Three stunningly sensual tales from the acclaimed bestselling author of Mr. Perfect and Open SeasonWith her exhilarating mix of "hot sex, emotional impact, and gripping tension" (Publishers Weekly), Linda Howard has crafted some of today's most exciting contemporary ?ction. Feel the thrill of unexpected passion between strangers in the night...in a seductive story collection that showcases Linda Howard at her page-turning best.Lake of DreamsThea Marlow had encountered her soul mate in the depths of her overpowering, frightening dreams. Now, on the shores of a country lake, the stranger comes to her in the ?esh -- and lures her into a timeless love.Blue MoonSheriff Jackson Brody knows folks get a little crazy under a full bayou moon. But on the trail of a scorching murder mystery, it's the lawman himself who succumbs to the spell of a beautiful,...

Track a stalker. Catch a killer. When a mysterious DVD is delivered to Northumbria Police Headquarters, DS Matthew Ryan and Detective Superintendent Eloise O'Neil are among the few to view its disturbing content. With little to go on the only lead comes from the anonymous and chilling woman's voice narrating the blood-soaked lock-up depicted on screen. But with no victim visible, nor any indication of where the unidentifiable crime scene is located, Ryan and O'Neil get the distinct feeling someone is playing with them. What is certain is that the newly formed special unit has just taken on its first challenging case.As further shocking videos start arriving at police stations around the country, the body count rises. But what connects all the victims? And why are they being targeted? As the investigation deepens, the team is brought to breaking point as secrets from the past threaten to derail their pursuit of a merciless killer . . .The...

District Attorney "AJ" Jacobs was finally closing in on the ruthless criminal she'd been tracking. But she couldn't take him down without help -- from the last man in the world she wanted in her life.... Nobody knew Chicago's dark side like crime reporter Dare McKay. Nobody knew how to haunt a woman's fevered dreams -- or break her fragile heart -- like him, either.... And this man was AJ's unwelcome protector as she worked to solve the most dangerous case of her career. But he was the real danger -- because she had never stopped loving him.

The mighty realm of Assharral shelters eight provinces under a timeless empress' rule. Asharral is peaceful, wealthy and secure. But nobody sings. And only one vagabond wizard wonders why. Sequel to Everran's Bane, Sylvia Kelso's The Moving Water was finalist for a 2007 Australian Aurealis Award. Book Two: The Rihannar Chronicles

On the distant planet Dorvalla, precious ore is mined by two competing companies: InterGalactic Ore and Lommite Limited. Neither rival suspects that they are central to a sinister plot masterminded by Darth Sidious, Lord of the Sith, himself. Dispatched by Sidious on his very first solo mission, Darth Maul infiltrates Lommite Limited. There, his unique gifts of deception and subterfuge will set off an explosive chain of events that could destroy both companies, leaving them ripe for takeover by the Trade Federation. But a vengeful Lommite Limited Manager with his own thirst for retaliation against InterGal could blow Maul's cover — and all of Sidious's fiendishly laid plans…

"A SCORCHING FABLE!" "Master and Baby" is about a weekend with a couple and their slave live a BDSM lifestyle 24/7Each chapter touches on some form of BDSM discipline, sharing the actions and feelings of the characters as they explore and celebrate the romance of discipline. Newcomer J. J. MacGuire probes beneath stereotypes to lay bare the feelings of Master and submissive to the reader. Here is a novel that will appeal to every one interesterd in the lifestyle of doms and subs, while offering eye-opening insights to those who have previously found it baffeling and strange. "There is far more to this scorching little fable than is apparent on the surface. Recommended," Sibly Whyte, former editor, Fetish Times.

Shy didn't want to go to summer camp. Beyond the cabins in the trees and the new friendships, he discovers that Camp Lac Igam is different. Adventures and mythical creatures abound.This first installment of the Camp Lac Igam series is a rollicking adventure at summer camp that forces young Shy to learn to deal with bullies, believe in himself, and be courageous for his friends. When he discovers his special ability to see through fairy deceptions, he finds himself face to face with the mythical fossegrimen. The treasure hunt begins, but can they survive the consequences of what they find?

Austin McBride's business was fulfilling women's fantasies, but he'd never indulged in one of his own. Then he met Teddy Spencer. She was smart, sexy…and terrified of commitment. But she also needed him-to play the role of her lover at the company Christmas party. Austin was willing to take the job…as long as he could convince her to make it a full-time position!

Review“The Great Canadian Novel.…An epic portrait of a nation’s birth.” –*Ottawa Citizen“Breathtaking. By the end of the book, Urquhart’s message about the inexorable human need to remember seems almost set in stone.”–Time“Magnificent.…A spellbinding tale.…”–Independent (U.K.)“This book is not just delightful, but essential.…Extraordinarily rewarding.”–Globe and Mail“Triumphant.…”The Observer* (U.K.)“Sculptors are like lovers in this saga, awakening rock instead of flesh.…Urquhart powerfully evokes the wonders of stone and the carver’s art, always linking them to the human body.…The novel’s moving promise [is] that, if we are true to our gifts, we can at least strike a brief form from the obdurate stone of our fate.”–Maclean's “Superb.…Urquhart clusters together momentous philosophical sentiments on such issues as aesthetics, mortality and memory in an epic prose that sweeps as far and wide as the Canadian geography.… She is a gifted storyteller.…[She] also writes of the most heart-rending ironies that have become part of our collective past.…Ultimately, Urquhart’s story, which is at once a romance drama, war epic and trail-blazing story of pioneers, speaks of the small actions – like the minute movements that make up the stone cutter’s craft – taken by individuals in the past that make our own future possible.”–Ottawa Citizen “[Urquhart] has a mesmerizing ability to animate the past, calling up events and eras with extraordinary clarity and imbuing them with wonder and marvel.”–Quill & Quire “The Stone Carvers has the immediacy and wisdom of a folk t... About the AuthorJane Urquhart is the author of five internationally acclaimed novels: The Whirlpool, which received Le prix du meilleur livre étranger (Best Foreign Book Award) in France; Changing Heaven; Away, which won the Trillium Award and was a finalist for the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; The Underpainter, which won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the Rogers Communications Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize; and The Stone Carvers, a finalist for the 2001 Giller Prize and for the Governor General's Award for Fiction. She is also the author of a collection of short fiction, Storm Glass, and three books of poetry, I Am Walking in the Garden of His Imaginary Palace, False Shuffles, and The Little Flowers of Madame de Montespan (I Am Walking in the Garden of His Imaginary Palace and The Little Flowers of Madame de Montespan were published together in 2000 in a one-volume collector’s edition entitled Some Other Garden). Urquhart has received the Marian Engel Award, and has been named a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. She was also the 2003 recipient of Alberta's Bob Edwards Award. Urquhart has received numerous honorary doctorates from Canadian universities and has been writer-in-residence at the University of Ottawa and at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and, during the winter and spring of 1997, she held the Presidential Writer-in-Residence Fellowship at the University of Toronto. She has also given readings and lectures in Canada, Britain, Europe, the U.S.A., and Australia.Jane Urquhart was born in Little Long Lac, Ontario, and grew up in Toronto. She now lives outside of Toronto.