DescriptionImagine you found $200, 000 in a box with apparently no strings attached. Or your father left you a fortune you didn't even know he had. That's exactly what happened to single mom Amy Parkens and small-town physician Ryan Duffy. But soon these decent, reputable people will discover that found money can be a godsend, or a nightmare. In the search for their fortunes' sources, Amy crosses Ryan's path. Together, they'll work their way through a labyrinth of deception and blackmail, ultimately leading to a man of unfathomable power and answers to their families' true pasts.
DescriptionHave we advanced so far that we have arrived full circle with the technology of ancient times? Dr. James Bartlow thinks so. Appointed by the president of the United States to head the country's first national center for live fetal-tissue research, Bartlow…
DescriptionDown in Louisiana, family comes first. In the delta town of Turn-Coupe, that's the rule the Benedicts live by. So when a beautiful redhead starts paying a little too much attention to Kane Benedict's grandfather, Kane decides to find out what the woman really wants. Kane's sure Regina Dalton's up to no good. She's either out to grab his grandfather's money or a spy for the company that's trying to put him out of business. Kane (who everyone calls Sugar Kane, 'cause he's sweet as sin, with all the consequences) figures he'll have no trouble getting answers from Regina. But he's wrong. She's not about to tell him the truth. Because her own family's in trouble and she'll do anything, and everything, to save it.
DescriptionMuriel Spark's blackly comic masterwork begins with a voice on the telephone warning, "Remember, you must die." The recipient of the grim message is elderly Dame Lettie Colston, but soon 10 of Lettie's oldest friends also become targets of Death's anonymous herald. A bizarre investigation lays bare an intricate network of deception and disloyalty that binds together the vulnerable group of aging eccentrics. From the internationally acclaimed author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie comes a provocative, disturbing, but hilarious tale of mortality, morality, and the phenomenon called old age.
DescriptionThe house on Sunset Boulevard has witnessed everything: from the infamous murder-suicide of a '50s starlet and her lover, to the drug-fueled commune in the '60s, to the anguish of its present owner, Jilly Meyer, who is struggling to preserve the house and what's left of her wounded family. Somehow Jilly has to stop Coltrane from destroying everything she cherishes. Including her own vulnerable heart. And the only way to do that is to uncover what Coltrane is really up to, and that could mean upsetting the explosive secrets of the past.
DescriptionFrom the two-time Booker Prize-winning author and recipient of the Commonwealth Prize comes this new novel about obsession, deception, and redemption, at once an engrossing psychological suspense story and a work of highly charged, fiendishly funny litera…
DescriptionIn Mistress of Dragons we were introduced to a world where political deception, greed, and avarice have lead to a violation of the "hands off" policy of the Parliament of Dragons concerning the affairs of men. In The Dragon's Son twins bor…
