There was no escape. She had wept and begged. She had fled to London and sought her grandmother's help. All to no avail! Miss Cherry Hilliard was Lady Varian now-imprisoned in a great country house, required to sit at dinner and watch her handsome...
MORE THAN SHE BARGAINED FOR! When her once wealthy father died leaving only bad debts, beautiful, jet-setting Ann Milan found work with the darkly handsome Julian Terrace, owner of the famous Terrace Inn. Soon Ann found herself falling desperatel...
In the last golden years of Egypt, a great love was born in the city of the dark gods. She was a princess, beautiful daughter of Pharaoh Akhenaten and Nefertiti and heir to the throne of Egypt. He was a lowly scribe of the royal court, who would defy...
From “one of the most gifted novelists of his generation” (Time), Other People is a tale about a woman’s path toward self-actualization.A woman wakes in an emergency room and remembers nothing -- not even her own name. She hears a song about a ...
Chris and Cathy Made Such a Loving Home... for fourteen-year-old Jory -- so handsome, so gentle. And for Bart, who had such a dazzling imagination for a nine year old. Then the lights came on in the house next door. Soon the Old Lady in Black was t...
Vicente was master of a lost art... Tania obeyed her father's last request: she contacted the Venetian glassmakers, the Massimos. And Benno Massimo whisked her away from an empty life in England, bringing her to the family villa -- as his fian...
We, the officers and crew of the USS Montana, warn the Russian Federation. Unless our families are released unharmed, we will launch a Trident missile.Deep in the Norwegian Sea, the nuclear submarine steams silently into its launch area and prepares ...
TWO IS COMPANY -- FOUR IS A LOVE KNOT THAT NEEDS UNTANGLING! Spirited Miranda Brandywine knew that even though Charles Hartley was a poet and a dreamer, there was no reason for her father to stop the marriage. And gentle, lovely Emily Rockhall ...
Jarmila's extraordinary beautiful is becoming more bewitching by the day and her heart beginning to quicken with the vibrant passions of a woman, when Prague, her home, is suddenly overrun by revolutionary Czechs demanding independence from Austria's...
For five hundred years a mad computer scientist who called himself Satan ruled the nights of the planet Styx, each sundown unleashing hordes of cyborg creatures -- werewolves, vampires, dragons, and worse -- to terrorize what had once been the idylli...
Things aren't always what they seem...Inspector Ronald Dobbs of Scotland Yard thought the Mediterranean cruise would be a good rest from fighting crime. And the shipboard masquerade ball was a good way to relax and have fun. But the mask of one of th...
"CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND? I AM BEING SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER!" Poor lovely Catherine Ebford. Being forced by her guardian into a marriage she did not want. And so Catherine, a stubborn young woman with a head full of romantic notions (with th...
The time is 1902. The setting; eastern Oregon. The action begins when Magic Child, a fifteen-year-old Indian girl of surprising sophistication and accomplishment, wanders into the wrong whorehouse looking for the right men -- the men who will kill t...
Her sudden wealth inspired treachery Ramona was surprised to learn after her uncle died that shed inherited a fortune. She would have to travel to Majorca to collect it, a prospect that excited her. Majorca was lovely and she hadn't seen her a...
Detective Harry Bliss has one hell of a problem. She's Susan Meredith, she's gorgeous--and she's so deep into trouble she can't find her way out. First, someone attacks her outside her office. Then someone cuts her brake lines, drugs her, and ransack...
A Hugo Award Finalist: Humanity struggles to understand a killing labyrinth discovered on the Moon in this science fiction adventure about death and rebirth Hugo and Nebula Award"winning author Robert Silverberg credits Rogue Moon with containing ...
IT’S HARD TO BE AS SMART AS A RACCOON No one knew how old "Doc" Raccoon got so smart. After all, he didn't have a college diploma or even a library card. But whenever there was a problem at Catfish Bend, he was the animal everyone turned to. So...
Natalie Travers had only just had her house in Brighten converted into flats, and installed five sets of tenants, when her younger brother Julian sent her an appeal for help. Newly deserted by his wife of one year, he was finding it impossible to cop...
When Tito discovered a plot to sabotage Yugoslav autonomy, his only possible confidant was his oldest enemy -- Dusan Ankavic the dissident. And the only person Ankavic can turn to now that Tito is dead is Nick Carter. But when Ankavic meets with an "...
Everyone was on edge - who would be the next victim? Jeremy Locke accepted an unusual challenge when he agreed to do some sleuthing for a London-based theatrical group. Stage rehearsals for a new production had been seriously disrupted by a rash of b...
It was time she faced the truth After her husband Perry's death, Raina believed Logan Thorne, his business partner, visited often because of her son, Danny. When Logan offered marriage, she didn't take him seriously. Why should he tie h...
THEY WERE SISTERS, DAUGHTERS, AND OCCASIONAL RIVALS IN LOVE.... What could be more idyllic than three lovely ladies sitting on the lawn of a Regency estate on a cloudless summer day? Nothing, it would seem, could blemish this picturesque scene ...
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Good days and bad days are not coincidence. We all have them. If you have ever had the feeling that there was some sort of cycle operating within you, you are absolutely correct. There are cycles at work. Physical, mental, and emotional cycles. And t...
Rosie Powell had been jilted by the only lover she had ever known. Now, visiting her brother Danny in Spain, the honey-haired painter from the Midwest found her heart at risk again. Juan de Arevalo, the world-famous flamenco guitarist and proud ar...
Pursued by the interplanetary police for a crime he did not commit, space traveller Tyg is forced down on the planet Storm, where he finds a revolution brewing among the Tadda against King Caiman, the planet's tyrannical ruler. He must prove his inn...
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At the South Carolina m...“Today,” My father announced, “I bought a farm in North Carolina. We’re leaving the city, Marnie. We’re going back to the land.” Back to the land? Leaving the city? Marnie Macdonald can’t believe her ears, her parents must be kidding. ...
Fourteen might seem a little young for a full-time mothers helper, but Mary Shelburne wasnt worried. Prim and responsible Cinni was the best girl Mary interviewed. With two small children and another on the way, Mary needed help that summer at their ...
Given by her dying grandfather into the custody of the Marquis of Theale, known to London Society as "Devil" for his wicked ways. Beautiful young Maris was both attracted and repelled by her worldly guardian. The Marquis, on the other hand, found his...
At 16, country-fresh, penniless Ceci Gramont was wooed, then scorned by the darkly handsome Lord Armin Sherlay. Now at twenty-six, a wealthy, titled widow, she's heir to the famed Chadbourne Luck at cards. It lasts only as long as its possessor ...
TRAPPED! When Tamara "borrowed" company funds to help her invalid mother, she had every intention of replacing the money before anyone discovered the loss. Then the company was taken over by the ruthless entrepreneur Bickford Rutledge. ...
THEY WERE A PERFECT MATCH-- FOR A FIGHT TO THE FINISH Saskia Van Hooten was a lovely young lady with the weight of her entire family's future on her slender young shoulders--and a stubborn spirit that refused to bow to adversity. Derek Rowbridge ...
If Letty Montressor had not been quite so determined to escape from her family and marriage to the odious Mr Sludge, she would not have been found wandering the streets of London late at night with no other companion but her canary. Harry Tyne, th...
Why did he seem to dislike her so? Captain Valyev had been kindness itself when he stopped on the road to give assistance to Nadya, one of a vast crowd of refugees fleeing before Napoleon's advancing army. But the moment she told him her full name...
THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE Vermithrax, the last of dragonkind, swooped down over the kingdom of Urland, let loose a torrent of flames, and reduced everything to smoldering ash. Then, finding the newly blackened wasteland much to its liking, it settle...
Master novelist Drury probes the controversy and political machinations as America strives to land on Mars . . .A mission that may be torn apart by the nation’s turmoil . . .The Throne of Saturn shows the struggle of dedicated and courageous a...
Julia blushed to think of the shy young brides on their dower-strewn marriage beds. It was the time for weddings, for love. But not for Julia. She must leave -- leave India at once. She had found so much: the fulfillment of work, a sense of belong...
Dead Man's HandNo one paid any mind to Jack McCall as he unloaded a .44 caliber slug into Wild Bill Hickok's brain at point-blank range. Deadwood's legendary gunslinging marshal was dead, holding a poker hand of aces and eights, a dead man's hand.The...
The international climate soars to a red-alert pitch when a mysterious death claims dozens of Chinese diplomats in Washington DC. The stability of the world is at stake. And everyone wants a cover-up - including the Chinese. The imminent arrival of t...
A MAN COULD GET KILLED ON THE LOOP... The Laredo Loop -- a notorious rustling network that spirited U.S. longhorns south of the border, fixed them up with phony "legal" papers, then shipped them back to Laredo for sale. When Longarm is enliste...
Tiffany had hurt him! Though she was little more than a child, she had known Peter must face the truth. She had led him to the moonlit abbey ruins, to the lovers' tryst, so that he could see that his fiancee was untrue to him. Now, five years l...
Born of an impassioned and clandestine love between a Chinese princess and a handsome American captain, Le' Sing lost her mother at birth -- her father disappeared. Raised in a temple and trained in the art of love, when she finally came of age...
"There's a nasty term for women like you--and for what you do to a man." Eden recoiled. He hadn't believed her! He thought everything they had said about her back home was true! And here they were, "temporarily" married for the sake of an experime...
The scent of his skin rushed at her. His hands tightened on the nape of her neck, pressing her forward. Then his lips were hungrily on hers. Was it a dream? Luz Rivas loved her job at the studio. She loved her life in the barrio. She had no illusions...
1941 BRITAIN'S LAST HOPE FOR SURVIVAL A vast shipment of gold to buy desperately needed arms -- a shipment carried on a commandeered American whaling ship on a secret voyage across the Atlantic. From Germany, the most advanced killer submarine in t...
At the end of the Cold War, a brutal murder in a Moscow alley forces two rival agents together in a mission to catch a serial killer - before it’s too late.
Moscow is a bad place for an American to walk alone, particularly a woman as ...
Theophile Gautier's masterpiece "Mademoiselle de Maupin" might be better known for its lengthy preface than the actual novel itself. It is there in which the author discusses art for art's sake, arguing that "everything useful is ...
Wayne Corrigan is a professional Dreamer. He creates nighttime entertainment to thrill the minds of the sleeping public. But when one of his colleagues goes crazy and tries to commit suicide, he threatens to take the entire audience along for the rid...
“So flawlessly written that every one of its events seems chillingly, ominously possible.” -- Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book ReviewA startling, imaginative novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureA violent war for equality has ...
Who was the more innocent? The children whose lives were threatened at the great and isolated mansion of Freer's Cove? Or the newcomer who had trustingly accepted a seemingly privileged post with the wealthy Freer clan? What begins as the perfect...
She was determined to stick it out... A legacy had brought Dinah to Australia, and at first she regarded the chance of a job in a television news department as a bonus -- and a challenge. But when she found herself continually clashing with her...
Welcome to Starburst … a quiet seaside resort where the people of the future escape into the past, and where only four things are certain … 1. Four people are dead. 2. You are next. 3. The murderer isn't human. 4. Night is falling....
Fourth of the Wandor epic fantasy adventure series! From prolific fantasy author Roland J. Green. IN THE ANCIENT DAYS... There was a King, and he wore Five Crowns and all the world owed him homage and lived at peace. Then the years of darkness came a...
From the moment Judith laid eyes on her uncle's friend, Lord Harrow, she knew he was trouble. Things were already bad enough since she had involved herself in her uncle's sticky marriage arrangements She certainly did not need Lord Harrow's caustic a...
He was the living embodiment of Donna Marshall's romantic fantasy...the most eligible, elusive bachelor in fun-loving Rio: Scott Carlton, head of Carlton Chemicals, her boss, richer -- and handsomer -- than anyone had a right to be. And now Scott...
AT LAST SHE WAS HOME! After graduation, Clementine Masters returned to Glenmeadows Farm in Kentucky where the death of the farm's owner evoked a unique legacy. An unknown relative inherits everything after a year; however, Glenmeadows can ...
Paris. The Flea Club. Denizens of the night gather to indulge their tastes. Older, wealthy American women and screechy men compete for the favors of handsome young gigolos. A prostitute plies her trade at the bar. Bored expatriates mark time over dri...
"You have stripped this child of her good name and must replace it with your own. I insist that you marry her!" High-spirited, hot-tempered Stacy Prescott had sworn she would never wed an elderly stranger. Now, her escape with young Lauri...
The time is 1780 and the bloody War of Independence has ended, but the peace terms are still a matter of passionate debate. To the young lovers parted by the throes of war, the separation is not only one of miles but also of attitudes and heritage. M...
PART OF THE PAST ENTERS THE PRESENT ... AND STAYS!In long-forgotten archives behind the Iron Curtain, parapsychologist Dr. Ray Thompson and his wife unearth a harrowing 400-year-old diary...Back in New York, they excitedly sift through the secrets co...
This is the story of the battle that inspired Sir Winston Churchill's moving tribute, "Never was so much owed by so many to so few," a story that takes you back into that time when the skies first became war's deadliest battleground . . . when outnum...
A warrior forced to battle the evil that thwarts his destiny, Brak must combat sorcery and plagues as he journeys south to Khurdisan. Before reaching this paradise city, he must hack his way through the obstacle after obstacle as he passes through un...
ADOPTED AS A CHILD, PHILIPPA PALFREY HAD THE BEST OF EVERYTHING. But, at eighteen, she wanted more. She wanted to know the identity of her real parents. Having always fantasized herself the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat and a parlour maid, s...
i>The American Cowboy spans three generations of cowboys in the American West, from the young trail boss of the very first cattle drive from Texas north to the railroads, to his grandson, born after the open range had been fenced in. Discover the dan...
ON TO ADVENTURE... Nicola had great hopes for her Australian holiday, and even the fact that her friends couldn't meet her plane didn't dampen her spirits. In fact, her adventure started right away when a handsome stranger offered to drive...
In the Nahella Valley of Appalachia, a rumor is whispered about a man named Eli Pettit and the small fortune in stolen money he supposedly hid on his farm before disappearing, leaving a wife, daughter and sister-in-law to tend the land and guard the ...
A monograph of Golden Age detective fiction from H.R.F. Keating, doyen of classic detective writers.
Murder Must Appetize is an affectionate return to the halcyon days of the detective story when Hercule Poirot and Lord Peter Wimsey were y...
When Nancy is told that a large inheritance from a Greek tycoon, meant for her friend Helen Nicholas, was stolen, she knows it’s up to her to find the culprit. But after following clues in the form of a poisonous snake in a basket of apples and a s...
It was too much the dream come true. Felicia Hollingsworth, ski champion and Olympic hopeful, fell deeply in love with her instructor, Grant Mitchell, married him... and lived happily ever after. Until the divorce, and the devastating choice that dro...
“I guess what it comes down to is I’ll have to choose. Guy -or Stacy and the other kids. Them or Guy. I can’t have them both.”Abby’s summer on Castle Island is a lot of fun at first. She’s popular with the kids. They invite her to parties...
Led by a beautiful woman, the conspirators infiltrated the highest levels of the West German government. And they claimed the Fuehrer lived again... American reporter Jim Banning is swept up in a maelstrom of treachery, corruption and lust as he purs...
ROSALEEN... She was the spirited daughter of a courageous woman who fled with her family from the Irish famine to the hope of America. Rosaleen never forgot the stormy past -- the past in which she huddled with her family on a Boston pier in that wi...
The earth gone mad... Always, beneath the calm surface of our planet, colossal forces are building up, and from time to time must find release; minor geological events such as the San Francisco earthquake, and the eruptions of Krakatoa and Mt. St. H...
The land of the upper Missouri was a wilderness… A land where men fought to the death for a stack of beaver pelts. Where river men and mountain men hacked their way to unbelievable wealth. Where Indians lurked, ever ready to attack at the first ...
The relief party arrived at the frontier settlement of Schenectady too late. All they found were smoldering ruins and the hideously butchered corpses of men and women. The French and Indian raiders had left only one living being behind -- a squalling...
Her assignment was glamorous but tough The man Robyn was sent to work with was the disreputable playboy author, Bradley Dexter--a man whose scandalous life-style and cynical attitude she despised. However, Robyn wasn't easily deterred. She ...
THE BESTSELLING NOVEL THAT BROKE THROUGH THE SILENCE ABOUT ANOREXIA NERVOSA At first, no one knows that something is fatally wrong with fifteen-year-old Kessa -- not her parents, teachers, friends, or family doctor. No one knows Kessa avoids eatin...
She taunted him, defied him, and forced him to reckless desire. Corinne Barrows's flashing emerald eyes bid men fulfill her any desire. She was the scandalous darling of Boston's gilded age. SWORN TO REVENGE Now she had sailed half round the...
Dissatisfied with her job as secretary at a large newspaper, Arlyn Crane solves a murder she accidently uncovered, uses her success to be promoted to a reporter, but learns it will still be difficult to fulfill her ambitions...
The Valley was primed to explode into hell. And by the end of his first day there, Slocum had been threatened, shot, and clubbed into unconsciousness. He owed his life to the beautiful settler's daughter who found him, bound his wounds, and offered h...
A KILLER OF MANY PERSONALITIES Martin Karpp was Alan Hobson, a compulsive thief. He was Willy Bennet, a flagrant homosexual. He was Jay Jefferson, a fanatic right-winger. He was Paul Liggett who hid his true nature behind a mask of mystery. Martin Ka...
DIVORCED, DISHONORED--AND OUT FOR REVENGE! When Jessabelle ran off after a fight with her tempestuous husband, the Earl of Pennymount, she had not expected to be kidnapped by a highwayman. Nor had she foreseen that Lord Pennymount's displeasure, a...
They said he was in league with the Devil! Richenda shivered at the thought. Lord Devenish, a commander in the enemy Royalist army, was known for his cruelty and senseless plundering, his looting and burning of all that lay in his path. And now...
An Adult Western POKER AND WOMEN WERE HIS FAVORITE PASTIMES -- HIS CALLING CARD WAS DEATH! BOLT WAS A WANTED MAN… WANTED BY HIS FAMILY, THE LAW -- AND BY A WHOLE LOT OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN! At eighteen, Jared Bolt, the reverend’s innocent son, was ra...
BOLT MUST CHOOSE ONE--HIS LIFE OR HIS LADY!BOLT WAS A WANTED MAN... WANTED BY HIS FAMILY, THE LAW--AND BY A WHOLE LOT OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN! When Jared Bolt discovered that three bounty hunters were after him, he knew he was headed for trouble. Accused ...
She had returned to a house of strangers. Seventeen year's ago Angela's mother had fled Casa Amati -- her husband's ancestral estate in Lombardy -- taking her small daughter to safety in California. Now Angela had returned in answer to a call for hel...
He'd be her friend but never her lover Caroline's job as governess at a Mexican hacienda was more demanding than she'd dreamed possible. Her employer, Esteban, was an evil and vulgar man, and he wanted her. She turned for help to L...
THE UNIVERSE HAS LESS THAN A CENTURY LEFT... UNLESS SPOCK CAN CHANGE HISTORY! The Enterprise is summoned to transport a dangerous criminal from Starbase prison to a rehabilitation center: brilliant physicist, Dr. Georges Mordreaux, accused of promisi...
Of course the ravishing Crystal Mirabeau of Mirabeau Plantation was meant for nobility, luxury and a carefree life. That was why she married the Marquis de Vega while she was in Paris. If she returned to Mirabeau with a rich husband, she would lighte...
RELUCTANT ROMANCE The chattering and giggling in a ballroom full of hopeful young debutantes had sent Lord Alexander hurrying for covers He had promised his father, the Duke of Carlyle that he would marry, but the fun-loving young lord was finding...
THE SEARCH FOR HIS "DREAM HOUSE" ENDED IN THEIR LOVE. Carly Andrews disapproved of the wealthy people who spent their summers in Bar Harbor as they waited for the fall social season to begin but Adam Noble was different. Raised in the community...