Linda Howard

A poor, outcast child in Prescott, Louisiana, Faith Devlin had always adored the town's golden boy, Gray Rouillard, from afar. Then came the awful night he called her white trash and ran her and her family out of town when his rich, respected father disappeared, along with her town-floozy mother. Years later, Faith is back in town. All grown up and a successful businesswoman in her own right, she is determined to exorcise the ghosts of her childhood – and discover the truth about the disappearance of Gray’s father.

You've all loved those fabulous alpha males whose strength, talent and honour have seen them leading covert security operations. Now see what happens when one is paired with a woman who can match him not only personally but professionally as well!

For five years after her father died, lithe, beautiful Dee Swann held on to Angel Creek valley and her independence. The homestead was hers, and she vowed no one else would ever own it - or her. Then Lucas Cochran came back to Colorado.

Marlie Keen was trying to lead a quiet, ordinary life. She thought the knowing, the clairvoyance that allowed her to witness crimes as they happened, had been destroyed in the nightmare of her past. Then one night it returned with a vengeance, and she desperately needed to find someone to make it stop.

Undercover agent Chance Mackenzie knew that the best way to capture an elusive terrorist was to use the man's daughter as bait, so he cleverly seduced Sunny Miller and set out to discover her father's whereabouts. Sunny's own innocence was questionable, and gaining her trust was nearly impossible. And even with all his experience and training, Chance found it difficult to overlook her beauty.

When a scientist on a mission clashes with a modern day rogue, the sparks fly and attraction sizzles. Jillian is determined to prove that her archaeologist father wasn’t deserving of his ‘crackpot’ Sherwood reputation. After discovering his lost journals, she heads off to Brazil, determined to find the fabulous lost Amazon city once inhabited by women warriors and containing a rare red diamond: the anzar.

Still reeling from her mother's recent death, Karen Whitlaw is stunned when she receives a package containing a mysterious notebook from her estranged father, whom she has barely seen since his return from the Vietnam War decades ago. Then, a shocking phone call: Karen's father has been murdered on the gritty streets of New Orleans.

Linda Howard never lets us down and this was no exception. With a paranormal element reminiscent of her superb Son of the Morning, Killing Time is riveting and well worth a hardcover buy. 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 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.

Victoria Waverly, noble daughter of the war-ruined South, is sold in marriage to a ruthless rancher. Honour and pride help her endure life as a wife in name only but nothing can quench her forbidden desire for hired gunman Jake Roper. His gaze is hard, but tenderness he can't hide promises to unveil to Victoria the mysteries of love.

Night Wing - the revolutionary test plane with a top-secret weapons system - was Colonel Joe "Breed" Mackenzie's number-one priority. And weapons expert Caroline Evans was his number-one distraction.

A small Wyoming town is about to learn a few lessons — from a new schoolteacher with the courage to win the heart of a man who swore he had nothing to give.

Now You See Her, like Linda’s Dream Man combines passion, crime and a dash of the paranormal.

On her thirty-fourth birthday, Daisy Minor decides to make over her entire life. The small-town librarian has had it with her boring clothes, her ordinary looks, and nearly a decade without so much as a date. It's time to get a life, and a sex life. The perennial good girl, Daisy transforms herself into a party girl extraordinaire - dancing the night away at clubs, laughing and flirting with abandon - and she's declared open season for manhunting.

Roanna Davenport was raised a wealthy orphan on her grandmother's magnificent Alabama estate, Davencourt, where she had a passion for horses, a genius for trouble, and a deep love for her cousin, Webb. But everyone expected Webb to marry their ravishing cousin, Jessie and when he did, Roanna's desire became no more than the stuff of dreams - until the night Jessie was found bludgeoned to death.