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New Books List: 476 titles

  • Where There's Smoke...

    Laura Abbot

    Fighting fire with fire? Jeri Monahan is a volunteer firefighter in her Arkansas hometown -- and Dan Contini, former navy officer, is the town's new fire chief. Jeri's a natural risk taker -- and Dan's a protector, a man who's...

  • Denial

    Keith Ablow

    Frank Clevenger is a forensic psychiatrist who hates authority, fears intimacy, uses sex as an anesthetic, is tortured by his professional mistakes, and can't free himself from the shadows of a brutal, alcoholic father and an absent, unfeeling mother...

  • A Cat on a Beach Blanket

    Lydia Adamson

    While housesitting in the Hamptons, Alice Nestleton finds herself the primary suspect in the murder of Bea Verdi, a sensitive young poet, and she sets out to clear her name, with the help of some feline friends...

  • Substitute Bride

    Trisha Alexander

    "I now pronounce you husband and wife...." Rachel just couldn't tell David that her twin, Roxanne, had left him at the altar -- so she took her sister's place, with no one the wiser. Now Rachel was on a very unplanned honeymoon, wi...

  • Baseball Cat

    Garrison Allen

    Famous for its yearly Elizabethan Festival and annual Arabian Horseshoe, Empty Creek, Arizona, would truly be nowhere without a visit from a semi-professional baseball team. Barely out of the dugout, trying to break a hot losing streak, the Coyotes a...

  • Promise Me

    Margaret Allison

    Alexandra Webster is an accomplished reporter for The New York Times whose career--and life--has hit a slump. She jumps on a potentially explosive story when the socialite wife of business tycoon and former Olympic boxer Steve Chapman dies under myst...

  • Delusions of Grandeur

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born--a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia have grown strong with the Force, thwarting the evil Nolaa Tarkona and destroying the Emperor's plague. Now, with th...

  • Francesca

    Sylvia Andrew

    HER ONLY TEMPTATION! Francesca Shelwood is mortified when Marcus Carne reappears in her life -- he stole the most magical, illicit kisses from the young, innocent Francesca! And she swore never to forgive him after being punished for her "want...

  • The Andalite's Gift

    K.A. Applegate

    We can't tell you who we are. Or where we live. It's too risky, and we've got to be careful. Really careful. So we don't trust anyone. Because if they find us ... well, we just won't let them find us. The thing you should know is that everyone is...

  • A Darker Dream

    Amanda Ashley

    HEART OF DARKNESS In all his four hundred years, Rayven had never met a woman like Rhianna McLeod. She is a vision of light, or warmth, of everything he is not -- nor can ever be. Doomed to live forever in darkness and solitude, he knows all too ...

  • Stolen Train

    Robert Ashley

    Chosen to go on a assignment to penetrate the Confederacy during the Civil War, Johnnie, a young Union soldier, faces a life-threatening mission of spying, ripping up track, and tearing down telegraph wires. Original....

  • Summer Fancy

    Anne Avery

    She's plain... unforgettable... Anything but a typical female, Miss Sophronia Carter is as tall as a beanpole, fiercely independent, and the last woman in Rocky Ford, Colorado, to throw herself at a man. Tumbling down the church steps and landing ...

  • The Mars Arena

    James Axler

    Just after the second millennium began, a nuclear firestorm changed the face of the Earth forever. Roaming the devastated landscape of the new America, now known as Deathlands, is a small group of men and women who are trying desperately to escape th...

  • Fateful Changes

    Melita Baker

    Laura Kearnan finds out that the woman she's always known as her mother is, in fact, her aunt. Her real mother, believed to have died in World War II, went to live on a remote island off the coast of Australia and has died only recently. Laura flies ...

  • Balling the Jack

    Frank Baldwin

    A young man searching for the perfect time, the perfect woman, and the perfect life finds the rush he needs to sustain him by gambling his paycheck every week--in this this fast-paced, funny excursion into New York's betting parlors, rock clubs, and ...

  • Bandido Caballero

    Jack Ballas

    Once a rebel spy, Tom Fallon was spared the firing squad when the President of the United States needed his help. Now, he's a hired gun for the government, stealing shipments of gold from the French to help the cause of Benito Juarez in Mexico. H...

  • The You-Can't-Make-Me Bride

    Leanne Banks

    A Prince in Wolf's Clothing Jenna Jean Anderson wasn't falling tug that "marry a nice doctor" routine. Dr. Stan Michaels was not husband material. She knew him when he was one of the bad boys in town, and Jenna prided herself on being very, very g...

  • WildWood

    Lynna Banning

    In Wildwood Valley, Trouble Wore a Badge enticingly pinned to Sheriff Ben Kearney's broad, muscular wall of a chest --- and Jessamyn Whittaker was determined to find a way around it. But how could she, when just looking at the man put her at a los...

  • Purity

    Elaine Barbieri

    Purity, Honesty, Chastity -- They were all admirable traits, but when they came in the form of three headstrong, spirited, sinfully lovely sisters, they were... Dangerous Virtues From the moment Purity laid eyes on the stranger's magnificent b...

  • Summer Fling

    Victoria Barrett
    in

    College friends Anne Hayden and Adam Weston value independence beyond everything, but then a sultry Fourth of July weekend at a seaside cottage sets off sparks of passion, and they face the choice of letting the embers die or revelling in the splendi...

  • Fairchild's Passage

    Wayne Barton; Stan Williams


    Young Ethan Fairchild and his childhood friend, David Stuart, are heading for Oregon in ox-drawn covered wagons to make lived for themselves. between the two is beautiful Jessica Thorne, daughter of the train's strict leader. The pursuit of Jessi...

  • Lightning Strikes

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    A town is plunged into darkness... The mayor is missing... Two doctors race the clock to save lives... As a blackout paralyzed Grand Springs, Colorado, Dr. Noah Howell was back on the job in Vanderbilt Memorial's ER, thrown together with Dr....

  • Slant

    Greg Bear

    In the sixth decade of the 21st century, the world has been transformed. Nanotechnology has been perfected, giving humans the ability to change their environment and themselves on the cellular level. And the study of the mind has brought about a r...

  • My Rebel Son

    Joyce Bell

    Marta is beautiful and wayward: Ann, quiet and reserved. Both are in love with the handsome and bitter Ken. Yet Ann knows he loves Marta. The war intervenes and Ken is taken prisoner in Germany. He eventually returns, dreaming of the new world he wil...

  • Good Girls, Bad Boys

    Cherie Bennett; Jeff Gottesfeld

    Coming back to New York to escape her former boyfriend, Harley, Lisha takes a job as an intern at the TV talk show Trash, but she soon realizes that Harley has followed her, calling her on the phone, sending frightening notes, and threatening...

  • Touched with Fire

    Eric M. Bergerud

    A brilliant history of the land battles in the Pacific theater of World War II, with stirring personal accounts of the horrifying struggle between the Japanese and Allied forces.
     
    The horrors of WWII in the South Pacific extended far beyond...

  • Foamers

    Jon Berson

    FBI agent Jennifer Szczymanski and train enthusiast Larry McBryde must overcome their initial suspicion of each other to track down a saboteur whose next target is one of the longest railway tunnels in North America...

  • Georgia Meets Her Groom

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    DO OPPOSITES ATTRACT? They must, since years ago, the only thing high school freshman Georgia Lavender had in common with rough-and-tumble orphan Jack McCormick was the mutual wish to get Georgia out of the clutches of her controlling father. Geor...

  • Risky Games

    Olga Bicos

    HOW MUCH WOULD A WOMAN RISK TO BE IRRESISTIBLE TO MEN? Beautiful, brilliant McCall Sayer has unlocked the secret of sexual attraction. To the right buyer, the formula is worth billions. But is it worth dying for? Suddenly, McCall is caught in a dang...

  • Pure Slaughter Value

    Robert Bingham

    In his extraordinary debut collection, Pure Slaughter Value, Robert Bingham tracks the conscience of a generation that grew up educated, privileged, and starved for meaning. Bingham's strange sense of morbid fancy collides with a gutsy realism; the r...

  • A Vow of Fidelity

    Veronica Black

    Long before entering the Order of the Daughters of Compassion, Sister Joan made a pact with her art school classmates. Was it coincidence or fate that led them to set a tomb--Elizabeth the First's in Westminster Abbey--as their meeting place? -- Tw...

  • Love in Three-Quarter Time

    Jennifer Blake
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    On a warm spring night in a New Orleans Garden District mansion, the pick of society are gathering. Masquerading as Legendary Lovers, they have come to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Duchaise masquerade ball. Charles and Millicent Duch...

  • When the Sacred Ginmill Closes

    Lawrence Block

    In the dark days, in a sad and lonely place, ex-cop Matt Scudder is drinking his life away -- and doing "favors" for pay for his ginmill cronies. But when three such assignments flow together in dangerous and disturbing ways, he'll need to change his...

  • The Burglar in the Library

    Lawrence Block

    Bernie Rhodenbarr, burglar extraordinaire and bookseller ordinaire, has left New York City to spend a wintry weekend at a cozy New England inn famed for its quaint atmosphere and, not coincidentally, its rare books. And there is no book rarer than th...

  • Before She Wakes

    T.J. Bradstreet

    A teenage girl is happy for her aunt, who is dating Dave, a man who just might be the "one," but when strange things begin to happen to her aunt and then to herself, she becomes convinced that there is more to Dave than meets the eye. Original....

  • Large Animals in Everyday Life

    Wendy Brenner

    Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction, these stories are quirky takes on contemporary life in which animals, not always large, lurk around the edges. "I like animals and I like men" begins the hopelessly-in-love narrator of "The Rou...

  • No Remorse

    James D. Brewer

    Masey Baldridge knew drunks, and he knew that Stuart Van Geer was not drunk. He also had serious doubts about the man's guilt. All he could be certain of was that Van Geer had confessed to the murder of his own father and that the widow was willing t...

  • The First Stone

    John Briley

    Under the direction of the Israeli secret service, a beautiful American spy marries a rich Saudi, but when the Mossad calls her to action, she is torn between duty and a new-found love for her husband....

  • Ladies' Man

    Suzanne Brockmann

    He looked like a movie star and kissed like a fallen angel.... Sam Schaefer was too young, too handsome, and altogether too willing to start a wildfire Ellen Layne could never put out! Dazzled by the pleasure Sam taught her with every touch, she r...

  • A Husband for the Taking

    Amanda Browning

    A daring deception... This time Natasha Larsen's identical twin sister has gone too far. She's abandoned her fiance, Chase Calder, while he's recovering from an accident! So what else can Natasha do but stay by Chase's bedside? ...

  • Endurance Ride

    Bonnie Bryant

    The Saddle Club girls are participating in a new kind of horseback activity -- endurance riding. They'll have to condition their horses and themselves for the grueling contest if they plan to make it across the finish line. But an annoying rider name...

  • Jasmine's First Horse Show

    Bonnie Bryant

    Jasmine is thrilled to be getting ready for her first horse show. Then bad things start happening. Her pony, Outlaw, can't be ridden. Her baby sister, Sophie, gets sick and her parents have to stay home to take care of her. Jasmine's first horse show...

  • Diaboliad

    Mikhail Bulgakov

    After a long period of suppression, Milhail Bulgakov was discovered in the West in 1967 with the publication of his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita. Diaboliad and Other Stories is the only complete translation of his first collection of sh...

  • Balancing Act

    Anita Richmond Bunkley

    When a media spokeswoman realizes that her new employer, a chemical company, is responsible for sickening the inhabitants of her hometown, an African-American community in Texas, she faces a difficult choice. Reprint....

  • A Hard-Hearted Hero

    Pamela Burford

    Capturing Lizzie was easy... Caleb Trent told himself that kidnapping Elizabeth Lancaster was for her own good. Besides, his little brother's last wish was for him to take care of the woman. As a rogue ex-commando, Caleb had no trouble "rescuing" ...

  • Familiar Heart

    Caroline Burnes

    The man had a way with cats -- and with women Animal trainer Brak Brunston was reputed to have a mystical link with his animals -- a connection so strong that even Ashley Curry felt its power the very first time she laid eyes on the man. When Bra...

  • The Leaning Land

    Rex Burns

    Jurisdictional disputes, competing agents - the F.B.I., the Bureau of Land Management, and Indian police - and the usual distrust of the citizens of small towns when it comes to dealing with folks from the "big city" combine to make Denver police det...

  • Ant Plays Bear

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    In this delightful follow-up to My Brother, Ant, Anthony comes face to face with a growling bear, pretends to be a dog, and hears a giant tapping on the window. These enchanting stories capture the relationship between Ant and his brother with warmth...

  • Buck Rogers: Life in the Future

    Martin Caidin

    The authorized story of America's first and foremost space hero! Here, for the first time, is the true story of Buck's life in the future, as only he can tell it--from the moment of the terrible crash that should have ended everything to the moment h...

  • Runaway Bride

    Pamela Caldwell

    Zoe Smith can't run far enough away from her ruthless, power-hungry husband -- and the outrageous murder charge that's hanging over her head. So she flees west...and ends up in a bawdy boom town in the wild and woolly New Mexico territory. Wi...

  • Wonder's Champion

    Joanna Campbell

    Cindy McLean's colt, Wonder's Champion, is facing the three most challenging races of his career. To win the Triple Crown, he has to sweep not only the Kentucky Derby but the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes as well.

    Cindy has trained Wonder's Cham...

  • Ready? // Diving In

    Kate Cann

    How do you know if you're ready? A huge sort of tremor ran through me. After so long, so much fantasizing, I'd actually kissed him. I hope he didn't see that shiver, I thought. I don't want him to know how overwhelmed I am, not yet....

  • Disordered Land

    Helen Cannam

    Home from the battlefields of Flanders to claim his inheritance, a young Catholic nobleman, Ludovick Milburn, finds an England on the brink of Civil War. the last uneasy days of peace, awash with rumour and apprehension,serve merely to deepen the est...

  • Monkey Bridge

    Lan Cao

    Hailed by critics and writers as powerful, important fiction, Monkey Bridge charts the unmapped territory of the Vietnamese American experience in the aftermath of war. Like navigating a monkey bridge -- a bridge, built of spindly bamboo, used by pea...

  • Apaches

    Lorenzo Carcaterra

    Boomer. Dead-Eye. Pins. Geronimo. Reverend Jim. Mrs. Columbo. Legends of the NYPD, they were great cops. The best cops. But they are cops no more. Now they are apaches, a renegade unit working on their own--reunited to bring down the most vicious cri...

  • Firebirds

    Chuck Carlock

    Chuck Carlock volunteered to become a helicopter pilot in August 1966, convinced that by the time he finished training, the Vietnam War would be over. Little did he know that he would see some of the war's most intense action, including the Tet offen...

  • Face/Off

    Clark Carlton

    A city holds its breath.

    A terrorist planted a bomb somewhere under Los Angeles--just before he was frozen alive!

    To locate the bomb and stop the blast, supercop Sean Archer must literally trade faces with his archenemy, using sophisticated la...

  • Morning Song

    Kimberly Cates

    Perhaps it's the Irish in her: Hannah Gray is as headstrong as she is sensible, as bold as she is willful. Having rescued her nephew, Pip, from an uncertain fate, she is fleeing with him as far and as fast as she can -- until she finds herself i...

  • Marker

    Lowell Cauffiel

    He runs a $100-a-week tab at the Anchor Bar, keeps in touch with a friend who dealt weed in the Sixties, and sips bourbon from a Styrofoam cup on his drive home to the 'burbs. Now, Judge Nelson Connor of the Third Circuit Court is about to pay for hi...

  • Just Say I Do

    Lauryn Chandler

    Substitute Groom If only Annabelle were getting married... Then her nutty, but wonderful family would stop chanting "poor Annabelle" every time the once-jilted bride walked into the room. Enter one groom. Well, not exactly. Adam had convi...

  • The Randolph Legacy

    Eileen Charbonneau

    As in her splendid adult debut, Waltzing in Ragtime, Eileen Charbonneau has written a rich and powerful historical novel of a family torn apart both by loss and by reunion.In 1815 the Windover Plantation sits in triumph on the banks of the James Rive...

  • Dead Men Don't Dance

    Margaret Chittenden

    For Charlie, managing Chaps, with its veritable menagerie of eccentric patrons, is one adventure after another. Especially when Zack Hunter, a former television heartthrob who's just too good-looking for his own good, decides to run for political off...

  • A Marriage to Remember

    Cathryn Clare

    THE WOMAN HE'D MARRIED? Had he truly forgotten his wife? Ex-cop Nick Ryder couldn't believe that any man could have forgotten Jayne Robards. She was a vision of loveliness in his hospital room -- and a quick thinker when a man came after t...

  • Old Dogs

    Melissa Cleary

    DIGGING UP TREASURE-AND TROUBLE Jackie doesn't have a man in her life right now--so she's spending a little extra time with Mom. But while accompanying her on a volunteer visit to the Forest View Nursing Home, Jackie stumbles into a mystery that may...

  • Gimme Back My Brain

    M.T. Coffin

    Max offers to help two odd scientists who want to clone his brain, but after the procedure, his brain is transferred to a robot's body, and Max, now trapped inside a robot's body, must find a way to get his brain back into his human body. Original....

  • Playing with Fire

    Elaine Coffman
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    During her vacation on a Montana ranch, Susan Klein's birthday fireworks light up more than the night. The resulting bush fire has rancher Wyatt Whittaker burning with temper, but when the flames of anger cool, the city lady and the cowboy start maki...

  • Heat Lightning

    Leah Hager Cohen

    Like Kaye Gibbons' Charms for the Easy Life and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, Cohen's hauntingly poignant story deals with remarkable women bonded by strength, loss and love. Told in the lyrical and captivating voice of eleven-year-old Mole, HEA...

  • The Firebrand

    Laurel Collins

    SHE WAS CALLED THE FIREBRAND... Caroline Harlowe is determined to have the two things men bare told her she cannot -- a voice, and the freedom to use it. Fervently committed to the abolition of slavery, she becomes one of the first women students at...

  • The Law of Revenge

    Tess Collins

    The law of survival . . . Fifteen years ago Alma Bashears fled Contrary, Kentucky, severing her Appalachian roots to forget the memory of a brutal gang rape. Now she's a savvy attorney at a prestigious San Francisco law firm. But an urgent call from ...

  • Copper Moon

    Roxanne Conrad

    When music teacher Abby Rhodes meets a devilishly handsome man on her doorstep in her small Texas hometown, she becomes possessed by his late mother, a woman she begins to believe was murdered by her son. Original....

  • Fortress on the Sun

    Paul Cook

    When a bizarre epidemic threatens the inmates of the twenty-first-century labor camp run by planet Earth on the distant planet of Ra, one man's search for a cure leads him to uncover a colossal conspiracy. Original....

  • The Obsession

    Catherine Cookson

    Pine Hurst has been home to the wealthy Steel family for generations. And since her mother's death, eldest daughter Beatrice has controlled the estate -- ruling her father, Simon, and her three younger sisters with an iron fist. For Beatrice, control...

  • Twins

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Two girls... one life. Mary Lee and Madrigal are identical twins, exactly alike in every way. Mirror images. Two halves of one whole. Or so it appears. Until they are separated, leaving Mary Lee lost and alone. And Madrigal more beautiful...

  • Glory's People

    Alfred Coppel

    Threatened by an interstellar menace from beyond the galaxy, the great Goldenwing ship, Gloria Coelis, with her crew of Wired starmen and cats, heads to the advanced planet Yamato to enlist the aid of the greatest military power in the human galaxy. ...

  • Unnatural Exposure

    Patricia Cornwell

    A body is discovered in a Virginia landfill. The details--expert removal of head and limbs--mirror that of a case Dr. Kay Scarpetta has been investigating in Ireland. But for Scarpeita, the game has only just begun. The killer boldly contacts her via...

  • Love Me Never

    Edith Courtney

    Betsy Monger, recently widowed, is slowly returning to normality. However, running an art class to supplement her pension soon becomes rather less cultural than intended, when the uninhibited actions of her 'mature' students outrages Major Alex Barte...

  • Bruce Coville's Book of Magic II: More Tales to Cast a Spell on You

    Bruce Coville

    A collection of spooky short fiction includes the stories of a pair of special dancing shoes that save the day, a boy and his dad who become custodians of a unicorn, and a family that tampers with powers it does not understand. Original....

  • MacBroom Sweeps Clean

    Emma Craig
    in

    Four stories of fairy-tale romance include "MacBroom Sweeps Clean" by Emma Craig, "The Fairy Bride" by Tess Mallory, "The Trouble with Fairies" by Pam McCutcheon, and "Whatever You Wish" by Amy Elizabeth Saunders. Original....

  • One Reckless Night

    Sara Craven

    Once wasn't enough... Zanna Westcott was a successful businesswoman with a track record for ruthless takeovers and always putting business before pleasure. Jake Lantrell was pleasure...sheer unadulterated pleasure. Zanna's attraction to...

  • The Trouble With a Hot Summer

    Camilla T. Crespi

    All Simona wants is a few weeks in the sun along the Long Island coastline. But vacation fun quickly turns to foul play when her neighbor and friend, New York advertising mogul Bud Warren, is found floating in the inlet behind his beach house. Now, a...

  • He Said, She Said

    Jasmine Cresswell; Margaret St. George

    AS SHE SEES IT. AS SHE SEES IT. BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY! DEV'S STORY, CATHY'S STORY. HE SAID -- Exotic and romantic presentations left his audience begging for more. And Devlin Gilpatrick's moneymaking TV show proved his formula was a winner....

  • Desperate

    Millie Criswell

    He was desperate for revenge With a heart of stone, former Texas Ranger Rafe Bodine set out across an unforgiving land to hunt the outlaw who murdered his family. Tortured by grief and guilt, he vowed there would be no jail cell for the killer, no s...

  • Trust Me on This

    Jennifer Crusie

    "I bet that smile gets you everything you want...." As soon as Alec Prentice spotted the spicy brunette in red silk, he vowed that the tempting con woman would not escape him! Dennie Banks was prepared to do anything to get her story, even...

  • Postman Pat's Sore Tooth

    John Cunliffe

  • Postman Pat's Washing Day

    John Cunliffe

  • The Taming of Katharine

    Janet Dailey
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    On a warm spring night in a New Orleans Garden District mansion, the pick of society are gathering. Masquerading as Legendary Lovers, they have come to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Duchaise masquerade ball. Charles and Millicent Duch...

  • Breakfast in Bed

    Ruth Jean Dale

    He bet breakfast in bed that he was irresistible ! As soon as Brooke met Garrett she knew he was a charmer. Women probably just rolled over when he petted them, much the same way her cats, traitors all, had responded to him. The best thing for ...

  • Wake Me With a Kiss

    Emily Dalton

    Once upon a time... They called him the "Perfume Prince" but Philip Fairchild had never exactly seen himself as a storybook hero. But that was before he tracked down the three winners of the "most fragrant rose" contest and met their beautiful god...

  • Memories of You

    Margot Dalton

    Camilla Pritchard hadn't seen Jon Campbell in nearly twenty years. Now he's shown up in her classroom posing as one of her students. His presence brings back all her memories of the worst days of her life and threatens to destroy everything s...

  • And Baby Makes Six

    Pamela Dalton

    IT'S A GIRL! Marriage to handsome Fabulous father Devlin Hamilton was a dream come true for Abby O'Reilly...evin if it was for convenience' sake. She was now a full-time mother to their merged little brood, and had a tall, strong husband to call her...

  • Timeshare

    Joshua Dann

    During a trip back in time to 1940 to bring a reluctant client back to the future, ex-LAPD cop John Surrey, an employee of Timeshare Unlimited, a time-travel agency, becomes embroiled with Althea, who leads him into a perilous scheme that could chang...

  • Marriage Meltdown

    Emma Darcy

    The seven-year itch! On the outside Gina Tyson seemed to have the perfect marriage -- but inside she ached with frustration at the distance Reid had placed between them. So Gina decided to challenge her husband -- and was shocked by what she he...

  • Fire Hawk

    Justine Dare

    THE MYTH In a Wales surrounded by mist and magic, Hawk Glade was once a place of peace and happiness. Now burying her fallen brother, Jenna fears her home and her clan are doomed by an enemy who has made her the last to bear the name of Hawk. She ha...

  • Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection

    Ellen Datlow

    More than forty stories and poems are included in this anthology of the year's finest horror and fantasy fiction, accompanied by a roundup of the year's fantasy films and a guide to the year's notable fiction. 20,000 first printing....

  • Fragments

    James F. David

    A team of psychologists has gathered in a small college town to conduct a revolutionary experiment: To find five "savants" with extreme and diverse aptitudes, in order to create a sixth composite intelligence using new cybernetic technology. The firs...

  • House of Cards

    Peter David

  • Into the Void

    Peter David

    Roll Call: The Crew of the U.S.S. Excalibur: Captain Mackenzie Calhoun: An unorthodox, decisive young captain who loves his crew and his ship, and loves testing their limits even more. Commander Shelby: A woman of strong opinions and strong values, S...

  • The Seductive Smuggler

    Donna Davidson

    A BOOKISH MISS GETS A LESSON... IN LIFE AND LOVE! Miss Harmony Roan lived a secluded life as an assistant to her scholarly father. All she knew of the world she'd learned in books... and nothing she had read prepared her for Daniel Rockburne. Tho...

  • My Outlaw

    Rachel Davis

    A REBELLIOUS YOUNG WOMAN ON THE OUTLAW TRAIL... THE MYSTERIOUS BANDIT WHO SAVES HER LIFE... It seemed like the perfect plan--to take from the rich to give to the poor. Until one dark night Mary Carolyn Ross finds herself aboard the private car of...

  • A Man Called Blue

    Carole Dean

    THE BUSINESS OF LOVE Simone Doucet had an image to uphold -- her mother's. After all, it was her mother's corporate empire, her mother's drive and ambition -- and her mother's mistrust in men -- that Simone had inherited. Everything the self-suf...

  • True Crime Stories

    Terry Deary

    Detailed accounts of some of the most famous crimes in history encompasses the story of the Great Train Robbery, the tale of a murderer who made the fatal mistake of leaving a bloody clue under the floor, and more. Original....

  • The Art of Arrow Cutting

    Stephen Dedman

    Major Trouble in a Minor Key If he'd known all the trouble following her, itinerant photographer Michelangelo "Mage" Magistrale would have thought twice about helping the beautiful, distressed woman at the bus station. In return for a ticket she g...

  • Destiny's Warrior

    Kit Dee

    Even imprisoned and bound in chains, the magnificent Apache warrior is a fearsome sight -- yet as a doctor, Aurora Spencer cannot let his wounds go untended. And when she touches his powerful body and looks into his proud eyes, she is jolted by a con...

  • Landslayer's Law

    Tom Deitz

    The World Walls separating the "real world" from the alternate world of Faerie are becoming so thin that Faerie can now be seen in satellite photographs. As craven mortal land developers threaten to exploit the magic lands, David Sullivan finds that ...

  • Stage Frightened

    Judy Delton

    The Pee Wees are putting on a talent show. They plan to sell tickets so they can raise money for a trip to Minnesota Magic, a huge and fantastic amusement park. But right away there is trouble. Roger doesn't have a dummy to use in his ventriloquist a...

  • The Reluctant Lord

    Teresa DesJardien

    A LADY WEAVES A TANGLED WEB... Shooting a prospective suitor in the foot was a bit drastic, but the free-thinking Miss Marietta Hampton did not wish to surrender her independence to a husband. That scandal...the tabbies of the ton in a dither until...

  • Sweepers

    P.T. Deutermann

    THE U.S. NAVY MADE HIM THE ULTIMATE KILLER. NOW THEY CAN'T STOP HIM... It begins with a routine police investigation. A beautiful woman is dead. A detective needs answers. And a newly appointed Pentagon admiral is scrambling for his career and for...

  • Daddy Warlock

    Jacqueline Diamond

    Daddy by Chance Seven years ago, a masked and spellbinding stranger at a costume party swept Tara Blayne away for a night of dreamlike passion. Her son, Harry, was the very real result. Harry was definitely not your usual kid. His gift for maki...

  • Tales from the Crypt: The Official Archives

    Digby Diehl

    Open the vault and relive the experience!

    For forty-seven years the Crypt Keeper and Tales from the Crypt have captured the imaginations and scared the wits out of people with their ghostly stories and grisly visions. Here, finally, is the boo...

  • George of the Jungle: Movie Scrapbook

    Walt Disney

  • The Viking's Revenge

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • Sniff Snuff Snap

    Lynley Dodd

    A colourful counting story about a selfish, bossy warthog who wants the watering hole all to himself. Elephants, leopards, giraffes, zebras and baboons all try to drink at the waterhole and are chased away by the grumpy warthog. They always sneak bac...

  • Unlikely Angel

    Jo Donnell

    SOMETHING WILD When it came to her job, bicycle messenger Tanya Preston was a fast, free-spirited devil on a five-speed. She'd never admit that under her wild exterior was a woman looking for love. She'd certainly never admit it to the handsome ...

  • Window Guild

    Michael Dorris

  • Ladies of the Goldfield Stock Exchange

    Sybil Downing

    Presents the story of three extraordinary women determined to claim their fortunes and independence by setting up their own stock exchange, a move that leaves its mark on the wild, final days of the Gold Rush era. Reprint....

  • What Was I Scared Of?

    Dr. Seuss

    Dr. Seuss in a glowing new format!

    What were we waiting for? We’ve taken the classic Dr. Seuss short story What Was I Scared Of? (from The Sneetches and Other Stories), added glow-in-the-dark ink, and created the ultimate just-slightly-s...

  • Redliners

    David Drake

    THE MISSION: REDEMPTION-OR DEATH The troops were walking dead already, so there wasn't much of a downside. Major Arthur Farrell and the troops of Strike Force Company C41 had seen too much war with the alien Kalendru. They had too many screaming me...

  • No Other Love

    Shannon Drake

    Their fates first collide in the shadow of the Black Hills -- when Sabrina Connor, fleeing her stepfather's cruel tyranny, is tempted by the sweeter captivity of Sloan Trelawny's arms. Their lives entwine again in the Scottish highlands a world away ...

  • Brain Dead

    Eileen Dreyer

    Only hard-hitting journalist Daniel Murphy, a fellow outsider, seems to share emergency room nurse Timmie Leary's anxiety over a mysterious series of deaths in a Missouri hospital. By the author of Bad Medicine. Reprint....

  • Bonjour Alex!

    Cathy East Dubowski

  • Marrying Mariah

    Suzanne Dye

    HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS Single mother Mariah Barrett had carved out a nice life for herself and her three children in the small town of Granbury, Texas. Until a handsome stranger appeared out of the blue -- and offered her a surprising ultimat...

  • Brighton Belle

    Peggy Eaton

  • Texas Teamwork

    J.T. Edson

    Brad Counter, great grandson of Mark Counter from Ole Devil Hardon's outfit, carries on the family legacy as a deputy sheriff in the Lone Star State. He and his partner, Deputy Alice Fayde, are part of a team investigating the near-fatal shooting of ...

  • Our Town

    Eric Elfman

    When Mulder and Scully visit Dudley,Arkansas,home of the famous Chaco Chicken factory,they find a small town with a big secret- no one in Dudley ever seems to age. Scully's determined to find out why,but if she's not careful,she might lose her head t...

  • Geneva Rendezvous

    Julie Ellis

    Susan didn't know if she believed in ESP. Greg, her new husband, made light of it. Yet ever since the plane had touched down in Geneva, Kathy, her six-year-old daughter, had been filled with terror, saying her mother would die if they stayed in Switz...

  • Escape to Murray River

    Robert Elmer

    In 1868, after their father is wrongfully convicted and deported on the last prison ship to Australia, twelve-year-old Patrick and the rest of the McWaid family determine to stay together and follow him to the far-off continent...

  • The Judas Factor

    Roger Elwood

    In The Judas Factor, part 4 of Roger Elwood's six-part series, Cyril Fothergill finds himself trapped underground at the mercy of a traitor. As the horrors of an ancient cult come to light, he must find the way of escape before it is too late....

  • Tale of the Campfire Vampires

    Clayton Emery

    Zeke can't wait for canoe camp to end. His gung-ho cousin Doug and the counsellor's silly stories of wendigos - monsters that haunt the Maine woods - bore him stiff. Then he inadvertently loosens a strange rock off a mossy mound and the wendigos are ...

  • Legend of Crossbones Key

    Terry Englehart

    After reading the magical lines from an old poem, twins Mary and Jack are swept back to an unspoiled island in the 1600s to live as their ancestors did, but they are not prepared for the ancient dangers that await them. Original....

  • Pony Express

    Allison Estes

    Re-creating a Pony Express ride through an old Tennessee trail, the Short Stirrup Club hopes to raise money for a good cause, which hinges on their completing the ride successfully with enemy Amanda Sloane in tow. Original....

  • Georgia on His Mind

    Marcia Evanick

    He wasn't looking for trouble, but suddenly there she was... Levi Horst groaned with pleasure and frustration as he caught a whiff of Georgia De Witt's seductive perfume! His gorgeous employer was a delectable distraction, but he had no business f...

  • Longarm and the Double-Barrel Blowout

    Tabor Evans

    While enjoying a much-needed vacation, Longarm is forced to come to the aid of an old friend being hunted for a fortune in Spanish gold and to rescue a lovely young lady kidnapped by one of the West's most disreputable and disgusting outlaws. Origina...

  • Wild

    Fabio

    Working as a maid on the luxurious estate of a Miami businessman had its advantages--especially when A.J. Sutton met Marco Estevez. With his bronzed good looks and explosive sexuality, Marco tempted A.J. as no other man ever had...enticing her into h...

  • Texas Lily

    Elizabeth Fackler

    Lily Cassidy’s childhood happiness is shattered when her father is murdered by political opponents. Powerless to act against her father’s killer, she consents to a loveless marriage with Emmett Moss in exchange for his promise of vengeance. What ...

  • Green Mountain Man

    Earl Faine

    An American Revolution tale about what happened to Ethan Allen during and after the time he captured Fort Ticonderoga back from the British, following his arrest and imprisonment by the British and attempts to return to America...

  • A Time For Us

    Cheryl Faye

    Hired by Peterson and Company, Nicole Johnson is irresistibly drawn to company president Mark Peterson, despite the rules forbidding office relationships, until they are thrown together by circumstances beyond their control at an exotic Jamaican reso...

  • The Still

    David Feintuch

    THE CRUCIBLE OF A KING Prince Rodrigo was born to rule--or was he? The spoiled young heir of Caledon has paid scant heed to duty, compassion, or the Power he must wield... until the queen's death leaves him a hunted outlaw. To claim his crown, Rod...

  • Missing Pieces

    Joy Fielding

    How far will a mother go to protect her family from a madman?An unrivaled master of psychological suspense, Joy Fielding has written her most chilling and intricate novel yet--a compulsively readable look at the razor-thin line between daily domestic...

  • Sex, Slave, Murders

    Ronald B. Flowers

    A marriage made in hell...

    Barely five feet tall and innocent looking, Charlene Gallego used all of her charms to entice pretty young schoolgirls into the back of a van, where her husband, Gerald, lay waiting.

    A killer couple bound toge...

  • Term Limits

    Vince Flynn

    Taking America back...one politician at a time What if America's leaders were held accountable for their broken promises--and made to pay for their corruption? Vince Flynn brings to life a chilling scenario of Washington under siege--in the provoc...

  • George of the Jungle - Look-Look Book

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Pooh's Grand Adventure

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Ecstasy

    Gwynne Forster

    She has to choose between her secret and a chance at love… Teacher Jeannetta Rollins is about to lose something infinitely precious…her eyesight. Only surgeon Mason Fenwick has the skills to perform the delicate operation to remove the tumor t...

  • Great Flying Stories

    Frederick Forsyth

    Collects some of the best short stories about aviation by this century's greatest writers, including H. G. Wells, Edgar Allen Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Len Deighton, J. G. Ballard, and Richard Bach. Reprint....

  • Before Women Had Wings

    Connie May Fowler

    In 1965 Bird, christened Avocet, aged six, is living with her family in a Florida citrus grove. Daddy and Mama, who run a general store, fight frequently and drink too much; Bird and her older sister Phoebe are beaten equally frequently. Daddy is eve...

  • Untamed Angel

    Elaine Fox

    With a name that belied his true nature, Joshua Angell was born for deception. So when sophisticated and proper Ava Moreland first laid eyes on the sexy drifter in a desolate Missouri jail, she knew he was the one to save her sister from a ruined re...

  • Somewhere, My Love

    Karen Fox

    As an officer of the Alliance, Sha'Nara had been trained to destroy the psychics who sought galactic domination. But on a mission to protect the Director-General's daughter, the beautiful bodyguard was abducted by one: Tristan--the most dazzlingly se...

  • A Marriage in the Making

    Natalie Fox

    The unmarried wife! Karis had been married once, and didn't intend to repeat the experience! She was devoted to her baby daughter, and she loved working as nanny to five-year-old Josh. She didn't need a husband -- and, even if she did, Jos...

  • Sweet Tibby Mack

    Roz Denny Fox

    Have Matchmakers. Will Marry! Tibby Mack -- sweet Tibby Mack. She's twenty-seven, which makes her the youngest resident of Yaqui Springs, a retirement community near California's Salton Sea. The folks there have become her family, her friends...he...

  • Wild at Heart

    Susan Fox

    The prodigal daughter? All her life Rio had been considered wild, from the wrong kind of family. Only one man had shown any faith in her--Kane Langtry's father. But it wasn't a case of like father, like son. Kane respected his father's...

  • Bad Memory

    Duane Franklet

    Top troubleshooter Barry Shepard heads a courageous counter-assault that may spell difficult personal consequences when the world's largest computer company comes under assault by a demanding and brilliant criminal hacker. Reprint....

  • Specs' War

    Sara Fraser

    This is the story of "Spec", a scruffy, bespectacled ten year old boy in a Midlands town experiencing the turmoil of the Second World War.

    It is about a world that has now totally disappeared. A world in which children were both actors and spectato...

  • The Inner Sanctum

    Stephen Frey

    David Mitchell, fast-rising portfolio manager at the exclusive Sagamore Investment Managing Group, has just been handed his future on a golden platter. If all goes according to plan, a struggling plane-manufacturing company will win a coveted governm...

  • Star Trek: Federation Travel Guide

    Michael Jan Friedman

  • Life Before Death

    Abby Frucht

  • The Tender Rebel

    Virginia Gaffney

    As her beloved city of Richmond is transformed into a Civil War battlefield, Carrie Cromwell puts her nursing skills to work in a Confederate hospital. Does she really want the South to win? Will the war cost her the man she loves?....

  • Tapestry

    Elizabeth Gage
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    On a warm spring night in a New Orleans Garden District mansion, the pick of society are gathering. Masquerading as Legendary Lovers, they have come to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Duchaise masquerade ball. Charles and Millicent Duch...

  • Neverwhere

    Neil Gaiman

    Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart -- and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment forward he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existed --...

  • Stranger in Her Bed

    Bonnie Gardner

    WELCOME HOME, ROBIN DIGBY.... Now, a few things have changed while you've been away. For instance, there's a perfect stranger -- well, maybe not perfect, but pretty darn close -- sleeping in your bed. But there's a good explanation for...

  • The One-Week Baby

    Hayley Gardner

    One week is plenty of time to learn how to look after a baby, right? Well, it had better be ... because that's how long confirmed bachelor West Gallagher will be stuck with the little bundle of 'joy' somebody left on his doorstep. Now he's also stuck...

  • Capture the Wind

    Kit Garland

    SHE DARED TO LIVE LIKE A MAN She raced by him on her schooner Mischief, beating Fleetwing and its legendary skipper in a race at sea, proving that the ship she designed, built, and sailed was the fastest craft afloat. Then Dominique Willoughby offer...

  • Because I Wanted You

    Annie Garrett

    WHAT IF YOUR DARKEST SECRET WAS THE ONLY THING THAT COULD LIGHT UP YOUR LIFE? Though she grew up in the poorest pocket of rural Appalachia, sophisticated, smart Ruby Maxwell now has everything: a national talk show with soaring ratings, an exquisi...

  • One White Rose

    Julie Garwood

    Douglas Clayborne will never turn his back on anyone in need, and everyone in Blue Belle knows it. Time and again, his intolerance of cruelty of any kind has made him a champion of the defenseless ... but his quiet strength faces its ultimate battle ...

  • Counting Coup

    G.D. Gearino

    A jaded newspaper columnist is jolted back to reality when a reader who had called him for help turns up dead two days later, and during his efforts to find out why, he begins to feel that he has been given a second chance at life...

  • Murder Makes Waves

    Anne George

    Those hilarious southern sisters, who prove that sibling rivalry never ends, are heading for a vacation at the beach. Mary Alice's flamboyant behavior aside, serious, sensible Patricia Anne looks forward to relaxing at her sister's beachfront condo i...

  • Deception on His Mind

    Elizabeth George

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of George’s best . . . insightful, tense, and compassionate.” -- Entertainment WeeklyBalford-le-Nez is a dying seaside town on the coast of Essex. But when a member of the town’s small but growing Asian...

  • Shot in the Dark

    Tony Gibbs

    For latter-day sea dog Neal Donahoe, the world's waterways are more than a career. They're a communion. Now, as an officer with Santa Barbara's Harbor Patrol, he's about to find this gift indispensable. For the craft and crew of the DEA's Blue Thunde...

  • Fade to Black

    Tony Gibbs

    Harbormaster Neal Donahoe and U.S. Coast Guard Lieutenant Tory Lennox investigate several related crimes, including the case of a local painter who was blinded by acetone and the death of an ambulance driver...

  • Friends to Die For

    Jane Sughrue Giberga

    Crissy and her friends live the good life in Manhattan, as they all come from wealthy families and have access to the best places in town, butt when murder strikes and one of their friends dies, Crissy realizes what really counts in life....

  • Operation: Fantasy Plan

    Peter Gilboy

    A Fantasy Plan. . . For eighteen years, Peter Gaines has traveled the globe as one of the CIA's top agents. Suddenly this former golden boy is unceremoniously cut loose from the Company. But the ethically bound Peter refuses to let go. Without autho...

  • Storm Maiden

    Mary Gillgannon

    The passionate tale of an Irish beauty's search for love. AN EXQUISITE IRISH PRINCESS... Fiona of Dunsheauna, the beautiful daughter of an Irish chieftain, rebelled at the idea of wedding a man she despised. And, trapped in her father's dark, ...

  • Cher and Cher Alike

    H.B. Gilmour

  • Running Through the Tall Grass

    Talmy Givon

    Robert Aron, an Algerian Jew fighting for his homeland, falls in love with Marie, a young Catholic girl, and incurs the wrath of his longtime comrade-in-arms, Jojo, a mercenary who is slowly descending into madness...

  • X-Files Book of the Unexplained V1

    Jane Goldman

    At the beginning of its fourth incredibly popular season. The X-Files Fall 1996 season premiere had the highest rating Fox Television has ever achieved for a dramatic series. The show won five 1996 Ernmy awards for special effects, outstanding writin...

  • Sheer Chance

    Suzanne Goodwin

    Avril Brett has opted out of the sexual revolution and settled into a loveless marriage and a dead-end job. Dominated by her husband, who has been having affairs since six months into their marriage, when he is posted to St Vincent, she has a brief a...

  • Forgotten Fiancee

    Lucy Gordon

    THE WOMAN HE COULDN'T REMEMBER Not long ago, Justin Hallwood had been a hard-driving, big-city executive. Now he was inexplicably drawn to the little village of Haven -- especially to Sarah Conroy, a lovely single mother with an adorable baby so...

  • Daniel and Daughter

    Lucy Gordon

    "Daniel Raife was devoted to Phoebe, his teenage daughter. He'd brought her up single-handedly, and he wanted her to be a lawyer. But Phoebe dreamed of being a model. Lee Meredith knew all about being sixteen and headstrong -- she had eloped....

  • My Darling Kate

    Elizabeth Graham

    A MAN IN LOVE... On the shores of the Chesapeake, Nicholas Talbot scans the faces of the disembarking passengers for his beloved Alyssa, the beauty who sailed from England to Maryland Colony to be his bride and mistress of his plantation. But to his...

  • Predators

    Daina Graziunas; Jim Starlin

    For nearly 10 years, FBI agent Ira Levitt has been tracking David Vandemark, a wily killer with a tragic past and a twisted ability to read criminal minds. His victims are drug dealers, child molesters, and serial killers. Levitt knows Vandemark cann...

  • Cuttin' the Rug under the Moonlit Sky

    Sharony Andrews Green

    In a mixture of exuberant full-color drawings and short stories, the author celebrates the spirit, strength, and kinship of the African-American women who have affected her life, from grandmothers to girlfriends to imaginary doppelga+a5ngers. T...

  • First Contact Anthology

    Martin H. Greenberg

    A collection of original tales of contact between humans and extraterrestrials ranges from a military conspiracy to keep the public in the dark about such visits to an ancient Egyptian's brush with an interstellar empire. Original....

  • The 200% Wife

    Jennifer Greene

    ABBY STANFORD WAS ONE SMART COOKIE... And she'd always given 200%--especially to her job. But there was more to life... There was home, family--and the love of a good man. So she filled her cozy house with the aroma of fresh-baked cookies. She cro...

  • Bridge of Valor

    Anne Lesley Groell

    RETURN OF THE DEADLY DUO Anne Lesley Groell dazzled readers with her fantastic, action-packed adventure Anvil of the Sun. Now Jenifleur and ,Thibault, known as the Cloak and Dagger, are back to take on their first genuine assignment as full-fledge...

  • Man of Destiny

    Martin Gross

    The most popular politician of his time because of his incorruptibility and reputation for bucking the system, congressman Charlie Palmer finds himself targeted by dangerous Washington forces that would keep him from running for president. Reprint....

  • Daughter of the Shaman

    Elyse Guttenberg

    A young orphan drifting in the sea in an open boat, Allanaq is taken in by the tribe of the Real People, where he grows up and marries only to leave for the tribe of the Seal People, where he and his wife learn the ancient arts of magic. Original....

  • Pieces of April

    Diane Haeger

    THE SINS OF THE PAST HAUNT THE PRESENT. GLENNA--A small-town doctor whose beloved husband rescued her from a desperate life, she has never had cause to look beyond her safe existence. Then a letter from the mother who gave her away at birth sends ...

  • Detective

    Arthur Hailey

    A death row confession sparks an investigation that will tear Miami apart in this “engrossing thriller” from the #1 New York Times"bestselling author (Booklist). Detective-Sergeant Malcolm Ainslie, a former Catholic priest, is about to sta...

  • Legacy

    Shirley Hailstock

    Erika St. James long ago stopped believing in miracles. The she learns she is about to inherit a fortune--provided she comply with the unusual terms of the will. For one year, she must manage an old friend's estate in cooperation with her benefactor'...

  • Close To Home

    Barbara Hall

    Struggling to understand the man beneath the charm, newlywed Lydia is forced to confront the forces that have shaped her husband, including his deceptively sleepy hometown of Fawley, magnetic cousin Kyle, and some long suppressed passions. 12,500 fir...

  • Into the Morning

    Celeste Hamilton

    YOUNG AND RECKLESS Neighbors in White Creek, Georgia were scandalized when local "bad girl" Spring De Witt ran off to marry her childhood sweetheart, John Nelson, the handsome scion of a well-to-do family. Wagging small-town, tongues whispered tha...

  • Dognapper

    Cathy Hapka / Catherine Hapka

  • A Groom for Maggie

    Elizabeth Harbison

    GREEN CARD WEDDING The only way nanny Maggie Weller could remain in the country was by marrying her hardheaded boss, who was exactly the kind of irresistible bachelor she needed to avoid. But she would do anything to ensure his little girl's happi...

  • Fly with the Eagle

    Kathleen Harrington

    BY DREAMS ENCHANTED A Cheyenne princess of mixed blood, Jennifer "Morning Rose" Elkheart eagerly accompanies her senator grandfather on his goodwill tour abroad -- dazzling London's high society with her vivacious charm and beauty. But t...

  • The Game Show Killer

    William Harrington

    For over twenty-five years, Columbo has been the most popular , and persistent, detective on television, drawing millions of viewers a week. William Harrington's compelling new novel pits the famous TV detectives against one of the most brilliant and...

  • Bride for Hire

    Jessica Hart

    For better and for worse! Seth Carrington needed a girlfriend and Daisy needed a ticket to the Caribbean...it seemed like a fair exchange! But having survived Seth's extremely thorough interviewing technique -- which included kissing -- Daisy ...

  • Texas Silver

    Holly Harte

    Revered as a great healer, part-Apache Karina Valdez is tormented by visions of great danger to her people and drawn to Rafe Tucker, the dashing stranger who asks for her help to find a hoard of lost gold hidden in the caves of Devil Mountain. Th...

  • Bodies of the Dead: and Other Great American Ghost Stories

    David G. Hartwell

    Thirteen terrifying tales to take you on a heart-pounding journey to the dark side! Including:
    Bodies of the Dead by Ambrose Bierce: Is it your worst fear to be buried alive? Live your greatest nightmare in these four chilling tales. The Golden Ra...

  • The Runaways

    Barbara Hazard

    Race to the Altar Once Harriet Winthrop Bates and the Earl of Morland had been madly in love -- until a foolish quarrel sent them on their separate ways. Now they had come together again as a beautiful widow and a lord whose wife had passed away. ...

  • Tobacco Sticks

    William Elliott Hazelgrove

    In the aftermath of WW II, the Hartwell family struggles to remain whole as a season of change descends upon the South. Old loyalties and familiar ties are abandoned as their sleepy community lashes out with hate when Burke Hartwell, Sr. chooses to d...

  • Summer's Secret

    Sandra Heath

    Time for Temptation Was Summer Stanway a beautiful young, twentieth-century American, mourning a lost love and facing an empty future? Or was she Olivia Courtenay, a stunning young widow in Regency England, following a path of fiery passion and fl...