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  • Don't Leave an Elephant to Go and Chase a Bird

    James Berry

    A rhythmically told, brilliantly illustrated tale from the award-winning author of Ajeemah and His Son. When Anancy Spiderman calls a morning greeting to the Skygod, a corncob appears in his hand. Can Anancy turn the corncob into something even bette...

  • The Mountain

    Dafydd ab Hugh

    ON THE MOUNTAIN, THE ONLY LAW IS: SURVIVE! What started as an adventure hike to Hag's Tooth Mountain soon turns into a nightmare for Jeanette Taylor and her four friends. Caught by a flood, crossed by a killer -- the struggle turns deadly. Is Jean...

  • Elinor and Marianne

    Emma Tennant

    First published in 1996, this sequel to Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, written as an exchange of letters, Elinor and Marianne is the correspondence between the married Dashwood sisters â€" Mrs Brandon and Mrs Edward Ferrars. Passion, in the...

  • Orion's Dagger

    P.K. McAllister

    Preparing to launch his cloudship on its maiden voyage to the Orion Nebula, Pov Janusz uneasily witnesses the effects of the consortium alliance on his crew, which has been divided by former allegiances. Original....

  • Bellwether

    Connie Willis

    Sandra Foster studies fads--from Barbie dolls to the grunge look--how they start and what they mean. Bennett O'Reilly is a chaos theorist studying monkey group behavior. They both work for the HiTek corporation, strangers until a misdelivered package...

  • Traitor's Gate

    Anne Perry

    Someone in the Colonial Office is passing secrets to Germany about England's African strategy. While Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt investigates this matter of treason, he is quietly looking into the tragic "accidental" death of his childhood ment...

  • Lightsabers

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born--a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia are now fourteen, and enrolled at Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy on Yavin 4. Together with friends both old and new...

  • Odyssey

    Barbara Walton

    WILL A LEAPER LEARN HIS LESSONS BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE? In 1983, in a small town in upstate New York, Sam Beckett has a problem. He's Leaped into a brilliant but troubled boy named Sean O'Connor who's part of a gifted students program called Olympic...

  • Violent Sunday

    Lee Morgan

    Hired by the Cattleman's Protective Association, McMasters takes on a ruthless, deadly gang called the Hell Killers, outlaws who have been terrorizing and slaughtering the inhabitants of Montana's Blue Pine Hills...

  • Incident at Sun Mountain

    Todhunter Ballard

    Sent to Nevada to investigate reports of Rebel activity around the Comstock Lode, Ken Kenglish finds himself in a region filled with miners, gamblers, heroes, killers, Union supporters, and Southern sympathizers. Original....

  • Corey Lane

    Norman Zollinger

    Driven by rage and pride, Sheriff Corey Lane goes to face an Apache war chief, while tenderfoot reporter Jim McPherson tags along, wondering if he is following the sheriff to glory or to self-destruction...

  • The Trail West

    David Thompson

    Accepting a job to guide a rich Easterner across the untamed Rockies, master trapper Nathaniel King is directed to safeguard his charge from hostile Native Americans, renegade settlers, and greedy robbers at the cost of his own life. Original....

  • Dead Man's River

    Jon Sharpe

    Torn in opposing directions when two beautiful women, who hate each other, seek his help at the same time, Skye Fargo is caught up in a struggle that quickly turns bloody and must discover which lady is telling him the truth. Original....

  • Longarm and the Angel of Inferno

    Tabor Evans

    After rescuing a local beauty from a barroom brawl, Longarm finds himself railroaded into jail and sentenced to hard labor in Mexico, until the fetching young lady whom he rescued sets out to break him out of the jail. Original....

  • Gun Gentlemen

    Max Brand

    Finding himself on the wrong side of the law when he is accused of a crime he did not commit, renowned Old West gunslinger Lucky Bill swears that he will clear his name before he can be caught. Reprint....

  • Texas Kidnappers

    J.T. Edson

    The Ysabel Kid was being followed as he rode the trail back to Rio Hondo Country. The three hombres behind him were robbing cowhands of their cattle-drive pay. And the Kid had been deputized to stop them. Riding out on his lonesome, he intended to br...

  • Beyond the Misty Shore

    Victoria Barrett

    THE MAGIC OF THEIR LOVE LIVES ON Cecilia and Colin Freeport once lived, loved and died in the rambling clifftop house they named Seascape. Sea Haven Village remembers Cecilia's healing work and how, at death, her soul was carried away in the arms of...

  • The Goodnight Loving Trail

    Faye Adams

    Range boss Tish Walker and the arrogant cowboy Luke Bonner are thrown together when a stampede mixes her prize longhorns with his herd. On the drive together, their biggest obstacle is a passion that could break -- or forever bind-these two wranglers...

  • Priceless

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    A CHILD... Architect Leah Frazier had taken a great risk once -- when she went to extreme measures to conceive her child. She adored her son, Coty, yet it would take another daring move to turn her life around. Her husband, long an invalid, was dyin...

  • Homespun Bride

    Carolyn Davidson

    Instead of the wedding day Lottie O'Malley had dreamed about, she found herself faced with a funeral. James Tillman, the Missouri widower who'd sent for her to be his bride, had just died in a freak farm accident. All that greeted the nineteen-year-...

  • Dust Devil

    Rebecca Brandewyne

    Years ago, their friendship had been private -- known only to themselves. Intense, passionate, dangerously good-looking Renzo Cassavettes wouldn't have fit in Sarah Kincaid's world. But one sultry summer afternoon, while the honeysuckle bloom...

  • Far Star

    Anne Avery

    THE DREAMER... Dayra Smith didn't know a flitter engine from a solar generator, but she was determined to turn a run-down piece of land into a working farmhold. And even though she had to slave day and night, the stubborn beauty refused to ask any...

  • When Lightning Strikes

    Rexanne Becnel

    HE HAD THE SMILE OF A FALLEN ANGEL. SURE. EASY. SEDUCTIVE. He reached down and plucked her from the thick mud, then lifted her effortlessly into his lap, setting her crosswise on the tall gray horse. He was a total stranger, who thrilled her with ...

  • Surrender to the Dawn

    Annee Cartier

    Beautiful Gwen Marsh was one of 1890's London's luckiest debutantes... until she was attacked by the Lancer, a shadowy killer who targeted young society women. Scarred emotionally and physically, she tried to lose herself in charity work. But now she...

  • Step in Time

    Anne Barbour

    A Timeless Dilemma It was had enough that Amanda McGovern's dreams were dashed by the man she adored in the 1990's. But romance offered even greater danger when she traveled back in time to Regency London and found herself being kissed by ...

  • Lonewolf's Woman

    Deborah Camp

    SWEET TEMPTATION Orphaned, penniless, and determined to keep her family together, Elise St. John hastily arranges to marry the half-Apache Missouri landowner who has agreed to adopt her young sister. It is a marriage in name only, intended to make t...

  • Dark Road Home

    Karen Harper

    PASSION AND ADVENTURE IN AMISH COUNTRY Attorney Brooke Benton comes to the Maplecreek Amish community to escape the stalker who terrorized her after her last murder case. She feels safe running a friend's quilt shop, but the homespun Amish frown o...

  • Choices

    Maria Corley

    Feeling lonely and vulnerable with her husband, a rising young singer, away for months at a time, Chaney faces a tempting choice when she encounters Taurique, her former high-school sweetheart, after many years of separation. Original....

  • The Lady and the Spy

    Monique Ellis

    "Tis A Scandalous Season...When A Spinster Becomes A Femme Ftale! Lady Serena Duchesne had a reputation to uphold as a formidable, eccentric spinster. She also had a secret: she was the anonymous author of the most daring novel ever written about th...

  • The Duke's Desire

    June Calvin

    Duty and Desire The beautiful Viscountess Deborah Silverton never wished to wed again. The death of her hateful husband had ended an unspeakable nightmare. On the other hand, she desperately wanted to see her sixteen-year-old daughter Jennifer saf...

  • Dance

    Judy Cuevas

    The dance of life is never danced alone... Years after fleeing to America -- from an arranged marriage -- Marie Du Gard returned to Paris a different woman. Slimmer and carefree, Marie vowed to protect her freedom at all costs -- regardless of wha...

  • Wake Not the Dragon

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    Traveling to newly conquered Wales, Lady Gizela de Montpellier seeks to join her husband only to encounter instead Rhys ap Cynan, a Welsh chieftain who has vowed to sacrifice anything in order to rid his country of the hated English. LOVE AND WAR ...

  • Scandal's Daughter

    Carola Dunn

    A home in a harem simply wouldn't do for prim Miss Cordelia Courtenay. Her impetuous mama had created a scandal by dragging Cordelia along as she traveled the world. Now, her death had left Cordelia stranded in Turkey...where the pasha decreed sh...

  • The Love Knot

    Sue Deobold

    All her life, Catherine Clifford dreamed of finding a true and gentle love. And the spirited beauty was certain to find such a man at the elegant court of Richard II. But was the dashing knight who awoke her to passionate bliss really an arrogant...

  • White Wind

    Susan Edwards

    GOLDEN SPLENDOR When her beloved stepfather died, lovely young Sarah Cartier knew it was time to set out on her own -- to escape her evil guardian's clutches and perhaps to discover the father she'd never known. But Sarah didn't make it far before...

  • Touchstone

    Linda Hilton

    Aurelia Phillips, Nethergate Hall's resident spinster -- a quiet, reserved miss whose inability to tell even a polite lie had made her unmarriageable in London society -- expected death to come calling. Her adopted grandfather, the Duke of Winter...

  • Texas Lonesome

    Alice Duncan

    SHE GAVE ADVICE TO EVERYONE -- BUT SHE COULD USE A BIT HERSELF Emily von Plotz barely eked out a living giving advice to readers of the San Francisco Call as "Aunt Emily." Then she chanced to meet the man who had signed himself "Texas Lonesome" -...

  • Sunrise Song

    Kathleen Eagle

    IN THE DARKNESS OF YESTERDAY'S SHADOWS SHINES A GOLDEN PROMISE FOR TOMORROW A mixed-blood Lakota Sioux, Zane Lone Bull spent long years fighting -- on a distant foreign battlefield and in his own country -- and has vowed to fight no more. Now a t...

  • Gambler's Daughter

    Laura DeVries

    Forfeiting half of her Montana ranch when her brother loses a gambling bet, Kathleen McBride becomes the reluctant partner of Chance Ballinger, who falls in love with Kathleen and invites her to take the ultimate challenge. It wasn't enough that h...

  • Destiny Awaits

    Suzanne Elizabeth

    STRANDED IN THE PAST Tess Harper was sure the little woman who appeared at her bedside wanted ransom from her wealthy parents. The last thing she expected was to be carted off to Kansas in the year 1885, where she found herself face-to-face with t...

  • Dragon's Dream

    Mary Gillgannon

    It is the sixth century A.D. Maelgwn, the Dragon of the Island is celebrated for his feats of heroism. But now he has been defeated: The tragic loss of his beloved Aurora has left him grieving and alone. But Maelgwn has a duty to his people -- an...

  • Lord Ramsay's Return

    Elisabeth Fairchild

    Lovely, young Miss Prudence Stanhope was intimately acquainted with the danger of men's desires, and the devices and deceits designed to undo a lady's defenses. Already she had survived one such campaign of conquest with her illusions shatter...

  • Yesterday's Promise

    Teresa George

    CAN SHE FIND THE PASSION SHE HAS ONLY DREAMED ABOUT... History professor Serena Brooks fears for her sanity. She has moved back into her ancestral Virginia home-only to be haunted by visions in which she is dressed like her great-grandmother... ...

  • Lion Heart

    Amy J. Fetzer

    The daughter of a powerful Scottish wiccan, she journeys across the Ottoman empire with only her magical arts to guide her. The son of an English nobleman, he has been stripped of his lands and title. Now he prowls the Mediterranean as a pirate K...

  • Daniel's Gift

    Barbara Freethy

    RECKLESS YOUTH . In her impetuous summer of love, Jenny St. Claire found Luke Sheridan--her dashing knight in intern's scrubs. But a fast-track future and rigid, ambitious parents drove passion out of Luke's life. And the summer ended, leaving Jenny...

  • Charade of Hearts

    Paula Tanner Girard

    TWO WRONGS... Baron Copley had a secret: He was bankrupt. He had Roxwealde Castle, a toothless lion, and an inebriated valet; what he needed was a rich wife. So he invited the most eligible ladies of the beau monde to a house party. But to transform...

  • Warrior Moon

    Marilyn Jordan

    Dedicated to upholding the ancient ways of her race, Phada was loath to mix with the men of her world -- especially the hard-muscled brutes who protected her homeland. Yet, despite her resolve, the young Keeper couldn't understand her attraction ...

  • Highland Flame

    Lois Greiman

    PASSION'S FURY She is Flanna MacGowan, called The Flame for her fiery tresses and fierce leadership of her clan. Sworn to vengeance against the thieving Forbes, she has tricked one of their warriors and now holds the blue-eyed devil hostage. A R...

  • Just One Kiss

    Samantha James

    JUST A DREAM Cheated out of her inheritance by a willful stepmother, Lady Elizabeth Stanton follows Nathaniel O'Connor to America -- eager to accept the dashing shipbuilder's proposal of marriage. But it is a stranger who greets the penniless miss a...

  • The Outlaw

    Nicole Jordan

    BRANDED BY DESIRE Lovers in the midst of a lawless Colorado range war, Jake McCord and Caitlin Kingsly boldly forsake their feuding families for a blazing, forbidden passion. Then Caitlin's brother is killed by her beloved--and the beautiful hellion...

  • Once Upon a Time

    Constance O'Banyon

    DANGEROUS LIAISON Since childhood, her true identity has been a kept secret. Now, Jilliana, queen of the idyllic country Talshamar, must produce an heir in order to save her subjects from the evil stranglehold of King Henry II of England. Princ...

  • Fair Game

    Janice Kaiser

    WHEN IT COMES TO POWER, MONEY AND PASSION EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING IS... FAIR GAME. Dana Kirk is afraid. At first it seemed like simple harassment -- a few crank calls, some anonymous gifts. Then the threats become more specific and more direct. Be...

  • The Marrying Kind

    Sharon Ihle

    Liberty Ann Justice ran her family's newspaper in Laramie, Wyoming Territory, with all the fire of a born and bred journalist. When a handsome, silver-tongued stranger named Donovan came to town, Libby mistook him for her employer's son -- the man tr...

  • In the Wake of the Wind

    Katherine Kingsley

    He came to her in a dream. He was all fire and passion, the golden-maned lover who was her destiny. The Dream had given Serafina solace since childhood, through years of exile in Wales. And now, on the eve of her wedding, Serafina knew that the ma...

  • The Angel and the Prince

    Laurel O'Donnell

    LADY KNIGHT... The daughter of a French nobleman, Ryen De Bouries wields a sword and rides a destrier as magnificently as the knights of King Charles VI. In place of glittering ballgowns, she wears shining armor; instead of practicing gentle arts, s...

  • Bayou Rose

    Linda Madl

    IN A NEW ORLEANS PLANTATION HOUSE . . . Haunted by family scandal, orphaned Neilly Lind seeks refuge at Rosewood, a grand New Orleans plantation presided over by the eccentric Stirling women. Neilly doesn't realize that her position as a lady's comp...

  • Texas Renegade

    Dana Ransom

    Kenitay -- the handsome, mixed-breed Texan who felt he didn't belong in the world of either the white man or the Indian. Leisha -- the headstrong, caring woman who loved him enough to show him the way to a place of his own. Leisha and Kenit...

  • Dearly Beloved

    Wendy Corsi Staub

    TO HAVE... On a windswept New England island, he waits, fingering the satin-and-lace wedding gowns he's had made for each of them...the dresses they will wear when he kills them. TO HOLD... Three women have come to the Bramble Rose Inn. For ...

  • Apollo's Fault

    Miriam Raftery

    APOLLO: 1: The Greek and Roman god of sunlight, prophecy, music, and poetry 2: A man of graceful beauty 3: The wrinkled Shar-Pei puppy belonging to beautiful young Taylor James Stubborn and tenacious, Apollo would lead Taylor on the romantic adven...

  • Perfect Strangers

    Rebecca Sinclair

    Gabrielle Carelton is one of Queen Elizabeth's most devoted ladies-in-waiting. But her loyalty is put to the test when Her Majesty commands her to marry Scotsman Collin Douglas. Then, on the eve of her wedding, Gabrielle is kidnapped by Collin's twin...

  • Honor

    Mary Spencer

    DAMSEL IN DISTRESS Her marriage to a cruel baron had left Amica of Lancaster frightened. And when the king sent Sir Thomas of Reed to her defense, his rough ways chilled her heart. Yet, as she grew to know the knight, she discovered that beneath his...

  • Maggie's Pride

    Deborah Wood

    SHE WASN'T READY TO SETTLE DOWN. HE WASN'T WILLING TO LET HER GO. MAGGIE: Captain of her own steamboat, Maggie loved her rugged life on Oregon's Willamette River. She didn't think she had room in her life for a son ... until she f...

  • The Unromantic Lady

    Penelope Stratton

    SHE BELIEVED LOVE WAS FOOLISH - UNTIL IT TAUGHT HER OTHERWISE! Diantha Halstow liked to declare that love was nothing but a mere illusion to trap fools. Rexford Lytham, Earl of Chartridge, couldn't agree more. He was, Diantha thought, a most sens...

  • Murmur of Rain

    Patricia Vaughn

    Attempting to support herself as a musician in 1890s Paris, headstrong Lauren Dufort attracts the attention of cultured Roget de Martier, whose family hides a troubled and evil history that eventually alienates Lauren. He gave her an illustrious n...

  • The Faery Bride

    Lisa Ann Verge

    Rhys ap Gruffydd is a man accursed, his scarred face hidden behind a black leather mask. When he hears of a lass who can heal him, he acts without honor: he kidnaps her. But Aileen O'Conaire is no fey child; she is a woman, and she will resist--and a...

  • Private Matters

    Amberlina Wicker

  • Courting Christina

    Claudette Williams

    THE LADY HAD MUCH TO LEARN... Before her guardian died, Christina had been a happy, high-spirited country beauty with no pretensions. She concealed her fair hair under a cap, wore britches, and rode to hounds like a hunt master. She didn't want...

  • Beyond the Fire

    Amanda Wheeler

    Ambition would never be enough for her
    Smart and ambitious, Nina Lewis was hurdling obstacles not only as a law student at Berkeley in the early '70s but as a black woman during a time of tremendous change, opportunity, and unrest. Though an inner...

  • Tarnished Gold

    V.C. Andrews

    GABRIEL LANDRY IS AS BEAUTIFUL AS HER BELOVED BAYOU Her high school graduation just days away, Gabriel is blissfully happy, despite the ever-widening rift between her Mama and her conniving, whiskey-drinking Daddy. Then rich cannery owner Octaviou...

  • Alibis

    Robert DiChiara

    A SHATTERING DEATHBeautiful home, beautiful wife, beautiful life. To the casual observer, prosperous real estate executive Carl Rodman lives a perfectly ordered existence in the chic seaside town of Hollowsport. But scratch the surface and the pain o...

  • Pure Instinct

    Robert W. Walker

    Responding to a call by a New Orleans police commissioner to help in a serial murder investigation, Dr. Jessica Coran faces a second challenge when a murderer she helped put away escapes from prison and comes after her. Original....

  • Satan's Thrust

    Don Pendleton

    The nation's elite extralegal arm remains ready for action in the covert gray area between diplomatic pressure and military intervention. Only word from the President sanctions Stony Man's deployment in a crisis. But when the Commander-In-Chief is ou...

  • Murder in Cormyr

    Chet Williamson
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Tired of the political machinations of his egotistical fellow wizards, Benelaius retires from the College of War Wizards to take up residency in Cormyr, where he lives peacefully until he and his legman, Jasper, are forced to investigate the murder o...

  • Keepers of the Sun

    James Axler

    Jumping through a secret gateway from their pre-nuclear world, Ryan Cawdor and his survivalist group find themselves in a fallen nation that is shadowed by samurai rulers that threaten Cawdor's world. Original....

  • Sub Zero

    John T. Campbell

    When a heavily armed assault team is dispatched from North Korea and prepares to grab the United States's most devastating military secrets, an undertrained, outgunned band of servicemen, scientists, and civilians becomes the nation's only hope. Orig...

  • Prototype

    Brian Hodge

    Meeting an injured man in the hospital who warded off three attackers, Adrienne finds her life forever changed by Clay, a genetically engineered individual who has been programmed to be one of the most dangerous people on earth. Original....

  • Dominion

    Bentley Little

    His attempts at fitting in at a new school complicated by disturbing dreams, Dion Semele befriends Penelope Daneam, an orphan who has been raised by nuns, and the two become catalysts for a reign of incredible terror. Reissue....

  • The Two Dead Girls

    Stephen King

    The Green Mile tells the story of two men, a prison guard and his new death row inmate, and their suddenly intertwined lives. What would it be like to walk those last 40 yards to the electric chair, knowing you were going to die there? What would it ...

  • Malicious Intent

    Michael A. Stackpole

    THEY KILLED HIS LEADER. THEY STOLE HIS CLAN. THEY WANT HIM DEAD. In the wake civil war that nearly devastated the Jade Falcons and pushed his own Wolf Clan into nonexistence, Vlad of the Wards emerges harboring a powerful secret. He intends to use...

  • The Rise and Fall of a Dragonking

    Lynn Abbey

    “I, Hamanu…” Hamanu the Innocent -- his parents killed by an invading party of trolls. Hamanu the Survivor -- enlists as a soldier, forging himself into the same heartless mercenary that killed his parents. Hamanu the Victorious -- powerful...

  • The Ivory and the Horn

    Charles de Lint

    In the city of Newford, when the stars and the vibes are right, you can touch magic. Mermaids sing in the murky harbor, desert spirits crowd the night, and dreams are more real than waking.

    Charles de Lint began his chronicles of the extraordi...

  • Winged Magic

    Mary H. Herbert

    Peace has come at last to the Dark Horse Clans, but when Kelene and Gabria are kidnapped by a Turic tribesman, the fragile truce is threatened. Mother and daughter must come up with a plan to foil the diabolical Fel Karak, who coerces them into teach...

  • The Itinerant Exorcist

    Ashley McConnell

    Jazen journeys to the village of Eberly to find a great healer, Davos, and bring him back to the capital city, but before he can persuade Davos to come with him, the healer is branded a demon and condemned to death. Original....

  • Virtual Destruction

    Kevin J. Anderson; Doug Beason

    Virtual reality is the technology of the future. Groundbreaking. Dangerous. Almost limitless in its potential. It could replace nuclear power as the most coveted knowledge on the planet. And in a supersecret installation in California, under the most...

  • Beloved Son

    George Turner

    Forty years after his starship escapes from an apocalyptic Earth, Commander Albert Raft and his crew return to a much younger and violent Earth society that wants to embrace Raft as a god because of his telepathic powers....

  • Greatheart

    Dixie Lee McKeone

    When gnolls attack a caravan of humans heading toward the Sielwode Forest, only young Cald Dasheft survives. Perhaps a worse fate awaits him, though. He is found by the dreaded Sielwode elves, who intend to slay him. They know that even a single huma...

  • Mirror of Destiny

    Andre Norton

    The Industrial Monster has descended upon Varslaad, devouring all the arable land in its path. By royal decree, the displaced must venture into the treacherous woodland domain of a strange and secret race.

    The King's lottery...

  • Dance of Death

    P.N. Elrod

    In the sequel to Death and the Maiden, vampire Jonathan Barrett encounters an engaging four-year-old boy, the mortal son he never knew he had, but his enemies plot to use the child to destroy him. Original....

  • City of Diamond

    Jane Emerson

    The newly appointed Protector of an intergalactic city-ship, Adrian Mercati is urged by his predecessor to strengthen his position by locating the Sawyer Crown, an alien artifact that will give him superiority over his enemies. Original....

  • The Wind After Time

    Chris Bunch

    BLAST FROM THE PAST Ten years had passed since mankind had won the Great War. The dreaded Al'ar, loathsome aliens who killed by mere sight or touch, had been vanquished. Now they were gone. forgotten. and humanity was free to expand throughout the...

  • Glory's War

    Alfred Coppel

    The second installment of the Goldenwing Cycle and the sequel to Glory continues the epic saga of the Wired Starmen aboard their orbiting space station, their refuge from an uninhabitable, hostile planet that once was Earth. Reprint....

  • Castle Fantastic

    John DeChancie

    Sixteen short stories that take place within legendary castles include the writings of such popular authors as Roger Zelazny, Charles de Lint, Jane Yolen, David Bischoff, and Nancy Springer. Original....

  • Game's End

    Sharon Green

    Their land devastated by enslaving enemies, noble King Bariden and Queen Chalaine begin the difficult task of restoring the kingdom, a task that is complicated when an evil spell causes them to distrust one another. Original....

  • The Touch of Your Shadow, the Whisper of Your Name

    Neal Barrett Jr.

    Babylon 5, designed to be a place of peace in a troubled universe, has erupted into rioting as visiting cultures clash and passions explode.  Security chief Garibaldi must use all his skills to quell the violence between races.  But the troubles ...

  • Mad Amos

    Alan Dean Foster

    MOVE OVER, PAUL BUNYAN--MAKE WAY FOR MAD AMOS MALONE!

    Strange things lurk up in the mountains and out in the plains and deserts of the West, but few are as unique as the giant mountain man named Amos Malone, the man some call Mad Amos, though...

  • The Wizardry Quested

    Rick Cook

    WIZ ZUMWALT ON THE INGREDIENTS OF THE PERFECT QUEST: GOOD COMPANIONS: "Malkin's a kleptomaniac adrenaline junkie, June's crazy, Danny's still kind of wild and the dwarf, Glandurg, is just plain dangerous." MAGIC WEAPONS: "The sword Blind Fury...

  • Orca

    Steven Brust

    HAVE JHEREG, WILL TRAVEL Granted, walking around with two jhereg on your shoulders is not the best disguise for an ex-assassin wanted all over the Empire. But a young boy saved my life and now he needs my help. And Vlad Taltos always pays his debt...

  • Heirs of Empire

    David Weber

    THE BOSS'S KIDS For really tough jobs, Emperor Colin the First is your man. The only person in the galaxy ever to stop the genocidal Achuutani, he went on from there to resurrect an empire that died forty-five thousand years ago. He's still got a ...

  • Married to the Man

    Judith Arnold

    WHAT IF YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE DIVORCED -- AND FOUND OUT YOU WERE STILL MARRIED TO THE MAN? If you're Jane Thayer, successful Boston Lawyer and highly organized person, you hightail it to New Orleans, where your ex-husband lives. Well, he's not...

  • Once More With Feeling

    Cynthia Blair

    While planning her fifteenth wedding anniversary party, Laura Briggs turns on Donahue to discover her husband confessing his "secret life" to millions of TV viewers. By the first commercial break, Laura decides her marriage is over. Yet her life ...

  • Wanted: Wife

    Stella Bagwell

    KEEP YOUR HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE THEM, MISTER! Tall, dark, rich and powerful, Lucas Lowrimore was one of the most eligible bachelors in town. Usually, women just fell at his feet! So when he couldn't even sweet-talk his way out of a speeding ti...

  • Apache Runaway

    Madeline Baker

    APACHE CAPTIVE Ruthless and cunning, Ryder Fallon could deal cards and death in the same breath. Yet when the Indians took him prisoner, he was in danger of being sent to the devil --- until a green-eyed angel saved his life. APACHE RUNAWAY ...

  • Ridge: the Avenger

    Leanne Banks

    SHE WAS THE MARRYING KIND... Ridge Jackson's plan was simple: protect lovely Dara Seabrook and get revenge on her godfather at the same time. Ridge was professional; he knew the dangers of mixing business with pleasure. How then had the voluptuous...

  • Western Rose

    Lynna Banning

    The Schoolmarm Needed a Lesson.... And Jake Bannister was just the man to teach Sally Maguire a thing or two. Especially if it would win him the grassland he needed to save his ranch. But would staying after school get him more than he'd bargained f...

  • Alone in a Crowd

    Georgia Bockoven

    Love's Sweet Harmony Once the legendary Cole Webster reached the top of the country music charts he stayed there, thanks to his talent and his father's expert management. But when a near-fatal motorcycle accident temporarily alters his appearance,...

  • Instant Mommy

    Annette Broadrick

    A COWBOY AND A BABY... Horses and cattle were one thing, but when it came to baby bottles and diapers, widowed rancher Deke Crandall was a real greenhorn. He didn't want to raise his baby daughter alone, but what was a cowboy to do? NEED A WI...

  • The Beauty, the Beast and the Baby

    Dixie Browning

    MR. MARCH The Beast: Gus Wydowski, a brooding bachelor with a weakness for beautiful women--but not for bouncing babies! The Beauty: Mariah Brady didn't need a man who knew nothing about babies--especially when she was juggling a newborn! T...

  • Zoe and the Best Man

    Carole Buck

    WANTED: BRIDAL BLISS Zoe Armitage was on the lookout for her pt husband. He had to be stable, sincere...anyone but thrill-seeking, smooth-talking Gabriel Flynn! Sure, they'd shared steamy kisses at their best friends' wedding, but Zoe had decided th...

  • To Catch a Thief

    Debra Carroll

    TO CATCH A THIEF Luke Dalton: Tough, mysterious, incredibly sexy and charming. But why is he so intent on seducing -- Claire Sterling: Beautiful, vulnerable, determined. She's searching for her father -- not a handsome but dangerous lover...

  • Playing Daddy

    Lorraine Carroll

    ONCE A FATHER... When Cable McRay opened his home to singe mother Sara Nelson, he hadn't expected to play daddy to her three-year-old son. But beautiful Sara needed his help, and Cable couldn't deny this compelling woman anything. Even if ...

  • Deputy Daddy

    Carla Cassidy

    WHO SHOULD RAISE THE TWINS "Me, their godfather Just because I'm a mars doesn't mean 1 can't warm up formula or read bedtime stories. Besides, I love those two little rascals--and love doesn't come so easily to me." --Beau Randolf "Me, their g...

  • The Wedding Assignment

    Cathryn Clare

    RAE-ANNE BLACKBURN IS GETTING MARRIED... She's always fantasized about the day she would walk down the aisle. In her dreams, her groom was Wiley Cotter. In real life, it's someone else. But she's going to live happily ever after--no matter what. ...

  • Sweet Laurel

    Millie Criswell

    Fiercely determined to become an opera singer, innocent Laurel arrives in Denver where a bawdy saloon is the only place she can find work. Suddenly she is wearing shockingly low-cut gowns, singing to drunken hooligans, and feeling more than a little ...

  • The Cupid Conspiracy

    Ruth Jean Dale

    CUPID, COLORADO This is ranch country, cowboy country--a land of high mountains and swift, cold rivers, of deer, elk and bear. The first Cameron came to Colorado more than a hundred years ago, and Camerons have owned and worked the Straight Arrow ...

  • Wild Hawk

    Justine Dare

    THE OUTCAST RETURNED TO CLAIM HIS LEGACY -- AND HER HEART When Jason Hawk, bastard son of industrialist Aaron Hawk, came to his father's funeral, he stunned Aaron's greedy widow, Alise, and transformed the life of Aaron's executive a...

  • Lover Under Cover

    Justine Davis

    Trinity Street West: Where danger lies around every corner -- and the biggest danger of all is falling in love. In a world of shadows... BENEATH THE SURFACE... Running away had never been Caitlin Murphy's style, especially when a child'...

  • The Passion of Dellie O'Barr

    Cindy Bonner

    Everybody in McDade thought of Dellie O'Barr as "the good little sister." Dellie has always done what her father wanted her to do; she even married the suitor her older sister refused -- an earnest man with a college education, a big ranch and fine h...

  • Slow Hands

    Debra Dixon

    A hold-your-breath-handsome professor who taught her the pleasure of play... Sam Tucker wasn't the kind of man to wait for an invitation, not when his mission was to help Clare McGuire learn the joys of losing control! Convinced Sam wanted onl...

  • Bringing Up Baby

    Charlotte Douglas

    Would they form an instant family? Devon Clarke, author of the popular column "Bringing Up Baby," was America's best-loved baby expert. That's why two fans bequeathed her a tiny tyke named Amanda. How were they to know that Devon w...

  • Husband: Optional

    Marie Ferrarella

    MISTAKEN PATERNITY? Jackson Cain refused to believe Joshua wasn't his. Mallory Flannigan's "claim" of an absentee lover had way too many holes, and anyway, her baby boy looked an awful lot like him. Besides, Jackson couldn't imagine Mallory with a...

  • Family First

    Marcia Evanick

    Sexy as sin, and twice as hot... James Stonewall Carson didn't look like a grade-school teacher, Emmy Lou McNally decided, with his muscled body and shoulders broad enough to carry the world. But when he teased her in his deep, seductive voice, sh...

  • Almost Married

    Carol Grace

    WANNA-BE MOM Laurie Clayton wanted a family of her own, so two weeks alone with a baby sounded perfect. But when the tot turned into a holy terror, stranding them in romantic Niagara Falls, Laurie found herself playing house with a sexy stranger in ...

  • Warrior's Deception

    Diana Hall

    Love Had No Place In The Life Of. Roen De Galliard, Knight Of Normandy For the past had taught him well the perfidy of women, and the beauteous Lady Lenora was likely no different. But now duty called for him to ferret out a traitor--by surrenderi...

  • Homecoming

    Sally Tyler Hayes

    WHO WAS SHE...REALLY? Did a beautiful woman's mysterious past hold the key to D.A. Jack MacAlister's latest case? He was certain it did--and he needed A.J.'s testimony to send a ruthless kidnapper to prison. But she couldn't remember what Jack nee...

  • The Pirate

    Kate Hoffmann

    SWASHBUCKLER -- GRIFFIN ROURKE: PIRATE, SPY. HE WANTS REVENGE ON THE INFAMOUS BUCCANEER, BLACKBEARD, FOR KILLING HIS FATHER. AND NOTHING -- NOT EVEN A BEWITCHING WOMAN NAMED MEREDITH -- IS GOING TO STOP HIM. When Meredith Abbott finds rugged Grif...

  • Husband in a Hurry

    Muriel Jensen

    "Would you marry me and give my children a father?" Nell Fairfield -- she has four good reasons to acquire a husband in a hurry. Their names are Joey, Gracie, Gib and Jerica - four young children Nell 'inherits' just before losing her job and bein...

  • Mother in the Making

    Ellen James

    The Blue Mesa Ranch, near Stillwell, New Mexico Hallie Claremont--She's the Blue Mesa's owner. Not that this is anything to brag about as far as Hallie's concerned. She inherited the place, and even she--who knows nothing about ranching--can tell ...

  • Once a Wife

    Patricia Keelyn

    She'd run out on him When Sarah Colby was seventeen, she made the biggest mistake of her life. Her marriage to Reece Colby was in trouble, they were nearly destitute and their baby was sick. When Sarah's mother-in-law offered a solution, Sarah lis...

  • In a Pirate's Arms

    Mary Kingsley

    DANGEROUS ENCOUNTER, IRRESISTIBLE OFFER, SOARING PASSION They call him the Raven, his black cloak swirling about him like the dark mystery that hides his identity. His pirate ship swoops down on English frigates in tropical seas, and he takes what h...

  • Clanton's Woman

    Patricia Knoll

    Kisses at high noon! Tombstone, Arizona. The smoky Western town had a rich history: it was here that Wyatt Earp had finally faced down the notorious Clanton gang. But now Jack Clanton was back! With his tough features shaded by his cowboy hat ...

  • A Conard County Reckoning

    Rachel Lee

    Janet Tate was through being the victim, but something about the stranger she's discovered hiding in the mountains tugged at her wounded heart, demanding that she learn his secrets. All his life, Abel Pierce had lived with the memory of his fathe...

  • Dangerous

    Lee Magner

    A TOWN WITHOUT PITY Seemed as if Clare Brown was the only person in Crawfordsville who'd ever seen any good in Case Malloy. She'd wanted that wrong-side-of-the-tracks rebel more than any good girl should ever want anything. And yet she'd never had...

  • Falling for Him

    Debbie Macomber

    Hard Luck, Alaska -- a town that needs women! Location: 50 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Population: 150 -- mostly men -- but growing! Because the O'Halloran brothers, who run a bush-plane charter service called Midnight Sons, are headin...

  • Man of His Word

    Miriam MacGregor

    Blake didn't know why April Lindsay had suddenly accepted a job in town but he was sure there had to be a man involved. And just how did six-year-old Tim fit into April's life? Blake sensed a mystery and he vowed to get to the bottom of it....

  • Midnight Rider

    Kat Martin

    SHE WAS HIS CAPTIVE. HE WAS THE ONE MAN SHE WAS FORBIDDEN TO HAVE... As soon as the tall, handsome Spaniard leaned down from his stallion to offer her a rose, Caralee McConnell knew California held danger. But all too quickly she was forced to den...

  • The Impostor

    Cassie Miles

    Who was he? The man's name was Dashiell and he was an angel -- or at least that's what he told Liz Carradine. But he dressed in a down to earth trench coat and a fedora, and he sweet-talked Liz as if he were a wisecracking detective from t...

  • The Pearl Stallion

    Rae Muir

    SAVAGE! Innocent Dina Wilmount hid aboard The Pearl Stallion, desperate to return to England. But the vessel provided no safe harbor, for she soon learned that the price of her passage would be her soul. Cast out on London's streets, Anson Sau...

  • The Only Man for Maggie

    Leigh Michaels

    He wanted her off his property... Maggie didn't want a man--she wanted her own apartment! But Karr Elliot had bought her beautiful home right from under Maggie's feet. ...And out of his life? But for someone who was determined to send Ma...

  • Trust Me

    Charlotte Moore

    Take at Walk on the Dark Side of Love... Man of Secrets 'There was something wrong, terribly wrong, in the long-abandoned building that was Margo Stafford's new home. And now a stranger swore that the evil she sensed threatened her very life. B...

  • Just a Memory Away

    Helen R. Myers

    HE'D LOST HIS MEMORY He appeared in the darkness like a dream--except that in Francesca Jones's dreams sexy strangers weren't naked and suffering from amnesia! Frankie couldn't resist a man in need, and this man needed her more than she knew. "...

  • Finding You

    Carla Neggers

    Vermont newspaper editor Cozie Hawthorne was shocked at the money she made when her book of Yankee cracker-barrel wisdom hit the bestseller lists. That didn't mean she was ready to buy a dress that cost more than her rusted Jeep. She prided herself o...

  • Sisters

    Penny Richards

    A SECRET BABY... Nineteen years ago, farmgirl Skye Herder was all chaste, forbidden temptation while her older sister was a ripe, willing female. A boy on the brink of manhood, Cash Benedict had to choose... Now, tormented by memories, compell...

  • Fool's Paradise

    Tori Phillips

    'TWAS NO LAUGHING MATTER When fleeing an odious arranged match, the Lady Elizabeth Hayward found herself under the protection of famed court jester Richard Tarleton. But even disguised as the fool's boy apprentice, there was no hiding the fact tha...

  • The Warrior

    Fayrene Preston

    The danger that glowed in his eyes called her name .... Jonah Damaron exuded power like a force of nature, untamable and sensual in a way that awakened every nerve ending in Jolie Lanier's body! But she was playing a dangerous game, taking risks f...

  • The Outlaw and the City Slicker

    Debbi Rawlins

    THE LADY... With her designer luggage and pink cowboy boots, Sunny Daye was hardly who Jesse would have picked to assist with his cattle drive. She had the body of a centerfold and the face of an angel but did she know anything about cattle and t...

  • Belladonna

    Jenna Ryan

    Bella Conlan was a woman with a past... One she couldn't remember. The first nine years of her life were shrouded in a mist as thick as the fog of her native San Francisco--and now those lost years were coming back to haunt her. Then out of the da...

  • Paper Moon

    Patricia Rice

    SHINING DREAMS, BLAZING PASSIONS Janice Harrison looked like a dowdy schoolmarm to the citizens if Mineral Springs, Texas, as long as no one saw her with her golden hair loose around her white shoulders and her perfect body free from its corset s...

  • What Engagement Ring?!

    Martha Schroeder

    "The second my brother's four-carat diamond engagement ring was on your finger, you jilted him." - Jake Singleton, attorney. April Kennan had refused to even date Jake's sniveling brother -- let alone marry him! And now Jake insisted she return a rin...

  • The Heart of Devin MacKade

    Nora Roberts

    HE WAS THE ONLY MacKADE WHO MOVED SLOW Sheriff Devin MacKade had always had his eye on Cassie Connor Dolin. Twelve years of trying to watch over her and her children. Twelve years of being the dependable friend, of seeing his beauty married to a...

  • The Quiet One

    Alicia Scott

    WANTED... Sheriff Cagney Guiness came back to Maddensfield for peace and quiet--and found himself right in the middle of a murder investigation. He also found his prime suspect, a woman who could help him escape his past--if only her past were free ...

  • Lucky Devil

    Patricia Rosemoor

    He was a cowboy to be reckoned with... JoJo Weston tried not to be impressed by the obviously dangerous man standing before her...oozing sensuality. Lucky was a Donatelli - not to be trusted, not to be messed with. Could he possibly even be the on...

  • It Happened One Week

    JoAnn Ross

    AMANDA'S ROMANCE RESUME First Love: Ten years ago, Amanda fell madly in love with Dane, the most handsome man she'd ever seen. They kissed till dawn, whispered sweet nothings about forever. Then suddenly it was over.... Present Love: In the mid...

  • For Love of Her Child

    Tracy Sinclair

    A MOTHER'S LOVE... Erica Barclay's goal was to keep her son, Nicky, safe from the people who threatened their small family. Nicky was her entire world, the very air she breathed. She certainly didn't have time for sexy strangers she stumbled over ...

  • Buchanan's Baby

    Pamela Toth

    OH, BABY! They say you never forget your first love, and Donovan Buchanan was more unforgettable than most. The rough-and-ready cowboy had left a trail of broken hearts along the road to success...and he'd left perky waitress Bobbie McBride with j...

  • The Rancher and His Unexpected Daughter

    Sherryl Woods

    Widower Harlan Adams had plenty of experience with children - male children. So when a rebellious teenaged girl stole his truck and went for a joyride, Harlan was baffled. Then he confronted her intriguing, sassy mother and was totally thrown for a l...

  • A Father for Always

    Sandra Steffen

    To keep his rich in-laws from taking away his little girl, Fabulous Father Jace McCall decided to: One: Find a woman willing to pose as his fiancee. The hitch? Every gal in town was spoken for--except Garret Fletcher. But who'd believe they were i...

  • Love and Lies

    Dawn Stewardson

    If walls could speak, what tales of passion, adventure and intrigue would they tell? Bride's Bay Resort: a luxurious playground with a colorful past and a romantic present! Generations of Jermains have catered to the rich and famous at their exclu...

  • Ivy Secrets

    Jean Stone

    THEY LIVED A LIE.... They met within the ivied walls of one of New England's most prestigious colleges: Three girls from vastly different backgrounds who became roommates, soulmates, and best friends. But fifteen years later, it's not the bonds of...

  • The Groom Wore Blue Suede Shoes

    Jessica Travis

    A MARRIAGE MADE IN MEMPHIS Single mom Erin Weller just wanted a normal life. But ever since she'd rescued Travor Steele from a crowd of screaming women, her life was anything but! Travor's good looks did more than set her pulse racing. Everyone--inc...

  • Under the Covers

    Linda Warren

    His make-your-own-rules grin should have been a warning ... He'd never been followed bit a woman so downright determined, Simon Faro noted with admiration--and more than a touch of curiosity! Detective Jo O'Neal was outrageously persistent in trac...

  • The Reformer

    Diana Whitney

    HEY, KIDDO-- I suppose you know I'm crazy about your mom. What man wouldn't be? Especially since she has such a great kid. But I want to talk to you man-to-man and tell you what my intentions are. Even though your mom is the most beautiful, wonder...

  • Million-Dollar Bride

    Karen Toller Whittenburg

    Here comes the bride... Eliza Richards knew she had no business trying on that million-dollar wedding gown. It didn't look like it should cost a million bucks, so what was all the fuss about? But when she put it on, she knew. It shimmered, it spa...

  • The Newlywed Game

    Bonnie K. Winn

    How would they score on the compatibility test? Brad Holbrook and Kara Lawrence made the perfect couple. The moment he saw them Erastus Jones knew they were meant for each other, and meant to be the new owners of his ostrich ranch. There was only ...

  • Commitments

    Susan Worth

    HE DID EXACTLY AS HE PLEASED, AND HE PLEASED HE...FOR now Charlie "I'll try anything for a year" Whitman. Fleet of mouth, fast of foot and a brilliant copywriter, he was committed to only one thing-no commitments. Cassie "Play by the rules" Arm...

  • The Rose Revived

    Katie Fforde

    Joining a team of housecleaners as a means of supporting themselves, recently unemployed May, single mother and hopeful artist Harriet, and star-seeking Sally find themselves in hotter water than they could have expected....

  • Death at Buckingham Palace

    C.C. Benison

    MURDER MOST ROYAL... Jane Bee came to Europe for adventure, only to end up with the job of a lifetime: housemaid at Buckingham Palace. Now her greatest challenge is removing gum from State Room carpets--until she comes across a nasty accident righ...

  • Auntie Mayhem

    Mary Daheim

    Bad Manors Though lurching through London is ever so jolly, hostess on-holiday Judith McMonigle Flynn and her cantankerous cousin Renie are looking forward to an unharried weekend at a real English country manor. They find the estate taxing, howev...

  • The Luck of the Draw

    Catherine Dain

    Hired to track down Darla Hayden after she leaves her therapist with a pile of unpaid bills, Reno P.I. Freddie O'Neal finds herself up to her ears in murder when Darla turns up dead in her former lover's office...

  • Somebody Else's Child

    Terris McMahan Grimes

    Learning about a murder and kidnapping in her elderly mother's hometown, amateur sleuth Theresa Galloway is forced to agree when her mother insists that she has a better chance of solving the crime than the police do. Original....

  • Shadow of Doubt

    Jonnie Jacobs

    Kali O'Brien thought she'd left Silver Creek far behind. Until her father's death brings her back to her Sierra hometown, where she has to cope with past tragedy and present-day murder. All the evidence in a bizarre homicide case points to an old hig...

  • Pay the Piper

    Kate Kingsbury

    WELCOME TO THE PENNYFOOT The London aristocracy has discovered the pleasures of seaside holidays in Badgers End, and it's Cecily Sinclair's job as the owner of the Pennyfoot Hotel to keep them comfortable and entertained. Detective work is not par...

  • Romance

    Ed McBain

    THE 87th PRECINCT... is where criminals and cops share secrets, tricks, and truths, where strangers meet, fall in love, and sometimes kill. ROMANCE... is a would-be hit play about an actress in a hit play pursued by a knife-wielding stalker. Until...

  • Deep Valley Malice

    Kirk Mitchell

    THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY WILL DIE OF THIRST -- BECAUSE A MADMAN WANTS IT THAT WAY Since the time of the early pioneers, water has been California's most precious commodity. Now someone is blowing up the pipelines that carry the essential liquid d...

  • Grand Slam

    Susan Moody

    While taking part in a high-stakes bridge game, Cassie Swann stumbles upon the body of Lady Portia Wickham and sets out to investigate the killing, but drawing clues like cards, she is soon holding a murderous hand. Reprint....

  • Final Arrangements

    Donna Huston Murray

    When a Main Line horticulturist is strangled at the Philadelphia Flower Show, it's clear there's a bad seed in the cultivated crowd... Ginger Struve Barnes never expected to become a detective. The happily married mother of two, known for her red ...

  • Murder Mile High

    Lora Roberts

    SPECIAL DELIVERY For the first time in years, struggling freelance writer Liz Sullivan is headed home to Denver to visit her estranged family. No sooner does she arrive than her former husband's dead body is delivered to her father's front porch w...

  • King of the Dead

    Gene DeWeese
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    With virtually unlimited powers as King of the Dead, Azalin still cannot find peace. Tortured by the death of his son., the unwilling ruler has come to despise the world of darkness and horror over which he reigns. From his previous life as a powe...

  • Fisherman's Hope

    David Feintuch

    THE SEAFORT SAGA There is nowhere to hide from the deadly night. Even our human ark, our Earth, is only a fragile raft adrift in the infinite darkness. But with the strength of the blessed, and the courage of the damned, can one hero set humanity's ...

  • Before the Storm

    Michael P. Kube-McDowell

    It is a time of tranquillity for the New Republic. The remnants of the Empire now lie in complete disarray, and the reemergence of the Jedi Knights has brought power and prestige to the fledgling government on Coruscant. Yesterday's Rebels have becom...

  • Ashes of the Sun

    Hanovi Braddock
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    NOTHING TO LOSE? Ayesh knows that danger lurks in the Miritiin Mountains, and danger is just what she wants. With her beloved cities of Neah turned to dust and rubble in the goblin wars, with even their memory fading to legend, what reason does sh...

  • The Italian House

    Teresa Crane

    “A wonderfully rich web of intrigue and romance, love and betrayal” set in 1920s Tuscany -- from the author of Freedom’s Banner (Barbara Erskine).   When Carrie Stowe unexpectedly inherits her eccentric grandmother’s Italian villa, she s...

  • The Ring

    Sylvia Halliday

    Determined to find the charming viscount who had stolen her heart and then sailed away to the colonies, Prudence Allbright books passage on a ship bound for Virginia and forges a daring alliance with a man with his own dark past. Prudence Allbrig...

  • Devil's Food

    Janice Weber

    A sly, witty mystery features two extraordinary sisters--one a master chef and the other a renowned actress--who juggle husbands, lovers, the Hollywood media, and their own identities to catch a thief. By the author of Frost the Fiddler. ...

  • Montana Sky

    Nora Roberts

    When Jack Mercy died, he left behind a ranch worth nearly twenty million dollars. Now his three daughters--each born of a different marriage, and each unknown by the others--are gathered to hear the reading of the will. But the women are shocked to l...

  • Cyberkiss

    Sally Chapman

    MURDER ON-LINE One look at Bernie Kowolsky told Julie Blake that he was a computer geek. He also looked scared to death. Bernie arrives at Julie's computer investigations office with a tale of kinky cybersex turned lethal--with promises to love......

  • Wolf, No Wolf

    Peter Bowen

    Du Pre remembers when you could send animal skins to Sears Roebuck and get merchandise in return. Now the wolves are gone from the mountains, and outsiders want them back. The trouble is, a tussle over wildlife is getting people killed. First, two...

  • True Confessions

    Mary Bringle

    Grace Peacock longs for the world of true romance stories as she struggles with the absurdities of modern life as she copes with ex-husbands, raffish friends, a loving mother, a disapproving ex-mother-in-law, an imaginary daughter, and unfulfilled dr...

  • Bowker's Bonfire

    Tony Caxton

    Three months after members of a family living over a small shop die in an arson fire, Inspector Bowker is assigned to solve the baffling case and embarks on an investigation that leads to newpaper harassment, anonymous threats, and the murder of a po...

  • A Killing in Quail County

    Jameson Cole

    GROWING PAINS It is the summer of 1957 and Bob White, OklahoMA, a dry rural town. Illegal moonshine is the name of game, and fifteen-year-old Mark Stoddard decides going to find a local bootlegger's still and win the of his older brother Jake, the...

  • Axe for an Abbot

    Elizabeth Eyre

    Popes, cardinals, whores, and thieves are among the players in this fifth Renaissance mystery featuring the enigmatic knight Sigismondo and his sidekick Benno.Tricked into a murder, Sigismondo finds himself in the middle of a no-holds-barred politica...

  • Jaded

    Nick Gaitano

    Although Jake Phillips had recently been the golden boy of Chicago's elite homicide division, now he finds himself on the verge of suspension. Having recently put everything on the linerisking his job, his marriage, and everything he held most dearto...

  • And One to Die On

    Jane Haddam

    A BIRTHDAY BASH TO DIE FOR! That's what Bennis Hannaford and ex-FBI special agent Gregor Demarkian are in for when they accept an invitation to the one hundredth birthday party of a Hollywood legend. The reclusive Tasheba Kent, femme fatale of the s...

  • The Death of Blue Mountain Cat

    Michael Allen Dymmoch

    In this “exciting” sequel to The Man Who Understood Cats, psychiatrist Jack Caleb and cop John Thinnes must solve the murder of a Native American artist (Library Journal).   Native American artist Blue Mountain Cat seems determined to provok...

  • F2F

    Phillip Finch

  • Before She Dies

    Steven F. Havill

    "If what you're hiding is motive, Gastner will ferret it out and do what needs to be done. An outstanding mystery." --Booklist starred reviewPosadas Register reporter Linda Real barely survives her nighttime patrol with one of Undersheriff Bill Gastn...

  • The Nylon Hand of God

    Steven Hartov

    Israeli Military Intelligence agents Eytan Eckstein and Benni Baum are about to conclude a delicate prisoner swap between Israel and her nemesis, Iran. But when a suicide bombing at the Israeli embassy in New York throws the plan into chaos, they di...

  • The Wood Beyond

    Reginald Hill

    Police Inspector Peter Pascoe is looking for a place to bury his grandmum's ashes, when he stumbles upon a startling family secret--an ancestor unjustly executed in wartime. So preoccupied is Pascoe that he hardly notices the uproar in his own depart...

  • Something to Hide

    Peter Levine

    Planning to turn in his dissertation and leave Yale behind, graduate student Zach Blumberg is devastated when his work, a study of an obscure nihilistic French philosopher, mysteriously disappears just before a fellow student is murdered...

  • Falconer and the Face of God

    Ian Morson

    A MEDIEVAL MORALITY PLAY SETS THE STAGE FOR A DEADLY PERFORMANCE... Almost everyone in his actors' troupe has reason to kill the vile and tyrannical Stefano de Askeles, and when lie crew lands in Oxford to put on a local production, someone does j...

  • Let's Get Criminal

    Lev Raphael

    A tale of intrigue in academia involving homosexuals. It begins when a new man arrives at a university and obtains tenure despite lack of qualifications. When he is murdered, suspicion falls on a writer-in-residence on whom the man once did the dirty...