Some women find trouble wherever they go. And some men are their only protection against it. Redheads like Maggie O'Connell are nothing but trouble. But Trace Rawlins, an army-ranger-turned-private-investigator, takes her case anyway. After all, he knows how to deal with women. Trace can sense that something's wrong - Maggie isn't telling him everything. If these menacing calls and messages are real, why won't the police help her?

From the New York Times bestselling writing team comes a hilarious new collection of essays that observe life from a mother/daughter perspective
New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline and her daughter Francesca Serritella are the best of friends—99.9% of the time. They're number one on each other's speed dial and they tell each other everything—well, almost everything. They share shoes and clothes—except

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Her "father's" deathbed confession reveals that Holly Slade's real father was almost certainly the notorious serial killer known as "The Hunter, " and that her mother gave Holly up to save her life. But The Hunter was never caught - and Holly's mother simply vanished. Haunted, driven, Holly leaves her home and Bud Tate, the handsome ranch foreman she's afraid to love, to search for her father . . . and hopes her mother was wrong.

Following the migrating monarchs across the United States to Mexico, Luz Avila arrives in San Antonio to find her aunt and meets her mother, who she had always believed dead. Now Luz must face her mother's reappearance in her life and get her grandmother's ashes to Mexico for the Day of the Dead.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into Empress of Russia by sheer determination. Possessing...

Charlotte Pitt's mother, Caroline, has traveled with husband Joshua Fielding and his theatrical troupe to Whitby, the Yorkshire fishing village where Dracula first touched English soil in the sensational novel. Joshua has arranged to produce a stage adaptation of the book, but the project is a disaster. Then a black-cloaked stranger emerges from a snowstorm who turns out to be a theatrical genius. But at the same time, a brooding evil makes itself...

This book tells the story of an AL Qeda operative named Amer Al Zaroor, who, on orders from Osama Bin Laden, directs the theft of a nuclear weapon from the Pakistani military, and then transports it toward its intended target, Israel. Meanwhile Bin Laden announces to the world that he will make a major terrorist strike on 9/11/10, the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Deep inside Washington, Brooke Chandler, a CIA operative whose cover was blown by an incompetent...

Sixteen-year-old Nora Lindell is missing, leaving the neighborhood boys caught forever in the heady current of her absence. As the days and years pile up, the mystery grows. A collection of rumors, suspicions, and tantalizing what-ifs, Nora's story is a shadowy projection of teenage lust, friendship, reverence and regret, captured magically in the plural voice of the boys who still long for her, and the men they have become.

In Terenure, a pleasant suburb of Dublin, it's snowing. Gina Moynihan, girl about town, recalls the trail of lust and happenstance that brought her to fall for "the love of her life, " Saean Vallely. Gina remembers their affair: long afternoons made blank by bliss and denial. Now, as the falling snow makes the day luminous and full of possibility, Gina awaits the arrival of Saean's fragile twelve-year-old daughter - the complication, and gravity,...

In the frigid clime of Tumba, Sweden, a gruesome triple homicide attracts the interest of Detective Inspector Joona Linna, who demands to investigate the murders. The killer is still at large, and there's only one surviving witness--the boy whose family was killed before his eyes. Whoever committed the crimes wanted this boy to die: he's suffered more than one hundred knife wounds and lapsed into a state of shock. Desperate for information, Linna...