A young boy struggles to cope with loneliness, helplessness, and anxiety as he and his little brother spend an extraordinary time on a farm in southern Sweden during a temporary separation from their parents...
In this gentle yet suspenseful story, three adventurous little ducklings wander away from their barnyard home and unwittingly avoid disaster after disaster until they eventually return to the nest, where their mother takes them under her wing for a n...
Emergency babysitting for her stepmother's quintuplets cuts into Natalie's social life and the media attention that quintuplets bring complicates matters, but Natalie resists the temptation to return to her real mother when one of the quintuplets is ...
Twenty of the finest short stories published during the past year are collected in this edition of the award-winning literary series, which features the best in short fiction from magazines and journals across the country....
"Welcome to our world, little baby. We've been waiting for you." "In a simple text that's perfect, Aliki conveys warmth, love, hope, and the special tenderness felt by parents at the birth of their child."--Horn Book....
Invoke, People of the Sea, invoke the bard, that he may compose a spell for you. I shall go up to the place of the Sidhe to seek a poet, that together we may make the law. For I am a wind of the sea. So sang Amergin, bard to the tribe of Milesios,...
Her rival was a mountain When Renata Armstrong met Grant Fowler in Nepal, she was overwhelmed by his honest approach. "We both know what's happening here -- we're going to be lovers and probably get married." Still numb from the...
HAD SHE FALLEN IN LOVE ONLY TO LAND IN SCANDAL? When a terrible snowstorm pitchforks Miss Edith Bruton into a world of fashionable strangers, she is giddy with delight -- especially when asked to journey back to London with the party. She even wi...
Lydia never even considered matrimony As a pathway to happiness it was highly overrated. Her own mismatched parents, long divorced, were an example of what could go wrong. Lydia had grown up without love. She'd learned to live without it, s...
"You intrigue me, bewitch me!" he said Tiah refused to take Lucas Clent's claim seriously. They had known each other only a short time, and she had no intention of letting him disrupt her life. Her marriage to Oliver was still vivid...
"Your dream world will crumble one day." The warning left Melanie Nesbitt furious and uneasy. What nerve Jamie Knox had passing judgment on her engagement to a wealthy businessman! But his words reflected Melanie's own anxieties. Ev...
The city of Mera is a fortress hidden from the rest of humanity, a sanctuary for the diverse group of people rescued from death by the Oracle that rules the city. The Oracle has brought together the citizens of Mera from every land and every time per...
THE DARK PROPHECY Garion had slain the evil God Torak and been crowned King of Riva. The Prophecy was fulfilled--or so it seemed. While the strange child Errand was growing up in the Vale of Aldur with Polgara and Durnik, showing only occasional...
HORIZON'S GATEWAY Advanced Heechee technology had enabled Robinette Broadhead to live after death as a machine-stored personality He passed the time flitting along the wires from party to party with a host of other machine-people. But suddenly ...
THE COURIERS In Miami, four seemingly harmless grandmothers are professionally terminated. Then the shocking news is revealed: The victims are key links in a global cocaine operation. THE JOURNALIST Drew Jordan has a very personal stake in this...
The inspiring philosophical journey of a man who goes to Hawaii to recover from the shock of his wife’s death, and who finds the mystical Mama Lila, who helps him begin the journey to inner peace.
“Second Chance is a quietly powerful book...
A closer look at clinical anxiety • “Filled with intriguing bits of information . . . keeps readers turning the pages.” -- The New York Times
For more than one hundred years, philosophers, theologians, and psychologists have puzzled over...
This engrossing novel, first published in England, is an ingeniously constructed narrative that invites the reader to participate in an elaborate game. Opening chapters explain the ``board,'' the ``pieces,'' the ``players'' and the object of the ente...
The lives of Van Morgan, an adventurous engineer of the twenty-second century, and Kalidasa, an obsessive tyrant of the second century, are brought together in the drama that takes place on an alluring island in the Indian Ocean...
“A memorable addition to the literature about the summer’s game” from the author of Shoeless Joe -- the basis for the film Field of Dreams (Detroit Free Press). Bearing W. P. Kinsella’s trademark combination of “sweet-natur...
The famous insective, Incognito Mosquito, travels back in time to solve five mysteries involving such notables as Christopher Columbug, Benetick Arnold, Buffalo Bill Cootie, Tutankhamant, and Robin Hoodlum...
He branded her with kisses and drove her wild with desire He drew her to him and she could feel his lips come down on hers, as a cheer went up from the wedding crowd... and a tingling warmth spread through her from head to toe... Beautiful, re...
THE TEMPTING TARGET Lady Julia was a beauty who stood out even in a London filled with lovely ladies. For a rake like Robert Hammond, she was an appealingly available female to be conquered with all his seductive skills. For an upright ge...
He branded her with kisses and drove her wild with desire He drew her to him and she could feel his lips come down on hers, as a cheer went up from the wedding crowd... and a tingling warmth spread through her from head to toe... Beautiful, re...
In the splendor of love's passion, only the heart dared dream. LOVE'S SWEET ABANDON He was called the Devil Earl and scorned by gentle society. But to Roderica Delamore, this disreputable Irish rake would make the perfect husband... for a young...
WED AND WIDOWED BY A WASTREL. SHE WAS ALL ALONE IN THE WORLD. The last person Katie Marshall expected to meet at Belham Manor was Lord Wellesy, the man she had rejected to marry her rakehell husband. Bitter yet still strangely attracted to Ka...
A peace-keeping delegation to Lebanon is kidnapped by terrorists, and the family of one of the hostages hires the Hard Corps, five military misfits trained in the jungles of Vietnam, to free the prisoners...
A sci-fi convention gets a dose of true crime in this Edgar Award-winning mystery by the New York Times bestselling author of the Ballad novels.When Virginia Tech professor James Owen Mega wrote a fictional account of his real-life research...
A decade after the end of the Civil War, ex-rebel Rick Montrill leads the men of Fort Burnside into combat against the feared Apaches, but finds he cannot restrain maverick Lt. Chris Herrold from fighting his own personal war...
Morgan's plan to use a wagon load of buxom beauties to draw a band of desperadoes out of their hideout worked all too well. For out they come, guns blazing and determined to capture the ladies and leave Morgan's bones bleaching in the sun....
HIGH COUNTRY HIJINKS Word has reached Jessie that someone's staked a claim on Starbuck land up in the Sierras. And although Jessie knows that the land is just a no-account piece of sage and rock, not even worth stealing, she decides to investigate. ...
An archaeology team digs up old ruins in the Sonora desert while Longarm accompanies them to keep an eye out for trouble, and he finds himself faced with bandits, hot-blooded Indians, and a rival group of "scientists"...
Restless, roguish Devin O'Neill. Her brother Frank's best friend. The Irish charmer who won her young love and left her without a word. Now he's back, rain-soaked and shivering, homeless and unemployed. Cass Heath vows to deny the aching hunger his m...
She felt his strength. Lovely Laura Nichols fled her uncle's home when she was forcefully engaged to a fat ugly old man. But when her stage was attacked by bandits, leaving her in the Texas wilderness with roguish Blake Saunders the innocent beauty w...
They called her Madame Destiny. Who would have guessed that the flashy raven-haired beauty was really sweet, quiet strawberry-blond Cindy Carroll? It was fun playing fortune-teller for charity... until Nick Wainwright appeared in her crystal ball. He...
She knew it was a mistake to buy the luxury yacht with office heartthrob T. J. Templeton. But Ellie Millstein had decided it was time to loosen up and learn how to live. Why had the rakish sun-bronzed playboy chosen conservative Ellie to share his fl...
When Sergeant Laura Forbes promises to help a purple-haired runaway named Christy find her long-lost father, she has no idea she'll end up spending the night in the palatial home of TV's hottest superstar, Bennett Logan. Yet until Ben produce...
A rich young woman finds danger, deception, and desire where she least expects in this breathtaking novel from the award-winning author. Rachel Brinton came from her comfortable home in Philadelphia to the savage and breathtakingly beautiful land of ...
From the moment they meet in a flooded computer room infested with snakes. they seem destined to re-enact a romantic war beteen the North and South. Statesque Roberta E. Lee, the Memphis Zoo's curator of reptiles, is no swooning Southern Belle. Steph...
Arrogant and Most Improper ...was the only way to describe Gideon Maitland. The handsome Marquess of Rochedale, he dared to steal a kiss from the lovely Melissande de Castellane when they met by chance by his curricle. Later, after a proper introd...
Lost and lonely in an enchanted land, beautiful Aurora search for the secret of her true identity. And just as she thought all hope was gone she saw the handsome warrior appear out of the rainbow mist. His passion-filled kiss aroused her desire, his ...
An interest in ruins brought Cally Stevens to Central America. Now a dangerous band of insurgents threatened to see that she never left. What would become of her if they discovered she was not the daughter of the powerful American they believed her t...
NIGHTTIME SEDUCTRESS Desperate for money, curvaceous Valentina Barrett had to exploit her dancing talent in San Francisco's notorious Crystal Palace. Ashamed that she had to resort to such a base profession, the golden-haired beauty appeared as ...
When Greg Heflin sweeps Kelsey Sviderskas from her crumpled hatchback in a freeway pile-up, Kelsey longs to leave bier hard-won wariness behind and surrender to his easy windblown charm, his disturbingly gentle touch. But a gray-green sedan's been fo...
To the business world he's Eli Sutherland, sophisticated investment manager. But to wrestling fans he's Stud Savage, the mock-ferocious hulk whose act of raw machismo toward genteel Miss Tiffany brings down the house. No one dares object when Stud pl...
When Pierre Renaud awoke in an isolated cove after a long day of carousing, he saw an enchanting blonde beauty strolling amid the moon-washed rocks. Convinced she was a rum-inspired dream, the wealthy adventurer reached out to mold her supple curves ...
BRIDE OF REVOLUTION... SLAVE OF SHATTERING DESIRE Desperate to escape the clutches of her mother, Eliza Hilliard trades the sumptuous false freedoms of Boston society for marriage to a royal stranger... An innocent in a palace of dark intrigue...
Doug Maguire is a flirtatious cad, and his unexpected return after two years, seven months, and thirteen days throws Traci Maguire into a tailspin. No sweet-talkin' ex-husband with a seductive drawl is going to infringe on her hard-won self-sufficien...
Famine drove beautiful young Katie Ryan from Ireland just as it forced Michael Donovan and his small daughter, Keely -- sole survivors of a once proud family -- on a ship bound for America. Only courage could keep them alive. Only passion could ignit...
Their passion raged under the Arizona sun! MOUNTAIN MIRAGE Rancher Rand McAllister was furious that circumstances had made him the guardian of a scrawny girl from Arizona's mining country. But when he discovered the pig-tailed brat was real...
THERE ARE TWO THRILLS SHE CAN'T RESIST - ADVENTURE AND DESIRE! Her irresistible beauty and deadly skills in the martial arts always got her out of the tight spots. But Maggie Bennett couldn't escape a stab of pain and passion when her new partner...
HE SAID "I DO" Ranch foreman Cole Elliott couldn't say no to his enticing boss Rachel McKinsey when she proposed they have a marriage in name only. The virile gunslinger had had his eye on the shapely filly since he first hired on and dreamed of h...
Ermgarde was a mere peasant girl, yet her spirit and beauty sparked the wildest passions of two men. One, the British Lord of Synford, surrendered to her sparkling violet eyes, raven hair, and heated caress...then forged a marriage of violent jealous...
THEY MET IN PARIS -- THE CITY OF LOVE... To American actress Alyssa Lambert, her meeting with business magnate Philippe Michaude was straight out of a Hollywood script. Across the elegantly appointed width of Maxim's, their eyes met...and held...
A PASSION AS POWERFUL AND CONSTANT AS THE NILE . . . Unlike most young English women in 1935, Cassandra Barstowe had been captured by white slavers, put up for auction, then rescued by a man on a white stallion. All in her first day in Egypt! E...
After her teenage daughter comes home with a tale of abuse and attempted kidnapping, Linda Hammond, a tough, independent, single mother finds the police refuse to listen and becomes determined to protect her daughter at all costs...
It's a hit hard, stand back and watch 'em fall kind of mission for Able Team when three men are taken hostage in a sleepy little town on the Texas border. But it quickly becomes apparent that what appears to be an isolated act of terrorism is part of...
For the men of U.S. Army Special Forces Camp A-555, the enemy comes in many forms. But perhaps the most dangerous adversary is one that the Americans cannot see - a soldier who surrenders to combat pressure. Sergeant Sean Cavanaugh and a patrol of ...
In which Vlad Taltos and his Jhereg learn how the love of a good woman can turn a cold-blooded killer into a real mean SOB.... Vlad tells the story of his early days in the House Jhereg, how he found himself in a Jhereg war, and how he fell in lov...
Such a peaceful little town… Or so it appears when David Hammond and Anna Braddon arrive in Milbourne, CT where the horribly mutated body of Anna's brother has been discovered. Nobody knows what caused Jeffery's death, or the mysterious disap...
Unexpectedly, the long-lost first manned Jupiter probe has returned--but only a madman would have tried to land it at Kennedy International!The result is the biggest air disaster in history. And that's only the beginning: now comes THE JUPITER PLAGUE...
EVEN MIRACLES HAVE THEIR DOWN SIDE... Some called it miraculous when the Super Dimensional Fortress crash-landed on Earth: the alien spacecraft's arrival had put a sudden end to almost a decade of global war Yet Henry J. Gloval, captain of the ...
As treachery and betrayal become the prime weapons in the war between Ar and Cos, Tarl Cabot is trapped in the siege of Ar's Station. And when Ar's Station falls to the warriors of Cos, it is only with the aid of the loyal Vosk League, that Tarl and ...
Hawks had refused to help the ambitious Lazio Chen in his quest to find the five gold rings that could break Master System's hold over humankind-- and that refusal had landed him on the deadly prison planet Melchior. But when Hawks and some fello...
How do you justify genocide? Kennedy had a job to do. It was as simple as that. He was paid to do a job, and he did it. His job was to convince the Earth's population that a hapless race of sapient creatures living peacefully on a distant planet must...
A band of mercenaries faces off with invading aliens in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of the America Rising series. Colonel Stell and his band of mercenaries yearn for a place to call home. To them Freehold is like a brigh...
ABANDONED ALIEN BATTLE FORTRESS! It saved humanity from itself, but there was a price: hot on its trail came the most merciless enemy of all! The Global Civil War was about to make Humankind extinct, when the stupendous Super Dimensional Fortre...
Remember Karl Glogauer, the time-traveller anti-hero from *Behold The Man?* He's back - in no fewer than EIGHTEEN different incarnations! He will appear as a 12-year-old racketeer in Calcutta; a Jewish violinist in Auschwitz; an anarchist in Kiev; an...
THERE STANDS A TWISTED TOWER... hidden in the Windhome Mountains. Something is imprisoned there--the Sisterhood of Stars does not know precisely what, but something is bound tight with a wizard's spell so that it can never escape again. Kayl is o...
A HIGHER LOYALTY For three long months the Super Dimensional Fortress remained at its landing site in the Pacific, like an infant in a wading pool. And indeed her captain often felt as though he had been treated like a child. For two years, Cap...
SPADE AND MARLOWE NEVER TOOK A CASE LIKE THIS! I'm Sam Horowitz. My wife Brandy and I are private eyes -- and belly-up broke. That's why we agreed to trace Martin Whitlock, a hotshot banker who'd skipped town with over two million dollars in launder...
THEY DIDN'T ESCAPE THE KILLING GROUND For over a year, the humans aboard the Super Dimensional Fortress fought and eluded a millions-strong armada of alien warships. Now the SDF- 1 would have to slug her way through the massed enemy fleet to re...
This brilliant reconception of the Arthurian epic cuts through the familiar myths and tells the story of the real King Arthur: Artos the Bear, the mighty warrior-king who saved the last lights of Western civilization when the barbarian darkness desce...
Is Raistlin truly dead? The answer lies in the new DRAGONLANCE novella by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, which gazes into the future of Caramon and his mage-son, and into the dark nether-past of Raistlin. Untold tales of Krynn. Tales of se...
Richard Alonzo Reed was doing it again Having watched her buddy fall in love a zillion times, Samantha shouldn't have panicked at the telltale signs she observed while visiting Lonny's home in Spring Lake, New Jersey. But how else could sh...
It's him! she thought Ten thousand dollars was up for grabs in the Fling soft drink promotion. And Leslie Lyon, free-lance. photographer, had the inside track. She'd stumbled upon the perfect man -- a reincarnation of Clark Gable. Only ...
Globe-trotting photojournalist Dusty Landers scoffed at danger and thrived on adventure. For CIA agent Mack O'Shea, hopping a jet to quell terrorism was all in a day's work. Forever on the go, they had barely enough time to fall in love, much less li...
In the idyllic garden of her fiance's New Orleans mansion, Leigh Harband became the cherished wife of William Banning. with her smoldering beauty and Will's blond good looks, they seemed a storybook couple embarking on a bright and promisng future. ...
In the courtroom Krista Conway was a feared opponent, a real tough cookie in high heels and pinstriped suit -- but when she stood before Judge Logan Moore, he felt his blood catch fire! She was a living, breathing mass of gorgeous contradictions: a h...
APACHE SUNRISE It was a complete surprise when luscious Rebecca Shaw found herself one New Mexico morning surrounded by marauding redskins and prisoner of their ugly, vicious leader. The terrified beauty was sure her fate was sealed, when suddenly ...
The whispers began when she entered the ballroom -- and every male eye in the place was caught by the breathtakingly lovely spitfire with the slightly shady reputation. Ty Beaumont knew a heartbreaker when he saw one and also knew that nothing and no...
NEITHER RHYME NOR REASON Joelle Middleton was constitutionally incapable of making waves. She was painfully shy. Her social life consisted of confiding to Ivan, her pet lovebird, and reading Clayton Abbott's witty limericks and insightful edit...
WAS HER MARRIAGE A LEGEND COME TO LIFE? On location in Italy to film a medieval romantic tragedy, Ava Kendall discovered the meaning of love. Producer Kirk Falconer had asked her to be his leading lady--in the film and as his wife. Ava had relucta...
NO MARRIAGE RING WOULD CHAIN HER When Beatrice wed Gareth Risborough, the Baron of Brook, she was forced to vow to love, honor, and obey him. Nothing, however, could force her to keep those vows. Never would she love this man who made it clear...
A DANGEROUS PASSION In a West run wild with outlaws, her father ruthlessly murdered, Cassie Potter could afford to trust no man. Even the handsome stranger who collapsed at her door with a bullet in his back could be dangerous. Yet, while Rook Col...
SHE MADE HIM FEEL ALIVE AGAIN Nicole Rawlins had seemed the perfect wife-so perfect her husband Burke had run away and buried himself in an ocean of bourbon and guilt rather than accept her death. When he finally returned to Boston and his law ...
Time was Alanna's ally And she never knew it until Kyle Stafford arrived on Lake Erie's South Bass Island. Time, which aged and mellowed the fine wines of her family's vineyards, had worked subtle changes on her feelings for Kyle, deep...
BLOSSOMING LOVE Her teenage girlfriends had laughed when Spring O'Hara revealed her secret dream of marrying Reed Caldwell. She'd spent the happiest moments of her life growing up with him, surrounded by their Canadian apple orchard. ...
"Just give me six months. That's all I want." David Duke, the champion motorcyclist, didn't waste time. From the devil-may-care light in his eyes to the "show-me" curl of his lip, he gave off sparks of danger. But Maggie Jones couldn't say no. She wa...
NOTHING COULD CHANGE HOW SHE FELT ABOUT HIM Susan Lynton took pride in her job as assistant to a distinguished member of Parliament, but when he asked her to pinch-hit as the cook on his family's Alberta ranch, it was a dream come true. Sus...
Fresh, untouched Jewel considered herself lucky when she found shelter in a ribald tavern during a raging storm. But after she had bathed and lay naked under clean sheets, a towering stranger unlocked the door and confidently strode in and only then ...
Fiery-haired Vanessa was determined to cross the prairies, ford the mighty rivers, and climb the Rockies to reach Colorado. Her hands held the reins of the mule team with wiry strength...but her resolve weakened when a tall stranger, lean of body, wi...
DESERT INTRIGUE Damon Noble was handsome, charming, exciting -- and the wrong man to fall in love with. After meeting Damon at a posh Washington, D.C., party, Jessica Stanton realized that she couldn't resist him. Still, she was wary of lovin...
FIRST COMES BABY Maggie O'Rourke had made up her mind. It was her only hope of having a child of her own -- she had no time or desire to fall in love or get married. With careful timing and planning, Maggie selected the man who would be the fa...
Sara Love knew all about dream lovers -- they were the only kind she'd allowed herself while devoting all her energy to her career. But living behind walls had its dangers -- you had to worry that someone would scale them when you weren't loo...
It was a "couples only" Caribbean resort. Doug Channing, Chance Island's devastating owner, had already met Liz's "husband" How could she tell him they were unmarried detectives investigating a case critical to her floundering agency? How could she r...
Sunshine Smith's uninhibited warmth made her the darling of Reno showgirls. Chadbourne Fitzhugh III's pedigree and doctorate suited him for ivory-tower university life. When a math class brought them together, they became living proof that op...
HE WAS A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE... A man with a past. But Flynn Challoner had big plans for the future. Hard-driving and iron-willed, he meant to find a dynasty...and for that he needed a woman. Angie Morgan had every reason to doubt Flynn. He had ...
SOME THINGS SHOULD LAST FOREVER When Chris Talmadge met Dr. Madeline Clarke at the slot machines in one of Aruba's sumptuous casinos, he literally hit the jackpot--and dubbed Madeline his "Lady Luck." Madeline was wildly attracted to Chris desp...
SHE'D NEVER STOPPED BELIEVING IN DREAMS Jessie Langstrom-Smith thought of her life in two parts: before the accident and after. Before, she'd been a brilliant dancer; after, the object of pity. In time, Jessie's strength of spirit overcame othe...
A secluded island, a timely plane failure, and voila: Logan Addison, conservative investment counselor, was stranded on romantic St. Cat's with Justine Hart, the flamboyant singer he'd desired from afar. And soon calamity led to caresses... ...
BON APPETIT When Alicia Stevenson, owner of Panache Pantry, went to meet her new landlord, she felt like David facing Goliath--without a slingshot. Connan O'Rourke wanted to terminate her lease, and Alicia was determined to fight him with everythi...
GARDEN OF DREAMS An exclusive family-owned restaurant, The Private Garden, was the center of Chafen Farris's life. She dreamed of restoring it to its former glory and had no intention of selling it to anyone -- not even the very tempting land ...
In a menacing mountain mansion, she scaled the peaks of passion--and learned that love was another word for terror. HE TIGHTENED HIS GRIP, PRESSING HIS HARD BODY AGAINST MINE UNTIL A SUDDEN FIRE BURST WITHIN ME. HE FELT IT AND SMILED SARDONICALLY...
He'd invented a housekeeping robot that threatened to destroy her business. She had no choice but to sabotage Harrison Kent and his infernal machine. But Brit McIver hadn't reckoned on the mad genius's booby-trapped home--or the Adonis who greeted he...
They were just teenagers that long hot summer when Rachel Anders and Ben Healey met, but the sensual fireworks they set off were shot with passion far beyond their years. At summer's end their farewell was full of promises--and almost shocking heat--...
They'd created a new life . . . together Having a baby was supposed to be a joyous occasion, but Pru Kenyon wasn't smiling. True, her relationship with live-in love Case McCord was both electrifying and deeply satisfying. But she didn't have the b...
To beautiful young Alix Beauchamp, Philip de Saines was an enigma, a chevalier who refused to defend his honor, a man who arrogantly ignored the rules of courtly love. Betrothed to his brother Julian, Alix knew Philip could have no place in her heart...
PRIM AND PROPER Alexandra Porter was the most practical, the most levelheaded, frustratingly uncooperative woman Clif Andrews had ever met. She was also a loyal employee and a devoted mother. So loyal and devoted, she didn't have time to consider ...
BY THE BOOK... With her high school reunion coming up, librarian Jayne Gilbert was determined to go with a handsome man on her arm. The problem: finding one. So Jayne decided to rely on her favorite source of instruction: books. Riley Chambers ha...
She wanted him to love life ... and her Who else but a hero could have survived the six-month ordeal Blake Lindstrom had? But if he thought schoolteacher Jamie Gordon had put him on a pedestal--he had another think coming! She was bound to this...
Who was the unknown accomplice? Willow Laughlin was the last person to see her best friend, Cassie Clayton, alive. Cassie had just died in prison. Although she and another man had been sentenced for armed robbery, a third culprit was still at larg...
Marriage was out of the question Miss Amethy Portney would make a delightful mother... or so thought four-year-old John William Farringham, tenth Duke of Lowestroft. Jackie, as his intimates called him, was being raised by his cousin, the Earl of ...
A HERITAGE OF HOPE... Carly McAllister was a doctor, and she planned to spend her life working with her people: the Sioux of South Dakota. But too many of them were dying of distinctly unnatural causes, and if Carly was to protect them, she had to...
The subject was nuclear weapons; at stake was the national defense. And when army officer Cole Matthews heard lobbyist Libbie Greer denounce Pentagon strategy, he knew she was a force to be reckoned with. What he hadn't reckoned on was a mutual desir...
Was she saving her neck or cutting her own throat? One minute, beautiful, penniless Pan Belmont was fleeing an irate restaurant manager; the next, she was standing in Silver Galen's sumptuous penthouse, a ragged waif accepting his strange offer. She'...
TODAY AND FOREVER Being accidentally tackled by six-foot-three of green-eyed, muscle-bound football player was the stuff women's dreams were made of. But for photographer Mattie Grey, snapping pictures of the Conquerors' opening game, this lively ...
When beautiful Dominique Randell consented to be the hostess for the high stakes poker game she didn't know that her lush, tantalizing body was the prize or that the winner would be Jared Barlow, the most dashing man she had ever seen. She could feel...
Rob and Lisa were trying to have a romance It wasn't going well. A woman like Lisa deserved candlelit dinners and moonlit beaches, but with an energetic six-year-old on his hands, Rob's life was a merry-go-round of Girl Scouts and class cookouts. ...
A happy arrangement for everyone . . . Everyone, that is, except the bride and groom. For Kate, marriage to this arrogant stranger provided the only way out of enormous debts and the clutches of the cruel town mayor. For Tyler, it was the only ...
SHE WAS EVERYTHING HE COULDN'T HAVE -- and everything he wanted. Not only was Krista MacLaren's father suspected of smuggling illegal aliens -- and possibly worse--across the border, but she was a typical child of privilege, too rich for Border Pat...
She cleverly orchestrated his downfall ... Lady Anne Severne was incensed when her brother-in-law, the marquess of Crewe, accused her of being a trollop. He was convinced that Anne's husband had died in a duel while defending her honor. In rea...
She vowed to avenge her fiance's death--only to betray him with the brother he'd taught her to hate. Aminta Brown came to Vancouver to seduce Garrett McNeill, to exact vengeance in the flesh. Here in Garrett's opulent seaside hotel she'd found the pe...
She'd let the wolf in her door As long as Alison could remember, there had never been trouble at Holbrook's Hideaway. The family resort on Lake Superior was her pride and joy. But the arrival of Stewart Dalton and his mysterious wife cha...
EMERALD TREASURE Lovely Ashley Tarrant had always been able to wrap a man around her little finger, but when she saw towering Jared Westcott, something told her she wouldn't be able to play the handsome captain for a fool. All she wanted was passa...
Could her head rule her heart? Juliana Penridge was beautiful, intelligent ... and penniless. She had been deprived of her dead husband's estate when an unscrupulous cut-throat presented false papers of ownership. But Juliana's spirit r...
A WORLD OF MAKE-BELIEVE... Lisi designed costumes for the movies, escaping into a world of fantasy through her work, because what she knew of the real world was far from pretty. She had been so young when she got married -- and so much in love....
In aristocratic Regency England, it was most uncommon for a young lady to propose marriage -- but there was nothing common about beautiful, headstrong Heather Mallory. Since only a marriage would save the fortune she had inherited, she asked the dash...
He knew all about the birds and the bees For fun, Sarabeth Connolly entered San Francisco's annual Bay-to-Breakers costume race. Running alongside her was biologist Adrien Spencer--dressed as a redwood tree, no less! His sexy voice sent shivers...
He really shook her up . . . Alexis Martin had been footloose long enough. Home again in Alaska, she was determined to settle down and finish her education. But when she met J. J. Callaway at a party, her thoughts turned to lessons of a different ...
Mia had never stopped loving David, but their young marriage hadn't stood a chance. He hadn't really cared for her. He had only proposed on the rebound. Years later, a slimmer, more confident Mia met David again, and this time he clearly wanted he...
New Orleans ghetto doctor Brittany Schellenegger befriended criminals. Police lieutenant Hammer Curry arrested them. She rushed about in sleep-creased skirts; the dashing detective sported neatly pressed trousers. Worst of all, to Brittany's chagrin,...
Her father's will was clear Alyssa Wentworth was shocked to learn that she must marry into a title within a year or lose both her considerable inheritance and her beautiful home to a particularly odious cousin. She knew her task would not be e...
TEN MILES TO PIONEER FAIR. ACROBATS, TROUBADOURS, CONTESTS, COME ONE COME ALL The sign beckoned to the responsible, rather prim Priscilla Nobbly, and for the first time in her life, she did something impulsive. Priscilla felt so reckless that she...
Which was better: a man or extra closet space? As Deputy Richie Stuart applied the tape measure for the new shelves, Phoebe Tripp pondered this problem, latest of a series that plagued her. Does a swearing-in count when the sheriff-elect is wearin...
He was everything she knew she should avoid--a handsome, lusty trucker dedicated to the single life. Chelsea Ingram was running from a world of high finance and low politics ... and a wedding that should have taken place the very night she found hers...
Something Old, Something New With her blond hair, blue eyes and china-doll face, Chrissy Daniels was the best bridal model in Oregon. She was also an incurable romantic. But her dreams went far deeper than white lace and satin. More than anything...
HIS PASSION ENSLAVED HER -- ONLY HIS LOVE COULD SET HER FREE. A NIGHT OF PASSION AN ETERNITY OF LOVE Renowned artist Daniel Flanders believed he was taking a woman of easy virtue when he swept the innocent and stunningly beautiful Lianne into...
He was a mountain of a man. She was as delicate as porcelain. He craved adventure. She wanted security. But Christina Mattlock had taken the biggest risk of all. Wealthy, powerful John Mattlock thought he could have what he wanted when he wanted it. ...
In the harsh, turbulent Middle Ages, lovely Lady Melyssan remains as she always has been -- sweet, timid, and content to be alone. But in a desperate move to resist the advances of the dreaded king, she claims to be married to his worst enemy, Lord J...
STONE ANGEL: HE'S GOT AMERICAN GRIT. AND FRENCH SAVOIR-FAIRE. Pete Sawyer is a private investigator who's half-French, half-American, and totally sophisticated. Lazy afternoons he's usually swimming in the Mediterranean, a convenient step or two fro...
FOX ON THE RUN is a masterful novel of intrigue by the author of seven films directed by Alfred Hitchcock. On a misty sea loch in the Scottish Highlands, rock superstar Glen Ross is fishing tranquilly with his young son when, through the mist-envelop...
Reporter Frank Sweeney is murdered, leaving the Chicago Special Squad, including Sergeant Terry Flynn and Detective Karen Kovac, to deal with conflicting pressures from the newspapers, political figures, suspects, and the Cook County machine...
THE SISTER OF MERCY AND THE ANGEL OF DEATH When Father Koesler fills in as chaplain, he discovers that, indeed, all is not well at Detroit's St. Vincent's Hospital. The beds are used for more than convalescence. A nasty case of malpractice surface...
THE TIME: 1915, World War I rages on. THE PLACE: Valence, France, a quiet backwater of gaslit streets and crowded cafes. THE GAME The search is on for the world's most dangerous assassin. Only one man can match wits with a criminal of suc...
Her corpse would be the hottest news in town.
May Laval was as brilliant as a ten-carat diamond--and just as cold. As the calculating ruler of a social set, she influenced generals, politicians, and big businessmen. Slowly and shrewdly, she ...
The news hit the papers ... Dr Bruno Fenlinghetti, esteemed Italian archaeologist and director of Rome's Instituto Ferlinghetti, had disappeared from his home near Naples. A pair of priceless statuettes had also vanished. You didn't have to be Perry ...
Repetitious, repellent sex scenes and unvarying scatological expressions pale in comparison with Pairo's offenses against the English language in this dreary thriller. The large cast features cops and crooks in Florida's Dade County, with narcotics d...
THE FINAL WAR IS OVER Disarmed and leaderless, the United States is united no longer. The capital city of Washington has been reduced to a smoking pile of radioactive rubble. In weeks a proud nation is decimated in a deadly rain of treachery and d...
SLOCUM SMELLED TROUBLE as soon as his old buddy Cap Locke sent for him. And riding into Sixgun he knew he was right. It was a town with more folks buried than livin' and the only one smiling was the undertaker. What's more, one look at Cap's luscious...
DAUGHTER OF TWO WORLDS To her fellow pilots Gaelian is the Angel, the best of their elite fighting force. To the powerful ruling Board of Dinoreos, she is the Eldest of the Eldest of her household, scheming and plotting to claim her rightful place...
THEY PLOTTED TREASON TOGETHER -- UNTIL LOVE GOT IN THE WAY... Brooks was gallant, handsome, and loved her dearly, and perhaps Phoebe loved him in return. But thoughts of her betrothed fled the evening her brother enlisted her aid with his rebel ...
When Dorcas Foley falls in love, it is with all the single-mindedness of her headstrong nature. Her obsession with the charming Kit Mallery must, however, remain a secret, for he is the last man her father would wish his beautiful daughter to marry. ...
In Kit Fielding's breakneck world of steeplechase racing, the ultimate catastrophe strikes: someone is shooting horses with a weapon fiendishly called a "humane killer." Kit must stop the murdering madness, and everyone in his upper-crust circle beco...
On a trip to the Holy Land, Rabbi Small is drawn into a deadly conflict between religious extremists in the New York Timesâ€"bestselling series. Retired millionaire Barney Berkowitz, from the small Massachusetts town of Barnard’s Crossing, invites ...
Reporter Louisa Evans smelled a hard-hitting expose when she signed up for SUM - a new EST-like group encounter marathon. But when the green-haired punkette next to her dropped dead of cyanide poisoning, Louisa got more than a story - she got a murde...
Avid birdwatcher Professor Peter Shandy of Balaclava Agricultural College scans the wind-swept waters of Oozak's Pond. Suddenly, out from under the icecakes, up bobs a half-frozen corpse in a soggy suit of clothes nearly 100 years old. The body bears...
The author of the Inspector Damiot novels presents a chilling psychological portrait of a bizarre young man obsessed with rape -- and the L.A. cop determined to find him before his victims become corpses....