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Targeted for murder after she takes custody of a mysterious notebook, Karen Whitlaw is protected by detective Mark Chastain, with whom she begins a passionate relationship while they seek to uncover the mystery behind the notebook's past.

A romance in the jungle - Grant Sullivan, tough, masculine and handsome, is a retired military expert entrusted with a mission in the Costa Rican jungle - to find hostage and socialite Jane Hamilton Greer. When Grant rescues her in a rather cavalier and physical fashion, no love is lost between them. But gradually their mutual attraction and passion becomes apparent and the jungle smolders in more ways than one.

Available digitally for the first time ever, Mackenzie's Mountain is a classic novel of romantic suspense from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Linda Howard. Night Wing-the revolutionary test plane with a top secret weapons system-is Colonel Joe "Breed" Mackenzie's number-one priority-and weapons expert Caroline Evans his number-one distraction. When someone on the inside sabotages Night Wing, Caroline's late hours and expertise come...

Lilly Mansfield is a hired assassin who is on contract with the CIA, but when a crime hits home she seeks revenge for herself. A girl who Lilly saved off the streets as a young child is killed along with the friends who were raising her. Now Lilly will take personal matters into her own hands and seek vengeance on the horrible people who did this.

For fitness center owner Blair Mallory, trouble begins when a look-alike club member is murdered. During the ensuing investigation, Blair locks horns with police lieutenant Wyatt Bloodsworth, a man she once dated.

In 1985, with much fanfare, a time capsule was buried under the front lawn of a small-town county courthouse, to be reopened in 2085. But just twenty years later, in the dead of the night, the capsule is dug up, its contents stolen. That same night, one of the contributors to the capsule is brutally slain in his home-- with no sign of forced entry or indication of a struggle. One by one, others who had placed items into the time capsule are murdered....

Can love survive the ultimate test? Brett Rutland, Carter Engineering's top troubleshooter, is sent to the L.A. office to crack a case of embezzlement. Brett's a hard man, so it hit him like a sledgehammer when he fell in love with Tessa Conway. Their love is perfect, too perfect to last. And when Brett discovers the identity of the embezzler, his whole world is about to come crashing down.