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  • Mortal Fear

    Scott Ciencin; Denise Ciencin

    Control Issues Buffy Summers is being run ragged all over Sunnydale these days. Working from clues some mysterious power is providing her with, the Slayer's chasing down different baddies to gather pieces of a soul sword before it can be reassembl...

  • Tapping the Dream Tree

    Charles de Lint

    World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Onion GirlA brand-new installment in the Newford saga, the World Fantasy Award-winning series of urban fantasy fiction by a master of the form.Charles de Lint's urban fantasies, including Moonheart, Forests o...

  • Way of the Wolf

    E.E. Knight

    Louisiana, 2065. A lot has changed in the forty-third year of the Kurian Order. Possessed of an unnatural and legendary hunger, the bloodthirsty Reapers have come to Earth to establish a New Order built on the harvesting of enslaved human souls. They...

  • Escape from Memory

    Margaret Peterson Haddix

    While playing around with hypnotism at a party, Kira remembers fleeing a war-torn country with her mother, speaking a language she can't identify. A few days later her mother disappears, and a woman who calls herself Kira's aunt Memory takes Kira to ...

  • A Faint Cold Fear

    Karin Slaughter

    An apparent student suicide has brought medical examiner Sara Linton to the local college campus, along with her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver. But a horribly mutilated corpse yields up few answers. And a suspicious rash of subsequent "su...

  • Fatal Tide

    Iris Johansen

    Marine researcher Melis Nemid is treading dangerous waters--and she's about to be dragged under. Melis knows something that has already caused one oceanographer to disappear from the face of the earth ... and that's only part of a past torn by violen...

  • The Jericho Sanction

    Oliver North; Joe Musser

    In the seething cauldron known as the Middle East, a mad despot may be armed with nuclear muscle--and the state of Israel, the probable target, is prepared to take any action necessary to ensure its survival, including launching a preemptive strike o...

  • Numbers

    Ken Abraham; Daniel Hart

    Special Agent John Jameson has been assigned a daunting task -- to take out the vicious leader of the militant Islamic mujahideen that has been menacing the world in the wake of the Rapture. Caught between his duty to country and his newfound faith, ...

  • The Presence

    Eve Bunting

    A brutal car accident that claimed the life of her best friend has left seventeen-year-old Catherine in a state of shock and severe depression. She longs to move forward with her life, but feels she can’t until she is somehow assured of her friendâ...

  • Song for Athena

    Linda Sole

    Julia is bored with her lifestyle as a secretary in London; the only excitement is meeting attractive Nick Ryan. When she gets a phone call from the older sister she barely knows, and an invitation to go to Spain for a while, she agrees wholeheartedl...

  • Target Acquired

    Joel Narlock

    When the U.S. government's revolutionary new weapon, the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), an unstoppable killing machine, falls into the wrong hands, the government and the military must race against time to retrieve the UAV and stop a deadly terrorist...

  • Waking Samuel

    Daniel Coyle

    After the loss of her only son, Sara Black finds herself spending more and more time at the Seattle hospital where she is a nurse, tending to "the tall man," the victim of a gunshot wound whose identity has remained a provocative riddle-until...

  • Quicksilver

    Neal Stephenson

    Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and w...

  • The Butlerian Jihad

    Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson

    Frank Herbert's Dune series is one of the great creations of imaginative literature, science fiction's answer to The Lord of the Rings. Decades after Herbert's original novels, the Dune saga was continued by Frank Herbert's son, Brian Herbert, in ...

  • Buying Time

    Robert Greenberger

    An investigation into a chroniton disturbance leads the da Vinci to a time-travelling Ferengi named Lant -- one who is going to the past in order to "speculate" and make a fortune. Now Commander Gomez, Lt. Commander Tev, Lt. Commander Corsi, and Cult...

  • The Final Prophecy

    Greg Keyes

    As a beleaguered galaxy fights its way back from brink of destruction, the Jedis' most fearsome enemy plots to end the war--and claim victory--with a final act of domination. The troubles for the embattled living planet Zonama Sekot have just begu...

  • Gods Above

    Peter David

    Captain Mackenzie Calhoun has often been accused of playing God, but he has never faced off against real gods -- until now. As Captain Kirk did before him, Calhoun has encountered beings of unnatural power and abilities verging on godhood, and who cl...

  • The Machine Crusade

    Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson

    More than two decades have passed since the events chronicled in Dune: The Butlerian Jihad. The crusade against thinking robots has ground on for years; the human worlds have grown weary of war, of the bloody, inconclusive swing from victory to defea...

  • Oblivion

    Michael Jan Friedman

    In 1893 a time-traveling Jean-Luc Picard encountered a long-lived alien named Guinan, who was posing as a human to learn Earth's customs. During this "first encounter," Picard saved Guinan's life, a favor she would never forget. Five centuries lat...

  • Pantheon

    Michael Jan Friedman

    From Earth to the edge of our galaxy and beyond, from the early days of warp flight to the latter half of the twenty-fourth century, humankind and its alien partners in the Federation have looked to their heroes to expand the limits of their knowledg...

  • Serpents Among the Ruins

    David R. George III

    THE YEAR IS 2311 It is a year of infamy, a year that later generations will remember as one that altered the course of history at the cost of thousands of lives. It is the year of the Tomed Incident, and its tale can at last be told. In the midst o...

  • Three

    Michael Jan Friedman

    Identical twins Gerda and Idun Asmund lost their human parents early in life and were raised as warriors on the Klingon homeworld. They were taught to face every danger shoulder to shoulder -- regarding each other as the only certainty in a dangerous...

  • Akiko and the Journey to Toog

    Mark Crilley

    “Poog’s in trouble.” Just three simple words, but they’re enough to launch fifth-grade Akiko and the rest of her crew -- Spuckler Boach, Mr. Beeba, and Gax -- on their next mission. And it just might be their most important mission yet: To sa...

  • American Fantasy Tradition

    Brian M. Thomsen

    The ancient tales of long-dead civilizations to the wild success of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, fantasy has fired our imaginations for as long as there has been story. Whether sweeping sagas of fantastic adventures or cautionary tales tol...

  • Annihilation

    David Cian

    The world is at war-and the Transformers are at the forefront of the battle! And yet, even though the nations of Earth face their greatest threat, the issues that have divided mankind for centuries destroy any true hope of global unity against the...

  • At The Edge Of Space

    C.J. Cherryh

    Now, two of C.J. Cherryh's long-unavailable early classics are together in one omnibus edition. Brothers of Earth and Hunter of Worlds chronicle the survival of solitary humans among hostile, predatory aliens on the fringes of human-explored space-an...

  • Avengers Legends, Volume 3: George Perez, Book 1

    Jim Shooter

  • Battle at Zero Point

    Mack Maloney

    The year is 7202 A.D. Evolving from genetic manipulation and virtually immortal, the Specials wielded their repressive power over a far-flung umpire for nearly two thousand years. Until one man--a man of mystery, a gifted military strategist, a super...

  • Buffy, The Vampire Slayer: The Script Book, Season Three, Vol. 2

    Douglas Petrie

    If I'm not the Slayer, I mean...what do I have to offer?-- Buffy Summers, HelplessOnly in Sunnydale could a new watcher be a harbinger of badness, and only the Hellmouth could offer refuge for a lovelorn vampire. But as Cordelia Chase learns when she...

  • Captain Marvel, Volume 2: Coven

    Peter David

  • Carlucci

    Richard Paul Russo

    Collected together for the first time in one volume-this is Richard Paul Russo's critically-acclaimed science fiction trilogy featuring police Lt. Frank Carlucci investigating high-tech crime and corruption in a near-future San Francisco....

  • The Companions

    Sheri S. Tepper

    Three planets in deep space were named by their human discoverers to reflect their environments: lush and foreboding Jungle, which swallowed up an exploratory team; Stone, phenomenally rich in rare ore; and Moss, the most enigmatic -- and dangerous -...

  • Crown of Slaves

    David Weber; Eric Flint

    BEGINNING A NEW SERIES SET IN DAVID WEBER'S HOIVORVERSE! The Star Kingdom's ally Erewhon is growing increasingly restive in I the alliance because the new High Ridge regime ignores its needs. I Added to the longstanding problem of a slave labor pl...

  • Dark Matters

    Stan Timmons

    When his ship is hurtled out of hyperspace by a chunk of mysterious dark matter, pilot Paul Stein is confronted with the difficult task of saving his transport vessel from a crew of dangerous misfits with a deadly scheme to not only destroy his trans...

  • The Deceivers

    Josh McDowell; Bob Hostetler

    Josh McDowell's Beyond Belief message is the foundation to launch a spiritual revolution among youth. This is a revolution to equip churches and families to raise up a generation of the cross--young people who have been transformed by Christ and the ...

  • Hybrids

    Robert J. Sawyer

    In Hominids, Robert J. Sawyer introduced a character readers will never forget: Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist from a parallel Earth who was whisked from his reality into ours by a quantum-computing experiment gone awry -- making him the ulti...

  • Judge Dredd: The Day the Law Died

    John Wagner

    From the phenomenal British classic sci-fi comic series, 2000 AD, comes the story of the ascent to power of the crazed head of the Special Judicial Service- Judge Cal!

    When Judge Dredd returns from the Cursed Earth, he’s convicted of murder! Wit...

  • The Last World War

    Dayton Ward

    It started small, with an unprepared band of Marine reservists encountering deadly extraterrestrial visitors in the backwoods of Missouri. But this fatal First Contact rapidly escalates into a global crisis as mankind discovers that two warring spec...

  • New X-Men, Volume 2

    Marvel Book Group

  • Noise

    Hal Clement

    Hal Clement, the dean of hard science fiction, has written a new planetary adventure in the tradition of his classic Mission of Gravity. It is the kind of story that made his reputation as a meticulous designer of otherworldly settings that are utter...

  • Patriots in Arms

    Ben Weaver

    VICTORY DEMANDS THE IMPOSSIBLE Major Scott St. Andrew has served on both sides of the war between the mighty Terran Alliance and the colonial forces of the Seventeen Worlds -- abandoning the tyrannical former to fight for the latter's noble cause....

  • Peter Parker Spider-Man, Volume 5: Senseless Violence

    Marvel Book Group

    After coming to the realization that the circle of violence will never end, Spider-Man is forced to ponder his place in the world. Is he truly helping people by engaging in battle after battle with the same villains? Has this life or death struggle b...

  • Planets of Adventure

    Murray Leinster

    Two complete novels by the critically acclaimed science fiction master includes the Hugo Award-winning The Planet Explorer, in which the fate of the colonies across the galaxy rests in the hands of a single man, and The Forgotten Planet

  • Pursuit

    Michael A. Martin; Andy Mangels

    VISIONS OF DANGER When Liz, Max, Maria, Michael, and Kyle left Roswell, they didn't think their lives would suddenly become perfect. They were, after all, on the run from the FBI. But they certainly didn't think things could get much worse. They're ...

  • Thor Legends, Volume 2: Walt Simonson, Book 2

    Marvel Book Group

    Few people have ever left their mark on one character quite the way Walter Simonson has. His work on the Mighty Thor swept the Norse God of Thunder to heights never before seen and rarely achieved since. Spanning epic tales of heroism and treachery, ...

  • Times of Trouble

    Russell Blackford

    As the genocidal war between humankind and intelligent machines reaches its epic climax, John Connor and his mother Sarah become caught in the middle of a battle that rages through time and across dimensions, with the fate of two worlds at stake. Ori...

  • Uncanny X-Men Vol. 3: Holy War

    Chuck Austen

    Collects Uncanny X-Men (1963) #421-427. The return of the Canadian super team Alpha Flight… but do they return as friends or foes? The hunt for the mysterious religious sect known as the Church of Humanity concludes, but what secrets will they have...

  • X-Men Evolution, Volume 2 Digest

    Devin Grayson

  • X-Statix, Volume 2: Good Guys and Bad Guys

    Peter Milligan

  • 11th Hour

    Bradley Warshauer

    They said he was the best. Julian Lloyd has it all--talent, moves, and a record-breaking contract that can launch his career into the stratosphere. Until a severe injury ends his dreams before they've begun. But his new boss isn't giving up on his ...

  • American Woman

    Susan Choi

    Susan Choi's first novel, The Foreign Student, was published to remarkable critical acclaim. The New Yorker called it "an auspicious debut," and the Los Angeles Times touted it as "a novel of extraordinary sensibility and transforming strangeness," n...

  • The Avenger

    Frederick Forsyth

    Attorney Calvin Dexter hangs his shingle in a quiet New Jersey town, has a reasonably successful practice, and takes the hills strong while triathalon training. But Dexter is no ordinary man. *** The summer before he goes to college, Ricky Cole...

  • Blackbox

    Nick Walker

    Cross a road, take a train, or get on an airplane and you put your life in the hands of a stranger -- every bit as screwed up, every bit as fallible and as human as you are. Then the person turns out not to be a stranger at all, and suddenly it's muc...

  • Bleachers

    John Grisham

    High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who mol...

  • Boo

    Rene Gutteridge

    Talk about working out your faith with fear and tremblingâ€"a scheme is plotted to put the fright back into Skaryâ€"and get their most famous resident out of love and back into the thrill business.  The biggest thing to happen to Skary, Indiana...

  • Bullets of Rain

    David J. Schow

    Widowed architect Arthur Latimer has become a recluse in his own home: a storm-proof fortress that doubles as a shrine to his dead wife. But the outside world beckons in the form of a bizarre party downbeach. Now, just as the biggest hurricane ev...

  • Burn

    Sean Doolittle

    FEEL THE BURN In California the hills are on fire. Not a good sign for Andrew Kindler, who just came from back east to get away from his past--as an arsonist. In fact, almost from the moment he sets foot in his cousin's Santa Monica beach house, t...

  • Dangling

    Lillian Eige

    While sitting on the side of the river with his friend's parents and grandmother, Ben watches Ring go into the water, but when he doesn't emerge and days pass with no discovery, Ben wonders if his friend truly did drown or if Ring had other plans in ...

  • Death by Hollywood

    Steven Bochco

    From the acclaimed co-creator of Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, and NYPD Blue, Death by Hollywood is a suspenseful and darkly comic crime novel about a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who tries to turn a brutal murder into his next movie payday. One d...

  • Dragonfly Bones

    David Cole

    All the pretty little bones... Cloaked in the web's anonymity, part-Hopi computer hacker Laura Winslow is hiding from her past -- but it has found her in the Arizona desert. The daughter she lost years ago is now an angry young woman serving priso...

  • Dream House

    Rochelle Majer Krich

    While developing a story about vandalized homes in one of L.A.'s ritziest enclaves, Crime Sheet columnist Molly Blume discovers a seething conflict brewing between residents who want to remodel their houses and those who wish to restore the integrity...

  • Empire of Light

    David Czuchlewski

    Researching a powerful religious cult into which his ex-girlfriend Anna has disappeared, Matt Kelly pretends to join in order to rescue Anna, an endeavor that is complicated by his own vulnerability to the cult's seductive ways. Reprint....

  • Every Secret Thing

    Laura Lippman

    Two little girls banished from a neighborhood birthday party take a wrong turn down an unfamiliar Baltimore street -- and encounter an abandoned stroller with an infant inside. What happens next is shocking and terrible, and three families are irre...

  • Every Step You Take

    Judith Kelman

    Claire Barrow has found a fascinating focus for her late novel -- identity theft. But her invention turns all too real as Claire begins to recognize that someone is systematically stealing her life. Her nightmare deepens with the stunning news that t...

  • The Fiend in Human

    John MacLachlan Gray

    It's 1852, and the ranks of the London poor have doubled. In the swollen shadow of the great St. Giles Rookery, fallen women attract the perfumed dandies of the West End into a vicious circle of venality, vanity, and vice.Edmund Whitty, corresponden...

  • Killing Cousins

    Alex Minter

    A murderer is loose in Manhattan and he's making hotel guests his victims... When the wives of two billionaire Texans are brutally murdered in New York's swanky Sutherland Hotel, Franklin and Felix Novak and Soraya Navarro need to move fast before...

  • Last Lessons of Summer

    Margaret Maron

    Her grandmother was killed in the very same house where her mother committed suicide. Now, in the suffocating heat of a Southern August, Amy Steadman, heir to a merchandising and publishing empire, returns to the old family homestead to clear out her...

  • Lucrezia Borgia and the Mother of Poisons

    Roberta Gellis

    "Poisoner!" The bellowed accusation strikes into silence all those in Lucrezia Borgia's audience chamber. Lucrezia has fled Rome to a loveless marriage with Alfonso, heir to the duke of Ferrara, to escape the rumors that she is utterly depraved---...

  • Lust

    Francine Pascal

    The good news: we found my dad. The bad news: he's in siberia. The good news: I'm going there to free him. The bad news: Loki's coming with me. The good news: I finally get to see him. The bad news: I have to tell him his girlfriend tried to kil...

  • Marduk's Tablet

    T.L. Higley / Tracy L. Higley

    Graduate student Emilie Nazzaro saw her father's obsession with Marduk's Tablet lead to his betrayal and murder. Now, she's been charged with deciphering the symbols on this centuries-old piece of clay, which legend says contains omens with healing p...

  • Night Watch

    Stephen Kendrick

    In this brilliantly crafted pastiche, Stephen Kendrick brings Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown together in an unprecedented collaboration on a singularly shocking murder case.It is Christmas Day, 1902, and a priest’s mutilated body has been found i...

  • Nightmare

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes Nightmare from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon.          Emily has never fit in with her overachieving family. Inst...

  • No Graves As Yet

    Anne Perry

    On a sunny afternoon in late June 1914, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley learns that his parents have died in an automobile crash. Joseph's brother, an officer in the Intelligence Service, reveals that their father had been en route to London with ...

  • Once a Ranger

    Stan Johnson

    THEY PICKED THE WRONG GUY. David Craig may look like just another family man--with his six-year-old son and successful career on Wall Street. But once he was a national hero--a U.S. Army Ranger who fought in Vietnam, risked his life to save others, ...

  • Red Angel

    Andrew Harper

    The Darden State Hospital for the Criminally Insane holds hundreds of dangerous criminals. Trey Campbell works in the psych wing of Ward D, home to the most violent murderers, where he finds a young man who is in communication with a serial killer wh...

  • Silent Proof

    Michael A. Hawley

    Twenty-five years ago, a woman was murdered in a Seattle park. The crime went unsolved. To homicide detective Leah Harris and her partner Frank Milkovich, the only possible suspect is Clifford Bakerman-a career criminal about to be released from pris...

  • The Small Boat of Great Sorrows

    Dan Fesperman

    The widely acclaimed author of Winter Work brings together chilling crimes, the lies people live and the cold facts of international politics into a “deft and gripping [thriller]. Impeccably written and ably plotted.… The action is more or less n...

  • Smoke Screen

    Kyle Mills

    Through a series of unwanted promotions, Trevor Barnett has become the lead spokesman for the tobacco industry just as a $200 billion lawsuit is about to bankrupt it. But when Big Tobacco goes on the offensive--bringing the economy and the government...

  • Stone Garden

    Molly Moynahan

    A smart young woman making her way through the privileged terrain of northeastern prep-school land, Alice McGuire is certain of her world and her future -- until the summer her best friend and soul mate, Matthew Swan, vanishes on a trip to Mexico. St...

  • Walking on Water

    Gemma O'Connor

    Now this acclaimed master of suspense probes the dark secrets of a wealthy American tourist--whose love life may have been the death of her... She appeared to be walking on water--a haunting apparition that emerged out of the morning mist of a sma...

  • Confiscated Conception

    Delores Fossen

    SURROGATE BABY KIDNAPPED! Shock didn't describe Rachel Dillard's feelings when her estranged husband told her the news: her precious embryo had been stolen! A child -- their child -- had been born and had become a pawn in a killer's deadly game. F...

  • Cowboy PI

    Jean Barrett

    COWBOY UNDER HER COVERS? Driving cattle across mountainous Colorado terrain to gain an inheritance she didn't even want was not Samantha Howard's idea of a good time. Especially since someone was dead set against her inheriting her grandfather's r...

  • Don't Look Now

    Linda Lael Miller

    A DEADLY CRIME. A DANGEROUS PASSION. Defense attorney Clare Westbrook functions very well in crisis mode -- whether taking the media rap for an explosive case or bargaining with her teenaged niece, whom Clare is raising. But a shocking crime -- th...

  • In Hot Pursuit

    Suzann Ledbetter

    ALL ROADS EVENTUALLY LEAD BACK TO THE TRUTH After the brutal murder of her husband, police officer Liz Rivas entered the witness protection program to save her young son. Today, twenty years later, she's Jenna MacArthur, shop owner in Pfister, Mis...

  • More Than You Know

    Meg Chittenden

    When Maddy Sloane's husband Bart disappears in the middle of Seattle's Pike Place Market, Maddy is sure he must have met with an accident. She wouldn't wish that on him even though she's come to despise him and is about to give up on their six month ...

  • Off Limits

    Michele Albert

    Breaking All The Rules Sexy and smart, Emma Frey is a by-the-books cop who knows there are certain men she should avoid -- and "bad boy" detective Bobby Halloran is a prime example. But now she's been teamed up with the legendary heartbreaker...

  • Operation Bassinet // Operation Cradle

    Joyce Sullivan

    "YOUR DAUGHTER IS NOT YOUR BIOLOGIVAL CHILD." Detective Mitch Halloran's words were enough to shatter a single mom's world. And as much as Stef Shelton wanted to fight his accusation and disprove his claim, the quest to locate her missing child pr...

  • Out of the Mist

    JoAnn Ross

    Lily Stewart is busy planning the summer Highland Games at her family's Great Smoky Mountain resort. So the last thing she needs is some arrogant, demanding Scotsman -- no matter how sexy -- arriving to film the annual festival. It's bad enough that ...

  • Remember When: Hot Rocks

    Nora Roberts
    in

    Laine Tavish is an ordinary woman living an ordinary life in the small town of Angel's Gap, Maryland, as the proprietor of Remember When, an antique treasures and gift shop. At least, that's what everyone in Angel's Gap thinks. They have no idea that...

  • Silent Wishes

    Fiona Hood-Stewart

    Sylvia Hansen, newly appointed CEO of Harcourts International, N.Y., is at the top of her game when crisis strikes: a traitor has leaked the decor company's new product line to the competition. Determined to hold on to her hard-won position, Sylvia h...

  • Special Agent Nanny

    Linda O. Johnston

    MISSION PROFILE THE AGENT: Shawn Jameson HIS MOTTO: "Where there's smoke, there's fire." VITAL STATS: 5'11''; cool blue eyes; white-hot smile THE ASSIGNMENT: Undercover nanny THE COMPLICATION: Dr. Kelley Stanton Tough-guy agent Shawn Jame...

  • The Artful Miss Irvine

    Jennifer Malin

    A daring charade unmasks a true love... BOTH HAD SWORN OFF LOVE... Betrayed by her fortune-hunting suitor, artist Maeve Irvine vows never to wed and devotes herself to painting. Hoping to keep her wealth a secret, Maeve leaves Boston and moves to...

  • The Bewitched Baron

    Lynn Collum
    in

    When Wyndom Long, Baron Newlyn, a noted botanist who pays little attention to the gaiety of the ton, engages Naomi Clayton as his shy sister's companion, he is startled by the girl he remembers as plain and reserved. Naomi is a sparkling presence in ...

  • The Bewitchment of Lord Dalford

    Debbie Raleigh
    in

    Annie Winsome may be a witch, but the mortal world has never lost its fascination for her--and a London Season is too tempting to resist. Believing an innocent potion will polish her bumbling friend Lord Dalford, she is stunned to find him transforme...

  • Cupid's Dart

    Maggie MacKeever

    Is it a chance encounter...or a fated love? AN IMPROPER BEGINNING... Miss Georgiana Halliday never expected that an accidental meeting with her old acquaintance, the notorious Lord Warwick, would end in a passionate kiss. Common sense decrees tha...

  • Lady in Disguise

    Amanda McCabe

    LOVE IN DISGUISE Lady Emma Watson is desperate to explore the streets of London without the tiresome accompaniment of chaperones. She knows her stern aunt will never approve, so she dons a most unflattering maid's outfit, steals out of her hou...

  • Miss Prestwick's Crusade

    Anne Barbour

    Congratulations, it's an Earl! Miss Helen Prestwick has completed her arduous journey from Portugal to England determined to ensure the future of her nephew, the ninth Earl of Camberwell. Unfortunately, she has no evidence that the child is th...

  • The Reluctant Witch

    Jeanne Savery
    in

    Lady Samantha Forsythe, the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter, may have been born a witch, but during her first season in Town, she longs to dance and flirt like any other young debutante. Unfortunately, before long Samantha is importuned to rea...

  • Seducing Sybilla

    Madeleine Conway

    HE AWAKENED HER DARKEST SUSPICIONS... Sybilla Smethwick cannot help but feel protective of her older sister, Honoria, who upon the tragic death of her husband Henry was left alone to raise their son. So when Sybilla hears that Henry's brother August...

  • A Twist of Fate

    Susannah Carleton

    THE HEART KNOWS Lord David Winterbrook is too much the gentleman to leave a woman with carriage trouble stranded. But when he offers his help, he falls instantly in love with the beguiling stranger. After his ill-fated first marriage, he'd wo...

  • Black Sheep

    R.J. Kaiser

    Jonas Lamb is a lost sheep. He's always taken risks and played life's games by his own rules. Now, after a trail of broken marriages and an endless roller-coaster ride from fortune to bankruptcy and back again, Jonas has one last chance to turn his l...

  • Brotherhood of Betrayal

    Randall Arthur

    "Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples," Jesus said (John 13:35, NLT). Why then are Christians noted for their hateful judgment of each other? Brotherhood of Betrayal illustrates the ugliness of the betrayal synd...

  • Dating Games

    R.M. Johnson

    At age thirty-three, Livvy Rodgers is fed up with relying on men and working her dead-end job, so she decides to apply for a scholarship to become a registered nurse. In order to afford school, she needs to move to a smaller apartment -- leaving no ...

  • Fault Line

    Janet Tashjian

    A hard-hitting novel that breaks open the gritty world of teen relationship abuse

    Seventeen-year-old Becky Martin dreams of being a stand-up comic. She also craves the affection of a boyfriend. When attractive Kip, a rising star in the San ...

  • Finding Alice

    Melody Carlson

    Sliding into the Rabbit Hole… Would She Ever Return?On the surface, Alice Laxton seems no different from any other college girl: bright, inquisitive, excited about the life ahead of her. But for years, a genetic time bomb has been ticking away. Bec...

  • Flavor of the Week

    Tucker Shaw

    Cyril Bartholomew isn't exactly everyone's idea of a dream date he's a little on the heavy side. Not that he gets pushed around or anything, but it does cause him to keep one very important secret from everyone: he loves to cook. The only person who ...

  • Four Spirits

    Sena Jeter Naslund

    Weaving together the lives of blacks and whites, racists and civil rights advocates, and the events of peaceful protest and violent repression, Sena Jeter Naslund creates a tapestry of American social transformation at once intimate and epic.In Birmi...

  • Gold Rush Christmas

    Colleen Coble
    in

    When the "Gold Fever" epidemic sweeps the nation in 1849, people drop everything to chase the dream of striking it rich. Follow one family's itch for adventure from California to the Rockies to the Yukon - and discover a Christmas gift more valuable ...

  • Gold Rush Christmas

    Joyce Livingston
    in

    When the "Gold Fever" epidemic sweeps the nation in 1849, people drop everything to chase the dream of striking it rich. Follow one family's itch for adventure from California to the Rockies to the Yukon - and discover a Christmas gift more valuable ...

  • Gold Rush Christmas

    Cathy Marie Hake
    in

    When the "Gold Fever" epidemic sweeps the nation in 1849, people drop everything to chase the dream of striking it rich. Follow one family's itch for adventure from California to the Rockies to the Yukon - and discover a Christmas gift more valuable ...

  • Guarded Secrets: Hijacked Bride

    B.J. Daniels
    in

    Jack Donovan had loved Angie Grant. Now Angie was dead, her body never found. Jack was determined to prove that Angie's husband -- Jack's business partner -- had murdered her. But then Jack began catching glimpses of Angie...in a crowd, a taxi. Was A...

  • Higher Justice

    James Scott Bell

    Kit Shannon takes on the case of a woman whose young son is tragically killed on a turn-of-the-century Los Angeles trolley. She soon finds herself up against a powerful coalition of railroad men and politicians--all of whom seem to have something to ...

  • Hush

    Judy Christenberry

    SHHH. IT'S A SECRET... No one ever had reason to speak ill of the Crawfords. The wealthy Oklahoma ranchers were the cornerstone of Lawton society. But with the arrival of a stranger in town, rumors soon spread of an affair, an illegitimate child a...

  • Keeping Watch: Accidental Bodyguard

    Julie Miller
    in

    Faith Monroe had been framed for murder and now the killer was after her. She fled into the Wyoming mountains...and found herself at Jonas Beck's remote cabin. Jonas's gruff honesty and raw passion touched her soul. But had Faith found refuge...or a ...

  • The Loved One

    Catherine Palmer; Peggy Stoks

    When Meg Chilton's son announces that he wants to join the military, Meg is devastated. Her husband suffered physical and emotional trauma while fighting in Vietnam, and Meg is afraid that she will lose her only son to war if he enlists. But as Meg r...

  • A Merry Mistress

    Judith Saxton

    Little Nell Gwyn grew up in a London slum. From a cockney sparrow quick with a curse and quicker with a laugh, she became the most successful comedy actress of her day. But despite the hard work necessary in the competitive theatrical world, she beca...

  • Phoebe

    Diane Noble

    From Award-Winning Storyteller Diane Noble.

    At a secondhand store in 1935 California, widow Faith Green discovers a wooden doll, its carved face rubbed smooth as if from a child’s caresses. From Faith’s first glance, the doll captures her ...

  • Simply Wonderful

    Joan Hohl

    They Were Fated To Meet... Like the predator he's named for, Wolf Renninger is a loner, used to taking what he wants in both business and pleasure. With his silver-gray eyes and lethal charm, the hotel mogul usually gets his way--except where Micki ...

  • Stranger in Paradise

    Geraldine Burrows

    Kate has been coasting through life managing a bed-and-breakfast on Maui. But life gets complicated when she receives a warning from a local kahuna. Then Mark Smith checks into her inn and makes a home for himself in her heart. By the time Kate learn...

  • Under Wraps: When the Bough Breaks

    Susan Kearney
    in

    Lisa Madison arrived at Brody Adams's ranch, claiming he'd fathered the newborn boy she had with her. Brody had no idea who she was, but it was clear Lisa and the child were in danger. They needed his protection...and keeping them safe was the only w...

  • Whispers in the Night: Protective Instincts

    Debra Webb
    in

    Elizabeth Young had been FBI agent Collin MacBride's prime suspect in the murder of a prominent psychiatrist. She'd had a brief affair with the doctor...but so had several of his other female patients. Now, one by one, these women were being killed. ...

  • Dead Famous

    Carol O'Connell

    An FBI agent is killed in a psychiatrist's office...Jurors on a controversial trial are murdered one by one...A norotious shock-jock is flirting with his listeners' worst impulses...An unnerving beauty cleans up crime scenes, erasing the sins of man....

  • Dead Soul

    James D. Doss

    Where Colorado's border pushes against New Mexico, autumn is short. Rancher and tribal investigator Charlie Moon has fat cattle and a prowling cougar that demand his attention. He doesn't have the time to investigate the assault that killed hard-drin...

  • Feast of the Carrion

    Keith McCarthy

    Forensic science and law enforcement do not prove to share the same conclusions in this darkly plotted debut novel by Keith McCarthy, himself a practicing pathologist. His suspenseful and ingeniously twisted tale opens inside the walls of the venerab...

  • Last Car to Elysian Fields

    James Lee Burke

    A rainy late-summer night finds Robicheaux in a New Orleans bar, about to confront the man who may have savagely assaulted his friend, Father Jimmy Dolan, a Catholic priest who's always at the centre of controversy. But things in a Burke novel are r...

  • A Loyal Character Dancer

    Qiu Xiaolong

    The second book in the Inspector Chen investigationsInspector Chen’s mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort US Marshal Catherine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in an important criminal trial, to th...

  • Now May You Weep

    Deborah Crombie

    Newly appointed Detective Inspector Gemma James has never thought to question her friend Hazel Cavendish about her past. So it is quite a shock when Gemma learns that their holiday retreat to a hotel in the Scottish Highlands is, in fact, Hazel's hom...

  • Remember When: Big Jack

    J.D. Robb
    in

    Laine Tavish is an ordinary woman living an ordinary life in the small town of Angel's Gap, Maryland, as the proprietor of Remember When, an antique treasures and gift shop. At least, that's what everyone in Angel's Gap thinks. They have no idea that...

  • Stone Cold

    Robert B. Parker

    Meet Tony and Brianna Lincoln. They've just moved to Paradise. Unfortunately, they're not too keen on making friends with the neighbors. In fact, this urbane pair of thrill killers is knocking locals off one by one--and they've marked Jesse Stone as ...

  • The Awakening

    Kate Huntington
    in

    Orphaned Thalia Layton is stricken to hear that her beloved, eccentric Aunt Cordelia has taken ill. But upon her arrival at Cordelia's remote estate, Thalia discovers that her aunt has harbored dangerous secrets--and that Thalia's own attraction to A...

  • Bitten

    Lynsay Sands
    in

    After brooding Keeran MacKay saves Emily Wentworth Collins from a storm-tossed ship, he offers her shelter in his secluded castle. But when a savage kiss reveals Keeran's true nature, Emily realizes that yielding to Keeran's untamed desire may change...

  • Distant Echoes

    Judie Aitken

    Jesse Spotted Horse had every good reason to shoot a documentary on the history of Native American boarding schools -- he promised his Lakota grandmother he would reveal the true story. Kathleen Prescott had every good reason to stop the film f...

  • A Garden in the Rain

    Lynn Kurland

    Patrick MacLeod is haunted by his past, by events he had no control over and wishes desperately he could change. He hasn't the heart for love, nor the time for rescuing maidens in distress of their own making. Until he sees a woman who touches his he...

  • Haunted

    Heather Graham

    WHEN DOES A GIFT BECOME A CURSE? Matt Stone doesn't believe in ghosts. But there are those who are convinced his home, a historic Virginia estate that dates back to the Revolutionary War, is haunted. Pressured to get at the truth about some strang...

  • Spenceworth Bride

    Virginia Farmer

    When Nelwina Honeycutt is taken to the block to be sold -- a common enough plight for a "troublesome" wife in eighteenth-century England -- she hardly expects to better her situation. The illegitimate child of a nobleman, she can be sold for ...

  • Stranger in the Night

    Sara Blayne
    in

    Georgiana Thornberry hopes to unearth ancient treasure while exploring the moldering ruins of her ancestral home. Instead she encounters Julius Lathrop. Does the enigmatic--and disturbingly attractive-- stranger hold the key to a family legend? Or so...

  • To Catch a Wolf

    Susan Krinard

    Crippled at a young age, Athena Munroe has devoted herself to charitable work in Denver society. Trapped both body and soul, she won't allow herself to dream of love and freedom--or hear the call of the werewolf blood that flows within her. Convic...

  • Wedding the Highlander

    Janet Chapman

    A runaway beauty finds love in the brawny arms of a handsome stranger. Talented surgeon Libby Hart is fleeing to Pine Creek, Maine, when her car spins out of control and crashes into a pond. She is rescued by Michael MacBain, a medieval highlande...

  • The Yearning

    Hannah Howell
    in

    Tormented by an ancient curse, the young men of Clan MacCordy reach manhood only to walk forever in darkness, thirsting for blood--and Alpin MacCordy is no different. He must wed for coin and land, despite his betrothed's terror--and his own fascinat...

  • Blacklist

    Sara Paretsky

    As a favor to her most important client, V. I. agrees to check up on an empty mansion. But instead of a mysterious intruder, she discovers a dead man in the ornamental pond--a reporter for an African-American publication whom the suburban cops are q...

  • Chat Room

    Linda Hall

    When Glynis Piggot's only friend, Kim, disappears after meeting a Christian man on the Internet, Glynis withdraws from life and from her church, seeking companionship online. Private investigator Teri Blake-Addison, hired to find Kim by the grieving ...

  • A Grave Denied

    Dana Stabenow

    Everyone knew Len Dreyer, a handyman for hire in the Park near Niniltna, Alaska, but no one knew anything else about him. Even Kate Shugak, who was planning to ask him to help build a small second cabin on her property, knew him. But she, the Park's ...

  • Popped

    Carol Higgins Clark

    L.A.-based private detective Regan Reilly heads to Las Vegas to help out her old school chum Danny Madley. Danny is producing a reality TV show featuring three married couples who have all suffered the proverbial "Seven Year Itch," but are now vying...

  • Split Second

    David Baldacci

    THE WORLD CAN CHANGE FOREVER IN A SINGLE... SPLIT SECOND Michelle Maxwell has just wrecked her promising career at the Secret Service. Against her instincts, she let a presidential candidate out of her sight for the briefest moment and the man whose ...

  • Stone Cribs

    Kris Nelscott

    It's Christmas time, 1969, in Chicago. After a night out, Smokey Dalton, Kris Nelscott's enigmatic African-American P.I., and his girlfriend find a young woman bleeding to death in his neighbor's apartment. Upon arriving with her at the hospital, the...

  • Bone Dry

    Ben Rehder

    The opening of deer season always brings a Texas-sized wave of excitement to sleepy Blanco County, but this year, game warden John Marlin is finding mysteries as thick as ticks on a whitetail's rump. First, there are reports of a blonde bombshell who...

  • Death at the Door

    K.C. Greenlief

    On a cold, snowy November day in Big Oak, Wisconsin, Ann Ranson's dogs drag home something bloody. In the height of hunting season, Ann assumes it's a deer part and goes out to get rid of it. Instead, she is shocked to discover it's the remains of a ...

  • Echoes of Silence

    Marjorie Eccles

    Moving back to Yorkshire was the last thing DI Tom Richmonds thought he would do. His superiors are also perturbed by his decision to transfer. Surely after the murder of the young girl, Yorkshire is the last place he should want to be? Is this Richm...

  • Fortunes of the Dead

    Lynn S. Hightower

    Private investigator Lena Padget has seen far too many women and children fall through the cracks of the legal system, and she has made it her life's work to redeem as many of them as she can. She and her lover, homicide detective Joel Mendez, have j...

  • Grave Instinct

    Robert W. Walker

    A horrifying series of murders has shocked a stretch of America's southern heartland. Not only are women turning up dead, but the killer has removed their brains with chilling surgical precision. A new murder has sent FBI medical examiner Jessica Cor...

  • Out of Time

    Alton Gansky

    The fog released more of the ship. As he watched the bow slowly emerge, Stanton saw something that made his gut twist. “This can’t be.” Stanton stared at the gray-white battleship. “It’s a Dreadnought.”But that kind of ship ceased sailing...

  • A Place of Safety

    Natasha Cooper

    Barrister Trish Maguire needs all the time she can find to help her young half-brother adjust to life after the violent death of his mother. Sir Henry Buxford, an influential acquaintance, has other ideas. He asks Trish to investigate one of his priv...

  • Shell Games

    Kirk Russell

    Masters of crime fiction immediately hailed Shell Games, which introduced a dynamic new hero and an exciting new author. Michael Connelly: "You know when you read this one that you are on to something good. Kirk Russell comes out of the gate with a s...

  • Mortal Remains

    Peter Clement

    In a small upstate New York town, an idyllic lake yields a ghastly discovery when the skeletal remains of a young woman missing for twenty-seven years are pulled from the icy depths--along with unmistakable evidence of her murder. Suddenly, the long-...

  • To the Bone

    Neil McMahon

    Late one hot summer night, a beautiful young actress named Eden Hale -- only hours removed from breast-augmentation surgery, and writhing in pain -- stumbles to the telephone and dials 911. Within minutes, an ambulance rushes her to San Francisco's M...

  • Cannibal Lake

    Andy Gregg

  • The Case of the Drooling Dinosaurs

    Bill Myers

    --Why have museum and toy dinosaurs come alive?! --Why are they slobbering all over the city? --Is this the work of Dr. Rebellion, the man who hates rules? Only Secret Agent Dingledorf and his trusty dog, Splat, can find the answer. Only they can s...

  • Crooked Heart

    Cristina Sumners

    Life isn't easy for Tom Holder. Middle-aged, appallingly married, and bored out of his wits, Tom is Chief of Police in Harton--an idyllic New Jersey town where, in spite of its eccentric cast of characters, nothing ever seems to happen. His dreary ro...

  • Death for Dessert

    T. Dawn Richard

    JUST DESSERTS The dark stain on the dead woman was chocolate, but it may as well have been blood. Mrs. Berkowitz had gone to her death savoring poisoned brownies. New to the Active Senior Living complex, May List finds the body, but has her own reas...

  • Desert Places

    Blake Crouch

    Greetings. There is a body buried on your property, covered in your blood. The unfortunate young lady's name is Rita Jones. In her jeans pocket you'll find a slip of paper with a phone number on it. Call that number. If I have not heard from you by 8...

  • Hide and Die

    Stella Whitelaw

    The fourth in the much-acclaimed Jordan Lacey series Jordan Lacey, Latching's intrepid and unconventional P.I., has two new cases to solve: a paternity dispute and a weird cross-dressing mystery. Neither case is as simple as it seems and during her r...

  • High Stakes

    Robert J. Randisi

    All bets are off in this collection of thrilling stories, filled with high stakes, dangerous games, greed, and corruption, from Las Vegas to small-town bingo parlors, that features contributions from such bestselling authors as Lawrence Block, Leslie...

  • The Hummingbird Wizard

    Meredith Blevins

    An old friend dies, and the Gypsies want answers. Suspecting murder, Annie Szabo is forced to form an alliance with her mother-in-law, fortune-teller Madame Mina, and use all their resources--a talent for petty theft, exotic love magic, a Gypsy shamu...

  • A Killing Frost

    Michael A. Black

    It hasn't exactly been a banner year for Chicago-based private detective Ron Shade. First, his main ladylove left for a new life in California. Then his faithful old Chevy turned over its second hundred thousand miles and died. Finally, Shade realize...

  • The Lies of Saints

    Sigmund Brouwer

    The apparent suicide of a young cadet at the Citadel leads Nick Barrett back two decades to the disappearance of a South Carolina beauty pageant queen. Beneath the glittering exterior of the elite of Charleston lies a century-old conspiracy that will...

  • London's Dark

    James Robinson

    In 1940, London is in the middle of World War Two; bombers fly overhead nightly, and blackouts are enforced by air-raid wardens. With this violent, uncertain setting, multi-award winner James Robinson and acclaimed artist Paul Johnson spin a masterly...

  • Old Scores

    Scott MacKay

    One of rock music's most powerful agents and promoters, Glen Boyd, comes to a tragic end when he is found dead in a hotel room, a woman's silk scarf tight around his neck. The victim was a user and abuser, a man who made dreams happen, then shattered...

  • Quarry's Greatest Hits

    Max Allan Collins

    New York Times bestselling author

    An icon of noir anti-heroes, Max Allan Collins's taciturn hit man known only as Quarry made his mark in more than a dozen novels in the 1970s and '80s. Along the way he gained a popular following and appeared in a...

  • Seeing Pink

    Erin O'Rourke

  • Snowbird's Walk

    Joe L. Hensley

    Cannert is searching throughout Florida for his missing wife, Martha. While he was in the hospital, coping with the latest round of treatment for his terminal cancer, Martha was in Flordia looking for an appropriate place for the two of them to r...

  • Trouble Is My Beeswax

    Bruce Hale

    When it comes to splitting dessert, Chet Gecko may cheat a little, but who’s going to complain if Chet’s half is more like two-thirds? He’s never been good at math. Still, there’s a big difference between sneaking a bigger slice of stinkbug p...

  • A Stain Upon the Robe

    Terry Devane

    The Honorable Barbara Quincy Pitt is presiding over an explosive new trial … that of a priest who stands accused of a shocking transgression. But the judge’s own problems are disturbing her as well. The young law clerk assigned to assist her iin ...

  • Disturbance

    Jamie O'Neill

    Nilus Moore, a young Irish boy, lives with his father in their decaying, shambolic house. Haunted by the death of his mother, he escapes the chaos outside in the refuge of his room where he plays obsessively with an enormous matt-black jigsaw, its or...

  • A 5th Avenue Affair

    Tracy Cozzens

    Would She Heal His Heart... Despite her sisters' nuptial successes, Clara Carrington is decidedly not interested in a husband--her charitable work is far more fulfilling than marriage would be. Or so she believes, until her sister Pauline sends her ...

  • Beloved Highlander

    Sara Bennett

    Gregor Grant was to have been the Laird of Glen Dhui. But defeat at the hands of the English had cost him the home that had been with his family for generations. Bitter and betrayed, the Highlander vowed never to return... ...until a lady pleads ...

  • Complete Abandon

    Cheryl Holt

    NO BARGAIN IS AS ENTICING AS... When Emma Fitzgerald storms the manor home of the new Viscount Wakefield, she feels more than justified fury. Having just inadvertently witnessed His Lordship in scandalous dishabille with his London mistress, her blo...

  • Dark of the Moon

    Evelyn Rogers

    Matt acknowledges a reality lovely widow Juliana Rains refuses to admit: Some drives are too fierce, too powerful, to deny. Like Matt's need to prove himself to his father and brothers. Like his burning desire for revenge against the low-down sna...

  • A Gentleman's Honor

    Stephanie Laurens

    The Season has yet to begin, and the second member of the Bastion Club, tall, handsome Anthony Blake, Viscount Torrington, is already a target for every matchmaking mama in London. None of their flighty daughters can fix his interest, but a certain l...

  • The Golden Lord

    Miranda Jarrett

    Her life was a lie...but their passion spoke the truth. A life of deceit...On the surface, Jenny Dell appeared the model lady, but nothing could have been further from the truth. For her, every word and every act as was a deception. Until she met Bra...

  • He Said Yes

    Patricia Waddell

    ALWAYS A GENTLEMAN... Evelyn Dennsworth may not be entitled to use the word "Lady" in front of her name, but that doesn't stop her from behaving like one. Even a vicar's daughter turned Bond Street shop girl can rise above her meager beginnings if...

  • Laird of Stonehaven

    Connie Mason

    VISIONS... He appears nightly in her dreams--magnificently, blatantly naked. A man whose body is sheer perfection, whose face is hardened by desire, whose voice makes it plain he will have her and no other. AND PROPHESIES... Blair MacArthur...

  • Lakota Flower

    Janelle Taylor

    Threatened by the ever-encroaching Bluecoats, the Oglala Lakotas must strike hard and fast to ensure their tribe's survival. With the cunning and bravery befitting a chief's son, War Eagle leads his hunting party on a raid, killing many soldiers and ...

  • The Mark of Salvation

    Carol Umberger

    Author Carol Umberger combines her love of history, romance, and God in a quartet of powerful stories set in 14th-century Scotland during the reign of Robert the Bruce, Scotland's great hero king....

  • The Matchmaker

    Lisa Plumley

    Someone was matching up men and women all over town -- and, tarnation! it had to stop! Marcus Copeland had been elected to "investigate" the most likely suspect. But he didn't have time to romance any secrets out of the unconventional Molly Crabtr...

  • One Wild Night

    Barbara Dawson Smith

    I have always taken pride in my bad reputation. Polite society viewed me as depraved and utterly dissolute, for I was a disciple of passion. Pleasure was my hallmark, women my pastime. That is, before the incomparable Lady Charlotte Quinton disrupted...

  • The Pirate & the Puritan

    Cheryl Howe

    On Wild CARIBBEAN SEAS Felicity had once been passionate. In her youth she'd been swept off her feet by pretty words -- but though that time in Boston had felt so right, the man had been so wrong. She'd sworn to bury her sensuality under s...

  • Redeemed Hearts

    Cathy Marie Hake

    When famine ravages Ireland, Brigit Murphy and her family are forced to move to America. There, Brigit becomes a maid in the Newcomb home, where the mistress of the house, Emily Newcomb, is determined to marry off her brother, Duncan. When Duncan,...

  • Reiver's Bride

    Amanda Scott

    Once, long ago in Scotland, matchmaking members of the Secret Clan wove magical mischief to encourage romance among the mortals they assisted. Sometimes the results weren't quite what they expected... When reivers swoop down on Lady Anne Ellyson ...

  • Render Unto Caesar

    Gillian Bradshaw

    Hermogenes is a young Greek from Alexandria, heir to a noble and vibrant society. But in his youth Hermogenes and his family were held captive to the whims of the queen Cleopatra, whose machinations spelled doom for an entire nation--whose schemes fo...

  • A Savage Beauty

    Merline Lovelace

    Their passion was a daring adventure. FROM THE UNCHARTED WILDERNESS Louise Therese Chartier knows all about the hardships of life in the wilderness. She has learned to survive by trusting her own instincts. But when her husband is killed, she fin...

  • The Seducer

    Madeline Hunter

    From the moment he arrived to rescue her, Diane Albret saw more in the darkly handsome, charismatic gentleman than just a guardian. Over the years that had passed since she first saw Daniel St. John, he had become, quite simply, the most dangerously ...

  • The Tender Heart

    Kristy Dykes

    Sebbie's first loyalty is to her mother and sisters. All of the Hanford women are struggling to keep their Florida ranch running after the death of their husband and father, Jed. In the face of dire poverty, Mama decides that Sebbie must marry a weal...

  • The Tiger's Mistress

    Andrea DaRif

    When her beloved father mysteriously disappears, Portia Hadley is determined to discover why...even if it means charging straight into the arms of the Earl of Branford. Known as the "Black Cat" when he was a spy for England, Branford is no stranger ...

  • A Touch of Charm

    Karen Fox

    Named for the Three Graces of Greek legend, the Sullivan sisters--Belle, Charisma, and Grace--fear they will never live up to their names and find true love. But a heartfelt wish made in the Garden of the Gods summons help from three elegant stranger...

  • Under the Wishing Star

    Diane Farr

    Malcolm Chase's fortunate chance encounter with a kind young neighbor, Natalie Whittaker, gives the recent widower reason to fire his daughter's cruel governess and hire Natalie instead. With her household duties usurped by her brother's new wife...

  • Waking the Princess

    Susan King

    Only true love can awaken passion and restore a legend...but the one man who has the power must never fall in love.... In Taming the Heiress, Susan King captivated readers with a thrilling tale of love and enchantment in Victorian Scotland. Now sh...