Jayne Ann Krentz

Dr. Harry Stratton Trevelyan. A kind of alpha yet nerdy scientist/expert in discerning whether the applications for Molly Abberwick’s science foundation grants are worth funding. One side of his family works in real estate; the other as carnies, flashy knife throwers, fortune tellers, people with second sight, and so on. Harry’s in the middle, with each side of the family asking him to sort out endless squabbles. He refuses to cut off either side of his family, even under pressure. He loves them all, and wishes they could tolerate each other. He’s also afraid to let himself go in his sex life.

Can a man and a woman be "just friends? Only if they don't end up in the same bed! He wanted a relationship with "no strings" attached. Her solution: Tie him in knots of desire. Science fiction writer Amy Slater was happy to keep her dates with Jed Glaze strictly platonic. After all, when a drop-dead handsome man is single, in his thirties, and disappears overseas on "business" trips for months, it's a safe bet he isn't husband material.

A woman of glittering eyes and cool, celestial bearing, she is Kalena, the last survivor of a proud heritage. Now, disguised as an innocent country girl, she is on a deadly secret mission to destroy her family's enemy at any cost.

Successful businesswoman Lillian Harte has come to the realization that what she really wants to do with her life is paint. Even though her family and friends think she’s nuts, Lillian decides to close down Private Arrangements, her computer dating company.

Jayne Ann Krentz always does the unusual so well. Deep, disturbed heroes who’ve had a tragic and unhappy past (sigh), and heroines who’ve taken a sharp new direction in their life.

Eight years ago, Hannah Harte and Rafe Madison had a memorable encounter. Both had disagreements with their dates for the evenings and both ended up stranded near the beach in Eclipse Bay, Oregon.

The first time teenage Alexa Chambers laid eyes on John Laird Trask, she was terrified of him. The twenty-something Trask burst into her stepfather’s house and accused him and his partner, Dean Guthrie, of complicity in the “car accident” which just killed his father.

A red scarf. A roller coaster. A tidal wave of blood...Isabel Wright spends her days at the Belvedere Center for Sleep Research analyzing the dreams of others. Dr. Martin Belvedere, a pioneer in the field, recognized her unique talent for what he calls Level Five lucid dreaming. It's satisfying, lucrative work, but it can be emotionally draining. Especially when one of her anonymous subjects, known only as Client Number Two, captures her imagination through his compelling dream narratives. Secretly, she thinks of him as "Dream Man." His real name is Ellis Cutler. A loner who's learned not to let anyone get too close, he works for a highly classified government agency with an interest in the potential value of lucid dreaming.

A decade of working for the high-powered Gilchrist family empire has made sassy Katy Wade determined to open her own business. But there's one last problem she must solve before she can leave. The Gilchrists need an heir apparent to save their mysteriously floundering fortunes, and there's only one man for the job: Luke Gilchrist.

Olivia Chantry may leave her desk in disarray, but she's a business dynamo: her Seattle-based company, Light Fantastic, creates the promotional flash her clients need. Her marvelous success has almost made up for a crumbled marriage that has left her wedded to a career instead of a mate.

Anne Silver's brother had been working to expose a clever ring of swindlers when he was struck down by a car - a clear case of attempted murder. Now Anne's determined to finish what her brother started.

Her battle lines are drawn. His sneak attack is being launched. But it isn't war - it's romance. She calls him a bully. He thinks she's a shrew. Naturally they're falling in love.

Stunning, stubborn, and independent, Philadelphia Fox lost her best friend because of the fabulously rich and powerful Lightfoot family of Washington state. Now she's got her friend's controlling shares in Lightfoot Industries - an inheritance that brings Nick, the family's prodigal and supremely attractive son, knocking at her door.

Jayne Ann Krentz always does the lonely, isolated, emotionally poor little rich boy well. Read that as also being fabulously wealthy, lethal, driven and perhaps a tad obsessive.

An oldie but a goodie, a marvellous opposites-attract book. Serenity describes Caleb, the man who’s helping her start up a mail-order business for the oddball but good craftspeople in the isolated village of Witt’s End, as: Arrogant, elitist, rigid, self-righteous, and inflexible.

Classic Jayne Ann Krentz back in print! After one night of passionate intimacy, Travis Sawyer realized he'd taken his need for revenge too far. Juliana Grant was under his skin and in the way. And now there was no turning back.

Cady Briggs is troubled and suspicious of the accidental death of her great aunt, Vesta Briggs. Vesta was the founder of the profitable Gallery Chatelaine and right before her death, she mentioned having reservations about an upcoming merger with the Austry-Post Gallery. When Cady discovers that Vesta has left her in charge of Chatelaine’s, instead of her CEO cousin Sylvia, alarm bells start to ring.

Bookstore owner Mercy Pennington likes to play it safe, never venturing into anything risky. But when she handles a rare edition of erotica called Valley of Secret Jewels, she cannot anticipate the trouble that Croft Falconer would bring into her life.

A fun read. Librarian Letitia Thornquist inherits her great uncle’s camping business. She decides to become a working owner, much to the disgust of brooding CEO Joel Blackstone, who’s built the business into an industry giant and regards it as his own.

Eugenia Swift is aghast when her boss sends a bodyguard with her to catalogue the museum quality glass collection left to the museum by Adam Daventry. Planning to investigate the murder of her friend – Daventry’s last lover before his death – Eugenia doesn’t want any kind of interference – even the kind meant to protect her!