Author: Candace Cam
Publisher: HQN Book
Keywords: man, dangerous
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0373771363
ISBN-13: 9780373771363
Eleanor has always been looked on askance as ’the bossy American’ by London society, the very antithesis of British virtue and propriety. Now, at the death of her husband, she has been appointed trustee to his estate, and the proverbial fur is flying. Infuriated, her mother-in-law sends Lord Anthony Neale to put an end to Eleanor’s nefarious gold-digging ways. Anthony and Eleanor clash immediately. He thinks she’s a siren who uses beauty to entrap men. She thinks he’s a haughty, cold English snob. Despite their initial misgivings, they are increasingly drawn to ea
Author: Ken Follett
Publisher: Island Book
Keywords: fortune, dangerous
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1994-11-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0440217490
ISBN-13: 9780440217497
In 1866, tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School. A young student drowns in a mysterious accident involving a small circle of boys. The drowning and its aftermath initiates a spiraling circle of treachery that will span three decades and entwine many loves... From the exclusive men’s club and brothels that cater to every dark desire of London’s upper classes to the dazzling ballrooms and mahogany-paneled suites of the manipulators of the world’s wealth, Ken Follett conjures up a stunning array of contrasts. This breathtaking novel portrays a family splintered by lus
Author: Charlie Huston
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: novel, man, dangerous
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2006-09-19
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 034548133X
ISBN-13: 9780345481337
Among the new voices in twenty-first-century crime fiction, Charlie Huston . . . is where its at.The Washington PostHuston writes dialogue so combustible it could fuel a bus and characters crazy enough to take it on the road.The New York Times Book ReviewReluctant hitman Henry Thompson has fallen on hard times. His grip on life is disintegrating, his pistol hand shaking, his body pinned to his living room couch by painkillersand his boss, Russian mobster David Dolokhov, isnt happy about any of it. So Henry is surprised when hes handed a new assignment: keep tabs on a minor league bas
Author: Amanda Quick
Publisher: Bantam
Keywords: dangerous
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1993-05-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0553293176
ISBN-13: 9780553293173
From a magnificent ballroom ablaze with lights to an imposing country house steeped in shadows comes a breathtaking tale of an impetuous miss--and a passion that leads to peril...At five and twenty, Prudence Merryweather knew very well tht risks a woman took by visiting a gentleman in the dead of night. But bearding the notorious Earl of Angelstone in his den was the only way to stop him from engaging her hot-headed brother in a duel. And that was why she found herself ushered into Sebastian’s frobidding presence at three int the morning--and thoroughly kissed before dawn.She was a count
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: summer, dangerous
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1997-12-09
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0684837897
ISBN-13: 9780684837895
The Dangerous Summer is Hemingway’s firsthand chronicle of a brutal season of bullfights. In this vivid account, Hemingway captures the exhausting pace and pressure of the season, the camaraderie and pride of the matadors, and the mortal drama as in fight after fight the rival matadors try to outdo each other with ever more daring performances. At the same time Hemingway offers an often complex and deeply personal self-portrait that reveals much about one of the twentieth century’s preeminent writers.
Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford
Publisher: Harpercolli
Keywords: dangerous
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1995-07-01
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0060177225
ISBN-13: 9780060177225
From the Publisher Sebastian Locke, the fifty-six-year-old patriarch of a powerful American family, is handsome, charismatic and a man of immense charm and intelligence. He is the chairman of the philanthropic Locke Foundation, funded by the bast family fortune built by his forefathers. Committed to relieving the suffering of those in genuine need, Locke travels the globe giving away millions a year to the poor, the sick and the innocent victims of natural disasters and wars. He seems to be a beacon of light in today’s darkly violent world. That is why the police are profoundly baffled w
Author: Larry Bond
Publisher: Forge Book
Keywords: ground, dangerous
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2006-04-04
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0765347008
ISBN-13: 9780765347008
The US submarine Memphis should have been mothballed decades ago. Instead, she is charged with one last, secret mission: to locate leaking containers of Russian nuclear fuel on the floor of the Arctic Ocean. More than just an environmental nightmare, this radioactive burial ground houses enough nuclear capability to destroy most of Americas major cities. Lead by the Bligh-like commander Lowell Hardy, the Memphis crew deals with flaring tempers, faulty machinery, raging Arctic Seas, and their newest crewmate, Jerry Mitchell. Mitchell was a naval pilot whose career ended with an unfortunate ac
