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  • Separation

    James Axler

    CHAINS OF DESTINY Hard strength and resilience are needed to survive each new day in the treacherous world of postnuclear America. For Ryan Cawdor and his companions, honor, integrity and a willingness to kill are necessary as well, as they struggle...

  • Prisoner of Haven

    Nancy Varian Berberick
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The latest title in a series based on characters from the best-selling War of Souls trilogy.

    This title is the next in a series that explores the lives of key characters from Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman's New York Times best-selling War of S...

  • Superman: The Complate History

    Les Daniels

    The super-powered trilogy that captured the world's greatest superhero triumvirate of all time is now available in paperback. Relive the adventures of Krypton's favorite son inside and outside the comic book world in Superman: The Complete History. U...

  • Batman - The Complete History: The Life and Times of the Dark Knight

    Les Daniels

    The super-powered trilogy that captured the world's greatest superhero triumvirate of all time is now available in paperback. Relive the adventures of Krypton's favorite son inside and outside the comic book world in Superman: The Complete History. U...

  • Pure Dead Trouble (aka Deep Trouble)

    Debi Gliori

    After a vacation in Italy, the Strega-Borgia clan arrives home to a shocking discovery: their faithful butler Latch lying comatose on the front doorstep, reeking faintly of sulphur. Horrified and troubled, Titus and Pandora suspect this may be an ome...

  • Monolith

    John Passarella

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends... FATHER AND SON Like any parent, Angel really wants to understand his son, Connor, but it's hard when life keeps getting in the way. Angel's overworked, Connor's embarrassed by his dad's taste...

  • Jack In The Box

    John Weisman

    From a bestselling author with intimate knowledge of CIA tradecraft comes an electrifying novel of terrifying possibilities -- a story of betrayal and secrets that could implode America's war on terrorism ... and a nightmarish conspiracy firmly roote...

  • Weapons of Choice

    John Birmingham

    In the year 2021, a military experiment thrusts an American-led multinational armada back to 1942, right into the middle of the U.S. naval task force speeding toward Midway Atoll. Shock is followed by jubilation at the time travelers' awesome new fi...

  • The First Heroes

    Harry Turtledove

    The Bronze Age. The era of Troy, of Gilgamesh, of the dawning of human mastery over the earth. For decades, fantasists have set tales of heroism and adventure in imagined worlds based on the real Bronze Age, from the "Hyborean Age" of the Conan stori...

  • Reason and Romance

    Debra White Smith

    "Smith shows her expertise with Jane Austen's work. . . . A fun and well-crafted romance through and through."--RT Book Reviews on Reason and Romance Reason and Romance: A Contemporary Retelling of Sense and Sensibility Sisters Elaina and Anna Wood...

  • The Perfect Match

    Susan May Warren

    Ellie Karlson arrives in Deep Haven to fill the job as interim fire chief. The locals in this small town, including Pastor Dan Matthews, a volunteer firefighter, are shocked that a woman would take over this dangerous position. But as Dan and Ellie w...

  • The Wild Reel

    Paul Brandon

    When young Irish artist Natasha Newlyn paints, she hears music; a wild, secret symphony of ancient jigs and reels that accompany her stunning watercolor landscapes. Natasha lives in a small sea village in the far west of Ireland, the perfect place fo...

  • The Wild Wood

    Charles de Lint

    A young artist returns to her cabin in the deep woods of Canada to concentrate on her illustrations. But somehow, strange and beautiful creatures are slipping into her drawings and sketches. The world of Faerie is reaching out to her for help--and...

  • Beyond the Shadows

    Robin Lee Hatcher

    His secret addiction became her heartache. . . . When Deborah discovers she is married to an alcoholic, she is faced with a life she never expected. Somehow she must find courage and hope to step beyond the shadows....

  • Dark Places

    Jonathan Evans

    In a place so harsh that survivalis a struggle, one man has found the strength to kill ... Paul Wood is a modern vagabond, a man who chooses to leave the comforts of San Francisco to spend months backpacking through some of the world's most challe...

  • Amnesia Nights

    Quinton Skinner

    John Wright’s mind is playing tricks on him. He sees people he thinks he knows, but they are only strangers. His memory flickers in and out of focus. He has not seen his fiancée, Iris, in over three years. He fled their Los Angeles apartment one n...

  • Wild Women's Weekend

    Lynne Kaufman

    They are four lifelong friends, with challenging careers and demanding families. And for one weekend each year they let their hair down and are as bad as they want to be. But this time it goes too far. Ann, Maria, Sabrina and Deb gather at a re...

  • Misdemeanor Man

    Dylan Schaffer

    Gordon Seegerman is a reluctant public defender by day and the Barry-obsessed singer in a Manilow cover band by night. When a routine misdemeanor case exposes corruption among his city's most prominent citizens, Seegerman finds himself having to ...

  • The Last King

    Nichelle D. Tramble

    “After two years of drifting I finally knew there was only one place that could offer me a shot at peace, and that was my hometown. The city was my crossroads, the crooked man with the slanted grin, my temptation, and I wanted to beat it. I wanted ...

  • Lover Boy/Bad Girl

    Michele Jaffe

    "Lover Boy" LOVER BOY IS DYING TO COME OUT AND PLAY. The rules: Two weeks before he intends to slowly and sadistically kill his prey, Loverboy sends a collage of the future crime scene to the FBI. If the agents can solve the riddles of the collag...

  • Three Bedrooms in Chelsea

    Liz Ireland

    EDIE AMOS MAY HAVE LOST THE LOVE OF HER LIFE, BUT SHE CAN'T LOSE THIS APARTMENT. Sure her journalist boyfriend has taken a dangerous assignment overseas, leaving Edie without a second thought. But a sunny two-bedroom apartment--with a balcony--doe...

  • The Roofer

    Erica Orloff

    Ava O'Neil, daughter of a murderer, grew up within the embrace of New York City's most infamous Irish gang, The Westies. Her father was the Roofer, named for his penchant for throwing enemies from the rooftops of Hell's Kitchen tenements. Raised by h...

  • Going Topless

    Megan McAndrew

    Sibling rivalry has crossed many an ocean.... When Constance Wright arrives at her family's summerhouse on the Mediterranean island of Santerre for her father Ross's memorial, she hopes that boyfriend Jim, the New York investment banker on her arm...

  • Beauty For Ashes

    Dorothy Clark

    IN THE PRIM-AND-PROPER PHILADELPHIA OF 1820, A SHOCKING MARRIAGE... It was the perfect contract for a marriage of convenience to a woman he didn't even know. Didn't want to know. Justin Randolph, a wealthy Philadelphia widower responsible for two ...

  • Song of the Road

    Dorothy Garlock

    By 1935, countless vehicles had traversed Route 66, their hum creating a uniquely American song. Most were heading west-but roads go in two directions, and in Dorothy Garlock's riveting third novel featuring Route 66, the fabled highway is one that l...

  • Getting Personal

    Chris Manby

    Three's a crowd -- or is it? A trio of pals who, on their own, have utterly lost the dating game decide to team up. They trust each other with their lives; now they've got to trust each other with their love lives. Ruby, Louisa and guy friend Mart...

  • Separation Anxiety

    Karen Brichoux

    An entertaining new novel by the author of Coffee & Kung Fu explores the mysteries of friendship and love in the story of Wichita Gray, a young woman who does some serious thinking about what makes a man a friend or a man a lover after "break...

  • The Misadventures of Maria O'Mara

    Deborah Skelly

    On the edge of turning forty, talent agent Maria O'Mara finds herself coping with a series of crises as she races against time to save her job, find a man, start a family, and deal with possible insanity, in an uproarious look at the life of a modern...

  • Bride in Overdrive

    Jorie Green Mark

    Jorie Green was a practical, level-headed graduate student when she got engaged to Barry Mark. But something happened once she had that sparkly ring on her finger: she went a little insane. Bride in Overdrive is a comic, quirky memoir of one bride-to...

  • Breakfast At Stephanie's

    Sue Margolis

    Playing “Winter Wonderland” for last-minute Christmas shoppers has got to be the all-time low point of Stephanie Glassman’s career. The aspiring jazz soloist and single mother has no singing prospects, no man in her life since her hot fling wit...

  • Heart of the Hunter

    Tina St. John

    Ariana of Clairmont would risk anything to save her kidnapped brother, a quest she knows is fraught with peril. Her only ally is Braedon le Chasseur, a formidable knight with a mysterious past, whose scarred face and brooding nature mask a soul fille...

  • Crisis

    Alexander M. Grace

    When Fidel Castro takes twenty thousand American and Soviet hostages in a high-stakes bid to preserve his power, the American and Russian military join forces to implement an extraordinary rescue. Reprint....

  • With a Twist

    Maureen Child
    in

    Welcome to Steam, the hottest club in Savannah. Here the jazz is smooth, the dance floor is hopping and the attraction between three unsuspecting couples is rising as quickly as the temperature! Under the Cover of Night by Barbara McCauley O...

  • Naked Empire

    Terry Goodkind

    IT BEGINS... "You knew they were there, didn't you?" Kahlan asked. Against the darkening sky, she could just make out the shapes of three black-tipped races taking to wing, beginning their nightly hunt. That was why he'd stopped. "Yes," Richard...

  • A Perfect Duet

    Jennifer Malin
    in

    Music may be Miranda Granville's first love, but her marriage-minded papa is not concerned with her future as a pianist. Only classically trained Andrew Owen believes in Miranda's talent, and soon Miranda is hoping that their perfect duets will lead ...

  • A Time to Love

    Robert Greenberger

    On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain and his new command, Riker's marriage to ...

  • The Big Fork Game

    J.R. Roberts

    When the mining town of Big Fork, Montana, hosts a high-stakes, high-risk poker marathon, it's Clint Adams's job to make sure the players keep their hands above the table—and away from their six shooters.What Clint doesn't know is that there's...

  • Deuces Wild

    Dusty Richards

    When all the cards are wild, there are only three things to do: Lay 'em...play 'em...or slay 'em. When the hardened Apache scout called Deuces is court-martialed for cold-blooded murder, he's sentenced to hang. But an appeal saves him from the noo...

  • The Shadow Runners

    Liz Maverick

    Newgate, Australia: In the 22nd century, history repeats itself. Part penal colony, part dumping ground for toxic waste, the land is controlled by "the Parliament," a gang of dissipated self-styled aristocrats. To survive here, you have to know the t...

  • The Darkening

    Chandler McGrew

    IT BEGINS WITH A BLACKOUT. All electrical power ceases to run. Even the sun seems a little dimmer. Cities come to a halt. And then their inhabitants vanish. But a small, clandestine group of warriors has been preparing for this moment for centuries. ...

  • Kiss Her Goodbye

    Wendy Corsi Staub

    A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE Woodsbridge, New York, is the sort of upscale community where the American Dream is alive and thriving--shiny cars, beautiful homes, and safe, tree-shaded streets. There are pools where kids splash each other gleefully, and soc...

  • The Dare Affair

    Sheri Whitefeather
    in

    Welcome to Steam, the hottest club in Savannah. Here the jazz is smooth, the dance floor is hopping and the attraction between three unsuspecting couples is rising as quickly as the temperature! Under the Cover of Night by Barbara McCauley O...

  • Under the Cover of Night

    Barbara McCauley
    in

    Welcome to Steam, the hottest club in Savannah. Here the jazz is smooth, the dance floor is hopping and the attraction between three unsuspecting couples is rising as quickly as the temperature! Under the Cover of Night by Barbara McCauley O...

  • Bright Eyes

    Catherine Anderson

    Zeke Coulter has no intention of getting married--until he buys a ranch next door to Natalie Patterson, a sexy divorcee with two kids, a zany extended family, and a philandering ex-husband involved in shady business dealings. When Natalie's twelve-ye...

  • A Worthy Opponent

    Louise Bergin

    Love or Money Sensible Miss Judith Shelton is the first to admit she's a fortune hunter. But even as Judith concocts elaborate schemes to win the attentions of wealthy Viscount Westfall, she has only her orphaned siblings' best interests a...

  • .45-Caliber Revenge

    Peter Brandvold

    Bent on revenge, eighteen-year-old Cuno Massey sets out on a perilous journey to find and kill legendary buffalo hunter Rolf Anderson--the man who murdered his father and stepmother--and, along the way, joins forces with other people who also want to...

  • The Highbinders

    Matt Braun

    In California, The Southern Pacific Railway was prying the West wide open, and the land was worth its weight in gold. While some men got in on the action, and some got out of the way, one group of settlers was making a stand-and holding up the railwa...

  • Happy Is the Bride: A Novella

    Caroline Clemmons
    in

    Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue...Beth Pendleton didn't forget a thing. Mason Whittaker, the man of her dreams, will be waiting at the chapel, her friends are coming from far and wide, the dressmaker is putting the fi...

  • Vengeance Rider

    Joseph A. West

    A RACE AGAINST TIME Buck Fletcher plans to ride his horse for a $10,000 prize, money he needs to send his sick daughter to a faraway clinic. Then some outlaws steal his steed--and with it, his sick daughter's last hope. Though it's been ten years ...

  • Into the Web

    Thomas H. Cook

    Twenty-five years ago, an unspeakable crime was committed and Roy Slater fled--from the life he thought he wanted, from the memories he couldn't avoid, and from the devastating suspicions of those he called friends. But now that his estranged father ...

  • Lady of Poison

    Bruce R. Cordell
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    I shall burn thee with hunger, devour thee with blistering heat and with bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of beasts upon thee, with the poison of serpents of the dust. The spiritual heart of Faern beats in time with a hundred gods, and f...

  • Missing Monday

    Matthew Costello

    Waking up on Tuesday and unable to remember the day before, Janna, desperately trying to recall the previous day's events, learns the truth from a mysterious woman, which leads her down a path of terror, turning every moment of every day into a livin...

  • Double Running

    Carol Cox
    in

    Love Comes Cloaked in Unexpected Disguises Raised in No Man's Land -- a wide-open tract west of the Oklahoma territory -- the Stafford siblings stitch together a legacy of faith and family history But each one struggles to recognize the arrival of...

  • Chesapeake Tide

    Jeanette Baker

    A lot can happen in seventeen years, but falling out of love isn't one of them. Pride has always kept a tight rein on Libba Delacourt. The pride that drove her away from Russ Hennessey and into the arms of a traveling actor is the same pride th...

  • Longarm and the Outlaw's Shadow

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm’s been around enough bad guys to know how to act like one…Escorting a wanted man from El Paso to Denver is a peach of an assignment for Longarm, until -- right before his eyes -- an assassin empties a six-gun into his prisoner.   Ch...

  • Dangerous Curves

    Jacey Ford

    THEY KNOW HOW THE JUSTICE SYSTEM WORKS.. . FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE LAW.. . Former FBI agents Aimee, Daphne, and Raine have left the Bureau to start a new kind of corporate security firm--where they can tackle anything from computer hackers to suspect...

  • Fallen

    Kathleen George

    It happened in the night, when no one was around to see it. A Pittsburgh doctor, who dedicated himself to helping others, was shot through the heart. Now days have passed, and Dan Ross's wife, Elizabeth, has entered a twilight zone of grief, flooded ...

  • Terms of Control

    Don Pendleton

    Stony Man The ultra secret counterterrorist force called Stony Man utilizes a brilliant cybernetics team and a dedicated fighting force to combat the ever-changing threats against the free world. Stony Man answers only to the President. But when p...

  • Coffin Blues

    Tom Piccirilli

    Priest McClaren wants to put his past behind him. It's a past filled with loss, murder . . . and revenge. Now all Priest wants is to own a carpentry shop and earn a quiet living building coffins. But it looks like peace and quiet just aren't in Pries...

  • Catwoman

    Elizabeth Hand

    There's a new Catwoman in town--a feline adventuress unlike any you've seen before. Discover all her sizzling secrets as she cracks her whip and sinks her claws into her most petrifying, death-defying adventure yet. Patience Philips is a shrinking...

  • The Nevada Nemesis

    Jon Sharpe

    There’s a killer on the loose that needs killing…Riding through the desert, Skye Fargo rescues a half-dead man on the run from the law. Fargo returns the fugitive to town, only to find that the accused murderer he brought back alive is sure to be...

  • Sorrow's Wedding

    Donna Simpson
    in

    When Sorrow Marchand accepts Bertram Carlyle's proposal of marriage, she is counting on the kindness she believes is hidden beneath his stern exterior. Her family's life is decidedly "original," if not truly eccentric, but Bertram is man enough to me...

  • Promise Me

    Yvonne Jocks
    in

    Society beauty Alice Prescott always dreamed of the perfect wedding -- but her rich fiance ended their engagement when her family's fortunes collapsed. Friendless and alone, she made her way to the rough frontier town of Denver, vowing never to t...

  • Meant To Be

    Edie Claire

    With just a phone call, Meara O'Rourke begins a remarkable journey. Her birth mother has died, leaving her half of a breathtaking historic inn. Alone and uncertain of her future, Meara arrives at Laurel Ridge-and feels at peace for the first time in ...

  • Dawn of Night

    Paul S. Kemp
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The shadows recede from a lost temple in a forgotten wilderness. The sun rises on a new calling for a man as loyal as he is mysterious. The day's beginning finds Erevis Cale holding in his steady hands more power than he dared hope for -- and m...

  • The Glasswrights' Master

    Mindy Klasky

    The kingdom of Morenia has fallen to the armies of the Fellowship of lair. King Halaravilli has fled the capital city with a small band of loyal warriors to seek out allies in neighboring lands. Even more crucial, Hal must ensure the safety of his wi...

  • Jane's Warlord

    Angela Knight

    From one of the most exciting voices in erotic romance comes a debut as electrifying as it is sensual--about a woman in danger and the man who has traveled through time and space to protect--and possess--her... TODAY Reporter Jane Colby covers cr...

  • Slocum and the Lady Reporter

    Jake Logan

    Slocum is always bad news for outlaws…Despite its name, there’s always trouble brewing in the small mining town of Nirvana, Nevada. John Slocum’s just riding through, when the comely widow Mrs. Benteen -- and  newspaper reporter -- asks fo...

  • Hard Pursuit

    Don Pendleton

    In federal custody, one of the world's most wanted terrorists is aboard a one-way flight to justice in the United States. But he's not giving up without a fight. Fortunately, Mack Bolan is along for the ride. When the plane is shot down by enemy fire...

  • Dead Wrong

    Mariah Stewart

    THREE DEVIOUS PRISONERS VOW MURDEROUS REVENGE. NOW THE FIRST IS FREE. It was inescapably chilling, as if the murderer was methodically working his way down a page torn from the phone book. The three victims brutally killed in their own homes had...

  • Never Tell

    Selena Montgomery

    SEXY CITY Criminal psychologist Dr. Erin Abbott wants nothing more than to live a quiet life. That means no danger, no intrigue-and absolutely no romance. But when Erin suspects a serial killer is roaming New Orleans, her investigation throws her st...

  • Apocalypse Array

    Lyda Morehouse

    Amariah, the daughter of the archangel Michael and a legendary force in the cybernetic and law enforcement communities, discovers she might be the next messiah, while the antichrist and the Prince of Darkness prepare to marry and unleash Armageddon o...

  • Following the Wake

    Gemma O'Connor

    When the story of his father's death resurfaces after his stepfather, a former detective, writes a best-selling crime novel that thrusts the family into the spotlight, Gil sets out to find the truth, an obsession that has haunted him since he was eig...

  • The Warlock's Last Ride

    Christopher Stasheff

    THE FINAL ADVENTURE IN THE PHENOMENAL SERIES! After an incredible 35-year run, the story of Rod Gallowglass -- the Warlock in Spite of Himself -- comes to its fantastic finale in the weird and wonderful world of Gramarye. When Gwendolyn -- the...

  • The Quick

    Dan Vining

    While searching for the person responsible for killing his client's father, private investigator Jimmy Miles walks the dark streets of Hollywood along with the Sailors, restless creatures who own the night, to find the truth, but instead discovers hi...

  • Out of the Ruins

    Sally Wright

    THE WILD AND BEAUTIFUL SEA ISLAND WAS A PLACE TO DIE FOR.
    AND KILL FOR.

    Of all the aristocratic dynasties that once reigned over Georgia’s Cumberland Island, only the Hill family survives. Now they too are threatened. Charlotte, the famil...

  • Strike Force Alpha

    Mack Maloney

    Call it all-American pride. Call it vengeance. The Ocean Voyager is on course. A thirty-thousand-ton undercover assault warship set loose in the Middle East. For Colonel Ryder Long of the U.S. Air Force, fighting to win is in his blood. The same coul...

  • The Moon Pool

    Max McCoy

    Time is running out for Jolene. She's trapped by a madman, held captive, naked, waiting only for her worst nightmares to become reality. Her captor will keep her alive for twenty-eight days, hidden in an underwater city 400 feet below the surface. Th...

  • The Lone Drow

    R.A. Salvatore
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    ALONE ON THE BATTLEFIELD. SURROUNDED BY DEATH. CORNERED BY ENEMIES. AND READY TO DIE. Drizzt Do'Urden has become the Hunter, the bane of the orc hordes still ravaging the North. Cut off, alone, convinced that everything he ever valued has been des...

  • Bubbles Ablaze

    Sarah Strohmeyer

    Bubbles Yablonsky has been summoned. Heeding the call from her boss at the News-Times, she's racing her Camaro toward an abandoned coal mine and a potentially big story. What she finds is the love of her life, Steve Stiletto, knocked unconscious--and...

  • A Choir of Ill Children

    Tom Piccirilli

    BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Tom Piccirilli's The Last Kind Words.This lyrical tale of evil, loss, and redemption is a stunning addition to the Southern gothic tradition of Flannery O’Connor and Harry Crews. A Choir of Ill Children...

  • After the Bugles

    Elmer Kelton

    Two novels from seven-time Spur Award"winning author Elmer Kelton, "truly a Texas legend" (former Texas Governor Rick Perry), After the Bugles and Llano River. After the BuglesJoshua Buckalew has left behind the deserted battlefields that claimed h...

  • Crisis

    David Drake

    Humanity joins forces with its centuries-old enemy, the Khalians, to combat a common foe--the Syndicate of Families--that stands poised to seize control of the known universe, in an anthology that features stories by Christopher Stasheff, Poul Anders...

  • Total War

    David Drake

    National bestselling authors in the breakthrough military science fiction series.

    The Fleet must destroy a human foe capable of infiltrating the Fleet itself.

    Includes stories by:

    Anne McCaffrey * Katherine Kurtz and Scott ...

  • A Talent for War

    Jack McDevitt

    Everryone knew the legend of Christopher Sim. Fighter. Leader. An interstellar hero with a rare talent for war, Sim changed mankind's history forever when he forged a ragtag group of misfits into the weapon that broke the back of the alien Ashiyyur. ...

  • Princess Don't Sweat

    Kaz Delaney

    Fifteen-year-old Madeline hates the idea of spending Christmas vacation in Australia with her mom's new Internet boyfriend, but when handsome Aussie hunk Mitch rescues them from the Outback, it's love at first sight for Madeline....

  • A Love for All Time

    Deborah Fletcher Mello

    Sisters Camille and Zina Martin couldn't be more different. Camille has always been the obedient, dutiful daughter, while Zina angered her father by marrying a man she'd only known for two days. Convinced she'll never find that kind of passion, Camil...

  • Bedspell

    Jule McBride

    Oh, brother! Signe Sargent has it made in Manhattan. Fab girlfriends to hang out with, a line on a hot new job and a crush on Gorgeous Garrity, the Big Apple's #1 bachelor. Except he's not quite responding to her charms, so for fun Signe casts a l...

  • Last Man Standing

    Julie Miller

    THE NOTORIOUS TAYLOR Undercover cop Cole Taylor had his hands full sustaining a secret identity as he worked to expose a Kansas City crime boss -- while living under the enemy's roof! The last thing he needed was a snooty intellectual type interfe...

  • Marriage In Six Easy Lessons

    Mollie Molay

    Sullivan's Rules He Has Six Rules About Marriage Lucas Sullivan is a sociologist who's come up with a set of rules that, in his opinion, will guarantee a happy marriage. Unfortunately, April Morgan, his editor, sees things quite differently. ...

  • Possessions

    James A. Moore

  • Stolen Away

    Shannon Donnelly
    in

    As the brains behind her beautiful cousin's social success, Audrey Colbert has orchestrated the girl's match with the Marquise of Arncliffe. But when the bride-to-be is kidnapped, Audrey finds herself face-to-face with her cousin's fiance...

  • Falling

    Natalie Dunbar

  • Wind Walker

    Cassie Edwards

    Yearning for adventure, Maggie Tolan convinces her mother to leave Boston, and everything they have ever known, for the wilderness of the frontier. But by the time she reaches the Wyoming Territory, Maggie has lost her mother--and her desire to go on...

  • Death With an Ocean View

    Nora Charles

    Nestled between fast track Ft. Lauderdale and nouveau riche Boca Raton, the once sleepy beach town of Palmetto is plagued by progress. The latest news has Ocean Vista condo board president Stella Sajak and other residents in an uproar. Developers pla...

  • The Cajun Cowboy

    Sandra Hill

    The South Was Never This Hot...or Hilarious! Talk about a bad hair day! Louisiana beauty salon owner Charmaine LeDeux has a loan shark on her tail, and Raoul Lanier, the six-foot-three hunk of testosterone she thought she divorced, has just delive...

  • The Judge

    Jan Hudson

    A Law-Abiding Outlaw! Carrie Campbell has secret business in Naconiche, Texas. But while she's quietly looking into land for oil exploration, she's also falling for Judge Frank James Outlaw. Hard. Yes, he's got two little rug rats and yes, he live...

  • Fearless Hearts

    Linda Hudson-Smith

  • Face of Deception

    Ana Leigh

    RESCUE AND PROTECT... Mike Bishop's latest assignment should have been simple -- rescue a woman and the young boy in her care. But there was nothing simple about beautiful Ann Hamilton. Suddenly, Mike was thinking more and more about ways to mix b...

  • For Better Or Cursed

    Mary Leo

    When all else fails...marry him! That's what it's going to take to finally bust the bad luck surrounding Cate Falco's love life. Jilted at the altar ten years ago, her fiances ever since have been saying, "I'd rather not," before they, uh, could acc...

  • Hold Me Tight

    Cait London

    POSSESSION Powerful. Dangerous. Male. Alexi Stepanov was everything that painful experience had taught Jessica Sterling to fear. Which was why he made the perfect protector for her dearest friend. What made better sense than to counter a threat wi...

  • Perfect Switch

    Lisa Plumley

    "ARE YOU READY FOR THE FANTASY OF A LIFETIME?" So asks the invitation Meredith Madison finds while house-sitting for her TV-star twin sister, Marley. Admittedly, her life could use a little--okay, a lot--more excitement. Glamorous, talented Marley...

  • Best-Laid Plans

    Debbi Rawlins

    July 19, 1983... The Kinards, the Richardses and the Webbers--Seattle's Kennedys. Their "compound"--elegant Forrester Square...until the fateful night that tore these families apart. Twenty years later... Their children were reunited. Repressed ...

  • Into His Arms

    Paula Reed

    "Life is short, Faith...I take what I can when I can, and if I burn in hell, it will be without regrets..." Geoffrey Hampton has little faith in his fellow man. The English privateer follows his own fearless code, taking his fortune and his pleasur...

  • Love Comes Home

    Terri Reed

    IS THERE A DOCTOR...? An ache throbbed within Dr. Rachel Maguire's chest. After twelve years, Josh Taylor, the man she'd loved and lost, stood before her -- handsome as ever, and now with an adorable son. Something stirred inside her at the si...

  • A Time To Remember

    Lois Richer

    HIS MISSING FAMILY RETURNS An accident took away Grayson McGonigle's wife and son, or so everyone in Blessing believed -- except Gray, who prayed daily for a miracle. Then, five months after their car plunged into the Colorado River, Mariss...

  • Fifty Ways To Say I'm Pregnant

    Christine Rimmer

    THERE MUST BE FIFTY WAYS TO SAY I'M PREGNANT! So why couldn't Starr Bravo think of at least one? Maybe because though she'd been in love with rancher Beau Tisdale since she was sixteen, they'd agreed that this "summer of love" was just that. That ...

  • A Full House

    Nadia Nichols

    Dr. Annie Crawford is hoping for a peaceful summer on an isolated farm in northern Maine. She's happy to escape her hectic New York life and to spend time getting to know her troubled teenage child. But the two are not alone for long. First comes ...

  • When Will the Dead Lady Sing?

    Patricia Sprinkle

    Hopemore, Georgia, county magistrate MacLaren Yarbrough is experiencing some of the weirdest weeks of her life, weighing the cons and more cons of a strange animal in her yard, the return of an old boyfriend, and of course, murder.... Folks in Hop...

  • Wooing Miss Whately // A Rake's Reward

    Meredith Bond

    WILL SHE FIND THE TREASURE SHE SEEKS... Sara Whately has come to England from Philadelphia on a daring quest to recover long-buried family jewels and ease her father's financial straits. The dilemma: the jewels are hidden at the estate her grand...

  • Silver and Satin

    Karen L. King
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    Sterling John Cooper scratched out a fortune in the mines of California and he's ready to settle down at last. But his flighty fiancee leaves him at the altar and John is flummoxed. How did he miss the signs--and why did he overlook Mary Hamilton, he...

  • Girl on the Run

    Jennie Klassel

    IN HOT PURSUIT Seventeen-year-old Lady Kaia was going to throw Lord Eben from the battlements if he called her "little one" again. And if her father bleated for the thousandth time that "a man does not want learning in a wife," he was going over a...

  • At Twilight

    Beth Henderson

    LOVE ON THE RUN On the course of his trek across the green Texas countryside in the spring of 1868, J. W. Walford only stopped at the small, hidden ranch intending to purchase a horse with which to hasten his flight from the law. But when he stumb...

  • The Daddy's Promise

    Shirley Jump

    HAVING...ANOTHER MAN'S BABY Anita Ricardo had moved to town to make a home for her baby -- alone. She'd learned long ago that she didn't need anyone, not even Luke Dole, the sexy single dad she'd once fantasized about. But how could a hormonally c...

  • To the Limit

    Virginia Kelly

    DANGEROUS COUNTRY, DANGEROUS MAN... When terrorists kidnapped her brother, Mary Beth Williams had ten days to come up with the ransom. In desperation, she went to South American diplomat Nicholas Romero for help. A man committed to saving lives, h...

  • Vendetta

    Ruth Langan

    SECRETS UNDER THE SUN Eager to spend a sentimental summer on Lake Michigan, Blair Colby traveled to his late aunt's cottage in Devil's Cove, only to find the place ransacked. Blair had no idea why, but he was determined to find out. He soon enlist...

  • Lover's Knot

    Maggie MacKeever

    Love has a way of tying up loose ends... ONE MISFORTUNE LEADS TO... Notorious rake Conor Melchers enjoys nothing more than pleasing his bevy of female companions--though he has little interest in making any of them his wife. While purchasing his ...

  • The Black Knight's Bride

    Myrna MacKenzie

    HER RELUCTANT CHAMPION Susanna Wright had vowed never again to be a damsel in distress. But then she was stranded and Brady Malone came to her rescue. Never mind that he considered himself a no-good loner with a dangerous temper. Susanna knew she ...

  • Love Is Murder

    Linda Palmer

    Morgan Tyler is the head writer of the soap opera Love of My Life. Her imagination is always at work, churning out the stuff that fills many a fan’s daytime with drama.   Then Damon Radford, the head of daytime programming, is found dead -- an...

  • Legally Binding

    Ann Voss Peterson

    TRUTH, JUSTICE AND THE TEXAS WAY Reformed-bad-boy-turned-rancher Bart Rawlins had been accused of a murder he hadn't committed, and only the best lawyer in Texas could prove that he hadn't. So when newcomer Lindsey Wellington walked in with promis...

  • Finding Mr. Perfect

    Nikki Rivers

    But first Hannah Ross has to make sure that the new ad campaign for Granny's Grains begins without a hitch -- after all, it was her idea to locate America's "perfect" family and then slap their faces on every cereal box. Yet when Hannah ventures t...

  • One Perfect Man

    Lynda Sandoval

    THE PERFECT NIGHT... Single-minded events planner Erica Goncalves was stuck on maintaining her independence -- even if it meant turning down a job to keep a sexy single father away. But after he made an offer she couldn't refuse, Miss Independence...

  • The Courting of Widow Shaw

    Charlene Sands

    What would it take to win the widow's proud heart? WHO KILLED BOONE SHAW? HIS WIFE, IT SEEMED Glory Shaw survived a nightmare only to awaken to a more disturbing reality -- her dead husband. Wanted for a murder she couldn't recall, she...

  • Lady in Red

    Deirdre Savoy

  • White Heat

    Jill Shalvis

    Bush pilot Lyndie Anderson has gotten by on her own, and she'd like to keep it that way. She lives only for her plane and the open sky. Then she's hired to fly a drop-dead-gorgeous fireman to a blaze in Copper Canyon, and suddenly she's struggling to...

  • The Last Mermaid

    Shana Abe

    531 a.d.: The tiny island of Kell is said to be enchanted, inhabited by an extraordinary creature who comforts shipwrecked sailors passing into the next world. Prince Aedan of the Isles believes in no such nonsense -- until he awakens on Kell itsel...

  • Longarm and the Montana Madmen

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm gets brutal with a few bloodthirsty brothers!U.S. Deputy Marshal Jed King was a legend to all who carried a badge. So when a band of Montana hoodlums -- including the infamous Fagan brothers -- murder King and two of his sons, Marshal Custis ...

  • First Born

    Lindsay McKenna

    BORN HERO Jason Trayhern wore his father's glorious military legacy like a thorny crown.Though a skilled fighter pilot himself, Jason's rebel tactics didn't sit well with his commanding officers.They expected more from Morgan Trayhern's son, wh...

  • Wanted Woman

    B.J. Daniels

    Nestled deep in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, the close-knit community of Timber Falls is visited by evil. Could one of their own be lurking in the shadows...? She skidded into town on a bike too powerful for most men, with ten thousand dollars...

  • The Wedding Caper

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    The long-awaited wedding of Sir Neville Hathaway and Lady Priscilla Flanders is only three weeks away--and an evening at the theatre should prove a welcome diversion. But before the final curtain, a noblewoman is slain in her private box... Betwe...

  • Cavanaugh's Woman

    Marie Ferrarella

    HE STOLE HER HEART... Handsome, hardworking Shaw Cavanaugh defined the term "top cop." So when Moira McCormick arrived in town to research her next film role, it was no surprise that the Chief assigned the stunning movie star to shadow the no-nons...

  • The New Baby

    Brenda Mott

    What they've both lost Amanda Kelly has come to Boone's Crossing, Tennessee, to recover from the loss of her baby. She finds a kindred spirit in Ian Bonner, a man who, in his teens, gave up a son for adoption. Ian is so wonderful, so kind, so hand...

  • The Babe Magnet

    Robin Wells

    THE BACHELOR Holt Landen was in trouble. He'd been left a six-month-old child he never knew he had, and while he'd attracted plenty of babes in the past, they were always the kind in high heels and garters. Diapers were disturbingly new, and they cal...

  • One Eye Open

    Karen Whiddon

    THE NATURE OF THE BEAST... That was all DEA agent Carson Turner had thought of since his partner had murdered his family. Then, just as the trail of evidence went cold, his enemy's beautiful sister, Brenna Lupe, appeared, offering him the chance f...

  • Woman In Hiding

    Rebecca Winters

    The sweetest little boy... Leslie Hopkins's heart goes out to Cory Gallagher, a six-yearold boy who lost his mother over a year ago. She delights in her new job as his nanny and is ecstatic when the boy starts to warm up to her. She hurts only whe...

  • Among The Tulips

    Cheryl Wolverton

    A NEW BEGINNING Turning forty is a major milestone for Annie Hooper, who has been married, with stepchildren, since she was seventeen. The birthday gift of a trip to Holland offers some unexpected and exciting changes to her routine. And when a car ...

  • Destiny Unleashed

    Sherryl Woods

    Destiny Carlton is finally ready for a little sweet revenge. For twenty years Destiny Carlton has put family and duty ahead of her own hopes and dreams. Now with the orphaned nephews she raised grown and married, it's time for the once free-spirit...

  • Kindred Spirits

    Alice Wootson

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    Undercover journalist, Alana Duke, and ex-special forces agent, Keith Henderson, combine forces to thwart a plot to cause national devastation. The powerful mutual attraction between the two proves to be a delicious complication.

    ""Mrs. Wootso...

  • Be Very Afraid

    S.K. McClafferty

    NOWHERE TO RUN Liz Moncrief still blames herself. For getting involved in the first place. For putting her career at the FBI ahead of everything else. For being just too damned obsessed with catching the serial killer who buried his young victims al...

  • Love: Undercover

    Hailey North

    A: Apple -- some say this forbidden fruit started men and women down the path of sinful pleasure... One Night of Passion ... Just because small-town librarian and single mom Jenifer Wright does not need a man doesn't mean she doesn't want one. ...

  • Heart of Texas

    Constance O'Banyon

    Casey Hamilton has nowhere to go, no place but the Spanish Spur ranch to make a new home for herself and her little brother and sister. And when none of the local men will work for her, when trouble seems to dog her steps, she has no choice but to hi...

  • The Longest Night

    Kathleen O'Reilly

    Sometimes one kiss... Sexy, single...and stacked. That's how most men in the Windy City would describe the infamous Cassandra Ward. And Cassandra is happy to play along -- providing her men follow her rules. No touchy-feely emotions. Just white-ho...

  • Bring On the Night

    Sara Orwig

    THIS TIME HE WAS PLAYING FOR KEEPS Colonel Jonah Whitewolf had always lived life on the edge, whether it was in the Special Forces or working for a security company, but nothing could have prepared him for the shock of stumbling upon his ex-wife.....

  • Code Name: Nanny

    Christina Skye

    She's an FBI agent. He's a Navy SEAL. Together they're igniting enough heat to blow both their covers. Summer Mulcahey is a workaholic FBI agent with a nose for crime, a mouth for trouble and a heart tied to the job 24/7. But Summer also happens t...

  • Brazen

    Bobbi Smith

    Casey Turner can rope and ride like any man, but when she strides down the streets of Hard Luck, Texas, nobody takes her for anything but a beautiful woman. Working alongside her Pa to keep the bank from foreclosing on the Bar T, she has no time for ...

  • Double Cross

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman
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    Love Comes Cloaked in Unexpected Disguises Raised in No Man's Land -- a wide-open tract west of the Oklahoma territory -- the Stafford siblings stitch together a legacy of faith and family history But each one struggles to recognize the arrival of...

  • Basket Stitch

    Cathy Marie Hake
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    Love Comes Cloaked in Unexpected Disguises Raised in No Man's Land -- a wide-open tract west of the Oklahoma territory -- the Stafford siblings stitch together a legacy of faith and family history But each one struggles to recognize the arrival of...

  • Spider Web Rose

    Vickie McDonough
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    Love Comes Cloaked in Unexpected Disguises Raised in No Man's Land -- a wide-open tract west of the Oklahoma territory -- the Stafford siblings stitch together a legacy of faith and family history But each one struggles to recognize the arrival of...

  • The Spy Who Loves Me

    Julie Kenner

    He'd be a terrible spy. But he might make a good husband. Call him Teague. Finn Teague. A jack-of-all-trades, he's been everything from ski instructor to cook, but he's always craved a job that wouldn't bore the living daylights out of him. He longs...

  • The Countess Bride

    Terri Brisbin

    AS A BRIDE, SHE WAS WORTHLESS Indeed, Catherine de Severin could offer nothing in the way of power and land. A penniless orphan with a shadowed past, she was not a suitable match for a comte destined to control vast holdings. But Geoffrey Dumon...

  • The Barkin Emeralds

    Nancy Butler

    The Captive Heart Miss Maggie Bonner is returning her mistress's rejected betrothal gift -- an emerald necklace -- to Lord Barkin in Scotland. But while Maggie is traveling on the open sea, her ship is overtaken by a pirate vessel captained by...

  • One True Secret

    Bethany Campbell

    What if the truth doesn't set you free? Emerson Roth has one mission -- protect her family by keeping their secrets. If the decision was left to Emerson, she would stop the lies and live with the consequences, but she has her sister and elderly gr...

  • In This Skin

    Simon Clark

    Two teenage runaways, Robyn and Noel, are desperate for a place of safety. Fate takes them to the Luxor which has been sealed from the outside world for decades. They discover that people are drawn here against their will and that certain individuals...

  • Testing His Patience

    Lyn Cote

    THE VERDICT IS...LOVE All D.A. Gil Montgomery wants is a robbery conviction, but what he gets is a mistrial, thanks to the new teacher in town, Patience Andrews. Gil meets his match in the headstrong Patience, who challenges Gil's expertise. Yet a...

  • Hot Contact

    Susan Crosby

    COMPLETELY CONSUMED... Her past was filled with questions, and private investigator Arianna Alvorado was determined to find answers. But she needed certain police files...files she knew Joe Vicente could access. The problem was, the fiery p...

  • Hot August Nights

    Christine Flynn

    ONE NIGHT. ONE MAN. ONE BIG MISTAKE. Was there a woman alive who could resist Matt Calloway? If given a choice, most would have said Ashley Kendrick, the eldest daughter in the Kendrick dynasty. Ashley's poise and reserve were world renowned. But ...

  • Play Dead

    Anne Frasier

    WATCH YOUR BACK, ELISE. No one understands the dark side of Savannah better than homicide detective Elise Sandburg. As an infant, she was thought to be the daughter of a famous root doctor--and was abandoned in an ancient Low Country cemetery. Growi...

  • Mistress Minded

    Katherine Garbera

    THOUGHTS OF SEDUCTION Pretend mistress? When Jayne Montrose was offered the assignment by the man of her dreams, she couldn't refuse. Millionaire Adam Powell was her boss, and the situation was clearly temporary, but Jayne wasn't sure her heart wo...

  • Challenged by the Sheikh

    Kristi Gold

    WHEN A DESERT PRINCE... Sheikh Raf Shakir was hiding a painful past behind a controlled exterior. But the solitude of his horse farm was shattered when Imogene Danforth came to him with a proposal he couldn't refuse -- and a body he couldn't resis...

  • Rinaldo's Inherited Bride

    Lucy Gordon

    Rinaldo lost some land...and gained a wife! Rinaldo Farnese and his brother, Gino, had just discovered an Englishwoman had inherited part of their farm. There seemed only one solution to reclaim their missing land: they would toss a coin and the w...

  • To Catch a Countess

    Patricia Grasso

    Beautiful though she is, Victoria Douglas's reputation for reckless behavior has put her marriage prospects at risk. Only those closest to her know that the young woman's outrageous behavior is designed to mask a secret shame. Infuriated to discover ...

  • Wild In the Moonlight

    Jennifer Greene

    WILD ABANDON She was no man magnet. From her Gypsy clothing to her feline fan club to her transparent attempt at seeming helium-headed, Violet Campbell screamed, "Run for your life," her lucrative lavender fields be damned. But Cameron Lachlan ...

  • Dark Harvest

    Karen Harper

    Widower Luke Brand is a leader in the peaceful Amish community of Maplecreek. But now his people are under attack from unknown assailants -- and the main target appears to be the children. Although the community is reluctant to turn to the outside wo...

  • A Happy Life

    Charlotte Harris

  • The Secret Seduction

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    Bets Are On In Holly Springs... Once upon a time -- and after too many birthday margaritas -- Holly Springs "Ice Princess" Lily Madsen decides she's had enough of being a virginal Southern belle and bets her friends that she can seduce a visiting ...

  • The Cowboy and the Bride

    Marin Thomas

    Wild Horses Couldn't Drag Him To The Altar Again With one bad marriage under his belt and a little girl by his side, Jake Montgomery solemnly swears that he doesn't want another wife. Until a femme fatale in a wedding dress shows up snagged -- lik...

  • Old Enough To Know Better

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    New York Times bestselling author Vicki Lewis Thompson proves that things aren't always better with age... When twenty-year-old PR exec Kasey Braddock accepts her coworkers' dare to hit on the gorgeous new landscaper, she's excited. Finally here's...

  • He Said Now

    Patricia Waddell

    LOVE HAS ITS REASONS... When William Fitch Minstead, the sixth Earl of Ackerman, agrees to a private audience with a lovely stranger, he's rewarded with the fateful news that he is the father of a little girl. After the death of her friend Eliza...

  • Alligator Moon

    Joanna Wayne

    LYING IN THE SHADOWS OF THE MOONLIGHT... John Robicheaux lived the simple life in Cajun country -- that was until his brother turned up dead in the bayou. He'd be damned before he'd let that crime go unpunished. And John's suspicions about the sud...

  • Flight of the Falcon

    Victor Milan

    A DARK AND BLOODY CRUSADE... A Clan Jade Falcon force is en route to eradicate the Steel Wolves--but its true mission is the subjugation of The Republic of the Sphere. Constrained by an imposed peace for decades, the Falcons embark on their most s...

  • Visions of Liberty

    Martin H. Greenberg

    The Future of Freedom--as Explored by Top Science Fiction Writers in a New Volume of All Original Stories. As Thomas Jefferson put it, "That government is best which governs least." And, as Will Rogers wryly quipped, "We're lucky we don't ge...

  • Double Deception

    Lena Nelson Dooley

    Since her mother died, Rissa's stepfather, Pierre Le Blanc, has been her guardian. She hates the life they lead - always traveling from one place to the other - and longs for a way to escape. She has no hope - until they arrive in Litchfield, Minneso...

  • Let My Heart Go

    Bev Huston

    Stephanie Harris is running from her own past while helping teenagers get on the right track. When her boss suggests she add a survival camp to her program, Steph is none too pleased. In her mind, the military-style boot camp spells "torture" rather ...

  • Capital Offense

    Kathleen Antrim

    Is the First Lady plotting to overthrow the President? This question seems inconceivable to journalist Jack Rudly, but so did the murder of his own father, Senator William Rudly. Now his father is dead and all roads lead to the White House....

  • Tamsin

    Peter S. Beagle

    From the bestselling author of The Last Unicorn comes an “engaging story of a friendship that transcends time”(Library Journal)...Arriving in the magnificent countryside of Dorset, England, to live with her mother and new stepfather, the you...

  • Because of Baby

    Donna Clayton

    A FAIRY'S TALE It had seemed like a grand idea, temporarily trading her pixie wings for a womanly form to help handsome widower Paul Roland with his baby girl. And the moment she held the precious bairn in her arms, Fern knew true happiness for th...

  • Sweet Talkin' Guy

    Colleen Collins

    A honeymoon hotel... Daphne Remington's fate as the perfect socialite is practically sealed. But before giving in to la vie en beige and a matronly string of pearls, she's determined to have one last bit of fun. Only, her fling could be a bust whe...

  • The Daddy Survey

    Janis Reams Hudson

    CALLING ALL POTENTIAL DADDIES! "Are you single?" Sloan Chisholm stared down at the little girl in the roadside cafe. She and her younger sister were as cute as all get-out. But their mother was a knockout, and Sloan knew he was a goner when he ...

  • The Bride Tamer

    Ann Major

    HE WAS A MAN CONVINCED THAT LOVE CAME AFTER MARRIAGE... He believed a successful merger was made up of two parties with similar goals, backgrounds and wealth. So, tired of being alone, Cash McRay decided to pop the question to the daughter of a cl...

  • Encounter

    Dianne Mayhew

  • Secret Passage

    Amanda Stevens

    SET APART FROM THE REST... HE HAD NO PAST An accident had robbed Zac Riley of his memory, but then Zac learned he was a supersoldier trained by the covert organization Project Phoenix. And he alone could complete a vital mission, one that would ch...

  • The Clerkenwell Tales

    Peter Ackroyd

    From the foremost contemporary chronicler of London’s history, a suspenseful novel that ingeniously draws on Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales to recreate the city’s 14th century religious and political intrigues. London, 1399. Sister Claric...

  • Tell Me Lies

    Tony Strong

  • Canyon Quest

    Jim Ware

    A dry, forsaken blip on the edge of civilization. That's what Mike Fowler thinks of the little town of Ambrosia in the Arizona desert. He has no friends, no fun and no answers to the agonizing disappearance of his dad in a top-secret military mission...

  • Lisa Maria's Guide For the Perplexed

    Susan Hubbard

    For Lisa Maria, the decision to become a maid was simple: she was tired of nine-to-five office jobs and sick of falling for men she worked with. Performing manual labor for women seemed comparatively interesting and emotionally safe. Besides, wasn't ...

  • Silver's Edge

    Anne Kelleher

    THROUGH THE SHADOWLANDS: WHERE THE TOUCH OF SILVER WAS PROTECTION, POWER AND PERIL UNWILLINGLY ENTWINED... There is more danger than usual in the Otherworld of the Sidhe and the mortal world of the Shadowlands. An unlikely group of conspirators -...

  • Deadly Deception

    Ilene Birkwood

    Kelly is a New Zealander who has returned to her home after working for many years in California. She is now working as a software consultant. When the key software engineer on the project dies in a climbing accident and the perfect replacement turns...

  • The Z Radiant

    Jessica Reisman

    From first-time author Jessica Reisman comes The Z Radiant, a novel about a far-future culture where illusion and reality can both be tailored to individual tastes, and a city where each inhabitant must make their own decisions about their lives and ...

  • The Tolltaker

    James Sneddon

    James Sneddon has mixed a coming-of-age story with the dark fantastic in his first novel, The Tolltaker, in which a young boy comes to terms with death, grief, and the unknown.

    Eight-year-old Bobby Burke doesn't want to move out of his grandparent...

  • Temporary Insanity

    Leslie Carroll

    Meet Alice Finnegan: thirty-something, single and determined to take control of her own destiny ... even if she is stuck in a series of secretarial temp jobs and living with her beloved ninety-year-old grandmother -- a feisty, funny, former Ziegfeld ...

  • The Restoration

    Cathy Marie Hake

    Shipped home from France with scars on his body and soul, Russell Diamond despairs of ever feeling hope again. To spare his family the pain of seeing his anger, Russell escapes to a coastal village where he has inherited a great-uncle's home and size...

  • More Than Friends

    Tamela Hancock Murray

    Since her husband's death on a job site, Lexie thinks life will never be normal again. She's forced to leave her four-year-old daughter, Piper, with her parents while she settles into a new job in a different city. The separation is hard, but Lexie f...

  • The Difference Between You and Me

    Kathleen DeMarco

    The Difference Between You and Me is Sex and the City meets The Player. When two vastly different women-one a ruthless go-getter, the other an unambitious script reader-find their lives intertwined, a startling revelation turns their mutual loathing ...

  • The Goddess Rules

    Clare Naylor

    When obsessed pet owners have pooches or kitties they want immortalized on canvas, Kate Disney is the artist of choice. From her shed (which doubles as a studio and apartment) in London's Primrose Hill, Kate caters to the whims of the rich and famous...

  • Shades of a Chameleon

    J. Daniels

  • Missing Justice

    Alafair Burke

    In the second entry in Alafair Burke's "sharp, new crime series," the search for a missing judge leads Samantha Kincaid into Portland politics and a labyrinth of crime, corruption, and cover-ups -(Publishers Weekly)Deputy District Attorney Samantha K...

  • Conviction

    Elise Title

    As the superintendent of a Massachusetts prison halfway house, Natalie Price thought she'd seen it all. But when the death of a beautiful Boston socialite makes breaking news, Natalie is drawn into one of the biggest scandals of her career. Headli...

  • Time's Fool

    Leonard Tourney

    The crime's the thing.

    William Shakespeare is perhaps the most famous and prolific playwright of all time. Millions have read and seen his works, but few know the man behind the works. For all his fortune and fame, little did he know that the ...

  • Dark Voyage of the Mittie Stephens

    Johnny D. Boggs

    Three passengers on the Mittie Stephens--Bobby Randow, a professional gambler suffering from amnesia; Apolline Rainer, a former brothel owner; and Laura Kelly, a fugitive--find their lives in danger when a gang of ex-Confederates hijack the s...

  • Murder at a Vineyard Mansion

    Philip R. Craig

    SILENT AS THE GRAVE It's particularly quiet on Martha's Vineyard this summer, since a shadowy figure called "the Silencer began his covert campaign of destruction--disabling the audio systems in the homes and vehicles of selfish, music-blasting is...