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by Valerie Kirkwood, Laurel O'Donnell, Laura O'Donnell & Patricia Werner Celebrate the season when wedding bells ring with a wondrous new collection of three romance stories filled with passion and promise, star-crossed lovers, and whispered vows. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50  When Kimberly Sawyer is threatened by a needle-pierced rose on her doorstep and a hooded figure wielding a dagger, she seeks protection at Darius Cavenaugh's Napa Valley vineyard and questions her guardian's true nature. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Gambler and con man Gabe Donovan is killed by a group of vigilantes outside Reno in 1880. By the time Gabe realizes he is no longer living, the Devil, in the guise of a gunman, makes him a Faustian offer: two more months of life in exchange for the soul of the friend whose con caused Gabe's hanging. Gabe eagerly agrees and finds himself in Regret, Nevada, waiting for his old friend to show up. Looking for a job and a meal, Gabe goes to the only restaurant in town even though the locals inform him he's taking his life in his hands because the owner, Maggie Benson, can't cook. Gabe finds more than what he's looking for and, deeply attracted to Maggie and her young son, soon regrets making the deal. Cover Price $5.99 Determined to salvage the valuable treasures lying beneath the Caribbean, Kathleen Montgomery finds her plans thwarted by handsome sea captain Jonas Irons, who has come in search of his long-lost brother. Cover Price $4.50 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 Tony Sinclair is looking for a sweet, Southern Hower of femininity to raise their 3.5 children in the "Leave It To Beaver" life he never had. So why is he so captivated by Jazz Taylor, a bold, sassy special effects artist who whips up movie creatures, not cookies? And stubborn! He's never met a woman who was so set on refusing police protection. If he can just keep her out of trouble long enough, maybe they'll have a chance to see where this hotter-than-hot attraction leads. Jazz has stood on her own two feet since she was young, and she's not looking for a white knight -- even though Tony's testosterone is arranged very nicely and his personal, uh, skills give "Protect and Serve" a whole new meaning...But Jazz has hidden behind smoke and mirrors for so long can she trust her heart that love is no illusion? Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Cleopatra Robbins has imagined the moment she'll meet the man of her dreams. But when Max Fortune strides into the Robbins' Nest Inn, a devastating sensation sweeps through her. She knows it's him. And he's wrong. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 He was an irresistible bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks. She was a nice middle-class Jewish girl. Will and Jenny shared a passion that defied their backgrounds, and when Jenny got pregnant they planned to elope. But on the big day something went terribly wrong and after the baby was born, Jenny gave her up for adoption to a nice couple who called her Claudia and raised her as their own. Now Claudia is grown up and begins a search for her real mother that will lead her to a man and a woman separated by fate and time, whose love for each other still burns strong. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50  With neither title nor land, Rhys could not win the hand of Gwennelyn of Segrave--though he would always have her heart. But Gwen was betrothed to another man, and Rhys feared he would lose her forever. But then a surprise offer came his way--bringing Rhys and Gwen a second chance at love... Cover Price $7.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 In the second installment in Krentz's Eclipse Bay trilogy, Lillian Harte has decided to close down her matchmaking business to paint full time, but she still has some unfinished business. Successful CEO Gabe Madison, scion of the family that has been feuding with her family for three generations, wants the date he contracted for when he registered with her business, and is willing to chase her from Portland to Eclipse Bay to get it. To add to all her problems, one client's former boyfriend may be stalking her, seeking revenge for breaking up his romance. Will Lillian and Gabe be able to continue in the footsteps of their respective siblings, Hannah and Rafe, to mend the rift that sundered their grandfathers' business? Can all the Madisons and Hartes find happiness and true love with each other? Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 All her life, Breanna Colby has lived on the precipice of fear, her only joy the recent reunion with her beloved cousin Anastasia. With her violent father now locked away in jail, the repressed young woman can emerge from her cocoon and pursue all the joys she's been denied. But she finds -- to her terror -- that not all the shadows have lifted, and an evil from the past stalks both her and Anastasia. When authorities are unable to help with this assassin lurking in the darkness, the Colbys turn to the brilliant, unconventional Royce Chadwick, England's foremost expert on finding people who don't want to be found. Hard, detached Royce has always been a loner who operates by his own set of rules. He has little patience for weakness. Delicate Breanna Colby is an eye-opener to him, for beneath her fragile exterior ties a core of steel. As the two face overwhelming danger side by side, Royce discovers a woman he never dreamed existed -- one who, despite his cynicism, he is losing his heart to. But their future together can never be -- not unless Royce kills the assassin before the assassin kills them. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 After American Colonist Catie Willman becomes pregnant by a young soldier bound for England, she marries an innkeeper, knowing she'll receive no other offer. Her soldier, fellow American Anthony Sparhawk, returns eight years later--as an officer in the invading British army. In a powerful story that transcends its historical setting, Jarrett explores the effects of distrust, divided loyalties, and long-kept secrets on a love sprung from a brief, passionate encounter. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.50 Inside the fun-filled photographers' studio in California known as Dazzle, Jazz Kilkullen reigns supreme. At twenty-nine, this playful, gifted, and thoroughly sexy woman has become one of the most successful celebrity portrait photo in the world. But her charmed career and her dashing private life, which includes three fascinating-and fascinated-men, are rocked when an unexpected tragedy leaves jazz to battle her father's vengeful ex-wife and the machinations of her half-sisters. At stake is the Kilkullen family ranch, a three-billion-dollar paradise of unspoiled California land that developers all over the world would do anything to possess... and Jazz will do anything to protect. Absolutely anything. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Proud Leigh Strachan hires highwayman and ex-hero S.T. Maitland to avenge the murder of her family, never expecting to fall in love with him. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 A young English knight caught in the plots and secrets of court life faces certain death until Princess Melanthe takes pity on him, gifting the stranger with two emeralds. As the legendary Green Knight, he will return to fight for her honor. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.50 The sequel to the phenomenal bestsellers Scruples and Scruples Two--an intoxicating tale of love, money, talent, ambition, and passion. Gigi Orsini, the high-spirited heroine from Scruples Two now takes Los Angeles by storm, as business tycoons, film directors, and advertising executives all vie for her quicksilver affections. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Three generations of Crightons have gathered at the family estate for a 50th birthday party. But the expected celebration turns into an ugly battle for power, with the family inheritance as the prize. Brothers become rivals and allies become adversaries as family scandals become the weapon of choice. Past love affairs, embezzlement scams--nothing is sacred and all secrets can be betrayed for a price. The Crightons' carefully polished facade is crumbling. Will they learn to accept their not-so-perfect family in time to save it? Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 SCANDAL...It's the hottest thing that's ever happened to Loring Model Management. Three of its unknown models have been chosen to star in the debut spring collection of bad-boy designer Marco Lombardi—and one of them will win an exclusive, multimillion-dollar contract. But the agency's owner, Justine Loring, is furious. Only she knows that Lombardi's billionaire backer, Jacques Necker, has set her up, hoping to manipulate her into chaperoning her models to Paris, and meeting him face-to-face. GLAMOUR...But Justine isn't about to play his game. She dispatches these three sensational girls—the classic Minnesota blond, the African-American goddess, and the moody Tennessee redhead—in care of her second-in-command, fiery, droll Francesca Severino. Little does Justine know how their two weeks of discovery and love affairs will be matched by an explosive encounter in Manhattan that will change her own life. SOME THINGS ARE ALWAYS IN STYLE. Cover Price $7.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Brandy Ashton peddled homemade remedies to treat every disease from ague to gout. Yet no tonic could save her reputation as far as Sheriff Adam McCullough was concerned. Despite his threats to lock her up if she didn't move on, Brandy was torn between offering him a fatal dose of poison--or an even more lethal helping of love. Large Print edition Cover Price $12.95 Elizabeth Cabot always knows when to cut her losses. So when she learns that Jack Fairfax has deceived her, she's determined to end their romantic relationship. But breaking up their business deal is trickier. While trying to disentangle herself from Jack's company, they discover a lethal act of sabotage that could put both of them out of business for good. But working so closely with Jack, she's finding it harder and harder to deny the passion she feels inside. Cover Price $7.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 The Greatest Gifts... Are always unexpected... There was a king – King Arthur of Camelot. There was a knight – Sir Nicholas the Dragon. There was a wager that each swore he would win... Lady Noelle has no intention of marrying just to save her family’s castle. She feels nothing for Sir Gavin, the man who will become her husband on Christmas Day. Then she spies Camelot’s newest knight, the notorious Sir Nicholas the Dragon, a champion as renowned for his prowess in the beds of Camelot’s maidens as for his skill in battle. Noelle’s heart has found the man she longs for, even as her hand is promised to another. Christmas may never come to Camelot. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 Manipulating his guilt-ridden father into avoiding marriage for years, scheming Jay Soames finds the ultimate challenge in Taylor Fielding, whose devastatingly violent past draws Taylor, Jay, and his father into a dangerous game. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price$1.50 Sent to close down the Daniels family's distillery in Rapture Valley, Pennsylvania, during the Whiskey Rebellion, Major Garner Townsend, a Bostonian aristocrat, is attracted to the lovely and free-spirited Whitney Daniels, an independent woman of a wild, backwater hamlet. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Princess Christina of Zeiss is an anomaly for a woman of her class in 1892. Although her husband, Prince Hans, is flagrant with his many affairs, she refuses to have any herself. But enough is enough. After Prince Hans openly consorts with his latest mistress, Christina listens when her friend Lulu encourages her to sample Lulu's latest lover, Max, the marquis of Vale. At first Max vows to leave the innocent Christina alone, but he finds her irresistible, and they quickly fall in a passionate love that makes Christina realize all that she has missed in her miserable marriage. But an outraged Prince Hans threatens to take away her children, then sends her back to Germany. Max follows and puts all his resources into getting Christina a divorce that enables her to retain custody of her two young sons, while Christina deals with Hans' cruel machinations. Cover Price $6.99 Francesca Cahill comes from one of New York's best families. Her mother is a leading socialite, her father, a millionaire. Their expectations for their daughter are simple-- marry well, and soon. But the intrepid and self-styled "Crime-Solver Extraordinaire" has other plans... Francesca discovered she had a penchant for sleuthing when she met Rick Bragg, New York City's powerful and enigmatic Police Commissioner. Together, they solved what was known as the crime of the century. Now, their paths are destined to come together once again, but this time far more dangerously and fatefully. For Francesca is tempted to give in to the desire she and Rick have been resisting. And when Bragg's arch-rival Calder Hart arrives in town, a respectable man is suddenly found dead, and now murder is the name of the game... Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Protecting her jockey father from the blackmailers who would destroy him for refusing to throw a race, Nicole Aldridge pretends to be a young male jockey in the celebrated Epsom Derby and is discovered by Dustin Kingsley. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Their grandfathers hated each other. Their fathers hated each other. And as the next generation of the Hartes and Madisons, Hannah and Rafe are expected to hate each other too. But Hannah Harte remembers the long-ago night on the beach that revealed Rafe as much more than just "that disreputable Madison boy." And Rafe remembers the heroic gesture that proved Hannah's fierce spirit was stronger than any feud - and saved him from near-certain imprisonment. Now - reunited by a surprising inheritance after years of living their separate lives - Rafe and Hannah return to Eclipse Bay, and the hostilities that still divide, and bind, their families. And they are discovering something that is at once delightful and deeply disturbing... They don't hate each other. Not at all... Cover Price $7.50 Phoebe Hightower is flat broke and burning furniture to stay warm. So when a mysterious stranger grants her four wishes, she wishes for someplace warm--and she gets it! She's made half-owner of the Nevada Hotel--with partner Riley Burnett, a stubborn fellow who ignites both love and hate in Phoebe. And she still has three wishes left! Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 In a world of dark secrets and sinful pleasures, a man and a woan discovered a love as dangerous as it was irresistable... Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 They were three generations of magnificent red-haired beauties born to scandal, bred to success, bound to a single extraordinary man--Julien Mistral, the painter, the genius, the lover whose passions had seared them all. Maggy--Flamboyant mistress of Mistral's youth, the toast of Paris in the '20s. Her luminous flesh was immortalized in the paintings that made Mistral legendary. Teddy--Maggy's daughter, the incomparable cover girl who lived fast and left as her legacy Mistral's dazzling love child. Fauve--Mistral's daughter, the headstrong, fearless glory girl whose one dark secret drove her to rule the world of high fashion and to risk everything in a feverish search for love. From the '20s Paris of Chanel, Colette, Picasso and Matisse to New York's sizzling new modeling agencies of the '50s, to the model ward of the '70s, Mistral's Daughter captures the explosive glamour of life at the top of the worlds of art and high fashion. Cover Price $4.50 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Love possessed her, desire claimed her, passion betrayed her. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Drawn to newcomer Jonah Campion, Dawn Perry--who disbelieves the ancient legend of the mountain lion--heads for the Eskaway Mountains to sort out her feelings for him, but her solace is disrupted when she encounters the fabled stranger on the mountain. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Molly: A beautiful bride-to-be, fell hopelessly in love with another man. A man she could never marry.... Carey: A world-class horseman and film director, lived a glittering jet-set life that Molly could never be a part of. Against all odds, fate would give their love a second chance. Years later, as Molly struggled to raise her daughter in the wake of betrayal, she dreamed of her beloved Carey. Then, one day he appeared-more glamorous, wealthy, and irresistible than she ever remembered, Now she was ready to embrace his world...his passions...His fast-paced lifestyle.... Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 An infamous sea captain of the British Royal Navy, Devlin O'Neill is consumed with the need to destroy the man who brutally murdered his father. Having nearly ruined the Earl of Eastleigh financially, he is waiting for his moment to strike the final blow. And it comes in the form of a spirited young American woman, the earl's niece, who is about to set his cold, calculating world on fire. Born and raised on a tobacco plantation, Virginia Hughes is determined to rebuild her beloved Sweet Briar. Daringly, she sails to England alone, hoping to convince her uncle to lend her the funds. Instead, she finds herself ruthlessly kidnapped by the notorious Devlin O'Neill. As his hostage, she will soon find her best laid plans thwarted by a passion that could seal their fates forever. Against the backdrop of a turbulent war between England and America, Devlin and Virginia are torn apart by duty, pride and honor. Their private battle is one that Virginia must win-for at stake is Devlin's heart. But as the war rages ever closer to Sweet Briar, each must make the ultimate sacrifice-and surrender to the healing power of their consuming love. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Luke Creed has sacrificed everything for his career at the prestigious law firm DeWitt & Blackthorne: a chance to run his family's ranching empire, his marriage, even time with his two daughters. Defending a major client in a wrongful death case, Luke crosses paths with his high school sweetheart, Amy Hazeltine Nash, an advocate for the bereaved plaintiff. Now, Luke and Amy are divided by forces beyond themselves -- and overcome by an all-consuming desire. But when the case takes a deadly twist, Luke delves into a dangerous web of corruption that may place his life in jeopardy -- and may also target the one woman who loves Luke for who he really is: rebel, cowboy, loner, and lover. Cover Price $7.99 Their passion could not be denied--but could their love transcend all that had gone before? Cover Price $5.25 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Welcome to the world of Francesca Cahill, crime-solver extraordinaire. Francesca is no ordinary heroine. She refuses to bow to convention, wears her heart on her sleeve, and is determined to right the ills and injustices of society/ Deadly love begins Francesca's mad escapades when the neighbors' little boy is kidnapped right out of his bed during a society ball. It is January 18, 1902. Francesca stumbles across the ransom note just as she meets New York City's newly appointed police commissioner, Rick Bragg. And Fracesca can no more stay out of this investigation than she can stop herself from falling love with the city's determined and powerful police commissioner. But little does she know that on this singular night, he life will change forever. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 In their battle of wills, love was the prize! Cover Price $3.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 This book has three short stories: Double Trouble by Janice Kaiser, The Dream Doc by M.J. Rogers, and Dear Darcy by Margaret St. George. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Meet Kick Keswick, an elegant and self-possessed American who has been at London's venerable Ballantine & Company Auctioneers for over thirty years. She is an expert on paintings, furniture, and objets d'art, and so far has lived a perfectly happy life with things on her mind other than love. In fact, Kick rarely lets anyone into her private world. She prefers it that way. Kick doesn't need a man in her life, messing things up. But when American industrialist, scoundrel, and womanizer Owen Brace grabs the faltering Ballantine & Company in a corporate takeover, he turns Kick's world upside down, opening her eyes to large-scale love, romance, and sensuous pleasure. But something tells Kick that Brace's motives are anything but sincere. And when he gets near enough to threaten Kick's closely guarded life, Brace learns the dangers of underestimating this woman. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Despite the misgivings of her fiancee, Calder Hart, Francesca cannot turn away from a threat that is terrorizing the tenement neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. A madman has attacked three women, but while the first two victims survived, the third is dead, raising the stakes. All the victims are impoverished but beautiful Irishwomen--and Francesca fears that Maggie Kennedy and Gwen O'Neil, two friends who live nearby, could be next. Soon she is working with her former love, police commisioner Rick Bragg--Calder's half brother and worst rival. But even as Calder's jealous passions leave his relationship with Francesca teetering on the brink, Francesca is frantically on the killer's trail, certain The Slasher will strike again--afraid she will be too late. . . Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.75 Anne Cartwright's marriage to missionary John Cartwright is unhappy, brutal, and primarily a means to escape a miserable home life. When he dies shortly after their arrival in Hawaii, Anne is afraid she will be forced to return home. Instead, she makes herself invaluable to the missionaries and natives as a midwife and nurse. Dr. Matthew Cabe comes to Hawaii to investigate his father's business losses and subsequent suicide. Together, Anne and Matthew are drawn into a fight against smallpox, crooked politicians, annexation, and even murder charges. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 No man and woman had ever hated so fiercely... and loved so recklessly... Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Betrothed to one man, she loved another who swept her into passion's turbulent seas... Cover Price $5.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Owen Blackthorne was a lone wolf, a man who didn't need anyone. Until Bayleigh Creed appeared on his doorstep, demanding his help in locating her missing brother. They headed into the desolate West Texas wilderness together, a Blackthorne and a Creed, mortal enemies obliged to join forces to survive. Neither counted on the unwanted attraction that drew them together, or the bitter truths that would force them apart. Until the ruthless wilderness compelled them to make life-and-death choices — between family ... and duty ... and love. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 The time is turn-of-the-century New York City. Society's elite host glittering balls inside sprawling mansions while outside, the teeming street harbor secrets of their own. New York City's Police Commissioner Rick Bragg has been called upon to investigate a shocking crime. Reluctant to pull Francesca into a case that could be very dangerous, Rick also knows the beautiful and brilliant heiress has a natural ability for sleuthing that could aid him--even it if means working side by side with a woman who tempts him like no other. And so Franscesca and Rick begin a harrowing journey through the squalid underworld of the city that plunges them deeper and deeper in a peril neither could have imagined--and a desire that only continues to grow... Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Honor Mayfield was about to walk into a trap. She thought that her chance meeting with Conn Landry was a fortunate stroke of luck. In fact, he had cleverly set her up a long time ago. As a member of the Thoroughbred horse-racing set in California, Conn was well respected. But Honor was about to discover the real man beneath the controlled exterior. Too late, she realized she was falling for someone who was seeking to avenge a legacy of murder and betrayal. A piece of her past was mysteriously linked to Conn, and now they were tangled together in the web of deception . . . and desire. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 As a child, shy, bookish Elizabeth Anne Fitzgerald loses her heart to the dashing young Lord Tyrell de Warenne. Although she is well aware that he is the heir to an earldom and utterly unattainable, Lizzie secretly worships him for years. On the night of her first masquerade ball, she is stunned when he suggests that they rendevous at midnight. But then fortune takes a maddening turn and Lizzie is thwarted from ever meeting Tyrell. Lizzie is certain such an opportunity will never arise again, but that night is only the beginning . . . Tyrell de Warenne is shocked when, two years later, Lizzie arrives on his doorstep with a child that she claims is his. He remembers her well -- and knows that it is impossible that he is the boy's father. What is this game she is playing . . . and why? Is Elizabeth Anne Fitzgerald a woman of vast experience, or the gentle innocent he had believed her to be? Tyrell quickly decides he will play her game, and he claims the child as his own, determined to uncover Lizzie's lies. But neither scandal, deception nor pride can thwart a love too grand and passionate to ever be denied . . . Cover Price $7.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Juggling single motherhood and her job as deputy sheriff of Teton County, Sarah Barndollar hasn't lost hope of solving two cold cases of missing young women. When a third vanishes, all hell breaks loose -- because she's the illegitimate daughter of Texas scion Clay Blackthorne and the granddaughter of his mortal enemy King Grayhawk. The crisis pits the two powerful families against each other in a race against time. Playboy Drew DeWitt, a Blackthorne cousin, insists on taking part in the search -- putting him on a collision course with Sarah. Her cop instincts tell her the sexy Texan is trouble. But when evidence emerges of a conspiracy against the U.S. government, Sarah accepts Drew's high-powered help as she negotiates a shadowy landscape of hidden rivals and ruthless greed where every moment counts in saving lives, including her own. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 At home in Bitter Creek, Texas, their families have feuded since the Civil War. However, at the University of Texas in Austin, Trace Blackthorne and Callie Creed are lovers planning to marry. Their bliss ends when a tackle during a high school football practice by Trace's brother Owen leaves Callie's sibling Sam wheelchair bound. Trace and Callie are divided over the unfortunate incident that her family thinks was not an accident. He gives her an ultimatum, which she rejects. He vanishes for the next eleven years. Unknown to Trace, Callie is pregnant. She marries someone else who kindly helps her raise her son until he dies. Eleven years have passed since Trace has last seen Callie. When they do meet, sparks still fly between them. However, their families are squabbling worse than ever. The Creeds are facing financial ruin. Trace wants Callie and offers to save her family from economic disgrace if she marries him, but there is one secret she is still keeping from him: the existence of his eleven-year-old son. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 Released from the sanctuarv of a French convent, highborn, tempestuous Katherine FitzGerald sets sail for her beloved Ireland -- only to find herself prisoner of the infamous pirate known to the Elizabethans as the Master of the Seas. The pirate captain is Liam O'Neill, favored by Elizabeth the Queen. A hardened court player, he is determined to win the willful Katherine while advancing his own secret causes. But now he must risk evervthing he cherishes in order to triumph at a very treacherous game -- through heartbreaking deception... and by breaking all the rules. The game has begun... Cover Price $5.99 When Chloe Chisolm realized she was more infatuated with her boyfriend's apartment than with her boyfriend, she had no choice but to add him to her jam-packed list of exes. All this Minneapolis web designer wants now is an erotic fling with Mr. Tall, Dark, and Handsome. But when a very eventful elevator ride with a seductive stranger ignites a steamy affair, she finds herself plummeting back to earth. For Rocco Vinelli is not only driving Chloe wild with uncontrollable desire, he also happens to be melting her hardened heart. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Features three stories by Deborah Johns, Linda Madl, Patricia Waddell. Love comes when you least expect it... Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 The Man From Wolf Creek Seeking restitution from the elderly ingrate who robbed him, a reclusive, huge and handsome mountain man receives a most unorthodox compensation: the old thief's beauty of a daughter. Now this unlikely pair discovers that true love can find you when you least expect it. The Christmas Baby Having wed to end the warring ways of their feuding Texas families, a reluctant bride and groom find life together and unending battle––until a beautiful arrival at Christmastime teaches them the true meaning of peace and joy and love. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 In House of Dreams, two aristocratic families, one English, one Spanish, have been tragically destined to come together time and again over centuries. Cassandra de Warenne spends her days in a quiet English manor, looking after her young niece while her sister Tracey lives the glamorous life of a jet-setter. When Cass meets Tracey's newest conquest, Antonio de la Barca, she isn't prepared for the intense and immediate attraction-an attraction that heralds something deeper, more powerful, and more dangerous than Cass could ever imagine. For the de Warennes and the de la Barcas have a tangled history of horrendous heartbreak, bitter rivalry, and bloodshed that began 450 years ago, with one woman, Isabel, forsaken and betrayed by her family, her lover and her friends. Today, Isabel has summoned the two families together one final time-this time to complete a quest for vengeance from beyond the grave. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 The heather-scented hills of the Scottish highlands come to life in a mesmerizing novel about a wickedly disturbing man who transforms a hardheaded businesswoman into a willing slave of passion. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Owen Sutherland's whirlwind courtship has left Angie Townsend breathless and in love -- and hopeful that the fierce rivalry that has divided their powerful families will finally end. She is, after all, a romantic at heart. But now, nestled in their honeymoon suite, Angie suspects she may also be a fool. A sudden, hushed phone call warns her of the terrible truth: her marriage is a sham, nothing more than a clever corporate raid orchestrated by her powerful, handsome new husband. The very husband reaching out to lead her to their wedding bed. Is it true? Is Owen Sutherland a calculating stranger... Or the man she's married for better or for worse? Until Angie knows for certain, her wedding night is on hold -- indefinitely. Cover Price $2.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Child psychologist Liz Havers has returned to her Washington State hometown to find the son she was forced to give up the day he was born. Finding Jesse can make her dreams come true--or become a nightmare of suspicion, betrayal, and heartbreak. Cover Price $5.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Texas Ranch Owner J. T. McKinney is fifty five years old, but he has the looks and stamina of a thirty-year-old. J.T. had loved his wife until the day that she died and he never thought that he would love like that again. He discovered just how wrong he was when he met Cynthia Page a thirty-five-year-old Boston bank vice president. For months J.T. flew from Texas to Boston every weekend to visit with Cynthia. Finally, J.T. asks Cynthia to come to Texas for an extended visit so that she can visit with his family. J.T. has three grown children and his oldest is only a year younger than Cynthia. The visit is a nightmare for everyone except J.T. who is oblivious to the tension between Cynthia and his children and staff. Cover Price $3.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Their love was as precious as ... Passion's Gold! Cover Price $3.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Her dark eyes and haunting voice had earned gypsy-haired Sheena Reardon fame as Ireland's mournful dove. Yet to Rand Challon the young Irish-American singer was not just a lark whose brilliant plummage was obscured... but a flesh-and-blood woman whom he desired with all his heart. Rand barged into her life at a moment of crisis and whisked her away to his mountain retreat, where he wrapped her in his passionate tenderness. Under his sensual tutelage, Sheena became a whole person, fulfilled at last. Rand knew he'd taught her to spread her wings and fly free, but would her flight take her from him or into his arms forever? Cover Price $2.50 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Charity Truitt and Elias Winter, two of the Pacific Northwest's most powerful corporate figures, are both facing crises of career and the heart. Fate has brought them together in Washington's tiny Whispering Waters Cove. Each is eager to downsize and simplify, so they're both determined to avoid mergers of any kind -- but when they meet, the attraction is nothing short of blue-chip. They definitely have at least one thing in common: a martial arts master, Elias is a novice at relationships; a formidable former CEO, Charity is starting in the mailroom when it comes to love. But behind Whispering Waters Cove's sleepy fa‡ade run currents fed by treacherous secrets -- and when the town is rocked by two shocking murders, Charity and Elias realize that they must join forces to catch a killer. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Cady Briggs is very useful to Mack Easton-her expertise in art and antiques helps his shadowy, low-profile company, Lost and Found, find missing treasures for high-paying clients. But as Cady's beloved Aunt Vesta warns her, being useful to a client is one thing-and being used is another. Still, Cady finds it hard to resist the magnetic pull Mack exerts, an attraction she felt from the first time she heard his voice on the phone. And as their work together puts them in an explosive situation, Cady wonders just how much she'd risk for the thrill of being with this man. When Aunt Vesta dies suddenly, and strange developments affect her family's prestigious gallery, Cady must turn to a man she isn't sure she can trust. And instead of tracking down missing masterpieces, they'll be hunting for a killer.... Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 A lavish summer wedding is being planned at Bitter Creek ranch. In one month, Clay Blackthorne will wed socialite Jocelyn Montrose. But when she hears stirrings of a corporate takeover by the family's archrival, North Grayhawk, Jocelyn covertly heads to North's ranch to offer a valuable commodity -- herself -- if North will call off his plans. Striking a deal to spend the summer with the steely, seductive North, Jocelyn fails to see that her sacrifice to protect the man she loves may have dire consequences. Stunned by his fiancee's rejection, Clay, a newly appointed federal judge, begins presiding over an incendiary terrorism trial, which brings him face to face with his first love, Libby Grayhawk. As tensions mount, forces beyond Clay's control threaten the women most precious to him in the past and the present. And only in a daring act of sacrifice will he know which woman will become the next Mrs. Blackthorne. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Katy Halliday leaped from the train the moment it stopped in Durango, Colorado. She intended to meet as many gunslingers, badmen, cattle rustlers and dance hall girls as possible so she could write her own dime novel about the Wild West. But when she spotted Rait Caldwell, Katy froze in her tracks. He looked like a badman himself all dressed in black from low crowned Stetson to spurless boots, a silver handled Colt Peacemaker strapped to his muscular thigh. He was also the handsomest man she'd ever met. Katy thought she'd melt any second under that steely blue gaze of his, for this gunfighter had a look that filled her heart with yearning for the rough and ready loving his virile body and its strong embrace promised to provide. Rait was just doing old Richard Halliday a favor when he agreed to meet the train from New York City. But he didn't realize Halliday meant for him to squire the man's pretty niece around town so she could do personal "research." He'd show this vivacious and clearly innocent young beauty a few things about the wild ways of the west she hadn't already planned, beginning with a gentle lesson on love in the saddle guaranteed to bring her to the heights of ecstasy over and over again. Cover Price $4.50 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 Beatrix Grosvenor couldn't have been caught in a more compromising position: locked in a Parisian apartment with the body of a murdered man. She could only hope that the charismatic stranger who found her would believe her story of abduction and assassination, and free her to return to her young son in England. But Pasha Duras was not about to let her escape so easily. The renowned libertine didn't believe Trixi's fanciful tale, but there was no denying the temptation of her beauty. He would accompany her home, on a sensual journey that would begin with the most tantalizing of seductions--and end with a dangerous discovery. Trixi's enemies were real. Her child was at their mercy... and Pasha's newly awakened heart may prove to be his undoing. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 With his heart betrayed and broken in Germany when his beloved Princess Sierra Morena marries his friend, Prince Alaric, Cheyenne warrior High Wolf returns to his home on the American frontier hoping never to set eyes on either one of them again. Little does he know that, many years later, he will once again cross paths with Princess Sierra when she journeys to America in search of the truth behind her missing, and presumed dead, husband. Although distrustful, their attraction to each other is undeniable – and Princess Sierra is torn. All her life, she has been convinced that affairs of state take precedence over matters of the heart. But as she and High Wolf enter dangerous Crow territory, Princess Sierra finds herself willing to risk all for the chance to regain High Wolf’s love and trust. Cover Price $5.99 Condition New Your Price $3.00 THE IT GIRLS They're rich, fabulous. and dangerously underestimated. IT GIRL: Alexa Cheltingham MISSION: Pose as a grubby groom to stop a high-stakes horse killer and protect the Mayor of New York's show-jumping daughter. A Cheltingham shoveling horse manure - what would Mother think? That was my first reaction when the Gotham Rose spy ring handed me this riches-to-rags assignment. But the country's top show horses were dying suspiciously and the Roses trusted me to catch the killer. My old leg injury wouldn't stand in my way, not by a longshot. I'd muck stalls and uncover the dirty secrets of the equine world's bigwigs, then clean up in time to host the Horses of Hope charity ball. Speaking of the ball, I'd love to have charmer Ross Hardel for my date... too bad he's my prime suspect. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Cruz Guerrero wanted Sloan Stewart from the first moment he laid eyes on the headstrong beauty. But Sloan, eldest daughter of a wealthy cotton planter, belonged to another man—until the day she came to him, a woman in trouble on the lawless frontier …and he made her an offer she could not refuse. Now he is ready to claim what is rightfully his—even as a long-ago betrayal threatens to tear her from his arms forever. Sloan swore never to be used by a man again. Only sheer desperation made her strike a bargain with the aristocratic nobleman. Now he has come to collect on the vow they made together, seducing her with tender words, determined to make her want him as he wants her. Caught in the bitter cross fire of a traitorous enemy and an embattled republic, a man bound by honor and a woman wounded by passion must dare to trust in a love that’s strong and wild and true… Cover Price $6.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 A multimillionaire lottery winner who's wary of gold-digging women finds himself falling for an intelligent beauty who has snubbed him once before. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Do you dare create a future if you've forgotten the past? Cover Price $5.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Dear Reader, Colter's Wife has always held a special place in my heart because I believe it is the first of my novels that fully conveys my love of the magnificent American West - the breathtaking landscapes, the excitement and danger of the frontier, and the passionate, strong-willed people who built lives in an untamed land. Set in Wyoming Territory, it tells the story of Kinyan Holloway, who has no idea how she's going to survive when her husband is killed in a range accident. Kinyan is torn between the Sioux world where she was raised and her responsibilities to her children and their heritage - the largest ranch in the Territory. Into her life rides a scarred stranger who's fast with a gun. Benjamin Colter has tried to put vengeance behind him, but the past seems destined to catch up with him. What he wants now is Kinyan Holloway - and her ranch - but he can get them only if he defeats a deadly rival and agrees to become a father to three children who want more from him than he's able to give. Enjoy! Joan Johnston Cover Price $6.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.50 The third in a trilogy--beginning with "The Pirate" and continuing with "The Adventurer"--of linked stories about three friends who each find love with three very unique--and unlikely--candidates. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 The heather-scented hills of the Scottish highlands come to life in a mesmerizing novel about a wickedly disturbing man who transforms a hardheaded businesswoman into a willing slave of passion. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 When the notorious rake Prince Alexander Kuzan encountered the alluring redhead seeking safe passage to her ancestral home, little did he suspect that Zena would entangle him in a rapturous struggle for the heart. Cover Price $5.99 Single mom Megan Padget was weary of trying to find the right man. So when her children gave her the book You Don't Have to Stay Single, she threw it away. Then she met Tom Steele, and hurried back to the trash can. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Test of Time by Jayne Ann Krentz They were perfectly matched -- and completely at odds! Garrett Coltrane and Katy Randall had a lot in common. They liked and respected each other, and they'd be great together in business... and in bed. Then, just after the ceremony, Katy discovered that love was the only thing Garrett didn't want. Thief of Hearts by Tess Gerritsen He was a gentleman bandit, she was a cat burglar. And they caught each other in more ways than one. But their desire was as strong as their distrust, and Jordan Tavistock began to fear that Diana Lamb was more than just a thief of hearts . . . Moontide by Stella Cameron Two years ago Greer Beckett had lost everything. But now it was time to go back to England and make peace with her past. That past included Dr. Andrew Monthaven -- the man she could never forget. For Andrew, Greer's return was a miracle. It had broken his heart to let her go, and he was not about to lose her again. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Three years ago heiress Cecily Culpepper married Neville Barton on Christmas Day, however before the honeymoon gets off the ground Neville is arrested. Cecily bails him out of the can and he immediately disappears, leaving her crying in her beer, so to speak. Cecily is still married, never having filed for divorce and she gets no happiness out of Christmas, plus she acts the spoiled and eccentric heiress during the season, her stunts getting more and more out of hand every year. And as she's lost her driver's license, her father, who has also bugged her phones, hires her a chauffeur named Mack Armstrong, who is actually a cop undercover, acting as her driver in order to catch the errant Neville. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Lady Henrietta Maclellan longs for the romantic swirl of a London season. But as a rusticating country maiden, she has always kept her sensuous nature firmly under wraps -- until she meets Simon Darby. Simon makes her want to whisper promises late at night, exchange kisses on a balcony, receive illicit love notes. So Henrietta lets her imagination soar and writes… A very steamy love letter that becomes shockingly public. Everyone supposes that he has written it to her, but the truth hardly matters in the face of the scandal to come if they don't marry at once. But nothing has quite prepared Henrietta for the pure sensuality of… Simon has vowed he will never turn himself into a fool over a woman. So, while debutantes swoon as he disdainfully strides past the lovely ladies of the ton, he ignores them all…until Henrietta. Could it be possible that he has been the foolish one all along? Cover Price $6.99 Larry Baldwin, 40, is smart and tough, a former Green Beret who leaves the New York rat race for a new business venture in his native Georgia. Baldwin's new boss, prominent local businessman Vic Goodman, turns out to be a sleazy redneck who proves difficult to deal with until the hired gun wins him over by enhancing his company's bottom line. When Baldwin's head is suddenly turned by troubled, down-and-out Cody West, however, he finds himself compromised by the pretty 22-year-old's bad history with Goodman and the differences between his own values and those of his free-spirited newfound love. Matters turn melodramatic before long, climaxing in a violent confrontation between Baldwin and Goodman's son, a drug-dealer who's been harassing Cody for years. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 While making last-minute preparations for her wedding, which is three weeks away, Candace Woodrow, owner of Gift Baskets to Die For, finds herself distracted by her new--and dangerously sexy--client, Michael Vogler, who challenges her to take the biggest risk of her life. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 Playboy businessman Devlin Gilvane arrives in Ballymuir secretly intent on acquiring the beloved historical landmark Muir House for a lucrative real estate venture. No one recognizes him for the threat he is -- except Jenna Fahey, the beautiful American chef who turned Muir House into an international destination for gourmands. Jenna spent years working at the finest European restaurants before establishing her own and even though the lease is coming to a close, she isn't about to give it up without a fight. But even as Jenna thwarts Dev's pursuit, she can't resist his rakish charm. With Dev and Jenna locked in a dispute -- and a game of temptation -- there are bound to be some hot nights in Ballymuir.... Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Miss America has vanished and photographer Cat Hansen refuses to sit and wait for someone to find her missing sister. Charging blindly into harms way, Cat locks horns and hearts with a dangerously desirable undercover government agent. In the meantime, Meg Hansen is embarking on a daring escape that leaves her stranded and vulnerable on a desert island with an intriguing and mesmerizing man with a secret . . . Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Woven with searing sensuality, here is the unforgettable story of a woman who is carried away by a powerful Lord to a secret stronghold, where she becomes his prisoner, his tormentor... and his lover. Cover Price $6.99 Bodyguard Meg Loria gets an assignment from her family's security firm: successfully bid on a gorgeous guy at a charity auction and hole up alone with him in a secluded cabin so she can protect him from his rivals without his knowledge. And just try to keep her mind strictly on her work. Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 First comes marriage... Will love follow? Cover Price $4.50 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 This new installment in the Crighton family saga finds David returning home to confront his past and discovering romance with Honor Jessop. But he hasn't told her the truth about his life. Will Honor and the Crightons be willing to forgive David and give him a second chance? Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 A young widow befriends a mysterious stranger, only to find herself drawn irrevocably into a strange world of fear and fascination, where she is unable to tell friend from foe, lover from enemy. Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 A passion fated by the desert stars... True to his Apache name, Hawk Devlin is a strong and proud man whose intense blue eyes hold dark secrets of a painful past. Scorned by white women before, he won't be tempted by the arrogant English beauty determined to risk the perils of the Superstition Mountains in search of treasure. Sybilla Hartford has traveled the globe, but she has met her match in the legendary guide called Hawk. His strength and his courage challenge her own. His stubborn independence infuriates her. But his brooding sensuality draws her, like a moth to the flame, to lure him from his lonely solitude. And in the deep shadows of the forbidding land, pride yields to a passion more powerful than the wildest spirits of the night... Cover Price $3.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Sent to close down the Daniels family's distillery in Rapture Valley, Pennsylvania, during the Whiskey Rebellion, Major Garner Townsend, a Bostonian aristocrat, is attracted to the lovely and free-spirited Whitney Daniels, an independent woman of a wild, backwater hamlet. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 In 1230 France, Fulk de Galliard is horrified when he comprehends that his only blow killed his brother Rabel. His father interrupts the weeping Fulk to inform him that he is at the mercy of Rabel’s grim knights. Not long afterward, a friend takes the battered Fulk back with her to heal at least his body. For the next seven years, Fulk works the tournament circuit. He has earned his nickname the “Reluctant” because he prefers not to kill still feeling the guilt of losing his temper and committing fratricide. Meanwhile Lord Windermere informs his daughter Jehane that she will either wed or enter a convent. Jehane worships the idealism behind tournaments wanting to participate as the Iron Maiden, but not understanding the grim reality of the contests. She becomes irate at Fulk when he cowardly forfeits the final match of a contest to Earl Grimald. The Earl sends Fulk to take Windermere, which he lays a siege to, not realizing the Lord is dead. After his men take control of the keep, Fulk and Jehane fall in love, but she questions his courage until he risks his life to keep her safe. Jehane knows that Fulk is not the coward of the county, but actually her brave knight in shining armor. Cover Price $5.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.25 Married against her will to the brutal Russian general who conquered her people, Countess Teo Korsakova has never known what it means to want a man...until now. Trapped behind enemy lines, held captive by her husband's most formidable foe, she should fear for her life. But all Teo feels in General Andre Duras's shattering presence is breathless passion. France's most victorious commander, Andre knows that he should do the honorable thing, knows too that on the eve of battle he cannot afford so luscious a distraction. Yet something about Teo lures him to do the unthinkable: to seduce his enemy's wife, and to let himself love a woman who can never be his. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 "Wedding Surprise" by Susan Johnson. Schoolteacher Sofie Piper is very attracted to football coach Jake Finn. He feels the same way. However, Sofie believes she has reasons to doubt the sincerity of the coach; he needs a Hail Mary to persuade the woman he loves that she can trust him with her heart. "Double the Pleasure" by Jasmine Haynes. Thirty years old secretary Kristin Prescott loves her boss Ross Sloan, but he only seems interested in her spreadsheets not her sheets. Not wanting to break the organizational rules on fraternizing between workers, but needing to reach Ross, reticent Kristin pretends to be her outgoing sexy twin sister Kirby. She succeeds in getting Ross' love but is heartbroken as he has fallen in love with portrayal of her sister. "Skin Deep" by Jasmine Haynes. Kirby Prescott is both happy and sick of her sister so in love with Ross. Deep in her heart she is elated because she loves her twin, but also is jealous as she wants her own Ross. To alleviate her current sadness, Kirby decides she needs a taste of Jack Taylor. Though in the past he has settled for crumbs, Jack wants more this time from the woman he loves, but how to convince her without being thrown out with the dirty water. Cover Price $14.00 Condition Good Your Price $3.50 "I did not kill anyone, Francesca. And the fact that you wish to destroy evidence suggests you think me capable of murder. Called to the home of her fiancé Calder Hart's former mistress late one night, amateur sleuth Francesca Cahill's curiosity is piqued. But upon arrival, she is shocked to find Daisy Jones's bloodied body -- and even more devastated when the evidence points to one suspect: Calder. Francesca cannot -- will not -- believe that Calder is capable of such an act. Still, she is unable to shake her instinctive sense that Calder is lying about something. The police are far less inclined to believe his innocence, and Calder is arrested for Daisy's murder. But Francesca's heart is not easily swayed... until a life-altering secret is exposed that could destroy their future together. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 To get funding for her first expedition, Cordelia Blackburn finds herself searching for three Mayan stone carvings and something known as "the gift of the jaguar"-accompanied by her grandfather's arrogant butler. But as the trail leads them across the Caribbean and into Mexico, she learns that Hartford Goodnight is far more than just a butler. Soon the pair is hip deep in danger and desire-trying to keep the sparks between them from setting the rainforest ablaze. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Easily the shyest Wallflower, Evangeline Jenner stands to become the wealthiest, once her inheritance comes due. Because she must first escape the clutches of her unscrupulous relatives, Evie has approached the rake Viscount St. Vincent with a most outrageous proposition: marriage! Sebastian's reputation is so dangerous that thirty seconds alone with him will ruin any maiden's good name. Still, this bewitching chit appeared, unchaperoned, on his doorstep to offer her hand. Certainly an aristocrat with a fine eye for beauty could do far worse. But Evie's proposal comes with a condition: no lovemaking after their wedding night. She will never become just another of the dashing libertine's callously discarded broken hearts -- which means Sebastian will simply have to work harder at his seductions... or perhaps surrender his own heart for the very first time in the name of true love. Cover Price $7.50 Condition Good Your Price $2.00 Slade McCafferty had thus far avoided being lassoed by a member of the opposite sex--the confirmed bachelor was too busy raising hell to settle down. Fifteen years ago daredevil Slade had taken wild child Jamie Parsons's innocence--and then broken her heart. But now Jamie was back in town, a lawyer, all confidence and polished professionalism. And seeing her again set off a tidal wave of emotions Slade thought he'd dammed up ages ago. What had happened between them was ancient history. Still, there was something about Jamie that made Slade ache for more. A hell of a lot more… Cover Price $6.99 Condition New Your Price $3.50 Midwestern librarian Letitia Thornquist didn't have the right stuff to run Thornquist Gear, Inc. That was the bottom-line opinion of Joel Blackstone, the seasoned CEO who had built the small Seattle sporting goods store into an industry giant. But Letty's rich Uncle Charlie willed her the company, and now she was bubbling with enthusiasm to have Joel, a perfect mentor, show her the ropes. Teaching her the business was all Joel grudgingly planned to do...until the sensuous curves under Letty's navy suit and the unabashed desire in her wide, innocent eyes left him longing for a personal kind of merger. Soon his sizzling kisses convinced her that she wasn't in Kansas anymore. But no matter how skilled Joel was in the art of love, Letty knew she was at risk in his arms. Behind his tough facade she sensed a world of hurt that cried out for her warmth and understanding. She realized the "L" word might never be spoken if trust didn't make them perfect partners 9 to 5...and in the loving after-hours of midnight to dawn. Cover Price $5.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Amidst whispers of treachery and murder, the Stanhope heir vanishes without a trace.... After Lionel De Vere's mysterious disappearance, Garrick De Vere becomes heir to an estate shrouded in scandal. Blackmailed by his powerful father into returning to England after a decade-long exile, Garrick finds himself forced into confronting the past and defending his innocence against those who wished to see him banished forever.She dared to love the man all of London hated.... Lady Olivia Grey and her daughter both possess the shattering "gift" of sight, and it is this vision which drives Olivia from a loveless marriage directly into the heart of a bitter rivalry between two brothers, placing both herself and her daughter in jeopardy-as lies, secrets and ancient passions threaten to destroy everyone involved.The were strangers and outcasts, thrown together by a past that would not die. Together they fought to expose a legacy of deceit and claim the love that defied their entire world. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 The Blackthornes and the Creeds. Two powerful Texas dynasties–and lifelong enemies. Set in the heart of the modern-day West, New York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston brings to passionate life the clash of wills between Blackthorne and Creed... as a man and woman discover a love stronger than the forces trying to tear them apart. Summer Blackthorne swore she’d never forgive Billy Coburn for running out on her and their future together. But that was before she found out she wasn’t Jackson Blackthorne’s child–Billy was. And now the “Blackthorne Bastard” has come home for a final day of reckoning...to the town that damned him and the woman he had always wanted. Only Summer can satisfy the hunger burning deep within him. Only she can help him hold on to his own unwanted son. It will be a marriage of expedience only. Until doubts and mistrust vanish in the heat of passion... and a man and a woman who never stopped loving each other fight bitter blood and impossible odds for a glorious second chance.... Cover Price $7.50 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 It Happened at the Ball... Where beautiful but bold Lillian Bowman quickly learned that her independent American ways weren't entirely "the thing." And the most disapproving of all was insufferable, snobbish, and impossible Marcus, Lord Westcliff, London's most eligible aristocrat. It Happened in the Garden… When Marcus shockingly -- and dangerously–swept her into his arms. Lillian was overcome with a consuming passion for a man she didn't even like. Time stood still; it was as if no one else existed…thank goodness they weren't caught very nearly in the act! It Happened One Autumn... Marcus was a man in charge of his own emotions, a bedrock of stability. But with Lillian, every touch was exquisite torture, every kiss an enticement for more. Yet how could he consider taking a woman so blatantly unsuitable…as his bride? Cover Price $7.50 A red scarf. A roller coaster. A tidal wave of blood . . .Isabel Wright spends her days at the Belvedere Center for Sleep Research analyzing the dreams of others. Dr. Martin Belvedere, a pioneer in the field, recognized her unique talent for what he calls Level Five lucid dreaming. It's satisfying, lucrative work, but it can be emotionally draining. Especially when one of her anonymous subjects, known only as Client Number Two, captures her imagination through his compelling dream narratives. Secretly, she thinks of him as ""Dream Man."" His real name is Ellis Cutler. A loner who's learned not to let anyone get too close, he works for a highly classified government agency with an interest in the potential value of lucid dreaming. And he's just been ordered by his boss to make contact with Isabel, who's been fired after the sudden death of Dr. Belvedere. Heading to California, he pushes his fantasies out of his mind, determined to maintain a professional relationship with the woman who reads his dreams, the mysterious figure he has come to think of as ""Tango Dancer."" But when they meet in the flesh, the dream becomes real enough to touch. And a waking nightmare begins-when a suspicious hit-and-run leads them into a perilous web of passion, betrayal, and murder, and forces them to walk the razor-thin line between dreams and reality. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 A trio of novellas about the sexy agents of BAD, the Bureau of American Defense, includes "One Bad Night," in which agent Samantha Winslow pursues a seductive rogue operative; "BAD to the Bone," about a romance contest winner kidnapped by BAD agent Kyle Foster; and "Captivated by You," in which agent Rhea Stevenson goes undercover as a dominatrix. Cover Price $7.50 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 In 1868 Northern Japan, the Otari clan loses the Civil War. When their leader is killed, his daughter Princess Tama flees the area dressed as a peasant boy with a plan to reach the capital and find passage to Europe to bring back her brother as the new clan chief. Tama reaches Edo where she sees American sea captain, Hugh Drummond enter a brothel. Tama forces the geisha Sunskoku to take her to see Hugh. For an exorbitant fee he agrees to take her to France where her brother lives. They need to reach Osaka to sail, but Sunskoku reports to Chief Inspector Hiroki who begins a massive manhunt. As Tama and Hugh defeat Hiroki's ninja, they also make love when they find a few days of sanctuary. They reach Osaka and sail to France where she hopes to persuade her reluctant brother to return to Japan and where she knows that her tryst with her beloved will end when his western lifestyle intercedes. Cover Price $15.00 Condition New Your Price $6.00 Stunning, stubborn, and independent, Philadelphia Fox lost her best friend because of the fabulously rich and powerful Lightfoot family of Washington state. Now she's got her friend's controlling shares in Lightfoot Industries -- an inheritance that brings Nick, the family's prodigal and supremely attractive son, knocking at her door. An unexpected and irrepressible spark between them blazes into extraordinary passion, and Phila -- historically unlucky in love -- finds the deepest satisfaction she has ever known. But behind Nick's gray eyes lurks a disturbing enigma and Phila must make the choice of her life. Trusting Nick may come with quite a price -- but giving in to his strong, sensual seduction is a golden chance that may never come again. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $2.00 Stella Scott doesn't date customers. So when a superhero-in-the-flesh strolls into her comic book store, snapping up rare editions and insisting on taking her to dinner, she knows she's in trouble. It isn't long before Stella finds herself revising her little rule. But while she's having a blast between the sheets, there's no way she's going to let herself do something stupid...like fall head over heels in love. Hopefully it isn't too late... Sexy private investigator David Anderson takes one look at Jacey Wilder and knows she's no femme fatale. The red-headed smart-aleck in his office couldn't be more different from the tight-skirted dames he creates in the pulp fiction novels he writes in his spare time. But Jacey is a paying customer and he's encountered precious few of those lately. All he has to do is track down her old boyfriend. How hard could it be? With her thirtieth birthday fast approaching, Jacey is determined to get her life on track. Locating her old flame -- a suave, normal guy -- seems like the logical first step. But when she enlists the services of P.I. Anderson, logic is suddenly in short supply: the tough-talking detective is the one who is making her blood sizzle and Jacey's starting to wonder if the man she's really searching for isn't right under her nose.... Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Three best friends from the city are coming home this summer--and temperatures are going to soar. For each, the small lakeside town of Ely holds warm memories of erotic trysts and first crushes, passionate nights and bittersweet heartbreak. Now they are returning to their hometown for the hottest summer of their lives--and three new chances at love... For Serena, the bored would-be socialite, the passion she’s been missing comes in the form of a man all wrong for her--for all the deliciously right reasons. For Ceci, the poet and cynic, the art of love was a carefully orchestrated game--until the town bad boy teaches her the pleasure of losing control. And for Lily, the cable TV star recovering from a broken marriage, the carefree summer fling she’d begun with Ely’s most handsome and eligible resident burns with a sensual heat that will melt every taboo. Neither Lily, Ceci, nor Serena knows how the summer will end, but one thing is certain--each will experience a seduction to remember... Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Olivia Chantry may leave her desk in disarray, but she's a business dynamo: her Seattle-based company, Light Fantastic, creates the promotional flash her clients need. Her marvelous success has almost made up for a crumbled marriage that has left her wedded to a career instead of a mate. But all that may change when Olivia inherits 49 percent of Glow, Inc., her uncle's high-tech lighting firm, and she butts heads with the interloper who bagged the other 51 percent: Jasper Sloan, a venture capitalist and deal-maker known as an orderly man with all his ducks in a row. From the start of their feisty business dealings, the so-called partners nearly crash and burn -- and barely keep control of the sexual energy crackling between them. But when they discover a blackmailer is hard at work uncovering secrets inside Glow, Inc., Olivia and Sloan's steamy joint venture faces the acid test of truth... and a need for absolute trust. For when extortion turns to murder, a union of their minds -- and hearts -- might be their only chance to stay alive. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 Cord Tanner has a very simple plan: get paid to be Beatrix Northroupe's husband for a month so the prim, but very sexy, Englishwoman can gain rightful ownership to her family's stud farm. Money in hand, he's going to get as far away from Revolt, Kansas, as a fast horse can take him. But Cord soon finds that he admires his Trixie's reckless courage--not to mention she's one great kisser. Maybe he's crazy to hope for a real future with her instead of heading for the hills, but now that someone's staking a dangerous claim to her farm, Cord's decided to stick around as long as the lady needs protecting. That wedding ring he put on her finger means her reputation is safe--and he's determined to win her heart. Cord Tanner may not be the most refined man on the frontier, but he sure is the lovingest... Cover Price $3.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Set near the Scottish border, it is the breathtaking story of two lost souls who find in each other a reason to live again, to laugh again, and to love for the first time. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Pru leaves her live-in lover when he refuses to marry her, but her unexpected pregnancy brings happiness, and inadvertently heals a major family rift. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Left alone on the family estate, headstrong Brien Weston has learned to manage for herself. But when she becomes too independent for her noble father’s tastes, he orders an arranged marriage “for her own good.” Taking matters into her own hands, Brien discovers that what makes a woman truly ineligible for marriage is marriage itself. So how does a woman acquire a husband... who won’t really be a husband? Having rejected his own father’s title and fortune, shipbuilder Aaron Durham vows to find a way to finance his dreams. But what is a charming scapegrace to do when a desperate young lady and a small fortune fall into his lap... with a shocking condition attached? One irresistible night of passion will change their destinies. Touch by touch, kiss by kiss, they fall deeper into a love large enough to span continents... strong enough to overcome deception... and sweet enough to make them forget that they have been. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Beautiful, eager and innocent Corinna Huntington is swept up in the intrigues of the Tudor court - plunged into a world of ambition and treachery. Rampant with nefarious plots and bawdy pleasures. Manly and magnificent Count Rugar Kalisson swears vengeance on the insulting, overbearing English who hate and scorn him for his Swedish heritage - vowing to best Elizabeth's knights in contest... and her ladies in love. A sheltered English rose and a virile "Viking" nobleman are drawn together by rapturous and reckless passion - surrendering to the forbidden ecstasy of a bold, soul-bearing love that would inflame the wrath of a jealous Queen... and provoke a diplomatic scandal! Cover Price $4.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Pledged to protect Venice from its mighty enemies, warrior lord Olivier Ducci Mondaldo could not ignore a request to aid France in the Holy War against the Sultan Bayezid. That the messenger who carried the plea was none other than Lady Julian Madrigal, the child who had engineered his escape from the sultan six years before, was even more disquieting. For Julian was now an alluring woman who demanded that Olivier honor his promises to her. The daughter of a woman rumored to be a powerful witch, Julian’s own gifts as a healer were frightening to her, but no more frightening than the passionate bond she shared with Olivier—a bond doomed by her own secrets and Olivier’s betrothal to a wealthy Venetian widow. Yet as the city rallied toward Crusade, and Olivier prepared his fleet for the voyage to Nicopolis, Julian made a desperate decision that would forever alter the passionate destiny she and Olivier shared. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 A princess of defeated Mercia, Rosamund had lost all hope of a future, until she stumbled across a chained Mercian prisoner. Drawn by Boda's brutal strength and the defiance in his closed fist, she impulsively wagered her safety for his and won him from their Viking captors. But Rosamund's risk is great. For just as Boda's loyalties may not be all they seem, she too, is not what she pretends to be. And though she yearns to trust his honor and lean upon his strength, the scars of war run deep, and betrayal may be the price of love.… Cover Price $6.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 Ridge Hawkins doesn't tale the job of sheriff lightly--and Tanglewood, Nevada's transformation from outlaw outpost to civilized small town, is proof of his respect for the law. Ridge doesn't expect trouble from the new schoolteacher, but when she arrives with a precocious daughter in tow--and the suspicious air of a woman harboring a secret--Ridge knows he won't hesitate to deliver it. Sophie Dolan has never taught a day of school in her life, but she's willing to do anything to keep little Jenna safely away from someone who wants to exploit the child's gift of sight. The fact that Jenna is her sister, not her daughter, is only one of the things that Sohpie needs to hide--and after one run-in with Ridge, she knows exactly whom she has to hide the truth from. The problem is, Sophie has the sight herself, and she knows that the no-nonsense sheriff has not only guessed her secrets,but stolen her heart. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 A captivating collection of sensual stories follows four dangerously sexy heroes who have the power to conquer a woman's heart and make all of her fantasies come to life--in more ways than one--in a romantic anthology featuring works by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Maggie Shayne, Suzanne Forster, and Virginia Kantra. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.75 When an unexpected inheritance elevates her family to the ranks of the aristocracy, Amelia Hathaway discovers that tending to her younger sisters and wayward brother was easy compared to navigating the intricacies of the ton. Even more challenging: the attraction she feels for the tall, dark, and dangerously handsome Cam Rohan. Wealthy beyond most men’s dreams, Cam has tired of society’s petty restrictions and longs to return to his “uncivilized” Gypsy roots. When the delectable Amelia appeals to him for help, he intends to offer only friendship—but intentions are no match for the desire that blindsides them both. But can a man who spurns tradition be tempted into that most time-honored arrangement: marriage? Life in London society is about to get a whole lot hotter…. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $2.00 Anne of Fenwyck has had only one wish: to live forever at Artane, her grand foster home, with Robin de Piaget, the heir. Her father wants her married, but she rejects all suitors, even though Robin has rejected her. Anne believes that he is appalled by her limp, the result of a crippling childhood accident, but Robin, who has always loved her, berates himself for not protecting her and avoids her out of shame, not repulsion. He has been away at war for a long time, hoping to prove himself worthy of Anne. When they meet again, however, both are unable to reveal their true feelings. Then castle life is thrown into upheaval as an unknown assailant tries to hurt Anne, which forces Robin to act on his love. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.50 A Sense of Belonging Cholmford Hall Mews is far more than an exclusive home to its new inhabitants. In their different ways, all the newcomers to Cholmford are searching for something--love, peace, a sense of belonging. But will they find more than they bargained for? Airs & Graces Ellen has been living on her own in a picturesque cottage in Cheshire since her husband abandoned her to go and live with another woman in Provence. Having married once for love, she is now determined that the second time around it will be for money. Close at hand is Duncan, her not unattractive, and enticingly single, divorce lawyer. But then two new people enter her life: Jo-Jo, a homeless girl several months pregnant, and Matthew, an artist who paints murals in country houses and who, on his first meeting with Ellen, openly criticizes her for being devious. But as hostility gives way to friendship, Ellen realizes that she has wavered off course from her original plan, and she has to remind herself very strongly indeed that Duncan is the man for her. Condition Very Good Your Price $3.50 To escape marriage to a despised man twice her age, Lady Aurora Demming makes a scandalous arrangement with Nicholas Sabine, a dangerously handsome American facing execution for murder and piracy. She agrees to become his wife for one day... and one glorious, intoxicating night. Widowed, Aurora returns to London society with Nicholas's orphaned sister at her side to face a lifetime without love--until her "dead" husband returns, insisting that she honor their vows and haunting her dreams with promises of forbidden desire.... Cover Price $6.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 Why would someone try to kidnap Lili Kavanaugh? She's a shoe designer, for heaven's sake! It was just a fluke -- she certainly doesn't need a bodyguard, despite her overprotective family's opinion. Enter Matt Hawkins: tall, dark, and dangerous bodyguard extraordinaire. A man who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. A man who makes Lili shiver -- and not from fear. And a man who refuses to see Lili as more than a job, even though she's seen the heat in his eyes when he looks at her. Well... she'll just have to fix that! All Matt wants is the fee he'll collect from this job to finally start his own agency. But Lili's zest for life points up how tunnel-visioned he's become. So when she demands to know if he doesn't want more out of life, what can a strong man say... except "I do"? Cover Price $5.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 Features three stories--"The Main Attraction" by Jayne Ann Krentz, "Edge of Eternity" by Jasmine Cresswell and "My Phony Valentine" by Marie Ferrarella. Cover Price $12.99 Condition Good Your Price $3.00 In twelfth-century England, St. Jude's Abbey is no ordinary holy sanctuary: it trains young women in the knightly arts. When Avisa, the most skilled of them, is asked by the Queen to safeguard her royal godson, the honor is both dangerous and seductive. Cover Price $6.99 Condition New Your Price $3.50 Elspeth Braybrooke, trained in the knightly arts, has no defense against her heart when she meets a handsome warrior with dark secrets and a manly, irresistible caress. Cover Price $6.99 Condition New Your Price $3.50 Annabelle Peyton, determined to save her family from disaster, decides to use her beauty and wit to tempt a suitable nobleman into making an offer of marriage. But Annabelle's most intriguing—and persistent—admirer, wealthy, powerful Simon Hunt, has made it clear that while he will introduce her to irresistible pleasure he will not offer marriage. Annabelle is determined to resist his unthinkable proposition... but it is impossible in the face of such skillful seduction. Her friends, looking to help, conspire to entice a more suitable gentleman to offer for Annabelle, for only then will she be safe from Simon—and her own longings. But on one summer night, Annabelle succumbs to Simon's passionate embrace and tempting kisses... and she discovers that love is the most dangerous game of all. Cover Price $6.99 Condition New Your Price $3.50 "Lady Hawksworth, your husband is not dead." With those words, Lara's life turned upside down. Hunter, Earl of Hawksworth, had been lost at sea. Or so she'd been told. Their unhappy marriage—with its cold caresses and passionless kisses—was over. But now a powerful, virile man stood before her, telling secrets only a husband could know, and vowing she would once again be his wife in every way. While Lara couldn't deny that this man with smoldering dark eyes resembled Hunter, he was attentive and loving in ways he never was before. Soon she desperately wanted to believe, with every beat of her heart, that this stranger was truly her husband. But had this rake reformed—or was Lara being seduced by a cunning stranger? Cover Price $7.99 As proprietor of the most fashionable shop in Boston, Amelie Lacroix knows all about creating the elegant style and glittering gowns her wealthy clients adore. But Amelie herself has no time for flirtatious games with eligible men -- until a magical wedding feast, where dashing sea captain Zach Fairbourne entices her into the garden for a moonlit kiss. Without warning, practical Amelie finds herself dreaming of love and romance in Zach's arms. Zach Fairbourne has been enchanted by women the world over, and in love with none. He thought Amelie would be a passing fancy, a pretty miss to dally with for a few sweet days while ashore. But the rich, deep passion of their kiss sets his heart reeling with dreams of a home, a family, and one woman to cherish for the rest of his life. And when the high sea call him back, Zach must test the waters of true love to find if hearts from two different worlds can somehow build a lasting bond to treasure. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 Her name is her only crime, yet Lady Gillian must take refuge in a humble cottage on the on the stormy Cornish coast, hiding from a king who seeks her death for her father's treason.Now destiny has sent Gillian a cure for her loneliness: a handsome shipwrecked stranger washed ashore on a perilous tide who requires a kind lady's gentle touch to heal his broken body and tormented spirit. His own name -- Gareth -- is all that he remembers. Yet he knows he has found paradise in the company of an exquisite beauty whose caress is sweet rapture and whose smile warms his soul. But as his memories slowly return, so does the dark task entrusted to him by King John. If he fails, a young boy will surely perish. Yet how can he betray Gillian, whose passionate love has lit a blaze in Gareth's heart that no vengeful king's decree could ever extinguish? Cover Price $6.99 Condition New Your Price $3.50 With neither title nor land, Rhys could not win the hand of Gwennelyn of Segrave--though he would always have her heart. But Gwen was betrothed to another man, and Rhys feared he would lose her forever. But then a surprise offer came his way--bringing Rhys and Gwen a second chance at love... Cover Price $7.99 Condition New Your Price $3.50 Beatrix Grosvenor couldn't have been caught in a more compromising position: locked in a Parisian apartment with the body of a murdered man. She could only hope that the charismatic stranger who found her would believe her story of abduction and assassination, and free her to return to her young son in England. But Pasha Duras was not about to let her escape so easily. The renowned libertine didn't believe Trixi's fanciful tale, but there was no denying the temptation of her beauty. He would accompany her home, on a sensual journey that would begin with the most tantalizing of seductions--and end with a dangerous discovery. Trixi's enemies were real. Her child was at their mercy... and Pasha's newly awakened heart may prove to be his undoing. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 "You can't avoid him forever, Louisa. Just tell him you're not interested, and put an end to it." -- Mrs. Charlotte Harris, headmistress Marry? Never! It would end Louisa North's work with her ladies reform group -- and truth be told, she likes her independence very much, despite her royal father's protests. So when Simon Tremaine, the dashing Duke of Foxmoor whom she once loved -- and had exiled from England -- returns bent on marrying her, she's skeptical. Does he truly care for her, or does he simply want revenge? It's difficult to resist Simon's dangerous charms, because the fire between them still burns as hot as ever. But when his ulterior motive for marriage is exposed, along with the deeply buried secrets of his past, Louisa vows to make him pay... and the price will be his heart. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Ordinarily, small-town girl Lavender "Vinnie" Hart would never have come to New York, but her younger brother, a boarding school student, needs her support. So she finds a job as live-in "nanny" for a high maintenance pooch and moves into the luxurious Manhattan penthouse of architect Nicholas Wright. In a snap, Vinnie's living the high life, but there's an unexpected snafu: the difficult dog's gorgeous owner takes Vinnie's breath away! Nick's too busy with his hectic, success-obsessed life to deal with the spoiled haute couture canine he inherited. Now Vinnie, with her sexy exuberance and charming unpredictability, is becoming an even bigger distraction! Nick's all Big City stress and sophistication; she's genuine, warm-hearted country. A relationship could never work since they have absolutely nothing in common -- or is a girl like her perfect for someone like him? Cover Price $5.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Three leading ladies of romance, authors Jayne Ann Krentz, Linda Howard and Linda Lael Miller, present "Heart's Desire", a collection of three spectacular stories that celebrate the eternal nature of love. Cover Price $12.00 Condition Good Your Price $2.50 Will his wicked ways be her undoing? Or, will she turn the tables on the handsome rogue? An enticing new series introduces the spirited graduates of Mrs. Harris's School for Young Ladies - unconventional heiresses, more than matches for society's irresistible rogues! Lady Amelia Plume has many admirers. Too bad they're all fortune hunters or fops who can't provide the exotic adventures she seeks. But the ballrooms of Mayfair have become much more appealing since the arrival of Major Lucas Winter, an American with a dark past and dangerous air. Lucas is brash, arrogant and scandalously tempting. Every thrilling kiss sparks hotter desire, yet Amelia suspects Lucas has a hidden motive in wooing her. And she intends to discover it, by any means necessary... Cover Price $6.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Lady Venetia Campbell's visit to her childhood home in Scotland takes a dramatic turn when she's kidnapped at pistol point by her father's sworn enemy. Sir Lachlan Ross is widely feared in his guise as The Scottish Scourge, but Venetia remembers her former neighbor as a handsome youth whose attentions she craved. Now a wickedly sexy man, Lachlan's appeal is even more intoxicating... and much more dangerous. Though Lachlan tries to treat her as his foe, his scorching kisses tell another story. And despite his plan to use her as a weapon against her father, Venetia is determined that Lachlan's lust for revenge will be trumped by an even more powerful desire.... Cover Price $6.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 THE WATCHER: He smells her. Feels her. Knows she is coming. Chosen by the Fates, she is the one. Only she can lift the curse of darkness. But he will stop her-and he will sacrifice her. THE WOMAN: Flame-haired and green-eyed, Bryanna looks enchanted but has always felt cursed, plagued by mysterious visions and voices. Bound by destiny to save an innocent life, Bryanna follows her path alone-until she meets a stranger deep in the woods. THE WARRIOR: Gavyn is a wanted man, as dark and dangerous as the wolf that shadows his footsteps. But his touch is electric, and he has much to teach-if Bryanna is willing to learn... Cover Price $7.99 One spectacular Christmas, Lady Perdita Selby, known to her friends and family as Poppy, met the man she thought she would love forever. The devilishly attractive Duke of Fletcher was the perfect match for the innocent, breathtakingly beautiful young Englishwoman, and theirs was the most romantic wedding she had ever seen. Four years later, Poppy and the duke have become the toast of the ton . . . but behind closed doors the spark of their love affair has burned out. Unwilling to lose the woman he still lusts after, the duke is determined to win back his beguiling bride's delectable affections... and surpass the heady days of first love with a truly sinful seduction. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.75 In 1888, Lucy Attenborough, accompanied by her daughter engineer Guiseppina better known as Jo, returns to Helena, Montana for the firs time in twenty-three years. For Jo this is her first trip to Big Sky Country having been raised in Florence. Her father, Native American Jon Hazard Black never knew he sired a daughter until he and his wife Blaze see Jo, who is clearly his child. Jon knows that Lucy is here for one thing only, money and tries to buy her off with a too generous yearly stipend. Lucy accepts, but her avaricious mind sees more cash flowing because Jon wants to know his daughter better. At the Stuart Warner dinner party that Jo attends, cattle ranch owner Flynn Ito arrives. Flynn and Jo are immediately attracted to one another and go off together for a night of boiling lovemaking. As they become better acquainted in and out of bed, their original lure turns into love, but his enemies, including an English aristocrat, use her as a pawn to try to kill him. Cover Price $15.00 Condition Very Good Your Price $4.00 In 1821 Yorkshire, a snowstorm forces the carriage containing divorcee Caroline Morrow to stop at a nearby inn when she is stunned to see Simon Blair also stranded there. Caroline remembers the great sex with her former lover, but has not forgotten Simon's tryst with her maid. Still Simon seduces Caroline who pleads with him to continue until they both climax. They make love several more times before she sneaks away. Caroline heads north to her governess job in remote Netherton Castle while Simon searches for her. Ian and Jane Carlisle welcome Caroline to their home and introduce her to their two children. Three days later, a frustrated Simon arrives at Netherton Castle to recover from losing Caroline again. Both Simon and Caroline are shocked to see one another in the middle of nowhere. That night Simon enters Caroline's room and they share great sex, but neither trusts the other outside the bedroom. Thus anything permanent except for an occasional fling seems impossible. Cover Price $15.00 Condition Very Good Your Price $4.00 Washed ashore on a deserted beach by a storm at sea, the lovely woman has no idea of who she is or where she came from; she knows only that her name is Juliette. Though one thing is as clear as the morning sky: the handsome stranger who rescued her arouses in her a passion that she has never before experienced. For five years, in the wake of his young wife's death, the embittered Daniel Fairbourne has lived alone on Nantucket Island. But when he finds Juliette unconscious on the sand and tends her back to health, his sleeping heart reawakens. Sheltered in Daniel's tiny cottage, they discover a rare and wondrous love. But as Juliette's memory returns, Daniel knows that she will one day go back to the world outside his cottage walls -- a world that Daniel has little desire to rejoin. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 In Sherrilyn Kenyon's "BAD to the Bone," teacher Marianne Webernec wins the "Hideaway Heroine Sweepstakes." Whisked away to a remote tropical island, Marianne's fantasies become real when Bureau of American Defense agent Kyle Foster kidnaps her and uncovers her every desire. In Liz Carlyle's "Let's Talk About Sex," Dr. Delia Sydney dishes out perfectly sound sex advice on the radio but is easily seduced by her bad-boy neighbor. Just what is it about Nick Woodruff, a smooth-talking sergeant, that makes Delia do anything when she's with him? Things get even hotter in Nicole Camden's "The Nekkid Truth" when crime scene photographer Debbie Valley loses the ability to recognize faces and must identify people by their bodies. Soon she finds that the wonders of Detective Marshall Scott's body never cease... and that he needs her to help catch a killer. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.75 An undercover job goes badly wrong and Drug Enforcement Agency Fallon Hargis needs to escape from killers. She follows a hotel guest into his room, orders him to strip at gunpoint, loses her wig, and fakes having sex with him while the drug enforcers tear through the hotel looking for her. Unfortunately for her plan, the faked sex turns into the real thing and it's the best sex Fallon has had in a long time. Wade Tanner had come to Dallas to get get away from Two Creeks, Texas for a couple of days. He'd hoped for a little excitement--but a beautiful woman forcing him to have sex, then almost bleeding to death on him is a lot more excitement than he had anticipated. Since someone in the D.E.A. blew Falon's cover, she needs to stay underground--and Wade persuades her to return with him to Two Creeks where she can get doctored up and think about next steps. He anticipates more excitement, more sex. He doesn't guess that Fallon has a personal stake in bringing down one of the biggest drug dealers in the southwest--or that he will be forced to return to 'the pit,' the most dangerous and lawless place in the North American continent. Cover Price $14.00 Condition New Your Price $4.00 Joy by Jayne Ann Krentz Sharing a Caribbean holiday seemed a perfectly sane way for solid, dependable Virginia Middlebrook and A. C. Ryerson to get better acquainted. But in a high-stakes poker game, they won a bracelet of uncommon beauty, and from that moment on, they barreled recklessly into love -- and adventure. Never before had they abandoned themselves to such joy. Or exposed themselves to such danger. Impulse by Vicki Lewis Thompson April Foster had almost married Dan Butler once, but his cautious nature had gotten in the way. Eight years later, he was still attractive but unimaginative, and yet... something had changed. He now possessed an heirloom ring, a talisman of his parents' love, and it seemed to inspire Dan to act on impulse... satisfying all April's fantasies. Trust by Rita Clay Estrada Growing up in a truck stop didn't put a damper on Katherine O'Malley's aspirations. She was going to be a top-notch secretary... and convince millionaire Clay Reynolds that she was perfect for him. But Clay didn't trust his emotions, so Katherine was forced to use her most precious possession as a weapon. She gave him her priceless talisman earrings... along with her heart. And he didn't stand a chance. Cover Price $7.50 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 He had promised to protect the beatiful white woman. But a Blackfoot warrior must never raise a hand against his own brothers, even if they mean to harm and disgrace a helpless captive. There was only one thing a man of honor like Night Thunder could do: claim Rebecca Cothern as his wife. From the moment Rebecca stepped into Night Thunder's powerful embrace in full view of his tribe--making his marriage vow true in their eyes--she knew her life would never be the same. How could she travel among his people as his "wife" and share his bed without succumbing to the desire that burned so fiercely in her breast? Night Thunder swore that she would truly be his bride in every way, if only Rebecca would give hreself to him freely and without remorse. But could she sacrifice the only life she's ever known--and the future she'd always dreamed of--for a deep, satisfying tast of forbidden passion? Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 At twenty-one, Zilah Dabala has already survived a harrowing past. Now she’s convinced she can handle anything on her own—even being held hostage by a terrorist group. But Daniel is determined to rescue her. And soon their escape ignites an intimacy neither has ever known. Once Daniel learns Zilah’s tragic secret, however, he fears she may be lost to him forever. He’s defied death many times over—but can he teach a young woman the healing power of love? Daniel Seifert has spent his life on the edge of danger, carrying out high-risk security missions across the globe. But it’s more than adventure that compels him to tempt fate yet again—it’s a young woman in a photograph, a woman whose warm, wise-beyond-her-years smile gives Daniel the inexplicable feeling that he’s found something he’s been searching for all along. Cover Price $6.99 Condition New Your Price $3.50 Torn from his Romany mother's arms as a small boy, Viscount Emilian St. Xavier has spent a lifetime ignoring the whispers of gypsy that follow him everywhere. A nobleman with wealth, power and privilege, he does not care what the gadjos think. But when the Romany come to Derbyshire with news of his mother's murder at the hands of a mob, his world implodes. And Ariella de Warenne is the perfect object for his lust and revenge.… Ariella de Warenne's heritage assures her a place in proper society, though as a radical and independent thinker she scorns her peers' frivolous pursuits in the Ton, fashion and marriage. Until a Roma camp arrives at Rose Hill, and she finds herself drawn to their charismatic leader, Emilian. Even when he warns her away, threatening that he intends to seduce and destroy her, she cannot refuse him. For Ariella is just as determined to fight for their dangerous love… Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $2.00 Lady's Choice by Jayne Ann Krentz Juliana Grant naturally assumed that once she'd been intimate with her man, she was free to pop the question. But when Travis Sawyer turned her down flat, Juliana pulled the sheets out from under him. She was determined that from now on, all he was going to handle were her finances. And Travis was beginning to wonder why he hadn't married the woman when he'd had the chance! Midsummer Madness by Christine Rimmer Juliet Huddleston was the shyest, most timid woman in Emerald Gap. Cody McIntyre had known her all her life, so he was sure of his facts. So who was this ravishing creature? The Juliet he thought he knew was a different person altogether, and suddenly this rugged rancher realized it was time to take another look at her... Tempestuous Reunion by Lynne Graham Catherine had finally realized that the rich, powerful man she loved regarded her only as a possession, not a candidate for marriage. So She'd fled her gilded cage, pregnant with his child. Now he was back in her life, but he didn't know about Daniel... and Catherine, despite her desire for Luc, intended to keep it that way. A childhood trauma has left Lady Blanche Harrington incapable of all emotion, least of all love. Now circumstance demands she marry, and Blanche dreads choosing from her horde of fawning suitors. For one very eligible gentleman has not stepped forward.… A war hero and a recluse, Rex de Warenne has long admired Lady Blanche. Though fate and his own dark nature have robbed him of any hope for the kind of future such a lady deserves, Rex is determined to aid her—and keep his feelings to himself. But when their growing friendship leads to a night of shocking passion, Blanche's newfound memories threaten their fragile love… and Blanche's very life. Seduction is something Fionna Hawkes knows nothing about. So when she encounters a sexy stranger on a moonlit street, her first instinct is to defend herself against her darkly handsome suitor. But letting go of suspicion and allowing herself to fall for Lord Aidan McBride brings even greater danger. In his eyes, she glimpses a powerful passion she longs to fulfill. In his arms, she aches with the secret she longs to unburden. A secret that could cost her her livelihood—and her life. Aidan could never resist a mystery, especially one as mesmerizing as the lovely Miss Hawkes! 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