When Mardi Gras brings mayhem, mystery, and danger to the beautiful Hotel Marchand, head of security Mac Jensen must not only protect the guests from harm but also Julie Sullivan, one of the hotel's owners who is being tormented by so...

A QUESTION OF LUST  Nikki James is in San Francisco at the request of her partner and best friend, Jake. The wife of an old friend is missing, and Jake intends to find her—whatever the cost. The authorities believe the kidnappings ...

When Maggie Graham lost her job and her apartment fell to pieces, she decided to flee New York City for a while and hide in Vermont, at the Crossroads Theatre. She hadn't planned to audition, yet soon found herself part of the summer ...

A zany anthology of hilarious comic fantasy tales features both new and classic works including 'Happy Valley' by John Cleese and Connie Booth, Garry Kilworth's 'Attack of the Charlie Chaplins,' Esther Eisner's 'Gunsel and Gretel,' an...

A brand new MYTH-filled with reading, writing, and arithMYTHtic. The 'legendary' magician Skeeve tries to live up to his reputation by training young spellcasters in the tricks of the trade-with less than magical results.

POUND OF FLESH In the hostile new world of postnuclear America, there are many ways to die, but few are clean or quick. Long ago Ryan Cawdor and his band threw in their lot together—to do or die trying. It was a pact sealed in b...

It was a crime that shocked the nation, a brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child, by two wealthy college students who killed solely for the thrill of the experience. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb had first met several years ea...

A thriller steeped in European culture like The Salzburg Connection, Refiner's Fire serves up serious suspense to avid fiction readers. This book's 'secret underground society' is not Nazi war criminals, however-it's the persecuted Ch...

From the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Elegance of the Hedgehog. In the heart of Paris, in the posh building made famous in The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Pierre Athens, the greatest food critic in the world, is dying. R...

Real estate agent Cole, uses his skill with words and the force of his personality to sell houses. Particularly to newly divorced and widowed women he expertly seduces. That is until he meets Lana, a submissive masochist, who craves b...

Spoiled rotten heiress, Porsche Rothschild, wants to find herself...maybe. She just doesn't expect to find herself as an undercover bodyguard to a Hollywood bad boy who is more high maintainence than Porsche. She arrives in Hollywoo...

A PORTRAIT OF A LADY. . . or is it? The risque painting owned by Benjamin Elliot, the earl of Foxburn, features a stunning beauty with sapphire eyes, golden hair, and creamy skin. Ben recognizes this particular English rose the instan...

A novel based on the real-life incident of the Mier Expedition, one of the most tragic events in Texas history, follows two young men on an expedition to the Mexican border, during which they are captured in a raid on the Mexcian vill...

The Season For Surprises. . .Juliet Wentworth knew what she was getting into: a marriage of convenience that will save her estate and protect her family long into the future. But she wasn't expecting to find the passion of a lifeti...

Moving, touching, wonderfully written, inspiring to read." -Garth Stein, author of The Art of Racing in the Rain At an intimate, festive dinner party in Seattle, six women gather to celebrate their friend Kate's recovery from can...

Pride and Prescience (Or, A Truth Universally Acknowledged), a Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mystery, embroils the joyous newlyweds Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy in a mystery involving one of their wedding guests.The lovely Caroline Bingley is...

"He says you'll never be hurt as much by being open as you have been by remaining closed."The messenger is a school janitor with a master's in art history who claims to be channeling "from both sides of the veil." ...

While working on daytime television's hottest soap opera, Sunset Cove, naive newcomer Clay Beasely finds himself immersed in greed, corruption, and lust where he encounters arrogant men, scheming divas, and malicious producers. Reprin...

In conventional fiction, war heroes return home minus an arm or a leg--or, to take Hemingway's worst-case scenario, the family jewels. In Aimee Bender's deeply unconventional collection, however, an even more suggestive body part goe...

This all-new epic chronicles the intriguing secret history of Jessica Drew and her journey from child experiment to Hydra agent to S.H.I.E.L.D. agent to super hero to private eye to Avenger! Written by New Avengers scribe Brian Michae...

The debut of the mysterious New Avenger everyone has been talking about all year Who is Ronin and why has Captain America recruited him into the fold? Bet it has something to do with Hydra helping the Silver Samurai get out of the co...

In the year 1527, the great portraitist Hans Holbein, fleeing the Protestant Reformation, comes to England under commission to Sir Thomas More. Over the course of the next six years, Holbein paints two nearly identical portraits of t...

In Dust and Light, national bestselling author Carol Berg returned to the world of the award-winning Flesh and Spirit. Now she continues the saga of a man whose past is veiled in shadows.... Ever since the Order of the Equites Cinere...

It's 1886 and the St. Clairs are living out their dreams in three very separate parts of the world—Paris, Brazil and Colorado. And while each has found a measure of success and joy, each are haunted by past sins and secrets. As they...

One woman discovers the freedom of giving in to desire in the latest from the author of Pleasure's Edge. Sexual dominant Dante De Matteo knew Kara Crawford back in high school, but he never imagined her darkest fantasies would align ...

"BERNHARDT IS A MASTER LEGAL TOUR GUIDE, taking the reader through the labyrinth of the judicial system of America's heartland."br--Mostly MurderbrA young Vietnamese immigrant is brutally slaughtered by a crossbow. The prime...

Thorne looked at the picture, feeling the pulse quicken at the side of his neck. There were times when he couldn't see what was staring him in the face, but this, for better or worse, was his area of expertise. Thorne knew a dead man ...

Describes the life and death of twenty-year-old Tonya Hughes, killed by a hit-and-run driver in 1990, and the discovery that she had been living with a federal fugitive who had kidnapped her as a toddler, and who allegedly killed her....

March 14, 2003, was the day the world changed forever. A wave of energy slammed into North America and devastated the continent. The U.S. military, poised to invade Baghdad, was left without a commander in chief. Global order spiraled...

In present day London, vampires live side-by-side with mortals living under two sets of laws. The Romanorum make the vampire rules, helping the Princes who rule the cities. Not all vampires are thrilled with the system. A rash of rogu...