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  • The Lost Way Back

    Nichelle D. Tramble

  • Dirty South

    Ace Atkins

    What would you do if you only had twenty four hours to save the life of a friend? Searching for lost souls and solving problems was never Nick Travers's intention when he started doing favors for his buddies. A former football player who sometimes...

  • Perfect Princess

    Meg Cabot

    Sleeping Beauty, Victoria, Cleopatra, Snow White, Elizabeth, Pocahontas, Mia Thermopolis: all princesses Do YOU have what it takes to be a princess? Princess Mia will help you find out...

  • Flower Girl Butterflies

    Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard

    Although excited about the part she will play during the big event, Sarah begins to get nervous that she may do something wrong when the time comes and so turns to her mother for advice and guidance, in a charming tale about a determined flower girl ...

  • Magic Thinks Big

    Elisha Cooper

    Magic the cat isvery large, very round, and unable to make up his mind.

    Magic the cat issort of silly,sort of sleepy, andstuck in one spot.

    Look!Magic the catmay not be moving,but his imaginationhas taken flight.

    ...

  • Apocalypse Memories

    Laura J. Burns

    TIME'S UP Willow is back in Sunnydale, but she's terrified: She knows her powers will be needed soon, but she's afraid that if she uses them, it's back to being the Big Bad. She can feel something strange happening, but the other Scoobies don't s...

  • Codex

    Lev Grossman

    Edward Wozny, a hotshot young banker, is about to leave for vacation when he is sent to help an important yet mysterious client. His task: search the family library for a precious, centuries-old codex that may not even exist. Enlisting the expertise ...

  • The Shining Badge

    Gilbert Morris

    Book 31 of House of Winslow. Jennifer Winslow had known only the finest life had to offer--until her family lost everything in the crash of '29. Moving from New York to a small farm in Georgia, Jenny struggles to adapt to her tough new life. Then, th...

  • Digging Out

    Katherine Leiner

    Years after fleeing to the U.S. to escape the tragedy in her small Welsh town that had nearly cost her life and destroyed her family, Alys Davies rebuilds her life, marries, and finds success as a poet, until a new tragedy forces her to confront the ...

  • Hard

    Emma Gold

    Now she returns with the adventures of a new woman-about-London. From office politics (fending off the boss's advances; dating the co-worker's son) to bedroom diplomacy (no sleepovers past 3 a.m.; hetero lovemaking must be muffled so as not to offend...

  • Leading Lady

    Lawana Blackwell

    IT ALL BEGAN OVER AN INNOCENT CUP OF TEA Bethia Rayborn, soon to be betrothed to her childhood beau and happily employed as the wardrobe mistress at London's Royal Court Theatre, is quite certain all her dreams have come true. But then the drama unf...

  • Starting from Square Two

    Caren Lissner

    Gert Healy thought she was finished with dating. She thought she'd never again have to worry about what to wear and what to say and whether she was pretty enough. She thought that she'd be picking out strollers and booties for the children she and he...

  • The Secret Life of Bryan

    Lori Foster

    Jaded bounty hunter Bryan Kelly is head-over-hormones in lust with a woman...and what she does to his senses is criminal. Double Trouble Bryan Kelly has a few rules. Rule #1: Women are for fun, not commitment. Rule #2: He'll do anything for his tw...

  • Fortune Cookie

    Joanne Meyer

    There's such a thin line between "psychic" and "psychotic"... For thirty-three years, Natalie "Rosie" Rosenstein has been "gifted" with a sixth sense--not that it ever helps her with men. No, the ESP thing is mysteriously on hiatus when it comes to ...

  • Pink Slip Party

    Cara Lockwood

    She's been handed her walking papers. Jane McGregor has just been laid off from her job designing pink slips for an office supply company. The irony is not lost on her. She's a twenty-eight-year-old art major whose last major career accomplishment ...

  • Wild Heather

    Catherine Palmer

    Olivia Hewes has one dream: to make Chatham Manor's wool-producing venture profitable. When she meets Randolph Sherbourne, the heir of her largest competitor, the two are drawn toward a forbidden love that will mean betraying both their families and ...

  • For Two Nights Only

    Tom Holt

    Two of Tom Holt's best-loved tales are brought together in this omnibus edition. In Overtime, it all started for Guy Goodlet somewhere over Caen. One moment he was heading for the relative safety of the coast, aware that fuel was low and that the Mos...

  • Spitting Feathers

    Kelly Harte

    BIRDS OF A FEATHER? Tao Tandy can't wait to flee her sleepy life (safe fiance, dead-end job) and migrate to the big city to find fame and fortune as a food photographer. First, however, she has to find somewhere to live.... Luck is on her side ...

  • Missing Witness

    Craig Parshall

    After a nerve shattering encounter with military justice in The Accused, Craig Parshall’s third novel, all lawyer Will Chambers wants to do this summer is relax with his wife, Fiona... A long stay on the North Carolina coast seems perfect. But w...

  • Fat Chance

    Deborah Blumenthal

    As Americans throw themselves body, soul and pocketbook into the latest weight-loss craze, Maggie O'Leary's informed column about the pitfalls of dieting is the one sane voice crying out against the dietocracy. Plus-size Maggie, also known as America...

  • The Anxiety of Everyday Objects

    Aurelie Sheehan

    A single, young working girl living in the big city, Winona Bartlett struggles to juggle her safe job as a secretary at a New York City law firm with her aspirations of becoming a filmmaker and her disastrous love life, a situation that is complicate...

  • Grounds to Believe

    Shelley Bates

    He'd find Kailey someday. One assignment at a time. One prayer at a time . . . Ever since a cult took his daughter, police investigator Ross Malcolm's mission has been to protect children. So when a secretive sect in Hamilton Falls, Washington, c...

  • Wired

    Robert L. Wise

    The story of one family's struggle for survival in an apocalyptic world -- where one choice will determine their future....

  • Beneath the Moors and Darker Places

    Brian Lumley

    In addition to his stellar Necroscope series, Brian Lumley is highly regarded for his short fiction, for which he has won the British Fantasy Award. Beneath the Moors and Darker Places, a companion to The Whisperer and Other Voices, collects nine len...

  • Bannerman's Ghosts

    John R. Maxim

    The story begins not in Westport, Connecticut, where Bannerman and a group of his deadliest operatives have been trying to live otherwise normal lives, but in a fortified estate outside Washington, D.C., where the billionaire sociopath Artemus Bourne...

  • Fire and Sword

    Simon Brown

    A Kingdom at War In the kingdom of Grenda Lear, four magical Keys of Power augment the authority of the monarch. On her deathbed, Queen Usharna divides the Keys among her four children, hoping to bring continued peace and strength to the kingdom....

  • Once Upon a Blind Date

    Wendy Markham

    It's open season for love... When Charlie met Maggie... Maggie is best buddies with Dominic. Charlie is best friends with Julie. Through the magic of the Internet, they set up their pals on the most romantic blind date ever. Naturally, Maggie a...

  • Ms. Simon Says

    Mary McBride

    Popular Chicago columnist Shelby Simon is too busy giving people advice to get a love life of her own...until a series of letter bombs blows widowed cop Mick Callahan into her office. Sent to shield Shelby from the deadly threats, Mick spirits her aw...

  • Hers for the Weekend

    Tanya Michaels

    She wanted a temporary arrangement... Piper Jamieson needs a man. And not just any man. She needs someone to play her significant other when she heads home for her family reunion. Thanks to a self-imposed period of celibacy, she has no prospects.....

  • Apocalypse Memories

    Melinda Metz; Laura J. Burns

    TIME'S UP Willow is back in Sunnydale, but she's terrified: She knows her powers will be needed soon, but she's afraid that if she uses them, it's back to being the Big Bad. She can feel something strange happening, but the other Scoobies don't se...

  • Genesis

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    The Hive: a subterranean genetic research facility owned and operated by Umbrella, an immensely powerful corporation with interests in everything from human longevity to biowarfare. With computerized defenses and heavily armed human backup, the Hive ...

  • Hellboy

    Yvonne Navarro

    Brought into the world through a pagan ritual, Hellboy struggles to come to terms with the fantastic powers that have allowed him to benefit all humankind by transforming him into the world's greatest paranormal investigator, but that also have kept ...

  • Sex and the Single Vampire

    Katie MacAlister

    Allegra's Dictionary of the Paranormal Dark One n. [Origin Czech, also known as vampires.] A Moravian Dark One is doomed to spend his lifetime cruising the singles' scene in search of the one woman who can redeem his soul. You think dating is hard...

  • The Warrior

    Claire Delacroix

    Dear Reader, Alluring and dangerous, the Hawk of Inverfyre came to rest at my father's house, his motives unknown. His seduction was breathtaking. I resisted him, this enigmatic warrior, but his kiss transported me to a time and place where his re...

  • Anything, Anywhere, Anytime

    Catherine Mann

    A mission of the utmost secrecy. A country torn apart by war. A man with his defenses crumbling. With one week to complete a top secret mission, Major Jack "Cobra" Korba did not need emotional distractions. But when flight surgeon Monica Hyatt, ...

  • Under a Wild Sky

    Sasha Lord

    THEIR LOVE IS AS TUMULTUOUS AS THE WIND-WHIPPED SKY...AND AS TENDER AS THE SUN'S CARESS. She is Kalial, golden princess of a legendary forest. living among the trees, her female form disguised in male garb, a jaguar at her side, she has the power ...

  • A Time to Die

    John Vornholt

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

  • The Sexiest Dead Man Alive

    Jane Blackwood

    LEAVE IT TO HER TO FALL FOR A DEAD GUY... So cooking for a recluse isn't exactly the dream job of the century. That's okay with Rose Pisano. The outrageous salary he's offering more than makes up for the boring factor--and just may make her dream ...

  • The Best of Everything

    Francine Craft

    SOMETIMES, THE SECRETS AND SORROWS OF THE PAST... Sherrie Pinson was devastated when her husband, Michael, was killed. Now, as the beauty salon owner struggles to make a new life for herself and her young daughter Tressa, Byron Tate intrudes on her ...

  • The Black Thorn Gambit

    Josepha Sherman

  • The DeWilde Affair

    Jasmine Cresswell

    The elegant DeWilde stores -- famous for making bridal fantasies come true. Now the love that built the DeWilde dynasty threatened to shatter it... Gabriel DeWilde had no idea why his supposedly happy parents, Grace and Jeffrey DeWilde, were divor...

  • Paradise Falls

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    In 1890 Massachusetts, Fiona Downey was no ordinary young woman. She had worked hard all her life to be admitted into the prestigious college where her proud father taught - in spite of those who sniffed that it was no place for a lady. But when her ...

  • Crossing Paths, Tempting Memories

    Dorothy Elizabeth Love

  • Memory Reload

    Rosemary Heim

    Silent memories unlock simmering passions... He found her on the beach with no memory and a gun...FBI Agent Ryan Williams had a soft spot for women in distress and this one was a textbook example. He'd come to Paradise for some R and R -- instead ...

  • Bluegrass Baby

    Judy Duarte

    FROM MIDWIFE TO MOTHER-TO-BE... One night of heart-stealing passion left Milla Johnson wanting much more from Dr. Kyle Bingham. But settling down wasn't in the gorgeous resident's game plan. And the practical-minded midwife had her own future to t...

  • Hot Nights in Ballymuir

    Dorien Kelly

    Playboy businessman Devlin Gilvane arrives in Ballymuir secretly intent on acquiring the beloved historical landmark Muir House for a lucrative real estate venture. No one recognizes him for the threat he is -- except Jenna Fahey, the beautiful Ameri...

  • Dead Hot Mama

    Victoria Houston

    When temperatures drop in Loon Lake, Wisconsin, the lakes freeze over, tourists pack their bags and head home, and retired dentist Doc Osborne prepares for a much-needed respite. But this season, just as the weather gets colder, things heat up, as Po...

  • The Lady and the Tiger

    Jody Lynn Nye

    In Taylor's Ark and Medicine Show, Shona Taylor fought death and disease--with a menagerie of very special assistants. Now, in an all-new novel, Dr. Taylor takes on a new assignment, and discovers a chilling reality behind a picture-perfect planet......

  • A Dawn of Dragons

    Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    With the dragon orbs and newly-forged dragonlances, the forces of good finally stand a chance against the minions of the Queen of Darkness. Then a new darkness--one from within--threatens the Companions. Old loves and new treacheries will shake the C...

  • Blood Road

    Edo Van Belkom

    Highway To Hell Amanda Peck is stuck in a dead end job, lives with a deadbeat boyfriend, and is dead set on changing her life. With no thought to what tomorrow might bring, she packs her meager belongings and hits the road, hitching rides from truck...

  • Foundations

    Dayton Ward; Kevin Dilmore

    The first full-length novel starring the Starfleet Corps of Engineers! Now it can be told: The origin of the S.C.E.! In the twenty-fourth century, the U.S.S. da Vinci and its S.C.E. team led by Commander Sonya Gomez roam the galaxy, solving the tec...

  • Just Impossible

    Judith A. Lansdowne

    A Notorious Nobleman The Duke of Berinwick is the last of his line, though he yearns for the warmth of a wife and family. But no lady will set foot in Blackcastle, his vast country house, and the solitude of a long winter has become a prison for his...

  • Thief of Hearts

    Kate Silver

    She Picked His Pocket... Orphaned and penniless, Miriame Dardagny has learned to survive in the back alleys of Paris using her wits and quick fingers, desperately seeking any chance to escape her fate. Jaded as she is, however, she cannot leave a ba...

  • Crimson Hit

    Bob Burton

    THEY'LL RUN... Dev Shannon loves his job. He makes good money, travels all over, meets interesting people--and drags them off in chains to face justice. Dev is San Diego's top bounty hunter, and there's never a shortage of bad guys for him to bring...

  • The Bones of Giants

    Christopher Golden

    "So, at some point, the age of gods came to an end." Or so it was believed for eons...until Thrym the Hollow, Jotunheim's deposed King of the Frost Giants, rose from death. This time, he would not rest until his foes were eviscerated, and his...

  • Into the Fire

    Jessica Hall

    Sable Duchesne is rescued from a burning warehouse in the New Orleans French Quarter. But another body is found in the rubble--the body of the favored candidate for governor of Louisiana. Evidence points to murder...and Sable is the only witness. ...

  • Shadowheart

    Laura Kinsale

    From Laura Kinsale, the New York Times bestselling author of For My Lady's Heart, comes the novel fans have been waiting for--an extraordinary tale of consuming love and fiery passion between a dashing, dangerous man and the beautiful woman who stand...

  • Abducted

    Brian Pinkerton

    When she sees her son, who had been kidnaped two years before, on a bus stopped at the curb, Anita Sherwood, unable to make the police believe her claims that her son is still alive, will stop at nothing--even murder--to get her son back. Original....

  • Tabitha's Tangle

    Emily Hendrickson

    Between the Covers Prim and proper, Tabitha Herbert seems to everything one would expect in a rector's daughter, but her passionate thirst for knowledge and adventure belies her appearance. So when she's asked to catalogue a collection of ...

  • Wedded Bliss

    Barbara Metzger

    When Robert Rothmore, Earl of Rockford, receives word that a neighbor has taken his son, he hastily vows to enforce the kidnapping laws. But he quickly discovers that widowed Alissa Henning is no criminal. Instead she is exactly the kind of woman who...

  • Kiss of the Highwayman

    Jenna Mindel

    "The Highwayman comes riding..." Nothing can stop Artemis Rothwell from making her London come-out. Not even rumors of the vicious Highwaymen, a gang of once-noble gentlemen who have turned to robbing-- sometimes even killing--innocent travelers...

  • Deployment: North Korea

    P.W. Storm

    For decades, the oppressive North Korean beast has been secretly building up its arsenal of destruction, waiting for the right opportunity to launch a second full-scale assault on its wary neighbor to the south. That time is now. War looms on the hor...

  • A Slow Walk to Hell

    Patrick A. Davis

    Air Force investigator Martin Collins is used to bucking the system in the name of justice. But when he is called on to investigate the torture-style slaying of Major Franklin Talbot, Collins is embroiled in the most controversial case of his career....

  • Swallow the Hook

    S.W. Hubbard

    DECENT PEOPLE. DESPERATE MEASURES. The folks of remote, mountainous Trout Run, New York, are shocked when Mary Pat Sheehan's body is found in her crashed car. They're even more stunned when an autopsy reveals it wasn't the crash that killed her --...

  • Too Good to Refuse

    Mindy Neff

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

  • The Parker Project

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    Subject: Rugged computer programmer Harrison Parker Family History: Handsome widower/single father hired to help the Extraordinary Five siblings Deepest Secret: Protecting his true feelings for a woman who could turn his mind from business to p...

  • Packing Heat

    Julie Kistler

    He was packing heat...and more While following a hot tip, Chicago policeman Cooper Calhoun runs smack into gorgeous Violet O'Leary. The sexy brunette FBI agent is no shrinking violet, however. She's tough, no-nonsense and not exactly thrilled when...

  • Strangers in the Night

    Kristin Gabriel

    Josie's Scheme for Seduction 1. Sneak into Adam's apartment 2. Slip out of her clothes and under the sheets 3. Have the best sex of her life... with the wrong man? Librarian Josie Sinclair has never been wild or spontaneous...but she's about ...

  • Pillow Talk

    Kathleen O'Reilly

    PLAYING WITH FIRE... Jessica Barnes has a one-way ticket to the career of her dreams as a corporate VP when Adam Taylor, the sexy consultant and chief hatchet man, arrives on the scene. Suddenly Jessica's not sure whether her job will get axed if ...

  • Longarm and the Great Milk Train Robbery

    Tabor Evans

    This case is leaving Longarm with a sour taste…U.S. Deputy Marshal Custis Long has been assigned to some strange cases in his time, but none stranger than the milk train holdups occurring outside the small town of Trinidad, Colorado. Instead of har...

  • The Unexpected Sister

    Glenda Garland

    A MAN OF HONOR Though he fought bravely for King and Country, Lord Thomas Dashley lost a friend and fellow officer to a stealthy French attack...and it is whispered that he was to blame. He has returned to England under suspicion but determined to e...

  • Carnal Gift

    Pamela Clare

    "I expect you to show my friend just how grateful you are. Your willingness is everything." With those harsh words, the hated Sasanach earl decided Brighid's fate: Her body and her virginity were to be offered up to a stranger in exchange for her ...

  • No Turning Back

    J.R. Roberts

    When a British diplomat is murdered, the U.S. Secret Service hires Clint Adams to investigate, plunging the notorious Gunsmith into a world of treason, treachery, and corruption leading back to the Civil War where a ruthless assassin waits to silence...

  • Death in a Beach Chair

    Valerie Wolzien

    MURDER TAKES A HOLIDAY For Susan and Jed Henshaw and their friends Kathleen and Jerry Gordon, the tiny Caribbean resort called Compass Bay has everything. White sand, luxurious cottages, rum punches to die for--even a gorgeous unattached blonde or...

  • Silent Running

    Don Pendleton

    DAMAGE CONTROL Coordinated strikes have begun against the governments of major Latin American countries. Simultaneously, Mexico City as well as key cities along the U.S. border from Miami to Los Angeles are being overrun in a massive incursion. To...

  • Maggie and the Law

    Judith Stacy

    What did a stagecoach robbery, an ancient love goddess and the Rockies have in common? Easy, lawman Spence Harding thought -- that'd be Maggie Peyton, potential museum burglar and possessor of the cutest caboose in Colorado. But he had to forget she ...

  • Body Rides

    Richard Laymon

    Neal has been carrying a gun in his car lately -- just to be safe: And it looks like it's a good thing he has. When he spots a woman tied naked to a tree and a man ready to kill her, he has no choice but to shoot the attacker. As a reward, the woman ...

  • Drive Me Crazy

    Kate Angell

    GOOD VIBRATIONS Cade Nyland didn't think that anything good could come of the new dent in his classic black Sting Ray, even if it did happen at the hands of a sexy young woman. He was determined to win his twelfth road rally race of the year. Litt...

  • The Courier

    Melanie Jackson

    In the alternate world of the Wildside, earth is populated not only by humans but creatures of dark, seductive magic--pookas, sylphs, goblins and more. This wonderland is in delicate balance. And the goblins are always plotting. CURIOUSER & CURIOU...

  • The Brother Quest

    Lori Handeland

    If anything ever happens to me, go to 445 Briar Lane, Wind Lake, Minnesota Colin Luchetti's brother Bobby is missing and the only clue is a cryptic note sending Colin to Wind Lake. What he finds when he gets there is unexpected -- a day-care ce...

  • A Real Hero

    Jean Brashear

    A man who can't walk away from trouble -- and a woman who's nothing but Traveling incognito, Zane MacAllister, Hollywood's hottest heartthrob, has at last eluded the rabid gossipmongers and curiosity seekers who trail him like a pack o...

  • The House on the Beach

    Linda Barrett

    Sea View House in Pilgrim Cove offers its residents the sea, the sun, the sound of the surf and the call of the gulls. But sometimes serenity is only an illusion... Laura McCloud has come back to Pilgrim Cove -- the source of her fondest childhood...

  • City

    Devin Grayson

    Over a decade ago, a child from a distant planet fell to Earth in a lethal hail of meteors that forever changed Smallville, Kansas. Now a teen, Clark Kent must master his unique abilities--while radiation from the glowing green meteor fragments mutat...

  • The Matchmaker's Sister

    Karen Toller Whittenburg

    Love's On The Loose In Providence... Nothing less than divine intervention can quell the commotion when the Danville girls of Providence, Rhode Island, get involved! Cool, confident Miranda is the take-charge beauty of the family. Not content w...

  • Driven to Distraction

    Dixie Browning

    STUMBLING INTO SEXY TROUBLE! In-the-know columnist Maggie Riley had a mission in mind: to write a scathing expose about a scam artist at an overpriced retreat. Seducing a woman out of house and home was a crime! But fate, and a pair of ill-fitting...

  • Private Indiscretions

    Susan Crosby

    DISCRETION ADVISED Forced by her very public persona to control her emotions, Dana Sterling found herself at a loss when she came face-to-face with Sam Remington. After more than a decade apart, he was suddenly back in her life, her only chance at...

  • Venom's Taste

    Lisa Smedman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Hlondeth A city populated by the humanoid serpents known as the yuan-ti, and ruled by House Extaminos The powerful House of Serpents, and the ultimate target of The Pox A human cult whose members worship the goddess of plague and disease, an...

  • A Useful Affair

    Stella Cameron

    The Marquis of Granville's deadly efficiency makes him invaluable to the Crown. But his latest mission has nothing to do with his work for England and everything to do with avenging the murder of two members of his family. Killing would be too go...

  • Fooling Around

    Vicki Lewis Thompson
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    This April 1, anything is possible... Dare to desire... When Lena Walsh is handed a challenge to find the hottest guy she knows and take him out for an unusual date, she sets her sights on the office Adonis, Andre Dumont. But when silly turns to ...

  • Fools Rush In

    Judith Arnold
    in

    This April 1, anything is possible... Dare to discover... Thanks to a radio gag, Mark Lavin and Claire O'Connor find themselves "engaged" -- even though they don't know eachother! But when Mark and Claire try to prove otherwise, they find that th...

  • Nobody's Fool

    Stephanie Bond
    in

    This April 1, anything is possible... Dare to deceive... Eric McDaniels hatches up a prank he's sure will thaw boss Kate Randall's icy-cool exterior -- inventing a secret admirer. That is, until Kate's frosty facade melts just enough to reveal wa...

  • Dylan's Last Dare

    Patricia Thayer

    HE NEVER TURNED DOWN A CHALLENGE Bull-riding champion Dylan "The Devil" Gentry had females of all ages eating out of the palm of his hand. Except his pretty physical therapist, the no-nonsense Brenna Farren. His stolen kisses -- aimed to make her ...

  • The Secret Princess

    Elizabeth Harbison

    FROM PLAIN JANE TO PRINCESS? Amy Scott had been more at home sitting in her small-town bookshop than she'd ever be on the imperial throne of Lufthania. But according to heart-stoppingly-handsome Crown Prince Wilhelm, that is exactly where the stri...

  • Her Protector

    Liz Ireland

    The Case of the Missing Heiress A baby left on a doorstep, an heiress presumed dead, smuggled gems, cover-ups...and murder. To the Trueblood, Texas, P.I. agency, Finders Keepers, it's more than solving the mystery. It's about reuniting a mother, a...

  • Silent Storm

    Amanda Stevens

    HE WAS THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY MALE The kind a small-town girl like Marly Jessop had rarely -- if ever -- seen in the flesh. Deacon Cage arrived in Mission Creek, Texas, like a specter in the night, stealthy and secretive. And his ability to stir M...

  • The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time

    Barry N. Malzberg

    Fourteen classic time travel stories, selected by award-winning author Barry N. Malzberg. The book features THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND by Nancy Kress, THE MAN WHO CAME EARLY by Poul Anderson, A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR US TEMPUNAUTS by Philip K. Dick, 3 R...

  • Where You Least Expect It

    Tori Carrington

    WALK. DON'T RUN.... Whatever was going to happen, Aidan Kendall had decided to stay and ride it out. The truth was, he was tired of running. Tired of packing up his suitcase and hitting the road to nowhere. Tired of being alone, keeping people at ...

  • Two Hearts

    Cynthia Rutledge

    FROM PRINCESS TO PAUPER...TO WIFE? After a disappointing relationship, heiress Libby Carlyle needed to change her life. So she winged a prayer heavenward and traded places with her less privileged best friend. No sooner did she step into her new w...

  • Tycoon Meets Texan!

    Arlene James

    DEEP IN THE HEART Billionaire Lucien Tyrone could have any woman he wanted, anytime, from anywhere in the world. But the moment he met Avis Lorimer on a London-bound flight, he knew he'd met his match. For this million-dollar heiress didn't nee...

  • Mortal Sin

    Laurie Breton

    Park Square. Mass Ave. The Combat Zone. All home to Boston's sex trade. Home also to runaways and lost souls, home to high rollers and politicians looking for action they can't find anywhere else. It is home, too, for Father Clancy Donovan, who spend...

  • In Camelot's Shadow

    Sarah Zettel

    From the wilds of Moreland to the court of Camelot, a woman searches for her true powers... Fleeing from the knowledge that her father had promised her to an evil sorcerer, Risa of the Morelands refused to be a sacrifice. Armed with her bow and he...

  • Dark Desire

    Elaine Moore

    Seduced and rendered immortal by the vampire Johann Nikolai in sixteenth-century Scotland, vampire Victoria MacKay uses the gifts of her Celtic bloodline to escape his influence and is pursued across Europe, Africa, and America for three centuries by...

  • The Pirate's Jewel

    Cheryl Howe

    A Booty Jewel Sanderson's pirate father disappeared ten years previous, but in her care he'd left a map to fabulous wealth. She guarded it--just as she guarded her hope to see her father again. She would give anything, brave any adventure, for just ...

  • Bandit Invincible

    S.B. Lyon

    Robert Leroy Parker rode away from his father's Utah farm to find his way in the world, and rides into the folklore of the frontier as the most dangerous.yet beloved.outlaw of the Old West, Butch Cassidy. But what kind of man is the real Butch Cassid...

  • Digging Up Trouble

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    Joanne Ferguson returns with another engaging tale of Regency mayhem--and murder--featuring the intrepid Sir Neville Hathaway and his enchanting partner, Lady Priscilla Flanders. About to be wed, they return to his magnificent ancestral estate upon t...

  • Reforming a Rogue

    Lynn Collum
    in

    Widowed Serena Morgan is appalled to discover that her uncle has consented to introduce her gentle cousin Jane to London's most notorious rake, the Viscount Durwyn. But while Wyn may be as infamous as Serena imagined, he's also far more tempting than...

  • The Tables Turned

    Victoria Hinshaw
    in

    Practical Anne Talcott thinks she wants a staid, conventional husband to provide her with a home and children, but when the roguish Lord Dashworth sets out to prove that Anne secretly yearns for passion and adventure, he learns that he suddenly longs...

  • This Can't Be Love

    Kasey Michaels

    One Crazy Summer If Molly Preston marches to the beat of a different drummer, it's probably a naked bongo player. Gorgeous and free-spirited, Molly's set for life--provided she stays employed ten months out of the year as stipulated in her parents...

  • To Tame a Rebel

    Georgina Gentry

    A Union Brave A Rebel soldier killed his brother. Now the fires of revenge burn in the soul of Creek warrior Yellow Jacket as he prepares to join his tribe in battle against his sworn enemies. To keep their plans secret, Yellow Jacket is forced to t...

  • Borrowed Flesh

    Sephera Giron

    When Vanessa discovers the secret of immortality, which lies in the flesh of young virgins, she scours the world for victims, until she encounters something even more diabolical and powerful than herself, plunging her into a nightmarish realm of viol...

  • No Man's Land

    William W. Johnstone

    Kansas doesn't want it. Neither does Texas. The 35-mile wide strip of land destined to become the Oklahoma panhandle is a place unlike any other on the frontier: with no laws, no rules, and a powerful attraction for killers, looters, and fugitives. F...

  • Soviet Specter

    Don Pendleton

    A customs bust in New York alerts Mack Bolan to a heroin smuggling operation run by Russian gangsters. His mission is three pronged: find the brain behind the enterprise, smash the network that stretches from New York to Moscow and protect the beauti...

  • Simply Wild

    Shelby Lewis

    Shop owner Holly Hunter thought she liked the quiet life her antique lace business provided....Until sinewy Jake Fishbone walked in. A man clouded in mystery, he quickly captures her curiosity - and her heart. Their budding romance runs off course wh...

  • Reflections of You

    Celeste O. Norfleet

    Cautious and conservative architectural designer Angela Lord didn't know quite what to expect when she decided to fly to Puerto Rico to learn the truth about her family background. She was stunned to discover that not only was she the exact double of...

  • Until You're Mine

    Lisa Higdon

    SHE RISKED HER VIRTUE Penniless and with her livelihood in jeopardy, American actress Laura Lancaster found herself stranded in London -- and faced with the degrading prospect of becoming a wealthy man's concubine just to survive. TO SAVE HI...

  • Marlow's Nemesis

    Debbie Raleigh
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    Aware that even a rakehell must set up his nursery sometime, Lord Robert Marlow believes that choosing Anna Dashell for his bride will be a simple matter. He hasn't bargained on the interference of his childhood nemesis, spirited Charlotte Rowe--or h...

  • Big Iron

    Jake Lancer

    In the aftermath of the Civil War, the West is invaded by hordes of bold, dangerous men. And with the railroad coming to Black Creek, Kansas, the town becomes a magnet to every whore, tinhorn, outlaw, and killer in the territory. A gang of human vult...

  • Lord Pierson Reforms

    Donna Simpson

    LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT... An angel--that's what Dante Delacourt, Viscount Pierson, spies as he staggers home one foggy night. Admittedly, he is quite in his cups, but the blonde vision in the passing carriage is surely the archetype of goodness--a mora...

  • Slocum and the Cayuse Squaw

    Jake Logan

    This squaw's got Slocum running from both sides of the law!A spunky squaw makes the injured Slocum an offer he can't refuse: her very special care for his protection against the angry Cayuse braves and the white bounty hunters on their trail....

  • The Independent Bride

    Leigh Greenwood

    COLORADO TERRITORY, 1868: It is about as rough and ready as the West can get, a place and time almost as dangerous as the men who left civilization behind, driven by a desire for land, gold...a new life. FORT LOOKOUT: It is a rugged outpost where...

  • The Morning After

    Lisa Jackson

    HIS VICTIMS... A woman is frantic as she awakens in a dark, closed space. From above her comes the muffled sound of cruel laughter, followed by the hard splatter of dirt. Pure terror takes over as she realizes she's being buried alive, and her last ...

  • Penny's Gift

    Edna Ventre-Auerfeld

    She can cure the sick. She can give life to the dying. But can she save herself? Penny Chaney was a living miracle. The victim of a lethally sudden virus, no medicine could help her, and no doctor could bring her back. Then, in the realm between thi...

  • One True Thing

    Marilyn Pappano

    SECRETS AND LIES Ex-detective Jace Barnett's finely tuned instincts went into overdrive when he met his beautiful new neighbor with the fictitious past. His attempts to uncover her true identity met a dead end every time. She was a tantalizing mys...

  • Extreme Measures

    Brenda Harlen

    RISKING IT ALL... Colin McIver is back in town, and the only person who isn't thrilled by the return of the hometown hero is his ex-wife, Nikki Gordon. She just wants to know when he's leaving. Because Colin always leaves. And this time, she hopes...

  • Darkness Calls

    Caridad Pineiro

    FALLING PREY TO PASSION FBI agent Diana Reyes knew too much about the darkness of the human soul. She had spiraled into that underworld once before -- and vowed never to fall again. Until she met him. Powerful, dangerous and the key to catching...

  • A Perfect Life?

    Dawn Atkins

    In reality, she has an advertising job headed for permanent entry-level, a pricey apartment and a rat of a boyfriend. So now she has to make her wish come true. But she can get this figured out, right? She just has to hit on the plan and her life ...

  • Deep Current

    Benjamin E. Miller

    As a floating glacier, going against the current, heads toward Hawaii, an elite team of scientists joins a Marine Expeditionary Unit on the glacier and encounters a predatory force that could destroy the entire world....

  • Lilly's Dream

    Peggy Darty

    All Lilly Brown ever wanted is a family of her own to love. When a strange man arrives with information about the mother Lilly never knew, her heart burns with hope. But how can an orphan girl claim a birthright in one of the wealthiest families in N...

  • Compassion's Charm

    DiAnn Mills

    After years of substance abuse, Rachel Morton found the Lord's compassion and redemption. Two years later, she's ready to redeem the time she lost with her three precious children. But Rachel's mother, who doubts her daughter's change, refuses to giv...

  • Bird of Prey

    Tom Grace

    In space, a technological nightmare orbits the Earth, stalking its prey. Sheathed in a black multifaceted skin, a secret all but invisible against the darkness of space, the killer satellite hunts with one of the deadliest weapons ever created. It is...

  • Renegade

    Kaitlyn Rice

    He's the bad boy who's no longer off-limits She's the good girl who needs a safe man Could it be the sea-green bandanna knotted in his blond hair? Or maybe it's the quicksilver eyes that sparkle with laughter before they deepen to hurricane-gray. ...

  • Pretending With the Playboy

    Cathleen Galitz

    PURE FANTASY In order to help the Texas Cattleman's Club in their sting operation, Alexander Kent needed a make- believe wife. The notorious playboy was reluctant to let any woman play Mrs. Kent -- even temporarily. This made high school drama coa...

  • Like a Hurricane

    Roxanne St. Claire

    GALE-FORCE ATTRACTION Quinn McGrath's Irish grandmother always said he'd know "the one." Only, the well-meaning matriarch hadn't cautioned that the perfect woman would literally fall from overhead into his arms -- or hate him desperately the momen...

  • Forbidden

    Helen Kirkman

    England, 716 -- a time of power and passion, corruption, courage, violence and vengeance... He was for sale -- a slave forced to do the bidding of others. Dangerous...and fascinating, but no more than a thrall in chains. She was a lady, a woman...

  • Dive

    Lisa Teasley

    Ray Rose is a charming construction worker in Florida, plagued with guilt about a violent crime he committed. Ruby Falls is a beautiful animator whose freewheeling L.A. lifestyle is derailed when she stumbles upon a bloody crime scene at the Laurel C...

  • A Family for Tory

    Margaret Daley

    HEALING HEARTS... Just when Victoria Alexander was ready to abandon her lifelong dream of having a family, she bonded with a special child whose needs outweighed her own. Now Tory would do anything to help the little girl -- even if it meant marry...

  • Second Chance at Love

    Irene Brand

    RAINBOWS ALWAYS FOLLOW THE RAIN College sweethearts Amelia Stone and Chase Ramsey had married right after graduation, but infidelity destroyed their young marriage. Now, more than a decade later, severe flooding in West Virginia had brought the...

  • Let It Be Me

    Melanie Schuster

    HE WON HER HEART... Marcus Deveraux has two goals in life - running the family business, and winning the love of Vera Clark Jackson. When he first met her, Marcus was a college student and Vera was ten years his senior - and married. Now Vera is sin...

  • Final Edge

    Robert W. Walker

    The bodies of young girls are turning up--piece by piece. The ghastly mementos are being delivered to Detective Lucas Stonecoat and Dr. Meredyth Sanger, signaling the beginning of a gruesome game. But who's playing it? Why? And how far will it go? St...

  • The Flash: Stop Motion

    Mark Schultz

    Superman. Batman. Wonder Woman. The Flash. Green Lantern. They are the world's greatest super heroes, fighting endlessly against corruption and injustice. Each of them is a formidable opponent of evil, but banded together their powers are unmatche...

  • Bulletproof Bride

    Diana Duncan

    KIDNAPPED! Tessa Beaumont's life was well-ordered and well kept, and she was well on her way to the altar when Special Agent Gabe Colton stormed into her workplace -- her life -- sporting a ski mask and brandishing a gun -- and took her hostage! S...

  • Cold Deck, Hot Lead

    J.T. Edson

    In this game, the winning hand is the one that holds the gun!

    A cardsharp with a conscience, Frank Derringer comes to the crooked town of Tribune, Kansas, looking to even a score or two. But after cheating the cheaters who robbed a good frie...

  • Office Policy

    A.C. Arthur

    The Assignment… Cienna Turner is coerced into working on a sexual harassment case with Keith Page, who just so happens to be the most attractive man she's ever seen. Keith is delighted when he finds out he'll be working closely with the sexy, unatt...

  • Five for Silver

    Mary Reed; Eric Mayer

    Winner, Glyph Award for Best Book SeriesNominee, Bruce Alexander History Mystery AwardIn 542, Peter, John the Lord Chamberlain's elderly servant, claims a heavenly visitor revealed a murder to him. It transpires that Peter's old army friend has indee...

  • Hellbenders

    James Axler

    POINT OF NO RETURN Out of the ashes of the conflagration that savaged mankind two centuries ago, Deathlands was born--a tortured testament to a world long gone. Vet, in this kill-or-be-killed world where justice is the way of the past and blood is l...

  • Torey's Prayer

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    Torey Mitchell witnessed the cold-blooded murder of a man she didn't know - and her stepfather, who committed the crime, tries to convince her that what she saw makes her just as guilty as he. Terrified, she runs away - and ends up in the loving home...

  • A Single Rose

    Pamela Griffin

    A CAT BURGLAR IS AT LARGE... ...and he always leaves a yellow rose at the scene of his crime. Florist Marissa Hughes becomes suspicious of Wadleyville's newest resident, a handsome Latino who routinely requests a single yellow rose when he visits ...

  • Fudge Cupcake Murder

    Joanne Fluke

    BAKERY OWNER HANNAH SWENSEN JUST CAN'T KEEP HER HANDS OUT OF THE BATTER WHEN MURDER STIRS THINGS UP IN LAKE EDEN, MINNESOTA, LEAVING THE SHERIFF DEAD, A DEPUTY ACCUSED, AND A KILLER ON THE LOOSE... For Hannah, life seems to be lacking a certain fl...

  • Jury of One

    David Ellis

    Children’s rights advocate Shelly Trotter is out of her depth in criminal court, defending a sixteen-year-old accused of a killing a cop. She took the case because she has a connection to the kid dating back to his troubled younger days, when the c...

  • The Bookman's Promise

    John Dunning

    Denver cop-turned-bookseller Cliff Janeway has just paid a hefty sum to acquire a real gem: a signed first edition by famed nineteenth-century explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton. But does he truly own the rare book? An elderly woman claims her grand...

  • Desert Spring

    Michael Craft

    After a long and successful career as a theatre director in Manhattan, fifty-something Claire Gray succumbed to a tempting offer to establish the theatre department at the new and very well funded Desert Arts College in Palm Springs. It has proven to...

  • A Spectacle of Corruption

    David Liss

    Moments after his conviction for a murder he did not commit, at a trial presided over by a judge determined to find him guilty, Benjamin Weaver is accosted by a stranger who cunningly slips a lockpick and a file into his hands. In an instant he under...

  • Repentances

    Annette Meyers

    As an oil painting ages, its paint may become increasingly transparent, and sometimes the ghost of another painting that was painted over will reappear. When these occur, they are called repentances.It is the winter of 1936, in New York.As Europe sli...

  • Bright Sword of Ireland

    Juilene Osborne-McKnight

    Bright Sword of Ireland is the third in Juilene Osborne-McKnight's wonderful retelling of cherished Irish folktales. A dedicated researcher into the origins of Celtic myth and legend, Osborne-McKnight infuses her stories with passion, romance and mag...

  • Mable Riley

    Marthe Jocelyn

    "Historical fiction buffs, especially those interested in the women’s suffrage movement, will enjoy sharing the eye-opening experiences of Mable Riley." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

    It’s the year 1901, and fourteen-year-old aspiring writer Mable...

  • Alta

    Mercedes Lackey

    DRAGON RIDER Vetch had done the unimaginable. He had secretly raised his own baby dragon, a crimson female he named Avatre, and when she first took flight he had been on her back. Although Avatre was new to flight, with the help of his trainer and...

  • Guardian of the Horizon

    Elizabeth Peters

    A hitherto lost journal of the indomitable Amelia Peabody has been miraculously recovered: a chronicle from one of the "missing years" -- 1907 -- 1908 -- shedding new light on an already exceptional career, a remarkable family . . . and an unexpected...

  • Frek and the Elixir

    Rudy Rucker

    In the year 3003, nothing in the world is the same, except maybe that adolescents are still embarrassed by their parents. Society and the biosphere alike have been transformed by biotechnology, and the natural world is almost gone.Frek Huggins is a b...

  • Deep Pockets

    Linda Barnes

    FROM THE IVORY TOWER... Harvard professor Wilson Chaney has a secret and somebody knows it. His adulterous affair with a freshman ended just weeks before she wound up dead. The sole trace of his infatuation is a stack of missing love letters--and th...

  • Nightmare Logic

    Larry Segriff

    From the author of Wizardspawn.

    Jonathan Hayes has a great life -- a loving wife, two great kids, and dreams that are just starting to come true. All that changes when the police show up at his front door in force, arresting him for the murder of ...

  • A Season for the Dead

    David Hewson

    Welcome to Italian police detective Nic Costa's Rome: the side of the city the tourist board does not want you to see."Hewson does more than provide a thrilling read. He saves you the airfare to Italy. When you turn the last page, you'll think you've...

  • Daughter of Exile

    Isabel Glass

  • The Hunkpapa Scout

    Will Henry

    A Five-time Spur Award-winning Author

    "Red Blizzard" is set in the Dakota Territory during the conflict between Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and the U.S. Army. Pawnee Perez is an army scout, distrusted by some of the officers and hated by the Sioux. He...

  • Dead Heat

    Caroline Carver

    A DARK HOMECOMING Georgia Parish left the small town of Nulgarra in northern Australia, vowing never to return. But her plane crashes in a remote rainforest, and soon Georgia finds herself back in Queensland struggling to comprehend a sinister fac...

  • Antonio's Wife

    Jacqueline DeJohn

    From the glamorous uptown world of opera to the seedy underbelly of New York City's worst tenements, a page-turning roller-coaster ride of kidnappings, betrayals, bribes, hidden identities, and twisted intrigues By 1908 Francesca Frascatti has rea...

  • To Make Men Free

    Richard Croker

    It was the battle that altered the tides of war ... and the fate of a nation. On September 17, 1862, in Sharpsburg, Maryland, more than 23,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were killed or wounded, making the Battle of Antietam the bloodiest day i...

  • Pipestone Quest

    Don Coldsmith

    A Quest Into Legend
    From the moment he laid eyes on it, young Beaver of the Elk-dog People felt drawn to the spirit of the pipestone. Now he’s setting out on a vision quest to the only place the red stone can be mined: the Pipestone Quarry. Trav...

  • Radio Activity

    Bill Fitzhugh

    When a DJ stops showing up for work at WAOR-FM, Rick Shannon moves back to Mississippi to take the night shift. No sooner than he settles into the job, Rick finds a mysterious reel of tape that just might explain what happened to the missing DJ. His ...

  • Sanctuary

    Sharon K. Garner

    Sharon K. Garner (River of Dreams) returns with a new adventure romance! A double cross that keeps on giving, a Brazilian ex-mercenary who wants to live in peace, a children's book illustrator who's thrust into a danger she doesn't understand with a ...

  • Family Claims

    Twist Phelan

    On the verge of leaving the family law firm for a better job, attorney Hannah Dain finds her career on the line when a real-estate deal suddenly goes awry, with two million dollars in investors' money disappearing, and sets out to uncover the truth a...

  • The Burglar on the Prowl

    Lawrence Block

    "Burglary is, I should point out, not a career I would recommend for anyone. The fact that I evidently can't give it up doesn't mean I'm not well aware of the disagreeably sordid nature of what I do." Bernie Rhodenbarr A philosophical yet practic...

  • The Promise of a Lie

    Howard Roughan

    Every perfect murder starts with a perfect lie... Howard Roughan's debut, The Up and Comer, was hailed as one of the most hip and entertaining thrillers of the year. Now Roughan returns at full stride with a scintillating novel of deception that ...

  • Black Creek Crossing

    John Saul

    The dark history and dire secrets of a peaceful small town are summoned from the shadows of the past. Unholy forces are stirred from long slumber to monstrous new life. And two young misfits discover the chilling art of turning persecution into retri...

  • Southwesterly Wind

    Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza

    A young man predicts a murder and identifies the perpetrator -- himself -- in this third entry in the critically acclaimed Brazilian crime seriesWhen a terrified young man arrives at the station with a bizarre story, Chief Espinosa of the Copacabana ...

  • Telling Lies to Alice

    Laura Wilson

    Alice Conway's world was shattered when her fiance, famous comic Lenny Maxted, committed suicide. Now it's seven years later, and Alice is living quietly on an isolated farm in Oxfordshire, trying to forget the pain of her past--until an anonymous cl...

  • Mistress of the Pearl

    Eric Van Lustbader / Eric Lustbader

    Kundala is Miina's world, created by that Goddess with the help of the dragons. But Miina is missing, and her people have been enslaved by the alien V'ornn. Now a savior has come, the Dar Sala-at, a messiah promised by prophecy yet unlike anyone's ex...

  • Death in Hyde Park

    Robin Paige

    Coronation Day, 1902. Charles and Kate Sheridan are pleased to be witness to the crowning of their king. Expatriate author Jack London is also watching the festivities--but with a more skeptical eye. He has come to London to write an expose of the Ea...

  • The Confession

    Olen Steinhauer

    Eastern Europe, 1956: Comrade Inspector Ferenc Kolyeszar, who is a proletariat writer in addition to his job as a state militia homicide detective, is a man on the brink. Estranged from his wife, whom he believes is cheating on him with one of his co...

  • Drop Dead, My Lovely

    Ellis Weiner

    A one-time mild-mannered bookstore clerk transformed into a hard-boiled private detective thanks to a head injury, Pete Ingalls decides to open up his own detective agency, taking Raymond Chandler as his model, and finds himself on the trail of a var...

  • Shadow Account

    Stephen Frey

    His novels of big money and murder in the world of finance have earned New York Times bestselling author Stephen Frey a richly deserved reputation as a master of suspense who always delivers a high yield. Now he raises the stakes, and the risk factor...

  • The Carbon Murder

    Camille Minichino

    A CURE TO KILL FOR Retired physicist turned police consultant Gloria Lamerino turns her talents to the cutting-edge world of nanotechnology and the development of "smart medicines." It's a field that offers hope, even miracles, for patients. But f...

  • A Woman's Worth

    Tracy Price-Thompson

    Embracing the shattered pieces of the soul and championing the resilient nature of the heart, A Woman’s Worth takes readers on a journey of startling depth. From a speakeasy whorehouse in the bottoms of Alabama to a luxurious high-rise apartment in...

  • Dead on the Dance Floor

    Heather Graham

    Accomplished dancer Lara Trudeau drops dead of a heart attack brought on by a lethal combination of booze and pills. To former private investigator Quinn O'Casey, it's a simple case of death by misadventure. But when his brother Doug, a Miami-Dade pa...

  • An Intimate Ghost

    Ellen Hart

    Restaurateur Jane Lawless is thrilled to be catering the wedding of some family friends, Nick and Lauren Clifford, but when Jane arrives at the wedding, she's in for a shock of a lifetime-and one that could jeopardize her career. The food has been sp...

  • The Irish Village Murder

    Dicey Deere

    MURDER IN BALLYNAGH... Despite County Wicklow's dismal autumn rain, American translator Torrey Tunet is happy to be back in Ireland after a European assignment. She's longing for a lovely peat fire in her Ballynagh cottage when she spots a forlorn c...

  • Earth Colors

    Sarah Andrews

    PAINT BY MURDER Unemployed professional geologist and sometime FBI consultant, Emm Hansen desperately needs work. So when her best friend Faye tells her that she knows someone who could use Em's expertise as a geologist to authenticate a painting,...

  • Kren of the Mitchegai

    Leo Frankowski; Dave Grossman

    THE VIRTUAL-REALITY MERCENARIES FACE A NEW MENACE--AND THERE'S NOTHING VIRTUAL ABOUT IT! First, the involuntary colonists of New Kashubia rescued their planet from crushing debt by becoming virtual-reality mercenaries, then they successfully revol...

  • Survivor's Quest

    Timothy Zahn

    A dangerous, mission to salvage a piece of Jedi past threatens to make Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker history.... After fifty years, the remains of Outbound Flight--a pioneering Jedi expedition viciously destroyed by the alien warlord Thrawn--have ...

  • Mourning Ruby

    Helen Dunmore

    Abandoned as a baby, with no ties to her parents, Rebecca grows up to create her own unique and unorthodox family consisting of Joe, a historian and loyal friend; her husband Adam, Joe's friend; and Ruby, her beloved daughter, until a terrible blow t...

  • Arch Angels

    Robert J. Randisi

    Young boys are being kidnapped and then strangled to death in Chicago, while the same is happening to girls in St. Louis. Is there one killer driving up and down I-55, or two separate killers? Detective Joe Keough and his partner, Harriet Connors, re...

  • Hallowed Bones

    Carolyn Haines

    A CASE OF MIRACLES, MAYHEM, AND MURDER Doreen Mallory is beautiful, mysterious -- and claims to have the gift of healing. But why couldn't she save her own daughter, who died mysteriously at ten weeks? Convinced of Doreen's guilt, local law is askin...

  • Murder by Design

    Jon P. Bloch

    Rick Domino is at the very top in his world - which is Hollywood - and his stock in trade is celebrity gossip. His finances, however, are the pits and can't begin to pay for his copious good taste. So when his producer 'suggests' he be a guest on a p...

  • Angel-Seeker

    Sharon Shinn

    The award-winning author returns to Samaria in this richly romantic tale that begins where Archangel left off. In that time, the women who craved the attention of angels were known as angel-seekers, a term used with awe by some--and scorn by others....

  • Redemption Street

    Reed Farrel Coleman

    In Redemption Street, ex-NYPD officer and freshly minted PI Moe Prager, travels up to a decaying Boscht Belt hotel to uncover the truth behind a decades old fire that killed seventeen people, including his high school crush. Away from his beloved Bro...

  • Acorna's Triumph

    Anne McCaffrey; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

    "THIS SEEMS ALL WRONG." Aari has returned! Now he and his lifemate, the brave and beautiful Acorna, can finish rebuilding their once-decimated homeworld. Yet Aari's travels through time have left him oddly changed, and he barely remembers Acorna o...

  • Outcasts of Rebel Creek

    Frank Bonham

    Four of the author's best stories are contained in this volume detailing the adventures of a gambler trying to clear his family name, a rancher who butts heads with a greedy cattle buyer, a gang of outlaws trying to survive the High Sierras, and a yo...

  • Late Bloomer

    Melissa Pritchard

    The award-winning, widely praised author of Disappearing Ingenue is at the top of her form in this witty, wickedly funny novel about a romance writer whose real life begins to outpace the wildest flights of her imagination. After one failed marria...

  • Earth Logic

    Laurie J. Marks

    A SWEEPING DRAMA OF WAR, INTRIGUE, MAGIC, AND LOVE The nation of Shaftal has a new ruler, a woman with enough power to heal the war-torn land and expel the invading Sainnites. Or it would have a ruler if the earth witch Karis G'deon would consent ...

  • The Sicilian Amulet

    Jo Manning

    The author of Seducing Mr. Heywood returns with another amazing romance.

    Jane Holland's mother warned her not to visit her relatives in Sicily when she went to Europe during college break, but when Jane reached Rome she found herself strangely dra...

  • Glass Dragons

    Sean McMullen

    Sean McMullen, one of Australia's leading genre authors, delivers Glass Dragons, the scintillating sequel to Voyage of the Shadowmoon which Kirkus Reviews called "a brilliantly inventive, marvelously plotted sea-faring fantasy that both mocks and sur...