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HISTORICAL THE DUKE AND I BK#1 $12.95 REISSUE JULIA QUINN THE ARRANGEMENT $23.95 TRADE P/BACK The Bridgertons series. In the ballrooms and draw- SYLVIA DAY, MINERVA SPENCER, KRISTIN VAYDEN ing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. From Mischief and the Marquess by Sylvia Day: Availa- their earliest days, children of aristocrats learn how to ble for the first time since 2007! Justin, the Marquess address an earl and curtsey before a prince--while of Fontaine, and Lady Sophie Milton-Riley, are com- other dictates of the ton are unspoken yet universally pletely ill-suited to one another. But they will have to understood. A proper duke should be imperious and prove it in order to end to their mothers' insistence aloof. A young, marriageable lady should be amia- that they should marry. Yet the more they attempt to ble...but not too amiable. Daphne Bridgerton has demonstrate how wrong their union would be, the always failed at the latter. The fourth of eight siblings more surprisingly, irresistibly right things feel . . . The in her close-knit family, she has formed friendships Duke's Treasure by Minerva Spencer: First time in with the most eligible young men in London. Every- print! Plain, prickly Josephine Loman has loved one likes Daphne for her kindness and wit. But no Beaumont Halliwell, the Fifth Duke of Wroxton, since one truly desires her. She is simply too deuced hon- the first time she saw him. But the most beautiful est for that, too unwilling to play the romantic games man she's ever met had eyes only for Jo's erstwhile that captivate gentlemen. Amiability is not a charac- friend, who betrayed Beau's trust by marrying his teristic shared by Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings. brother. Beau hasn't been home in years, but when Recently returned to England from abroad, he in- his brother dies in an accident, he must marry to tends to shun both marriage and society--just as his save the impoverished dukedom. And Jo is the over- callous father shunned Simon throughout his painful looked heiress who will turn his world upside down . . childhood. Yet an encounter with his best friend's The Inconvenient Countess by Kristin Vayden: sister offers another option. If Daphne agrees to a First time in print! As the eldest in a poverty-stricken fake courtship, Simon can deter the mamas who pa- family of daughters, Miss Diana Katherine Lambson's rade their daughters before him. Daphne, meanwhile, only option is a marriage of convenience. Her only will see her prospects and her reputation soar. The prospect is a rogue with a miserable reputation. Her plan works like a charm--at first. But amid the glitter- only true desire: freedom. And that is exactly what ing, gossipy, cut-throat world of London's elite, there Charles Brook, Earl of Barrington, is willing to offer, in is only one certainty: Love ignores every rule... return for the respectability their union will give him. THE DUKE’S REFUGE BK#1 $22.95 TRADE P/BACK He will even provide Diana with a contract. But does LORRI DUDLEY she dare entrust her future to a scoundrel? Does she Leeward Islands series. When love comes in a dare not to? tempest, who knew it would wear pink? Georgia Len- THE DUCHESS DECEPTION BK#3 $10.95 nox has traded in her boyish ways for pink gowns CAT SEBASTIAN (288 PAGES) and a coy smile to capture the eye of the Earl of Regency Impostors series. Bk#1 Unmasked by the Claremont. However, on the day she's convinced the Marquess. When Amelia Allenby escaped a stifling earl will propose, Georgia is shipped off to the Lee- London ballroom for the quiet solitude of the Derby- ward Islands to care for her ailing father. But when shire countryside, the very last thing she wanted was she arrives on Nevis, the last thing she expects is to an extremely large, if--she grudgingly admits-- learn that her abrupt departure was not at her father's passably attractive man disturbing her daily walks. bidding but that of the infuriating, yet captivating, Lecturing the surveyor about property rights doesn't island schoolmaster. And now her plans may well be work and, somehow, he has soon charmed his way shipwrecked. Harrison Wells is haunted by the mem- into lemon cakes, long walks, and dangerously heady ories of his deceased wife and hunted by the subse- kisses. The very last place Sydney wished to be was quent women who aspire to be the next Duchess of in the shadow of the ruins of Pelham Hall, the inherit- Linton. Desiring anonymity, he finds sanctuary in the ed property that stole everything from him. But as he Leeward island of Nevis. He's willing to sacrifice his awaits his old friend, the Duke of Hereford, he finds ducal title for a schoolmaster's life and the solace the himself increasingly captivated by the maddeningly island provides. That is until unrest finds its way to lovely and exceptionally odd Amelia. He quickly finds Nevis in a storm of pink chiffon--Miss Georgia Len- that keeping his ownership of Pelham Hall a secret is nox. As Georgia and Harrison's aspirations break as impossible as keeping himself from falling in love apart like a ship cast upon the rocks, a new love sur- with her. But when the Duke of Hereford arrives, Syd- faces, but secrets and circumstances drag them into ney's ruse is revealed and what started out as a deli- rough waters. Can they surrender their hearts to a cate deception has become a love too powerful to love that defies their expectations? ignore. Will they let a lifetime of hurt come between HER SCANDALOUS PURSUIT BK#7 $13.95 them or can these two lost souls find love and peace CANDACE CAMP in each other? Mad Morelands series. Bk#1 Mesmerized. Thisbe Moreland is used to men not taking her seriously. As a scientist, she's accustomed to being the only wom-

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scorn and derision. So it comes as a pleasant sur- NEVER KISS A DUKE BK#1 $13.95 prise when she sits next to a handsome young man MEGAN FRAMPTON who is actually interested in having a conversation Hazards of Dukes series. A disinherited duke and about science. Desmond Harrison cannot believe his a former lady are courting much more than business good fortune when he sits next to Thisbe--she's in- in the first novel in Megan Frampton's newest titillat- telligent and incredibly beautiful. He longs to see her ing series. Everything he had ever known was a again--but he's ashamed of his low birth. Not to lie… Sebastian, Duke of Hasford, has a title, wealth, mention his employment with the infamous Profes- privilege, and plenty of rakish charm. Until he dis- sor Gordon, a formerly respected scientist who covers the only thing that truly belongs to him is his turned to spiritualism and is now deeply scorned. charm. An accident of birth has turned him into plain When Professor Gordon demands that Desmond Mr. de Silva. Now, Sebastian is flummoxed as to recover an artifact for him--an ancient object reputed what to do with his life--until he stumbles into a gam- to have terrible power, known as the Eye of Annie bling den owned by Miss Ivy, a most fascinating Blue--Desmond realizes that only Thisbe holds the young lady, who hires him on the spot. Working with key. Desmond must choose between his love for a boss has never seemed so enticing. Everything Thisbe and his loyalty to his mentor...but humanity's tells her he's a risk she has to take… Two years very future will depend on his choice. ago, Ivy gambled everything that was precious to HUNTING FOR A HIGHLANDER BK#8 $13.95 her--and won. Now the owner of London's most intri- LYNSAY SANDS guing gambling house, Ivy is competent, assured, Highland Brides series. Bk#1 An English Bride in and measured. Until she meets Mr. de Silva, who Scotland. Four Buchanan brothers have found their stirs feelings she didn't realize she had. Can she brides...only three more to go …. Lady Dwyn Innes keep her composure around her newest employee? feels utterly out of place among the eligible women They vow to keep their partnership strictly business, who've descended on Buchanan Keep, vying for the but just one kiss makes them realize that with each attention of the last unmarried brothers. She isn't passing day--and night--there's nothing as tempting long-legged and slender like her sisters, or flirtatious as what is forbidden... and wily like other lasses. Since her betrothed died, A RELUCTANT BRIDE BK#1 $21.95 TRADE P/BACK Dwyn has resigned herself to becoming an old maid. JESS MICHAELS Yet a chance encounter with a stranger in the or- Shelley Sisters series. When Jasper Kincaid, the chard awakens her to a new world of sensation and Earl of Harcourt, offered to marry one of the infa- possibility… After weeks away, Geordie Buchanan mous Shelley triplets, he was doing it for the dowry returns to find his home swarming with potential to refill his depleted coffers, not for anything so silly brides, thanks to his loving but interfering family. But as love. But when he realizes it is Thomasina Shel- one lass in particular draws his attention from the ley masquerading as his fiancée at their final en- moment he spies her climbing a tree. Lady Dwyn is gagement ball, not his true intended, a desire for her not nearly as plain as she thinks. Her lush figure and that he has been ignoring sparks. And when it be- eager kisses delight him, as does her honesty. But comes clear her sister has run away with another, the real test lies ahead: eliminating a hidden enemy, an opportunity arises for a marriage with a much so that he and Dwyn can seal their Highland passion deeper connection. Thomasina's feelings for Jasper with a vow. have never been appropriate and she doubted the THE MAIL ORDER BRIDE’S SECRET BK#3 $13.95 prudence of pretending to be his even for just one LINDA BRODAY night. Once she's caught, everything escalates so Outlaw Mail Order Brides series. Bk#1 The Out- quickly. Suddenly she's going to marry this stern, law’s Mail Order Bride. When the West was wild and fascinating man who is not particularly pleased at man's law favored the few, these extraordinary her perfidy. Add to that her worry about where her women could be found...in the heart of an outlaw. wayward sister has gone and it's a recipe for both When three young children show up on outlaw Tait passion...and disaster. As the two slowly grow clos- Trinity's doorstep, he knows he can't help them--a er, Jasper realizes his former fiancée's disappear- wanted man has no business raising kids. And yet ance may have more to do with his own past than he he can't bring himself to turn them away. At a loss, originally realized. And the longer he keeps that from he sends for the mail order bride he'd been writing Thomasina, the more painful it will be when the truth to, hoping the demure dressmaker will be the an- comes out. Can they let each other close enough to swer to his prayers. Melanie Dunbar is nothing like fight together against the dangers right around the the bride Tait was expecting. She's rough and tum- corner? And will they survive to meet the future they ble...and hiding an ulterior motive. Dangerous men could have if they do? have taken her sister hostage, and if Melanie wants to see her alive, she'll have to betray her new hus- **Occasionally the first title in a series is band. 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HISTORICAL la. Since seeing her at a ball when she was a young debutante, he's never forgotten her. Now that fate has reunited them, Edward's determined to make her ROYAL BRIDESMAIDS $13.95 REISSUE his leading lady--in every way. But the only thing they STEPHANIE LAURENS, GAELEN FOLEY, LORETTA see eye to eye on is their intense passion for each CHASE other. And it just may take a massive misunderstand- In this original anthology New York Times bestselling ing for their love to get on the same precious page . . authors Stephanie Laurens Gaelen Foley and Loretta Chase tell us what it really takes to get the bride to TEMPTATION’S DARLING $15.95 P/BACK RELEASE the royal altar. In Stephanie Laurens's A Return JOHANNA LINDSEY Engagement Lady Nell Daughtry has her hands full Threatened by powerful enemies, William Blackburn, getting her reluctant bride sister safely married to the Earl of Ketterham, lives in exile in the Scottish High- Prince of Lautenberg and matters only get worse lands with his daughter Vanessa. When she comes when she learns she's been paired with Robert of age, William urges her to return to her mother in Knightley her ex-fiancé in the wedding party. The England to make her society debut. Raised with all Imposter Bride is Gaelen Foley's story about Lady the advantages and freedom a boy would have, Minerva who must make sure that her country's prin- Vanessa doubts she can fit into the world of ball cess weds Prince Tor What can she do when the gowns, parties, and high society. Nonetheless, she bride bolts? Since the prince has never set eyes on agrees to return to England, determined to end the his betrothed she'll have to marry the prince herself. vendetta against her father, never imagining the high Loretta Chase's contribution Lord Lovedon's Du- price she will have to pay. Lord Montgomery Town- el tells the tale of Chloe Sharp—when she overhears send enjoys living on the edge, courting danger as the Earl of Lovedon say that her sister's royal mar- he fixes potentially scandalous problems for the riage is a match made in money the firebrand steps Prince Regent. While hiding out at the home of the outside of Regency protocol and challenges him to a Countess of Ketterham, Monty watches a disaster-in- duel - for love and honor. the-making as his hostess tries to prepare her es- SCOT UNDER THE COVERS BK#2 $13.95 tranged daughter for a match with the pompous son of a powerful family. Puzzled as to why the fiercely SUZANNE ENOCH independent Vanessa submits to being turned into a Wild Wicked Highlanders series. Bk#1 It’s Getting puppet and offered up to the arrogant rogue, Monty Scot in Here. Devilishly handsome Highlander Aden nonetheless steps in to make her dreams come true. MacTaggert knows next to nothing about the ways of But no good deed goes unpunished and soon he the ton, but he most certainly knows his way around faces more pressing problems, including the tempta- gaming halls and womens' hearts. Still, Aden is not tion to upend Vanessa's wedding plans so he can sure how he'll manage to find a Sassenach bride in marry her himself. time to save his family's inheritance. When his al- most sister-in-law Miranda comes to him for assis- COMING IN MARCH: tance, he proposes a partnership: She will help him An Inconvenient Duke—Anna Harrington navigate London society and he'll teach her every- Every Bit a Rogue—Adrienne Basso thing about wagering...and winning back her free- For the Sake of a Scottish Rake—Anna Bradley dom. The beautiful, clever lass intrigues Aden--but is she playing her own game, or are the sparks be- The Mistletoe Mistress—Madison Michaels tween them real? He is accustomed to risking his Promised—Leah Garriott pocket. But betting on Miranda's love is a game he Chasing Cassandra—Lisa Kleypas can't afford to lose. . . The Bachelor—Sabrina Jeffries SEDUCE ME WITH SAPPHIRES BK#2 $13.95 JANE FEATHER Engaged to the Earl—Lisa Berne London Jewels trilogy. Bk#1 Tempt Me With Dia- His Secret Mistress—Cathy Maxwell monds. Three childhood friends dare to defy the Tightrope—Amanda Quick (small p/b release) rules of London--and love …. A FLAWED CUT . . . The Honorable Miss Fenella Grantley has a secret: she's been taking drama classes and longs to be an actress. Ladies of her standing don't appear on stage, but Fenella has never been one for society's rules. She's quite excited to take on the challenge of reading the leading role in a new play--until she meets the playwright. Toeing the line between infuri- ating and irresistible, his first impression leaves a lot to be desired . . . OR A RARE FIND? Edward

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When a massive storm hits, she But even more challenging than the neighborhood runs into a tall, dark and brooding stranger, Camden resistance is the mutual attraction between him and Reid. There's a spark there, one that shocks her. Riley. It would be so much easier just to stay ene- Surprising her further, her sister and brother return, mies. Can Riley and her canine sidekick convince each of them holding their own secrets. The smart Caleb that what's best for business isn't always best move would be for Piper to ignore them all but Cam for the heart? unleashes emotions deep inside of her that she can't deny, making her yearn for something she doesn't COUNTRY STRONG BK#1 $15.95 understand. And her siblings...well, they need each LINDA LAEL MILLER other. Only when the secrets come out, it changes Painted Pony Creek series. For the men of Painted everything Piper thinks she knows about her family, Pony Creek, it's never too late for a second herself...and Cam. Can she find a way to outrun the chance... Cord Hollister is a true cowboy at heart. As demons? The answer is closer than she thinks … a man who has devoted his life to training horses BAITING HIM BK#2 $19.95 TRADE P/BACK under the big skies of Montana, he thrives on the stability of ranch life. But when a girl arrives in Paint- AURORA ROSE REYNOLDS ed Pony Creek with a shocking secret, Cord's order- How To Catch an Alpha series. Bk#1 Catching ly life is upended. She's the spitting image of the first Him. Chrissie doesn't have time for guys, hot or oth- woman who broke his heart--a woman he hasn't erwise; most days, she barely has time to sleep. seen in years--and he'll do whatever he can to help With a thriving bakery that demands her attention her. He just can't do it alone... Shallie Fletcher left and plenty of proof that relationships aren't worth the heartbreak where it belongs--in the past. And she's trouble, she's content to go it alone. Too bad she's done everything she can to reinvent herself and unwittingly baited Mr. Tall, Dark, and Way Too Gor- move on. But when an opportunity arises to partner geous--and he's just waiting for a chance to bite. with a therapeutic riding program for kids, Shallie Gaston is used to getting what he wants, but he also can't resist seeking out Cord for lessons. Back in knows nothing good ever comes easy. From the school, he was the crush she couldn't forget, even moment he meets Chrissie, he realizes that this though he only had eyes for her best friend. Seeing woman who makes him laugh, smells like cupcakes, him now floods her with memories...and fills her with and looks like a tasty snack is going to be his great- hope. Could the one who got away be the one who est challenge. And if he's lucky, she'll be his biggest stays? reward. But someone else wants to catch Gaston at all costs--even if it means endangering the lives of COWBOY COURAGE BK#6 $13.95 the people he loves. Somehow Gaston must thwart CAROLYN BROWN danger and convince Chrissie that he's the perfect Longhorn Canyon series. Bk#1 Cowboy Bold. Af- catch. ter spending years traveling the world with the mili- BIG SKY SECRETS BK#6 $15.95 REISSUE tary, Rose O'Malley is ready for a change. Heading back to Texas to hold down the fort at her aunt's bed LINDA LAEL MILLER -and-breakfast will give Rose just the break she Parable, Montana series. Bk#1 Big Sky Country. needs. But while she may speak seven languages, Self-made millionaire Landry Sutton heads to Hang- she can't repair a leaky sink to save her life. When man Bend's Ranch to sell his land to his brother, Hudson Baker strides in like a hero and effortlessly Zane. Though he's got cowboy in his blood, Landry figures out the fix, Rose can't help wondering if the plans to return to city life before the dust even set- boy she once crushed on as a kid could now be her tles on his boots. Of course, he didn't count on fall- saving grace. Hud has always been rock-solid and ing for Big Sky Country...or Ria Manning. Ria is dependable-a quintessential cowboy to his core. But starting to settle into country life herself...until she the moment Rose steps back into his life, his world has a close encounter of the terrifying kind with a is turned upside down by meddling family, a rescued buffalo. Turns out the peeping monster belongs to baby, and one highly mischievous cat. Now he'll the cowboy next door--and he has her running even have to decide if it's time to throw caution to the more scared than his bison. She wants a home wind and do whatever it takes to convince Rose that where the buffalo don't roam, and the men don't by her side is exactly where he wants to stay. In- either. Could Landry's homecoming be her heart's cludes the bonus novella, Wildflower Ranch! undoing? INTRIGUE FEBRUARY 2020 CATALOGUE

CONTEMPORARY A FAVOR FOR A FAVOR BK#2 $19.95 TRADE P/BACK HELENA HUNTING COWBOY TOUGH BK#2 $24.95 TRADE P/BACK All In series. Bk#1 A Lie for a Lie. When I joined STACY FINZ Seattle's NHL expansion team, I thought it was the Dry Creek Ranch series. Bk#1 Cowboy Up. Buried start of something great. But nothing ever goes the treasure... buried feelings...all about to surface… way you expect. Take my introduction to my new Anthropologist Allison Pinckney is stunned when she neighbor. She came rolling in on the hot mess ex- inherits the key to a seventeenth century pirate ci- press at midnight, making a racket while she tried to pher that makes her the target of two brutal arms get into my team captain's apartment. Did I mention dealers. Now, to save those she loves, she must that he's married to a woman who definitely was not solve the cipher. With this perilous mission growing her? Imagine my surprise when I end up with an inju- ever more dangerous, she reluctantly seeks help ry that has me out of the game for weeks, and she's from ex-Green Beret Zack Tremaine, the one man the one to offer to help me. I should probably add she's been avoiding. Because if she gives into her that she's not the captain's mistress. She's his sexy, long-buried feelings for him, it could cost them their pastel-haired younger sister. So we come up with an lives. Zack Tremaine is haunted by regrets. Years arrangement: she rehabs me so that I can get back ago, he betrayed his men and lost the only woman on the ice sooner, and she can add a professional he ever loved. Now that his men are caught in a athlete that isn't her brother to her client list. Seems fierce rivalry between two deadly enemies, his only simple enough. As long as I can keep my hands to hope is to team up with Allison. 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More ryone in town suspects. Everyone except the beauty than anything in the whole wide world, Madison helping her sow the land. Something about Kristen's O'Donnell wants to fall in love before she dies. And spirit has Mitch sticking around--and wondering if she's convinced that fateful event might just take he's gone a little crazy himself. Because suddenly place before her next birthday. So when she gets a he's hoping he might just find happiness in the very wrong number from a stranger who sounds totally place he left behind . . . delicious, she knows it's providence knocking on her A HERO COMES HOME BK#3 $13.95 door.He's older, he's bald, and he's an accountant. How's he supposed to compete with Delicious? She's SANDRA HILL not just his secretary. No, to T. Laurence Hobbs, Bell Sound series. Bk#1 The Forever Christmas Madison is...more. And more than anything, T. Larry Tree. Welcome to Bell Cove, North Carolina. …. The needs to protect Madison...from herself. 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last deployment, but he's still every inch the hot, for her elderly grandfather, but she's running out of headstrong man she loves, despite his wounds, both options--and hope. The last thing she has time for is visible and invisible. Seeing him with their three boys Marcus and his flirting, sexy as he might be. But eve- makes her want to fight for this unexpected second ry time Emma thinks she's reached the end of her chance. As summer winds down, all of the wacky rope, Marcus is there to lend a hand. Maybe there's folks in Bell Cove, which is awash with yellow ribbons more to the handsome playboy after all... and American flags, are aiming for a Labor Day Love THE LAST REAL COWBOY BK#3 $13.95 Re-Connection. In fact, they're pulling out all the CAITLIN CREWS stops, in their usual outrageous style, to get Jake and Cold River Ranch series. Bk#1 A True Cowboy Sally together again… Christmas. 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Brady: The worse, his best friend's innocent little sister is making Rebel Rancher by Patricia Thayer: Brady Randell a menace of herself in the most grown-up, tempting has always been a rebel. Injured out of the air force, ways. When Amanda begs Brady to teach her about he's a dark presence on the family ranch. Then Lind- men, he knows he should refuse. But could Brady's sey Stafford's arrival changes all that. Somehow greatest temptation be his salvation? Lindsay can smooth Brady's rough edges. But she THE LITTLE TEASHOP ON MAIN $13.95 has secrets that could destroy the Randell family. SMALL P/BACK RELEASE Now Brady must fight once more--not for his country, but for the woman who's found a place in his heart. JODI THOMAS A rainy-day ritual--a tea party between three little girls THE KISSING GAME $22.95 TRADE P/BACK --becomes the framework of not only their friendship, MARIE HARTE but their lives. 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HARD JUSTICE BK#3 $22.95 TRADE P/BACK worked city dwellers. But when the broken body of PAMELA CLARE his business partner is found at the base of the rocky Cobra Elite series. Bk#1 Hard Target. Elizabeth escarpment, he fears it wasn't an accident. Special Shields has always craved adventure. That's why she Agent Craig Frasier agrees to help his cousin Finn by went to work for the CIA straight out of college. That's investigating and, with psychologist Kieran Finnegan probably also the reason she feels drawn to Quinn at his side, heads to the island. As Craig and Kieran McManus, a veteran of the British Special Air Ser- delve into the history of the Douglas estate, they dis- vice. The big Scotsman gives off a dangerous vibe cover that the property comes complete with strange that she can't resist. Yet, resist she must. She and lore and a blood-soaked past. 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The case victims: a new man in their life who also vanished. closed. Ever since, Emily and Madison have tried to Drex is convinced that these women have been mur- forget what happened that night--until an eerily simi- dered, and that the man he knows as Weston Gra- lar murder brings it all back. It also brings FBI special ham is responsible. But each time Drex gets close to agent Zander Wells to the Oregon logging town. As catching him, Weston trades one persona for anoth- eager as he is to solve the brutal double slaying, he er. Now, for the first time in their long game of cat is just as intrigued with the mystery of Emily's and her and mouse, Drex has a suspect in sight. Attractive sisters' past. When more blood is shed, Zander sus- and charming, Jasper Ford is recently married to a pects there's a secret buried in this town no one successful businesswoman, Talia Shafer. Posing as wants unearthed. 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MYSTERY & SUSPENSE the cult, men are given a young girl to marry in ex- change for one of their own daughters. The FBI has lead a quiet, normal life in this conventional commu- been monitoring the cult's activities, but Charlie and nity; she knows Laura's a kind and beloved speech his assistant, Wyrick, aren't bound by the same rules pathologist who helps others; she knows Laura's as the feds. They head to the mountains of West never kept a secret in her life. Andrea knows that Virginia to infiltrate the cult's compound. The lives of Laura is everything she isn't--confident, settled, sure children are at stake, and Charlie and Wyrick will risk of herself. Feeling listless, with no direction, Andrea, everything to destroy the cult and its leader--no mat- unlike Laura, struggles to find her way. 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The assailant was a mentally troubled sidy has just come from a small African village with a teenage scion of Georgia law enforcement royalty, heart wrenching story: half the villagers--many of and now the police want answers about what really them children--have been killed in a horrific attack by happened in those terrifying moments at the mall. guerilla soldiers, the bodies burned beyond recogni- Though she's being scrutinized at every level of the tion. Now, the families desperately need Eve's help criminal justice system and her innocence is on the to get closure and begin to heal. But when Eve ar- line, Laura refuses to speak to anyone, including her rives in the remote jungle, she begins to suspect that own daughter. She pushes Andrea away, insisting Jill's plea may have been a cover story for a deeper, it's time for her to stand alone and make a life for more sinister plot. Isolated and unsure who she can herself. 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Meanwhile in DC, FBI special agent Today, Quinn risks her life every day in the Secret Mathias Costa is staffing his newly minted Mobile Service as she protects the First Lady of the United Response Team. Word reaches Matt that the Liberty States. But unfortunately, she can't safeguard her Lake murder fits the profile of the compulsive Triple from the ruthless advisors who are intent on hiding Killer. It will be the first case for the MRT. This time the President's debilitating illness for their political they have a chance to stop this zealous if elusive gain. Suspecting a conspiracy that places the fate of killer before he strikes again. But only if they can the President, his wife--and the nation--on the line, figure out who he is and where he is hiding before he Quinn whisks the First Lady out of the capital to her disappears for another three years. The stakes are South Carolina home. But are they truly safe from higher than ever before, because if they fail, one of whoever is pulling the strings in this lethal game? their own will be next… And Quinn's fortitude is tested further when a myste- rious lover emerges from the shadows of the past… TRAINED TO DEFEND BK#1 $12.95 CHRISTY BARRITT SECOND SIGHT BK#2 $13.95 K-9 Mountain Guardians series. Take Buzz and SHARON SALA run. Far away ..... and don't trust the police.” Framed Jigsaw Files series. Bk#1 The Missing Piece. When for her boss's murder, Sarah Peterson is on the run-- Charlie Dodge gets a phone call from a frantic wom- with only her boss's loyal husky, Buzz, for protection. an stating her daughter has been kidnapped by her To clear her name and keep her safe, she must rely ex-husband and taken into a cult called Fourth Di- on her ex-fiancé, former detective Colton Hawk. The mension, he takes the case without hesitation. 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