Books Published in October 1999

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Dear Reader, In Promise, Texas, people know what it is to depend on a friend--and how to be that friend. They know that family, home, community are the things that really count. They know that love gives meaning to every single day of their lives....

• Oct-1999
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ALONE AT CHRISTMAS Greg Bennett feels his life has been a waste. Sixty years old and he has no one to spend Christmas with, no one who cares. Greg knows he's made mistakes, hurt people, failed in all the ways that matter. As a young man, he fa...

• Oct-1999
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Her husband-to-be? Dee had thought a career was enough to keep her happy and fulfilled. But now she regrets giving up her chance of marriage, babies and family life.... Especially when Hugo Montpelier, the man she once passionately loved, returns....

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Christmas...with Gabriel Everybody knows her as Jane Smith -- a successful businesswoman. What they don't know is that Jane has also successfully distanced herself from her past. Until she meets handsome American Gabriel Vaughan at a Christ...

• Oct-1999
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ABOUT TO GO INTO LABOR... IN THE ELEVATOR? Heather Fitzpatrick was very pregnant. Utterly alone. And definitely finished with men. When into the elevator stepped Mr. Tall, Dark and Handsome. Then, pilot Jim Dyer proved heart-stoppingly heroic when...

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Detective Alex Cross is back--and he's in love. But his happiness is threatened by a series of chilling murders in Washington, D.C., murders with a pattern so twisted they leave investigators reeling. Cross's pursuit of the killer produces a suspect,...

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New York cop Eve Dallas returns to face her most ingenious foe--a "secret admirer" who taunts her with letters... and kills without mercy. She'd lost her badge and had nearly lost her way too recently for the sting to have faded. Now that she had bo...

• Oct-1999
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DEAR READER: The Countess was my very first novel, published in 1978 under the title The Autumn Countess. Even at that amazingly young age, I still realized that I should write about something I knew. Since I'd grown up reading Georgette Heyer...

• Oct-1999
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Demon Cynster has seen love bring his brethren to their knees, and he's vowed that he will not share their fate until he spies Felicity Parteger sneaking around his country estate. Demon remembers Felicity as a mere chit of a girl, but now she stands...

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ALIVE, TEX O'ROURKE WAS A SNEAKY OLD COOT. NOW THAT HE'S DEAD, HE'S EVEN WORSE. Megan O'Rourke's beloved grandfather had always been determined to lure her out of New York and back to the ranch in Whispering Wind, Wyoming, where he had raised her....

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Twenty-one years after the Battle of Endor, the New Republic will face an even darker enemy... More than two decades after the heroes of the Rebel Alliance destroyed the Death Star and broke the power of the Emperor, the New Republic has struggled...

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When darkness holds the most tantalizing of possibilities, what goes bump in the night may be the man of your dreams .... Everything is possible and nothing is as it seems in four enchanting tales brimming with romance, passion, and a touch of won...

• Oct-1999
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CONSTANT CRAVING Private Investigator Alec Sharpe wanted to keep Celia Carter safe. He also just plain WANTED her. But Celia had some crazy ideas -- first that she could conduct a risky investigation all by herself, and second that she could ignor...

• Oct-1999
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One final night to remember.... When Shelley went to Italy, Drew Glover was convinced that she wasn't going for work, but for her rich boss -- and his money! Three years later Drew still hasn't changed his mind. Though attraction still ...

• Oct-1999
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A submarine trip to an island of ghosts. A band of fugitive actors. A deadly draconian who has had too much holiday punch. And veritable onslaught of dryads, shadow wights, and that rarest of all monsters, the dread forest boojum. Also, from the t...

• Oct-1999
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Some authors spin stories. Some create characters. And some bring into being entire universes that were never before dreamed. . . .

In 1983 the literary world was surprised--and even shocked--when a paperback Dungeons and Dragons fantasy by an unkn...

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A LONG-LOST POSTCARD FIRST BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER. WILL THEIR DIFFERENCES KEEP THEM APART? After uncovering the secrets of an old postcard found in an Amish B&B, journalist Philip Bradley resumes his fast-paced life in New York City. But he simply ca...

• Oct-1999
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"I felt like I was going to my own execution...." Cat had listened patiently, as the other three girls in Dr. Marlowe's therapy group shared their innermost feelings. They had described their broken families honestly, to the point of pain. If Cat ...

• Oct-1999
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OUT OF THE EMPTY RUINS OF YESTERDAY Penniless, desperate and determined, Maggie Stanley grabs her small baby and runs into the snowy Idaho night, fleeing a dangerous, hurtful life. Now in her loneliest, blackest hour, a handsome, down-and-out stra...

• Oct-1999
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Some men have sex appeal. Seth Gantry has it in spades. With ebony hair and bottomless eyes, Seth was the kind of man Olivia 'Levi' McCord's father warned her about - and the last man on earth she'd ever fall for. Especially when the sinewy cowbo...

• Oct-1999
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THE MARRIAGE MASQUERADE Cade Townsend knew almost nothing about his new wife! But posing as McKayla Dellaventura's husband was the only way they could expose the black-market ring that had stolen her infant niece - and his son. Still, the savvy in...

• Oct-1999
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CRY OF VENGEANCE Falcon MacCallister roams the West, far from home, far from the memories of the peace and beauty of MacCallister's Valley. With a destiny as wide and unsure as the open range, he is a loner. But to those who know him, he is a legend....

• Oct-1999
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“I will continue to fight until the scum and the warlords and the human filth are gone from the face of this land that we still call America.” -- BEN RAINES Ben Raines has been to hell before and made it out alive every time. But Ben hasn't c...

• Oct-1999
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A resurgent America faces a terrifying horde of post-apocalyptic Nazis in the New York Times�"bestselling author’s dystopian military thriller.   Chilling rumors of a new Nazi movement reach the rebel camp of Ben Raines and his freedom fighte...

• Oct-1999
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She was nobody's fool...and nobody's mistress! Clay Beauchamp would have to learn -- Natalia was not for sale! He was handsome, protective, even generous, but nothing would lure Natalia into his bed...until the night her livelihood was des...

• Oct-1999
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A SIX-YEAR-OLD SECRET... Poor boy Nick Konrads has made good and returned to the Australian town that sent him packing seven years ago. His crime? Falling for tender, innocent Suzannah Sheffield -- who had betrayed their love. As the new owne...

• Oct-1999
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Wanting more in life than a predictable beau, a young woman vows to seek adventure--until a near disaster makes her wonder if her bland Clark Kent is really Superman in disguise....

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When apprentice wizard Felicity Grant conducts a reckless experiment on New Year's Eve, she's hurled from present-day Seattle to 1899 London -- and into the arms of a singular man.......

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When a terrified Dr. Maggie Rawlings saw her ex-husband killed, she feared her little boy might be next. They started running, with every man a potential threat - even if her son was constantly in search of a daddy. And a cowboy. And he found both in...

• Oct-1999
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PROPOSITIONED When irresistible Hank Riverton said he needed Angela Samuel's help, how was the virginal secretary to know he'd be talking about marriage? Now she was on her way to Mustang, Montana, to play wife for a week to the most unmarried man i...

• Oct-1999
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THE TOUGHER HUNTER WAS... The harder he was bound to fall. But that didn't stop rugged mercenary Devlin Hunter from shrugging off his boss's order to partner up with pretty Kulani Dawson on his latest mission. After all, a man had his pride -- and...

• Oct-1999
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His bargain had strings! It was Jarad Montgomery who picked Merren up and dusted her down after she'd been mugged. He even offered to replace her stolen money. Merren was determined to repay Jarad, and he was happy to suggest a solution: b...

• Oct-1999
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Bridal Jitters by Jayne Castle On a faraway planet... Virginia Burch, a psychic archaeologist, can't believe her luck when she meets Sam Gage, a ghost-hunter and owner of prime real estate in the Old Quarter of Cadence, above the Dead City. ...

• Oct-1999
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Dancing marks the rites of passage in a daughter's life and that of the father who loves her. From her first carefree twirling in the flower-dotted yard, to her first solo performance in The Nutcracker, to the waltz of her wedding night, her father i...

• Oct-1999
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The fake fiancee... Harriet had been pursuaded to impersonate her friend Rosa. But wealthy Italian Leo Fortinari appeared fooled by Harriet's pretense, and a powerful attraction soon simmered between them. Now he was proposing an engagement of co...

• Oct-1999
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This tender Christmas novella tells the story of Timmy O'Neil, a foster child who arrives at his new home with a very mysterious shoe box. At first glance, it's nothing special -- just an ordinary box with a red lid and the words Running Shoes printe...

• Oct-1999
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Once Mickey Magruder was a cop with a wild streak. And Kinsey Millhone was a younger cop who adored and married him. Then Mickey was implicated in a fatal beating, and Kinsey walked out. Now, fourteen years later, she comes face-to-face with those tr...

• Oct-1999
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For five centuries he has been dead to this world, his body lying dormant in the Highlands of Scotland. Yet as an Immortal High Witch, Nicodimus Lachlan has never truly been dead--instead, his spirit has been suspended in an eternity of darkness. His...

• Oct-1999
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Fifteen-year-old Ariella spends her days in the forest caring for the animals, but when her father dies and she is threatened with marriage to a cousin she has never seen, a remarkable horselike creature from the woods will reward the girl's compassi...

• Oct-1999
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Dr. Eric Carlson had learned the hard way that marriage and medicine just didn't mix. But from the moment he met Kate Nolan and her little girl, Sarah, the dedicated doctor forgot his rules about romance. ONE SPECIAL WOMAN... Struggling alone to ...

• Oct-1999
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For twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort. Now he has escaped, leavi...

• Oct-1999
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A young groom enlists private investigator William Monk to track down his fiancee, Miriam Gardiner, who disappeared suddenly from a party at a luxurious Bayswater mansion. But Monk soon finds the coach in which Miriam fled and, nearby, the murdered b...

• Oct-1999
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Mission: to steal a bridegroom? Joshua Wade was convinced that Regan Frances was plotting to disrupt his wedding. Why else would she have agreed to organize the big day -- when she clearly had a grudge against him? Regan had to admit there was unf...

• Oct-1999
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NO MAN COULD TAME HER Jessi Rose Clayton would do anything to keep the family ranch from falling into the wrong hands-even agree to take on a rough-and-tumble outlaw as her protector. With his rugged, handsome face and muscular bronze body, Griffin ...

• Oct-1999
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A tale that sweeps the reader from the antebellum South to contemporary New Orleans, the dark, sensuous world of love and immortality �" of the beauty and the beast whom some call vampire... Maggie Montgomery, the owner of Magdalena's an elegant ...

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FIRST-TIME FATHER... Rafe Ortiz didn't know a thing about babies. But as a DEA agent, he was an expert at spotting criminals. So when his new son's mobster uncle started asking too many questions, Rafe knew it was time to split. He needed the safe...

• Oct-1999
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A convenient wife? Nicole wasn't looking for a temporary affair--and this was all loner Dr. Alexander Strathallen seemed prepared to offer. So she resisted her attraction to him.... Until he confessed that he needed an heir and suggested a mar...

• Oct-1999
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A husband of convenience! Sienna Rushford desperately needs to claim her inheritance from the father she never even met -- but his will states she must be happily married! The only man Sienna can turn to is Keir Alexander. She knows he needs a sho...

• Oct-1999
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Her first mistake was emigrating alone. Her second was even greater.... Augusta Bjorklund, after discovering her intended bridegroom married someone else, decides to leave her broken hear in Norway and start a new life in America. But knowing no Eng...