With her companion, a would-be combat biker named Rafael in tow, ex-Texan Leni joins a group of blood-thirsty Latin American pagans to investigate the murder of a prophetess who claimed to be her grandmother. Original....
Of Shapeshifters and Skinwalkers.... As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. one girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. The seedy carn...
Nick Neumann had it all: a Harvard degree, a beautiful fiancee, a star-making Wall Street career. But behind the dazzling veneer of this golden boy is a man haunted by the brutal killing of his father seventeen years before. Now chilling new evide...
Captain Kirk first encountered Gary Seven on twentieth-century Earth. Now Seven, a time-traveling operative for unknown alien forces, makes a surprise visit to the U.S.S. Enterprise. Kirk is on an urgent mission to bring relief to a disaster-ravaged ...
The U.S.S. Voyager finds itself in a system where a planet might have existed, but doesn't. Where the planet should have been, millions and then billions of people are appearing from nowhere and dying in the vacuum of space.To solve the mystery and s...
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...
SKYWALKER DATA PAD ENTRY LOCATION: TATOOINE In just half a day, my whole world has changed. The farm, my aunt and uncle.... They're gone. Destroyed by the Empire. All my life I've been waiting for something to happen to me. Something important. A...
DAVID WEBER In just a few short years, David Weber has shot to the forefront of science fiction with his top-selling novels of Honor Farrington, the toughest, smartest starship captain in the galaxy. Now two more military SF-world-beaters join him i...
Just as his international tour is about to commence, brilliant pianist Rolf Geiger is violently tormented by an unimaginable evil force, his dead mentor, the renowned maestro Rabinowitz, who demands that Rolf murder his beloved as payment for his ext...
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR .. . Three weeks ago, there were only three things Tom Jenkins wanted out of life: 1) He wanted off of Brighthome, the interstellar reformatory, and into the Space Guard. 2) He wanted Alex, the latest incorrigible to b...
Aaron Hudson is forced to choose between loyalty to a corrupt task force that has turned its mission to protect a colony ship to its own profit, and cooperation with the investigators trying to shut it down. Original....
As an imperial guard, Arden Grenfell was one of the elite. She pledged to defend the royal house of Glory--and her personal charge, Princess Jessa--to the death. But when the princess forsakes her birthright, Arden fails in her duty, and falls into d...
During a dark period in history known as the Killing Times, Jaguar tries to rehabilitate the era's criminals using telepathic therapy but meets a dangerous challenge in a severely disturbed female assassin, who would teach Jaguar the true meaning of ...
Murder, mystery, and interstellar intrigue! Lassti, a newly discovered planet, is the center of political intrigue. Recently the planet survey team’s physicist was found dead. Was he killed? If so, by who? One of his fellow surveyors? Or by one of ...
"Hercules:The Legendary Journeys" first burst onto television screens as a series of five action-packed movies. But unlike previous Hercules movies, these didn't feature togas and flowery language. Instead, the producers created a Hercules for ...
It is Yu Lan in San Francisco's Chinatown, the Festival of the Hungry Ghosts -- a time of year when offerings are made to appease the ghosts roaming the earth. Only this time several murders have occurred, and the last victim left behind one message:...
When a mortician appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life, he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust. Gore Vidal’s deft and daring blend of satire and prophecy,...
An introduction to the millennium and all of its related activities discusses such topics as the Millennium Virus, the Doomsday Prophecy, and the calculations that make the year 2000--or maybe 2001--a special date...
THE ULTIMATE BATTLE CRY It has been ten years since Andrew Keane's Union regiment was mysteriously pulled away from the Civil War and marooned in time on a hostile alien planet. But no battle ever fought against the warring Bantags can compare wit...
In The Buchanan Campaign bestselling author Rick Shelley created a bold scenario of interplanetary invasion. In The Fires of Coventry he returned to that explosive universe to pit advanced technology against nature's most elemental weapon. Now he pre...
At a time when Earth's hungry inhabitants demand more than even the ocean's endless boundaries can provide, strange things are born in the oceanic depths--things that the sea throws back up onto the land in retaliation of decades of pollution and abu...
How well do you know your spouse? What if the person you married was keeping secrets from you? What if the one you love is involved in something so dangerous it could destroy you both? Kate Theodorus is about to find out......
Tom Willock’s first book, Green River Rising, earned the kind of reviews that are rarely accorded to most so-called literary thrillers. This remarkable debut was hailed for its rich, powerful writing as well as its dramatic, page-turning suspense. ...
The trade paperback edition of David Bowman's prizewinning first novel, Let the Dog Drive, has developed a cult following. Now Bowman's exuberantly praised second novel -- a hard-boiled comedy about love, abduction, and child care, set in a future wh...
When successful author Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack, his eldest, adoring daughter Sarah embarks on a memoir of him and soon discovers that her perfect father was not all he appeared to be. That in fact he wasn't Gerald Candless at al...
FBI agent and single mother Margaret Chisholm enters an uneasy partnership with an enigmatic CIA agent in an attempt to capture an international assassin known as Sepsis, a man of incomparable ruthlessness. Reprint....
Welcome to Cuba, 1898--where the insurrectos are in the hills, the rich are partying in Havana, and Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders are about to come ashore. Into the melee an American cowboy arrives with a scheme to sell horses and run guns, earning ...
It starts with a phone call luring her into the night--and before it ends five people will be grotesquely murdered, never knowing why they had to die.
Claudia Miller is a strong and independent woman, a successful general contractor in the tou...
Katy Steele and her partner, Sam Bronte, face their most dangerous assignment yet when they travel to St. Louis to help Sam's younger brother find out who is behind a series of mishaps aboard his riverboat. Original....
Brutally attacked by a group of cruel athletes, Lyndsey Barratt vanishes, but now, seven years later, someone is exacting deadly revenge on these same attackers, and two people--journalist Julie Adams and Inspector Frank Illiffe--must delve into a wo...
Betrayed by the political game, a brilliant, idealistic campaign manager now finds himself chosen by the CIA for an extremely sensitive and volatile national security operation. Caught in a world of clandestine affairs and high-tech espionage, he bec...
In Chicago, a renowned psychiatrist and criminal profiler with an uncanny gift has a grisly vision. Across town, detectives examine a body in a bathtub. As with other victims, the eyes were taken by the dead woman's savage killer.
Now the fran...
The lives of three Southern women are tainted by one man -- the charismatic, ruthlessly ambitious Jack Sullivan -- until he's finally stopped by a bullet Suzanne: Beautiful, intelligent and burning for a career in the law, she is nearly destroyed by...
Hoping to persuade her boyfriend to propose, Audrey Goh "kidnaps" him for a fantasy weekend in the unfinished luxury hotel she owns in Hawaii, but an obsessed stranger has slipped through the hi-tech security system, someone who is determined to have...
CIA agent Claude Lafeur is sent to free the American ambassador kidnapped by terrorists in the Dominican Republic after a massive attempt by the U.S. Army to free him fails. By the author of
Tell-all biographer Betsy Clendenin was many celebrities' worst fear. But when she began writing a book that would expose secrets buried in the notorious Hoover files, someone decided she'd gone too far. A mail bomb soon sends her, and the evidence s...
A serial murderer is terrorizing Seattle, hunting and scalping white men. And the crimes of the so-called Indian Killer have triggered a wave of violence and racial hatred. Seattle's Native Americans are shaken and confused, none more so than John Sm...
Emmeline is the young, lovely wife of Henri Lambert, a world-famous magician. But her secluded, bourgeois existence ends when she and her husband are sent to North Africa on a mission for Napoleon III. Through his flawless illusionist's art, Lambert ...
Acclaimed crime writer Kent Anderson's "fiercely authentic and deeply disturbing" police novel, following a Vietnam veteran turned cop on the meanest streets of 1970s Portland, Oregon (Los Angeles Times).Two kinds of cops find their way to Portland's...
New York Detective Mike Hoolihan is called to the scene of an apparent suicide. Mike is a woman with a nicotine voice, dyed blond hair and is an alcoholic who had been abused by her father. The victim is Jennifer Rockwell, who Mike had known si...
"Kennedy is a world class writer."--The New York Times Book ReviewA brilliant American debut from one of Scotland's most acclaimed writers, named by Granta as one of the Twenty Best Young British Novelists.Emotionally numb, crippled with insomnia, an...
When Jimmy Weir, a not-too-bright but apparently harmless delivery boy (though he is, in fact, a very large man) for the local grocery store, murders and sexually mutilates two elderly women in the small town of Dixon, South Carolina, the defense tea...
Lord and Lady Awkwright, awakened in the night, lie bound and gagged in the dark while kidnappers carry their daughter away, holding her for ransom. It seems a typical kidnapping, yet in fact it is the kidnappers' intention that they should be seen t...
Brimming with heat-of-battle action and state-of-the-art technology, Sea Strike plunges Commander Amanda Garrett, first introduced in Choosers of the Slain, and her stealth destroyer, USS Cunningham, into action. After suffering internal revolt, Comm...
When Russian physicist Dmitri Sherbatov defects to Israel with the means to create synthetic gold, it is not the Israeli government that will profit from his secret, but rather a group of Mossad officers and the CIA. A first novel. 15,000 first print...
“Part rollicking historical potboiler, part theological mystery” from the acclaimed author of The Dress Lodger and The Mammoth Cheese (Entertainment Weekly).A riveting mystery that recalls the work of Umberto Eco and Barry Unsworth, A Stolen...
A YOUNG LAW CLERK IS KILLED. A HIGH-PRICED CALL GIRL IS STRANGLED. TWO MEN ARE FRAMED FOR THEIR MURDERS. AND ONE WOMAN INTENDS TO PROVE THEIR INNOCENCE. Defense attorney Kate Logan has become embroiled in two important murder cases. One is the def...
The secret was buried deep within the high mountains of West Virginia. It spiraled down to a devastating legacy of betrayal, revenge, and rage that was destined to destroy a dynasty. Charley LeBlanc is the black sheep, a disgrace to the family nam...
Richard Storm is passionate, hot-blooded, and running at of time. Sophia Endering is cool, beautiful, and haunted by a centuries-old mystery. Now the Hollywood filmmaker and the troubled young woman have come together in a race against the unbelievab...
Paul Kelly is the manager of a successful pub in southeast London, but his life has become a constant drunken binge since his wife's death. When Paul's brother Johnny is murdered, their mother calls him home to the town in Ireland where he grew up. T...
Flint Armstrong woke from a nightmare to a nightmare - a dead woman in his bed. Charged with murder, he has no alibi, no memory of that night and no one to believe in him. Except his sister-in-law. Who may be all he needs. Nicky Keating has alway...
HE KILLS IN THE NAME OF BEAUTY... Christi Anthonv's life is a waking nightmare. She is being stalked by a madman who has already stolen the lives of five women. They were all contestants in Kansas City's annual Rose Pageant--all young, all beautiful...
Cornelia Van Gorder does not scare easily and is excited to be playing detective, but after stumbling upon a corpse, Cornelia realizes that it is no game and that she is hot on the trail of an evil killer known as The Bat. Reissue....
THE HEAT WAS ON... Burning, scorching, searing heat. That's what new sheriff Kate McArdle felt every time she encountered Silver City's fire chief, Jake Johnson. Which was often, since a rash of arsons was forcing them to work together. Desper...
Alone in a mountain blizzard with her son in the hands of kidnappers, Susan Richardson needed rescuing. But why did her ex-husband, Grant, have to be her rescuer? If only Susan had been more careful, Grant thought. If only Grant hadn't made s...
THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN? Gabriel Hawk was every mother's worst nightmare and every daughter's secret fantasy. Unless that daughter was Rorie Dean! Unfortunately, the dark, brooding man with a heart of stone and a body that yelled sex was Rorie's o...
Still reeling from her mother's recent death, Karen Whitlaw is stunned when she receives a package containing a mysterious notebook from the father she has barely seen since his return from the Viet Nam War over twenty years ago. Unwilling to deal wi...
Ronnie Honneker is the senator's wife. When she fell for the dashing politician, the stars in her eyes kept her from seeing his flaws. And when she discovered his constant need for other women, it was already too late. Now all the glamour of politics...
Within every shadow... A former crime reporter heads to her small hometown in search of solace. But acclaimed suspense writer Charlotte Hughes deftly turns the comforts of home into a dark tale of treachery and murder. Lies an Unsettling Secret ...
THE MAN WAS HARD TO RESIST ... .Aidan Brodie's sensual stare could seduce a woman almost against her will. Samantha Giancarlo found herself to be no exception. Her reporter's instincts screamed at her to stay far away. But fate--in the form of a w...
A LOST MANUSCRIPT AND A STOLEN HEART After her father's death, the bookish, pretty and very innocent Elise Ashford considers herself lucky to be taken in at Wicklow Manor to catalogue the estate's library. Not as fortunate is the attention...
HIS FAIR LADY Julian LeFevre, Duke of Claridge, found being a reformed rake terribly dull. So he wagered a friend that he could make any pretty trollop in London pass for a lady of the ton. But when his friend presented him with Miss Hannah Gregory,...
A Lady's Deception Lady Jane Stanhope, vowing that no one would bridle her spirit, had devised the most extraordinary plan to escape an arranged marriage. The high-spirited, highborn, and highly pampered Lady Jane was running away...to enter s...
An Exceptional Young Lady ...And An Earl With A Reputation For Danger When Miss Minerva Potts cried off her engagement to the self-absorbed Lord Whithall, she vowed not to marry at all, or if she must, she would choose as the gentlemen obviously d...
FROM COZY INNS TO SPARKLING LONDON, SNOWFLAKES, AND LOVE, ARE IN THE AIR... Winter holds special delights for lords and ladies. Laughter rings like sleighbells in the snow, and a courtship by candlelight can melt the coldest heart. And what follow...
Love's Letter Evelynne Marriott, a gentlewoman born, had donned the disguise of a rough-and-tumble lad. With her family fallen on hard times, she toiled away at a man's job to keep a roof over all their heads. Not that she expected the wea...
FROM COZY INNS TO SPARKLING LONDON, SNOWFLAKES, AND LOVE, ARE IN THE AIR... Winter holds special delights for lords and ladies. Laughter rings like sleighbells in the snow, and a courtship by candlelight can melt the coldest heart. And what follow...
BOUND BY DUTY With her parents long-dead, Lady Charlotte had devoted herself to raising her only sibling Sydney, the Duke of Audley. But when the callow youth developed a tendre for the most unsuitable young woman, Charlotte turned to Sir Roland Mar...
FROM COZY INNS TO SPARKLING LONDON, SNOWFLAKES, AND LOVE, ARE IN THE AIR... Winter holds special delights for lords and ladies. Laughter rings like sleighbells in the snow, and a courtship by candlelight can melt the coldest heart. And what follow...
Moira Hayes hadn't seen Kenneth Woodfall in nearly eight years. Nor did she want to see this man who stirred such feelings of anger in her. After all, their families had been rivals since their great-grandfathers' day. And he was the reason- though i...
When she and he were only babies, they were pledged in marriage. Now Atiyah has been sent away -- a political pawn in a war between the Beduin tribes in the year 1302. He vows to return to her as soon as he can.
But while Atiyah is studying at the ...
An uplifting anthology of short stories, each accompanied by the author's personal insights into the characters or background of the tale, ranges from a delightful tale of camping the wilderness to enjoying a Disneyland Christmas, all the while shari...
City girl Jayne Morgan takes a teaching job in the small eastern Oregon town where her fiancee is from. But after he jilts her, she's stuck. Determined to honor her commitments, she begins to get involved in the community and ends up winning an Arab ...
Life was perfect, Devora thought. Assisting her Uncle Barnabas with his patients was exhilarating, and the thought of marriage to her beau, Edward, filled her heart with joy. Then the Countess of Radburn made a life-changing announcement: Devora must...
Love is in the air in each of the four love stories in this contemporary collection: Reluctant Valentine, by Loree Lough; Masquerade, by Kathleen Yapp; Interrupted Melody, by Sally Laity; and Castaways, by Debra White Smith....
"Tickets for the Sweetheart Stomp are still available at the student government office, Room 114, during lunch hours or half an hour after school."
B.J. Green though, not for the first time, what a dumb name Sweetheart Stomp was for a Valentine's D...
City girl Jayne Morgan takes a teaching job in the small eastern Oregon town where her fiancee is from. But after he jilts her, she's stuck. Determined to honor her commitments, she begins to get involved in the community and ends up winning an Arab ...
Love is in the air in each of the four love stories in this contemporary collection: Reluctant Valentine, by Loree Lough; Masquerade, by Kathleen Yapp; Interrupted Melody, by Sally Laity; and Castaways, by Debra White Smith....
Love is in the air in each of the four love stories in this contemporary collection: Reluctant Valentine, by Loree Lough; Masquerade, by Kathleen Yapp; Interrupted Melody, by Sally Laity; and Castaways, by Debra White Smith....
Love is in the air in each of the four love stories in this contemporary collection: Reluctant Valentine, by Loree Lough; Masquerade, by Kathleen Yapp; Interrupted Melody, by Sally Laity; and Castaways, by Debra White Smith....
City girl Jayne Morgan takes a teaching job in the small eastern Oregon town where her fiancee is from. But after he jilts her, she's stuck. Determined to honor her commitments, she begins to get involved in the community and ends up winning an Arab ...
With more than 17 million copies of his novels in print W.E.B. Griffin presents his most riveting series of the men and women behind the badge -- united by a code of courage, loyalty, and trust. A brutal crime. A group of urban terrorists. An invest...
After a night of hard partying, four British tourists fall asleep on a pleasure boat off Mallorca. The next morning, however, three of them, Sheard, Kirsty, and Cara, slowly realize that the fourth, Lewis, is no longer there. Inspector Alvarez is dis...
A girl missing in New York. A political bombing in Iceland. No ordinary cop would see a connection. But Detective First Grade Brian McKenna didn't earn his reputation by being ordinary. In ONCE IN, NEVER OUT, McKenna travels the globe in pursuit of h...
BIG SKY, OLD BONES, AND MURDEROUS OBSESSION. BLUE DEER, MONTANA HAS IT ALL... A Cleveland hunter had just shot off his best friend's hand and the first blizzard of the season was blowing into Blue Deer, Montana, when a camper found an old skeleton...
Once upon a time... "Daddy, can we keep her?" Drake Hart was expecting a slow day of fishing with his little son, Matt, when he came across a beautiful blonde named Aria. She sang like an angel and looked like one, too--which was easy to see since...
A shy mortal girl rashly accepts a faery lord's offer of beauty and charm. Then he comes to claim a terrible price --- the loss of her new love and everything she holds dear....
Newport, Rhode Island, 1998 She put her ear to the door and closed her eyes, trying to recognize voices or names. But after a few brief seconds, the sounds of the party faded. "It's gone..." whispered Hannah. The legend of private e...
Stolen by Faerie to increase their powers, a beautiful changeling must choose between the lure of magic and the doomed mortal stranger who calls to her still-human heart....
A lovely lady discovers she is half-faery, created to bind a special man to the faery realm. But when he claims to love another, she defies the might of faeries to try and set him free. ***** Faery Weddings anthology (e-book) Gwen Forsythe is ...
A faery lord is condemned to haunt the misty glens, cursed by his need to seduce mortal women to their deaths --- until a simple maid defies his spell and captures his heart....
As a successful Hollywood executive, Mariah is on the lookout for the perfect screenplay, and while scouting locations in Pittsburgh, she thinks she has it. With an old-fashioned setting and Thorn, a hero to die for, she knows it will make a great mo...
Alexi Bound by chains of silver, the vampire had slept for a hundred years, locked in a world of pain and hunger, until the seductive scent of one woman's blood recalled him to ravenous life. Marisa Unnerved by the sight of the carnival's ca...
BENEATH A SHADOWY MOON . . . No one in New York City knows Lily's frightening secret --- or that she had been swept into a life of terror by a power too strong to resist. Miraculously, she escaped that world, and now has the chance to find a happy, ...
Can the power of love defeat time? SENT THROUGH TIME TO SAVE HIS TRIBE... For Lonewolf, the old ways were the only ways -- until a mysterious force pulled the Navajo stargazer one hundred and thirty years into the future. His enemy Kit Carson is...
AN APPETITE FOR CRIME... Well-rounded P.I. Desiree Shapiro brings as much gusto to solving an unsavory crime as she does to creating--and consuming--a savory salmon mousse. But the demise of Luella Pressman has her stumped. The well-known children...
ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MURDER I LEARNED IN NASHVILLE The bestselling toast of Tennessee, author Robert Jefferson Reed has made big bucks with his little book of folksy homilies like "Never go to bed angry" and "Eat your vegetables." He ...
``I don't deal in danger,'' Stanley Hastings aptly tells his latest client. But Maxine Winnington, who obviously hasn't seen Stanley's r‚sum‚, hires him anyway to identify the person who's been harassing her with anonymous threatening phone calls...
In novels such as KILLER INSTINCT and DARKEST INSTINCT, FBI pathologist Dr. Jessica Coran has probed the deepest recesses of the criminal mind, coming face-to-face with killers as brilliant as they are vicious. But now Jessica must face a deadly ne...
THE ULTIMATE HUNTER... Arthur Combs is LA's hottest story. Dubbed Starman, this terrifying serial killer is a monster who preys on beautiful, famous women--guided by the sadistic urges of a mysterious partner. THE PERFECT PREY... Katlyn Rome is ...
ONE WASHINGTON ATTORNEY IS ABOUT TO DISCOVER THE DANGEROUS LIES AND DEADLY TRUTHS ABOUT HER HUSBAND'S MURDER Savvy, shrewd, and smart enough to recognize the thin line between law and justice, Carole Ann Gibson is a heavyweight in Washington, D.C....
DEADLY PRACTICES Someone at the financially stressed Riverside General Hospital seems to have forgotten the edict "First do no harm." It begins when forensic pathologist Dr. Calista Marley, her physician husband Plato, and six other division chief...
PAYBACK IS MURDER A beautiful woman paid it with her body. A seedy lawyer used somebody else's money. It's the vig - the exorbitant interest mob loan sharks take on their money. Now, in the city by the Bay, everyone has to pay... Down-and-out-...
ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN Alex Tynan is a life insurance actuary. Numbers are her job - statistics, probability. So when the numbers stop adding up and a high-level executive dies, she begins to think the two are connected. As the company where she w...
You cannot escape. No place is safe. Not even your home. Turn on your television...boot up your computer...and meet Reaper, a brilliantly lethal man-made virus that travels the electronic highway, infecting its victims with the flick of a switch. W...
One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and they are visiting Ha...
Hank has his paws full when he discovers a mother cat and six kittens trespassing in a haystack on his very own ranch. (Have we mentioned that cowdogs don’t like cats?) Join Hank as he is trapped in a runaway pickup, surrounded by a herd of stray c...
When the Aldens come across a robbery at an antique store, they decide to use their detective skills to help locate the stolen ruby ring, bracelet, and necklace. Yet, before their investigation even begins, someone breaks into the Aldens'' home and s...
The new kid in school accepts a dare -- and finds himself facing some spooky and surprising consequences: “[A] page-turner” (Booklist). Matthew Barber thinks that being the new kid in school will be the scariest thing about fourth grade. But is h...
After the death of her only daughter and the subsequent breakup of her marriage, Margaret Collingwood returns to her home in Coffins Reach, Maine, and to the seafront house she has inherited. She goes there to rest, to paint, and to find the God she ...
One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and they are all visiting ...
One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and are taking a vacatio...
The Boxcar Children are vacationing in London, England, where there is so much to see and do. They watch the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace and see the famous crown jewels of England. But is someone following them?...
One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and they are visiting a ...
Brenda Slaughter is no damsel in distress. Myron Bolitar is no bodyguard. But Myron has agreed to protect the bright, strong, beautiful basketball star. And he's about to find out if he's man enough to unravel the tragic riddle of her life. Twenty...
One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and they are going to vi...
The Aldens are on their first trip to Chicago―the Windy City―and from Wrigley Field to the Sears Tower to Grant Park, there is so much to see. However, when they are given a series of clues in rhyme, they find themselves in the middle of two myst...
With his acclaimed debut The Right to Silence, Rankin Davis established himself as a master of courtroom suspense. Now he presents a bold new thriller, the shattering story of a legal system as tainted as the killers it is bound to bring to justice.....
Billy Lynch's family and friends have gathered at a small Bronx bar. They have come to comfort his widow and to eulogize one of the last great romantics, trading tales of his famous humor, immense charm, and unfathomable sorrow. As they linger on int...
A blackout brought on by a Mad Dog binge that ended with a self-inflicted steak knife wound bought Bruno Dante another stint in the nuthouse, no different from all the rest. Now it's done, and his wife, Agnes--taking time off from her personal-traine...
With his life plunging out of control, legendary rock star Dizzy Z struggles to cope with the crises of fame, long road tours, drugs and alcohol abuse, creative differences with his band, Blood Cheetah, and the increasing likelihood that he will not ...
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The less-than-innocents abroad in these short novels are Americans in Europe, involved in what turn out to be pleasure tours of hell: shocking, bewildering trips that change forever their ideas about history, reality, politics, sex -- their entir...
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In this hilarious and touching gem of a first novel (discovered in a towering heap of unsolicited manuscripts -- yes, it happens!), Bean, otherwise known as twenty-nine-year-old Eleanor May Shank, is leaving Bosto...
TOO WILD TO TAME Cotannah Chisk-Ko is banished from the Texas ranch she has always known as home, to return to the Choctaw Nation where she must learn to behave like a proper maiden of her tribe. Cotannah continues her outrageous flirtations, yet sh...
Raine Thomas has been relieved of her position as headmistress of the London mission school. Going back home to live with Papa is out of the question, but what else can she do? Before she can decide, dashing shipping owner Ben Thackeray bursts into h...
DESIRE CAME LIKE A WILDFIRE TO THE COLORADO HILLS...TO CLAIM A WOMAN'S PROPERTY AND HER HEART For five years after her father died, lithe, beautiful Dee Swann held onto Angel Creek valley and her independence. The homestead was hers, and she v...
THE RELUCTANT BRIDE Gisela of Brinkhurst enjoyed managing her father's keep and had never thought much about marriage. Little did she foresee the threats to her father's lands and how marriage would ensure their survival. Sir Alain de Treville ...
Bertrice Small brings history to life through indomitable women who live with wit, intelligence, and courage and who love with fierce delight. Now she sweeps us to a time and place of fiery power struggles, where one woman holds the key to a country'...
As the bravest knights in the land competed in Stoneham Magna's jousting tournament, Isobel marveled at their prowess. She was pleased when her stepbrother Lionel seemed to be winning the tourney, but her heart filled with dread when he was challenge...
Bad weather and marauding rustlers nearly wiped out Cassandra Rakefield as a rancher. She can't pay her cowboys or her mortgage unless she gets her inheritance, controlled by a law firm in Kansas City until she turns twenty-five. She needs the mo...
Chastity, Purity, Honesty -- They were the qualities she'd been raised to respect, but when Chastity Lawrence headed West to find her long-lost sisters of the same names, she discovered they could be... Dangerous Virtues How was a respectable...
Josiah Jones Was A Bear Of A Man -- certainly nothing like the mere boys who'd paid court to Tatiana as Countess Karanova. This man personified the wild, untamed lands that called to her own unhappy soul. Tatiana brought something new to the Ca...
TWO BROTHERS ...AND THE WOMAN WHO CLAIMED THEIR HEARTS ... Ash Whittier had barely returned to Oakland's harbor when he was arrested for arson, insurance fraud, and murder. His only hope was his brother Cabot, the best lawyer in Oakland, and Cabot...
She Made Him a Hero... According to her wildly popular dime novels he was a bounty hunter with integrity and the fastest draw this side of Wyoming, the standard against which all other men of the West should be held. But real cowboy Jake Cordell's j...
Dear Reader, My new story begins on a terror-filled night when two babies--identical twin girls of noble birth--are separated. One grows to womanhood as the frail, manipulative ward of the handsome young earl of Harcourt. The other becomes an ench...
THE WHITE WOLF In Boston, he is Chase Remington, a bitter outsider whose illustrious family hides secrets far more shockig than his own illegitimacy and half-breed blood. On the High Plains, he becomes the White wolf, a fierce Cheyenne raider standi...
Branded a heretic and a witch for practicing medicine and consorting with a Jew, Jeanine De La Fontaine faces death by the hand of the man who was to have been her husband. Having rejected Antoine Colbert because of his distastful nature, Jeanine now...
Margarethe's heart sings for only one man. In a time when floods and endless border wars ravage the land, there is one brave heart whose faith burns bright. For Lady Margarethe, life at Castle Adlerschloss goes on much the same as always-her days sp...
He Hadn't Wanted To Like a City Girl -- Much Less Love One, but Christian Prescott found himself on the horns of a dilemma: his yearning for Lynnette Sterling, his brother's intended bride. But she had corralled his heart and spurred him to a deci...
When her mother dies in childbirth, Jessica's father sends his infant daughter from his ranch in Kansas back to New York to be raised by an older aunt. But Aunt Helen only cares for social standing and proprieties. She tells Jessica nothing of her fa...
Lady Deena Heyford's sister, Lizzy, left the family home in England years ago to marry an American, and it could be said that Deena was happy to see her go. The sisters were as different as summer and winter. After the death of her father, Deena i...
Desperate to escaper her life in Missouri as a barely-tolerated poor relation, Judith Alder journeys west to live with her uncle, only to be abandoned along the Santa Fe Trail. Her only hope of survival is a motley crew of cowboys and a simple ranch ...
Commanded by her grandfather to snare a wealthy husband, Anne Blanchemains enters the lavish court of Queen Elizabeth. But the beautiful, innocent Anne is a lamb among wolves, easy prey to treachery and an aging queen's jealousy. She never suspects t...
As the Norman invaders sweep across the English countryside in the year A.D. 1067, one dark Norman takes possession of the Castle Fenlac and all its inhabitants. One of those among the conquered fears the the handsome invader who has entered her l...
When Hallie Summers took over her father's medical practice, she was determined to be the best doctor the rough-and-tumble town of Lampasas, Texas, had ever seen. She had her whole life planned--and a brusque, infuriating, handsome bodyguard didn't f...
They made an unlikely pair... Prudence and twelve-year old Dan were foundlings, and the dangers in northern mill had pushed them into escape. She also stripped a scarecrow for boy's clothes after a close encounter with a lustful farmer! It was sh...
Connecticut socialite Maggie Dumont's marriage begins with a grand wedding and great dreams. But her hopes for a happy life are soon shattered by her new husband, the bitter son of a wealthy New York businessman, who catches gold fever and insists th...
Certain he's fated to meet his bride on his thirtieth birthday, Texas rancher Jon Marc O'Brien arranges for the perfect woman to arrive on that day. He's never set eyes on sweet Beth Buchanan, a cattle buyer's daughter from Kansas, but after a two-ye...
From the peaceful mountains of the Rockies to the Eastern windswept shores, there are small towns where gentle hearts can find a home--and where true love is always right around the corner... OUR TOWN Stepping off the train in Zephyr, Texas, yo...
For Caleb, peace seems as fleeting as springtime in the mountains. Caleb Jonas was long known as a drifter, his travels taking him throughout the west. But he has finally come home to the Wyoming Territory of his childhood. Feeling like a stranger...
After British captain Damian Knox finds her illegally stealing food to feeding orphaned children during the American Revolution, Nina Evans must brave the harsh winter of 1778 while deciding whether to follow her forbidden love or her freedom. A ...
SHE RISKED EVERYTHING... Promised in marriage to a wealthy Dutch planter she'd never met, Analisa Vanderman was en route to the Dutch East Indies and social respectability. Love was an impossible dream--until a darkly handsome smuggler was taken abo...
A PROMISE GIVEN The proud head of his Highland clan, Ian MacGregor has returned, cloaked in secrets, to the place where he spent many carefree years, in order to marry Margaret Kincaid -- the lowlands lass to whom he has been betrothed since his you...
When Julia Cole abandoned her safe job and raced up the M40 to read English at Oxford, she didn't give a thought to the future. But now that she's thirty and newly graduated, it's pay-back-time - at least as far as the bank is concerned. With Fleabag...
Jack Darlington was too handsome, too self-assured, too splendid by half for a plain, twenty-six-year-old diplomat's daughter from Edinburgh. Rosaline's one chance at love had been cruelly stolen, and now she had little choice but to be marri...
Katie Colter never expected her father to die; neither did she expect to abandon her home among the Comanches to live with her uncle and aunt at Fort Davis. Leaving behind Lone Eagle, the warrior whom she was to marry, Katie sets out to begin her lif...
A DELICATE FLOWER Lady Caroline Burroughs is desperate. Her unscrupulous guardian is squandering away her inheritance, and now wants to gain complete control over her dwindling wealth by forcing her to wed his aged crony. But Caroline has found a s...
At sixteen, Lady Solange had pledged her love to Damon Wolf, had dreamed they would be together forever. But when her ruthless father threatened Damon's life unless she agreed to marry another, Solange did the only thing she could: she scorned he...
Marcus Brandtwood is renowned for the generous trinkets he gives his mistresses--right before he casts them off. But Lady Thacea Worthington is different! Her respectability is as genuine as her gentle smile, enchanting eyes and blue-black hair. So w...
SHE SURRENDERED HER HEART As innocent as she is lovely, raven-haired Una lives a simple life in the heather-covered moorlands of her beloved Glenfinnan -- unprepared for the man who will cast her destiny to the winds of love. When she discovers the ...
Marsali Gunn had been betrothed to Patrick Sutherland when she was just a girl, yet even then she knew the handsome warrior would have no rival in her heart or her dreams. But when Patrick returns from distant battlefields, a bitter feud has shattere...
Her mother is long dead. Her only sibling is missing. Her father, Doctor Elliott, is perpetually working at the hospital, trying to save the injured and dying Patriots of the American Revolution. Confusion, chaos, and destruction are all part of Mere...
STEALING AWAY Rose Trelawney thought she'd been caught red-handed robbing the Duke of Cumberland's London estate. But she soon realized she'd been mistaken for the Duke's mistress, and the tall stranger who'd found her was out for revenge. Suddenl...
When Alexander Bixby's assignment as a Pinkerton agent sends him to River's Edge, Minnesota in 1894 in search of counterfeiters, he doesn't expect beautiful Amanda Mason's inexperienced attempts to help solve the case. Nor does he expect to fall in l...
The Wells family has tended the lighthouse on a remote Lake Superior peninsula for fifty-four years. It is expected that nineteen-year-old Lacey will want to carry on the family tradition, but what of all her girlhood dreams of life in a big city tha...
After the Battle of Shiloh, Lottie Jackson's 12-year-old brother is all the family she has left. Determined to save him from the dangers of the Civil War, she keeps him occupied helping her run her Smoky Mountain boarding house - and a secret moonshi...
The summer of 1885 finds Rachel Isaacs caught in a heart-searching, life-threatening situation which will forever change her destiny. Rachel is determined to make her Texas ranch succeed without accepting assistance from her fiance', Samuel James....
What kind of man thinks he has to kidnap a bride? Brewster Johnson is scarred-physically and emotionally-by a painful childhood. With no hope of finding love, he sets out to take what he needs-a wife. But he did not anticipate a woman who would he...
Nurse Lorenna Fields always took her job at Chicago's Lakeview Hopsital seriously, determining never to becomes personally involved with her patients. Then a mysteroius man with eyes like onyx is admitted after a shipwreck on Lake Michigan. He has lo...
He was her guardian, the duke of darkness--and desire. She tried to drive him away from Arden Hall. Instead, Isabelle Montgomery was charmed by the rakehell John Saint Germain, the handsomest--and most dangerous--man she'd ever met. He said she wa...
The Bride Wore Chain Mail . . . or would have, if she could, for the Lady Aileas Dugall was more concerned with things martial than marital. Nevertheless, she was the woman Sir George de Gramercie desired. Though he wondered if she would come to th...
Having killed her evil stepfather in self-defense, Hannah Gibbons escapes to the New World only to become a slave of the Seneca Indians, but she finds her new master stirs her heart with desire, not fear. She Ran From The Arm Of English Law... ...
She Was Of The Land, He Of The Sea... Still, Becky Forester sang her own kind of siren song of home, family and forever -- and Captain Nick Sinclair, though wedded to the ocean's adventure, found himself succumbing to its lure...! Newly knigh...
Baron Ansiau rides with Richard Coeur de Lion into the horror and agony of the Third Crusade, while his young wife, Alis, assumes the management of their castle and lands and of her own interests and affairs This might be defined as a fictional Li...
ALL SHE WANTED WAS TO BE SOMEONE'S LITTLE GIRL... For as long as she could remember, Janet's world had been the orphanage, full of cruel jokes and silent wishes for the day she'd have a family of her own. She could hardly believe it when Sanford a...
Corky Corcoran and her classmates at Shadyside High are shocked when the evil spirit that once targeted cheerleaders returns, and Corky realizes that the secret to defeating the spirit is hidden in Sarah Fear's grave. Original....
In the light of the full moon, I saw the cat sprawled on its back, its head twisted to one side, its four paws straight up in the air. Even from my bedroom window high above the ground, I recognized the cat. The cat named Rip. And I knew wi...
ALL SHE WANTED WAS A FAMILYT SHE COULD CALL HER OWN.... As an orphan girl, Crystal was one of many--and utterly alone. But she still dreamed of a shining life of love and happiness, and freedom from the dark legacy of her past.......
When someone casts a wicked spell on Watch, he is forced to journey into a mirror world of Spooksville, where he finds someone just like him who also needs saving, but the duo realizes that only one of them can survive. Original....
Marshall and Simon find themselves at the Old Fogey's Farm, run by Dr. Beelzebug, who has discovered a way to stop people from aging. But he uses hormones from young people to do it--and he plans for the boys to be his next donors....
In the foreword to this book, Michael (Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner) Baden, M.D. says that Cyril Wecht, M.D., J.D. ("no shrinking violet") has selected from his 35-year career "a fascinating batch of cases in which his knowl...
Brian enters a new realm of terror when he visits the dentist's office and is strapped to the chair, while eerie music wafts through the air, and when he breaks his restraints and tries to escape, he encounters vampire bats, centipedes, skeletons, an...
When researcher Dr. Bailey Harrison ventures into the dense jungles of Costa Rica to investigate the death of a archaeologist from a strange and deadly new virus, she stumbles upon a secret world dominated by a unique man who hungers for blood. Origi...
Keller is a black panther. At least when she's not being a tough, no-nonsense seventeen-year-old girl. She's a shapeshifter who grew up on the streets and will do whatever it takes to survive. But when Circle Daybreak hires her to protect a new Wild ...
WELCOME TO THE PENNYFOOT The London aristocracy has discovered the pleasures of seaside holidays in Badgers End, and it's Cecily Sinclair's job as the owner of the Pennyfoot Hotel to keep them comfortable and entertained. Detective work is not par...
Someone--or something--is slaying innocent persons on the night streets in the royal city of Memphis. Frightened citizens believe it is the gruesome work of the Devourer, the eater of souls, one of the most fearsome gods in the Egyptian pantheon. Eve...
As Christmas of 1804 approaches, Jane Austen finds herself "insupportably bored with Bath, and the littleness of a town." It is with relief that she accepts a peculiar commission from her Gentleman Rogue, Lord Harold Trowbridge -- to shadow his niece...
Though theirs is a marriage of true equals, when Sherlock Holmes summons his wife and partner Mary Russell to the eerie scene of his most celebrated case, she abandons her Oxford studies to aid his investigation. But this time, on Dartmoor, there is ...
Murder Steals the Show Sherlock Holmes' longtime housekeeper Emma Hudson has already proven herself remarkably astute at solving murders. After successfully cracking two cases the Master was too busy to handle, .the lady sleuth and her sidekick Vi...