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  • Kristi D. Holl

    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...



  • Julius Schwartz

    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

    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...



  • Graham Joyce


    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...



  • Graham Joyce

    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...



  • Marie Jakober

    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...



  • Eric L. Boyd

    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

    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...



  • Margaret Weis

    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. ...




  • Jon Sharpe

    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...




  • Jake Logan

    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....



  • Jon Sharpe

    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...



  • J.R. Roberts

    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...



  • J.R. Roberts

    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...



  • Tabor Evans

    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 ...



  • Tabor Evans

    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. ...



  • William W. Johnstone

    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...



  • Mike Flanagan

    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 ...



  • Douglas Hirt

    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....



  • Vivian Leiber

    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 ...



  • Elizabeth Mansfield

    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...



  • Laurel O'Donnell

    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...



  • Emilie Richards

    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 ...



  • Janice Bennett

    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...



  • Emily Carmichael
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    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...



  • Deanna Mascle

    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...



  • Candace McCarthy

    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...



  • Barbara Metzger

    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...



  • Mary Lynn Baxter

    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...



  • Elizabeth Bevarly

    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...



  • April Kihlstrom

    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 -- ...



  • Anne Laurence

    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...



  • Berta Platas Fuller

    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...



  • Roberta Gayle

    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...





  • Nan Ryan

    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...



  • Patricia Ryan

    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...



  • Julie Beard

    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...



  • Donna Bell

    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...



  • Alyssa Deane

    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...



  • Deb Stover

    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 ...



  • Janelle Taylor

    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...



  • Carola Dunn
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    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....



  • Isobel Linton
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    A tempestuous redhead presents an aristocratic seducer, gambler, and good-for-nothing with a shocking alternative - true love!...



  • Valerie King
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    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......



  • Linda O. Johnston

    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...



  • Linda Shertzer

    "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....



  • Lynn Kurland
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    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...



  • Elizabeth Bevarly
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    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...



  • Karen Drogin

    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...



  • Daniela Salcedo

    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 ...



  • Hayley Ann Solomon

    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-...



  • Constance O'Banyon
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    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 ...



  • Evelyn Rogers
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    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 ...



  • Bobbi Smith
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    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 ...




  • Gayle Buck

    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...



  • Kathleen Nance

    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....



  • Patricia Phillips

    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...



  • Anne Barbour
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    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...



  • Elisabeth Fairchild
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    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...



  • Carla Kelly
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    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...



  • Michaila Callan

    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...



  • Elda Minger
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    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...



  • Shana Abe

    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...



  • Elaine Barbieri

    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...



  • Virginia Farmer

    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...



  • Gayle Callen

    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...



  • Kathryn Attalla

    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...



  • Hannah Howell

    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...




  • Danelle Harmon

    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...



  • Sonja Massie

    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...



  • Allison Lane
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    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...



  • Barbara Metzger
    in

    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...



  • Elaine Barbieri
    in

    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 ...



  • Cliff Garnett

    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...



  • Don Pendleton

    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 ...



  • James Axler

    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...



  • Don Pendleton

    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...



  • Nancy Fisher

    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...



  • David Jacobs

    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...



  • Don Pendleton

    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...



  • April Smith

    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...



  • Don Pendleton

    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...



  • J.N. Williamson

    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 The Haunt. Original....



  • John Wooley

    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....



  • Charles L. Grant

    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...



  • Gayle Greeno

    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...



  • Hilari Bell

    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 ...



  • Paul Kidd

    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...



  • Lillian Stewart Carl

    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...



  • Lillian Stewart Carl

    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...



  • Vance Moore
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    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....



  • Greg Cox

    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...



  • Stephen R. Lawhead

    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...



  • Sean Williams; Shane Dix

    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....



  • Martin H. Greenberg

    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...



  • William C. Dietz

    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...



  • Jack Dann

    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, ...



  • Andrea Boeshaar

    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...



  • Joyce Livingston

    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...



  • Rosey Dow

    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...



  • Debra White Smith

    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...



  • Lynn Austin / Lynn N. Austin

    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...



  • Susan Amarillas

    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...



  • Meg O'Brien

    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...



  • Mildred E. Riley



  • Helen Cannam

    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 ...



  • Beverly Clark

    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 ...





  • Eileen Goudge

    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...



  • Vicki Lewis Thompson

    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...



  • Janet Evanovich

    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 ...



  • Heather MacAllister

    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...



  • Lori Foster

    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...



  • Stephanie Bond

    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...



  • Aileen Armitage

    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...



  • Patricia Cabot

    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...



  • Tina Leonard

    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...



  • Mindy Neff

    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. ...



  • Linda Randall Wisdom

    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...



  • Jo Leigh

    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...



  • Kristin Gabriel

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