Books Published in February 2006

• Feb-2006
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Grandmothers know best...especially these three grandmothers, all soldiers' brides. Their generation lived through war and peace, good times and bad, love and loss. All her life, Ruth Shelton has loved visiting her grandmother in Cedar Cove, Washi...

• Mar-2006
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A DEVIL'S BARGAIN Easily the shyest Wallflower, Evangeline Jenner stands to become the wealthiest, once her inheritance comes due. Because she must first escape the clutches of her unscrupulous relatives, Evie has approached the rake Viscount ...

• Feb-2006
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She's innocent -- he wants her! Eve Robertson lives a quiet life in a secluded village, and she wants to put her turbulent past behind her. However, her newfound stability is threatened with the arrival of Jake Romero.... Jake is tall, da...

• Feb-2006
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Menu Appetizer Cal Buchanan needs a top-flight chef to take over his failing Seattle restaurant, The Waterfront. He can afford to hire the best in town -- the only problem is that the best happens to be his ex-wife, Penny Jackson. Entree Penn...

• Mar-2006
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The house was magnificent, built in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he adored. For her and for this house, he would spare no expense, from the marble floors to the glittering chandeliers. Almost a century later, a young woman walks through its em...

• Feb-2006
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A SCANDALOUS UNION From the moment she met Tag Elliott, Renee Williams thought of nothing but how his lips would feel on hers. That and darkened bedrooms and whispered promises. But as a member of Manhattan's wealthiest family, Tag was way out of ...

• Feb-2006
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When it comes to love, he plays to win There's only so much frustration a guy can handle before he gets a little nutty. For Jude Jamison, his frustration has a name--May Price. She's everything the former Hollywood bad boy actor came to Stillbrook, ...

• Feb-2006
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The perfect union of wealth and beauty... Gianna and Franco Giancarlo had gone into their convenient society marriage with their eyes wide open. They acted the happy couple to create an alliance between their powerful, wealthy families -- and dispel...

• Feb-2006
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Will she succumb to the sheikh? Who dares trespass on Sheikh Zageo's palace on the exotic island of Zanzibar? Zageo demands that the intruder be brought before him! Emily Ross is appalled to find she's the sheikh's prisoner. To prov...

• Feb-2006
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MURDER IN MONTANA After Hudson Savage betrayed her, Dana Cardwell hoped never to lay eyes on the seductive cowboy again. Until a bunch of old bones showed up on her family ranch. Suddenly her former lover was back in her life in a big way -- to in...

• Feb-2006
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Dear Diary: The first face I saw after hitting my head on my brother's boat was that of a gorgeous stranger...a stranger that everyone said was my husband. Taylor Conway is the type of man that no one forgets, so I thought it was my brothers&#...

• Mar-2006
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Who let the dogs out? Evildoers beware! Four of mystery fiction's top storytellers are setting the hounds on your trail -- in an incomparable quartet of crime stories with a canine edge. Man's (and woman's) best friends take the lead in this pheno...

• Feb-2006
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They're cute... they're cuddly... they're on the case. We all know that the most innocent-looking pets can commit a lot of unexpected mischief. But they can also have a talent for sniffing out two-legged troublemakers of a more dangerous kind. ...

• Feb-2006
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A mysterious portrait, an unexpected commission, a disappearance in the Outback. She might not know it, but these three things bring Jessica Tennant to Mokhani Station and the notice of cattleman Cyrus Bannerman. What Cy wants to know is if there&...

• Feb-2006
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A DREAM OF DYING In the Highlands village of Lochdubh, every season has its special flavor. Lanky, red-haired constable Hamish Macbeth relishes them all, but spring is the grandest. Now the winter storms have blown out to sea, the loch is smooth as ...

• Feb-2006
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NEEDED: A FAMILY TO CARE FOR... Lush flower-filled meadows dwarfed by towering snowcapped mountains -- the majestic beauty of Yellowstone is the perfect place for Gilly Bryson King. She needs some peace and serenity after a tough few years.... ...

• Feb-2006
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She rejected him once... Italian millionaire Angelo Falcone always got his way. But when he suggested to stunning model Francesca Hayley that they make their affair permanent, she turned him down--for reasons she couldn't tell Angelo.... No...

• Mar-2006
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Cameron Knight is a fearless troubleshooter on a mission in the desert kingdom of Baslaam.... Leanna DeMarco is a ballerina; she's been abducted to dance for the sultan of Baslaam.... When the sultan offers Leanna to Cam, he sees a way to esca...

• Feb-2006
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She was the little rich girl, he was the poor housekeeper's son, and their innocent affair was cruelly crushed. But now Kane Kaproulias has Bryony Mercer in the palm of his hand... She's been bought with cold, hard cash... Kane will take her and h...

• Mar-2006
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Her worst nightmare brought back to life, she risks everything for a second shot at justice. For thirty years, FBI scientist Olivia St. Martin has lived with guilt and one abiding certainty�"that while she wasn't able to save her sister's life, s...

• Feb-2006
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TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA For sweet Jessie Filson the wild and woolly Western town seemed the end of the line. First orphaned and then widowed, she had no one to turn to except a distant cousin who had made a fortune in silver there. But when outlaws att...

• Feb-2006
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An idyllic cottage. An unlikely suicide. A conspiracy out to blow the lid off the Department of Justice. Three months ago Quinn Harlowe left the high-pressure hallways of the Justice Department to become an independent consultant and have more con...

• Feb-2006
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When you dance with the devil, you hold hands with temptation... Christian Montcalm was a practical man, if a destitute scoundrel, but his plan to bed and wed the delectable Miss Hetty Chipple would take care of that sticky wicket. However, there ...

• Feb-2006
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"I KNOW THE FAMILY SECRET." Amanda Griffin is on the run. Eight years ago she disappeared after witnessing a terrible crime. Now her family thinks she's dead, but she's back in town ... desperate to find a way to protect the ones she loves. "PAY ...

• Feb-2006
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All Atlantis seeks the Jewel of Dunamis, which legend claims can overcome any enemy. Grayson James, human agent of the ultra-secret Otherworld Bureau of Investigation has orders to keep it from the wrong hands -- or destroy it. What he doesn't know i...

• Feb-2006
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A young mother is recuperating in a San Francisco hospital when she is suddenly gasping for breath. The call button fails to bring help in time. The hospital's doctors, some of the best in the nation, are completely mystified by her death. How did th...

• Feb-2006
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"I DID NOT KILL ANYONE, FRANCESCA. AND THE FACT THAT YOU WICH TO DESTROY EVIDENCE SUGGESTS YOU THINK ME CAPABLE OF MURDER." NEW YORK, 1902 Called to the home of her fiance Calder Hart's former mistress late one night, amateur sleuth Francesca ...

• Feb-2006
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Oh, those naughty rakes. With their wicked winks, sensual smiles, and bad boy habits, you just can't take them out in polite society. But who wants to go out when you can stay in...? Stolen Pleasures Sebastian Blake, Earl of Merrick, long ago fl...

• Feb-2006
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Captured! By a bundle of baby. But Dwight Powers couldn't turn his back on the baby abandoned in his office -- or the boy's beautiful guardian, Maddie McCallister. Maddie was desperate to find Tyler's missing mother and Dwight was her designated h...

• Feb-2006
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Fashion model Eve Dupree is fed up with being labeled “the pretty one” while her sister's called a genius. Eve's got loads of brilliant ideas, not the least of which is the invention she's building in her garage. But when she turns to the nerd ne...

• Mar-2006
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Just ask Reeves! Dying without legitimate issue, the late Earl of Rochester sent his butler extraordinaire, Reeves, to find his wild, illegitimate children and "civilize" them. Reeves must seek out the first of the earl's arrogant sons, Captain T...

• Feb-2006
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Leonie Baxter rejected Vidal Parella Dos Santos's first proposal because of his arrogance, his womanizing -- and his powerful sexuality, which left her trembling. Now the Portuguese billionaire is back in her life -- and this time he has a ho...

• Mar-2006
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She arrives at his home without warning or invitation, determined to win him to her campaign to reform women's rights. Instead, Charlotte, the widowed Baroness Mardenford, ends up being nearly seduced by Nathaniel Knightridge. No woman is safe from t...

• Feb-2006
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December 25: A bomb rips through a packed cathedral in Jakarta. As the hours pass, terrorist explosions continue around the globe, triggering worldwide panic and creating a nightmare beyond words.... Inside the covert agency known only as Office 1...

• Feb-2006
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PAYING THE PRICE After ten years Shelby Paxton had returned to Vegas. But unlike the last time -- when she was paid one million dollars to jilt casino owner Hayden MacKenzie at the altar -- she was now being blackmailed into giving him closure. Sh...

• Feb-2006
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Dangerous sex, family secrets, irresistible power, mega money and two murders equal one reckless week in New York. Lovers and Players takes you on a high-powered trip from Park Avenue to Brooklyn. Jackie Collins is back--in her most deliciously sc...

• Feb-2006
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Had betrayal come from within? Working in war zones while treating the sick and wounded, Dr. Calista St. James was used to being under siege. But now, her team had been deliberately infected with a dangerous virus -- and all signs pointed to it be...

• Mar-2006
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Late one cool Scottish night, Aliss is called to the bedside of an ailing cleric. Suddenly, her hands are tied and she is slung over a shoulder, kidnapped by Rogan of the Wolf clan! Aliss's skill as a healer is legendary, and Rogan needs her t...

• Mar-2006
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SHE SURVIVED HER OWN INNOCENCE, AND THE TREACHERY OF EUROPE'S ROYAL COURTS Greed, lust for power, sex, lies, secret marriages, religious posturing, adultery, beheadings, international intrigue, jealousy, treachery, love, loyalty, and betrayal. The...

• Feb-2006
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Sexy vampires, dangerous devotion, unparalleled romance--no one does desire after dark like bestselling author Amanda Ashley. Now, in her enthralling new novel, she explores a passion as smoldering as it is risky... Vicki Cavendish knows she should...

• Feb-2006
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A chilling blast from the past... Six years ago prosecutor Will Patton's girlfriend stormed out on him. That night she was brutally raped and murdered. The violent act knocked Will's world out from under him, alienating him from his family, who Wi...

• Feb-2006
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Onetime U.S. operative Cotton Malone teams up with his former supervisor, Stephanie Nelle, to find the legendary cache of wealth and forbidden knowledge thought to have been lost forever when the Knights Templar were exterminated in the fourteenth ce...

• Feb-2006
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Real/fake? Jade Ferraro is a cosmetic surgeon at an elite Beverly Hills clinic. But to Loukas Demakis she's a fraud. Revenge/pleasure? Loukas plans to seduce top secret information from Jade, and then discard her when he's done. Mon...

• Feb-2006
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A CONVENIENT MARRIAGE -- TO A PRINCE! Raoul needs a bride, fast, if he's to be Prince Regent of Alp d'Azuri. He'd rather carry on his work as a doctor with a medical aid agency, but his country's future is at stake -- and so is his nephew's life...

• Mar-2006
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When her DEA agent husband's plane went down, Zoey Witherspoon thought her life was over. But with two kids to care for, and another on the way, she moved back home to Sweetwater to be closer to friends and family. Two years later, her world was t...

• Feb-2006
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MAY THE BEST MAN WIN... For Julia Chance and Nick Rampling, chasing after her mother and his father was more than a search for eloping lovers; it was an exercise in frustration. Of all partners, how did a jet-setting millionaire get stuck with a p...

• Feb-2006
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SHE FOUND FAMILY... Adopted at birth, Marla is overwhelmed to discover she has a long-lost sister, but a tragic event means she has to keep her true identity a secret. One man stands in the way of her newfound happiness, sexy rancher Jake Craddock. ...

• Feb-2006
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An unsolved murder. A missing child. A lifetime of deception. In 1977, pregnant Genevieve Russell disappeared. Twenty years later, her remains are discovered and Timothy Gleason is charged with murder. But there is no sign of the unborn child. CeeC...

• Feb-2006
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TO: [email protected] FROM: [email protected] Boss, My reporter's nose smells a story brewing at the Double V Ranch. Word is that rancher Michael Vance has already lost several cows to a mystery ailment. This isn't the firs...

• Feb-2006
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With Beloved Impostor, a novel "wrought with emotion, tender in its telling, and heart-wrenching in its beauty" (The Best Reviews), bestselling author Patricia Potter launched a trilogy of three Scottish brothers bound by a dark destiny. Now, she ret...