Then a precocious girl named Carrie Weston decides to play matchmaker, introducing him to her mother, Charlotte. To his relief, Charlotte is as averse to marriage as he is. But Jason's feelings start to change once he gets to know his Bride on the Loose.James Wilkens was almost a Manning groom—because he almost married one of the Manning sisters. With that broken engagement behind him, he spends New Year's Eve in Las Vegas…where he meets Summer Lawton. She's just suffered a painful betrayal, and James promises her that in a year, she'll be over it. To prove his point, he makes a date to meet her in Vegas Same Time, Next Year. Except it turns out to be more than a date—it's a wedding!

    

    Now Stewart begins a thrilling new series–with a novel that proves to be her biggest and boldest yet. On a balmy spring evening, four high school seniors–three boys and a girl–enter a park in the small Pennsylvania city of Conroy. The next morning, two of the boys are found shot to death, and the girl and the third boy are gone. After three weeks with no leads and no sign of either of the two missing teenagers, the chief of police begins to wonder if they too were victims. But with no other suspects, the authorities conclude that one of these kids was the shooter. The missing boy’s grandmother, a secretary at the local parish church, maintains his innocence. On her behalf, the parish priest, Father Kevin Burch, hires former detective Mallory Russo as a private investigator to figure out what happened in the park that night. Mallory had ended her nine-year stint with the Conroy police force some time ago after becoming a target of a smear campaign. Now a true-crime author, Mallory is surprised to receive the priest’s offer–and highly intrigued by the case. She can’t help but accept the challenge–especially when she learns that her investigation will be financed by Father Burch’s cousin the reclusive billionaire Robert Magellan, a man whose own wife and infant son disappeared without a trace a year ago, a man who understands the heartache of not knowing what happened to a loved one. Detective Charlie Wanamaker is facing another sort of tragedy. He fled Conroy years ago with no plans to return to what he considered a dying factory town–until a family emergency brought him back. Finding the situation much worse than he’d thought, he trades his job as a big-city detective for one with the Conroy police department. Assigned to the park shooting case, Charlie quickly realizes that the initial investigation left a lot of questions unanswered. Unofficially, he teams up with Mallory to uncover the truth and find the two kids, dead or alive. What Charlie and Mallory discover will take them down a twisted path that leads to an old unsolved murder–and justice for a killer with a heart of stone.Mercy Street is tautly paced, resonant with emotion, and relentlessly gripping. It showcases Mariah Stewart at her most brilliant, as she ratchets up the suspense to new levels of excitement.BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Mariah Stewart's Cry Mercy.Praise for Mariah Stewart “Mariah Stewart is one to watch and savor for a long time.”–The Philadelphia Inquirer “Stewart can always be counted on to write an exciting romantic suspense thriller.”–TheBestReviews.com

    and totally addicted to designer shoes. She's Betsy Taylor, Vampire Queen, and her wickedly sexy and wildly funny adventures keep us staked to the page! In Undead and Unpopular, Betsy's anticipating both her (forbidden!) birthday party (31 in human years and one in undead years) and her upcoming nuptials. Bad time for a visit from powerful European vampires (some who'll do anything to get rid of her), a blood-free diet... or niggling dilemmas of life and undeath. The Big Day is coming, and Betsy's used to her undead groom, Eric, disappearing when she wants to talk wedding preparations. But she's Undead and Uneasy when he truly goes missing-along with most of her friends and loved ones! And in Undead and Unworthy, Betsy must deal with hubby Eric's mysterious fixation on the Book of the Dead, an insufferable ghost who not only blames Betsy for her condition but also insists that she fix it, and a pack of blood- and power-hungry, formerly feral vamps who drop in for a visit. And for more blood-pounding delight, Dead and Loving It brings Davidson's beloved Wyndham werewolves tooth-to-tooth with Betsy's vampires for four more spicy stories of love, lust and howling laughter!

    In the second volume, Ariana: A Gift Most Precious, Ariana's faith is tested as she faces life-and-death consequences of past choices. And in Ariana: A New Beginning, Ariana discovers that her reliance on the Lord and her love for her famiy can make the dramatic difference between triumph and tragedy. This rare and compelling series was originally published more than a decade ago and immediately established author Rachel Ann Nunes as one of the most popular romance writers in the LDS market.

    It's up to her to look after her two young sisters, little brother and elderly granddad. Mary works as an usherette at the Marlborough cinema in the Holloway Road, but her dream is to escape the horrors of London and take her family on a long charabanc trip to some faraway place - the famous Blue Coach from Victoria Coach Station to Devon. But little does she know her dream will come with a tragic price...

    And she certainly doesn't expect to fall in love with him. Janessa resists her feelings, fearing conflicts in her personal and professional life, yet when the Prince admits his feigned affection has become genuine she can no longer pretend. Matters of security, society, and spirituality make their unlikely romance even more complex, and escalating political intrigue gives Janessa an excuse to ignore the questions in her heart. But when a terrorist plot against the royal family endangers them both, Janessa and Garrett must face the challenges of loyalty to family, to country, to God—and to love.

    She can't escape the devastation of anger and pain. Bringing Tropical Dreams to life is the culmination of facing all life has dealt to her. The same life that taught her trusting someone carried dire consequences. Until David Murphy walked into her club. He made her want to trust again, made her want to love again. What she didn't know was someone wasn't about to let that happen. They wanted her dead! Can David keep her alive long enough to find out who is after her? Can he put aside his own demons for her? Can they overcome deceit, betrayal and more death? Or will life finally take its toll!

    

    Jane's romance inspired her to write Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Read the story of Jane Austen and how she became one of the greatest writers of English literature.

    In the life he is reconstruction, his music is as essential as oxygen and failure is unimaginable. But does life ever go as planned? In this first volume of her new series, acclaimed LDS storyteller Anita Stansfield once again reaches out to her readers' hearts, minds, and spirits as she explores both the joy and grief that accompany complicated and intricate relationships. And her readers will find part one of this trilogy compelling and intense, heartwarming and heartbreaking -- a deeply rooted love story with heart-stopping consequences.

    The suspense starts from the beginning and you can't put the book down. The mystery unravels when Susan starts to settle her parent's estate and finds hidden secrets in her mother's dresser. This path leads to a search of her true identity and a trail of buried secrets. You probably will shed a few tears but the story will come to a perfect ending. Dixie has a way of putting a story together that keeps the readers in suspense all the way through. This is a MUST read! K.B. IowaSusan Slade’s life was about as good as itgets. The only child of middle-aged parents, shegrew up secure in their love. A young woman now,she’s surrounded by friends and a wonderful manwho wants to marry her.Her picture perfect life begins to unravelwith the deaths of her parents only months apart.Her pain deepens as she begins to settle theirestate and discovers a bundle of documents—documents that shake Susan’s faith in all shethought was real.Thus begins an anguishing search for hertrue identity that takes Susan to the N.C. coast and into thearms of another man. The suspense is never-ending as shedefies forces intent on blocking her search and follows a trail ofburied secrets that uncover forbidden liaisons and dark,deadly scandals in her ancestry.