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  • Who the Hell is She, Anyway?

    Marisa Acocella

    Black-and-white and two-color illustrations chronicle the zany exploits of She--a gorgeous woman with a certain knowledge of who she is and what she wants--from birth through the defiance of her school years, escape from the world of corporate ...

  • The Han Solo Adventures

    Brian Daley

    Han Solo soars again--in this awesome trilogy of his extraordinary exploits. Ride with him as he rides to the rescue, narrowly escapes certain death, and foils evil in its ruthelss tracks!Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a p...

  • When Lightning Strikes

    Kristin Hannah

    A MAN LOST IN THE PAST, A WOMAN LOST IN TIME... Romance writer Alaina Costanza has given up on dreams and fairy tales. Then one storm-tossed, enchanted night she is plunged back in time to the wild, Western world of her newest novel. Disoriented a...

  • The Law of Becoming

    Kate Elliott

    THE GAME OF PRINCES-- When the human rebellion against the Chapalii Empire failed, the alien overlords did the unthinkable. They made Charles Soerensen, leader of the rebellion, a duke in their empire, granting him lordship over several worlds, am...

  • Bad to the Bone

    Jack Bodine

    Fleeing to Mexico to escape the law, Duane Braddock, the Pecos Kid, lands in hot water when he befriends a powerful Mexican aristocrat's lonely wife, with American bounty hunters on his trail, renegade Apache in the area, and an old flame in hot purs...

  • Ambush at Skull Pass

    Jon Sharpe

    Caught between a tribe of vengeful Utes and a crazed gold prospector's town, Skye Fargo tries to hold his own with the town's deceitful leader, an Indian princess who claims him for her own, and a fiery bar girl. Original....

  • Orphan Train

    J.R. Roberts

    There's not much one man can do against a dozen outlaws -- unless that one man is the Gunsmith. When Clint Adams runs across a gang of Comancheros ambushing a small wagon train, he heads for cover and sets up a hail of lead that makes the bushwhacker...

  • Prairie Blood

    David Thompson

    Rugged mountain man Nathaniel King braves the perils and hardships of the Rockies to build a new life for himself far from city corruption, but his world falls apart when his young son disappears. Original....

  • The Whispering Outlaw

    Max Brand

    The Whisperer, a mysterious frontier bandit who never shows his face or speaks in his own voice, recruits a ragtag band of outlaws to assist him in a series of daring robberies designed to make them all rich. Reprint....

  • Homecoming

    Dana Fuller Ross

    It's 1899, and in Taos, New Mexico, the enterprising Michael Holt pursues a personal dream...a vision of the West that will forever alter the American landscape. Half a world away, U.S. intelligence agent Henry Blake has watched his government sink i...

  • Lonestar and the Trapper Turf War

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki find more swindlers than timber in the cross fire of a bloody north-woods feud!Pursuing double trouble when both the Flaming Geyser stage line and Rod Delmonico's forest holdings become targets of assault, the Lone Star duo Jessi and Ki...

  • Longarm and the Barbed Wire Bullies

    Tabor Evans

    When Duke Albright and his gang of killers begin posting fences that rob homesteaders of their cattle and water, shooting anyone who attempts to stop them, Longarm realizes it will take more than courage to bring them to justice. Original....

  • The Quiet Cowboy

    Jack Curtis

    Mustang wrangler Wes Bengard and his Paiute partner, Red, take on Beecher Turnbull, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in Nevada's Juniper Valley, who is responsible for the murders of five "rustlers" who made the mistake of straying onto Turnb...

  • St. Agnes' Stand

    Thomas Eidson

    Encountering the survivors of an Apache ambush deep in the New Mexico desert, Nat Swanson is disturbed when their leader, Sister St. Agnes, insists despite her own shaken faith that Nat has been sent by God to lead them to safety. Reprint....

  • Gold Ledge Gold Diggers

    Dirk Fletcher

  • Edge of Heaven

    Caroline Bourne

    AN ENCOUNTER WITH DANGER The Donovans were cursed by bad blood. That's how Philadelphia heiress Mariette Donovan justified her cousin Roby's actions when he nearly killed his brother over a girl, then ran off with her into the untamed Alleghenies. N...

  • Duel of Hearts

    Helen Archery

    A BATTLE OF WILLS... AND A WILLFUL BRIDE TO-BE An arranged marriage was not what Hillary Astaire had hoped for, but she was honor bound to keep her promise to her late father. Until she learned that her betrothed, the viscount of Wolverton, known ...

  • Angel Face

    Jane Bonander
    in

    A lonely schoolmarm fleeing a Minnesota blizzard seeks refuge with an embittered farmer and his half-breed son--and experiences a miracle of love by the Yuletide fire....

  • Sweet Dalliance

    Lisa Bingham

    When Micah St. Charles wakes up at the wrong end of a gun aimed by a women who has stolen his clothes, he decides to get clear of Eliza Wilder's barn fast. On the run from the Union army -- accused of treason by the one man who should have lo...

  • Anything for Love

    Connie Brockway

    Forever Venice Leiland, determined to overcome her spoiled rich girl reputation, has come to the most remote spot in the Rockies to save a small mining town from financial ruin. The last person she expects to find is Noble "Slats" McCaneag...

  • The Raider's Daughter

    Kimberly Cates

    SHE HAD A FIERY SPIRIT ONLY ONE MAN COULD TAME... The vitality of colonial Virginia had transformed Lucy d'Autrecourt Blackheath into a defiant and self-assured young woman -- and made her restless and hungry for adventure. When a parcel arriv...

  • The Devilish Earl

    Rachelle Edwards

    THE RAKE WOULD SOON BE THWARTED BY HIS OWN DEBAUCHERY... Stacia Gilbert, the toast of the London theater, harbored a secret loathing of the ton's truest incomparable, Lord Silverwood, after he ruined her father. Now, after years of deprivation...

  • Love's Darkness

    Cheryl Biggs
    in

    Randi Baines accompanies her fiance, Lane DuCroix, home to his Louisiana Plantation -- only to discover that their arrival has awakened dark forces in the shadowy bayau. Now, Randi must fight the century-old spirit of a beautiful woman named Liliand...

  • After the Frost

    Megan Chance

    "SHE WAS BACK. SWEET JESUS, SHE WAS BACK." He was her worst enemy, her best friend, the childhood sweetheart and lover -- she couldn't escape. And now, after six long years, Belle Sault was back home in Ohio again, determined to claim ...

  • An Elusive Guardian

    Sara Blayne

    SHE TOOK THE TON BY STORM… Charity Wade had gone from impoverished miss to heiress, from a spinster-on-the-shelf to the talk of the ton. And she owed her good fortune to the masked rogue who’d saved her life! Charity had been sailing from Indi...

  • Strawberry Lace

    Amy Belding Brown

    Despising the snobbish attitudes of the Winters, whose barbecue she is hired to cater, Chelsea Adams finds herself falling for the family's son and accepts another man's proposal in order to run from her feelings. Original....

  • Separating

    Susan Bowden

    When her husband announces that he is leaving her for a woman half his age on their silver anniversary, Riona embarks on a journey that could lead to an unexpected new romance, but old bitterness may destroy her chances for a passionate future. Origi...

  • Moonlight Rhapsody

    Nancy Cane

    SIREN SONG On a secret mission that took him to the far reaches of the galaxy, Lord Rolf Cam'brii was captured and enslaved. Sworn to escape at any cost, he vowed to destroy anyone who tried to stop him. But his plans went awry when he came face-t...

  • Heaven's Gate

    Tanya Anne Crosby
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    Choosing Christmas to do the deed, a dashing English duke breaks off his long-standing engagement -- only to discover the innocent fiance he ignored for years has unexpectedly blossomed into a fiery and irresistible woman....

  • A Winsome Widow

    Teresa DesJardien

    THE CHASE IS ON! It all began when Regist, Viscount Collingsworth, overheard that scoundrel, Lord Willernott, laying odds at White's that he could woo and win the lovely Lady Stephana Monroe. Regist had always held the incomparable Stephana in...

  • Midnight Surrender

    Cordia Byers

    The touch of his lips made her want to forget her honor and her pride... For more than three centuries her family had fought and died for France. Now Dara Rochambeau is caught in a deadly plot and branded a traitor to the king. She is determined t...

  • Fortune's Fire

    Barbara Cummings

    Now, once again, she captures the spirit of Revolutionary America in this sweeping tale of a headstrong Irish woman who flees to the Colonies -- but can never escape a British nobleman's vengeance or his burning desire... From a horse farm in ...

  • Lady Alex

    Catherine Creel

    "You are no innocent, and I am no fool!" Alexandra Sinclair was no baseborn little doxy to be toyed with; she was a lady -- with no place here in Australia, in the factory prison at Parramatta ... or in the arms of an arrogant, green-eyed American...

  • An Undomesticated Wife

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    A GROOM WHO JUST WON'T DO Regina Morrisey had a lively wit, a flawless education...and nary a shred of domestic experience. But that didn't stop her diplomat papa from wedding her by proxy to the Marquess of Daniston. Leaving exotic Algiers ...

  • Carolina Dawn

    Wendy Garrett

    THEY CALLED HER ENCHANTRESS... Jenna Llewellyn's wild beauty and special gifts branded her a witch and forced her to live as an outcast, but the silver-haired healer was content to roam the shadowed swamps of North Carolina helping those in ne...

  • Loving Spirit

    Monette Cummings

    "BELLE," BOOK, AND CANDLE... What a perfect setting for a Halloween ball, thought Fiona Mallory as she walked into Queen's Gift, Viscount Rex Stinson's majestic mansion... if only the lavish estate weren't so far from London. A...

  • Midnight Temptation

    Nancy Gideon

    BLOOD LEGACY A sheltered beauty raised in the scenic French countryside, Nicole Radouix's world shattered the day she discovered her father's shocking secret. Desperate and afraid, she fled for her immortal soul. . . BLOOD LUST In the seething ...

  • Temptation

    Donna Hill

    WHEN DESIRES CAN BE HAD FOR THE ASKING... In lavish San Francisco Valley, Noelle Maxwell unveils her secret. Liaisons is the ultimate fantasy--a chic retreat where romantic dreams are yours for the right price. But Noelle has other secrets ...years ...

  • Rescued by Time

    Amy J. Fetzer
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    Christine Warner's South Carolina island vacation takes a mysterious turn when she encounters a handsome stranger -- born over a century before! Alexander Dearborn gallops out of the mist to steal Christine's heart...and then vanishes. Can Ch...

  • Apache Knight

    Carol Finch

    Philadelphia debutante Calero O'Connell is destined for adventure...and for love. Abducted from her stagecoach by renegade Apache, her fear changes to awe when she is rescued by a mysterious warrior who seems both savage and civilized...terrifyin...

  • This Fierce Loving

    Judith E. French

    The white man's cruelties have hardened the heart of Fire Talon. And now his honored father is in their hands, forcing the handsome Delaware war chief to take a captive of his own. She is called Rebecca, the beautiful, untouched bride of his most hat...

  • Coming Home

    Ginna Gray

    COMING HOME is a celebration of love, honor, and family devotion. A handsome stranger named Rourke Fallon offers Sara Anderson a once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity. There's just one catch: She has to move from Los Angeles to Houston...and meet the...

  • The Ice Queen

    Jennifer Horsman
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    In a season of giving, a rash, handsome doctor tending to a sickly youth is smitten by the child's sad and beautiful mother -- and vows to melt away the young widow's grief with the passionate heat of his sensuous, seductive care....

  • The Reluctant Viking

    Sandra Hill

    "PICTURE YOURSELF FLOATING OUT OF YOUR BODY -- FLOATING...FLOATING...FLOATING..." The hypnotic voice on the self-motivation tape was supposed to help Ruby Jordan solve her problems, not create new ones. Instead, she was lulled from a life full o...

  • Althea's Grand Tour

    Emily Hendrickson

    Althea Ingram found no gentleman she could look up to among the London dandies and fortune-hunters. But in Europe she discovered John Maitland, Earl of Montmorcy, who personified her idea of the ideal husband. Unfortunately, it appeared that Montmorc...

  • Viking Tempest

    Ashland Price

    THE DREAM For years, Dana Swansen had been haunted by a recurring dream of a faraway time and place. And here, at an ancient Celtic site in Ireland, where she'd come seeking refuge from an unhappy love affair, those visions seemed closer than ever. ...

  • After Innocence

    Brenda Joyce

    Estranged from society, wealthy and beautiful artist Sofie O'Neil finds solace in her private world. She longs just once to taste a forbidden love -- to follow the dangerous diamond smuggler Edward Delanza to paradise. But Edward wants far more f...

  • Reach for the Stars

    Nancy Knight

    Alone now and at a turning point in her life, Eve Travers found herself remembering happy girlhood summers spent at her family's camp, Reach for the Stars. Now, the abandoned South Carolina camp was hers. Maybe instead of selling, she could bring...

  • Faery Magic

    Amber Kaye
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    Lost on the Scottish moors, Bridget Mackay enters a magical realm...and comes face to face with Artair, the handsome prince who has long haunted her dreams. In an enchanted world brushed with moonbeams and stardust, Bridget loses her heart. But is he...

  • The Christmas Baby

    Joan Johnston
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    Having wed to end the warring ways of their feuding Texas families, a reluctant bride and groom find life together an unending battle -- until a beautiful arrival at Christmastime teaches them the true meaning of peace and joy and love....

  • Shadows on a Sunset Sea

    Sabine Kells

    A SHADOW IN THE DARK, A WHISPER IN THE NIGHT, A MAN REACHING OUT TO HER . . . Surely, Carolyn was dreaming. The ghostly legends of Thornwyck Castle couldn't be true. Tiernan O'Rourke had lived nearly three hundred years earlier; he couldn't stil...

  • Stowaway Heart

    Leona Karr

    From the banks of the mighty Colorado, Trish Winters watched the boats struggling against the rapids that had taken many strong men down. A frontierswoman of rare courage and an exquisite beauty hidden beneath her ragged calico dress, Trish vowed tha...

  • The Trouble With Angels

    Debbie Macomber

    A Season for Giving...and Loving It is a time of joy and gladness--yet even the wonder of Christmas cannot brighten lives burdened by loneliness and despair. So when three "rush" prayers fly up from the City of Angels, three real angels fly down t...

  • Near Death

    Nancy Kilpatrick

    As David Lyle Hardwick and his beautiful human companion, Zero, a wounded woman fleeing a dangerous past, travel the world in search of his enemies, David discovers that he is being transformed into nosferatu, a creature of unspeakable, tormented pas...

  • Virgin Bride // Lady of Eve

    Tamara Leigh

    SHE WOULD GIVE ANYTHING TO AVOID BEING SENT TO A CONVENT-- EVEN HER VIRTUE Lady Graeye Charwyck was desperate to escape the fate her father had planned for her--to spend the rest of her life in a convent. She could envision only one way out: to li...

  • Hearts of Gold

    Martha Longshore

    A Stubborn Western Beauty Kora Hunter loved helping out with her father's Sacramento newspaper, until Mason Fielding, an ambitious new reporter, came along and turned her life upside down. The glint in his stunning blue eyes could only mean that ...

  • Moonshine and Glory

    Jacqueline Marten

    MOONSHINE AND GLORY is a wonderful historical novel that will make you laugh out loud and break your heart...sometimes all on the same page. Beginning with a shotgun wedding in Virginia at the end of the Revolutionary War, MOONSHINE AND GLORY traces ...

  • For the Love of You

    Felicia Mason

  • My Kind of Love

    Marian Oaks

    On her own now, and retired from a successful business career, Joanna Blake has a no-nonsense agenda planned for the rest of her life. She'll travel, enjoy gourmet meals, and savor the peace and solitude of her house and garden. Until Ben Wal...

  • Loving Spirits

    Melinda Pryce

    A haunting love... Two years had passed--but Diana Barlow could not forget the husband she had lost. Now she fears she may lose her home as well, as the new heir arrives. A rough-hewn American whose rugged masculinity seems out of place in an Engl...

  • Consenting Hearts

    Garda Parker

    Maggie Logan had finally fulfilled her life-long dream of becoming a veterinarian, and now had a thriving practice in Sea View, New Hampshire. Still, something was missing and she knew exactly what it was: love. -- But when the eviction notice arri...

  • The Genuine Article

    Patricia Rice

    The Fortune Hunter Lady Marian Oglethorp came to London to snare a husband with a fortune large enough to save her family from ruin. She had to move fast. Flaunting her bewitching beauty while keeping her biting wit out of sight, she captured the ...

  • Heaven to Touch

    Veronica Sattler

    SHE WAS HAUNTED BY A PAST SHE COULD NOT REMEMBER...AND A HUNGRY PASSION SHE COULD NOT DENY Fate is playing fast and loose with the notorious rakehell and ladies' man Captain Nicholas Sharpe. First, he inherited an unwanted legacy from his late...

  • Nightspell

    Sara Orwig
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    No-nonsense businesswoman Grace Goltry seeks shelter in a Texas ghost town...and finds herself in the year 1872...in the arms of Logan Graywolf, a legendary Comanche half-breed who awakens her deepest desires. But Grace knows Logan is fated to die in...

  • An Unusual Inheritance

    Rebecca Robbins

    A MAIDEN'S SURPRISE Several rude shocks have, of late, set Miss Emily Hastings' pretty head a-spin. First she learns her adored deceased father was not a naval hero as she was led to believe, but a brazen pirate instead. And now she is expected firs...

  • Never Let Me Go

    Joan Smith

    To find true love in the present, Belle must venture back to the past. SHE WAS HELD IN THRALL BY THE MAGICAL WARMTH OF HIS PHANTOM EMBRACE... Romance writer Belle Savage came to England looking for a hero -- the kind of rakish stranger women ha...

  • Rogue's Lady

    Scotney St. James

    THE LADY... Juliana Lowell had had it with men. First, she was jilted by her faithless cad of a fiance...who then went and married her sister. As if that wasn't bad enough, Juliana's father gave away her dowry in the bargain! Now, the humiliated L...

  • Surrender the Night

    Susan P. Teklits

    TREASON Vanessa Davis played the role of Tory seductress for the sake of the Patriot Cause, charming secrets out of powerful, foolish men before they could claim her body. Until the fateful night when a dashing British officer outwitted her at her...

  • Starlight and Splendor

    Janelle Taylor

    MOONDUST AND MADNESS... STARDUST AND SHADOWS... novels of universal desire and intergalactic adventure... Now, the magic continues amidst the blaze of STARLIGHT AND SPLENDOR... Many years have passed since Commander Varian Saar spirited the lovel...

  • The Perfect Bride // Cornwell Bride

    Sheila Walsh (1)

    The Best Laid Plans Serena Fairburn should have been the happiest of young ladies-for she could look forward to the best of marriages. Soon she would be bride to the fabulously wealthy Cedric, Duke of Cornwall, and her family would be rescued from...

  • Angel Unaware

    Clara Wimberly

    Accustomed to paying - and getting - her own way, wealthy widow Anne Benefield is shocked when an unyielding judge won't let her buy her way out of a sheaf of parking tickets...and sentences her to six months of community service. What's more...

  • Tempt a Lady

    Susan Weldon

    NO PLACE FOR A LADY Rayne was a little girl when her father, Jasper North, abandoned her to make his fortune out west. Now as a woman, she heads to Nevada for a reunion with the supposedly repentant reprobate. But someone else is waiting for the pro...

  • Hush Little Darlings

    Judith Kelman

    Sarah Spooner, an investigator for the district attorney with her own young daughter, launches a probe into the Velvet Viper, a twisted, mysterious criminal responsible for the abduction of prepubescent girls, who are returned with little memory of t...

  • The Black Sea

    Richard Setlowe

  • Warhead

    Don Pendleton

    RULES OF THE GAME Command center for an elite antiterrorist operation, Stony an has the equipment and personnel needed to gather Intelligence and make war on the nation's most elusive enemies. Taking orders directly from the President, Stony Man isn...

  • Killing Range

    Don Pendleton

    BLOOD LUST South Africa's White Wolves are working overtime to reinstate apartheid's brutal code--with a racial bloodbath as their goal and terrorism as their means. But Mack Bolan is hitting the White Wolves where they live, spreading a loud an...

  • Pearl in the Mist

    V.C. Andrews

    One of the most popular storytellers of all time, V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina) continues an engrossing saga of psychological suspense with this second book of the Landry Family series -- soon to be a Lifetime movie! Fate has ...

  • Pranks

    Dennis J. Higman

    It was Halloween night and the kids were dressed to kill. All they wanted was a little harmless fun on that foggy October evening -- a little revenge against the uptight, solid citizens of Puget Sound who looked down on them. A few overturned gar...

  • Yellow Moon

    David J. Searls

    A wave of fear engulfs idyllic Cleary, Ohio, when thirty ragged strangers appear and five local boys disappear, but it is nothing like the terror that overwhelms the town when the children return from a nightmarish world, bringing with them an unspea...

  • Hell-O-Ween

    David Robbins

    On Halloween night, two buddies decided to play a cruel trick on the class brain...but the joke was on them. They only wanted to scare their enemy to death...but their prank went awry and one of their friends ended up dead, her body ripped to piec...

  • Prank Night

    David Robbins

    Beneath sky pitch-black and moon full bright, lurks terror twice as dark as night. Newly risen from the grave. Hot, flesh red blood it does crave. Grisly death it brings the brave; The cowardly will rant and rave. Halloween is a time for fri...

  • Bodyguard

    William C. Dietz

    He lives in a world where technology grows too quickly for the mind to comprehend. Where huge corporations expand outward into the far reaches of space. Where things of the past are swiftly deleted to make way for the future. But some things...

  • The White Mists of Power

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    An innocent excited boy, a prince and heir, takes his first journey to the city. The streets teem with merchants in velvet robes, magicians, half-mad preachers, with life and color, poverty and noise. He doesn't want to miss any of it.But this marks...

  • The Wind-Witch

    Susan Dexter

    Book Two of "The Warhorse of Esdragon"
    Faithful wife to a small landholder, Druyan had lived her life in other people's shadows. And if she could sometimes hold the clouds at bay or whistle up a wind, Druyan made sure to keep that talent to hersel...

  • The Medusa Plague

    Mary Kirchoff
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Between earth and sky! The name Guerrand DiThon has been cursed by his family since the day he disappeared. When a mysterious plague strikes their beleaguered village, Guerrand's name is invoked again--as the cause of the disaster. Bram DiThon,...

  • The Hammer of God

    Arthur C. Clarke

    From one of the bestselling science fiction authors of all time comes this heart-stopping far future novel of an asteroid on a collision course with Earth.   A century into the future, technology has solved most of the problems that have plagued...

  • Predators

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    A collection of spine-chilling stories of terror features the writings of Dean Koontz, John Coyne, F. Paul Wilson, J. N. Williamson, John Gregory Betancourt, Edward D. Hoch, and others. By the editors of Stalkers. Reprint....

  • Commando Brigade 3000

    Martin H. Greenberg

    A collection of explosive tales of futuristic warfare details a time of brutal conflict, user-friendly weapons of deadly accuracy, and hard warriors, and features the writings of David Drake, Poul Anderson, Ben Bova, and others. Original....

  • The Sword of Maiden's Tears

    Rosemary Edghill

    MAGIC GONE ASTRAY- It was Beltane Eve and student librarian Ruth Marlowe's thirtieth birthday when she stumbled over New York City's latest mugging victim. He was tall, with long silvery hair, catlike eyes, pointed ears, and he was garbed in the f...

  • Tomorrow Sucks

    Greg Cox

    Journeying from the streets of old London to the decks of interplanetary spaceships, a new collection of science fiction vampire tales features short stories by Ray Bradbury, Roger Zelazny, Dean Ing, Spider Robinson, and other notable authors. Origin...

  • Dinosaur Nexus

    Lee Grimes

    Members of the scientific Pegasus Expedition journey back in time to the Late Cretaceous, before the extinction of the dinosaurs, and come face to face with the Heesh, alien reptilian creatures who had evolved from the dinosaurs on a parallel Earth. ...

  • Nautilus

    Vonda N. McIntyre

    In the final volume in the Starfarers series, the crew of the Starfarer must decide, on the behalf of Earth, whether to join the interstellar Civilization of the aliens or risk being stranded in space. Original....

  • A Matter of Honor

    Thomas K. Martin

    Awakening from a strange coma during which he dreamed of a battle against evil in a magical world, college student Steve Wilkinson quickly realizes that his nightmare has not ended when his dream enemy appears on Earth. Original....

  • Greenthieves

    Alan Dean Foster

    A Futuristic Whodunnit…The Grandest Theft in the Galaxy! NO ONE COULD GET IN The shipments of high-tech pharmaceuticals were locked inside an impenetrable metal shed -- guarded by three security teams and dozens of alarms. NO ONE COULD STAY IN Ca...

  • Out of This World

    Lawrence Watt-Evans

    WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE Like most suburbanites, Pel Brown had problems in his basement. But his were somewhat out of the ordinary: a portal from a world of magic had opened, and now barbarian swordsmen were demanding that Pel help them defeat Shadow, ...

  • The Nomad

    Simon Hawke

    To Find An Avangion... Armed with Galdra, the fabled sword of elven kings, Sorak has forged his way across the forbidding wilds of Athas, from the peaks of the Ringing Mountains to the shores of the Great Silt Sea. Now, along with his villichi com...

  • Alternate Outlaws

    Mike Resnick

    Judith Tarr, George Alec Effinger, Frank M. Robinson, David Gerrold, and other notable writers present a collection of entertaining science fiction tales in which the bad guys go legit and some of history's heroes take up a life of crime. Original....

  • Deals With the Devil

    Mike Resnick

    A collection of stories about mortals who exchange their souls for eternal youth, fame, love, or other irresistible opportunities includes the writings of Jane Yolen, Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon, and others. Original....

  • Lords of the Sky

    Angus Wells

    The Ahn, age-old enemy of the Dhar, have mastered a powerful new battle sorcery and are massing for an attack on Dharbek's shores. It will be the last and greatest battle--a merciless conquest of the lands they once owned and the total destruction of...

  • His Conquering Sword

    Kate Elliott

    WHEN CONQUERORS CLASH-- On the planet Rhui, the jaran tribes, under the leadership of Ilya Bakhtiian have ranged far in their campaign to subjugate all who will not willingly yield to their rule. Yet even as they prepare to besiege the royal city ...

  • Comanche Magic

    Catherine Anderson

    HE WOVE A SPELL AROUND HER HEART Handsome and powerful, with enough Comanche blood coursing through his veins to make him a little bit dangerous, Chase Wolf was used to getting what he wanted. So when Chase saw Franny--a golden-haired angel with d...

  • Perfectly Matched

    Candice Adams

    SHE WANTED HER HUSBAND BACK! Jill Howard had made a fool of herself when she learned her ex-husband was dating other women, but she was sure she could win him back. What she needed was some time away from the small town she lived in, some time to ...

  • The Marrying Type

    Judith Arnold

    NAME: Steve Chambliss AGE: 33 STATUS: STUD #1 OCCUPATION: Carpenter When Steve Chambliss made a bargain with his three best buddies to remain bachelors forever, he had no idea he'd wind up on national TV--representing sexy carpenters. Overnight...

  • Temptation Texas Style!

    Annette Broadrick

    MR. OCTOBER Tough Guy: Tony Callaway. Roughed-up rodeo cowboy--set in his wild ways. Tender Gal: Christina O'Reilly. Shy and sweet--but determined to find her roots. Together? Well, anything can happen.... When Christina O'Reilly showed u...

  • Familiar Remedy

    Caroline Burnes

    The riddle Who hated Sarah Covington enough to frame her for murder? Or were the secret ingredients in her meals the way she disposed of her enemies? The romance It was Daniel Dubonet's job to get close to Sarah. And the sexy maverick agent...

  • The Invisible Groom

    Barbara Bretton

    Jilted! Jenna Grey had been left at the altar not once, but three times. Now, at the debut of her Vegas wedding chapel, Jenna was hearing voices -- marriage proposals, to be exact. But there was no groom in sight! Cursed! Two years ago Chas...

  • An Interrupted Marriage

    Laurey Bright

    Magnus Riordan believed his wife could not possibly hurt him any more than she already had -- until she finally returned to the home they had shared. It was only then that he truly understood the pain of an undying love -- a love clouded forever by h...

  • Gentle on My Mind

    Bethany Campbell

    HUTCH WAS TOTALLY INAPPROPRIATE FOR BETSY... But the two of them were so made for each other, it hardly mattered. They seemed to share not only passion, but genuine affection. They never ran out things to say, and Hutch understood Betsy Holden on...

  • Passing Fancy

    Lydia Browne

    HARMONY'S OWN BIT OF ROYALTY... ... is a misplaced Englishman, an earl's son, who's trying to run a farm. Unfortunately, he knows nothing about farming -- and must ask for help from a woman like no other he's ever seen: a sassy, sur...

  • Married by a Thread

    Kia Cochrane

    BARELY MARRIED Where Dusty McKay came from, wedding vows were forever and wives didn't just up and leave their husbands when the going got tough. But his own wife wanted out of their marriage, and nothing he said or did was working to change Tori'...

  • The Angel and the Renegade

    Cathryn Clare

    Where Angels Go...TROUBLE FOLLOWS And trouble was T.J. Madison's name. Once Jenny Alvarez's instincts had warned her against the irresistible rebel with the teasing grin. But her body trembled at one glance from his tiger eyes, and her soul had su...

  • Sullivan's Law

    Amanda Clark (1)

    "Is that why you're marrying Philip?" Ben looked skeptical and vaguely disapproving as he spoke. "Because Chris needs a father?" "I'm not -- I didn't mean -- That's not the only consideration, you know." ...

  • Two Hearts Too Late

    Christie Clark

    INSTANT FATHERHOOD One moment Carl Tannon was a carefree bachelor; the next, he was a daddy. Not that he minded. He was perfectly willing to tackle bottles and diapers and ...whatever. All he had to do was retrieve his daughter from Kirby Gordon a...

  • Wife for a While

    Donna Clayton

    Desperate Bachelor Ben Danvers was about to lose everything -- unless he was married within the next few weeks. The terms of his grandfather's will were outrageous -- but airtight. Ben had just about given up hope when the last woman he ever exp...

  • The Mating Game

    Susan Crosby

    HIS BACHELOR DAYS WERE NUMBERED Someone had sent Iain MacKenzie on an all-expenses-paid vacation--to a place where there was just one unmarried lady. But what a lady she was! And if his matchmaking friends' secret scheme worked, he'd be walking do...

  • Hesitant Hero

    Christina Dair

    Military battle was nothing to Sergeant Rafael Calderon compared to facing the fourth graders -- and their sultry teacher -- who had written him while away at war. After all, Abigail Dixon and the kids were expecting to meet a true hero. And he was a...

  • Finding Daddy

    Judy Christenberry

    MAN WANTED: Intelligence, sense of humor and compassion a must! Good body a plus! For no-strings-attached assignment. That about described the perfect man for Kelly Abbott's secret mission. But Mr. Right had to have one more all-important qualific...

  • Forgiving Hearts

    Christina Cordaire

    The heart holds the sorrows of the past -- and the secrets of forgiveness... CATHERINE: She lost her husband, a Union soldier, in the Civil War. Now she was headed to a Texas ranch with her young son, to make a fresh start... JONATHAN: The Re...

  • Jake's Promise

    Helen Conrad (1)

    Jake Winslow is back in town for one reason: he wants his son. After his wife's death, he'd thought it best to allow the child's grandparents to care for him. But Kenny's older now, and everyone knows a boy needs his father. Everyo...

  • Turn Back the Night

    Jennifer Drew

    The Beautiful Disbeliever Dawn Girard believed there was a logical explanation for everything. Even the midnight noises in her sister's old house. Nobody would convince her otherwise. Not even a handsome stranger with eyes as dark and seductive ...

  • Between Dusk and Dawn

    Val Daniels

    First Sam Barton convinced Jonna Sanders to hire him. Then he moved onto her farm, where he could keep an eye on her. Then there was nothing left for him to do, except avoid temptation -- and wait. Wait for what he knew he had to do. There was so...

  • Left at the Altar

    Justine Davis

    THE LONG WAY HOME The only woman he'd ever wanted had left him standing at the altar without a backward glance. And there was no way in the world Sean Holt was going to allow her to hurt him again -- no matter how much he ached to let her into hi...

  • Cross Purposes

    Kate Denton

    Latin Lover? Alexandra Harper went to Ecuador for one reason -- to find Camila Zavala. She certainly didn't travel thousands of miles to be wined and dined by the charming and incredibly dictatorial Vicente Serrano. But Vicente knew somethi...

  • Untamed Heart

    Georgina Devon

    UNWILLING BRIDE! When Lord Alaistair St. Simon, better known as 'Saint, ' won the young Baron Stone's inheritance at the gaming tables, he fully intended to return Stone's vowel the next day. But the next day, Stone was dead, and h...

  • The Greatest Lover in All England

    Christina Dodd

    CURTAIN UP Rosie lived a knave's life on the streets of London, singing for her supper with a ragtag band of actors who were always one step ahead of the law. It was a credit to her thespian skills everyone thought she was a boy. But even Rosie...

  • Baby Times Two

    Marie Ferrarella

    Former Husband Chase Randolph had fallen for Gina Delmonico in an instant and, within days, made her his wife. But their marriage didn't survive long on just passion and promises. Now Gina was back in his life--for better, or for worse.... Former...

  • Laurel & the Lawman

    Lynn Erickson

    WHERE ARE THEY NOW? - It's sixteen years since the CLASS OF '78 graduated from the Berkeley School for Girl:,. Four young women, four close friends, stood on the brink of adulthood and dreamed about the direction their lives would take. None could...

  • Babies on Board

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    IT TAKES A VERY SPECIAL MAN TO WIN THAT SPECIAL WOMAN! Kate Hennessy could imagine only one scenario worse than being stranded in the jungle with three infants: being stranded with three infants and Matt Sullivan. If his infuriating know-it-all a...

  • Time and Tide

    Eve Gladstone

    The devil and the deep blue sea Thoroughly modern Bree Kealy was obsessed by a legend. Over a century ago, amid rumors of dark betrayal and bitter revenge, devilish seafarer Alexander Devane went down with his doomed clipper. Yet now his restless ...

  • Starwalker

    Billie Green

    "Be careful what you ask of the gods -- you just might get it...." Born of two bloods, torn between two worlds, Marcus Aurelius Reed was arrogant, untamed -- and the only man who could save Laken Murphy's brother's life! She neede...

  • Goldspun Promises

    Elizabeth Gregg

    At 17, Tressie Majors is stranded in a soddie on the high plains when her mother dies in childbirth. Reed Bannon flees a Yankee soldier after stealing his horse. He was shot and is almost dead when he arrives at the soddie while Tressie is burying he...

  • My Desperado

    Lois Greiman

    INNOCENT CHARMS Katherine Simmons was a schoolmarm back East -- but out West, she was forced to manage a saloon...and brothel. GUILTY PLEASURES Travis Ryland had the reputation of an outlaw -- and the heart of a hero. His worst crime was falling...

  • Bachelor Dad

    Carole Halston

    The pretty single morn with the ten-year-old son looked hauntingly, sweetly familiar. Jennifer Anderson defiantly claimed she didn't know Cliff King, never had. Yet her child was Cliff's spitting image. Suddenly Cliff remembered: a sun-kissed...

  • A Is for Always

    Lisa Jackson

    Rich man's son Max McKee had once loved young Skye Donahue -- not wisely but well. Insatiably. Endlessly. But shameful family secrets -- and dark deception -- had wrenched them apart, abruptly shattering their precious dream of forever. Now, acros...

  • Love a Rebel...Love a Rogue

    Shirl Henke

    THE REBEL -- Quintin Blackthorne dared to despise his father and defy his king, but a mutinous beauty overwhelmed the American patriot with a rapturous desire... THE ROGUE -- Part Indian, part white, and all trouble, Devon Blackthorne would belong...

  • The Daddy Factor

    Kelly Jamison

    WHERE NO ONE WOULD FIND HER... The camp for handicapped children was a haven for Charlotte Haywood. There she could forget her past and shield her son from probing eyes. Then a charismatic stranger showed up, asking too many questions. Neal Corrig...

  • Wolfe Wanting

    Joan Hohl

    THE THIRD BIG BAD WOLFE BROTHER Megan Delaney thought she'd sleep easier with Sgt. Royce Wolfe right in the next room, all six feet five inches of him sprawled on her sofa. But after what she'd been through, a good night's sleep would be a long t...

  • No Brighter Dream

    Katherine Kingsley

    Andre de Saint-Simon has no use for Ali, the mysterious young woman whose life he has saved while on his travels. When he discovers that she is the long-lost daughter of his mentor, he promptly returns her to England -- and tries to forget bout her. ...

  • Storm-Tossed

    Lee Karr
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    Stranded with two staffers and three children, hospital administrator Elizabeth Preston cursed the raging winds and rainfall that held them captive. Then Davin Delmar emerged unscathed from the hurricane, offering his help... and mesmerizing Elizabet...

  • High Spirits

    Elaine Lakso

    "The only bad habit I have is you...." Cody MacRae was tall, dark, dangerously unpredictable--and the only man Cass MacFarland had ever loved! Now, six years after he'd accused her of betrayal, she was back in town ... and needed his help to disc...

  • Something Borrowed, Something Blue

    Adrianne Lee

    Something old... After the Carlyle family lost its wedding heirloom that guaranteed bliss, all marriages failed. Now Lyssa set out to retrieve the necklace from the Rival family - to ensure her own future happiness. Something new... For Craig...

  • The Ancient One

    Rachel Lee
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    Cody Walker spent his life guarding the Ancient One's secret vault. Then archeologist Lynn Carstairs made the find of the century, threatening to unearth ageless secrets -- and deeply-buried desires... Three spine-tingling tales from the dark side of...

  • Blackthorne's Woman

    Victoria Leigh

    They were on opposite sides in a war she had to win . . . Micah Blackthorne always captured his quarry, but Bethany Corbett would do anything to elude her pursuer and keep her baby safe --- even draw a gun! But once she understood he was her only ...

  • Molly and the Phantom

    Lynn Michaels

    THE PRINCESS AND THE JEWEL THIEF Chase Sanquist: Gorgeous. Charming. Jewel thief. Molly Savard: Beautiful. Cultured. Princess. Two greater opposites couldn't be found, except that Princess Molly needed the dashing, devil-may-care Chase Sanqu...

  • High Country Cowboy

    Sandra Moore

    Jake Valiteros. The very name of the aloof, forbidding landowner set Big Piney tongues to wagging. But reckless cowgirl Dusty Macleod refused to be daunted by the mysterious loner who'd bought out her ranch and stolen her dreams. For Dusty had a murd...

  • Seeing Is Believing

    Lindsay McKenna
    in

    A quest for a missing psychic sends mercenary Wes Montgomery into the canyons of Arizona with medicine woman Diana Thurston. From different worlds, both are headed for a collision -- until the haunting caverns reveal secrets that change them forever....

  • Babies on the Doorstep

    Raye Morgan

    BUNDLE OF JOY A basketful of babies was about the last thing Brittanny Lee expected to find on a doorstep, but there they were--and, after all, somebody had to look after them. And if the only help available was her too-gorgeous-to-be-anything-but...

  • Only You

    Fayrene Preston

    LOVE BY ANY OTHER NAME... All her life Faith has known the name of her soul mate: Damon Bradley. But that's all the Ouija board and the fortune-teller told her, and Faith knows she can't wait around forever for her true love. Now, just as she acce...

  • Winds of Destiny

    Laurel Pace

    What Fate Awaited Them? Though at one with the Spirit of Life, Ethan Woodard walked alone. Until the day Elizabeth Merriweather, possessed of sun-splashed beauty and untested strength, came to the place he called home... and changed the landscape ...

  • Falcon Moon

    Catherine Palmer

    Hannah Brownlow knew she was putting her life on the line. But the lovely Bostonian novelist was determined to find her long-lost brother -- even if she had to squeeze her hoopskirts into a westward wagon ... with an Indian. Luke Maples, the raven-ha...

  • One Enchanted Autumn

    Fayrene Preston

    "You taste like strawberry wine -- sweet and spicy ...." Though intrigued against his will by the elegant attorney, Matthew Stone stuck to his guns-no wedding between his aunt and her beau, no matter how enchanting the matchmaker! Samantha McMilla...

  • Dancing on the Wind

    Mary Jo Putney

    DANGEROUS DECEPTION Like his namesake, Lucifer, Lord Strathmore, is known for unearthly beauty and diabolical cleverness. A tragic past has driven him to use his formidable talents to protect his country from secret enemies, and it is a job he do...

  • Night Smoke

    Nora Roberts

    FLASHPOINT Ryan Piasecki: A man's man. A woman's fantasy. The kind of guy who got the job done, no matter what the obstacles...or how beautiful they were. Natalie Fletcher: Cool, calm, collected. Until someone started making trouble for her busine...

  • Born in Fire

    Nora Roberts

    Gifted, reclusive, stubborn, free-spirited... Maggie Concannon is a glassmaker whose exquisite works are more than mere objects of beauty, but reflections of her own true nature. Attempting to hide from her troubled past, reclusive Maggie, who hides...

  • Things Remembered

    Kelsey Roberts

    Could she trust him? Tyler Cantrell was bold, brash and unbelievably attractive, but that wasn't why the rugged cowboy gave Danielle Baylor the jitters. His father had been convinced of murdering her parents over twenty years ago - and now, at Da...

  • Ghost Whispers

    Renee Roszel

    WHAT'S A NICE GIRL LIKE ALICE DOING IN A HAUNTED CASTLE LIKE THAT? If she'd had any other choice, Alice Woods would have run from Percival Castle the moment she saw it. But the Gothic monstrosity was her last refuge--she needed somewhere to recove...

  • Stop the Wedding!

    Maris Soule

    The Groom Is a Snake Matt Stewart is intent on stopping his stubborn sister from making the biggest mistake of her life. But... The Bride Is Insistent First he has to win over Kristi Beeler, a beautiful--but seriously misguided--wedding consulta...

  • Annie and the Outlaw

    Sharon Sala

    OUTLAW ANGEL Harley-riding hellion Gabriel Donner had broken every rule, sinning enough for at least two lifetimes. And it would take just as long to right all his wrongs and earn his way to heaven. But his time was running out .... Then Gabrie...

  • Playboy McCoy

    Glenda Sanders

    HE WAS A HUNK-AND-HALF! PLAYBOY McCOY Real name: Roy McCoy. Occupation: History professor. Course: "Sex Throughout History." Hobbies: Hands-on research. Status: Confirmed bachelor. Laurel Randolph had all the "facts" on McCoy. But sh...

  • Forgotten Vows...?

    Maggie Shayne

    THE PERFECT SCAM It was no secret that reporter Ashville Coye was hot on the trail of the Syracuse Slasher. But only Josephine Bradshaw knew that he was destined to become the killer's next victim. And when Ash landed in the hospital with amnesia,...

  • The Devil's Lady

    Deborah Simmons

    she could not escape his shadowy promise Piers Montmorency 'Twas whispered that the mysterious Red Knight was more than mortal. Perhaps he'd even struck a devil's bargain to assure his warrior prowess. Yet Aisley sensed that Pier&...

  • In My Dreams

    Susan Sizemore

    INTO THE MISTS OF IRISH LEGEND California biker Sammy Bergen was a cool dude. He thought he'd seen everything. Then he was summoned back in time to medieval Ireland by a druidic song spell--and he met the singer, the bewitchingly lovely Brianna. ...

  • Heaven Can Wait

    Cheryl St. John

    Paradise In her secret heart, sheltered Lydia Beker yearned for more -- a sea of sensation, a husband to be tender with. Surely such longings couldn't be wrong? And then came Jakob Neubauer, an outsider who promised her a world of passion... ...

  • Gone with the West

    Dawn Stewardson

    CHESTER CITY, NEVADA 2014 A.D. ALANNA DeRAIN: Feisty, independent and daring. As a ghostbuster, she was used to encountering the unexpected. Then she met John McCully .... JOHN McCULLY: Traditional, resourceful and headstrong. He never dreamed ...

  • Sleeping With the Enemy

    Myrna Temte

    The Seduction Proud tribal leader Jackson Hawk was as powerful as the all-knowing night ... and just as seductive. His magnetism drew Maggie Schaeffer ever closer--awakening her passionate nature and daring her to face her long-denied heritage. In...

  • Love Potion #5

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    She'd accidentally downed a love potion... ...and now Jill Sutherland was desperate to find the antidote! When she'd imbibed the offensive drink, she'd been gazing deep in Remy Beauregard's eyes. Now she couldn't keep her mind--or hands!--off the in...

  • Dangerous at Heart

    Elise Title

    DOWN AND OUT IN PITTSVILLE Life was the pits for Rachel Hart. Single and pregnant, at least she'd had the good sense not to marry the no-good father of her child! Things couldn't get worse, she assured herself. Then her ex-dance turned up dead. An...

  • Memory's Lamp

    Marilyn Tracy

    Speak, memory... It was as if Sandy Rush had stepped into someone else's nightmare...As she cradled a dying woman is her arms, a strange, disturbing memories suddenly flooded her mind - memories that simply could not be her own. And those unwanted...

  • Country Sunshine

    Teresa Warfield

    The price of falling in love... CAROLINE The small farm she shared with her mother and grandfather was home sweet home. But to a smooth-talking land developer, it was prime property... ROBERT The city slicker had big plans for Dubuque, Iowa--...

  • Dad on the Job

    Linda Varner

    Full-Time Father My business partners and I made a pact: No women. No flirting, no dating, no ...nothing. No problem for me. With two kids to raise by myself and my long hours, I have no time for romance. And where would I even find the kind of...

  • The Carradine Brand

    Margaret Way

    The rancher's daughter and the cattle king Curt Carradine is one of the biggest landowners in Australia. Smart, tough, extraordinarily handsome. Other men admire him. Women fall in love with him. Rachael Munro is no exception. As a teenager...

  • Find Her, Keep Her

    Anne Marie Winston

    UNMARRIED, NO CHILDREN Dane Hamilton had always expected to be happily wed and raising a family before he turned thirty-five. Now that the deadline was looming, he needed a wife -- pronto! So when single, sweet, sexy Annie Evans popped into his li...

  • Wages of Sin

    Sherryl Woods

    DEATH TAKES A BRIDE Amanda Roberts knows what makes a woman tick. A gorgeous, gutsy senator's aide who joyfully puts down a deposit on a wedding gown does not commit suicide a few hours later by deliberately slamming her brand-new Jaguar into an o...

  • The Vengeful Groom

    Sara Wood

    Weddings, Inc. For generations, couples have been coming to Eternity, Massachusetts, to exchange wedding vows. Legend has it that those married in Eternity's chapel are destined for a lifetime of happiness. And the townsfolk are more than willin...

  • The Honor Price

    Erin Yorke

    Alanna O'Donnell Lucas had named her his wild Irish witch. For, with hair the color of the sun and eyes blue as the sky, she had bedazzled him beyond imagining. Making him forget that she tore his heart asunder between duty and desire. Lucas de...

  • Do Unto Others

    Jeff Abbott

    “One of the most fun mysteries I’ve read in years. Thumbs up to Jeff Abbott’s delightful debut novel.” -- Carolyn G. HartAfter a few good years of city life, Jordan Poteet returns to his small hometown of Mirabeau, Texas, to work as a librari...

  • A Cat on the Cutting Edge

    Lydia Adamson

    Down on her luck and coping with a temperamental cat, Alice Nestleton contacts the Village Cat People for assistance, but when their representative is murdered on Alice's doorstep, the Cat People want Alice to investigate...

  • A Cat With No Regrets

    Lydia Adamson

    C'EST MEOW -- FOR MURDER Everything's coming up roses for Off-Broadway actress Alice Nestleton when she lands a part in a major motion picture. With her two finicky felines and the three Abyssinians owned by producer Dorothy Dodd tagging along, ...

  • Double Plot

    Leo Axler

    Reluctantly taking the case of a man whose fatal crash seemed accidental enough, undertaker and amateur sleuth Bill Hawley attempts to find the source behind what seems to be a faked suicide tape and the victim's strange life...

  • Choice of Evils

    Warwick Downing

    Rommel leaves her beloved Denver to travel to Washington, D.C., to help prosecute the case of an American accused of killing an Arab from Rashidi, only to find herself working for the defense instead. ...

  • Where's My Baby?

    Elizabeth Ergas

    While researching a series of child abductions and disappearances, reporter Molly Deere uncovers a diabolical conspiracy, but her investigation soon turns terrifyingly personal after her own young son, Petey, vanishes. Original....

  • Web of Smoke

    Erin Grady

    With the police racing against time to stop a serial killer targeting small children, Christie McCoy has no one to turn to when an unknown stalker invades her world and must brave the shadows of her own life to unmask the mad intruder. Original....

  • So Little to Die for

    Lucretia Grindle

    During his long-overdue vacation in the Scottish Highlands, Chief Inspector Ross investigates the murders of actress Claudia Furnival, her sister, and their husbands, a crime for which a local shepherd is charged. Original....

  • A Small Sacrifice

    Ellen Hart

    When Cordelia Thorn ventures to Summer Green, Wisconsin, for a reunion with some old college friends, she finds trouble in paradise. Twenty-plus years have definitely changed things. Soap opera star Diana has become an alcoholic. Curt and Annie's mar...

  • Grave Secrets

    Louise Hendricksen

    Forensics is her forte. Working in Seattle's State Crime Lab, living on lovely Lomitas Island--where her father is local Medical Examiner--Dr. Amy Prescott has an eye for telling detail...and a taste for deadly danger A KILLING IN SILVER On the...

  • One Last Kiss

    Judith Kelman

    They say I cannot be held responsible. The papers dubbed beautiful Thea Harper Westport's Black Widow. They said she lured Senator Simon Gallatin to her home for a night of deadly passion. But psychiatrists insisted it was a short circuit of the m...

  • Angel of Death

    Rochelle Majer Krich

    "The Angel of Death spared your forefathers--Will he spare you?" To L.A. lawyer Barry Lewis, the note on his front door spells danger. To LAPD Detective Jessie Drake, it is as ominous as the Star of David scrawled across Lewis's paint-smeared door...

  • Smoke Screen

    Sandy London

    Taking a job at the Everest Training Equipment corporation, a former field hospital administrator, becomes caught in a dangerous power struggle between her magnetic new boss, Dominic Croft, and Everest's ruthless new president. Original....

  • She Walks These Hills

    Sharyn McCrumb

    Fear more chilling than approaching winter blankets the Appalachian community of Dark Hollow, Tennessee. Some believe that the ghost of Katie Wyler, kidnapped by Shawnee two hundred years ago, is once again roaming the hills. Even more frightening, a...

  • Anna's Book

    Barbara Vine

    Anna is a young woman living in turn-of-the-century London, confiding her rebellious thoughts and well-guarded secrets only to her diary. Years later, her granddaughter discovers that a single entry has been cut out--an entry that may forge a link be...

  • Outsider in Amsterdam

    Janwillem Van De Wetering

    "[Van de Wetering] is doing what Simenon might have done if Albert Camus had sublet his skull."  -- John LeonardOn a quiet street in downtown Amsterdam, a man is found hanging from the ceiling beam of his bedroom, upstairs from the new religious...

  • Stay of Execution

    William P Wood Jr.

    Small-time operator Bobby Carnes took a shot at a big score, setting up a major drug sale with some high rollers in Marina del Ray. He went in with a few bags of crank-methamphetamine and a .44 and walked out a stone-cold killer: a suitcase full of c...

  • A Touch of Panic

    Laurali R. Wright / L.R. Wright

    Karl Alberg investigates the mysteries of love -- and some peculiar goings-on -- in his supposedly sleepy town. Gordon Murphy is charming, intelligent, the recent winner of the lottery -- and searching for the perfect woman. Four times he thought he...

  • A Poison in the Blood

    Fay Zachary

    Hester Jones is a nurse specializing in the care of her invalid father. A favorable ruling in a lawsuit would have allowed Hester to care for him in comfort for the rest of their lives. But the defense attorney Liz's father saw to it they received ne...

  • Road Wars

    James Axler

    THE FUTURE UNCERTAIN Emerging out of the ashes of the nuclear apocalypse, no one has been more successful and determined than Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists. But if the wasteland's endless miles come 'between them, the odds for get...

  • Legend

    David Gemmell

    Druss, Captain of the Axe, was the stuff of legends--tales of the mighty warrior were told throughout the land. But even as the stories grew in the telling, Druss himself got older. Finally, he turned his back on glory to retreat to a mountain lair h...

  • Traitors

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Vowing to destroy those responsible for killing his family, Diate joins the secret police so as to arrange the assassination of Sheba, until he falls in love with her and realizes he has risked his chance for happiness. Original....

  • Globalhead

    Bruce Sterling

    Enter a world where scientists are superstars and gene-hackers unleash "Our Neural Chernobyl," creating drooling geniuses, TV-drugged cats, and gangs of raccoon toughs. A rock star becomes the voice of the people in a crumbling America...and the u...

  • The Bluebell Pool

    Sue Sully

    Young Nancy Gillimore is dazzled by gentleman explorer Aubrey Farringdon, until they leave London for his family manor when, drawn into his scandalous past, Nancy discovers a disturbing and destructive story of passion and betrayal...

  • Plucking the Apple

    Elizabeth Palmer

    ROTTEN TO THE CORE... When gallery owners James and Victoria Harting plan a dinner party for their star artist Jack Carey -- a man more famous for his philandering than his art -- what starts as an innocent gathering becomes an outrageous comedy o...