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New Books List: 556 titles

  • The Dawn Star

    Catherine Asaro

    High in the Misted Cliffs liesa a mage unlike any other. With no teacher to guide her, no mentor to discourage her from the impossible, Mel Dawnfield pushed her magic to its limits -- and surpassed them. Only to find that her powers aren't enough ...

  • Cutting Blades

    Victoria Blake

    Increasingly paranoid over her feeling that she is being watched wherever she goes, private detective Sam Falconer undertakes an investigation into the disappearance of a young rower from Oxford University, uncovering a web of professional jealousy, ...

  • Spin Control

    Chris Moriarty

    Call Arkady a clone with a conscience. Or call him a traitor. A member of the space-faring Syndicates, Arkady has defected to Israel with a hot commodity: a genetic weapon powerful enough to wipe out humanity. But Israel's not buying it. They're sell...

  • Blood and Iron

    Elizabeth Bear

    For centuries, the human Mages of the Prometheus Club and the otherworldly creatures of Faerie have battled for control of Earth's destiny, with neither side capable of achieving victory over the other. Their impasse has come to an end.... She ...

  • If Only You Knew

    Gwyneth Bolton

    As handsome as he is demanding, Carlton Harrington III makes his new employee, Latonya Stevens, work long, hard hours to hide his growing attraction for her. But after late nights at the office lead to searing seduction and a whirlwind marriage, the ...

  • Deceived

    Nicola Cornick

    "Rumor has it a certain notorious Princess has not a feather to fly and is looking for a gentleman to ease her financial worries. Perhaps the Earl of S. is the man she seeks...." --The Gentleman's Mercury, 1816 Princess Isabella never...

  • The Vision

    Heather Graham

    The gift of sight comes at a dangerous price When Deep Down Salvage begins the hunt for the Josephine Marie, it seems like any other dive...until Genevieve Wallace sees the vision of a dead woman in the water, her vacant eyes boring into Geneviev...

  • Wicked Under the Covers

    Barbara Pierce

    A WICKED BARGAIN... Handsome, ambitious, and newly wealthy, Maccus Brawley has severed ties with his dangerous past and is close to securing his place in polite society. All he requires is some guidance in fashionable manners--and who better to inst...

  • Slocum and the Horse Killers

    Jake Logan

    Slocum plans on putting someone to pasture...Secrets run deep in Apache Wells, Arizona, where someone is preying on the premium ponies -- picking up horses and leaving them out to dry…in pieces. When John Slocum gets lassoed in to put a stop to it,...

  • Dangerous Tides

    Christine Feehan

    Now she introduces Libby Drake, of the magical Drake sisters--each mysterious, gifted, and enchanted by prophecies of love... Dr. Libby Drake is sensible and practical. To her more adventurous sisters, she's always been the "good girl." Certainly ...

  • Dark Gold

    David Angsten

    Jack Duran embarks on a mission to Mexico in search of his incommunicado brother, Danwith his college buddies Rock and Duff in tow. Following a trail of shady dealings, they soon discover that Dan was searching for an ancient shipwreck laden with gol...

  • The Traitor

    Stephen Coonts

    When he is assigned to Paris, CIA officer Tommy Carmellini joins his old boss Jake Grafton on a bold mission: To locate a French intelligence agent who has secret investments in the Bank of Palestine. Together they work to unravel a tangle of espiona...

  • Outsider

    Diana Palmer

    Meet Colby Lane, the Long, Tall Texan Diana Palmer's fans have been clamoring for -- a man who is larger than life, and twice as exciting. The New York Times bestselling author delivers to readers a thrilling story set against the rugged, ever-changi...

  • Claire Fontaine Crime Fighter

    Tracey Enright

    A Novel of Life and Death...and Shoes Claire Fontaine is sassy, sexy, sophisticated, and rich. Henry Bennett is fat, sloppy, slow, and a bad dresser. He's a private eye, and as far as he's concerned, she's his assistant. As far as she's concerned...

  • Cover of Night

    Linda Howard

    For breathless action, gripping suspense, and intense romance, bestselling author Linda Howard never misses a beat -- and her thrilling new novel will have your heart racing. In the charming rural town of Trail Stop, Idaho, accessible to the ou...

  • The Crimes of Jordan Wise

    Bill Pronzini

    Jordan Wise is a mild-mannered accountant with a large San Francisco
    engineering firm in the late 1970s. By his own admission, the first
    thirty-four years of his life were dull, empty. But that all changes
    when he meets and falls in lo...

  • Sandcastles

    Luanne Rice

    Painter Honor Sullivan has made a life for herself and her three daughters - Regis, Agnes, and Cecilia - at Star of the Sea Academy on the magical Connecticut shore. Here she teaches art at the convent school's beautiful seaside campus, over which Ho...

  • Every Secret Thing

    Lila Shaara

    I only got one birthday present, and as it turned out, it was a gift of such importance, opening it should have sent psychic shivers through me. But I merely thought it a curiosity, vaguely creepy but nothing threatening. Not a portent. Gina Palet...

  • The Worthy

    Will Clarke

    Conrad had it pretty good in life -- a Porsche, pretty girls, and a trust fund full of oil money. But now, thanks to a brutal hazing incident at Louisiana State University's Gamma Chi fraternity, Conrad is dead -- a nineteen-year-old spirit suddenly ...

  • Ten Second Staircase

    Christopher Fowler

    It's a crime tailor-made for the Peculiar Crimes Unit: a controversial artist is murdered and displayed as part of her own outrageous installation. No suspects, no motive, no evidence--it's business as usual for Bryant and May! But this time they ...

  • The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood

    Susan Wittig Albert

    Beatrix Potter's stories have enchanted readers for a century. And now, fans young and old can enjoy Susan Wittig Albert's Cottage Tales mysteries, starring Miss Potter herself... All is not well in Holly How when Miss Beatrix Potter returns from ...

  • Lilah

    Marek Halter

    Living in exile, Lilah is in love with Antinoes, a Persian warrior. They have known each other since they were children, and Antinoes dearly wants to make Lilah his wife. Yet Lilah does not feel she can marry without the blessing of her brother, Ezra...

  • The Candle of Distant Earth

    Alan Dean Foster

    Location is everything. In Chicago, Marcus Walker was a hotshot commodities broker. In the cargo hold of the alien Vilenjji spaceship, he and a laconic dog named George, who has been speech-enhanced to increase his value, are just two more primitive ...

  • Salaam, Paris

    Kavita Daswani

    Tanaya Shah longs for the wonderful world of Paris, the world that she fell in love with while watching Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina -- so when a proposal comes along for an arranged marriage with a man who is living in Paris, Tanaya seizes the chance. ...

  • Class Mothers

    Katherine Stewart

    en her daughter wins a coveted scholarship to the prestigious Metropolitan preschool, Laura thinks she's struck the educational jackpot. Metropolitan is harder to get into than Harvard! She soon finds herself rubbing elbows with some of New York's to...

  • Cellophane

    Marie Arana

    Don Victor Sobrevilla, a lovable, eccentric engineer, always dreamed of founding a paper factory in the heart of the Peruvian rain forest, and at the opening of this miraculous novel his dream has come true--until he discovers the recipe for cellopha...

  • Niels Lyhne

    Jens Peter Jacobsen

    Niels Lyhne is an aspiring poet, torn between romanticism and realism, faith and reason. Through his relationships with six women -- including his young widowed aunt, a seductive free spirit, and his passionate cousin who marries his friend -- his se...

  • Claws

    Dan Greenburg

    When Cody is 14, he runs away from home, leaving behind his abusive mother, and flees across the country. He doesn't stop until he hits Texas and the Sam Houston Tiger Ranch. Under the guidance of Sunny, the ranch's owner, he cares for the animals in...

  • The Time Travelers // Gideon the Cutpurse

    Linda Buckley-Archer

    1763 Gideon Seymour, thief and gentleman, hides from the villainous Tar Man. Suddenly the sky peels away like fabric and from the gaping hole fall two curious-looking children. Peter Schock and Kate Dyer have fallen straight from the twenty-first ...

  • Code Noir

    Marianne de Pierres

    After the Tert war, bodyguard Parrish Plessis must pay off a blood debt to the Cabal Coomera tribe by entering a realm of tekno-darkness to find their missing shamans and to assassinate an ex-lover who had infected her with a high-tech parasite. Orig...

  • Under the Northern Lights

    Tracie Peterson

    Helaina Beecham lived in a world of refinement, luxury, and sophistication until a devastating loss changed her life forever. Now she seeks justice with the Pinkertons. Though it is her search for fugitive Chase Kincaid that brings Helaina to the Al...

  • Death on the Diagonal

    Nero Blanc

    A REAL BARN BURNER When crossword editor Belle Graham arrives at the Evening Crier, the latest news is a fire -- possibly arson -- at the Collins family stables. The Collinses made their fortune in bootleg whiskey before becoming a multimillion-d...

  • Six Reasons to Stay a Virgin

    Louise Harwood

    Twenty-four-year-old London virgin Emily begins to wonder if she is crazy to wait for Mr. Right, especially with all of her friends falling in and out of lust on a daily basis, a decision that is further complicated when her one-time teenage boyfrien...

  • A Seahorse in the Thames

    Susan Meissner

    In this new novel by critically acclaimed author Susan Meissner, readers will again applaud the storytelling efforts that last year resulted in the author’s previous book, A Window to the World, being named by Booklist Magazine as one of the top...

  • With You And Without You

    Deborah J. Wolf

    Written with the poignancy of heartbreak and the indomitable promise of hope, Deborah J. Wolf's unforgettable debut novel delves into the fragile, ever-changing relationships between mothers and daughters in the worst of times--and in the best... A...

  • Midnight Plane to Georgia

    E.C. Sheedy
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    When it comes to pleasure, these bad boys really are hotter than Georgia asphalt . . . It's what Tracy does best, people-please and generally overwork the word 'yes'. But in love and life it's gotten her nowhere. Tracy's had enough--no more 'yes....

  • Fall From Grace

    Jill Shalvis
    in

    When it comes to pleasure, these bad boys really are hotter than Georgia asphalt . . . Librarian Janie Mills has never hit a man before, but when the lights go out and the town's leading citizen--now missing for two days--points a gun at her, she...

  • Flirting With Forty

    Jane Porter

    He got the second home and the Porsche. She got the kids and a broken heart. Now Jackie Laurens, post-divorce and heading toward the big four-oh, is on vacation in sunny Hawaii and facing her upcoming birthday-alone. But not for long. She's soon fall...

  • Rehoboth Road

    Anita Ballard-Jones

    Relocating to the small Georgia community of Rehoboth, Rev. Oliver becomes obsessed with the senior pastor's daughter, Elizabeth, which leads to tragic results and a guilty secret for both Rev. Oliver and Elizabeth....

  • The Bet

    Lucinda Betts
    in

    Three sinfully seductive short stories, filled with exciting passion and decadent desire, feature Lucinda Bett's "The Bet," in which Zoe loses a high-stakes wager, which forces her to become a co-worker's sex slave for twenty-four hours. Original....

  • Trippin'

    Michelle Buckley

    A few fabulous trips.  Eight crazy people.  Tons of mad drama.
     
    “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.”  For the eight members of the Destination: Anticipation Travel Club (DAT Club) -- this popular motto doesn’t exactly ring tr...

  • Ex, Why, And Me

    Susanna Carr

    Who knew that horseradish was an aphrodisiac? Not Michelle Nelson. She signed up again to help promote her hometown's annual Horseradish Festival out of the goodness of her heart. No one said anything about a major publicity stunt, a romantic local...

  • Back in the Game

    Holly Chamberlin

    First comes love. Then comes marriage. Followed by boredom, infidelity, nasty surprises, and divorce. In this wickedly funny, tender and true novel, bestselling author Holly Chamberlin introduces four Boston divorcees looking for love, sex, fun--an...

  • Hit Hard

    Amy J. Fetzer

    IT ONLY TAKES ONE MATCH... Vivi Fiori wondered how the day could have gotten so bad so fast. One minute, she's on a train moving through the Thai countryside, a precious archeological artifact in her hands; the next, she's being chased through the j...

  • 21 Steps To Happiness

    F.G. Gerson

    Lynn Blanchett's Steps to Happiness: Step 1: Find a job. (Done! I'm doing PR for hotshot young designer Muriel B. -- which I'm totally unqualified for.) Step 2: Find a man. (Check! There's a rich, gorgeous man chasing me...so what if I find him...

  • Bring It On

    Laura Anne Gilman

    Nobody said juggling a career and a relationship would be easy... Wren Valere used to have a simple life. Her partner Sergei would negotiate the terms of the Retrieval -- all right, the theft -- and she would use her magical Talent to carry it ou...

  • Castles in the Sand

    Sally D. John

    In Castles in the Sand, the follow up to the first book in The Beach House series, author Sally John explores themes of forgiveness and redemption.When Susan and Drake Starr discover that their 20-year-old daughter Kenzie is pregnant, their lives are...

  • Fearless

    Helen Kirkman

    The face of the seductress and the heart of a warrior Forced to watch while Vikings laid waste her lands in East Anglia, Princess Judith seeks shelter in the only kingdom left unconquered -- the court of King Alfred of Wessex. But while men may fi...

  • The Other Brother

    Brandon Massey

    The award-winning author of Dark Corner, Thunderland, and Within the Shadows, Brandon Massey delivers a chilling supernatural thriller of the ties that bind--and dark secrets written in the blood. . . Good fortune has smiled upon Gabriel Reid sin...

  • Love Potion #9

    JoAnn Ross
    in

    When it comes to pleasure, these bad boys really are hotter than Georgia asphalt . . . It's bad enough that Hollywood hotshot Sloan Hawthorne's knowledge of Roxi Dupree's witchcraft comes from comic books and fairy tales. What's worse is that she...

  • Bound

    Sasha White

    Bound by fantasy.

    Everyone thinks small town Katie Long is the good girl looking for tender romance. All she needs is to find the right man. Katie couldn't agree more.

    She too has always fantasized about the "right man." But what she's l...

  • Leave a Candle Burning

    Lori Wick

    When the young, handsome Dannan MacKay comes to Tucker Mills to take over the practice of his uncle, Doc MacKay, he feels welcomed by the town, the church family, and his patients. Life seems complete. It is only when Dannan has a chance encounter...

  • View Park

    Angela Winters

    Los Angeles-based cosmetics tycoon Steven Chase has come a long way from his humble beginnings. Chase Beauty is a Fortune 500 company, and Steven's family, including socialite wife, Janet, and four grown children, live a life of privilege in exclusiv...

  • A Taste of Sin

    Fiona Zedde

    Give Me More Desiree Nichols is no stranger to heartbreak, but when her hot, young boyfriend abandons her after two years of being together, Dez's foundations begin to crumble. To make matters worse, a family crisis is calling her home to face the p...

  • Dirty Money

    Ashley & JaQuavis

    Anari is the epitome of a good-girl-turned-bad after her world is brutally destroyed. Consumed with her desire for revenge, she and her best friend Monica enter a life of drugs, fast money and betrayal - adopting the lifestyle that pushed them into t...

  • The Mirror Prince

    Violette Malan

    MAX RAVENHILL THINKS HE'S HUMAN... but he's wrong. He's been given false memories by his Wardens, who don't want him to realize that he's been alive for over one thousand years. Max and his Wardens are Riders--the Faerie folk--and back in their L...

  • The Widow of Slane

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    The novella has always held a hallowed place in literature, and nowhere is that more true than in the mystery field. Its length often allows a more in-depth examination of the fictional characters and crimes portrayed, while maintaining a wonderful s...

  • Guide to the Okal-Rel Universe

    Lynda Williams

  • Under the Northern Lights

    Tracie Peterson

    Helaina Beecham lived in a world of refinement, luxury, and sophistication until a devastating loss changed her life forever. Now she seeks justice with the Pinkertons. Though it is her search for fugitive Chase Kincaid that brings Helaina to the Al...

  • Deuces Wild

    Clyde W. Ford

    John Shannon's son J. J. is a huge fan of hip-hop artist Yousef al-Salaam, formerly Deuce F., who recently converted to Sufism, a mystical order of Islam. The popular musician also happens to be on a terrorist watch list. When al-Salaam is shot outsi...

  • Scoop

    Kit Frazier

    Banished to the "death page" at the Austin Sentinel after sleeping with her boss, Cauley Mackinnon is eager to shed her shameful title as the obituary Babe and put her new journalism degree to good use. When her childhood friend Scooter Barnes, exoti...

  • The Man She Thought She Knew // Liar

    Shari Shattuck

    He's her hottest accessory... She may be super-rich and drop-dead gorgeous, but Los Angeles socialite Callaway Wilde can be as insecure as any girl about her man's love. Saying yes to a marriage proposal from sexy detective Evan Paley was a le...

  • A Covent Garden Mystery

    Ashley Gardner

    Cashiered cavalry officer Captain Gabriel Lacey of the 35th Light Dragoons lost much on the battlefield during the Peninsular Campaign. But be still retains his innate sense of right and wrong when faced with injustice... Young women are disappear...

  • Desert Claw

    Damien Lewis

    Iraq: the present day. A country torn apart by war and anarchy. Thieves roam the streets. People are being killed in broad daylight. Security is non-existent. And now, terrorists have seized a Van Gogh painting worth £25 million from one of Saddam's...

  • To Catch a Husband

    Laura Marie Altom

    Charity's Faith and Love U.S. Marshal Charity Caldwell has been in love with Adam Logue for what seems like forever, but the fellow marshal sees her as nothing more than a friend. Scarred by the shooting of his first love, Adam doesn't think he's ...

  • Close Enough to Kill

    Beverly Barton

    CLOSE ENOUGH TO TOUCH He's their secret admirer, wooing them with phone calls, love letters, and special gifts. From a distance, he admires them. Desires them. Despises them. And when he gets close enough, he kills them all. CLOSE ENOUGH TO KISS Ad...

  • My Favorite Marquess

    Alexandra Bassett

    Ma'am, Let me assure you that I will not be manipulated by any feminine wiles into offering you another penny for such a dilapidated piece of property.--Sebastian Cavanaugh After conventional means fail, Sebastian, Marquess of St. Just, takes ...

  • Twisted

    Jay Bonansinga

    FBI profiler Ulysses Grove's escape to a peaceful rural retreat is shattered by a new case that thrusts him back into the harrowing world of serial killers--and a fight against evil that will take him to the edge of sanity and into the very eye of mo...

  • Cowboy M.D.

    Pamela Britton

    Alison Forester has come to this idyllic California dude ranch to recruit Dr. Nicholas Sheppard for the burn unit at her hospital. Thanks to doctors like him, she survived the fiery crash that killed her parents. He's not going to waste his time and ...

  • Royal Betrayal

    Nina Bruhns

    ONLY HIS KISS WOULD WAKE THIS SLEEPING BEAUTY... She was the king's private physician. Until the explosion tore through the royal palace, leaving Zara Smith with disturbing visions and no memory. A risky place to be in a sovereignty rife with intr...

  • Wise Moves

    Mary Burton

    After witnessing her gangster brother's treachery, Kristen Rodale lived in fear that he'd find her. The government failed to protect her before the trial against him, so her only chance at survival lay in running as fast as she could...and forgetting...

  • Trouble

    Ann Christopher

    Some Hurts You Always Remember... Defense attorney Mike Baldwin has never lost a trial. He knows he can trust his razor-sharp instincts, and defendants who are straight up with him walk free. But those instincts always seem to fail him in his person...

  • The Prodigal's Return

    Anna DeStefano

    Does going home mean living with the past -- or living down the past? The death of teenager Bobby Compton shocked the community of Rivermist, Georgia. It also destroyed the lives of Neal Cain and Jennifer Gardner. Neal was sent to prison, and Je...

  • A Family Resemblance

    Margot Early

    Sometimes a family resemblance is hard to see...especially if you're not looking for one. And Sabine Knoll isn't. She's the widow of Victor Knoll and the mother of his three children. She loved him -- deeply -- and even though he's been gone four ...

  • Her Secret Life

    Gwynne Forster

    By day, she's Jacqueline Ann Parkton, Ph.D. But come nightfall, she lets her hair down.... The patrons of the swanky gentleman's club Allegory, Inc. know her as Jackie Parks, the chestnut-brown beauty with legs up to there, who serves them drinks ...

  • The Cradle Files

    Delores Fossen

    DESPERATE FOR ANSWERS Months after Lexie Rayburn faked her own disappearance, someone injected her with a drug that robbed her of her memories, and kidnapped her newborn baby. Now, the only hope for locating her daughter rested on the too-broad sh...

  • A Time To Forgive

    Darlene Gardner

    When Connor Smith has to unexpectedly care for his nine-year-old niece, he isn't prepared. In fact, he's overwhelmed. Blending their lives poses one problem after another until Jaye's violin teacher throws them a lifeline. Abby Reed not only knows...

  • Falling For You

    Jane Graves
    in

    Stuntman Kirk McKenzie is back in town. It's Dr. Amanda Stevens's second chance to convince the daredevil that no rush could be better than the thrill he'd get if he fell for her instead....

  • Mood Swing

    Jane Graves

    Meet "Nice Girl" Susan Roth: A hardworking E.R. nurse and mother, she's starting to resent putting other people's needs above her own.... Tonya Rutherford: A savvy businesswoman, this Texas gal knows a lot about cheating husbands...but trust? A...

  • Sparkle

    Jennifer Greene

    They couldn't be any more different Poppy Thompson: The self-proclaimed homeliest woman in town, she deals with animals for a living rather than people. Bren Price: The ever-proper minister's wife, she does everything her husband tells her, but...

  • A Texan's Honor

    Leigh Greenwood

    The bawling of the longhorns, the lonesome night watch beneath a vast, starry sky -- they got into a man's blood until he knew there was nothing better than the life of a cowboy...except the love of a good woman. Bret Nolan had never gotten us...

  • Another Sad Love Song

    La Jill Hunt

    JaKoby Jackson, finally at the top of his game with a Master's Degree, a job at a Fortune 500 company, a good woman, and a best friend in the NFL, finds his world crashing down around him when the unexpected happens. Original....

  • Solid Soul

    Brenda Jackson

    Love struck In the real world there was no way flower shop owner Kylie Hagan would ever meet up with millionaire Chance Steele. But the world of single parents and teenage hormones brought them together the first time -- and a simmering passion th...

  • Butterfly Summer

    Arlene James

    The Gossip Guru has some shocking news: devout Wallace Hamilton, head of rival newspaper the Davis Landing Dispatch, is not Jeremy Hamilton's father! Word is, his wife was already pregnant when they wed and now that Jeremy has learned the truth, he's...

  • A Town Called Fury

    William W. Johnstone; J.A. Johnstone

    From legendary William W. Johnstone comes an exciting new saga of the American frontier town called Fury, built smack dab in the middle of the untamed Arizona Territory...and the only man who can give Fury a fighting chance... The last thing Jason ...

  • Covert Makeover

    Mallory Kane

    LITTLE WHITE LIES... Known as much for her undercover skills as for the black stockings even the Miami heat couldn't get her to shed, Sophie Brooks was a mystery her Weddings Your Way coworkers couldn't quite gauge. So when Sean Majors, head of se...

  • The One-Week Wife

    Patricia Kay

    SEVEN DAYS A BRIDE Not so long ago, she'd been planning his wedding to another woman. Now Felicity Farnsworth was sharing his honeymoon suite. It had been a shock when dashing Reid Kelly, the former fiance of one of her best friends, had invited h...

  • The Quest

    Susan Kearney

    A warrior on a mission Kirek of Rystan's objective is to destroy the Federation's deadliest enemy, but he needs help. When assistance comes in the form of a sexy and irresistible space pilot , he takes on a second goal--to win her heart. A wom...

  • Flamingo Place

    Marcia King-Gamble

    Play with the bad boys… Take away the entourage, the bad attitude and the bling, and Tre Monroe was everything Jen St. George had ever wanted in a man -- he was handsome, rich and he knew the kind of loving she needed. But her hip-hop, playboy n...

  • The Heir's Chosen Bride

    Marion Lennox

    As a widow and single mom, Susan is wary about meeting the man who has just inherited the rambling castle in Australia where she and her small daughter live. Surely New York financier Hamish Douglas will want to sell up? Hamish had planned to turn...

  • The Red Heart of Jade

    Marjorie M. Liu

    The grisly murders are just the beginning. Dean Campbell, ex-cop and clairvoyant, is sent to investigate. He is with the Dirk & Steele Detective Agency, that global association of more-than-human men and women. Shapeshifters, psychics and other paran...

  • Chemistry

    Kim Louise

    By day Kyra Douglas is a computer whiz at Com-Tel America. At night, however, she moonlights as an aspiring poet whose lyrical rhymes are generating a lot of attention. Unfortunately, Race Jennings, Com-Tel's new CFO and an aspiring poet himself, doe...

  • Irresistible

    Susan Mallery

    It wasn't just her homemade brownies that made Walker find Elissa irresistible... When ex-Marine Walker Buchanan stops to help Elissa Towers change a tire, he tells himself it's just the neighborly thing to do. And when Elissa finds herself baking hi...

  • What, No Roses?

    Marianne Mancusi

    AND ALL THAT JAZZ Unless Dora Duncan can stop it, it's going to be another St. Valentine's Day Massacre. A year ago, her (now ex) boyfriend Nick stood her up at the worst possible moment. That was when she gave up important TV reporting for stories ...

  • Blaze of Glory

    Catherine Mann

    A brand-new, heart-pounding tale featuring Catherine Mann's heroic Special Ops unit. Air Force captain Bobby "Postal" Ruznick wouldn't consider working a job that didn't occasionally scare him to death. But nothing gets under his skin like sexy pr...

  • Scent of Roses

    Kat Martin

    Elizabeth doesn't believe in ghosts. But this time she has no choice. Family counselor Elizabeth Conner isn't sure what to think when Maria Santiago comes to her for help. Pregnant and terrified, Maria claims to be visited each night by the ghost ...

  • Shelter

    L.H. Maynard; M.P.N. Sims

    When she buys a dilapidated old house, determined to restore it to its original beauty, Laura Craig unwittingly unleashes an ancient evil, bent on revenge and hungry for death, that has been trapped beneath the cellar for years. Original....

  • The Law of the Barbary Coast

    Tim McGuire

    Arriving in San Francisco to locate a certain flame-haired songstress, Clay Cole, a.k.a. the Rainmaker, finds trouble instead when he is kidnapped by some powerful men who are in need of a gunslinger to settle a mining dispute. Original....

  • The Tycoon's Proposal

    Leigh Michaels

    With the holiday season fast approaching, Lissa Morgan is in dire straits -- she's stuck without a job, and the roof over her head is definitely temporary! So when a two-week live-in job is offered to her, Lissa snaps it up. What she doesn't ...

  • Dead Reckoning

    Sandra K. Moore

    NOTES FROM THE CAPTAIN'S LOG My destination: An island not marked on any map. My mission: To rescue my sister from her drug lord husband, come hell or high water. But first, I need to figure out which of the undercover DEA agents aboard my s...

  • Split

    Tara Moss

    Mak is beautiful, street-smart and single, a model paying her way through a degree in forensic psychology. She's come to Vancouver to finish her studies. But instead she walks straight into a city gripped by fear of a killer, and a campus where the s...

  • The Farm

    Scott Nicholson

    Katy Logan was looking for a fresh start when she uprooted herself and her daughter Jett from the stresses of city life to settle in the Blue Ridge Mountain town of Solom. With a new marriage and a rural lifestyle to embrace, Katy is determined to ma...

  • The Key Party

    Lisa Nicole

    What would you do if someone gave you the key to your most desired fantasy? Would you take it? Or would you say "no" to a night filled with mystery, desire, and intrigue? When Nikki Reynolds invites six of her closest friends to dinner, each couple w...

  • Hawk's Pledge

    Constance O'Banyon

    THEIRS WAS A TALE OF TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH Four children abandoned in an orphanage. Two missing parents. One man whose hatred had divided a family, whose duplicity ended in murder, inextricably weaving all their lives together in a web of lies that on...

  • Desert Justice

    Valerie Parv

    Businesswoman Simone Hayes traveled to the exotic land of Nazaar to search for family. But instead of having the idyllic vacation she'd hoped for, she witnessed a murder that had far-reaching political implications. To escape with her life, Simon...

  • Slaughter House

    Don Pendleton

    ASIAN STORM Mack Bolan goes undercover as the point man for a U.N. commando force in Malaysia. The mission is to halt the sale of components for black-market nukes to insurgents, but a double cross leads to a bloodbath with the good guys winning. ...

  • Mad About Max

    Lisa Plumley

    Sushi for pooches. Belly dancing. Men in their underwear. It's all in a day's work for Lucy Logan... ...and so is getting unemployed folks spruced up with designer duds at the charity shop Successfully Dressed. Anyone who knows Lucy knows her hear...

  • Bittersweet

    Candice Poarch

    Will A Twist Of Fate Lead To A New Beginning... Desiree Prescott doesn't believe in fairy-tale love anymore, not since her dreamboat ran off to Vegas years ago with another woman. She's content with her new fiance, and she's going to make it work. B...

  • The Game Of Love

    Doreen Rainey

    Quentin Williams is at the top of his game. As the quarterback for the NFL's Los Angeles Bulldogs, he's one of the most sought-after bachelors around town. But when his younger sister runs afoul of the law, Quentin finally finds himself facing a woma...

  • The Reluctant Cinderella

    Christine Rimmer

    THE "OTHER WOMAN"? Plain Jane Megan Schumacher was the most dependable person on Danbury Way, the sleek suburban cul-de-sac where she lived over her sister's garage. Certainly not the kind of girl who would rock anyone's boat -- until she fell for...

  • The Venus Fix

    M.J. Rose

    As one of New York's top sex therapists, Dr. Morgan Snow sees everything from the abused to the depraved. From high-profile clients with twisted obsessions to courageous survivors, the Butterfield Institute is the sanctuary to heal battered souls. ...

  • Holy Mother

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO... Especially if you're Kali, an ancient Hindu goddess with unfinished business and a desire to rule the world through the immutable powers of her old boyfriend, Shiva the Destroyer. She's found the perfect vassal, a woma...

  • Duplicate Daughter

    Alice Sharpe

    MISSION: ALASKA Katie Fields came to Alaska demanding answers. What she found was a much-too-appealing single father determined to protect his little girl -- and their hermit lifestyle -- from outsiders. Nick Pierce may have been reluctant to help...

  • Tell Me No Lies

    Kathryn Shay

    What her husband doesn't know...could destroy them all Dan Logan thinks he's got it all: a great job as a D.A., the ideal marriage and two wonderful children. Now he's been nominated Citizen of the Year. Seems his rigid pursuit of honesty and inte...

  • The Baby Trail

    Karen Rose Smith

    Gwen Langworthy had been abandoned as a child then left at the altar. She had given up on love and marriage and the entire baby-carriage thing. Garrett Maxwell had lost his child and his marriage and now he spent his life reuniting other families....

  • Lemons Never Lie

    Richard Stark

    A dubious heist plan pits actor-thief Alan Grofield against a maniacal mastermind in this crime thriller by the acclaimed author of Point Blank.A struggling thespian and consummate thief, Alan Grofield isn’t too picky about where his money comes fr...

  • Secrets Of His Own

    Amanda Stevens

    HARBORING DESIRE Haunted by a traumatic past, Carrie Bishop exiled herself on the shadowy Cape Diablo island in search of the truth. She never expected to cross paths with a steely-eyed stranger as she combed a crumbling Spanish villa for clues. ...

  • Aaron Under Construction

    Marin Thomas

    A penthouse condo, the corner office -- life was easy for Aaron, the youngest McKade brother, who by his own admission sometimes rode on the coattails of his wealthy family. Until his grandfather exiled him to a job building homes in the barrio of so...

  • The Tenant Who Came To Stay

    Pamela Toth

    "Don't you want me?" she asked in a small voice. Of course Wade Garrett wanted her. He'd wanted Pauline Mayfield ever since he'd convinced her to rent him a room in her boardinghouse. But he wasn't sure if he was ready to trust women again. Especi...

  • A Younger Man

    Linda Turner

    To Do (after High School graduation) 1. Go to college 2. Fall in love with the man of my dreams 3. Get married 4. Have two kids -- one at a time! Natalie Bailey may not have been very good with numbers, but even she knew that she wasn'...

  • Her One and Only

    Alice Valdal

    SHE COULDN'T RESIST A frontier mining town seems like an ideal place for Emma Douglas to make a fresh start as a schoolmarm. But even a haven like Prospect has its distractions--in the form of dashing Grey North. When Grey insists on accompanying her...

  • Lost Calling

    Evelyn Vaughn

    SHE'S ABOUT TO DISCOVER ONE OF HISTORY'S BEST-KEPT SECRETS The Marian priestesses once protected the Madonna mosaic, key to a legacy of peace and womanly power. They were hunted down by forces who did not understand their calling. Now their descen...

  • No Ordinary Love

    Angela Weaver

    Alex Thompson believes that she has finally found the peace sheâ,"s been searching for. Having left the US Special Forces and settled in San Francisco, she has a job she loves: teaching. Surrounded by children, she planned to start anew. However...

  • Never Happened

    Debra Webb

    Handsome men are like kryptonite to Alex Jacobi, but a husband, kids...trust? Building Never Happened -- a cleanup service that erases all evidence of a homicide or suicide -- is her main priority. But while being independent, beautiful and successfu...

  • At The Greek Tycoon's Bidding

    Cathy Williams

    He likes her plainness -- but what about her feistiness? Theo Miquel doesn't have time for love -- his work is his life. He dates slim, beautiful women, but once they start talking about commitment it's over! Heather is different from...

  • The Inquisitor

    Gayle Wilson

    AN EXPERT IN THE ART OF KILLING The serial murderer dubbed the Inquisitor has already killed over a dozen women in various cities, and the authorities haven't a clue to his identity. He is organized, methodical and certain to kill again. And now he'...

  • Seducing Sir Oliver

    Nicole Byrd

    Whisked off to London by her newly revealed half brother, Miss Juliana Applegate is supposed to be looking for an eligible gentleman suitable for marriage. But when she arrives, an illness in her brother's household forces her to stay instead wit...

  • Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii

    Lee Goldberg

    OBSESSIVE. COMPULSIVE. DETECTIVE. Welcome to the all-new series of original mysteries starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something's out of place.... Some people think Hawaii is paradise. But Monk knows that ...

  • Whispers of the Night

    Lydia Joyce

    On the edge of the Romanian wilderness, one woman flees the secrets that haunt her lover.... When four London Seasons fail to find her a suitable match, Alcyone Carter does the unthinkable and treks across Europe to marry a foreign nobleman she's ...

  • The Hollow

    Brian Keene

  • Silence the Whispers

    Cait London

    The Heiress and the Hunter Known as the Somerton heiress, Cameron is wary, because her life has been marred by tragedy. Determined to silence the whispers -- and end the nightmares -- that haunt her, she must uncover the secrets of her past. . . ...

  • Aftershock

    Jean Rabe

  • South Texas Slaughter

    Jon Sharpe

    Wild horses couldn’t drag him away from this fight…Skye Fargo isn’t riding through the rough south Texas landscape looking for trouble -- but Johnny Lobo’s gang of bushwhackers gave him some for free. After Skye barely escapes with his life, ...

  • Man of Honor

    Gary Franklin

    Years after he led a wagon train of emigrants to California during which he fell in love with a girl whose father then broke up their romance, Joe Moss discovers that the girl had been pregnant and brutally beaten by her father and vows to find her a...

  • True Faith

    Alan Gold

    When the wife of a philandering rabbi is found dead, Rabbi Robert Geller is tried for her murder, but when the trial ends in a mistrial, despite the claims of two men who claim to be hired assassins, and Geller is released, Lou Tedesco launches a per...

  • Hags, Sirens, and Other Bad Girls of Fantasy

    Denise Little

    From hags and harpies to sorceresses and sirens, this volume features twenty all-new tales that prove women are far from the weaker sex-in all their alluring, magical, and monstrous roles....

  • Dark Protector

    Alexis Morgan

    Devlin Bane: Born a Paladin, he is a member of an ancient band of warriors locked in a centuries-old war against evil. His destiny: To die over and over again to protect mankind from the Others, only to be revived each time by his mortal Handler....

  • Namesakes

    Greg Cox

    What's in a name? Apparently everything. A killer is targeting women in the Los Angeles area who share a name with Sydney Bristow's former aliases. Sydney wants the case, but she's already hot on the heels of a terrorist armed with a secret form...

  • Kitty Goes to Washington

    Carrie Vaughn

    Werewolves Do It Better The country's only celebrity werewolf, late-night radio host Kitty Norville prefers to be heard, not seen. But when she's invited to testify at a Senate hearing on behalf of supernaturals, her face gets plastered on national ...

  • Angel With Attitude

    Michelle Rowen

    When you're hot for a demon, you might as well kiss your halo good-bye... Falling naked into the killer whale tank at MarineLand is always bad news, but it's a real bummer when you've just been kicked out of Heaven. Former angel Valerie Grace is d...

  • Until the Knight Comes

    Sue-Ellen Welfonder

    Nothing could protect her from desire... Fearless and outspoken, Lady Mariota MacNichol must run for her life. Accused of murdering the unworthy rogue she once loved, she boldly takes possession of deserted Cuidrach Castle, the one place her enemi...

  • Dauntless

    Jack Campbell

    The Alliance has been fighting the Syndics for a century--and losing badly. Now its fleet is crippled and stranded in enemy territory. Their only hope is a man who's emerged from a century-long hibernation to find he has been heroically idealized, be...

  • The Tainted

    Glenda Larke

    I plunged into the darkness. When I emerged, I was on the other side of death, in a life about which I understood nothing. I was Ruarth Windrider. And I was human... Ruarth Windrider had lived his entire life as a bird -- until the Aware swordswoman...

  • Thin Ice

    Reggie Nadelson

    Artie Cohen’s long-time girlfriend, Lily Hanes, has been found beaten up, raped and left for dead in an empty Parisian apartment. In the wintry French capital, Artie looks for Lily’s attackers and finds himself drawn in to a web of sex, death and...

  • Murder Over Easy

    Jimmie Ruth Evans

    As if Wanda Nell Culpepper didn't have her hands full juggling two jobs and herding her kids around, Melvin Arbuckle, her boss at the Kountry Kitchen, has been arrested for murder. The victim was Wanda's fellow waitress, a woman with the personality ...

  • The Sea King

    Jolie Mathis

    Kol Thorleksson, the powerful Viking warrior known as the Sea King, owes his life to the young Saxon woman who risked everything to free him from bondage. Two years later, he has returned to Norsex, this time to wreak vengeance on those who plotted t...

  • Hunting The Hunter

    Shiloh Walker

    THE HUNTER After two years, Kane Winter still doesn't know what really happened the night his bounty hunting partner was murdered. What he does know is that there was a mysterious woman at the scene, and he won't rest until he finds her... THE PR...

  • Crazy Love

    Tara Janzen

    HE'S A BAD-BOY SPECIAL OPS HERO. SHE'S TOO HOT TO HANDLE. Government operative Dylan Hart has survived some of the riskiest missions known to man. But no nemesis could have prepared the Special Defense Forces commander for the newest member of hi...

  • Longarm and the Owlhoot's Graveyard

    Tabor Evans

    There’s a headstone with Longarm’s name on it…Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long has bullet-holed of every member of Nate Hathaway’s gang except for the no-good desperado himself, who’s high-tailed it to a town called Lodestone.   The co...

  • Kira's Bounty

    J.R. Roberts

    When a situation at a cathouse in Taloosa, Nevada, takes a dangerous turn, injuring his buddy Ben Cable, Clint Adams must track down a lethal Lolita with revenge on her mind before the most unforgiving bounty hunters in the West get to her first. Ori...

  • Blackstaff

    Steven E. Schend
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Khelben Arunsun, Chosen of Mystra, Archmage of Waterdeep, is as close to a demigod as you're likely to meet on the streets of Faerûn's mightiest city. But when the skies rain lightning and a long-forgotten city arises from the earth, he can seem lik...

  • Scent of Rain

    Annetta P. Lee

  • Blood Dynasty

    Don Pendleton

    EVIL EMPIRE The head of the far-reaching Suvarov crime family is behind bars awaiting trial in the U.S., but the murders of witnesses willing to testify is becoming a nightmare for the Feds. Mack Bolan is tasked with hunting the worst of the worst...

  • Ready and Willing

    Tanya Michaels
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    The black sheep of a wild bunch, Noah Tanner is always living down his family name -- until he meets Bree McCormick. They discover that being bad isn't always a crime....

  • Forward Pass

    Dorien Kelly
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    It's Matt O'Connell's turn to apologize to Jamie Delisle, who's never forgiven the ex-quarterback for a teenage prank. Now that he's playing kiss-and-make-up, revenge tastes unbelievably sweet....

  • Interference

    Shelley Brannigan

  • Amazing Disgrace

    Catherine diMercurio Dominic

  • The Mirror Man

    Delray K. Dvoracek

  • Sins and Needles

    Monica Ferris

    As full-time owner of the Crewel World needlework shop and part-time sleuth, Betsy Devonshire has untangled plenty of twisted skeins in the USA Today bestselling Needlecraft Mystery series. But she'll need more than a thimbleful of courage and common...

  • Look Behind Every Hill

    Steve Frazee

  • Riders of Paradise

    Robert J. Horton

    When Blunt Rodgers, a notorious troublemaker, is murdered, Clint French is accused of the crime and it is up to his twin brother Dick to clear his name before the infamous outlaw with whom Blunt had ridden arrives in town with vengeance on his mind. ...

  • Under Cloak of Darkness

    I. Michael Koontz

    Under Cloak of Darkness, a gripping 1950s Cold War thriller featuring ex-FBI agent John Apparite. After being recruited by an ultra secret organization whose existence is known only to elite D.C. brass and whose religion is to kill or be killed, Appa...

  • The Best Laid Plans

    Janet Majerus

    Sometimes even The Best Laid Plans don't turn out well as Jessie Schroeder found in book one of the Jessie Schroeder Mystery Series. Jessie, fleeing St. Louis after a devastating divorce, has returned to her hometown of Riverport, a small town high ...

  • Four Summers Waiting

    Mary Fremont Schoenecker

    A Civil War epic that emerges as a love story, Four Summers Waiting brings to life the divided loyalties of families. Readers experience restrictions placed on women and their roles in the 1800s through authentic letters and diary excerpts.Determined...

  • Dead Man Haunt

    Trana Mae Simmons

  • The Orchard of Dreams

    Tim Waggoner

    At the beginning of this fantasy from horror writer TIm Waggoner, everyone in the country of Athymar suddenly falls asleep. On awakening, most people have gained a minor magical ability (e.g., one man can change his eye color). "The Change" has a mor...

  • Calder Storm

    Janet Dailey

    With his rugged-cowboy good looks and the kind of smile that makes a lady's pulse race, Trey Calder could have his pick of women. But he's been holding out for someone special, and the minute he lays eyes on freelance photographer Sloan Davis, he kno...

  • Bones to Pick

    Carolyn Haines

    Wickedly witty and full of more dirt than a debutante's diary, the mysteries of Carolyn Haines bring the southern Delta to roaring, rollicking life... Intrepid P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney has been known to single- handedly save her family's Mississip...

  • Taken

    Chris Jordan

    No parent believes it can happen to them -- their child taken from a suburban schoolyard in the gentle hours of dusk. But as widowed mother Kate Bickford discovers, everything can change in the blink of an eye. One minute her lanky, amazing, maddeni...

  • The Serial Killers Club

    Jeff Povey

    When our hero finds himself in the path of a serial killer, he somehow manages to defend himself, and give the blood-thirsty madman a taste of his own medicine. But when he goes through the dead man's wallet, he finds a mysterious personal ad invitin...

  • Lover's Knot

    Emilie Richards

    After narrowly escaping death, newspaper journalist Kendra Taylor retreats to a cabin nestled in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley to heal and sort out her feelings about her troubled marriage. The land was bequeathed to her husband by a maternal grandmot...

  • The Ruins

    Scott Smith

    Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they could ever imagine.

    Two young couples are on a lazy Mexican vacation"sun-drenched days, drunken nights, making friends with fellow tourists...

  • Garden of Vipers // The Broken Souls

    Jack Kerley / J.A. Kerley

    When a young reporter is viciously murdered, Mobile, Alabama, detectives Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilus find themselves drawn into the dealings of the wealthy Kincannon family, philanthropic socialites. Then Ryder is abducted, with no clues as to wh...

  • Wicked Break

    Jeff Shelby

    Noah Braddock is just living from wave to wave, catching a nice break from his private eye business. The last time he traded his surfboard for a gun, Carter Hamm, his wild and woolly best friend, nearly died. So when a man asks Noah to look for his m...

  • A Moment of Madness

    Hilary Bonner

    For journalist John Kelly, the violent death of local celebrity and rock superstar Scott Silver promises to be the best story he's seen since his days on Fleet Street. With a little work he may even turn it into the second chance he's been looking fo...

  • Snapshot

    Garry Disher

    It had taken months for Janine McQuarrie to succumb to her husband's pressure to have sex with strangers at suburban spouse-swapping parties. But after attending a few such events on the Mornington Peninsula, this Australian social psychologist rebel...

  • Cat in a Quicksilver Caper

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    Midnight Louie, alley-cat extraordinaire and Las Vegas's hairiest, hard-boiled PI, finds himself literally walking a tightrope when a fabulous museum opening at one of Sin City's swankiest casinos is marred by a little thing like death. Louie's l...

  • Never End

    Ake Edwardson

    In Never End, the second Erik Winter novel to be translated into English, a heat wave is smothering the Swedish coastal city of Gothenburg. School is out, and parks and beaches are teeming with people. But a spate of unsolved rape/murders casts a dis...

  • Never Fear

    Scott Frost

    Detective Alex Delillo is in a state of shock. Turns out the dead body discovered near the river is that of her half brother -- one she never knew she had -- and he's the spitting image of her father. The father who walked out on his family...the sam...

  • Witch Catcher

    Mary Downing Hahn

    When her widower father inherits a castlelike estate in the mountains of West Virginia, 12-year-old Jen is thrilled. It seems like a wish come true. But she quickly realizes that not all change is positive. Her dad has a mysterious new girlfriend, Mo...

  • The Doctor Rocks the Boat

    Robin Hathaway

    Like so many of Dr. Fenimore's adventures, trouble starts with a harmless idea. From his train window, the good doctor sees a single shell gliding on the surface of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, an image that stirs up fond memories of his...

  • The Next Time You Die

    Harry Hunsicker

    The anxiously awaited follow-up to Still River, The Next Time You Die is an action-packed mystery certain to establish Harry Hunsicker as the Dennis Lehane of Dallas. The story begins when a bourbon-swilling Baptist preacher hires Oswald to recover a...

  • C.R.E.A.M.

    Solomon Jones

    Karima "Cream" Thomas is an ex-convict from an upper-crust family whose only crime was falling for a drug dealer and refusing to testify against him. Sexy, intelligent, street-smart, and determined to change after serving time in the municipal prison...

  • The Raiders

    Elmer Kelton

    In 1816, Mordecai Lewis, a veteran of Andrew Jackson's Indian campaigns and battles against the British, moves his family into the western Tennessee canebrakes. But Mordecai, a born wanderer, is not satisfied with farming, and with his sons Michael a...

  • Londonstani

    Gautam Malkani

    A talented new writer whose portrayal of the serious business of assimilation and young masculinity is disturbing and hilarious Hailed as one of the most surprising British novels in recent years, Gautam Malkani's electrifying debut reveals young So...

  • Second Burial for a Black Prince

    Andrew Nugent

    Sergeant Molly Power is on duty when the call comes in. A young African man has been attacked and left for dead in the countryside. His leg was amputated, but he managed to get to the house of a farmer, although he'll die in the hospital later that n...

  • Destiny's Forge

    Paul C. Chafe

    For fifty thousand years the Kzinti Patriarchy thrived on battle fought for conquest. Against all odds the humans stopped them, and for five wars kept on stopping them. With its violent expansion checked internal strains have built up within the Patr...

  • Choosers of the Slain

    John Ringo

    THE WRONG FALL GUY Former SEAL Michael Harmon, also known as Ghost, has a pretty good life in the country of Georgia. With his Keldara warriors keeping the area safe from Chechen raiders, and from the various other terrorists that want Ghost's head o...

  • Secret Society Girl

    Diana Peterfreund

    Elite Eli University junior Amy Haskel never expected to be tapped into Rose & Grave, the country's most powerful -- and notorious -- secret society. She isn't rich, politically connected, or...well, male. So when Amy receives the distinctive black-l...

  • Born in Death

    J.D. Robb

    Just as Eve Dallas begins to investigate the grisly double homicide of two young lovers--both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm--her friend Mavis needs a favor. One of the moms-to-be in Mavis's birthing class has gone missing. Normall...

  • Too Darn Hot

    Sandra Scoppettone

    I'd had two murders since last spring, solved them both. The first one was prime and it got a lotta attention in the fish wrappers, so I had a bunch of clients for awhile. Just cause people saw my name in the paper they figured I was the best (which ...

  • Beautiful City of the Dead

    Leander Watts

    “Will keep readers turning pages deep into the night.” -- The Bulletin “Poetic, wild language, as enigmatic and forceful as rock lyrics.” -- Booklist Relly’s band is called Scorpio Bone. Screaming guitars, crusher drums, and a singer who lo...

  • The Highly Effective Detective

    Richard Yancey

    Richard Yancey's spectacular and suspenseful novel -- first in a brand-new series -- features a lovable but bumbling P.I. whose first case begins with the hit-and-run killing of a gaggle of geese. Meet Teddy Ruzak. After his mother dies, Teddy quits...

  • Everyone's Dead But Us

    Mark Richard Zubro / Mark Zubro

    Tom Mason, former Chicago area high school teacher, recently made a public splash by marrying his long-term lover, former professional baseball player Scott Carpenter. After the hoopla surrounding Scott's public coming out and, of course, the marria...

  • The Dragon of Never-Was

    Ann Downer

    Ever since she was caught up in a magical whirlwind of dragons, spells, and wizards, Theodora Oglethorpe has been doing her best to put the Events of Last Summer behind her and go back to her life as a normal twelve-year-old girl. But no matter how h...

  • Relentless

    Robin Parrish

    In the space of a breath, what he thought was his life...shattered.  Grant Borrows has been Shifted- in the silence between heartbeats, his whole life fundamentally altered. There's another man in the world wearing his face and living his life. ...

  • The Bee's Kiss

    Barbara Cleverly

    London. 1926. One war is over, another is beginning, and murder is sealed with a kiss.... At midnight she was ravishing: a tall redhead wearing emeralds and a low-cut dress. An hour later, in her room at the Ritz, she was dead, the jewels torn fro...

  • A World Full of Weeping

    Keith McCarthy

    An invitation to spend time with childhood friends -- the Hickmans in their fairy-tale castle in a forest by the lake -- seems the perfect rest cure for solicitor Helena Flemming after cancer treatment. But when a man is found burned to death in ...

  • The Dressmaker

    Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck

    Claude Reynaud is an old-fashioned tailor, designing his famous gowns by hand in a cluttered studio well outside Paris. But one spring afternoon a woman arrives in search of a wedding dress and shatters all his composure: Valentine de Verlay is charm...

  • Rusty Nail

    J.A. Konrath

    Lt. Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels of the Chicago Police Department is back, and once again she's up to her Armani in murder. Someone is sending Jack snuff videos. The victims are people she knows, and they share a common trait -- all were involved in one...