Revolution is in the air. The king's court sorcerer is beingeyed with suspicion. Not for dabbling in the black arts...not forconsorting with a demon...not for having a dragon as a pet...noteven for being mobbed up. But for the greatest crime of all:raising taxes. Who is this terrible tyrant? None other than Skeevethe Great. Oh, how the mighty have fallen...
#1 "New York Times" bestselling author Tami Hoag mixes mysteryand romance in this moving classic novel of a missing woman and thesearch that brings together the unlikeliest of lovers.... She was ablond goddess, a box office megastar. Every woman wanted to be her;every man wanted to bed her. But over a year ago Devon Staffordvanished without a trace. As a biographer, Jake Gannon had taughthimself to follow the clues of a person's life story like adetective. As an ex-Marine, he was accustomed to being firmly incontrol. But when his car died in a little town called Mare's Neston the Carolina coast, he had to admit he'd come to a dead end.There he met a .38-toting tow-truck driver named Dixie La Fontaine.She was no celebrity, but Dixie had an irresistible sex appeal allher own. What did this down-to-earth woman know about a missingmovie star? Surprisingly, quite a lot. And Jake was going touncover it all...if Dixie didn't end up shooting him first.
The bestselling author of "When The Bough Breaks," "BloodTest," and "Over The Edge" delivers the most stunning novel yet andfeaturing psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware. At a party fora controversial Los Angeles sex therapist, Alex encounters a facefrom his own past--Sharon Ransom, an exquisite, alluring lover wholeft him abruptly more than a decade earlier. Sharon now hints thathe desperately needs help, but Alex evades her. The next day she isdead, an apparent suicide. Driven by guilt and sadness, Alexplunges into the maze of Sharon's life--a journey that will takehim through the pleasure palaces of California's ultra-rich, intothe dark closets of a family's disturbing past, and finally intothe alleyways of the mind, where childhood terrors still hold sway.Also available on BDD Audio Cassette.
Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle ofthe Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one ofour greatest storytellers.In The Warrior's Path, Louis L'Amourtells the story of Yance and Kin Sackett, two brothers who are thelast hope of a young woman who faces a fate worse than death. WhenYance Sackett's sister-in-law is kidnapped, he and Kin race northfrom Carolina to find her. They arrive at a superstitious town rifewith rumors--and learn that someone very powerful was behindDiana's disappearance. To bring the culprit to justice, one brothermust sail to the exotic West Indies. There, among pirates,cutthroats, and ruthless "businessmen," he will apply the skills helearned as a frontiersman to an unfamiliar world--a world where onefalse move means instant death.
Who will be with you in the darkesthour? Amy Redwing has devoted her life to rescuing dogs. But the uniquebond she shares with Nickie, a golden retriever she saves in themost dangerous encounter of her life, is deeper than any she hasever known. In one night, their loyalty will be put to the test,and each will prove to the other how far they will go – when thestakes turn deadly serious.
In The Sackett Brand, Louis L'Amour spins the story of acourageous man who must face overwhelming odds to track down akiller. Tell Sackett and his bride Ange came to Arizona to build ahome and start a family. But on Black Mesa something goes terriblywrong. Tell is ambushed and badly injured. When he finally managesto drag himself back to where he left Ange, she is gone. Desperate,cold, hungry, and with nothing to defend himself, Tell is stalkedlike a wounded animal. Hiding from his attackers, his rage andfrustration mount as he tries to figure out who the men are, whythey are trying to kill him, and what has happened to his wife.Discovering the truth will be risky. And when he finally does, itwill be their turn to run.
Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle ofthe Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one ofour greatest storytellers. In Ride the Dark Trail L'Amour tells thestory of Logan Sackett, a cynical drifter who changes his ways tohelp a widow keep her land from falling into the wronghands.... Logan Sackett was wild and rootless, riding west in search ofeasy living. Then he met Emily Talon, a fiery old widow who waseven wilder than he was. Tall and lean, Em was determined to defendherself against the locals who were trying to steal her land. Logan didn't want to get involved, until he found out that Em hadbeen born a Sackett. Em was bucking overwhelming odds, but Loganwouldn't let her stand alone. For even the rebellious drifter knewthat part of being a Sackett was backing up your family when theyneeded you.
Sorry. The single word was written on a mirror. In front of ithung the Minneapolis Internal Affairs cop. Was it suicide? Or akinky act turned tragic? Either way, it wasn't murder. At least notaccording to the powers that be. But veteran homicide detective SamKovac and his wisecracking, ambitious partner Nikki Liska thinkdifferently. Together they begin to dig at the too-neat edges ofthe young cop's death, uncovering one motive and one suspect afteranother. The shadows of suspicion fall not only on the city'selite, but into the very heart of the police department. Someonewants the case closed- quickly and forever. But neither Kovac norLiska will give up. Now both their careers and their lives are onthe line. From a murder case two months old to another case closedfor twenty years, Kovac and Liska must unearth a connection thekiller wants dead and buried. A killer who will stop at absolutelynothing to keep a dark and shattering secret . . .
It was a dark time for the rebel alliance...Han Solo, frozenin carbonite, had been delivered into the hands of the vilegangster Jabba the Hutt. Determined to rescue him, Luke Skywalker,Princess Leia, and Lando Calrissian launched a hazardous missionagainst Jabba's Tatooine stronghold. The Rebel commanders gathered all the warships of the Rebel fleetinto a single giant armada. And Darth Vader and the Emperor, whohad ordered construction to begin on a new and even more powerfulDeath Star, were making plans to crush the Rebel Alliance once andfor all.
The latest "New York Times" bestseller by "America's mostpopular suspense novelist" ("Rolling Stone") is the story ofHollywood's most dazzling star whose perfectly ordered life isunder siege by an insidious killer.
A group of friends that hasnt seen one another in years isreunited through tragedy. Working through their grief together,they find that each of their lives is impacted in ways they couldhave never foreseen, in this story of friendship, family, and lifecoming full circle.
#1 "New York Times" bestselling author Tami Hoag tells apowerful story of love and surrender in this classic novel about ayoung woman determined to save the world on her own, and the manwho may help her save herself. Lynn Shaw knows teenage rebellionall too well. And she knows the damage it can leave in its wake.She hadn't been able to spare herself those growing pains, but as acounselor she's determined to help the troubled girls of HorizonHouse, girls who need love--not publicity. But when unfriendlylocals protest the residence, they draw the attention of the statesenator--a movie-star-handsome man Lynn assumes is merelyinterested in a photo op. But helping Lynn is what Erik Gunther isinterested in. And Lynn doesn't buy it for a second. Not even whenhe takes up her cause as his own. Not even when their mutualattraction becomes undeniable. But for the sake of the girls, Lynnwill have to let down her defenses. Easier said than done, as aprivate war against her past demons rages on. A battle with an armyof on
WThen an infected bolt of cloth carries plagae from London toan isolated mountain viilage, a housemaid named Anna' Frith emergesas an unlikely heroine and healer. ThroUgh Anna s eyes we followthe story" of the plague vear, I666, as her fellow viliagers makean extraordinan choice: convinced by a visionary young, ministerthey elect to quarantine themselves within the village boundariesto arrest the spread of the disease. But as death reaches intoevery household.faith flays. When villagers turn from prayers tomurderous witch-hunting, Anna must confront the deaths of family,,the disintegration of her community, and the lure of illicit love.As she struggles to survive, a year of plague becomes instead arumsmirabilis, a year of wonders."
Mining crimes of the past and politics, Truman ( Murder at thePentagon ) scants the basic plotting requirements of her 11thCapital Crimes case, which is marred by superfluous unsolvedmurders and an unconvincing conclusion. When the body of PaulineJuris, personal secretary of wealthy developer Wendell Tierney, isfound in the Potomac River, Tierney calls former attorney, now lawprofessor, Mackenzie Smith for advice. Mac, whose beloved wifeAnnabel wants him to stop dabbling in detection, agrees to seeWendell, but he refuses to ferret out the police line on the case,even though a former student of his heads the investigation team.Tierney, becoming chief suspect when love letters, purportedly fromhim, are found in the dead woman's apartment, again begs for Mac'shelp. Both Mac and Annabel are drawn into the case, which takes onanother twist when the suspect's adopted son, Sun Ben Cheong, isarrested for money laundering. Truman plumps up Mac's low-keysleuthing with the goings on of the fictitious Scarlet Sin
Eine Hippie-Kommune muss Kalifornien verlassen und beschlie?t,sich in Alaska anzusiedeln. Zwei Welten prallen aufeinander, neueFreundschaften und Feindschaften entstehen.
1996 wurde das Teatro La Fenice in Venedig vom Feuer zerst?rt.Ausgehend von dieser Trag?die gestaltet der Autor einbeeindruckendes historisches Portr?t einer einzigartig sch?nenStadt und seiner Bewohner und prominenten G?ste.
Loop me in, odd one. The words, spoken in the deep of night bya sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For thiswas a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, andStormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted hallsof the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas isstalking spirits of an infinitely darker nature. . . .BrotherOdd. Through two New York Times bestselling novels, Odd Thomas hasestablished himself as one of the most beloved and unique fictionalheroes of our time. Now, wielding all the power and magic of amaster storyteller at the pinnacle of his craft, Dean Koontzfollows Odd into a singular new world where he hopes to make afresh beginning—but where he will meet an adversary as old andinexorable as time itself.
In the stillness of a golden September afternoon, deep in thewilderness of the Rockies, a solitary craftsman, Grady Adams, andhis magnificent Irish wolfhound, Merlin, step from shadow intolight...and into an encounter with mystery. That night, a pair ofsingular animals will watch Grady's isolated home, waiting to maketheir approach. A few miles away, Camillia Rivers, a local veterinarian, beginsto unravel the threads of a puzzle that will bring to her door allthe forces of a government in peril. At a nearby farm, long-estranged identical twins come togetherto begin a descent into darkness...In Las Vegas, a specialist inchaos theory probes the boundaries of the unknowable...On a Seattlegolf course, two men make matter-of-fact arrangements formurder...Along a highway by the sea, a vagrant scarred by the pastbegins a trek toward his destiny. In a novel that is at once wholly of our time and timeless,fearless and funny, Dean Koontz takes readers into the momentbetween one turn of the world and the next, acros
In 1975, the now defunct Laser Books issued Invasion byAaron Wolfe, aka Koontz (who later expanded that novel into Winter Moon , 1994), a breakneck tale of alien invasioncentered on an isolated farm. Koontz's new novel also concernsalien invasion, and a comparison of the two books offers insightinto the evolution of this megaselling author's work. Invasion was mostly speed and suspense—a brilliant ifsuperficial exercise in terror. The new novel also featuresabundant suspense, as a couple in an isolated California homeendure a phosphorescent rain and learn that, around the world, something is attacking humans and laying waste tocommunications. It's only when they drive to a nearby town thatthey learn of a global alien invasion; the tension ratchets as aweird fog descends and the aliens not only manifest physically butanimate the dead. For years, however, Koontz has aimed at more thanjust thrills; today he is a novelist of metaphysics and moralreflection. His aliens are inherently evil as well as scary;s
They're freelance pilots and full-time troubleshooters fordemocracy. They're men like Steven Cowan, Mike Thorne, and TurkMadden who face danger every day of their lives and fight liketigers for what they believe in. With the world on the brink ofwar, they're on the front lines, wherever there's action. From thedangerous South Seas islands, to steaming South American jungles,to the other islands of Japan, you'll find these man ready to fightthe enemies of freedom—in a battle to the death.
When her notorious past catches up with Laine Tavish,proprietor of the antique shop Remember When, it's up to her and anenigmatic stranger named Max Gannon to find out who's chasingher-and why. The answer lies in a hidden fortune that will changeLaine's life...
A magician's daughter has inherited her father's talents-andhis penchant for jewel thievery. Then she meets an escape artistwho captures her heart and has secrets that could shatter herillusions...
Let number-one New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts fly you into Lunacy, Alaska, and into a colorful, compelling new novel about two lonely souls who find love - and redemtion... Lunacy was Nate Burke's last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he'd watched his partner die on the street - and the guilt still haunts him. With nowhere else to go, he accepts the job as chief of police in this tiny, remote Alaskan town, where the peace provides a balm for his shattered soul - and an unexpected affair with pilot Meg Galloway warms his nights... But other things in Lunacy are heating up. Nate suspects the killer in an unsolved murder still walks the snowy streets. His investigation will unearth the secrets and suspicions that lurk beneath the placid surface, as well as bring out the big-city survival instincts that made him a cop in the first place. And his discovery will threaten the new life - and the new love - that he has finally found for herself.
