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October 8, 1871 -- One small spark ignites the entire city of Chicago, sending its residents into panic. But amid the chaos, a chance encounter leads to an unexpected new love. Unaware of the fire sweeping toward them, Deborah Sinclair confronts her wealthy, powerful father, determined to refuse the society marriage he has arranged for her. Suddenly, out of the smoke and flames, a stranger appears -- gun in hand, intent on avenging an unforgivable crime. As fire consumes the elegant mansion, the ruthless man takes the fragile, sheltered heiress hostage. Swept off to mist-shrouded Isle Royale, Deborah finds herself the pawn in Tom Silver's dangerous game of revenge. Despite her horror at being kidnapped, she finds herself drawn to the people of the close-knit community and to the startling beauty of the island. As she engages in a battle of wits with her brooding captor, she begins to understand the injustice that fuels his anger, an injustice wrought by her own family. And as winter imprisons the isolated land, she realizes she's a hostage of her own heart. . . Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50  Old flames Mariel Rowan and Noah Lyons are brought together at a quaint B&B after Amber, the daughter they put up for adoption 15 years ago, unexpectedly contacts Mariel, and then disappears. As they search for Amber, their love is rekindled. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Realizing too late that her husband only married her to spite his family, forty-seven-year-old Rachel Gaines finds herself widowed, without family, and fully intenting to pursue a relationship with Quentin Rawls. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.75 Offering to help a man who has been the victim of a murder attempt, Courtney Blue finds herself caught up in a web of danger and betrayal as she accompanies Jonathan Madden on his search for a stolen Russian manuscript. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $0.75 Consisting of three novellas and a short story, this diverse collection of historicals focuses on marriage, sweeping from the wilds of the Colorado Rockies through the sultry antebellum South to the glitter of Regency England and the dark and misty reaches of Dartmoor. With stories written by experienced authors like Catherine Anderson, Loretta Chase, and Lisa Kleypas, this serviceable collection has something that will probably appeal to everyone. Although Kathleen Woodiwiss's "The Kiss" is the shortest and not necessarily the best, readers who remember Woodiwiss's The Flame and the Flower (1972) will enjoy revisiting Heather and Brandon and seeing what awaits Brandon's brother, Jeff. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Raina DeVargas, a vaquero's daughter with a secret past, enters a battle of wills with rich Texan Ulysses Pride that sparks a heated passion, a romance that is threatened by the wild West of 1885. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 At last life can begin again for Raelynn Barrett. In the loving embrace of her new husband, the dashing American shipping magnate Jeff Birmingham, she can forget her painful past and the tragic, undeserved disgrace of her family. Jeff has brought passion into her heart once agin -- and each sweet, lingering kiss is a promise of a future rich in joy and sensual fulfillment. But Raelynn can hear the whispered rumors that damn the man she loves. And what her own eyes have witnessed seem to brand her adored and adoring Jeff as the worst sort of criminal. Yet even as she flees his desire and his love, Raelynn cannot escape the memory of his tender touch and the heated nights they shared. But in the face of the devastating treacheries of ruthless, hidden enemies, how can Jeff ever hope to win back the trust of the woman he cherishes...and secure his place eternally in his beloved Raelynn's betrayed heart? Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $2.00 Restless loner and motorcycle rider Michael Tillman is unable to resist his powerful feelings for Jellie Braden, a free spirit trapped in a passionless marriage. By the author of The Bridges of Madison County. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Thought to have perished in a car crash engineered by an evil husband, Kailey Davids and her daughter, Susannah Holland--unaware of each other's existence--will soon be reunited with the man responsible for their pain. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Enjoying a seemingly ideal life in a fulfilling career with the NYPD and a love affair with a charming photographer, Harvard grad Carlin Squire has her dreams dashed when a high school sweetheart is murdered. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 A spy for the British is sent to pick the brains of a beautiful, thoroughly amnesiac French scientist lying in a Paris hospital and finds himself torn between his country and the woman who trusts him with her life. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 Hoping to marry handsome half-Native American Falcon Who Flies Alone, Summer Coming is unaware that the man she loves is betrothed to another woman, a situation that becomes complicated when Summer is called upon to lead her tribe. Cover Price $5.50 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 Cain Banning sails into Boston Harbor in the 1700s, determined to wreak vengeance on the man who betrayed his father and carried off the Sultan of Izmir's daughter, until he finds it is the Sultan himself. Cover Price $4.50 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 The fiery and outspoken adopted daughter of one of England's most formidable women, Shemaine O'Hearn has made powerful enemies. And now her adversaries have found a way to remove the hot-blooded beauty from her life of privilege: by falsely convicting Shemaine of thievery and sending her in shackles to America, where she is to be sold in indentured servitude to the highest bidder. In a bustling port city in the colony of Virginia, she becomes the servant of Gage Thornton-a shipbuilder with a young child in need of a nanny. And despite whispered rumors condemning the handsome widower for the untimely death of his wife, Shemaine cannot ignore her desire for this caring, generous and enigmatic stranger who silently aches with his growing need for her-even as grave peril reaches out from across a vast ocean to threaten their flowering love. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 In Seattle’s Bryant Park Hospital, Jarred Bryant begins to regain consciousness after lying in a coma for a few days. Jared was injured when his Portland-bound small plane crashed into the Columbia River. His passenger Chance Rowden died in the accident. When he awakens, Jarred realizes his memory is shot to hell, but he immediately recognizes his wife Kelsey. However, he is stunned to learn they are estranged as she moved out of their house three years ago. Jarred cannot remember the accident. The police inform him tat it was sabotage because someone tampered with the fuel line. Jarred’s half-brother, Will, tells him that a company insider has revealed their bids so that their main rival has won all the construction jobs. Will feels it is Kelsey who works for the competitor. In spite of Will’s theory, all Jarred wants is Kelsey back in his life and will do anything to regain Kelsey’s trust because he wants his wife at his side forever. Ill he let Will’s doubts spoil his chance to win back the woman he loves. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Cammie Miller's career hangs on convincing Oscar-winning actor, Tyler Stovall, to play the lead in the movie that would make her a star. But she would rather die unknown than succumb to begging Tyler. Although 10 years have passed, she still remembers the reckless night they once shared--and the hurt when he mysteriously disappeared. What Cammie doesn't know is that Tyler is running away from a dark Hollywood secret and that nothing can lure him back. Now, Cammie has to prove to Tyler that their love is worth a second chance. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Sit in the bleachers and catch up on the latest gossip. Share the passions and pastimes of America’s favorite hometown. Each book set in Tyler is a self-contained story; together, they stitch the fabric of a community. Patrick Kelsey, Tyler’s former all-star, is not impressed to learn that Tyler High’s new football coach is a woman. But Pam Casals isn’t what Patrick expects. Pam’s bright, vivacious, and dedicated. Her infectious enthusiasm inspires everyone around her. Yet, when Patrick tries to get close to her, she backs off. Patrick begins to wonder if there’s something important Pam isn’t telling him… Cover Price $3.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Abby Duncan's come home to Hope, Texas — the town known as Brewster's Valley, after the wealthy, powerful old man who rules it — to find the truth behind the accusations that drove her father to his death. Only Brewster knows what really happened. But he refuses to tell Abby unless she agrees to find his missing daughter, the child he's never acknowledged. Part of Brewster's deal is that Abby undertake this search with the help of Jonas Parker, foreman of Brewster's farming empire. Jonas knows only too well that the truth may not be what Abby expects. But neither of them can anticipate the secrets they're about to uncover. Secrets that threaten to shatter everything they've ever believed about themselves...and each other. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 It was supposed to be an easy con, but Anna Rose Connolly knew the restless audience at the Flats, Illinois Opera House had figured out that she was not a famous singer. Then her uncle, hoping to gain their sympathy, decided to tell them the "Mississippi Songbird" was blind. But Philip Brichard couldn't be fooled--and would try to save Anna from danger as passion inflamed them both. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 On a dark and dangerous road, a daring British adventurer saves the life of a countess of royal blood. In all his travels, Colonel Tyrone Rycroft has never encountered a woman as breathtaking, alluring, and inscrutably mysterious as the bewitching Synnovea. But his selfless bravery has drawn him into peril — and into an inescapable web of intrigue and seduction. In an opulent and treacherous imperial court, the proud, headstrong lady's dashing champion has become a pawn in a dangerous game of power and influence — and only his great courage and wits will enable him to survive it. But Rycroft's enflamed desire will not let him escape to the safety of his own world — not until his dream is realized, and the enigmatic, highborn beauty has given herself to him freely, honestly, and forever. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Bestselling author Janelle Taylor's stories ring with fiery passion and thrilling adventure. This sensual and compelling romance carries on that tradition in the icy wilderness of Alaska where a tempestuous beauty and a rugged lumberjack discover a love hot enough to melt the frozen tundra. Cover Price $3.75 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Proud and passionate, the Marquess of Bradbury swore vengeance on those who had stolen his title and lands and branded him a traitor to the Crown. Beautiful and spirited, she found herself the innocent prisoner of the marquess, her family's most hated foe. They were bitter enemies caught in a dangerous tide that swept through Elizabeth's England. And thus began a battle of wit and will between two people so perfectly matched that they could only fall in love. Cover Price $5.95 Once the prettiest girl in the Carolinas, Felicia Edwards was now an arrogant frontiersman's hostage against the Tories. She despised such barbarity, and taunted the patriot as they rode. But still his dark magnificence thrilled her. How long could she fight the shameless tide within her before his raw, masculine strength made her reach out to him in rapture-before this mountain lion conquered her with caresses that would hold her prisoner forever? Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Headstrong Sarah Ashley didn't travel all the way to Canada just to have her dreams smashed to bits by Vancouver Island's arrogant young governor Jon Cromwell. Come hell or high water, the stunning suffragette will open her own mercantile business-despite Cromwell's unfairly imposed obstacles...and a longing heart that tempts her to surrender her principles for one night of passion with the insufferably handsome rogue. Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, wealthy suffragette Lucy Hathaway finds herself destitute. An unlikely romance blossoms between Lucy and conservative banker Rand Higgins. Can Lucy and Rand surmount the many social and economic obstacles in the path to happiness? This is the third book in the author's Chicago Fire trilogy. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Set against the glittering Boston of the 1880s and the opulent society of turn-of-the-century Newport, this is the story of Isabel January-a debutante of wealth, breeding, and rare beauty, whose poised smile and cool eyes hid the wild yearning of her heart. And this is the story of Marian Childs-plain, impoverished, without prospects, yet destined to blossom into a woman of style and substance. Of different worlds, these two indomitable women are inextricably linked through fortune and fate, through tragedy and triumph, through the one man whose ruthless passion will forever alter the course of both their lives. Cover Price $4.50 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 A brilliant young artist tossed from her home, Cerynis Kendall has been left destitute following the death of her doting patron. Now she seeks a new life across the waters, but all depends upon the kindness of the dashing sea captain Beauregard Birmingham. Birmingham readily agrees to aid Cerynis, but perilous secrets, determined enemies, and tempests of the sea and soul threaten their future and safe passage. Cover Price $7.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Augustus, prince of the embattled European canton of Jura, takes a royal British bride in order to strengthen his relationship with England. Naive but intelligent young Charity makes a good wife, and she and Augustus fight to save Jura from encroaching enemies. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 The mother of a teenage daughter and head of a talent agency, recently widowed Kate Rose is still tormented by the past--the betrayal of the lover who fathered her child and an unfulfilled marriage--until Jake Talbot reenters her life after seventeen years. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Sandro Cavalli, sixteenth-century Venice's Lord of the Night, suspects that beautiful Laura Bandello--a woman he has begun to desire--is involved with a recent crime in the Jewel of the Adriatic. Cover Price $5.50 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Years ago, Texas Ranger Jacob Dalton bailed an orphaned girl named Nell out of trouble more times than he could count. But now the kid he once called "Two Bits" has grown into a beautiful young woman--and is in more trouble than ever before. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.50 Ellie Connor is a biographer with a special talent for piecing together fragments of the past. Her latest project, though, promises to be her most challenging--and personal. Not only is she researching the life of a blues singer who disappeared mysteriously forty years ago, but Ellie is also trying to find the truth about the parents she never knew. The love child of a restless woman who died young and an anonymous father, Ellie has little to go on but a faded postcard her mother sent from a small East Texas town--the hometown of her latest subject. It is there that Ellie meets Blue Reynard, a man with deep roots and wide connections who may help her find answers. With a piercing gaze and cool grin, Blue is as sultry and seductive as the Southern night air. Beneath his charming surface, however, lies a soul damaged by loss. Despite her better judgment, Ellie finds herself irresistibly drawn to Blue's passion--and his pain. But Ellie's been lured by sweet talk and hot kisses before. How can she possibly stay with blue when every instinct tells her to run? Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 A countess fleeing the French revolution agrees to a proxy marriage to a wealthy French planter whom she despises. When he is killed, the plantation's intriguing overseer sweeps the countess away to Louisiana, where the two of them surrender to the heat of desire. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 In the sequel to Follow the Wind, Special Agent Navarro Breed and his lovely undercover partner, Bethany Wind, set out on a perilous mission to save Geronimo and seek revenge against vicious gunrunners, only to find themselves falling in love. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Like television's Cheers, Flamingo Diner has always been a friendly place where everybody knows your name. Unfortunately, in the small town of Winter Cove, Florida, it is also the place where everybody knows everything about you. As a teenager Emma Killian didn't recognize what a remarkable business her family had created, so she moved away. Now her father's tragic death has brought her home to face a mountain of secrets, debts and questions about why and how her beloved father died. As Emma grapples with her out-of-control family, the responsibility of keeping Flamingo Diner afloat and a pair or well-meaning senior-citizen sleuths, she finds support from an unlikely source. Onetime bad boy matt Atkins is now the Winter Cove police chief. Matt has always had a penchant for trouble and an eye for Emma. Now it seems he's the only one who can help Emma discover the answers to her questions. . .and giver her a whole new reason to stay home. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Trained as a warrior maiden, beautiful Kionee can perform better than most of the men in her tribe but feels incomplete until she meets the sensual half-Cheyenne Stalking Wolf, who she is forbidden to marry. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Did Robert Kincaid forget Francesca Johnson? Did she regret her passionate indiscretion with him? And what happened to all his photographs? In this epilogue to THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, Waller takes one more look at the couple famous for their adulterous affair in Iowa. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 The Kinards, the Richardses and the Webbers — Seattle's Kennedys. Their "compound" — elegant Forrester Square. . .until the fateful night that tore these families apart. Twenty years later. . . Their children were reunited. Repressed memories and family secrets were about to be revealed. And one person was about to make sure they were never remembered. . . When Meg Bassett and Brody Taylor divorced, their fraternal twins were only infants. Brody was about to move to Ireland, and joint custody would have only created upheaval in their children's lives. So Meg and Brody each took a twin. . .and they became single parents. It was a big mistake. Five years later Meg moved to Seattle, unaware that Brody had just moved there, too — and that both twins were enrolled at Forrester Day Care! How to tell the kids their new best friend was their sibling? And how to tell each other they were still in love? Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Starla and Dagan cannot reveal their true identities--even as they surrender to passion beneath the moon-kissed skies. Enemies or allies, they are a man and a woman who will fight for their forbidden love--and seek their dangerous destiny in a magical universe. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 The fairest flower in Mawbry is Erienne Fleming, the enchanting, raven-haired daughter of the village mayor. Charming, spirited and exquisitely lovely, she is beset on all sides by suitors, any one of whom would pay a king's fortune for a place in her heart. But Erienne has eyes for only one: the dashing and witty young Yankee, Christopher Seton. But marriage for love is not to be, for her irresponsible and unscrupulous father, crippled by gambling debts, is intent on auctioning off his beautiful daughter to the highest bidder. And in the end, Erienne is devastated to find it is the strange and secretive Lord Saxton who has purchased her--a mysterious, tragic figure who wears a mask and a cloak at all times to hide disfiguring scars gained in a terrible fire some years back. But in the passing days, Saxton's true nature is revealed to her. A gentle and adoring soul, he treats his new bride with warmth and abiding tenderness, yet appears to her only by daylight. She, in turn, vows to be a good and loyal wife to him. And then Christopher Seton reenters Erienne's world. Conflicted by emotions she cannot suppress, Erienne valiantly attempts to remain honorable to her elusive, enigmatic husband but feels herself irresistibly drawn to Seton's passion, his fire, and his secrets. Entangled in intrigues she doesn't yet understand, Erienne Fleming will soon have to make a devastating choice: between love and honor...between her duty and her heart. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Desire turns to horror when a young African maiden realizes that the handsome warrior she admires is a member of the enemy tribe. After conquering her tribe, Cira wins the willful Monase as his trophy bride, but she vows that her husband will never conquer her spirit. Then, threatened by a jealous shaman, the two unite against evil and discover an enduring passion. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 For Genevieve Terrence it seemed like a dream come true: a weekend alone on Maui with her sexy boss, Nick Brogan. But little did she know that Nick had dreams of his own--a nefarious scheme that nearly got her killed on the flight over the Pacific. Lucky for her, brilliant computer programmer Jack Farley was on board and quick-witted enough to crash-land the plane. Now Jack is her sole companion on a remote desert island with nothing but guava trees and sharks for company. Who’d expect the shy genius--and the least alpha male she knows--to turn out to be the uninhibited stud of her wildest dreams? Saving Genevieve’s life has made Jack a hero in the eyes of the woman he has secretly lusted after for months. Now they’re alone together in a tropical eden where they’re free to give in to their every sensual whim. But when some nasty unfinished business puts them at risk again, Gen will learn there’s nothing quite as dangerous as a fully aroused ex-nerd who’ll move heaven and earth to protect the woman he loves… Cover Price $5.99 Till Death Us Do Part by Rebecca York Marissa Devereaux discovered that paradise wasn't all it was cracked up to be when she was abducted by extremists in the Central American country of San Marcos. But things only got worse when Jed Prentiss showed up, claiming to be her fiance. Unlawfully Wedded by Kelsey Robert J.D. was used to getting what he wanted from people, and he swore he'd use that skill to hunt down Tory's father's killer. But J.D. wanted much more than gratitude from his sassy blond bride--and he wasn't going to clue her in. She'd find out soon enough, if she survived to hear about it. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Two people trapped in the debris of a bombed department store begin a passionate affair that springs from their intimate confinement while they await rescue. Annie is a London homemaker, mildly discontented with her routines as wife and mother; Steve is a bed-hopping advertising executive whose busy life is curiously flat. After their rescue, hospitalization and recuperation, the two fulfill their need for each other, laying siege to the emotional stability of Annie's husband and their two young sons. As Annie struggles against her feelings, she is also devastated by the slow death of her mother and nagging doubts about her life's purpose. Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 He wanted to tell her everything. About the lost years that had changed him from a desperate young boy into a man hardened by life. About the night he'd sold his soul for a woman who wasn't worth the price . . . But Jackson Underhill said nothing. After all, he was an outlaw, clearly on the run — reason enough for silence. The truth was Dr. Leah Mundy scared him. She made him want to trust again, to share his burden. She made him want a home, a family. And it was dangerous to want such things. Because the past would find him if he stayed — and there could be no future with a woman who would not leave. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 With a successful business to run, an elderly mother gradually losing her focus, and a teenage daughter about to spread her wings, Ellen Santiago Laws is the last person who should be taking unnecessary risks. The forty-something widow thought she was only doing her civic duty by serving on a jury that convicted the murderer of a flashy matchmaker for lonely Southern California bigwigs. But despite her busy schedule and better instincts, a nagging conscience won't let Ellen leave well-enough alone. Posing as a love-starved client, she intends to get a closer look at the chic dating service -- and ends up staring into the stunning blue-gray eyes of Mr. Unexpectedly Right! A lawyer with principles, he's as interested in seeing justice done as she is -- leading Ellen to wonder whether it might be possible to find true love and a killer ... at the same time! Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Nightclub owner, Monique Robbins is forced to take a risk on a new male manager, Solomon Thomas. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 This tale of Connaught in the mid 17th century would have made for an interesting story had not Wiggs ( The Lily and the Leopard ) clogged the narrative with a surfeit of subplots and some dreadful dialogue. Having stayed royalist John Wesley Hawkins's execution--and kidnapped his young natural daughter--Oliver Cromwell convinces this Catholic bounty hunter to travel to Ireland and find the head of a warrior society terrorizing his Roundheads. As fiction would have it, the rebel leader is Caitlin MacBride, mistress of Clonmuir and, before long, Wesley's captor. Wesley turns out to be not only a model prisoner, a one-time novice in a clergy-less Catholic community, an expert horseman and fluent Gaelic speaker, but he's also an all-around sensitive guy, able to see that Caitlin is a woman who needs some manliness in her life, who needs "to be touched" and whose defense of her manse is "a tragedy," as it has forced her to bury her femininity. Cover Price $5.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.25 Born to the tribal chief Rising Bear and a white slave woman, Cloud Chaser was destined to ride in freedom and challenge the powerful forces of nature and man. But during a vision quest in his tenth year the boy vanished without a trace. Found half-dead, he was raised by a loving frontier couple who taught him the white man's ways. Now Cloud Chaser has grown to be a man, and in the very depths of his soul, he knows he must return to his tribe. Yet instead of the joyous homecoming he prayed for, he is treated with animosity and suspicion. Tensions have been mounting with the white man, and the elders fear taking back a long-lost son who could turn on them when the big conflict comes. It is the young maiden Dawn whose world is shaken most by Cloud Chaser's arrival. Caught between her people and the man who causes her heart to race with desire, she will meet him in secret, until a jealous and vengeful warrior conspires to destroy them. The forbidden lovers flee into an odyssey of danger, adventure and passion that will put Cloud Chaser's loyalty to his heritage to its greatest test. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 For the Oglala Lakotas, "to dance with the wind" means to live in freedom, soaring on its awesome currents as a man above men. As the oldest son of Chief Rising Bear, Wind Dancer knows one day he will shoulder the responsibility for his tribe. Wind Dancer has faith that all is as it should be until his wife and young son are slaughtered by the Crow tribe. Embittered and lonely, Wind Dancer is intent only on his duty to his people. Yet he never imagines that duty will force him to take another woman into his life - and into his heart. When Wind Dancer first sees Chumani, he is amused by the sight of this woman who dresses and hunts as a man. But after hearing that she, too, has lost her husband and child to the Crow, he has respect for the courageous and beautiful warrior. Seeking revenge for her loved ones, Chumani rides against her enemies, exhilarating in the thrill of the battle that makes her forget the pain she suffers. She vows never again to marry, hoping she can protect herself from further anguish. But when a respected medicine man sees their union in a sacred vision, both Chumani and Wind Dancer know the alliance will make their tribes strong. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 War correspondent Dinah Davis has covered many of the recent hot spots. Currently she is reporting on Afghanistan, but has lost her edge since she witnessed the death of a friend and was nearly killed too. Physically Dinah has healed, but her boss tells her she is not the same and should return to the States to marry and have babies. Initially refusing to listen, Dinah realizes that her career is over and wonders if her boyfriend Bobby Beaufort still waits for as he promised a decade ago when she chose journalism over marriage. Back home in South Carolina, Dinah's mom worries that her daughter has not recovered from her last overseas assignment. Meanwhile Bobby's older brother Cord, who thought his sibling was a fool to agree to Dinah's backup plan, quickly wants to revise the arrangement by inserting himself as the groom. As Dinah suffers the malaise of post traumatic syndrome, she turns to Cord not her family or Bobby for comfort while he worries whether he will prove enough in the long run. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 A forgotton vow. An unforgettable passion. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Her beauty was tantalizing... her secret scandalous... Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Two weeks before their marriage, dependable Dr. Warren Blake dumps Maggie Forsythe. The Charleston iron magnolia flees her home, leaving her art and antiques gallery Images to be run by her employees, and hides on Sullivan Island. Her best friends Dinah and Cordell Beaufort and Warren arrive to bring her home. She hides from them the real reason she retreated that has nothing to do with humiliation but feeling that for whatever reason she is unlovable. Still they persuade her to help build a house for a widow with three kids. Heading the construction project is a reluctant Josh Parker who assumes that Maggie is cotton candy only to be surprised she is good with tools having renovated Images by herself. They are attracted to one another, but neither wants to ignite the spark as she fears rejection and he presupposes that a working stiff with a matriarchal hang-up is way beneath her level. When his mom comes out of nowhere and teams up with Dinah as matchmakers, neither one of the hesitant duet stand a chance unless they run away from love. Cover Price $6.99 Just weeks away from taking her holy vows, Nell de Bonvile learns of her elder sister's tragic death. Swept from the convent, she is ordered to take Sybilla's place as bride to Roger de Roche, heir to Britain's most powerful earldom. Lovely, naïve and totally unprepared for life outside the convent or the ways of men, Nell bravely faces her uncertain future. Indifferent to marriage for anything other than political gain, Roger is prepared to wait until his innocent bride comes to him willingly. Yet as he watches Nell blossom from timid girl to courageous mistress of his keep, his desire for her grows all-consuming. But war gives no quarter to newfound passion, plunging them both into a battle that will pit father against son, invaders against loyalists, testing every whispered word, and each unspoken promise . . . Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 She wanted him forever - but he'd give her just one day! Cover Price $3.99 Condition Good Your Price $0.75 Would their love be consumed in the valley of fire? Cover Price $5.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.25 A cruel twist of fate left Vivienne abandoned and penniless... but the determined beauty vowed to reclaim her birthright. Desperate to find her notorious uncle, she had been forced to turn to enigmatic Josh Deveril. Unable to convince the stubborn man to help her, she stowed away on his keelboat.... Cover Price $3.25 Condition Good Your Price $0.75 Arriving home in Texas to make her peace with her terminally ill father, high-fashion model Caitlin Pride agrees to take over the running of the family ranch-and finds herself in direct conflict with the ranch's foreman, James Comanche Killian, her childhood friend and lover. However, the past is not quite dead, and as they are forced into partnership to save the ranch from treacherous politicians and greedy investors, their relationship takes a decidedly passionate turn. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 The compelling saga of five families while Hitler's Blitzkrieg rols across Europe .... he would use every technique he had learned. He vowed privately that he would lift her to the stars and have her writing with pleasure and screaming for more ... Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Inheriting a fortune means less to Ally Jarrett than fulfilling her real dream: to take off for the wilds of Alaska and photograph animals. Unfortunately she's also inherited her grandmother's personal assistant-an over-protective nerd who couldn't survive a snowball fight. As a PI and bodyguard, Mitchell Caruthers is the perfect man to protect his late employer's granddaughter. However, keeping his geek-masquerade-and the secret behind his real mission-isn't easy when the freeze between Ally and Mitchell begins to melt. Yet all's not well in this sub-zero paradise. Ally's bad seed uncle is staking a claim on the family inheritance with a dangerous masquerade of his own. With Ally's life in danger, it's time for her right-hand nerd to expose the real man undercover, and prove himself to the vulnerable body he's been hired to guard... Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.75 Each summer, Kate Livingston returns to her family's lakeside cottage, a place of simple living and happy times -- a place where she now hopes her shy little boy can blossom. But her quiet life gets a bit more interesting with the arrival of an intriguing new neighbor, JD Harris. Although she is a confirmed single mother and knows little of JD's past, Kate is soon drawn into the sweetness of a summer romance and discovers the passion of a lifetime. JD has good reason for being secretive. In a moment of sheer bravery the Washington, D.C., paramedic prevented a terrible tragedy. Overnight the intensely private man became a national hero. He's hardly able to remember who he was before the media frenzy... until he escapes to this lovely, remote part of the Northwest. Now Kate Livingston and her son have rekindled the joy of small pleasures and peace, something he thought he'd never have again. But how long will his blissful anonymity last before reality comes banging at his door? Cover Price $7.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.75 In an age when the only law on the untamed frontier comes from the barrel of a gun, Maggie Malone is determined to earn her livelihood as a private detective. It is a daunting profession during any era, but unheard of for a woman on her own in the wild and woolly West. Maggie intends to use that to her advantage as she undertakes an assignment that will test her courage... and challenge the deepest yearnings of her heart. Maggie's stepfather has asked her to do the impossible: help his son escape the hangman's noose. The boy was convicted for a bank robbery he insists a pair of notorious bandits committed. But the Yuma Prison break will place Maggie's own life in jeopardy - and leave her with grave doubts about whether she's done right... or terribly wrong. Sworn to help clear the family name by tracking down the real culprits, Maggie meets Hawk Reynolds. An ex-Texas Ranger and half-blood Cheyenne, Hawk is on a vengeance quest to find his parents' killers. He believes Maggie can lead him to his quarry - the same desperadoes she herself seeks. Destiny draws them to each other... and to the stirring of an unbidden, uneasy desire. Cover Price $6.99 Baby's First Christmas by Cathy Gillen Thacker Kate Montgomery was tired of waiting for the perfect man, so with the help of a sperm bank, she was bypassing marriage and going straight to motherhood. Michael Sloane wanted a baby, not a wife, so he hired a surrogate to carry his child. He didn't expect her to get cold feet on the same day Kate was making her "withdrawal"! Now -- eight months later -- the clinic's doctors have a few things to say to Kate and Michael. Like "Merry Christmas!" and "Congratulations!" and . . ."Oops!" The Unlikely Santa by Leigh Michaels Brandi Ogilvie knows Santa, and Zack Forrest isn't him! This career woman has no time for Father Christmas, even when he comes in a tall, muscular and mysterious package. But her store's temporary Santa has certainly convinced the children -- and her co-workers, who also think they're having a heated affair! 'Tis the season -- for chaos! What secret is this Santa keeping? Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Seven years had past since the Oglala Sioux had banished Bright Arrow for loving the magnificent captive Rebecca Kenny. Still, his hands always ached to stroke her creamy flesh, his lips needed to ravish her each night. But it was torture for the son of the infamous Chief Gray Eagle to be apart from his people. He yearned to ride free in the wind and to sink his knife into the hunt with the other braves. Now, Bright Arrow had to make his choice again between his desire for a white woman and his honor as an Indian! With his awesome bronze stature and ebony black hair, Bright Arrow was all Rebecca ever wanted. She had defied her family and scorned society to savor the forbidden rapture she found in her warrior's embrace. The courageous beauty swore to stand by his side forever as his one true love -- but never as his slave. Only each time their gazes met and their bodies entwined, Rebecca knew that she would betray her heart to share one more moment of wild savage pleasure -- one more evening of STOLEN ECSTASY! Cover Price $3.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 A mere girl, he had found her unconscious in the Connecticut woods. She could recall nothing--not even her name. Alec was an infamous charmer with a rake's habits and a rogue's heart, yet his desire rose to her wanton innocence as to no woman before. His stormy lust and her daring spirit bound them together in a furious battle for freedom and release ... a battle that could only fire a love more furious, more abandoned, more enduring than the wild, stolen glories of youth and freedom itself. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 In 1344 after staying away from home for ten years to avoid marriage to Lady Ephemia Macleod, Robbie MacKenzie heads home to Kintal because honor demands he weds the woman. At the same time, the mother of Juliana MacKay is dying, but she insists that her daughter pay back the debt they owe Duncan “Black Stag” MacKenzie. Although Juliana does not believe Duncan deserves a cent, she gives a death bed vow to do so. Robbie rescues Julian from drowning in a loch. She does not remember who she is and why she is traveling. He assumes she is a peasant due to her rough hands, but a thief too because she carries a cache of coins. As they journey together, they fall in love. However, at Kintal, as Juliana regains her memory, besides honor, Robbie learns that even if Duncan willingly risked the wrath of the Macleods, he explains to his son he cannot marry his beloved because they are first cousins. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Director Zack Jackson wants to do a movie set in a brothel in historical New Orleans, but his last few films came in late, over budget, and flopped at the box office. He explains his idea to the caustic CEO of Parapet Pictures Goldman that he found an article in the Historical Research Quarterly written by New Orleans University Professor Kate Matthews on a true story that Zack believes will make quite a film. Goldman agrees to finance the movie, but insists that Professor Matthews be hired as a consultant. Kate is thrilled to be on the team until she realizes that Zack is ignoring authenticity. She informs the director that she can supply him with exciting real historical happenings that will bring action to his movie. As they work together, the professor and the filmmaker fall in love, but will this be a Hollywood type ending? Cover Price $5.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.50 Three popular short novels show the way to spice up a romance, when strangers turn into lovers and singles into parents with a little help--and a little chaos--from baby. Cover Price $5.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 The Rebel and the Rose starts in the Spring of 1773 in England. Lady Barbara Maxwell, a confirmed Englishwoman, is about to be married off - against her wishes - to Rebel American Alan Maxwell. Cover Price $3.95 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 A captivating story filled with the passion, intrigue, and magic of historical Scotland--where a sharp-tongued beauty meets her match in a man who vows to tame her with the power of his love. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.50 In Anne Marie Winston's Find Her, Keep Her, a man determined to have children finds himself falling fast for a woman who may not be able to have them! But why should that stand in the way of true love? In Terese Ramin's An Unexpected Addition, a single mother -- with a houseful of kids already -- finds herself pregnant. And she and the father of her child are determined to do the right thing! But will love follow? Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Kora Adams doesn't believe in curses, but she has known nothing but bad luck all of her life. Until the night a handsome stranger knocks on her front door. Winter McQuillen has inherited a sprawling Texas ranch--but the only way he can claim it is to have a wife--this very night. Now, Kora has to make a choice--turn Winter out of her home or take a chance on the possibility of love. Mere days after Ashton Wingate's wedding to the enchanting Lierin, capricious Fate stole the Mississippi plantation owner's beloved from him. Now, three years later, his carriage has collided with a cloaked rider on horseback: a woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to the young bride who was swallowed up by the merciless river. She awakens from unconsciousness in his magnificent home with no memory of who she is. Yet the tenderness of this noble, caring stranger who lovingly calls her "Lierin" soon captures her heart and enflames her with wanting. Then another enters their lives, threatening to destroy the happiness they have rediscovered in each other's arms--the dark and dangerous Malcolm Sinclair, who claims the enigmatic beauty is, in fact, his own wife, Lenore. But Ashton has sworn that he will not lose his adored one a second time, and he will risk any peril to preserve their newfound joy--no matter what the unremembered secrets of his lady's past ultimately reveal. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 When Derek and Crystal Maguire are killed in a car accident, their three children are left to be raised by their designated guardians -- Lily Robinson and Sean McGuire. Brought together by tragedy, the two strangers are joined in grief and their mutual love for these orphaned children. Sean and Lily are about to embark on the journey of ups and downs, patience and understanding that makes a family. And along the way they will find a future filled with hope, happiness and the certainty that love is the best choice of all. Cover Price $7.99 Eliza Hammond has always been quiet and reserved–hardly the best qualities for finding the man of her dreams and living happily ever after. A new heiress, Eliza is financially secure, courtesy of her aunt’s fortune, but even great wealth has its drawbacks since every greedy, fortune-hunting bachelor suddenly finds Eliza irresistible. To help her best friend, Violet takes Eliza’s romantic dilemma into her own hands, enlisting the social skills of her brother-in-law, Lord Christopher “Kit” Winter. Kit helps transform Eliza into a stunning belle, certain to attract a worthy beau. There’s just one problem: Eliza has always been head over heels in love with Kit, the very man who is trying to find her a husband! But during Eliza’s sometimes-comic extreme makeover, and with a few secret love lessons from Kit on the side, sparks–and passionate kisses–begin to fly. Kit soon finds himself completely overcome by an all-consuming desire for Eliza. But if he fails to realize his true love for her, he may lose this fair lady forever. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Where do you put your service revolver when all you’re wearing are spandex briefs? This is just one of the challenges facing DEA agent Jason McBain when he goes undercover as pro wrestler Jack the Stripper. His assignment: to find out who is distributing steroids—in and out of the ring—but he never thought his first suspect would be the beautiful physical therapist who fires his blood to the boiling point. The minute he feels Sandy’s soft hands on his body, all thoughts of the mission leave his mind. He might not know much about wrestling, but he’s pretty sure he wants to body-slam the petite redhead into his bed. Cover Price $6.99 Condition New Your Price $3.50 When Captain Zephiran Wesltey and his crew come upon the island Hitihiti, they find a young beauty about to be sacrificed. The Captain daringly saves her and is soon tormented by lustful temptation. But fate will join Malana and Zephiran in an unlikely union and thrust them toward a turbulent future--both in America and Hitihiti. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Oh, God! She's in love with her preacher. But it's not as if Amanda O'Leary set out to fall for the most gorgeous (and unattainable) man this side of South Carolina Low Country. It's just that he organized building a cozy home for her and her children at a time when the future looked darker than blackstrap molasses. Not even her own father, the arrogant and wealthy Big Max, would have done as much for her. But that's a whole other kettle of fish. Caleb can count on fingers and toes why his attraction to widowed Amanda is plain wrong. How can he objectively counsel this chin-up spitfire without letting his emotions -- and imagination -- run wild? And now that Big Max has burdened him with not one secret, but two, he knows his priorities should be mending fences between father and daughter -- but he can't help trying to build a place for himself in her heart first . . . Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 The British army is preparing to cross the Pyrenees and advance against Napoleon's army. Only one thing stands in the way--funds. It will take two people masquerading as lover to carry out a dangerous plan... Despite inheriting the traveling Cirque Equestre--France's proudest equestrian tradition--Babrielle Rochon has no loyalty to the emperor who destroyed her family's way of life. Independent and headstrong, she pledges to help the British army, knowing her late father would have done the same. But her mission to smuggle gold across France within the cirque to the Duke of Wellington's headquarters in Spain is one the British won't let her do alone. Colonel Leo Branford--an arrogant, striking foreigner--is ordered to play the part of her husband so that he may escort the gold without arousing enemy suspicions. While Gabrielle is annoyed that she must publicly bow to his every whim, the danger of the mission binds them in a disturbingly intimate way. With French troops precariously close to uncovering their charade, it is imperative that neither of them forget their purpose... or themselves. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Melissa Sheffield wanted to belong, craved respectability after early life incidents cast her family's reputation in shadow. Her chance for this 'happiness' is placed in peril when her fiance, a well-heeled fellow of high society in St. Louis, sets off for parts west on a grand adventure. Melissa decides to take action. She follows him. To her great dismay, her hasty plan goes awry when the caravan she travels with falls victim to an Apache raid. Even worse, she is captured and given to a member of the tribe as a slave--a slave! Will the man named Cougar rip the remaining dignity she possesses away from her...or will this enigmatic man actually be salvation from her living nightmare? Cougar, otherwise known as Clay Brodie, is tortured by his place in the world. He wasn't born Apache, but claims them as his own. Yet he reluctantly faces his legacy as a white man when faced with the ultimate test he has been presented with thus far--break this woman's spirit or kill her. It galls him that this spitfire evokes feelings that he has sworn never to feel. He can't love anybody, especially after suffering the most crushing rejection a human can experience. It is better not to feel at all. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 Dalton MacKenzie lives by his honor-- and honor means doing the job he is paid to do. He's an arbitrator but he knows he's just a hired killer. Patrick Jamison hires him to cast a big shadow across the land butting up against Chugwater River and run out anyone who won't sell their land. It's a job Dalton knows well and one he's ready to undertake until an accident throws him into the company of the very people he's supposed to intimidate. When Jude Amos takes him in and nurses him back to health but she heals more than his body-- she heals his shattered soul and makes him believe in faith and love again. Jude is a responsible, respectable, plain-looking woman-- and a twenty-five year old spinster who has never even been kissed. Since her father's death, it's been up to her to run Amos Station, the way station between the Cheyenne and Black Hills Stage and Express Line. Her family consists of her younger brother Sammy, a man with a child's mind, and Joseph Otaktay, the Indian who has lost his own family and now watches over Jude and Sammy. Joseph's wisdom and Sammy's boyish enthusiasm brighten Jude's days, but what she longs for is a man to sweep her off her feet. A man like Dalton MacKenzie. But the gunman would never give her a second look-- unless he was forced to see with his heart instead of his eyes. Cover Price $5.50 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 |