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  • The Emperor's New Clothes

    Victoria Alexander

    COSTUMED BEAUTY Ophelia Kendrake had barely finished conning the coat off a cardsharp's back before she and her adopted sister stumbled into Dead End, Wyoming, and received a welcome fit for a queen. Mistaken for the Countess of Bridgewater, ...

  • Blood and Honor

    W.E.B. Griffin

    It is April 1943 in Argentina, where World War II rages in clandestine battles both sides deny - but neither side can afford to lose. Where a Nazi plot to overthrow the government in Buenos Aires may change the face of the war. And where three Americ...

  • Silent Witness

    Richard North Patterson

    Attorney Tony Lord left his hometown and the bitter memories of his girlfriend's murder behind. Now, twenty-seven years later, he's pulled back to Lake City to defend his closest high school friend against a charge of homicide. Sam Robb, the marri...

  • The Perfect Body

    Amanda Matetsky

    NOT YOUR AVERAGE EVENING OUT Finding a strange woman in the trunk of her car is definitely not Annie March's idea of the perfect ending to a long day. Not only that, but the young stranger has a perfect body -- well shaped and sexy from head to toe ...

  • Shadow Dawn

    Chris Claremont

    The momentous Ascension of Princess Elora Danan should have brought peace to the Thirteen Realms. Instead, an intense Shadow War rages, spearheaded by the evil Mohdri. He has dispatched his dread Black Rose commando assassins to capture Elora and her...

  • Hair of the Dog

    Brett Davis

    When a possible cure for lycanthropy is announced, investigators Durban and Savik are distraught when the effort's chief researcher and her assistant are murdered, an event that places suspicion on the cause's foremost supporter. Original....

  • The Bavarian Gate

    John Dalmas

    Returning to Earth in the hopes of settling down to a quiet farmer's life, mystic warrior Curtis Macurdy is dismayed when one of Hitler's psychic recruits discovers the Bavarian Gate and unleashes the militaristic Voitusotar on the Allied forces. Ori...

  • Battle Hymn

    William R. Forstchen

    THE BLOODY PRICE OF FREEDOM Swept through a time-space warp at the height of the Civil War, the 35th Maine found themselves stranded on an alien world. Now William R. Forstchen has written an all-new Lost Regiment adventure with an even more treac...

  • The Challenge

    J.R. Roberts

    Clint Adams was used to having a reputation, but the rumors coming out of Denver weren't the sort he was used to. A woman was telling folks that she had found him to be less than a legend. In all his days, he had never known such a woman. So who was ...

  • Sioux Slaughter

    David Thompson

    Setting out with his rifle and an old friend on his journey into the Great Plains, an adventure-seeking Davy Crockett struggles with such challenges as a mammoth buffalo stampede and a Sioux ambush. Original....

  • Dead Reckoning

    Mike Blakely

    After a botched confidence scam, swindler Dee Hassard begins a killing spree that covers half of the Colorado Territory. His first victim is the brother of rustler-turned-preacher Carrol Moncrief. Now Carrol must fall back on his former outlaw savvy ...

  • Vengeance at Dead Man Rapids

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo meets a wily female writer and a gang of savage killers in a godforsaken Arizona town called Nowhere and goes racing down the Colorado River on a trail of vengeance for a heinous crime. Original....

  • Deadwood

    Bill Brooks

    A tale of the American West takes place in the town of Deadwood, where the elusive killer of three prostitutes runs free, in a story that brings together such characters as Doc Holliday, Wild Bill Hickok, and Calamity Jane. Original....

  • Arizona Gun Law

    J.T. Edson

    When Stone Hart's wealthy ranch becomes the target for greedy outlaws, his only chance of defending his stretch of Spanish Grant County lies in the a hard-hitting, fast-shooting Texan crew that includes the Ysabel Kid and Calamity Jane. Original....

  • Texas Warrior // Is-A-Man

    J.T. Edson

    Comanche warrior Annie Singing Bear must represent her entire tribe by using her extraordinary fighting skills and possibly her life to avenge a young maiden who was brutally raped and murdered. Reprint."...

  • The Arizona Strip War

    Jake Logan

    WAR IS HELL Slocum's running hard and fast from bounty hunters -- a pair of no-good thugs who'd love to make a buck by bringing him down. And he'll hole up anywhere until things cool off -- even a ranch that's at the center of a brutal cattle war ...

  • Longarm and the Whiskey Woman

    Tabor Evans

    Going undercover to bring down the Coltons, who ship moonshine whiskey, evade taxes, and have the law under their thumb, Longarm attracts Sally Colton and is disgusted when her family insists they get married. Original....

  • Triumph of the Mountain Man

    William W. Johnstone

    New York Times bestselling series: One man's greed is no match for the gunfighter named Smoke Jensen . . .Robber baron Clifton Satterlee is in greedy pursuit of a coveted piece of land in the New Mexico Territory. He plans to wrest the...

  • Wolf Mountain Moon

    Terry C. Johnston

    As swirling snows fall from a leaden sky and a deadly winter approaches, two bitter enemies meet in a season of savage vengeance. Scout Seamus Donegan -- wondering whether he will ever return to Fort Laramie and the warm embrace of his wife and newbo...

  • Tempting Tess

    Joyce Adams

    A DANGEROUS WOMAN Attractive as she was, Tess Fontana was not going to ensnare Texas Ranger Zack Mackinzie in her seductive web. Not a woman who could also be a cold-blooded killer. Mackinzie had followed her father's traveling carnival to Virgi...

  • Sweet Tranquility

    Donna Bell

    A daring escapade lands a lady in trouble... and in love! Tranquility Hartford yearned for romance and adventure. Instead, her mother decreed she must be married -- within two weeks! Tranquility, who was anything but serene, always had the ton a...

  • The Would-Be Witch

    Rita Boucher

    A Bewitching Young Lady Miranda Wilton had everything a young lady needed to shine in society -- birth, beauty, and breeding. But though she cast her spell on a swarm of suitors, both her proud mother and powerful brother demanded the final say in...

  • Night over the Solomons

    Louis L'Amour

    FIGHTERS IN THE SKY They're freelance pilots and full-time troubleshooters for democracy. They're men like Steven Cowan, Mike Thorne, and Turk Madden who face danger every day of their lives and fight like tigers for what they believe in. With the...

  • Sunlight, Moonlight

    Amanda Ashley

    TWO HEROES AS DIFFERENT AS NIGHT AND DAY... TWO LOVE'STORIESAS DIFFERENT AS DAWN AND DUSK... SUNLIGHT He came from across the universe -- a tawny, powerful stranger more perfect than any mere mortal. Yet when Micah crash landed on earth, not eve...

  • Eternal Vows

    Alice Alfonsi

    1897, New Orleans French Quarter, Rosegate Mansion It was midnight, and the drums were beating near Congo Square. As the incessant, driving rhythms filled the sultry Louisiana air with primal yearnings, a beautiful young bride restlessly awaited ...

  • County Fair

    Ginny Aiken

    Love is a prize to share... WILLOW After a flood left her penniless, her only hope of survival lay in winning a prize for her ewe in the York, Pennsylvania, County Fair... DANIEL This handsome Irishman had his eye on Willow, but as the owner ...

  • Indiscreet

    Mary Balogh

    A beautiful, young widow seemed like easy prey for the Viscount Rawleigh. In the country visiting his twin brother, Rex longed for a little diversion. But Catherine Winters was a lady of virtue, and she roundly rejected his improper proposal to becom...

  • Angel Face and Amazing Grace

    Lori Copeland

    While most of the women in town suddenly developed little ailments that needed the new doctor's immediate attention, April Truitt only developed a big urge to throttle him. The overbearing Gray Fuller represented everything she vowed to fight until ...

  • An Inconvenient Marriage

    Jeanne Carmichael

    SHE HAD NO INTENTION OF REMAINING IN ENGLAND--MUCH LESS MARRYING AN ENGLISHMAN! An American miss with a mind of her own, Gillian Prescott was miserable in England, homesick, and heartsick at her father's admonition to find a proper English gentlem...

  • Carried Away

    Sue Civil-Brown

    WHERE THERE'S A WILL... Danika Hilliard's eccentric old benefactor, Morris Feldman, carried his healthy sense of humor to the grave...and beyond, apparently. He left his opulent Florida villa to the pretty, if prissy, schoolteacher and aspiring au...

  • Sword of MacLeod

    Karen Fox

    AN OLD FASHIONED MAN When his daughter left their antiquated world to find the legendary sword that could save them from doom, Beckett MacLeod was forced to go after the wayward lass, leaving his planet for the first time. To find her, Beckett enli...

  • Night Whispers

    Lynn Erickson

    THE PREY: Anna Dunning is walking a fine line between security and mind-numbing terror. The phone calls are becoming more frequent -- a stranger whispering horrible, obscene promises. She knows he is watching her...stalking her. And he's gett...

  • The Babe and the Baron

    Carola Dunn

    SHE WAS A WISTFUL WIDOW WITH A BABE ON THE WAY... It wasn't all that shocking when Lady Laura Chamberlain's ne'er-do-well husband met his untimely end. Far more scandalous was Laura's precarious predicament: She was left without a sp...

  • All the Love

    Bette Ford

    Falling in love with photojournalist Ray Coleman, her brother's best friend, Amber follows his travels and prays for his safety, until he returns home injured, but their budding romance is tested by a shocking crime. Original....

  • Tangled Up in Blue

    Marcia Evanick

    He made a tomboy on a motorcycle feel like a gorgeous enchantress... He'd expected a gray-haired house sitter who played bingo when she wasn't baking cookies or dusting, but instead Matt Stone returned unannounced to discover a golden-haired nymph s...

  • Too Close for Comfort

    Eve Gaddy

    He kissed her hard and hungry -- as if he knew it made her his... Jack Corelli had vowed to keep Marissa Fairfax alive to testify, but guarding the cool trauma surgeon meant long hours in close quarters with a woman who challenged him to break a...

  • A Garden Folly

    Candice Hern

    The Fortune Huntress It was a stroke of luck that lovely Catherine Forsythe and her stunning sister, Susannah, were invited to a month-long house party on the estate of the Duke of Carlisle. It was their golden chance to snare spouses who would re...

  • My Heart's Desire

    Patricia Grasso

    "LET ME WORSHIP YOU WITH MY BODY." Blythe hungered for his caresses, knowing only time and sweet seduction would win the hardened heart of Roger Debrett, Earl of Eden, the man she'd married--to save him from hanging for the murder of his first wif...

  • Dark Rapture

    Michele Hauf

    DARK DESIRE California dreamer Scarlet Rose has a secret: she has fallen madly in love with seductive Sebastian DelaCourte. But the dark, gypsy-wild rock idol whose ravenous kisses send Scarlet's blood racing also harbors a secret...a consuming sec...

  • Prairie Rose

    Susan Kirby

    A New Beginning... For seventeen-year-old Libby Watson, the unexpected news of an inheritance seems heaven sent. The general store in a small Illinois town bequeathed to Libby by her uncle will free her ailing father from the deadly coal mines and o...

  • Every Wish Fulfilled

    Samantha James

    EVERY DREAM DENIED The Earl of Stonehurst's beautiful but lonely orphaned ward, Heather Duval has resigned herself to spinsterhood--devoting her energies solely to overseeing the earl's grand country manor. Then Damien Tremayne arrives to disrupt he...

  • Flame

    Connie Mason

    "I NEED A HUSBAND AND I NEED HIM NOW!" When her brother was accused of murder, Ashley Webster headed west to clear his name. Although the proud Yankee was prepared to face any hardship on her journey to Fort Bridger, she was horrified to lear...

  • Heaven at Sunrise

    Leona Karr

    As her ship rose above the waves, Alana Landsbury's spirits fell. Promised in marriage upon her return home, she had come to this remote outpost in the Shetland Islands as an unpaid missionary. Some said the petite nurse wouldn't last the year; some ...

  • Forsaking All Others

    Gail Link

    FOR RICHER OR FOR POORER Anthony Chambers would inherit half of his Great Uncle Cedric's sprawling Australian homestead on one condition: He must leave England behind and spend a year living at the homestead with his uncle's live-in companion, Annie...

  • Fever Dreams

    Laura Leone

    SHE's RICH, SOPHISTICATED, AND DEDICATED TO THE FAMILY BUSINESS. HE's RUGGED, SEXY, AND INTO RISKY BUSINESS. THEY'RE AS DIFFERENT AS TWO PEOPLE CAN BE. IT's A PERFECT MATCH. It would be just her luck to travel to tropical Montedora with the one man ...

  • Sensation

    Shelby Lewis

  • Hero for Hire

    Cynthia Powell

    He looked unstoppable, unconquerable, a law unto himself.... Cade Jackson had a face too hard to be handsome, Martinique Duval decided, and a smile just lethal enough to make a good girl want to be bad! Tracking his quarry had led the tough bount...

  • Winter Hearts

    Maureen McKade

    THE LAWMAN Sheriff Matt Brandon senses something mysterious about the lovely new schoolteacher, Libby O'Hanlon, and he resolves to keep an eye on her. Although the curves Libby hides under her drab clothing stir long-dormant desires, it's the compas...

  • Maiden Voyage

    Judith O'Brien

    A journey across the sea to Ireland, where a young, thoroughly modern American woman has inherited a charming eighteenth-century townhouse, and an unforeseen destiny... Maura Finnegan is utterly taken with the quaint, romantic nature of her new h...

  • Magnolia

    Diana Palmer

    A love as sweet and seductive as the magnolias and peach trees of Georgia... Atlanta in 1900 was a city of contrasts: a bustling place where commerce and high society flourished amid the languid rhythms of the sultry South. Claire Lang loved her ...

  • Up for Grabs

    Kristen Robinette

    He was rough denim to her cool silk .... Jesse McCain stepped onto her land without asking, a bold buccaneer who knew the stormy-eyed lady wouldn't deny him a chance to dig up her property -- and her post! Targeted by a grin full of promises, Laur...

  • Holding the Dream

    Nora Roberts

    Nora Roberts presents the second novel in a dramatic new trilogy. Margo, Kate, and Laura were brought up like sisters amidst the peerless grandeur of Templeton House. But it was Kate who soon discovered that her past was haunted by the darkest of sec...

  • Dangerous Angels

    Amanda Scott

    A carriage accident leaves Miss Charlotte Tarrant clinging to the side of a cliff, holding on for dear life. In one terrifying instant, her safe, pampered world is gone. Until Le Renardeau--the Fox cub--becomes her unlikely savior. Looking like the ...

  • An Infamous Proposal

    Joan Smith

    SHE DESIRED NOTHING MORE THAN A BIDDABLE HUSBAND... Emma, having gone at seventeen directly from her papa's home to her husband's arms, is now widowed at age twenty -- and quite naive in the ways of the world: in particular, how to find h...

  • The Turquoise Sun

    Linda Sandifer

    SOMEWHERE IN TIME... 19th-century archaeologist Tanya Darrow is excavating the primeval cliff dwellings of the long-vanished Anasazi tribe -- and uncovers an expedition led by rival archaeologist and notorious playboy Keane Trevalyan. Determined to ...

  • The Infamous Earl

    Margaret Summerville

    A Perilous Pretense Georgiana Morely could see only one way to wed the devastatingly handsome but dismally penniless Lord Thomas Jeffreys. She had to convince her disapproving parents that she would otherwise make an even more disastrous match--wi...

  • Only You

    Angela Winters

    Ghostwriting a book for celebrated architect Tim Neil, editor Connor Jackson meets him in the fashionable ski resort of Aspen, but her professional relationship with the icy man is challenged by her strong attraction to him. Original....

  • The Lady's Mummy

    Bess Willingham

    CAN AN ANCIENT CURSE BE LIFTED... Egyptologist Cassandra Russell was the proud owner of an unusual collection of ancient artifacts--along with an adorable pet monkey. But her most treasured possession was the priceless sarcophagus of an Egyptian Que...

  • Fire Hawk's Bride

    Judith E. French

    A FORBIDDEN PASSION A squire's rebellious daughter, Katherine Miles's future is forever changed during a frantic chase through an English forest -- when she is rescued from a pack of wild dogs by a civilized Cherokee "savage." The ha...

  • An Uncommon Woman

    Julie Ellis

    Heartbroken by the events of World War II, Munich-born Vera Mueller flees to the United States and discovers her strong will to survive, and her subsequent challenges include her marriage to a soldier and motherhood in the 1960s. Original....

  • Blind Pursuit

    Brian Harper

    A killer kidnaps a beautiful psychologist in the Arizona desert in the hopes she can cure him of his deadly compulsions, while her twin sister struggles to save her from a man who possesses a terrifying secret about their family. Original....

  • Flashback

    Don Pendleton

    TAKE NO PRISONERS As the President's extralegal arm, Stony Man never draws a job that the U.S. armed forces could do just as well. The dedicated cybernetics experts and crack field commandos take on the black operations, the covert hit-and-run missi...

  • Brothers

    Ben Bova

    What if, instead of being transplanted, hearts, livers, and kidneys could simply be regrown like a lizard's tail? This turns out to be a faint possibility in Arthur Marshak's genetic lab. He encourages his research staff to pursue it, but political a...

  • Dark Rage

    Lowell Cauffiel

    On the day before Thanksgiving, a madman rains terror on an airportLaurel Kring sits in his garage, blaring John Coltrane as he writes his manifesto. When he has every word in place, he returns to his living room, wraps his arms around his wife, and ...

  • Death Orbit

    Mack Maloney

    Aboard the Zon space shuttle where he hopes to capture arch-criminal Viktor Robotov, Wingman Hawk Hunter fears time is running out when war breaks out on the planet below and a comet zooms into the atmosphere. Original....

  • Changespell

    Doranna Durgin

    Returning to Camolen, where she struggles with her dual existence as a were-horse, Jess tries to come to terms with her feelings for her Rider and must confront the evil intentions of someone who is changing animals into humans. Original....

  • Conan and the Death Lord of Thanza

    Roland J. Green
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Few places are as desolate as the Thanza Mountains on the border of Nemedia and Aqilonia. few area are so remote, so dangerous, or so inaccessible...which is why Conan chose these mountains as the perfect spot in the world for Conan to be.

    Unf...

  • The Cloak of Night and Daggers

    Rosemary Edghill

    THE ULTIMATE TREASURE HUNT In the World of Iron, known to mere mortals as Earth, Holly Kendall, EMT, psychiatric nurse, and SCA warrior, has just arrived at Helicon, ready for a weekend away from the mundane world. But no one has warned Holly just...

  • Patton's Spaceship

    John Barnes

    A mysterious foe wages a war of mutilation, annihilation, and extermination across a million alternate Earths, bent on the ultimate goal of enslaving the universe, with only the Crux Ops team, a Pittsburgh private eye, and a ten-year-old child standi...

  • The Lucifer Deck

    Lisa Smedman

    CONJURED KILLER RUNNING WILD ON THE NET Life on the streets of 21st-century Seattle can be tough, especially for a young ork like Pita. And it gets a lot tougher when she witnesses a corporate mage murdered by the violent spirit he just conjured fro...

  • Jed the Dead

    Alan Dean Foster

    New York Times"bestselling author Alan Dean Foster’s Jed the Dead is a comedic science fiction buddy road trip of interstellar proportions.   En route from Texas to the West Coast, Ross Ed Hager has an encounter of the most unusual...

  • Infectress

    Tom Cool

    Arabella, war-name Infectress, is beautiful, smart and sexy--and she has a solution to the world's overpopulation problem. She's a high-tech terrorist who intends to hack human DNA to create a supervirus: New Age Dawn. It will kill 98% of humanity. B...

  • A Game of Universe

    Eric Nylund

    THE ULTIMATE CONTEST Germain is more than one man: a top-level corporate assassin in a cutthroat universe...the tormented guardian of his victims' souls...a powerful muse capable of casting spells both mundane and miraculous. In a Golden City c...

  • The Courts of Sorcery

    Ashley McConnell

    When Jazen returns to Mirlacca to help fend off an imminent Demon War, the Guild of Exorcists is dismayed at the changes in his personality and discover that the demon of Eberly has taken over his body. Original....

  • With Full Honors

    Donald E. McQuinn

    HONOR AND REDEMPTION Captain Lannat was fiercely loyal to his emperor and the elite corps o1 Rifles. But that loyalty was put to the test when he was assigned to mentor Prince Casey of Paro. For that backwater planet was crucial to the success of a ...

  • Angels Unaware

    L. Elizabeth Storm

    A LEAPER EARNS HIS WINGS... September, 1981. A little girl named Teresa Bruckner is visited by an angel--a man in strange clothes, who says his name is Al. He sings her a lullaby and promises to come back someday, before vanishing in a flash of bl...

  • About That Kiss

    Jayne Addison

    SISTER OF THE BRIDE Joy Mackey is determined to see that her sister gets married without a hitch. But nothing is going smoothly -- and real trouble strikes when the bride's former fiance pops up. Joy is positive that dashing Nick Tremain plans...

  • Mr. Fix-It

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    TEMPTATION WEARS A TOOL BELT Texan Moly Winsome was through with macho males. Never again would she attempt to trade her work boots for dainty Cinderella slippers. Instead, she'd stand tall -- six feet tall -- in a man's world. And she'...

  • The Tender Trap

    Beverly Barton

    ME? MARRY YOU? It took just one brief touch of Adam Wyatt's lips to Blythe Elliott's mouth to ignite a fire so hot neither could deny it. And now, thanks to that one reckless night of passion, Blythe has an unplanned surprise for Adam...and ...

  • The Return of the Cowboy

    Cheryl Biggs

    THE WAY HE GENTLED HORSE ...HIS STRONG, COMFORTING ARMS ...THE PASSION THAT BURNED BETWEEN THEM... Laci James could never forget Brant Garrison, especially since she had only to look at her son--their son--to be reminded of the man she'd loved....

  • Dana and the Calendar Man

    Lisa Bingham

    New Year's Resolution #1: Find a Fiance! With a disastrous blind date left on her doorstep, Dana Shaw had no one with whom to ring in the New Year. Then fate stepped in, in the form of an inherited ticket to a New Year's Eve bachelor auction. ...

  • Out of Time

    Marilyn Campbell

    HE MADE A PACT WITH THE DEVIL It was 1965. Newspaper reporter Luke Templeton, convicted for a murder he did not commit, was waiting to be put to death. Desperate, Luke was willing to do anything to live, even sell his soul to the devil. SHE HAD T...

  • Frisco's Kid

    Suzanne Brockmann

    ALL HE COULD SEE WERE CLOSED DOORS... Frisco Francisco's leg--and career--were shot, and he had every intention of wallowing in self-pity. But there were two complications with his plan: his five-year-old niece, whose sudden presence in his life a...

  • Resolved to (Re)Marry

    Carole Buck

    FIT TO BE TIED -- UP! Lucy Falco couldn't believe her luck. First, her former husband, Christopher Banks, waylaid her at the office on New Year's Eve -- asking for another chance. Then, before she could turn him down flat, a trio of inept th...

  • Wilde Man

    Daphne Clair

    Family Legacies -- Crocodile Tears Enter the House of DeWilde Since the turn of the century, the elegant and fashionable DeWilde stores have helped brides around the world realize the fantasy of their "special day." The store: DeWil...

  • The Defendant

    Gay Cameron

    Defendant and father... With her law degree in one hand and her little boy's in the other, Audrey McKenna excitedly returned to her hometown of Tabbs Corner, Virginia, to start fresh. But then she learned her first client would be none other than ...

  • The Return of Chase Cordell

    Linda Castle

    Chase Cordell Was Coming Home Linese had long awaited her husband's homecoming, but the hero that returned from the war was not the dashing rogue that had captured her in a whirlwind courtship. Who was this man with haunted eyes who could stil...

  • Cowboy Groom

    Judy Christenberry

    The Cowboy Was Hog Tied! One minute there were no women on the Randall ranch and the next Brett Randall ws in knots over two! Brett chose his rightful place behind two of his married brothers, but when he snuck back home to share his news, he g...

  • Those Baby Blues

    Helen Conrad (1)

    A new baby doctor has come to Tyler to start a practice and raise some kids of his own. But first he needs a wife. A nice old-fashioned girl. A stubborn tenant in his newly inherited home refuses to vacate his property, messing up his well-laid pl...

  • Stronger Than Magic

    Heather Cullman

    SHE WAS ENCHANTED Five hundred years ago beautiful Alys Faire was taken captive by fairies. Now she was being offered a chance for freedom by saving the soul of Lucian Warre, the cold- hearted Marquess of Thistlewood. All she had to do was match h...

  • Runaway Honeymoon

    Ruth Jean Dale

    Her five-year-old secret... On a holiday of a lifetime, youthful Jenny Wolf had pretended to be sophisticated beyond her actual experience and had fallen madly in love with a man beyond her wildest dreams. But the dream had ended abruptly and Jenn...

  • Lonnie's Secret

    Margot Dalton
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    Lonnie James plans to become pregnant by midnight on New Year's. But what happens after the masked ball...when her secret paramour thinks he got someone else pregnant?...

  • Nick's Kind of Woman

    Margot Early

    Day Sutter doesn't consider herself adventerous. She's kind and creative, yes. She has a great sense of style. And she's a competent businesswoman, running Rapid Riggers, the Colorado river-rafting company she co-owns with Nick Colter. In fact, D...

  • Wanted: Mom and Me

    Kayla Daniels

    Elise Grant Had A Secret In dusty Tumbleweed, Arizona, a single mom and her daughter wouldn't draw much attention -- or so Elise hoped. But she hadn't bargained on a chance encounter with the sexy and single local sheriff. Cole Hardesty&#...

  • Family Addition

    Rebecca Daniels

    ROOM FOR ONE MORE A fiercely protective single dad, cowboy Colt Wyatt was shaken to his spurs. His pint-size daughter suddenly had another hero to worship! It was Casey the carpenter this, Casey the carpenter that. Just what was with this carpente...

  • Punchline

    Jacqueline Diamond

    Whose bed was she sleeping in! The setup: To her horror, magazine editor Belle Martens discovered it wasn't all a bad joke when she woke up naked next to an equally naked rival editor, Darryl Horak. Why, she loathed the arrogant male chauvinist--a...

  • Jack's Baby

    Emma Darcy

    Surprise father! Nina in a maternity hospital? Jack Gulliver was in shock! This was the woman who had walked out on him eight months ago. Eight months! Could she have had his baby? He still missed and wanted Nina -- with a passion -- and now wa...

  • The Lone Ranger

    Sharon De Vita

    THE LONE RANGER NEEDS A PARTNER Renegade Texas Ranger Cody Kincaid returned to Silver Creek to make peace with his birthright--and to capture his father's murderer. Someone wanted his land--and Savannah Duncan, his father's tenant, was in jeopardy...

  • New Year's Knight

    Lyn Ellis

    'Twas the Night Before New Year's... And all through the house, everybody was celebrating...except Gina Tarantino. Ringing in the New Year only made her realize how lonely she was. But at the stroke of midnight, she found herself in a passionate e...

  • Mad for the Dad

    Terry Essig

    DO YOU TAKE THIS DADDY? What luck! The sexiest man had just strolled past Rachel Gatlin's window. Newly single, Rachel was all set to welcome her handsome new neighbor -- and see if he had any plans for the rest of his life. But was that a ba...

  • Almost to the Altar

    Neesa Hart

    THE WEDDING THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN They'd almost made it to the altar, but fate and family had forced Elise and Wil apart. The lovers had not seen each other in ten years...until fate once more intervened. Suddenly, they were face-to-face -- ea...

  • Daughter of Light

    Quinn Taylor Evans

    She possesses a strange and mystical power - a gift of prophecy that allows her to move freely through time and space. She is Cassandra of Tregaron, the third daughter of Merlin, fabled sorcerer and great friend to King Arthur. Blue-eyed, beautiful, ...

  • Bachelor Mom

    Jennifer Greene

    SINGLE MOM SEEKING EXCITEMENT Being as straitlaced as a saint was getting Gwen Stanford absolutely nowhere. just once she wanted to be positively wicked! So when Spense McKenna gave her a steamy kiss, she decided it was time to shake that good-gir...

  • See No Evil

    Morgan Hayes

    Stevie Falcioni: She walked in on a murder and escaped with her life--but not her vision. If she regains her sight, she can identify the man who killed her friend and attacked her. If she regains her sight, she can see--for the first time--the face o...

  • Me? Marry You?

    Lori Herter

    What woman could resist? An all-expense-paid vacation? Sharing a house with a sexy hunk? Prim-and-proper Penelope Grey should have said no. A woman like her didn't have affairs. And a bachelor like Craig Derring wasn't the marrying kind. What ma...

  • A Pocketful of Paradise

    Kathleen Kane

    A WOMAN WHO WORKED THE LAND On her remote Colorado ranch, Rebecca Hale struggled to raise her small son alone. The last thing she needed was a drifter on her land--a drifter with no horse, no gear and no memory. A MAN WHO HAD TOUCHED THE SKY ...

  • Side Effects

    Bobby Hutchinson

    St. Joe's Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia, is where bodies are healed and hearts are sometimes broken. Dr. Alexandra Ross loves her job in the hectic emergency department. But she also loves her Mountie husband, Sergeant Cameron Ross....

  • Shotgun Marriage

    Day Leclaire

    Ella Montague was invited to a wedding -- her own! The inspiration behind the Cinderella Ball was simple -- come single, leave wed. By midnight perfect strangers could find themselves married ... as if by magic! When Ella Montague's Princ...

  • Angel's Child

    Kathryn Jensen

    THE MAN IN HER FUTURE Angel wannabe Zach Dawson had one last job to do on earth -- find Caroline North a man to father her child. For the child she was to bear was destined for greatness, and the man who would love Caroline needed to be someone very...

  • The Better Man

    Sabrina Johnson

    And may the best man win.... Darcy Blair an authority on fantasy weddings? The last time Josh Cartwright had seen Darcy, she'd been a beautiful bride, he'd been a handsome best man ... and the groom hadn't shown up! Still, Josh would have used ...

  • Two-Parent Family

    Patricia Knoll

    Needed: one morn ! Arians and Jacob were twins, just three weeks old and adorable. But they no longer had a mother. Carrie McCoy knew plenty about babies, but it seemed that she didn't know much about men--she'd been jilted on the morni...

  • The Loneliest Cowboy

    Pamela Macaluso

    THE LONELIEST COWBOY... When Clint Slade stopped by the Rocking W Coffee Shop for a much-needed caffeine rush, he found himself suffering a testosterone rush instead. Surely the beauty before him was new in town--'cuz he'd never forget those baby ...

  • Shadow and Silk

    Ann Maxwell

    With her stormy marriage at last behind her, Professor Dani Warren has found contentment is an expert in the study and preservation of antique textiles. Yet from the moment she touches an ancient piece of silk in Lhasa's Thieves Market, nothing in he...

  • Lord of the Isle

    Elizabeth Mayne

    He Was The ONeill, or so claimed those expecting him to drive the English from Ireland's shores. But Hugh O'Neill was uncertain what destiny demanded of him-until he rode to the aid of Morgana Fitzgerald, a woman with a price on her head and a passio...

  • A New Year's Conviction

    Cassie Miles

    In steamy New Orleans, three people witnessed the same crime, testified against the same man and were then swept into the Witness Protection Program. But now there's new evidence, and these three witnesses are about to come out of hiding... EYE WITNE...

  • Having Gabriel's Baby

    Kristin Morgan

    PARDON ME, BUT THERE'S A NAKED MAN IN MY BED... Joelle Ames had planned her vacation meticulously, but waking up with sexy tourist Gabriel Lafleur-and no memory of the night before--wasn't on the itinerary! Why, she hardly knew him, even though he...

  • Adam's Kiss

    Mindy Neff

    A face she'd never seen... Adam Walsh's chiseled features rivaled that of a sculptured god, his strength did, too. He'd bent steel with the power of fifty men - even shattered the king-size wall around Molly Kincade's heart. Eyes she'd always r...

  • Live-In Mom

    Laurie Paige

    BOY WANTS MOM... Little Jonathan Macklin knew there was something special about Carly Lightfoot. Not only did she have pretty hair, she wasn't afraid of horses or frogs. She could also get his dad mad faster than any other woman around - and then ...

  • Marriage Bait

    Eva Rutland

    The perfect career move -- marriage! Scot Harding was stunned when Lisa turned down a dream promotion -- to get married! He was amazed not only because Lisa was a talented career woman -- but also because she didn't even have a particular hus...

  • Romancing Annie

    Nikki Rivers

    "He wants me?" With ice blue eyes, silver-streaked hair and a diamond-studded ear, Edmund Winters was one magnificent male. And Ann Madison had only one question for him-why was he interested in her? Eddy was a man of the world, with expensive ta...

  • The Last Man in Montana

    Kristine Rolofson

    Riding, loping and Ranching are part of cowboy life. Diapers, Pacifiers and Baby Bottles are not! Champion rodeo rider Will Cody is back at the Silver Valley ranch to sell his inheritance. Family life, staying in any one place for too long, jus...

  • Champagne and Moonlight

    JoAnn Ross
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    Shiloh Beauregard meets the man of her dreams on New Year's night, and with help from some matchmaking cherubs, a cozy twosome becomes a threesome....

  • Heiress Seeking Perfect Husband

    Maris Soule

    SHANNON POWELL IS LOOKING FOR LOVE--IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES Or at least that's what my chauffeur, Clint Dawson, says I'm doing. Personally, I don't think I'm looking for love at all--I merely said I wanted love letters to read in my old age. The f...

  • The Fiance Thief

    Tracy South

    Claire Morgan -- femme fatale? Alec Mason had a hard time imagining Claire as a hot babe, until he began masquerading as her fiance. And fighting off her potential suitors! He and Claire were supposed to be working together to get the inside st...

  • Shades of a Desperado

    Sharon Sala

    A LOVE THAT WOULDN'T DIE Night after night, the visions kept Rachel Brant from sleep -- a hard-eyed outlaw straight out of the old West, claiming her as his woman, taking her passion as his due. And though she knew it was madness, still she longe...

  • Unforgettable

    Meryl Sawyer

    "I CAN MAKE YOU LOVE ME." They met at the edge of a Maui rain forest, at the far side of Paradise. In the midst of a raging tropical storm, Greg Braxton found her unconscious, at the bottom of a cliff. She clung to him fiercely, passionately, and ...

  • Groom on the Loose

    Christine Scott

    GROOM ON THE LOOSE Dr. Greg Lawton was a man used to getting what he wanted. So when his would-be bride left him high and dry, he was mad...really mad. BRIDESMAID ON THE WARPATH Cassie Andrews couldn't believe it--Mr. Blond and Perfect actually...

  • Lucky Bride

    Ana Seymour

    Parker Prescott had no intention of ever settling down, but Molly Hanks was the kind of woman who could stop a man in his tracks --- with or without her buffalo gun! Molly knew a smooth-talking drifter when she saw one. A man with charm like that ...

  • A Husband in Time

    Maggie Shayne

    THE STRANGER The man had come to Jane Fortune from out of nowhere. He couldn't explain who he was, but Jane's young son could. The little boy insisted Zach was his imaginary daddy come to life, the father he'd always wanted. And even Jane couldn't d...

  • Man Without a Badge

    Dani Sinclair

    He'd been stripped of everything... Detective Sam Moore had lost his badge, his job, his dignity. Now he was a fugitive, headed both for Marly Kramer's horse farm and for Marly's young charge, an eleven-year-old eyewitness to the murder of which ...

  • The Coffeepot Inn

    Lass Small

    MR. JANUARY Bryan Willard: Head hunk at the Coffeepot Inn His dream date: The lovely Lily...his new boss His problem: He's in over his head! Nothing much ever happened 'round here till Lily came along. I was happy enough running the Coffeepot...

  • A Midnight Clear

    Anne Stuart
    in

    Kelly Malone wants commitment and stability. She needs a good father for her baby...but will she find him in a rough-and-tumble rancher?...

  • On Wings of Love

    Ashley Summers

    JUST A FLING... Katy Lawrence wasn't the kind of woman who could have a meaningless affair. But her broken heart needed a distraction. And sexy Thomas Logan was there for the taking. He was mighty persuasive and wouldn't take no for an answer. ...

  • A Lawman for Kelly

    Myrna Temte

    KELLY, GET YOUR GUN! Deputy U.S. Marshal Steve Anderson wasn't all that handsome, Kelly Jaynes told herself, but... all right, the man was so magnetic, he made her toes curl up in her boots. So what was a Montana cowgirl to do? He was a lawman...

  • New Year's Wife

    Linda Varner

    Recipe for a Happy New Year 1 Bachelor pilot 1 Young widow 1 Memory of a midnight kiss 1 Oversize house 6 Assorted relatives Passion, hope and love as desired In oversize house, toss together pilot and widow. Fold in memory of passi...

  • No Way Out

    Tina Vasilos

    She had secret reasons for entering his life... Bicycle courier Jenny Gray only pretended not to know Theo Zacharias. She'd entered his life determined to get to know the man--his habits, his haunts, his best-kept secrets. Jenny believed Theo m...

  • On the Way to a Wedding...

    Ingrid Weaver

    She met Mr. Right. ON THE WAY TO A WEDDING...THEIR PLANE CRASHED! Lauren Abbot would have perished had it not been for handsome lawman Nick Strada. Though everyone claimed Nick had died in the crash, Lauren knew better. That hardheaded, sexy ...

  • Mistaken Bride

    Brittany Young

    SECRET BRIDE, SECRET BABY... Kate and Carly Fairfax were the spitting image of each other...but there the similarities ended. And no one sensed their differences as acutely as Gabriel Trent, Carly's mysterious, brooding fiance, a man who regarded...

  • A Night To Remember

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    Opposites attract Andrew Colton Tyler III needed a life. He had a stuffy job, an overbearing family and more social obligations than any sane person would commit to. What's worse, it looked as if the New Year was going to be the same. Then at the ...

  • Raven's Vow

    Gayle Wilson

    A SCANDALOUS ARRANGEMENT American merchant John Raven had stolen the toast of the London season out from under the ton's very nose! He had offered the lovely Lady Catherine Montfort freedom in exchange for marriage and she'd accepted --- despite her...

  • With Every Breath

    Beverly Bird

    Fleeing from her deranged ex-husband, Maddie Brogan returns with her child to an island off the coast of Maine where she spent her early childhood. Although Maddie has no memory of the tragedy that made her leave so long ago, the islanders will never...

  • A Child of Promise

    Jill Stengl

    Harry Jameson, an itinerant joiner, longs to settle in one place, marry, and raise a family. So far, God has planned otherwise, but then Harry's latest woodcarving job brings him into the vicinity of Castle Trent...and into the desolate life of Ishma...

  • Song of the Highlands

    Sharon Gillenwater

    After an inheritance makes him the Earl of Branderree, Scottish military piper Kiernan Macpherson finds himself thrust into the unfamiliar, glittering world of Regency England's aristocracy. His greatest surprise, however, comes when he wins a run-do...

  • The Rising Son

    Darlene Mindrup

    Keiko Tochigi, the California-born daughter of Japanese immigrants, is looking forward to her high school graduation. That is until the death of her father's old friend brings his mysterious son to their farm to collect on a marriage contract the two...

  • Mountaintop

    Lauralee Bliss

    Dorrie Shelton has planned a vacation in the beautiful White Mountains hoping to rekindle a relationship with her sister Gail. Dorrie loves the peaceful landscape while Gail would rather be almost anywhere else. Can Dorrie humble her own desires long...

  • Black Hawk's Feather

    Carolyn R. Scheidies

    Lady Laurel Comfrey has every intention of avenging her father's murder-by herself. But that is before the plot thickens, and she discovers that her prime suspect may also be conspiring against her beloved king. Far worse than that revelation is L...

  • Where Leads the Heart

    Colleen Coble

    Everyone in Wabash, Indiana, is rejoicing in the aftermath of the Civil War-except for Sarah Montgomery. The war has taken what she held most dear. Receiving official notification that her fiance' Rand Campbell, is dead, Sarah agrees to marry Ben Cro...

  • Albert's Destiny

    Birdie L. Etchison

    Albert Galloway is infactuated with Rosie Malone. His feelings for her give him hope that he may soon settle down and raise a family. But, Rosie's heart will not be tamed by any man, and before long Albert's hopes begin to fade. Albert is working ...

  • All the Blood Relations

    Deborah Adams

    "A series rich in provocative themes and artful plots."

    *Joan Hess



    THE TOWN FLORIST WILL SOON BE PUSHING UP DAISIES.



    For Meredith Bradley *Jesus Creek's most successful businesswoman *life has been no bed of rose...

  • Tequila Mockingbird

    Paul Bishop

    When a highly decorated detective of the LAPD's ultra-secretive Anti-Terrorist Division is murdered by his wife in broad daylight, it appears to be an open-and-shut case of domestic violence turned deadly. But Fey Croaker discovers circumstances are ...

  • The Poet

    Michael Connelly

    Death is reporter Jack McEvoy's beat: his calling, his obsession. But this time, death brings McEvoy the story he never wanted to write--and the mystery he desperately needs to solve. A serial killer of unprecedented savagery and cunning is at la...

  • Trunk Music

    Michael Connelly

    Following on the heels of his extraordinary New York Times bestseller, The Poet, Edgar Award-winning author Michael Connelly brings you Trunk Music, his most electrifying Harry Bosch novel to date-a taut, complex thrill ride that confirms Connelly...

  • The Alpine Hero

    Mary Daheim

    THE ALPINE ADVOCATE SCOOPS A MURDER Emma Lord, the Advocate's editor, finds the body in the facial room of Stella's Styling Salon--anonymous under a mud pack, throat slashed. The victim turns out to be the sister-in-law of Sheriff Dodge's girlf...

  • Murder Can Wreck Your Reunion

    Selma Eichler

    A CRAVING FOR THE TRUTH Private eye Desiree Shapiro has as much a talent for murder as she does for whipping up--and polishing off--a cold lemon souffle. And New York's chubbiest detective is certainly putting all she's got into solving the death ...

  • The Dead of Winter

    Paula Gosling

    When a fish-nibbled corpse floats up into a fisherman’s ice hole in the frozen wastes of Blackwater Bay one morning, the shock is enough to shake Jess Gibbons out of an idle reverie on the gloomy state of her life. And as soon as Sheriff Matt Gabri...

  • Blood Will Tell

    Terris McMahan Grimes

    FAMILY SECRETS THAT LEAD TO MURDER Her mother said there'd be days like this, but today's shock of her life is the red-haired stranger who moved into her mother's Sacramento home, claiming to be her father's "love child." Being an African-American...

  • Winter's Gold

    William Heffernan

    New York Police Detective Paul Devlin investigates the alleged suicide of a famous socialite at her ex-husband's apartment, a case that takes him from the glamourous lives of the glittering elite to the dark evil of the criminal underworld. Reprint....

  • Rx for Murder

    Renee B. Horowitz

    The fifty-something pharmacy manager at the Food Go in Scottsdale, Arizona, Ruthie Kantor Morris enjoys nothing better than dishing dirt with her waitress friend Denise. But sometimes the gossip turns grim... DEATH IN MEASURED DOSES Harry Stokes ...

  • No Place for Tears

    Sherry Lewis

    Cutler, Colorado, may be a small town, but it certainly isn't boring. Even for someone who's lived there 73 years, like Fred Vickery. "Helping" with police business has become his favorite pastime. And as long as human nature stays the same, there wi...

  • The Feathery Touch of Death at the British Open

    John Logue

    DOUBLE BOGEY Barry Vinson could pulverize his tee shots and dazzle with his short game. But when it came to personality, the brilliant young American was strictly a duffer-until someone took him off the course. Vinson was found in the historic ...

  • Hyde

    Dan Mahoney

    NYPD Detective Brian McKenna is back where he belongs -- hunting down a mysterious killer who preys upon the city's most forgotten members. At first blush, it seems as if these homeless men have frozen to death on city streets. But this succession of...

  • Until Death Do Us Part

    Christine McGuire

    Prosecuting a defendant who is charged with attempted murder by intentional infliction of HIV, deputy D.A. Kathryn Mackay begins a deadly race against time when a bomb explodes in the courtroom, a situation that is complicated by personal problems. O...

  • Gone Fishin'

    Walter Mosley

    In the beginning, there was Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and Raymond "Mouse" Alexander--two young men setting out in life, hitting the road in a "borrowed" Ford headed for Pariah, Texas. The volatile Mouse wants to retrieve money from his stepfather so he ...

  • Killer

    Christopher Newman

    When maverick New York detective Joe Dante is ambushed in the middle of the street out of revenge, the lieutenant begins his hunt for killer who had come after him, following a trail of dead bodies closer to his quarry--and a shattering betrayal. Ori...

  • The Murder Lover

    Ellen Rawlings

    DANGEROUS AFFINITIES



    Elspeth Goldman and Rachel Crowne have a lot in common. They are both young, divorced, and Jewish. They look alike and share the same suburban Washington, D.C. community. But there's one big difference: Rachel is a...

  • Skin Deep, Blood Red

    Robert Skinner

    Even At Ten Grand, The Price Of The Soul Is Never An Easy Sale... Chance Tartaglia, a cop with a nasty reputation for embezzling, pimping, and drug-dealing has been found shot to death. To nightclub owner Wesley Farrell--who knows all about secrets-...

  • Whose Death Is It Anyway?

    Elizabeth Daniels Squire

    After a lively family reunion, Peaches stumbles on some deadly secrets--starting with the news that her cousin's daughter, Kim, is missing, and her mother is convinced she's dead. Peaches is supposed to be promoting her book, How to Survive Without a...

  • Jury Double

    Edward Stewart

    NYPD homicide cop Vince Cardozo must unmask a cunning killer in bestselling author Edward Stewart’s powerhouse tale of crime and punishmentWhen it comes to the dark side of humanity, Vince Cardozo has already seen plenty. But his encounter with cul...

  • Publish and Perish

    Sally Wright

    INTRODUCING ACADEMIC SLEUTH BEN REESE A college professor dead under mysterious circumstances. A secretary who hates the victim with lethal ferocity. A vengeful former student. To university archivist Ben Reese, the sudden death of his old friend ...

  • Twilight of Heroes

    Ralph Peters

    THE TRUTH CAN'T HIDE IN THE HEART OF DARKNESS A U.S military team on a mission of mercy is massacred in a remote Bolivian village --with no trace of the killers. A colonel awaiting retirement makes it his final mission to fight for the truth...onl...

  • Bitter Fruit

    James Axler

    AFTER SKYDARK In the nuclear-storm devastated Deathlands warrior survivalist of the twenty-second century leads the relentless fight to reclaim a lost world. STONE GUARDIANS Barely escaping from a marauding gang, Ryan Cawdor and his band of post...

  • The Whole Truth

    Janice Kaplan

    Dr. Sarabeth Love thinks she's achieved her dreams when she begins working for a prestigious Boston medical practice. But something goes terribly wrong. A beautiful young socialite dies after Sarabeth delivers her child, and the whole city wants to k...

  • Water Rites

    Guy N. Smith

    IN THE VILLAGE OF HOPWAS, THERE IS A BARBED WIRE FENCE AROUND THE OLD RESERVOIR. An elderly derelict living in the Hopwas woods has seen them gather under the chill of the moon. He has heard the haunting echoes of their strange midnight chants. A re...

  • The Misbegotten King

    Anne Kelleher Bush

    In a battle-scarred future America of seduction and sorcery, a final prophecy unfolds .. . A SECRET LEGACY WILL BAIT THE TRAP. A TWISTED FATE WILL SPRING IT. PRINCE RODERIC RIDENAU: Charged with the preservation of the old order, he must overc...

  • Shadow War

    Deborah Chester

    For nine centuries the Emperor Kostimon has ruled the land. But this wondrous immortality stems from a bargain with the very source of evil itself--the Dark lord Beloth. Notit; as Kostimon's tenth and final lifetime begins, the shadow god is growing ...

  • The Huntress and the Sphinx

    Ru Emerson

    Xena, once in love with conquest and destruction, now fights for the side of good. Though constantly haunted by her wicked past, Xena courageously battles mortals, gods, demigods, and monsters, and heroically protects the downtrodden, from the, force...

  • The Bacta War

    Michael A. Stackpole

    They are the galaxy's most elite fighting force. And as the battle against the Empire rages, the X-wing fighters risk life and machine to protect the Rebel Alliance. Now they must do the impossible: capture a hostile, fortified world--on their own. ...

  • Shards of Alderaan

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born--a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia have grown strong with the Force, thwarting the evil Nolaa Tarkona and destroying the Emperor's plague. Now, with th...

  • Keeper of the King

    P.N. Elrod; Nigel Bennett

    Centuries after serving the king of England as his vampire protector, Richard, now a highly paid anti-terrorist consultant to the Canadian government, is drawn into a deadly race to save his creator, the Lady Ardis, and with her all humanity....

  • Passages of Gold

    Jim Kraus

  • Journey to the Crimson Sea

    Jim Kraus

    Authors Jim and Terri Kraus conclude their trilogy of Treasures of the Caribbean in Journey to the Crimson Sea. The 17th-century Caribbean island of Barbados hosts this unique story of love, loyalty, and adventure. The meaning of forgiveness is teste...

  • The Sable Doughboys

    Tom Willard

  • Dream Lover

    Virginia Henley

    He came upon her as she swam in her secret crystal cave, the rugged stranger who stole her heart, then haunted her dreams when he disappeared. Emerald FitzGerald Montague thought her life was over when she was forced to marry another man, a man she d...

  • Against All Odds

    Barbara Riefe

    Excited about their upcoming trip to California, Lucy Scott Mitchum and her husband Noah never expected the many difficulties and great dangers they had to endure on their way to begin their new life in the West. Lucy Scott Mitchum was not sure ho...

  • Jane and the Man of the Cloth

    Stephanie Barron

    Jane and her family are looking forward to a peaceful holiday in the seaside village of Lyme Regis. Yet on the outskirts of town an overturned carriage forces the shaken travelers to take refuge at a nearby manor house. And it is there that Jane meet...

  • Harvest Moon

    Judith Saxton

    Laurie, son of a local ne'er-do-well lordling, and John, son of the well-to-do Hovertons, grow up like brothers on the Hoverton's Bees-wing Farm in England in the early 20th century. The boys revel in their country lifestyle, befriending Foxy Lockett...

  • Naked Justice

    William Bernhardt

    As Tulsa's first black mayor and a former college football hero, Wallace Barrett was a city treasure - until he became the prime suspect in the gruesome murder of his wife and two daughters. Seen splattered with blood and fleeing his house after the ...

  • The Bone Collector

    Jeffery Deaver

    Lincoln Rhyme was once a brilliant criminologist, a genius in the field of forensics--until an accident left him physically and emotionally shattered. But now a diabolical killer is challenging Rhyme to a terrifying and ingenious duel of wits. With p...

  • All That Glitters

    Jerry Kennealy

    Nick Polo's latest case finds him on familiar San Francisco turf where a Russian antiques dealer has hired him to locate Anna, the stunning holder of a valuable Mongol paitza - a dog tag of sorts originally worn by Ogodie Khan. Using no more than a d...

  • Flesh and Bones

    Paul Levine

    Miami Dolphins linebacker-turned-lawyer Jake Lassiter returns in the seventh Lassiter mystery from acclaimed South Florida writer and former lawyer Paul Levine. In Flesh & Bones, Jake takes on a seemingly unwinnable case. When Miami model Chrissy B...

  • Skylar in Yankeeland

    Gregory McDonald

    Skylar go home! A rogue and a rascal--the trumpet playing, lady-killing toast of Greendowns County, Tennessee--Skylar Whitfield's talented lips have won him the affection of many a local belle. Now they've won him a scholarship to a prestigious No...

  • Embers of Death

    Stella Shepherd

    Baffled by a series of unexplained fires in empty properties, D.I. Montgomery and Sergeant Bird of Nottingham begin to see both a motive and pattern when a pharmacy is torched and a charred body is found in the wreckage....

  • Crash Course

    Kathy Hogan Trocheck

    MURDER GETS A GREEN LIGHT When Jackleen Canaday's newly bought dream machine--an '88 Corvette T-top--turns out to be a lemon, senior sleuth Truman Kicklighter comes to her aid. As they head for the dealership, they're spoiling for a fight but they...

  • Infinity's Child

    Harry Stein

    THEIR FIRST CHOICE Sally Benedict is having a baby. After years of trying, after scores of tests, Sally and her husband are thrilled. But someone is watching, someone who knows all about Sally's unborn child--right down to her unique genetic code. ...

  • The Devil's Footprint

    Victor O'Reilly

    Hugo Fitzduane had stared into the face of evil--and survived. An Irish ex-soldier and war photographer, he defeated the legendary Hangman and his vengeful Japanese lover, "The Lethal Angel." Now he must pay the price. In a congressional office in Wa...

  • Modern Classics of Fantasy

    Gardner Dozois

    While humanity has been telling fantastic stories for millennia, fantasy fiction has only come into its own as a genre in the latter half of the twentieth century, as the works of such writers as J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard have found a wide ...

  • City on Fire

    Walter Jon Williams

    Plasm: the shimmering substance that powers a world civilization Atah worked for the Plasm Authority, metering the shimmering substance that powered the world cite, until she fell in love with Constantine, the rebel Metropolitan lighting a war to ...

  • Voyage

    Stephen Baxter

    In this sci-fi alternate history, JFK’s planned mission to Mars embarks on an intrepid journey -- “a wonderful, patriotic tale of lost possibility” (Kirkus).In Voyage, Stephen Baxter imagines how, if President Kennedy had lived, America mi...

  • My Sweet Folly

    Laura Kinsale

    His letters began with "My sweet Folly..." Over seven years, the innocent correspondence between Folie Hamilton and her husband's cousin in India, Lieutenant Robert Cambourne, transformed into a secret passion. After Folie's husband died, Robert beca...

  • Something Wicked

    Jo Beverley

    It was a night of danger and intrigue. Disguised as the mysterious beauty Lisette, Lady Elfled Malloren anticipates only fun and flirtation at the Vauxhall Gardens Masquerade. Instead, the dark walkways lead to an encounter with treason, a brush with...