Books Published in October 1991

New Books List: 592 titles

  • Remember

    Barbara Taylor Bradford

    Television war correspondent Nicky Wells is a media superstar. Courageous, beautiful and renowned for her hard-hitting reports from the world's most dangerous trouble spots, her life is shattered when she loses the only man she ever truly loved -- da...

  • Jinx High

    Mercedes Lackey

    Teenage passion meets centuries-old magic...Prom Night's going to be Hell! It should have been a relaxing visit with an old friend, a chance to check out the strange occult vibrations around Tulsa's Jenks High. Di hadn't expected to find a male...

  • The Eternal Enemies

    Leonard Sanders

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Fortress of Forbidden Destiny

    Ryder Syvertsen

  • All the Weyrs of Pern

    Anne McCaffrey

    “When McCaffrey's beloved dragons roar and their riders soar on the beasts' mighty backs . . . fans of Pern will likely be enthralled.” -- Publishers Weekly

    For generations, the dragonriders had dedicated their lives to fighting Thread, th...

  • 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 Comet Masters

    Edward Packard

    With several comets plummeting toward Earth, the Space Hawks must find a way to deflect the comets before they destroy the planet! ...

  • 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...

  • Eon

    Greg Bear

    THE 21st CENTURY WAS ON THE BRINK of nuclear confrontation when the 300 km long stone flashed out of nothingness and into Earth orbit. NASA, NATO and the UN sent explorers to the asteroid's surface ... and discovered marvels and mysteries to drive...

  • Fantastic Four vs. the X-Men

    Chris Claremont

    The revelations of a long forgotten diary cast Fantastic Four leader Reed Richards into a maelstrom of soul- wrenching self-doubt. Family and friends turn from him, questioning his loyalty and integrity. Furious battles against once ally, the X-Men e...

  • Grand Master's Choice

    Andre Norton

  • Kinship With the Stars

    Poul Anderson

  • The Life of Captain Marvel

    Jim Starlin

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Norby and the Court Jester

    Janet Asimov

    Anticipating nothing but fun during spring break at the Space Academy, Jeff Wells and his robot, Norby, prepare to visit their friend Pera, but their plans are disrupted when Pera is attacked by an evil court jester. Reprint....

  • The Planetoid of Amazement

    Mel Gilden

    Rodney Congruent (son of Watson Congruent of "The Return of Captain Conquer" fame) fears he will never have the sort of adventures his parents had. Then he receives an envelope full of transporting glitter, and ends up on an alien spaceship. ...

  • Power

    S.M. Stirling

  • The Power of Iron Man

    David Michelinie

  • Robot Warriors

    Gordon R. Dickson

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • Comeback

    Dick Francis

    They say you should never go back. Most people do, however, survive a peek at their childhood environs. But when globe-hopping British First Secretary Peter Darwin goes home, he not only risks his own hide, but those of others--including racehorses. ...

  • The Copper Peacock and Other Stories

    Ruth Rendell

    The Copper Peacock and Other Stories gathers together nine new short stories - eight tales featuring the psychological suspense that has made Ruth Rendell the darling of critics and discerning fans, and one classic detective story featuring Chief Ins...

  • Evidence of Blood

    Thomas H. Cook

    Forty years ago in Sequoyah, Georgia, Charles Overton was sentenced to die for the murder of a young woman, even though her body was never found. But the prosecution had all the ammunition it needed: a blood-stained dress and a jury out for vengeance...

  • Fell Down

    M.E. Kerr

    If things seem too good to be true, they probably are.A fateful car accident with a mysterious stranger sets a young man on a startling new path, tangled with promise, mystery, and danger. Presented with an offer too good refuse, working-class John F...

  • Field Trip

    Jeff Hammer

    A weekend field trip to colonial-flavored Franklin Forge Historical Village turns into a nightmare for student Tom Martin when his classmates begin disappearing one by one, and he is left to solve the mystery...

  • 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 ...

  • Glitterbug

    Tony Kenrick

    Awakening from a severe accident without his memory, former skip tracer--an agent who locates people who have walked away from their responsibilities--Jerry Parrish retraces his last unfinished case in an attempt to regain his memory...

  • Harlot's Ghost

    Norman Mailer

    With unprecedented scope and consummate skill, Norman Mailer unfolds a rich and riveting epic of an American spy. Harry Hubbard is the son and godson of CIA legends. His journey to learn the secrets of his society -- and his own past -- takes him thr...

  • 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...

  • The Innocence of Guilt

    Eileen Dewhurst

    Bob and Barbara, Jack and Caroline. Two happily married couples who have been great friends for so long. But all is not what it seems. For Barbara does not know that when Bob stays overnight with Jack and Caroline, Jack is never there.But, one night,...

  • 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...

  • Paramour

    Gerald Petievich

    Assigned to keep rumors of a dangerous threat to the President from the press, Secret Service Agent Jack Powers follows a twisted trail leading from the inner circle of the Oval Office to international terrorist groups. Reprint....

  • Party Till You Die

    David Charnee

  • Promises to Keep

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    "Her face showed one marking that he had seen too often since beginning the present work eyes that were much older and harder than they should be in a girl of this age. It always gave him a pang, seeing eyes like that. He felt the silent accusations ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Scratch

    Marc Savage

  • Shade Those Laurels

    Cyril Connolly

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Zero Casualties

    Tom Jagninski

    The U.S. Army is lobbying Washington to kick The CIA out of Laos, claiming the agency is dragging its heels interdicting enemy trials; what they really mean, though, is that with the Vietnam War winding down, everyone is desperately looking to pull s...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • India Gate

    Lacey Fosburgh

    Afraid that the murdered white man found in the Indian province controlled by her father's business associate is her brother, Phoebie Guthrie--an American woman raised in India but living in New York--returns to her adopted homeland...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Perdita

    Sylvia Andrew

    PERDITA, THE LOST ONE, HAD BEEN FOUND -- BUT WHO WAS SHE? Was she a pirate's plaything or a more innocent prisoner of the Algerian pasha? Whoever she was, she suited Lord Ambourne's dark purposes. He would buy her from the pasha and ma...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Homecoming Dance

    Janet Quin-Harkin

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Body Guard

    Rex Burns

    Devlin Kirk is back in this third book by Rex Burns featuring the clever private eye and his bear-sized partner, Bunchcroft. Kirk & Associates are once again reduced to investigating insurance fraud cases in order to keep the agency afloat, when two ...

  • A German Requiem

    Philip Kerr

    Bernie Gunther had his first brush with evil as a policeman in 1930’s Berlin and came to know it intimately as a private eye under the Nazis, when each case drew him deeper into the enormities of the regime. Now the war is over and Gunther’s in V...

  • The January Corpse

    Neil Albert

    Once Dave Garrett was a Philadelphia lawyer. Then he was disbarred. Now he is a private investigator, taking odd jobs to keep afloat. This job is odder than most. He must prove a lawyer who vanished seven years ago is dead. But the evil he finds i...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Dead in the Water

    Julie Smith

    SET SAIL Attorney and exotic fish fancier Rebecca Schwartz is looking forward to relaxing in picturesque Monterey, California, with her friend Marty, and visiting the world-famous aquarium where Marty works. But the peace is soon shattered.... MU...

  • The Fifth Rapunzel

    B.M. Gill

    The sudden death of Professor Peter Bradshaw and his wife was ruled accidental... But in light of the forensic pathologist's damning testimony in the Rapunzel murder cases - in which five prostitutes were strangled, long hair wrapped around their nec...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Mortal Remains in Maggody

    Joan Hess

    LIGHTS, CAMERA,...MURDER? Chief of Police Arly Hanks is still telling herself that someday she'll leave her hometown of Maggody, Arkansas (pop. 755) and return to the bright lights of Manhattan. Ordinarily Arly's known for saying nothing ever happ...

  • 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...

  • Rostnikov's Vacation

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    Inspector Rostnikov is vacationing by the seashore, tending to his recuperating wife and reading American crime novels, when a vacationing fellow officer meets with a mysterious demise. Suddenly, Rostnikov is back at work . . . and on the trail of a ...

  • A Single Stone

    Marilyn Wallace

    A truth more terrifying than nightmare.

    Linda Orett has tried desperately to erase her past. But a new home, new friends, and even a new name are not enough. For Linda, the abyss of memory is too deep -- and impossible to cross. And now a radi...

  • Hot Air

    Jon L. Breen

  • Mystery for Halloween

    Donald E. Westlake

    This collection of sixteen haunting tales--selected by the editors of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine--calls forth the shivers and suspense that make Halloween a truly blood-red- letter day. Authors include Don...

  • There's No Such Thing as a Haunted House

    Cynthia Blair

  • 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...

  • Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1991

    Edward D. Hoch

  • Foolscap

    Michael Malone

    Professor Theo Ryan lives a quiet life teaching drama at Cavendish University in North Carolina, but everything gets turned upside down when he meets Ford Rexford -- America's best-known playwright. Ford is the most talented and the most impossible m...

  • Traveling Companions

    Friedrich Gorenstein

    Traveling in an unlit sleeping car on the No. 27 train from Kiev to Zdolbunov, Alexander Chubinets gradually reveals his life story to another passenger, a story encompassing the Nazi invasion of Russia, the Holocaust, and six years in a Siberian lab...

  • 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 ...

  • Bold Imposter

    Helen Tucker

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 Dream of Spring

    Teresa Crane

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 ...

  • Lawless

    Patricia Potter

    WITHIN HER HEART THERE LIVED A LOVE OF THE OPEN FRONTIER--AND A PASSION FOR A LAWLESS GUNMAN .... Her name was Willow .... Strong and determined, she survived in a tough land taking on the challenges of the wild West as she worked her ranch with t...

  • 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....

  • Lone Star Seduction

    Kristal Leigh Scott

    Rugged Texas Ranger Texas Ranger Wade Jordan knew the Trans-Pecos territory was no place for an alluring tenderfoot like Caroline Leigh-Hampton. But with her slender, sensual body and brazen green eyes, Caroline was impossible to ignore, and soon Wad...

  • 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...

  • 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-...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.... ...

  • 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.... ...

  • Season of the Sun

    Catherine Coulter

    Zarabeth, with hair as red as an Irish sunset, is chosen by Magnus Haraldsson, a Viking on a trading visit to York, to be his wife. She is both stunned and fascinated by his bluntness, but is soon won over by this man who makes her laugh, brings her ...

  • Set Free My Heart

    Sarah Westleigh

    THE LADY MARGOT COULD NEVER REVEAL HER SECRET Though she had been quietly relieved to hear of the death of her husband while defending the throne of Castile, Margot soon discovered that she was still not a free woman. For the Duke of Lancaster had...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • The Welcome Light

    Jessica Stirling

    Only love for their son holds Kirsty and Craig Nicholson's stormy marriage together. But when a crippling disease strikes the child, Craig's adamant male pride turns to tenderness and concern, and Kirsty, drained by worry and overwork, seeks comfort ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Alone in the House

    Edmund Plante

    Joanne is thrilled to be having a party while her parents are away, but when strangers crash the party and a mysterious presence lingers in the house after everyone has gone home, her excitement quickly turns to terror...

  • Cold Whisper

    Rick Hautala

    Tully. He made Sarah’s every wish come true. He appeared to her eyes alone and spoke so that only she could hear. Sometimes Sarah wondered if it was all her imagination. But the things that Tully made happen were all too real. And, as Sarah grew up...

  • Needful Things

    Stephen King

    A wonderful new store has opened in the little town of Castle Rock, Maine. Whatever your heart's secret desire -- sexual pleasure, wealth, power or even more precious things -- it's for sale. And even though every item has a nerve-shattering price, t...

  • Nightmares on Elm Street : Freddy Krueger's Seven Sweetest D

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Skin of the Soul

    Lisa Tuttle

  • The Struggle

    L.J. Smith

    A LOVE TRIANGLE OF UNSPEAKABLE HORROR... DAMON Determined to make Elena his queen of darkness, he'd kill his own brother to possess her. STEFAN Desperate for the power to destroy Damon, he succumbs to his thirst for human blood. ELENA Irr...

  • Sweet Revenge

    Jean Simon

    Georgia tried to fend him off, but he was too strong…and as he choked the vision from her eyes, something inside her -- something strong and vengeful -- continued to fight, even as her lifeless body fell to the dirt… Fifteen-year-old Jessica C...

  • Tunnelvision

    R. Patrick Gates

  • 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...

  • The Unborn

    Andrew Laurance

    Nostradamus lives ... in his descendant Celina Bell, who discovers that the occult blood of the medieval prophet runs through her veins. A terrifying knowledge which draws her closer to her ancestry - and the route of pure evil. The Unborn is the thi...

  • Walls of Fear

    Kathryn Cramer

  • Year's Best Horror Stories 19

    Karl Edward Wagner

  • The President's Man

    Elliott Roosevelt

  • Elfshadow

    Elaine Cunningham
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Arilyn Moonblade is one of the two best assassin in the Realms. Maybe both. From Cormyr to Waterdeep, Harpers are being murdered. The trail leads to the half-elven adventurer, Arilyn Moonblade. Is she guilty, or is she the next target? Tormente...

  • Question Quest

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

  • 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...

  • Arizona Slaughter

    Jon Sharpe

    Fighting for their lives and their land against the Apache, the powerful Otero ranching dynasty offers Skye money to make the Apache stop their attacks, but the Apache face an even bigger foe--Spanish slavers...

  • Bride of the Morning Star

    Don Coldsmith

  • Comanche Come Down

    E.J. Hunter

  • The Grandville Bank Heist

    Jake Logan

    With a bounty hunter hot on his trail and nothing in his pockets, Slocum decides to make an unauthorized withdrawal from a West Texas bank, but his life gets even more complicated when he falls for his partner's sister...

  • The Grass Crown

    Colleen McCullough

    New York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough returns us to an age of magnificent triumphs, volcanic passions, and barbaric cruelties.Throughout the Western world, great kingdoms have fallen and despots lay crushed beneath the heels of Rome's ...

  • Gravedancer

    Dale Colter

  • Guns of Horse Prairie and Wildcats of Tonto Basin

    Nelson Nye

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Justin Morgan Had a Horse

    Marguerite Henry

    Joel Goss knows that Little Bub is a special colt, even though he's a runt. And when schoolteacher Justin Morgan asks Joel to break the colt in, Joel is thrilled! Soon word about Little Bub has spread throughout the entire Northeast -- this spirited ...

  • 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....

  • Longarm and the Colorado Gundown

    Tabor Evans

  • 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...

  • Ramsey's Revenge

    Will McLennan

  • Roughshod

    Norman A. Fox

  • The Sacred Stones

    William Sarabande

    Courageous, passionate men and women battle for survival of their clans -- in the shadow of the great mammoth who speaks with thunder . . . 

    As the massive glaciers fade and the wide seas rise, the warm grasslands of the Americas bring prospe...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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'...

  • Winter Rage

    John Legg

  • Women of the Silk

    Gail Tsukiyama

    In Women of the Silk, a West Coast bestseller in its hardcover publication, Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk...

  • And I Will Love You Forever

    Shannon Drake
    in

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

  • A Certain Magic

    Betina Krahn
    in

    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....

  • 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...

  • Enchantment

    Christina Skye
    in

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

  • Forever Yours

    Katherine Sutcliffe
    in

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

  • 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...

  • That Other Katherine

    Linda Lael Miller
    in

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

  • Nick Fury VS. S. H. I. E. L. D.

    Bob Harras

  • 38 Weeks Till Summer Vacation

    Mona Kerby

    Fourth grade in Fort Worth, Texas may not be as bad as Nora Jean expects. Something is always happening in Mrs. Carter’s class. Skinny Nora Jean, chubby Rosalie, the oh-so-perfect Thomasina, Chip, Rex, and the dreaded Jimmy Lee keep on their toes w...

  • Adam Hardrow

    David Fraser

  • Aiiieeeee!

    Jeffrey Paul Chan

    This acclaimed anthology brings together the outstanding voices of Asian American writing. Spanning over forty years, in short stories and excerpts from plays and novels, in settings that range from wartime internment camps to Chinatowns, to white su...

  • Aki and the Fox

    Akiko Hayashi

  • All That Heaven Can Give

    Ronald S. Joseph

    Life in New Orleans means very different things to three orphaned siblings--for Colin, destiny lies in the priesthood; for Jeff, the New Orleans underworld beckons; and for Karen, even New Orleans cannot help her forget her uncle's sexual advances...

  • All the Lights in the Night

    Arthur A. Levine

  • Along Came a Spider

    Athena Alexis

    Alice's life in New York was eccentric and wonderful. With her stepfather Todd, her mother and sister, Alice lived in a loft until Todd inherited a fortune and moved the family south. There, in a secluded house, Alice could see the dark forces conver...

  • Amazing Gracie

    A.E. Cannon

  • Angel of Darkness

    Ernesto Sabato

    A novel by the award-winning Argentinian author of "On Heroes and Tombs". Set in teeming, corrupt Buenos Aires in the watershed year of 1973, it creates a portrait of a city, a culture and the tortured soul of a man who dares to look truth in the fac...

  • Around the Table

    Sholem Aleichem

  • As Far As Mill Springs

    Patricia Pendergraft

  • As I Was Crossing Boston Common

    Norma Farber

  • Aska's Animals

    Warabe Aska

  • At the Still Point

    Mary Benson

  • An Auto Mechanic

    Douglas Florian

  • Bad News Boyfriend

    Michael Pellowski