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New Books List: 516 titles

  • Hammer of the Earth

    Susan Krinard

    The Stone God is building in power.... Defeating an empire takes many weapons, and Rhenna and her band -- including shape-shifting panther Cian -- must brave unpredictable dangers, crossing vast deserts, trackless jungles and impenetrable swamps t...

  • Indecent Exposure

    Carmen Green

  • Moon Called

    Patricia Briggs

    Werewolves can be dangerous if you get in their way, but they'll leave you alone if you are careful. They are very good at hiding their natures from the human population, but I'm not human. I know them when I ' meet them, and they know me, too. Me...

  • The Apple Orchard

    Katherine Stone
    in

    Grandmothers know best...especially these three grandmothers, all soldiers' brides. Their generation lived through war and peace, good times and bad, love and loss. Clara MacKenzie's granddaughter Elizabeth arrives at Clara's Oregon farm needing c...

  • Liberty Hall

    Lois Faye Dyer
    in

    Grandmothers know best...especially these three grandmothers, all soldiers' brides. Their generation lived through war and peace, good times and bad, love and loss. When Professor Chloe Abbott finds herself caught up in a troublesome mystery, she ...

  • 5-B Poppy Lane

    Debbie Macomber
    in

    Grandmothers know best...especially these three grandmothers, all soldiers' brides. Their generation lived through war and peace, good times and bad, love and loss. All her life, Ruth Shelton has loved visiting her grandmother in Cedar Cove, Washi...

  • Slocum and the Two Gold Bullets

    Jake Logan

    Fool’s gold gets a deadly new twist…Overnight, Victory has turned into a booming gold-rush town, all centered around the worthless stock certificates being sold by Andy Stevenson -- a conman’s gullible assistant. Not realizing it’s a gigantic...

  • Ballantyne's Destiny

    Kimberley White

    She was the high school plain-Jane, then she put her dreams on hold to help her ailing parents. Now Maddie Ingram is Hannaford Valley's "spinster librarian," and she's fed up with being ordinary. But the minute she starts stirring things up in her sm...

  • Lady X's Cowboy

    Zoe Archer

    East End Meets Wild West To Lady Olivia Xavier, the cowboy who came to her rescue out of the foggy London dusk could have stepped straight from one of her favorite dime novels. But when she was thrown into his arms, his solid chest and strong embr...

  • Savage Arrow

    Cassie Edwards

    TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA For sweet Jessie Filson the wild and woolly Western town seemed the end of the line. First orphaned and then widowed, she had no one to turn to except a distant cousin who had made a fortune in silver there. But when outlaws att...

  • Outbound Flight

    Timothy Zahn

    It began as the ultimate voyage of discovery, only to become a dark chapter in Jedi history. Now acclaimed author Timothy Zahn returns to tell the whole extraordinary story of the remarkable--and doomed--Outbound Flight Project. The Clone Wars hav...

  • Rise to Victory

    R. Cameron Cooke

    Returning from deployment in the Middle East, attack sub USS Providence has received emergency tasking orders only miles from homeport. The mission: head for Indonesia and evacuate a U.S. citizen endangered by a violent rebellion. In the waters of...

  • It's Never Too Late to Be a Bridesmaid

    Heather Estay

    Look, I've been in scads of weddings, my own (leading to a dismal marriage and an even more dismal divorce) and approximately twenty-seven others. Which means that I've propped up hysterical brides, sobered up inebriated grooms, changed dirty diapers...

  • Life's Little Mysteries

    Parry Brown
    in

    Leticia, Jamilla, and Clarissa Holmes each know that they're one in a set of triplets--but that's about all they know. Now they're adults, thirty-three-year old women who are as different as can be. But they have one thing in common: they have never ...

  • More Than This

    Donna Hill
    in

    Leticia, Jamilla, and Clarissa Holmes each know that they're one in a set of triplets--but that's about all they know. Now they're adults, thirty-three-year old women who are as different as can be. But they have one thing in common: they have never ...

  • The Journey

    Gwynne Forster
    in

    Leticia, Jamilla, and Clarissa Holmes each know that they're one in a set of triplets--but that's about all they know. Now they're adults, thirty-three-year old women who are as different as can be. But they have one thing in common: they have never ...

  • Payback

    Roy Glenn

    When his wife is kidnapped by South American drug dealers, notorious club mogul Mike Black, along with an old friend, races against time to find his wife, while dealing with a corporate takeover, murder, and a faceless enemy who is determined to dest...

  • Harlem Confidential

    Cole Riley

    Roy 'Cootie' Hodges, an old school pimp and thug, has served 10 years from a 15-year sentence for the murder of a drug dealer. Famed throughout the hood, remembered by the old and new alike, he's back on the streets, reclaiming his old moniker 'The B...

  • Every Reasonable Doubt

    Pamela Samuels Young

    Determined to become the first African-American partner at one of L.A.'s most prestigious law firms, employment attorney Vernetta Henderson is thrilled when she's tapped to defend a prominent socialite accused of murder -- until she learns that Neddy...

  • Queen Esther & the Second Graders of Doom

    Allie Pleiter

    Teaching Sunday school at her brother's church in the Bay area was supposed to help former champion athlete Esther "Essie" Walker understand boys -- the better to raise her newborn son as a stellar example of manhood. Fat chance! Enter the eight-year...

  • What Men Want

    Deborah Blumenthal

    Q: How does a thirty-five-year-old newspaper reporter with a vanilla-sounding name like Jenny George know so much about men? A: She doesn't. When her live-in boyfriend made a relationship trade-in (for the lingerie model starring in the ad camp...

  • Secret of the Hall

    Veronica Heley

    Grieving after a miscarriage, Araminta 'Minty' Sands has set aside the demands of running Eden Hall for a season of healing. But her convalescence in Europe is cut short when a crisis back home requires her husband Patrick's immediate attention. Mint...

  • The Witness

    Dee Henderson

    "I KNOW THE FAMILY SECRET." Amanda Griffin is on the run. Eight years ago she disappeared after witnessing a terrible crime. Now her family thinks she's dead, but she's back in town ... desperate to find a way to protect the ones she loves. "PAY ...

  • Slightly Engaged

    Wendy Markham

    There are a lot of things worse than being slightly engaged...being entirely broke, completely alone and wholly perplexed. It's been a year and a half since Tracey and Jack moved in together, and everything's totally perfect -- well, okay, almost ...

  • Sorceress of Faith

    Robin D. Owens

    WITH THE SOUNDING OF THE CHIMES, AN EXOTIQUE IS CALLED... With the world of Lladrana threatened by encroaching evil, the Sorcerers must do the unthinkable -- Summon an outsider to stop the insidious Darkness slowly taking control of their land, and ...

  • I Know I've Been Changed

    ReShonda Tate Billingsley

    Denial isn't just a river. . . Raedella Rollins left the dusty town of Sweet Poke, Arkansas, on a Texas-bound bus with four mismatched suitcases, a newsroom job offer, and a promise to herself: never look back. Now, less than a decade later, she'...

  • The Goddess Queen

    Tracy Falbe

    The Rys Chronicles continue as Shan’s rebellion grows. Queen Onja, hoping to kill Shan before he can lead his armies against her stronghold, sends her Kezanada agents to hunt him with enchanted weapons. Onja also begins to teach another rys in the ...

  • Union of Renegades

    Tracy Falbe

    The Rys Chronicles begin with this character-rich adventure that follows the travels of Dreibrand Veta, an ambitious warrior who seeks to rebuild his noble family’s fortune. He is the first to join the powerful rys spellcaster Shan, whose race poss...

  • The Damned

    L.A. Banks

    THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN IS THROUGH THE GATES OF HELL... Damali Richards knows all about a blood rush. The kind that happened when she first went skin-to-skin with former vampire Carlos Rivera. Or the kind that happened on the streets of Philadelphi...

  • The Lion Tamer

    Luisa Buehler

    When fifty-year-old skeletal remains of a man and a lion are discovered in an old circus wagon pulled from a marsh, Grace Marsden's curiosity is immediately piqued. But her excitement is interrupted by a chilling voice from the grave -- a threatening...

  • Fog

    Leo Malet

    Private Detective Nestor Burma receives a message from an old friend that warns about a den of plotters and nefarious plans against unnamed enemies, so Burma, intrigued, arranges a rendezvous only to discover his friend brutally murdered and many que...

  • The Watcher in the Pine

    Rebecca Pawel

    A police lieutenant in Fascist Spain finds his new assignment a threat to his family in this novel in the Edgar Awardâ€"winning series.   Spain, 1940: Potes, a remote northern mountain village, is Carlos Tejada’s first independent Guardia Civi...

  • How to Sleep with a Movie Star

    Kristin Harmel

    HOW TO SLEEP WITH A MOVIE STAR Don't forget your integrity. If you have it, locate it quickly because Cole Brannon is sexy and disarmingly genuine, like no other celebrity you've interviewed-and you've interviewed just about all of them. ...

  • Bad Boys Ahoy! // Scandalous Liaisons

    Sylvia Day

    Oh, those naughty rakes. With their wicked winks, sensual smiles, and bad boy habits, you just can't take them out in polite society. But who wants to go out when you can stay in...? Stolen Pleasures Sebastian Blake, Earl of Merrick, long ago fl...

  • I Love You to Death

    Amy Garvey

    Blind dates--the scourge of every single woman's life, even if she's secretly hoping that maybe this time Mr. Right will show up. In Amy Garvey's sexy new collection of tales, the right guys do arrive--but they come with some unexpected complications...

  • Fangs But No Fangs

    Kathy Love

    There's Nothing Uglier Than A Vampire Singing "Feelings" If I hadn't seen it for myself, I'd swear it couldn't be true: my brother, Christian, living in a trailer park in some backwater town, working at a karaoke bar. We're talking about Christian,...

  • In the Company of My Sistahs

    Angie Daniels

    From acclaimed author Angie Daniels comes an exciting new novel that asks: Exactly how much trouble can four sexy, sassy, and stubborn women get into when they spend a week in Jamaica together? The answer: Plenty... For years, Lisa Miller has been l...

  • Criss Cross

    Evie Rhodes

    Homicide detective Micah Jordan-Wells has seen the worst humanity has to offer on the mean streets of Newark, New Jersey. He's earned himself high-profile celebrity status by catching more murderers than he cares to remember. None were as bad as the ...

  • Little Black Girl Lost 2: The Forbbiden

    Keith Lee Johnson

    In this sequel to Little Black Girl Lost, Johnnie Wise, haunted by the murder of her mother's killer and the subsequent riots, is unable to stop thinking about ruthless crime boss Napolean Bentley even though she loves Lucas Matthews, the cur...

  • The Cotton Queen

    Pamela Morsi

    THE ROAD AWAY FROM HOME ALWAYS SEEMS TO LEAD BACK TO OUR MOTHERS. I am not, nor will I ever be, the kind of woman who wears pearls with her apron while cooking meat loaf for her husband. But when I was a kid, my mother, Babs, prepared me to be the n...

  • Cupid, Inc.

    Michele Bardsley

    Your wish is their command.... It's not easy to fall in love...especially in Sin City. Nobody knows this better than Greek deities Psyche and Eros, who keep a watchful eye on the mortals in Las Vegas. With a little divine intervention from Aphrodite...

  • Copper Sunrise

    Carol Cox

    Catherine is moving from the ranch she's always called home to Phoenix. Hoping to help Arizona achieve statehood any way she can, she starts her job at a land investment company. With a quick promotion, Catherine soon forgets to keep the Lord as her ...

  • Always a Bridesmaid

    Andrea Boeshaar

    Melody Cartwright can't believe what she's hearing: Her little sister is getting married - first. When Bonnie's mysterious fiance turns out to be Melody's ex-boyfriend from college and he claims he doesn't remember her, Mel has nowhere to turn. Luke ...

  • Stormcatcher

    Colleen Rhoads

    Uncovering a modern-day crime scene was not how marine archaeologist Wynne Baxter expected to use her diving skills. Yet when handsome family friend Simon Lassiter fell under suspicion in the death of his cousin and former fiancee, Wynne vowed to hel...

  • The Runaway Bridesmaid

    Kaitlyn Rice

    It's Not Who You're Running From... She'd caught the wedding bouquet, but now it was time to cut loose and see the world. Once Isabel Blume showed her boyfriend that she was more than an unpaid sitter for his kids, he'd beg her to return and marry h...

  • The Pleasure Trip

    Joanne Rock

    She may be on a cruise liner, but lately, Rita Frazer's life looks more like a shabby dinghy. Working as a seamstress on a ship called the Venus, Rita hasn't been feeling very goddesslike. More like a Swamp-Thing with red hair and a mouthful of pins....

  • The Sheriff

    Nan Ryan

    Kate Quinn arrives in Fortune, California, with little but a deed to a run-down Victorian mansion and a claim to an abandoned gold mine. But a beautiful woman on her own in a town of lonely, lusty miners also brings trouble. Sheriff Travis McLoud...

  • Renegade Wife

    Charlene Sands

    She would have it her way...or no way! One wild wedding... Molly McGuire struck a bargain with rancher Kane Jackson to help find her missing brother. They would be married in every way -- but one! Yet how could she keep her distance from a man ...

  • Memory in Death Shelf-talker

    Julian Jay Savarin

  • Jewel of Atlantis

    Gena Showalter

    All Atlantis seeks the Jewel of Dunamis, which legend claims can overcome any enemy. Grayson James, human agent of the ultra-secret Otherworld Bureau of Investigation has orders to keep it from the wrong hands -- or destroy it. What he doesn't know i...

  • Countess Confidential

    Barbara Dawson Smith

    Dear Reader, This is the story of how I, a penniless upstart, became a countess. I never set out to be the heroine in a romantic tale of derring-do. As a spinster of five-and-twenty, I was much too practical to imagine myself tracking a dangero...

  • The Devil's Waltz

    Anne Stuart

    When you dance with the devil, you hold hands with temptation... Christian Montcalm was a practical man, if a destitute scoundrel, but his plan to bed and wed the delectable Miss Hetty Chipple would take care of that sticky wicket. However, there ...

  • Handful of Flowers

    Cathy Marie Hake

    After arriving in Reliable, California, Dr. Eric Walcott is stunned by the primitive conditions of the medical practices. Luckily for all of them, he's here to help... if he can just get that Chance woman to put away her plants and blossoms long enou...

  • Thunder Bay

    Beth Loughner

    Evacuated from the Congo, missionary Becky Merrill returns to the only home she's ever known: Bay Island. Her heart longs for Africa; but plans for a new camp are made, and she's chosen as director. Larry Newkirk has his hands full with the reality o...

  • The Ruse

    Tamela Hancock Murray

    Katherine Jones has always believed in being loyal to her friends - but that was before she learned that lifelong friend Miranda Henderson has written to Katherine's pen pal, Otis Rath, and misrepresented Katherine's abilities. Now Otis is coming to ...

  • The Altherian Code

    Mike Johnson

    What is the link between al-Qaeda and neo-Nazis? The Altherian Code...A stimulating tale of love, mystery, suspense, and bio-terrorism.Das Rat des Neuen Reiches, a neo-Nazi organization based in Berlin, has joined forces with al-Qaeda operatives to s...

  • Caught Up

    Deatri King-Bey

    A tangled web—Ernesto Bolívar slept with the devil from time to time to obtain his position at the top of the business world. Now he must cover his tracks before his past catches up with him and he loses his most valuable possession...

  • Enchanted Desire

    Wanda Thomas

  • With This Ring

    Sean D. Young

    Full-figured floral designer Rose Hart feels destined to always be a bridesmaid, never a bride. Her ex-boyfriend broke her heart and bruised her self-confidence, and now Rose finds it hard to believe that any man could really be attracted to her...es...

  • Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, Volume I

    Joyce Carol Oates

  • It Happened One Night

    Isabel Sharpe
    in

    Screenwriters Lindsay Kenyon and Gavin Harvey lived, loved and lost in the Hollywood fast lane. But when they get the chance to collaborate again, will the credits roll on a love story...or an epic disaster?...

  • An Affair to Remember

    Emilie Rose
    in

    Jenna Graham is helping actor Conrad Carr reconnect with his art and his life, while she mixes drinks and waits for her big break. She just hopes it's her career, not her heart!...

  • Refuge

    James Axler

    UNANSWERABLE POWER The war to free post-apocalyptic Earth from the grasp of its oppressors slips into uncharted territory as the fully restored race of the former ruling barons are reborn to fearsome power. Facing a virulent phase of a dangerous con...

  • Seven-Year Seduction

    Heidi Betts

    CONNOR RIORDAN WAS THE LAST PERSON SHE WANTED TO WALK DOWN THE AISLE WITH... Even if it was only at her brother's wedding. It was too painful a reminder of Beth Curtis's girlhood fantasies, featuring none other than Connor himself. That crush had ...

  • The High-Society Wife

    Helen Bianchin

    The perfect union of wealth and beauty... Gianna and Franco Giancarlo had gone into their convenient society marriage with their eyes wide open. They acted the happy couple to create an alliance between their powerful, wealthy families -- and dispel...

  • High-Stakes Bride

    Fiona Brand

    Special Forces agent Carter Rawlings was back -- and Dani Marlow's world was spinning in his wake. The local arson attacks for which she was being blamed were only part of the problem. The feelings Carter's reappearance had ignited threatened far mor...

  • Ever After

    Barbara Bretton
    in

    Who is the mystery woman on the arm of megastar Jack Wyatt? The tabloids are wild and so is Jack, desperate to find his Cinderella blind date -- a single mother of two turned star of her own romantic adventure....

  • In The Groove

    Pamela Britton

    She wouldn't know a NASCAR star if he hit her with his car...and he just did. Sarah was a kindergarten teacher until a sleazy ex-boyfriend got her fired. Now the only job she can find is driving the motor coach for racing star Lance Cooper. She do...

  • Honeymoon Hunt

    Judy Christenberry

    MAY THE BEST MAN WIN... For Julia Chance and Nick Rampling, chasing after her mother and his father was more than a search for eloping lovers; it was an exercise in frustration. Of all partners, how did a jet-setting millionaire get stuck with a p...

  • Wild Fire

    Debra Cowan

    Battling a fire at a friend's house turns into a nightmare when firefighter Shelby Fox becomes the only witness to a murder. Unfortunately, a bad fall at the killer's hands leaves Shelby with traumatic amnesia and plunges her life into danger. As...

  • Tempt Me

    Caroline Cross

    Ex-Army Ranger John Taggert Steele couldn't believe the pretty little mess he was in. The case should have been easy: Track down runaway murder witness Genevieve Bowen and return her to police custody. But somehow he ended up shackled to the sassy br...

  • The Medusa Game

    Cindy Dees

    A CULTURE WAS WAS BREWING -- AT THE WINTER GAMES She'd pushed beyond her family's traditions because Isabella Torres, intel analyst and soldier, had been driven to succeed -- especially as part of the first all-female Special Ops unit, the Medusas. ...

  • Reunion of Revenge

    Kathie DeNosky

    ONCE RUN OFF THE RANCH, HE NOW OWNS IT Thirteen years ago, Nick Daniels had been minutes away from marrying Cheyenne Holbrook when the wedding came to a startling halt. Forced out of town by Cheyenne's powerful, menacing father, Nick vowed to retu...

  • Nine-Month Surprise

    Jacqueline Diamond

    This Teacher Is Learning Her Lessons! A is for Adventure When schoolteacher Leah Morris tries to conquer the big city, she's thinking of her career. Except instead of a job, what she lands is one unforgettable encounter with a mystery man.... ...

  • Husbands and Other Strangers

    Marie Ferrarella

    Dear Diary: The first face I saw after hitting my head on my brother's boat was that of a gorgeous stranger...a stranger that everyone said was my husband. Taylor Conway is the type of man that no one forgets, so I thought it was my brothers&#...

  • His Wedding-Night Wager

    Katherine Garbera

    PAYING THE PRICE After ten years Shelby Paxton had returned to Vegas. But unlike the last time -- when she was paid one million dollars to jilt casino owner Hayden MacKenzie at the altar -- she was now being blackmailed into giving him closure. Sh...

  • The Loveliest Dead

    Ray Garton

    To most people it's just a large house, old and a bit run-down. To the Kellar family it's a new start, a chance to wipe out the painful past and begin again. But soon it will become a living nightmare. The terrors begin before the Kellars have even f...

  • Radical Cure

    Olivia Gates

    Had betrayal come from within? Working in war zones while treating the sick and wounded, Dr. Calista St. James was used to being under siege. But now, her team had been deliberately infected with a dangerous virus -- and all signs pointed to it be...

  • The Bride Ship

    Deborah Hale

    A ship full of women could only cause trouble! Of that Governor Sir Robert Kerr was certain, just by considering their chaperon! Though a widow, Mrs. Jocelyn Finch was young, vivacious and utterly determined to have her own way -- especially with ...

  • The Danger Within

    Valerie Hansen

    TO: AL_CRANE@CSSENTINEL.ORG FROM: COLLEEN_MONTGOMERY@CSSENTINEL.ORG Boss, My reporter's nose smells a story brewing at the Double V Ranch. Word is that rancher Michael Vance has already lost several cows to a mystery ailment. This isn't the firs...

  • A Dash of Romance

    Elizabeth Harbison

    A PERFECT RECIPE FOR ROMANCE Ingredients: 1 self-made billionaire 1 spirited waitress 2 opposite lifestyles 1 romantic location 1 close working environment, with tabloid scandals and sparks of awareness Mix the first two items together, an...

  • Targeted

    Lori L. Harris

    Months after his wife had been brutally murdered, FBI profiler Alec Blade was on the desperate hunt to bring her murderer to justice. But after setting up residence in a sleepy Florida town, Alec made a startling discovery: The killer had a new targe...

  • A Little Bit Engaged

    Teresa Hill

    Kate Cassidy has a secret...the whole town knows. She's engaged -- with no wedding date in sight. Maybe that's why she doesn't mind sexy pastor Ben Taylor flirting with her when she comes to offer her services as a Big Sister to troubled teens. Be...

  • Bulletproof Princess

    Vicki Hinze

    The It Girls They're rich, fabulous...and dangerously underestimated. It Girl: Chloe St. John Mission: Bust an organized crime syndicate that's kidnapping women and selling them into the sex trade. And nab Manhattan's most wanted and elusive c...

  • Taking Care of Business

    Brenda Jackson

    A SCANDALOUS UNION From the moment she met Tag Elliott, Renee Williams thought of nothing but how his lips would feel on hers. That and darkened bedrooms and whispered promises. But as a member of Manhattan's wealthiest family, Tag was way out of ...

  • Dead Wrong

    Janice Kay Johnson

    A chilling blast from the past... Six years ago prosecutor Will Patton's girlfriend stormed out on him. That night she was brutally raped and murdered. The violent act knocked Will's world out from under him, alienating him from his family, who Wi...

  • Deadly Kisses

    Brenda Joyce

    "I DID NOT KILL ANYONE, FRANCESCA. AND THE FACT THAT YOU WICH TO DESTROY EVIDENCE SUGGESTS YOU THINK ME CAPABLE OF MURDER." NEW YORK, 1902 Called to the home of her fiance Calder Hart's former mistress late one night, amateur sleuth Francesca ...

  • Lullabies and Lies

    Mallory Kane

    DEAR MS. LOVELESS, Do you want your daughter back...alive? We're watching you...and that distractingly handsome detective Griffin Stone. His sharp eyes cut right through your lies; and talking to the police can get you into trouble...the fatal kind....

  • Stoneview Estate

    Leona Karr

    A BURIED SECRET The isolated country manor where Robyn Valcourt spent her childhood was cold, imposing and shadowed by a decade-old murder. But her domineering grandmother had planned the estate's one hundredth anniversary celebration, so despite he...

  • Berserk

    Tim Lebbon

    "They kept monsters." That's what Tom overhears in the bar that night. And he hears more things that can finally lead him to the truth about his son's death ten years before. The army had said it was a training accident. But why had the coffin they s...

  • The Crimson Code

    Rachel Lee

    December 25: A bomb rips through a packed cathedral in Jakarta. As the hours pass, terrorist explosions continue around the globe, triggering worldwide panic and creating a nightmare beyond words.... Inside the covert agency known only as Office 1...

  • Lone Star Marine

    Cathie Linz

    A MINOR INCONVENIENCE Injured in battle, Captain Tom Kozlowski craved only peace and quiet. But with sexy spitfire Callie Murphy living next door, Tom's days were anything but peaceful. The kindergarten teacher couldn't accept the fact that he wasn'...

  • Delicious

    Susan Mallery

    Menu Appetizer Cal Buchanan needs a top-flight chef to take over his failing Seattle restaurant, The Waterfront. He can afford to hire the best in town -- the only problem is that the best happens to be his ex-wife, Penny Jackson. Entree Penn...

  • Rogue Soldier

    Dana Marton

    FIRE AND ICE WERE ALWAYS A DEADLY COMBINATION Savvy and headstrong, former special agent Tessa Nielsen could handle whatever the Alaskan wilderness threw at her: extreme cold, polar bears, even her arms-dealer captors. But what she couldn't handle w...

  • The Virgin's Seduction

    Anne Mather

    She's innocent -- he wants her! Eve Robertson lives a quiet life in a secluded village, and she wants to put her turbulent past behind her. However, her newfound stability is threatened with the arrival of Jake Romero.... Jake is tall, da...

  • Surrogate and Wife

    Emily McKay

    He was her baby's father. He was her husband. Both statements were true. And false. Jake Morgan's seed had created the baby Kate Bennet was carrying. But she was only the surrogate...until she had the unexpected chance to keep her child. And J...

  • Deep Blue

    Suzanne McMinn

    Vengeance, by any means possible. That was PAX agent Cade Brock's mission. To find the man who had killed his parents and caused the mutations that made Cade so valuable to the PAX League. And then, to find the female treasure-hunter-turned-terrorist...

  • Talk Nerdy to Me

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    Fashion model Eve Dupree is fed up with being labeled "the pretty one" while her sister's called a genius. Eve's got loads of brilliant ideas, not the least of which is the invention she's building in her garage. But when she turns to the nerd next d...

  • Breaking All The Rules

    Susan Vaughan

    How would he ever survive? Undercover in the Caribbean, maverick federal agent Simon Byrne reluctantly found himself partnered with the one woman he couldn't bear to be near. He had to keep his distance, remain professional -- even if that meant igno...

  • Something Wicked

    Evelyn Vaughn

    WHEN YOU CURSE YOUR ENEMY, YOU CURSE YOURSELF, TOO Nonpracticing witch Kate Trillo learned this when she walked in on her sister's murder and fought off the gloating killer. Staring into his cold eyes, she spoke the words that would make his life ...

  • The Road To Reunion

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    Never take no for an answer. That had always been Molly Walker's motto. So when Kyle Reeves refused to come to the Walker Ranch for a celebration, Molly set out to bring Kyle back one way or another.... Bruised and battered, the last thing Kyle ne...

  • Search and Seizure

    Julie Miller

    Captured! By a bundle of baby. But Dwight Powers couldn't turn his back on the baby abandoned in his office -- or the boy's beautiful guardian, Maddie McCallister. Maddie was desperate to find Tyler's missing mother and Dwight was her designated h...

  • Hers To Command

    Margaret Moore

    SHE'D ENTRUSTED HER LANDS TO HIS SKILL, BUT HER HEART WAS ANOTHER MATTER... Sir Henry was a knight-errant, capable of impressive prowess on the battlefield...and in bed. Finding two sisters -- one stunningly beautiful, the other steadfast and dete...

  • Breakwater

    Carla Neggers

    An idyllic cottage. An unlikely suicide. A conspiracy out to blow the lid off the Department of Justice. Three months ago Quinn Harlowe left the high-pressure hallways of the Justice Department to become an independent consultant and have more con...

  • Serpent's Lair

    Don Pendleton

    SUICIDE MISSION Mack Bolan is dispatched to shut down a high-tech arms deal brokered by the Yakuza. But a simple assignment takes an ugly twist when Bolan's cover is blown. Outgunned, outnumbered and on the run with a gutsy kid in tow, Bolan'...

  • Sky Hammer

    Don Pendleton

    Dedicated to fighting terror wherever it's found, the warriors of Stony Man do not consider failure to be an option. But the men and women of this top secret unit remain ever vigilant in the knowledge that some day a threat so enormous may arise that...

  • Millennium 3001

    John Ringo

    Featuring contributions from John Helfers, Robert A. Metzger, Kevin J. Anderson, and Sarah A. Hoyt, this stellar collection of thirteen brand new stories presents a speculative glimpse into the future, detailing their visions of Earth and humankind i...

  • Hunting the Hunter

    Gordon Korman

    Aiden and Meg Falconer find and confront the man who could free their parents in this thrilling conclusion to the first ON THE RUN series.Aiden and Meg Falconer have been all across country, looking for the man who framed their parents and sent them ...

  • The Highlander's Stolen Bride

    Melanie George

    Lady Rosalyn Carmichael is on the run from her evil stepbrother, who will do anything to gain her inheritance. When Derek Hardwicke rescues her from an attempted kidnapping in London, she gratefully accepts the protection of his remote Scottish castl...

  • Blue Valor

    Illona Haus

    A crime that defies imagination.... The killer doesn't leave a body. Only a heart -- a human heart -- savagely ripped from an unknown victim and left on the snowy grounds of an elite private high school. Is it a calling card for the Baltimore pol...

  • Trial by Chaos

    J. Steven York

    As they occupy the planet of Vega with hopes of restoring peace, the Raging Bears discover a traitor in their midst when an underground rebellion, supported by the Draconis Combine, counters their every move with betrayal and deception. Original....

  • Murder Can Run Your Stockings

    Selma Eichler

    Misstep or Murder? Flying home from a friend's wedding in Minneapolis, Desiree is seated alongside an attorney traveling to New York for a funeral. It seems his beloved aunt Bessie died from a fall down the basement steps. Before long, however, th...

  • In the Thrill of the Night

    Candice Hern

    Meet the Merry Widows, a secret society of respectable ladies... With some scandalous ideas... Assured of both money and position, none of the five friends who form the Merry Widows need ever marry again. But they have no intention of forsaking p...

  • A Tangled Web

    Amanda McCabe

    ". . . the Regency house party motif is one of my favourites and from that point-of-view, Amanda McCabe's "A Tangled Web" does not disappoint." ~Tragatt, ReviewerTwelve years ago, young Diana's heart was broken when her father ended her illicit roman...

  • The Second Chance

    Jaclyn Reding

    As a young widow with three children, Flora MacCallum thought happiness was behind her--until a friend asked her to run a bed and breakfast on the Massachusetts shore. Suddenly, it was a summer of many firsts--a new business, new friends, a new home ...

  • San Francisco Showdown

    Jon Sharpe

    Fargo protects a woman marked for death…When he saves a pair of brother-and-sister wagoneers from a gang of bushwhacking killers, Skye Fargo ends up taking on more than he bargained for. The siblings are headed for the human cesspit called San Fran...

  • Golden

    Cameron Dokey

    "Once upon a Time" Is Timeless Before Rapunzel's birth, her mother made a dangerous deal with the sorceress Melisande: If she could not love newborn Rapunzel just as she appeared, she would surrender the child to Melisande. When Rapunzel was born c...

  • Mates, Dates, and Diamond Destiny

    Cathy Hopkins

    "That William Lewis really thinks a lot of himself," I said. "He's such a smartarse." "Hhmm,"said Lucy, grinning. "That's what he said about you too." "He did? What a cheek! God, he annoys me. I really hate him." Lucy, TJ, and Izzie excha...

  • Getting to Third Date

    Kelly McClymer

    Gould a forgotten cutie be Katelyn's newest catch? Katelyn Spears is a firm believer in the two-date rule. First dates are so awkward; every guy deserves a second chance. But a third? Not unless he's got serious Romeo potential. Enter Tyler. Ty...

  • Maximum Security

    Robert Muchamore

    CHERUB agents are all seventeen and under. They wear skate tees and hemp, and look like regular kids. But they're not. They are trained professionals who are sent out on missions to spy on terrorists and international drug dealers. CHERUB agents hack...

  • The Knights Templar & the Key of Solomon

    Steph Swainston

    The Knights Templars and The Key of Solomon the King are two separate texts, containing secrets of speculative matters, which have fueled many modern conspiracies with tendrils reaching from the Vatican to the Founding Fathers. THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS<...

  • Time to Run

    Marliss Melton

    ONE CHANCE Sara Garret thought the military lawyer she married would be the perfect husband and father. But he has become her worst nightmare. Now one vicious act has driven Sara to take their young son and flee. And she discovers that the only thin...

  • .45-Caliber Manhunt

    Peter Brandvold

    Hiding out on the Colorado Frontier, Cuno Massey must elude Ruben Pachecha, the most feared bounty hunter, with the help of a fiesty outlaw named Marlene, who might be his salvation or his downfall. Original....

  • Guys & Dogs

    Elaine Fox

    A GUY VS. A DOG One of them is affectionate, loving, and eternally loyal -- a companion for life who lives only to make you happy... Small-town veterinarian Megan Rose doesn't usually wake up next to strangers. But this morning she finds one sl...

  • Driven to Murder

    Judith Skillings

    Speed Kills There aren't many women in professional auto racing -- but that didn't stop Rebecca Moore from joining driver Ian Browning's pit crew. A former reporter and classic car restorer, Rebecca's love of fast cars and mastery of all things au...

  • Ghost of the Wall

    Jeff Mariotte
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    In the realm of Aquilonia, in the time when Conan was King, a young barbarian fights to restore the honor of his tribe -- and to claim his revenge... In the borderlands of Koronaka, there is a tenuous peace between the settlers and the uncivilized P...

  • Derailers

    Tobias Cole

    The railroad opened the West to dreamers, fortune-seekers, and anyone looking to start over. It also offered a tempting target for ruthless thieves with no respect for human life. It would take a special breed of protector to keep the train running s...

  • Blood Brothers

    Richie Tankersley Cusick

    Lucy knows there must be something, somewhere, that can tell her why she was chosen to see the terrible visions; why she feels the shadowy presence all around her.  But what?  Could the explanation lie with the mysterious stranger claiming ...

  • Longarm and the Ungrateful Gun

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm’s got to spend lead -- to save face.Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long is sent to Arkansas to escort a hired gun back to Colorado for trial. But Longarm only gets Famous Frank Hungerford as far as the nearest train station before he’s played...

  • Flesh and Stone

    Vickie Taylor

    Acclaimed author Vickie Taylor introduced an extraordinary ancient race of immortals in her dazzling novel Carved in Stone. Now, she presents a bold new adventure about the Gargoyles--a race of shape-changing immortals who have watched over humanity ...

  • CI: Dark Target

    David DeBatto; Pete Nelson

    A former Army military counterintelligence agent, David DeBatto has seen the war on terror from the inside. Now he follows his debut novel, CI: Team Red, with an explosive tale of a frightening new technology and the search for the most dangerous wea...

  • Lord of Temptation

    Paula Quinn

    EVERY WOMAN'S DESIRE Norman lord Dante Risande never met a woman he couldn't seduce...until a lovely slave named Gianelle refuses his bed and piques his interest. So when she's accused of murder, he can't sit idly by. As the king's right hand, it's ...

  • The Grand Prize

    J.R. Roberts

    When his trusty Colt is stolen by some two-timing gamblers, Clint Adams follows its trail to the town of Mescall, where, in order to reclaim his gun, he must participate in and win an illegal boxing match. Original....

  • Geodesica: Descent

    Sean Williams; Shane Dix

    Three people--a human rebel searching for ancient secrets, a former Exarch of Bedlam, and a pilot seeking revenge--are united in their cause to destroy the Archon, the artificial intelligence responsible for destroying the system of Bedlam, and gain ...

  • Louisiana Lass

    Dirk Fletcher

    Fast on the trail of two con artists, posing as a wealthy married couple, Spur McCoy ends up in New Orleans where the trail goes cold, or so he thinks until a brutal attack leaves him wounded and in the arms of Bourbon Street doxy who just might be h...

  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes

    Loren D. Estleman

    Sherlock Holmes has already encountered the evil young hedonist Edward Hyde, and knew he was strangely connected with Henry Jekyll, the respectable young doctor. It was not until the Queen herself requested it, however, that Holmes was officially on ...

  • Last Sons

    Alan Grant

    Meta-humans, aliens, magical entities, or mortals driven by iron wills. Super heroes, renegades, or villains-out for justice, vengeance, or cash. Whether legendary, infamous, or little known, these extraordinary beings are the true champions of the.....

  • The Three Evangelists

    Fred Vargas

    The opera singer Sophia Siméonidis wakes up one morning to discover that a tree has appeared overnight in the garden of her Paris house. Intrigued and unnerved, she turns to her neighbours: Vandoosler, an ex-cop, and three impecunious historians, Ma...

  • Unquiet Grave

    P.J. Parrish

    Not Every Soul Rest in Peace In a remote corner of the Michigan woods, behind rusted iron gates and crumbling stone walls, lie one of the country's most notorious sanitariums and its forgotten cemetery. The sprawling ruin is empty now, and the bulld...

  • Idaho Blood Spoor

    Jon Sharpe

    Fargo rides hard for a rich man’s reward!Skye Fargo isn’t much for dancing on the strings of rich men, but when the payoff is a king’s ransom, his head can turn pretty quick. Benjamin Zared is one of the richest men in the country, and his son ...

  • Obliteration

    Robert Asprin; Eric Del Carlo

    Resurrected in the lush body of courtesan Vadya, Raven, ordered to spy on General Weisel by the ruler of Felk, returns to the battlefield, using her beauty to extract information, while Weisel finally frees his mind and body from the control of Darda...

  • Passion's Fool

    Francine Craft

    Reporter Raven McCloud's latest investigation has landed her in the middle of a crime-ridden area of D.C. Fortunately, police officer Adam Steele offers her a ride home. To thank him, Raven invites Adam to join her and her young daughter for dinner, ...

  • Unexpected Circumstance

    Crystal Downs

    THE BIGGEST GAMBLE OF ALL When her ex-boyfriend betrays her, Tracy Middleton loses her job as producer at a cable news station. Months later, still out of work and almost out of cash, she receives a job offer with a surprising salary. CEO Elaine N...

  • Designed for You

    Marcia King-Gamble

    Social worker Jana Davis is thrilled when she learns her time moonlighting as an events planner is finally paying off. She's landed a huge deal to throw a party that will earn her some much-needed extra cash -- and allow her to talk to San Diego's ma...

  • Final Intuition

    Claire Daniels

    Cally's Thanksgiving holiday becomes a hell of a day when her ailing Aunt Daphne keels over after the turkey dinner. But her illness isn't the cause. According to Daphne's devoted teenaged caretaker, someone has been trying to poison Daphne--someone ...

  • Dead Men Don't Lye

    Tim Myers

    Benjamin Perkins thought he had his hands full taking care of his family's specialty soap store and keeping his quirky clan in line and out of trouble. But he's about to learn that when it comes to murder, there's no such thing as a clean getaway... ...

  • Beloved Stranger

    Patricia Potter

    With Beloved Impostor, a novel "wrought with emotion, tender in its telling, and heart-wrenching in its beauty" (The Best Reviews), bestselling author Patricia Potter launched a trilogy of three Scottish brothers bound by a dark destiny. Now, she ret...

  • Goodbye Heartache

    Doris Johnson

    A Mystery Man... College professor Ava Millington nearly gasps the first time she sees Cole Dumont. Big, darkly handsome, and solid as a rock, he's gorgeous, and if she believes what people say, he's always been a magnet for trouble. . . Plus ...

  • A Touch of Death

    Charles Williams

    A DEVASTATING DAMSEL AND A SIMPLE PLAN... When Lee Scarborough came upon the brunette sunbathing topless in her back yard, getting involved in a heist was the last thing on his mind. But somehow that's where he found himself--sneaking through a stra...

  • The Sunshine Coast News

    Kate Austin

    Since when did life ever tell you where you were going? Josie Harris always drew comfort from the thought that she lived a charmed life. Unexciting, perhaps, but stable and predictable. In a rut? Josie counted that as luck -- at least one knew wha...

  • Off The Map

    Dorien Kelly

    She needed to find her bliss Habitual accommodator Tessa Wright is a mess. And no amount of diplomacy will get back what she wants: Her swishy banking job. Her AWOL husband. The comfortable -- albeit lackluster -- life she once slipped into like a...

  • Who Makes Up These Rules, Anyway?

    Stevi Mittman

    Let me tell you a story about a girl on Long Island, who always tried to play life by "the rules" -- as outlined in the Secret Handbook of Long Island Rules... That girl, uh, woman, is me, Teddi Gallo. I'm the mother of three kids under the age of...

  • Ex's And Oh's

    Sandra Steffen

    Caroline's Ex-boyfriend: That slimeball attorney who was two-timing her with his own ex-wife. Caroline's OH-boy: This forty-three-year-old career woman is pregnant! Life certainly hasn't gone according to Caroline Moore's carefully constructed ...

  • Jude's Law

    Lori Foster

    When it comes to love, he plays to win There's only so much frustration a guy can handle before he gets a little nutty. For Jude Jamison, his frustration has a name--May Price. She's everything the former Hollywood bad boy actor came to Stillbrook, ...

  • Goddess of Eire

    Janeen O'Kerry

    The goddess Eriu waited. The new Ard-Ri, high king of all Ireland, had been chosen, elected by his people to enter the Mound of Kings and to induce her to accept him as a wife would a husband. He would be difficult to resist if she were judging on st...

  • Shadow Touch

    Marjorie M. Liu

    Elena Baxter can work miracles with her hands. She can coax bones to knit, flesh to heal. She can mend the mind. She has been doing such work for almost all of her twenty-eight years. That is why she will be taken. The media called it a rampage of...

  • On the Loose

    Andrew Coburn

    By the time he was twelve years old, young Bobby Sawhill had killed two people, brutally and with no remorse. He was tried as a juvenile and sentenced to a youth detention center, where he refused counseling. All he seems to care about is bodybuildin...

  • Survivor

    J.F. Gonzalez

    It is supposed to be a romantic weekend getaway. Lisa is looking forward to spending time alone with her husband--and telling him that they are going to have a baby. Instead, it becomes a nightmare when her husband is arrested and Lisa is kidnapped. ...

  • Stronger Than Yesterday

    Nicole Knight

    When Gerard discovers that he has a son from a previous marriage, a child he never knew existed, his wife Faith is plagued by jealousy and insecurity when he decides to be part of his son's life, and he must prove to her that their love is strong eno...

  • Miracles

    Bobbi Smith

    A deadly sniper is terrorizing citizens. A good man has only months to live. A drunk teenage driver careens through the city streets. Where is God's and in this troubled world? For the devout members of Lydia Chandler's prayer group, faith pr...

  • Deathbringer

    Bryan Smith

    Hannah Starke was the first to die. And the first to come back. In the small town of Dandridge they all come back. The buried claw their way out of their graves. The recently killed get up and kill. As the dead attack the living, the numbers of the d...

  • A Moment on the Lips

    Phyllis Bourne Williams

    YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS Grant Price wants old classmate Melody Mason to work for his family's Boston investment company. Melody, the Wall Street Wizard, has suddenly retired from big business and hidden herself away in a quiet Tennessee town. It is G...

  • Broken Trust

    William P Wood Jr.

    Superior Court Judge Timothy Nash thinks the brutal murder trial in his court will be like many he's presided over before. He doesn't know it might lead to his own murder. Nash has been tapped as point man in a federal sting operation against the mos...

  • Smiling Wolf

    Philip Carlo

    Anne Fitzgerald is young, beautiful and intelligent--but she may also be dead. She disappeared after interviewing a mysterious man named Santos Dracol, and it's up to detective Frank De Nardo to find her. But the more De Nardo investigates, the deepe...

  • Grimm Reapings

    R. Patrick Gates

    You Can't Go Home Again Northwood, Massachusetts. It's been thirteen years since siblings Jennifer and Jackie Nailer nearly lost their very souls to the enchantments of Eleanor Grimm. The Victorian mansion where Eleanor once conjured her wicked sche...

  • Hellriders

    Mark Henry

    Thirty years ago, they came together on a war-torn frontier. Now, they'll stand together once more--to honor one of their own... It's a thousand miles from snowbound Montana to the Arizona Territory. But for Trap O'Shannon and Clay Madison, it's a ...

  • Once A Rebel

    Sheri Whitefeather

    "What's the point of loving a woman when she might just cut and run?" -- Ethan Eldridge, veterinarian -- It's not easy living down a wild-child reputation. But Susan Fortune has never done anything the easy way. Who would have guessed she'd turn...

  • I Am So Jinxed!

    Naomi Nash

    Vick Marotti has stopped pretending to cast hexes on her classmates for a relationship with super-adorable Gio Carson. Yet there's one thing she never expected to stand between her and her guy: popularity. Her high school might be the same, but a cha...

  • The Spy's Reward

    Nita Abrams

    As news of Napoleon's escape from Elba reaches England, a legendary spymaster discovers his own heart has become a battlefield... THE RISKS When Nathan Meyer agrees to escort a young woman home from France, he discovers too late that his family ...

  • Desire After Dark

    Amanda Ashley

    Sexy vampires, dangerous devotion, unparalleled romance--no one does desire after dark like bestselling author Amanda Ashley. Now, in her enthralling new novel, she explores a passion as smoldering as it is risky... Vicki Cavendish knows she should...

  • The Bachelor Preferred Pastry

    Shirley Jump

    She's Betting Everything On One Hot Dish Olivia Regan is determined to make her new pastry business a success. So what that all of her marketing plans have backfired and no one, including her own family, thinks that she can succeed. What she needs i...

  • Glory Days

    Irene Peterson

    He Knows His Women... New Jersey PI John Preshin takes on all kinds of jobs. Discreet inquiries. Private investigations. Helping women find lost...articles of clothing from his office. Yup, no job too big or too small. Now if only he could figure ou...

  • A Husband To Belong To

    Susan Fox

    SHE FOUND FAMILY... Adopted at birth, Marla is overwhelmed to discover she has a long-lost sister, but a tragic event means she has to keep her true identity a secret. One man stands in the way of her newfound happiness, sexy rancher Jake Craddock. ...

  • Father By Choice

    Rebecca Winters

    NEEDED: A FAMILY TO CARE FOR... Lush flower-filled meadows dwarfed by towering snowcapped mountains -- the majestic beauty of Yellowstone is the perfect place for Gilly Bryson King. She needs some peace and serenity after a tough few years.... ...

  • The Prodigal Texan

    Lynnette Kent

    Making amends No one expected Jud Ritter to return to Homestead, Texas, least of all mayor Miranda Wright -- the woman he made a fool of right before he left town for good. Miranda has enough on her hands trying to stop the crimes directed at recipi...

  • A Man She Can Trust

    Roxanne Rustand

    Pregnancy is the last thing on her mind After all, isn't that one of the reasons Grant walked out on her last fall? He couldn't wait for her practice to settle down to have kids. Not to mention, her husband couldn't seem to commit to one woman. It...

  • The Cattleman

    Margaret Way

    A mysterious portrait, an unexpected commission, a disappearance in the Outback. She might not know it, but these three things bring Jessica Tennant to Mokhani Station and the notice of cattleman Cyrus Bannerman. What Cy wants to know is if there&...

  • The Runaway Daughter

    Anna DeStefano

    She took the baby and ran... Eighteen-year-old Maggie didn't know what else to do. She'd promised her dying friend she'd keep the baby safe from his father, a drug dealer...and killer. Who else could she turn to but her uncle, Deputy Tony Rivers?...

  • Her Sister's Keeper

    Julia Penney

    It was on her wedding day that Melanie Harris discovered the ultimate betrayal: her sister Ariel was pregnant by Melanie's fiance. Six months later, Melanie turns to psychologist Dr. Kent Mattson for help in resuming her life. Kent, a man plagued ...

  • Misfit Father // For His Daughter

    Ann Evans

    After many years away, Rafe D'Angelo has returned to Lightning River, Colorado, to give Frannie -- the five-year-old daughter he hadn't known he had -- a home after being rejected by her mother. When Rafe discovers that Dani Bridgeton, a woman fro...

  • Amazing Love

    Mae Nunn

    Texas beauty Claire Savage learned a hard lesson the day her father left to pursue his selfish dreams. Trust no one. Now in possession of an MBA, and the owner of her own business, she felt in control. A woman like her had no use for church newcomer ...

  • The Manolo Matrix

    Julie Kenner

    Aspiring actress Jennifer Crane knows all about games -- the games girls play to get a guy; the games actresses play to land a part; and the good old game of credit-card roulette. (How else is a girl supposed to afford her shoes?) But she never expec...

  • Girls Who Gossip

    Theresa Alan

    Yes, the rumors are true... ...I'm actually coming home to Colorado for the summer. Maybe it won't be so bad. After all, I've got cocktails, shopping, and gab sessions with my girlfriends to look forward to. Plus time with my dysfunctional family. Y...

  • The Wages of Sin

    Jenna Maclaine

    She is a warrior of extraordinary power -- the ultimate creature of the night. Her story is one that spans the ages, from historical England to modern-day America and beyond. Welcome to eternity... welcome to the night. Dulcinea Craven descends ...

  • Death on the Lizard

    Robin Paige

    Lizard Village, 1903. It's the dawn of a new century, and telegraph companies around the world are scrambling to be the first to send a wireless signal across the Atlantic. But Italian prodigy Guglielmo Marconi beats them to the punch. Naturally, his...

  • Freeze Me, Tender

    Michael A. Black

    Ten years ago the hillbilly king of rock-and-roll, Colton Purcell, was cryogenically frozen after his premature death. Or was he? Chicago-based magazine reporter Harry Bauer intends to find out as he becomes involved in a convoluted murder plot stret...

  • Fit to Die

    Karen Hanson Stuyck

    Lauren Prescott is fifty, fat (according to her husband) and flat broke after he leaves her. To land a magazine job, Lauren writes a profile of a fitness guru who died while jogging - a death that looks increasingly suspicious the more she probes. He...

  • Sweetie's Diamonds

    Raymond Benson

    Diane Boston lives with her Marfan syndrome-afflicted 13-year-old son in a suburb of Chicago and teaches social studies at the high school, with the students even voting her Teacher of the Year. But she has some dark secrets. Her ex-husband Greg alwa...

  • Returning to Taos

    Lois Gilbert

    When Elena Waters discovers her estranged son, Johnny, has been murdered in Taos, she returns to New Mexico after a ten-year absence, determined to find his killer in spite of opposition from her family and friends. Before he was murdered, Johnny's c...

  • An Ominous Death

    Annette Mahon

    A DANGEROUS PATTERN Determined to cheer up an ailing fellow quilter, Maggie Browne and the members of the St. Rose Quilting Bee arrive at the Palo Verde Care Center, fabric, needles and thread in tow. Candy Breckner is recovering well from two broke...

  • Immune Response

    Steve Perry

    A New York Times Bestselling Author

    In the deep woods of the Pacific Northwest, things aren't quite what they seem . . . Physician's Assistant Rick Scales has a quiet practice at the end of the road, near the Makah Indian Reservation, in Neah Bay,...

  • Outlaw's Brat

    Lee Scofield

    Mattie Adams didn't have the usual upbringing that most girls had on the American frontier. With her step-father running with the Dorsey gang, she was raised by her mother, and spent most of her time trapped in a hideout in the Rocky Mountains. Matti...

  • Case of Imagination

    Jane Tesh

    FINAL ELIMINATION Beauty pageants can be murder -- nobody knows that better than Madeline "Mac" Maclin, a former homegrown North Carolina beauty queen turned struggling private investigator. So when somebody starts sabotaging a local pageant, Mac kn...

  • Escape Clause

    James O. Born

    Florida Department of Law Enforcement agent Bill Tasker has been under stress lately, and his boss has a perfect getaway for him-Manatee Correctional Prison, where the governor wants an inmate homicide investigated. But there's a whole lot more than ...

  • The Last Cato

    Matilde Asensi

    A masterful blend of Christian scholarship and thrilling adventure, The Last Cato is a novel about the race to find the secret location of the Vera Cruz, the True Cross on which Christ was crucified, and the ancient brotherhood sworn to protect it. ...

  • Slipping into Darkness

    Peter Blauner

    A detective investigating a brutal murder discovers an impossible link to a case he closed 20 years before. It has been two decades since Detective Francis X. Loughlin solved his first big case, the brutal murder of a woman doctor. The young man c...

  • A Necessary Evil

    Alex Kava

    Someone is killing Catholic priests across America -- ritualized murders that speak of vengeance and hatred. As the killing spree continues unabated, it quickly becomes very clear to Maggie O'Dell -- the FBI profiler assigned to the case -- that m...

  • The Last Templar

    Raymond Khoury

    IN 1291, A YOUNG TEMPLAR KNIGHT FLEES THE FALLEN HOLY LAND, setting out to sea with a mysterious chest entrusted to him by the Order's dying grand master. The ship vanishes without a trace. In present-day Manhattan, four masked horsemen dressed a...

  • The Sultan's Seal

    Jenny White

    Rich in sensuous detail, this first novel brilliantly captures the political and social upheavals of the waning Ottoman Empire. The naked body of a young Englishwoman washes up in Istanbul wearing a pendant inscribed with the seal of the deposed sult...

  • Johnny Frank

    Roberta Kray

    Determined to avenge himself against the person responsible for his imprisonment, high-stakes thief Johnny Frank finds his plans going awry when his target's son is taken hostage by kidnappers who demand a ransom of rare pink diamonds, a cache that J...