Meet Alex Alex Diaz is the "new kid" who's been sent to live with her grandparents in Edgewood, where she hides her homesickness from everyone but her new best friend, Morgan. Alex feels judged and out of place, and she responds by judging the oth...
Before there was Superman or Batman, before Ray Bradbury or Harlan Ellison ever picked up a pen, before there were science-fiction fans and conventions, there was Julius Schwartz -- a man who would have an indelible effect on all this and more.
Lucrecia Guerrero's shimmering debut collection paints a vivid, beautiful, and haunting portrait of life in a fictional U.S./Mexican border town as it traces the crossed paths of a cast of characters whose lives intersect in surprising ways. By turns...
Finally available in America: the debut novel from the author of The Tooth Fairy and Dark Sister
It began as an experiment in college--a seemingly harmless investigation into "lucid dreaming," the ability to control one's dreams.
B...
Maggie and Alex have their problems. their old, drafty house, for one thing. Their stressed-out marriage, for another.
Then one day, uncovering and cleaning the house's original fireplace, they discover a dead blackbird...and an old handwritte...
The year is 1134. In an isolated German monastery, an aging monk begins the history of a war. It is in part his own story, for he was there, thirty-one years before, as squire to the proud Crusader knight Karelian of Lys.But even as Paul begins his h...
Cloak & Dagger provides Forgotten Realms(r) fans with the complete details of the city of Westgate.
The Forgotten Realms setting is one of the most well-known fantasy environments in the world of adventure gaming. Fans love exploring the mysteriou...
Melissa Scott, winner of the John W. Campbell Award, twice winner of the Lambda Award for best novel, and author of the cyberpunk classic, Trouble and Her Friends, returns with a hip novel of the media-dominated future, when the internet is filled wi...
A New Bill of Fare
Welcome, guest, to our inn.
To celebrate the coming of a new age to Krynn, we have devised a menu of succulent dishes we hope you wil lenjoy. Take a seat in your favorite booth. Order a mug of your favorite beverage. ...
DEATH AND DECEIT IN DENVER When he agrees to guide a self-professed "gemologist" and his lovely daughters on an expedition for diamonds, Skye Fargo ends up hitting a Rocky Mountain low for his troubles. Not only is he caught between the affections...
In desperate need of some ready money, Slocum takes a job as a lumberjack in the northern California, but his new job is complicated by the superintendent's sultry daughter and by a band of renegade Pomo Inidans out to stop the logging. Original....
THE GREENEST HORNS IN THE WEST... Ferdie and Corny may be the sons of wealthy New York businessmen, but the only thing on their minds is raising hell Western-style, just like in the dime novels they read all the time. But when their pranks go too fa...
THE OBESE OUTLAW When Clint Adams's old friend Detective Talbot Roper invites him to Denver, Colorado, to help out on a case, how can he refuse? For three years a series of robberies has besieged the southwest, and Roper believes they're all being p...
NO NOOSE IS GOOD NOOSE... Hoping to find a replacement for his now-retired horse, Duke, Clint Adams heads to Minnesota, where an old friend has promised him just the animal he needs. But once he gets there, his friend seems to have vanished. And w...
Longarm tangles with some bad Samaritans when he goes undercover!Longarm goes undercover to lead a group of Christian Cherokee down Mexico way in search of some missionaries rumored to be stranded there. He reckons it won’t be easy, what with nosy ...
Longarm investigates a web of deception surrounding a Senator and his deadly wife -- a notorious Black Widow with a bite as poisonous as her namesake. ...
USA Today bestselling author: It's a race against time to rescue a gunslinger's wife held hostage . . .Selling his gun to the highest bidder, sharpshooter Monte Carson rode side by side with Big Jim Slaughter, the most feared hombre in...
FALLING ISN'T A PROBLEM, AS LONG AS YOU CAN GET BACK UP... Under the guidance of veteran cowboy Jack Lomas, young rodeo rider Clay Tory has slowly but steadily risen in the ranks. Everything is coming together for this unlikely partnership. But the ...
Seeking a meal and lodgings in Calico Lace, Colorado, Jacob Kellogg is baffled when the local townspeople greet him with hostility, until he discovers that he bears an uncanny resemblance to a young gunfighter named John Carver. Original....
THEY GAVE THEIR HEARTS... Ten years ago, in the tiny Colorado town of Sugar Mountain, three local girls -- Paige, Kate, and Zoe -- secluded themselves in a mountainside cottage. By the end of that fateful summer, one of them had born a son. All ...
Blessed with boyish charm--and a sizeable inheritance -- Lucian Hammond, Lord Kettering, is as welcome at the gentlemen's clubs as he is at society soirees. But his penchant for gambling lands him in debt -- and puts him at the mercy of his mother, w...
THE HEAT OF PASSION Disguised as the legendary hero known as the Midnight Shadow, Lady Bria Delaney swore to rid the land of Lord Terran Knowles' cruel tyranny. She was stunned to encounter him in her father's castle--one of the many suitors vying f...
Once a struggling community of Irish immigrants, Lake Erie’s Whiskey Island has a past as colorful as the patrons who frequent the Whiskey Island Saloon. A local gathering place for generations, the saloon is now run by the Donaghue sisters, whose ...
Xanthe, the irrepressible fairy godmother who befriended young Regency hearts in THE CANDLELIGHT WISH and THE STARLIGHT WISH, smooths true love's rocky course once more. All she needs to commence her spells is the ripple of water in a mirrored bo...
When Mars meets Venus ... When day clashes with night ... When love sparks the hottest battle of the sexes since Adam said yes to Eve... Man and woman. Right off the bat it spells trouble. But sometimes love at first sight needs a second glance--a...
UNTAMED SPIRIT An Indian raid made Rebecca Wallace a young widow who needed to fend for herself and her infant daughter in the dangerous Kentucky wilderness. Though an abusive marriage has all but destroyed her trust in men, she had no choice but to...
A WOMAN BOUND BY HER FUTURE... Raised by the Lenni Lenape tribe, Joanna Neville returns to them after spending six years in England under the strict hand of her uncle. The carefree young girl known to her tribe as "Autumn Wind" is now an heiress wit...
A Scandalous Proposal When his betrothed leaves him stranded at the altar. Lord Galen Woodbridge is more embarrassed than broken-hearted. Desperate to deflect attention from his humiliating plight, he decides to stir up a bit of a scandal-by weddi...
Things are heating up... HOT AS A SUMMER NIGHT Since her mother's tragic suicide, Lindsay Newman has watched her wealthy Mississippi family spin out of control. Tired of being a pawn in men's games, Lindsay is determined to become a rebel in h...
How Do You Trap A Tycoon? Dorsey MacGuiness wrote the "foolproof" how-to guide to marrying a millionaire that everyone's talking about. And now her runaway bestseller is running away with her life! By day she's a staid sociology professor, but oth...
Nanny Knows Best Behind the sedate façade of Kendall Hall, the Kendall family is in disarray. Young Pamela is in love with her childhood friend Julian, who pines for an altogether different girl. Meanwhile, Pamela's father is not himself at all -- ...
SHE GAVE IN TO PASSION... Knowledge of a dark family secret had forced Tressa Devlin out of her wealthy home and into work as a paid companion to aging dowagers. Moving from post to post to support herself, Tressa had no time for life's pleasures--u...
After a less-than-professional first meeting with Felipe Rodriguez, Alina Marquez hides behind the guise of a secretary, unwilling to reveal that she is actually the vintner who has transformed a dilapidated Georgia vineyard into a prestigious winery...
Bright Lights Through hard work and an eye for opportunity, Regina Primm has turned her small public relations firm into one of the West Coast's hottest. So, when she's hired to publicize a big-studio film, she jumps at the chance. But Regina soon...
SHE WAS A PROPER LADY As the mighty ocean liner sank to its watery grave, two strangers boldly savored their final moments by making passionate love. Matching the raging hurricane outside with her own white-hot abandon, Countess Madeleine Cavendis...
THE SUN King Henry's most valued spy Hugh of Wexford, likes his wine; his women ...and above all, his freedom. Scarred by a brutal upbringing, Hugh vowed long ago to make his own way in the world, unhindered by ties of any kind--especially those o...
Dear Reader: I own that I've fallen in love with my new husband! And I knew very well I shouldn't. Though handsome and charming in a rakish way, Lucas Davin is a cutpurse from one of the worst criminal districts in London. I married him in a d...
ON HER HIGH HORSE... Never having met a man she could rate as highly as her racing horses, Missy Lambert wanted nothing to do with the stronger sex and certainly possessed no plans to marry. At just three and twenty years, she had the famous Lambert...
Alone in a strange land, one woman will meet the only man who can claim her heart... A clandestine love affair is the last thing Roxane Sheffield expects from her trip to India--a reunion with her long-estranged father is troublesome enough. But w...
Destiny Swept Her Back in Time... After a romantic mountain getaway ends in disaster, Jackie Clarke finds herself hiking back to civilization alone. But a wrong turn soon lands her in an abandoned ghost town, where in one moment she's staring ...
SOMETIMES, WHAT THE MIND CAN'T REMEMBER... Awakening in a hospital, Jarred Bryant has no recollection of the plane crash that nearly killed him. At first, all that remains familiar is the beautiful woman at his bedside: Kelsey--his soon to be ex-w...
Twenty years ago, 'Pirate' Pendragon abandoned his sweetheart Lady Alicia in favor of captaining a privateer. Now, he is reunited with Alicia at Almack's...yet their shared secret could ruin her....
A tempestuous redhead presents an aristocratic seducer, gambler, and good-for-nothing with a shocking alternative - true love!...
A beautiful governess must rein in four hot-blooded suitors ready to call out 'The Rogue', the infamous Lord Rotherby. But her preference for the bounder goes back farther than they know......
Dr. Larryn Maeller, in London for a medical conference, is staying at Seldrake House -- an ancestral mansion that once belonged to the duke of Seldrake. A portrait featuring the duke and his dog -- a Cavalier King Charles spaniel -- hangs in the hous...
"You must lose something you can't afford to lose, trust someone you have no reason to trust, and love someone with no hope of him ever loving you in return..." Such were the words that greeted Cassie Bowen upon her visit to her maiden aunt Flora....
When Mars meets Venus ... When day clashes with night ... When love sparks the hottest battle of the sexes since Adam said yes to Eve... Man and woman. Right off the bat it spells trouble. But sometimes love at first sight needs a second glance--a...
When Mars meets Venus ... When day clashes with night ... When love sparks the hottest battle of the sexes since Adam said yes to Eve... Man and woman. Right off the bat it spells trouble. But sometimes love at first sight needs a second glance--a...
THE BEST ADVICE... Advice columnist Carly Wexler is planning her wedding the same way she has planned her life -- perfectly, with no room for loose ends or real passion. Though her heart doesn't leap when she thinks of her fiance, she's cert...
What's a red-blooded man to do when the view from his apartment window features a stunning--and stark naked--stranger? Antonio Colon does his best not to peep--after all, he is a gentleman! Then, at a local dance club, he comes face-to-face with his ...
Can a lady-turned-governess teach a lord about love? STAR LIGHT, STAR BRIGHT... Miss Anne Derringer had failed miserably as a lady. Her passion for astronomy had labeled her a bluestocking. She'd plunged her fortune into a ship named Polaris-...
FOUR WEDDINGS...AND NO FUNERAL!
Is there anything more beautiful than a bride? Anything more emotional than a wedding? Here to capture that shimmering excitement, to bring to life the matrimonial mantra of 'Something old, something new,' are four ...
FOUR WEDDINGS...AND NO FUNERAL!
Is there anything more beautiful than a bride? Anything more emotional than a wedding? Here to capture that shimmering excitement, to bring to life the matrimonial mantra of 'Something old, something new,' are four ...
FOUR WEDDINGS...AND NO FUNERAL!
Is there anything more beautiful than a bride? Anything more emotional than a wedding? Here to capture that shimmering excitement, to bring to life the matrimonial mantra of 'Something old, something new,' are four ...
The Beautiful Pretender A family tragedy caused Cassandra Weatherstone to be separated from her twin sister, Belle, at an early age, and a family scandal then insured they would forever live apart. But no family dissension could ever break the sis...
THE JOY OF COOKING Long after she'd given up on his return, Matthew Mark Hennessy strolled back into Joy Taylor's life, bolder than Hermes when he'd stolen Apollo's cattle. But Joy was no longer the girl who had so easily trusted him with her heart....
The fire that rages in Adele St. Clare is unquenchable. The feisty redhead burns with anger when King John decrees she marry against her will. Then her bridal escort arrives-Rafe De Montford-and within her most secret places, the handsome swordsman i...
THE GRAND HOTEL... The most fashionable place to rest your head -- and warm your heart Brand-new and breathtakingly stylish, London's Luxurious Grand Hotel is the perfect setting for romantic rendezvous, glittering celebrations -- and C...
THE GRAND HOTEL... The most fashionable place to rest your head -- and warm your heart Brand-new and breathtakingly stylish, London's Luxurious Grand Hotel is the perfect setting for romantic rendezvous, glittering celebrations -- and Cupid...
THE GRAND HOTEL... The most fashionable place to rest your head -- and warm your heart Brand-new and breathtakingly stylish, London's Luxurious Grand Hotel is the perfect setting for romantic rendezvous, glittering celebrations -- and Cupid...
FROM THEIR VERY FIRST KISS... Seventeen years ago, America's premier young model, Eva Channing, ran from the glamorous world of New York fashion to small-town Texas, where she could forget her passionate, doomed affair with photographer Carson Brand...
When Mars meets Venus ... When day clashes with night ... When love sparks the hottest battle of the sexes since Adam said yes to Eve... Man and woman. Right off the bat it spells trouble. But sometimes love at first sight needs a second glance--a...
Lauren MacRae is only a woman. But her father's death has left her the leader of the Clan MacRae. Now it is up to her to defend her beloved Isle of Shot from the invading Northmen, even if it means going to her clan's sworn enemy, the powerful Englis...
With his fierce golden eyes, Raven saw a vision of the future that torments him, drove him to seek vengeance against the white man. Famed for his fearless exploits, sought after by the women of his tribe, he has sworn to show no mercy to the enemies...
WORTHLESS Jilted by her fiance, Tanner had to struggle not to believe that her own value had been somehow diminished. Still she knew better than to let that fear ruin her tour of England. But no one had explained to her that there would be a mock br...
SHE SWORE NEVER TO MARRY Lady Margery Welles has the uncommon privilege of choosing her own husband -- but it's a decision she has no desire to make, and the king wants an answer soon. Pursued by noblemen eager for a wealthy bride, Margery finds...
CAN A BLAZING NEW LOVE... Abandoned to foster homes as a child, beautiful Charlotte "Charlie" Lawson is steel and velvet on the outside, but on the inside, she's vulnerable and lonely. Even though, deep down, she longs for romance, Charlie decided l...
In book one of a new Scottish trilogy that captures the lives of the spirited daughters of the Murray brothers, Hannah Howell spins a passionate tale of a woman who risks everything to win the heart of the man who captures hers... Ten years ago, y...
The bluest of blood; the blackest of rogues; the de Montforte Brothers will take your breath away. MEET LORD ANDREW Blessed--or perhaps cursed--with a fiery temper, a strong will, and a blatant disregard for his brother's wishes, Andrew's only...
Luck of the Irish... Lucky in love... Moya Mahoney loved being Irish -- the traditions, the people, and her town of Killarney. She ran her own bed-and-breakfast during the day, and spent her nights in the downstairs tavern, singing songs and tel...
THE GRAND HOTEL... The most fashionable place to rest your head -- and warm your heart Brand-new and breathtakingly stylish, London's Luxurious Grand Hotel is the perfect setting for romantic rendezvous, glittering celebrations -- and Cupid...
THE GRAND HOTEL... The most fashionable place to rest your head -- and warm your heart Brand-new and breathtakingly stylish, London's Luxurious Grand Hotel is the perfect setting for romantic rendezvous, glittering celebrations -- and Cupid...
FOUR WEDDINGS...AND NO FUNERAL!
Is there anything more beautiful than a bride? Anything more emotional than a wedding? Here to capture that shimmering excitement, to bring to life the matrimonial mantra of 'Something old, something new,' are four ...
When an American F-16 pilot is forced to bail out over Iraq, knocked out of the sky by cutting-edge radio technology masterminded by international terrorist Osama bin Laden, the TALON Force goes into action to destroy the terrorist's new weapon and r...
HARD JUSTICE Operating outside the law to combat the forces of global terror, the ultra-covert Presidential task force known as Stony Man is comprised of an elite group of counterinsurgency specialists with a take-no-prisoners directive from the ...
Stumbling upon a hidden cache of weapons in Ohio, Ryan Cawdor and his fellow survivalists take possession of a powerful armored tank called Leviathan, but the weapons draws them into a dangerous confrontation with lady Ward of Novaville, an ambitious...
WAR GAMES Panama is a hotbed of drugs, political corruption and murder as the Canal reverts from U.S. to Panamanian control. Cartel muscle, the Chinese government and local death squads are all making a bid for power by spilling blood and spreadin...
Genelife is a breakthrough drug that restores youth and vitality with stunning speed. But when Dr. Kate Martin joins its marketing team, she is plunged into a nightmarish labyrinth that takes her from the board room to the Rain Forest, from the inner...
A new age dawns and Evil gathers for the final conquest... In the shadows of the Alps, a vampire princess and her devil-cult seek to resurrect the Bride of Frankenstein... In England, the grandson of the legendary Werewolf of London learns to h...
TASK FORCE A joint DEA/Justice Department death squeeze against narcobaron Don Jorge Luis Samosa is under way. starting with the indictment of high-level officials on the Don's payroll, followed by the launch of state-of-the-art interdiction vesse...
From the author of North of Montana ("The writing has the taut, perfect tone of a well-tuned string"--Scott Turow), a spellbinding new thriller about ambition taken to unexpected, and deadly, extremes. Cassidy Sanderson is a scout for the Los Angeles...
A WORLD IN FLAMES An experimental magnetic pulse technology that could revolutionize the mining industry is hijacked and turned into a weapon of mass terror. Mack Bolan finds himself one step behind a sophisticated enemy as savage as he is powerfu...
Sixteen horrifying short stories, collected here for the first time, reveal a spinetingling world of shadowy terrors and dark forces, in an imaginative anthology by the author of
Clinically dead for ten minutes, Case Hamilton comes back to life only to hear screams of agony ringing in his head, and he soon realizes that he may have brought an unspeakable evil back from the dead. Original....
Ethan Proctor, the brilliant, enigmatic head of Black Oak Security, reluctantly submits to his employees' orders to take some R&R in Atlantic City. But his vacation soon develops into something entirely different -- a web of murder, lies, and...vampi...
In Gayle Greeno's highly anticipated return to her most successful and beloved series, a new generation of human Seekers and their catlike ghatti companions journey to a dangerous wilderness-- while in the tunnels beneath Marchmont's Capital a deadly...
Survival at any cost? To save the world from an alien invasion, humanity altered their children's genetic code--but now they're paying the price. Earth's younger generations are dying, slowly succumbing to a terrible disease...a disease without a ...
The ranger and the faerie are back! Fresh from their encounter at White Plume Mountain, the Justicar and Escalla are on the way to Hommlet. But life around a pixie is never exactly . . . stable. Escalla is drawn into the intrigues of the faerie co...
The warrior women of Sabazel merge their strength, wits, and love with the warrior men of Sardis in a desperate attempt to stop the encroaching forces of the cruel Bogazkar and his army of black wizards...
First print-published by Ace Books in 1986.What if an Amazon queen had a love affair with Alexander the Great?What if their son had to defend his lands from the Mongol Horde?What if his sister was the priestess of a bull-cult on Crete?What if her son...
War in Jamuraa! The Keldons have landed in the north. The Jamuraau League of City-States has put together a ragtag defense and enlisted the help of the planeswalker, Teferi. But even a planeswalker cannot by himself hold back the might of Keld....
The X-Men--mutant protectors of a world that fears and hates them. The Avengers--Earth's mightiest heroes, the greatest superteam ever assembled. Now they have joined forces with the incredible Hulk against the deadly Leader, having traced him to his...
In a time of legends and heroes, blood and mystery, one man will carry on his family's destiny as he sets upon a dangerous and glorious quest. The Great Crusade is long over, or so Duncan, son of Murdo, believes until a long-lost uncle appears fro...
Renegade intelligence officer Morgan Roche risks her career and her life when she sets out to find Adoni Cane, the last of a group of genetically enchanced warriors, whose very existence threatens the future of humankind. Original....
ROBERT J. SAWYER * JACK WILLIAMSON * ALAN DEAN FOSTER * ALLEN STEELE * ROBERT CHARLES WILSON * PAUL LEVINSON * EDO VAN BELKOM * TOM PICCIRILLI * ERIC KOTANI * MIKE RESNICK & KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH * DANA STABENOW * PETER ULLIAN * PAMELA SARGENT From...
Colonel Bill Booly earned a promotion and well-deserved hero treatment for his troops after they stopped a mutiny against Earth's government. But now they face the ultimate challenge... A DIFFERENT RACE A "new" alien race, the Thrakies, has app...
A provocative anthology of short fiction by some of the world's leading science fiction authors explores the secret world of the aliens who live among us, featuring contributions from Robert Silverberg, Theodore Sturgeon, Gene Wolfe, Avram Davidson, ...
The last thing Alec Corbett wants is another romantic relationship. Hoping to escape a recent heartache, he moves to North Carolina to begin anew. But then he meets his next-door neighbor. Lydia Boswick, a widow with two children, seems more like the...
Rose Kinsey wears designer jeans and spike-heeled boots. Bane Jacob wears worn Levis and dusty, worn-out boots. She attends elegant, big city parties. He attends ice cream socials. What could bring these disparate individuals together? Rose's fath...
Lisa Feiklin has not been known for making wise choices. Her latest attempt to follow her fancy just landed her penniless in a strange town. A job cooking at the hotel pays only her room and board-so how will she save money to return home? John Bo...
Due to an encanny resemblance to an outlaw named Denham, the Reverand Noah Thorndyke is scheduled to hang at sunrise for a murder he did not commit. Shot during a desperate jailbreak, the bleeding fugitive finds himself in the middle of Angela Isaacs...
Nothing in her life as a wife, mother, and teacher had prepared her for this. At forty-two, Abigail MacLeod is about to realize a lifelong dream -- participation in an archaeological dig in Israel. Crushed by her husband's decision to end their marri...
OUT WEST HE'D FOUND A LIFE... AND A WIFE! Unfortunately, Molly Murphy was married to another man, a man who'd abandoned her at the first sign of trouble. Still, the real and aching need to have her at his side made railroad entrepreneur Ethan Wil...
Abby Northrope has everything a woman could want. A wonderful home in Carmel-by-the-Sea, a wealthy lawyer husband, a wide circle of friends and a secure place in the community. She has everything…until Marti Bright, Abby's best friend from school d...
Charged with high treason Philip Blount is sent to the Tower of London, leaving behind his beautiful fiancee Honoria Somervill. The king's favourite courtier, Gavin Hamilton offers her Philip's life in return for her honour. On her rejection he vows ...
Lesley Wells has made a new life for herself as a successful designer. Everything is perfect until Darren Taylor her former fiance, plans to buy the company she works for and dredges up the past. When he discovers that they share a child, he insists ...
Noelle Van Doren has never forgiven her mother for putting her career ahead of her family responsibilities. Left in her grandmother's care for much of her childhood, Noelle always swore that things would be different with her own daughter. And they w...
The Blacksmith Boone Connor liked being a loner, plain and simple. In his estimation, women just got a guy into trouble. And he had enough of that already.... His Woman Shelby McFarland and her young nephew were on the run. When a freak snowstor...
HOT DAY Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is faced with her most daunting task yet: bring in the mysterious former Special Forces agent Carlos Manoso (aka Ranger). He's the man who taught her everything about fugitive apprehension, and Stephanie knows ...
SWEET TALKER #6 -- Logan Van Dell Bad boy Logan loved a challenge--whether it was raising the eyebrows of the local townspeople, or seducing their daughters. But this time he was putting his heart on the line .... Amber Madison has always had a...
Sawyer Hudson, being the only doctor in Buckhorn County, took it upon himself to rescue the beautiful but enigmatic woman who came literally crashing into his life. Though he knew he should keep things platonic and professional, around her his body h...
THE DAYS WERE HOT... Nurse Georgia Adams can't sleep - and it's got nothing to do with the local heat wave. She's got a lukewarm boyfriend, a nonexistent love life - and she's frustrated, really frustrated. So she decides to take the edge off by c...
Who was he, this Colonel Thomas Blood? Troublemaker, Irish upstart, unscrupulous rogue, or one of the most loyal subjects Charles II could wish for? He certainly became notorious during the years of the Restoration for his conspiracies, intrigues and...
A WOMAN OF UNCOMMON SPIRIT When beautiful Kate Mayhew is hired as chaperone to Burke Traherne's headstrong daughter Isabel, the Marquis finds himself in an impossible predicament. Torn between the knowledge that she is exactly what Isabel needs bu...
Maitland Maternity: Where the luckiest babies are born! DADDY KNOWS LAST! San Antonio, Texas Seems one Sam Winston returned home today to discover he was a bona fide father... of twins! Was it possible that his bride, Maddie, had taken an u...
Wanted: Women and Babies Where: Shotgun Ridge, Montana When: As soon as possible! Wyatt Malone had been ambushed! The little boy staring earnestly at him thought Wyatt was his new dad - and the boy's pregnant mommy claimed to be his bride-to-be. ...
BLIND DATE BABY Prim and proper Dr. Gail Roberts didn't know a thing about Brian Walker, except that he had heart-stopping blue eyes and looked great in a tux. Though her blind date was certainly more than the doctor had ordered...she never expec...
What kind of woman needed a court order to get a date? To his dismay, Houston pediatrician Connor Malloy would soon find out. Stranded in a little Texas town, arrested on ridiculous charges, the broad-shouldered bachelor was 'sentenced' by a courtroo...
Whether you're looking for lattés or love, you'll find both at Café Romeo... Noah Callahan was a charming playboy who loved beautiful women -- at least for a night or two. But as tempted as he was by gorgeous Sabrina Lovett, he wasn't taking any ...
FAMILY FOOLERY! Chet James was getting rich writing a column about the trials and tribulations of being a single dad. Never mind that he was really a confirmed bachelor and childless! But when his editor, the tantalizing P.J. West, insisted on an ...
Bed-and-breakfast owner Kate Corrigan had always been fascinated (all right, make that a little obsessed) with pirates. But lately, one man had blazed his way into her secret pirate fantasies -- her neighbor Toby Mancini. But that didn't make sense...
Corporate lawyer Emily Chaplin's life was boring -- with a capital B! Until the day she got caught up in a mystery and met the wildest, sexiest man of her life -- Tyler O'Toole. Suddenly Emily craved the daily excitement of hunting down the bad g...
Escape Was All That Mattered Burdened by a dark and joyless past, Rosamund Clavier would not willingly go the altar. Indeed, if her plans held true, she would not go at all. But fate intervened in the person of a near-legendary knight called Agravar...
THIS TIME THE EARL OF DARE HAD GONE TOO FAR Valentine Sinclair, the Earl of Dare, was an enigma, even to those who professed to know him well. For while his morals seemed suspect and his leisure pursuits as reckless as any of his well-heeled peer...
HE'D HIDDEN HIS PASSION BEHIND ANOTHER MAN's NAME For John Bandera knew that a genteel Mississippi flower like Emily Russell could never share her life with a half-breed Comanche rancher. But the hiding was over. His true love was here, in the f...
'I knew a woman on the ranch would disrupt my peace - and I sure was right.' Jake Banyon had his hands full catching a wild stallion without wrangling with a fiery Carly Paxton. His boss's daughter's unexpected invasion of his hard-earned privacy pos...
Livestock? John MacLaren had all the answers. But little girls? On that subject he was clueless. What did an orphan know about creating a home, expecially for a delicate child like Lissy? He needed help. And help came...in the most unexpected, most u...
WILD, WILD WESTERNER Ride horseback through dangerous Montana high country with infuriating AJ Clayburn as her guide? Fine--if that would help reporter Jacquelyn Rousseau get her story and prove to the rugged rodeo champ she was anything but an up...
Even champion bull rider Dakota Graywolf could not defy Cheyenne tradition. So when Annie Winters asked him to be her husband - and father to three Native American boys - he accepted with reluctance...and pride. Dakota expected his honor to bring a r...
The very pregnant woman standing before J. T. Ryker couldn't remember who she was - or the name of her unborn baby's father. But Gina Banning was the one woman J.T. would always remember. The last time he'd seen her she'd told him she hated him - and...
REVERSAL OF FORTUNE Once, Laurel Sutherland had been to the manner born, while Connor Northrup was the chauffeur's son--and they'd had nothing in common but young, innocent love. Now Laurel was in desperate financial trouble, and the only man who ...
"WILL YOU DANCE WITH ME?" Orphaned Cindy Danbury's heart beat faster when John Hale Hitchcock invited her into his arms. He was back -- the handsome prince she'd adored from afar -- and still beyond her reach. In fact, she should be serving at he...
WHAT KYRA KNEW ABOUT MR. REDMAN: •He was the company's corporate kingpin. •He took his coffee black--and bitter. •On Sunday he would become Kyra's husband! Kyra Symington nearly fell out of her ergonomically correct secretary's chair when of...
THE BOSS AND THE BEAUTY Brittany Baldwin was helplessly in love with her sexy, much older boss. But the sophisticated college professor wanted nothing to do with an innocent like her. Well, she wasn't going to let that stop her, especially since ...
JED KNEW MEN AND HORSES. AND HE UNDERSTOOD A LITTLE ABOUT WOMEN. But born illegitimate, a lifelong loner, what the cowboy didn't understand--would probably never understand--was families. Which meant that the attraction he felt for rich, pr...
THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT: Clause I: At all times and in all places, Rebecca Linden and Logan Brewster must remember that they are together for business ...and business only. Clause II: Even though Ms. Linden is living in Mr. Brewster's hotel f...
Years ago, Hunter Coleburn hadn't been worthy of blue-blooded Eve Ruskin. But he'd risen above his humble beginnings to become a successful attorney. Yet power and wealth hadn't diminished his ardor for the vulnerable beauty. So when Eve needed to ma...
LOVE'S PATCHWORK Block by block, stitch by stitch, the baby quilt told its story of love. And Emily Miller swaddled her precious newborn within it to provide protection...and to remember the family she and her child were forbidden to see. To...
She was practically royalty -- the daughter of a rich, renowned horse-breeding dynasty. He was just a hardworking horse trainer. But Brian Donnelly was in America now, where even he might aspire to possess the breathtaking Keeley Grant. Her we...
ANOTHER MacALLISTER BLESSING? He was just passing through town, when his life changed forever. Jack MacAllister, tried-and-true bachelor, suddenly found himself a little boy's #1 daddy pick. But the adorable tyke's single mom didn't seem as sold...
HE WAS THE MOST MAGNIFICENT MAN SHE'D EVER ENCOUNTERED Maude Ann knew she was in trouble when wounded detective Matthew Dolan was sent to Henley Haven to recuperate. The nurturing foster mom couldn't afford to fall for another man in blue, yet Ma...
LIANA AND THE KING Single mom Liana Archer had read her share of romance novels featuring dashing, passionate sheiks. Still, she was astonished when sinfully handsome Malik Khan, Crown Prince of exotic El Bahar, hijacked her and her little girl of...
The Wilders of Wyatt County: Featuring the lives and loves of the Wilder family of Wyatt County. Their hearts are as big as the wild Wyoming sky! WHO WAS THE FATHER? Vivacious beauty Rachel Wilder and achingly handsome Native American Grad...
Dear Reader,
Some folks say Route 66 no longer exists. But for those of us who love the old highway that "winds from Chicago to L.A.," it is more alive, more meaningful, and more romantic today than it has ever been. In much the same way, some...
RANDOLPH FAMILY TIES: Branson, Langley and Ryder: Randolph brothers, family men, larger-than-life Texans. Flesh and blood bind them to each other--and to a mystery baby girl. One is her father ...all are her protectors. Sheriff Branson Randolph...
Every night, he slipped into her dreams Millionaire Duke Masonne had vanished years ago and was presumed dead. But Liza Hawkins never forgot her lover's face, his touch, and never gave up hope he would return. She saw Duke everywhere -- in her dre...
He asked her to be his wife, a mother to the children -- and before the night was through...possibly the widow Quin McClure had no right to show up on her doorstep after five years, looking sexy and desperate, with two tiny orphaned children in tow,...
He had given her the one thing she treasured most...and he didn't even know it Eden Maes came back to the Native American pueblo to clear her family's name for the sake of her baby boy. What she found was danger...and only one strong helping hand....
THE BEST MAN AND THE BRIDESMAID Best man Rafe Cameron's feelings are aroused all over again at the sight of Alison Kinross, so amazingly beautiful in her bridesmaid's dress. This time he's determined not to give in to them. They l...
Two bundles of trouble... When Mac Weston found himself guardian of his sister's children, he knew he was in trouble. He was a man who worked so hard he barely had time to look after himself; let alone a pair of mischievous toddlers. Which was...
Cameron Malloy is handsome, successful and single... But Elizabeth wouldn't have him if he were the last bachelor in Texas. It doesn't matter that she's loved her boss for years - he takes her for granted. If she's ever going to have ...
Surprising Mr. Elliott Christian Elliott has a lot to learn! Christian knows about money, million-dollar contracts and hard-line negotiations. But he doesn't know anything about family, babies or love. Then some unfinished business takes him to t...
MITCH OLIVER IS A MAN's MAN Which is probably a good thing since he's raising four rowdy teenage boys on his own. His schedule is filled with guy stuff such as hockey, baseball, football. Then he gets custody of his very feminine little niece. ...
Old money. Old scandals. A new chance at love... Annabelle Langley is all wrong for Ben Jackson. Ben's an ambitious district attorney with plans to move up in the political arena. Annabelle's messy past -- or at least the past she believes is hers...
All about Evie! Evie Vaughn is a struggling but devoted single parent of three boys. She has quips to spare but never any cash. She's about to spend a summer working with brawny but brainy ex-football hero Joe Scalotta. He's a single parent, too,...
SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO TELL A LIE TO FIND THE TRUTH Her sister had lived such a secret life, Whitney Sheffield didn't even know that Morgan had a three-year-old daughter. In a desperate phone call just before her death, Morgan had begged Whitney t...
She longed for Graydon Payne to be her daddy, and Stacy Lucas to be her mommy. And there was only one way to bring them together: by running away. . . Stacy would do anything to find the lost child-even face the one man she never wanted to see again....
THE PRODIGAL DOCTOR COMES HOME... When Rebecca Forrester pledged her five-year-old heart to Brett Elliot, the idealistic doctor-to-be had vowed to return one day to care for her and the other townspeople. Well, Brett had finally come home - but no...
Sheriff Mitch McCade had built a good life, a life based on the bedrock values of Hill Creek, Texas, the town he loved. All he needed now was the right woman to share it with. So he'd decided to find himself a wife -- with the help of his best friend...
ALLY BRADY NEEDED MONEY FAST And the gorgeous cowboy at the pool table looked as though he could afford to pay some of her grandfather's medical bills, so Ally relieved him of a thousand dollars, never suspecting he was Ace Wilde, CEO of Wilde Mi...
RIGHT BRIDE... Merry McBride had always dreamed of her wedding day--but being left at the altar was more like a nightmare! And though she tried to hold her head up, she never would have gotten through it if not for Nick Kincaid. Sheriff. Best man. A...
SHE NEVER KNEW LOVE -- UNTIL HIM Raised in a gilded cage, she was the chubby twin sister no one noticed. Now her weight loss made Marissa Pierce the kind of woman every man desired - including Robert Martinez. If only she had the courage to retu...
PROTECTOR IN THE SHADOWS He'd been dubbed her guardian angel, this man who came by night to warn Dr. Grace Evans and her medical team of coming danger. Grace had never seen his face, but his velvet voice reached out of the darkness, stirring longi...
This deadly masquerade... It was by far the most dangerous thing Heather Buchanan had ever done. In a desperate attempt to save everything that was precious to her, she had been forced to go undercover, to unearth the secrets of the most mysterious -...
The woman who called herself Gigi McCowan had been in the wrong place at the wrong time, and it had nearly cost her her life. Now all that stood between her and the cold-blooded killers on her trail was one solitary man, a burned-out federal agent wh...
When Emma's husband is shot down over war-torn France and declared missing, she finds companionship and support with her would-be suitor, Jack. But for how long can Emma deny the man who excites such passion in her? And will Jon, by now reduced to a ...
Zac Abriendo had it all: A wife, a son, and a job he loved. His world was grounded in a deeply rooted commitment to work and family that spanned generations. His days were spent on the Gulf shrimping with his father. His nights were divided between c...
Regally beautiful, Lady Alexandra Wilton has refused to wed without love. She will not compromise--until her father dies and his shocking will reveals that Alexandra will lose everything unless she marries his heir. Much to everyone's surprise, the n...
The Fortunes of Texas: Membership in this family has its privileges... and its price. But what a fortune can't buy, a true-bred Texas love is sure to bring! THE DECEPTION Years ago steely attorney Cole Cassidy had been forced to give up the onl...
When her friend, an African-American jazz musician, is accused of murder, San Francisco native Meg Wagstaff heads to the Big Easy to clear his name, and finds love there in the arms of a wealthy local. Original....
OPERATION WEDDING RING With thirty closing in and no hint of marriage proposal on the horizon, small town waitress Maddy Parker has big, big plans. Step one: find a suitable man. Step two: marry him. Step three: live happily ever after. Sounds simp...
Mike Harkin is one lucky guy. Not just because he’s miraculously survived a traumatic accident, but because he’s finally met the elusive Ms. Right: the surgeon who saved his life. Dr. Catherine Cady doesn’t know it yet, but Mike is about to tra...
Velvet Devereaux has come to the small town of Acadia to look after her spirited grandmother and forget about her two-timing playboy of an ex-husband. Waiting tables by day and teaching line dancing by night doesn't leave her much time for a new roma...
WHATEVER IT TAKES... Jenny Reder is finally moving on with her life. Her CPA business is thriving, and she's engaged to a man who may not be the love of her life -- but then, the love of her life left her at the altar. Now, however, just as abrupt...
A Southern beauty born and bred, Nell Pennington can't bear the thought of losing the majestic Kentucky horse farm she calls home. So when Derrick Gentry miraculously turns up and offers to buy the note on the farm in exchange for the use of her priz...
Widowed after a disastrous year of marriage, Lily Monroe vowed to never again relinquish her freedom to any man, until a deadly band of comancheros rode onto her ranch. Their leader, the tall, powerful half-breed, Shadow Hawk Quinn, coolly informed h...
Driven by fierce patriotism to England, the Marquess of Haverstock will do anything to reclaim the money his best friend lost at cards, money that was to purchase battle plans from a French official. The bewitchingly beautiful but illegitimate Anna D...
Bianca degli Albizzi was outraged when Cristiano de Medici asked for her hand in marriage. For the treacherous de Medicis had long been her family's sworn enemies. But even after Cristiano received the blessing of Bianca's father, who was intent on u...
New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham presents the first novel in a thrilling new trilogy. Set against the glittering backdrop of a popular daytime soap opera, Valentine Valley, it creates a world where fantasy and reality are sometimes fa...
WHAT DO WOMEN WANT? King Richard has had it with frivolous females filling his ears with their foolishness. Yet for all his castles and dragon-slaying, he still needs a wife. Preferably one who won't plague him with womanly whining. One who knows ...
Eclipse Bay has grown and flourished on the rugged Oregon coast, where the shore can be rocky and forbidding, full of sharp cliffs and hidden coves. But this small town is also filled with secrets as treacherous as the landscape -- and rivalries as...
Christy Miller is now an independent nineteen-year-old college student living in Switzerland, where she's been attending an international university. After being on her own for nearly a year, Christy is surprised and delighted when her two closest fr...
All Vicki Kent wants is a few days of off-season isolation at her parents' windswept Cape Cod home. But instead of blissful solitude, she's greeted by a gun-toting stranger -- and a sudden, fierce attraction she can definitely do without. Tha...
Margaret Spenser is a no-nonsense accountant who likes to do everything by the book and keep everything under control. That's what she explained to Mr. Riley Sheridan when she signed on to help him straighten out the financial concerns of his charter...
New York DJ Frankie Nottingham should never have issued such a bold threat -- namely, that her team could beat his team in the World Series. Well, they didn't, and now Frankie has to spend an evening eating crow with southern country radio jock Sam M...
THAT TAKES THE CAKE! All Cassidy Jones can remember about last night's bachelor party is jumping out of one of those silly cardboard cakes wearing a ridiculous costume, all in the name of paying the rent. But then everything went fuzzy! And she ...
In a remote New Mexico campground, six people are killed in an apparently senseless murder spree. Deputy State Police Chief Kevin Kerney suspects the slayings weren't random at all--but rather a calculated plot to eliminate one high-profile victim: r...
Police reporter Michael Merrick journeys into the dark underbelling of nineteenth-century Boston as he investigates a series of deadly arson fires within a local Shaker community. By the author of
Private investigator Molly Piper, a four-foot-nine ex-cop from Chicago, is hired by an irate Washington State politician, Edmond Bercain, to find the people responsible for papering the town of Grace, on an island in Puget Sound, with flyers accusing...