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1) Lawless
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Language
English
Description
Half-Apache Jake Redman was more than a match for the wild Arizona Territory. Sarah Conway was an Eastern lady who belonged anywhere else but on the rugged land Jake loved. Annoyed to find himself playing guardian angel to an innocent, Jake was even more disgusted to find that he liked it.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Venice: a magical city of mystery and splendor, where love is as intoxicating as fine wine. But for Christine Tarleton, this ancient city hides secrets and danger. Suddenly she is caught in the lies of the past, and must prove that she is brave enough to expose a murderer. At the center of the puzzle is Marcus di Medici, who has joined Christine in a game of daring and deception to uncover the truth. His sleek seductiveness and aura of mystery are...
3) Animosity
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A psychological thriller charts the seduction of American sculptor Ross Marteau by a beautiful woman while he is sculpting another woman whom he finds especially grotesque, as he becomes ensnared in a complex web of deceit, dark secrets, and evil.
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Sharon McCone, who has faced and survived many personal crises, must endure another long, dark journey after her brother Joey takes his own life. Reeling from the anguish and the perplexing reasons for Joey's suicide, Sharon tries to escape through work. On the surface, the new case seems straightforward enough. Yet as the keen private investigator knows, it's often what's hiding under the surface that's deadly. McCone is asked to investigate another...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Seattle sketch artist Maggie Barnes has the ability to draw sketches of assailants just from listening to victims describe the crime. Her abilities are put to the test in trying to catch a serial rapist who blinds his victims.
12) Off the chart
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Language
English
Description
Thorn and Alexandra Rafferty team up in a desperate struggle for survival when a sadistic modern-day pirate, Vic, tries to kill Thorn for having once had a relationship with Anne Joy, the pirate's sister.
13) Bitch Creek
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
". . . It's wonderful to see Tapply get out of the city and into an altogether different kind of time that suits his unhurried storytelling perfectly."--Kirkus Reviews "Outstanding . . . electrifying . . . ingenious . . . one of the most convincingly heroic and likeable of contemporary sleuths."--Publishers Weekly "Tapply is . . . a worthy successor to Hammet and both MacDonalds (Ross and John)."--Chicago Tribune William G. Tapply has created a fresh...
15) The drifter
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Language
English
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Description
She seeks a home. He seeks redemption. What they find is each other.
Leah Mundy has spent her life dashing from town to town, one step ahead of her father's dreadful reputation. Now, she wants to create a home for herself and build a medical practice in Coupeville, a cozy village nestled amid the majestic isles and mountains of Washington Territory. But her neighbors are loath to trust a newcomer, especially a woman doing a man's
...16) From this day
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English
Description
B.J. Clark, the young and pretty manager of the Lakeside Inn, meets the new owner, Taylor Reynolds, fully prepared to dislike him. Is he really about to transform her sleepy old hotel into a resort for jet-setters? Sure enough, sparks fly as the pair clash about the hotel's future. But despite her best efforts, B.J. soon finds herself torn between her professional antagonism and her growing attraction to the man she had sworn to despise....
17) Full blast
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Series
Language
English
Description
There's never a dull moment for the resident's of Beaumont, South Carolina. Lately, a heat wave's spiked the mercury-and everyone's sex drive.
18) It had to be you
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Comfortably ensconced in their late great-uncle's "Grace and Favor" mansion, brother and sister Robert and Lily Brewster are riding out the Depression, penniless but in high style. Now a new day is heralded by Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration. Barely recovered from his trip to Washington to witness the historic event, Robert is rushed by Lily to a nearby nursing home, where the Brewsters have agreed to lend a helping hand to the staff. But when...