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  • And She Was

    Cindy Dyson

    Sweeping across centuries and into the Aleutian Islands of Alaska's Bering Sea, And She Was begins with a decision and a broken taboo when three starving Aleut mothers decide to take their fate into their own hands. Two hundred and fifty years later,...

  • Eat, Pray, Love

    Elizabeth Gilbert

    This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, caree...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 18 Seconds

    George Shuman

    In his gripping debut, George D. Shuman crafts a pulse-pounding, tension-filled thriller about two brave women--one with uncanny psychic abilities--who unite to, catch a murderous madman .. . before he finds them first. Thirty years after a deadly...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Shock Point

    April Henry

    Cassie discovers that her stepfather, Rick, a teen psychiatrist, has been illegally prescribing a new behavioral drug to his patients?and three teens have died. Before she can report him, Rick commits Cassie to Peaceful Cove, a boot camp for troubled...

  • The Templar Legacy

    Steve Berry

    Onetime U.S. operative Cotton Malone teams up with his former supervisor, Stephanie Nelle, to find the legendary cache of wealth and forbidden knowledge thought to have been lost forever when the Knights Templar were exterminated in the fourteenth ce...

  • Crystal Rain

    Tobias S. Buckell

    Fisherman John deBrun is only half a man. Twenty-seven years ago, he washed up onto the tropical shores of Nanagada with no memory of his past. Although he has made a new life for himself, his soul remains haunted by questions of his own identity. ...

  • Evolution

    Heather Jarman

    ENTANGLED STRANDS OF PAST AND PRESENT ENDANGER THE FUTURE A wake of destruction and loss threatens the U.S.S. Voyager as Chakotay assumes command. Grief over Janeway's impending death coupled with anxiety brought on by the disappearance of Paris, K...

  • 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...

  • Triple Zero

    Karen Traviss

    Following the eruption of the bloody Clone Wars at the battle of Geonosis, both sides remain deadlocked in a stalemate that can be broken only by elite warrior teams like Omega Squad, clone commandos with terrifying combat skills and a lethal arsenal...

  • Amazing Spider-Man, Volume 10: New Avengers

    J. Michael Straczynski

    Trump Tower has nothing on Spider-Man! Spinning out of the pages of New Avengers, you won't believe what the fickle hand of fate has in store for Peter Parker, Mary Jane, and Aunt May! Collects Amazing Spider-Man #519-524....

  • Avengers: Above and Beyond

    Alan Davis

    The Avengers learn what too much of a bad thing can be when they face a city of robots and a village of Hulks! And in other international news, Blood Wraith has a big problem with Ultron's extermination of Slorenia! Meanwhile, Silverclaw shines and T...

  • The Cause of Death

    Roger MacBride Allen

    They are the elite agents of interstellar investigation. Their mission: solve off-Earth crimes and protect humanity's starside interests. They are the men and women of the Bureau of Special Investigations -- BSI -- and their cases are literally out o...

  • The Dance of Time

    Eric Flint; David Drake

    THE BATTLE IS FOUGHT IN THE SIXTH CENTURY. THE VICTORY WILL BE FOR ALL TIME! The Malwa and their inhuman evil have been driven back to their Indian heartland, but there they coil to strike again. Ruled 'by a monster from the future that is part comp...

  • Essential Moon Knight - Volume 1

    Doug Moench

    Debuting as both enemy and ally of the Werewolf by Night, Moon Knight's three personalities equaled one eerie adventure after another by Moench, Miller and more! Earning enemies like the brutal Bushman and the macabre Morpheus early in his career, Mo...

  • Essential Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man - Volume 2

    Bill Mantlo

    "Spectacular" isn't just the title as Spider-Man's college years are augmented by authorial and illustrative excellence! Enemies old and new, recurring and rare, line up to teach the web-slinger plenty -- but will he become his own worst enemy as the...

  • 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 ...

  • House Of M: Uncanny X-Men

    Chris Claremont

    Collects Uncanny X-Men #462-465. The return of Captain Britain! Brian Braddock is released from his duties as protector of the Omniverse to deal with a threat of even greater proportions… as if that was even possible! Meanwhile, Pyslocke and Rache...

  • 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,...

  • Marvel Monsters

    Peter David

    Marvel's monsters unleashed in four timeless tales by today's hottest creators! In Monsters on the Prowl, it's the Hulk, the Thing, Giant-Man and the Beast vs. a tidal wave of classic creatures when the Collector inadvertently lets loose Droom, Grogg...

  • Marvel Romance

    Stan Lee

    My Love. Teen-Age Romance. Love Romance. Picking up a theme? The romance genre spanned nearly half a century, and now Marvel's picked some of its best from the sixities and seventies! "It Happened at Woodstock," "My Heart Broke in Hollywood," "Love o...

  • 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...

  • The Plot to Save Socrates

    Paul Levinson

    Paul Levinsons astonishing new SF novel is a surprise and a delight: In the year 2042, Sierra, a young graduate student in Classics, is shown a recently discovered new dialog of Socrates, in which a time traveler tries to argue that Socrates might es...

  • Powers, Volume 9: Psychotic

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Heroes glide through the sky on lightning bolts and fire. Flamboyant villains attempt daring daylight robberies. God-like alien creatures clash in epic battles over the nighttime sky. On the dirty streets below, homicide detectives Christian Walker a...

  • Red Lightning

    John Varley

    The son of one of the first men to fly to Mars and back, Ray Garcia-Strickland is now a disgruntled Martian, tired of the Red Planet's overdevelopment and the gravity-dependent tourist Earthies. But that doesn't stop him from fearing the worst when E...

  • Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos, Volume 1

    Stan Lee

    It's time for Marvel's first-ever war Masterworks with tales of Sgt. Nick Fury and his Howlin' Commandos in thick of ol' WWII! And for the icing on the cake, it's a titanic team-up of the mighty talents of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby! Prepare yourself fo...

  • Titan

    Ben Bova

    2095. After long months of travel, the gigantic colony ship Goddard has at last made orbit around Saturn, carrying a population of more than of 10,000 dissidents, rebels, extremists, and visionaries seeking a new life. Among Goddard's missions is the...

  • 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....

  • Ultimate X-Men - Volume 13: Magnetic North

    Brian K. Vaughan

    Collects Ultimate X-Men #61-65. Emma Frost, Alex Summers and the X-Men's greatest enemy star in an epic new storyline! When teenage mutant Lorna Dane accidentally commits a horrific crime, will the X-Men protect her, or leave her to the fury of S. H....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Dead Yard

    Adrian McKinty

    With the same poetic lilt and heart-stopping suspense that made Dead I Well May Be a critical favorite, the saga continues with The Dead Yard -- a thriller in which Michael Forsythe must insinuate himself into the good graces of a band of calculating...

  • The Deadly Embrace

    Robert J. Mrazek

    A razor-sharp thriller, rich with crackling dialogue and pulse-pounding suspense, that ingeniously interweaves fiction and history Robert J. Mrazek is a natural-born storyteller, whose previous novels have been described as "gripping," "magically...

  • 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...

  • Fair Game

    Evan McNamara

    The case that inspired the major motion picture The Frozen Ground. Robert Hansen was never someone you'd call normal. Bullied in his youth, he became a loner with emotional issues. After prison time for arson in his native Iowa, and arrests for shopl...

  • 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 Ghost Orchid

    Carol Goodman

    For more than one hundred years, creative souls have traveled to Upstate New York to work under the captivating spell of the Bosco estate. Cradled in silence, inspired by the rough beauty of overgrown gardens and crumbling statuary, these chosen few ...

  • Green 61

    Cody Fowler Davis

    Anderson Parker, an honest young trial attorney, faces off against his unscrupulous former boss, Justin Cartwright, in a court case in which three people were killed in a boating accident. Although his client is responsible, defense attorney Cartwrig...

  • Horatio Lyle

    Catherine Webb

    In Victorian London at the height of the industrial revolution, Horatio Lyle is a former Special Constable with a passion for science and invention. He's also an occasional, but reluctant, sleuth. The truth is that he'd rather be in his lab tinkering...

  • 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 ...

  • Indecent Exposure

    Carmen Green

  • 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...

  • Love and Other Near-Death Experiences

    Mil Millington

    Hello. My name is Robert, and I haven’t been dead for sixty-three days now.If he hadn’t bought those crummy towels, Rob would be six feet under. But his poor shopping sense accidentally set off a convoluted chain of events that meant he lived whe...

  • Lovers & Players

    Jackie Collins

    Dangerous sex, family secrets, irresistible power, mega money and two murders equal one reckless week in New York. Lovers and Players takes you on a high-powered trip from Park Avenue to Brooklyn. Jackie Collins is back--in her most deliciously sc...

  • Memory in Death Shelf-talker

    Julian Jay Savarin

  • 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...

  • Out There in the Dark

    Wesley Strick

    "Out There in the Dark is an old school Hollywood blockbuster. . . . A terrific, grab-you-by-the-throat movieland epic."---Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent MidnightSince leaving Berlin, the proud, distinguished émigré director Dieter Seife has had ...

  • Prayers for the Assassin

    Robert Ferrigno

    WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO AMERICA IF THE EXTREMISTS WON? SEATTLE, 2040. The Space Needle lies crumpled. Veiled women hurry through the streets. Alcohol is outlawed, replaced by Jihad Cola, and mosques dot the skyline. New York and Washington, D.C., are n...

  • 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...

  • Sinister Shorts

    Perri O'Shaughnessy

    The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Nina Reilly thrillers brings her prodigious storytelling gifts to this first-ever collection of short crime fiction. From desperate housewives to hard-boiled PIs to an appearance by Nina Reilly h...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Bad Kitty

    Michele Jaffe

    Meet Jasmine,1 forensic supersleuth,2 aspiring Model Daughter,3 and friend to animals.4 One second she's trying to enjoy her Vegas Vacation,5 the next she's tangled up in an outrageous adventure and has to outwit a crazed killer before he ends ten li...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch

    B.J. Daniels

    MURDER IN MONTANA After Hudson Savage betrayed her, Dana Cardwell hoped never to lay eyes on the seductive cowboy again. Until a bunch of old bones showed up on her family ranch. Suddenly her former lover was back in her life in a big way -- to in...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Kill

    Allison Brennan

    Her worst nightmare brought back to life, she risks everything for a second shot at justice. For thirty years, FBI scientist Olivia St. Martin has lived with guilt and one abiding certainty -- that while she wasn't able to save her sister's life, ...

  • 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....

  • 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. ...

  • 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, ...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Through The Fire

    Sharon Mignerey

    TO: AL_CRANE@CSSENTINEL.ORG FROM: COLLEEN_MONTGOMERY@ CSSENTINEL.ORG Boss, I'm finishing my article about the Vance Memorial Hospital fire. No fatalities, although several people, including firefighter Lucia Vance and visiting wildfire expert...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Dawn's Early Light

    Nancy Krulik

    TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. That's all the time Sarah has to tell Tim everything. With the usual end-of-school festivities, then all the packing and preparation, it's been so hard to put her feelings into words. She needs to tell him how proud she is of...

  • Enchanted Desire

    Wanda Thomas

  • Enthusiasm

    Polly Shulman

    Jane Austen never had friends like this... "There is little more likely to exasperate a person of sense than finding herself tied by affection and habit to an Enthusiast." Julie knows from bitter experience. Her best friend, Ashleigh, veers wildly...

  • Forbidden

    Judy Waite

    Inside the walls of the True Cause compound, Elinor feels safe and content with her fellow members and wants nothing to do with the Outsiders who want to investigate their private world, but when she remembers her childhood, Elinor begins to reflect ...

  • 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...

  • The Hookup Artist

    Tucker Shaw

    Lucas is a genius matchmaker, and everyone at Thomas Jefferson High School seems to need his expertise. When it comes to finding his own true love, things aren't so easy. He's just had his heart broken and the prospects aren't promising. But Luca...

  • The House

    Danielle Steel

    The house was magnificent, built in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he adored. For her and for this house, he would spare no expense, from the marble floors to the glittering chandeliers. Almost a century later, a young woman walks through its em...

  • A House Divided

    Sydell Voeller

    Rebecca Lorenzo, the young widow of a Hollywood actor who was killed by a crazed fan, is struggling to raise their young daughter, Wendy. Rebecca is embittered that God allowed her precious husband to die. She has turned her back on Him. Rebecca 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'...

  • 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...

  • The Journey

    Gwynne Forster
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    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 ...

  • Life's Little Mysteries

    Parry Brown
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    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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Mismatch

    Lensey Namioka

    Sue Hua just moved from racially diverse Seattle to a suburban white-bread town where she feels like the only Asian American for miles. Then she meets Andy, a handsome and passionate violin player who just happens to be Asian like herself. Sue feels ...

  • More Than This

    Donna Hill
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    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...

  • The Summer of the Scopes Trial

    Ronald Kidd

    In a story rife with first love and the pain of growing up, master storyteller Ronald Kidd reincarnates the most enduring trial of the twentieth century.

    School is out in the summer of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. For Frances Robinson, a fifteen-y...

  • 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...

  • The Widow's War

    Sally Gunning

    Married for twenty years to Edward Berry, Lyddie is used to the trials of being a whaler's wife in the Cape Cod village of Satucket, Massachusetts--running their house herself during her husband's long absences at sea, living with the daily uncertain...

  • Man in the Middle

    Brian Haig

    Lt. Col. Sean Drummond, Haig's wisecracking series hero, finds himself partnered with an exotic female military police officer, Bian Tran, when Clifford Daniels, a high-ranking Defense Department official, is found dead in his Virginia apartment, an ...

  • The Blight Way

    Patrick F. McManus

    Bo Tully, sheriff of Blight County, Idaho -- and a fellow who dropped twenty pounds on Atkins -- had been thinking about asking out Jan Whittle, his grade-school sweetheart. Problem is, he's already promised to celebrate his dad's seventy-fifth birth...

  • Buried Deep

    Max Allan Collins

    Tempe's work at the Jeffersonian Institute is put on hold when Special Agent Seeley Booth, stalled on a case deposing a Chicago mob family, calls her in to assist with a bizarre discovery: a plastic bag of skeletal remains -- and a chilling note -- l...

  • Death of a Dreamer

    M.C. Beaton

    A DREAM OF DYING In the Highlands village of Lochdubh, every season has its special flavor. Lanky, red-haired constable Hamish Macbeth relishes them all, but spring is the grandest. Now the winter storms have blown out to sea, the loch is smooth as ...

  • 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 Old Wine Shades

    Martha Grimes

    Scotland Yard's Richard Jury is drawn into one of the strangest cases he's ever encountered, by a marl: who walks into a bar... ...and over three consecutive nights spins out the story of a good friend whose wife and son (and dog) disappeared one ...

  • The Princess of Burundi

    Kjell Eriksson

    Winner of the Swedish Crime Academy Award for Best Crime Novel, The Princess of Burundi introduces American readers to a leading crime writer from Sweden whose work has created an international sensation. Erikssons U.S. debut opens a week before Chri...

  • Pursuit

    Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza

    A Rio de Janeiro ThrillerWhen his daughter disappears and a patient emerges as the prime suspect, a troubled psychiatrist comes to Espinosa for help, in the fifth novel in the beguiling Brazilian crime series A hospital psychiatrist feels he's be...

  • Terror Town

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    Carl Zwick is an aging Chicago Cubs baseball player. Sometimes he feels like he's spent his life hitting into double plays, but he's finally gotten onto the right track. Then tragedy strikes him out. Anita Mills is a pretty single black mother ju...

  • Awaiting the Moon

    Donna Lea Simpson

    Leaving England for a tutoring position at breathtaking Wolfram Castle in Germany has been no easy choice for Elizabeth Stanwycke. But the job offers her a chance to slip her tattered reputation--for while she is bold, beautiful, and imaginative, she...

  • Crescent Moon

    Lori Handeland

    AN ANCIENT EVIL HUNTS BY THE CRESCENT MOON -- New Orleans is known for sinful pleasures and strange magic, but for cryptozoologist Diana Malone it offers one irresistible attraction. For over a hundred years there have been whispers of wolves aro...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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 ...

  • The Hunter's Prey

    Diane Whiteside

    Two sisters are ushered into a world of sweltering carnal delights that only two strapping nightstalkers can offer...

    A female cat burglar -- caught in the act -- is subjected to the most sublime punishment...

    A party girl with a craving for midn...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Ultimatum

    Susan Kearney

    Dr. Alara Calladar needs a man... ...but she sure as krek doesn't want one. If Alara doesn't make love soon, her cells will fail to regenerate and she'll die. Unfortunately, her only option is an enemy - Rystani starpilot Xander, her abductor...and...

  • 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 ...

  • Days of Rage

    Kris Nelscott

    It's 1969 and the city of Chicago is in turmoil. The celebrity trial of the Chicago Eight---charged with inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention---has begun. Protests abound over the trial and the conflict has caught the attention ...

  • Mourners

    Bill Pronzini

    EVERYONE IS MOURNING SOMETHING Nameless has seen enough death in his years; spending his time watching someone drive to several funerals a day, funerals for people Nameless doesn't even know, is more than he can take. Then the bits and pieces ...

  • 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...

  • Murder on the Oceanic

    Conrad Allen

    When the Oceanic sets sail from England's Port of Southampton, its ultimate destination is New York. But it must make one very important stop first: at Cherbourg, in France, to pick up internationally renowned financier and art collector J. P. Morgan...

  • Sorrow's Anthem

    Michael Koryta

    Once Lincoln Perry and Ed Gradduk were friends. Then Perry became a cop, Gradduk turned dangerous, and their friendship imploded. Now, Gradduk is dead. And Perry wants to use his PI license to prove that whatever else his childhood friend might have ...

  • The 5th Horseman

    James Patterson; Maxine Paetro

    A young mother is recuperating in a San Francisco hospital when she is suddenly gasping for breath. The call button fails to bring help in time. The hospital's doctors, some of the best in the nation, are completely mystified by her death. How did th...

  • Murder in Greenwich Village

    Lee Harris

    When NYPD detective Jane Bauer and her team check in for their new assignment, they reopen a cold case that's a real killer. Ten years earlier, police responding to a spate of late-night 911 calls from Greenwich Village discovered a young African Ame...

  • Nails

    Peter Bowen

    When Gabriel Du Pre's precocious granddaughter Pallas returns from her studies in Washington, D.C., the entire clan in Toussaint, Montana, is happy to see her. Except Du Pre, that is, because the crotchety old fiddlin' cowboy knows that where Pallas ...

  • Privileged Witness

    Rebecca Forster

    Grace McCreary says she tried to stop her wealthy, disturbed sister-in-law from jumping to her death off a penthouse balcony, but the police accuse her of murder. Though Josie swore off rich clients years ago, she succumbs to Grace's plea for help. T...

  • 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...

  • All Things Slip Away

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Ten years ago Frank Lester, a Chicago homicide detective, thought he had rid himself forever of the Mud People Killer who'd kidnapped and murdered six people. Frank had shot him as he'd fled through a snowy night; had killed him, he believed, though ...

  • 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...

  • The Case of the London Cabbie

    J.A. Jance
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    Who let the dogs out? Evildoers beware! Four of mystery fiction's top storytellers are setting the hounds on your trail -- in an incomparable quartet of crime stories with a canine edge. Man's (and woman's) best friends take the lead in this pheno...

  • The Case of the Tender Cheeping Chickies

    John R. Erickson

    Hank runs into a dispute with a giant bullfrog over the Emerald Pond. Then, there’s a battle with a...Monster. It’s too scary to tell what kind of monster it is! However, things get really tough when Hank is entrusted with the job of guarding Lit...

  • Dead Money

    Grant McCrea

    With dialogue reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett and Elmore Leonard’s works, a ripping pace and a cast of characters you won’t soon forget, Dead Money is a first-rate mystery like no other.When Rick Redman’s infuriating boss puts him on the Jules ...

  • Escaping Darkness

    Jerry B. Jenkins; Chris Fabry

    An unfamiliar car runs Bryce Timberline off a back road. He and Ashley discover a secret that puts them in a race against time to save lives.

    Will they be able to get help without becoming victims themselves?

    Watch out! The Timberli...

  • 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...

  • Foolish Undertaking

    Mark de Castrique

    The night before a funeral that will thrust the mountain town of Gainesboro, North Carolina, into the national spotlight, the body is stolen from the embalming room and funeral director Barry Clayton is knocked unconscious. Ouch. How will Clayton & C...

  • 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...

  • Girls of Tender Age

    Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

  • Highest, Best Use

    J.A. Jance
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    They're cute... they're cuddly... they're on the case. We all know that the most innocent-looking pets can commit a lot of unexpected mischief. But they can also have a talent for sniffing out two-legged troublemakers of a more dangerous kind. ...

  • Hollywood Holdup

    Jerry B. Jenkins; Chris Fabry

    A family crisis causes Bryce and Ashley Timberline to volunteer to house-sit for some friends, but as soon as they move in, they notice strange happenings with the neighbors. Could one of them be involved in a series of robberies?

    While they...

  • Instant Menace

    Jerry B. Jenkins; Chris Fabry

    Eighth grade is supposed to be the best year in middle school, but after the new principal takes away the most fun thing in their lives, things go from bad to worse. Bryce encounters Internet threats, Ashley is stuck with the school bully, and they s...

  • 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...

  • The Notorious Notations

    Lemony Snicket

    Dear Reader,

    Like most fugitives who have vowed to investigate the lives of the Baudelaire orphans, I have always found a book to be invaluable in my research. The book you hold in your hands can be thrown into the mouth of a charging rhinoc...

  • 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...

  • Too Big to Miss

    Sue Ann Jaffarian

    Too big to miss--that's Odelia Grey. A never-married, middle-aged, plus-size woman, she struggles with her relationships, her crazy family, and her crazier boss. And then there's her knack for being in close proximity to dead people ... Too Big to...

  • Troubled Midnight

    John E. Gardner

    In 1943, The United Kingdom is alive with men and women making ready for the greatest invasion in history: preparing to assault Hitler's Fortress Europe. The skies are full of training aircraft, their engines merging with the throb of the RAF and USA...

  • Windy City Danger

    Jerry B. Jenkins; Chris Fabry

    It has been years since Bryce and Ashley Timberline have been to their hometown. This trip to Chicago presents a new mystery when a family friend disappears.

    Can they unravel the clues and find him before it’s too late?

    Watch out!...

  • The Royal Ghosts

    Samrat Upadhyay

    “Startlingly good” stories of Nepali society set against the backdrop of violent Maoist insurgencies (San Francisco Chronicle).   From an author like “a Buddhist Chekhov,” The Royal Ghosts features characters trying to reconcile their tr...

  • Affectionate Adversary

    Catherine Palmer

    Charles Locke is risking everything to make his fortune in a tea-trading enterprise. Sarah Carlyle believes money is the root of all evil and is determined to be rid of her fortune. When Charles and Sarah are thrown together at sea, their hearts are ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Bewitching Twin

    Donna Fletcher

    Late one cool Scottish night, Aliss is called to the bedside of an ailing cleric. Suddenly, her hands are tied and she is slung over a shoulder, kidnapped by Rogan of the Wolf clan! Aliss's skill as a healer is legendary, and Rogan needs her t...

  • Beyond the Wild Wind

    Sasha Lord

    Beautiful, brave, and wildly impetuous, Istabelle O'Bannon is the daring captain of her own ship. A "Robin Hood" who protects coastal villages from pirates and marauders, she answers to no authority but her own. But now Istabelle is desperate to recl...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Devil in Winter

    Lisa Kleypas

    A DEVIL'S BARGAIN Easily the shyest Wallflower, Evangeline Jenner stands to become the wealthiest, once her inheritance comes due. Because she must first escape the clutches of her unscrupulous relatives, Evie has approached the rake Viscount ...

  • 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 ...

  • For My Lady's Honor

    Sharon Schulze

    'Twas the fate of women to be at the mercy of men. But Lady Alys Delamare, an unwilling sacrifice to her father's ambitions, yearned for a life of her own choosing. And such a life, her rebellious heart proclaimed, included the handsome knight Sir...

  • A Gift of Wings

    Sarah Monette
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    Now, these brilliantly gifted authors come together with four tales of adventure that are as enchanting as they are exciting...A gifted seer receives a vision of a man whom she was not meant to marry, but was meant to love...A man and an elven woman ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Her Master and Commander

    Karen Hawkins

    Just ask Reeves! Dying without legitimate issue, the late Earl of Rochester sent his butler extraordinaire, Reeves, to find his wild, illegitimate children and "civilize" them. Reeves must seek out the first of the earl's arrogant sons, Captain T...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Kiss of the Snow Queen

    Claire Delacroix
    in

    Now, these brilliantly gifted authors come together with four tales of adventure that are as enchanting as they are exciting...A gifted seer receives a vision of a man whom she was not meant to marry, but was meant to love...A man and an elven woman ...

  • Lady of Sin

    Madeline Hunter

    She arrives at his home without warning or invitation, determined to win him to her campaign to reform women's rights. Instead, Charlotte, the widowed Baroness Mardenford, ends up being nearly seduced by Nathaniel Knightridge. No woman is safe from t...

  • 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...

  • 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 Officer and the Lady

    Dorothy Elbury

    An officer in the East India Trading Company, Matthew Beresford has made a life a world away from England and his father's malevolence. Now it's time for Matthew to return home. There he finds Miss Imogen Priestley, who's worked tirelessly to ...

  • Portrait of a Lover // To Annabelle, With Love

    Julianne MacLean

    A picture of deception... Annabelle Lawson knew nothing about the breathtaking stranger she met on the train -- only that he'd make an ideal model for the budding young artist...and that she desired him more than she believed possible. But after sh...

  • Ransom Bride

    Anne Herries

    Once a galley slave, now a Venetian merchant prince, Lorenzo Santorini is driven to seek revenge on his Corsair captor. He spares no time for softer emotions such as love. Yet when English beauty Kathryn Rowlands appeals for help in finding a frie...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • A Study in Scandal

    Robyn DeHart

    Who are the Ladies' Amateur Sleuth Society: Four unconventional beauties banding together to unravel real-life mysteries? or Four best friends past the age of twenty with no marital prospects and nothing better to occupy their time? Lady ...

  • The True Darcy Spirit

    Elizabeth Aston

    After being disowned by her family, Cassandra Darcy -- the artistic eldest daughter of Anne de Bourgh (and granddaughter of the infamous Lady Catherine de Bourgh and Mr. Darcy's cousin in Pride and Prejudice) -- strives to make a living by painting. ...

  • When Winter Comes

    Sharon Shinn
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    Now, these brilliantly gifted authors come together with four tales of adventure that are as enchanting as they are exciting...A gifted seer receives a vision of a man whom she was not meant to marry, but was meant to love...A man and an elven woman ...

  • A Whisper of Spring

    Lynn Kurland
    in

    Now, these brilliantly gifted authors come together with four tales of adventure that are as enchanting as they are exciting...A gifted seer receives a vision of a man whom she was not meant to marry, but was meant to love...A man and an elven woman ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Blue Noon

    Scott Westerfeld

    After centuries of waiting, trapped in the midnight hour, the darklings will hunt once again. The five teenage Midnighters of Bixby, Oklahoma, thought they understood the secret midnight hour--until one morning when time freezes in the middle of t...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Headstone City

    Tom Piccirilli

    The night Johnny Danetello drove a dying girl through the streets of Brooklyn in his cab, he was trying to save her life. Instead he ran down a cop and lost her and his freedom. Every day in prison, Johnny knew that Angie Monticelli's family blamed h...