For Ramses, the Son of Light, the coronation hour has arrived. He has everything he needs to become one of the great pharaohs: the love of his royal wife, Nefertari, and that of his powerful mother; his network of friends from youth, and his own ability to rule with a level judgment. And yet the young ... more »

In The House on Sprucewood Lane, Caroline Slate established herself as a distinctive new voice in psychological suspense, a writer who creates characters so rounded the reader can hear their ragged breathing (Publishers Weekly). Now, in this highly charged story of love and trust turned inside out, she ... more »

Loyal. Beautiful. Professional. Impeccably organized. Potentially lethal. Sarah Stevens is a woman with many distinct qualities. First and foremost a butler par excellence, skilled at running large households smoothly and efficiently, she is also a trained bodyguard and expert marksman--indispensable ... more »

Special Agent Antonio Burns--climber, cop, brother, son, risk-taker--knows the hunger that drives climbers up the faces of mountains. It's a hunger that has shaped his life and pushed his brother, Roberto, onto the wrong side of the law. A climber by nature, a cop by trade, Anton has come to Laramie ... more »

Acclaimed as one of the most original talents to emerge in the last decade, award-winning author Laurie R. King returns to Folly Island to deliver her most stunning achievement yet--a breathtaking novel of suspense that explores the very essence of good and evil. Allen Carmichael came back from Vietnam ... more »

Majors Cindy Sherman and Bud Lewis are the best young combat officers the army has, and they've both been tapped for plum positions as aides-de-camp for two of the Pentagon's most senior generals. The Pentagon is a cauldron of careerist jockeying and factional squabbling in the best of times, though ... more »

Three devious prisoners vow murderous revenge. Now the first is free. It was inescapably chilling, as if the murderer was methodically working his way down a page torn from the phone book. The three victims brutally killed in their own homes had one thing in common: they were all listed as M. Douglas ... more »

The riveting debut appearance of Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont, from the New York Times bestselling author of Kiss of the Bees and Birds of Prey. The little girl was a treasure who should have been cherished, not murdered. She was only five -- too young to die -- and Homicide Detective J. P. Beaumont ... more »

For years, Mitch Rapp's bold actions have saved the lives of countless Americans. He has killed with impunity, tortured to avert disaster, and shown he will do whatever it takes to prevent terrorists from fulfilling their bloody wishes. His battles for peace and freedom have made him a hero to many, ... more »

Driving along the freeway, Shane Scully glances over and sees at the wheel of a neighboring car his oldest friend and LAPD colleague, Jody Dean. Why is Scully so surprised? Because it's been two years since Jody committed suicide in the Rampart Division parking lot by blowing his brains out with a service ... more »

Blackie Ryan in the White House? Yes! Sent there by his estimable but irascible boss, the Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago, Sean Cronin. Blackie gets a call from his friend, the newly elected Democratic president, Jack Patrick McGurn--whom the media has seen fit to call Machine Gun McGurn--but of course ... more »

William Riskin, a long-ago detective reduced to sweeping up at OTB and more or less waiting to die, comes across the obituary of his ex-partner, Jean Goldblum, a one-time war hero and concentration camp survivor. Goldblum had become a morally bankrupt detective who could spot guilt at 50 paces, and then ... more »