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New Books List: 489 titles

  • Fantasy Lover

    Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Dear Reader, Being trapped in a bedroom with a woman is a grand thing. Being trapped in hundreds of bedrooms over two thousand years isn't. And being cursed into a book as a loveslave for eternity can ruin even a Spartan warrior's day. As a lov...

  • The Tomb of Horrors

    Keith Francis Strohm

    Kaerion Whitehart was once a mighty paladin, but sins of the past have cast him far from the light. Together with an elf mercenary, he now survives by the might of his sword alone. In exchange for a hefty purse, the two friends agree to accompany ...

  • The Jewel of Turmish

    Mel Odom
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    ALAGHON The Jewel of Turmish Preserving the balance of nature is a way of life for Haarn Brightoak, no matter what the cost, but even his dedication to the customs of the druid is put to the test when a long-dead evil returns to the world of the ...

  • Drawn to the Rhythm

    Sara Hall

    The inspiring story of one woman's journey of healing and transformation.

    Sara Hall's life seemed perfect: a wealthy husband, a big house in an affluent suburb, three healthy children. But the surface of Hall's life hid a marriage filled with ...

  • Number9Dream

    David Mitchell

    By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize“A novel as accomplished as anything being written.” -- NewsweekNumber9Dream is the international literary sensation from a writer w...

  • Having It and Eating It

    Sabine Durrant

    The debut novel from the author of Under Your Skin, Remember Me This Way, and A Life With Me, a page-turning and comedic story about a woman on the brink.Maggie Owen has given up her day job and resigned herself to a life of playground moms and soile...

  • It's Piglet!

    RH/Disney

  • It's Pooh!

    RH/Disney

  • It's Eeyore!

    RH/Disney

  • It's Tigger!

    RH/Disney

  • Slocum's Warpath

    Jake Logan

  • Falcon's Angel

    Judith E. French

    It would take more than an ordinary woman to save his soul. After his father's shocking suicide, Will Falcon began combing the Atlantic on a mission of revenge against the vicious scavengers who stole his family's fortune. But when a fierc...

  • Miracle Workers

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    Need to build a subspace accelerator while under attack by a deadly local predator? Need to rescue a starship from interphase without getting trapped there yourself? Call in the Starfleet Corps of Engineers team, specifically the crack team from the ...

  • Talons

    John DeChancie

    Her name is Sara Pezzini. A New York City homicide detective with a deadly secret: A few years ago, she came into the possession of the Witchblade, a mystic weapon of unknown origin that has existed for centuries. Grateful to have first used it when ...

  • Local Custom

    Sharon Lee; Steve Miller

    The first of the seven books set in the Liaden Universe tells a rich and sweeping story of warring families and star-crossed lovers in a fantastic, other-world galaxy.

    "I was mesmerized, awed, and totally entertained. I am hooked by the Liad...

  • Panic Room

    James Ellison

    They have no way in. You have no way out.

    When recent divorcée Meg Altman and her ten-year-old daughter, Sarah, move to New York City to start fresh, they buy the former Upper West Side home of an eccentric millionai...

  • Twilight of the Mind

    Michael Ely

    In the conclusion of the trilogy based on the popular computer game, set a century after the events of Dragon Sun, civilization braces itself for a final reckoning between the fanatical Believers of Sister Miriam and the technological power o...

  • The Twentieth Wife

    Indu Sundaresan

    An enchanting historical epic of grand passion and adventure, this debut novel tells the captivating story of one of India's most controversial empresses -- a woman whose brilliance and determination trumped myriad obstacles, and whose love shaped th...

  • Coincidence

    David Ambrose

    A wrong number here, a case of mistaken identity there, a chance meeting with a stranger who knows your best friend. Most people dismiss such things as trivial, unimportant. Mere coincidence. Or could there be a hidden pattern in these seemingly rand...

  • Ransom Island

    Christopher Nicole

    Sophie Gallagher drives a tour bus on the island of Guernsey, with nothing more important to consider than how to show off the sleepy little island to its best advantage, and perhaps her eventual marriage to her partner, Assistant Harbormaster James ...

  • Murder in the Central Committee

    Manuel Vazquez Montalban

    ";Montalbán writes with authority and compassion€"a le Carré-like sorrow.";€"Publishers WeeklyThe lights go out during a meeting of the Central Committee of the Spanish Communist Party; Fernando Garrido, the general secretary, has been murdered...

  • The Broken Lands

    Robert Edric

    The Broken Lands-a treacherous labyrinth of ice through which the fabled Northwest Passage was sought for centuries. Cabot, Frobisher, Hudson, Parry and Ross were all defeated, and the names on the maps testify to their despair: Bay of God's Mercy, t...

  • Shadowsinger

    L.E. Modesitt Jr.

    The Shadow Sorceress, concludes New York Times bestselling author L. E. Modesitt, Jr.'s epic fantasy series the Spellsong Cycle begins a new story arc for a new cycle of tales starring a new heroine who must face a series of deadly political and mili...

  • X Men: The Fall of the Mutants

    Chris Claremont

    The body count rises higher than ever as the X-Men and their allies face war on every front! X-Factor comes up against their deadliest challenge in Apocalypse. The New Mutants lose one of their own! And after the Marauders slaughter the Morlocks, the...

  • Timeless Love

    Judith O'Brien

    THE MAGIC CHARM It was a lovely silver necklace with a strange antique charm--an early sixteenth birthday present from her parents. But now Samantha clutched the charm, desperate to disappear 'when her father discovered she'd wrecked his BMW . . . S...

  • Haunted

    Jeff Mariotte

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends... FEAR FACTOR Cordelia's getting her first big break -- as a contestant on yet another twist on "reality programming." The catch? She has to spend five days and four nights in a so-called haunt...

  • The McCallum Quintuplets: Great Expectations

    Kasey Michaels

    When Madeline Sheppard gets a birthday makeover, will her best friend and secret crush, Ian Russell, finally see her for the woman she is?...

  • The Maltese Star

    Deborah Johns

    Honor Determined to prove himself to his disgraced father's aristocratic family, mercenary Severin Brigante Harnoncourt joins forces with the Duke of Burgundy in securing the great fortress of Mercier, a stronghold vital to the Duke's battle to cl...

  • Pacific Polecoats

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo prowls the Pacific Northwest in a fight for a family fortune...Skye Fargo rides into a war between two rival English clans-and discovers that when you mix family feuding with power and passion, there's no such thing as too many lies, too l...

  • Brothers of the Gun

    Cotton Smith

    When his brutal half-brother Star McCallister goes on a murderous spree of vengeance after he escapes from jail, killing two of John's friends and kidnapping his sister's children, former Texas Ranger John Checker travels into the heart of the wilder...

  • Midnight Embrace

    Amanda Ashley

    ANALISA... He whispers her name, and it echoes back to him on the wings of the night. She is so young, so alive. She radiates warmth and goodness, chasing the coldness from his being, banishing the loneliness from his soul. In four centuries of prow...

  • Something Wild

    Patti Berg

    Wilde Thing Charity Wilde didn't come all the way to Wyoming just to be saddled with some cowboy! The leggy showgirl only wants a quiet time with family before she heads back to Vegas. So why do Mike Flynn's emerald eyes make her knees go weak? Fame...

  • Wall of Guns

    Jim O'Mara

    Carolina Steele built her ranching empire the hard way-with lies, lawyers, and outright murder. But as she takes the last steps to secure her power, a gunslinger with a grudge uncovers her dastardly plans-and prepares to shoot her empire to the groun...

  • Please Remember This

    Kathleen Gilles Seidel

    HOME...SUNLIT MEMORIES AND SHADOWED SECRETS It has always been a burden for quiet, level-headed Tess Lanier to be the daughter of Nina Lane -- the gifted and tormented author who died soon after Tess's birth. Determined to be nothing like her exub...

  • My Lady Valiant

    Valerie King

    Can A Determined Young Lady Bring A Rake Up To Scratch? Anne Delamere is outraged. The fact that the infamous rogue, the Earl of Staverton, has broken another heart is not surprising, but the idea that he has trifled with her cousin, Cassie, is be...

  • Seduced in Seattle

    Kristin Gabriel

    Can a skirt really act as a man-magnet? Kate Talavera is a true believer. After all, the skirt has already snared husbands for her two best friends! So when seriously sexy Brock Gannon storms back into her life after 12 years, and makes it plain that...

  • The Devil and Lou Prophet

    Peter Brandvold

    As bounty hunter Lou Prophet searches for gorgeous showgirl Lola Diamond, the missing prime witness in a murder trial, he soon discovers that he and his lovely quarry have become the target of some dangerous men who will do anything to ensure that Lo...

  • Longarm on a Witch-Hunt

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm’s in for a cauldron of trouble with these ladies!Lawman Custis Long is in town on the trail of some no-good owlhoots. An easy enough chase, he reckons, but after a visit with the town’s most infamous lady of the night, Longarm realizes th...

  • Maternally Yours

    Kathie DeNosky

    Brett Connelly loved women -- and he liked kids as much as the next guy. Still, the playboy tycoon wasn't about to trade his Jag for a minivan. Why, then, his sudden urge to rescue pregnant detective Elena Delgado? The fiercely independent Elena r...

  • With Family in Mind

    Sharon De Vita

    Armed with a new name and an icy facade, reporter Rebecca St. John returned to Saddle Falls to bury her shameful past -- and unearth the secrets that had haunted her since childhood. But she'd have to investigate the publicity-shy Ryan family, still ...

  • A Much Compromised Lady

    Shannon Donnelly

    WILL A NOTORIOUS RAKE BE HER KEY TO RESPECTABILITY? Glynis Chatwin has dreamed of becoming a respectable lady for as long as she can remember. Uncovering evidence of her stolen birthright is her only aim when she hides in a deserted bedchamber--bu...

  • Coming Up Roses

    Alice Duncan

    Let Me Call You Sweetheart Rose Ellen Gilhooley didn't get to be a star in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show for nothing. Bareback riding and shooting, along with some pretty sharp instincts, have taken her worlds away from the sleepy Kansas t...

  • Pride and Prudence

    Malia Martin

    A CHAMPION'S PRIDE The heroic exploits of dashing Captain James Ashley have made him an idol in the eyes of an adoring public. But in London's salons, the society ladies whisper that "The Most Delectable Man in England" is good for only one thing....

  • No Compromise

    Rochelle Alers

    As the driven executive director of The Sanctuary, a program dedicated to reaching out to victimized women, Jolene Walker has neither the time nor the energy for a personal life...until she meets United States Army Captain Michael Kirkland, a sexy, p...

  • July Thunder

    Rachel Lee

    A searing tale of love and redemption... Deputy Sheriff Sam Canfield is a man shouldering too many burdens. He defied his demanding father to become a cop and marry the woman he loved, never for an instant regretting his choice. Then his wife's tr...

  • The Dream Factory

    Janet Leigh

    When Eve Handel, one of the few women in Hollywood with the power to make or break a star, is hospitalized due to a life-threatening illness, those closest to her become concerned for their reputations, because Eve's journal full of dark secrets is m...

  • You Call This Romance?

    Barbara Daly

    Cabot Drennan might be the sexiest man travel agent Faith Sumner has ever met, but she's not at all impressed by his idea of a romantic honeymoon. The jungle fantasy suite? Cameramen filming everything? And he has the gall to demand that Faith stand ...

  • The Reluctant Reformer // A Lady in Disguise

    Lynsay Sands

    LADY X Everyone knows of Lady X. The masked courtesan is reputedly a noblewoman fallen on hard times. What Lord James did not know was that she was Lady Margaret Wentworth--the feisty sister of his best friend, who has forced James into an oath of p...

  • Come Midnight

    Veronica Sattler

    WHEN THE DEVIL CALLS THE TUNE... Love is hardly the problem when Adam Lightfoot, Marquis of Ravenskeep summons forth the devil. To save his young son's life, Adam is willing to do anything, and striking a reckless deal with Lucifer--otherwise kn...

  • The Playboy Sheikh

    Alexandra Sellers

    "You're mine and no other man's." -- Jafar al Hamzeh, Royal Advisor Extraordinaire Savoring the look on his ex-lover's face, he swept her astride his regal steed, then raced toward his desert domain. Once, he'd envisaged Lisbet Raine as mother to...

  • Miss Grantham's One True Sin

    Melynda Beth Skinner

    What happens when a lovers' masquerade becomes real? WORDS MAY DECEIVE... Marianna Grantham's status-hungry parents are bent on buying their way into Polite Society through their daughter's marriage to a peer -- any peer. When the Mar...

  • One Wild Rose

    Geri Borcz

    NOT EVEN A RANGER CAN RESIST A PERFECT ROSE Roselyn O'Neill's mother--a saloon singer with unfortunate taste in men--may have ensured her daughter's childhood was a colorful adventure, but after years of one-horse towns and embarrassing scrapes, R...

  • Cordina's Crown Jewel

    Nora Roberts

    RUNAWAY PRINCESS For a few blessed weeks, Her Royal Highness Camilla de Cordina could be just plain Camilla MacGee. And working for Delaney Caine in Vermont's backwoods offered a perfect refuge from the press. But as her irritation toward the cant...

  • A Mother to His Children

    K.N. Casper

    When Julie First's boyfriend proposes on the condition that she devote herself to him and his banking career, she can't flee fast enough. She's going to put all her energy into working for the school district, instead, now that she's received her mas...

  • Noble Intentions

    Katie MacAlister

    HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE Noble Britton had suffered greatly at the hands of his first wife, and he refused to fall into the same trap again. This time he intended to marry a quiet, biddable woman who would not draw attention to herself or cause sca...

  • So Wild a Heart

    Candace Camp

    Generations ago, the Aincourt family was given a title and land for their loyalty to the king. But the former abbey they received came with a price -- a curse that no family member would ever know happiness. Devin Aincourt, Earl of Ravenscar, make...

  • A Second-Chance Proposal // A Cowboy's Proposal

    C.J. Carmichael

    He's back! Two years ago, almost everyone in Canmore, Alberta, thought Dylan McLean was responsible for the death of a teenage girl on his father's ranch. Only Cathleen Shannon believed he was innocent. Then he left her at the altar and fled to...

  • Savage Moon

    Cassie Edwards

    Night after night she saw him in her dreams. A warrior, his body golden bronze, his hair raven black. He knew he was the one destined to make her a woman, the one who would bring her the love she'd lost so many years before. As a mere child of ten...

  • Innocent Lies

    Diane Escalera

    Paradise Found A head-to-toe makeover by her hairdresser pal? Sure. Even a shy science teacher like Nina Nieves couldn't say no to a birthday present like that. Decked out in a devil-red dress, high heels, and a flirty ponytail, she's ready to par...

  • Sweet Violet

    Corinne Everett

    A Love In Bloom With her parents on an extended trip to Boston, feisty Virginia beauty Violet Pearson is determined to prove she can manage the family concern, Tidewater Nurseries. And now, with the planned opening of a lavish new conservatory by ...

  • A Shocking Request

    Colleen Faulkner

    Never in a million years had Grant expected this. His late wife, Ally, speaking on a memory videotape she'd left behind, was actually suggesting he start dating. "Date?" Grant thought aloud. "Who would I date? Who wants a widower w...

  • My Lady's Temptation

    Denise Hampton

    A KNIGHT'S DUTY... When dashing Josce FitzBaldwin gallops into Knabwell in search of revenge, he never expects to find...a bride! The beauty and grace of Elianne du Hommet -- the penniless daughter of the local sheriff -- entices Josce as no w...

  • When I Fall in Love

    Tamara Sneed

    One of San Francisco's most eligible bachelors, Police Inspector Logan Riley is handsome, charming, and never lacking for dates. But anyone who knows Logan also knows that his relationship with women only amount to"five-weekers"--unions that end abr...

  • The C.E.O.'s Unplanned Proposal

    Karen Toller Whittenburg

    Cinderella by Mistake! When a case of mistaken identity landed Katie Canton in the Braddock world of wealth and power, she couldn't resist the temptation to mingle with the famous family. Especially fascinating eldest brother, Adam. Getting the co...

  • The McCallum Quintuplets: And Babies Make Seven

    Mary Anne Wilson

    Will a weekend getaway in a secluded cabin rekindle the sparks between new parents Adam and Maggie McCallum?...

  • A Perfect Mismatch

    Catherine Blair

    SHE AIMS TO BE HIS PERFECT MATCH... Celia Jordan has loved Lord Dorian Leydon for as long as she can remember -- and now that he's been jilted by a social climber, she's ready to set her sites on him in earnest. Since he's never paid the...

  • She's Having My Baby!

    Raye Morgan

    To: Sharon, Jen, Lauren, Julia From: Maggie Date: 2/02 RE: The boss's little secret... It's true -- I'm pregnant! I've kept it quiet because I wasn't sure how you'd react to my visiting a sperm bank. You know all the ...

  • Wild and Wicked

    Lisa Jackson

    Every eye in the great hall was on Lady Apryll. In a clinging white gown, she floated through the revelers-like a wanton angel, inflaming the interest of Lord Devlynn. Brazenly he took her in his arms and promised her ecstasy. Before the night was ov...

  • Uncovered Passion

    Courtni Wright

    Will a Friendship Rediscovered... Denise Dory has proven herself as a top-flight detective with a suburban Maryland police department. Now her unique skills have landed her a prestigious position on the Special Task Force investigating the death of ...

  • When the Halo Falls

    Kathleen Kane

    It was strictly against the rules for Patience Goodfellow to fall in love with Brady Shaw, saloon wonder, ex-gunfighter, and ladies' man. But Patience knew he had a heart of gold. She should. She had been his guardian angel since he was eleven years ...

  • The Soldier's Bride

    April Kihlstrom

    A Marriage of Convenience Lisbeth Barlow has never much cared for the notion of marriage--all duty and appearances and submitting to one's husband. But when Lord Thomas Kepley arrives one morning to ask for her hand, he has none of those conventio...

  • Hometown Girl

    Mary Jane Meier

    There's no place like home Lauren Van Horn, a big-city environmental lawyer, isn't as tough as people think she is, or as content with her life as she pretends. So when her sister, Becca, begs for Lauren's help in dealing with a personal crisis, L...

  • Are You for Real?

    Barbara Daly

    Charity Sumner is a scientist, not just another pretty face, and she intends to prove it! Disguising herself as a plain Jane, she ventures to win a position with the brilliant Dr. Jason Segal. But the only position Jason is interested in at the momen...

  • Cash

    Linda Devlin

    A Face From His Past To the folks in tiny Rock Creek, Texas, Daniel Cash was a ladies' man with a smile as quick as his draw. Yet the infamous gunslinger with the legendary charm harbored painful memories of the girl he'd left behind when ...

  • Dark of the Night

    Dee Davis

    When she was only eight years old, Riley O'Brien survived the unimaginable: the deaths of her mother and sister. As a result she vowed never to desert her father, a brilliant young congressman whose star was on the rise. Now, twenty-one years later, ...

  • Outcast

    Kathryn Hockett

    She Met Her Match Though she's never laid eyes on him, flame-haired Erica of Clan MacQuarrie is defiantly proud that her father was a Viking Jarl. Around her neck she wears the garnet pendant he gave to her mother, and vows someday to follow her V...

  • The Other Side of Paradise

    Elia Esparza

    Vision In White Daisy Magdalena O'Neal just got lucky--she found the perfect wedding dress in a thrift store! The antique gown is in pristine condition and it fits as if it had been made just for her. However, there's one small complication: Daisy...

  • Catch of the Day

    Marcia Evanick

    HOOKED ON LOVE Misty Harbor, Maine, is awash in eligible bachelors--and as the only single gal in town, newcomer Gwen Fletcher is surrounded by potential suitors. The trouble is, she's got a restaurant to renovate, and the carpenter she's hired se...

  • Simply Marvelous

    Shelby Lewis

    Note to Self: Track Down Murderer Florist Daisy Rogers was hoping that her very first flower show would gain her garden shop national exposure. But not the kind that comes from the murder of her guest speaker--celebrity horticulturist Kandi Kane. Da...

  • The McCallum Quintuplets: Delivered with a Kiss

    Mindy Neff

    After sharing a tantalizing kiss with his loyal nurse, can Dr. Zachary Beaumont remain immune to the fierce passion Annabelle Reardon's presence arouses?...

  • The Renegade's Heart

    Stobie Piel

    Melanie Ann Muessen rides through the sunburnt plains of New Mexico Territory to photograph its inhabitants in their natural surroundings. What she discovers is a village in crisis. Years before, Rafael de Aguirre became the Renegade and protected th...

  • Right Where He Belongs

    Rebecca Russell

    Revenge had brought Tanner Fairfax to the small town of New Haven, Ohio...and Cassie Leighton gave him ample reason to stay. The terms of his grandfather's will stated Tanner needed just 30 days in the old man's house before he could sell his unwante...

  • A Rake's Redemption

    Donna Simpson

    Can love reform a rogue? A GOOD DEED UNDONE? Phaedra Gillian, spinster daughter of a rural vicar, has found an unconscious gentleman by the roadside. Taught to be a good Samaritan, she takes into her home the greatest temptation of her life! Fo...

  • Bittersweet Passion

    Peggy Webb

    When minister Daniel Westmoreland met Skylar Tate, he knew he'd found paradise. She was a drop-dead-gorgeous singer with a voice that sent the angels swooning. But Skylar's father was also a preacher... and their rocky relationship had caused her to ...

  • The Hearse Case Scenario

    Tim Cockey

    Baltimore's sexiest undertaker, Hitchcock Sewell, is once again cruising for trouble. A childhood friend has been charged with the murder of a local nightclub owner, but Hitch, in his heart, knows she didn't do it. Problem is, the friend has gone ...

  • Tropical Heat

    John A. Miller

    "[Miller] draws the 1950s perfectly. . . [Tropical Heat] is a finely crafted, superbly written novel that deserves wide readership." -- Publishers Weekly, ** starred review ** When an army officer is found dead in the small Virginia town of Hopewell,...

  • Raymond Chandler in the Marble Orchard

    William F. Nolan

    The year is 1936, and Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Erle Stanley Gardner have taken to solving crimes as amateur detectives. As narrated by Chandler, their latest adventure begins in East Los Angeles, with the discovery of what is apparentl...

  • Venom

    Jeffrey Ames

    COME INTO MY PARLOR To those hunting him, he is the Fiddleback--an inhuman predator with a taste for human prey and an appetite for torture. SAID THE SPIDER TO THE FLY To his victims, he is a nightmare come to life at the moment of death. His mo...

  • Tomcat

    David E. Meadows

    When all hope is lost, keep fighting. The rebel coup in Algeria has crippled the U.S. military position and taken fifty Americans hostage. A botched rescue mission has trapped a team of American soldiers far behind enemy lines to face a group of d...

  • Prodigal Chalice

    James Axler

    DESTINY'S HOSTAGE The treacherous new frontier of future America is plagued by civil war among the nine mysterious barons who rule with absolute power. As this race of human hybrids struggles to keep the eons-old yoke of true humanity's slavery in...

  • Motion to Kill

    Joel Goldman

    MOVING TARGET Richard Sullivan was at the top of his profession, a rainmaker in a powerful Kansas City law firm--until his body washed up on the shores of a Missouri lake. Now the questions about his death, and his life, are reverberating through a f...

  • Fire Wind

    Don Pendleton

    DEATH CLAUSE A black ops project has gone rogue, sending Mack Bolan into the world of shadow players and classified games as traitors in high places prepare to sell out America to terrorism and mass murder. In a mission where everyone has somethin...

  • Sky Killers

    Don Pendleton

    HUNTER/KILLER Stony Man monitors threats to the free world--and delivers swift action when crisis strikes. Deep inside the compound's war room, an elite group of warriors engages in state-of-the-art cyber battle--while the hard force in the field ta...

  • Changer of Worlds

    David Weber

    WELCOME AGAIN TO THE MANY WORLDS OF HONOR Lady Dame Honor Harrington--starship captain, admiral, Steadholder, and Duchess--has spent decades defending the Star Kingdom of Manticore. But it's a big universe, and Honor's actions affect a lot of live...

  • Belarus

    Lee Hogan

    It's a planet ripe for a new vision-of a glorious past that once was, and could be again. Andrei Mironenko, a powerful magnate in the Star republic, believes the pristine planet of Belarus is uninhabited and unspoiled.

    He didn't dig deep eno...

  • The Heretic Kings

    Paul Kearney

    In times of chaos, when everything familiar is made strange and nothing remains secure, the future of all people is shaped by the actions of a few... The resisters of terror When the power-hungry and fanatical Pius won himself enough allegiance e...

  • The Golden Orb

    Douglas Niles
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Brackenrock Towering aloof and secure, the isolated fortress offers humankind a place to survive and flourish in the barren realm of Icereach. Even the elven Messenger Kerrick Fallabrine has made a home there, living among the humans and teaching ...

  • Pandora's Legions

    Christopher Anvil

    IS IT TOO LATE TO NEGOTIATE A SURRENDER? The Centran Empire was both benevolent and complacent. Benevolent, even as it overwhelmed every new inhabited planet it encountered with its military might -- but once the planet was pacified, its inhabitan...

  • Immortal Coil

    Jeffrey Lang

    He is perhaps the ultimate human achievement: a sentient artificial life-form -- self-aware, self-determining, possessing a mind and body far surpassing that of his makers, and imbued with the potential to evolve beyond the scope of his programming. ...

  • The Hidden Dragon

    Irene Radford

    IT WAS A TIME FOR LEGENDS TO BE BORN.... Operating on the wrong side of interstellar law one time too many, the three O'Hara brothers found themselves in a life-or-death flight from the forces of the Galactic Terran Empire. In a last desperate man...

  • The Death Artist

    Dennis Etchison

    A thrilling collection of twelve stories, filled with the author's trademark terror and suspense, plunges readers into a nightmare world of the cursed and the damned where nothing is what it seems. Reprint....

  • Dark Magic

    Stephen Gresham

    FROM OUT OF THE PAST IT BECKONED… Unspoiled by the hand of civilization, the raw, savage swamplands of east Alabama radiate life forces both natural and supernatural. On the edge of this murky landscape reside the Fossor sisters -- Tina, Gretta,...

  • Lion's Blood

    Steven Barnes

    In ancient times, Carthage destroyed Rome, Europe remained tribal, and the New World was colonized by Islam. Now in 1863, bordered by fierce Azteca to the south and the red men's nations of the west, Bilalistan is a vast, rich land of mosques, kraals...

  • The Skull of the World

    Kate Forsyth

    Remember the words of the Soul-Sage: The fastest route is not always the straightest. In the land of Eileanan, the Pact of Peace has not meant the end of unrest. Isault and Lachlan must continue to deal with their military position in Tirsoilleir-...

  • The Book of Fours

    Nancy Holder

    "We're Slayers, girlfriend. The Chosen." -- Faith From a place of nightmares -- which Buffy and Faith share -- a terrible evil invades Sunnydale, setting off disaster. Clearly, the big evil is linked to the Slayers' nightmares, which revolve arou...

  • His Healing Touch

    Loree Lough

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  • A Perfect Match

    Debra Kastner

    She was goin' to the chapel...and she was going to get married -- to the dashing new minister. At least, that was Julia Evans's plan. Convinced holy matrimony should be based on more than romance, Julia was caught off guard when old-fashioned firewor...

  • This Time Forever

    Carol Steward

    Just when Adam MacIntyre answered his true calling at last, putting down roots on his Colorado ranch, along came footloose Lisa Berthoff to turn things upside down. His siblings might have marched down the aisle with hers, but Adam wasn't about to fa...

  • The Maverick

    Carrie Alexander

    Sophie Ryan was a girl from the wrong side of town, pregnant, uneducated, and alone. Now she's a sheriff's deputy and has managed to put the past behind her. It's been a long time since the gossips of Treetop, Wyoming, have speculated on the ident...

  • Air Ticket

    Susan Barrie

    Could their new love compete with the old? After lonely years of raising her daughter, Caro was free to begin a new life. Her quest for change led her to Switzerland -- and to tentative bliss in marriage to the handsome Dr. Lucien Andreas. Her ...

  • Private Investigations

    Jean Barrett

    TALL, DARK AND...DETERMINED TO "INVESTIGATE" THE GIRL NEXT DOOR! With his slow, seductive smile, broad shoulders, and massive chest, Dallas McFarland was a threat to any woman's heart, especially plain-Jane P.I. Christy Hawke's! Except Christy's pro...

  • A Length of Silk

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman
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    Always the obedient daughter, Zhao Hanshi has defied her parents by accepting Christianity. Now she must leave her homeland or be forced into a godless marriage. Stowing away on a merchant ship carrying Chinese silk and other treasures, she quickly r...

  • The Doctor's Homecoming // Wyatt

    Kate Bridges

    Coming home was hard, but Emma Sinclair feared leaving again would be even harder. Returning had resurrected all the joy and pain of her girlhood when she'd loved -- and lost -- rancher Wyatt Barlow. Was their renewed acquaintance a second chance at ...

  • The Millionaire's Pregnant Bride

    Dixie Browning

    THE MARRYING MILLIONAIRE Businessman William Bradford hadn't thought wedding bells were tolling for him until he met secretary Diana Foster, who was vulnerable, alone -- and just a little bit pregnant...with another man's child. His protective insti...

  • Least Likely to Wed

    Judy Christenberry

    The kiss was desperate, passionate, leaving Kelly Hampton no alternative but to smack the sinfully sexy cowboy who'd taken liberty with her lips. Didn't matter that Pete Crawford was her best friend's brother. Didn't matter that he'd handpicked her t...

  • Joyride

    Colleen Collins

    SHE'S HAVING THE RIDE OF HER LIFE... Corinne McCourt is starting over...the right way! After discovering her fiance with another woman, she's determined to be more daring, spontaneous...sexy. And what better way to begin than by swiping her fiance's...

  • Out of the Blue

    Katherine Deauxville

    Maryellen isn't sure whether to call the Men in Black or the men in white coats -- all she knows is that she is having an incredibly alien experience. The voice that comes out of her mouth isn't hers (she certainly wouldn't swear like tha...

  • The Crimson Brocade

    Susan K. Downs
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    From the day Han Shiren first learns of her arranged marriage to Shin Dewan, she dreams of the time when her betrothed will return to China and take her for his bride. Yet she fears her father's desire to see her wed to a Christian man may come to na...

  • Once a Father

    Marie Ferrarella

    When a bomb ripped through the Lone Star Country Club, all of Mission Creek, Texas, was shaken. Who was responsible? Was it the Mercados, Mission Creek's answer to the mob? The Carsons or the Wainwrights, two of the club's founding families? Or an ev...

  • Sgt. Billy's Bride

    Bonnie Gardner

    Desperate times call for desperate measures! So when general's daughter Darcy Stanton abruptly balked at marrying a macho military man, she shamelessly fled her wedding and hit the road running. But fickle fate delivered Darcy into the arms of...

  • Dr. Desirable

    Kristi Gold

    Michelle Lewis had had her fill of smooth-talking healers. But Dr. Nick Kempner was hard to resist...especially when the sexy single father invited her to his scenic lakefront home for some much-needed R & R. Beneath the PR guru's all-work-no-play...

  • Undercover Honeymoon

    Leigh Greenwood

    DANGEROUS GAMES This assignment was the most difficult of nurse Maggie Oliver's career. In order to save a sick baby, she had to go undercover. And the hardest part was that her cover was a make-believe honeymoon -- with the man who'd once been her ...

  • Sun-Kissed Baby

    Patricia Hagan

    Tragedy had left Carlee Denton to raise her best friend's baby, and her search for the little boy's father had led straight to Nick Starke. But she couldn't risk telling the handsome, wealthy orange grove owner that her new baby was his, too, until s...

  • Carpetbagger's Wife

    Deborah Hale

    What did she really know of this stranger who'd rescued her home and thawed her ice-hard heart? Caddie Marsh was a proud Confederate, a widow for the Cause...or was she? For Manning Forbes bore a disturbing, dangerous, desirable resemblance to the hu...

  • The Tender Vine

    Kristen Heitzmann

    They hoped their return would offer the chance for a fragile love to grow... Carina DiGratia Shepard longs to leave behind the painful memories represented by the town of Crystal, Colorado, and start anew in the California vineyards of her youth. ...

  • Wicked

    Beth Henderson

    Working as an amateur photographer in San Francisco's sordid Barbary Coast, Lilly Renfrew stumbled upon the grisly stabbing of a prostitute. Fleeing the murder scene with the killer fast in pursuit, she crashed into a man as handsome as sin who vowed...

  • Hot on His Trail

    Karen Hughes

    Isabella Trueblood made history reuniting people torn apart by war and an epidemic. Now, generations later, Lily and Dylan Garrett carry on her work with their agency, Finders Keepers. Circumstances may have changed, but the goal remains the same. ...

  • Maternal Instinct

    Janice Kay Johnson

    More than anything, Officer Nell Granstrom wants to stop history from repeating itself. Born to a 16-year-old mother, Nell had her daughter, Kim, at the same age. Now Kim's 16 and has a serious boyfriend. But how much weight can Nell's words have?...

  • Tallchief: The Hunter

    Cait London

    DEAREST ENEMY... For two decades, Adam Tallchief's heart had insisted on no other woman but Jillian O'Malley. Now his first love had returned to Amen Flats, but not to kiss and make up. Jillian was on a revenge mission to destroy the Tallchiefs, a...

  • Hot as Ice

    Merline Lovelace

    They called him Project Iceman. The U-2 pilot who, incredibly, hadn't aged since the day his top-secret mission went south into the Arctic Ocean...45 years ago. Biologist Diana Remington had the duty of monitoring the scientific marvel, but her OMEGA...

  • His Lady Fair

    Margo Maguire

    How Could He Love This Daughter Of Treason...? Yet with his heart so full, his passion so afire, how could he not? Nicholas Hawken had never found a woman so attuned to his touch, his taste, his very being, as Lady Maria Burton. Though if her fat...

  • Our Yanks

    Margaret Mayhew

    Perfect for fans of Donna Douglas, Rosie Clarke and Katie Flynn, a heart-warming saga set during World War II from bestselling author Margaret Mayhew.READERS ARE LOVING OUR YANKS!"Omg this book was everything and more than i expected. My ideal book a...

  • Naughty by Nature

    Jule McBride

    SHE WAS IN THE WRONG BED... Reputed bad girl Vanessa Verne is ecstatic when Morgan Fine seduces her -- even if it is a case of mistaken identity. After all, she's been trying to get the sexy bodyguard in bed for weeks! She'd even sent herself steamy...

  • Marked for Marriage

    Jackie Merritt

    WILDCAT IN WHITEHORN After a rodeo accident, barrel-racing queen Maddie Kincaid was hotter than a fireball and wilder than tumbleweed. She sure didn't take to convalescing as well as she should have. Neither did she want handsome-but-uptight Dr. N...

  • In the Blink of an Eye

    Julie Miller

    FROM OUT OF DARKNESS The mysterious explosion at the crime lab had cost one man his life, and had pitched Mac Taylor into perpetual darkness. Now, as the evidence mounted against the temporarily dismissed forensic expert, one person had dedicated ...

  • Panther on the Prowl

    Nancy Morse

    Rennie Hollander ran from her loveless engagement -- straight into the heart of darkness. Under storm-filled skies, her plane went down and she awoke temporarily blinded -- and in the arms of a mysterious stranger.... From the moment John Panther ...

  • Across a Thousand Miles

    Nadia Nichols

    Rebecca Reed and Bill (Mac) MacKenzie have nothing in common...except their desire to run the Yukon Quest. She's an experienced musher who knows only too well how humbling the northern landscape can be. She understands that the Quest -- from White...

  • The Shadowing

    Joan Overfield

    Evil is the first word that comes to mind when Anne Garthwicke arrives at Castle MacCairn. Duty bound to help her father appraise the holdings, she has no choice but to stay. And her trepidation deepens after meeting the laird. Proud and powerful, he...

  • The Princess and the Mercenary

    Marilyn Pappano

    Tyler Ramsey's mission was to follow the trail of Montebello's missing crown prince to Montana, not to guard a pampered princess. But when Princess Anna Sebastiani insisted on joining the search for her brother, Tyler became her reluctant bodyguard. ...

  • Say You Need Me

    Kayla Perrin

    Double Trouble... "Mr. Right" was WRONG! Lovelorn librarian Serena Childs was destroyed when Cecil Montford -- the fine-looking charmer she thought was "The One" -- snuck out of her life with her savings and a priceless diamond necklace. And now h...

  • Bindings of the Heart

    Jennifer Peterson
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    Lisa Perdue may have some Chinese heritage in her blood, but she is an all-American girl. She is unprepared for the harsh realities of a mission trip to China. And in the midst of eye-opening lessons, she may have to make a choice between two men in ...

  • Rivers of Gold

    Tracie Peterson

    HER DESPERATE HOPE HAD BEGUN TO FADE... Separated from her travel companions and presumed dead, Miranda Colton finds herself under the care of Teddy Davenport, a studious botanist from England. Though grateful for his provision, Miranda longs to f...

  • Secret Sanctuary

    Amanda Stevens

    THE HAVEN WITHIN... With his darkly handsome looks and edgy attitude, Officer Cullen Ryan could spark a woman's deepest fantasies. He'd never looked at brainy, virginal Dr. Elizabeth Douglas that way. But when the former town outcast strode into the...

  • Cowboys and Cradles

    Sharon Swan

    Get along, little...babies? The Creedence Creek had once been a bustling cattle ranch...until Ms. Eve Terry bought the place out from under foreman Ryder Quinn and turned it into baby central. Who could blame Ryder for being so distressed at seein...

  • The Ranger and the Rescue

    Sue Swift

    Who was he...this sexy but injured amnesiac cowboy who'd sought out her cabin, then staked a claim on her soul? From Stetson to boots, he looked like an upstanding lawman. But was he an enemy from her imprisoning past? Or a sweet, loving rescuer unlo...

  • Secrets of the Outback

    Margaret Way

    Jewel Bishop grew up in the Outback, and she feels defined by it. Then she makes a devastating discovery -- she's not who she thought she was. There are secrets in her past, and they affect her present life. Keefe Connellan becomes part of Jew...

  • From the Heart

    Rochelle Alers
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    Architectural historian Aimee Fraser accepts a research project on St. Simons Island off the coast of Georgia, where her greatest discovery is a devastatingly handsome local. What was supposed to be a month of tedious work is suddenly something far m...

  • Indigo After Dark: Dance of Desire

    Cassandra Colt

  • Our Secret Affair

    Carmen Green
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    Toni Kingsley is looking forward to an all-expense paid week at a luxurious resort on the island of St. Croix until she learns her gorgeous business rival is part of the vacation package. Toni's convinced work and romance don't mix but a week of more...

  • True Valor

    Dee Henderson

    Air Force pararescueman Bruce "Striker" Stanton spends his life rescuing pilots downed behind enemy lines, and Grace Yates flies an F/A-18 Hornet for the Navy. On their dangerous jobs away from home, they exchanged love letters. Now a fight between S...

  • Wed to the Witness

    Karen Hughes

    "WE HAVE TO GET MARRIED -- OR YOU'LL DO HARD TIME!" When Jackson Colton became a suspect in his uncle's attempted murder, the handsome loner had to risk it all to prove he was being framed. But he wasn't alone for long. For he found sweet solace w...

  • An Officer and a Hero

    Marcia King-Gamble
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    A relaxing cruise with her best friend sounds perfect to hard-working Kitt DuMaurier. The last thing she wants is the attention of a sexy ship's officer. A painful past has left Kitt wary of men, but when she finds herself on the exotic island of Aru...

  • A Noble Pursuit

    Meg Lacey

    Undercover cop Shay O'Malley has the toughest assignment of his career. He, a Yankee, has to bring down one of the most prestigious families in New Orleans. Worse yet, he's unknowingly slept with Juliette Fortier -- Princess Juliette Fortier -- who m...

  • Everything and More

    Sinclair LeBeau

  • Tall, Dark and Cranky

    Kate Little

    Lovely physical therapist Rebecca Calloway might not actually be residing with a fire-breathing dragon, but at times it seemed that way. For corporate mogul Grant Berringer, who'd once possessed the golden touch in business -- and with women -- had s...

  • Lady Rogue

    Amanda McCabe

    When impoverished Alexander Kenton falls deeply in love with Georgina Beaumont, an independently wealthy artist, he learns some difficult lessons about marriage-and money... Although she is not one of the ton, independently wealthy Georgina Beaumo...

  • Wedding Captives

    Cassie Miles

    TIME WAS RUNNING OUT... Thea Sarazin thought she was attending her friend's wedding at a remote castle in the mountains, but when she arrived, destiny had other ideas. Her senses were on red alert when she discovered that one of the wedding guests w...

  • Daddy by Design?

    Cheryl Anne Porter

    Mechanic Trey Cooper has been in some tight spots before -- but he's never been stuck in an elevator with a woman about to give birth! Luckily they're rescued before he discovers if changing diapers is anything like changing tires. Still, beautiful C...

  • What If We Fall in Love?

    Teresa Southwick

    The man behind the badge... He had a secret -- and it was a doozy! Sheriff Grady O'Connor's twins -- the girls he loved more than anything -- were actually fathered by Jensen Stevens's late husband. And now their uncle wanted to claim them for their ...

  • The Valentine Two-Step // Star Valley Winter

    Raeanne Thayne

    Certainly he had been bewitched by women before, but for rancher -- and single father -- Matt Harte, this was the last straw! Because of his daughter's shenanigans, he'd gotten roped into planning the annual Valentine's Day dance. And his partner in ...

  • Her Perfect Wife

    Kate Thomas

    Busy Dr. Melinda Burke requires more than a housekeeper to get her hectic life in order. She needs a stay-at-home wife! But she never expects a stud like Jack Halloran to sign up to do her dirty work. The only hitch: Marry him! That's because Jack ne...

  • Small-Town Secrets

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    TROUBLE IN WARM SPRINGS The sleepy little town in the California desert was supposed to be a sanctuary for Detective Bree Fitzpatrick -- a place of refuge from the big-city crime that had left her a widow with three children to raise. But somet...

  • Queenmaker

    India Edghill

    The only woman in the Bible who is noted to have loved a man, Queen Michal was King David's childhood sweetheart, his first wife, and daughter of his great friend and greater enemy, King Saul. Married to and then abandoned by David at age 14, Michal ...

  • A Place Called Trinity

    Delia Parr

    Pennsylvania, 1833. Martha Cade comes from a long line of midwives who have served the families of Trinity for generations. She's a woman on her own, with two nearly-grown children whom she's raised alone since the death of her husband. Her one ho...

  • A Rose by the Door

    Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    Every summer visitors come to Bea Bartling's home in Ash Hollow, Nebraska, to see the historic yellow rosebush that had been a famous trail marker for wagons on their way west. And every night Bea prays she will find a special face among those at her...

  • The Happy Room

    Catherine Palmer

    Three adult siblings are reunited when one of them is hospitalized with a life-threatening illness. As Julia and Peter face the reality of their younger sister's condition, they are also forced to face unpleasant truths about growing up as missionary...

  • Shadows in the Moonlight

    Jeanne Sumerix

    Tears escape the young woman's eyes and with her dying breath she pleads,"Please don't let them take my baby." Forest ranger Penny Hart and FBI agent Mack Holsey, witnesses of a hit and run accident, are thrust into a whirlwind of mystery, crime and ...

  • Heart's Desire

    Felicia Mason
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    Lucia Heart Allen arrives in the Bahamas seeking peace after a messy divorce. She absolutely does not want to get involved, especially with a widowed father of three small children. But the man makes Lucia's heart sing and her body soar. Maybe it's i...

  • Safe Harbor

    Luanne Rice

    AFTER EVERY STORM THERE IS A PLACE TO RETURN TOE YOU HAVE THE COURAGE TO FOLLOW YOUR HEART.... Artist Dana Underhill has always been a free spirit, traveling the world, filling her canvases with the mysterious colors of the seas she and her sister...

  • The Nuremberg Angel

    Irene Brand
    in

    Love soars beyond castle turrets. Deep in the Black Forest of Germany a tradition begins and continues across many generations. The "dance of love" is timed to the beat of ancient customs, and hearts are drawn to its rhythms. As a Hessian soldi...

  • Dearest Enemy

    Pamela Griffin
    in

    Love soars beyond castle turrets. Deep in the Black Forest of Germany a tradition begins and continues across many generations. The "dance of love" is timed to the beat of ancient customs, and hearts are drawn to its rhythms. Brigetta is surrou...

  • Once a Stranger

    Gail Gaymer Martin
    in

    Love soars beyond castle turrets. Deep in the Black Forest of Germany a tradition begins and continues across many generations. The "dance of love" is timed to the beat of ancient customs, and hearts are drawn to its rhythms. Though Once a Stra...

  • When Angels Camp

    Dianne L. Christner
    in

    Love soars beyond castle turrets. Deep in the Black Forest of Germany a tradition begins and continues across many generations. The "dance of love" is timed to the beat of ancient customs, and hearts are drawn to its rhythms. Christian, a knigh...

  • Beacon of Truth

    Pamela Griffin

    On the rocky and isolated coast of Maine, private investigator Julie Rae Daniels goes undercover to solve one last case, becoming a nanny of two children whose lives are filled with secrets. The children's father, Jonathan Taylor, is thought to have ...

  • Carolina Pride

    Terry Fowler

    Liza Stephens couldn't be more delighted to be rescued by a truly nice guy--until she discovered his real identity. Suddenly, he's not exactly the enemy, but he's certainly not...well, she can't be sure what he is. How can she deal with a new boss wh...

  • One Man's Honor

    Lynn A. Coleman

    Isabella's parents are traditional, conservative Cubans. They would never dream of letting their daughter speak privately with a man; they would be furious to know he had held her hand and once nearly kissed her. Isabella doesn't want to dishonor ...

  • The Sheriff and the Outlaw

    Kim Comeaux / Kimberley Comeaux

    Nothing much ever happens in the peaceful East Texas town. But Billy Ray's simple, well-ordered life is forever complicated by his first arrest of a thief who turns out to be a young woman disguised as a boy. At her trial, Victoria "Tori" Nelson's...

  • A Smile on the Face of the Tiger

    Loren D. Estleman

    In Estleman's latest novel, Amos Walker is back on the streets of Detroit as he investigates the mysterious death of an ageing pulp fiction writer....

  • In Good Hands

    Bill James

    Fear Grips The drug underworld after two principals in the trade are murdered, and even A.C.C. Desmond Iles is under a cloud of suspicion. Now the chief players start closing in on a fortune, while Iles, Chief Constable Mark Lane, and Detective Chief...

  • Confidence Woman

    Judith Van Gieson

    When Claire Reynier becomes the victim of credit card fraud, she's stunned to discover that Evelyn Martin, an old college friend and sorority sister, is the culprit. She's even more shocked when Evelyn turns up dead. According to the police, Evelyn a...

  • The Sacrifice

    William X. Kienzle

    EXPLOSIVE OFFERINGS Precisely when the solemn ceremony receiving renegade Episcopal priest Father George Wheatley into the Roman Catholic priesthood is set to begin, a bomb explodes under the altar. Fortunately Father Wheatley arrives late, but po...

  • Site Unseen

    Dana Cameron

    DIG SHE MUST Brilliant, dedicated, and driven, archaeologist Emma Fielding finds things that have been lost for hundreds of years -- and she's very, very good at it. A soon-to-be-tenured professor, she has recently unearthed evidence of a seventee...

  • Maid for Murder

    Barbara Colley

    In New Orleans' historic Garden District, life is all about attending the right parties, impressing the right people, and making the right amount of money (a lot!) It's an attitude fifty-nine-year-old Charlotte La Rue has never really understood. She...

  • Death Rites

    Bruce Elliot

    A woman's nightmare Night after night, Michelle Ransom is trapped in a terrifying dreamworld where the faceless bodies of murdered women haunt her, drawing her ever closer to the edge of madness. Is it all in her mind...or all too real? A cop's r...

  • Parts Unknown

    Lynne Heitman

    Black market airplane parts put countless lives at risk in this terrifying thriller: “The best white-knuckle ride I’ve taken in a long time” (Lee Child).   Alex Shanahan has accepted a new job with a Detroit start-up airline when the death...

  • For Whom Death Tolls

    Kate Kingsbury

    MEET ELIZABETH HARTLEIGH COMPTON. SHE'S THE HOUSE-RICH, MONEY-POOR KEEPER OF THE MANOR--AND KEEPER OF THE PEACE... In WWII England, the quiet village of Sitting Marsh is faced with food rations and fear for loved ones. But Elizabeth Hartleigh Comp...

  • Gruel and Unusual Punishment

    Tamar Myers

    At Magdalena Yoder's PennDutch Inn, the meals are drop-dead delicious. When imprisoned con man Clarence Webber meets his Maker after sampling a bowl of gruel laced with arsenic, it's cruel and unusual punishment indeed. And since Magdalena provide...

  • Southampton Row

    Anne Perry

    In Victorian England, a divisive election is fast approaching. Passions are so inflamed that Thomas Pitt; shrewd mainstay of the London police, has been ordered, not to solve a crime, but to prevent a national disaster. The aristocratic Tory candidat...

  • Conflict of Interest

    Nancy Taylor Rosenberg

    Joanne Kuhlman is a razor-sharp Assistant District Attorney, the kind of prosecutor who shows no mercy to the guilty and gets her conviction. That changes when she finds herself in the unfamiliar position of feeling sympathy for a defendant--a young ...

  • The Devil's Trail

    Robert J. Conley

    He lit out of Texas with ten dollars and a swayback horse, a wanted man at age 13. Kid Parmlee's crime--he shot the man who shot his dog, Farty. Now, in the town of Fosterville, the Kid has found a hideaway--until his legend finds him. The West's scr...

  • Dead and Buried

    J.R. Roberts

    GOLD MINER'S DAUGHTER No matter how hard Clint Adams tries to stay away from trouble, it always seems to find him. This time trouble is a group of ornery bushwhackers who've mistaken him for a hired gun. Even after teaching them the error of their wa...

  • Disturbing The Peace

    Nancy Newman

    Sarah is smart, sexy, talented, and funny ... and less than satisfied with her life. She has a career that she absolutely adores and true romance on the horizon. But there's something missing -- something that has her restlessly scanning the faces in...

  • The Ivory Coast

    Charles Fleming

    It is 1955 in Las Vegas. Sammy and Satchmo are headlining the big hotels - where the casino operators and the color bar say a black man can't buy a drink or a meal or a room. Until now. The Chicago mob man Mo Weiner is bankrolling ex-boxer Worthless ...

  • Coffins

    Rodman Philbrick

    Physician Davis Bentwood, making a lengthy housecall at the Coffin family mansion on the coast of Maine, finds the newborn grandson of Captain Cash Coffin, stiff and cold as a block of ice, in a cradle not ten feet from a roaring fire. Young Davis ca...

  • Warning Signs

    Stephen White

    SOMETIMES THE WARNING SIGNS COME TOO LATE... The brutal slaying of Boulder's controversial D.A. strikes deep in the heart of everything clinical psychologist Alan Gregory holds dear: After all, Alan's wife, Lauren, worked for the dead man. When...

  • Built to Last

    Cynthia Scott

    Though it will break ties with the only place she has ever been happy, Marilyn Waters, an executive recruiter, decides to sell her great aunt's Victorian home to gain start-up capital for her own agency. Unfortunately, the house requires restoration,...

  • Silent Lady

    Catherine Cookson

    The woman who presented herself at the offices of the respectable firm of London solicitors was, the receptionist decided, clearly a vagrant who had been sleeping on the streets. The clothes that hung on her frail body were filthy, and she seemed una...

  • Emma's Folly

    Carolyn Brown

    Arriving in Guthrie, Oklahoma, from Atlanta at the same time that the local sheriff is asking about a tall blond from Georgia, Emma quickly finds herself married to Jed Thomas, a farmer who answered her pleas for help. Emma Maureen Cummins is flee...

  • A Trade Wind Season

    Kathleen Mix

    The idea of spending the winter working in a tropical paradise is too tantalizing for Melissa Catterly to resist. On an impulse, she accepts a job as a gourmet chef aboard a sixty-five foot sailing yacht bound for the Caribbean.

    When the boat set...

  • The Cottage

    Danielle Steel

    A gleaming Rolls-Royce pulls through the gates of the magnificent Bel Air estate known as The Cottage. The man behind the wheel is Hollywood's ageless wonder, Cooper Winslow. A star of the silver screen for decades, a man whose allure to women is leg...