 Bait
Karen Robards
$4.00
When beautiful advertising executive Maddie Fitzgerald is
attacked in a New Orleans hotel, she thinks that she’s
a victim of random, senseless violence. FBI agent Sam
McCabe thinks otherwise—that she’s the target
of a serial killer who’s eluded the FBI for weeks.
He also knows that there’s only one way to catch
him: use Maddie as the enticing bait. But as McCabe’s
intimate protection ignites irresistible passion, Maddie
finds herself in greater danger than she believed
possible—and closer to the killer than she ever
imagined.
 Before I Wake
Anne Frasier
$4.00
Caught between dreams and reality…
A madman murdered her family, leaving her a shadow of the
woman she once was. So onetime criminal profiler Arden
Davis took a drastic step: She volunteered for an
experiment to wipe out the horrific memories that haunted
her every waking moment. But the experiment wasn’t
quite the success the doctors predicted—and now
Arden is left sifting through random memories, trying to
distinguish dreams from reality. Then one night, Special
Agent Nathan Fury shows up on her doorstep with an urgent
appeal for help.
She awakes to a living nightmare…
The murderer, it turns out, is still on the streets. This
time, Arden will risk everything—even her sanity—to
lure the killer out of hiding. Even if the killer is
closer than she thought. Even if she herself becomes the
number one suspect…
 Killing Orders
Sara Paretsky
$4.00
Because begging doesn’t come naturally to her
aunt Rosa, V.I. suspects that the old battle-ax must be
in big trouble if she’s asking for help. And V.I. is
right. Rosa is under investigation by the FBI and the SEC
after counterfeit securities are found at the Priory of
St. Albertus Magnus, where she serves as treasurer. As
malicious as her aunt is, V.I. knows the older woman is
not dishonest, so she agrees to take the case. But she
doesn’t realize how high the stakes are until she
begins to sniff out a connection between Chicago’s
most powerful institutions: the Church and the mob. And
when a menacing voice on the phone threatens to pour acid
in her eyes if she doesn’t butt out, V.I. starts to
question which is stronger: her love of family…or of
life.
 The Wandering Hill
Larry McMurtry
$4.00
The indefatigable Tasmin Berrybender and her
eccentric family trek on through the unexplored Wild West
of 1830’s America—and suffer the harsh
realities of the untamed wilderness, including sickness,
brutal violence and death, the desertion of trusted
servants, and the increasing hardships of daily life in a
land where survival is never certain. Filled with
larger-than-life legendary figures such as mountain man
Jim Bridger and Kit Carson, vividly rendered action,
irresistible good humor, and an ever-changing cast of
characters that readers will treasure, The Wandering
Hill proves again that Larry McMurtry still reigns as
the first statesman of the Old West.
 Midnight Magic
Shari Anton
$3.50
One man’s fortune
From the moment the warrior arrives to claim her and her
land, Gwendolyn de Leon’s reaction is swift and
fierce. She refuses to yield, not to the knight who slew
her brother in battle. But Alberic of Chester is a
powerfully sensual man, intent on taking what is now
rightfully his by king’s decree.
One woman’s destiny
Gwendolyn has one hope for deliverance: invoking a
powerful spell with an ancient ring. Yet the seal of the
dragon is now on Alberic’s finger. To wrest it away
and avenge her family’s honor, she must seduce him.
But will her own heart surrender first?
One ring to bind them
 Hurricane Bay
Heather Graham
$3.50
Dane Whitelaw knows something about Sheila Warren
that no one else does. Dane Knows Sheila’s dead.
The private investigator found a photo under his door—a
picture of Sheila, strangled with his tie and posed on
the beach of his private island in the Florida Keys. The
crime appears to be the handiwork of a serial killer
currently terrorizing the Miami area. Now Dane knows he
is being set up to take the fall for the killings. He
just doesn’t know why.
When Kelsey Cunningham’s best friend goes missing,
she confronts the one person she thinks will have
information—Dane, Sheila’s former lover and a
man from Kelsey’s own past. Kelsey follows Sheila’s
tracks into a dangerous world of sex, violence and drugs,
with Dane right behind her. But the tentative trust
between them shatters when Sheila’s body is
discovered—and Kelsey recognizes Dane’s tie.
Now Kelsey doesn’t dare trust anyone. Especially a
man she can no longer deny she has always loved. Because
here on Hurricane Bay, a devastating storm can hit
without warning, and whether it’s a tempest of
unbridled passion or the desperate fury of a killer,
nothing—and no one—is safe.
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 One False Move
Alex Kava
$4.00
Melanie Starks and her seventeen-year-old son,
Charlie, have been running one con job or another for as
long as she can remember. Worried about Charlie, though,
Melanie is ready to start over. Then her brother, Jared,
reappears in her life.
Released on a technicality, Jared Barnett is just out of
prison and feeling more invincible than ever. He has the
perfect plan to rob a local Nebraska bank, but he needs
Melanie’s and Charlie’s help. Feeling that she
owes the brother who saved her from an unspeakably
violent childhood, Melanie agrees to Jared’s plan.
But within seconds, shots are fired and Jared and Charlie
run out of the bank. They are empty-handed and four
people are dead. When they refuse to tell her what
happened in those few desperate moments, Melanie realizes
her brother and son have formed a silent bond. And now
they are all on the run from the police, taking a hostage
with them and willing to do anything to survive.
 Dark Angel
Karen Harper
$4.00
A dark secret hides in the heart of Maplecreek’s
Amish community.
One morning Leah Kurtz goes to wake her adopted infant
daughter and instantly knows something is terribly wrong.
She is convinced that her baby has been switched with
another child. Afraid that no one will believe her, Leah
turns to an unlikely ally, despite the fact that her
Amish community frowns on its members seeking help in the
outside world.
Dr. Mark Morelli studies the genetic illnesses that
plague the Amish, but he has other, private reasons for
coming to Maplecreek…reasons that may be tied to the
mysterious disappearance of Leah’s daughter.
Together, Leah and Mark must uncover a conspiracy—before
there are deadly consequences.
 Fire Storm
Iris Johansen
$4.00
For Kerry Murphy, the inferno is never far away. The
flames of a long-ago nightmare still burn in her memory:
the heat, the choking smoke, the helplessness. She can
never run fast enough…
Now Kerry works as an arson investigator with her
evidence-sniffing dog, Sam. Together they’re a great
team, but Kerry’s life is about to change in the
time it takes to strike a match. Who is Silver? And why
has the mysterious operative chosen her in the desperate
race to find a killer determined to ignite hell on earth?
Even together, Kerry and Silver may not have a chance
against a psychopath as coldhearted as his method is
red-hot. There is only one chance to save themselves and
the innocent lives at stake. Kerry will have to reach
deep into a past that already came close to destroying
her once. She will have to do what she hoped she’d
never have to: fight fire with fire.
 Enchantress
Lisa Jackson
$3.50
The heroine, Morgana of Llanwynn, is a beautiful,
headstrong girl whom many consider a sorceress. She’s
known to see into the future, a gift she considers a
curse. One night when the moon is high and the mist rises
off the sea, Morgana experiences a vision of darkness and
deceit. She sees a dark and deadly warrior appear and
hears the omen rushing in her ears: There will be death.
It comes to the house of Wenlock from the North.
Days later, Garrick of Abergwynn, the dark lord of a vast
castle to the north and the embodiment of the fierce
warrior appears. Seductive and brooding, he demands that
Morgana help him locate his missing son.
Morgana is loath to trust this destroyer from the north…and
yet she finds it impossible to resist him.
 Hunting Fear
Kay Hooper
$4.00
He’s no ordinary kidnapper. Not only does
he strike again and again, but he collects the ransom,
gets away safely, and leaves his hostages dead. Now,
after months of eluding the best law enforcement can put
against him, this monster is looking for a new challenge.
He’s no ordinary cop. Lucas Jordan is a profiler
in Noah Bishop’s Special Crimes Unit. But his
uncanny ability to locate missing people comes at a
tremendous personal price…and stirs mistrust among
the hard-nosed cops he’s forced to work with.
Now in Clayton County, North Carolina, where the latest
in a string of kidnapping victims has turned up dead,
Lucas, with the aid of carnival psychic Samantha Burke,
is doing what he does best: hunt fear.
But this time fear is hunting back.
 The First 48
Tim Green
$4.00
A fallen hero. His missing daughter. 48 hours to
save her life—And the clock is ticking…
A former prosecutor on the rise, Tom Redmon is today a
low-rent attorney mired in unwinnable cases and an
alcoholic haze. No one believes in him except his
daughter, Jane, a Washington Post reporter, and
his one friend, reformed biker and P.I. Mike Tubbs. Then
suddenly Redmon gets the ultimate wake-up call: his
daughter is gone—kidnapped.
Jumping into his old pickup with Tubbs, Redmon burns
rubber on a frantic search that will take him into the
labyrinth that is Washington…and dangerously close
to the line that separates right from wrong. There’s
no time for mistakes: as an ex-cop, he knows that victims
have only two days to be rescued before they’re
found dead.
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