Books Published in October 1991

New Books List: 592 titles

  • Tender Feud

    Nicole Jordan

    Natural Enemies Katrine Campbell had come to the Highlands to rediscover her Scottish roots. If truth be told, she longed for some of the adventure her life in England had sorely lacked. But never in her wildest imaginings had she conjured a raven...

  • Finders Keepers

    Emily Rodda

  • One Hundred Shining Candles

    Janet Lunn

  • Hatchet

    Knox Gordon

  • Blood Tide

    J.D. Cameron

    The ambition and folly that destroyed three-quarters of humanity lives on in the radioactive rubble of nuclear holocaust. In the South Pacific, an insane fanatic and his army of bloodthirsty killers have begun obliterating the last scattered outposts...

  • For All the Right Reasons

    Elaine Coffman

    Katherine Simon is a woman of the earth, passionate and strong, she has never stopped loving one man: Alex Mackinnon. But Alex has set his mind on his childhood sweetheart, Katherine's sister, the pretty and pampered Karin, a woman who toys with...

  • The Night Whistlers

    Dan Trevor

  • China Strike

    Jack Buchanan

  • Tank Killers

    Larry Hicks

  • The Ultimate Frankenstein

    John Gregory Betancourt

    A collection of stories inspired by Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" includes contributions by Brian Aldiss, Loren D. Estleman, Garfield Reeves-Stevens, S.P. Somtow, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Kurt Vonnegut...

  • Ramsey's Revenge

    Will McLennan

  • Scarlet Fury

    J.R. Roberts

    When Clint Adams renews an old love affair, he doesn't know he's courting death. But the truth is the beautiful redhead from his past is also a killer. Known only as Scarlet, she's any man's equal, a top-notch gunslinger, a bounty hunter who's alread...

  • The Hanging of Father Miguel

    M.A. Armen

    A legendary gunman gets help from a man of God -- or is he? -- in this unusual story of frontier justice in the Arizona of 1864....

  • Vengeance Trail

    David Thompson

    In two tales of the wild West, Nate King and Shakespeare McNair test their survival skills after accidentally offending two Flathead Indians, and Nate takes part in a deadly buffalo hunt, with the lives of his wife and child at stake. Original....

  • Gravedancer

    Dale Colter

  • Longarm and the Colorado Gundown

    Tabor Evans

  • Alvin Fog, Texas Ranger

    J.T. Edson

    In every democracy the laws for the protection of the innocent allows loopholes through which the guilty can slip...The Governor of Texas decided that only unconventional methods could cope with the malefactors who slipped through the meshes of the l...

  • Lone Star and the Oklahoma Rustlers

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki stalk a wily cattle bandit -- but is he closer than they think?When a herd of his cattle disappears without a trace off his land, the owner of the Circle Star Ranch calls on Jessie and Ki to catch the cattle rustlers....

  • Roughshod

    Norman A. Fox

  • White Tiger

    Olga Bicos

    DANGER AND DESTINY IN A LAND OF SAVAGE ENCHANTMENT... She turned her back on the magnificent leopard and gazed, startled, into the green-gold eyes of the stranger who shot the beast that might have killed her. British-born Nicole Marshall was a br...

  • Winds of Eden

    Justina Burgess

    India, at the dawn of the 1800's, is a strange and turbulent place for a young Scottish girl to come of age--but Desiree MacKenzie is captivated by the astonishing beauty of this exotic land. There, her future is threatened by her ruthless guardian ...

  • And I Will Love You Forever

    Shannon Drake
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    A beautiful woman besieged by war triumphs magnificently in love when her strange dreams of a virile and ghostly Viking protector come true....

  • Apache Caress

    Georgina Gentry

    SHE WAS HIS CAPTIVE Cholla seethed with fury. The Apache scout had risked his life tracking down renegades for the white man only to find himself chained like an animal on the army prison train. Well, if they wanted a vicious savage, he'd give them ...

  • A Certain Magic

    Betina Krahn
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    A trio of delightful Victorian "witches" stir up a spicy Halloween brew of passion and romance for their enchanting young ward and a handsome, straight-laced lawyer....

  • Untamed Fire

    Donna Fletcher

    HE RULED BY THE BOOK Wealthy California rancher Rafael Cabrillo bad broken some of the wildest stallions and mares, and now those docile animals obeyed his every command. The imperious aristocrat expected his people to behave the same way, so Rafael...

  • Midnight Safari

    Ann Lynn

    A PRIZE FOR THE CAPTOR Just expelled from a Parisian finishing school, Caitlin Lamb expected a grim reception from her puritanical uncle upon her arrival in the bustling, exotic city of Cape Town. But nothing could have prepared her for the shock of...

  • My Heart's Desire

    Andrea Kane

    Never Were There Two More Unlikely People to Fall in Love... Lady Alexandria Cassel scorned London's frivolous social whirl, seeking adventure as a stowaway aboard a merchant ship. Drake Barrett was the vessel's powerful captain -- and a cynical d...

  • Texas Woman

    Connie Harwell

    PASSION HOTTER THAN THE TEXAS SUN When U.S. Marshal Fowler Barclay was kidnapped at gunpoint by a beautiful green-eyed girl, he had a hunch she didn't want him for his good looks or vibrant personality. As it turned out, what she did want was ...

  • Mexican Fire

    Martha Hix

    SHE DESPISED HIM As her beloved Mexico teetered on the brink of overthrow by the ruthless dictator Santa Anna, beautiful Alejandra Sierra schemed with her countrymen to defeat him. They needed a spy from his ranks, and who better than Texas soldier-...

  • The Reluctant Bridegroom

    Sally Martin

    A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH... It was shocking indeed to imagine a mere cavalry officer as heir to the Westmane dukedom and family estate--shocking, but true. Miss Lissa Westmane was dismayed upon meeting Maxmilian Jameson that this rugged fellow was t...

  • Bath Bramble

    Dawn Aldridge Poore

    A LADY'S PLAN Callie Stone was resolved to become an artiste rather than a wife. She was quite content with her productive life painting portraits in Bath, except for the problem of her carousing younger brother. Bereaved of parents, Callie had ...

  • The Chaotic Miss Crispino

    Kasey Michaels

    A CALAMITOUS COUPLE Returning Baron Dugdale's long-lost granddaughter to Brighton seems a lark to haughty Valerian Fitzhugh until he locates the stunning if somewhat irascible Allegra Crispino in a rundown Florence pensione. Here, to his great cha...

  • A Heart's Disguise

    Joan Overfield

    A WILLFUL WIDOW Katherine Delecourte's introduction to Lord Quentin Tregarren left the young widow perplexed. To her recollection, she had never made the acquaintance of this rather arrogant and disdainful gentleman, although he did bear a remar...

  • River Song

    Sharon MacIver

    A HEART RULED BY VENGEANCE Torn between two worlds, Sunny Callahan was the daughter of a mixed marriage--and she vowed to avenge her Indian mother's senseless death. Her search led her to a man whose seductive smile was both tender and tempting.... ...

  • Sleeping Beauty

    Judith Michael

    Anne Garnett was a brilliant Los Angeles divorce lawyer -- tough, smart and untouchable. The vulnerable girl who had run away from her wealthy, influential family was hidden now behind the glossy facade of her high-powered career. Only the death of A...

  • That Other Katherine

    Linda Lael Miller
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    A dying woman's fervent prayer transports her back in time for a second chance at life...and love....

  • Rendezvous

    Amanda Quick

    From the elegantly appointed drawing rooms of London's most exclusive club to an imposing country estate in the heart of Dorset comes a provocative tale of a free-thinking beauty, a dignified lord, and a mad impetuous love that defied all logic.... ...

  • Escapade

    Serena Richards

    A MAN AND A WOMAN ON A WILD COLLISION COURSE WITH LOVE She hungered for high-flying adventure. He fought for power and wealth. Their dreams were worlds apart-but desire bound their hearts to a whirlwind destiny Beautiful and spirited, Rory Kavanaug...

  • Fire's Tender Kiss

    Patricia Pellicane

    RECLUSIVE RANGER Rough and rugged rancher Thaddeus Payne lived as a recluse in the Colorado mountains, needing nothing but his warm cabin. He'd vowed he'd never allow another faithless woman into his home or his heart -- until he rescued a nearly fr...

  • Diamonds and Dreams

    Rebecca Paisley

    Love's Masquerade Newly settled in Hallensham, England, petite American beauty Goldie Mae stands to lose the first real home she has ever known-thanks to her disreputable uncle's drunken boast of friendship with the long-departed Duke of Ravenhurs...

  • A Ghostly Charade

    Sheila Rabe

    A SPIRITED LADY When her sister Phoebe summoned her to Grayson Hall a fortnight before All Hallows Eve, Lady Caroline Templeton was understandably intrigued. It seemed a ghost was stalking the corridors of this ancestral home, and Caroline's w...

  • Enchanted Rendezvous

    Rebecca Ward

    IF LORD BRANDON WAS IN ANY WAY HEROIC, PIGS WOULD COMMENCE TO FLY! Though Cecily Vervain had not glimpsed his face in the dark, the mysterious gentleman who came to her midnight rescue was strong, brave, and daring, a true hero. He was most unlik...

  • Bath Scandal

    Joan Smith

    Traveling to Bath to investigate rumors that her sister is spending time with a gambler, the recently engaged Lord Southam finds himself falling for his sister's fast-living guardian, the widow Beatrice Searle...

  • A Larcenous Affair

    Ellen Rawlings

    ALL'S FAIR--IN LOVE AND LARCENY... For handsome Lord Marcus Brooke, newly returned from military glory on the Continent, the most daunting battle of his career lay ahead: saving the honor of his scandalously behaved family. Then he met Lady Jane A...

  • Mistress of Blackstone Castle

    Patricia Werner

    “Your destiny is clear: great evil, great fortune, great love... and great danger." Taught the art of lace-making during her orphanage childhood, Heather Blackstone managed to earn her living in a Nottingham factory. But the legend of her ances...

  • Forever Yours

    Katherine Sutcliffe
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    A gentle and lonely vampire discovers that passion is immortal when an innocent beauty stumbles upon his lair....

  • Enchantment

    Christina Skye
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    A dashing British viscount and a stunning American woman rekindle the flames of desire that burned between them a century earlier....

  • Call the River Home

    Frances Patton Statham

    SHE WOULD SPEND A LIFETIME FIGHTING FOR HER INDIAN HERITAGE IN A WHITE MAN'S WORLD... -- Daughter of an English fur trader and his wilderness wife, young Coosaponakeesa, princess of the Upper and Lower Creeks, left her Indian village for Charlestow...

  • Master of Blackwood

    Penelope Thomas

    Dangerous Desire From her Cornwall girlhood to the marriage that shocked the London elite, spirited Redigan Grenfel met her match in only one man: arrogant, imperious Lord Nicholas Blackwood. Blackwood's tightly leashed power made strong men tr...

  • Sweet Autumn Surrender

    Vivian Vaughan

    SHE WANTED PEACE For a woman who hated violence, Ellie Jarrett had seen more than her share. First her husband was murdered and now her neighbor was trying to run her off her ranch. The last thing the golden-haired beauty needed was a gun-slinging b...

  • Texas Lovestorm

    Linda Windsor

    SHE TRICKED HIM WITH PASSION It was a wild, reckless scheme, but Laura Skylar was desperate. Pretending to be the widow of Confederate major Wade McCulloch was the only way the golden-haired Maryland beauty could break through enemy lines and find...

  • Natalya

    Cynthia Wright

    From the French countryside to the shores of America, they discovered danger, desire, and a love waiting to be born... She met her match by moonlight, in a renegade's passionate embrace.... The proud and spirited Beauvisage blood ran true in lo...

  • Come to Castlemoor

    Jennifer Wilde

    Kathy Hunt came to Castlemoor when she got the news of her brother's sudden and tragic death. The shadow of Castlemoor fell ominously across themoors. Every soul seemed to live in terror. When Kathy found that her brother's life work - a study of blo...

  • Black Lace

    Michael Newton

    Flynn and Tanner flirt with death and a woman who lives to kill.They call her the Huntress. Her turf is the singles bars and the back streets of broken dreams. She comes on fast and gets right down to her lethal business. So many men. So little time....

  • Night Hit

    Don Pendleton

    HOME FIRES America comes under siege as a frighteningly efficient group of unknown terrorists begin hitting the nation's biggest cities with stunning impact, turning them into war zones and graveyards, then vanishing into the night. No one know...

  • Hawaiian Heat

    Don Pendleton

    STATE OF EMERGENCY For two hundred years, Hawaii has been a melting pot of pleasure and sin. Now, the pot is boiling over. The Yakuza, lords of the Japanese underworld, and the ruthless Chinese Triads have declared war for total control of America...

  • Brutal Conquest

    Jerry Ahern

    World War III left America a toxic wasteland, its proud civilization buried in the poison ruins of nuclear attack. Its spirit all but destroyed, the small tribes of desperate nomads crushed by Soviet conquerors and their troops had little hope for fr...

  • Walls of Fear

    Kathryn Cramer

  • Tunnelvision

    R. Patrick Gates

  • Question Quest

    Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    A magician sends a melancholic maiden on a rescue mission in Hell in this humorous fantasy adventure by a New York Times"bestselling author. As one of the trouble-making twins of Castle Zombie, Lacuna used to have so much fun when she was a li...

  • Dark Divide

    Mark Acres

    In the crypt-like depths of Ochre Mountain, an evil vampire rises from a slumber of centuries. Eager to pay homage to the Dark Lord, he unleashes a legion of zombies to conquer the land of the living and to at last breach the Dark Divide....

  • Robot Warriors

    Gordon R. Dickson

  • Old Nathan

    David Drake

    The forces of evil, both natural and supernatural, are poised to prey on the folk of the hamlets and hollows: witches, demons, and criminals of more than one century. But first they''ll have to overcome some very unusual residents of the hills and va...

  • Borders of Infinity

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    TRICK QUIZ Which best describes a Vor Lord? a) Officer in the Barrayaran Imperial Space Service b) Supreme Commander of a Mercenary Company c) Detective, Judge and executioner in a back-country murder d) Rescuer of Damsels Deeply Distressed ...

  • Barrayar

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    NOT MY CHILD, YOU DON'T... Cordelia Naismith, legendary ship commander in the Betan Expeditionary Force, a woman who beat the Barrayaran militarists at their own game, was never one to fulfill stereotypes. Having married the commander of the forces ...

  • Night of the Living Shark!

    David Bischoff

    MELVINGE OF THE MAGAVERSE SERIES NIGHT OF THE LIVING SHARK! A SHARK JUST ATE YOUR DISGUSTING SNEAKERS--- AND YOU’RE STILL INSIDE THEM! Imagine there’s this mall, and it’s the biggest thing you’ve ever seen in the whole universe. It’s so big...

  • Lord of Chaos

    Elizabeth Boyer

    THE COUNCIL OF EVIL Following the sorcerer Sorkvir to save Leifr's beloved Ljosa, Thurid, Leifr, and their friends crossed the river on a dragon ship that looked remarkably like a.real dragon. From that, they entered the ancient stronghold of evil...

  • The Verdant Passage

    Troy Denning

    A new creed kindled from despair.. . Kaiak: an immortal sorcerer-king whose evil magic has reduced the majestic city of Tyr to a desolate place of dust, blood, and fear. His thousand year reign of death is about to end. Banding together to s...

  • Ambient

    Jack Womack

    One man struggles to survive in a dystopian near-future New York City in this acclaimed novel that “performs feats of brilliance on so many levels” (Entertainment Weekly).   In a decaying and violent near-future New York, the remnants of civ...

  • The Cloud People

    Robert Kelly

    The prince and heir to the throne of Fief Karcan investigates the crash of a "flying machine" in the Eastern Mountains, from whence it has been prophesiedthat a savior will come. Though he does not discover the pilot and "savior," the prince learns t...

  • Supernova

    Allen Roger MacBride

    The millennium draws to a close. Nini light years from Earth, a white dwarf star dies a violent and spectacular deeath. Sirus B has gone supernova hurtling a nightmare of global devastation toward our unsuspecting planet at astonishing speed...

  • Harpy High

    Esther Friesner

    Teenager Tim Desmond's life is thrown into turmoil when the gnomes, sprites, vampires, ogres, dragons, and witches that have infested his home in Brooklyn decide to take advantage of public education and turn up at Tim's high school...

  • Warlock and Son

    Christopher Stasheff

    Even the son of a warlock gets restless sometimes. And when Magnus sets off to see the world, his father, Rod Gallowglass, and the robot horse, Fess, can't resist trailing behind. Someone's got to protect young Magnus from spellbinding witches, encha...

  • Lunar Descent

    Allen Steele

    The former head of a lunar mining operation returns to the moon and is immediately sucked into a dangerous morass of labor troubles, lies, larceny, and corporate wrongdoing in this wildly entertaining science fiction thrill ride There is big trouble ...

  • Power

    S.M. Stirling

  • A Forest Lord

    Michael Williams

  • Questing Heart

    Rosalyn Alsobrook

    IT'S ALL RELATIVE .... Having finally tracked down her birth mother, high school counselor Jenny Ryan could have used a little advice herself. Rick Anderson was the most devastating man the normally poised Jenny had ever laid eyes on. But a...

  • Where There's a Will

    Leanne Banks

    TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT When Jake Slater came face to face with his new business partner, he couldn't believe his eyes. With long blond hair and curves in all the right places, Chelsea Collins was not your average building contractor. She was th...

  • The Ideal Wife

    Mary Balogh

    The Perplexing Proposal The Earl of Severn's question was simple enough. Would Miss Abigail Gardiner agree to become his wife? But a far more difficult question was why the most handsome and wealthy lord in London, with a ravishing mistress and...

  • Home Field Advantage

    Janice Bartlett

    ---- republished by Janice Kay Johnson ~ July 2013 in ebook A WINNING PLAY When knee injuries forced John McRae to end his pro-football career, he wasn't quite ready to leave the sport. Fortunately, one TV producer was eager to sign up the ...

  • The Sweetheart Deal

    Laurien Berenson

    The art of the deal THE PROPOSITION: Business tycoon Benjamin West knew a food deal when he saw one. Cabbie Kate Hallaby was smart sexy and sassy. To get her into his life, he offered her a job as his driver. THE NEGOTIATIONS: Kate couldn't tur...

  • Paper Marriage

    Judith Bowen

    THE MARRYING KIND... Clayton Truscott needed a woman -- and he needed her fast. The rugged rancher was determined to gain custody of his niece and nephew. There was only one hitch: he had to take a wife...and alluring Justine O'Malley was just...

  • Romancing Rachel

    Natalie Bishop

    Multimillionaire Tyrrell Rafferty III had everything a man could want . . . except a family. When he found out--years later--that he had fathered a child in high school, he was eager to be a part of his son's life. There was only one obstacle . . . t...

  • Eagle on the Wind

    Ginger Chambers

    FLIGHT OF FANCY... To protect her brother's master work, frenetic Frankie James led a madcap chase through San Francisco's hot subterranean nightclubs and steamy neon streets. She even finagled a fender bender in order to kidnap an attorney. B...

  • Ragtime Dawn

    Maureen Bronson

    Trip The Light Fantastic Small-town girl Toby Wells was determined to make it big. The songs she wrote were a sure bet -- or so she believed, until handsome music-hall owner Michael Sedaine informed her otherwise. Then he surprised her with a prom...

  • Winds of Sorrow, Winds of Joy

    Debra Burgess-Mohr

    She followed her dream to an unspoiled Eden and found a land so wild and untamed it would take a lifetime to conquer! Vast, wild, and beautiful, the Willamette Valley of Oregon beckoned those brave enough to dream.young enough to live.strong enough t...

  • For All the Right Reasons

    Elaine Coffman

    Katherine Simon is a woman of the earth, passionate and strong, she has never stopped loving one man: Alex Mackinnon. But Alex has set his mind on his childhood sweetheart, Katherine's sister, the pretty and pampered Karin, a woman who toys with...

  • Home for Thanksgiving

    Suzanne Carey

    DOCTOR'S ORDERS Kendra Jenkins would never forget her shame. Years ago, as a young nurse at Children's Memorial Hospital, she'd shared a passionate embrace with the distinguished and very eligible Dr. Aaron Dash. Then she'd left for medical school...

  • Beatrice Goes to Brighton

    Marion Chesney

    The unsinkable Miss Pym returns to the English stagecoach in search of adventure and troubled hearts... With her delightful schemes and discerning eye, she never fails to strike a match by journey's end. Lady Beatrice Marsham is in quite a coi...

  • A Dream of Spring

    Teresa Crane

  • Top of the Mountain

    Mary Curtis

    Lill Jamison had chosen to raise her son alone, without a husband at her side. Donny was now eleven, and the boy was her pride and joy. She had no regrets...until a chance encounter on vacation set her face-to-face with Bradford Hollingsworth III, he...

  • Stevie's Chase

    Justine Davis

    WHO WAS CHASE SULLIVAN? Stevie Holt found herself watching for him, waiting to hear her neighbor's motorcycle roar into his driveway. All she knew about Chase Sullivan was that he filled out a simple white T-shirt and a pair of tight, worn jeans b...

  • Beauty and the Beastie

    Emily Dalton

    THE sparks which flew ignited more than their tempers! At the age of five and twenty, Miss Felicity Bell was set in her ways and could think of no cause to change them. But Jamieson Denham, Earl of Hastings, disagreed, and only offered to hel...

  • Ride the Storm

    Emma Darcy

    She finagled her way into his life When the humpback whales returned to Haven Bay, Tiffany James realized they brought opportunity. Opportunity to revitalize the coastal community and provide security for the inhabitants, including her adopted sis...

  • Three Lords for Lady Anne

    Charlotte Louise Dolan

    A Compromising Position Anne Hemsworth swiftly discovered the perils of the position she was forced to take as governess on a remote estate. First she had to defeat the deviltry of her two charges -- a pair of fledgling hellions eager to drive her...

  • Adventure of the Heart

    Anne Marie Duquette

    "You'd better not be lying!" But Sierra Vaughn was lying. She needed a guide to take her into Arizona's dangerous Superstition Mountains, and Adam Copeland was her last chance. Adam, an enigmatic, solitary man -- an intriguing m...

  • Loved by the Best

    Mary Tate Engels

    Lured by love! After his bitter divorce, Mac Jackson had sworn off women -- all he wanted was a nice, quiet life back home in Tennessee. Then Darlene Clements showed up and there went his peace of mind. She was sexy, spunky and ... absolutely irresi...

  • On His Honor

    Lucy Gordon

    MR. ITALY Name. Carlo Valetti Address: Rome's ancient Appian Way Occupation: CEO of an internationally renowned race-car manufacturer. Reason for living. The little daughter who'd warmed his cynical heart. Along with his father's name ...

  • Passionate Alliance

    Lucy Elliot

    Traitor Heart After seven years of war, American patriot Susannah Beckwith had good reason to hate the British . . . and special reason to despise Captain Edward Steel, for he was currently occupying her family home. He represented everything she ...

  • Blind Opening

    Nancy Elliott

    She was a mystery woman Mark Banning never would have guessed that Amanda Kirk, his beautiful fellow passenger on the trans-Atlantic crossing, was a professional gambler. But this was only the first layer of the mystery that surrounded Amanda. ...

  • Pillow Talk

    Patricia Ellis

    THE LIBRA MAN The Libra man is handsome, kind and considerate -- and a stickler for honesty. His woman had better not deceive him... ONE LIBRA MAN IN PARTICULAR Dream researcher Jared Dalton thought he'd found the perfect subject in fellow ps...

  • All Fall Down

    Robin Francis

    Ring around the rosy ... ... we all fall down. It's a childhood game made all too real. While Peter Darien and Jenny Spaulding are stranded by torrential rains at an isolated retreat, a chilling discovery turns their romantic interlude into an ...

  • Lion of the Desert

    Barbara Faith

    THE SHEIK OF RASHDANI Name: Sheik Karim al-Raji Description: Ruthless. Primitive. Passionate. Mission: To rescue Diane St. James from her evil kidnappers and return her to her father. Obstacle: He wanted to keep her. There was something...

  • A Night-Time Affair

    Christine Grieg

    Her feelings didn't seem to matter Sara St. Clair had never met anyone quite so insufferable, or blatantly masculine, as tycoon Cal Grant. Yet to her horror, Sara found herself forced to accept his appalling proposition. "In public,...

  • If Looks Could Kill

    M.L. Gamble

    Double or nothing When Grand Illusions hired a Brennan Richards look-alike, owner Catherine Grand met the reclusive Irish rocker in person. Wearing biker regalia and an earring, Brennan was charismatic -- even for a living legend. But he was also ...

  • A Perfect Performance

    Emily Hendrickson

    Scandal in the Wings Beautiful young Katherine Penn was the daughter of a stuffy scholar -- but her own imagination was anything but academic. Katherine was smitten with the stage, wicked though it might be. She fairly ached to see the plays that ...

  • Falconer

    Jennifer Greene

    MR. AUSTRIA Name: Rand Krieger Diversion: A sleeping beauty unaware of her own sensuality. Dilemma: Keeping his heart... while awakening another's. Birthday blues made Leigh Merrick trim her hair and her figure. But underneath the sophisti...

  • Reap the Wind

    Iris Johansen

    A DESPERATE RACE AGAINST DEATH Alex. Brilliant Alex Karazov always regarded his wild talent as merely a tool in the high-tech chessboard of world events...until murder galvanized him into a global cat-and-mouse game that could cost him not only hi...

  • Second Chances

    Tracy Hughes

    WAS IT TOO LATE? Heiress Leah Borgadeau thought she was living a nightmare. First her two-year-old daughter was kidnapped, then Leah was forced to confront her former fiance again. Years before, when she'd broken their passionate engagemen...

  • Slade's Woman

    BJ James

    MR. AMERICA Name: Hunter Slade Past: A cruel world that scorned his heritage. Present: The peace of his work. The seclusion of his mountain home. Future: The woman he'd allowed into his private world. Rugged half-breed hunter Slade had...

  • Love's Harbor

    Ellen James

    "You owe $100,000 so pay up!" When Will Kendrick stormed into Erin's office threatening to shut down her "sorry excuse for a newspaper," Erin decided the man must be mad! No one was going to wrest Erin's inheritance from...

  • Too Far to Fall

    Linda Jenkins

    The Rugged Hunk of a Mystery Man... Trent Farraday was too good-looking for Miranda Hart's own good! His lazy grin and sexily unshaven face made her tingle to the toes of her satin slippers when he appeared at her door to fix a clogged drain, ...

  • A Fine Madness

    Kathleen Korbel

    MR. ENGLAND Name: Ian Matthews, secret agent man. Assignment: To secure stately Hartley Hall for a visit from the Prince of You-Know-Where. Distraction: Quinn Rutledge, the prettiest thing to come over from "the colonies" in years. Dange...

  • Sweet Fortune

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    SHE'S THE ANGEL OF HIS DREAMS. HE'S THE SEXIEST DEVIL SHE EVEN HEAVEN-SENT LOVE CAN BE HOT AS HELL.... The free-spirited rebel of her powerful family, Jessie Benedict was determined not to marry her father's protege, Sam Hatchard. But no one was ...

  • The Wedding Night

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    He was tall, dark and eligible... Hotel magnate Owen Sutherland was the last man Angie Townsend expected to marry. After all, his family had been feuding with hers for years. But in three short months, Owen convinced her to be his wife. Angie love...

  • Navy Baby

    Debbie Macomber

    It was a night she'd never forget . . . two strangers coming together in one breathless moment of intense need and overwhelming desire. But now, sheltered Hannah Raymond was expecting the child of rugged naval seaman Riley Murdock--a man she never th...

  • Casey's Flyboy

    Vivian Leiber

    FREE SPIRIT Widowed and very pregnant, Casey Stevens was fifty frigid Alaskan miles from the nearest hospital when her contractions began. Six months later, the proud mother of a baby boy, Casey couldn't forget Leon Brodie, the enigmatic stranger ...

  • To Touch the Sun

    Barbara Leigh

    Betrayed by love. Beloved Captive To be a knight, chivalrous in deed and courageous in battle, was all that Drue had ever wished for. Dubbed Sir Drue, she had sworn to serve her king and seek revenge against her enemy, Connaught. She had vowed ...

  • Yesterday's Fantasy

    Pamela Macaluso

    A TEENAGE CRUSH As a teenager, Melissa Ellison didn't moon over the teen idols who were popular among her friends. Her heart belonged to tall, dark Morgan Edwards, the guy who roomed with her older brother Lucas. From the day she cut his photo out...

  • Wild About Harry

    Linda Lael Miller

    MR. AUSTRALIA Name: Harry Griffith Challenge: To win the heart of Amy Ryan. Relationship: He'd been her husband's best friend in school. Amy couldn't believe her eyes. There stood her late husband, as plain as day, telling her she'd soon mee...

  • Courting Miss Hattie

    Pamela Morsi

    THEY'D SHARED A LIFETIME OF FRIENDSHIP...BUT IT TOOK ONLY ONE KISS TO SPARK A WILDFIRE OF PASSION IN AN UNLIKELY BRIDE The news spread like brush fire though the whole county when widower Ancil Drayton announced his intention to start courting Mis...

  • Moonlight and Shadows

    Glenna McReynolds

    The Thief of Hearts Who Kissed Away Her Tears... Jack Hudson blamed the harvest moon for driving him crazy enough to draw Lila Singer into his arms the night they met and kiss her breathless! He had no idea the enchanting young widow had relinquis...

  • For Services Rendered

    Ann Patrick

    A CINDERELLA STORY Claire Kendrick didn't know what to think when she was summoned to the fiftieth floor to meet the president of Callahan, International. As handsome, blue-eyed Nick Callahan explained her special assignment. Claire's apprehensio...

  • Forbidden

    Catherine Palmer

    UNDER SUSPICION Ridge Gordon had a job to do. He had to catch a very clever, very dangerous drug dealer. And all the evidence pointed to someone he didn't want to believe could be guilty--someone who had haunted him from the moment he'd first laid...

  • And Daddy Makes Three

    Anne Peters

    DADDY DUTY Hardworking executive Eric Schwenker had no idea his heart was as soft as a baby's bottom . . . until he ran smack into the cuddly, cooing child--and her even more captivating mother--who'd been keeping his staff occupied for weeks. So...

  • The Lady in Red

    Fayrene Preston

    A Red-Hot Kisser Who Liked to Play with Fire... Zach Bennett loved a mystery, and he found the alluring seductress who'd invaded his sanctuary impossibly intriguing! Red was his favorite color, and Cassidy Stuart glittered in a slinky red-sequined ...

  • Desert Shadows

    Emilie Richards

    A NUN WITH A GUN? Was rebellious Sister Felicia, the nun who sneaked cigarettes and went swimming in the nude, for real? Or was she a cool assassin, an imposter who had come to the Palm Springs convent in order to murder a world-famous humanitaria...

  • Heart of the Dragon

    Deborah Smith

    A Bronzed Barbarian Who Toyed With Danger... Kash Santelli was prepared to frighten a greedy schemer who he believed was telling lies all over Bangkok, but Rebecca Brown wasn't all what he expected! The spirited American woman stuck to her story a...

  • Slow Larkin's Revenge

    Christine Rimmer

    Violet Windemere stared out her parlor window ... and couldn't believe her eyes! It was Slow Larkin, the sexy rebel of her girlhood dreams--the boy she'd once adored with all her heart. Now here he was, eleven years later, just as devastatingly mascu...

  • Sir Flynn and Lady Constance

    Maura Seger

    GUILTY--UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT Q: "You're saying, Ms. Lehane, that during a date, a wealthy, influential man attempted to rape you?" A: "He was stronger . . . we struggled--" Q: "But you're alive, and he's dead. Get yourself a good lawyer, ma...

  • A Practical Marriage

    Dallas Schulze

    LOVE AND MARRIAGE? Take one overworked aunt, two parentless children and a drifter with a sexy smile and a shady past--and what have you got? Abby Taylor was stumped. For weeks, John Lonigan had been repairing her house, chatting man-to-man wit...

  • The Man She Married

    Tracy Sinclair

    Dorian Merrill had planned to face the past when she returned to Summerville, but she wasn't prepared to deal with Raif Dangerfield. He was the hometown boy who'd hijacked her heart seven years before... who'd been witness to her awkward attempts at ...

  • Abracadabra

    Peg Sutherland

    She couldn't have a child of her own Katherine Barnett had a nearly perfect life. She had an exciting job, good friends and a beautifu home. But whenever she was confronted with the one thing she couldn't have, panic set in. Hank Weisbecker's l...

  • Starfire

    Laura Taylor

    The Charismatic Rake in Cowboy Boots... With his irresistibly rugged looks, business superstar Jake Stratton was probably every woman's secret fantasy--but Professor Libby Kincaid insisted she didn't want to baby-sit him during his visiting lectur...

  • Bold Imposter

    Helen Tucker

  • Thy Heart in Mine

    Cara West

    A promise for the future Unmarried at age forty, Austin social worker Elizabeth Waite had resigned herself to the fact that she'd never have a family of her own. Then, miraculously, she met Mac Reynolds. Handsome, successful, Mac could promise Eli...

  • Forbidden Fantasy

    Tiffany White

    A stranger was stalking her...seducing her When Zoe fled her humdrum life to do everything she'd never dreamed of doing in Paris, she'd never, even in her wildest dreams, imagined meeting a man like Grey. He was her every forbidden fantasy and he ...

  • Beyond Summer

    Karen Young

    There were some things he couldn't forgive Lincoln Cantrell had returned to Blossom, Mississippi, intent on avenging the wrongs he'd been dealt at the hands of the state's would-be governor, Jack Keating. He got his opportunity when he took over t...

  • The Secret Life of Elizabeth McCade

    Peggy Webb

    Her Bold, Fearless Renegade... He came to her by night, a savage warrior who knew that her prim suits hid silken lingerie and the heart of a rebel. Black Hawk was handsome, lethal, a kindred soul who burned with the same restless fever Elizabeth M...

  • Beloved Stranger

    Peggy Webb

    UNCUT DIAMOND .. . When Belinda Stubaker arrived in Tupelo, she was bound and determined to start a new life, to become a new woman. She was tired of not putting down roots--tired of watching people come and go. So when she met handsome, reserved ...

  • Child of the Storm

    Diana Whitney

    Megan O'Connor blamed Jake Slater--blamed him for seducing her younger stepsister . . . and for the tragic events that ended in. her stepsister's death. But Megan knew it wasn't just Jake's fault; it was hers, too. If she hadn't been so loyal to her ...

  • October Wind

    Susan Wiggs

    A sweeping, unforgettable story of romance, intrigue -- and the greatest voyage ever made. THE DREAMER He believed he could reach the fabulous Indies by sailing West. She ruled a kingdom -- but he offered her a new world. THE QUEEN His guilty...

  • Foreign Exchange

    Larry Beinhart

    Tony Cassella doesn't want to be a private detective anymore. He has a new baby, and he may even have a wife soon. He also has problems with the IRS, and these things tend to slow a man down. So he's traded his trench coat for a quiet but profitable ...

  • The Student Body

    J.S. Borthwick

    The campus of Maine's Bowmouth College looks like a picture postcard of New England-snow-covered lawns, students in colorful ski parkas, icicles dangling on the ivied halls. Sarah Deane-English Fellow with an honorary degree in sleuthing-expects to s...

  • In a Pig's Eye

    Robert Campbell

    Jimmy Flannery -- Chicago's most endearing sewer inspector -- has just been named Democratic committeeman for the Twenty-seventh Ward. What with the celebration, plus eating for two ever since his wife Mary told him she was pregnant, his diet's shot ...

  • Sea Fever

    Ann Cleeves

    The birdwatching weekend in Cornwall is memorable -- even without the murder. Miracle of miracles, the small band of fanatical birdwatchers aboard the Jessie Ellen -- among them detective George Palmer-Jones -- sights a seabird that has never been...

  • Bleeding Dodger Blue

    Crabbe Evers

    IN THIS OLD TIMERS' GAME, THE STAKES ARE LIFE AND DEATH Dodger Stadium, where the grizzled Bums of Brooklyn gave way to the tanned pretty boys of Tinseltown. Where sushi vendors ply their trade in the box seats and "seventh-inning stretch" refers ...

  • If Looks Could Kill

    Eileen Goudge

    The murder of a first-place winner rocks a small-town high school in the third thriller from the author of Cross Your Heart, Hope to Die.   With the killer of the Peach Blossom Queen still on the loose and the festival on hold, everyone is on ed...

  • Quoth the Raven

    Jane Haddam

    THINGS THAT GO DEAD IN THE NIGHT Former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian has been invited to speak at a small liberal arts college, his lecture on murder having been scheduled for Halloween night. But someone on campus has already taken the course, and is...

  • Swan Dive

    Jeremiah Healy

    It began as a favor for an old friend: protect a frightened mother and child from a wrathful husband. Then the husband took a swan dive from a twelfth-story window, and in the seedy hotel room he left behind a dead prostitute - and Detective John Cud...

  • Lesson in Murder

    John Buxton Hilton

    There are more questions than answers when four schoolgirls point fingers at their teacher with some serious charges: Is Henry Gower the malicious man they claim? Or is their story designed to spread scandalous rumors throughout their small town? Whe...

  • Trophies and Dead Things

    Marcia Muller

    A RANDOM SERIES OF MURDERS IS ONLY a succession of headlines in the San Francisco Chronicle for investigator Sharon McCone until one of her legal co-op's clients becomes a victim. Perry Hilderly had been a founder of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement...

  • Personal Effects

    Marissa Piesman

    Being single in New York is fabulous, when the alternative is being dead... Meeting men through the personals in 1990s New York is playing romantic Russian roulette, as Nina Fischman's oldest friend, Susan, discovered--too late. As for Nina, she h...

  • Scratch

    Marc Savage

  • Now Let's Talk of Graves

    Sarah Shankman

    It’s Mardi Gras, and ace crime reporter Sam Adams has flown to New Orleans to visit her old college roomie Kitty whose debutante niece is about to be crowned queen of Comus. At the airport Sam first glimpses Harry Zack, a s...

  • Hawaii Heritage

    Dana Fuller Ross

    The flames of revolt blaze across the Hawaiian islands, plunging the new republic into revolution and bringing a pro empire to its knees. The golden reign of a great and beautiful queen comes to a violent end, her once-dazzling dynasty swept up in a ...

  • Winter Rage

    John Legg

  • The Plains of Passage

    Jean M. Auel

    Now, in a brilliant novel as vividly authentic and entertaining as those that came before, Jean M. Auel returns us to the earliest days of humankind... and to the captivating adventures of the courageous heroine called Ayla. With her companion, Jonda...

  • Tigana

    Guy Gavriel Kay

    This is that rare, spellbinding novel in which myth comes alive and magic reaches out to touch us. Tigana is the magical story of a beleaguered country struggling to be free. It is the tale of a people so cursed by the dark sorceries of the tyrant ki...

  • The Trinity Paradox

    Kevin J. Anderson; Doug Beason

    VISIONS OF NUCLEAR FIRE... Activist Elizabeth Devane wished for an end to nuclear weapons. Surely, she thought, if they'd known what they were unleashing, the scientists of the Manhattan Project would never have created such a terrible instrument ...

  • Q-In-Law

    Peter David

    When two powerful rival families of the spacefaring merchant race called the Tizarin are to be joined through marriage, the U.S.S. Enterprise is chosen as the site for the wedding. Though Captain Picard is pleased by the happy duty, his pleasure is c...

  • The Wild Hunt

    Elizabeth Chadwick

    Theirs was an age of pride and passion. The year is 1098. As innocent as she is lovely, Judith of Ravenstow becomes the bride of roguish, handsome Guyon, Lord of Ledworth, in a union arranged to protect their lands from the clutches of Judith'...

  • The Underground Stream

    Velda Johnston

    AN OLD HOUSE WITH...EVEN OLDER SECRETS For twenty-four years Gail Loring has fought both her fear of the alcoholic haze in which the women of her family have lived and the haunting images of a man -- her great-great-great-grandfather -- called the...

  • Promise Me Forever

    Janelle Taylor

    ... a sweeping tale of a beautiful, innocent woman racing against time to solve a chilling mystery and clear her name. At her side is a man who can neither trust nor resist her. They are both after the truth -- but for very different reasons... I...

  • Yellow Bird

    Rick Boyer

    A Doc Adams Mystery.
    Doc's old medical school chum and one-time drinking buddy, Jonathan Randolph, calls up one cold January night to invite Doc to pay him a visit on Cape Cod. Not long after the awkward reunion, Doc's presence is once again reque...

  • Steel Guitar

    Linda Barnes

    They say you meet all kinds when you're driving a hack. That's certainly the case for Boston PI Carlotta Carlyle, who gets an unexpected fare while moonlighting behind the wheel. It's singer Dee Willis, Carlotta's ex-friend and former band mate, who ...

  • Party Till You Die

    David Charnee

  • Stormchild

    Bernard Cornwell

    The last time Tim Blackburn saw his headstrong daughter Nicole, she was sailing out of his English Channel boatyard with the oddly charismatic leader of a group of environmental activists--some might say terrorists--called Genesis. Now, alone after t...

  • Hot Air

    Jon L. Breen

  • Roman Nights

    Ron Burns

    When the woman who had sought help from him against her husband the evening before dies mysteriously after a raucous orgy, Livinius Severus investigates the death, in a Rome that is slipping back into debauchery and intrigue...

  • Chasing Away the Devil

    Susan Rogers Cooper

    HEAVEN CAN WAIT On Friday night, Sheriff Milt Kovak of Prophesy County, Olkahoma, proposed to his longtime lady love, Glenda Sue. She turned him down. On Saturday morning, Glenda Sue is found brutally murdered. Kovak begins a desperate search to f...

  • Sugarland

    Phillip Finch

    Investigator Jack Hart goes to the Philippines in search of insurance fraud suspect Carlito Sanchez, only to find that a routine case that seemed to offer a built-in tropical vacation hides a world of gun-smuggling, revolution, and chaos...

  • Bahama Heat

    Barry Estabrook

    Determined to save his impoverished Bahamian mission school, Reverend Miles Farnsworth uses the shipment of cocaine accidently delivered to him to make a quick buck, and he becomes inadvertantly drawn into the world of drug lords and hired killers...

  • Reasonable Doubts

    Donald Dewey

    As Manuel Torres' trial for attempted burglary approaches, Torres plans his escape, a juror views the trial in relation to his uneventful life, a courthouse guard awaits the trial with bitterness, and an elevator operator anticipates the violence the...

  • Deadstick

    Terence Faherty

    Why would a millionaire in his sixties, with no accusers to answer to or social ambitions to protect, move to reopen a forty-year-old scandal? That's what ex-seminarian Owen Keane, an introspective, introverted, often idiosyncratic law-firm researche...

  • Two Way Toll

    Zachary Klein

    Matt Jacob is one of the most original and compelling characters in crime fiction, and he returns In Two Way Toll, Zachary Klein's follow up to Still Among the Living, a New York Times Notable book. Before Matt Jacob became a private detective, he wa...

  • River of Darkness

    James Grady

    Once he was a legend in the Army's Green Berets. Then he brought his skills to the CIA. Soon Jud Stuart became one of the company's top spies, a master agent living in a dark underworld--sometimes in cover so deep his own superiors couldn't track his...

  • Judas Priest

    Ralph M. McInerny

    Christopher Bourke is an ex-priest and a former colleague of Roger Dowling. With his wife, Janet Gray - a lapsed nun herself - he co-hosts a cable television show espousing carnal pleasures rather than spiritual aspirations. But when their daughter S...

  • The President's Man

    Elliott Roosevelt

  • Smash Cut

    Steven Womack

    The head of a sleazy international film studio becomes tangled in corrupt Louisiana politics in Womack's fine second mystery to feature public relations expert Jack Lynch. When Pearl Bergeron, the head of Louisiana's state film commission and the gov...

  • Red Sea, Dead Sea

    Serita Stevens

    On vacation in Israel, amateur sleuth Fanny Zindel searches for her truant granddaughter, Susan, who has escaped from an English boarding school, and is drawn into a mystery involving a plot to undermine the faith of Jews, Christians, and Moslems ali...

  • Payback

    Philip Harper

    Former reporter George Gray and tough Sara Mitchell confront Willie Reidus--the sadistic right-hand man to a powerful real-estate mogul and a man who derives exquisite pleasure from inflicting psychological and physical pain on his boss' enemies...

  • The Victim's Daughter

    Robley Wilson

    Returning home for her eagerly anticipated fifteenth anniversary high school class reunion, Lissa Cooper finds her father brutally beaten to death, and she must slowly come to terms with how his murder will forever alter her life...

  • The Nemesis Mission

    Dean Ing

    When a Columbian drug kingpin flies a billion dollars in cash and a plane full of hostages out of Las Vegas into Mexico, only one man can stop him--US agent West Hardin. With the help of his gorgeous pilot, Coleen Morrison--and his ultra-light, solar...

  • Synners

    Pat Cadigan

    In Synners, the line between technology and humanity is hopelessly slim. To be a Synner is to join the online hardcore, an outlaw band of hackers, simulation pirates, and reality synthesizers hooked on artificial reality and virtual space. Now you ca...

  • Imajica

    Clive Barker

    "Rich in plot twists, byzantine intrigues and hidden secrets, Imajica is a Chinese puzzle box constructed on a universal scale. . . Barker has an unparalleled talent for envisioning other worlds."  --  Washington Post Book WorldFrom master ...

  • Entoverse

    James P. Hogan

    Human society on Jevlen was falling apart -- and it looked as if JEVEX, the immense super-computer that managed all Jevlenese affairs, was at the heart of the matter. Except that the problems didn't stop when JEVEX was shut down. People were changing...

  • Bittersweet

    Sylvie F. Sommerfield

    Lovely Beth Raleigh was the survivor of a devastating marriage, and vowed to let nothing disturb her serene new life in a peaceful New England town. Chief of Detectives Carl Forrester was haunted by the memories of his young wife's murder, and swore ...

  • The Duchess

    Jude Deveraux

    Claire Willoughby was a modern American girl of the late 1800s--fresh, practical, energetic, and wide-eyed with curiosity. A clause in her grandfather's will said that she must wed an "acceptable" man to keep her millions, and blond, handsome Harry M...

  • The Last Innocent Hour

    Margot Abbott

    It was a bright and shining love...She's loves wide-eyed Sally Jackson, daughter of the American ambassador in Berlin. He's handsome Christian Mayr, her first love. Together, they share idyllic Bavarian summers and a magnificent passion-seduced into ...

  • Lily

    Patricia Gaffney

    THE MAID She arrived at Darkstone Manor without friends or fortune, welcomed only by the hiss of the sea in the midnight hush. Lily Trehearne had been born a lady, but now she resigned herself to a life of backbreaking drudgery, inescapable poverty....

  • No Greater Love

    Danielle Steel

    Edwina Winfield, returning from her engagement trip to England with her fiance and her family, instantly loses her parents, the man she loved and her dreams. Without even time to mourn, she courageously defies convention to run her family's Californi...

  • Heart of the Lonely Exile

    B.J. Hoff

    In Heart of the Lonely Exile, Book Two of BJ Hoff’s acclaimed and bestselling Emerald Ballad series, readers will find heroine Nora Kavanagh struggling to build a new life for herself and her son Daniel in America. With help from a wealthy American...

  • Monster Machine

    Victor Appleton

    Kidnapped by an international arms dealer who hopes to turn a sophisticated multi-purpose vehicle into a high-tech weapon, Tom attempts to foil the plot by stealing the vehicle back and piloting it through a dangerous barrage of jets and rockets...

  • There's No Such Thing as a Haunted House

    Cynthia Blair

  • Wild Jack

    John Christopher

    High adventure and intrigue await in this classic work of science fiction from critically acclaimed Tripods author John Christopher.After the disastrous Breakdown of the twenty-first century, the world has made a change. Now, in the twenty-third cent...

  • Height of Danger

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • The Feast of the Trickster

    Beth Hilgartner

    The magical world Alexandra Scarsdale visited in Colors in the Dreamweaver's Loom is in trouble. The fabric of Fate is in danger of unraveling, and it will only get worse as the Feast of the Trickster draws near, and that malicious goddess comes into...

  • Trouble at Wild River

    Lois Walfrid Johnson

    With the help of a Chippewa Indian boy, Kate and Anders race against time… It was a cloudless March night when Kate, Anders, and Erik first spotted the timber swindler. On their way to see Joe, a Chippewa Indian boy who is helping his grandmothe...

  • Wrong Track

    Carolyn Keene

    Posing as a reporter for a ski magazine, Nancy sets out to uncover the truth behind Rebecca Montgomery’s firing from posh Tall Pines cross-country ski resort....