The ultimate battle between good and evil

'One of the most profoundly affecting books I've read in along time' JOHN BOYNE, author of THE BOY INTHE STRIPEDPYJAMAS 'This book will break your heart' IrishTimes 'A triumph' Daily Telegraph 'Affecting and uplifting' EveningStandard 'Haunting and compelling' Woman Home 'Utterly gripping' Mirror Book of the Week**** 'Heart-burstingly, gut-wrenchinglycompassionate' Daily Mail 'Beautifully nuanced' SundayTelegraph 'Totally unique and intriguing'Cosmopolitan 'Absorbing, truthful and beautiful'Observer

Kevin Bradley and his partners are uniquely qualified tohandle cases involving the occult-he and Evan Davis are far morethan the mere mortals they appear to be. Kevin is a powerful daemonlord, and Evan is his half-daemon, half-human son. Solving mortalcrimes should be a cinch for them. But somehow, they never get theeasy, open-and-shut cases.

Book De*ion About Dean Koontz's Frankenstein Dean Koontz's Frankenstein is the collective title of a series ofnovels co-written by Dean Koontz. Though technically of the mysteryor thriller genres, the novels also feature the trappings ofhorror, fantasy, and science fiction. From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerfulreworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you thinkyou know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is themystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of… Dean Koontz's City of the Night They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humansever created—and they must be destroyed. But not even VictorHelios—once Frankenstein—can stop the engineered killers he’s setloose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Now theonly hope rests in a one-time “monster” and his all-too-humanpartners, Detectives Carson O’Connor and Michael Maddison.Deucalion’s centuries-old hi

In her latest thriller, "New York Times" bestselling authorTami Hoag takes readers on a suspense-filled ride of shocks andtwists leading to an explosive finish. It is the story of anex-cop, a missing girl, and a killer locked in a race where therecan be only one winner--and the losers die trying. In a trailer ina Florida swamp, time is running out for eighteen year-old ErinSeabright. A pawn in a kidnapper's terrifying game for a ransom noone can pay, her last hope is a washed-up ex-cop who has alreadylost it all-not once, but twice. The wealthy world of the PalmBeach horse set seems a long way from a cop's world in thenarcotics division. A lifetime ago, undercover sheriff's detectiveElena Estes worked the mean streets and BackTop alleys, living byher wits and playing the long odds until she took one risk toomany. Now Estes lives on the ragged edge of lost hope andself-hatred, hiding from the past and believing she doesn't deserveto have a future. But the past is about to come back with avengeance, and

Barrie Mayer, a beautiful Washington literary agent, finds hertrip to Budapest cut short -- when her body turns up dead. But herbest friend, Colette Cahill, a CIA agent, knows that Barrie wascarrying something else in her briefcase, and she suspects theworst. When the Agency instructs her to investigate, Colette couldlose her own life in the high-stakes search.... "Smooth...seductive." ASSOCIATED PRESS

These two renowned writers have invented a world not unlikeour own--a world on the edge of chaos, torn between the madness ofreligious fanaticism and the stubborn denial of scientists. Only ahandful of people on the planet Lagash are prepared to face thetruth--that their six suns are setting all at once for the firsttime in 2,000 years, signaling the end of civilization!.

A catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash leaves three hundredand thirty dead -- no survivors. Among the victims are the wife andtwo daughters of Joe Carpenter, a Los Angeles Post crime reporter.A year after the crash, still gripped by an almost paralyzinggrief, Joe encounters a woman named Rose, who claims to havesurvived the crash. She holds out the possibility of a secret thatwill bring Joe peace of mind. But before he can ask any questions,she slips away. Driven now by rage (have the authorities withheldinformation?) and a hope almost as unbearable as his grief (ifthere is one survivor, are there others?), Joe sets out to find themysterious woman. His search immediately leads him into the path ofa powerful and shadowy organization hell-bent on stopping Rosebefore she can reveal what she knows about the crash. Sole Survivorunfolds at a heart-stopping pace, as a desperate chase and ashattering emotional odyssey lead Joe to a truth that will forcehim to reassess everything he thought he knew about lif

His love was wild... his soul untamed... his touch forbidden....From acclaimed author Susan Krinard comes the second novel in amagnificent trilogy of a powerful clan whose sensual legacy iscloaked in secrecy-and a beautiful woman kidnapped by an outlawwhose forbidden embrace could reveal her true identity.... Once aWolf In the unspoiled expanses of the American West, Toma sAlejandro Randall was called El Lobo, the desperado and sworn enemyof powerful financier Cole MacLean. Few humans knew his trueidentity: heir to a wolf bloodline that made him as much an exoticbeast as a devastatingly attractive man. It was Toma s's plan tolure Cole MacLean's elegant fiance e, Lady Rowena Forster, from herNew York mansion to the wild frontier. There he planned to seducethe golden-haired beauty as revenge for the destruction of hisfamily at MacLean's hands. But once she was in his possession, ElLobo found himself unable to resist the call of his own untamedpassion-a passion that would claim the beauty for his own. As forLad

Christopher Snow is the best-known resident of 12,000-strongMoonlight Bay, California. This is because 28-year-old Chris hasxeroderma pigmentosum (XP)--a light-sensitivity so severe that hecannot leave his house in daylight, cannot enter a normally-litroom, cannot sit at a computer. Chris's natural element is thenight, and his parents, both academics, chose to live in MoonlightBay because in a small town Chris can make the nightscape hisown--roaming freely through the town on his bike, surfing in themoonlight, exploring while most people sleep. But Chris's brilliantmother, a scientist, was killed in a car accident 2 years ago, andas the book opens his father, Steven Snow, is dying of cancer;Chris's protected life is about to change forever. We meet Chris ashe is carefully preparing himself to go out in the late-afternoonsun to visit the hospital. In his last moments of life his fathertells Chris he is "sorry" and that Chris should "fearnothing"--cryptic words that Chris cannot really relate to. StevenS

Tommy Phan is a successful detective novelist living theAmerican Dream in southern California. One evening he comes home tofind a small rag doll on his doorstep. It's a simple doll, coveredentirely in white cloth, with crossed black stitches for the eyesand mouth, and another pair forming an X over the heart. Curious,he brings it inside. That night Tommy hears an odd popping soundand looks up to see the stitches breaking over the doll's heart.And in minutes the fabric of Tommy Phan's reality will be tornapart. Something terrifying emerges from the pristine white cloth,something that will follow Tommy wherever he goes. Something thathe can't destroy. It wants Tommy's life, and he doesn't know why.He has only one ally, a beautiful, strangely intuitive waitress hemeets by chance--or by a design far beyond his comprehension. Hehas too many questions, no answers, and very little time. Becausethe vicious and demonically clever doll has left this warning onTommy's computer screen: "The deadline is dawn."Tickt

What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours? 17-year-old Lucinda falls in love with a gorgeous, intelligent boy, Daniel, at her new school, the grim, foreboding Sword & Cross ...only to find out that Daniel is a fallen angel, and that they have spent lifetimes finding and losing one another as good and evil forces plot to keep them apart. Get ready to fall...

The bestselling author of Prince of Shadows and Twice a Heroagain displays her incredible talent and imagination in anenchanting new romance about a love so deep it will bring a man anda woman together...in another century, another life. Jesse Copeland, an expert in mountain rescues, has returned toManzanita after years in the Peace Corps. Despite an indomitablecourage that sent her rappelling down cliffs, she is haunted by thenightmares and shadowy half-memories surrounding her mother'smysterious death. Now she is determined to find out if her mother's"accident" was murder. What she finds instead is a man astransparent as air--sensual, muscular, his blue eyes burning intohers as she cries out one word from a place deep within her:David. David Ventris, Lord Ashthorpe, late of His Majesty's LightDragoons, is, simply put, a ghost. He's waited two centuries to becalled back to earth by the woman he wronged. He knew her as"Sophie," a wondrous lady who sparked a passion so blazing thattime could

There’s never been a better excuse to buy a new dress...or two. The irresistible heroine of Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Takes Manhattan is back!—in a hilarious tale of mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, and one blushing bride who just can’t say no to saying “I do.” Life has been good for Becky Bloomwood: She’s become the best personal shopper at Barneys, she and her successful entrepreneurial boyfriend, Luke, are living happily in Manhattan’s West Village, and her new next door neighbor is a fashion designer! But with her best friend, Suze, engaged, how can Becky fail to notice that her own ring finger is bare? Not that she’s been thinking of marriage (or diamonds) or anything... Then Luke proposes! Bridal registries dance in Becky’s head. Problem is, two other people are planning her wedding: Becky’s overjoyed mother has been waiting forever to host a backyard wedding, with the bride resplendent in Mum’s frilly old gown. While Luke’s high-societ

Fire investigator Reena Hale steps into an inferno of madnessas she tries desperately to trace the origins of the taunting phonecalls she's receiving, the fires, and the hatred aimed in herdirection.

Bestselling author Frederick Forsyth follows the success ofhis latest work, The Negotiator, with this major thriller rich incolor and suspense. Longtime British Intelligence operative SamMcCready must recount the most intricate cases of his career at acredibility hearing, after he is abruptly handed his walkingpapers. "A rolling good read".--New York Times Book Review.

Eighteen-year-old Melinda Ashley never wanted to go to Mars. she had her life all planned out—marry ross and become a teacher. but when her estranged father convinces her to take an interplanetary vacation, she finds herself tempted to leave behind her comfortable existence on earth. Mars isn’t at all what she expected, and when she meets Alex preston, a second-generation Martian colonist, she finds herself on a surprising new path. sylvia engdahl’s classic novel has been revised and updated by the author to reflect new discoveries and research about Mars.

Millions of readers have come to adore New York Timesbest-selling author Sophie Kinsella's irrepressible heroine. MeetBecky Bloomwood, America's favorite shopaholic - a young woman witha big heart, big dreams...and just one little weakness. Becky has afabulous flat in London's trendiest neighborhood, a troupe ofglamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with theseason's must-haves. The only trouble is that she can't actuallyafford it-not any of it. Her job writing at "Successful Savings"not only bores her to tears, it doesn't pay much at all. And latelyBecky's been chased by dismal letters from the bank -letters withlarge red sums she can't bear to read-and they're getting everharder to ignore. She tries cutting back. But none of her effortssucceeds. Becky's only consolation is to buy herself something ...just a little something.... Finally a story arises that Beckyactually cares about, and her front-page article catalyzes a chainof events that will transform her life-and the lives of thosearou