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New Books List: 532 titles

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Break Point

    Michael Shea

    Britain is on the brink of collapse: law and order has broken down; extremist vigilante gangs loyal to the Commander and the Brother roam the streets; food is scarce; the Government is helpless; no one is safe. Into this bleak and violent world comes...

  • The Cabinet of Curiosities

    Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child

    In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered.Inside are thirty-six bodies--all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago.While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start to terrorize...

  • Endgame

    Michael Shea

    After the explosion of a radio transmitter in Scotland, the Bondi, a giant American telecommunications corporation, attempt a political coup. Ministers are seized and a puppet government installed as a front for Bondi. However, not everyone accepts t...

  • 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. ...

  • Fred & Edie

    Jill Dawson

    In a dazzling act of literary license, the novelist and poet Jill Dawson has transformed the sensational true story of Britain’s infamous condemned adulteress into a dramatic novel of passion, murder, and scandal, as seductive as it is shocking. On...

  • Mission of Honor

    Jeff Rovin

    On the surface it seems a simple case: A group of African militiamen have kidnapped a priest and ordered all Catholic missionaries to leave the nation of Botswana. But the Vatican thinks otherwise. At its urging, Op-Center investigates - and finds th...

  • Outsmart

    Daniel Parker

    Date: October 23 From: Headmaster Olsen To: Pearson Ellis Re: Winslow Ellis Dear Mr. Ellis: As you know, I've always held your son in the highest esteem. It pains me to have to inform you of his involvement in various illegal and immoral mon...

  • Oyster

    John Biguenet

    With comparisons to Flaubert, Chekhov, and Faulkner, O. Henry Award-winner John Biguenet earned wide acclaim for his debut short-story collection, The Torturer's Apprentice. In his astonishing first novel, Oyster, he demonstrates the same mastery...

  • Trust Falls

    Daniel Parker

    Hey man, This place is crazy. They (I'm not exactly sure who "they" are, but that oaf of a dorm counselor I told you about is at the top of the list for sure) actually planted chewing tobacco in some kid's bag so that they could expel him. And I tho...

  • 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...

  • The Aliens Are Coming!

    Dayton Ward

    1969: Captain John Christopher of the U.S. Air Force has just returned from a most peculiar mission to investigate a UFO sighting. But even though the mission took only a few minutes, the captain has vague memory flashes of futuristic humans, a point...

  • The Amazing Dr. Darwin

    Charles Sheffield

    NOT THAT DARWIN--HIS GRANDFATHER! 18th Century Europe: It is an age when superstition is beginning to give way to the force of human reason, and no man so fully embodies the spirit of the times as Dr. Erasmus Darwin. Thinker, healer, and explorer...

  • Among the Betrayed

    Margaret Peterson Haddix

    WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SAVE YOURSELF? Nina Idi -- a third child in a society where families are allowed only two children -- has been betrayed by the boy she loved, and arrested by the Population Police for exposing other alleged third children. Ang...

  • Beast Master's Ark

    Andre Norton; Lyn McConchie

    DANGER ON ARZOR Beast Master Hosteen Storm has endured great perils to carve out a life for himself on Arzor, the colony planet he's called home since the destruction of Earth by the alien Xik. On a planet with alien life forms and untold secrets ...

  • 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 ...

  • Cable, Volume 1: Shining Path

    David Tischman

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Essential Spider-Man, Volume 3

    Stan Lee

  • The Fall

    William T. Quick

    The starship Oberon is searching for its AWOL pilot when it crash-lands on an unknown planet, leaving all but a handful of its crewmembers dead. And those who remain are not alone in this strange, inhospitable world. A savage insectil...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Life and Death of Captain Marvel

    Jim Starlin

  • 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...

  • Men in Black II: The Official Novelization

    Esther Friesner

    THE MEN IN BLACK ARE BACK --
    TO SAVE THE PLANET FROM CERTAIN DOOM.

    When an unauthorized spacecraft lands smack-dab in the middle of New York’s Central Park, and is found abandoned with enough antimatter weapons to turn the island of Manh...

  • The Ocean of Years

    Roger MacBride Allen

    TIME IS UP IN A FAR-FLUNG UNIVERSE--WHERE HISTORY IS A TIMESHAFT AWAY--A MANHUNT BEGINS TO DETERMINE THE FUTURE OF A WORLD.... Oskar DeSilvo was the founder of the planet Solace. As the director of its terraforming project, he literally made th...

  • 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...

  • Play

    Marilyn Kaye

    Amy’s encounter with dinosaurs and cave dwellers -- and aliens -- was pretty wild. Now her quest to stop the spread of the infectious bacteria gets even more bizarre as she agrees to take another perilous voyage.A voyage inside a plague-ridden huma...

  • Spaceland

    Rudy Rucker

    Joe Cube is a Silicon Valley hotshot--well, a would-be hotshot anyway--hoping that the 3-D TV project he's managing will lead to the big money IPO he's always dreamed of. On New Year's Eve, hoping to impress his wife, he sneaks home the prototype. It...

  • Ultimate Spider-Man, Volume 1: Power and Responsibility

    Brian Michael Bendis

    In a retelling of the Spider-Man saga that has been updated for the twenty-first century, teenager Peter Parker is bitten by an experimental spider from the laboratory of Osborn Industries, and develops super powers as a result....

  • Ultimate X-Men - Volume 1: The Tomorrow People

    Mark Millar

    Humanity now faces mutants, a mysterious sub-species that is gifted with strange and frightening powers. Hidden among the population, they are feared and hated by their human cousins. As rumors and urban myths about their existence spread across the ...

  • The Beach House

    James Patterson; Peter De Jonge

    Jack Mullen is a driven student of the law. His brother Peter is a servant of the rich, parking the cars of the Hamptons' elite -- and perhaps satisfying their more intimate needs as well. Then Peter's body is found on the beach. Jack knows the drown...

  • Before Gaia

    Francine Pascal

    Just found this old photo... Mom looks beautiful, seated at her piano. Dad's got his arms around her. Oliver does too. They look so happy. So normal. IF EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY, THEN HOW DID SHE END UP SO DEAD?...

  • Before the Cradle Falls

    James F. David

    Paralyzed by drink and despair since the accidental death of his young daughter, Shelby, Detective Kyle Sommers nonetheless must lead a task force to catch a brutal serial killer. Nicknamed the Cradle Robber, this murderer has methodically snuffed ou...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Deadly Embrace

    Jackie Collins

    International bestselling author Jackie Collins returns with another fast-paced and unforgettable tale of dangerous passion and suspense, both a prequel and sequel to her New York Times bestseller Lethal Seduction.Family secrets and hidden lives come...

  • Deeper Waters

    Mary Morgan

  • 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...

  • 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? ...

  • The Emperor of Ocean Park

    Stephen L. Carter

    ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • In his triumphant fictional debut, Stephen Carter combines a large-scale, riveting novel of suspense with the saga of a unique family. The Emperor of Ocean Pa...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • Grasshopper

    Barbara Vine

    "They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon." When Clodagh Brown writes these words at the age of nineteen, she believes that she is leaving behind the traumatic events of her youth. But Clodagh soon learns that you can never en...

  • Harlem Redux

    Persia Walker

    Four years after dropping out of Harlem society, David McKay, a handsome young lawyer from a prominent Strivers' Row family, returns home, devastated by the news of his sister Lilian's suicide. What caused his once stable, gentle sister to take her o...

  • Irreparable Damage

    Joseph T. Klempner

    Stephen Barrow thinks he has it all … or at least, all he really needs. But one day, he makes an innocent mistake … and enters a nightmare that could rob him of his reputation, his freedom, and worst of all, his daughter… SOME DAMAGE CAN NEV...

  • 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'...

  • Nantucket Nights

    Elin Hilderbrand

    A FULL MOON, A TWENTY-YEAR-OLD FRIENDSHIP--AND A NANTUCKET NIGHT NO ONE WOULD EVER FORGET... For twenty years, Kayla, Antoinette, and Val have performed their ow~ special summer ritual. Once a year, the old friends put aside their daily, separate ...

  • 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 ...

  • A Soldier's Duty

    Thomas E. Ricks

    Majors Cindy Sherman and Bud Lewis are the best young combat officers the army has, and they’ve both been tapped for plum positions as aides-de-camp for two of the Pentagon’s most senior generals. The Pentagon is a cauldron of careerist jockeyin...

  • Step to the Graveyard Easy

    Bill Pronzini

    Matthew Cape has no time to worry about his fears; caught up in events not of his making, but inescapable, he does things he's never dared and goes places he's only dreamed about. He's given up everything he ever had, but nothing at all of what he is...

  • The Tutor

    Peter Abrahams

    Master of psychological suspense Peter Abrahams returns with an ingenious tale of an ordinary family that unknowingly invites the agent of their destruction into their own home.When Scott and Linda Gardner hire Julian Sawyer to tutor their troubled t...

  • The Waking

    Mike Nichols

    To neighbors in the small Midwestern town, Will and Sandy Dunby are a golden couple--wealthy, attractive, selfless, and very much in love. But when a treacherous skid on the March ice sends Sandy's car over a bluff, plunging her into a coma, the faca...

  • White Male Infant

    Barbara D'Amato

    Dr. Dooley McSweeny and his wife, Claudia, dearly love the son they adopted from Russia four years ago. But when medical tests indicate that their little boy could not possibly have come from Russia, the couple is plunged into the dark, complex and e...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Whisper of Evil

    Kay Hooper

    Someone is stalking the little town of Silence. Three victims have fallen to a killer's savage vengeance. Each of the dead men was a successful and respected member of the community--yet each also harbored a dark secret discovered only after his murd...

  • Border Bride

    Shannon Donnelly
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    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. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Seducing Mr. Heywood

    Jo Manning

    HEAVEN SENT Lady Sophia Rowley is a widow--for the third time. After she bore the late Baron Rowley two heirs, Sophia courted with London's high society, earning a tarnished reputation and the scorn of the ton. Now, in a self-imposed exile in Yo...

  • Steal My Heart

    Hayley Ann Solomon
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    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 ...

  • 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...

  • Ebony Butterfly

    Delilah Dawson

    When Sharonda Williams can't find her daily journal, she assumes it's buried in one of the boxes left over from the move to her new apartment. She never expects James Cooper (a childhood acquaintance, now a handsome hunk of a man living right across ...

  • A Perfect Love

    Lori Copeland; Angela Elwell Hunt

    WELCOME TO THE ISLAND OF HEAVENLY DAZE Where Guardian Angels Keep Watch over a Community, off the Coast of Maine. The New Year brings challenges aplenty for the guardian angels of Heavenly Daze! Despite the blustery winter chill, love is in the ...

  • 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 ...

  • Taste of Honey

    Eileen Goudge

    With Carson Springs still reeling from Samantha Kiley's romance with a charismatic younger man, her best friend Gerry Fitzgerald fires up the town with another sensational scandal. The child Gerry gave up for adoption twenty-eight years ago--and kept...

  • Testimony

    Felicia Mason

    After eighteen years of firm faith, Roger McKenzie is questioning his calling as leader of the gospel choir, The Triumphant Voices of Praise. Not only have the Voices failed to achieve commercial and critical success, relationships within the choir a...

  • 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...

  • And Then You Die

    Michael Dibdin

    Aurelio Zen of Rome's elite Criminalpol is back -- but nobody's supposed to know it. After months in the hospital healing from wounds sustained in a bomb attack on his car in Sicily, he is lying low under a false name at a beach resort on the Tuscan ...

  • Fatal Voyage

    Kathy Reichs

    A commercial jetliner disaster has brought Tempe Brennan to the North Carolina mountains as a member of the investigative agency DMORT. As bomb theories abound, Tempe soon discovers a jarring piece of evidence that raises dangerous questions - and ge...

  • Precinct Puerto Rico

    Steven Torres

    Best Mystery Novel of the 2003 Latino Book AwardsThe first in a series of police procedural mysteries featuring Luis Gonzalo and the citizens and cops of Angustias, Precinct Puerto Rico: Book One is a brilliant beginning to a continuing story from a ...

  • The Red Herring

    Sally Spencer

    The discovery of the body of a young, red-haired school mistress, lying in a pig-pen with her face half-eaten away, is the beginning of a new investigation for Charlie Woodend. But it is to be an investigation he is soon ordered to abandon when Helen...

  • Seventh-Inning Stretch

    Elizabeth Gunn

    TAKING OUT THE TRASH Adjusting to his new role as chief of detectives, Jake Hines smells trouble when a gang of grifters hits town. Ironically, the crime rate in Rutherford, Minnesota, had taken a merciful springtime plunge and Jake had hoped to c...

  • 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 ...

  • Somebody Else's Music

    Jane Haddam

    Every school class has a target. It was just the way the world worked. A long time ago, in the small town of Hollman, Pennsylvania, it was Liz Toliver, once too smart and too shy for her own good. Today, she's a popular author, and an esteemed CNN pa...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 anythingeven strike a deal with the dev...

  • August Nights

    Patricia Wallace

  • 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....

  • A Fine and Bitter Snow

    Dana Stabenow

    Change never comes easy, but it comes just the same, and it's on its way to the Park, to Niniltna, in southeast Alaska. This time it concerns the possibility of drilling for oil in a wildlife preserve near there, near Aleutian P.I. Kate Shugak's home...

  • Funny Money

    James Swain

    Tony Valentine has a gift for grift: He can walk into a casino and spot a cheater across a crowded floor. A man who still uses pay phones and won't spend more than a buck for coffee, Tony has protected Atlantic City gambling palaces for twenty years ...

  • A Playdate With Death

    Ayelet Waldman

    In between planning playdates and playing dress up, Juliet finally gets some much-needed kid-free time, working out at the local health club. It's going well. She's losing weight. She's even happy--until her personal trainer commits suicide. A che...

  • Cold Company

    Sue Henry

    Famed Alaskan "musher" Jessie Arnold thinks she's finally put her dark past behind her. But the excavations on her new cabin unearth a decades-old skeleton entombed in a crumbling basement wall--along with a butterfly pendant necklace worn by the all...

  • Cold Justice

    Jonnie Jacobs

    Attorney Kali O'Brien is no stranger to San Francisco's dark side, but death hits too close to home when her friend Anne's body is discovered, strangled and naked, in a dank alleyway. And when a yellow rose and a poem are sent to Anne's husband, Kali...

  • Hard Eight

    Janet Evanovich

    HARD UP Fugitive apprehension agent Stephanie Plum has a big problem on her hands: seven-year-old Annie Soder and her mother, Evelyn, have disappeared. Evelyn's estranged husband, Steven, a shady owner of a seedy bar, is not at all happy. Finding ...

  • Jolie Blon's Bounce

    James Lee Burke

    New Iberia, Louisiana, is reeling from a one-two punch of brutal rape-homicides, and drug-addicted blues singer Tee Bobby Hulin has been tagged as the prime suspect. No stranger to bucking popular opinion, police detective Dave Robicheaux senses it's...

  • Murder on the Red Cliff Rez

    Mardi Oakley Medawar

    DEATH WITHOUT RESERVATION While no tears were shed at news of the shooting death of tribal attorney Judah Boiseneau, someone is guilty of his murder. That someone is believed to be his cousin Benny Peliqun, who'd fallen in love with Judah's wife. Now...

  • 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...

  • As Good As Dead

    Ralph M. McInerny

  • 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...

  • Bohannon's Women

    Joseph Hansen

  • Case of the Bear Scare

    James Preller

    Featuring friendship, school, family, and a diverse community, these early illustrated chapter book Jigsaw Jones Mysteries from James Preller have it all.Is there a bear loose in the woods by Jigsaw Jones' town? For once this second-grade detective a...

  • The Case of the Missing Bird Dog

    John R. Erickson

    Will Hank rescue the dog of Beulah's dreams? It's the first day of quail season, and Plato the Bird Dog is missing. At first, Hank is willing to let him stay lost. But when Beulah pleads for help, Hank caves in and takes off in search of Plato. Be...

  • The Eternal Trust

    Melinda Rucker Haynes

    The love of a soulmate can be the death of you, again and again. Dorel Everly receives a legacy from her grandfather-a beautiful and beguiling samurai sword that brings the man she''s been waiting for and inescapable danger into her life. Michael Gab...

  • Final Cut

    Billie Sue Mosiman

  • It Was an Awful Shame and Other Stories

    Charlotte MacLeod

  • Karma and Other Stories

    Susan Dunlap

  • The Last Witness

    Robert Colby

  • Past Imperfect

    Kathleen Hills

    PRESENT TENSE A seasoned fisherman of hardy Norwegian stock, Nets Bertelsen is found dead on his boat, apparently from a bee sting to which he was highly allergic. No one questions the tragic randomness of this accident except John McIntire, a ret...

  • The Reunion

    Curt Autry

    "[An] intriguing tale of espionage, murder and suspense" -- Publishers WeeklyNine surviving members of a U-boat crew captured duringWorld War II gather in North Carolina for their 60th reunion, only to find themselves targets for a group kill.Meanwhi...

  • Vengeance Beyond Reason

    Joani Ascher

    Wally Morris, a nursery school teacher, mother and new grandmother, has a penchant for solving puzzles. She has a desire to help people that borders on meddling and she hates loose ends. The murder of a college freshman and the disappearance of one o...

  • Walls of Silence

    Philip Jolowicz

    From his Manhattan office, Fin Border surveys his future with confidence. He's a hot young attorney bound for partnership in his prestigious law firm, his client list is the envy of his colleagues, and he truly believes that he's overcome the shame a...

  • The Best a Man Can Get

    John O'Farrell

    A hilarious and touching debut novel in the seriocomic Nick Hornby tradition.   Michael Adams is a composer of advertising jingles who shares a bachelor pad with three other guys. He spends his days lying in bed (a minifridge positioned perfectl...

  • From the Heart of Covington

    Joan Medlicott

    The three spunky ladies who so charmed readers in The Ladies of Convington Send Their Love and The Gardens of Covington welcome us back to the small Southern town of Covington, to their quaint white farmhouse with yellow shutters on Cove Road.Life le...

  • The Rainbow Singer

    Simon Kerr

    The narrator of this harrowing and hilarious novel is Wil Carson, a former Protestant ex-thug from Northern Ireland. Wils adolescent hatred of Catholics is inherited from his bigoted father, but his sardonic twist on life as a no-hoper from the Backs...

  • After the Abduction

    Sabrina Jeffries

    What Happens When A Proper Young Lady Gives In To A Reckless Love? After two London Seasons -- and a score of resoundingly dull society suitors -- lovely Juliet Laverick still longs for only one man: Morgan Pryce, the dashing scoundrel who kidnap...

  • 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...

  • The Awakening

    Bertrice Small
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    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....

  • The Bed Wins All

    Christina Dodd
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    From two of romance fiction's most exciting and acclaimed authors comes the sizzling saga of a magnificent bed and the lovers who have shared it through the ages. Collaborating for the first time, Christina Dodd and Connie Brockway take readers on an...

  • The Caretaker

    Kelly Eileen Hake
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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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 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 ...

  • Don't Look Back

    Amanda Quick

    In this most entrancing tale of mystery and romance by the New York Times bestselling author AMANDA QUICK, lovers and partners-in-crime investigators Lavinia Lake and Tobias March continue their exciting newfound relationship, with its delicious mix ...

  • 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...

  • The Dutiful Rake

    Elizabeth Rolls

    The Rake's Redemption... The Earl of Rutherford was used to flirting with scandal. But when an act of charity placed his charge's spotless reputation in jeopardy, Marcus knew he must do the honorable thing. There was no point in pretending he was in...

  • The Enchantment

    Nikki Donovan
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    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?...

  • 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...

  • Flanna and the Lawman

    Cathy Maxwell
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    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...

  • 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...

  • Game to Miss Cowan

    Frances Paige

    It is the summer of 1939 - the last, glorious summer before the war. In Craigton, a small Scottish seaside-resort, holiday-makers are enjoying a carefree season of tennis-parties, picnics and romance, untroubled by the clouds of war. Lisa Cowan is...

  • High on a Hill

    Dorothy Garlock

    Annabel Lee Donovan may be a bootlegger's daughter, but she is also a lady. The slim, dark-haired young woman desperately wants her father to leave "the business" and settle down in one place. Instead, their latest move, done in the middle of the nig...

  • 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 Lady Makes Her Bed

    Connie Brockway
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    From two of romance fiction's most exciting and acclaimed authors comes the sizzling saga of a magnificent bed and the lovers who have shared it through the ages. Collaborating for the first time, Christina Dodd and Connie Brockway take readers o...

  • Lady Sophia's Lover

    Lisa Kleypas

    London, 1839. Why is Lady Sophia looking for a lover? And could she seduce the most marriageable man in London? Lady Sophia Sydney would do anything to ensnare the unattainable Sir Ross Cannon. Her goal -- to ruin his reputation and cause a scandal...

  • 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 starafter 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Marrying the Major

    Joanna Maitland

    The heart never forgets its first love... GUILT TORE AWAY AT HIS SOUL... Surrounded by callous fortune hunters, beautiful Emma Fitzwilliam despaired of ever finding a man who truly loved her. Until she came face-to-face with the man who'd once ...

  • Mary, Called Magdalene

    Margaret George

    The New York Times bestselling author of The Splendor Before the Dark reveals the untold story of Mary Magdalene -- a disciple of Jesus Christ and the most mysterious woman in the Bible.Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute, a female divinity figure, a chu...

  • My Dashing Groom

    Shannon Donnelly

  • 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...

  • No True Gentleman

    Liz Carlyle

    Lady Catherine Wodeway knows that no true gentleman would presume to kiss a lady senseless without a proper introduction -- not even to save her life. Yet somehow, Maximilian de Rohan's dark good looks, brooding manner, and mysterious past make it al...

  • One Night with Lucifer

    Debbie Raleigh
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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 . . . Determined to prove that women a...

  • 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......

  • 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 ...

  • The Pleasures of a Wager

    Colleen Faulkner
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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 . . . American heiress Alison May was ...

  • The Rake

    Suzanne Enoch

    Three determined young ladies vow to give three of London's worst rakes their comeuppance -- but when these rogues turn the tables, who truly learns a lesson in love? Once upon a time, the notorious Viscount Dare charmed Lady Georgiana Halley out ...

  • 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...

  • Ribbon of Gold

    Cathy Marie Hake
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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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Second Chance Bride

    Carolyn Davidson
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    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...

  • A Second Glance

    Kathleen Paul
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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 ...

  • The Seduction

    Julia Ross

    It was the worst day of his life. Alden Granville, Viscount Gracechurch, bet everything he owned in a card game--and lost. Miserably. His investments...gone. His beautiful ancestral estate...gone. His jewels, his weapons...all gone. His only hope is ...

  • Shades of Honor

    Wendy Lindstrom

    HE WAS A BROKEN MAN... Former Union soldier Radford Grayson returns to his small hometown, looking for a stable and comforting place to raise his young, motherless daughter. Despite his troubled past, his hopes are to reconcile with his family and p...

  • Shadow of the Protector

    Elizabeth Lord

    King Charles I is dead, beheaded by Oliver Cromwell at the end of January 1649. Cromwell's wife and daughters are keeping vigil at home, but the youngest daughter Frances, unable to concentrate on her bible, is sent to her room. Late that night a m...

  • Sinfully Delicious

    Lora Kenton

    A sure-fire recipe for true love: In a Texas whorehouse combine the two main ingredientsa 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • An Unlikely Suitor

    Nicola Cornick

    At twenty-three and a bluestocking to boot, Miss Lavender Brabant feels her chances of marriage have passed her by. But the problem isn't that she's never met a man to make her pulse race. It's that she's an admiral's daughter -- and the man of her d...

  • 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...

  • With His Promise

    Liz Madison
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    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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • Regina's Song

    David Eddings; Leigh Eddings

    “A story of murder and revenge . . . Outstandingly well paced and tightly plotted, the novel also stands out in its handling of various psychological themes.” -- Booklist Eerily attuned to one another, twins Regina and Renata are so identical t...

  • 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...

  • Wicked Forest

    V.C. Andrews

    In the second novel of the thrilling De Beers series, readers will discover that it’s easy to get lost in a world of hidden dangers.After discovering her true identity, Willow De Beers leaves her North Carolina town to live with her real mother and...

  • Black Gold

    Charles O'Brien

    The setting is Bath, England's most fashionable spa, during the spring season of 1787. Haughty aristocrats, wealthy upstart businessmen, social climbers, adventurers, courtesans, sharpers, addicted gamblers, and a representative sample of the dregs o...

  • The Dream of Scipio

    Iain Pears

    In national bestseller The Dream of Scipio, acclaimed author Iain Pears intertwines three intellectual mysteries, three love stories, and three of the darkest moments in human history. United by a classical text called "The Dream of Scipio," thr...

  • 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...

  • The Pale Companion

    Philip Gooden

    'Highly entertaining' Sunday TimesMidsummer 1601. Nick Revill and his fellow actors in the Chamberlain's Men are journeying across the Wiltshire Downs for a country-house presentation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.It should be a pleasant...