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  • Gunfight at Frio Canyon

    Kent Conwell

    When Lew Hobbs rode out of Camp Verde on a hot day in July, his biggest mistake was not continuing on down to Bandera. If he had, he never would have been accused of killing an old rancher down on the Frio and stealing his savings.

    As if that was...

  • The Hunted

    L.A. Banks

    Each millennium brings a new Neteru, a vampire huntress. This millennium's savior has come in the form of Damali Richards, a hip-hop diva with the heart of a warrior and an attitude to match. But a vampire civil war has cost Damali both her powers an...

  • 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...

  • The Book of Spies

    Christopher Reich

    Here is an extraordinary collection of the world’s best literary espionage, selected by Alan Furst, a contemporary master of the genre. The Book of Spies brings us the aristocratic intrigues of The Scarlet Pimpernel, in which French émigrés duel ...

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • The Hundredth Man

    Jack Kerley / J.A. Kerley

    Bizarre messages found carved into the flesh of two corpses in Mobile, Alabama have launched a special unit devoted to solving psychotic crimes. They're also launching Detective Carson Ryder into a nightmare. Ryder's secret investigative weapon i...

  • 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...

  • The Old Boys

    Charles McCarry

    Four retired CIA agents team up when one of their own goes missing in this spy thriller by the bestselling author of The Tears of Autumn.Welcome to the world of Charles McCarry’s legendary character, Paul Christopher, the crack intelligence agent w...

  • Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination

    Helen Fielding

    At the close of the last millennium, Helen Fielding debuted the irrepressible (and blockbuster-bestselling) Bridget Jones. Now, Fielding gives us a sensational new heroine for a new era...Move over 007, a stunning, sexy-and decidedly female-new playe...

  • Sandstorm

    James Rollins

    An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum, setting off alarms in clandestine organizations around the world. Lady Kara Kensington's family paid a high price in money and blood to found the gallery that now lies ...

  • Flights

    Al Sarrantonio

    This daring, star-packed collection is the fantasy publishing event of the year. Challenging the boundaries of modern fantasy, this all-original anthology features stories from Neil Gaiman, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne McCaffrey, Orson Scott Card, Harry T...

  • Battle Surgeons

    Michael Reaves; Steve Perry

    As civil war between the Republic and the Separatists rages across the galaxy,' nowhere is the fighting more fierce than on t swamp world of Drongar, where a beleaguered mobile hospital unit wages a never-ending war of its own. . . . A surgeon who...

  • Bitter Medicine

    Dave Galanter

    A routine salvage operation becomes a desperate rescue mission, as the U.S.S. da Vinci encounters a failing abandoned ship -- that isn't so abandoned! There is one survivor aboard the derelict vessel: a boy who carries a most deadly disease. Even as...

  • The Cestus Deception

    Steven Barnes

    When the economically depressed government of Ord Cestus threatens to sell incredibly deadly battle droids to the Separatists, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine dispatches a team led by Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi to the planet. Their mission: to halt the ...

  • Destiny

    Richard Hatch; Brad Linaweaver

    When the dying sun of Paradis dramatically begins its contraction phase, a two year stay by the Galacticans and the colonials on what appears to be the perfect planet for rebuilding their civilization comes to an abrupt end—the planet's inhabit...

  • The Hero

    John Ringo; Michael Z. Williamson

    IT'S A MATTER OF TRUST For thousands of years the Darhel, a warrior species conditioned to be incapable of killing, manipulated and controlled the human race. Then the humans threw off their yoke and, as humans tend to do, attempted to exterminate...

  • Shockwave

    Paul Ruditis

    "Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides..." -- William Shakespeare "The Vulcan Science Directorate has concluded that time travel is impossible." -- T'Pol The Starship Enterprise" NX-01 has carried its crew farther into the reaches of spac...

  • Strange New Worlds VII

    Dean Wesley Smith

    Our seventh anthology features original Star Trek®, Star Trek: The Next Generation®, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine®, Star Trek: Voyager®, and Star Trek: Enterprise" stories written by Star Trek fans, for Star Trek fans! Featuring new stories by n...

  • 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 ...

  • Forced Mate

    Rowena Cherry

    By all the Lechers of Antiquity, what is a god-Emperor to do when his chosen mate is caught on tape speculating that he is a brute and a bore in bed? Renowned for his sexual prowess all over the galaxy, Prince Tarrant-Arragon has a reputation for dep...

  • 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...

  • Absolution Gap

    Alastair Reynolds

    The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life-form reaching a certain level of intelligence--and they've targeted humanity. War veteran Clavain and a ragtag group of refugees have fled into hiding. Their leadership is faltering, and their situat...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Best of Spider-Man, Volume 3

    J. Michael Straczynski

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • Dragon and Soldier

    Timothy Zahn

    Draycos, a golden-scaled draconic K'da poet-warrior, was on a scout fleet ship when it was attacked, with him the lone survivor. Forced to find a new symbiotic humanoid host, he found Jack Morgan. Jack has been on his own, making his way by shipping ...

  • 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...

  • Forensic Files of Batman: The World's Greatest Detective

    Doug Moench

  • Forge of Heaven

    C.J. Cherryh

    From C.J. Cherryh, one of science fiction′s greatest writers and a 3-time Hugo Award "Best Novel" winner, comes the exciting and long-awaited follow-up to Hammerfall, the second novel of the Gene Wars, now in mass market. In the second volume of "T...

  • Lost and Found

    Alan Dean Foster

    Ever since his classic debut, The Tar-Aiym Krang, the first of the wildly successful Pip and Flinx adventures, New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has captivated readers around the world. Now this writer of bold imagination and stunnin...

  • Newton's Wake

    Ken MacLeod

    ACROSS THE UNIVERSE In the aftermath of the Hard Rapture--a cataclysmic war sparked by the explosive evolution of Earth's artificial intelligences into godlike beings--a few remnants of humanity managed to survive. Some even prospered. Lucinda ...

  • Ringworld's Children

    Larry Niven

    The Ringworld: a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band three three million times the surface area of Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of whom are human, host to amazing technological wonders, the Rin...

  • The Skinner

    Neal Asher

    Spatterjay: the most dangerous planet in the galaxy, a world where everything has teeth and is very hungry. Spatterjay can rip you to shreds in more ways than have been counted, or transform you into something no longer quite human, but nearly immort...

  • Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

    Kevin J. Anderson

    In New York City in 1939, a reporter discovers that world's leading scientists are vanishing mysteriously and teams up with a skilled pilot and daring associate to uncover the truth and stop a made scientist out to achieve world domination. Original....

  • Spider-Man 2: The Movie

    Marvel Book Group

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • Thanos Volume 4: Epiphany

    Jim Starlin

    The most powerful, enigmatic villain in the Marvel Universe takes center stage in a galaxy-spanning tale woven by his creator, Jim Starlin (MARVEL UNIVERSE: THE END). He's held ultimate power in his hands, only to see it all slip away time and again....

  • Thinner Than Thou

    Kit Reed

    TV says it. Magazines say it. American society commands it. You must be thin. You must be young. Fad diets. Fat-purging pills. Fitness clubs. Liposuction. Breast implants. Steroids.In the tomorrow of Thinner Than Thou, the cult of the body ...

  • Thor, Volume 5: The Reigning

    Dan Jurgens

    Collects Thor (1998) #68-74. The day of man is over. Now is the time of gods on Earth. A character from the present is thrust into the future to witness the brave new world Thor has built atop the ruins of human society. Is it a utopia, or a totalita...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 Alias Man

    Bill Pronzini

    The women in his life call him the Alias Man. From Santa Fe to Pennsylvania, from Vancouver to San Francisco, he has seduced and charmed, stolen and disappeared, leaving unbearable hurt in his wake. Then his three most recent victims-- Jessie, Sar...

  • 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...

  • The Big Secret

    Pete Earley

    Federal Chief Investigator Nick LeRue is an expert on unraveling a crime; he's brought down some of the smoothest operators on Capitol Hill and uncovered dangerous secrets in politicians' pasts. In his personal life, however, his commitment to his jo...

  • Black

    Christopher Whitcomb

    A fifteen-year member of the FBI who received its coveted Medal of Bravery, former agent Christopher Whitcomb electrified readers with his breathtaking memoir, Cold Zero. Now his remarkable past and hard-edged prose illuminate his highly acclaimed fi...

  • The Blackbird Papers

    Ian Smith

    A rainy night . . . A stranded motorist . . . A Good Samaritan passerby ... a Nobel Prize -- winning professor . . . The setup for a shocking murder designed to cover up an even more sinister crime . . . The Blackbird Papers marks the debut of Ian...

  • 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...

  • Chasing Vermeer

    Blue Balliett

    When a book of unexplainable occurrences brings Petra Andalee and Calder Pillay together, strange things start to happen: Seemingly unrelated events connect, an eccentric old woman seeks their company, and an invaluable Vermeer painting disappears. ...

  • Chocolate Lover

    M.E. Rabb

    Sam and Sophie's new case involves trying to find the lost love of Professor Leo Shattenberg, but the girls also want to find out if the gentleman sharing their last name might be their cousin, without revealing their own identities....

  • 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...

  • Cobraville

    Carsten Stroud

    A prophetic thriller from the author of Cuba Strait, Cobraville follows a covert CIA mission deep in the jungles of the Philippines during a savage civil war. Cole Langan's five-man unit -- in country to repair what they have been led to believe i...

  • 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...

  • The Dead

    Ingrid Black

    Five years ago, Ed Fagan disappeared and since then nothing has been heard from the serial killer known as the Night Hunter. Now, a Dublin newspaper has received a letter from someone claiming to be Fagan, and the message is chilling: he's going to k...

  • Dead Lines

    Greg Bear

    With his acclaimed novels Darwin's Children and Vitals, award-winning author Greg Bear turned intriguing speculation about human evolution and immortality into tales of unrelenting suspense. Now he ventures into decidedly more frightening territory i...

  • Death of a Thousand Cuts

    Barbara D'Amato

    The Hawthorne House was once known for its remarkable success rate with autistic children. Now, fifteen years after it closed former residents have returned to Hawthorne House for their first-ever reunion. But the gala event turns into a bloody night...

  • Done for a Dime

    David Corbett

    Raymond “Strong” Carlisle made his mark as an ace sideman to the biggest names in R&B. Now he lies in the mud outside his home, shot dead from behind. He’s the first official casualty in a dirty war for control of Rio Mirada: a low-rent “city...

  • Double Play

    Robert B. Parker

    1941: Jackie Robinson breaks major-league baseball's color barrier--and changes the world. The event also changes the life of Joseph Burke, veteran of World War II and Robinson's bodyguard--because under the media spotlight, hard truths are easier th...

  • The Drowning Tree

    Carol Goodman

    Juno McKay intended to avoid the nearby campus of her alma mater during her fifteenth reunion weekend, but she just can't turn down the chance to see her longtime friend, Christine Webb, speak at the Penrose College library. Though Juno cringes at th...

  • The First Wife

    Diana Diamond

    Jane Warren swore she'd never marry again. Sure, age isn't a problem. Neither are her looks. Heaven knows that plenty of perfectly respectable men would consider themselves lucky to end up with someone like her. Then again, the last perfectly respect...

  • 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 Glass Cell

    Patricia Highsmith

    At last back in print, one of Patricia Highsmith's most disturbing works. Rife with overtones of Dostoyevsky, The Glass Cell, first published forty years ago, combines a quintessential Highsmith mystery with a penetrating critique of the psychologica...

  • 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 ...

  • Justice For None

    Gene Hackman; Daniel Lenihan

    In their second novel, Gene Hackman and Daniel Lenihan bring to life the harsh plains and smouldering courtrooms of the Midwest: the small town of Vermilion, Illinois, on the brink of the Great Depression. Boyd Calvin is a troubled World War I vetera...

  • Kill the Messenger

    Tami Hoag

    Bike messenger Jace Damon is on his last delivery of a long day--a package from one of L.A.'s sleaziest defense attorneys, Lenny Lowell. But when Jace tries to make the drop, he is chased, shot at, and barely escapes with the package--and his life. M...

  • 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 Lives of Shadows

    Barbara Hodgson

    A traveler finds a home in Damascus and fights to keep it through two ruinous wars in a unique novel: “Page-turning intrigue and extremely readable prose.” -- Toronto Globe & MailIn the spring of 1914, a restless young man leaves England for...

  • The Madman's Tale

    John Katzenbach

    It's been twenty years since Western State Hospital was closed down. Francis Petrel was barely out of his teens when his family committed him to the asylum for his erratic behavior. Now middle-aged, he leads an aimless life, perpetually medicated to ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • My Life with Corpses

    Wylene Dunbar

    Wylene Dunbar blends a sharply defined reality with a soaring, surreal leap of imagination in the story of an enigmatic narrator we know only as Oz, a Kansas girl raised by a family of dead people. Oz tells how she survived her childhood only to face...

  • 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...

  • Poor Mrs. Rigsby

    Kathy Herman

    CNA Sally Cox is about as happy to be at Walnut Hills Nursing Center as the patients are. But it’s work or starve, now that her husband has found a younger companion. Sally’s new crowd skews toward the elderly -- ninety-year-old Elsie Rigsby, for...

  • Queen of the South

    Arturo Perez-Reverte

    The Queen of the South spans continents, from the dusty streets of Mexico to the sparkling waters off the coast of Morocco, to the Strait of Gibraltar and Spain. Set to the irresistible beat of outlaw ballads, this sweeping story encompasses sensuali...

  • 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...

  • Rift

    Richard Cox

    In an age where reality and science fiction are colliding, Richard Cox's extraordinary debut thriller takes its place as an all-too-believable novel of white-knuckle adventure. For when an ordinary man makes one great leap for mankind, he triggers a ...

  • A Rip in Heaven

    Jeanine Cummins

    The acclaimed author of American Dirt reveals the devastating effects of a shocking tragedy in this landmark true crime book -- the first ever to look intimately at the experiences of both the victims and their families.A Rip in Heaven is Jeanine Cum...

  • Rose Queen

    M.E. Rabb

  • Secret Smile

    Nicci French

    Miranda's sister, Kerri, has a new boyfriend. He's a raven-haired, handsome charmer who seems to dote on Kerri. But Brendan isn't the man he says he is. Miranda should know, because she broke off her own affair with him just a few weeks ago when she ...

  • Semiautomatic

    Rob Reuland

    Robert Reuland’s hard-edged yet elegant writing has drawn comparisonsto that of writers as far-flung as Chandler, Hemingway, and T. S. Eliot, but his voice is all his own. With Semiautomatic, Reuland delivers another fist-in-the-gut novel set insid...

  • Small g: A Summer Idyll

    Patricia Highsmith

    "Like Ripley, [Highsmith's characters] burn in a reader's memory." -- Susan Salters Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review In unmistakable Highsmithian fashion, Small g, Patricia Highsmith's final novel, opens near a seedy Zurich bar with the brutal...

  • Sonny's House of Spies

    George Ella Lyon

    Sonny is only one of the spies at the Bradshaw house in Mozier, Alabama. But as a child he saw a tray full of dinner come flying across the front hall at his father. His mother's aim was dead on. And Daddy's departure promptly followed.Loretta, Sonny...

  • The Tarnished Eye

    Judith Guest

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Ordinary People comes a gripping novel of suspense, exploring fragile family dynamics in the aftermath of tragedy... Acclaimed author Judith Guest makes a triumphant return with this poignant and powerfu...

  • Tell Me Lies

    Tony Strong

  • Under the Banner of Heaven

    Jon Krakauer

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series s...

  • Waking Raphael

    Leslie Forbes

    From the internationally bestselling author of Fish, Blood and Bone comes a sensuous and evocative new thriller that takes readers on a lavish journey through the maze of Italy past and present, where beauty, violence, and truth have the power to kil...

  • Way Past Legal

    Norman Green

    You never know, when it happens, what's going to change your life, what's going to bounce you out of the rut you've been in, send you flying off in some new direction. Manny's latest score left him with more money than he's ever dreamed of, but wi...

  • The Work of Wolves

    Kent Meyers

    This story of a horse trainer and a rich man’s wife is “a gorgeously written, exacting exploration of duty and retribution set in dusty rural South Dakota” (Publishers Weekly). When fourteen-year-old Carson Fielding bought his first horse from ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Color of Death

    Elizabeth Lowell

    The fourth book in the Rarities Unlimited series Kate Chandler has accepted a commission that will solidify her reputation as a world-class gem cutter. But during what should have been a simple transfer, seven rare, priceless sapphires vanish with...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Dead Certain

    Mariah Stewart

    THREE DEVIOUS PRISONERS VOWMURDEROUS REVENGE. NOW THE SECOND IS FREE. With her stalker captured, antiques dealer Amanda Crosby can finally sleep at night. Having worked hard to put the nightmare behind her, Amanda has vowed to never be a victim a...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • See Jane Die

    Erica Spindler

    The low rumble of an outboard motor shatters the quiet of the lake. Treading water, fifteen-year-old Jane Killian waves her arms to alert the boater to her presence. But instead of veering off, he points his craft directly at her. The boat's hull fil...

  • 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 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...

  • 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 ...

  • A Perfect Duet

    Jennifer Malin
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    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 ...

  • 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...

  • Stolen Away

    Shannon Donnelly
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    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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • A Certain Truth

    James Scott Bell

    Trials of Kit Shannon book 3. Journeying aboard an ocean liner with her new husband, Kit Shannon is contacted by a desperate woman who fears something terrible is about to happen to her. When the young woman’s husband turns up dead, she becomes a s...

  • Falling

    Natalie Dunbar

  • A Flame in the Wind

    Karen Cogan

    Fleeing her life in Sydney, Rebecca Dalton heads home to live with her father on their family ranch in the Australian outback. When she arrives, however, she discovers her father has died. Despite his death, and the shattering grief she feels, Rebecc...

  • A Happy Life

    Charlotte Harris

  • If I Had You

    Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    From bestselling author Deborah Bedford comes the moving tale of an estranged mother and daughter, and the child who forces their old conflicts back into the light....

  • Love, Ghosts, & Facial Hair

    Steven Herrick

    I'm a normal guy.An average sixteen-year-old.I think about sex, sport, & nose hair.Sex mostly.Jack's got a lot on his mind: He's trying to figure out the mystery of the opposite sex, he can't stop wondering about facial hair, and he won't let go of h...

  • Nazareth's Song

    Patricia Hickman

    The further adventures of a drifter-turned-pastor and a trio of loveable orphans in this second installment of her series....

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • The Royal Handmaid

    Gilbert Morris

    Book 32 in the bestselling House of Winslow series. Wealthy Rena Matthews feels called to take the gospel to the South Sea islanders. She gathers volunteers to go with her--all from the upper strata of society. When rough-looking Travis Winslow volun...

  • Sam's Letters to Jennifer

    James Patterson

    Dear Reader, Have you ever gotten a letter that changed your life completely? It happened to me once. I still can feel the urgency that overtook me as I opened the envelope and the hunger I felt for whatever that letter would say. It seemed as if m...

  • Sublime Recline

    Ann Levalley

    Things are going well for Muffy Sergeant. She's the daughter of a famous doctor, director of The Arts Center's theater and fine arts program, and the longtime love of Philadelphia's most eligible bachelor. Life is perfect, or so it seems. Suddenly, h...

  • Using What You Got

    Karen E. Quinones Miller

    Eighteen-year-old Tiara Bynum is pretty as a princess and just as spoiled. Her castle is the Harlem housing project where she lives with her younger sister, Jo-Jo, and her doting father, Reggie. Every time Tiara snaps her perfectly manicured fingers,...

  • The Way of Women

    Lauraine Snelling

    On the verge of Mt. St. Helens’ historic eruption, three women must face the mountain: two to search for their missing husbands; the third, to rediscover her life…After a local mountain becomes a deadly and imminent threat, three strikingly diffe...

  • What My Mother Doesn't Know

    Sonya Sones

    My name is Sophie.This book is about me.It tellsthe heart-stoppingly riveting storyof my first love.And also of my second.And, okay, my third love, too.It's not that I'm boy crazy.It's just that even thoughI'm almost fifteenI've been having sort of a...

  • Blowout

    Catherine Coulter

    Married FBI agents Savich and Sherlock work and play hard: devoted to their jobs, their son, and each other, they approach each new case with gusto, and appreciate every moment of downtime they can grab. But a long weekend getaway at a secluded c...

  • Cold Case Squad

    Edna Buchanan

    "Like all things good and bad in the world, it began with a woman..." And so begins the first chapter of Edna Buchanan's Cold Case Squad, a new suspense novel that features a special homicide unit that breathes new life into old cases. A man an...

  • The Torment of Others

    Val McDermid

    Dr. Tony Hill and Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan return in the award-winning series that is the basis for the hit show on BBC America. In a small grim room, the body of a woman is discovered, panic and pain etched in her face. The scene ma...

  • Whiskey Sour

    J.A. Konrath

    Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels is an insomniac Chicago cop with a train wreck of a personal life and a stalker bent on adding her to his murder list. Join Jack, her binge-eating partner, a sleazy PI, and two very stupid FBI agents on a wild hun...

  • Blood upon My Lips

    Laurell K. Hamilton
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    LONGINGS IN THE NIGHT.. . In the heat of the night, anything goes. Boundaries are crossed and secret yearnings take shape. Creatures stalk the shadows, surrendering to their wildest needs--and satisfying hungers that take their victims beyond fear...

  • Burning Moon

    Rebecca York
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    LONGINGS IN THE NIGHT.. . In the heat of the night, anything goes. Boundaries are crossed and secret yearnings take shape. Creatures stalk the shadows, surrendering to their wildest needs--and satisfying hungers that take their victims beyond fear...

  • Dead Girls Don't Dance

    Maryjanice Davidson
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    LONGINGS IN THE NIGHT.. . In the heat of the night, anything goes. Boundaries are crossed and secret yearnings take shape. Creatures stalk the shadows, surrendering to their wildest needs--and satisfying hungers that take their victims beyond fear...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Originally Human

    Eileen Wilks
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    LONGINGS IN THE NIGHT.. . In the heat of the night, anything goes. Boundaries are crossed and secret yearnings take shape. Creatures stalk the shadows, surrendering to their wildest needs--and satisfying hungers that take their victims beyond fear...

  • By a Spider's Thread

    Laura Lippman

    Mark Rubin claims he and his beautiful wife had a flawless, happy marriage. Yet one day, without warning, Natalie gathered up their children and vanished. The police can't do anything because all the evidence indicates she left willingly. So the succ...

  • Desert Shadows

    Betty Webb

    DEAD, WHITE AND BLUE Patriot's Blood Press publisher Gloriana Alden-Taylor keels over and dies at a Scottsdale book convention after someone sprinkled her salad with hemlock. Private investigator Lena Jones takes a personal interest in the case when...

  • Loaded Dice

    James Swain

    When Tony Valentine, a master at catching casino cheaters, jets to Las Vegas to look for his missing son, he lands in the middle of a dangerous turf war between rival casinos. Valentine's longtime pal then taps him to figure out how an amateur won $2...

  • Red Tide

    G.M. Ford

    Something has been set loose in the city -- an airborne horror that leaves a tunnel full of corpses below the streets of Seattle just as experts from fifty nations are gathering at a downtown hotel for an international symposium on chemical and biolo...

  • Bone Harvest

    Mary Logue

    When a quantity of dangerous pesticides is stolen from a local co-op in Pepin County, Wisconsin, Deputy Sheriff Claire Watkins is called in to investigate. The thief has left one bizarre clue: the finger bone of a child long dead. The pesticides soon...

  • 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 ...

  • Full Dark House

    Christopher Fowler

    Edgy, suspenseful, and darkly comic, here is the first novel in a riveting new mystery series starring two cranky but brilliant old detectives whose lifelong friendship was forged solving crimes for the London Police Department's Peculiar Crimes Unit...

  • Ice Run

    Steve Hamilton

    AN OLD MAN WITH A SECRET... It may be one of the worst winters in recent memory in Paradise, Michigan, but Alex McKnight is looking forward to spending some quality time with his new girlfriend, Natalie Reynaud, an officer from the Ontario Provincia...

  • In the Moon of Red Ponies

    James Lee Burke

    Former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland is the target of a psychopathic killer who has been granted his freedom--in a shattering tale told in the "fierce and beautiful prose" (The Seattle Times) of James Lee Burke. Opening a Montana law practice is a n...

  • 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...

  • She Smiled Sweetly

    Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

    The intrepid Poppy Rice is back with not one but two cases, separated by thirty years but connected by DNA

    When the body of a young pregnant woman washes ashore on a stretch of barren beach at Boston Harbor, homicide detective Rocky Patel wri...

  • Ten Big Ones

    Janet Evanovich

    AND NOW, TEN TIMES HOTTER THAN EVER BEFORE... "I'm Stephanie Plum. My mother says that I'm famous and have to set a good example. She's right, but I'm from Jersey and truth is, I have a hard time getting a grip on the good example thing." Swing...

  • Trophy Hunt

    C.J. Box

    Pickett faces his most baffling--and dangerous--adventure yet... Local authorities are quick to label a rash of animal mutilations as the work of a grizzly bear, but Joe Pickett suspects that something far more sinister is afoot. And when the bodi...

  • Ancient Greece and the Olympics

    Mary Pope Osborne

    It’s a new kind of adventure for Jack and Annie! Join them as they research ancient Greece and find out the facts behind the fiction! ...

  • 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...

  • The Cameo Clue

    Dorothy Bodoin

    It's a glorious fall in Maple Creek, Michigan, and newcomer Katherine Kale takes delight in her lovely Victorian home and life in this peaceful town. But when retired schoolteacher Cora Valentine dies after eating a poisoned caramel apple at the annu...

  • The Corpse Had a Familiar Face

    Edna Buchanan

  • Dead Soldiers

    Bill Crider

    Carl Burns just wants to be chair of the English Department at Hartley-Gorman College, a small liberal-arts school in Pecan City, Texas. But if you solve one crime in a small town, as Burns has done, folks think you can solve 'em all--as when some co...

  • 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...

  • Flesh & Blood

    John Harvey

    Retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder has fled to the Cornish coast, but he can't escape the past. Susan Blacklock would be thirty now. But fourteen years ago she disappeared, and the case has gone unsolved -- though Elder had his suspects. Now, wi...

  • 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 ...

  • Lethal Lent

    Karl Fieldhouse

    Lately, things have been a little crazy for Pastor Abby Shaw. Her boyfriend has split up with her, her mother keeps calling, insisting that she visit her, and to cap it all off, she's inundated with things to do in preparation for Lent and Easter. So...

  • 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 ...

  • Shakedown Beach

    Eric Dezenhall

    THE GOVERNOR: "Rebound" Rothman -- married, family-values New Jersey Republican with White House fantasies, a terrible secret, and a controversial position on young interns: He's for 'em. THE TART: Simone Lava, the voluptuous Miss Little Egg Harbo...

  • Staying Power

    Judith Cutler

    Detective Sergeant Kate Power of Birmingham CID has had bad luck with romance, so when a polite stranger flirts with her on an airline trip home from Florence, she's more than a little suspicious. She gives the man her business card and forgets all a...

  • 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 ...

  • Tripletree

    Derek Wilson

    On a sultry summer night in 1994, Nathaniel and Katherine Gye are guests at a Civil War fancy-dress party. The theme of the occasion is apt because Tripletree, the Jacobean manor house in the heart of the Cotswolds where the event is being held, is s...

  • Bury the Lead

    David Rosenfelt

    "I watch sixteen football games over nine hours. It's an extraordinary accomplishment... With the remote secure in the palm of my hand, or more often resting on my chest, I am all powerful. I haven't missed an important play since the Carter administ...

  • Killer Smile

    Lisa Scottoline

    Everybody around lawyer Mary DiNunzio has decided she isn't allowed to be a Young Widow anymore, even though she didn't know there was an official cutoff. They're all trying to fix her up -- her South Philly Italian parents, her best friend Judy Carr...

  • The Dew Breaker

    Edwidge Danticat

    We meet him late in life: a quiet man, a good father and husband, a fixture in his Brooklyn neighborhood, a landlord and barber with a terrifying scar across his face. As the book unfolds, moving seamlessly between Haiti in the 1960s and New Yor...

  • Four Souls

    Louise Erdrich

    From New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich comes a haunting novel that continues the rich and enthralling Ojibwe saga begun in her novel Tracks.After taking her mother’s name, Four Souls, for strength, the strange and compelling Fleur Pi...

  • A Squash and a Squeeze

    Julia Donaldson

    a bit of a classic... A goat on the bed and a cow on the table tapping out a jig? My readers collapsed in heaps, and then had to have it read again. And again.'' Vivian French in the Guardian 'Wise old man, won't you help me, please? My house is a sq...

  • 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 Bartered Bride

    Mary Jo Putney

    After building a fortune in the exotic East, American adventurer and merchant prince Gavin Elliott sets his sails for London to begin a new life. Then fate intervenes on an infamous island in the East Indies where a European woman faces degradation a...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • The Black Sheep's Bride

    Paula Marshall

    Martin Chancellor, the blackest sheep of a disreputable family, is now the sole heir to the estates--and to his brother's promised bride! Martin's reluctance to marry fades when he sees Lady Kate Wyville, but he has no idea that she possesses a free ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Double Running

    Carol Cox
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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...

  • Farewell, My Queen

    Chantal Thomas

    A woman whose function it once was to read books aloud to Marie Antoinette is haunted by the memory of her last days at the French court of Versailles, when Louis XVI's magnificent palace succumbed to the irrepressible forces of revolution. Now e...

  • Fulk the Reluctant

    Elaine Knighton

    A WOMAN HAD LAID SIEGE TO HIS HEART Fulk de Galliard was sore dismayed. A man of dark secrets and dangerous prowess, he was unfit to be any noblewoman's spouse, even such a one as Jehanne of Windermere, who lived by her own knightly code. But now ...

  • 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...

  • Happy Is the Bride: A Novella

    Caroline Clemmons
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    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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Kissing the Bride

    Sara Bennett

    AN UNEXPECTED PASSION Lady Jenova of Gunlinghorn feels she should marry, though not for love, for she vows never to entrust her heart to a man again. Then Lord Henry, her charming and devilishly handsome friend, arrives to offer his opinion on the c...

  • 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...

  • A Loving Scoundrel

    Johanna Lindsey

    Can a high-spirited beauty with a shadowed past win the heart of a charming rogue, to have and to hold? THE MALORYS ARE BACK! Johanna Lindsey brings to glorious life her beloved aristocratic family of adventurous rogues and spirited ladies as t...

  • Olympic Dreams

    Melanie Panagiotopoulos
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    Revisit the magical moments of the first modern Olympic Games of 1896 with the American sports enthusiast and classicist, Henri Preston. When he meets the lovely Sophia, a young woman who shares his love of classical studies, sports, and, most import...