When a psychic promises Tracy a 'tall, dark, and handsome', it comes with a catch: she wants Tracy to find her missing niece. But finding a teenager is trickier than Tracy expected, especially since it may be that the girl is in the hands of a drug dealer. The only lead is to a biker garage – and Tracy is terrified of bikes.On the home front, Tracy's former roommate leaves with the TV, her ex-husband has problems he wants Tracy to handle, and the main 'tall, dark, and handsome' in her life, her boss, is suddenly oddly keen to show her his sculpted chest. No wonder Tracy's head is in a whirl.With all that's going on in Tracy's life, can she find the missing girl before it's too late?

Clara Falkner tempts him in a way no human has for many years... He can never have her, for he is wolf ... changed long ago, and a human cannot enter their world. But Raoul Etienne knows he cannot allow the woman he has been watching to become the vampire's concubine. At the risk of war with the Vampires, he breaks the pact and gives Clara his own mark. And thus begins his erotic branding.... But will it be enough to save her from the vampire's kiss? Rating: Graphic, explicit sex, language, and some violence.

They came up together... but can they "Come Up" together? Smooth and China are a "power couple." An urban Gothic modern day Bonnie and Clyde. They know the ins and outs of the streets. But Smooth also knows its consequences. Which is why he wants to get "out" of the life just as quickly as he first entered it. The money? It's always an intricate part of any exit plan. The problem? His childhood sweetheart China. She loves "the life" - the wealth, and street cred it has brought her. Perhaps she has a little hidden passion for the action too. But at the end of the day China is a "paper chaser."Their romantic and business dynamic however has never been more tested until now. The life and its stresses, but most of all... its trappings have caused a fracture in their once impenetrable relationship. Smooth wants her by his side when he gets out for good, but China's addicted to the money. It affects her better judgment. Er go she wants their transition out of "hustling" to be a slow...

For years Sharon Powell had idolized Ridge Halliday, the arrogant rancher whose western Colorado spread adjoined her family's. Ridge had always indulged her wide-eyed adoration, yet Sharon realized that he saw her only as an amusing child and fought hard to overcome her infatuation. Now, no longer an impressionable teenager, she was immune to his lazy sensuality and meaningless love games. Or so she thought. Had she conquered an adolescent crush only to have it replaced with the heated passion of a full-blooded woman?

Lives hang in the balance in this gripping Revolutionary War adventure from a beloved Newbery Medalist. In 1776, young Sophia Calderwood witnesses the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, which is newly occupied by the British army. Sophia is horrified by the event and resolves to do all she can to help the American cause. Recruited as a spy, she becomes a maid in the home of General Clinton, the supreme commander of the British forces in America. Through her work she becomes aware that someone in the American army might be switching sides, and she uncovers a plot that will grievously damage the Americans if it succeeds. But the identity of the would-be traitor is so shocking that no one believes her, and so Sophia decides to stop the treacherous plot herself, at great personal peril: She's young, she's a girl, and she's running out of time. And if she fails, she's facing an execution of her own. Master storyteller Avi shows exactly how personal...

After the success of The Northern Clemency, shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, Philip Hensher brings us another slice of contemporary life, this time the peaceful civility and spiralling paranoia of a small English town. After the success of The Mulberry Empire and The Northern Clemency, which was short-listed for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, Philip Hensher brings us the peaceful civility and spiralling paranoia of the small English town of Handsmouth. Usually a quiet and undisturbed place situated on an estuary, Handsmouth becomes the centre of national attention when an eight-year-old girl vanishes. The town fills with journalists and television crews, who latch onto the public's fearful suspicions that the missing girl, the daughter of one of the town's working-class families, was abducted. This tragic event serves to expose the range of segregated existences in the town, as spectrums of class, wealth and lifestyle are blurred in the investigation. Behind Handsmouth's...

Where there is a will, there is a way. Emma hides her unnatural talents. Ames is here to take her back where she belongs. And he has his own unnatural talents. He is not human either. And he knows things about her. Should she trust him and his dark secrets or turn away from a destiny that seems unlikely to be avoidable.

Stories of oppression and survival, of heritage denied and reclaimed -- twenty-two American writers recall childhood in their native land.

After his adventures at Camp Lac Igam the previous summer, Shy discovers both seelie and unseelie fey, watching... waiting. Excitement follows him through school and back to the northwoods summer camp on the shores of Lake Superior. He knows what needs to be done, and in the process of doing, Shy discovers the depth of his friendships. The plotting of the evil Huldra builds, and threatens Shy, his friends, and possibly humanity itself. Will they succeed in their mission to rescue and return?This thrilling sequel to The Fossegrimen Folly will leave you salivating for more!