON

    Danlo wi Soli Ringess has returned from the Vild, the first lightship pilot to escape that hellish region of fractured space and deadly supernovas where giant computer-gods make war on each other.

    But the Civi...

  • Invasion America

    Christie Golden

    HUNTING THE MOST REMARKABLE PREY ON PLANET EARTH WILL BE EASY... The planet Tyrus is in the throes of mutiny. A military dictatorship has seized the throne and dispatched an armada to invade a distant land. The mission: locate their future king an...

  • Crucible: The Trial of Cyric the Mad

    Troy Denning
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Cyric the Mad Who betrayed his friends Midnight and Kelemvor and sought to destroy them. Who ascended to godhood and now spreads his lies and intrigues into every corner of Faerun. Who is the Lord of Murder, the Prince of Lies--and insane....

  • The Royal Four

    Amy Stout

    In her stunning debut novel The Sacred Seven, author Amy Stout gave us an enthralling adventure replete with all the magic and heroism, mystery and power of the best epic fantasy. Now, in The Royal Four, she transports us back to a kingdom known as t...

  • Love, Emmaline

    Kasey Michaels
    in

    Somewhere between picking the china pattern and meeting the in-laws, Molly ditched her wedding plans - until she and Tim each picked up keys to a romantic bridal suite on a snowy Valentine weekend......

  • Knock Three Times

    Muriel Jensen
    in

    A personal shopper, Jade was accustomed to buying gifts, but this Valentine's Day she was the recipient - of a key to a disgruntled client's home, courtsey of his two tiny cupids. What surprise awaited her on the other side of Jack's door?...

  • Remington and Juliet

    Rebecca York
    in

    All Juliet had were directions to the rival Remington estate - and a mysterious skeleton key. But when she met the reclusive Remington heir at a masked Valentine's Day ball, Juliet would unlock more than the secrets to their families' century-old feu...

  • Devlin

    Erin Yorke

    A rebel heart held her fast...and young noblewoman Alyssa Howett knew she had no choice but to release Devlin Fitzhugh, the wild Irish hero who had freed her woman's soul. A warrior walked alone. His fealty was only to his sworn chieftain--or so Dev...

  • Breeze

    Robin Allen

    Regal and stylish, soulful and sultry, Breeze Blackwell steps onstage and audiences burst into thunderous applause while chanting her name. The reigning queen of R&B, superstar Breeze has thousands of fans at her feet. But backstage, beneath her elec...

  • By King's Decree

    Shari Anton

    THE KING HAD GRANTED THEM A YEAR OF LOVE Gerard of Wilmont wanted nothing more than to make Ardith of Lenvil his cherished bride. But what if he and his Saxon flame were not blessed with the heir that would ensure their union would last forever? ...

  • Dangerous

    Millie Criswell

    He Had a Steel Will Texas Ranger Ethan Bodine slept with his gun, talked to his horse, and lived by an unbreakable code. Right was right, and wrong meant he brought a man to justice -- even if the outlaw was his brother Rafe. Now Ethan's only goal i...

  • Granted: Big Sky Groom

    Carol Grace

    BEST-KEPT WISHES: Three high school friends, three heartfelt wishes made on prom night--three weddings to end all weddings! BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR.... Tally James wished for a ranch of her own. What she got was a long, tall groom! But tha...

  • Dr. Dad

    Julianna Morris

    REMEDY: WIFE? A baby was just not what the doctor ordered. But somehow Dr. Noah Bradley was sharing his home with his precocious orphaned niece and an ever-increasing menagerie of pets. He figured daddyhood was the hardest task he'd ever undertake...

  • 100% Pure Cowboy

    Cathleen Galitz

    Pure Hunk How did Danielle Herte get mixed up in a zany trail ride with a gaggle of giggling teenage girls and a cowboy who gave new meaning to the term sexy? She agreed to the outing to bond with her rebellious daughter -- not become smitten with ...

  • Corporate Groom

    Linda Varner

    MARRIAGE-MINDED MILLIONAIRE? Reo Sampson was too busy making money to think about playing house. But when his pretty new assistant, Rusty Hanson, accompanied him for weekend negotiations, Reo discovered he liked - a little too much - having the se...

  • With This Child...

    Sally Carleen

    LITTLE GIRL FOUND Single father Sam Woodward refused to believe his beloved child was not his daughter. But here was Marcie Turne hesitantly offering official-looking papers claiming that she was his daughter's mother--and that a big mistake had b...

  • Valentine Baby

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    SUDDENLY DADDY On Valentine's Day, fallen hero Tom Lowery grimly wrote off romance. Retired his shining armor. And grumpily retreated to his lonely lair. Only to find an orphaned infant cooing on his coffee table--and willowy Leslie Harden, his fo...

  • Letter to a Lonesome Cowboy

    Jackie Merritt

    MAIL-ORDER BRIDE... AND KID BROTHER? The ad said rancher Rand Harding -- a real, live cowboy! -- wanted a wife. So orphaned city kid Mack Paxton began planning. He'd pen a gushy letter. Enclose a pin-up picture. Forge his big sister's signature. A...

  • Wildcatter's Kid

    Penny Richards

    FIRST LOVE, SECOND CHANCE For six long years, Laura Ramirez tried to forget the man who'd initiated her passion and given her a baby he'd known nothing about. Now wildcatter Russ Campbell was back, and he was everything she remembered -- and mor...

  • Natural Born Trouble

    Sherryl Woods

    MOMMY-IN-WAITING Texan Dani Adams was through with single dads. Never again would she brush away their children's tears or bandage scraped knees. Instead, she'd care for the sick animals brought to her veterinary practice. She'd find fulfillment--...

  • Daddy's Home

    Pat Warren

    NOTHING TO FEAR, DADDY'S HERE... Scandalous, handsome and allegedly dangerous, renegade Sam Rivers was back in town. And gossip sizzled. Heiress Liza Courtland alone knew Sam was no criminal. Still, she trembled under the weight of her own preciou...

  • Honeymoon Ranch

    Celeste Hamilton

    LET THE HONEYMOON BEGIN! Pretty Paige McMullen came home to Amarillo, Texas, just in time to get hitched to widower True Whitman, the rugged cowboy she'd loved ever since she was a young cowgirl. But little did her groom-to-be know she'd been wait...

  • Marriage By Contract

    Sandra Steffen

    A tiny baby waits for a home .... A single woman yearns for child .... A doctor makes a daring proposal .... In the midst of a blackout, Dr. Tony Petrocelli and nurse Bethany Kent struggled to bring a child safely into this world. Then the ...

  • The Offer She Couldn't Refuse

    Marie Ferrarella

    Love, Marriage...and Baklava They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, but Demi Tripopulous isn't so sure. Her family's restaurant makes the best delicacies around, but you don't see eligible bachelors flocking arou...

  • Ready, Set...Baby!

    Christie Ridgway

    Ready? To be a daddy? Seth Cooper? That footloose world traveler--and confirmed bachelor--would rather tangle with an angry boa constrictor than hold a squirming baby. And yet... Set? Surrogate mother Katie McKay was all set to have her baby...

  • A Groom of Her Own

    Irene Hannon

    GUESTS AT THE WEDDING Watching her best friend get married, lovely widow Samantha Reynolds wondered if she'd ever speak those solemn vows again. Though wary, part of her still longed for a husband and family. But it would take a very special man f...

  • The Marriage Wish

    Dee Henderson

    Successful, blessed with friends and a rich faith -- as Scott Williams's thirty-eighth birthday dawned, he was at the top of his game. Or was he? For while his life seemed perfect to others, Scott felt that something was missing. But how could a rugg...

  • The Reluctant Bride

    Kathryn Alexander

    UNWILLING TO WED With her generous heart and dazzling smile, beautiful Micah Shepherd was Rob Granston's dream come true. The handsome attorney knew that Micah felt drawn to him, too. But why did she avoid him at every turn? Micah hinted at a trag...

  • Wild Wind

    Patricia Ryan

    When a fiercely loyal and rugged soldier with no desire for frivolous attachments sets eyes on a beautiful woman from his past, he risks his life and his heart to give her a life of happiness and eternal love. KNIGHT OF PASSION Nicolette de St....

  • The de Burgh Bride

    Deborah Simmons

    Sleeping With The Enemy It was the last thing Elene Fitzhugh intended. She only prayed her array of sharpened daggers was ample protection against Geoffrey de Burgh's gentle coaxing and honeyed lies, for she was determined to be no man's bride-kin...

  • Surrender

    Heather Graham

    Nothing in her privileged life had prepared Yankee beauty Risa Magee for the dangers and intrigues of war ... until she bravely rowed through nighttime waters to carry a warning to a friend behind Confederate lines. Suddenly, she was the prisoner of ...

  • Patterns of Love

    Robin Lee Hatcher

    AN IMPOSSIBLE DREAM Swedish immigrant Inga Linberg might not be as beautiful as her flirtatious sisters, but that doesn't mean she doesn't share their romantic ideas. When Dirk Bridger, a handsome but beleaguered Iowa farmer, approaches her minist...

  • Texas Lucky

    Maggie James

    AN UNTAMED LAND WOULD AWAKEN HER SPIRIT Tess Partridge traveled west to marry a man she had never met -- and found herself a prisoner in a makeshift jail when her plans went unexpectedly awry. Her cellmate was darkly handsome Curt Hammond, a man acc...

  • Dangerous Passions

    Kat Martin

    When Elissa Tauber learns of her beloved brother's murder and that her native homeland is threatened, she is determined to expose the traitor. Posing as a recently widowed countess, she moves through the glittering world of the court, willing to bart...

  • Catherine

    Theresa Michaels

    Widow Catherine Rose Hill had vowed she would never again answer to a man. But when a stuffy hardheaded banker with sexy eyes challenged her hard-won independence with soul-binding kisses, she wondered if her freedom was worth the price. Gregory ...

  • Heart of the Falcon

    Francis Ray

    WHEN DREAMS IGNITE... Engineer Madelyn "Addie" Taggart was accustomed to going after what she wanted. But she never expected that a chance encounter with family friend Daniel Falcon would lead to a passionate night together--or that after the specia...

  • Sweet Baby

    Sharon Sala

    LITTLE GIRL LOST... It all happened a long time ago, so long ago that Tory Lancaster no longer remembered being a little girl who came home to an empty house. Tory is a woman now, trying to leave behind a legacy of abandonment and sorrow, desperat...

  • Cupid's Arrow

    Victoria Barrett
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    Amanda Jensen wants to stand on her own two feet and make her card shop a success. Looking the other way when a local bag lady steals from her doesn't help, but she has a soft spot for the eccentric woman name Chatty. Besides, Chatty is not what ...

  • Top Cat and Tales

    Elizabeth Bevarly
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    By day, Abby Walden is a shy professor -- but by night, she's 'Candida,' author of a spicy love column. Joel Tandem, who resides just a fire escape away, also lives a double life. Though each thinks the other is the cat's meow, gettin...

  • Winning Ticket

    Margaret Brownley
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    When Paige Roberts wins the three-million dollar lottery, she's ecstatic. She doesn't even mind splitting it with the other winner -- until she learns it's her ex-husband. As Paige and Jeff are brought together, the old sparks start to fl...

  • Wheels of Love

    Emily Carmichael
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    Eric Neal is engaged to his childhood sweetheart, but neither of their hearts are in it, and with the help of two of Cupid's agents, Hearts and Flowers, they'll soon find their true loves. Disguised as the 1966 Austin Healey Eric has just bought, Hea...

  • Rough Around the Edges

    Pat Van Wie

    A dark warrior whose touch was as seductive as it was dangerous . . . Alex Jamison knew at a glance that Dr. Kristen Helton spelled trouble! The emerald-eyed physician was an outsider, a rich do-gooder he expected to run if things got rough on the...

  • Never Say Goodbye

    Maureen Caudill

    Was this smoke-grimed, sexy-as-hell hero hot enough to make a lady stay home nights? Jason Cooper grinned as he plotted to convince writer C. J. Stone he was so boring, bland, and courteous, he couldn't be her magazine's Sexiest Businessman! But ...

  • Your Wish Is My Command

    Stephanie Bancroft

    When a quick rub of an old brass teapot set off a tremor that reduced his antiques store to a shambles, Ladden Sanderson groaned. At least the exotic carpet he'd rescued from an estate sale would intrigue designer Jasmine Crowne, but what he really w...

  • Freedom's Price

    Suzanne Brockmann

    Could a revolutionary used to running wild win the heart of a world-weary journalist? Liam Bartlett had nearly lost his life in San Salustiano, and for five years the correspondent had done his best to silence his ghosts. But when Marisala Bolivar...

  • Snowbound Bride

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR A RUNAWAY BRIDE WEARING GALOSHES Not only was Nora Hart Kingsley stranded in a blizzard, but she was stuck in her wedding gown! Furthermore, her galoshes were attracting the attention of the far-too- good-looking lawman at t...

  • Valentine for an Angel

    Mary Anne Wilson

    FALLING IN LOVE IS A NO-BRAINER! After years of flawless matchmaking, fairy mother Angelina Moore has lost her grip. That's why she's sent to earth for a crash course in sensitivity training. The first lesson learned: emotions are much more compli...

  • House Husband

    Linda Cajio

    Let's make a baby! Sara Johanson wanted a child and a family of her own more than anything. So when she showed up on her estranged husband's doorstep, she expected his signature on four-year-old divorce papers--not an enthusiastic offer to make ba...

  • A Real-Live Sheikh

    Jacqueline Diamond

    HOW TO MARRY... A Real-Live Sheikh - Don't let his sexy, take-no-prisoners gaze enchant you - Don't let his delicious, slow-and-sure kisses bewitch you - Don't even think about what's under his robe He swept into her hotel lobby swathed in whi...

  • Son of the Sheriff

    Sandy Steen

    He'd never stopped loving her...but he didn't dare trust her. After sixteen years Annabelle Delacroix has finally come home. After a disastrous marriage arranged by her father, Philip Delacroix, she's ready to start over. But when she's pulled ove...

  • Lonesome Cowboy

    Debbie Macomber

    Everyone in Promise thinks Savannah Weston is an old-fashioned kind of woman, quietly content to stay on the family ranch with her brother Grady. But Savannah has her passions--for the old roses she loves to grow, for the children she hopes to have. ...

  • The Hero's Son

    Amanda Stevens

    Her father was innocent... Valerie Snow was just a child when her father was convicted of the Kingsley kidnapping. All this time, she's believed him guilty...and been wrong. Now, out for justice, she is surrounded by danger. Only one man will lis...

  • Watch Over Me

    Carly Bishop

    SHE WAS OUT TO CAPTURE A KILLER Becky DiFalco was trapped -- snowbound -- in the Rockies with two men. One, the sexiest man she'd ever seen; the other, the shrewdest killer she'd ever been up against in her years with the Colorado Bureau of ...

  • Her Mother's Arms

    Kelsey Roberts

    Who would have thought that the search for Hannah Bailey's real mother could have turned so deadly? Certainly not Hannah. Shocked by the discovery that she'd been adopted, Hannah felt a strong pull toward the woman listed on her birth certificate as ...

  • Deceiving Daddy

    Susan Kearney

    THE DADDY-TO-BE WAS TO DIE FOR... Summer Warren had signed a contract to carry a stranger's babies inside her. A surrogate contract that specified that she and the man would never meet. Yet when a nameless, faceless stalker began to track her eve...

  • Wife Is a 4-Letter Word

    Stephanie Bond

    How do you spell "disaster"? W-I-F-E At least, that's what Alan Parish thought. Getting dumped at the altar saved him from making the biggest mistake of his life. From now on, it was the single life for him! And since he'd already paid for his honey...

  • The Cinderella Search

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    Cinderella? In his search for the perfect woman, Steven Jackson had dated lots of candidates, but no one had quite fit the glass slipper. Then, while he was on vacation, his Cinderella came crashing through the ceiling of his hotel room, captured hi...

  • The Valentine Affair!

    Mary Lyons

    Sex. Lies and Valentines! Alexandra Pemberton had promised her newspaper a Valentine exclusive: the story of Leo Hamilton's whirlwind engagement to Fiona Bliss. By fair means or foul - and more likely foul! - Fiona had succeeded where many had...

  • Dash to the Altar

    Ruth Jean Dale

    Ready, Steady, Married! Can Dara Linnell marry a complete stranger? In a word, yes! She needs a husband to get away from her bossy, manipulative grandfather. And Zane is perfect for the job -- he's young, free and single. So what if she's ...

  • Cop of the Year

    Kathryn Shay

    The Cop and the Kids... Captain Mitch Lansing would like to help the troubled teens in Cassie Smith's high school class for students at risk. Unfortunately that means sharing his experiences with them. (Cassie's very big on sharing.) And Mitch has...

  • The Prodigal Daughter

    Carol Duncan Perry

    It's the talk of the town! Charlotte--one of the "scandalous" Carlyles--is back, and the townsfolk of Little Falls, Arkansas, are gossiping! Especially about Lottie's relationship with the town's favorite son--confirmed bachelor and millionaire, H...

  • Anything You Can Do...

    Roz Denny Fox

    'I contend that today's man could handle the rigors of pioneer life. Could a woman? -- Nolan Campbell. 'You bet! Anything he can do, she can do, too! -- Emily Benton. 'And probably better ! -- Sherry Campbell. There's only one way to find...

  • A Father's Place

    Joan Kilby

    A man with a child needs a home.... Daniel had a young daughter with the flu and no place to live after flying to Vancouver from Australia. He thought he'd rented rooms from Karina, but Karina thought otherwise. A woman with a problem needs he...

  • Manhunting in Memphis

    Heather MacAllister

    WANTED: GROOM Hayley Parrish thought her dateless existence couldn't get any worse -- until her mother decided Hayley needed a husband. But when Mom started matchmaking, Hayley had no choice but to invent a fiance -- in self-defense. Then she w...

  • Dodging Cupid's Arrow

    Kate Hoffmann

    ALASKA. A PLACE WHERE MEN COULD BE MEN...AND WOMEN WERE SCARCE! Perrie Kincaid, crackerjack reporter, couldn't believe it. Her editor was actually sending her to Muleshoe, Alaska, population twenty! Talk about Dullsville on ice. But then she met J...

  • Loving Wild

    Lisa Ann Verge

    HE NEEDED HER Dylan MacCabe was a man with a mission, and Casey was his last hope for completing it. His first problem was convincing her of that. His second was figuring out how to spend three weeks with her in the wilderness, sleeping under the ...

  • The Getaway Groom

    Molly Liholm

    1-800-Wedding Happy Endings Guaranteed! Need a wedding planned in only two weeks? Groom has cold feet? Bridal consultant Emma Delaney could solve any kind of wedding crisis, because she passionately believed in love and romance. She wanted ever...

  • The Brennan Baby

    Barbara Boswell

    MR. FEBRUARY The Brennan Man: The very handsome and sexy Dr. Devlin Brennan, expertly skilled in the operating room ...and the bedroom. The Brennan Charm: His bedside manner could win over any woman -- except Gillian Bailey, the one who really...

  • Bride of the Bad Boy

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    WHAT A WEDDING! Angie Ellison had just married a gorgeous mystery man in a hastily arranged wedding ceremony. Clearly, the folklore about the comet passing by her small town was true -- it affected everyone's morals! Surely that was why she wa...

  • Her Torrid Temporary Marriage

    Sara Orwig

    ONE RED-HOT HUSBAND Mattie Ryan had no illusions about her temporary husband. Long, lean, darkly compelling--Josh Brand was every woman's fantasy. And everyone in Texas cattle country was gonna wonder why in blue blazes he'd marry his gawky cowpok...

  • The Texan

    Catherine Lanigan

    HOT TEXAS NIGHTS When sensible Angela Morton blew out her thirtieth-birthday candles, she was secretly wishing for a man. And that's exactly what she got. A tight-lipped Texan so sexy, he left her senseless. But after the night of a lifetime, her...

  • Three-Alarm Love

    Carole Buck

    VERY LOUD WEDDING BELLS... Keezia Carew never imagined that her best friend's kiss would send shivers up her spine, set her head spinning and sound off alarms. Or that sexy Fridge Randall would suddenly be hearing wedding bells! With one bad m...

  • Courtship in Granite Ridge

    Barbara McCauley

    WANTED: ONE HUSBAND Even tight-tipped loner Hugh Slater couldn't let a good woman marry a ranch-hungry stranger she'd met through an ad in the local paper! So he'd come back to Granite Ridge, Texas, the town he swore he'd never step foot in again....

  • Secret Star

    Nora Roberts

    MURDERED MILLIONAIRESS He was standing face-to-face with a dead woman. . . and she was holding a gun. Lieutenant Seth Buchanan's homicide investigation --- and his heart --- were thrown into turmoil when Grace Fontaine turned up very much alive --...

  • Knight Errant

    Marilyn Pappano

    HOME... It was the last place Nicholas Carlucci thought he'd see again, yet suddenly it was the only place he could go. He'd hoped to find some peace here--but in the eyes of his new neighbor, Lainie Farrell, he found a hint of something more. Som...

  • Brandon's Bride

    Alicia Scott

    HE'D BE SO NICE TO COME HOME TO... Sure, single mother Victoria Meese knew that the Lady Luck Ranch was just temporary quarters for rugged ex businessman Brandon Ferringer. But each night, sitting around the fire, she inevitably saw her handsome t...

  • The Man She Almost Married

    Maggie Price

    THE MAN SHE ALMOST MARRIED... Was now Sergeant Julia Cruze's prime suspect in a heinous murder. Two years ago she wouldn't have believed millionaire Sloan Remington capable of killing anyone. But her heart had been broken, her trust betrayed -- he...

  • One Night at a Time

    Christa Conan

    TROUBLE HAD NEVER BEEN SO APPEALING.... Special Investigator Doug Masterson was headed for some long-awaited R and R when trouble walked into his office. Tall, beautiful and with curves in all the right places, Arielle Hale had the face of an ange...

  • Accidental Heiress

    Lauren Nichols

    INHERITED: ONE RANCH...AND ONE SEXY COWBOY Pampered city girl Catherine "Casey" Marshall never dreamed she'd be setting foot in a honky-tonk bar outside Comfort, Montana. But suddenly, all that stood between her and poverty was Jess Dalton's ranch...

  • On Baby Patrol

    Sharon De Vita

    ONE MAN'S VOW In one dramatic moment, police officer Michael Sullivan was without a partner, and mother-to-be Joanna Grace without the father of her baby. And now, Michael would fulfill his secret promise to take care of his friend's beautiful wife ...

  • The Will and the Way

    DeWanna Pace

    Davage Jensen, the chief engineer of Union Pacific Railroad, should have sent her packing. But when the headstrong beauty, Key Calhoun, informs him that she is the "snow expert" headquarters has dispatched to solve the crew's current troubles, Davage...

  • Secret Child

    Ann Major

    CHILDREN OF DESTINY When Passion and Fate Intertwine -- A Secret Child is Born! Jack West knows that nothing will stop him from tracking down his wife, Chantal, who'd betrayed him and sent him to prison for a crime he didn't commit. Chantal had...

  • Forgotten

    Lorena McCourtney

    DANGER LURKS IN THE SHADOWS AS A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN STRUGGLES TO UNLOCK THE SECRETS OF HER PAST KAT CAVANAUGH She awakens in an Oregon hospital with a broken leg and no memory of her identity or her past. Who is she? How did she get here? Where d...

  • Dr. Nightingale Races the Outlaw Colt

    Lydia Adamson

    DEATH IN DAPPLED GRAY Veterinarian Deirdre "Didi" Nightingale knows what made Aden Fox's cows sick. They wandered through a broken fence and grazed on poisonous Perilla Mint. What mystifies Didi is what smashed the fence: horse's hooves. There are...

  • Extreme Justice

    William Bernhardt

    Disillusioned with both the legal system and his private life, criminal attorney Ben Kincaid abandons his practice for a less stressful pastime: playing with a combo at Uncle Earl's Jazz Emporium. The musician's life is bliss - until a corpse crashes...

  • Murder at Bent Elbow

    Kate Bryan

    In 1875, a woman had to be tough to make it on her own. But that's just what Maggie Maguire was: smart, ambitious, and stubbornly adventurous. An unmarried woman who 'd ridden with the carnival she craved excitement and experience. In fact, even work...

  • Multiple Listing

    Anne Underwood Grant

    MARKET FOR MURDER Sydney Teague has it all together--barely. A single mother, the owner of an advertising agency, she's a woman with one foot in the Old South, and the other firmly planted in the new. But while Sydney grows her business, meets the...

  • The Devil's Red Nickel

    Robert O. Greer

    SHAKE, RATTLE, AND DIE... They called him Daddy Doo-Wop: the one-time Chicago disc jockey who spun the vinyl that made a young CJ Floyd's heart soar all the way out in Denver. Now Daddy Doo-Wop has died on CJ's home turf, and the dead man's beauti...

  • Hell's Belle

    Jane Holleman

    Hardened homicide detective Rachel Collazo jumps on the case when the mysterious Kelly McLaughlin reveals clues about Rachel's sister's death, and the pair begins a deadly cat-and-mouse game that means death for the loser. Original....

  • Heaven's War

    Scott Jones

    During the Six-Day War in 1967, Bethlehem and east Jerusalem were captured by the Israelis, and sovereign dominion of the holy city returned to the Jews for the first time in over two thousand years. At that time, a Dead Sea artifact, the Temple Scro...

  • Best Actress

    John Kane

    It's Oscar time and five nominees for Best Actress anxiously wait for the big night. All of them have skeletons in their walk-in closets, but one has rummaged through hers to get a gun for her Chanel bag. Veteran Hollywood flak Kane keeps his eyebrow...

  • No Bones About It

    Donna Huston Murray

    IS MAN'S BEST FRIEND ALSO HIS DEADLIEST ENEMY? The dog days of Bryn Derwyn Academy's summer holidays yawn ahead for Ginger Barnes--headmaster's wife, mother of two teenagers and occasional detective. But the tedium is soon shattered when Dr. Karl ...

  • Tangled Vines

    Diane Noble

    A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. AN ELEGANT CHATEAU. A SINISTER SECRET. Pelican Bay, California. A sleepy, seaside village where the biggest news in the weekly Pelican Journal is the release of local celebrity Theodora Whimple's latest mystery novel. ...

  • Death at Devil's Bridge

    Robin Paige

    Together they solved the murders at the Countess of Warwick's weekend house . . . and together they fell in love. Now newlyweds Charles and Kate Sheridan have moved into Kate's ancestral Georgian home Bishop's Keep, where Kate plans to devote herself...

  • A Capital Offense

    Gary E. Parker

    Life smiles on Connie Brandon: law degree nearly in hand, a loving husband and two wonderful kids, a vibrant faith in God in a quiet Missouri town.But her quiet family life is rocked when her husband, Jack, turns up dead in the Missouri River -- a...

  • Where Serpents Lie

    T. Jefferson Parker

    One man's obsessive quest to protect the innocent -- while facing the guilt in his own past. Terry Naughton has come up against his share of heinous criminals in his years on the force -- but nothing has prepared him for the Horridus, the brillian...

  • The Ten-Ounce Siesta

    Norman Partridge

    Jack Baddalch knows that there is something big at stake when the Chihuahua named Spike that he is escorting across the desert for his shady boss is stolen by a band of machine-gun-toting women in black leather. Original....

  • Az Murder Goes . . . Artful

    Elizabeth Peters

    Raymond Chandler called it The Simple Art of Murder, a misleading title. It never has been simple to write mysteries. But it is an art, and often the crimes investigated are rooted in the worlds of art, architecture, and antiquities.
    Where there i...

  • Homicide: Violent Delights

    Jerome Preisler

    Detectives Kellerman and Lewis find a roadside corpse, identified as a guard at Central Maryland Psychiatric Center for the Criminally Insane, but the escapee-fugitive at large is one of the smartest and most vicious hit-men in the history of Baltimo...

  • Cat-Eyed Trouble

    Robert Skinner

    Miles from Angola State Penitentiary, the body of a New Orleans social worker has washed up on the riverbank behind Audubon Park. Lottie Sonnier would have been just another homicide victim if she hadn't been a long-ago lover of nightclub owner Wesle...

  • Of Death and Black Rivers

    Ann Woodward

    When the delicate and naive Lady Saisho runs off with the mysterious Dark Warrior, Lady Aoi races against time to break his dangerous hold on Lady Saisho and becomes trapped in his house, where the secrets of numerous deaths at the palace are reveale...

  • Bringing Out the Dead

    Joe Connelly

    Perhaps only someone who has worked for almost a decade as a medic in New York City's Hell's Kitchen--as Joe Connelly has--could write a novel as riveting and fiercely authentic as Bringing Out the Dead. Like a front-line reporter, Connelly writes fr...

  • Pearls of Lutra

    Brian Jacques

    Known as the Tears of All Oceans, six magnificent rosecolored pearls that inspire passion, greed, and deception are mysteriously missing. The only clue is a series of riddles, and Tansy, a young hedgehog maid at Redwall Abbey, is desperate to solve t...

  • Prince of Sunset

    Steve White

    IT WASN'T MUCH OF AN EMPIRE ANYMORE--BUT IT WAS ALL THEY HAD... . Afterwards, Basil Castellan was always certain that it had all begun the day he'd been rescued by the dragon. Oh, it hacjn't been a real dragon, of course, or so he hastily assured ...

  • John Crust and Snuffling Pig

    Marjorie M. McGinley

    John Crust is a good man who has lost what gave meaning to his life, his loving wife, Mary. Abandoning his placer gold mine, John takes to the mountains with a horse and supplies. One night he bumps into two old friends, Caleb Jones and Henry McGuire...

  • Gun Law at Broken Spoke

    Terrell L. Bowers

  • Crystal Clear

    Jane Heller

    KISSES ... KIDNAPPING ... KARMA Just another day in the life of Crystal Goldstein. No one is more surprised than pragmatic New York accountant Crystal Goldtein when at the urging of her best friend Rona--a New Age junkie--she suddenly finds hers...

  • Sharp Edges

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    Eugenia Swift is a young woman of singular sensibilities, and a connoisseur of beauty. As the director of the Leafbrook Glass Museum, she's been asked to travel to Frog Cove Island -- an artistic haven near Seattle -- to catalog an important collecti...

  • Hit Man

    Lawrence Block

    Keller is your basic Urban Lonely Guy. He makes a decent wage, lives in a nice apartment. Works the crossword puzzle. Watches a little TV. Until the phone rings and he packs a suitcase, gets on a plane, flies halfway across the country... and kills s...

  • Quaker Indictment

    Irene Allen

    OUTSIDE THE MEETINGHOUSE THE WORLD CAN BE A DEADLY PLACE At the urging of an old friend, devout Quaker Elizabeth Elliot travels far from her peaceful New England home to visit a town simmering with the deadly fallout of a government cover-up. Reba...

  • See No Evil

    Eleanor Taylor Bland

    Detective Marti MacAlister investigates the murder of a young woman whose criminal contacts may put a homeless man at risk. And while Marti looks for one killer, another has come from the past and into her home-zeroing in on all that is dear to Marti...

  • Delirium

    Douglas Cooper

    The critically acclaimed author of "Amnesia" presents his second book--the first novel ever serialized on the Internet--a thrilling story of ideas than spans continents and centuries, a psychological tour de force encompassing murder, the history of ...

  • All Unwary

    Clare Curzon

    Mike Yeadings and his police team begin work on the disappearance of a powerful Japanese businessman's daughter and the murder of his chief executive, both of which have caused rising tensions in the industrial town of Thames Valley...

  • Whistle

    Janice Daugharty

    Just out of prison after serving time on a drug charge, Roper Rackard comes across a woman's body while mowing the tall grass at the far end of his new boss's property, and although he is innocent of her death, Roper panics. Terrified that he will b...

  • Bloody Secrets

    Carolina Garcia-Aguilera

    Luis is more than a Cuban refugee struggling to find a new life. He claims to be part of a formerly wealthy family, swindled out of their fortune by a prominent Cuban couple now living in Miami. And now that Luis has arrived in the states, he is sure...

  • In the Time of the Poisoned Queen

    Ann Dukthas