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New Books List: 512 titles



  • Achmat Dangor

    "Dangor writes lyrical...beautiful prose. Kafka's Curse is....full of cries that go on ringing in the head." --The New York Times Book Review

    From the award-winning South African poet Achmat Dangor, an extraordinary American debut and an imagi...



  • J.G. Ballard

    "Compulsively absorbing: the white heat of its images seems to burn off the page, and the surreal landscapes linger on in the mind." -- Independent On the arid, war-plagued terrain of central Africa, a manic doctor is consumed with visions of transf...



  • Erica Spindler

    Kate and Richard Ryan have the perfect marriage - marred only by their inability to have a child. The adoption agency's call fulfills that dream...and opens the door to a nightmare.... Julianna Starr has chosen Kate and Richard to be more than the...



  • Ann Arensberg

    Dry Falls, Maine was a simple farming town. Its residents lived innocently in sync with the seasons--honest churchgoing folk who looked to the land for a living and to tiny St. Anthony's church for spiritual sustenance. Until the spring of 1974, when...



  • Katie Waitman

    Katie Waitman's award-winning first novel, The Merro Tree, heralded the arrival of an exciting new science fiction talent. Now the exceptional promise of that acclaimed debut is more than met in a powerfully original story of love, loss, and transfor...



  • Mel Odom

    To save his former partner and present lover, Andi Sencio, from an intelligence operation gone sour--thanks to a reckless megacorporation--Argent the shadowrunner dons his steel armor and samurai weapons to forestall her doom. Original....



  • Paul Cook

    DAWN IN SPACE COMES FROM THE FIRE WITHIN... For hundreds of years, humans have used the great Engines of the alien Enamorati to propel their biggest starships, enabling millions to travel--and live--among the stars. As part of this alliance, the E...



  • Jake Logan

    Slocum takes on an army to save a beautiful Comanche Princess.Seven settlers -- including two women -- have been scalped, and the U.S. Cavalry is ready to make the local Comanche pay. But Slocum knows better. Comanche don't scalp women. And he'll fin...



  • J.R. Roberts

    WANTED WOMAN Howard Haskell's beautiful daughter, Beatrice, has disappeared, and his old friend Clint Adams is on the case. But when the Gunsmith finally locates the headstrong heiress in San Francisco, he's not so sure he wants to separate her fr...



  • Dana Fuller Ross

    They are bold men and women who chase their dream from the cities of the East to the wild vastness of the West. Daring and determined, they seek their fortune in a rough-and-tumble new land, forging their destiny along with that of the great American...



  • G. Clifton Wisler

    A legacy from his long-lost, disgraced father leads Tory Bratton on a dangerous quest in search of a fortune in gold and a chance to reconcile himself to the painful secrets of the past. By the author of Massacre at Powder River. Original....



  • Jon Sharpe

    BURIED DREAMS...OR BURIED TREASURE? Fargo doesn't care if her story is true or not. Grace Viola's paying him to find the grave of her son, and that's what he aims to do. On the other hand, the Lacy brothers reckon that Grace will lead them to some h...



  • Tim Champlin

    Jay McGraw, a messenger for Wells Fargo, must protect the express box he’s been charged with and unravel the mystery of the message contained within, as he’s hotly pursued by highway robbers....



  • Jane Candia Coleman

    Joanna O'Keefe journeys to New Mexico to meet up with her husband at the Circle MC, but when she arrives she finds her husband has been murdered, and it is up to Joanna to drive the cattle across the Mojave Desert to San Diego....



  • Tabor Evans

    GUNFIRE IN GALENA CITY Mallory's gang is heisting silver shipments -- and killing anyone who gets in their way. When Longarm hears they've killed his latest lady friend, he heads out to Galena City, gunning for revenge. But the deputy marshal ge...



  • Hamlin Garland

    The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop is a western novel first published in 1902.

    Winter in the upper heights of the Bear Tooth Range is a glittering desolation of snow with a flaming blue sky above. Nothing moves, nothing utters a sound, sa...



  • Christina Dodd

    Two lovers ignite a world of darkness with their wild, breathless passion. Raven-haired Lady Saura of Roget was the love lest maiden in all Christendom, unrivalled in face and figure. Yet her fortune and her day-to-day existence were controlled by...



  • Lynn Bailey

    It has been called the Land of the Living, the Land of Promise, the Land of Fragrance. This Faerie world has many names--a place of unsurpassed beauty that no mortal has ever witnessed--until now... In the twilight of the forest, faerie Sira stum...



  • Sue Civil-Brown

    SOMETIMES OPPOSITES READLLY DO ATTRACT! Jake Carpenter has traveled all over the world, living a neat, orderly life. Now he's come to Paradise Beach, Florida, intending to stop his globetrotting ways and settle down with a tidy woman. But barging ...



  • Lori Foster
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    Night after night, bar owner Cole Winston was seduced by prim and proper Sophie Sheridan's way with hot chocolate...until her sexy and outrageous twin, Shelly, walked into the bar......



  • Candace McCarthy

    A BALTIMORE BEAUTY As innocent as she is idealistic, Amelia Dempsy arrives in Michigan knowing nothing of life in this untamed land or of the Indian people she has come to help. It's no wonder she immediately clashes with Daniel Trahern, a rugged bl...



  • Bette Ford

    BEING FRIENDS WAS NOT ENOUGH... When legal secretary Anthia Jenkins went through tough times, her friend Dexter Washington, director of a Detroit community center, was there for her. She could never have handled her teenaged son's troubles without D...



  • Suzanne Forster
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    Abigail's handsome boss, Max, wanted her to find him a wife! Then a sip of a delectable low potion made Max fall for his lovely assistant. But was his love forever, or fleeting?...



  • Karen Harbaugh

    A Love Immortal Psyche Hathaway had been courted by many a gentleman--and accepted none of them, to her mother's unceasing dismay. Lady Hathaway treasured her daughter and trusted her judgment ... but just how choosy could a flaming redhead, neari...



  • Linda Lael Miller

    Montana Territory, Spring 1874
    Springwater Seasons takes place in the tiny stagecoach stop called Springwater, as it blossoms into a bustling Montana town. For a pretty schoolteacher who is new to Springwater, an unexpected love turns up i...



  • Candace McCarthy
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    A rugged west Virginia farmer is determined to dislike the "uppity" new school teacher... until hearts carved in a tree reveal his true feelings for her....



  • Stobie Piel
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    Standing up for his people puts an Apache Indian brave on the wrong side of the law, but sends an arrow straight into the heart of a fort commander's lovely daughter....



  • Laurel Collins
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    A tale of a Colorado spinster's transformation into the belle of a Valentine's ball -- and the object of an admirer's hidden desire....



  • Katherine Sutcliffe

    Can a man who wins a war also conquer a woman's heart? Village and nation alike tremble under the wrath of Roland de Gallienne, also called the Black Flame, loyal mercenary soldier to Henry II of England. Now, weary of war, he seeks peace for his ...



  • Maureen McKade

    The Man with a Future Everytime Tyler Ashburn sees pert Gabby Wade sashaying down the streets of Sawtooth, Wyoming his righteous blood begins to boil. He's ready to clean up this booming town, and women like Gabby--who owns a gambling salon--make it...



  • Linda Lael Miller

    Montana Territory, Summer 1875
    Springwater Seasons takes place in the tiny stagecoach stop called Springwater, as it blossoms into a bustling Montana town. For a dance hall girl who's never had much luck with dreams, Springwater may hold t...



  • Cynthia Sterling

    From the first time she laid eyes on handsome Yankee Trace Abernathy, Lucy O'Connor felt an undeniable thrill between them. Her friends noticed, too, and urged Lucy to finish the traditional bridal quilt that would ensure a loving marriage. But Lucy ...



  • Carol Finch

    Eden Pembrook vows always to put the Patriot cause before her own happiness and so she turns the only man in colonial Virginia that she could love away. Of course, Sebastian Saber favors liberty, but as a double agent for the Patriots he has to pose ...



  • Sabrina Jeffries

    Devastating Passion Jordan Willis, the Earl of Blackmore, has played with the heart of many a society belle--yet one stolen kiss impulsively planted on the soft, irresistible lips of the preacher's daughter proves his undoing. The prim and proper Em...



  • Tess Farraday

    Christopher "Kit" Gallatin was a soldier for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth -- until a betrayal in battle struck him down and pinned on his name the undeserved label of traitor. In despair, Kit's brother made a box out of Kit's sword hil...



  • Jo Ann Ferguson

    A DESPERATE NOBLEMAN Lord Lorenzo Wolfe craved solitude. All be wanted from the isolated estate be inherited was peace and quiet to inspire his poetry. What be got instead were insufferable house guests! Lady Valeria Fanning and her mischievous neph...



  • Shirley Harrison

    Davina Spenser is shocked when her dying father reveals that he is actually Maceo James, the brilliant painter who went into hiding decades ago after being accused of murder. Determined to clear her father's name and protect his legacy, she decides t...



  • Emily Hendrickson

    The Outcast Alone in the world, Miss Persys Timothy has lived under the protection of her wealthy aunt, serving as her cousin's companion and confidante. But once her cousin is married, Persys is no longer needed -- or wanted. Summarily put ou...



  • Jill Henry

    Recently widowed Hannah Sawyer finds that running a Montana ranch is not easy for a woman alone. Debts to pay and a devastating fire that burned her barn to the ground have left her with no choice but to marry a man she hardly knows. For rugged bo...



  • Diane Chamberlain

    Laura Brandon's promise to her dying father was simple: to visit an elderly woman she'd never heard of before. A woman who remembers nothing -- except the distant past. Visiting Sarah Tolley seemed a small enough sacrifice to make.But Laura's promise...



  • Paula Detmer Riggs

    Dr. Summer Laurence knows the horror of addiction from the wrong side. But after life-changing therapy, she becomes a drug counselor, hoping to help young kids before they get into trouble. When Summer's dear friend Dottie offers her an old house to ...



  • Sandy Hingston

    The Lover's Touch He is the prodigal son returned from the Caribbean after the sudden death of his brother. As the new Earl of Avenleigh, "Devil" Jack Cantrell has to save the debt-ridden estate and rescue his eccentric family before he ...



  • Kathryn Hockett

    A WOMAN RUNNING FROM HER PAST Brandy Jacobs had come to Colorado with an eight-woman troupe of singers and dancers to build a new life for herself. The future she had planned didn't include an intruder, even if he was the handsomest devil she&...



  • Victoria Pade

    TILL DEATH DO US PART... With her newly permed hair and eyes only for her ex, Linda Kraner is a walking advertisement for the heartbreak of divorce. Jimi Plain knows. She has been where her friend is now: lost in the madness and denial of a freshl...



  • Carola Dunn
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    Valentine's Day--a time when the first spring flowers bloom in the chill spring air, the song birds choose their mates, and ladies and gentlemen discover special moments of love... The frozen Thames River is the perfect place for a great fair on t...



  • Kathleen Beck
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    Valentine's Day -- a time when the first spring flowers bloom in the chill spring air, the song birds choose their mates, and ladies and gentlemen discover special moments of love... Intrigued by rumors of a curse that compels Miss Gowland Del...



  • Alice Holden
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    Valentine's Day--a time when the first spring flowers bloom in the chill spring air, the song birds choose their mates, and ladies and gentlemen discover special moments of love... Since her father's death has left the village without a physician,...



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  • Cassie Edwards

    Shanndel Lynn had lived all her life in the white world. Secretly named Rain Singing by her Iroquois mother, she had nothing of her Indian heritage but that name. Then a group of Shawnee stopped in town to spend the winter, and when she glimpsed thei...



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  • Lynsay Sands

    Iliana Wildwood would do anything to escape from the depraved baron who sought her lands -- including marrying a barbarian. Fleeing to the Highlands, Iliana was wedded to Duncan, laird of Dunbar Castle. Certainly, there was something about the virile...



  • Amanda Scott

    DANGEROUS LADY Accompanied by her chaperone, dresser, and pet monkey, Lady Letitia Deverill had arrived in London to take up her new duties as maid of honor to Queen Victoria. Loyalty to her Majesty came above all. So when Letitia unexpectedly inh...



  • Fayrene Preston
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    Brenna's fudge recipe was a huge hit at her cafe, and tycoon Hayden Garrett wanted it - and Brenna. But how far would he go to make them both his own?...



  • Miranda Jarrett

    Captain Samson Fairbourne is a confirmed bachelor, a deep-water sailor happily wedded to his work. When he pens a description of the perfect, obedient wife, and hefts the missive overboard in a bottle, all he has in mind is a cutting joke to tech his...



  • Elda Minger
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    A luxurious bed-and-breakfast hosting a chocolate convention wasn't the standard business lodging for Abby and Jack. But one tast of the convention's delights, and they were tantalized - with each other......



  • Robyn Amos

    SHE DIDN'T BELIEVE IN LOVE Toni Rivers has always lived her life by the books. But the expert advice in the self-help books she's always depended on have never fixed her disastrous love life. So when her sister announces that they've won the lottery...



  • Jean Stone

    I am your baby---the one you gave up. Isn't it time we met? The unsigned letter, postmarked Martha's Vineyard, arrives like a thunderbolt out of the blue, instantly sweeping Jessica Bates back thirty years. It was 1968 when young Jess went to Larc...



  • Martha Kirkland

    A DARING MISS Weary of domestic confinement, Rosalind Hinton resolved to visit Lieutenant Ashford, newly released from a French prisoner-of--war camp. But instead of the soulful youth of her childhood dreams, she found him a bold charmer whose tanta...



  • Patricia Oliver

    The Art of Love Lady Sylvia Sutherland was a young woman of many talents--and painting was her passion. Many were the days she would carry her easel and paintbox to the Cornish cliffs, trying to capture the windblown beauties of nature on her can...



  • Susan Elizabeth Phillips

    Lady Emma Wells-Finch, oh-so-proper headmistress of England's St. Gertrude's School for Girls, is a woman on a mission--she has two weeks to lose her reputation. Arriving in Texas with skirts flying, umbrella pointing, and beautiful mouth issuing ord...



  • Lisa Plumley

    HE STEPPED OUT OF THE PAGES OF A NOVEL... Mason Kincaid didn't have time to rescue the fancy fluff female stranded in the middle of Arizona territory. He was hell-bent on a mission to reclaim his young son and his good name from the men who stole bo...



  • Susan Plunkett

    The Bolivian Jungle, 1998. Hardened by violence, Rafe Stricter was a career soldier dedicated solely to his missions and his men. When one of his comrades was seriously wounded during a covert mission, Rafe prayed for a miracle--and was sent by an ex...



  • Cynthia Victor

    Cynthia Victor, bestselling author of The Secret and What Matters Most, unravels the hidden passions that drive a picture-perfect family toward the brink of destruction--in a sexy and suspenseful novel of the ties that bind... Elizabeth and Joey R...



  • C.N. Bean

    Captain Rita Trible, head of Wisconsin's Criminal Investigation Division, prayed she would never be assigned to cases involving child victims. But the photos of 26 missing children that land in her office remind her of the grim reality of her job. Fa...



  • Michael Prescott

    An art dealer must make a final reckoning with the savage crime that shattered her childhood, when her mentally unstable, isolated brother is suspected of murdering a local girl and she sets off on a frantic journey to find him and uncover the truth....



  • James Axler

    War wagon convoy leader Trader, whose reputation in the badlands of post-holocaust America has grown legendary, opposes Levi Shabazz's attempts to build his own empire out of the wastelands, an event that becomes a rite of passage for young Ryan Cawd...



  • Don Pendleton

    HARD FORCE A major international conspiracy between U.S. military traitors, former KGB agents and international organized crime has begun a campaign of selective human annihilation. The most advanced weapons of mass destruction are poised to unleash...



  • William W. Johnstone

    In a dystopian America, a madwoman has replaced the president, and now an ex-mercenary must set things right -- from a USA Todayâ€"Bestselling author.   While Ben Raines and his Rebel army have triumphed in Africa, America has been consumed in t...



  • Don Pendleton

    INTO THE FIRE Millennial Truth, also known as the Path, is a cult with an apocalyptic vision for the year 2000. Predicting a violent end to the millennium. they're using terror to light the fuse. One defector knows the lethal power of the cult ...



  • Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    GOLDEN MIRAGE The losers of World War II and their descendants have carved out their own little slice of heaven in the mountains of Argentina. this staging area to the Fourth Reich, the promise of the dream reborn dawned is bright as a new German...



  • Steve Perry

    In the future, computers rule the world. The Net Force was formed to protect America from any and all criminal activity on-line. But there is a group of teenage whiz kids who sometimes know more about computers than their adult superiors. They are th...



  • Susie Moloney

    ON A. SEPTEMBER DAY IN A TOWN CALLED BASTION FALLS, IT STARTED TO SNOW AND SNOW Young, pretty, and divorced, Marilyn was nobody special in Bastion Falls, a town like any other: People had affairs, cheated on taxes, and kept their secrets. But on t...



  • Christopher Rowley

    He is Called Many Names -- Deceiver, Dominator, Burner of Men, Lord of Evil... Plague after plague has decimated the Empire of the Rose. Sensing its vulnerability, a terrible army amasses for a final onslaught against its age-old enemy--a battle...



  • Gardner Dozois

    Ten leading science fiction writers--including Robert Silverberg, Terry Bisson, Connie Willis, Lisa Goldstein, and Nancy Kress-explore the mysteries of love and the human heart, in an anthology of short stories originally published in Asimov's Sc...



  • Clayton Emery
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    Lurking in the ruins is a horrific tale of greed, power, and revenge. The Protector crawls forth, the shade of a dead city whose rulers refuse to die, and young companions in two distant epochs learn of a dreadful destiny they cannot escape . . . ...



  • Ann Marston

    THE SEEKER Gareth is the youngest and the last of the unfortunate lords of Skai. Called home from a lonely exile, he finds his father fallen into shadow. And worse. For the Maedun conquest of Gareth's homeland is complete. The standing stones a...



  • Steven Gould

    After global devastation, the last remnants of Earth sent a handful of colonists of a distant terraformed world to give humanity one last, desperate chance. Unable to provide the technology required for an advanced civilization, the founders instille...



  • William R. Forstchen

    Risking everything to follow his dream of reaching for the stars, Justin Bell struggles to cope with Martian colonists demanding freedom from the paternalistic Earth government, while dealing with hostile aliens out to destroy all human civilization....



  • Douglas Niles
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Treason within, war from without. Torn asunder by the nightmares of a mad king, the elven realm of Silvanesti has nearly been restored to its former grandeur. But the elf Porthios, returning to his homeland, launches a rebellion against young Gilt...



  • Sharon Green

    Once the five elements--Earth, Wind, Air Fire and Spirit were One, when five i gifted people joined their magical talents into One. When these five forces--embodied by three men and two women--are Blended, they are the ultimate power against the evil...



  • Jess Lebow
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    The brothers' struggle for power has ended . . . Argoth is decimated . . . Tidal waves have turned canyons into rivers . . . Earthquakes leveled the cities . . . Dominaria is in ruins. Now the struggle for this war-torn world is to survive...



  • Gregory Benford

    After an accident in a brilliant young physicist's most ambitious experiment, it appears: a wondrous sphere the size of a basketball, made of nothing known to science. Before long, it will be clear that this object has opened a vista on an entirely d...



  • K.D. Wentworth

    Frankly, He Preferred Humans Rescued from a slave market by a human trader and raised as his son, one question has haunted Heyoka Blackeagle through the years: who -- and what -- is he? He feels human, indeed he feels like a somewhat alienated me...



  • James C. Glass

    THEY HAD KILLED AND RAPED HER MOTHER--AND NOW SHE HELD THE FATE OF TWO WORLDS IN HER HANDS Poor Kati! She was a barbarian child, she was violently orphaned, she was taken captive by the Emperor's men ... and she was not quite human. Taken into the...



  • R.G. Belsky

    It's been eleven years since David Galvin terrorized New York City with a series of gruesome murders. He picked his victim at random and stalked her silently, taking pleasure in a game of pretend until he captured his prey, played out his sick fantas...



  • Marilyn Kaye

    When twenty-five New York City high school seniors emerge from class to find the school... the streets. . .the city empty of people, they realize that they are the sole survivors of some mysterious catastrophe, and are now the LAST ON EARTH But...



  • Anne Stuart
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    Emma O'Bannion has been entertaining herself with romantic daydreams about the mysterious, gorgeous Frenchman who's moved into her New York apartment building. On a whim, she decides to act on her instincts for once, and ends up in water so hot that ...



  • Vicki Lewis Thompson
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    Amelia Townsend's Bedroom Fantasies store is a tremendous hit, but being the boss has definite drawbacks. Though she feels a bit awkward indicating any personal interest in her deliveryman, Will Murdoch, the guy makes her salivate every time he muscl...



  • Marisa Carroll
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    Nine-year-old Dani Jenson and her little sister think Christy, their new neighbor, and their dad would be a really good match, and Dani has figured out a perfect plan to get them together. Unfortunately, the anonymous cards the girls have been sendin...



  • Leigh Michaels

    The husband inheritance Deke Oliver was definitely not Danielle's idea of husband material. So it was infuriating that he believed she was trying to manipulate him into marriage. It wasn't her fault their joint inheritance forced them to l...



  • Raye Morgan

    SECRET MARRIAGE? She called herself "Charlie Smith," and only Denver McCaine remembered her as Adrianna Charlyne Chandler. But Charlie was no longer the aloof-but-beautiful heiress a rugged mercenary like him could only dream about. Now she was a ...



  • Rae Muir

    Could A Man Who'd Lost His Past Offer A Woman A Future? Until he saw Meggie MacIntyre riding bareback before the wagons like some Amazon of the prairie, Hawken hadn't pondered the question. Now life on the trail eking out an existence as a mountai...



  • Jacqueline Navin

    Dire Need Had Driven Caroline Wembly Into the Arms of the Infamous Earl of Rutherford But though she was his lawfully wedded wife, Caroline was certain the desires Magnus aroused couldn't possibly be legal. This marriage of convenience was fast be...



  • Laurie Campbell

    THE MOST PRECIOUS GIFT...FAMILY She had wanted to give her husband his first child, but it hadn't worked out that way for Meg McConnell. Now she was opening her home to a boy with Joe's eyes--a child he'd known nothing about. And though ...



  • Marjorie Farrell

    An Officer... and a Gentleman? An officer's daughter, Elspeth Gordon grew up following the drums of war...and soon blossomed into a most unconventional young lady. But when her carriage was attacked one day by ruthless Spanish bandits, neither ...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    ARE YOU THE MOTHER OF THE BRIDE... Globe-trotting Margo McCloud had only come home for her daughter's wedding. But after meeting the groom's handsome, widowed father, Margo felt like a jittery bride herself. Bruce Reed's chivalry breathed freshness ...



  • Lori Foster

    VAMP...OR VIRGIN? Dr. Daniel Sawyers was undeniably drawn to the very woman he most disapproved of. But Lace McGee, a supposed expert on matters of love--physical love, that is--had shown him nothing but steely resistance. So Daniel asked the braz...



  • Kristin Gabriel

    Rachel had had it with Valentine's Day No wonder she and her other single girlfriends call it Black Sunday! The pressure of being a couple on Valentine's Day can send people over the edge. As a therapist she knows all about it. So Rachel d...



  • Cindy Gerard

    BORN ON THE WILD SIDE OF A WYOMING BLIZZARD... Rodeo was the only full-time mistress in cowboy Jesse James's life. He liked slow seductions and fast goodbyes. Then Sloan Gantry sashayed his way, and this forever kind of filly knocked the saddle ou...



  • Terry Blain

    Left widowed in Philadelphia, April Williamson vowed to make a new life for herself. Her first stop was to make the difficult journey to her childhood home in Kentucky. But the days on the trail were nowhere near as torturous as the desire April bega...



  • Lynn Christopher

    They were at war. Braving the war-ravaged countryside to return to her Missouri home, Lila found her house occupied by Confederate soldiers under the command of Captain Sander McCormack. The brooding officer was not the murderous savage she'd expecte...



  • Jo Ann Ferguson

    If Wyoming's admission to statehood wasn't enough of a story, journalist Luke Bradfield was sure the wild West would hand him some others. Except the grizzled newspaperman he was expecting to find in tiny Bentonville was a woman...and a curvy...



  • Kathern Shaw

    An innocent charade... When scheming Emily Worth found herself with two suitors on the same day, her gentle twin, Elizabeth, foolishly agreed to impersonate her. Convinced that an afternoon with breathtaking Randall Thorpe was harmless, Elizabeth p...



  • Ann Charlton

    RILEY TEMPLETON was a hot-shot Queensland lawyer with a reputation for ruthlessness and a weakness for curvaceous, exciting blondes. ALEXANDRA PAGE was neither blonde nor curvaceous. And nothing exciting ever happened to her. But then she found a...



  • Judy Christenberry

    HAVE BABY, NEED WIFE When Josh McKinley appeared on Maggie O'Connor's doorstep with a baby in his arms and an irresistibly helpless expression on his face, Maggie's maternal--and womanly--smarts wouldn't let her turn him away. But that one good de...



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    Rochelle Alers gets the sparks flying, as a high-maintenance banker finds herself falling, against her better judgement, for a handsome delivery man who walks into Rosie's......



  • Kay Cornelius

    LOVE AND ADVENTURE... Graduating from her prim Philadelphia finishing school, Anna Willow McKnight eagerly heads west to the wilds of the Kentucky territory where she will see her father, a Scots fur trader, and visit the place her lovely Delaware I...



  • Ruth Jean Dale

    Name: Cody James Age: 30 Occupation: Rancher Looking for: A wife and mother for my children The Yellow Rose Matchmakers claimed to be able to match any woman with her Mr. Right. And Emily couldn't deny that the man she'd been matched w...



  • Kay David

    Would you do the smart thing or the right thing? Late one night, a little boy approaches Abbie Franklin. He doesn't know his name or where he lives. Abbie has no choice but to help him - any way she can. Even if that means dealing with her ex-husband...



  • Saranne Dawson

    IT WAS A NIGHT OF PASSION NEITHER OF THEM COULD FORGET... Michael Quinn's tenacity made him an extraordinary cop. It also made him an exceptional lover. And Amanda Sturdevant remembered everything, every caress and kiss, of her one night with him...



  • Alyssa Dean

    Lacy Johnson's ranch was on the verge of bankruptcy -- a marriage of convenience to Morgan Brillings was the only solution. Suddenly Lacy found herself looking at her fiance with new eyes, noticing the sexy cowboy's smiles and wicked way of kissing. ...



  • Jacqueline Diamond

    STUD SERVICE? Lisa De La Pena needed a baby fast! To avoid her family's attempt at an arranged marriage, she was determined to find a man to father her heir. And Ryder Kelly met all of her requirements: Gorgeous, independent and sexy. But how ...



  • Charlotte Maclay

    READY... Career-driven Blake Donovan planned to score big time at the annual management retreat and become the new V.P. AIM... Then Eloise Periwinkle blew into the retreat on a breeze, knocking Blake right out of his polished wing tips. Who ...



  • Elizabeth Mayne

    HER HEART WAS IN THE HIGHLANDS Indeed, every hill and vale seemed a mapping of her soul. Cassie MacArthur doubted any man could ever understand the freedom of roaming high road and low. Especially not Robert Gordon, enemy to her clan --- yet, ironic...



  • Carrie Alexander

    Three blazingly sexy stories to set the mood for the most romantic day of the year: "SECRETS OF THE HEART" Sensuous, arousing black velvet valentines sent by a stranger. At first Charlotte Colfax was shocked, then intrigued... then determined...



  • Robyn Amos

    HOW TO BEAT THE BACHELORETTE BLUES. 1. Find Mr. Right * Carefully make list of qualities needed * Narrow down choices to three polished, professional men * Ignore Max Winston's charms! 2. Date Mr. Right * Attend social functions * Dress properly * Av...



  • Robin Lee Hatcher

    After years of bitterness and anger over her ex-husband's betrayal, Claire Conway's life finally seems to be on track. She has raised a fine son, Dakota. Her work is going well, and for the first time in years she finds herself attracted to a man onc...



  • Annie Jones

    The newest series to join the humor-filled Time for Laughter romance line, the ongoing tale of the Double Heart Diner begins with the story of a very different man and a woman who set out on their own personal quests, only to find that the treasure G...



  • Holly Newman

    Carolina Harper is bound to traverse the Santa Fe trail in the spring of 1846. War with Mexico is imminent, and Santa Fe, the Jewel of New Mexico, lies at the heart of the contested territory. Still numb from the deaths of her son and her husband, Ca...



  • Bonnie Purcell

    A SPORTING CHANCE Young athlete scores big win for high school football team! For lovely Bo Bohannon, single-and-loving-it sports announcer at a small Alabama TV station, the local news event is a golden opportunity. The boy's father, Major Mitc...



  • Kimberly Llewellyn

    DRIVE ME CRAZY Snowbound and stranded in the Berkshire Mountains, just days before a Christmas visit with the family, Tori Adams's holiday vacation has taken a turn for the worse. Until rescue comes in a big rig, manhandled by a denim-and-flannel...



  • Mary Lou Rich

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