Linc Blaise needed the perfect fiancée to win his dream job, but finding a woman who'd be convincing in a charade seemed impossible-until he heard Daisy Flattery charm her way out of a sticky situation! Playing the prim and proper bride-to-be was a lark to the dazzling storyteller, but once she glimpsed the touching vulnerability Linc tried to hide, pretense turned into temptation. Could she find a way to make their fairy tale last?

The most famous of highland bachelors, police sergeant Hamish Macbeth, may actually marry at last. The entire village of Lochdubh adores Macbeth's bride-to-be. Josie McSween is Hamish's new constable, and she is a pretty little thing, with glossy brown hair and big brown eyes. The local folk think that Josie is quite a catch, but Hamish couldn't be more miserable. The wedding wouldn't be happening if it weren't for the murder of a beautiful woman in a nearby village. After the gorgeous woman receives a deadly Valentine's Day gift, Hamish and Josie take on the case. However, they soon discover that the list of the victim's admirers is endless.

Three friends descend upon an art auction in search of some excitement. Mike Mackenzie -- retired software mogul, bachelor and fine art enthusiast -- wants something that money can't buy. Fellow art-lover Allan Cruickshank is bored with his banking career and burdened by a painful divorce. And Robert Gissing, an art professor, is frustrated that so many paintings stay hidden in corporate boardrooms, safes and private apartments. After the auction-and a chance encounter with crime boss Chib Calloway-Robert and Allan suggest the "liberation" of several paintings from the National Gallery, hoping Mike will dissuade them. Instead, he hopes they are serious.

A meteorite has passed straight through the Earth. Wyman Ford is called to investigate its mysterious exit hole. What he finds shatters all that is known about the universe. There is an ancient structure buried deep in Mobius Crater on one of Mars' moons. Sticking up from the structure is the unmistakable outline of a gun. It was built to monitor the solar system and destroy any intelligent life that might challenge it -- but built by whom? The end-game is at hand. Ford and a team of scientists must figure out how to destroy the alien doomsday weapon aimed at Earth…in the next sixty hours.

Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlowe finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism. The Swan Thieves is a story of obsession, history's losses, and the power of art to preserve human hope.

Dr. Nick Garrity spends his days and nights dispensing medical treatment from a mobile clinic for the homeless. Psych nurse Gillian Coates does not believe that her sister Belle, an ICU nurse, took her own life. Belle has left Gillian a subtle clue that connects her with Nick Garrity. Together, Nick and Gillian determine that one-by-one, each of those in the operating room during a fatally botched case is dying.

Holloman, Connecticut, April 1967: twelve murders have taken place in the town on one day. Suddenly Captain Carmine Delmonico, chief of detectives, has other, more important matters to occupy him than finding a satisfactory name for his infant son. With his cohorts Abe Goldberg and Corey Marshall giving him unfailing support, Carmine embarks on what looks like an insoluble case.

Children of New York's elite are being abducted and held hostage. But the criminal doesn't crave money -- he only wants to ask these privileged kids if they know the price others pay for their luxurious lifestyles. A wrong answer has fatal consequences. The killer has insanely grand ambition -- and is about to bring the entire city to its knees. Detective Michael Bennett sets out to capture this mastermind.

Being a kid with wings--constantly on the run--has never been easy, and Max and her flock are getting tenser than ever. First, on a trip to Africa, they meet a mysterious billionaire whose intense scrutiny of the Flock makes her fear the worst. Then, a cryptic message from a young girl arrives, warning them "The sky will fall." And as if an impending apocalypse weren't bad enough, canny birdkid Angel makes a dire prophecy about Max's soul mate: Fang will be the first to die. Max's desperate desire to protect Fang brings the two closer than ever. But can the team weather the storm, or will the turmoil rip them apart for the last time?

At 28, Michael Cantella is a rising star at a Wall Street investment bank when the love of his life, Ivy Layton, vanishes on their honeymoon in the Bahamas. Seven years later, on the eve of his 35th birthday, he logs into his investment accounts, and discovers that someone has wiped him out. The signs point to his first wife. Could she be back from the dead to destroy him?

Benny Rosato's twin sister Alice drugs her and leaves her for dead, buried underground in a remote field. As Alice slips easily into Bennie's life, doing her job, interacting with her friends, seducing her boyfriend, she never counts on the fact that Bennie is tougher than she seems. And that, against all odds, Bennie will escape. But escaping is only the first challenge.

A young woman and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. The same night, the wife of A-list actor Marcus Dowling walks in on a cat burglar. In just seconds there is an empty safe, a lifeless body, and another mystery that throws San Francisco into hysteria. Detective Lindsay Boxer summons her friends in the Women's Murder Club. She is asked to put her own life on the line -- but will it be enough?

Photojournalist Katie James is working on a story of international importance. But shortly after her meeting with a potential inside source, she is smuggled unconscious onto an airplane headed to an undisclosed destination. In the days to come, Katie and Shaw will be reunited in a deadly duel of nerve and wits against a surprising, secretive enemy and led around the world at a breakneck pace.

August, 1914: Michael Clifton -- the youngest son of an Englishman -- puts duty first and sails for his father's native country to enlist as a cartographer. By 1917, he is listed among the missing. April, 1932: Investigator Maisie Dobbs is retained by Michael's parents, recently arrived from America after learning that their son's remains were discovered in France. They want Maisie to find the unnamed nurse whose love letters were discovered among their son's belongings -- a quest that takes Maisie back to her own bittersweet, wartime love.

Tessa Russo is a stay-at-home-mother of two young children and the wife of Nick Russo, a renowned pediatric surgeon. Valerie Anderson is an attorney and single mother to six-year-old Charlie -- a little boy who has never known his father. One night, while Charlie is at a sleepover, a split-second accident sends him to the hospital and into the care of Dr. Russo. From that fateful night forward, everyone is changed forever, their lives intersecting in ways no one could have imagined.

The sequel to the genre-defining, landmark bestseller Presumed Innocent, Innocent continues the story of Rusty Sabich and Tommy Molto who are, once again, twenty years later, pitted against each other in a riveting psychological match after the mysterious death of Rusty's wife.

Commissario Guido Brunetti must contend with ingenious corruption, bureaucratic intransigence, and the stifling heat of a Venetian summer. As he plans a trip to the mountains with his family, he learns that cases at the local court -- hardly known as a model of efficiency -- are being delayed to the benefit of one of the parties. A creative new trick for corrupting the system, perhaps, but what can Brunetti do about it? Just when it looks like he will be able to get away, a shocking, violent crime forces him to stay in Venice.

John Corey, former NYPD Homicide detective and special agent for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force, is back. And, unfortunately for Corey, so is Asad Khalil, the notorious Libyan terrorist otherwise known as "The Lion." Khalil has returned to America to make good on his threats and take care of unfinished business. "The Lion" is a killing machine once again loose in America with a mission of revenge, and John Corey will stop at nothing to achieve his own goal-to find and kill Khahil.

The sixteenth novel in the bestselling Stephanie Plum series lets you know that your blockbuster summer listening can now begin. Stephanie's up to her usual hijinks, with Grandma, Lulu, Connie, Vinnie, and Mooner -- grab some donuts and Cluck-in-a-Bucket and get ready for some fun!

Attorney Brad Miller, FBI agent Keith Evans, and private investigator Dana Cutler are reunited to untangle a five-year-old case involving a ghost ship and the President's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. The trio are led into a nefarious plot by a rogue element in the American intelligence community involving the president's Supreme Court nominee…and into the grip of a deadly, executive danger.

Sunny Alvarez, whose relationship with Mac Reilly is in trouble, is pulled into a web of intrigue involving a series of robberies of high-end jewelry stores in Monte Carlo. By the time Mac shows up, he's ready to do anything to get Sunny back, not the least of which is to solve the crimes and save her life.

Private is the place where secrets are kept -- or broken. Former CIA agent Jack Morgan inherits his father's renowned L.A. detective business, along with a caseload that tests him beyond endurance. An NFL gambling scandal and eighteen unsolved schoolgirl slayings is enough, but he also must turn all of Private's resources to solving the horrific murder of his best friend's wife. As he closes in on the killer, he must navigate a workplace imbroglio that could blow the roof off his elite agency.

Love and death are the only two sensational things that had ever happened to Margaret Parsons. The police knew all about her life and, by the look of it, it was very dull. Margaret Parsons had been a "good" woman -- religious, old-fashioned and respectable. But it was not her life that interested Chief Inspector Wexford, it was her death -- passionate, violent and unfathomable.

Why was Andrew Ramsey watching her daughter Cassie from the cliff above the beach?, Lily Deslin wondered with a sudden chill in her heart. When she discovered the secret they shared, she was shocked -- and terrified he'd try to take her beloved child from her. But it was Lily whom Andrew wanted, Lily he longed for -- and the beautiful, lonely Lily he was determined to have.

NYPD detective Jack Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him-he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each restaurant through a killer's eyes. Kanon's daughter, Kimmy, and her boyfriend were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in Paris, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and Stockholm have become victims of the same sadistic killers. Now Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter, Dessie Larsson. Every killing is preceded by a postcard to the local newspaper-and Kanon and Larsen think they know where the next victims will be.