THE SETTING: New York THE CAST: Bett Cambridge, aspiring actress. She had devoted her entire professional life to escaping her backwoods past and was now a Broadway star. The one blot on her resume--an ill-fated affair with America's most promising playwright. Edward "Cul" McCullough, hot new author. He left Bett behind when his career took off, but now they were working together again. Yet Cul was still afraid of commitment, and even as Bett's sensuality washed away his inhibitions, he still tried to deny their love. THE ACTION: A love story, fraught with complications, but destined for fulfillment.

Jenny Cain was thrilled about the Liberty Harbor Restoration, a picturesque collection of shops, museums and restaurants. But when a runaway truck barreled into the project committee, it seemed someone in Port Frederick was out to sink Liberty Harbor. Then a wooden cross raised in unholy wrath made the message clear. Murderously clear. As director of the town's Civic Foundation, Jenny should have been glad when police detective Geof Bushfield reeled in a prime suspect. Unfortunately, it was the one person she was desperate to prove innocent. Fishing for a ruthless killer, she had to bait her trap fast - before the cold New England waters closed in over her own head!

SUMMARY:India in 1857 and Savannah, Georgia, in 1889 are linked by two strange coincidences--a pale, beautiful, and sensually magnetic woman named August is present, and young children fall prey to a mysterious fever

Ithkar, site of the Temple of the Three Lordly Ones and the scene of an annual celebration, is the setting for a rich collection of fantasy tales by Lin Carter, Andre Norton, Nancy Springer, Morgan Llywelyn, C.J. Cherryh, and other masters of the genre

For five long years the land of Homana had been strangling in the grasp of a ursurper king—its people ravaged by strife, poverty and despair; its magical race, the Cheysuli, forced to flee or face extermination at the hands of their evil counterparts, the sorcerous Ilhini. The time had come for Prince Carillon, Homana's rightful ruler, to return from exile with his Cheysuli liege man, free his land from the evil dominantion of the tyrant Bellam and his villainous magicians, restore the Cheysuli to their rightful position of grace, and claim his birthright. To do this, he would not only have to raise an army, but overcome the fear and prejudice of an ignorant population and answer the call of a prophecy he never chose to serve!

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The Count from Wisconsin (Loveswept # 75)Monte Carlo was a long way from Plum, Texas, Kate Sullivan thought as she studied the glittering society party she'd crashed. Feeling out of her element, she escaped into the protective darkness of the garden to catch her breath--and instead felt her throat tighten in stunned longing. The man who approached her was tall, dark, and irresistibly handsome, like the hero in a fairytale, and an electric current of desire raced through her heart. Alex Delanore was a man caught by circumstance between two different worlds--and Kate was the key to the one he loved. With warmth and humor she could help him renew his dreams . . . for here was a woman to take home to Wisconsin...

May 1810, seventeen years deep into the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Horatio Hornblower is newly in command of his first ship of the line, the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland, which he deems “the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy List.” Moreover, she is 250 men short of a full crew, so Hornblower must enlist and train “poachers, bigamists, sheepstealers,” and other landlubbers. By the time the Sutherland reaches the blockaded Catalonian coast of Spain, the crew is capable of staging five astonishing solo raids against the French. But the grisly prospect of defeat and capture looms for both captain and crew as the Sutherland single-handedly takes on four French ships.

When a one-way time tunnel to Earth’s distant past, specifically six million B.C., was discovered by folks on the Galactic Milieu, every misfit for light-years around hurried to pass through it. Each sought his own brand of happiness. But none could have guessed what awaited them. Not even in a million years… Won Locus Award for Best SF Novel in 1982. Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1982.

When the kif seized Hilfy and Tully, hani and human crew of The Pride of Chanur, they issued a challenge Pyanfar, captain of Pride, couldn't ignore, a challenge that was to take Pyanfar and her shipmates to Mkks station and into a deadly confrontation between kif, hani, mahendo'sat, and human. And what began as a simple rescue attempt soon blossomed into a dangerous game of interstellar politics, where today's ally could become tomorrow's executioner, and where methane breathers became volatile wild cards playing for stakes no oxy breather could even begin to understand…

Irish Bryony St. Charles' father contacted Sir Sebastian Sheringham and reminded him of a pledge made between Sebastian's father and Bryony's, that their two children should wed. Liskillen House was in danger of foreclosure and Bryony for her father's sake accepted Sebastian's proposal. But everything went wrong from her first step in England, and it didn't improve when she was placed under the dragon duchess's tutelage! Regency Romance by Sandra Heath; originally published by Signet

These twelve stories are set in Paris, Mavis Gallant’s adopted home, a city whose nuances she brings to life through a wide range of characters: squabbling writers, bewildered parents, scheming art dealers, beleaguered tenants, and feckless drifters. An artist’s widow proves more than a match for Sandor Speck, who hopes to make a name for himself with her late husband’s paintings. Literary rivals Prism and Grippes, the protégés of a rich, misguided American patron, battle across the years. And in the Magdalena stories, a man is caught in the pull of loyalties between his beautiful first wife from a marriage of political conscience, and the woman he truly loves. Elegant, concise, finely textured, these stories never relax the tension between detachment and compassion, understanding and mystery, memory and truth. With remarkable intelligence and an unfailing eye for the telling detail, Gallant weaves stories of intricate simplicity and spare complexity.From the Trade Paperback edition.