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  • Candles Burning

    Tabitha King; Michael McDowell

    Calliope "Galley" Dakin is no normal little girl. She hears things that maybe a little girl shouldn't hear--and knows things a little girl should never know. Just seven when her beloved father is tortured, murdered, and dismembered by two women wi...

  • Three Days to Never

    Tim Powers

    When Albert Einstein told Franklin Roosevelt in 1939 that the atomic bomb was possible, he did not tell the president about another discovery he had made, something so extreme and horrific it remained a secret . . . until now. This extraordinary new ...

  • Unsafe Harbor

    Jessica Speart

    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent Rachel Porter's devotion to endangered creatures has carried her to many remote, exotic places. Now she's in Port Elizabeth, New Jersey, trying to help stop the import of illegal flora and fauna. This is a differe...

  • When Light Breaks

    Patti Callahan Henry

    New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry delivers a novel that explores the power of lasting love through the connected stories of two women from opposite sides of the sea.Twenty-seven-year-old Kara Larson is bogged down in the stress o...

  • Cherokee Rose

    Al Lacy; Joanna Lacy

    The Brutal Road West It's late summer 1838. President Martin Van Buren issues an order that the fifteen thousand Cherokee Indians living in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina are to be evicted from their homeland. Forced to migrate to Indian Terri...

  • Ten Thousand Charms

    Allison K. Pittman

    Unfit for Love? Pregnant - by a man who will never know or care. Gloria, born into a life of prostitution, sees only one solution: get rid of the child. But then she meets John William MacGregan, a miner, left with a newborn daughter and no one to ca...

  • When Harry Hit Hollywood

    Mara Goodman-Davies

    Brad and Jen were fun to watch. Britney and Kevin, even better.

    But...what if you woke up on the A List?

    Jessica used to paint idly in her East Hampton garden. Now she ducks paparazzi hiding in the bushes. She used to live quietly, happ...

  • Code of Love

    Cheryl Sawyer

    At the height of the Peninsular War, English agent Sir Gideon Landor is assigned the task of deciphering the Grand Paris Cypher, a code created specifically for Napoleon, but his mission is complicated by Delphine Dalgleish, a young Parisian assigned...

  • Walk Back the Cat

    Pamela Binnings Ewen

    From AD 33, to the 1950s, to 2005, Walk Back the Cat tells the intricate, page-turning story of Wesley Bright. A corrupt, mediasavvy clergyman, he's out to destroy the Christian church of the God who was never there during his childhood.Like a cat re...

  • Animal Instincts

    Gena Showalter

    Unleashing your inner tigress isn't easy when you're a doormat by nature! Still, after escaping a wretched marriage to a cheating SOB, Dallas party planner Naomi Delacroix isn't about to let another man sweet-talk her into sheathing her protective cl...

  • A Distant Tomorrow

    Bertrice Small

    My dear readers, Five years have now passed since the Winter War between the Outlands and Hetar. But Gaius Prospero has not given up his scheme to become emperor, and unexpected tragedy causes Lara to once again heed the pull of her destiny. Find...

  • Passion

    P.F. Kozak

    Teach Me A highwayman comes riding... Lost in her books, shy and beautiful Pash is free to explore her fascination with sexy rogues. Her wickedest fantasies are of bold, sensual and powerful men, who release the passions she keeps locked deep inside...

  • Silent Wager

    Anita Richmond Bunkley

    From the banks of Texas's Buffalo Bayou to the blue waters of Hawaii, this powerful novel from acclaimed author Anita Bunkley tells the story of one resilient woman's fight to save a family legacy--and create a future for herself and her daughter... ...

  • Again

    Sharon Cullars

    In this breathtakingly sexy novel, Sharon Cullars invites you into two worlds--modern Chicago and 1879 New York--and into the lives of two lovers whose unforgettable passion transcends time. But will their attraction bring an undying love...or set in...

  • Pink Ghetto

    Liz Ireland

    Sometimes Life Imitates Art. And Sometimes Life Imitates Really Bad Art... Rebecca Abbot's life has just gone from vintage feather boas to boring office casual. Thanks to Sylvie Arnaud's heart attack, she's out of a job. But it's Sylvie's French, v...

  • Diary of a Street Diva

    Ashley & JaQuavis

    After the phenomenal success of their first novel, Dirty Money, Ashley and JaQuavis are back with their spellbinding sophomore novel, Diary of a Street Diva. Come with them as they take you into the world of Remy Morgan, the wife of Cease, a young hu...

  • Ex-Girl to the Next Girl

    Daaimah S. Poole

    Ever since Shonda stole Malik from his fiancee--at the altar, no less--she's believed that marrying him would be her ticket to happiness. But when he finally steps up and makes it happen, Shonda is in for a rude awakening. From the day he moves his e...

  • Coupon Girl

    Becky Motew

    Hi, you've reached the voice mail of Jeanie Callahan. I'm auditioning right now for the lead role in the The Sound of Music. Hopefully, I am not throwing up or fainting. Oh yes, if you're a business owner and would like to offer your customers coupon...

  • Rhiana

    Michele Hauf

    Winter, 1433 -- and Jeanne d'Arc's ashes still glow... In the battle between Good and Evil, the Black Knight's sword fells enemies with silent grace. The Knight has sworn that fallen angel Lucifer de Morte and his cruel brotherhood will pay for t...

  • Thunderbird Falls

    C.E. Murphy

    IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD...AGAIN. For all the bodies she's encountering, you'd think beat cop Joanne Walker works in Homicide. But no, Joanne's a reluctant shaman who last saved mankind three months ago -- surely she deserves more of a break! Yet...

  • The Soul Hunter

    Melanie Wells

    "WHAT DOES PETER TERRY WANT WITH MY SON?" "THE SAME THING HE WANTS WITH ALL OF US. PETER TERRY IS A HUNTER," I SAID. "HE'S HUNTING SOULS." DYLAN FOSTER, A PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR AT SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY, IS PREPARING FOR A SATURDAY NIGHT DA...

  • Like Mother, Like Daughter

    Jane Sigaloff

    Imagine your mother being more determined to find a man than you've ever been. When single-again newspaper columnist Suzie Fletcher announces that her only wish is for her and her daughter to be dating someone by the time of her sixtieth birthday ...

  • Less Than Frank

    Lynn Bulock

    My new job: "Gracie Lee Harris, dead body finder." First it was my con man husband. Now it's Frank, the no-good contractor renovating my apartment. I think Ray -- uh, Detective Fernandez -- is starting to wonder about me, since I'm always sticking my...

  • Where Seagulls Soar

    Janet Woods

    Following a romantic shipboard marriage, Joanna Morcant has everything her heart could desire: a dashing new husband and an adorable baby son.But an unforeseen tragedy leaves Joanna destitute and with no choice but to return to her childhood home, th...

  • Second Chances

    Judy Hinson

    Lynn Bowman is in love with Steve Rogan, the man of her dreams. When she discovers she is pregnant, she tries to give him the happy news, but before she can tell him, he drops a bombshell. He tells her he is tired of the boring life in Raleigh and in...

  • Trial by Ordeal

    Craig Parshall

    Sweating in a hot cauldron of lawsuits, red tape, and Mafia threats is history professor Kevin Hastings. The young, modestly successful professor stumbled across just the right investment property in downtown Chicago. And met just the right buyer f...

  • Dark Backward

    Julia Buckley

    Tough. Unflappable. Stubborn. Crazy? Everyone, even her husband, believes Lily Caldwell went off the deep end when her partner Danny died in a mysterious shooting that nearly killed her, too. Based on the life-changing vision she experienced while te...

  • Darcy & Elizabeth

    Linda Berdoll

    Mr. and Mrs. Darcy have an exceedingly passionate marriage in this continuing saga of one of the most exciting, intriguing couples in the Jane Austen Literature. As the Darcys raise their babies, enjoy their conjugal felicity and manage the great ...

  • Flamethrower

    Maggie Estep

    In the newest Ruby Murphy mystery, New York’s inadvertent sleuth discovers more about her shrink than she could have ever imagined as the doctor turns the tables, enlisting her help in the hunt for a one-legged man who’s been kidnapped and hidden...

  • Wish I'd Known You Tears Ago

    Stephen A. Bly

    In this closing book of the Horse Dreams trilogy, soul-searching Indiana schoolteacher Develyn Worrell has finally found her groove. Ready to savor the end of summer in a small Wyoming town she once visited as a child, she settles in for a time of pe...

  • The Expendable One

    Jason M. Burns; Bryan Baugh

    Twigs Dupree recently acquired the gift of immortality and has chosen to play hero. Shoot him in the head and he will keep walking. Strangle him with a wire and he will keep talking. Send him up against a killer that views entrails as Christmas tinse...

  • Dressed to Keel

    Candy Calvert

    Leaving behind a cheating ex-boyfriend and her stressful job as an ER nurse, Darcy Cavanaugh goes on a fall foliage cruise with her best friend Marie. Lost in a sea of senior citizens, Darcy and Marie, the shipboard nurse, do their best to enjoy the ...

  • Drop Dead, Gorgeous!

    Maryjanice Davidson

    Fast. Powerful. Deadly. With bitchin' highlights. Ah, weddings--every single woman's reminder that she'll probably die alone, covered in cat hair and dressed in unflattering sweatpants. And as far as bad wedding experiences go, my friend Stacy's co...

  • The Englisher

    Beverly Lewis

    Annie Zook struggles to keep her promise to her preacher father to abandon her art and prove her worthiness to "join church." At the same time she is dangerously close to succumbing to another forbidden desire--a relationship with the handsome Englis...

  • Hell in a Briefcase

    Phil Little

    Author/counselor Christine Dorn has thought of everything. Along with the baby basics, Getting to Know You includes colorful illustrations, display areas for mementos, a how-to section on journal writing, and guidelines that ensure this book will be ...

  • When He Hollers, Let Him Go

    Teresa McClain-Watson

    Matty Johnson, the handsome new pastor of rural Georgia's Fountain Hope Baptist Church, hasn't been anywhere near a pulpit in six years. He was ousted from his last church under a cloud when a woman he hardly knew became obsessed with him and took dr...

  • Down on My Knees

    Victor McGlothin

    In this highly entertaining, uplifting page-turner from acclaimed author Victor McGlothin, a successful single mother takes a vow of celibacy.... But she has no idea that trying to be good will make her want to be so bad... A single mom and busy ad...

  • Corpse Suzette

    G.A. McKevett

    Despite New Year's resolutions to avoid irritating houseguests and nerve-wracking cases, California RI. Savannah Reid finds herself playing host to her assistant's cranky cousin--in town for an unwanted makeover at a local spa. But when the spa's ren...

  • And Able

    Lucy Monroe

    They're the good guys fighting the bad guys. They'll get the job done--if the price is right and so is the cause. Meet three sexy men who individually are READY, WILLING, AND ABLE to go the distance--and together, are unstoppable... Claire Sharp t...

  • A Sin and a Shame

    Victoria Christopher Murray

    After fleeing Los Angeles when her attempt to break up her best friend's marriage fails, Jasmine is now a changed woman...and a Christian. She vows to attend church every Sunday, swears off married men, and begins her search for the soul mate she is ...

  • Lime Ricky

    Jill Winters

    A tart new comedy of love and murder from the national bestselling author of Just Peachy

    The man is Class A: When Gretchen Darrow awoke to a fi re in her New York City apartment, she also woke to firefighter Rick Pallucci-so cocky, so intimi...

  • Warlord

    John Shirley

    Englishman and amoral occultist John Constantine has been out of sorts lately, disconnected from himself...and this time not from another bender, but quite literally, as his soul is cast adrift during a fouled-up spiritual quest in an Iranian monaste...

  • The Taking of the King

    Nelson Blish

    The Soviet Union is no more. Various nation states struggle with each other even as their old enemy, the United States, races ahead in military strength and technology. But there are those within the ranks of the Soviet fleet who seek to regain their...

  • Assassination of Jesse James

    Ron Hansen

    Jesse James was a fabled outlaw, a charismatic, spiritual, larger-than-life bad man whose bloody exploits captured the imagination and admiration of a nation hungry for antiheroes. Robert Ford was a young upstart nobody torn between dedicated wors...

  • True Riches

    Gail Gaymer Martin
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    Amid the rich history of Mackinac Island, the power of faith and love is tested. When Neal Wellington is forced to seek help, Ninette Curvier comes to his rescue. Will her faith give him the strength to face his past? When Jane Douglas nurses "Mad" A...

  • One Cold Night

    Kate Pepper

    "Jam-packed with heart stopping suspense." -Book Fetish ONE COLD NIGHT SHE DISAPPEARED... New York Police detective Dave Strauss is haunted by the one case he couldn't solve. A schoolgirl vanished off the streets of Brooklyn, with only a trail of ...

  • Pistols at Dawn

    Nancy Warren
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    Uptight Sylvia Preston is terrified when she time travels to a twenties party. But when Tucker Green gets her dirty dancing, Sylvia wants to see just how uninhibited she can be -- in bed with Tucker....

  • Time After Time

    Jo Leigh
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    When history student Betty Kroger is transported to WWII, it feels right -- and even more right to show sailor John Stevens what sex is like twenty-first-century style!...

  • Rim Of The World

    James Axler

    The conspiracy of secrecy manipulating post-nuclear Earth takes a terrifying new turn as the mysterious oligarchy becomes something far more sinister. No longer shrouded in the cloaks of hybrid-human divinity, the nine barons have evolved into their ...

  • Dual Action

    Don Pendleton

    OPEN ATTACK Mack Bolan is on the trail of a lethal mystery weapon used to destroy a U.S. military tank in Iraq. The supergun has proven armor-piercing capabilities and has fallen into the hands of a neo-Nazi group in the American Midwest. The gro...

  • Path To War

    Don Pendleton

    Stomping Grounds War for sole ownership of blood-soaked Angola has begun, but now the ruthless shadow hand is a cabal of former CIA-DOD top operatives calling themselves Phoenix Consortium. Backed by millions in stolen black funds, the goal is a ...

  • Operation: Midnight Guardian

    Linda Castillo

    MIDNIGHT IN MONTANA When a federal transport was ambushed and overturned in the wilds of Montana, MIDNIGHT agent Sean Cutter was given forty-eight hours to track down a desperate woman. But falsely accused, Mattie Logan didn't want to be saved. It...

  • Secret Weapon Spouse

    B.J. Daniels

    WEDDING PLANNER UNDER COVER By day, quiet and reserved Samantha Peters worked for a high-end wedding planner. By night she was a top-notch agent with Miami Confidential. Then she met sexy Alex Graham after tragedy struck outside the Weddings Your Wa...

  • Texas Born

    Ann DeFee

    Dr. Olivia Alvarado, town vet and sometime coroner of Port Serenity, Texas, is nobody's fool. So when Sheriff C. J. Baker charged into her life, the last thing Livy expected was a broken heart. She should've known better. Because he seemed absolutely...

  • Capturing The Cop

    Michele Dunaway

    Whoever said virtue is its own reward wasn't a preacher's kid or they'd know being virtuous was like being jailed with no possibility of parole. That's why -- after thirty years of living up to other people's expectations -- Olivia Jacobsen needs som...

  • Return To Falcon Ridge

    Rita Herron

    P.I. PROTECTOR As a child, Elsie Timmons had barely escaped Wildcat Manor with her life. As an adult, she'd mysteriously inherited the crumbling structure, ghosts and all. Now, after a lifetime spent running from her past, Elsie was ready to confr...

  • The Unspoken Years

    Lynne Hugo

    "She was always crazy. Looking back, I see no doubt about it. It was a deceptive craziness, though, sometimes luminous and joyful. Even when it was, my brother and I knew it was important not to relax...." Sometimes things -- no matter how hard a ...

  • For Pleasure...Or Marriage?

    Julia James

    A mistress is for pleasure, not for marriage... Tycoon Markos Makarios thinks he has the perfect woman in Vanessa: she's beautiful, adoring, living only to please him. In fact, she's the best mistress he's ever had. Until he has to war...

  • Her Secret Family

    Sherry Lewis

    Behind every code of silence... Detective Jolene Preston has the right to expect backup from her partner, but the sexist attitude from the rest of the force is something the narcotic squad's lone woman fights on her own. Until she discovers a thirty-...

  • Angel Eyes

    Myrna MacKenzie

    Sarah Tucker senses the unwelcome mat unroll the moment she arrives in her hometown of Gold Tree, Wisconsin -- especially from Luke Packard, her mother's next-door neighbor. It's been twelve years since she fled to an anonymous life in California to ...

  • Protective Measures

    Dana Marton

    Congresswoman Kaye Miller didn't survive the honed jaws of politics to fall prey to a deadly hate crime. So when sexy bodyguard Daniel DuCharme was assigned to protect her, they found themselves sharing every waking moment...and Kaye worried that his...

  • The Comeback Kiss

    Lani Diane Rich

    ALL IT TAKES IS ONE LITTLE KISS... In order to keep custody of her teenage sister, Tessa Scuderi told a small (okay, big) lie to the people of Lucy's Lake, Vermont, about what really happened ten years ago when Dermot Finnegan took off with her virg...

  • Fruit of the Poisoned Tree

    Joyce Lavene; Jim Lavene

    Meet Peggy Lee: botanist, detective's widow, and owner of the Potting Shed, an urban gardener's paradise in downtown Charlotte. Mild winters keep the store thriving all year round, but there are plenty of people with colder intentions... What made...

  • Learning Curve

    Terry McLaughlin

    High school history teacher Joe Wisniewski may be in a rut, but he dug it himself and he's not planning on getting out anytime soon. The last thing he wants is to mentor a starry-eyed newcomer, so when he gets an unexpected assignment -- Emily Sulliv...

  • The I Hate To Date Club

    Elda Minger

    For five 30-something women, the only obstacle to marriage is...d@tin&! Eva: Forget the dog. Eva is Man's Best Friend, with a pedigree of potentials-turned-pals to prove it. Frances: Since her nasty divorce, she's avoided the romance rat race f...

  • The Other Woman // Just the Two of Us

    Brenda Novak

    A second chance doesn't mean second best! Elizabeth O'Connell has survived one of the worst betrayals a wife can imagine. Finding out that she wasn't the only woman in her husband's life meant the end of her marriage and a year of personal hell. N...

  • High-Heeled Alibi

    Sydney Ryan

    His allies murdered and his identity erased, secret agent Mick James was as good as dead. His only chance -- blow the conspiracy that set him up and turned his covert agency against him. His only hope -- a resistant alibi in stilettos named Bitsy Lei...

  • One Daddy Too Many

    Debra Salonen

    Meet the four Radonovic sisters. Their gypsy mother has a prophecy for each of her daughters... Kate's prophecy: You can't escape your destiny or avoid the past...when the two intersect. Kate's ex-husband is being paroled and he wan...

  • Falling Out Of Bed

    Mary Schramski

    Melinda had never questioned her perfect life. Why should she? Her husband's successful, she's not working for the first time in years and their only daughter is in college. Her father -- a workaholic, perfectionist, runner and health nut to boot -- ...

  • Jared's Runaway Woman

    Judith Stacy

    He's found her! Her past has finally caught up with her After years on the run, Kinsey Templeton has settled in Crystal Springs. But when a handsome stranger steps from the stagecoach, Kinsey knows her past has finally caught up with her. I...

  • Man With A Past

    Kay Stockham

    Joe Brody: Out of prison but still serving time -- all because no one in his hometown believes he's innocent. He'd leave the place in his dust, but his father -- the only family he has left -- needs him. Ashley Cade: Widowed with a toddler to take...

  • An Unlikely Father

    Cynthia Thomason

    First she nearly runs him down with her truck, then she's taking potshots at a sailboat with empty beer cans and leading him on a wild-fish chase! She's the craziest -- and most interesting -- woman he's ever met. What Ethan doesn'...

  • The Cattle Baron's Bride

    Margaret Way

    THE CITY GIRL -- AND THE RUGGED OUTBACK CATTLE BARON The wilderness at the heart of the Australian Northern Territory was no place for delicate city beauty Samantha Langdon. Cattleman Ross Sunderland wouldn't have agreed to act as guide if h...

  • Four Little Problems

    Carrie Weaver

    Patrick Stevens is a great teacher. All of his "kids" say so -- except Emily Patterson's oldest son, Jason. Jason is Patrick's lone failure -- the one student he couldn't reach. And that's too bad, because when Patrick and Emily are thrown togethe...

  • Raw Talent

    Debra Webb

    NEW BLOOD...LITERALLY When a confidential file was stolen from the prestigious Colby Agency, it was A. J. Braddock's mission to retrieve it. His assignment: locate Gabrielle Jordan, the enigmatic woman who'd vanished with it. Except he never ex...

  • Flying Lessons

    Peggy Webb

    If this is Beth Holt Martin's life, she wants a refund. It's true. At fifty-three, all Beth's got is a sex-starved marriage to Howard the psychiatrist, an (almost) empty nest and a suitcase full of long-forgotten dreams of becoming...well, someth...

  • Montana Gold

    Genell Dellin

    Chase Lomax grew up rough and hard, until he found a home in the rodeo. Now he's a five-time bronc-riding champion who's been on the circuit nearly twenty years -- a long time in a young man's game. Elle Hawthorne's no stranger to adversity. A rod...

  • Beware of Virtuous Women

    Kasey Michaels

    The perfect daughter...secrets within secrets, lies within lies Adopted daughter Eleanor Becket is dedicated to her family and its welfare. She is also a commendable commander, and a keeper of secrets, most especially her own. Who would ever expec...

  • Code Name: Blondie

    Christina Skye

    Miki is living every woman's fantasy -- stranded on a desert island with a rugged Navy SEAL. But little does Miki know she's a suspect in an international high-tech robbery, and her steely-eyed companion is ready, willing and able to do anything to m...

  • Love Is All You Need

    Lori Devoti

    The Very Thought Of You When Del Montgomery's boss sends her to the Missouri Ozarks in search of a legendary pottery pig, her mission seems simple: figure out which of the clueless locals has the pig, convince them to sell it for peanuts, and then h...

  • Fever in the Blood

    Robert Fleming

    Eddie Stevens is burning inside... ...and he's burning mad at the world. He's mad at the family he lost--his parents and sisters viciously killed by a gang in their own home; and he's mad at the foster family that "rescued" him--headed up by a power...

  • Sister Girls

    Angel Hunter

    Jealousy, envy, and pure hateration. Maybe you've been there, or maybe you know someone who's going through it. Whatever the case, you know when things get rough, you can always count on your Sister Girls to be there for you. Take a look inside the l...

  • This Time

    Ingrid Monique

    Is A Passion Reignited... Tropical nights, hot winds, and hotter kisses greet New York interior designer Kelee Kingsly when she visits the island of St. Pala. And it's all because of Sean St. John, Minister of Security, who sweeps her off her feet w...

  • Project Daddy

    Kate Perry

    How do you find the perfect match for the boss from hell? Katherine Murphy needs to know. Her obsessive, demanding supervisor has given her an assignment that goes way beyond the call of duty: find her a man. But not just any man--he must have the ...

  • Master of Desire

    Jessica Trapp

    A WOMAN'S SECRET Lady Ariana of Rosebriar is a woman with a past. She killed her abusive husband to protect her son. And now she is being blackmailed. A Lancastrian rebel will reveal her crime--and destroy her life--unless she delivers messages to e...

  • Wolf's Trap

    W.D. Gagliani

    Nick Lupo is a good cop--a bit of a renegade at times, with the instincts of a great detective...or maybe a wolf. Lupo has a lot in common with wolves, which is only natural considering he's a werewolf. He's battled the creature inside him for years,...

  • A Taste of Darkness

    Nina Bangs

    He'd lived a thousand years for this? Reinn Mackenzie was one ticked-off vampire. Werewolves--furry pains in the butt. Werecats--sneaky whisker-twitching manipulators. Reinn hated them all. But most of all, he hated his job. Guardian of the Blood....

  • Bust

    Ken Bruen; Jason Starr

    5 IMPORTANT LESSONS YOU CAN LEARN BY READING BUST: 1. When you hire someone to kill your wife, don't hire a psychopath. 2. Drano is not the best tool for getting rid of a dead body. 3. Those locks on hotel room doors? Not very secure. 4. A ...

  • Midnight Blue

    Phoebe Conn

    Captain Christopher MacLeod has won many ships in the War for American Independence, but never before so great a prize -- a woman of exceptional beauty. No matter if her kiss sets him aflame, Chris knows she feels nothing but hatred for him. There is...

  • Maidensong

    Diana Groe

    Let Diana Groe take you on an unforgettable journey in this epic novel of adventure and passion that will sweep you from the icy fjords of Scandinavia to the sun-drenched streets of Constantinople. When Rika sang the Norse legends, her beautiful voi...

  • The Conqueror Worms

    Brian Keene

    One day the rain just didn't stop. As the flood waters slowly rose and coastal cities and towns disappeared, some people believed it was the end of the world. Maybe they were right. But the water wasn't the worst part. Even more terrifying was what t...

  • The Julian Secret

    Gregg Loomis

    Don Huff was Lang Reilly's friend, and now he's been brutally murdered. Could someone be willing to commit murder to prevent the book he was writing from ever seeing the light of day? What secrets are worth killing for? Lang is determined to find the...

  • Prince of Ice

    Stobie Piel

    The power of the Arch Mage has grown strong enough to immobilize the defenders of Amrodel, woodland kingdom. Only one hope remains: a girl, the would-be sorceress Cahira. Upon her shoulders lies the fate of her people. Cahira's task is to find the...

  • Completely Irresistible

    Sheridon Smythe

    It all started with Larry, Moe, and Curly: three spoiled standard poodles with an uncanny knack for mischief. Kasidy Evans knew she'd have her hands full when she agreed to take on their care, but she never imagined she'd find them engaged in a tu...

  • The Deadliest Denial

    Colleen Thompson

    The worst day of Claire's life begins with a 5:00 AM knock on her door, the summons every cop's wife dreads. But instead of telling her Spence has been killed in the line of duty, his sergeant has even worse news for Claire. Her husband is in jail. F...

  • Never Too Late

    Robyn Carr

    Three seconds is all it takes to turn a whole life around. And if anybody knows about bouncing back after disaster, it's Clare Wilson. She's had it with being married to a serial cheater, and no way is he getting another chance. Even her own son t...

  • Once A Thief

    Suzann Ledbetter

    If there's anything Ramey Burke requires from life, it's harmony. But now her well-ordered existence is shot. Ramey's elderly uncles and aunt, Ed, Archie and Melba Jane Dillinger, are out of the slammer -- and the gang swears they've finished robbing...

  • The Final Kill

    Meg O'Brien

    Abby Northrup finally has the quiet life she's dreamed of, living in Carmel at the former monastery she purchased and renovated. But The Prayer House is more than a peaceful home for Abby -- unofficially it is an underground safe haven for abused wom...

  • Waking Up In Charleston

    Sherryl Woods

    Oh, God! She's in love with her preacher. But it's not as if Amanda O'Leary set out to fall for the most gorgeous (and unattainable) man this side of South Carolina Low Country. It's just that he organized building a cozy home for her and her chil...

  • What Should Have Been

    Helen R. Myers

    She'd heard Mead Regan was back in town. But nothing prepared single mother Devan Anderson for her first heart-stopping glimpse of the man who'd changed her world forever one passion-filled night...only to vanish from her life. Mead didn't want a ...

  • A Wedding In Willow Valley

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    SHE'D LEFT HER HEART IN WILLOW VALLEY Laurel Windsong had thought leaving Willow Valley -- and her first love, Ben Skeeter -- would be the hardest thing she'd ever done. But returning home ten years later proved much more difficult. Rumors swir...

  • Custody For Two

    Karen Rose Smith

    He'd lost the only family he'd ever known. His sister and brother-in-law were dead -- and their premature baby was fighting for his life in a Wyoming hospital. The globetrotting photographer lost no time rushing to the preemie's side. But much to...

  • Mr. and Mistress

    Heidi Betts

    HIS PREGNANT MISTRESS She was his kept woman...a secret lover living in Las Vegas luxury. It had been an ideal situation. Until Misty Vale discovered she was carrying Cullen Elliott's child. Misty was not the type a millionaire like Cullen coul...

  • Invisible Recruit

    Mary Buckham

    BEING BORN WITH A SILVER SPOON DIDN'T MEAN YOU COULDN'T TOSS IT ASIDE TO RAPPEL DOWN A BUILDING... For debutante Vaughn Monroe, joining the clandestine IR-5 Agency, a group trained to infiltrate the enemy by becoming one of them, was her true callin...

  • Strictly Lonergan's Business

    Maureen Child

    SEDUCED BY THE BOSS Tired of going unnoticed by the boss she loved for years, Kara Sloan decided now was the time to pack her bags and quit. But just as she was about to storm away, Cooper Lonergan surprised her with a night of seduction. He co...

  • Shadow Watch

    Linda Conrad

    From the moment Dr. Victoria Sommer laid eyes on sexy Navajo medicine man Ben Wauneka, her dreams filled with images of Ben protecting her, holding her -- making love to her. But Tory had a lot to learn about Ben's world, and with an eerie enemy stal...

  • Sister Swap

    Lilian Darcy

    Wealthy businessman Gino di Bartoli couldn't put his finger on exactly what was different about the high-profile horticulturist he'd hired to landscape his villa. But somehow "Rowena" seemed warmer, sexier, more vivacious...and he was suddenly attrac...

  • Her Enemy Protector

    Cindy Dees

    Charlie Squad: Rules of engagement for special forces soldier Joe "Doc" Rodriguez's newest mission: Rule 1: Remember that Carina Ferrare is the daughter of Charlie Squad's most dreaded enemy -- Eduardo Ferrare -- and he will sto...

  • No Safe Place

    Judy Fitzwater

    HOW DID THEY KEEP FINDING HER? For years, professor Elizabeth Larocca had prepared for the day her late husband's dangerous secret life would catch up to her. So when her husband's dead body showed up for the second time and his former associates ar...

  • Look-Alike

    Meredith Fletcher

    SISTER V. SISTER They looked alike, fought alike...but when it came to spy games, Samantha St. John and Elle Petrenko had different codes. Upstanding CIA agent Sam played by the rules. Russian spy Elle had more colorful ways of getting the job done....

  • House of Midnight Fantasies

    Kristi Gold

    MASTER OF THE HOUSE Interior designer Selene Winston had arrived to remodel his mansion, not tangle in the sheets with her brutally handsome new boss. And yet the reclusive Adrien Morell haunted her dreams; his fantasies played through her mind. ...

  • Her Best-Kept Secret

    Brenda Harlen

    To: Jenny Anderson From: Richard Warren Re: My not-so-secret admiration for you Jenny, I know you didn't relish giving up a plum reporting assignment to show me around Tokyo, but our days together have been much more intriguing than the merger I...

  • The Rags-To-Riches Wife

    Metsy Hingle

    BLACKMAILED INTO MARRIAGE He hadn't known the name of the woman he danced with at the masquerade ball. Not even after their one night of passion. For millionaire Jack Cartwright never expected to see her again. Then he received a letter informi...

  • The Durango Affair

    Brenda Jackson

    "I'M HAVING YOUR BABY." Savannah Claiborne's simple statement set off an avalanche in Montana ranger Durango Westmoreland's carefully ordered life. Suddenly, an unforgettable night of passion with the hazel-eyed beauty had turned into a lifetime o...

  • Devlin And The Deep Blue Sea

    Merline Lovelace

    Liz Moore had just been jilted and vowed to kiss the next attractive man who crossed her path on the deserted Mexican beach. Enter Joe Devlin, the perfect specimen. His slow drawl pegged him as an American...and his six-foot-plus frame of hard muscle...

  • The Spy With The Silver Lining

    Wendy Rosnau

    THEY CALLED HER THE ACTRESS Known as a cool seductress with a taste for couture, chic superspy Casmir Balasi had played her role too well this time -- getting love-struck master criminal Yuri Petrov to propose on bended knee...and fall into her trap...

  • The Princess's Secret Scandal

    Karen Whiddon

    It seems royal PR man Chase Savage is involved in a scandal. Savage announced his engagement to Sydney Conner, the illegitimate princess from Naessa, who is pregnant with our late Prince Reginald's heir. Savage was reportedly sent to bribe the ravish...

  • Her Scandalous Marriage

    Leslie LaFoy

    ILLICIT PROPOSALS The illegitimate daughter of a decadent Lord, the lovely Caroline Dutton has worked hard to become a successful London dressmaker and is content to answer to no man. That is until a devastatingly handsome Duke walks into her shop w...

  • The Untamed One

    Ronda Thompson

    Running from angry villagers and the man who ravaged her, the witch Lucinda flees into the forest to have her child. But Lord Jackson Wulf hunts her down, believing her death will break the family curse that transforms him into a monster. Instead of ...

  • Child of Mine

    Bonnie K. Winn

    It was love at first sight when Matt Whitaker opened his door to see a baby in his brother's arms -- Matt's nephew, Danny, abandoned by his heartless high-society mother. And then Danny's father was killed in an accident, and Matt, an ill-prepared ba...

  • A Very Special Delivery

    Linda Goodnight

    It was the surprise of a lifetime for recluse Molly McCreight when single dad Ethan Hunter entrusted her with his infant daughter while he delivered medicine to an elderly man during an ice storm. Past experience had taught Molly how fragile life cou...

  • Promise Of Forever

    Patt Marr

    Rainbows are God's promises. I learned that in Sunday school. That's why I draw rainbows. I love Bible stories, especially Noah and the ark -- 'cause Daddy's name is Noah McKnight. I thought it would be nice to make a rainbow for his new boss, Dr....

  • Small Town Secrets

    Sharon Mignerey

    EVERYONE DESERVES A SECOND CHANCE... Finally back on her feet after a nasty divorce from local cop Foley Blue, Lea Webster was getting ready to adopt the baby she'd always wanted. But Foley was stalking Lea and his once-idle threats were escalatin...

  • Strictly Confidential

    Terri Reed

    From the desk of Colleen Montgomery: Alessandro Donato -- there's more to Lidia Vance's nephew than meets the eye. * Says he's an accountant for the European Union (but spends a lot of time here in Colorado Springs). * Pops up whenever anyth...

  • The Marcelli Bride

    Susan Mallery

    It takes one strong-hearted woman to make a rebel say "I do!" The rebel of the Marcelli family, Joe never joined his sisters Katie, Francesca, and Brenna in running the winery business. Instead, he chose a life of military service. But now that th...

  • Once Lost

    Kirsten Beyer

    A strain of the deadly Marburg virus has come up for sale on the black market, and the seller has showcased the wares by infecting an African village. APO has one potential lead: a researcher named Magrite whose success in treating Marburg victims ma...

  • The Wife Trap

    Tracy Anne Warren

    Your presence is requested at a wedding deception. After orchestrating a scandalous high-society ruse, Lady Jeannette Brantford is banished from her family's estate in England and sent to live with boring elderly cousins in the Irish countryside. ...

  • Last Full Measure

    Michael A. Martin; Andy Mangels

    Without warning or provocation, a Xindi weapon appears above Earth and unleashes a blast that kills millions across two continents. It is only the first such weapon: a second is being built, and this time it might very well destroy the entire planet....

  • Hide in Plain Sight

    Michele Albert

    APPEARANCES ARE DECEIVING Fiona Kennedy can tell a forgery from the genuine article in a snap. Drop-dead-sexy Grif Laughton, however, is not so easy to read. He's clearly a masterpiece of the male variety -- and the attraction he sparks is defini...

  • Watchers on the Walls

    Christopher L. Bennett

    For years, many have believed that the rise of superpowered mutants represents a threat to the survival of ordinary humans. The uncanny X-Men have dedicated their lives to proving that peaceful coexistence is possible. When a refugee spacecraft crash...

  • The Ruin

    Richard Lee Byers
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Rogue dragons become heroes when a millennia-old curse is revealed. But knowing the cause of a disease and curing it are two very different things. And when most of the victims of the curse would rather not be cured of it at all, it gets a whole l...

  • Thieves of Blood

    Tim Waggoner
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Discover the dark world of Eberron as one assassin-turned-cleric searches for peace in a land that knows only blood Diran Bastiaan was once one of the most feared assassins in the land -- one of the best money could buy. But after a life-alterin...

  • Drops of Corruption

    Jason M. Hardy

    When a notorious crime boss offers him the job of a lifetime, Scottish mage Bannickburn, living the life of luxury, must destroy a power-hungry rival mob with the help of shadowrunners, professionals who will do anything for money. Original....

  • A Moonlit Knight

    Jocelyn Kelley

    In 12th-century England, St. Jude's Abbey is no ordinary sanctuary of prayer and ritual. It was established by Eleanor of Aquitaine to train young women in the knightly arts, so that in times of trouble these formidable women can be called upon to pr...

  • Louisa and the Crystal Gazer

    Anna MacLean

    Gentle Reader, In December of 1855, I found myself once again in Boston, temporarily separated from my beloved family, living as a seamstress by day and writing my secret "blood and thunder" stories by night. I welcomed the companionship of my dea...

  • Oasis of Blood

    Jon Sharpe

    There’s no rest for the wicked… The sun-swept badlands of New Mexico Territory don’t seem like heaven on earth to Skye Fargo. But nevertheless, some pioneers have set their sights on it…and it looks like there’s going to be trouble in ...

  • Outlaw

    Charles G. West

    A good man becomes a wanted one in this gripping tale of the Old West from Spur Award-winning author Charles G. West.When war came to the Shenandoah Valley, Matt Slaughter and his older brother, Owen, joined the Confederate army. But three years defe...

  • Bad Prince Charlie

    John Moore

    We set our scene in Damask: A kingdom that couldn't get ransacked if it tried... But now that the king is dead, that's exactly what his brothers have in mind. Alt they need is a bad king to take his place. The population will rebel, the neighborin...

  • The Gate

    Kevin D. Randle

    When scientists open a Gate, which is a portal into a wormhole that allows travelers to bend and shape space at will, several test subjects, who believe they are hunting aliens, discover a deadly threat that could destroy humanity. Original....

  • The Thief

    Ruth Rendell

    From the author of End in Tears comes a chilling thriller for “Quick Reads†-- books for emergent readers, published as part of the UK’s World Book Day Adult Literacy Initiative 2006.

    What you do in childhood may come back to haunt you...

  • What to Wear to a Seduction

    Sari Robins

    "What does one wear to a proper seduction?" Edwina groaned as she stared at her reflection in the tall gilded mirror. "And what now? I'm putting on the clothing simply to have it taken off." And why would proper Lady Edwina Ross dress to sedu...

  • A Blush With Death

    India Ink

    In Gull Harbor, Washington, the local bath and body store--Venus Envy --takes care of all the town's beauty needs, from custom-blended oils to relaxing spa services. And behind the counter sits Persia Vanderbilt, the niece of the proprietor, who has ...

  • The Gamblers

    Mike Jameson

    Staking his claim in Deadwood, Wild Bill Hickok, the fastest gun in the West, spending his days prospecting and his nights drinking and gambling, makes a group of gamblers nervous, and they, led by a ruthless theater owner, will do anything to put an...

  • Love You Madly

    Linda Palmer

    Daytime drama writer Morgan Tyler figures she has only one thing in common with the men and women of her story lines: "I don't know what's going to happen next in my life, either..." As head writer of Love of My Life, Morgan specializes in imperil...

  • Midnight Secrets

    Jennifer St. Giles

    A woman discovers that in the quest for her lost cousin, she'll find the truth in the Dragon's Curse: When two are born together, one will die by the other's hand... After her cousin Mary is mysteriously swept away by the sea, Cassiope...

  • Slipstreams

    Martin H. Greenberg

    Blending science fiction, fantasy, mystery, romance, and westerns, twenty noted authors, including Tanya Huff, Alan Dean Foster, and Jean Rabe, present an imaginative collection of hybrid stories, from a mountain man who encounters a demon in Yellows...

  • The Witch's Boy

    Michael Gruber

    This critically acclaimed tale of a witch and her goblin-child is wholly original, and the legendary characters of old who touch their story -- Cinderella, Rapunzel, Rumplestiltskin -- are made new through Michael Gruber's imaginative lens. Gruber...

  • Longarm and the Apache War

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm’s settling a war -- on his terms.There’s a bloody war brewing between money-hungry gold-diggers and the fierce San Carlos Apaches over the most desirable element in nature -- water. U.S. Marshal Custis Long is assigned to settle this sit...

  • Much Ado In the Moonlight

    Lynn Kurland

    A wonderfully romantic tale about an eight-hundred-year-old ghost and the modern woman who turns his plans for a peaceful afterlife upside down... When Victoria McKinnon's brother offers to finance her production of Hamlet, she leaps at the chance...

  • Slocum and the Mescal Smugglers

    Jake Logan

    They’ll put a fire in your gut…In a dirt-squat mining town near Mexico, Slocum walks in on a bloody mess after a shopkeeper is tortured and murdered by border-hopping mescal movers out for a quick plunder. With time short, Slocum takes the job of...

  • The Road to Hell

    J.R. Roberts

    After rescuing a group of Indian women and children from being sold into slavery, Clint Adams must stand his ground against Big-Bellied Umberto and his posse who are armed with a wagon full of lead with Clint's name on it. Original....

  • Date Me, Baby, One More time

    Stephanie Rowe

    IF YOU THINK LIFE IS COMPLICATED, TRY IMMORTALITY. Justine Bennett is cursing her life. She's the Guardian of the Goblet of Eternal Youth, she hasn't left the house in ages, and it's been over 200 years since she's had sex. Oh, and the Goblet has ...

  • Hotel Paradise

    Bridget Anderson

    As an only child, Alicia McKay's family history has always been shrouded in mystery. The only details she has are in her deceased mother's tattered journals, which she inherited after her father died. Determined to uncover family secrets, Alicia trav...

  • Misty Blue

    Dyanne Davis

    Mia Black got what she wanted. All her life she's been saving herself for a handsome husband, and now she's about to get one. He's so hot, she only has to look at him and she melts. Mia can hardly wait to love. Damien Terrell doesn't ...

  • Blown Away

    Shane Gericke

    A serial killer is playing a deadly game. There are no rules except one: The killer always wins. The loser always dies. Since joining the force, rookie cop Emily Thompson has had one ambition: to work homicide. Now she's got her chance. A twist...

  • Devil's Bounty

    Ken Hodgson

    The Head Of An Outlaw, The Heart Of Lawman, The Soul Of The Devil Himself... Dallas Handley comes riding into the mining boomtown called Devil's Gate with an outlaw's head in his saddlebag and an ache in his soul. For eleven years, Dallas has made ...

  • American Jihad

    William W. Johnstone

    Art Jensen is a born warrior. A direct descendant of the legendary mountain man Smoke Jensen, he is destined to continue his ancestor's legacy of heroism. For the courage, strength, and honor of a man never dies... Into The Dark Lieutenant Colon...

  • Those Were the Days

    Julie Kenner
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    After breaking off her engagement, Natalie Bowman finds herself in the 1800s being auctioned off as a sex slave! She's even more shocked when the highest bidder is Andrew Greenwood -- the fiance she dumped....

  • House Guest

    Edwinna Martin-Arnold

    Dr. Veronica Howell has had a number of relationships that fit neatly into her hectic life as a physician and clinic owner, but none that truly captured her heart. Now, when her life is threatened, she must use all of her resources to keep patients a...

  • Unspoken Fear

    Hunter Morgan

    A DANGER THAT CAN'T BE SEEN... Vineyard manager Rachel Gibson's once-blissful marriage crashed to an end with the imprisonment of her husband following a series of senseless tragedies that peaked one night on a bloody stretch of Delaware highway. Fi...

  • At Last

    Carolyn Neal

    As far as April Nelson was concerned, long-lasting love did not seem to be in the picture. While others seemed to have the opportunity to meet, and marry a true love...her life was more or less content with her vocation as a veterinarian and strong t...

  • That Summer At American Beach

    Janice Sims

    After New York City party planner Rayne Walker learns that the only father she has ever known is seriously ill, she immediately heads to American Beach, Florida, where her father is recuperating in his vacation home. Having been warned by her mother ...

  • Ironic

    Pamela Leigh Starr

    Teresa Lewis is living in a cabin in the Smoky Mountains while taking time off to write. Her life takes an unexpected turn when a plane crashes near her cabin and she becomes rescuer and nurse for a man she thinks is a bigot. Trapped inside by the ho...

  • The Bachelor Trap

    Elizabeth Thornton

    It began as a game of seduction -- until love got in the way... From the nationally bestselling author whose novels are "delightfully entertaining" (Philadelphia Inquirer) comes the provocative tale of a gentleman with a secret...and the i...

  • The Reckless Gun

    Joseph A. West

    Based on the TV series, this exciting Western adventure follows Marshal Matt Dillon, who, after his session with a fortune teller is interrupted by gunfire, finds himself caught in the middle of a war between a corrupt Colonel and men bent on revenge...

  • Cricket's Serenade

    Carolita Blythe

    Souci Alexander, a poor young woman from the mountainous interior of Jamaica, agrees to a platonic marriage in order to further an ambitious politician’s career. He is running for prime minister and believes that his mixed-race background is becomi...

  • Stupid and Contagious

    Caprice Crane

    HEAVEN'S IN HELL... There's very little I know for sure. I know that men who wear khakis are immediately suspect, and that waitressing is what karma makes you do when you've been unforgivably bad. That pretty much covers it. AND BRADY JUST MOVED...

  • Wife Living Dangerously

    Sara Susannah Katz

    She's recycling glass with plastic. She's passing off store-bought brownies as homemade. And she's thinking of doing more than flirting with that hot college professor... WIFE LIVING DANGEROUSLY She went from being the good girl to the good w...

  • Pug Hill

    Alison Pace

    For Hope McNeill, pugs are love, unconditional friendship, happiness, and freedom-all qualities currently in short supply in her own life. Though she doesn't have a pug of her own, she does have Pug Hill in Central Park, where pugs (and their owners)...

  • Leaves of Hope

    Catherine Palmer

    An adventurous spirit has always set Beth Lowell apart in her family, creating tension with her mother, Jan, who cherishes stability. Beth, a risk taker who traverses the globe for her job, wonders how Jan, now widowed, can endure her staid, predicta...

  • Theft

    Peter Carey

    Michael "Butcher" Boone is an ex-"really famous" painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh. Alone together they've forged a delicate equilibrium, a balance instantly destroyed when ...

  • Aztec Rage

    Gary Jennings

    The fascinating history of Mexico that began in the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Aztec continues . . . . Don Juan de Zavala was the most skilled fighter in all of New Spain--as gifted with weapons and horses as he was with women. These plea...

  • Make Him Look Good

    Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

    The "him" in MAKE HIM LOOK GOOD is Ricky Biscayne, sexy Latin singing sensation who has taken the pop world by storm. The women who orbit him include: --Milan, Ricky's new publicist, smart as a whip and chubby as only a girl who still lives at ho...

  • Revenge of the Kudzu Debutantes

    Cathy Holton

    kud • zu kud-zü n: a ubiquitous vine/weed found in Southern climes that, left uncontrolled, will grow over any fixed object in its path, including trees, power lines, and the entire state of Georgia. deb•u•tante de-byu-tänt n: a young woman makin...

  • Proper Scoundrel // Scoundrel in Disguise

    Annette Blair

    Lust muddies a high-stakes battle only one can win. Marcus adores Jade the minute he sees her; she despises him as fast. Jade Smithfield’s late grandmother unwittingly sold a land option to the railroad before she died. Nevertheless, to keep a f...

  • A Girl in Mind

    Mark P. Dunn

  • Where the Lies Begin

    Robert S. Levinson

  • The Price of Pride

    Donna MacQuigg

    In 1892, reporter Sarah Brighton travels to New Mexico to settle the estate of her recently deceased cousin who died in a fire, and finds herself teaming with Marshal Ira Farrell after she uncovers a conspiracy that leads her believe the fire was ars...

  • Another Lost Angel

    Steven B. Mandel

  • Heart's Revenge

    Julia C. Porter

  • Some Like It Cold

    Jerry Raine

  • London Is the Best City in America

    Laura Dave

    London is the Best City in America, is the insightful, wickedly funny story of two siblings who have found themselves at a crossroads. In mapping their struggles over one wild and emotional wedding weekend, Laura Dave gives us a brilliantly subtle an...

  • Chasing Destiny

    Eric Jerome Dickey

    lie (aka "Ducati") is known as much for her extraordinary beauty as for the sexy yellow motorcycle she rides through the mean streets of Los Angeles. Tough, talented, and self-assured, Billie's used to doing things her way--but that was before love t...

  • Promise Me

    Harlan Coben

    Six years... That's how long it's been since entertainment agent Myron Bolitar last played superhero. In six years he hasn't thrown a punch. He hasn't held, much less fired, a gun. But all that is about to change . . . because of a promise. The s...

  • Eye of Vengeance

    Jonathon King

    When a convicted murderer is dramatically gunned down in front of a corrections facility with a single bullet to the head, journalist Nick Mullins is quickly dispatched by his newspaper to cover the story. A veteran crime reporter, Nick is no strange...

  • White Shadow

    Ace Atkins

    Tampa, Florida, 1955: a city pulsing with Sicilian and Cuban gangsters, cigar factories, sweet rum, and violence. The bludgeoning death of retired kingpin Charlie Wall shocks the city and sends cops and reporters and associates scrambling to discover...

  • Heart of the World

    Linda Barnes

    When private investigator Carlotta Carlyle is wakened by a late-night phone call, she discovers that her "little sister," Paolina, the child with whom she was paired years ago by a local mentoring program, is missing. Carlotta combs the Bosto...

  • The Torch of Tangier

    Aileen G. Baron

    War time Tangier, policed by Franco's Guardia Civil, thick with many nationalities including Germans and Allies, bitter with the insults of Colonialism, is a dangerous place. Archaeologist Lily Sampson, recruited from her studies in Chicago by the en...

  • Feet of Clay

    Ruth Birmingham

    Sunny Childs, the Atlanta PI helps her younger, flightier sister, Lee-Lee, make a documentary about a prisoner on death row. Convicted of the brutal sex murders of two local women, Dale Weedlaw is scheduled to be executed in a few days. No sooner doe...

  • Dirty Laundry

    Tori Carrington

    Sofie Metropolis is the newest P.I. on the mean streets of Astoria, Queens. She's known for her trademark frappes and her itchy trigger finger. She even shot one of her own clients! Well, he was trying to kill her at the time . . . and she only hit ...

  • How to Succeed in Murder

    Margaret Dumas

    Charley Fairfax--heiress, theatrical producer, newlywed--is intent on living happily ever after with her tall, dark, and sarcastic husband Jack. The only mysteries before her are which play to choose for next season and how to decorate her dining roo...

  • Killer Instinct

    Joseph Finder

    Jason Steadman is a thirty-year-old sales executive living in Boston and working for an electronics giant, a competitor to Sony and Panasonic. He's a witty, charismatic guy who's well liked at the office, but he lacks the "killer instinct" necessary ...

  • The Janissary Tree

    Jason Goodwin

    It is 1836. Europe is modernizing and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the sultan announces sweeping changes, a wave of murders threatens the fragile balance of power in his court. Who is behind them? Only one intelligence agent c...

  • Mad Mouse

    Chris Grabenstein

    It's almost Labor Day, and the end of summer could mean the end of someone's life in this exciting sequel to Chris Grabenstein's Tilt-a-Whirl. Young Danny Boyle, the part-time summer cop "down the shore" in Sea Haven, New Jersey, gets taken on a w...

  • Pretty Girl Gone

    David Housewright

    Rushmore "Mac" McKenzie has a lot of old girlfriends, but only one went on to marry the current governor of the state of Minnesota. And only one is calling him with a desperate request to meet in secret. First Lady Lindsay Barrett is carrying an anon...

  • Dirty Sweet

    John McFetridge

    In the middle of the afternoon on a busy downtown Toronto street a man is shot in the head behind the wheel of his SUV. The killer drives away before the light changes. It could be road rage, or it could be a random act of violence. It could be, but ...

  • Indian Pipes

    Cynthia Riggs

    Lively 92-year-old Martha's Vineyard native Victoria Trumbull is the first to spot the body of her neighbor, reclusive engineer Jube Burkhardt, dead from a tumble off a 200-foot-high cliff. The police conclude it was accidental, but Victoria's suspic...

  • A Point of Law

    John Maddox Roberts

    Being under suspicion of murder did not hamper my freedom. This is because Romans are civilized people and don't clap suspects into prison like barbarians do. It would take an order of a lawfully convened court even to place me under house arrest. ...

  • Firebird

    R. Garcia y Robertson

    In the fantastic land of Markovy east of Europe, in the Iron Wood filled with werewolves and other unpleasant creatures, in the house of the dreaded Bone Witch, lives a young orphan girl named Aria. Her life is changed forever when a foreign knight, ...

  • Dead Watch

    John Sandford

    Senator Lincoln Bowe, a Republican, has been missing for several days, setting off alarms on both sides of the aisle. Finally, he is discovered in the remote Virginia woods, barbwired to a tree, burned almost beyond recognition and missing his head. ...