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  • Wings of Love

    Elizabeth Connor Bernet

  • We're so Happy!

    Bill Buford

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  • Blood Quest

    James McPhee

  • Rogue Agent

    Jack Drake

  • Hard to Kill

    Jack Drake

  • The Road of Kings

    Karl Edward Wagner
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Facing the gallows for defending his honor-by killing the captain of the guard-the mighty Conan jumps feet first into a rescue attempt of one of his fellow prisoners. When Conan learns his rescuers are the daring Rebels of the White Rose, he joins th...

  • The Hellbound Train

    Will Sundown

  • Blood and Fire

    Michael McGann

  • The Sheriff Kill

    Jack Curtis

    Only one human being could have gotten Kiowa Smith to quit his drifting ways -- Paddy Burke, the tomcatting hombre who offered to partner him on a new ranch outside the town of Galilee, Kansas. But Paddy lies dead at the hands of Sheriff Ben Clark, f...

  • Bayou Bride

    Bobbi Smith

    HE BOUGHT A BRIDE Wealthy Louisiana planter Dominic Kane was in a bind: according to his father's will, he had to find a wife within six months--or forfeit his inheritance and his plantation, Riverwood. When he caw the beautiful bondservant on the d...

  • Nicoji

    M. Shayne Bell

    They owed their souls to the Company Store--Not if they could help it, they didn't! When Sam and Jake answered the call of American Nicoji and volunteered for off-planet agricultural jobs they thought they were turning in their dead-end lives on E...

  • Wyoming Range War

    J.R. Roberts

    Six women have bought the old Beckett place near Little Creek, Wyoming. Rancher Tom Kennedy figures he can easily chase 'em off and add their land to his own spread -- but that's before he learns the gals have got the Gunsmith on their side! Even ...

  • The Russian Bear

    Joseph Meek

  • Killer's Race

    J.R. Roberts

    Clint Adams has finally met his match...at least when it comes to poker. Playing against cardsharp O.G. Phipps. the Gunsmith is folding faster than a union tent in a tornado. It isn't much consolation when Phipps raises the ante and has Clint bunk up...

  • Three for the Money

    Luke Short

    Following a bloody train holdup that left one man dead and resulted in the theft of a cargo of gold, Cam Holgate is determined to retrieve the booty and win the reward that could save his failing ranch, but the only witness to the crime, greedy Tina ...

  • Trouble at War Eagle // Redhead of Aztec Wells

    W.C. Tuttle

  • Longarm and the Killer's Shadow

    Tabor Evans

  • Diablo at Daybreak

    Dale Colter

  • Lone Star and the Sierra Sabotage

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki will make sure the railroad goes through -- even if they have to lay their lives on the line in the one hundred and first Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting...

  • Longarm and the Montana Massacre

    Tabor Evans

  • Lone Star and the Gemstone Robbers

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki hunt down a stolen ruby -- and a pack of thieves and killers in the one hundred and second Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's front...

  • Coward of the Clan

    Max Brand

    THEY MADE HIM AN ORPHAN. BUT HE MADE HIMSELF A MAN... The Brett clan had killed his family in a night of brutality and bloodshed that was little more than a blur in Paul Torridon's memory. Then they had adopted him for their own -- the spoils...

  • Night Rider's Moon

    Kit Dalton

  • War Clouds

    Hank Edwards (1)

    THE JUDGE TOUGH-AS-NAILS FEDERAL JUDGE CLAYTON TORN IS MORE THAN A JUDGE. SOMETIMES HE HAS TO BE THE JURY... AND THE EXECUTIONER. WAR CLOUDS Dakota is a powder keg with a short fuse. The Cheyenne are painting for war, the army is shining steel a...

  • Spitfire

    Sonya Birmingham

    IMPASSIONED CRUSADER Enraged over the pitiful plight of local miners, feisty flame-haired Carrie O'Leary decides to take action. Gun in hand, she bursts into the offices of the Crested Butte Courier and kidnaps editor Matt Worthington, the handsome ...

  • By My Heart Betrayed

    Olga Bicos

    HER BEAUTY WAS THE BAIT... Esmeralda MacClure knew that using her fiery beauty as a weapon was heartless. But her cousin's betrayal had stolen her family estate and now, forced to work as a seamstress, she has no choice if she wants to reclaim her...

  • Intimate Connections

    Joanna Adams

    One man had the power to destroy her career -- and discover her hidden passion....

  • Golden Rose

    Mary Balogh
    in

    The unique joys and passions that surround St. Valentine's Day are captured in an extraordinary collection of all-new stories by five of the most beloved and highly acclaimed Regency authors. Fair ladies ... courtly gentlemen ... romantic intrigue......

  • Catch of the Season

    Barbara Benedict

    THE CHASE FOR LOVE To compete against twenty other women for a marriage proposal from that devilishly handsome bachelor, the Earl of Fairbright? The very idea was insane! But Andrea Grantham is coerced into entering the silly contest -- and, aft...

  • A Logical Lady

    Janice Bennett

    A SINGULAR SENSATION Miss Elizabeth Carstairs, in the ordinary way of things, was a level-headed young lady, not given to flights of romantic foolishness. But when Mr. Frederick Ashfield arrived at Halliford Castle, after two years on the Continent,...

  • Feuds and Fantasies

    Rebecca Ashley

    SHE HAD NOT MATURED TO SEVEN-AND-TWENTY WITHOUT LEARNING THAT ROMANCE WAS A FLEETING THING.... If only she had not developed a tendre for William Haversly -- her fierce enemy since the duel in which he shot her brother. To make matters worse, Fion...

  • The Last Brady

    Barbara Boswell

    The Arrogant Tyrant with a Wicked Grin... Jack Blackledge was sexy, tough, and hard to handle - and Colleen Brady knew she'd have her hands full working as assistant to the difficult columnist! She'd come all the way to Buffalo to escape her overp...

  • Tempt Me With Kisses

    Phoebe Conn

    Daniel Aragon knew trouble when he saw it, and Harmony Russell was more than he could handle. The auburn-haired beauty was a temptation from the moment he spotted her on the San Francisco pier ... a temptation, and a torment. For her uncle was one of...

  • Midnight Bride

    Kathleen Drymon

    SHE'D ENSLAVE HIM WITH HER PASSION With her youth, beauty, and sizable dowry, Charleston-bred Kellie McBride had her share of ardent suitors eager to wed and bed her, but the headstrong miss was bewitched by the daring exploits of The Falcon -- ...

  • Passion's Bold Caress

    Pamela Caldwell

    HE STORMED HER CASTLE Lady Ailee of Coldwell was not afraid -- merely outraged -- when the band of marauding knights laid siege to her castle. Donning chain mail armor and mounting a mighty destrier, she saw that her people were sheltered within the...

  • Change of Heart

    Julie Caille

    A LADY WITH A PAST For six years, Diana Farington Verney had buried herself in the country, far from the gossip surrounding her ill-fated, marriage and her late husband's demise. Indeed, London was be last place the lovely widow wanted to be, bu...

  • Lady Harriet Takes Charge

    Marian Devon

    TIME HEALS WOUNDED HEARTS? PERHAPS WHEN PIGS FLY! The gossip mongers had a field day when the newly betrothed Lady Harriet caught her fiance, Rawdon Melford, kissing another woman -- at their own engagement party! Eight years later, Harriet nev...

  • Passion's Chains

    Catherine Creel

    HE HAD BETRAYED HER Lady Eden Parrish stared in shock at the bare-chested, blue-eyed rogue who stood so proudly on the Bridgetown auction block-- he was none other than her husband, the despicable Roark St. Clair! Eden had been sent to Barbados in d...

  • A Family Likeness

    Anna Gilbert

    The selfless love Tessa felt for her grandmother was a natural, ingrained thing; her pride in her family tradition an unquestioned duty, an essential part of being a Jasmyn. Why, then, as she grew up, did she occasionally yearn to be free of Barmote ...

  • Southern Seduction

    Thea Devine

    CAUGHT BY FATE Cassandra Taggart was tired of obeying orders. Though her late husband's will required her to hire a man to run her Georgia plantation, the beautiful young widow was determined to manage things herself. To satisfy the lawyers, she i...

  • Love and Triumph

    Patricia Hagan

    The sweeping conclusion to the Coltrane Saga PASSION, REVOLUTION, AND LOVE TRIUMPHANT All Russia was being consumed in the terrible flames of war as the centuries-old Czarist dynasty crumbled. A prisoner in the midst of chaos and destruction, ...

  • Autumn Rose

    Marjorie Farrell

    Lady of Mystery To the ton, Honora Dillon was a person beyond the pale, soiling her hand with ink to pander to popular taste. To the haughty Countess of Alverstone, Honora was an adventuress, trying to snare the Countess's son. To Miranda, H...

  • The Gift

    Julie Garwood

    England, 1816. A child bride, Lady Sara Winchester had grown into a winsome beauty, joyfully anticipating the day when her husband, Lord Nathanial Clayton, Marquess of St. James, would return to claim her at last. Charmingly innocent, she dismissed t...

  • The Chanting

    Beverly T. Haaf

    As she struggles to piece her life together after enduring a divorce and the death of her child, Janet begins to think she is going mad when she dreams of children in a nursery fire and then sees shadowy figures in the house next door...

  • Dream Lover

    Jean Innes

    SHE FOUGHT HIS ADVANCES... Lovely Breda Vivien was livid! The law threatened that unless she married, she might lose her beloved Cornwall estate. The proud, raven-haired Breda refused to barter herself to a man -- not even the rugged Richard Delacey...

  • Fires in the Night

    Judith Hill

    MASTER OF PASSION Sand storms and scorpions would not stop Eudora Morrel from crossing the Sahara to find her father, though stories she'd heard of the Reguibat -- a fierce tribe of marauding outlaws -- were enough to send shivers up her spine. ...

  • Colorado Captive

    Charlotte Hubbard

    SHE VOWED ETERNAL VENGEANCE Her lush beauty hidden by a disguise, eighteen-year-old Emily Burnham came to the rough-and-tumble mining town of Cripple Creek determined to catch the murderous scoundrel who'd shot her father. Then devastatingly han...

  • Hawke's Pride

    Norah Hess

    From the moment she laid eyes on him, Rue thought Hawke Masters the most insufferable man she'd ever met. Proud, arrogant, overbearing, he made it insultingly clear that although her grandfather's shotgun had forced him to wed Rue, nothing would make...

  • Lady Valentine's Scheme

    Emma Lange
    in

    The unique joys and passions that surround St. Valentine's Day are captured in an extraordinary collection of all-new stories by five of the most beloved and highly acclaimed Regency authors. Fair ladies ... courtly gentlemen ... romantic intrigue......

  • A Golden Dream

    Carol Jerina

    DREAMS OF LOVE... For lovely Jennifer Avery, stationed with her career officer husband and two young daughters in Naples, marriage is no longer the joyous, fulfilling union it once was. Torn by her changing feelings for the man she married too you...

  • Lover's Moon

    Catherine Linden

    WILDERNESS OF DESIRE Fleeing the grinding poverty of her Scottish homeland lovely Keira MacKenzie had no choice but to indenture herself in return for passage to the New World. Never did she imagine that her bond would be sold to the highest bidde...

  • The Secret Benefactor

    Katherine Kingsley
    in

    The unique joys and passions that surround St. Valentine's Day are captured in an extraordinary collection of all-new stories by five of the most beloved and highly acclaimed Regency authors. Fair ladies ... courtly gentlemen ... romantic intrigue......

  • Moon Dreams

    Patricia Rice

    Love Passionate Promise Alyson Hampton was a scorned love child...until a vast legacy made her the fabulously wealthy Lady Hampton, pursued by the most rapacious fortune hunters in the realm. This exquisite innocent was in desperate need of rescue...

  • Defy the Thunder

    Kay McMahon

    She vowed never to forgive him but she could not forget him She wanted a taste of adventure. But rebellious Alexandra Penbrooke stepped into a world of danger … and found herself tangled in the steely arms of Christian Page. A man who’s seeming ...

  • Fiery Virginia Jewel

    Elizabeth Leigh

    His lessons in loving made her burn for his touch! SHE WAS WILLING TO LEARN High spirited Glynna O'Rourke was delighted when a distant relative invited her to spend a year in London, but now the Virginia beauty stamped her shapely foot in outra...

  • Destiny's Will

    Elizabeth Ann Michaels

    AN ARROGANT STRANGER HELD HER FUTURE IN HIS HANDS... Cara Fairchild's beloved father left her penniless on his death, willing their estate to the Earl of Ellsworth, a man she'd never met. The imperious Earl sent curt orders for Cara to live with h...

  • Rendezvous

    Serena Richards

    Their love was the greatest peril of all... Belle Varens... Beneath her silk gowns and frilly corsets beat the steely heart of a spy. Sinclair Carrington... A master of deception, he possessed dark secrets of his own. In the stormy days of the French...

  • This Fiery Splendor

    Christine Monson

    While the sun set on the British Empire, they discovered that desire can be as unquenchable as a desert wind... The exquisitely beautiful daughter of an English missionary, Annalise Devon had a simple life-- until her dying father passed her desti...

  • Revenge So Sweet

    Diane Gates Robinson

    WAYLAID BY PASSION Golden-haired heiress Arielle Duplantier had no time for romantic dalliance! She had made a solemn vow: to find the man who killed her twin brother and stole her beloved plantation, farce the villain to pay for his crimes, and the...

  • Green Eyes

    Karen Robards

    A SHADOW... The bold intruder crept through the silent mansion, determined to claim the fortune that was rightfully his. But Julian Chase was undone, his daring scheme thwarted by a bewitching silver-blond beauty with eyes that sparkled like preciou...

  • Fathers and Daughters

    Patricia Rice
    in

    The unique joys and passions that surround St. Valentine's Day are captured in an extraordinary collection of all-new stories by five of the most beloved and highly acclaimed Regency authors. Fair ladies ... courtly gentlemen ... romantic intrigue......

  • A Love So Wild

    Evelyn Rogers

    Lying Beauty... Adam Gase had risked his inheritance to rebuild a crumbling sugar plantation, but his dream was shattered after he was thrown into a Louisiana prison for crimes he did not commit. Now he was free, bent on revenge -- and he would start...

  • Falcon on the Wind // His Stolen Bride

    Shelly Thacker

    CAPTIVE OF DECEPTION AND DESIRE Betrayed by a treacherous French "ally" dashing Sir Connor of Glenshiel boldly seized the high-born Lady Laurien d'Amboise from the steps of Notre Dame on her wedding day. The reluctant betrothed of his deceitful en...

  • The Antagonists

    Joan Wolf
    in

    The unique joys and passions that surround St. Valentine's Day are captured in an extraordinary collection of all-new stories by five of the most beloved and highly acclaimed Regency authors. Fair ladies ... courtly gentlemen ... romantic intrigue......

  • Forbidden Games

    Carolyn Fireside

    Stunning, sensual, and stubborn, Maggie Charleson was about to learn the rules of... Ambition--wanting her talent, not her wealthy father's ownership of New York's mighty football franchise, to make her a top journalist. Power--being blackmailed by...

  • Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi

    Rob MacGregor

    In 1981 a new hero like no other burst upon the scene. Over the next ten years and three films we grew to know and love the legend that is Indiana Jones: bold adventurer, swashbuckling explorer, he lives forever in our imaginations, unraveling the...

  • The Legend

    Jerry Ahern

    In the assault on the forces of darkness, can one man survive? The commando raids would be launched simultaneously. Already inside the Soviet Underwater Complex, the US Marines were surfacing, stripping off their environment suits, PV-26 sh...

  • New Orleans Run

    David Robbins

  • Mongster

    Randall Boyll

  • Tombley's Walk

    Crosland Brown

    The beast that walkslike a man feeds beneath a blood-red Texas moon.

    Billy Ed and Dory Barnes left the honky-tonk in Tombley''sWalk on a warm Texas night. They were looking for a little privacy. They neverreturned.

    Billy Ed''s body was...

  • Huntsville Horror

    Bob Ham

  • Perfect Little Angels

    Andrew Neiderman

    From the bestselling author of THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE. "A master of psychological thrillers!" -- VC Andrews A picture perfect town holds a chilling secret. Justine Freeman and her parents move to Elysian Fields to start anew, and the picturesque town s...

  • Desert Wind

    Duncan Long

    Captain Jefferson Davis "Oz" Carson and the Night Stalkers helicopter pilots are assigned to transport a prince across a terrorist-teeming Sahara Desert, where they must contend with kidnappers, assassins, and intrigue...

  • Where the Chill Waits

    T. Chris Martindale

    THERE ARE DARK PLACES IN THE FOREST...Cold, sun-starved places where man wasn't meant to go. But the hunters didn't—couldn't—know that. They just knew what their leader had told them that the expedition was meant to test their mettle, t...

  • Night Plague

    Graham Masterson

  • The Forge of Virtue

    Lynn Abbey

    Lord Ironhawk's son, Jordan Hawson; Althea; Drum, the blacksmith; and Jordan's kid brother, Squirt, search for Balthan, Althea's magician brother, the only one to know the truth about the evil infesting the land of Britannia...

  • Isaac Asimov's Aliens

    Gardner Dozois

  • The Dream Compass

    Jeff Bredenberg

    First in the Merquan Chronicles, a science fiction adventure of a revolt against tyranny in a postapocalyptic world from “a writer to watch closely” (Roger Zelazny).
     
    Earth has been devastated in a long-forgotten...

  • Inconstant Star

    Poul Anderson

    First you scream, and then you leap.... When humans and kzinti met, the kzinti introduced themselves with a scream-and-leap of joyous anticipation. But--surprise!--the monkey boys and girls of Planet Earth not only fought back but won! How, how coul...

  • On the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure

    Harry Harrison

    He's the perfect Spaceship Trooper: big, strong, and completely brainwashed. He's the perfect hero: willing to do almost anything to save his neck (perhaps one of the only body parts that's still his own). Bill is in the hospital, vainly hoping fo...

  • K-9 Corps

    Kenneth Von Gunden

    Mankind's best friends - and the future's greatest heroes... The team: They are the best freelance space scouts in the galaxy; genetically altered dogs with enhanced senses and the gift of speech; they are Beowulf, Grendel, Mama-san, Anso...

  • Nanoware Time

    Ian Watson
    in

    NANOWARE TIME The aliens came from Beta Hydri, bearing gifts for Earth: microscopic machines called "nanoware." Injected into the human bloodstream, they would open powerful realms of inner space. But even the aliens admitted there were demons in tha...

  • Deryni Magic

    Katherine Kurtz

    A RACE OF GIANTS In Gwynedd lived the Deryni, that mysterious race of wizards with arcane mental powers. Often feared and misunderstood, they came to be persecuted by humans, forced into hiding lest their race be destroyed. They were a race of Hea...

  • Necrom

    Mick Farren

  • The Unicorn Solution

    John Lee

  • Crusade

    James Lowder
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The khahan and his mighty barbarian army have turned their sights on the civilized western nations of the Forgotten Realms. Only one man, King Azoun of Cormyr, has the courage and the strength to bring the western factions together and forge a crusad...

  • The Last Recall

    Charles Ingrid

    With the earth devastated by an accident that has mutated the human race, the survivors attempt to breed back to purer bloodlines, while harassed by mutant bands and visited by generational starships sent from earth years before...

  • The Marked Man

    Charles Ingrid

    Charles Ingrid''s prophetic two-book series tells the story of an Earth divided by genetics. Some are determined to return the human race to its original form. But others believe the world belongs to those who have been genetically engineered....

  • The Lost City of Zork

    Robin Wayne Bailey

  • The Shadow Gate

    Margaret Ball

    THE ONLY GOOD ELF IS A DEAD ELF Or so the militant order of Durandine monks thought, and they planned on making sure that all the elves in their world were very, very good. The elves of the Three Realms have sent out one last spell to bring help.....

  • The Khan's Persuasion

    Cynthia Felice

    RITES OF CONQUEST The exploitation of Cestry Prime was supposed to be a simple operation. But neither the Company nor their beautiful technician Sindon Liang counted on Rukmani Khan...and his incredible powers of Persuasion. The Khan can cleave sto...

  • Kent Montana and the Reasonably Invisible Man

    Lionel Fenn

  • Gnome Man's Land

    Esther Friesner

  • Winner Takes All

    Simon R. Green

    Every city has its favorite blood sports. Some cities prefer the traditional cruelties of bearbaiting or cockfights, while others indulge their baser appetites with gladiators and arenas. The city port of Haven gets its thrills from the dirtiest, blo...

  • Bridge of Dawn

    Niel Hancock

    Return to the world of THE CIRCLE OF LIGHT... The magical universe where man, otter, bear, and dwarf together fought demonic forces of darkness in the struggle for their world. Here, in the twilight age of Atlanton Earth, you traveled with the might...

  • Judson's Eden

    Keith Laumer

  • Winter World

    C.J. Mills

  • Confrontation

    Yoshiyuki Tomino

  • The Way Beneath

    Angus Wells

    Years ago, the sacred Book of Kyrie prophesied that a champion would lead the Three Kingdoms in battle against the demonic sorcerer Taws and his barbarian Horde--sent by the wrathful war-god Ashar to tear the kingdoms apart. When the young prince ...

  • A Roil of Stars

    Don Wismer

    A COWARD DIES A THOUSAND TIMES, BUT A BRAVE MAN'S DEATH IS REAL!That and Never Volunteer could have been Ryne Sangre's dual mottoes, but now that the Wholeth Empire is reaching out to annex the worlds of the Polar Cloud, it's time for all able-bodied...

  • Believe in Me

    Connie Bennett

    She didn't trust anyone Crystal Elliott was the adult child of an alcoholic. As such, the guiding rule of her life was Don't Talk About It. Little wonder she had difficulty forming relationships. But she was almost ready to share everyt...

  • Never a Bride

    Leanne Banks

    ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID... When Joshua Daniels agreed to be in his friend's wedding, he had no idea he'd be paired off with a blue-eyed, golden-haired beauty. But Cassie Warner was every guy's dream come true: bright, clever, and sweet ecstasy in his ...

  • Ready-Made Family

    Elizabeth August

    ALL IN THE FAMILY Never trust a man were words Emily Hartley chose to live by. And except for occasional bouts with loneliness, she did just fine...until bachelor father Jed Sawyer made her an offer she couldn't refuse. The rugged farmer wante...

  • Heat

    Jean Barrett

    JUNGLE LOVE Destiny had taken New Orleans executive Anne Richmond to the lush, untamed upper reaches of the Amazon ...and to Ross McIntyre, the brooding, dangerous American expatriate who was her unwilling guide through his beautiful, treacherous ...

  • The Jaguar's Eye

    Caroline Burnes

    She wasn't a typical tourist Hard work on the Maya excavation wasn't all that distinguished Celeste Coolridge. The villagers claimed a mystical tie to the fiery-haired stockbroker. They invited her to their secret rites. And when a man was mauled ...

  • Trespasses

    Carolyn Bridgwood

    You have to love good more than you hate evil, otherwise there's no point in our being alive.... When Kitty Conway is orphaned at the age of eight, she is sent to live with her aunt and uncle, who live with their six children in a state of eccentr...

  • Paradise Remembered

    Carole Buck

    SHE COULDN'T REMEMBER HIM.... For six years, Elyssa Collins had dreamed of a nameless, faceless stranger who aroused her deepest desires. He was a man she couldn't remember -- and he was the father of her only child. Then Elyssa met pow...

  • Hearts Betrayed

    Gayle Buck

    Love's Table Turned Michele du Bois burst upon the London season as society's most dazzling beauty. Gentlemen swarmed around her like bees after honey -- only to have their dreams of marriage brutally dashed. Men were mere playthings to...

  • Nights in White Satin

    Linda Cajio

    The Handsome Blue-Eyed Devil... Jill Daneforth arrived in England determined to retrieve her mother's prized emerald necklace from a swindler who had stolen her legacy. But one look from her host, aristocratic Rick Kitteridge, took her mind off cr...

  • Braden's Brides

    Caryn Cameron

    God's Country Before Abigail Rosemont even arrived on the lush Australian frontier of New South Wales, her longed-for life of adventure had begun -- with Duke Braden's searing kiss at sea. But New South Wales was a land divided -- by ri...

  • Return to Tomorrow

    Marisa Carroll

    Rachel McKendrick Phillips had nowhere left to run As a prisoner in a Vietnamese labor camp, Rachel had done things to survive that she couldn't bear to think about. Even safely home in the United States, her memories would give her no peace. S...

  • Shadows on the Sand

    Maggi Charles

    Millionaire Derek Van Heusen believed only in what he could buy or build, and dreamy do-gooders rarely broke his stride. Until fiery Abigail Eldredge nearly stopped him in his tracks. Even as she slowed the mighty wheels of modern progress, his beaut...

  • Squeeze Play

    Lori Copeland

    The Best-Looking Guy in Town... Dex Matthews was back, and Carly Winters still thought her ex-fiance was too handsome for his own good...and hers! The brilliant marketing director had challenged and charmed her like crazy when they'd first met, st...

  • Against All Odds

    Joleen Daniels

    Karl Hallstrom's blood was boiling. The object of his ire was pretty Jaime Mitchell, the sweetly stubborn social worker who planned to put his feisty grandfather in a home. But his angry assault revealed a chink in Jaime's armor, allowing him a glimp...

  • Goldilocks

    Judith Christenberry

    HEART OF THE WILDERNESS When Susan McCormick set out to explore the Rocky Mountains, she was only looking for a little peace and quiet. But the majestic wilderness turned threatening when Susan took the wrong path and a storm blew in. The isolated...

  • The Valentine Street Hustle

    Ryanne Corey

    ALL THE RIGHT MOVES The minute she walked into his bar, Thomas Murphy knew he was in trouble. She was Newport high society, a real class act. But she handled a pool stick like a pro, and she had a wicked left hook -- he could testify to that. Yes,...

  • Society Page

    Ruth Jean Dale

    "Anybody but Annie Page!" Newspaper publisher Nick Kimball needed a society columnist; Annie had the necessary contacts. But he didn't like her any more than he'd liked her late husband, Robert. According to Nick, Annie was a &#...

  • The Undoing of Justin Starbuck

    Marie Ferrarella

    THE CAPRICORN MAN The sexy, sensible Capricorn man doesn't fall in love overnight. He'll wait for a woman with warmth, sparkle...and patience. And just when you think he'll never be yours, the mysterious Capricorn's sensuous side slo...

  • Hot Time

    Sharon Francis

    SULTRY VACATION Overwork and Boston cold had frazzled high-powered executive Raiford Cornell, so he prescribed himself some Florida warmth. But the southern sun wasn't the only thing heating up Raif once he'd seen the tempting smile and long legs ...

  • Summer Fancy

    Olivia Ferrell

    SUMMER'S SWEET PROMISE Fancy Connors had one long, hot summer to find out if her love for Rader Malone was real or just a long-held dream. She was barely a teenager when her handsome, older stepbrother had been driven out of her life. And now,...

  • The Fury and the Passion

    Paula Fairman

    Orphaned by the tragic death of her father, 17 year-old Stacey Pendarrow lives only to revenge herself on Clay Conway, the man she loved and trusted -- the young outlaw accused of murdering her father as they made their dangerous run for Wells Farg...

  • Lord of Lightning

    Suzanne Forster

    Her Fantasy Viking Warrior... When Stephen Gage collided with Lise Anderson, she felt actual sparks fly between them! His eyes were the color of infinity, his voice held the promise of exquisite sensuality, and his spirit seemed to recognize hers. T...

  • When Murder Calls

    M.L. Gamble

    What's a girl to do? Megan Summers, TV-ratings coordinator and mother of two, was just getting her life in order when a uniformed killer -- dubbed the Grim Reaper by the media -- donned a badge and caused chaos in the cozy hamlet of Melbourne...

  • The Twilight Prince

    Sibylle Garrett

    WORLDS APART The world looked at Prince Jamal and saw only a wealthy globe-trotting playboy, but Reba Davis knew better. This fascinating, mysterious man had struggled all his life to find a balance between his people's ancient customs and the way...

  • Chance It

    Joanna Gilpin

    He fulfilled her wildest fantasies Ira Nicholson was the perfect lover -- and Diane Roberts wanted him. She was starting a new life, away from the demands of running a multimillion-dollar business. She had tried love once and failed miserably. Now...

  • Hearts at Risk

    Libby Hall

    A CENTURY OF AMERICAN ROMANCE 1890s--1990s Reporting for an underground newspaper, Jennifer Wright champions counterculture causes--and fears love's dangers. Test pilot Lij Branigan explores the limits of speed and performance in experimental ...

  • Season of the Heart

    Ann Hammond

    ISLAND GIRL Architect Lane Stafford had thought of his trip to Florida as a working vacation -- until his car broke down on the isolated main road of Caloosa Key. With no sign of civilization in sight, Lane knew the fierce mosquitoes and scorching...

  • Waiting Wives

    Christina Harland

    Waiting for their husbands who are off fighting in Vietnam, Abbra turns to her husband's brother for love, Serena forsakes her decadent life for work in a Saigon orphanage, and Gabriella finds fame as a singer...

  • Louisiana Lovin'

    Charlotte Hughes

    The Rugged, Reckless Sheriff ... When Gator Landry came to warn her grandmother that a hurricane was coming to Lizard Bayou, Michelle Thurston felt breathless, shaken by memories of the wild Cajun boy who'd tempted a young girl to sneak out to mee...

  • The Golden Swan

    Aileen Humphrey

    PASSION'S PROMISE ... Glorianna Kendell had always dreamed of the powerful embrace of a dark stranger, had imagined the intoxicating fire of his kisses ... and had feared that her dreams of passion would never come true ... Until Maxwell Ruther...

  • A Man of His Word

    Arlene James

    BRIDE TO BE...OR NOT TO BE? When had Corinne Terral become engaged? She remembered accepting her friend's offer to use his home while he was away -- not his marriage proposal! But that was what he'd told his old-fashioned boss and next-doo...

  • Almost Heaven

    Sandra James

    The shame still haunted her After learning a shocking secret about her husband, Leslie Wilson had divorced him. A tranquil summer in San Diego with her friend Colleen's family would be just what she needed. Or so she thought. She hadn't co...

  • Moonwitch

    Nicole Jordan

    Night's Beauty... When sea captain Kyle Ramsey met Selena Markham on a moonlit beach, her ethereal beauty left him stunned. But when he discovered that she wanted him to make love to her, he was flabbergasted. Selena's fiance was betraying her...

  • Handyman

    Cathie Linz

    SLOW TO TRUST... So what if school librarian Alicia Donnelly was great with kids? Ever since her single parent ex-fiance had let it slip that maternalism was her main--and only--attraction, Alicia had sworn off struggling fathers looking for love....

  • A Woman of Gallantry

    Elisabeth McNeill

      A high-born lady and her servant girl defy scandal with friendship and courage in this historical Scottish saga based on true events. Veronica Hay is an acclaimed beauty, but her downward spiral begins the moment she enters a loveless marriage...

  • Dakota Dream

    Sharon MacIver

    BOUND BY PASSION Dominique DuBois was a golden beauty, and niece to General George Custer, stalwart enemy of Indian nations. She could not explain her fierce attraction to a shy and handsome private in her uncle's charge - she only knew that Jacob's...

  • Sweet Lies, Satin Sighs

    Bay Matthews

    All her life, daughter-of-the-help Darcy had idolized Roman Zachery, the congressman's son. Their one night of hot, reckless, teenage passion had rocked her world. But Roman had married a proper wife, and Darcy had fled, carrying her fateful secret. ...

  • A Loving Touch

    Joyce McGill

    FATAL VISIONS Victoria Shelton's special gifts had never brought her anything but pain, and she wanted no more reminders of them. So Michael Gallagher's urgent request--that she use her psychic abilities to help him find his missing friend and pa...

  • Heaven Sent

    Pamela Morsi

    THE PREACHER'S DAUGHTER When virtuous Hannah Bunch set out to trap herself a husband at the spinsterly age of twenty-six, she hardly dreamed shed be compromised by a smoldering, blue-eyed stranger. Her reputation shattered beyond all hope, she pro...

  • Burning Dreams

    Peggy Nicholson

    It was like pleading with a stone "We might not have as much money as you," Kara Tate said, confronting Jordan Stonehall, "but we've got every bit as much pride." If it hadn't been for stupid, macho Texas pride--and cruel f...

  • Lucy's Scoundrel

    Barbara Neil

    She had thought to teach him a lesson, not learn one herself HER soft heart was her undoing Upon hearing of a libertine son whose errant ways were driving his poor mother to distraction, Lucy Bledsoe reluctantly volunteered to assist in a most...

  • Sweet Mischief

    Doris Parmett

    A Gambler in Love... Katie Reynolds had loved Bill Logan ever since they were kids, but he'd never considered her anything more than his best buddy, his partner in crime. So when he came home to Cape May and invited her to dinner, she wondered if ...

  • The Marriage Brokers

    Irene Northan

    SHE would never have believed him to be such a slowtop When her brother informed her that to clear off his debts he had agreed to find her a husband, Miranda Branscombe was horrified, chiefly because she could not trust her rackety young brother&...

  • Land of Enchantment

    Catherine Palmer

    Buried Treasures Archaeologist Kitt Tucker had spent her life studying the past, but she'd never been able to make sense of her own. And now she had to, because Garth Culhane, the husband who'd walked out on her so many years before, was back in ...

  • Nelson's Brand

    Diana Palmer

    MR. JANUARY Man: Gene Nelson Description: Lean, rugged rancher and head honcho of the sprawling Triple N spread--until he made a shocking discovery. Reputation: Love 'em and leave 'em a man whose heart was made of ice... until mysterious All...

  • A Serious Pursuit

    Ellen Rawlings

    SCIENCE IS A SERIOUS MATTER ... BUT SO IS LOVE! Wishing to pursue his scientific studies undisturbed, Lord Justin Darvey kept his life simple--and the hiring of charming Elizabeth Hanley as a companion to his elderly aunt seemed just the thing. El...

  • Four Dollars and Fifty-One Cents

    Lass Small

    GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE... The truth was, Jan Folger had never really given Junior Busby a second thought--even though he'd lived next door to her for about a million years. But her charity group was holding a bachelor auction. They needed one mor...

  • Love With Interest

    Darcy Rice

    A MATTER OF TRUST From the minute she walked into her office, Stephanie Robinson knew it was going to be a long day. An irate client was waiting with a check for twenty-five thousand dollars--a check that had bounced. A quick search of the compute...

  • Easy Lovin'

    Candace Schuler

    It was a scandalous affair Prim and proper Kate Hightower did everything by the book. Yet she'd run away from her wedding rehearsal, leaving her fiance practically standing at the altar. New Orleans was the ideal place to soothe her shattered nerv...

  • Double Dare

    Christine Rimmer

    Casey Clinton was in a bind. Custody courts didn't favor single fathers, and he seemed perilously close to losing his beloved nephew. What he needed was a wife. And since his childhood buddy Joanna Vail had always stood by his side through thick and ...

  • The Bath Quadrille

    Amanda Scott

    Two Could Play at the Marriage Game Lovely Lady Sybilla Calverton refused to show her rage when she spied her husband, the devastatingly attractive Earl of Ramsbury, in the arms of the notorious Lady Fanny Mandeville. Instead Sybilla chose to show...

  • Night Shift

    Nora Roberts

    IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT The calls came like clockwork -- a cold, hate-filled voice telling late-night radio announcer Cilla O'Roarke that she was going to die. The never-ending threats had finally made her a believer. She was desperate -- desp...

  • High Stakes

    Jane Silverwood

    Three abandoned orphans, one missing heiress ... When elderly communications magnate Owen Byrnside learned that twenty-six years earlier his only son had fathered a daughter, he yearned to locate his heir. It wouldn't be easy: the night the girl's...

  • Doctor, Darling

    Glenda Sanders

    They were an unlikely pair Dr. Sergei Karol was no mere mortal. He was microsurgeon, the specialist who saved Polly Mechler's brother from a disabling injury. But Polly wasn't intimidated by the great Dr. Karol. She had her own claim to fame. She ...

  • The Two of Us

    Marcine Smith

    HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS Abbey Baird was coming home--to the small town she'd vowed to escape forever, and to face the man she'd once adored. Ten years had passed since she'd left behind the shadow of her past--and Travis Matthews--to make somet...

  • Different Worlds

    Elaine K. Stirling

    Different Worlds Dawn Avery: Biologist. Her work--her life--was the rain forests of Central America. Michael Garrett: Corporate analyst. His business -- his roots--were solidly in Western Canada. Then it happened. One hot, steamy night in ...

  • Lazarus Rising

    Anne Stuart

    TRUE LOVE NEVER DIES Though Katharine Lafferty was engaged to be married, her heart was still in mourning. Katharine had been nineteen and a college coed. Danny McCandless had been twenty-four and a well-dressed, coolheaded criminal. And his ef...

  • The Last Good Man Alive

    Myrna Temte

    Single mom Susan Miller knew there wasn't a man breathing she could trust--least of all, new neighbor David Hunter, Wyoming's most notorious bachelor. True, his playboy smile brightened dishwater-dull days, and he had risked life and limb for her chi...

  • The Shimmering Stones of Glendower Hall // Winter's Light

    Constance Walker

    "Ye have been here before, child. Ye cannot deny it" As an infant, she was left in a basket on the steps of a simple cottage in the South of Wales. Now, the kindly couple who raised her have died; Gwynneth Morys is an orphan again, totally alone i...

  • One Lost Winter

    Diana Whitney

    Jonathan felt the bullet slam into his chest, heard his lover's anguished scream. But then he'd plunged into a snowy darkness, and Cathy had disappeared, leaving him for dead. Now, eleven years later, an embittered, tormented Jonathan had finally ...

  • Day Dreamer

    Karen Toller Whittenburg

    AMERICAN GIGOLO OR ABSENTMINDED PROFESSOR... At first, Jessica Day thought she had just imagined him. What was a tall, dark, handsome man in a tuxedo doing at the local college pub? But as she got to know him, Jessie realized that she could nev...

  • Magic Hour

    Leigh Anne Williams

    HE WAS AN INTIMATE STRANGER Oscar-winning director Sandy Baker wanted no partners on or off the set. But Victoria Moore couldn't help getting involved. Victoria's first and most autobiographical novel was being brought to the silver screen. Vic...

  • Good Intentions

    Joy Fielding

    Lynn Schuster didn't expect the phone call from Marc Cameron, the "other" woman's spouse. She certainly never expected to feel such a strong sexual attraction to him when he stepped into her living room that night ... and offered her the perfect way ...

  • Whisper...He Might Hear You

    William Appel

    After a near fatal knife attack, criminal psychologist Dr. Kate Berman vows to stay out of the most recent case involving a sadistic killer of women--until an old police buddy draws her into the investigation. Reprint....

  • Murder in the Dog Days

    P.M. Carlson

    On a sweltering summer day, reporter Olivia Kerr and her husband Jerry invite Olivia's colleague Dale Colby and his family to the beach. Accompanying them is a very pregnant Maggie Ryan, Jerry's sister, and her family. Dale's last-minute decision to ...

  • A Stunning Way to Die

    Joyce Christmas

    Antiques dealer Bedros Kasparian calls in his old friend Lady Margaret Priam to investigate when the body of a beautiful blackmailer and soon-to-be-ex-wife of a wealthy Hollywood lawyer, Sylvie Code, is found in his shop...

  • The Trouble With a Small Raise

    Camilla T. Crespi

    DYING TO GET AHEAD A large office is like a small town: you have to be an insider in order to know who is doing what to whom. And at the plush, elegant offices of HH&H Advertising, executive Simona Griffo observed plenty going on-cutthroat competiti...

  • A Deadline for Murder

    Valerie Frankel

    WANDA'S A CLOTHESHORSE, A FLIRT, NOBODY'S FOOL--AND THE SLICKEST PRIVATE EYE ON 'NEW YORK'S MEAN STREETS! Wanda Mallory, P.I., is the tough-talking, chain-smoking, funky-chic owner of the Do It Right Detective Agency in Times Square, New York City...

  • Deadeye

    Sam Llewellyn

    Divorce lawyer Harry Frazer and transplanted Yank Fiona Campbell follow a trail of greed and international double-dealings from Scotland to Rotterdam to Geneva. By the author of Blood Orange and Death Roll. Reprint....

  • The Drowner

    John D. MacDonald

    Events are set in motion by the death of Lucille Hansen who drowns in a lake. The cause of death is a mystery. Some claim it was accidental, although Lucille was a strong swimmer, while still others believe it was a suicide as she was on the verge of...

  • Please Write for Details

    John D. MacDonald

    American bachelor Miles Drummond, living in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and running out of money, half-heartedly places an ad in a few US newspapers announcing a summer art workshop. Much to his surprise, thirteen students write for details, and arrive in Cu...

  • Gideon's Fog

    J.J. Marric

  • Knaves Templar

    Leonard Tourney

    There is much that is entertaining in Elizabethan England, colorful and merrie for both Good Queen Bess and her people. But here are matters savage and murderous, too, and it is County Constable Matthew Stock, a humble clothier by trade, and his prac...

  • Easy Way Down

    Irving Weinman

    When Juan Montanares, the cocaine kingpin who bribed him years before, suddenly dies, free-lance gumshoe Lenny Schwartz finally feels he can breathe more easily, until Montanares's right-hand man assumes control of the cartel. Reprint....

  • Chicago Payoff

    Don Pendleton

    UNFINISHED BUSINESS There's vermin on the streets of Chicago, and Mack Bolan is sent in as exterminator. He's got the right equipment... a .44 Magnum Desert Eagle and a lifelong vendetta against men like Hector Gurrola. The drug lord rules an e...

  • Carolina Courage

    Dana Fuller Ross

    A pioneering spirit marked the hardy mountaineers of North Carolina, but an ugly violence ravaged this land of laurels and hills. A dread disease was killing rich and poor alike, and cruel blame fell on the proud Cherokee, the last great Indian tribe...

  • The Deceiver

    Louise Cooper

    THE SHATTERING SAGA BEGUN IN THE TIME MASTER TRILOGY CONTINUES With his dying breath, Keridil Toln, High Initiate of the mystic brotherhood known as the Circle, warned his colleagues of a danger beyond their imagining. For a servant of Chaos had ...

  • Fortune's Light

    Michael Jan Friedman

    Dante Maxima Seven--a world known to its inhabitants as Imprima. A world where Madragi--huge social/economic entities wealthy beyond compare--control the fate of millions... Years ago, William Riker was part of the Starfleet delegation that opened...

  • Transition

    Vonda N. McIntyre

    ROGUE STARSHIP When the U.S. government tried to claim the research ship Starfarer for the military, the crew risked all to hijack her. They did manage to escape...with a nuclear missile embedded in the hull. Yet, they kept to their original missi...

  • Magic Hour

    Susan Isaacs

    Long Island's oh-so-fashionable beach resort of choice for everyone who is anyone. Or who was: alas, one of the premier summer residents, movie producer Sy Spencer, has hosted his last power clambake - thanks to whoever has shot him and left him dead...

  • Forgiving

    LaVyrle Spencer

    There's a place in every heart for forgiving.... SARAH She came to Deadwood, a rough and tumble western town, with an ambitious dream of starting a newspaper. But her journey had another purpose--to find her sister and mend the family tie that ...

  • Fatal Fortune

    Marian Babson

    EUROPE ON $50 A DAY. MURDER GRATIS. Dingy hotels with pushy concierges were not Hope Bradstone's idea of acceptable accommodations. But then again, running of to Brussels at the drop of a hat was hardly acceptable, either--especially when Hope's...

  • Funnelweb

    Russell Braddon

    A hate-filled violin virtuoso enlists the aid of the world's deadliest spider, the Australian funnelweb, to serve his deranged will, and Inspector Cheadle is left trying to untangle mysterious strands of false leads before others die horribly...

  • The Sufi Fiddle

    Richard Bulliet

    To relieve the tedium of jury duty, recently divorced Castle Winter and a beautiful computer expert named Pansy borrow a piece of evidence, a violin engraved with Arabic writing, and suddenly find themselves pursued by several menacing characters...

  • Fire and Forget

    Bob Cook

  • Looker

    Michael Kilian

    After a murder at the Plaza, a society columnist races to save a model’s life A daytime fashion show at the Plaza Hotel attracts the most beautiful, cynical, and useless people that New York society has to offer. Swimming among them is A. C. J...

  • The Cavalier Case

    Antonia Fraser

    IT'S A CASE OF MURDER, PLAIN AND SIMPLE--EXCEPT THE PRIME SUSPECT HAS BEEN DEAD THREE HUNDRED YEARS! After the violent death of his predecessor, a former tennis superstar finds himself the new lord of Lackland Court. But he's about to learn that ...

  • Deathwatch '39

    Jack Gerson

    As World War II is declared, two women on opposite sides of the Atlantic are murdered and Ernst Lohmann is assigned to track the prime suspect in an international manhunt that could alter the course of history...

  • Murder at Madingley Grange

    Caroline Graham

    Having agreed to manor-sit rich Aunt Maude's stately Madingley Grange, Simon Hannaford and his sister Laurie decide to put the gloomy old estate to profitable use. So they hire a bogus boozing butler and a cross-dressing maid, and assemble a motley g...

  • Bella Mafia

    Lynda La Plante

  • Rough Justice

    Ken Gross

    Jack Mann, a middle-aged, honest detective, matches wits with crooked cop Tommy Day--a member of the special task force on organized crime and a secret employee of the Mob--as Jack tries to save the life of a D.A. targeted for assassination. Reprint....

  • Book Case

    Stephen Greenleaf

    Brimming with sex, money, and scandal, the manuscript had all the makings of a blockbuster bestseller. And publisher Bryce Chatterton knew it, just as he knew that publishing the book was his last and only hope of keeping Periwinkle Press afloat. But...

  • Faith, Hope and Homicide

    Jessica Mann

    Undercover agent Tamara Hayland is led to the jungles of Brazil in search of clues to the suspicious suicide of Louise Dench, whose husband Robert Waugh had perished months before under mysterious circumstances--possibly involving native witchcraft...

  • Breach of Promise

    Roy Hart

  • Virus

    William Harrington

    When a computer virus threatens the country's computer network, Scott Vandenberg, a computer security expert, and Nancy Delacorte, a government agent, match wits with a techno-genius and a Columbian drug dealer...

  • Hard Target

    Christopher Hyde

  • Ten of Swords

    J.R. Levitt

    A loner private eye in the Sam Spade tradition, Jason Coulter is hired to find a teenager in Salt Lake City, a young girl who may be involved with the Church of the Four-Sided Triangle, a cult fond of ritual sacrifices...

  • Widows

    Ed McBain

    The beautiful blonde in the penthouse apartment was dead, her face and body laced with slashes from a paring knife -- grisly evidence of the terrible things the city can do to pretty young women. What sordid web of money, sex, and greed had ensnared ...

  • Rigor Mortis

    Mary Kittredge

    EDWINA CRUSOE, R.N. -- THE BEST MEDICINE FOR MURDER! Edwina Crusoe, top-notch nurse and super-sleuth, is called back to Chelsea Memorial when patients who survive routine operations start ending up in the morgue. With rumors flying of a "death a...

  • Parting Shot

    James W. Kunetka

    London, today. Construction workers make an extraordinary find: a crude atomic bomb, dating from World War II. Its discovery forces Deputy Home Minister Edmund Ramsden to scour the files of Britain's wartime intelligence for an explanation. What he l...