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Natalia, a young doctor on a medical mission to an orphanage in the Balkans, ponders the mystery of her beloved grandfather's recent death. She finds the answers she seeks in the story of an abused deaf-mute woman in the village of his childhood who formed a bond with a tiger that escaped from the zoo following the German bombardment
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Jamie Fraser and his time-traveling wife Claire know that the Americans will win the Revolutionary War, but neither knows the cost of victory, or whether they will survive the dangers of war, while their daughter Brianna, her husband Roger, and their children settle in Jamie's ancestral home two hundred years in the future and find their own fate intricately entwined with the life and death of those they left behind in th
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Five families become entangled in events from the beginning of the twentieth century, following as thirteen-year-old Billy begins working in the Welsh mining pits, an American law student gets a job with Woodrow Wilson's administration, two orphaned brothers try to leave their native Russia for the U.S., and Billy's sister's employer begins an affair with a spy at the German e
5) Blown away
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Writer Cari North stumbles upon her ex-fiancé, Lance Morgan, attempting to bury a man's body in the midst of a tornado that kills Cari's family and destroys her home, and, desperate to escape from Lance, Cari takes on her cousin's identity and relies on the help of Mike Boudreaux to find the evidence to
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While a new New Age couple moves in to Terence Moongrove's estate, Barbara Ragg, a literary agent, decides to move forward with publishing an autobiography of a Yeti--which claims to have been dictated to the author by the Yeti, himself--and Freddie de la Hay, the Pimlico terrier who belongs to failed wine merchant William French, is rec
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Twenty-something FBI psychologist Olivia Sotiris, still a virgin because her ability to read minds prevents her from sleeping with any of the men she has dated, travels to the Greek island of Patmos for a vacation and meets vampire Robby MacKay, and, while trying to protect Olivia from a deadly criminal, Robby tries to distract himself from seeking revenge on bloodsuckers who held him captive and finds
10) Free fire
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Joe Pickett, working on his father-in-law's ranch after being fired from his Wyoming game warden job, is offered his job back in exchange for quietly investigating the murders of four environmentalists by lawyer Clay McCann, and discovers a corrupt plan to obtain bio-
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In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome changes her life and that of her family forever.
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Twenty-six-year-old Carolyn MacKenzie, having suffered from the September 11, 2001, death of her father and finished her clerkship in Manhattan, decide to track down her brother who disappeared ten years earlier, and uncovers a web of lies and deceit involving her family and wealth
15) Blood stains
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Maria Slade, raised by a well-meaning preacher as his own, does not learn until the reading of his will that she witnessed her prostitute mother's murder as a young child, and she teams up with Detective Bodie Scott in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in an effort to find her birth father--
18) Without mercy
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In order to keep an eye on her half-sister, Shaylee, Julia Farentino takes a job at an elite boarding school in Oregon known for turning wayward kids around. Julia is suspicious of the school, because she knows of one student who disappeared, and has never been found. Soon she uncovers disturbing information about previous students.
20) Walker's wedding
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Walker McKay, left at the altar, has vowed never to give his heart away again, so when a near-fatal accident makes it important that he marry and have children, he places an ad for a mail-order bride which is answered by Sarah Livingston, a wealthy railroad heiress, who wants a husband but has grown weary of the fortune