To join bossy Charlotte's new club, in which each member must disclose a terrible secret about themselves, Sophie fears that she must disclose something that has recently happened to her or risk being kicked out of the club...
"IN MY EXPERIENCE, MEN MARRY EITHER BEAUTY OR MONEY, AND WHEREVER POSSIBLE, BOTH!" Lucy Tiversley believed her unruly red hair, freckles, outspoken nature, and lack of fortune removed her from the Marriage Mart. She thus decided her divers...
Two volumes of the Jewish philosopher's classic work that collects and retells the marvelous legends of Hasidism. This new paperback edition brings together volumes one and two of Buber's classic work Tales of the Hasidim, with a new fore...
Urgent and timeless, Legacies brings us closer than we have ever been to penetrating the great conundrum of China m the twentieth century. It could only have been written by Bette Bao Lord -- born in China, raised in America, author of the bestsellin...
A very pregnant anthropologist finds the diary of Columbus in the basement of the Dartmouth library and travels to the Bahamas with her lover and son to find what the diary refers to as "the greatest treasure of Europe." Reprint....
It's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar-pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of "the hurting business" and into the housing (and the favor) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax evasion. Special Agent Da...
After the devastating "Flight of the Old Dog," Lieutenant Colonel Patrick McLanahan was virtually exiled at the Air Force's ultrasecret High Technology Aerospace Weapons Center. But now he's offered a chance to test-fly a new, state-of-the-art B-2 bo...
Mountolive is a novel of vertiginous disclosures, in which the betrayer and the betrayed share secret alliances and an adulterous marriage turns out to be a vehicle for the explosive passions of the modern Middle East. This book was digitized an...
Had Carrie found the right man? Carrie Sutherland had gone to Spain to find a missing boyfriend. Instead, she'd found a job and Alex Drayton. Alex warned Carrie on her first day in the office that he didn't have time to waste getting to...
She was a winner--against her will! After a marriage that wasn't particularly happy, Damaris Gordon had decided she could do without further romantic involvements. Raising her young daughter and living a quiet, well-ordered life was contentmen...
In an unflinching novel about life with AIDS, an imaginative and vital narrator describes the underground lifestyle of his friend, a character based on the philosopher Michel Foucault, until the narrator faces his own infection and death sentence...
A GAME OF CAT...AND CAT? Movie star Jason Carter is on vacation in Peru. All he wants is a break, but what he finds is a lost civilization of extra-dimensional Incas bent on conquest of the entire world! Nor is Carter alone. His allies include ...
Ranging from America’s insatiable consumerism and household economies to literary subjects and America’s attitude toward waste, here Berry gracefully navigates from one topic to the next. He speaks candidly about the ills plaguing America and the...
Once upon a time, a girl named Jenny Ames was murdered in a lonely house. No one knew where she had come from, or why she had died, or who killed her. Years later a man moved into the same house and discovered that nothing is more seductive than an u...
VALIS is the first novel in a mesmerizing, science-fiction philosophical trilogy by Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award"winning author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- the basis for the film Blade Runner.“Dick ...
Their heritage brought them home . . . A LEGACY OF ADVENTURE, INTRIGUE--AND PASSIONTHE PRINCESS . . . AND THE HUNKTESS GALLATIN . . . A savvy and successful diamond broker, the part-Cherokee society girl was also a woman with a mysterious past, full ...
Chromos is one of the true masterpieces of post-World War II fiction. Written in the 1940s but left unpublished until 1990, it anticipated the fictional inventiveness of the writers who were to come along - Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Sorrentino, and Gad...
THE FINAL CONFLICT IS ABOUT TO BEGIN.... The Forbidden Borders form a seemingly unassailable gravity-powered barrier, cutting humankind off from the wider universe, confining rival empires to a few star systems, and leaving them to strive endlessl...
OMEGA SUB One awesome American submarine remains afloat after the fires of the Apocalypse have destroyed civilization: the U.S.S. Liberator, sailing the oceans of a nuclear-ravaged world on the most dangerous mission of all…survival! On a gri...
A fugitive father and his sons team up for a savage cross-country killing spree.The Sawyer-Gleason clan—a malevolent family of five, let by a depraved patriarch. They live on the road…survive by the knife and gun. And never leave a witn...
Libby Honeycutt was determined to keep the Lazy H ranch going -- even though the place was run down and mortgaged to the hilt and her ranchmen were quitting left and right. When things looked their bleakest, an arrogant drifter rode onto her land in ...
With her father's sudden death and his last request--for her to marry a total stranger--Joslyn Penderton must abandon her dreams of joining the smart society set in London and run away, taking only her dog and her butler...
On a rainy Southern night, Jade Sperry endured a young woman's worst nightmare at the hands of three local hell-raisers. Robbed of her youthful ideals and at the center of scandal and tragedy, Jade ran as far and fast as she could. But she never forg...
Cordell vows to revenge the murder of her father. Roger Allington is honor bound to protect his friend's daughter but has no liking for her reckless ways. Yet his heart tells him he must pursue this beauty through a maze of plots to win her love an...
STORMY PASSIONS AMID A GENTEEL WORLD OF ROSES AND LACE Spirited, well-bred Millicent Hayes had lived all her life amid the gently rolling hills and lush woodland of Emmetsville, Texas. Bound by her duty to her tragically crippled brother, the dark...
HER REBEL SPIRIT DEFIED HIS YANKEE SOUL. She was velvet and silk, emerald eyes and sunstruck hair, Kiernan Miller had married one man to protect her from another. She hated Jesse Cameron with a fierce passion. But she was a widow now, and he was the...
Her name was Submit, but she vowed she never would. She was young and proper, and happily married to an elderly marquess. But only when she was suddenly widowed did Submit Channing-Downes encounter a true and burning desire -- in the dangerous em...
She was caught in a web of dark secrets ""Beware. You are not safe here. You must leave now!"" Suddenly orphaned and alone, artist Margaret Morgan was relieved to find lodgings in the carriage house of Fountain Court, an opulent, rose-colored man...
WEDDING BELLS A hasty marriage to redeem her reputation was bad enough, but Alessandra's punishment for an innocent moment in the park was not to end there. Only if she and her new husband Jeffrey Huntingsley managed to share sleeping quarters f...
SOUTHERN SPITFIRE Lauren Masters was both terrified and furious when a gang of white-slave traders seized her ship. The Virginia vixen swore to fight the cruel rake who carried her off to his cabin...until she saw that Derek York was no ordinary pri...
A LOVELORN LADY In an attempt to recover from the rumors surrounding her jilted engagement, lively Jennifer Dryden hoped to find sanctuary in the calming atmosphere of the blue-washed coast of Cornwall. Instead, a passionate kiss en route in the arm...
HEIRESS TO PASSION...A beautiful virgin widow, aristocratic Lady Anne had reluctantly consented to a second unwanted marriage. But the ceremony was interrupted when a brawny, black-eyed intruder wearing a ragged kilt, moccasins and eagle feathers bur...
SHE'S NEVER AGREE TO MARRIAGE! Ashley Sherwood, the tall, rugged owner of a California saloon, figured he could handle just about anything... until the terms of his grandfather's will forced him to travel to England to find a bride and he met the de...
THE CHARLESTON WOMEN Book two in the glorious trilogy of the colonial South... the women whose passions helped' to shape a nation... and the men they dared to love. ERIN BANNING. To her Patriot father, she was a precious, delicate jewel--to be pro...
Piers Larne had learned to hide his feelings behind a mask of bitter indifference and a large decanter of brandy. But the sight of the heiress his father was forcing him to wed sobered the viscount's dissolute soul. Her silvery blond hair and flawles...
She is a woman with no memory-with no past beyond the day they found her wandering, dazed and hysterical, when she was nineteen. Her only clue is an engraved disk on her charm bracelet: her name, "Manda". But something draws her to the fogbound coast...
A Woman of Principle... A Man of Passion. An indentured servant from Virginia, Juliet White came to Scotland to find her niece, the child her sister had borne before she died. The search took her to the castle of Lachlan MacKenzie, duke of Ross, w...
ONLY INNOCENCE Beautiful, gently reared Willow Moran left her Civil War-ravaged home with her prized Arabian horses and the dream of joining her brother in the Colorado Rockies--trusting her fate to a rugged gunfighter whose raw masculinity demand...
Amid the flames of royal revolt their hearts burned with a fierce, wild love... Raven-haired, emerald-eyed, no noblewoman in all Britain was more beautiful -- or more defiant -- than Elizabeth of Riveaux. She refused to accept any man after a disastr...
HER LIFE IS IN DANGER -- AND HER HEART AS WELL! It all seemed straight from a gothic novel: an unexpected inheritance, a haunted mansion, and now a strange series of accidents. As the new mistress of Bride's Leap, had Maggie Chambers now come in...
A beautiful American dancer, Lily found her life changed forever the day she married the dashing Irish baronet, Ian d'Arcy. Their union was a joyful and loving one until Lily discovered her husband's terrible secret, a secret that threatened to shatt...
DOOMED DESPERADO When circus trick rider Lark McKay found herself witnessing an Oklahoma hanging, she was startled to see a dark-eyed, squaw-jawed hunk of an outlaw brazenly wink at her from the gallows. But the real shock came when a frenzied shoot...
NO LADY COULD IGNORE A CHALLENGE TO REFORM A HARDENED RAKE! Lord Havergal was in want of funds for gambling debts and other notorious pursuits befitting a dashing scoundrel such as himself. Though his tight-fisted financial guardian had refused hi...
HE WAS EVERYTHING SHE FEARED... Defiantly beautiful, Caroline Wetherby stepped ashore in a land so wild and fierce, she trembled. She had come seeking refuge with the last of her family, but her sister was dead. Waiting to greet her were pious Pilgr...
THE MAGIC OF HIS TOUCH Orphaned as a child, Jenna Cresswell was used to living by her wits on the rough streets of London. But a perilous secret forced the redheaded beauty to pose as a deaf girl and earn her keep at a tawdry tavern. There she was...
MINNESOTA MINX When Irony McBride headed north to catch the thief who'd swindled her aunt, she never expected to be traipsing through unfamiliar Indian territory. In desperate need of a wilderness guide, Irony was overjoyed to encounter the perfect ...
Black Rose Calling card of the infamous Romney Fox. Smuggler, scoundrel, probable traitor, and spy, he plundered the rich and gave to the poor. Men toasted him, women whispered his name like a prayer. Deserted and deceived, exquisite Tess Leighton, ...
When it comes to staying young, some people will pay any price… What if Ponce de Leon really did discover the fountain of youth? Mr. Leon is alive in the twentieth century and is the owner of a high-end cosmetics company. His handpicked salespeople...
1916, in an alternative world. The independent Confederate States of America has gone to the aid of its old ally Britain, and become bogged down in the stalemate on the Western Front. At a Confederate airfield in France, a new pilot reports for duty:...
Imagine a world of gods and demons, where men are warriors, women are beautiful, life is a fantastic adventure, and the fate of kingdoms balances on the bloody blade of a fabulous hero: Conan of the iron thews, the blue-eyed barbarian giant who tower...
Call it a miracle. Call it an accident at the sperm bank. But Murray Katz, the celibate keeper of an abandoned lighthouse near Atlantic City, has been blessed with a daughter conceived from the union of his own seed and a holy ovum. Like her half-bro...
Determined to drive a trade route through Anauroch, the Zhentarim have sent an army to enslave the fierce nomads of the Great Desert. As tribe after tribe fall to the intruders, only a single woman, Ruha, sees the true danger--but what sheikh will he...
STARCROSSED DESTINIES Queen Inos was badly shaken. Rap--loyal, trustworthy Rap--had appeared to her, obviously from beyond the grave. His insubstantial image, the echo of his voice...She stiffened her resolve. She would serve her people, whatever ...
IT TAKES MORE THAN DEATH TO KILL AN EVIL MAN Her father is a hero, a legend, the man who changed the history of the galaxy. The Man Who Never Missed--a man she never met. The Confederation defeated, Emile Khadaji disappeared, and now she must find...
Welcome to the North American continent after a series of catastrophes, including famine, plague and floods, have destroyed almost all of humanity. *** Descendants of the survivors (those who stayed) have created a tribal society in the depopulate...
TWO TELEKINETICS: ONE FIGHTS TO SAVE HUMANITY. THE OTHER WANTS TO DESTROY IT... Chuck Simon was looking forward to spending the holidays on the West Coast Until his psionic powers sensed someone more powerful than anyone he'd ever encountered be...
PURSUED AND POSSESSED BY EVIL Accused of murdering a man the Southron tribes believe to be their messiah, but who is actually the slayer of Del's family, Tiger and Del flee across the deadly Punic' desert, hunted by religious zealots and sword-dan...
MOUNTAIN OF LOVE Tess McIver was desperate. She needed money to save her Big Bear Lodge -- and that was the only reason she agreed to teach Denver's most popular television host the fine art of wilderness survival. Jack Hunter was a hunk, all ...
She intrigued him from the start Jeremy Kent had never met a woman like Marlo McGinnis before. A real-life private detective! Marlo was beautiful, efficient, and no-nonsense. She was going to track down Allison, his associate's daughter, who h...
KIDNAPPED! It started with threatening phone calls. Then someone tampered with the brakes on her car. The evidence was beginning to add up. Someone was trying to hurt Tamara Bennington, heiress to a huge chain of department stores. Her friends an...
DENVER: CITY OF GOLD--CITY OF DREAMS In one magnificent family burned the vision that built a great American city. They were the Kirklands: David--the brave, big-hearted mountain dreamer who risked his life to stake a claim to a new life in the ru...
AND BABY MAKES THREE From the moment sexy journalist Connor McKay burst into her office, perky Courtney Carey knew she was headed for trouble. But the socially aware television programmer never dreamed she'd soon be masquerading as a wedded woman ...
The Imperfect Plan Lady Mary Spence had found true love as the young bride of an older man. Though he had passes away, the still stunning widow treasured his memory, and sought a similar match for her charming but flighty daughter Abigail. She ...
"Whitewater -- I hate you!" And she hated this "fool ritual" that had sent her halfway around the world. But Piper Gordon had promised her grandmother that she'd return the centuries-old funeral necklace to Hawaii, as the ...
Out of the clear blue sky... The last thing Nan Black expected as she drove toward Hennington, South Dakota, was a small plane to drop from the heavens and land in front of her station wagon. But that was exactly how pilot Jesse Rivers fell int...
"I want to make love to you..." Those words were never said, but Sheri O'Reilly knew that was what police sergeant Mark Sampson was thinking. Why she should have this accord -- one she and her twin brother had shared -- with the infuri...
DARK AND TURBULENT FIRES BURNED IN SPAIN, THE TERROR OF THE INQUISITION STILL GRIPPED THE LAND, NAPOLEON'S TROOPS RAMPAGED THROUGH THE PYRENEES ... AND THE LOVE OF A WOMAN AND A MAN WAS A PRECIOUS FLAME THAT COULD BLAZE OR BE SMOTHERED IN AN INSTANT ...
ANOTHER CHANCE Seven and a half years ago, Rae Maarten's husband, Quinn, had been kidnapped while on a dangerous overseas assignment. The sexy foreign correspondent had taken the job over her wishes, claiming he never wanted to see Rae again. Now ...
After witnessing the painful death of her mother at the hands of an incompetent physician, Catherine Stone vows to become a doctor -- at a price. Disowned by her family, an outcast in the eyes of society, Catherine must face the prejudices of a ...
GENTLE GIANT Matt Rockland had been eager to meet the owner of the mall's bookstore. He knew that his construction crews had inconvenienced her, and he wanted to smooth things over. But when Matt finally came face-to-face with Miranda Evans, h...
MR. JULY The man: Niall Rankin, world-weary veteran of the secret war for freedom. The woman: Ann Severn, a widow struggling to make a life for herself and her troubled daughter. The place: Pinetree, California, a sun-baked cluster of houses on a ...
WHEN SUMMER COMES AGAIN Shane Colter had left everything behind: his career as a Seattle cop, the memories of his late partner and, most of all, his guilty love for his partner's wife, Summer O'Neil. On a Florida beach, he lay in the sun and ref...
PRISONER OF PASSION Beautiful and determined Jessica Morgan abandoned the civilized world of St. Louis for the wild Wyoming Territory, in search of the father she had never known. Instead she finds Steve Kincaid -- a man as rugged and magnificent as...
Romance -- or ruse? Joanna Bellamy was tickled pink to be chaperoning a bevy of nervous, excited mail-order brides to the small European country of Andorra. The appearance on shipboard of a sinister stranger was the society matron's first ink...
Hospital Heartthrob Wisecracking trauma nurse Casey McDonough figures she has an interesting enough life. Her best friend still drops acid, her ex-husband is a cross-dressing psychiatrist, and her mother has turned the third floor of the family ho...
Khendra Phillips is at the height of her legal career when handsome, smooth-talking attorney Sean Michaels bursts onto the scene and threatens to capture not only her love but her career in the legal field as well. Khendra's heartbroken past reminds ...
The damsel and the dragon slayer Dragons were the stuff of legends, and Prince Charming existed only in fairy tales. Despite her romantic inclinations, Professor Katherine Glenn knew that was reality. Until she came to visit Michael Reese in his c...
No Going Back Nestled in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Coulter land had been in the family for generations. Jessica Cooper; pledged to marry a man she loathed; was bound by the code of the mountains to obey her father and keep the lan...
Doing the Unthinkable Miss Sibyl Eagleton knew she should be the happiest of young ladies The most eligible lord in London, the heavenly handsome, charming, poetic Viscount Buckingham, had asked for her hand. But though Buckingham was everythin...
The Dangerously Sexy Cowboy... When Jesse Kincannon drove up in a low-slung black Porsche, Amanda Carter knew trouble had arrived! His father's will had left her half of the Flying K Ranch, and she'd been dreading the day she'd have to face the ren...
THE GORGEOUS, GROWN-UP BOY NEXT STORE... Rolph McKenzie was infuriating, impossible -- and downright irresistible! Marion Crane had come home after years of traveling, determined to make the only man she ever wanted realize she was a woman at last....
SHE LONGED TO LOVE HIM Told all her life that she was plain, Lydia Chadwick knew no man would come courting because of her looks. So it was with some suspicion that the shy, sweet San Francisco heiress woke one morning with a tall, dark, dangerous...
Her Fierce Protector -- or Savage Lover? Had she or fate chosen Louis Benoit to father the child she so desperately desired? Mariana Sandell wondered, as she evaded the stunningly handsome financial wizard's security and appeared without warning in...
Free-spirited and impetuous, Emily insisted her youthful marriage to the assertive and dominating Rye Keeler had been a big mistake. Still, it took all of her willpower to stay away -- their marriage had been as fiery as her own passionate nature. To...
She felt like a mail-order bride! When Addie Rutherford began digging in her family's history, she was thrilled to discover a distant relative in Boston. Miriam Rutherford Mandeville was equally delighted with her new "niece" -- and de...
MIDNIGHT FANTASY All her life, Veronica dreamed of a lover who would take her and thrill her to the very limits of her body and soul. Other men desired her, but none could match the overpowering figure who haunted her imagination ... David de M...
The Handsome Hospital Romeo... Matt Thorne awakened to find that his nurse looked like an angel from another century--and her innocent beauty made the world seem suddenly new. The brash doctor had come to his sister's country inn to recover from i...
SHE FLED LONDON'S PERILOUS STREETS... Trembling, Dawn Leighton ran as fast as her lovely legs could carry her. Capture meant Newgate Prison, a hateful fate. They called her Lady Rogue. Orphaned at an early age, taken in by ruffians and thieves, she'...
SHOWDOWN TO LOVE The last thing Owen Ketter wanted was a partner. Correction...a female partner. His mind was made up -- absolutely, positively, finally. And no woman in the world would unmake it. When an equally determined Bonnie Maxwell arriv...
WAS IT A SIGN? When Julie Conway's frozen turkey fell from her hands and rolled to Cole Bennett's feet, Julie was forced into an unaccustomed role -- accepting help from a stranger. Then the detective mentioned that he was spending Thanksgiving...
BIG BAD WOLF Luke Granger was fuming! A renegade wolf was roaming his land, threatening his sheep, and he planned to put an end to it -- until a hotheaded environmentalist showed up talking about some crazy scheme to SAVE the sharp-toothed pest! Y...
FALLING IN LOVE WITH THE ENEMY It was an unusual job for a young woman fresh out of college. But Blair Kennedy was no ordinary woman. Her straightforward manner and athletic beauty made her the perfect candidate to go undercover at Logan Cavanaug...
NOTHING WOULD BE FINER... Richard Kemp came to Charleston, South Carolina with one thing in mind. He needed to discover the real magic of the city so that he could sell a new ad campaign to the local chamber of commerce. For Richard, the stakes we...
DARK SECRETS, DEADLY SHADOWS At the turn of the century, a young lady left orphaned and penniless by the sudden death of her parents could become either a governess or a tart. So Amelia Donelly accepted eagerly when her aunt and spinster cousin in...
Forbidden Desire One look into the fires of Sean Jameson's rebel eyes and Elizabeth Langdon knew she would forsake everything for the shattering pleasures of his forbidden embrace. Sean was bent on the destruction of all her family stood for, but ...
Busy attorney Catherine Fredrickson loved her job at a submarine base in Washington, but new boss Royce Nyland had her spirits sinking fast. The icy widower was remote, demanding... and incredibly attractive. Though he kept her at arm's length, he ar...
Her Swashbuckling Hero Lawyer... Brad Lavalier was the man to help Carolina Palmette protect her grandma's land from a swindler--but working closely with the devilishly sexy attorney wasn't going to be easy! She'd left her Louisiana hometown six y...
Journalist Casey McConnell set out for Sicily to interview an outlaw turned folk hero. But upon her arrival, it was the old bandit's son who stole her heart. Darkly exotic Rico Butera was all male, and his touch proved sweeter than the Mediterranean ...
IF YOU LOVE SOMEONE .. . Ten years ago, Kyle Macintosh had forced Melinda Richardson to choose between the two things that mattered most: her treasured family home in Heron Valley--or him. Torn, she'd let Kyle go off to chase his dreams while she ...
A DESPERATE MAN Cade Boudreau was desperate to regain custody of his son. So he kidnapped Emma 0'Riley, whose cold, unyielding prosecution had unjustly sent Cade to a lonely hell. He'd hated Emma for three long years. She'd taken everything from h...
Brash, independent Navy pilot Maggie Donovan never dreamed her career - or her heart - would come under fire. But when she teamed up with sinfully sexy Wes Bishop, Maggie had met her match. From the first, Wes was enraptured with the fiery Maggie...a...
STRANGER IN THE NIGHT... Lisa Howard's life was changed when a mysterious caller claimed he had a message from her late husband, Jonathan, whose life - and death - had been shrouded in secrecy. Yet from the moment she opened her cottage door to sedu...
Hollywood, 1939...Anita Brooks and Price Garfield were all the rage, perfect partners on and off the dance floor -- until Price married an ambitious starlet and Anita fled to Broadway. Los Angeles, 1991... Anita's daughter, Gabrielle Brooks Lacroix, ...
Somewhere she had a child At sixteen, Kai Sanders gave her baby up adoption. Sixteen years later, she was stiff suffering from the trauma. She'd learned one lesson, though: Men weren't to be trusted. Nick Nickelson met Kai on the second day of ...
Teenage Meredith Robbins had experienced despair at the tragic loss of a special friend, then borne the anguish of having to give up their child. Now, years later, she painstakingly avoided emotional entanglements--until Garrett Quinn's warmth and si...
A HEART HELD HOSTAGE When a silken-masked highwayman pointed his gun into her carriage, Miss Jane Manley felt no fear. For Jane was betrothed to Lord Scythe, and destined to become stepmother to his six mewling children. Her only possibility of es...
FIRST COMES LOVE Tina Tomlinson was mortified. She'd never expected to see Steve Bergman again. It had been two long years since their brief and disastrous shipboard romance. Now here he was in Oregon--and he didn't even recognize her! Granted,...
SHE liked him entirely too much for her own good English Society was not best pleased with Miss Vivian Spalding or her outspoken American ways. Mr. Lucian Reed, "the supreme arbiter of fashion" was to become the initial object of Miss ...
The Brooding, Enigmatic Stranger... He'd watched her run on the beach at sunrise, and she'd haunted his nights ever since. But not until he heard the entrancing music of her guitar on a moonlit beach did he realize how deeply she'd made him desire...
Her Battle with Fate Years spent cloistered in Normandy had done little to temper the spirited Amalie de Saint-Hillaire. While traveling to her father's chateau, she'd flirted shamelessly with handsome Jean-Marc Beaunoir, never dreaming the rogue ...
She didn't need new complications Life was hard enough for Charlotte. She didn't enjoy working as a cocktail waitress, but she needed the job to pay for her studies. Harris Jordan was definitely a complication. Not only was he the man s...
HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE Amanda Calhoun had always been the sensible one, forever struggling to keep her, well...eccentric family out of trouble. And the instant she laid eyes on architect Sloan O'Riley, she knew he was trouble. So this arrogant, insuf...
Hunting for a Hero Miss Carolyn Hardy adored novels of the most romantic sort--and longed for a man to equal their dashing heroes. With her beauty and charm, Carolyn had a swarm of suitors to search among. There was the wealthy Brandon Manningford...
Battle of Wills Valentine Stark could outshoot, outride and out rope any man on her father's spread. But she had made more mistakes in the month that Branch Walker had been around than she cared to admit, and she was determined that the handsome cow...
KING CRAWLEY The Seattle mobster had saved his most brutal plot for last. The innocent would perish-and Judge Raferty would be brought to his knees .. . . ASIA RAFERTY A brush with Crawley's henchmen brought the judge's daughter to the gates...
Pursuing justice...and love Meredith Quinn had gone through pregnancy and childbirth alone. Evicted from her home, she'd been forced to live with her one-month-old daughter in her car. So suing her ex-lover for child support and working temporaril...
Magic in the air... NOW YOU SEE HER, NOW YOU DON'T. Sole witness to a kidnapping, magician Elsabeth Grace was in deadly danger from the moment she stumbled into the case Detective Brigham Caldwell had been working on for years. Suddenly, i...
It had been the summer she'd turned sixteen that Duke Hutchison had roared into Caroline Adams's life on his motorcycle and stolen her heart forever. With his leather jacket and tight jeans, Duke had a reputation, but gentleness and passion were all ...
THE NIGHT WAS HIS Between dawn and dusk, Ethan Winslowe's weird mansion was as still as a crypt. Beneath its maze of gloomy corridors, its owner slept far from reach of the sun. As night fell, and fears and phantasms rose to haunt her, Megan Ca...
EVERYONE KNEW... Corbet, Vermont, was nearly paradise. And Chelsea Clark and Walker Jordan could only agree to disagree about what to do to perfect it. Soon their beloved town split down the middle over that very question. Walker's half of the...
Their masquerade was harmless until they fell in love NEITHER could disguise the love in their hearts Miss Violet Langford dearly loved her cousin who was plotting an elopement. Violet had only to agree to appear at Branleigh House disguised a...
ROSES HAVE THORNS Sullivan Jones wanted revenge! The rough, tough Texan who'd left Kerrville after a family feud had returned ready to make amends. But he was too late. His father and his ranch were gone, and the only one left to blame was the wom...
HAD THEY MET BEFORE ... ? Analise Foster arrived in Italy searching for the truth to a dark, ancient mystery and found much more than she had bargained for. Amid the haunting beauty of the Florentine landscape, she was drawn to the powerful Nico d...
THE CANCER MAN The passionate, possessive Cancer man is slow to love and quick to hide his vulnerable side. It takes a special woman to brave his claws and get under his shell... . ONE CANCER MAN IN PARTICULAR Sexy Adam Gaines hadn't planned on ...
DOUBLE TROUBLE... Leah Taylor and Riker Westfall seemed destined to have nothing in common. After all, despite the attraction between them, they lived in different homes, by different rules, and went about their very different lives. Then they ...
She'd never had to turn down a hunk Sabrina Marsh didn't talk to strangers on the elevator. Except Rob Davis wasn't a total stranger. He knew her favorite food, her favorite color, her nickname--and he was sexier than a man ever had a right to be!...
IT'S STEVE ALLEN'S MOST CHALLENGING PERFORMANCE YET WHEN A SHOW IN VEGAS TURNS INTO AN ENGAGEMENT WITH DEATH. Murder was far from his thoughts as Steve Allen rehearsed with legendary crooner Buddy Hamilton on the stage of the world-famous Coliseum...
“A masterfully delivered tale of an inconspicuous citizen who [finds] murder simple . . . The climax packs a brilliant wallop.” -- Chicago Tribune Relentlessly twisting and blackly funny, this noir novel by Edgar Award winner Fr...
MEET SIMONA She's smart, stubborn, savvy, and successful. She earns her living at an advertising agency, but her hobby is murder. She's always there soon after the gun fires, the knife plunges, or the body falls. One of these days, she knows, the fal...
BEDLAM AND BREAKFAST When the garishly grotesque clan of wealthy carpet-sweeper magnate Otto Broadie sweeps down upon Judith McMonigle's Hillside Manor Inn, it looks like there'll be a wild night of drinking, dining, and fortune-telling in the off...
A thirty-something junk-food maven and brash, brainy Berkeley cop, Jill Smith usually doesn't spend much time contemplating her navel. But she accepted an invitation to see the new guru in town. She was as shocked as the rest of the packed house wh...
Gunsten Søren Pedersen knew about baseball and death. A tragedy took the former slugger out of the major leagues, and the only diamonds he sees now are the stars shining in the cold night of Minnesota's North Woods. That is, until Miles Gates-an...
Called in by the Commissioner of Baseball, Duffy House--retired sports columnist and baseball aficionado--is faced with a daunting task: to find out who killed the most hated man in baseball, the owner of the New York Yankees...
"It does appear that the Great Gandalfo has suffered an irreversible mistake in an otherwise well-conducted act!" And in this case, appearances were not deceiving. The Great Gandolfo was run through with his own swords, and it didn't take a Sherlo...
It's Easter time, and a small-town musical production has sparked a storm of controversy. Fading star Wayne Larner considers his role a comeback opportunity. The locals consider it an outrage. Larner is a disreputable rake--addicted to fast cars and ...
Five-year-old James Merritt lies in a hospital bed--the sixth victim in a series of accidents plaguing a peaceful Connecticut community. 'Maybe if he pretends to be asleep, the shadow man will go away. He sees the glint of the needle. The pa...
His passion for the fair sex and English pubs aside, he had been known to solve a crime or two as a private investigator, profiting from the idiocies of this comic adventure called life. Now he's been hired to find a rebellious poor little rich girl ...
In an ancient Italian olive grove, the curtain rises on...Murder! The late Piero Marini has been a successful, highly acclaimed composer, whose private life was a happily passionate muddle of wives, ex-wives, mistresses--and a single, cherished daugh...
AN AFFAIR OF REAL ESTATE AND LOVE, KIDNAPPING AND MURDER... Elegant Windsor Resort on Orcas Island in the Pacific Northwest is up for sale with an interested buyer on the spot. But to Seattle lawyer Annie MacPherson, who holds power of attorney fo...
MURDER DIVIDES A SMALL TOWN--AND ONE COP WALKS A FINE LINE.... The Kansas City vice squad has been hell for cop Johnny Branch. In sleepy Elk Rapids, he figures, the living will be easy. But his hopes are shattered when a rich local businessman ...
A SECOND-STORY LADY WITH A DEGREE IN B & E... Meet Veronica "Ronnie" Ventana, daughter of the infamous Ventanas, the couple who made cat burglary classy. But Ronnie, with her special expertise in burglar alarm systems--getting past them, that is--...
PG Wodehouse was born as Pelham Grenville Wodehouse on 15th October, 1881 in Guildford, south east England to distinguished parents who were visiting the UK from Hong Kong where his father was a judge. The Wodehouse family had aristocratic roots in ...
IT STARTED AS A SIMPLE SPY HUNT. IT BECAME A DESPERATE BATTLE TO SAVE THE WEST. For forty years Western intelligence agents have known a terrible secret: the Russians have a mole-code-named Talbot-inside the CIA. At first Talbot is suspected of ki...
On steamy Pryan. Realm of Fire, never-ending sunlight and plentiful rain have created a jungle so vast that humans and elves dwell high in the trees and only dwarves live anywhere near the ground. From the treetops the aristocratic elves sell weapons...
WHEN DRAGONS PROWL -- Gil was just another college student when his father died and left him an incredible inheritance. Destined to be both the hero of Varay and the heir to its crown, Gil stepped through the magical doorway into his kingdom. There ...
A chilling novel of one man's struggle to overcome evil with good.
On Monday, October 19, nine-year-old Jennifer calls Wes Bryant's radio talk show, "Talk About Town," and changes his life forever. She can't tell him where she is; she can't tell h...
In Moscow, a Politburo member is brutally assassinated. Moments later, his killer self-detonates, leaving no more than a puddle on the frozen ground. But the worst is yet to come. What at first seems the act of a lone fanatic is only the opening salv...
It begins with a nude body in a river, then a phone message: "Bobby, I need you" These two events change the direction of Barbara Holloway's life. Barbara had given up the law five years before, but she's still "death qualified;" still able to def...
Kind-hearted Miss Hannah Pym is off to Portsmouth in the company of the beautiful but practical Miss Penelope Wilkins, the daughter of a rich merchant. Miss Pym quickly realises that Penelope needs someone to enliven her sheltered life, someone perha...
FOR A WEALTHY CITY GIRL, IT WAS A COUNTRY WILD ENOUGH TO BREAK HER HEART--BUT BIG ENOUGH TO HOLD HER DREAMS. BITTERSWEET COUNTRY is an unforgettable story of love and survival. Gracelyn Heath, desperate to escape the stifling influence of her fam...
Meredith Bancroft, a serenely beautiful blonde, and Matthew Farrell, an intense, magnetic tycoon, are both haunted by their once-in-a-lifetime love ...betrayed in a conflict of heartache and pain. When the Bancroft family empire is threatened by a ho...
IT'S CHRISTMAS, AND CONSTABLE HAMISH MACBETH IS ONE BIG BUNDLE OF MISERY. With a cold in his head and no place to go for the holidays, Hamish snaps up the invitation of gorgeous Jane Wetherby to spend Christmas at her Scottish island health farm -- ...
Full of intrigue and suspense, Every Picture Tells a Story is a compelling mystery of art theft and forgery set against the backdrop of Venice. Six months after being released from prison for forgery, London artist Martin Phipps is starting over. Whi...
Miss Emily Parchester's pampered bassets, Nick and Nora, have to be the most slobbery pets in Farberville, Bookstore owner Claire Malloy could kick herself for agreeing to dog-sit them, especially when on the third day of Miss Emily's vacation, they ...
Charmian Daniels, chief metropolitan police superintendent of Central London, interrupts a medical leave when beautiful Vivien Charles, member of a witches' coven, is found fatally stabbed in her home, her corpse surrounded by cult objects. An autops...
The most personal and revealing Spenser thriller of all, PASTIME is Robert B. Parker's electrifying masterpiece of crime fiction--a startling game of memory, desire and danger that forces Spenser to face his own past. Ten years ago, he saved a teenag...
Micah Dunn, New Orleans private eye, investigates a 40-year-old mystery when a one-legged skeleton with a bullet hole in the forehead is unearthed on an archaeological dig in Mississippi. Its identification leads Micah to determine the circumstances ...
An FBI agent quits retirement to hunt a methodical serial killer with a passion for human blood. The man comes to slowly, feeling caught in a spider’s web. His arms and legs are secured, his mouth is taped shut, and the drugs are keeping him docile...
Determined to find the person who gunned down his friend, a CIA agent, on a street in Greece, FBI agent Bill Erlich discovers clues that lead him to a run-down English manor and the fugitive son of a World War II hero. Reprint....
SHE WAS A RELUCTANT BRIDE Eleanor Chivenbam didn't put much past her vile brother, but even she bad not anticipated his greedy scheme to dupe a rich earl into mistaking her for a lightskirt! Her reputation in shreds, her future ruined, a defeat...
FINISH LINE In a daring plan to strike a crippling blow to the Medellin cartel, Mack Bolan, Phoenix Force and Able Team are forged into a supreme fighting unit with a ten-day mission to turn the tide in America's war on drugs. Dispatched to the...
Return to Sunset Island in Sunset Kiss, the compelling second book in the new series about Carrie, Samantha, and Emma -- away from home for the first time in the ultimate summer job! Breaking up with Josh was just the beginning for me. I'm changing ...
This can’t be happening. But Karen saw it -- she witnessed the moment her boyfriend Matt died. She saw his eyes, dead and staring; saw his killer disappear into the night. The crowd at Killington had been at a party -- laughing, dancing, tal...
Working as security guards for the filming of a horror movie starring their favorite actor, The Reaper, Frank and Joe Hardy must go undercover as film extras when the film's director is murdered and The Reaper is the number one suspect...
Nancy and her pals have come to the rustic Oakwood Inn to indulge in a chocolate festival fantasy. Add a dash of Brock Sawyer, celebrity taster and one of TV’s hottest stars, and you have the makings of a perfect weekend. But the sweet dream turns ...