1806: Before her marriage can be consummated, Astrid Poole is murdered, and her wedding ring stolen. Her last words are a promise to Collin never to leave him. Graphic designer Sonya MacTavish is stunned to learn that her late father had a twin he never knew about--and that her newly discovered uncle, Collin Poole, has left her almost everything he owned, including a majestic Victorian house on the Maine coast, which the will stipulates she must live...

Mystery writer Grace McCabe's sister moonlighted as a call girl with Fantasy, Inc., a popular Washington D.C. phone sex "hotline," until she was murdered by a sadistic client. While Grace tries to bait the killer with her similar voice, police officer Ed Jackson struggles to protect Grace and control his growing love for her. --

In the last lazy days of summer, the merciless two-week heat wave is the biggest story in Washington, D.C. But the weather is finally knocked off the front pages when a young woman is found strangled to death-a priest's white silk amice pulled taut around her throat. Pinned near the scarf is a note that simply reads her sins are forgiven her. It is a chilling crime, made even more terrifying when it is followed by a second murder... and then a third....

Within the walls of a tasteful house in North Carolina, Zane Bigelow feels like a prisoner of war. Strangers - and even Zane's own aunt across the lake - see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children's ballet recitals and baseball games. But Zane and his sister Britt know the truth: something is terribly wrong. As his father's violent rages and his mother's complicity become more and more oppressive,...

As a top PR executive at a world-renowned winery, Sophia Giambelli must be prepared for anything, including a merger with a competing winery. When forced to work closely with Tyler MacMillan to facilitate the merger, she is torn between powerful attraction and professional rivalry. --

Declan Fitzgerald had always been the family maverick, but even he couldn't understand his impulse to buy a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans. All he knew was that ever since he first saw Manet Hall, he'd been enchanted-and obsessed-with it. So when the opportunity to buy the house comes up, Declan jumps at the chance to live out a dream. Determined to restore Manet Hall to its former splendor, Declan begins the daunting renovation...

"With the legends and lore of Ireland running through his blood, falconer Connor O'Dwyer is proud to call County Mayo home. It's where his sister, Branna, lives and works, where his cousin, Iona, has found true love, and where his childhood friends form a circle that can't be broken ... A circle that is about to be stretched out of shape--by a long-awaited kiss. Meara Quinn is Branna's best friend, a sister in all but blood. Her and Connor's paths...

At twenty-five, Princess Adrianne lives a life most people would envy. Beautiful and elegant, she spends her days dabbling in charities and her nights floating from one glamorous gala to the next. But her pampered-rich-girl pose is a ruse, a carefully calculated effort to hide a dangerous truth. For ten years Adrianne has lived for revenge. As a child, she could only watch the cruelty hidden behind the facade of her parents' fairy-tale marriage. Now...

Eve Benedict is the kind of subject who could make any biographer's career. Last of the movie goddesses, she has two Oscars, four ex-husbands, and a legion of lovers, both famous and infamous. Now she is ready to write a tell-all memoir that has even Hollywood's richest and most powerful worried. Julia Summers never dreamed of being chosen to tell Eves story. But even if it means transplanting herself and her ten-year-old son from their quiet life...

"Adrian Rizzo was seven when she met her father for the first time. That was the day he nearly killed her--before her mother, Lina, stepped in. Afterward, Adrian was dropped off at her grandparents' house in Maryland, where she spent the summer, made a new best friend, and developed her first crush--while Lina left to promote her popular fitness brand. There was no point in dwelling on the past. A decade later, Adrian has created her own line of yoga...