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New Books List: 568 titles

  • Elegance

    Kathleen Tessaro

    Louise C. wants what Jackie O had ... Unhappy with her looks, her life, and her empty marriage, Louise Canova needs help -- and she finds it in a secondhand bookstore. A forty-year-old encyclopedia of style titled Elegance, this slim volume by for...

  • Isle of Palms

    Dorothea Benton Frank

    Anna Lutz Abbot thinks she has her independence, and therefore her happiness, intact. She is a capable woman, a sensible woman, not someone given to risky living. This all seems to be true enough until her lovely daughter returns from college for...

  • Chaos Bleeds

    James A. Moore

    Reunion Life on the Hellmouth -- a.k.a. Sunnydale, California -- has always involved a steady parade of demons intent on ruining Buffy Summers's nightlife. Staying at the top of her game means Buffy's racked up some powerful enemies. Now an o...

  • Seven Crows

    John Vornholt

    One crow sorrow, Two crows mirth, Three crows a wedding, Four crows a birth, Five crows silver, Six crows gold, Seven crows a secret, Which must never be told.... In a sleepy little town on the border between Arizona and Mex...

  • Department Thirty

    David Kent

    Ryan Elder was an ordinary college kid when his life was torn apart by his parents' shattering double suicide. Years later, still haunted by his loss, he's tried to bury the past and live a normal life. But "normal" is about to get a whole new meanin...

  • Ice Hunt

    James Rollins

    Buried deep in the earth's polar ice cap -- carved into a moving island of ice twice the size of the United States -- is a secret place, the site of a remarkable abandoned experiment that could have frightening ramifications for the planet. The brain...

  • No Sanctuary

    Richard Laymon

    Rick would do anything for his girlfriend Bert. He’d even spend his vacation in the wilderness, walking the trails around Fern Lake. After what happened last time, it’s the one place in the world he’d prefer not to go. But Bert i...

  • Rapid Fire

    Mike Murray

    When Colonel Harun Baraniq, a senior officer of a vicious Iraqi regime, offers to trade information about al Qaeda in exchange for asylum, Lieutenant Ross McTaggart and Leopard-1 race against time to get to Baraniq before the secret police execute hi...

  • S.W.A.T.

    Diane Carey

    For over a generation, the Los Angeles Police Department's S.W.A.T. unit has been one of the premiere law-enforcement units in the United States. An elite squadron of expertly trained tactical assault specialists, S.W.A.T. goes into action whenev...

  • Slatewiper

    Lewis Perdue

    * FACT: Bioweapons designers are developing deadly, genetically engineered, life-forms triggered by race- and ethnic-related genes.

    *FACT: DNA analysis shows that the human race has come close to extinction in the past.

    * QUESTION: Will...

  • Still Life With Crows

    Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child

    A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with he need to destroy? Or it a darker force, a curse upon the land? Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of Amer...

  • Too Much of Nothing

    Michael Scott Moore

    MICHAEL SCOTT MOORE'S captivating debut novel follows the exploits of two teenage boys: Eric, intelligent, thoughtful, socially restless honors student, and Tom, a defiant, posturing rebel with a taste for cocaine and cowboy hats. Fifteen years after...

  • The War That Never Was

    Michael A. Palmer

    In a fictional look at an alternate history of the Cold War, the two superpowers, the U.S. and the Soviet Union, clash at the peak of their military strength, as the world hovers on the brink of a nuclear World War III. Reprint....

  • Aftermath

    Christopher L. Bennett

    Having recovered from the catastrophic events of Wildfire, the Starfleet Corps of Engineers team on the U.S.S. da Vinci meets its new second officer: Mor glasch Tev, an arrogant Tellarite who's the best there is -- and he knows it. Even as Captain G...

  • Do Comets Dream?

    S.P. Somtow

    Every five thousand years, so the people of the planet Thanet believe, the world ends in fire and a new cycle of creation begins. Now the Last Days are once again upon them, and a fiery star draws near. This is the Death-Bringer, the Eater of the Wor...

  • The Farther Shore

    Christie Golden

    When an unstoppable Borg plague breaks out upon Earth, blame quickly falls on the newly returned crew of the Starship Voyage . Did Kathryn Janeway and the others unknowingly carry this insidious infection back with them? Many in Starfleet think so, ...

  • Ilium

    Dan Simmons

    The Trojan War rages at the foot of Olympos Mons on Mars--observed and influenced from on high by Zeus and his immortal family--and twenty-first-century professor Thomas Hockenberry is there to play a role in the insidious private wars of vengeful go...

  • Ishtar Rising #1

    Michael A. Martin

    Project Ishtar -- a bold endeavor to terraform Venus, the most volatile planet in the solar system, and the grandest achievement in the spectacular career of famed terraformer Dr. Pascal Saadya. But when Saadya hits a snag in the project, he calls up...

  • Paradis

    Richard Hatch; Brad Linaweaver

    Have the Galacticans truly found their "paradise" among the stars? Apollo thinks so, as they journey to a mysterious planet called Gemon, located through spatial coordinates vividly imprinted in Apollo's mind. Will the fleet stay and make this inviti...

  • Reunion

    Sean Williams; Shane Dix

    The Jedi move one step closer to saving the embattled galaxy--only to confront a formidable wall of resistance.... The harrowing search for Zonama Sekot is finally over for Luke Skywalker, Jacen Solo, and the others aboard the Jade Shadow. But joy...

  • Hunters of the Dark Sea

    Mel Odom

    They were the whalers of the nineteenth century, leaving home for months, nay years at a time, in search of the largest creatures of the earth. It was their job to hunt these mammoth sea dwellers for their oil and feed the trade in hopes of raising e...

  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Script Book Season Three, Volume 1

    Multiple Authors

  • Callahan's Con

    Spider Robinson

    The discreet little bar that Jake Stonebender established a few blocks below Duval Street was named simply, The Place. There all the Callahan's regulars--plus a collection of truly pixilated Key West locals--settled into comfortable sub-tropical nich...

  • The Cradle of Life

    Dave Stern

    Within the long-lost Temple of Luna, built by Alexander the Great to store his most valuable possessions, Lara Croft discovers a device that leads the way to the deadliest artifact of all time: the legendary Pandora's Box. Hidden for centuries in a p...

  • Dante's Equation

    Jane Jensen

    Rabbi Aharon Handalman's expertise with Torah code -- rearranging words and letters in the Bible -- has uncovered a man's name. Who is Yosef Kobinski, and why did God hide his name in His sacred text? To find the answers, Aharon begins an investigati...

  • Extremes

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    While searching for the Disappeared - criminals on the run for commiting unspeakable acts of violence against alien cultures - Retrieval Artist Miles Flint investigates two suspicious deaths, leading him to a demented scientist who is now one of the ...

  • In This World, or Another

    James Blish

    James Blish (1921-1975) was one of those rare authors who sought to fuse the imagination and ideas of science fiction with the language and power of mainstream fiction. He wasn't rare for attempting this combination, he was rare because he succeeded....

  • Judge Dredd: Justice One

    Garth Ennis

    From red-hot British comics creator Garth Ennis (Preacher, Just a Pilgrim) and a host of artists including Glenn Fabry (Preacher, Sláine) and Peter Docherty (Grendel Tales), and with an all-new cover by John Higgins (Watchmen), the hard-hitting, unc...

  • Marvel Mangaverse: Spider-Man: Legend of the Spider-Clan: Volume 3

    Kaare Andrews

    After his beloved uncle, Benjamin-sensai, is murdered, Peter Parker becomes the last living Spider-ninja, and is drawn into a fight between the Green Goblin and the Shadow Clan over a powerful amulet....

  • The Mighty Thor: Lord of Asgard

    Dan Jurgens

  • Nightscape

    Kevin Ryan

    When Liz has a vision of Maria being chased in an old house, the van in which she and her friends are traveling suddenly breaks down in front of a similar place, making them wonder about their destinies after leaving Roswell....

  • Nosferatu

    Robert Doherty

    THE SHADOWS OF HISTORY ARE THEIR HOME. THE BLOOD OF HUMANS IS THEIR SUSTENANCE. NOW THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THEM.... It began at the dawn of history, when a darkness rose from deep within an Egyptian tomb. For thousands of years--long before Earth w...

  • The Omega Expedition

    Brian Stableford

    The sixth volume of Brian Stableford's future history concludes the series and also refers back to its beginnings. Through five earlier volumes, Inherit the Earth, Architects of Emortality, The Fountains of Youth, The Cassandra Complex, and Dark Arar...

  • Red Skull

    Steven A. Roman; Stan Timmons

    First, it was Doctor Doom. Then, Magneto. Two men with a common dream: to become absolute master of the Earth. Through the use of the Cosmic Cube-a device whose reality-bending powers allow its possessor to create their own perfect world-they were ea...

  • Rise of the Machines

    David Hagberg

    A novel by David HagbergBased on the screenplay by Jonathan Mostow, John Brancato, and Michael FerrisThe novel of the blockbuster hit filmFor two generations of moviegoers, the Terminator movies have defined adrenaline-soaked action filmmaking. Starr...

  • Scatterbrain

    Larry Niven

    Now, Scatterbrain collects an equally engaging assortment of Niven's latest work, all in one captivating volume. Here are choice excerpts from his most recent novels, including The Ringworld Throne and Destiny's Road, as well as numerous short storie...

  • The Serpent's Kiss

    Mark T. Sullivan

    A divorced, second generation homicide detective out of San Diego, Seamus Moynihan figures he,¹s witnessed the worst kind of violence humans can visit upon one another. Then he,¹s summoned to a crime scene where the victim, a naked man, has b...

  • Space Inc.

    Julie E. Czerneda

    HELP WANTED:Position open for goal-oriented professional.  Must be willing to work in zero gravity.  MAY THE WORK-FORCE BE WITH YOU.In this all-new, original anthology, today's top sf talents tackle tomorrow's jobs-in space and beyond. ...

  • Spider-Man Legends, Volume 2: Todd McFarlane, Book 2

    Todd McFarlane

  • Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Volume 2

    Brian Michael Bendis

    A follow-up to the best-selling Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Volume 1 continues the cooperative adventures of the wise-cracking Spider-Man and characters from the X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Dr. Strange series. Original....

  • The War with Earth

    Leo Frankowski; Dave Grossman

    THIS TIME IT'S REAL, TANKER BOY! New Kashubia was a planet rich in heavy metals, but utterly lacking in carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. Even dirt had to be imported at great expense. The colonists, moved there from Earth against their will, lived in...

  • Wolverine Legends, Volume 4: Xisle

    Marvel Book Group

    Intending to spend a rare carefree moment at a carnival with his beloved stepdaughter Amiko, Wolverine shows a violent side of himself that sends the young girl running in fear. Unable to face what he's done, Logan is propelled into a soul-searching ...

  • X-Men Legends, Volume 3: Art Adams, Book 1

    Chris Claremont

    The New Mutants journey to Asgard; the X-Men battle the villain Mojo; and Wolverine, Spider-Man, the Hulk, and Ghost Rider join forces during the mysterious absence of the Fantastic Four, as illustrated by Arthur Adams....

  • a.k.a. Shelia Weinstein

    Pat Jordan

    Without looking back, casting a bad marriage and going-nowhere stage career behind her, forty-something Sheila Mackenzie, nee Ryan, took a lover, discovered crime, embraced danger, and reinvented herself under an alias in a.k.a. Sheila Doyle. Tough, ...

  • The Awakening

    Donna Boyd

    It was supposed to be a time for healing. But it soon turned to horror. Paul and Penny Mason are spending the summer at the family lake house with their troubled, teenage daughter, Elsie, in a last-ditch effort to save their crumbling marriage. But t...

  • Black Valley

    Jim Brown

    When the citizens of Black Valley, a remote Oregon town, are terrorized by vicious, sadistic "Whitey" Dobbs -- nicknamed for his shock of bone-white hair -- five teenagers concoct a shiver-inducing act of revenge. But their plans to eliminate Whitey ...

  • Chase

    Francine Pascal

    IF TATIANA'S MY EVIL STEPSISTER, AND NATASHA'S MY WICKED STEPMOTHER, THEN WHAT DOES THAT MAKE LOKI -- SOME KIND OF KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR? YEAH, RIGHT....

  • The Company : Portrait of a Murderer

    Arabella Edge

    "I, Jeronimus, am a man of phials, a measurer of powders on bronze scales, a potion brewer, an opium and arsenic merchant. The primped and perfumed Amsterdam burghers came to me in droves requiring cures for fevers, love balms, the miscarriage of a b...

  • The Crystal Cavern // Hidden Motive

    Hannah Alexander

    Someone had murdered her grandfather. And Sable Chamberlin was next on the villain's hit list. With the help of her friend Paul Murphy, she hoped to hide at her family's isolated Ozark home. But then an ice storm trapped the couple there with a buslo...

  • The Cure

    Jack D. Hunter

    Suppose a cure for cancer was finally discovered, a cure that could save the lives of millions--and render much of today's medical and pharmaceutical industry obsolete? How far would the world's movers and shakers go to control this miraculous panace...

  • Days Without Number

    Robert Goddard

    Nick Paleologus is summoned to the unyielding bosom of his family to help resolve a dispute which threatens to set his brothers and sisters against their aged and irascible father. Michael Paleologus, retired archaeologist and supposed descendant of ...

  • Deadly Visions

    Roy Johansen

    A killer crosses over... Ace magician turned ace police detective Joe Bailey, a.k.a. the Spirit Basher, needs all his expertise when he's teamed up with psychic investigator Monica Gaines to crack a string of serial murders--each involving strange...

  • A Dime a Dozen

    Mindy Starns Clark

    “He would never leave us.”

    Just like that, business investigator Callie Webber finds herself involved in the life of a young wife and mother whose husband has disappeared. . . possibly the victim of foul play.

    “I won’t go aw...

  • Fear Itself

    Walter Mosley

    Mild-mannered Paris Minton is delivered a pile of trouble when Fearless Jones shows up with a simple request: help find a beautiful woman's husband. Lending a hand gets him hit upside the head, hogtied, kidnapped, and threatened with a gun the size o...

  • A Fractured Truth

    Caroline Slate

    One moment is all it takes to change the course of a life. An instant in time, and a world is forever altered. For successful young jewelry designer Grace Leshansky that moment came when she shot and killed her charismatic con-man husband, Paul Boudr...

  • In the Name of Ishmael

    Giuseppe Genna

    Milan, 1962. Detective David Montorsi is obsessed with the murder of a young child found buried under a WWII monument. His lone investigation leads him to an elusive figure named Ishmael. Milan, 2001. Detective Guido Lopez investigates the random kil...

  • A Long Day for Dying

    Patrick A. Davis

    When General Michael Garber, the newly appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is discovered dead in the private compartment of his airplane, Air Force investigator Martin Collins finds himself thrust into the most dangerous case of his care...

  • Manhattan North

    John Mackie

    While investigating the murder of a drug supplier, Detective Sergeant Thornton Savage, delving into a violent drug-world war, arrests Derek Ogden, a seemingly upstanding patron of the arts, who, in turn, unleashes a deadly campaign of vengeance again...

  • Mermaids on the Golf Course: Stories

    Patricia Highsmith

    The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with this work that reveals the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life. The stories collected in Mermaids on the Golf Course are among Highsmith's most mature...

  • Mrs. Roberto: or, the Widowy Worries of the Moosepath League

    Van Reid

    The fourth installment of Van Reid's utterly charming Moosepath League series begins as Tobias Walton and his pal Sundry Moss become unexpected guests at the eccentric Fern Farm, where they become counselors to a downhearted pig and unintentional puz...

  • My Ex-Best Friend

    Beth Brophy

    Journalist, wife, and mother of three, Claire Newman juggles work, soccer games, birthday parties, and errands. A successful writer at Nationweek, America's second largest newsweekly, she makes her living by being, as she says, "a relentless snoop," ...

  • The Probable Future

    Alice Hoffman

    The women of the Sparrow family have lived in New England for generations. Each is born in the month of March, and at the age of thirteen, each develops an unusual gift. Elinor can literally smell a lie. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people's dreams a...

  • Redemption

    Nancy Geary

    A Story of Murder, Manners, and Dark Family Secrets The salt air still peels the paint from the old clapboard mansions and the residents still send their pampered sons and daughters to Groton and Miss Porter's. In Manchester-by-the-Sea, nothing ca...

  • The Sailmaker's Daughter

    Stephanie Johnson

    It is 1918 and Spanish Flu is epidemic in Suva, the capital of Fiji. Twelve year old Olive is sent with her brothers and grandmother to Taveuni to stay with her childless aunt and uncle on their sugar plantation to escape the disease as her mother li...

  • Serpent in My Corner

    J. Daniels

    Hennessy Cooper, an FBI agent, finds her life forever changed by her dangerous attraction to Tristan James "T.J." Jackson, the prime suspect in a rash of high-profile robberies and the subject of her undercover investigation, forcing her to choose be...

  • Siren Song

    Quinn Fawcett

    The world knows Ian Fleming best as the creator of that international sensation, James Bond, hero of countless novels and films. The real Ian Fleming was once an operative for British Naval Intelligence, ostensibly retired to a career in journalism a...

  • Sophie

    Guy Burt

    In a dark room of a dilapidated house, as a storm rages outside, Matthew lights a candle and places it in the center of the floor. Its light spreads across the wall and illuminates Sophie, tied up in a chair facing him. She is frightened, fearful of ...

  • Their Wildest Dreams

    Peter Abrahams

    "Mackie dreaded the mail." From this simple beginning, Peter Abrahams opens the curtains on a mesmerizing world down on the Mexican border, a world of complex and passionate people whose ambitions will lead them on a relentless collision course, a de...

  • Too Beautiful to Die

    Glenville Lovell

    The Washington Post has compared Glenville Lovell’s novels to “works by Morrison and Nabokov.” The New York Times praised his “sharp eye for the extraordinary.” Now he turns to crime fiction with a tale that “will keep readers guessing un...

  • Trial by Ice and Fire

    Clinton McKinzie

    Special Agent Antonio Burns is used to living on the edge - of danger, of tragedy, of the law. It's what drives him up the world's most forbidding mountainsides - and dares him to take on the toughest job of his career: protecting Wyoming prosecuter...

  • The Truth About Celia

    Kevin Brockmeier

    While playing alone in her backyard one afternoon, seven-year-old Celia suddenly disappears while her father Christopher is inside giving a tour of their historic house and her mother Janet is at an orchestra rehearsal.Utterly shattered, Christopher,...

  • Bad Moon Rising

    Katherine Sutcliffe

    WHAT IS A MAN'S WORST NIGHTMARE? Once, J. D. Damascus had a wife and two children who were the light of his life. He was the most feared assistant district attorney in New Orleans. Now, four years later, he's a man on the verge of a breakdown. A d...

  • Bougainvillea

    Heather Graham
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    Heather Graham: "Will they make it? And if they do, how on earth will they manage? And last, but never least, will they survive together? The combination of romance and suspense is irresistible. I love the genre, and hope to give back just a percent...

  • Capsized

    Sharon Sala
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    Heather Graham: "Will they make it? And if they do, how on earth will they manage? And last, but never least, will they survive together? The combination of romance and suspense is irresistible. I love the genre, and hope to give back just a percent...

  • Caught in the Act

    Joyce Lamb

    Jessie Rhoades moved to Florida to start a new, simple life. But things get very complicated when the newspaper where she is an editor publishes a huge story that turns out to be a hoax. On top of that, freelance reporter Clay Christopher is snoopi...

  • Die in Plain Sight

    Elizabeth Lowell

    The third book in the Rarities Unlimited series Lacey Quinn is determined to prove that the striking landscapes she inherited, done by her late, much-loved grandfather, are as good as anything hanging in museums of California Impressionism today. ...

  • Don't Tell

    Karen Rose

    DON'T LOOK It was a desperate plan. But Mary Grace Winters knew the only way to save herself and her child from her abusive cop husband was to stage their own death. Now all that remains of their former life is at the bottom of a lake... DON'T TR...

  • Double Take

    Brenda Joyce

    Kait London has been estranged from her twin sister for years. She has never understood why and has always regretted it. When her phone rings in the middle of the night, Kait learns that Lana desperately needs her help. All Kait has to do is take her...

  • Gone Too Far

    Suzanne Brockmann

    In his career as one of America's elite warriors, Lt. Sam Starrett can do no wrong. In his private life, he has done little right. Waiting for a divorce, Sam is determined to stay active in his young daughter's life. But when he shows up at the door ...

  • Her Secret Alibi

    Debra Webb

    Could Jolie Randolph be losing her mind? That would explain why the typically focused bank executive had discovered inconsistencies in her usually meticulous work, totally forgotten a business trip and woken up naked in a stranger's bed! Jolie was co...

  • Intimate Strangers

    Rebecca York

    SHE WAS HIS FANTASY... The nightly dreams of making love to Molly Dumont had been Mike Randall's lifeline during the five long years of his wrongful imprisonment for murdering his wife. But released now on an overturned conviction, he changed his na...

  • Kansas City's Bravest

    Julie Miller

    CONSUMED BY OUT-OF-CONTROL PASSION Arson investigator Gideon Taylor had his hands full with three suspicious fires and no leads. Complicating matters were his unresolved feelings for former colleague Meghan Wright -- the one woman he'd never got o...

  • Sarah's Secrets

    Lisa Childs

    EVERY WOMAN HAS HER MYSTERY And Sarah Mars-Hutchins had more than one secret to keep. But her tumultuous past caught up with the young widow in the flesh when a devastatingly handsome former FBI agent came to question her. Royce "The Tracker" Grah...

  • Shadow Side

    Linda Castillo

    Dr. Elizabeth Barnes has devoted her heart and soul to medical research...at the expense of love in her life. But now--winning an award for her latest breakthrough drug--Elizabeth is at the top of her game, and she wouldn't change a thing. Until a...

  • Shelter Island

    Carla Neggers
    in

    Heather Graham: "Will they make it? And if they do, how on earth will they manage? And last, but never least, will they survive together? The combination of romance and suspense is irresistible. I love the genre, and hope to give back just a percent...

  • Triple Threat

    Jan Coffey

    Just weeks before Independence Day, the President is targeted for assassination by a powerful business cartel that is making final plans to rip off the American dream. Only two people stand between a national disaster and a glorious celebration -- an...

  • Abducting Amy

    June Calvin

    Love For Sale Amy Armstrong doesn't enjoy being sold off to a prosperous farmer like a prized cow at a county fair. But what choice other than marriage has she when he's the only man willing to take in a woman with no dowry and a dependent...

  • Blackguard's Bride

    Melynda Beth Skinner

    TRUE LOVE... As companion to a lively spinster, Miss Julie Fitz has learned to expect the unexpected. Yet she hardly knows what to make of the confused young man who suddenly appears on her elderly employer's doorstep. He calls himself "Christopher,...

  • Daring Courtship

    Valerie King

    A BOLD NEWCOMER When wealthy Scotsman Sir Roger Mathieson purchases a decrepit castle in Sussex, he is astounded to discover that his plan to refurbish it has rankled the local villagers. What's more, his Scots heritage is apparently an affront to t...

  • Drusilla's Downfall

    Emily Hendrickson

    Healing Heart Sent to attend the ailing Marchioness of Brentford, practical Drusilla Herbert hardly believes she'll become entangled in any intrigues of the ton. After all, what adventures could a rector's daughter happen on in the seclusion of a ...

  • Family Matchmaker

    Jeanne Savery

    Can a counterfeit courtship...become a match made in heaven? A CONFOUNDING FEMALE Miss Georgianna Beverly is quite content with her life just as it is. Happily unshackled, she is free to pursue her secret talent as an author of popular poetry. Ce...

  • Miss Parker's Ponies

    Victoria Hinshaw

    SHE NEEDED A WEALTHY HUSBAND... Blissfully unaware of what Fate holds in store, Miss Caroline Parker has happily spent her days training her beloved ponies and ignoring more ladylike pursuits. But her carefree country life comes to an abrupt halt wh...

  • Viscount's Bride

    Wilma Counts

    He Was A Formidable Adversary... A devoted champion for the less fortunate, Hannah Whitmore passionately pursues improvement of the dangerous working conditions in the textile mills--especially for the children. She is stunned, then outraged, when a...

  • Burn Inc.

    Kimberly Raye
    in

    As the producer of erotic films for women, Gerry Baxter knows the business of sex---even though she hasn't had a date in five years! But all that changes when a case of mistaken identity leads to astonishing pleasure . . . an unexpected encounter tha...

  • The Flame

    Nina Bangs
    in

    Museum curator Serenity So-Fine has traveled back in time from the year 2700 to retrieve the infamous erotic sculpture The Flame. But the work's sensual creator, Justin Hill, is about to take Serenity to places even she's never been. . . ....

  • Got a Man

    Daaimah S. Poole

    Twenty-six-year-old Kimberly Vanessa Brown is no ordinary single mom. Pregnant with her second child, she's got a career, a college degree--and enough common sense to know that her boyfriend, Malik, may not be ready for fatherhood. But when Malik sur...

  • Love Me All the Way

    Simona Taylor

    Dr. Sarita Rowley knows her trip back to the small West Indian island of Tobago will be no return to paradise. A year ago, an innocent deception shattered her marriage to Dr. Matthias Rowley. Now, Sarita's only means of gaining access to their belo...

  • Lucia, Lucia

    Adriana Trigiani

    Set in the glittering, vibrant New York City of 1950, Lucia, Lucia is the enthralling story of a passionate, determined young woman whose decision to follow her heart changes her life forever. Lucia Sartori is the beautiful twenty-five-year-old da...

  • Possessing Julia

    Patricia Ryan
    in

    Widow Julia Hughes is to marry in two weeks' time---and her new husband must never know she's still a virgin. Her scandalous solution: to lose her virginity before the wedding. But the handsome man she hires for the job intends to teach her a few thi...

  • Trading Up

    Candace Bushnell

    With a brilliant comic voice as well as Jane Austen's penchant for social satire, Candace Bushnell, who with Sex and the City changed forever how we view New York City, female friendships, and the love of a good pair of Manolos, now brings us a sharp...

  • The Wedding Night

    Cheryl Holt
    in

    Blushing bride Ellen Foster shocks her new husband, the Viscount Banbury, just hours after they enter a marriage of convenience when she turns their chaste marital bed chamber into a den of sensual pleasure. . . ....

  • When Duty Calls

    Joanna Wayne
    in

    Includes Joanna Wayne's Lone Star Lawman, in which a Texas Ranger meets his match in a beautiful woman who is searching for the truth surrounding her past, and Hotshot P.I., about a tough P.I. who finds himself falling in love with th...

  • The Winding Road Home

    Sally D. John

    Popular fiction author Sally John's first series The Other Way Home (more than 65,000 copies sold) comes to life with a fresh, new cover for a new audience of readers.In A Winding Road Home, the fourth book of the series, two stories are beautifully...

  • Wish Come True

    Eileen Goudge

    After years in the shadow of her movie-star sister, Monica, Anna Vincenzi decided it was time to shed that extra weight and reinvent herself. Now she's a knockout--and her emerging beauty has escaped no one, least of all her sister. But when Monica i...

  • All Roads Leadeth

    Peter Turnbull

    The horizon doesn't always mark the end of the road. . . When Francis Armstrong moves into his fussily designed Victorian house in the heart of the Vale of York, his August stretches before him in a haze of leisurely house refurbishments. His decisio...

  • Blindside

    Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader: Are you ready for a wild ride? When six-year-old Sam Kettering is kidnapped and manages to save himself, everything's over, right? Not by a long shot. Sheriff Katie Benedict contacts Sam's father, Miles Kettering, ex-FBI agent, and...

  • The Bone Garden

    Kate Ellis

    Past and present come together in Detective Sergeant Wesley Peterson's latest case. In the course of restoring the gardens at historic Earlsacre Hall, three skeletons are uncovered. The bones appear to be centuries old, but they hold an interest for ...

  • Death of a Red Heroine

    Qiu Xiaolong

    A young "national model worker," renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he ...

  • Diamond Dust

    Peter Lovesey

    Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is confronted with a crime that comes too close to home. His beloved wife has been killed, apparently just the most recent victim in a series of murders of police spouses. Despite his superior's orders to leave ...

  • Dirty Laundry

    Paula L. Woods

    For Charlotte and her team, the case begins when a woman's body is found in L.A.'s Koreatown district, where a series of robberies and murders has already put besieged merchants on edge. Now the spectacle of a bright, successful young Korean woman fo...

  • The Hollow-Eyed Angel

    Janwillem Van De Wetering

    The commissaris is about to be retired from the Amsterdam police force when a volunteer policeman comes to him for help. A corpse has been found under an azalea bush in New York City's Central Park and although the local police don't agree, he fears ...

  • Judgment Calls

    Alafair Burke

    After three years on the job in Portland's Drug and Vice Division, Deputy DA Samantha Kincaid gets what she wants: her first case with the Major Crimes Team. Kendra Martin, a 13-year-old runaway, has been found drugged, viciously assaulted, and left ...

  • Lazybones

    Mark Billingham

    Thorne knew when he was looking at something out of the ordinary. This was a significant murder scene. This was the work of a killer driven by something special, something spectacular ... He looked at the dead man on the bed -- the position of him, a...

  • A Loyal Character Dancer

    Qiu Xiaolong

    The second book in the Inspector Chen investigationsInspector Chen’s mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort US Marshal Catherine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in an important criminal trial, to th...

  • The Perfidious Parrot

    Janwillem Van De Wetering

    Grijpstra and de Gier are being blackmailed. A wealthy yacht owner and his son want the retired policemen to investigate tilt hijacking in the Caribbean of an entire cargo of oil from a supertanker. The threat is a serious one: to set the income tax ...

  • The Vault

    Peter Lovesey

    “Exquisitely intricate.”  -- The New York Times Book ReviewA skeletal hand is unearthed in the vault under the Pump Room in Bath, England, near the site where Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. Then a skull is excavated. The bones came from di...

  • After Midnight

    Fiona Brand
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    BE WARNED four of today's most popular authors push passion and intrigue to the limit in four thrilling original stories... In a sleepy coastal town... Early retirement turns deadly for a defense expert--until a beautiful woman steps between him...

  • Hot August Moon

    Katherine Sutcliffe
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    BE WARNED four of today's most popular authors push passion and intrigue to the limit in four thrilling original stories... In a sleepy coastal town... Early retirement turns deadly for a defense expert--until a beautiful woman steps between him...

  • Killing Moon

    Rebecca York

    In the woods, a killer waits, surrounded by the graves of his victims, anticipating his next kill. In the woods, a wolf stalks its prey, surrendering only to the laws of nature, not of man... Private investigator Ross Marshall has a special talent...

  • Magic in the Wind

    Christine Feehan
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    BE WARNED four of today's most popular authors push passion and intrigue to the limit in four thrilling original stories... In a sleepy coastal town... Early retirement turns deadly for a defense expert--until a beautiful woman steps between him...

  • Night Embrace

    Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Dear Reader, Life is great for me. I have my chicory coffee, my warm beignets, and my best friend on the cell phone. Once the sun goes down, I am the baddest thing prowling the night: I command the elements, and I know no fear. For centuries, I've...

  • Only Human

    Eileen Wilks
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    BE WARNED four of today's most popular authors push passion and intrigue to the limit in four thrilling original stories... In a sleepy coastal town... Early retirement turns deadly for a defense expert--until a beautiful woman steps between him...

  • Too Close to the Sun

    Robin T. Popp

    Galactic smuggler Angel Torrence resented Colonel Nicoli Romanof from the first order he barked at her. His disembodied voice--arrogant and bossy--blared out of the Icarus's control panel, not to thank her for rescuing him and his ship from the terro...

  • A Blind Eye

    G.M. Ford

    Beneath the rotting floorboards of an abandoned shed are human bones -- lots of them -- the last things a runaway rogue true-crime writer and his photojournalist ex-lover expected to find when they took shelter from a vicious Wisconsin blizzard. The ...

  • Death Gets a Time-Out

    Ayelet Waldman

    Juggling lunchboxes, piano lessons, and baby-sitters has made Juliet a bit forgetful. Which explains why she very nearly overlooks her best friend's invitation to the big benefit gala. A little makeup and a lot of hair gel and she's all set to play w...

  • Instruments of Darkness

    Robert Wilson

    Meet British expatriate Bruce Medway, a “fixer” for traders in an unwelcoming part of Africa once known as the White Man’s Grave. Medway’s work is tough, but never life-threatening … until he crosses paths with the mighty Madame Severnou. A...

  • Lovers Crossing

    James C. Mitchell

    Former INS agent turned private eye Roscoe Brinker carries the bullet scars of life on the Arizona-Mexico border, where desperation, greed and corruption thrive on both sides of the fence. When Mo Crain, a wealthy Tucson car dealer, hires him to inve...

  • McNally's Dare

    Vincent Lardo

    The dowager duchess of Palm Beach dies, leaving behind a fabulous fortune and a handsome young heir -- but is the young heir who he claims to be? To prove he is -- or is not -- Archy dares to trap a double murderer by offering him a third victim in a...

  • Runaway Heart

    Stephen J. Cannell

    WHEN THE SCIENCE EXISTS... Behind the impenetrable walls of a black-op government laboratory a top-secret weapon is being developed-a genetically engineered animal with superhuman strength and speed. It thinks. It obeys. It kills without conscience....

  • The Weatherman's Daughters

    Richard Hoyt

    Driving back to his cabin in northwest Oregon, Denson is caught in a freakish shower of live salmon, the fish being sucked from the adjacent Columbia River by a giant waterspout. Amid this deluge, he discovers a young woman with a bullet hole in her ...

  • Ghost Riders

    Sharyn McCrumb

    Civil War reenactors have gathered in the Appalachian Mountains to stage the lesser-known skirmishes of the conflict. Joining them is part-Cherokee mountain man Rattler. He is gifted with the ability to see spirits -- and cursed with the knowledge ...

  • The Killing Hour

    Lisa Gardner

    DEATH ALWAYS STRIKES ON TIME.... Each time he strikes, he takes two victims. He waits for the first victim to be discovered -- a body containing all the clues investigators need to find the second victim, who counts the seconds . . . to a slow but c...

  • Murder in Belleville

    Cara Black

    The second Aimée Leduc investigation set in ParisWhen Anaïs de Froissart calls Parisian private investigator Aimée begging for help, Aimée assumes the woman wants to hire her to do surveillance on her philandering politician husband again. Aim...

  • Autobiography of a Fat Bride

    Laurie Notaro

    The author of the New York Times bestseller The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club tackles her biggest challenge yet: grown-up life.In Autobiography of a Fat Bride, Laurie Notaro tries painfully to make the transition from all-night partyer and bar...

  • Psychopath

    Keith Ablow

    Twelve bodies, twelve states. What no one knows is that the "Highway Killer" is also a gifted psychiatrist who lures his victims into a false sense of security with his miraculous ability to understand their darkest emotional secrets. He is their con...

  • The Cards

    Bill Myers

    Join Becka, Scott, and the rest of the crew at Crescent Bay High for another journey into spiritual warfare in The Cards. In this series' end, they learn about the insidious nature of the world of tarot cards and are challenged as never before to fig...

  • The Dick Francis Companion: The Complete Guide to the Beloved Mysteries of Dick Francis - From Plot Summaries to Character Profile

    Jean Swanson

  • Dreams of Jeannie and Other Stories

    Catherine Dain

  • Mandie and the Night Thief

    Lois Gladys Leppard

    More Favorites from a Beloved Author
    Mandie and her friends set out to investigate and solve six more mysteries in the next two volumes of THE MANDIE COLLECTION. Volume Ten includes Mandie and the New York Secret, Mandie and the NIght Thief, and ...

  • Murder at Gettysburg

    Leslie Wheeler

    For the devoted, some might say obsessive, Civil War reenactors, authenticity is key--right down to the specifics of dying on the battlefield. Except for real bullets. So when hard-core Confederate reenactor Wiley Cross dies during the annual Fourth ...

  • The Mystery of Too Many Elvises

    Elizabeth Levy

    Elvis Lives! Jill and Gwen are excited about the pet talent show coming up at their school -- after all, this is the first year they've had a pet. The problem is, Fletcher's talents are pretty much limited to eating salami and sleeping. But when J...

  • Off-Season and Other Stories

    Jeremiah Healy

    All of Jeremiah Healy's trademarks are in this wonderful collection which includes the never-before-published novella, Off-Season, featuring Kevin Malloy, a city cop on vacation who stumbles into a murder investigation. As he tries to figure out who ...

  • Power on Her Own

    Judith Cutler

    Introducing Birmingham Detective Sergeant Kate Power, exiled from London's Metropolitan Police by personal tragedy and making a new start in the distant outpost of Birmingham CID. Her new Brummie bosses are good men, for the most part, but they can't...

  • The Reaper

    Peter Lovesey

    “If you've never read any of [Lovesey’s] 20-plus books, this wickedly clever, beautifully written story of a murderous clergyman who earns our sympathy while dramatically whittling down his flock should make you an instant convert.” -- Chicago ...

  • Spiked

    Mark Arsenault

    In the fading manufacturing town of Lowell, Mass., Eddie Bourque, a political reporter for the shoddy Lowell Empire, looks into the brutal murder of his newspaper beat partner and rival, Danny Nowlin. Bourque suspects the killing is tied to a story N...

  • A Well-Respected Dead Man

    Tricia Allen

  • The Wiccan

    Bill Myers

    In The Wiccan, Becka and Scott Williams face yet another battle with spiritual forces--this time against the powers inside the growing religion of Wicca. A novel with timely appeal for today's teens....

  • The Accused

    Craig Parshall

    The Accused confronts attorney Will Chambers with the terrifying temptation to avenge the brutal crime that shattered his past. Enjoying a Cancún honeymoon with his wife, Fiona, Will is ambushed by two unexpected events: a terrorist kidnapping of a...

  • Death Row

    William Bernhardt

    Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid put his reputation on the line when he represented Ray Goldman. The seemingly mild-mannered man was charged with massacring an entire suburban Tulsa family. When the prosecution's star witness--Erin Faulkner, the lone su...

  • Last to Die

    James Grippando

    An allegedly "reformed" contract killer is the last client Miami criminal attorney Jack Swyteck wants. But Tatum Knight is the older brother of Jack's best friend--and the ruthless assassin swears he had nothing to do with shooting death of Sally Fen...

  • Presumption of Death

    Perri O'Shaughnessy

    New York Times bestselling author Perri O'Shaughnessy has garnered impressive acclaim for her tough, passionate thrillers set against the lush Lake Tahoe landscape and the world of one remarkable character: Attorney Nina Reilly. In this spellbinding ...

  • Sliver Moon

    Jay Brandon

    Murder by Moonlight. There’s but a bare sliver of moon on the dark night when a shot rings out and a man falls, dead, from the balcony of child psychologist Anne Greenwald’s father’s house during a party. Anne and her boyfriend, District Att...

  • Temporary Sanity

    Rose Connors

    IS HOMICIDAL INSANITY EVER A LEGAL JUSTIFICATION FOR MURDER? Cape Cod attorney Marty Nickerson, formerly a prosecutor, faces hard questions as defense attorney for Buck Hammond. With TV cameras rolling, Buck took justice into his own hands. Now he...

  • The Anatomy School

    Bernard Maclaverty

  • The Handmaid of Desire

    John L'Heureux

    While Zachary Kurtz is devising a plan to deconstruct the English Department at the university, a vain feminist theorist, Olga Kominska, arrives to register, only to find herself in contact with Zachary and deeply involved with him and his schemes. R...

  • Lucca

    Jens Christian Grondahl

    While recovering from a devastating car accident, Lucca, a young actress with a string of love affairs behind her, is told by her doctor that she may never see again. Robert, her doctor, is recovering in his own way from his wife's infidelity and a f...

  • Madam Fate

    Marcia Douglas

    A poetic novel melds the past and the present of the author's native Jamaica through the voices of a series of women, both real and mythological, whose lives embody the country's mythology, colonial history, and matrilineal traditions...

  • Song of Night

    Glenville Lovell

    When Night approaches Amanda, an African-American tourist on holiday in Barbados, she had only intended to sell her a dress, yet soon she realizes that their chance encounter is something very special and, as things develop, both women come to know t...

  • Tunneling

    Beth Bosworth

    Rachel Finch is twelve years old and in love -- not with a neighborhood boy, but with the Dewey decimal system, call numbers and the cellophane covers of library books . . . also with time travel, a superhero she knows only as S-Man and, above all, F...

  • Beauchamp Besieged

    Elaine Knighton

    The blood of her people stained his hands, yet Ceridwen ap Morgan ached for his touch. Though Lord Raymond Beauchamp sparked fear throughout the Marches, her woman's heart knew that this dragon of a man nursed secret wounds in his soul. And she must ...

  • Becoming Georgia

    Emily Carmichael

    FROM FRONTIER GIRL...TO CITY WOMAN? Georgie Kennedy is so mad she could spit. Just weeks after she sold one of her Arizona gold claims to Cougar Barnes, some two-bit lawyer has the gall to tell her the mine wasn't hers to begin with. Georgie k...

  • The Betrayal

    Ruth Langan

    Born of highland magic, she had witchcraft in her soul. But Grant MacCallum had need of Kylia Drummond's power. How else could he expose the traitor in his clan? Yet journeying with the beauteous sprite summoned an unexpected breed of magic, stir...

  • But for Grace

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    With Mama dead and no way to provide for herself, Star Campbell barely escaped from Luke's Saloon and ran straight into Michael Riley's arms. Suddenly doors open for her to start a new and better life. The only hitch is, she has a secret past that sh...

  • By Starlight

    Marliss Moon

    As the roaring flames rise to engulf her, Merry Duboise struggles against the ropes that condemn her to burn for witchcraft. Moments away from certain death, she finds salvation in the form of a handsome angel who sweeps her off the stake and into hi...

  • The Captain of All Pleasures

    Kresley Cole

    In her exhilarating debut novel, Kresley Cole captures the drama, passion, and boundless adventure of the high seas--as one fiery lass finds herself caught in a tide of torrid romance. Raised as a free spirit aboard her American sea captain father...

  • Dancing with a Rogue

    Patricia Potter

    Gabriel Manning has sworn to avenge his father's death if it's the last thing he does. He holds three scoundrels responsible -- and has hatched an ingeniously devious scheme that will surely destroy them. Armed with a newly acquired title, he sets sa...

  • Fool for Love

    Eloisa James

    THE WOMAN Lady Henrietta Maclellan longs for the romantic swirl of a London season. But as a rusticating country maiden, she has always kept her sensuous nature firmly under wraps -- until she meets Simon Darby. Simon makes her want to whisper promi...

  • Fountain of Dreams

    Josie Litton

    Lovely, loyal, and strong-willed as her parents before her, Amelia Darcourt is nonetheless entirely unprepared for her reaction to her family's compelling American visitor. The handsome young man is a match not only for her wits but for her heart...

  • Fountain of Secrets

    Josie Litton

    A woman of mystery. A man of valor. And a world on the edge of destruction... Strong-willed, beautiful Persephone chooses to live alone on the island of Deimatos, in the legendary kingdom of Akora. There she bears a secret so burdensome, she risks...

  • A Fragile Design

    Tracie Peterson; Judith Miller

    Fleeing the life of the Shakers, Arabella Newberry finds work in the industrial mills of Lowell, Massachusetts. But the taste of freedom she experiences only increases her longing for true equality for all the mill girls. When her ideas put her at od...

  • Hunter's Moon

    Bobbi Smith

    Half-Moon Ranch Somewhere in the lush grasslands of the Texas hill country was a place where the sun had once shone on love and prosperity, while the night hid murder and mistrust. There, three brothers and a sister fought to hold their family toget...

  • A Lady of Consequence

    Mary Nichols

    An Unwilling Mistress Duncan, Lord Risley, is challenged by a bet to try his luck with actress Madeleine Charron -- when he should be looking for a suitable wife. He takes her to dinner, and discovers strong feelings for this beautiful woman who is ...

  • Maiden of the Winds

    Janeen O'Kerry

    The man who comes to Keavy's wedding bed is not her husband. The Irish lass married to be free as the wind, so she chose a groom in a faraway "dun" with no interest in either her or her bed...only to learn that in his keep, the law proclaims the king...

  • A Man to Call My Own

    Johanna Lindsey

    The proper New England miss learned all about passion from a Texas cowboy. After the sudden death of their father, Marian and Amanda Laton must leave their New England home and travel to their aunt's Texas ranch. It is a harrowing journey, but pla...

  • Midnight Silk

    Laurie Grant

    During their childhood, one girl devotedly followed Bowie Beckett everywhere; in turn, he teased the plantation owner's daughter unmercifully and loved her from afar. But now she is a beautiful woman and his boyhood feelings are a man's passi...

  • Never Trust a Lady

    Suzanne Robinson

    The bestselling author of The Legend takes readers back to the days of the Civil War, when passions ran high and even a proper British lady could not resist the pull of history--or the rugged charms of a Union spy. A WOMAN OF COURAGE Visiting f...

  • Of Men and Angels

    Victoria Bylin

    JAKE MALONE HAD NOTHING MUCH TO BELIEVE IN -- UNTIL HE HEARD AN ANGEL SINGING IN THE DESERT.... Under the blazing Colorado sun a miracle happened. Soulless Jake Malone began to care about Alexandra Merritt, an indomitable, heaven-sent beauty, and...

  • Once a Scoundrel

    Candice Hern

    A Passionate Gamble It was bad enough when Anthony Morehouse thought he had won a piece of furniture in a card game, but when he learned that The Ladies' Fashionable Cabinet was actually a women's magazine, he couldn't wait to get rid ...

  • One Night of Scandal

    Teresa Medeiros

    Proper decorum has never come easily to Carlotta Anne Fairleigh -- not even tonight, when the lovely, impetuous miss is finally making her debut. As she waits to make her entrance, she can't help wondering about the darkened house next door, the supp...

  • The Pirate's Daughter

    Helen Dickson

    When Captain Stuart Marston meets, woos and then marries Cassandra Everson in Barbados, he is unaware of her real identity. And then the truth is revealed -- she is none other than the daughter of his enemy, a notorious pirate who has terrorized the ...

  • The Prince of Pleasure

    Nicole Jordan

    He is England's most notorious rake. Known as Dare to his friends, the wicked, outrageously charming Marquess of Wolverton is a consummate pleasure-seeker. But the seductive lifestyle is just his way of burying painful memories of the dazzling ac...

  • Red Hills Stranger

    Muncy Chapman

    As a young woman, she entered an arranged marriage, but her husband died before their only child was born. Now that baby boy is ten years old, and Amy focuses all her energy on raising Alex and making a living for them as a seamstress. That is unt...

  • Renegade Moon

    Elaine Barbieri

    Somewhere in the lush grasslands of Texas hill country was a place where the sun had once shone on love and prosperity, while the night hid murder and mistrust. There, three brothers and a sister fought to hold their family together, struggled to kee...

  • Soaring Eagle's Embrace

    Karen Kay

    WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE Kali Wallace is spellbound by the breathtaking land that spreads out before her -- and by a proud Blackfeet brave who calls it home. Though she never plans to marry, dedicating her life instead to her career as a photographer...

  • A Stolen Time

    Shari Boullion

    If Janet hadn't been late, the robbery would've been fine. Her pa wouldn't have died, she wouldn't have promised to go legit, and she wouldn't have found herself in this dusty little town pretending to be an oh-so-proper schoolmarm. Ha! Fooling the s...

  • Taming the Heiress

    Susan King

    Along the coast of Scotland, they tell the tale of a magical creature from the sea who can take the form of an irresistible man--and seduce a mortal woman. The legend, born in ancient times, still persists in the Victorian Age... Beautiful Meg Mac...

  • Texas Gold

    Carolyn Davidson

    Faith Hudson's marriage was a disaster. Her husband was better off in Boston without her. It had been clear to her then, and it was even clearer now that she'd traveled west and made her home on a Texas ranch. She had no plans of ever returning. B...

  • To Love a Scottish Lord

    Karen Ranney

    A LORD NOT MEANT TO MARRY Hamish MacRae, a changed man, returned to his beloved Scotland intending to turn his back on the world. The proud, brooding lord wants nothing more than to be left alone, but an unwanted visitor to his lonely castle has def...

  • White Shadows

    Susan Edwards

    A DARK BEGINNING For years after his family was massacred, the half-breed Night Shadow harbored black dreams of vengeance -- and the hope of someday finding his kidnapped younger sister. Now was the chance. His enemy had shown himself and was to be ...

  • The Wife Test

    Betina Krahn

    Left on the doorstep of the Convent of the Brides of Virtue when she was just a baby, Chloe of Guibray hasn't been able to dig up anything about her parentage except that her family hails from England. Knowing she must uncover the truth it she ever h...

  • Darkfall

    Stephen Laws

    As a brutal storm unleashes its fury on the city, detective Jack Cardiff and his squad investigate the mysterious disappearance of employees from a high-rise building where only a grisly clue is left, plunging them into a nightmarish world of unimagi...

  • Demon Witch

    Geoffrey Huntington

    Devon March matches wits and wizardry against a five-hundred-year-old evil in Demon Witch, the spine-tingling sequel to Sorcerers of the Nightwing. Long before the days of Madman Jackson Muir, a witch named Isobel the Apostate waged war upon her f...

  • Fat White Vampire Blues

    Andrew Fox

    He’s undead, overweight, and can’t get a date Vampire, nosferatu, creature of the night -- whatever you call him -- Jules Duchon has lived (so to speak) in New Orleans far longer than there have been drunk coeds on Bourbon Street. Weighing in...

  • Harry Keogh

    Brian Lumley

    From the fertile mind of Brian Lumley: Weird heroes and weirder worlds!Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes!Vampires. Elder Gods. Nightmares. Mysterious elixirs. Wines capable of transporting the drinker-literally-to another world. Fossils ...

  • The King's Evil

    Will Heinrich

    In a modern morality tale about the inextricably linked natures of good and evil, philosophically minded Joseph Malderoyce leaves his law firm to live in solitude in a northern wood, where he takes in an abused orphan whose sadistic nature forces Jos...

  • Lullaby

    Chuck Palahniuk

    Ever heard of a culling song? It's a lullaby sung in Africa to give a painless death to the old or infirm. The lyrics of a culling song kill, whether spoken or even just thought. You can find one on page 27 of Poems and Rhymes from Around the Worl...

  • Merilynn

    Tamara Thorne

    At exclusive, isolated Greenbriar University, within the elite Gamma Eta Pi sorority, is a secret society known as the Fata Morgana. Its members are the most powerful women on campus--and the deadliest. For this is a sisterhood of evil, a centuries-o...

  • Tainted Blood

    Mary Ann Mitchell

    The infamous Marquis de Sade has lived through the centuries, spreading his evil and perversion over two continents. This master vampire cares little for his human playthings, seeking them out only for his amusement . . . and nourishment. Once his da...

  • Days of the Dead

    Barbara Hambly

    Mexico City in 1835 is a lawless place, teeming with bandits and beggars. Here Benjamin January and his new bride Rose Vitrac pray they'll find Hannibal Sefton alive--and not already at the end of a hangman's rope. Sefton stands accused of poisoning ...