Category: Fiction

By Marilyn Pappano, Kay Hooper, Jill Shalvis, Michelle Martin, Donna Kauffman, Jill Shalvi

The millennium trojan horse performs matchmaker!

When the millennium malicious program supplies a crash direction in romance, something can happen--in those spellbinding tales by means of 5 cherished romance writers.

"Arts Magica" by means of Kay Hooper

When apprentice wizard Felicity furnish conducts a reckless test on New Year's Eve, she's hurled from present-day Seattle to 1899 London--and into the hands of a unique man--.

"Gabriel's Angel" through Marilyn Pappano

For Gabe Rawlins, the recent 12 months holds little promise--until he awakens from a harrowing incident to find via his aspect a gorgeous, delicate lady who deals hope--and a lot more.

"Stuck with You" via Michelle Martin

When a blackout moves San Francisco's so much glittering occasion, a softhearted safeguard legal professional will get caught in a stalled elevator together with her such a lot implacable adversary--and reveals herself in a unfastened fall of a distinct kind.

"Close Quarters" by means of Donna Kauffman

The daughter of an ex-president unearths her peaceable vacation grew to become the other way up whilst she's trapped in a surveillance truck with a former mystery carrier agent, a similar one she'd had a hopeless weigh down on as a teenager.

"Trouble at Midnight" through Jill Shalvis

Wanting extra in lifestyles than a predictable beau, a tender girl vows to hunt adventure--until a close to catastrophe makes her ponder whether her bland Clark Kent is de facto Superman in cover.

By Deborah Cooke

A few humans will do something for real love - whether they must pretend it. Jen Maitland had little need for good-looking men with effortless appeal - till she met Zach. He's the ideal faux date to finish her mother's matchmaking scheme ahead of it begins. along with, he'd most likely simply use her and depart her like her ex-fiancé did. a minimum of that's what Jen tells herself. the single challenge is that Zach isn't as predictable as he appears... Zach Coxwell hates dedication, yet loves a problem. just like the lovely bar waitress who grew to become him down flat for a date - in basic terms to ask him to her family's Thanksgiving dinner. Zach is aware he could make Jen smile - and he's making a bet that he can get to the bottom of her mysteries - no matter if he has to do it over candied yams. A tofu turkey, a sister who threatens to have Zach's love-child, the premature visual appeal of a knitted avocado - and Zach's discovery of her actual rationale - mix to show Thanksgiving dinner into Jen's worst nightmare. Zach, nevertheless, has the time of his lifestyles. And while he makes Jen smile, he ultimately reveals a dedication he's prepared to make...but persuading Jen to think him will take every little thing he's obtained.

By Ethan Mordden

How lengthy Has This Been Going On? brings jointly a wealthy and sundry forged of characters to inform the story of recent homosexual the US during this awesome epic novel. starting in 1949 and relocating to the current day, Mordden places a different and innovating spin on sleek background. An adventurous, adroit, and interesting novel by means of one of many best homosexual writers of our time.

By Jonathan Maberry

In case you have to kill an identical terrorist two times in a single week there's both whatever improper along with your international or anything improper together with your skills... and there's not anything incorrect with Joe Ledger's skills.  And that's either an excellent, and a nasty thing.  It's reliable simply because he's a Baltimore detective that has simply been secretly recruited by means of the govt to steer a brand new taskforce created to house the issues that place of origin defense can't deal with. This fast reaction workforce is named the dep. of army Sciences or the DMS for brief. It's undesirable simply because his first venture is to aid cease a bunch of terrorists from freeing a dreadful bio-weapon that may flip usual humans into zombies.

By Anne Rice

Earlier than the Civil warfare, there lived in Louisiana, humans distinctive in Southern heritage. For although they have been descended from African slaves, they have been additionally descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. during this miraculous historic novel, Anne Rice chronicles 4 of those so-called unfastened humans of Color--men and ladies stuck periolously among the worlds of grasp and slave, privilege and oppression, ardour and pain.

"Anne Rice appears at domestic everywhere....She makes us think every thing she sees."
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By Diane Chamberlain

A liked daughter. A devastating selection. And now there's no going back.
Four years in the past, nineteen-year-old Travis Brown made a call: to elevate his infant daughter on his personal. whereas such a lot of his neighbors have been out partying and assembly ladies, Travis used to be at domestic, altering diapers and being concerned approximately protecting nutrition at the desk. yet he's by no means regretted his selection. Bella is the sunshine of his existence. the explanation at the back of each stream he makes. And thus far, she is fed. Cared for. Safe.But while Travis loses his building task and his domestic, the protection he's labored so tough to create for Bella starts off to crumble….

Then a miracle. a role in Raleigh has the ability to show their fortunes round. It has to. but if Travis arrives in Raleigh, there is not any task, merely a suggestion to take part in a onetime felony act that can provide quickly funds and no repercussions.

With nowhere else to show, Travis needs to make another option for his daughter's sake.

Even if it potential he may perhaps lose her.

By Stephen Prosapio

Zach Kalusky, host of Sci-D TV's Xavier Paranormal Investigators, is ecstatic whilst he's given the chance to discover the main haunted website in Chicago for a Halloween exact: Rosewood Asylum, a spot lengthy made off-limits via the neighborhood executive, tormented by a long time of mysterious fires and unexplained occasions. It's Zach's dream research- yet there's a capture: the community forces Xavier Paranormal Investigators to companion with the extra dramatic-but much less ethical-Demon Hunters. Now, Zach needs to struggle for either his show's integrity and his team's loyalty whereas attempting to shield his personal mystery: that he, himself, is possessed.

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By Paul Murray

Why does Skippy, a fourteen-year-old boy at Dublin’s venerable Seabrook collage, prove useless at the flooring of the neighborhood doughnut shop?

Could it have anything to do along with his buddy Ruprecht Van Doren, an obese genius who's decided to open a portal right into a parallel universe utilizing ten-dimensional string theory?

Could it contain Carl, the teenage drug broker and borderline psychotic who's Skippy’s rival in love?

Or may possibly “the Automator”—the ruthless, smooth-talking headmaster rationale on modernizing the school—have whatever to hide?

Why Skippy dies and what occurs subsequent is the topic of this impressive and uproarious novel, unraveling a secret that hyperlinks the men of Seabrook collage to their mom and dad and academics in methods not anyone can have imagined. With a solid of characters that levels from hip-hop-loving fourteen-year-old Eoin “MC Sexecutioner” Flynn to basketballplaying midget Philip Kilfether, choked with questions and solutions on every thing from Ritalin, to M-theory, to bungee leaping, to the hidden that means of the poetry of Robert Frost, Skippy Dies is a heartfelt, hilarious portrait of the discomfort, pleasure, and coffee great thing about formative years, and a sad depiction of a global continuously satisfied to sacrifice its weakest contributors. because the twenty-first century enters its teenage years, it is a breathtaking novel from a tender author who will come to outline his generation.

By Elizabeth Taylor

On a wet Sunday in January, the lately widowed Mrs. Palfrey arrives on the Claremont resort the place she's going to spend her last days. Her fellow citizens are magnificently eccentric and eternally curious, residing off crumbs of love and snippets of gossip. jointly, higher lips stiffened, they try off their dual enemies—boredom and the bleak Reaper. Then at some point Mrs. Palfrey moves up an unforeseen friendship with Ludo, a good-looking younger author, and learns that even the previous can fall in love.

By Henrik Ibsen

While Dr. Thomas Stockmann learns that the recognized and financially profitable baths in his domestic city are infected, he insists they be close down for dear maintenance. Ridiculed and persecuted via the townsfolk for his honesty, he's declared an "enemy of the people." a robust drama through the "father of contemporary drama."