When Dawn meets Travis, she knows he's the perfect boy for her. Travis is good-looking, he eats health food, he's from California, and he likes Dawn! But Mary Anne and the rest of the Baby-sitters aren't sure about Travis. First of all, he's much ...
CHILDREN OF GOD? OR SPAWNS OF SATAN? They mysterious shroud of Turin. They say it holds the actual image of Jesus. And something more…something equally miraculous…the genetic key to a race of superior beings. In their hands lies the power f...
The strangers came under cover of darkness and camped high on the hill just west of town. Then the deaths began -- horrible savage, beyond comprehension -- one every night for five nights. When two young boys disappeared, the enraged townsfolk of Rav...
Like so many others, Sunny Lang and her brother Jeff were struggling to rebuild their lives after the brutal devastation of the Civil War. When the tall, lean stranger came to their west Arkansas ranch, they were happy to hire him as a hand. But ther...
THE WIND ACROSS THE HEATHER WHISPERED OF THEIR PASSION ... AND WARNED OF THEIR FATE Lady Suisan Harper couldn't take her eyes from the dangerously attractive man whose presence filled the candle-lit room-Myles Cunningham. She had expected a weakli...
Among the few things Salukans and Earthers have in common is a disgust for traitors. One thing Salukans don't share, however, is mercy for them. So when the Salukan agent "Sparrow" is desperate to defect to the Alliance, only the Space Hawks can hope...
Lieutenant Haven is ordered to retrieve or destroy a shipment of Army uniforms bound for Fort Stambaugh in order to prevent them from falling into the hands of the outlaws who have intercepted all of the town's recent gold shipments...
MODERN WOMAN Erika Van Hamel had been living alone on the tiny British island for two years when a stranger identifying himself as Gilbert Randall washed up after a boating accident. Although he was strikingly handsome, he wasn't exactly her typ...
SHE CAST HER LURE...AND LOST HER HEART AT SWEETWATER LAKE. The simple pleasures of a summer sojourn at Georgia's grand Sweetwater Hotel were lost on Portia MacIntosh traveling Shakespearean acting troupe. Feisty Portia was determined to win it bac...
DEVIL IN DISGUISE Lady Clarissa Tregallen preferred the windswept wilds of Cornwall to the jam-packed ballrooms and noisy routs of the London ton, but as the future bride of the tediously respectable Duke of Mainwaring, Clarissa would soon bid her...
SHE WAS HIS WOMAN For four long years, Chama had kept his distance as the captive he called Fire Woman temptingly came of age. The raven-haired Apache warrior had jealously guarded her from the other braves, and now that he had paid the bride-pric...
NO MAN COULD TAME HER Sent halfway around the world from London to Vancouver to marry a stranger three times her age, golden-haired Sara Oliver had barely arrived when her husband was murdered -- on her wedding day. Sara vowed to track the killer do...
TO MAKE THEIR DREAMS COME TRUE, ONE BROKE THE RULES. Raised as an aristocrat, Lily Pascal had French sophistication, exceptional artistic talent, and astounding beauty. The creative team she formed with her friends Marcy and Callie raked in profits ...
As leader of her people, it was time for beautiful, flame-haired Nazleen to choose a mate, time to produce a daughter and heir. For generations, the women of her race had kept an uneasy truce with the warlike men around them, submitting to male desir...
UPPITY FEMALE BOSS A lady boss! Mining engineer Nicholas Colton would never have sunk so low if the loyal Englishman hadn't been doing an old friend a favor Now he was stuck playing nursemaid to an American wench who had a bad habit of reminding him...
SHE MEANT WHAT SHE SAID Beautiful Silver Jones had been called every name in the book. But now that she owned her own tavern in Buckskin Joe, Colorado, she didn't care what the self-righteous citizens thought of her. She never let a man touch he...
Across the Golden Plains, Two Searching Hearts Find Love ROSA The sultry, dark eyed beauty dared to leave her home in a small Italian village and journey to America, to join her husband on the wild frontier. But a tragic twist of fate left her a...
HE MELTED HER RESISTANCE Linsey McAdams was lost. The Philadelphia beauty had finally eluded her kidnappers but now she was at the mercy of the ruggedly handsome frontiersman who owned the remote cabin where she'd taken refuge. Luc LeClerc offered h...
THERE IS A TIME TO LET GO OF LOVE...AND A TIME TO FIND IT AGAIN. Every woman faces a moment when she discovers nothing stays the same forever... not even love. For beautiful Sharon Thompson, giving herself completely to a man for the first time, l...
THE BEST LAID PLANS Lady Julia Halston had all she needed for total happiness. The youthful widow had beauty, wit, wealth and position. And if she chose to surrender single bliss, the handsome Sir Royden Tallboys would provide a superbly suitable ...
"'Tis an evil place mum and haunted too Some say a banshee wails in the Tower!" It had seemed like exile to young Elly Kincaid when she was packed off to England to be raised by an aunt after her mother's death. Now, at eighteen, her long awaited ...
SECRET PLACES... A shocking liaison accidentally observed opens floodgates of deception... and desire. HIDDEN COSTS... A rogue's game of passionate betrayal takes an audacious, unexpected turn when emotional debts come due. SWEET REWARDS....
Cupid's song is the sweetest of all... A race to the altar Genevra did not give a fig for marriage; it was the violin she loved. The pretty miss had never lacked for suitors, mind you -- but a penchant for jilting them had left all prospects f...
Their love was timeless...their passion would last forever! SHE WOULD ALWAYS BE HIS Badly in need of a change, newly divorced Kelly Michaels traveled to Arizona to forget her troubles and put her life in order. But instead of letting go of her pa...
Whispers of war between North and South were riding the wind the summer Jenny Delaney fell in love with Tyler Mackenzie. But high in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, it was still possible to believe in fairy tale endings...even though Jenny knew in ...
SHE WOULDN'T GIVE IN Nobody was going to tell Cori Pierce what to do or when to do it. Outraged by her father's murder and the loss of her inheritance, she vowed to avenge the crime and earn her independence, even if it meant signing on as...
DECEPTIVE DEVIL Promised in wedlock to a British aristocrat, prim, sheltered Daniella Rose Wingate accompanied the elegant stranger down the aisle, determined to forget the swashbuckling adventurer who had kissed her in the misty woodland grove and ...
At four and twenty Victoria Huntington thought herself quite adept at fending off fortune hunters...until she came under siege from Lucas Colebrook, the darkly disturbing new Earl of Stonevale. Amidst the brightly plumed birds of the ton, Lucas was a...
The cynical Earl of Brandmere has the rug pulled out from under him by the outrageous Miss Campion. "YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE I WOULD RATTLE AROUND AS A GHOST. WHAT UTTER FUSTAIN!" Despite her protests, Suzanna Campion's scheming uncle...
A BOLD BEAUTY MUST DEFEAT THE DESIGNS OF AN OVERBEARING NOBLEMAN Lovely Lady Gwenyth Traherne knew that her dearest friend, Miss Pamela Beckley, was far too beautiful for her own good and too vulnerable for her own safety. Thus when Pamela said th...
Hers was a beauty no man could resist . . . his was a will no maiden dared thwart. From the moment she became his highland captive, it was only a matter of time before they came together in an explosion of desire. Highland laird and English lady, ...
WILLFUL WANTON Rhys Morgan exploded in anger when he finally met the mail-order doctor he'd hired--"Alex" Mackenzie was a woman! No matter what her credentials, the tantalizing female had no business attending to the needs of a raucous bunch of ha...
When lovely gunrunner Adeline Montclair rescues Captain Trace Randall, and then falls into his heated embrace, she doesn't realize that he has been riding the Santa Fe trail to find out who has been supplying rifles to the Comanches Adeline Montcl...
HER MATCHMAKING SKILLS WERE UNEQUALED -- YET SHE HERSELF HAD NO USE FOR MARRIAGE! Once a thriving place to land a husband, Laycombe had tuned into a marital desert with the arrival of Lord Wickham. The rake's corrupting influence had led all...
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She is young, she is in love, and she is the first runner-up in a San Francisco beauty pageant. Regina Van Ravenâs head is filled with hopes and dreams but theyâre shattered in one unspeakable instant when a psychopath, obsessed wit...
RUNNING INTERFERENCE Following a tip on a drug run off the coast of Miami, Mack Bolan kicks open a hornet's nest. A dead courier turns out to be a government spook working free-lance for a Nicaraguan power monger, who is running drugs to finance t...
Young Texas attorney Warren Blackburn was watching his career go to hell in a hand-basket. Falling for a client's sob story had pushed him into telling a little white lie...and cost him a year's suspension. Now he's back in the courtroom with not one...
THE DYING SEASONIt's a time of ripe apples and falling leaves, a time of raging bonfires and leering jack-o'-lanterns, a time of homecoming for human and demon both.OCTOBERProfessor Kevin Michaels has returned to the picturesque town of New Polk to f...
Collects stories by Silverberg, Anne McCaffrey, Christopher Stasheff, and Robert Sheckley, dealing with a futuristic society in which humans have computer-generated slaves with the personalities of long-dead historical figures...
The one real world, of which all others-including our Earth--are but shadows... AMBER The magnificent epic adventure of magical realms and royal intrigue continues, as Merlin, heir to miraculous powers, is forced to choose a definitive allegian...
Have we got a planet for you. And don't worry: nothing native to Delta Pavonis is likely to hurt you; humans are too alien to be tasty. At least that's what they said during orientation. Dierdre Jamail isn't quite sure she believes them -- she's neve...
HAWK & FISHER They're the battle-scarred crimebusters of a never-ending urban war.... Hawk rules the streets by broadsword. Fisher cracks down on toughs with the deadly dagger that she wields with unflinching skill. Their merciless beat is the rou...
Now, after a five-year absence, Marion offers us the chance to return to Darkover at the time of The Hundred Kingdoms, an age of war and strife when Darkover was divided by border conflict into numerous small, antagonistic kingdoms. The Heirs of H...
THE PRINCE AND THE MERCENARY Together, they can get into a lot of trouble. Trouble only the combined forces of the Free Dendarii Mercenaries can get them out of. At least, that's what they're hoping... In this latest adventure with the galaxy's...
A hunted ballerina escaping underground after years spent Above--A courageous peace activist doomed on the one night when beasts roam free--A madman: jealous, obsessed ... and deadly. All bring danger into the secret world of Vincent and Catherine .....
A gorgeous model, murdered. An artist, famed for drunken rages, jailed. But who carved ancient runes all over the dead girl's body? DARKNESS IN THE CITY OF LIGHT Responding to an ally's plea, the bearers of the runestones--Wyrdrune; Kira; Modre...
On the deceptively utopian planet Seelzar, Alyssa Montoya struggles against a powerful, corrupt elite to save her brother, but her efforts bring her close to the heart of an ancient secret that would rather self-destruct than be discovered...
Now in ebook for the first time, the second book of Clayton's classic sci-fi trilogyThe price of a world's death was extremely high, but Ginbiryol Seyirshi would give any buyer his money's worth. Creator of Limited Editions, "productions" in which en...
IF MUSIC BE THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE...ROCK ON! Mysterious, floating crystals have captured the eyes --and ears--of the good folk of Gramarye, young and old alike. Enchanting, yes. But what exactly are these strange, musical rocks ... and where did they...
PCL (Pure Condensed Light) = FTL (Faster Than Light travel) A butterfly's wing, a silicon chip, and a new equation for light hold the key to humankind's boldest dream--faster than light travel. A distinguished astronomer and a sensitive young w...
Abducted by a thief--and seduced by love! Jocelyn had always possessed a fiery spirit...but a new fire was ignited within her by the burning caresses of the handsome highwayman who was her captor. Dash was tortured by dark memories and driven b...
SMALL-TOWN BLUES After six months as acting sheriff in quiet Branchport, tough New York cop Vince Messing vowed he'd once again be ready to hit the city streets. But he hadn't counted on falling for local beauty Amanda Simpson. One look at...
She was no ordinary doctor He was no ordinary man The Petrakis men were legendary. Power, wealth, adoration -- they had it all. But for Alex Petrakis, locked in a coma after a daredevil accident, all the money in the world couldn't guarantee ...
IN THE NICK OF TIME Nick Montgomery had been pulling Dani Devereaux out of scrapes since they were kids. But now Dani wondered if she'd finally gone too far -- appearing on his doorstep at midnight, interrupting his hot date with an even hotte...
WHERE THE HEART IS Chloe Palmer knew she was lost the moment Quint Stevens lifted her from her ruined car and brought her -- as if she were a stray kitten -- into his warm, secure, all-male pigsty of a home. He had the kind of shoulders a woman...
TRAVELING MAN They called her the Wild Woman. As guardian of a menagerie of wild animals, veterinarian Jenny Grant was proud of her reputation. It had started years ago when the local parks commissioner had brought a wounded armadillo to her ranch...
The Hunk with the Wicked Grin... Once Kevyn Llewellyn spotted him in the crowd, she knew her search was over. Rusty Rivers had the magnificent body she needed for the warrior-god of her fantasy painting, and she had to have him right away-even if ...
WAS SHE READY FOR A NEW BEGINNING? Jennie Andrews was bravely coping with a new business, a house in constant need of repairs, and two teenage sons. Then life suddenly tipped that precarious balance. Peter Kynaston had been the family's best fr...
Everyone was worried about Jake Cameron He'd been ordered to take a break from police work and simply relax. But driven first by guilt, then by desire, Jake had created a situation that was neither simple nor relaxed. He'd volunteered t...
Simon McKendrick had a mission Fifteen years after the fall of Saigon, his sister Rachel and his brother Micah were being held prisoner in Vietnam by a corrupt government minister. The ransom for their release: a flawless pearl necklace. Simon ...
Flashback. Cory Vandergill used to have the world in her hands. Once featured in the highly acclaimed television series Five By Ten, she'd shone with bright promise. But a decade later, she'd become haunted by tragedy and scandal. There was no way ...
He'd waited a lifetime for her Liz Brooks felt like a swimmer caught in a powerful undertow. One minute she was an ordinary travel rep, her feet planted firmly on the ground. The next she was swept into the past -- the eighteenth century, to b...
THE SAINT AND THE SINNER Nothing in her Quaker upbringing had prepared Tabitha Fell for the shock of being kidnapped, her dangerous rescue or the man who saved her. No man could match Viscount Langley's pursuit of perilous adventure. No wom...
The Man Behind the Mask... Disguised in a black cloak, hat and mask, daring highwayman Captain Hood galloped into Honor Dale's quiet life. To restore England's King Charles to his rightful throne, Hood stole from the hapless rich who traveled the ...
She was a hard woman to love Juliana Robinson was ambitious. A cutthroat real-estate agent, her motto was Nice Guys Finish Last. Nice guy Ben Ware was an ex-cop whose determination to grow avocados was standing between Juliana and a fat commission...
HEAVEN SENT As she lit a candle in the mission at San Juan Capistrano, Jacki Brannigan knew only a miracle would save her ranch from foreclosure. Then from out of nowhere came the answer to her prayers. Lean, rugged Gabriel Goodfellow, a drifter ...
Dead men don't rob banks Bank executive Emma Kingston was on vacation when the vault blew up. A man was killed-and his identity strangely obliterated. A king's ransom littered the floor -- but not a thing was stolen. Philip Rowlands pro...
A CENTURY OF AMERICAN ROMANCE Fame. The cheekiest flapper at the Handley Hotel for Young Ladies, Alice Fontaine has bobbed her hair, shortened her skirt and come to New York to realize her dream: become the Sensation of the Decade. Fortune. Nic...
Joe Henderson He'd found the ideal way to combine his love of the old west with modern life. The "Slow Joe" steam locomotive was a major tourist attraction in Redpoint, Colorado, and townspeople barely remembered what a hellion little Joey had onc...
The marriage contract said hands off! One million dollars-that's what Sable LaCroix paid Joe Lombardi to marry her. She desperately needed a complete family to make sure her late husband's parents didn't gain custody of her son. It was the perfect...
The Prospective Husband with a Racy Past. . . . Hank Mallone spotted trouble when she sat down and said she'd marry him! Maggie Toone was a tempting firecracker who'd make his life delightful hell if he let her pretend to be his wife in order to i...
HE WAS EVERY WOMAN'S PERFECT FANTASY I loved Nicholas Paul, probably more than any of his countless female admirers. After all, I had created him. When I wrote about Nicki, I wrote of adventure -- of passion, danger and intrigue. None of thos...
A tender beauty trips along a tightrope between ruin and romance Miss Marianna Wyndham was in disgrace, her life in ruins around her. A classmate at her fashionable finishing school had branded her a thief--and she left that insufferably stuffy in...
The Hero Who Refused to Fall in Love... Max McKenzie figured the unusual ad fit his article on weird job offers, even if it seemed to belong in the personals column! Though he was one of the worlds most determined bachelors, he applied for the "ma...
The Charismatic Revolutionary... Ricardo Lazaro, legendary poet-warrior and rebel leader of Saint Pierre, had been captured saving her brother, and Lara Clavel had come to the Caribbean island ready to risk her life to free him. She knew the rescu...
TRUTH OR LIES Keely Easton's dreams were shattered the day her husband's helicopter crashed in a Nicaraguan jungle. Since then, Keely had worked to pull her life back together without Bryan Easton. But seven years after the accident, Keely's ca...
Ensign Heath Tanner had spent six years a prisoner of war -- six years of private hell. Throughout, visions of his angelic wife, Michaela, had sustained him. He'd dream of one day returning home, of Michaela welcoming him with open arms.... Fi...
Always strong, always a fighter, for the first time Carly Savoy became a victim. And she retreated to the seclusion of a Tennessee lakeside cabin. But no one had warned her about the hauntingly familiar neighbor across the cove...or that his sweet, p...
THE TRAIL OF DESTINY AND DREAMS... It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for naturalist Theodora Gordon. Leaving her affluent New England home, the bookish, gently bred beauty headed west to join a government expedition across America's last...
WIFE WANTED... Reese Duncan lost half his ranch and all his dreams to his ex-wife, so when it came time for a family he did the logical thing: he advertised for a bride. She had to be willing to work, to bear his children and to settle for lovemak...
IN THE SAVAGE NEW MEXICO TERRITORY, LOVE COULD REDEEM...OR DESTROY Victoria Waverly was a noble daughter of the war-ruined South, sold in marriage to a ruthless Western rancher. Only honor and pride could help her endure her painful role as wife i...
NOTHING IS THE WAY IT SEEMS Melanie Quinn is going back to her childhood home, home to the bucolic Harvest Lake where the wild iris grow. She envisions three months of lazy summer days and long peaceful nights. But that isn't what Aunt Reba...
SECOND SIGHT Alex Thorne couldn't believe his ears! The beautiful blonde sharing his elevator had just told him that if he took his latest job, his life would be at risk. But Alex was a CPA -- not exactly a risky business. Besides, he didn't b...
There was a lot at stake! Realtor Alexandra Holden was on the verge of success. She would make a killing selling her property in the Florida Keys. All she had to do was evict the sexy and distracting Dr. Jake Hustead. But the pediatrician's earthy...
SHOWDOWN When J.D. MacLean had been a struggling widowed father with nothing to offer the woman he loved, he let Katherine Kelly go. Then her ultimate betrayal sparked his hungry climb to the top -- making him wealthy, powerful and able to give Ka...
He was one stubborn cowboy! Still, Felicity was certain she could handle Beau DuBois. After all, she'd handled difficult clients before. Back East, she was considered one of the most persuasive real-estate developers around. But Beau refuse...
She was a woman on the rise Susannah Simmons had a five-year plan for career success. And it didn't include falling in love with her next-door neighbor! Nate Townsend was undeniably attractive, and he obviously had money, but he seemed to l...
A LUSTY MAN Captain Blackwell was a rake and rogue...a devilishly handsome scoundrel who used women and tossed them aside. Marriage was the last thing on his mind. Then a wealthy plantation owner invited the captain to his daughter's nineteenth birt...
LOVESTRUCK! Professor Abel Fletcher didn't believe in love at first sight. It had to be the sacred love stone he'd recently acquired that was making him act like such a dope. What else could explain his sudden attraction to coolly aloof Samantha W...
PRECARIOUS PREDICAMENT Kristin Meyers's second thoughts about her impulsive decision to marry the exotic prince of Cabriz escalated to panic on their wedding eve. As angry rebels stormed the palace and her royal fiance became a coldhearted strange...
Professor Joshua MacKenzie smelled trouble... or was it spaghetti sauce? Both! Allison Gentry, the nomadic fellow roomer with whom he shared a bathroom, reveled in the graveyard shift, greeted the dawn with pasta, and thoroughly upset his cherished r...
THE MAN AND THE MYTH His name was always spoken with a whisper of intrigue and curiosity...Jonathan Hillcroft, reclusive billionaire. Though Darcy Conway had wondered about the wild rumors surrounding this powerful man, she never thought she'd hav...
GIRL TROUBLE... A little rain couldn't dampen vacationing widowed mother Courtney Blackmun's spirits. After all, she wasn't at the beach in November to get a tan or socialize - she was there to be alone. Or so she thought. Her teenage daughter, ex...
Vulnerable... The mere thought stiffened her spine. Attorney Camille Clark had to be tough -- her entire future depended on it. With nerves of steel, she'd have to slice through Officer Pike Barrett's damning courtroom testimony. But could she rut...
Had she been foolish to hope for more than friendship? When Captain Edward Tremaine returned from the Peninsular War, the first sight to greet his weary eyes was the natural beauty of Miss Jane Hampton tending to her English country garden. Dr...
The Untouchable Superstar... Ten years had passed since Dolph Wakefield had given an outspoken gamine a lift in his Jaguar in the hills near Nice and succumbed to her innocent sensuality. He'd let himself fall in love with the wood sprite that was...
To the Victor, the Spoils Glenna Ashe had to get out of town fast. The advertisement for a frontier wife seemed an answer to her prayers--until she confronted the handsome, brooding widower she was soon to wed. Then even a cold Chicago jail began ...
STRANGER THAN FICTION Novelist Amy London was a creative genius when it came to love--on paper. Her active imagination conjured spellbinding romance for her readers, but she had doubts about finding a happy ending of her own. Then wealthy, good-lo...
SHE COULDN'T FORGET No one ever needed Sam Dillon as desperately as Liana Stevens. The award-winning photographer's pictures had inspired Sam's laughter and tears--but lovely, lithe Liana was frozen in a perpetual winter. Sam lured Liana out of...
SHE was the answer to his prayers and he had no intention of letting her go Emily Merriweather Harding had little idea that when she rescued the tipsy, grimy, aging ragamuffin from a gang of youthful thugs, she had rescued a countess. Claiming...
UNHOLY MATRIMONY If Kaitlin O'Herlihy got one more wedding invitation, she was going to scream. Suddenly everyone she knew--including her grandmother, for heaven's sake!--was getting married, and it was making a shambles of her well-ordered existe...
Was it her imagination? At NORStar Space Park, fantasy became reality. There, robots ruled the far reaches of the galaxy, and good battled evil. At NORStar, dreams came true... . But so did nightmares. Especially for Kristian Ellis, who witness...
MR. SEPTEMBER Name: Clayton Masterson Residence: An isolated mountaintop cabin near Gasp, Wyoming. Population: 30. Companions: Television, a pet wolf and Great-Great Grandad's fiddle. Clayton Masterson preferred being on his own, so he ...
Something was terribly wrong When schoolteacher Vanessa Wiggins first reported screams coming from her backyard, the local sheriff dismissed her concerns. Maybe it was her new house settling or wolves baying at the moon. He convinced her no one ha...
In school, Kate Beaumont had been something of a shrinking violet, hardly noticed and seldom asked out. But she refused to shrink from attending her class reunion, even if she had to hire a date! With heartstoppingly handsome Garrett Richmond on her ...
The Passionate, Privileged Physician... Dr. Walker Chadwick Ridgeman was bold, confident, a devilishly handsome man of science who liked order and sense--why, then, was he so drawn to a lovely seductress with flaming hair and dreamer's eyes that s...
IN HER CAPTOR'S GENTLE EMBRACE, SHE WOULD FIGHT HER HEART'S FIERCEST REBELLION... -- In an age when duty was sovereign, the highlands of Wales resounded with the clash of arms as Welsh lord and English knight met in bloody conflict. And amid the r...
Maybe it was because she'd just turned forty, but teacher Maureen Fletcher felt something was missing from her life. Yet surely that "something" wasn't marriage and motherhood. Surely it wasn't night student Bailey McGuire! Completely inept at domest...
IN A LONELY PLACE Brady Knight was a man alone -- and that was the way he wanted it. A cop's life was hard and dangerous, and there was no place in it for a woman. But Jayne Spencer was more than a woman. She was a lady. And with a world of troubl...
A WOMAN NAMED JOSIE McGEE... Single parent Cruz Erickson couldn't believe that the fiery-haired female in the leather duds and red motorcycle helmet was his eleven-year-old son's new Scout leader. With her wild coppery curls and outspoken ideas ab...
When the stakes are seduction and love--Cupid is not above stacking the deck! Only the boldest of men would flirt with Persephone Welton. Why, her hard-drinking, hard-gambling husband was hardly cold in his grave! Still, the maddening Peter Ramsey...
Sink or Swim Miss Seeton is off to the Mediterranean on a whirlwind cruise--bound for disaster. The passengers include London's greatest art dealers, whose bitter dispute over a questionable antique leads to scandalous accusations ... and murder! St...
THE CASE OF THE PASSIONATE PRIEST Kiernan O'Shaughnessy, M.D., former California medical examiner, now detective for hire, is choosy about her cases. But finding out if the hanging of a handsome young priest in a Phoenix, Arizona, church is sui...
A body is found shackled to the upper branches of the tallest tree in Ireland. The victim is a "Tinker," one of the mysterious class of itinerant travelers who have roamed Ireland for generations. The murder bears all the signs of being the work of D...
As England's largest repository of art treasures, the National Gallery was one of London's most heavily guarded institutions. So when the museum reported that Velazquez's priceless painting "The Prince" had been stolen, Commander George Gideon of Sco...
In Pigeon Fork, Kentucky, it's not easy to be a hard-boiled detective... Being as how my office is over my brother Elmo's drug store, it's kind of tough getting the right private-eye atmosphere. Fact is, since I'd left Louisville homicide four mon...
One of the most shocking crime novels of all time
In what may be Derek Raymond’s most talked-about novel—indeed, in what may be one of the most talked about crime novels ever—the reader is immediately plunged into the horrif...
With Christmas fast approaching, Amanda Pepper's class of spoiled prep-school brats have given schoolwork the heave-ho. As a lesson in the true holiday spirit, Amanda plans to have her students cook and serve a meal to the homeless. But the simple me...
FOR THE SENATE AND PEOPLE OF ROME... They were evil times for the great Republic of Crassus and Pompey-- when vicious gangs ruled the streets, routinely preying on plebeian and patrician alike. So the garroting of a lowly ex-slave and the disembow...
Through hypnosis, a Chicago actor travels thirty years back in time to war-torn Berlin, where, in an act of incredible betrayal, his mother was gunned down by a killer whose identity is only just beginning to emerge. Reprint....
FREEDOM'S LAST STAND All but obliterated by the poisonous fallout of a first strike nuclear attack, America has been reduced to a war-blackened wasteland, struggling to survive. Up from the broken dreams of what was the most powerful country on ea...
VACATION IN PEACEFUL MEDIEVAL POLAND SEE the ancient city of Cracow burn! WALLOW in the frightful murder of noblewomen and children at the invincible castle of East Gate! ENJOY the attack of the crazy old ladies at Sir Miesko's manor! WAT...
THE LEGEND COMES TO LIFE When a U.S. submarine set out from Miami and was drawn off-course by the murderous magic of the Devil's Triangle, Officer Jeff DelGiudice survived the terrifying plunge through the realms. But his good fortune had a shocki...
After several Federation and Klingon ships disappear while traveling a newly opened trade route, the Enterprise is sent to investigate. Their quest leads Captain Picard and his crew to an eerie space graveyard full of ships of every size and descript...
A galactic revolution has toppled the Starfire dynasty, and swept into power the harsh Democratic Republic. To support the murdered king is now punishable by death. But on distant worlds, the few surviving Guardians carry a dangerous secret: Somewher...
Women, like money, were part of the Lancaster legacy. And Haydon Lancaster was heir to the throne, a man bred for the White House, born to succeed. To Laura, brilliant designer and photographer, he was forbidden pleasure, consuming passion, secret ...
THE GREEN LION ...the secret of turning base metal into gold, contained in a book of alchemical code... THE GREEN LION leads the beautiful and indomitable Margaret of Ashbury -- witch, healer, friend to man and ghost -- on a perilous journey to ...
DALLAS DETECTIVE JACK KYLE IS ON THE TRAIL OF AN UNFAITHFUL WIFE -- A TRAIL THAT ENDS DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS'S CRIME WORLD private eye Jack Kyle is back, and his new client, Guy Borodin, has just the kind of simple case Kyle loves. Borodin s...
Old rivalries result in murder when Evangeline Sinclair's old acting adversary, Griselda von Kirstenburg, announces her intention to write her memoirs, which will feature unflattering portrayals of Evangeline and Trixie Dolan, and steal the thunder o...
Bamsan Kiet, chief of police in the capital city of Luong, a mythical Asian country that exists placidly among its violent Indochinese neighbors, is troubled by a flourishing opium trade, gangster-style rubouts, and friction from his soon-to-be inlaw...
For some it is an "honor cottage." For United States Senator Desmond Gardner it's a minimum security federal prison that he and Sweet Tony Martinelli now call home. Unlike Gardner, Martinelli's rap sheet smacks more of crime in the streets than crime...
Twelve years ago, Matthew Scudder lied to a jury to put James Leo Motley behind bars. Now the ingenious psychopath is free. And the alcoholic ex-cop-turned-p.i. must pay dearly for his sins. Friends and former lovers -- even strangers unfortunate eno...
In 1931 Detroit, the era of Prohibition, the booming auto industry, and the Mob, newspaperman Connie Minor chronicles the rise and fall of gangster Jack Dance, a story that makes him a witness of and key player in a dangerous game...
BURIED TALENT Art expert Andrea Perkins reluctantly agrees to help a former and not fondly remembered lover authenticate and restore some Victorian-era drawings inherited by his wife. The artist is Cecil Fetherston, who hanged for the murder of hi...
An investigation into the mysterious woman known as Jeanne of Arc...The turbulent times of the 15th century are perfectly captured in Paul Doherty's gripping mystery, The Serpent Amongst the Lilies. Perfect for fans of Ellis Peters and Susanna Gregor...
He downs tequila as if it were water, smokes dope when he can get it, mouths off with no provocation, and beds any female who catches his fancy. This is Durden's hero Jamie Hawkins, writer and self-described commentator on life's absurdities. In fact...
Homicide detective Simon Brith, a misogynist with a long-standing grudge against women, matches wits with the charismatic Brother Lowdown, another misogynist who brings wisdom to the homeless and death to the women of Wichita...
Lovejoy returns to East Anglia towork as an antique consultant for a movie about a museum robbery. But soon, Lovejoy becomes the center of a vicious web of theft, murder and disappearances and must use all his wits tocome out live....
Blamed by her father for her mother's death during childbirth, Elsa becomes obsessed with winning her father's love, but the trail of that destructive obsession is strewn with jealousy, deceit, duplicity, possible murder, self-denial, and self-blindn...
Guilt is San Francisco psychologist Joel Abramowitz's business--and it is his second feeling after lovely, very rich Margot, his best friend's wife confesses she loves him. His first feeling is unabashed lust. But the next morning the lady vanishes, ...
No matter how much you think you know, you're still taking a chance when you shop for a new roommate. But after Allie Jones throws out Sam, her sexy but two-timing live-in lover, she desperately needs someone to split the rent on her Upper West Side,...
Venice called to Urbino Macintyre--intoxicating him with a blend of majesty, history and decay. Strolling past her magnificent palazzos and picturesque canals, the expatriate American writer knew he could love none other--and vowed to remain always. ...
COMPROMISING POSITIONS The murder of prominent journalist Amanda Finch raises many questions. For eminent psychiatrist David Blake, the question is why his wife was found beside the body of a Chilean exile -- who just happened to be a former mental p...
The brave, the proud, the damned... Sara Rosen: Dark, impulsive beauty-- her radical acts on behalf of animal rights land her in terrible danger.... Michael Stone: He kept the tools of his former trade closed up in a trunk. Now he must open his SEAL ...
Travel back to strange and exotic Menzoberranzan, the vast city of the drow and homeland to lcewind Dale hero Drizzt Do'Urden. The young prince of a royal house, Drizzt grows to maturity in the vile world of his dark kin. Possessing honor beyond t...
Beautiful and hot-headed, Caitlyn had vowed to hate all Indians until the day she died. After all, weren't they the ones responsible for the senseless massacre of her beloved brothers? But when she gazed into the defiant eyes of the half-breed ...
HER ENEMY, HER LOVE... Perhaps if she'd stayed in Atlanta, Michele Logan would never have had to face Ian Stuart, the ruggedly handsome architect whose family had feuded with hers for centuries. But in the sultry paradise of Martinique fate threw ...
Ivy Tarro comes to San Francisco's great Alta Buena Hospital with a minor medical problem, but suddenly her life is endangered while around her swirl the exploding, and sometimes scandalous, dramas of hospital life...
Amy thought love would never pass her way again. She didn’t know how close it was...until she met Silas. He is an answer to prayer for her injured father, Grant Nolan, who welcomes him with open arms. The brotherly way Silas feels toward Amy soon...
By the time psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware reached the school the damage was done: A sniper had opened fire on a crowded playground, but was gunned down before any children were hurt. While the TV news crews feasted on the scene and Alex began his...
Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, digs into a case more bizarre than any she has ever faced, one that has produced not only unusual physical evidence, but also tantalizing clues about the inner workings of ...
In an explosion of terror, America's worst nightmares come true when Colombian suicide squads hit the streets of Washington. They have gone to war, and will destroy everything and everybody in their path. With its power and communications system b...
While studying at Oxford University for the summer, Frank and Joe Hardy discover the perils of international relations when their new friends, Soviet twins Pyotr and Petra Zigonev, are kidnapped to force their father, a Soviet peace negotiator, to sa...
An ultrachic modeling contest draws Nancy into a beauty of a mystery A major modeling agency, a designer clothes company, and a popular teen magazine promise to make one girl's dreams come true. All are sponsors of the Face of the Year contest -- an...
Lillie Evans is attracted to artist and rebel Jay Carson because he is different, but ideological disagreements could destroy their new relationship when a teachers' strike finds them on opposite sides of the picket line...
WELCOME TO FEAR STREET Don't listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street. Wouldn't you rather explore it yourself...and see if its dark terror and unexplained mysteries are true? You're not afraid, are you? Invitation To Terror The invitat...
Princess by Birth. Adventurer by Choice. Meet Princess Cimorene -- a princess who refuses to be proper. She is everything a princess is not supposed to be: headstrong, tomboyish, smart.... And bored. So bored that she runs away to live with a drago...
In a future where time travel is common and Time Patrolmen insure that time tourists do not tamper with history, Bob, Will, and Alan travel back to the time of King Richard the Lion-Hearted and pose as Robin Hoods...
Betrayed ... Andy Jenkins and Neil Freemount have been best friends for years. They hang out together, double-date, and help each other math their homework. But bully Charlie Cashman sets out to make life miserable for Andy, just because Andy...
Against their better judgment ...
Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield can't wait until Saturday night. Their friend Aaron Dallas is throwing "the party of the year" at a new teen club called The Hangout. Everyone from the sixth grade...
BOO!
It's almost Halloween, and identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield have two great costumes to choose from: a witch outfit and a princess dress. Both girls want to be the princess. This becomes a problem. And the result is ...
KC has never met a guy worth her interest-- before Steven Garth. Wealthy and well-connected, he's got what KC wants. But they're arch-rivals, and KC goes into debt to hide her ordinary background. As their rivalry grows, so do KC's fears: What will s...
School newspaper editor Karen Jacobs' discovery of a cheating ring at River Heights High threatens her romance with popular Ben Newhouse, while Nikki Masters finds herself torn between two boys--British newcomer Niles Butler and old flame Tim Cooper...
A collection of horror tales in which a young girl discovers evil forces lurking in her mother's garden, a boy whose radio gives news of a very strange kind, and the haunting of a construction worker killed in a dam accident...
All her life Wren has hoped for an adventure. Now she has one—with a kidnapped princess, a handsome prince, and a magician. What does it matter if the princess is only Tess, her best friend from the orphanage; if the prince is a youngest son...
This story of two girls trying to banish a witch is “full of wonderful fun, excitement, and humor” (Library Journal). Old Witch likes nothing better than to fly around on her broomstick, crying “Heh-heh!” and casting abracadabras. But ...
WHEN WINTER COMES THE MUTANTS GATHER... They have always lived in the shadows, on the fringes of normal society. Ignored, shunned, they survived in their own invisible clans, using their extraordinary psychic abilities to shield themselves from th...
This stunning book of short stories introduces the literary world to an author who writes of the outdoors with rare artistry and exactitude. John Morel Adler knows the woods, thickets, swamps, rivers, and coasts of his native Georgia and South Caroli...
DEADLY NEIGHBORS Wynton Lane, with its imposing Victorian houses, is a bastion of respectability. Belfield Grove Estate is not. Belfield Grove harbors families like the infamous Phelans. Led by their foul-mouthed, beer-swilling patriarch, Jack, they...
"In his quiet cosmic wonderment, Baxter is the equal of John Updike and Anne Tyler at their largest and best."―GQ
Without question Charles Baxter, whose ravishing novel The Feast of Love was a National Book Award finalist, is one of our fine...Made into a major motion picture that starred Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei, The Perez Family is a profound little parable about the redemptive power of love. And when you put it down . . . you have glimpsed a single human truth, brilliantly stat...
"Larry Brown writes like a force of nature." -- Pat Conroy Larry Brown caught the rapt attention of readers and critics with the 1988 publication of Facing the Music, his prize-winning first collection of stories. The following year, his first novel,...
Shereel Dupont--who abandoned her former name, Dorothy Turnipseed, when she left Waycross, Georgia, to seek fame and fortune with bodybuilder Russell Morgan--finds her new life threatened by the arrival of her corpulent, redneck family...
The Pulitzer Prize"winning author of Lonesome Dove chronicles the passing of the American West through the eyes of Calamity Jane in this western.In a letter to her daughter back East, Martha Jane is not shy about her own importance: “I am the Wil...
When the rich and glamorous Clara von Hohenkammer collapses dead at a dinner party, Toronto Police Inspector John Sanders is called in to lead the investigation. With a house full of guests to interview, Sanders’s investigation is complicated by th...
The Rose Thieves gives us the Vanderwald family: flamboyant, hot-tempered Lila, who feels trapped living in a small New England town; her sentimental, eternally optimistic husband, a failed futures-market investor; and their children. An affectionate...
Set in the years between 1914 and 1921, Margaret Skinner's rollicking, often hilarious fictional saga of the fortunes of several generations of an Irish-American family draws on the swirling life of Memphis, Tenneseess, to tell a story that usually g...
Reporter-sleuth Patty Nottingham and her boyfriend, pianist Rex Murphy, embark on their own investigation after the police claim that the bizarre death at a society ball of San Francisco society matron Binky Crenshaw was due to over dieting and lipos...
A retired cop-turned-fishing boat captain, Calico Jack Walker must pay for ignoring his instincts when he charters his boat to two shady characters who try to hijack the ship and almost murder his son. Reprint....