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With his lean, hard body and sexy slouch, Kyle Fox is as handsome as the movie stars he reviews on his television show, Theatre Talk. First mistaking the uptight Miss Amanda Butterworth for the network censor, Kyle is less than happy to learn she is being foisted on him as a new co-host. But their surprising chemistry raises more than the ratings and Amanda counters his dirty tricks with anonymous steamy letters of invitation.

Now an American classic, this is a Vietnam book unlike any other, written by a woman who, after two years of covering the war for The New York Times, comes home wanting to once more love her country and to understand it. In four years of interviews that Newsweek called “superb,” Emerson traveled across America to speak to people who fought the war or who fought against it, to those who paid little attention and to others whose lives were changed by it.

When the 10th richest man in the world is brutally murdered along with his prized Borzoi dogs in a luxurious East Hampton beach house, only one man is suspected of committing the crime: Juan Suarez, a handsome, charismatic - and illegal - Mexican immigrant who worked for the victim. Now, renowned trail lawyer Raquel Rematti must take on the defense of the man the media has dubbed, "The Blade of the Hamptons".

After a Comanche war party kills her husband and infant son and steals her young daughter, Annie Bryce has nothing left to live for. Held captive herself by a brutal warrior, merely surviving every day is the only act of defiance she can muster. Haunted by guilt for not preventing the Comanche attack on the Bryce family, Texas Ranger Hap Walker is surprised when he stumbles across the captive Annie three years later.

When Scotty MacDowell rescues a wounded stranger from a fierce blizzard, she is thinking only of saving a lost traveler. She never expects to find a passionate lover in Alex Golovin through nursing him back to health. Seven months later, Alex returns to Scotty's tiny cabin in the wilderness, but not to take her back into his arms. Instead of the man she loved, Alex returns as an angry lawyer, determined to run Scotty off of her beloved land.

To supplement her meager salary as a book editor, Brittany Astor answers an ad to read aloud for a client. Expecting a nice little old lady, Brittany is shocked to instead find notorious playboy Ethan Moss. Temporarily blinded, Ethan was in hiding. It is the perfect opportunity for a shy book editor to live out her fantasy of having a wild fling with the man of her erotic dreams. But how will she bear it when the fantasy ends and Ethan no longer needs her?

Audrey Hepburn once said that Paris is always a good idea. So when Zoe wants to shake up her life she takes that advice and heads to France. In Paris she soon meets Grey who wants to fulfill her every forbidden fantasy. She succumbs to his sexual pull and falls under his control. Thrilled with the intense passion, but wanting more than an affair, she must make a choice. Is this stranger really the man she wants?

Mitch Marlow is Hollywood's hottest bad boy. But lately his reckless, real-life stunts have gotten very dangerous, making movie studio executives nervous about their investment. Smart and sassy, Molly Hill is the talent agent stuck with babysitting the arrogant star. It's her job to keep him alive until the Western he's shooting wraps. But will both of their Bad Attitudes rub together to spark a flame in the close quarters of a movie-set trailer?

It isn't hanging precariously outside the fourth-floor window of an office building that has Crew Harper's heart pounding; a sliver of open drapery reveals the source of his excitement - Alexia Grant undressing in her office! Entranced by her caramel-haired sensuality, he almost falls off the scaffolding. Just getting his grip after Alexia leaves in her workout gear, Crew sees a man stealthily enter her office and rifle through her desk. Crew knows he has to warn Alexia about the intruder he saw, but how to do that without letting her know everything that he saw...and wanted?

Nicholas Knight has a dark, dangerous appeal that attracts Ali Charbonneau like a moth to a flame. There is an undeniable attraction between them, even though he is doing his level best to ignore it. In a town full of rumors theirs is the hottest. Ali resembles Nicholas' dead fiancée. She stirs up the past and unanswered questions. Most everyone in town believes he murdered the woman he claims to have loved. And Nicholas isn't sure he didn't.

Amy Jane Chadwick should have heeded the warning in her horoscope that told her she'd want the man she shouldn't have. But running a P.I. business out of her sister's bed and breakfast would tell anyone that she doesn't do the expected all that well. Called Sweet Amy Jane because she isn't, she can handle anyone. Or so she thinks.

As the only child of celebrated photo-journalists who were always off on assignment, lifestyle expert Chloe Pembrook now enjoys staying in one place and making life beautiful. Ace Ellsworth III, the only child from a dynasty of ill-gotten old money, is an award-winning reporter. Much to the chagrin of his family, he loves taking skeletons out of the closet and splashing them on the front page of the newspaper. When Chloe witnesses a murder, she and Ace are thrown together on a suspenseful chase that takes them from Chicago to the Hamptons.

As a young woman, Democratic congresswoman Carolyn Maloney asked her grandmother for career advice. She was shocked by the reply: "Get married." Though much has changed for women since then, more has remained the same. On a January night in 2008, Maloney and her daughter attended a Hillary Clinton rally in New Hampshire. Men in the audience held "Iron My Shirt" posters aloft. This small incident provoked outrage, but it provided an important peephole onto larger problems that women face today.

Listeners will delight in this tale of an urbanite who leaves her magazine job to move to Collelungo, Italy, population: 200. There, in the ancient city center of a historic Umbrian village, she sets up house with the enticing local gardener she met on vacation only weeks earlier. This impulsive decision launches an eye-opening series of misadventures when village life and romance turn out to be radically different from what she had imagined. Love lost with the gardener is found instead with Marcus, an abandoned English pointer that she rescues.

She was born in the moonstar’s shadow when the storms of Satlik raged their worst. Because of this, Jobe was different. The family never spoke of it, but everyone knew Jobe was special. So Jobe came to know of it, too. She had a destiny beyond that of Choice, beyond that moment when she would finally have to decide for Reethe, Mother of the World, or for Dakka, Father, Son, and Lover. For the others it was easy, but not for her, not for Jobe. So she was sent to Option, the island of learning, to make her choice and become who she must be.

The Lamaze method is virtually synonymous with natural childbirth in America. In the 1970s, taking Lamaze classes was a common rite of passage to parenthood. The conscious relaxation and patterned breathing techniques touted as a natural and empowering path to the alleviation of pain in childbirth resonated with the feminist and countercultural values of the era.

On the morning of her wedding to Calder Hart, amateur sleuth Francesca Cahill is lured away to a private viewing of a portrait that could destroy her entire family: the nude Hart commissioned of her. Her desperate quest to recover the scandalous portrait leads her into a dangerous trap with no way to escape - until it's too late. And when Francesca finally arrives at the church, it's vacant. She has unintentionally jilted Hart at the altar.

Despite the misgivings of her fiancé, Calder Hart, Francesca cannot turn away from a threat that is terrorizing the tenement neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. A madman has attacked three women, but while the first two victims survived, the third is found dead. All the victims are impoverished but beautiful Irishwomen - and Francesca fears that her dear friends Maggie Kennedy and Gwen O'Neil could be next. Soon she is working with her former love, police commissioner Rick Bragg - Calder's half brother and worst rival.

Called to the home of her fiancé's former mistress late one night, Francesca finds her curiosity piqued. But upon arrival, she is shocked to find Daisy Jones's bloodied body…and even more devastated when the evidence points to one suspect—her fiancé, Calder. Francesca cannot—will not—believe that Calder is capable of such an act. Still, she is unable to shake her instinctive sense that Calder is lying about something. The police are far less inclined to believe his innocence, and Calder is arrested for Daisy's murder.

The year is 1902. The place is New York City. A famous stage actress has been found strangled in an artist's studio, and the artist herself has vanished. Francesca Cahill, the city's most unconventional heiress and famous amateur sleuth, is once again on the case - for the murder victim is none other than her brother's mistress. And when the sole witness to the crime is also found strangled and only one clue is left behind - a silk stocking - it becomes evident that a madman is on the loose.