Romance

Meet Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, in the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that "blends the genres of romance, horror and adventure with stunning panache"(Diana Gabaldon).

Laurell K. Hamilton's bestselling series has captured readers' wildest imaginations and addicted them to a seductive world where supernatural hungers collide with the desires of the human heart, starring a heroine like no other...

Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city's most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear--her undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy...

"What The Da Vinci Code did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel."--USA Today

A woman. Her teenage daughter. A handsome, laid-back, chauvinisticrancher. And the savagery of unseen forces at large in the mountain wilds ofUtah. "New York Times" bestselling author Karen Robards is here at herpassionate best as she tracks the perils of the wilderness, the hidden face ofviolence, and--most awesome of all--the powerful feelings that evolve betweenmen and women when lives are at stake.

Lynn Nelson is beautiful, harried--and divorced. A thirty-five-year-old singlemother, she agrees to help chaperone her teenage daughter Rory and nineteenother girls on a wilderness trip. It seems pretty simple at first: the trip issponsored by Adventure Incorporated, the weather is fine, and nothing is moretroublesome than the minor skirmishes that sometimes flare up between girls andtheir mothers.

Except that there's more lurking along these mountain trails than adolescenthormones. Lynn and Rory find themselves set apart from the rest of the group, with only outfitter Jess Feldman for protection--he with the blazing babyblues, and the more than slightly macho attitude that women can't handle theoutdoors. Normally Jess would be protection enough, but surrounding the triois a danger far more menacing than any of them realizes--the face of an unknownand all too real evil is at large. As this terrifying ordeal plays itself out, the sparks that fly between Jess and Lynn make for a passion every bit asdramatic as the twisted trails of the majestic Uinta mountain range.

Sir Payton Murray's reputation as a lover is rivalled only by his prowess with the sword, yet it is the latter gift that has captured the interest of Kirstie MacIye. Fleeing a murderous husband who left her for dead, she vows to expose the man for the vile scoundrel that he is.

In the second novel of her trilogy of medieval Scotland, bestselling author Hannah Howell returns to the 15th century and the embattled Highlands with the tale of a Scottish mercenary fated to rescue a spirited young beauty.