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Sunshine, secrets, and swoon-worthy stories—June's featured reads are your perfect summer escape.

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He doesn�t need a woman in his life; she knows he can�t live without her.


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A promise rekindled. A secret revealed. A second chance at the family they never had.


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A cowboy with a second chance. A waitress with a hidden gift. And a small town where love paints a brand-new beginning.


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She�s racing for a prize. He�s dodging romance. Together, they might just cross the finish line to love.


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She steals from the mob for justice. He�s the FBI agent who could take her down�or fall for her instead.


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He�s her only protection. She�s carrying his child. Together, they must outwit a killer before time runs out.


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The Black Stiletto: Stars & Stripes
by Raymond Benson
"The Black Stiletto's son is still dealing with his mom's alter-ego as he reads her next diary."
Posted March 15, 2013

Martin Talbot is the only child of Judy Cooper Talbert, aka The Black Stiletto, but he's the only one who knows about her crime-fighting alter-ego of the 50s and 60s, except for an elderly retired FBI agent who would never tell anyone. Knowing his mom's terrible Read more...


The Day Is Dark
by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
"It is truly a dark day on the east coast of Greenland when people start disappearing."
Posted March 14, 2013

Lawyer and amateur sleuth Thora Gudmundsdottir is brought in by a local bank to handle legal ramifications of an unusual situation. Icelandic contractor Berg Technology is doing preliminary studies and constructing infrastructure facilities for Arctic Mining for a mining operation in the wilderness of eastern Greenland. People have been there Read more...


Touch & Go
by Lisa Gardner
"The abduction of what seems like a perfect family only adds more mystery to the terrible crime."
Posted March 4, 2013

From the outside, the Denbes appear to be the perfect, loving family. Good-looking and affluent Justin, Libby and 15-year-old Ashlyn seem to have it all, until the night they're brutally abducted from their pricey home in an elite neighborhood of Boston. The crime scene is a Read more...


The Andalucian Friend
by Alexander Soderberg
"This fast-paced, innovative Swedish crime thriller will knock your socks off & take your breath away!"
Posted February 14, 2013

Widow and nurse Sophie Brinkmann lives in a quiet suburb of Stockholm with her teenage son Albert. It's a boring, uneventful life for them until one of Sophie's patients at the hospital takes a special interest in her. Spaniard Hector Guzman is recuperating from a broken leg sustained Read more...


Rage Against The Dying
by Becky Masterman
"An ex-FBI agent is pulled back into the one case she was never able to solve."
Posted February 14, 2013

At 59, ex-FBI special agent Brigid Quinn has been retired for four years. Her career was legendary, but also with a lot of controversy, and she's still obsessed with the sexual-predator serial killer case she could never solve -- the notorious Route 66 Killer. Struggling to come to Read more...


Room No. 10
by Åke Edwardson
"Could two tragic events occurring in the same hotel room in Sweden 20 years apart be related?"
Posted February 14, 2013

When 29-year-old Paula Ney is found dead in room 10 of the sleazy Hotel Revy in Gothenburg, Sweden, it brings back unresolved issues of an earlier case for Chief Inspector Erik Winter, who's been assigned the case. Over 20 years ago, another 29-year-old woman named Read more...


The Romanov Cross
by Robert Masello
"Research on a remote, uninhabited arctic island off Alaska yields startling evidence to its past."
Posted February 14, 2013

The tiny, forbidding St. Peters Island, off the remote northern coast of Alaska, was settled by a colony of fanatical Siberians in 1910, until they were wiped out by the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. These people were followers of the "mad monk" Rasputin, advisor to the Romanov family of Read more...


Black Irish
by Stephan Talty
"The killing spree of an especially sadistic serial killer tests the skills of the detective assigned the case."
Posted February 14, 2013

Homicide Detective Absalom "Abbie" Kearney followed in her adopted father's footsteps and became a cop. After living in Miami, she's returned to her hometown of South Buffalo, NY, called Ireland's 27th County, to care for her aging father, who is showing signs of early dementia. John Kearney Read more...


Dream Eyes
by Jayne Ann Krentz
"Returning to the scene of a crime has horrific ramifications for a psychic counselor."
Posted January 17, 2013

Psychic dream counselor Gwen Frazier is forced to return to Wilby, Oregon, when her mentor Evelyn Ballinger sends her a cryptic e-mail about something alarming she's discovered. However, when Gwen arrives at Evelyn's home, she finds her dead. Gwen knows it's not from natural causes, as Read more...


Extinction
by Mark Alpert
"What should have been a helpful artificial life form soon turns into something quite deadly."
Posted January 10, 2013

Retired army colonel Jim Pierce is an expert at developing cutting-edge prosthetic limbs for wounded veterans ever since he lost his own arm. His right arm is now one of those advanced limbs, which can perform phenomenally compelling skills. For the past several years, Pierce has been estranged from Read more...


Blue Ice
by I.C. Enger
"International intrigue abounds in the lake house at Three Cranes Lake."
Posted January 9, 2013

Brooke Breckenridge is looking for a fresh start when she leaves Seattle. Her destination is a house on Three Cranes Lake, located in a valley near the Cascade Mountains bordering Canada. What Brooke thought would be a restful place for her to relax soon turns into an explosive and dangerous Read more...


American Caliphate
by William Doonan
"Exciting action, adventure and mystery among the ancient pyramids of Peru."
Posted December 28, 2012

Ben Juarez wants fellow archaeologist, and former lover, Jila Wells to accompany him on a return trip to Peru. Neither has fond memories of the place, since they almost lost their lives during an attack, and Jila is quite happy with the job she has now. After much cajoling, Ben Read more...


The Ramal Extraction
by Steve Perry
"In the 24th century, the Galactic Union's Army is undermanned as it deals with chaos in the galaxy."
Posted December 5, 2012

Chaos is rampant in the galaxy at the end of the 24th Century. R. A. "Rags" Cutter, a former top-ranked officer in the Detached Guerilla Forces, now heads up the Cutter Force Initiative. This hand-picked, skillfully trained and highly focused mercenary team, known as the Cutters, is comprised Read more...


A Killer in the Wind
by Andrew Klavan
"This psychological thriller questions what's real and what's imagined in a detective's mind."
Posted December 1, 2012

Three years ago, Dan Champion was an NYPD undercover detective involved in bringing down a sex-trafficking ring specializing in young children, both male and female. The investigation culminated in Dan killing one of the evil purveyors, as well as uncovering a graveyard of young children's bodies. The leader Read more...


A Study In Revenge
by Kieran Shields
"Sequel to THE TRUTH OF ALL THINGS is an intricate detective mystery with lots of historical detail."
Posted December 1, 2012

It is summer 1893 in Portland, Maine, when petty thief Frankie "the Foot" Cosgrove is shot to death as he delivers a rare artifact he's recently stolen. Then a few days after he's buried, Cosgrove's charred remains show up in an abandoned house. Obviously staged to appear Read more...


Shadow Woman
by Linda Howard
"What do you do when the face in your mirror does not match the face in your memory?"
Posted December 1, 2012

Lizette Henry is shocked when the face she sees in her mirror one morning does not match the face she has in her memory. When she looks closer, she's able to discern faint facial surgery scars. As she searches her memory for the reason, she finds she can't Read more...


The First Prophet
by Kay Hooper
"First in a new series featuring more tales about psychic investigators connected to Noah Bishop."
Posted November 27, 2012

Sarah Gallagher's mugging six months ago in put her in a coma. When she finally came out of it, she started having what she refers to as waking nightmares. And what she's seen in those visions makes her sure someone is going to kill her -- soon. When her Read more...


The Hoard
by Alan Ryker
"A horrific new type of organism is spreading wherever enough trash has accumulated for it to breed."
Posted October 18, 2012

In rural Kansas, elderly widow Anna Grish is a hoarder who won't allow anyone in her home, not even her son and his family who live nearby. When Anna is injured, her son finds her and forces her to recuperate with him, especially when he sees the deplorable condition Read more...


Pandora's Temple
by Jon Land
"After a long absence, Blaine McCracken and his friends return to save the world from annihilation."
Posted October 12, 2012

Ex-CIA agent and former Green Beret Blaine McCracken and several of his closest associates were known as the ones to contact if you need to pull off the impossible job, but they haven't seen much action for the past several years. That changes when Blaine is brought in Read more...


Hot Rocks
by Randy Rawls
"This female PI's (mis)adventures will turn South Florida upside down."
Posted October 12, 2012

What South Florida PI Beth Bowman thinks is a simple case of verifying marital infidelity quickly turns into something life-threatening. After Beth follows the man described to her by the wife as being the cheating husband, Beth is knocked unconscious inside the door of his hotel room. When she Read more...


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