Books Published in January 1988

New Books List: 497 titles

  • Brother Against Brother

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • The McAndrews Chronicles

    Charles Sheffield

  • Agent of Change

    Sharon Lee; Steve Miller

    Fleeing the scene of his latest mission, Val Con yos''Phelium finds himself saving the life of ex-mercenary Miri Robertson, a young Tarren on the run from interplanetary assassins. Thrown together by circumstances, Val Con and Miri struggle to elu...

  • The Warlord's Revenge

    Craig Sargent

    The radiation-crazed bikers and mutant wildlife are more than enough to keep Martin Stone and his loyal pit bull busy as they search for Stone's missing sister April. But now, Stone's been targeted by an even deadlier enemy--Scalzanni, a psychotic Ma...

  • Mercenary Justice

    Chuck Bainbridge

    New York: Jove Books, 1988. Mass market paperback, about 7 inches tall, 186 pages. The fifth book in this adventure series. The men of the Hard Corps cut a bloody trajectory into the heart of Africa, where a small country is fighting for its life. Th...

  • A Bullet for Billy the Kid

    Nelson Nye

  • Apache Gold

    J.R. Roberts

    Judy Monroe rode into Apache country with a dream of lost gold. The Gunsmith didn't have to go after her -- dead men can't spend gold or love women. But there he was, tracking her across the desert and into the Chiricahua Mountains. Maybe it was Judy...

  • Longarm and the Bloody Trackdown

    Tabor Evans

    Marshal Long tracks a young woman carrying some stolen land titles to Ridge City, where her suspects she has turned them over to land baron J.T. Roebuck, but nobody in town is talking and a gang of hired guns is threatening the marshall's investigati...

  • Lone Star and the James Gang's Loot

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki ride a blood-slick trail with the west's most wanted men in the sixty-fifth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- ...

  • Dodge City Doll

    Dirk Fletcher

    Sent by the Secret Service to Dodge City, where he must rid the town of bloodthirsty outlaws, Spur McCoy, guns ablazing, takes care of business while spending some quality time with Miss Lila, the Nightingale of the saloon circuit. Original....

  • Wilderness Trek

    Zane Grey

    American cowboy, Stirling Haselton, taking the blame for a shooting committed by a friend, is exiled to Australia and with one loyal follower, joins a party of ranchers and drovers making the long wilderness journey to the Elaberleys. Along the way c...

  • Love Forevermore

    Madeline Baker

    The West -- it had been Loralee's dream for as long as she could remember, and Indians were the most fascinating part of the wildly beautiful frontier she imagined. But when Loralee arrived at Fort Apache as the new schoolmarm, she had some hard...

  • Comanche Caress

    Cheryl Black

    COLORADO STALLION Frantic that she hadn't heard from her daddy in months, impetuous Ciara Davenport lit out of Dallas determined to track him down. But after her train was held up, her money stolen and her luggage lost, the hot-headed beauty wondere...

  • Autumnfire

    Emily Carmichael

    A CAPTIVE BEAUTY IN A WILD LAND At nine, Meghan O'Brian was snatched from a wagon train by Indians who raised her as their own. By nineteen, with flaming red hair and blazing green eyes, she had grown into the sensuous woman they called Autumnfire...

  • Ondine

    Shannon Drake

    HE SAVED HER WITH CHIVALRY, HE LOVED HER WITH SAVAGERY -- SHE LURED HIM TO ECSTASY When handsome Lord Chatham rescued the golden-haired Ondine from England's gallows, he demanded only one thing in return...her hand in marriage. In gratitude, O...

  • Love's Gambit

    Emma Harrington

    Jessamy could outwit any man at chess...but could she win at the game of love? A LADY WITH PLANS... Lovely Jessamy Montgomery had come to Baltimore to meet that rough-hewn American who had inherited her late husband's fortune. With stratagems ...

  • Dark Obsession

    Fiona Harrowe

    He was everything a decent woman should avoid -- and everything a real woman could not resist! From the moment she laid eyes on him, beautiful Hannah Blaine knew dark, handsome Christian Falconer spelled danger. Though he could offer the impoveri...

  • Reckless Desire

    Thea Devine

    FLEEING FROM LOVE Kalida Ryland had always despised her neighbor Deuce Cavender, so she was shocked by his brazen proposal of marriage. The arrogant lady's man would never get his hands on her ranch! And even if Kalida had occasionally wondered how ...

  • The Virtuous Mistress

    Pamela Frazier

    Among the glitter of London society their love was a radiant scandal… She was an aristocratic beauty, a golden-haired orphan forced to flee Paris during the French revolution. And now, Eugenie was the toast of London. A ballet dancer at the Ki...

  • Clash by Night

    Doreen Owens Malek

    United by love, divided by war As the German war machine claims Europe, tanks roll into the peaceful French village of Fain les Sources, and the brave French Resistance fighters wage their desperate struggle for freedom. But for three proud, passi...

  • Honor's Players

    Holly Newman

    THAT SEASON IN LONDON... The handsome Viscount of St. Ryne had returned from a jaunt abroad to find every bachelor in the ton at sixes and sevens. All sought the hand of the lustrous Helene Monweithe, yet romantic pursuit was futile. Indeed, Helen...

  • Tropic Gold

    Carol Jerina

    Journeying to Key West to inform roguish Jake Travis of his five-million-dollar legacy, professional heir hunter Lindsey Applegate risks both her life and her heart as, together, she and Jake are forced to flee the island...

  • Diamond Spur

    Susan Kyle

    SHE KNEW HE WAS WAITING FOR HER . . . Kate Whittman never wanted anyone but Texas rancher Jason Donovan. Even as a teen, she had fantasized about his touch, masking her emotions in teasing banter and easy friendship. Now at twenty, Kate was a sen...

  • Texas Captive

    Wanda Owen

    HIS MASTERFUL TOUCH Lovely, innocent Talleha had every reason to be suspicious of all men. Two outlaws had killed her ma, and then a leering rancher had kidnapped her. But when the half-Indian princess first gazed upon virile Victor Maurier by the l...

  • Larcenous Lady

    Joan Smith

    A lovesick lord and a love-shy lady -- 'twas a case of cross-purposes indeed! "YOU'VE PUT THE WEDDING OFF THREE TIMES ALREADY. IT's NOW -- OR NEVER." When Lord Belami posed this dilemma to his lovely fiancee, Miss Deirdre Gower, that lady was tr...

  • Silver Rose

    Penelope Neri

    Their forbidden passion blossomed in the wilderness: SHE'D SLAP HIS HANDSOME FACE When she fled Wyoming to escape her lecherous boss, golden-haired Silver Dupres was sure she'd be safe disguised as a boy on an expedition to chart the Colo...

  • Defiant Enchantress

    Kit Prate

    Demure Desiree Chandler knows she should avoid the reckless rake Chase Deveraux, but aboard the clipper Enchantress, it becomes harder and harder for Desiree to resist Chase's charm. She had been sold into marriage to repay her cousin's debts, but...

  • Reckless Abandon

    Jolene Prewit-Parker

    In the turbulent years following Reconstruction, a Southern Belle was expected to be dutiful, delicate and demure. Spirited Camille Tranter was none of these. She could out-ride and out-shoot most every man in Greenville County... until she met darkl...

  • Prince Charming Replies

    Sherryl Woods

    Nothing surprises Katie Stewart more than her "Personals" ad getting an overwhelming response -- and her handsome boss, sexy Ross Chandler, objecting. Claiming concern for her safety, Ross insists on screening her prospects and spying on her dates. T...

  • Beloved Captain

    Joann Simon

    A love for all time Catherine Sternwood's Nantucket home was a quiet retreat from her busy life. The lovely old house breathed the serenity of its two hundred years, and, she quickly discovered, something more... Catherine was sharing the premise...

  • Treasure's Golden Dream

    Myra Rowe

    A bold beauty in no-man's land. A swindlers' lechery and greed drove luscious Treasure Ryan out of Tennessee in search of a new life with her kin down in Natchez. Only getting there meant a perilous trek down the wild and lawless trail they called...

  • Renegade Love

    Katherine Sutcliffe

    SHE DARED TO GIVE HER HEART TO A DANGEROUS AND FORBIDDEN PASSION A STRANGER'S LOVE Rachel tried to avert her gaze as the stranger's brazen blue eyes raked her body from head to toe. Yet her innocence compelled her to steal another look-...

  • Desire's Destiny

    Jamisan Whitney

    When history scholar Johanna Remington signed up for a ten-day trek with a wagon train, she envisaged immersing herself in discussions of manifest Destiny and losing herself in the glorious scenery. She never dreamed of losing her heart to sexy wagon...

  • Scandalous Spirits

    Erin Yorke

    Moonlight casts graceful shadows over the desk of the great ocean liner, Empress, as Sara Linwood witnesses the murder of her maid-and realizes the poor girl was her! What does a spirited yet terrified newspaper heiress do? Jump overboard - straight ...

  • A Woman Run Mad

    John L'Heureux

    “Passions, the edge of madness, forbidden obsessions, runaway libidos and dangerous desires . . . a thinking man’s Fatal Attraction” (Chicago Sun-Times).   In A Woman Run Mad, John L’Heureux delivers a novel that is part c...

  • California Dead

    Jerry Oster

  • The Doom Campaign

    Mary McMullen

  • The Sound of Wings

    Spencer Dunmore

    A near collision with an old-fashioned monoplane may have been a figment of jetliner co-pilot Adam Beale's disturbed imagination or a desperate attempt at communication by a daring aviatrix thought to have disappeared in the 1920s...

  • Incident At Plei Soi

    Eric Helm

    A fact finding mission led by US Army Special Forces Capt. Mack Gerber is dispatched to the tiny hamlet of Plei Soi to determine the future of Camp A-337. The Americans find the village completely deserted with most of the inhabitants killed. - At ni...

  • The Hunt

    James Howard Kunstler

  • Allison's Baby

    Mike Stone

    SWEET DREAMS OR DARKEST OBLIVION -- WHAT AWAITS? Years ago innocent little Allison had walked the woods of Mountain Oaks. Something savage, brutal, had happened there. She knew it. It haunted her. Why couldn’t she remember? Now married and pr...

  • The Kill

    Alan Ryan

    WELCOME TO DEACONS KILL Jack and Megan left the pleasures of New York success for the peaceful life of a small town in the Catskill Mountains. But Deacons Kill is not at peace. A thing born of the mountains -- something ancient and angry -- stares...

  • The McAndrews Chronicles

    Charles Sheffield

  • Corpseman

    Joel Henry Sherman

  • The Book of Mordred

    Peter Hanratty

  • The Luck of Relian Kru

    Paula Volsky

  • Three Trumps Sounding

    Dennis Schmidt

    Voden, son of Borr Skullcracker and Vestla Ravenhair, had wandered far through countless realms in search of that Destiny foretold for him before his birth. Now he must return to the land of his father, to face one last terrible challenge of bloody a...

  • The Oregon Invasion

    Jayne Tannehill

  • An Ill Fate Marshalling

    Glen Cook

    King Bragi Ragnorson decides to join Chatelain Mist’s coup against the Dread Empire. Varhlokkur -- the King’s wizard -- tries to dissuade Ragnorson from this chosen path, but only the drum-beat of war is heard. The King’s Spymaster Michael ...

  • The Crystal Sword

    Adrienne Martine-Barnes

  • In the Caves of Exile

    Ru Emerson

    The exiled Queen Ylia calls upon all of her magical powers in order to bring together the scattered survivors of her beleaguered kingdom, Nedao. This is the tale of the young Queen Ylia who chooses to accept the challenges disaster can bring. She fle...

  • The Long Night of the Grave

    Charles L. Grant

  • Marisa

    Linda Lang Bartell

    BELOVED ENEMY Marisa de Brionne listened in stunned disbelief. Her father, a mighty Norman nobleman, had promised her hand to a knight of the defeated Anglo-Saxon armies. Brand Ericson was marrying only to secure his land -- wedding a spoiled and wil...

  • Share My Tomorrow

    Connie Bennett

    THEIR FUTURE RESTED ON HIS PAST Neal Grant was the most renowned submarine pilot in the business, and marine biologist Lillian Lockwood was thrilled to be working with him. Together they would explore ocean depths few had ever seen. Project Atlant...

  • Author's Choice

    Elizabeth August

    TRAPPED BY LOVE Melinda Oliver was happily married...sort of. Circumstance had forced her into a temporary marriage with the dashing John Medwin, and now she had to maintain the facade of marital bliss. However, acting like a woman in love was the...

  • Nobody's Baby

    Barbara Bretton

    TONY GRAHAM WAS ALL WRONG FOR THE JOB As they traveled the blue highways of Nevada, rolling into desert towns too small to appear on any map, Tony challenged Jill Wiley's authority, piqued her curiosity and made her uncomfortably aware of her own...

  • Sweet Summer Heat

    Katherine Burton

    SOME MEMORIES NEVER FADE... Summer and steam, heat and rain; an abandoned barn -- and one man, lean, dark, illuminated by a lightning bolt... Rebecca Whitney was no longer the innocent who'd surrendered to love one sultry day eight years ag...

  • Weathering the Storm

    Elaine Camp

    STORMSWEPT Simon Bienville had gone home to his roots in rural Oklahoma. He'd vowed never to return to California, to writing or to Marlee. They'd been partners in business and in love, and together they'd conquered Hollywood--until the pressures ...

  • Passion's Peak

    Christine Carson

    A helpless captive of the Ute Indians, lovely raven-haired Sara knew it was only a matter of time before one of Bear Claw's lusty braves made her his squaw. Then a blue-eyed stranger rode into camp, and Sara threw away the last shreds of her pride. S...

  • To the Highest Bidder

    Cathryn Clare

    TRESPASSING HEARTS She would do anything to preserve her ancestor's crumbling estate, but Janni Croft hadn't expected she would have to "squat" for her rights -- and she wouldn't be alone! Bart Danvers, ruthless but devastating...

  • The Lady Is a Champ

    Frances Davies

    Vive la difference! Rainey Archer had always wanted to be one of the boys. And thanks to hard work, she was close to realizing her ambitions. Then Quinn blew into town. Fresh from an assignment in the Peruvian Andes, the man took New York by storm...

  • Army Daughter

    Maggi Charles

    Ten years ago Kerry Gundersen lowly sergeant, confronted Jenny Smith, the general's daughter in a blaze of bullets and a clash of ranks. Poor, parentless and angry back then, Kerry was now a towering success, lacking only a classy decorator to fabr...

  • Dark Surrender

    Laurel Collins

    For 22 years Adrienne Dalton had led a charmed life, until her beloved father's death brought her to the isolated Maine estate of Wyndecliffe. Sheltered and naive, she never imagined she would become entangled in a blood feud between her benefactor, ...

  • Starlit Surrender // Angel In a Red Dress

    Judy Cuevas

    AT FIRST THEY KISSED From the instant she set her thick-lashed gaze on handsome Adrien Hunt, Christina Bower knew he was like no other male. He was as graceful as a panther, as confident as a lion-and as lusty as a tomcat. But no matter how much t...

  • Beginnings

    Judith Duncan

    SHE HAD LEARNED TO RELY ONLY ON HERSELF Trust didn't come easily to Holly Simpson. Her husband had been an unreliable drifter, and Holly had been responsible, emotionally and financially, for their three young children. Holly had moved to the ...

  • House Calls

    Terry Essig

    HOME REMEDIES Andrea Comrades had always found it easy to keep men at a distance. But the day Greg Rennolds, M.D., stormed through her front door was the day she met her match. Greg's brash arrogance made Andrea fume as they argued over everything f...

  • Say It With Flowers

    Andrea Edwards

    Top-notch nurse Cristin OLeary's practical jokes kept the children's ward filled with warmth and laughter. She never guessed that one of her pranks would backfire into an unlikely romance with hospital hero Dr. Sam Rossi. Cristin kept tell...

  • A Little Magic

    Rita Clay Estrada

    Her motives were pure As an earth-sciences teacher, Marissa Madison knew all about the natural order of things. Still, she was dismayed to find herself pregnant after a night of abandon with Adam Pierce. Though she'd acted out of love, Marissa feare...

  • Built to Last

    Laurel Evans

    HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS Allison Napoli was trapped in a Catskill resort where Saturday night excitement equaled bingo. Her high-powered career had her close to a breakdown, and her doctor had said to relax or else -- but her thoughts about hand...

  • Head Over Heels

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    The sultry laughter and tantalizing aromas that wafted across the fence from next door were enough to make a grown man cry, Buck Halloran thought -- or else climb eight-foot fences! But the renowned mountain climber was confined to a wheelchair, cast...

  • Lightning Strikes Twice

    Jane Gentry

    TWO WRONGS To attorney Nola O'Brien it was clear-cut -- her client's car had gone out of control -- but Dr. Jake Rowan saw it differently. After all, his patient was the accident victim. This wasn't the first time Nola and Jake had ...

  • The Baron

    Sally Goldenbaum

    Disguised as a glittering contessa for a glamorous mystery weekend, Halley Finnegan knew anything was possible -- even being swept into the arms of a dashing baron! She'd never been intriguing before, never enchanted a worldly man who stunned he...

  • Belfriere

    Kathleen Gooding

    Bristol, 1840... A Bustling City of Merchant Kings And Rogues Here pretty Sarah Venables accepted a teaching position in the Lorimer household after the sudden and mysterious death of her father. Tormented by unanswered questions, Sarah found ...

  • Star Light, Star Bright

    Iris Johansen

    When the golden haired rogue in the black leather jacket dodged a barrage of bullets to rescue her, Quenby Swenson thrilled... with fear and with excitement. Gunner Nilsen had risked his life to save her, but when he promised to cherish her for a li...

  • Secrets

    Jennifer Greene

    A PEARL BEYOND PRICE Laura Jackway sought perfection in every aspect of her life. She was content to spend her time developing the most flawless gem known to man: the pearl. Living with the world but not in it, Laura never sought excitement --...

  • Cross My Heart

    Phyllis Halldorson

    His scapegrace brother had fallen in love again, but all Clinton Sterling had were the barest statistics on the woman in question. A state senator running for reelection, he couldn't afford any bad publicity. So it was up to him to make sure one Mary...

  • Night of the Spring Moon

    Virginia Hart

    Love or friendship -- which had the greater claim? Tracy Whelan suspected that returning to her hometown of Council Grove, Missouri, had been a mistake. Everyone there still remembered the scandal, even though it was ten years in the past. But Tra...

  • The Fall of Lucas Kendrick

    Kay Hooper

    Time was supposed to obscure memories, but when Kyle Griffon saw the sunlight glinting off Lucas Kendrick's hair, she knew she'd never stopped waiting for him. Ten years before, he'd awakened her woman's passion, and when he left without a word, her ...

  • Edge of the World

    Kathleen Korbel

    WORLDS APART A bimbo. That was champion skier Drake McDonald's opinion of his new business partner, Stephanie Fleming. They'd been willed the lucrative Sundance Inn and, much to Drake's dismay, Stephanie was to manage it until his post-Olympic ret...

  • Cindy and the Prince

    Debbie Macomber

    Unemotional, levelheaded Thorndike Prince was certain his company's Christmas ball would be an utter bore... until a captivating mystery woman announced that she was Cinderella and he just might be her Prince. In mere hours she'd toppled his implacab...

  • Indiscreet

    Tess Marlowe

    RISKY BUSINESS Terri Genetti was being forced to close her gourmet shop, and she knew this meant an end to her hard-won independence. She had to get away, and the Virginia resort seemed like a perfect place to forget her troubles. But rest took a ...

  • Ivory Rose

    Kathleen McCall

    FOOL FOR LOVE When her long-lost twin appealed to innocent Sabrina Buchanan for aid in escaping an arranged marriage, the convent-bred lass was only too eager to help. But by the time she realized she'd been tricked by her sophisticated sister, the ...

  • Scatter the Tempest

    Joyce McLean

    THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM Amidst the sweet-scented wildflowers of a ruined abbey, lovely young Glenna Chalgrove lay passionately entwined with the man who had stolen her heart. Her hair gleamed in the soft sunlight and her crimson lips parted ben...

  • The Bewitching Hour

    Jennifer Mikels

    THE TIME HAD COME Samantha Tyler never expected to see T. J. Hawkins again, but here he was--the retired football star--back in Chicago and in her restaurant. The attraction she'd felt for him as a teenager was still there, but Samantha knew bette...

  • Nothing in Common

    Elda Minger

    It was obvious they had nothing in common Burt Thomson could control his fictional world, but real life was nothing to write home about. Divorced, he lived in the San Fernando Valley with his two sons, their enormous sheepdog, Wadsworth, and total...

  • A Touch of Magic

    Mary Ruth Myers

    An assassin's bullet ended the veteran magician's act... And brought stunning Channing Stuart, a skilled amateur with four generations of magicians behind her, center stage. The object: to reclaim a piece of film stolen from the State Department. U...

  • The Light Fantastic

    Peggy Nicholson

    SHE HELPED HIM SEE HIS OPTIONS Tripp Wetherby's publishers deemed it essential for their award-winning author to participate in a cross-country treasure hunt promoting his latest mystery. Press coverage, autographings, big prizes--and total pa...

  • Secret Splendor

    Gina Robins

    ARISTOCRATIC SEDUCER Headstrong and rebellious, beautiful Stephanie Wakefield would never give in to Cole's demands, She had her own plans for her future, and he didn't play a part in them. But the wealthy, sophisticated rake, with his dark hypnotic ...

  • Illusions

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    There was definitely a naked man asleep in Cassidy Cole's bathtub! With his ruggedly handsome face and "kissin' lips," Sagan Jones was a single woman's dream, and how could she resist a smoothtalking vagabond with roving hands who promised he'd stay ...

  • To Love Again

    Lass Small

    JUST A NEIGHBORLY WELCOME Felicia Tibbens didn't care that a drug bust was going on around her as she arrived at the Rocky Gulch airport to star their new job. However, she did feel a glimmer of concern when one of the posse insisted on patting he...

  • The Wishing Pool

    Leigh Roberts

    He was a very giving man Persis Whitley, lifelong wanderer, had arrived in Missouri to save her great-aunt Cassie's farm from bankruptcy. She would stay until Cassie's future was secure. And the neighboring farm owner, irresistible Hugo MacAlliste...

  • Local Hero

    Nora Roberts

    Who was that masked man...? His trade was creating heroes, but comic book writer Mitch Dempsey had never seen himself as one. But something about Hester Wallace, the shy single mom who moved in upstairs, made him long to protect, honor and love her...

  • Crimson Holiday

    Patricia Rosemoor

    She had to find the murderer -- before he found her On the morning after the annual Christmas bash, Shelby Corbin woke up in the executive suite of Westbrook's department store. Beside her was Westbrook's co-owner, Dutch Vanleer. He was dressed in...

  • Worth Waiting for

    JoAnn Ross

    The rat race wasn't for her Spirited Kara Tiernan had finally gotten away from it all--permanently. Secure in her Hawaiian paradise, she led a tranquil, idyllic life. That is, until Adam Lassiter, a dedicated, hardworking San Francisco police capt...

  • Neptune Summer

    Jeanne Stephens

    Andrea Darnell didn't want to fall for Joe Underwood, the handsome newcomer to Neptune, Nebraska. For one thing, her ex-husband hadn't left her with a very good impression of men. For another, Joe had lost his own children, and she was afraid her mai...

  • Day and Night

    Maura Seger

    AS DIFFERENT AS NIGHT AND DAY... Wealthy Cara Herrington met blue-collar New York cop Mark Sabatini when she was attacked in Central Park. In that very first moment, she knew there was something special about this man. So what if she had money? M...

  • Dead Reckoning

    Linda Walters

    She would never be the same again The Yukon had been good to Betsy Archer. Born and raised in Dawson City, she now ran a busy Klondike-style saloon. Her life was fun and full--she had no complaints. Then her world came crashing down the day she...

  • Where There's Smoke...

    Margaret St. George

    Sammy couldn't renege on a promise to her children Sammy Woods joined the Littleton, Colorado, chapter of QUIT. But with Jim Carter in the program, a very nervous Sammy found it harder than ever to stop smoking. Jim was an old flame who still mad...

  • Wyndfell

    Lynda Trent

    SHE WAS CAUGHT IN THE TIDES OF WAR AND PASSION "Alison," Miles whispered huskily. "I'm going to make you love me..." And as he claimed her lips, she melted into his arms, and to a wild passion that merged with his... Alison ...

  • The Cotton Caliph

    Margaret Summerville

    A wealthy lord has the price of a young beauty's hand -- but can he buy the key to her heart? THE BRAZEN BARON Beautiful young Lady Davinia Fitzhugh, the belle of the London aristocracy, found Lord Strachan, the Baron of Strangewood, quite ...

  • Season of the Heart

    Pat Warren

    A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY Former Olympic medalist Dan Kramer was famous not only for his downhill racing but also for his perfectionism and quick temper with the press. Journalist Laura Franklin believed that forewarned was forearmed, so she agreed to ...

  • A Matter of Honor

    Brittany Young

    UNDERCOVER ROMANCE Tori Burton was not the typical FBI agent. She seemed fragile and sweet, but her innocent blue eyes hid the tenacious mind and courageous spirit of a true investigator. Tori always got her man--but in the case of Adam Danaro, th...

  • Greek to Me

    Jennifer West

    From the instant Kate Reynolds encountered flamboyant Andreas Pateras, she knew he was a practiced charmer--a skill he'd honed by romancing an endless string of summer tourists. But this wasn't tourist season, and being helplessly stranded on a Greek...

  • Easy Target

    Frances Williams

    MY BODYGUARD Cade Garrison had been involved in two accidents in the past month, but he was convinced that was all they were. No one was trying to kill him, and he was sure hi didn't need any protection. Then he met Victoria Chase, and he quickly ...

  • Golden Dreams

    Leigh Anne Williams

    You can't go home again Melissa Lane knew that for a fact but she didn't have much choice in the matter when she was sent on a speaking tour to the Ohio hometown that she had left years ago and never wanted to see again. She had made a new life fo...

  • The Locked Room

    Paul Auster

    The remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected detective novels – from the author of 4 3 2 1:  A Novel

    The New York Review of Books has called Paul Auster''s work “one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary lite...

  • Adventures of Max Latin

    Norbert Davis

  • Design for Murder

    Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

    When mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance is invited to stage a Mystery Night for the annual antebellum house tour of the Historical Preservation Society of Chastain, South Carolina, she instead finds herself the leading lady in a flesh-and-blood d...

  • The Brass Cupcake

    John D. MacDonald

    In Flower City, a sleepy resort town on Florida's Gulf Coast, wealthy Elizabeth Stegman is murdered in a jewel heist gone bad - her missing jewels insured for £750,000.It falls to hardboiled ex-cop Cliff Bartells to find the killer, retrieve the jew...

  • Clemmie

    John D. MacDonald

    Clemmie, one of many classic novels from crime writer John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook.   Married, straitlaced, and struggling to rise out of middle management, Cra...

  • Shield for Murder

    William P. McGivern

  • Who Saw Him Die?

    Sheila Radley

  • Not Enough Horses

    Les Roberts

    Les Roberts, the award winning Private Eye Writer, continues the series of mysteries in this adventure set in Hollywood, from the boardrooms of network television to the netherworld of dimly-lit bars. Screen actor Saxon, moonlighting as a detective, ...

  • Long Lines

    Remar Sutton

    Can Murder Be Witnessed Over The Phone? This question leads to a game of cat and mouse between one man, trapped by the homicidal implications of an impetuous act, and a most unlikely detective--shy, grandmotherly Evelyn Wade, who lives a thousand ...

  • Hampton Heat

    Irving Weinman

  • When Duty Calls

    Richard P. Henrick

    IN THE FROZEN WILDERNESS OF SOVIET RUSSIA, THE ULTIMATE WAR IS ABOUT TO BE WAGED From the tiny Russian coastal village of Posjet a terrifying force is ready to be unleashed. The world's first laser battle station, it is an awesomely effective weap...

  • Ariosto

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    THE MASTER OF DREAMS Poet laureate to the de' Medicis in Renaissance Italy, Ludovico Ariosto is a gentle man possessed of wisdom and great talent--his verses bring honor to his patron and make hot-blooded men weep for their sheer beauty. But in...

  • Red Prophet

    Orson Scott Card

    Come home to the magical America that might have been, and marvel as the tale of Alvin Maker unfolds. The seventh son of a seventh son is a boy of mysterious powers, and he is waking to the mysteries of the land and its own chosen people....

  • The Shell Seekers

    Rosamunde Pilcher

    THE SHELL SEEKERS is a novel of connection: of one family, and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations. THE SHELL SEEKERS is filled with real people--mothers and daughters, husbands and lovers--inspired wi...

  • Dragons at the Party

    Jon Cleary

    It is Bicentenary year and Australia is having the party of its lifetime. Detective Inspector Scobie Malone, hero of three previous Cleary books and the most human of cops, would much rather be out on Sydney Harbor with his family, watching the fun. ...

  • The Right to Remain Silent

    Charles Brandt

    Page-turning detective fiction from the author of I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES / THE IRISHMAN who was himself a homicide investigator and prosecutor.Wisecracking cop Lou Razzi’s zeal, dedication and talent for extracting information from suspects make ...

  • Where the Truth Lies

    Helen Hayes

    Returning from New York to attend the Oscar ceremonies, beloved actress Halcie Harper finds herself at the center of a murder that takes place at the Academy Awards while millions watch the live television broadcast...

  • Double Whammy

    Carl Hiaasen

    R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a sportsman's scam that's anything but sportsmanlike, there's a body floating in Coon Bog, Florida--and a lot that's rotten in the murky wa...

  • Lover and Thief

    Arthur Maling

    After a rich Chicago widow's young lover disappears and is later found murdered, private investigator Calvin Bix is drawn into a complex web of Chicago elite, ruthless killers, and an international money-laundering scam...

  • Incident at Parga

    Nancy Livingston

  • Shadow Man

    James W. Kunetka

  • Dirty Money

    Ray Russell

  • Dead Men Don't Give Seminars

    Dorothy Sucher

    When her scientist husband is invited to offend the Lake Champlain Physics Institute, Sabina Swift, a Washington private detective, and her young apprentice, Vic Newman, find themselves in the middle of a brutal murder...

  • Murder at the PTA Luncheon

    Valerie Wolzien

    CYANIDE APPETIZER When the Parent-Teachers Association president drops dead from a poison-laced canape, two investigating officers enlist the aid of the PTA's busy vice president, Susan Henshaw. Susan finds juggling car-pool duty and crime figh...

  • The Distant Kingdom

    Daphne Wright

    Perdita Whitney, a young Englishwoman, is catapulted into the midst of the tumultuous events surrounding the East India Company's attempt to move into Afghanistan and finds herself torn between the husband she esteems and the man she desires...

  • Illusions

    Jessica March

    The story of Willie Dellahaye, a matrimonial lawyer whose battle to defend a woman against the brutalities of her Arabian husband betrays her own need to expiate the suffering caused by her father and lover. Faced with a great challenge, Willie learn...

  • A Grand Deception

    Elizabeth Mansfield

    LOVE'S BOLD DISGUISE Miss Georgy Verney doesn't wish to upset her mother, but she can't bring herself to flirt with the gentlemen of the ton--much less accept a marriage proposal based solely on social status or financial gain. Then she finds hers...

  • Love in the Temperate Zone

    Laurali R. Wright / L.R. Wright

  • Vital Signs

    Jessica Sutton

    A searing drama of passions and power plays within the walls of Hollywood's superstar hospital. CRITICAL CONDITIONS Dr. Hamilton Dodd, Bel Air General's top-ranking obstetrician, is far from optimistic about the prognosis for two of his celebrity...

  • Typecast

    Kristi Andrews

  • The Mona Lisa Is Missing!

    R.A. Montgomery

  • Siege of Serpentor

    R.L. Stine

    What begins as a hurried rescue mission for the G.I. Joe Team turns into a deadly game with Serpentor making the rules. Turning against his own side, the traitorous COBRA warrior has hatched a plot to oust COBRA Commander, destroy COBRA Island, and h...

  • Dreams of Forever

    Francine Pascal

  • Hard Choices

    Francine Pascal

    No life of her own ... Enid Rollins can hardly wait for her grandmother to come live with her and her mother. But when she arrives, Enid is dismayed that the kind, sprightly woman she remembered is now burdensome and demanding. Because Enid's ...

  • Second Best

    Francine Pascal

  • Tidings of Great Joy

    Sandra Brown

    Ria Lavender hadn't planned on spending a passionate Christmas night in front of a roaring fire with Taylor Mackensie. But somehow the scents of pine tree, wood smoke, and male flesh produced a kind of spontaneous combustion in side her, and mor...

  • The Crystal Shard

    R.A. Salvatore
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Akar Kessel, a weak-willed apprentice mage sets in motion events leading to the rediscovery of the magical device, the crystal shard. But is it merely an inanimate device . . . or is it capable of directing the defeat of Ten-Tbwns? Or have the bar...

  • The Mardi Gras Mystery

    Carolyn Keene

    NANCY GOES ON A MARDI GRAS ADVENTURE AND FINDS HERSELF IN THE MIDDLE OF A MILLION-DOLLAR SCAM! When Brian Seaton invites Nancy and her friends to join the fun in New Orleans, they plan a glorious week of parades and parties in America's most roman...

  • Mystery of the Witches' Bridge

    Barbee Oliver Carleton

    Evil haunts the Witchs’ Bridge . . . the foggy marshes . . . the old Pride house! Now young Dan Pride has come to live there. Can he escape the terror that hangs over Witchs’ Bridge? That night, Dan sees a weird light, flickering out on th...

  • Strange Tomorrow

    Jean E. Karl

  • Sealed with a Kiss!

    M.E. Cooper

    All new couples . . . It's Valentine's Day, and brand-new couples at Kennedy High are ready for romance! ...

  • Deeds

    Joseph Amiel

    Thirty-six-year-old Ralph Behr is the third generation of Behrs involved in real estate development in New York. Wealthy and influential, Ralph is finalizing plans for the monumental Behr Center, a complex meant to revive Lower Manhattan's East Side,...

  • Three Nights in the Heart of the Earth

    Brett Laidlaw

    During the course of three days and nights of fierce midwestern winter, Ulysses Turner Fraser, poet, father, and charismatic teacher, reconsiders the tragedy of his life, in a story narrated by his younger son, Bryce...

  • Anthills of the Savannah

    Chinua Achebe

    A searing satire of political corruption and social injustice from the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart"Achebe has written a story that sidesteps both ideologies of the African experience and political agendas, in order to lead us to a deeply h...

  • The Edgerston Audit

    Don Akenson

  • Showdown

    Jorge Amado

    A classic Brazilian “Western” full of romance and adventure, violence and courage, and peopled with wonderfully earthy characters from the legendary author’s childhood.
     
    “Set in Bahia at the turn of the century, Showdown is brimming...

  • The Atheling

    Grace Chetwin

    Atheling: Anglo-Saxon for prince. 2047. Earth is dying after nuclear wars. As a new arms race builds, Pylar Fazhakian, an elderly leader of an Armenian mystic sect, appears at a Palo Alto defense installation claiming to have data that will give Pan-...

  • Mortal Fear

    Robin Cook

    At a large Boston clinic, a world-class biologist stumbles upon a miraculous discovery, a major scientific breakthrough. Soon, healthy, middle-aged patients are dying of old age. And the ultimate experiment in terror begins... ...

  • A Dangerous Liaison

    Jocelyn Davey

    In a tale of power struggles, dark secrets, and jealousy in the world of publishing, Ambrose Usher stumbles upon a conspiracy surrounding the writing of a biography that would provide a revealing look at an unscrupulous tycoon...

  • Three Days for Emeralds

    Mignon G. Eberhart

    MURDER AMONG FRIENDS... "Lacy, please come," Rose pleaded. Anxious and distraught, the young woman was convinced that she was being set up for murder and that only her old school friend could save her. Then Lacy poured her a drink--and watched i...

  • The Palace

    Paul E. Erdman

  • Sandmouth

    Ronald Frame

  • Wolf Winter

    Clare Francis

    THE DEADLY CHILL OF WINTER WOULD DRIVE OUT SOMETHING FAR MORE LETHAL THAN A WOLF . . . In the chill of the Cold War, two Norwegians are shot dead after straying into Soviet wilderness, killings that will bind together three people in a web of trea...

  • Fair Weather Foul

    Sean Freeman

  • Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle

    Dorothy Gilman

    Mrs. Pollifax and her beloved husband, Cyrus, are off to the Far East for pleasure. No more life-threatening danger for Emily Pollifax, thank you very much--her mind's made up. But when on the very morning she and Cyrus are leaving for Bangkok, the C...

  • Other Worlds of Isacc Asimov

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Pel Among the Pueblos

    Mark Hebden

    A brief spell among the Pueblos, and a shoot-out under a moonless sky brings Pel his reward when the redoubtable Chief Inspector chases leads on a double shooting of two ageing crooks all the way to Mexico. This is Hebden’s eleventh novel in a seri...

  • Solitude's Lawman

    Ray Hogan

    A stop at a small-town bank becomes the start of a life-and-death struggle for a young horse dealer when his money is stolen during a holdup. To a man like Cole Dagget, eight hundred dollars represents a lot of hard hours in the saddle -- and just e...

  • Fool's Sanctuary

    Jennifer Johnston

    Miranda, a dying women, recalls the last weekend of her childhood--when her lover Cathal, a working class student and IRA soldier, and her brother Andrew, a British Army lietenant, visit simultaneously...

  • Jeremy Blew It

    Rebecca C. Jones

  • Greyhound for Breakfast

    James Kelman

  • Death Match

    Leo Kessler

  • My First Loves

    Ivan Klima

    Through four sensuous tales, a young man traces his harsh coming of age in Czechoslovakia, where faith in love, country and human kindness must hold out against increasing political disillusionment. His first affections move from a young kitchen girl...

  • Lightning

    Dean Koontz

    A storm struck on the night Laura Shane was born, and there was a strangeness about the weather that people would remember for years. But even more mysterious was the blond-haired stranger who appeared out of nowhere--the man who saved Laura from a f...

  • A Note In Music

    Rosamond Lehmann

    A seductive new stranger becomes the symbol of everything two married women secretly long for in this richly imagined novel by one of the most distinguished writers of the twentieth century Thirty-four-year-old Grace Fairfax lives a dull, conventiona...

  • Sea-Grape Tree

    Rosamond Lehmann

    A woman searches for a fresh start on a remote Caribbean island in this sequel to Rosamond Lehmann's classic "The Ballad and the Source" The year is 1933. After a heart-wrenching betrayal by her married lover, Rebecca Landon leaves London for a t...

  • That Great Big Trenchcoat in the Sky

    Marc Lovell

  • The World My Wilderness

    Rose MacAulay

    Banished by her mother to England, Barbara is thrown into the ordered formality of English life. Confused and unhappy, she discovers the wrecked and flowering wastes around St Paul's, where she finds an echo of the wilderness of Provence and is force...

  • The Recycled Citizen

    Charlotte MacLeod

    Sarah and her husband, Max, have joined with the rest of the Kelling clan to plan a black-tie charity auction: great-uncle Frederick s extensive collection of antique knickknacks and whatnots are to be sold, the proceeds going to fund the Senior Citi...

  • Dear Bruce Springsteen

    Kevin Major

    In his letters to his favorite rock star, fourteen-year-old Terry reveals his musical aspirations and his problems coping with his parents' separation, communicating with girls, and finding his own place in the world....

  • Imago

    James McClure

  • Family Business

    Anna Murdoch

  • No. 4 Pickle Street

    David Peak

    This is Kate's diary, the fiction of her life, scribbled at dawn in her garden shed. Strong yet helpless, full of laughter in the teeth of despair, she spares herself nothing as she charts the shifting, incandescent landscape of her imagination....

  • Ascension Factor

    Bill Ransom

  • Mortal Games

    Pierre Salinger

  • Points of Light

    Linda Gray Sexton

    Motherhood evokes a woman's most powerful and intimate feelings: a child is part of his mother in ways that friends, even husbands, cannot rival. In this extraordinary novel, Allie Yates, a gifted artist, lives with her gentle husband, Sam, on their ...

  • For All the Tea in China

    Stephen Sheppard

  • Trilby's Trumpet

    Sarah Stapler

  • Pursued by the Crooked Man

    Susan Trott

    Maximiliana Bartha,Max to her lovers, Mom to her son, Miliana to her friends) believes that it is in the cards for her to die a violent death. And she assumes that most probably her husband, Dominic Racatelli, from whom she fled six years ago,taking...

  • Breathing Lessons

    Anne Tyler

    Maggie and Ira Moran have been married for twenty-eight years -- and it shows: in their quarrels, in their routines, in their ability to tolerate with affection each other’s eccentricities. Maggie, a kooky, lovable meddler and an irrepressible opti...

  • Gone to Earth

    Mary Webb

    Although to outside eyes, her existence may seem beset by difficult circumstances, 18-year-old Hazel Woodus loves her idyllic life in the gorgeous Shropshire countryside, where she spends most of her time communing with the forest and woodland creatu...

  • Rogues

    Peter Whalley

  • Beyond the Glass

    Antonia White

    Clara Batchelor is twenty-two. Her brief, doomed marriage to Archie over, she returns to live with her parents in the home of her childhood. She hopes for comfort but the devoutly Catholic household confines her and forms a dangerous glass wall of gu...

  • Zone Journals

    Charles Wright

    Charles Wright called his seventh collection Zone Journals to emphasize how the poems draw on time and place as their starting point. But despite the air of immediacy and informality, they are artfully composed, informed as always by Wright's profoun...

  • My Friend Matt and Hena the Whore

    Adam Zameenzad

  • Mattie

    Judy Alter

    Young Mattie, poor and illegitimate, was introduced to an entirely new world when she was hired to care for the daughter of an influential doctor. By sheer grit and determination, she eventually became a doctor herself and set up her practice amid th...

  • The Right Combination

    Jahnna Beecham

    Alexandra Clairborn's first day at Centennial High is more nerve-wracking than she wants to admit. She only knows two people in the entire school - her best friend Jill, and an obnoxious guy named Eric who wants to go out with her. Before the day is ...

  • Dead Man's Town

    Robert W. Broomall

    Desperately in need of a job, Jake Moran hires on as marshal of Union City, Kansas, bringing peace to the toughest town in the West--until he falls for the girlfriend of the town's biggest troublemaker...

  • Stringer and the Hangman's Rodeo

    Lou Cameron

    Cheyenne, Wyoming, is a town that’s leaping into the twentieth century spurs first. Pretty soon Cheyenne will be just as newfangled fancy as any Eastern city. But the folks there still know how to have fun. First the rodeo -- and then the hanging. ...

  • The Andropov File

    Nick Carter

  • The Finer Things

    Faith Cavandish

    Laurel Reed, America's favorite game show hostess and wife of screen idol Graham Burke, must compete for the attention of her husband with his publicist, Elinor Bloodworth, and his former lover, Diana Scott...

  • All That Glitters

    Manning Coles

  • Cast a Cold Eye

    Marjorie Eccles

  • Young Ole Devil

    J.T. Edson

    Jackson Baines Hardin, known as Ole Devil, is assigned by Major Sam Houston to deliver a shipment of rifles to the Texas patriots fighting for independence...

  • Bright and Shining Tiger

    Claudia J. Edwards

    Blessed with magical powers but cursed by her ignorant fellow humans, Runa leads a life of exile and scorn until she discovers the abandoned fortress of Silvercat Castellum and the friendly tiller folk, who welcome her as their ruler and protector...