As manager of one of the finest hotels in Arizona Territory, Portia Carmichael has respect and stability, qualities sorely missing from her harsh childhood. She refuses to jeopardize that by hitching herself to the wrong man. Suitors are plentiful, but none has ever looked quite as tempting as Kent Randolph, the friend from her childhood who has just ridden into town. After drifting through the West, Kent has learned the value of a place to settle...

A chilling look at the massive earthquakes that could strike America at any moment Far beneath the earth's surface, great tectonic plates grind against one another with incredible pressure that must-inevitably-be released. Earthquakes manifest with little warning, upending buildings, shattering infrastructure, and unleashing devastating tsunamis. In this remarkable survey of the history of seismology and the extraordinary seismic events that have...

Otis is the most irritating and irresistible troublemaker in school, and his string of misadventures will delight readers of ages.

Jean is tongue-tied and nervous when the most popular boy in school asks her to dance.

Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.

When a mysterious stranger finds his way into her bedchamber and offers his help in landing a duke, Lady Felicity Faircloth agrees--on one condition. She's seen enough of the world to believe in passion, and won't accept a marriage without it. Bastard son of a duke and king of London's dark streets, Devil has spent a lifetime wielding power and seizing opportunity, and the spinster wallflower is everything he needs to exact a revenge years in the...

"When bodyguard Ryder Southerland sees his best friend's sister Katie at an L.A. Christmas party, he mistakes the slinky blonde for a celebrity stalker and tackles her...The next morning, Katie's gone, and Ryder tells himself it's for the best. One Christmas later, Ryder's falling for the woman he's been missing in the town he hasn't missed at all. Katie Cheek's outgrown the romantic fantasies she had about Ryder when she was fifteen. Katie's packed...

After her livelihood slips through her fingers, Alexandra Mountbatten takes on an impossible post: transforming a pair of wild orphans into proper young ladies. However, the girls don't need discipline. They need a loving home. Try telling that to their guardian, Chase Reynaud: duke's heir in the streets and devil in the sheets. The ladies of London have tried--and failed--to make him settle down. Somehow, Alexandra must reach his heart . . . without...

On the night of the Parkhurst ball, someone had a scandalous tryst in the library. Was it Lord Canby, with the maid, on the divan? Or Miss Fairchild, with a rake, against the wall? Perhaps the bulter did it. All Charlotte Highwood knows is this: it was not her. But rumors to the contrary are buzzing. Unless she can discover the lovers' true identity, she will be forced to marry Piers Brandon, Lord Granville, the coldest, most arrogantly handsome...

Philip Thane hadn't wanted to visit some dumpy provincial town to give a speech, but he'd struck a devil's bargain with old Henrietta Penhallow, the imperious family matriarch. Nor did he expect that once he got there, he'd somehow be living the same day over and over again. Then he meets Margaret Allen, in town to research the book she's writing. Philip is sure she'll fall starry-eyed into his arms, just as women always do. But to his amazement Miss...