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By Joann Ross. 2009
Air Force Combat Controller Dallas O'Halloran is as tough as he is loyal. So he's not pleased when he's recruited…
into a new anti-terror unit and teamed up with Academy graduate Julianne Decatur-the icy blond JAG officer who nearly court-martialed his friends. Assigned to investigate a Navy flyer's apparent suicide, they discover the trail of a ruthless killer-and an attraction between them that can't be denied. And when their prey turns the tables on them, Julianne will have to depend on the one man daring and reckless enough to keep them both alive. . . .By Colleen Rhoads. 2005
There were diamonds in that old family mine, Skye Blackbird was sure of it. She'd be able to prove it,…
too, and fulfill her Ojibwa chieftain father's dream, if it weren't for paleontologist Jake Baxter, who was searching for dinosaur bones in the very same spot. When sabotage occurred at the dig's site, Jake wasn't sure if it was angry locals or a rival paleontologist who had done it. But someone didn't want the earth disturbed, and as the body count mounted, it appeared that same someone might also want to add him and Skye to the tally. . . .By Miranda Stowe. 2012
Bailey Fortune comes to Miners Bend intent on writing the biography of the man that recently terrorized the town. She…
just needs to keep her mind on business, which isn't easy with two equally desirable men trying to seduce her. When she catches the attention of the killer as well, he's ready to give her what she needs to make her book great ... an interview with a killer. Too bad it may cost her her life!Now that Miners Bend has discovered the identity of its woman snatcher and started a manhunt for the hiding killer, their story catches the interest of journalist, Bailey Fortune. Wanting to write her first biography about him, she comes to Miners Bend as a woman on a mission. Now if only she could charm a couple murder scene shots from local photographer, Shyler Daggert, without becoming too distracted by his ceaseless seduction attempts, she'd be on the right track. Then again, flirting with his cousin, Zane Bromin, the sexy librarian, isn't keeping her focused all that well either. What's worse, both men want her in return, and she can't seem to choose between them.Then a third, evil man decides he wants her too. The Snatcher throws a wrench into her grand novelist plans when he decides to give her his exclusive, intent to make her his next victim in the process.Content Notes: M/F/M ménageBy Rose Middleton. 2007
Liam Knox is beautiful, hot, tempting and ultra-confident. Everything a high-priced fashion model should be. Detective Ellie Bassi isn't denying…
he's sexy as sin, but that's not why she's watching his every move. She's following his toned behind for one reason and one reason only: to catch a murderer. And Liam is the prime suspect in the string of Glamour Murders.Undercover as the head designer at Glamour Puss Designs, she's on a mission to find a killer whose victims include the previous lead detective on the case. While every bit of circumstantial evidence points to the hard-bodied Liam, Ellie's instincts tell her he isn't the one. But someone with an inside edge in the Melbourne fashion world is, and she needs to uncover the killer's identity before she becomes the next victim.Note to readers: Content Notes non sexual graphic violence against women.By Bonnie Dee. 2007
One man discovers the power of love and fights to restore his damaged heart. Danger closes in and worlds collide…
as evil seeks to find the measure of a man!Sweet and cynical--when a pure soul plumbs the depths of a damaged heart.Ian Black believes in one thing--self-preservation. A petty criminal and drifter, he is cynical and solitary until the night his world collides with that of psychic healer, Mirabai Kashi. On the run from megalomaniac Raymond Brody, Mira took a mysterious box containing a key component of the Destroyers' plan for obtaining world power. Ian learns about the Terran realm and becomes Mira's reluctant accomplice in transporting the box to KOTE headquarters. Through capture and torture, he discovers within himself a conscience and capacity to love he never suspected.By Teresa Thomas. 2007
Crystal Lilly spent her youth roaming the world as a government agent, adventuress, and lover extraordinaire, but after being captured…
and held for three days by her enemies, she finds herself questioning what the rest of her life will be like. Unable to face her future, having lost her nerve and trying to escape the government's hold over her, she hunts down what she thinks will be her final villain.Marshal Verge is a private detective at the end of his career. Life and mystery have let him down. He's seen and done it all, and there's nothing new left for him. Only an anonymous letter draws him out of his funk and back to the hunt.When Crystal and Verge meet at the Mitchell Parks Hotel's front desk, it sets off a string of adventures where danger, humor, adversaries, love, and sexual tensions wait around every corner and threaten to overrun them both.By Etienne. 2011
An Avondale StoryProfessor and secret government analyst Ian Sanderson's bad day gets worse when he arrives home one miserable November…
evening to find an apparently incriminating photograph in a FedEx envelope in his doorway, followed by increasingly threatening photographs over the next two or three weeks. It isn't just Ian being set up: his partner, Randy, a lieutenant colonel working on a top-secret Pentagon project, is also at risk. Someone obviously wants something, but what? And from whom? Soon, a mysterious caller demands that Randy disclose information about the project he's been working on. When he refuses, Ian's and Randy's sons, David and Paul, are kidnapped from an Amtrak passenger train. Resourceful and intelligent, the boys manage to escape--only to find themselves lost and alone in a remote wilderness. With time running out, can Ian and Randy track down their blackmailers? Or will the man known only as The Broker claim another set of victims?By William Beckford. 2012
The novel chronicles the fall from power of the Caliph Vathek (a fictionalized version of the historical Al-Wathiq), who renounces…
Islam and engages with his mother, Carathis, in a series of licentious and deplorable activities designed to gain him supernatural powers. At the end of the novel, instead of attaining these powers, Vathek descends into a hell ruled by the demon Eblis where he is doomed to wander endlessly and speechlessly.By Charles Brockden Brown. 2012
One of the earliest major American novels, Wieland (1798) is a thrilling tale of suspense and intrigue set in rural…
Pennsylvania in the 1760s. Based on an actual case of a New York farmer who murdered his family, the novel employs Gothic devices and sensational elements such as spontaneous combustion, ventriloquism, and religious fanaticism.By Debra Webb. 2007
Willow Harris needed someone who was willing to go beyond the law to get her son back. It was a…
dangerous mission in a foreign land against ruthless kidnappers. Hope was all Willow had. . . until she found THE EQUALIZERS. Spencer Anders may have been new to the Equalizers, but he was a proven professional. Specializing in hostage retrieval, Spencer had earned his stripes overseas. Now with Willow in on the mission, anything could happen-- things he couldn't control. The only thing Spencer knew for sure: surrender was not an option.By Tracy Montoya. 2007
It had been six long months since his beautiful daughter had disappeared. When another girl was kidnapped in the Washington…
State woods, Detective Aaron Donovan was convinced the two crimes were related. After joining the search-and-rescue team, Aaron was forced to work with top-notch tracker Sabrina Adelante. . . and try to ignore the attraction they'd shared before his world had been shattered. Offering up his military sniper skills, the group soon uncovered some helpful clues. But then Sabrina nearly became a madman's next victim, and Aaron wondered how he could possibly get close to another woman he cared about when he might just lose her. Then again, how could he afford not to?By Etienne. 2012
The Ivory Solution: Volume OneThe Chronicles of Old TownWhen two young men set up an amateur sting to expose a…
pastor's pedophilia, they gather plenty of evidence not just of the pastor's predilections but of something even more sinister. Out of their depth, they call in FBI experts to investigate. Meanwhile, Clint Buchalla, investigative reporter for the Washington Ledger, is sent to Atlanta to interview a man about his top-secret study. Clint is so angry at his editor for cutting his vacation short that he gets drunk and winds up in bed with the man he was supposed to interview, Dr. Rodney Poucher. But it's exuberant grad student Lucien Cormier, Rod's houseboy with benefits, who really captures Clint's attention... when he isn't busy investigating the sharp drop in birth rates in metropolitan Black and Hispanic communities. Rodney's findings lead him, Clint, and Lucien to a meeting with the deputy director of operations of the FBI. But they only have so much time to figure out what's going on and arrest those involved--and for Clint and Lucien to work out whether the spark between them can span the distance between Atlanta and DC.By Charles Brockden Brown. 2012
Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist follows the life of a young man by the name of Carwin as he realizes…
his biloquial, ventriloquist talents. Carwin develops this ability to perfection, being able to manipulate his own voice to sound like any person he wants. Carwin is the sequel to Brown's previous work, Wieland; or the Transformation, because Brown wrote it five years afterwards; however, the events in Carwin occur prior to the plot established in Wieland.By Laura Bacchi. 2006
Tora Wolff craves domination, and at Club Xotica, she expects to get it. When the man who tops her at…
work shows up to top her at play, Tora can't believe her bad luck. And she hasn't even found the dead body yet...Jovan Creel wants a woman who's willing to submit, and not just any woman. He wants Tora. But after all the fun and games are over, will she want him?When Tora decides to explore her submissive side with another man, someone more experienced--and much more dangerous--Jovan soon discovers it's not a question of Tora wanting him when she returns to Atlanta. It's a question of whether she can return at all.Content Notes: D/s, non-sexual graphic violence, multiple partners, M-M-F, F-F, heavy spanking, light bondage, anal sex.By Jenna Mills. 2007
She's a beautiful stranger he spent one incredible night with. Now she's in the midst of Detective John D'Ambrosia's investigation…
of a New Orleans crime boss. John's urge to risk the case by snatching her away surprises him. And when Saura Robichaud suggests they join forces, how can he refuse? Especially since she's gotten far closer to his target than he ever will. But John doesn't account for the stronger attraction that still smolders between them. Suddenly justice isn't so important when Saura's life is at stake. And drawing the line between duty and love is harder than he ever anticipated.By Sharon Sala. 1996
She had given him the most precious gift of all--the gift of life. But something more than a mere blood…
transfusion linked Wyatt Hatfield to the stranger who had saved him. Something that allowed her to call out to him for help in the stillness of the night--without ever speaking a word. . . . And now it was his turn to give. For the connection that linked Wyatt to Glory Dixon was the only hope he had of saving her from danger. And he had to try--because without ever trying, Glory had become more precious to him than his own life.By Pat Esden. 2016
She never wanted to return.He wants nothing more than for her to leave.But the fire between them is as strong…
as the past that haunts them.Annie Freemont grew up on the road, immersed in the romance of rare things, cultivating an eye for artifacts and a spirit for bargaining. It's a freewheeling life she loves and plans to continue--until her dad is diagnosed with dementia. His illness forces them to return to Moonhill, their ancestral home on the coast of Maine--and to the family they left behind fifteen years ago, after Annie's mother died in a suspicious accident. Once at Moonhill, Annie is shocked when her aunt separates her from her father. The next time Annie sees him, he's a bizarre, violent shadow of his former self. Confused, she turns to an unlikely ally for support--Chase, the dangerously seductive young groundskeeper. With his dark good looks and powerful presence, Chase has an air of mystery that Annie is irresistibly drawn to. But she also senses that behind his penetrating eyes are secrets she can't even begin to imagine. Secrets that hold the key to the past, to Annie's own longings--and to all of their futures. Now, to unlock them, she'll have to face her greatest fears and embrace her legacy... The Dark Heart Series Book 1By Jerri Drennen. 2010
The Peruvian jungle has never been so hot and steamy! Join botanist Madeline Wentworth and her handsome, sexy guide as…
they take you on a search for hidden ruins and undiscovered treasure. You'll be caught up in the non-stop action of this rollicking tale of mysterious illnesses, vicious treasure hunters, and gold fever!Botanist Madeline Wentworth is relieved to be heading into the Amazon, far from the university and the vicious rumors circulating about her failed love affair. But on arriving in Peru, her team finds their guide dead with a small puncture wound to his neck. Waiting to replace him is Travis Kane, Amazon guide, treasure hunter, and superhunk. Mattie is instantly attracted but uncomfortably suspicious. When a member of her team falls ill and a similar puncture wound is found on his body, her suspicions deepen.Travis has stuck with being a jungle guide for over ten years despite a run of unsavory clients. The rain forest is full of hidden ruins and undiscovered treasure, and he's determined to find his share. But when his grandfather dies, leaving a letter boasting of Templar gold, he's sure it's nothing more than an old man's delusion. Everything changes when he finds his grandfather's map. With high hopes, he leads Mattie's team into the rain forest and finds himself overwhelmed by the beautiful blonde. When the group is attacked and has to fight its way out of the jungle, Travis discovers something more precious than gold--the love of a woman who's made him want to be a better man.By Jolie Cain. 2007
Devastated by his fiancée's betrayal, Jack just wants to be left alone. In the isolated serenity of the Smokey Mountains,…
he has finally started to rebuild his life. Unfortunately, an old friend has asked for the loan of Jack's extra cabin so his aunt can work on her latest novel. He does owe his friend. Besides, how much trouble could some old maid be?Only Abby is a hell of a lot younger than Jack expected, and her sexy body turns his blood molten. And when his friend Clay arrives, things really heat up.But someone is watching them. Someone who doesn't like what is happening between the two lovers. Someone who has other plans for them.Jack and Abby must learn to rely on each other and their growing feelings because, before long, it is not only their hearts that are endangered, but also their lives.Content Notes: M-M-F, F-F, light bondage and spankingBy Anna Louise Lucia. 2009
All Marianne Forster wants from her first holiday abroad is a little excitement- maybe even a fling in sunny, hot…
Morocco. She gets lucky on both counts when she meets Alan Waring, a mystery man who is more than happy to show a pretty tourist the sights. Disaster looms, however, when Mari leaves to return to England after a final night of passion in Alan's hotel room-and mistakenly departs on the airport bus with his bag, not hers. Alan, completely panicked, is revealed as a secret agent who has a very important SmartCard in that bag. He races after Mari and finds no trace of her-until he is informed that she has been kidnapped by a group of Algerians. Meanwhile, unaware that Alan is crossing the length and breadth of North Africa to find her, Mari is forced to survive the rigors of the deadly desert where she is held, not knowing who her captors are or whether she has any real chance of rescue.