Linda Howard

“Romancing the Stone-style plot, sizzling sensuality, a deliciously dark and dangerous hero, a wonderfully resourceful heroine, and plenty of humor.” —Booklist
When wealthy socialite Priscilla Jane Hamilton Greer is kidnapped and held hostage in the Costa Rican jungle, burned out ex-secret agent Grant Sullivan is tapped to bring her back home to her powerful father. But Jane, as she calls herself, is like nothing...

Thirty-two-year-old Angie Powell has always spoken her mind, but in the presence of Dare Callahan she nurses a simmering rage. Three years ago, Dare returned home to rural Montana and opened a hunting business to rival Angie's own, forcing her to close up shop. The infuriatingly attractive Iraq war vet even had the nerve to ask Angie out, not once but twice. Before Angie leaves town, she organizes one last trip into the wilderness with a client. But...

"Jaclyn Wilde is a wedding planner who loves her job -- usually. But helping Carrie Edwards with her Big Day has been an unrelenting nightmare. Carrie is a bridezilla of mythic nastiness, a diva whose tantrums are just about as crazy as her demands. But the unpleasant task at hand turns serously criminal when Carrie is brutally murdered and everyone involved with the ceremony is accusing one another of doing the deed." -- Dust jacket.

In a remote rural town, young widow Cate Nightingale runs a charming bed-and-breakfast. Business is quiet, but she makes ends meet with the help of the local jack-of- all-trades, Calvin Harris. Then one morning, the B and B's only guest vanishes. When armed men storm the house a few days later, Calvin saves the day, forcing the intruders to scatter into the surrounding woods. The nightmare, however, is just beginning. With the entire town held hostage...

Blair Mallory has already survived one murder attempt. Now, while planning her wedding and dealing with holiday-season madness, Blair once again dodges a bullet. Or, more precisely, a Buick. And though the driver's identity remains a mystery, his or her murderous intentions seemed all too clear to Blair. But Wyatt Bloodsworth, Blair's police detective groom-to-be, believes it was only an accident. When she cheats death a second time in another seemingly...

When Jenner Redwine wins the lottery, she never imagined how much it would cost her. Luckily she finds an ally-and a guide to the rarefied realm of privilege in a shy, kind-hearted heiress who invites Jenner on a charity cruise. But what should have been a "Love Boat" cruise suddenly turns into a game of dizzying intrigue and harrowing danger, and Jenner finds herself taken hostage by a menacing stranger--a stranger that helps her rediscover feelings...

Struggling to confront the tragedy in her own past, Milla Edge, a young woman with an uncanny gift for locating lost children, travels to Mexico to uncover the fate of the many children who have vanished over the years, joining forces with a mysterious stranger with his own sinister agenda on a mission that makes her the target of a lethal assassin.

Jina Modell works in Communications for a paramilitary organization, and she really likes it. She likes the money, she likes the coolness factor?and it was very cool, even for Washington, DC. She liked being able to kick terrorist butts without ever leaving the climate-controlled comfort of the control room. But when Jina displays a really high aptitude for spatial awareness and action, she?s reassigned to work as an on-site drone operator in the...

"After a hiking accident, Blake Remington is paralysed by a back injury and begins to lose faith in himself. Slowly, but surely, Dione Kelley's therapy helps him rebuild all that the accident took from him, giving him back the strength he needs to be a man. But is she robbing him of the chance to see her as a woman in the process? She might have fallen for Blake, but how can Dione be sure his words of love are genuine, and aren't just spoken out of...

Gabriel McQueen reluctantly agrees to a request from his father, the local sheriff, to check up on Lolly Helton, a distant neighbor, as a dangerous ice storm moves into the area, and discovers Lolly being held captive in her home by armed men.