The Stars Shine Down by Sidney Sheldon

Lara Cameron - young, beautiful, a self-made tycoon - has outshone her competitors to reach the pinnacle of international fortune and renown. But the real Lara is a lonely figure, driven by a childhood obsession, trying at all costs to bury the ghosts of her terrible past. With her glittering marriage to a world-famous concert pianist, Lara is sure she has fulfilled her destiny. But what she cannot foresee is that terrifying, uncontrollable forces from her secret past are bent on destroying everything she has created, everything she values in life.....

The Doomsday Conspiracy by Sidney Sheldon

Commander Robert Bellamy of US Naval Intelligence is dispatched on a top secret mission. A weather balloon carrying sensitive military information has carshed in Switzerland. Bellamy must locate the ten witnesses to the incident so that they can be sworn to secrecy. But as he conducts his search Bellamy begins to suspect that he, too, is being hunted, and by an unknown lethal force.....that what he was told about the balloon is only one part of an almost unbelievable happening.

From Washington to Zurich, Rome and Paris, the story unfolds to reveal Bellamy's past - why the woman he loves the most cannot return his love, why his friends become his deadly enemies, and why the world must never learn the incredible secret hidden on the Swiss Alps.

Are You Afraid Of The Dark? by Sidney Sheldon

In New York, Denver, Paris and Berlin, four people have died in what appear to be random accidents.

When two of their widows find themselves under merciless attack, their fear and confusion help them to form an unlikely alliance. But why are they being targeted? And is there a connection to their husbands' mysterious deaths?

Windmills Of The Gods by Sidney Sheldon

Mary Ashley is a beautiful and accomplished scholar who's just become the US ambassador to an Iron Curtain country. She's a woman who is about to change the course of the world events - if she lives.

Because Mary Ashley has been marked for death by a deadly assassin. Only two attractive and enigmatic men can save her, but she soon believes that one of them is out to kill her.

Desert Hearts by Marjorie Farrell

The beautiful young widow of a kindly but aging cavalry officer, Elizabeth Woolcott is drawn to a handsome Irish immigrant, Sergeant Michael Burke, but their love is threatened by mounting tensions between settlers and the Navajo who are being pushed from their homeland.

Potent Pleasures by Eloisa James

Reckless desire sends Charlotte Daicheston into the garden with a dashing masked stranger. He's powerful, unforgettable, a devastatingly handsome footman who lures her--not against her will--into a grand indiscretion at a masquerade ball. Then he vanishes.

Several years later, after Charlotte has made her dazzling debut in London society, they meet again. But the rogue is no footman. He's rich, titled, and he doesn't remember Charlotte. Worse, he's the subject of some scandalous gossip: rumor has it, the earl's virility is in question.

Charlotte, who knows all too intimately the power of his passion, is stunned by the gossip that has set society ablaze. At last, there can be a storybook ending...unless, of course, Charlotte's one mad indiscretion had not been with him at all....

Lord Of Lighthing by Janet Lynnford

A HEART LOST
Margaret, an aristocratic and gifted lacemaker, once loved Jonathan but let him go. Without knowing it, she had sent him into the cold arms of war. Now that he has returned he is different -- darker in spirit, no longer laughing. Yet deep down are glimmers of the irresistible charm Margaret adored.

A PASSION FOUND
The Spanish call Jon "El Magico Demoniaco" for escaping from their worst prison. When he goes back to England to reunite with the girl he lost, he finds a woman filled with fire. But Jon made enemies fighting for England. And his unrequited rage for revenge threatens to sweep him and his beloved Margaret toward unthinkable tragedy. With their lives -- and England's supremacy -- in danger, the lovers learn that there is power in a passion that can be melded into magnificent love....

Sweet Rewards by Melinda McRae

In turn-of-the-century London, a young suffragette's meeting with an up-and-coming member of Parliament leads to a vote for love. Unconventional and unbending, Julia Sydney fights for the women's vote with blind determination. David Kimbrough was born into privilege and is used to getting what he wants--and he wants Julia more than anything.

Outlaw's Kiss by Nan Ryan

A woman with a gun.

Even a man as tough as Cordell Rogers couldn't stop his daredevil daughter Mollie from cutting her hair and riding with the Renegades. A wild, untamed spirit, she was a natural born outlaw.

A man with a mission.

Lieutenant Lew Hatton vowed to bring the West's most notorious gang to justice-dead or alive.

A passion as wild as the West.

Hiding out in a tiny Arizona town, Mollie unstraps her gunbelt, puts on petticoats, and learns to be a lady. But when rugged, blue-eyed Lew Hatton rides into town, the wanton desire that consumes her is as bold and thrilling as any bank heist. And just as dangerous.

The Last Witness by John Matthews

Elena Waldren has kept a secret for twenty-nine years. Kept it from everyone - including herself. Then, when memories of her own past are stirred up by her fears for the safety of a young girl, she sets out on a desperate quest to uncover the truth she has hidden from for so long.But desperate starts to become deadly when Elena's quest takes her across the Atlantic, and she discovers that the key to her past is deep in the heart of a powerful Montreal crime family: the Lacailles. The family is in bloody turmoil at the centre of which is Georges Donatien, a good man trapped by violence and deceit - and the last witness to a murder that could bring the Lacaille empire crashing down.With time fast running out for Georges, Elena is horrified to discover that the key to her past might now be lost for ever. . .

Peacemaker by Gorden Kent

Written with the authority that comes from personal experience, Gordon Kent's acclaimed debut, Night Trap, marked the launch of an astonishing new thriller talent. In this compelling new novel, hero Alan Craik is plunged into adventures on land, at sea and in the air in some of the world's most dangerous hotspots. When he learns that his best friend, a CIA agent, has been kidnapped in trouble-torn central Africa Alan flies out to join a Mediterranean-bound US fleet that has had to split in two to cover the growing African crisis. From there he embarks on an audacious but ill-fated rescue attempt that leaves him and his wounded friend stranded in the middle of the continent, facing a daunting escape cross-country as bloody war rages all around them. Meanwhile, with its flag aircraft carrier separated from its battlecruiser by a thousand miles, the overstretched US fleet is facing new dangers, as the test launch off the coast of Libya of Peacemaker, a top-secret weapon, comes under threat from an unexpected quarter.

Chosen Prey by John Sandford

A shallow grave and a pornographic drawing draw Lucas Davenport into a deadly quest for a predator with a single-minded hunger for his chosen prey. In the mist and rain of a Minnesota spring, a shallow grave is found. It contains the body of a young woman, apparently strangled. When the murder is connected with a brilliantly-executed erotic drawing, where the victim's face has been grafted onto a pornographic internet image, Lucas Davenport becomes involved. More of the drawings come to light and Davenport, with the help of a local sheriff's deputy, makes a grisly discovery. The drawings may represent more murder victims, strangled with a starter rope from an antique outboard motor. As Lucas investigates further, he uncovers a web of deceit, related to a series of young women involved in the arts. All of them had some connection to the local university, and all of them had a new boyfriend who remained unseen by their friends. There the trail seems to end until further investigation of the grave site results in an horrific discovery. On the misty, oak-covered hillside south of Minneapolis, the case begins to come together in Lucas' mind, but the mixture of ferocious intelligence and madness which he faces means that the deaths must continue, that the chosen prey must be stalked...

Forbidden Fruit by Erica Spindler

A romantic novel which discloses the secrets of three generations of Pierron women and one man who knows everything about them.

A Murder Of Honor by Robert Andrews

Frank Kearney and Jose Phillips have worked for the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department for over a quarter of a century each. They stared out as rookies at the same time and later became partners. They shared an apartment and know each other on a deep gut level as perhaps only twins know one another.

    They are at the downhill side of their careers and both want easy cases to coast into retirement. Still, their boss Randolph Emerson assigns the duo a high profile case that seems impossible to solve. Someone gunned down the activist priest, Reverend Father O?Brien in what appears to be a random drive by shooting. The two cops look into Father O?Brien?s living quarters and discover a folder containing clippings from a gay newspaper. Even stranger is the half a million dollars they find in a closet. Kearney and Phillips have to wonder if a good priest was committing a transgression. However, they soon realize that the evidence plus the killing is more complex and sinister with the two officers potentially being retired in a more permanent way than they would like.

The Last Precinct by Patricia Cornwell

The LAPD, not knowing what to do with their weirdos, decide to put them in one precinct. Among these individuals King who likes to makes himself look like Elvis, Mel the sexy cop who use to be a guy, and Price Pascal who is basically a good cop but unfortunately has a thing for the ladies and unfortunately for him one his conquests turned out to be mayor's underaged daughter. Now Price and the rest of the gang constantly find themselves butting heads with the sheriff's department; it seems that they get the bust that the Sheriff's department was working on and Ronald Hobbs the Lieutenant of the Sheriff's department always seems to lose all the girls he is interested to Price. Presently they were working on busting a drug ring but when Hobbs and his crew interfered it went all wrong. Hobbs complained that it was there fault, so the city is considering closing down the Precinct and dismissing them from the department...

Dangerous by Anita Mills

A LADY IN DANGER
From the moment Philadelphia-born Verena Howard first laid eyes on the smooth-talking gambler, she knew he was trouble. He was everything her mother had ever warned her about -- a darkly handsome man with something to hide. But as she embarked on a journey across the untamed Texas frontier, fighting off amorous ruffians and sinister strangers, he came to her rescue by pretending to be her husband and proving himself as handy with his gun as he was with a deck of cards.

A MAN ON THE RUN
To Matthew Morgan, the pretty Verena looked alone and decidedly vulnerable when he first saw her, making her the perfect cover for his flight from the hangman. But once he persuaded the independent-minded beauty that she needed his company, everything went wildly awry, and he was in the game of his life, risking everything -- and discovering the greatest trick of all just might be keeping his own heart...

Seaspell by Bronwyn Williams

Forced by circumstance to accept a teaching position in an isolated community on North Carolina's Outer Banks, a young woman meets a handsome lighthouse keeper with whom she weathers the storms of Cape Hatteras.

Shadow Watch by Tom Clancy & Martin Greenberg

The year is 2001, and American businessman Roger Gordian has extended his reach into space. His company has become the principal contractor in the design and manufacture of Orion, a multinational space station.
But the launch of a shuttle carrying parts for the station is sabotaged. Mysterious guerrilla attacks occur at the manufacturing facilities in Brazil and Kazakhstan. And Gordian's deepest fears are confirmed...
The Orion project has been targeted by an international terrorist whose criminal enterprises thrive on violence and political instability. Harlan DeVane's goal is to cripple Gordian's intelligence and security team, while stowing a high-powered electromagnetic pulse generator aboard Orion -- a state-of-the-art weapon with the capacity to throw every major American city into chaos...

The Rape Of Venice by Dennis Wheatley

Comanche Rose by Anita Mills

A WOMAN'S LONGING
Beautiful Annie Bryce had a stain on her name and an aching hollow in her heart. The Comanches who had killed her husband had violated her honor and stolen her daughter. Now she would do anything and pay any price to get her beloved child back.

A MAN'S COURAGE
Hap Walker was a former Tex Ranger, famous for his skill and daring. He agreed to go with Annie Bryce into Indian territory to find her child. But what he demanded of Annie was more than her money. She would have to play the part of his wife, for better or for worse. And so Hap and Annie joined on a trek into the heart of' danger, afraid--more than all else of their own desire. In a time and place of both savagery and splendor, a saga of passion and courage comes to flaming life.

The New Thing by Michael Lewis

In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis sets out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur, the man who embodies the spirit of the coming age. He finds him in Jim Clark, who is about to create his third, separate, billion-dollar company: first Silicon Graphics, then Netscape-which launched the Information Age-and now Healtheon, a startup that may turn the $1 trillion healthcare industry on its head.
Despite the variety of his achievements, Clark thinks of himself mainly as the creator of "Hyperion," which happens to be a sailboat . . . not just an ordinary yacht, but the world's largest single-mast vessel, a machine more complex than a 747. Clark claims he will be able to sail it via computer from his desk in San Francisco, and the new code may contain the seeds of his next billion-dollar coup.

On the wings of Lewis's celebrated storytelling, the reader takes the ride of a lifetime through this strange landscape of geeks and billionaires. We get the inside story of the battle between Netscape and Microsoft; we sit in the room as Clark tries to persuade the investment bankers that Healtheon is the next Microsoft; we get queasy as Clark pits his boat against the rage of the North Atlantic in winter. And in every brilliant anecdote and character sketch, Lewis is drawing us a map of markets and free enterprise in the twenty-first century.

This Day All Gods Die by Stephen Donaldson

Morn, her alien-grown son Davies, geneticist/engineer Vector Sheed, competent Mikka, and her cabin-boy brother Ciro wait aboard Trumpet. Angus lies unconscious, possibly in permanent stasis. Ciro plots to destroy the ship, driven insane by the knowledge that alien mutagens have been shot into him by Nick Succorso's sworn enemy, Sorus Chatelaine. Following nearby, Min Donner, faithful head of the UMCP Executive Division, watches the action and grits her teeth aboard Captain Dolph's battle-fatigued Punisher. Will Morn trust her? Will her voice commands over Angus's programming prevail? Who has survived the strange journey and battles since leaving the Lab? Back at United Mining headquarters, the Dragon and UMCP Chief Warden Dios's strange, twisted duel of manipulation, assassination, and corruption comes to a head when an Amnion warship sets course for Earth... and that's just the first few pages.

A Many - Splendoured Thing by Han Suyin

It tells the story of a married British foreign correspondent called Mark Elliot (Ian Morrison in real life and based in Singapore where he lived with his wife and children) who falls in love with an Eurasian doctor originally from Mainland China who trained at the Royal Free Hospital Medical College in London University, only to encounter prejudice from her family and from Hong Kong society. It is a many-layered novel. On the surface it is a love story but there is an historical perspective relating to China, Hong Kong and the peoples and societies that populated the island. This includes many who have fled from the final stages of the Chinese Civil War, both Chinese and Europeans long settled in China.

Unnatural Exposure by Patricia Cornwell

A sadistic serial killer, the weapon a deadly virus Dublin, Ireland and Richmond, Virginia: separated by thousands of miles - linked by murder. For Dr Kay Scarpetta a lecture stint in Ireland provides the perfect opportunity to find out if the murders on both sides of the Atlantic are indeed connected. Five dismembered, beheaded bodies were found in Ireland five years ago - now four have been discovered in the States. But the tenth corpse in Virginia is different. There are vital discrepancies, and an indication that the elderly victim was already seriously ill. A copy-cat killing. Ghoulish, perhaps, but not unusual. And then abject terror grips Scarpetta and her colleagues when the next body is found. The circumstances of death broadcast a clear and horrifying message: the killer is armed with the most lethal weapon on earth - smallpox.

Atlantis Found by Clive Cussler

An Antarctic whaler stumbles across an aged wreck--her frozen crew guarding a priceless treasure.
A team of anthropologists is buried under a mountain by a deliberate explosion.

A ship that should have died fifty-six years ago reappears, and almost sinks a National Underwater and Marine Agency ship.

Dirk Pitt knows that somehow these events are connected. His investigations lead to an ancient mystery with devastating modern consequences, and a diabolical enemy unlike any he has ever known. Now, he is racing to save not only his life--but the world. The trap is set. The clock is ticking. And only one man stands between the earth and Armageddon...

The List by Steve Martini

A bold and successful scheme to outwit the biggest players in publishing and film animates this novel by the bestselling author of The Judge – a suspenseful thriller in which the price of fame becomes terror. Gable Cooper has penned a novel to kill for. Six million dollars in book and film rights are looming just off the table for this unknown author.
But there is a problem: Gable Cooper doesn’t exist.

Abby Chandlis is an attorney turned novelist and the creator of Gable Cooper. In an age when glamour, not grammar, is often the secret to selling books, Abby has an intriguing plan to keep her writing career alive: find a charismatic male face to pose as the phantom author for the knock-dead thriller she has written.

Jack Jermaine is a man with dangerous good looks and a shadowy past. Trained by the military to kill, his obsession is to pen a blockbuster book. He has a trunk filled with rejected manuscripts and a gnawing problem that has turned him bitter: Jack can’t write.

Desperate to find a man to play the role of Gable Cooper, Abby is about to give up when Jack forces his way into her life. Reluctantly she is convinced that Jack’s humor and looks will clinch success for her novel. She uses her legal wits and makes a deal with the devil. Jack becomes Gable Cooper.

When Jack is propelled into the orbit of celebrity, Abby finds herself at once seduced and trapped by her own creation. Success turns to terror. The story careens from the Pacific Northwest to New York City and finally through the islands of the Caribbean as Abby races for her life to the one person she can trust – the one person who can prove to the world that she wrote the novel, and put an end to the nightmare that was once her dream, the dream of making The List.

Ruthless.com by Tom Clancy & Martin Greenberg

It's the year 2000, and the pirates of the new future not only deal in computer chips and stock trading, but also in human life. When a Chinese freighter called Kuan Yin departs Malaysia with a cargo of spices and oils meant for trading in Singapore, the crew on board has no idea what doom will soon befall them. Shortly after setting sail, a renegade bunch of brigands boards the ship, and soon the smell of death and destruction permeates the sea around it. Now, the vessel and its precious cargo are under pirate control.

Zoom over to Roger Gordian, who is reminiscing about his childhood with his old friends. Once when they were young, they built tree forts to keep an eye on the bad guys of the neighborhood;nowthey're into more high-tech forms of surveillance, and nothing as innocuous as spying on the neighbors, either. Gordian possesses an ultrasophisticated encryption coding system developed for high-tech military machines. He's an all-American boy in his 40s and has no desire to pass this precious secret on to the foreign markets where it one day may be used against the U.S. But Gordian's encryption-tech company is getting extreme pressure from outside forces, and it's up to him and his crew to find out who wants this technological breakthrough and why - and what it all means to the future security of the free world.

The threat is coming from Malaysia and other Asian countries that are also on top of the information business community - essentially corporately held dictatorships in this near-future dystopia. As Gordian tries to protect his software for the U.S. military, the international drug cartels and political monsters of the world are out to get a hold of it in a vicious attempt to wrest world power into their own malicious hands.

Grasshopper by Barbara Vine

"They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon."
When Clodagh Brown writes these words at the age of nineteen, she believes that she is leaving behind the traumatic events of her youth. But Clodagh soon learns that you can never entirely escape your past.

In the aftermath of the incident on the pylon--one of the great electrified structures that dot the English countryside like so many gargantuan grasshoppers--Clodagh goes off to university, moves into a basement flat arranged by her unsympathetic family, and finds freedom trekking across London's rooftops with a gang of neighborhood misfits. As she begins a thrilling relationship with a fellow climber, however, both Clodagh and the reader are haunted by the memory of the pylon and of the terrible thing that happened there--and by the eerie sense that another tragedy is just a footfall away.

Deep Black by Stephen Coonts & Jim DeFelice

A spy plane gathering data on a new Russian weapon is blown out of the sky by a mysterious MiG. Is it an accident or the start of the next world war? One U.S. agency has what it takes to find out-the National Security Agency and its covert operations team: DEEP BLACK.

Working for the NSA, ex-Marine sniper Charlie Dean is dispatched to Russia, hooking up with former Delta Force trooper Lia DeFrancesca to find out what happened to the plane. The Deep Black team stumbles across an even more alarming secret-a plot to assassinate the Russian president and overthrow the democratic government by force. The coup could have dire consequences for Russia and the world. With no clearance from the government it's called on to protect, the National Security Agency goes to war. But before Lia and Dean can unravel the conspiracy, they learn that one of the spy plane's passengers-an NSA techie-survived the crash. Critical information could fall into enemy hands. And that enemy is playing to the death.

Tell Me Your Dreams by Sidney Sheldon

Someone was following her. She had read about stalkers, but they belonged in a different, faraway world. She had no idea who it could be, who would want to harm her. She was trying desperately hard not to panic, but lately her sleep had been filled with nightmares, and she had awakened each morning with a feeling of impending doom. Thus begins Sidney Sheldon's chilling novel, Tell Me Your Dreams. Three beautiful young women are suspected of committing a series of brutal murders. The police make an arrest that leads to one of the most bizarre murder trials of the century. Based on actual events, Sheldon's novel races from London to Rome to Quebec City to San Francisco, with a climax that will leave the reader stunned.