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New Books List: 573 titles

  • A Double-Edged Blade

    Julie Moffett

    Lovely British agent Faith Worthington is sent on a mission to expose a ruthless IRA terrorist. But a bullet to the thigh knocks her back to seventeenth-century Ireland . . . and into the arms of rebel leader Miles O'Bruaidar. Known as the Irish Lion...

  • Pippi Longstocking's After-Christmas Party

    Astrid Lindgren

  • Feet of Clay

    Terry Pratchett

    MURDER IN DISCWORLD A killer is stalking Ankh-Morpork. A grim reaper who belongs to neither the Assassins' Guild nor the Thieves' Guild. A prowling perp who jauntily leaves behind corpses and strange-smelling tracks of curious white clay. Comma...

  • The Devil's Menagerie

    Louis Charbonneau

    Fear is his favorite mediumFBI agent Karen Younger’s worst nightmare just came true. A vicious serial killer from a cold case has struck again -- his crimes spanning two different continents, eight years apart. But he’s only getting started, and ...

  • By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

    Paulo Coelho

    A FABLE ABOUT OPENING YOURSELF TO MIRACLES Pilar, a young scholar feeling hopeless and worn down by the endless cycle of her days, is contacted by a childhood friend. She is surprised to discover that he is now a charismatic spiritual leader, consid...

  • Children of the Jedi

    Barbara Hambly

    Princess Leia, Han Solo, and Chewbacca set out on a mission vital to the survival of the fragile New Republic. They are searching for the long-lost children of the Jedi on the frozen world of Belsavis, from whose dark crypts no one has returned alive...

  • Child of the Eagle

    Esther Friesner

    DRAMATIS PERSONAE JULIUS CAESAR died in bed at an advanced age. PTOLEMY was Caesar's youngest son--and hoped someday to inherit his father's empire. VENUS held the fate of the world in her hands--and Brutus in her arms. HEROD slaughtered ...

  • Grand Canyon

    Gary McCarthy

    Seeking his fortune on John Wesley Powell's epic expedition down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, William Dunn finds short-lived happiness with a beautiful half-Havasupai woman and a perilous career as a rancher and champion of Native Ame...

  • Westward They Rode

    Theodore V. Olsen / T.V. Olsen

    A high adventure western saga follows the endeavors of colorful cowboys, thieves, convicts, and lawmen who battle the untamed frontier and each other in their quest for the promise of freedom, wealth, and revenge. Original....

  • Slocum and the Gold-Mine Gamble

    Jake Logan

    DOWN ON HIS LUCK Slocum had a pretty tough winter, but he's back in the saddle and on the lookout for a quick and easy way to grease his palms. He thought he had it all figured out. But his scheme to rob gold shipments from a Montana boomtown didn...

  • Death Valley Bloodbath

    Jon Sharpe

    Working as a slave of a perverse prospector and his three deadly daughters in Death Valley, Skye Fargo finds himself confronting a gang of cutthroat claim jumpers led by a gorgeous blonde and a vengeful group of savage Mohave warriors. Original....

  • Gunquick

    J.R. Roberts

    "I want to get rid of as many of those vermin as I can before I die," says Ben Farmer. He's as worn as an old truss -- and twice as weak with cancer -- but the fire in his eyes is as hot as Clint Adams has ever seen it. Farmer wants the Gunsmith to r...

  • Frontier Strike

    David Thompson

    Seeking independence in the untamed Rocky Mountains, frontiersman Nate King finds his freedom threatened by a maniacal killer and teams up with three warriors by the names of Blade, Hickok, and Geronimo. Original....

  • Algonquin Massacre

    Dodge Tyler

    At the start of the American Revolution, Boone begins his own war on renegade British troops who massacred a tribe of Algonquins, but Boone and his companion soon discover that revenge never comes without a price. Original....

  • The Killing Season

    Ralph Compton

    FAST GUN IN WILD TIMES It was the 1870s--and the West was at its wildest. Jesse and Frank James led their gang on daring raids on banks and trains. Doc Holliday's name struck dread in the hearts of men, and Wild Bill Hickok played poker with bulle...

  • Longarm and the Deadly Prisoner

    Tabor Evans

    Escorting convicted lawman killer Ford Oakley who is returning to Denver to be hanged, Longarm is injured by the prisoner's cronies, who help Ford to escape and threaten to kill Longarm if he interferes...

  • Cure the Texas Fever

    J.T. Edson

    There's big trouble for Texas cattle ranchers.  A mysterious disease called "Texas Fever" seems to follow their herds to market.  Now their steers may be banned from Kansas and the railroad -- a measure that will spell ruin for them all.  The g...

  • Cactus Cavalier

    Norman A. Fox

    Dave Larkin returns to his Montana hometown only to find it in the grip of lawlessness and violence and decides to take up the cause of justice, in a compelling story by a celebrated Western writer. Reissue....

  • Deep in the Heart

    Barbara Bickmore

    Carly Anderson left Verity, Texas--and her broken heart--behind and headed for Houston, where ambition and financial savvy have made her one of the most powerful and respected businesswomen in the city. Yet with each step up the ladder, she's tested-...

  • See How They Run

    Marilyn Campbell

    HUNTED BY HATE AND TRAPPED BY LOVE After nine years on the run, Barbara Johnson thought she was safe at last. Safe with her little boy, Matthew. Safe in a new city, with a new name. Safe from the abusive man she had broken with once and who wanted...

  • Home Sweet Home

    Rochelle Alers

    When Quintin Lord's new neighbor marched into his apartment and demanded that he turn down his music, he was surprised--and utterly enchanted. Though the celebrated photographer had had his fill of pretty faces, this lovely, graceful woman was differ...

  • Truly

    Mary Balogh

    Once branded the bastard child of the Earl of Wyvern, Geraint Penderyn returns home to Tegfan after a 10-year absence to find toll gates across public roads and many of his farmers living in squalor. As a ragged impoverished boy, he had been one with...

  • Where Dreams Come True

    Barbara Benedict
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    Barbara Benedict's WHERE DREAMS COME TRUE sends Meg McCleary to Ireland to find an abandoned baby and meet the Prince Charming of her dreams....

  • Gather the Stars

    Kimberly Cates

    HE WAS A LEGEND OF THE HIGHLANDS, A MASKED RIDER NO SOLDIER COULD CAPTURE, HER SWORN ENEMY ... HER BELOVED Rachel de Lacey, the clever daughter of Lord General de Lacey, was about to embark on her own private war. She had been kidnapped in the m...

  • A Dance in Heather

    Julie Beard

    Lady Tess Farnsworth bitterly accepted the royal decree to wed the man whom she detested above all. The gloriously handsome Earl of Easterby had failed her in a desperate time of need, and her only solace in wedding him was the promise of vengeance. ...

  • Wishes Come True

    Patti Berg

    A SMALL MONTANA MIRACLE Laurie Langtry ran far from Bunch Gulch, Montana, seeking fame and fortune. And now she's back--a beautiful, successful romance novelist who's had more than enough of the bad Big City. Home is where the heart is...and Ja...

  • Eagle's Song

    Rosanne Bittner

    Warriors and dreamers, pathfinders and rebels, the Monroes are a family divided between their Indian heritage and their white blood. At their head is the indomitable Abigail Trent Monroe, whose love for Cheyenne warrior Lone Eagle became a legend. No...

  • A Daughter for John

    Phoebe Conn
    in

    In Phoebe Conn's A DAUGHTER FOR JOHN, Melody captivates a suitor --- but will he leave her once he learns that Maribelle isn't her baby sister, but her own child?...

  • Brighton Beauty

    Marilyn Clay

    Chelsea Grant hadn't planned to be a deceiver! She had been the prettiest -- and most penniless -- young lady at Miss Farringdon's Academy. Befriending spoiled Alayna Marchmont and telling her about a family scandal was a schoolgirl's nai...

  • Gold Dust

    Emily Carmichael

    Katy O'Connell of Willow Bend, Montana, couldn't help herself. She told the handsome Chicago newsman that he'd be robbed blind, chewed up, and spit out before he got halfway to the Klondike Gold Rush if he didn't take her -- and her p...

  • Spring Enchantment

    Christina Cordaire

    Jared St. Legere's ghost stood gazing out at the sea. He finally had the two unmarried people he needed. He had a surprising advantage in that he could talk to Lady Anne's twins. Perhaps they could even help him. He was happier than he'd been since h...

  • Precious Amber

    Kathleen Drymon

    Upon her mother's death, Amber's cruel stepfather intends to sell her to the highest-paying fur trapper. But when a surly woodsman claims her, the flame-haired Missouri beauty is rescued by a magnificent Indian warrior named Spirit Walker. Fo...

  • No Other Woman

    Shannon Drake

    The Highland night torments Lady Shawna MacGinnis with haunting dreams. The stunning Scottish lass can never forget it was she who, in the cause of clan loyalty, seduced David Douglas of Castle Rock -- and she who, in the heat of passion, inadvertent...

  • A Timeless Moment

    Annette Daniels

    A LOVE STRONGER THAN TIME 1867. To Pennsylvania heiress Aramanda Montclair, Roarke Macnair is the bold renegade who led a rebellion of miners against her wealthy family. Irresistibly drawn together, they surrender to a moment of breathless passion ....

  • River Moon

    Carol Finch

    SHE DARED TO DREAM .. . After a lifetime of being dominated, first by her father, then by her conniving husband, recently divorced Crista Delaney decided that the time had come to take control of her life. A new job as head of physical therapy in an...

  • The MacKinnon's Bride // Page

    Tanya Anne Crosby

    THE WARRIOR'S VENGEANCE Fiercely loyal to clan alone, Iain MacKinnon will never be a slave to King or conqueror -- even when his son, Malcom, is taken hostage by a lackey of the English-loving sovereign. Answering treachery in kind, the proud Scott...

  • When There Is Hope

    Jane Goodger

    CAN LOVE BE A LIFETIME AWAY? Waking up after an accident, the last thing Susan Butler remembered was living in the 1990s, happily married and joyously expecting her first child. Now, suddenly, inexplicably, she is Margaret Johnsbury, the year is 188...

  • I Promise

    Joan Johnston

    A PROMISE OF DANGER Delia Carson was only sixteen when she fled her hometown running thousands of miles away from the deadly Texas tempest of lies and shadows that tore apart her family ... and her aching love for smalltown bad boy Marsh North. B...

  • The Lady's Companion

    Carla Kelly

    A Compromising Position Miss Susan Hampton was a lady born and bred. She never imagined that she would have to make her own way in the world. But that was before her feckless father gamed away the family estate. That was before her odious aunt tur...

  • Hearts Victorious

    Marian Edwards

    1066. Turbulence sweeps across the land as, William the Conqueror stakes his claim on England, and all of Saxony comes under Norman rule. The defeated must pledge fealty to the victors... or perish. THE LEGACY ... Bethany of North Umberland is t...

  • Promise Me

    Elaine Kane

    The death of her parents has left Deirdre Ramsey, new Countess of Ramshead, the lonely mistress of a barren ancestral estate. And in a city of unparalleled luxuries and dangerous temptations, a woman as vulnerable as Deirdre can be swept away by the ...

  • Lullaby of Love

    Carol Finch
    in

    Carol Finch's LULLABY OF LOVE sweeps us back to old South Carolina where a by-the-book military man hires Hannah Rothchild as a nanny for his baby niece....

  • The Baby Dream

    Jo Goodman
    in

    In Jo Goodman's THE BABY DREAM, a stranger named Jake may unlock the secret of Annie's birth...and her lover's heart....

  • Edina and the Baby

    Hannah Howell
    in

    Hannah Howell's EDINA AND THE BABY brings together an independent lady, a proud lord and a lost a baby in this exciting tale of abduction and desire....

  • Wanted: a Husband and Father

    Jane Kidder
    in

    And in Jane Kidder's WANTED: A HUSBAND AND FATHER, a widow gets a stand-in husband --- until her baby turns this "strictly business" union into a surprising romance....

  • Passion's Kiss

    Jane Kidder

    Miles Wellesley is every woman's dream -- handsome, unattached, and the heir to a great fortune. But he has come to England seeking horses for his Colorado ranch, not a wife. An opinionated, strong-willed spinster named Victoria Pembroke isn't likely...

  • Taming Eliza

    Barbara Hazard

    Northern Exposure Lady Eliza Chalmers was the most divinely dazzling, wickedly witty beauty in London. She was also as spoiled and arrogant a young woman as ever dashed suitors' hopes and drove a father to take desperate action. Thus it was...

  • My Lady Captor

    Anna Jennet

    On the border of war-torn England and Scotland, a young lady makes a desperate attempt to save her Scottish clan by kidnapping a knight and holding him for ransom, but as she tends to his wounds, he tends to her heart. Lady Sorcha Hay is devastat...

  • Day Dreamer

    Jill Marie Landis

    "You will have a whole new life, if you decide to take it..." The stranger's words startled Celine Winters. After all, it isn't every day that a woman approaches her on the streets of New Orleans, asking to switch places. For Celine, it means a...

  • Vivid Notions

    Emma Jensen

    She was poetry in motion and he was determined to have her! American heiress Vivian Redmond had anticipated a polite reception in London...not stunned, awe-filled stares and delirious gossip. Much to her surprise, she was believed to be the myster...

  • Montana Morning

    Jill Limber

    They found passion and promise in the dawn of a ...Montana Morning IN A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE LOVE ONLY GETS IN THE WAY In the small town of Dennison, Montana Territory, law decreed that a man sentenced to hang could be saved by a woman who c...

  • Skye Lakota

    Krista Janssen

    Pursuing a secret identity as a political writer in London, feisty Beth Talbot is engaged against her will to an elderly laird and is rescued by her intended's handsome half-Lakota son, Fletcher Mackinnon. Skye MacKinnon will let nothing stop...

  • After Hours

    Anna Larence

    Nachelle Oliver, the poised, sophisticated, and beautiful vice-president of an influential Fort Worth company, refuses to become personally involved with her boss, the arrogant and seductive Steven DuCloux, despite their mutual attraction. Original....

  • In Destiny's Arms

    Christine Michels

    On a desperate quest to locate her missing brother, Sergeant Cadence Barrington crash-landed almost two thousand miles from her destination --- and over five hundred years in the past! The Stellar Legionnaire expected to find the remains of a lost ci...

  • Panther's Prey

    Doreen Owens Malek

    TURKISH DELIGHT He rode from out of the Turkish wilderness atop a magnificent charger. Dark and mysterious, Malik Bey swept Boston-bred Ameba Ryder into an exotic world of sultans and revolutionaries, magnificent palaces and desert camps. Amy want...

  • A Perilous Attraction

    Dawn Aldridge Poore

    Forced to relinquish her late aunt's estate, proud, penniless Alissa Morgan journeys to Bath. But if rumors of a notorious highwayman test the courage of an unescorted lady, so does one of Alissa's fellow passengers: the frantic mother who thrusts an...

  • The Heart and the Holly

    Nancy Richards-Akers

    DIVIDED HEARTS She is Aislinn Clare, darkly beautiful, irresistibly desirable, and wildly independent. Stirred by the blood of her Irish mother, she'd rather die than leave her beloved Ireland and succumb to the proper marriage her English father se...

  • Lord Diablo's Demise

    Meg-Lynn Roberts

    The rakish Lord Diablo was about to be forced into a marriage of convenience. And since nothing less than death could stop the wedding, he engineers his own demise. Then Gwyn Morgan discovers the unconscious man. With his death plot derailed, and his...

  • Bed of Roses

    Rebecca Paisley

    SHE PRAYED FOR A MIRACLE Zafiro Quintana loved caring for her grandfather's gang of retired outlaws, and she guarded their hideaway with her life. When her gift for sensing danger told her trouble was near, the sapphire-eyed beauty sent her pet coug...

  • Lady Stephanie

    Jeanne Savery

    Lady Stephanie has but one true love--her beloved family estate. Suddenly, Lord Christopher Morris has returned to England with his business partner, Lord Anthony Rider. And now, as assorted fools and fortune hunters vie for her hand, Stephanie reali...

  • A Touch of Paradise

    Alexa Smart

    As a confidence man and scam runner in 1880s America, Malcolm Northrup has amassed a fortune. Now, posing as the eminent SirJohn Abbot gentleman, scholar, and possible discoverer of the lost continent of Atlantis--he's taking his act on the road with...

  • Out of Eden

    Kathleen Sage

    Claire Butler was one of California's first women lawyers, carving out her place in the small mining town of Bodie. Johnny Christmas was her first client--a firefighter accused of brutalizing a local woman. Despite Johnny's reputation as a brawler an...

  • Dangerous Games

    Amanda Scott

    When Nicholas Barrington, eldest son of the Earl of Ulcombe, first met Melissa Seacourt, he suspected something was amiss. The desperation he sensed, beneath her well-bred beauty haunted him. He didn't realize how desperate Melissa really was... unti...

  • Heart's Folly

    Mary Lou Rich

    She took his name in marriage He took her heart forever... MATTIE A respectable young widow, she fought to close dawn Jake's house of ill repute... JAKE He drove Mattie's millinery shop out of business, leaving her penniless--and hom...

  • Tea and Scandal

    Joan Smith

    Jane Lonsdale had been dismissed from her position at Miss Prism’s Academy because the music master had tried to kiss her. Jane went to her aunt, having no idea that the housekeeper had married Lord Pargeter, who promptly died. Neighbors at nearby ...

  • The Engagement

    Suzanne Robinson

    SHE WAS EVERY INCH A LADY... Lady Georgiana Marshal was thrilled at her betrothal to the elderly Earl of Threshfield. For the emerald-eyed beauty was sure that she would soon be a widow and finally in a position to control her fortune and her life. ...

  • Home Again

    Linda Shertzer

    Absence can make the heart grow wiser... BERTHA For seven years she has run the farm by herself, while her husband tried his luck in the Nevada silver mines. SAM Now he's come home to Kansas, full of love and riches for his wife, but...

  • Iron Lace

    Emilie Richards

    Aurore Gerritsen watched her lover kill her father. It was just one act of violence in a dramatic chain of events... Behind the iron gates of wealthy New Orleans, beneath the veneer of her society name, linger truths that Aurore Gerritsen has hidden...

  • A Hidden Magic

    Terri Lynn Wilhelm

    THREE'S A CROWD --- EVEN IF ONE OF THEM IS INVISIBLE! Cicely Honeysett didn't exactly cheat Griffin Tyrrell when she sold him her late husband's family estate. She just didn't tell him that his housemate would be a howling, mischievous ghost. Aft...

  • Gentle Hearts

    Clara Wimberly

    As the Civil War raged through a divided land, Lida Rinehart felt safe in her simple Amish world - sewing, cooking...and dreaming. Then, one dark night, her brother died helping John Sexton lead runaway slaves to freedom - and her serene homespun lif...

  • No Place For A Lady

    Vivian Vaughan

    "BUCKHORN AIN'T NO PLACE FOR A LADY!" Strait-laced, stiff-backed, and ready for a fight, suffragette Maddie Sinclair stepped off the Boston train . . . and faced a cowboy in leather boots and Stetson. She had come to find her wayward b...

  • House on Fire

    Denis Hamill

    When firefighter Kevin Dempsey plunges into alcoholism after his wife leaves him, his brother searches for the missing woman, only to uncover a sinister web of secrets that threatens to destroy their family. Reprint....

  • Soul to Take

    C.N. Bean

    Milwaukee homicide detective Rita Trible races against time to find a brutal serial killer stalking young boys only to uncover the secret life of a Catholic priest that the Church will do anything to hide and discover that her own child may be target...

  • Dead Center

    Don Pendleton

    FIRE STORM IN VENICE An old-line mafioso's death and the abduction of the capo's young great-grandson launch a turf war that reaches all the way to Romania's most powerful crime boss. Mack Bolan's Everlasting War reunites him with his oldest f...

  • The Perishing Game

    Don Pendleton

    THE STONY MAN DOCTRINE In a world struggling for peace, Stony Man commands a covert vigil against the madmen and murderers harnessing terrorism for personal gain. Now the enemy is an evil just this side of hell.... CONTAGION A mysterious virus h...

  • The Undine

    Michael O'Rourke

  • Time in Mind

    Kathlyn S. Starbuck

    The Elders, the few who survived the wrath of the Higher Souls of the Time Before, are challenged by the Young Ones, who claim that the Higher Souls do not destroy, only guide, as Young Ones Ian and Meg use their psychic powers to penetrate the Veil ...

  • The Sage

    Christopher Stasheff

    THE MAKING. OF A HERO Ages ago, Ohaern had toppled the fearsome Ulahane from the tyrant's throne. His reward had been the goddess Rahani --and the years had spun away blissfully. Now humankind had fallen beneath the heel of Ulahane's son Bolen...

  • Deadly Games

    Michael Jan Friedman

    Beautiful heiress Janna Leighton becomes the target of assassins when she reveals her plan to invest millions of dollars in Metropolis's disadvantaged communities, but she has Superman by her side, much to the dismay of Lois Lane. Original. TV tie-in...

  • The Wizard and the Floating City

    Christopher Rowley

    AGAINST AGELESS WIZARDRY THEY HAD ONLY THEIR OWN CUNNING AND BRAVERY Set a different realm of the same mythical world as the Bazil Broketail books, this fantastic saga of sorcery and swordplay will dazzle fans of Christopher Rowley. Prince Evander...

  • To Fall Like Stars

    Nancy Asire

  • Smoke and Mirrors

    Jane M. Lindskold

    Hiding her telepathic gifts from her many enemies, industrial spy and prostitute Smokey of the planet Arizona senses a deadly nature in a new customer and begins a war of illusion while protecting her young daughter. Original....

  • The Triad Worlds

    F.M. Busby

    Captain Sam Gowdy and his crew are caught in the middle of a triplanetary war in which they learn of a conspiracy to steal the Habegger Gates, a revolutionary transport technology that can be used to manipulate time and space. Original....

  • The Magic Touch

    Jody Lynn Nye

    He has the power of wonderworking -- and now everyone wants it. “Jody Lynn Nye’s irrepressible humor makes this story a delight.” -- Christopher Stasheff, author of The Warlock in Spite of Himself   Apprentice fairy godfather Raymond Cran...

  • The Veiled Dragon

    Troy Denning
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    An aspiring Harper agent finds that solving a poisoning -- and impressing her superiors -- is much harder than she imagined The Bedine witch Ruha has left the parched sea of Anauroch on her quest to become a Harper. That quest takes her to Evers...

  • Promise of Love

    Ariel Berk

    NEVER BEFORE Carla Roche knew what it was like to be loved by a man. Hadn't she left her family and friends and risked everything to follow her husband to New York? And when Alec was gone, Carla was sure she would never feel as deeply about anyon...

  • The Changeling

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    A UNION MADE IN THE NAME OF PEACE WILL SHATTER IN BETRAYAL AND DEATH...AND BLUE ISLE MAY ONCE AGAIN ERUPT IN WAR In the years following the invasion of the Fey, Blue Isle has maintained an uneasy peace. But the marriage between the Islander prince...

  • Abyssal Warriors

    J. Robert King

    As the Blood Wars escalate across the various planes of existence, Aereas and Nina find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict--he in Sigil, she at the head of an evil abyssal army. Original. 75,000 first printing....

  • The Hag's Contract

    John Gregory Betancourt

    The legendary pirate king Ulrich gets more than he had bargained for when he enters into an unholy pact with The Hag, the Abomination, to free his kingdom from savage orog and goblin tribes. Original. 75,000 first printing....

  • The Gully Dwarves

    Dan Parkinson
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    "FROM THE LOWEST OF THE LOW WILL ARISE A HERO..." This is the prophecy given by the god Reorx to Verden Leafglow, a reformed green dragon rejected by Takhisis, the queen of villainy. For good measure, Reorx tells the dragon to give the hero a helpin...

  • Exile

    Al Sarrantonio

    As the twenty-fifth century draws to a close, Prime Cornelian, a ruthless usurper of Martian rule, will do anything to control all of human civilization, and the fate of all humankind is in the hands of the exiled King of Earth, Dalin Shar. Original....

  • Higher Education

    Charles Sheffield; Jerry Pournelle

    When a misfired practical joke gets him kicked out of school, Rick Luban thinks he has nowhere to go but down. Instead, he gets a second chance--and a whole new life--when he signs up for a career in asteroid mining. But life in space proves more ...

  • Betrayals

    S.M. Stirling

    BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.. When diplomats from the universe's two warring superpowers come to Babylon 5 for a peace summit, Captain Sheridan and the Earthforce personnel know that security is paramount. But a brilliant con woman is making plans of her...

  • Revolutionary

    S. Andrew Swann

    As the Terran Executive Command threatens a bloody takeover of the planet Bakunin, Dominic Magnus and his few surviving companions wage a desperate battle to save their world, unaware of a powerful ally at the very heart of the Confederacy of Planets...

  • A Second Infinity

    Michael D. Weaver

    When a far future utopian civilization becomes threatened, Derek Soul travels to a near-future Earth that is haunted by an impending eco-doom, and he is overwhelmed by human nature and dangerous alien forces. Original....

  • Hunter's Death

    Michelle West

    AVERALAAN -- that most ancient of cities, had long been the home of magics both dark and bright. For the site where this most civilized city of mortals now stood had once been a dread place indeed, a citadel of evil ruled by the Lord of the Hells. O...

  • The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix

    Stephen King

    A NOVEL IN SIX PARTS: THE BAD DEATH OF EDUARD DELACROIX Time has run out for one of the inmates at Cold Mountain penitentiary. Eduard Delacroix is set to take that final walk down the Green Mile. But first he must say good-bye -- to the guards, to hi...

  • The Chosen

    S.M. Stirling; David Drake

    Planted by interstellar probes on hundreds of human- /occupied worlds, the downloaded personalities of Raj Whitehall and the ancient battle computer known as Center work together for planetary unity. Their goal is to prepare those worlds for membersh...

  • Wedge's Gamble

    Michael A. Stackpole

    Sleek, swift, and deadly, they are the X-wing fighters. And as the baffle against the Empire rages across the vastness of space, the pilots risk both their lives and their machines for the cause of the Rebel Alliance. Now they must embark on a danger...

  • The Darkest Knight

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born -- a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia are now fourteen, and enrolled at Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy on Yavin 4. Together with friends both old and new...

  • Velvet Touch

    Catherine Archer

    THE LADY FELLIS MADE HIS PULSE THUNDER --- YET SHE COULD NEVER BE HIS Indeed, Sir Stephen Clayburn knew all too well her destiny lay in the marriage bed of an enemy. And as the king's messenger, he would be forced to deliver the woman he loved...

  • A Handy Man To Have Around

    Elizabeth August

    SOMETHING STRANGE WAS GOING ON IN SMYTHESHIRE... Posing as Gillian Hudson's handyman was just a ploy Taggart Devereux had devised to bring them together. For he was having "visions" of Gillian in danger. And Taggart knew he was the only one who co...

  • Silvana

    Meg Berenson

    Silvana Levi, a beautiful Italian-born Jewish woman with a talent for cookery, pursues her dreams of opening a chic restaurant in America, but she finds her ambition and success are threatened by true love and by her carefully concealed past. Origina...

  • Wild Beauty

    Samantha Beckett

    A DESTINY OF LOVE Unlucky in love, free-spirited Katherine Pierce decides to let destiny -- and her beat-up convertible--take her as far away from her recent past as possible. She never imagined they would take her to New Mexico--and into a job ho...

  • Married to a Stranger

    Connie Bennett

    Bride's Bay Resort: A luxurious playground with a colorful past and a romantic present! Generations of Jermains have catered to the rich and famous at their exclusive, family-owned hotel. Madeline Hopewell -- if that's her real name -- has no mem...

  • The Butler & the Bachelorette

    Lisa Bingham

    Butler . . . With a houseful of foster children, Michelle Worthington needed a handyman, security guard and temporary dad all rolled into one. Her help-wanted ad landed her a thief, a drunk and a cross-dresser! Surely, advertising for a butler wou...

  • Prince Joe

    Suzanne Brockmann

    A ROYAL PAIN The government wanted Veronica St. John to teach a tough, combat-hardened Navy SEAL how to impersonate a visiting European crown prince who'd been targeted by terrorists. But even if every gorgeous inch of him did look the part, this ...

  • The Bride of Blackness Castle

    Elaine Coffman
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    In order to free her ailing father, the lovely Lady Anne must marry the 'beast' who holds her captive....

  • Whose Baby?

    Suzanne Carey

    AN INNOCENT CHILD Sweet little Kassie had been abandoned before, and adoptive dad Jack Kelleher was determined that she wouldn't lose her family again. A DETERMINED FATHER Why should the death of his wife cause the authorities to take away t...

  • Daddy on the Run

    Carla Cassidy

    WIFE IN WAITING... Ever since her husband disappeared, Julianne Baker found herself missing him - despite their strained marriage. She wanted to believe he would come home to her and their beautiful little girl. But when - and if - he did, would it ...

  • Abbie's Child

    Linda Castle

    Abigail's Child... Widow Abigail Cooprel had been devastated by the news that her daughter had died at birth and been "switched" with a healthy baby. Now, six years later, she cherished her son as if he were truly her own, and there was nothing sh...

  • All About Eve

    Patty Copeland

    STRANDED! Eve Sutton was driving away from her past. Millionaire's daughter, society bride, Chicago heiress...she'd played so many roles, she'd lost touch with who she was. Spending quality time alone in her uncle's isolated cabi...

  • Caprice

    Lacey Dancer

    TOTAL SURRENDER Society beauty Caprice St. James rose above the sorrows of the past-with its broken promises and unfulfilled dreams--to emerge stronger and determined to succeed. Now if she could only overcome her greatest weakness: falling in lov...

  • Sinner and Saint

    Sandra Chastain

    Nikolai Sandor didn't want to feel anything for the sleeping woman who resembled a fairy-tale princess, but only he could give Karen Miller a reason to live! Murmuring endearments, he tried to convince her they were more than strangers...until she aw...

  • Willfully Wed

    Toni Collins

    FAMILY SECRETS Danielle Vine was stumped: she'd been left a huge sum of money but she didn't know from who or why! She couldn't accept her inheritance until she found out where it came from, so she hired gorgeous private eye Mitch Newm...

  • Baby in Blue

    Cara Colter

    Assignment: Baby! Officer Hawk Adams had faced some pretty tough characters in his day. But nothing had prepared him for his latest assignment -- minding a twenty-pound rabble-rouser with an almost criminal record for spitting up and raising a fus...

  • Tomorrow's Dreams

    Heather Cullman

    Yesterday's Love Beautiful singer Penelope Parrish -- the darling of the New York stage -- never forgot the night her golden life ended. The man she loved beyond all reason, handsome businessman Seth Tyler, hurled wild accusations at her and w...

  • Runaway Wedding

    Ruth Jean Dale

    Lark Mallory was a runaway bride. Jared Wolf was just the man to catch her! When Lark realized Wesley Sherborn was the wrong man for her to marry, she ran away from her wedding. Somehow, she ended up sleeping in Jared Wolf's bed and, when he ...

  • Waiting for You

    Margot Early

    EMOTIONAL, DARING, ADVENTUROUS According to family legend, golden-haired Christopher was born with a mission -- to break a family curse. Only he, it is said, can end the history of miscarriages and maternal deaths. Christopher, now a doctor l...

  • Broken Vows

    Stephanie Daniels (1)

    THE CHALLENGE From the moment Jack O'Connor, the sexy, dark-haired director of Valencia House, a San Francisco shelter for runaway teenagers, mentioned he needed a new art teacher, Wendy Valdez knew she was right for the job. As an unhappy teenag...

  • Playing with Fire

    Debra Dixon

    WHEN FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH CASTS ITS SPELL ON A MAN AND A WOMAN, ONLY THE MOST DELICIOUSLY UNPREDICTABLE AND PASSIONATE RESULTS FOLLOW A Warrior risen from the ashes to claim her heart... Haunted by an age-old secret hidden deeper than a dream,...

  • Happy Father's Day

    Barbara Faith

    WITH BABY YOU GET NINE! Fernando Ibarra was a sexy, sophisticated, handsome lawyer. He was also the father of six adopted children! Kristen Fielding hadn't known how a bachelor could win a father-of-the-year award -- until she realized Fernando's...

  • Lonesome Cowboy

    Lois Faye Dyer

    She saw the Stetson first. Then the tall, broad-shouldered body and tight, well-worn jeans. But it was the hard blue stare of Lucas Hightower that made Jennifer McCleary realize she was in over her head. The tight-lipped rancher had agreed to...

  • The Bride's Daughter

    Rosemary Gibson

    Enemies at the altar... Jordan Keston's father was about to marry Tamsin's mother -- and Tamsin was furious! As a teenager, she'd been obsessed with Jordan, dazzled by the glamour and sophistication of this rich playboy. But he had ...

  • The Rebel's Bride

    Christine Flynn

    SHE'D BROUGHT TROUBLE TO TOWN... The citizens of Leesburg were aghast. Sweet, peaceable Lindsey Hayes had up and invited a new carpenter to town. And not just any carpenter, but scandalous Caleb Whitaker, renegade brother of Leesburg's richest ran...

  • His Chosen Bride

    Marcia Evanick

    AN INCONVENIENT MARRIAGE Tender-hearted Gillian Barnett agreed to marry a virtual stranger to fulfill a long-ago promise. Powerful Mason Blacksword was the epitome of Gillian's every fantasy, but although he knew as well as she did that the terms ...

  • Dead in the Dirt

    Connie Feddersen

    A Corpse In The Crops Amanda arrives too late to talk taxes with her near-destitute client, Wilbur Bloom! The reclusive farmer is lying in a bullpen, surrounded by some ornery livestock. A search of Bloom's dilapidated farm soon uncover a wealth of ...

  • Twin Beds

    Regan Forest

    The Wrong Bed? The Wrong Twin? It was ten years since Emily Rose had seen "Chigger" Callister, but he'd grown up to be sheriff of Bluster County and a magnificent specimen of manhood -- just as she'd pictured him in her bedtime fantasies. Still, in...

  • Rogue Warrior

    Susan Gayle

    A LOVE TO FIGHT FOR Once, Mike Coburn was one of the Navy's finest Top Gunfighter pilots. Until an accident left him an embittered and battle-scarred recluse. Resigned to a life alone, Mike has given up hope of ever again experiencing the joys...

  • Waiting at the Altar

    Amy Frazier

    MEET THE JILTED GROOM: Jacob Matthews would have married his dream bride...except she left him waiting at the altar. Now he finally had the chance to win back the wife and child who should have been his! AND HIS ALMOST BRIDE: Single mom Cathryn...

  • The Marriage Test

    Madeline Harper

    He Thought Sean Fleming, world famous foreign correspondent, had found the perfect wife. His Andi would travel the world with him, waiting with open arms for his return each night. Not! She Thought Andi was ecstatic that Sean was ready to settl...

  • Undercover Husband

    Leann Harris

    HER HUSBAND? Lauren Michaels had been a widow for three years when a man appeared at her London flat, calling himself Greg, yet claiming to be her dead husband. He asked her to believe his ramblings about danger, spy rings, undercover missions...a...

  • Rebel With A Cause

    Kim Hansen

    Gabe Tyler looked like a drifter with a past. But on a dark lonely boulevard, he had been Danielle Fitzsimmon's savior.... HE WAS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE -- AND COMPLETELY IRRESISTIBLE! When Danielle bolted from her date's shiny silver sp...

  • The Temporary Groom

    Joan Johnston

    A HAWK'S WAY WEDDING The Groom: If single dad Billy Stonecreek didn't find himself a wife who was mother material, his snooty in-laws would take away his little twin daughters... But who'd marry a "no-good half-breed" like him? The Bride: Cherr...

  • Dressed to Thrill

    Kate Hoffmann

    Weddings - Glamour - Legacies - Lies Enter the House of DeWilde Since the turn of the century, the elegant and fashionable DeWilde stores have helped brides around the world realize the fantasy of their "special day." The store: DeWildes, New...

  • Whispers

    Lisa Jackson

    When Claire St. John's father decides to run for governor of Oregon, it awakens old ghosts and new scandals. Along with her sisters, Miranda and Tessa, Claire has spent years trying to outrun the past. Now, it's catching up with her. And Kane Moran i...

  • Resist Me If You Can

    Janis Reams Hudson

    Kat Comstock was quite an eyeful ...just perfect for dating! But while Sheriff J. D. Ryan was certain the new schoolteacher would fall at his feet--just like every other single gal in town--he had a sneaking suspicion that she would play for keeps .....

  • My Lady Caroline

    Jill Jones

    "Women worshipped at my altar, and yet I could not bring myself to truly love any one of them, with the exception of Lady Caroline." -- From the memoirs of Lord Byron Her parents' tragic death has led Boston heiress Alison Cunningham ...

  • Silent Song

    Leslie Knowles

    YOUNG AND FOOLISH Nicole Michael couldn't believe it! Tall, dark, and as serious as ever, Jake Cameron stood in the doorway of her dance studio. Once, they'd both been young and foolish enough to believe that an ambitious ballerina and a struggl...

  • Lilacs On Lace

    Linda Ladd

    FROM A CLOISTERED CONVENT Ainsley Campbell was raised as an orphan and an outcast within the harsh confines of Kilchurn Abbey. She was condemned for her shame-shadowed birth and haunting beauty that could only have been bestowed on her by the Devil ...

  • Maverick Hearts

    Ruth Langan
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    A female con artist and a handsome drifter become unwilling parents when they're adopted by three desperate orphans....

  • The Prodigal Groom

    Karen Leabo

    JILTED! Even though the entire town thought Jake Mercer had stood up Laurie Branson, Laurie knew Jake wouldn't be a no-show at their wedding without good reason. And then she was told he was dead. Now it's four years later, and in he strolls--hand...

  • Marriage-To-Be?

    Gail Link

    UNCERTAIN BRIDE... When Emma Cantrell arrived at the Buchanan family ranch, expectations of her marriage to the oldest Buchanan son were in the air. But soon the wild loneliness of the Texas Hill Country touched her artist's soul, and Burke Buchan...

  • Wait for Midnight

    Victoria Leigh

    WHEN FRIDAY THE T'HIRTEE'NTH CASTS ITS SPELL ON AMAN AND A WOMAN, ONLY THE MOST DELICIOUSLY UNPREDICTABLE AND PASSIONATE RESULTS FOLLOW! His gaze sparked the secret longings in every woman's soul.... He usually drew people to him like a magnet ...

  • The Cowboy and the Cradle

    Cait London

    The woman who brings the cradle to a Tallchief man will fill it with his babies... Once Duncan Tallchief had desperately wanted to find his family's missing heirloom baby cradle--until he'd sworn off getting hitched and having babies. But then, th...

  • Lady of the Upper Kingdom

    Merline Lovelace

    THE LADY FARAH As fast and sleek as a cat, Farah was one of Egypt's most intriguing mysteries, and Philip knew he had to have her --- even if her birthright decreed her a high priestess . . . and virtually untouchable! CAPTAIN PHILIP TAURON The i...

  • Somewhere to Call Home

    Patricia Lynn

    STARTING OVER Chicago divorcee Kathleen Hunter and her two teenaged daughters have left the past behind to start afresh in the rugged wilds of Montana. Seduced by the beauty of this breathtaking wilderness, it is the magnificent sight of her neigh...

  • Shattered Reflections

    Deborah Nicholas

    SHE SEES THINGS NO ONE ELSE CAN... Rachel Bradley is known for her psychic ability to uncover people's secrets and get criminals to confess. Now, in New Orleans, she is about to confront her most challenging case: to discover the truth behind her si...

  • The Accidental Bodyguard

    Ann Major

    MR. JUNE The Man: Lucas Broderick--powerhouse lawyer. The Job: Millions had been left to a conniving "goody-two-shoes." Lucas's mission? To break the will. Accident about to happen: Beautiful mystery heiress Bethany Ann Moran--a.k.a. Chandra...

  • Baby Romeo: P.I.

    Jule McBride

    ONLY A PINT-SIZE DETECTIVE COULD SOLVE McSWEEN V. McSWEEN! Late to stake out a suspicious wedding, luscious lawman Sean McSween didn't need a new partner--especially not one in diapers! Even worse, New York's finest was still juggling bottles and ...

  • The Ballad of Josie Dove

    Mary McBride
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    Robbed of her memory, Josie finds herself completely at the mercy of the taciturn sheriff who won her in a card game....

  • Got It Bad

    Mary Kay McComas

    He was all the trouble she could handle... She'd stormed the fortress of his laboratory to discover what Kurt Andropov might be concealing, but Dr. Mack McKissack wasn't staying any longer than she had to in the devil's lair! When a shocking accid...

  • The Daddy Trap

    Leigh Michaels

    ALL SHE'D WANTED WAS A BABY... Nine years ago, Lindsay and Gibb had the perfect marriage. Except for one thing: in Lindsay's mind, only children could make a marriage complete. She loved Gibb and longed to have his baby. But Gibb was wary...

  • The Last Seduction

    Elda Minger

    THE FIRST SEDUCTION Christy Garrett and Jake McCrae had been high school sweethearts--and eventually lovers. It all ended suddenly ... horribly one hot night when Christy sent Jake away ... without explanation. THE LAST SEDUCTION Jake had never ...

  • The Groom Who (Almost) Got Away

    Carla Neggers

    The groom who almost got away? Completely got away is more like it. Max Slade just up and left Calley Hastings without a word. But now, three little Slades suddenly send for her.... What she learns: 1) Max left her to raise his orphaned brothe...

  • Now and Forever

    Kimberly Raye

    Arranged Marriage They were betrothed as children to be husband and wife. But Jase Terrell refused his legacy and ran off, defying "the family." Now his promised bride was in danger. And though Kayla Darland was the one woman who could spell his d...

  • The Bartered Bride

    Cheryl Reavis

    "Do We Marry Or Not, Caroline Holt?" It occurred to Caroline that everyone in her small North Carolina community accepted the obvious reason for her agreeing to marry Frederich Graeber. She was pregnant, and the real father of her baby was unwilli...

  • The Candy Dad

    Pat Pritchard

    SWEET FANTASIES When his sister-in-law called to ask him to look after his nieces while she and his brother took a well-deserved vacation, attorney Jesse Daniels just couldn't say no. Besides, in this quiet, woodsy suburb of Seattle, what could p...

  • The Birth Mother

    Tara Taylor Quinn

    Bryan's niece. Jennifer's daughter. He knows it. She doesn't. Dashing ladies' man, brilliant entrepreneur and bachelor uncle, Bryan Chambers is now a bachelor father. That's because suddenly--tragically--he's the only remaining family his eleven-y...

  • The Baby Exchange

    Kelsey Roberts

    "That's not my baby!" Lord Barrett Montgomery awoke from a six-week coma only to discover that he was a new father...and the mother was gone. When Zoey Kincade, the hauntingly irreverent social worker, brought him his baby daughter, he knew someth...

  • Love vs. Illusion

    M.J. Rodgers

    She was on the fantasy ride of her life... When her brother is betrayed by his own client, it's up to A.J., Justice Inc.'s ace investigator, to prove his innocence. But to do that, A.J. will have to live out another woman's fantasies....

  • Substitute Mom

    Maris Soule

    "DADDY'S HOME..." was a phrase Kari Carmichael never thought she'd hear little Timmy say. She had agreed to care for the fatherless four-year-old, and she was loving every minute of mothering the boy. But then a tall, gorgeous replica of the child w...

  • The Littlest Cowboy

    Maggie Shayne

    SURPRISE: IT'S A BOY! Sheriff Garrett Brand was shocked to find a baby on his doorstep. While his siblings joked that maybe he wasn't such a responsible guy after all, Garrett knew he was nobody's daddy. But the Texan was intent on discovering the...

  • Stranger in Paradise

    Amanda Stevens

    Welcome to The Other Side of Paradise When Emily planned on hyping her new B&B by republicizing a fifteen-year-old unsolved murder, she never dreamed the townspeople would react so bitterly. Or that attempts on her life would be part of the deal.....

  • Twice a Father

    Moyra Tarling

    TWICE A FABULOUS FATHER Widowed dad Reeve Walker was shocked to discover he had another daughter -- a child he'd never known existed. His little girl had become fast friends with her own half sister, without anyone knowing the truth. Anyone, except ...

  • The Maverick Marriage

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    With Only Forty-Eight Hours To Lasso Their Mates-It's A Stampede To The Altar! He had power, success, his two sons-but no woman. So when Trace McKendrick found out Uncle Max had arranged for him to be reunited with his long-lost bride and longtime...

  • Flirting with Danger

    Kate Walker

    A secret admirer? Catherine Davies was being stalked by an obsessive admirer. He seemed to know everything about her--where she lived,_ what she wore and who she went out with. Worse, Evan Lindsay had nominated himself as her bodyguard. Having the...

  • A Wish for Love

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    A Match Made In...Heaven? Ian: Tall, dark and absolutely gorgeous. An enigmatic loner, carrying an awful secret. Bailey: Proud, independent and resourceful. A true Good Samaritan. She can't stand to see people unhappy - to her own detriment. ...

  • The Loner and the Lady

    Eileen Wilks

    "WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED?" She woke up cold, practically naked and in a stranger's bed. Sophie couldn't remember a thing...and she sure didn't recognize the brooding loner who was nursing her back to health. But still...

  • Only a Whisper

    Gayle Wilson

    What words had he whispered? Called in the night to transcribe the bedridden confession of a dying man, federal agent Rae Phillips lost her heart to a voice in the darkness, a hero whose face she never saw... What secrets did she keep? Two y...

  • You Must Remember This

    Clara Wimberly

    MAN WITHOUT A PAST Sarah James knew the stranger who had staggered out of the rainswept night and fallen into her arms was bad news. And yet she couldn't turn him away, this man who knew nothing about himself -- not even his own name.... Night ...

  • Not Without My Child

    Rebecca Winters

    Tessa Marsden. Her marriage was a mistake; her son, Scotty was not. She loves her child with all her heart and soul. She's tried hard to make the marriage work, but this is a marriage that can't be saved. She knows now that she has to get out - befor...

  • Single in Seattle

    Carolyn Zane

    He's marriage material, but... First Date: It rains. You're wearing too-high heels and pantyhose that don't fit when your 48-hour Superbra reaches its 49th hour. Second Date: He gets pulled over for speeding. The cop who gives him a huge fine...

  • Priscilla Hires a Husband

    Loree Lough

    To Priscilla and Caleb, a marriage of convenience seems the only solution. She'll do anything to provide for her beloved grandparents: he needs her help to rescue his failing farm. Despite her resolve to the contrary, Priscilla finds herself drawn...

  • A Wing and a Prayer

    Tracie Peterson

    "A wing and a prayer are all that you'll ever need." CJ O'Sullivan had always agreed with her father's favorite phrase, until now. Until the devasting accident that trapped her for hours amid the wreckage of a plane that held the remains of her belov...

  • Stable Cat

    Garrison Allen

    Chestnut steeds and silver spurs. High riding and good times. That's why folks in Empty Creek, Arizona, expect from the Great Arabian Horse Show. What they get instead are low blows and bad news. First, a magnificent prize stallion disappears. Then h...

  • The Risk of Heaven

    Bob Berger

    When Dr. Risk wakes up alone on a dock on the East River, he's got more than a bad hangover -- he's got a problem.  He can remember a party the night before on a yacht with his old friend Bill Golden, but nothing else.  He takes a cab home, grogg...

  • Five Alarm Fire

    D.B. Borton

    CAT CALIBAN INVESTIGATES Suspicion is second nature to any woman who's raised three kids. So Cat Caliban figures she has what it takes to be Cincinnati's smartest snoop: an eye for evidence, a talent for spotting lies, the sharp wit of Erma Bombeck-...

  • Iced

    Carol Higgins Clark

    SOLVING A CRIME AT A SKI RESORT CAN BE ALL DOWNHILL! P1. Regan Reilly has high hopes for her Aspen vacation -- such as meeting an unmarried man! But a mystery soon has the chic detective snooping rather than skiing. Million-dollar paintings have b...

  • High Island Blues

    Ann Cleeves

    IN A BIRD-WATCHER'S PARADISE, MURDER COMES HOME TO ROOST. Among the birders from around the world gathered for the dazzling spring avian migration on the Texas coast are three old friends from England -- Rob, Mick, and Oliver -- celebrating the tw...

  • The Solitaire Mystery

    Jostein Gaarder

    The story of a boy and his father on a car trip through Europe, searching for the boy's mother, who left many years ago to find herself. Structured as a deck of cards -- each chapter is one card in the deck -- The Solitaire Mystery subtly weaves toge...

  • Still Life

    Rick Hanson

    Spare Parts and Mortal Remains, Rick Hanson's savagely funny Adam McCleet mysteries, have thrilled readers everywhere. Now, Still Life takes the ex-marine, ex-cop, and hopefully-soon-to-be-famous sculptor to the holy mecca of high art: Taos, New Mexi...

  • Call No Man Father

    William X. Kienzle

    "Kienzle has written another supremely intelligent puzzler featuring his perceptive priest, Father Robert Koesler, and bolstered by a strong cast of engaging supporting characters." -- Booklist"Father Koesler is on the case, thank God." -- Baltimor...

  • A Blessed Death

    Carroll Lachnit

    Hannah Barlow quit the police force to become a lawyer. But challenging the law is different than enforcing it... Maria Luz Duran was tragically murdered after joining a radical religious sect. Now the Church is hoping that her fame will attract f...

  • Codename: Gentkill

    Paul Lindsay

    Hoover's boys have come a long way. The once buttoned-down Feds are getting as crazed as the criminals they're up against--breaking rules, breaking chops, and making enemies in a war zone of crime. But now someone is targeting them. Agent Mike Dev...

  • Larceny and Old Lace

    Tamar Myers

    FOR WHOM THE BELL PULL TOLLS As owner of the Den of Antiquity, recently divorced (but never bitter!) Abigail Timberlake is accustomed to delving into the past, searching for lost treasures, and navigating the cutthroat world of rival dealers at fl...

  • Press Corpse

    Ron Nessen; Johanna Neuman

    The oddest political couple in Washington, D.C.--a right-wing radio host and a feminist, left-wing reporter--team up to investigate the death of a well-known journalist and unearth a conspiracy against the president. Reprint....

  • The Triggerman's Dance

    T. Jefferson Parker

    From the author of "Laguna Heat" and "Summer of Fear" comes an intense, masterful novel of murder and revenge on California's Gold Coast--a page-turning thriller with a deep emotional undercurrent about love, loss, and the need to make things right....

  • The Anatomy of Murder

    Bill Pomidor

    Dr. Calista Marley, a forensic pathologist and Cleveland's deputy coroner, joins forces with her physician husband, Plato, to investigate the mysterious death of a talented drug researcher, one of Plato's favorite former patients...

  • Sacred Prey

    Vivian Schilling

    Killing a young couple that were unable to pay him back, loan shark Adam Claiborne is terrified when he confesses to an unfamiliar priest who refuses to absolve him, and he wakes up to discover himself in the body of his own victim. Reprint....

  • In a Heartbeat

    Eric Stone

    Investigating the brutal murder of two young women, Detective John Carnes draws the people he most cares for--including his daughter, his partner, and his lover--into his own dark compulsions. Reprint....

  • What's the Worst That Could Happen?

    Donald E. Westlake

    TRUMPED! Don't cross Dortmunder. Not even if you're a billionaire tycoon. Especially if you're a billionaire tycoon. Because Dortmunder has his code of honor, and Max Fairbanks, master of the universe, has just crossed over the line. Fairbanks's ...

  • Beware Sleeping Dogs

    Karen Ann Wilson

    It seems unlikely that there would be any connection between several sick stray dogs, some high-voltage power lines, a mysterious fire, and a dead body in the woods. But there is. Something sinister is going on in the Florida town of Paradise Cay. An...

  • Games of State

    Jeff Rovin

    In the newly unified Germany, old horrors are reborn. It is the beginning of Chaos Days, a time when neo-Nazi groups gather to spread violence and resurrect dead dreams. But this year Germany isn't the only target. Plans are afoot to destabilize Euro...

  • Blood Kin

    Ronald Kelly

    PRAY FOR THE DAWN The vampire curse of the Cravens ended over a century ago when Josiah Craven was buried in an unmarked grave and a stake driven through his heart. But tonight, his ancestors have awakened their Great-Grandpa Craven. They're plannin...

  • Lunatics

    Bradley Denton

    Jack has been widowed for close to a year, and his behavior has his friends worried. Arrested for public indecency, Jack insists that he was meeting a moon goddess of desire named Lily. Furthermore, he claims that she can only find him if he waits ou...

  • Higher Education

    Jerry Pournelle

    When a misfired practical joke gets him kicked out of school, Rick Luban thinks he has nowhere to go but down. Instead, he gets a second chance - and a whole new life - when he signs up for a career in asteroid mining. Life in space proves more chall...

  • Murder Will Speak

    Joan Smith

    Corrine deCoventry was the lone female in the Berkeley Brigade, a quartet of aristocrats who charmed the London ton. But when the lovely young widow wore the deCoventry pearls to a masquerade ball, and they were stolen by a masked Robin Hood -- the f...

  • Fatal Flaw

    Frank Smith

    DEAD FOR THE HOLIDAYS What drove seventeen-year-old Monica Shaw to take her life with an overdose of insulin? The pain of being alone and unwanted for the holidays at Thornton Hill Girls' School -- or something else? It's a Christmas murder for Detec...

  • Ruins of Civility

    James Bradberry

    Princeton architecture professor Jamie Ramsgill journeys to Cambridge, England, to research a new book and to visit his former mentor, retiring professor Rainer Grass, but his trip takes an unexpected twist when Grass, hated by most of his colleagues...