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  • Fancy Free

    Catherine Anderson
    in

    Everyone loves a wedding...Nothing lifts our hearts like the joyous peal of wedding bells. Or the sight of a happy couple being showered with confetti and good wishes. Now the most exciting new names in romantic fiction -- and the bestselling author ...

  • The Mad Earl's Bride

    Loretta Chase
    in

    Everyone loves a wedding...Nothing lifts our hearts like the joyous peal of wedding bells. Or the sight of a happy couple being showered with confetti and good wishes. Now the most exciting new names in romantic fiction -- and the bestselling author ...

  • Promises

    Lisa Kleypas
    in

    Everyone loves a wedding...Nothing lifts our hearts like the joyous peal of wedding bells. Or the sight of a happy couple being showered with confetti and good wishes. Now the most exciting new names in romantic fiction - and the bestselling author w...

  • The Kiss

    Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
    in

    Everyone loves a wedding...Nothing lifts our hearts like the joyous peal of wedding bells. Or the sight of a happy couple being showered with confetti and good wishes. Now the most exciting new names in romantic fiction - and the bestselling author w...

  • Nostradamus

    Jean Charles De Fontbrune

  • A Place Called Freedom

    Ken Follett

    Hidden by a Scottish river bank in the winter of 1767, Lizzie Hallim watches a naked figure emerging from the icy water. Mack McAsh is a slave and Lizzie is helping him escape. Mack challenges the mighty Jamisson family, which enslaves whole families...

  • Chase the Sun

    Rosanne Bittner

    ALL HE LIVED FOR WAS VENGEANCE... Just a boy when he saw his family massacred, Captain Zack Myers had joined the army for one purpose only -- to take revenge against the Indians who'd destroyed his world. Even the peerless beauty of a colonel's daug...

  • The Californian

    Todhunter Ballard

  • The Denver Ripper

    J.R. Roberts

    No matter where the Gunsmith goes, trouble always seems to find his address. Clint comes to Denver to pay a visit to his old friend, Bat Masterson. Since he's staying at Bat's private club, he figures to relax on this vacation and enjoy the finer thi...

  • Longarm and Big Trouble in Bodie

    Tabor Evans

  • Blood on the Arrows

    Judd Cole

    The son of a Cheyenne warrior but raised by whites, Touch the Sky is accused of murder when his most hated foe is brutally slain, and must prove his innocence or face the wrath of his people and the hatred of the woman he loves....

  • Slocum at Dog Leg Creek

    Jake Logan

    HE WAS NEARLY DEAD ON ARRIVAL... Slocum was headed for Dog Leg Creek to take a job at Happy Kramer's spread -- but before he even got there, he was ambushed by a gang who roughed him up and warned him off. When he finally made it to the ranch, he ...

  • Eternity

    Neffetiti Austin

    Success was all she wanted. Brandy had always been a shining star, first as a student and now as a rising young attorney in a top Los Angeles law firm. Dedicated, determined, and ambitious, Brandy was willing to give up everything, even love, to succ...

  • Fire Along the Big Muddy

    John Legg

    Deserting his army fort to pursue his lust for battle, misfit soldier Miles Barclay is rescued from the wild frontier by a Sioux tribe that teaches him to temper his untamed spirit before returning to the white man's world. Original....

  • Destiny's Child

    Barbara Bretton

    Dakota Wylie didn't claim to understand men...But she did know that Patrick Devane was stubborn and angry and that he refused to let anyone, including his young daughter, get close. Dakota also knew she had no choice but to accept his reluctant h...

  • A Timeless Treasure

    Joyce Carlow

    A TIME TO FORGET... After the break-up of her relationship, Maddie Emerson decides that a "mystery weekend" on an island near Nova Scotia is just the distraction she needs. But during an unexpected summer storm, she falls unconscious...and awakens ...

  • Out of the Dark

    Jennifer Blake
    in

    He loves without question. He is strong and silent, tender yet tough. He's all any woman would ever want. In a cat, that is. Now three bestselling authors are brought together in this wonderful collection of historical romances filled with fiery pass...

  • Imagine

    Jill Barnett

    After years in prison for a murder he never committed, escaped convict Hank Wyatt knew how to survive. But he didn't know if he could last an hour marooned on a deserted tropical island with a beautiful blonde and three orphaned children. Now, lookin...

  • Until Tomorrow

    Rosanne Bittner

    Tonight, they had passion. But love would have to wait ... UNTIL TOMORROW Addy Kane couldn't wait to leave her small Illinois hometown to take a teaching job in the gold-rich Colorado hills. Then robbers burst into the bank where she was withdrawi...

  • Forever, My Love

    LaRee Bryant

    HIS PASSION DEMANDED JUSTICE... One minute, Carrie Burnett was celebrating her engagement among the elite Texas society; the next, she was a prisoner on a remote island ... at the mercy of a man she had thought never to see again. Once, Carrie had a...

  • White Lace

    Caroline Bourne

    FROM THE SHADOWY BACK STREETS OF LONDON... She is Tallie Edwards, a shy British beauty who has just witnessed a savage murder. Forced to leave her child behind, she flees England to escape a man of unspeakable terror -- the powerful nobleman she bel...

  • The Scoundrel

    Ann Carberry

    "When I seduce you...I want you to be as eager for me as I am for you. In the soft glow of candlelight, I will watch as your eyes darken with desire. And when neither one of us can survive another moment of glorious passion, we will join our bo...

  • Paradise

    Phoebe Conn

    A TOWN DIVIDED .. . Divorced city planner Leigh Bowman drove south from Santa Barbara to sun-drenched Mirasol with dreams of starting over. She'd begin by helping to transform the decaying town into a dazzling resort. A WOMAN TORN .. . In Miraso...

  • Night Magic

    Lynn Emery

    LOVESPELL Haunted by her mother's death, attorney Savannah St. Julien has spent her life avoiding emotional entanglements. But when a battle to protect her Louisiana hometown from a ruthless chemical company brings her back to Beau Chene, she meet...

  • A Breath of Scandal

    Jeanne Carmichael

    She had no doubt that the gentleman could kiss the truth from her lips! Candace Stafford could hardly turn her back on an injured man. But in aiding the young rascal, she discovered a formidable opponent: Edward Croyden, whose persistent charm put...

  • Lady Althea's Bargain

    Gayle Buck

    The Bewildered Bride Lovely Lady Althea Hawthorne devoutly hoped that the man she had married was different from the other men she had known. As a girl, she had seen her rakish father betray her mother. As a young woman, she had fled her stepfather&...

  • Bewitching Lord Winterton

    Marilyn Clay

    BEWITCHED, BOTHERED... Dire financial straits decreed that one of the late Sir Richard Abercorn's daughters had to land a wealthy man. Naturally, it would be golden-haired Lilibet, since plain Neala, at one-and-twenty, was simply too...plain. An...

  • Dance With a Stranger

    Kit Garland

    "I WISH THAT YOU WOULD TAKE ME TO YOUR BED, LUCIEN." Ghislaine Nisbet soared into stardom as premiere danseuse of the Paris Opera even as she snubbed royalty from every corner of Europe. The ravishing dancer scorned the jewels that were fl...

  • The Captive Heart

    Anita Gordon

    AILENOR...Mistaken for her beautiful mother, the scarlet-haired maiden was plucked from her family's home in Normandy to pay for a wrong of nearly twenty years past. As she traveled by sea to Ireland to face her enemy, she vowed to defy her captors....

  • Return to Camelot

    Donna Grove

    HIS LADY OF THE LAKE. Arthur Pierce's boyhood had been brightened by Arthurian romance, but harsh reality had taught him not to count on dreams. So when he was paid to find the fabled sword of Excalibur, he told himself that it was the money, ...

  • Swan Necklace

    Peggy Hanchar

    THEY CAME FROM DIFFERENT WORLDS,
    AND FOUND A LOVE THAT WOULD BECOME A LEGEND....
    Standing bound and dirty on the auction block, Swan Necklace, daughter of Red Hawke, chief of the Cree, remained proud and defiant. Struck by her beauty and courag...

  • D.J.'s Angel

    Lori Handeland

    MISSION OF LOVE D.J. Halloran didn't believe in love. She'd just seen too much heartache -- in her work as a police officer and in her own life. And she'd vowed a long time ago never to let anyone get close enough to hurt her, even if ...

  • A Wish and a Prayer: A Novella

    Robin Lee Hatcher
    in

    Three stories follow the adventures of a young woman who dares to tame a wild animal and a cold-hearted assassin, a dressmaker whose prayers are about to be answered, and an enchanted daughter of a Welsh chieftain who is drawn to a prisoner. He lo...

  • Exeter's Daughter

    Emma Lange

    A Talent for Trouble Beautiful Lady Marissa Portemaine was a duke's daughter But there are things that even a duke's daughter cannot do without disgrace, and Marissa had done most of them. Now she was exiled from London and put under the thumb of ...

  • Mischief

    Catherine Hart

    INCORRIGIBLE! Spoiled, sassy and enticingly lovely, Heather Blair-Burns rightfully belongs among Boston's high society -- certainly NOT in a Dodge City saloon. But had the haughty, high-spirited debutante remained back East, she would have misse...

  • Indigo Fire

    Krista Janssen

    A beautiful and boldy independent woman, Eden Palmer is driven by one desire -- to save her family's South Carolina plantation from reverting to the English crown. In Barbados, she bargains with a former buccaneer to buy the secret for growing a ...

  • La Flamme

    Constance O'Banyon

    Wed at the King's command... Lady Sabine Woodbridge pledged herself to a man she had never met -- the powerful Gareth Blackthorn, Duke of Balmarough. But that was before he betrayed her and her family. Sworn to vengeance... Escaping to France, ...

  • Lakota Princess

    Karen Kay

    NO OTHER LOVE Estrela is haunted by forbidden memories: his touch, the taste of his lips, the feel of his body against hers. Her heart aches, but it is no use. She's back in England now, a member of the Court, separated forever from the Lakota tri...

  • A Merry Escapade

    Jenna Jones

    AN IMPOSSIBLE MISSION... In spite of her name, Lady Mirthon has the megrims. It is humiliating enough that her father has confessed to being a spy for the French -- and a not very successful one at that. But his dying words to her are deucedly cry...

  • Tea Time

    Dorothy Howell

    Sometimes the heart has a mind of its own... ALLISON: She was delighted to return to Brighton, Nevada -- and shocked when she found the charming town overrun with saloons and dance halls... CADE: He was thrilled to have a saloon of his own -- a...

  • Bride and Groom

    Leah Laiman

    The blissful memories of their short ski holiday quickly evaporate when Drew and Samantha Symington arrive home to find Belvedere Manor, their family estate, engulfed in flames. The charred body of Sarah, Drew's sister, has been identified by her hus...

  • Touched by Angels

    Debbie Macomber

    SKY'S THE LIMIT New York City is always in need of a miracle, and this Christmas is no exception. Thank heavens the divinely inspired, if slightly dizzy trio-Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy-have winged in to answer three Christmas wishes and teach a fe...

  • Famous Miss Feversham

    Christie Kennard

    A POISONED PEN Miss Fanny Feversham delights in taking pen to paper--and spends much of her time creating deliciously wicked fiction. And who better to star in her saucy tale than her brother Kit's dearest friend, the notorious Lord Neville--a dashi...

  • The Perfect Mistress

    Betina Krahn

    The daughter of an exquisite London courtesan, beautiful and candid Gabrielle LeCoeur is determined to make a different life for herself -- staid, respectable... MARRIED. But her mother plans to see Gabrielle linked to a suitable protector, a wealthy...

  • Firestorm

    Kathleen Morgan

    Chosen to save her people from alien invaders, feminist leader Raina encounters warrior monk Teague on her journey to the impenetrable fire planet of Incendra, and their missions are threatened by their budding passions. Original....

  • The Dream

    Kasey Mars

    Ever since her husband was killed, Genny Austin has been haunted by eerie dreams of the past. Jack Brennan has nightmares, too, but his are real. His business is under siege, and his life is being threatened. When Genny and Jack meet one night on a S...

  • Lady of Summer

    Emma Merritt

    LORD OF FURY Foul villains plundered Brian mac Logan's village, and carried off a sacred treasure more precious than gold. Aching for vengeance, the highland warlord reluctantly seeks the aid of a remarkable woman warrior who once fought beside him-...

  • The Heart and the Rose

    Nancy Richards-Akers

    A DELICATE ROSE The war with the rebel Scots has cost Lady Claricia de Clinton everything she holds dear -- her family, her innocence and her cherished dreams of happiness. She has learned to survive by trusting no man. And now she has become the cap...

  • The Seduction of Samantha Kincade

    Maggie Osborne

    A WOMAN RIDING FOR REVENGE A MAN GAMBLING FOR LOVE Samantha Kincade was after a man. As a bounty hunter that was her job. But in a rowdy Colorado saloon, a gambler with golden tiger eyes saw through her boy's disguise. A little frightened, and mo...

  • Noelle

    Diana Palmer

    HE WAS A REAL HARD CASE, BUT SHE HAD LOVE ON HER SIDE.... Like most of the young ladies in Fort Worth, Noelle Brown was smitten by handsome, charming Andrew Paige. But when she challenged the steely-eyed gaze of his stepbrother Jared, something in...

  • Gabrielle

    Veronica Sattler

    Only with her family's lost sapphire can aristocrat Gabrielle Marie de St. Germain hope to buy freedom for her mother who has been imprisoned with Marie Antoinette. But when she is discovered searching for it in the bedchamber of the handsome new Ame...

  • Lucien's Fall

    Barbara Samuel

    A MASTER OF SEDUCTION The sinfully appealing Lord Lucien Esher, London's most accomplished rake, believed there was no woman born who could not be seduced. But his hard-hearted facade hid a tragedy hid a tragedy that was slowly devouring him...

  • Fearless

    Alexandra Thorne

    The daughter of a vaquero and a woman with a past, Raina DeVargas is born to tame the wild west of 1885. Descended from a Texas dynasty, Ulysses Pride is a man with power, money and a secret. The last thing he needs is a woman like Raina to derail hi...

  • The Virgin and the Unicorn

    Joan Smith

    Miranda Vale had learned that Lord Rotham was a rake, when her sister’s heart was broken. But Miranda couldn’t resist being charmed by the man, who had such courage and daring. She and Rotham’s brother, Pavel, got caught up in the adventure Rot...

  • Young Man's Darling

    Lee Scofield

    Trying to escape marriage to an older man, Jesse Mae Banning runs away to the West, but is unprepared for George's dogged pursuit or the determination of handsome cowboy Luke McCarthy to make her his own. He was everything she didn't want... ...

  • Lord of Forever

    Patricia Simpson

    EVERLASTING LOVE For beautiful, independent Olivia Travanelle, redesigning the gardens of a historic Charleston estate is the job of her dreams. But as she gets to know her enigmatic and highly reclusive employer, Alexandre Chaubere, she finds her...

  • Enchanted Time

    Amy Elizabeth Saunders

    ENCHANTED TIME, ETERNAL LOVE With an antique store to run, Ivy Raymond had an eye for members of the opposite sex, as long as they were named Shakespeare, Rembrandt, or Louis XVI. But she was too busy to look at men from her own century. Then a ko...

  • Not Quite Paradise

    Jan Zimlich

    Aayshen Rahs had crossed the cosmos to explore an amazing blue planet and its vast seas, only to be shot down from the Mississippi night sky. Seeking refuge in an earthling's dwelling, the warrior was drawn to his beautiful captive - a strong-willed ...

  • Mountain Magic

    Trana Mae Simmons

    Struggling for survival in the unforgiving Rocky Mountains, orphan Caitlyn O'Shaunessy is unprepared for the arrival of blue-eyed stranger Jonathan Clay, a Virginia man seeking solace from a broken heart Caitlyn O'Shaunessy was a born survivor. Or...

  • Treasured

    Patricia Werner

    WITH A PASSION FOR PIRACY... Eldora Rawley is her father's daughter -- the pirate queen. As mistress of the ship Cordelia, she takes what she want and gives the devil his due. Then, one night in a bawdy tavern, she meets her match... ...THEY PLAY...

  • Forever in Texas

    Jodi Thomas

    Sanford Colston left his hometown of Saints Roost to hire its school a new teacher - - but instead found himself stuck at the Dallas train station, robbed of the clothes off his back! It was clear to Ford that this thief wasn't your ordinary out...

  • The Bartered Bride

    Lois Stewart

    The widowed Lady Diana had only one passion: her ancestral estate at Abbottsleigh. Her brief, disastrous marriage had been arranged to save her family from financial ruin, and she vowed she would never again wed for money. Then she attended a masked ...

  • Southern Nights

    Susan Weldon

    SHE WANTED NO MAN... Leah Stanton dreamed that Riverwynd would one day be hers. All she had to do was show her ailing uncle that she could run his Florida sugar plantation better than any man. Her demure twin Rachel could flirt and entertain suitors...

  • The Last Laugh

    Winifred Witton

    She who laughs last loves best. First Laugh There was no denying that the colts were a handful; however Miss Molly Moreton's father had promised that if she could make superb carriage horses of them, she could manage the Moreton Stables. It is ...

  • Belling the Cat

    Susan Wiggs
    in

    He loves without question. He is strong and silent, tender yet tough. He's all any woman would ever want. In a cat, that is. Now three bestselling authors are brought together in this wonderful collection of historical romances filled with fiery pass...

  • Surrender

    Rochelle Wayne

    When Michelle Beauclair, the spirited mistress of Tall Oaks plantation first lays eyes on handsome northerner Brent Sheldon, she knows it will be the love of a lifetime. But she has no illusions. They believe in different dreams, live in separate wor...

  • Fatal Instinct

    Robert W. Walker

  • Sick

    Jay Bonansinga

    When a mysterious growth on exotic dancer Sarah's mind is discovered to actually be the growing seed of an evil force, Sarah and a team of medical scientists set out to destroy it before discovering that the cure is twice as deadly. Original....

  • The Color of Blood

    D.A. Hodgman

    When a right-wing hate group begins to target African-American police officers as a means of ""purifying"" Miami, the Stakeout Squad is forced to confront a hotbed of racial tensions that are throwing the city into urban war. ...

  • Shock Tactic

    Don Pendleton

    KILL FEVER War has been proclaimed on the human race -- in the name of protecting the environment. A fanatic "green warrior" wages his war using robbery, extortion and mass murder. Now he is about to send a one-two-three punch that will shock Amer...

  • Thunder Road

    Chris Curry

    A series of horrifying incidents in the California desert town of Madelyn thrusts police chief Moss Baskerville and local cowboy Tom Abernathy into an all-out battle with the evil Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Original....

  • Candlenight

    Phil Rickman

    A supernatural thriller exploring the darker side of rural life in a remote Welsh mountain village, where primal fears and ancient longings haunt the present dayCorpse-candles. Phantom funerals. The bird of death. It was insidious . . . For Bethan, t...

  • Blood of Amber

    Roger Zelazny

    Here is the seventh and newest of Roger Zelazny's acclaimed AMBER novels. Amber, the one real world, of which all others--including our Earth--are but shadows.. . Pursued by a fiendish enemy (or two, or three, or four) Merle must battle through an...

  • Pendragon

    Stephen R. Lawhead

    “Though Lawhead brilliantly creates an authentic and vivid Arthurian Britain, he never forsakes the sense of wonder that has graced the legend throughout the ages.” -- Publishers WeeklyAt the dawn of his reign, a young king confronts his destiny ...

  • Cataract

    Tara K. Harper

    CALL OF THE WILD On Risthmus, the Landing Pact was law: felines were off limits. And for ten years Tsia, the rogue guide, had tried to honor that Pact and ignore the irresistible pull of her forbidden link to the cats. For ten years, she had hi...

  • The Flight of Michael McBride

    Midori Snyder

    MICHAEL MCBRIDE is a sheltered young man from an Irish-American family in New York City -- until the secrets that lie beneath his family's genteel existence begin to crumble under his feet, sending him running for his life. His flight from the O...

  • The Shattered Sphere

    Roger MacBride Allen

    Striving to retrieve a stolen planet Earth and restore it to its proper solar system, an unlikely band of human scientists, dictators, and professional troublemakers face two enemies in the powerful Charonians and the mysterious Adversary. Reprint....

  • Indistinguishable from Magic

    Robert L. Forward

    Antigravity Machines! (six kinds) Space Warps! Black Holes! Strange Matter! Time Machines! Reactionless Drives! Faster than Light Drives! All the known ways to build real starships! Finally, someone who, puts the science back in science fiction! Robe...

  • Showdown at Centerpoint

    Roger MacBride Allen

    THE ADVENTURES OF STAR WARS REACH THEIR EXPLOSIVE CONCLUSION IN BOOK THREE OF THE CORELLIAN TRILOGY... When a loyalist ship approaching Selonia is blasted out of space, Han Solo quickly realizes that rebel forces are turning planetary repulsors in...

  • Spear of Heaven

    Judith Tarr

    Obtaining permission to accompany a powerful mage on a quest to a high mountain kingdom, willful heiress Daruya is horrified when her kingdom is threatened by evil forces on the eve of her departure. Reprint....

  • Wild Blood

    Anne Logston

    Dreaming of returning to her elven ancestors and locating her twin brother, Ria is forced to make a decision regarding her arranged marriage to a human and hopes to form an alliance between humans and elves. Original....

  • The Day the Magic Stopped

    Christopher Stasheff

    A collection of stories features the writings of such authors as Morgan Llywelyn, S. M. Stirling, and Jody Lynn Nye, and follows the adventures of people whose previously magic-dependent worlds are suddenly stripped of all magic. Original....

  • Beyond the Veil of Stars

    Robert Reed

    A mysterious change in the night sky leads to a new way to explore the universe in this science fiction adventure for fans of James Cameron’s Avatar.The son of a UFO researcher, Agent Cornell Novak is the perfect candidate for a secret government p...

  • Psykosis

    Wilhelmina Baird

    Fifteen years after the Third Alien War, which left his mind and body devastated, Sword is horrified when the Aliens return and the government calls upon him to represent the Earth's military to negotiate a peaceful agreement. Original....

  • Squire's Blood

    Peter Telep

    A SQUIRE'S BATTLE THE BLOODY CONFLICT BETWEEN CELT AND SAXON STILL RAGES, REDDENING THE GORSE AND HEATHER OF THE MOORS. IF THE SAXONS CAN BREACH THE WALLS OF THE CASTLE OF SHORES, THEY WILL HAVE A STRONGHOLD FROM WHICH ALL THE HILLS AND VALES WE ...

  • The Janus Mask

    Richard A. Knaak

    Baron Mandrol throws a grand ball and requires that his guests wear demonic death masks that harbor the spirits of murdered freedom fighters, and in the midst of the chaos, one fighter actually comes back to life. Original....

  • A Call to Arms

    Thomas K. Martin

    Returning to his modern-day life as an everyday college student, Steve Wilkinson, alias the Dreamer, is unaware that he is followed by the evil wizard Belevairn, who hopes to obtain modern weaponry to defeat ancient Delgroth. Original....

  • The Titan of Twilight

    Troy Denning
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    For untold centuries, a banished titan has lurked in the cold, forbidden dusk of the Twilight Vale -- imprisoned for a crime as black as the boreal night. With the birth of a new king comes the titan’s freedom. The Kingdom hangs in the balance...

  • The Silent Strength of Stones

    Nina Kiriki Hoffman

    In summer, magic is warmly borne on the gentle, wafting breeze. It is a season of many wonders, with many secrets ripe for discovering ... and some best left in shadow, unexplored. Summer has come to Sauterelle Lake. And inquisitive young Nick is ...

  • Blood Oath

    John Vornholt

    RUNNING FROM DEATH Having narrowly escaped assassination, proud, ruthless Ambassador G'Kar knows he is marked for death. A rival family from his Narn homeland has taken the Shon'Kar,. or Blood Oath, to kill him. And when a fiery explosion destroys h...

  • Shadow Academy

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born--a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia are now fourteen, and enrolled at Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy on Yavin 4. Together with friends both old and new, ...

  • Scanlin's Law

    Susan Amarillas

    Kidnapped! The word tore at Rebecca's heart. Her child was gone. And standing before her was Luke Scanlin, U.S. Marshal, the only man who could save her son. But how could she trust him again when she knew that Luke held the power to ruin her...

  • Gideon's Bride

    Amelia Autin

    WIDOWED AND WANTING Just yesterday, it seemed, Gideon Lowell was a contented family man. Now he was alone, with three children to raise and a ranch to run. His heart wasn't ready for courtship, but his kids needed a mother. And he needed a woman's...

  • Lakota Renegade

    Madeline Baker

    THE OUTLAW HEART Handy with six-guns and fists, Creed Maddigan liked his women hot and ready. But the rugged half-breed wasn't used to innocent girls like Jassy McCloud who curtsied and made ginger snaps. Then Creed was falsely jailed for a crim...

  • A Date With Dr. Frankenstein

    Leanne Banks

    IS HE DR. DREAMDATE? Congratulations, Andie Reynolds! You know why the local kids call your neighbor Dr. Frankenstein. He never emerges from his big old house and spends his time concocting explosive experiments. When-you went to visit, you half e...

  • Thicker Than Water

    Linda Barlow; William G. Tapply

    Dr. Rachel Morgan inherited mystical healing powers from her mother, Ruth Morning Star, who suffered only pain and persecution as a result of her "gift". Rachel has always denied her legacy, but now, with the lives of her son, Jake, and the man she l...

  • Devoted

    Alice Borchardt

    Tenth-century France is a land where the Forest People, who worship pagan gods, are disappearing. Christianity is arriving with a new God and new rulers. And brutal Viking Northmen are swarming from their warships to raze villages and loot the land. ...

  • Alex and the Angel

    Dixie Browning

    MR. SEPTEMBER The Single Dad: Wealthy bachelor Alex Hightower has three women on his mind .... His Sassy-Mouthed Teenage Daughter: A girl with training bras on her mind. His "Steady Gal": A snooty socialite with marriage to Mr. Moneybags o...

  • Angel's Baby

    Pamela Browning

    'Let's make a baby together.' Angel McCabe's biological clock was ringing - loud. But there was no one else on the otherwise uninhabited Florida island to hear it. With no husband in sight, she had no choice but to run a personal ad. Once wedded ...

  • Taming the Wild Man

    Delayne Camp

    "What Daughter?" Nicholas Thunderheart moved through the steamy forest with the strength of a jungle cat. Primal...predatory. Years ago, scandal had driven him to isolation in the Smoky Mountains. But now that solitude was shattered-by a woman. ...

  • Almost a Honeymoon

    Susan Crosby

    RELUCTANT BRIDE When a leather-clad stranger forced Paige O'Halloran into a limousine, she knew her humdrum life was about to change. Then her abductor turned out to be longtime nemesis Rye Warner-hired to be her bodyguard. And in order to keep he...

  • When She Was Bad

    Ryanne Corey

    GOOD GIRLS DON'T... Jenny Louise Rossi was the sweetest, purest young thing ever to come out of Toluca, Texas. But when her dull-but-reliable fiance ran off with a double-jointed stripper, Jenny decided being good got her nowhere. So she trans...

  • Joyride

    Patricia Coughlin

    YOU'RE ON THE ROAD TO LOVE! Being hired to drive a classic Chevy from Montreal to Miami is the trip of a lifetime, Cat Bandini! There's nothing like being twenty-two years old with the world before you.... Unless your overprotective uncle makes yo...

  • Montana Rogue

    Jessica Douglass

    KIDNAPPED! Wealthy heiress Courtney Hamilton was terrified. In the past hour, she'd been blindfolded, kidnapped and taken aboard a helicopter, which had crashed in the Montana wilderness. Then she'd been rescued by a handsome mountain man whose ve...

  • Hot As Sin

    Debra Dixon

    She needed a hero -- and a man to remind her how it felt to be alive ... Emily Quinn was on the run, desperate to disappear before anyone else lost his life to save hers -- and Gabe was her only hope! Tempted by her mystery, he agreed to help her...

  • Lia's Daughter

    Diana Dixon

    LIA'S DAUGHTER-- but her own woman; that was Kaly Rossitec. Lia had once hidden Kaly's very existence; now Kaly sought to hide her connection to her famous mother. Mick Demarkis fell in love with the Kaly of the present, but before he could re...

  • Dark Horse

    Margaret Falk

    Hoping to sell the Arizona family ranch after her horse breeder father's death, Dakota McAllister comes head-to-head with bittersweet childhood memories, a man from her past, and the truth about her father's death. Original....

  • Caitlin's Guardian Angel

    Marie Ferrarella

    A FATHER'S FIGHT The assignment--protecting a witness to a brutal murder--was the toughest of Detective Graham Redhawk's career. Because the witness was Caitlin Cassidy, the woman who'd long ago decided that a half-Navajo renegade like him wasn't ...

  • Kisses and Kids

    Andrea Edwards

    IT COULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED TO AN UNLIKELIER GUY... Congratulations, Patrick Stuart! You survived the 'hood. Became a hometown hero. And you've just been awarded a classy new van to chauffeur you down Easy Street in style! There's o...

  • Two Faced Woman

    Lucy Gordon

    PARTNERS IN CRIME... Private investigator Debbie Harker had had her share of tough assignments -- and going undercover as a notorious gangster's moll was certainly one of them. But tougher still was her self-appointed coconspirator, Detective Inspec...

  • Done Cryin'

    Janis Flores

    The Dunleavy Legacy Octavia Whitworth Dunleavy - formidable matriarch of the family - wants to hand over once-renowned Dunleavy Farm to her three grandchildren. Will they accept her offer? And will they be able to overcome old feuds and jealousies...

  • To Have & To Hold

    Patricia Gaffney

    Sebastian Verlaine, the new Viscount D'Aubrey, was cynical, sophisticated, and too handsome for his own good. He was also bored. Why else would he agree to sit on the bench with two fellow magistrates to judge the petty crimes of his tenants and neig...

  • Almost a Husband

    Carol Grace

    PARTNERS FOR LIFE Officer Carrie Stephens: Big-city cop with small-town dreams Chief of police in a peaceful, seaside town--the dream job was hers! If only she could produce a loving fiance to impress the town council.... Lieutenant Matt Graha...

  • Stranger in My Arms

    Madeline Harper

    DO YOU HAVE A SECRET FANTASY? Kasey Halliday does. She's always wondered what it would be like to fall hopelessly, irrevocably in love with a dark, dangerous stranger. Will Eastman, Kasey's new neighbor, fits the bill perfectly. He's h...

  • Daisy // A Steadfast Man

    Leigh Greenwood

    THE PROSPECTOR'S PRIZE The state of Texas wasn't big enough for Tyler Randolph and his six rough-and-ready brothers. So the rugged loner set off for New Mexico in search of a lost mine. He was out to find gold in them thar hills, but he struck the...

  • Trouble in Texas

    Leann Harris

    SMALL TOWN NEEDS The beautiful blonde with the mysteriously broken-down '66 Mustang was exactly what Sheriff Derek Grey's small West Texas town, and his young daughter, needed--an honest-to-goodness doctor. She was also everything he wanted .... ...

  • The Tarnished Lady

    Sandra Hill

    SILVER FLAME Banished from polite society for bearing a child out of wedlock, Lady Eadyth of Hawks' Lair spent her days hidden under a voluminous veil, tending her bees. But when her son's detested father threatened to reveal the boy's true paternit...

  • Rogue Fever

    Jan Hudson

    She couldn't help asking for his brand of trouble... Long legs in dusty jeans, eyes shaded by a cowboy hat, Ben Favor looked every inch a scoundrel -- and Savanna Smith felt his smile as a kiss of fire on her skin! She'd come to the sleepy...

  • Gotta Have It

    Faye Hughes

    His sexy drawl made a woman want to promise him anything.... Once he'd been the most notorious jewel thief in the world, stealing from the rich for charity's sake, but now Remy Ballou insisted he'd gone straight -- and Michael Ann O...

  • Tara's Child

    Susan Kearney

    Her child was her world... Outside, the blizzard raged, but inside, Tara Larson cradled her year-old son in a circle of warmth. Nothing could break the bonds between her and the boy--not even the strange events that were happening again in their n...

  • Cecilia and the Stranger

    Liz Ireland

    Desperate Trussed up in tweed and a suitably righteous manner, Jake Reed hoped he'd pass as a schoolmaster long enough to elude the gunman on his trail. But with Cecilia Summertree, the prettiest--and the nosiest--schoolmarm in the West dodging hi...

  • One-Night Wife

    Day Leclaire

    Forgive and Forget? Anna Kane wakes up in a hospital bed to find she can't even remember her own name. Luckily for her, her husband is there to remind her! The only problem is she can't remember him, either! And Sebastian Kane is not a man...

  • The Saint of Bourbon Street

    BJ James

    HE WAS AN UNLIKELY HERO Mitch Ryan knew the streets of New Orleans better than a beat-up alley cat, so it made sense for Katherine Rivard to beg him to rescue her missing sister. Yes, he'd fled that town--and his past--years ago, and didn't want t...

  • Taming the Lone Wolf

    Joan Johnston
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    A unforgettable man--modern heroe who have the courage to fight for what is right... Rugged. Sexy. Heroic. A lone wolf like Stony Carlton wasn't easy to tame. He didn't seem to need anyone. Until he was introduced to the right woman, that is. T...

  • Emily's Secret

    Jill Jones

    An exhilarating blend of past and present, of mystery and romance, and of love lost and found. Alex Hightower, an American professor, has always been fascinated by Emily Bronte and her brief, tragic life. But what were the secrets she took with ...

  • A Twist in Time

    Lee Karr

    A CAPTIVE IN TIME... Della Arnell kept men like Colin Delaney at a cool distance. Too tall, too handsome and too sure of himself, this man could have any woman he desired. Yet even as she condemned the heir of the Delaney fortunes, she was compe...

  • Dream Bride

    Terri Lindsey

    DREAM BRIDE WANTED: IDEAL WIFE Luke Cahill: Bachelor seeking a true lady The Cahill men were notorious for marrying unsuitable women. Not Luke! He planned to wed the most refined female in town. But first she had to pass his secret "Dr...

  • The Groom Maker

    Lisa Kaye Laurel

    THE WEDDING WAGER Always a bridesmaid... Rae Browning's wifely ways always turned the town's bachelors into marriage material. But each Casanova--an even dozen!--wed another, leaving Rae a lovable, if lonely, legend. Never a groom Immune to m...

  • Summer Madness

    Susan Lewis

    It Was a Summer that Would Change Their Lives Forever... It sounded like a heavenly vacation--three months in the South of France, sipping champagne, bronzing in the sun, and having the time of their lives. But friends Louisa, Sarah, and Danny--th...

  • Doctor Sandy

    Margaret Malcolm

    "Now confess, isn't it pleasant just occasionally to be treated as if you were a charming feminine nit-wit who needs a strong arm to lean on?" Doctor Sandy Grey asked Marcia. In his professional capacity as a doctor -- and as something more than a fr...

  • Stormswept

    Deborah Martin

    THE FIRST WEDDING NIGHT that Lady Juliana St. Albans spent with her bridegroom, the dark and daring Rhys Vaughan, was one of divine discovery, as she realized the fiery fulfillment of a man's driving hunger and her own awakened sensuality. THE S...

  • The Baby Maker

    Jule McBride

    HAD HIS MERE TOUCH MADE HER CONCEIVE A CHILD? He was an enchanting stranger... ...a dark-eyed drifter so compelling, Bitsy Davis bared her soul, telling him she couldn't have children. Her mesmerizing prince comforted her without so much as a...

  • The Thistle and the Rose

    May McGoldrick

    DESPERATE DECEPTION Celia Muir must escape from a burning castle into the Scottish Highlands before English soldiers capture her. With her are loyal friends and servants, all united to protect the infant Kit from unknown enemies. For her clandestine...

  • The Man from Atlantis

    Judith McWilliams

    JENNA FARRON: ARCHAEOLOGIST IN SEARCH OF A LOVE LIFE These days, eligible, attractive, single men weren't exactly coming out of the woodwork! So when Jenna stumbled across a gorgeous male specimen, she couldn't let a mere ten-thousand-year age dif...

  • Dynasty Jones

    Helen Mittermeyer

    Could he win a violet-eyed vixen who vowed she wouldn't be wooed? She was beautiful, spirited, a flame-haired dynamo whose lips promised heaven, but Aaron Burcell had to discover why his missing racehorse was grazing in Dynasty Jones's pasture! Ho...

  • Her Two Husbands

    Mollie Molay

    "Whether it's for business or pleasure, for one month or one night, we have the husband you need! Call 1-800-HUSBAND. Operators standing by ...." Her brilliant idea was about to backfire! The Tickle Pink Inn, a honeymooner's favorite, was the perf...

  • Nurse Judith's Engagement // Phantom Rival

    Marjorie Norrell

    When Judith took up a private nursing post with the wealthy Mrs. Cruttson, who suspected that any young woman was "after" one of her sons, it seemed a good idea to wear an engagement ring as a kind of camouflage. But there were unforeseen com...

  • Coltrain's Proposal

    Diana Palmer

    RULES OF ENGAGEMENT FOR A LONG, TALL TEXAN! Louise Blakely, MD: Doctor with a heartache She didn't want to love Jeb Coltrain. The legendary Texan treated her like the enemy. And Coltrain's shocking marriage proposal demanded surrender. . . . ...

  • Tiger in the Rain

    Laura Parker

    THE TIGER... One night long ago, Michaela Bellegarde had fled from a dark, brooding tiger of a man who had taunted her, tasted her passion, then turned her away. But Guy Matherson had never forgotten their brief but searing encounter. Haunted by h...

  • Green Card Wife

    Anne Peters

    FIRST COMES MARRIAGE... Ted Carstairs: Rough-and-rugged groom With his faded jeans and five o'clock shadow, Ted Carstairs was no white knight. Still, he was American -- and willing to bargain. To Silka Olsen, a woman in need of a green card, noth...

  • Jacob's Girls

    Tara Taylor Quinn

    Trouble - Jacob Ryan has it in triplicate! Girl trouble. Seven-year-old Allie is organizing her teacher to death. Seven-year-old Jessie is crying in class. Seven-year-old Meggie is becoming almost reclusive. Jacob is told that what the triplets n...

  • Sunshine and the Shadowmaster

    Christine Rimmer

    IT WAS NOTHING SHORT OF SHOCKING! Heather "Sunshine" Conway was a respectable, small-town widow cheerfully waiting tables to make ends meet. Her brother-in-law, single father Lucas Drury, was a scandalous celebrity -- the Shadowmaster. Only their ...

  • Always Daddy

    Karen Rose Smith

    DEAR JON... When a letter arrived informing Jonathan Wescott that he was a father, the bachelor set out to find his child. But his little girl had been given away. The only way to see his daughter was through her adoptive -- and widowed -- mother. An...

  • Danger and Desire

    Mallory Rush
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    A unforgettable man--modern heroe who have the courage to fight for what is right... Rugged. Sexy. Heroic. Clay Barker At Revenge Unlimited he is the law. A unforgettable story about Outlaws and a heroe. A man who will do whatever it takes....

  • Seduced and Betrayed

    Candace Schuler

    BACHELOR ARMS: Come live and love in Bachelor Arms. In each book, enjoy a wonderful love story and meet colorful neighbors you'll bump into again and again. For Hollywood bad boy Zeke Blackstone, apartment 1-G brought back painful memories. He'd f...

  • Gabriel's Angel

    Dallas Schulze
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    A unforgettable man--modern heroe who have the courage to fight for what is right... Rugged. Sexy. Heroic. Gabriel Taylor Accused and found guilty by small-town gossip. A unforgettable story about Outlaws and a heroe. A man who will do what...

  • The Third Uncle

    Sara Seale

    He treats me like a child--I'll show him! Nineteen-year-old Gilly was insulted as only a young woman can be. She had come to Marley College to meet her guardian, Oliver Blunt. But he proved to be a domineering man who refused to believe she was a...

  • The Father Factor

    Kathryn Shay

    "I can take care of my family! " To Amanda Carson, Nick MdMarco's words are beginning to wear thin. The single father of two seems determined to prove he can handle everything - his career, his home, his children. He wants no help from 'outsiders....

  • Taming the Wolf

    Deborah Simmons

    Champion of Her Heart Though Marion Warenne's past was but a dim nightmare, her present held a vision of glory - the formidable Dunstan de Burgh. A fierce knight who was determined to win their battle of wills, all the while protesting mightily th...

  • The Enchanted Trap

    Kate Starr

    Benison Fairland's family had lived at Monkani for generations, and she loved the place dearly. So when her ninety-nine years' leas ran out, and the local Roads Board decided to build a road right through her estate, it was not likely that Benny woul...

  • Not Looking for a Texas Man

    Lass Small

    Ruffan Reddy's rules for the ultimate blind date: Don't crash your rig into a woman's car unless you really want to meet her. Don't try to deal rationally with a woman driving a white car in a blinding snowstorm --- especially if she's also dr...

  • The Trailblazer

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    THE TRAILBLAZER T R. McGuinnes: A Manhattan businessman. Intelligent. Decisive. And a little wild. He's come out West looking for adventure. But he doesn't expect his greatest challenge to be a sexy spitfire named Freddy. HIS WOMAN Freddy Single...

  • Fatal Charm

    Aimee Thurlo

    He was tall, dark and dangerous ... Not exactly the kind of man Amanda Vila was looking for as a father to her daughter. Then again, no other man had ever made her melt with desire - not like Tony Ramos. But Amanda always played by the rules - she...

  • The Abandoned Bride

    Jane Toombs

    The moment of truth All the guests had arrived at St. John's Church. The wedding gown had been donned. The organ music swelled. Lucy Maguire's big day had finally arrived. All she had to do was walk down the aisle.... Until a mysterious man bu...

  • Dark Intent

    Patricia Wallace

    The air smelled like lilacs. The California sun was bright and warm. The setting was an exclusive private school for bright and gifted children. For Danielle Falk, the day would be etched in her mind forever - the day her favorite student was snatche...

  • Three for the Road

    Shannon Waverly

    PREGNANT...AND ON HER OWN! Mary Elizabeth Drummond. She's a sheltered "good girl" with a pedigree a mile long. She's three months pregnant. She has no intention of marrying her baby's father. She's lost her credit cards, her driver's ...

  • Male for Sale

    Tiffany White

    BACHELOR AUCTION DATELESS IN CHICAGO... Noelle Perry had bought the wrong man! She'd attended the bachelor auction with her sights set on a conservative businessman in a three-piece suit. Instead, she got a sexy bad boy in a black leather jac...

  • Behind the Mask

    Joanna Wayne

    All she could see were his eyes... Though Graham Dufour's ebony eyes lit up her dreams for the past ten years, Lindsey Latham hoped she could come back to New Orleans without seeing the man who'd once stolen her heart. A lot had changed between t...

  • The Avenger

    Diana Whitney

    When no-nonsense Roberto Arroya found a pajama-clad three-year-old in his kitchen, he was more than a little baffled - and curious about the little imp's mother. Erica Franklin was a beguiling mix of protective lioness and fragile flower. And Roberto...

  • A Home for Adam

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    Dr. Adam Stone had fled to a secluded cabin in the woods for a bit of rest and solitude. But when an unseasonably harsh snowstorm broke, and a very pregnant woman appeared on his doorstep, Adam couldn't find it in his heart to turn her away - even if...

  • Prince of Time

    Rebecca York

    Frozen in time... With an ominous rumble echoing in the Alaska wilderness, Cassandra Devereaux was buried under tons of snow in a freak avalanche. Trapped ...alone. But when she scrambled into a hidden cave, she found she was far from alone. There...

  • Desert Rogue

    Erin Yorke

    Victoria Shaw To the jaded eyes of adventurer Jed Kincaid, Victoria seemed nothing more than a pampered English rose. But in the heat of the desert sun, she was beginning to blossom into a vibrant woman with an untutored passion for life. Jed ...

  • Murder at Monticello

    Rita Mae Brown

    Mrs. Murphy digs into Virginia history--and gets her paws on a killer. The most popular citizen of Virginia has been dead for nearly 170 years. That hasn't stopped the good people of tiny Crozet, Virginia, from taking pride in every aspect of Thom...

  • Poseidon's Gold

    Lindsey Davis

    After six months in wild Germania, imperial gumshoe Marcus Didius Falco is back in Rome sweet Rome. But his apartment has been ransacked. And although, he desperately needs 400,000 sesterces in order to marry his aristocratic love, Helena, his only c...

  • For Every Evil

    Ellen Hart

    When powerful Minneapolis art critic Hale Micklenberg is murdered, there aren't too many mourners. A master of the bad review, Micklenberg was bad news for a lot of people.

    Food critic Sophie Greenway is nonetheless troubled to learn that her ...

  • The Detective Is Dead

    Bill James

    No one, including Detective Chief Superintendent Harpur, is willing to testify at the murder trial of three crooks in the drug trade, so the killers go free. Meanwhile, would-be drug kingpin Keith Vine is playing a dangerous double game as an informa...

  • Stranglehold

    Jack Ketchum

    As her husband descends into insanity, Lydia Danse becomes determined to protect her beloved young son from his father, but a possessive Arthur Danse refuses to give up on the boy he considers his property. Original....

  • Bishop As Pawn

    William X. Kienzle

    WHO BUMPED OFF THE BISHOP? When a seemingly innocent game of chess turns lethal, the serene St. Anne's Parish becomes a devilish murder scene. Most of the Detroit clergymen agree that the victim, Bishop Ramon Diego, abused his power by treating the ...

  • Baptism by Murder

    Jan Maxwell

    When church treasurer Leroy Boyd is found murdered the morning after his fight with Reverend Eldon Littlejohn, the young pastor must divine the truth in order to keep from being named the chief suspect. Original....

  • The Dream Lover

    Lawrence Sanders

    The setting is Hollywood, the factory of golden dreams - and the ingredients are highly explosive. Decadence. Fame. Money. Power. Passion. And a delicious obsession that lures one haunted man into the most dangerous dream of all - the seductive night...

  • Interview With Mattie

    Shelley Singer

    WHEN THE STREET IS THE CLASSROOM...DEATH IS THE TEACHER Teacher-detective Barrett Lake is good at finding missing kids, but this time the boy's already been found--dead. And the fallout from his murder brings Barrett into the case. Mattie, a twel...

  • Shepherd of the Wolves

    William S. Slusher

    Investigating the sudden death of an elderly school custodian, Sheriff Lewis Cody begins a scandalous interracial affair with the victim's attorney granddaughter and is shocked when a second murder takes place. Original....

  • Deadly Secrets on the St. Johns

    Patricia Sprinkle

    MURDER STRIKES DEEP IN THE HEART OF DIXIE A "do" in Jacksonville, Florida--among the right people--is a party where the bourbon flows, tuxes are required, and certain activities, like dropping dead, just aren't done. Unfortunately, at elegant Daph...

  • Copy Cat Crimes

    Karen Ann Wilson

    Working as a vet's technician in Paradise Cay, Florida, Samantha Holt is used to dealing with animals in need--and sometimes the humans who bring them in aren't in such great shape either. But when a basket of wet, undernourished kittens turns up at ...

  • Remodeled to Death

    Valerie Wolzien

    OH, THOSE LAZY DAYS OF SUMMER IN SUBURBIA, WHEN THERE'S ALWAYS TIME FOR A MURDER OR TWO.
    With the kids away, Susan and Jed Henshaw are in the mood for a lazy, romantic August. Then the pipes in an upstairs bathroom burst and water inundates the fl...

  • The Darkening Flood

    Kenneth C. Flint

    CELTIC ARMAGEDDON John and Ann Milne have returned to the Irish village of Ballymurroe a year after their honeymoon there. But things are not the same. The once-welcoming townspeople have now grown tight-lipped and suspicious. And the mother and d...

  • Flag in Exile

    David Weber

    HONOR HARRINGTON MUST DIE Hounded into retirement and disgrace by political enemies, cut to the heart by the murder of the man she loved, and bereft of confidence in herself and her abilities, Captain Honor Harrington has retreated to the planet G...

  • Sophie's Heart

    Lori Wick

    A lonely widower. A woman far from home. Will they ever find what their hearts long for? After the tragic death of his wife, Alec Riley struggles to put his life back together. He and his three children are lost in their grief...until Sophie wal...

  • A Queer Kind of Umbrella

    George Baxt

  • Come to Grief

    Dick Francis

    New York Times bestselling author Dick Francis brings back one of mystery's most intriguing heroes, ex-jockey Sid Halley, in a compelling tale of crime and justice. When Halley becomes convinced that one of his closest friends--and one of the racing ...

  • Dying Fall

    Patricia Hall

    An oppressive heat wave has blanketed Bradfield, Yorkshire, sharpening tensions in the crime-ridden council estate known as the Heights. The latest grievance is the nightly joy-riding of youths racing stolen cars around the residential streets. Next,...

  • The Skelly Man

    David Daniel

    Rasmussen is trying to find out who is sending threatening letters to fading TV talk-show host Jerry Corbin, a Lowell native who is returning to his hometown to premier the new show he hopes will resuscitate his career. Alex has a surfeit of suspects...

  • Nobody's Child

    Janet Dawson

    When a decomposing body is dug up by a construction company, authorities suspect murder. Private investigator Jeri Howard's abrasive client, Naomi Smith, thinks the victim could be her daughter, Maureen, who ran away from home two years ago. Jeri dis...

  • Flashpoint

    Lynn S. Hightower

    Handcuffed to the wheel of his car, he was doused with gasoline and set on fire. Then the killer walked ... high-heeled shoe prints her calling card. Police Specialist Sonora Blair of the Cincinnati Homicide Division is awakened in the middle of t...

  • Peckover and the Bog Man

    Michael Kenyon

    Inspector Henry Peckover has cheerfully accompanied his wife Miriam to Inverballoch and the 170th Robbie Burns celebration in this wee corner of the Scottish Highlands. Little does he know what he's gotten himself into...Sir Gilbert Potter, Britain's...

  • A Monstrous Regiment of Women

    Laurie R. King

    The dawn of 1921 finds Mary Russell, Sherlock Holmes's brilliant young apprentice, about to come into a considerable inheritance. Nevertheless, she still enjoys her nighttime prowls in disguise through London's grimy streets, where one night she enco...

  • Horse of a Different Killer

    Jody Jaffe

    When a quarter-million-dollar show horse and a top trainer are found brutally murdered side by side, Natalie Gold, a reporter for the Charlotte Commercial Appeal, seizes the chance to get off the fashion beat she so detests. Teamed with handsome inve...

  • Justice

    Faye Kellerman

    The cruel and bizarre slaying of a beautiful teen leads Detective Decker into the dark heart of an exotic subculture: the seamy, sometimes violent world of Southern California's rootless, affluent youth. But even the confession of a disturbed kid wi...

  • Eye of the Beholder

    Brian Lysaght

  • Hung Over

    John Malcolm

    Proposing to buy a collection of equestrian artwork as an investment for his bank, Tim Simpson learns that the collection contains works by a controversial artist, and an attempt on his life warns him against the purchase...

  • Bloodsucking Fiends

    Christopher Moore

    Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley Dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching neck, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her. Making the tran...

  • The Dragons of Archenfield

    Edward Marston

    DOMESDAY IS COMING In 1086, England's mighty king, William the Conqueror, sends out surveyors and census takers to record the resources of his land and its people. Some welcome these inquisitive royal agents and their "day of judgment." Others hat...

  • Death by Jury

    John Lutz

    Private investigator Nudger is hired by an eccentric attorney to learn about the client he is defending on a murder charge. The defendant's wife has disappeared. The police and prosecution say she is dead and that her wealthy-banker husband killed he...

  • Retribution

    R.J. Pineiro

    A year ago, in the sky over Iraq, a hero was forged in the heat of battle. Navy Lieutenant Kevin Dalton destroyed Saddam Hussein's secret arsenal of nuclear missiles. Now, in R.J. Pineiro's much-anticipated sequel to ULTIMATUM, Dalton works for the C...

  • Windy City Blues

    Sara Paretsky

    FRIENDS & FAMILY CAN BE MURDER Decked out in her silk shirts and no-nonsense attitude, V.I. has barely finished her morning coffee when she sees an ad in the paper asking for information about her own mother, long dead. Enter her newfound Italian ...

  • Talked to Death

    Louise Shaffer

    The megahit talk show Cee Gee! featured love addicts, serial killers, and mothers who stole their daughters' boyfriends. But no on-camera drama compared to the behind-the-scenes murder of Cee Gee's ex-producer. Newly hired producer Angie DaVito was t...

  • Thief of Light

    David Ramus

    After one of his artists is murdered and a fake Monet deal goes terribly wrong, corrupt Manhattan art dealer Adrian Sellars, who makes a fortune selling art forgeries and spends most of it feeding his heroin addiction, takes to the streets to save hi...

  • Dragonfly

    John Farris

    Abby Abelard--blindingly beautiful, fabulously wealthy--is the hottest-selling romance writer in America today. Dr. Joe Brvce is a dedicated physician, who may also be the handsomest man ever to grace the sands of Abby's lavish beach estate. But h...

  • Felony Murder

    Joseph T. Klempner

    Dean’s client has confessed to the crime, claiming it was an accident. But Dean thinks there’s more to this case than anyone’s admitting. And with the help of a gutsy single mom, he’s about to discover that behind the notorious blue wall of p...

  • The Death of Chaos

    L.E. Modesitt Jr.

    Candor is being invaded and Lerris must become the greatest wizard of all time -- or see his whole world destroyed!...