Lady Cop Makes Trouble

Lady Cop Makes Trouble

Amy Stewart

Nonfiction / Fiction

The best-selling author of Girl Waits with Gun returns with another adventure featuring the fascinating, feisty, and unforgettable Kopp sisters. After besting (and arresting) a ruthless silk factory owner and his gang of thugs in Girl Waits with Gun, Constance Kopp became one of the nation's first deputy sheriffs. She's proven that she can't be deterred, evaded, or outrun. But when the wiles of a German-speaking con man threaten her position and her hopes for this new life, and endanger the honorable Sheriff Heath, Constance may not be able to make things right. Lady Cop Makes Trouble sets Constance loose on the streets of New York City and New Jersey—tracking down victims, trailing leads, and making friends with girl reporters and lawyers at a hotel for women. Cheering her on, and goading her, are her sisters Norma and Fleurette—that is, when they aren't training pigeons for the war effort or fanning dreams of a life on the...
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The Family Doctor

The Family Doctor

Bobby Hutchinson

Romance / Historical Romance / Westerns

He's got lots of patients--but she's the one with patience to spare!Dr. Tony O'Connor, chief of staff at St. Joseph's Hospital in Vancouver, has a short fuse these days. His mother is driving him crazy. His father, whom he hasn't seen in thirty-two years, is coming to visit with the woman he loves, and the members of Tony's family are taking sides. Not only that, Tony has just injured his ankle and gotten himself laid up in St. Joe's.Kate Lewis, the hospital's patient representative, is an expert at coping. Maybe she can help Tony out.Except that soon Tony and Kate are facing even more problems. Like what to do about the volatile feelings between them...and how to stop putting their own needs last.
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True Story (The Deverells, Book One)

True Story (The Deverells, Book One)

Jayne Fresina

Jayne Fresina

True Deverell has decided it's time to set the record straight. He means to dictate his memoirs to this little widow who, according to the instructions he sent to his solicitor, should merely be plain and have a neat hand. He doesn't want any distractions and has endured his fill of scandal. But when Mrs. Olivia Monday arrives on his doorstep, True realizes that perhaps his story isn't over yet.
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The Bride's Rescuer

The Bride's Rescuer

Charlotte Douglas

Romance

IN SAVING CELIA Unconscious and wearing a torn wedding dress, Celia Stevens washed up on the shores of Solitaire and threw Cameron Alexander's peaceful seclusion into complete chaos. Not only did her presence force him to reexamine his reasons for hiding out, but within days the walls around Cameron's hardened heart slowly began to crumble.... HE'S SAVED HIMSELF Celia sensed her enigmatic captor had a dangerous past, one she'd be better off not learning. And yet, it was Cameron's tough exterior as well as his tortured soul that made Celia long to spend a lifetime wrapped in his arms. But just as a future together looked possible, the evil that Cameron had feared for six years reared its ugly head, threatening the dreams they had dared to dream....
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Gale Force tww-7

Gale Force tww-7

Rachel Caine

Thriller / Young Adult / Urban Fantasy

Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin is on vacation when her Djinn lover, David, asks Joanne to marry him. She's thrilled to say yes, even if some others may be less than happy about it. Unfortunately, Joanne's pre-marital bliss is ended by a devastating earthquake in Florida. And she can't ask David and his kind for assistance. Because the cause of the quake is unlike anything Joanne has ever encountered — and a power even the Djinn cannot perceive
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Random & Rare

Random & Rare

Cat Porter

Cat Porter

I am that gash in her soul. Once I loved Grace, really loved her. And she loved me, and it was so fucking beautiful. Once. That pendulum swings to and fro. We’re here, and then we’re— No. How can that rare beautiful be rendered irrelevant, intangible when I still feel so damn much? Does all that energy, that glory, that significance simply dissolve? Turn to smoke? To nothing? It can’t. It just can’t. Are the moments that shape us absolutely random? Is time not fluid? I made promises to them, to her. Especially to her. Promises I still burn to keep.
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Beautiful Chase

Beautiful Chase

MJ Nightingale

MJ Nightingale

Bella Chase led a simple life. She was a good girl who worked hard at a job she loved, had good friends, and enjoyed her life. She just fell for the wrong guy. A bad boy with a bad reputation. When he maliciously involves her in a crime that goes awry, and someone is killed, it is her life on the line. She has no choice, but to flee. She not only faces life in prison, she faces a death sentence if she talks.Blaze Marino is done with women. They can’t be trusted. Period. Not even the good girls. When his next case lures him to the hills of Tennessee, hunting down another “good girl”, Blaze is torn between taking down this natural beauty, and losing himself inside of her. He, who has vowed to never love, or need again, is drawn to Bella and he just can’t help himself.Terrified, Bella doesn’t know which way to turn. She doesn’t know who to trust.Jaded, Blaze can’t fight the pull of attraction. He doesn’t know if he can trust her. He has to chase her for his job. Or so he keeps trying to tell himself that.
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Forbidden Lady

Forbidden Lady

Anne Herries

Romance

Betrayed! Sir Robert came in peace to claim his lady honourably. But Melissa denied their love, and her father had him whipped from the house. Banished! Forbidden to return, Rob seeks his fortune in the wars, determined to forget the woman who tricked him. Back – for his revenge! As the Wars of the Roses ravage England, Melissa falls into Rob's power and declares she knew nothing of his punishment. He should not trust her – but can he resist such vulnerable, innocent beauty?
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Vorpal Blade

Vorpal Blade

Colin Forbes

Colin Forbes

AN INVESTIGATION INTO A NUMBER OF HORRIFIC AND APPARENTLY DISCONNECTED MURDERS SWEEPS TWEED ACROSS THE WORLD.The Vorpal Bladeadvances into gripping new territory. Tweed has reverted to his one-time role of Homicide Superintendent at the Yard. He also retains his position as Deputy Director of the SIS. Paula Grey and Bob Newman still assist him.Tweed has suspicions about the strange Arbogast banking family. Roman, the bank's owner; his niece, the brilliant Marienetta; his daughter, the volatile Sophie. Wherever they go, the American Vice President follows. Why?Tweed realizes enormous power lies behind the five murders. But it is shrewed, stubborn Paula Grey, risking her life, who eventually tracks down the wielder of the blade -- by herself, underground in a remote mountainous zone.
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