
Suddenly widowed Lynn Danfort had felt doubly bereft when her husband's best friend abruptly left town. Now, three years later, husky Ryder Matthews was back, and to Lynn's astonishment, he seemed to be offering far more than friendship. Was ...
A KIDNAPPER'S PROMISE Lady Reina de Champeney's cerulean eyes gazed with scorn as they fell upon the golden giant of a man before her. This was the knight Ranulf Fitz Hugh, her kidnapper, who was pledged to deliver her into the worst kind of bon...
Mysterious, elusive Chantal duPont was an enchanting forest nymph in a revealing white gown, beckoning Scout Ritland into the sultry night with promises of pleasure in her breathtaking blue eyes. But when the exquisite island princess pulled a gun an...
Kate is only eighteen when she meets Tom Harper, one of America's biggest pro-football stars. They share an idyllic and glamorous first love. But the bullet that suddenly ends Tom's career also ends their life together. ...
Shocked by the threat of an arranged marriage to an aging magistrate, Bliss Stafford fled through the rugged New Zealand countryside. But chance--and the barrel of her father's pistol--wed her to Jamie McKenna, a handsome, headstrong rancher whose bo...
When Rylan Quaid proposed to Maggie McSwain at his sister's wedding, joy and fierce disappointment warred in her heart. She'd loved him forever, wanted him desperately. But could he really be so insensitive that he would suggest it was time he settle...
WELCOME TO FEAR STREET Don't listen to the stories they tell about Fear Street. Wouldn't you rather explore it yourself ...and see if its dark terrors and unexplained mysteries are true? You're not afraid, are you? She's pale as a ghost, blonde and...
STUNNED BY TRAGEDY, DESPARATE ADN ALONE, HEAVEN'S DAUGHTERS CLING TO THE FRAILEST OF DREAMS! The car crash that killed Heaven and Logan left Annie Casteel Stonewall orphaned and crippled. Whisked off to Farthinggale Manor by the possessive Tony Tatt...
THE MARK OF A CARELESS KILLER Tadeo Kurobashi loved poetry, studied Samurai history, and operated his own software company. When they found him dead on the floor with a Samurai sword by his hand, it looked like hara-kiri. Except for one thing. An ...
Orders were orders, but battle-weary undercover agent Kit Anderson chafed at seeking refuge from death threats in the house of her new boss, Coast Guard Lieutenant Noah Trayhern. Noah's cold authority masked inner demons to rival her own; his rough k...
Their relationship was explosive Ever since Jordan Reece had come as the new editor of the Bradbury Herald, the morning conferences were a battleground where he and Cassandra Preston crossed swords. Jordan knew that Cassy resented him, and whe...
She just had to do something Nicole didn't know quite how Chase Tarrant had managed to persuade her boss, Aston, to part with his new racing sloop. She was quite convinced, though, that it wasn't honestly. Although Aston didn't see...
Beautiful, wild-eyed and golden-haired, Eden Whitney was the most delectable woman Zach Tyson had ever found trussed up in the hold of his pirate ship. As dangerous and turbulent as the dark seas he sailed, Zach knew a priceless treasure when he saw ...
HOT-TEMPERED AND UNPREDICTABLE, DELILAH DESMOND WAS INDEED THE DEVIL'S DAUGHTER. "Devil" Desmond, to be exact, society's most infamous rogue who had just completed his scandalous memoirs. A great many dreaded the tell-all publication, including hi...
MAGE-CRAFT Though Vanyel has been born with near-legendary abilities to work both Herald and Mage magic, he wants no part of such things. Nor does he seek a warrior's path, wishing instead to become a Bard. Yet such talent as his if left untrained m...
She wasn't covered for heartbreak Giving away teddy bears was a crazy way for Max Armstrong to attract customers -- or so insurance agent Clare Pemberton thought. She figured she'd have no trouble, wiping out his cuddly brand of competitio...
Unlike most teenaged boys, Teppic isn't chasing girls and working at the mall. Instead he's just inherited the throne of the desert kingdom of Djelibeybi--a job that's come a bit earlier than he expected (a turn of fate his recently departed father w...
Rebecca Lopez enjoys a life of privilege in Elizabeth's England -- yet she guards secrets she dares not reveal. The beautiful, tempestuous daughter of the queen's own physician, Rebecca is also a converso -- a Jew who practices her prohibited...
Who's Teaching Whom? Bernadette Baxter saw no harm in giving her boss a few pointers on the art of courtship when he asked. After all, a man as kind as Mr. Atwood deserved the woman of his dreams. But after a few "practice" dates, Bernadette bega...
Amid the Furious Cry of Battle, a Private War of Passion Had Just Begun . . . Hastings; 1066. Clouds of war darkened the horizon as Saxons and Normans clashed with a vengeance. Yet another battle raged ... as two sparring hearts collided ... ...
He could have chosen any woman he wanted Adam Rocquaine, idolized the world over for his looks and singing voice, was a man completely out of Maggie Hornchurch's experience. So far, her experience had been strictly limited to building her care...
Personal relationships were out Ambitious to get Berry's Cider Farm bark on its feet after her father's death, Blythe Berensen simply had no time for them. And especially not with Coburn Daggart. Years ago he had hurt her badly, and she...
THE BETRAYED BEAUTY When lovely young Omega Chartley was left at the altar by the man she loved, her life turned from a dream into a nightmare. Penniless, she had to find employment far below her station. Heartbroken, she could not think of ever...
Only a few nuclear weapons fell in America-the weapons that destroyed our nation were biological, and, ultimately, cultural. But in the chaos, the famine, the plague, there existed a few pockets of order. The strongest of them was the state of Desere...
IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO Wes Adler seemed to have it all--a high-powered career and his pick of the finest things life had to offer. Still, Wes was certain that something was missing--something he couldn't find. But when he met hotel concierge Jennie...
Wade had come to take her back to Texas Just before his death, Joanna's father had put Wade Hollister in charge of his ranch and all his financial assets. He'd also given Wade his daughter. Joanna, an insecure, overweight seventeen-year...
When his friend, a wealthy Jewish-Iranian banker and an illegal alien, is squeezed for money by a group of Muslim extremists threatening to turn him over to the INS, Fiddler steps in to help. Reprint....
MR. JUNE & A MAN WITH A MISSION Major Quinn McNamara's assignment to infiltrate a dangerous rebel camp in the wilds of North Africa had just been changed. Now the fierce agent had to rescue a wealthy senator's daughter. If Quinn didn't...
It was not the holiday she'd planned When a friend forced her to take a much-needed break from the pressures of her job, Paige Montgomery had her own plans. Top of the list was to get her life into some kind of order. Instead she found hers...
Mute is science fantasy of mutation and psi: special mental powers. The protagonist, Knot, is a double mutant: he has a physical deformity, and the psi power to make others forget him. He´s satisfied with his life--until the lovely Finesse walks int...
It was difficult to say no to him Colin Radbrook had made a name for himself as an investigative reporter -- and wasn't easily deterred from reaching his goal. And Livvy admitted that in other circumstances she might have succumbed all too ...
TROPIC HELL A hard probe into a cocaine pipeline leads Mack Bolan to a Caribbean drug lord and into a shadowy KGB conspiracy. Increased Soviet activity on the island of Grenada points to something more sinister than drug trafficking--and much more...
She thought she'd put the past behind. Stephanie had made a home for herself and her young son Adam in the quiet Cotswold village--and was content with her life. It was a shock to learn that Maxim Tyler had moved into the manor house. The m...
Surgeon Jason Fletcher was the hospital heartbreaker, a gorgeously virile playboy with no scruples--until he stepped in to protect Laura Novak from a hotshot younger doctor! Why had he, the man without a possessive bone in his body, suddenly felt jea...
SWORN ENEMIES The Yankees had killed her sweetheart, imprisoned her brother and driven her from her home...but beautiful, golden-haired Serena Bain faced the future boldly as the wagon trains rolled out. Ahead lay countless dangers. But all the peri...
Ten years could not erase the memory When unsophisticated teenager Barbara Lamb turned her back on Portugal, she'd made a new life and career for herself in England. Her one aim was never again to have to ask anyone for help. When her old frien...
He calls himself Brother Kristos, a bearded bear of a man, whose eyes can pierce the soul. His origins are cloaked in mystery, but his present mission is clear: to take upon himself transgressions of the wives of Washington, absolving them of guilt. ...
A grave robber and a corpse reunite Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee. As Leaphorn seeks the identity of a murder victim, Chee is arresting Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawk for ransacking the sacred bones of his ancesto...
In 1939, as Hitler cast his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, hatred of a similar kind took root in South Africa, where the seeds of apartheid were newly sown. There a boy called Peekay was born. He spoke the wrong language--English, the langu...
John D. MacDonald’s The Price of Murder features a complex plot told in a multiple-character format. Published in 1957 as a paperback original, The Price of Murder begins with the troubled marriage of English college professor Lee Bronson and his v...
“A remarkable novel” (The Washington Post) from New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende, introducing her most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller.Eva Luna is the daughter of a pr...
FAIR GAME Diana Phillips needed time alone to find a new direction in life, so she headed for Colorado's wide-open spaces. But a hotel reservations mistake forced her to board with rancher Mac Maclean. And she quickly found her thoughts straying, ...
Holly Chambers was beautiful... but she appeared to be dead! Justin Hope was shocked at the sight of bodies lying everywhere. What disaster had befallen the pretty Wisconsin town, and how could he help the lovely woman lying on the grass before him? ...
THIEF OF HEARTS Michael Conti met Alexandria Thomas while she was committing a near-perfect crime: stealing an expensive bracelet from a posh L.A. jewelry store. Only his intervention kept her from walking away with the booty. He knew he ought to ...
When Zarah, the old gypsy woman, gave her the wondrous string of creamy pearls, promising that a man with cinnamon-colored hair would enter her life and magic would follow, Leah insisted she didn't believe in such pretty illusions. But when handsome ...
Another bride, Another groom, Another lazy afternoon... Of murder. ENGAGED TO BE MURDERED Eileen Chandler, of the very eccentric Georgia Chandlers, is all set to be married. Unfortunately nobody much likes the groom; they fear he's out to s...
With chilling echoes of a notorious, real-life murder in Connecticut, nationally bestselling author Patricia MacDonald's gripping novel unwraps the layers of fear and guilt in a small town where nothing bad ever happens -- until a pretty teenager dis...
A BLOODY STAGECOACH AMBUSH is nothin' out of the ordinary on the Texas range. But there's something strange about the masked kid---who kills only one of the passengers without even bothering to rob the others! It's downright peculiar. Then, when S...
He was the Rolls-Royce of heroes When Sam Donahue opened his luxury car showroom next to Lucky Panderholden's used car lot, Lucky knew she was in trouble. His slick European autos made her Late Model Lovelies look shabby by comparison. So Lucky ha...
Revenge... Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield are working as summer interns at The Sweet Valley News when they hear that a patient has escaped from a nearby psychiatric hospital. Assigned to research the man's past for an article, the twins discover th...
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