book description: Kanata, Bitter Shield, Thunder Gate, Wildfires and Victoria tell the story of Canada's settlement from sea to sea through the lives of two Scots families who leave Scotland after the Battle of Culloden. Janet Cameron MacLean, believ...
It looks like the perfect solution to Linny: she needs work, her lawyer husband needs a secretary. She's sure that being at Wes's side by day... and in his arms by night... can only improve their marriage. Though at first Wes heartily disapproves of ...
A strange, thrilling novel about desperate love, paranoia, and heartbreak by one of America's most singular writers. “What’s new. What else. What next. What’s happened here.” Pitch Dark is a book about love. Kate ...
A JOURNEY GUIDED BY FATE Shipwrecked, knocked unconscious, and imprisoned! To some this may seem like a streak of mighty bad luck, but Felix Brooke can't help but believe there is a reason for all his suffering. When Felix finds an injured boy on th...
Set on the Earth-like planet Helliconia, this is an epic chronicling the rise and fall of a civilization over more than a thousand years.
The great drama of life on Helliconia is shaped by its cosmic limitations. In fierce contrasts of clima...
SHE WAS MS. LONELY-HEARTS OF LINCOLN HIGH! "All that experience... all that confidence plus your secret knowledge... Someday you just have to tell us how you got it all! " Lori's classmates begged her. But the truth of the matter was that Lori ...
After an all too brief love affair with the ex-KGB agent Ivan Sasanov, Davina Graham is left inconsolable after his murder by Russian assassins. She is violently embittered by English Security's dismal failure to provide adequate protection and cover...
SHE HAD EVERYTHING TO LOSE. Kim Curtis felt supremely confident as she went to meet the new publisher of the Recorder. She was an ace reporter, as good as any man on the paper, and she knew it. But all her confidence dissolved before the deep, cha...
Kate Remington felt deeply fulfilled. She loved her home, her career, and most of all her husband, Adam. But when the doctor suggested she get pregnant, she began to recognize hidden longings...Suddenly, she yearned to have Adam's child, the ultimate...
The battle between East and West explodes in a remote corner of Burma in this electrifying saga from master storyteller Stephen Becker In the years before World War II, Harvard-trained anthropologist Greenwood journeyed to the Shan States in eastern ...
Darcy, the protected daughter of an auto tycoon--and Chason, a daring, ambitious race-car driver. Their whirlwind, ten-day courtship led to a perfect marriage--or so Darcy thought until her mother convinced her that Chason had married her to get on h...
"You make it hard for a man to say no." Was he making fun of her? With his suave manners, his roguish charm, and talent for collecting rare females of the species, Dart Griffiths, president of the Big Valley Zoological Society, was just the kind o...
FROM THE ASHES OF THE OLD . . . Heather Cavelle had made the acquaintance of violent death and sought never to face that dark spectre again. As editor of a small paper she tried to write only of the good in the world. Then David Sullivan took ...
He took wicked delight in provoking her. And Ellen was shocked at her own fiery response as she rose to his outrageous challenges. A ski weekend with a group of friends had thrown them together. He was divorced and she was committed to a memory, ...
Nicole Starr had managed the Seawinds boutique on Silver Cay ever since the death of her husband. For five years she had devoted herself to her work, unmoved by the romance of the Bahama resort or the attentions of men. Then Grant Sutton, self-sty...
When his drunken and impoverished brother dies, Lord Roxboro is none too pleased to discover he is to act as ward to two nieces for surely they will be the dirty brats he remembers and will cost him dearly of his dwindling fortunes. However, as they ...
For all Sloan Fairchild knew, Hollywood had moved to San Francisco when movie-star-handsome Carter Madison stepped into her elegant bed-and-breakfast inn. Though he wrote mysteries rather than movies, Carter cast Sloan as the heroine of SLEEPING MI...
There may be some argument about which European first bumped into America--an Italian or a Viking. But of this there is no doubt. The whole world has discovered that jolly Viking, Hagar the Horrible. His misadventures and daring-don't level readers...
New York Times best-selling author Gerald A. Browne''s suspenseful disaster novel about a massive mudslide along California''s southern coast.
The people of Southern California worship the sun, but their idol has forsaken them. For more tha...
The Ozarks -- these legendary hills held the secret and the shame -- of her past, the past that had to be faced before she could shape her future. No longer a wild hot-blooded girl, daughter of a poor tenant farmer, Blair Logan had come home a w...
Divorce was her business. An expert at untying matrimonial knots, beautiful Blair Bennett was one of the best lawyers in the Shenandoah Valley. But never before had her home been invaded by an irate ex-husband crying fraud. He demanded food and shelt...
A charming portrait of one man’s dreams and schemes, by “the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century” (The Guardian). In this enchanting book of linked stories, Italo Calvino charts the disastrous schemes of an Italian peasant, ...
Diana was a woman who needed no one She had fed, clothed and sheltered herself, put herself through college and grad school, and now, at twenty-six, she was a highly successful businesswoman. She had no intention of becoming more than professio...
Stacy Lorimer had carried her hatred of film director Craig Ankers with her for years -- and now she had the perfect instrument of revenge. Stacy was a reporter, and Craig hated reporters, but Stacy had accepted a legitimate job on his latest fil...
His image still burned in her memory Photographer Rane Strickland couldn't forget Greville York's strong male features -- nor the strange incident in Paris when he'd deliberately spoiled her last and best shot. Rane told herself she...
Love twists and turns in the game of hearts "What about me, Brianna? Am I to be the villain in your next book?" Actually, Brianna St. Clair thought that Ryder Cantrell would make the perfect hero for her next historical romance novel. Tall, wit...
A MOST WANTED YOUNG LADY The handsome, arrogant Lord Charles Hawksborough desperately wanted to catch the infernally insolent thief who had held him up at pistol point on the King's highway and ridden off with his family's fabled jewels. Hawksb...
THE MISSISH MINERVA WIN THE HANDSOMEST MAN IN THE TON? HER SISTER WOULD SEE ABOUT THAT! From the moment honey-tressed young Miss Annabelle Armitage meets her sister Minerva's intended, Lord Sylvester Comfrey, she develops a secret passion for ...
Marriage, home, kids -- was that her life? Catherine had married Jason Clyde when she was only eighteen -- scarcely more than a child. Jason had been handsome, successful, older, and he had swept her off her feet. Now, eight years later, sh...
A timeless inspirational classic, The Richest Man in Babylon is a triumph of storytelling that has been deftly relating the tenets of financial wisdom to readers for more than 90 years.
Covering economic tips on investment, savings, and ma...
RETIRED COP ALANNI KEOR BOUGHT THE FARM...LITERALLY SHE WAS HAPPY FARMING WITH HER PARTNERS-AN OUTIE AND A JARP-UNTIL A POWERFUL POLITICIAN BLACKMALED HER INTO BECOMING AN INTERPLANETARY THIEF. TO STEAL THE MYSTERIOUS ALIEN THING CALLED INVISIBLE WIS...
The antique white Mercedes was headed straight for her! Cassie retaliated with lightning speed, hurling a rock that smashed the antique car's taillight and brought the driver face-to-face with her. The price Jake Kilrain exacted -- a passionate...
Rod was a television reporter with the ultimate gimmick. Thanks to the marvels of microsurgery, TV cameras were implanted in his eyes. He could broadcast people's actions without them even knowing it. But when he was forced to spy on a dying woman, h...
Eyes of the Tarot is a mystical adventure made richer by accurate descriptions of tarot cards and their potential interpretation.I wrote four mystic adventures at around this time: Eyes of the Tarot, Waiting Spirits, Spirits and Spells, and Amulet of...
This collection of twenty stories features all of the stories Noel Coward published between 1939 and 1967, including "What Mad Pursuit," "Aunt Tittie," and "Mrs. Radcliffe"...
She wanted the impossible -- his love! Learning that her grandfather was critically ill was a severe shock for Lisle. Then she discovered that he planned to give Jake Allard control of their family business and arrange a marriage between her and J...
Julie Logan had co-authored anonymously for far too long, and she dreamed of getting her own byline. But when she finally secured a coveted assignment to interview reclusive vintner Jonathan Brook, he was strangely uncooperative...as well as devastat...
Follows the life and World War II exploits of RAF squadron leader David Kirby, from the slums of Southhampton, through his training in Oklahoma and his command of a Lancaster bomber to his last dangerous mission...
A groundbreaking novel of its time and a National Book Award winner: “[A] fine, honest, and moving a study of a young doctor” (The Atlantic Monthly). The Citadel follows the life of Andrew Manson, a young and idealistic Scottish doctor, as ...
THE BEST WAY TO LOSE . . . When Pilar Santee lost her husband, Elliot, she expected never to love again. How could she ever meet another man as fine? But Elliot had a son from the days before he met Pilar, and Trace Santee was every bit a Sante...
A collection of haunting -- and hilarious -- ghost stories by the beloved Booker Prize finalist and New York Times-bestselling author. Robertson Davies first hit upon the notion of writing ghost stories when he joined the University of Toronto as the...
In 1853, in the farthest outpost of the Czar’s empire, four Scandinavian indentured servants -- seven-year men no better off than slaves -- resolve to escape from Russian Alaska. They steal an Indian canoe and point it south toward Astoria, in Oreg...
"But I can't give you what you want," she murmured urgently. A day of her time was all Geoffrey Parker wanted. Once he'd had it all. Sara had been his wife, an eighteen-year-old Iowa farm girl invading the Parker's fabulous domain of wealth and p...
IT WADDLES FORM A REED-CHOKED SWAMP OLDER THAN THE PYRAMIDS... IT SNARLS FROM THE SHOT-SPLIT DARKNESS OF VIET NAM... IT STALKS THE GLOWING SLAG IN WHICH A CIVILIZATION DIED... FROM THE HEART OF DARKNESS come no gentle wraiths, no pastel fant...
1983 Walker MASS MARKET PAPERBACK.ISBN: 0802730388. June Drummond (The Meddlers). A young bride's husband dies and she becomes a supect. Cleared by her housekeeper, she soon becomes a murder suspect again. Is the housekeeper blackmailing her? - Amazo...
Cassie Prentis is eager to assume her new position as assistant veterinarian at the Albuquerque zoo...but totally unprepared for the stark sensuality of her boss, Paul Kelly. Her senses reeling with wild attraction, she inadvertenly sets off one comi...
In this narrative history, William M. Dwyer reveals a detailed picture of the American Revolution. He lets the participants - from American, British, and Hessian soldiers to myriad fearful and ambivalent citizens - tell the story in their own words....
Hemingway said, "A man should never write what he doesn't know." In the mid-fifties, Harlan Ellison--kicked out of college and hungry to write--went to New York to start his writing career. It was a time of street gangs, rumbles, kids with switchblad...
SWEETER THAN WINE ... She was an American in Paris, a restaurateur on the brink of success. Elizabeth Hunter needed time to establish herself, but time was running out. He was just another businessman, the owner of the Chateau Govin and the lus...
Talented and dedicated architect Erin Kelly planned a breathtaking house perched over cascading falls. It was a bold and daring design and would save the career nearly ruined by her greedy ex-husband. Bent on success, Erin struggled to gain the respe...
When Santa Anna was defeated at the Alamo, he left behind more than his reputation. Buried somewhere in a Texas border town is a stash of Mexican gold coins, and someone's murdering the US Treasury men who've been set to find it...
Crystal Lee grew up on the mighty and mysterious Missouri under the stern guidance of her father, Marsh Lee, captain of the Missouri Mist riverboat. But none of the secrets of the great wide river are as well kept as the captain's. And no one is more...
Jane McNaughton yearned for excitement and adventure -- and a strong handsome man to love. When she met officer Stuart Campbell on the bring of the War of 1812, no sooner had their passion flared than they had to say goodbye. As America brutally batt...
Recounts the World War II activities and triumphs of British music-hall illusionist Jasper Maskelyne and his specially trained team, who fought their part of the war with an amazing array of illusions...
Murder, cannibalism, political skulduggery -- it’s all in a week's work for Inspector Henri Castang. Henri Castang, a thirty-year veteran of the French National Police, returns from vacation to find some dirty and dangerous business awaiting him...
“This is surely the best historical novel in many years,” wrote Peter S. Prescott in Newsweek about Death of the Fox, George Garrett’s unparalleled reentry, into the heart of the English Renaissance. His new novel, The Succession, is surely the...
From the front cover flap: "Whales: A Celebration is a once-in-a-lifetime event. Never before has one volume gathered together so many renowned contemporary painters, novelists, poets, sculptors, and composers, all addressing themselves to a single s...
A corrupt football team fights to become the sport’s dominant franchiseThe Texas Pistols never should have been. The league had no business awarding a team to dying Park City, but it only took a little pressure—financial and otherwise&mda...
First published nearly one hundred years ago, André Gide’s masterpiece, translated from the original French by Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Howard, draws from the disciplines of biology, philosophy, and history to support the author’s assertion...
This book contains the fundamental works of Marxism, Anarchism and Bolshevism: The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels;Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg;The Conquest of Bread by ...
The return of a beloved classic, from the bestselling author of The Princess Bride!
“This inventive, offbeat fable has a touch of magic about it.”—Los Angeles Times
Once upon a time, the gondoliers of Venice possessed ...
FORBIDDEN FIRE The glamour and seductions of the New York stage were strange and frightening to beautiful Fiona Kieran. Its excitement kindled her hopes and sparked her spirit and she was prepared to fight her way through the jungle of ambition and...
in the year 2085, one third of the Earth's population was destroyed in World War IV... in one day. Then a deadly plague struck, bringing insanity and horrible death to anyone over the age of eighteen. Citizen Marianne O'Hara of New New York, one of t...
A change of heart is a woman's prerogative Leslie Williams found a perfect way to combine her creative spirit and business acumen as a designer and owner of a small knitting factory in her family's home, Puerto Rico. Fiercely independen...
HE WANTED DESPERATELY TO SET HER FREE... Stunningly beautiful--that was Karen Smythe. Yet the wealthy heiress-social worker, so warm and open with the teenagers she worked with, kept meticulously aloof from any male admirers. She had a secret bitter...
FUTILE LOVE A new job as companion to handsome Kurt Drayton's mother, seemed to be just the thing to help Shivonne forget the past. A shy Irish colleen, Shivonne soon blossomed in Kurt's tropical island paradise. She was the perfect tem...
Training intently for an important race, high school freshman and talented cross-country runner Stevie Farr struggles with her grief at her father's failing health and with the uncertainties of her first love....
It was that certain summer when Brenna’s parents kept bugging her about deciding on her plans for a future career. It was the summer that Brenna had firmly decided to do basically nothing, until her yard was over flowing with all the neighborhood ...
His true motives soon became clear... When famous artist Erik Jorgensen chose Lindsay to do an exclusive interview, she assumed it was because of her reputation as a journalist. She was wrong. For on her last assignment, a story on the circu...
Vietnam, 1968. A nightmarish landscape blackened by napalm and littered with once-human debris. Where victories are measured in mountains of corpses and ordinary men are transformed into obsessive executioners. This is the brutally honest story of Cp...
Follows the career of the sardonic narrator from the organized sadism of Marine basic training to an assignment as a combat reporter in Vietnam to his experiences as a platoon commander after the Tet offensive, portraying the descent into barbarism t...
When Harriet Unwin takes the position of governess in the well-to-do Thackerton household, it would seem that fortune has smiled on her at last. That is until William Thackerton is found stabbed, and Harriet accused of murder...
In a despe...
Sense and Sensuality Tessa Bellamy was known in Regency London as quite the most level-headed young lady ever to remain indifferent to society's frivolities and aloof from its follies Lord, Jonathan Hartfield was known just as widely as the...
RECKLESS RAPTURE Foolishly Victoria Johnson thought she could handle the handsome stranger. Business, not pleasure was on her mind at the West Coast word-processing exhibition. But one abandoned, unforgettable moment in Clayton Harper's arms chan...
SHE WAS THE PRIZE HE HAD ALWAYS SOUGHT... At seventeen Cathryn Ashe had fought Rule Jackson and lost her innocence, then fled to the anonymity of the city. At twenty-five she was back, sure of herself and her newfound independence and ready to cha...
"YOU WON'T NEED YORKSHIRE WHEN YOU HAVE ME!" That was what Gregory Harding had told Charlotte Clifford when he asked her to go to Australia with him. And, in a sense, he was right. The Hall had never been hers, and she no longer had fa...
The exciting sequel to Systemic Shock from the bestselling author of The Ransom of Black Stealth One. The nuclear war against China and India has left America victorious, but devastated, and a strong and survival-minded government has seized contr...
When half of the guests at a charity masquerade fête at Drool Court turn up dressed as sheiks, it must be more than pure coincidence. One of them is the real thing, however, and Sir John Appleby, master detective, discovers that he is in grav...
The classic tale of one man’s struggle with alcoholism, this revolutionary novel remains Charles Jackson’s best-known book -- a daring autobiographical work that paved the way for contemporary addiction literature.It is 1936, and on the East Side...
WARRING DESIRES... It started so innocently, when rugged, sensual Gage Fletcher challenged Rani Cameron to a war game. But Rani soon felt his desire to dominate her, to make her leave the charm of New Mexico, and to take her back to Dallas to conf...
She was the prisoner of a gruesome memory Lorna's heartbreaking childhood had taught her two things. One was that to make it in this world, she must rely on nobody but herself. And she'd done an admirable job, running a successful ladie...
Ginger truly loved Robert, but how could she commit to marriage? You see, she had never resolved her feelings for Ross, the man that her own spoiled sister Bonnie had snatched away from her. Despite her heartbreak, Ginger had felt obliged to return h...
Her dark eyes and haunting voice earned gypsy -Sheena Reardon fame as Ireland's mournful dove. Yet to Rand Challon the young Irish-American singer was not just a lark whose brilliant plumage was obscured... but a flesh-and-blood woman whom he desired...
A classic Halloween story about a pumpkin gone missing is certain to delight readers of all ages!When a 700-year-old woman and an 800-year-old man want to make pumpkin pie on Halloween, they can’t find their pumpkin. “Our pumpkin’s been snitche...
She wanted to punish him--not love him! When she was fifteen Laurel had been the victim of an attempted rape, and Oliver Savage was the reporter who had twisted her story, tearing her reputation to shreds and leaving her fearful of every man who c...
AN ARTIST'S PASSION Sculptor Lysandra Dillinger was haunted by her vision of the perfect man. And then one night she met him in the flesh -- Adam Honour, whose flashing blue eyes and arrogant stance were her fantasy come true. Following him...
When Lena lived in Chicago's inner city, she felt comfortable in her Mexican neighborhood. She had friends who cared for her, fond memories, and a deep sense of belonging. But now her family has moved to an affluent suburb, and Lena's suddenly aware ...
Frost finds himself in a deadly game of who do you trust when he's forced to work his way across mainland China -- with a Chicom secret agent! It is one of those times when a man's got to do what he's got to do -- even if it goes against everything h...
First published in 1944, Magdalen King-Hall's Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton is a historical novel set in late-seventeenth-century England. It tells the story of Barbara Skelton, a well-born young woman trapped in a loveless marriage, who ...
THE COST OF COMFORT Golden-haired Brien was indescribably happy: soon she would be the wife of a rich, handsome Frenchman. But when the glowing bride-to-be heard her fiance's drunken bragging about his past exploits, she couldn't bear the thought of...
The New York Times"bestselling author explores the occult history of WWII in this thriller inspired by true events during the Battle of Britain. The year is 1940, and Great Britain’s forces struggle against the invincible Nazi war machine. France...
A retired musician returns to performing in this “soul-satisfying” novel from the award-winning author of A Wrinkle in Time (Norman Lear). Now in her seventies, Katherine Vigneras, née Forrester, has returned to New York City after a successful ...
She had it all, conventional wisdom said -- a creative career in glamorous advertising and a handsome, upwardly mobile boyfriend. Yet the gnawing dissatisfaction Clare Forrester felt was pushing her to the crisis point. She had no answers, but she kn...
No one but Jake knew Sasha's secret pain. Sasha never dreamed she would meet Jake Redway again. It would mean having to relive that terrible day three years ago when Philip had died. She had managed to put her life back together again slowl...
From the New York Times bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow; Small Mercies; and Stitches, a wise and witty novel about motherhood. Look out for Anne''s next book, Hallelujah Anyway, coming in 2017.
In Anne Lamott’s wise and witt...
Why is this man such a thorn in my side? Regan Marlowe was beginning to ask herself that question all too often. Ever since the famous Dr. Steven Blake returned to the Houston hospital where Regan worked as a pediatric nurse, her life was a shambl...
Tawny-haired Carrie Chandler was searching for a rare antique locomotive when she came to the raw lands of western Texas. But from the moment rugged Bat Bartholomew held her in his powerful arms, Carrie knew she had found something even more valuable...
DESTINY'S PRISONER Desperate to escape her cruel, greedy uncle, raven-haired Christy hid herself aboard the Merrimer, certain she could sneak back ashore before the ship set sail. But before she knew it, the luscious stowaway drifted asleep - and ...
It was a fire that began the moment Kristie Hall, a doctor who had spent her life in the African bush, met conservationist Richard Cagney. The flames leaped and danced, consuming them both, the heat of their passionate conflagration a rival for the e...
They met at the casino on St. Maarten -- he, a tall, blond stranger who called her Lady Luck; she, a promising playwright revising her script for Broadway. When they met again in New York, he was directing her play. From the first, their onstage a...
She would love him or destroy him, but never bend to his will DESIRE FLAMED IN THEIR BURNING PASSIONS Wealth and breeding had prepared her to be a fine young lady, yet her softly lustrous allure could not conceal the headstrong spirit which no ...
There was love, passion, and strength in the Summers -- and a depraved and evil streak no one could tame... JULIA - Courageous and beautiful, she and her lover faced an evil lust. ALEXANDRA - She was used to getting what she wanted. What she ...
All a new life offered was old heartache Hugh Grey had seduced Annabel with consummate skill in London. She had fled, humiliated, when she discovered he was married. In Barbados two years later she hoped to escape the past. The last man she exp...
Friend or foe, stay out of their way!Malaria can’t slow them down. A stockade can’t keep them penned up. Tanks can’t stop them. They’re the most blood-hungry platoon of killers in the jungle. The enemy fears them. Their own army hates them. B...
Kamikaze Kill Sweep! The Rat Bastards face the deadliest battle of all as the war draws to an explosive end. The Japanese launch a final, desperate attack a blood-hungry suicide mission. And the Rat Bastards finally meet their match. Kicking, clawing...
If war is hell, these guys would hate heaven! When you want to win a battle, you get real men. When you want to win a war, you get the Rat Bastards. When they’re not fighting among themselves, they’re tearing raw, living chunks out of the enemy. ...
From the moment Karen McAlister saw Rand Prescott, she knew that he was the one man with whom she could share her future. But Rand's own vision was limited, and he was unwilling to bind himself to o woman he could not see. Fate, however, saw ever...
Traveling to Martinique to inspect the villa left to her by her estranged father, aspiring writer Carol Spencer meets wealthy Jules Saint Laurent, whose family once owned the villa and who wishes to repossess it...
Through his adulterous affair with Barbara Campbell, young Mark Johnson encounters her circle of friends, a carelessly freeloving group whose casual attitudes toward love make him reconsider his own feelings...
NEVER SAY NEVER TO LOVE After Diana left Ross, it was three long years before she saw him again. Tall, dark and rugged, he would always be Diana Branscomb's one and only love, the husband she had left behind. She was Houston's top inter...
Compassionate and profound in their wry humor, this collection of stories captures the poetry of human relationships at the point where reality and imagination meet....
When Gaby first fell in love with Heath it was pure happiness. But soon their relationship swept them into deep waters. Could she cope with her new found tumultuous feeling and still be friends with that certain boy? ...
AN ENGLISH ROSE IN TEXAS The Leaping T Ranch stood proudly in the center of the sprawling plains of Texas. And to lovely Leonora Carlton, fresh from London, it held the promise of an exciting new life. Hired as the ranch's gourmet cook while st...
Armed with wit, curls, and a Harvard education, Gilbert Fairchild arrives in Washington, and sets about seducing congressmen's wives, outmaneuvering political adversaries, and acquiring a White House office just down the hall from the president...
Miranda had to know what was wrong! When Georgios, her husband of three months, hurried back to Greece because of family troubles, Miranda wasn't too alarmed. When he didn't come back, she decided to look for him. The problem was that G...
ONLY HIS LOVE STOOD BETWEEN A DESTINY OF DESPAIR AND THE PROMISE OF PASSION PASSION'S PROMISE In the moonlight, Guerre took Althea in his arms. It was the first time in her young lift that any man had touched her with tenderness. From the mi...
She was his paragon of efficiency Jenna was more than Royce Drummond's secretary. She also arranged the intimate dinners with his mistresses and was silent witness to the parade of beautiful women that passed through his office. Royce didn...
He was a Yankee, a shipbuilder, a daredevil sea captain....and a married man. She was a tempestuous Charleston belle. From the moment their eyes first met they both were lost, though only she knew it then. When Edward Anderson next meets Penelope ...
LIGHTNING CAN'T STRIKE TWICE! Or could it? What did Katie Connelly really know about Ramon Galverra? There was so much to learn and so little time... They were exact opposites in every way. Katie - independent, contemporary, successful career-...
She would beat him at his own game. Yale Upton self-made man, Palm Beach sophisticate, had made it clear he knew what he wanted and took it. Well, cool and casual Hannah Blake would tease and elude him. He'd never have his way. But she should hav...
Art curator Jenny Moffatt was determined to beat the big money interests that were out to replace her museum with a condominium development. She was sure she would prove a match for Ryan Powers and his fellow investors. But in a confrontation with Ry...
A ROSE IN THE DESERT After twenty-five years of searching for her own brand of happiness, Perris Fleming was settling down to the life her parents had chosen for her: a corporate fiance, country club dances, well-to-do friends, and lazy summers in...
Billie Gentry was sixteen when she watched her beloved father’s Formula I Alfa Romeo spin out of control and careen into the Sicilian mountainside during the grueling Targa Florio. For years she fought to erase the memory of that tragic day. Now,...
Out of her bitterness, there came a plan... Twelve years ago Lori's father had been destroyed by the ruthless lawyer Jacob R. Randell in a notorious embezzlement trial. Ruined, overcome with shame, her father had killed himself, protesting his...
THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY It's enough to give a drug pusher nightmares: thousands upon thousands of sober citizens are suddenly turning on and dropping out--for free--and the illicit narcotics business has ground to a halt. Under other circumstance...
Turning to gunrunning to help his people, the half-breed Charlo is betrayed and left to die by cattle thief Sedge Thompson and vowing revenge, finds himself caught in a tragic battle between the Sioux and the whites...
Caught in a violent storm, Lisa and her three friends take refuge in a deserted old house. Inside are strewn odd tricks and gadgets -- the props of a practiced magician. Doors slam. The phones go dead. A ghostly hand creeps across the mantel. But the...
THEY DARED TO CROSS A FORBIDDEN LINE FOR LOVE TWO DYNASTIES DIVIDED BY THE SAME DARK SECRETS, DESTINED TO BE JOINED BY A SCANDALOUS, ENGULFING LOVE. In sultry Louisiana their plantations adjoin, but not their lives. The Leblancs are white ari...
Frustrated by police impotence and bureaucratic red tape and devastated by personal tragedy, Sergeant Norah Mulcahaney flees the city for tiny York Crossing, Pennsylvania, and finds herself embroiled in a case involving illegal aliens, kidnapping, an...
No man was going to threaten her career Zee had just broken her engagement. Marriage to a man who paid only lip service to sexual equality would block her advancement in hotel management. So when Lorin Jensen, a new executive at the hotel, turn...
"Nothing makes sense anymore!" he stormed Judith and Linc had been separated for almost a year--ever since he was abducted by a group of Communists in Malaysia. Then came the news of her husband's freedom, and Judith was ecstatic. B...
TOO LATE TO LOVE? When Abby went home to the Big Sky country she'd always loved, she seemed more like a wounded bird than a glamorous fashion model. After what had happened in New York she could never let any man touch her again. But Cade McLaren ...