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Match Made In Wyoming
Wyoming Wildflowers - These Wyoming women are as strong and feminine as the men are bold and rugged....When Cal Ruskoff was literally thrown into the arms of Taylor Larsen by a matchmaking friend, his world suddenly tilted. And when she became snowbound in his cabin, he looked temptation straight in the face again - and temptation won the battle. But Cal had secrets to keep... for the moment.Taylor thought she'd managed to crack the shell that Cal retreated to. But when he hired her as his lawyer, she sensed she was being kept at a 'safe' distance. Could she finally break down the barriers around his heart and show him she was meant to be his perfect match?
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A Question Of Trust
Billie was everything Travis Kent claimed to despise in a woman: she was an impetuous tomboy, who lived in a ramshackle cottage with a mischievous cat. But every time they met, magic filled the air between themTravis did his best to ignore Billie...a difficult task, since they worked side by side. Then he was forced to spend a weekend with his bewitching colleague and almost every one of Travis's good resolutions flew out of the window.Soon, Travis was rethinking his life, in order to make Billie his, but then he made a serious mistake and Billie disappeared. Travis couldn't understand why Billie had left him. But Billie knew that she couldn't stay with the man she loved if he didn't trust her..
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Headhunter
The Headhunter is loose on the streets of Vancouver. The Headhunter's victims are everywhere. Floating in the river. Buried in a shallow grave. Tacked to an Indian totem pole. All women. All headless.Magic, voodoo, ritual murder, sexual slavery: these are the roots of the Headhunter's mystery. It is the toughest challenge the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have ever faced. This time, will the Mounties get their man?
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Linda Lael Miller
SHAY KENDALL...She had always lived in the shadow of her movie-star mother, Rosamond Shay. But now the glamorous star had been forced into retirement and obscurity, and Shay's life was spent doing her duty and never thinking of herself...MITCH PRESCOTT...He was known as the author of scathing expose's. A forceful, probing man, Mitch had expected Rosamond's biography to be an easy assignment. But he hadn't anticipated the unsettling presence--or unusual pleasure--of Shay Kendall..."
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The Secrets Of Harry Bright
Seventeen months ago the California desert revealed the remains of Jack Watson. The rich man's son was found incinerated in a Rolls-Royce, a bullet in his head. Now, a year and a half later, Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective Sidney Blackpool is called into the desert to take on the case. But what begins for Blackpool is an investigation sandwiched between golf games in nearby Palm Springs quickly becomes an obsession.For the savage beauty of the wastelands holds man secrets. Secrets that stir up Blackpool's long suppressed nightmares of his own son's death. Secrets that threaten to destroy an entire police department. Secrets that, by rights, should remain forever buried by the wind in the ageless desert sands.In this riveting new novel bestselling author Joseph Wambaugh jolts our emotions with a powerful new theme, while continuing to entertain use with his special brand of bawdy, beautiful, dark humor.
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The Ransomed Bride
Kidnapped by rebels, Belle Winters discovers her rescuer is Rafiq al Akhtar, Sovereign Prince of the desert kingdom of Q'roum. Whisked away to his exotic palace, Rafiq expects her to show her gratitude by marrying him!Rafiq demands Belle perform all her royal duties both in public and in private. Soon she succumbs to the sultry heat of the desert and to Rafiq's seduction. Belle is no longer an unwilling wife, now she is the sheikh's very willing lover....
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Ruby
In the heart of the bayou, Ruby Landry lives a simple, happy life. But innocence can't last forever....The only family Ruby Landry has ever known are her loving guardian, Grandmère Catherine, a Cajun spiritual healer, and her drunken, outcast Grandpère Jack. Although thinking about her dead mother and mysterious father sometimes makes her feel as mournful as the wind sighing through the Spanish moss, Ruby is grateful for all she has. Her life is filled with hope and promise... especially when her attraction for handsome Paul Tate blossoms into a mysterious, wonderful love. But Paul's wealthy parents forbid him to associate with a poor Landry, and Grandmère urges her to follow her dream of becoming a great painter, foreseeing a time when Ruby will be surrounded with riches in the dazzling city of New Orleans! Yet she cannot know how close that uncertain future looms....In a faded photograph, Ruby glimpses for the first time the image of her father -- and learns of a shameful deception and a shocking scheme of blackmail that now must come to light. Stunned by these revelations, she is devastated when Grandmère dies, leaving her to seek out her father in his vast New Orleans mansion. There, in a house of lies, madness, and cruel torment. Ruby clings to her memories of Paul to keep her heart alive. For only their love can save her now...
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Tilly
Kathy looked at the little gravestone again. Now she could see it clearly. It bore just that one name: Tilly. . . . She couldn' t take her eyes away. She didn' t want to. She stooped down to look.Only one date. Only one. Nine years agoKathy and Dan Ross are just like any other young couple. No one would ever imagine what secrets lie buried in their souls until Kathy is captivated by that simple name on a tiny gravestone and their lives are changed forever. Originally presented as a radio drama on Focus on the Family, Tilly is a deeply moving novel— an unforgettable story of life, love, and Christ' s forgiveness..
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The Second Saladin
A second chance...In the windswept sands of the Middle East, Paul Chardy fought side by side with Ulu Beg: one, a charismatic, high-strung CIA covert warrior, the other a ferocious freedom fighter. Then Chardy fell into the hands of the enemy, and Beg was betrayed. Now the two men are about to meet again.A second gun...Beg has come over the Mexican border under a hail of bullets--determined to assassinate a leading American political figure and avenge his people's betrayal. The CIA wants Chardy to stop the hit. Chardy wants to save Beg's life.Between the two men is a tragic past, a failed mission, and a woman who knew them in war--and who knows their secrets now. Around both men is a conspiracy of lies and violence that reaches back to the Cold War. But as Beg moves in for his kill and as Chardy breaks loose from his handlers, a terrible truth begins to emerge: somewhere, someone wants both men to die.
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Thursdays At Night
Every Thursday at eight, four women meet for breakfast -- and to talk. To tell their stories, recount their sorrows and their joys. To offer each other encouragement and unstinting support.Clare has just been through a devastating divorce. She's driven by anger and revenge . . . until she learns something about her ex-husband that forces her to look deep inside for the forgiveness and compassion she's rejected -- and for the person she used to be.Elizabeth is widowed, in her late fifties, a successful professional -- a woman who's determined not to waste another second of her life. And if that life should include romantic possibilities -- well, why not?Karen is in her twenties, the years for taking risks, testing your dreams. Her dream is to be an actor. So what if her parents think she should be more like her sister, the very respectable Victoria?Julia is turning forty this year. Her husband's career is established, her kids are finally in their teens and she's just started her own business. Everything's going according to plan -- until she gets pregnant!
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Into The Garden
Misty, Star, Jade and Cat first came together in Dr Marlowe's group therapy session. One by one, each of the Wildflowers told her own story and bravely unveiled the inner wounds inflicted by years of lies, deceit and untold family secrets. Each revealed the shocking tales of how their parents hurt them, used them, or simply abandoned them. But then the sessions ended, and the girls didn't know if they would ever see each other again. Now they are coming together again in Jade's parents' sprawling, opulent mansion where the four will rekindle their bonds of friendship and trust. But this time it will be different. Today, in the mansion's attic Star, Jade, Cat and Misty will swear to tell the real truth, the shattering secrets that lie deep within them. And once the darkest secret of all has been spoken aloud, there will be no turning back. For there may be some things the Wildflowers should leave buried forever...
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If There Be Thorns
Chris and Cathy made such a loving home for fourteen-year-old Jory -- so handsome, so gentle. And for Bart,who had such a dazzling imagination for a nine year old.Then the lights came on in the house next door. Soon the Old Lady in Black was there, watching them, guarded by her strange old butler. Soon she had Bart over for cookies and ice cream and asked him to call her "Grandmother".And soon Bart's transformation began...Fed by the hint of terrible things about his mother and father...leading him into shocking acts of violence.Now while this little boy trembles on the edge of madness, his anguished parents await the climax to a horror that flowered in an attic long ago, a horror whose thorns are still wet with blood, still tipped with fire.
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Little People
I was eight years old when I saw my first elf." And for unlikely hero Michael it was his last. Cruella, Michael's unfortunately named girlfriend, doesn't approve of his obsession with the little people. But the problem is that they won't leave him alone. And who can blame them when it's Michael's own stepfather who's responsible for causing them so much misery? Oh yes. Daddy George knows that elves can do so much more than gardening.