Zoe Crane puts her hand on a magic crystal ball. After a strange, star-tossed dream she wakes on a different planet. This is a parallel world on the other end of the universe, full of cars with running boards and gangsters wearing pin striped suits. Here she meets Joshua Kendal district attorney; handsome, intelligent, and rich. He is every romance novel hero ever written. Stumbling to adjust to this strange world and this self confident manâtes increasingly romantic intensions Zoe realize...

Claire Anderson, recently successful screen writer/novelist living in Toronto, witnesses a strange sight. A nude man walks down her pre-dawn street and then vanishes.While still struggling with the reality of what she has seen Claire's agent hands her a good reason to get out of town. She is given a short speaking tour of three colleges in the American south. Here she encounters a strange fundamentalist Christian cult and an FBI agent who is searching for his missing brother.

From the million-copy bestseller Amanda Prowse, the queen of heartbreak fiction.***Everybody needs a little love in their lives...Pru Plum is the celebrated owner of a famous Mayfair bakery. She wears Chanel and her hair is expensively cut. Few would believe that this elegant woman turned sixty-six last year.But Pru is not the confident, successful businesswoman she appears....

Seamlessly blending heart-pounding romance and breathless intrigue, New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard writes a masterful, stylish, and provocative suspense novel that absolutely defies readers to put it down.Daisy Minor is bored. Worse than that, she's boring. A plain, small-town librarian, she's got a wardrobe as sexy as a dictionary and hasn't been on a date in years. She's never even had a lukewarm love affair, let alone a hot one. So when ...

The third Inspector Rebus novel from the No.1 bestselling author of MIDNIGHT AND BLUE'No one writes better crime novels' EVENING STANDARD*******LONDON IS CALLING.WILL REBUS FIND THE ANSWER?**Detective Inspector John Rebus is hand-picked to help catch a serial killer down in London. The Edinburgh cop doesn't like the big city - and it doesn't seem that his new colleagues at The Met like him much either.As the case gets its te...

A moving and “beautifully observed” (The New York Times) story about how the events of a single night ripple through the lives they touch, revealing how deeply interconnected we are, and how those who flourish and those who unravel may be far closer than they seem.Late one night in 1983, after Carmen’s wedding reception at an artists’ co-op in rural Wisconsin, a carload of drunk and tired wedding guests begin a drive back to Chicago when tragedy strikes on...

He listened as their voices faded into the rumble of the falls. He was thinking about the lynx. The way it had looked at him, acknowledging his existence, then passing out of his life like smoke. . . It was the first thing—the only thing—that had managed, if only for a moment, to displace from his mind the image of the child. He had carried that image with him for a year now, and it had been a weight so great that sometimes he could hardly stand.Mary Lawson’s beloved novel...

NOW A LIFETIME TV MOVIE STARRING JOHN STAMOSINDIE NEXT PICK • From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Midwives, and Skeletons at the Feast comes a novel of shattered faith, intimate secrets, and the delicate nature of sacrifice."There," says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, just after her baptism, and just before going home to the husband who will kill her that evening and then shoot himself. Drew, ...

The #1 New York Times –bestselling author introduces readers to "a great detective, a detective's detective," New York cop Edward X. Delaney ( Kirkus Reviews ).Edgar Award–Winning AuthorNew York Police Department Captain Edward Delaney is called to the scene of a brutal murder. A Brooklyn councilman was struck from behind, the back of his skull punctured ...

For horse-loving young readers comes the first book in the Keystone Stables series, where a tough foster child named Skye learns about love and forgiveness through a beautiful quarter horse named Champ.Thirteen-year-old Skye Nicholson has become an expert at making sure no one will ever hurt her again. After her cold and angry behavior and numerous offenses remove her from more foster home placements than she cares to count, she’s headed toward juvenile detention. ...

This utterly addictive new novel set in the Cotswolds is perfect for all fans of Holly Martin and Debbie Johnson.As the new custodian of his ancestral home, Treweham Hall, Tobias Cavendish-Blake soon discovers exactly what he's inherited. Treweham Hall is the archetypal Cotswold stately home, but it faces financial ruin if they don't address the mounting debts it's racking up. So, the new Lord of the Manor realises it's time to open the doors to the...

From New York Times bestselling mystery author Sheila Connolly comes a brand-new book that blends her skillful mystery talents with a touch of romantic suspense. There’s no doubt this book will appeal both to her current mystery audience as well as those readers who love authors like Lisa Gardner or Karen Rose.Claire Hastings, professor at a prestigious women’s college, has retreated to an isolated cabin in Maine in midwinter to work on the book that will guarantee her ten...