Answering a desperate call for help puts Owen Sturgess back in the line of fire.   Owen Sturgess could really use a break. After being ambushed, kidnapped, and tortured in a case of mistaken identity involving his twin brother, all he wants is some time to heal. But when a desperate plea for help comes his way, Owen can't turn his back-even if it thrusts him straight into danger once again.   Evie Ashworth never thought she'd return to Saddle Junction, but her sister's sudden death leaves her no choice. Caring for her orphaned niece and nephew brings her back to the family ranch she vowed never to see again. But as unsettling events unfold, Evie grows convinced her sister's death wasn't an accident. Who would want Simone dead-and why? Even more alarming, it seems Evie may be the killer's next target.   Relying on her former best friend, Owen, for help only complicates matters when Evie realizes the feelings she buried long ago are still very much alive. But does Owen feel the same? Or will a relentless killer ensure they never get the chance to find out?

A young boy with amazing--and incredibly dangerous--psychokinetic powers is able to travel into the past and, with guidance from a shadowy spirit, return with artifacts of great value. But, unknown to him ir his family, each trip into the past brings him closer to a terrifying fate, a fate that only a psychic investigator may be able to change.

Synopsis A renegade team of scientists has been worki ng for 20 years on the sinister LifeScan project, and when J ames Bayley starts to investigate he soon finds himself pitt ed agianst the project leader, Rosalind Finch, who will kill to protect her research. '      

Little did Teldin Moore know there was life beyond Krynn's moons--until a crashed spelljamming ship demolished his farm and changed his life. With a dying alien's magical cloak and cryptic words, Teldin quickly discovers that he's a popular fellow with killers and cutthroats.

The Present: After an abduction left them without memories of their childhood, Lily and Liam Howell have led a quiet life. For twenty years, they've avoided the topic of their disappearance, carefully tiptoeing around each other in fear of what they might expose or discover. Until Lily remembers something. Then she's willing to do anything to recover their lost year. But there's a reason they were made to forget. The Past: Jasper Behrtram has a task to complete, and through the use of charm and wit, he has successfully managed to abduct numerous children from another world. But even he doesn't know why he's received these orders. He only knows that the punishment for failure far exceeds the struggles of his ensuing moral dilemma.Until he meets Lily. Then he starts to think that, just this once, it might be worth it to disobey.But the consequences of his defiance will affect everyone around him ... including the Howell...

She's on the run. He's on the hunt. When fate entwines their lives, will their secrets be their undoing? On the run from her dangerous family, Dakota seeks shelter in the untamed town of Predator Peak, crafting a new identity to evade her father's sinister schemes. But even after over a year, is she truly safe? Konner has spent his entire life paying the debts of his father, but the bear shifter has only one job left: hunt down the elusive princess of the cougar shifter mafia to liberate his family from their shackles. But a seemingly straightforward assignment takes an unforeseen turn. They are fated mates. There's no way they can be together. A bear and a cougar don't make sense, especially when lives hang in the balance. But as their desire becomes undeniable, they have no choice but to surrender to the intoxicating pull of their destiny. Yet, beneath the surface of their...

Split from: The Works Of Alexandre Dumas

In Reborn (6/90), Jim discovered the ancient evil that lurked within his past. Now Jonah, his only son, is the bearer of the horror. Jonah is biding his time, keeping his true identity a secret and waiting for the time when he can carry out the mission he was born for: to bring about the end of the world.

What's so hot about firefighters anyway? Ginny is very annoyed to be forced to work on reporting fluff pieces about shirtless local firemen hugging kittens for the animal shelter. Until the worst wildfires in recent memory begin to sweep through the forests north of Snowflake Creek, Minnesota, blanketing the town with smoke and ash. As the fires rage on, it's up to the firefighters to save the town, and Ginny must apologize to the annoying man with the great abs for offending him... Because she will need his help to save her hometown...

Capturing the spirit of arcane writing, Evan S. Connell delivers spectacular and esoteric prose as he imagines the journals of seven alchemists. The first is Paracelsus, the famous sixteenth-century alchemist, who is followed by an array of distinct voices: physicians, historians, alchemists, and philosophers. Each employs a unique personality and point of view in a world of pre-scientific thought, of the western world about to step into modernity.Though this historical recreation is medieval in style, Connell succeeds in infusing his diarists with alchemic wisdom, ancient appeal, and felt humanness. A work of rigid art and astute mimicry, Connell's work is intelligent and remarkable, medieval yet applicable to modernity. Alchymic Journals is, at its core, a study of humanity from the mind of one of America's greatest writers.

Rune is an aspiring filmmaker with more ambition than political savvy, paying her dues as an assistant cameraperson for the local news. But she's got her eyes on the prize, the network's hot newsmagazine, *Current Events* -- and she's got the story she knows will get her there. Poking around in the video archives, Rune spots a taped interview with Randy Boggs, who's doing hard time in Attica for a murder he claims he didn't commit. Rune can't say exactly why, but she's sure he's innocent. If she can prove it, *Current Events* won't merely report the news, it'll make news -- and Rune's career. But what she could be writing is Randy Boggs's epitaph -- and her own. Rune's newly discovered witness soon turns up dead. A hit man from Miami is on Rune's trail, and Boggs is finding prison even more dangerous than before. Someone wants this story killed, and it could be the girl with the camera who ends up on the cutting room floor.

Nancy's in California to investigate a series of break-ins at the home of her father's friend Terry Kirkland. A Vietnam vet, Terry came away from the conflict with a trunk full of memories. But unknown to him, the trunk also holds a mystery—an exotic secret that now threatens to destroy his family. A twisted trail of intrigue and corruption leads Nancy to a shocking revelation. The truth behind the burglaries rests with a soldier who vanished on a top-secret mission. But the trail of the tiger doesn't end in the jungle—it leads right to Terry's door.

Yukon Territory was a gold miner's heaven, and Devon O'Shea had come to claim her share. But instead of a thriving store in a boom town, Devon discovered she was part owner of a filthy, disorganized tent with a bunch of gold diggers and a mountainous slap of animosity for a partner: Stone Man McKenna. Gathering mop, pail and sheer determination, Devon vowed to make this post the best in the Yukon Territory. Stone Man didn't scare her. But his kiss -- a gruff attempt to convince her that the Yukon was no place for a lady -- left her feeling, for the first time in her life, feminine and alive . . .

What would have happened if history had been different: if the major events that shaped our times had occurred in a different way-or not at all? From a Trojan War in which Helen surrenders to a Civil War fought with robots, from a World War I in which Teddy Roosevelt tries to recapture the glory of San Juan Hill to a World War II in which the race is not for atomic weapons but for orbital rockets, these bold excursions in time depict bizarre new worlds-oddly familiar, disturbingly different. "And Wild for to Hold" (Nancy Kress) "Tundra Moss" (F. M. Busby) "When Free Men Shall Stand" (Poul Anderson) "Arms and the Woman" (James Morrow) "Ready for the Fatherland" (Harry Turtledove) "The Tomb" (Jack McDevitt) "Turpentine" (Barry N. Malzberg) "Goddard's People" (Allen Steele) "Manassas, Again" (Gregory Benford) "The Number of the Sand" (George Zebrowski) "If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg" (Winston S. Churchill) "Over There" (Mike Resnick)