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  • Mirror Mirror

    Gregory Maguire

    The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives perched high above the rolling hills and valleys of Tuscany and Umbria at Montefiore, the farm of her beloved father, Don Vicente. But one day a noble entourage makes its way up the winding ...

  • The Fish's Tale

    Tish Rabe

    The fussy, rule-obeying Fish is the classic comic foil to the unrestrained Cat. In this shaped, illustrated Pictureback, the Fish relates his harrowing and hilarious account of a day spent with the one and only Cat in the Hat....

  • Pea Pod Babies

    Karen Baicker

    How many times can three babies be chucked under the chin and told they look "just like three peas in a pod"? Even the most patient babies have their limits, and Sweet Pea, Snap Pea, and Snow Pea are no exception. In a moment of rebellion, they burst...

  • Disney: My First 1000 Words: A Picture Wordbook

    Disney Book Group

    Disney characters invite children to discover the world of words in a new and magical way with My First 1000 Words. Thematic environments such as Beauty and the Beast's "Be Our Guest" and The Lion King's "Jungle Animals" bring a real-life context to ...

  • Judge Anderson: Death's Dark Dimension

    John Wagner

    From the phenomenal British classic sci-fi comic series, 2000 AD, comes terrifying stories of psychic police from John Wagner and Alan Grant (Judge Dredd) and artists Brett Ewins (Skreemer) and Cliff Robinson, and with a cover by comics legend Brian ...

  • Two Good Friends

    Kate McMullan

    Meet Pearl, a hardworking rabbit, and Wagner, a daydreaming mouse. At school they build a robot together, impress a judge at the science fair, and tell each other the truth at all times. But friendship isn't always easy. Sometimes a robot doesn't tu...

  • Outlaw Princess of Sherwood

    Nancy Springer

    Her father is determined to make her pay. It was just over a year ago that Princess Ettarde -- her hand promised in marriage to the power-hungry Lord Basil -- escaped to the mantle of Sherwood Forest. There, Ettarde joined Rowan Hood's band of misfit...

  • Slocum and the Undertakers

    Jake Logan

    Slocum’s invited to attend a funeral -- his own.John Slocum was given two hundred dollars and a ticket to Cheyenne, Wyoming with the promise of employment, but not told what kind of services he’d be rendering. On board the train, he’s forced to...

  • The Best Thing Yet

    Robin Allen

    Stunning fashion model Tangi Ellington has it all -youth, beauty, fame, and enough money to last a lifetime. She even has a sweet disposition. Yet something special-or more specifically, someone special -is missing. Until she meets compelling Distric...

  • Kisses and Mistletoe

    Francine Craft
    in

    Kisses and Mistletoe could be in store in Francine Craft's sensual and heartwarming story. Nick Redmond is the sexy lead singer of a rising band. When he and single mother Janet Smith meet, it's lust at first sight. But can the chemistry and unique c...

  • Someone To Love

    Michelle Monkou
    in

    When her husband died, Jennifer Stone made a vow to herself and her young daughter. Keep faith and keep going--no matter what. So far she has kept her promise. But eight-year-old Patti wants a new daddy, and her birthday prayer is answered by firefig...

  • Traggedy Ann

    Sinclair Browning

    SEX, LIES AND MURDER Trade Ellis's high-country Vaca Grande ranch is just a car ride away from a world that couldn't be more different--a city of flash and glitter, poverty and hurt. Trade is happy making her living with Brahman cattle, but an occ...

  • Digital Knight

    Ryk E. Spoor

    IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DARKNESS, THE BRIGHTEST WEAPON IS THE LIGHT OF REASON Jason Wood was just an information specialist-finding data for research, enhancing photos for the police, a nice, usually quiet profession whose only dangers came from an ...

  • Fantasy Fulfilled

    Linda Hudson-Smith
    in

    Linda Hudson-Smith brings back favorite characters Ashleigh Ayers and football star Austin Carrington in a tender story of thwarted desire and new beginnings. Ashleigh and Austin's happiness is threatened when Austin's beautiful ex-fiancee hatches a ...

  • If Loving You Is Wrong

    Loure Bussey

    Things are looking up for Simi Mitchell. After years as a struggling screenwriter and the recent pain of a bitter divorce, she's finally hit pay dirt-a major studio has bought her screenplay for a feature film. As if that weren't enough, the man who'...

  • Mesmerized

    Candace Camp

    All her life, Olivia Moreland has denied her clairvoyant abilities, working instead to disprove the mediums that flock to London. But when Stephen, Lord St. Leger, requests her help in investigating an alleged psychic, she can't ignore the ominou...

  • Nocturne

    Elaine Bergstrom

    In the first new novel about the Austra family of vampires in over ten years, two modern-day young lovers find that they must face a deadly enemy, in a dangerous land that both thought they had left behind......

  • Lives of the Circus Animals

    Christopher Bram

    There is Caleb Doyle, a hot new playwright whose newest work, Chaos Theory, has just bombed. His sister, Jessie, also loves theater but has no outlet for her talents except to work as the personal assistant to British actor Henry Lewse, "the Hamlet o...

  • When the Finch Rises

    Jack Riggs

    “[A] deeply satisfying portrait of a troubled family [that] conjures up the mysteries of a mill town summer, vividly depicting the lights and shadows of ordinary events and horrors.” -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution   It is the late 1960s...

  • Intolerable Cruelty

    F.J. Lauria

    Renowned divorce attorney Miles Massey finally meets his match when he takes on Marilyn Rexroth, the beautiful young wife whom he stopped from cleaning out her cheating husband, in a zany tale of love and revenge. Original. (A Universal Pictures & Im...

  • The Broken Cedar

    Martin Malone

    The Enclave; home to Lebanon's dispossessed. Khalil has made his life here, catering to the needs of UN troops on the Israeli-Lebanon border. His small electrical shop has served him and his family well, has sustained them through turbulent years of ...

  • The Tristan Betrayal

    Robert Ludlum

    THE THREAT TO OUR FUTURE Moscow--a city under siege by hardcore Communists threatening to plunge the country back into Stalinist darkness. Into the heart of the firestorm, American ambassador Stephen Metcalfe has been summoned to find the one man wh...

  • House of War

    Judith Tarr

    It is the dawn of the thirteenth century, and Richard the Lionheart has grown in strength and wisdom since he was crowned King of Jerusulem -- and dispatched the scheming sorcerer Sinan, who once endangered his very soul. But now the Old Man of the M...

  • Pharos

    Alice Thompson

    Set in the early nineteenth century, Pharos is a dazzling ghost story from award-winning author Alice Thompson. A young woman is washed up on the shores of Jacob's Rock, a remote lighthouse island off the coast of Scotland. She does not know who she...

  • These Tangled Threads

    Tracie Peterson; Judith Miller

    Raised in an atmosphere of equality, Daughtie Winfield is outspoken in her support for the rights of others, from the mill girls threatening a strike over pitiful working conditions to the immigrants living on the other side of town. So she is unprep...

  • Ghosts of Boyfriends Past

    Carly Alexander

    First She Wanted Naughty... Madison Greenwood's first post-college Christmas is more Sex and the City than It's a Wonderful Life. Sure, she does the home-for-the-holidays thing, but with her cynical gay pal Leo tagging along, her mom confessing to a...

  • Consuming Fire

    Kathleen Morgan

    BETRAYED BY HER FATHER, ACCOSTED BY HER BETROTHED, AND DECEIVED BY THE ONE MAN WHO HOLDS HER HEART Scottish Highlands, 1694 With one brief meeting, a stranger destroys Maggie Robertson's hopes for her future and threatens everything she has worke...

  • The Defender

    Bill Mesce Jr.

    The case against Lieutenant Dominick Sisto is overwhelming. It's so overwhelming that Major Harry Voss hasn't been called in to prove him innocent--but to fight for a less severe sentence when the guilty verdict is read. Charged with disobeying a dir...

  • The Great Husband Hunt

    Laurie Graham

    What hope is there for Poppy Minkel? She has kinky hair, big ears, skin that's too sallow, and an appetite for fun. Poppy's mother, Dora, despairs of ever finding her a husband, despite the lure of the family fortune offered by Minkel's Mighty Fine M...

  • Eternal City

    Nancy Kilpatrick

  • Secrets on the Wind

    Stephanie Grace Whitson

    The Pine Ridge Portraits series opens as two soldiers discover a desperate woman hidden in a cellar, then take her back with them to their U.S. Army post at Fort Robinson. The painful secrets surrounding Laina Gray and her seeming indiffernce toward ...

  • The Still of Night

    Kristen Heitzmann

    Kristen Heitzmann's characters leap from the page with a balance of strength and fragility as they face anguish from the past. Jill and Morgan, once high school sweethearts, had loved and lost--each other and the baby whom Jill gave up at birth. Year...

  • Something Might Happen

    Julie Myerson

    On a cold night in autumn, an unspeakable crime shatters the quiet calm in a small seaside village. Tess wills her best friend, Lennie, to be injured or even trapped somewhere, but on some level she can already feel her absence. When she hears that L...

  • Hideaway

    Hannah Alexander

    As an E.R. doctor, Cheyenne Allison is used to handling emergencies on a daily basis -- until her own sister codes on the trauma bed. Devastated, Cheyenne retreats to an isolated farm in Hideaway, Missouri. But peace and solitude are in short supply ...

  • Adrenaline

    John B. Olson

    Set in the not-so-distant future, Adrenaline introduces James Parker, a biochemistry grad student who discovers a cure for muscular dystrophy, the disease confining him to a wheelchair. However, the cure that began as his salvation appears to have bi...

  • How to Meet Cute Boys

    Deanna Kizis

    Are the men you date: A. Commitment-phobic? B. Impossible to read? C. Borderline insane? D. All of the above? If any of these answers apply, you have to read... HOW TO MEET CUTE BOYS Twenty-seven-year-old Benjamina Franklin (and you thou...

  • Recipes For Easy Living // Christmas Comes to Valentine

    Curtiss Ann Matlock

    Christmas has come to Valentine, Oklahoma, and everybody's got a special wish.... For thirteen-year-old Corrine, it's really about keeping what she has: a happy life with her aunt Marilee and Papa Tate; her beloved horses; and an almost boyfriend,...

  • As Seen On TV

    Sarah Mlynowski

    When Sunny Langstein decides to pack up her Florida life and move in with her boyfriend in Manhattan, her big sister isn't thrilled. What modern-day twenty-four-year-old leaves her promising career, fabulous friends and perfect underground parking sp...

  • Losing It

    Lindsay Faith Rech

    Everyone thinks Diana Christopher is losing it. Considering she's just driven her car into the front window of Davey's Cafe, they might be on to something. All Diana wants is to be normal -- but life for this thirty-two-year-old waitress is anythi...

  • Bangers

    Gary Phillips

    On the streets of L.A., the most dangerous person can be a cop. Us against them. That's the law of the cop world. Out on the mean streets of L.A., the only defense is to be more ruthless than your opponent. You gotta bang with the best of the roug...

  • This Way Home

    Marcia King-Gamble

    Liza Hamilton left her upstate New York hometown to chase her dreams in New York City. But her success as a supermodel was shortlived when she was mugged in Central Park and her face slashed. The once-perfect face that made her a fortune now does not...

  • Death at the Spring Plant Sale

    Ann Ripley

    When Louise Eldridge covers the spring plant sale of the venerable Bethesda Garden Club for her television show, she finds blue-blooded traditions, deeply rooted resentments--and fertile ground for murder... Louise comes to the Bethesda Garden Clu...

  • The Ideal Husband

    Shari Anton

    The marriage is make-believe, but the passion is all too real... 'Tis the stuff legends are made of: a heroic husband risks his life to save his beloved from a shipwreck. Yet the gravely injured man Leah of Pecham tenderly cradles is not her...

  • Room... But Not Bored!

    Dawn Atkins

    Roommates are off-limits...aren't they? Ariel Adams hates everything about the beach. So when circumstances force her to move into a small beach house, she's convinced life can't get worse. It can. The house isn't empty. Inside, sports gear, dirty...

  • Troubled Waters

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    Not So Jolly Roger . . . Complete with skull and crossbones fluttering in the wind, "Captain" Thomas Kidd is the new scourge of the Caribbean, raiding unsuspecting pleasure craft and pursuing the great piratical tradition of looting, pillaging and...

  • Fearless

    Doranna Durgin

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends.... PRETTY POISON The gang at Angel Investigations is well versed in the nuances of demon fighting. So they're surprised to find themselves euphorically giddy after a long night of...what? Their...

  • Burndive

    Karin Lowachee

    FLASHES AND FLASHBACKS The son of an infamous starship captian, the grandson of a diplomat admiral, and his home station's "Hot #1 Bachelor," Ryan Azarcon lives in a fishbowl. After witnessing a horrific terrorist bombing of his grandfather's emba...

  • Sanctuary

    Brenda Novak

    The Birth Place gave her sanctuary Hope Tanner escaped from her polygamous community in Superior, Utah, ten years ago -- pregnant and alone. She ended up at The Birth Place in Enchantment, New Mexico, where Lydia Kane, the clinic's founder, handle...

  • The Rancher's Daughter

    Jodi O'Donnell

    THEY CAME FROM DIFFERENT WORLDS To the residents of Rumor, Montana, Ash McDonough was nothing but trouble. It didn't matter that ten years had passed since he'd last set foot in town. Nothing could redeem him -- not even the fact that he'd rescued...

  • The Marriage Casket

    Deborah Morgan

    Antiques picker and ex-FBI agent Jeff Talbot figured he was about to make a killing when Nathan Rose offered him all the antiques in his newly deceased aunt's house dirt cheap. What Jeff hadn't bargained for, however, was the bloodstain beneath one o...

  • Half a Mind to Murder

    Paula Paul

    When the old country doctor of Newton-Upon-Sea passed away, he left only his daughter, Alexandra, with the secrets of his trade. Now, the village depends on its lady-doctor Gladstone for its births, deaths, and all the inconveniences in-between... ...

  • Dangerous Encounter

    Don Pendleton

    Dead End A shoot-out at London's Heathrow Airport finds Mack Bolan on a trail of blood that leads him to the hart of Soho and a turf war brewing among the city's most dangerous elements. With the Triads, Mafia, local mobs and vice racketeers all r...

  • Shattered

    Olga Bicos

    When architect Holly Fairfield lands a dream job renovating a posh San Francisco restaurant, she discovers nothing has happened by chance. Soon she's caught in a dangerous game between Cutty family rivals -- and a dark legacy of obsession and murder....

  • Return of the Damned

    T.H. Lain

    An ancient, jeweled bottle, a missing lover, mysterious black-clad invaders, and a warrior haunted by grief collide in the wilderness and on the battlefield. Driven by rumors that his beloved Naull may have survived her abduction to the Plane of Fire...

  • Dirty Fire

    Earl Merkel

    A SHOCKING CRIME… Once police officer John Davey had everything … until bribery charges destroyed his life. Now he’s been given a second chance. He’s asked to join the investigation into the baffling murder of a Chicago couple who were sho...

  • Empty Hand

    J.R. Roberts

    When he saves Motega, a lone Indian warrior, from a ruthless gang of self-appointed bounty hunters, Clint Adams agrees to help him rescue his Chinese master, who is an indentured servant to a dangerous businessman who has a vast array of hired killer...

  • No More Lies

    Susan Squires

    Dr. Holland Banks is head of the Century Psychiatric Hospital and president of the Schizophrenia Research Foundation...but is she going insane? The rest of the world seems to be. There's a sniper on the loose, she's being stalked, her father is condu...

  • Emily's Christmas Wish

    Sharon Stancavage

    A NAUGHTY SCHEME... For Nigel Manning, Earl of Stratford, this Christmas promises to be less than merry. His scapegrace brother, Roger, pawned a family heirloom with reputed mysterious powers. And, as had luck would have it, the pendant's new owner ...

  • The Viscount & the Virgin

    Valerie Parv

    SHE WAS A VIRGIN Kirsten Bond was a mother by virtue of adopting her late sister's child. No one knew Jeffrey wasn't really hers and she vowed never to reveal that his father was actually Rowe Sevrin, Viscount Aragon. But then she was assign...

  • A Yuletide Treasure

    Cynthia Pratt

    A SHELTERED LADY Camilla Twainsbury has always followed the rules of polite society as set forth by her exceedingly proper mother. But nothing in her upbringing has prepared her for what Fate holds in store. For no sooner does Camilla arrive for a q...

  • A Lawman for Christmas

    Pat Pritchard

    'Tis The Season... After learning to read and cipher (with the help of her dear friends at the Luminary Society) and saving up some money, Josie Turner is ready to start a new life. But when she ends up on the wrong side of the law through no fault...

  • My Lord Eternity

    Debbie Raleigh

    While the ton dances and gossips, another kind of society altogether claims the London night as its own. By the light of the moon, three noble vampires entrusted with the protection of their kind will discover that human desire is far from lost to th...

  • Marlie's Mystery Man

    Doris Rangel

    To: Grammie From: Marlie Re: I'm falling for two men -- sort of! Gram, Something strange has happened on my summer vacation -- there are two Caid Matthews in my life! One Caid -- the one only I can see and hear -- is romantic and sexy, with ...

  • The Marriage Medallion

    Christine Rimmer

    "When next I see this medallion, it will be around the neck of my betrothed." With those words, originally uttered by his father, Prince Eric Greyfell dismissed Brit Thorson's theory about the mysterious medallion she thought she was given for luc...

  • Double Duty

    Alison Roberts

    E.R. Professionals: Dr. Joe Petersen & Dr. Felicity Munroe Felicity Munroe couldn't wait to put the arrogant new neurosurgeon, Joe Petersen, in his place. First he'd thought she was just a bystander at an accident scene, then he mistook her for a ...

  • My Name Is Nell

    Laura Abbot

    Brady Logan never expected to find Nell Porter when he left California. He didn't even know he was looking for her. After the death of his wife and child, Brady Logan barely felt like living, never mind loving again. Meeting Nell has somehow made ...

  • Great Expectations

    Ginny Aiken
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    For the Miami-based "Classic Strings" quartet, the mellow tones of violin, viola, bass, and cello blend in perfect harmony. But discord fills the personal life of each member. Marissa Soliz, who plays the upright bass, has serious doubts about the ne...

  • Dr. Bodyguard

    Jessica Andersen

    PROTECTOR...LOVER She'd been a prodigy since birth, a woman for whom no puzzle was unsolvable. But when she was attacked in her very own research lab, brilliant, reserved Dr. Genie "Genius" Watson quickly discovered that this time she didn't have ...

  • The Ghost of Billy the Kid

    J.R. Roberts

    When the folks of White Oaks begin seeing Billy the Kid, who died several years earlier, around town, Clint Adams, a hired gun for a local storekeeper, doesn't believe in ghosts until he comes face-to-face with Billy who has a deadly message for him....

  • The Devil's Spark

    J.R. Roberts

    Arriving in the town of Gemmell, Idaho, Clint Adams must protect his old friend Peter Banks, who is working on a top-secret weapon prototype for the U.S. Army, from a ruthless gang of outlaws who are determined to steal this weapon for their boss - a...

  • Longarm and Maximilian's Gold

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm partners up with a French aristocrat in a race for lost treasure…Deputy Marshal Custis Long has no interest in putting up with the antics of an arrogant Frenchman. But though he’d like to tell the Marquis de Sant’ Cerre to take a flying...

  • Randall Renegade

    Judy Christenberry

    RANDALL HONOR demanded that Jim Randall help the only woman to break his heart. Patience Anderson's child's life was at stake -- so Jim swept back into her life, secreting her and her son high in the mountains to protect them from a dangerous enemy. ...

  • A 5th Avenue Christmas

    Tracy Cozzens

    They Meet Again... Meryl Carrington, the youngest of the five Carrington sisters, is her mother's darling--and her mother's despair. Matrimony? Meryl seems to have most unladylike plans to run the family railroad empire instead. Fortunately, her fat...

  • Private Eyes

    Jasmine Cresswell
    in

    A covert network of secret agents is Colorado's most lethal weapon -- and its only hope. Bound by love, loyalty and the law, these men and women are trained to handle the most clandestine and dangerous cases. As scandal and ruin threaten the state's ...

  • Staying Single

    Millie Criswell

    "Engaging men" are lining up for Francesca Morelli, thanks to her enterprising Italian mama. The very able and controlling Josephina has arranged three -- count 'em, three -- weddings so far for her 29-and-pushing-it daughter. Unfortunately, all thre...

  • Under Cover

    Maryjanice Davidson

    "Sweet Strangers" Renee Jardin never meant to become the world's most sought-after thief. But the minute she walks out of her biotech firm accidentally carrying "The Cure"--the most important scientific discovery of the century--she's on the run fr...

  • Having the Best Man's Baby

    Shawna Delacorte

    Fifteen years had passed since Ry Collier broke her teenage heart. Fifteen years during which the golden boy had amassed a fortune, making a name for the man. Fifteen years during which she'd blossomed into a woman bearing little resemblance to an aw...

  • A Stroke of Luck

    Andrea Pickens

    Going Overboard The intrepid Miss Greeley, heading home from adventures on the high seas with her two brothers, is not quite sure what to make of this handsome, if waterlogged, stranger. Confused and shivering aboard her leaking vessel, he claims ...

  • The Sicilian Surrender

    Sandra Marton

    The Sicilian will make her surrender When it comes to women, Stefano Lucchesi thinks he's known them all. But Fallon O'Connell is beautiful and wealthy in her own right and appears to need no one. Stefano's determined to have her, body...

  • Only a Name

    Debby Mayne
    in

    Come to the church in the wildwood. . .where the citizens of Hickory Hollow have worshiped for generations. In 1869, the preacher's daughter, Amanda Hodges, is drawn to mysterious newcomer Matt Campbell who helps to build the church. When Matt's croo...

  • The Twelfth Night Bride

    Kelly McClymer

    The lively Fenster clan is infamous for its tradition of very untraditional weddings, and youngest sister Kate is no exception. Amid the merry tidings of the Christmas season, she will suddenly find herself a bride whose gift is a husband with secret...

  • Heaven Sent

    Judi McCoy

    All He Wants For Christmas... As a cop, Nathan Baxter is sworn to protect and serve, but none of his training could help him save his wife's life. Now, the sexy widower has his hands full raising his adorable five-year-old daughter, Phoebe, and keep...

  • In The King's Service

    Margaret Moore

    'Twas said he could whisper a woman to bed, and now Sir Blaidd Morgan had turned his considerable charms on Lady Becca Throckton. But could she trust his intent? A childhood injury had made her fit to be no man's bride, and yet the Welsh warrior made...

  • On The Mend

    Sarah Morgan

    E.R. Professionals: Dr. Zach Jordan & Dr. Keely Thompson The last time Dr. Zach Jordan had seen Keely Thompson, she'd been a typical teenager -- with a massive teenage crush on him. Now she was a fully qualified doctor, a beautiful young woman...

  • Longarm and the Dead Man's Tale

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm enlists a play-pretty in a game of play-deadly!Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long is out to recover fifty grand that the late Abner Prentiss hid away before being arrested -- in the company of hired gal-pal Cherry Poppin. Since Prentiss murdered...

  • Snake River Ruins

    Jon Sharpe

    Fargo gives hot lead to a pack of hybrid hellhounds!The town of Carn was a paradise on Earth -- until the plagues hit. Then it was all but overrun by a relentless drought, a vicious pack of hybrid hounds, rabid animals…and rabid humans.   Unfr...

  • The Syndicate

    Jon F. Merz

    When Business Gets Personal, I Take My Revenge In Blood. The name's Lawson. I've been called a host of other names over the years--most of which I can't repeat here--but the bloodsucker community know me as a Fixer. A vampire cop. My reputation usu...

  • A Misty Harbor Christmas

    Marcia Evanick
    in

    Olivia Hamilton comes home to Misty Harbor only to sell her late grandmother's house to Ethan Wycliffe, the obnoxious boy she remembers from childhood. But Christmas memories have a funny way of holding people, and boys have a funny way of growing up...

  • The Pirate Next Door

    Jennifer Ashley

    Love & Daring in Mayfair What was a proper English lady to do when a pirate moved next door? Add the newly titled viscount to her list of possible suitors? Take his wildly eccentric young daughter under her wing? Let the outlandish rogue kiss her ...

  • Unraveled

    C.J. Barry

    To continue her father's life's quest, Tru Van Dye had to leave the insular colony of Majj scientists where she was raised. She had to find Rayce Coburne. Yet the virtual-reality program she acquired to gird herself against the man's touch, his innue...

  • Perfect Evil

    E.C. Sheedy

    WHEN NO ONE CAN BE TRUSTED... For five years, Hannah Stuart has taken refuge from the horrors of her past inside Kenninghall, the hundred-year-old Washington estate of her dear friend, Milo Biehle. But now, Milo has died, and in his will he has lef...

  • Dead Ringer

    Annie Solomon

    A DARING WOMAN Angelina Mercer is Federal Agent Finn Carver's last, best hope. The hunt for a dangerous weapon has led him to her door with a proposition that could be her salvation or destruction. It's her one shot at turning around a life gone wro...

  • The Burning

    William W. Johnstone

    When Frank Morgan sets up camp in a lush valley in Montana, the last thing he expects to see is fires lighting up the night sky as fields, farms and homes are torched by so-called "range detectives" working for two powerful ranchers. For the ranchers...

  • Revenge on Shadow Trail

    Cameron Judd

    As Joseph and Liam Carrigan set out for Montana to find their long-lost uncle, they have no idea of the danger that is following them -- and what seemed like an innocent trip becomes a deadly adventure. Along the way an explosive train wreck, a flee...

  • High Rhymes and Misdemeanors

    Diana Killian

    Can a love of dead poets save her from following in their footsteps? While visiting her favorite poets' old haunts in England's Lake District, Grace Hollister, an American schoolteacher and literary scholar, stumbles upon the body of Peter Fox fac...

  • Undressed

    Stef Ann Holm

    As a deputy in Majestic, Colorado, Lanie Prescott doesn't see enough action issuing parking tickets, so she decides to accept a law-enforcement job elsewhere. On the night of her going-away party, the job offer is postponed, and Lanie is stuck in her...

  • His Lordship's Holiday Surprise

    Kate Huntington

    An Unexpected Delivery 'Tis the season to be merry, but Miss Augusta Oglethorpe is anything but--thanks to her ninny of a sister who has dashed off to heaven knows where, leaving her three young children behind. Her upcoming Christmas plans now ...

  • Syncopation

    Bev Huston
    in

    For the Miami-based "Classic Strings" quartet, the mellow tones of violin, viola, bass, and cello blend in perfect harmony. But discord fills the personal life of each member. Marissa Soliz, who plays the upright bass, has serious doubts about the ne...

  • A Dangerous Engagement

    Candace Irvin

    DANGER...DUTY...DESIRE Lieutenant Anna Shale had taken on enough dangerous assignments to know how to play the game -- and win. But when she was asked to investigate her own criminal cousin, Anna's ability to remain impartial was put to the test. An...

  • Making Merry

    Dixie Kane

    BEING NAUGHTY... For heiress Cecily Culpepper, wedding bells and jingle bells tend to ring in lousy tidings. Ever since her scheming husband skipped town after their Christmas Day nuptials, she's drowned her Yuletide sorrows in headline-making misad...

  • Her Beautiful Assassin

    Virginia Kantra

    Subject: Marcus Evans, man or mercenary? Family History: United States Navy SEAL; possibly one of the Extraordinary Five. Deepest Secret: He's been programmed to kill the woman he's sworn to protect. The brilliant and beautiful ambassador to...

  • Secrets of a Small Town

    Patricia Kay

    THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL Sabrina March's safe little life had one cornerstone -- her dad. Then he died in her arms. Sabrina was devastated, but she knew in her heart that someday she would find a man like her father and live happily ever after. So...

  • Trick Me, Treat Me

    Leslie Kelly / Leslie A. Kelly

    His trick... After spending more than a year overseas doing research, true crime writer Jared Winchester is dying for some excitement. So when he receives an invitation to a party his first night back -- an in-character Halloween party, at that -- h...

  • The Christmas Kiss

    Elizabeth Keys

    'TIS THE SEASON... Proud but poor, Boston socialite Amelia Lawrence has no choice but to become a mail-order bride for a charming Illinois gentleman she's never seen. But when Amelia arrives, she finds that his "Grand Estate" is nothing more than a ...

  • Kiss of the Wolf

    Susan Krinard
    in

    Surgeon Dana Saint-Cyr trusted her instincts, even when they urged her toward an irresistible Louisiana man with a wicked reputation. But would she discredit the whispers of his supernatural powers and murderous intent before falling prey to his pass...

  • The Other Groom

    Lisa Bingham

    Someone wanted her dead -- or so her faintly familiar bodyguard kept telling her. But the only person "Louisa Haversham Winslow" needed protection from was him -- because this gentle giant of a man made her crave things no respectable newly widowed w...

  • Unmistakable Rogue

    Annette Blair

    FOR RICHER OR POORER... Married and widowed in short order, Chastity Somers vows to claim her bridegroom's inheritance as the long-lost St. Iyves, Earl of Barrington, if only to have the means to care for his impoverished young cousins. After free...

  • A Viscount for Christmas

    Catherine Blair

    They Were Shockingly Mismatched... With the untimely death of his father, handsome, privileged Jack Harrow inherited a wealth of responsibilities. And his first order of business was to pay a visit to his new country estate. No matter that he has l...

  • The Wild Child

    Judith Bowen

    When Eva Haines first comes to remote (and supposedly deserted) Liberty Island, she has the uncanny feeling that someone's watching her -- and she's right. A small wild-looking child with a huge black dog has been following her around. Eva, who's spe...

  • Centennial Bride

    Debra Lee Brown
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    A covert network of secret agents is Colorado's most lethal weapon -- and its only hope. Bound by love, loyalty and the law, these men and women are trained to handle the most clandestine and dangerous cases. As scandal and ruin threaten the state's ...

  • The Night We Kissed

    Laurie Brown

    A Woman With A Secret Impersonating her young friend Precious is the most bizarre thing American Cordelia Weston has ever done, but in order to find her sister Emily's errant British fiance, Cordelia needs the aid of her friend's family in L...

  • Familiar Double

    Caroline Burnes

    PICTURE PURRRFECT Someone wanted gorgeous stunt double Nicole Paul out of the picture in more ways than one. Except Familiar, the crime-solving black cat, knew only her rugged boss, Jax McClure, believed she was being framed for a jewel theft. But...

  • Dead Certain

    Carla Cassidy

    BONDED BY FATE After coming home and finding her father unconscious and her mother mysteriously missing, homicide cop Savannah Tallfeather teamed up with the one person she knew she could trust. Riley Frazier had faced a similar situation nearly t...

  • The Ideal Bride

    Nonnie St. George

    WHY LOOK FOR THE IDEAL WIFE... Marriage is a serious matter according to wealthy businessman Gabriel Carr, not to be influenced by anything so frivolous as emotion--or the usually giddy female reaction to his striking good looks. Drawing up a list o...

  • Changing the Rules

    Niqui Stanhope

    Marcel Templeton is determined never to fall for Mr. Wrong again. And no man is going to sweep her off her feet without meeting a few requirements first...Even if that means changing the rules of the dating game. Then the oh-so-fine Ian Michaels saun...

  • Kiss and Tell

    Amanda Stevens
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    A covert network of secret agents is Colorado's most lethal weapon -- and its only hope. Bound by love, loyalty and the law, these men and women are trained to handle the most clandestine and dangerous cases. As scandal and ruin threaten the state's ...

  • Playing For Keeps

    Karen Templeton

    Single mother Joanna Swan had already married one man with a Peter Pan complex, and one was her limit. So now she is determined that romance is for dreamers -- and she is one woman with her feet firmly planted on the ground. Even if she does design c...

  • The House on Creek Road

    Caron Todd

    When Elizabeth Robb left Three Creeks, she never expected to return Even after all these years she's not ready to face her painful past, and only a request from her elderly grandmother could bring her back to town. She hopes her arrival will escap...

  • Who Let That Killer in the House?

    Patricia Sprinkle

    MacLaren Yarbrough has her plate full -- in addition to having a lively extended family, she's county magistrate and co-owner of the local plant nursery. But amateur sleuthing may be her true calling.... Years ago, a dark cloud moved over the smal...

  • To the Gates of Palanthas

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

    The dragonarmies conquer all the land, leaving destruction in their wake. The once-proud nations of Ansalon have been divided for so long that none can stand and oppose the Dark Queen's minions. But now, a desperate band of Companions have one cha...

  • Star Struck Dead

    Sheila York

    In 1946 Hollywood, the stars were always shining, the streets were paved with possibilities, and the most dangerous thing a man could do was to uncover the grime behind the glitz and glamour....But a woman might just get away with it. When talente...

  • Abduction

    Wanda L. Dyson

    "Where's Jessie?" Even as she breathes out the words, Karen Matthews knows that her worst nightmare has become a reality. Her seven-month-old baby is gone, stolen during the night. When the police call a famous psychic, Zoe Shefford, to use her myste...

  • The Harvest: All Good Gifts

    Gail Gaymer Martin
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    THE HARVEST -- BRINGING A MESSAGE OF LOVE AND FAITH Widow Tess Britton came to the country for peace -- certainly not for a romance with her handsome next-door neighbor, Ryan Walsh. But when he urged her to heal her relationship with God and to ...

  • The Harvest: Loving Grace

    Cynthia Rutledge
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    THE HARVEST -- BRINGING A MESSAGE OF LOVE AND FAITH Nurse Grace Comstock needed a date for Thanksgiving -- fast! When she prayed for a handsome prince, suddenly Mr. Charming himself, Dr. Nick Tucci, appeared to escort her! At the feast, Nick con...

  • A Warrior's Vow

    Marilyn Tracy

    A CHILD WAS MISSING Pampered, pretty Leeza Nelson had reluctantly agreed to watch over her friends' orphanage ranch in New Mexico. So when one of the children ran away, it was up to her to find him. But journeying into the wilderness with dark, br...

  • The Devil She Knew

    Evelyn Vaughn
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    When Marcy Bridges discovered a portal to hell in her closet, she needed help from the last person she wanted to call -- her gorgeous landlord. Could she trust her life -- and her heart -- to the care of a dark, dangerous stranger?...

  • Melting the Ice

    Loreth Anne White

    Hannah McGuire's resort-town life had been quiet, happy and safe. Until her best friend was murdered and the investigation forced her into a partnership with Dr. Rex Logan -- the man she'd loved, lost and been hiding from for six years. Rex had pu...

  • Passion's Destiny

    Crystal Wilson-Harris

    Spirited Jakarta Raven was never one to back down from scandal-or trouble. Her determination to clear her sister of unjust charges puts her up against brilliant New Orleansdistrict attorney and senatorial candidate Zane Reeves... and a sensual attra...

  • Seven Days

    Ruth Wind
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    Sunny Kendricks's luck had run out. With no money, no car and no home, she was sure she'd hit rock bottom. But Michael Chasing Horse was prepared for life's storms and ready to offer refuge...in his arms....

  • Born To Be Wild

    Anne Marie Winston

    13 YEARS, 1 MONTH, 4 DAYS... Reese Barone counted the days since he'd last seen Celia. He'd sailed around the world and still couldn't erase the memory of making love to her in the summer sun, planning their future. Then false rumors and a blowou...

  • Pregnancy Countdown

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    Three... Three years ago, Nora Summers and Mark Walker had been sweethearts, but circumstances had driven them apart. Nora wasn't ready to risk her heart again with a man as footloose and charming as Mark. Two... Yet now Nora had indulged in a n...

  • The Last Christmas Gift

    Courtni Wright

  • Perfection

    Regina Scott

    A Perfect Mess When Celia Rider's inheritance is stolen, she immediately suspects her irresponsible pea-goose of a stepmother, Patrice. Determined to uncover the truth, Celia poses as a governess to Patrice's neglected son, hoping to glean some clue...

  • The Firstborn

    Dani Sinclair

    THE BOLD, FEARLESS TWIN That was Heartskeep heiress Hayley Thomas -- until the blackouts, slamming doors and nighttime whispers began. Was someone at Heartskeep toying with her or was she going crazy? With her sister away and the eerie family esta...

  • The Most Eligible Doctor

    Karen Rose Smith

    She was in love with her sexy, much older boss.... He was tall, dark and a hunk -- typical reasons why Jed Sawyer was the talk of the town. And Nurse Brianne Barrington was the latest victim of his lethal charm. But while Brianne had a bad case of "m...

  • Should Have Been Her Child

    Stella Bagwell

    FIVE YEARS TOO LATE.... She should have been mine, Victoria Ketchum thought as she cradled Jess Hasting's daughter. Instead, Victoria had turned from Jess, and he'd married another. Now a widowed single father, the lean, rugged deputy sheriff coul...

  • Wolf Dreamer

    Madeline Baker
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    Pregnant and alone on the Colorado prairie, Rebecca Hathaway's prayers were answered -- by rugged Wolf Dreamer. Will her search for home and family lead them to a new life together?...

  • A Baby in the House

    Pamela Bauer

    The bridesmaid is pregnant.... The stuffy air in the church and her queasy stomach are a bad combination, especially since Krystal Graham is trying to hide her condition -- particularly from Garret Donovan, the groomsman assigned to escort her dow...

  • Pulse Points

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    Kasey Ellis's life is shattered after she witnesses the murder of her friend and business partner at their Tyler, Texas, advertising agency. Though Kasey can't identify the killer, she believes the killer saw her -- and that her life is now in danger...

  • All I Want

    Holly Chamberlin
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  • The C.E.O. & The Cookie Queen

    Victoria Chancellor

    Note to Self: A steer is not a pet... I, Greg Rafferty, must not be of sound mind anymore. Why else would I bid on -- and win! -- little Jennifer Jacks's prizewinning bull, um, steer? It could have something to do with her doesn't-look-old-enough-...

  • Heatwave

    Jamie Denton

    When it's this hot, someone's bound to get burned! To say Emily Dugan's life has been a blur is an understatement. She's lost her job, her boyfriend is in love with someone else and he's kicked her out of their apartment. Ready to recoup, she's he...

  • Cornerstone

    Paige Winship Dooly
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    Come to the church in the wildwood. . .where the citizens of Hickory Hollow have worshiped for generations. In 1869, the preacher's daughter, Amanda Hodges, is drawn to mysterious newcomer Matt Campbell who helps to build the church. When Matt's croo...

  • Practice Makes Pregnant

    Lois Faye Dyer

    ONE PASSIONATE NIGHT... For the first time in her life, shy secretary Allison Baker threw caution to the wind. No sooner did she enter the party than suave attorney Jorge Perez whispered sweet compliments in her ear. Breathless, Allison was captivat...

  • Cowboy Days and Indian Nights

    Kathleen Eagle
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    Meredith Woodward had emptied her nest. She didn't need a scruffy rodeo cowboy moving into her home -- or her world. But Ryder Red Hawk was a man prepared to face his past and discover his future -- with her....

  • The Greatest Possible Mischief

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    Regency favorite Jo Ann Ferguson brings us the latest tale of intrigue featuring the delightful Lady Priscilla Flanders and her dashing admirer, Sir Neville Hathaway. A romantic tryst in Bath turns deadly--and our intrepid pair finds themselves at th...

  • Racing Against Time

    Marie Ferrarella

    FAILURE WASN'T AN OPTION The Honorable Brenton Montgomery would break every rule to recover his kidnapped little girl. But he wasn't prepared to clash with the one woman he'd secretly loved for years, Detective Callie Cavanaugh, whose job it was t...

  • Under His Protection

    Amy J. Fetzer

    HE WAS SWORN TO UPHOLD THE LAW Detective Nash Couviyon never let emotion interfere with duty. But when his former flame Lisa Bracket was the victim of a frame-up, he knew he had to help her clear her name. Although Nash had thought he'd never see ...

  • The Holiday Wife

    Roberta Gayle

  • All I Ever Needed

    Jo Goodman

    No one writes romance like Jo Goodman, especially with her magnificent quartet featuring the irresistible men of the Compass Club. In her third installment she holds readers spellbound as Gabriel Whitney, known as East to his friends, enters the life...

  • Her Pregnant Agenda

    Linda Goodnight

    From the desk of Emily Winters Bachelor #2: Grant Lawson Title: General Counsel Problem No. 1: How to get the brooding lawyer to love again Problem No. 2: How to help Ariana in PR get custody of her unborn twins How about merging both proble...

  • Leap of Faith

    Pamela Griffin
    in

    Come to the church in the wildwood. . .where the citizens of Hickory Hollow have worshiped for generations. In 1869, the preacher's daughter, Amanda Hodges, is drawn to mysterious newcomer Matt Campbell who helps to build the church. When Matt's croo...

  • Winter Fires

    Geri Guillaume

    THE SEASON OF CELEBRATION Independent and spirited fire investigator Davalyn Bowers knows that she and Cutter McCall are wrong for each other. He has always been her older brother's way-too-serious best friend and she was the pesky little girl alway...

  • Wickedly Yours

    Brenda Hiatt

    The ton is abuzz over the arrival of Sarah Killian, a stunning stranger who shrouds her past in mystery. And no one is more intrigued than Lord Peter Northrup. The handsome rake wants to know everything about this enigmatic beauty who hasso enflamed ...

  • Hot Under the Collar

    Kirstin Hill

    LOVE IS IN THE AIR Reporter Nathan Taylor hears the news first--and word is that Baltimore listeners can't get enough of late-night DJ "Sondra Lane." Everyone's tuning in to the radio lady with the sensationally sexy voice, though her true identit...

  • All She Needed

    Kate Hoffmann

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

  • Wyoming Wildcat

    Elizabeth Lane

    He was searching for a woman who wasn't looking to be found Ryan Tolliver Was on the Trail of a Woman The Wyoming rancher was only looking for the promised reward when he set off to track down the mysterious Molly Ivins, missing some eighteen y...

  • The Knight & The Seer

    Ruth Langan

    Was Gwenellen Drummond a woman or a witch? Friend Or Foe? Arriving home, warrior Andrew Ross discovered his castle ravaged by fire, his father and all who lived within its walls dead. Yet alive amidst the carnage was a woman with the face of an...

  • Shadow Kissing

    Tanith Lee
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    Artist Vivien Gray's new mysterious lover promised soul-stealing ecstasy that haunted her dreams and set her spine tingling. Now their happiness was at stake -- from the ominous evil their very love had unleashed....

  • Name That Tune

    Yvonne Lehman
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    For the Miami-based "Classic Strings" quartet, the mellow tones of violin, viola, bass, and cello blend in perfect harmony. But discord fills the personal life of each member. Marissa Soliz, who plays the upright bass, has serious doubts about the ne...

  • The Millionaire Next Door

    Kara Lennox

    The Millionaire Meets His Match... Forced to take a vacation, Boston's hottest bachelor and biggest workaholic traveled to sleepy Cottonwood, Texas. All Hudson Stack wanted was a little R and R, but then he met his all-too-alluring neighbor Amanda G...

  • Adopt a Dad

    Marion Lennox

    She wanted more than a green card.... Michael Lord, gruff head of security at Maitland Maternity, had a hard time hanging on to secretaries. But even though he was "difficult," he was also a man who couldn't ignore a damsel in distress. When immig...

  • Cowboy's Million-Dollar Secret

    Emilie Rose

    TEXAS MILLIONAIRE One lucky bachelor was about to inherit millions! And not just any bachelor -- but the chivalrous cowboy Leanna Jensen had coveted ever since she'd read about his boyhood escapades in his illegitimate daddy's old love letters. An...

  • Counting on a Cowboy

    Karen Sandler

    COMING HOME TO A COWBOY? Rugged rancher Tom Jarret would move mountains for his precious daughter. But sometimes a father's love just wasn't enough. Miraculously, wandering soul Andrea Larson found a way to reach his troubled little girl, ...

  • The Reluctant Rake

    Jeanne Savery

    Love has a way of taming even the wickedest of men... SHE WAS EVERYTHING THAT WAS PROPER... Miss Althea Bronson has a sterling reputation, and she intends to do keep it that way...even if it means concealing her long-held feelings for the ton'...

  • Yankee Earl

    Shirl Henke

    Jason Beaumont, brash American privateer, was now Earl of Falconridge, and the Honorable Miss Rachel Fairchild could not have been more horrified. Until she found herself making the brute's acquaintance lying flat on her back in the mud, gazing up at...

  • Once Late with a .38

    Peter Brandvold

    Sheriff Ben Stillman finds himself immersed in mystery when Tom Suthern, the owner of the Circle P Ranch, is brutally murdered and his future son-in-law, Matt Parrish, who desperately wanted Tom to sell the ranch to him, is found standing over the bo...

  • Stranger

    Simon Clark

    An ocean of humanity runs from a devastating force that no one can even see - they pour northwards over the Mexican border. A mighty nation falls...Sullivan town remains one of the last enclaves of civilisation. Greg Valdiva, a stranger to the commun...

  • Gun Truth

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    Deputy Tom Prine finds himself plunged into a deadly world of arson, kidnapping, and murder in the small town of Claybank where nothing is what it seems as faceless enemies try to kill him and the townpeople turn against him. Original....

  • Echoes Of War

    Don Pendleton

    America's most powerful and covert counterterrorist group, Stony Man, rises to the challenge that comes with defending world peace and freedom. But now this elitecorps of brilliant cyber warrior and crack field commandoes is facing a crisis that th...

  • The Awakening

    Shannon Drake

    The tree-lined streets and mystical shops of Salem, Massachusetts resonate with a seductive and brutal history. New Orleans musician Megan O'Casey has returned to the home of her ancestors to perform, with her husband Finn, in a weeklong series of co...

  • Goddess of the Sea

    P.C. Cast

    On the night of her twenty-fifth birthday, alone in her apartment, Air Force Sergeant Christine Canady wished for one thing: a little magic in her life. After drinking way too much champagne, she performed, of all crazy things, a goddess-summoning ri...

  • We'll Always Have Murder

    Bill Crider

    Humphrey Bogart teams up with down-and-out Hollywood private detective Terry Scott to uncover a blackmailer out to frame Bogie for murder, an investigation that leads them from the glamorous haunts of the stars to L.A.'s dark underbelly and brings th...

  • Cyclops One

    Jim DeFelice

    A white-hot military thriller that pits a brilliant agent against a traitorous cabal within the United States Cyclops One: America's most advanced airborne laser system. It will change the face of combat forever--perhaps rendering war itself obsol...

  • One True Love?

    Stephanie Doyle

    There's only you... Of, and you, too... Corinne Weatherby believes everyone on this planet has one true love. Just one. Okay, so the one she's picked is a shallow, inconsiderate womanizer -- nothing a good breakup scene can't fix. Corinne comes f...

  • Blessings

    Lois Richer

    A thriving medical practice and three rambunctious daughters have Joshua Darling looking heavenward for help. The harried widower's prayers are answered when a young surgeon accepts a temporary position in his small-town practice. Soon the lady docto...

  • I Do

    Mimi Riser

    "Florrie or Dorie--I'tis such a wee dif'rence. Dinna ye fear, lassie, Alan'll still wed ye," declares Angus MacAllister, chief of the Texas branch of the Clan MacAllister. And with these words, the mixed-up mayhem begins. When Dorcas Jeffries offers ...

  • Rose // The Gentleman's Scandalous Bride // A Gentleman's Plot to Tie the Knot

    Lauren Royal

    The last of the lovely Ashcroft sisters to find a husband, Rose is fast approaching spinsterhood at the age of twenty- one. But the intellectual beauty is determined to make her way down the aisle--with no less than a nobleman--even if it means hidin...

  • Out of the Dark

    Sharon Sala

    In the darkness of her memory terror lurks Street artist Jade remembers little of her childhood except for the time she spent under the ruthless control of a cult leader, a time marked by terrible abuse and suffering. For the fifteen years since s...

  • Return Engagement

    Lynn Michaels

    Act One: Girl Leaves Boy Lindsay West may have the face of a Hollywood starlet, but the demanding life of a teen celebrity never suited her. So nearly twenty years ago, she left her hit TV show and returned to her hometown of Belle Coeur, Missouri. ...

  • Riverwatch

    Joseph Nassise

    IT HAS WAITED....IT HAS HUNGERED.... When Jake Caruso and his construction team find a hidden tunnel in the cellar of the old Blake mansion in the sleepy hamlet of Harrington Falls, Jake can't wait to explore its depths. There, he finds an even gr...

  • A Coldness in the Blood

    Fred Saberhagen

    When the vampire Dickon and his human partner appear in the middle of the night frightened for their lives, the powerful vampire Matthew Maule offers them protection. They carry with them a small Egyptian statue of great value and many secrets. In...

  • Stone and Anvil

    Peter David

    A crewman has been murdered aboard the U.S.S. Trident, and all evidence points to Ensign Janos of the Excalibur. Captain Mackenzie Calhoun is reluctant to accept that Janos, a powerful non-humanoid whom the captain has known and trusted for years, co...

  • Witching Moon

    Rebecca York

    The swamp is their sanctuary. Its nights echo with the beat of their moonlit revels, feeding their dark hunger for power--and for revenge.:. The Nature's Refuge preserve deep in the southern Georgia swamp was a place steeped in superstition and le...

  • Black Water

    T.J. MacGregor

    SOME PLACES... As the sun sets on a deserted Florida beach, a desperate man prepares to take his next victim. The young girl seems just the right age to survive the journey through the black water. And if she doesn't...she'll end up like all the oth...

  • Harmonized Hearts

    Lynn A. Coleman
    in

    For the Miami-based "Classic Strings" quartet, the mellow tones of violin, viola, bass, and cello blend in perfect harmony. But discord fills the personal life of each member. Marissa Soliz, who plays the upright bass, has serious doubts about the ne...

  • An Unbreakable Hope

    Kristin Billerbeck

    Emily Jensen has always longed for marriage and a family of her own. She has her ideals - or at least those imposed by her mother - of how the right man will look and act. But life doesn't always work the way it should. Darin Black was blessed to ...

  • Loveswept

    Tamela Hancock Murray

    Cecily is swept off her feet by one of Capital Duster's door-to-door salesman. When Averil Kingsley gives his unconventional demonstration - by dumping dirt on her mother's heirloom carpet - Cecily gives him her heart. Never mind that she stands a...

  • A Fine Dark Line

    Joe R. Lansdale

    It is the summer of 1958 in Dewmont, Texas, a town the great American postwar boom passed by. The kids listen idly to rockabilly on the radio and waste their weekends at the Dairy Queen. And an undetected menace simmers under the heat that clings to ...

  • The Woman in the News

    K.N. Casper

    She's aiming for a promotion...and scores love instead Marlee Reid is up against some tough competition for her dream job of sports anchor on KNCS-TV in Coyote Springs, Texas. That news director Renn Davis has been critical of her work ever since ...

  • Line of Fire

    Cindy Dees

    The tall, dark and deadly Special Forces officer was everything Kimberly Stanton hated. But when she was abducted and dragged deep into the South American jungle, she came to understand the comfort a woman could take in having a man like him at her s...

  • Pure Indulgence

    Janelle Denison

    Decadence has never been so good... Kayla Thomas is counting on her latest idea to clinch the success of her bakery -- aphrodisiac chocolates! But first she needs an unsuspecting test subject to ensure the candy is as stimulating as she hopes. So ...

  • Morgan

    Kathie DeNosky

    The Chivalrous Cowboy: Morgan Wakefield His Profile: Protective, proud and passionate His soft spot: Single moms-to-be Morgan didn't know a thing about delivering babies, but when he came across a stranded woman in labor, he knew he was her only...

  • Tex Times Ten

    Tina Leonard

    She Was Very, Very Good! Running from relationships was a surefire way to get caught in the marriage trap -- and ragged on by his brothers. But no matter what those rascals said, Tex Jefferson wasn't afraid of intimacy -- or good girls. And to pro...

  • Man in Control

    Diana Palmer

    SECRET AGENT LAWMAN Ever since DEA agent Alexander Cobb had given Jodie Clayburn a Texas-size brush-off, they'd been sworn enemies. But eight years later, an undercover operation brought them back together again. This cynical Long, Tall Texan coul...

  • The Street Where She Lives

    Jill Shalvis

    The secure world that Rachel Wellers has carefully constructed is crumbling around her. Her sweet twelve-year-old daughter is turning into a sullen teenager before her eyes. The injuries she's just sustained in a hit-and-run accident are jeopardizing...

  • Keeping Baby Safe

    Debra Webb

    SHE WAS CARRYING HIS BABY...AND RUNNING FOR HER LIFE Bounty hunter Olivia "Scout" Jackson was no stranger to danger -- but being pregnant changed everything. And wanting, trusting, kissing Pierce Maxwell was risking more than she dared. She couldn...

  • Perfect Alibis

    Jane Wenham-Jones

    Stephanie, a bored housewife and downtrodden mother, wants a job -- and Madeleine's recruitment company, PAs, appears to be the ideal place to go. Except that instead of Personal Assistants, the agency offers Perfect Alibis to unfaithful women. And i...

  • Crossroads

    Irene Hannon

    CROSSROADS After uprooting her teenage son from their small town to the big city, single mom Tess Lockwood discovers that Bruce has fallen in with a gang of troublemakers at school and she finds herself paying a visit to the principal's office. But ...

  • An Accidental Mom

    Loree Lough

    TRUST IS NO ACCIDENT... Lily London had been crushed when Max Sheridan left town to marry someone else. Years later, her heart leaped when he returned to Amarillo, Texas, to take over his mother's diner. Now that she was old enough to do more than...