WHEN DORA, ELENA'S older sister, is diagnosed with depression and has to be admitted to the hospital, Elena can't seem to make sense of their lives anymore. At school, the only people who acknowledge Elena are Dora's friends and Jimmy Zenk--who failed at least one grade and wears black every day of the week. And at home, Elena's parents keep arguing with each other. Elena will do anything to help her sister get better and ...

Twenty two-year-old Aurora spends her time partying and using her body to tease and lure boys. However, after a night of regrets and embarrassment Aurora realizes something is wrong. This is not who she is. A nostalgic trip to Strawberry Hill and a sublime look into the past are the only things that can save Aurora from herself. Will she look at life different after her trip or will she continue as she is?

Vidocq. The name strikes terror in the Parisian underworld of 1818. As founder and chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, Vidocq has used his mastery of disguise and surveillance to capture some of France's most notorious and elusive criminals. Now he is hot on the trail of a tantalizing mystery--the fate of the young dauphin Louis-Charles, son of Marie-Antoinette and King Louis XVI. Hector Carpentier, a medical student, lives with his widowed mother ...

Fifteen year old Lizzie and her twin brother, Billy, are invited to spend their summer holiday with Billy's best friend, Eddie, at his family's holiday home in Wales. One day the three teenagers find a disused railway tunnel that takes them back in time over sixty years to 1941. It is there Lizzie meets seventeen year old Jack, and she discovers the true meaning of love as she is forced to make a decision that ...

What would you do with a second chance at life? Sarah Talbot thought she'd never see another birthday. But against all odds, she beat the illness that could have killed her, reopened her bedding shop, Cloud Nine, and vowed to make the most of a fresh start that few are given. With Thanksgiving approaching, Sarah charters a small plane to take her to Elk Island, a remote spot off the rugged Maine coast where she ...

Jane Lockwood was a model of propriety, with a yearning for adventure in her life. So when her drunken coachman shot a suspected highwayman, Jane decided to nurse him in her own home--despite the embarrassing nature of his wound. But Jon "Sebast" was more and less than he seemed. Poor Jane had a notorious rake in her keeping. Regency Romance by Catherine Reynolds; originally published by Harlequin Regency

Researcher Ruth Goldman has developed a vaccine with the potential to inoculate the world''s survivors against the nanotech plague that devastated humanity. But the fractured U.S. government will stop at nothing to keep it for themselves.

It was the infant's wail that called her out into the killer storm racing toward her and her name called on the wind, but it was more than that that pulled Alissa until she stepped through the doorway in time and found herself with a family her heart and soul recognized even though she didn't. It wasn't the 'how' of it that troubled her, though, it was the 'why' she'd lost two years of her ...

Here's one good reason for staying home from school...Something strange is happening at Tyler High. The laid-back principal has become unusually strict. The janitors no longer work nights because of what they hear. The students are frightened by what they see. And things are happening on school grounds that defy rational explanation. But there is an explanation. It's just nothing that anyone can begin to believe--or hope to survive.

This is where it begins. This is where the end of the world begins? She wakes up alone and feeling like she's half-dead. She can't remember her name. She staggers outside, looking for help--and that's when she sees that the dead have returned to life, that zombies are running in the streets and devouring the living. And she's one of them. She isn't breathing. The zombies leave her alone. Because they know she's one of ...

Seven men came to a meeting in Cincinnati. One wore a wire, and another didn't hesitate to kill him--fast and hard. Now Parker has left that meeting and the murder behind, and gotten involved in a scheme that is stuffed with money and trouble. In the rural northwestern corner of Massachusetts, Parker and a pal plan to steal an armored car. But the human element gets in the way. From a nervous ex-con and his ...

Can their love survive a hostile teenager and a madman bent on revenge? After a violent incident in her past, Abby Bishop wants nothing more than to live in peace. She wants it so badly, she ends a relationship with the man she loves to avoid conflict with his resentful fourteen-year-old daughter. Wil Garrett gave up his career as a bomb squad officer for his daughter, who needed him safe and alive, after losing her ...

Errol is awakened again by a strange prank caller asking for him by name and claiming to be his father who has been dead for several years. It feels like a surreal call from the grave, until Erroll hears the unmistakable sound of a handset being put down on a table. Curious, and not a little unnerved, he sneaks into the graveyard where his father is buried. What he finds there will change his life ...

From sci-fi to paranormal to weird, from chilling to odd to scary, Weirdly will sate your lust for strangeness in bite-sized pieces. Each tale weaves its own spell. Vampires, beasts, ghosts, evil creatures and, of course, every day people inhabit Weirdly's pages. Harland's wife makes her presence known from the other side... The Beekeeper must come to terms with passing over... Heather and her mother join forces to disguise a murder... Lillie searches for missing ...

A knight never reveals her secrets.... When young Diana Winslow arrived at Castle Bannaster, her beauty and bravery disguised beneath a servant's dress, she had no idea her life would change forever. But now the cruel and lecherous Viscount Bannaster lies dead--and the novice Bladeswoman cannot escape her guilt. Nothing, not even fighting for the Crown, can erase her fears ... especially when she comes face to face with Thomas, the viscount's startlingly seductive brother. ...

Captain Lyra III is known for his vicious attitude and brilliance in battle. Second youngest of the infamously passionate and handsome sons of Lyra, he's a born leader and doesn't take no for an answer. Except this time. Acer is facing a future that seems like a nightmare, a future that has shaken him and made him realise that the one thing he truly wanted in life may have just slipped through his grasp--his engineer, ...