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The Hellfire Club
From the award-winning author of MR X and BLACK HOUSE – a nerve-jangling thriller of astonishing pace, featuring one of the most hypnotic and compelling killers ever created. Now reissued in a new cover style. THE HELLFIRE CLUB has at its heart a long-standing literary mystery. Family-run publishers Chancel House suddenly faces financial ruin when disturbing rumours surface about the true origins of their cult fantasy bestseller – Night Journey. Yet the Chancel family's nightmare has only just begun. For brilliant and brutal killer Dick Dart is about to kidnap Nora Chancel, taking her on a terrifying trip that has alarming echoes of the story of Night Journey. Nora soon realises that to escape her obsessed captor she must first unravel the truth behind this mysterious book.
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Forged : The World of Nightwalkers
From New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Frank comes a seductive and sensual new paranormal romance featuring a fierce bodyguard and the alluring beauty who awakens his passions. Virtually indestructible and impenetrable, Ahnvil takes his duty to protect his leader seriously and failure is not an option for this proud gargoyle. He has no time for distractions, even if it comes in the form of a woman who arouses an unexpected hunger within him. Yet he can't seem to push the beautiful, spirited woman away nor does he truly want to. And suddenly he finds himself protecting not just his Night walker friends, but the unforgettable human who has somehow managed to slip past his defenses to claim his heart.
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Lover Be Mine
When Lord Jack Wilde's cousin tries to match him with Lady Sophie Fortin, he isn't too thrilled by the prospect since Sophie's family has long feuded with the Wildes. Nevertheless he attends a masquerade ball in disguise and when he meets Sophie, he's drawn to her. The attraction is mutual until she learns who he is. Angry that Jack has tricked her into lowering her guard under false pretenses, Sophie declares she doesn't ever want to see him again. But then Jack shows up in unexpected places, driving her crazy with his seductive advances. She doesn't want her parents finding out that she even knows him, let alone succumbed to his passionate kisses. If her father discovers Jack courting her, blood could be shed. Yet, Sophie still wants him and realizes that in order for the star-crossed lovers to be together, they must try to somehow settle the bitter feud between their families once and for all.
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Headed For Trouble
This mass market original collection is filled with never-before-released short stories and novellas featuring the beloved characters from Suzanne Brockmann's wildly successful Troubleshooters contemporary romance series. Packed with pulse-pounding tales about everyone's favorite special ops team, this suspenseful collection is a must-read for fans of the New York Times bestselling series, and is also the perfect introduction for newcomers. CONTAINS NEVER-BEFORE-RELEASED SHORT STORIES SALES SUCCESS: With nearly 6 million books in print, Brockmann's popularity is ever-growing. As a regular bestseller, seven of her latest books have hit the New York Times bestseller list, peaking at 3 with the hardcover editions of both Into the Storm and Force of Nature. Most recently, Hot Pursuit (HC) debuted at 7 and Breaking Rules (HC) debuted at 12. PUB LINE-UP: This title will publish on the heels of the mass market edition of Born to Darkness (8/28/2012), the first in Brockmann's dynamic new series, which delivers a combination of paranormal romance and suspense that will have appeal for a huge audience of readers, including fans of J.D. Robb. SEALS ARE IN THE SPOTLIGHT, and no one writes about them better than Suzanne Brockmann, whom The Washington Post credited with "launching the NAVY SEAL mini-genre." AWARD WINNER: Brockmann is a two-time winner of the RITA Award from the Romance Writers of America, the seven-time recipient of the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, has sixteen WISH Awards, and has received six Gold Medal reviews from Romantic Times. She has been awarded the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Series Romance.
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The Hunter
A new sizzling installment in New York Times bestselling author Monica McCarty's exhilarating Highland Guard Scottish historical romance series. Ewen "Hunter" Lamont has spent four years putting his prized tracking skills to the test in the service of the elite Highland Guard. Curt and short-tempered, no woman has ever been able to thaw his fierce warrior's demeanor... until he meets Sister Genna, a troublesome Italian nun. Alluring and impudent, she doesn't seem like any nun he's ever met--and it's true that she is much more than she appears. She's really Lady Janet of Mar, the missing twin sister of a guardsman's wife, who has been working undercover as a courier for the Scots, and Ewen finds himself charged with finding her and ensuring her safe return. Yet it soon becomes clear that the betrothed Lady Janet affects him in ways he's never felt before. When betrayal leads to danger, everything depends on the man who can find anything. Except, perhaps, what matters most of all: love. CONTINUING SERIES: This is the seventh book in the outstanding Highland Guard series, following The Chief (4/10), The Hawk (9/10), The Ranger (12/10), The Viper (11/11), The Saint (4/12) and The Recruit (11/12). We just went back to contract for this series and we have two more books coming. HIGHLANDER MANIA! Scottish historicals are a spicy hot setting for historical romances asseen by the success of Teresa Medieros's The Devil Wears Plaid, as well as the popular novels of Karen Marie Moning and Diana Gabaldon. BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND SERIES: The Ranger and The Chief both debuted at 24 on the New York Times extended list and The Hawk and The Saint both debuted at 23 on the extended list. McCarty's most recent book, The Recruit, hit 21 on the extended list.
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It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It
In his first phenomenal best-seller, EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN, Robert Fulghum reminded readers everywhere of some plain and still-true truths. Now, picking up where he left off, Fulghum turns our eyes to show-and-tell, weddings, his own ten commandments, and more insightful and unique observations on what our world is and was....
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P Is for Peril
Kinsey Millhone never sees it coming. She is mired in the case of a doctor who disappeared, his angry ex-wife, and beautiful current one–a case that is full of unfinished business, unfinished homes, and people drifting in and out of their own lives. Then Kinsey gets a shock. A man she finds attractive is hiding a fatal secret–and now a whole lot of beauty, money, and lies are proving to be a fatal distraction from what Kinsey should have seen all along: a killer standing right before her eyes. . . .
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Last Words: A Novel of Suspense
THIS KILLER TAKES THEIR BREATH AWAY. A nine-year veteran of the FBI, special agent Mia Shields thinks she’s seen it all. But nothing prepares her for the terror that descends upon the idyllic bayside community of St. Dennis, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, where a depraved killer has left a grisly surprise for Chief of Police Gabriel Beck: the body of an unidentified woman, naked and completely encased in plastic wrap, stretched across the back-seat of Beck’s car. Hidden in the wrapping is a tape recording of the victim’s last, gasping words, terrifying evidence of the horror endured at the hands of a madman. Soon the body count begins to rise as more victims are found, all gruesomely cocooned, their final pleas also captured on tape. Determined to catch the sadistic killer, Beck and Mia team up and set a trap–with Mia as bait. But their prey is closer than they ever could have imagined. Now Beck must race against time to save Mia from becoming the next victim of a serial killer as elusive as he is evil.
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The China Bride
Born to a Scottish father and a Chinese mother, Troth Montgomery dreamed of someday traveling to Scotland, until the death of her father condemned her to a shadowy life as an interpreter in Canton. Then Kyle Renbourne, viscount and adventurer, discovers Troth's true identity and persuades her to be his guide on a dangerous journey into the heart of the Celestial Kingdom. A meeting of the minds flares into searing passion, an idyll that ends when Kyle is captured and condemned to death. A reckless prison cell marriage the night before his execution sends Troth to England, where she arrives at the estate of Kyle's brother. Though accepted as bride and widow, she is haunted by the memory of her dashing husband. Then the past reaches out to Troth, bringing passion, despair, and danger. Now she must draw on her unique heritage to save all she holds dear--and become the woman she is destined to be. . . . About the Author A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author, Mary Jo Putney is a graduate of Syracuse University with degrees in eighteenth-century literature and industrial design. She has won numerous awards for her writing, including two Romance Writers of America RITA Awards, four consecutive Golden Leaf awards for Best Historical Romance, and the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Historical Romance. Her books have also received frequent awards from online reader sites such as The Romance Reader, All About Romance, Romance Readers Anonymous, and Under the Covers Awards. The author of twenty-four novels, Ms. Putney lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Cinders to Satin
Before her Vegas trilogy and Texas saga soared onto bestseller lists, millions of readers were captivated by the thrilling historical romances written by Fern Michaels. Here is one of her all-time classics, a bold tale of a brave immigrant girl who in the late nineteenth century journeys to a new world and a promising future, risking her heart to make her dreams come true.... Callie James learned to survive in the squalid back alleys of Dublin. Tough, spirited, and beautiful, she was sent to New York to find her fortune. There she discovered friendship and encouragement from newspaperman Byrch Kenyon, who saw in the brash girl the desirable woman she would one day become. Rossiter Powers, the rich son of a respected family, saw something else in Callie -- and nearly destroyed her. Hugh MacDuff, rich only in love and compassion, did his best to save her. But Callie -- strong, smart, and determined to succeed -- insisted on taking charge of her own destiny.
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Honest Doubt
Professor Charles Haycock is dead from a hearty dose of his own heart medication. The mystery is not why Haycock was murdered-very few could stomach the woman-hating prof?but who did the deed. Estelle "Woody" Woodhaven, a private investigator hired to find the killer, naturally enlists the help of that indefatigable amateur sleuth, Kate Fansler. Together, they start to pull at the loose ends of the very tangled Clifton College English Department. The list of suspects is longer than the freshman survey reading list. And as the women defuse the host of literary landmines set out for them, Woody suspects they?re only scratching the surface of a very large and sinister plot. . . .
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Remember
An electrifying new novel by Barbara Taylor Bradford, who demonstrates her superb storytelling gifts in this passionate tale of Nicky Wells. Beautfiul and fabulously successful as a television war correspondent, she deeply mourns the loss of her great love, only to be confronted with disturbing suspicions that this remarkable man led a mysterious double life....
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Crazy in Alabama
Comic and tragic, unique and outlandish, CRAZY IN ALABAMA is the story of two journeys--Lucille's from Industry, Alabama, to Los Angeles, to star on 'THE BEVERLY HILL BILLIES' and her 12-year-old nephew Peejoe's, who is about to discover two kinds of Southern justice, and what that means about the stories he's heard and the people he knows. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A FEATURED ALTERNATE SELECTION OF THE LITERARY GUILD
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Angel
All were orphans when they met in their teens in the late seventies, and they vowed to be a family. As they reunite at a film party in London, it is Rosalind Madigan, the angel of the title, who holds them together. An Academy Award-winning designer blessed with innate goodness, Rosie is troubled by commitments that leave her feeling estranged from herself and her friends: Gavin Ambrose, a Hollywood megastar, a brilliant actor/producer whose personal life is not as successful as it appears (Nell Jeffrey, head of an international public relations firm and Rosie's best friend, a glamorous woman having a secret love affair (and Kevin Madigan, Rosie's brother, an undercover cop in the NYPD Crime Intelligence Division who specializes in fighting organized crime, an assignment that threatens his life. Into their midst come a dashing French aristocrat and the world's most successful popular singer, two men who disrupt--and irrevocably transform--"the family."... ANGEL Told with the power that only Barbara Taylor Bradford can bring to the page, this stunning novel is about a group of friends--and also about individuals who, facing their own mortality, must reevaluate their lives and strengthen their commitments. Exciting and moving, it will fascinate you from beginning to end.