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New Books List: 532 titles

  • When Second Graders Attack

    Lawrence David

    Something is amiss in Blootinville! Someone has replaced all the food in town with Chef Nibbles's disgusting ultra-chemical Snoodles and Cheaze. To make matters worse, a roving band of second graders calling themselves the Nibblettes have immobili...

  • Transformation

    Kara Dalkey

    Nia and Corwin have each fought their own battles. Now they are Joined together to face their most dangerous enemy yet: Ma'el, the evil Avatar. In order to defeat Ma'el, they must retrieve a magical sword from Atlantis. But after a treacherous journe...

  • Fallout

    Daniel Parker

    Dear Charles, I regret to inform you that I have expelled your son, Noah. This was not a decision that I made lightly. Indeed, it is particularly vexing to me, as you and your family have faithfully supported the Wessex Academy for so many years. ...

  • The Root Worker

    Rainelle Burton

    Terrified by the frightening world that surrounds her, from her family and school to the voodoo priestess who holds her mother in thrall, Ellen, an eleven-year-old African-American girl growing up in Detroit in the 1960s, desperately searches for a s...

  • The Shadows of Power

    James W. Huston

    A small nation that bolsters the terrorist cause is flexing its military muscle in a far corner of the world. On a mission to the now-volatile Mediterranean, F/A-18 pilot Lieutenant Ed Stovic shoots down an Algerian MiG at the climax of a dramatic, h...

  • The Secret Agent

    Francine Mathews

    WHO WAS JACK RODERICK? They called him the Legendary American: Trained by the OSS, Jack Roderick plummeted into Bangkok one rainy morning in 1945 and never left. He was feared and respected as a foreign spy, a business kingpin, and a trader in men's...

  • Going for Infinity

    Poul Anderson

    More than just a collection of some of Poul Anderson's most acclaimed works, Going for Infinity is both a celebration and a memoir of Anderson's distinguished sixty-year career in science fiction and fantasy. Alongside several Hugo and Nebula Award-w...

  • The Wedding Dress

    Virginia Ellis

    Julia and Victoria Atwater were barely brides before their husbands marched off to fight in the Civil War. Now alone, with scarcely enough money to see them through until spring, they embark on an impetuous mission to bring joy back into their younge...

  • Out of the Storm

    Susan Johnson
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    A soaking downpour...a gamekeeper's remote hut...a night of unforgettable passion--vivid memories shockingly reawakened at the formal introduction of smolderingly handsome Prince Radovsky to his new stepsister, the fiery Lady Darlington......

  • With His Promise

    Liz Madison
    in

    Victoria Woodville is any man's equal. Fabled knight Stephen de Burgh realizes this as he helps her to victory during a siege. She's a woman of unparalleled appeal who inflames his desires as never before, igniting a rapturous alliance as they face d...

  • The Awakening

    Bertrice Small
    in

    Marguerite Abbott, the most enchanting courtesan at the most elegant brothel in Paris, has lost her heart to no man...until an irresistible visitor from New Orleans teaches her the true meaning of Eros' delights....

  • Roses Will Bloom Again

    Lori Copeland

    When Emma returns home to Serenity following her sister's untimely death, she must confront Sam and the feelings she never fully dealt with after their broken engagement. A strange clause in her sister's will forces Emma to stay and work with Sam to ...

  • Angel of Mercy

    Tracie Peterson; James Scott Bell

    Could She Defend a Man Whose Innocence She Doubted? When Kit's old adversary is arrested on suspicion of murder, she is stunned when he insists she is the only one who can represent him. Torn between his desperation and her resolve to represent onl...

  • The Enchantment

    Nikki Donovan
    in

    When Lord Blackhurst spies the alluring Esmay picking wildflowers in the forest, he knows he must make her his...but how can he break the terrible curse that prevents an exquisite beauty from knowing the ecstasy of being in his arms?...

  • No Regrets

    Patricia Haley

    For eighteen years, Karen and Johnny Clark have been blessed with an enviable lifestyle, three bright children and the "perfect" marriage. But over the years, their idyllic relationship has slowly begun to unravel. And when Karen experiences a seriou...

  • The Healer

    Dee Henderson

    A flood brings them together... Rachel O'Malley is a trauma psychologist who works disasters for the Red Cross; her specialty is helping children. Captain Cole Parker has spent the last year fighting fires, investigating arsons--and falling in love ...

  • The Sceptred Isle Club

    Brent Monahan

    In 1905, John Le Brun makes his first excursion to England to visit import broker Geoffrey Moore. Le Brun and Moore became friends six years earlier while Le Brun was Sheriff of Brunswick, Georgia and enmeshed in a perplexing murder case at the very ...

  • Final Cut

    Billie Sue Mosiman

  • August Nights

    Patricia Wallace

  • Fair Exchange

    Michele Roberts

    In the early 1800s in a small village in rural France, a peasant woman named Louise summons her priest. Fearing she is about to die, Louise begins her final confession to the bored cleric and reveals a lifelong secret involving a famous woman writer,...

  • Circle at Center

    Douglas Niles

    In the realm of the Seven Circles, all creatures live in harmony within their own sphere. The noble centaurs live in the forests. The goblins and trolls lurk underground. And in the tranquil center the most evolved beings of all--the elves and the dr...

  • The Devil's Redhead

    David Corbett

    Dan Abatangelo hits Vegas to test his luck and finds love instead: Shel Beaudry, a tomboy redhead with a wild streak. Dan’s no innocent himself; he captains a distribution ring for premium Thai marijuana. His credo: “No guns, no gangsters, it’s...

  • Vivian: An Autobiography

    Sherrie Krantz

    Meet Vivian . . .A small-town girl who conquers the Big City on her own terms . . . a sucker for happy endings with an attraction to all things fattening -- and a personality that oddly gets her in (and out of) trouble at lightning speed. This is her...

  • Mr. Right For The Night

    Marisa Mackle

    Set in Dublin, a sparkling romantic comedy in the bestselling tradition of Marian Keyes, Jenny Colgan and Cathy Kelly. Having just celebrated her thirtieth birthday, Anna Allstone is feeling high and dry on the shelf. Even worse, she has to face the ...

  • His Insignificant Other

    Karen V. Siplin

    Twenty-nine-year-old New York City film professor Casey Beck is at a crossroads. Employed but unfulfilled, she sees her professional aspirations slipping away. And the personal life she thought was finally coming together almost fell apart when she d...

  • Rangle River

    Zane Grey

    This gripping collection captures the essence of the Wild West and includes two short stories, two short novels, and two first-hand accounts of the author's own adventures in the territories he writes about. Reprint....

  • Stranger to the Sun

    Jeff Mariotte

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends.... NEVERENDING NIGHT When Wesley opens a package that arrives special delivery, he is instantly sent into a coma-like slumber. It's obvious he has fallen victim to a spell, and Angel sets off w...

  • Deep Water

    Laura Anne Gilman; Josepha Sherman

    Shape-Shifters Willow's soft spot for critters finds her spending a cold winter morning along the coast as part of a volunteer rescue team, cleaning up an oil spill that has damaged the marine habitat. While climbing over some rocks, she discovers...

  • The Ultimate Lover

    Adrienne Basso
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    Three independent women, three high-stakes wagers -- and three losses. Now these daring ladies set out to lose their maidenhood to the ton's most dangerous rogues -- but might find love where they least expect it . . . To wreck her domineering...

  • Once a Renegade

    Peter Brandvold

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    FROM THE CURRENT KING OF THE VIOLENT, SEXY, HARD-DRIVING WESTERN

    The sixth novel in the hard-boiled, western classic Sheriff Ben Stillman Series.

    Maybe it was a moment of insanity. Maybe it was revenge. Or maybe the Metis Indian, Sha...

  • Longarm and the Haunted Whorehouse

    Tabor Evans

    These spooky strumpets don’t stand a ghost of a chance!There’ve been plenty of tall tales goin’ around about long-dead madams and passed-on pimps acting all too lively out near Animas Point.  And far be it from Deputy Custis Longarm to let...

  • For the Norden Boys

    John D. Nesbitt

    Tom Atkins is out of work. So when the Norden brothers ride into his camp one night and offer him a job, he figures he might as well accept. The Norden boys are nice enough and they just bought a small ranch nearby. All things considered, Atkins coul...

  • Random Gunfire

    J.R. Roberts

    Forced to seek refuge from a vicious storm in the remote town of Random, Oklahoma, Clint Adams runs afoul of Bittermeyer, the local mayor, bank owner, and overlord, who controls everything--and everyone--in the town. Original....

  • One Night with Lucifer

    Debbie Raleigh
    in

    Three independent women, three high-stakes wagers--and three losses. Now these daring ladies set out to lose their maidenhood to the ton's most dangerous rogues--but might find love where they least expect it . . . Determined to prove that women a...

  • The Pleasures of a Wager

    Colleen Faulkner
    in

    Three independent women, three high-stakes wagers--and three losses. Now these daring ladies set out to lose their maidenhood to the ton's most dangerous rogues--but might find love where they least expect it . . . American heiress Alison May was ...

  • Possession

    Sonia Icilyn

    British fashion designer Eve Hamilton is determined to get justice for her beloved brother's death. And she thinks she knows who's responsible...attractive Professor Theophilus de Cordova. On the pretense of sponsoring a fundraiser, she decides to ...

  • Cold Blooded

    Lisa Jackson

    HIS VENGENANCE WILL BE REPEATED... A woman's slashed, incinerated corpse is found in a seedy New Orleans apartment. Her killer is certain there were no witnesses, unaware that his every move was seen by a beautiful stranger--from her bed in a bayou ...

  • My Lady's Pleasure

    Julia Justiss

    A VIRGIN WIDOW AND AN ENIGMATIC ROGUE New to the passion galloping in her veins, Lady Valeria Arnold was shocked by the wanton impulses that drew her to Teagan Fitzwilliams. The stunning rake was nothing more than a wastrel with the devil's own lu...

  • Falling Home

    Karen White

    You Know That Saying About How Sometimes You're The Windshield And Sometimes You're The Bug? It's true. Take me, for example. I shook the Georgia dust from my feet fifteen years ago, vowing never to leave Manhattan. I traded sweet tea for Chardonn...

  • Between Friends

    Debbie Macomber

    The friendship between Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski begins in the postwar era of the 1950s. As they grow up, their circumstances, their choices -- and their mistakes -- take them in virtually opposite directions. Lesley gets pregnant and marries...

  • Practice Makes Perfect

    Kathryn Shay

    They'd grown up at Serenity House -- a group home for girls. Now they're coming together for the first time as adults. Childhood friends who'd shared difficult times, who'd shared hopes and fears, laughter and tears -- and perhaps most important of a...

  • The Diamond King

    Patricia Potter

    The fighting at Culloden nearly destroyed Alex Leslie. Once a Highland nobleman with a truly brilliant future, Alex left the battlefield with a scarred face and wounded spirit -- and a hatred of the British that still ravages his soul. As captain of ...

  • Love Lessons

    Donna Simpson
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    With nowhere else to go, penniless Linnet Pelham took refuge with her sister in London only to find that her sister's betrothal to Lord Cairngrove was the scandal of the ton. Linnet was determined to see the wedding take place, which meant convincing...

  • A Country Courtship

    Donna Simpson

    duplicity and desire prove a captivating mix... THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN... Lord Gerry Haven prefers the quiet beauty of his Yorkshire farm to the artifice of London and the marriage mart. Thus, his matchmaking family takes it upon themselves to fin...

  • Love's Journey Home

    Jackie Stephens

    Deception Texas Ranger Kane Fairchild was in hot pursuit of the gorgeous desperado who'd shot his father and made off with $30,000 in stolen gold. She'd deceived him twice before -- and even managed to grab his gun and steal his horse. Vowing he woul...

  • A Rogue's Promise

    Peggy Waide

    A LADY'S QUEST Eighteen years before, deep in the mountains of China, Lady Joanna Fenton's father found a sacred statuette. The two-headed dragon was reputed to beget prosperity, but for Joanna, it had brought nothing but heartache. Her father had b...

  • The Stone Forest

    Karen Harper

    Stone County, Indiana - a stunning landscape of rock quarries, caves and underground rivers - is a place of unique beauty...and a place marked by an unsolved tragedy. One warm night 16 years ago, sisters Jenna and Amanda Kirk disappeared. Days lat...

  • Under the Covers

    Rita Herron

    Marriage counselor Abigail Jensen faked it, and she is going to have to keep on faking it. She wrote the book on how to keep a relationship alive, and now the public is clamoring for more than her advice‹they want her to demonstrate her techniques! B...

  • Cheek to Cheek

    Willa Hix

    WOULD SHE EVER BELONG TO HIM? Olivia Marlowe should have known better than to trust her fate to her half-brother Jeremy. Leaving England for the United States and escaping an unwanted engagement was all well and good, until she learned Jeremy had ...

  • Conqueror

    Kathryn Hockett

    HER FIRST AND ONLY LOVE The daughter of an English lord, Gwyneth stands before the altar, thinking not of her hated betrothed, but of Selig, the golden-haired Viking her father enslaved when she was a child. The pendant she wears faithfully around h...

  • Tamed by Your Desire

    Jen Holling

    Refusing to marry a man she does not love, Fayth Graham is forced to flee her ancestral home. Her freedom is short-lived when she is captured by her most reviled enemy -- Alex Maxwell, who would never forgive her for teasing him mercilessly and then ...

  • The Legend of Lacy Black

    Tory Houston

    The discovery of a wrecked plane, the disappearance of a fabulous diamond, the mystery of a missing Hollywood star‹after half a century, Lacy Black is once again making headlines. It was said she is every man's fantasy and every woman's ideal. Like a...

  • The Rogue and the Hellion

    Connie Mason

    STAND... When an audacious highwayman holds up his coach and points a pistol at a rather crucial part of his anatomy, the Marquis of Bathurst has a critical choice to make -- give up his dead brother's ring or lose the family jewels. Gabriel dec...

  • Flanna and the Lawman

    Cathy Maxwell
    in

    Desperate for someone to help her protect her land, a female con artist saves an ex-lawman from the hangman's noose by claiming him as her husband. And when her "no-good spouse" turns out to be a hero, she longs to turn their charade into a real marr...

  • The Errant Earl

    Amanda McCabe

    A Clever Charade After the untimely deaths of his estranged father and actress stepmother, Marcus Hadley returns home for the first time in years. Desperate to make amends for protesting the doomed couple's marriage, he has decided to take charge of...

  • Be My Baby Tonight

    Kasey Michaels

    ...And Baby Makes Three? It seemed like a great idea at the time. Jetting off to Las Vegas to marry All-Star Phillies catcher Tim Trehan, the high-school crush she couldn't forget, was hands-down the most spontaneous thing Suzanna Trent had ever d...

  • Tangled Up in Love

    Hailey North

    SHOULD SHE CUT AND RUN... Being left at the altar once was enough for high-powered, workaholic exec Stacey St. Cyr. Stacey's supposed to be on vacation at a posh spa. Instead she's stuck in Doolittle, Arkansas-population next-to-nothing -- watching ...

  • In an Instant

    Kayla Perrin

    A Broken Dream Travel consultant Tara Montgomery has plotted out her ideal future, complete with white picket fence and two-point-five perfect children, and of course, her longtime beau Harris Seeman. But when Harris relocates to a distant city an...

  • Surrender the Stars

    Linda Lea Castle

    Betrothed But Loving Another...Or So He Thinks Desmond Vaudry du Lac is appalled when King Henry III commands him to wed Aislinn, who's been dubbed the Poison Flower of Seven Oaks, having buried four husbands in five years. But Desmond is loyal ...

  • In the Enemy's Embrace

    Mindy Neff

    The Only Daughter Let Nick Grayson teach you the ropes around the office, her family said, and even feisty Jessica Coleman could not deny her duty -- especially since one day she would inherit the family business. But still shamed by her teenage i...

  • A Baby for Lord Roderick

    Emily Dalton

    One Hard-Luck Baby Had the Whole Town Abuzz... When Liam McAllister, Lord Roderick, returned from England after 20 years, he landed on Dr. Allie Lockwood's doorstep -- with an abandoned baby boy! The townfolk knew the score: the playboy aristocrat...

  • To Love an Older Man

    Debbi Rawlins

    She Needed a Place to Call Home Beth Anderson was pregnant and had nowhere to turn -- until handsome, and much older, lawyer David Matthews offered her a warm place to stay for the night, no strings attached. But a well-meaning matchmaker saw the ...

  • Home-Grown Husband

    Sharon Swan

    "It's time you took a lover." Take a lover? Seduce her mysterious new neighbor? Tess Cameron laughed aloud at her best friend's suggestion. Then she met Jordan Trask, aforementioned neighbor. Suddenly Tess began to wonder how a homebody, single-mo...

  • Slow Dance With a Cowboy

    Linda Style

    Nicole Weston is shocked to encounter the man she loved -- and left -- 10 years ago. Ex-cowboy Cameron Colter appears at her classroom door because his son, Michael, is one of her students. Michael's only recently become part of his life, and being a...

  • A Sheriff in Tennessee

    Lori Handeland

    Disappointed, disheartened, and burned-out, Gabriel Klein has had it with working in big cities. He hopes the small town of Pleasant Ridge, Tennessee, will bring him peace of mind. Isabelle Ash is a successful model, but she's always wanted more. ...

  • Operation: Katie

    Roxanne Rustand

    It takes a special kind of person When Special Agent Zach Forrester's terrified sister drops her three-year-old daughter into his life, Zach swears he'll do whatever it takes to protect the little girl. So the moment someone threatens to harm the ch...

  • Anchor That Man!

    Dawn Atkins

    Renata Rose is supposed to help couples find happily-ever-after...not make them crash on the rocks of love! But she's lost her belief in marriage, jeopardizing her job hosting a TV relationship show. Enter too-charming, too-sexy co-anchor Hawk Hunter...

  • Anything You Can Do...!

    Darlene Gardner

    Lane Brooks and Clay Crawford know competition! As rival newspaper reporters, they live to scoop one another. Now they're rivals for a prestigious job at a hot new magazine, and things are really heating up. But onlookers wonder: could their huffy lo...

  • A Little Moonlighting

    Raye Morgan

    BUSINESS AS USUAL Carter James simply could not conduct business without Amy Pendleton. So when his indispensable -- utterly alluring -- associate quit to play temporary mommy to her sister's brood, the take-charge tycoon decided that if he couldn't...

  • Border Bride

    Shannon Donnelly
    in

    Eloping to Gretna Green was the only way spirited Claire Roxburgh could escape an arranged marriage to the sour elderly gentleman her father had chosen. But she didn't count on her betrothed bringing along his best friend, army officer Alan Carlton. ...

  • Everything but Love

    Natalie Dunbar

  • Spirit Warrior

    Cassie Edwards

    A SPIRITED BEAUTY As the daughter of a wealthy adventurer, Denise Russler longs for excitement. But when a terrifying Indian attack leaves her stranded in the untamed land of Wyoming, she must turn to a man she does not trust.... A POWERFUL WARRI...

  • Mission: Marriage

    Aisha Ford
    in

    How many times will Shelby Tate, editor of Agape Today magazine, place an ad for a "Write to the Heart" columnist? Not just anyone will do. The magazine's owner requires the person to be single - after all, who better to advise the unmarried? But kee...

  • Wait for Me

    Terry Fowler
    in

    How many times will Shelby Tate, editor of Agape Today magazine, place an ad for a "Write to the Heart" columnist? Not just anyone will do. The magazine's owner requires the person to be single - after all, who better to advise the unmarried? But kee...

  • A Night In Paradise

    Heather Graham
    in

    Jennifer Blake, Heather Graham and Diana Palmer, well-loved voices of romance fiction, bring you three new stories of sultry Southern romance. With a Southern Touch will renew your faith in the power of love. An eighth-generation Louisianian, Jenn...

  • To Tempt an Angel

    Patricia Grasso

    She is Angelica Douglas, the Countess of Melrose. Driven to poverty by the men who bankrupted her father, forced to support her family with skillful cheating at cards and dice, she yearns for revenge. And she is not above enlisting the aid of a chiva...

  • Sun Valley

    Gena Hale

    Will Ryder knows trouble when he sees it--especially when it's wearing a slinky red dress that's cut down to there. Gorgeous Neala Delaney's mixed up in some very bad business--and Will has agreed to hide her away on his Montana ranch, Sun Valley. Bu...

  • Never Say Goodbye

    Irene Hannon

    FROM HEAVEN TO HELL... Three years ago, married father Scott Mitchell had everything a man could want. Then, in a blinding instant, a fateful error in judgment shattered his perfect world. Yet through the long years in prison, Scott found his faith ...

  • Sinfully Delicious

    Lora Kenton

    A sure-fire recipe for true love: In a Texas whorehouse combine the two main ingredients‹a New Orleans socialite and an ex-bounty hunter. Watch Kyra Lourdes and Cliff Baldwin's emotions bubble to the surface, as old feelings are stirred up in the chi...

  • Miss Tibbles Interferes

    April Kihlstrom

    Miss Tibbles to the Rescue Bookish Ariel Hawthorne has never fit in with the ton. She would rather assist her father with his work at the British Museum than attend parties. Then her father is murdered, and the grieving girl worries how she will g...

  • A Rogue's Deception

    Valerie King

    A DEVASTATING KISS When William Pinfrith, a charming stranger, swept her into his arms at a masquerade ball, he won Alice Cherville's instant sympathy. His half-brother, the arrogant Earl of Bradenstoke, had mistreated him also. For, too, regard...

  • Marrying Miss Bumblebroth

    Mary Kingsley

    WILL AN AWKWARD FIRST IMPRESSION... The last thing Chloe Russell expects from life is a successful match. After all, when a girl has been dubbed "Miss Bumblebroth" after a disastrously clumsy debut season, landing a handsome, titled husband is an un...

  • This Side of Heaven

    Ruth Langan
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    On the run from her abusive brother-in-law, a young woman and her nephew find a safe haven with a solitary Montana rancher until the boy's father, bent on vengeance, tracks them to the secluded ranch and threatens their newfound family....

  • Bargain of the Heart

    Candice Poarch

    After suffering a heartbreaking loss, soft-spoken teacher Crystal Dupree is determined to end her marriage to Richard, who seems to love his work more than he loves her. Even when he persuades her to give their union three more months, she's convinc...

  • The Heart Doesn't Lie

    Marcella Sanders

    Jay Lee's dream job has finally come true--she's on her way to Africa to do cultural research on African marriages. The pay is excellent, the landscape is breathtaking --and so is her supervisor, Trent Prescott. But when she discovers that he's fro...

  • The Impossible Bride

    Allie Shaw

    He made a promise she couldn't refuse. She became a bride he couldn't resist. To start a new life, Deborah Edgerton takes a job far from the wagging tongues of Austin, Texas, where everyone is aware of her scandalous past. But soon after stepping...

  • The Exiles

    Nita Abrams

    A Dangerous Deception 1813: Napoleon's empire is starting to crumble. And the drawing rooms of Vienna hold the key to the future of Europe... Disguised as a boy for her hazardous journey across the continent, then set upon by thieves in a da...

  • Adam

    Jennifer Blake
    in

    Jennifer Blake, Heather Graham and Diana Palmer, well-loved voices of romance fiction, bring you three new stories of sultry Southern romance. With a Southern Touch will renew your faith in the power of love. An eighth-generation Louisianian, Jenn...

  • George & the Virgin

    Lisa Cach

    BEWARE OF THE DRAGON .. . The medieval village of Markesew was besieged, its virgins demanded in tribute, so when St. George the Dragonslayer arrived from modern times -- in his silver pants and lace-up boots -- his quest was clear. Being a professi...

  • Delphine

    Cherie Claire

    Amid the untamed forests and moss-strewn swamps of Louisiana Territory, the descendants of an Acadian exile discover danger...and desire. Raised by Captain Jean Bouclaire, Delphine Delaronde lost her heart to his partner Philibert Bertrand when sh...

  • The Magician

    Carla Cook

    Katherine Mayfield knows it is lunacy to allow Lucas Connelly into her home, to trust the magician who shows up on her doorstep in the dead of night. To save her mysteriously ill daughter, though, she would do anything‹even strike a deal with the dev...

  • Second Chance Bride

    Carolyn Davidson
    in

    Any man would be shocked to find that his new wife is already pregnant, but when a mail-order bride discovers that her overbearing new husband has a four-year-old secret of his own, it's the lonely little girl who gives her a reason to make their mar...

  • Cowboy Protector

    Patricia Rosemoor

    Cowboy rancher Neil McKenna Farrell had never felt the power of his grandmother's legacy. He had no special gifts, unless calf-roping was included. But when he met sassy Annabeth Caldwell, a cowgirl at the Chicago rodeo where he was competing, he had...

  • The Duke's Covert Mission

    Julie Miller

    A DUKE WITH A MISSION Dispossessed Duke Cadence St. John might be a maverick mercenary. He might have sold his soul to the highest bidder, but he wouldn't hurt shy, bespectacled royal secretary Ellie Standish -- had he recognized her that is! She ...

  • And the Winner Gets...Married!

    Metsy Hingle

    "AM I JUST A PIECE OF...BEEFCAKE?" All-business exec Justin Connelly hated participating in a barbaric bachelor auction. But the cause was good, so in his black tux he swaggered down the runway, and the bids piled up. Until finally he was going, g...

  • The Marine & the Debutante

    Maureen Child

    DANGER AND DESIRE IN THE DESERT When a marine rescue mission went awry, Staff Sergeant Travis Hawks realized he was in for the fight of his life. He and Lisa Chambers -- the uppity heiress he was trying to save -- were stranded and forced to race ...

  • The Bachelor Takes a Wife

    Jackie Merritt

    THE ONE WHO GOT A WAY...? Texas millionaire Keith Owens loved his bachelor ways -- until elegant and sophisticated Andrea O'Rourke came back to town. Years ago the sparks between them had nearly seared them both -- but Andrea had left, swearing to...

  • Single Father Seeks...

    Amy J. Fetzer

    Once they'd shared an unforgettable encounter, but Ciara Caldwell had disappeared into the night, leaving Bryce Ashland with no clue to her identity. He still remembered his mystery woman's face, but now Bryce was a bachelor dad who didn't have time ...

  • Kidnapping His Bride

    Hayley Gardner

    Griff Ledoux had always swept her off her feet. And he did it again, just as Tessa Blake was getting ready to walk down the aisle. He threw her over his shoulder, wedding gown and all, and carried her right out of the church -- and demanded to know w...

  • True Love, Inc

    Jackie Braun

    Cam Foley was mad -- scratch that -- he was furious. The last thing the widowed father wanted was a dating service pestering him. True Love, Inc. owner Maddie Daniels never intended to infuriate the sexy single dad. But the irresistibly gorgeous C...

  • The Maiden Warrior

    Mary Reed McCall

    THE CAPTIVE The day she was wedded to the bold English knight Aidan de Brice young Gwynne was taken captive by the Welsh bandits who'd claimed her since her birth. Years have passed, and she barely recognizes the breathtaking warrior before her wh...

  • Steal My Heart

    Hayley Ann Solomon
    in

    When Lady Fern Reynolds confided in a sympathetic houseguest that she was considering running away to London to escape betrothal to an unknown suitor, she didn't expect him to offer her shelter. And she certainly didn't imagine tumbling for him, the ...

  • I Do Too

    Pamela Kaye Tracy
    in

    How many times will Shelby Tate, editor of Agape Today magazine, place an ad for a "Write to the Heart" columnist? Not just anyone will do. The magazine's owner requires the person to be single - after all, who better to advise the unmarried? But kee...

  • A Stylish Marriage

    Patricia Waddell

    A thoroughly modern woman A hopelessly old-fashioned man A marriage that will surprise them both...when love becomes part of the bargain Even if the Merriam Falls society matrons don't believe running a boardinghouse is a proper endeavor for a yo...

  • Chicago Confidential

    Max Allan Collins

    In 1950, when a congressional investigation into organized crime sparks an all-out mob war that claims the life of his partner, private detective Nathan Heller returns to his native Chicago to find the killer. Reprint....

  • The Door to December

    Dean Koontz

    Little Melanie had been kidnapped when she was only three. She was nine when she was found wandering the L.A. streets, with blank eyes. What had become of her in all those years of darkness ... and what was the terrible secret, clutching at her soul,...

  • Austin City Blue

    Jan Grape

    IN HARM'S WAY When Austin police officer Zoe Barrow fatally shoots twenty-five-year-old Jesse Garcia during a standoff, Internal Affairs has some hard questions -- because the dead perp also happens to be the guy who put a bullet in Zoe's...

  • Blood of Others

    Rick Mofina

    In the broken heart of a cold city, a shy, solitary woman searches for her soulmate -- someone who will finally love her. Hidden away from a world that rejected him, a tortured man finds the one woman who can forgive his monstrous sins -- and red...

  • Death a L'Orange

    Nancy Fairbanks

    Forty-something homemaker Carolyn Blue is through with cooking and cleaning. She's finally decided to throw in the dishtowel -- and take on a dream job as food writer. Now her plate is filled with exotic locales, delectable foods, and even a dash of ...

  • Mrs. Malory and the Delay of Execution

    Hazel Holt

    When a schoolteacher at a prestigious English prep school dies suddenly, Mrs. Malory gets shanghaied into being a substitute teacher. She's more than a little uneasy about facing a classroom full of know-it-all teenage girls. To her surprise, they ar...

  • Misconception

    Robert Shapiro; Walt Becker

    A small-town Louisiana physician is poised to win confirmation as the next Surgeon General of the United States. But on the eve of his greatest professional achievement, Daniel Wyatt finds himself accused of gross infidelity...and the murder of his u...

  • Prelude to War

    Don Pendleton

    The ultra-covert arm of the Justice Department known as Stony Man is America's last and best hope when crisis strikes. A team of brilliant computer specialists and strategists and a field force of bathe-hardened commandos make rapid deployment respon...

  • Blood Music

    Greg Bear

    THE SMALLEST OF ORGANISMS. THE GREATEST OF TRANSFORMATIONS. SO BEGINS TOMORROW... VERGIL ULAM was the genius behind "biologic": the restructuring of cells. Cells that can think. When Genetron canceled the project, Vergil smuggled his life's work ...

  • Kingdom of Cages

    Sarah Zettel

    A gripping story of two young sisters caught in a galactic apocalypse... FUGITIVES IN A CLOSED SYSTEM Chena and Teal Trust are in mortal danger. Humans on dozens of colony planets are dying from environmental collapses and mutating diseases. Thei...

  • Icebones

    Stephen Baxter

    3000 A.D. Years ago, humans colonized Mars, bringing with them specimens of long-extinct Earth life for regeneration on this new frontier. But humankind has disappeared, and the animals have been left behind to fend for themselves. Icebones, daughter...

  • Tainted Trail

    Wen Spencer

    Meet Ukiah Oregon, a unique young man with accelerated senses who was raised by wolves, domesticated by two women, and trained as a tracker by a private investigator. And that's the normal part of his life.... Ukiah is hired to locate a missing hi...

  • The Legacy Quest, Book 1

    Steve Lyons

    THE RACE FOR A CURE TO A MODERN-DAY PLAGUE Hank McCoy -- the X-Men's Beast -- has been working to find a cure for the deadly Legacy Virus that has been sweeping through the world's mutant population. But the Beast is not alone in this quest for a ...

  • The Glasswrights' Journeyman

    Mindy Klasky

    A KINGDOM IN RUIN No one can be sure how the fire started, but it ravaged the capital city of Morenia, leaving its resources in ruin and its people plagued, In the pursuit of aid and political strength, King Hal must seriously consider marrying th...

  • Charisma

    Steven Barnes

    In an attempt to empower low-income youth, more than a thousand children are raised to become miniature copies of popular rags-to-riches politician Alexander Marcus, but they end up acquiring his bloodthirsty depravities as well as the brilliance and...

  • Changespell Legacy

    Doranna Durgin

    STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH Arlen of Anfeald is dead--or so his friends believe, for Camolen's Council of Wizards has been cut down in a treacherous ambush of twisted magic . . . and the only surviving witness is a palomino stallion named Ramb...

  • Never After

    Rebecca Lickiss

    In a whimsical, fantastical fairy tale, three adventurers--a prince in search of a bride, a restless young woman in search of adventure, and a recent graduate of Wizard School--find their true desires and destiny at a remote castle buried in thorns i...

  • The Shadow Hunter

    Pat Murphy

    The clash of prehistoric shamanic traditions with future technology makes for a gripping tale in this first novel by the Nebula Award-winning author.

    On a moonlit night thirty thousand years ago, a young Neanderthal boy dreamed a true dream. ...

  • To Trade the Stars

    Julie E. Czerneda

    JASON AND SIRA-- he a human telepath and independent trader, she now Speaker for the Clan Council, as well as Jason's life partner--are trying to forge a life for themselves free of the demands of both the Clan and the Drapsk, a race determined to c...

  • Heirs of Prophecy

    Lisa Smedman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    LARAJIN In a household where everyone has a secret, why should the maid be any different? The unacknowledged daughter of Thamalon Uskevren, Larajin is a half-elf who finds herself embroiled in a bitter war between elves and humans. In an effort to ...

  • The Void

    Teri A. Jacobs

    Tormented by dreams depicting a nightmarish world called Xibalba where deranged gods and blood-soaked demons reign supreme, Leslie finds herself poised on the brink of insanity, while the Dark Man waits in the shadows to steal her soul and send her t...

  • Mars Probes

    Peter Crowther

    Seventeen intriguing science fiction tales journey to the "Red Planet" to explore the mysteries and wonders of Mars, in all original short fiction by Ray Bradbury, Gene Wolfe, Allen Steele, Alastair Reynolds, Michael Moorcock, Brian Aldiss, Stephen B...

  • The Red Church

    Scott Nicholson

    The church was constructed in the 1860s under the guidance of Reverend Wendell McFall. His sermons declared the existence of God s Second Son- whose mission is to undo all of Jesus work on Earth. McFall had the church painted red to summon the First...

  • The Collection

    Bentley Little

    How far would you go with a hitchhiker who'd left behind an unimaginable trail of horror and destruction? How would you feel if your father's new bride was something dredged up from the bowels of hell? What would you do if you discovered an old lette...

  • Cathedral of Vampires

    Mary Ann Mitchell

    An immortal young woman, along with her half-vampire companion, searches the world for the Marquis de Sade, the perverse incarnation of evil who turned her into a vampire, to put an end to his reign of terror, but she soon discovers that killing a ma...

  • Operation Audacity

    Blaine Lee Pardoe

    BEHIND THE LINES The Civil War rages on, with deposed Prince Victor SteinerDavion's forces bloodied from the recent defeats inflicted by his sister, Katrina. Worse still, Clan Jade Falcon has seized the opportunity to launch a determined offensive...

  • Desperate Alliances

    Cory Daniells

    In a land of enchantment and betrayal, an empress sworn to a new future must face the world she left behind.... With her wine-dark eyes and silver hair, Imoshen is the last T'En empress--blessed with exotic beauty and an extraordinary gift for hea...

  • Crossings

    Mel Odom

    THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME Buffy and Dawn are having difficulty settling into their new roles, now that their mother is gone. Buffy herself is reluctant to cross over to the role of parent, and the two are bickering more than usual. In fact, Buffy...

  • A Hasty Wedding

    Cara Colter

    Holly Lamb considers herself the proverbial plain Jane. She's always hidden behind her intelligence and business instincts -- definitely a plus for her career. Her boss, Blake Fallon, absolutely loves her...for her mind. But working with Blake makes ...

  • Heaven Scent

    Jacqueline Diamond

    The last thing Dr. Nancy Verano wants to do for the summer is be a nanny in Texas! When she finds herself on Max Richter's musty ranch with a bunch of cowboys, she knows there's no turning back. Besides, how hard can it be to take care of a c...

  • Shotgun Nanny

    Nancy Warren

    Annie Parker doesn't believe in taking life too seriously; she is, after all, a clown by profession. Her motto is "Have fun, make 'em laugh, and move on." That applies to her love life, too. So why does superserious ex-Mountie and bachelor "dad" Mark...

  • From the Shadows

    Rebecca York

    SHE BROUGHT OUT HIS PRIMAL NEEDS... Much of Alex Shane's teen years were forgotten -- but his one intimate encounter with Sara Delaney was crystal-clear in his memory. Sweet Sara who'd been too good for the bad boy he used to be. But the tables had ...

  • Montana Secrets

    Charlotte Douglas

    Five years ago, Catherine Erickson's world shattered the day she learned her fiance, Lieutenant Ryan Christopher, had been killed in an embassy explosion. She'd lost the man she loved -- and the father of her unborn child. And it wasn't until the mys...

  • Double Exposure

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    HE WAS THE BEST MAN... It should have been simple. But when Kate Cooper offered to pick up Harry Armstrong, the best man at her sister's upcoming wedding, at the airport, she never dreamed what she was getting into. How could she have guessed that Ha...

  • Two to Tangle

    Leslie Kelly / Leslie A. Kelly

    SHE'D HEARD OF BROTHERLY LOVE... Window dresser Chloe Weston doesn't believe in lust at first sight -- until she catches her boss, Troy Langtree, reveling half-naked in a rainstorm. So when she finds herself alone, on a secluded beach, with the objec...

  • The Seducer

    Jule McBride

    A MATCHMAKING MOM WILL SECRETLY TURN HER THREE BIG APPLE BACHELORS INTO MILLIONAIRES -- BUT ONLY IF THEY MARRY! Bachelor #2, Officer Rex Steele, is supposed to be on vacation. Instead, he's working undercover investigating a case close to his heart....

  • What's Your Pleasure?

    Julie Elizabeth Leto / Julie Leto

    PICK A PLEASURE... Mystery author Devon Michaels is in a fix. Her publisher has offered her a lucrative contract, if she makes the jump to erotic thrillers. The problem: Devon's love scenes are...well, really bad. She's just never experienced sex wo...

  • She's My Mom

    Rebecca Winters

    She can't remember her husband -- or her son "You're my mom!" That's what 13-year-old Brett Corbitt blurts out when he sees the woman who calls herself Martha Walters. His mother, Susan Corbitt, is presumed dead, although her body was never found, a...

  • The Wildcatter

    Peggy Nicholson

    Penniless wildcatter Miguel Heydt has come seeking his fortune -- oil -- on Suntop land. But the cranky old owner of the Colorado ranch will tolerate no mineral exploration on his spread, so Miguel hires on with the ranch's haying crew and explor...

  • Smooth-Talking Texan

    Candace Camp

    For temporarily-relocated-from-Dallas hotshot defense attorney Lisa Mendoza, a year working for the public defender's office in tiny Angel Eye, Texas, was just a slight detour off the path she'd mapped out for her life. Then she ran smack-dab into ha...

  • Royal Spy

    Valerie Parv

    PRINCESS'S SECRET PASSION REVEALED! Tamiri princess caught with a handsome commoner -- or is he? Princess Nadia Kamal was preparing to marry the man her father had chosen. Then mysterious Gage Weston appeared. The bold so-called diplomat forc...

  • In Graywolf's Hands

    Marie Ferrarella

    FBI Special Agent Lydia Wakefield had thought there was no room in her life for the opposite sex. Then she walked into Blair Memorial's emergency room with a bullet in her arm -- and encountered the most compelling man she'd ever met. Lukas Graywo...

  • In Bed With Boone

    Linda Winstead Jones

    The brutally handsome stranger in the black leather jacket wasn't exactly the kind of man Jayne Barrington encountered in her world of wealth and privilege. But that scarcely mattered now, because he'd just dragged her into his world -- at gunpoint! ...

  • Beneath the Silk

    Wendy Rosnau

    He could go head to head with the devil. But fortunately that wasn't going to be necessary. Because detective Jackson Ward, the New Orleans P.D.'s loose cannon -- otherwise known as the chief's biggest pain in the butt this side of the Cabildo -- was...

  • A Cowboy's Pursuit

    Anne McAllister

    "Let Celie get away? No, sir! That;s why cowboys invented lassos!" -- Jace Tucker, wife wrangler Rodeo heartthrob Jace Tucker fell for Celie O'Meara the day they met. But she was his buddy's girl. Then his buddy jilted Celie -- an...

  • The Cowboy's Baby Surprise

    Linda Conrad

    THE STRANGER IN HER ARMS More than a year had passed since FBI agent Carley Mills's partner disappeared without a trace. Then, just when she'd almost given up hope, she found him, working as a cowboy on a Texas ranch. But, incredibly, he had no me...

  • Royal Protocol

    Christine Flynn

    Accomplished Admiral Harrison Monteque deemed lady-in-waiting Gwendolyn Corbin an ice maiden. Until the two worked closely to search for a missing prince and her warmth began to melt his hard-edged heart. However, the eye-catching admiral feared that...

  • But Not for Me

    Annette Broadrick

    IN LOVE WITH HER BOSS Undistracted by love, brawny construction boss Brad Phillips had worked his way up from street kid to millionaire. Of course, Rachel Wood, his invaluable assistant, had believed in -- and secretly loved -- Brad from the begin...

  • The Prince & the Pregnant Princess

    Susan Mallery

    SHE WAS ALL KINDS OF WRONG FOR ROYALTY... When it came to kingdoms, impulsive, up-from-the-streets Cleo Wilson was no Cinderella. Why, mere months ago she'd done the unthinkable: fallen for arrogant, irresistible Prince Sadik -- and come up pr...

  • The Last Wilder

    Janis Reams Hudson

    Sheriff Dane Powell stumbled upon sassy Stacey Landers snooping around private property. And the stunning trespasser wouldn't divulge what she was doing on Wilder land. Dane's big dilemma was whether to arrest the beauty -- or kiss the living dayligh...

  • Nick All Night

    Cheryl St. John

    Boy-next-door Nick Sinclair had grown up into a hunk extraordinaire -- that was Ryanne Whitaker's first shock on reencountering her sexy, single-dad neighbor. The second was that she was facing this broad-shouldered Mr. Gorgeous across the barrel of ...

  • Drive Me Wild

    Elizabeth Harbison

    For Grace Bowes, going home again felt like facing disaster. While the town wondered how the golden girl had wound up a struggling single mom, Grace had to find a job -- fast! Worse, her first interview ever was with none other than Luke Stewart, the...

  • A Prince at Last!

    Cathie Linz

    From the desk of Luc Dumont Head of Security St. Michel June 2002 Day 60 The missing heir has been found! The dowager queen and the royal council are overjoyed -- I, however, feel there must be some mistake. Learning that I, a presumed commoner,...

  • Kindergarten Cupids

    Vivienne Wallington

    It was betrayal of the worst kind. Her husband. His wife. A clandestine affair that had torn apart their families and left them to pick up the pieces -- after a tragic accident revealed the scandalous truth. Widow and widower. Neither wanted anyth...

  • That Maddening Man

    Debrah Morris

    Ellin Bennett had a daughter to raise, a career to save, and a newspaper to run. Rescuing a stranded Santa Claus from the roadside was not on her To-Do list. Worse yet, "Santa" was none other than sexy Jack Madden, schoolteacher and part-time writer ...

  • L.A. Woman

    Cathy Yardley

    Ever moved to a city you didn't know, for a guy who wasn't worth it...all because you thought you were in love? Sarah Walker has. She's just moved to L.A. and changed her whole life in anticipation of cohabitation with her fiance, Benjamin. But...

  • Run of the Mill

    Susan K. Downs
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    The Steadman Mill is the heart of industry in Eaststead, Massachusetts, weaving miles of cloth that is shipped throughout the country and abroad. The Kindred Hearts Orphanage is the pulse of the town's charity efforts...and, most recently, the focus ...

  • Loving Treasures

    Gail Gaymer Martin

    TWO WORLDS, ONE LOVE He'd been alone too long. She'd never been alone. But Jemma Dupre and Philip Somerville knew that their fates were forever intertwined. Yet Jemma wasn't sure of her feelings for Philip. After her past heartache, she wanted ...

  • The Rancher's Bride

    Tara Taylor Quinn

    LostHis bride. She’d turned tail and run minutes before her father was about to pronounce them man and wife. What demons were pursuing the girl Max Santana had waited eleven years to marry?FoundHer flesh and blood. Rachel Blair thought she’d fina...

  • Love in Bloom's

    Judith Arnold

    Welcome to Bloom's, where food is love and everybody loves food. The Blooms have run the family deli for generations, and Grandma Ida isn't about to let a culinary mishap change that. So when her son, the president, meets an untimely demise, the i...

  • The Courtship

    Lynna Banning

    Temporarily displaced Southern belle Jane Charlotte Davis was desperate to make enough money to return home. So when town banker Rydell Wilder, a Northerner through and through, offered her a loan to start her own business, she jumped at the chance. ...

  • The Perfect Wife

    Mary Burton

    Keeping secrets and telling lies was no way to start a marriage. But what else, Jenna Winslow ruminated, could a woman running from scandal do? Who would ever want an unschooled virgin with a fatherless baby in tow? Certainly not rugged rancher Rowe ...

  • Water in the Desert

    Elizabeth Daish

    Sparks fly under the Arabian sun . . . After a year out recovering from the violent death of her boyfriend, Dr Sarah Brackley has returned to the international oil industry to take part in a conference staged in the sweltering heat of the Middle East...

  • The Caretaker

    Kelly Eileen Hake
    in

    The Steadman Mill is the heart of industry in Eaststead, Massachusetts, weaving miles of cloth that is shipped throughout the country and abroad. The Kindred Hearts Orphanage is the pulse of the town's charity efforts...and, most recently, the focus ...

  • Another Eden

    Julie Ellis

    The answer lies in the past...25 years ago Tim Cameron, the sole heir to his family's fortune, secretly married Daisy Jamison against the wishes of his father, Roy - but was tragically killed within hours of the wedding. The only two witnesses to the...

  • Still Waters Run Deep

    Leslie Esdaile

  • Wedding at White Sands

    Catherine Mann

    Ex-Intelligence officer Jake Larson was on a top-secret mission and didn't need some "wife" tagging along. But feisty P.I. Allie St. James had followed Jake to the White Sands Resort on her own investigation, giving them the perfect cover...as loving...

  • A Second Glance

    Kathleen Paul
    in

    The Steadman Mill is the heart of industry in Eaststead, Massachusetts, weaving miles of cloth that is shipped throughout the country and abroad. The Kindred Hearts Orphanage is the pulse of the town's charity efforts...and, most recently, the focus ...

  • The Dark Knight

    Tori Phillips

    "Come, Lord Death, and grant me life in your arms!" Such invocations sprang to Lady Tonia's lips when she beheld Sandor Matskella, the sworn agent of her eternal rest. Yet his raw masculine power instead roused her slumbering womanhood to the dawn...

  • Stroke of Fortune

    Christine Rimmer

    LSCC MEMBER: Millionaire rancher Flynt Carson Brooding, sexy, tough outer shell-hard nut to crack SOCIAL STATUS: Handsome young widower METHOD OF SEDUCTION: This elite member's guarded demeanor draws women like honey! Eligible bachelor Fl...

  • For Love or Country

    Kerrelyn Sparks

    The Scarlet Pimpernel meets The Patriot in Kerrelyn Sparks' debut novel, For Love or Country. With an army of wigs and a wardrobe that favors lavender, Quincy Stanton poses as a Loyalist fop by day. By night, he wages a secret war against the British...

  • A Rich Man for Dry Creek

    Janet Tronstad

    MONEY CAN'T BUY EVERYTHING... Tiny Dry Creek, Montana, was the last place on earth personal chef Jenny Black would come to find a husband -- and a wealthy playboy was the last man on earth she'd find appealing. But when her employer's son caught h...

  • All That Glisters

    Janet Tanner

    Tara Murphy left Ireland with high hopes of a better future in the new country. But the harsh reality of the Australian goldfields destroyed her dreams and scarred her forever.

    James Hannay thought that in Tara he had at last found the woman who co...

  • Replenish the Earth

    Anna Jacobs

    Can a marriage of convenience lead to true love?It is 1735. When her mother dies penniless, Sarah Mortonby is shocked to discover she has inherited a wealthy estate. Advised to sell the crumbling manor house to her neighbour, Matthew Sewell, she visi...

  • Ring of Hope

    Birdie L. Etchison

    Life moves in circles. Aaron Walker watched his sister slowly die, then spent years running from the pain he felt. Now he finds himself working in a Maine lobster pound, feeling a strange desire to settle down. There's something about the job...t...

  • The Hope Chest

    Wanda E. Brunstetter

    Is it wrong to hope for the impossible? Rachel Beachy wants something she can't have - her sister's boyfriend. Silas Swartley has been in love with Anna since they were children, and Rachel has desired Silas nearly as long. Like Job from the ...

  • Maggie's Mistake

    Colleen Coble

    Orphaned sisters Maggie and Fiona O'Keefe are on their own in a new country. In Wabash, Indiana, the nineteen-year-old Maggie struggles to balance her business - a bakery specializing in Irish pastries - with caring for her three-year-old sister. One...

  • Sonoran Sweetheart

    Nancy J. Farrier

    Having worn the yoke of slavery, Lavette Johnson knows bitterness. Even now, she is bound by a commitment that limits her freedom. Resentment over what she has lost has robbed her of any spiritual peace. Though blacksmith Josiah Washington knows ...

  • Chloe and the Spy

    Justine Wittich

    Lady Chloe Lockwood's fascination with her aunt's groom puts her life and her heart in peril. The groom, a spy in a Victorian witness protection program, is defenseless against her beguiling charm. Adrian, Viscount Harding, must protect them both fro...

  • The Monk Who Vanished

    Peter Tremayne

    WITHOUT A TRACE On a night in September of A.D. 666, an aged monk and a set of priceless holy relics disappear from the Abbey of Imleach. The missing artifacts belonged to St. Ailbe, who brought Christianity to the Irish kingdom of Muman in the fi...

  • Doctored Evidence

    Michael Biehl

    In the third book of the Karen Hayes series, an elderly nursing home resident, who was once an Olympic champion swimmer with a murky background in the German army, drowns in a lake behind the home. Does anyone know how it happened? Does anyone care? ...

  • Betrayal

    Clare Francis

    Betrayal takes many forms in this psychological mystery replete with murder, adultery, and scandal from international bestselling author Clare Francis Businessman Hugh Wellesley’s life takes an unexpected turn when he learns that the corpse of a mu...

  • The Silent Bride

    Leslie Glass

    THE SHELTERED BRIDE... A beautiful bride's glorious trip down the aisle is cut short by a sniper's bullet. The crime has stunned the city and baffled NYPD detective April Woo. The sweet, modest, eighteen-year-old virgin couldn't have had an enemy ...

  • Bohannon's Women

    Joseph Hansen

  • Six Strokes Under

    Roberta Isleib

    Hole in one...or one in a hole? Cassandra Burdette used to carry clubs on the PGA tour -- now she's swinging them at the Qualifying School for the LPGA Tour. The competition is fierce, but the standout so far is Kaitlin Rupert -- whose talent and ...

  • Until the Final Verdict

    Christine McGuire

    Judge Jemima Tucker has been brutally murdered in her chambers at the Santa Rita County courthouse -- and Kathryn Mackay vows to bring her friend's killer to justice. But when both Tucker's husband and another judge become suspects, Kathryn ends up w...

  • Reservations for Murder

    Tim Myers

    Tucked away in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains is the charming Hatteras West Inn and Lighthouse. Innkeeper Alex Winston watches over the cozy getaway and guests count on him to take care of everything from basic repairs to breakfast. But la...

  • Leave No Trace

    Hannah Nyala

    Longitude: 132° Latitude: 19° Date: December 7 Temp: 121° Fahrenheit, 10 a.m. Paul's been gone now for fourteen, days. He was only supposed to be gone for four, off to the airport to pick up Josie and supplies. But he didn't come back. They didn'...

  • Flesh Tones

    M.J. Rose

    In such erotic thrillers as In Fidelity and Lip Service, acclaimed author M. J. Rose took readers to the darkest edges of desire. Now, in her most riveting novel yet, she leads us across the fine line separating passion and obsession, mercy and murde...

  • Punitive Strike

    Charles W. Sasser

    The enemy has struck with no warning, destroying a U.S. fighting ship and taking Americans hostage. There are lives to be saved and a terrorist threat that must be diffused -- permanently -- so the men of Delta Force are on the move. America's first ...

  • Ribbon of Gold

    Cathy Marie Hake
    in

    The Steadman Mill is the heart of industry in Eaststead, Massachusetts, weaving miles of cloth that is shipped throughout the country and abroad. The Kindred Hearts Orphanage is the pulse of the town's charity efforts...and, most recently, the focus ...

  • Present Tense

    L.A. Graf

    The crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise is exploring the seemingly peaceful and uninhabited world of M-3107 when a bizarre and inexplicable transporter accident causes both Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy to vanish completely. Transporter records suggest that t...

  • Eclipse

    Richard S. Wheeler

    Lewis and Clark: forever paired for their epochal first crossing of the continent in 1804-1806, darlings of the young republic, and the pride of Thomas Jefferson because they made his dream of a nation between two oceans come true.Lewis and Clark: tw...

  • The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque

    Jeffrey Ford

    A mysterious and richly evocative novel, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque tells the story of portraitist Piero Piambo, who is offered a commission unlike any other. The client is Mrs. Charbuque, a wealthy and elusive woman who asks Piambo to paint her ...

  • Breathing Room

    Susan Elizabeth Phillips

    She's Dr. Isabel Favor, America's diva of self-help. He's Ren Gage, Hollywood's favorite bad guy. Sometimes you just know that God has a sense of humor. She's lost her money to an unscrupulous accountant, her fiancé to a ...

  • The Dowager Duchess

    Joye Ames

    Louisa Drayton has hit upon the perfect plan to save her brother's only child from being given to a wealthy and lecherous Viscount to pay her Mama's debts. She will masquerade as her elderly aunt, the Dowager Duchess of Roth. Plagued by fortune hunte...