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New Books List: 556 titles


  • Jean Rabe



  • 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...



  • Alex Archer

    An ancient order tied to the Vatican... A blood fortune buried in the caves of France... A conspiracy of power, greed and darkest evil... Archaeologist and explorer Annja Creed's fascination with the myths and mysteries of the past leads her to...



  • 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 ...



  • Wu Ming

    In Hollywood, Cary Grant has grown weary of cinema’s constant glamour, but Her Majesty’s Secret Service will break his malaise with a bizarre diplomatic mission. In Naples, Lucky Luciano fixes horse races and launches the global heroin trade. And...



  • David Hosp

    When Sydney Chaplin left D.C. nine years ago for college, she vowed never to return. But when her sister is found brutally murdered, she finds herself drawn once again into the shadowy web of her wealthy, powerful family. Joined by Washington detecti...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Joel N. Ross

    DEC EMBER 1, 1941. It is seven days before the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. Days that are numbered for Sondegger, a Nazi spy captured in London while on a mission to take down the Twenty Committee, a German network of spies the British have turned. ...



  • Paul Goldstein

    Meet Michael Seeley, defender of artists' rights, take-no-prisoners intellectual property litigator--and a man on the brink of personal and career collapse. So when United Pictures virtually demands that he fly out to Hollywood to confirm legally tha...



  • Alex Berenson

    Years ago, John Wells was an all-American boy from Montana. Now, he is roaming the mountains of Pakistan as a member of al Qaeda. After a decade away from home, he despises the United States for its decadence. He hates America's shallow, mindless ...



  • 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...



  • Richard Marcinko; Jim DeFelice

    Nothing and no one is sacred as the Rogue Warrior smokes out a terrorist network with plans to turn the Vatican into the world's largest Roman candle. The former SEAL commander takes his first shots at a NATO conference in Rome, where he caps off hi...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Julian Jay Savarin

    Muller wants to avenge his parents, but he also wants to destroy the Semper, who have despatched professional killers to get him, and his entire team. Hedi Meyer, the electronic genius goth, is the latest to be hit. Muller's investigations again take...



  • Phillip Margolin

    Doug Weaver is a defense attorney who always believes the best of his clients, and Jacob Cohen, on trial for murder, is no exception. Jacob may be homeless and mentally ill, but Doug can't imagine that this meek and intensely religious man could have...



  • Haggai Carmon

    Leaving the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, to work for the U.S. Department of Justice, Dan Gordon begins investigating a seemingly straightforward case of money laundering involving the Russian mob that soon becomes a race against time to s...



  • Jack Anderson; Robert Westbrook

    Ron Wright's reputation and career as a journalist crashed and burned due to a massive cover-up scandal involving his sources. He was forced to hand back his Pulitzer Prize, and his marriage crumbled. But Ron never lost his nose for troublesome leads...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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. ...



  • Anne Holt

    In Norway, children are disappearing. First there was nine-year-old Emilie, whose backpack was discovered in a deserted alley. One week later, it was a five-year-old boy. And then another. As public panic escalates, police commissioner Stubo urgently...



  • 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...



  • Kevin J. Anderson

    THE EXTERMINATION OF EARTH is at hand. With his increasingly irrational leadership, Basil Wenceslas, chairman of the Hansa, has driven humanity into a corner. His punitive treatment of the Hansa colonies and the Roamers has made enemies for the peopl...



  • John Shirley

    Who better than Batman to protect the dangerous city of Gotham, where even the cops are crooks? But the latest imminent terror might be too much for the burgeoning Caped Crusader, who is still carving out a place for himself in the minds of Gotham's ...



  • George Perez

    The crisis of the Eighth Day is followed by Triathlon's first day as an Avenger, which takes the team south of the border and back in time thousands of years! And how does the mystery of Madame Masque match the curse of Count Nefaria? Guest-starring ...



  • Michael Avon Oeming

    Ragnarok appears to have come for the gods of Asgard, and only Thor and his Avengers allies might be able to stave off that fate - but will the Thunder God be Asgard's savior, or the architect of its downfall? In search of new wisdom, Thor must repea...



  • Josh McCall

    Called to Manhattan by their classmate Newt Lizzard, three geniuses--armed with only their brilliant brains and trusty bicycles--roam a city plunged into darkness by a mysterious blackout, facing off against the infamous Elvii and sneaking into a top...



  • 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 ...



  • Tony Isabella

    Okay, a god, a demon, a spy and two mutants walk into... some of the strangest scenarios of the '70s! It's gods vs. heroes in the City of Angels! With mad scientists, Russian super-spies and guest-stars from Marvel's western and horror eras! Plus: th...



  • 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...



  • Paul Jenkins

    House of M has changed the world forever. Now, from the ashes of this cataclysmic event comes a new generation... Generation M. Find out exactly how things have changed as a group of mutants brought together by this common tragedy must fight together...



  • 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...



  • Josh Conviser

    In the time it takes to read this sentence, Echelon will intercept more than 70,000 phone calls, e-mails, and faxes. Operated by the National Security Agency, Echelon is the most pervasive global eavesdropping network in history. Today, Echelon wi...



  • Mark Gruenwald

    How many rooms in the X-Mansion? What makes web-shooters work? Find out as Spider-Man and the X-Men join forces to highlight the third volume of this Guide to the Greats! Featuring full profiles on Rogue, Shadowcat, Storm, the White Queen, Wolverine ...



  • Stan Lee

    She's been an FF member, an Avenger and the sharpest attorney in the superhuman halls of justice! Now, see her savage starting point in this complete compilation of her first series! Jennifer Walters takes her first thundering steps into stardom agai...




  • Martin H. Greenberg

    Liberty is a recurring theme in science fiction. Here's a volume of explorations of this theme, combining landmark stories from science fiction's golden age with new stories by some of today's top writers, including Hugo winner and Grand Master Jack ...



  • Katharine Kerr

    Katharine Kerr's best-selling novels of Deverry tell a complex tale of ancient wrongs and of a timeless vow made to set things right--a vow that can only be fulfilled over many centuries and through myriad incarnations of the key players in those lon...




  • Greg Pak

    The Fantastic Four as you never could have imagined them! The trusted advisor at Magneto's right hand is almost certainly the second most powerful man in the world. But the question is... will second-best be enough for Victor Von Doom? Plus: Tony Sta...



  • Mark Budz

    In a world where image is everything, where the past is more real than the present, the rich can reprogram everything -- and cast themselves in the starring roles. Everyone else is nothing but an extra.... As part of the supporting cast, Pelayo s...



  • James P. Hogan

    The best-selling author of The Proteus Operation and Endgame Enigma offers an inside look at some of the key controversies in modern science, providing a fact-filled, meticulously researched study of Darwinism, global warming, the Big...



  • Stan Lee

    Saddle up, buckaroos! It's time for the Marvel Masterworks to tame the wild, wild West with the one and only Rawhide Kid! Back before Stan Lee and Jack Kirby spun stories of sensational super heroes, they told the tale of a young man who bore two Col...



  • Liz Jensen

    Charlotte Schleswig, the delightful narrator of Liz Jensen's latest novel, supports herself and the lumpen Fru Schleswig (who may or may not be her mother) as a prostitute in 1890s Copenhagen. While she is no small success at the trade, she leaps...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects New Avengers #7-13. 1959: under presidential orders, Nick Fury assembles the first Avengers--Victor Creed. Namora. Kraven the Hunter. Dominick Fortune. Silver Sable. Ulysses Bloodstone. Their mission? Stop the Red Skull. Present day: Luke C...



  • Frank Borsch

    A Breathtaking Space Opera in Six Volumes. After a tragic accident, Perry Rhodan encounters a gigantic spaceship of unknown origin. With a small team of specialists he enters the ship and attempts to unravel its mystery. They discover that the starsh...



  • Dan Slott

    Collects She-Hulk (2004) #7-12. As a superhuman lawyer, She-Hulk has tried some of the strangest cases on Earth… but all of that is about to change! Empowered by the Living Tribunal, Shulkie is heading into deep space to practice Universal Law! Gue...



  • Kathryn Cramer

    "Space opera", once a derisive term for cheap pulp adventure, has come to mean something more in modern SF: compelling adventure stories told against a broad canvas, and written to the highest level of skill. Indeed, it can be argued that the "new sp...



  • Sean McKeever

    The highly acclaimed drama featuring the life of a teenage Mary Jane Watson returns! And this time, she's got some friendly neighborhood backup! With her circle of friends and recent relationship left in disrepair, MJ is on the market once again! But...



  • 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...



  • Chris Claremont

    Collects Uncanny X-Men (1963) #466-471. Faced with a future she thought was destroyed. Rachel Grey will find out just what she's really made of when her entire family is placed on the intergalactic wanted list!....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Brian Wiprud

    Nicholas Palihnic is a natty, tweed-suited hustler who knows every nook and cranny of New York -- and a thousand ways to break a girl's heart. Beatrice Belarus is a Manhattan art dealer with an insatiable appetite for money -- and for anyone who gets...



  • 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, ...



  • Denise Mina

    Responding to a late night-call, Paddy Meehan arrives at an elegant villa, where a calm blonde with blood running from her mouth answers the door. She has already convinced the police to leave and soon Paddy realizes how--she slips 50 bucks into Padd...



  • Lawrence Block

    John Keller is everyone's favorite hit man: a new kind of hero for a new, uncertain age. He's cool. Reliable. A real pro: the hit man's hit man. The inconvenient wife, the aging sports star, the business partner, the retiree with a substantial legacy...



  • Randall Arthur

    When pastor Jordan Rau accepted a position with a European missions agency, his decision was based on money, not on an opportunity to serve God. However, shortly after his family's arrival in Germany, Jordan's priorities dramatically change - his you...



  • James Patterson; Andrew Gross

    From #1 bestselling author James Patterson comes the ultimate legal thriller where the judge and jury are terrified. The verdict: run for your life. Failing to escape jury duty, aspiring actress Andie DeGrasse ends up as Juror #11 in a landmark case....



  • Ed McBain

    A “gripping” collection of crime stories from the author of the acclaimed 87th Precinct novels (People).   Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct is “perhaps the finest police procedural series of all time” (Publishers Weekly). But before he turned...



  • 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...



  • Mary Jane Clark

    In Mary Jane Clark's latest blockbuster novel, you will enter the mind of a sociopath. It's a place where the rules don't apply. Where anything is fair game. And where murder is the ultimate means to an end. What kind of person... Gets what ...



  • 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...



  • Michelle Wan

    In THE ORCHID SHROUD, Wan weaves another tale abounding in mystery and orchids as interior decorator Mara Dunn and orchidologist Julian Wood team up to solve two murders: one dating back to the 1870s; the other occurring almost right before their eye...



  • 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...



  • Dan Fesperman

    When the body of an American soldier is discovered in Cuban waters near the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo, Revere Falk, a former FBI agent, is reassigned from his job interrogating an accused al-Qaeda operative to investigate the soldier's my...



  • 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. ...



  • 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...



  • Bob Reiss

    It's the night the President has resigned. In a Manhattan town house, the head of Lenox Pharmaceuticals, the world's most powerful drug company, lies dead. Through the morning darkness, security chief Mike Acela drives his BMW to the scene. Mike's jo...



  • Poppy Z. Brite

    A sharp commentary on race relations in pre-Katrina New Orleans and a fast ride through the dark side of haute cuisine.Liquor has become one of the hottest restaurants in town, thanks in part to chefs Rickey and G-man’s wildly creative, booze-l...



  • 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...



  • T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

    Over the past twenty-five years, T.C. Boyle has earned wide acclaim and an enthusiastic following with such adventurous, inimitable novels as The Tortilla Curtain, Drop City, and The Road to Wellville. For his riveting eleventh novel, Boyle offers re...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Alison Clement

    It seemed to June that she had the perfect marriage until the day Ronald Pruett was arrested for the murder of Vernay Hanks. Through her job at an elementary school, June knew both the victim's child and Pruett. Moreover, on the day of the murder, sh...



  • T.L. Hines

    Jude Allman has died and come back to life three times, becoming a celebrity against his own wishes. When the world crushes in around this unlikely miracle man, this modern-day Lazarus, he escapes into the vastness of Montana. He changes his name and...



  • 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...



  • Cara Lockwood

    Welcome to Bard Academy, where a group of supposedly troubled teens are about to get scared straight. When Miranda, a slightly spoiled but spirited fifteen-year-old from Chicago, smashes up her father's car and goes to town with her stepmother's c...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Ann Voss Peterson

    COLD FEET After being kidnapped from her own wedding, Diana Gale was determined to get her life back. Except a copycat killer terrorizing her county had other plans -- and it seemed she'd unwittingly become his next target. HOT PURSUIT She had n...



  • Holly Lisle

    HAUNTED BY A NIGHTMARE For paramedic Dia Courvant, each day brings the possibility of facing blood and death. But nothing can match the horror of the day she was dispatched to the scene of a terrible car accident and rescued the sole survivor--onl...



  • 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'...



  • 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...



  • Claudia Mair Burney

    For Amanda Bell Brown, just living her life is murder! How's a woman supposed to grapple with faith, a fine man, and turning thirty-five when she keeps tripping in her high heels over mysteries -- and not just the God kind? Amanda Bell Brown kn...



  • 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...



  • Carla Cassidy

    Lynn White's vow: I'll never be used again. Her adoptive father had turned out to be a criminal -- and left her holding the bag. The FBI had used her to catch him. Now Lynn White was nobody's pawn. She had a new life, close to Athena Academy and t...



  • Jessica Andersen

    A KILLER SHE COULD HANDLE... With her badge and her reputation on the line, criminal psych specialist Maya Cooper vowed to catch the serial killer whose attacks plagued Bear Claw Creek. She had no choice -- she was his next target! BUT NOT THE R...



  • Elizabeth Adler

    New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Adler invites you on a decadent Mediterranean cruise--where nothing is what it seems, no one is telling the truth, and murder is on the agenda... When English tycoon Sir Robert Waldo Hardwick dies myster...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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. ...



  • 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. . . ...



  • Kay Hooper

    Special Agent Riley Crane woke up in a beach cottage fully dressed, a gun under her pillow, and covered in blood. Even more frightening, she didn't remember what had happened the night before. She barely remembered anything about the previous three w...



  • Roxanne St. Claire

    A hot-blooded bodyguard. An heiress worth a cool billion. And one dangerous attraction.... Roxanne St. Claire delivers a heart-pounding thrill ride in the second Bullet Catchers novel! HE KNOWS ALL HER SECRETS... Max Roper never lets emotion get ...



  • 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...



  • Nancy Bartholomew

    WHAT STELLA WANTS A successful P.I. business. A sexy man she can love and trust. Relatives who stay safely at home. And good friends she can count on. WHAT STELLA'S GOT An anemic trickle of clients. An infuriatingly secretive (but hot!) former spec...




  • 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....



  • 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...



  • David Gregory

    What if a fascinating stranger knew you better than you know yourself?When her husband comes home with a farfetched story about eating dinner with someone he believes to be Jesus, Mattie Cominsky thinks this may signal the end of her shaky marriage. ...



  • 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...



  • Janine A. Morris

    Janine A. Morris bursts onto the fiction scene with a page-turning novel featuring three smart, sexy African American divas: Dakota, Chrasey, and Jordan. Best friends since college, these thirty-something native New Yorkers have seen it all--or so th...



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    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....



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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....



  • Gilbert Morris

    Will they ever make it to the coast? It all depends on... the HESITANT HEROWhen Tyler Winslow is expelled from college in New York, he decides to study art in Paris. When he fails at that as well, and with no family or career to return to in the Stat...




  • 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...



  • Lori Leigh

    Alexander MacKenna has one month to convince Melissa they are destined for each other. She's an American tourist who just happened to stumble into a Celtic Warrior Reality Game. Melissa is certain she has stepped through the magical mist of Scotland ...



  • C.W. Gortner

    Juana of Castile, the last queen of Spanish blood to inherit her country's throne, has been for centuries an enigmatic figure shrouded in lurid myth. Was she the bereft widow of legend who was driven mad by her loss, or has history misjudged a woman ...



  • Kate Muir

    You are invited to lose yourself in the world of Olivier & Madison Malin, glamorous French philosopher & gorgeous American actress, at home, in Paris's exclusive neighbourhood--the glittering, stylish, elegant Left Bank. Intrigue. Scandal. Drama. I...



  • Kate Brian

    Tradition, Honor, Excellence...and secrets so dark they're almost invisible Fifteen-year-old Reed Brennan wins a scholarship to Easton Academy -- the golden ticket away from her pill-popping mother and run-of-the-mill suburban life. But when she a...



  • Laura Peyton Roberts

    To B or to Bee? Cassie has been second best all her life, but as Snow Queen runner-up--with a cute new boyfriend, to boot--she's determined to reach new social heights this semester. The time has come to move from Queen B to Queen Bee. But how is...



  • 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....




  • Mary (1) Kennedy

    How low will Jessie go . . . Landing the star role in Reckless Summer--filmed at my East-coast high school a few weeks ago--definitely had its perks. I was bestowed the honor of sharing romantic scenes, on and off the set, with Shane Rockett. He...



  • 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...



  • Margaret Pemberton

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  • G.M. Ford

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  • Ronald Tierney

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  • Kit Frazier

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  • Andrew Nugent

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  • Reggie Nadelson

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  • Jeff Shelby

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  • Nicola Cornick

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  • Charlotte Hubbard

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  • Nicola Cornick

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