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New Books List: 620 titles


  • Stella Cameron

    Headstrong artistic rebel Paris Delight doesn't expect Mr. Right to come charging up on a silver steed. High-powered dealmaker Tobias Quinn is Seattle's sexiest divorced man, and he needs Paris to save his fortune and possibly his life. Between these...




  • John Varley

    A science fiction superhero anthology features Alan Dean Foster's "Earth Spirit," Roger Zelazny's "Hugh Glass," Lawrence Watt-Evans's "Captain Cosmos," Michael A. Stackpole's "Revenant," and John Varley's "Bolshoiman." Reprint....



  • Arthur C. Clarke; Gentry Lee

    THE CONCLUSION TO ONE OF THE MOST HERALDED SCIENCE FICTION SERIES OF ALL TIME! On its mysterious voyage through deep space, a massive, alien starship carries its passengers to the end of a generations-long odyssey. The great experiment has failed,...



  • Gordon D. Shirreffs

    Responding to his government's orders to assist the invasion of New Mexico, estate owner and frontiersman Quint Kershaw finds his greatest challenge in his wife Lupita and her fierce loyalty to her Spanish ancestry. Reprint....



  • James Reasoner

    THE DEVIL'S BUSINESS

    When a crumbling piece of paper slides from the Bible of Juan Espina, the town drunk, the New Mexico territory settlement of Garrison is royally surprised. It appears to be a centuries-old land grant -- issued by the K...



  • Dusty Richards

    The popular Rice Sisters return in their second hilarous western adventure, enduring a misbotten stage robbery, a crazed trip to a mining town, and a gunfight outside the church where Stout Rice just got married. Original....



  • J.R. Roberts

    Clint Adams paid a visit to the Florida Everglades to see his friend Buddy Braganbut when he got there he saw nothing but trouble ahead. Bragan's suspected of selling guns to the Seminole Indians...and now the bullets are flying faster than the rumor...



  • Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo steps in when a series of vicious murders terrorizes the Arizona mountains, but his search for the killers is undermined by a ruthless rancher, Indians who believe that ghosts stalk the region, and a magician and his two gorgeous daughters...



  • David Thompson

    Before the yoke of civilization had tamed the land, a man had to fight for his life in the Rockies. If hostile Indians weren't hunting for his scalp, ferocious grizzlies or man-eating mountain lions were after his flesh. And if the summer heat wasn't...



  • Paul Clayton

    Chief Calling Crow and the peaceful Muskogee, who lived in what is now Georgia and South Carolina, are enslaved by Spanish conquistadors, but Calling Crow refuses to submit and stages an incredibly strong and ultimately victorious rebellion. Original...



  • Kit Dalton

    Pursuing a ruthless gang of cattle rustlers who are out to capture every steer in Miles City, Buckskin Lee Morgan has his hands full ferreting out every vicious outlaw--and seducing every young cowgirl in the territory. Original....



  • Tabor Evans

    SOLDIER SLAUGHTER San Angelo is a town as dry as a whore's kiss--and equally sincere when a man's time is up. Even the Indians don't bother making trouble down that way. So Longarm doesn't understand why soldiers from Fort Concho are being picked ...



  • Virginia Brown

    FROM HELL ON THE SEAS They call him devil of the high seas. Dark, dangerous, and sinfully seductive, he conceals his true identity and the past betrayal that has made him despise all women ... even the beautiful captive he vows to entice into his be...



  • Janice Bennett

    A DOWNSTAIRS HEROINE Annie Gooden had obtained a position as a maid in London's most notorious gambling hell to confront Sir Joshua Templeton, the rake who had seduced her poor sister! But alas, by the time she caught up with him, he was dead... wit...



  • Suzanne Brockmann

    Josie Taylor and Cooper McBride are the quintessential New York married couple. Attractive and ambitious, they have successful fast-track careers, a satisfying level of intimacy in their private lives, and a love that seems to grow stronger every day...



  • Danice Allen

    A REBEL'S LOVE Tired of being pursued by shallow suitors in London, Anne Weston longs to find a virile, self-made man in New Orleans. Instead she meets Lucien Delacroix, the handsome ne'er-do-well son of a wealthy plantation owner, a charming dile...



  • Carol Caldwell

    With her brother embroiled in an illegal smuggling scheme, Jalene Somerville finds herself deep in trouble and the victim of a kidnapping, until the arrival of Taylor Traynor, a dashing master of disguise and man of action, changes her life. hile ...



  • Marion Chesney

    WHAT DID SUCH A SOPHISTICATED MARQUESS SEE IN SUCH A DREADFUL DEBUTANTE AS MISS MIRA MARKHAM? Arranging a season for an unruly miss who descended to drawing rooms by sliding down banisters was a challenge at best -- especially since the hoydenish ...



  • Sandra Davidson

    ONE MAN U.S. Army Lt. Blade McAmmon had his future carefully planned: a heroic military career, then marriage to a woman so respectable that no one would ever suspect the truth about his Indian heritage. But now, amid delicate peace negotiations bet...



  • Cathleen Clare

    Seeking shelter from a snowstorm at the house of the notorious Marquess of Amberton, Lady Hope Blissfield and her companion unwittingly crash a raucous bachelor party and force their reluctant host to observe proper rules of conduct. Original....



  • Loretta Chase

    DETERMINED LADY Tough-minded Jessica Trent's sole intention is to free her nitwit brother from the destructive influence of Sebastian Ballister, the notorious Marquess of Dain. She never expects to desire the arrogant, amoral cad. And when Dai...



  • Cleo Chadwick

    THE HORSES GAMBOLED IN THE MEADOWS, THE BROOK BABBLED THROUGH THE HILLS, AND MAIDIE SWOONED...INTO THE ARMS OF A LORD! Miss Maidie Worthing should be wed. The gossips of the ton begrudgingly concede that her wardrobe is smashing, her face is angel...



  • Deborah Cox

    A Gambler's Daughter Anne Cameron's delicate features and poised manner belied her upbringing as a riverboat gambler's daughter. Her papa was now dead and she was alone, except for the strong, handsome stranger who mysteriously rescue...



  • Anne Douglas

    The Questionable Courtship Lovely young Lady Elizabeth Fortescue - best known as Bets - had little regard and less use for the gentlemen of the ton. Despite her mother's urgings to make a moneyed match, she had successfully evaded suitors for thre...



  • Delia Ellis

    IT ALL BEGAN WITH A GOOD TURN FOR A LOVELY STRANGER. Miss Eleanor Needwood was about to married to a most unsuitable suitor when Philip Markham came to her rescue. He arranged for Eleanor to be in London for the Season, a guest of Markham's si...



  • Alice Duncan

    A MAN AROUND THE HOUSE AGAIN Young widow Maggie Bright had her hands full raising a baby daughter and running a farm with no one to help except her lazy drunk of a hired hand. The last thing she needed was a bullet-ridden, half-dead stranger ridin...



  • Charlene Cross

    Her abductor's name was Rolfe de Mont St. Michel, and Lady Catherine hated him. Already, with each stride of his horse, everything she had ever known was fast disappearing into the morning mist. Today she was to have married in a perfect match, u...



  • Candice Hern

    Anyone can arrange a marriage-but only the heavens can decree true love! Her grandson, the Earl of Bradleigh, had just announced his engagement to a thoroughly unlikeable chit -- and Lady Bradleigh was determined to do something about it. Why, just ...



  • Virginia Henley

    "YOU HAVE BELONGED TO ME, BODY AND SOUL, SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME." Mesmerized by the dark knight's turquoise gaze, Lady Brianna of Bedford tried to turn away. After all, she was betrothed to Robert de Beauchamp. And now this total stranger, Christ...



  • Lisa Kleypas

    A noblewoman of frail beauty and exotic mystery fakes her own death to escape the gallows. And now she must flee. In disguise and under a false identity, she finds unexpected sanctuary in the arms of a handsome and arrogant yet gallant British lord--...



  • Elyse Guttenberg

    Spirit Singer and Shaman. Elik was not like the others. She could not sew a seal skin with the tiny stitches that would make a kayak watertight. She could not set a trap as silently as drifting snow. Or throw the weighted strands of a bola into a flo...



  • Kate Hanford

    Landing a fabulous part in a TV mini-series was just the thing Faythe McBain needed to jump-start her career after twenty years. Not that she hadn't kept in practice: she deserved an Academy Award for acting the loving wife while her high-powered...



  • Carolyn Lampman

    THEIR MARRIAGE WAS A TEST--IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE South Pass City was a mighty tough town, even by Wyoming Territory standards. And although Garrick Swenson seemed like a tough man, his sensitive soul was plagued with guilt. Then one day he rescued...



  • Elizabeth Grayson

    Widowed at twenty-three, Celene Bernard had learned that men could not be trusted -- a woman needed a fiery spirit and a strong will to protect herself. So when she saw a trapper harassing a defenseless woman, she was so enraged that she pushed him i...



  • Sandra Hill

    As tall and striking as the Valkyries of legend, Dr Rain Jordan was proud of her Norse ancestors despite their warlike ways. But she couldn't believe her eyes when a blow to the head transported her to a nightmarish battlefield and she had to save th...



  • Emily Hendrickson

    Vexing Valentine Miss Phoebe Thorpe had no idea why she had stirred the wrath of Valentine, Lord Latham, but she most certainly had. Now this devastatingly handsome and supremely well-connected gentleman was out to wreak vengeance on her with all ...



  • Dinah Lampitt

    KINDRED SPIRITS To attract the eye of England's young George III, all Lady Sarah Lennox had to do was smile. Enchanting, beautiful, and filled with passionate desires, she thought the glittering balls and flirtations of London Society were a game-...



  • Jill Marie Landis

    She came to Last Chance, Montana... Eva Eberhart was looking for a way out of her dance hall life ... and found herself at Trail's End. Gruff rancher Chase Cassidy didn't think Eva had what it took to be housekeeper to a bunch of ranch hands, but ...



  • Kathryn Jensen

    Four people--Amanda, Robert, Caroline, and Frank--deal with a world of lost innocence, rebellion, and revolution that spans three turbulent decades of world history. By the author of Sing to Me, Saigon. Original....



  • Valerie King
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    Had the haughty, handsome, and utterly impossible Lord Castleton sent governess Meg Woodville a valentine? Her heart soared...then plummeted. Of course not. The missive came from her pupil, Castleton's sister Hope, writing to say she had eloped! Now ...



  • Mandalyn Kaye

    Arren Grayland, fleeing in terror from ruthless men bent on destroying her. Duncan MacCraig galloping out of the dark Scottish night ... just in time to save Arren from certain death....



  • Kathleen Morgan

    The daughter of a powerful Celtic chieftain, Rhianna longed to be as free as the wild hawk soaring above the mists of ancient Britain. Instead, her tribe trembled in bondage before the hated Roman invaders. And Rhianna was further bound: haunted by h...



  • Dawn Lindsey

    Outsider in Love Miss Sorrel Kent told herself that she felt no emotion except antipathy for the Marquis of Wycherly. He was an English lord, while she was an American who scorned all titles. He was as arrogantly dominating as she was fiercely ind...



  • Patricia McAllister

    ANGEL After her father's sudden death left her all alone in the world, Angel McCloud was faced with two terrible choices: surrender her innocence to the lecherous widower who'd won her home in a card game... or become the bride of the man who held t...



  • Sue Rich

    An enthralling tale of 1820s Florida weaves a spell from a long-past but still potent love, deep in the steamy mystery of the exotic Everglades... It's a place where flowers stretch toward the sun, and moss hangs from branches in gray-green spl...



  • Pat Muchmore

    Realizing that a claim in the Cherokee outlet of wild Oklahoma will force her into a life of harsh challenges, Amy teams up with reckless Colby Grant and finds in him the freedom to pursue her most intimate dreams. The wild Oklahoma land rush was...



  • Leigh Riker

    THIS WAS NO HONKY-TONK AFFAIR When her best friend is killed in a freak accident, socialite Susannah Whittaker is devastated by the loss. But grief gives way to anger when she confides her suspicions of foul play to Clary's brother Cody. It seems ...



  • Susan Sawyer

    Deciding to take in boarders in order to help provide for her family, Georgia schoolteacher Julia Carey is astonished when her first guest, an unconscious gunshot victim, turns out to be the wealthy Tyler McRae--her father's sworn enemy. The sole ...



  • Lindsay Randall

    HE THOUGHT SHE WAS A RUNAWAY WAIF Heiress Marcelon Darlington simply bad to escape from Miss Cheltenham's School for Ladies...even if it meant stealing away in the dead of night--and nearly getting run down by the Mail Coach! She was aghast that the...



  • Victoria Thompson

    When fate brought them together on the Florida coast during the Spanish-American War, Sean Tate and Maud Campbell knew they had found something special. The son of a wealthy Texan, Sean needed to find out what being Roosevelt Rough Rider could show h...



  • Theresa (1) Scott

    Hunters of the Ice Age At the dawn of time a proud people battled for survival, at one with the harsh beauty of the land and its primal rhythms. Among the warring tribes, the jaguars were the mightiest, and the hunter called Falcon was feared l...



  • Martha Schroeder

    Ginny McDougall likes her New York apartment and her job as secretary, paralegal, and "mother hen" to young hotshot Manhattan lawyer Dennis Havilland. So when her boss's father comes to town to open a new law practice, she's pleased ...



  • Meg-Lynn Roberts
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    Victoria Colefax shocked the ton when she broke off her betrothal to the Marquess of Wexford. He wanted a dull marriage of convenience; she needed his passion and his heart! But cupid's arrow is ready to fly when they both take part in a Valentine's ...



  • Olivia Sumner
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    On the eve of going to war, Lord Talland sweeps shy, sweet Juliet into his arms at the annual London valentine Ball. They pledge to meet there again the following year, but when Lord Talland returns to England, he is a bitter sightless recluse. Now J...



  • Gloria Dale Skinner

    Unemployed governess Cheval Worthington believed in the power of miracles when wealthy shipowner Austin Radcliffe rescued her from the dockside streets of Baltimore. But she'd learned that no act of kindness comes without a price. In exchange for Rad...



  • Dallas Schulze

    NOW HE'D KISSED HER. AND EVERYTHING WAS CHANGED. She was the waif he'd befriended when she was only four years old... the beautiful blue-eyed ten-year-old he'd taken for a dizzying ride in his plane... the dazzling seventeen-year-old stranger who ...



  • Lynda Trent

    The relationship between two women, Chelsea Cavin and Karen Baker, best friends since childhood, is threatened by their mutual love for handsome, dynamic Ryan Morgan....



  • Trudy Thompson

    THE ICE QUEEN The last of her line, Thea possessed strange and inexplicable powers, yet she couldn't resist the charms of a virile captive. But with her frozen land facing annihilation, she had to trick the blond giant into risking a daring ruse tha...



  • Linda Winstead

    FLASH AND FURY Renata Parkhurst couldn't believe her luck. The proper young daughter of a Philadelphia doctor had run away to her cousin's Colorado spread hunting for love, and the day she arrived, a wounded rancher fell right into her arms. Al...



  • Claudette Williams

    A mischievous mix-up turns a lady's love life topsy-turvy... TWO MR. WRONGS...MAY ADD UP TO THE RIGHT LORD TO LOVE! Lord Waremont was the very pink of the haut ton...too wild by half, and much too flirtatious. But what he had just done was ...



  • Brian Harper

    As Donna Wildman, a profiler for the Los Angeles County Police Department, becomes embroiled in the search for a serial killer who is targeting prostitutes, the trail begins to lead ever closer to the police force itself. Original....



  • Sarah Gregory

    Sharon Hays is a beautiful Texas lawyer on a case that can make or break her career. But she's in harm's way - as a savage sexual psychopath targets her and her little girl. In court, Sharon must defend the daughter of a murdered Dallas millionair...



  • Don Pendleton

    DEADLY SHADOWS Violent global chaos has erupted, and Bolan is fighting it head-on. Sudden death is rocking the free world as old-guard KGB moles are reactivated to carry out assassinations -- among those targeted are the Joint Chiefs of Staff. ...



  • Don Pendleton

    CLEAN SWEEP The island of New Amsterdam is fast becoming a major drug depot, money laundry and haven for criminals -- the effort of a Colombia-Cuba alliance. Elections are approaching, and the cartel wants its man in power. The opposition badly...



  • Alan Rodgers

    Resisting the governmental captors who have kept her existence a secret ever since her spacecraft crashed in the New Mexico desert, Pandora seeks revenge against the strange world and its unfriendly inhabitants. Original....




  • Ian Hammell

    The Firozians with their magical swords and the Gnomons with their power over time must set aside their own war when a foreign power attacks the island and join spells and swords to defend themselves against a new enemy. Original....



  • Valerie J. Freireich

    The clone of a traitor, sub-human spy probe August is catapulted into the midst of an interplanetary war as the planet Neuland is threatened with alien annihilation and August himself confronts his dream of becoming fully human. Original....



  • Frederik Pohl

    Something Was Very Wrong, Out There Among The Stars...The interstellar transport had touched down on six other colony worlds - and all six had been devoid of human life. Where was everybody? It was almost as if humankind, when separated by cosmic dis...



  • Nick Pollotta
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    An exciting book that allows you to make decisions that determine the adventures outcome. In this book you face ruthless robots, animal mutants, vampire dentists, biker librarians, cyborg pirates and more....



  • Patricia Mullen

    Challenging an Old Faith alliance among the Human, Dwarf, Elf, Peskie, and Ogre tribes of Morbihan, the dread Tyrant of Moer and his New Faith devotees conspire to make Humans the dominant species by destroying the other tribes. ...



  • David Weber

    Whom the Gods Would Recruit, They First Tick Off Our Hero: The Unlikely Paladin Bahzell Bahnakson of the Horse Stealer Hradani is no knight in shining armor. He's a hradani, a race known for their uncontrollable rages, bloodthirsty tendencies, an...



  • Steve Perry

    Responding to a summons by a desperate local leader, Cinch Carston journeys to the jungle planet Mtizito in order to round up a gang of terrorists and discovers an unexpected web of corruption that targets the Stellar Ranger himself. Original....



  • Mark Leon

    Coping with a dead-end job and a lackluster romance, computer programmer Lew Slack finds his world turned upside down when a mysterious stranger hands him a crystal, a woman he has never met claims to be his lover, and his cat disappears. Original....



  • Anne Logston

    Jaellyn's mixed heritage gives her powerful magic, but a portion of her soul is missing, and she must risk her life to save her future, confronting bloodthirsty dragons and hideous shape shifters as she searches for her father. Original....



  • Dana Stabenow

    Star’s twins have made the Asteroid Belt too hot to hold them and Charlie keeps trying to get Star laid, so when Star is offered a commission to survey the fabled ruins of Cydonia on Mars she jumps at the chance....



  • Michael A. Stackpole

    A PERILOUS LEGACY Along with the throne of the Federated Commonwealth, Prince Victor Steiner-Davion inherited a number of problems. Foremost among them is the Clans' threat to the peace of the Inner Sphere--and a treacherous sister who wants to su...



  • Dennis Lee Anderson

    THROUGH THE WINDOW OF THE AGES Great kings have great enemies, and Arthur's is his bastard son Mordred, who has stolen the sword Excalibur. Worse, he has stolen Merlin's Book, and used it to flee to the far future. All of Camelot is at risk, un...



  • Janet Asimov

    When a meeting of the Galactic Writers' Society is threatened by a series of embarrassing, potentially deadly incidents, it is up to Arda, an android undercover agent, to solve the mystery and find the culprits before the crimes undermine interstella...



  • Elizabeth Boyer

    VILE EXILE! When Jutta's mother sent her to tiny, windswept Bardhol to stay with their ancient female relations, she hinted slyly that those crafty crones might be hiding a fortune... But all Jutta found was boredom, toil--and cats! Her grandmo...



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

    THE AGE OF LIGHT Forests cover Ansalon. Under the legendary Silvanos, the elves of Krynn begin to tame the wilds and raise their crystal cities. But as the Elderwild Kaganos journeys toward a mystical encounter high in the mountains, he knows t...



  • Mary Rosenblum

    Discovery of the mysterious asteroids called Stones had quickly spawned a new breed of artists: "sculptors" who shaped the Stones into vivid collages of sensation and emotion by layering human experiences into them one by one. Although asteroid-bel...



  • Richard A. Knaak

    Confronting a phantom gargoyle who has been stealing his identity throughout eternity, Grigori Nicolau finds additional challenges in a band of deadly hunters, a bound man, a woman who is haunted by dreams, and a sorcerer's plot. Original....



  • Christopher Pike

    FBI agent David Conner is investigating the Listeners, a channeling group that seems to have access to highly classified information. Though he quickly falls in love with Lucy, one of the twins who are the heart of the group, David remains skeptical ...



  • John Legg

    DESERT JUSTICE Linus Hudson just wants to be left alone to drive his herd of mustangs to Bent's Fort and sell them. But the army is there, preparing for war with Mexico, and Hudson is the only man who has a chance to rescue three soldiers captured...



  • Catherine Coulter

    Lord Harry, one of my first novels, was originally titled Lord Harry's Folly. I've rewritten the story extensively, adding to and changing dialogue, actions and descriptions, yet the original plot is still here. I'm convinced-and I'm sure your will b...



  • Beverly Barton

    SHE HAD BEEN WAITING... For months clairvoyant Elizabeth Mallory had been tormented by visions of a desperate stranger. Now that man was here, on her isolated Georgia mountain. Wounded and on the run, he needed refuge. And Elizabeth needed him. Re...



  • Elizabeth August

    FATHER KNOWS BEST Murdock Parnell had come to the lake house looking for solitude. Instead, he found a ready-made-family. Pretty Irene Galvin and her son, Jeremy, filled his days with sunshine--and helped him forget painful memories. And when Jer...



  • Suzanne Barclay

    THE TAINT OF MURDER LAY UPON CLAN SUTHERLAND Forced by the king's decree to wed Megan Sutherland, Ross Carmichael swore he'd not fall prey to any half-savage Highland charm the woman might possess. Though he could not foresee that soon he'd risk a...



  • Jean Barrett

    Fugitive...and father? Richard Davis awoke to a nightmare. He was alone on a yacht with three lifeless bodies, one of them his ex-wife's. Because he had the motive and the smoking fun, he was bound to become suspect #1. So he jumped ship... J...



  • Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    Marrying the ex-marine who knows her only through her letters, Lisa Jo anticipates a rocky time when Johnny discovers that she is not the woman he thinks she is, and Johnny finds himself fighting for a future he never knew he wanted. Reissue....



  • Pamela Browning

    NAME: Deke Washburn AGE: 32 STATUS: S.T.U.D. #4 OCCUPATION: Self-made Millionaire To his friends, Deke Washburn was the world's last bachelor-to single women, an impossible catch. But the playboy millionaire had just met his match .... Beaut...



  • Elaine Coffman

    Driven apart by the very passion that brought them together, neither of them knew love could be so powerful or so painful.... She gave him love ... and he betrayed her. Then a shocking tragedy left Natasha Simonov shattered. Suffering and loss onl...



  • Susan Connell

    He had enough charm to make an angel tumble.... She sure filled her Christmas stockings, Steve Stratton decided upon seeing the long-legged brunette dressed as a holiday elf! Gwen Mansfield felt her heart racing when the gorgeous architect invite...



  • Francine Craft

    Amid the sultry heat of the Louisiana bayou, Valerie Thomas and Delano Carter treasured every moment of their secret love. But they were both too young, and knew it couldn't last. Yet even after they went their divided ways, Val couldn't forget the t...



  • Kathleen Creighton

    SHADOW OF DOUBT A random encounter, a face in the crowd, had led Detective Doug MacDougal to the woman he'd been seeking for so long -- barely one step ahead of a ruthless killer. And keeping both her and himself alive meant cultivating the fr...



  • Margot Dalton

    WHEN RUTH LOVED HIM, NOTHING ELSE MATTERED The Double C was awash in preparations for a Valentine's Day wedding, but Tyler took no joy in the proceedings. He and his wife might as well be on different planets. The wedding diverted her from her pai...



  • Suzannah Davis

    All I Want For Christmas… Mac Mahoney was in deep trouble. The hard-nosed reporter had foolishly gotten snowed in with his ex-girlfriend Marisa Rourke. Now they had to ignore the sizzle that still flared between them. And to make matters worse, ...



  • Saranne Dawson

    Would her search for her other half lead to her better half? It began with a shiver. A cold sensation that shook Andrea Lockwood's mind and body. That's how she realized her twin sister was missing. She raced to Pennsylvania...and found herself fa...



  • Alyssa Dean

    SHE'D ENCHANTED HIM Or so P.I. Kent MacIntyre was forced to conclude. Because Faye (no last name) -- five foot nothing, an innocent, lost in the big city -- had charmed him into letting her into his high-security building, then knocked him out...



  • Shawna Delacorte

    WOMEN AND CHILDREN Rance Coulter was leery of both. Who could blame him? Thanks to a scheming female, his life had once nearly been ruined. And as for kids -- well, after what he had been through, Rance wouldn't be ready for fatherhood for a lon...



  • Debra Dixon

    "Help me make some Christmas memories...." Drew Haywood needed an enchantress to help give his son a holiday to remember -- and no one did Christmas better than Taylor Bishop! She could transform a house into a home that sparkled with tin...



  • Shirley Eskapa

    FROM THE STREETS OF ROME, TO THE ELEGANT SUITES OF FIFTH AVENUE... CECILIA: She rose from a world of poverty and shame and found suffering and love in the arms of three men. But only one man knows the terrible secret she has carried with her all ...



  • Rosemary Gibson

    "Inconvenient! Is that how you regard William, too?" Until now, Cassie's life had been independent and carefree, so she was relieved that the secretarial job she'd taken on to help out her aunt Kate was only temporary-after all, c...



  • Andrea Edwards

    Montana cowboy Jake MacNeill knew that only the land lasted, while love was as reliable as a grinning rattlesnake. Heck, prairie fires were easier to handle than a woman. So why was he heeding an eerie siren call from the city, seeking a lady with an...



  • Lynn Erickson

    Miguel Rivera had sworn revenge on the creature who had made him less than a man -- had sworn to strike him down. Then he met nurse Karen Freed, who reawakened all the best parts of his latent humanity. But Miguel knew he was putting her at risk -- a...



  • Jane Feather

    A quirk of fate has made Sylvester Gilbraith heir of his sworn enemy, the earl of Stoneridge. But there's a catch: to claim his inheritance he has to marry one of the earl's four granddaughters. The magnetically handsome nobleman has no choic...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    IT TAKES AVERY SPECIAL MAN TO WIN THAT SPECIAL WOMAN! A silver tongue. A killer smile. Spectacular muscles. Handsome Murphy Pendleton had all the right parts to make any number of women swoon. But injured in an act of heroism, he suddenly craved...



  • Dorothy Garlock

    Addie Hyde spent four years waiting to see if the high-spirited husband she had married in haste would come back after the South lost the war. Yet Kirby Hyde was never among the Confederates in rags and tatters straggling through Arkansas. Addie alwa...



  • Carol Grace

    Dear Mr. Lonely... Personal ads weren't exactly Mandy Clayton's style. But one ad in particular was irresistible and now she was falling for a man she'd never met.... Seeking A Bride... Adam Gray was not interested in mail-order romance. But he'...



  • Karen Harper

    In the small town of Lockwood, Ohio, Amanda Wynne harbored special hopes for this first Christmas after the Civil War. Yet so much had changed. Her husband, Matt, had returned a broken man and would soon be lost forever. And while she took two war wi...



  • Leslie Davis Guccione

    SINGLE DAD... DOUBLE TROUBLE Sean Branigan was a struggling single father, trying to understand the minds--and hearts--of his two teenage daughters. No easy task, since he grew up with five brothers and no sisters! All things considered, though, h...



  • Leann Harris

    LOVE AND LIES Concern about her aunt's disappearance led Angeline Fitzgerald to the family home she'd always longed to visit. But in the tiny Louisiana town, the sultry summer air pulsed with an undercurrent of evil.... There, amidst ol...



  • Beth Henderson

    Christopher Meyers had the perfect New Year's resolution for his mom.... The precocious six-year-old knew Mallory felt lonesome. And Chris missed having a dad. So he'd gone ahead and picked out who he thought would be the perfect holiday date for...



  • Janice Kay Johnson

    Colleen Deering. She'll do anything for her sister, Sheila. And if her gift takes up nine months of her life and entails morning sickness and stretch marks, well, what are sisters for? Because what Sheila wants -- more than anything in this worl...



  • Lisa Hendrix

    SPIRIT'S FLAME Mariah Hoag fought to keep her family's farm, not lose it to a greedy land baron like old John McKenzie... WANDERER'S HEART McKenzie's long-lost son came home to settle the past with his dying father, not fal...



  • Elizabeth Hewitt

    Despite her own misgivings and the state of war that exists between England and America in 1812, English heiress Isobel Leyland falls for handsome American Adrian Renville, a rugged, self-assured stranger whom she suspects is a spy. Her Traitorou...



  • Kathleen Kane

    Leda James is a woman of many charms--including a lucky coin, a crystal ball, and a cluster of magic beads around her neck. She's determined to bring love and good fortune to the town of Tanglewood, Idaho. Even if-her `psychic gifts" leave something ...



  • Dorothy Howell

    LOVE'S PRECIOUS SECRETS WERE HIDDIN IN THEIR HEARTS... ANNA: She lived alone on her North Carolina farm. when she came across a stranger on her land -- a muscular man bathing in her pond -- the sight of him took her breath away! SAM: Anna let h...



  • Liz Ireland

    Welcome To Motherhood... Linda Potter knew nothing about kids. But her rambunctious five-year-old twin nephews and their baby sister were about to give her a crash course in Motherhood 101. Welcome To Chaos! In the middle of this madness, in wal...



  • Muriel Jensen

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  • Mary Kay McComas

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  • Cassie Miles

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  • Modean Moon

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  • Jaclyn Reding

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  • Suzanne Robinson

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  • Maura Seger

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  • Lass Small

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  • Sandra Steffen

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  • Cathy Gillen Thacker

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  • Pat Warren

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  • Diana Whitney

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  • Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

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  • Ann Williams

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  • Rebecca York

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  • M.D. Lake

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  • D.R. Meredith

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  • Laurence Shames

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  • L.V. Slyke

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  • Janice Steinberg

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  • M.K. Wren

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  • Michael Palmer

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  • Jack Higgins

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  • Clayton Emery
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

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  • Marilyn Prather

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  • Neva Coyle

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  • Shari MacDonald

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  • T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

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  • Janette Oke

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  • Peggy Darty

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  • Mary Lide

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  • Karen Robards

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  • LaVyrle Spencer

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  • Robert Campbell

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  • Lilian Jackson Braun

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  • William J. Coughlin

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  • Alison Glen

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  • Stuart M. Kaminsky

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  • Paul Levine

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  • Ridley Pearson

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  • Bill Shoemaker

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  • Philip Singerman

    "A ROLLER-COASTER RIDE OF SEX AND VIOLENCE THAT CAREENS ALONG AT TREMENDOUS SPEED."
    --St. Petersburg Times
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  • Julian Symons

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  • Steve Thayer

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  • Judith Van Gieson

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  • Jonathan Valin

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  • Stuart Woods

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