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  • How Nancy Drew Saved My Life

    Lauren Baratz-Logsted

    Broken, smashed and stomped in the mud That's how Charlotte Bell's heart ended up the last time she let her emotions heat up on a nanny assignment. So taking a new position in frigid Iceland, working for Ambassador Edgar Rawlings, might be just wh...

  • Behind Those Eyes

    T.P. Carter

    Ever since Derrick had that party, I've been having a hard time. I've spent nights and days trying my best to shut out thoughts. Bad thoughts. Thoughts that leave me hung. Dreams. Good ones. Of Nat... An accomplished physician, Doctor Taiyler Ric...

  • Night Heat

    Brenda Jackson

    Sebastian Steele was the kind of man >women dreamed about. He was drop-dead gorgeous, wickedly charming and fabulously wealthy. So why wouldn't Jocelyn Mason accept his offer to help run her struggling company? It was his reputation. Sebastian was...

  • 6 Rainier Drive

    Debbie Macomber

    6 Rainier Drive Cedar Cove, Washington Dear Reader, As you may have heard, we've recently had quite a shock. My husband, Seth, and I lost our business, The Lighthouse restaurant--to arson. The investigation continues. The prime suspect is a youn...

  • The Falcon's Bride

    Dawn Thompson

    At twenty-one, after two Seasons with no takers, Theadosia Barrington should have been grateful to snare Nigel Cosgrove. The earl-to-be was a blue-eyed Adonis, a true catch-and surely the incident in Covent Garden was exaggerated. And yet, upon her a...

  • Tomorrow Men

    Michael Jan Friedman

    The Ultimates -- the first government-sponsored cadre of Super Heroes -- was assembled to face threats to humanity too insanely powerful forother operatives to handle. Led by a general who gave an eye in the service of his country, the super-powe...

  • Slocum and the Lost Command

    Jake Logan

    The cavalry needs to be rescued -- from Slocum!When Slocum is saddled with a debt he can’t carry, pretty Laurel Atkins saves his hide -- and convinces him how badly she needs his gun. She tells him her husband is a cavalry sergeant who’s missing,...

  • Too Wicked to Wed

    Cheryl Holt

    CAN THE ROGUE WHO WON HER VIRTUE... Helen Mansfield's reckless brother has done the unthinkable, gambling away his sister's chastity to save his family's estate. When Helen visits the lodgings of the gentleman who has won her, hoping to ...

  • Slim To None

    Taylor Smith

    After losing custody of her young son, security specialist Hannah Nicks has one goal: earn enough money to retire and raise her child. The fastest way to accomplish that is to take on a covert, privately funded mission in the Middle East, and in a wa...

  • The First Cut

    Dianne Emley

    For two minutes she was dead. The assailant was vicious, the attack brutal, and it left her lifeless -- until her pulse fluttered and she jolted awake. Now, a year later, Detective Nan Vining rejoins the Pasadena PD, only to confront a homicide case...

  • Forest Mage

    Robin Hobb

    Plague has ravaged the prestigious King's Cavalla of Gernia, decimating the ranks of both cadets and instructors. Yet Nevare Burvelle has made an astonishingly robust recovery, defeating his sworn nemesis while in the throes of the disease and freein...

  • Counterplay

    Robert K. Tanenbaum

    Ratcheting up the cliff-hanging action of his spellbinding New York Times bestseller Fury, Robert K. Tanenbaum pits Manhattan D.A. Butch Karp against a psychotic villain dead set on revenge. He's a political time bomb whose bid to become New York ...

  • Armageddon's Children

    Terry Brooks

    Logan Tom is doomed to remember the past and determined to rescue the future. Far behind him lies a boyhood cut violently short by his family's slaughter, when the forces of madness and hate swept our world after decadent excesses led to civilization...

  • Stained

    Jennifer Richard Jacobson

    Jocelyn has two boys in her life. And a priest. Gabe has shared fourteen years of growing up next door. He's "a golden boy, an all-star." Yet now, in the spring of 1975, he's missing, disappeared on the brink of senior year at Weaver High. The whole...

  • Dawn of Empire

    Sam Barone

    FIVE MILLENNIA AGO, ON THE EASTERN BANK OF THE RIVER TIGRIS, THE COURSE OF HUMAN HISTORY CHANGED FOREVER ... The people of Orak cherish their peaceful village and the life they have made. Though not proficient with the bow or sword, they possess a w...

  • The Emperor's Children

    Claire Messud

    The Emperor's Children is a richly drawn, brilliantly observed novel of fate and fortune--about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way--and not--in New York City. In this tour de force, ce...

  • Rise and Shine

    Anna Quindlen

    It's an otherwise ordinary Monday when Meghan Fitzmaurice's perfect life hits a wall. A household name as the host of Rise and Shine, the country's highest-rated morning television talk show, Meghan cuts to a commercial break -- but not before she do...

  • Samurai

    Jason Hightman

    They prey on human weakness. Feed on human misery. Revel in human pain. Dragons. Masquerading as regular men and women, they walk unnoticed among their victims. But there are those who can see past the serpents' disguises. Simon St. George and ...

  • Shattered Trust

    Leslie Esdaile Banks

    Brilliant beauty Laura Caldwell and her new husband, detective James Carter, try to begin a peaceful new life in a Cayman Islands paradise, free from the enemies of the past. It's a beautiful dream--but for this passionate pair, can it ever come true...

  • Scent

    Clint Kelly / C.L. Kelly

    Beauty in a bottle. Earth's most captivating scent. Danger hidden in petals of pink. From the corporate boardroom to the New Guinea rainforest, the hunt is on to capture 'the very breath of beauty' and secure the success of struggling perfumers Cassi...

  • In Bad With Someone

    Rosemary Laurey
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    Rod Carter was supposed to end up running the Ragged Rooster. Instead, Old Man Maddox gave the bar to his granddaughter, some prissy Brit art gallery owner right off the boat from London. Miss Juliet Ffrench--yeah, two "f's"--knows jack-all about bee...

  • Francesca's Kitchen

    Peter Pezzelli

    No one writes about Italian-American families with the humor, warmth, and heart of Peter Pezzelli. Now, with Francesca's Kitchen, he delivers another winning novel about how much we need the closeness of family--even if we don't know it. Where There'...

  • The Southern Devil

    Diane Whiteside

    Even a perfect gentleman has a little devil in him. Once an orphaned, starving, Confederate war veteran, Morgan Evans is now a wealthy man respected for both his business acumen and his chivalrous Southern manners. He would be the perfect catch for...

  • Infinite Crisis

    Greg Cox

    For years, the rift between the Justice League's leaders has been widening. Batman's paranoia has given birth to an army of robotic assassins. Wonder Woman has declared herself judge, jury, and executioner, taking a foe's life in an act that was broa...

  • Invisible Lives

    Anjali Banerjee

    Lakshmi Sen was born with a magical ability to perceive the secret longings in others. Putting aside her own dreams to help run her widowed mother's struggling Seattle sari shop, Mystic Elegance, Lakshmi knows exactly how to bring happiness to custom...

  • Sex and the South Beach Chicas

    Caridad Pineiro

    ONE SEXY CITY . . . FOUR BEST FRIENDS . . . ONE SURPRISE ELOPEMENT . . . FOUR MORE MOJITOS, POR FAVOR! When Tori got lucky, she never imagined that her birthday fling would last longer than one night. But this papi chulo turns out to ...

  • The Thief Taker

    Janet Gleeson

    In the cellar there was no sound at all except her own breathing and the soft rustle of her skirts. After her eyes had grown accustomed to the dark, she noticed a niche in the wall a yard from where she stood. She saw something there about the size o...

  • The Whitney Chronicles

    Judy Baer

    spin.ster: noun 1 : an unmarried woman or a woman for whom marriage seems dubious 2 : a woman who spins or weaves for a living Her mother, sister and friends (?) fear spinsterhood may be the fate of thirty-year-old Whitney Blake. And while she...

  • The Inn on Half Moon Bay

    Diane Tyrrel

    The author of On Winding Hill Road and On the Edge of the Woods brings you to new heights of suspense in a tangled web of secret desires and hidden truths... Sprawled across a bluff overlooking the sea, the Magic Mermaid Inn embodied the simplicit...

  • The Slightest Provocation

    Pam Rosenthal

    As children of feuding Derbyshire landowners, Mary Penley and Kit Stansell eloped against their families' wishes. But neither their ardor nor their marriage could survive their own restless natures. Nine years later, Kit is a rising star in the milit...

  • Daddy Daycare

    Laura Marie Altom

    Bringing Up...Daddy? Fatherhood wasn't on CEO Travis Callahan's life plan, but his baby niece, Libby, needs him. He's always understood the word duty, and if his new role requires changing diapers and midnight feedings, so be it! Unfortunately...

  • Footloose

    Leanne Banks

    Think working for a leading international shoe company sounds like a dream job? Not if you're Amelia Parker, an overworked, downtrodden temp working for Bellagio, Inc.'s grande dame, Lillian Bellagio. But things are looking up for Amelia. She's just ...

  • Leaving L.A.

    Rexanne Becnel

    There's a first time for everything as thirty-nine-year-old Zoe Vidrine learned the hard way. She was pregnant! Now the aging rock 'n' roller had to change her tune fast. Her plan: leave behind the temptations of L.A.--and her famous hard-partying ex...

  • You Had Me at Goodbye

    Jane Blackwood

    I'll Just Hold My Breath, Fancy Pants... Oh no. This is so not happening. Her whole life Kat Taylor has been reaching for the brass ring and coming away with nothing but sore knuckles. Not this time. Her flighty Aunt Lila gave her a charming house o...

  • On The Edge

    Pamela Britton

    Unknown NASCAR driver Adam Drake has some of the best moves Rebecca Newman has ever seen, both on and off the track. But she can't afford to feel anything but respect for the new driver she's hired to pilot her race car. With the financial securit...

  • She's My Baby

    Adrianne Byrd

    No husband, no boyfriend, no pets and definitely no children... These were the "rules" that took magazine CEO Leila Owens to the top. Always in charge, in control, she was never rattled. Until she finds a baby in her kitchen on Christmas--and a se...

  • Operation: Midnight Rendezvous

    Linda Castillo

    HE AIMS FOR THE HEART Deep-cover operative Mike Madrid tracked Jessica Atwood with ease, but one look at her revealed her innocence. On the run with an orphan in tow, the spitfire called out to Madrid, stirring passions he thought long buried. ...

  • Christmas in the Country

    Carol Cox

    A Christmas Wish by JEANIE SMITH CASH Relief at catching a flight fades as Abigail Forrester recognizes her seatmate as Nicholas Creighton, her ex-fiance. When a storm grounds the plane, and she must depend on Nick to get her home in time for the Chr...

  • The Sheriff's Son

    Barbara White Daille

    Why Is Tanner Jones Back in Town? Seven-year-old Kevin has been a handful for single mom Sarah Lindstrom, and when the new sheriff walks through her door holding her son by the scruff of his neck for egging his car, she knows she's lost contro...

  • Summer Breeze

    Jacquie D'Alessandro
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    A new town, a new house and new start for the kids--everything divorcee Elise Stanford needed. But she doesn't quite recall ordering Seth McGuire, a green-eyed contractor ten years her junior....

  • When I First Saw You

    Angie Daniels

    An Online Proposal... When literary agent Chante Campbell, her heart filled with poetry and her life empty of romance, gets an all-expense paid weekend for her birthday, she never expects to spend it with her fiance--since she doesn't know she has o...

  • Good With His Hands

    Alexa Darin

    WANTED Man who uses his mind instead of his hands--someone who can "wow" me and hold a decent conversation. Someone who knows that a dinner date consists of more than a six-pack and a bag of chips. Beer-guzzling, power-tool using jerks need not appl...

  • The Lawless Frontier

    Randy Denmon

    An Ugly Place To Die There's nothing pretty about Mexico in 1914. On the verge of a bloody civil war that's spiraling out of control, it's no place for hotheads or weak hearts--a place where only real men survive...if they're lucky. As an officer fo...

  • The Doctor + Four

    Jacqueline Diamond

    A Miracle Cure for Lonely Hearts Working in a small town was the easiest way for Dr. Sonya Vega to outrun her unhappy past, not to mention the sleepy little place fitted in perfectly with her dream to give at least one needy child a home. What she...

  • Spin Control

    Kate Donovan

    THERE'S JUSTICE -- AND THEN THERE'S TRUTH When FBI agent Justin Russo is charged with murdering a suspect, attorney Suzannah Ryder knows exactly how she'll "spin" the facts. After all, Justin is innocent and has the spotless record of a bona fid...

  • Don't Be Afraid

    Rebecca Drake

    Be Afraid... It's a beautiful house--a perfect place to live. To dream. To start a life together. It's the perfect place for so many things, he thinks as he puts on the gloves and reaches for her, enjoying her screams. But today, it's a perfect plac...

  • Charming Jo

    Laura Drewry

    TROUBLE IN BLUE JEANS So far, Jo McCaine's run her Kansas ranch just fine by herself. Or so she always thought. But now she needs help -- a man with a strong back and the will to work. And if she has to hire the devil himself, she will. The tr...

  • Heat Of The Moment

    Diana Duncan

    Two years after a disastrous one-night stand, fate catapults wounded photographer Kate Chabeau and SWAT bomb tech Liam O'Rourke into an explosive reunion. When her life is threatened, Kate is remanded into Liam's custody and forced to face her deepes...

  • Angel Food

    Kristy Dykes
    in

    Love Is on the Menu When four restaurant owners meet at a conference, they discover they have more than just good food in common. Sharing faith, fears, and hopes as single women, they vow to meet again -- but they might end up bringing guests. ...

  • The Return Of David McKay

    Ann Evans

    David McKay had put Broken Yoke behind him ten years ago when he'd left to pursue his career--but that changed when he promised to help his frail grandmother fulfill her husband's wish to have his ashes scattered over a mountaintop. He'd expected ...

  • The Sheikh's Guarded Heart

    Liz Fielding

    Rescued by her prince of the desert... Saved from certain death in the unforgiving desert of Ramal Hamrah, Lucy Forrester is transported to a world of luxury by her rescuer, Sheikh Hanif. The tender care he offers her is more than Lucy has ever ex...

  • McNeil's Match

    Gwynne Forster

    After a bitter divorce, twenty-nine-year-old Lynne Thurston is faced with the prospect of not knowing what to do with the rest of her life. A highly ranked pro tennis player, she gave it all up six years ago when she got married. Now with nothing to ...

  • Angels Of The Big Sky // The Single Dad's Guarded Heart

    Roz Denny Fox

    Former Navy pilot Marlee Stein has only a few simple goals when she and her young daughter, Jo Beth, move home to Whitepine, Montana. Help her brother run Cloud Chasers, their family's charter air service, fly mercy missions for Angel Fleet, and be a...

  • Blood Kin

    Judith E. French

    Hidden behind the deceptive beauty of Tawes Island, secrets remain unspoken, waiting to be brought to light. Bailey Elliot arrives on Tawes to look into her own past, but its wary residents don't take to outsiders digging up long-buried scandal. ...

  • The Once-A-Mistress Wife

    Katherine Garbera

    HIGH-SOCIETY SCANDAL Mary Duvall came back to Eastwick to claim her inheritance--not to rekindle a romantic relationship with millionaire Kane Brentwood! Years ago, she'd been content as the English lord's mistress. But when he took another woman ...

  • Damage Control

    Kristi Gold

    He'd loved her and left her, and now he was back When Hollywood director Pete Traynor walked out on the movie Renee Marchand was producing, his departure ended up costing her the job she loved. Now he's checked into her family's New Orleans hotel ...

  • Married Under the Italian Sun

    Lucy Gordon

    A new life... The world knew her as a glamorous, glitzy blonde, famous for being famous. Until her unfaithful husband divorced her...and Angel Clannan was glad to be a nobody once again. She couldn't wait to start her new life in Italy, in the Villa...

  • Kiss of Darkness

    Heather Graham

    A kiss of darkness. A kiss of death. The woods have always been full of whispers in Transylvania, of terrors that go back centuries to the legendary Vlad Dracul himself. Ignoring their professor's grave warning--beware those who would prey upon t...

  • One On One

    Bettye Griffin

    After five years, Natasha Lawrence believes she is finally over the recurring nightmare of the last conversation she had with her husband, Tim, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11. She and her two sons have now comfortably settled into...

  • I Saw Three Ships

    Pamela Griffin
    in

    I Saw Three Ships by PAMELA GRIFFIN Rachel is upset after her childhood love returns to manage the family shipbuilding business in Scotland. Malcolm has changed; he's so secretive. And why did he leave abruptly, years ago, without saying good-bye? Ma...

  • The Family Man

    Irene Hannon

    The Davis Landing Observer Page 5 The Gossip Guru ...has more scandalous news about the beleaguered Hamilton family: Seems patriarch Wallace had an illegitimate child with someone well-known within the community. Does Mrs. Hamilton know about th...

  • Getaway Girl

    Michele Hauf

    IT'S NOT ABOUT THE CAR Jamie MacAlister has a need for speed. Now she's making a break from the illegal racing circuit to run a professional driving service. That's right...Jamie is a getaway girl. IT'S ABOUT THE WOMAN BEHIND THE WHEEL Her first...

  • Where Truth Lies

    Christiane Heggan

    BENEATH THE SMALL-TOWN CHARM IS A BIG-TIME SECRET Museum curator Grace McKenzie is shocked when she receives word that her ex-fiance, Steven Hatfield, has been murdered. In his will, Steven has left her his art gallery in New Hope, Pennsylvania. A...

  • If It Bleeds

    Bonnie Hearn Hill

    IF IT BLEEDS, IT LEADS It's a newspaper mantra -- the most gruesome stories always run on the front page to get people's attention. But when Corina Vasquez lands a bloody lead story, she attracts the attention of a killer. Newly promoted as the a...

  • Whirlwind

    Cindy Holby

    As the last remaining bachelor among all his friends, Zane Brody can always be counted on for irresistible charm. So when he sets out for New York to retrieve a valuable thoroughbred mare to Laramie, he has no doubt he can handle any female he encoun...

  • Divine Madness

    Melanie Jackson

    Down a dirt road, Seraphina Sandoval fled her past. Someone in her position could trust no one--not even the sublime stranger she met on her way. No, Seraphina could ill afford to trust. When the Dark Man had found her, she'd been someone else, a...

  • A Love So Strong

    Arlene James

    In need of a wife, Pastor Marcus Wheeler was sure God would send him a good woman--anyone except Nicole Archer. Though she was kind and beautiful, she was far too young and unconventional to be a proper minister's wife. She couldn't possibly be the o...

  • Border War

    William W. Johnstone

    Not since the days of the infamous Pancho Villa has a foreign force raided American soil for plunder. And when a busload of American schoolgirls is hijacked and taken across the border into Mexico, the repercussions prove to be deadly. The gang o...

  • Embracing The Moonlight

    Wayne Jordan

    He found trouble in paradise... When Mason Sinclair visits the island of Barbados, he hopes to discover more about the father and brothers he has never known. Injured in the line of duty, Mason finds that the island is the perfect place to recover...

  • My Baby, My Bride

    Tina Leonard

    A Simple Recipe for Winning Your Woman Liberty Wentworth may have abandoned Duke Forrester on their wedding day, but when she returns to Tulips, Texas, pregnant with his child, Duke knows he'll do anything to win her back. But how? Liberty's claim...

  • What a Gentleman Wants

    Caroline Linden

    Marcus Reese, Duke of Essex, has spent most of his life pulling his twin brother out of trouble. An occasional thank you would suffice; instead, his resentful sibling forges his name to a marriage license and presents him with an unwanted wife. She's...

  • Mountains, Memories, And Mistletoe

    Joyce Livingston

    Making Memories by JANET LEE BARTON Amanda Forrester takes her good friend, Josh Randall, home with her for Christmas--hoping to keep her matchmaking family from setting her up with anyone. As the couple makes plans for Christmas, their friendship tu...

  • Without a Doubt

    Kathleen Long

    LITTLE GIRL LOST...AND FOUND? The moment she laid eyes on the little girl with the butterfly-shaped birthmark, reporter Sophie Markham swore she was looking at her long-lost niece. And yet this child's parents claimed to have met the birth mother....

  • Night Wars

    Graham Masterton

    They are five ordinary people, forced to do battle on the most terrifying field imaginable--the landscape of nightmares. They are the Night Warriors and only they can defeat the evil that has invaded our world through our dreams. Two of the cruel...

  • Make-Believe Cowboy // Millionaire Cowboy Seeks Wife

    Terry McLaughlin

    Fitz Kelleran is headed to Montana to film his latest blockbuster. Ellie Harrison, the ranch owner and a widowed mom, is trying to save her land by renting it out, Hollywood-style. The on-screen cowboy and the real-life rancher aren't the likelies...

  • Mistaken Mistress

    Margaret McPhee

    To her spiteful aunt, Kathryn Marchant is little more than a servant: she does not deserve a place in polite society. That's about to change, when Kathryn accidentally falls into the arms of the most notorious rake of them all. Lord Ravensmede...

  • Everything's Coming Up Rosie

    Kasey Michaels

    What's a dedicated bachelor doing at a week-long society wedding celebration? Doug Llewellyn is being bored out of his skull...until a beautiful, unknown woman calls him "darling," then plants a big wet kiss on him. Suddenly boredom is no longer Doug...

  • Lost and Found

    Ginny Aiken
    in

    Colleen of Erin by TAMELA HANCOCK MURRAY Colleen Sullivan seems to be the perfect match for Finn Donahue, a successful merchant. But Finn lacks compassion. His coffers are lined by a wealthy customer named Joey. On Christmas Eve, Colleen sets the tab...

  • Every Fear

    Rick Mofina

    On an ordinary morning, Maria Colson takes her baby son Dylan to the corner store. She only turns her back for a few seconds. When she looks again, she sees his empty stroller, at the same time he is being abducted into a waiting van. Maria climbs on...

  • Sweet Surrender

    Michelle Monkou

    After her marriage ended in bitter divorce, Haley Sanders was carving out a new life in a new town with her thirteen-year-old daughter. Dr. Pierce Masterson was not part of the single mother's blueprint for the future--even if her new landlord was mu...

  • The Hero Strikes Back

    Moira J. Moore

    In a realm beset by natural disasters, only the magical abilities of the bonded Pairs -- Source and Shield -- make the land habitable and keep the citizenry safe. The ties that bind them are far beyond the relationships between lovers or kin -- and l...

  • The Rebel Prince

    Raye Morgan

    Bride -- by royal decree! Chef Emma Valentine is just an ordinary girl, doing an ordinary job. Okay, her new boss might be a gorgeous future king, but Emma's determined to stay professional...isn't she? As the second son, jet-setting playboy ...

  • Man From Montana

    Brenda Mott

    Nothing, not even the beauty of Montana's big-sky country, can make up for the one reckless mistake Derrick made twelve years ago. And so he buries himself in raising his son, his only outlet the poignant country songs he writes and plays at the ...

  • Lanterns and Lace

    DiAnn Mills

    Suspense and Romance Tangle in Texas 
 Moments before she dies giving birth, a tormented resident of the Kahlerville brothel persuades the doctor to adopt her infant daughter. Two years later, Jessica Martin’s younger sister, Jenny, arrives in ...

  • Pregnant With The First Heir

    Sara Orwig

    TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS... All Matt Ransome knew was that some penniless stranger was carrying his dead brother's child. And any Ransome heir was going to be raised in the family tradition of wealth and power--whether its mother liked it or not. ONE...

  • Under The Western Sky

    Laurie Paige

    HE HAD THE KIND OF SMILE THAT DID THINGS TO A WOMAN Julianne Martin had come to New Mexico's canyon country on a mission of deliverance. But now Special Agent Anthony Aquilon had just accused the compassionate nurse-midwife of making off with pric...

  • Jungle Justice

    Don Pendleton

    JAWS OF DEATH India is a country whose history is written in blood, and its legacy is cities teeming with human misery and vultures profiting from evil and corruption. Balahadra Naraka is a big game poacher turned murderer of anyone who stands in...

  • Ultimate Stakes

    Don Pendleton

    ARMED RESISTANCE A double political kidnapping in Ecuador is cause for concern in the U.S. when the deed threatens a new and vital petroleum distribution agreement between the two countries. The question of who is behind the conspiracy and why tur...

  • Breeding Ground

    Sarah Pinborough

    Life was good for Matt and Chloe. They were in love and looking forward to their new baby. But what Chloe gave birth to isn't a baby. It isn't even human. It's an entirely new species that uses humans only for food--and as hosts for their young. ...

  • Calculated Loss

    Linda L. Richards

    HIGH FINANCE AND HAUTE CUISINE... A RECIPE FOR MURDER It's been years since former stockbroker Madeline Carter bothered thinking about her gastronomically gifted ex-husband, Chef Braydon Gauthier. Between quitting her soul-sucking career and disco...

  • Silent Enemy

    Lois Richer

    A STOLEN STATUE, A CURIOUS COIN...AND A MURDER When Samantha Henderson ran into trouble recovering a lost statue in the Peruvian jungle, Daniel McCullough believed he'd made the right decision in not promoting her at Finders, Inc. But when forced ...

  • Married In Haste

    Christine Rimmer

    Well, the wedding of Angie Dellazola and Brett Bravo may have seemed hasty. But in fact they'd known each other all their lives--and, as each of them was the self-appointed sole sane member of their respective families, what better way to ensure that...

  • Abducted at the Altar

    Charlene Sands

    Shane Graham had always looked out for his neighbor, Dorie, but lately he'd had his own share of problems, including an arranged marriage. But then little Miss Dorie--shotgun in hand--kidnapped him from his own wedding ceremony and he found he could ...

  • Head Over Heels

    Gail Sattler

    FALLING OUT A WINDOW...INTO LOVE It was certainly not the way Marielle expected to meet a man--any man--but when she visited the gentleman she'd helped save from an accidental plunge, she was intrigued...but only until Russ's workaholic nature made ...

  • Playing With Fire

    Gena Showalter

    Earth, Wind & Fire aren't just a band anymore... Used to be my greatest achievement was holding a job more than three days. Now suddenly I can shoot fireballs, chill your drink or blow-dry your hair at fifty paces with a blink of my eye! It all...

  • Expecting His Brother's Baby

    Karen Rose Smith

    Old and forbidden desires began to reemerge when Brock Warner returned to Wyoming to help Kylie run his family's ranch. He hadn't pursued her years ago because she'd been too young and achingly innocent--and then his brother had claimed Kylie for his...

  • Weapon of Seduction

    Maureen Smith

    Will Love Come Too Late? It's a good thing FBI agent Korrine Friday didn't arrest that nosy stranger who appeared at the crime scene she was processing, because (A) he's Rafe Santiago, her new supervisor at the field office in San Antonio, and (B) ...

  • Capucine, Home to My Heart

    Janet Spaeth
    in

    Historical Romance: Four generations return to a cabin in Cajun country to discover their family's secrets of love and redemption. After Capucine Louet is exiled from Nova Scotia and heads for Bayou Teche, she's given a journal while passing through ...

  • Too Close To Home

    Maureen Tan

    BLOOD WILL TELL. BUT WHAT WILL IT SAY? Brooke Tyler knows a thing or two about secrets. Growing up, she'd sworn to keep certain skeletons in the family closet. But her silence came at a heavy price, not the least of which was giving up the love o...

  • Dark Revelations

    Lorna Tedder

    "HE WILL KILL YOU BEFORE HE EVER LETS YOU GO." She'd become an obsession to the patriarch of the deadly and powerful Adriano family--but not for the reasons she'd thought. For Aubrey de Lune, aka antiquities thief Dr. Ginny Moon, had ties to a leg...

  • The Panther & the Pyramid

    Bonnie Vanak

    Graham Tristan has been tormented too long. He is physically strong: during his childhood exile, he rode with the Khamsin--Egyptian Warriors of the Wind. He has learned their code, is called The Panther. Now he has returned to his rightful place as t...

  • Small-Town Secrets

    Margaret Watson

    Gabe Townsend has a lot of nerve to show up after seven years and book in to her B and B. It hadn't been easy for Kendall Van Allen to move on after her husband was killed. But she'd persevered, picking up the pieces, running a successful business an...

  • A Clandestine Affair

    Joanna Wayne

    A CASE GONE COLD...AND AN UNEXPECTED ROMANCE HEATING UP Jaci Matlock went to Cape Diablo to solve the thirty-year-old Santiago murders. And though the remote island had a haunting reputation, the forensics novice was determined to expose the reali...

  • Marriage Of Revenge

    Sheri Whitefeather

    THE PROPOSAL PRICE He'd married another woman and destroyed her heart. Talia Gibson never believed she'd forgive Aaron Trueno his devastating deception. Then the newly eligible millionaire asked her to finally be his wife. The reasons not to ma...

  • Knight Tenebrae

    Julianne Lee

    When British reporter Lindsay Palowski and American pilot Alex MacNeil are transported back in time to Scotland during the rule of Robert the Bruce, they soon discover, while acclimating themselves to their dangerous new surroundings, that something ...

  • Darkvision

    Bruce R. Cordell
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Exile of the Hidden City. Adept of forgotten mysteries. Sorceress of the Celestial Nadir. Haunted by nightmares and driven by desire, Ususi defied the will of her people and ran away, venturing alone into the outside world her people abandon...

  • Poison to Purge Melancholy

    Elena Santangelo

    Pat Montello would never spend Christmas away from her huge clan if she didn't think her boyfriend Hugh Lee was "Mr. Right." A weekend in Williamsburg, Virginia, with Hugh's family should be fun, right? Beset with inexplicable aches, anxiety attacks,...

  • Only a Duke Will Do

    Sabrina Jeffries

    "You can't avoid him forever, Louisa. Just tell him you're not interested, and put an end to it." -- Mrs. Charlotte Harris, headmistress Marry? Never! It would end Louisa North's work with her ladies reform group -- and truth be told, she likes...

  • Touch a Dark Wolf

    Jennifer St. Giles

    Jennifer St. Giles begins a dazzling new series that takes you into a world of seductive shape shifters and mystical beings, and into the hearts of a band of heroic warriors known as The Shadowmen.... Yesterday, Erin Morgan worked for a pioneering...

  • Finding Satan

    Andrew Neiderman

    ONLY THE GIFTED CAN SEE IT. In upstate New York, Christopher Drew is leading a remarkable team of psychics in a groundbreaking union of science and psychokinesis. It's the ability to track manifestations of pure evil -- black clouds of doom th...

  • Old Friends

    Steven Hanna

    A terrorist cell based in China called Dark Cloud has devised a plan to release a deadly poison on entire nations using rocket technology. In true six degrees-of-separation style, Agent Sydney Bristow's friend from graduate school, Keiko Terajima, ha...

  • Provenance of Shadows

    David R. George III

    IN A SINGLE MOMENT . . . the lives of three men will be forever changed. In that split second, defined paradoxically by both salvation and loss, they will destroy the world and then restore it. Much had come before, and much would come after, but not...

  • A Love So Tender

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    All her life, Aimee longed to secure Greg's affections. When she finally admits failure, Aimee flees to the sanctuary of her aunt and uncle's orphanage and finds Georgie - or rather, the motherless baby finds her. The 1870s lend little assistance to ...

  • Romanian Rhapsody

    Darlene Franklin

    Haunted by the orphans she met in Romania, Carrie Randolph returns to work in an orphanage. Soon she finds herself mothering five toddlers full-time and dreaming of adopting one of them when her two-year mission is finished. Steve Romero's wife and s...

  • The 4th of July

    Joyce Livingston

    When Treva Jordan inherits her beloved aunt's house in Bristol, Rhode Island, it becomes her summer project. Treva plans to sell the place, but when a fire erupts the first night, followed by other mysterious incidents, she wonders if someone is tryi...

  • Lies of Light

    Philip Athans
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    The Wizard Furthering the plots of the Red Wizards of Thay while spinning his own webs, he works in the shadows, manipulating the highest reaches of power. The Woman Tormented by the ghosts of the past and her own passions, she walks the fine li...

  • Blood and Honor

    Graeme Davis
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Karrnath, born in war . . . The daughter of a noble family has gone missing. A proud and ancient house has fallen to ruin. Even the dead are disappearing. An a disgraced exile may be the only one who can save them....

  • Love & Justice

    Zane Rique Johnson

    His history of unstable relationships coming to a head in the wake of a naive girlfriend and a possessive ex-wife, detective Jason Jerrard faces a particularly challenging case involving a serial murderer and rapist who enjoys taunting him. A first n...

  • Dirty Little Lies

    Julie Elizabeth Leto / Julie Leto

    Sultry Latina bounty hunter Marisela Morales is back, taking on the Boston elite -- and her gorgeous ex -- in a red-hot, roller-coaster adventure from USA Today bestselling author Julie Leto. Three months into her training for Titan International ...

  • Kill All The Lawyers

    Paul Levine

    They're the legal world's oddest couple--a shorts-and-sandals beach bum and a Coral Gables blue blood. Maybe the only thing keeping them from killing each other is that they're on the same side.... It starts with a 300-pound marlin stuck in his fr...

  • Time Spiral

    Scott McGough
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Time is Running Out! The planeswalker Teferi at last returns to his home plane only to find it devastated and barren. Time itself is fracturing, and it's up to Teferi and his companions to find a way to halt the collapse.It won't be easy when his ...

  • Devil's Pitchfork

    Mark Terry

    What would happen if terrorists got their hands on a virus -- a terrifying mix of Ebola, hepatitis, and bubonic plague -- with the potential to wipe out humanity? This is the crisis that Derek Stillwater faces as troubleshooter for the U.S. Departmen...

  • A Reason to Live

    Maureen McKade

    How could I refuse the wish of a dying man? May 30, 1865: During the War, I watched over too many young boys in the hospital, comforting them as they cried out for those they loved, as they whispered their final thoughts to me. Keepng a record of...

  • Hell On Wheels

    Peter Brandvold

    BEN STILLMAN’S WILD RIDE!When Sheriff Ben Stillman accompanies Judge John Bannon and friends to a wedding in Sulfur, Montana Territory, he aims to have a nice long weekend of rest and respite from law dogging. But Angus Whateley has other plans...

  • Wreath of Deception

    Mary Ellen Hughes

    Recently widowed, Jo McAllister is setting up shop in Abbotsville, Maryland. She hopes Jo's Craft Corner will take her mind off her troubles. But no town is too small for secrets, scandal--even murder... It's opening day at Jo's Craft Corner, and ...

  • Fantasy Gone Wrong

    Martin H. Greenberg

    BRIAN STABLEFORD * MICKEY ZUCKER REICHERT * FIONA PATTON * JIM C. HINES ESTHER M. FRIESNER * DONALD J. BINGLE * ALAN DEAN FOSTER * DEVON MONK PHAEDRA M. WELDON * CHRISTINA F. YORK * JANA PANICCIA * JOSEPHA SHERMAN SUSAN SIZEMORE * MICHAEL JASPER N...

  • Dangerous Cargo

    J.R. Roberts

    A PRECIOUS PACKAGE After a messy poker game, the Gunsmith wins a heap of trouble when he's coerced into helping Jake McKean, a courier and an unbearable braggart, transport a package on a dangerous run to Hendricks, Nevada. But Jake's been lying thro...

  • Longarm and the Deadly Lover

    Tabor Evans

    Love hurts…Out west, where it’s hard to tell the lawmen from the owlhoots, there are usually more than just two sides to a story. Take the attempted murder of Robert Muldoon, Chief of the Denver Police. Custis Long figures the perpetrator must ha...

  • Morrigan's Cross

    Nora Roberts

    Number-one New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts delivers an extraordinary new trilogy--an epic tale that breaks down the boundaries between reality and the otherworldly, while forging together the passions of the men and women caught in a b...

  • Alone on the Darkside

    John Pelan

    Preying on the darkest fears of its readers, this fifth installment in the acclaimed horror series features contributions from such modern horror masters as Brian Hodge, David Riley, Robert N. Lee, Mark Samuels, and Eddy C. Bertin. Original....

  • Firestorm

    Rachel Caine

    THE GENIE IS OUT OF THE BOTTLE. Rogue Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin is racing to New York to warn her former colleagues of the impending apocalypse. An ancient agreement between the Djinn and the Wardens has been broken, and the furious Djinn, slav...

  • Dakota Danger

    Jon Sharpe

    The Trailsman in trouble? Forget about it! Rescuing a damsel in distress is nothing new to Skye Fargo-but Amy Fenton is no average damsel. She's just inherited her father's businesses. And in Dakota Territory, no one holds on to anything unless t...

  • True Blood

    Patricia Waddell

    She's a diplomat... Danna MacFadyen of the League of Planets is assigned to investigate the explosion of a space freighter. She must use her psychometric skills to determine whether this was an accident or terrorism -- but for Danna, the hardest par...

  • Dead Man Rising

    Lilith Saintcrow

    WHEN THE DEAD CALL, SHE ANSWERS Bounty hunting is a helluva job, but it pays the bills. And it lets Necromance Dante Valentine forget her issues--like struggling with her half-demon side and the memory of her lover's death. -- Now psychics all ove...

  • Make Me a Match

    Diana Holquist

    Cecilia Burns's To-Do List: 1. Pick out wedding dress and ignore psychic sister who says I'm marrying the wrong guy. 2. Really ignore her when she says the right guy is some stranger named Finn Concord, who's dying, and this is my last chance t...

  • Sweeter Than Wine

    Cathy Yardley
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    Hedonistic playboy Chad McFee was ready to sell the winery he inherited, until winemaker Leila Fairmont hands him a challenge he can't resist. And he'll show her--as soon as his muscles stop aching....

  • Ice Cream Kisses

    Stephanie Doyle
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    Ice-cream-shop owner Gracie McMullen lives for Labor Day. Goodbye tourists, hello winter! But writer and city-boy Dean Wright is about to add an entirely new flavor to Gracie's off-season....

  • Deception

    Randy C. Alcorn

    Who Done It...and Why? Ollie Chandler is a brilliant and quick-witted homicide detective who lives by Ollie's First Law: "Things are not what they appear." So when a university professor is found murdered and the motive looks like revenge, a stun...

  • Billy Boyle

    James R. Benn

    What’s a twenty-two-year-old Irish American cop who’s never been out of Massachusetts before doing at Beardsley Hall, an English country house, having lunch with King Haakon of Norway? Billy Boyle himself wonders. Back home in Southie, he’d bar...

  • Chow Down

    Laurien Berenson

    If Melanie Travis was planning on a quiet family summer with her Standard Poodle Faith, son Davey, and new husband Sam, her plans are about to turn upside down. An unexpected competition, a trip to New York, and--oh yes, a murder--later, Melanie find...

  • Under Orders

    Dick Francis

    Former Champion Jockey Sid Halley knows the perils of racing all too well--but in his day, jockeys didn't usually cross the finishing line with three .38 rounds in the chest. And this is precisely how he finds jockey Huw Walker-- who had won the cove...

  • The Afghan

    Frederick Forsyth

    Combining meticulous research with crisp narratives and plots as current as the headlines, Forsyth shows us the world as it is in a way that few have ever been able to equal. And the world as it is today is a very scary place. When British an...

  • The Tarnished Chalice

    Susanna Gregory

    1356. On a bitter winter evening, Matthew Bartholomew and Brother Michael arrive in Lincoln--Michael to accept an honor from the cathedral, and Bartholomew to look for the woman he wants to wed. It is not long before they learn that the friary in whi...

  • Renfield

    Barbara Hambly

    An imaginative novel that puts a fresh and frightening new spin on Bram Stoker's Dracula. The servant Renfield was the most enigmatic character to stalk in the shadows of Dracula. Now he takes center stage in an ingenious re-imagining of Bram Sto...

  • Some Nerve

    Jane Heller

    Celebrity journalist Ann Roth has one last chance to prove herself. Unlike her colleagues at Famous--the L.A. magazine--Ann doesn't pick through people's garbage and would never pervert the truth. But her editor thinks she's too nice--and unless s...

  • Last Shot

    Gregg Hurwitz

    Dishonored Recon Marine Walker Jameson has pulled off an inconceivable escape from California's Terminal Island Penitentiary -- leaving behind a cup of mouthwash, a strand of dental floss tied to one cell bar ... and the dead body of a sadistic kille...

  • The One from the Other

    Philip Kerr

    Germany, 1949: Amid the chaos of defeat, it's a place of dirty deals, rampant greed, fleeing Nazis, and all the intrigue and deceit readers have come to expect from this immensely talented thriller writer. In The One from the Other, Hitler's legacy l...

  • Welcome To The Real World

    Carole Matthews

    Scraping by for years on pub gigs and odd jobs, Fern Kendal has always suspected she might actually have a decent voice. But caring for her feuding parents and sickly nephew took all her energy--until now. During one crazy week, she lands a spot on t...

  • Fool Me Once

    Fern Michaels

    Olivia Lowell always believed her father's claim that her mother died in childbirth, until the shocking day a lawyer informs her that her mother has just passed away, leaving her a fortune. The money comes with a caveat--and a confession. In her will...

  • God Don't Play

    Mary Monroe

    With a handsome husband, a beautiful daughter, and a lovely house to come home to every night, it looks like forty-five-year-old Annette Goode finally has it all. And heaven knows she paid her dues to get it--from a childhood filled with abuse to a r...

  • Cruel Music

    Beverle Graves Myers

    Tito Amato returns from an operatic tour expecting to relax with his family. Instead he finds his merchant brother Alessandro imprisoned on a trumped-up smuggling charge, a capital crime in 1740 Venice. The senator who controls Alessandro's fate is d...

  • Cattery Row

    Clea Simon

    Look what the cat dragged in Freelance Boston journalist Theda Krakow, suffering from both money and man troubles, welcomes a cheesy but paying assignment to spotlight prominent women in the area. She's happy to be able to include a couple of her fr...

  • Arizona Dreams

    Jon Talton

    When a former student turns up in David Mapstone's office, she seems to have the perfect case for this history-professor-turned-deputy: a letter left by her deceased father, confessing to a forty-year-old murder and providing directions to the body. ...

  • The Testament

    Eric Van Lustbader / Eric Lustbader

    The new international thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bourne LegacyBraverman Shaw-"Bravo" to his friends-always knew his father had secrets. But not until Dexter Shaw dies in a mysterious explosion does Bravo discover the e...

  • Why We Die

    Mick Herron

    When Tim Whitby checks into a hotel, he's not intending to check out again -- but then he meets Katrina Blake, a woman in need of rescue. When Arkle, Baxter and Trent inherit the family business, they're not planning on making a go of it -- there are...

  • Girl in a Box

    Sujata Massey

    It's taken me almost a whole lifetime to become a decent liar. award-winning author Sujata Massey is back with a delicious blend of mystery and contemporary women's fiction, and in Girl in a Box, Japanese-American sleuth Rei Shimura is on her mos...

  • Rifkind's Challenge

    Lynn Abbey

    In a desert world ruled by men, Rifkind has always been one apart. A chieftains daughter, she learned to wield a sword while all other women were bound by tribal custom to children and the cooking fire. But when her clan was massacred, she set forth ...

  • The White Tower

    Dorothy Johnston

    A mild young mans addiction to a role-playing internet game has led to his death. Disturbingly, his suicide is a bizarre echo of his chilling execution in the game; his only note a digital mirror image of his own death. But where do blame and respons...

  • One Man and His Bomb

    H.R.F. Keating

    Detective Superintendent Harriet Martens takes great pride in her twin sons, who decided to follow in her footsteps by joining the police force in London. She is devastated one night when she learns that one of her sons has been killed by a terrorist...

  • The Prudence of Flesh

    Ralph M. McInerny

    Gregory Barret, a classmate of Father Dowling, left the priesthood twenty-five years ago. Now, after all these years, a woman brings a multi-million dollar suit against him alleging he sexually exploited her as a child. Barret is considering a counte...

  • The Oxygen Murder

    Camille Minichino

    New York City welcomes Gloria Lamerino and her husband, homicide detective Matt Gennaro, in this eighth installment of the Periodic Table Mystery series. In The Oxygen Murder, Gloria and her best friends Rose and Frank Galigani are on vacation. They ...

  • Liberation Movements

    Olen Steinhauer

    The year is 1975, and one of the Peoples Militia homicide investigators is on a plane out of the capital, bound for Istanbul. The plane is hijacked by Armenian terrorists, but before the Turkish authorities can fulfill their demands, the plane explod...

  • The Grays

    Whitley Strieber

    Millions of people are confronting aliens that authorities say do not exist. Whitley Strieber -- author of the legendary, #1 bestseller Communion, which detailed his own close encounters -- now returns to the riddle of aliens with The Grays. Drawing ...

  • Winter's Child

    Margaret Maron

    Its one month after their wedding, and the future looks bright for Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff Deputy Dwight Bryantuntil a disturbing call from Dwights 8-year-old son Cal calls him back to Virginia. When he arrives, he is shocked to find that his...

  • Glass Tiger

    Joe Gores

    Brendan Thorne, ex-Ranger, ex-sniper for the CIA, has foresworn violence when his presence is demanded at a top-secret meeting. Halden Corwin, legendary Vietnam sniper and mercenary, has vowed to assassinate the recently elected president of the Unit...

  • Puccini's Ghosts

    Morag Joss

    CWA Silver Dagger Award winner Morag Joss peers into the soul of a wounded family in this haunting, harrowing masterpiece of psychological suspense. With equal parts subtlety and menace, Joss takes us on a dizzying journey toward a collision between ...

  • Damnation Street

    Andrew Klavan

    They are two sworn enemies with a single obsession: a woman on the run from them both. Scott Weiss is a private detective. John Foy is a profes­sional killer. The woman is Julie Wyant, a hooker with the face of an angel. Julie spent one nigh...

  • The Alibi Club

    Francine Mathews

    It's the city's most infamous after-hours haunt--a glittering hotbed of deals and debaucheries. The sordid death of Philip Stilwell sends shock waves through the Alibi Club...for there's much more to Stilwell's untimely end than a sex game gone wrong...

  • Endymion Spring

    Matthew Skelton

    "You've stumbled on to something much larger than you can possibly imagine." In the dead of night, a cloaked figure drags a heavy box through snow-covered streets. The chest, covered in images of mythical beasts, can only be opened when the fangs ...

  • The Boy With Perfect Hands

    Sheldon Rusch

    Special Agent Elizabeth Hewitt returns, called upon to investigate a parallel series of bizarre slayings with a strange link -- the haunting nocturnes of one of the world’s greatest composers. They seem to be stirring a madman with his own visions ...

  • Hounding The Moon

    P.R. Frost

    Tess Noncoire was a best-selling fantasy writer--and a demon fighter, trained by the Sisterhood of the Celestial Blade Warriors to fend off demons seeking entrance to our world. But when she bonded with an imp as all Sisters did, she found herself pa...

  • Dragon Fire

    William S. Cohen

    William S. Cohen, former Secretary of Defense, US Senator and Congressman, has walked the most powerful corridors in the world. Now, in Dragon Fire, he takes us with him into the top-secret rooms where the fate of the world is held in the hearts and ...

  • Harbingers

    F. Paul Wilson

    It starts off so simply: Jack is hanging out in Julio's bar when a regular named Timmy asks him for help. His teenage niece has been missing since this morning; the police say it's too early to worry, but Timmy knows something bad has happened. Jack ...

  • Mad Dogs

    James Grady

    James Grady revolutionized the political thriller with his first novel, Six Days of the Condor. Now Grady breaks fresh thriller territory with Mad Dogs, a brilliant novel launched from a totally original creation: the CIA's secret insane asylum for "...

  • The Devil To Pay

    Harold Robbins; Junius Podrug

    Nash Novak, a struggling Seattle businesswoman who has been framed for arson and murder, is in desperate need of money for her defense. The only way for her to get it: A coffee plantation she has inherited. But there's a catch: She has to run the pla...

  • The Interpretation of Murder

    Jed Rubenfeld

    In this ingenious, suspenseful historical thriller, Sigmund Freud is drawn into the mind of a sadistic killer who is savagely attacking Manhattan's wealthiest heiresses Inspired by Sigmund Freud's only visit to America, The Interpretation of Murd...

  • The Devil's Feather

    Minette Walters

    In 2002, five women are discovered barbarously murdered in Sierra Leone. Reuters Africa correspondent Connie Burns suspects a British mercenary: a man who seems to turn up in every war-torn corner of Africa, whose reputation for violence and brutalit...

  • A Stolen Season

    Steve Hamilton

    On a cold, miserable night in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a night that wouldn't feel so unusual if it wasn't the Fourth of July, an antique wooden boat runs full-speed into a line of old railroad pilings in the shallow waters of Waishkey Bay. When Al...

  • Borderline

    Mark Schorr

    Psychologist Brian Hanson, a Vietnam Vet and recovering alcoholic, is crushed by the death of one of his clients. He's sure it's not suicide. When he investigates, he discovers that a string of suspected criminals have been murdered without explanati...

  • Missing Member

    Jo-Ann Power

    Few Americans remember these days that politics can be funny. But Texas congresswoman Carly Wagner knows this firsthand. She won her first election delivering one-liners about her opponent that made people chuckle so hard they voted her into his ...

  • Out Cold

    William G. Tapply

    Brady Coyne is a Boston attorney, whose routine legal work and sedate lifestyle usually keep him far away from trouble. Unfortunately, one cold January morning, trouble comes to him. When Brady lets his dog out into the backyard of his Back Bay brown...

  • Still as Death

    Sarah Stewart Taylor

    AN ANCIENT RELIC HOLDS THE KEY... Art history professor Sweeney St. George is preparing an exhibit on her specialty, "the art of death," for the university museum when she makes an unusual discovery: A valuable piece of Egyptian funerary jewelry in ...

  • Stone Butterfly

    James D. Doss

    Daisy Perika is no stranger to eerie dreams, but when she has a nightmare, lives could be at stake. Convinced that her visions of a wisp-thin girl with blood dripping from her hands are omens, the old woman calls on her nephew, Charlie Moon. A pa...

  • The Shadow Catchers

    Thomas Lakeman

    FBI Special Agent Mike Yeager is in trouble. His most recent case---a child kidnapping, his usual---ended tragically, and the FBI has suspended him. Worse, Mike can't seem to forgive himself. He's run away from everything he knows in Philadelphia to ...

  • Unseen

    Mari Jungstedt

    The island of Gotland is in the middle of a busy tourist season and getting ready for Midsummer, the 4th of July of Swedish holidays, when a young woman and her dog are found brutally murdered. The dog has been beheaded and is missing a paw; the woma...

  • Dream Wheels

    Richard Wagamese

    Rodeo cowboy Joe Willie Wolfchild, riding an explosive bull called See Four and moments away from becoming World Champion, suffers a devastating accident. His parents and grandparents use all their native wisdom to ease him out of his subsequent bitt...

  • The Harrowing

    Alexandra Sokoloff

    Baird College's Mendenhall echoes with the footsteps of the last home-bound students heading off for Thanksgiving break, and Robin Stone swears she can feel the creepy, hundred-year-old residence hall breathe a sigh of relief for its long-awaited sol...

  • Event

    David Lynn Golemon

    CAN THE WORK OF A FEW GOOD MEN MANAGE TO SAVE THE FATE OF AN ENTIRE WORLD? The Event Group is the most secret organization in the United States, comprised of the nation's most brilliant individuals in the branches of science, philosophy, and the m...

  • Roman Dusk

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Rome is crumbling. The child-emperor, Heliogabalus, diverts the Roman populace with parties, circuses, and celebrations, while his mother and grandmother jockey for power behind the scenes. The government is riddled with scandal and no business is co...

  • Sorcery in Shad

    Brian Lumley

    Pity the poor lamia! Mighty Orbiquita, she who damned to death countless men for merely looking at her, she who slew with impunity any who dared breach the walls of her fabled castle . . . Orbiquita has fallen in love--and with a barbarian Hrossak! ...

  • The Disunited States of America

    Harry Turtledove

    Time travel doesn't work. You can't go backward or forward; you're stuck at "now". What you can do is travel sideways, to the same "now" in another timeline where history turned out differently. So far, only our home timeline has figured out how to d...

  • The Finest Challenge

    Jean Rabe

    They were the Finest Creations--mystically forged creatures of perfection sent by the creators to aid the Fallen (mankind) during their mortal existence. Though they resemble ordinary horses they are highly intelligent, capable of communicating telep...

  • Warrior

    Jennifer Fallon

    IT IS EIGHT YEARS SINCE MARLA WOLFBLADE buried her second husband. In that time, she has become the power behind Hythria's throne -- as much from a desire to control her own destiny in any way she can, as to protect her son, young Damin. But while ...

  • The Garden of Eden and Other Criminal Delights

    Faye Kellerman

    Among the first-rate mysteries in this collection, "Garden of Eden" and "Open House" feature the famous sleuthing duo Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus. "Bull's-Eye" introduced Cindy Decker to the world, and "Mr. Barton's Head Case" appears here translat...

  • Hidden Truths

    Christopher L. Bennett

  • River's Edge

    Marie Bostwick

    One extraordinary woman will come of age -- and come into her own -- in this haunting, elegiac portrait of an ever-changing America during the tumult and uncertainty of World War II. After the death of her mother, Elise Braun is sent to live with a ...

  • Count On This

    Niobia Bryant

    In a sequel to the ever-popular CAN'T GET NEXT TO YOU, wild and adventurous April Dutton flies off to Las Vegas for a weekend of fun and games, and is swept off her feet by the dashing and handsome Alexander "Lex" Macmillan. Caught up in a whirlwind ...

  • Divine By Mistake

    P.C. Cast

    GOING...GOING...GONE! The most excitement teacher Shannon Parker expected on her summer vacation was a little shopping. But then her latest purchase--a vase with the Celtic goddess Epona on it--somehow switches her into the world of Partholon, whe...

  • London Under Midnight

    Simon Clark

    The graffiti spread through London that summer like wildfire. Its population carried on with life as usual in one of the richest cities on the planet. But beneath the surface there is change. Men and women are going missing without trace. What has th...

  • Monday Morning Faith

    Lori Copeland

    Dear Mom and Pop, Two days ago we all spent the afternoon in palm trees. One of the village dogs broke his leash and treed the whole community. The dog is mean, but I have managed to form a cautious relationship with him by feeding him scraps from ou...